| #9083, aired 2024-04-17 | ANIMAL LIFE $400: You can see why a tanooki is also called this nocturnal mammal dog raccoon |
| #9083, aired 2024-04-17 | ANIMAL LIFE $800: In 2022 killer whales were filmed removing this organ from a shark; no word if it was eaten with fava beans & a nice Chianti the liver |
| #9083, aired 2024-04-17 | ANIMAL LIFE $1200: More than half of Mexico's population of this large kitty cat is found in the Yucatán region a jaguar |
| #9083, aired 2024-04-17 | ANIMAL LIFE $1600: In the 2010s scientists attached satellite tags to American eels to track their route to breed in this North Atlantic sea the Sargasso Sea |
| #9083, aired 2024-04-17 | ANIMAL LIFE $2000: This species of sea turtle is named for its unique beak-like mouth, said to resemble a predatory avian a hawksbill |
| #9081, aired 2024-04-15 | "P"EOPLE $400: In 1878 this French scientist observed, "It is a terrifying thought that life is at the mercy of... minute bodies" Pasteur |
| #9081, aired 2024-04-15 | HISTORIC AMERICANS $600: Here is one of the oldest known photos of this real life hero & savior of hundreds; she was believed to be in her 40s at the time Tubman |
| #9080, aired 2024-04-12 | WE'VE GOT TODAY'S HITS $200: Tim McGraw hit the Hot 100 wanting to "live a life so when I die, there's" this crowd situation, SRO for short standing room only |
| #9079, aired 2024-04-11 | THE MANHATTAN PROJECT $600: Mafioso Fat Tony Lauria (a real-life Fat Tony!) repurposed this inn into the gay bar that made headlines in 1969 the Stonewall Inn |
| #9077, aired 2024-04-09 | VAN LIFE $200: It's the monetary term for an unofficial shuttle often serving urban transit deserts dollar vans |
| #9077, aired 2024-04-09 | VAN LIFE $400: The phrase "in the van" means to be in the lead, "van" being a shortened form of this word vanguard |
| #9077, aired 2024-04-09 | VAN LIFE $600: This political commentator hosted the CNN original series "The Redemption Project" Van Jones |
| #9077, aired 2024-04-09 | VAN LIFE $800: Gillette calls this beard style named for a European artist "a full goatee with a floating mustache" a Van Dyke |
| #9077, aired 2024-04-09 | VAN LIFE $1000: NASA says these radiation belts "surround the Earth like enormous donuts" the Van Allen belts |
| #9076, aired 2024-04-08 | A SECRET CHORD $2000: Something called a tritone substitution is found in the chords of "Lush Life", a classic by this Duke Ellington collaborator Strayhorn |
| #9074, aired 2024-04-04 | "C-U" LATER $800: In 1882 Robert Koch discovered a germ that ended the debate of whether this disease that claimed the life of Chopin is hereditary tuberculosis |
| #9072, aired 2024-04-02 | ASTRONOMY $5,000 (Daily Double): The "E" in NASA's T.E.S.S. satellite stands for these that it's actively looking for, whether they can support life or not exoplanets |
| #9071, aired 2024-04-01 | REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS $1000: From a Latin word for "blind", this worm-like amphibian spends most of its life underground the caecilian |
| #9070, aired 2024-03-29 | BIOLOGY "A", "B", "C"s $2000: "C" "C":
2-word term for the multistage process via which the basic unit of life reproduces itself the cell cycle |
| #9067, aired 2024-03-26 | WORLD STAR $1600: Italian actor Roberto Benigni won a Best Actor Oscar in 1999 for this film about the Holocaust Life Is Beautiful |
| #9065, aired 2024-03-22 | WORDS IN INVITATIONAL $200: It can mean of utmost importance or essential to life vital |
| #9065, aired 2024-03-22 | TIME FOR DESERT $1200: In 2016, NASA began testing a new prototype rover & its life-detecting instruments in this South American desert the Atacama |
| #9065, aired 2024-03-22 | IN THE NATIONAL WOMEN'S HALL OF FAME $1600: This photographer with a hyphenated name, one of the first photojournalists hired by Life magazine Bourke-White |
| #9064, aired 2024-03-21 | CLASSIC TV $1200: More recently, it was Jay Leno, but back in the '50s, "You Bet Your Life" was hosted by this funnyman Groucho Marx |
| #9061, aired 2024-03-18 | STATUES OF THE WORLD $400: Any statue substantially larger than life-size is one of these, like the Daibutsu or Great Buddha a colossus |
| #9060, aired 2024-03-15 | TYPES OF POEMS $1000: For this grave work, Yeats chose words he had already written: "Cast a cold eye, on life, on death. Horseman, pass by" his epitaph |
| #9059, aired 2024-03-14 | BOOKS BY REPORTERS $1600: This New Journalism leader wrote the novel "I Am Charlotte Simmons", about early 21st century college life (Tom) Wolfe |
| #9058, aired 2024-03-13 | THE CLOCK & THE CALENDAR $1000: The Julian calendar had leap years--Feb. 23 lasted 48 hours--& the first one was this last full year of Julius Caesar's life 45 B.C. |
| #9057, aired 2024-03-12 | PROSE & CONGRESS $400: In "Life on the Run" Bill Bradley talks about his pre-Senate life playing on this NBA team the New York Knicks |
| #9053, aired 2024-03-06 | SHAKESPEARE FOR EVERYONE! $1,000 (Daily Double): Her last speech includes "Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper... thy sovereign" Katherina |
| #9052, aired 2024-03-05 | HAVE FAITH $1200: Bar mitzvah checks are often in multiples of this numerological equivalent of chai, "life" 18 |
| #9051, aired 2024-03-04 | "V"ACATION SPOTS $800: View the underwater life of the Caribbean at Coral World Ocean Park in the U.S. portion of this archipelago the Virgin Islands |
| #9050, aired 2024-03-01 | CHEMISTRY CLASS $2000: The heroine of TV's "Lessons in Chemistry" has ideas about this concept that inorganic compounds could have led to life abiogenesis |
| #9047, aired 2024-02-27 | A NICE SHORT STORY SPOILED $1600: In this John Cheever story, Neddy makes his way pool by pool to his own home but like his life, it's dark & empty "The Swimmer" |
| #9046, aired 2024-02-26 | THE NEW TESTAMENT $600: John 15:13 says, "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for" these people his friends |
| #9044, aired 2024-02-22 | 40 YEARS AGO: 1984 $400: Bob Woodward's "Wired: The Short Life & Fast Times of" this comic offended some of its subject's friends & family John Belushi |
| #9044, aired 2024-02-22 | THE KEY WORD IN THE LITERARY SUBTITLE $800: Challenging to pre-Civil War Americans:
"Lowly" Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| #9044, aired 2024-02-22 | SHALL THE PEOPLE DANCE $1600: A sirtaki features in the movie about this life-loving Greek, who teaches the proper Brit Basil to dance it on the beach Zorba |
| #9044, aired 2024-02-22 | THE KEY WORD IN THE LITERARY SUBTITLE $2,500 (Daily Double): An 1854 series of essays:
"Woods" Walden |
| #9044, aired 2024-02-22 | BEFORE THE FIRST WORLD WAR $7,400 (Daily Double): The history book "The Sleepwalkers" says this event not only stirred war fever in Austria but ended the life of an advocate for peace the assassination of Ferdinand (Archduke Ferdinand's death) |
| #9043, aired 2024-02-21 | SCIENCE QUIZ $1000: This 12-letter word describes the richness of life forms in a given environment biodiversity |
| #9043, aired 2024-02-21 | EXTREMELY RANDOM CALCULATIONS $1200: ML in Roman numerals minus Douglas Adams' answer to "life, the universe and everything" 1,008 |
| #9042, aired 2024-02-20 | 4, 4 $800: The Eagles had a song about "Life In" this, which the California DMV says is also known as the left or number 1 the fast lane |
| #9040, aired 2024-02-16 | A DOG'S LIFE $200: To avoid confusion & possible danger, train your dog on the standard type of this before getting the retractable kind a leash |
| #9040, aired 2024-02-16 | I'M CUBAN $400: This Cuban-born man played the "I" in "I Love Lucy" opposite his wife in real life, Lucille Ball Desi Arnaz |
| #9040, aired 2024-02-16 | A DOG'S LIFE $400: Theobromine in this substance is toxic to dogs; the darker & more bitter kinds are more dangerous for the pooch chocolate |
| #9040, aired 2024-02-16 | A DOG'S LIFE $600: This word for pellets of dry dog food comes from a verb meaning "to grind coarsely" kibble |
| #9040, aired 2024-02-16 | DESCRIBING THE SONG $800: Drake remembers an ex who used to call him all the time but now is living her best life "running out of pages" in her passport "Hotline Bling" |
| #9040, aired 2024-02-16 | A DOG'S LIFE $800: Dogs are especially vulnerable to this deadly airborne viral "dis"ease transmitted from wildlife; get your pup vaccinated! distemper |
| #9040, aired 2024-02-16 | A DOG'S LIFE $1000: If your dog paces & whines before you leave, it may be suffering from this 2-word issue; exercise & crate training can help separation anxiety |
| #9038, aired 2024-02-14 | THOSE MEDDLING KID KINGS & QUEENS $800: The life of child emperor Puyi & his time in this "City" in Beijing is the subject of the film "The Last Emperor" the Forbidden City |
| #9037, aired 2024-02-13 | WISTFUL THINKING $2000: One benefit of reading this Stephen Chbosky book: "Things change. And friends leave. And life doesn't stop for anybody" The Perks of Being a Wallflower |
| #9036, aired 2024-02-12 | LIFE IN THE 1920s $200: This canine companion first appeared in newspapers in January 1925 Sandy |
| #9036, aired 2024-02-12 | LIFE IN THE 1920s $400: Referring to a new kind of music & popularized by F. Scott Fitzgerald, it was a nickname for the decade the Jazz Age |
| #9036, aired 2024-02-12 | LIFE IN THE 1920s $600: This Chinese tile game became a craze in the U.S., especially among women, even in the pool mahjong |
| #9036, aired 2024-02-12 | OCEANOGRAPHY $800: These ecosystems consisting of polyps provide a habitat & food for about 25% of the world's marine life coral reefs |
| #9036, aired 2024-02-12 | LIFE IN THE 1920s $800: This "sweet" song was introduced in the '20s & so were the Harlem Globetrotters, who would later make it their theme "Sweet Georgia Brown" |
| #9036, aired 2024-02-12 | LIFE IN THE 1920s $2,500 (Daily Double): In a 1925 speech she said, "We have got to free women from enforced, enslaved maternity" Margaret Sanger |
| #9034, aired 2024-02-08 | MEDICAL SPECIALTIES $1200: Palliative medicine goes hand in hand with this type of end-of-life care, providing comfort to both the patient & their family hospice |
| #9034, aired 2024-02-08 | SAME FIRST & LAST LETTER $2000: It's the asexual early stage of a jellyfish's life cycle, shown, or an underside growth in your body, not shown a polyp |
| #9033, aired 2024-02-07 | ANTHROPOLOGISTS $1200: Forensic anthropologist Kathy Reichs' life & novels inspired TV's Temperance Brennan, nicknamed this "Bones" |
| #9031, aired 2024-02-05 | 2 ACTORS, ONE TV SHOW $1000: We're sanguine you'll recall Michelle Forbes & Tara Buck takin' in life in Loo'siana on this fangs-tastic HBO series True Blood |
| #9030, aired 2024-02-02 | THE GAME OF LIFE $200: Life can be like putting together one of these, invented in the 1760s though the tool didn't exist for another century a jigsaw puzzle |
| #9030, aired 2024-02-02 | BILLBOARD'S 500 BEST POP SONGS $400: At No. 1, Billboard picked this Whitney Houston hit that made hitting the floor "feel like an issue of life-or-death urgency" "I Wanna Dance With Somebody" |
| #9030, aired 2024-02-02 | THE GAME OF LIFE $400: Ancient playwright Terence compared life to playing with tesserae, Roman these; you have to work with the throw you get dice |
| #9030, aired 2024-02-02 | THE GAME OF LIFE $600: The first Saturday in August is a national day for these, which get washed away despite our work, so go build another one! sandcastles |
| #9030, aired 2024-02-02 | THE GAME OF LIFE $800: With its ups & downs, life has often been compared to one of these, such as Steel Vengeance or the Twisted Colossus a roller coaster |
| #9030, aired 2024-02-02 | THE GAME OF LIFE $1000: In a commencement address, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger noted "You can't climb" this with your hands in your pockets the ladder of success |
| #9028, aired 2024-01-31 | TECH TALK $3,000 (Daily Double): This word, from the Greek for "life" & "measure", enabled Apple to introduce Face ID on the iPhone X biometrics |
| #9028, aired 2024-01-31 | SILENT H $3,200 (Daily Double): From the Dutch for "permission", it's a leave of absence granted to a member of the military a furlough |
| #9027, aired 2024-01-30 | HARLEM HELLFIGHTERS $800: (Robin Roberts presents the clue.) When the U.S. entered World War I, some Black Americans enlisted thinking it would better their station in life; at the same time, President Woodrow Wilson was a supporter of having the armed forces enforce these segregation laws bearing the name of a stereotypical minstrel character Jim Crow |
| #9027, aired 2024-01-30 | CHAINS $1000: In 1775 this Virginian asked, "Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery?" Patrick Henry |
| #9025, aired 2024-01-26 | COACHING BASKETBALL $600: In "I Came As a Shadow", John Thompson diagrammed his life as basketball coach at this D.C. university Georgetown |
| #9024, aired 2024-01-25 | ON MY HISTORIC CV $600: 441 A.D.: Beat up on Eastern Romans with bro; 445: murdered bro, became sole leader; 453: stopped living that barbarian life Attila the Hun |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | OZZY OSBOURNE'S FAVORITE SONGS $300: Said to be inspired by Judy Garland, this Elton John hit is actually about giving up the fast lane for a quieter life "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | ____ & ____ $1500: They're "F" words, but not the bad kind; they refer to a region's native plant & animal life flora & fauna |
| #9020, aired 2024-01-19 | EXISTENTIALISM $1600: Texas prof Robert Solomon appears in this animated Linklater film to link existentialism to a life of purpose & exuberance Waking Life |
| #9019, aired 2024-01-18 | MOVIE TITLES WITH NUMBERS IN THEM $1200: In 2001 he was on film in "Thir13en Ghosts" as Arthur Kriticos & a year later, began an Emmy-winning life on TV as a "Monk" Tony Shalhoub |
| #9019, aired 2024-01-18 | MOVIE TITLES WITH NUMBERS IN THEM $2000: In 2022 she played Gemma, a robotics engineer who brought "M3GAN" to life; maybe some "Girls" are more fun to hang out with Allison Williams |
| #9018, aired 2024-01-17 | THE FIST & THE FURIOUS MOVIES $1000: Russell Crowe takes some punches in the ring & in life as Jim Braddock in this film the Cinderella Man |
| #9017, aired 2024-01-16 | BALLET $2000: In a comic ballet Coppélia is a life-sized one of these created by mad doctor Coppélius a doll |
| #9017, aired 2024-01-16 | 20th CENTURY AMERICANS $5,000 (Daily Double): Mario Savio led the 1964 free speech protests at this California univ. & protested Sonoma State fee hikes late in his life in 1996 the University of California at Berkeley |
| #9015, aired 2024-01-12 | UFOs $1000: A History Channel show dramatized the story of this real-life U.S. Air Force "Project" that investigated UFOs Project Blue Book |
| #9015, aired 2024-01-12 | PODCASTS $1600: One of the two real-life BFFs who break down episodes of their sitcom on "Office Ladies" Angela Kinsey or Jenna Fischer |
| #2, aired 2024-01-12 | MARINE LIFE $400: This, used to filter food from water by certain whales, is a keratinized structure, much like hair or nails baleen |
| #2, aired 2024-01-12 | MARINE LIFE $800: The most intelligent of all invertebrates is thought to be O. vulgaris, the common type of this cephalopod octopus |
| #2, aired 2024-01-12 | MARINE LIFE $1200: Males of this small marine creature carry the fertilized eggs in a brood pouch beneath a prehensile tail a seahorse |
| #2, aired 2024-01-12 | MARINE LIFE $1600: The loggerhead species of this reptile often feeds on jellyfish in the open seas turtle |
| #2, aired 2024-01-12 | MARINE LIFE $2000: This name for a common sea snail is also that of a blue-violet flower periwinkle |
| #9014, aired 2024-01-11 | ON THE MOVIE BILL $600: The late, great Bill Paxton was out of this world as astronaut Fred Haise in this 1995 real-life adventure Apollo 13 |
| #9013, aired 2024-01-10 | ONE-MAN BAND $400: In 1983 Rolling Stone examined "The Secret Life of America's Sexiest One-Man Band"; now "Let's Go Crazy" & name him Prince |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | CYBERSECURITY $300: In real life, it can slow the spread of flames and smoke; in your digital life, it blocks unauthorized access to your private data a firewall |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | ANIMAL IDIOM BRAINTEASERS $1000: You can do anything you wish or go anywhere you want in this life:
T.W.I.Y.O. the world is your oyster |
| #9007, aired 2024-01-02 | THOSE WHO CELEBRATE $400: Don't pester your Pagan friends on May 1st; it's Beltane, a Pagan spring festival celebrating this quality of creating life fertility |
| #9004, aired 2023-12-28 | HUNT & PECK $600: Simba was kind to Pumbaa, but in real life, lions have been known to hunt these creatures, braving their tusks a warthog |
| #9002, aired 2023-12-26 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $1600: This college located in Emily Dickinson's hometown runs a museum that celebrates her life & work Amherst |
| #9001, aired 2023-12-25 | AFRICAN AMERICANA $800: The 2011 rom-com "Jumping the Broom" is named for a Black American tradition during this life event a wedding |
| #9001, aired 2023-12-25 | I'VE SEEN HER TYPE BEFORE $800: Awarded the Nobel Prize for her truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China, she kept typing away through a long life Pearl Buck |
| #9001, aired 2023-12-25 | AGES, EPOCHS & ERAS $2000: The name of this period when animal life "exploded" on Earth comes from Cymru, or Wales, where many fossils have been found the Cambrian |
| #8997, aired 2023-12-19 | AUSTRALIAN BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: Marcus Clarke's "For the Term of His Natural Life" is partly set on this island, then called Van Diemen's Land Tasmania |
| #8997, aired 2023-12-19 | KING'S CROSSING $600: Unhorsed! Unhorsed! On Aug. 22, 1485 he lost his kingdom & his life after getting unhorsed Richard III |
| #8997, aired 2023-12-19 | SUPER SUCCESSFUL SEQUELS $2000: 2020:
Detectives played by Will Smith & Martin Lawrence fight drug lords in Miami Bad Boys for Life |
| #8994, aired 2023-12-14 | A MATTER OF "LIFE" OR "DEATH" $400: Bread, as the mainstay of the human diet, is known as this the staff of life |
| #8994, aired 2023-12-14 | A MATTER OF "LIFE" OR "DEATH" $800: A source of rescue in a crisis; phone a friend is one example a lifeline |
| #8994, aired 2023-12-14 | A MATTER OF "LIFE" OR "DEATH" $1200: Alliterative term used to publicize a circus performer who puts himself at great risk death-defying |
| #8994, aired 2023-12-14 | A MATTER OF "LIFE" OR "DEATH" $1600: Though they sound like they sit on the beach, they're the senior British army regiment & first saw action in the 1600s the Life Guards |
| #8994, aired 2023-12-14 | A MATTER OF "LIFE" OR "DEATH" $2000: One of the Arabian Nights begins with a proud king who's not so proud when this heavenly being appears to him the Angel of Death |
| #8993, aired 2023-12-13 | WESTERN TV SHOWS $1000: A Paramount+ series follows this Black lawman of the Wild West who in real life apprehended more than 3,000 outlaws, including his son Bass Reeves |
| #8992, aired 2023-12-12 | BLACK MYSTERY & CRIME FICTION $600: "Zora & Me" by Victoria Bond & T.R. Simon is a mystery series loosely based on the life of this early 20th century writer Zora Neale Hurston |
| #8992, aired 2023-12-12 | McPEOPLE $4,000 (Daily Double): Today an asteroid bears the name of this New Hampshire teacher Christa McAuliffe |
| #8990, aired 2023-12-08 | CLASSIC MOVIE ORIGINAL DIALOGUE? $800: "Oh, geez... George, it turns out Bedford Falls would be better off if you'd never been born. Now... this is awkward" It's a Wonderful Life |
| #8989, aired 2023-12-07 | GREEK ALPHABET PUZZLERS $400: It's a symbol of the all-American way of life apple pi |
| #8989, aired 2023-12-07 | IT'S RAINING MENSA $1200: Part of the "Foundation" of the life of this prolific sci-fi author was being honorary vice president of Mensa Isaac Asimov |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | THREESOMES $500: Unlike women, these three "unalienable rights" are specifically mentioned in the Declaration of Independence life, liberty & the pursuit of happiness |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | CELEBRITY TELL-ALLS $900: "Life":
This seemingly immortal rock star claims he once went nine days without sleeping Keith Richards |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | CHORUS LINES $900: "I dreamed a dream in time gone by, when hope was high and life worth living" Les Misérables |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | CELEBRITY TELL-ALLS $1200: "Greenlights":
His father brought a dead cockatiel back to life by giving it mouth-to-mouth Matthew McConaughey |
| #8984, aired 2023-11-30 | QUOTABLE QUOTES $1200: In 2005 he urged Stanford's graduating class, "Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life" Steve Jobs |
| #8984, aired 2023-11-30 | IF IT AIN'T BAROQUE… $2000: This late graffiti artist's paintings are paired with Maya Angelou's poems in the children's book "Life Doesn't Frighten Me" Basquiat |
| #8983, aired 2023-11-29 | LUCK OF THE DRAW $200: From the Latin for "instill with life", it's the creation of a motion picture from a series of still images animation |
| #21, aired 2023-11-29 | FAIRY TALE ELEVATOR PITCHES $500: "A talking cat requests proper footwear before playing a deceitful game to get himself & his owner ahead in life" "Puss in Boots" |
| #21, aired 2023-11-29 | WHISTLING HALL OF FAME $1200: Death by crucifixion has never been faced more cheerfully than in this comic troupe's sing-along, "Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life" Monty Python |
| #8981, aired 2023-11-27 | THE 23rd PSALM $1000: "Surely" these 2 qualities "shall follow me all the days of my life" goodness & mercy |
| #8980, aired 2023-11-24 | TIPS FROM THE ANCIENTS $200: The moral of his town & country mice fable is that a simple, peaceful life is better than riches with unease Aesop |
| #8978, aired 2023-11-22 | "B"OOKS $200: This classic kids' book by Felix Salten is subtitled "A Life in the Woods" Bambi |
| #8977, aired 2023-11-21 | INTERNATIONAL CINEMA SHOWCASE $800: "The Motorcycle Diaries" dramatized a life-changing road trip by this future ally of Fidel Castro Che Guevara |
| #8975, aired 2023-11-17 | LIFE OF PI $400: Dating to circa 1650 B.C., the Rhind Papyrus, a scroll from this civilization, put the value of pi at about 3.16 the Egyptians |
| #8975, aired 2023-11-17 | LIFE OF PI $1200: Eureka! Around 250 B.C., this sage of Syracuse estimated pi at around 22/7 Archimedes |
| #8975, aired 2023-11-17 | LIFE OF PI $1600: In the 100s A.D. this Alexandrian astronomer calculated a more precise value of pi, the equivalent of about 3.14167 Ptolemy |
| #8975, aired 2023-11-17 | LIFE OF PI $2000: Johann Lambert wasn't delusional in 1761 when he showed that pi is one of these numbers irrational |
| #8975, aired 2023-11-17 | LIFE OF PI $5,000 (Daily Double): I Kings 7:23 implies that pi equals 3, describing a round object 10 of these ancient units wide & 30 in circumference a cubit |
| #8974, aired 2023-11-16 | JAILHOUSE ROCK $1000: This chateau on a tiny rock in the Mediterranean was a prison in real life, not just in "The Count of Monte Cristo" the Château d'If |
| #8973, aired 2023-11-15 | SPORTS! $600: This '70s tennis superstar said when she was 12, she knew she'd "spend the rest of (her) life fighting for equal rights" Billie Jean King |
| #8973, aired 2023-11-15 | CANADIAN ARTISTES $1200: In 1980 this Toronto novelist wrote of "Life Before Man", 5 years before her book of life under man Atwood |
| #8973, aired 2023-11-15 | CANADIAN ARTISTES $2000: The drawings of the late Annie Pootoogook represented modern life in this newest Canadian territory, her birthplace Nunavut |
| #20, aired 2023-11-15 | FOR THE LOVE OF PETE $200: This Cincinnati baseball great once said he'd "walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play"; now he's banned for life Pete Rose |
| #20, aired 2023-11-15 | "N-I-A-L" AIN'T A RIVER IN EGYPT $800: Showcasing life in the 18th century, this Virginia attraction calls itself "the world's largest living history museum" Colonial Williamsburg |
| #20, aired 2023-11-15 | SAD SONGS $1,000 (Daily Double): Existential pain & stand-still traffic, life's essential struggles, are on display in the video for this 1992 R.E.M. hit "Everybody Hurts" |
| #8972, aired 2023-11-14 | CARL SAGAN $800: Sagan was among the first to suggest that Jupiter's moon Europa might have this & that it might contain life oceans |
| #8971, aired 2023-11-13 | LIFE SCIENCE $400: Botanically, it's the part of the flowering plant that holds the seeds, so it includes acorns a fruit |
| #8971, aired 2023-11-13 | LIFE SCIENCE $800: In HIV these genetic changes that alter the organism happen so fast, a single AIDS drug is unworkable a mutation |
| #8971, aired 2023-11-13 | SONGS IN MUSICALS $800: "Johnny's Mambo" &
"(I've Had) The Time Of My Life" Dirty Dancing |
| #8971, aired 2023-11-13 | LIFE SCIENCE $1200: In the Batesian type of this, aka imitation, an organism evolves to look like a more noxious one so it's left alone mimicry |
| #8971, aired 2023-11-13 | LIFE SCIENCE $1600: Transporting this protein is the main job of your body's erythrocytes hemoglobin |
| #8971, aired 2023-11-13 | LIFE SCIENCE $2000: This 5-letter word for a virus that infects a bacterial cell is sometimes prefixed by "bacterio" a phage |
| #8970, aired 2023-11-10 | SHIPS $800: Perhaps the greatest loss of life at sea, over 5,000, came in 1945 when this type of vessel sank the Wilhelm Gustloff a submarine |
| #8966, aired 2023-11-06 | ODD 4-LETTER WORDS $1200: A symbol of life in Egypt, it's also known as an ansate cross an ankh |
| #8964, aired 2023-11-02 | CLIFFS NOTES: DRAMA $1600: Act One,
"Daily Life":
Stage Manager:
"My God, is this place boring" Our Town |
| #8963, aired 2023-11-01 | MOVIE COMEDIES $2000: A man's mundane life is interrupted by a zombie apocalypse in this comedy starring Simon Pegg Shaun of the Dead |
| #8962, aired 2023-10-31 | NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM $800: Edward Hopper captured the isolation of urban life in this 1942 masterpiece depicting a diner that's open late Nighthawks |
| #8961, aired 2023-10-30 | BRING OUT YOUR FRED $800: Northern readers got the lowdown on slavery in 1845's "Narrative of the Life of" this former slave & orator Frederick Douglass |
| #8960, aired 2023-10-27 | LEONARDO DA VINCI, BUSY GUY $1200: Late in life, a bitter Leonardo made apocalyptic drawings called this series, another word for flood Deluge |
| #8960, aired 2023-10-27 | "A"UTHORS $1600: "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency" was brought to life by this author; a response of "42" won't help you Douglas Adams |
| #8959, aired 2023-10-26 | THE CAMERA MAN $200: Life magazine photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt snapped a sailor kissing a nurse on the August 1945 day known as this V-J Day |
| #8958, aired 2023-10-25 | PRODUCE $800: When life gives you the Meyer type of this tree, expect plenty of fruit year-round a lemon |
| #8958, aired 2023-10-25 | PRODUCE $1200: This mega producer & creator of "Scandal" declared, "You can waste your lives drawing lines or you can live your life crossing them" (Shonda) Rhimes |
| #8957, aired 2023-10-24 | GO SEE A MOVIE ABOUT A HORSE $1200: In 2010 Diane Lane played the real-life owner who took a chance that paid off with this 1973 Triple Crown winner Secretariat |
| #8955, aired 2023-10-20 | NOT YOUR AVERAGE OPERA $200: X marks the spot where the New York City Opera premiered "X: The Life and Times of" this activist Malcolm X |
| #17, aired 2023-10-18 | ARTISTIC CHILDREN'S BOOKS $1500: The flags of Puerto Rico & Haiti are on the cover of "Radiant Child", inspired by the early life of this Brooklyn-born artist Basquiat |
| #8952, aired 2023-10-17 | DUST TO DUST $600: In Genesis "God said unto" this creature "dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life" the serpent |
| #8951, aired 2023-10-16 | THE LITERARY CHARACTER WHO SAID... $1200: "Then came the war, old sport. It was a great relief, & I tried very hard to die, but I seemed to bear an enchanted life" Jay Gatsby |
| #8950, aired 2023-10-13 | LET'S GET MEDICAL $400: Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as his disease, claimed his life in 1941 Lou Gehrig |
| #8950, aired 2023-10-13 | PRE-FAME CELEBS IN ADS $2000: One minute you're selling Corn Pops in a 1999 ad, the next, meth on AMC 9 years later--such is this young actor's life Aaron Paul |
| #8949, aired 2023-10-12 | HAPPIER MOVIE ENDINGS $400: "You're not going to drown, Jack." "Why, Rose?" "I have an inflatable life raft. I probably should've said something earlier" Titanic |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | PEW! PEW! PEW! $600: Paul Rudd once joked this stage of life "hit me pretty hard. all of a sudden I woke up and I had really curly hair" puberty |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | HI, I'M J.LO $1200: A 17th century philosopher who defended "life, liberty and property", this "J.Lo" influenced the founding fathers John Locke |
| #8947, aired 2023-10-10 | NICE SIDE WHISKERS! $1600: Here's this general late in life, still sporting his signature side whiskers General Burnside |
| #8946, aired 2023-10-09 | CIRCLE OF LIFE $400: Enchantress who made Odysseus' men pig-headed Circe |
| #8946, aired 2023-10-09 | TRAVEL TEXAS $600: On Crickets Avenue in Lubbock, a visual arts center with a guitar-shaped gallery honors the life & legacy of this early rocker Buddy Holly |
| #8946, aired 2023-10-09 | CIRCLE OF LIFE $800: Last name of the lyricist who worked with Andrew Lloyd Webber Rice |
| #8946, aired 2023-10-09 | CIRCLE OF LIFE $1200: Its name is from the Middle English for "an object of religious veneration" a relic |
| #8946, aired 2023-10-09 | CIRCLE OF LIFE $1600: To cause annoyance or ire to rile |
| #8946, aired 2023-10-09 | CIRCLE OF LIFE $2000: In many fantasy role-playing games, it's a healing class a Cleric |
| #8944, aired 2023-10-05 | ALPHABET POP $400: Turn up the radio, it's "Life Goes On", Billboard's first ever Korean language No. 1 hit by this group BTS |
| #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 |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | ESTATE PLANNING $1500: Bill Gates launched the Giving Pledge in 2010 with this investing guru to inspire wealthy philanthropists in life & at death Warren Buffett |
| #8942, aired 2023-10-03 | 4, 4 $1200: One of these is to keep a bar of scented soap in with your dirty laundry when you travel to help clothes smell clean a life hack |
| #8942, aired 2023-10-03 | MEN OF MICHIGAN $2000: Tragically, this Grand Rapids man lost his life in an Apollo 1 training exercise along with Gus Grissom & Ed White Roger Chaffee |
| #8942, aired 2023-10-03 | LITERARY BIOGRAPHY $7,800 (Daily Double): Taken from the title of one of her poems, "Mad Girl's Love Song" is a biography about this 20th-century woman & her "Life Before Ted" Sylvia Plath |
| #8941, aired 2023-10-02 | A BUG'S LIFE $200: Known as Armeeameisen in German, these conspicuously mobile ants move about in long, orderly columns army ants |
| #8941, aired 2023-10-02 | A BUG'S LIFE $400: The chigoe is a sand-dwelling variety of this insect a flea |
| #8941, aired 2023-10-02 | A BUG'S LIFE $600: The field & house types of this insect are sold as laboratory subjects, frog food & bait crickets |
| #8941, aired 2023-10-02 | A BUG'S LIFE $800: This garden pest controller is the state insect of Delaware & Massachusetts a ladybug |
| #8941, aired 2023-10-02 | A BUG'S LIFE $1000: Used by scientists to clean flesh off bones being prepared for research, dermestids are a type of this insect beetles |
| #8941, aired 2023-10-02 | EGYPTIAN MYTHOLOGY $1600: In Old Egypt, this cross shaped like a "T" with a loop at the top was a symbol of life an ankh |
| #8941, aired 2023-10-02 | HODGE PODGE $2,000 (Daily Double): James Boswell recounted this British man of letters' affection for his cat Hodge, for whom he bought oysters Dr. Samuel Johnson |
| #8940, aired 2023-09-29 | POEMS ABOUT POETRY $1600: This Whitman sampler / Was full of introspection / With "The Wound-Dresser" & "Full of Life Now" / It's a heck of a collection Leaves of Grass |
| #8938, aired 2023-09-27 | FUNERAL OFFICIANTS $600: The Archbishop of Canterbury who presided over this royal's 2002 service was the ninth in her long life Elizabeth, the Queen Mother |
| #14, aired 2023-09-27 | OUI, OUI, HISTORY $100: A children's book tells of how this emperor met his "Bunnyloo" in 1807 when he was forced to flee an attacking pack of rabbits Napoleon |
| #8937, aired 2023-09-26 | MEDICINE & HISTORY $1200: In 1996, Michael DeBakey advised this Russian to have a bypass, prolonging his presidency & life Yeltsin |
| #8935, aired 2023-09-22 | STARS & STRIPES IN ART $1600: Late in life this French artist got into cutouts, like the yellow stars in his 1947 work "Icarus" Henri Matisse |
| #8933, aired 2023-09-20 | "HIGH" NOTES $1600: A 3-word phrase for drug-free happiness, or a video game with an alien cartel threatening humanity high on life |
| #8931, aired 2023-09-18 | SCIENCE $1600: It's the time it takes for 50% of a given amount of a radioactive substance to decay a half-life |
| #8930, aired 2023-09-15 | AGATHA ALL ALONG $400: Agatha Christie brought this brilliant Belgian to life in "The Mysterious Affair at Styles", her debut novel Hercule Poirot |
| #8930, aired 2023-09-15 | THIRST $1200: In this book, the tiger Richard Parker was originally named Thirsty Life of Pi |
| #8927, aired 2023-09-12 | THE SPORTING LIFE $400: Driver Richard Petty won his 200th & last NASCAR race on July 4, 1984 at this Florida locale Daytona (Beach) |
| #8927, aired 2023-09-12 | THE SPORTING LIFE $800: The sin bin is another name for this place where a hockey player goes to wait out an infraction the penalty box |
| #8927, aired 2023-09-12 | THE SPORTING LIFE $1200: Named for the 3-decade president of its gov. body, this tourney's top prize was once called the Jules Rimet Trophy the (FIFA) World Cup |
| #8927, aired 2023-09-12 | THE SPORTING LIFE $1600: The target for this sport measures 12 feet across & is called a house curling |
| #8927, aired 2023-09-12 | THE SPORTING LIFE $2000: From 1976 to 1980 this alliteratively named Swede won 5 straight singles titles at Wimbledon Björn Borg |
| #8926, aired 2023-09-11 | WORLD OF BARBIE $600: In an immersive & interactive experience, you can enter the World of Barbie & visit this iconic home of hers, brought to life her Dreamhouse |
| #8925, aired 2023-07-28 | IF YOU KNOW WHAT'S GOOD FOR YOU $400: It's often said that this is "the best medicine"--it's fun to share, adds joy to life & it relieves stress laughter |
| #8924, aired 2023-07-27 | THAT SONG SLAYS $800: "Mama, just killed a man... life had just begun, but now I've gone & thrown it all away" is part of this tune, & no, we will not let you go "Bohemian Rhapsody" |
| #8922, aired 2023-07-25 | THAT CAN BE A GREEK LETTER $1000: Eastern philosophy calls this a life force; some also spell it with a Q, but we're going with the Greek letter style chi |
| #8921, aired 2023-07-24 | INTERNATIONAL BOOKS $1600: Yu Hua's "Chronicle of a Blood Merchant" paints a picture of life under this man's Cultural Revolution Mao |
| #8921, aired 2023-07-24 | INTERNATIONAL BOOKS $2000: Milan Kundera's second novel, "Life Is Elsewhere" was not allowed to be published in this, his home country at the time Czechoslovakia |
| #8919, aired 2023-07-20 | JOHN LENNON $600: In 1972 John & Yoko released the album "Some Time in" this city where he'd spend most of the rest of his life New York (City) |
| #8918, aired 2023-07-19 | TITLES WITH PUNCTUATION $1200: (?) This phrase completes the bestselling Erma Bombeck title "If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing" here... in the Pits |
| #8917, aired 2023-07-18 | THE SONGS OF MAX MARTIN $800: The first musical number in "& Juliet" has William Shakespeare performing this Backstreet Boys song
"All you people can't you see, can't you see /
How your love's affecting our reality" "Larger Than Life" |
| #8917, aired 2023-07-18 | AUTHORS' FIRST MAJOR WORKS $2000: Subtitled "A Peep at Polynesian Life", this novel was Herman Melville's first peep at novel writing Typee |
| #8915, aired 2023-07-14 | TV SHOWS $2000: As a teen, Claire Danes starred as Angela Chase in this series about the trials & tribulations of being a teen My So-Called Life |
| #8915, aired 2023-07-14 | DYING IN THE CAPITAL CITY $6,000 (Daily Double): Suddenly ex-president for life Papa Doc Duvalier Port-au-Prince |
| #8914, aired 2023-07-13 | NONFICTION $400: This Darwin work is subtitled "The Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life" On the Origin of Species |
| #8913, aired 2023-07-12 | WALKING & TALKING $1200: The title character of this play says, "Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player" Macbeth |
| #8909, aired 2023-07-06 | SOME "HARD" SONGS $1600: "Ghetto Anthem" is the subtitle of this Jay-Z hip-hop classic "Hard Knock Life" |
| #8907, aired 2023-07-04 | ART"S" $400: Like Cézanne's "Apples on a Cloth", it's a painting of inanimate objects for their own sake, or for symbolic significance a still life |
| #8907, aired 2023-07-04 | LET'S GO TO THE SPORTS BOOK $1200: "Pistol: The Life of" this man calls him a "fresh-faced, sad-eyed wizard cradling a grainy, leather orb" Pete Maravich |
| #8906, aired 2023-07-03 | TOUCHED FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME $400: Doing some ceiling work around 1511, Michelangelo showed God reaching to give this man the divine breath of life with a touch Adam |
| #8905, aired 2023-06-30 | POP EYE $2000: Later a movie title, this collection of short stories was subtitled "Five Secret Occasions in the Life of James Bond" For Your Eyes Only |
| #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 |
| #8903, aired 2023-06-28 | ANIMATED MOVIE CHARACTERS $400: This title robot watches parts of "Hello, Dolly!" on an earth devoid of human life WALL-E |
| #8903, aired 2023-06-28 | GOOGLE EASTER EGGS $400: A Google search for what's the answer to life, the universe & everything gives you this number 42 |
| #8902, aired 2023-06-27 | SOME THOUGHTS ON THE BOOK $200: The hero was named for a real-life paper company; I wanna be a fireman, in reverse Fahrenheit 451 |
| #8900, aired 2023-06-23 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: Richard Parker is actually a 450-pound Bengal tiger in this novel by Yann Martel Life of Pi |
| #8898, aired 2023-06-21 | SHOE GAZING $800: On March 10, 2023, the Nintendo New York flagship store displayed a real-life version of the shoes worn by this character (Super) Mario |
| #8898, aired 2023-06-21 | THE PLOT THICKENS $800: George Shelby arrives too late to save the life of the title character & resolves to dedicate his life to abolition Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| #8893, aired 2023-06-14 | UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE SITES $400: India's Mahabodhi Temple Complex, one of the 4 holy sites related to this man's life Buddha |
| #8892, aired 2023-06-13 | LET'S CHECK YOUR FAMILY HISTORY $400: Last name of Albert, born in 1852 & the oldest of 7 siblings including Otto & Charles for whom life was truly a circus Ringling |
| #8888, aired 2023-06-07 | COMPANY $800: Evan Moore heard a macaroon shop turn down a delivery order & created this speedy company he dubbed an "On-Demand FedEx" DoorDash |
| #8888, aired 2023-06-07 | A NOVEL CHARACTER BREAKDOWN $1200: An inspector never stops inspecting; a 19th century Gerard; the fugitive saves his life, he lets the guy go but meets a tragic end Javert |
| #8888, aired 2023-06-07 | A NOVEL CHARACTER BREAKDOWN $2000: An arrested development & legal issues on his 30th birthday; a letter-perfect life no more at 31; how Kafka-esque! Josef K. |
| #8886, aired 2023-06-05 | CLASSIC CHILDREN'S BOOKS $400: Eric Carle is perhaps best remembered for this book about a week in the life of a ravenous larva The Very Hungry Caterpillar |
| #8885, aired 2023-06-02 | WOMEN AUTHORS $400: In "Hamnet", Maggie O'Farrell reimagines the life of this writer & his family, including his son, who may have died of bubonic plague William Shakespeare |
| #8885, aired 2023-06-02 | WORDS ENDING IN "Y" $2000: The life story of a saint, it has come to mean an admiring or idealized chronicle of anyone hagiography |
| #8884, aired 2023-06-01 | BIOPICS $400: In "The Greatest Showman", Hugh Jackman played this larger-than-life impresario P.T. Barnum |
| #8881, aired 2023-05-29 | MONTHLY PEOPLE, REAL & IMAGINED $800: Aubrey Plaza, getting married as this character on "Parks & Rec": "I want to spend the rest of my life with you. Is that cool?" April Ludgate |
| #8879, aired 2023-05-25 | OUR RETURNING CHAMPION $200: After defeating Pompey's army, this leader returned to Rome & became dictator for life in the 40s B.C. Julius Caesar |
| #19, aired 2023-05-24 | COPS & ROBBERS TV $600: The exploits of a real-life criminal gang in early 20th century Birmingham, England were the basis for this series Peaky Blinders |
| #8877, aired 2023-05-23 | ANIMALS IN LITERATURE $600: In a book by Paul Gallico, Thomasina is one of these pets that channels the Egyptian goddess Bastet & saves her owner's life a cat |
| #18, aired 2023-05-23 | FICTIONAL CASTLES $200: The real-life Alnwick castle was used for this reel-life fortress built by Godric Gryffindor & 3 others Hogwarts (Castle) |
| #17, aired 2023-05-23 | SCULPTORS $1200: Weird, it's abstract but it's also a chicken--it's this, from words for "Life" & "shape", maybe by Jean Arp or Anish Kapoor biomorphic sculpture |
| #8876, aired 2023-05-22 | ART IMITATING LIFE $200: German artist Max Beckmann produced a contemporary painting of this tragedy the sinking of the Titanic |
| #8876, aired 2023-05-22 | ART IMITATING LIFE $400: This historical work depicts the December 25, 1776 prelude to an attack on some Hessians in Trenton Washington Crossing the Delaware |
| #8876, aired 2023-05-22 | ART IMITATING LIFE $800: A patron himself, Toulouse-Lautrec often painted this bawdy establishment, "red windmill" in French Moulin Rouge |
| #8876, aired 2023-05-22 | ART IMITATING LIFE $1000: This sculptor & painter of Western life took on Yankee football with the 1890 painting "Touchdown Yale vs. Princeton" Frederic Remington |
| #8876, aired 2023-05-22 | ART IMITATING LIFE $2,800 (Daily Double): Jan Willem Pieneman's painting of this 1815 event was to go to the Duke of Wellington, but stayed in Holland the Battle of Waterloo |
| #16, aired 2023-05-22 | A LIFE IN SCIENCE $400: James Chadwick won a 1935 Nobel Prize for discovering this subatomic particle that's part of every atomic nucleus but ordinary hydrogen a neutron |
| #16, aired 2023-05-22 | A LIFE IN SCIENCE $800: Luis Alvarez & son discovered that a layer of iridium-rich clay marked the boundary between this era of the dinosaurs & ours mesozoic |
| #16, aired 2023-05-22 | LOVE LETTERS $800: "You are the atmosphere of beauty through which I see life", wrote Oscar Wilde to this lord whose love cost Oscar dearly Bosie Douglas |
| #16, aired 2023-05-22 | A LIFE IN SCIENCE $1200: Mary Anning found many fossils in the 19th century, including this long-necked marine one sketched here plesiosaur |
| #16, aired 2023-05-22 | A LIFE IN SCIENCE $2000: The first time the Copley Medal went to a non-Brit was in 1794, to this Italian of Pavia Alessandro Volta |
| #16, aired 2023-05-22 | LOVE LETTERS $2000: Marrying another guy, Hannah Arendt wrote to this German philosopher of being, "Our love has become the blessing of my life" Heidegger |
| #16, aired 2023-05-22 | A LIFE IN SCIENCE $4,600 (Daily Double): His name is associated with work & this 19th C. British physicist had an occasional day job managing his family brewery Joule |
| #15, aired 2023-05-22 | PURE POETRY $400: (Ada Limón reads.) NASA has commissioned me to write a poem to be engraved on its Europa Clipper probe, which will travel 1.8 billion miles on its way to inspect an icy but possibly life-friendly moon of this planet Jupiter |
| #8874, aired 2023-05-18 | HISTORY $400: Prior to becoming general of the Continental Army, George Washington caught this disease & bore the scars for life smallpox |
| #8874, aired 2023-05-18 | MAGAZINES $800: Launched in 1937, this similar 4-letter magazine gave Life some stiff competition before ending its run in 1971 Look |
| #8873, aired 2023-05-17 | GREAT BRITS $400: This comic legend of the silent screen spent the last 24 years of his life in Switzerland, where he died in 1977 Charlie Chaplin |
| #8873, aired 2023-05-17 | RECENT POP MUSIC $1200: "This Is A Life" is on the soundtrack of this 2022 film set in an IRS office & in the multiverse Everything Everywhere All at Once |
| #14, aired 2023-05-17 | MASTERS OF LIT $1000: Suppressed during his life, Mikhail Bulgakov's "The Master and" this woman is a comic yet searing satire of Stalinist Russia Margarita |
| #13, aired 2023-05-17 | 4 CONSECUTIVE VOWELS OR CONSONANTS $1200: This word for brainy or elitist was big in 1949, when Life magazine gave examples: Harris Tweed, Eames chair, ballet & Calder highbrow |
| #12, aired 2023-05-16 | A NEW HOPE $1000: Subject of the bio "Man of Hope", Padre Pio received these holy wounds not once but twice in his life, attracting numerous pilgrims stigmata |
| #12, aired 2023-05-16 | 16th & 17th CENTURY ART $1200: In 1519 this German painter the elder dipped into the "Fountain of Life", which depicts the Virgin & child Holbein |
| #11, aired 2023-05-16 | ALL THE WAY FROM "K" TO "K" $1000: The cotton-like fiber from the fruit of this tropical tree is often used for stuffing life preservers & mattresses kapok |
| #10, aired 2023-05-15 | MY MISSED CAREER, SUBSTITUTE TEACHER $400: Let's bring American history class to life! Take a look at this Revolutionary group pouring tea down the throat of a Crown official Sons of Liberty |
| #9, aired 2023-05-15 | MUSICAL THEATER $1000: Set pieces in this Broadway musical include a life-sized helicopter & a giant head of Ho Chi Minh Miss Saigon |
| #9, aired 2023-05-15 | SUBTITLED LITERATURE $5,000 (Daily Double): This word meaning "narrow-minded" is in the subtitle of "Middlemarch" Provincial |
| #8870, aired 2023-05-12 | LIFE IS PICARESQUE $400: Describing episodic exploits of a roaming character, the picaresque genre began in the literature of this country of Quixote Spain |
| #8870, aired 2023-05-12 | LIFE IS PICARESQUE $800: This Voltaire work includes a shipwreck, torture by the Inquisition, El Dorado & cultivating a garden Candide |
| #8870, aired 2023-05-12 | GAME SHOW HOSTS $1000: The love of Betty White's life, he met her when she was a guest in the third week of "Password" Allen Ludden |
| #8870, aired 2023-05-12 | LIFE IS PICARESQUE $1200: The picaresque "Adventures of Peregrine Pickle" features a character modeled after this "Tom Jones" author Henry Fielding |
| #8870, aired 2023-05-12 | LIFE IS PICARESQUE $2,000 (Daily Double): Allen Ginsberg said all the "running around in an automobile" in this work by his pal was "a great picaresque literary device" On the Road |
| #8870, aired 2023-05-12 | HYMNS & SPIRITUALS $2000: Asking for comfort & guidance, do this, "fast falls the eventide", "in life, in death, O Lord" do this abide with me |
| #8870, aired 2023-05-12 | LIFE IS PICARESQUE $2000: In a 1722 work by this author, a woman under the alias Moll Flanders commits various crimes as she climbs a ladder to success Daniel Defoe |
| #8, aired 2023-05-12 | CLASSIC MOVIES $200: "No man is a failure who has friends" is just one of the lessons George Bailey learns in this Christmas classic It's a Wonderful Life |
| #8, aired 2023-05-12 | GAMES, OLD & NEW $2000: Aperture Science Laboratories is the setting of this classic that's among Steam's top-ranked games Portal |
| #7, aired 2023-05-12 | JOHNNY GILBERT'S MUSICAL THEATER AUDITION $200: "But the sun rolling high through the sapphire sky/ Keeps great & small on the endless round/ It's the circle of life" The Lion King |
| #7, aired 2023-05-12 | MNEMONIC POSSESSION $1600: "Dear King Philip claps often for good science" begins with this--all life can be divided into 3, including bacteria domain |
| #4, aired 2023-05-09 | "OF" PAINT $1200: The exuberant Matisse canvas "Le bonheur de vivre" has this title in English Joy of Life |
| #3, aired 2023-05-09 | PLAY: THE GAME $200: Your wife asks for a divorce; lose direction in life; move in with sportswriter pal; clean his place. Clean it again. & again The Odd Couple |
| #1, aired 2023-05-08 | A REAL FONT OF KNOWLEDGE $400: Vincent Connare designed this font with a 2-word name for word balloons & kids' apps; it has taken on a life of its own Comic Sans |
| #1, aired 2023-05-08 | ART TERMS $600: Though some Dutch vanitas paintings of the 17th century contain people, most involve inanimate objects & are called these still life |
| #1, aired 2023-05-08 | DESCRIBING THE NO. 1 ALBUM $2000: 2 of the tunes mentioned in the title are "Isn't She Lovely" & "Pastime Paradise" Songs in the Key of Life |
| #8865, aired 2023-05-05 | STOCK SYMBOLS $800: Life's a bleach for this company with the symbol CLX Clorox |
| #8864, aired 2023-05-04 | 21st CENTURY FILMS $1600: (I'm Michael Cera.) I play bass guitar in real life, so it wasn't a stretch for me to pick up a cherry red Rickenbacker 4001 as the title character of this film based on a graphic novel Scott Pilgrim vs. the World |
| #8859, aired 2023-04-27 | RECENT LITERARY BIOGRAPHY $1600: Lucasta Miller gives us "A Brief Life" (& brief it was) of him "in Nine Poems" (including "Endymion") "& One Epitaph" Keats |
| #8857, aired 2023-04-25 | READING MUSIC $200: Early in "My Love Story", this legend notes, "at this point in my life, I've spent far more time without Ike than with him" Tina Turner |
| #8855, aired 2023-04-21 | SPEAK OF THE DICKENS $2000: "The Life and Adventures of" this alliterative character inspired an 8 1/2 hour long drama that premiered on Broadway in 1981 Nicholas Nickleby |
| #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 |
| #8854, aired 2023-04-20 | LITERARY FRUIT STAND $200: In "War & Watermelon", a 12-year-old boy in 1969 goes along for the ride to this music fest & gains a new outlook on life Woodstock |
| #8854, aired 2023-04-20 | "P"OTPOURRI $800: One of this element's radioactive isotopes has a half-life of more than 24,000 years plutonium |
| #8853, aired 2023-04-19 | A BOX OF MATCHES $1600: This glossy weekly pictorial magazine published in France since 1949 has been compared to Life magazine Paris Match |
| #8852, aired 2023-04-18 | HOROSCOPES $400: You'd expect celebs born under this sign, like Halsey & Donald Glover, to achieve work-life balance Libra |
| #8851, aired 2023-04-17 | ALPHABETICALLY FIRST $800: In a pack of the classic 5-flavor Life Savers cherry |
| #8850, aired 2023-04-14 | BAKER'S DOZEN $1000: No longer the "Teflon Don", he was found guilty on 13 counts, including murder & racketeering, & got life in 1992 (John) Gotti |
| #8845, aired 2023-04-07 | LIFE & DEATH IN LITERARY TITLES $400: "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" is a Hemingway tale of life & death on one of these African expeditions a safari |
| #8845, aired 2023-04-07 | LIFE & DEATH IN LITERARY TITLES $800: A man awakens from a coma with the power to see a terrible fate awaiting humankind in this Stephen King work The Dead Zone |
| #8845, aired 2023-04-07 | LIFE & DEATH IN LITERARY TITLES $1200: "Speaker for the Dead" by Orson Scott Card is the 2nd book in the series about this character & his genocidal "Game" Ender |
| #8845, aired 2023-04-07 | LIFE & DEATH IN LITERARY TITLES $1600: In Willa Cather's "Death Comes for the Archbishop", Father Jean Marie Latour serves in this southwest U.S. state capital Santa Fe, New Mexico |
| #8845, aired 2023-04-07 | LIFE & DEATH IN LITERARY TITLES $2000: Solzhenitsyn's "One Day in the Life of" this character is the story of an inmate struggling to survive in a Soviet prison camp Ivan Denisovich |
| #8844, aired 2023-04-06 | LATIN WORDS & PHRASES $1600: Meaning "course of one's life", it's more extensive than a resumé & emphasizes academic achievements a curriculum vitae |
| #8842, aired 2023-04-04 | ALL THE DAYS OF MY LIFE $200: He racked up a number of wedding days: June 11, 1509; Jan, 25, 1533; May 30, 1536; Jan, 6, 1540; July 28, 1540; & July 12, 1543 Henry VIII |
| #8842, aired 2023-04-04 | ALL THE DAYS OF MY LIFE $400: Jawaharlal Nehru's only child, she worked in government before becoming India's first female prime minister Indira Gandhi |
| #8842, aired 2023-04-04 | ALL THE DAYS OF MY LIFE $800: His P-51 Mustang took out 5 German planes in a single dogfight in World War II; being first to break the sound barrier came later Chuck Yeager |
| #8842, aired 2023-04-04 | ALL THE DAYS OF MY LIFE $1,000 (Daily Double): He worked to develop a flu vaccine before coming up with one for polio, declared safe on April 12, 1955 Jonas Salk |
| #8842, aired 2023-04-04 | ALL THE DAYS OF MY LIFE $1000: Born into slavery, she wrote under the name Iola, became a newspaper owner & campaigned against lynching Ida B. Wells |
| #8842, aired 2023-04-04 | REMEMBER RERUNS? $1000: "The Best of Groucho" was a rerun title of this game show You Bet Your Life |
| #8841, aired 2023-04-03 | PRESIDENT GROVER CLEVELAND'S NON-CONSECUTIVE WORLD $1000: On Dec. 22, 1894 this army officer got life in prison for selling military secrets; Émile Zola would have a bit to say about that Dreyfus |
| #8841, aired 2023-04-03 | THEIR LESSER-KNOWN BOOKS $1600: "Jean Santeuil" of the 1890s is an autobiographical work by this writer who later dealt with his life & memories in 7 volumes Proust |
| #8838, aired 2023-03-29 | A REAL LONG SHOT $400: This Manchester United superstar said a 55-yard score in 1996 "kicked open the door to the rest of my life" David Beckham |
| #8834, aired 2023-03-23 | THAT'S COLD! $800: In 1998 Michael Keaton was nipping at your nose as this title guy, a dad brought back to life as a snowman Jack Frost |
| #8833, aired 2023-03-22 | LONG-LIVED CRITTERS $800: Having a leg up on life, one of these pink birds named Greater got to 83 living at Adelaide Zoo a flamingo |
| #8832, aired 2023-03-21 | THE LIFE SCIENCES $400: Prior to the 17th century work of William Harvey, it was thought that 2 separate systems distributed this around the body blood |
| #8832, aired 2023-03-21 | THE LIFE SCIENCES $800: Mycology is the study of this kingdom of organisms, like mushrooms & molds fungi |
| #8832, aired 2023-03-21 | THE LIFE SCIENCES $1200: With his descriptions of insect anatomy, Aristotle laid the groundwork for this life science entomology |
| #8832, aired 2023-03-21 | THE LIFE SCIENCES $1600: Louis Pasteur disproved the idea that life arises from nonliving matter, this 2-word theory spontaneous generation |
| #8832, aired 2023-03-21 | THE LIFE SCIENCES $2000: There's a motion of the ocean in this word for the building blocks of the acids that control heredity nucleotides |
| #8831, aired 2023-03-20 | MYSELF $600: Part of the "Life" of this Rolling Stones guitarist: "I am pulled over by police officers in Arkansas... and a standoff ensues" Keith Richards |
| #8831, aired 2023-03-20 | MYSELF $1000: If we may get existential for a moment... in 1963 this thinker published "Les Mots", or "The Words" of his life Sartre |
| #8831, aired 2023-03-20 | SHORT STORY, SHORTER $1600: A "Scrivener" hired to copy legal documents, he's an early advocate of quiet quitting, then quits life itself Bartleby |
| #8830, aired 2023-03-17 | OUT & ABOUT THE UNIVERSE $1000: In 2018 the Kepler space telescope was retired after finding about 2,600 of these--no life on any yet exoplanets |
| #8828, aired 2023-03-15 | THOSE DARN NEBRASKANS $2000: Red Cloud is home to the center devoted to this woman whose early 20th century writings are synonymous with Plains life (Willa) Cather |
| #8827, aired 2023-03-14 | DISEASES $2000: In 2001 Frank Carlson fought an awful diagnosis & started the Foundation for Life to fight this neuro-degenerative disease ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease) |
| #8827, aired 2023-03-14 | LORD OF THE DINGS $2000: In "It's a Wonderful Life", little Zuzu Bailey says, "Every time a bell rings", this happens an angel gets his wings |
| #8825, aired 2023-03-10 | HODGEPODGE $200: Per the 1960 census, women's median age at this life event: 20.3 marriage |
| #8825, aired 2023-03-10 | FROM STEM TO STERN $800: 2-word rock used to traverse a stream, or anything used to propel you upwards on life's journey a stepping stone |
| #8822, aired 2023-03-07 | RECENT COMMERCIALS $2000: An animatronic dog gets a new lease on life when he dons this company's Quest 2 headset & heads to virtual reality Oculus |
| #8820, aired 2023-03-03 | QUOTATIONS $800: In "The Story of My Life", she wrote of the coincidence of one of her ancestors being "the first teacher of the deaf in Zurich" (Helen) Keller |
| #8819, aired 2023-03-02 | COURSE DESCRIPTIONS $200: Psych 200:
Analyzing 1901's "The Psychopathology of Everyday Life" by this man; also, how your mom figures in to that, in some way Freud |
| #8816, aired 2023-02-27 | DANIEL RADCLIFFE ON HARRY POTTER $600: (Daniel Radcliffe presents the clue.) Life imitates art--my relationship on set with Gary Oldman very much paralleled Harry's relationship with this character, portrayed by Oldman, Harry's godfather & the titular "Prisoner of Azkaban" Sirius Black |
| #8814, aired 2023-02-23 | GREEK LIFE $200: Details are sketchy on him; was he a 9th century B.C. guy? 8th? From Ionia? Did he really create the 2 epic poems he's credited with? Homer |
| #8814, aired 2023-02-23 | GREEK LIFE $400: We have a theorem about this guy who was born in Ionia around 570 B.C.:
a2 + b2 = c2 Pythagoras |
| #8814, aired 2023-02-23 | GREEK LIFE $600: The first great civilization to emerge around Greece flourished circa 2000 B.C. with the Minoans on this island Crete |
| #8814, aired 2023-02-23 | GREEK LIFE $1000: This 400s B.C. physician had a school at Cos where he taught for fees; no word on if he had a loan program Hippocrates |
| #8814, aired 2023-02-23 | GREEK LIFE $2,000 (Daily Double): In the long run, you'll know General Miltiades lost only around 200 men & the Persians, 6,400, in the 5th century B.C. Battle of this Marathon |
| #8811, aired 2023-02-20 | A CRASH COURSE IN JOHN GREEN $400: (John Green presents the clue.) The title of my novel about Aza & how her OCD affects her life comes from a philosophical joke in which the Earth is flat & resting on the shell of a reptile, & what is that reptile standing on? It's these all the way down turtles |
| #8810, aired 2023-02-17 | MEMOIRS OF GOVERNMENT & POLITICS $2000: Trent Lott's memoir of his life in politics is aptly titled doing this, which might actually be easier with pets than with senators Herding Cats |
| #8809, aired 2023-02-16 | "PLAIN" & "SIMPLE" $2000: 1888's these "from the Hills", Rudyard Kipling's first book of fiction, gives vivid portraits of life in British India Plain Tales |
| #8805, aired 2023-02-10 | DON'T FALL IN! $200: Historically in a village in India, this watering hole was a center of communal life as women came to fill up a well |
| #8805, aired 2023-02-10 | OCEAN LIFE $400: These rays have a variety that can grow to more than 20 feet wide manta rays |
| #8805, aired 2023-02-10 | OCEAN LIFE $800: Head to the Southeast Pacific if you're ready for a fight with the Humboldt, or jumbo flying, species of this cephalopod squid |
| #8805, aired 2023-02-10 | OCEAN LIFE $1200: Like coral reefs in tropical water, in northern seas the areas called these forests are home & refuge to a diverse array of life kelp forests |
| #8805, aired 2023-02-10 | AN ENDLESS CATEGORY $2000: In the King James Bible John 3:16 says, "Whosoever believeth in him" will have this life everlasting |
| #8805, aired 2023-02-10 | OCEAN LIFE $2000: Tuna are related to these streamlined sport fish that can come in varieties like the Atlantic, seen here an Atlantic mackerel |
| #8805, aired 2023-02-10 | OCEAN LIFE $3,800 (Daily Double): Named for its rubbery shell, this largest sea turtle can swim up to 10,000 miles each year a leatherback |
| #8804, aired 2023-02-09 | LIFE LINES $200: This spiritual leader of Tibet says he believes "the purpose of life is to find happiness" the Dalai Lama |
| #8804, aired 2023-02-09 | LIFE LINES $400: "Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans", sang John Lennon in a song to this person he loved Sean Lennon |
| #8804, aired 2023-02-09 | LIFE LINES $600: Writer Christopher Morley said "There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning, and" this rhyming word yearning |
| #8804, aired 2023-02-09 | LIFE LINES $800: A song from this musical says, "To life, to life, L'chaim!, L'chaim, L'chaim, to life!" Fiddler on the Roof |
| #8804, aired 2023-02-09 | LIFE LINES $1000: This Danish philosopher agreed that "Life can only be understood backwards, but... it must be lived forwards" Kierkegaard |
| #8803, aired 2023-02-08 | ALSO A BASEBALL TERM $200: Completes the name of an exhibit about sailor life at the U.S.S. Constitution Museum, "all hands..." on deck |
| #8801, aired 2023-02-06 | YOU CAN CALL ME HOMER $1,000 (Daily Double): Last name of Homer, a filmmaker himself as well as father of a creative son; in 2015 there was a retrospective of his work in Portland Groening |
| #13, aired 2023-02-02 | FORMIDABLE FANTASY $2,700 (Daily Double): "The Mists of Avalon" focuses on women in this British king's legendary life, like Morgaine & Gwenhwyfar King Arthur |
| #8798, aired 2023-02-01 | IF ANCIENT GREEK DEITIES WERE AROUND TODAY $800: On the reality show "My Life is Hell!", this wife of Hades wants to stay in Key West but packs for her 1/3 of the year underworld trip Persephone |
| #8798, aired 2023-02-01 | YOU "BREAK" $1000: An 1889 Chekhov story is about this, an inability to cope with life due to stress; it's no longer an accepted medical diagnosis a nervous breakdown |
| #8797, aired 2023-01-31 | AD VERBS & TAGLINES $1000: Jantzen swimwear:
"____ into life" dive |
| #8796, aired 2023-01-30 | MUSHROOM STEW $1200: White button, cremini, & this beautiful harbor mushroom are all the same variety, just at different stages of life a portobello |
| #8793, aired 2023-01-25 | GARDEN VARIETY STORIES $600: James Ellroy took on the real-life unsolved murder of Elizabeth Short, nicknamed this, in his novel of the same name the "Black Dahlia" |
| #8793, aired 2023-01-25 | BOOK OF THE YEAR $800: The dashing Elmer Ellsworth, the 1st Union officer killed in the Civil War, is brought to life in Adam Goodheart's book about this year 1861 |
| #11, aired 2023-01-19 | JOHNNY GILBERT IS THE TV CHARACTER $1500: "I gotta get 2 children's life vests, abduct Jonathan Farrow... kill him, cut him to pieces, dump him in the ocean" Dexter |
| #8786, aired 2023-01-16 | DOG TALES $200: This Lab was the first part of the title; John Grogan was "& Me", experiencing "Life & Love with the World's Worst Dog" Marley |
| #8786, aired 2023-01-16 | DOG TALES $800: This "colorful" title wolfdog bounded to life in a 1906 Jack London novel White Fang |
| #8786, aired 2023-01-16 | TATTOOS $1200: Groucho Marx sang about "Lydia the" this circus performer; Maud Wagner was a real-life one a tattooed lady |
| #8785, aired 2023-01-13 | I THANK YOU ALL $600: After winning an Oscar for this title role, Julia Roberts didn't leave anyone out & thanked "everyone I've ever met in my life" Erin Brockovich |
| #8784, aired 2023-01-12 | DICTATORS & TYRANTS $800: In 1964 the legislature of this Caribbean country ratified a new constitution making Papa Doc Duvalier president for life Haiti |
| #8784, aired 2023-01-12 | CLASSIC ALBUMS $1200: "Life After Death" by this East Coast rapper was released in 1997, 2 weeks after he was murdered on the West Coast the Notorious B.I.G. (Biggie) |
| #10, aired 2023-01-12 | I LOVE MY DAD $200: He came to dadhood later in life, after his boy Luke grew up... & after cutting off Luke's hand... & blowing up his daughter's planet Darth Vader |
| #10, aired 2023-01-12 | GLOOMY AUTHORS $1000: His plays like "Waiting for Godot" explore the meaninglessness of life & even a Nobel Prize didn't make him happy Samuel Beckett |
| #8783, aired 2023-01-11 | HISTORICAL TV $1600: Seen here, Cillian Murphy played Tommy Shelby on the show about this real-life gang from Birmingham, England Peaky Blinders |
| #8779, aired 2023-01-05 | THE LIFE OF RILEY $400: This former coach of the Lakers, Heat & Knicks was inducted into the Naismith Hall of Fame in 2008 Pat Riley |
| #8779, aired 2023-01-05 | THE LIFE OF RILEY $800: Actress Riley Keough's maternal grandparents are Priscilla & this man Elvis Presley |
| #8779, aired 2023-01-05 | THE LIFE OF RILEY $1200: The work of op artist Bridget Riley was influenced by studying Georges Seurat & this neo-impressionist style he created pointillism |
| #8779, aired 2023-01-05 | THE LIFE OF RILEY $2000: Mortally wounded in action in Vietnam in 1967, Captain Riley Pitts became the first African-American officer to receive this the Medal of Honor |
| #8779, aired 2023-01-05 | THE LIFE OF RILEY $4,000 (Daily Double): Congressman Riley Wilson wanted to be governor of Louisiana in 1928 but lost out to this larger-than-life man (Huey) Long |
| #9, aired 2023-01-05 | ARRESTED DEVELOPMENTS $200: Danny Ocean on film, he was arrested in real life at Sudan's embassy during a human rights protest George Clooney |
| #9, aired 2023-01-05 | WE MEAN BUSINESS $1500: In 2015 he announced the launch of a cruise line called Virgin Voyages but only after making some space(ship) in his life (Richard) Branson |
| #8777, aired 2023-01-03 | THE GOOD, OLD, U.S. OF A. $400: From c. 1640 & built using dovetailing, the USA's oldest of these 2-word symbols of hardy pioneer life is in western New Jersey a log cabin |
| #8776, aired 2023-01-02 | FRIENDS 'TIL THE ENDS $800: As the song says, "Life is a cabaret, old" this synonym for friend chum |
| #8775, aired 2022-12-30 | TALK DERBY TO ME $600: This skating contact sport is finding new life in recent years with current leagues & teams like the Liberty Belles & Hollywood Scarlets roller derby |
| #8774, aired 2022-12-29 | RINGS OF DRAGONS $800: In Chinese myth the dragon was benevolent, exemplifying this masculine half of a complementary life force yang |
| #8774, aired 2022-12-29 | TV TO SEE IN 2022 $2000: Adam Scott's work-life balance cuts 2 very distinctive ways as a Lumon employee on this Apple TV+ drama Severance |
| #8773, aired 2022-12-28 | OSCAR WINNERS ON TV $1000: Angelina Jolie's dad in real life, he played Liev Schreiber's dad on "Ray Donovan" Jon Voight |
| #8771, aired 2022-12-26 | WORD PUZZLES $1000: It was a hit for Stevie Wonder
M1Y L1I1F1E "For Once In My Life" |
| #8769, aired 2022-12-22 | NICOLE KIDMAN SAYS $200: In Monterey on HBO:
"My life isn't perfect, Madeline, bad things have happened to me. I do understand the concept" Big Little Lies |
| #8767, aired 2022-12-20 | DR. SEUSS BAKING CHALLENGE $400: (Tamera Mowry presents the clue.) To bring to life this 1957 book, we've got dishes distinctive enough to keep Sally & her brother amused on a rainy day The Cat in the Hat |
| #8767, aired 2022-12-20 | THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT $400: Of a butterfly's 4 life cycle stages, the caterpillar is this stage the larva |
| #8766, aired 2022-12-19 | LIFE SNAPSHOTS $200: This month:
The Bastille falls on the 14th; the Freedom of Information Act is signed on the 4th July |
| #8766, aired 2022-12-19 | LIFE SNAPSHOTS $400: This landmark:
38 coronation ceremonies & the wedding of Prince William & Catherine Middleton Westminster Abbey |
| #8766, aired 2022-12-19 | LIFE SNAPSHOTS $600: This nation:
Ex-electrician Lech Walesa becomes president; a local archbishop becomes pope Poland |
| #8766, aired 2022-12-19 | LIFE SNAPSHOTS $800: This bacterium transmitted from animals to humans:
Identified in 1876, feared as a bioweapon today anthrax |
| #8766, aired 2022-12-19 | LIFE SNAPSHOTS $1000: This clause barring a state religion:
Ratified as part of the First Amendment, 1791; cited in Edwards v. Aguillard, 1987 the Establishment Clause |
| #8764, aired 2022-12-15 | HISTORY IN ART $400: Charles Benazech painted 4 scenes in the life of King Louis XVI, the last showing him about to go to this device the guillotine |
| #8764, aired 2022-12-15 | DRONING ON ACROSS AMERICA $400: Life's pretty good here in California; check out the pier that shares this name of the village known for Hearst Castle San Simeon |
| #8764, aired 2022-12-15 | BRIEF LIVES $800: Né 1758; rained some terror on the Committee of Public Safety; life cut extremely short in 1794 Robespierre |
| #8763, aired 2022-12-14 | 1982: A YEAR IN FILM $1200: What's best in life, this Arnold guy? "Crush your enemies, see them driven before you & hear the lamentation of their women" Conan the Barbarian |
| #8763, aired 2022-12-14 | THE "J.C"s $1200: Premiering in 2022, an HBO Max drama looks at the life & career of this "French chef" Julia Child |
| #8763, aired 2022-12-14 | 8-LETTER CROSSWORD CLUES $1200: Gomez' life partner Morticia |
| #8762, aired 2022-12-13 | THAT'S SOME OF WHAT SHE WROTE $2000: From a Bengali family, she won a 2000 Pulitzer for exploring the immigrant life in "Interpreter of Maladies" Lahiri |
| #8761, aired 2022-12-12 | NO GOOD $1600: One of Time's "Top 10 Real-Life Mob Bosses", this 1980s Medellín cartel man was said to burn $2 million to stay warm when on the run Escobar |
| #8758, aired 2022-12-07 | LIFE'S PEAKS & VALLEYS $400: Oh my gods! This 9,600-foot Greek peak is on the border of the regions Macedonia & Thessaly Olympus |
| #8758, aired 2022-12-07 | LIFE'S PEAKS & VALLEYS $800: In 2021 this national park reported its hottest-ever June, with an average day/night temperature of 102.8 Death Valley |
| #8758, aired 2022-12-07 | LIFE'S PEAKS & VALLEYS $1200: Valles Marineris, seen here on this planet, is 2,500 miles long & 6 miles deep; the Grand Canyon goes 277 & 1, respectfully Mars |
| #8758, aired 2022-12-07 | LIFE'S PEAKS & VALLEYS $1600: 13,165-foot Cloud Peak is the highest peak in this Wyoming mountain range whose name reflects a type of sheep the Bighorn range |
| #8758, aired 2022-12-07 | LIFE'S PEAKS & VALLEYS $2000: An underground wonderland, Virginia's Luray Caverns are located in this scenic valley the Shenandoah |
| #8757, aired 2022-12-06 | BIG BOOK ROYALTY $800: "The Romanov Empress" details the life of Maria, a Danish princess fated to become the mother of this last Russian czar Czar Nicholas II |
| #8756, aired 2022-12-05 | ANIMALS IN BOOKS $400: A hyena, zebra, orangutan & tiger do not walk into a bar, but are instead on a lifeboat with a teenaged boy in this novel Life of Pi |
| #8753, aired 2022-11-30 | SOMETHING TO READ $1600: A gamekeeper takes the place of a baronet in this scandalous 1928 novel, written near the end of D.H. Lawrence's life Lady Chatterley's Lover |
| #8752, aired 2022-11-29 | "GIVE" OR "TAKE" $200: A word now meaning "a spooky spirit" once meant your life force; that's why this expression means "to die" give up the ghost |
| #8752, aired 2022-11-29 | CAST UPON THE WATERS $800: On "Entourage" Vince Chase was cast as this movie superhero; Jason Momoa got the gig in real life Aquaman |
| #8750, aired 2022-11-25 | WHETHER YOU'RE A BROTHER OR WHETHER YOU'RE A MOTHER $1000: On the Netflix show "Maid" Andie MacDowell plays the mom of this real-life actress daughter Margaret Qualley |
| #8747, aired 2022-11-22 | RHYMING PHRASES $1000: The late princess Lee Radziwill was often called a member of this group living life at a speedy pace, on planes or not the jet set |
| #8746, aired 2022-11-21 | FILMS BY TAGLINE $400: 1976:
"His whole life was a million-to-one shot" Rocky |
| #8744, aired 2022-11-17 | MISCELLANY $400: Once upon a time (actually, 1956), this Oscar winner became a real-life princess (of Monaco) Grace Kelly |
| #8744, aired 2022-11-17 | THE KING JAMES BIBLE SAITH $800: "Jesus saith unto him, I am the way," the this "and the life" the truth |
| #8743, aired 2022-11-16 | OPERA CHARACTERS $400: Even after she dumps him for a matador, a soldier still loves this character & begs her to start a new life with him Carmen |
| #8742, aired 2022-11-15 | CHAMPION WORDS $2000: This symbol of Judaism is Hebrew for "life" chai |
| #8742, aired 2022-11-15 | NOW STREAMING ON DuMONT+ $2000: We've got the Feb. 21, 1953 "Life is Worth Living" where Bishop Sheen predicts death for this Communist; 12 days later, bingo Stalin |
| #8741, aired 2022-11-14 | AT THE MALL OF AMERICA $200: Sea Life, Minnesota's biggest one of these an aquarium |
| #8740, aired 2022-11-11 | RELIGION $800: The feast of this event in Jesus' life in the River Jordan is celebrated by Eastern Christians using meltwater from a cross of ice his baptism |
| #8740, aired 2022-11-11 | ELEGIES $800: William Cowper's "On the Loss of the Royal George" wasn't written for a king, but for one of these, gone with great loss of life a ship |
| #8740, aired 2022-11-11 | THE ARTS $800: The title character of "Petrouchka" is one of these that comes to life & is immortal--terrifying! a puppet |
| #8737, aired 2022-11-08 | HITS OF 2002 $1000: "Lose Yourself" has the meta lyrics "And there's no movie, there's no" this actor, "This is my life" Mekhi Phifer |
| #8736, aired 2022-11-07 | IN THAT NOVEL $800: A boy named for a French swimming pool spends 227 days on a different body of water Life of Pi |
| #7, aired 2022-11-06 | LOST IN EXPLORATION $400: Percy Fawcett, who disappeared searching for a lost jungle city in the 1920s, is often called "the real life" this movie character Indiana Jones |
| #8734, aired 2022-11-03 | GET DOWN TO BUSINESS $2000: AFLAC is the American Family Life Assurance Company of this Georgia "C"ity where it's headquartered Columbus |
| #6, aired 2022-10-30 | MEMOIRS $400: Joseph D. Pistone's "Donnie Brasco" is subtitled "My Undercover Life in" this criminal organization the mafia |
| #6, aired 2022-10-30 | PATRIOT ACT $400: Yukio Mishima's story "Patriotism" begins with a soldier committing this form of suicide; Mishima's life ended similarly seppuku (or hara-kiri) |
| #6, aired 2022-10-30 | MEMOIRS $800: "I Am" this first name tells of life under the Taliban in Pakistan Malala |
| #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 |
| #8727, aired 2022-10-25 | RECENT MOVIES $800: Like life, he, uh, found a way to return as Dr. Ian Malcolm in "Jurassic World Dominion" Jeff Goldblum |
| #5, aired 2022-10-23 | BIOLOGY $12,000 (Daily Double): Animals like frogs that can live on land or water are known as these, from the Greek for "both" & "life" an amphibian |
| #8725, aired 2022-10-21 | WHY ARE MY PANTS WET? $800: I knelt next to one of these teeming-with-life small basins of water left by the receding ocean a tide pool |
| #8722, aired 2022-10-18 | CELEBRITIES $800: Lisa Rinna of "The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" is the real-life wife of this Emmy-nominated actor Harry Hamlin |
| #8722, aired 2022-10-18 | BROADWAY $1200: German sources tell us this song is das erste lied in "Kabarett" "Willkommen" |
| #8721, aired 2022-10-17 | HERE'S YOUR SCIENCE PRIZE $2000: Winners of UNESCO's Kalinga Prize for popularizing science include this knighted narrator of BBC's "Life" (Sir David) Attenborough |
| #4, aired 2022-10-16 | LET'S TAKE A WALK $200: Captain Hook made prisoners do this, involving a board leading over the water; real-life pirates, not so much walk the plank |
| #4, aired 2022-10-16 | HISTORIC HISTORY OF YESTERDAY: A LOOK BACK $300: On July 4, 1826 this ex-president declared independence from life in Monticello, Virginia Thomas Jefferson |
| #4, aired 2022-10-16 | 7-LETTER WORDS $1,300 (Daily Double): As the song says, life is a this, a restaurant with booze & live entertainment a cabaret |
| #8720, aired 2022-10-14 | STORIES WITH HEART $200: Mitch Albom subtitled this book about his former college professor "An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson" Tuesdays with Morrie |
| #8719, aired 2022-10-13 | THE REST, AS THEY SAY... $400: An old saying goes, "Guests, like fish begin to" do this; how you waited 72 hours is beyond us smell after three days |
| #8718, aired 2022-10-12 | 6-SYLLABLE WORDS $1200: Carl Sagan was a prominent one of these "star life" scientists an astrobiologist |
| #8717, aired 2022-10-11 | THE WAIT OF THE WORLD $800: You'll wait a bit for xenon-124 to decay; this stat bangs in around 18 sextillion years, or 18, then 7 sets of 3 zeroes half-life |
| #8717, aired 2022-10-11 | IT'S A "BIG" PLACE $2000: Actually a complex of hills, this Utah formation was named after a song about a hobo living the sweet life Big Rock Candy Mountain |
| #8716, aired 2022-10-10 | SPORTY BOOKS $1000: "The Church of Baseball" is Ron Shelton's story of how he made this classic movie about life in the minor leagues Bull Durham |
| #8716, aired 2022-10-10 | CRITICAL "MASS" $1000: Term for the total plant & animal life in a particular area biomass |
| #8716, aired 2022-10-10 | ONLY ONE CONSONANT WORDS $1600: Let's say hi to this tree of life that stores water & gives fruit in arid lands the baobab |
| #8716, aired 2022-10-10 | REMEMBERING PAST LIVES $6,200 (Daily Double): After a life as a political wife, she co-founded an addiction treatment center & chaired the board of directors until 2005 Betty Ford |
| #3, aired 2022-10-09 | THE AFTER PARTY $300: Mongo only this least valuable chess piece in game of life a pawn |
| #3, aired 2022-10-09 | CELEBRITY MEMOIRS $1000: This movie star wrote the sort-of-memoir "My Way of Life"; her adopted daughter painted a different picture in "Mommie Dearest" Joan Crawford |
| #3, aired 2022-10-09 | 1992 IN BOOKS: 30 YEARS AGO $1200: This Terry McMillan bestseller centers on 4 African-American women living in Phoenix & their challenges with men & life Waiting to Exhale |
| #8715, aired 2022-10-07 | BLACK BUSINESS $200: Once, the USA's largest Black-owned business was North Carolina Mutual Life on Durham's Parrish Street, also called "Black" this street Wall Street |
| #8714, aired 2022-10-06 | INSIGNIFICANT IDIOMS $1200: In "It's a Wonderful Life", Bailey Building & Loan is described with this contemptuous term from the poker table penny ante |
| #8713, aired 2022-10-05 | SCIENCE & NATURE $1600: Japanese scientists at Tohoku Institute have proven that like certain insects, human skin gives off this "life light" bioluminescence |
| #8711, aired 2022-10-03 | FILM NOIR $800: The 1946 murder noir "The Blue" this preceded the real-life murder case known as "The Black" this by a year Dahlia |
| #8711, aired 2022-10-03 | FILM NOIR $1200: The title of this classic 1944 noir refers to a life insurance policy that pays twice as much in a case of accidental death Double Indemnity |
| #2, aired 2022-10-02 | HELPFUL INTERNET ACRONYMS $500 (Daily Double): ICYMI:
You clearly have been living under some sort of rock, so let me catch you up on this tantalizing factoid in case you missed it |
| #2, aired 2022-10-02 | AUSTIN TENDS BAR $900: (Austin shakes drops from a bottle into a glass with a red drink.) Whether you use the Angostura or Peychaud's brand, life has its share of these aromatic spirits used to flavor classic cocktails like the Old Fashioned bitters |
| #2, aired 2022-10-02 | THAT PAINTS A PICTURE $1000: Is this surreal life? / Is this just fantasy? / Watching watches melt / In this man's "Persistence of Memory" Salvador Dalí |
| #8709, aired 2022-09-29 | MAKING THE ROUNDS $200: Musical rounds, sung by multiple voices starting at different times, include this one that ends, "life is but a dream" "Row, Row, Row Your Boat" |
| #8708, aired 2022-09-28 | THE RIGHT BROTHERS $1600: After the death of 5 brothers of this last name in WWII, the U.S. instituted the sole survivor policy to prevent a repeat Sullivan |
| #8708, aired 2022-09-28 | NATURALISTS $2000: Maria Sibylla Merian advanced entomology in 1705's book this process "of the Insects of Surinam", which she illustrated metamorphosis |
| #8707, aired 2022-09-27 | CREDITS $1000: The closing credits of "Harry Potter & the Prisoner of Azkaban" bring this document to life, then Harry says, "Mischief managed" the Marauder's Map |
| #8707, aired 2022-09-27 | POLITICAL WRITING $1200: Chapters of "A Journey: My Political Life" by this prime minister included "Princess Diana" & "New Labour" Tony Blair |
| #8700, aired 2022-09-16 | BEYOND THE PALE $400: This study of ancient life on Earth deals with dinosaur bones, as well as fossils of plants & even microbes paleontology |
| #8700, aired 2022-09-16 | MAGAZINE COVERS $800: A 1969 Life cover showed Buzz Aldrin &, mirrored in Buzz' visor, this man who had taken the photo Neil Armstrong |
| #8700, aired 2022-09-16 | TEXTING ABBREV. $1000: I can totally relate:
SOML,
this story of my life |
| #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 |
| #8697, aired 2022-09-13 | A CHEM/ PHYSICS/ BIO SAMPLER $5,000 (Daily Double): The standard model of particle physics accounts for 3 of the 4 fundamental forces, skipping this one, important in daily life gravity |
| #8695, aired 2022-07-29 | "C"HARACTER STUDY $800: Dickens based this title character of an 1850 novel on his own life David Copperfield |
| #8694, aired 2022-07-28 | STARTS WITH 2 VOWELS $1200: This controversial end-of-life practice derives its name from Greek for "easy death" euthanasia |
| #8693, aired 2022-07-27 | OSCAR WINNERS' TV ROLES $1600: Real-life crime boss Bumpy Johnson on "Godfather of Harlem" Forest Whitaker |
| #8692, aired 2022-07-26 | GOING AROUND IN CIRCLES $400: "Circle Of Life" is the opening number of this musical & not so surprisingly, closes it as well The Lion King |
| #8692, aired 2022-07-26 | FROM FILM TO TV $1200: Nia Vardalos' nuptial hit "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" settled down on TV as "My Big Fat Greek" this Life |
| #8692, aired 2022-07-26 | FROM FILM TO TV $2000: We saw the early life of a psycho in the sort of TV prequel "Bates Motel", with this actor as young Norman Freddie Highmore |
| #8690, aired 2022-07-22 | THE LIFE OF PABLO $400: Pablo Picasso had one of these elegant hounds that he fittingly named Kaboul an Afghan Hound |
| #8690, aired 2022-07-22 | THE LIFE OF PABLO $800: Part of poet Pablo Neruda's storied career involved serving as this country's ambassador to France Chile |
| #8690, aired 2022-07-22 | THE LIFE OF PABLO $1200: Mexican General Pablo Gonzalez organized the fatal ambush of this Guerrilla & revolutionary in 1919 Zapata |
| #8690, aired 2022-07-22 | THE LIFE OF PABLO $1600: His lavish estate east of Medellin called Hacienda Napoles had an airstrip & soccer field (Pablo) Escobar |
| #8690, aired 2022-07-22 | THE LIFE OF PABLO $2000: The greatest cellist of his time, Pablo Casals left Spain in 1939 & spent his last 34 years in exile to protest this dictator's rule Franco |
| #8686, aired 2022-07-18 | BIOGRAPHIES $0: "The Passage of Power" covers 1958 to 1964 in Robert Caro's 4th volume on the life of this American Lyndon Johnson |
| #8686, aired 2022-07-18 | COLOR ME BAD $1000: Seen here, this seawater discoloration caused by dinoflagellates can be lethal to marine life red tide |
| #8685, aired 2022-07-15 | WORLD OF OPERA $4,000 (Daily Double): "Nabucco", based on the life of Nebuchadnezzar, features a scene in this city's gardens Babylon |
| #8680, aired 2022-07-08 | WHAT IS LOVE... $400: In "Frozen" Anna & Hans sing "Love Is An Open" one of these, "Life can be so much more" a door |
| #8679, aired 2022-07-07 | THE SCARF $1200: Clearly a real-life scarf wearer, she made a green one famous in "Confessions of a Shopaholic" Isla Fisher |
| #8678, aired 2022-07-06 | EXAMINE THE SCIENCE $2000: About 66 million years ago, an asteroid hit Earth with a yield of 100 trillion tons of TNT, ending this "middle life" era the Mesozoic |
| #8676, aired 2022-07-04 | IT'S KIND OF A FUNNY STORY $1200: Sloan Crosley's collection of humorous narratives of life in NYC has the tasty title "I was Told There'd be" this treat Cake |
| #8676, aired 2022-07-04 | IT'S KIND OF A FUNNY STORY $2000: Written by Laurence Sterne, "The Life & Opinions of" this gentleman has been called the greatest shaggy dog story Tristram Shandy |
| #8674, aired 2022-06-30 | THANKS FOR THE MEMOIRS $2000: "Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter" by this French intellectual takes her life up to age 21 in 1929 Simone de Beauvoir |
| #8669, aired 2022-06-23 | MY PERSONAL QUOTATION DEVICE $800: Commencement address wisdom: "Be the heroine of your life, not the victim", said this writer & filmmaker at Wellesley in 1996 Nora Ephron |
| #8668, aired 2022-06-22 | FACE/PALM $600: In palmistry, health & general well-being are what this alliterative "line" is all about, not necessarily when you pass away life line |
| #8665, aired 2022-06-17 | SUCH A PEASANT LIFE $400: After working dawn to dusk, it's time for some mead, an alcoholic concoction brewed from water & this sweet stuff honey |
| #8665, aired 2022-06-17 | SUCH A PEASANT LIFE $800: Our lord's away fighting again, across the channel in the battles of Blanchetaque & Caen; hope this war is over soon a Hundred Years' War |
| #8665, aired 2022-06-17 | SUCH A PEASANT LIFE $1200: You might think I'm revolting, but I swear I did not join Wat Tyler's peasant revolt that stormed this fortress on June 14, 1381 the Tower of London |
| #8665, aired 2022-06-17 | SUCH A PEASANT LIFE $1,500 (Daily Double): Not much travel for us normally, but I am considering a pilgrimage to Glastonbury to see the grave of this legendary queen Guinevere |
| #8665, aired 2022-06-17 | SUCH A PEASANT LIFE $2000: No more back-breaking farm labor for me; I've got this new job at the manor, curing hides & making leather a tanner |
| #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 |
| #8661, aired 2022-06-13 | U.S. HISTORY $400: In 1915 the Revenue Cutter Service & the Life-Saving Service merged to create this branch of the military the Coast Guard |
| #8660, aired 2022-06-10 | JANE AUSTEN-TATIOUS $1,000 (Daily Double): Jane lived most of her life in this southern English county that lent its name to a "New" U.S. state Hampshire |
| #8660, aired 2022-06-10 | P IS THE ONLY CONSONANT $2000: It's the life stage of an insect that fits the category pupa |
| #8659, aired 2022-06-09 | BOOK IT! $200: 2 very different novels are "The Murmur of" these & "The Secret Life of" these Bees |
| #8659, aired 2022-06-09 | BOOK IT! $400: In 2022, he put out a nonfiction book called "Life Force" (Tony) Robbins |
| #8659, aired 2022-06-09 | ONE-LETTER FIRST NAME CHANGE $800: Patterson's fictional homicide investigator & the real-life voice of "The Boss Baby" Alex & Alec |
| #8657, aired 2022-06-07 | DEAR-POURRI $1000: On this Netflix show students of color deal with life at Winchester University Dear White People |
| #8654, aired 2022-06-02 | THE PACIFIC OCEAN $1000: Unusual Pacific Ocean life includes this crab, that, due to its hairy arms, takes its name from a fabled creature of the Himalayas the yeti crab |
| #8653, aired 2022-06-01 | LIFE IN THE FAUST LANE $400: A Faustian bargain hit the pop charts in 1979 when "The Devil Went Down To" this place, "he was lookin' for a soul to steal" Georgia |
| #8653, aired 2022-06-01 | POP & ROCK LIFE STORIES $400: The confessions of this funkmeister is subtitled: "Memoirs of a Super Freak" Rick James |
| #8653, aired 2022-06-01 | LIFE IN THE FAUST LANE $800: Part II of Goethe's "Faust" gets into his salvation & the courtship of this Greek woman of Trojan War myth Helen of Troy |
| #8653, aired 2022-06-01 | POP & ROCK LIFE STORIES $800: Don't get me wrong, "Reckless: My Life as a Pretender" was her tale to tell Chrissie Hynde |
| #8653, aired 2022-06-01 | LIFE IN THE FAUST LANE $1200: Traditionally, in Gounod's opera, Faust is a tenor while Méphistophélès is this, like Nicolai Ghiaurov in a classic recording a bass |
| #8653, aired 2022-06-01 | POP & ROCK LIFE STORIES $1200: "Be My Baby: How I Survived Mascara, Miniskirts, and Madness" is by this late, great Ronette Ronnie Spector |
| #8653, aired 2022-06-01 | POP & ROCK LIFE STORIES $1600: This Englishman looked at fame in "They Made a Monkee Out of Me" Davy Jones |
| #8653, aired 2022-06-01 | LIFE IN THE FAUST LANE $2,000 (Daily Double): Roll up, roll up for the history tour... "The Tragical History of doctor Faustus" is a play by this Shakespeare-era man (Christopher) Marlowe |
| #8653, aired 2022-06-01 | LIFE IN THE FAUST LANE $2000: This composer conducted the first performance of his "Faust" overture at a Dresden concert in 1844 Wagner |
| #8653, aired 2022-06-01 | POP & ROCK LIFE STORIES $2000: "So Let It Be Written", a bio of this lead singer, gets its title from a lyric in Metallica's "Creeping Death" James Hetfield |
| #8652, aired 2022-05-31 | IT'S A FLAT-OUT FACT $400: All babies have flat feet, but if you develop the condition later in life, it's called fallen these arches |
| #8650, aired 2022-05-27 | "V"OCABULARY $400: It's "the spice of life" variety |
| #8650, aired 2022-05-27 | LITERARY SHIPPING $800: A cargo ship named the Tsimtsum sails from India in this novel by Yann Martel Life of Pi |
| #8650, aired 2022-05-27 | RELIGION $1200: Used to describe the path to God, a tree of life, like the one seen here, is essential to this form of Jewish mysticism Kabbalah |
| #8648, aired 2022-05-25 | BOND APPETIT! $800: A breakfast of eggs & sausage in "Diamonds Are Forever" is washed down with this Miller beer, also what James lives the High Life |
| #8644, aired 2022-05-19 | PHYSICS $800: This property is measured in becquerels; one Bq equals one disintegration of an unstable nucleus per second radioactivity |
| #8644, aired 2022-05-19 | BLOOPERMAN $1000: While doing a take in "Rush Hour 2", this comic gets a real-life call from someone who asks to speak to Jackie Chan Chris Tucker |
| #8643, aired 2022-05-18 | HISTORIC AMERICANS $400: On this silversmith's death in 1818, one paper said, "Seldom has the tomb closed upon a life so honorable & useful" Paul Revere |
| #8639, aired 2022-05-12 | NATIVE AMERICAN WOMEN $600: Sarah Winnemucca was the first Native woman to secure this protection, with 1883's "Life Among the Piutes: Their Wrongs and Claims" a copyright |
| #8638, aired 2022-05-11 | FROM QUEENS $400: On TV & in real life, she's "Nora from Queens", but you know her better by this name Awkwafina |
| #8638, aired 2022-05-11 | WHAT'S THAT SONG CALLED? $800: "Ooh, you can dance, you can jive, having the time of your life" "Dancing Queen" |
| #8637, aired 2022-05-10 | FROM SHE TO SHINING SHE $200: Warsaw is home to a statue of this scientist, holding what is supposed to be polonium, part of her life's work (Marie) Curie |
| #8637, aired 2022-05-10 | U.S. GOVERNMENT $400: Article III of the Constitution says they "shall hold their offices during good behaviour"--basically, for life Supreme Court Justices |
| #8636, aired 2022-05-09 | YOU SAID IT! $1200: This Big Mac entrepreneur: "Work is the meat in the hamburger of life" (Ray) Kroc |
| #8636, aired 2022-05-09 | AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MOVIES $2000: This press-shy director turned to his own past in "The Tree of Life" Terrence Malick |
| #8635, aired 2022-05-06 | 2 FIRST NAMES? $400: Co-stars on "The Americans", she & Matthew Rhys officially became a real-life couple in 2014 Keri Russell |
| #8634, aired 2022-05-05 | AMERICAN GRAB BAG $800: Weehawken, New Jersey is the place to see the dueling grounds where this statesman lost his life in 1804 Alexander Hamilton |
| #8634, aired 2022-05-05 | DESCRIBING THE PULITZER FICTION WINNER $2000: 1980: A book about Gary Gilmore, a real-life death row inmate The Executioner's Song |
| #8633, aired 2022-05-04 | KEEPIN' UP WITH NASA $200: In 2016 NASA detected this key-to-life element in a comet's tail, suggesting that comets may have brought it to Earth carbon |
| #8630, aired 2022-04-29 | NEWSPAPERS & MAGAZINES $800: The late André Leon Talley was the larger than life long-time creative director of this magazine Vogue |
| #8629, aired 2022-04-28 | MOVIES"!" $1000: What the Dickens?! Mark Lester wanted a little more out of life in the title role of this 1968 film Oliver! |
| #8628, aired 2022-04-27 | CELEBRITY MEMOIRS $400: In "A Life in Parts", he writes of the end of a day on set: "I'd... let everything soak off ... leeching myself of Walter White" Bryan Cranston |
| #8626, aired 2022-04-25 | OUT IN THE OCEAN $800: These deep-sea vents, named for the magma-heated water they emit, are islands of life in the ocean floor hydrothermal vents |
| #8625, aired 2022-04-22 | DRAFTING THE CONSTITUTION $800: The final draft added the phrase "be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb" to this the Fifth Amendment |
| #8625, aired 2022-04-22 | FIRSTS $2,000 (Daily Double): On Oct. 13, 1983 the first call on a commercial cell phone was made to a grandson of this inventor Alexander Graham Bell |
| #8624, aired 2022-04-21 | SIMPLY STELLAR $400: Louis Armstrong wore one of these on a necklace for much of his life to honor a Jewish family who helped him as a child a star of David |
| #8624, aired 2022-04-21 | BOOK TITLE GEOGRAPHY $600: Julia Child cooked up
"My Life in ____" France |
| #8623, aired 2022-04-20 | ACTORS, INITIALLY $600: W.J.H.,
making some (after)life changes in "The Good Place" William Jackson Harper |
| #8621, aired 2022-04-18 | ACTORS ON BROADWAY $800: Willkommen! In 2014 life was this musical for Emma Stone Cabaret |
| #8620, aired 2022-04-15 | A COUNTRY OF LAWS $1000: The promotion not of GDP but GNH, this measure of quality of life, is enshrined in Bhutan's constitution Gross National Happiness |
| #8619, aired 2022-04-14 | IT'S ALL ABOUT HER $1200: "My Life with the Chimpanzees" Jane Goodall |
| #8619, aired 2022-04-14 | IT'S ALL ABOUT HER $1600: "Road to Tara: The Life of" this author Margaret Mitchell |
| #8618, aired 2022-04-13 | BOOK 'EM $1000: This James Redfield bestseller about an ancient manuscript that provides 9 key insights to life has been called "a spiritual classic" The Celestine Prophecy |
| #8615, aired 2022-04-08 | WRITING--IT'S A LIVING $1200: Pitch that story to this type of magazine, such as the fittingly named High Life or Enroute an in-flight magazine |
| #8613, aired 2022-04-06 | WOMEN IN MUSIC $1600: A chip off the old block, this daughter of Pete Escovedo has led her own "Glamorous Life" as a world famous percussionist Sheila E. |
| #8611, aired 2022-04-04 | BIRTH OF A WRITER $1200: Starting out life in India, he would later dedicate "Fury" to his soon-to-be wife, Padma Lakshmi (Salman) Rushdie |
| #8610, aired 2022-04-01 | MUSICALS BY SONG LYRICS $600: "You can dance, you can jive, having the time of your life" Mamma Mia! |
| #8609, aired 2022-03-31 | IN MEMORIAM 2021 $400: A heart attack claimed the life of '90s rapper Earl Simmons, better known by this 3-letter moniker DMX |
| #8605, aired 2022-03-25 | THE ACADEMY MUSEUM OF MOTION PICTURES $2000: (Jimmy presents the clue from the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures.) Showing off one of the key principles of animation, & the illusion of movement, the characters of "Toy Story" seemingly come to life thanks to this special 3D end-of-the alphabet optical device a zoetrope |
| #8603, aired 2022-03-23 | SCIENCE IN NATURE $1200: The phyto-type of these marine drifters contains algae & bacteria, while the zoo- type includes animal life plankton |
| #8602, aired 2022-03-22 | RECENT BIOS OF WRITERS $400: "The Life She Wished to Live" is a bio of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, who at 32 moved her life to a backwoods citrus grove in this state Florida |
| #8602, aired 2022-03-22 | RECENT BIOS OF WRITERS $1600: "Red Comet" says the unsung hero of Sylvia Plath's life was her benefactor Olive Prouty, author of the novel "Now," this personage Voyager |
| #8602, aired 2022-03-22 | RECENT BIOS OF WRITERS $3,000 (Daily Double): "The Sinner and the Saint" tells how a real-life egotistical murderer inspired this Russian novelist Dostoevsky |
| #8601, aired 2022-03-21 | CHILDHOOD HOMES $1200: "There are places I'll remember all my life", & one would have been the home in Liverpool where he lived with Aunt Mimi John Lennon |
| #8599, aired 2022-03-17 | BEASTLY LIT $600: With sinister consequences, a cat named Church is brought back to life in this 1983 novel Pet Sematary |
| #8598, aired 2022-03-16 | BOWL-O-RAMA $800: "If Life is" this, asked a humorous book title by Erma Bombeck, "What Am I Doing in the Pits?" a Bowl of Cherries |
| #8597, aired 2022-03-15 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $1600: Though he'd live to age 91, this "Finlandia" composer pretty much stopped composing for the last 30 years of his life Jean Sibelius |
| #8592, aired 2022-03-08 | 11 $1000: The Duchess of Richmond is one of the "Windsor Beauties", 11 portraits of women in the life of this Restoration king Charles II |
| #8592, aired 2022-03-08 | 14-LETTER WORDS $1600: Martin Luther & John Calvin both believed in this religious doctrine that life & salvation are already decided by God ahead of time predestination |
| #8590, aired 2022-03-04 | POP CULTURE PAIRS $1200: Ash is bros for life with this Pokemon Pikachu |
| #8588, aired 2022-03-02 | "WISE" WORDS $400: Familiar with life in an urban environment, especially along its avenues & boulevards streetwise |
| #8587, aired 2022-03-01 | PAST YOUR PRIME $200: This flower comes before "path" in a phrase describing a hedonistic life primrose |
| #8585, aired 2022-02-25 | THE DISNEY LADY SINGS $1000: "When Will My Life Begin?", performed by Mandy Moore Tangled |
| #8582, aired 2022-02-22 | ____ OF ____ $800: It's the hydraulic device that can rescue people trapped inside wreckage the jaws of life |
| #8582, aired 2022-02-22 | ICONOGRAPHY $2000: Pharaohs are often depicted holding one of these "life crosses" an ankh |
| #18, aired 2022-02-22 | HISTORIC POTPOURRI $800: His life came to an end in 1805 after being hit by enemy fire on the deck of his flagship, the HMS Victory Horatio Nelson |
| #8580, aired 2022-02-18 | BOOKS BY FUNNY PEOPLE $400: This comedian, seen here, provided some life lessons in "I Can't Make This Up" Hart |
| #8580, aired 2022-02-18 | BOOKS BY FUNNY PEOPLE $1200: The subtitle of "I Must Say" by this Canadian & "SNL" veteran is "My Life as a Humble Comedy Legend" Martin Short |
| #8580, aired 2022-02-18 | BOOKS BY FUNNY PEOPLE $2000: Eric Idle's "sortabiography" is titled this, the upbeat, whistling song Eric wrote that ends "Life of Brian" Always Look on the Bright Side of Life |
| #16, aired 2022-02-18 | SCIENCE FICTION $800: This author of "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" said his life's work was justified by the 1982 film adaptation "Blade Runner" (Phillip K.) Dick |
| #14, aired 2022-02-17 | MOVIE SUM-UP $400: We're all living in a simulation! Only a bank teller can save us!; life is a video game Free Guy |
| #8578, aired 2022-02-16 | NAVAL CONFLICT $200: In 394 B.C. Conon the Athenian found what is best in life, crushing the fleet of this rival city-state Sparta |
| #8578, aired 2022-02-16 | GREEK LETTERS, ROMAN NUMERALS $600: "Love of learning is the guide of life" is the motto of this academic honor society Phi Beta Kappa |
| #8578, aired 2022-02-16 | GREEK LETTERS, ROMAN NUMERALS $800: This Greek letter shares a spelling with the body's vital life force chi |
| #12, aired 2022-02-16 | THE FUTURE'S NOT SO BRIGHT... $400: "Another Life" has Katee Sackhoff saving her crew by sending them through one of these intergalactic passageways a wormhole |
| #11, aired 2022-02-16 | THEY WROTE YOUR TEXTBOOKS $400: Neil Campbell of the Campbell-Reece text on this life science was an expert on mimosas--not the drink but a pea family plant biology |
| #8577, aired 2022-02-15 | A CHAPTER OF IT BEGINS... $400: "Vronsky had never had a real home life... his father he scarcely remembered" Anna Karenina |
| #10, aired 2022-02-15 | I BRAIN RADIO $200: The radio show "Hidden Brain" explores issues of mind & life, as in a 2019 story about what makes us "Creatures of" this habit |
| #10, aired 2022-02-15 | 10-LETTER WORDS $400: One who puts down in words the story of another's life biographer |
| #10, aired 2022-02-15 | CLASSIC NOVELS $800: This novel recounts a single day--June 16, 1904--in the life of Leopold Bloom & Stephen Dedalus Ulysses |
| #8576, aired 2022-02-14 | JOHNNY GILBERT READS LYRICS FROM THE HEART $1200: "Life was a willow & it bent right to your wind (oh)... I'm begging for you to take my hand, wreck my plans, that's my man" Taylor Swift |
| #8575, aired 2022-02-11 | AUTOBIOGRAPHIES $800: Seen here, singer Mary Wilson wrote a memoir titled "Dreamgirl: My Life as..." a member of this trio The Supremes |
| #7, aired 2022-02-11 | 2 WORDS TO COMPLETE THE PHRASE $200: "When life gives you lemons..." make lemonade |
| #6, aired 2022-02-10 | MEDIEVAL LIFE $400: Medieval Brits mainly dressed in this animal fabric; by God's bones, itchy my tunic be! wool |
| #6, aired 2022-02-10 | MEDIEVAL LIFE $800: A major part of medieval Japanese art was portraits of these men, hung in temples--the portraits were--& venerated Buddhist monks |
| #6, aired 2022-02-10 | MEDIEVAL LIFE $1200: This part of a castle's defenses often also functioned as the sewer the moat |
| #6, aired 2022-02-10 | MEDIEVAL LIFE $1600: The University of this city between Florence & Milan attracted students from around Europe & built a college for the Spaniards Bologna |
| #6, aired 2022-02-10 | MEDIEVAL LIFE $2000: This medical practice generated a vacuum above the skin that was supposed to draw out "vicious humors" cupping |
| #5, aired 2022-02-10 | HOME ECONOMICS WITH TOPHER GRACE $400: (Topher Grace delivers the clue.) Sometimes life comes at you fast--ouch--glad everyone was okay--good thing you have car insurance; but now you must pay this, the part of the covered loss that's out of pocket; $500 tends to be the popular choice the deductible |
| #8573, aired 2022-02-09 | BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS $200: This story of a fawn is subtitled "A Life in the Woods" Bambi |
| #4, aired 2022-02-09 | ASSIGNED READING MATH $1200: A textbook titled this process covers "The Tree of Life" & "Mutation and Variation"; readers spend 62% more time on "All About Sex" Evolution |
| #3, aired 2022-02-09 | LITERARY NAME DROPPERS $1200: Partly narrated by his college roommate:
"The Brief Wondrous Life of ____ ____" Oscar Wao |
| #8572, aired 2022-02-08 | JUST "Z" MOVIE FOR YOU $1200: Art imitates life as sloths work at the DMV in this animated movie Zootopia |
| #1, aired 2022-02-08 | BIBLE BOOKS $200: This word for the 4 books that recount Jesus' life is from Old English for "good tidings" the Gospels |
| #1, aired 2022-02-08 | BIO 101 $800: "The Mayor of Castro Street" examines "The Life & Times of" this politician & activist who was assassinated in 1978 Harvey Milk |
| #8571, aired 2022-02-07 | PHOTOGRAPHERS $400: Margaret Bourke-White's pic of Fort Peck Dam was the first cover of this Henry Luce magazine that covered, well... everything Life |
| #8571, aired 2022-02-07 | ANGELS & DEMONS & INSURANCE AGENTS $1600: The agent explains whole life insurance costs more than this 4-letter kind with benefits that expire after you survive 10, 20 or 30 years term |
| #8570, aired 2022-02-04 | THE STAGE MANAGER $400: The iconic role of the stage manager in "Our Town" brought late-in-life Emmy & Tony nominations for this acting legend Paul Newman |
| #8568, aired 2022-02-02 | IN MY WORDS $200: In Amanda Yates Garcia's book "Initiated: Memoir of" one of these, she weaves a spell, telling of her magical life a Witch |
| #8568, aired 2022-02-02 | POETRY $1600: "That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet", says her poem No. 1741 Emily Dickinson |
| #8565, aired 2022-01-28 | LINE $800: "Now all she does is fool with those pieces of glass and play those worn-out records. What kind of a life is that for a girl to lead?" The Glass Menagerie |
| #8563, aired 2022-01-26 | CEREAL $800: This baked, square cereal shares its name with a board game & a magazine Life |
| #8562, aired 2022-01-25 | SEE LIFE $200: It's the breed seen here, at an event where the "wiener" takes all dachshund |
| #8562, aired 2022-01-25 | FRENCH ART & ARTISTS $400: Pierre La mure's 1950 novel "Moulin Rouge" was based on the life of this artist Toulouse-Lautrec |
| #8562, aired 2022-01-25 | "C" LIFE $400: Stole his way into life in 1866 in Beaver, Utah; led a "Wild Bunch"; died in Bolivia in 1909... maybe (Butch) Cassidy |
| #8562, aired 2022-01-25 | SEE LIFE $400: From Sioux for "used to live in", it was the easily portable dwelling of Plains Indians a teepee |
| #8562, aired 2022-01-25 | SEE LIFE $600: That's totally tubular, dude! Located behind the trachea, it's the body part seen here the esophagus |
| #8562, aired 2022-01-25 | "C" LIFE $800: Born in 12 A.D.; executed the Praetorian Guard prefect who helped get him the top job; in 41, executed by Praetorian Guards Caligula |
| #8562, aired 2022-01-25 | SEE LIFE $800: Here's the exciting part of the creation of this dessert, named for a regular at a New Orleans restaurant bananas Foster |
| #8562, aired 2022-01-25 | SEE LIFE $1000: The parts being covered in wax resist the dye in this Indonesian method of applying colored designs to fabric batik |
| #8562, aired 2022-01-25 | "C" LIFE $1200: Fought for his people in Arizona; brought down by a (General George) Crook; died 1874 on a reservation Cochise |
| #8562, aired 2022-01-25 | "C" LIFE $1600: Appeased his parents by showing up in England in 1869; tried to make peace; failed & died soon after in 1940 Neville Chamberlain |
| #8562, aired 2022-01-25 | "C" LIFE $2000: Born in Halifax, 1787; found a "line" of work sending ships across the Atlantic; made the same journey & died in London, 1865 Cunard |
| #8561, aired 2022-01-24 | ROMA LIFE & CULTURE $200: The Gabor are a Roma group around the city Targu Mures in this country that sounds like it should have a large Roma minority & does Romania |
| #8561, aired 2022-01-24 | SPICE UP YOUR LIFE $400: Used especially in baked goods, the Dutch blue variety of these seeds are among the world's best poppy seeds |
| #8561, aired 2022-01-24 | ROMA LIFE & CULTURE $400: A vardo is a Roma one of these conveyances; Roald Dahl owned one & wrote a book about a boy who lives in one a caravan |
| #8561, aired 2022-01-24 | ROMA LIFE & CULTURE $600: Making do with foods others might ignore, the Roma developed culinary dishes like niglo, this quilled mammal baked in clay a hedgehog |
| #8561, aired 2022-01-24 | SPICE UP YOUR LIFE $800: An ingredient in old bay seasoning is this type of salt with a crunchy vegetable in its name celery salt |
| #8561, aired 2022-01-24 | ROMA LIFE & CULTURE $800: The Roma were targeted by the Nazis & August 2 is a day of remembrance for almost 3,000 killed at this camp on that date in 1944 Auschwitz |
| #8561, aired 2022-01-24 | ROMA LIFE & CULTURE $1000: This legendary Roma jazz player who lacked the use of 2 left fingers has inspired generations of guitarists Django Reinhardt |
| #8561, aired 2022-01-24 | WRITERS DO RIGHT $1000: This author of vampire novels donated $1 from each sale of "The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner" to the Red Cross Stephenie Meyer |
| #8561, aired 2022-01-24 | SPICE UP YOUR LIFE $1200: Used in Asian recipes, the star type of this has a licorice-like flavor anise |
| #8561, aired 2022-01-24 | SPICE UP YOUR LIFE $1600: Tea made from this spice, also called Indian saffron, is said to have anti-inflammatory properties & may also boost immunity turmeric |
| #8561, aired 2022-01-24 | SPICE UP YOUR LIFE $2000: Sesame seeds, sumac & thyme go into this popular end-of-the-alphabet Middle Eastern blend za'atar |
| #8560, aired 2022-01-21 | SOME RANDOM ELEMENTS $800: It's named for 2 French physicists & one isotope has a half-life of 15.6 million years curium |
| #8559, aired 2022-01-20 | GETTING A SHOT $800: To continue to develop immunity, the CDC recommends getting the vaccine for this, both A & B, during the first 2 years of life hepatitis |
| #8558, aired 2022-01-19 | WORLD LEADERS $200: In 2020 this P.M. credited the U.K.'s National Health Service for saving his life after he spent time in the ICU battling COVID Boris Johnson |
| #8556, aired 2022-01-17 | A MEMBER OF THE BANDS $600: Hollywood Vampires were brought to life in 2015, led by Alice Cooper, Johnny Depp & guitarist Joe Perry of this band Aerosmith |
| #8556, aired 2022-01-17 | DOCUMENTARIES $800: His life & lessons were the subject of "Won't You Be My Neighbor?" Mr. Rogers |
| #8553, aired 2022-01-12 | AUTHORS' NONFICTION $400: His "Life on the Mississippi" preceded "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by a year Twain |
| #8552, aired 2022-01-11 | TV SHOWS WITH ONE-WORD TITLES $200: Successful actor Vincent Chase navigates the Hollywood life with the help of a close circle of pals Entourage |
| #8548, aired 2022-01-05 | MY SINGLE JUST DROPPED $200: This violet-eyed "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" actress left the single life in 1950, & 1952, 1957, 1959, 1964, 1975, 1976 & 1991 (Elizabeth) Taylor |
| #8546, aired 2022-01-03 | DEADLY SINS, ELSEWHERE $800: U2 honored Martin Luther King, singing, "Free at last, they took your life, they could not take your" this pride |
| #8546, aired 2022-01-03 | HISTORY PLAYS $1600: In Shakespeare's take on the life of this monarch who died in 1216, he is fatally poisoned by a monk King John |
| #8545, aired 2021-12-31 | TV TALK $1000: Rachel Dratch came up with this buzzkill character while on vacation with a real-life one Debbie Downer |
| #8542, aired 2021-12-28 | ASHES TO ASHES $600: This memoir by Frank McCourt depicts his life up to the time he was 19, when he left Ireland for America Angela's Ashes |
| #8541, aired 2021-12-27 | MIX-OLOGY $200: To life:
OILY BOG biology |
| #8540, aired 2021-12-24 | SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN $1200: This scientist's Agricultural Research Foundation in Tuskegee was founded after he donated most of his life savings in 1940 Carver |
| #8540, aired 2021-12-24 | NOVELS & NOVELISTS $1600: Janie, the 40ish heroine of this book by Zora Neale Hurston, sees her life as a tree with "dawn and doom" in the branches Their Eyes Were Watching God |
| #8539, aired 2021-12-23 | THOMAS HOBBES $200: Hobbes said life was "nasty, brutish, & short" in a state of this, which doesn't just mean battles but "every man against every man" war |
| #8539, aired 2021-12-23 | SEASONINGS GREETINGS $400: Cilantro & this other "C"-soning both come from the same plant, but at different stages in its life cycle coriander |
| #8539, aired 2021-12-23 | "SHORT" $1000: These 4 words begin a Hemingway title that concludes "of Francis Macomber" The Short Happy Life |
| #8535, aired 2021-12-17 | POETIC OBJECTS $2000: "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" contains the sad line "I have measured out my life with" these utensils coffee spoons |
| #8530, aired 2021-12-10 | GOING MEDIEVAL $1600: In the 14th century this Italian poet lost the love of his life, Laura, to the black death Petrarch |
| #8529, aired 2021-12-09 | YIDDISH THEATER $2000: To Marlon Brando, "Stella" also meant this woman from a Yiddish theater dynasty, the teacher who changed his life Stella Adler |
| #8528, aired 2021-12-08 | A LITTLE MATH IN YOUR MOVIE $1200: Spencer Tracy adjusts to life as a grandfather in the 1951 sequel "Father's Little" this math term Dividend |
| #8527, aired 2021-12-07 | NONFICTION $800: "The Immortal Life of" this woman tells how her HeLa cells aided medical research, without her knowledge or consent Henrietta Lacks |
| #8527, aired 2021-12-07 | NONFICTION $1,000 (Daily Double): This bestselling memoir about a woman's quest to find balance in her life was published in Spanish as "Come, reza, ama" Eat, Pray, Love |
| #8527, aired 2021-12-07 | I'VE GOT A THEORY $1600: In 1633 he got a life sentence for discussing Copernican theory, but it was a torture-free term Galileo |
| #8526, aired 2021-12-06 | IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE TURNS 75 $200: In 1974 a copyright renewal failure let "Life" lapse into this 2-word "area"; royalty-free, it aired repeatedly & popularity soared the public domain |
| #8526, aired 2021-12-06 | IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE TURNS 75 $400: Separated from his real-life brother at the holidays, Kieran Culkin catches "Life" in film 1 & again in "2" in this series Home Alone |
| #8526, aired 2021-12-06 | IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE TURNS 75 $600: This actress came by her all-American image honestly; her hometown of Denison, Iowa has been compared to Bedford Falls Donna Reed |
| #8526, aired 2021-12-06 | IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE TURNS 75 $800: Known for upbeat films, this director said "Life" was "the greatest film I had ever made", but it didn't do well at the box office (Frank) Capra |
| #8526, aired 2021-12-06 | IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE TURNS 75 $1000: The schemes of this wealthy, cackling character include offering George a job Potter |
| #8526, aired 2021-12-06 | FINALS $1200: According to tradition, his final words in 1776 were "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country" Nathan Hale |
| #8525, aired 2021-12-03 | NOVELS $2000: This 1946 novel based on the life of Huey Long won the Pulitzer Prize & the movie won the Best Picture Oscar All the King's Men |
| #8524, aired 2021-12-02 | FICTION $1000: Jack Schaefer wrote about the cowboy life in this novel with a 1-name title; come back! Shane |
| #8522, aired 2021-11-30 | FILL IN THE PHRASE $200: "Life, liberty and
the ____
of happiness" pursuit |
| #8522, aired 2021-11-30 | JOHNNY GILBERT IS THE ACTION MOVIE CHARACTER $1000: "Servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius... husband to a murdered wife, & I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next" Maximus |
| #8521, aired 2021-11-29 | PLAY CHARACTERS $200: "Death of a Salesman" takes place during the last few days of his life Willy Loman |
| #8521, aired 2021-11-29 | JESUS & NERO $1200: These 3 "synoptic" Gospels are the main sources for knowledge of Jesus' life Matthew, Mark & Luke |
| #8520, aired 2021-11-26 | STORY TIME $600: Readers discovered "The Secret Life of" this James Thurber character in the March 18, 1939 issue of the New Yorker Walter Mitty |
| #8520, aired 2021-11-26 | STORY TIME $800: This rabbit-loving character calls a woman "purty"; that relationship ends in an extremely awful way, as does his life Lennie |
| #8519, aired 2021-11-25 | OSCAR'S BEST DIRECTOR $1,000 (Daily Double): 2012:
There are more letters in "Life of Pi" than in his name Ang Lee |
| #8517, aired 2021-11-23 | IN A PREVIOUS LIFE $400: I was pretty happy when I took off that bell hat after a long day amusing the king as a court one of these a (court) jester |
| #8517, aired 2021-11-23 | IN A PREVIOUS LIFE $800: Around 1680 I was one of the last of this flightless bird; to add insult to injury, Dutch explorers called our meat repulsive a dodo |
| #8517, aired 2021-11-23 | IN A PREVIOUS LIFE $1200: I was one of the iron smithing experts of this biblical people & was really rooting for my compatriot Goliath the Philistines |
| #8517, aired 2021-11-23 | IN A PREVIOUS LIFE $1600: 400 million years ago, I was this type of creature named for its breathing organs; here's a picture of my brother a lungfish |
| #8517, aired 2021-11-23 | BUSINESS HISTORY $2000: In 1667 Londoner Nicholas Barbon set up the first office for this type of insurance fire insurance |
| #8517, aired 2021-11-23 | IN A PREVIOUS LIFE $2000: I was one of these slaves in Sparta; every year, war was officially declared on us so a well-born Spartan could always kill me helots |
| #8516, aired 2021-11-22 | YOUR DESTINATION AWAITS $2000: Here's a glimpse of life on this 15-square-mile French Polynesian island whose double name means "first born"; yes, please Bora Bora |
| #8516, aired 2021-11-22 | YOU GOT A LOT OF IRV, PAL! $2000: After getting 17 publisher rejections, Irving Stone hit it big in 1934 with this "bio-history" of van Gogh Lust for Life |
| #8515, aired 2021-11-19 | BARRIERS IN LIFE $400: Do you know how fast you were going? 670,616,629 mph, or the speed of this; in theory, you can't go faster, but you still get a ticket light |
| #8515, aired 2021-11-19 | 19th CENTURY STUFF $400: Seen here is a key for this technological innovation that changed life in the 19th century a telegraph |
| #8515, aired 2021-11-19 | ESSAYS $600: A few years before his death from cancer, this film critic reflected on his life in "Go Gentle Into That Good Night" Ebert |
| #8515, aired 2021-11-19 | BARRIERS IN LIFE $800: Let's shatter this metaphoric barrier to high-level advancement for women in the workplace the glass ceiling |
| #8515, aired 2021-11-19 | BARRIERS IN LIFE $1200: Electric barriers were built in the Chicago Sanitary & Ship Canal to stop the spread of the invasive this 4-letter fish carp |
| #8515, aired 2021-11-19 | BARRIERS IN LIFE $2,000 (Daily Double): The Lex Cornelia de Maiestate said no general could lead an army out of his province, so the 49 B.C. crossing of this stream... huge the Rubicon |
| #8515, aired 2021-11-19 | BARRIERS IN LIFE $2000: A type of road barrier is named for this state where they were used on US Highway 22 in the 1950s New Jersey |
| #8514, aired 2021-11-18 | AMEND THE AMENDMENT $200: 5th:
"Nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in Pictionary of life or limb" jeopardy |
| #8514, aired 2021-11-18 | POETRY COLLECTIONS $400: Borrowing a title from David Bowie, Tracy K. Smith won a 2012 Pulitzer Prize for her collection "Life on" this planet Mars |
| #8513, aired 2021-11-17 | READERS, DIGEST $1200: Key lime pie is dumped on a philandering hubby's head in "Heartburn"; in real life, she poured wine on Carl Bernstein Nora Ephron |
| #8512, aired 2021-11-16 | EXOPLANETS $800: Wider for hotter stars, the habitable zone is the area around a star within which this can exist on a planet's surface (liquid) water |
| #8510, aired 2021-11-12 | 20th CENTURY FICTION $200: This novel could have been called "2 1/2 Days in the Life of Holden Caulfield" The Catcher in the Rye |
| #8510, aired 2021-11-12 | DISNEY+ $600: Pixar's "Dug Days" is set in the backyard of the pooch introduced in this 2009 film Up |
| #8510, aired 2021-11-12 | "A" IN SCIENCE $800: The name of this class of animals means "double life" amphibian |
| #8510, aired 2021-11-12 | MOVIES BY OSCAR-WINNING SONGS $1200: 1987: "(I've Had) The Time Of My Life", sung by Bill Medley & Jennifer Warnes Dirty Dancing |
| #8509, aired 2021-11-11 | DOGGONE CINEMA $2000: It's alive! Tim Burton directed this animated film about a boy's beloved dog brought back to life Frankenweenie |
| #8507, aired 2021-11-09 | POTPOURRI $800: Extremely cold & difficult to store, this gas is prone to shortages, like one in 2019 that made life tough for Party City stores helium |
| #8506, aired 2021-11-08 | FIX THE ELTON JOHN LYRIC $600: "And it seems to me you lived your life like a vandal who has sinned" like a candle in the wind |
| #8503, aired 2021-11-03 | COFFEE IS LIFE $400: Opened in 1971, this Seattle coffee chain used the roasting techniques of competitor Alfred Peet Starbucks |
| #8503, aired 2021-11-03 | COFFEE IS LIFE $800: A 1773 act & this following protest prompted many in America to take up coffee the Boston Tea Party |
| #8503, aired 2021-11-03 | COFFEE IS LIFE $1200: In "Letters from Hawaii", Mark Twain said this local coffee "has a richer flavor than any other" Kona |
| #8503, aired 2021-11-03 | COFFEE IS LIFE $1600: This fictional coffee spokesperson is nothing without his mule Conchita Juan Valdez |
| #8503, aired 2021-11-03 | COFFEE IS LIFE $2000: Some of the highest rated coffee is from a roaster called Port of Mokha, named for a place in this war-torn country Yemen |
| #8501, aired 2021-11-01 | LET'S TAKE A TRIP $800: If the "active" life is for you, climb one of these, like Mount Bromo in Indonesia or Mount Sakurajima in Japan volcanoes |
| #8499, aired 2021-10-28 | ACTRESS BY ROLES $400: Julia & Julia (in "Defending Your Life" & Ms. Child) Meryl Streep |
| #8499, aired 2021-10-28 | AT THE BALLET $1600: In "Coppélia", a magical doctor creates a life-size one of these that young Franz becomes obsessed with a doll |
| #8499, aired 2021-10-28 | THE VIKINGS $4,000 (Daily Double): Based on a real-life 11th century Viking & involving killing trolls & monsters, the tale of Grettir the Outlaw is one of these epic stories a saga |
| #8498, aired 2021-10-27 | THE GIFT OF GRAB $200: "Grab life by the horns" was its slogan back when it made the Ram Dodge |
| #8497, aired 2021-10-26 | LITERARY JOURNALISM $400: In Ted Conover's "Rolling Nowhere", about life on the rails, we learn that the Sally is the Salvation Army & the Willy is this store Goodwill |
| #8495, aired 2021-10-22 | CELLO $1000: Portrayed on film in "Hilary & Jackie", the life of this British cellist was cut short by MS at age 42 Jacqueline du Pré |
| #8491, aired 2021-10-18 | DISNEY SONGS $400: "Life Is A Highway", according to Rascal Flatts in a song used in this animated film Cars |
| #8491, aired 2021-10-18 | SWEDISH WRITERS $1600: "Mitt liv som hund" by author Reidar Jönsson became this movie My Life as a Dog |
| #8491, aired 2021-10-18 | HISTORY'S MYSTERIES $2,000 (Daily Double): A real-life drama: this Shakespeare contemporary was killed under mysterious circumstances May 30, 1593 Marlowe |
| #8488, aired 2021-10-13 | '80s TV $1200: "You take the good, you take the bad, you take them both and there you have" this sitcom The Facts of Life |
| #8486, aired 2021-10-11 | NATIONAL LITERARY TITLES $1200: This guy is the magnanimous title Greek in Nikos Kazantzakis' novel about living life to the fullest Zorba |
| #8485, aired 2021-10-08 | SURVIVING PROHIBITION $600: In 1925 this Milwaukee family couldn't sell its brewery but was living the "High Life" after Prohibition ended Miller |
| #8484, aired 2021-10-07 | CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT $200: In an 1843 story, paranormal activity around the holidays convinces this business owner to stop making his employee's life hell (Ebenezer) Scrooge |
| #8483, aired 2021-10-06 | GET A HOBBY $800: Flower arrangers know to cut stems at this angle for longest life 45 degrees (bias) |
| #8482, aired 2021-10-05 | IN SEARCH OF ALIEN LIFE $200: As the name suggests, the $100 million Breakthrough Listen is a project to detect this type of signal from distant planets radio |
| #8482, aired 2021-10-05 | IT'S A PROCESS $400: The Fifth Amendment guarantees that no person shall be "deprived of life, liberty, or property, without" this due process |
| #8482, aired 2021-10-05 | IN SEARCH OF ALIEN LIFE $400: The area around a star where conditions are "just right" for life is called this zone, after a fairy tale girl Goldilocks |
| #8482, aired 2021-10-05 | IN SEARCH OF ALIEN LIFE $600: A purported UFO crash in this southwest city in 1947 has spawned great interest & an annual festival Roswell |
| #8482, aired 2021-10-05 | IN SEARCH OF ALIEN LIFE $800: A British project to develop a spacecraft capable of reaching a nearby star within 50 years is named for this mythic Greek flyer Icarus |
| #8482, aired 2021-10-05 | IN SEARCH OF ALIEN LIFE $1000: A theoretical basis of alien life is this 2nd most common element in Earth's crust; scientists have made enzymes bond it to carbon silicon |
| #8482, aired 2021-10-05 | THAT'S GRAND! $2,200 (Daily Double): The head of state of this small nation is Grand Duke Henri Luxembourg |
| #8482, aired 2021-10-05 | HERE COMES THE SONNET $10,000 (Daily Double): "...With the breath, smiles, tears, of all my life" are a few of the ways this woman loves thee (Elizabeth Barrett) Browning |
| #8481, aired 2021-10-04 | SCI-FI MOVIE SYNOPSES $800: Linguistics lass learns lexicon of labyrinthine life forms Arrival |
| #8478, aired 2021-09-29 | SOUTHERN LITERATURE $800: 14-year-old Lily finds her way to Tiburon, S.C. & the Boatwright sisters in Sue Monk Kidd's "The Secret Life of" these Bees |
| #8478, aired 2021-09-29 | THE NON-COASTAL U.S. $1000: Not to be confused with the Boston area's Mass Ave, Mass Street is a center of University of Kansas life in this city Lawrence |
| #8477, aired 2021-09-28 | LIFE & WORK IN ANCIENT ROME $400: A caldarium was a hot room section of one of these attractions bath |
| #8477, aired 2021-09-28 | LIFE & WORK IN ANCIENT ROME $800: A slave who had been trained to be one of these was a paedagogus, related to an English word that ends -ogue teacher |
| #8477, aired 2021-09-28 | LIFE & WORK IN ANCIENT ROME $1200: An occulus is a circular opening at the apex of a dome, like the one in the roof of this ancient building Pantheon |
| #8477, aired 2021-09-28 | LIFE & WORK IN ANCIENT ROME $1600: An auspex read omens from watching the movements of these animals from which the word auspex partly derives birds |
| #8477, aired 2021-09-28 | LIFE & WORK IN ANCIENT ROME $2000: Later a word for a record player needle, it was once a metal tool used to scratch words onto wax-covered tablets stylus |
| #8475, aired 2021-09-24 | NOVELS BY QUOTE $2,000 (Daily Double): "One man's life or death were but a small price to pay for the acquirement of the knowledge which I sought" Frankenstein |
| #8470, aired 2021-09-17 | A MORE PERFECT UNION $200: On their 15th anniversary in 2020, he called marriage to Trisha Yearwood "the best 15 years of my life" Garth Brooks |
| #8470, aired 2021-09-17 | WORLD OF WORDS $800: Once thought to have healing powers, the name of this traditional spirit of Scandinavia is from the Latin for "water of life" aquavit |
| #8470, aired 2021-09-17 | BROADWAY ON THE POP CHARTS $1600: Jay-Z admitted he lied about seeing "Annie" on Broadway as a kid to convince the rights holders to let him use its music in this song "Hard Knock Life" |
| #8469, aired 2021-09-16 | PRIME NUMBERS $1200: With his band Crazy Horse, he recorded "Prime Of Life" on his 1994 album "Sleeps with Angels" (Neil) Young |
| #8469, aired 2021-09-16 | A LOOK AT BOOKS $1200: Yann Martel named the tiger in "Life of Pi" after this shipwreck victim in Edgar Allan Poe's "Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym" Richard Parker |
| #8468, aired 2021-09-15 | FAMOUS FAMILIES $1600: Kykuit Estate in New York's Hudson Valley was a "center" of 4 generations of this family's life the Rockefellers |
| #8466, aired 2021-09-13 | FIRST DAY ON THE JOB $1200: New at this gig, Neil Gorsuch embraced life on the cafeteria committee & having to open the door when someone knocks a Supreme Court justice |
| #8466, aired 2021-09-13 | & THE BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR OSCAR GOES TO... $2000: Martin Landau, as this real-life actor in "Ed Wood" (Bela) Lugosi |
| #8465, aired 2021-08-13 | HELEN, NOT OF TROY $1600: This magazine editor lived a very cosmopolitan life (Helen Gurley) Brown |
| #8460, aired 2021-08-06 | ANCIENT SYMBOLS $800: The 8-armed cross has been associated in Christianity with this often earliest in life of the seven sacraments baptism |
| #8460, aired 2021-08-06 | WHAT'S YOUR UNSAFE WORD? $1000: 2 ships about to hit each other are said to be on this alliterative path, so get the life jackets ready a collision course |
| #8458, aired 2021-08-04 | AUDIBLE $200: She gives her life in lyrics in "Songteller"
"Well, I've often said that my songs are my children and I expect them to support me when I'm old. Well, I am old and they are!" Parton |
| #8458, aired 2021-08-04 | AUDIBLE $800: Johnny Depp got the honor of bringing this guitar legend's memoir to life
"Mick and I knew each other just because we happened to live very close, just a few door away, with a bit of schooling thrown in." Keith Richards |
| #8458, aired 2021-08-04 | "C" IN SCIENCE $1200: This field concerned with the effects of low temperatures on organisms derives its name from words meaning "icy life study" cryobiology |
| #8457, aired 2021-08-03 | TALK SHOWS $2000: 50 years on, episodes of his ABC talk show, like Janis Joplin's last TV appearance, have a new life on YouTube Dick Cavett |
| #8456, aired 2021-08-02 | PLAYS $2,400 (Daily Double): In the Czech play "R.U.R.". which gave the world this word, one of them says, "Mankind is no more. Mankind gave us too little life" robot |
| #8455, aired 2021-07-30 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1000: Christopher Isherwood is known for stories based on life in this European city in the 1930s; here's how he looked in that decade Berlin |
| #8454, aired 2021-07-29 | IT'S ALL IN YOUR HEAD & HANDS $400: Have the good sense to know if you have jaw pain & swollen gums, this third set of molars may have impacted your life, & they'll have to go the wisdom teeth |
| #8454, aired 2021-07-29 | NAME THAT BEATLES TUNE $1000: "I read the news today, oh boy, about a lucky man who made the grade" "A Day In The Life" |
| #8453, aired 2021-07-28 | SITCOM EXITS $400: Sam wished Diane well, saying, "Have a good life" when Shelley Long exited this sitcom Cheers |
| #8451, aired 2021-07-26 | BUSINESS IN THE FRONT $1000: The National Union Life & Limb Insurance Company evolved into this one with a snappier name that still includes "Life" Met Life |
| #8448, aired 2021-07-21 | 15 MINUTES OR LESS $1000: For plutonium-228, this interval of time of decay is thought to be about 1.1 seconds a half-life |
| #8448, aired 2021-07-21 | BIRDING $2000: For many birders, their pride & joy is this alliterative "list", a personal history of all bird species they've encountered a life list |
| #8447, aired 2021-07-20 | PARTS OF THE OCEANS $400: As plant life there can get sunlight, the epipelagic zone is where this biological process happens photosynthesis |
| #8447, aired 2021-07-20 | COMPOSERS, PAINTERS & SCIENTISTS $1200: In 1609 he presented his eight-powered telescope to the Venetian Senate; he got life tenure & doubled his salary Galileo |
| #8446, aired 2021-07-19 | PODCASTS $800: "The Empty Chair" & "Turkey in a Face Mask" are recent episodes of this show hosted by Ira Glass This American Life |
| #8446, aired 2021-07-19 | LET'S GET SERIOUS $2000: This playwright said the lonely, secluded life of Norway forces everyone there to become serious & introspective Ibsen |
| #8446, aired 2021-07-19 | ONE-NAMED AUTHORS $2000: In "The Red & the Black" by this French author, a young man must choose between life in the army & life in the church Stendhal |
| #8445, aired 2021-07-16 | ON LIFE $400: "There is no God... man simply is", Jean-Paul Sartre said in a 1945 lecture defending this philosophy existentialism |
| #8445, aired 2021-07-16 | LITERARY SUBTITLES $600: First published in 1854, this nonfiction work has the subtitle "or Life in the Woods" Walden |
| #8445, aired 2021-07-16 | ON LIFE $800: Per Plato's "Apology", this other guy said an unexamined life is not worth living Socrates |
| #8445, aired 2021-07-16 | ON LIFE $1200: Always figuring the odds, this "Guys and Dolls" scribe noted, "All life is 6 to 5 against" (Damon) Runyon |
| #8445, aired 2021-07-16 | ON LIFE $1600: No stuffed tiger, he wrote in "Leviathan" that life was "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short" Thomas Hobbes |
| #8445, aired 2021-07-16 | ON LIFE $2000: Stuart was the middle name of this British philosopher who said, "Liberty consists in doing what one desires" John Stuart Mill |
| #8444, aired 2021-07-15 | BACK FROM THE DEAD IN THE BIBLE $400: According to this 1st gospel, at the moment of the crucifixion, bodies of saints came back to life & walked out of their graves Matthew |
| #8444, aired 2021-07-15 | BACK FROM THE DEAD IN THE BIBLE $800: Before bringing Jairus' daughter back to life, Jesus tells her weeping family she is not dead, but is only this sleeping |
| #8444, aired 2021-07-15 | SCHOOL OF ROCK $800: Though his life was tragically cut short, the legacy of this California kid, the first Chicano rock star, lives on Ritchie Valens |
| #8444, aired 2021-07-15 | BACK FROM THE DEAD IN THE BIBLE $1200: When Eutychus dies after falling out of a window listening to a sermon, the speaker, this apostle, brings him back to life Paul |
| #8444, aired 2021-07-15 | BACK FROM THE DEAD IN THE BIBLE $1600: King Saul gets a witch to summon this Hebrew prophet back to life for encouragement, but he only foretells doom for Saul Samuel |
| #8443, aired 2021-07-14 | TV SHOWS BY SIBLINGS $800: The twins Tia & Tamera, played onscreen by real-life twins Sister, Sister |
| #8443, aired 2021-07-14 | COOKBOOKS $1000: In 1931 Irma Rombauer spent half her life savings to publish this cookbook that eventually sold 18 million copies The Joy of Cooking |
| #8442, aired 2021-07-13 | FICTIONAL BOOKS $800: This Sarah Jessica Parker character wrote the books "Menhattan" & "A Single Life" Carrie Bradshaw |
| #8441, aired 2021-07-12 | AN ILLUSTRATED LIFE $200: 8 decades after his death, a 2007 graphic novel told the adventures of this man, "The Handcuff King" Houdini |
| #8441, aired 2021-07-12 | AN ILLUSTRATED LIFE $400: "Twilight Man" is a graphic novel biography about this writer & "the Birth of Television" Rod Serling |
| #8441, aired 2021-07-12 | AN ILLUSTRATED LIFE $600: The graphic novel about this pop & rock icon is subtitled "Stardust, Rayguns & Moonage Daydreams" David Bowie |
| #8441, aired 2021-07-12 | AN ILLUSTRATED LIFE $800: "21" is a comic about this Pittsburgh Pirates right fielder from Puerto Rico who tragically died young Roberto Clemente |
| #8441, aired 2021-07-12 | AN ILLUSTRATED LIFE $1000: Alison Bechdel's graphic memoir about growing up in a mortuary, it was the basis for a Tony-winning musical Fun Home |
| #8441, aired 2021-07-12 | BUDDHISM $1200: One of Buddhism's Four Noble Truths is the doctrine that all life is this painful 9-letter word suffering |
| #8440, aired 2021-07-09 | HAIR'S THE THING $800: These wayward tufts with a bovine name form in utero, so you're pretty much stuck with them for life a cowlick |
| #8439, aired 2021-07-08 | & I TOOK THAT PERSONALLY $600: "All my life, people have said that I wasn't going to make it", said this CNN founder, owner of acreage twice the size of Rhode Island Ted Turner |
| #8434, aired 2021-07-01 | BOSTON: NEWS CLUES $800: (Hi, I'm Lisa Hughes.) Local hero Pete Frates, the man who inspired the Ice Bucket Challenge, helped raise awareness & millions of dollars to fight this disease that claimed Lou Gehrig's life & sadly his own at 34 ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) |
| #8434, aired 2021-07-01 | 'TIS SHAKESPEARE $1,000 (Daily Double): "Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have immortal longings in me", declares this character before taking her own life Cleopatra |
| #8431, aired 2021-06-28 | TALKING HEADS $200: In an April 19, 1951 speech, he gave new life to the well-worn phrase "Old soldiers never die; they just fade away" MacArthur |
| #8431, aired 2021-06-28 | SCIENCE $800: This "ancient life" geologic era ended about 250 million years ago as most species on Earth died out Paleozoic |
| #8425, aired 2021-06-18 | DRAMA SERIES WRITING EMMYS $1600: "Life on the Street" was the subtitle of this Baltimore-set cop show that won in 1993 for Tom Fontana Homicide |
| #8422, aired 2021-06-15 | POP CULTURE TIDBITS $1200: The French film "Les Traducteurs" was inspired by the real-life efforts to translate this novelist's "Inferno" into many languages Dan Brown |
| #8421, aired 2021-06-14 | TIME LINES $2000: At a commencement speech at Stanford in 2005, he said, "Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life" Steve Jobs |
| #8417, aired 2021-06-08 | SUMMER MOVIES $2000: (Hi, I'm Kevin Hart.) Voicing Snowball, I had an announcement to make in this 2016 animated film: "Death is coming to Brooklyn and it's got buck teeth and a cotton tail" The Secret Life of Pets |
| #8416, aired 2021-06-07 | ARRIVALS & DEPARTURES $200: Sept. 22, 1776: The British take the life of this American spy at what is now the corner of 66th & 3rd in Manhattan Nathan Hale |
| #8416, aired 2021-06-07 | CONSCIOUSNESS OF STREAM WRITING $400: Mark Twain's memoir "Life on" it tells tales of one of America's great rivers the Mississippi |
| #8415, aired 2021-06-04 | AFRICAN AMERICANS $1200: Sadly, this rapper, activist & entrepreneur known for giving back to his South LA community lost his life there in 2019 Nipsey Hussle |
| #8415, aired 2021-06-04 | CINEMATIC CITIES & TOWNS $2000: At one point in this 1946 film, Bedford Falls is renamed Pottersville It's a Wonderful Life |
| #8414, aired 2021-06-03 | BARNS $400: Barn owls are generally this 10-letter word meaning they mate for life, & could nest in the same barn year after year monogamous |
| #8414, aired 2021-06-03 | NOBLE $600: Becoming a "life" one of these in Britain gets you a title, but it can't be passed on to your children life peers |
| #8413, aired 2021-06-02 | IT'S ALL ABOUT HER $800: In this 1937 memoir Isak Dinesen told of her life in Kenya, where she managed a coffee plantation Out of Africa |
| #8413, aired 2021-06-02 | IT'S ALL ABOUT HER $1200: "Mad Girl's Love Song" tells of this poet's "Life Before Ted" (Hughes) Sylvia Plath |
| #8413, aired 2021-06-02 | IT'S ALL ABOUT HER $2,000 (Daily Double): "The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas" is less about Alice & more about this woman, her life partner who wrote the book Gertrude Stein |
| #8413, aired 2021-06-02 | ART MOVEMENTS $2000: Led by Robert Henri, "The Eight" were a group of artists who tried to show a grittier side of city life in this "rubbish" movement the Ashcan School |
| #8412, aired 2021-06-01 | AUTHORS WHEN YOUNG $1600: At 16, she was a teacher; by 19 she was married & a mother; she only began publishing books about prairie family life at age 65 Laura Ingalls Wilder |
| #8411, aired 2021-05-31 | HATS IN BOOKS $800: This colorfully dressed guy took Curious George from a life in the jungle to one in the city the Man in the Yellow Hat |
| #8403, aired 2021-05-19 | NAMES OF WORLD WAR II $4,800 (Daily Double): In 1942 he combined 2 loves of his life--physics & New Mexico--in endorsing Los Alamos to be home of the Manhattan Project Oppenheimer |
| #8401, aired 2021-05-17 | ESSAYS $1600: An essay that she wrote about marine life called "World of Waters" was published in 1937 as "Undersea" Rachel Carson |
| #8398, aired 2021-05-12 | BIRDS OF PRAY $800: You may have heard of one of these that laid golden eggs; Buddha told of how, in a former life, he was one with golden feathers a goose |
| #8397, aired 2021-05-11 | THAT'S FIT TO PRINT $400: The life, marriages & personal growth of Janie Crawford are detailed in Zora Neale Hurston's classic "Their Eyes Were" doing this Watching God |
| #8397, aired 2021-05-11 | GIVE ME A SEA $1200: Named for certain sea life, it merges with the Tasman Sea, to the south the Coral Sea |
| #8395, aired 2021-05-07 | CLICHÉS $1000: A feeling of relief or rebirth is a "new" this phrase that mentions a rental agreement a lease on life |
| #8394, aired 2021-05-06 | ON BASS $600: James Jamerson laid down immortal bass lines on Stevie Wonder's "For Once In My Life" & "What's Going On" by this singer Marvin Gaye |
| #8394, aired 2021-05-06 | 1920s GOOD READS $1600: Chester Gillette's real-life murder of his pregnant girlfriend inspired this classic novel by Theodore Dreiser An American Tragedy |
| #8393, aired 2021-05-05 | MEDICAL PREFIXES & SUFFIXES $4,000 (Daily Double): These 2 -iatricians specialize in opposite times of life & there's often talk of a surplus of one & a shortage of the other a pediatrician & a geriatrician |
| #8392, aired 2021-05-04 | POP CULTURE $600: To promote his album "The Life of Pablo", this rapper opened a series of pop-up stores around the world Kanye West |
| #8389, aired 2021-04-29 | MASTERPIECE/THEATER $200: Life hasn't turned out so well for Biff & Happy Loman in this play, which has a massive spoiler for a title Death of a Salesman |
| #8387, aired 2021-04-27 | SCIENCY STUFF $800: Unique to each isotope, it's the time it takes for 50% of a radioactive substance to disintegrate a half-life |
| #8387, aired 2021-04-27 | RECENT BOOKS $2000: "The Lying Life of Adults" was a 2020 novel by this pseudonymous Italian writer Elena Ferrante |
| #8386, aired 2021-04-26 | Q, NO U $1600: Chinese word for circulating life energy Qi |
| #8386, aired 2021-04-26 | FEMALE AUTHORS & SOME MALE ONES, TOO $1600: A documentary called this woman "and Still I Rise" detailed her life as a memoirist, actress & poet Maya Angelou |
| #8384, aired 2021-04-22 | PREMIERE EPISODES $1600: An aspiring journalist named Augie kicks off our tour of this actress' "Love Life" in a 2020 HBO Max show Anna Kendrick |
| #8379, aired 2021-04-15 | THIS IS HOW WE DUET $200: "The Rest Of Our Life" was the title track of an album by country stars Faith Hill & this man, her husband (Tim) McGraw |
| #8379, aired 2021-04-15 | DOING MOVIES & TV $2000: Her real-life roles include Marcia Clark on "American Crime Story" & Tony Bradlee in "The Post" (Sarah) Paulson |
| #8377, aired 2021-04-13 | BATTERY LIFE $200: In 2004 Sony produced the first silver oxide battery that was free of this element, & it's going down in thermometer use, too mercury |
| #8377, aired 2021-04-13 | BATTERY LIFE $400: Also known as penlight, this 2-letter type of battery has the magical ability to fail in my TV remote after about 3 weeks AA |
| #8377, aired 2021-04-13 | BATTERY LIFE $600: Ni-Cad is short for these 2 elements in a rechargeable battery invented back in 1899 nickel & cadmium |
| #8377, aired 2021-04-13 | BATTERY LIFE $800: In 1956 Eveready made the first of this type of battery used in smoke detectors a 9-volt |
| #8377, aired 2021-04-13 | BATTERY LIFE $1000: A Nobel Prize went to 3 scientists for the invention of this hyphenated battery that "enabled the mobile revolution" lithium-ion |
| #8376, aired 2021-04-12 | BILL OF WRITES $400: A sonnet of his ends, "So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, so long lives this, and this gives life to thee" Shakespeare |
| #8376, aired 2021-04-12 | SCIENCE NICKNAMES $400: These alliterative organic molecules have been dubbed "the building blocks of life" amino acids |
| #8375, aired 2021-04-09 | HISTORIC PEOPLE $800: A third century BC event from this general's life is depicted here Hannibal |
| #8375, aired 2021-04-09 | HISTORIC PEOPLE $1600: This former New York governor serving in Lincoln's cabinet survived an attempt on his life the night the president was shot (William) Seward |
| #8373, aired 2021-04-07 | LITERARY ANIMALS $400: In "Charlotte's Web" he's the pig whose life is spared thanks to Charlotte Wilbur |
| #8372, aired 2021-04-06 | A STUDENT OF TELEVISION $800: High school QB Jason Street's life changed forever after he was injured in the very first episode of this show in 2006 Friday Night Lights |
| #8372, aired 2021-04-06 | BIOCHEMISTRY $1200: Sustaining plant life on Earth, this process in the chloroplast is divided into the light reactions & the dark reactions photosynthesis |
| #8368, aired 2021-03-31 | NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY $400: In 1680 Spaniards chased off by a revolt left these animals the Indians called "sacred dogs", changing native life forever horses |
| #8368, aired 2021-03-31 | AT THE MOVIES $2000: This 1988 movie that was, let's say, reminiscent of "E.T." found a second life as Paul Rudd's go-to clip on "Conan" Mac and Me |
| #8367, aired 2021-03-30 | ABBREV. TV $1200: A soap that was set in Llanview:
"OLTL" One Life to Live |
| #8364, aired 2021-03-25 | ICONS OF TECHNOLOGY $800: On the road, the icon here means this 4-letter staple of modern life is available Wi-Fi |
| #8364, aired 2021-03-25 | GODS & GODDESSES $1200: A top Mayan deity, Kukulkan is sometimes depicted as a feathered one of these real-life creatures, also the meaning of his name snake |
| #8362, aired 2021-03-23 | SPACE-Y SAYINGS $600: Done by sailors of yore, "following" this has come to mean using your inner compass to get direction in life following the North Star |
| #8362, aired 2021-03-23 | HAVE A DRINK AT... $800: "Inspired by Malayan life in the 1920s", the long bar at Raffles in this city-state is famous for a certain drink being "slung" Singapore |
| #8362, aired 2021-03-23 | NURSES $800: An 1951 Life Magazine piece on Maude Callen gave prominence to the combined job "nurse" this, created around 1930 nurse-midwife |
| #8360, aired 2021-03-19 | GAME $1200: Reagan asked if the plot of this 1983 movie could happen in real life; a general later replied it's "worse than you think" WarGames |
| #8359, aired 2021-03-18 | AUTHORS WHO SERVED IN THE MILITARY $400: This creator of Don Quixote fought at the 1571 Battle of Lepanto, receiving a wound that maimed his left hand for life Cervantes |
| #8356, aired 2021-03-15 | REAL-LIFE CARTOON CHARACTERS $200: Sigourney Weaver says, "Hello, I'm Sigourney Weaver" several times as a voice heard in an aquarium in this Pixar sequel Finding Dory |
| #8356, aired 2021-03-15 | REAL-LIFE CARTOON CHARACTERS $400: The four lads sing as themselves, but others do their speaking voices in this 1968 animated film Yellow Submarine |
| #8356, aired 2021-03-15 | REAL-LIFE CARTOON CHARACTERS $600: This right-wing radio host joins the Griffins for dinner on "Family Guy" & assists Brian in a song & dance Rush Limbaugh |
| #8356, aired 2021-03-15 | REAL-LIFE CARTOON CHARACTERS $800: Mr. Peabody & Sherman find that this explorer's men have drunk too much water from the Fountain of Youth & turned into babies Ponce de León |
| #8356, aired 2021-03-15 | REAL-LIFE CARTOON CHARACTERS $4,000 (Daily Double): This mystic continues to haunt the Romanovs from beyond the grave in the 1997 cartoon "Anastasia" Rasputin |
| #8350, aired 2021-03-05 | TEXT MESSAGE ABBREV. $600: Occurring away from the Internet:
IRL in real life |
| #8350, aired 2021-03-05 | BROADWAY MUSICALS $1,400 (Daily Double): "The Morning Of The Dragon" was one of the songs from this Puccini-based Broadway musical Miss Saigon |
| #8341, aired 2021-02-22 | THROWING THE BOOK AT YOU $1600: In 1846 he became a "Typee" personality, taking "a Peep at Polynesian Life" Herman Melville |
| #8341, aired 2021-02-22 | PAGING DR. TV! $2000: Syrian refugee Dr. Bash Hamed got a job at a Toronto hospital after saving the life of one of its doctors on this NBC show Transplant |
| #8340, aired 2021-02-19 | MOVIE TITLE PAIRS $2000: 1998: Near the end of his life, the director of "Frankenstein" begins a friendship with his gardener Gods and Monsters |
| #8340, aired 2021-02-19 | MAD ABOUT MADRIGALS $2000: The music at his funeral left out his sad "Adagio For Strings" but did use a madrigal by his life partner Gian Carlo Menotti Samuel Barber |
| #8339, aired 2021-02-18 | POTPOURRI $400: This word for a biblical narrative about the life of Jesus Christ means "good story" a gospel |
| #8339, aired 2021-02-18 | WORDS BORROWED FROM JAPANESE $800: Characters meaning "before" & "life" combine to make this 6-letter word for a teacher, who would usually be older than you sensei |
| #8335, aired 2021-02-12 | GIRL $400: Farm girl Fern Arable wants to save the life of a pig in this E.B. White tale Charlotte's Web |
| #8333, aired 2021-02-10 | WHAT DOES NOT KILL US... $1000: At the end of this 1982 movie, a replicant spares Harrison Ford's character, perhaps appreciating life in any form Blade Runner |
| #8332, aired 2021-02-09 | NONFICTION $800: Tom Lutz wrote a history of these products of emotion, like those of Isis that brought her brother Osiris back to life tears |
| #8331, aired 2021-02-08 | HOW DEEP IS YOUR LOVE? $400: Does your fervor rival Mario's for this "fruity" princess as he daringly risks his life for her in video games? Princess Peach |
| #8329, aired 2021-02-04 | AUTOBIOGRAPHIES $400: The first chapter of this Cuban leader's autobiography "My Life" says, "I made myself into a revolutionary" Fidel Castro |
| #8328, aired 2021-02-03 | LET'S GO SNORKELING $400: S.O.O.S.! To protect vulnerable reefs & sea life, snorkelers are urged to "stand only on" this stuff sand |
| #8325, aired 2021-01-29 | BIG STAR $400: The closest star to our sun, Proxima this has an Earth-like planet that was discovered in 2016 & could possibly support life Proxima Centauri |
| #8325, aired 2021-01-29 | 1980s TIME CAPSULE $1200: Not your typical sitcom, this TV show featuring a shoe salesman's less-than-perfect family life premiered in 1987 Married... with Children |
| #8324, aired 2021-01-28 | LITERATURE $2,000 (Daily Double): An unfinished sequel to "The 3 Musketeers", Dumas' "The Red Sphinx" continues the story of this real-life cardinal Richelieu |
| #8321, aired 2021-01-25 | PHILOSOPHY $1600: Antonyms that fill in a famous Kierkegaard thought: life can only be understood ____ but it has to be lived ____ backwards & forwards (reverse & forward) |
| #8319, aired 2021-01-21 | ALMOST RHYMES WITH PURPLE $1600: It's an obstacle we face in life & runners face on the track a hurdle |
| #8318, aired 2021-01-20 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS $2000: This novel with a biblical title by Toni Morrison follows the life of a character named Milkman Dead Song of Solomon |
| #8316, aired 2021-01-18 | THE FICTIONAL HOUSEWIVES OF NEW YORK $1200: Elizabeth has a tough life in Harlem as her son challenges her husband in this author's "Go Tell It on the Mountain" (James) Baldwin |
| #8315, aired 2021-01-15 | THE NAME IS THE TV TITLE $400: Billionaire playboy Oliver Queen leads a double life as a hooded vigilante Arrow |
| #8314, aired 2021-01-14 | RICK'S ROLE $1600: In 2016 Ricky Gervais was back as this "Office" character in "Life on the Road" David Brent |
| #8310, aired 2021-01-08 | CHRISTMAS MOVIES $600: Basically, this heartwarming Frank Capra classic is about a disgraced financier having an incredibly rough Christmas Eve It's a Wonderful Life |
| #8305, aired 2020-12-18 | DONATING THEIR WINNINGS $600: A newspaper in this city won a Pulitzer for covering the Tree of Life Synagogue shooting & gave the prize money for rebuilding Pittsburgh |
| #8303, aired 2020-12-16 | ENDING $1600: The end of this novel hints at cannibalism aboard a lifeboat whose occupants were people, not a boy & zoo animals the Life of Pi |
| #8298, aired 2020-12-09 | "USA"! "USA"! $800: The free-swimming stage in a jellyfish's life, it sounds like a mythological monster medusa |
| #8297, aired 2020-12-08 | ENTERTAINMENT $400: What became this giant screen film innovation emerged at Expo 67 in Montreal with the film "Polar Life" IMAX |
| #8294, aired 2020-12-03 | DOLL "R"s $600: You can get a 12" plush version of this Bullwinkle pal, which must be nearly life size Rocky (the Squirrel) |
| #8293, aired 2020-12-02 | SCIENCE BOOKS $600: "When Life Nearly Died" travels back 251 million years to "The Greatest Mass" this "of All Time", which wiped out 90% of life on earth Extinction |
| #8293, aired 2020-12-02 | THE 2020 PULITZER PRIZES $1200: The inaugural award for Audio Reporting went to an episode of this Ira Glass-hosted show This American Life |
| #8289, aired 2020-11-26 | IT'S LIKE MAINE $800: A Maine-stay in the clothing business, he said, "Outdoor recreation, such as hunting & camping, has added years to my life" of 94 years L.L. Bean |
| #8288, aired 2020-11-25 | GLOBAL CHEERS! $400: L'chaim means "to life" in this language Hebrew |
| #8287, aired 2020-11-24 | THE GIRL IN THE SONG $1200: "Mambo No. 5"--"A little bit of" her "in my life" Monica |
| #8286, aired 2020-11-23 | ARTHURIAN CHARACTERS $400: In "Idylls of the King", this legendary queen finishes her life as an abbess in the nunnery at Almesbury Guinevere |
| #8283, aired 2020-11-18 | WORRY LINES $400: In a No. 1 song, he cautioned, "In every life we have some trouble but when you worry you make it double, don't worry be happy" (Bobby) McFerrin |
| #8280, aired 2020-11-13 | CRIME & PUNISHMENT $400: Sirhan Sirhan, for the 1968 assassination of this man: the death sentence, commuted to life in prison RFK (Robert Kennedy) |
| #8280, aired 2020-11-13 | CRIME & PUNISHMENT $1600: 30-year CIA veteran Aldrich Ames, in 1994, for tax evasion & this more serious crime: life without parole espionage |
| #8279, aired 2020-11-12 | ASIAN AMERICANS ON TV & FILM $400: This real-life doctor turned comedic actor is one of the panelists on "The Masked Singer" Ken Jeong |
| #8277, aired 2020-11-10 | GETTING THE KEY TO THE CITY $200: In 2020 these 2 "Bad Boys for Life" got the key to Miami & were made honorary police officers Will Smith & Martin Lawrence |
| #8277, aired 2020-11-10 | BOOKS BY SUBTITLE $400: 1995:
"The Life and Times of" a certain "Wizard of Oz" character Wicked |
| #8277, aired 2020-11-10 | BOOKS BY SUBTITLE $600: 2005:
"Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog" Marley & Me |
| #8277, aired 2020-11-10 | MARIAH CAREY $2000: (Mariah Carey presents the clue.) I dug deep to share the story of my life in my new memoir, "The Meaning of Mariah Carey", which coincides with the 30th anniversary of my debut album; I had this--"and it was all that you've given to me" "Vision Of Love" |
| #8272, aired 2020-11-03 | A PIRATE'S LIFE $400: A 1720s "General History of the Pyrates" spells this infamous "young" captain's last name with just one "D" Captain Kidd |
| #8272, aired 2020-11-03 | HEALTH OBSERVANCES $400: Be a sweetheart on this date when national donor day is observed & consider giving the gift of life February 14th |
| #8272, aired 2020-11-03 | A PIRATE'S LIFE $800: In 1814 the British offered him $30,000 & a captaincy in the Royal Navy if he'd join them; he didn't say oui but turned on them (Jean) Lafitte |
| #8272, aired 2020-11-03 | A PIRATE'S LIFE $1200: Proud to plunder the rich who plunder the poor, Black Sam Bellamy called himself this English forest guy of the sea Robin Hood |
| #8272, aired 2020-11-03 | A PIRATE'S LIFE $1600: The Dread Pirate this, first name Bartholomew, was said to have captured more than 400 vessels in the early 1700s Roberts |
| #8272, aired 2020-11-03 | A PIRATE'S LIFE $2000: 16th century pirate Khidr, aka Barbarossa, took Algiers from the Spanish with the help of this empire the Ottoman Empire |
| #8268, aired 2020-10-28 | BOOKS OF 2020 $200: Curtis Sittenfeld's fictional novel "Rodham" asks what if this real-life woman didn't marry her current husband Hillary Rodham Clinton |
| #8268, aired 2020-10-28 | DO YOUR JOB! $600: A pilot is the person controlling an aircraft, or in the case of the book "Life on the Mississippi", one of these a steamboat |
| #8266, aired 2020-10-26 | FILL IN THE ANIMAL MOVIE QUOTES $1600: "Splash": "All my life I've been waiting for someone and when I find her... she's a ___" a fish |
| #8263, aired 2020-10-21 | BROADWAY DEBUTS $800: Natalie Portman was still a teen herself when she debuted in "The Diary of" this real-life teen Anne Frank |
| #8262, aired 2020-10-20 | COMEDIANS $400: Henny Youngman's autobiography "Take My Life, Please!" riffs on this trademark line of his Take my wife |
| #8262, aired 2020-10-20 | PIANISTS, PAINTERS & PLAYWRIGHTS $7,000 (Daily Double): The "Suite" life of this comedy playwright included title stops at "California" & "London" ones Neil Simon |
| #8261, aired 2020-10-19 | PRIMATES $3,200 (Daily Double): About 30,000 years old, an early Homo sapiens skull called this "1" was discovered in 1868 at the French site of the same name Cro-Magnon |
| #8260, aired 2020-10-16 | LV $200: "Life springs eternal on a gaudy neon street", sang Sheryl Crow on the song "Leaving" this place Las Vegas |
| #8258, aired 2020-10-14 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN WRITERS $1600: This creator of TV's "Grey's Anatomy" revealed how saying yes changed her life in her book "Year of Yes" Shonda Rhimes |
| #8257, aired 2020-10-13 | TV THEME SONG LYRICS $800: "So no one told you life was gonna be this way, your job's a joke, you're broke, your love life's D.O.A." Friends |
| #8257, aired 2020-10-13 | THE CUBISTS $5,900 (Daily Double): "Tender Buttons", written by this American expatriate while she was living in Paris, is a book of Cubist still-life prose-poems Gertrude Stein |
| #8254, aired 2020-10-08 | BEER/ME! $600: A "Streetcar" character came to life when a vendor at Phillies games shouted this first name, trying to sell a Belgian beer Stella |
| #8253, aired 2020-10-07 | MAGAZINES' FIRST ISSUES $1000: This notable female photographer took the picture of the construction of Fort Peck Dam on "Life" magazine's first cover Margaret Bourke-White |
| #8252, aired 2020-10-06 | 1990s BEST PICTURE BY TAGLINE $400: Directed by Spielberg: "Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire" Schindler's List |
| #8252, aired 2020-10-06 | WORDS AT THEIR FINAL RESTING PLACES $1000: This British leader of men in Antarctica: "I hold that a man should strive to the uttermost for his life's set prize" (Ernest) Shackleton |
| #8251, aired 2020-10-05 | 2 $600: Here are the real-life protagonists of this 2019 Oscar-nominated film The Two Popes |
| #8251, aired 2020-10-05 | HEADS UP! & OFF! $1600: On Aug. 23, 1305 both his life & his freedom were taken; getting beheaded was but one of many steps in the process William Wallace |
| #8251, aired 2020-10-05 | BRITISH ACTRESSES $1600: Character actress Margaret Rutherford was known in later life for playing this sleuth in several films of the 1960s Miss Marple |
| #8251, aired 2020-10-05 | LETTERS FROM AUTHORS $2000: She wrote to husband Leonard before taking her life: "I feel certain that I am going mad again" Virginia Woolf |
| #8250, aired 2020-10-02 | TRANSPORTATION $1600: U.S.S. The Sullivans, seen here, is this type of war ship; the life-size version doesn't have two holes as in the game Battleship a destroyer |
| #8248, aired 2020-09-30 | LET'S GET MEDICAL $400: In 2014 the first FDA-approved study in decades on this hallucinogen showed it has promise for end-of-life anxiety LSD |
| #8248, aired 2020-09-30 | THEATER TIME $400: Time to head to ancient Greece for the Sophocles play about this king of Thebes who gets a revelation that Rex his life Oedipus |
| #8248, aired 2020-09-30 | BRITISH GOVERNMENT $400: A vote of this in life means someone believes in you; a vote of no this in Parliament means it might be time for a new government confidence |
| #8247, aired 2020-09-29 | ELECTION ODDITIES $400: The 1964 election to make Papa Doc Duvalier president for life of Haiti had this 3-letter French word already marked on ballots oui |
| #8245, aired 2020-09-25 | PLAYS $800: Tracie Bennett was spot on as this legendary performer in "End of the Rainbow", set towards the end of her life Judy Garland |
| #8243, aired 2020-09-23 | JONATHAN SWIFTIES $200: Jonathan Swift famously observed that this food "is the staff of life" bread |
| #8241, aired 2020-09-21 | THE TEMPLETON PRIZE $200: The prize is for "life's spiritual dimension", but its creator stipulated the monetary award must always exceed this other prize's the Nobel Prize |
| #8236, aired 2020-09-14 | GOOD "P.R." $2000: This author who explored Jewish life in books like "Portnoy's Complaint" died in 2018 at age 85 Philip Roth |
| #8235, aired 2020-06-12 | PLAYING THE VILLAIN $2000: We rooted for him in "Get Out" and "Queen and Slim" but not when he made life miserable for the title women in "Widows" Daniel Kaluuya |
| #8234, aired 2020-06-11 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: 4 Chinese women meet regularly to play Mah-jongg & to talk about life & their children in this 1989 Amy Tan novel The Joy Luck Club |
| #8233, aired 2020-06-10 | 3 NAMES IN CLASSIC ROCK $1600: Earth, Wind & Fire covered this Beatles tune that begins, "I was alone, I took a ride, I didn't know what I would find there" "Got To Get You Into My Life" |
| #8232, aired 2020-06-09 | WOMEN ARTISTS $400: Clara Peeters was a 17th century artist who specialized in this type of painting on inanimate objects still life |
| #8231, aired 2020-06-08 | "ROCK" &/OR "ROLL" SONGS $800: "When life is too much", Steve Winwood shared this title advice, baby, in a 1988 No. 1 hit "Roll With It" |
| #8231, aired 2020-06-08 | "ROCK" &/OR "ROLL" SONGS $1000: In 2007 Nickelback sang, "I'm gonna trade this life for fortune & fame, I'd even cut my hair & change my name" to be this title "Rockstar" |
| #8227, aired 2020-06-02 | DOCUMENTARIES $1600: A 2011 documentary called this man "Against the World" explores the life of the troubled chess master Fischer |
| #8226, aired 2020-06-01 | 19th CENTURY ENGLISH LITERATURE $1600: He wrote a critique of prison life, "The Ballad of Reading Gaol", after spending time in the prison; it was his last published work Oscar Wilde |
| #8224, aired 2020-05-28 | I'M A CHICK $1200: In the opening of this stop motion Adult Swim show, a mad scientist breathes life into a recently smooshed fowl Robot Chicken |
| #8224, aired 2020-05-28 | I'M A CHICK $1600: On "The Muppet Show" the love of this Muppet's life was Camilla the chicken Gonzo |
| #8223, aired 2020-05-27 | A WRITER'S LIFE $200: Born 1890, was a merchant of "murder" & "death", named a dame in 1971, & then there was none of her in 1976 Agatha Christie |
| #8223, aired 2020-05-27 | A WRITER'S LIFE $600: Born 1919, came through the rye to fame in 1951, & we're not too sure what he did from 1965 to his death in 2010 Salinger |
| #8223, aired 2020-05-27 | A WRITER'S LIFE $800: Born in 1903 with the initials E.A.B., took his pen name from an English river in 1933, passed away in 1950, 34 years early George Orwell |
| #8223, aired 2020-05-27 | A WRITER'S LIFE $1,000 (Daily Double): Born 1898, taught at Oxford & Cambridge, chronicled big cats, enchantresses & closets, died 1963 C.S. Lewis |
| #8223, aired 2020-05-27 | A WRITER'S LIFE $1000: Born 1709 in England, wrote a dictionary, got bio'd, buried in Westminster Abbey in 1784 Samuel Johnson |
| #8223, aired 2020-05-27 | SAY IT IN FRENCH $1000: That's life c'est la vie |
| #8222, aired 2020-05-26 | FROM PAGE TO SCREEN $400: Meryl Streep brought to life Miranda Priestly, magazine editor & the boss from hell, in this movie based on a bestseller The Devil Wears Prada |
| #8221, aired 2020-05-25 | TV TEACHER APPRECIATION $400: On "Breaking Bad", a chilling medical diagnosis led to this chemistry teacher making significant changes in his life Walter White |
| #8220, aired 2020-05-22 | I'D RATHER HAVE $200: Instead of any current politician, I'd have lunch with this 16th president & hear about frontier life Lincoln |
| #8217, aired 2020-05-19 | "A" BEFORE "E" $2000: Several evergreen trees go by this name, Latin for "tree of life" arborvitae |
| #8216, aired 2020-05-18 | NONFICTION $2,000 (Daily Double): In a 2016 work Nigel Cawthorne recounts "The Life-Long Feud" between these 2 inventors "that Electrified the World" Tesla and Edison |
| #8215, aired 2020-05-01 | AFTER LIFE $400: Able to read & write literate |
| #8215, aired 2020-05-01 | AFTER LIFE $800: One's direct descent from an ancestor lineage |
| #8215, aired 2020-05-01 | AFTER LIFE $1200: Named for a New York bay, a young quahog clam, usually eaten raw a Littleneck |
| #8215, aired 2020-05-01 | AFTER LIFE $1600: A city in France world famous for its porcelain Limoges |
| #8215, aired 2020-05-01 | AFTER LIFE $2000: Ancient author of "From the Foundation of the City", a history of Rome in 142 volumes Livy |
| #8214, aired 2020-04-30 | FIGHTING FOR AN OSCAR $600: He won a Best Actor Oscar for his role as real-life champ Jake LaMotta in 1980's "Raging Bull" De Niro |
| #8213, aired 2020-04-29 | BILLBOARD MUSIC AWARDS $1000: Among this band's many awards are Top Rock Artist 2014, 2018, 2019, & Top Rock Song for "Believer"
"My life, my love, my drive, it came from... pain! /
You made me a, you made me a believer, believer..." Imagine Dragons |
| #8213, aired 2020-04-29 | PREQUELS $1600: A prequel to this TV series, "Caprica" showed what life was like in the 12 colonies before the Cylons messed everything up Battlestar Galactica |
| #8210, aired 2020-04-24 | GET YOUR KICKS $600: This online platform says its "mission is to help bring creative projects to life" Kickstarter |
| #8210, aired 2020-04-24 | "STUPID" $1000: In "National Lampoon's Animal House", Dean Wormer tells Flounder, this 4-word state "is no way to go through life, son" Fat, drunk, and stupid |
| #8210, aired 2020-04-24 | 20th CENTURY AUTHORS $1200: Chronicler of Broadway life Alfred Runyon went by this middle name; it has more of a ring to it Damon |
| #8209, aired 2020-04-23 | LIKE ONE OF YOUR FRENCH GIRLS $1200: Life was rosy for Marion Cotillard when she won an Oscar for playing this other Frenchwoman in a 2007 film Edith Piaf |
| #8207, aired 2020-04-21 | JAMES TAYLOR: HIS LIFE & MUSIC $800: (James Taylor presents the clue.) In 1971 I earned my first Gold record for a single & the following year my first Grammy for this song written by Carole King "You've Got A Friend" |
| #8207, aired 2020-04-21 | JAMES TAYLOR: HIS LIFE & MUSIC $1200: (James Taylor presents the clue.) In my new audio memoir "Break Shot" I talk about my early days, including my time in London in the '60s & my association with The Beatles; in fact, my song "Something In The Way She Moves" inspired this Beatle to write his own song that begins with the same line George Harrison |
| #8207, aired 2020-04-21 | JAMES TAYLOR: HIS LIFE & MUSIC $1600: (James Taylor presents the clue.) The first instrument I learned to play wasn't the guitar but the cello & in 2016 I had the pleasure of performing with this cello virtuoso at Carnegie Hall's 125th anniversary concert Yo-Yo Ma |
| #8207, aired 2020-04-21 | JAMES TAYLOR: HIS LIFE & MUSIC $2000: (James Taylor presents the clue.) In 2020 I released a new album, "American Standard", putting my take on some of the songs & show tunes I grew up listening to like "Ol' Man River" from this musical Show Boat |
| #8206, aired 2020-04-20 | "I AM" A TITLE $2000: Tom Wolfe satirizes 21st century college life in this 2004 novel I am Charlotte Simmons |
| #8205, aired 2020-04-17 | COLLEGE LIFE $200: To be "official", this detailed academic record should be sent from the school in a sealed envelope a transcript |
| #8205, aired 2020-04-17 | COLLEGE LIFE $400: This 2-word Latin phrase means you graduated with distinction cum laude |
| #8205, aired 2020-04-17 | COLLEGE LIFE $600: Classes in the semester system last 15 to 18 weeks; in this other system, they run about 10 weeks the quarter system |
| #8205, aired 2020-04-17 | COLLEGE LIFE $800: grammarly.com has a program that can compare an essay against academic databases to detect this dishonest act plagiarism |
| #8205, aired 2020-04-17 | COLLEGE LIFE $1000: The 2 major learning management systems for American colleges are canvas & this, another name for a slate blackboard |
| #8203, aired 2020-04-15 | SCHOLARSHIP $1200: John Dominic Crossan wrote the controversial book "The Historical" him: "The Life of a Mediterranean Jewish Peasant" Jesus |
| #8203, aired 2020-04-15 | POETRY $5,000 (Daily Double): In "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", he wrote, "I have measured out my life with coffee spoons" (T.S.) Eliot |
| #8200, aired 2020-04-10 | PEOPLE NAMED ALEX $1600: Before he wrote "Roots", Alex Haley helped write the life story of this black nationalist leader Malcolm X |
| #8199, aired 2020-04-09 | SHOPPING $600: A follow-up to "The Devil Wears Prada" is called "When Life Gives You" these yoga clothes Lululemons |
| #8198, aired 2020-04-08 | BOOK TITLE ANIMALS $200: John Grogan's "Marley & Me" is subtitled "Life and Love with the World's Worst" this Dog |
| #8198, aired 2020-04-08 | BOOK TITLE ANIMALS $600: Sue Monk Kidd examined their "Secret Life" Bees |
| #8193, aired 2020-04-01 | RECENT PLAYS FROM REAL LIFE $400: In "Pressure", a Scottish meteorologist makes the most important forecast of his life for this June 1944 event D-Day |
| #8193, aired 2020-04-01 | RECENT PLAYS FROM REAL LIFE $800: Christine Lahti played this feminist icon in "Gloria: a Life" Gloria Steinem |
| #8193, aired 2020-04-01 | RECENT PLAYS FROM REAL LIFE $1600: In "The True", Edie Falco played Polly Noonan, grandmother to this current junior New York senator Kirsten Gillibrand |
| #8193, aired 2020-04-01 | RECENT PLAYS FROM REAL LIFE $2000: A recent play about a young Vladimir Putin has this word for "rule by thieves" as its title kleptocracy |
| #8193, aired 2020-04-01 | RECENT PLAYS FROM REAL LIFE $2,500 (Daily Double): The Public Theater's "Mother of the Maid" is about Isabelle, the mom of this martyr Joan of Arc |
| #8191, aired 2020-03-30 | ABSTRACT NOUNS $800: In baseball, it's an out that still advances a runner; in life, it's giving up something for something more important sacrifice |
| #8189, aired 2020-03-26 | SHE PLAYED 'EM ON TV $800: Angela Chase on "My So-Called Life" & Carrie Mathison on "Homeland" Claire Danes |
| #8187, aired 2020-03-24 | GET-TOGETHERS $400: In military life one excuse for a party is this career event; a family member may get to do the pinning of the new insignia a promotion |
| #8187, aired 2020-03-24 | FOREIGN GEOGRAPHICAL TERMS $1000: In Norwegian: regnskog (it's full of life) rain forest |
| #8187, aired 2020-03-24 | FILM ANALYSIS $1200: Rosamund Pike disappears from Ben Affleck's life (for a bit) Gone Girl |
| #8186, aired 2020-03-23 | LABORS OF "LOVE" $1200: Time to bust this 1970s TV title ship out of dry dock & make another run; in real life, one of its crew ended up as a congressman Love Boat |
| #8185, aired 2020-03-20 | QUOTING THE COMEDY FILM $1200: Ben Stiller: "Did you ever think that maybe there's more to life than being really, really really ridiculously good-looking?" Zoolander |
| #8183, aired 2020-03-18 | BIOGRAPHIES & MEMOIRS $200: At the end of this book, Piper Kerman thanked the women of Danbury Federal Correctional Institution for changing her life Orange is the New Black |
| #8183, aired 2020-03-18 | LIFE $400: This chemical is the messenger that carries the genetic code to the parts of the cell that make proteins mRNA, Messenger RNA |
| #8183, aired 2020-03-18 | LIFE $800: It's not usually thought of as an organ, but for an average human, it's the largest & can cover 20 square feet skin |
| #8183, aired 2020-03-18 | LIFE $1200: Ticks & tapeworms are examples of these creatures that take nutrition with no benefit to their host a parasite |
| #8183, aired 2020-03-18 | LIFE $1600: 5 feet long in humans, this part comes in near the end of digestion & performs the vital task of absorbing water & vitamins the large intestine |
| #8183, aired 2020-03-18 | LIFE $2000: This rhyming phrase describes the nervous system's response to facing stress or danger fight-or-flight |
| #8183, aired 2020-03-18 | BIOGRAPHIES & MEMOIRS $2,800 (Daily Double): Biographies by Walter Isaacson include "Steve Jobs" & one about this man subtitled ' "His Life and Universe" Albert Einstein |
| #8182, aired 2020-03-17 | & THEN WHAT HAPPENED? $400: In 44 B.C. this man became dictator for life... & then had it ended by his political opponents (Julius) Caesar |
| #8181, aired 2020-03-16 | RADIOACTIVE $800: For some isotopes, this is just a few milliseconds, but isotope 243 of americium clocks in at 7,370 years a half-life |
| #8181, aired 2020-03-16 | RADIO ACTIVE $1000: Mishearing "Life In The Fast Lane" as "flies in the vasoline" led to a line of a hit in 1994 for these "aviators" the Stone Temple Pilots |
| #8181, aired 2020-03-16 | SHAKESPEARE MEANS SOMETHING ELSE $2000: In modern life this 8-letter word means "not having a romantic partner for the evening"; in "Richard II" it means "without end" dateless |
| #8178, aired 2020-03-11 | PEOPLE $800: This Facebook bigwig wrote "Option B" about life after the sudden death of her husband (Sheryl) Sandberg |
| #8172, aired 2020-03-03 | GEOLOGY $1200: This "middle life" era of geological time encompasses the Triassic, Jurassic Cretaceous periods the Mesozoic |
| #8170, aired 2020-02-28 | MONSTERS INK $400: In "the Hyperion Cantos", the shrike impales victims on a tree of thorns like the real-life shrike, this kind of creature a bird |
| #8170, aired 2020-02-28 | WE CAN BE HEROES $800: Heather Heyer won the Ali Humanitarian for Social Justice Award after losing her life protesting Neo-Nazis in this Va. city in 2017 Charlottesville |
| #8169, aired 2020-02-27 | MAGAZINES COME & GO $600: In 2000 Time announced that this other 4-letter magazine would no longer be monthly & would only publish special issues Life |
| #8169, aired 2020-02-27 | SHAKESPEAREAN JEOPARDY! $1600: "Life's but a walking Jeopardy!" shadow |
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Hans von Walter, a junior from Southern Adventist University from Avon Park, Florida
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2010-B College Championship 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $25,000 + a...
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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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Joey Beachum, a senior from Mississippi State University
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2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2008 College Championship winner: $100,000...
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Laura Myers, a senior from the University of Missouri
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2009 College Championship second runner-up: $29,900. 22 and from Richmond, Virginia...
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Ariella Goldstein, a junior from Muhlenberg College
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2009 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 20 and from Cortlandt Manor,...
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Jane Kaczmarek, a TV, film and Broadway actress from Malcolm in the Middle and Raising the Bar
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"She went from playing a hard-nosed mom in Malcolm in the...
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Scott Menke, a senior from Johns Hopkins University
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2009 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 21 and from Flemington, New Jersey...
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Mandy Berry, an 11-year-old from Baltimore, Maryland
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"She wants to dedicate her life to helping animals by becoming...
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David Hudson, a junior from the University of Virginia
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"His musical taste has changed since he won $10,000 on Kids...
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Aisha Tyler, a comedienne, host and actress from Talk Soup, Friends, The 5th Wheel and Ghost Whisperer
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2009 Celebrity Jeopardy! winner: $50,000 split between the International Rescue Committee/Congo...
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Elizabeth Perkins, an actress from Big and Weeds
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2009 Celebrity Jeopardy! player: $25,000 to the New England Learning Center...
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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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Mike Maheu, a high school teacher from San Diego, California
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Season 25 2-time champion: $46,242 + $1,000. Last name pronounced like...
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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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Tom Toce, an actuary from New York, New York
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Season 26 2-time champion: $39,200 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Amy Wilson, a creative writing and women's studies student originally from Portland, Oregon
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Season 26 1-time champion: $19,999 + $2,000. Not to be confused...
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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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John Krizel, a green community program coordinator from Beckley, West Virginia
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2011 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $105,204...
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Andy Davis, a Chyron operator from South Boston, Massachusetts
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Season 25 2-time champion: $49,799 + $1,000. Andy Davis - A...
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Kevin Wilson, a communications specialist from Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Season 26 3-time champion: $76,998 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Tom Walsh, a writer from Washington, D.C.
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
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Danny Devries, a junior from the University of Michigan
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2008 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 21 and from West Bloomfield, MI...
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Suchita Shah, a senior from the University of Wisconsin-Madison
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2008 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 20 and from Holmen, WI...
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Leslie Frates, a Spanish teacher from Hayward, California
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"A Jeopardy! tournament veteran, her best-known Jeopardy! appearance may be in...
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Larissa Charnsangavej, a senior from Rice University
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2009 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 21 and from Houston, Texas at...
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Francois Dominic Laramée, a writer and TV personality from Verdun, Quebec, Canada
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Season 25 2-time champion: $46,300 + $1,000. Francois's name was printed...
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Diane Siegel, an educational consultant and writer from Northridge, California
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"A full-time mom when she won five games in 1993, now...
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Ryan Chaffee, a tutor from Los Angeles, California
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2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $91,900...
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Tom Walsh, a writer from Washington, D.C.
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
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Dan Pawson, a legislative aide from Boston, Massachusetts
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2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2014 Battle of the Decades...
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Elza Reeves, a bank teller from Louisville, Kentucky
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Season 25 1-time champion: $16,400 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Chris Matthews, a TV host from Hardball and The Chris Matthews Show
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"He served as a speechwriter for Jimmy Carter, and later as...
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Yoni Freund, a Ph.D. student from Columbia University
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"He has always wanted to be a writer, and now that...
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Erin McLean, a sophomore from Boston University from Danvers, Massachusetts
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2011 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 2010-B College Championship winner:...
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Anderson Cooper, a host from AC360°
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"He covers major news stories from around the world and plays...
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Danielle Zsenak, a senior from Marquette University
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2008 College Championship 1st runner-up: $50,000. Last name pronounced like "zshen-NOCK"....
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Bob Harris, an author, comedian, and radio commentator from Los Angeles, California
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"A 5-time champion and a finalist in the Tournament of Champions,...
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Bernard Holloway, a sophomore at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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"He was a 2002 Teen Champion. He's now a sophomore at...
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Vijay Balse, a chemical engineer from Chatham, New Jersey
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2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2010 Tournament of Champions...
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Liz Murphy, a foreign service officer originally from Scranton, Pennsylvania
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2010 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 25 5-time champion: $121,302...
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Mark Petterson, a senior from the University of Kansas
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2009 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 21 and from Prairie Village,...
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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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Robbie Berg, a freshman from the University of Pennsylvania
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2010-A College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. Hometown: Davie, Florida. Robbie Berg Blog...
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Jason Pratt, a middle school history teacher from Woodbridge, Virginia
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Season 25 2-time champion: $32,701 + $1,000. Jason Pratt - A...
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Matt Jacobs, a science teacher originally from Stratford, Connecticut
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Season 25 1-time champion: $10,323 + $1,000. Matt resided in Silver...
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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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Doug Savant, an actor from Desperate Housewives
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"He plays Tom Scavo, the sometimes-befuddled husband of Felicity Huffman on...
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Dave Belote, the base commander from Nellis Air Force Base, Las Vegas
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2010 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 26 5-time champion:...
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Frank Epstein, a police officer from Los Angeles, California
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\"He was a 5-time champion in 1992, and is still serving...
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Colby Burnett, a high school world history teacher from Chicago, Illinois
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\"He teaches at a school started by the Dominicans of St....
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Michael Rankins, a minister and writer from Rohnert Park, California
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\"A 5-show winner from 1988, he has been a minister with...
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Leslie Frates, a Spanish teacher from Hayward, California
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\"A Jeopardy! champion in 1991, she\'s now a Spanish teacher listed...
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Matt Olson, a sophomore at Stanford University from Berkeley, California
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2012 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 20 at the time of the...
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Lewis Black, a stand-up comedian from Lewis Black's Root of All Evil
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"With success in films, plays, books, and TV specials, he tours...
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Dr. Mehmet Oz, a cardiac surgeon and TV host from The Dr. Oz Show
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"He is a renowned cardiac surgeon who has written seven New...
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Michael Cera, an actor from Brampton, Canada
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"An actor from Brampton, Canada, he's perhaps best known for playing...
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Carl Bradshaw, a financial manager from St. Louis, Missouri
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Season 27 2-time champion: $17,899 + $2,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: Titmouse
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Anjali Tripathi, a senior from MIT
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"Math and science were her favorite subjects in seventh grade. We're...
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Allex Fambles, a sophomore from Brown University
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"She knew at age eleven that she wanted to be a...
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Mark Born, a musician, writer and teacher from Bangkok, Thailand
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\"He was the top winner of the 1990-91 season. He\'s a...
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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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Katie Gill, a sophomore from Jackson, Mississippi
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2008-A Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000.
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Vera Swain, a junior from the University of South Carolina
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2008 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 21 and from Charleston, SC...
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Colleen Mahoney, a sophomore from East Hampton, Connecticut
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2001 Teen Tournament 2nd runner-up: $10,000. 15 at the time of...
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Chris Mazurek, an assistant professor from Columbia, Missouri
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2007 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
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Michael Falk, a meteorologist from Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2006 Tournament of Champions...
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Maria Wenglinsky, a teacher from Brooklyn, New York
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2006 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 22 5-time champion: $122,300...
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Kermin Fleming, a student from Lexington, Kentucky
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2006 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions...
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Bill MacDonald, an attorney from Bonita Springs, Florida
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2006 Tournament of Champions 2nd runner-up: $50,000. Season 22 4-time champion:...
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Tom Kavanaugh, a kickball team captain from St. Louis, Missouri
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2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2006 Tournament of Champions...
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Bob Verini, a film journalist and test prep teacher from Los Angeles, California
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"A resident of New York City when he won the 1987...
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Babu Srinivasan, a history professor at Prairie View A&M University from Houston, Texas
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"A five-time champion in 2001, he's now a history professor at...
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Robin Carroll, an instructional designer from Marietta, Georgia
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"Winner of both the 2000 Tournament of Champions and the 2001...
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Larry Cloud, a bookkeeper and computer consultant from Inglewood, California
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"He won five times in 2001, allowing him to make a...
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Laura Hughes, a mom from New Market, Maryland
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Season 26 1-time champion: $27,500 + $2,000. Wife of Season 16...
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Alan Bailey, a playwright and director from North Hills, California
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"This playwright and director became a 5-time winner in 2001. Today,...
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Mark Eckard, an entrepreneur from Bedford, Massachusetts
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"A 2001 5-time champion as a software designer, he has now...
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Kermin Fleming, a junior at Carnegie Mellon University from Lexington, Kentucky
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"He's the current College Champion. A junior at Carnegie Mellon University...
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Leszek Pawlowicz, a computer consultant from Flagstaff, Arizona
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"He was the winner of the 1992 Tournament of Champions. Today...
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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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Steve Robin, a writer and producer from Miami, Florida
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"He finished second place in the 1991 Tournament of Champions. He's...
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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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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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Leah Greenwald, an architect from Cambridge, Massachusetts
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"A winner of 5 games in 1988, she has since become...
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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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Arthur Phillips, an author from Brooklyn, New York
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"He was a speechwriter from Boston when he won five shows...
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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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Kara Spak, a newspaper reporter from Chicago, Illinois
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2011 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 27 5-time champion:...
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Justin Bernbach, a lobbyist from Brooklyn, New York
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2010 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 25 7-time champion: $155,001...
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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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Andrew Ceppos, a senior from Tufts University
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2009 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 21 and from Verona, New...
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Stephen Weingarten, a stay-at-home dad from Portland, Oregon
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2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $96,690...
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Eric Betts, a senior from Emory University
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2009 College Championship first runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $50,000. 21 and...
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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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Jean Cui, a student originally from Garden City, New York
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Season 25 2-time champion: $14,200 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Jenifer Thomas, a teacher assistant from Jacksonville, North Carolina
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Season 26 1-time champion: $13,400 + $2,000. Jenifer Thomas October 5,...
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Liz Murphy, a foreign service officer originally from Scranton, Pennsylvania
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2010 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 25 5-time champion: $121,302...
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Lyndsey Romick, a sophomore from Lewis & Clark College
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2010-A College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. Hometown: Grants Pass, Oregon. Lyndsey Romick...
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Sara Terrell, a veterinary technician from Windsor, Connecticut
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2007 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
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Jonathan Corbblah, a chess teacher from Harlem, New York
|
Season 27 1-time champion: $13,000 + $1,000. Jonathan appeared as a...
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Fred Beukema, a structural engineer from Minneapolis, Minnesota
|
Season 25 3-time champion: $69,401 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Jennifer Broders, a junior high school social studies teacher from Stockton, Iowa
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Season 26 2-time champion: $59,801 + $1,000. Jennifer Broders - a...
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Tim Relihan, a senior from the University of Nebraska from Stromsburg, Nebraska
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2010-B College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
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Steph Gagelin, a sophomore from the University of North Dakota from Grand Forks, North Dakota
|
2010-B College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
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Bob Verini, a director of academics for a national test preparation company from Los Angeles, California
|
2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
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Mark Lowenthal, an assistant director for the Central Intelligence Agency from Reston, Virginia
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"The winner of the 1988 Tournament of Champions, he's an assistant...
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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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Steven Popper, an economist from Topanga, California
|
"A winner of 5 shows in 1988, he has since founded...
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Lara Robillard, a policy analyst from Arlington, Virginia
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"She used the winnings from her 5 shows in 1998 to...
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Mark Dawson, a business manager from Chamblee, Georgia
|
"In 2003, he became the first to win a quarter of...
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Elaine Zollner, a physician from Glendale, California
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"A winner of 5 shows in 1990, she used her Jeopardy!...
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Stephanie Thompson, a PR specialist from San Diego, California
|
Season 37 player (2021-01-21). Stephanie won $2,750 on You Bet Your...
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Catherine Ramen, a database developer and writer from New York, New York
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 winner: $44,000. 1998 Tournament...
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Patton Oswalt, a Grammy- and Emmy-award-winning comedian from Portsmouth, Virginia
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\"A Grammy- and Emmy-award-winning comedian from Portsmouth, Virginia, he rose to...
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Jay Rosenberg, a college professor from Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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\"After winning 5 times in 1985, he became the moderator for...
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India Cooper, a copy editor from Madison, Indiana
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\"She was an actor and copy editor in New York City...
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India Cooper, an actor and copy editor from New York City, New York
|
\"A semifinalist in the Tournament of Champions in 1992, now an...
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Chuck Forrest, a lawyer from Bosnia and Herzegovina
|
2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2014 Battle of the Decades...
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Chuck Forrest, an attorney for the UN IFAD from Marino, Italy
|
\"In 1986, he was a law student living in Grand Blanc,...
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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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Amanda Graves, a writer from Whitinsville, Massachusetts
|
Season 30 player (2013-10-09).
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Tom Nichols, a professor originally from Chicopee, Massachusetts
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\"A five-time champion in 1994, he used his winnings for a...
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Heather Hurley, a civil servant from Arlington, Virginia
|
Season 33 player (2017-06-27). Heather won $60,000 on The Chase on...
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Brenda Steere, a life insurance sales representative from New York City, New York
|
Season 4 player (1987-09-21).
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Amanda Walker, a junior at Gonzaga University from East Wenatchee, Washington
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2005 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user name:...
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Larry DeMoss, a high school English teacher from Ellettsville, Indiana
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"He went from short orders to short stories when he switched...
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Dave Simpson, a pastor from Belcamp, Maryland
|
2009 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 24 4-time champion:...
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Nathaniel Barnes, a composer and bartender from Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Season 25 3-time champion: $57,300 + $2,000. In his first game,...
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Emma Couture, a twelve-year-old from St. Petersburg, Florida
|
"Here's a portrait of a smart young girl who sees her...
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Meg Walker, an eleven-year-old from Brandon, Mississippi
|
"She wants to help people with disabilities have a better life...
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Pian Wong, a high school English teacher from New York, New York
|
"She teaches at a Bronx school that's been ranked the most...
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Brad Brown, a theater teacher from Nashville, Tennessee
|
"And he is a theater teacher at an international baccalaureate certified...
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Buddy Wright, an operations engineer from Fort Worth, Texas
|
2011 Tournament of Champions 2nd runner-up: $50,000. Season 26 4-time champion:...
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Jessica Dell'Era, a third grade Spanish bilingual teacher from Oakland, California
|
"She has wanted to be a teacher since she was 7...
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Roger Craig, a computer scientist from Newark, Delaware
|
2019 All-Star Games member of wildcard-match 2nd-place Team Austin: a share...
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Sarah Bauer, a junior at Indiana University from Carmel, Indiana
|
2012 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 21 at the time of the...
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Sonalee Rau, a life sciences consultant from New York, New York
|
Season 39 player (2022-09-29).
First name pronounced like "soh-NAWL-ee".
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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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David Skaar, a research scientist from Raleigh, North Carolina
|
Season 25 3-time champion: $102,000 + $2,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Chris Wallace, a TV host from Fox News Sunday
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"In March, this Fox News anchor was honored by the National...
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Albert Rosenblatt, a life insurance agent from Los Angeles, California
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Season 1 player (1985-01-22).
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Carl Brandt, an investor originally from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
|
2009 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 25 4-time champion: $70,799...
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Bruce Ikawa, a college professor from Hillsdale, Michigan
|
\"He says his 5 wins in 1990 increases his credibility with...
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Curtis Joseph, a sophomore from Scottsdale Community College
|
"In 1999, his nickname was 'Curtles the Troll', and he wanted...
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Kendra Pettis, a junior from Oberlin College
|
\"She hadn\'t settled on a career goal at age 11. Now...
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Melanie Bruchet, a senior from Bryn Mawr
|
"Everyone wants to be an astronaut when they're a kid, but...
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Ben Greenho, a junior from Plano, Texas
|
2012 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Max Johansen, a senior from the University of Miami
|
"As a seventh grader, he was planning on a career in...
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Raphie Cantor, a sophomore from San Diego, California
|
2011 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
15 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Bruce Seymour, a writer from Piedmont, California
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1990 Super Jeopardy! winner: $250,000. 1988 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $1,000....
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Tavis Smiley, a talk show host from PBS's The Tavis Smiley Show
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"He's interviewed such diverse personalities as Fidel Castro, Pope John Paul...
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Frank Firke, a junior from Chicago, Illinois
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2007 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 16 at the time of...
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Ashleigh Banfield, a TV correspondent originally from Canada
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"She's covered such various stories as the Clinton/Yeltsin summit, the War...
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Bonnie Cao, a senior from Arcadia, California
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2008-A Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time of the...
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Bob Woodward, an assistant managing editor from The Washington Post
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2004 Power Players Week player (2004-05-10).
Charity: Sidwell Friends School.
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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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Peggy Noonan, a contributing editor from The Wall Street Journal
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2004 Power Players Week player (2004-05-10).
Charity: The Sisters of Life.
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Courtney Jones, a 12-year-old from Largo, Maryland
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"She wants to dedicate her life to building things that benefit...
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Becky Kralle, a senior from Runnemede, New Jersey
|
2008-A Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Olivia Woods, a 12-year-old from Cincinnati, Ohio
|
"She loves working with little kids and would like to become...
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Rachel Horn, a sophomore from Cincinnati, Ohio
|
2008-A Teen Tournament winner: $75,000. 15 at the time of the...
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Than Hedman, a freshman from University of Colorado-Boulder
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2008 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 19 and from Denver, CO at...
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Ernestine Gardner, an administrative assistant from South Bend, Indiana
|
Season 32 player (2015-10-06).
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Katie Winter, a senior from Tufts University
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2008 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 22 and from Hershey, PA at...
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Robin Kutner, from Newtown, Pennsylvania
|
"This member of jazz band has a cat that is the...
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Guy Tabachnick, from New York, New York
|
"He wants to be a baseball announcer for the New York...
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|
Dara Lind, a junior from Yale University
|
2008 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 20 and from Cincinnati, OH at...
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Louie C.K., a comedian, actor, director, writer, and producer from Louie and Horace and Pete
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"This multitalented actor, writer, producer, and director is also the star...
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James Grant, a junior from Georgetown University
|
2008 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 21 and from Manhattan Beach,...
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Brandon Hensley, a sophomore from Caltech
|
2008 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 19 and from Huntington, WV at...
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Dave Ruddell, a forensic scientist from Toronto, Ontario, Canada
|
Season 24 player (2008-07-07).
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Gabrielle McMahan, a junior from Florida A&M University
|
2008 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 20 and from Springfield, VA at...
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Bruce Seymour, a writer from Piedmont, California
|
1990 Super Jeopardy! winner: $250,000. 1988 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $1,000....
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Graham Gilmer, a senior from Lynchburg, Virginia
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2001 Teen...
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Seveen Kannankara, a junior from Bergenfield, New Jersey
|
2002 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. Seveen was 15 at the time...
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|
Michael Arnone, a reporter from Arlington, Virginia
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2001 Tournament...
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Tony Nagatani, a junior at Ithaca College from Honolulu, Hawaii
|
2001 College Championship quarterfinalist: $2,500. Tony was 20 at the time...
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Jaime Green, a sophomore at Brown University from Nanuet, New York
|
2001 College Championship quarterfinalist: $2,500. Jaime was 18 at the time...
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|
Jason Richards, a pharmacy technician from Old Town, Maine
|
2006 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
Season 22 4-time champion: $99,200 + $2,000.
|
|
Kerry Breitenbach, a marketing analyst from Cleveland, Ohio
|
2006 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 21 5-time champion: $90,400...
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|
Vik Vaz, a medical student from Austin, Texas
|
2006 Tournament of Champions 1st runner-up: $100,000. Season 22 3-time champion:...
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|
Kevin Marshall, a student from Metairie, Louisiana
|
2006 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 22 6-time champion: $98,201...
|
|
Aaron Thompson, a special assistant from Washington, D.C.
|
2006 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 21 3-time champion:...
|
|
David Rozenson, a lawyer from Newton, Massachusetts
|
2006 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Season 21 3-time champion: $76,000 + $1,000.
|
|
Doug Dorst, a writer and professor from Austin, Texas
|
2006 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 22 3-time champion: $66,802...
|
|
Nico Martinez, a college junior from Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
|
2006 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2005 College Champion: $100,000 +...
|
|
Olivia Colangelo, a junior from the University of Notre Dame from Murrysville, Pennsylvania
|
2010-B College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
|
|
Leslie Shannon, a manager of a research lab from Sydney, Australia
|
"A recent art history graduate when she became Jeopardy! champion in...
|
|
Steve Greene, a senior from UCLA from Elk Grove, California
|
2010-B College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000 + a Nintendo Wii +...
|
|
Saad Hasan, a nanotechnology scientist from Nashville, Tennessee
|
Season 26 1-time champion: $22,700 + $2,000. Saad Hasan Nashville, TN...
|
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Eric Newhouse, a director of technical assistance from Vermillion, South Dakota
|
"He won both the 1989 Teen Tournament and the 1998 Teen...
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|
Dave Ellis, a singer-songwriter from Los Angeles, California
|
Season 27 1-time champion: $16,000 + $2,000. Not to be confused...
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|
Jessica Anderson, a twelve-year-old from Cranston, Rhode Island
|
"She's known she wanted to be a teacher for six years--that's...
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|
Frank Spangenberg, a lieutenant in the New York Police Department from Douglaston, New York
|
"He still holds the record for the most money won in...
|
|
Bryce Piotrowski, a twelve-year-old from Madison, Wisconsin
|
"He has no idea what he wants to do later in...
|
|
Bill Dickenson, a college instructor from Richardson, Texas
|
"This 5-time champ from 1996 has taught students from over 100...
|
|
Rick Knutsen, a musician and stay-at-home dad from Brooklyn, New York
|
"A finalist in the 2001 Tournament of Champions, he's a musician...
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|
Dave Abbott, a musician and licensing executive from Fort Thomas, Kentucky
|
"He won the 1999 Tournament of Champions. A musician and licensing...
|
|
Lynne Wexler, a librarian from Evanston, Illinois
|
"She was the first 5-time champion in 1991. A librarian from...
|
|
Graham Gilmer, a senior at Stanford University from Stanford, California
|
"He was the Teen Tournament champion in 2001. Now he's a...
|
|
John Cuthbertson, an investment analyst from San Diego, California
|
"He was the highest money winner of the 1993-94 season. An...
|
|
Jeff Stewart, an executive from Los Alamos, New Mexico
|
"After winning the 1994 College Championship, he went on to finish...
|
|
Paul Gutowski, an alcohol and drug counselor from Rockford, Illinois
|
"He was the first 5-time winner in 1997. An alcohol and...
|
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Pat Healy, an index supervisor from Vallejo, California
|
"His five wins in 1998 helped him land a dream job...
|
|
Michael Daunt, an accountant from Oakville, Ontario, Canada
|
"In 1996, he was a finalist in the Tournament of Champions....
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|
John Ryan, a corporate controller from Richmond, California
|
"As a college student, he was the top winner of the...
|
|
Tom Halpern, a lawyer originally from New York, New York
|
"A writer and researcher when he won 5 times in 1991,...
|
|
Bernie Cullen, a biologist from Santa Barbara, California
|
"He was the first 5-time champion of the 1996-97 season. A...
|
|
Bob Blake, an actuary from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
|
"In 1990, he won the Tournament of Champions. An actuary from...
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|
Jamie Weiss, a law student from St. Louis, Missouri
|
"He won the 1990 Teen Tournament. Today he's a law student....
|
|
Kyle Hale, a college senior from Katy, Texas
|
"Representing Texas A&M, he won the 2002 College Championship. Now he's...
|
|
Lan Djang, a health policy analyst from Toronto, Ontario, Canada
|
"He was a 5-time champion in 2001. Today he's a health...
|
|
Eugene Finerman, a writer from Northbrook, Illinois
|
"A finalist in the 1987 Tournament of Champions, he's a writer....
|
|
Dave Willis, a business manager from Ventura, California
|
"He was the first to win five shows in 1992. A...
|
|
Aaron Wicks, a planning and evaluation manager from Rochester, New York
|
Season 26 1-time champion: $18,001 + 1,000. Aaron Wicks Rochester, NY...
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|
Fraser Woodford, an investment banker from New York, New York
|
"In 1993, winner of the Teen Tournament, he's now an investment...
|
|
Bob Fleenor, a newspaper copy editor from Martinsburg, West Virginia
|
"Legislative work in his home state was suspended so that lawmakers...
|
|
Chacko George, a senior at the University of Texas at Austin from Austin, Texas
|
"He won the November 1999 Teen Tournament. Now he's a senior...
|
|
Robert Slaven, a technical products specialist originally from Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada
|
"He won 5 times in 1992. Today, he's a technical products...
|
|
Bill Sloan, a realtor from Mission Viejo, California
|
"Since winning five shows in 1996, he has gone on to...
|
|
Russ Schumacher, a graduate student and newlywed from Fort Collins, Colorado
|
"He won the most recent Tournament of Champions. A graduate student...
|
|
Paul Thompson, a human resources manager from Cheverly, Maryland
|
"He was the first 5-time champion in the 1995-96 season. A...
|
|
Craig Barker, an Advanced Placement history teacher from Livonia, Michigan
|
"In 1997 he won the College Championship. Today he's an Advanced...
|
|
Amy Fine, a part-time teacher from Bethesda, Maryland
|
"She was the last 5-time winner in the 1993-94 season. A...
|
|
Kurt Bray, a scientist from Oceanside, California
|
"A 5-time winner in 1994, he used some of his winnings...
|
|
Bev Schwartzberg, an adult literacy program coordinator from Santa Barbara, California
|
"She finished second in the 1993 Tournament of Champions. Today, she's...
|
|
Michelle Clum, an executive assistant originally from Wichita, Kansas
|
"With her 5-time winnings from 2000, she traveled for a year,...
|
|
Jack Archey, an actor and writer from Los Angeles, California
|
"He was a CPA and comedian when he won his 5th...
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|
Brian Wangsgard, from Salt Lake City, Utah
|
"He was the biggest winner in the 1988-1989 season, and a...
|
|
Michael Arnone, a writer and editor from Alexandria, Virginia
|
"He was the largest 1-day winner in the 2000-2001 season. Today...
|
|
Bob Harris, a writer from Los Angeles, California
|
"This 5-time champ was a finalist in the 1998 Tournament of...
|
|
Eddie Timanus, a sportswriter from Oak Hill, Virginia
|
"His 5 wins in 1999 made him one of the most...
|
|
John Beck, a creative director from Torrance, California
|
"He played in 2003, and was the last retired 5-time champ...
|
|
Sahir Islam, an investment analyst from Somers, New York
|
"The champion of the 1997 Teen Tournament, he's now an investment...
|
|
Janet Wong, a development officer for a museum from Hoboken, New Jersey
|
"As a senior at Drew University, she won the February 2000...
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|
Dan Melia, a college professor from Berkeley, California
|
"He was a 1998 Tournament of Champions winner. Today he's a...
|
|
Dan Katz, a lawyer from Owings Mills, Maryland
|
"Since his five wins in 1990, he's seen Bruce Springsteen 16...
|
|
Vinita Kailasanath, a consultant from San Mateo, California
|
"She represented Stanford University when she won the 2001 College Tourney....
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|
John Zhang, a freshman at MIT originally from Lexington, Kentucky
|
"He won the 2003 Teen Tournament. Today he's a freshman at...
|
|
David Sampugnaro, a writer and internet specialist from North White Plains, New York
|
"A 5-time winner from 1996, he's now a writer and internet...
|
|
Jean Grewe, a graphic designer from Oak Park, Illinois
|
"She was the last 5-time champion in 1993. Today she's a...
|
|
Tom Cubbage, an attorney from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
|
"He was the very first College Champion, and the only one...
|
|
Lance Johnson, a model aircraft engine technician from Champaign, Illinois
|
"He was the first to get to the 5-win mark in...
|
|
Brian Moore, an astronomer from Houston, Texas
|
"He was the first 5-day champion in the 1993-1994 season. An...
|
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David Traini, a high school administrator from Moorestown, New Jersey
|
"This 5-time champ finished second in the 1987 Tournament of Champions....
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Bruce Seymour, a writer from Piedmont, California
|
1990 Super Jeopardy! winner: $250,000. 1988 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $1,000....
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|
Michael Dupée, an attorney from Gainesville, Florida
|
"He was the winner of the 1996 Tournament of Champions. Today...
|
|
Al Lin, a law professor from Davis, California
|
"A law student when he won five times in 1993, he's...
|
|
Matt Morris, a financial analyst originally from Louisville, Kentucky
|
"In 1994, he won the Teen Tournament. Today, he's a financial...
|
|
Melissa Seal, a law student from Kingston, Ontario, Canada
|
"She was a senior when she became the Teen Tournament champion...
|
|
John Genova, a teacher from Granada Hills, California
|
"From 1984, he was the earliest 5-time champion in the tournament....
|
|
Janet Bradlow, an insurance agent from New York, New York
|
Season 26 3-time champion: $58,000 + $2,000. Janet Bradlow New York,...
|
|
Michael Galvin, a consultant from Penn Wynne, Pennsylvania
|
"He was the first winner of the Teen Tournament back in...
|
|
Babu Srinivasan, a history professor from Houston, Texas
|
"His aggressive wagering helped him become the biggest winner from the...
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Rachael Schwartz, a lawyer from Washington, D.C.
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"In 1994, she was the first female winner of a Tournament...
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Eric Terzuolo, a retired diplomat and university professor from Bergen, Noord-Holland, the Netherlands
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"When he first appeared in 1990, he was a foreign service...
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Leszek Pawlowicz, a shovel bum from Flagstaff, Arizona
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"He was a material scientist living in Phoenix when he won...
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Chris Rodrigues, a personal banking representative from New Bedford, Massachusetts
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Season 26 3-time champion: $41,498 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Carol Denny, a writer for a non-profit environmental foundation from Arnold, Maryland
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Season 27 1-time champion: $13,199 + $1,000.
Identical twin sister of Season 29 player Chris O'Toole.
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Aisha Tyler, an actress, comedian, author and reality-show host from Archer
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"In addition to film and TV roles, she performs comedy at...
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Anderson Cooper, an anchor from CNN's Anderson Cooper 360°
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"As a baby, he was photographed by Diane Arbus of Harper's...
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Cheech Marin, an actor, comedian, director, writer and musician from Lost
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"He's played a cop on Nash Bridges, voiced a 1959 Chevy...
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Laura Gustafson, an information manager from Acton, Massachusetts
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Season 21 player (2004-09-08).
KJL game 41.
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Steve Reynolds, a loan accounting clerk from Norman, Oklahoma
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2004 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 20 4-time champion:...
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Keith Williams, a college student from Manchester, Vermont
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2004 Tournament...
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Seth Alcorn, a bookstore supervisor from Alexandria, Virginia
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2004 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
Season 19 3-time champion: $106,400 + $1,000.
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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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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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Jen McFann, a Peace Corps recruiter from Astoria, New York
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Season 26 1-time champion: $19,410 + $2,000. Jen McFann Astoria, New...
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Inta Antler, a retired computer programmer from Scarborough, Ontario, Canada
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Season 25 1-time champion: $12,700 + $2,000. Inta Antler - A...
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Sanders Kleinfeld, a publishing technology specialist from Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Season 25 1-time champion: $26,597 + $2,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Roger Craig, a graduate student of computer science from Newark, Delaware
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2019 All-Star Games member of wildcard-match 2nd-place Team Austin: a share...
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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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Jason Zollinger, an engine assembler from South Dayton, New York
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2010 Tournament of Champions 1st runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $100,000. Season...
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Joey Beachum, an Air Force intelligence officer from Conway, Arkansas
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2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2008 College Championship winner: $100,000...
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Debra Messing, an Emmy-Award-winning actress from Will & Grace and The Mysteries of Laura
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"Known for her Emmy-Award-winning role on Will & Grace, she currently...
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Patrick Tucker, a senior from the University of Notre Dame
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2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2009 College Championship winner: $100,000...
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Andy Srinivasan, a high school science teacher from Clayton, North Carolina
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2010 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $69,600...
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Kori Tyler, a high school teacher from Cordova, Tennessee
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Season 26 player (2010-02-26). Season 25 1-time champion: $20,000 + $2,000....
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Anthony Dedousis, a sophomore from Harvard University
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2009 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 19 and from Manhasset, New York...
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Greg Lichtenstein, a freshman from Vassar College
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2009 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 18 and from Plainview, New York...
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David Duchovny, an actor from Californication
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"He's won two Golden Globes and stars as troubled novelist Hank...
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Yevgeny Shrago, a research assistant originally from Rochester, New York
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Season 26 1-time champion: $24,600 + $2,000. Name pronounced like "yev-GHEN-ee...
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Tyler Allard, a senior from Garrett Park, Maryland
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2003 Teen Tournament first runner-up: $28,400.
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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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Lindsay Eanet, a senior from the University of Missouri
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2010-A College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. Hometown: Deerfield, Illinois. Last name pronounced...
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Dan D'Addario, a senior from Columbia University
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2010-A College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Hometown: Farmington, Connecticut. Daniel D'Addario...
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Nick Yozamp, a junior from Washington University in St. Louis
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2010 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 2010-A College Championship winner:...
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Enrique Machado, an oil filtration business developer from Orlando, Florida
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Season 26 1-time champion: $30,799 + $2,000. Enrique Machado September 16,...
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Isaac Mizrahi, a fashion designer and TV personality from the QVC Network
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"His fashion designs are a favorite among celebrities on the red...
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Samira Missaghi, a junior from the University of Minnesota
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2010-A College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Hometown: Eden Prarie, Minnesota. Samira...
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Melanie Baker-Streevy, a United Methodist pastor from Parma, Michigan
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Season 25 1-time champion: $26,900 + $1,000. Melanie Baker-Streevy - A...
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Sue Romberg, a homemaker and volunteer from Grapevine, Texas
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Season 25 player (2009-04-21). Jeopardy! Message Board user name: Sue in...
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Ryan Stoffers, a sophomore from UCLA
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2010-A College Championship 1st runner-up: $50,000. Hometown: Saratoga, California. Ryan Stoffers...
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Genaro Lopez, a contract administrator from Portland, Oregon
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Season 27 1-time champion: $29,001 + $2,000.
First name pronounced like "heh-NAR-o".
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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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Rebecca Dixon, a graduate student and musician from Vancouver, Washington
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Season 26 2-time champion: $53,002 + $1,000. Rebecca and her partner...
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Keith Williams, a freshman at Middlebury College from Manchester, Vermont
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2004 Tournament...
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Christian Haines, a college student originally from Newport News, Virginia
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2007 Tournament of champions semifinalist: $10,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
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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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Craig Westphal, a paramedic from Tucson, Arizona
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2007 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
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Harris Cohen, a family physician from Lower Gwynedd, Pennsylvania
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Season 25 2-time champion: $17,800 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Becky Anderson, a retired software specialist originally from Morganton, North Carolina
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Season 25 1-time champion: $16,401 + $2,000. Becky Anderson - A...
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Paul Glaser, a research scientist from Albany, New York
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2007 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
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Jeff Spoeri, a university administrator from Boynton Beach, Florida
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2007 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD...
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Holly Robinson Peete, an actress from For Your Love
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"She finds comedy and married life as newlywed Malena Ellis on...
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Diane Wilshere, an actor and playwright from Manassas, Virginia
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Season 25 1-time champion: $18,801 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Elizabeth Perkins, an actress from Weeds
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"For the past five seasons, she's played the calculating and manipulative...
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Liz Maziarz, an English professor and mom from Seattle, Washington
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Season 27 1-time champion: $18,400 + $2,000.
Last name pronounced like "MAY-zee-ar".
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Josh Powell, a phone-based health coach from San Diego, California
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Season 27 3-time champion: $26,900 + $1,000.
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Ben Bishop, a student originally from Seattle, Washington
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2009 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 25 4-time champion: $114,800...
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Mark Wales, a substitute teacher from Amherst, New York
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2009 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 24 5-time champion: $141,804...
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Donna Vogel, a scientist from Bethesda, Maryland
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2009 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 24 4-time champion:...
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Lisa Klink, a TV writer from Los Angeles, California
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2009 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 24 5-time champion: $70,150...
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Stefan Goodreau, a video game tester and camp counselor from Los Angeles, California
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2010 Tournament of Champions 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $50,000. Season...
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Amanda J. Ray, a sophomore at the University of Virginia from Harrisonburg, Virginia
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2010-B College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
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Katie Singh, a sophomore from Northwestern University from Austin, Texas
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2010-B College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
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Folake Dosu, a senior from Stanford University from Bellwood, Illinois
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2010-B College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
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Neil Patrick Harris, an actor from How I Met Your Mother
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"He's appeared on Broadway in Proof, Assassins, and Cabaret. He's now...
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Robin Cheney, a middle school teacher from Rancho Santa Margarita, California
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"All the students at her school go on a camping trip...
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Terry Parker, a high school history teacher from Cutler Bay, Florida
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"Don't try to pin down this wrestling coach, history teacher, and...
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Stephen Weingarten, a paraeducator from Portland, Oregon
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2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $96,690...
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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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Will Estes, an actor from American Dreams
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"Early in his TV career, he played Lassie's owner, today he's...
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Brady Cassis, a junior from Yale University
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2007 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 20 at the time of the...
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Jill Bunzendahl Chimka, a speech and language pathologist from Washington, D.C.
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2003 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 18 4-time champion: $85,099...
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Alan Bailey, a playwright and director from Sherman Oaks, California
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2003 Tournament...
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Max Levaren, a personal success coach from San Diego, California
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2003 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 19 4-time champion:...
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Mark Dawson, a business manager from Chamblee, Georgia
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2014 Battle of the Decades quarterfinalist: $10,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
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Kyle Neblett, a senior from Beaverton, Oregon
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2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games 2nd runner-up: $36,400. 18 at the...
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Amy Levine, a freshman from North Potomac, Maryland
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2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games quarterfinalist: $5,000. 15 at the time...
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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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Nick Dnistrian, an 11-year-old from Webster, New York
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"With a nickname like Elvis, this future chemist is already the...
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Brad Rutter, a network administrator from Lancaster, Pennsylvania
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"The reigning Tournament of Champions winner, he attended Johns Hopkins University...
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Claudia Perry, a sports copy editor from Jersey City, New Jersey
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"A pop music critic when she first appeared on Jeopardy!, she's...
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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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Steve Newman, a partner in a small computer company from Rockville, Maryland
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"He was the first player to win 5 games in the...
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Andrew Westney, a singer and actor from Atlanta, Georgia
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"In 1991, he won the Teen Tournament. Today, he's a singer...
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Frank Spangenberg, a police lieutenant from Douglaston, New York
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2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
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Brian Stokes Mitchell, an actor from the Broadway musical Ragtime
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"His Broadway credits include Ragtime and Kiss Me, Kate, for which...
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Dana Delany, an actress from Kidnapped
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"She won two Emmys for playing Army nurse Colleen McMurphy on...
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Lily Wang, a junior at Columbia University from Plano, Texas
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2004 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000.
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Steve Schirripa, an actor from The Sopranos
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"Once the entertainment director at the Riviera Hotel in Las Vegas,...
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John Kelly, a retired Air Force officer from Austin, Texas
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"In 1992, he was one of the top five money winners...
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Erik Larsen, a librarian and a licensed amateur boxing official from Jacksonville, Florida
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"A 5-time champion from 1990, he's a librarian and a licensed...
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Michael Rooney, a college professor from Pasadena, California
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"He was a winner of 5 games in 1999, and is...
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Robin Carroll, an instructional designer from Marietta, Georgia
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
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Sara Jansson, a 10-year-old from Monmouth Junction, New Jersey
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"She wants to become a singer because she loves music so...
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Sean Ryan, a graduate student from Whitehall, Pennsylvania
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
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Eric Newhouse, a director of technical assistance from Sioux City, Iowa
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
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Keith Williams, a sophomore at Middlebury College from Middlebury, Vermont
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"As a freshman from Middlebury College, he won the 2003 College...
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John LeDonne, a bookstore manager from Concord, New Hampshire
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"He was the last person to win 5 shows in 1990....
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Grace Veach, a librarian from Lakeland, Florida
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"After winning 5 games in 1997, she was the grand marshall...
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Steve Chernicoff, a technical writer from Berkeley, California
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"He was one of the top 1-day winners in the 1994-95...
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Trevor Norris, a budget analyst from Washington, D.C.
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"He can't walk through the Pentagon without someone mentioning his five...
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Josh DenHartog, an actuarial technician from Thousand Oaks, California
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"He was the Teen Tournament champion in 1997. Now he's an...
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Roy Holliday, a radiologist from Nyack, New York
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"He was the first to win five games in the 1987-88...
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Phil Yellman, a legal assistant from Seattle, Washington
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"He was an office worker from Albuquerque when he won his...
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Scott Gillispie, a project manager and expectant father from Atlanta, Georgia
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"While attending Georgia Tech, he won the 1991 College Championship. Now...
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Andrew Watkins, a junior from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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2006 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: everyday847
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David Venderbush, a lawyer from New York, New York
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"His 5 wins in 1993 came just in time to pay...
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Andrew Garen, an associate director of consumer marketing from Austin, Texas
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"He was a project manager when he won his 5 shows...
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Jennifer Wu, a high school junior from Arkadelphia, Arkansas
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"She won the 2004 Teen Tournament at age 15. Now 17,...
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Kenny Schlax, a junior from Deerfield, Illinois
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2006 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Listed as "Kenneth" on the official web site.
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Bruce Borchardt, a metrologist from Washington, D.C.
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"A winner of five shows in 1995, he spent most of...
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Jerome Vered, a writer from Los Angeles, California
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"The 1-day record of $34,000 he set in 1992 stood for...
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Kevin Keach, a project administrator from St. Louis, Missouri
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"He considered himself a simple Missouri farm boy when he won...
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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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Russ Schumacher, a graduate student from Fort Collins, Colorado
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2014 Battle of the Decades semifinalist: $25,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
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Scott Renzoni, a bartender and actor from Burlington, Vermont
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2004 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Season 20 4-time champion: $112,998 + $2,000.
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John Beck, an associate creative director from Torrance, California
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 winner: $29,000. 2004 Tournament...
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Doug Lach, a marketing manager from Columbus, Ohio
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"He was the biggest winner of the 1999-2000 season. A marketing...
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Mike Thayer, a mathematics teacher from North Plainfield, New Jersey
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"He was a junior at Rutgers University when he won the...
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Cary Williams, from Milton, Massachusetts
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"She won an award in math, and a letter of commendation...
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Dennis Donohue, a general manager from Janesville, Wisconsin
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"He was administrative services officer from Arizona when he became a...
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Brian Weikle, a consultant from Minneapolis, Minnesota
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
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Brad Rutter, a TV quiz show host from Lancaster, Pennsylvania
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2020 Jeopardy!: The Greatest of All Time 2nd runner-up: $250,000. 2019...
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Barbara-Anne Eddy, a civil servant from Vancouver, Canada
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"Her 5-time winnings from 1988 allowed her to go for nearly...
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Allan Long, a freshman from Tallahassee, Florida
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2005 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. 14 at the time of the...
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Chris Ward, a foreign service officer from Johannesburg, South Africa
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"A 5-game winner in 1998, he was living in Peru when...
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