| #9088, aired 2024-04-24 | CELEBRITY MEMOIRS $1000: Chapters in his "All About Me!" include "Carl Reiner and the 2000 Year Old Man" & "Kismet--Meeting Anne Bancroft" Mel Brooks |
| #9087, aired 2024-04-23 | NAME THAT AUTHOR $400: "Early in the spring of 1750... a man-child was born to Omoro and Binta Kinte" Haley |
| #9087, aired 2024-04-23 | CULTURE, POPULARLY $800: It was a letter-perfect day on Jimmy Kimmel's show when Warren G welcomed this sax man to help out on "Regulate" Kenny G |
| #9087, aired 2024-04-23 | RELAX, IT'S MATH $1000: These coordinates named for a 17th c. man describe the position of points in space in relation to an x-axis & y-axis Cartesian |
| #9086, aired 2024-04-22 | BOOKED IN BOOKS $400: In this nonfiction book, Helen Prejean writes to "Elmo Patrick Sonnier... death row, Louisiana State Penitentiary" Dead Man Walking |
| #9086, aired 2024-04-22 | HISTORICAL FIGURES $800: Rebelling peasants inspired by the Reformation were let down by this man's tract "against the murderous, thieving hordes of peasants" (Martin) Luther |
| #9086, aired 2024-04-22 | HISTORICAL FIGURES $2000: Former radical left Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras gave his son the middle name Ernesto, after this man (Che) Guevara |
| #9086, aired 2024-04-22 | HISTORICAL FIGURES $5,000 (Daily Double): In the 1850s Congress awarded this man $20,000 for negotiating the Kanagawa Treaty (Commodore) Perry |
| #9084, aired 2024-04-18 | AT THE START OF THE SPORT $800: Long said to have invented baseball, this military man didn't, but he was definitely at Fort Sumter when the first shots were fired Doubleday |
| #9084, aired 2024-04-18 | PATIENCE $1000: Disappointed in March 1942, this military man said, "I shall return"; happier on Oct. 20, 1944, he said, "I have returned" MacArthur |
| #9084, aired 2024-04-18 | WHAT A LITERARY CHARACTER $1000: In "1984", Julia meets with this man secretly, bringing him contraband chocolate & stirring forgotten memories Winston Smith |
| #9083, aired 2024-04-17 | HISTORY OF YOSEMITE $1000: This man wrote of his ecological findings with a quill made from an eagle's feather found on Yosemite's Mount Hoffmann John Muir |
| #9082, aired 2024-04-16 | SIBLINGS IN POP CULTURE $800: They set the film "A Serious Man" in their native Minnesota the Coen brothers |
| #9081, aired 2024-04-15 | HODGEPODGE $400: Let's not procrastinate because, according to a proverb, these 2 things "wait for no man" time & tide |
| #9081, aired 2024-04-15 | "P"EOPLE $800: When this man laid out Philadelphia, he gave the E-W streets tree names like Walnut & Spruce; back then, Arch Street was Mulberry (William) Penn |
| #9081, aired 2024-04-15 | "P"EOPLE $1600: What you earn on your savings account & what you pay for groceries are partly in the hands of this man, Fed chair since 2018 Jerome Powell |
| #9080, aired 2024-04-12 | FADS $400: At the height of this craze, a man dashed across the stage during the Oscars "showing his shortcomings", as David Niven put it streaking |
| #9079, aired 2024-04-11 | UNREAL ESTATE $400: On his third voyage, this man travels to the flying island of Laputa, where the people are so lost in thought they notice little else Gulliver |
| #9079, aired 2024-04-11 | "T.P." $800: This man had an "American Crisis" with George Washington in 1796, calling him "treacherous in private friendship" Thomas Paine |
| #9079, aired 2024-04-11 | THE MANHATTAN PROJECT $1600: The "Little Boy" atomic bomb used uranium-235; "Fat Man", this element that was only discovered around 1940 plutonium |
| #9078, aired 2024-04-10 | ASK FORGIVENESS $800: In the last chapter of Genesis, this man is asked for forgiveness by his brothers, who seriously wronged him Joseph |
| #9078, aired 2024-04-10 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $2000: He wrote, "'It is impossible that the ape, Kala, was your mother... you are pure man... the offspring of highly bred... parents' " Edgar Rice Burroughs |
| #9077, aired 2024-04-09 | THE MEASURE OF A MAN $400: Measuring electricity? In the U.S., we use this unit that honors an Italian count a volt |
| #9077, aired 2024-04-09 | THE MEASURE OF A MAN $800: A degree on this other temperature scale has the same magnitude as a Celsius degree Kelvin |
| #9077, aired 2024-04-09 | THE MEASURE OF A MAN $1200: This device used to measure your feet at the shoe store is named for its inventor Charles a Brannock Device |
| #9077, aired 2024-04-09 | REBOOTS & REMAKES $1600: This 2007 film was previously made as "The Last Man on Earth" & "The Omega Man" I Am Legend |
| #9077, aired 2024-04-09 | THE MEASURE OF A MAN $2000: Radioactivity amounts in a sample have been measured in units called the curie & this, after a different French physicist becquerel |
| #9077, aired 2024-04-09 | THE MEASURE OF A MAN $6,000 (Daily Double): You only need letters on the left side of the keyboard to type this unit of capacitance that's named for an English chap the farad |
| #9075, aired 2024-04-05 | IN THE PAST $400: A city in Mexico that borders El Paso bears the name of this man, often called the first indigenous president of Mexico Juárez |
| #9075, aired 2024-04-05 | HORROR MUSIC $1200: A man sees a ghostly version of himself in Schubert's lied (song) with this German title "Doppelganger" |
| #9072, aired 2024-04-02 | PHILOSOPHY $1600: Medieval philosophy's "Doctor Invincibilis" was this man who used a "razor" to eliminate unnecessary entities Ockham |
| #9072, aired 2024-04-02 | MOUNTAIN HIGH, VALLEY LOW $2,000 (Daily Double): Most of what was once the Nubian Valley is now this lake Lake Nasser |
| #9071, aired 2024-04-01 | TAILOR'S VERSION $800: This measurement can be about 30" on a 5'10" man an inseam |
| #9070, aired 2024-03-29 | SOUTH AMERICAN HISTORY $400: This man whose name went on 2 continents explored the coast of Suriname in 1499 (Amerigo) Vespucci |
| #9070, aired 2024-03-29 | THE ANCIENTS SPEAK $600: In his "Histories", he quoted Solon as saying, "Before he dies, call no man happy--he is at best but fortunate" Herodotus |
| #9070, aired 2024-03-29 | THE ANCIENTS SPEAK $1000: We're not sure if he found him, but this cynic, lantern in tote, was quoted as saying he was "looking for an honest man" Diogenes |
| #9070, aired 2024-03-29 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $1200: 1887's "Ivanov", an early work by this playwright, centers on a depressed young man who considers suicide Chekhov |
| #9070, aired 2024-03-29 | SOUTH AMERICAN HISTORY $1200: Cemented in Argentine history is this man, whose 1986 World Cup goal was aided by the "Hand of God" Maradona |
| #9070, aired 2024-03-29 | MR. OR MRS. SONG $2000: Bob Dylan wrote, "Drugs never played a part" in the creation of this song about a percussionist "Mr. Tambourine Man" |
| #9069, aired 2024-03-28 | DEFINITIONS FROM THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY $200: Under C:
"A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head" a cabbage |
| #9068, aired 2024-03-27 | DURING JAMES BUCHANAN'S PRESIDENCY $800: In 1860 California mountain man John Adams, nicknamed this, died from a head wound suffered while wrestling one of his pet bears Grizzly |
| #9068, aired 2024-03-27 | WORLD LITERATURE $11,400 (Daily Double): In this Hermann Hesse novel, Harry Haller reads a treatise about his dual inner self, caught between a man & a lupine creature Steppenwolf |
| #9067, aired 2024-03-26 | SPORTY TALK $800: Someone who comes in to finish a job, or Joe Torre in the Cardinals lineup a cleanup man (a cleanup hitter) |
| #9066, aired 2024-03-25 | THE GRAMMYS' GREAT MOMENTS $400: In 1988 he gave an iconic performance of "Man In The Mirror" backed by a gospel choir Michael Jackson |
| #9065, aired 2024-03-22 | NONFICTION $400: The 2023 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction went to a book about this man, whose 2020 death in Minneapolis sparked protests worldwide Floyd |
| #9065, aired 2024-03-22 | THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE, BY THE NUMBERS $1000: Andrew Jackson "won" the E.C. 99-84-41-37 but having no majority there, lost the election in the House to this man John Quincy Adams |
| #9065, aired 2024-03-22 | THE OLD TESTAMENT $1600: He's the mighty man of wealth depicted with Ruth, whom he marries Boaz |
| #9065, aired 2024-03-22 | THE OLD TESTAMENT $2000: This man really wanted Jacob to marry his older daughter, Leah, before his younger, Rachel Laban |
| #9064, aired 2024-03-21 | HISTORIC FIRSTS $400: In 1986 this man became the first pontiff to enter the Great Synagogue of Rome John Paul II |
| #9064, aired 2024-03-21 | HISTORIC FIRSTS $800: This man banned the traditional fez hat after becoming the first president of the Republic of Turkey Ataturk |
| #9064, aired 2024-03-21 | HISTORIC FIRSTS $1000: In 1992 this man from Egypt became the first African to be Secretary-General of the United Nations Boutros Boutros-Ghali |
| #9063, aired 2024-03-20 | VIOLENT ART $400: A 17th century work depicts David with the rather giant head of this man, bearing the wound on his forehead that killed him Goliath |
| #9062, aired 2024-03-19 | SPEECHMAKING $800: Following this man's death in 1948, prime minister Nehru stated, "The light has gone out of our lives" Mahatma Gandhi |
| #9062, aired 2024-03-19 | SPEECHMAKING $2,800 (Daily Double): In 1735 attorney Andrew Hamilton spoke in defense of freedom of the press at this man's trial Zenger |
| #9061, aired 2024-03-18 | MUSICAL FILMS $200: In a 2023 origin story, Timothée Chalamet shows off his singing & dancing skills as this iconic candy man Wonka |
| #9061, aired 2024-03-18 | & 5 SIDES $600: Ron Guidry, Pedro Martinez & this man, twice, are among Major Leaguers who have struck out the side on 9 pitches Nolan Ryan |
| #9061, aired 2024-03-18 | HORRORS! $800: His Christmas ghost story "The Haunted Man" sold 18,000 copies on its first day of publication in 1848 Dickens |
| #9061, aired 2024-03-18 | VICE PRESIDENTIAL QUOTES $1600: It's the -ism that promotes the common man & in 2023 Mike Pence bemoaned "the siren song of" it "unmoored to" conservative ideas populism |
| #9061, aired 2024-03-18 | VICE PRESIDENTIAL QUOTES $2000: In a 1942 speech this progressive V.P. of FDR called the coming post-war period "the century of the common man" Henry Wallace |
| #9060, aired 2024-03-15 | MOVIE SONGS $800: "Now I'm laughing to the bank", rap$ thi$ man in "Am I Dreaming" over the end credits of "Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse" A$AP Rocky |
| #9060, aired 2024-03-15 | TV DRAMA $1000: President Obama said his favorite character on "The Wire" was this stickup man portrayed by Michael K. Williams Omar (Little) |
| #9058, aired 2024-03-13 | REAL NAMES OF UNREAL PEOPLE $400: Horatio Magellan are the first & middle names of this cereal seller & man of the sea Captain Crunch |
| #9057, aired 2024-03-12 | WHO'S THE BIOPIC SUBJECT? $400: "First Man" Neil Armstrong |
| #9057, aired 2024-03-12 | WHO'S THE BIOPIC SUBJECT? $2000: "A Man for All Seasons" Thomas More |
| #9055, aired 2024-03-08 | LITERARY AWARDS $400: The Man Group sponsored this prestigious British literary prize from 2002 to 2019 the Booker Prize |
| #9054, aired 2024-03-07 | BRIDGERS $400: RO&AD Architects built a Dutch bridge that parts the waters rather than going over them, so it's named for this biblical man Moses |
| #9054, aired 2024-03-07 | SPORTS MASCOT HISTORY $400: From 1979 to 1981 the Yankees fittingly had a mascot named this, also a word for a well-dressed man Dandy |
| #9054, aired 2024-03-07 | SPORTS MASCOT HISTORY $1000: Since the 1990s Fred the Red has been a devil indeed for this team from the north of England Man U (Manchester United) |
| #9054, aired 2024-03-07 | GETTING HISTORICAL $1000: Wahunsenacawh was another name of the man the Jamestown colonists called this, like the people he led Powhatan |
| #9053, aired 2024-03-06 | SHAKESPEARE FOR EVERYONE! $600: Awaking, this weaver says, "I have had a dream... man is but an ass if he go about to expound this dream" Bottom |
| #9052, aired 2024-03-05 | 5 FOR THE HISTORY BOOKS $600: With 1920's "The Outline of History", this "Time Machine" man went from bestselling novelist to bestselling educator H.G. Wells |
| #9052, aired 2024-03-05 | PEOPLE NAMED ALEX $1200: This Moscow-born captain of the Washington Capitals is seen with the only man ahead of him--for now--in career NHL goals Ovechkin |
| #9052, aired 2024-03-05 | PEOPLE NAMED ALEX $1600: WWII field marshal Harold Alexander led the extrication of 340,000 men at this location in 1940 & was the last man off the beach Dunkirk |
| #9051, aired 2024-03-04 | NONFICTION $400: Michael Lewis' "Going Infinite" focuses on this man, crypto Gatsby Sam Bankman-Fried |
| #9051, aired 2024-03-04 | A LI'L BALLET, A LI'L OPERA $800: In 1967 this man joined the Kirov as a soloist but 8 years later, decided to stop Russian around & defected in Canada Baryshnikov |
| #9051, aired 2024-03-04 | I HEARD A RUMOR $800: In a Klymaxx song a woman says if you want to be sure about your man, go powder your nose & have a "meeting in" this title place "Meeting In The Ladies Room" |
| #9050, aired 2024-03-01 | GENDERED LANGUAGE $1600: This word combines slang for a man & a type of cosmetic guyliner |
| #9049, aired 2024-02-29 | NAME, IMAGE, LIKENESS $200: It's the nickname of Alabama CB Ga'quincy McKinstry, whose smile resembled this pitch "man"; now he has an NIL deal with the drink, oh yeah Kool-Aid |
| #9049, aired 2024-02-29 | IMAGE $400: Limiting his palette to mostly blacks & whites, Marc Chagall painted "The Praying Jew", also known as this holy man "of Vitebsk" Rabbi |
| #9049, aired 2024-02-29 | COLORS OF THE RAINBOW $400: In 2023, Xolo Maridueña played Jaime Reyes, also known as this multi-limbed DC superhero the Blue Beetle |
| #9048, aired 2024-02-28 | LESSER-KNOWN SCIENCES $400: Here, a man holds this item fallen from the skies; call an expert in aerolithology, an old word for the study of them meteorites |
| #9048, aired 2024-02-28 | BRITISH ACTORS & ACTRESSES $400: A 2023 miniseries tells the story of "Archie: The Man Who Became" this legendary star Cary Grant |
| #9047, aired 2024-02-27 | ANTONYMIC PAIRS $1000: Pres. James Garfield is quoted, "The best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard" to do this pair sink or swim |
| #9047, aired 2024-02-27 | AWARDS & HONORS $2000: "The Man Who Ate Too Much" is a biography of this American whose foundation gives awards to outstanding chefs James Beard |
| #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 |
| #9045, aired 2024-02-23 | 1960s FICTION $1000: This British expat in Southern California wrote openly of gay subject matter in "A Single Man" Christopher Isherwood |
| #9045, aired 2024-02-23 | THAT BUILDING HAS GREAT BONES $1200: This Channel Island's zoo doesn't just display 'em live; you may see skulls & skeletons at the Durrell Discovery Centre Jersey |
| #9044, aired 2024-02-22 | BEFORE THE FIRST WORLD WAR $2000: Tough to win a race giving a 60-mile head start as Robert Scott did landing at McMurdo Sound when this man landed at the Bay of Whales Amundsen |
| #9043, aired 2024-02-21 | ENDS IN "IR" $800: According to National Geographic, the world's largest man-made one by surface area is Lake Volta in Ghana a reservoir |
| #9043, aired 2024-02-21 | MR. STEVE MARTIN $1600: OK, so it's complicated--in "It's Complicated", Steve's co-star was this man, also Steve's co-host for the Oscars Alec Baldwin |
| #9042, aired 2024-02-20 | PILES $600: The first man-made nuclear reactor was a 20-foot pile of graphite blocks with blocks of this element mixed in uranium |
| #9042, aired 2024-02-20 | ARTISTS & THEIR SUBJECTS $1200: Though he depicted a different river in "Rapids of the Susquehanna", Frederic Edwin Church was a big man in this "School" the Hudson River School |
| #9041, aired 2024-02-19 | GEOGRAPHIC BOOK TITLES $400: Beautiful spy Tatiana Romanova is the perfect bait for this man in "From Russia with Love" James Bond |
| #9040, aired 2024-02-16 | CANADIAN GEOGRAPHY $400: The second-most populous city in Canada, it was founded in 1642 as a missionary center by Paul de Chomedey Montreal |
| #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 | PRESIDENTIAL TV $600: "The Man from Independence" Harry Truman |
| #9040, aired 2024-02-16 | DESCRIBING THE SONG $1200: Various people who live lives of quiet desperation, like Davy in the Navy, yell at Billy Joel to sing at a watering hole "Piano Man" |
| #9040, aired 2024-02-16 | DESCRIBING THE SONG $1600: Biz Markie finds out a girl named "Blah-Blah-Blah" is, in fact, having more than a platonic relationship with another man "Just A Friend" |
| #9038, aired 2024-02-14 | SNAKES IN A BOOK $800: On his third voyage, this hero of "The Arabian Nights" lands on an island home to a man-eating snake as big as a palm tree Sinbad |
| #9038, aired 2024-02-14 | 1970s MOVIES $2000: In a space oddity, this singer was "The Man Who Fell to Earth" to save his own dying planet Bowie |
| #9037, aired 2024-02-13 | LENDING YOU A POKER HAND $800: The "dead man's hand" of 2 pair, black aces & 8s, was reportedly held by him when he was shot dead in 1876 Hickok |
| #9037, aired 2024-02-13 | 50 GREATEST RAPPERS OF ALL TIME $1000: "Backed by rap's archetypal hype man in Flavor Flav", this Public Enemy leader was a "Rebel Without A Pause" in 1987 Chuck D |
| #9037, aired 2024-02-13 | DOCUMENTARIES $2000: In "The Fog of War" Errol Morris interviewed this man who was Secretary of Defense from 1961 to 1968 McNamara |
| #9036, aired 2024-02-12 | GENIUS: MLK/X $600: (Kelvin Harrison Jr. presents the clue.) A man who was raised Quaker & sang the blues with Lead Belly, Bayard Rustin drew from Gandhi's example to help inspire MLK to follow this 11-letter form of peaceful resistance nonviolence |
| #9036, aired 2024-02-12 | POP CULTURE VS. $600: On this series, Casey Webb travels the country, taking on eating challenges like a 4-pound Reuben or a gallon-sized sundae Man v. Food |
| #9036, aired 2024-02-12 | POP CULTURE VS. $1000: In "The People vs." this man, Woody Harrelson says, "I'm your dream client. I'm the most fun, I'm rich, & I'm always in trouble" Larry Flynt |
| #9035, aired 2024-02-09 | 21st CENTURY SCIENCE $400: In 2015 gravitational waves were first directly observed after this man predicted them a century earlier Einstein |
| #9033, aired 2024-02-07 | LITERATURE BINGO $800: "B", 1956: Appropriately, "Giovanni's Room" by this man from Harlem is about an American living in Paris (James) Baldwin |
| #9033, aired 2024-02-07 | QUOTING THE OLD TESTAMENT $2000: From Judges 6, "The spirit of the Lord came upon" this man, "and he blew a trumpet" Gideon |
| #9033, aired 2024-02-07 | ANTHROPOLOGISTS $4,000 (Daily Double): In 1927 Davidson Black identified this "man" as a member of the human lineage on the basis of a single tooth found in North China Peking Man |
| #9032, aired 2024-02-06 | AVENGERS, WHO SAID IT? $200: Him: "If my aunt finds out I left my class trip, she's going to kill me" Spider-Man |
| #9032, aired 2024-02-06 | AVENGERS, WHO SAID IT? $400: Smugly:
"Genius,
billionaire,
playboy,
philanthropist" Iron Man |
| #9032, aired 2024-02-06 | 2 BOOKS IN 1 $800: "A Farewell to the Sea" A Farewell to Arms & The Old Man and the Sea |
| #9032, aired 2024-02-06 | SOONER $800: This "Invisible Man" author made his first appearance March 1, 1914 in Oklahoma City Ellison |
| #9032, aired 2024-02-06 | IT'S A BIRD! IT'S A PLANE! $4,000 (Daily Double): During World War II, one job of the Howard DGA-15 was as a Navy air ambulance with this bird name that's associated with nursing Nightingale |
| #9031, aired 2024-02-05 | IT'S GIVING... $400: A New York Times headline read this oil man's "gifts total $530,853,632", remarkably specific on the day after his death in 1937 (John D.) Rockefeller |
| #9031, aired 2024-02-05 | TOOLS $1000: It's not a magnetic tool to help you detect a virile man, but rather its namesake item as well as nails hidden within a wall a stud detector (stud finder) |
| #9031, aired 2024-02-05 | SINGLE-NAMED SINGERS $1200: Hope you still know this Belgian-Australian man who had a smash hit in 2012 with "Somebody That I Used To Know" Gotye |
| #9031, aired 2024-02-05 | BRITISH LITERATURE $1600: A man stopped on his way to a wedding feast is told of tragic events aboard a ship in this 1798 narrative poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner |
| #9030, aired 2024-02-02 | EXPLORING U.S. CITIES $2,000 (Daily Double): Area 15 in Las Vegas houses art installations originally built for this annual festival held in the Black Rock Desert Burning Man |
| #9030, aired 2024-02-02 | WEIGHTS & MEASURES $3,600 (Daily Double): This unit of force named for a 17th century man is equal to about .225 pound-force a Newton |
| #3, aired 2024-02-02 | MISCELLANY $400: It's the year Apollo 11 put a man on the Moon, & not just one 1969 |
| #9029, aired 2024-02-01 | I'M SO WAVY $400: A man called Krazy George Henderson claims he introduced the wave during a 1981 A.L. playoff game for this Bay Area team the Oakland A's |
| #9029, aired 2024-02-01 | FOLLOW THE WORLD LEADER $1200: In 1783 this man the Younger took over for the could-not-possibly-be-more-Britishly-named William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck Pitt |
| #9029, aired 2024-02-01 | FOLLOW THE WORLD LEADER $1600: Eyebrows were raised in 1964 after Khrushchev gave way to this man Brezhnev |
| #9028, aired 2024-01-31 | THE ENGLISH PAST $600: This man became Lord Protector after leading a Roundhead army in the 17th century English Civil War Cromwell |
| #9028, aired 2024-01-31 | MOUNTAINS OF LITERATURE $1600: "Der Zauberberg" in German, this Thomas Mann novel tells the story of a man who stays in a TB clinic for 7 years Magic Mountain |
| #9027, aired 2024-01-30 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $1000: The name of this Omaha university honors a man who built the transcontinental telegraph Creighton University |
| #9026, aired 2024-01-29 | HISTORIC NAMES $1600: Gavrilo Princip, whose assassination of this man triggered World War I, died in prison before the war's end Archduke Ferdinand |
| #9025, aired 2024-01-26 | DASHIELL HAMMETT $800: In 1953 Hammett went before a committee chaired by this man & was asked about his association with the Communist Party McCarthy |
| #9025, aired 2024-01-26 | COACHING BASKETBALL $1000: Real first name Glenn, this man had the prescription for the Celtics in 2008, taking them to the championship Doc Rivers |
| #9025, aired 2024-01-26 | THAT'S JUST TEARABLE! $1000: Shakespeare plot twist! "Let the angel... tell thee" this man "was from his mother's womb untimely ripped" Macduff |
| #9024, aired 2024-01-25 | FEAST DAYS OF CHRISTIANITY $1600: Depicted here by Nicolas Bernard Lépicié, & told of in Acts 9, "The Conversion of" this man has its own feast day on January 25 Saul (Saint Paul) |
| #9023, aired 2024-01-24 | OUR SONG $200: Tommy, a union man, & Gina, in the food service industry, make a go of it in this 1987 Bon Jovi hit; c'mon, we're halfway there! "Livin' On A Prayer" |
| #9023, aired 2024-01-24 | ONE-TERM PRESIDENTS $800: Opting for peace vs. war with France alienated his own party & helped make this man the very first one-termer John Adams |
| #9023, aired 2024-01-24 | BALD IS BEAUTIFUL $1600: To date, he's played newsman J. Jonah Jameson in five live-action "Spider-Man" movies J.K. Simmons |
| #9023, aired 2024-01-24 | ONE-TERM PRESIDENTS $2000: Not wanting to admit Texas as a slave state helped this man get the Kinderhook, though he also pandered to the pro-slavery vote Van Buren |
| #9022, aired 2024-01-23 | POETS & POETRY $400: "Edina! Scotia's darling seat!" begins "Address to Edinburgh", a poem not in the Scottish dialect by this man (Rabbie) Burns |
| #9022, aired 2024-01-23 | MOVIES IN REWIND $2000: A slave entertains ancient Rome & rises to become an army general, an advisor to the emperor & a happy family man Gladiator |
| #9022, aired 2024-01-23 | U.S. CITIES $2000: Most city founders have been gone a while, but the man for whom this Nevada casino town is named, passed away in 2023 Laughlin |
| #9021, aired 2024-01-22 | TEMPERA-MENTAL ARTISTS $800: Before tempera art, John Schoenherr did book covers; Frank Herbert called him the only man to visit this title place Dune |
| #9021, aired 2024-01-22 | SHORT STORIES $1600: "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" & "The Laughing Man" are some of his stories featuring the Glass family, not the Caulfields Salinger |
| #9020, aired 2024-01-19 | MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS $800: The classic 1944 Judy Garland film "Meet Me in St. Louis" was directed by this man, her soon-to-be husband (Vincente) Minnelli |
| #9020, aired 2024-01-19 | THE BOOK TITLE ANIMAL $1000: Not just for the birds, & a Man Booker Prize finalist:
"____ English" Pigeon |
| #9019, aired 2024-01-18 | MOVIE TITLES WITH NUMBERS IN THEM $400: The producers of "Tak3n" had a very particular set of skills to get this man back for time 3 in the role of Bryan Mills Liam Neeson |
| #9019, aired 2024-01-18 | THE WRITER'S STRIKE $1200: Jack Kelly's nonfiction book "The Edge of Anarchy" is about the 1894 strike against this man's railroad car company Pullman |
| #9018, aired 2024-01-17 | FRAILTY, THY NAME IS MAN $400: "How often did" this Sleepy Hollow schoolmaster "shrink with curdling awe at the sound of his own steps" (Ichabod) Crane |
| #9018, aired 2024-01-17 | FRAILTY, THY NAME IS MAN $800: Billy Halleck is literally wasting away after being cursed in this tale by Richard Bachman, aka Stephen King Thinner |
| #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 |
| #9018, aired 2024-01-17 | FRAILTY, THY NAME IS MAN $1200: Lying about in bed all day, this 96-year-old was "delicate & weak", but spry enough to glom on to a Wonka tour Grandpa Joe |
| #9018, aired 2024-01-17 | FRAILTY, THY NAME IS MAN $1600: At one point in this novel, Ignatius Reilly regales his mom with an anecdote about his carsickness A Confederacy of Dunces |
| #9018, aired 2024-01-17 | FRAILTY, THY NAME IS MAN $11,600 (Daily Double): In a Robert Graves novel, this emperor introduces himself with some of his nicknames, like "The Idiot" Claudius |
| #9017, aired 2024-01-16 | 1980s PRO WRESTLING $800: Randy Savage went by this nickname, also the first Top 40 hit for the Village People in 1978 "Macho Man" |
| #9017, aired 2024-01-16 | RHYME TIME $1200: A flying feudal man-at-arms tethered & held by a child, hopefully, on a windy day a knight kite |
| #25, aired 2024-01-16 | 50% "OFF" $1500: On Twitter (thanks, Kamala!), the last name of the man who uses the account @secondgentleman Emhoff |
| #9016, aired 2024-01-15 | AROUND THE UNUSUAL HOUSE $1000: Talk about a man cave! There's a basement modeled on this French cave designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1979 Lascaux |
| #2, aired 2024-01-12 | MY "SON", THE PRESIDENT $800: He was preceded & succeeded as president by the same man Benjamin Harrison |
| #1, aired 2024-01-12 | GAME SHOWS IN THE MOVIES $800: The all-too-simple premise of the game show hosted by Richard Dawson in this 1987 film--criminals are murdered The Running Man |
| #9014, aired 2024-01-11 | THE BIBLE BOOK SAITH... $400: Living up to its name: "A wise man will hear, and will increase learning" Proverbs |
| #9014, aired 2024-01-11 | NOTORIOUS $1000: In June 2022 this man who tried to assassinate President Reagan in 1981 was released without conditions Hinckley |
| #9014, aired 2024-01-11 | EPISODES OF THE SITCOM $2000: "Blanche and the Younger Man" & "Dateline: Miami" The Golden Girls |
| #9013, aired 2024-01-10 | ONE-MAN BAND $200: "Maybe I'm Amazed" he solo-recorded his 1970 solo debut mainly at his house in St. John's Wood; OK, maybe I'm not--he was a Beatle McCartney |
| #9013, aired 2024-01-10 | ONE MAN, BANNED $400: A Jacobite was a supporter of this exiled Stuart king who had to lay low after the Glorious Revolution James II |
| #9013, aired 2024-01-10 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: This author of "Charlotte's Web" also wrote a monthly column for Harper's called "One Man's Meat" (E.B.) White |
| #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 |
| #9013, aired 2024-01-10 | ONE-MAN BAND $600: In 1989, he "Let Love Rule" as basically a one-man band on that debut album, and he's been "Sittin' On Top Of The World" ever since Lenny Kravitz |
| #9013, aired 2024-01-10 | ONE-MAN BAND $800: Many have played in this "Head Like a Hole" band but Trent Reznor was the only official member until Atticus Ross got the call in 2016 Nine Inch Nails |
| #9013, aired 2024-01-10 | ONE MAN, BANNED $800: Dante was truly a Guelf on the shelf as his exile from this city of his birth would prove Florence |
| #9013, aired 2024-01-10 | ONE-MAN BAND $1000: When he was 15, he went out on tour with his dad, a guitar god; later he recorded solo for Mammoth WVH Wolfgang Van Halen |
| #9013, aired 2024-01-10 | ONE MAN, BANNED $1200: This politician, who passed away in 2023, was banned from office in 2013, but remained the head of Forza Italia Berlusconi |
| #9013, aired 2024-01-10 | ONE MAN, BANNED $2000: Yevgeny was the first name of this late mercenary leader who fled to Belarus after gaining Putin's ire in 2023 Yevgeny Prigozhin |
| #9013, aired 2024-01-10 | TEX & THE CITY $3,600 (Daily Double): This city of over one million is named for a man born in 1195 San Antonio |
| #9013, aired 2024-01-10 | ONE MAN, BANNED $8,200 (Daily Double): The 1521 Edict of Worms banned his writings & declared him a heretic Martin Luther |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | NON-MUSICAL THEATER $400: Hankies recommended for "700 Sundays," the nostalgic one-man show starring this "Mahvelous" comedian Billy Crystal |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | "J" LAW $400: Henry Fonda plays a man who sits on one in the 1957 film "12 Angry Men" a jury |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | COUNTRIES THAT START WITH "I" $400: An anagram of "Arabs", Basra is a port city in this country Iraq |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | CAN I GET AN "A" MEN! $400: Referring to a type of aperture in large-format view cameras, group f/64 was cofounded in 1932 by this man Ansel Adams |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | NEW YORK TIMES OBITUARIES $1000: This actor's 2016 obit mentioned he had outlived by about 34 years an erroneous report of his death that made him a cult figure Abe Vigoda |
| #9011, aired 2024-01-08 | RECENT MOVIES $400: (I'm Shameik Moore.) As Miles Morales in "Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse", I'm relaxing at home, unmasked, when I get a surprise visit from this spider-powered woman voiced by Hailee Steinfeld Gwen (Spider-Gwen) |
| #9011, aired 2024-01-08 | ITALIAN LITERATURE $800: Lorenzo Da Ponte wrote the librettos to 3 of this man's most famous operas, including "Cosi fan tutte" Mozart |
| #9010, aired 2024-01-05 | OUR MAN ON THE FIELD $200: Coming on the pitch in the 60th minute in his Inter Miami regular season debut in 2023, he got his first MLS goal 29 minutes later Messi |
| #9010, aired 2024-01-05 | OUR MAN ON THE FIELD $400: In addition to being a Hall of Fame running back, Jim Brown could stick it to foes by scoring goals in this sport & Jim's in its Hall, too lacrosse |
| #9010, aired 2024-01-05 | OUR MAN ON THE FIELD $600: In 2021 Ryan Crouser heaved a metal sphere 76 feet, 8 1/4 inches, breaking a world record set in this sport before Ryan was born the shot put |
| #9010, aired 2024-01-05 | OUR MAN ON THE FIELD $800: In 2023, Corey Seager won his 2nd World Series MVP award as this team became champions the Texas Rangers |
| #9010, aired 2024-01-05 | OUR MAN ON THE FIELD $1000: New Zealand's Jonah Lomu topped ruck.co.uk's list of this sport's 25 best players of all time rugby |
| #9007, aired 2024-01-02 | THE CHARLES III KIND $600: This actor, who was Charles in "The Crown", says he'd like to ask the king about his experience as a fellow sticky-out-eared man Josh O'Connor |
| #9007, aired 2024-01-02 | HISTORIC LASTS $1600: Dying in 1914, Martha was the last of these alliterative birds; a monument to them said, "It died due to avarice of man" the passenger pigeon |
| #23, aired 2024-01-02 | ELEMENTARY POP CULTURE $100: It's the title of a Black Sabbath song, or, a Robert Downey Jr. movie "Iron Man" |
| #23, aired 2024-01-02 | ONE BELLY BUTTON, TWO NIPPLES $500: Epiglottis, naris, testis:
it's the one a male has one of epiglottis |
| #23, aired 2024-01-02 | DIFFERENT SONGS, SAME TITLES $800: Elvis Presley,
Cheap Trick
(Mommy's alright, Daddy's alright, they just seem a little weird) "Surrender" |
| #9006, aired 2024-01-01 | HAUNTING LITERATURE $200: Scrooge hears from this man that even after being dead for 7 years, he found "no rest, no peace. incessant torture of remorse" Jacob Marley |
| #9005, aired 2023-12-29 | LITERARY TOWNS & CITIES $6,000 (Daily Double): In a Thomas Hardy tale, a man sells his wife & child; the wife later seeks him out in this city where he has become the mayor Casterbridge |
| #9004, aired 2023-12-28 | NBA NICKNAMES $400: Early on, superstar Kawhi Leonard earned the nickname "Board Man" with high numbers in this stat rebounds |
| #9004, aired 2023-12-28 | WOMEN ON TRIAL $1600: Leslie Van Houten, a follower of this man, was retried in 1977 after her lawyer's mysterious death; she was released at age 73 Manson |
| #9003, aired 2023-12-27 | PRESIDENTS NOT PRESIDENTING $800: This man told a friend, "Palladio is the Bible", as he was something of a fanboy for the 16th century Italian architect Jefferson |
| #9003, aired 2023-12-27 | POETRY ABOUT PROSE $1000: A disfigured guy / Falls for a woman in Paris, it's true / Sounds like it's "Hunchback" / But it's by a man named Leroux The Phantom of the Opera |
| #9003, aired 2023-12-27 | PRESIDENTS NOT PRESIDENTING $1000: A big cockfight enthusiast, this man was known to yell "Twenty dollars on my Bernadotte!" outside the Old Nashville Inn Andrew Jackson |
| #9002, aired 2023-12-26 | TIMES: NEW ROMAN $200: In 2015 this man with some degree of pull in the Rome area inaugurated a year of jubilee which drew 20 million pilgrims Pope Francis |
| #9001, aired 2023-12-25 | BATS ENTERTAINMENT $800: & today (today), I consider myself (myself) the luckiest man to say he starred as Lou Gehrig in "The Pride of the Yankees" Gary Cooper |
| #9000, aired 2023-12-22 | HISTORICAL AMERICAN GOVERNORS $400: The 1850s Utah War began with "Buchanan's Blunder", when President Buchanan moved to replace this man as governor Young |
| #9000, aired 2023-12-22 | CAROLS $1600: Director Carol Reed was nominated for an Oscar for this 1949 Cold War thriller set in Austria & starring Joseph Cotten The Third Man |
| #9000, aired 2023-12-22 | CONTEMPORARIES $1600: In 1794 Thomas Jefferson wrote that he hoped the execution of this man marked a return to moderation in the French Revolution Robespierre |
| #8999, aired 2023-12-21 | SAMPLING $400: When searched by works as an artist, whosampled.com lists 8,840 tracks that sampled this "hardest working man in show business" James Brown |
| #8999, aired 2023-12-21 | FOLKLORE & LEGEND $400: Also called Bigfoot, it's the Salish word for a huge, hairy man-monster said to inhabit Pacific Northwest woods Sasquatch |
| #8999, aired 2023-12-21 | A VERY HALLMARK CHRISTMAS MOVIE $400: A woman falls for the son of the man out to close her toy store in the alliteratively titled this Mass. island "Noel" Nantucket |
| #8999, aired 2023-12-21 | BOOK TOCK $600: This author created Tik-Tok of Oz, a mechanical man who ran on clockworks L. Frank Baum |
| #8999, aired 2023-12-21 | WORDS & THEIR CHANGING MEANINGS $1200: An Italian word for "baby boy", it meant a man, especially one who was inept or dumb, before it meant an attractive but dumb woman bimbo |
| #8998, aired 2023-12-20 | OH, "IC" $400: This form of poem might begin, "There once was a man from Kentucky" & get... saucy a limerick |
| #8998, aired 2023-12-20 | OPERA $1200: In a Bela Bartok opera, Judith comes to live in this man's "Castle" & discovers its room of his previous wives Bluebeard |
| #8994, aired 2023-12-14 | BROWNIAN NOTIONS $400: He soulfully sang it's a "man's world, but it wouldn't be nothing, nothing without a woman or a girl" James Brown |
| #8993, aired 2023-12-13 | WESTERN TV SHOWS $400: In 1966 this man stepped down from hosting the Western "Death Valley Days" to focus on his campaign for governor (Ronald) Reagan |
| #8989, aired 2023-12-07 | DURING LOU GEHRIG'S CONSECUTIVE GAME STREAK $400: This man came & went in the highest office in the land Hoover |
| #8989, aired 2023-12-07 | DURING LOU GEHRIG'S CONSECUTIVE GAME STREAK $1600: In 1928 he won the general election for Louisiana governor using the slogan "Every man a king, but no one wears a crown" (Huey) Long |
| #8988, aired 2023-12-06 | OUT OF CON TEXT $1,000 (Daily Double): This 1849 work says, "Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is... prison" Civil Disobedience |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | ROAD TRIP "I SPY" $100: I spy...
Area 51,
Burning Man festival &
the Bellagio Hotel & Casino Nevada |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | PIZZA AT THE MOVIES $600: Half man, half pizza, this "Spaceballs" villain meets a tragic end when he eats himself Pizza the Hutt |
| #8987, aired 2023-12-05 | ALSO A SUPERHERO $200: A 1903 George Bernard Shaw play is called "Man and" him Superman |
| #8987, aired 2023-12-05 | ALSO A SUPERHERO $600: This Black Sabbath song says, "He was turned to steel in the great magnetic field" "Iron Man" |
| #8987, aired 2023-12-05 | FLAGS $2000: Gilbert Baker created the Rainbow Flag & this man rode in a parade with one shortly before his 1978 assassination (Harvey) Milk |
| #8986, aired 2023-12-04 | MOVIE DIRECTORS $2000: Long before "Spider-Man", he first made his name with "The Evil Dead" when he was just 22 Sam Raimi |
| #8985, aired 2023-12-01 | EROS MYTH $400: In the epic "Argonautica", Eros' arrow makes Medea fall in love with this man Jason |
| #8984, aired 2023-11-30 | CHECK IT & SEE $1000: Music is the most powerful connector says this Biden administration Secretary of State, seen performing "Hoochie Coochie Man" (Antony) Blinken |
| #8983, aired 2023-11-29 | LUCK OF THE DRAW $800: From the name of an 18th century man, it's a profile portrait drawn in black a silhouette |
| #21, aired 2023-11-29 | FILMS TURNING THE BIG FOUR-OH $100: Al Pacino permanently damaged his nasal passages from snorting so much fake cocaine in this crime drama Scarface |
| #21, aired 2023-11-29 | CANDLE CULTURE $500: Now discontinued, this New England company's "Man Candle" collection included scents like "2x4" & "Riding Mower" Yankee Candle |
| #8982, aired 2023-11-28 | A CAPITAL IDEA? $1000: A vacuum cleaner salesman & spy named Jim Wormold is the protagonist of this Graham Greene novel Our Man in Havana |
| #8981, aired 2023-11-27 | COUNTRY MUSIC HITS $400: In 1968, she had back-to-back No. 1 country hits with "D-I-V-O-R-C-E" & "Stand By Your Man" Tammy Wynette |
| #8980, aired 2023-11-24 | IN EXPLICABLE $400: A man wears a boutonniere on this part of his jacket lapel |
| #8979, aired 2023-11-23 | ____ OF ____ $2000: As seen on the map, this island lies between England & Ireland, & about 20 miles south of Scotland the Isle of Man |
| #8979, aired 2023-11-23 | NAME THAT REBELLION $2000: Virginia, 1831:
Led by this man, it was the bloodiest in the history of American slavery Nat Turner's Rebellion |
| #8977, aired 2023-11-21 | SPEAK OF THE DEVIL $1000: John Donne:
"In best understandings, sin began, / angels sinn'd first, then devils, and then" him man |
| #8977, aired 2023-11-21 | COMMUNICATION $1200: Karl Ferdinand Braun shared a 1909 Nobel Prize with this man for "the development of wireless telegraphy" Marconi |
| #8977, aired 2023-11-21 | 19th CENTURY SCRAPBOOK $1200: A 19th century political cartoon by British cartoonist James Gillray shows this man cutting up a globe Napoleon |
| #8977, aired 2023-11-21 | 19th CENTURY SCRAPBOOK $7,000 (Daily Double): Pictured here around 1890, he was the original "Iron Man" Bismarck |
| #8976, aired 2023-11-20 | 1 MAN, 1 CAREER, 1 TEAM $200: Walter Payton:
13 seasons for Da these the Chicago Bears |
| #8976, aired 2023-11-20 | ETCHED IN STONE $400: The inscription on the London statue of this man seen here reads, "There is no darkness but ignorance" William Shakespeare |
| #8976, aired 2023-11-20 | 1 MAN, 1 CAREER, 1 TEAM $400: Mariano Rivera:
19 seasons of near perfection the New York Yankees |
| #8976, aired 2023-11-20 | 1 MAN, 1 CAREER, 1 TEAM $600: Troy Aikman:
How 'bout them for 12 seasons? the Dallas Cowboys |
| #8976, aired 2023-11-20 | PEOPLE IN THEIR ELEMENT $800: There is just the value of this clue, no prize, for knowing this man for whom element 102 was named Nobel |
| #8976, aired 2023-11-20 | 1 MAN, 1 CAREER, 1 TEAM $800: Sharpshooting Reggie Miller--18 seasons of making Spike Lee miserable the Indiana Pacers |
| #8976, aired 2023-11-20 | 1 MAN, 1 CAREER, 1 TEAM $1000: Steve Yzerman:
22 seasons in Hockeytown the Red Wings (of Detroit) |
| #8975, aired 2023-11-17 | NAME THE JAMES $400: Reported final resting places of this man, who disappeared in 1975, include Giants Stadium & under Pulaski Skyway James Hoffa |
| #8975, aired 2023-11-17 | BROADWAY MUSICAL SETTINGS $800: "The Music Man" takes place "right here in" this fictional Iowa city River City |
| #8975, aired 2023-11-17 | NAME THE JAMES $800: In the 1820s, this author introduced his character Leatherstocking as an old man, depicting his youth in later novels James Fenimore Cooper |
| #8975, aired 2023-11-17 | MORE TRICKY QUESTIONS $1000: It's the main reason in Wyoming why a man can't marry his widow's sister because he's dead |
| #8975, aired 2023-11-17 | PALINDROMIC YEARS $1200: Pat Garrett makes sure Billy the Kid will never be Billy the old man 1881 |
| #8975, aired 2023-11-17 | PITHY QUOTES $2,400 (Daily Double): The King James Bible's shortest verse, "Jesus wept", refers to the death of this man Lazarus |
| #8974, aired 2023-11-16 | THE NAME OF THE LAW $400: The handgun act named for this man was signed into law in 1993 (James) Brady |
| #8974, aired 2023-11-16 | DAD, GUM IT $600: When a man with this last name offered gum with his dad's baking powder, it started a chewing gum empire Wrigley |
| #8974, aired 2023-11-16 | THE NAME OF THE LAW $1600: The Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2009 was named for James Byrd Jr. & this Casper, Wyoming man Matthew Shepard |
| #8973, aired 2023-11-15 | SAINTS GO MARCHING IN $400: 5th century pope Celestine I sent this man & future saint to Ireland, where he is said to have established 300 churches Patrick |
| #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 |
| #20, aired 2023-11-15 | MOTHER GOOSE POLICE BLOTTER $400: Medics were dispatched to a local hillside where a man sustained head injuries fetching water with a female companion "Jack and Jill" |
| #20, aired 2023-11-15 | MOTHER GOOSE POLICE BLOTTER $800: Police received multiple reports at 10 P.M. of a man running through town & tapping on windows in his nightgown "Wee Willie Winkie" |
| #20, aired 2023-11-15 | MOTHER GOOSE POLICE BLOTTER $1000: Officers responded to anonymous reports that a local man was sequestering his wife inside a large gourd "Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Eater" |
| #8971, aired 2023-11-13 | THE AUTO MAN EMPIRE $200: In 1914 this automaker raised the minimum wage for his employees to $5 a day, more than twice the going rate Henry Ford |
| #8971, aired 2023-11-13 | THE AUTO MAN EMPIRE $400: He had a good year in 1928; construction began on the New York City Art Deco building named for him & he acquired Dodge Chrysler |
| #8971, aired 2023-11-13 | THE AUTO MAN EMPIRE $600: Charles & Henry were the first names of this pair of Englishmen who produced the Silver Ghost in 1907 Rolls Royce |
| #8971, aired 2023-11-13 | THE AUTO MAN EMPIRE $800: This early 1900s racer who gave his name to a major GM division was born in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland Louis Chevrolet |
| #8971, aired 2023-11-13 | THE AUTO MAN EMPIRE $1000: In 1932, this auto racer began using the squadron badge of a World War I flying ace, a prancing horse Ferrari |
| #8971, aired 2023-11-13 | THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE $1200: The Ottoman Empire ended in 1922 when this man led a movement that established the Republic of Turkey Atatürk |
| #8971, aired 2023-11-13 | FROM THE ITALIAN $1600: Ben Jonson's 1598 comedy "Every Man in His Humour" uses this Italian term for a brothel a bordello |
| #8971, aired 2023-11-13 | DESCRIBING THE ARTWORK $3,000 (Daily Double): We're not sure if you'd call that teal or azure the young man with a feathered cap is wearing in this 1770 work The Blue Boy |
| #8970, aired 2023-11-10 | DROP A LETTER $1200: ...from a word for a mechanical man to get this verb that means "to cheer on" root (from robot) |
| #8969, aired 2023-11-09 | POTPOURRI $400: The case of this enslaved man v. Sandford is often called the worst Supreme Court decision ever Dred Scott |
| #8969, aired 2023-11-09 | FAMOUS FORMER TEACHERS $1000: Before he was a "Police" man, he was a teacher named Gordon Sumner Sting |
| #8967, aired 2023-11-07 | DUDE-ER-ONOMY $800: Be cool, man, & name this 1969 flick where Billy & Captain America hit the road, man; now those were some dudes, man Easy Rider |
| #8966, aired 2023-11-06 | CALL OUT THE BOB SQUAD $800: After years of yelling at soldiers as a first sergeant in the Air Force, this man vowed to use a more soothing voice painting on TV (Bob) Ross |
| #8965, aired 2023-11-03 | FAMOUS PAIRS $200: William Barnes moved to New York & partnered with this man to sell books Noble |
| #8965, aired 2023-11-03 | TALK ABOUT... PUP MUSIC $400: This man lived up to his name by asking, "What's my name" while adding "Bow wow wow, yippy yo yippy yay" Snoop Dogg |
| #8965, aired 2023-11-03 | THE COMETS $2000: The man behind the nebulae M numbers; his first love was comets--Louis XV called him the "comet ferret" (Charles) Messier |
| #8963, aired 2023-11-01 | BYE, GEORGE! $200: After Dec. 14, 1920 Notre Dame could begin winning one for this man the Gipper (George Gipp) |
| #8963, aired 2023-11-01 | I'M ON THE CASE $2000: See how on Earth the justices voted 7-1 in this man v. Ferguson in 1896, advancing the "separate but equal" doctrine Plessy |
| #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 |
| #8963, aired 2023-11-01 | I'M ON THE CASE $9,000 (Daily Double): Brush up on Earl Warren's opinion for the 5-4 majority in 1966 on this man v. Arizona, regarding police questioning Miranda |
| #19, aired 2023-11-01 | ICONIC MAN-PERMS $100: This beloved painter started perming his hair in the '80s to save money on happy little haircuts (Bob) Ross |
| #19, aired 2023-11-01 | ICONIC MAN-PERMS $200: Blame it on the humidity: this groovy TV stepdad unveiled a curly 'do in 1972 while taking his family to Hawaii Mike Brady |
| #19, aired 2023-11-01 | ICONIC MAN-PERMS $300: Once asked if his long mane was a "bad perm", this "Amish Paradise" singer said, "It's bad natural hair" "Weird Al" Yankovic |
| #19, aired 2023-11-01 | ICONIC MAN-PERMS $400: Gene Simmons claims he accidentally set fire to his glam-rock hair numerous times while performing with this band Kiss |
| #19, aired 2023-11-01 | MARRIAGE STORY $400: 1985:
"Phylicia Ayers-Allen!
How's TV?"
"I just got married"
"Who's the groom?"
"His last name is" this Rashad |
| #19, aired 2023-11-01 | ICONIC MAN-PERMS $500: Every day, it took 3 hours and 110 pink curlers to create Bradley Cooper's tight 'do for this Oscar-nominated film American Hustle |
| #19, aired 2023-11-01 | CONSTITUTIONAL MATTERS $500: In 1790, this smallest of the 13 original colonies became the last to ratify the Constitution Rhode Island |
| #19, aired 2023-11-01 | BEST PICTURE WINNERS IN A NUTSHELL $800: 1988:
A self-centered salesman embarks on a cross-country journey with the autistic brother he never knew existed Rain Man |
| #8962, aired 2023-10-31 | THE TOPIC OF CAPRICORNS $1600: Capricorns like privacy, but this ultra-rich man born Dec. 24, 1905 took that love of privacy to an unhealthy extreme Howard Hughes |
| #8961, aired 2023-10-30 | LET'S FACE IT $400: In 1881, the governor of Missouri offered $5,000 for the capture of this man & his brother Jesse James |
| #8960, aired 2023-10-27 | THE LAST SUPPER $600: During the meal Jesus predicts that this man will deny knowing him 3 times Peter |
| #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 |
| #8959, aired 2023-10-26 | THE CAMERA MAN $400: Certain Robert Mapplethorpe photos prompted Congress to enact restrictions on grants given by this body the NEA |
| #8959, aired 2023-10-26 | THE CAMERA MAN $600: John Filo, an undergrad at this Ohio school, won a 1971 Pulitzer after capturing an iconic photo of a slain classmate Kent State |
| #8959, aired 2023-10-26 | THE CAMERA MAN $800: Steve McCurry took a photo of an Afghan girl for this venerated magazine in 1984, then reunited with her 17 years later National Geographic |
| #8959, aired 2023-10-26 | THE CAMERA MAN $1000: In the 1840s this Civil War photographer took lessons in daguerreotypy from Samuel F.B. Morse Brady |
| #8959, aired 2023-10-26 | JACQUES OF ALL TRADES $2000: A musical review of this singer-songwriter's works is called this man "is Alive and Well and Living in Paris" Jacques Brel |
| #8958, aired 2023-10-25 | PRODUCE $200: Big on vitamins A & C, this leafy vegetable also has a lot of fiber & acts as a mild laxative; look out, sailor man! spinach |
| #8958, aired 2023-10-25 | WASN'T THAT AN '80s THING? $400: A man... a woman in distress... ladder climbing... a giant ape... this video game that debuted in 1981 had it all! Donkey Kong |
| #18, aired 2023-10-25 | MIXED GREENS $400: She's been staring at Brooklyn since 1886, and man, her right arm must be tired!:
I FLOUT TERABYTES Statue of Liberty |
| #8954, aired 2023-10-19 | AUNTIE UP $200: This superhero was raised by his Aunt May Spider-Man |
| #8954, aired 2023-10-19 | ROCKET MAN $200: Maurice "Rocket" Richard of this 1950s team's dynasty was the first NHL player to score 500 goals the Canadiens |
| #8954, aired 2023-10-19 | ROCKET MAN $400: This "Rocket" was the first pitcher to win the Cy Young Award 7 times Roger Clemens |
| #8954, aired 2023-10-19 | ROCKET MAN $600: Jason Candle coaches football for the Rockets of this university that's in Ohio but sounds like it could be in Spain Toledo |
| #8954, aired 2023-10-19 | ROCKET MAN $800: This NBA center was "the Dream" leading the Houston Rockets to 1994 & 1995 NBA titles Hakeem Olajuwon |
| #8954, aired 2023-10-19 | ROCKET MAN $1000: Rod "the Rocket" Laver of this country is tennis' only repeat Grand Slam winner Australia |
| #8954, aired 2023-10-19 | PHILOSOPHIES IN A NUTSHELL $1200: His "Two Treatises of Government", which influenced Jefferson, said man has a natural right to liberty John Locke |
| #8954, aired 2023-10-19 | PHILOSOPHIES IN A NUTSHELL $10,000 (Daily Double): This man who died around 347 B.C. said we perceive examples of things, not their ideal forms Plato |
| #8953, aired 2023-10-18 | ROCK & ROLL BOOKSTORE $400: "Nowhere Man" is Robert Rosen's take on "The Final Days of" this Beatle John Lennon |
| #8953, aired 2023-10-18 | THE 1600s $1000: In the early 1600s this British king said that he could make a man a lord but "only God almighty can make a gentleman" James I |
| #17, aired 2023-10-18 | MIDDLE "MAN" $200: Used in several types of Sharpie markers, this kind of ink sounds like it will last forever (spoiler alert: it doesn't) permanent |
| #17, aired 2023-10-18 | DENZEL WASHINGTON $200: "Mo' Better Blues", "Malcolm X", "Inside Man": all Denzel Washington films & all directed by this man Spike Lee |
| #17, aired 2023-10-18 | MIDDLE "MAN" $400: In 2021, Daniel Craig was given this honorary rank in the British Royal Navy, the same rank as James Bond Commander |
| #17, aired 2023-10-18 | REPETITIVE SONG TITLES $500: The Financial Times called this ABBA song, "a lament about being poor in a rich man's world" "Money, Money, Money" |
| #17, aired 2023-10-18 | MIDDLE "MAN" $600: The marsupial seen here is called a this devil, named after the Australian island it's native to Tasmanian |
| #17, aired 2023-10-18 | DENZEL WASHINGTON $600: "No one would take on his case... until one man was willing to take on the system" was a tagline for this 1993 Washington film Philadelphia |
| #17, aired 2023-10-18 | MIDDLE "MAN" $800: Published annually, this type of reference book is full of facts & information, like the "World" or "Old Farmer's" one an almanac |
| #17, aired 2023-10-18 | MIDDLE "MAN" $3,000 (Daily Double): Ernest Hemingway wrote about "The Snows of" this highest peak in Africa Kilimanjaro |
| #8952, aired 2023-10-17 | WORLD WRITERS $800: Long a bestseller in this native land, Olga Tokarczuk found a world audience after her 2018 Man Booker & Nobel Prizes Poland |
| #8952, aired 2023-10-17 | WORLD WRITERS $2000: The first non-European winner of the Nobel Prize for lit, this Calcutta-born man is seen here with another Nobel winner Rabindranath Tagore |
| #8952, aired 2023-10-17 | DUST TO DUST $2,400 (Daily Double): In a poem named for him, Rudyard Kipling calls this man a "limpin' lump o' brick-dust" Gunga Din |
| #8951, aired 2023-10-16 | & TAKIN' NAMES $800: The pseudonym he used for "The Running Man" in 1982 came to this author as he listened to a song by Bachman-Turner Overdrive Stephen King (Richard Bachman) |
| #8951, aired 2023-10-16 | I DIDN'T COME HERE TO MAKE FRIENDS $800: Wilde said this "Man and Superman" author didn't have "an enemy in the world and none of his friends like him" George Bernard Shaw |
| #8951, aired 2023-10-16 | & TAKIN' NAMES $1000: Here's "A Modest Proposal"; Isaac Bickerstaff was once this man's nom de plume Jonathan Swift |
| #8951, aired 2023-10-16 | CHANGE A LETTER $1200: It's to swindle or trick someone, like George C. Scott does in a 1967 film flim-flam |
| #8949, aired 2023-10-12 | AARON BURR $200: The man he tied with 73 electoral votes in 1800 Jefferson |
| #8949, aired 2023-10-12 | AARON BURR $600: The man he went to New Jersey to meet on July 11, 1804 Hamilton |
| #8949, aired 2023-10-12 | AARON BURR $800: The man he introduced the widow Dolley Todd to in 1794 Madison |
| #8949, aired 2023-10-12 | HAPPIER MOVIE ENDINGS $1600: "Hold the execution. John Coffey's been found innocent. He is a free man." "Phew. That was close" The Green Mile |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | LESSER-KNOWN SIBLINGS $400: This man who seized power in his country in 1959 may have seen red when his sister Juanita sold her Miami pharmacy to CVS in 2006 Fidel Castro |
| #8947, aired 2023-10-10 | BRANDO $400: "Family" man Don Vito Corleone The Godfather |
| #8946, aired 2023-10-09 | ELTON JOHN SONGS $400: "Mars ain't the kind of place to raise your kids, in fact it's cold as hell" "Rocket Man" |
| #8946, aired 2023-10-09 | THOMAS AQUINAS, ADVICE COLUMNIST $400: Dear Baffled: As St. Augustine says, the image of this in man is in the 3 parts--mind, knowledge & love the Trinity |
| #8946, aired 2023-10-09 | THE HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION OF THE WORLD $800: In 1990, this man here knocked out Buster Douglas to become the undefeated, undisputed heavyweight champ Evander Holyfield |
| #8946, aired 2023-10-09 | I'D LIKE TO SOLVE THE PUZZLE $2000: A classic logic puzzle from 1962 deals with the surnames of 3 train employees: the brakeman, the fireman & him the engineer |
| #8945, aired 2023-10-06 | THIS OR THAT $800: Last name of the singer of "What A Wonderful World" in '67 & the man who got a Moon's-eye view of it in '69 Armstrong |
| #8944, aired 2023-10-05 | MOVIES AS TV NEWS STORIES $800: A young man from Mumbai won big on a game show tonight; the winning final answer? Aramis, from "The Three Musketeers"! Slumdog Millionaire |
| #8944, aired 2023-10-05 | MADEIRA $1000: The British temporarily occupied Madeira during the wars named for this man Napoleon |
| #8944, aired 2023-10-05 | MOVIES AS TV NEWS STORIES $1000: An APB is out for a man who escaped a southern chain gang; authorities noted the man's amazing blue eyes & "failure to communicate" Cool Hand Luke |
| #8944, aired 2023-10-05 | ALPHABET POP $1600: Their Texas boogie rock hits include "Gimme All Your Lovin" & "Sharp Dressed Man" ZZ Top |
| #8944, aired 2023-10-05 | NUN BUT THE BRAVE $3,000 (Daily Double): 3-word title of Sister Helen Prejean's powerful account of being a death row counselor Dead Man Walking |
| #8943, aired 2023-10-04 | ART, FOR ART'S SAKE $200: Joseph Karl Stieler's early 19th century portrait of this man captures his energy & ferocity Beethoven |
| #8943, aired 2023-10-04 | PLEASE BEAR WITH ME $800: This man as Jackie Moon, after a stunt on the court with a bear goes awry in "Semi-Pro": "If you have a small child, use it as a shield!" Will Ferrell |
| #8943, aired 2023-10-04 | WAXING PHILOSOPHICAL $1600: In "Metaphysics of Morals", this 18th c. man wrote that one who makes himself a worm can't complain if he's stepped on Immanuel Kant |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | BLUNT BIOS OF BRAND MASCOTS $300: A giant beverage pitcher with legs who often causes property damage the Kool-Aid Man |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | BLUNT BIOS OF BRAND MASCOTS $400: A mustachioed cartoon man, currently lacking a mouth to eat the potato crisps he sells (the) Pringles (guy) (Julius Pringle) |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | BLUNT BIOS OF BRAND MASCOTS $500: A puffy French creature made of tires who bears an unsettling resemblance to a mummy the Michelin Man |
| #8942, aired 2023-10-03 | LITERARY BIOGRAPHY $800: Laura Dassow Walls tried to capture this many-sided man in a book published 200 years after his 1817 birth in Concord Thoreau |
| #8942, aired 2023-10-03 | MEN OF MICHIGAN $1600: Long before becoming New York's governor, & not beating Truman, this Owosso-born man graduated from the University of Michigan in 1923 Dewey |
| #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 $2000: "Super-Infinite" is a bio of this man of Shakespeare's time known for sexy poems & later, strongly moral sermons John Donne |
| #8941, aired 2023-10-02 | NATIVE AMERICANS $200: A member of the Kaw Nation of Kansas, Charles Curtis, was vice president under this man from 1929 to 1933 Herbert Hoover |
| #8941, aired 2023-10-02 | HODGE PODGE $800: In 1994, Member of Parliament Margaret Hodge nominated this man as leader of Britain's Labour Party Tony Blair |
| #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 | THAT'S A VEGAS CASINO $600: You'll find "fifteen men on the dead man's chest--yo-ho-ho, & a bottle of rum!" at the start of this novel Treasure Island |
| #8939, aired 2023-09-28 | MARVEL VILLAINS $600: Iron Monger was the villain in "Iron Man"; this similarly named guy was the baddie in "Black Panther" Killmonger |
| #8939, aired 2023-09-28 | MARVEL VILLAINS $800: He was a good "Birdman", but in "Homecoming" he preyed upon Spider-Man Michael Keaton |
| #8938, aired 2023-09-27 | FUNERAL OFFICIANTS $200: Joseph Hopkins Twichell, this man's "Tramp Abroad" traveling companion, spoke at his funeral service Twain |
| #8938, aired 2023-09-27 | A SOVIET UNION $200: In many U.S. states one of these signs a marriage license; Soviets had 2, mostly a best man & maid of honor, often wearing red sashes a witness |
| #8938, aired 2023-09-27 | A SOVIET UNION $600: Marriage registry took place at a ZAGS office, many fitted with a bust of this man Lenin |
| #8938, aired 2023-09-27 | BRAD TO THE BONE $600: In 2017 this Brad's status was executive producer, rather than leading man, of "Brad's Status" Brad Pitt |
| #8938, aired 2023-09-27 | FUNERAL OFFICIANTS $1,200 (Daily Double): In April 2005 Joseph Ratzinger officiated at this man's funeral Pope John Paul II |
| #14, aired 2023-09-27 | BIG-SCREEN BASKETBALL $100: This former "Cheers" bartender is the white man who jumps in "White Men Can't Jump" Woody Harrelson |
| #8937, aired 2023-09-26 | WHO "AR" THEY? $400: In 2006 audio experts said they found the missing "a" in a 37-year-old statement by this man Armstrong |
| #8937, aired 2023-09-26 | YOU COULD PUT AN EYE OUT $1,000 (Daily Double): 1964 saw the first time a man threw this 300 feet & the first time a woman threw it 200 feet a javelin |
| #8936, aired 2023-09-25 | FIX THE MALAPROP $600: "Misery acquaints a man with strange neck pillows" bedfellows |
| #8934, aired 2023-09-21 | WELCOME TO FANTASY ISLAND $800: He was left "alone in an un-inhabited island", but after 28 years, 2 months & 19 days, what world will this man return to now? Robinson Crusoe |
| #8934, aired 2023-09-21 | WELCOME TO FANTASY ISLAND $2000: The pain of beast folk creations such as Leopard-Man means nothing to this 1896 title character, but that could prove... costly Dr. Moreau |
| #8934, aired 2023-09-21 | WELCOME TO FANTASY ISLAND $3,000 (Daily Double): Thomas More created this island in 1516, from Greek for "no place"; based on rational thought & no poverty, is it beyond man's reach? Utopia |
| #8931, aired 2023-09-18 | RESTAURANT HIJINKS $200: "Have it your way"! In 2016 a Neb. man threatened to rob this fast food place, left, came back & the cops were waiting Burger King |
| #8931, aired 2023-09-18 | RESTAURANT HIJINKS $400: In 2017 a Florida man called this important number--twice!--to complain the clams he had at a seafood shack were too small 911 |
| #8931, aired 2023-09-18 | 21st CENTURY NEWS $1600: At 11:35 PM EDT May 1, 2011 President Obama announced the death of this man in Pakistan bin Laden |
| #8930, aired 2023-09-15 | BUILDING, AMERICA $200: Home to the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the striking concert hall seen here is named for this man Walt Disney |
| #8930, aired 2023-09-15 | TRAP $1200: This Carthaginian Elephant Man trapped Roman legions at the Battle of Cannae Hannibal |
| #8929, aired 2023-09-14 | LET'S SEE HOW YOU DO WITH AMERICAN FOOTBALL $1000: Last name of the man who said, "Better to have died as a small boy than to fumble" but whose trophy carries the ball with one hand Heisman |
| #8928, aired 2023-09-13 | I'M JUST A BILL, BILLY OR WILLIAM $600: Billy Joel's time playing a lounge in L.A. led to this, Billy's first Top 40 hit; great tune, but "tonic & gin" still sounds weird "Piano Man" |
| #8928, aired 2023-09-13 | & WE HAVE A NOVEL TITLE $2000: "'I would give a good deal to know how it comes about that"' this wealthy title man "'is acquainted with M. de Villefort"' the Count of Monte Cristo |
| #8926, aired 2023-09-11 | MISSISSIPPI LEARNING $400: Known for his rock & rolling, this Tupelo man also had dozens of country hits Elvis Presley |
| #8925, aired 2023-07-28 | "CC" ME $1600: Behold the man, of suffering Christ in the painting called this, seen here Ecce Homo |
| #8924, aired 2023-07-27 | THAT SONG SLAYS $400: "I shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die" is how one gets the "Folsom Prison Blues", per this singer (Johnny) Cash |
| #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" |
| #8924, aired 2023-07-27 | THE BAR MITZVAH BOY $800: Then still named Lifshitz, this man with plenty of fashion sense chose a blue blazer for his big day Ralph Lauren |
| #8924, aired 2023-07-27 | THE BAR MITZVAH BOY $2000: This future author of unsettling tales became a man on June 13, 1896 in Prague Kafka |
| #8923, aired 2023-07-26 | CROOKS $600: A 1949 obituary said the name of this man "whose magic would double an investment in 90 days, was heard everywhere" Ponzi |
| #8923, aired 2023-07-26 | LONG MOVIES $800: This man directed, co-wrote, produced & starred in the nearly 3 1/2 hour movie "Reds" Warren Beatty |
| #8923, aired 2023-07-26 | DUAL BIOGRAPHIES $2000: A dual bio covers Louis Brandeis, the first Jewish Supreme Court justice & this Vienna-born man who was the third Felix Frankfurter |
| #8922, aired 2023-07-25 | SOMETHING'S ROTTEN $600: In this film, Miracle Max warns, "You rush a miracle man, you get rotten miracles" The Princess Bride |
| #8922, aired 2023-07-25 | SOMEBODY WROTE THAT $4,000 (Daily Double): "I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me" Ralph Ellison |
| #8921, aired 2023-07-24 | INTERNATIONAL BOOKS $400: "Notes from Underground", a novella by this Russian, is about a man alienated from the world Dostoevsky |
| #8921, aired 2023-07-24 | MAKEOVERS $800: In "Encino Man", this actor gets a major makeover after defrosting--he takes a bath Brendan Fraser |
| #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 |
| #8920, aired 2023-07-21 | SHAKESPEARE $1000: An arras is a curtain or wall hanging; in "Hamlet", this old man hides behind one & is stabbed through it Polonius |
| #8920, aired 2023-07-21 | OLD HOLLYWOOD SCRIBES $2000: It's thought that Harry Lime from Graham Greene's "The Third Man" was based on this British spy & Soviet double agent Kim Philby |
| #8918, aired 2023-07-19 | HISTORY $800: In the 16th century an African man in Japan named Yasuke became the first recorded foreigner to join the ranks of this warrior class Samurai |
| #8918, aired 2023-07-19 | TITLES WITH PUNCTUATION $2000: (!) The title of this 1855 book about a young Brit sailing the Atlantic is used to mean "let's head in a certain direction" Westward Ho! |
| #8916, aired 2023-07-17 | FISH PEOPLE $200: A 19th century man named Preserved Fish was an early broker for what became NYSE for short the New York Stock Exchange |
| #8916, aired 2023-07-17 | WITH BELLS ON $400: The New York Times guide to spectator sports says this can happen, "if a man is knocked down in the closing seconds of a round" saved by the bell |
| #8916, aired 2023-07-17 | OPPENHEIMER $800: (Emily Blunt presents the clue.) "I feel I have blood on my hands", said a troubled Oppenheimer in a tense October 1945 meeting with this man, who replied that the blood was on his own instead Truman |
| #8916, aired 2023-07-17 | FISH PEOPLE $1000: An "American Masters" documentary on this photographer is subtitled "Prophet of the Avant-Garde" Man Ray |
| #8916, aired 2023-07-17 | OPPENHEIMER $2000: (Matt Damon presents the clue.) I play this hard-driving U.S. Army general, described as the Manhattan Project's indispensable man who oversaw the project from its inception through the successful testing & eventual wartime use of the atomic bomb General Leslie Groves |
| #8915, aired 2023-07-14 | 3,3 $600: A killer for hire, like TV's Barry Berkman a hit man |
| #8915, aired 2023-07-14 | TV SHOWS $1600: John Amos played the father on this '70s sitcom until he was killed off & J.J. became the man of the house Good Times |
| #8914, aired 2023-07-13 | FROM THE HEADLINES $1000: The San Francisco Chronicle, October 11, 1973: this man from Maryland "resigns" Spiro Agnew |
| #8913, aired 2023-07-12 | SLANG $600: It's not just for brides! A man getting married can turn into this portmanteau monster a groomzilla |
| #8913, aired 2023-07-12 | ROMAN EMPERORS $800: As seen in the bust, Commodus was obsessed with this he-man of Greek myth, even dressing as him Hercules |
| #8913, aired 2023-07-12 | WALKING & TALKING $2000: A song from this musical says, "The minute you walked in the joint, I could see you were a man of distinction, a real big spender" Sweet Charity |
| #8911, aired 2023-07-10 | MOMENTOUS DATES $1,000 (Daily Double): On January 3, 1521 the Catholic Church excommunicated this man Martin Luther |
| #8911, aired 2023-07-10 | QUOTABLE BOOKS $1200: Early in this novel Zora Neale Hurston observes, "Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board" Their Eyes Were Watching God |
| #8910, aired 2023-07-07 | BEHIND THE BOND $800: This Bond novel was once titled "The Richest Man in the World" Goldfinger |
| #8910, aired 2023-07-07 | COUNTRY SINGERS IN COUNTRY SONGS $800: A song by Heidi Newfield begins, "There's something 'bout a man in black" & the chorus says, "I want a love like Johnny &" her June |
| #8910, aired 2023-07-07 | SEEING RIGHT THROUGH YOU $1,000 (Daily Double): The subtitle to this H.G. Wells novel is "A Grotesque Romance" The Invisible Man |
| #8910, aired 2023-07-07 | SEEING RIGHT THROUGH YOU $1000: Check out the man-of-war whose nationality derives from its resemblance to warships once made in this country Portugal |
| #8909, aired 2023-07-06 | A TV SERIES $200: Captains of the Enterprise:
William Shatner; this man from 1987 to 1994; then Scott Bakula Patrick Stewart |
| #8909, aired 2023-07-06 | A TV SERIES $600: Hosts of "The Tonight Show": Steve Allen, Jack Paar, Johnny Carson, this man, Conan O'Brien, Jimmy Fallon Jay Leno |
| #8908, aired 2023-07-05 | MEMOIRS $800: "Kitchen Confidential" is a memoir by this man who ran kitchens & traveled the world Bourdain |
| #8907, aired 2023-07-04 | A BIBLICAL BURIAL $400: Together Isaac & Ishmael bury this man in the cave of Machpelah Abraham |
| #8907, aired 2023-07-04 | A BIBLICAL BURIAL $600: According to Matthew, this man returns the silver given to him by the priests & they buy a potter's field to bury strangers in Judas |
| #8907, aired 2023-07-04 | A BIBLICAL BURIAL $800: In the King James Bible, when a man said he'd follow Jesus but first had to bury his dad, Jesus said these 6 words let the dead bury their dead |
| #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 |
| #8906, aired 2023-07-03 | "B" MOVIE QUOTES $5,000 (Daily Double): "My people are praying for a man who can drive their team to victory over Messala" Ben-Hur |
| #8905, aired 2023-06-30 | THE SAILOR MAN $400: The skeleton of a sailor named Allardyce is left as a clue in this 1883 pirate tale Treasure Island |
| #8905, aired 2023-06-30 | THE SAILOR MAN $800: In "The Thousand & One Nights", this sailor man swears off travel after his seventh voyage Sinbad |
| #8905, aired 2023-06-30 | WELCOME TO THE BIG URBAN AREA $1000: In the city of 9.3 million, now named for this man, the War Remnants Museum was previously the Museum of Chinese & American War Crimes Ho Chi Minh City |
| #8905, aired 2023-06-30 | THE SAILOR MAN $1,100 (Daily Double): Lord Drinian is captain of this title vessel in a book by C.S. Lewis the Dawn Treader |
| #8905, aired 2023-06-30 | THE SAILOR MAN $1200: This Sebastian Junger book looks into what might have befallen those aboard the fishing boat the Andrea Gail The Perfect Storm |
| #8905, aired 2023-06-30 | THE SAILOR MAN $1600: The irascible Captain Haddock is from this Belgian's "Tintin" stories Hergé |
| #8905, aired 2023-06-30 | SERENITY NOW! $2000: This man II is his serene highness, Prince of Monaco, Marquis of Baux, man about town, dude with some pull Prince Albert (II) |
| #8904, aired 2023-06-29 | PRIDE OF THE MUSEUM $1000: The New York City museum named for this man holds one of the world's largest collections of paintings by Vasily Kandinsky Solomon Guggenheim |
| #8902, aired 2023-06-27 | WAR FILMS $400: "The mission is a man" was a tagline for this 1998 Spielberg film Saving Private Ryan |
| #8902, aired 2023-06-27 | IT CAME FROM NEW JERSEY $400: Songs in this Broadway show include "Walk Like A Man" & "Big Girls Don't Cry" Jersey Boys |
| #8901, aired 2023-06-26 | SCIENTISTS $1200: Mais oui & merci, this man seen here sheepishly came up with an anthrax vaccine in 1881 Pasteur |
| #8900, aired 2023-06-23 | MUSICAL ACT ETYMOLOGY $400: Curtis Jackson shares this nickname with a NYC stickup man who allegedly made bank in a dice game after starting with half a dollar 50 Cent |
| #8900, aired 2023-06-23 | ON BROADWAY $400: A 2022 revival of this play broke ground with Wendell Pierce as the first Black man to play Willy Loman on Broadway Death of a Salesman |
| #8900, aired 2023-06-23 | I LEARNED IT ON SCHOOLHOUSE ROCK $1000: This man "made a deal with Napoleon: how'd you like to sell a mile or 2 (or 3, or a hundred, or a thousand)"? (Thomas) Jefferson |
| #8899, aired 2023-06-22 | 20th CENTURY HAPPENINGS $400: Before joining it in 1967, this Baltimore-born man argued & won 29 out of 32 cases before the U.S. Supreme Court (Thurgood) Marshall |
| #8898, aired 2023-06-21 | COLLECT 'EM ALL! $600: In 2011 CNET said, "UK man exterminates record for most" these "Doctor Who" villains--571; the man's wife, noted as "long-suffering" Daleks |
| #8896, aired 2023-06-19 | RANDOM FACTS $400: In 1974 a horde of terra cotta warriors were found at the resting place of the man who made himself this country's first emperor China |
| #8895, aired 2023-06-16 | CUFFING SEASON $400: It was SZA szn on TikTok after she sang about "cuffing" a large man for the cold months on this NBC show Saturday Night Live |
| #8895, aired 2023-06-16 | OPPOSITIONAL BOOK TITLES $800: The subtitle of this nonfiction work by a Catholic sister is "An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States" Dead Man Walking |
| #8894, aired 2023-06-15 | ROLLING STONES LYRICS $400: "I've been around for a long, long year, stole many a man's soul & faith" "Sympathy For The Devil" |
| #8894, aired 2023-06-15 | ROLLING STONES LYRICS $600: "You make a grown man cry" "Start Me Up" |
| #8894, aired 2023-06-15 | THE CZAR $800: This man I, who died in 1855, was dubbed the emperor who froze Russia for 30 years; this man II ensured there'd be no this man III Nicholas |
| #8894, aired 2023-06-15 | FACT: NONFICTION $1,000 (Daily Double): Beverly Gage's "G-Man" looks at this powerful figure "& the Making of the American Century" J. Edgar Hoover |
| #8894, aired 2023-06-15 | TV CRIMINALS $1600: In "The Company You Keep", this actor seen here plays Charlie, a con man in love with a CIA agent Milo Ventimiglia |
| #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 |
| #8893, aired 2023-06-14 | GO, CANADA $600: A man-made lake on Mount Royal has a good Canadian name, after this rodent that workmen found traces of Beaver Lake |
| #8893, aired 2023-06-14 | RANDOM STUFF $800: Jesus was said to be born fully formed, so he looks like a little man in works called the "Throne of" this quality he shares with Solomon Wisdom |
| #8891, aired 2023-06-12 | POP SONGS $600: This NBA big man's 1994 rap song "Biological Didn't Bother" is dedicated to his stepfather Shaq (Shaquille O'Neal) |
| #8891, aired 2023-06-12 | CORE VALUES $800: Satyagraha, this man's doctrine against injustice, inspired James Farmer to found CORE, the Congress of Racial Equality Gandhi |
| #8890, aired 2023-06-09 | QUICK BOOKS $400: Dickens' only true mystery novel dealt with this title man's disappearance (Edwin) Drood |
| #8890, aired 2023-06-09 | WITH THIS RING $1200: A poetic verse by this man mentions "three rings for the Elven-kings under the sky" Tolkien |
| #8890, aired 2023-06-09 | AROUND THE WORLD $1600: Man Mo Temple is not just a Buddhist temple; it is named for two gods of this philosophy many in Hong Kong follow as well Taoism |
| #8890, aired 2023-06-09 | EPONYMOUS SCIENCE $2000: Born in 1815, this English math man gave us many eponymous things: algebra, logic, search & operators (George) Boole |
| #8889, aired 2023-06-08 | LITERATURE $400: The medieval Muslim text "Alive, the Son of Awake", about a man on a deserted island, is a likely inspiration for this 1719 work Robinson Crusoe |
| #8888, aired 2023-06-07 | THE PRESIDENTIAL LINE OF SUCCESSION, TODAY $1200: Al Haig once said, "I am in control here in the White House" but like this man, Haig was batting fourth Antony Blinken |
| #8888, aired 2023-06-07 | A NOVEL CHARACTER BREAKDOWN $1600: An (Oliver) twisted old man; manager of the Artful Dodger; it's all in the execution Fagin |
| #8887, aired 2023-06-06 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: At the start of this Hemingway book, Santiago hasn't caught a fish in a long time; it ends with his fish being eaten by sharks The Old Man and the Sea |
| #8887, aired 2023-06-06 | NONFICTION TV $2000: What's new pussycat? This Welsh legend's unplanned "Voice U.K." duet on "It's A Man's Man's Man's World" with Jennifer Hudson Tom Jones |
| #8886, aired 2023-06-05 | MYTHOLOGY $800: A very unfortunate family man, this future king of Thebes left Corinth on learning he was fated to kill his dad; fate is rough Oedipus |
| #8886, aired 2023-06-05 | THE SCIENCE OF POETRY $2000: A comic verse says, "Sir James" this/ "Is a better man than you are/ None of you asses/ Can liquefy gases" Sir James Dewar |
| #8884, aired 2023-06-01 | "MAN" O' WAR $400: Army general Omar Bradley was the first to hold this position on the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff a chairman |
| #8884, aired 2023-06-01 | "MAN" O' WAR $800: "War is cruelty, you cannot refine it", said this Civil War man (William T.) Sherman |
| #8884, aired 2023-06-01 | "MAN" O' WAR $1200: Lothar von Richthofen was a noted World War I ace; his brother, named this, was more famous Manfred |
| #8884, aired 2023-06-01 | "MAN" O' WAR $2000: WWII Medal of Honor recipient John Basilone, who served in the Philippines in the 1930s, had this "capital" nickname Manila |
| #8884, aired 2023-06-01 | "MAN" O' WAR $3,000 (Daily Double): Appropriately, noted clockmaker Aaron Willard was one of these colonial militiamen a minuteman |
| #8882, aired 2023-05-30 | THE BAND'S SONGS TELL A STORY $1000: "Born Of A Broken Man", they urged us to "Wake Up" to the "Killing In The Name" Rage Against the Machine |
| #8882, aired 2023-05-30 | AUTHORS' FIRST NOVELS $1000: This first novel from James Joyce sounds like it could be a painting of him from when he was a wee lad A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man |
| #8881, aired 2023-05-29 | WHO WAS THAT MASKED MAN? $200: In 2004's "Spider-Man 2", this actor gets unmasked in front of Kirsten Dunst, James Franco & a trainload of New Yorkers (Tobey) Maguire |
| #8881, aired 2023-05-29 | WHO WAS THAT MASKED MAN? $400: In 2017's "Spider-Man: Homecoming", this actor accidentally appears unmasked in front of his pal Ned Tom Holland |
| #8881, aired 2023-05-29 | WHO WAS THAT MASKED MAN? $600: In 2012's "The Amazing Spider-Man", this actor gets unmasked by NYPD captain Denis Leary (Andrew) Garfield |
| #8881, aired 2023-05-29 | WHO WAS THAT MASKED MAN? $800: (I'm Shameik Moore.) In "Spider-Man Across the Spider-Verse" I once again don the spider-mask as this Brooklyn teenager who follows in Peter Parker's webbed footsteps Miles Morales |
| #8881, aired 2023-05-29 | WHO WAS THAT MASKED MAN? $1000: He's the other title guy alongside Chris O'Donnell in 1997's "Batman & Robin", & he wishes we hadn't reminded you George Clooney |
| #8881, aired 2023-05-29 | THE ROCKEFELLERS $1000: Living to the age of 97, John D. was born when this man of Dutch descent was president, & died during FDR's second term Van Buren |
| #8880, aired 2023-05-26 | AMERICA IN THE 1700s $600: A toast to William Horton, James Oglethorpe's right-hand man, who is credited with founding this colony's 1st brewery Georgia |
| #8880, aired 2023-05-26 | TECHNOLOGY $4,000 (Daily Double): This Elon Musk company says it aims "to design a fully implantable, cosmetically invisible brain-computer interface" Neuralink |
| #8879, aired 2023-05-25 | CROSSWORD CLUES "V" $400: Manly man's adjective
(6 letters) virile |
| #8879, aired 2023-05-25 | UP IN THE AIRLINE $400: A smiling Inuit man is meant to invoke the "spirit of the last frontier" on this airline's fleet Alaska Air |
| #8879, aired 2023-05-25 | OUR RETURNING CHAMPION $600: After defeating the Spanish at Boyacá in 1819, this man returned to Angostura a champion & helped create Gran Colombia Bolivar |
| #8879, aired 2023-05-25 | OUR RETURNING CHAMPION $1,000 (Daily Double): This man had the astronomical luck of being honored twice with a New York ticker tape parade, in 1962 & 1998 John Glenn |
| #8878, aired 2023-05-24 | THANKS A MILLION $1000: This 2003 reality show with women who compete for the love of a man they think is rich was rebooted in 2022 as ": For Richer or Poorer" Joe Millionaire |
| #20, aired 2023-05-24 | IT'S JUST US $800: In a 20-teens FOX comedy, at one point Carol doesn't have many romantic options as it seems Phil is this, the show's title The Last Man on Earth |
| #20, aired 2023-05-24 | MICHAEL J. FOX $1000: (Michael J. Fox presents the clue.) In 1988, I starred in the movie "Bright Lights, Big City," based on the novel this man famously wrote in the second person McInerney |
| #19, aired 2023-05-24 | COMPOSERS $600: "Rinaldo", overture heard here, is one of dozens of operas by this man also famous for oratorios Handel |
| #8877, aired 2023-05-23 | AVIATION $800: To honor a fallen comrade, the planes seen here perform this aerial salute the missing man formation |
| #8877, aired 2023-05-23 | THE JUDGMENT OF PARIS $1600: In 1927 a Paris jury acquitted a man of murder, agreeing it was justifiable vengeance for these massacres of Jews in Eastern Europe the pogroms |
| #8877, aired 2023-05-23 | TV SITCOMS BY FAMILY $1600: Mike Baxter, outnumbered by his wife & 3 daughters Last Man Standing |
| #18, aired 2023-05-23 | FICTIONAL CASTLES $400: Prince Adam of Eternia transforms into He-Man by raising his power sword & proclaiming, "By the power of" this castle Grayskull |
| #18, aired 2023-05-23 | CLASSIC CAR TV $400: Hats hoff to this '80s show, "a shadowy flight into the dangerous world of a man... who does not exist" Knight Rider |
| #18, aired 2023-05-23 | CENTURY NOTES $13,200 (Daily Double): 3rd century: the first written reference to this Blue Man Group of present Scotland has them attacking Hadrian's Wall Picts |
| #17, aired 2023-05-23 | POWER OCCUPANTS $200: A national monument in Singapore, the villa named for this man was his base while he planned to end China's last dynasty Sun Yat-sen |
| #8876, aired 2023-05-22 | HISTORIC PEOPLE $800: This man won the 1983 Nobel Peace Prize for nonviolent struggle for free trade unions & human rights in Poland Walesa |
| #8876, aired 2023-05-22 | IF THERE WAS A PROBLEM $1000: Louis XIV deals with a family "problem" (well, for Louis, anyway) by giving Philippe the title headwear in this Dumas novel The Man in the Iron Mask |
| #16, aired 2023-05-22 | THE REST IS HISTORY $200: Developed from his senior thesis at Harvard in 1940, "Why England Slept" became a bestseller for this man JFK |
| #8873, aired 2023-05-17 | Y'KNOW, THE MOVIE WHERE... $400: An animated elderly man's wife dies, his house is literally uprooted & a boy is kidnapped (OK, inadvertently) to South America Up |
| #8873, aired 2023-05-17 | PANTOMIME HORSE $1000: Duchamp & Man Ray were part of this art movement whose name is a French word meaning "hobby horse" Dada |
| #8873, aired 2023-05-17 | U.S. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS $1600: Early contenders for the Democratic nom in 1960 before JFK got the nod included Hubert Humphrey & this man who'd run against Eisenhower Adlai Stevenson |
| #14, aired 2023-05-17 | MYTHOLOGICAL WORDS & PHRASES $400: Athena appears to Telemachus in the guise of this man, whose name later came to refer to any advisor Mentor |
| #14, aired 2023-05-17 | ROCK"ER"S $800: This "Even Flow" & "Better Man" singer has recorded under the pseudonym Wes C. Addle Eddie Vedder |
| #13, aired 2023-05-17 | FAMOUS NAME OVERLAPS $400: The man with a "Plan" that earned a Nobel Peace Prize in 1953 & Eminem's name at birth George Marshall Mathers |
| #13, aired 2023-05-17 | AUTHORS $800: This neurologist wrote about some of his more interesting cases in "Awakenings" & "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat" Sacks |
| #13, aired 2023-05-17 | FAMOUS NAME OVERLAPS $1200: The 19th century man honored in name by Nevada's capital & the fashion expert/TV star of "Queer Eye" & "How to Look Good Naked" Kit Carson Kressley |
| #8872, aired 2023-05-16 | DON'T GO ANYWHERE $800: Jane Austen used this twice-hyphenated term not about a mom, but an indolent "man" stay-at-home |
| #12, aired 2023-05-16 | EPISODE IV $800: 2008:
"Cancer Man" Breaking Bad |
| #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 $1600: Where have you gone, this man born Michelangelo Merisi who did "Martyrdom of St. Matthew", a nation turns its lonely eyes to you Caravaggio |
| #8871, aired 2023-05-15 | ORDINAL NOVELS $800: Vienna waits for you in Graham Greene's novella titled this "Man", which came out after the 1949 movie co-starring a creepy Orson Welles "The Third Man" |
| #8871, aired 2023-05-15 | DEFENDING THE TITLE $1000: It was only this man's second title defense in 1964 when Muhammad Ali floated & stung him one night in Miami Beach Liston |
| #8871, aired 2023-05-15 | CLOSE ELECTIONS $2000: The final official tally from Florida in 2000 was George W. Bush 2,912,790,
Al Gore 2,912,253,
this man, 97,488 Nader |
| #10, aired 2023-05-15 | GREAT SPORTS CALLS $400: Howard Cosell, 1973: "Down goes" this man! "Down goes" this man! "Down goes" this man! Frazier |
| #9, aired 2023-05-15 | MUSICAL THEATER $600: On January 15, 2023 Hugh Jackman ended his run as this professor in "The Music Man" Harold Hill |
| #9, aired 2023-05-15 | AND THE OSCAR WENT TO... $2000: In 1975 John Wayne presented an honorary Oscar to this alliterative man who had directed him in "Red River" & "Rio Bravo" Hawks |
| #8870, aired 2023-05-12 | A BIRTHDAY TO REMEMBER $800: A birthday fete for Herod Antipas gave his wife Herodias a chance for revenge against this man; his head ended up on a platter John the Baptist |
| #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 | AUTHORS' PRETTY DECENT REVIEWS $200: The Seattle Times declared 1996's "The Runaway Jury" by this man to be his "most addictive courtroom thriller" Grisham |
| #8, aired 2023-05-12 | I'M LATE, I'M GREAT, I WAS SECRETARY OF STATE $800: I was "the Great Pacificator" & in 1852 was the first man to lie in state in the Capitol rotunda, then went back to Kentucky Henry Clay |
| #7, aired 2023-05-12 | MEDIEVAL LITERATURE $15,400 (Daily Double): While in a prison in Genoa in the 1290s, Rustichello da Pisa began jotting down this man's account of his "Travels" Marco Polo |
| #8869, aired 2023-05-11 | NOTABLE BLACK AMERICANS $400: Called the first detective novel by a Black author, "The Conjure-Man Dies" by Rudolph Fisher is set in this Upper Manhattan area Harlem |
| #8869, aired 2023-05-11 | WATCHING MY STORIES $800: The novel "A Man Called Ove" became a 2023 movie starring Tom Hanks as "A Man Called" this palindromic name Otto |
| #8868, aired 2023-05-10 | MISSION: IMPASSABLE $400: In Exodus 15, "The horse of" this man "went in with his chariots... into the sea, and the Lord brought again the waters... upon them" Pharaoh |
| #6, aired 2023-05-10 | THE LAST BOOKS YOU'LL READ $2000: This French author penned "The Last of Cherie", a novel about a man who was once in a relationship with an older woman Colette |
| #5, aired 2023-05-10 | CHAT G-P-T $800: This Mississippi city is home to one of the world's longest man-made beaches Gulfport |
| #8867, aired 2023-05-09 | PEOPLE $400: Holy K.I.T.T.! The ex-wife of this '80s TV star wound up marrying a man named Michael (E.) Knight Hasselhoff |
| #8867, aired 2023-05-09 | NOVELS $800: In this novel Ralph Ellison wrote, "When they approach me they see only my surroundings..." Invisible Man |
| #8867, aired 2023-05-09 | PEOPLE $800: In his 1889 essay "The Gospel of Wealth", this Penn. steel man urged the well-off to use their money to help the less fortunate Carnegie |
| #8867, aired 2023-05-09 | LESS-THAN-STELLAR SCIENTIFIC POETRY $1000: A 1918 Nobel win/ It is tough to follow / A German physicist / Which kinda rhymes with lyricist? / He's a man of "constant" sorrow Max Planck |
| #4, aired 2023-05-09 | OVERWROUGHT HISTORY $1000: 1494: This business league is comin' apart, man! Ivan III nixed Novgorod from being one of its kontors, or trading posts the Hanseatic League |
| #3, aired 2023-05-09 | EDITORS $1200: The documentary "Turn Every Page" is about the bond of editor Robert Gottlieb & this man working on an epic political biography Caro |
| #8866, aired 2023-05-08 | FUTILITY $1200: In the "Odyssey", Homer wrote this man was "in violent torment, seeking to raise a monstrous stone" but ever failing Sisyphus |
| #2, aired 2023-05-08 | RELIGION $1600: Being a teen in 1972 is a trip, man--mom won't buy me "Summer Breeze" by Seals & Crofts cuz they practice this 19th c. faith from Iran Baháʼí |
| #1, aired 2023-05-08 | SPOONERISM PAIRS $200: A grand overall scheme & a stucco guy a master plan & a plaster man |
| #1, aired 2023-05-08 | JASON ALEXANDER: MASTER OF MY DOMAIN $600: (Jason Alexander gives the clue.) Mastering the field of marine biology on "Seinfeld", I found certain man-made objects can obstruct the blowholes of large cetaceans; specifically, was that a golf ball made by this brand? a Titleist |
| #1, aired 2023-05-08 | JASON ALEXANDER: MASTER OF MY DOMAIN $1000: (Jason Alexander gives the clue.) Long before winning the first Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, Richard Pryor wrote for this '70s sitcom; the star next to Richard is a big hint & man, its theme song was fantastic Sanford and Son |
| #1, aired 2023-05-08 | MATHSTERS $1200: In the 1990s Andrew Wiles--subsequently Sir Andrew Wiles--shook up the math world by proving this 17th century man's "last theorem" Fermat |
| #1, aired 2023-05-08 | A TRIP TO ASIA $1600: Oh, man! As you can see, the Mohammed Al Ameen Mosque is breathtaking in this capital city on the Gulf of Oman Muscat |
| #8865, aired 2023-05-05 | A MUSICAL BOUQUET $400: This hit by Post Malone & Swae Lee was featured on the soundtrack of "Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse" "Sunflower" |
| #8865, aired 2023-05-05 | IT'S A TV MYSTERY $600: (I'm Zoë Chao.) I just murdered it on Apple TV+ in "The Afterparty", or did I? Either way, my character of Zoe was a suspect as well as the ex-wife of Brett, played by this man who was a "Celebrity Jeopardy!" champion in 2022 (Ike) Barinholtz |
| #8865, aired 2023-05-05 | NORTHERN LANDS $2000: This man credited as the first to reach the North Pole proved that Greenland is an island Robert Peary |
| #8864, aired 2023-05-04 | A BIBLE THUMPIN' $400: This stone-slinging man also "smote the land, and left neither man nor woman alive" David |
| #8864, aired 2023-05-04 | FLORIDA PLACES $1000: This city bears the name of the man who led a military installation built in 1838 during the Second Seminole War Fort Lauderdale |
| #8864, aired 2023-05-04 | A SPECIAL TRAIN CAR $6,000 (Daily Double): An epically terrible trip from Buffalo to Westfield, N.Y. inspired this man to create the comfy rail cars named for him (George) Pullman |
| #8863, aired 2023-05-03 | SAX EDUCATION $400: Legendary R&B sax man King Curtis backed up The Coasters, Sam Cooke & this "Queen of Soul" Aretha Franklin |
| #8863, aired 2023-05-03 | THEATER BEFORE & AFTER $800: "76 trombones led the big parade" celebrating "The Impossible Dream" Music Man of La Mancha |
| #8863, aired 2023-05-03 | SAX EDUCATION $2000: You may have "A Love Supreme" for the album of that name by this great jazz sax man who made "My Favorite Things" a signature song Coltrane |
| #8860, aired 2023-04-28 | INSIDE JOB $200: The Lord tells Job, "Gird up thy" these "now like a man: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me" loins |
| #8860, aired 2023-04-28 | LITERARY LIONS $2000: In this poet's "The Second Coming", "a shape with lion body and the head of a man... slouches towards Bethlehem to be born" Yeats |
| #8859, aired 2023-04-27 | HISTORIC WIVES $200: Legally bound to a man who ghosted her, Deborah Read was the common-law wife of this printer & statesman Benjamin Franklin |
| #8859, aired 2023-04-27 | TV DRAMA $400: The truth is right here: the Cigarette Smoking Man & Deep Throat were shadowy characters on this '90s Fox show The X-Files |
| #8859, aired 2023-04-27 | TV DRAMA $1000: Post "Spider-Man", he played a devout detective investigating fundamentalism & murder in "Under the Banner of Heaven" Andrew Garfield |
| #8859, aired 2023-04-27 | 4-LETTER BEFORE & AFTER $1200: An American truck & SUV maker becomes a world of entertainment that got started with "Iron Man" GMCU |
| #8859, aired 2023-04-27 | TANKS FOR THE MEMORIES $2,000 (Daily Double): Built in England in 1916, a prototype of the first operational tank was nicknamed "Big Willie" in mockery of this man Kaiser Wilhelm |
| #8858, aired 2023-04-26 | RIHANNA $400: At age 16, Rihanna signed with Def Jam Records, then run by this man, & moved to his label a few years later Jay-Z |
| #8858, aired 2023-04-26 | CONFIDENCE $600: Facing a trial in 399 B.C., this philosopher was confident he was a good man & could not be harmed (he could, & he certainly was) Socrates |
| #8857, aired 2023-04-25 | BAR LINES $200: Stella! Stelllla! Man, that music's loud tonight! I said I'd like a Stella Artois for my pal & this other beer, PBR for short, for me Pabst Blue Ribbon |
| #8856, aired 2023-04-24 | SYNONYMS & ANTONYMS $600: Let's set the scene:
A man in a wig works on the Constitution:
Insure domestic placidity? Nah. Repose? Ataraxia?! Woof! Got it... this! insure domestic tranquility |
| #8856, aired 2023-04-24 | WHEREFORE ART, THOU $2000: Though called a post-impressionist, he had work like "House of the Hanged Man" in the first Impressionist show in 1874 Paul Cézanne |
| #8854, aired 2023-04-20 | '80s & '90s R&B SONGS $200: The O is actually a sign in "Sign 'O' the Times", a classic 1987 album by this man of royal talent Prince |
| #8854, aired 2023-04-20 | MY PREROGATIVE $400: The rule that gives you "the right to remain silent" dates back to 1966's this man v. Arizona Miranda |
| #8852, aired 2023-04-18 | LET'S GUESS YOUR WAIT $1000: It took Fritz Hollings 36 years to become South Carolina's senior senator, as this man stuck around for a while, living to 100 Strom Thurmond |
| #8852, aired 2023-04-18 | DEFINITIONS FROM THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY $2,500 (Daily Double): From medieval times: "the kind of clothing worn by a man whose tailor is a blacksmith" armor |
| #8850, aired 2023-04-14 | YOU LOSE $200: In 1967 Ernie Terrell's refusal to call this man by his new name led to a beating with repeated queries of "What's my name?!" Ali |
| #8850, aired 2023-04-14 | NEW YORK NICKS $800: This funny man starred on Broadway with John Mulaney as old New Yorkers in "Oh, Hello" Nick Kroll |
| #8850, aired 2023-04-14 | "B"ANDS $1600: Dan Auerbach & Patrick Carney make up this 2-man band that knew someone had an eye on their "Gold On The Ceiling" The Black Keys |
| #8848, aired 2023-04-12 | LOST WITH THE TITANIC $800: The handwritten manuscript of a 1902 story by this "Heart of Darkness" man, on its way to a collector in New York Conrad |
| #8847, aired 2023-04-11 | I GOT THE RECEIPTS $1000: In 2014 a golden oval item a man hoped to sell as scrap metal was actually this Russian treasure & worth $33 million a Fabergé egg |
| #8847, aired 2023-04-11 | NO, PRIME MINISTER $1600: In 1973 Luis Carrero Blanco became PM, taking power in Spain from this man, but was assassinated 6 months later Franco |
| #8846, aired 2023-04-10 | QUANTUM SCIENCE $400: (Spiros Michalakis presents the clue.) As a consultant working with Marvel I coined this term for a world of things so tiny that Ant-Man has to shrink way down to enter it; Dr. Strange pays a visit too the Quantum Realm |
| #8846, aired 2023-04-10 | À LA THE FRENCH COOKING STYLE $800: "À la boulangère", in the style of this man's wife & implying the use of an oven the baker |
| #8845, aired 2023-04-07 | YOU TOTALLY RULED! $400: The man who would be Wilhelm II found himself with this royal 6-letter title at age 29 in 1888 kaiser |
| #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 | POP CULTURE $1600: Kids of the '70s, this is for you! This character--"a man barely alive... we can rebuild him... better, stronger, faster" the Six Million Dollar Man (Steve Austin) |
| #8844, aired 2023-04-06 | & THEN THERE'S MOD $400: Mod style included these shoes named for a coin & worn by Miles Davis, the coolest man then alive penny loafers |
| #8843, aired 2023-04-05 | LITERARY BAD DAY FOR THE PLANET $400: Set in Melbourne, Nevil Shute's 1957 novel "On the Beach" finds much of the world destroyed by this man-made disaster a nuclear war |
| #8842, aired 2023-04-04 | TURTLES ALL THE WAY DOWN $1200: Built in 1775 by David Bushnell, the Turtle was a one-man hand-cranked one of these vessels used by the military a submarine |
| #8841, aired 2023-04-03 | PRESIDENT GROVER CLEVELAND'S NON-CONSECUTIVE WORLD $200: Police linked this man to the 1888 murders of Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman & several others Jack the Ripper |
| #8841, aired 2023-04-03 | YOU'RE GONNA SING $1000: In her "Backyard Sessions", Miley Cyrus covered Dolly Parton's song about this title woman who might steal her man Jolene |
| #8840, aired 2023-03-31 | SONGS FROM '60s MUSICALS $200: "Dulcinea" &
"The Impossible Dream" Man of La Mancha |
| #8840, aired 2023-03-31 | VERMONT $600: At 2:47 a.m. on August 3, 1923, this man was sworn in as president in the Vermont farmhouse seen here President Coolidge |
| #8840, aired 2023-03-31 | SONGS FROM '60s MUSICALS $800: "Snoopy",
"Dr. Lucy",
"The Red Baron" You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown |
| #8840, aired 2023-03-31 | LAST LINES OF MOVIES $1200: 1976: "This was the story of Howard Beale, the first known instance of a man who was killed because he had lousy ratings" Network |
| #8840, aired 2023-03-31 | LAST LINES OF MOVIES $2000: This "Dirty Harry" sequel whose title mentions Harry's gun: "A man's got to know his limitations" Magnum Force |
| #8837, aired 2023-03-28 | 3 MEN $400: This biblical man had 3 sons; the oldest, Shem, gave us the word "Semitic" Noah |
| #8836, aired 2023-03-27 | WHAT A BUNCH OF CARICATURES! $400: It's not Tarzan the Ape Man, but this Brit, depicted in a satirical magazine in 1871 Darwin |
| #8836, aired 2023-03-27 | WE QUOTE MR. Ts $1200: Harry Truman said this man's "Plan" "will go down in history as one of America's greatest contributions to the peace of the world" Marshall |
| #8835, aired 2023-03-24 | FINNISH HIM! $1000: "The Kullervo Symphony" sounds like a thriller novel but in 1892, was this man's first large-scale orchestral piece Sibelius |
| #8835, aired 2023-03-24 | REJECTED AUTHORS $1600: One publisher thought no one would be interested in this man's "Kon-Tiki" because no one drowned Thor Heyerdahl |
| #8835, aired 2023-03-24 | AT REST IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY $3,000 (Daily Double): Associated with measurement, this first man made a lord for his scientific work (Lord) Kelvin |
| #8834, aired 2023-03-23 | ON THE "J.V." SQUAD $600: Someone dropped a statue of this "Friday the 13th" slasher in a lake in Minnesota; not cool, man Jason Voorhees |
| #8834, aired 2023-03-23 | WITH A SCULPTURE ON TOP $1000: A column topped by a 17-foot statue of this man is the centerpiece of London's Trafalgar Square Nelson |
| #8834, aired 2023-03-23 | ON THE "J.V." SQUAD $1000: Seen here off the mound, this downtown man eventually married an Upton girl Justin Verlander |
| #8833, aired 2023-03-22 | POSSESSIVE LIT $600: Stephen Vincent Benet's Civil War poem this historical man's "Body" John Brown |
| #8832, aired 2023-03-21 | I LOVE A MAN IN CUNEIFORM $400: This ruler's legal decisions were codified in cuneiform in the Old Babylonian language in the 18th century B.C. Hammurabi |
| #8832, aired 2023-03-21 | I LOVE A MAN IN CUNEIFORM $800: A cuneiform tablet recounts the legend of Sargon, who became a king of this ancient region whose name means "between rivers" Mesopotamia |
| #8832, aired 2023-03-21 | I LOVE A MAN IN CUNEIFORM $1200: The cuneiform inscription on this type of pillar seen here refers to the doings of King Manishtushu a stele (or obelisk) |
| #8832, aired 2023-03-21 | BOOKS: THE FUTURE IS NOW $1200: In 2025, game shows are to the death in "The Running Man", written by Stephen King under this pseudonym Richard Bachman |
| #8832, aired 2023-03-21 | I LOVE A MAN IN CUNEIFORM $1600: Sir Henry Rawlinson deciphered a lofty inscription on a cliff regarding this "Great" king who lost at Marathon Darius the Great |
| #8832, aired 2023-03-21 | I LOVE A MAN IN CUNEIFORM $2000: The cuneiform tablet seen here from the British Museum tells a story from the epic named for this hero who hung out with Enkidu Gilgamesh |
| #8831, aired 2023-03-20 | MYSELF $200: Her autobiography's dedication included "Malia and Sasha" & a man "who always promised me an interesting journey" Michelle Obama |
| #8831, aired 2023-03-20 | CRY UNCLE $1200: At the time of his 1914 assassination, Franz Ferdinand was heir to the throne occupied by this man, his uncle Franz Joseph |
| #8831, aired 2023-03-20 | CRY UNCLE $5,000 (Daily Double): In a letter to Tacitus, this man wrote of his elder uncle's death at Vesuvius from "some gross and noxious vapor" Pliny |
| #8830, aired 2023-03-17 | OUT & ABOUT THE UNIVERSE $600: A class of objects the size of asteroids but resembling comets in composition is named for these man-horse hybrids centaurs |
| #8829, aired 2023-03-16 | LOVE, IN SO MANY WORDS $400: Pip notes, "When I loved Estella with the love of a man, I loved her simply because I found her irresistible" in this classic Great Expectations |
| #8829, aired 2023-03-16 | THE LEADER BEFORE THE LEADER $600: The man who would be king, Juan Carlos, is seen here with his predecessor, this general & dictator (Francisco) Franco |
| #8829, aired 2023-03-16 | LOVE, IN SO MANY WORDS $1000: You can detect this novelist wrote, "Nora said: 'I love you, Nicky, because you smell nice and know such fascinating people"' Dashiell Hammett |
| #8829, aired 2023-03-16 | THE "A"RTS $1600: Here's a picture of this man, with the tool of his trade (Ansel) Adams |
| #8829, aired 2023-03-16 | LETTER PERFECT $2000: In math it's an irrational constant beginning 2.71828, getting its letter from a man named Leonhard e |
| #8825, aired 2023-03-10 | 20th CENTURY NAMES $1,000 (Daily Double): His brother Ted eulogized him in 1968 as "a good & decent man who saw wrong and tried to right it" Bobby Kennedy |
| #8825, aired 2023-03-10 | TOOL TALK $1600: A cutting tool is in this term for a person hired to do someone else's dirty work a hatchet man |
| #8823, aired 2023-03-08 | "U" BELONG WITH "ME" $400: Thoreau wrote, "If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different" one of these drummer |
| #8821, aired 2023-03-06 | HISTORY $1000: In 1522 this "Magnificent" Ottoman man used more than 100,000 troops to besiege & finally capture Rhodes Suleiman the Magnificent |
| #8820, aired 2023-03-03 | U.S. SIGHTS $600: Head to the Presidio & check out Industrial Light & Magic & the film production company named for this man George Lucas |
| #8820, aired 2023-03-03 | A LOVELY ACCENT $2000: There's an accent over the final "E" in the name of this man who scored a hat trick for France in the 2022 World Cup Final Kylian Mbappé |
| #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 |
| #8819, aired 2023-03-02 | U.S. HISTORY $5,018 (Daily Double): Civil War generals issued a lot of general orders; this man's No. 9 of April 1865 sent the Army of Northern Virginia home Robert E. Lee |
| #8818, aired 2023-03-01 | CARPE DIEM $400: Michel Tournier's 1st novel reimagines Robinson Crusoe as a colonialist failing to bring this man into sharing his worldview Friday |
| #8817, aired 2023-02-28 | STAY CLASSY, CLASSICAL MUSIC $1600: Truly a man for all seasons, this Italian composed the serenata called "La Gloria e Imeneo" for King Louis XV's wedding Vivaldi |
| #8812, aired 2023-02-21 | THE REST OF THE WORLD IN 2018 & '19 $400: Reports of these man-made fliers near London's Gatwick Airport led to the cancellation or diversion of about 1,000 flights drones |
| #8812, aired 2023-02-21 | HOME COMING $800: During his presidency, this man & his wife Nancy made several trips to Rancho del Cielo, his vacation home near Santa Barbara Ronald Reagan |
| #8811, aired 2023-02-20 | TIME TO HIT THE LIBRARY $400: As a young man, D.C.-born J. Edgar Hoover worked at this library as a messenger & in the cataloging department the Library of Congress |
| #8810, aired 2023-02-17 | ACTORS PLAYING PLAYWRIGHTS $400: In "Blonde" Adrien Brody plays this man who wrote the screenplay for "The Misfits", his wife's final film (Arthur) Miller |
| #8810, aired 2023-02-17 | MEMOIRS OF GOVERNMENT & POLITICS $1200: "Man of the House" was a bestseller by Tip O'Neill, who held this post from 1977 to 1987 Speaker of the House |
| #8809, aired 2023-02-16 | SAME FIRST & LAST LETTER GEOGRAPHY $4,000 (Daily Double): Check out Akershus Fortress, begun in 1299, & a major landmark in this world capital Oslo |
| #8808, aired 2023-02-15 | LANDMARKS $600: What has the face of a man but the body of a recumbent lion, is 240 feet long & is carved out of limestone? This the Sphinx |
| #8808, aired 2023-02-15 | LOVE $2000: "Do I dare to eat a peach?" muses the middle-aged man in this T.S. Eliot poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" |
| #8807, aired 2023-02-14 | IT HAPPENED ON VALENTINE'S DAY $800: 1778: The U.S.S. Ranger, captained by this man, receives the first official salute to the stars & stripes flag, by the French fleet John Paul Jones |
| #8807, aired 2023-02-14 | THE FILM INDEPENDENT SPIRIT AWARDS $1200: A question sung & asked by Mr. Rogers for decades was the title of this documentary winner about the man in 2019 Won't You Be My Neighbor? |
| #8806, aired 2023-02-13 | BOB DYLAN LYRICS $400: "Hey", this guy, "play a song for me, I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to" Mr. Tambourine Man |
| #8805, aired 2023-02-10 | SUPER BOWL HEROES $400: (Greg Olsen of Fox NFL Sunday presents the clue.) Before joking around with Howie, Jimmy & the gang on "Fox NFL Sunday"'s pregame show, this man was all business while winning back-to-back Super Bowl MVPs in 1979 & 1980 as quarterback for the Steelers Terry Bradshaw |
| #8805, aired 2023-02-10 | THE MIAMI VICE SQUAD $800: I will look for you, & I will find you after you ring in & name this man who guested as Sean on the "When Irish Eyes are Crying" episode Liam Neeson |
| #8805, aired 2023-02-10 | POETS' RHYME TIME $800: "The Tyger" man's serpents Blake's snakes |
| #8805, aired 2023-02-10 | POETS' RHYME TIME $1200: "Paradise Lost" man's chain hotels Milton's Hiltons |
| #8805, aired 2023-02-10 | POETS' RHYME TIME $1600: "Cantos" man Ezra's drinks for everyone in the group! Pound's rounds |
| #8804, aired 2023-02-09 | PUT IN YOUR ORDINAL $600: Someone who plays a supporting role is this fruit, like a straight man to a comedian second banana |
| #8804, aired 2023-02-09 | AUTOBIOGRAPHIES $800: Biophysicist Maurice Wilkins, who helped Crick & Watson, titled his autobiography "The Third Man of the Double" this Helix |
| #8804, aired 2023-02-09 | AUTOBIOGRAPHIES $1200: "Comedy Sex God" tells the story of this funny man seen on HBO & here Pete Holmes |
| #8801, aired 2023-02-06 | MONTHS THAT START WITH FEB $200: February 1946:
After losing a vote for General Assembly president, Trygve Lie becomes the first man in this United Nations job Secretary-General |
| #8800, aired 2023-02-03 | THE PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS ARE THE THING $400: Just after his death in 2005, the Virginia Theatre on New York's 52nd Street was renamed for this man who wrote "Fences" August Wilson |
| #8800, aired 2023-02-03 | MICHAEL, BOLTIN' $1000: The man with the golden shoes, he crushed the world record in the 200 meters at the Atlanta Olympics Michael Johnson |
| #8799, aired 2023-02-02 | POP MUSIC $1200: On "Truth Hurts", Lizzo rhymes "fresh photos with the bomb lighting" & "new man on" this NFL team the Minnesota Vikings |
| #13, aired 2023-02-02 | THOUGHT YOU'D LIKE TO KNOW $600: These tall timepieces were named for a 19th-century song that said, "It stopp'd short--never to go again--When the old man died" a grandfather clock |
| #8798, aired 2023-02-01 | OVERLAPS $400: Man's best friend shelter where 650 British politicians represent their constituencies dog House of Commons |
| #8798, aired 2023-02-01 | "Z" CATEGORY $1600: 486 frames over 26.6 seconds shot by this man's Bell & Howell camera on Nov. 22, 1963 would result in footage seen the world over Zapruder |
| #8796, aired 2023-01-30 | SCARY MOVIES $2000: This 1973 cult classic about pagan rites on a small Scottish isle ends with the burning of the title effigy--& some other things Wicker Man |
| #8795, aired 2023-01-27 | COUNTRY SONGS $400: Inspired by an Oz character, Miranda Lambert sings, "Hey there, Mr." him, "Take it from me, darlin', you don't want a heart" Tin Man |
| #8795, aired 2023-01-27 | GRIMM BROTHERS FAIRY TALES $400: Eating a white snake gives a young man this magical ability also associated with Dr. Dolittle talking to the animals |
| #8794, aired 2023-01-26 | A LINE IN THE SAND $400: This title man of a 1719 novel finds a "print of man's foot on the sand"; "fear of danger is... more terrifying than danger itself" Robinson Crusoe |
| #8793, aired 2023-01-25 | GOOD LUCK $800: From 1927 to 1928 Oswald the Lucky Rabbit was the star of silent films created & produced by this man Walt Disney |
| #8793, aired 2023-01-25 | WE'RE ALL COUNTING ON YOU $1200: Social sciences range from 300-399 in the library classification system named for this man Dewey |
| #8793, aired 2023-01-25 | CLASSICAL IS IN $1200: This man's only opera, "Fidelio", takes place in a Spanish prison, not a German one Beethoven |
| #8792, aired 2023-01-24 | FINDING NIMOY $200: Nimoy appeared in other TV series with this "Star Trek" co-star, including "The Man from U.N.C.L.E." & "T.J. Hooker" William Shatner |
| #8792, aired 2023-01-24 | POP CULTURE GOES TO MARS $400: "Mars ain't the kind of place to raise your kids, in fact it's cold as hell", sang Elton John in this hit "Rocket Man" |
| #8791, aired 2023-01-23 | "SIDE" EFFECTS $200: A straight man, like Gromit to Wallace a sidekick |
| #11, aired 2023-01-19 | 2 WORDS, 3 LETTERS EACH $300: A scoundrel who wins his victims' trust & then swindles them a con man |
| #11, aired 2023-01-19 | WHAT'S NEW IN HISTORY $2,500 (Daily Double): In January 1959 moderate liberal Manuel Urrutia was Cuba's new president, but by July, this man was fully in charge Fidel Castro |
| #8788, aired 2023-01-18 | MOVIES THAT MATTER $400: Starring Tom Hanks as a gay man with AIDS, this was the first major studio film to deal with that disease & the stigma it carried Philadelphia |
| #8785, aired 2023-01-13 | THE CITY SQUARE $2000: NYC's Union Square Park was redesigned in 1872 by Calvert Vaux & this man; the 2 also did some large park work further uptown Olmsted |
| #8784, aired 2023-01-12 | YOU'RE MY INSPIRATION $400: Martin Luther King never had a chance to meet this man who inspired him, but he did meet with his son Ramdas Gandhi |
| #8784, aired 2023-01-12 | SAVE ROOM FOR DESERT $1200: In 2019 organizers of this event in Nevada's Black Rock Desert were turned down for a permit to raise capacity from 80,000 to 100,000 Burning Man |
| #10, aired 2023-01-12 | A TORY PARTY $400: One of the great figures of Britain's Tory Party was this man whose historic term as prime minister began May 10, 1940 Churchill |
| #10, aired 2023-01-12 | LETTER, PERFECT $800 (Daily Double): It's the 17th letter of the alphabet, & before you start counting on your fingers, it's also James Bond's gadget man Q |
| #10, aired 2023-01-12 | EXPLOSIVE MUSIC $900: His singing career really burst into the stratosphere with "Rocket Man", which says, "burning out his fuse up here alone" Elton John |
| #8783, aired 2023-01-11 | THAT'S SO LAST CENTURY $1000: Named for a place in Sussex, this "Man" once thought to be a missing link between humans & apes was proved to be a hoax Piltdown Man |
| #8782, aired 2023-01-10 | THE ATTORNEY GENERAL $400: Former A.G. Roger Taney was Chief Justice for this enslaved man v. Sandford Dred Scott |
| #8780, aired 2023-01-06 | YOU, KNIGHT $800: This man who got a Sir on his name when he was made a baronet in 1820 wrote tales of knights like "Ivanhoe" (Walter) Scott |
| #8780, aired 2023-01-06 | LEGALLY SPEAKING $800: No prison time, but you will help your fellow man with 100 hours of this, begun as work assignments for traffic offenders in 1966 community service |
| #8780, aired 2023-01-06 | COLORFUL PEOPLE $800: This country superstar's hits include "A Better Man" & "Killin' Time" Clint Black |
| #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 | CHOOSE YOUR FIGHTER $1000: Trainer Yancey Durham took this man from a Police Athletic League gym to the heavyweight title & gave him his "Smokin"' nickname Joe Frazier |
| #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 | INTERNATIONAL MAN OF MYTH STORY $100: Caishen, the Chinese god of this supposed "root of all evil", was in one story killed by an arrow shot into a straw effigy of him money |
| #9, aired 2023-01-05 | INTERNATIONAL MAN OF MYTH STORY $300: Australian writer K. Langloh Parker wrote of the brothers who became swans & then got feathers of this color from crows black |
| #9, aired 2023-01-05 | INTERNATIONAL MAN OF MYTH STORY $400: Zeus's lack of wisdom had him swallow his wife Metis when she was pregnant with this daughter born unusually, as seen here Athena |
| #9, aired 2023-01-05 | INTERNATIONAL MAN OF MYTH STORY $500: "He who has lost his mind & seeks to find it" is one rendition of the name of this hero whose story is darker in legends than in Longfellow Hiawatha |
| #9, aired 2023-01-05 | INTERNATIONAL MAN OF MYTH STORY $600 (Daily Double): After being part of a rebellion with his fellow Titans, he seemed to have the whole world on his shoulders Atlas |
| #8778, aired 2023-01-04 | ON YOUR STATE'S LEFT $200: If you're near the border in Terre Haute, Indiana & want to go west, young man, you head directly into this state Illinois |
| #8778, aired 2023-01-04 | OH MY GODS! $400: This grain is part of the kanji that makes up the name of Inari, a Japanese god of that grain often portrayed as a bearded old man rice |
| #8778, aired 2023-01-04 | TRANSPORTATION $2000: The 1912 Classic Six was the first production car to bear the name of this man born in Neuchatel Canton, Switzerland Louis Chevrolet |
| #8776, aired 2023-01-02 | HISTORY COMES ALIVE WITH ERIK LARSON $800: (Erik Larson presents the clue.) My book "Thunderstruck" examines how in 1910, Dr. Hawley Crippen nearly committed the perfect murder & fled across the Atlantic, only to be captured later that year with the help of this man's invention of wireless telegraphy Marconi |
| #8776, aired 2023-01-02 | GRAND OLE OPRY MEMBERS $1000: This Down Under man will be the judge of that! That, being "American Idol", from 2013 to 2016 (Keith) Urban |
| #8776, aired 2023-01-02 | FROM THE NEW TESTAMENT TO THE MAP $2000: 3 blocks long, the NYC St. called this Gospel man's Place has been home to Alexander Hamilton's widow, Leon Trotsky & Debbie Harry St. Mark's |
| #8774, aired 2022-12-29 | TV TO SEE IN 2022 $1200: He turned up on "Sea Hunt" as a kid, but an ex-CIA agent being hunted on "The Old Man" is his first starring role in a TV series Jeff Bridges |
| #8773, aired 2022-12-28 | EPONYMS $2000: Plagued by debt, the man for whom this fuel is named disappeared from the deck of the SS Dresden in 1913 Diesel |
| #8771, aired 2022-12-26 | STAGE MUSICALS BY SONG LYRICS $1600: "There is a sucker born every minute, each time the second hand sweeps to the top like dandelions up they pop" Barnum |
| #8771, aired 2022-12-26 | STAGE MUSICALS BY SONG LYRICS $2000: "Little more speed,
little more rope,
little more wind,
little more hope,
gotta get this stupid kite to fly" You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown |
| #8770, aired 2022-12-23 | 5-LETTER WORDS $400: The 10 Commandments say not to do this to another man's house or wife covet |
| #8770, aired 2022-12-23 | ORCHESTRAL MANEUVERS IN THE PARK $600: This man's marches are a park orchestra staple, like in 2021 when Pacific Symphony played 1899's "Hands Across The Sea" (John Philip) Sousa |
| #8770, aired 2022-12-23 | NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: This chief befriended Washington Territory settlers, who named a city for him & paid him for the use of his name Chief Seattle |
| #8770, aired 2022-12-23 | RIAN JOHNSON LOVES A WHODUNIT $2000: (Rian Johnson presents the clue.) The loving relationship in "The Thin Man" between these two lead characters is endearing, & the only killing they do is of 12 martinis between them at a sitting Nick & Nora Charles |
| #8769, aired 2022-12-22 | TECHNOLOGY HISTORY $800: In 1998, Campbell Aird got what was called the first this arm, electronically controlled like on TV's "Six Million Dollar Man" a bionic arm |
| #8769, aired 2022-12-22 | THERE'S A BOOK IN THAT BOOK $1200: In a book by this man, "Misery's Return" was a hard-to-execute novel by his character Paul Sheldon Stephen King |
| #8769, aired 2022-12-22 | THERE'S A BOOK IN THAT BOOK $3,600 (Daily Double): "The Grasshopper Lies Heavy" is an underground novel in this Philip K. Dick book set in a conquered America The Man in the High Castle |
| #8768, aired 2022-12-21 | GEOGRAPHY THAT MADE HISTORY $200: On May 29, 1953 2 adventurers finished boldly going where no man had gone before & stood here the top of Mount Everest |
| #8768, aired 2022-12-21 | QUOTABLE SHAKESPEARE PLAYS $1000: "How dost thou, Benedick, the married man?" Much Ado About Nothing |
| #8768, aired 2022-12-21 | PUTTING ON HEIRS $2000: This man who served closely with J. Edgar Hoover at the FBI was a beneficiary of & the executor of Hoover's will Clyde Tolson |
| #8768, aired 2022-12-21 | PUTTING ON HEIRS $4,000 (Daily Double): The 1889 death of Archduke Rudolf, the heir apparent to the Austro-Hungarian throne, put this man next in line after Rudy's uncle; oops Franz Ferdinand |
| #8766, aired 2022-12-19 | TELEVISION THEN & NOW $200: Everybody who was anybody appeared on the talk show hosted by this man, near & dear to "Jeopardy!" Merv Griffin |
| #8763, aired 2022-12-14 | IN THE PUDDING $200: Man cannot live by this alone, but maybe by the pudding made of it saturated with milk, eggs, sugar, vanilla & spices bread pudding |
| #8763, aired 2022-12-14 | WHO LOU? $200: In an iconic speech at Yankee Stadium, he said, "Today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the Earth" Lou Gehrig |
| #8762, aired 2022-12-13 | CITY SPEAK $800: It precedes man, seen here, or opera Peking (Beijing) |
| #8761, aired 2022-12-12 | NO GOOD $400: This Chicago man's operation had $100 million in annual revenue; in 2020s instead of 1920s dollars, that's about $1.8 billion Al Capone |
| #8761, aired 2022-12-12 | CHICAGO TV $400: Of surgeon, chef or hit man, it's the profession of Carmy, who returns to his home city to ply his trade in "The Bear" chef |
| #8761, aired 2022-12-12 | LOST FOR WORDS $1000: During World War I you didn't want to get lost in this area between opposing trenches no man's land |
| #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 |
| #8760, aired 2022-12-09 | SHE BLINDED ME $1000: In "King Lear" a bloodthirsty Regan demands that this man be hanged while Goneril screams, "Pluck out his eyes" the Earl of Gloucester |
| #8759, aired 2022-12-08 | MARK'S BROTHERS & SISTERS $800: Music man Mark Ronson has sisters who are twins, fashion designer Charlotte & her Samantha Ronson |
| #8759, aired 2022-12-08 | THE WORLD OF PATENT MODELS $1000: Brakemen would leap from car to car, but this man's air brakes could stop the whole train; an 1879 improvement is one of his 300 patents George Westinghouse |
| #8759, aired 2022-12-08 | LET'S GET DOWN TO CASES $1200: In 1982 this man was found not guilty of shooting James Brady & Ronald Reagan by reason of insanity (John) Hinckley (Jr.) |
| #8758, aired 2022-12-07 | GINGER ZEE TALKS METEOROLOGY $600: (Ginger Zee presents the clue.) Severe weather events can be predicted earlier & more accurately, thanks to radar using the frequency shifting event named for this man Doppler |
| #8758, aired 2022-12-07 | FAMOUS SOUTH AMERICANS $1600: As the fifth man in this job, Javier Perez de Cuellar of Peru helped end wars & helped get the Soviets out of Afghanistan the Secretary-General of the United Nations |
| #8757, aired 2022-12-06 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $1600: Douglas is the capital of this isle about midway between England & Ireland the Isle of Man |
| #8756, aired 2022-12-05 | ENTERTAINMENT AWARDS $800: Jon Stewart was the recipient of the 2022 Kennedy Center Prize named for this other smart & funny man (Mark) Twain |
| #8756, aired 2022-12-05 | STARTS OR ENDS WITH X $1200: There's a big bovine at the end of this 6-letter word for a big clumsy man lummox |
| #8755, aired 2022-12-02 | HONORARY U.S. CITIZENS $400: Winston Churchill, the first honorary citizen, had the honor conferred on him April 9, 1963 by this man Kennedy |
| #8754, aired 2022-12-01 | 1, 2 & 3 $200: In 1735 Ben Franklin wrote, "Early to bed & early to rise, makes a man" this, this & this healthy, wealthy & wise |
| #8754, aired 2022-12-01 | EVERY MAN A KING $400: On June 11 Hawaii celebrates the deeds of this great king & warrior Kamehameha |
| #8754, aired 2022-12-01 | EVERY MAN A KING $800: This country's King Mohammed VI has a law degree from Mohammed V University, founded by & named for his grandfather Morocco |
| #8754, aired 2022-12-01 | EVERY MAN A KING $1200: The younger brother of French kings Louis XVI & Louis XVIII, this king the X ruled in his own right Charles |
| #8754, aired 2022-12-01 | EVERY MAN A KING $1600: The title subject of 2 Shakespeare plays, he was England's first king of the house of Lancaster Henry IV |
| #8754, aired 2022-12-01 | EVERY MAN A KING $2000: Constantine I returned to the throne of this country in 1920 after King Alexander was bitten by a pet monkey & died Greece |
| #8754, aired 2022-12-01 | BIBLICAL DEMONS, DEVILS & SPIRITS $2000: When asked his name in Luke, a demon-possessed man says it is this, meaning many devils inside him Legion |
| #8753, aired 2022-11-30 | TIME FOR SOME FOOD $200: There's a city in the name of these, disliked by man Brussels sprouts |
| #8753, aired 2022-11-30 | DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE SIGNERS $800: Massachusetts elected its first governor in 1780--this man John Hancock |
| #8753, aired 2022-11-30 | MY DEAR WATSON $800: James Watson worked with this man at Cavendish Laboratory, where they tackled the problem of DNA's structure Crick |
| #8752, aired 2022-11-29 | POLITICIANS BACK IN THE DAY $800: After high school it was off to Harvard for this man, but he'd interrupt his education to serve in the Navy after World War II Bobby Kennedy |
| #8752, aired 2022-11-29 | GERMAN CITIES $2000: Hanover was the original home of the man who would become this English king in 1714 George I |
| #8751, aired 2022-11-28 | LAWMEN & WOMEN $800: If you work at FBI HQ on Pennsylvania Avenue, you work in a building named for this G-man Hoover |
| #8751, aired 2022-11-28 | ABBREV. TV $1600: Bear Grylls takes on the elements:
"MvW" Man vs. Wild |
| #8749, aired 2022-11-24 | REVENGE LIT $800: In Charles Portis' novel, Mattie wants a man with this title 2-word quality as she avenges her dad's murder & finds Rooster Cogburn True Grit |
| #8748, aired 2022-11-23 | TRANSLATORS $400: In Edward Greenstein's 2019 translation, this biblical man who goes through a lot of troubles is "fed up" with God Job |
| #8748, aired 2022-11-23 | TRANSLATORS $7,000 (Daily Double): Thomas Hobbes translated this work on "The Man that Having Sack'd the Sacred Town of Troy, wander'd so long at sea" The Odyssey |
| #8747, aired 2022-11-22 | WHO LIVES IN... $400: This nation-state? The man originally named Jorge Mario Bergoglio Vatican City |
| #8745, aired 2022-11-18 | PAINT SAMPLES $800: Benjamin West nailed history painting depicting this man's "Treaty with the Indians" on the Delaware River William Penn |
| #8744, aired 2022-11-17 | HEAD FOR THE HILLS $400: The 2022 revival of this musical on Broadway stars Hugh Jackman as con artist Harold Hill The Music Man |
| #8744, aired 2022-11-17 | SILENT FILMS WITH JACQUELINE STEWART $1600: (Jacqueline Stewart of Turner Classic Movies presents the clue.) Pioneering Black filmmaker Oscar Micheaux dealt with racism in films like "Within Our Gates"; & in 1925's "Body and Soul", he introduced this actor & bass baritone later famous for his rendition of "Ol' Man River" (Paul) Robeson |
| #8742, aired 2022-11-15 | NOW STREAMING ON DuMONT+ $400: You can binge "Man Against Crime", one of the first shows about someone in this job, preceding Mannix & Veronica Mars detective |
| #8742, aired 2022-11-15 | TALKIN' ECON $4,000 (Daily Double): The birth of economics as its own discipline is often traced to a 1776 work by this man Adam Smith |
| #8741, aired 2022-11-14 | TOP OF THE MORNING! $200: A 1984 campaign ad for this man proclaimed it was "morning again in America" Reagan |
| #8741, aired 2022-11-14 | PRIMED FOR PRIME NUMBERS $400: A Jewish man who reaches age 83 may have a second of these rituals a bar mitzvah |
| #8741, aired 2022-11-14 | YOUR U.S. HISTORY TEST $800: The assassination of James Garfield made this man the 21st president Arthur |
| #8741, aired 2022-11-14 | PRIMED FOR PRIME NUMBERS $1600: This man who served 37th president Richard Nixon later wrote a biography of 29th president Warren G. Harding John Dean |
| #8741, aired 2022-11-14 | YOUR U.S. HISTORY TEST $2000: An eyewitness account of the Boston Massacre said this man hit several soldiers with a club before he was shot Crispus Attucks |
| #8, aired 2022-11-13 | MUSICAL THEATER $200: In "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown", this character sings "My Blanket and Me" Linus |
| #8, aired 2022-11-13 | SEE WHAT I DID THERE? $200: Cheerio! I'm Sir Roger Bannister, the first man to run this distance in under 4 minutes, seen here on the same track 50 years later the mile |
| #8, aired 2022-11-13 | SEE WHAT I DID THERE? $400: I'm lead architect James Polshek & I kept a bridge motif in mind designing this man's presidential library in Little Rock Bill Clinton |
| #8740, aired 2022-11-11 | ELEGIES $1600: "The paths of glory lead but to the grave" is from this man's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" Gray |
| #8740, aired 2022-11-11 | RELIGION $2000: It's the term for the small box & leather strap worn by the Orthodox Jewish man seen here phylacteries (tefillin) |
| #8740, aired 2022-11-11 | WORLD LEADERS $2000: Hats off to this man who was chancellor of West Germany & then of a unified Germany from 1990 to 1998 (Helmut) Kohl |
| #8739, aired 2022-11-10 | WE SPY $2000: Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean & this man who defected to the USSR in 1963 all betrayed many secrets working in British intelligence Kim Philby |
| #8738, aired 2022-11-09 | SHAKESPEARE JUST KILLS ME $800: In "Macbeth", it's not healthy for this man to be in a scene with first, second & third murderers but at least his son Fleance escapes Banquo |
| #8738, aired 2022-11-09 | TRAVEL $1000: Eugene was the first name of this man, whose series of guides made travel feel accessible to mid-century Americans (Eugene) Fodor |
| #8737, aired 2022-11-08 | MOVIE QUOTES $800: Oft seen in writing on fact & fiction, "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" includes "When the legend becomes fact," do this print the legend |
| #8737, aired 2022-11-08 | POTPOURRI $1200: Inky, Blinky, Pinky & Clyde are the ghosts in this classic video game Pac-Man |
| #8737, aired 2022-11-08 | WE'LL ALWAYS HAVE THE TREATY OF PARIS $1600: 1814 & 1815:
2 Treaties of Paris end these wars named for a man the Napoleonic Wars |
| #7, aired 2022-11-06 | EVERYBODY LOVES RAIN, MAN $100: This largest tropical rain forest can average well over 100 inches of rain each year the Amazon |
| #7, aired 2022-11-06 | EVERYBODY LOVES RAIN, MAN $200: Drivers can thank Mary Anderson for creating an early form of this, moved by a handle from inside a streetcar to clear rain a windshield wiper |
| #7, aired 2022-11-06 | HISTORY IN COMEDY $300: Did this man really steal from the rich & give to the poor? The 2,000 Year Old Man: no, he stole from everybody & kept everything Robin Hood |
| #7, aired 2022-11-06 | EVERYBODY LOVES RAIN, MAN $300: The title number in "Singin' in the Rain" was shot in summer in Culver City when water was in high demand & this star was ill Gene Kelly |
| #7, aired 2022-11-06 | EVERYBODY LOVES RAIN, MAN $400: On Titan, this ringed planet's largest moon, it rains methane Saturn |
| #7, aired 2022-11-06 | EVERYBODY LOVES RAIN, MAN $500: In the King James Bible, "the Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah" these 2 things fire & brimstone |
| #8735, aired 2022-11-04 | CHAMPIONS OF TOURNAMENTS $600: A 4-man team called Wild Card 1 swept to victory at the 2022 Tim Hortons Brier, Canada's championship of this curling |
| #8735, aired 2022-11-04 | ON BROADWAY $2000: One of August Wilson's plays to explore the Black experience in America is called this man's "Come and Gone" Joe Turner |
| #8734, aired 2022-11-03 | A MUSICAL JOURNEY WITH QUESTLOVE $2000: (Questlove presents the clue.) Working backward in an amazing career--played with Fab 5 Freddy, performed civil rights-themed music & pioneered bop with Bird & Diz, every drummer owes a debt to this man Max Roach |
| #8733, aired 2022-11-02 | HISTORIC NAMES $600: A town in Russia was renamed for this cosmonaut, the first man in space, following his death in 1968 Gagarin |
| #8732, aired 2022-11-01 | BRIDGE $400: Bridges can cross rivers, roads, or as in the London one seen here, these man-made waterways canals |
| #8732, aired 2022-11-01 | ART & ARTISTS $800: A man & a woman hold each other close in Dance in the Country by this French painter Renoir |
| #8732, aired 2022-11-01 | 5 HEARTS $1600: In a novel by this man, Tolbooth Prison in Edinburgh is known as "The Heart of Midlothian" (Sir Walter) Scott |
| #8731, aired 2022-10-31 | STREETS OF AMERICA $1,000 (Daily Double): This man made Salt Lake City's downtown streets wide so a wagon team could turn around without hitting sidewalks or using profanity Brigham Young |
| #6, aired 2022-10-30 | STAR TRACK: THE NEXT GENERATION $300: In the film "Straight Outta Compton", O'Shea Jackson Jr. played this man, his rapper father Ice Cube |
| #6, aired 2022-10-30 | OUT OF THIS WORLD $3,600 (Daily Double): Neil Armstrong was the first person to set foot on the Moon; a few minutes later, this man became the second Buzz Aldrin |
| #8730, aired 2022-10-28 | MYTH-POURRI $400: The sun god & creator god of Egypt, he's said to have created man from his tears & was also big on instant retribution Ra |
| #8730, aired 2022-10-28 | MYTH-POURRI $1600: The man, the Greek myth, the legend, he used Medusa's head to rescue his mom & get King Polydectes seriously stoned Perseus |
| #8729, aired 2022-10-27 | THE SECOND CHAPTER $1600: An emperor's soldiers provide "An Exact Inventory of What We Found About the Body of the Man-Mountain" Gulliver's Travels |
| #8727, aired 2022-10-25 | A GREEN PARTY $200: Nathan "Nearest" Green is recognized as this Tennessee brand's first master distiller & taught the man it's named for how to make it Jack Daniel |
| #8727, aired 2022-10-25 | TV CARTOONS $1000: Going big on many levels, this title guy hung out with "The Masters of the Universe" & holding a sword, bellowed, "I have the power!" He-Man |
| #8727, aired 2022-10-25 | REVOLTS $2000: Kossuth Square in Budapest is named for the man who in the 1840s led a revolt against the rule of Hungary by this Austrian family the Hapsburgs |
| #8727, aired 2022-10-25 | ESSAY QUESTIONS $3,000 (Daily Double): This essay by Thoreau says, "Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison" Civil Disobedience |
| #8726, aired 2022-10-24 | CEREAL MASCOTS $800: In 2022 the leprechaun who hawked this cereal turned 58; don't pull a muscle running away with the stuff, man Lucky Charms |
| #8726, aired 2022-10-24 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $800: The collaborations of writer Jon Scieszka & illustrator Lane Smith include the 1992 tale of this odoriferous man the Stinky Cheese Man |
| #8726, aired 2022-10-24 | NEWS MAKERS & WRITERS '22 $2000: California Governor Gavin Newsom denied parole to this man guilty of a 1968 assassination Sirhan Sirhan |
| #5, aired 2022-10-23 | HOLLYWOOD REPORTER $400: In 2013's "Man of Steel", Amy Adams played this reporter, Superman's gal pal Lois Lane |
| #5, aired 2022-10-23 | PITCH PERFECT $400: The best of the best in baseball get the award named for this man who got the nickname "Cyclone", which was then shortened Cy Young |
| #5, aired 2022-10-23 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $1200: A CNN headline said this man had taken "8,200 round-trip train rides" to Delaware Joe Biden |
| #8725, aired 2022-10-21 | MOVIE & TV DIRECTORS $800: "Austin Powers" director Jay Roach plays himself when this hit man-turned-actor lands a big audition Barry |
| #8725, aired 2022-10-21 | FROM C TO D $1000: A man's overcoat & a sofa with rolled arms, as seen here, are named for the Earl of this Chesterfield |
| #8724, aired 2022-10-20 | 4-LETTER FOOD & DRINK $1000: In "Treasure Island" Captain Smollett tells the men they'll have this rum drink "served out for you to drink our health and luck" grog |
| #8724, aired 2022-10-20 | MEDICAL DRAMA $1200: Go ahead, make my day (& save it too)! In 2014 this actor, then age 83, saved a choking man by doing the Heimlich maneuver Eastwood |
| #8724, aired 2022-10-20 | POETS & POETRY $2,569 (Daily Double): It begins, "Of man's first disobedience, and the fruit of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste brought death into the world..." Paradise Lost |
| #8723, aired 2022-10-19 | WHAT A BUTTE! $2000: A group of buttes in California's Central Valley are named for this man who famously owned a sawmill in 1848 Sutter |
| #8721, aired 2022-10-17 | ANAGRAMS $800: One of man's best friends:
DADS HUNCH dachshund |
| #4, aired 2022-10-16 | IT ALL STARTS WITH "U" $400: A '90s dance was named for this "Family Matters" character whose catchphrase was "Did I do that?" Urkel |
| #4, aired 2022-10-16 | COLORFUL RESPONSES $600: It's a structure made of glass to grow plants, or what some fear man-made gases are turning our planet into a greenhouse |
| #4, aired 2022-10-16 | FAMOUS NAMES ON THE MAP $1,000 (Daily Double): This alliterative Colorado "Peak" is named for a man who tried & failed to climb it in 1806; guess that was an "or bust" Pikes Peak |
| #4, aired 2022-10-16 | THE IN MEMORIAM SEGMENT 1922 $1000: This man, who invented the landline in 1876 Alexander Bell |
| #4, aired 2022-10-16 | HISTORIC HISTORY OF YESTERDAY: A LOOK BACK $2,000 (Daily Double): Catherine Parr became wife No. 6 to this man on July 12, 1543, & beating the odds, outlived him (but only by a year) Henry VIII |
| #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 |
| #8720, aired 2022-10-14 | AVANT-GARDE ART $1600: In 1985 this one-named man & his wife Jeanne-Claude wrapped Paris' Pont Neuf in beige fabric Christo |
| #8719, aired 2022-10-13 | THE REST, AS THEY SAY... $600: Your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man can help you with the line "With great power comes" this great responsibility |
| #8719, aired 2022-10-13 | HODGEPOURRIPODGE $800: At age 99 this German-born man, Secretary of State in the 1970s, recently published the book "Leadership" Henry Kissinger |
| #8718, aired 2022-10-12 | MOVIE STUFF $800: 2 days after Sly Stallone left "Beverly Hills Cop", this man got the starring role (Eddie) Murphy |
| #8717, aired 2022-10-11 | BROADWAY ROCKS $400: The 2005 show "All Shook Up" featured the title song & other hits made famous by this man Elvis Presley |
| #8717, aired 2022-10-11 | BROADWAY ROCKS $800: The one-man show titled this rocker "on Broadway" included stories & classics like "Thunder Road" Bruce Springsteen |
| #8716, aired 2022-10-10 | REMEMBERING PAST LIVES $200: As if "Lord Protector" wasn't enough for his resumé, this 17th century man was also chancellor of Oxford University Cromwell |
| #8716, aired 2022-10-10 | SPORTY BOOKS $600: Andre Iguodala's memoir has the humble title "The Sixth Man" but covers his 2015 Finals MVP award with this NBA team the Golden State Warriors |
| #3, aired 2022-10-09 | GO BLUE! $300: These turn blue & become munchable for arcade hero Pac-Man after he eats a power pellet; scary! a ghost |
| #3, aired 2022-10-09 | 21 OR UNDER $600: A bar mitzvah is traditionally celebrated when a Jewish boy has reached this age 13 |
| #8715, aired 2022-10-07 | BLACK BUSINESS $600: NBA Sixth Man Junior Bridgeman became the second man among franchisees of this chain with 160 restaurants Wendy's |
| #8714, aired 2022-10-06 | U.S. DIPLOMACY $800: This man's 1909-1913 administration practiced "Dollar Diplomacy", trying to create stability abroad to help U.S. businesses Taft |
| #8713, aired 2022-10-05 | HELPFUL HISTORIC FIGURES $600: This man built a big racecar in 1902, & hired bicyclist Barney Oldfield to drive it; together, they would race into history Henry Ford |
| #8713, aired 2022-10-05 | SHORT STORIES & NOVELLAS $800: Horrors! "The Man in the Black Suit" threatens to eat a child in a prize-winning short story by this author, of course Stephen King |
| #8713, aired 2022-10-05 | WE RECOGNIZE THE SENATOR $1200: This man took over his brother's Senate seat & kept it for 47 years Ted Kennedy |
| #8712, aired 2022-10-04 | FILMS BY CHARACTERS $1600: Raymond Babbitt, a fan of "Jeopardy!" Rain Man |
| #8712, aired 2022-10-04 | FILMS BY CHARACTERS $2000: From 2017:
Elisa Esposito & the Amphibian Man The Shape of Water |
| #8711, aired 2022-10-03 | FILM NOIR $2000: This 1947 noir starring Tyrone Power as a carnival con man was remade in 2021 by Guillermo del Toro Nightmare Alley |
| #8711, aired 2022-10-03 | A COMMON CATEGORY $2000: Aaron Copland composed this ceremonial musical flourish "For The Common Man" Fanfare |
| #2, aired 2022-10-02 | 19th CENTURY NOVELS $400: This Mark Twain hero says, "Now, Old Jim, you're a free man again, and I bet you won't ever be a slave no more" Huckleberry Finn |
| #2, aired 2022-10-02 | THAT PAINTS A PICTURE $1,000 (Daily Double): "The Tragedy" & "The Blind Man's Meal" were 1903 works during the "Blue Period" of this Spaniard Pablo Picasso |
| #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 |
| #2, aired 2022-10-02 | MYTHOLOGY $1200: Prometheus had the bright idea to steal this from the gods & give it to man; the gods had Pro's liver eaten by an eagle on the reg fire |
| #2, aired 2022-10-02 | AUSTIN TENDS BAR $1500: (Austin holds a small glass at his bar.) I don't mind you bending my ear like Joe the bartender in a Sinatra classic, & I'll make this title drink, but it's 2022 & I'm not gonna pour you "one more for the road" One for My Baby |
| #2, aired 2022-10-02 | MYTHOLOGY $1500: Competing with Athena to create the most useful gift for man, this god of the sea hit a stone with his trident & created the horse Poseidon |
| #8708, aired 2022-09-28 | HISTORY $200: In 1914 19-year-old Serb Gavrilo Princip triggered World War I by assassinating this man Franz Ferdinand |
| #8708, aired 2022-09-28 | HATCHET MAN $200: Legend says he dragged his axe behind him & created the Grand Canyon in the process (Paul) Bunyan |
| #8708, aired 2022-09-28 | HATCHET MAN $400: This Marvel Comics character was deemed unworthy by the hammer Mjolnir, so he took up the axe Jarnbjorn & bided his time Thor |
| #8708, aired 2022-09-28 | HATCHET MAN $600: This "Game of Thrones" character portrayed by Peter Dinklage is adept with a battle axe Tyrion Lannister |
| #8708, aired 2022-09-28 | HATCHET MAN $800: This nickname of Abraham Lincoln highlighted his axemanship "The Railsplitter" |
| #8708, aired 2022-09-28 | HATCHET MAN $1000: Before Jack chopped down the beanstalk, he stole the golden goose & a talking one of these musical instruments a talking harp |
| #1, aired 2022-09-25 | JEOPARDY! & THE 10 RINGS $100: In a book by this man, the hobbit Frodo gets a ring granting invisibility from his cousin Bilbo Tolkien |
| #1, aired 2022-09-25 | CATS & DOGS $400: From Britain's Isle of Man, the Manx cat is distinctive for its lack of this a tail |
| #1, aired 2022-09-25 | QUEEN ELIZABETH II $800: Elizabeth was smitten with this man when she was just 13; they were married for more than 70 years (Prince) Philip |
| #8705, aired 2022-09-23 | NEW HARLEQUIN ROMANCES IN 2022 $400: "Taking a Chance on" this person who hands the rings over during a wedding ceremony the Best Man |
| #8705, aired 2022-09-23 | TAKE ME TO THE PILOT $1,000 (Daily Double): This wealthy man of many interests designed & flew his own planes, circled Earth in a record 91+ hours in 1938 & owned an airline Howard Hughes |
| #8703, aired 2022-09-21 | LAKES & RIVERS $1000: This great river system of East-Central North America gets its name from a man martyred in 3rd-century Rome the St. Lawrence waterway |
| #8701, aired 2022-09-19 | JACK $1600: Jack Ruby became known as the "assassin's assassin" after killing this man November 24, 1963 Oswald |
| #8700, aired 2022-09-16 | HELP ME MOVE MY STUFF? $200: That Bible's not for the yard sale! It was printed around 1455 by this man & only 48 are known to survive; I think it might be valuable Gutenberg |
| #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 | BRITISH LITERATURE $1200: He created a heroine named Tess, who bears a child named Sorrow & later kills the man who seduced her Hardy |
| #8699, aired 2022-09-15 | CLEANUP $200: The man, the myth, the legend, he cleaned king Augeas' huge stables in a single day, flushing them out by diverting rivers Hercules |
| #8699, aired 2022-09-15 | PARTY! $1000: Cool party, man... Ray Charles was on the bill in 1980 for this north-of-the-border city's first jazz festival Montreal |
| #8699, aired 2022-09-15 | PHILOSOPHY $1200: "Man is by nature a political animal", wrote this ancient Greek in his "Politics" Aristotle |
| #8698, aired 2022-09-14 | ENDS WITH 2 VOWELS $400: This type of diet is modeled on the eating habits of prehistoric man paleo |
| #8698, aired 2022-09-14 | THE BORN IDENTITY $600: Fast & Furious family man Mark Sinclair Vin Diesel |
| #8698, aired 2022-09-14 | THE BORN IDENTITY $800: Eric Marlon Bishop shocked Spider-Man as Electro Jamie Foxx |
| #8697, aired 2022-09-13 | BROADCASTING HISTORY $800: In 1946 "Faraway Hill", about a widow in love with a man engaged to another woman, brought this genre to network television soap opera |
| #8696, aired 2022-09-12 | RALPH MACCHIO TALKS COBRA KAI $800: (Ralph Macchio presents the clue.) Johnny & I may not agree on a lot of things, but we did have a nice moment when we heard & sang "Take It On The Run" as we test-drove a car--as I said, "What kind of man doesn't like this '80s band?" REO Speedwagon |
| #8695, aired 2022-07-29 | JUST TAKE THE L $600: The sticker identifying the contents of a bottle drops an L to be a doomed man in the Bible label & Abel |
| #8695, aired 2022-07-29 | ISLANDS & PENINSULAS $1,800 (Daily Double): 55 mi. from Siberia, the westernmost point of the North American continent is on this peninsula named for a man big in Alaskan history the Seward Peninsula |
| #8694, aired 2022-07-28 | GO IVth & RULE $400: The man born Nicholas Breakspear ruled as Adrian IV, the only Englishman to ever hold this job pope |
| #8694, aired 2022-07-28 | WHAT'S THE NAME OF THAT SONG? $800: Dolly Parton:
"I'm begging of you, please don't take my man" "Jolene" |
| #8692, aired 2022-07-26 | SIRIUS-LY DEDICATED $200: You may be right, I may be this man who periodically gets his own channel; in 2022, his "52nd Street" got played track by track Billy Joel |
| #8692, aired 2022-07-26 | SIRIUS-LY DEDICATED $600: You don't need a miracle to listen to Jerry, Bob, Phil, Bill & Mickey of this jam band... you can just dial up their channel, man the Grateful Dead |
| #8692, aired 2022-07-26 | SIRIUS-LY DEDICATED $1000: "What Would You Say" if I told you this man, seen here along with his band, had their own channel, or have I said "Too Much"? Dave Matthews |
| #8692, aired 2022-07-26 | MIDDLE NAMES $2,000 (Daily Double): Biblical middle name of the man said to be the richest person in the U.S. at his death in 1848 Jacob |
| #8691, aired 2022-07-25 | BREAKFAST TIME $200: Enjoy that muesli--I'll be having this Quaker Oats cereal that debuted in 1963 along with its sailing man mascot Cap'n Crunch |
| #8691, aired 2022-07-25 | CELEBRITY CATCHPHRASES $1600: "Bam!" says this man who opened his first self-named restaurant in 1990 in New Orleans Emeril (Lagasse) |
| #8690, aired 2022-07-22 | SPELLING THEIR EGOTS $800: 3 Es as Outstanding Guest Actor for
"Mad About You";
a Comedy Album G for "The 2000 Year Old Man in the Year 2000" Mel Brooks |
| #8690, aired 2022-07-22 | THE TV TITLE CHARACTER SPEAKS $800: "I can kill a man, dismember his body, & be home in time for Letterman. But knowing what to say when my girlfriend's feeling insecure..." Dexter |
| #8690, aired 2022-07-22 | BRITISH FOLKLORE & LEGENDS $1000: The Glastonbury thorn seen here reputedly grew from the staff of this man, also said to have brought the Grail to England Joseph of Arimathea |
| #8689, aired 2022-07-21 | THE OLD WEST $400: Wild Bill Hickok stopped a man from beating this other famous Bill who was 11 at the time & the two became lifelong friends Buffalo Bill (Cody) |
| #8689, aired 2022-07-21 | CLOSING STATEMENTS $1,000 (Daily Double): "The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig... but already it was impossible to say which was which" Animal Farm |
| #8688, aired 2022-07-20 | ESSAYS $400: Alexander Pope's poem "An Essay on Man" gave us the phrase this "springs eternal" hope |
| #8686, aired 2022-07-18 | THE WOUK MOB $400: In Wouk's "Aurora Dawn" from 1947, a young man works in this broadcast medium; Wouk lived to write a book partly in e-mails radio |
| #8686, aired 2022-07-18 | GOOD HISTORY $600 (Daily Double): At first the church didn't oppose this Polish man's ideas; the center of the universe was filthy, so better not to be there Copernicus |
| #8686, aired 2022-07-18 | GOOD HISTORY $1000: In 2020, these accords named for a biblical man raised to 6 the Arab nations with diplomatic ties to Israel the Abraham Accords |
| #8685, aired 2022-07-15 | WORLD OF OPERA $400: In the opera "Dead Man Walking", Sister Helen meets her pen pal, a death row inmate, at Angola Penitentiary in this state Louisiana |
| #8685, aired 2022-07-15 | MUSICIANS' REAL NAMES $1000: John Mellor:
This Clash man, a name that reflected his not-flashy guitar style Joe Strummer |
| #8685, aired 2022-07-15 | MODEL BEHAVIOR $1200: Pattie Boyd was a star model of the swinging '60s before she was a musical muse who inspired this man's "Wonderful Tonight" Eric Clapton |
| #8685, aired 2022-07-15 | MEXICAN HISTORY $1600: The era of this man's late 19th & early 20th century rule is known as the Porfiriato Porfirio Díaz |
| #8684, aired 2022-07-14 | LITERARY CASTLES $800: This Prague author's unfinished novel "The Castle" has a man named K trying unsuccessfully to access the title place Kafka |
| #8682, aired 2022-07-12 | WHO'S IN THAT COMMERCIAL? $200: George Hamilton & Reba McEntire are among those who have portrayed this man; the original recipe left us in 1980 Colonel Sanders |
| #8682, aired 2022-07-12 | THE LYIN' KING $1000: Troubadour Bertran said of this man who tried to steal the throne from crusading brother Richard, "No man may ever trust him" King John |
| #8681, aired 2022-07-11 | GEOGRAPHY FROM MACAU TO OGDEN $1600: 25 miles east of Vegas, this man-made lake was just 37% full in 2021, sparking energy concerns for the American Southwest Lake Mead |
| #8681, aired 2022-07-11 | WOOD $2000: This soft, lightweight red wood is named for a man born in what is now Tennessee around 1775 sequoia |
| #8680, aired 2022-07-08 | WHAT IS LOVE... $1200: This man's "[love is more thicker than forget]" continues non-capitalization in the rest of the poem cummings |
| #8679, aired 2022-07-07 | NEXT LEADER IN LINE $2000: Roman emperors: Tiberius,
Caligula,
this man played on TV by Derek Jacobi Claudius |
| #8678, aired 2022-07-06 | THE REPRESENTATIVE FROM... $800: Ohio: This man, a Republican Speaker of the House from 2011 to 2015 & later, an advocate for marijuana legalization John Boehner |
| #8678, aired 2022-07-06 | HISTORICAL HODGEPODGE $1600: Seen here is the April 1961 first day of the trial of this man, one of the most important proceedings of the 20th century Adolf Eichmann |
| #8677, aired 2022-07-05 | IT HAPPENED IN JULY $200: On July 20, 1969 he famously declared:
"That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind" Armstrong |
| #8677, aired 2022-07-05 | THE ARTS $1600: "The Son of Man", a painting by this Belgian, has a man in a bowler hat with his face blocked by a green apple Magritte |
| #8677, aired 2022-07-05 | ECONOMICS $1600: Book III of a 1776 economic work by this man is "of the Different Progress of Opulence in different Nations" Adam Smith |
| #8676, aired 2022-07-04 | THE POWER OF THE DOGE $1600: Trying to find his own corner of the sky, Agnello Parteciaco defied Venice's control by this man, Charlemagne's son Pepin |
| #8675, aired 2022-07-01 | A DISASTER OF BIBLICAL PROPORTIONS $400: After this man makes burnt offerings, "The Lord said... neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done" Noah |
| #8674, aired 2022-06-30 | BE MERRY $2000: Wagner's opera about this title man ends with grail & spear reunited, & smiles all around Parsifal |
| #8673, aired 2022-06-29 | CHUCK D, TIMES 3 $600: In the 1980s Chuck D began fighting the power in this hip-hop group with Flavor Flav, a man who always knew what time it was Public Enemy |
| #8673, aired 2022-06-29 | LITERARY TITLE CHARACTERS $800: Humbert Humbert is the man who lusts after her Lolita |
| #8673, aired 2022-06-29 | LITERARY TITLE CHARACTERS $1200: "A Man Called" this name is a 59-year-old curmudgeon who drives a Saab Ove |
| #8673, aired 2022-06-29 | MUNICIPAL MUSIC $1600: Feeling "unfettered & alive", Joni Mitchell sang of being "a free man in" this city Paris |
| #8671, aired 2022-06-27 | SOUTHERN CAPITALS $800: This capital was named for the man called "Old Hickory" Jackson |
| #8671, aired 2022-06-27 | BOOKS & THEIR MOVIES $3,000 (Daily Double): The title of this 2007 film adapted from a novel comes from a Yeats poem that says, "An aged man is but a paltry thing" No Country for Old Men |
| #8670, aired 2022-06-24 | BASEBALL BABES $1000: When this man's 2,130 consecutive-game streak ended in 1939, Babe Dahlgren took his place & went 2 for 5 with a homer Lou Gehrig |
| #8670, aired 2022-06-24 | PEOPLE IN POETRY $1200: John Alden woos Priscilla on behalf of a friend in Longfellow's "The Courtship of" this man (Miles) Standish |
| #8669, aired 2022-06-23 | IT'S ANARCHY $1200: In 1872 anarchism pioneer Mikhail Bakunin quarreled with this man, splitting Europe's revolutionary movement (Karl) Marx |
| #8669, aired 2022-06-23 | PUBLISHED POSTHUMOUSLY $2000: Just after "Howards End", he wrote "Maurice", about a gay man, but didn't allow it to be published until after his death Forster |
| #8668, aired 2022-06-22 | THE 1800s $800: In 1800 this sailing man visited Haydn, who composed a cantata on the Battle of the Nile Horatio Nelson |
| #8668, aired 2022-06-22 | OLD AD SLOGANS $1000: This beverage became "The Uncola" in the '60s, man 7 Up |
| #8667, aired 2022-06-21 | TV FACTOIDS $800: The latest variant of the "Law & Order" franchise is "Organized Crime" starring this man, a veteran of "SVU" Christopher Meloni |
| #8665, aired 2022-06-17 | HOME SWEET HOME RENOVATION $200: They say "No man is" one, but no kitchen of ours will be without one of these! Maybe with a wine rack, too! an island |
| #8665, aired 2022-06-17 | SCI-FI CHARACTERS $2,000 (Daily Double): In an H.G. Wells tale, Griffin, whose face is wrapped in rags, turns out to be this title guy The Invisible Man |
| #8664, aired 2022-06-16 | ARTISTS & THEIR SUBJECTS $800: In the 1930s Picasso often represented himself in his work as this mythical creature, half man & half bull a Minotaur |
| #8664, aired 2022-06-16 | ARTISTS & THEIR SUBJECTS $1,000 (Daily Double): Kehinde Wiley has jasmine (to represent Hawaii) & chrysanthemums (Chicago's official flower) in his portrait of this man Barack Obama |
| #8664, aired 2022-06-16 | WHO WAS WHERE, WHEN $1600: France's National Assembly got "The Declaration of the Rights of Man & of the Citizen" from this military hero on July 11, 1789 Lafayette |
| #8663, aired 2022-06-15 | THE BRADY BUNCH $800: For his PBS Civil War documentary, Ken Burns relied on this man's photographs Mathew Brady |
| #8662, aired 2022-06-14 | SONGS OF INNOCENCE & EXPERIENCE $1600: In a 1983 song & album, this piano man was "An Innocent Man" Billy Joel |
| #8662, aired 2022-06-14 | ISLES OF THE BRITISH ISLES $1600: This isle in the Irish Sea is not part of the U.K. but has been a personal possession of the British monarch since 1828 the Isle of Man |
| #8660, aired 2022-06-10 | KILLER TUNES $1600: Fronted by Danny Elfman, this rhyming band sang, "It's a dead man's party, who could ask for more?" Oingo Boingo |
| #8660, aired 2022-06-10 | NOTES FOR A BIOGRAPHY $1600: King George I: from Hanover, Germany but had a claim on the British crown through this man, his great-granddad born a Scot James I |
| #8660, aired 2022-06-10 | KILLER TUNES $2000: Backed up by the Bad Seeds, PJ Harvey & this man sang of the tragic fate of "Henry Lee" Nick Cave |
| #8659, aired 2022-06-09 | ABBREVIATED TV $1000: The forces of T.H.R.U.S.H. were enemies of "The Man from" this 1960s title spy organization U.N.C.L.E. |
| #8658, aired 2022-06-08 | FRENCH KINGS NAMED LOUIS $400: Louis XVIII was king from 1814 to 1824, except for the interruption of the "Hundred Days" when this man attempted a return to power Napoleon |
| #8658, aired 2022-06-08 | LAUREL CANYON $2000: Looking out from her daughter's dining room, Joni Mitchell's mom was shocked by goings-on at this man's place next door (Frank) Zappa |
| #8657, aired 2022-06-07 | DEER-POURRI $400: Disney employees warned each other that Walt was in the office by saying, "Man is in the forest", a riff on a line from this film Bambi |
| #8656, aired 2022-06-06 | SCIENCE STUFF $800: Abbreviated T, a fundamental unit of magnetic induction is named for this man Tesla |
| #8656, aired 2022-06-06 | ANTHROPOLOGY $1600: A curandero is one of these healers who communicate with supernatural forces for information & to attempt cures a medicine man (a witch doctor) |
| #8656, aired 2022-06-06 | NON-MEDICAL DOCTORS $2,000 (Daily Double): Near the Mass. Ave. T stop on the Orange Line is where this man lived in the 1950s getting his theology Ph.D. at Boston University Martin Luther King Jr. |
| #8654, aired 2022-06-02 | YE OLD "E" CATEGORY $400: Now we know it as a magazine title, but back in the day it was a young man who attended a knight esquire |
| #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 |
| #8652, aired 2022-05-31 | MEDIEVAL TIMES $400: "Shooting at the butts" (man-made mounds of earth) was a popular way to practice this discipline archery |
| #8651, aired 2022-05-30 | STICK TO THE SCRIPTURE $1200: The people with Jesus when "he called" this man "out of his grave, and raised him from the dead" bore witness Lazarus |
| #8649, aired 2022-05-26 | ALLUSIONS OF GRANDEUR $800: The 19th century railroad sleeping car named for this man was a symbol of splendor equal to the finest hotel Pullman |
| #8648, aired 2022-05-25 | LET'S GET HISTORICAL $400: In ancient Rome, the retiarius, or "net man", & the dimachaerus, or "2-knife man", were types of these gladiators |
| #8647, aired 2022-05-24 | NEWS PERSONALITIES PAST & PRESENT $1600: Now on CNBC, this man seen here had an early stint covering stories on "A Current Affair" Shepard Smith |
| #8646, aired 2022-05-23 | POSSESSIVE PHRASES $2000: Taking what's offered or nothing at all is called this man's "choice" Hobson |
| #8644, aired 2022-05-19 | TV PERSONALITIES $1200: A judge on "The Great British Baking Show", this man who sounds right at home in L.A. provides recipes for the BBC Paul Hollywood |
| #8643, aired 2022-05-18 | BEASTLY BOOK CHARACTERS $400: In "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow", this easily frightened man rode a horse named Gunpowder Ichabod Crane |
| #8643, aired 2022-05-18 | SETTING, THE BROADWAY STAGE $800: This favorite is right here in River City, Iowa The Music Man |
| #8643, aired 2022-05-18 | FROM THE GREEK FOR... $2000: "Wolf-man": this fancier 11-letter term for a werewolf a lycanthrope |
| #8643, aired 2022-05-18 | SCIENCE $2000: As the naturalist for Vitus Bering's Great Northern Expedition in the 1740s, this man described a jay & a sea cow Georg Steller |
| #8641, aired 2022-05-16 | A HORSE WITH A NAME $800: In 1938, in one of the great races of the century, this grandson of Man o' War beat War Admiral in a one-on-one match Seabiscuit |
| #8641, aired 2022-05-16 | FACE THE MUSIC $800: This late comic is the Andy of R.E.M.'s hit "Man On The Moon" Andy Kaufman |
| #8641, aired 2022-05-16 | SWEDISH HISTORY $1600: Queen Christina of Sweden was mentored by this French "cogito, ergo sum" man when he lived there in 1649 & 1650 Descartes |
| #8640, aired 2022-05-13 | D.C. TOURISM $600: At its completion in 1884, this was the tallest man-made structure in the world the Washington Monument |
| #8640, aired 2022-05-13 | TAYLOR'S VERSION $1000: In the 1970s this singer-songwriter had big hits with his cover versions of "You've Got A Friend" & "Handy Man" James Taylor |
| #8640, aired 2022-05-13 | PLACES IN THE BIBLE $1200: Acts 21 tells us Tarsus in Cilicia was this man's hometown Saul or Paul |
| #8639, aired 2022-05-12 | ESTABLISHMENT $800: In 1887 this man systematically created the first U.S. library school, at Columbia (Melvil) Dewey |
| #8638, aired 2022-05-11 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): These 4 words of advice from newspaper editor Horace Greeley were followed by "and grow up with the country" Go West, young man |
| #8638, aired 2022-05-11 | FROM QUEENS $1000: He turned down a "close encounter" with Bernie Madoff before playing the man: "I already had a Queens accent, so he couldn't help me" (Richard) Dreyfuss |
| #8636, aired 2022-05-09 | ALL ABOUT AMPHIBIANS $400: Seen here, a small frog of South America, is named for this man who discovered the species on an 1830s voyage (Charles) Darwin |
| #8636, aired 2022-05-09 | THE NUREMBERG TRIALS $1600: (Sarah presents the clue.) "The record discloses no excuses for this man" was the court's verdict on this notorious Nazi & Luftwaffe chieftain who cheated the hangman by taking cyanide in his cell Hermann Göring |
| #8635, aired 2022-05-06 | MODERN ROYALTY $400: Akihito took over as emperor of Japan after the 1989 death of his father, this man Hirohito |
| #8635, aired 2022-05-06 | 2 FIRST NAMES? $600: He was the Marvel-ous writer, publisher & co-creator of such superheroes as Spider-Man & the Incredible Hulk Stan Lee |
| #8634, aired 2022-05-05 | DESCRIBING THE PULITZER FICTION WINNER $400: 1953: Sharks plunder elderly Santiago's catch The Old Man and the Sea |
| #8634, aired 2022-05-05 | THE NAPOLEONIC WARS $1000: Pre-Waterloo, this man made his name commanding the British in the 1808-14 Peninsular War in Spain & Portugal Wellington |
| #8634, aired 2022-05-05 | ART $1000: In the "Education of Achilles" by this Flemish master, a highly cultivated man, the lyre represents music education Rubens |
| #8634, aired 2022-05-05 | DESCRIBING THE PULITZER FICTION WINNER $1200: 2007: Lawless bands scour a ravaged America; a man & his son walk alone The Road |
| #8634, aired 2022-05-05 | TRUST FALL $1600: The breaking up of Standard Oil of N.J. into 34 companies gave this man stock that made him the richest man in the world J.D. Rockefeller |
| #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 $1000: The NASA program named for this sister of Apollo looks to land a woman (& a man) on the Moon by 2024 Artemis |
| #8633, aired 2022-05-04 | IT'S YOUR TOP 40 PRESIDENTIAL COUNTDOWN $1600: At No. 17, this Tennessee man has really got those "Reconstruction Blues" Andrew Johnson |
| #8632, aired 2022-05-03 | THE ACTOR REALLY SAVES THE DAY! $600: Already a superhero onscreen as Marvel's Master of the Mystic Arts, this man leapt out of a car to stop a mugging in 2018 Benedict Cumberbatch |
| #8632, aired 2022-05-03 | BIBLE BELTS $800: Talking to this much put-upon Old Testament guy, Zophar says, "The bow of steel shall strike" the wicked man Job |
| #8632, aired 2022-05-03 | BIBLE BELTS $1000: In the New Testament we hear of a man who is beaten, stripped & left for dead; some pass him by but this man "had compassion" the Good Samaritan |
| #8632, aired 2022-05-03 | EASY LISTENING $1600: Linda Ronstadt covered "It's So Easy", originally recorded by this man & the Crickets Buddy Holly |
| #8631, aired 2022-05-02 | FAMOUS NAMES $1600: Relating to Chinese/ Russian relations, 1923's Sun-Joffe Manifesto was presented by Adolf Joffe & this man Sun Yat-sen |
| #8630, aired 2022-04-29 | POLITICIANS IN THEIR SCHOOL DAYS $1200: Take a look at this then-young man from Wyoming, a few years before he was a heartbeat away from the presidency Dick Cheney |
| #8629, aired 2022-04-28 | OLD YORK $800: After battling the Picts in 305, this "Great" man was proclaimed emperor of Rome in York Constantine |
| #8629, aired 2022-04-28 | CATCHING YOU SHORT $2000: Charlemagne's dad, this man III was called "the Short"; Charlemagne's kid also got the name Pepin the Short |
| #8627, aired 2022-04-26 | I LEARNED IT IN THE COMIC BOOKS $600: Peter Parker has worked as a photographer for this newspaper created long before Spider-Man was The Daily Bugle |
| #8626, aired 2022-04-25 | THE MEXICAN-AMERICAN WAR $600: Several future U.S. presidents served in the war; this man was president during it Polk |
| #8626, aired 2022-04-25 | LET'S PLAY OLD-TIME PRIVATE EYE $1000: The man lived in Caddo Parish, in this Louisiana "port" city. Well... had lived. Turns out some guys don't mix well with threshers Shreveport |
| #8625, aired 2022-04-22 | CROSSWORD CLUES "K" $200: Man of Steel's weakness (10 letters) kryptonite |
| #8625, aired 2022-04-22 | MEMORABLE MOVIE MELODIES $400: "I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow"
(2000) O Brother, Where Art Thou? |
| #8624, aired 2022-04-21 | BIBLICAL DEVOTIONS $800: When Sarah dies at the age of 127, this man weeps for her & buries her in the Cave of Machpelah Abraham |
| #8624, aired 2022-04-21 | BOOK TITLE GEOGRAPHY $1000: John le Carre, man of international intrigue:
"The ____ House" The Russia House |
| #8621, aired 2022-04-18 | WORLD LEADERS $200: The Truth & Reconciliation Commission set up by this man in 1995 investigated human rights violations under apartheid Nelson Mandela |
| #8621, aired 2022-04-18 | WORLD LEADERS $800: In 1937 this man took control of the Falange Española, soon to be the nation's only legal political party Franco |
| #8620, aired 2022-04-15 | IN THE ZOOM ROOM $400: Your gardening group can learn about Detroit dark red--not a hit man but a sweet variety of this root veggie a beet |
| #8620, aired 2022-04-15 | HANDLE WITH AIR $1000: The National Air & Space Museum is home to the Bell X-1 this man used in 1947 to fly faster than the speed of sound (Chuck) Yeager |
| #8617, aired 2022-04-12 | ROCK ART $200: "Help" is a 2005 print by this man who played drums on "Help!" 40 years earlier Ringo Starr |
| #8617, aired 2022-04-12 | I HAVE A PLAN $2000: The 1791 plan for Washington, D.C. with diagonal axes over a more conventional grid was named for this Paris-born man (Pierre) L'Enfant |
| #8615, aired 2022-04-08 | R&B MUSIC $800: In 2016, part of a Detroit street was named in honor of this man, who's had Number Ones on the R&B charts since he was a kid Stevie Wonder |
| #8615, aired 2022-04-08 | WHAT KIND OF PLACE IS THIS? $2000: Virginia "burg"s include Peters-, Williams- & this one also with a man's name, site of an 1862 battle Fredericksburg |
| #8615, aired 2022-04-08 | AIN'T NO CENTURY LIKE THE 17th CENTURY $2000: This man's 1689 "Essay Concerning Human Understanding" dealt with the tabula rasa, or "clean slate" of a newborn mind John Locke |
| #8614, aired 2022-04-07 | DOCUMENTARIES $400: "Man on Wire" takes a look at Philippe Petit's daring & illegal tightrope walk in 1974 between the towers of this complex the World Trade Center |
| #8614, aired 2022-04-07 | WORLD WAR II $400: When war broke out in September 1939, this country had tanks & a million-man army yet still relied heavily on cavalry Poland |
| #8614, aired 2022-04-07 | QUOTE-POURRI $800: This man from Shaoshan wrote, "A revolution is not a dinner party" Mao Zedong |
| #8613, aired 2022-04-06 | TOMBSTONES $1000: South Georgia Island off Antarctica is home to the gravestone of this man who explored the region in his ship the Endurance (Ernest) Shackleton |
| #8613, aired 2022-04-06 | IN YOUR PREFACE $1200: Before his 1543 book begins, this man tells Pope Paul III, "I should, on the contrary, assert that the Earth moves" Copernicus |
| #8613, aired 2022-04-06 | IN YOUR PREFACE $2000: This 16th century man's preface to the history of the Reformation in Scotland deems some clergy members "bloody wolves" (John) Knox |
| #8612, aired 2022-04-05 | CAN'T LOSE $200: On running for re-election in 2024, this law alum from Leningrad State University said, "I haven't decided"; uh huh, sure, man Putin |
| #8612, aired 2022-04-05 | HOW ARE YOU FIXED FOR BLADES? $200: Before proclaiming it was "the best a man can get", this razor company asked via cartoon parrot, "How are you fixed for blades?" Gillette |
| #8612, aired 2022-04-05 | CAN'T LOSE $400: By the numbers in 1984, it was Ronald Reagan, 54 million votes, this Minnesota man, 17 million fewer Mondale |
| #8612, aired 2022-04-05 | INSTRUMENTAL TV THEMES $400: The jaunty "William Tell Overture" was the theme song for this old show about a masked man The Lone Ranger |
| #8610, aired 2022-04-01 | ACTING PRESIDENTS $400: In an Oliver Stone biopic, Toby Jones was Karl Rove & Josh Brolin was this man George W. Bush |
| #8610, aired 2022-04-01 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: In "The Story of" this man, his friends include Too-Too, an owl, Chee-Chee, a monkey, & Dab-Dab, a duck Doctor Dolittle |
| #8610, aired 2022-04-01 | THANK YOU, THE INTERNET $600: Shout-out to the man who told a barista at this business his name was Marc with a "C" & posted a pic of his cup... for "Cark" Starbucks |
| #8610, aired 2022-04-01 | HISTORIC NAMES $800: The opulent Sarasota mansion of circus man John Ringling is covered with stucco & this baked earth material terracotta |
| #8609, aired 2022-03-31 | BUSINESS NAME ORIGINS $200: The name of this Akron-based company honors the man who invented the vulcanization process for rubber Goodyear |
| #8609, aired 2022-03-31 | IN MEMORIAM 2021 $800: In 2021, we lost two veteran Jewish comedians--Mort Sahl on the left & this man on the right Jackie Mason |
| #8609, aired 2022-03-31 | IN THE GILDED AGE $1600: Buyouts, mergers & other means gave this man's Standard Oil Company a virtual monopoly on U.S. petroleum (John D.) Rockefeller |
| #8608, aired 2022-03-30 | JOIN THE CROWD $800: Love was in the air among the 600,000 on this isle in 1970 to see Hendrix & The Who in what's been called the British Woodstock the Isle of Wight |
| #8608, aired 2022-03-30 | GOOD LINE, FAMOUS NAME! $800: George Bernard Shaw defined this negative thinker as "a man who thinks everybody as nasty as himself, and hates them for it" a pessimist |
| #8608, aired 2022-03-30 | MULTI-SPORT ATHLETES $1000: "Prime Time", prime time--in 1992, this man here hit .304, with 14 triples for the Braves & picked off three passes for the Falcons (Deion) Sanders |
| #8606, aired 2022-03-28 | CROSBY $200: Bing Crosby made hits of hundreds of songs, perhaps most famously "White Christmas" written by this man Irving Berlin |
| #8605, aired 2022-03-25 | HISTORY'S MISTER "E"s $800: Director John Ford said he based the gunfight at the O.K. Corral in "My Darling Clementine" on this man's recollections Wyatt Earp |
| #8605, aired 2022-03-25 | A BIT OF BRIT LIT $800: Because he serves a man, Bertie Wooster, & not a household, P.G. Wodehouse's Jeeves has this job title, not butler valet |
| #8604, aired 2022-03-24 | MYTHOLOGICAL ENDINGS $400: One myth says Jason was an old man when the prow of this rotting ship fell on him & killed him the Argo |
| #8603, aired 2022-03-23 | MUSIC AS OF LATE $600: "Cold Heart", his 2021 hit with Dua Lipa, included lyrics from "Rocket Man" Elton John |
| #8603, aired 2022-03-23 | MUSIC AS OF LATE $1000: "When It Rains It Pours" for this man seen here who's had a flood of No. 1 country singles (Luke) Combs |
| #8603, aired 2022-03-23 | IT HAPPENED IN '22 $2000: 1522:
This man the Younger paints the "Solothurn Madonna" (Hans) Holbein (the Younger) |
| #8602, aired 2022-03-22 | THOSE DARN ETRUSCANS $800: A messenger & an intermediary between the gods & man, the Etruscan god, Turms, was equivalent to this Greek god Hermes |
| #8602, aired 2022-03-22 | 1860s AMERICA $2,000 (Daily Double): In the House in 1868, radical Republican Thaddeus Stevens began the closing argument against this man Andrew Johnson |
| #8600, aired 2022-03-18 | BIBLICAL PASSAGES $1200: In Exodus, this man tells the elders of Israel that when the Lord sees blood upon the lintel & side posts, he "will pass over the door" Moses |
| #8600, aired 2022-03-18 | WOMEN OF COUNTRY MUSIC $1600: She said of "Stand By Your Man" that she spent 20 minutes writing it & over 20 years defending it Tammy Wynette |
| #8599, aired 2022-03-17 | HISTORY QUICK TAKES $1,500 (Daily Double): In 1642 Mongols deposed Tibet's ruling dynasty & gave rule to the man with this title the Dalai Lama |
| #8597, aired 2022-03-15 | BUILDINGS IN HISTORY $1200: The Yusupov Palace on St. Petersburg's Moyka River was the location of the rather lengthy killing of this man in December 1916 Rasputin |
| #8596, aired 2022-03-14 | A FEW MOMENTS WITH MILLARD FILLMORE $400: In 1848 Fillmore wrote to this man who had chosen him for VP, saying I know you never heard of me before the convention Taylor |
| #9079, aired 2024-04-11 | SPACE SHUTTLES: 2 space shuttles were named for craft commanded by this man who died far from home in 1779 (Captain) Cook |
| #9073, aired 2024-04-03 | PHYSICISTS: This man with a force named after him published an 1835 scientific treatise on the physics of billiard balls (Gaspard-Gustave de) Coriolis |
| #9066, aired 2024-03-25 | NOTORIOUS FIGURES: Never even a soldier, this man lied that his nickname came from a shrapnel wound while fighting in the Argonne Al Capone |
| #9060, aired 2024-03-15 | HISTORIC AMERICANS: Near Kirkbean on Solway Firth, U.S. Vice Admiral Jerauld Wright presented a memorial plaque honoring this man John Paul Jones |
| #9046, aired 2024-02-26 | ART HISTORY: The Royal Academy of Arts has this man's "La Fornarina" & in the 1800s the RAA's love of him made some artists retreat to an earlier style Raphael |
| #9043, aired 2024-02-21 | 19th CENTURY AMERICANS: In 1896, 15 years after a famous showdown, this man was accused of fixing a championship boxing match Wyatt Earp |
| #9030, aired 2024-02-02 | ARMY TECHNOLOGY: Bearing the name of a man who died in Iowa in 1838, these began service in 1979 & today number in the thousands Black Hawk helicopters |
| #9018, aired 2024-01-17 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA: An 1884 article calls this newly completed structure "the highest work of man" & disagrees with those who call it "a great chimney" the Washington Monument |
| #9004, aired 2023-12-28 | THOSE ZANY ANCIENT ROMANS: In the 20s B.C. the emperor's sister Octavia had a sitcom-worthy home including the boy & girl twin children of this man & woman Antony & Cleopatra |
| #9000, aired 2023-12-22 | THE 20th CENTURY: On July 19, 1940 Hitler called this man a warmonger & wrongly predicted he would flee to Canada Winston Churchill |
| #8999, aired 2023-12-21 | FROM PAGE TO STAGE: The opera based on this 1993 memoir was staged at a prison for the first time in 2023, at Sing Sing with a chorus of 14 inmates Dead Man Walking |
| #8990, aired 2023-12-08 | ANCIENT HISTORY: Before visiting Achilles' tomb, this man threw his spear onto the ground in Asia & declared the continent "spear-won" Alexander the Great |
| #8983, aired 2023-11-29 | A BIT OF BRITAIN: In disarray, it was sold at auction in 1915 to a local Wiltshire man, who would donate it to the British government 3 years later Stonehenge |
| #8976, aired 2023-11-20 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: 7 U.S. presidents were born in the state of Ohio, beginning with this man who entered West Point in 1839 Ulysses Grant |
| #8974, aired 2023-11-16 | POETS: 1793 reports of the killing of Hector Munro by a wild animal in India may have inspired one of this man's best-known poems William Blake |
| #8968, aired 2023-11-08 | EXPLORERS: Perhaps inspiring a line 2 centuries later, in 1774 he wrote that he was headed "farther than any other man has been before me" Captain James Cook |
| #8935, aired 2023-09-22 | COMPOSERS: A fireworks display followed the April 27, 1749 premiere of a work by this man that had been commissioned by George II (George Frideric) Handel |
| #8933, aired 2023-09-20 | 20th CENTURY PEOPLE: In 2022 the Dept. of Energy noted "a flawed process" & vacated a 1954 commission's decision "in the matter of" this man (J. Robert) Oppenheimer |
| #8917, aired 2023-07-18 | MAN-MADE OBJECTS: Around since 1998, it's now roughly the length of a football field & travels at about 5 miles per second the International Space Station (the ISS) |
| #8902, aired 2023-06-27 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE: In 1896 new spider species were named for a wolf, a panther & a snake from a work published 2 years earlier by this man (Rudyard) Kipling |
| #20, aired 2023-05-24 | LATIN IN LITERATURE: A work by this 15th century English writer quotes the phrase "rex quondam rexque futurus" Thomas Malory |
| #8878, aired 2023-05-24 | CLASSICAL MUSIC: When the opera "Lohengrin" premiered in 1850, this man, a future in-law of the composer, was the conductor Franz Liszt |
| #17, aired 2023-05-23 | REAL PEOPLE IN SHAKESPEARE: In Shakespeare this man is a rival of Prince Hal; in real life he was older than Hal's father Hotspur |
| #8872, aired 2023-05-16 | AUTHORS: In 1960 Jean-Paul Sartre wrote of this man's "victorious attempt... to snatch every instant of his existence from his future death" (Albert) Camus |
| #8864, aired 2023-05-04 | BODIES OF WATER: Formed some 10,000-15,000 years ago & with an average depth of only about 150 feet, it's named for a man who sailed through it in 1728 the Bering Strait |
| #8822, aired 2023-03-07 | NAMES IN THE BOOKSTORE: This man made lists, perhaps to cope with depression; a set of lists he published in 1852 made his name synonymous with a type of book (Peter Mark) Roget |
| #8821, aired 2023-03-06 | U.S. HISTORY: An 1869 presidential pardon was granted to this man, due in part to a plea by the Medical Society of Harford County, Maryland Dr. Samuel Mudd |
| #9, aired 2023-01-05 | 20th CENTURY PEOPLE: Calling him "the embodiment of pure intellect", in December 1999 Time magazine named him Person of the Century Albert Einstein |
| #8752, aired 2022-11-29 | NAMES IN U.S. HISTORY: This father was the only man among the 13 plaintiffs in a class-action case filed in 1951 Brown |
| #4, aired 2022-10-16 | ANNUAL EVENTS: In 1986 Larry Harvey called a friend & said, let's do this, no one knows exactly why; it evolved into an annual festival in the desert Burning Man |
| #8720, aired 2022-10-14 | AUTHORS: Featuring a statue of a man escaping his grave, his tomb in Amiens contrasts with the title of his 1864 adventure novel (Jules) Verne |
| #8717, aired 2022-10-11 | FAMOUS SHIPS: Its wreck was discovered in 1989, 48 years after it had been sunk & 91 years after the man it was named for had died the Bismarck |
| #8673, aired 2022-06-29 | TELEVISION HISTORY: In the opening scene of its July 21, 1969 pilot episode, a man carves the letter D into wet cement Sesame Street |
| #8651, aired 2022-05-30 | IN MEMORIAM 2022: On the death of this trailblazing man, friend & mentor, Oprah said, "For me, the greatest of the 'great trees' has fallen" Sidney Poitier |
| #8642, aired 2022-05-17 | LITERATURE: A contemporary review of a novel by this man said he "commands attention as a kind of literary James Dean" (Jack) Kerouac |
| #8640, aired 2022-05-13 | STATE NAMES: This state was named for a man born in Herrenhausen Palace in Hanover in 1683 Georgia |
| #8625, aired 2022-04-22 | HISTORIC NAMES: DNA from 2 living descendants of Anne of York was used to identify the remains of this man Richard III |
| #8599, aired 2022-03-17 | NONFICTION: This 1962 classic was dedicated to Albert Schweitzer, who predicted that man "will end by destroying the earth" Silent Spring |
| #8590, aired 2022-03-04 | LITERARY CHARACTERS: Dostoyevsky wrote that this title man in an earlier European novel is "beautiful only because he is ridiculous" Don Quixote |
| #8575, aired 2022-02-11 | INTERNATIONAL PLAYWRIGHTS: A piece of writing advice from this man who died in 1904 concludes, "Otherwise don't put it there" (Anton) Chekhov |
| #8573, aired 2022-02-09 | AMERICAN CITIES: Recorded on a visit to this California city, YouTube's first video featured a man saying, "They have really, really, really long trunks" San Diego |
| #8568, aired 2022-02-02 | RECENT TV: The credits on "The Queen’s Gambit" included this man as "special consultant" (Garry) Kasparov |
| #8557, aired 2022-01-18 | AWARDS AROUND THE WORLD: France's national theater award, it's named for a man who died in Paris in 1673 the Molière Award |
| #8550, aired 2022-01-07 | 20th CENTURY NONFICTION: "Norwegian Independence Day" & "a vast blue sea" are mentioned in Chapter 1 of a 1948 book by this man (Thor) Heyerdahl |
| #8535, aired 2021-12-17 | FRENCH ARTISTS: The catalog of MoMA's first exhibition called this artist who died in 1891 a "man of science" & "inventor of a method" (Georges) Seurat |
| #8528, aired 2021-12-08 | 20th CENTURY PEOPLE: Gen. MacArthur said this man's death by "violence is one of those bitter anachronisms that seems to refute all logic" "Mahatma" Gandhi |
| #8524, aired 2021-12-02 | JOURNALISTS IN HISTORY: Bismarck Tribune correspondent Mark Kellogg died June 25, 1876 while on a field assignment covering this man (General George) Custer |
| #8510, aired 2021-11-12 | CONTEMPORARY PLAYWRIGHTS: "The Murder of Gonzago" is used as a play within a 1966 play by this man who was inspired by Shakespeare (Tom) Stoppard |
| #8497, aired 2021-10-26 | AUTHORS: These 2 men who both died in Boston in the mid-20th century each won 4 Pulitzers, one man for Poetry & the other for Drama (Robert) Frost & (Eugene) O'Neill |
| #8488, aired 2021-10-13 | SPORTS LEGENDS: When Johnny Bench broke his record, this man wrote, "I always thought the record would stand until it was broken" Yogi Berra |
| #8470, aired 2021-09-17 | 19th CENTURY U.S. POLITICS: Named after a U.K. political party that helped depose a king, the U.S. Whig Party was formed to oppose this man (Andrew) Jackson |
| #8461, aired 2021-08-09 | BEASTLY EPONYMS: A penguin species found in southern South America is named for this 16th century man whose crew were the first from Europe to see them (Ferdinand) Magellan |
| #8459, aired 2021-08-05 | 1930s AMERICA: Unpopular at the time, the man for whom it is named wasn't invited to the September 30, 1935 dedication of this landmark Hoover Dam |
| #8418, aired 2021-06-09 | 1960s SINGERS: In 2002 Macon, Georgia, where he grew up, unveiled a statue of this man who sits overlooking the water, a nod to his posthumous No. 1 hit Otis Redding |
| #8401, aired 2021-05-17 | ANCIENT GREEKS: Plutarch quotes this man who sentenced many to death: "Small ones deserve that, and I have no higher for the greater crimes" Draco |
| #8398, aired 2021-05-12 | WORLD'S FAIRS: The theme of Seattle's 1962 World's Fair was "Man in the" this era Space Age |
| #8391, aired 2021-05-03 | 19th CENTURY AMERICANS: His book "An Overland Journey from New York to San Francisco in the Summer of 1859" shows he heeded his own famous advice Horace Greeley |
| #8380, aired 2021-04-16 | AMERICAN NAMES: One of the luminaries who drove in the "Golden Spike" in Utah in 1869 was this man who later founded a university (Leland) Stanford |
| #8367, aired 2021-03-30 | AMERICAN HISTORY: While performing in Philadelphia, the future father of this man sent a letter threatening to slit Andrew Jackson's throat (John Wilkes) Booth |
| #8339, aired 2021-02-18 | 19th CENTURY PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGNS: The first campaign of this man, who at 36 was the youngest major party nominee ever, was supported by the silver mining industry William Jennings Bryan |
| #8334, aired 2021-02-11 | THE OSCARS: The first time an individual won 4 awards at a single ceremony was in 1954, when his wins included Best 2-Reel Short Subject Walt Disney |
| #8320, aired 2021-01-22 | STATUES: Statues honoring this man who was killed in 1779 can be found in Waimea, Kauai & in Whitby, England (Captain) Cook |
| #8287, aired 2020-11-24 | HISTORIC DOCUMENTS: One of the liberties listed in this: "No man shall be forced to perform more service for a knight's 'fee'... than is due from it" the Magna Carta |
| #8281, aired 2020-11-16 | 18th CENTURY AMERICANS: One eulogizer of this man noted, he "was able to restrain thunderbolts & tyrants" Benjamin Franklin |
| #8258, aired 2020-10-14 | MOVIE APPEARANCES: Not an actor, this man who died in 2018 appeared briefly in some 40 mainly action films with a combined $30 billion worldwide gross Stan Lee |
| #8251, aired 2020-10-05 | FAMOUS AMERICANS: Will Smith & Lennox Lewis were pallbearers at this man's 2016 funeral Muhammad Ali |
| #8238, aired 2020-09-16 | 19th CENTURY AMERICANS: Obituaries called this man who died in 1820 a celebrated colonel, the first settler in Kentucky & a man who delighted in perils & battle Daniel Boone |
| #8234, aired 2020-06-11 | MEDICAL HISTORY: One of the first recorded autopsies was performed on this man & revealed 23 puncture marks Julius Caesar |
| #8229, aired 2020-06-04 | NOTABLE BRITS: On this man's death in a 1935 motorcycle accident, Churchill said, his "pace of life was faster & more intense than the ordinary" Lawrence of Arabia |
| #8210, aired 2020-04-24 | MEN & MACHINES: John Moore-Brabazon, the first pilot licensed by England, had learned about engines working for this man, first half of a famous pair (Charles) Rolls |
| #8205, aired 2020-04-17 | HISTORIC FIGURES: In legend, this real European leader fielded an elite corps called the 12 Peers that included Oliver & Roland Charlemagne |
| #8158, aired 2020-02-12 | 20th CENTURY EUROPEAN LEADERS: In a 1930s broadcast, this man spoke of “A quarrel in a faraway country between people of whom we know nothing” Neville Chamberlain |
| #8157, aired 2020-02-11 | AMERICAN HISTORY: After statesman & banker Robert Morris turned down a job offer from George Washington, this man took the job Alexander Hamilton |
| #8153, aired 2020-02-05 | AMERICAN HISTORY: At Harpers Ferry, John Brown & his rebels were defeated by troops commanded by this man who 2 years later led a rebel army himself Robert E. Lee |
| #8148, aired 2020-01-29 | 21st CENTURY OSCAR WINNERS: This man won Best Supporting Actor twice, both for films that won Best Picture Mahershala Ali |
| #2, aired 2020-01-07 | ASTRONOMERS: This man's name was given to a comet that crashed into Jupiter in 1994; he's the only human whose remains lie on the Moon Shoemaker |
| #8115, aired 2019-12-13 | BUSINESS NAMESAKES: It's the last name of the man who said, "Our whole concept was based on speed, lower prices & volume...my God, the carhops were slow" McDonald |
| #8111, aired 2019-12-09 | VICE PRESIDENTS: George H.W. Bush in 1988 was the first sitting vice president to be elected to the top job since this man 152 years before Martin Van Buren |
| #8090, aired 2019-11-08 | LITERARY CHARACTERS: From an 1894 work, his name literally translates to "tiger king" Shere Khan |
| #8078, aired 2019-10-23 | 1930s NOVEL CHARACTERS: Prior to a murder in a 1934 book, he says he hasn't been a detective since 1927 & that his wife inherited a lumber mill Nick Charles |
| #8073, aired 2019-10-16 | WORLD LEADERS: This man who ruled from 1949 to 1976 was sometimes called "the Red Sun" Mao Zedong (Mao) |
| #8060, aired 2019-09-27 | EPITAPHS: From his own 1898 poem, the epitaph of this Irish-born man ends, "his mourners will be outcast men, & outcasts always mourn" Oscar Wilde |
| #8053, aired 2019-09-18 | THE 1940s: This nickname for a history-changing weapon of 1945 came from a character in "The Maltese Falcon" Fat Man |
| #8048, aired 2019-09-11 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS: The original title of this 1900 classic included a gem; another working title mentioned a Plains state The Wonderful Wizard of Oz |
| #8039, aired 2019-07-18 | NOTORIOUS: The death penalty has been carried out only once under Israeli law--in 1962, for this man Adolf Eichmann |
| #8021, aired 2019-06-24 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES: Starting a university after his only son died in 1884, this man said, "The children of California shall be our children" Leland Stanford |
| #8019, aired 2019-06-20 | 18th CENTURY AMERICANS: "Essays to Do Good" by Cotton Mather inspired Silence Dogood, the newspaper pseudonym of this man Benjamin Franklin |
| #8007, aired 2019-06-04 | WORLD TIME ZONES: This European country is still an hour ahead of GMT, a move made in 1940 to be on the same time as Nazi Germany Spain |
| #7997, aired 2019-05-21 | POETRY & THE MOVIES: Robert Lowell's "For the Union Dead" honored the 54th Massachusetts, the infantry unit in this 1989 film that won 3 Oscars Glory |
| #7945, aired 2019-03-08 | 20th CENTURY NEWSMAKERS: In 1982 a probate judge in his home state of Michigan declared him legally dead Jimmy Hoffa |
| #7940, aired 2019-03-01 | PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION YEARS: Prior to 2016 it was the last election year in which the winning candidate had never held public elected office 1952 |
| #7910, aired 2019-01-18 | TV PERSONALITIES: In 2000 this man was the host of a No. 1 rated network show & a No. 2 rated syndicated talk show Regis Philbin |
| #7897, aired 2019-01-01 | U.S. NAVY SHIPS: "Peace through strength" is the motto of the U.S. aircraft carrier named for this man who professed the same policy Ronald Reagan |
| #7878, aired 2018-12-05 | NAMES IN AMERICAN HISTORY: In 1999 the U.S. government was ordered to pay his family $16 million for less than 30 seconds of film Abraham Zapruder |
| #7863, aired 2018-11-14 | 19th CENTURY NAMES: In the 1870s he wrote that "man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits" Charles Darwin |
| #7852, aired 2018-10-30 | TODAY'S INNOVATORS: The Ballbarrow was an early invention by this British man who's had greater success with sophisticated household devices James Dyson |
| #7846, aired 2018-10-22 | PLACES IN THE NEWS: In a hint of the future, in 1973 Marjorie Post gave it to the U.S. govt. as a warm-weather presidential retreat, but it was returned Mar-a-Lago |
| #7826, aired 2018-09-24 | BRITISH ROYALTY: In Sept. 2017 Prince Charles became the longest-serving Prince of Wales, passing the man who became this king Edward VII |
| #7814, aired 2018-07-26 | FAMOUS NAMES: Almost 100 when he died in 2018, this North Carolina man became just the 4th private citizen to lie in honor at the U.S. Capitol Billy Graham |
| #7806, aired 2018-07-16 | EXPLORERS: In 1513 the son of a local chief told this man, when you cross the mountains, "You shall see another sea" Vasco Núñez de Balboa |
| #7787, aired 2018-06-19 | 20th CENTURY AMERICAN HISTORY: On Nov. 3, 1948 he sent a congratulatory telegram, then told reporters, "I was just as surprised as you" Thomas Dewey |
| #7777, aired 2018-06-05 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS: He got a real N.Y. Times obit in 1975; it said he wore "false mustaches to mask signs of age that offended his vanity" Hercule Poirot |
| #7752, aired 2018-05-01 | FASHION BRANDS: Translated from Roman numerals, "55" appears in luggage & watch product names from a company founded by this man Louis Vuitton |
| #7751, aired 2018-04-30 | AUTHORS ON AUTHORS: Whitman said this man's poetry has "a propensity toward nocturnal themes, a demoniac undertone behind every page" Edgar Allan Poe |
| #7731, aired 2018-04-02 | U.S. GOVERNMENT: The portrait here hangs in the building of this Cabinet department & depicts a man who once ran it the Department of Justice |
| #7701, aired 2018-02-19 | THE SUPREME COURT: In the 1966 case of this man, Earl Warren wrote of eliminating "evils in the interrogation process" Ernesto Miranda |
| #7687, aired 2018-01-30 | LITERATURE & MYTHOLOGY: The "very name embodies the idea of flight", says one analysis of a 20th century novel in describing this main character Stephen Dedalus |
| #7659, aired 2017-12-21 | ADVERTISING CHARACTERS: This brand was looking for a Hemingway type when it hired Jonathan Goldsmith for its commercials Dos Equis |
| #7649, aired 2017-12-07 | TIME MAGAZINE'S PERSON OF THE YEAR: Since "Man of the Year" became "Person of the Year" in 1999, only 1 individual woman has won: this European for 2015 Angela Merkel |
| #7633, aired 2017-11-15 | HISTORIC NAMES: In 2013 the village of Belrain renamed the last street in France that bore the name of this hero who became a traitor Maréchal Philippe Petain |
| #7623, aired 2017-11-01 | THE OSCARS: For 1992, this New Yorker was the first man with 2 acting Oscar nominations in the same year for different films Al Pacino |
| #7618, aired 2017-10-25 | AMERICANA: The tiny town of Cayce, Kentucky was the home & supplied the nickname of a man famous in this job an engineer |
| #7596, aired 2017-09-25 | BRITISH POETS: The statue of a sailor seen here in Watchet, England is based on a famous poem by this man Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
| #7589, aired 2017-09-14 | BUSINESSMEN: The corporation of this British man got its name from his early inexperience in business Richard Branson |
| #7588, aired 2017-09-13 | ANCIENT HISTORY: Battles at Trebbia & Trasimene were among the victories of this man who was born in Africa & died near the Black Sea Hannibal |
| #7583, aired 2017-07-26 | NOVELS: "A man can be destroyed but not defeated" is a line from this 1952 book, later a Spencer Tracy film The Old Man and the Sea |
| #7577, aired 2017-07-18 | 20th CENTURY FAMOUS NAMES: In a 1905 diary entry, Nicholas II wrote of this man, "We have made the acquaintance of a man of God" Rasputin |
| #7554, aired 2017-06-15 | RECENT OSCAR WINNERS: For his portrayal of a famous man born in the 1940s, he was the first actor born in the '80s to win the Best Actor Oscar Eddie Redmayne |
| #7547, aired 2017-06-06 | THE OSCARS: This man received 2 honorary Oscars in his career, & the actor who played him on film received a 1992 nomination for the role Charlie Chaplin |
| #7541, aired 2017-05-29 | 19th CENTURY BRITISH AUTHORS: Cliffs Notes says a book by this man "was the work of a mathematician and logician who wrote as both a humorist and as a limerist" Lewis Carroll |
| #7538, aired 2017-05-24 | DOG BREEDS: This popular small dog breed is named for the man who was the Vicar of Swimbridge for almost 50 years, beginning in 1832 the Jack Russell Terrier |
| #7527, aired 2017-05-09 | FAMOUS TEACHERS: W.J. Bryan gave the keynote speech at this man's high school graduation in 1919; 6 years later their paths would cross again John Scopes |
| #7480, aired 2017-03-03 | AUTHORS' EPITAPHS: His tombstone in a Hampshire churchyard reads, "Knight, patriot, physician & man of letters" & "22 May 1859-7 July 1930" Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
| #7473, aired 2017-02-22 | PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN YEARS: Year the New York World lamented, "The age of statesmen is gone... The age of rail-splitters and tailors... has succeeded" 1864 |
| #7435, aired 2016-12-30 | OSCAR-WINNING TITLE SUBJECTS: The only Nobel Prize winner to be the title subject of a Best Picture Oscar winner is this man John Nash |
| #7427, aired 2016-12-20 | 2016 U.S. OLYMPIANS: If this U.S. state was a country, it would have been in the top 10 in gold medals with 14--9 of them by 1 man & 1 woman Maryland |
| #7405, aired 2016-11-18 | SCIENCE & MATH VOCABULARY: These 2 words are just 1 letter different; one is a whirlpool & the other a geometry term for a meeting point vertex & vortex |
| #7402, aired 2016-11-15 | MEN OF SCIENCE: The symbols for 6 chemical elements spell out his name, beginning with cobalt, phosphorus & erbium Copernicus |
| #7353, aired 2016-07-27 | 20th CENTURY ENGLISH NOBILITY: In Africa on Nov. 26, 1922, he anxiously asked Howard Carter, “Can you see anything?” Lord Carnarvon |
| #7318, aired 2016-06-08 | STATE CAPITALS: This Midwestern capital was named for a man who was born in what is now Turkey over 2,000 years ago St. Paul |
| #7304, aired 2016-05-19 | THE PRESIDENTIAL OATH OF OFFICE: In 2013 President Obama was sworn in on 2 Bibles--one was Lincoln’s & one belonged to this man who died 103 years after Lincoln Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| #7256, aired 2016-03-14 | THE NOBEL PHYSICS PRIZE: A 2013 Laureate, this British man wrote a 1954 thesis on "Problems in the Theory of Molecular
Vibrations" Peter Higgs |
| #7238, aired 2016-02-17 | THE AFI's 100 YEARS... 100 MOVIES: This man who was in "The Godfather" & "Apocalypse Now" is the only living actor in 6 or more films on the list Robert Duvall |
| #7235, aired 2016-02-12 | THE U.S. SENATE: During his Senate service, which lasted from 1973 to January 2009, this man cast 12,810 votes Joe Biden |
| #7234, aired 2016-02-11 | NAMES IN THE NEWS: When this man joined Twitter in September 2015, his first follow was the National Security Agency's account Edward Snowden |
| #7230, aired 2016-02-05 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: He was the only 20th century president who never delivered an inaugural address President Ford |
| #7202, aired 2015-12-29 | FAMOUS LAST NAMES: The first woman space shuttle pilot shares this surname with a man on the 1st manned lunar landing 26 years earlier Collins |
| #7199, aired 2015-12-24 | AMERICAN BUSINESSMEN: Ironically, this man worth tens of millions when he died in 1990 said his parents named him with a socialist logo in mind Armand Hammer |
| #7192, aired 2015-12-15 | DYSTOPIAN AUTHORS: The author of his own dystopian classic in 1932, this man taught a young George Orwell at Eton Aldous Huxley |
| #7173, aired 2015-11-18 | SPACE EXPLORATION: The first man to travel into space began his journey on that fateful day in what is today this country Kazakhstan |
| #7170, aired 2015-11-13 | GREEK MYTHOLOGY: Famous mother of Pyrrha, who survived the Great Flood & with her husband repopulated the Earth Pandora |
| #7162, aired 2015-11-03 | 20th CENTURY BUSINESSMEN: In 1915 he dropped bomb-shaped cardboard leaflets on Seattle to promote military aviation Boeing |
| #7160, aired 2015-10-30 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES: Founded in 1873, it was endowed by & named for the richest man in America Vanderbilt University |
| #7142, aired 2015-10-06 | EUROPEAN AUTHORS: "To explain... Harry by the artless division into wolf and man is a hopelessly childish attempt", he wrote in 1927 Hermann Hesse |
| #7129, aired 2015-09-17 | CONTEMPORARIES: On an 1851 visit to Europe, Mathew Brady had hoped to meet this man who inspired him, but he died just as Brady set sail Louis Daguerre |
| #7116, aired 2015-07-20 | POETRY: Wagner's line "Oed' und leer das Meer", meaning "Waste and empty the sea", is quoted in a poem by this American-born man T.S. Eliot |
| #7112, aired 2015-07-14 | HISTORIC AMERICANS: The debate team at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire is named for this man who entered the academy in 1796 Daniel Webster |
| #7098, aired 2015-06-24 | WORLD LEADERS IN THE NEWS: In 2014 CNN declared Zambia's Guy Scott the first white president in Sub-Saharan Africa since this man in 1994 F.W. de Klerk |
| #7082, aired 2015-06-02 | INFAMOUS: Born in Illinois of Huguenot ancestry, he was executed in June 1882, a year after his heinous act Charles Guiteau |
| #7078, aired 2015-05-27 | GOVERNORS: Governors of adjacent states, these 2 ex-prosecutors are also adjacent on an alphabetical list of governors Christie & Cuomo |
| #7067, aired 2015-05-12 | BUSINESS: These 2 American businessmen are seen here in early 20th century photos Harley & Davidson |
| #7052, aired 2015-04-21 | BODIES OF WATER: The Finnish call it Itameri & the Germans call it Ostsee the Baltic Sea |
| #7045, aired 2015-04-10 | RUSSIANS: The subtitle of a biography about this early 20th century man is "The Saint Who Sinned" Rasputin |
| #7005, aired 2015-02-13 | HISTORIC NAMES ON THE MAP: Nothing is known of his early life in England before 1600 or of the end of his life in North America after June 22, 1611 Henry Hudson |
| #6990, aired 2015-01-23 | RIVERS: This North American river first sailed by Europeans in 1534 is named for a man who was martyred in Rome in the 3rd century the St. Lawrence River |
| #6982, aired 2015-01-13 | BROADWAY MUSICALS: "Iowa Stubborn" was the second song heard in this show when it opened on Broadway in 1957 The Music Man |
| #6981, aired 2015-01-12 | 20th CENTURY BRITS: Dr. Hugh Cairns, who tried but couldn't save the life of this man in May 1935, became a pioneer in the use of motorcycle helmets T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) |
| #6966, aired 2014-12-22 | AMERICAN AUTHORS: Celebrated in April, National Robotics Week honors this man who coined the word "robotics" in a 1941 story Isaac Asimov |
| #6963, aired 2014-12-17 | THE AFI's 100 GREATEST FILMS: One of the top 20, this 1946 film was based on a short story published as "The Man Who Was Never Born" It's a Wonderful Life |
| #6958, aired 2014-12-10 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: The first man in the 20th century to hold all 4 federally elected offices: congressman, senator, vice president & president Lyndon Baines Johnson (LBJ) |
| #6949, aired 2014-11-27 | BODIES OF WATER: First encountered in 1648 by a man born in Russia, it was eventually named after a man born in Denmark the Bering Strait |
| #6933, aired 2014-11-05 | ARTISTS: Illustrations by this man show why his name has become the standard for children's book artistry (Randolph) Caldecott |
| #6914, aired 2014-10-09 | HISTORICAL FIGURES: A 2012 poll by Britain's National Army Museum voted this man, born in 1732, as the nation's greatest military enemy George Washington |
| #6884, aired 2014-07-17 | 16th CENTURY SCIENTISTS: It is often said of this man that he "stopped the Sun and moved the Earth" Copernicus |
| #6883, aired 2014-07-16 | 20 YEARS AGO IN ENTERTAINMENT: In 1994 this comedian starred in a No. 1 sitcom, the No. 1 Christmas movie & had a No. 1 non-fiction bestseller Tim Allen |
| #6836, aired 2014-05-12 | 19th CENTURY POEMS: Written about the U.S. occupation of the Philippines, a Kipling poem said, "Take up" this now-controversial phrase the White Man's burden |
| #6824, aired 2014-04-24 | DIARIES & JOURNALS: This archaeologist's diary for November 26, 1922 mentions 2 "ebony-black effigies of a king, gold sandalled" Howard Carter |
| #6820, aired 2014-04-18 | CHARACTERS IN NOVELS: One of this man's "most priceless memories" is of "a delicately nurtured Southern belle with her Irish up" Rhett Butler |
| #6812, aired 2014-04-08 | MUSIC MAKERS: Salisbury Cathedral's dean said this man, via his 2013 album, "is creating a huge awareness of" an historic document Jay-Z |
| #6808, aired 2014-04-02 | MONARCHS: In 2005 the Kul Sharif Mosque of Tatarstan was reopened 453 years after it was destroyed by this man Ivan the Terrible |
| #6781, aired 2014-02-24 | 19th CENTURY PEOPLE: Frederick Douglass said this man's "zeal in the cause of my race was far greater than mine" John Brown |
| #6779, aired 2014-02-20 | AUTHORS: On his death in 1862 a Massachusetts paper said, "No man ever lived closer to nature, and reported her secrets more eloquently" Thoreau |
| #6773, aired 2014-02-12 | BIBLE CHARACTERS: "Take care of him", says the man called this in Luke 10 after giving money to an innkeeper the Good Samaritan |
| #6766, aired 2014-02-03 | PRESIDENTS & FIRST LADIES: The only foreign-born First Lady was the wife of this man who served in the diplomatic corps from age 14 John Quincy Adams |
| #6762, aired 2014-01-28 | LITERARY QUOTES: A maxim of Ayn Rand was "Man's ego is" this "of human progress" the fountainhead |
| #6747, aired 2014-01-07 | THE TITANIC: A member of Parliament said, "Those who have been saved have been saved through one man", this Italian Marconi |
| #6742, aired 2013-12-31 | 19th CENTURY VICE PRESIDENTS: Woodrow Wilson said this man had enough genius to be immortal & "unschooled passion enough to have made him infamous" (Aaron) Burr |
| #6732, aired 2013-12-17 | CLASSICAL MUSIC: "Royal March of the Lion", "The Aquarium" & "The Aviary" are thematically related 1886 works from this man Camille Saint-Saens |
| #6714, aired 2013-11-21 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: The second man to become president who was never elected to the job, he twice ran for the position unsuccessfully Millard Fillmore |
| #6708, aired 2013-11-13 | MYTHOLOGY: Rich with electrum, the Turkish river Pactolus is where this legendary man was said to have washed off his curse King Midas |
| #6678, aired 2013-10-02 | INVENTORS: Last name of the man whose 1934 patent application for a tool is seen here Phillips |
| #6663, aired 2013-07-31 | THE CIVIL WAR: Abraham Lincoln called this document, which took effect in 1863, "a fit and necessary war measure" the Emancipation Proclamation |
| #6620, aired 2013-05-31 | CLASSIC NOVELS: In his will, this title guy tells his niece Antonia she should marry a man who knows not "about... chivalry" Don Quixote de la Mancha |
| #6585, aired 2013-04-12 | PHYSICISTS: On Oct. 14, 1992 particle detector inventor Georges Charpak became the last man in physics to achieve this honor alone the Nobel Prize |
| #6552, aired 2013-02-26 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA: One of the 2 years in which 3 men served as president of the United States 1841 or 1881 |
| #6540, aired 2013-02-08 | U.S. GOVERNMENT: Recently in the news, this agency traces its origins to an 1803 act helping Portsmouth, N.H. after a fire FEMA |
| #6538, aired 2013-02-06 | FAMOUS ASIANS: When this diplomat met the singer Psy in 2012, he said, "Until 2 days ago... I was the most famous Korean in the world" Ban Ki-moon |
| #6517, aired 2013-01-08 | PRESIDENTIAL DISTINCTIONS: Record holder for the longest time lived after leaving office Jimmy Carter |
| #6493, aired 2012-12-05 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: This man is the only U.S. president since Hoover not named Time magazine's Man or Person of the Year Gerald Ford |
| #6483, aired 2012-11-21 | OPERA: In 1900 the first La Scala performance of this opera was conducted by the man whose last name began with the opera's title Tosca |
| #6478, aired 2012-11-14 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: The only 2 presidents never to present a State of the Union address are William Henry Harrison & this man James Garfield |
| #6459, aired 2012-10-18 | PLACE NAMES: From 1953 until 1990 Chemnitz, Germany was named for this man Karl Marx |
| #6412, aired 2012-07-03 | 1950s MOVIES: "The Man on Lincoln's Nose" was a working title for this 1959 film North by Northwest |
| #6384, aired 2012-05-24 | BIOGRAPHIES: "The Man who Invented the Twentieth Century" is a biography of this scientist born in the Balkans Nikola Tesla |
| #6375, aired 2012-05-11 | AMERICAN HISTORY: When the future state of Iowa became part of the United States, this man was President Thomas Jefferson |
| #6370, aired 2012-05-04 | THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION: In 1777 an opponent wrote of him "Money is this man's God, and to get enough of it he would sacrifice his country" Benedict Arnold |
| #6325, aired 2012-03-02 | BOOK VILLAINS: The first time we meet this man in a 1981 novel, he's in his cell holding "Le Grand Dictionnaire de Cuisine" Hannibal Lecter |
| #6324, aired 2012-03-01 | SCIENTISTS: In 1711 Newton led the Royal Society in London & his greatest rival led the Academy of Sciences in this capital city Berlin |
| #6322, aired 2012-02-28 | THE 1960s: On nominating this man in 1967, LBJ said "It is the right thing to do, the right time to do it, the right man & the right place" Thurgood Marshall |
| #6320, aired 2012-02-24 | LITERARY BIOGRAPHIES: Quoting a famous line of his, a 2011 biography of this man was titled "And So It Goes" Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. |
| #6295, aired 2012-01-20 | ENGLISH LITERATURE: This title character of an 18th century novel was the son of a man named Kreutznaer, but his name gets Anglicized Robinson Crusoe |
| #6293, aired 2012-01-18 | FATHERS & SONS: The island where this man's son washed ashore was later named Ikaria Daedalus |
| #6285, aired 2012-01-06 | ANCIENT WEIGHTS & MEASURES: The Hebrew word for this Biblical unit of measurement is Ammah, aptly meaning "elbow" or "forearm" a cubit |
| #6267, aired 2011-12-13 | 20th CENTURY LITERATURE: A 50th anniversary edition of this fictionalized biography featured the painting seen here on its cover Lust for Life |
| #6263, aired 2011-12-07 | SPORTING EVENTS: The cup presented since 1887 to the man who wins this is inscribed "single handed champion of the world" Wimbledon (the men's singles championship) |
| #6256, aired 2011-11-28 | 16th CENTURY NAMES: In 2010, 467 years after his death, this man at odds with the church was reburied with honors at a Polish cathedral Nicolaus Copernicus |
| #6247, aired 2011-11-15 | 19th CENTURY POETRY: He wrote, "He looked upon the garish day With such a wistful eye; The man had killed the thing he loved, & so he had to die" Oscar Wilde |
| #6243, aired 2011-11-09 | FRENCH HISTORY: She said, "I told my plans to no one. I was not killing a man, but a wild beast that was devouring the French people" Charlotte Corday |
| #6242, aired 2011-11-08 | 18th CENTURY AUTHORS: In a poem he named himself Cadenus, an anagram of Decanus, or "Dean" Jonathan Swift |
| #6212, aired 2011-09-27 | ENGLISH WRITERS: English poet Thomas Hoccleve, a contemporary of this man, called him the "firste fyndere of our fair langage" Chaucer |
| #6193, aired 2011-07-13 | NAME THE POET: "The spirit who bideth by himself / In the land of mist and snow / He loved the bird that loved the man / Who shot him with his bow" Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
| #6159, aired 2011-05-26 | 19th CENTURY MUSIC: Lyrics to an 1868 tune by this man began, "Guten Abend, Gut Nacht, Mit Rosen Bedacht" Johannes Brahms |
| #6151, aired 2011-05-16 | COLLEGE: From the Latin for "free", this 2-word term for a type of college refers to the old belief of what a free man should be taught liberal arts |
| #6133, aired 2011-04-20 | HISTORIC AMERICANS: Sharing his first name with the man who took this 1850s photo, he's the diplomat & officer seen here Matthew Perry |
| #6106, aired 2011-03-14 | AFI's 50 GREATEST FILM VILLAINS: Of the 50 on the list, only one never appears on screen: man, from this 1942 animated feature Bambi |
| #6096, aired 2011-02-28 | BRANDS: Jack Odell gave his child a tiny vehicle to bring to school inside one of these items, & a toy brand name was born a matchbox |
| #6092, aired 2011-02-22 | 19th CENTURY NAMES: In an 1845 autobiography, he wrote, "You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man" Frederick Douglass |
| #6071, aired 2011-01-24 | 19th CENTURY PEOPLE: After meeting him, Hawthorne said he had a "sallow, queer, sagacious visage" warmed by "homely human sympathies" Abraham Lincoln |
| #6057, aired 2011-01-04 | THE HALL OF PRESIDENTS: Of the 9 presidents whose images have a beard or mustache, this late 19th century man is the only Democrat Grover Cleveland |
| #6047, aired 2010-12-21 | THE 19th CENTURY: Thomas Huxley & Samuel Wilberforce were among the Oxford Museum speakers debating this theory June 30, 1860 evolution |
| #6023, aired 2010-11-17 | PHRASES: In ancient Rome it was a post where racers changed direction; since 1836 it's meant a moment change occurs turning point |
| #6020, aired 2010-11-12 | DOCUMENTS: It says, "The history of the present king of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations" the Declaration of Independence |
| #6005, aired 2010-10-22 | THE OSCARS: Only Orson Welles & this man have been nominated for Best Actor & Original Screenplay in the same year while in their 20s Matt Damon |
| #6002, aired 2010-10-19 | HOLIDAY HISTORY: Cuba removed Christmas from its list of national holidays in 1969 & restored it in 1997 in anticipation of a visit by this man Pope John Paul II |
| #5993, aired 2010-10-06 | 2010 SCIENCE NEWS: The IUPAC named an element for this man born in 1473 to "highlight the link between astronomy and... nuclear chemistry" Copernicus |
| #5971, aired 2010-07-26 | LITERARY BRAWLS: At Key West in 1936, Wallace Stevens broke his hand punching this man, who responded by knocking Stevens down Ernest Hemingway |
| #5966, aired 2010-07-19 | MEN OF PARIS: When the body of this man who died in 1870 was moved in 2002, a cloth with the motto "Un pour tous, tous pour un" was used Alexandre Dumas |
| #5950, aired 2010-06-25 | LITERATURE & MUSIC: The band called "They Might Be Giants" ultimately gets its name from a phrase said by this title hero in a 1605 work Don Quixote |
| #5948, aired 2010-06-23 | HISTORIC DATES: The signing of the Treaty of Versailles on June 28, 1919 took place exactly 5 years after the related death of this man Archduke Franz Ferdinand |
| #5933, aired 2010-06-02 | HISTORICAL PHRASES: Before it meant a space between opposing armies, it referred to an execution site outside the walls of London no man's land |
| #5922, aired 2010-05-18 | ROMAN EMPERORS: In 59 A.D. Agrippina wrote to this man, her son, "Tell me why I should plot against your life?"--she was killed anyway Nero |
| #5921, aired 2010-05-17 | 20th CENTURY THINKERS: Refusing to imprison this man for demonstrating during the 1960s, de Gaulle said, "One does not arrest Voltaire" Jean-Paul Sartre |
| #5917, aired 2010-05-11 | WORDS IN THE BIBLE: In Genesis 2:24 these 2 words are what a man shall do to his parents & then to his wife; add a letter to 1 to get the other leave & cleave |
| #5908, aired 2010-04-28 | SCIENCE HISTORY: In August 1971 on the Moon's surface, an astronaut repeated a famous experiment & declared that this man "was correct" Galileo |
| #5907, aired 2010-04-27 | CANADIAN HISTORY: A river is named for this man born in Scotland in 1764, the first European known to have crossed Canada Alexander Mackenzie |
| #5903, aired 2010-04-21 | SAINTHOOD: In 2009 this man who died on Molokai in 1889 became Hawaii's first saint Father Damien |
| #5892, aired 2010-04-06 | THE ANIMAL KINGDOM: The coelacanth & the ivory-billed woodpecker are sometimes referred to as this biblical man "species" Lazarus |
| #5876, aired 2010-03-15 | RELIGION: In 1875 she wrote, "Jesus of Nazareth was the most scientific man that ever trod the globe" Mary Baker Eddy |
| #5851, aired 2010-02-08 | RANKS & TITLES: Owain Glyndwr, who died circa 1416, was the last native of his country to claim this title Prince of Wales |
| #5845, aired 2010-01-29 | PRO SPORTS: The official address of the Atlanta Braves is No. 755 on the drive named for this man Hank Aaron |
| #5836, aired 2010-01-18 | EARLY MAN: A theory of the origin & spread of humankind is called this, also the title of an Oscar-winning movie of the 1980s Out of Africa |
| #5811, aired 2009-12-14 | SPACE NEWS: In 2009 NASA named the Combined Operational Load Bearing External Resistance Treadmill for this man Stephen Colbert |
| #5786, aired 2009-11-09 | THE OLD TESTAMENT: This man was given the armor, helmet & sword of the first king of Israel, but refused to use them David |
| #5773, aired 2009-10-21 | AMERICAN THINKERS: He told George Washington he hoped "the Rights of Man may become as universal as your benevolence can wish" Thomas Paine |
| #5765, aired 2009-10-09 | THE U.S. SENATE: This man, only the third man to serve his state in the U.S. Senate, left the body in 2009 Ted Stevens |
| #5749, aired 2009-09-17 | FAMOUS ACTORS: Ironically, he lost the leading role in the 1960 play "The Best Man" because he didn't look presidential Ronald Reagan |
| #5733, aired 2009-07-08 | ROYALTY: This man whose titles include Baron Greenwich is, like his wife, a great-great-grandchild of Queen Victoria Prince Philip |
| #5722, aired 2009-06-23 | LEADING MEN: Up for producing, directing, acting & writing for 1978 & 1981, he's the only man to twice get 4 Oscar nominations for one film Warren Beatty |
| #5700, aired 2009-05-22 | 20th CENTURY POLITICS: On September 23, 1952 some 60 million people, the largest TV audience to that time, tuned in for this live address the Checkers Speech |
| #5690, aired 2009-05-08 | EUROPEAN HISTORY: He filed for divorce citing Leviticus 20:21, "If a man shall take his brother's wife, it is an unclean thing" Henry VIII |
| #5687, aired 2009-05-05 | ON THE MOON: It's the last word of the inscription on Apollo 11's plaque on the Moon & is also found in a related quotation mankind |
| #5646, aired 2009-03-09 | HISTORIC PEOPLE: The life story of this man who died in 1801 was chronicled in an A&E biography DVD titled "Triumph and Treason" Benedict Arnold |
| #5645, aired 2009-03-06 | CELEBRATIONS: Homecoming Scotland is a yearlong celebration of this man's 250th birthday on Jan. 25, 2009 Rabbie Burns |
| #5640, aired 2009-02-27 | ADVERTISING ICONS: On Advertising Age's list of the Top 10 Ad Icons of the 20th c., they're the 2 alliterative entries that end in "Man" the Michelin Man & the Marlboro Man |
| #5625, aired 2009-02-06 | MUSIC LEGENDS: His 2003 People magazine obituary was headlined "Fade to Black" Johnny Cash |
| #5623, aired 2009-02-04 | 20th CENTURY FIRSTS: On Oct. 14, 1947 in the Mojave Desert the first of these sounds was made by man; it was the byproduct of another first sonic boom |
| #5617, aired 2009-01-27 | THE 20th CENTURY: On June 5, 1989 a young man never positively identified became world famous for actions he took in this city Beijing |
| #5595, aired 2008-12-26 | HISTORIC NAMES: A recent biography of this 13th century man is subtitled "From Venice to Xanadu" Marco Polo |
| #5578, aired 2008-12-03 | FAMOUS SCIENTISTS: Alexander Pope wrote the epitaph "Nature and nature's laws lay hid in night, God said, let" him "be and all was light" Isaac Newton |
| #5566, aired 2008-11-17 | 19th CENTURY POLITICS: When the GOP convened in 1888, he became the 1st black man to earn a vote for president at a major party convention Frederick Douglass |
| #5564, aired 2008-11-13 | WASHINGTON, D.C.: Unveiled in 1923, the statue seen here of this man is located on the south side of the Treasury Building Alexander Hamilton |
| #5557, aired 2008-11-04 | INVENTORS & INVENTION: In April 2008, a man successfully completed a jump using a parachute designed by this man 523 years before Leonardo da Vinci |
| #5556, aired 2008-11-03 | PULITZER-WINNING NOVELS: From this book's penultimate paragraph: "There had never been a man she couldn't get, once she set her mind upon him" Gone with the Wind |
| #5553, aired 2008-10-29 | 2008: Though not elected to the position, a man from this state became the 1st blind governor & the 4th black governor in the U.S. New York |
| #5537, aired 2008-10-07 | EUROPEAN LITERATURE: An 1870 novel by this man mentions Moby Dick as well as a sea monster called a Kraken Jules Verne |
| #5531, aired 2008-09-29 | 20th CENTURY AMERICA: Experts say Glenn McDuffie is the mystery man in the classic Eisenstaedt photo taken in this year 1945 |
| #5516, aired 2008-09-08 | THE VATICAN: A statue of this man is being erected inside the Vatican's walls near where he was locked up in 1633 Galileo |
| #5506, aired 2008-07-14 | MYTHS: Seen here with 2 other troubled mythic figures, he's the man on the left who can never quite reach the fruit Tantalus |
| #5505, aired 2008-07-11 | BASEBALL HISTORY: For nearly 30 years, California's Catalina Island was the spring training camp for this non-California Major League team the Chicago Cubs |
| #5499, aired 2008-07-03 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: The first man to receive a million votes for president in one election, he didn't get to enjoy the victory for long William Henry Harrison |
| #5462, aired 2008-05-13 | CIVIL WAR-ERA FICTION: A Northerner whose sympathies exiled him to the Confederacy, Bermuda & Canada inspired this 1863 tale The Man Without A Country |
| #5460, aired 2008-05-09 | ANCIENT TIMES: Plutarch's chapter on Romulus quotes this much later man as saying, "I love treason but hate a traitor" Julius Caesar |
| #5436, aired 2008-04-07 | ASSASSINATIONS: For a short time, Diego Rivera was a suspect in the 1940 murder of this man Leon Trotsky |
| #5405, aired 2008-02-22 | U.S. GOVERNMENT HISTORY: This man cast the first tie-breaking vote in U.S. Senate history John Adams |
| #5404, aired 2008-02-21 | FAMOUS AMERICANS: In 1733 he wrote, "The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart" Benjamin Franklin |
| #5393, aired 2008-02-06 | WORLD AUTHORS: In 1898 he wrote, "As for the persons I have accused... they are... embodiments of social malfeasance" Émile Zola |
| #5391, aired 2008-02-04 | BRITISH ACTORS: The first man to win Tonys as Best Actor & Best Actor in a Musical, he won for playing a king & a professor Rex Harrison |
| #5390, aired 2008-02-01 | COMMUNICATION: A government website says it's "a complete, complex language... said to be the 4th most commonly used" in the U.S. American Sign Language |
| #5380, aired 2008-01-18 | BIBLICAL NAMES: The name of this rebellious young man of the Old Testament can be translated from the Hebrew as "father of peace" Absalom |
| #5369, aired 2008-01-03 | AVIATION HISTORY: He was the 118th man to fly across the Atlantic Ocean Charles Lindbergh |
| #5361, aired 2007-12-24 | SPACE MEN: He was the oldest man to walk on the Moon, & the only World War II veteran Alan Shepard |
| #5330, aired 2007-11-09 | HISTORIC ARCHITECTS: He designed S.C.'s State Capitol, burned during the Civil War; his most famous building had burned during the War of 1812 James Hoban |
| #5318, aired 2007-10-24 | DOCUMENTARY SUBJECTS: A documentary from ESPN is based on the premise that this Louisville-born man "invented" rap in the 1960s Muhammad Ali (or Cassius Clay) |
| #5305, aired 2007-10-05 | SPORTS BUSINESS: In 1993 this man said, "What Phil & Nike have done is turn me into a dream" Michael Jordan |
| #5257, aired 2007-06-19 | HISTORIC NAMES: This man's return to the U.S. in 1824, 47 years after his first trip here, added splendor to James Monroe's presidential term Marquis de Lafayette |
| #5256, aired 2007-06-18 | 19th CENTURY ROYALTY: "Imperial Adventurer", "The Last Emperor" & "The Cactus Throne" are books about this man who died at 34 Emperor Maximilian |
| #5213, aired 2007-04-18 | A REAL RENAISSANCE MAN: The sudden 1559 death of France's King Henry II in a joust caused some to believe in this man's writings Nostradamus |
| #5210, aired 2007-04-13 | HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES: Decreed by Congress in 1989, National Tap Dance Day falls on the May 25th birthday of this man born in 1878 Bill Robinson |
| #5207, aired 2007-04-10 | NOTABLE NAMES: The fervent patriotism of this man who died in 1919 earned him the nickname "The Star-Spangled Scotchman" Andrew Carnegie |
| #5198, aired 2007-03-28 | LITERARY FIGURES: Bono, Jim Sheridan & Liam Neeson were featured in a 2004 documentary honoring the 150th anniversary of the birth of this man Oscar Wilde |
| #5197, aired 2007-03-27 | ART HISTORY: Carel Fabritius, whose self-portrait is seen here, is considered this man's greatest pupil Rembrandt |
| #5192, aired 2007-03-20 | OLYMPIC HISTORY: This event was inspired by a legend mentioned in Plutarch's "On the Glory of Athens" the marathon |
| #5178, aired 2007-02-28 | PLAY & FILM TITLES: Erasmus called an English friend of his "omnium horarum homo", which became this title of a play & film A Man for All Seasons |
| #5173, aired 2007-02-21 | EXPLORERS: In 1616, after Hudson died, this man became the 1st European to reach Ellesmere Island; an island & bay are named for him (William) Baffin |
| #5151, aired 2007-01-22 | RECENT BOOKS: "American Vertigo" by philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy retraced a trip 175 years before by this man, his countryman Alexis de Tocqueville |
| #5127, aired 2006-12-19 | THE ACADEMY AWARDS: When this man won, Richard Dreyfuss said goodbye to being the youngest ever to win the Best Actor Oscar Adrien Brody |
| #5118, aired 2006-12-06 | FAMOUS NEW YORKERS: In 1905 he said, "It is my duty to make money and still more money and to use the money... for the good of my fellow man" John D. Rockefeller |
| #5109, aired 2006-11-23 | 1970s TELEVISION: Bruce Peterson, a NASA test pilot, helped inspire this series; the crash he survived was seen in the show's opening credits The Six Million Dollar Man |
| #5101, aired 2006-11-13 | THE ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA: In the 1958 edition, this man penned the article on ventriloquism Edgar Bergen |
| #5090, aired 2006-10-27 | NAMES ON THE MAP: 2 new place names on the map in 1924, both honoring the same man, were Ulyanovsk & this Leningrad |
| #5084, aired 2006-10-19 | FAMOUS NAMES: Once a top spy, he invented the mug shot seen on reward posters in the Wild West Allan Pinkerton |
| #5076, aired 2006-10-09 | MEMORIALS: When completed, the South Dakota memorial to this man will include a 44-foot tall feather on his 87-foot tall head Crazy Horse (the Oglala chief) |
| #5022, aired 2006-06-13 | LITERARY QUOTES: "I would like to take the great DiMaggio fishing" is a line from this 1952 work; like DiMaggio, it's an American classic The Old Man and the Sea (by Ernest Hemingway) |
| #4970, aired 2006-03-31 | FAMOUS PHOTOGRAPHS: Alberto Korda, Castro's official photographer, is best known for an image of this man seen on countless shirts & posters Che Guevara |
| #4965, aired 2006-03-24 | HISTORIC NAMES: When Alexander Hamilton & James Monroe nearly met in a duel, this man interceded & defused the situation Aaron Burr |
| #4941, aired 2006-02-20 | WORLD LEADERS: The first prime minister of his country to be born in that land, he was assassinated in 1995 Yitzhak Rabin |
| #4938, aired 2006-02-15 | LITERARY ANIMALS: In an 1877 novel, he tells us that he was originally called Darkie, & later, Old Crony Black Beauty |
| #4935, aired 2006-02-10 | AMERICANA: Originally beardless, Uncle Sam got his chin whiskers from images depicting this real-life man Abraham Lincoln |
| #4916, aired 2006-01-16 | ANCIENT OBJECTS: In I Kings 8 there was nothing inside it except 2 tablets put there by Moses the Ark of the Covenant |
| #4913, aired 2006-01-11 | NEWSMAKERS: In April 2005, during his first 2 days on the job, he received more than 56,000 e-mails Pope Benedict XVI |
| #4897, aired 2005-12-20 | AMERICAN BUSINESSMEN: This man who died in 1984 remarked, "We're not in the hamburger business, we're in show business" Ray Kroc |
| #4891, aired 2005-12-12 | 19th CENTURY LIT: This work says, "Man is not truly one, but truly two... I learned to recognize the... primitive duality of man" Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde |
| #4887, aired 2005-12-06 | NAMES OF THE 1930s: A famous 1936 speech by this man began, "At long last, I am able to say a few words of my own" King Edward VIII |
| #4883, aired 2005-11-30 | IN THE ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA: The last full 2005 Micropedia article about a person is on the Russian-born man famed as an inventor of this in the 1920s television |
| #4875, aired 2005-11-18 | WORLD CAPITALS: Pizarro founded this city whose present name is from a Quechua word meaning "talker" Lima, Peru |
| #4871, aired 2005-11-14 | AMERICAN DESIGN: A Phillips 66 in Cloquet, Minnesota is the only functioning gas station designed by this man Frank Lloyd Wright |
| #4864, aired 2005-11-03 | CELEBRITIES: Calling him a Revolutionary, in 2000 Fidel Castro dedicated a statue of this man on the 20th anniversary of his murder John Lennon |
| #4861, aired 2005-10-31 | 20th CENTURY REPUBLICANS: Never president, he was the youngest man ever to receive the Republican presidential nomination (Thomas) Dewey |
| #4852, aired 2005-10-18 | ACADEMY AWARD NOMINATIONS: He was nominated for Best Actor 5 times in the 1950s, the most for any man in one decade Marlon Brando |
| #4839, aired 2005-09-29 | FAMOUS ENGLISHMEN: In 2004 a top entry in a 6,000 mile albatross race was sponsored by a descendant of this man who died in 1834 Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
| #4831, aired 2005-09-19 | RANKS & TITLES: In 1950 Pius XII was Pontifex Maximus; exactly 2,000 years earlier, this man held a title of the same name Julius Caesar |
| #4829, aired 2005-09-15 | EUROPEAN RULERS: This man who became a ruler in April 2005 is the great-nephew of the 1926 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama Prince Albert II of Monaco |
| #4826, aired 2005-09-12 | BROADWAY MUSICALS: "No matter how hopeless, no matter how far, to fight for the right without question" is from this show Man of La Mancha |
| #4821, aired 2005-07-18 | ARCHITECTS: He called himself "the man who introduced the glass box and then, 50 years later, broke it" Philip Johnson |
| #4803, aired 2005-06-22 | HISTORIC NAMES: The first name of this man born February 15, 1564 was derived from his parents' surname, a common Tuscan habit at that time Galileo Galilei |
| #4799, aired 2005-06-16 | HISTORIC BUSINESSMEN: Tired of his fragile wares being smashed in transit, this man born in 1730 advocated British turnpike building Wedgwood |
| #4795, aired 2005-06-10 | PRESIDENTS: The last time there were no living ex-presidents was when this man was president Richard Nixon |
| #4790, aired 2005-06-03 | PLAYWRIGHTS: His early play "Ivanov" opens with a man carrying a gun & yes, a gun does go off by the end (Anton) Chekhov |
| #4764, aired 2005-04-28 | BRITISH MILITARY HISTORY: He commanded the forces that rescued the survivors of the infamous Black Hole of Calcutta in 1756 Robert Clive |
| #4758, aired 2005-04-20 | LITERARY INSPIRATIONS: This real man inspired a 1719 novel character & a poem that says, "I am monarch of all I survey" Alexander Selkirk |
| #4744, aired 2005-03-31 | ENGLISH LIT: This 17th century poetic follow-up begins, "I who ere while the happy garden sung, by one man's disobedience lost..." Paradise Regained |
| #4713, aired 2005-02-16 | SINGERS: This man who often criticized the government was named for the president elected in 1912, his birth year Woodrow Wilson "Woody" Guthrie |
| #4707, aired 2005-02-08 | U.S. GOVERNMENT: (Hi, I'm John McCain.) In presidential succession, the senator holding this position follows the VP & the Speaker of the House president pro tempore |
| #4689, aired 2005-01-13 | FEDERAL PUBLIC SERVANTS: With 7 years' service, this man who resigned in June 2004 had the longest tenure in his position in over 4 decades George Tenet (former head of the CIA) |
| #4658, aired 2004-12-01 | THE 18th CENTURY: In 1790 the HMS Pandora sailed thousands of miles specifically to bring back this man, but failed Fletcher Christian |
| #4657, aired 2004-11-30 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY: Most of this firm's 70,000 seasonal white-collar employees work only 4 months a year H&R Block |
| #4652, aired 2004-11-23 | STATE FACTS: This state & its capital were named for 2 dukedoms held by the same British man New York |
| #4640, aired 2004-11-06 | SPORTS: Its solo female winner is awarded the Venus Rosewater Dish Wimbledon |
| #4632, aired 2004-10-26 | AUTHORS: After several decades off it, works by this man seen here returned to the New York Times Bestseller List in 2003 J.R.R. Tolkien |
| #4626, aired 2004-10-18 | FAMOUS FIRSTS: In 1876 this man became the first person not to get a busy signal on the other end of a phone line Alexander Graham Bell |
| #4624, aired 2004-10-14 | FAMOUS AMERICANS: After his public comments were criticized by FDR, he resigned his Air Corps Reserve commission in April 1941 Charles Lindbergh |
| #4613, aired 2004-09-29 | 19th CENTURY NAMES: Once known as "the handsomest man in America", he performed his last play, "The Apostate", on March 18, 1865 John Wilkes Booth |
| #4604, aired 2004-09-16 | AMERICAN AUTHORS: Ford Madox Ford, in the ‘20s, hadn’t “read more than six words” by this man before vowing to “publish everything he sent me” Ernest Hemingway |
| #4595, aired 2004-07-23 | SHAKESPEARE: 2 of the 4 Shakespeare plays in which ghosts appear on stage (2 of) Hamlet, Julius Caesar, Macbeth & Richard III |
| #4570, aired 2004-06-18 | THE 16th CENTURY: In 1582 the man born Ugo Buoncompagni proclaimed this solar dating system still used today the Gregorian calendar |
| #4567, aired 2004-06-15 | CLASSIC LITERATURE: "Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay To mould me man..." is the epigraph to this 1818 novel Frankenstein |
| #4554, aired 2004-05-27 | LONGFELLOW: In Longfellow's "Tales of a Wayside Inn", "The Landlord's Tale" concerns this man & begins with the word "Listen" Paul Revere |
| #4529, aired 2004-04-22 | TIME MAGAZINE'S MAN OF THE YEAR: The cover story about this 1930 Man of the Year described him as a "little half-naked brown man" Mohandas Gandhi |
| #4523, aired 2004-04-14 | BIBLICAL JOURNEYS: 2 names: A man journeying & his country of destination in both Genesis 39 & Matthew 2 Joseph & Egypt |
| #4515, aired 2004-04-02 | GEORGE WASHINGTON: In 1798 George wrote to John Greenwood, a man in this profession, "I am...ready to pay what ever you may charge me" dentist |
| #4509, aired 2004-03-25 | INTERNATIONAL PLAYWRIGHTS: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Yale Repertory Theatre) During apartheid, this man chose to premiere several of his plays, including "A Place with the Pigs", here at Yale Athol Fugard |
| #4501, aired 2004-03-15 | THE 1960s: Used most infamously in 1963, a .38-caliber Colt Cobra handgun belonging to this man sold in 1991 for $220,000 Jack Ruby |
| #4487, aired 2004-02-24 | FAMOUS NAMES: A grandson of Man O' War, he defeated his uncle in a famous matchup November 1, 1938 Seabiscuit |
| #4485, aired 2004-02-20 | ITALIAN TOWNS: This small town in Tuscany was the birthplace of the man who painted the Mona Lisa Vinci |
| #4471, aired 2004-02-02 | BASEBALL HISTORY: On August 10th, 2003, Rafael Furcal of the Braves became only the 12th man in MLB history to perform this single-handedly a triple play |
| #4469, aired 2004-01-29 | MYTHOLOGY: They were the 2 parents of a son who ended up half man, half woman Hermes & Aphrodite |
| #4466, aired 2004-01-26 | THE OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY: Tolkien helped the editors define "hobbit"; Murray Gell-Mann, the term "quark", & this man, "dymaxion" Buckminster Fuller |
| #4459, aired 2004-01-15 | POLITICAL CAMPAIGNS: This man's successful 2001 campaign was the most expensive non-presidential campaign in history Michael Bloomberg |
| #4457, aired 2004-01-13 | DEADLY FIRSTS: The first man to die as the result of one of these accidents was Lt. Thomas Selfridge on Sept. 17, 1908 an airplane crash |
| #4456, aired 2004-01-12 | AMERICAN WRITERS: In 1936 the San Francisco News sent this man to investigate living conditions among migrant workers John Steinbeck |
| #4447, aired 2003-12-30 | CHARACTERS IN CLASSIC LIT: The first person mentioned by name in "The Man in the Iron Mask" is this hero of a previous book by the same author D'Artagnan |
| #4434, aired 2003-12-11 | SCULPTURE: In 1504 a statue of this man over 13 feet tall was unveiled in Piazza Della Signoria David |
| #4388, aired 2003-10-08 | SURVEY SAYS: In 1981 this man's company issued its first syndicated CSI, Customer Satisfaction Index J.D. Power (and Associates) |
| #4383, aired 2003-10-01 | PHRASE ORIGINS: The sinking of the HMS Birkenhead in February 1852 gave rise to this gallant 4-word naval tradition women and children first |
| #4375, aired 2003-09-19 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS: This title character was based on a man who bravely served the Guides Regiment at the 1857 Siege of Delhi Gunga Din |
| #4340, aired 2003-06-13 | FAMOUS NAMES: The first & middle names of this wealthy man who died in 1975 were those of people who died in 322 B.C. & 399 B.C. Aristotle (Socrates) Onassis |
| #4336, aired 2003-06-09 | TIME'S MAN OF THE YEAR: The only man named Time's Man of the Year 2 straight years, he shared the distinction with Kissinger in 1972 Richard M. Nixon |
| #4255, aired 2003-02-14 | FAMOUS AMERICANS: James Fenimore Cooper based the character of Natty Bumppo on this man who was born in 1734 Daniel Boone |
| #4244, aired 2003-01-30 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS: A Nagasaki geisha who had a child with a man named Glover was the model for this title character Madame Butterfly |
| #4243, aired 2003-01-29 | TRANSPORTATION: In 1936 the man who beat Joe Louis returned home on the famous craft named this the Hindenburg |
| #4203, aired 2002-12-04 | THE WHITE HOUSE: In February 2000 the White House Press Briefing Room was named in this man's honor James Brady |
| #4197, aired 2002-11-26 | POLITICIANS: Name of the man who would serve as chief executive if President Bush & Vice President Cheney were incapacitated Dennis Hastert (Speaker of the House) |
| #4191, aired 2002-11-18 | THE PRESIDENCY: He was the first man to become U.S. president as a result of the 25th Amendment Gerald Ford |
| #4190, aired 2002-11-15 | BIOGRAPHIES: A 2001 biography of this man is subtitled "Pioneer of the Mind" Sigmund Freud |
| #4189, aired 2002-11-14 | LITERARY INSPIRATIONS: In 2002, at age 104, Gregorio Fuentes, an inspiration for this tale, died in the Cuban fishing village of Cojimar The Old Man and the Sea |
| #4169, aired 2002-10-17 | MODERN-DAY KNIGHTS: At the Knights of the Garter's Chapel, the heraldic crest representing this man depicts a kiwi with an axe Sir Edmund Hillary |
| #4168, aired 2002-10-16 | FAMOUS AMERICANS: In 1920 this man, great-grandson of Sauk leader Black Hawk, became the first president of what is now the NFL Jim Thorpe |
| #4160, aired 2002-10-04 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: A Civil War general, he was the last man to go directly from the House of Representatives to the presidency James A. Garfield |
| #4153, aired 2002-09-25 | MOVIE MOUNTAINS: This peak is featured in the 1959 Disney film "Third Man on the Mountain", where it's called "The Citadel" the Matterhorn |
| #4135, aired 2002-07-19 | FAMOUS AMERICANS: "May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof" is from this man's 1800 prayer John Adams |
| #4122, aired 2002-07-02 | 1980s BUSINESS: In his job since 1984, this man has been called "the Prince who awakened Sleeping Beauty" Michael Eisner |
| #4113, aired 2002-06-19 | HISTORIC AMERICANS: On this man's death, FDR said, "All mankind are the beneficiaries of his discoveries in... agricultural chemistry" George Washington Carver |
| #4105, aired 2002-06-07 | ACTORS & ROLE: In a 2001 film Jon Voight played this man; in a 2002 TV movie, so did John Turturro Howard Cosell |
| #4102, aired 2002-06-04 | ORGANIZATIONS: "Music Man" composer Meredith Willson wrote the song "Banners And Bonnets" for this organization the Salvation Army |
| #4087, aired 2002-05-14 | VICE PRESIDENTS: He was the only vice president to be elected to, & serve, 2 full terms as president Thomas Jefferson |
| #4069, aired 2002-04-18 | PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS: Other than FDR, he's the only man to appear as President or VP on a major party ticket in 4 straight elections George Herbert Walker Bush |
| #4056, aired 2002-04-01 | U.S. STAMPS: At the end of October 2001 Lance Burton & Tony Curtis unveiled the new stamp honoring this man Harry Houdini |
| #4049, aired 2002-03-21 | ASIAN CITIES: The name of this Afghan city is a local variation of the name of the man who conquered the region in 329 B.C. Kandahar |
| #4048, aired 2002-03-20 | FAMOUS AMERICANS: The most requested photo in the history of the National Archives is of the 1970 meeting of these 2 men Richard Nixon & Elvis Presley |
| #4045, aired 2002-03-15 | FAMILIAR PHRASES: The phrase "to turn a blind eye" is said to have been inspired by a 19th century naval incident involving this man Admiral Lord Nelson |
| #4012, aired 2002-01-29 | FAMOUS AMERICANS: The international airport in Grand Rapids, Michigan is named for this man who moved to the city from Nebraska as a child Gerald Ford |
| #4006, aired 2002-01-21 | PEOPLE ON THE MAP: Tourist spots in the Asian city named for this man include Notre Dame Cathedral & Reunification Hall Ho Chi Minh |
| #3994, aired 2002-01-03 | FAMILIAR PHARASES: This 2-word term entered the English language after a pilot reported seeing 9 of them near Mt. Rainier in June 1947 flying saucers |
| #3993, aired 2002-01-02 | 1970s GAMES: Of this ground-breaking game, its creator said, "We knew a square ball wasn't cool" but "It was all we could do" Pong |
| #3979, aired 2001-12-13 | U.S. PRESIDENTS & VICE PRESIDENTS: He's the only man elected vice president twice & elected president twice Richard Nixon |
| #3973, aired 2001-12-05 | HISTORIC HEROES: This man born in 1783 is considered the national hero of 5 different countries Simon Bolivar |
| #3964, aired 2001-11-22 | FADS: Invented by Dan Robbins, this product was first sold in the 1950s with the slogan "Every Man a Rembrandt" Paint by Numbers |
| #3962, aired 2001-11-20 | CITY NAME ORIGINS: In 1517 the Portuguese modified the name of a port city of western Ceylon in honor of this man Christopher Columbus |
| #3927, aired 2001-10-02 | SPORTS STARS: A July 2001 newspaper ad from the U.S. Postal Service congratulating this man read "Un, Deux, Trois!" Lance Armstrong |
| #3926, aired 2001-10-01 | WORLD LEADERS: In April 2001 Kevin Costner screened his film "Thirteen Days" for this man, a key player in the events portrayed Fidel Castro |
| #3909, aired 2001-09-06 | HISTORIC NAMES: In 1978, Congress restored U.S. citizenship to this man seen here Jefferson Davis |
| #3908, aired 2001-09-05 | 19th CENTURY AUTHORS: D.H. Lawrence called him "an adventurer into the vaults and...
horrible underground passages of the human soul" Edgar Allan Poe |
| #3879, aired 2001-06-14 | HISTORIC ENGLISHMEN: A Punch cartoon showed this man like an Ancient Wonder standing over Africa, one foot on the Cape, one on Cairo Cecil Rhodes |
| #3876, aired 2001-06-11 | FAMOUS AMERICANS: This man was nearby at the assassination of 3 U.S. presidents, one of whom was his father Robert Todd Lincoln |
| #3857, aired 2001-05-15 | AUTHORS OF THE 1920s: Lawrence Durrell said that in a 1928 novel this man used 4-letter words to canonize & celebrate raw sensuality D.H. Lawrence ("Lady Chatterley's Lover") |
| #3856, aired 2001-05-14 | MILITARY HISTORY: This man commanded the last organized military force to invade the lower 48 states Pancho Villa |
| #3835, aired 2001-04-13 | THE SUPREME COURT: Charles Evans Hughes was appointed to the court by this man whom he later succeeded as Chief Justice William Howard Taft |
| #3828, aired 2001-04-04 | HISTORIC PEOPLE: A copper statue of this hero of the 1960s welcomes visitors to Star City near Moscow Yuri Gagarin (first man in space) |
| #3827, aired 2001-04-03 | SATIRE: This then-living man was the main target of the mid-1960s play "MacBird!" Lyndon B. Johnson |
| #3811, aired 2001-03-12 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY: Founded as Pacific Aero Products in 1916, today this company is America's largest exporter, in total revenue Boeing |
| #3808, aired 2001-03-07 | LITERATURE & FILM: Nicole Kidman, Helena Bonham Carter & Cybill Shepherd have all starred in films based on this man's works Henry James |
| #3790, aired 2001-02-09 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE: First line of the poem thought to be based on Mary Sawyer's experience at a Massachusetts school-house around 1815 "Mary had a little lamb" |
| #3788, aired 2001-02-07 | SPACE EXPLORATION: In October 1998 this man went into space as the oldest U.S. astronaut ever John Glenn |
| #3782, aired 2001-01-30 | WORLD LEADERS: From 1964 to 1982 this man was leader of a nation with nuclear weapons Leonid Brezhnev (of the Soviet Union) |
| #3779, aired 2001-01-25 | SCIENTISTS: Bertrand Russell said that "What Galileo and Newton were to the 17th century," this man "was to the 19th" Charles Darwin |
| #3772, aired 2001-01-16 | BUSINESS BIGGIES: In the 1890s he established steamer lines on the Great Lakes to control the transport of iron to Pittsburgh Andrew Carnegie |
| #3754, aired 2000-12-21 | PLANTS & FLOWERS: Named for a U.S. statesman, it was known in Central America as the "Flower of the Holy Night" Poinsettia |
| #3727, aired 2000-11-14 | 20th CENTURY PEOPLE: David Ben-Gurion described her as "the only man in my cabinet" Golda Meir |
| #3722, aired 2000-11-07 | THE MOVIES: The night before their first mass jump in 1940, paratroopers at Fort Benning saw a Western about this man Geronimo |
| #3721, aired 2000-11-06 | WASHINGTON PEOPLE: This man in office since 1987 has a plaque in his office that reads, "The Buck Starts Here" Alan Greenspan |
| #3714, aired 2000-10-26 | '90s NONFICTION: Around 3 years on the bestseller list, this book is subtitled "An Old Man, A Young Man and Life's Greatest Lesson" "Tuesdays With Morrie" |
| #3697, aired 2000-10-03 | FAMOUS TEENAGERS: This young man who turned 18 on June 21, 2000 has a dog named Widgeon & a younger brother named Harry Prince William |
| #3687, aired 2000-09-19 | FAMOUS NAMES: The Hopi Indians gave this German-born man the name "The Great Relative" when he visited Arizona in the 1930s Albert Einstein |
| #3681, aired 2000-09-11 | AUTHORS: In 1961 John F. Kennedy helped this man's widow get permission to go to Cuba to pick up her late husband's papers Ernest Hemingway |
| #3674, aired 2000-07-20 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS: Siegfried's funeral march was played when this man's coffin reached the train station in 1883 Richard Wagner |
| #3667, aired 2000-07-11 | THE PULITZER PRIZES: Theodore H. White, the first general nonfiction winner, won for an account of this man's election to the U.S. presidency John F. Kennedy ("The Making of the President, 1960") |
| #3666, aired 2000-07-10 | FAMOUS NAMES: "The Line King" is a film about this man whose work has been in the New York Times for the last 70 years Al Hirschfeld |
| #3658, aired 2000-06-28 | THE PULITZER PRIZES: The first man to win the Pulitzer Prize for his film criticism, he's lobbied for a Pulitzer Prize for the movies Roger Ebert |
| #3654, aired 2000-06-22 | CONTEMPORARY AMERICANS: This man's father, an Omaha stockbroker & politician, once returned his Congressional pay raise Warren Buffett |
| #3651, aired 2000-06-19 | HISTORIC PEOPLE: Venetians called him "Il Milione", man of the million lies Marco Polo |
| #3642, aired 2000-06-06 | NEW CLASSICAL MUSIC: In 1999 in Norfolk, the Virginia Symphony premiered Steve Heitzeg's "Aqua", an homage to this man Jacques Cousteau |
| #3626, aired 2000-05-15 | 19th CENTURY PERSONALITIES: Known to many as The Colossus, this man was elected to the Cape Colony Assembly in 1881 Cecil Rhodes |
| #3615, aired 2000-04-28 | SPORTS CHAMPIONS: Winning in 1965 & 1966, he was the first man to win the Masters golf tournament in 2 consecutive years Jack Nicklaus |
| #3593, aired 2000-03-29 | AMERICAN LITERATURE: The title of this novella that won the 1953 Pulitzer Prize consists of 6 words, each of which is 3 letters long "The Old Man and the Sea" |
| #3552, aired 2000-02-01 | HISTORIC NAMES: To honor his work, this man's daughter took the name Maria Celeste when she became a nun in 1616 Galileo |
| #3549, aired 2000-01-27 | MEDIEVAL FIRSTS: In the Middle Ages, this man introduced fireworks to western Europe Marco Polo |
| #3547, aired 2000-01-25 | THE TONY AWARDS: (Hi, I'm Brian Dennehy) This man won a Tony for writing the Best Play of 1949 and I had the honor of presenting him with a Lifetime Achievement Tony in 1999 Arthur Miller (wrote "Death of a Salesman") |
| #3544, aired 2000-01-20 | OPERA SINGERS: In 1999 Placido Domingo opened the Met for a record 18th time, breaking this man's record of 17 Enrico Caruso |
| #3534, aired 2000-01-06 | NONFICTION AUTHORS: First published in 1946, a book written by this man became the bestselling book in the U.S. after the Bible Dr. Benjamin Spock ("Baby and Child Care") |
| #3513, aired 1999-12-08 | AUTOMOTIVE HISTORY: This man for whom a car is named previously worked for Daimler-Benz & designed the Volkswagen Ferdinand Porsche |
| #3479, aired 1999-10-21 | EXPLORERS: On hearing of the discovery of George Mallory's body, this man told reporters he still thinks he was first Sir Edmund Hillary |
| #3478, aired 1999-10-20 | 20th CENTURY NEWSMAKERS: Due to police irregularities, this man's Arizona conviction was overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1966 Ernesto Miranda |
| #3477, aired 1999-10-19 | HISTORIC FIRSTS: Stopped by a cop on a bike, in 1896 Walter Arnold was the first man in England to receive a fine for this Speeding |
| #3462, aired 1999-09-28 | FAMOUS NAMES: In April 1999 Paul Simon took center field for the dedication of a monument to this man Joe DiMaggio |
| #3450, aired 1999-09-10 | FUN WITH NUMBERS: Number of degrees the minute hand on a standard clock travels in one hour 360 |
| #3447, aired 1999-09-07 | EMPIRES: In the early 1800s, this man's empire included the duchy of Warsaw, the kingdom of Naples & Spain Napoleon |
| #3446, aired 1999-09-06 | FAMOUS AMERICANS: On July 20, 1999 it was 30 years since this man said, "Houston... the Eagle has landed" Neil Armstrong |
| #3430, aired 1999-07-02 | U.S. GOVERNMENT: William Wirt was attorney general for over 11 years, a record; this attorney general is second, with 6 years Janet Reno |
| #3413, aired 1999-06-09 | TELEVISION: In a 1983 movie about a kidnapping, Daniel J. Travanti played the man who would later host this series America's Most Wanted (hosted by John Walsh) |
| #3401, aired 1999-05-24 | VICTORY CELEBRATIONS: This man received the first & only New York City ticker-tape parade ever given to a classical musician Van Cliburn |
| #3347, aired 1999-03-09 | 20th CENTURY AMERICANS: Adela Rogers St. Johns, who was hired by this man in 1913, reported on his granddaughter's trial in 1976 William Randolph Hearst |
| #3340, aired 1999-02-26 | THE TITANIC: This man whose invention was used to call for help held a ticket for the voyage but changed his plans Guglielmo Marconi |
| #3320, aired 1999-01-29 | ANIMALS: This animal's name is from Bantu for "mock man" Chimpanzee |
| #3303, aired 1999-01-06 | PEOPLE: He made the cover of Life magazine 3 times in February & March of 1962, & again in October 1998 John Glenn |
| #3255, aired 1998-10-30 | HALLOWEEN ON FILM: (Happy Halloween, I'm Janet Leigh.) In a 1953 film my then husband played this man, who died on Halloween in 1926; I played his wife Bess Harry Houdini |
| #3239, aired 1998-10-08 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: He was the last man elected president who had served as a U.S. senator Richard M. Nixon |
| #3226, aired 1998-09-21 | HOTELS: The U.S. investigation into the Titanic was first held in this hotel owned by one of the victims Waldorf Astoria |
| #3219, aired 1998-09-10 | U.S. POLITICS: In a popular 1928 gubernatorial campaign slogan, it preceded "but no man wears a crown" "Every man a king" |
| #3215, aired 1998-07-17 | STATUES: In 1820 a man named Yorgos unearthed 3 statues: 2 of Hermes & one of Aphrodite, later renamed this Venus de Milo |
| #3214, aired 1998-07-16 | TELEVISION & HISTORY: When "60 Minutes" premiered, this man was U.S. president Lyndon B. Johnson (show premiered Sept. 24, 1968) |
| #3200, aired 1998-06-26 | HISTORIC AMERICANS: He's the only individual to be named Time magazine's Man of the Year 3 times Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
| #3175, aired 1998-05-22 | SONGWRITERS: It was once said of this man who lived to be 101: He "has no place in American music. He is American music" Irving Berlin |
| #3134, aired 1998-03-26 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: Abraham Lincoln was the first U.S. president to wear a beard; this man was the second Ulysses S. Grant |
| #3128, aired 1998-03-18 | 20th CENTURY PERSONALITIES: The French call him "Le Roi du Crazy" Jerry Lewis |
| #3118, aired 1998-03-04 | SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERIES: They got their name because the man who discovered them in 1895 had no idea what they were X-Rays (discovered by Wilhelm Roentgen) |
| #3115, aired 1998-02-27 | TELEVISION BIOGRAPHIES: The biography of this man on PBS' "American Masters" was subtitled "Submitted for Your Approval" Rod Serling |
| #3100, aired 1998-02-06 | U.S. CITIES: This historic city was named for the Bishop of Hippo on whose feast day the area was first sighted St. Augustine, Florida |
| #3093, aired 1998-01-28 | GREEK MYTHOLOGY: Ariadne got the ball of twine that she gave to Theseus from this man before his flight from Crete Daedalus |
| #3092, aired 1998-01-27 | MAN IN SPACE: Mission that put the third man on the Moon Apollo 12 |
| #3084, aired 1998-01-15 | SHAKESPEARE: Hamlet tells this man that Yorick was "a fellow of infinite jest" Horatio |
| #3003, aired 1997-09-24 | 19th CENTURY FICTION: The 1853 novel "Clotel, or The President's Daughter" alleges that this man had an affair with a slave Thomas Jefferson |
| #2986, aired 1997-09-01 | FAMOUS NAMES: At this man's death in 1997, Jacques Chirac called him probably the best known Frenchman in the world Jacques-Yves Cousteau |
| #2977, aired 1997-07-08 | WORD ORIGINS: This word meaning an expert commentator is derived from the Sanskrit for "learned man" Pundit |
| #2914, aired 1997-04-10 | NAVAL HEROES: In a difficult situation George Dewey would ask himself, what would this man, his former commander, do? Admiral David Farragut |
| #2906, aired 1997-03-31 | SECRETARIES OF STATE: This man who died in 1994 once said, "We're eyeball to eyeball and the other fellow just blinked" Dean Rusk |
| #2903, aired 1997-03-26 | 20th CENTURY LEADERS: In 1914 Jan Smuts wrote of this man's departure, "The saint has left our shores, I hope forever" Mahatma Gandhi |
| #2892, aired 1997-03-11 | WORLD LEADERS: Peruvians incorrectly call this man "El Chinito" Alberto Fujimori |
| #2880, aired 1997-02-21 | BRITISH STATESMEN: In a 1940 eulogy of this man, Churchill spoke of his "Love of peace... toil for peace... strife for peace" Neville Chamberlain |
| #2866, aired 1997-02-03 | DEMOCRATS: Bill Clinton is the first Democrat since this man to be elected president twice Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
| #2850, aired 1997-01-10 | EXPLORERS: Books by this man include "North West Passage" (1908) & "The South Pole" (1912) Roald Amundsen |
| #2848, aired 1997-01-08 | ANCIENT HISTORY: Man with whom Cleopatra had the most children Mark Antony |
| #2778, aired 1996-10-02 | ACTOR-DIRECTORS: This 1990 winner is the most recent to win the Best Director Oscar for his directorial debut Kevin Costner |
| #2770, aired 1996-09-20 | SENATORS: Former man in space & future man in space both elected to the Senate in 1974 John Glenn & Jake Garn |
| #2751, aired 1996-07-15 | RULERS: Last name of the last man to sit in power on the Peacock Throne (Shah Reza) Pahlavi (of Iran) |
| #2707, aired 1996-05-14 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: He was the only president preceded & succeeded by the same man Benjamin Harrison |
| #2690, aired 1996-04-19 | ARTISTS: 121-year-old Jeanne Calment remembers this man buying canvases at her in-laws' store in Arles Vincent van Gogh |
| #2663, aired 1996-03-13 | OPERA: He conducted the world premieres of "Pagliacci", "La Boheme" & "The Girl of the Golden West" Arturo Toscanini |
| #2652, aired 1996-02-27 | FAMOUS FAMILIES: The 1st man named this was a violinist, the 2nd, an actor & the 3rd, CEO at Times Mirror Magazines Efrem Zimbalist |
| #2649, aired 1996-02-22 | SCIENTISTS: In 1992 the Roman Catholic Church admitted that it had erred in condemning this man Galileo |
| #2634, aired 1996-02-01 | POETS: In 1968 Gwendolyn Brooks succeeded this man as Poet Laureate of Illinois Carl Sandburg |
| #2617, aired 1996-01-09 | ENGLISH POETS: "Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind" precedes a famous line from his works (John) Donne |
| #2616, aired 1996-01-08 | I LOVE LUCY: On the May 9, 1955 show, Lucy imitated Gary Cooper, Clark Gable & this man who guest starred Harpo Marx |
| #2612, aired 1996-01-02 | THE SUPREME COURT: He served as chief justice for more of the 20th century than any other man--17 years Warren Burger |
| #2586, aired 1995-11-27 | PEOPLE: According to Forbes, with an estimated worth of $12.9 billion, he's now the richest man in the world Bill Gates |
| #2561, aired 1995-10-23 | FAMOUS NAMES: As British ambassador to Turkey he was allowed to take away "any pieces of stone with old inscriptions" (Lord) Elgin |
| #2550, aired 1995-10-06 | PRIMATES: A type of macaque, it's the only primate, other than man, found in Europe The Gibraltar Ape |
| #2545, aired 1995-09-29 | 19th CENTURY ARTISTS: He sued a man for libel over a criticism of his painting "Nocturne in Black and Gold"--& won (James Abbott McNeil) Whistler |
| #2542, aired 1995-09-26 | GREEK MYTHOLOGY: The name of this benefactor of man signifies "forethought" Prometheus |
| #2532, aired 1995-09-12 | FAMOUS SPEECHES: Last word of a 1775 speech that includes "Mr. President, it is natural to man to indulge in illusions of hope" death |
| #2530, aired 1995-09-08 | ANTHROPOLOGY: It's the more familiar name of the type of Homo erectus once classified as sinanthropus Peking man |
| #2527, aired 1995-09-05 | FAMOUS NAMES: Licensing rights to the likeness of this man born in Germany in 1879 belong to Jerusalem's Hebrew University Albert Einstein |
| #2520, aired 1995-07-14 | NOVEL CHARACTERS: The next-to-last line spoken by this man is "I wish I could care what you do or where you go, but I can't" Rhett Butler |
| #2514, aired 1995-07-06 | FAMOUS PLAYS: Play that includes, "I was so mean as to kill this bird today... soon I shall kill myself in the same way" The Seagull |
| #2473, aired 1995-05-10 | POLITICS 1995: 1 of 2 Republican senators who cast votes against the balanced budget amendment on March 2, 1995 (1 of) Mark Hatfield or Senator Dole |
| #2470, aired 1995-05-05 | SCULPTURE: "The shot heard round the world" is carved in the base of this Daniel Chester French statue The Minute Man |
| #2439, aired 1995-03-23 | U.S. CITIES: This Florida city is named for a man born in Tagaste, Numidia November 13, 354 St. Augustine |
| #2427, aired 1995-03-07 | MYSTERY FICTION: The title character in this 1932 detective story is a missing inventor, not the detective looking for him The Thin Man |
| #2383, aired 1995-01-04 | UNIVERSITIES: The golden spike removed after the May 10, 1869 ceremony is now at this university Stanford |
| #2364, aired 1994-12-08 | ROYALTY: Collier's Encyclopedia calls this man "the most famous of Polynesians" King Kamehameha |
| #2353, aired 1994-11-23 | DEMOCRATS: When Grandma Moses was born, this man was president; at her death, JFK was president James Buchanan |
| #2313, aired 1994-09-28 | AMERICAN LITERATURE: Famous story that contains the line "I wish I may never hear of the United States again!" The Man Without a Country |
| #2312, aired 1994-09-27 | BOTANY: In 1872 he introduced seedless grape cuttings to California William Thompson |
| #2304, aired 1994-09-15 | 1994: James Gregory, a former Robben Island warden, was an invited guest at this May 10, 1994 event the inauguration of Nelson Mandela |
| #2292, aired 1994-07-19 | 19th CENTURY AUTHORS: D.H. Lawrence said he probably did "more than any writer to present the Red Man to the white man" James Fenimore Cooper |
| #2262, aired 1994-06-07 | SCULPTURE: Since 1948 over 8 million tons of granite have been removed in sculpting this man & he's not finished Chief Crazy Horse |
| #2244, aired 1994-05-12 | ALPHABETICALLY FIRST: Among the men who have walked on the Moon, his last name is alphabetically first (Buzz) Aldrin |
| #2215, aired 1994-04-01 | BUSINESS LEADERS: In 1986 he published his autobiography, "Pizza Tiger" Tom Monaghan |
| #2205, aired 1994-03-18 | MASCULINE NAMES: This common English man's name is from the Greek for "God's gift" Theodore |
| #2187, aired 1994-02-22 | POETS: An 1863 poem by this man includes the line "On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five" Longfellow |
| #2168, aired 1994-01-26 | FAMOUS NAMES: Eisenhower said on his 1955 death that no other man contributed so much to the growth of 20th c. knowledge Albert Einstein |
| #2143, aired 1993-12-22 | ORGANIZATIONS: This organization was dissolved in 1956 after its last member, Albert Woolson, died at age 109 the Grand Army of the Republic |
| #2133, aired 1993-12-08 | TELEVISION HISTORY: Connie Chung & Dan Rather are the 2nd male-female network news pair; Barbara Walters & this man were 1st Harry Reasoner |
| #2092, aired 1993-10-12 | DRAMA: Moliere based part of "Les Fourberies de Scapin" on a play by this man about whom Rostand wrote Cyrano de Bergerac |
| #2052, aired 1993-07-06 | PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURATIONS: He used more words in his one inaugural address than FDR used in all four of his William Henry Harrison |
| #2048, aired 1993-06-30 | AMERICAN MUSICALS: A 1920s French production of this musical about 19th c. entertainers was titled "Mississippi" Show Boat |
| #2015, aired 1993-05-14 | ANCIENT ROME: General Publius Scipio won the surname "Africanus" for beating this man at the 202 B.C. Battle of Zama Hannibal |
| #2007, aired 1993-05-04 | NATURE: About 1250 miles long, it's the largest structure ever formed by creatures other than man the Great Barrier Reef |
| #2002, aired 1993-04-27 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: He was the last unmarried man elected president Grover Cleveland |
| #1977, aired 1993-03-23 | FRENCH DRAMA: This 1897 play contains the line "I never loved but one man in my life, and I have lost him-- twice" Cyrano de Bergerac |
| #1959, aired 1993-02-25 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA: The execution of this man & his followers in 1859 is believed to be the only one for treason against a state John Brown |
| #1953, aired 1993-02-17 | IN THE NEWS: Tennessee governor Ned McWherter chose Harlan Mathews to fill this man's Senate seat until 1994 Al Gore |
| #1950, aired 1993-02-12 | FASHION HISTORY: Listing the great men of the 19th century, Lord Byron ranked himself 3rd, Napoleon 2nd & this man 1st Beau Brummel |
| #1943, aired 1993-02-03 | SPORTS: He's the only man voted NBA MVP under 2 completely different names Lew Alcindor (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar) |
| #1919, aired 1992-12-31 | GOVERNORS: This governor sent in the militia after the 1919 Boston police strike was under control (Calvin) Coolidge |
| #1918, aired 1992-12-30 | FAMOUS NAMES: Volume 1 of the New Book of Knowledge Ency. has an article on this man written by Danny Kaye Hans Christian Andersen |
| #1897, aired 1992-12-01 | FAMOUS NAMES: The last of his 56 children, Mabel Sanborn, died in 1950 at age 87 Brigham Young |
| #1890, aired 1992-11-20 | PRESIDENTS' HOMES: The exterior of the governor's mansion in Florida is modeled after the home of this president Andrew Jackson |
| #1827, aired 1992-07-07 | 1991: Time's 1991 Man of the Year, he made viewers around the world "instant witnesses to history" Ted Turner |
| #1789, aired 1992-05-14 | RELIGIOUS LEADERS: Gan-den Trup-pa, a monk, scholar & author, was the first man to be given this title the Dalai Lama |
| #1771, aired 1992-04-20 | MONARCHS: After more than 40 years in exile, King Michael returned to this country in 1990 only to be expelled again Romania |
| #1727, aired 1992-02-18 | NOTORIOUS: Some believe the "suicide" of this man on August 17, 1987 in West Berlin was murder Rudolf Hess |
| #1681, aired 1991-12-16 | ANCIENT WORLDS: In the early 1800s hieroglyphics were first translated by an Egyptologist from this country France |
| #1595, aired 1991-07-05 | SHAKESPEARE: In "Hamlet", this character says, "The apparel oft proclaims the man" Polonius |
| #1588, aired 1991-06-26 | U.S. GOVERNMENT: Of all the independent agencies of the U.S. government, this one has the most employees the Postal Service (the Post Office) |
| #1585, aired 1991-06-21 | AMERICAN POLITICS: He was the only man to preside over both the House & the Senate on the same day, March 4, 1933 John Nance Garner |
| #1544, aired 1991-04-25 | PRESIDENTS: The last president to enter office with his party controlling both houses of Congress Jimmy Carter |
| #1512, aired 1991-03-12 | U.S. GOVERNMENT: In 1977 James Schlesinger became the first man appointed to this post Secretary of Energy |
| #1508, aired 1991-03-06 | POLITICS: A political organization took the name of this man who it considers the 1st U.S. casualty of the Cold War (Captain) John Birch |
| #1476, aired 1991-01-21 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY: The company named for this man is Sweden's largest manufacturer of chemicals Alfred Nobel |
| #1443, aired 1990-12-05 | MAN IN SPACE: He was the only Mercury astronaut to walk on the Moon Alan Shepard |
| #1427, aired 1990-11-13 | WORLD HISTORY: The 2 countries that became independent on Aug. 14 & 15, 1947 Pakistan & India |
| #1424, aired 1990-11-08 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY: This country contains South America's highest & lowest points Argentina |
| #1419, aired 1990-11-01 | HISTORIC NAMES: John Adams was the great great grandson of this couple who came to America in 1620 John & Priscilla Alden |
| #1417, aired 1990-10-30 | 19th CENTURY AMERICANS: When he died in New York City in 1848, this merchant was the richest man in America John Jacob Astor |
| #1407, aired 1990-10-16 | MOVIE ACTRESSES: She was usually cast in exotic Asian roles before her huge success playing a detective's wife in 1934 Myrna Loy |
| #1381, aired 1990-09-10 | AUTOBIOGRAPHIES: Helen Keller dedicated "The Story of My Life" to this man who "taught the deaf to speak" Alexander Graham Bell |
| #1376, aired 1990-09-03 | EARLY MAN: It was the first nonprecious metal man made into tools & decorative items copper |
| #1344, aired 1990-06-07 | 19th CENTURY AMERICANS: 1st & last name of the man who brought insanity proceedings against his famous mother in 1875 Robert Lincoln |
| #1335, aired 1990-05-25 | THE BIBLE: The third man mentioned in the Bible; his name means "breath" in Hebrew Abel |
| #1316, aired 1990-04-30 | PRESIDENTS: The first U.S. president who had served as a governor of a state Thomas Jefferson |
| #1281, aired 1990-03-12 | THE NOBEL PRIZE: The only peace prize awarded posthumously went to this man in 1961 Dag Hammarskjold (the secretary-general of the UN who was killed in the plane crash in Africa) |
| #1267, aired 1990-02-20 | GOVERNMENT: This man resigned his Senate seat January 3, 1989 Dan Quayle |
| #1266, aired 1990-02-19 | ANCIENT HISTORY: Crassus, Julius Caesar & this man formed the 1st Triumvirate Pompey |
| #1255, aired 1990-02-02 | POLITICS: He was the last man holding the office of gov. when elected vice president of the U.S. Spiro Agnew (1968) |
| #1205, aired 1989-11-24 | MAN IN SPACE: America's 1st civilian in space Neil Armstrong |
| #1198, aired 1989-11-15 | VICE PRESIDENTS: At 39 he was the youngest man to take the office of vice president Richard Nixon (in 1953) |
| #1174, aired 1989-10-12 | AMERICANA: When the "Star-Spangled Banner" was written, this man was president of the U.S. James Madison |
| #1172, aired 1989-10-10 | FAMOUS NAMES: The story of this man who rented a house in Omaha, Nebraska in 1917 was made into a 1938 film Father Flanagan |
| #1147, aired 1989-09-05 | WORLD LEADERS: This famous man was the grandfather of the current prime minister of India Jawaharlal Nehru |
| #1125, aired 1989-06-23 | MAN IN SPACE: On May 25, 1973 it took the crew in an Apollo capsule 9 tries to dock with this craft Skylab |
| #1108, aired 1989-05-31 | BEST SELLERS: The title of this 1970 best seller referred to brothers Rudolph & Thomas Jordache Rich Man, Poor Man |
| #1102, aired 1989-05-23 | LITERATURE: It's where Philip Nolan asked to be buried at sea |
| #1083, aired 1989-04-26 | HOLLYWOOD: Cowboy star who has 5 stars on Hollywood's Walk of Fame--1 each for film, TV, recording, theater & radio Gene Autry |
| #991, aired 1988-12-19 | BEST SELLERS: In 1964, 5 of the top 10 nonfiction best sellers were by or about this man John F. Kennedy |
| #968, aired 1988-11-16 | MAN IN SPACE: 3 months after John Glenn, he became the second American to orbit the Earth (Malcolm) Scott Carpenter |
| #953, aired 1988-10-26 | RELIGION: Almost struck by lightning in 1505, this young man vowed to become a monk & did soon after Martin Luther |
| #948, aired 1988-10-19 | NAMES IN THE NEWS: By June 30, 1988 every U.S. residence should have received a gov't booklet w/this man's photo on the cover C. Everett Koop |
| #895, aired 1988-06-24 | 20th CENTURY PERSONALITIES: Johnny Carson became permanent host of "The Tonight Show" when this man was U.S. president John Kennedy |
| #888, aired 1988-06-15 | THE BIBLE: In Chapter 1, Verse 1, authorship of the book of Proverbs is attributed to this man Solomon |
| #854, aired 1988-04-28 | TELEVISION: When "Saturday Night Live" announced this man would host, the candidate & the singer both "showed up" Paul Simon |
| #846, aired 1988-04-18 | MAN IN SPACE: The names of the 1st two Space Shuttle orbiters actually launched into space Columbia & Challenger |
| #801, aired 1988-02-15 | 1987: British Labor Party leader Neil Kinnock became well known in the U.S. after this man "quoted" him Joseph Biden |
| #732, aired 1987-11-10 | THE BIBLE: The first verse of this book says, "There was a man in the land of Uz that feared God and eschewed evil" Job |
| #723, aired 1987-10-28 | COMEDIANS: To win a bet with Frankie Laine, this man composed 350 songs in just 1 week Steve Allen |
| #712, aired 1987-10-13 | HISTORIC NAMES: This man was killed in a duel in Weehawken, New Jersey 2 1/2 years after his son died in a duel there Alexander Hamilton |
| #686, aired 1987-09-07 | FAMOUS QUOTES: Though Neil Armstrong says he uttered it, this word is missing from tapes of his famous quote a |
| #669, aired 1987-07-02 | THE BIBLE: Man of Gath whose height was six cubits & a span Goliath (Raphah or Lahmi) |
| #661, aired 1987-06-22 | RELIGION: After being a hostage in Lebanon, he became head of the Presbyterian Church (USA) Rev. Benjamin Weir |
| #651, aired 1987-06-08 | ANTHROPOLOGY: Extinct species of man named for a German valley where the 1st remains were found in 1856 Neanderthal |
| #649, aired 1987-06-04 | FAMOUS AMERICANS: Renaissance man, "he seized the lighting from heaven & the scepter from tyrants" Ben Franklin |
| #613, aired 1987-04-15 | IN THE NEWS: FDR was named this 3 times, Ike, Truman & Churchill twice; but for 1966 it was the 25 & under generation Time Man of the Year |
| #578, aired 1987-02-25 | WORD PLAY: Man's name formed by using, in order, the 1st letters of 5 consecutive months Jason |
| #561, aired 1987-02-02 | ANIMALS: It's believed elephants rarely lived beyond 60, about the age the last of these wear out teeth |
| #554, aired 1987-01-22 | CITIES: In 1904, this city hosted the Democratic National Convention, a World's Far & the Olympics St. Louis |
| #508, aired 1986-11-19 | MAN IN SPACE: Now seen as a TV spokesman, he was only astronaut to orbit Earth in Mercury, Gemini, & Apollo craft Wally Schirra |
| #489, aired 1986-10-23 | MAN IN SPACE: President who signed the bill which created NASA Dwight Eisenhower |
| #486, aired 1986-10-20 | LITERATURE: Title of this 1940 novel is taken from the words of John Donne, which begin "No man is an island" For Whom the Bell Tolls |
| #425, aired 1986-04-25 | MAN IN SPACE: With the new Vandenberg spaceport, total number of manned-flight launch sites in the world 3 |
| #396, aired 1986-03-17 | MAN IN SPACE: This Space Shuttle, the only 1 named for a spaceship, is the only 1 not to have flown in space the Enterprise |
| #388, aired 1986-03-05 | ART: The 2 geometric shapes containing da Vinci's famous "Vitruvian Man" circle & square |
| #312, aired 1985-11-19 | LITERATURE: 1952 novel that begins off the coast of Cuba, & ends on shore 3 days later The Old Man and the Sea |
| #296, aired 1985-10-28 | THE OSCARS: In 1937 & '38, he became only man to win Best Actor Oscar in consecutive years Spencer Tracy |
| #280, aired 1985-10-04 | BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY: Over 1/2 of Fortune 500 and 42% of all N.Y. Stock Exchange companies are incorporated in this state Delaware |
| #279, aired 1985-10-03 | WORLD POLITICS: Last Communist party chief of the U.S.S.R. to leave office without dying Nikita Khrushchev |
| #171, aired 1985-05-06 | MEDICINE: A vaccine developed in 1796 made this disease the 1st conquered by man smallpox |
| #122, aired 1985-02-26 | 20th CENTURY: In 1927, he was named "Time" magazine's first "Man of the Year" (Charles) Lindbergh |
| #30, aired 1984-10-19 | ASTRONOMY: After the Sun & the Moon, the brightest astronomical object regularly seen in our sky the planet Venus |
| #9, aired 1984-09-20 | SCIENCE: The mammal that holds the record for the longest lifespan man |
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Lyndsey Romick, a sophomore from Lewis & Clark College
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Carolyn Young, a homemaker from Marietta, Georgia
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Season 25 1-time champion: $30,000 + $2,000. Mother of Season 32...
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Justin Waters, a resident physician from Royal Oak, Michigan
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Season 25 1-time champion: $7,199 + $2,000. Justin Waters Royal Oak,...
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Jonathan Corbblah, a chess teacher from Harlem, New York
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Season 27 1-time champion: $13,000 + $1,000. Jonathan appeared as a...
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Danny Brylow, a 12-year-old from Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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"A theologian, an actor, or a playwright? This young man has...
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Brooks Colleton, a 12-year-old from Jacksonville, Florida
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"There's more to this young man than straight academia: he's also...
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Judy Mermelstein, a Census field representative from Queens, New York
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Season 25 1-time champion: $38,401 + $1,000. Judy also appeared on...
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Mike Kim, a 12-year-old from Wiesbaden, Germany
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"Under the heading of "Came the Farthest", this young man wins...
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Tom Bergeron, an Emmy Award-winning host from Dancing with the Stars
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2009 Celebrity Jeopardy! player: $25,000 to the Muscular Dystrophy Association. "He's...
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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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Benjamin Schwartz, a 12-year-old from East Providence, Rhode Island
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"When you were 11, did you host your own webpage on...
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Michael Bergen, a 12-year-old from Clarksville, Tennessee
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"To be or not to be a Shakespearean actor, that's 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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John Fabros, a 12-year-old from Downers Grove, Illinois
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"This well-rounded young man is a computer programmer, violinist and award-winning...
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Will Schultz, a freshman from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
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2007 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 19 at the time of the...
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Curt Schilling, a pitcher from the Boston Red Sox
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"In helping the Red Sox to win the 2004 World Series,...
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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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Rachel Gottesman, a junior from Cortlandt Manor, New York
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2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 17 at the...
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Jove Graham, a biomedical engineer from Lewisburg, Pennsylvania
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Season 26 1-time champion: $34,401 + $1,000. Jove's second contestant interview...
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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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Julie Bowen, a TV and film actress from Boston Legal, Lost and Modern Family
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"For two seasons, she played attorney Denise Bauer in Boston Legal....
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David Siegel, a paralegal from Los Angeles, California
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"He was a finalist in the 1995 Tournament of Champions. A...
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Roger Antaki, an Airborne infantry man from Fort Bragg, North Carolina
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Season 13 player (1997-06-20).
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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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Ken Jennings, a software engineer from Salt Lake City, Utah
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2020 Jeopardy!: The Greatest of All Time winner: $1,000,000 + a...
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Martin Short, a multitalented man from Fame Becomes Me
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"Jiminy Glick and Ed Grimley are among his many memorable characters....
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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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Leszek Pawlowicz, a materials scientist from Phoenix, Arizona
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2014 Battle of the Decades semifinalist: $25,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
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Michael Blake, a 12-year-old from Hamburg, New York
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"Our top story tonight is this young man, who wants to...
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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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Martina Navratilova, a former tennis pro and novelist originally from Prague, Czechoslovakia
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"With 9, she's won more singles titles at Wimbledon than any...
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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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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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Lee Lassiter, a data modeler from Topeka, Kansas
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"A 5-time winner from 2000, he used his winnings to take...
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Michael Braun, a junior from Silver Spring, Maryland
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2005 Teen...
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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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Ken Jennings, a software engineer from Salt Lake City, Utah
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2020 Jeopardy!: The Greatest of All Time winner: $1,000,000 + a...
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Jennifer Buermann, a construction manager from Jersey City, New Jersey
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Season 22 player (2005-09-13).
Last name pronounced like "BYOOR-man".
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