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

#9069, aired 2024-03-28BRITISH EXPLORERS $400: William Baffin was the first to determine degrees of this by watching the Moon pass in front of a star in 1615 longitude
#9069, aired 2024-03-28TOUGH VOCAB $1200: It can mean a horse carriage for rent; add -ed to mean made commonplace by frequent use a hackney
#9068, aired 2024-03-27CRUISE LINES $400: Client Rod Tidwell gets agent Jerry Maguire to say this 4-word phrase again & again, louder each time show me the money
#9068, aired 2024-03-27MUSIC COLLABS $800: This country singer collaborated with Leon Bridges on the song "If You Were Mine" Miranda Lambert
#9068, aired 2024-03-27TRENDING $1000: This 4-letter photo-editing app has given rise to a meme that describes a person with a specific fashion aesthetic VSCO
#9068, aired 2024-03-27WORLD 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 2024-03-26FEELING JITTERY $800: This 4-letter word can mean tense or provocative, like a daring work of art edgy
#9067, aired 2024-03-26SPORTY TALK $1000: It can mean any self-destructive act, specifically kicking the ball into the net you're supposed to be defending own goal
#9067, aired 2024-03-26FEELING JITTERY $1200: It starts with the same 4 letters & seems like it would mean the opposite of "restless", but it means the same restive
#9066, aired 2024-03-25THE THEATER $400: Inspired by the drama of "The Winner Takes It All", this musical premiered in London in 1999 & played its 9,000th show there in 2022 Mamma Mia!
#9066, aired 2024-03-25LET'S GET A DRINK $600: Real Madagascar vanilla is one of the spices in this "original spiced rum" brand, & I totally mean to pull rank here Captain Morgan
#9066, aired 2024-03-25IAMB A POET $1200: Iam the "I" in "I Felt a Funeral, in My Brain", & what do you mean I'm obsessed with death? Dickinson
#9066, aired 2024-03-25FIVE GUYS $2000: This Spanish surrealist whose work is often exhibited with Dali's painted "Dog Barking at the Moon" in 1926 Joan Miró
#9065, aired 2024-03-22THE LYRICAL STYLINGS OF JOHNNY GILBERT $200: "I'm that bad type make your mama sad type, make your girlfriend mad tight might seduce your dad type... I'm the bad guy" Billie Eilish
#9065, aired 2024-03-22WORDS IN INVITATIONAL $200: It can mean of utmost importance or essential to life vital
#9065, aired 2024-03-22NONFICTION $600: Members of the Osage Nation, Mollie Burkhart & her family are at the center of this bestseller Killers of the Flower Moon
#9065, aired 2024-03-22ITALIAN WORDS & PHRASES $2000: It comes before voce to mean "quietly" & before "il sole della Toscana" to mean the book "Under the Tuscan Sun" Sotto
#9064, aired 2024-03-214-LETTER HOMOPHONES $200: Money paid to release one from the hoosegow & a large bundle of goods bail/bale
#9064, aired 2024-03-21IN YOUR ELEMENT $400: Br: A possessive adjective mine (in bromine)
#9064, aired 2024-03-21THE CINEMA IN 2023 $400: In "Dumb Money", Paul Dano plays an investor who led a surge in value for this stock, & Anthony Ramos plays an employee there GameStop
#9063, aired 2024-03-20THE VOCABULARY OF ICE ICE BABY $200: Mayhem is classified as this type of crime, which kinda rhymes with "dope melody" a felony
#9061, aired 2024-03-18MUSICAL FILMS $800: Reneé Rapp plays Regina George, head of the Plastics, in this 2024 high school musical Mean Girls
#9061, aired 2024-03-18INTRODUCTORY WORDS $2000: It can mean a legal right in English or right in French droit
#9060, aired 2024-03-15WHAT THE "H"? $1200: A classic song says, "waiting 'round the bend, my" this person, "Moon River & me" huckleberry friend
#9060, aired 2024-03-15LOST WORKS $1200: The lost 9-hour cut of this Erich von Stroheim silent film with a deadly sin as its title likely showed money can't buy happiness Greed
#9060, aired 2024-03-15LOST WORKS $5,000 (Daily Double): In the lost ancient epic "Aethiopis", the Ethiopian king Memnon fights for Troy & is killed by this Greek hero Achilles
#9059, aired 2024-03-14LOOK AT THE MAP $200: Let's look at the two main islands of this alliterative Caribbean country Trinidad & Tobago
#9059, aired 2024-03-14HEALTH & MEDICINE $600: Jaundice can be a symptom of this liver inflammation that has 5 main viruses labeled A-E hepatitis
#9059, aired 2024-03-14FESTIVALS $1000: Blue for Krishna is just one of the hues in this festival of colors on the day of the full moon Holi
#9059, aired 2024-03-14THE NAME ON THE OSCAR $1600: Best Supporting Actress, 1973, for "Paper Moon" Tatum O'Neal
#9058, aired 2024-03-13THE CLOCK & THE CALENDAR $400: Months on the Islamic calendar traditionally begin when this type of moon is sighted in the western sky the crescent moon
#9057, aired 2024-03-12THE KNIGHTLY NEWS $1200: This "colorful" poem dates to the 14th century & includes the main character being tempted by a lord's wife Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
#9057, aired 2024-03-12UNMANNED SPACE EXPLORATION $1600: The New Horizons spacecraft discovered that the surface of this largest moon of Pluto was mostly dirty water ice Charon
#9054, aired 2024-03-07THE TALLEST ONE $1600: In the heartwarming sismance among the main actors on "Ted Lasso" Hannah Waddingham
#9054, aired 2024-03-07ENDS IN DOUBLE LETTERS $8,600 (Daily Double): Originally a stick or spindle used in spinning, it also came to mean women's work or the female side of a family distaff
#9052, aired 2024-03-05WORDS IN COLONEL JESSUP'S BIG SPEECH $200: It's said there are "three sides to every story: yours, mine" & this the truth
#9052, aired 2024-03-05TV IN THE AUGHTIES $800: The title of this Miami-set spy show co-starring Bruce Campbell refers to an official statement that blacklists a spy Burn Notice
#9052, aired 2024-03-05THE ANIMAL KINGDOM $3,600 (Daily Double): The 2 main species of this great ape are the Bornean & Sumatran the orangutan
#9051, aired 2024-03-04I HEARD A RUMOR $200: It can mean a rumor, or testimony in court based upon what she said she said hearsay
#9051, aired 2024-03-04I HEARD A RUMOR $600: Merriam-Webster "spills" the story that using this word to mean a secret truth first gained prominence in Black drag culture the tea
#9050, aired 2024-03-01RHYMES WITH RHYME $800: Before "in", it can mean to break into a conversation to express an opinion chime
#9050, aired 2024-03-01RHYMES WITH RHYME $1000: In computer jargon, it's an extension that allows the transfer of different types of data files via email MIME
#9049, aired 2024-02-29LIVE, LAUGH, LOVE $800: Live: Vegan? You may need to give this cobalt-containing vitamin a shot, as animal products are the main dietary source of it B12
#9049, aired 2024-02-29IMAGE $1200: MoMA describes this 1889 van Gogh painting as having a "churning sky" & a "quiet village below" Starry Night
#9049, aired 2024-02-29NAME $2000: This 18th century French writer may have derived his mononym from an anagram of a Latinized version of his surname, Arouet Voltaire
#9047, aired 2024-02-27INAUGURAL ADDRESSES $1000: In 1969 Nixon was referring to this Apollo mission when he said astronauts "flew over the Moon's gray surface on Christmas Eve" Apollo 8
#9046, aired 2024-02-26ALLOYS $5,000 (Daily Double): This 7-letter word for an alloy used in dentistry is also used to mean any combination of 2 or more substances amalgam
#9045, aired 2024-02-23TRIPLE RHYME TIME $400: Counterfeit currency for Bugs or Thumper bunny funny money
#9045, aired 2024-02-23QUICK GEO $2000: Myanmar's main river the Irrawaddy
#9043, aired 2024-02-21FUN & GAMES $400: Scott Salvadore won the "mane event" for the championships of this hairstyle with his 'do named "The Lord's Drapes" a mullet
#9043, aired 2024-02-21AMERICAN AUTHORS $1200: Early in his career, this author of "The Corrections" earned extra money working in a seismology lab at Harvard Franzen
#9042, aired 2024-02-20WHAT'S THAT SMELL? $200: Naturally, this body part can also mean a smell nose
#9042, aired 2024-02-20THE U.S. POSTAL SERVICE $600: The stamp seen here is sold at a surcharge to help raise money to find a cure for this breast cancer
#9042, aired 2024-02-20WHAT'S THAT SMELL? $800: This 5-letter word can mean the distinct smell left by an animal & used to track prey scent
#9041, aired 2024-02-19IT'S ALL "SMALL" STUFF $400: This type of special tribunal is set up for simplified litigation of damages below a certain amount of money small claims court
#9041, aired 2024-02-19POP $1600: This main character of the God of War video game franchise has issues with his dad, Zeus, who hasn't done right by his mom, Callisto Kratos
#9040, aired 2024-02-16CANADIAN 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 2024-02-16OH, "MY" WORD! $800: This Asian critter is known for its ability to mimic human speech the mynah
#9040, aired 2024-02-16SCIENCE STUFF $2000: Galileo discovered this, the largest moon of Jupiter & the largest satellite in our solar system Ganymede
#9038, aired 2024-02-145 FOR THE ROAD $200: The road to hell is proverbially paved with these, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't try to be nice good intentions
#9038, aired 2024-02-14THE AIR THAT I BREATHE $1200: The main gas from an erupting volcano is this 2-word one that also forms clouds, but there's also less benign sulfur dioxide water vapor
#9035, aired 2024-02-09POETRY $400: In an Edward Lear poem, the Owl marries this other title animal & they dance "by the light of the moon" the Pussycat
#9035, aired 2024-02-09NUMERICAL TELEVISION $1000: Would you believe these were the 2 code numbers used by the 2 main CONTROL agents fighting KAOS on "Get Smart!" 86 & 99
#9035, aired 2024-02-0921st CENTURY SCIENCE $1200: Before its mission ended in 2017, the spacecraft named for this astronomer gave us a view of Saturn's moon Enceladus Cassini
#9034, aired 2024-02-08THINKING ABOUT THE ROMAN EMPIRE $1200: Poor Geoffrey was on the menu at Pompeii; archaeologists have dug up a bone of this tall African animal in the ancient city a giraffe
#9034, aired 2024-02-08PASTOR BROWN'S CHURCH NEWSLETTER CROSSWORD $1600: Pastor B. wants your money to slide into this plate (10 letters) collection
#9033, aired 2024-02-07LITERATURE BINGO $200: "N", 2005: Llewelyn Moss decides to take off with millions in drug money in this Cormac McCarthy tale; Llewelyn comes to regret that No Country for Old Men
#9032, aired 2024-02-06LATER, DUDE $2000: As this 8-letter word can mean "goodbye forever" in Japan, most Japanese people don't use it that often sayonara
#9031, aired 2024-02-05HISTORICAL AMERICAN CURRENCY $200: It still had "Bay Colony" in its name when it issued America's first paper money in 1690 to help fund military expeditions Massachusetts
#9031, aired 2024-02-05HISTORICAL AMERICAN CURRENCY $600: Between 1837 & 1840 this republic & future state issued a paper currency called star money for the small star on the bill's face Texas
#9030, aired 2024-02-02JUST PLAYING $400: "Funny how, I mean, funny like I'm a clown?" Joe Pesci asks Ray Liotta in this film Goodfellas
#3, aired 2024-02-02MISCELLANY $400: It's the year Apollo 11 put a man on the Moon, & not just one 1969
#3, aired 2024-02-02WHEN I'M 64 $1200: At 64 miles wide, this Hawaiian site is the world's largest active volcano Mauna Loa
#9028, aired 2024-01-31OPERA $400: In act IV of "La bohème", Musetta finds this woman half-dead; spoiler alert--by the end of the act, she's all dead Mimi
#9028, aired 2024-01-31THE ENGLISH PAST TENSE $800: This irregular past tense verb can mean completely tired out & exhausted spent (worn)
#9028, aired 2024-01-31MOUNTAINS 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
#9026, aired 2024-01-29LOST IN SPACE $2,000 (Daily Double): This astronaut who remained in orbit during a 1969 Moon landing, lost a camera during an earlier mission in 1966 (Michael) Collins
#9024, aired 2024-01-25PEOPLE WHO ARE PLACES $2000: He's a "Mamma Mia!" maybe papa & a narrow inlet of the sea in the British isles a firth (Colin Firth)
#9023, aired 2024-01-24ART & ARTISTS $400: An estimated 80% of the visitors to the Louvre come just to see this portrait by Leonardo da Vinci the Mona Lisa
#9023, aired 2024-01-24ISLAND COUNTRIES $1200: Divided into 2 sections & 2 main ethnic groups, Cyprus has 2 official languages: Greek & this Turkish
#9022, aired 2024-01-233-LETTER, 3-LETTER $400: It refers to the main tent of a circus, or the circus itself the big top
#9022, aired 2024-01-23SQUEAKER OF THE HOUSE $600: Snap & glue are 2 main types of this device used to rid your house of little squeakers mousetraps
#9022, aired 2024-01-23U.S. CITIES $1600: Many a cruise leaves out of Port Everglades in this city, the seat of Broward County Fort Lauderdale
#26, aired 2024-01-23ADVANCED CINEMATOGRAPHY $100: That's what I call range! Rodrigo Prieto was behind the lens for Greta Gerwig's "Barbie" & this 2023 Martin Scorsese drama Killers of the Flower Moon
#26, aired 2024-01-23ORGANIC CHEMISTRY $500: Chemically speaking, they're molecules with at least one unpaired electron; true to their name, they can be, like, totally reactive radicals
#26, aired 2024-01-23OZZY OSBOURNE'S FAVORITE SONGS $600: This Pink Floyd classic reminds Ozzy of his LSD days; maybe it's that trippy cash register sound effect "Money"
#26, aired 2024-01-23OZZY OSBOURNE'S FAVORITE SONGS $1500: Called "the cowbell jam to end all cowbell jams", this song by Mountain is not about a river boat, you know what I mean "Mississippi Queen"
#26, aired 2024-01-23PEAK TV $2,000 (Daily Double): Mike White, the creator of this series, said that the first season is about money and the second season is about sex White Lotus
#26, aired 2024-01-23I'M JUST KEN $10,400 (Daily Double): In 2023 this documentarian released his latest film, a four-hour series examining the rich history of the American buffalo Ken Burns
#9020, aired 2024-01-19FROM S TO Y $400: This verb can mean to kill; in slang, crack someone up; or more recent slang, kill with one's fashion slay
#9020, aired 2024-01-19EXISTENTIALISM $2000: A common maxim is "existence precedes" this other "E" term; the main thing is we're here, free to create meaning in our lives essence
#9019, aired 2024-01-18AN "H" & "R" BLOCK $800: The legal money of a nation is said to be the "coin of the" this the realm
#9018, aired 2024-01-17FIND THE FISH $1600: Let's hear a solo on that theremin now, said the conductor minnow
#9017, aired 2024-01-1620th CENTURY AMERICANS $2000: Brought back to his place in history by a 2023 movie, he was the main organizer of the March on Washington Bayard Rustin
#25, aired 2024-01-16WHERE ART THOU? $200: You're snapping a selfie at this museum's main entrance, a glass pyramid designed by architect I.M. Pei the Louvre
#25, aired 2024-01-16SPELLING BIZ $500: In 1972, this brand debuted Red Zinger and Sleepy Time; you can't spell it without spelling... _ _ _ _ _ T _ _ _ _ E A _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Celestial Seasonings
#25, aired 2024-01-16THE MOUNT RUSHMORE OF... $800: Masterpieces: "Mona Lisa", "The Last Supper", "the starry night" & this Botticelli work of a goddess standing in a scallop shell (The) Birth of Venus
#25, aired 2024-01-16THE MOUNT RUSHMORE OF... $1000: Rock drummers: Neil Peart, Ginger Baker, Keith Moon & this legendary Led Zeppelin beat keeper John Bonham
#25, aired 2024-01-16WORDS THAT MAKE DOGS GO NUTS $1000: In "Mean Girls", Gretchen Wieners tries to make this word happen to no avail fetch
#25, aired 2024-01-16THE FRENCH HORN $2,000 (Daily Double): In one of the least alluring rituals of horn maintenance, players must invert their instruments routinely to drain them of this spit
#9016, aired 2024-01-15"G" WHIZ $1600: The bell-lyra & the orchestra bells are 2 of the main types of this percussion instrument a glockenspiel
#2, aired 2024-01-12SPRECHEN SIE DEUTSCH? $1200: In German, what's mine is mein & what's yours is this rhyming word dein
#9014, aired 2024-01-11EPISODES OF THE SITCOM $2000: "Blanche and the Younger Man" & "Dateline: Miami" The Golden Girls
#9013, aired 2024-01-10U.S. MONEY $200: The $1 bill features one of these structures topped by an all-seeing eye a pyramid
#9013, aired 2024-01-10U.S. MONEY $400: The Feds still issue bills of this denomination but in a much smaller quantity than the others $2 bill
#9013, aired 2024-01-10U.S. MONEY $600: In the late 18th century, the first U.S. coins were minted in this city, the capital at the time Philadelphia
#9013, aired 2024-01-10U.S. MONEY $800: The highest U.S. denomination ever issued, $100,000 gold certificates, were not meant for public use, but for use by these banks
#9013, aired 2024-01-10U.S. MONEY $1000: Part of the Treasury Department, the U.S. bureau of these 2 activities can produce over $500 million in notes in a day engraving & printing
#9012, aired 2024-01-09A RECIPE FOR... $400: The 2 main ingredients for the pasta dish cacio e pepe are cheese & this, pepe nero in Italian black pepper
#9012, aired 2024-01-09WATERLOGGED WORDS $800: Damp means wet, as does this other 4-letter "D" word that the cool kids use to mean "excellent" dank
#24, aired 2024-01-09OPPOSITES OF NOVEL TITLES $300: Ernest Hemingway's "The Moon Also Sets" The Sun Also Rises
#9011, aired 2024-01-08RECENT MOVIES $1000: This Scorsese film is based on David Grann's nonfiction book about Osage murders in 1920s Oklahoma Killers of the Flower Moon
#9010, aired 2024-01-05OUR 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 2024-01-05NYMING -NYMS $800: A cryptonym is a secret name or code word; this 1960s Vietnamese leader had several, including Agent 19 Ho Chi Minh
#9009, aired 2024-01-04LANGUAGES & THEIR FORMS $600: More than 20 languages spoken by indigenous people in Guatemala originated from this language Mayan
#9009, aired 2024-01-04I SENSE SOME NEGATIVITY $800: As a verb, it can mean to blaspheme; as a noun, a calling to a deity to bring evil to a foe curse
#9007, aired 2024-01-02CLOSE ENCOUNTERS $600: It's a word for a woman's garment that can also mean to go around the edge of an area to skirt
#9007, aired 2024-01-02CLOSE ENCOUNTERS $1000: You get an "A" plus 7 letters in geometry, if you know it describes 2 angles with a common side & vertex; it can also just mean "next to" adjacent (angles)
#9007, aired 2024-01-02CHILD PERFORMERS $1600: In this movie child actor Jonathan Lipnicki told Tom Cruise the human head weighs 8 pounds Jerry Maguire
#9007, aired 2024-01-02LET'S TALK ASTRONOMY $2000: This word for when the Moon is between half & full can be pronounced with either a hard or soft "G" sound gibbous
#23, aired 2024-01-02BOOKS IN THE SERIES $100: Stephenie Meyer: "New Moon"; "Eclipse"; "Breaking Dawn" Twilight
#23, aired 2024-01-02URANUS, SHMURANUS $200: With a name like Janus, you'd think it would orbit Uranus, but it's a moon that orbits this ringed planet Saturn
#23, aired 2024-01-02ONE BELLY BUTTON, TWO NIPPLES $500: Epiglottis, naris, testis: it's the one a male has one of epiglottis
#9006, aired 2024-01-01NATIVE AMERICANS $400: The people of Red Mountain are battling to protect their Nev. homeland at Thacker Pass from an open-pit mine for this battery element lithium
#9005, aired 2023-12-29GLAD-JECTIVES $800: This 7-letter adjective can mean happy or able to float on liquid buoyant
#9005, aired 2023-12-29CANADIAN POSTAL ABBREVIATIONS $1000: Its 2 main parts are separated by the Strait of Belle Isle: NL Newfoundland & Labrador
#9005, aired 2023-12-29FEATURES OF THE PLANET $1000: Its unique tilt ensures 21-year winters for each pole; we'll throw in that Cupid is an inner moon Uranus
#9005, aired 2023-12-29LITERARY TOWNS & CITIES $1200: A writer becomes infatuated with a boy & his family in 1912's "Death in Venice" by this author (Thomas) Mann
#9004, aired 2023-12-28TOUCH TYPE $400: A word & the same word backwards: done "on the shoulder", they mean you're being selected or being comforted tap or pat
#9004, aired 2023-12-28I'D LIKE TO CHANGE A VOWEL, PAT $400: Let's change gears & give you a passage through a mine shift & shaft
#9004, aired 2023-12-28SPEED DATING $600: The world ended, according to erroneous interpretations of the Mayan calendar 2012
#9004, aired 2023-12-28FOR THE GRAM $600: Jessica Anteby Tebele is behind a meme account with funny photos called "Beige" this sweater familiar to Swifties a Cardigan
#9004, aired 2023-12-28WORLD CAPITALS $1600: Mexico City's main airport is named for this national hero & president of the country from 1861 to 1872 Benito Juárez
#9003, aired 2023-12-27IN MY CEILINGS $200: In 2023 this was suspended at $31.4 trillion; it's a 2-word term for the cap that limits the money the govt. is allowed to borrow the debt ceiling
#9002, aired 2023-12-26JUST "E"AT IT $200: In the U.S., this French word signifies the main course, but in France it means the first course the entrée
#9002, aired 2023-12-26FORKS, KNIVES, SPOONS $400: In 2020 this umlauted ice cream brand got rid of those cute little non-recyclable plastic spoons from some mini cups Häagen-Dazs
#9002, aired 2023-12-26COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $800: Confusingly, the University of Miami is in Florida, while Miami University is in this state Ohio
#9001, aired 2023-12-25BATS ENTERTAINMENT $400: She was up for a Golden Glove... I mean, a Golden Globe... for playing catcher Dottie Hinson in "A League of Their Own" Geena Davis
#9000, aired 2023-12-22FOLLOW THE "MONEY" $200: This Michael Lewis bestseller is subtitled "The Art of Winning an Unfair Game" Moneyball
#9000, aired 2023-12-22FOLLOW THE "MONEY" $400: In 2010 a Paris court gave Manuel Noriega 7 years in prison for this crime of disguising the source of illegal proceeds money laundering
#9000, aired 2023-12-22FOLLOW THE "MONEY" $600: In the title of their debut album, The Black Crowes advised listeners to shake this your money maker
#9000, aired 2023-12-22FOLLOW THE "MONEY" $800: This larval word describes one preoccupied with wealth money-grubber
#9000, aired 2023-12-22FOLLOW THE "MONEY" $1000: Many men have lightened their billfolds by carrying this; JFK's was gold with an image of St. Christopher a money clip
#9000, aired 2023-12-22BODIES OF WATER $1200: Manama & Bushehr are on this body that was at the center of fighting in 1991 & again in the 2000s the Persian Gulf
#8999, aired 2023-12-21WORDS & THEIR CHANGING MEANINGS $400: Once used to mean lust, it's now a 2-syllable synonym for indigestion heartburn
#8999, aired 2023-12-21SAY, "BUSTER" $800: In the 1850s, it meant an American who caused conflict in Latin America; a bit later, it came to mean a tactic in a legislature a Filibuster
#8998, aired 2023-12-20FAMOUS FINNS $1200: Marshal Carl Mannerheim gave his name to Finland's main line of defense in the 1939-40 war with this country the Soviet Union
#8997, aired 2023-12-19SUPER SUCCESSFUL SEQUELS $2000: 2020: Detectives played by Will Smith & Martin Lawrence fight drug lords in Miami Bad Boys for Life
#8996, aired 2023-12-18COLORFUL SPORTS $600: Hard Rock Stadium in Florida is home to the Miami Dolphins & this college bowl game the Orange Bowl
#8996, aired 2023-12-18HERE COMES THE SUN $1000: The Sun is a G2 V star, meaning it's of the second hottest in the "G" class & the "V" refers to its being in this "sequence" the main sequence
#8996, aired 2023-12-18IN YOUR FACE! $1200: This part of your face can also mean impudence; the "Barefoot Boy" had one "of tan" cheek
#8996, aired 2023-12-18U.S. FIRSTS $7,000 (Daily Double): The first woman mayor of a major U.S. city was Bertha Landes in Seattle; soon after came Dorothy Lee in this city 172 miles south Portland (Oregon)
#8993, aired 2023-12-13OSCAR, MEYER, WIENER $400: On the small screen, he starred in "Moon Knight"; on the big screen, "The Force Awakens" & "Inside Llewyn Davis", among others Oscar Isaac
#8992, aired 2023-12-12HAVE YOU 8? $200: The main part of this state is its 8 main islands Hawaii
#8992, aired 2023-12-12BLACK MYSTERY & CRIME FICTION $1000: The name of this underworld author of "Mama Black Widow" & "Pimp" inspired the "Ice" part of Ice-T's stage name Iceberg Slim
#8989, aired 2023-12-07OKLAHOMA! $800: This humorist & native son lends his name to Oklahoma City's main airport Will Rogers
#8988, aired 2023-12-06REAL MEN OF SCIENCE $800: Christiaan Huygens was an early telescope developer & found the moon Titan when he looked at this planet Saturn
#22, aired 2023-12-06THE MOON $200: Note to Pink Floyd: though one hemisphere of the Moon always faces away from Earth, this nickname for it is inaccurate dark side of the Moon
#22, aired 2023-12-06THE MOON $400: NASA describes these phenomena as "bulges" in the Earth's oceans caused by the Moon's gravitational pull the tides
#22, aired 2023-12-06THE MOON $600: Stargazers once thought the Moon's dark patches were oceans; today we know they're pools of this hardened volcanic substance lava
#22, aired 2023-12-06ALSO A TAYLOR SWIFT SONG $800: It's not yours! It's this word that comes before "craft" & "sweeper" in the names of popular video games mine
#22, aired 2023-12-06THE MOON $800: Why all the craters? Blame it on the Moon's thin one of these, a gassy layer offering scant protection against meteorites atmosphere
#22, aired 2023-12-06THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE $1,000 (Daily Double): Historians cite this event that began in 1929 as one of the main reasons for the demise of the Harlem renaissance the Great Depression
#22, aired 2023-12-06THE MOON $1000: The Apollo astronauts didn't fire muskets on the Moon, but they did report that moondust smells of this burnt explosive gunpowder
#22, aired 2023-12-06SPELLED RONG ON PURPOSE $1500: This buzzy cryptocurrency's name was inspired by a meme, which may have been inspired by a mistyping of the word "dog" Dogecoin
#8987, aired 2023-12-05ALMOST ASSASSINATED $400: February 15, 1933 after making a speech in Miami FDR
#8987, aired 2023-12-05FLAGS $2,600 (Daily Double): The main flag on a warship is called this, also a rank in the Navy the ensign
#8986, aired 2023-12-04BRITISH BANDS $800: Bananarama had a hit with this song, appropriately enough, in the mean, hot days of August 1984 "Cruel Summer"
#8985, aired 2023-12-01MACBETH'S WITCHES ON FOOD NETWORK $400: Instead of cilantro, we'll use slips of yew slivered during one of these of the Moon an eclipse
#8985, aired 2023-12-01NURSERY RHYME PHOBIAS $1000: As he may have had peniaphobia, a fear of poverty, he was in the counting-house counting all his money the king
#8984, aired 2023-11-30ECON 101 $1000: Give us an "A" for this word that can mean paying off a debt in installments or by paying into a sinking fund amortization
#8983, aired 2023-11-29HERE COMES THE NEIGHBORHOOD $400: Miami districts include "Little Haiti" & "Little" this city, home to many exiles from Cuba Havana
#8983, aired 2023-11-29BEN FRANKLIN'S DRINKER'S DICTIONARY $1200: "He sees" these (Ben probably didn't mean Walter Payton & Dick Butkus) bears
#21, aired 2023-11-29WOMEN & SPORTS $600: Named general manager of the Miami Marlins in 2020, Kim Ng became this pro sport's first female GM baseball
#21, aired 2023-11-29"SESAME STREET" SONG PARODIES $600: Tony Bennett sings "Slimey To The Moon" after this cranky Muppet's pet worm goes to space to "wriggle 'mongst the stars" Oscar the Grouch
#21, aired 2023-11-29THIS IS JEO-PURR-DY! $600: In this iconic Internet meme, an orange tabby named Fatso appears to play an Ensoniq Mirage synthesizer Keyboard Cat
#8982, aired 2023-11-28REMEMBER THE MANE $400: He's the fight promoter seen here Don King
#8982, aired 2023-11-28REMEMBER THE MANE $800: If you lived through the '70s, you must remember her hair & probably that poster Farrah Fawcett
#8982, aired 2023-11-28REMEMBER THE MANE $1200: Bouffant hair & a pillbox hat were part of her look that sparked a fashion trend Jacqueline Kennedy
#8982, aired 2023-11-28REMEMBER THE MANE $1600: When this "Felicity" star cut her hair & fans freaked out, a WB exec said, "Nobody is cutting their hair again on our network" Keri Russell
#8982, aired 2023-11-28REMEMBER THE MANE $2000: He's toured & recorded with his Large Band Lyle Lovett
#8981, aired 2023-11-27CULTURE CLUB $400: Jasper Johns' "Sketch for 'Good Time Charley"' can be found at this museum, 1000 5th Ave. at 82nd the Met (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
#8981, aired 2023-11-27THE 23rd PSALM $800: "Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of" these mine enemies
#8980, aired 2023-11-24FICTIONAL MOVIE BANDS $1600: The New Main Street Singers, Mitch & Mickey & The Folksmen are groups in this Christopher Guest film A Mighty Wind
#8980, aired 2023-11-24NASHVILLE, GEOGRAPHIC $5,000 (Daily Double): A very rich businessman gave his name & money to this prestigious university in Nashville; Go Commodores! Vanderbilt
#8978, aired 2023-11-22ONOMATOPOEIA $1000: The sound of eating a chip, it comes before "time" to mean a moment of pressure crunch
#8976, aired 2023-11-20LESSER-KNOWN ANCIENT ROMANS $400: What a social climber! His name precedes "symbol" to mean something that represents high position Status
#8975, aired 2023-11-17BROADWAY MUSICAL SETTINGS $400: This show takes place on a Greek isle while a single mother prepares for her daughter's wedding Mamma Mia!
#8975, aired 2023-11-17SPRINGSTEEN LYRICS $600: "Hey little girl, is your daddy home? Did he go and leave you all alone? Mhmm I got a bad desire" "I'm On Fire"
#8975, aired 2023-11-17MORE TRICKY QUESTIONS $1000: It's the main reason in Wyoming why a man can't marry his widow's sister because he's dead
#8974, aired 2023-11-16THE NAME OF THE LAW $2000: Named for an Illinois representative, 1910's White Slave Traffic Act is better known as this "Act" the Mann Act
#20, aired 2023-11-15TV DRAMAS IN A NUTSHELL $200: To save himself & his family, Marty Byrde must launder money for a ruthless cartel kingpin Ozark
#20, aired 2023-11-15SIX DEGREES OF ACTUAL BACON $800: Tomato sauce is in Sloppy Joes with beef, & beef is with bacon in this beloved Wendy's burger, introduced in 2007 the Baconator
#8972, aired 2023-11-14CARL SAGAN $800: Sagan was among the first to suggest that Jupiter's moon Europa might have this & that it might contain life oceans
#8971, aired 2023-11-13THE 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 2023-11-13LETTER & WORD $800: A cheap film shown in addition to the main feature a B picture (B movie)
#8971, aired 2023-11-13LIFE SCIENCE $1600: Transporting this protein is the main job of your body's erythrocytes hemoglobin
#8970, aired 2023-11-10DESIGNERS $200: We know that the devil wears this designer, but did you know she has a doctorate in political science & studied mime? Prada
#8968, aired 2023-11-08L____O $1000: If you run into this word on a menu, relax, it's just Spanish for "prawn" langostino
#8968, aired 2023-11-08"THE" MOVIE $1200: "The Color of Money" was a sequel to this 1961 movie The Hustler
#8968, aired 2023-11-08A "C" IN ANATOMY $1600: It's Latin for "neck" & can mean the neck as well as the outer end of the uterus the cervix
#8967, aired 2023-11-07DO YOU KNOW THE WAY TO SAN JOSÉ? $400: San Jose in this country is on the main highway from Manila to Aparri the Philippines
#8967, aired 2023-11-07DO YOU KNOW THE WAY TO SAN JOSÉ? $800: If you mean San José de las Lajas, it's in la Habana province in this country Cuba
#8967, aired 2023-11-07TAXES $1000: It ensures that those who get tax breaks pay at least a certain amount; Kiplinger's called it "the tax we love to hate" the AMT (Alternative Minimum Tax)
#8967, aired 2023-11-07ALBERT CAMUS $1600: In the original French, the first line of this Camus novel is "Aujourd'hui, maman est morte" The Stranger
#8965, aired 2023-11-03IT JUST SOUNDS QUESTIONABLE $400: This 4-letter word can mean "stop"; while pouring you a drink someone might ask you to "say" it when
#8965, aired 2023-11-03ART HEISTS $400: Even the "Mona Lisa" has been stolen, pinched from this museum in 1911 & hidden for 2 years until the thief tried to sell the Louvre
#19, aired 2023-11-01ICONIC MAN-PERMS $100: This beloved painter started perming his hair in the '80s to save money on happy little haircuts (Bob) Ross
#19, aired 2023-11-01ICONIC 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 2023-11-01A YEAR THAT ENDS IN ZERO $600: Nat King Cole hits No. 1 with "Mona Lisa", NATO turns one year old 1950
#19, aired 2023-11-01HAIL TO THE CHEF $1,100 (Daily Double): A distillery at this historic Virginia estate makes whiskey based on George Washington's own recipe Mount Vernon
#19, aired 2023-11-01RIGHT "U-R" $1,500 (Daily Double): The New York Times called it a "sport in which daredevils race over rooftops, flip over ledges and climb walls without assistance" parkour
#8962, aired 2023-10-31SOURCE OF THE LATE NIGHT BIT $600: "Celebrities Read Mean Tweets" Jimmy Kimmel
#8962, aired 2023-10-31NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM $2000: In Rousseau's "Sleeping Gypsy", a full moon hangs in the night sky while this animal catches the scent of the title figure a lion
#8961, aired 2023-10-30ACCENTÉ $1600: This accented word follows "actor" & "artist" to mean failure in those dreams manqué
#8960, aired 2023-10-27THE "LONG" & "SHORT" OF IT $600: Traditionally, the main ingredients in these Scottish cookies are flour, sugar & an ample amount of butter shortbread
#8960, aired 2023-10-27THE MAORI $1000: In this 2002 movie starring Keisha Castle-Hughes, a 12-year-old girl wants to be chief of her Maori tribe; granddad says no Whale Rider
#8959, aired 2023-10-26OF REPRESENTATIVES $800: You must be 30 to be a U.S. senator & this minimum age to be a member of the House of Representatives 25
#8959, aired 2023-10-26OF REPRESENTATIVES $2000: Upset about taxes? Take it up with this committee, the House's main one for writing tax bills the Ways & Means Committee
#18, aired 2023-10-25BY THE NUMBERS $1000: It's the number Gordon Ramsay might bellow to announce he's removing an item from the menu 86
#8957, aired 2023-10-24CONTRONYMS $800: It can mean to attach something, like with a clasp, or to detach something, like coupons clip
#8957, aired 2023-10-24CONTRONYMS $2000: It can mean to withstand something (a storm, for instance) as well as to erode under it weather
#8956, aired 2023-10-23STUPID PROVERBS $400: An American proverb says, "Money begets" this money
#8956, aired 2023-10-23THE REALLY OLD COLLEGE TRY $800: Franz Joseph inaugurated the new main building of the university of this capital, the oldest university in the German-speaking world the University of Vienna
#8955, aired 2023-10-20WHAT'S NEXT? $400: Apollo missions that landed on the Moon: 11, 12, this 14
#8954, aired 2023-10-19HOUSE HUNTERS INTERGALACTIC $1600: If you have your heart set on this 2-letter moon of Jupiter, pack a coat; temperatures get below -225 degrees Io
#8954, aired 2023-10-19HOUSE HUNTERS INTERGALACTIC $7,200 (Daily Double): Want land? Buying on this moon of Saturn is a no-brainer; its 3,200-mile diameter is bigger than Mercury! Titan
#8953, aired 2023-10-18MIRRORS $200: Minimum number of mirrors needed to make a kaleidoscope 2
#17, aired 2023-10-18REPETITIVE SONG TITLES $200: The "explosive" trio of Jessie J, Ariana Grande & Nicki Minaj collaborated on this 2014 hit "Bang Bang"
#17, aired 2023-10-18OTHER WORDS FOR DOIN' IT $200: In a simpler time, this phrase meant "hang out & watch a movie"; it's evolved to mean "hang out, watch a movie &... you know" Netflix & chill
#17, aired 2023-10-18"I" CAN GO EITHER WAY $300: Take a nail salon treatment, move its eye from the back to the front, & you get this model & longtime wife of David Bowie Iman
#17, aired 2023-10-18REPETITIVE 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 2023-10-18NONAGENARIANS $1200: In 2023, this astronaut got married on his 93rd birthday; presumably, he was over the moon Buzz Aldrin
#17, aired 2023-10-18THE QURAN $1500: One passage says that paradise flows with rivers of water, milk, honey, and this fermented libation, forbidden on earth wine
#8952, aired 2023-10-17WEEDER'S DIGEST $400: This member of the parsley family that grows wild in Europe & the U.S. is a main flavoring agent in pickles dill
#8950, aired 2023-10-13VOCABULARY $1600: Depending on how you pronounce it, it can be a substance burned for its fragrance, or it can mean to anger someone incense
#8948, aired 2023-10-11AN IMMODEST PROPOSAL $2000: 'Cilla Mullins, it's the 17th c., baby, & I'm speaking for myself. Come on, li'l mama! We'll have 10 kids & make Plymouth rock! John Alden
#16, aired 2023-10-11LESSER-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
#16, aired 2023-10-11DEMONYMS $500: It's how you might refer to a resident of Tirana, a capital city near the Adriatic coast--or to a resident of NY's state capital an Albanian
#16, aired 2023-10-11FOR SWEATER OR WORSE $1,000 (Daily Double): Sweaters that button in front are named for British officer James Thomas Brudenell, the 7th Earl of this Cardigan
#16, aired 2023-10-11HI, I'M J.LO $2,100 (Daily Double): You can buy a copy of "The Call of the Wild" at the gift shop in the California state park dedicated to this "J.Lo" Jack London
#8947, aired 2023-10-10FOOD $800: Government money that a congressman steers toward his home district a pork barrel
#8945, aired 2023-10-06THIS 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 2023-10-05ARCHITECTURE TERMS $400: Miss this term for the main body of a church & it sounds like you don't know Jack the nave
#8943, aired 2023-10-04PLEASE 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 2023-10-04MIRROR WORDS $1000: Money for the return of something lost & a compartment in a cabinet to keep it in reward & drawer
#15, aired 2023-10-04BLUNT 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 2023-10-04JOYCE, CARROLL, OATES $400: "Wonderland" Joyce Carol Oates
#15, aired 2023-10-04ESTATE PLANNING $1,200 (Daily Double): In law, it's one party managing another's property for the benefit of a third; in life, some say it's the key to a good relationship trust
#8939, aired 2023-09-28NEW WORDS IN THE 1600s $200: What sayest thee? Dost thou mean this thing whereon beads are slid for counting? an abacus
#8939, aired 2023-09-28FROM THE GREEK $400: Before you ask for mine, you should know it's from the Greek for "self-written" autograph
#8939, aired 2023-09-28PEOPLE WHO KNEAD PEOPLE $1000: On-site massage is also called this type, which comes from the Latin for "body" & can mean "relating to a large company" corporate
#8938, aired 2023-09-27RIVERS OF AFRICA $400: The Nile has 3 main sections: the Atbara & the ones known by these 2 colors Blue & White
#14, aired 2023-09-27FROM Z TO A $800: Last name of the musician who had kids named Moon Unit, Dweezil, Ahmet & Diva Zappa
#14, aired 2023-09-27BOOK DEDICATIONS $2,000 (Daily Double): This author of "The Fountainhead" dedicated 1957's "Atlas Shrugged" to 2 different men: her husband and her lover Ayn Rand
#8937, aired 2023-09-26IN THE CORPORATE ARENA $800: O-ho, this wagon is a-comin' down the street, bringing the money to get its name on the Philadelphia Flyers' arena Wells Fargo
#8937, aired 2023-09-26WHO "AR" THEY? $1000: When her photos of unusual-looking people were shown at MoMA in 1965, a curator had to wipe viewers' spit off them daily Arbus
#8936, aired 2023-09-25INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS $1000: In this main part of the United Nations, each of the 193 member countries gets one vote the General Assembly
#8935, aired 2023-09-22TV $600: For season 6 of this series, Corey Stoll replaced Damian Lewis as the main very, very rich guy Billions
#8935, aired 2023-09-22COMPOUND ADJECTIVES $2000: Mean & unfeeling, like "Hannah, the vamp of Savannah" Hard Hearted
#8934, aired 2023-09-21FROM "S" TO "Y" $200: It can mean a sacred place or any place of refuge sanctuary
#8934, aired 2023-09-21PAST HISTORY $400: The 86th of these asked why the pope builds St. Peter's Basilica with the money of the poor & not his own the 95 Theses
#8934, aired 2023-09-21A TRIP TO MUMBAI $1600: A delicious street food item you can find in Mumbai is this 6-letter fried pastry filled with veggies a samosa
#8934, aired 2023-09-21JOHNNY GILBERT GOES COUNTRY $1600: "Just two good ol' boys, never meanin' no harm, beats all you never saw, been in trouble with the law since the day they was born" Waylon Jennings
#8933, aired 2023-09-20THE HAND THAT FEEDS YOU $800: Saffron flavored rice & meats & shellfish are the main components of this dish prepared in the two-handled same-named pan paella
#8932, aired 2023-09-19PHRASES & IDIOMS $800: 18th century essayist Richard Steele coined this phrase for a payment made to get someone to keep quiet hush money
#8931, aired 2023-09-18RESTAURANT HIJINKS $600: "Mine!" In 2018 an Aussie restaurant owner gave customers water pistols to keep these marine birds away at meals seagulls
#8931, aired 2023-09-18RESTAURANT HIJINKS $1000: A pop-up restaurant paying tribute to this '90s sitcom had Bayside Burgers & Mac & Screech on the menu Saved by the Bell
#8931, aired 2023-09-18LATIN AMERICA $1600: This capital of Honduras on the Choluteca River has a population of 1.5 million & a name from Nahuatl said to mean "silver hill" Tegucigalpa
#8930, aired 2023-09-15FROM "B" TO "F" $1200: It can mean an argument or conflict; Steven Yeun & Ali Wong get into one in a Netflix series a beef
#8930, aired 2023-09-15CELEB LIT BEFORE & AFTER $1600: Tiny Tim says, "God bless us every one" for an iconic comedian & Eunice in "Mama's Family" A Christmas Carol Burnett
#8929, aired 2023-09-14SPEECHIFY"ING" $1600: Referring to the United States, JFK's Moon speech: "This nation's own scientific manpower is ____ every 12 years" doubling
#8928, aired 2023-09-133 CONSECUTIVE CONSONANTS $600: Money granted to a student to pursue studies a scholarship
#8927, aired 2023-09-12"M"MMMM $200: The tree that bears this fruit is sacred in India the mango
#8927, aired 2023-09-12"M"MMMM $400: Martha Stewart suggests copper bowls to get proper fluffiness in this egg-white pie preparation meringue
#8927, aired 2023-09-12"M"MMMM $600: Inject cooked soybeans with a fermented grain called koji & you've got this Japanese bean paste miso
#8927, aired 2023-09-12"M"MMMM $800: This fancy culinary term refers to a mixture of diced carrots, onions & celery mirepoix
#8927, aired 2023-09-12"M"MMMM $1000: A Swiss nutritionist developed this 6-letter breakfast, from a German word for "stew" muesli
#8927, aired 2023-09-12STUCK IN THE MIDDLE WORD WITH YOU $1600: To intend something, or to be malicious mean
#8926, aired 2023-09-11WELCOME TO MIAMI $200: The Gold Coast Railroad Museum boasts the train from which this pres. held a paper telling of his 1948 election "defeat" Truman
#8926, aired 2023-09-11WELCOME TO MIAMI $400: Miami has the USA's largest cruise terminal, serving this cruise line named for a nearby sea Royal Caribbean
#8926, aired 2023-09-11WELCOME TO MIAMI $600: Don't look to crash with this Miami Heat legend & wife Gabrielle Union--they sold their mansion for $22 million (Dwyane) Wade
#8926, aired 2023-09-11WELCOME TO MIAMI $800: The Brickell Section of town has one end of the Tamiami Trail; 264 miles away, the other end is, naturally, in this city Tampa
#8926, aired 2023-09-11WELCOME TO MIAMI $1000: Calle Ocho, or Southwest 8th Street, is the main thoroughfare of this area, home to many exiles Little Havana
#8926, aired 2023-09-11GREEK GEOGRAPHY $1200: Greece's 3 main geographic areas are the islands, the mainland & joined by an isthmus, this peninsula, that lent its name to a war the Peloponnesian (Peninsula)
#8926, aired 2023-09-11SCIENCE CLASS $1,600 (Daily Double): Sedimentary deposits near Lake Superior produce the largest U.S. annual yield of hematite, the main ore of this metal iron
#8925, aired 2023-07-28ON THE MONEY $400: He introduced a bill to limit the death penalty while a member of the Virginia legislature Thomas Jefferson
#8925, aired 2023-07-28ON THE MONEY $800: He was the first to breed mules in America on his farm George Washington
#8925, aired 2023-07-28ON THE MONEY $1200: He was born in the British West Indies Hamilton
#8925, aired 2023-07-28ON THE MONEY $1600: He published a feminist tract written under the pseudonym Silence Dogood Franklin
#8925, aired 2023-07-28ON THE MONEY $2000: He died on April 15 Abraham Lincoln
#8924, aired 2023-07-27PLAY TIME $400: In Peter Shaffer's play "The Royal Hunt of the Sun", a conquistador imprisons Atahuallpa, emperor of this people the Inca
#8924, aired 2023-07-27THAT 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 2023-07-27HERE BE PIRATES! $1600: In a book by Rafael Sabatini, "Captain Blood" is a feared pirate of this "Spanish" area of New World seas the Spanish Main
#8923, aired 2023-07-26WORLD OF RELIGION $200: The Mahayana branch of this religion is more recent than the Theravada & includes the concept of adherents becoming Bodhisattvas Buddhism
#8923, aired 2023-07-26WORLD OF RELIGION $1,000 (Daily Double): From the Arabic for "struggle", this word can mean a personal effort against sin, or a holy war in defense of Islam jihad
#8921, aired 2023-07-24THE "END" ZONE $1000: Someone who throws money away on things they don't need might be called this compound word a spendthrift
#8921, aired 2023-07-24STATES' HIGHEST POINTS $1000: In Hawaii, this dormant volcano whose name means "white mountain" because it gets snow in winter Mauna Kea
#8921, aired 2023-07-24HOSTEL $2000: Hostels around the Riviera Maya include the Itza Hotel Akumal & the Mayan Monkey Hostel in this "T"rendy place Tulum
#8920, aired 2023-07-21MOTLEY CLUES $2000: This 1870s U.S. political party got its colorful name because it wanted to maintain or increase paper money circulation Greenbacks (Greenback Party)
#8919, aired 2023-07-20COFFEE, NOW $1,800 (Daily Double): These 2 words on a bag of coffee mean its supply chain has been independently certified as meeting sustainability & labor standards fair trade
#8918, aired 2023-07-19MUSICAL MENAGERIE $800: "Nocturnal creatures are not so prudent, the moon's my teacher & I'm her student" is from her song "She Wolf" Shakira
#8918, aired 2023-07-19TITLES 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!
#8917, aired 2023-07-18AN ABBREVIATED CATEGORY $600: SATB: They're the 4 main voices in a choir soprano, alto, tenor & bass
#8916, aired 2023-07-17TOM SWIFT TALES $800: Tom Swift Jr. had "his outpost in space" in 1955, 3 years before his "Race to" this the Moon
#8914, aired 2023-07-13"R" SONG $200: In a 2017 smash, Post Malone sang, "I feel just like a" this, which he is--he didn't mean he wanted an energy drink a rock star
#8913, aired 2023-07-12SLANG $800: Also the title of a song by DJ Mustard, Ty Dolla $ign & Ashanti, these 2 words may sound rude but just mean "I understand" say less
#8913, aired 2023-07-12TAKING A RIDE $1600: In 1961 he became the first American to ride into space; apparently enjoying the area, he took a walk on the Moon 10 years later Alan Shepard
#8912, aired 2023-07-11SPACE CUISINE $400: The first drink taken on the Moon was this, by Buzz Aldrin as he observed communion aboard the Eagle wine
#8912, aired 2023-07-11FRIENDS $1000: Meeting in India in the 1950s, Yehudi Menuhin & this sitarist forged a musical relationship that lasted the rest of their lives Ravi Shankar
#8912, aired 2023-07-11SO YOU GOT YOUR "M.A." $1000: This 1910 law said you couldn't take women across state lines for immoral purposes the Mann Act
#8911, aired 2023-07-10LAKES & RIVERS $800: No, it's not the kissing disease; it's this salty California lake with calcium carbonate spires on its surface Mono Lake
#8910, aired 2023-07-07EAGLES $400: Sure, this Marquette Golden Eagle here is a Miami Heat legend & won Olympic gold, but his real career highlight--he became a game show host (Dwyane) Wade
#8910, aired 2023-07-07EAGLES $600: Not long after his "Hail Flutie" beat Miami, Doug Flutie of the Boston College Eagles picked up this award on Dec. 1, 1984 the Heisman Trophy
#8910, aired 2023-07-07ANCIENT ARTIFACTS $1200: The Nebra sky disk told ancients it was time to add a leap month when the crescent moon was by this sisterly star cluster the Pleiades
#8909, aired 2023-07-06SCIENCE $400: A theory about the formation of this satellite supposes a planet named Theia, the mother of Selene in myth, crashed into Earth the Moon
#8909, aired 2023-07-06THE MAIN INGREDIENT $400: In the holiday favorite casserole whose recipe began appearing on Campbell's cream of mushroom soup in the 1960s green beans
#8909, aired 2023-07-06NAMES IN HISTORY $800: This given name of Maimonides, Judaism's greatest medieval thinker, honors Judaism's greatest prophet Moses
#8909, aired 2023-07-06THE MAIN INGREDIENT $800: In traditional chorizo sausage pork
#8909, aired 2023-07-06SOME "HARD" SONGS $1200: "She" does this, sang Donna Summer, "so you better treat her right" "She Works Hard For The Money"
#8909, aired 2023-07-06THE MAIN INGREDIENT $1200: In the Indian dish saag paneer: spinach & this cheese
#8909, aired 2023-07-06THE MAIN INGREDIENT $1600: In baba ghanoush: this member of the nightshade family the eggplant
#8909, aired 2023-07-06THE MAIN INGREDIENT $2000: In coquilles St. Jacques scallops
#8909, aired 2023-07-06ROAD $2,600 (Daily Double): Lively Las Ramblas is a main street in this city & links Plaça de Catalunya to the city's Old Harbor Barcelona
#8908, aired 2023-07-05U.S. CITY OF THE BOOK $200: "American Psycho": mayhem in Gotham New York City
#8908, aired 2023-07-05MEMOIRS $400: The title of Willie Sutton's memoir is an answer to the question of why he robbed banks--it's "Where the" this "Was" Money
#8908, aired 2023-07-05OPPOSITES $800: In an idiom regarding the handling of money, these 2 opposites are paired with penny & pound wise & foolish
#8907, aired 2023-07-04SCIENCE $1200: Of the 8 main blood types, this is the rarest in the U.S. & found in less than 1% of the population AB negative
#8906, aired 2023-07-03TOUCHED FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME $200: Before stepping on the Moon, he told Neil Armstrong he'd "partially close the hatch... making sure not to lock it"; Neil: "Good thought" Aldrin
#8906, aired 2023-07-03LIKE AVERSION $1000: A synonym for dislike, it's a Latin word that can mean spirit or anger animus
#8905, aired 2023-06-30SPORTS ROOKIES $200: Last name of 2021 NBA Rookie of the Year LaMelo; brother Lonzo was named to a 2018 All-Rookie Team Ball
#8905, aired 2023-06-30SERENITY NOW! $400: This synonym for serenity is a "sea" on the Moon that made some waves in 1969 the Sea of Tranquility
#8905, aired 2023-06-30NUMBERS IN THE NEWS $600: 2022 headlines declared Argentina "El Mejor Once del Mundial de Catar", once being Spanish for this number 11
#8905, aired 2023-06-30LET'S GET "DOWN" $800: In a car, this action gets you into a lower gear downshift
#8905, aired 2023-06-30COMPOUND WORDS $800: Headlines on the Internet such as "You won't believe what Mayim said about Charo" are this, to get you to go to the site clickbait
#8905, aired 2023-06-30WELCOME 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
#8904, aired 2023-06-29THE LAW $400: Federal sentencing guidelines increase for violent crimes if one of these is involved (minimum 5 years) or worse, brandished (7 years) a firearm
#8904, aired 2023-06-29"I" BEFORE "EE" $400: Adjective denoting pleasure accompanied by regret, or chocolate without a ton of sugar bittersweet
#8904, aired 2023-06-29HISTORIC SHORTS $1200: Here's this king of Spain, the sixth of his name, rocking a mean pair of shorts Felipe
#8903, aired 2023-06-28PREFIXES $800: Before "B", en- often becomes em-, as in this mortuary job embalmer
#8903, aired 2023-06-28CONSTANTINOPLE $800: In 1889 the Orient Express train ran 1,700 miles from this European capital to Constantinople Paris
#8902, aired 2023-06-27IT CAME FROM NEW JERSEY $800: It was actually a trio of brothers who founded this New Brunswick-based healthcare company in 1886, but it goes by this & this Johnson & Johnson
#8901, aired 2023-06-26UNITED KINGDOM ELECTION CONSTITUENCIES $1,600 (Daily Double): Bordering Dover & Folkestone & Hythe, this district on England's east coast has a few ancient "Tales" to tell Canterbury
#8900, aired 2023-06-23I LEARNED IT ON SCHOOLHOUSE ROCK $400: "You mean even if the whole Congress says you should be a law, the president can still say no?"; "Yes, that's called" this; go Bill go! a veto
#8900, aired 2023-06-23A CHEMISTRY TEST $800: It's your density... I mean, destiny to know the formula for density is d=M/V, with M & V standing for these 2 things mass & volume
#8900, aired 2023-06-23QUI"ZZ"ICAL $1600: This word comes before "mast" to mean the mast usually third from the front on a sailing ship mizzen
#8899, aired 2023-06-2220th CENTURY HAPPENINGS $800: In 1912 Orillia, Ontario was one of the first towns to try this change, until even the mayor got to church an hour late Daylight Savings Time
#8899, aired 2023-06-22VAMPIRE-POURRI $2000: Benjamin Walker stepped into the presidential shoes for this 2012 metafiction monster mash-up of a movie Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
#8899, aired 2023-06-22WRITING ON THE WALLS $2,500 (Daily Double): Alistair Moffat's nonfiction book on this structure is called "Rome's Greatest Frontier" Hadrian's Wall
#8898, aired 2023-06-21OFFICIAL NICKNAMES $200: Think of Roman numerals & you'll know the U.S. Army's Fourth Infantry Division has this plant as its official nickname ivy
#8897, aired 2023-06-20AMERICAN HISTORY $200: The U.S. flag was flown at this location for the first time on July 20, 1969 & the original flag is still there the Moon
#8897, aired 2023-06-20THAT MUSICAL ACT IS UNREAL! $1200: Not just the house band on this "Show", Dr. Teeth & the Electric Mayhem did "Can You Picture That?" in a 1979 film The Muppet Show
#8897, aired 2023-06-20LOVE ISLAND U.K. $1200: George Town is the capital of this 3-island territory known for low taxes &--how to put it?--interesting handling of intl. money the Cayman Islands
#8896, aired 2023-06-19IT'S A SPECIAL DAY $200: Made a U.S. federal holiday in 2021, it's also known as Black Independence Day Juneteenth
#8895, aired 2023-06-16CUFFING SEASON $800: In this 1999 film Laurence Fishburne breaks the chains off his handcuffs before jumping out of a building & into Keanu's arms The Matrix
#8895, aired 2023-06-16HISTORIC GROUPS $800: Bleda & his younger brother became co-rulers of this group of nomadic invaders in 434 the Huns
#8895, aired 2023-06-16THIS IS ALL A BIT MUCH $2000: From the Greek for "fullness", this 8-letter word can mean an overabundance a plethora
#8894, aired 2023-06-15DATING/APPS $200: You're a Mets fan? Let's hit a sports bar & enjoy these mini sandwiches that share a name with a pitch mastered by Justin Verlander a slider
#8894, aired 2023-06-1521st CENTURY HORROR NOVELS $600: The Scooby gang was often accused of being these, the title of a book by Edgar Cantero about 4 teens with a telepathic pooch meddling kids
#8893, aired 2023-06-143-, 4- OR 5-LETTER WORDS $800: The ninth letter of the Greek alphabet, it can also mean a very small amount iota
#8893, aired 2023-06-14A CHORUS LINE $1000: "However far away I will always love you / However long I stay I will always love you / Whatever words I say..." The Cure
#8893, aired 2023-06-14UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE SITES $2000: The sacred island of Okinoshima off this southernmost of Japan's main islands Kyushu
#8892, aired 2023-06-13FLOWERS $800: The American this Plant Society says nowadays these are affordable--spend as little as you like, but you won't be able to own just one orchids
#8892, aired 2023-06-13CROP TO IT $1200: This crop is the largest source of animal protein feed in the world & second in the vegetable oil race soybean(s)
#8892, aired 2023-06-13DEEP BOOKS $1600: Ken Jennings' "100 Places to See After You Die" includes this hall of the slain that has the Valkyries as barmaids Valhalla
#8892, aired 2023-06-134-LETTER WORLD CITIES $2,000 (Daily Double): In 2022 it was the site of 2 FIFA World Cup venues Doha, Qatar
#8890, aired 2023-06-09STARTS WITH "W" $400: Implied & express are the 2 main types of this promise to repair or replace a damaged item previously purchased a warranty
#8890, aired 2023-06-09TV: WHO SAID IT $800: On an '80s sitcom: "Women, you can't live with 'em. Pass the beer nuts" Norm
#8890, aired 2023-06-09WITH THIS RING $800: Females are the dominant sex in the troops of this accurately named species of primate, native to Madagascar a ring-tailed lemur
#8890, aired 2023-06-09EPONYMOUS SCIENCE $800: The temperature at which a mineral's magnetic properties change sharply is the "point" named for this 1890s physicist & husband Pierre Curie point
#8890, aired 2023-06-09CLASSIC TOYS & GAMES $800: It originally required a 25-watt bulb & came with colored plastic pegs & black construction paper to make an illuminated picture Lite-Brite
#8890, aired 2023-06-09TV: WHO SAID IT $1200: "I've been involved in a number of cults... you have more fun as a follower, but you make more money as a leader" Creed
#8890, aired 2023-06-09TV: WHO SAID IT $1600: "Carl's dead... Carl went out to help someone & he got bit" Rick (Grimes)
#8890, aired 2023-06-09TV: WHO SAID IT $2000: "We've had vicious kings & we've had idiot kings, but I don't know if we've ever been cursed with a vicious idiot boy king" Tyrion Lannister
#8890, aired 2023-06-09WITH THIS RING $2000: Around 1850, Richard Wagner began writing a poem called "The Death of" this heroic character in the "Ring" cycle Siegfried
#8889, aired 2023-06-082 PARTS MAKE A WHOLE $600: 14-year Texas governor Perry + to spin over & over across a surface = this meme we will never give up a Rickroll
#8889, aired 2023-06-08LATE NIGHT TALKING $800: On this Jimmy Kimmel bit, Allison Janney read, "Allison Janney looks like a substitute teacher everyone hates" "Celebrities Read Mean Tweets"
#8889, aired 2023-06-08YES, YOU CANAL $800: It's a tight squeeze getting by in this country's Corinth Canal, but seems like fun Greece
#8889, aired 2023-06-08SILENT LETTER WORDS $1000: This word with a rare silent "Q" can mean a resinous varnish lacquer
#8889, aired 2023-06-08A "MID" CATEGORY $1,600 (Daily Double): Karl Marx wrote, "Force is the" this "of every old society pregnant with a new one" midwife
#8888, aired 2023-06-07ASTRONOMICAL ANAGRAMS $400: Tool of reflection or refraction: ECO PESTLE telescope
#8888, aired 2023-06-07PASSION $600: We are obsessed, perhaps even crazed, about this suffix, from the Greek for "excessive desire" mania
#8888, aired 2023-06-07COMPANY $800: Evan Moore heard a macaroon shop turn down a delivery order & created this speedy company he dubbed an "On-Demand FedEx" DoorDash
#8888, aired 2023-06-07A '90s KID $1200: Games for this alphanumeric console included '90s classics like "GoldenEye" & "Banjo-Kazooie" the N64
#8887, aired 2023-06-06THIS & THAT $800: This Planters mascot is all class, with a monocle, spats & a top hat Mr. Peanut
#8887, aired 2023-06-06BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: 2 childhood friends wind up on opposite sides of the law in this author's 2022 legal thriller "The Boys from Biloxi" Grisham
#8887, aired 2023-06-06S-LESS, CHAPS $800: To make a lot of money ships off an S to be suitable or decent prosper & proper
#8887, aired 2023-06-06RIAA TOP-SELLING ARTISTS $1000: "Straight Outta Lynwood" & "Alapalooza" are 2 of his 10 RIAA-certified gold albums "Weird Al" Yankovic
#8887, aired 2023-06-06IT COMES IN "WAVE"s $1200: This old term for what's now called a tsunami just means fluctuation caused by the gravity of the Sun & Moon a tidal wave
#8886, aired 2023-06-05THE PHILIPPINES $600: Mayon Volcano on this largest Philippine island has erupted numerous times in the 21st century, causing many evacuations Luzon
#8886, aired 2023-06-05CLASSIC CHILDREN'S BOOKS $1,000 (Daily Double): A line in this book says, "Take my apples, boy, and sell them in the city. Then you will have money and you will be happy" The Giving Tree
#8886, aired 2023-06-05THE CHAMPIONSHIP TEAM $1000: In 1985, the teammates seen here the Edmonton Oilers
#8886, aired 2023-06-05CLASSIC CHILDREN'S BOOKS $1000: In this picture book by Janell Cannon, a fruit bat ends up in a bird's nest & is adopted by the mama bird Stellaluna
#8886, aired 2023-06-054, 4 $1600: The style of tap dancing that doesn't employ the taps is referred to as this soft shoe
#8885, aired 2023-06-02OHIO GEOGRAPHY $400: The Ohio Agricultural & Mechanical College opened near this city in 1873; now it's much bigger & has another name Columbus
#8885, aired 2023-06-02YOU HAVE SELECTED REGICIDE $400: This king this king, oh no, he gotta go, said the French National convention in 1793 Louis XVI
#8885, aired 2023-06-02INVENTORS & INVENTIONS $1600: Going up? Going down? He made elevators more secure with his invention of a safety brake Otis
#8885, aired 2023-06-02WORDS ENDING IN "Y" $2000: The life story of a saint, it has come to mean an admiring or idealized chronicle of anyone hagiography
#8884, aired 2023-06-01BIOPICS $600: She was I, Tonya (Harding) & Elizabeth I in "Mary Queen of Scots" (Margot) Robbie
#8884, aired 2023-06-01SWEET SPOTS $1000: Founded in Paris, Ladurée offers these filled cookies in a rainbow of colors & flavors, including orange blossom macarons
#8884, aired 2023-06-01"B" NICE $1000: Did you inherit some money? You were the recipient of this from someone's will bequest
#8884, aired 2023-06-01TV $1200: She created "Girls" & played one of them, Hannah Horvath Lena Dunham
#8884, aired 2023-06-01TV $1600: We're over the moon about Diego Luna's performance in the title role of this "Star Wars" series that landed in 2022 Andor
#8884, aired 2023-06-01POTPOURRI $1600: Feb. 2, 2020 provided a numeric form of this across the world, something that last occurred 912 years ago & will happen again in 98 a palindrome
#8884, aired 2023-06-01POTPOURRI $2000: In 2022, the Juno spacecraft got the magnificent infrared shot seen here of this moon of Jupiter aglow with volcanoes Io
#8883, aired 2023-05-31ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER $200: (Andrew Lloyd Webber presents the clue.) When my dad listened to the song here from this show I asked him, "Does it sound like anything else"? & he responded, "It sounds like $10 million" "Midnight / Not a sound from the pavement / Has the moon lost her memory? / She is smiling alone..." Cats
#8883, aired 2023-05-31PRESIDENTIAL DOIN'S $400: Made Henry Clay Secretary of State; 2 years after the White House, settled into a new House (of Representatives) John Quincy Adams
#8883, aired 2023-05-31PRESIDENTIAL DOIN'S $1600: Had a cold, went out to buy veggies anyway; got pneumonia, died before 31st full day on the job (William) Henry Harrison
#8883, aired 2023-05-31PRESIDENTIAL DOIN'S $2000: Increased the minimum wage to $1; approved & opened the St. Lawrence Seaway Dwight Eisenhower
#8883, aired 2023-05-31DUDE, HERE'S YOUR CAR $2,200 (Daily Double): Lamborghini's Sesto Elemento was named for its pioneering use of this, from which much of the car is made carbon
#8882, aired 2023-05-30MIDDLE "G" $800: Fancy name for a list of movies a particular actor or director has made a filmography
#8882, aired 2023-05-30FRUITY RHYME TIME $1000: Fruit pulled out by Little Jack Horner from the largest part of the brain cerebrum plum
#8881, aired 2023-05-29HISTORY $400: To protect an ancestral cemetery, in 1910 attorney Lyda Conley became the 3rd woman & 1st Native American to argue a case here the Supreme Court (of the United States)
#8881, aired 2023-05-29THE ROCKEFELLERS $600: Abby Aldrich Rockefeller was a founder of this NYC museum in 1929 & her son David was a longtime donor & trustee the MoMA (the Museum of Modern Art)
#8881, aired 2023-05-29WHO WAS THAT MASKED MAN? $800: (I'm Shameik Moore.) In "Spider-Man Across the Spider-Verse" I once again don the spider-mask as this Brooklyn teenager who follows in Peter Parker's webbed footsteps Miles Morales
#8881, aired 2023-05-29TREES COMPANY $1000: "Green is the plane-tree in the square, the other trees are brown / They droop & pine for country air / The plane-tree loves it" here the town
#8881, aired 2023-05-29POETIC SUBJECTS $1000: Time to release this sea creature, a Tennyson poem subject said to be a mile & a half wide with ship-crushing tentacles the kraken
#8881, aired 2023-05-29CANNERY $1,400 (Daily Double): This author said of Monterey, "The corrugated iron of the canneries glows with the pearly lucence of platinum" John Steinbeck
#8881, aired 2023-05-29THE GULF OF MEXICO $6,000 (Daily Double): This 76,000-square-mile peninsula juts up into the Gulf's south end the Yucatan Peninsula
#8880, aired 2023-05-26RESEARCH $400: The service launched as this search engine company "Print" in 2004 now has more than 40 million titles of scanned books Google
#8880, aired 2023-05-26THAT'S ADORABLE $600: Seen here is a cub of this rarely glimpsed feline species that lives in the mountains of Central Asia a snow leopard
#8880, aired 2023-05-26"REE" SEARCH $800: This word can mean arbitrator or one who evaluates scientific proposals for possible grant money a referee
#8880, aired 2023-05-26TECHNOLOGY $2000: A mini robot that can shape-shift like T-1000 was created using this element, symbol Ga; it's a metal with a low melting point Gallium
#8879, aired 2023-05-25POLITICIANS $400: In 2023 this senior senator from California said she would not be seeking reelection in 2024 (Dianne) Feinstein
#8879, aired 2023-05-25SHAKESPEARE & HIS WORLD $400: Shakespeare wrote 3 main types of plays: comedies, tragedies & these, like "Henry IV, Part 1" histories
#8879, aired 2023-05-25FLAG TERMINOLOGY $1000: The charge is a flag's main graphic element; on California's flag, that would be this a bear
#8879, aired 2023-05-25GALACTIC VACATIONS $1200: Strike it rich on 16 Psyche, an M-type this in their main belt; it may be made of precious metals worth quintillions of dollars an asteroid
#8879, aired 2023-05-25GALACTIC VACATIONS $1600: Enjoy views of Saturn from this massive moon & snorkel in deep Ligeia Mare, a methane sea Titan
#8878, aired 2023-05-24TRAIN-ING DAY $400: Separated by 8th Avenue, Moynihan Train Hall & this "stately" New York City train station operate as one complex Penn Station
#8878, aired 2023-05-24TRAIN-ING DAY $800: Argentina's Tren a las Nubes, or train to here, lives up to its name as it ascends nearly 14,000 feet the clouds
#8878, aired 2023-05-24THAT'S A WRAP, EVERYBODY! $1000: This loose, skirt-like wrap is noted for its traditional use in the Malay archipelago sarong
#20, aired 2023-05-24THE GRAMMAR POLICE $800: You know you got a dangling this? Yeah, I saw it when you wrote, "Landing on the Moon, the nation erupted in cheers" participle (or modifier)
#20, aired 2023-05-24IN THIS WORLD $800: It's the second-largest & most southerly of the Philippines' main islands Mindanao
#19, aired 2023-05-24SOME HARD WORDS $1000: Old French for "diamond", it can mean a diamond or other object of unyielding firmness adamant
#19, aired 2023-05-24HORROR MOVIES $1600: She stars in Fresh, which seems like a rom-com at first, but thanks to Sebastian Stan, she soon learns there's more on the menu Daisy Edgar Jones
#8877, aired 2023-05-23TV SITCOMS BY FAMILY $400: Pursuing the American dream, the Huang family Fresh Off the Boat
#8877, aired 2023-05-23YOU'RE SO SHELLFISH $600: Sushi lovers know the main protein in spider rolls is this (soft-shelled) crab
#8877, aired 2023-05-23SUPER BOWL WINNERS BY QUARTERBACK $1000: 1973 & 1974: Bob Griese the (Miami) Dolphins
#18, aired 2023-05-23THE MOVIES $800: Robin Williams had a cameo as a mime class instructor in this film that Bobcat Goldthwait wrote, directed & starred in Shakes the Clown
#18, aired 2023-05-23LET'S GO GULFING $1200: The Gulf of Roses is part of this Costa in northeast Spain whose name can mean rugged as well as courageous Costa Brava
#18, aired 2023-05-23LABOR $1600: Born Mary Harris, she was called the "most dangerous woman in America" in 1902 for her success in organizing mine workers Mother Jones
#18, aired 2023-05-23THE UNIVERSE WITH NEIL deGRASSE TYSON $4,400 (Daily Double): (Neil deGrasse Tyson presents the clue.) At age 14, I traveled to Africa to observe a total solar eclipse, an impressive event in which the Moon blots out the Sun, revealing only this outermost solar atmosphere the corona
#17, aired 2023-05-23MYTHICAL GEOGRAPHY $400: In Egyptian myth this sun god sat in heaven, which was said to be supported by Bakhau & Manu, the mountains of sunrise & sunset Ra
#17, aired 2023-05-23SCULPTORS $2000: A 2007 BBC program subtitled "Spiderwoman" is about this artist famous for her spider sculptures, one called "Maman" Bourgeois
#8876, aired 2023-05-22AMERICANA $400: This word can mean "little kids" or a snack that they love; in 2021 Sonic sold 4.1 billion of the crunchy little morsels tots
#8876, aired 2023-05-22RICE PUDDING $800: A shout-out from "Best American" these literary works made Joyce Carol Oates abandon her Rice University PhD in favor of writing short stories
#8876, aired 2023-05-22A LOSS FOR WORDS $800: When it means squandering time or money, this donut is usually followed by "away" frittered
#16, aired 2023-05-22PORTMANTEAUS $2000: Set out in 2012, this policy included increasing Japan's money supply & boosting government spending Abenomics
#15, aired 2023-05-22PURE POETRY $400: (Ada Limón reads.) NASA has commissioned me to write a poem to be engraved on its Europa Clipper probe, which will travel 1.8 billion miles on its way to inspect an icy but possibly life-friendly moon of this planet Jupiter
#15, aired 2023-05-22TOUGH SCIENCE $1600: Used in astronomy, it's the percentage of light reflected by an object; the Moon's is about .1, cloudy Venus', about .7 albedo
#8875, aired 2023-05-19HIP-HOP NAMES $400: The "Right Round" rapper's Miami-Dade county roots made this stage name an obvious choice Flo Rida
#8875, aired 2023-05-19HURRAY FOR HOLLYWOOD! $400: In 1927 Norma Talmadge began a tradition here when she accidentally stepped in wet cement while it was under construction Mann's Chinese Theater
#8875, aired 2023-05-19MULTIPLE MEANINGS $1000: Each of the items seen here is this, with a different preceding word tender
#8875, aired 2023-05-19HIP-HOP NAMES $2000: Hip-hop's 50th bday in 2023 is based on the Aug. 11, 1973 party DJed by Clive Campbell, who used this name from a mythical strongman DJ Kool Herc
#8875, aired 2023-05-19THOSE BALLS HAVE "I"s $4,000 (Daily Double): In addition to its volleyballs, this company has been making the official NFL football since 1941 Wilson
#8874, aired 2023-05-18THE WORLD OF HANNA-BARBERA $200: Joe Barbera often described this character as Yogi's conscience Boo-Boo
#8874, aired 2023-05-18RESTAURANTS $400: In 2003 this restaurant chain lost money when it underestimated how much "endless crab" Americans could eat Red Lobster
#8873, aired 2023-05-17Y'KNOW, THE MOVIE WHERE... $200: A farmer plays baseball with a dead guy, time-travels & ends up owning a tourist trap Field of Dreams
#8873, aired 2023-05-17POE"M"S $400: This title object of a Thoreau poem is "full-orbed" & "does not wane" the Moon
#8873, aired 2023-05-17PODCASTS $400: "Your Money Briefing" & "Tech News Briefing" are podcasts offered through this newspaper that gives you the business the Wall Street Journal
#8873, aired 2023-05-17RECENT POP MUSIC $800: This Drake song asks, "Kiki, do you love me? Are you riding?" "In My Feelings"
#8873, aired 2023-05-17PODCASTS $1200: (I'm Matt Rogers.) And, yes, I do have a podcast--thank you for asking--it's "Las Culturistas", & rule of culture number one, this co-host of mine is a national treasure & was Emmy-nominated for "Saturday Night Live" in 2022 Bowen Yang
#8873, aired 2023-05-17RECENT POP MUSIC $2000: Possessive title of the third solo album by Mr. Styles Harry's House
#14, aired 2023-05-17BRING WHAT? $600: The main economic engine of a Northumbrian city gave us this expression meaning "do something unnecessary" carrying coals to Newcastle
#14, aired 2023-05-17COMIC STRIPS $600: This huge sandwich first appeared in the comics in 1936; it's, of course, on the menu at Blondie's restaurant in Orlando, Florida a Dagwood
#14, aired 2023-05-17WORD ORIGINS $800: From the French, it's a street urchin; in the feminine form, it can mean a short-haired cutie a gamin
#14, aired 2023-05-17BODIES OF WATER $1200: Henry Rowe Schoolcraft is said to have coined the name of this American lake from Latin for "truth" & "head" Lake Itasca (in Minnesota)
#13, aired 2023-05-17INTERNATIONAL FOOD WITH PADMA LAKSHMI $600: (Padma Lakshmi reads.) It may surprise you, but a cherished dish of mine involves something salty, spicy, crunchy & cheesy known as this "pie" that's often served in the snack products bag Frito pie
#13, aired 2023-05-174 CONSECUTIVE VOWELS OR CONSONANTS $800: The slopes of this volcano, which last erupted in March 2023, merge with those of Mauna Loa on the northwest Kīlauea
#8872, aired 2023-05-16"B" IS THE FIRST LETTER $600: A charming painting of circa 1660 shows a mother lacing up this garment after breastfeeding a bodice
#8872, aired 2023-05-16HEAVEN ON EARTH $800: Given its name in the reign of Emperor Jiajing the Temple of Heaven in this capital once had stables for sacrificial animals Beijing
#8872, aired 2023-05-16"B" IS THE FIRST LETTER $1000: It means "in a state of confusion", but many misuse it because it sounds so much like "finding something funny" bemused (bemusement)
#12, aired 2023-05-16BRITISH MUSICAL GEOGRAPHY $800: The guitarists of Big Country couldn't stand the regular comparison of their guitar sound to this national instrument of their country the bagpipes
#8871, aired 2023-05-15DEFENDING THE TITLE $400: In 2016 the Golden State Warriors returned to the Finals for a 7-game rematch with this team, only to lose in the final moments the Cleveland Cavaliers
#8871, aired 2023-05-15DOG BREED RHYME TIME $600: The principal dog from the tallest of the working breeds the main Dane
#8871, aired 2023-05-15IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD $800: Brewer's Hill in this city is home to historic buildings once used by Miller & Schlitz Milwaukee
#8871, aired 2023-05-15DEFENDING 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
#9, aired 2023-05-15MUSICAL THEATER $1000: Set pieces in this Broadway musical include a life-sized helicopter & a giant head of Ho Chi Minh Miss Saigon
#8870, aired 2023-05-12GAME SHOW HOSTS $200: Dick Clark hosted "The $10,000 Pyramid"; on the version with Michael Strahan in charge, the prize money is this amount $100,000
#8870, aired 2023-05-12A BIRTHDAY TO REMEMBER $400: On St. Helena in 2022, Jonathan, one of these animals, moved slowly at his 190th birthday fete--but then again, he's always slow a tortoise
#8870, aired 2023-05-12COMPANY HEADQUARTERS $1000: Puma & this rival are both based in the German town of Herzogenaurach Adidas
#8870, aired 2023-05-12THIS 20th CENTURY WORLD LEADER... $3,000 (Daily Double): ...the former Nguyen Sinh Cung, took a name that means "he who enlightens" Ho Chi Minh
#8, aired 2023-05-12GROWING UP X $400: Boasting 64 kb worth of pure computing power, this company's 64 personal computer went for $595 in '80s money Commodore
#7, aired 2023-05-12JOHNNY GILBERT'S MUSICAL THEATER AUDITION $600: "We call those three the Plastics, they're shiny, fake & hard/ They play their little mind games all around the schoolyard" Mean Girls
#7, aired 2023-05-12PRESENT COMPANY ACCEPTED $800: After 8 years as CEO of this tech company following its split from eBay, Dan Schulman is stepping down, but no need to send Dan any $$$ PayPal
#8869, aired 2023-05-11WATCHING MY STORIES $800: The novel "A Man Called Ove" became a 2023 movie starring Tom Hanks as "A Man Called" this palindromic name Otto
#8869, aired 2023-05-11QUADRISYLLABIC WORDS $800: In mortgage lending, it's the "A" in ARM adjustable
#8869, aired 2023-05-11NOTABLE BLACK AMERICANS $1,400 (Daily Double): Known for skydiving while playing sax, aviator Hubert Julian went to fight for this African empire against Italy in the 1930s Ethiopia
#8868, aired 2023-05-10AFTER SCHOOL $200: One of the 2 main traditional components of the "Jolly Roger" symbol a skull
#8868, aired 2023-05-10FROM THE FRENCH $400: The pecan pie seen here is served this 3-word way à la mode
#8868, aired 2023-05-10BELIEVE IT OR NOT... $2000: The Apollo 11 astronauts had to declare Moon rocks to this government service upon returning to Earth Customs
#5, aired 2023-05-10CHAT G-P-T $1000: Engines don't turn the main rotors on these flying machines; they self-lift due to air flow gyrocopters
#8867, aired 2023-05-09WHAT'S THAT SMELL? $400: Oopsie, I accidentally spilled this household product on my shirt bleach
#8867, aired 2023-05-09A "RUN" FOR YOUR MONEY $400: Just ordinary; originally, something the factory turned out without much quality control run-of-the-mill
#8867, aired 2023-05-09A "RUN" FOR YOUR MONEY $800: A dab of clear nail polish can halt this fashion disaster a run in your tights (a run in your stockings)
#8867, aired 2023-05-09PEOPLE $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 2023-05-09A "RUN" FOR YOUR MONEY $1200: Nautically, it means to direct an efficient organization run a tight ship
#8867, aired 2023-05-09BURT BACHARACH $1600: Burt was married to this actress in the years she made "Point Blank", "Big Bad Mama" & "Dressed to Kill" (Angie) Dickinson
#8867, aired 2023-05-09A "RUN" FOR YOUR MONEY $1600: Bringing Pabst to soldiers deployed in Vietnam is the story of "The Greatest" this "Ever" Beer Run
#8867, aired 2023-05-09A "RUN" FOR YOUR MONEY $2000: Football gives us this idiom meaning to remove obstacles for someone else run interference
#4, aired 2023-05-09CONTRONYMS $400: This verb can mean to view a movie, or to hide something from view, perhaps with a partition screen
#4, aired 2023-05-09OVERWROUGHT HISTORY $400: Oooof, this year: Matthew Flinders died. The White House, set on fire. 1,200 killed by the Philippines' Mayon volcano eruption 1814
#4, aired 2023-05-09NEED! COFFEE! NOW! $600: This specialty coffee is grown in volcanic soils in the coffee belt of the same name at the base of Mauna Loa Kona
#4, aired 2023-05-09NEED! COFFEE! NOW! $800: Vietnam grows the most robusta coffee, a stronger variety; Brazil grows the most of this other main variety, a more aromatic mild type Arabica
#4, aired 2023-05-09LIBRARIES $1000: In 1996 this library moved its main branch from the Mazarin Palace on the rue de Richelieu to a new facility along the Seine the Bibliothèque nationale (of France)
#4, aired 2023-05-09RHYMINGLY NAMED CELEBS $1200: Will Ferrell, as this Cubs announcer: "It's a simple question, doctor. Would you eat the Moon if it were made of ribs?" Harry Caray
#4, aired 2023-05-09PLEASE LOOK THROUGH THE TELESCOPE $2000: The bright rays visible at the bottom of the Moon emanate from this impact crater named for an astronomer Tycho (for Tycho Brahe)
#3, aired 2023-05-09TV $1000: As Baba Voss, this actor stars in "See", a series about a dystopian future where most of humanity has lost its sight Jason Momoa
#8866, aired 2023-05-08THE SOUTH PACIFIC $400: Vaka moana are traditional double-hulled these boats used to travel vast ocean distances catamarans (canoes)
#8866, aired 2023-05-08SCANDAL! $600: You & I pay fees for this, withdrawing money we don't have; in a '90s scandal 300 congressmen did it with the House bank no problem overdraft
#8866, aired 2023-05-08YEET! $1000: In Greek myth, after he was born lame, his mom yeeted him out of heaven, but he returned & made Hermes' winged helmet Hephaestus
#8866, aired 2023-05-08THE QUOTABLE ALEX $1600: An author & former prisoner: "Socialism of any type & shade leads to a total destruction of the human spirit" Solzhenitsyn
#8866, aired 2023-05-08WHAT KINDA TV PLACE YOU LIVE IN? $2000: Commander Sheridan & the gang on "Babylon 5" a space station
#2, aired 2023-05-08FLYIN' HIGHER THAN A JET AIRLINER $400: Apollo 15 was the first mission to use this 460-pound item on the Moon & it's still up there, basically left on the lot the (lunar) rover
#2, aired 2023-05-08BUILD YOUR OWN SPY NOVEL TITLES $800: The + a legendary king of the Geats + either of the 2 main divisions of the Christian Bible The Beowulf Testament
#2, aired 2023-05-08SAME FIRST & LAST LETTER $1600: This verb can mean to weaken or disembowel, figuratively & literally eviscerate (or gutting)
#1, aired 2023-05-08JASON ALEXANDER: MASTER OF MY DOMAIN $800: (Jason Alexander gives the clue.) On "Taxi" as Reverend Jim, this actor gave a master class in line delivery simply by asking, "What does a yellow light mean?" YouTube it; you won't be disappointed Christopher Lloyd
#1, aired 2023-05-08A TRIP TO ASIA $2000: In Myanmar we'll enjoy cruising on this, the country's main river, as it flows 1,300 miles into the Bay of Bengal the Irrawaddy
#8865, aired 2023-05-05THE GREAT AMERICAN BAKING SHOW WITH ELLIE KEMPER $200: (Ellie Kemper presents the clue.) Not surprisingly, our British judges, Prue Leith & Paul Hollywood, asked our bakers to prepare this meal, lighter than the high one, consisting of six Victoria sandwiches, six mini strawberry tarts, & six savory scones low tea (afternoon tea)
#8865, aired 2023-05-05SLANG EN ESPAÑOL $200: This Spanish word for father can also mean "cool!" when it comes after "que" in a phrase padre
#8865, aired 2023-05-05THE GREAT AMERICAN BAKING SHOW WITH ELLIE KEMPER $1000: (Ellie Kemper presents the clue.) Our bakers made this sweet yeast bread that's braided & baked in a loaf pan &, as my cohost Zach explained, takes its name from the Polish word for "grandmother" babka
#8865, aired 2023-05-05QUICK PLANETS $1000: It's surrounded by phenomena named A, B, C, D, E, F & G Saturn
#8865, aired 2023-05-05A MUSICAL BOUQUET $2000: This song by The Foundations was on the soundtrack of "There's Something About Mary", so don't break my heart "Build Me Up Buttercup"
#8864, aired 2023-05-04FLORIDA PLACES $200: In 1896 about 400 people lived in this city on Biscayne Bay; today, it's Florida's second-largest city, behind Jacksonville Miami
#8864, aired 2023-05-04ABBRE-V-ATIONS $2000: Watch your language, this historic one abbreviated VL that was the main source of the romance languages Vulgar Latin
#8863, aired 2023-05-03THERE'S GOLD IN THEM THAR HILLS $400: In 2023 the EPA blocked a proposed copper & gold mine in the Bristol Bay region of this state Alaska
#8863, aired 2023-05-03"D" TOUR $400: When it opened in 1955, a one-day ticket cost $1 for adults & each ride was around 10 to 35 cents Disneyland
#8863, aired 2023-05-03THAT'S A GOOD SPOT FOR A BREAK $800: The Cruz de Ferro, meaning this, is where many pilgrims on the road to Santiago de Compostela pause to reflect iron cross (cross of iron)
#8862, aired 2023-05-02MIND YOUR GRAMMAR $800: This grammatical case doesn't mean blaming someone but indicates that a noun is a direct object of a verb accusative
#8861, aired 2023-05-01WORLD OF WORDS $400: Until 1917, it was a Russian emperor; today, this title is used informally to mean someone in charge czar
#8860, aired 2023-04-28IT'S GERMAN FOR... $1200: Yes, sir! (per "Hogan's Heroes: Behind the Scenes at Stalag 13") jawohl
#8858, aired 2023-04-26A NATION OF VODKA BRANDS $400: Tito's the United States
#8858, aired 2023-04-26TOP TO BOTTOM $1000: This 6-letter word refers to the zenith or farthest point, such as the point where the Moon is farthest from the Earth the apogee
#8856, aired 2023-04-24THE UNITED NATIONS $1200: The iconic building here is home to this body, headed by the person who's the U.N.'s main public face the Secretariat
#8854, aired 2023-04-20FACE THE POLITICIAN $2000: Once legal counsel to Daniel Patrick Moynihan, she became the first female governor of New York in 2021 Hochul
#8853, aired 2023-04-19TV $1000: He not only created & executive produced "Alias" & "Lost", he also wrote their main theme music (J.J.) Abrams
#8853, aired 2023-04-19MOVIE COMEDIES $1600: (I'm Ike Barinholtz.) In 2018, I joined Leslie Mann & this muy macho pro wrestler as parents who don't want their daughters going too far on prom night in the comedy film "Blockers" John Cena
#8851, aired 2023-04-17GODS & MYTHS $400: The word "money" derives from Moneta, another name for this wife of Jupiter whose temple became a Roman mint Juno
#8851, aired 2023-04-17TV BEFORE & AFTER $400: A Time Lord from Gallifrey might want to phone a friend on the way to winning a huge sum of money Doctor Who Wants to Be a Millionaire
#8851, aired 2023-04-173-SYLLABLE VERBS $400: Some use their pencil to do this in textbooks to remind themselves of salient points; it can also mean to strongly assert underscore (or underline)
#8851, aired 2023-04-173-SYLLABLE VERBS $800: It can mean to think or focus really, really hard, or to rally all forces towards one specific goal concentrate
#8851, aired 2023-04-173-SYLLABLE VERBS $1200: To demonstrate the causes & reasons for having done what you did; it can also mean to make righteous in the sight of God justify
#8850, aired 2023-04-14BAKER'S DOZEN $800: Relaying more information about the problem aboard Apollo 13, he said, "We've had a main B bus undervolt" (Jim) Lovell
#8849, aired 2023-04-13GERMAN LITERATURE $400: In 1929 he published an essay on Freud & won the Nobel Prize; who da this? You da this! Mann
#8849, aired 2023-04-13FOODSTOCK $800: Bowzer & his doo wop chips--I mean chaps, now covered with gooey cheese & salsa Sha Nachos Na (Sha Na Nachos)
#8849, aired 2023-04-13FOODSTOCK $1000: "Everyday People" clan now fronted by a plate of mini-cheeseburgers Sliders and the Family Stone
#8849, aired 2023-04-13FISH OUT OF WATER $3,400 (Daily Double): They're the southernmost Major League baseball team the (Miami) Marlins
#8848, aired 2023-04-12IN THE DICTIONARY $400: To play this is literally being done here, but can also mean to go too easy on someone patty cake
#8847, aired 2023-04-11ONE HOT MoMA $400: Jeff Koons' version of this colorful feline made famous by Peter Sellers on film is on floor 2 the Pink Panther
#8847, aired 2023-04-11ONE HOT MoMA $800: Her 1977 oil on canvas "From a Day with Juan II" was a bequest of this painter from New Mexico O'Keeffe
#8847, aired 2023-04-11A LANGUAGE OF CONSONANT PLUS VOWEL $1200: In Latin it's a form of the word for "thing"; it follows "in" to mean "concerning" re
#8847, aired 2023-04-11ONE HOT MoMA $1200: Gordon Parks' "Excerpt from" this film about a "Black private dick that's a sex machine to all the chicks" is at MoMA & we can dig it Shaft
#8847, aired 2023-04-11QUEEN VICTORIA GEOGRAPHY $1600: Victoria is the main town on Gozo, the second-largest of this Mediterranean country's islands Malta
#8847, aired 2023-04-11ONE HOT MoMA $1600: Mais oui, you can take a trip back in time to 1899 & survey his "Tahitian landscape" Gauguin
#8847, aired 2023-04-11ONE HOT MoMA $5,000 (Daily Double): His "Number 1A, 1948", which includes some of his handprints, has been on exhibit in the David Geffen Galleries Pollock
#8846, aired 2023-04-10THE MAIN CITY IN THE MOVIE $400: "The Untouchables"; remember, "That's the" this city "way"! Chicago
#8846, aired 2023-04-10RECENT EVENTS $400: For the first time since 1984, Kilauea & this even bigger big island volcano erupted side by side Mauna Loa
#8846, aired 2023-04-10AIR TRAVEL $800: You can't take off until this part of the plane, the MCD for short, is secured main cabin door
#8846, aired 2023-04-10THE MAIN CITY IN THE MOVIE $800: "Anchorman", & we won't say what Ron Burgundy thought the name meant when translated San Diego
#8846, aired 2023-04-10THE MAIN CITY IN THE MOVIE $1200: 2016's "Moonlight" Miami
#8846, aired 2023-04-10THE MAIN CITY IN THE MOVIE $1600: 2019's "El Camino" Albuquerque
#8846, aired 2023-04-10THE MAIN CITY IN THE MOVIE $2000: "RoboCop", original & remake Detroit
#8845, aired 2023-04-07POP CULTURE $1200: The TV series about this character that began NPH-mania has been shown in Latin America as "El Doctorcito" Doogie Howser
#8844, aired 2023-04-06LIT-POURRI $400: This last name of James Thurber's character Walter can have -esque added to mean having fantasies far above your abilities Walter Mitty
#8843, aired 2023-04-05LITERARY BAD DAY FOR THE PLANET $800: In Neal Stephenson's "Seveneves", this mysteriously blows up into 7 pieces that rain bolides onto Earth the Moon
#8843, aired 2023-04-053-LETTER WORDS $1000: Just one letter different, these 2 rhyming words both mean to soak up spilled liquid sop & mop
#8843, aired 2023-04-05TRANSPORTATION, IN VARIOUS FORMS $2000: Joey, baby, don't get crazy in your kangaroo mama's pouch, also called this; you'll be toted around there for 7 to 10 months the marsupium
#8843, aired 2023-04-05LITERARY BAD DAY FOR THE PLANET $2000: John Wyndham's novel about "The Day of" these meat-eating plants sees most of humanity blinded before being featured on the menu the Triffids
#8842, aired 2023-04-04PAINT ME A PICTURE $4,400 (Daily Double): This 17th century masterpiece has been called "The Dutch Mona Lisa" the Girl with a Pearl Earring
#8840, aired 2023-03-31SWEET CHARITY $400: You can raise money for charity in October by "going" this, which rhymes with October sober
#8840, aired 2023-03-31OH, THE LITERARY PLACES YOU DON'T WANT TO GO! $1200: The Sprawl is a rough city with an artificial gray sky in "Mona Lisa Overdrive", a novel from this cyberpunk master Gibson
#8837, aired 2023-03-283 MEN $800: This classical trio whose name is French for "fine arts" lasted for 53 years with pianist Menahem Pressler joined by different musicians Beaux Arts
#8835, aired 2023-03-24REJECTED AUTHORS $1200: This title auntie of Patrick Dennis' novel was too irrepressible for more than a dozen publishers before it came out in 1955 Mame
#8834, aired 2023-03-23SCIENCE $800: There are more than 3,000 species of this insect in 3 main genera; genus Culex carries encephalitis mosquitoes
#8834, aired 2023-03-23SCIENCE $1600: Of the 3 main types of rock, it's what shale is sedimentary
#8834, aired 2023-03-23FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $2000: It comes before "Ukraini" to mean "glory to Ukraine"; it's also a common nickname Slava
#8833, aired 2023-03-221963 $800: "She" made a rare visit to the U.S. from the Louvre & was displayed in Washington, D.C. & New York before her return trip the Mona Lisa
#8832, aired 2023-03-212-WORD TERMS $400: Set in 2009, the federal this is a very meager $7.25 an hour minimum wage
#8832, aired 2023-03-21IT'S A JOKE $1000: Ben Stiller, guessing Zach Galifianakis' breakfast diet, suggested it's "egg" these yellows
#8831, aired 2023-03-20WALK, THE LINE $400: Walk the Moon recounts a night at the disco: "I said, 'you're holding back', she said" this title "Shut Up And Dance" with me
#8830, aired 2023-03-17SHAPE UP $400: Legend says it became a symbol of the Byzantine Empire after the moon suddenly appeared, exposing a sneak attack a crescent
#8829, aired 2023-03-16LOVE, IN SO MANY WORDS $200: "Whatever our souls are made of, (Heathcliff's) and mine are the same" in this novel; with Linton, not so much Wuthering Heights
#8829, aired 2023-03-16COMIC INFLUENCES $200: (I'm Patton Oswalt.) In high school I couldn't get enough of this comedy troupe who had it all--SPAM, the Spanish Inquisition, a dead parrot, the dirty fork--nudge, nudge, wink, wink; know what I mean, say no more Monty Python
#8829, aired 2023-03-16COMIC INFLUENCES $400: (I'm Ego Nwodim.) Comedy heroes of mine include fellow "Saturday Night Live" stars Maya Rudolph, Amy Poehler & this woman who became the show's first female head writer in 1999 Tina Fey
#8829, aired 2023-03-16A HEAVENLY BODY IN MUSIC $1200: "When the moon is in the seventh house," we're coming up on the dawning of this the age of Aquarius
#8829, aired 2023-03-16A HEAVENLY BODY IN MUSIC $4,000 (Daily Double): This singer also from northern lands recorded "The Comet Song" for a film based on Finland's beloved Moomin books Björk
#8827, aired 2023-03-14CONTRONYMS $400: To do this can mean either to remove something like dirt from your house, or to sprinkle something like sugar on a pie to dust
#8827, aired 2023-03-14CONTRONYMS $1200: It can mean both to ask advice, as from your doctor, & to give it, as to a client, perhaps charging a fee consult
#8827, aired 2023-03-14CONTRONYMS $1600: It can mean done to completion, or spent & having no more use finished
#8827, aired 2023-03-14CONTRONYMS $2000: From the Latin for "prescribe by law", it can mean to authorize or to condemn something to sanction
#8827, aired 2023-03-14BANKING & FINANCE $2000: Come on get "A.P.Y."; A.P.Y. is short for this, money earned from a savings account over a specific amount of time annual percentage yield
#8826, aired 2023-03-13SAME CONSONANT THRICE $1600: Similar to embezzlement, doing this to "funds" is illegally using someone else's money misappropriation
#8824, aired 2023-03-09CAN WE "DIS"CUSS? $200: It can mean a pupil or a follower of anyone, not just of Jesus a disciple
#8822, aired 2023-03-07RECENT COMMERCIALS $400: Due in part to its catchy tune, this company's "Have it your way" commercial entered meme status in 2022 Burger King
#8822, aired 2023-03-07THIS IS HOW I WIN $600: Be last off the Battle Bus & land by a quiet spot instead of the Citadel; have a wide range of weapons & a medkit; use headphones Fortnite
#8822, aired 2023-03-07SCIENCE $800: A report on Ganymede, a moon of this planet, suggests a liquid ocean under the surface & snow that falls up Jupiter
#8822, aired 2023-03-07THE ROYAL PAST $2000: Xerxes praised Artemisia, warrior queen of this city, & according to legend gave her a jar that was later found in a mausoleum Halicarnassus
#8821, aired 2023-03-06"A"DJECTIVES $200: This adjective derived from the name of Plato's school can mean "irrelevant" academic
#8821, aired 2023-03-06PIVOTAL WOMEN $2000: (Melinda French Gates presents the clue.) Depicted in the movie "Hidden Figures" & described as one of NASA's "human computers", this mathematician overcame institutional racism & sexism doing the complex calculations that put America's first astronauts into space & on the Moon Katherine Johnson
#8820, aired 2023-03-03ART MOVEMENTS $800: An affiliation with Marcel Duchamp earned American ceramicist Beatrice Wood the nickname the "Mama of" this art movement Dada
#8820, aired 2023-03-03QUOTATIONS $1600: "Throwing away your umbrella in a rainstorm because you are not getting wet" was part of her dissent of dismantling the VRA Ruth Bader Ginsburg
#8819, aired 2023-03-02COURSE 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 2023-03-02IN THE SPORT $200: Inherited runners, appeal play, pickoff baseball
#8819, aired 2023-03-02THAT'S D-MINUS WORK $800: Crushed up paper into a ball loses a D & means walked through water up to the knees wadded & waded
#8819, aired 2023-03-02IN THE SPORT $1000: Chukker, gag bit, mallet, a lot of money polo
#8819, aired 2023-03-02ODD WORDS $1200: Pig Latin & a word for nothing are the source of this 5-letter word meaning "to reject" ixnay
#8819, aired 2023-03-02ACTION & ADVENTURE NOVELS $1600: A canine is the main character of this 1903 novel set in part in Canadian gold rush country The Call of the Wild
#8818, aired 2023-03-01ONOMATOPOEIA $800: These 2 words that differ by one vowel combine to mean a change of heart flip & flop
#8818, aired 2023-03-01BRIDGES $3,500 (Daily Double): Tradition says that a couple who kisses while passing beneath this Venetian bridge in a gondola will enjoy eternal love the Bridge of Sighs
#8817, aired 2023-02-28GET "SET" $400: It can refer to an advantageous trait, or money or property that is owned an asset
#8817, aired 2023-02-28MEDIEVAL TIMES $800: No camel riding per the Pact of Umar, limiting the rights of these 2 non-Muslim groups in newly Muslim-controlled areas Christians & Jews
#8817, aired 2023-02-28PEOPLE FROM ISLANDS $1,000 (Daily Double): Boricua is a word for a person from this island or of its heritage; Lin-Manuel Miranda is a proud Boricua Puerto Rico
#8817, aired 2023-02-28PEOPLE FROM ISLANDS $1000: Increasingly intermarried with ethnic Japanese, the Ainu are the indigenous people of this northernmost main island Hokkaido
#8817, aired 2023-02-28GET "SET" $2000: The babies of this primate from the forests of South America are usually born as twins a marmoset
#8816, aired 2023-02-27DANIEL RADCLIFFE ON HARRY POTTER $200: (Daniel Radcliffe presents the clue.) I starred on the London stage & on Broadway in a revival of "Equus" opposite Richard Griffiths, who played this awful relative of Harry Potter Vernon Dursley
#8816, aired 2023-02-27BEGINS & ENDS WITH "L" $200: It's the first name of singer Richie & soccer great Messi, though they pronounce it differently Lionel
#8816, aired 2023-02-27NONPOTENT POTABLES $200: In addition to Classic, it comes in Cherry & Georgia Peach flavors Coca-Cola
#8816, aired 2023-02-27BEGINS & ENDS WITH "L" $600: It can mean pertaining to the tongue, or to languages lingual
#8816, aired 2023-02-27WHAT'S THAT SCI. ABBREV.? $1000: Pa: This unit of pressure named for a 17th century Frenchman pascal
#8816, aired 2023-02-27PURE POETRY $1200: "Poems" by her came out in 1844; months later, a poet named Robert wrote to say, "I love your verses with all my heart" (& yeah, you too) Elizabeth Barrett Browning
#8816, aired 2023-02-27SOUTHERNERS $1200: What's poppin'? The career of this rapper from Louisville Jack Harlow
#8816, aired 2023-02-27THE GOLDEN AGE $1600: Born around 470 B.C., this figure from the golden age of Greek culture went around barefoot asking annoying questions Socrates
#8815, aired 2023-02-24A GOVERNMENT OFFICE $200: Conveniently based in this U.S. city, the Office of Cuba Broadcasting provides uncensored information to the island Miami
#8815, aired 2023-02-24SHORT, TINY & SMALL $400: Heard here, it's the smallest & highest-pitched woodwind instrument in an orchestra a piccolo
#8815, aired 2023-02-24SHORT, TINY & SMALL $800: Pesto sauce makes a tasty topping for these small potato dumplings gnocchi
#8815, aired 2023-02-24VERY ARTISTIC $800: Praise this painting from the early 1500s on its use of sfumato, the use of fine shading, but please don't tell her to smile more the Mona Lisa
#8814, aired 2023-02-23POST-GRADUATION $600: It can mean to wrestle, or to cope with a difficult problem grapple
#8814, aired 2023-02-23POST-GRADUATION $1000: A top music industry award gets its name from this old-time record player with a big horn a gramophone
#8814, aired 2023-02-23GREEK LIFE $1000: This 400s B.C. physician had a school at Cos where he taught for fees; no word on if he had a loan program Hippocrates
#8813, aired 2023-02-22SCIENCE CRITTERS $200: It's the animal in the name of the unit equivalent to 33,000 foot-pounds of work per minute a horse
#8813, aired 2023-02-22IT'S GREAT TO "CU" $600: Grab a broom--it's the [Mayim laughs] sport being played here curling
#8813, aired 2023-02-22COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $800: Its main campus in West Lafayette, Indiana includes the Krannert School of Management Purdue
#8813, aired 2023-02-22HAVE A NOSH $800: Rold Gold & Snyder's of Hanover both make these snacks pretzels
#8813, aired 2023-02-22IT'S GREAT TO "CU" $1000: Sumerian & Akkadian were 2 of the main languages to be written in this ancient wedge-shaped script cuneiform
#8813, aired 2023-02-22COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $1200: This Boston school of music is named for its second president; his first & last names were reversed Berklee
#8813, aired 2023-02-22TRAVEL FACTS $2000: Say yes to grandma when she wants to take you on a cruise to the stretch of the Yucatan coast invitingly called the "Mayan" this the Mayan Riviera
#8813, aired 2023-02-22SCIENCE CRITTERS $3,000 (Daily Double): This Russian physiologist trained many breeds of dogs to reflexively salivate at the sound of noises they associated with food Pavlov
#8812, aired 2023-02-21THE REST OF THE WORLD IN 2018 & '19 $600: Hopes of peace were raised when North Korean leader Kim Jong-un entered this buffer area to meet with South Korean Pres. Moon the DMZ
#8812, aired 2023-02-21POP CULTURE HIGH SCHOOL REUNIONS $800: It's a gathering following the main blowout; the title one on Apple TV+ follows a high school reunion & is marred by murder after party
#8812, aired 2023-02-21ADJECTIVES $800: A kind of deep chasm gives us this adjective that can mean "bottomless" or "profound" but also "incompetently bad" abysmal
#8812, aired 2023-02-21THEY MAKE IT $800: The K-Mini coffee maker, perfect for dorm rooms Keurig
#8812, aired 2023-02-21ON TIKTOK $1000: Famous for his silent reaction videos & spoofs, he dethroned Charli D'Amelio as the most-followed TikTok star Khaby Lame
#8812, aired 2023-02-21POP CULTURE HIGH SCHOOL REUNIONS $1200: This Showtime series about soccer players lost in the woods ended season 1 with the main 4 as adults heading to their high school reunion Yellowjackets
#8811, aired 2023-02-20PALINDROMES IN POP CULTURE $400: Songs by this Swedish quartet include "Waterloo" & "Dancing Queen" ABBA
#8811, aired 2023-02-20A CRASH COURSE IN JOHN GREEN $600: (John Green presents the clue.) With a mission to increase awesome & decrease suck & to champion causes to help others, fans of my brother Hank & I & our VlogBrothers videos are called these from the misreading of the name of a video game Nerdfighters
#8811, aired 2023-02-20REUNION SHOWS $800: "Baywatch: Hawaiian Wedding" was a 2003 TV movie reuniting David Hasselhoff & this woman as CJ--Jason Momoa's in the movie, too Pamela Anderson
#8811, aired 2023-02-20TIME TO HIT THE LIBRARY $1600: This city's main public library, named for Mayor Harold Washington, has a teen learning center called YOUmedia Chicago
#8810, aired 2023-02-17SOMETIMES A "LITTLE" IS ENOUGH $2000: Playing a mean quarterstaff, he was an original member of the Merry Men Little John
#8809, aired 2023-02-16ALL WAYS $200: The name of this galaxy, & we do mean this galaxy, comes from the classical Latin via lactea the Milky Way
#8808, aired 2023-02-15ON A STAMP $400: The 2017 Total Eclipse of the Sun stamp depicts a black disk that turns into this under the heat of a finger the Moon
#8808, aired 2023-02-15ACC SCHOOL HISTORY $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1926 this southern school enrolled about 650 full-time students, but of all things, a hurricane nearly put it out of business the University of Miami
#8807, aired 2023-02-14YE OLDE BRITISH MONEY $400: A nursery rhyme begins, "Sing a song of" this amount sixpence
#8807, aired 2023-02-14YE OLDE BRITISH MONEY $800: The pound was divided into 20 of these, colloquially called bob shillings
#8807, aired 2023-02-14YE OLDE BRITISH MONEY $1200: You'll find R-E-I-G-N in this word for a gold one-pound coin depicting one who reigned a sovereign
#8807, aired 2023-02-14YE OLDE BRITISH MONEY $2,000 (Daily Double): A pound note, or the Latin word for "what" quid
#8807, aired 2023-02-14YE OLDE BRITISH MONEY $2000: The name of an old-timey bicycle with a large front wheel & a much smaller back wheel combines penny & this smaller coin farthing
#8806, aired 2023-02-13PARTY ON! $200: This verb can mean to attend a party uninvited, or to fall asleep from exhaustion after one crash
#8805, aired 2023-02-10THE MIAMI VICE SQUAD $400: In 1988 she played an art gallery manager whose "vice" was being a drug dealer's assistant; "Pretty Woman" was 2 years away Julia Roberts
#8805, aired 2023-02-10THE 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 2023-02-10DON'T FALL IN! $800: An entry to the underground world to do excavating for profit, here's a proverbial abandoned one a mine shaft
#8805, aired 2023-02-10THE MIAMI VICE SQUAD $1200: Long before her Oscar nom for "The King's Speech", this 3-named British actress was Crockett's drug-addicted girlfriend Helena Bonham Carter
#8805, aired 2023-02-10THE MIAMI VICE SQUAD $1600: This superstar of stage, song & screen was seeing Don Johnson when she cameo-d as a pedestrian who caught Sonny's eye Barbra Streisand
#8805, aired 2023-02-10WESTERN EUROPE $1600: The treasure chamber of this little Alpine land includes Faberge eggs & Moon rocks Liechtenstein
#8805, aired 2023-02-10THE MIAMI VICE SQUAD $2000: You can see this "Birth of the Cool" trumpeter & hear his distinctive speaking voice when he played Ivory Jones on a 1985 episode Miles Davis
#8804, aired 2023-02-09ON THEIR FAST FOOD MENU $200: A Southwest Avocado Salad & a Dave's Triple Wendy's
#8804, aired 2023-02-09YOU'RE ON THE WORLD MONEY $400: On the back of the U.K. 5-pound note is this wartime leader Churchill
#8804, aired 2023-02-09ON THEIR FAST FOOD MENU $400: A Meatzza Pizza & a Chicken Habanero Sandwich Domino's
#8804, aired 2023-02-09ON THEIR FAST FOOD MENU $600: A Doritos Cheesy Gordita Crunch & Nacho Fries Taco Bell
#8804, aired 2023-02-09YOU'RE ON THE WORLD MONEY $800: Tigran Petrosian, on an Armenian dram, was a world champion of this game chess
#8804, aired 2023-02-09ON THEIR FAST FOOD MENU $800: An impossible slider with smoked cheddar cheese White Castle
#8804, aired 2023-02-09ON THEIR FAST FOOD MENU $1000: A 2-piece Pacific Cod Meal, including hushpuppies Long John Silver's
#8804, aired 2023-02-09YOU'RE ON THE WORLD MONEY $1200: Serbia put this inventor on its 100 dinar bill Tesla
#8804, aired 2023-02-09YOU'RE ON THE WORLD MONEY $1600: South Africa's banknotes have Nelson Mandela on the front & are in this currency rand
#8804, aired 2023-02-09YOU'RE ON THE WORLD MONEY $2000: The 200-lari note of this former Soviet republic is fronted by national hero Kakutska Cholokashvili Georgia
#8801, aired 2023-02-06S-SS-ING THE SITUATION $400: It's the "B" in Elvis' classic TCB, mama; thank you, thank you very much taking care of business
#8801, aired 2023-02-06YOU CAN CALL ME HOMER $1200: A gold mine promoter named Homer Pennock gave his first name to a city in this state Alaska
#8800, aired 2023-02-03THAT'S A CRIME! $600: Those Allstate ads with Dean Winters in this role are funny, but it's also the crime of maliciously injuring a person's body Mayhem
#8800, aired 2023-02-03SECOND CITIES $800: Mombasa on the Indian Ocean is this country's main port Kenya
#8800, aired 2023-02-03WATER MUSIC $2000: This watery Henry Mancini composition was a huge hit for Andy Williams "Moon River"
#8799, aired 2023-02-02"B" + 3 $600: To cheat out of money bilk
#8799, aired 2023-02-02THE BOOK'S SUPPORTING CHARACTERS $2000: Weena, an Eloi, & Morlocks, as the main guy really gets around The Time Machine
#13, aired 2023-02-02EASY MONEY $100: Since the early 20th century, Abraham Lincoln has been on the front of these 2 pieces of U.S. currency, one a coin & one, paper the penny & the $5 bill
#13, aired 2023-02-02COMPOSERS ARE QUIRKY $200: Made antisocial by his deafness, he would sit alone in the corner of a crowded tavern eating cheese & herring Beethoven
#13, aired 2023-02-02WIL(L), WILLEM OR WILLIAM $200: After landing in a cloaked Klingon ship in Golden Gate Park in "Star Trek IV", this actor says, "Everybody remember where we parked" William Shatner
#13, aired 2023-02-02EASY MONEY $200: If you have a yen for yen, you'll know the yen is this country's currency Japan
#13, aired 2023-02-02EASY MONEY $300: The doubloons thrown from Mardi Gras floats are often aluminum; the original doubloon was a Spanish coin made of this metal gold
#13, aired 2023-02-02IT'S ALSO A GREEK LETTER $400: In 1941 this airline with a Greek letter for a name moved its headquarters to Atlanta Delta
#13, aired 2023-02-02EASY MONEY $400: It's no longer made up of 20 shillings, but it's still the unit of currency of Great Britain the pound
#13, aired 2023-02-02EASY MONEY $500: This woman, a prominent U.S. suffragist, was on the U.S. dollar coin from 1979-1981 Susan B. Anthony
#13, aired 2023-02-02SINGIN' IN THE RAIN $600: Here's a thoughtful offer from Rihanna: "Now that it's raining more than ever... you can stand under my" this umbrella
#13, aired 2023-02-02ALL ABOUT DISNEY $600: Walt Disney coined this acronym for the experimental prototype community he planned to build in Florida; it would open in 1982 EPCOT
#13, aired 2023-02-02IT'S ALSO A GREEK LETTER $800: It's letter No. 3 in the Greek alphabet; the same-named "rays" hulked out Bruce Banner gamma
#13, aired 2023-02-02TAKING A GAMBLE WITH JAMES HOLZHAUER $900: (James Holzhauer presents the clue.) A popular variant of Texas hold 'em poker in casinos is this one named for a Nebraska city; you start with 4 cards instead of 2 Omaha
#13, aired 2023-02-02LAKES & RIVERS $1200: Johann Strauss II wrote a famous waltz about this "Beautiful Blue" river that flows through Europe the Danube
#13, aired 2023-02-02GOING UNDERGROUND $4,300 (Daily Double): In 1900 an estimated 5 billion of these, not actual canines, lived in underground "towns" in the western United States prairie dogs
#13, aired 2023-02-02GETTING CLOSE TO SOMETHING $13,000 (Daily Double): Doctor Strange tells Tony Stark, "we're in" this "now", a term for the final stage of a chess contest; so are you an endgame
#8798, aired 2023-02-01YOU "BREAK" $200: 2-word term meaning to end up with the same amount of money as when you started, as in gambling or business break even
#8798, aired 2023-02-01OVERLAPS $2000: The minimum amount of fissionable material to sustain a nuclear chain reaction in the Bay State critical Massachusetts
#8797, aired 2023-01-31A CAPITAL OFFENSIVE $2000: After a rapid offensive, this capital was captured April 30, 1975, leading to a name change Ho Chi Minh City
#8796, aired 2023-01-30NURSERY RHYMES $200: Curds & whey are on the menu for this tuffet sitter Little Miss Muffet
#8796, aired 2023-01-30ENDS IN A DOUBLE VOWEL POTPOURRI $800: Native Hawaiian women adapted a long, loose garment introduced by missionaries into this long, loose dress a muumuu
#8796, aired 2023-01-30WORDS THAT SHOULD RHYME $1600: Proverbial coal mine avian & wheat storehouse a canary & a granary
#8795, aired 2023-01-27SOIL $200: The 3 main types of soil particles are sand, silt & this one, popular with sculptors & potters clay
#12, aired 2023-01-26POP MUSIC $200: Though the title mentions a different car part, Nicky Youre is in a convertible in the video for this hit song heard here "You got me stuck on the thought of you / You're making me feel brand new / You're more than the sunshine in my eyes / La da la da da, la da dai / La da la da di dai..." "Sunroof"
#12, aired 2023-01-26U.S. GOVERNMENT $300: This group that would-be presidents need 270 votes from isn't an educational institution; the second word can also mean a society the Electoral College
#12, aired 2023-01-26POP MUSIC $300: In the '80s we were "Head Over Heels" for this all-female group; they did, in fact, have the beat The Go-Go's
#12, aired 2023-01-26FAMOUS AMERICAN QUOTES $400: A line from the screenplay for the Oliver Stone film "Wall Street" says that this "is good!" greed
#12, aired 2023-01-26THE MUSEUM OF FAILURE $400: "Singles" from this baby food co. was adult food, but "it might as well have been called 'I Live Alone & Eat My Meals From a Jar"' Gerber
#12, aired 2023-01-26PSYCHOLOGY $400: The American Psychological Assoc. defines these 2 personality types as "inward & self-directed" & "outward & social-directed" introvert & extrovert
#12, aired 2023-01-26POP MUSIC $500: Here's this "Unstoppable" singer wearing one of her trademark oversized wigs Sia
#12, aired 2023-01-26____ & ____ $800: Lunar enthusiasts are partial to this alliterative idiom of 2 verbs that refers to any periodic change in size or strength waxing & waning
#12, aired 2023-01-26CHARACTER/ACTOR $1000: As Anton Chigurh in this 2007 film, Javier Bardem & his haircut were both downright frightening No Country for Old Men
#12, aired 2023-01-26U.S. GOVERNMENT $1200: A 2018 USA Today headline: "Rex Tillerson was on the toilet when he was told he'd be fired" from this diplomatic Cabinet job secretary of state
#12, aired 2023-01-26THE GOLDEN STATE WARRIORS $1500: (Amy Schneider presents the clue.) The Warriors came to San Francisco from Philadelphia in 1962, bringing this superstar 7-footer who averaged an incredible 44.8 points per game in his 1st season by the Bay Wilt Chamberlain
#12, aired 2023-01-26A SIGN OF SHAME $3,000 (Daily Double): In this Nathaniel Hawthorne novel, single mom Hester Prynne must wear a red "A" on her dress The Scarlet Letter
#12, aired 2023-01-26UNDER STUDY $5,000 (Daily Double): It sounds like it might be the study of shooting stars, but it's the science of the atmosphere, weather & weather forecasting meteorology
#12, aired 2023-01-26WORLD HISTORY $9,800 (Daily Double): This dynasty that ruled China from 1368 to 1644 was noted for its arts & culture including, of course, ceramics & porcelain vases Ming
#8793, aired 2023-01-25WE GRADE THAT H-PLUS $1000: A restaurant with tables on the sidewalk adds H to the menu for a word meaning to irritate by rubbing café & chafe
#8792, aired 2023-01-24THEY'RE BAD IN BOOKS $600: In "The Handmaid's Tale", this main "Aunt"-agonist strives to indoctrinate her captive charges into subservience Aunt Lydia
#8792, aired 2023-01-24DANTE'S CIRCLES OF HELL, DEFINED $1000: Eighth, containing alchemists & seducers: Legally this 5-letter word is any activity that uses deception to gain money the circle of fraud
#8791, aired 2023-01-23TV CONNECTORS $800: Win Ben Stein's ____ Heist Money
#8790, aired 2023-01-20MOONSTRUCK $200: Daughter & would-be assassin of the Earth goddess, Coyolxauhqui was a moon goddess of this people of Mexico Aztec
#8790, aired 2023-01-20MOONSTRUCK $600: In a popular manga series, schoolgirl Usagi Tsukino changes into this magical character to fight villains & save the world Sailor Moon
#8790, aired 2023-01-20AMERICAN LIT $800: This narrator in a 19th century classic says, "Tom and me found the money that the robbers hid in the cave" Huck Finn
#8790, aired 2023-01-20MOONSTRUCK $1000: The largest of the Moon's seas is the opposite of tranquility--Oceanus procellarum meaning "ocean of" these storms
#8790, aired 2023-01-202-WORD SCIENCE TERMS $1200: This 2-word compound is the main component of both limestone & coral reefs calcium carbonate
#8790, aired 2023-01-20AS THE FRENCH SAY $1600: This French phrase, literally "like this, like that", is used to mean "so-so" comme ci comme ça
#8790, aired 2023-01-20SAFE $4,600 (Daily Double): Your money is as safe as it would be were it in the bullion depository in this Kentucky site, named for our first Secretary of War Fort Knox
#11, aired 2023-01-19LANDMARKS $100: The heads that make up this national memorial are each about 60 feet tall & each was dedicated at separate times during the 1930s Mount Rushmore
#11, aired 2023-01-19SHOE BIZ $400: After moving to Southern California in 1978, Aussie surfer Brian Smith launched this brand of sheepskin boots Uggs
#11, aired 2023-01-19"NN"YTIME $400: This verb can mean to have your hiking companion for dinner, or to take resources from one project to finish another cannibalize
#11, aired 2023-01-19COACH: BEARD $400: Guys, you may be able to spur beard growth with exercise & more sleep, possibly aiding in production of this 12-letter hormone testosterone
#11, aired 2023-01-19SHOE BIZ $600: Like Elvis sang, "don't you step on" these shoes that you can get from Brooks Brothers (blue) suede shoes
#11, aired 2023-01-19JOHNNY GILBERT IS THE TV CHARACTER $900: "I'm a doctor, not a coal miner"; "...an engineer"; "...an escalator"; "...a mechanic"; "...a bricklayer" Dr. McCoy
#11, aired 2023-01-19JOHNNY GILBERT IS THE TV CHARACTER $1200: "You come at the king, you best not miss" Omar (Little)
#11, aired 2023-01-192 WORDS, 3 LETTERS EACH $3,000 (Daily Double): It doesn't sound super-medical, but Queen Elizabeth II's death certificate lists the cause as this, at 96 old age
#8788, aired 2023-01-18SAME FIRST & LAST LETTER $800: Use your this & tell us this slang term for your head; it can also mean a small mug or cup a noggin
#8787, aired 2023-01-17DOUBLE VOWELS NEXT TO DOUBLE CONSONANTS $600: As a verb it can mean to turn out well or to come next in a series succeed
#8786, aired 2023-01-16TATTOOS $400: Many Polynesian tattoos use triangles to represent niho mano, the teeth of this predator a shark
#8785, aired 2023-01-13BORN OR DIED IN 1923 $800: Born: This famous French mime Marceau
#8785, aired 2023-01-138-LETTER WORDS $2000: You may think of data as words & numbers, but digital images are also data & this term can mean information about an image metadata
#8784, aired 2023-01-12BREWS N' BOOZE $2,600 (Daily Double): Beer's 4 main ingredients are malt, yeast, water & these cones of a plant that help the drink keep its foamy head hops
#10, aired 2023-01-12EVERYDAY ITALIAN $200: "When the Moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that's" this, that's love amore
#10, aired 2023-01-12THE 50 STATES $200: Created to serve the former Northwest Territory, Northwestern University is in Evanston in this state Illinois
#10, aired 2023-01-12THE 50 STATES $300: In "Field of Dreams" a question is asked, "Is this heaven?"--No, it's this Midwestern state also known as "the Corn State" Iowa
#10, aired 2023-01-12COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $400: Until disallowed by the L.A. Coliseum, a live bear would take the field at home football games for this school UCLA (the University of California Los Angeles)
#10, aired 2023-01-12THE 50 STATES $500: Hells Canyon & Snake River sound daunting, but Sun Valley & its ski lodges in this state offer respite Idaho
#10, aired 2023-01-12TRIANGLES $600: You need a triangle for this action to set up billiard balls for the break shot racking
#10, aired 2023-01-12THE MOVIES $600: His powerful performance as the Joker in "The Dark Knight" won him a posthumous Supporting Actor Oscar (Heath) Ledger
#10, aired 2023-01-12EXPLOSIVE MUSIC $900: His singing career really burst into the stratosphere with "Rocket Man", which says, "burning out his fuse up here alone" Elton John
#10, aired 2023-01-12GLOOMY AUTHORS $1000: His plays like "Waiting for Godot" explore the meaninglessness of life & even a Nobel Prize didn't make him happy Samuel Beckett
#10, aired 2023-01-12COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $1000: Founded in 1693, the oldest college in Virginia is the college of this royal pair the College of William & Mary
#10, aired 2023-01-12"MIS"INFORMATION $1500: It's a 7-letter word for an often long, handwritten letter missive
#8783, aired 2023-01-11SCIENCE WORDS $1200: This word for a plain of lower elevation on our moon means "sea" in Latin mare
#8782, aired 2023-01-10BETWEEN 2 "C"s $400: It describes an opera like "The Maid as Mistress", or can mean any funny performer comic
#8781, aired 2023-01-09THEIR MAIN MUSICAL INSTRUMENT $200: John Legend the piano
#8781, aired 2023-01-09THEIR MAIN MUSICAL INSTRUMENT $400: Flea & the late John Entwistle the bass
#8781, aired 2023-01-09THEIR MAIN MUSICAL INSTRUMENT $600: Lizzo the flute
#8781, aired 2023-01-09THEIR MAIN MUSICAL INSTRUMENT $800: Bluegrass legend Alison Krauss violin (fiddle)
#8781, aired 2023-01-09THEIR MAIN MUSICAL INSTRUMENT $1000: "Weird Al" Yankovic the accordion
#8779, aired 2023-01-05CHOOSE YOUR FIGHTER $200: Animated "Mysteries" starring this ex-champ include "House Haunters" & "A Mine is a Terrible Thing to Waste" Mike Tyson
#8779, aired 2023-01-05CLICHES $2000: To mean an overall picture, instead of "the view from" this high, people could say "from 5.68 miles" 30,000 feet
#9, aired 2023-01-05MERRIAM-WEBSTER DEFINES IT AS... $100: "To make four times as much", like one's money in an investment... a really, really good investment quadruple
#9, aired 2023-01-05INTERNATIONAL 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 2023-01-05FAMOUS WOMEN $200: Her resume includes Secretary of State, senator from New York & first lady Hillary Clinton
#9, aired 2023-01-05WE MEAN BUSINESS $300: Its Family Bundle Classic bundles 6,537 calories across fries, pies, drinks, chicken sammies & nuggets & of course, Whoppers Burger King
#9, aired 2023-01-05INTERNATIONAL 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 2023-01-05A TOTAL FRAME JOB $500 (Daily Double): Britannica says this Munch painting "can be seen as a symbol of modern spiritual anguish" but it reminds us of a loud "Home Alone" moment The Scream
#9, aired 2023-01-05OFFICIAL STATE STUFF $600: Its state monument is the 76-foot Golden Driller in front of Tulsa's Expo Center Oklahoma
#9, aired 2023-01-05WE MEAN BUSINESS $600: This chain of stores opened in 1979 & it seems like since then I've been trying to find an orange-aproned person to help me Home Depot
#9, aired 2023-01-05PHILOSOPHY $600: Nietzsche's "The Gay Science" includes the parable of a madman crying out, he "is dead... and we have killed him" God
#9, aired 2023-01-05FAMOUS WOMEN $600: She was Czechoslovakia's top women's tennis player when she defected to the U.S. in 1975 Martina Navratilova
#9, aired 2023-01-05FAMOUS WOMEN $800: The legendary jazz lady seen here "sang the blues" under this name Billie Holiday
#9, aired 2023-01-05WE MEAN BUSINESS $900: On day 1 in 1973, this corp. delivered 186 packages, but in fiscal year 2021 annual revenue, it delivered $84 billion FedEx
#9, aired 2023-01-05SEEMS LIKE ANCIENT TIMES $1000: By 2500 B.C. the Chinese were breeding a special "worm" in order to make thread & garments from this material silk
#9, aired 2023-01-05NATURE $1000: Scientists once thought this Aussie animal that has certain bird features & lays eggs was a hoax a (duck-billed) platypus
#9, aired 2023-01-05THEY WERE TEACHERS $1200: (Colby Burnett delivers the clue.) Oscar-nominated for films like "BlacKkKlansman" & the documentary "4 Little Girls", this acclaimed filmmaker is a tenured professor of film & artistic director at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts Spike Lee
#9, aired 2023-01-05WE MEAN BUSINESS $1200: Dog, gone! In 2021 this bus company was acquired by German company Flix Mobility Greyhound
#9, aired 2023-01-05BOOZY PHRASES $1,500 (Daily Double): This phrase became a meme as the words spoken just before doing a reckless stunt hold my beer and watch this
#9, aired 2023-01-05BOOZY PHRASES $1500: These "sparkling" tastes mean a desire for high-end living; unfortunately, some have them on a tight budget champagne (tastes)
#9, aired 2023-01-05WE MEAN BUSINESS $1500: In 2015 he announced the launch of a cruise line called Virgin Voyages but only after making some space(ship) in his life (Richard) Branson
#8778, aired 2023-01-04THE SILENT TYPE $1600: This adjective describing one who uses a bare minimum of words derives from the region where ancient Sparta was laconic
#8778, aired 2023-01-04JUST A LITTLE NUCLEAR PHYSICS $2000: Here's your quark menu! Which flavor would you like--up, down, top, bottom, charm or this? strange
#8777, aired 2023-01-03KID CUISINE $400: If your kids aren't from New England, they may enjoy this two-word dish made with a veggie, more than its clam or fish cousin corn chowder
#8776, aired 2023-01-02FRIENDS 'TIL THE ENDS $1,300 (Daily Double): "C" is for this word, once one of the divisions of a Roman legion; it now can mean a colleague or a person born in the same year a cohort
#8775, aired 2022-12-30U.S. TERRITORIES $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1927 the U.S. granted citizenship to residents of this territory in the West Indies whose 3 main islands all bear saintly names the U.S. Virgin Islands
#8775, aired 2022-12-30A MEMORABLE NEW YEAR'S EVE $1200: (Ryan Seacrest presents the clue.) Before a 2011 NASA mission mapping the Moon's gravity, Montana 4th graders named the two spacecraft, & this one entered lunar orbit on New Year's Eve; Flow took a bit longer Ebb
#8775, aired 2022-12-30THE FIRST FEATURE THEY DIRECTED $2000: 2020: "One Night in Miami..." Regina King
#8775, aired 2022-12-30ALLITERATION $6,500 (Daily Double): This 2022 buzzphrase doesn't mean leaving your job, but doing no more than it requires quiet quitting
#8773, aired 2022-12-286-LETTER VERBS $600: The stock markets love this word that can mean, among other things, spend time on & give power to to invest
#8772, aired 2022-12-27SCIENCE $4,000 (Daily Double): Neptune's moon Triton is the only big moon in our solar system that orbits in this 10-letter way, meaning backwards retrograde
#8771, aired 2022-12-26VACATION ISLES $1000: Northernmost of the main Hawaiian islands is this lush 5-letter isle also known as "The Garden Isle" Kauai
#8770, aired 2022-12-235-LETTER WORDS $1200: It's a small, secret group of plotters & can also mean their conspiracy a cabal
#8769, aired 2022-12-22CLIMATE $400: A byproduct of using fossil fuels, it's the main greenhouse gas affecting Earth's climate due to human activity carbon dioxide
#8769, aired 2022-12-22WE COME TO THIS PLACE FOR... $600: ...otherworldly objects: this NASA space center in Houston has a large cache of Moon rocks from the Apollo missions the Johnson Space Center
#8769, aired 2022-12-22CLIMATE $2000: One climate provision in 2022's big Democratic bill provides money to protect these "O.G." forests old growth
#8768, aired 2022-12-21NBA TEAMS $400: It's the southernmost team in the NBA the Miami Heat
#8767, aired 2022-12-20DR. SEUSS BAKING CHALLENGE $200: (Tamera Mowry presents the clue.) Creations that hopefully taste better than they sound were natural for this book with an edible title & a hyphenated main character Green Eggs and Ham
#8767, aired 2022-12-20CONTRACTIONS $400: Britannica notes that this word "can be used to mean am not, are not, is not, have not & has not" ain't
#8767, aired 2022-12-20DR. SEUSS BAKING CHALLENGE $600: (Tamera Mowry presents the clue.) It's the holiday season, so we had to include this book, whose grumpy main character was Dr. Seuss's long-time license plate How the Grinch Stole Christmas
#8766, aired 2022-12-19ANAGRAMMED OCCUPATIONS $600: (the anagram is its own clue) MOON STARER astronomer
#8766, aired 2022-12-19TELEVISION THEN & NOW $1,800 (Daily Double): The main characters of "Back to the Future" helped inspire this animated series that debuted in 2013 Rick and Morty
#8765, aired 2022-12-16THE SCALES $800: The Moon is nearly invisible at "L=0", the lowest level on the Danjon scale, measuring its brightness during this event an eclipse
#8765, aired 2022-12-16ALASKAN GEOGRAPHY $2,000 (Daily Double): Named for a son of King George III, this sound with Valdez as a main port, was the site of the Exxon-Valdez oil spill Prince William Sound
#8765, aired 2022-12-16TV & MOVIE PLACES $2000: The Forest Moon of this planet is the home of the Ewoks Endor
#8761, aired 2022-12-12WITH A SONG IN YOUR BRAIN $200: This word for a song's main tune is from the Greek for "song" a melody
#8757, aired 2022-12-067-LETTER "W"ORDS $1200: This verb can mean to handle livestock on a ranch or extras on a movie set wrangle
#8756, aired 2022-12-05MUSICALS BY FEMALE ROLES $800: Mean-spirited orphanage mistress Miss Hannigan Annie
#8756, aired 2022-12-05MUSICALS BY FEMALE ROLES $2000: Mimi Marquez & Joanne Jefferson Rent
#8755, aired 2022-12-02BODY LANGUAGE $600: This "music" can mean a pitch thrown high, near the batter's head chin music
#8754, aired 2022-12-01CONTRACTIONS $400: It comes before "get this bread" in a forward-thinking money-making meme let's
#8754, aired 2022-12-01ROLE IN COMMON $1200: Don Johnson & Colin Farrell had their vices Sonny Crockett
#8754, aired 2022-12-01DOCTOR-ING UP LITERATURE $2,200 (Daily Double): Tired of having this guy talk to the animals, Hugh Lofting sent him to the moon in 1928 but fan demand had him "return" in 1933 (Doctor) Dolittle
#8753, aired 2022-11-30FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $200: In Spanish this is properly dinero, but is also called plata, pasta & many other things money
#8753, aired 2022-11-30TIME FOR SOME FOOD $800: Term for mini-burgers from places like White Castle sliders
#8752, aired 2022-11-29CAST UPON THE WATERS $800: On "Entourage" Vince Chase was cast as this movie superhero; Jason Momoa got the gig in real life Aquaman
#8752, aired 2022-11-29GERMAN CITIES $800: This major river passes through the cities of Mannheim & Cologne the Rhine
#8751, aired 2022-11-28AROUND THE GLOBE $1200: The ECB, the European Central Bank, has its headquarters in this German city on the Main River Frankfurt
#8750, aired 2022-11-252-WORD BOOK TITLES $400: 2022 marks the 75th anniversary of this Margaret Wise Brown classic about putting a bunny to bed Goodnight Moon
#8750, aired 2022-11-25OUR FLAG MEANS... $800: This shape moon on Singapore's flag symbolizes a young nation on the rise a crescent
#8750, aired 2022-11-25UNFRIEND $1600: An enemy of the main character in a play, it also refers to a type of muscle antagonist
#8749, aired 2022-11-24NEAR THE FRONT OF THE DICTIONARY $800: To be "taken" this can mean to be caught by surprise or to have your ship's sails filled with wind from the wrong direction aback
#8749, aired 2022-11-24NEAR THE FRONT OF THE DICTIONARY $5,000 (Daily Double): From Latin for "proverb", it's a saying that expresses a common observation, like "a penny saved is a penny earned" adage
#8747, aired 2022-11-22VOCABULARY WORDS $400: It can mean to restrain, or it can be found along a street curb
#8746, aired 2022-11-21GESTURES $1000: The mano pantea, the first 2 fingers & thumb extended, are a gesture to ward off this bit of malevolence, malocchio in Italian the evil eye
#8746, aired 2022-11-21FILMS BY TAGLINE $1200: 2017: "Just because you're invited, doesn't mean you're welcome" Get Out
#8745, aired 2022-11-185-SYLLABLE WORDS $200: Money existing only digitally; in 2022 $275 billion was lost in its global market in a single day cryptocurrency
#8745, aired 2022-11-18AMERICAN WOMEN $1200: For a 1915 exhibition to help raise money for women's suffrage, this Impressionist sent a number of her works from France Cassatt
#8744, aired 2022-11-17SONGS FROM THE HIT ALBUM $200: "Billie Jean" & "The Girl Is Mine" Thriller
#8743, aired 2022-11-16HEARD IN THE MOVIE $800: "I mean, what kind of friggin' person bashes in their friend's knee? Who would do that?" I, Tonya
#8743, aired 2022-11-16MAKING AN ASSONANCE OF YOURSELF $1000: In a song title from the 1920s, these 2-word noisemakers for nuptials "are breaking up that old gang of mine" wedding bells
#8742, aired 2022-11-15NOW 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 2022-11-15CHAMPION WORDS $1200: We're serving poke with this as the main protein ahi
#8, aired 2022-11-13COMPUTER SCIENCE WITH MATT AMODIO $300: (Matt Amodio delivers the clue.) Before the hard disk era, the storage of data or programs known as this word took more cumbersome forms, like huge circular drums & reels bearing hundreds of feet of tape memory
#8, aired 2022-11-13MUSICAL THEATER $400: In September 2022 Lea Michele stepped into the role of Fanny Brice in the revival of this show Funny Girl
#8, aired 2022-11-13BRUSH UP YOUR HEBREW $600: A frequent source of comedy is new speakers who mix up michnasayim, pants, with mishkafayim, these--but you don't have reading pants glasses
#8, aired 2022-11-13THE BIBLE $600: There was some serious sibling rivalry with these first 2 sons of Adam & Eve Cain & Abel
#8, aired 2022-11-13BRUSH UP YOUR HEBREW $900: Unlike if you're at Trader Joe's, if you're speaking Hebrew, this dip has a guttural first letter & 2 long vowels hummus
#8, aired 2022-11-13THE BIBLE $1000: This 5-letter word refers to the "bread from heaven" eaten by the Israelites as told in the Book of Exodus manna
#8740, aired 2022-11-11SPANISH WORDS & PHRASES $600: The title of a 2020 bilingual Black Eyed Peas song, it means an attractive woman, whether she's a mother or not "Mamacita"
#8740, aired 2022-11-11CARATS $800: Using a ruby rod, Theodore Maiman built the first working one of these in 1960 a laser
#8739, aired 2022-11-10SCIENTIFIC TRIOS $400: The 3 main shapes of these are rod, sphere & spiral, the last causing things like syphilis & rat-bite fever bacteria
#8739, aired 2022-11-10THE ROCK BASSIST'S GROUP $1600: I see a "Bad Moon Rising", so I also see Stu Cook Credence Clearwater Revival
#8739, aired 2022-11-10SCIENTIFIC TRIOS $6,000 (Daily Double): Of the 3 main sections of an insect's body, this one is from the Latin for "breastplate" thorax
#8738, aired 2022-11-09ONOMATOPOEIA $1200: Apiarists know this word can mean a rumor or enthusiasm buzz
#8737, aired 2022-11-08YOU SIT ON IT $600: Jupiter has dozens of these including Europa & Io moon
#8737, aired 2022-11-08REMEMBERING ALEX TREBEK $1000: Alex had tons of hardware supplies, including these, also called half-moon keys; he never knew what they were for, though Woodruff keys
#8736, aired 2022-11-07THAT '70s OR '80s SHOW $600: Hollywood folklore says NBC's Brandon Tartikoff scribbled down a quick note--"MTV cops"--which led to this hit '80s show Miami Vice
#7, aired 2022-11-06BERNIE & BERNADETTE $300: Terry Kiser played the titular corpse in this 1989 comedy that also starred Andrew McCarthy & Jonathan Silverman Weekend at Bernie's
#7, aired 2022-11-06EVERYBODY LOVES RAIN, MAN $400: On Titan, this ringed planet's largest moon, it rains methane Saturn
#7, aired 2022-11-06JOHNNY GILBERT SAYS THE NO. 1 HITS $900: "She's got eyes of the bluest skies, as if they thought of rain, I'd hate to look into those eyes and see an ounce of pain" "Sweet Child O' Mine"
#7, aired 2022-11-06STARTS WITH 2 VOWELS $1000: Astronomers use this 3-letter word to refer to a period of time equaling one billion years; to others, it means a really long time an eon
#7, aired 2022-11-06FUN WITH FLAGS $1000: After the Soviet Union broke apart, so did its flag with a gold star & these 2 symbols representing workers & peasants a hammer & sickle
#7, aired 2022-11-06HUMAN ANATOMY & PHYSIOLOGY $1000: This other name for the voice box also ends with the letter "X" the larynx
#7, aired 2022-11-06JOHNNY GILBERT SAYS THE NO. 1 HITS $1200: "I'm... classy, bougie, ratchet (yeah), sassy, moody, nasty (hey, hey, yeah), acting stupid, what's happening?" "Savage"
#8735, aired 2022-11-04THE TANGLED WEB $1600: NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day revealed that this largest moon of Mars may eventually disintegrate; scary indeed Phobos
#8733, aired 2022-11-025, 5 $800: Literally a gem that's part of royal regalia, it's come to mean the absolute best part of something a crown jewel
#8732, aired 2022-11-01VWLLSS HWN $200: The ocean, (also a movie title): MN moana
#8732, aired 2022-11-01ART & ARTISTS $400: Vasari stated that this famous portrait was commissioned by the subject's husband, silk merchant Francesco del Giocondo the Mona Lisa
#8731, aired 2022-10-31HEAVENLY BODIES $400: When it's between half & full, it's called gibbous Moon
#6, aired 2022-10-30ANSWER IN THE FORM OF AN ABBREVIATION $100: Bank of America has about 16,000 of these ATM
#6, aired 2022-10-30DIRECTIONAL GEOGRAPHY IN AMERICA $300: Visit Pineapple Fountain & Fort Sumter when you go to Charleston, which, no, is not the capital of this "Original 13" state South Carolina
#6, aired 2022-10-30PRETTY LITTLE LIES $300: They'll love the story about how you went to Churchill Downs in 2022 for this big race & put a C-note on 80-1 longshot Rich Strike the Kentucky Derby
#6, aired 2022-10-30ANSWER IN THE FORM OF AN ABBREVIATION $400: If you get this degree from Harvard, first given in 1873, you can call yourself doctor but don't try to diagnose me a Ph.D.
#6, aired 2022-10-30PRETTY LITTLE LIES $500: How's this for a flex? You just got back from the gym, & get this, you dead-lifted a ton & a half, this many pounds 3,000
#6, aired 2022-10-30DIRECTIONAL GEOGRAPHY IN AMERICA $600: Enjoy Capitol Street & Capitol Market in Charleston, which, yes, is the capital of this state that was admitted in 1863 West Virginia
#6, aired 2022-10-30FIGURES OF SPEECH $600: I have no idea what you said--it was this language to me, a phrase used by Shakespeare Greek
#6, aired 2022-10-30HI, FINANCE $800: Air-ing things out, this occurs when you don't have enough money in your account to cover a check but the bank pays anyway overdraft
#6, aired 2022-10-30THE U.S. CONSTITUTION $800: We plead that this amendment says no one "shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself" the Fifth (Amendment)
#6, aired 2022-10-30CLASSIC TV $900: It originally opened with "Once upon a time there were 3 little girls who went to the police academy" Charlie's Angels
#6, aired 2022-10-30DIRECTIONAL GEOGRAPHY IN AMERICA $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1802 Congress passed the act establishing the U.S. Military Academy at this site on the banks of the Hudson West Point
#6, aired 2022-10-30HI, FINANCE $1000: Time to get an "A" in finance; leveraged by hedge funds, this investment strategy has many types, like retail & merger arbitrage
#6, aired 2022-10-30THE CHASE $1200: (Brad Rutter delivers the clue.) The $10,000 note, the highest U.S. denomination ever circulated, could be called "The Chase" for its picture of Salmon P. Chase, secretary of this money-printing Cabinet department during the Civil War the Department of the Treasury
#6, aired 2022-10-30DIRECTIONAL GEOGRAPHY IN AMERICA $1500: Don't fuggedabout this 16-mile-long body of water separating Brooklyn & Manhattan; Rikers Island is there the East River
#6, aired 2022-10-30OUT OF THIS WORLD $3,600 (Daily Double): Neil Armstrong was the first person to set foot on the Moon; a few minutes later, this man became the second Buzz Aldrin
#6, aired 2022-10-30HI, FINANCE $7,000 (Daily Double): A chapter no one ever wants to read, this one is often called a "reorganization" bankruptcy, like J.C. Penney in 2020 Chapter 11
#8730, aired 2022-10-28YOU MOVE ME $800: Seems like 1960s world's fairs had to have one: Seattle, New York & Montreal, where the first half of the word was "Mini" monorails
#8728, aired 2022-10-26SNAP CHAT $1000: The hinged "jaws" of this flower are pried open by bumblebees, its main pollinator snapdragon
#8727, aired 2022-10-25TV CARTOONS $800: A close-up of the clenched fist of this PBS character before he punched D.W. became a giant meme of anger expression Arthur
#8726, aired 2022-10-24SAY WHAT? $400: The OED calls this palindrome "an expression of interrogation"; it's often used to mean "what?" huh
#5, aired 2022-10-23CLASSIC KIDS' BOOKS $200: "The Story of Ferdinand" tells of one of these animals who loves to sit quietly & smell the flowers a bull
#5, aired 2022-10-23YES, CHEF! $300: Whether the second part of its name is "chuck" or "rump", this dish needs to cook an hour per pound & the old folks start ordering it at 5:00 P.M. pot roast
#5, aired 2022-10-23HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $1000: This holiday is a symbol of summer's end in the U.S. but in Europe, its equivalent is celebrated on May 1 Labor Day
#5, aired 2022-10-23OF COURSE I'M NOT BREAKING UP WITH YOU $1200: Sweetie, nuh-uh. You know how at your trial the judge said, "Court is in" this until Monday? It's like that recess
#5, aired 2022-10-23ADVANCED CRIMINAL LAW $4,700 (Daily Double): Criminals disguise the source of ill-gotten gains via this 2-word process; detergent is optional money laundering
#5, aired 2022-10-23BIOLOGY $12,000 (Daily Double): Animals like frogs that can live on land or water are known as these, from the Greek for "both" & "life" an amphibian
#8723, aired 2022-10-19WRITERS' MIDDLE NAMES $800: Creator of "The Runaway Bunny" Margaret ____ Brown Wise
#4, aired 2022-10-16CURRENT EVENTS $100: On Aug. 8, 2022 FBI agents executed a search warrant here, which Donald Trump calls "my beautiful home" Mar-a-Lago
#4, aired 2022-10-167-LETTER WORDS $200: It can mean both clothes to wash & a place to do it laundry
#4, aired 2022-10-16MASCOTS $300: This battery mascot that's been going & going since the late 1980s has entered the OED to mean something or someone persistent the Energizer Bunny
#4, aired 2022-10-16COLORFUL RESPONSES $400 (Daily Double): This 2-word fishy term refers to a piece of information that is a distraction from the main issue a red herring
#4, aired 2022-10-16IT 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 2022-10-16LET'S TAKE A WALK $400: There's tension in the wire & among the crowd when these circus performers take their walk high in the air a tightrope walker
#4, aired 2022-10-16CURRENT EVENTS $400: This 3-digit national hotline phone number for suicide prevention went live in 2022 988
#4, aired 2022-10-16AUTUMN $500: October is the history month for this Asian-American ethnic group that includes Olivia Rodrigo & Jo Koy Filipinos
#4, aired 2022-10-16SHAKESPEARE $1000: After killing the King & the Prince of Wales in "Henry VI, Part 3", this king with body image issues gets his own play King Richard III
#4, aired 2022-10-16JOHNNY GILBERT SPEAKS THE MOVIE LINE $1500: "I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender. I coulda been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am, let's face it" On the Waterfront
#8720, aired 2022-10-14THE BODY HUMAN $200: It can mean a deposit on your tooth or in an artery; both are bad plaque
#8719, aired 2022-10-13THE AUTOMOTIVE WORLD $400: The tail lights of recent MINI Coopers look like this flag the Union Jack
#8719, aired 2022-10-13PONY TALES $4,800 (Daily Double): Mollie, who misses wearing ribbons in her mane & eating sugar cubes, represents the petite bourgeoisie in this novel Animal Farm
#8717, aired 2022-10-11WHERE IN THE HOUSE? $800: The 1890s photo "Sabbath Eve in a Coal" this space shows an effort to maintain dignity in low surroundings a coal cellar
#8716, aired 2022-10-10PLACES IN MOVIE TITLES $1200: Michael Mann directed Jamie Foxx in "Ali", "Collateral" & this 2006 film based on a TV drama Miami Vice
#8716, aired 2022-10-10NATIONALLY MONUMENTAL $2000: This Idaho national monument with a 4-word name, has lava flows, making it unearthly; even President Coolidge said, "This place is weird" Craters of the Moon
#3, aired 2022-10-0921 OR UNDER $200: Including the pole vault & hurdles, the athletic contest known as the decathlon comprises this many track & field events 10
#3, aired 2022-10-09SCIENCE FICTION $300: Jules Verne's "From the Earth to" this heavenly body doesn't actually depict the journey; that's in the sequel the Moon
#3, aired 2022-10-09AMERICANA $400: Yankee magazine says this New England state is known for chowder, old money & being the home of TV's Gilmore girls Connecticut
#3, aired 2022-10-0921 OR UNDER $600: A bar mitzvah is traditionally celebrated when a Jewish boy has reached this age 13
#3, aired 2022-10-0921 OR UNDER $1000: In a story written by Washington Irving, Rip Van Winkle drinks a magic liquor & then falls asleep for this many years 20
#8715, aired 2022-10-07"O" MY $600: It can mean not transparent to light or obscure in meaning opaque
#8714, aired 2022-10-06WORD PUZZLES $400: Do something particularly mean hit below the belt
#8714, aired 2022-10-06INSIGNIFICANT IDIOMS $2000: This alliterative phrase for a negligible sum of money began as African-American slang chump change
#8713, aired 2022-10-05SHORT STORIES & NOVELLAS $400: This "morbid" Thomas Mann novella has the German title "Der Tod in Venedig" Death in Venice
#8712, aired 2022-10-04WAIT JUST A MINERAL! $400: This mineral that is used in kitchen countertops could get a minimum of 24 points in Scrabble quartz
#8712, aired 2022-10-04A "C" IN LITERATURE $600: Anthony Burgess claimed this, his best-known book, was "knocked off for money in 3 weeks" A Clockwork Orange
#8712, aired 2022-10-04WAIT JUST A MINERAL! $1600: As an art supply, pixie dust is often flakes of this shiny 4-letter type of mineral mica
#8712, aired 2022-10-04SEE 'EM AT THE MUSEUM $4,900 (Daily Double): Picasso's "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" & van Gogh's "The Starry Night": this Manhattan museum MoMA (the Museum of Modern Art)
#8711, aired 2022-10-0320th CENTURY POP MUSIC $1000: "Time" & "Money" can both be found on this Pink Floyd album from 1973 The Dark Side of the Moon
#2, aired 2022-10-02CREATURES GREAT & SMALL $100: The largest of these flying mammals have wingspans of more than 5 feet bats
#2, aired 2022-10-02THAT PAINTS A PICTURE $200: Folks hit the Louvre in 1911 to not see this 1500s painting; it had been stolen, & fans took in the empty space where she had smiled-ish Mona Lisa
#2, aired 2022-10-02BOOGIE! $200: Walk the Moon got a hit song title when a woman at a club told the frontman to do this "& dance with me" shut up
#2, aired 2022-10-02CREATURES GREAT & SMALL $300 (Daily Double): Oddly, opossums are related to kangaroos, as both belong to this group of pouched mammals a marsupial
#2, aired 2022-10-02"ALL" THINGS ASIDE $300: Shady Albuquerque, New Mexico criminal lawyer Saul Goodman had his law office in this type of shopping center a mini-mall (or a strip mall)
#2, aired 2022-10-02FRENCH WORDS & PHRASES $400: The "R" in RSVP stands for "repondez", while the last 3 letters stand for this, French for "if you please" s'il vous plait
#2, aired 2022-10-02WHAT HAPPENS IN VEGAS $400: In 1970 Binion's Horseshoe Casino hosted the first-ever World Series of this poker
#2, aired 2022-10-02HELPFUL INTERNET ACRONYMS $500 (Daily Double): ICYMI: You clearly have been living under some sort of rock, so let me catch you up on this tantalizing factoid in case you missed it
#2, aired 2022-10-02"ALL" THINGS ASIDE $500: Proverbial sphere used to bar someone from membership in a group blackball
#2, aired 2022-10-02COMEDY ATLAS $500: The hungry i in North Beach in this California city helped begin the tradition of a red brick wall behind the comic San Francisco
#2, aired 2022-10-02HISTORY QUIZ $700 (Daily Double): Now a kids' swimming pool game, he was originally an Italian who traveled to China in the 13th century Marco Polo
#2, aired 2022-10-02WHAT HAPPENS IN VEGAS $800: No surprise, the Paris Las Vegas hotel has a 540-foot-tall replica of this landmark the Eiffel Tower (or tour Eiffel)
#2, aired 2022-10-02CELEBRITY CAMEOS $900: James Earl Jones & Old Sheldon did a ding dong dash on this sitcom; Carrie Fisher was not amused Big Bang Theory
#2, aired 2022-10-02WORLD GEOGRAPHY $900: Cancun is on this peninsula that shares its name with a state of Mexico the Yucatán
#2, aired 2022-10-02THAT 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 2022-10-02HELPFUL INTERNET ACRONYMS $1500: CMV: I believe one thing but am open to your perspective, so now is your chance to explain to me my error change my view
#8710, aired 2022-09-30BODIES OF WATER $1600: The beauty of Lake Kachura in Pakistan has earned it this name, popularized by novelist James Hilton to mean "heaven on earth" Shangrila
#8710, aired 2022-09-30BORROW $2000: Hades: You wanna borrow this dog of mine? Why? Hercules: Long story, labors, yadayadayada; Hades: Tame him & it's cool Cerberus
#8709, aired 2022-09-29RELIGION $200: These 2 main branches of Islam separated before 1000 A.D.; one has about 1.3 billion followers to the other's 200 million Sunni & Shiite Islam
#8709, aired 2022-09-29U.S. COUNTIES $800: In 1997 "Miami" was added to the name of this county that honors a fallen soldier Dade County
#8709, aired 2022-09-29THE BEATLE'S NON-BEATLES SONG $800: Ringo: & by the way, "you're beautiful & you're mine" "You're Sixteen"
#8709, aired 2022-09-29FROM DAWN TO DUSK $1600: An old coin from the Republic of Venice, it became slang for any money the ducat
#8709, aired 2022-09-29U.S. COUNTIES $1600: Longfellow fans in the legislature gave South Dakota's most populous county this name of a "dark-eyed daughter" Minnehaha
#8707, aired 2022-09-27CASH $600: Joseph Wharton, the Penn business school guy, owned a mine of this metal & got the treasury to make coins out of it nickel
#1, aired 2022-09-25SAME FIRST & LAST LETTER $200: In 2017 the maximum length of this went from 140 to 280 characters a tweet
#1, aired 2022-09-25DIONNE WARWICK $300: In 1985 "That's What Friends Are For", recorded by Dionne & friends, raised money for amfAR, for research to battle this disease AIDS
#1, aired 2022-09-25CATS & DOGS $400: From Britain's Isle of Man, the Manx cat is distinctive for its lack of this a tail
#1, aired 2022-09-25SAME FIRST & LAST LETTER $500: A fancy design of your initials that you use on stationery or clothing a monogram
#1, aired 2022-09-25TELLING A BEDTIME STORY $500: Her cupboard, bare; she found her dog dead, left to buy a coffin, then found the pup laughing... sounds more like Stephen King Old Mother Hubbard
#1, aired 2022-09-25APOLOGIES $600: "Sorry, Dave... when the crew are dead or incapacitated, the onboard computer must assume control" is a line in this sci-fi novel 2001: A Space Odyssey
#1, aired 2022-09-25CATS & DOGS $1000: This big long-haired breed is the official cat of the state in its name the Maine Coon
#1, aired 2022-09-25THE SKELETAL SYSTEM $1200: Also called the clavicle, it's a popular but, like all bones, a more painful tattoo site the collarbone
#1, aired 2022-09-25"AB"s WORKOUT $1,500 (Daily Double): This synonym for a deep chasm comes from a Greek word for "bottomless" abyss
#8705, aired 2022-09-23SO GALLANTLY STREAMING $1000: Oscar Isaac had the roles of a lifetime as Marc Spector & Steven Grant in this Marvel series on Disney+ Moon Knight
#8705, aired 2022-09-23INFRASTRUCTURE $1200: You could call it Lunar Energy--Canada's Annapolis Power Station turns its turbines with these, controlled by the Moon tides
#8705, aired 2022-09-23BIBLE STUDY $1600: This queen told Solomon, "It was a true report that I heard in mine own land of thy acts and of thy wisdom" the Queen of Sheba
#8704, aired 2022-09-22FARMING $400: Driving 20-ton vehicles on farmland can mean that the next year you'll get "stuck in" one of these, defined as a wheel track 3" deep a rut
#8704, aired 2022-09-22HUMANS IN SPACE $1200: The last year humans stood on the Moon was during the Apollo 17 mission in this presidential election year 1972
#8702, aired 2022-09-20GENRES OF POETRY $800: [under the evening moon] by Kobayashi Issa haiku
#8702, aired 2022-09-20CURRENT SLANG $2000: "Y" is for this 4-letter word, which can mean "to throw" or be an interjection of joy yeet
#8701, aired 2022-09-19WORDS BEFORE WORDS $800: Clip, towel, money paper
#8700, aired 2022-09-16BEYOND THE PALE $2000: It can mean a series of cliffs or a fortification of defensive stakes a palisade
#8699, aired 2022-09-15SINGERS WHO ACT $1200: As Breathless Mahoney in 1990's "Dick Tracy", she left Warren Beatty breathless on-screen & off Madonna
#8699, aired 2022-09-15GO GET "EM" $1200: It's the crime of using money or property entrusted to you for your own use embezzlement
#8698, aired 2022-09-14THE LAW $400: 2 main types of this in a divorce are legal (who makes big decisions about the kid's life) & physical (whom the moppet lives with) custody
#8697, aired 2022-09-13SYNONYMS $2000: Starting with the same first 2 letters, this synonym for "rural" can also mean rough or simple, like unfinished furniture rustic
#8696, aired 2022-09-12ALL KINDS OF DOORS $200: It can mean a high rate of personnel turnover, or an entryway like the elegant ones at New York City's Plaza Hotel a revolving door
#8696, aired 2022-09-12RALPH MACCHIO TALKS COBRA KAI $200: (Ralph Macchio presents the clue.) But what does "Cobra Kai" even mean? Well, "kai" is a gathering, so "Cobra Kai" is "an assembly of cobras"--fierce fighters who meet in this type of room & school to train a dojo
#8694, aired 2022-07-28THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION $600: In 1761 a canal linking Manchester, England to the Worsley mine dropped the price of this fuel in the city by half coal
#8692, aired 2022-07-26IDOL TALK $2000: In the 7th century this Middle East city was said to be home to as many as 360 idols, including the moon god Hubal Mecca
#8691, aired 2022-07-258-LETTER WORDS $600: This adjective can mean related to debate or related to legal issues, like how somebody died forensic
#8691, aired 2022-07-25HOMONAMES $1600: To get smaller, or especially to get less bright, like the Moon wane
#8690, aired 2022-07-22BOOKS OF THE CIVIL WAR ERA $400: This French author's "From the Earth to the Moon" features a rocket ship shot out of a cannon Jules Verne
#8690, aired 2022-07-22AT CROSS PURPOSES $400: The type of view seen here, it can also mean a representative sample from a group cross section
#8690, aired 2022-07-22COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $800: Flagler College in this state, named for an industrialist & developer, has as its main hall the Hotel Ponce de León which he built Florida
#8686, aired 2022-07-18TROPHY HUSBAND $800: When he won Best Director at Cannes for "After Hours", he was married to Barbara de Fina, who produced his "The Color of Money" Martin Scorsese
#8686, aired 2022-07-18GOOD HISTORY $800: In the 1960s, Stanley Lebar of Westinghouse designed a special camera that allowed 650 million to see live video from here the Moon
#8685, aired 2022-07-15ENDS WITH "I" $1200: A favorite with hippies, this musky scent from a plant of the mint family is said to have soothing, calming effects patchouli
#8685, aired 2022-07-15ENDS WITH "I" $2000: Synonyms for this French word include listlessness, boredom & the blahs ennui
#8684, aired 2022-07-14I KNOW WHAT YOU DID $400: As Germany's "chancellor of change", you ended military conscription & introduced a minimum wage Angela Merkel
#8684, aired 2022-07-14ROMANCE LANGUAGES $400: Spoken in medieval southern France, the dialect langue d'Oc got its name because Oc, not this, meant yes there oui
#8684, aired 2022-07-14THAT'S COLD! $400: About temperature, this adjective can mean cold; when used regarding lettuce, it means fresh & firm crisp
#8684, aired 2022-07-14TERRIBLE SUPERVILLAIN NAMES $600: This insurance duo--the big cost you owe before your insurer kicks in & the money given to your doc as you get services--are just the worst deductible & co-pay
#8684, aired 2022-07-14THE WINDS OF POP CULTURE $1600: "Blood On The Coal" by The Folksmen is on the soundtrack album of this Christopher Guest mockumentary A Mighty Wind
#8683, aired 2022-07-13MAKING MONEY $200: The Bureau of Engraving & Printing says it has no plans to redesign the $1 bill because it's so infrequently this counterfeited
#8683, aired 2022-07-13MAKING MONEY $400: In 1976 the back of this bill was changed from Monticello to the signing of the Declaration of Independence the $2 bill
#8683, aired 2022-07-13MAKING MONEY $600: In 1942 the U.S. began printing special bills for this then-territory that could be declared valueless if it was overrun Hawaii
#8683, aired 2022-07-13MAKING MONEY $800: The dollar sign is thought to have evolved from a Spanish-American symbol for these pesos
#8683, aired 2022-07-13MAKING MONEY $1000: The current $100 bill features this U.S. symbol, which changes from copper to green when the note is tilted the Liberty Bell
#8683, aired 2022-07-13PLAYS & PLAYWRITING $1200: The profanity-laced Pulitzer Prize-winning play "Glengarry Glen Ross" takes place in this industry real estate sales
#8683, aired 2022-07-13PLAYS & PLAYWRITING $2,000 (Daily Double): The courtroom drama "Night of January 16th" by Ayn Rand needs exactly this many people to be selected from the audience 12
#8683, aired 2022-07-13QUOTING THE KING JAMES BIBLE $2,000 (Daily Double): It's the entirety of John 11:35, often acknowledged as the shortest verse in the Bible Jesus wept
#8682, aired 2022-07-12NATIONAL-SOUNDING ITEMS $600: In 2020 IKEA did right by releasing its recipe for these bite-sized bits of globular goodness Swedish meatballs
#8682, aired 2022-07-12THE LYIN' KING $1,000 (Daily Double): This mythical king whose name now refers to a never-ending task lied to get out of Hades Sisyphus
#8682, aired 2022-07-12WHO'S IN THAT COMMERCIAL? $1000: She's been seen in many big screen comedies & many TV Jergens ads (Leslie) Mann
#8681, aired 2022-07-11WRITER, WRONGER $400: Terrible with money, this Mo. humorist invested in James Paige's multi-ton typesetter; he later fantasized about Paige's slow death Mark Twain
#8681, aired 2022-07-11THE RAVEN-POURRI $600: "Presently my soul grew stronger", & I'd wait no longer! This "small" French cake I'd make, I swore! "Quoth the raven..." petit four
#8681, aired 2022-07-11LICENSE PLATE MOTTOS $1,000 (Daily Double): "Great Faces, Great Places" South Dakota
#8681, aired 2022-07-11FAMILIAL PHRASES $2000: This phrase from Shakespeare's "Henry V" now refers to any close-knit group, not just a military unit band of brothers
#8681, aired 2022-07-11WOOD $2000: This soft, lightweight red wood is named for a man born in what is now Tennessee around 1775 sequoia
#8681, aired 2022-07-11GEOGRAPHY FROM MACAU TO OGDEN $5,000 (Daily Double): This city of more than 4 million people is home to the Jamia Mosque & Kenyatta University Nairobi
#8680, aired 2022-07-08ONE LETTER CHANGES EVERYTHING $200: Add a "B" to a chess piece to turn it into this babbling stream brook
#8680, aired 2022-07-08ONE LETTER CHANGES EVERYTHING $400: Subtract an "A" from a word that describes sudden, intense pain to get this word meaning adorable cute

Final Jeopardy! Round clues (460 results returned)

#9055, aired 2024-03-08LITERATURE & RELIGION: This city now in Turkey is the addressee of one of the New Testament epistles & the setting for "The Comedy of Errors" Ephesus
#9023, aired 2024-01-241980s MOVIE CHARACTERS: Oliver Stone, screenwriter of this 1983 movie, named its main character to honor the Super Bowl-winning QB from 1982 Scarface
#8948, aired 2023-10-11FINE ART: An early owner of this 1889 painting full of blue & green noted how well the artist "understood the exquisite nature of flowers!" Irises
#8915, aired 2023-07-14BOOKS & AUTHORS: In 1930 this author wrote "Murder at Full Moon", a horror-mystery novel set in a fictional town in Central California (John) Steinbeck
#8911, aired 2023-07-10ART HISTORY: At the 1865 Paris Art Salon, the elder of these 2 men said if the younger were successful, it would be "because his name sounds like mine" Manet & Monet
#8905, aired 2023-06-30NATIONAL ANTHEMS: The name of this country's national anthem translates as "His Majesty's Reign" & its lyrics come from a 1,000-year-old poem Japan
#8904, aired 2023-06-29THE MOVIES: Centenarian ceramic artist Beatrice Wood helped inspire one of the main characters & the narrator of this film from the 1990s Titanic
#8903, aired 2023-06-28THE MEDICAL WORLD: He created a chest drain valve that aided breathing in wounded soldiers in Vietnam but is better known for a lifesaving measure (Henry) Heimlich
#8902, aired 2023-06-2719th 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
#8901, aired 2023-06-2620th CENTURY EVENTS: It was immediately reported, "The flames are still leaping maybe 30, 40 feet from the ground the entire 811 feet length of" this the Hindenburg
#8900, aired 2023-06-23FEMALE AUTHORS: At age 9 in 1883 she moved west, where she met Annie Pavelka, a young pioneer on whom she would later model a title character Willa Cather
#8899, aired 2023-06-22THE 19th CENTURY: In 1823 he wrote, "In the war between those new governments and Spain we declared our neutrality" (James) Monroe
#8897, aired 2023-06-20THE OLYMPICS: This sport that made its Olympic debut in 1988 has a playing surface of only about 45 square feet table tennis
#8896, aired 2023-06-19ENTERTAINERS: In 2022 Jeff Bezos awarded her $100 million to give to charitable causes because "she gives with her heart" Dolly Parton
#8894, aired 2023-06-15THE U.S. GOVERNMENT: Established in 1938, this congressional group was still issuing subpoenas in 1969 & finally ceased to exist 6 years later the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)
#8893, aired 2023-06-14TV & FILM CHARACTERS: He debuted on TV in 1967; the show's creator wanted someone from behind the Iron Curtain to be on "our side" Chekov
#8892, aired 2023-06-13ACTORS: He starred in the 2 films whose soundtracks were the top 2 bestselling albums of 1978 John Travolta
#8891, aired 2023-06-12WOMEN IN MYTHOLOGY: The name of this woman, the product of an incestuous union, means "against birth" Antigone
#8890, aired 2023-06-09BRITISH NOVELS: Midway through this 1928 novel, the title character briefly takes "their" instead of his or her Orlando
#8889, aired 2023-06-08BUSINESS HISTORY: What is dubbed "the world's first initial public offering" took place in 1602 in this current European capital Amsterdam
#8886, aired 2023-06-05ACRONYMS: It was originally a code word used by telegraph operators; Barack Obama used it in his Twitter handle POTUS
#8885, aired 2023-06-0220th CENTURY AMERICA: In bold letters, it was the 2-word historic N.Y. Times headline for August 9, 1974, followed by "He urges a time of 'healing"' "Nixon Resigns"
#8884, aired 2023-06-01COUNTRY NAMES: The first current country to include its particular religion in its full name, it also has that religion in the name of its capital Pakistan
#8883, aired 2023-05-31SPORTS & THE MOVIES: A Geena Davis Institute study found shortly after a 2012 franchise film's release, women's participation in this sport rose 105% archery
#8882, aired 2023-05-30LITERARY GROUPS: Windermere, Thirlmere & Grasmere are 3 of the sites that helped give a 19th century literary group this name the Lake Poets
#8881, aired 2023-05-29MEMORIALS: The Vietnam War crypt at this memorial has been empty since the remains once there were identified & moved to St. Louis the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
#8880, aired 2023-05-26GROUPS IN HISTORY: The third-most famous group that invaded Britain in the 5th century, they gave their name to the continental part of Denmark the Jutes
#8879, aired 2023-05-25ASIA: Trained as an engineer, premier Li Peng championed this in 1992; it would ultimately displace over a million people the Three Gorges Dam
#8878, aired 2023-05-24CLASSICAL MUSIC: When the opera "Lohengrin" premiered in 1850, this man, a future in-law of the composer, was the conductor Franz Liszt
#8877, aired 2023-05-23SHAKESPEARE'S CHARACTERS: Both of the names of these 2 lovers in a Shakespeare play come from Latin words for "blessed" Beatrice & Benedick
#8876, aired 2023-05-22CHILDREN'S BOOKS: The original 1900 printing of this book was in a pale green dust jacket stamped in a vivid jewel tone of green The Wizard of Oz (The Wonderful Wizard of Oz)
#8875, aired 2023-05-19THE USA: People going north on this route say they're traveling "GAME", an acronym regarding their beginning & ending points the Appalachian Trail
#8874, aired 2023-05-18BILLBOARD NO. 1 HITS: Billy Joel said, "I think the one time I didn't write the music" before the lyrics was for this 1989 hit, "and I think it shows" "We Didn't Start The Fire"
#8873, aired 2023-05-17U.S. NATIONAL MEMORIALS: Efforts recently began to reintroduce 2 species of oyster to help restore the contaminated waters of this, a national memorial Pearl Harbor
#8872, aired 2023-05-16AUTHORS: 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
#8, aired 2023-05-12FICTIONAL PLACES: The dominions of this land "extend five thousand blustrugs (about twelve miles in circumference)" Lilliput
#8870, aired 2023-05-12NEW WORDS IN THE 18th CENTURY: Describing these, Captain Cook wrote, "The manner in which" they're done "must certainly cause intollerable pain" tattoos
#8869, aired 2023-05-11HISTORY: His epitaph, in a church in England, reads, "Sometime general in the army of George Washington" Benedict Arnold
#8867, aired 2023-05-09ACTRESSES & THEIR ROLES: She made her big screen debut as a teen named Laurie in a 1978 film & in 2022 she played that role for the 7th & last time Jamie Lee Curtis
#8865, aired 2023-05-05TEAM NAMES: An MLB team got this name in 1902 after some of its players defected to a new crosstown rival, leaving young replacements the (Chicago) Cubs
#8863, aired 2023-05-03BUSINESS & SOCIAL MEDIA: On Twitter in 2023, this food franchise followed an exact total of 11 accounts that included Victoria Beckham, Mel B & Herb Alpert KFC
#8861, aired 2023-05-0118th CENTURY LITERATURE: The first name of this title character is from Hebrew for "devoted to God"; his last name suggests he can be easily duped (Lemuel) Gulliver
#8848, aired 2023-04-12THE BILL OF RIGHTS: England's "Bloody Assizes" & a 1685 life sentence for perjury were 2 main origins of this amendment to the U.S. Constitution the 8th Amendment
#8824, aired 2023-03-09LANDMARKS: After its completion in the late 19th c., it was called a "truly tragic street lamp" & a "high & skinny pyramid of iron ladders" the Eiffel Tower
#8823, aired 2023-03-08GEOGRAPHIC NAME'S THE SAME: The busiest passenger port in the U.K., it shares its name with a capital of one of the original 13 states Dover
#8822, aired 2023-03-07NAMES 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 2023-03-06U.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
#8820, aired 2023-03-03AMERICAN LITERATURE: Letters, pocket knives, C rations & steel helmets are among the tangible items referred to in the title of this modern war classic The Things They Carried
#8818, aired 2023-03-01LAWS IN U.S. HISTORY: A Radical Republican championed this 1875 act but the Supreme Court struck it down in 1883; a new version was passed 81 years later the Civil Rights Act
#8817, aired 2023-02-28NAMES OF MYTH: Her brothers, Castor & Pollux, saved her after Theseus stole her away as a kid; a larger force would seek her later in life Helen of Troy
#8815, aired 2023-02-24THE ANCIENT WORLD: The ancient writer Galen said books on ships arriving to this city's port were seized, originals kept & copies returned Alexandria
#8814, aired 2023-02-23FAMOUS NAMES: For a special 1970s cookbook, he provided one simple recipe--a can of Campbell's tomato soup & 2 cans of milk Andy Warhol
#8813, aired 2023-02-22PEOPLE & PLACES: Thought to descend from people of Southeast Asia, the Chamorro make up this U.S. territory's largest ethnic group Guam
#8812, aired 2023-02-21CURRENT WORLD LEADERS: In office from 2022, the president of this country has taken so many foreign trips a play on his name is "Ferdinand Magellan Jr." the Philippines
#8800, aired 2023-02-03WORLD WAR II: Mimi Reinhard, who never learned to type using more than 2 fingers, produced this with 1,100 names, including hers Schindler's List
#13, aired 2023-02-02ARTISTS: Despite how he's known, he was probably actually born in Anchiano, near Florence Leonardo da Vinci
#8795, aired 2023-01-27WORLD CINEMA: The 2007 biopic called "La Môme" in France, meaning "The Kid", was released in the U.S. under this other French title La Vie en rose
#12, aired 2023-01-26NOVELS: "Breeders, Wives and Unwomen" was the headline of the New York Times' 1986 review of this novel The Handmaid's Tale
#11, aired 2023-01-19NOTORIOUS PLACES: Al Capone played banjo in a band called the Rock Islanders at this notorious spot Alcatraz
#10, aired 2023-01-12CORPORATE MASCOTS: Born on an island in a sea of milk, this pitchman was jokingly disavowed by the U.S. Navy by saying he is not in personnel records Cap'n Crunch
#9, aired 2023-01-0520th CENTURY PEOPLE: Calling him "the embodiment of pure intellect", in December 1999 Time magazine named him Person of the Century Albert Einstein
#8776, aired 2023-01-02HISTORIC CRIMES: Saying it was stolen by Napoleon, self-styled Italian patriot Vincenzo Peruggia took it in 1911 the Mona Lisa
#7, aired 2022-11-06BRANDS: With wood becoming more difficult to source, this company turned to plastic for its automatic binding bricks, introduced in 1949 Lego
#8734, aired 2022-11-03NOVEL LOCALES: This place from a 1933 novel lies in the Valley of Blue Moon, below a peak called Karakal Shangri-La
#6, aired 2022-10-3019th CENTURY PEOPLE: In 1863 Walt Whitman wrote that this politician "has a face like a Hoosier Michael Angelo, so awful ugly it becomes beautiful" Lincoln
#8728, aired 2022-10-26CHARITY: A Catholic charity called Caritas Rome is the beneficiary of money collected from here, over the years averaging about $3,500 daily the Trevi Fountain
#5, aired 2022-10-23WORLD LANDMARKS: Built of more than 18,000 metal parts & 2.5 million rivets, it was the world's tallest manmade structure from 1889 to 1930 the Eiffel Tower
#4, aired 2022-10-16ANNUAL 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
#3, aired 2022-10-09NEWSPAPER HEADLINES: A New York Times headline about this disaster included "866 rescued" & "noted names missing" the Titanic
#2, aired 2022-10-0219th CENTURY LITERATURE: William Brodie, an upstanding Scottish tradesman by day & leader of a gang of burglars by night, helped inspire these 2 title characters Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde
#1, aired 2022-09-25LANDLOCKED COUNTRIES: It's the world's smallest landlocked country in both area & population Vatican City
#8696, aired 2022-09-1219th CENTURY NOVELS: "This bell was named Marie... alone in the southern tower, with her sister Jacqueline, a bell of lesser size", says this novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame
#8693, aired 2022-07-27REAL PEOPLE IN POETRY: Milton wrote of this contemporary: "When by night the glass of" him "observes imagined lands and regions in the Moon" Galileo
#8688, aired 2022-07-20HISTORIC AMERICAN ROADS: Originally a Native American trail, the Dutch made it a main road & today it runs 33 miles from State Street to Sleepy Hollow Broadway
#8685, aired 2022-07-15MORE THAN ONE MEANING: Its definitions include containing the metallic element No. 22, pertaining to a group of Greek gods & having great strength or size titanic
#8684, aired 2022-07-14THE 20th CENTURY: Maybe surprisingly, in 1918 this new leader was the first to recognize the independence of Finland Lenin
#8683, aired 2022-07-13STATE MOTTOS: This motto is the name of a city in that state & is a famous quote by an ancient Greek from the 3rd century B.C. Eureka
#8681, aired 2022-07-11MUSICAL THEATER: It's one of the most revived shows in Broadway history & in 2001 it was designated the state opera of South Carolina Porgy and Bess
#8680, aired 2022-07-08SCIENCE & THE BIBLE: A 2021 study suggested that an asteroid that struck the Jordan Valley c. 1650 B.C. gave rise to the story of this city in Genesis 19 Sodom
#8679, aired 2022-07-07LITERARY CHARACTERS ON SCREEN: Per Guinness, this character who debuted in 1887 is the most portrayed human literary character in film & television Sherlock Holmes
#8678, aired 2022-07-06AGRICULTURE: Being brought to the U.S. by a ship docking at San Francisco in 1851 helped lead to it now being a major crop in the Midwest soybeans
#8677, aired 2022-07-05NATIONAL HISTORIC SITES: Less than 100 yards north of the J. Edgar Hoover Building is this notorious location Ford's Theater
#8676, aired 2022-07-04THE EASTERN U.S.: At its peak, this state had 6 seats in the House of Representatives; since the 1930s, it has had just 1 Vermont
#8674, aired 2022-06-30U.S. CITIES: This U.S. city now has 10 times the population of the other U.S. city for which it was named in 1845 Portland, Oregon
#8673, aired 2022-06-29TELEVISION HISTORY: In the opening scene of its July 21, 1969 pilot episode, a man carves the letter D into wet cement Sesame Street
#8672, aired 2022-06-28POETS' CORNER AT WESTMINSTER ABBEY: At his 1892 burial, fit for a baron, the organist put music to his words, "I hope to see my Pilot face to face, when I have crost the bar" Alfred, Lord Tennyson
#8671, aired 2022-06-27THE WORLD OF TODAY: Partly because it was a monosyllable, this word was chosen as "a noun that conveys the idea of a unit of cultural transmission" meme
#8670, aired 2022-06-24OSCAR-WINNING ACTORS: Each of the 3 films for which he won an Oscar, from 1975, 1983 & 1997, also garnered a Best Lead Actress Oscar Jack Nicholson
#8669, aired 2022-06-23CLASSIC ALBUMS: This classic album by a Southern rocker gets its title from a Civil War quote by a Union admiral Damn the Torpedoes
#8668, aired 2022-06-2219th CENTURY LITERATURE: This author first thought of a parrot before choosing another bird "equally capable of speech" Edgar Allan Poe
#8667, aired 2022-06-21GEOGRAPHY WORDS: From Greek for "chief" & "sea", this word originally referred to the Aegean, known for its many island groups archipelago
#8666, aired 2022-06-20BRITISH HISTORY: From the Greek for "alone", it was nixed by Parliament in 1649 after being deemed "unnecessary, burdensome & dangerous" the monarchy
#8665, aired 2022-06-1719th CENTURY CONTEMPORARIES: Congratulating her on the 1869 release of her biography, Frederick Douglass wrote, "I have wrought in the day--you in the night" Harriet Tubman
#8664, aired 2022-06-16DEBUT NOVELS: Published in 1991, this novel, the first in a series, has been described as "historical fiction with a Moebius twist" Outlander
#8663, aired 2022-06-15BRANDS: Babe Didrikson Zaharias, Evan Strong & Roy Campanella broke barriers representing this brand Wheaties
#8662, aired 2022-06-141972: In June he said, "Don't lie to them to the extent to say there is no involvement, but just say this is... a comedy of errors" Richard Nixon
#8659, aired 2022-06-09CHILDREN'S LITERATURE: First published in French in 1943, this book has been called the most translated non-religious work, rendered into more than 300 languages The Little Prince
#8658, aired 2022-06-08AMERICAN HISTORY: A participant in this 1773 event recalled, "Some of our numbers jumped into the hold... I never labored harder in my life" the Boston Tea Party
#8657, aired 2022-06-07WRITING OLD & NEW: This 2013 bestseller shares its title with the first section of a poem from 7 centuries before Inferno
#8656, aired 2022-06-06GREEK MYTHOLOGY: Of the Argonauts seeking the Golden Fleece, these 2 from the same family were from Sparta according to Homer Castor & Pollux
#8655, aired 2022-06-03TECHNOLOGY: Upon the first use of this in 1844, the Baltimore Sun declared that time & space had been annihilated the telegraph
#8652, aired 2022-05-31NOVEL QUOTES: Referring to the book's title, this character says, "I know it's a poem by Robert Burns" Holden Caulfield
#8651, aired 2022-05-30IN 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
#8650, aired 2022-05-27SPORTS & ENTERTAINMENT: In 2021 this Hall of Fame athlete launched Omaha Productions Peyton Manning
#8648, aired 2022-05-25FAMOUS SPEECHES: In a draft of FDR's speech of December 8, 1941, the words "world history" were changed to this one word infamy
#8647, aired 2022-05-24THE MIDDLE AGES: It was the surname of the 2 Scottish brothers who claimed monarchies of 2 different countries in the 13-teens Bruce
#8645, aired 2022-05-20ON THE MAP: It's referred to as "the blue eye of Siberia" Lake Baikal
#8643, aired 2022-05-18OSCAR-WINNING SONGS: Johnny Mercer's lyrics to this 1961 Oscar-winning song once began, "I'm Holly" "Moon River"
#8642, aired 2022-05-17LITERATURE: A contemporary review of a novel by this man said he "commands attention as a kind of literary James Dean" (Jack) Kerouac
#8641, aired 2022-05-16THE NATIONAL PARK SERVICE: The USA's smallest national park is a 91-acre site on the Mississippi River, home to this 630-foot landmark the St. Louis Arch (the Gateway Arch)
#8640, aired 2022-05-13STATE NAMES: This state was named for a man born in Herrenhausen Palace in Hanover in 1683 Georgia
#8639, aired 2022-05-12CONSTITUTIONS OF THE WORLD: Amendments to its 1901 constitution require approval of at least 4 states before receiving royal assent Australia
#8638, aired 2022-05-11SAY IT IN ITALIAN: It's an Italian word for "mercy", but also the name of a movie character who kills Stracci & Carlo clemenza
#8636, aired 2022-05-09NOVEL TITLES: A 1590 poem written for the retirement of Queen Elizabeth's champion knight shares its title with this 1929 novel by an American A Farewell to Arms
#8635, aired 2022-05-06USA: These 2 mayors gave their names to a facility built on the site of an old racetrack owned by Coca-Cola magnate Asa Candler William Hartsfield & Maynard Jackson
#8614, aired 2022-04-07INVENTIONS: Patented in 1955, it did not go over well in the high-end fashion world but the then-new aerospace industry found it very useful Velcro
#8613, aired 2022-04-06SMALL COUNTRIES: French, Italian & Swiss nationals make up about half of its population of 38,000 Monaco
#8612, aired 2022-04-05CLASSIC GAMES: Reuben Klamer, who passed away in 2021 at age 99, developed this game relatable to "literally everyone on Earth" The Game of Life
#8611, aired 2022-04-04CURRENT TELEVISION: Fittingly, the last name of the family at the center of this drama is from French for "king" Succession
#8609, aired 2022-03-31HISTORIC PLACES: Following a raid at this establishment in 1969, protesters confronted police by forming a Rockette-style kickline the Stonewall Inn
#8608, aired 2022-03-30AMERICANS IN PARIS: In 2021 she became the sixth woman & the first Black woman to be inducted into the Pantheon in Paris Josephine Baker
#8607, aired 2022-03-29SHAKESPEARE'S WOMEN: It is said of her, "Infected minds to their deaf pillows will discharge their secrets: more needs she the divine than the physician" Lady Macbeth
#8606, aired 2022-03-28SPORTS HISTORY: Taking the mound for Cleveland in 1948, he was the first African American to pitch in a World Series Satchel Paige
#8604, aired 2022-03-24DISNEY CHARACTERS: In the source material from more than 3 centuries ago, her name was badr al-budur, "full moon of full moons" (Princess) Jasmine
#8589, aired 2022-03-03EUROPEAN CITIES: Pizzo means protection money; the Addiopizzo movement was founded in this city in 2004 Palermo, Sicily
#18, aired 2022-02-22THE 19th CENTURY: An 1873 book title gave us this phrase for the period in the late 1800s of growth & prosperity & also greed & corruption the Gilded Age
#17, aired 2022-02-22THE PERIODIC TABLE: By 1890, discoveries of 3 "nationalist elements" filled table gaps: scandium in Sweden, germanium in Germany, this in France gallium
#16, aired 2022-02-18CHARACTERS IN BANNED BOOKS: Introduced in 1928, this character has a disappointing affair with a writer before she begins a more satisfying relationship Lady Chatterley
#15, aired 2022-02-18HISTORIC STRUCTURES: In 1100 the Bishop of Durham became the first prisoner here &, after plying his guards with wine, became the first to escape the Tower of London
#14, aired 2022-02-17WORDS FROM MYTHOLOGY: A 1525 textbook on anatomy says this, being "so different of colours", could also be called "rain bowys" iris
#12, aired 2022-02-16COMPOUND WORDS: The OED says this 9-letter word is literary & poetic, & it appears 11 times in an 1845 American poem, including as the last word nevermore
#11, aired 2022-02-16HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES: The first national observance of Memorial Day was held May 30, 1868 at this site, on land that had belonged to Robert E. Lee's wife Arlington National Cemetery
#10, aired 2022-02-15RECENT BIOGRAPHIES: A 2021 book about his "Misunderstood Reign" argues that he hated slavery & actually suffered from bipolar disorder George III
#9, aired 2022-02-15PHYSICISTS: A 1927 principle by this Nobel Prize winner says that some knowledge is inaccessible Werner Heisenberg
#8, aired 2022-02-11EUROPEAN GEOGRAPHY: This country, the largest in area entirely within Europe, borders the largest country in the world Ukraine
#8575, aired 2022-02-11INTERNATIONAL PLAYWRIGHTS: A piece of writing advice from this man who died in 1904 concludes, "Otherwise don't put it there" (Anton) Chekhov
#6, aired 2022-02-10POETRY: It contains the line "whereat In either hand the hastening Angel caught Our lingering parents, & to the eastern gate Led them direct" Paradise Lost
#8574, aired 2022-02-1020th CENTURY PEOPLE: In 1946 she was aboard a train to Darjeeling when she heard what she later described as "the call within a call" Mother Teresa
#4, aired 2022-02-0920th CENTURY LEADERS: He's called "a flame of inspiration in freedom's darkest hour" in the proclamation making him an honorary U.S. citizen Winston Churchill
#8573, aired 2022-02-09AMERICAN 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
#3, aired 2022-02-09USA: In 2012 these 2 neighboring states celebrated the centennial of their admission to the Union Arizona & New Mexico
#1, aired 2022-02-08AMERICAN HISTORY: One theory says Charles T. Torrey, a worker on this, coined its name, which appeared in The Liberator on October 14, 1842 the Underground Railroad
#8571, aired 2022-02-07TOYS & GAMES: Its co-creator said adding an "L" to the end of the 1st word in the original title of this board game invented in 1979 "made it" Trivial Pursuit
#8570, aired 2022-02-04BEHIND THE DISNEY ATTRACTION: The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror utilizes technology developed by this company founded in 1853 the Otis (Company)
#8569, aired 2022-02-03FAMOUS AMERICANS: He was buried in 1969 in one of the World War II uniform jackets named for him Dwight Eisenhower
#8568, aired 2022-02-02RECENT TV: The credits on "The Queen’s Gambit" included this man as "special consultant" (Garry) Kasparov
#8566, aired 2022-01-31WOMEN WHO WRITE: Mimicking her style, a 1912 rejection note read: "Only one look, only one look is enough. Hardly one copy would sell here. Hardly one" Gertrude Stein
#8535, aired 2021-12-17FRENCH 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
#8533, aired 2021-12-15AWARDS: The Theodore Roosevelt Rough Rider Award honors influential people from this state, including Western author Louis L'Amour North Dakota
#8532, aired 2021-12-1420th CENTURY PHYSICS: Puzzlingly heavy & long-lived particles discovered in the 1940s were dubbed this adjective later applied to even smaller particles strange
#8531, aired 2021-12-13KINGS & QUEENS: Due to legislative action of 1707, she was officially the last monarch of independent Scotland Queen Anne
#8530, aired 2021-12-1019th CENTURY BRITISH AUTHORS: She called herself "the daughter of two persons of distinguished literary celebrity" in an introduction to one of her novels (Mary) Shelley
#8529, aired 2021-12-091950s PUBLIC WORKS: Dubbed "The Greatest Construction Show on Earth", when completed it connected Minnesota to Montreal the St. Lawrence Seaway
#8528, aired 2021-12-0820th 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
#8527, aired 2021-12-07OLD GEOGRAPHIC NAMES: This term once used for western North Africa is still used today in the name of a primate from that region Barbary
#8526, aired 2021-12-06AESTHETIC MOVEMENTS: This turn-of-the-century movement was alternately known around the world as Nieuwe Kunst & Modernista Art Nouveau
#8507, aired 2021-11-091970s SONGS: In 1976 "Bohemian Rhapsody" was replaced at No. 1 on the U.K. charts by this Europop song whose title is heard in Queen's lyrics "Mamma Mia"
#8505, aired 2021-11-05TOYS: Introduced in 1964, he fell out of favor in changing times & in 1970 was marketed as a "Land Adventurer" G.I. Joe
#8503, aired 2021-11-03PAINTINGS: In 2021 experts in Oslo concluded that it was the artist who wrote on this painting, "Could only have been painted by a madman" The Scream
#8501, aired 2021-11-011960s HISTORY: After around 8 PM EDT on July 21, 1969 a major part of a transport known by this 1-word name was never seen again Eagle
#8500, aired 2021-10-29SONGS & U.S. HISTORY: Victory in 1805's Battle of Derna on the coast of North Africa inspired a lyric in this song made official in 1929 the "Marines' Hymn"
#8499, aired 2021-10-28WORLD CITIES: From Sydney, Australia go 7,000 miles east & less than 1/2 degree of latitude north to this capital also near the Pacific Santiago, Chile
#8498, aired 2021-10-27LITERARY MOVIE ROLES: Among the actresses who have portrayed her are Greta Garbo twice, Vivien Leigh, Tatiana Samoilova & Keira Knightley Anna Karenina
#8497, aired 2021-10-26AUTHORS: 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
#8496, aired 2021-10-25NOTABLE WOMEN: Of the 3 pioneering women in their field to be dubbed the "Trimates", this one got her PhD from Cambridge in 1966 (Jane) Goodall
#8495, aired 2021-10-221970s TOP 40 HITS: Seeing a poster for a production of "Cyrano de Bergerac" in a seedy Paris hotel & ladies of the evening nearby inspired this hit "Roxanne"
#8494, aired 2021-10-21WORLD GEOGRAPHY: This country of 16,600 square miles has a possession that's more than 50 times as large Denmark
#8493, aired 2021-10-2019th CENTURY SUPREME COURT DECISIONS: The first "self-evident" truth in the Declaration of Independence was quoted & found not to apply to this plaintiff (Dred) Scott
#8492, aired 2021-10-19CONTEMPORARY AUTHORS: He has studied Cordon Bleu cooking, but is known for his 1981 creation of a character with unconventional taste in cuisine Thomas Harris
#8489, aired 2021-10-14U.S. HISTORY: On Sept. 30, 1788 William Maclay & Robert Morris, both of Pennsylvania, were chosen as the first 2 these (U.S.) senators
#8488, aired 2021-10-13SPORTS LEGENDS: When Johnny Bench broke his record, this man wrote, "I always thought the record would stand until it was broken" Yogi Berra
#8487, aired 2021-10-12PUBLISHING: Last name of brothers James, John, Joseph & Fletcher, whose company published magazines with their name as well as books Harper
#8486, aired 2021-10-11COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD: Nazi Germany annexed this nation & divided it into regions of the Alps & the Danube; the Allies later divided it into 4 sectors Austria
#8485, aired 2021-10-08THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE: British zoologist George Shaw looked for stitches when he first saw this mammal in 1799, thinking he was being tricked (the) duck-bill(ed) platypus
#8484, aired 2021-10-07WINTER OLYMPIC SPORTS: The official Olympic website says this event "has its roots in survival skills" practiced in the snowy forests of Scandinavia biathlon
#8483, aired 2021-10-06HISTORIC CALENDARS: Following Messidor, this summer month in the 18th century French Revolutionary calendar had a name meaning "heat gift" Thermidor
#8482, aired 2021-10-05POPULAR PHRASES: This phrase relating nutrition & health was popularized by fruit scientist J.T. Stinson at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair an apple a day keeps the doctor away
#8481, aired 2021-10-04RENAISSANCE MEN: 10 years before a more famous work, he wrote in 1503 that the way to deal with rebels is to placate them or eliminate them (Niccolò) Machiavelli
#8480, aired 2021-10-01AMERICAN HISTORY: The April 26, 1906 edition of The Call, a newspaper in this city, reported on the heroic death of hoseman James O'Neil San Francisco
#8479, aired 2021-09-30CHILDREN'S LITERATURE: A 2000 Library of Congress exhibit called this 1900 work "America's greatest and best-loved homegrown fairytale" The Wizard of Oz
#8478, aired 2021-09-29MYTHOLOGY: The Hippocrene Spring, sacred to the Muses, was so named because this offspring of Medusa brought it into being Pegasus
#8477, aired 2021-09-28THE CONTINENTS: It's the only continent with its mainland lying in all 4 hemispheres as defined by the equator & the prime meridian Africa
#8476, aired 2021-09-27ROCK LEGENDS: A new studio album in 2020 gave him a Top 5 album in 6 consecutive decades, his first in 1975 (Bruce) Springsteen
#8475, aired 2021-09-24HISTORY OF THE 19-TEENS: Saying he ignored warnings of enemy vessels, the British admiralty sought to blame William Turner, this ship's last captain in 1915 the Lusitania
#8474, aired 2021-09-23FOOD & DRINK IN THE BIBLE: In the King James Version, these creatures are a plague in Exodus 10, but deemed okay to eat in Leviticus 11 locusts
#8473, aired 2021-09-22LANDMARKS: 96 miles in total during its 3-decade existence, the most well-known part of this was about the same length as an Olympic marathon the Berlin Wall
#8472, aired 2021-09-21CHILDREN'S BOOKS: A book by her says, "It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is 'soporific'... but then I am not a rabbit" (Beatrix) Potter
#8471, aired 2021-09-201980s MOVIES: The Dip used to kill characters in this 1988 film consisted of acetone, benzene & turpentine, ingredients of paint thinner Who Framed Roger Rabbit
#8420, aired 2021-06-11GEOGRAPHY WORDS: From the Latin for "key", this word for a type of isolated country applies to Vatican City, which has keys on its flag an enclave
#8419, aired 2021-06-10THE SUPREME COURT: The 1st justice directly succeeded by his former clerk was Rehnquist by Roberts; the 2nd time was this other alliterative pair (Anthony) Kennedy & (Brett) Kavanaugh
#8418, aired 2021-06-091960s 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
#8416, aired 2021-06-07GOLDEN AGE ACTRESSES: In 2013 the Victoria & Albert Museum acquired her archives, including letters from Laurence Olivier & Tennessee Williams Vivien Leigh
#8414, aired 2021-06-0317th CENTURY FRENCHMEN: Pope Urban VIII once said, "if there is a God," this French minister "will have much to answer for. If not, he had a successful life" (Cardinal) Richelieu
#8413, aired 2021-06-02NEWSPAPER NAMES: Used as a newspaper name from New York to San Diego, it was an ancient Roman official who represented the people's interests Tribune
#8412, aired 2021-06-01AROUND THE WORLD: In the 1860s a zoologist proposed that this island was once part of a lost continent he dubbed Lemuria Madagascar
#8411, aired 2021-05-31THE BUSINESS OF TELEVISION: The day it debuted in 1980, this network with an Italian name aired a Carnegie Hall celebration of Aaron Copland's 80th birthday Bravo
#8369, aired 2021-04-01ANTIDISESTABLISHMENTARIANISM: A real-life antidisestablishmentarian, William Bridgeman opposed the 1920 disestablishment of this in Wales church
#8318, aired 2021-01-20THE WESTERN U.S.: About 100 miles apart, they were made state capitals 10 years apart in 1854 & 1864 & both grew rapidly due to precious metals Sacramento & Carson City
#8316, aired 2021-01-18MOVIE SETTINGS: In 2017 this New York City luxury store opened its first cafe, with truffle eggs, waffles & croissants on the menu Tiffany & Co. (Tiffany's)
#8268, aired 2020-10-28AWARDS & HONOREES: He used his 1983 Pritzker Prize money on a scholarship fund for Chinese students to study their profession in the United States I.M. Pei
#8214, aired 2020-04-30ADVERTISING: Copywriter Keith Goldberg wrote this question in 1999 for a financial services company; they're still using it What's in your wallet?
#8211, aired 2020-04-27CIVIL WAR PEOPLE: Before they were photographed together in 1862, Lincoln wryly noted this general "should have no problem" sitting still for it George McClellan
#8205, aired 2020-04-17HISTORIC FIGURES: In legend, this real European leader fielded an elite corps called the 12 Peers that included Oliver & Roland Charlemagne
#8175, aired 2020-03-0621st CENTURY MOVIES: After its initial release in 2016, it became the first major motion picture to be dubbed in Tahitian Moana
#2, aired 2020-01-07ASTRONOMERS: 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
#8106, aired 2019-12-02HISTORIC LISTS: "Why does not the Pope... build the basilica of St. Peter with his own money rather than with the money of poor believers?" is one of these Luther's theses
#8074, aired 2019-10-17MOVIE SOUNDTRACKS: The soundtrack of this 2018 film has "Material Girl" & "Money (That's What I Want)" in Chinese & English Crazy Rich Asians
#8020, aired 2019-06-21COMPOUND WORDS: This 8-letter word can follow nuclear to refer a dangerous accident, or mean a total loss of emotional control meltdown
#7979, aired 2019-04-25THE ELEMENTS: Oddly, mining of this rare earth element with a geographic name, atomic no. 63, is mostly in Asia & with some in South America & Australia europium
#7973, aired 2019-04-1720th CENTURY LITERARY CHARACTERS: His first name refers to the ancient district in which you'd find the Greek capital; his surname is a bird Atticus Finch
#7948, aired 2019-03-13NOVEL QUOTES: A boy at the end of this 1952 novel says to the main character, "Say it ain't true, Roy" The Natural
#7851, aired 2018-10-29SHAKESPEARE: Aptly, Shakespeare used "moon" & "moonlight" more times in this play than in any other A Midsummer Night's Dream
#7718, aired 2018-03-14THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE: Each state has as many electors as its total of senators & reps.; D.C. has this many, the minimum for any state 3
#7711, aired 2018-03-05OSCAR HISTORY: In the 1940s he became the first person to receive nominations as actor, director & writer for the same film Orson Welles
#7705, aired 2018-02-23MODERN WORDS: In 1994 Wired magazine described this 4-letter word as an idea leaping "from mind to mind... as viruses leap from body to body" a meme
#7687, aired 2018-01-30LITERATURE & MYTHOLOGY: The "very name embodies the idea of flight", says one analysis of a 20th century novel in describing this main character Stephen Dedalus
#7610, aired 2017-10-13FLAGS OF THE WORLD: The flag of Laos shows the white circle of the moon over the blue band, representing this river the Mekong River
#7567, aired 2017-07-04CLASSIC CHILDREN'S LITERATURE: A 2016 biography of a children's author is titled "In the Great Green Room", a line from this classic book Goodnight Moon
#7510, aired 2017-04-14COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD: A 2010 study of this country is subtitled "Inside the Land of Milk and Money" Switzerland
#7470, aired 2017-02-17WORLD LANDMARKS: Completed in 1884, the Washington Monument became the tallest manmade structure but 4 years later was surpassed by this the Eiffel Tower
#7454, aired 2017-01-2620th CENTURY PLAYWRIGHTS: He said of his 1949 play & its main character, "I could write about failure only because I could deal with it...I knew how he felt" Arthur Miller
#7437, aired 2017-01-03WORLD CITIES: Named for a saint & built in 1348, Vaclavske Namesti is the main square & center of cultural life in this capital city Prague
#7431, aired 2016-12-26MOONS & PLANETS: The name of this moon refers to the mythical group that its planet’s name belonged to Titan
#7389, aired 2016-10-27BRITISH POP MUSIC: This song released on July 11, 1969 to coincide with the Apollo 11 mission was used in the BBC's coverage of the Moon landing "Space Oddity" (by David Bowie)
#7370, aired 2016-09-30CORPORATE LOGOS: Created in 1971, this company's logo has been likened to a wing & was supposed to connote motion Nike
#7350, aired 2016-07-22PAINTED LADIES: She's been called the "Mona Lisa of the North" & the poster girl for the Dutch Royal Picture Gallery in The Hague the Girl with the Pearl Earring
#7320, aired 2016-06-10FAMOUS AMERICANS: Of his greatest accomplishment, he humbly remarked, "Pilots... take pride in a good landing, not in getting out of the vehicle" Neil Armstrong
#7302, aired 2016-05-17COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD: This country's 2 main ethnic groups are Punjabi (who are also found in India) & Pashtun (also living in Afghanistan) Pakistan
#7273, aired 2016-04-06ASTRONOMY: Its name means "fear", & this moon orbits closest to a planet's surface of any moon in the solar system Phobos
#7227, aired 2016-02-02ETYMOLOGY: This word referring to someone who is not an expert is from the Latin for "love" amateur
#7222, aired 2016-01-2620th CENTURY AMERICA: The 1970 follow-up line "We've had a main B bus undervolt" was addressed to a listener in this city Houston
#7216, aired 2016-01-18STATE CAPITALS: A 1957 event led to the creation of a National Historic Site in this city, signed into law by a president whose library is now there too Little Rock, Arkansas
#7202, aired 2015-12-29FAMOUS LAST NAMES: The first woman space shuttle pilot shares this surname with a man on the 1st manned lunar landing 26 years earlier Collins
#7148, aired 2015-10-14U.S. LANDMARKS: For its 50th anniversary in 2012, the roof of this landmark was temporarily repainted its original color, Galaxy Gold the Space Needle (in Seattle)
#7139, aired 2015-10-01SHAKESPEARE CHARACTERS: 8-letter name shared by a tragic heroine & Uranus' innermost known moon Cordelia
#7122, aired 2015-07-28TELEVISION IN THE 2000s: Blanco is the last name of the main character in "Metástasis", a Colombia-set version of this show Breaking Bad
#7092, aired 2015-06-16QUOTABLE PAINTERS: "A reviewer... wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was" Jackson Pollock
#7072, aired 2015-05-19EUROPEAN CITIES: The European Central Bank is based in this city sometimes called "Mainhattan" Frankfurt
#7003, aired 2015-02-11REFERENCE BOOK MAKERS: In 1863 he used the epigraph "I have gathered... other men's flowers, & nothing but the thread that binds them is mine own" John Bartlett
#6995, aired 2015-01-30INVENTORS: In 1702 Thomas Savery wrote of one of his designs, "Such an engine will do the work or labour of ten or twelve" these horses
#6979, aired 2015-01-08ARTISTS: He said a 2009 exhibit was the 1st time taxpayers' money was used "to hang my pictures up rather than scrape them off" Banksy
#6967, aired 2014-12-23WORD ORIGINS: In the mid-1960s, a decade after it first appeared in a holiday tale, this word came to be used for any mean killjoy grinch
#6879, aired 2014-07-10IN THE DICTIONARY: This adjective can mean "delicate", "heavenly" or, in chemistry, "related to C4H10O" ethereal
#6876, aired 2014-07-07GOVERNMENT: "Features" at the website of this agency include "Protection", "Investigations" & "Know Your Money" the Secret Service
#6848, aired 2014-05-28OPERA: In a bit of foreshadowing, the title character's dad has committed suicide before the action of this 1904 opera Madame Butterfly
#6840, aired 2014-05-16SECRETARIES OF STATE: Serving 160 years apart, these 2 Secretaries of State are the only ones who never married Condoleezza Rice & James Buchanan
#6781, aired 2014-02-2419th CENTURY PEOPLE: Frederick Douglass said this man's "zeal in the cause of my race was far greater than mine" John Brown
#6780, aired 2014-02-21THE BRITISH EMPIRE: 1713's Treaty of Utrecht concluding the War of the Spanish Succession granted this small 2.3-square-mile area to Great Britain Gibraltar
#6773, aired 2014-02-12BIBLE CHARACTERS: "Take care of him", says the man called this in Luke 10 after giving money to an innkeeper the Good Samaritan
#6746, aired 2014-01-06BROADWAY ACTRESSES: She originated 2 famous Broadway roles: one later played on film by Marilyn Monroe, another by Barbra Streisand Carol Channing
#6724, aired 2013-12-0520th CENTURY ARTS: Pretending to be a tree is an exercise in a key textbook of this system that spread from Russia to Broadway & then to Hollywood method acting (the Stanislavski system)
#6597, aired 2013-04-30CLASSIC HIT SONGS: In 1962 Chatham County, Georgia gave this name to a body of water flowing past Johnny Mercer's childhood home Moon River
#6544, aired 2013-02-14MUSEUMS: Its collection includes a 16" high architects' model of its first permanent building, opened in 1939 MoMA (the Museum of Modern Art)
#6538, aired 2013-02-06FAMOUS 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
#6500, aired 2012-12-14STATES' HIGHEST POINTS: This state's highest peak is 13,796 feet high & only about 15 miles from the ocean Hawaii
#6478, aired 2012-11-14U.S. PRESIDENTS: The only 2 presidents never to present a State of the Union address are William Henry Harrison & this man James Garfield
#6467, aired 2012-10-3020th CENTURY BOOKS: "A Cry of Children" & "Nightmare Island" were proposed titles for this novel Lord of the Flies
#6452, aired 2012-10-09STORES: These stores first launched in 2001 take in more money per sq. foot than any other U.S. retailer, almost doubling Tiffany's Apple stores
#6437, aired 2012-09-18HISTORIC FIRSTS: On July 31, 1971 Air Force Colonel David Scott became the first person to drive one of these a lunar rover
#6415, aired 2012-07-06OPERA CHARACTERS: In a play subtitle, she's called "the Chinese Sphinx"; in a later opera her suitor calls her "Principessa di Morte" Turandot
#6398, aired 2012-06-13POLITICAL TERMS: 19th c. reports on horse races used this 2-word term to mean horses that were in the field but didn't finish high also rans
#6389, aired 2012-05-31AIRLINE HISTORY: Clipper Goodwill, a Boeing 727, took this airline's last passengers from Barbados to Miami December 4, 1991 Pan Am
#6378, aired 2012-05-16AMERICAN LITERATURE: In 2011, in the preface to the 75th anniversary edition, Pat Conroy called this novel "the last great... victory of the Confederacy" Gone with the Wind
#6370, aired 2012-05-04THE 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
#6279, aired 2011-12-29CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN WRITERS: Concluding a 4-book series, his 2004 novel "Folly and Glory" features Kit Carson, William Clark & Jim Bowie Larry McMurtry
#6252, aired 2011-11-22U.S. MONEY MATH: Adding up the denominations of circulating bills with U.S. presidents on the front gives you this total $78
#6214, aired 2011-09-29THE 20th CENTURY: In February 1967 this Asian leader said his people would "never agree to negotiate under the threat of bombing" Ho Chi Minh
#6213, aired 2011-09-28THE CHANGING U.S.A.: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) According to the Census, this point has progressed westward since the U.S. was founded & has moved southwest since the 1960s the mean center of population
#6176, aired 2011-06-20MOVIE CHARACTER NAMES: This last name of the speech therapist in the 2010 Oscar winner for Best Picture is also a suffix meaning "speech" Logue
#6134, aired 2011-04-21SCIENTISTS: At the time of the Apollo 11 Moon landing, his widow said, "That was his dream, sending a rocket to the Moon" Robert Goddard
#6108, aired 2011-03-16VOCABULARY: Pronounced one way, this 7-letter word can mean unjustified; pronounced another, it's someone sickly invalid
#6046, aired 2010-12-2020th CENTURY NOVELISTS: A critic said that a character of his, "yearning for the moon... never saw the sixpence at his feet"; he made that into a title Somerset Maugham
#6044, aired 2010-12-16SKYSCRAPERS: After a construction boom fueled by oil & gas money, this capital city now has Europe's tallest building Moscow
#6034, aired 2010-12-02BRITISH WOMEN: It's said that this woman who died in 1976 "made more money out of murder than any woman since Lucrezia Borgia" Agatha Christie
#6028, aired 2010-11-24PAINTINGS: The alternate name of this 16th century Italian painting also means "cheerful" the Mona Lisa
#5970, aired 2010-07-23PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGNS: In the "World Almanac" list of notable third party candidates, 1 of the 2 for whom the main issue was "states' rights" (1 of) Governor George Wallace & Strom Thurmond
#5949, aired 2010-06-24NATIONAL PARKS: When it became a national park in 1919, it got this name used by the locals because it seemed like heaven on Earth Zion National Park
#5920, aired 2010-05-14THE 50 STATES: It's the only state from which rainwater flows to the Pacific, the Atlantic & Hudson Bay Montana
#5911, aired 2010-05-03U.S.A.: Chocolate Avenue & Cocoa Avenue are 2 of the main thoroughfares in this town that was established in 1903 Hershey, Pennsylvania
#5908, aired 2010-04-28SCIENCE HISTORY: In August 1971 on the Moon's surface, an astronaut repeated a famous experiment & declared that this man "was correct" Galileo
#5863, aired 2010-02-24THE ACADEMY AWARDS: He was nominated for 8 Best Actor Oscars, including one for a 1961 film; his only win came for its 1986 sequel Paul Newman
#5827, aired 2010-01-05ART HISTORY: Unique quality of "First Communion of Anemic Young Girls in the Snow", shown at the 1883 Arts Incoherents exhibit it was all white
#5821, aired 2009-12-28AMERICAN HISTORY: On April 14, 1865 Abraham Lincoln authorized this govt. agency; its main job then was to protect against counterfeiting the Secret Service
#5770, aired 2009-10-16SCIENTIFIC FIRSTS: The first object in our solar system discovered by telescope was not a planet but one of these a moon
#5687, aired 2009-05-05ON 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
#5683, aired 2009-04-29THE U.S. MONEY MAP: The 3 richest U.S. counties, by median household income, are not in N.Y. or Calif. but are suburbs of this city Washington, D.C.
#5668, aired 2009-04-08FILM QUOTES: From a 1942 movie, No. 2 on Guinness' top 10 film quotes is a line that mentions this liquor gin
#5650, aired 2009-03-13WORLD MONEY: Amounts on the banknotes in this country, one of the world's 10 largest, are in 17 different official languages India
#5631, aired 2009-02-16POP CULTURE: Also the title of one of the best-selling albums of all time, it was first seen in Russian photos taken in 1959 the dark side of the Moon
#5555, aired 2008-10-31MOVIE MAKERS & REMAKERS: Howard Hawks directed this film with Paul Muni as Tony Camonte; Brian De Palma remade it Scarface
#5453, aired 2008-04-30BUSINESS: In 1952 Glen Bell was selling burgers; he then added these to the drive-in menu for 19¢, & the rest is history tacos
#5433, aired 2008-04-02EUROPEAN RIVERS: 20 miles from Frankfurt is the meeting place of these 2 rivers, whose names rhyme despite the spelling the Rhine & the Main
#5418, aired 2008-03-12THE WORLD MAP: 1 of the 2 South American countries whose mainland you'll fly over when heading due south from Miami, Fla. Ecuador or Peru
#5368, aired 2008-01-02THE BOX OFFICE: Rated "R" for violence, this 2004 film set in ancient times is the highest-grossing "R" movie ever in the U.S. The Passion of the Christ
#5361, aired 2007-12-24SPACE MEN: He was the oldest man to walk on the Moon, & the only World War II veteran Alan Shepard
#5358, aired 2007-12-19CLASSIC ROCK: As there was another album by that title, this classic from 1973 was at one point going to be called "Eclipse" The Dark Side of the Moon (by Pink Floyd)
#5336, aired 2007-11-19PHRASE ORIGINS: This 2-word phrase may be traced to a line in a Sherlock Holmes story, "The chaplain stood with a... pistol in his hand" smoking gun
#5331, aired 2007-11-12ENGLISH LANGUAGE WRITERS: In his journal of 1710 to 1713, he referred to himself as "Presto" Jonathan Swift
#5315, aired 2007-10-19AMERICAN HISTORY: It was the main cause of the 1803 jump in the national debt to $86.4 million the Louisiana Purchase
#5263, aired 2007-06-27LITERATURE: Maris, Lycon, Laogonus, Erymas, Sarpedon, Erylaus & Patroclus die in Book 16 of this work the Iliad
#5237, aired 2007-05-22SPORTS LEGENDS: Between 1977 & 1980, he won a state high school championship, an NCAA championship, & an NBA championship Magic Johnson
#5207, aired 2007-04-10NOTABLE NAMES: The fervent patriotism of this man who died in 1919 earned him the nickname "The Star-Spangled Scotchman" Andrew Carnegie
#5167, aired 2007-02-1320th CENTURY AUTHORS: This author was born in 1926, the daughter of Amasa, an Alabama lawyer, & Frances, whose maiden name was Finch Harper Lee
#5118, aired 2006-12-06FAMOUS 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
#5056, aired 2006-09-11PLANTS: In tropical Africa it's the main source of calories in the diet; in the U.S. it gives us a pudding tapioca (or cassava)
#5050, aired 2006-07-21NYC TICKER-TAPE PARADE HONOREES: Of the 3 men honored August 13, 1969, the one who spent part of July 20th miles from the other 2 Michael Collins
#5034, aired 2006-06-29COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES: The main green of this university includes statues of Ira Allen, its founder, & Lafayette, who visited in 1825 the University of Vermont
#4992, aired 2006-05-02WORD HISTORY: One Mongol tribe or army, it came to mean "a vast number" because the fierce Mongol warriors seemed so numerous a horde
#4933, aired 2006-02-08MILESTONES: In 1994, 25 years after this event, 1 participant said, "For one crowning moment, we were creatures of the cosmic ocean" the Apollo 11 landing on the Moon
#4926, aired 2006-01-30WORLD MONEY 2005: This U.S. sports figure (born 1940) became the only living person ever on a Scottish note besides the Queen & her mum Jack Nicklaus
#4923, aired 2006-01-25WORD ORIGINS: This word that has come to mean "sudden prosperity" means "good weather" in Spanish bonanza
#4897, aired 2005-12-20AMERICAN BUSINESSMEN: This man who died in 1984 remarked, "We're not in the hamburger business, we're in show business" Ray Kroc
#4872, aired 2005-11-152005 COMMENCEMENT SPEECHES: Speaking at his alma mater, he urged graduates to be voracious readers, donate to worthy causes & stay in Maine Stephen King
#4831, aired 2005-09-19RANKS & TITLES: In 1950 Pius XII was Pontifex Maximus; exactly 2,000 years earlier, this man held a title of the same name Julius Caesar
#4793, aired 2005-06-08CHARITABLE WORK: Musician Ray Charles raised money for people afflicted by this, saying, "To me, it's the worst thing in the world" deafness (or hearing impairment)
#4783, aired 2005-05-2520th CENTURY AMERICANS: These names of 2 original Mercury astronauts, who orbited Earth in May 1962 & May 1963, are also occupations Scott Carpenter & Gordon Cooper
#4756, aired 2005-04-18INVENTED WORDS: In works by Lewis Carroll, this word means "four in the afternoon; the time when you begin broiling things for dinner" brillig
#4734, aired 2005-03-17WORDS: This 6-letter word can mean both a bright light above someone's head & a dark cloud above our heads nimbus
#4706, aired 2005-02-07THE ELEMENTS: By weight, this element makes up more of the human body than all the others combined oxygen
#4677, aired 2004-12-288-LETTER WORDS: Differing by one letter, the 2 words that mean job & time away from the job vocation & vacation
#4657, aired 2004-11-30BUSINESS & INDUSTRY: Most of this firm's 70,000 seasonal white-collar employees work only 4 months a year H&R Block
#4587, aired 2004-07-13HEADLINES OF THE LAST 40 YEARS: The first 2 New York Times headlines set in 96-point type were in these 2 years, 5 years apart 1969 & 1974
#4574, aired 2004-06-24FILMS OF THE '70s: This 1973 thriller was re-released in 2000 with extra footage, including a scene in which Ritalin is prescribed The Exorcist
#4569, aired 2004-06-17COMMUNICATIONS: In the NATO phonetic alphabet (Alpha, Bravo, etc.), the 2 that are title Shakespearean characters Romeo & Juliet
#4535, aired 2004-04-3018th CENTURY BRITISH NOVELS: This title person asks a pile of money, "What art thou good for?... one of those knives is worth all this heap" Robinson Crusoe
#4485, aired 2004-02-20ITALIAN TOWNS: This small town in Tuscany was the birthplace of the man who painted the Mona Lisa Vinci
#4481, aired 2004-02-16JOBS: In this job, after the Senate confirms you, you sign your name at least 5 times, then pick one to be engraved U.S. Treasurer or U.S. Treasury Secretary
#4466, aired 2004-01-26THE OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY: Tolkien helped the editors define "hobbit"; Murray Gell-Mann, the term "quark", & this man, "dymaxion" Buckminster Fuller
#4433, aired 2003-12-10THE PLANETS: In 1978 astronomer James Christy named its moon in honor of his wife Charlene Pluto
#4422, aired 2003-11-25RELIGION: The 2 main religions on this island nation are Greek Orthodox & Islam Cyprus
#4394, aired 2003-10-16NAME'S THE SAME: This sports superstar of 1973 bears the name of one of the 6 major organs of the United Nations Secretariat
#4351, aired 2003-06-305-LETTER WORDS: Term for an opinion or edict issued by a mufti or 'ulama; a famous one was issued in 1989 fatwa
#4344, aired 2003-06-19FRUIT: From Greek for "finger", the Arabs claim it has as many culinary & pharmaceutical uses as days in a year the date
#4335, aired 2003-06-06CANDY: Bill Harmsen, who raised horses in Colo., happily founded this candy co. in 1949 to make money during the winter Jolly Rancher
#4284, aired 2003-03-27BESTSELLING AUTHORS: The main library at the University of Northern Colorado is named for this alumnus who wrote an epic of Colorado in 1974 James Michener (the novel was "Centennial")
#4268, aired 2003-03-05CLASSIC SONGS: Originally called "Prima Donna", it was renamed for a Renaissance painting & won an Oscar "Mona Lisa"
#4260, aired 2003-02-21AMERICAN NOVELS: The narrator of this 1951 novel first appeared in the short stories "I'm Crazy" & "Slight Rebellion off Madison" "Catcher in the Rye" (the narrator being Holden Caulfield)
#4255, aired 2003-02-14FAMOUS AMERICANS: James Fenimore Cooper based the character of Natty Bumppo on this man who was born in 1734 Daniel Boone
#4236, aired 2003-01-20PATRON SAINTS: It's believed that this patron saint founded many monasteries, including one at Mynyw Saint David
#4225, aired 2003-01-03CLASSIC LITERATURE: In this 3-part work, the main character encounters Nimrod, Ulysses, Muhammad & Thomas Aquinas "The Divine Comedy"
#4212, aired 2002-12-17SCIENCE: It takes approximately 24,840 mph to achieve this escaping the Earth's gravity (& go off into outer space, on your way to the Moon, for instance)
#4094, aired 2002-05-23ISRAEL: They are the 2 Arab countries in which Israel currently has embassies Egypt & Jordan
#4006, aired 2002-01-21PEOPLE ON THE MAP: Tourist spots in the Asian city named for this man include Notre Dame Cathedral & Reunification Hall Ho Chi Minh
#3976, aired 2001-12-10THE OSCARS: One of 4 men nominated twice for playing the same character (1 of) Bing Crosby, Paul Newman, Al Pacino & Peter O'Toole
#3954, aired 2001-11-08THE UNIVERSE: It's the body that's about 1 1/4 light-seconds from Earth the Moon
#3914, aired 2001-09-13FILM DIRECTORS: In his 1929 film "Die Frau im Mond", or "Woman in the Moon", he originated the rocket countdown Fritz Lang
#3902, aired 2001-07-17AT THE LIBRARY: This author & biochemist who died in 1992 has at least one book in all 10 main Dewey Decimal categories Isaac Asimov
#3895, aired 2001-07-06HISTORIC MONARCHS: This monarch, who sold the United States its 2nd-largest piece of territory, was the second to bear his name Alexander II
#3894, aired 2001-07-05CELEBRITIES: On August 28, 2000 a statue of this late actor was unveiled at the Port Authority Bus Terminal in New York Jackie Gleason
#3844, aired 2001-04-26THE MOONS OF URANUS: Pixie Chasma & Sprite Vallis are features on this moon of Uranus named for a character in "The Tempest" Ariel
#3836, aired 2001-04-16TOYS & GAMES: The world champion at this game gets $15,140, the amount of money in it Monopoly
#3827, aired 2001-04-03SATIRE: This then-living man was the main target of the mid-1960s play "MacBird!" Lyndon B. Johnson
#3824, aired 2001-03-29BORN IN THE 1960s: She was on the April 22, 1974 cover of People magazine, holding an Oscar Tatum O'Neal (for Paper Moon)
#3796, aired 2001-02-19THE U.S. SPACE PROGRAM: Of the Apollo missions, the total number that successfully landed men on the Moon 6 (Apollo 11, 12, 14, 15, 16 & 17)
#3765, aired 2001-01-05LIFE SCIENCE: A study done in South Africa put these non-primates above chimpanzees, making them the world's second-smartest species Dolphins
#3652, aired 2000-06-20U.S. PAPER CURRENCY: With one of each of the Treasury's currently produced denominations, you'd have this much money $188.00
#3627, aired 2000-05-16WORLD LEADERS: Early in the 20th century, he took one of many pseudonyms, Nguyen Ai Quoc, or "Nguyen the Patriot" Ho Chi Minh
#3625, aired 2000-05-12WORLD LANDMARKS: In the 1920s this nation's churches pooled their money & erected a 120-foot religious monument on a 2,300-foot peak Brazil
#3603, aired 2000-04-12SPACE EXPLORATION: A plaque left on the Moon in July 1969 contains the signatures of Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin & these 2 men Richard Nixon & Michael Collins (the third Apollo 11 astronaut)
#3557, aired 2000-02-08POETRY: Title hero who "silently rowed to the Charlestown shore, just as the moon rose over the bay" Paul Revere
#3468, aired 1999-10-06ON THE MONEY: Of the 7 men pictured on the front of currently printed U.S. currency, the 3 who never lived in the White House Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton & George Washington
#3455, aired 1999-09-17SWAHILI PHRASES: Hillary Clinton would translate the Swahili "Mkono mmoja haulei mwana" to this 8-word phrase "It takes a village to raise a child"
#3441, aired 1999-07-19PLACE NAMES: Its original name, Wai Momi, & its current name both come from the valuable mollusks once found there Pearl Harbor
#3392, aired 1999-05-11MONEY: The first of a series of 50 new U.S. quarters, released in January 1999, honored this state Delaware
#3346, aired 1999-03-08SHOW BIZ: In 1997 this singer & her husband opened a restaurant at Disney World called Bongo's Cuban Cafe Gloria Estefan
#3308, aired 1999-01-13THE HUMAN BODY: It's the body part where you'll find the Mount of Apollo, the Mount of the Moon & the Girdle of Venus (the palm of) the hand
#3215, aired 1998-07-17STATUES: In 1820 a man named Yorgos unearthed 3 statues: 2 of Hermes & one of Aphrodite, later renamed this Venus de Milo
#3195, aired 1998-06-19U.S. NEWSPAPERS: This paper made news when it was threatened with lawsuits & ad cancellation by Mayor Xavier Suarez The Miami Herald
#3190, aired 1998-06-12ORGANIZATIONS: This women's organization founded in 1890 was chartered by Congress in 1896 the Daughters of the American Revolution
#3187, aired 1998-06-09BASKETBALL: 2 of the 3 NBA teams whose names don't end with the letter S (2 of) Miami Heat, Orlando Magic & Utah Jazz
#3092, aired 1998-01-27MAN IN SPACE: Mission that put the third man on the Moon Apollo 12
#3009, aired 1997-10-02WORLD GEOGRAPHY: You can view the Jungfrau Peak from the main street of this town between the Brienz & Thun Lakes Interlaken, Switzerland
#2994, aired 1997-09-11TELEVISION: A 1997 episode of this series guest-starred Philip Michael Thomas & Tommy Chong Nash Bridges
#2980, aired 1997-07-11THE COLD WAR: He died November 15, 1996, having outlived his accuser by 35 years Alger Hiss (accused by Whittaker Chambers)
#2913, aired 1997-04-09WORD HISTORY: Before this word came to mean an extraterrestrial, it was used as an adjective meaning "warlike" Martian
#2871, aired 1997-02-10THE SOLAR SYSTEM: The 2 planets that have no moons Mercury & Venus
#2860, aired 1997-01-24U.S. CURRENCY: Of men pictured on currently printed paper money, he's the one most recently deceased Ulysses S. Grant (on the $50 bill; died in 1885)
#2818, aired 1996-11-27RIVERS: It was once believed that this river "originated in the Mountains of the Moon" the Nile
#2783, aired 1996-10-09TRAVEL & TOURISM: On a weekend package, Northwest Airlines flies Londoners to Bloomington, Minn. to visit this the Mall of America
#2781, aired 1996-10-07HISTORIC BOOKS: It was written in 1924 in the fortress of Landsberg am Lech Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler
#2778, aired 1996-10-02ACTOR-DIRECTORS: This 1990 winner is the most recent to win the Best Director Oscar for his directorial debut Kevin Costner
#2754, aired 1996-07-18ARTISTS: In 1914 his brother's remains were moved from Holland to Auvers, France & buried beside him Vincent Van Gogh
#2710, aired 1996-05-17FAMOUS NOVELS: Published in 1605, the first part of this novel was dedicated to the Duque de Bejar, Marques de Gibraleon... Don Quixote
#2652, aired 1996-02-27FAMOUS FAMILIES: The 1st man named this was a violinist, the 2nd, an actor & the 3rd, CEO at Times Mirror Magazines Efrem Zimbalist
#2651, aired 1996-02-26FICTIONAL CHARACTERS: Olga Ivinskaya, who passed away in Moscow in 1995, was the inspiration for this character Lara
#2645, aired 1996-02-16ACTORS & ACTRESSES: This actor's first name is Hawaiian for "cool breeze over the mountains" Keanu Reeves
#2623, aired 1996-01-17THE CALENDAR: The next year that will be written in only 4 Roman numerals 2002 (MMII)
#2621, aired 1996-01-15POLITICIANS: In 1961, Lyndon Johnson was sworn in as vice president by this mentor Sam Rayburn
#2580, aired 1995-11-17FAMOUS NAMES: DNA from Prince Philip helped prove that Anna Anderson-Manahan was not this woman, as she had claimed Anastasia
#2533, aired 1995-09-13AMERICAN POETRY: In a famous poem, she's "the Arrow-maker's daughter...Handsomest of all the women" Minnehaha
#2531, aired 1995-09-11FRENCH AUTHORS: In 1881 Paris' Avenue d'Eylau was renamed for this author who lived on it in honor of his 80th year Victor Hugo
#2514, aired 1995-07-06FAMOUS 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
#2496, aired 1995-06-12FAMOUS NAMES: In a 1987 interview, he said, "In silence and movement you can show the reflection of people" Marcel Marceau
#2472, aired 1995-05-09U.S. POSTAGE STAMPS: 1994's most popular commemorative stamp was one observing this event's 25th anniversary the Apollo Moon landing
#2470, aired 1995-05-05SCULPTURE: "The shot heard round the world" is carved in the base of this Daniel Chester French statue The Minute Man
#2421, aired 1995-02-27THE OLD TESTAMENT: The words "Mene, mene, tekel, upharsin" appear in this book the Book of Daniel
#2378, aired 1994-12-28ETYMOLOGY: Until 1946, this word usually meant a mathematician; since then, it's come to mean a machine a computer
#2244, aired 1994-05-12ALPHABETICALLY FIRST: Among the men who have walked on the Moon, his last name is alphabetically first (Buzz) Aldrin
#2218, aired 1994-04-06WOMEN AUTHORS: In the 1920s she wrote, "A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction" Virginia Woolf
#2209, aired 1994-03-24LESSER-KNOWN NAMES: You're most likely to see the names Catalina Villalpando & Nicholas Brady together on one of these a $1 bill
#2160, aired 1994-01-14LEGENDS: According to Sir Thomas Malory, the name of this object means "cut-steel" Excalibur
#2125, aired 1993-11-26THE CABINET: In the 1970s he held more cabinet posts than anyone in U.S. history—4, including Attorney General Elliot Richardson
#2121, aired 1993-11-22MONEY: On July 27, 1971 Richard Nixon gave her the first of the new U.S. dollar coins Mamie Eisenhower
#2023, aired 1993-05-26WOMEN'S FIRSTS: In 1992 Mona Van Duyn became the first woman named this by the Library of Congress poet laureate of the United States
#1967, aired 1993-03-09MONEY MATTERS: According to Forbes magazine, this country ranks between the U.S. & Japan in the number of billionaires Germany
#1960, aired 1993-02-26NOTABLE NAMES: Eugene Cernan is the last person to stand here the Moon
#1936, aired 1993-01-25IN THE NEWS: In 1992 it missed its 1st Monday Night Football opener in 23 yrs.; it was in Miami transmitting relief messages the Goodyear Blimp
#1917, aired 1992-12-29QUOTES: The author who wrote, "Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me." F. Scott Fitzgerald
#1887, aired 1992-11-17NEWSPAPERS: It was first published between 1861 and 1865; it was revived in 1918; stopped in 1919, and revived again in 1942 Stars and Stripes
#1837, aired 1992-09-08FAMOUS SCIENTISTS: In 1969 the N.Y. Times retracted a 1920 editorial ridiculing his claim that rockets could fly to the Moon Robert Goddard
#1832, aired 1992-07-14GERMAN AUTHORS: Composer Paul Dukas based "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" on a story by this poet, novelist & scientist Goethe
#1781, aired 1992-05-04THE 1970s: These documents revealed the Truman admin. gave military aid to France in its war against the Viet Minh Pentagon Papers
#1780, aired 1992-05-01OSCAR WINNING FILMS: It ends as the main character, Don Birnam, begins work on a new novel, "The Bottle" The Lost Weekend
#1683, aired 1991-12-18AMERICAN NOVELS: The narrative in this 1851 novel contains a dissertation on cetology Moby-Dick
#1538, aired 1991-04-17FAMOUS QUOTES: Washington Irving called it "that great object of universal devotion throughout our land" the (almighty) dollar
#1530, aired 1991-04-05FILMS OF THE '40s: Still making money in re-release, the 4 top-grossing films made in the '40s are by this studio Disney
#1443, aired 1990-12-05MAN IN SPACE: He was the only Mercury astronaut to walk on the Moon Alan Shepard
#1430, aired 1990-11-16ISLANDS: It's the only inhabited U.S. territory south of the equator American Samoa
#1429, aired 1990-11-15SPACE EXPLORATION: Next pair in the sequence: Gumdrop, Spider; Charlie Brown, Snoopy;... the Columbia & the Eagle
#1423, aired 1990-11-07SHAKESPEARE: The 3-word title of this play begins & ends with the same 7-letter word Measure for Measure
#1372, aired 1990-07-17VOCABULARY: From Greek for "little world", it's the body seen as a mini-universe animated by its own soul microcosm
#1354, aired 1990-06-21COINS: On its reverse the Susan B. Anthony dollar commemorated this historic event of the 1960s Moon landing
#1300, aired 1990-04-06MONEY: Country whose basic monetary unit is the Balboa Panama
#1287, aired 1990-03-20WORD ORIGINS: Word derived from the act of breaking up a failed Italian moneylender's market bench bankruptcy
#1261, aired 1990-02-12MONEY: Name of the structure seen on the back of the currently minted nickel Monticello
#1238, aired 1990-01-10PLAYS: 1949 Pulitzer Prize play in which the title character commits suicide for the insurance money Death of a Salesman
#1225, aired 1989-12-22MOUNTAINS: The names of the tallest peak in the Alps & the tallest peak in Hawaii both mean this in English white mountain
#1184, aired 1989-10-26WORD ORIGINS: Where you'd naturally find armalcolite, named for the 3 men who 1st handled it the Moon
#1104, aired 1989-05-25MONEY: It was the 1st country to use paper money China
#1094, aired 1989-05-11MONEY: "In God we trust" & this word appear on the front of every current U.S. coin liberty
#964, aired 1988-11-10THE OSCARS: Husband and wife who won Oscars almost 30 years apart, she in 1958, he in 1987 Paul Newman & Joanne Woodward
#914, aired 1988-07-21U.S. CITIES: It was the first spoken word transmitted by radio from the surface of the Moon Houston
#814, aired 1988-03-03WORD ORIGINS: 2 or more governments' joint dominion over a territory, it's come to mean a form of home ownership condominium
#799, aired 1988-02-11QUOTES: President Nixon's words "This has been the greatest week... since the creation" referred to this event the Apollo 11 Moon landing in 1969
#793, aired 1988-02-03PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS: According to the Constitution, minimum number of electoral votes to which a state is entitled 3
#789, aired 1988-01-28STATE CAPITALS: 1 of 2 letters that begins the names of 6 state capitals, more than any other C or S
#772, aired 1988-01-05BROADWAY MUSICALS: 2 of the 3 19th c. authors on whose stories the last 3 Tony Award winning musicals were based (2 of) Victor Hugo (Les Misérables), Charles Dickens (The Mystery of Edwin Drood), & Mark Twain (Big River)
#730, aired 1987-11-06BUSINESS & INDUSTRY: For nearly 7 years, it's been the national minimum hourly wage $3.35
#707, aired 1987-10-06MONEY: The sum of the 2 pieces of current U.S. money that feature Jefferson's portrait $2.05
#693, aired 1987-09-16THE SOLAR SYSTEM: Recent studies show this planet has a moon that's more than half its size Pluto
#673, aired 1987-07-08PERFORMING ARTS: 1 of the 6 performers who received Kennedy Center honors December 7, 1986 (1 of) Lucille Ball, Ray Charles, Yehudi Menuhin, Hume Cronyn, Jessica Tandy & Antony Tudor
#672, aired 1987-07-07GAMBLING: 3 of the 4 states with the highest lottery sales in dollars in calendar year 1986 (3 of) California, New York, Illinois & Pennsylvania
#644, aired 1987-05-281968: On Christmas Eve & Christmas Day, 1968, Frank Borman, William Anders & James Lovell, Jr. did this 10 times circle the Moon
#627, aired 1987-05-05ART NEWS: In December 1986, a computer analyst claimed that the model for the "Mona Lisa" was this person Leonardo da Vinci
#570, aired 1987-02-13FAMOUS LASTS: The very last to do this so far was Eugene Cernan walk on the Moon
#497, aired 1986-11-04ADVERTISING: In the U.S., more money is spent advertising in this medium than any other newspapers
#472, aired 1986-09-30TELEVISION: This mini-series & its sequel featured Ed Asner, Lorne Greene, Henry Fonda & Marlon Brando Roots
#422, aired 1986-04-22GAMBLING: Next to slots, Nevada casinos make more money from this game than any other, nearly $3/4 billion in 1985 blackjack
#406, aired 1986-03-31THE PLANETS: Its only known moon is appropriately named after the boatman Charon Pluto
#396, aired 1986-03-17MAN IN SPACE: This Space Shuttle, the only 1 named for a spaceship, is the only 1 not to have flown in space the Enterprise
#394, aired 1986-03-13SPORTING EVENTS: Established in 1911, this yearly event has largest single day attendance in sports the Indy 500
#324, aired 1985-12-05MONEY: Smallest U.S. denomination, it appears on no coins, just trading stamps, & tax notices 1 mill (1/10 of a cent)
#288, aired 1985-10-16MONEY: 1 of 2 pieces of U.S. currency on which an automobile is shown the $10 bill & the $50 bill
#285, aired 1985-10-11TELEVISION: For 2 years, NBC didn’t call it “Saturday Night Live” because of 18 wk. ABC “SNL” series starring him Howard Cosell
#280, aired 1985-10-04BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY: Over 1/2 of Fortune 500 and 42% of all N.Y. Stock Exchange companies are incorporated in this state Delaware
#189, aired 1985-05-30LANGUAGES: It was the 1st human language Tarzan spoke French
#142, aired 1985-03-26PUBLIC HEALTH: Since vaccinations are not yet available, it’s most widespread of communicable childhood diseases chicken pox
#37, aired 1984-10-30FAMOUS FAMILIES: Members of this acting family starred in "Grand Hotel", the Dr. Kildare films & "E.T." the Barrymores
#30, aired 1984-10-19ASTRONOMY: After the Sun & the Moon, the brightest astronomical object regularly seen in our sky the planet Venus
#2, aired 1984-09-11THE CALENDAR: Calendar date with which the 20th century began January 1, 1901

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Tim Relihan, a senior from the University of Nebraska from Stromsburg, Nebraska 2010-B College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
Steve Chernicoff, a technical writer from Berkeley, California "He was one of the top 1-day winners in the 1994-95...
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Anne Boyd, a freelance writer and student from Los Angeles, California 2004 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 20 4-time champion: $84,600...
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Jerome Vered, a writer from Los Angeles, California "The 1-day record of $34,000 he set in 1992 stood for...
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Cliff Galiher, a student from Half Moon Bay, California 2007 Tournament of Champions 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $50,000 +...
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Josh Silverman, a graduate student from Miami, Florida Season 32 2-time champion: $34,800 + $2,000.
Lucas Miner, a junior at Yale University from Miami, Florida \"He finished third in the 2019 Teen Tournament as a junior...
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Monikka Mann, an innovation project manager from Katy, Texas Season 32 player (2016-07-26). Monikka won $10,000 on Who Wants to...
Robb Muhm, a pediatrician from Scottsdale, Arizona Season 22 1-time champion: $24,400 + $2,000.
Kerry Breitenbach, a marketing analyst from Cleveland, Ohio 2006 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 21 5-time champion: $90,400...
Mina Wender, a teacher from Baltimore, Maryland Season 5 player (1988-12-07).
Rony Josaphat, a master's student of television from North Miami, Florida Season 27 player (2010-11-04). First name pronounced like "RON-nee".
Andrew Sidden, a bartender from Miami Beach, Florida Season 26 player (2010-04-13).
Sofi Albizuri, a writer and mom from Miami, Florida Season 30 player (2014-02-24).
Dave Meehan, a database administrator from Spring City, Pennsylvania Season 20 player (2004-01-23).
Margaret Meehan, a medical records supervisor from Brick, New Jersey Season 20 2-time champion: $52,000 + $2,000.
Mara Apostol, a criminal defense attorney from Miami, Florida Season 32 1-time champion: $16,801 + $2,000. JBoard user name: naurae29...
Steve Robin, a writer and producer from Miami, Florida "He finished second place in the 1991 Tournament of Champions. He's...
Leszek Pawlowicz, a shovel bum from Flagstaff, Arizona "He was a material scientist living in Phoenix when he won...
Mark McDonnell, a triathlon coach and entrepreneur from Miami, Florida Season 27 1-time champion: $27,601 + $1,000.
Jaime Mahoney, a magazine editor from Gaithersburg, Maryland Season 26 player (2009-10-23). First name pronounced like "JAY-mee".
Michael Portnoy, a teacher from Miami, Florida Season 25 2-time champion: $40,000 + $2,000.
Ken Basin, a junior at the University of Southern California from Huntington Beach, California 2003 College Championship semifinalist: $5,000. Blog at kbasin.blogspot.org. Appearing as a...
Justin Waters, a resident physician from Royal Oak, Michigan Season 25 1-time champion: $7,199 + $2,000. Justin Waters Royal Oak,...
Mimi Collins, an assistant professor from Marlborough, Massachusetts Season 16 player (2000-06-20).
Mona Hall, an entrepreneur originally from Heidelberg, Germany Season 14 player (1998-02-19).
Andrew Schwartz, an independent filmmaker from Miami, Florida Season 25 2-time champion: $31,988 + $1,000. Andrew played all of...
Ted Kissell, a journalist from Miami, Florida Season 16 player (2000-03-13). Ted wrote about his experiences with Jeopardy!...
Josh DenHartog, an actuarial technician from Thousand Oaks, California "He was the Teen Tournament champion in 1997. Now he's an...
Paul Boymel, a civil rights attorney from Potomac, Maryland "He was the top winner of the 1984-85 season. Now he's...
Ryan Chaffee, a tutor from Los Angeles, California 2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $91,900...
Tom Toce, an actuary from New York, New York Season 26 2-time champion: $39,200 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
Colby Burnett, a high school world history teacher from Chicago, Illinois "He teaches at a school started by the Dominicans of St....
Christine Valada, a photographer and attorney originally from Walton, New York 2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $68,703...
Zack Terrill, a senior at Vanderbilt University from Winter Springs, Florida 2012 College Championship 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $25,000. 21 at...
Mike Maheu, a high school teacher from San Diego, California Season 25 2-time champion: $46,242 + $1,000. Last name pronounced like...
Cheech Marin, an actor, comedian, director, writer and musician from Lost "He's played a cop on Nash Bridges, voiced a 1959 Chevy...
Charles Shaughnessy, an actor from Mad Men "As Shane Donovan on Days of Our Lives, he won three...
Aisha Tyler, a comedienne, host and actress from Talk Soup, Friends, The 5th Wheel and Ghost Whisperer 2009 Celebrity Jeopardy! winner: $50,000 split between the International Rescue Committee/Congo...
Chuck Forrest, an attorney for the UN IFAD from Marino, Italy \"In 1986, he was a law student living in Grand Blanc,...
Catherine Briley, a senior from Grand Prairie, Louisiana 2012 Teen Tournament 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $31,000. 17 at...
Robert Knecht Schmidt, a patent agent from Cleveland, Ohio Season 26 1-time champion: $12,799 + $1,000. Middle name pronounced like...
Liz Murphy, a foreign service officer originally from Scranton, Pennsylvania 2010 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 25 5-time champion: $121,302...
Kevin Marshall, a student from Metairie, Louisiana 2006 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 22 6-time champion: $98,201...
Michael McKean, a Grammy winner, Oscar nominee and multi-talented performer from Hairspray and The Pajama Game "This multi-talented performer is a Grammy winner and Oscar nominee and...
Anthony Dedousis, a sophomore from Harvard University 2009 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 19 and from Manhasset, New York...
Francois Dominic Laramée, a writer and TV personality from Verdun, Quebec, Canada Season 25 2-time champion: $46,300 + $1,000. Francois's name was printed...
Tom Nissley, an online books editor from Seattle, Washington 2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2011 Tournament of Champions...
Jove Graham, a biomedical engineer from Lewisburg, Pennsylvania Season 26 1-time champion: $34,401 + $1,000. Jove's second contestant interview...
Andy Richter, an actor/comedian from The Tonight Show \"This multitalented actor/comedian is now back on the couch with Conan...
Zach Safford, a senior from Williams College "His early interest in cryptozoology has been replaced by a history...
Aaron Wicks, a planning and evaluation manager from Rochester, New York Season 26 1-time champion: $18,001 + 1,000. Aaron Wicks Rochester, NY...
Marty Scott, an assistant district attorney from Forney, Texas Season 26 3-time champion: $64,002 + $2,000. Marty won $250,000 on...
Roger Craig, a graduate student of computer science from Newark, Delaware 2019 All-Star Games member of wildcard-match 2nd-place Team Austin: a share...
Andrew Ceppos, a senior from Tufts University 2009 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 21 and from Verona, New...
Becky Anderson, a retired software specialist originally from Morganton, North Carolina Season 25 1-time champion: $16,401 + $2,000. Becky Anderson - A...
Jane Kaczmarek, a TV, film and Broadway actress from Malcolm in the Middle and Raising the Bar "She went from playing a hard-nosed mom in Malcolm in the...
Sara Wilkinson, a country club concierge from Athens, Georgia Season 27 3-time champion: $72,701 + $2,000.
Kara Spak, a newspaper reporter from Chicago, Illinois 2011 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 27 5-time champion:...
Paul Wampler, a web programmer from Knoxville, Tennessee Season 27 4-time champion: $72,001 + $2,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user name: paul5562
Dan Smith, a student from Chicago, Illinois Season 25 3-time champion: $69,200 + $1,000. Dan Smith - a...
Pat Sajak, a game show host from Wheel of Fortune "A former TV weatherman, he's gone on to become the world's...
Dan Pawson, a legislative aide from Boston, Massachusetts 2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2014 Battle of the Decades...
Amanda Walker, a junior at Gonzaga University from East Wenatchee, Washington 2005 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user name:...
Hans von Walter, a junior from Southern Adventist University from Avon Park, Florida 2010-B College Championship 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $25,000 + a...
Brian Muth, a headmaster from Napa, California Season 25 2-time champion: $43,800 + $1,000. Last name pronounced like...
Anderson Cooper, a news anchor and correspondent from CNN "He anchors his own prime-time news show, a syndicated daytime talk...
Anjali Tripathi, a senior from MIT "Math and science were her favorite subjects in seventh grade. We're...
David Walter, a senior from Wilmington, Delaware 2007 Teen Tournament winner (semifinalist by wildcard): $75,000. 17 at the...
Brandon Hensley, a sophomore from Caltech 2008 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 19 and from Huntington, WV at...
Anna Allie, a junior at the University of Michigan at Dearborn from Dearborn, Michigan 2005 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Bob Verini, a film journalist and test prep teacher from Los Angeles, California "A resident of New York City when he won the 1987...
Keith Williams, a college student from Manchester, Vermont 2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2004 Tournament...
Alison Stone Roberg, an administrative assistant from Kansas City, Missouri Season 26 3-time champion: $85,102 + $2,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
Andy Srinivasan, a high school science teacher from Garner, North Carolina 2010 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $69,600...
Gail Flemmons, a history teacher from Clinton, Mississippi Season 25 2-time champion: $46,399 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
Craig Westphal, a paramedic from Tucson, Arizona 2007 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
Dave Belote, the base commander from Nellis Air Force Base, Las Vegas 2010 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 26 5-time champion:...
Monica Thieu, a sophomore at the University of North Texas from Dallas, Texas 2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2019 All-Star Games member of...
Tom Walsh, a writer from Washington, D.C. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
Rebecca Lobo, a future Women\'s Basketball Hall of Famer and ESPN analyst originally from the WNBA \"Later this year, she\'ll be inducted into the Women\'s Basketball Hall...
Jim Davis, a college music and humanities instructor from Freeport, Illinois Season 25 2-time champion: $62,802 + $2,000. Not be to confused...
Ann Thurlow, an aspiring novelist and retired salesperson from Mendham, New Jersey Season 28 1-time champion: $26,805 + $1,000.
Ellen Lewis, a retired high school math teacher from Mount Vernon, New York Season 28 1-time champion: $10,000 + $1,000.
Buddy Wright, an operations engineer from Fort Worth, Texas 2011 Tournament of Champions 2nd runner-up: $50,000. Season 26 4-time champion:...
Evan Sandman, a hotel front desk manager from Los Angeles, California Season 28 1-time champion $28,801 + $2,000.
David Skaar, a research scientist from Raleigh, North Carolina Season 25 3-time champion: $102,000 + $2,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
Carl Brandt, an investor originally from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 2009 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 25 4-time champion: $70,799...
Carl Bradshaw, a financial manager from St. Louis, Missouri Season 27 2-time champion: $17,899 + $2,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user name: Titmouse
Todd Faulkenberry, a junior from Moore, South Carolina 2008-A Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 16 at the time of...
Will Harter, a 12-year-old from Park Ridge, Illinois "He would like to be a professional athlete. If that doesn't...
Suchita Shah, a senior from the University of Wisconsin-Madison 2008 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 20 and from Holmen, WI...
Tony Nagatani, a junior at Ithaca College from Honolulu, Hawaii 2001 College Championship quarterfinalist: $2,500. Tony was 20 at the time...
Veronica Fazio, from Roselle, Illinois "She dances, plays softball, and hangs with her friends, but wants...
Babu Srinivasan, a history professor at Prairie View A&M University from Houston, Texas "A five-time champion in 2001, he's now a history professor at...
Eddie Timanus, a sportswriter from Oak Hill, Virginia "His 5 wins in 1999 made him one of the most...
Matt DeTura, a recent law school graduate from Washington, D.C. Season 27 3-time champion: $61,601 + $2,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user name: MDT
Brian Moore, an astronomer from Houston, Texas "He was the first 5-day champion in the 1993-1994 season. An...
Aisha Tyler, an actress, comedian, author and reality-show host from Archer "In addition to film and TV roles, she performs comedy at...
Seth Alcorn, a bookstore supervisor from Alexandria, Virginia 2004 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 19 3-time champion: $106,400 + $1,000.
Jordan Brand, an anesthesiologist from Westchester, New York Season 26 1-time champion: $24,405 + $2,000. The Sesame Street character...
Kevin Wilson, a communications specialist from Toronto, Ontario, Canada Season 26 3-time champion: $76,998 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
Jason Zollinger, an engine assembler from South Dayton, New York 2010 Tournament of Champions 1st runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $100,000. Season...
Patrick Tucker, a senior from the University of Notre Dame 2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2009 College Championship winner: $100,000...
Kori Tyler, a high school teacher from Cordova, Tennessee Season 26 player (2010-02-26). Season 25 1-time champion: $20,000 + $2,000....
Eric Betts, a senior from Emory University 2009 College Championship first runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $50,000. 21 and...
Elizabeth Galoozis, a reference librarian from Cambridge, Massachusetts Season 26 2-time champion: $38,801 + $2,000. Elizabeth Galoozis - A...
Gary Bechtold, a garage door company owner from St. Cloud, Minnesota Season 26 3-time champion: $42,001 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
Nick Yozamp, a junior from Washington University in St. Louis 2010 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 2010-A College Championship winner:...
Amy Wilson, a creative writing and women's studies student originally from Portland, Oregon Season 26 1-time champion: $19,999 + $2,000. Not to be confused...
Matt Jacobs, a science teacher originally from Stratford, Connecticut Season 25 1-time champion: $10,323 + $1,000. Matt resided in Silver...
Fred Beukema, a structural engineer from Minneapolis, Minnesota Season 25 3-time champion: $69,401 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
Nicole Yoon, a 12-year-old from Asbury, New Jersey "She has set her sights on becoming a medical doctor or...
Ben Bishop, a student originally from Seattle, Washington 2009 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 25 4-time champion: $114,800...
Judy Mermelstein, a Census field representative from Queens, New York Season 25 1-time champion: $38,401 + $1,000. Judy also appeared on...
Lisa Klink, a TV writer from Los Angeles, California 2009 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 24 5-time champion: $70,150...
Doug Savant, an actor from Desperate Housewives "He plays Tom Scavo, the sometimes-befuddled husband of Felicity Huffman on...
Eric Floyd, a college student from Calhoun, Georgia 2003 Tournament of Champions 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $25,000. Season 18 4-time champion: $97,800 + $2,000.
Ben Noe, a sophomore from Flushing, Michigan 2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games quarterfinalist: $5,000. 16 at the time...
Dana Delany, an actress from Kidnapped "She won two Emmys for playing Army nurse Colleen McMurphy on...
Harry Shearer, an actor/writer/producer from The Simpsons and Le Show "His many credits include providing voices for The Simpsons, and he's...
Anne Shivers, a senior from Peotone, Illinois 2005 Teen Tournament 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $18,000. 17 at...
Casey Retterer, a sophomore at the University of Maryland from Olney, Maryland 2004 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
Allison Peña, a junior from Sunrise, Florida 2006 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
Iddoshe Hirpa, a junior from Louisville, Kentucky 2006 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000.
Ryan Holznagel, a writer originally from Forest Grove, Oregon "He was the winner of the 1995 Tournament of Champions. Now,...
Chuck Forrest, a lawyer from Bosnia and Herzegovina 2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2014 Battle of the Decades...
Ken Jennings, the winner of 74 consecutive games from Seattle, Washington 2020 Jeopardy!: The Greatest of All Time winner: $1,000,000 + a...
Ken Jennings, a writer from Seattle, Washington • 74-game champion with longest winning streak • Total earnings over...
Nathaniel Barnes, a composer and bartender from Toronto, Ontario, Canada Season 25 3-time champion: $57,300 + $2,000. In his first game,...
Christopher Short, a pub trivia editor from Crawfordsville, Indiana 2011 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 27 6-time champion: $94,752...
Brooks Humphreys, a high school social studies teacher from Omaha, Nebraska "He teaches at an all-girls Catholic school operated by the Sisters...
Roger Craig, a computer scientist from Newark, Delaware 2019 All-Star Games member of wildcard-match 2nd-place Team Austin: a share...
Joon Pahk, a college physics teacher from Somerville, Massachusetts 2011 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 28 7-time champion: $199,000 + $2,000. JBoard user name: jpahk
Tom Nissley, a writer from Seattle, Washington 2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2011 Tournament of Champions...
Charles Temple, a high school English teacher from Ocracoke, North Carolina 2011 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2011 Teachers Tournament winner: $100,000. JBoard user name: lonesomeseagull
Patrick Quinn, a high school German teacher from Chesterfield, Missouri "He teaches at a school whose history goes back to a...
Cassie Hill, a recent graduate from the University of Mary Washington \"Her dad is a lawyer, and by the seventh grade, she...
Elza Reeves, a bank teller from Louisville, Kentucky Season 25 1-time champion: $16,400 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
David Faber, an anchor and reporter from CNBC's Squawk on the Street and The Faber Report "The winner of Emmy, Peabody, DuPont, and Loeb awards, he's a...
Mike Nelson, a mechanical engineer from Geneva, Illinois Season 27 2-time champion: $20,800 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
Raynell Cooper, a senior from Rockville, Maryland 2011 Teen Tournament winner (semifinalist by wildcard): $75,000. 16 at the...
Nate Austin, a student from Hutchinson Community College "His original plan was to own a chain of international hotels...
Raphie Cantor, a sophomore from San Diego, California 2011 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 15 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
Kate Wadman, a junior from Tucson, Arizona 2011 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user name: jeopartygirl
Ken Jennings, a 74-game champion from Seattle, Washington "In 2004, his record-breaking 74-game win streak set a standard for...
Richard Mason, a roboticist from Pasadena, California Season 18 2-time champion: $50,600 + $2,000. Husband of Season 14...
Eliza Urban, a sophomore from Richmond, Virginia 2007 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 15 at the time of the...
Becky Kralle, a senior from Runnemede, New Jersey 2008-A Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
Naren Tallapragada, a junior from Burke, Virginia 2008-A Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000. 16 at the time of the...
Maria Bennici, a junior from Walkersville, Maryland 2008-A Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
Than Hedman, a freshman from University of Colorado-Boulder 2008 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 19 and from Denver, CO at...
Andrew Chung, a sophomore from Harvey Mudd College 2008 College Championship 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $25,000. 20 and...
Jonathan Reinstein, a junior from Dix Hills, New York 2001 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time of the...
Ken Jennings, a writer from Seattle, Washington "He was a software engineer living in Salt Lake City, Utah,...
Bob Mesko, an arts administrator from Denver, Colorado 2006 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 22 5-time champion:...
Tom Kavanaugh, a kickball team captain from St. Louis, Missouri 2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2006 Tournament of Champions...
Brady Newell, from Derwood, Maryland "She loves diving and gymnastics, but is headed toward being either...
Dylan Smith, from the Bronx, New York "This honor roll student wants to invent a teleporting system. From...
Adam Pinson, a senior at the University of Alabama at Birmingham from Pinson, Alabama 2005 College Championship 1st runner-up: $50,000. Won $100,000 on Who Wants...
Emily Zhang, from Indianapolis, Indiana "A National Science Merit Award recipient, she plans on becoming a...
Rachael Schwartz, a lawyer with an international law firm from Washington, D.C. "In 1994, she became the first woman ever to win the...
Robin Carroll, an instructional designer from Marietta, Georgia "Winner of both the 2000 Tournament of Champions and the 2001...
Bruce Naegeli, a retired law librarian from Phoenix, Arizona "He finished second in the 1988 Tournament of Champions. A retired...
Laura Hughes, a mom from New Market, Maryland Season 26 1-time champion: $27,500 + $2,000. Wife of Season 16...
Ari Stern, a mathematician from San Diego, California Season 27 1-time champion: $17,201 + $1,000.
Matt Drury, a government analyst from New York, New York Season 26 1-time champion: $18,799 + $2,000. Matthew Drury - A...
Paul Thompson, a human resources manager from Cheverly, Maryland "He was the first 5-time champion in the 1995-96 season. A...
Amy Fine, a part-time teacher from Bethesda, Maryland "She was the last 5-time winner in the 1993-94 season. A...
Forrest Sturgill, a senior from Kingsport, Tennessee 2009 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. Last name pronounced like "STIR-jill".
Bernard Holloway, a sophomore at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from Chapel Hill, North Carolina "He was a 2002 Teen Champion. He's now a sophomore at...
Zach Blumenfeld, a junior from Lincolnshire, Illinois 2009 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000.
Janet Bradlow, an insurance agent from New York, New York Season 26 3-time champion: $58,000 + $2,000. Janet Bradlow New York,...
Chris Rodrigues, a personal banking representative from New Bedford, Massachusetts Season 26 3-time champion: $41,498 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
Jim Scott, an attorney from Arlington, Virginia "He was a legal assistant living near D.C. when he won...
Paul Kursky, a copywriter from San Francisco, California 2011 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 5-time champion: $109,411...
Steve Reynolds, a loan accounting clerk from Norman, Oklahoma 2004 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 20 4-time champion:...
Carl Brandt, an investor originally from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 2009 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 25 4-time champion: $70,799 + $2,000.
Emily Heaney, a freelance costume designer from White Bear Lake, Minnesota Season 25 1-time champion: $2,200 + $1,000. Last name pronounced like...
Sam Daub, an eleven-year-old from Eden Prairie, Minnesota "And he finds video games enticing and has made a fantasy...
Jelisa Castrodale, a sportswriter from Winston-Salem, North Carolina Season 27 1-time champion: $39,399 + $1,000. Name pronounced like "jell-EES-ah KASS-tro-dale".
Andy Davis, a Chyron operator from South Boston, Massachusetts Season 25 2-time champion: $49,799 + $1,000. Andy Davis - A...
Inta Antler, a retired computer programmer from Scarborough, Ontario, Canada Season 25 1-time champion: $12,700 + $2,000. Inta Antler - A...
Sanders Kleinfeld, a publishing technology specialist from Cambridge, Massachusetts Season 25 1-time champion: $26,597 + $2,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
Vijay Balse, a chemical engineer from Chatham, New Jersey 2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2010 Tournament of Champions...
Rick Meneskie, a coal miner and outreach worker from Coal Center, Pennsylvania Season 25 player (2009-01-07).
Elyssa Browning, a junior from St. John's College 2009 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 21 and from Austin, Texas at...
David Duchovny, an actor from Californication "He's won two Golden Globes and stars as troubled novelist Hank...
Laura Myers, a senior from the University of Missouri 2009 College Championship second runner-up: $29,900. 22 and from Richmond, Virginia...
Jennifer Duann, a senior from the Ohio State University 2009 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 21 and from Worthington, Ohio at...
A.J. Schumacher, a radio show production intern from St. Paul, Minnesota Season 25 1-time champion: $10,800 + $2,000. AJ Schumacher Saint Paul,...
Robbie Berg, a freshman from the University of Pennsylvania 2010-A College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. Hometown: Davie, Florida. Robbie Berg Blog...
Dan Jensen, a restaurant manager from Reston, Virginia Season 27 3-time champion: $58,203 + $1,000.
Melanie Baker-Streevy, a United Methodist pastor from Parma, Michigan Season 25 1-time champion: $26,900 + $1,000. Melanie Baker-Streevy - A...
Steve Gratz, a freelance artist from Washington, D.C. Season 27 2-time champion: $30,999 + $1,000.
Danny Vopava, a sophomore from the University of Wisconsin–River Falls 2010-A College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. Hometown: New Brighton, Minnesota. [No contestant...
Steve Unite, a writer from Studio City, California 2007 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
Marissa Goldsmith, a web developer from Springfield, Virginia Season 27 3-time champion: $44,100 + $2,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user name: marteena
Susan Mitchell, a chemical engineer from Houston, Texas 2007 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD...
Braden Corkum, a 12-year-old from Niceville, Florida "He likes making things, so he's going to be an inventor..."...
Erik Nelson, a grad student originally from Boston, Massachusetts 2009 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 25 4-time champion: $94,404 + $2,000.
Mark Wales, a substitute teacher from Amherst, New York 2009 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 24 5-time champion: $141,804...
Justin Otor, a 12-year-old from Texarkana, Texas "His chosen profession will be something in the field of science...
Eddie Kwiatkowski, a 10-year-old from Cumberland, Rhode Island "His interests in presidents and their history could lead to a...
Nicole Karrow, an 11-year-old from Lewes, Delaware "Her goals are to be a horse breeder and trainer..." 2007...
Stefan Goodreau, a video game tester and camp counselor from Los Angeles, California 2010 Tournament of Champions 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $50,000. Season...
Amanda J. Ray, a sophomore at the University of Virginia from Harrisonburg, Virginia 2010-B College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
Folake Dosu, a senior from Stanford University from Bellwood, Illinois 2010-B College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
Jacob Hambalek, a 12-year-old from Fresno, California "If he had to choose a career right now, he'd be...
Ellen Eichner, a junior from the Ohio State University from Northbrook, Illinois 2010-B College Championship semifinalist: $10,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
Stephen Weingarten, a paraeducator from Portland, Oregon 2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $96,690...
Regis Philbin, a TV host from Live with Regis and Kelly "In 2004 he entered the Guinness Book of Records as having...
Brady Cassis, a junior from Yale University 2007 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 20 at the time of the...
Christopher Meloni, a star from Law & Order: SVU and HBO's Oz "On TV, he's worked both sides of the law. Once a...
Kimberly Jantz, an attorney from Tulsa, Oklahoma Season 26 1-time champion: $22,200 + $2,000. Kimberly Jantz - an...
Julie Bowen, a TV and film actress from Boston Legal, Lost and Modern Family "For two seasons, she played attorney Denise Bauer in Boston Legal....
Andrew Kreitz, a senior from Huntington Beach, California 2006 Teen Tournament 1st runner-up: $25,000.
Sebastian Johnson, a senior from Takoma Park, Maryland 2006 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Listed as "Sebi" on the...
Jerome Vered, a writer from Studio City, California 2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
Claudia Perry, a sports copy editor from Jersey City, New Jersey "A pop music critic when she first appeared on Jeopardy!, she's...
Scott Turow, a bestselling novelist and practicing attorney from Chicago, Illinois "He's sold more than 25 million copies of his novels worldwide...
Ken Jennings, a software engineer from Salt Lake City, Utah 2020 Jeopardy!: The Greatest of All Time winner: $1,000,000 + a...
Amy Fletcher, a junior from Cincinnati, Ohio 2005 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. 16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
Larry Marshall, a junior at the University of Missouri from Kansas City, Missouri 2004 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Sean Ryan, a graduate student from Whitehall, Pennsylvania 2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
Andrew Watkins, a junior from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 2006 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user name: everyday847
Chris Miller, a retail specialist from Louisville, Kentucky 2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Elite Eighteen (Round 2 winners) and...
Michael Braun, a junior from Silver Spring, Maryland 2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2005 Teen...
Camille Bullock, a senior from New Orleans, Louisiana 2006 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user name: Camille88
Jason Block, an Internet researcher from Brooklyn, New York Season 17 4-time champion: $36,701. Won $125,000 on Who Wants to...
Lauren Romero, a senior from Denver, Colorado 2006 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. According to the official Jeopardy! web...
Ken Jennings, a software engineer from Salt Lake City, Utah 2020 Jeopardy!: The Greatest of All Time winner: $1,000,000 + a...
Brad Rutter, a TV quiz show host from Lancaster, Pennsylvania 2020 Jeopardy!: The Greatest of All Time 2nd runner-up: $250,000. 2019...
Caitlin Cook, a sophomore from Arden, North Carolina 2005 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $5,000. 16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
Peter Severson, a senior from Sioux Falls, South Dakota 2005 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time of the...
Orlando Zambrano, a junior from Tampa, Florida 2005 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $5,000. 16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
Chloé White, a senior from Mission Hills, Kansas 2005 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. 17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
Chuck Forrest, a lawyer and CEO from London, United Kingdom \"He became a winner of the second-ever Tournament of Champions in...
Kira Alvarez, an attorney originally from Miami, Florida Season 11 player (1994-10-04).
Bob Mooney, an ophthalmologist from Katonah, New York Season 1 player (1985-02-15).
Nathan Kaplan, a math professor from Los Angeles, California Season 35 1-time champion: $19,600 + $2,000. Nathan appeared on ABC\'s...
Brandon Blackwell, a sophomore from Holliswood, New York 2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2008-B Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist:...
Maryanne Mowen, an accounting professor from Santa Fe, New Mexico Season 35 player (2019-04-08).
Burns Cameron, a realtor from Standish, Maine 1990 Super Jeopardy! quarterfinalist: $5,000. Burns appeared on the original version...
Paul Redford, a graphic artist and copywriter from Denver, Colorado Season 8 player (1991-10-15). Paul appeared on Win Ben Stein's Money.
Tim Moon, an attorney originally from Syracuse, New York 2023 Champions Wildcard quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 37 2-time champion: $72,601 + $1,000.
Brad Rutter, the biggest money winner from Los Angeles, California 2020 Jeopardy!: The Greatest of All Time 2nd runner-up: $250,000. 2019...
Pam Mueller, an entering law student originally from Chicago, Illinois \"Representing Loyola University, she won the College Championship in November, 2000....
Bob Chauls, a composer and professor from Westlake Village, California Season 5 3-time champion: $36,798. Bob won $5,000 on Win Ben...
David Mann, a graduate student from Houston, Texas Season 17 player (2000-09-04).
Joe Escarce, a physician originally from Miami, Florida Season 2 player (1986-01-15).
Mort Kamins, an investor and writer from Studio City, California Season 16/17 2-time champion: $27,202. Mort won $11,750 in three games...
Greg Antoine, a programmer from Miami, Florida Season 35 player (2018-10-09).
Jay Rosenberg, a college professor from Chapel Hill, North Carolina \"After winning 5 times in 1985, he became the moderator for...
Paul Boymel, an attorney from Potomac, Maryland 2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 1985 Tournament...
Michael Bilow, a Ph.D. student in computer science from Los Angeles, California 2015 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 31 3-time champion: $96,000...
Jeff Weinstock, a marketing lecturer from Miami, Florida Season 38 2-time champion: $29,201 + $1,000.
Lisa Beach, a feature film casting associate from Los Angeles, California Season 5 player (1988-12-23): a trip to Miami.
Tommy Maranges, a junior from Fort Lauderdale, Florida 2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games quarterfinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time...
Nathaniel Miller, a sophomore at Yale University from Miami, Florida 2020 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000.
Leslie Minot, a grant writer from Las Vegas, Nevada Season 37 1-time champion: $2,700 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like "MINE-it".
Darrin Hall, a director of client engagement from Miami, Florida Season 36 player (2019-11-21).
Shawn Moore, a regional human resources manager from Miami, Florida Season 35 player (2018-09-13). Shawn won $20,000 of a $60,000 jackpot...
David Poland, a writer originally from Miami, Florida Season 7 player (1991-01-15).
Alan Jackowitz, an accountant originally from Brooklyn, New York Season 2 player (1985-09-11). At the time of his appearance, Alan...
Bill Pitassy, a lawyer from Roselle Park, New Jersey \"After winning 5 games in 1994, he took his family on...
Lucas Miner, a junior from Miami, Florida 2023 High School Reunion Tournament semifinalist: $10,000. 2019 Teen Tournament 2nd runner-up: $25,000.
Darryle Pollock, a writer and mother originally from Miami, Florida Season 1 player (1985-05-30). First name pronounced like \"DARE-ul\".
Brad Rosenstein, a radio producer originally from Miami, Florida Season 13 player (1997-03-05).
Dennis Leung, a biotech scientist from Half Moon Bay, California Season 39 player (2023-07-13).
Andy Zax, a graduate student from Los Angeles, California Season 5 player (1989-01-05). Andy won $50 coming in third on...
Phyllis Kornov, a bank support officer originally from Miami Beach, Florida Season 2 1-time champion: $11,300. Phyllis died 1993-06-20.
John Mahoney, an actor from Frasier \"A Tony Award winner who now plays Martin Crane on the...
David Garcia, an IT communications strategy team lead from Troy, Michigan Season 38 player (2021-10-06). David appeared on Who Wants to Be...
Chris Sullivan, a naval flight officer from Manama, Bahrain Season 11 player (1995-03-22). Not to be confused with Season 15...
Hermine Vermeij, a librarian from Tarzana, California Season 34 player (2018-05-22). Name pronounced like \"her-MEEN-uh ver-MAY\".
Sal Manna, a freelance journalist originally from New York City Season 1 1-time champion: $4,800.
Avie Hern, a student originally from Peekskill, New York Season 1 player (1985-03-05). Avie won $5,000 on Win Ben Stein's...
Leslie Frates, a Spanish teacher from Hayward, California \"A Jeopardy! champion in 1991, she\'s now a Spanish teacher listed...
Dave Simpson, a pastor from Belcamp, Maryland 2009 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 24 4-time champion:...
Jack Mooney, an aerospace engineer from Santa Cruz, California Season 37 player (2020-10-14).
Robin Carroll-Mann, a librarian from Parsippany, New Jersey Season 9 player (1993-06-01).
Armand Kachigian, a podiatrist from Granite City, Illinois Season 10 player (1994-02-10). Armand won $500,000 on Who Wants to...
Maureen Mahoney, a claims representative from Kansas City, Kansas Season 3 player (1987-06-08).
Natasha Baker-Bradley, an appellate attorney from Miami, Florida Season 33 player (2017-06-22). Natasha won $70,000 on The Chase on...
Erhard Konerding, a librarian and instructor from Middletown, Connecticut Season 10 1-time champion: $6,002. Erhard appeared on Remember This in...
Brad Marshall, an illustrator originally from Miami, Florida Season 1 2-time champion: $17,500.
Eric House, a technical writer originally from Miami, Florida Season 1 player (1985-03-21).
Allison Berke, a cybersecurity research director from Half Moon Bay, California Season 34 player (2018-03-14).
Matthew Bunch, a middle school civics and world history teacher from Miami, Florida 2019 Teachers Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. At the time of the...
Ashwin Monian, a data scientist from Hatfield, Pennsylvania Season 36 player (2020-01-24).
Jay Mahan, a preschool teacher from Manassas, Virginia Season 19 player (2003-03-20).
Jared Wilke, a teacher from Half Moon Bay, California Season 37 player (2021-02-10).
Meg Monahan, a homemaker from Metuchen, New Jersey Season 7 player (1990-12-31).
Tom Vanderbilt, a writer from Brooklyn, New York Season 28 player (2011-12-30).
Sam Meehan, an attorney from Santa Cruz, California Season 39 player (2023-01-30).
Charles Temple, a high school English teacher from Ocracoke, North Carolina "He teaches at the smallest public school in North Carolina, and...
Prabhu Balasubramanian, a product manager from Mountain View, California Season 28 1-time champion: $9,199 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like "bah-lah-soo-brah-MAHN-ee-un".
Paul Klein, a professor from North Miami Beach, Florida Season 9 2-time champion: $20,602.
Tim Crockett, a casino worker from Las Vegas, Nevada Season 20 player (2004-07-19). KJL game 34.
Viki Radden, a high school English and literacy teacher from Bakersfield, California "She teaches at the largest high school district in California. From...
John Sellers, a writer from Brooklyn, New York Season 28 player (2012-04-05).
Dave Maney, a student originally from Binghamton, New York Season 3 1-time champion: $9,400.
Rich Reddick, a graduate student originally from Austin, Texas Season 19 1-time champion: $14,450 + $1,000. Won $50,000 on Who...
Brenton Montie, a sixth grade social studies teacher from South Lyon, Michigan "He teaches at a school ranked in the top 5% in...
Greg Narver, a lawyer from Seattle, Washington Season 20 player (2004-07-14). KJL game 31.
Kerry Moynihan, an executive search consultant from New York City, New York Season 8 player (1991-10-03).
Chuck Cavender, an advertising executive from Miami, Florida Season 2 player (1986-04-30). The introduction was missing from the recording...
Ed Toutant, an engineer from Austin, Texas Season 6 1-time champion: $11,401. Ed appeared on The Challengers in...
Megan Sullivan, a junior at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia 2022 National College Championship semifinalist: $20,000. Megan was majoring in classics....
Brendan Barnwell, a grad student and tutor from Santa Barbara, California Season 28 player (2011-12-05). Although Brendan played the Jeopardy! and Double...
Paul Nelson, a Senate staff aide originally from Iowa City, Iowa 2013 Tournament of champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 29 5-time champion: $54,900 + $2,000. JBoard user name: PaulNelson2012
Ian Leggin, a software trainer originally from Kenosha, Wisconsin Season 27 player (2011-07-12).
Kimberly Sheppard, a legal assistant from Fort Worth, Texas Season 27 player (2011-04-08).
Manny Abell, a naval officer from Lacey, Washington Season 34 3-time champion: $42,799 + $1,000. Manny appeared on the...
Greg Lyon, a project manager from St. Louis, Missouri Season 26 player (2010-06-03). Partner of Season 29 player Patrick Mooney....
Mengmeng Zhang, a systems manager from Fort Worth, Texas Season 25 player (2008-10-03). Name pronounced like "MUNG-mung ZHAHNG". Jeopardy! Message...
Ben Chuchla, a senior from Calabasas, California 2008-B Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Last name pronounced like "HOO-kla"....
Erik Nelson, a graduate student from Boston, Massachusetts 2009 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 25 4-time champion: $94,404 + $2,000.
Shelby Malone, a senior from Grayson, Kentucky 2008-B Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user name: sleeping_stars
Dillon McCormick, a twelve-year-old from Erlanger, Kentucky "A politician, maybe. An archaeologist, perhaps. Or a psychologist like grandpa....
Susie Macksey, a stand-up comic from Cambridge, Massachusetts Season 9 3-time champion: $27,100. Susie won $1,050 on Win Ben...
Annette Todd, a marketing director from Riverside, California Season 28 player (2012-03-02). This was Annette's seventh game show appearance...
Bradley Silverman, a junior from Alpharetta, Georgia 2008-B Teen Tournament 1st runner-up: $44,600. Jeopardy! Message Board user name:...
Anurag Kashyap, a senior from Poway, California 2008-B Teen Tournament winner: $75,000. Anurag was also the winner of...
Pian Wong, a high school English teacher from New York, New York "She teaches at a Bronx school that's been ranked the most...
Peter Hansen, a project manager from New York, New York Season 29 player (2012-09-21). JBoard user name: Bunkie
Mark Runsvold, a student and waiter from Moscow, Idaho 2011 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 27 4-time champion: $153,800 + $1,000. JBoard user name: markrunsvold
Curtis Warren, an air traffic controller from Palm Springs, California Season 2 player (1986-01-03). Curtis won $136,288 in cash & prizes...
Brad Brown, a theater teacher from Nashville, Tennessee "And he is a theater teacher at an international baccalaureate certified...
Jonathan Groff, a writer and producer for television from Los Angeles, California \"A 5-show winner in 1995, he\'s now a writer and producer...
Jack Mahoney, an actor from Jersey City, New Jersey 1993 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $5,000. Season 9 4-time champion: $32,404.
Mary Ann Stanley, a high school chemistry and physical science teacher from Statesboro, Georgia "She's been teaching for 22 years and is now teaching the...
Jack Mahoney, an actor originally from Newport, Rhode Island 1993 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $5,000. Season 9 4-time champion: $32,404.
Tom Aquino, a lawyer from Boston, Massachusetts Season 20 player (2004-07-06). KJL game 25. Last name pronounced like...
Lauren Hopkins Karcz, a language test developer from Atlanta, Georgia Season 29 player (2013-06-06).
Wes Pierce, a financial planner from Anaheim Hills, California Season 25 3-time champion: $47,199 + $2,000.
Jonathan Feuerman, an attorney from Miami, Florida Season 19 player (2003-04-18).
Catherine Whitten, a high school history teacher from Plano, Texas "This gifted teacher primarily teaches gifted students. From Plano, Texas, this...
Brian Meacham, a film preservationist originally from Anchorage, Alaska 2011 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 27 4-time champion: $90,500...
Jay Rhee, an oncologist from Annapolis, Maryland 2011 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 27 5-time champion:...
Matt Olson, a sophomore at Stanford University from Berkeley, California 2012 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 20 at the time of the...
Katie O'Meara, an 11-year-old from Plano, Texas "This future kindergarten teacher is straight-A's in our book. From Plano,...
Greg Boscaiu, a 12-year-old from Brea, California "As an urban planner, he wants to help build greener communities....
Tom Lynn, a property manager from Baltimore, Maryland Season 29 player (2013-03-25). JBoard user name: BaltimoreBoy
Sarah Bart, a senior at Goucher College from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 2012 College Championship 1st runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $50,000. 22 at...
Andrew Grace, a 12-year-old from Apex, North Carolina "He wants to be a soccer player and an orthopedic surgeon,...
Serena Kay Tibbitt, an attorney from Miami, Florida Season 33 player (2017-03-09).
Tyler Benedict, a junior at Columbia University from Dayton, Ohio 2012 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 21 at the time of the College Championship.
Jaime Alayon, a sophomore at the George Washington University from Miami, Florida 2012 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 19 at the time of the College Championship.
Thomas L. Friedman, an author and foreign affairs columnist from The New York Times "He has won three Pulitzer Prizes and authored six best sellers,...
Carol Lee, a legal analyst from Brooklyn, New York Season 25 player (2008-09-22).
Dr. Mehmet Oz, a cardiac surgeon and TV host from The Dr. Oz Show "He is a renowned cardiac surgeon who has written seven New...
Matthew Cline, a 12-year-old from Maumelle, Arkansas "John Grisham's books have inspired him. He's firm. He wants to...
Dana Perino, a TV host from Fox News Channel's The Five "White House press secretary under George W. Bush, she now appears...
Lisa Makar, a senior from University of Maryland "As a seventh grader, she was planning a career as a...
Lizzie O'Leary, an aviation and regulation correspondent from CNN "She broke the news that Chrysler would file for Chapter 11...
Amy Paull, a stay-at-home mom from The Woodlands, Texas Season 28 player (2012-06-28). Amy won $30,000 on Who Wants to...
Chris Matthews, a TV host from Hardball and The Chris Matthews Show "He served as a speechwriter for Jimmy Carter, and later as...
Gilah Pomeranz, a project manager from Yellow Springs, Ohio Season 24 player (2008-04-29). Gilah won $950 on Win Ben Stein’s...
Robert Gibbs, a former press secretary from the Obama White House "In 2004, he joined Barack Obama's senatorial campaign as communications director,...
Paula Menasche, a high school social studies teacher from Coral Gables, Florida Season 29 3-time champion: $55,100 + $1,000.
Bob Mahoney, a public affairs officer originally from Melrose, Massachusetts Season 6 player[?] (1990-04-13).
Kevin Yang, a junior from Birmingham, Alabama 2012 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000. 16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
Andy Baggarly, a journalist and author from Palo Alto, California Season 28 3-time champion: $60,402 + $1,000. Andy won $200 on...
Jeff Haylon, a sophomore from Newtown, Connecticut 2012 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $10,000. 15 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
Dan Streit, a teacher originally from Miami, Florida Season 12 player (1996-05-28).
Debra McGuire, a homemaker and micro farmer from Princeton, Texas Season 28 player (2012-01-18). JBoard user name: debramc
Ben Greenho, a junior from Plano, Texas 2012 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000. 17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
Raya Elias-Pushett, a junior from Aventura, Florida 2011 Teen Tournament 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $20,851. First name...
Trevor Walker, a sophomore at MIT from Miami Shores, Florida 2013 College Championship 1st runner-up: $50,000.
Steven Ho, a junior from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 2011 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time of the...
Bret Jacobs, a financial consultant from Irvine, California Season 28 player (2011-10-07).
Bryan Barnett, a military charter flight attendant from Potomac Falls, Virginia Season 28 player (2012-01-10).
Brad Rutter, a $3.2-million winner from Los Angeles, California "In 2000, he became a 5-time champion and went on to...
Ed Glenn, a college professor from Miami, Florida Season 19 player (2003-07-10).
Erin McLean, a junior at Boston University from Danvers, Massachusetts 2011 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 2010-B College Championship winner:...
Matt Neville, a deli clerk from Hamden, Connecticut Season 27 3-time champion: $65,400 + $2,000.
David Weiss, a professor from Billings, Montana Season 25 player (2008-10-17).
Matt Heimer, a magazine editor from Brooklyn, New York Season 24 player (2008-07-25).
Jean Whitcomb, a teller supervisor from Kalamazoo, Michigan Season 24 1-time champion: $21,201 + $1,000.
Claire Ward, a project manager from Richmond, Virginia Season 23 player (2007-02-27).
Tom Moynihan, an attorney from Irving, Texas Season 11 player (1995-01-24).
Davine Scarlett, a 12-year-old from Miami, Florida 1999 Back-to-School Week player (1999-09-07).
Leszek Pawlowicz, a materials scientist from Phoenix, Arizona 2014 Battle of the Decades semifinalist: $25,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
Donna Brown, a customer service representative from Seattle, Washington Season 34 1-time champion: $45,600 + $2,000. At the introduction of...
Rosie O'Donnell, from The Rosie O'Donnell Show "Her love of Broadway led this talk show host to emceeing...
Toni Case, a substitute teacher from Kansas City, Missouri Season 24 player (2008-06-26).
David Emery-Peck, a development officer from Oberlin, Ohio Season 31 player (2014-12-18).
Tim Moon, an attorney from Los Angeles, California 2023 Champions Wildcard quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 37 2-time champion: $72,601 + $1,000.
Tavis Smiley, a talk show host from PBS's The Tavis Smiley Show "He's interviewed such diverse personalities as Fidel Castro, Pope John Paul...
Heidi Fogle, a senior from Overland Park, Kansas 2007 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000. 17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
Mark Born, a musician, writer and teacher from Bangkok, Thailand \"He was the top winner of the 1990-91 season. He\'s a...
Myles Jeffrey, a senior from Seal Beach, California 2007 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
Michael Bilow, a Ph.D. student in computer science originally from Chicago, Illinois 2015 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 31 3-time champion: $96,000...
Emma Miller, from San Mateo, California "She loves the idea of creating art that people can live...
Rachel "Steve" Cooke, a senior from Fishers, Indiana 2008-A Teen Tournament 1st runner-up: $25,000. 17 at the time of...
Maria Bartiromo, a business anchor from CNBC 2004 Power Players Week player (2004-05-11). Charities: National Italian American Foundation...
Neha Rao, from Johns Creek, Georgia "She's hoping to become a teacher and inspire her students in...
Zane Ice, a 12-year-old from West Palm Beach, Florida "He wants to build a business in emerging technologies to help...
Philip Blustein, a handyman from Beverly Hills, California Season 20 player (2004-05-28). Last name pronounced like "BLOO-steen".
Tyler Van Patten, from Burlington, Wisconsin "He's focusing on becoming a corporate attorney, because of his fascination...
Olivia Woods, a 12-year-old from Cincinnati, Ohio "She loves working with little kids and would like to become...
Anne Boyd, a freelance writer from Los Angeles, California 2004 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 20 4-time champion: $84,600...
Andy Catsimanes, an Internet marketing copy writer from Overland Park, Kansas Season 24 1-time champion: $26,001 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
Katie Gill, a sophomore from Jackson, Mississippi 2008-A Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000. 15 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
Lionel Goldbart, a retired schoolteacher from Miami Beach, Florida 1993 10th Anniversary Tournament semifinalist: $5,000. 1990 Super Jeopardy! quarterfinalist: $5,000....
Jonathan Hawley, a sophomore from Harvard University 2008 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 19 and from Oceanside, CA at...
Krissy Brzycki, an 11-year-old from Indianapolis, Indiana "Her love of helping her community and her interest in politics...
Manoj Mate, an attorney from San Francisco, California Season 18 player (2002-04-05). Name pronounced like "mahn-OHZSH mah-TAY".
Victoria Agrinya, a 12-year-old from Woodbridge, Virginia "She would like to be a successful entrepreneur when she grows...
Melissa Luttmann, a freshman from Memphis, Tennessee 2008-A Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 14 at the time of...
Christine Schmidt, a high school teacher from Miami, Florida Season 19 2-time champion: $33,801 + $1,000.
Katie Winter, a senior from Tufts University 2008 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 22 and from Hershey, PA at...
Andy Morse, a money manager from Scarsdale, New York Season 11 player (1994-12-05).
Dara Lind, a junior from Yale University 2008 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 20 and from Cincinnati, OH at...
Vera Swain, a junior from the University of South Carolina 2008 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 21 and from Charleston, SC...
James Grant, a junior from Georgetown University 2008 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 21 and from Manhattan Beach,...
Meredith Johnson, a senior from University of Minnesota 2008 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. Attended the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities...
Michael Steele, a political analyst and host from MSNBC and Steele & Ungar "He was elected lieutenant governor of Maryland in 2003, and later...
Gabrielle McMahan, a junior from Florida A&M University 2008 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 20 and from Springfield, VA at...
Katie McArthur, a hazardous waste compliance inspector from Yakima, Washington Season 23 player (2007-01-31).
Bob Danielson, a financial analyst from Miami Springs, Florida Season 2 1-time champion $8,950.
Freda Mammina, a teacher from Yonkers, New York 1989 Senior Tournament semifinalist: $5,000.
John Cuthbertson, a physicist from San Diego, California 2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Elite Eighteen (Round 2 winners) and...
John Cuthbertson, a physicist originally from Liberty, Missouri 2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Elite Eighteen (Round 2 winners) and...
Blake Hernandez, a senior from Burke, Virginia 2002 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. Blake was 16 at the time...
Colleen Mahoney, a sophomore from East Hampton, Connecticut 2001 Teen Tournament 2nd runner-up: $10,000. 15 at the time of...
James Hyder, a systems manager from Columbia, Maryland Season 7 1-time champion: $7,201 + a trip to Miami on...
Allie Pape, a sophomore from Ponte Vedra, Florida 2002 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. Allie was 14 at the time...
Liana Walters, a junior from Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania 2002 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $5,000. Liana was 16 at the...
Laura Adomunas, a pharmacist from Sayreville, New Jersey Season 20 player (2004-06-10). KJL game 7.
Lan Djang, a business analyst from Toronto, Canada 2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Elite Eighteen (Round 2 winners) member:...
Michael Backes, a puzzle designer originally from Tucson, Arizona Season 1 3-time champion: $31,300. Michael won $1,300 on Win Ben...
Sally Mouzon, an opera singer from Belmont, California Season 17 player (2001-03-28). Appeared on Win Ben Stein's Money, and...
Babu Srinivasan, a history professor from Houston, Texas 2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
Roger Craig, a data scientist from Brooklyn, New York "He was a graduate student in computer science living in Newark,...
Danny Shapiro, a gynecologist originally from Miami, Florida Season 7 player (1990-11-22). Last name pronounced like Sha-PIE-ro.
Corey Halgren, a supplier quality engineer from Noblesville, Indiana Season 20 player (2004-06-08). KJL game 5.
Timothy Mahoney, a development officer originally from Detroit, Michigan Season 18 1-time champion: $15,000.
Clinton Wieden, a college student from Fairview, Oklahoma Season 20 player (2004-06-07). KJL game 4. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
Chris Mazurek, an assistant professor from Columbia, Missouri 2007 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
Kurt Bodden, an industrial designer from San Francisco, California Season 13 player (1997-01-02). Won $5,000 on Win Ben Stein's Money.
Cathy Lanctot, a law professor from Wilmington, Delaware 2007 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
Josh Den Hartog, a junior from Otley, Iowa 2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 1998 Tournament...
Michael Falk, a meteorologist from Milwaukee, Wisconsin 2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2006 Tournament of Champions...
Jason Richards, a pharmacy technician from Old Town, Maine 2006 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 22 4-time champion: $99,200 + $2,000.
Maria Wenglinsky, a teacher from Brooklyn, New York 2006 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 22 5-time champion: $122,300...
Kermin Fleming, a student from Lexington, Kentucky 2006 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions...
Kirsten Albair, a jeweler from Caribou, Maine Season 30 player (2014-03-11).
Tom Meenan, a computer consultant from Arlington, Virginia Season 13 player (1996-12-20).
Mehrun Etebari, a graduate student of international relations from Durham, New Hampshire 2007 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
Erin McGurgan, an English teacher from Saugerties, New York Season 22 player (2005-12-14).
Richard Bolton, an investment banker from Miami, Florida Season 1 player (1984-10-05).
Bill MacDonald, an attorney from Bonita Springs, Florida 2006 Tournament of Champions 2nd runner-up: $50,000. Season 22 4-time champion:...
Brad Rutter, an actor and producer from Hollywood, California "He was a college student from Lancaster, Pennsylvania, when he won...
Glenda Niemiec, a payroll specialist from St. Paul, Minnesota Season 22 player (2005-12-02). Jeopardy! Message Board user name: Gramma Glenda
Nico Martinez, a junior at Stanford University from Bloomfield Hills, Michigan 2006 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2005 College Champion: $100,000 +...
John Krizel, a green community program coordinator from Beckley, West Virginia 2011 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $105,204...
Chris Breen, a sophomore at Princeton University from Springfield, Massachusetts 2005 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. According to the official Jeopardy! web...
Aman Birk, from Irvine, California "He may not be the fastest swimmer on the team, but...
Pranita Ramakrishnan, from Centreville, Virginia "Not only does this future neurologist enjoy swimming, drawing and spelling,...
Trevor Mahoney, an actuary from Louisville, Kentucky Season 33 player (2017-04-12). JBoard user name: badgerfellow
Sarah Hayden Williams, a bakery owner and caterer from North Creek, New York Season 29 player (2012-10-25). JBoard user name: sarahbree
Olivia Colangelo, a junior from the University of Notre Dame from Murrysville, Pennsylvania 2010-B College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
Dan Melia, a retired professor from Berkeley, California "He was a professor at U.C. Berkeley when he won the...
Peter Ellis, a senior at North Carolina State University from Cary, North Carolina 2005 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000.
Vince Mohan, a high school teacher from Englewood, New Jersey Season 12 player (1996-04-04).
Steve Greene, a senior from UCLA from Elk Grove, California 2010-B College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000 + a Nintendo Wii +...
Hope Landsem, from Tualatin, Oregon "She likes to win arguments, and that's why she's going to...
Van Lane, an ATM support technician from Denver, Colorado Season 26 3-time champion: $69,128 + $1,000.
Eddie Timanus, a sports reporter from Arlington, Virginia "A 5-time champion, he went on to become a semifinalist in...
Joseph Henares, from Avon, Connecticut "Along with group science projects, history club, writing club, and chess...
Susan Klak, a teacher from Plainfield, Illinois Season 22 player (2005-10-26).
Mitchell Vogel, from Madison, Wisconsin "This future governor of Wisconsin enjoys rollerblading, reading, and playing saxophone....
Eric Newhouse, a director of technical assistance from Vermillion, South Dakota "He won both the 1989 Teen Tournament and the 1998 Teen...
Røb Severson, a custodial facilitator from St. Louis, Missouri Season 26 player (2009-11-17). Name pronounced like "ROB SEE-ver-sun". Røb wore...
Jeremy Evans, a tech advisor from Englewood, Ohio Season 22 player (2005-11-01).
Kammy McCleery, a coordinator of experiential education and student employment from Lexington, Kentucky Season 21 1-time champion: $12,400 + $2,000.
Charlotte Darby, from West Chester, Pennsylvania "Her crafts include crochet, origami, and friendship bracelets. From West Chester,...
Matt Tick, from Escondido, California "Will take violin lessons and loves science, but he really wants...
Maria Wenglinsky, a teacher originally from Salt Lake City, Utah 2006 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 22 5-time champion: $122,300...
Caroline Evans, a twelve-year-old from Bethesda, Maryland "The sky's not the limit. She wants to be the first...
Jon Er, from Williamsville, New York "This musician always argues for his fairness, so he wants to...
Brian Algra, a doctoral student from Torrance, California Season 21 player (2005-06-10).
Stuart Nadler, a writer from Brooklyn, New York Season 22 player (2005-10-17).
Thomas Horn, a twelve-year-old from Piedmont, California "He plans on making the world a better place as an...
Larry Cloud, a bookkeeper and computer consultant from Inglewood, California "He won five times in 2001, allowing him to make a...
Michael Braun, a high school junior from Silver Spring, Maryland "He is the 2005 Teen Tournament champion. A high school junior...
Dave Abbott, a musician and licensing executive from Fort Thomas, Kentucky "He won the 1999 Tournament of Champions. A musician and licensing...
Graham Gilmer, a senior at Stanford University from Stanford, California "He was the Teen Tournament champion in 2001. Now he's a...
Pat Healy, an index supervisor from Vallejo, California "His five wins in 1998 helped him land a dream job...
Will Walters, a twelve-year-old from Lexington, Kentucky "He wants to follow in the footsteps of his idols, Albert...
Michael Daunt, an accountant from Oakville, Ontario, Canada "In 1996, he was a finalist in the Tournament of Champions....
Jesse Cuevas, a corporate lawyer originally from Leawood, Kansas Season 27 3-time champion: $65,981 + $2,000. Brother of Season 30...
Tom Halpern, a lawyer originally from New York, New York "A writer and researcher when he won 5 times in 1991,...
Kyle Hale, a college senior from Katy, Texas "Representing Texas A&M, he won the 2002 College Championship. Now he's...
Eugene Finerman, a writer from Northbrook, Illinois "A finalist in the 1987 Tournament of Champions, he's a writer....
Fraser Woodford, an investment banker from New York, New York "In 1993, winner of the Teen Tournament, he's now an investment...
Andrew Hutchings, a graduate student from Ithaca, New York "A senior when he won the 1998 College Championship, he's now...
Bob Fleenor, a newspaper copy editor from Martinsburg, West Virginia "Legislative work in his home state was suspended so that lawmakers...
Bill Sloan, a realtor from Mission Viejo, California "Since winning five shows in 1996, he has gone on to...
Jay Mann, an animal control dispatcher from Anaheim, California Season 1 1-time champion: $5,400.
Kathleen Mikulis, a stay-at-home mom from Mountain View, California Season 27 1-time champion: $25,201 + $2,000. Kathleen's contestant experience blog....
Craig Barker, an Advanced Placement history teacher from Livonia, Michigan "In 1997 he won the College Championship. Today he's an Advanced...
Brad Plovan, an attorney from Baltimore, Maryland "With the money from his five wins in 1995, he bought...
Stacy Braverman, a public interest lawyer from Washington, D.C. Season 26 1-time champion: $14,984 + $2,000. As detailed in a...
Kurt Bray, a scientist from Oceanside, California "A 5-time winner in 1994, he used some of his winnings...
Jack Archey, an actor and writer from Los Angeles, California "He was a CPA and comedian when he won his 5th...
Lionel Goldbart, a newsstand clerk from South Miami Beach, Florida 1993 10th Anniversary Tournament semifinalist: $5,000. 1990 Super Jeopardy! quarterfinalist: $5,000....
Mark Eckard, an entrepreneur from Bedford, Massachusetts "A 2001 5-time champion as a software designer, he has now...
Bob Harris, a writer from Los Angeles, California "This 5-time champ was a finalist in the 1998 Tournament of...
Dan Melia, a college professor from Berkeley, California "He was a 1998 Tournament of Champions winner. Today he's a...
Vinita Kailasanath, a consultant from San Mateo, California "She represented Stanford University when she won the 2001 College Tourney....
Steven Milton, a legal case assistant from San Diego, California Season 26 2-time champion: $30,299 + $1,000. Steve Milton San Diego,...
Jerome Vered, a writer from Los Angeles, California "He was a writer living in Studio City, California, when he...
Dan Katz, a lawyer from Owings Mills, Maryland "Since his five wins in 1990, he's seen Bruce Springsteen 16...
Billy Baxter, an attorney from Richmond, Virginia "Representing the College of William & Mary, he won the 1992...
Leszek Pawlowicz, a computer consultant from Flagstaff, Arizona "He was the winner of the 1992 Tournament of Champions. Today...
Jeremy Bate, an emergency medical technician and writer from Tujunga, California "A second-place finisher in the 2000 Tournament of Champions, he's now...
Robert Yowell, an instructor of political science originally from Orange, California Season 27 player (2010-10-15).
Tad Carithers, an attorney from New York City, New York "He finished second in the 2001 Tournament of Champions. Today he...
Jeff Richmond, an attorney from Los Angeles, California "He used his 1988 5-game winnings to pay for law school....
John Genova, a teacher from Granada Hills, California "From 1984, he was the earliest 5-time champion in the tournament....
Babu Srinivasan, a history professor from Houston, Texas "His aggressive wagering helped him become the biggest winner from the...
Rachael Schwartz, a lawyer from Washington, D.C. "In 1994, she was the first female winner of a Tournament...
Kerry Breitenbach, a marketing analyst from South Euclid, Ohio 2006 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 21 5-time champion: $90,400...
Carol Denny, a writer for a non-profit environmental foundation from Arnold, Maryland Season 27 1-time champion: $13,199 + $1,000. Identical twin sister of Season 29 player Chris O'Toole.
Andrew Westney, a sports business writer from Charlotte, North Carolina "He was a high-school student from Atlanta when he won the...
Anderson Cooper, an anchor from CNN's Anderson Cooper 360° "As a baby, he was photographed by Diane Arbus of Harper's...
Sanda Kurtz, a price protection manager from Miami Beach, Florida Season 21 player (2004-11-26). KJL game 73.
Adam Villani, an engineer from Long Beach, California Season 21 player (2004-10-27). KJL game 61. Adam won $80,000 on...
Arthur Gandolfi, a commercial real estate executive from Pleasantville, New York 2004 Tournament of Champions 2nd runner-up: $25,000. Season 20 4-time champion:...
Sam Ott, a graduate student from Los Angeles, California 2004 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 19/20 4-time champion: $67,102 + $1,000.
Rachel Pildis, a software developer from Oak Park, Illinois Season 26 1-time champion: $12,000 + $2,000. Rachel Pildis - A...
Stephen Stiegel, a high school English teacher from Elon, North Carolina Season 25 player (2009-05-27). Last name pronounced like "STEE-gul".
Nick Gorski, a journalist from Charlottesville, Virginia Season 26 player (2010-03-15). Nick wore a Regis High School tie...
Crystal Durham, a 12-year-old from Fort Pierce, Florida "She would like to be an Irish stepdancing teacher, because dancing...
Barry Petchesky, a journalist from New York, New York Season 25 player (2009-03-09).
Peter Hall, a teaching artist at a museum from Brooklyn, New York Season 26 1-time champion: $36,800 + $1,000.
Felicia Ko, a stay-at-home mom from Pleasant Gap, Pennsylvania Season 26 player (2010-06-04).
Billy Hackenson, an eleven-year-old from Great Falls, Virginia "As a descendant of President Taft, it's no surprise that he's...
James Erwin, a writer from Des Moines, Iowa Season 25 2-time champion: $22,598 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
Jen McFann, a Peace Corps recruiter from Astoria, New York Season 26 1-time champion: $19,410 + $2,000. Jen McFann Astoria, New...
Buzz Aldrin, a retired astronaut and author from the book Encounter with Tiber "He's an entry in every encyclopedia, author of the book Encounter...
Soledad O'Brien, an anchor and special correspondent from CNN's Special Investigations Unit "Currently the host of CNN's Special Investigations Unit, she's received critical...
Justin Bernbach, a lobbyist from Brooklyn, New York 2010 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 25 7-time champion: $155,001...
Paul Boymel, an attorney from Potomac, Maryland 2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 1985 Tournament...
Dan Rowley, an aerospace engineer from Westchester, California Season 20 player (2004-04-20). Jeopardy! Message Board user name: westchester guy
Fred Cofone, a copy editor from Old Greenwich, Connecticut Season 27 2-time champion: $24,400 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like "kuh-FONE".
Erica Greil, a junior from Princeton University 2009 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 22 and from Hastings, Minnesota at...
Chris Matthews, a TV host from Hardball and The Chris Matthews Show "Once a presidential speechwriter, he's had his own political talk show...
Geoff Strain, an electronics broker from Imperial Beach, California Season 20 1-time champion: $21,155 + $1,000.
Greg Lichtenstein, a freshman from Vassar College 2009 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 18 and from Plainview, New York...
Liz Murphy, a foreign service officer originally from Scranton, Pennsylvania 2010 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 25 5-time champion: $121,302...
Debra Winthrop, an environmental attorney from Stamford, Connecticut Season 7 player (1990-09-03): a trip to Miami, Florida + a...
Kadeem Cooper, a junior from the University of Virginia 2009 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 20 and from Brooklyn, New York...
Andrea Michaels, a freelance writer from Los Angeles, California Season 4 player (1988-07-05): Gibson's Keytek professional keyboard + a Krayco...
Terry Linwood, a bookseller from Plano, Texas 2010 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 26 5-time champion: $122,705...
Shyra Latiolais, a legal secretary from New Orleans, Louisiana Season 25 1-time champion: $20,000 + $1,000. Last name pronounced like...
Yevgeny Shrago, a research assistant originally from Rochester, New York Season 26 1-time champion: $24,600 + $2,000. Name pronounced like "yev-GHEN-ee...
Robert Wargo, a student from Fairfield, Connecticut Season 2 player (1986-05-29). Robert appeared on seven episodes of Connecticut...
Jeff Gorham, an accountant from Richmond, Virginia Season 27 1-time champion: $14,001 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user name: SpacemanSpiff
David Juliano, a casino dealer from Las Vegas, Nevada Season 9 1-time champion: $8,000 + a week's vacation at Murrieta...
Kathy Kenny, a high school math teacher from Park Ridge, New Jersey Season 26 1-time champion: $18,201 + $2,000.
Dan D'Addario, a senior from Columbia University 2010-A College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Hometown: Farmington, Connecticut. Daniel D'Addario...
Deborah White, a marketing manager from Woodstock, Georgia Season 20 player (2004-04-09).
Victor Fernandez, a nonprofit professional from Miami, Florida Season 19 player (2003-01-31).
Prashant Raghavendran, a sophomore from the University of Texas, Dallas 2010-A College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. Hometown: Austin, Texas. Prashant Raghavendran Blog...
Surya Sabhapathy, a senior from the University of Michigan 2010-A College Championship 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $26,600. Hometown: Northville,...
Luis Corchado, an attorney from Denver, Colorado Season 20 player (2004-01-07).
Enrique Machado, an oil filtration business developer from Orlando, Florida Season 26 1-time champion: $30,799 + $2,000. Enrique Machado September 16,...
Jane Curtin, an actress from Kate & Allie and 3rd Rock from the Sun "One of Saturday Night Live's original Not Ready for Primetime Players,...
Samira Missaghi, a junior from the University of Minnesota 2010-A College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Hometown: Eden Prarie, Minnesota. Samira...
CCH Pounder, an actress from Avatar and Brothers "She earned an Emmy nomination for her role as Claudette Wyms...
Lyndsey Romick, a sophomore from Lewis & Clark College 2010-A College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. Hometown: Grants Pass, Oregon. Lyndsey Romick...
Kathy Kinney, an actress from The Drew Carey Show "She plays Drew Carey's colorful nemesis Mimi on ABC's The Drew...
Hill Harper, an author and actor from CSI: NY "As an award-winning author, he's written three New York Times best...
Ryan Stoffers, a sophomore from UCLA 2010-A College Championship 1st runner-up: $50,000. Hometown: Saratoga, California. Ryan Stoffers...
Louis Irizarry, a sales rep from Palmetto Bay, Florida Season 25 player (2009-02-04).
Rebecca Dixon, a graduate student and musician from Vancouver, Washington Season 26 2-time champion: $53,002 + $1,000. Rebecca and her partner...
Sara Terrell, a veterinary technician from Windsor, Connecticut 2007 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
Andrea Barnes, a stay-at-home mom from Johnstown, Pennsylvania Season 27 player (2010-12-27).
Anna Tschetter, a legal assistant from Danvers, Massachusetts Season 26 1-time champion: $3,400 + $1,000.
Per Milam, a graduate student of philosophy from San Diego, California Season 24 player (2007-11-30). Name pronounced like "PAIR MY-lam".
Harris Cohen, a family physician from Lower Gwynedd, Pennsylvania Season 25 2-time champion: $17,800 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
Shay Collins, an 11-year-old from Averill Park, New York "His passion for music helps this future rock star to play...
Camryn Manheim, an actress from The Practice "She won an Emmy for her portrayal of Ellenor Frutt on...
Mike Becker, a track & field coach from Miami, Florida Season 16 player (2000-01-28).
Catherine Bell, an actress from JAG "Her Marine Corps attorney, Major Sarah 'Mac' MacKenzie, plays by the...
Christine Carrino Gorowara, a teacher educator from Wilmington, Delaware Season 25 2-time champion: $43,202 + $1,000. Wife of Season 26...
Ellie O'Donnell, a systems analyst from Bloomington, Illinois Season 20 1-time champion: $9,800 + $2,000.
Marc Goldenberg, an economist from Miami Beach, Florida Season 19 2-time champion: $22,801 + $1,000.
Josh Powell, a phone-based health coach from San Diego, California Season 27 3-time champion: $26,900 + $1,000.
Donna Vogel, a scientist from Bethesda, Maryland 2009 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 24 4-time champion:...
Jim Stevens, a high school math teacher from Fairview Park, Ohio 2009 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 25 6-time champion: $140,600 + $2,000.
Charlie Blatt, an 11-year-old from Scarsdale, New York "Besides cooking, working on the computer, and tap dancing, she likes...
George Lewis, a teacher from Fairfield, Connecticut Season 20 player (2004-03-10).
Kizzle Cote, a 12-year-old from Ludlow, Massachusetts "This future ichthyologist has a 30-gallon aquarium in his bedroom..." 2007...
Elizabeth Perkins, an actress from Big and Weeds 2009 Celebrity Jeopardy! player: $25,000 to the New England Learning Center...
Bob Kennedy, a college linguistics instructor from Santa Barbara, California Season 27 2-time champion: $33,800 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user name: Bobk
Rahul Ranadive, a lawyer from Miami, Florida Season 16 1-time champion: $3,000.
Emily Moin, a 12-year-old from Rockville Centre, New York "Whether it's music or drama, she just loves to perform..." 2000...
Jennifer Broders, a junior high school social studies teacher from Stockton, Iowa Season 26 2-time champion: $59,801 + $1,000. Jennifer Broders - a...
Marshall Flores, a senior from Arizona State University from Avondale, Arizona 2010-B College Championship semifinalist: $10,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
Matthew McCarthy, a college sophomore from Miami, Florida Season 16 player (1999-12-30).
Sam Spaulding, a sophomore from Yale University from Wilmington, North Carolina 2010-B College Championship 1st runner-up: $50,000 + a Nintendo Wii +...
Rosemarie Rinaldi, an attorney from Miami, Florida Season 16 player (1999-12-30).
Andrew Rostan, a writer and script reader originally from Boardman, Ohio 2007 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
Doug Hicton, a composer originally from Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada 2007 Tournament of Champions 1st runner-up: $100,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD...
Neil Patrick Harris, an actor from How I Met Your Mother "He's appeared on Broadway in Proof, Assassins, and Cabaret. He's now...
Michael Boisson, an artist from New York, New York Season 24 player (2007-10-18).
Trip Robertson, a non-profit development director from Charleston, South Carolina Season 24 player (2007-10-15).
Amy Mandel, a 12-year-old from Miami, Florida "Even though she's an expert in politics, she still wants to...
Diana North, a first grade teacher from Rock Hill, South Carolina "She recently celebrated her silver anniversary of teaching. From Rock Hill,...
Lionel Goldbart, a part-time newsstand clerk from Miami Beach, Florida 1993 10th Anniversary Tournament semifinalist: $5,000. 1990 Super Jeopardy! quarterfinalist: $5,000....
Michael Farabaugh, a high school chemistry teacher from Charlottesville, Virginia "This chemistry teacher has been making things fizz, smoke, and explode...
Gigi Lehman, a home schooling mom from Miami, Florida Season 16 player (2000-04-26).
Scotty Ballard, a 12-year-old from Murphy, Texas "When he grows up, he hopes to serve justice as a...
Brian Robin, a public relations executive from Lancaster, California Season 23 1-time champion: $8,599 + $2,000. Brian won $5,000 on...
Chris Possinger, a mechanical engineer from Boston, Massachusetts Season 23 player (2007-04-04).
Lenzy Krehbiel-Burton, a graduate student originally from Tulsa, Oklahoma Season 23 1-time champion: $10,300 + $2,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user name: orangecrayon
Catherine Allen, a copy editor from DeMotte, Indiana Season 23 player (2007-04-03). Won $1,000 on Who Wants to be...
Craig Nemiroff, a director of business development from New York, New York Season 23 player (2007-04-02).
Mallory Ortberg, a student and waitress from Menlo Park, California Season 26 player (2009-12-21).
Kathryn Erbe, an actress from Law & Order: Criminal Intent "On stage, she earned a 1991 Tony nomination for Speed of...
Sam Waterston, an actor from Law & Order "A Best Actor Oscar nominee for The Killing Fields, he's now...
Christopher Meloni, an Emmy-nominated actor from Law & Order: Special Victims Unit "He's played challenging roles on both sides of the law, including...
Harry Shearer, a humorist, Spinal Tap bassist, and voice from The Simpsons "He recently celebrated the 25th anniversary of This Is Spinal Tap...
Curt Schilling, a pitcher from the Boston Red Sox "In helping the Red Sox to win the 2004 World Series,...
Hayley Clatterbuck, a junior from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln 2007 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 21 at the time of...
Lois Rothman, a social worker from Miami, Florida Season 2 player (1986-04-23).
Alan Bailey, a playwright and director from Sherman Oaks, California 2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2003 Tournament...
Mark Brown, an administrative assistant and father from Peoria, Arizona 2003 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 19 5-time champion: $68,094...
Jason McCune, an actor originally from Jasper, Indiana 2003 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 18 4-time champion: $90,041.
Jason Stuart, a substitute teacher from San Diego, California Season 23 player (2006-10-26).
Mark Dawson, a business manager from Chamblee, Georgia 2014 Battle of the Decades quarterfinalist: $10,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
Ben Tritle, an apartment manager from Los Angeles, California 2003 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 18 5-time champion: $78,600...
Kristiana Henderson, a junior from Kent, Washington 2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games quarterfinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time...
Brian Weikle, a project manager from Minneapolis, Minnesota 2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
Michael Bandiera, an attorney from Burbank, California Season 23 player (2007-03-15).
Kriti Gandhi, a senior from Ellicott City, Maryland 2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games semifinalist: $10,000. 18 at the time...
Lindsey Nicolai, a junior from Hampton, Virginia 2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games quarterfinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time...
Bruce Janger, a retired attorney from Santa Monica, California Season 19 2-time champion: $47,401 + $2,000. Appeared on Win Ben Stein's Money.
Aiden Pink, a freshman from St. Louis Park, Minnesota 2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games semifinalist: $10,000. 15 at the time...
Patrick Mahoney, an actor and director from the Bronx, New York Season 17 player (2001-07-16).
Meryl Federman, a senior from Livingston, New Jersey 2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games champion (semifinalist by wildcard): $75,000. 18...
Greg Peterson, a senior from Park Ridge, Illinois 2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games 1st runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $38,600....
Andy Hutchins, a senior from Rockledge, Florida 2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games semifinalist: $10,000. 17 at the time...
Andy Reese, a records coordinator from San Diego, California Season 23 player (2006-10-19).
Jason Ross, an engineer from Folsom, California Season 24 player (2007-12-07).
Robin Quivers, a radio and television personality from The Howard Stern Show "Howard Stern's news anchor and sidekick for the past 28 years,...
Rishi Bhandari, a first-year law student from New York City, New York Season 16 player (2000-04-18). Won $100,000 on Who Wants to Be...
Megan Clouser, an environmental compliance specialist from Miami, Florida Season 15 1-time champion: $2,800.
Meri-Jane Rochelson, a college professor from Miami, Florida Season 16 player (2000-04-18).
Gerald McClanahan, a writer from Los Angeles, California Season 22 player (2006-03-13). Instant Films.
Matt Mann, an operations manager from Carpinteria, California Season 14 1-time champion: $1,401.
Dan Avila, a photographer from Los Angeles, California Season 7 1-time champion: $5,300 + a Sanyo remote control stereo...
Loren Loiacono, a senior from Setauket, New York 2006 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Jennifer Kelly, a college instructor from Madison, Alabama Season 22 player (2006-02-03).
Jim Mainguy, a customer service representative from North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Season 22 player (2006-07-21). Last name pronounced like "MAIN-gee" (with a...
Charlie Kahn, a middle school math teacher from Versailles, Kentucky Season 21 1-time champion: $25,600 + $2,000.
Becky Benjamin, a law student from Miami, Florida Season 16 player (1999-10-20).
Brett McGlasson, a systems analyst from Henderson, Nevada Season 22 player (2006-07-07).
John Moore, a talk radio show host from Toronto, Ontario, Canada Season 22 player (2006-01-31).
Steve Chernicoff, a technical writer from Berkeley, California 2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Elite Eighteen (Round 2 winners) member:...
Susan Lucci, an actress from All My Children "One of daytime TV's most beloved actresses, she's played Erica Kane...
Bob Verini, a director of academics for a national test preparation company from Los Angeles, California 2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
Rick Kent, a paralegal from Los Angeles, California Season 24 3-time champion: $67,202 + $1,000. Rick won $5,000 on...
Lily Wang, a junior at Columbia University from Plano, Texas 2004 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000.
John Kelly, a retired Air Force officer from Austin, Texas "In 1992, he was one of the top five money winners...
Michael Rooney, a college professor from Pasadena, California "He was a winner of 5 games in 1999, and is...
Leszek Pawlowicz, a materials scientist from Phoenix, Arizona 2014 Battle of the Decades semifinalist: $25,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
Jerome Vered, a writer from Studio City, California 2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
Michael Blake, a 12-year-old from Hamburg, New York "Our top story tonight is this young man, who wants to...
Dan Melia, a professor from San Francisco, California 2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
Sara Jansson, a 10-year-old from Monmouth Junction, New Jersey "She wants to become a singer because she loves music so...
Crystal Reed, a pension assistant from Miami, Florida Season 16 player (1999-09-15).
Josh Den Hartog, a Teen Tournament winner from Otley, Iowa 2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 1998 Tournament...
Eric Newhouse, a director of technical assistance from Sioux City, Iowa 2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
Keith Williams, a sophomore at Middlebury College from Middlebury, Vermont "As a freshman from Middlebury College, he won the 2003 College...
Ben Goggins, a retired marine biologist from Tybee Island, Georgia Season 22 2-time champion: $46,800 + $2,000.
Gordon Frankel Light, an attorney originally from Miami, Florida Season 12 player (1996-02-02).
Margaret Rhodes, a horseback riding instructor from Marietta, Georgia Season 21 player (2005-07-19). Wife of Season 18 1-time champion Jeff Rhodes.
Dan Melia, a professor from San Francisco, California 2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
Kerri Regan, a senior from Bethpage, New York 2005 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. 17 at the time of the...
Ben Lyon, an industrial scaleman from Dallas, Texas "Representing the University of Oklahoma, he won the 1995 College Championship....
Steven Popper, an economist from Topanga, California "A winner of 5 shows in 1988, he has since founded...
Phil Yellman, a legal assistant from Seattle, Washington "He was an office worker from Albuquerque when he won his...
David Hoffelmeyer, a senior from St. Joseph, Missouri 2006 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000.
Jim McMurtry, a letter carrier from Tallahassee, Florida Season 23 2-time champion: $58,401 + $2,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user name: raoulhubris
Steve Muni, a cooking writer from Jackson, California Season 13 player (1997-07-11).
Jim Stalley, a crime data specialist from Denver, Colorado 2004 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 19 4-time champion: $84,100 + $2,000.
Kent Rasmussen, an editor and writer originally from Berkeley, California Season 6 player (1990-05-23). Web page at http://pages.prodigy.net/arkent/ [dead link] Appeared...
Papa Chakravarthy, a sophomore from Lexington, Kentucky 2006 Teen Tournament champion: $75,000.
Diane Siegel, an educational consultant and writer from Northridge, California "A full-time mom when she won five games in 1993, now...
Kenny Schlax, a junior from Deerfield, Illinois 2006 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. Listed as "Kenneth" on the official web site.
Frank Selevan, an advertising copywriter originally from Miami, Florida Season 1 player (1984-09-10). Web site at selevanstravels.com.
Jim Scott, an attorney from Arlington, Virginia "In 1991, he was the winner of the Tournament of Champions....
Vanamali Compton, a junior from Clarkdale, Arizona 2005 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. 16 at the time of the...
Joseph Graumann, a junior from Mays Landing, New Jersey 2006 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
Jimmy Li, a senior from Chesterfield, Missouri 2005 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time of...
Katie James, a sophomore from Winchester, Virginia 2006 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
David Rozenson, a lawyer from Newton, Massachusetts 2006 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 21 3-time champion: $76,000 + $1,000.
Robert Kirkpatrick, an animator from Miami Beach, Florida Season 21 player (2004-11-08). KJL game 69.
Russ Schumacher, a graduate student from Fort Collins, Colorado 2014 Battle of the Decades semifinalist: $25,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
Scott Renzoni, a bartender and actor from Burlington, Vermont 2004 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 20 4-time champion: $112,998 + $2,000.
Tom Baker, a writer from Tokyo, Japan 2004 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 20 3-time champion: $102,300 + $2,000.
Vinita Kailasanath, a recent college graduate originally from Laurel, Maryland 2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
John Beck, an associate creative director from Torrance, California 2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 winner: $29,000. 2004 Tournament...
Doug Lach, a marketing manager from Columbus, Ohio "He was the biggest winner of the 1999-2000 season. A marketing...
Dennis Donohue, a general manager from Janesville, Wisconsin "He was administrative services officer from Arizona when he became a...
Catherine Ewen, a recent law school graduate from Berkeley, California Season 21 player (2004-12-24).
Brian Weikle, a consultant from Minneapolis, Minnesota 2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
Barbara-Anne Eddy, a civil servant from Vancouver, Canada "Her 5-time winnings from 1988 allowed her to go for nearly...
Allan Long, a freshman from Tallahassee, Florida 2005 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. 14 at the time of the...
Kermin Fleming, a junior at Carnegie Mellon University from Lexington, Kentucky 2006 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions...
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