| #9083, aired 2024-04-17 | THINGS TO DO IN THE CITY $4,800 (Daily Double): In June, take in the "white nights" of this city; after 19 hours of daylight, bridges across the Neva are raised at night so boats pass St. Petersburg |
| #9077, aired 2024-04-09 | LITERARY LINES $600: This poet: "Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night" Dylan Thomas |
| #9074, aired 2024-04-04 | A BEACON IN THE NIGHT $400: Dating from the first century, the tower of this mythical strongman in Spain is said to be the oldest working lighthouse Hercules |
| #9074, aired 2024-04-04 | A BEACON IN THE NIGHT $1200: The Bell Rock Lighthouse outside the Firth of Forth warns ships of navigation dangers in this sea the North Sea |
| #9074, aired 2024-04-04 | A BEACON IN THE NIGHT $1600: Barnegat Lighthouse on Long Beach Island in this state's Ocean County was designed by future hero of Gettysburg George Meade New Jersey |
| #9074, aired 2024-04-04 | A BEACON IN THE NIGHT $2000: Old Baldy, protecting the entrance to this river since 1817, is North Carolina's oldest standing lighthouse the Cape Fear River |
| #9074, aired 2024-04-04 | A BEACON IN THE NIGHT $9,000 (Daily Double): The Lanterna of this Italian port is the Mediterranean's tallest lighthouse; Antonio Columbo was a keeper in 1449 of the first ones there Genoa |
| #9070, aired 2024-03-29 | STATE FLAGS $600: Representations of the North Star & this other night sky feature appear on Alaska's flag the Big Dipper (Ursa Major) |
| #9066, aired 2024-03-25 | LET'S GET A DRINK $1,600 (Daily Double): One origin story of this cocktail involves the early morning hours after a long night in Sausalito a Tequila Sunrise |
| #9065, aired 2024-03-22 | COMPOSERS $1200: Felix Mendelssohn composed music to accompany this Shakespeare comedy, including the familiar "Wedding March" A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| #9064, aired 2024-03-21 | NOTABLE NAMES $1200: This great Italian tenor was in San Francisco when the big earthquake hit in 1906, having sung in "Carmen" the night before Caruso |
| #9058, aired 2024-03-13 | SINGERS $1600: This singer's "Dance The Night" appears in "Barbie"; she also makes an appearance in the movie as a mermaid Dua Lipa |
| #9053, aired 2024-03-06 | SHAKESPEARE FOR EVERYONE! $600: Awaking, this weaver says, "I have had a dream... man is but an ass if he go about to expound this dream" Bottom |
| #9052, aired 2024-03-05 | JAZZ' GREAT DAY IN HARLEM $2000: A Jazz Messenger, but with a touch of "Flash Dance", this Pittsburgh drummer once worked in steel mills by day, jazz clubs by night Art Blakey |
| #9049, aired 2024-02-29 | IMAGE $1200: MoMA describes this 1889 van Gogh painting as having a "churning sky" & a "quiet village below" Starry Night |
| #9048, aired 2024-02-28 | SHALL WE DANCE? $200: This dance music was big in 1977 but by '79 a "Demolition Night" promo at Comiskey Park led to a bonfire in center field & a riot disco |
| #9045, aired 2024-02-23 | SLEEP-POURRI $400: The British say someone is "sleeping" this 5-letter adjective if they're on the street for the night, or longer rough |
| #9043, aired 2024-02-21 | ART & ARTISTS $1600: 17th century Dutch people you can see at the Rijksmuseum include 34 in "The Night Watch" by Rembrandt & one in the work seen here by him Vermeer |
| #9041, aired 2024-02-19 | TV COACHES $1000: On "Friday Night Lights", this actor played a coach with a simple message for his players, "Clear eyes, full heart, can't lose" Kyle Chandler |
| #9037, aired 2024-02-13 | RHYMING PHRASES $600: Definitions of this include a country at war, a new night club, a good place for Wi-Fi a hot spot |
| #9036, aired 2024-02-12 | HOMES $1600: Monte Cristo Cottage was the boyhood home of Eugene O'Neill, who set this "long" play there Long Day's Journey Into Night |
| #9032, aired 2024-02-06 | THE 1970s $600: This woman was the first person Lorne Michaels cast when he was putting together "Saturday Night Live" Gilda Radner |
| #3, aired 2024-02-02 | RHYMING FOLKS $2000: On "Saturday Night Live", she played Judge Judy & also Melissa Rivers Cheri Oteri |
| #9024, aired 2024-01-25 | NICKNAMES $800: A Beethoven piano sonata evoked a boat on Lake Lucerne at night for a German poet, leading to this nickname for the piece the "Moonlight Sonata" |
| #9024, aired 2024-01-25 | MOMENTS OF INSPIRATION $800: Late one night in her lab in 1981, Patricia Bath had the aha! that led to a method of eye surgery using not scalpels but these lasers |
| #9024, aired 2024-01-25 | START TALKING, SHAKESPEARE CHARACTER $800: The opening line of this play is Orsino's "If music be the food of love, play on" Twelfth Night |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM $100: Camille Pissarro painted over a dozen views of this European capital's boulevard Montmartre, only one of them at night Paris |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM $200: He followed up his "Pietà" by sculpting "Day", "Dawn" , "Dusk" & "Night" for the tomb of the Medicis in Florence Michelangelo |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM $300: Before flowers & bones, the open skies of Texas were one of her early subjects, like the 1917 work "Starlight Night" Georgia O'Keeffe |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM $400: In 1904, photographer Edward Steichen captured a now-iconic image of this triangular New York City building at twilight the Flatiron Building |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM $500: In the early 1920s, he brought the angst of "The Scream" to a series of night sky paintings, some featuring his own shadow Edvard Munch |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | I'M JUST KEN $1500: While working the night shift at a hospital, Ken Kesey got the idea for this novel, which later became a Best Picture winner One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest |
| #9019, aired 2024-01-18 | TAKE IT BACK! $1000: TBTN for short, this movement against sexual violence has been marching since the 1970s Take Back the Night |
| #25, aired 2024-01-16 | NAME THAT '90s HIT $600: Coolio: "I'm the kinda G the little homies wanna be like, on my knees in the night, sayin' prayers in the streetlight" "Gangsta's Paradise" |
| #25, aired 2024-01-16 | THE 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 |
| #2, aired 2024-01-12 | KIDDY LIT $400: In a J.M. Barrie play, she & her brothers Michael & John get sprinkled with fairy dust & fly off into the night Wendy |
| #9013, aired 2024-01-10 | 3-SYLLABLE WORDS $800: It describes raccoons & bats & comes from the Latin for "of the night" nocturnal |
| #9008, aired 2024-01-03 | TV CONNECTIONS $400: In the Heat of the
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Court Night |
| #9007, aired 2024-01-02 | ALL THE WORLD'S A SHAKESPEARE STAGE $800: In Act I of this ordinal play, a ship captain informs Viola, "This is Illyria", which is in the Balkans Twelfth Night |
| #9005, aired 2023-12-29 | GLAD-JECTIVES $400: "'Twas the Night Before Christmas" described St. Nicholas as "a right" this "old elf" jolly |
| #9000, aired 2023-12-22 | CAROLS $200: This carol was first performed in Austria on Christmas Eve in 1818 as "Stille Nacht" "Silent Night" |
| #8997, aired 2023-12-19 | CAUTIONARY RHYMES $200: An old adage tells us, "Red sky at night, sailors' delight. Red sky at morning, sailors take" this warning |
| #8996, aired 2023-12-18 | ODDS & "N"s $1600: Irish composer John Field is considered the originator of these romantic compositions evocative of night nocturnes |
| #8994, aired 2023-12-14 | SCENES FROM AN ITALIAN RESTAURANT $2000: In the final scene of this film, Secondo makes a frittata for Brother Primo in the Paradise restaurant Big Night |
| #8992, aired 2023-12-12 | WORDS OF PEACE $1200: Although they meant it in another sense, Three Dog Night sang of "an old fashioned love song comin' down in three-part" this harmony |
| #8991, aired 2023-12-11 | ARTS $800: Mozart's Serenade No. 13 in G major has this nickname that includes the time of day it was intended for "A Little Night Music" |
| #8991, aired 2023-12-11 | THE MUSIC OF CANADA $1000: This "Fly By Night" power trio formed in Toronto in 1968; Neil Peart joined in '74 (cue the drum solo) Rush |
| #8990, aired 2023-12-08 | WORKING ON A BUILDING $1200: 1941-43: 15,000 American workers labor day & night to turn swampland into this federal office complex the Pentagon |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | PIZZA AT THE MOVIES $200: Doing his iconic "pizza strut", John Travolta scarfs down a double-decker slice in the opening credits of this film Saturday Night Fever |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | SHAKESPEARE PLAYS BY INITIALS $200: A mischievous fairy named Puck just can't stop pranking people:
A.M.N.D. A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | SHAKESPEARE PLAYS BY INITIALS $400: It opens with the famous line, "If music be the food of love, play on":
T.N. Twelfth Night |
| #8985, aired 2023-12-01 | AEROSMITH $800: Aerosmith covered "Come Together" in this 1978 movie that starred Peter Frampton & the Bee Gees Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band |
| #8981, aired 2023-11-27 | COUNTRY MUSIC HITS $1200: In their first No. 1 hit, the Zac Brown Band served up "A Little Bit Of" this, "& cold beer on a Friday night" chicken fried |
| #8978, aired 2023-11-22 | SORRY ABOUT THAT $1200: Pete Davidson apologized to congressman & former Navy SEAL Dan Crenshaw for making fun of his eye patch on this show Saturday Night Live |
| #8971, aired 2023-11-13 | SONGS IN MUSICALS $600: "It's Raining On Prom Night" &
"Look At Me, I'm Sandra Dee" Grease |
| #8963, aired 2023-11-01 | NAME THAT TUNESTER $1000: "She's up all night to the sun, I'm up all night to get some, she's up all night for good fun, I'm up all night to get lucky" Pharrell (Daft Punk) |
| #19, aired 2023-11-01 | ICONIC MAN-PERMS $100: This beloved painter started perming his hair in the '80s to save money on happy little haircuts (Bob) Ross |
| #8962, aired 2023-10-31 | SOURCE OF THE LATE NIGHT BIT $200: "Jaywalking" Jay Leno |
| #8962, aired 2023-10-31 | NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM $400: Faces are garishly lit by gas lamp in "At the Moulin Rouge", one of his many depictions of Parisian nightlife Toulouse-Lautrec |
| #8962, aired 2023-10-31 | SOURCE OF THE LATE NIGHT BIT $400: "Freestylin' with The Roots" Jimmy Fallon |
| #8962, aired 2023-10-31 | SOURCE OF THE LATE NIGHT BIT $600: "Celebrities Read Mean Tweets" Jimmy Kimmel |
| #8962, aired 2023-10-31 | NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM $800: Edward Hopper captured the isolation of urban life in this 1942 masterpiece depicting a diner that's open late Nighthawks |
| #8962, aired 2023-10-31 | SOURCE OF THE LATE NIGHT BIT $800: "Will It Float?" David Letterman |
| #8962, aired 2023-10-31 | SOURCE OF THE LATE NIGHT BIT $1000: "This Week in Numbers" Seth Meyers |
| #8962, aired 2023-10-31 | NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM $1200: "Circus Sideshow", completed in 1888, was this artist's first night painting using the pointillist technique Seurat |
| #8962, aired 2023-10-31 | NIGHT 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 |
| #8962, aired 2023-10-31 | NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM $7,600 (Daily Double): He painted "Night Fishing at Antibes" just before the outbreak of World War II Picasso |
| #8960, aired 2023-10-27 | QUOTABLE CINEMA $1000: 1967:
"They call me Mr. Tibbs!" In the Heat of the Night |
| #8958, aired 2023-10-25 | FILL IN THE BLANK CANVAS $4,000 (Daily Double): A group portrait by Rembrandt:
"The ____ ____
(The Company of Captain Frans Banning Cocq)" The Night Watch |
| #17, aired 2023-10-18 | ON ANOTHER PLANET $600: The ancient Romans named this planet after their god of war, perhaps because it resembles a drop of blood in the night sky Mars |
| #8951, aired 2023-10-16 | A PREQUEL TO WHICH MOVIE? $200: "Friday Night Sniffles" could have been a prequel--to this 1977 film Saturday Night Fever |
| #8948, aired 2023-10-11 | SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE $200: Since 2014 Michael Che & Colin Jost have co-hosted this "SNL" sendup of TV news programs Weekend Update |
| #8948, aired 2023-10-11 | SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE $400: This "SNL" character who is most definitely his own thing starred in a Halloween special in 2017; any questions?! David S. Pumpkins |
| #8948, aired 2023-10-11 | TAKE MY "Y", PLEASE! $600: Take this pack animal I brought back from Asia; it grunts so much I can't sleep at night a yak |
| #8948, aired 2023-10-11 | SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE $600: This "SNL" icon: "N.Y.'s hottest club is whimsy... this place has everything ... kufi hats, congas, MTV's Dan Cortese..." Stefon |
| #8948, aired 2023-10-11 | SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE $800: He debuted the character of Wayne Campbell with a "shwing!" & a prayer on "SNL" in 1989 Mike Myers |
| #8948, aired 2023-10-11 | SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE $1000: In a real "Celebrity Jeopardy!" game, this "SNL" actress blew us away with her knowledge of the Hanseatic League Jane Curtin |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | FICTIONAL TV TOWNS $200: Dillon, Texas (home of the Panthers, and Tim Riggins) Friday Night Lights |
| #8944, aired 2023-10-05 | FRANKLY $800: He won 3 Oscars as a director, including one for "It Happened One Night" (Frank) Capra |
| #8940, aired 2023-09-29 | POEMS ABOUT POETRY $800: If you really think about it / It isn't so ridiculous / Knowing these are the first 5 words / In "A Visit from St. Nicholas" 'Twas the night before Christmas |
| #8940, aired 2023-09-29 | FACTS ABOUT THE BEST PICTURE WINNER $1600: A 1935 article highlights Gable's negging of Colbert in this film: "Peter... tells her she's... spoiled & selfish" It Happened One Night |
| #8936, aired 2023-09-25 | INDIANA WANTS YOU $400: This pro sports team relocated in 1984 (in the middle of the night) & began playing in Indiana the Colts |
| #8936, aired 2023-09-25 | SO THAT'S WHAT THOSE LYRICS SAY! $800: He sang, "Don't give us none of your aggravation, we had it with your discipline, Saturday night's alright for fighting" (we think) Elton John |
| #8935, aired 2023-09-22 | STARS & STRIPES IN ART $1200: The town in his "Starry Night" is Saint-Rémy, where he was a patient in its mental hospital van Gogh |
| #8934, aired 2023-09-21 | TAKING A STAR TURN $1600: The 5th-brightest star at night, it's also the name of a '70s Chevy that, per MotorTrend, was "a rust-bucket prone to gas tank fires" the Vega |
| #8931, aired 2023-09-18 | IT BELONGS IN THIS MUSEUM $3,000 (Daily Double): On Museumstraat, "The Night Watch" & "The Milkmaid" the Rijksmuseum |
| #8927, aired 2023-09-12 | POTPOUR-EVERYTHING $200: The late Richard Belzer was a cousin of this actor seen here; Belzer appeared in "Night Shift" & he returned the favor & guested on "SVU" Henry Winkler |
| #8927, aired 2023-09-12 | AFTER IN LIVING COLOR $800: Jim Carrey said, "Good afternoon, good evening & good night" in this 1998 film The Truman Show |
| #8926, aired 2023-09-11 | A LATIN BESTIARY $400: That Bubo, this avian, was making noise all night & I couldn't sleep an owl |
| #8925, aired 2023-07-28 | MESSIN' WITH TEXAS $200: In 2014 Decatur, Texas rescheduled this holiday back to the 30th, as it conflicted with Friday night high school football Halloween |
| #8924, aired 2023-07-27 | THAT SONG SLAYS $1600: In a song that really slays, "In The Pines" is the answer to this question asked by Nirvana & by others long before "Where Did You Sleep Last Night?" |
| #8920, aired 2023-07-21 | SHAKESPEARE $400: In this play Puck has some handy juice that makes a sleeper fall in love with the next person he sees A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| #8917, aired 2023-07-18 | AFRICAN FILMS $2000: In "Night of the Kings", a prisoner in Abidjan acts as one of these West African storytellers & spins a tale to stay alive a griot |
| #8914, aired 2023-07-13 | LIVE CAMS $1000: You can see people praying day & night at this holy site that was a part of a structure surrounding the Temple of Jerusalem the Western Wall (Wailing Wall) |
| #8914, aired 2023-07-13 | ESPAÑ-O $1600: This word completes a Spanish-language release title of a classic '70s film, "Fiebre del ____ por la Noche" Sábado |
| #8909, aired 2023-07-06 | SOME "HARD" SONGS $400: A 1964 chart-topper said, "It's been" this, "& I've been working like a dog" "A Hard Day's Night" |
| #8907, aired 2023-07-04 | LET'S GO TO THE SPORTS BOOK $2000: "The night before I met Jimmy Connors... at Wimbledon in the summer of 1975, I went to bed & slept soundly", he says in "Days of Grace" Arthur Ashe |
| #8900, aired 2023-06-23 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1000: In "Night", his harrowing account of the Holocaust, he wrote, "I became A-7713. From then on, I had no other name" (Elie) Wiesel |
| #8900, aired 2023-06-23 | ON BROADWAY $2000: This playwright seen on opening night of "The Cripple of Inishmaan" has more recently made a movie with a similar title Martin McDonagh |
| #8899, aired 2023-06-22 | MOVIE TITLE CONNECTIONS $200: Date
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at the Museum Night |
| #8895, aired 2023-06-16 | NIGHT SKIES $200: With a small telescope & averted vision, it's possible to see the galaxy M51 near the handle of this asterism the Big Dipper |
| #8895, aired 2023-06-16 | CUFFING SEASON $400: It was SZA szn on TikTok after she sang about "cuffing" a large man for the cold months on this NBC show Saturday Night Live |
| #8895, aired 2023-06-16 | NIGHT SKIES $400: Illuminating the dark chrysalis of space, M6 emerges in Scorpius & is called this insect cluster; its stars resemble wings butterfly |
| #8895, aired 2023-06-16 | NIGHT SKIES $600: Betelgeuse, a red supergiant star in this constellation with a famous belt, may go supernova soon... in 100,000 years Orion |
| #8895, aired 2023-06-16 | NIGHT SKIES $800: Mizar A & B are what's called a visual this word, like a kind of computer code, for their apparent closeness a binary system |
| #8895, aired 2023-06-16 | NIGHT SKIES $1000: NGC 6355 is one of these star clusters named for their somewhat spherical shape a globular cluster |
| #8894, aired 2023-06-15 | BIRD IDIOMS $200: If you keep late hours, you are one of these birds a night owl |
| #8893, aired 2023-06-14 | HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $1000: In England, November 5 is Bonfire Night or his day, commemorating the failed Gunpowder Plot Guy Fawkes Day |
| #8889, aired 2023-06-08 | LATE NIGHT TALKING $200: Lady Gaga & James Corden were "belting it out with their seat belts on" in this classic "Late Late Show" segment Carpool Karaoke |
| #8889, aired 2023-06-08 | LATE NIGHT TALKING $400: This host's Top Ten rejected "Jeopardy!" categories included "Things that Ooze", "Doorknob Lore" & "Moist Things" (David) Letterman |
| #8889, aired 2023-06-08 | LATE NIGHT TALKING $600: 45 million tuned in to the 1969 live, on-stage "Tonight Show" wedding of Tiny Tim & Miss Vicki, hosted by this legend Johnny Carson |
| #8889, aired 2023-06-08 | LATE 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 2023-06-08 | LATE NIGHT TALKING $1000: In the '90s Conan O'Brien first peered into the future in a bit called "In the Year" this... which was still recurring in 2003 2000 |
| #8888, aired 2023-06-07 | A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC $200: A wood block beats out the ticking of the clock toward midnight in Prokofiev's score for the ballet about this heroine Cinderella |
| #8888, aired 2023-06-07 | A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC $600: Stephen Sondheim composed most of the score of "A Little Night Music" in 3/4 time, also known as this dance "time" waltz time |
| #8888, aired 2023-06-07 | A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC $800: Disney's "Fantasia" featured this Mussorgsky work about a hilltop witches' Sabbath a Night on Bald Mountain |
| #8888, aired 2023-06-07 | A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC $1000: This German title of a popular Mozart piece literally translates to "A Little Night Music" Eine kleine Nachtmusik |
| #8888, aired 2023-06-07 | A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC $1,600 (Daily Double): Chopin was a master of these meditative piano pieces, a French word meaning "of the night" nocturnes |
| #8886, aired 2023-06-05 | FIRST & LAST NAME'S THE SAME $400: Mrs. Shakespeare & the portrayer of Viola in "Twelfth Night" in Shakespeare in the Park in 2009 Anne Hathaway |
| #8886, aired 2023-06-05 | CITY HAPPENINGS $1200: In 1815, on night 1 of his return from Elba, Napoleon landed at this then-village; in 2022, "Top Gun: Maverick" flew onscreen there Cannes |
| #8886, aired 2023-06-05 | 4, 4 $2000: "Saturday Night Live" is famous for beginning its shows with one of these, a scene that precedes the titles a cold open |
| #8879, aired 2023-05-25 | UP IN THE AIRLINE $200: An airline with direction, it offered a $10 "night fare" between Houston & Dallas in 1971 Southwest |
| #17, aired 2023-05-23 | BEFORE, DURING & AFTER $2000: Numeric sci-fi book about a metaverse, a singular evening of passion & the controversial right to use deadly force as self-defense Ready Player One-night stand your ground |
| #15, aired 2023-05-22 | & SCENE $9,600 (Daily Double): A memorable quote from "In the Heat of the Night" became this title of another Sidney Poitier film in 1970 They Call Me Mister Tibbs! |
| #8874, aired 2023-05-18 | THE ARTS $600: Britannica noted "the eerie light of an all-night coffee stand" in this 1942 Edward Hopper painting Nighthawks |
| #8873, aired 2023-05-17 | PODCASTS $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 2023-05-17 | PODCASTS $2000: (I'm Wil Wheaton.) I play a chef at a restaurant called Tourniquet on the podcast "Welcome to" this strange town where stranger things happen the Night Vale |
| #13, aired 2023-05-17 | FOREIGN HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $400: In Scotland, on the night of Jan. 25, this poet's birth is celebrated by reading his works & eating traditional foods like haggis (Rabbie) Burns |
| #13, aired 2023-05-17 | FOREIGN HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $800: This observance in the United Kingdom on November 5 is also known as Bonfire or Fireworks Night Guy Fawkes |
| #8872, aired 2023-05-16 | POE PLACES $400: Asked what its name is "on the night's Plutonian shore", the raven quoths this nevermore |
| #8871, aired 2023-05-15 | DEFENDING THE TITLE $1000: It was only this man's second title defense in 1964 when Muhammad Ali floated & stung him one night in Miami Beach Liston |
| #10, aired 2023-05-15 | THE FRENCH REVOLUTION $200: Tuneage of the revolutionary era included this song composed by an army captain in one night in 1792 "The Marseillaise" |
| #10, aired 2023-05-15 | GREAT SPORTS CALLS $800: "I don't believe what I just saw" & "We'll see you tomorrow night" are among the many calls of this legend & dad of a legend Jack Buck |
| #8, aired 2023-05-12 | GROWING UP X $200: Of course there's a video case dating back to 1993 from this rental chain; let's make it a this night! Blockbuster |
| #5, aired 2023-05-10 | A SHAKESPEARE PLAY IN A FEW WORDS $400: Shipwreck,
Viola...
Cesario...
same?!
Romance Twelfth Night |
| #5, aired 2023-05-10 | TOUGH MOVIE STUFF $800: This 1934 film was the first comedy to win the Best Picture Oscar It Happened One Night |
| #3, aired 2023-05-09 | EDITORS $800: On Oscar night 2016 Walter Robinson, an editor at this newspaper, hung with Michael Keaton, who played Walter in "Spotlight" The Boston Globe |
| #2, aired 2023-05-08 | SING YOU A COUNTRY SONG $1000: Kris Kristofferson wrote this song about what follows a rough Saturday night & Johnny Cash made it a No. 1 country hit "Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down" |
| #1, aired 2023-05-08 | JASON ALEXANDER: MASTER OF MY DOMAIN $200: (Jason Alexander gives the clue.) As co-pilot Roger Murdock, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was out there busting his buns every night in this classic 1980 film that took comedy in a new direction altogether Airplane! |
| #8865, aired 2023-05-05 | SLANG EN ESPAÑOL $400: In Venezuela enratonado, "moused", means you're in this condition after a night of too much rum & cocuy hungover |
| #8863, aired 2023-05-03 | , SAID THIS LITERARY CHARACTER $600: "Listen to them--the children of the night. What music they make!" Dracula |
| #8861, aired 2023-05-01 | BETTER ANGELS $1600: He's told, "Good night, sweet prince, and flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!" Hamlet |
| #8858, aired 2023-04-26 | COMEDIANS $800: April 26, 2023 is the 90th bday of this funny lady whose Saturday night skits included "Rancid Harvest" & "Went with the Wind" Carol Burnett |
| #8856, aired 2023-04-24 | MADE GOOD $2000: This company that's still going strong made lanterns for the first night football game in the West & camping stoves for WWII Coleman |
| #8853, aired 2023-04-19 | MOVIE 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 |
| #8852, aired 2023-04-18 | SECRETS OF THE ELEPHANTS $400: In night footage, using a branch to bypass an electric fence is one example of this, thought pre-Darwin to be a human only ability using tools |
| #8841, aired 2023-04-03 | YOU'RE GONNA SING $800: Pat Benatar was "running with" these in an iconic song from the 1980s; baby, take her hand, "it'll be all right" the shadows of the night |
| #8841, aired 2023-04-03 | TV $1200: (I'm Melissa Rauch.) On my sitcom "Night Court", I play Judge Stone, who, just like her father Harry Stone, hears cases argued by attorney Dan Fielding played by this legendary comic actor John Larroquette |
| #8838, aired 2023-03-29 | A DISASTER ARIA $600: Revenge spurs the queen of night in this Mozart opera as she urges her daughter towards murder in a bloodthirsty aria The Magic Flute |
| #8836, aired 2023-03-27 | NUMBER "ONE" MOVIE $1000: Clark Gable won his only Oscar for this 1934 comedy It Happened One Night |
| #8835, aired 2023-03-24 | THE WWE $200: (Kofi Kingston presents the clue.) "Awesome" doesn't even begin to describe this WWE legend; billed at 7'4" & 500 pounds he loved practical jokes & would move his friends' small cars at night--yes, move, & not drive André the Giant |
| #8835, aired 2023-03-24 | THE WWE $800: (The Miz presents the clue.) A beating, a humiliation, decisive setback is how the Oxford English Dictionary defines this, with credit to WWE where it began with some violent festivities one night in 1999 a smackdown |
| #8831, aired 2023-03-20 | WALK, 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 |
| #8829, aired 2023-03-16 | COMIC 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 |
| #8826, aired 2023-03-13 | THE BIG BANG THEORY $400: When you wish upon an exploding star, here's Kepler's this 9-letter event--a sudden visitor to our night sky in 1604 a supernova |
| #8826, aired 2023-03-13 | BLOSSOM $400: Seen here, the Red Flare water this blooms at night as it floats on ponds a lily |
| #8826, aired 2023-03-13 | 'TIS SHAKESPEARE $800: Trout tickling, a way of catching fish with the bare hands, is mentioned in this comedy subtitled "Or What You Will" Twelfth Night |
| #8818, aired 2023-03-01 | CARPE DIEM $200: This show introduced us to unfrozen caveman lawyer, Colleen Rafferty's alien encounters & the immortal Turd Ferguson SNL (Saturday Night Live) |
| #8818, aired 2023-03-01 | ONOMATOPOEIA $1000: This loud disturbance arose "out on the lawn" in "'Twas the Night Before Christmas" a clatter |
| #8817, aired 2023-02-28 | THEY WROTE 'EM $800: The 1926 poem
"Harlem Night Club" Langston Hughes |
| #8814, aired 2023-02-23 | EIGHT IS ENOUGH $200: In 2022 Christmas night was the eighth & last night of this Jewish holiday Hanukkah |
| #8814, aired 2023-02-23 | FIGHT SONGS $1200: "Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting" is one of many, many hits by this still flamboyant classic rocker (Sir) Elton John |
| #8813, aired 2023-02-22 | TV SWITCHEROO $400: In 2006 "Monday Night Football" began airing on this network after decades as a mainstay on ABC ESPN |
| #8812, aired 2023-02-21 | SHAKESPEARE'S WOMEN $1200: In this comedy, Olivia loves Cesario, who is really Viola in disguise Twelfth Night |
| #8810, aired 2023-02-17 | SCIENCE $1600: The name of this brightest star in our night sky comes from a Greek word for "glowing" Sirius |
| #8806, aired 2023-02-13 | TV CATCHPHRASES $800: This drama's Coach Taylor: "Clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose" Friday Night Lights |
| #13, aired 2023-02-02 | COMPOSERS ARE QUIRKY $8,600 (Daily Double): Edvard Grieg had a lucky pig & one of these under-bridge-dwelling folklore creatures by his bed & always wished them good night a troll |
| #8791, aired 2023-01-23 | THE OSCAR-WINNING FORMULA $1000: Claudette Colbert
+ Clark Gable
- an undershirt It Happened One Night |
| #8782, aired 2023-01-10 | THE ATTORNEY GENERAL $800: "These ears are just decorative", said Kate McKinnon while playing this Attorney General on "Saturday Night Live" Jeff Sessions |
| #8782, aired 2023-01-10 | NYC SUBWAY STOPS $1000: If you want a day at the museum, take the C train to 81st Street to enjoy this "Night at the Museum" museum the Museum of Natural History |
| #8782, aired 2023-01-10 | 4th & GOAL $1600: University of Arizona students know that "The Ave" is Fourth Avenue in this city, fun by day & night Tucson |
| #8779, aired 2023-01-05 | THE DOOMSDAY BOOK $800: In "Station" this, "of all of them there... that night, the bartender was the one who survived the longest. He died three weeks later" Station Eleven |
| #8775, aired 2022-12-30 | A MEMORABLE NEW YEAR'S EVE $400: (Ryan Seacrest presents the clue.) December 31st festivities at this location began in 1904; they became a "Rockin' New Year's Eve" in 1972 in a broadcast featuring Dick Clark & Three Dog Night Times Square |
| #8775, aired 2022-12-30 | A MEMORABLE NEW YEAR'S EVE $2000: (Ryan Seacrest presents the clue.) On December 31, 1959, Paul Westerberg entered the world in Minneapolis as the singer of this band; he'd comment on his birth date with the line, "Income tax deduction, one hell of a function" The Replacements |
| #8775, aired 2022-12-30 | THE FIRST FEATURE THEY DIRECTED $2000: 2020:
"One Night in Miami..." Regina King |
| #8774, aired 2022-12-29 | CLASSIC FLUTE ROCK $800: "Well, it's a marvelous night for" this Van Morrison song that features Collin Tilton's tasty flute playing & tenor sax, too "Moondance" |
| #8770, aired 2022-12-23 | ORCHESTRAL MANEUVERS IN THE PARK $800: Check out the philharmonic of this world capital as it played its summer night concert on the grounds of the Schönbrunn Palace Vienna |
| #8768, aired 2022-12-21 | QUOTABLE SHAKESPEARE PLAYS $400: "She hangs upon the cheek of night like a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear" Romeo and Juliet |
| #8767, aired 2022-12-20 | CONTRACTIONS $600: It precedes "brillig" & "the night before" 'Twas |
| #8764, aired 2022-12-15 | BRIEF LIVES $200: Born 1820; heroine of the Crimean War; good night, nurse as of 1910 Florence Nightingale |
| #8760, aired 2022-12-09 | TV FINAL EPISODES $400: Coach Taylor moves from the East Dillon Lions to Philadelphia's Pemberton Pioneers in the finale of this series Friday Night Lights |
| #8759, aired 2022-12-08 | A NIGHT AT THE OPERA $200: The title character in Antonin Dvořák's opera "Rusalka" is one of these water-dwelling creatures a nymph |
| #8759, aired 2022-12-08 | A NIGHT AT THE OPERA $400: Born in Naples in 1873, this opera legend is seen here in costume for the lead role in "Pagliacci" Caruso |
| #8759, aired 2022-12-08 | A NIGHT AT THE OPERA $600: It's been called the lowest & richest sound among female voices; Erda in "Siegfried" is a notable role for one a contralto |
| #8759, aired 2022-12-08 | A NIGHT AT THE OPERA $800: In this 1791 opera Tamino is given the title musical instrument to protect him on his journey The Magic Flute |
| #8759, aired 2022-12-08 | A NIGHT AT THE OPERA $1,000 (Daily Double): A play by French dramatist Pierre Beaumarchais served as the basis for this Rossini opera set in a Spanish city The Barber of Seville |
| #8758, aired 2022-12-07 | LIFE'S PEAKS & VALLEYS $800: In 2021 this national park reported its hottest-ever June, with an average day/night temperature of 102.8 Death Valley |
| #8758, aired 2022-12-07 | TV SIDEKICKS $1000: Kenan Thompson's recent sitcom co-starred this "Saturday Night Live" castmate Chris Redd |
| #8756, aired 2022-12-05 | TREE TIME $400: The flowers of the African sausage tree bloom at night for visits by these flying mammals, their principal pollinators bats |
| #8754, aired 2022-12-01 | CONTRACTIONS $1,700 (Daily Double): This contraction opens the poem "A Visit from St. Nicholas" 'Twas |
| #8751, aired 2022-11-28 | OF MOVIES $800: In this classic film police detective Sidney Poitier investigates a murder in the racist town of Sparta, Mississippi In the Heat of the Night |
| #8747, aired 2022-11-22 | STORIES OF THE SOUTH $400: In "The Night the Lights Went Out" by Karen White, Merilee Dunlap fittingly moves to Sweet Apple in this state Georgia |
| #8743, aired 2022-11-16 | BEASTLY BOOK TITLES $600: A teen who is good with animals & numbers but bad at social situations tries to solve the killing of a neighborhood pet The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time |
| #8737, aired 2022-11-08 | ELECTION DAY $1000: On election night 1948, the Chicago Tribune went to press with this banner headline for the next morning's edition Dewey Defeats Truman |
| #7, aired 2022-11-06 | JOHNNY GILBERT SAYS THE NO. 1 HITS $300: "Hot night, wind was blowing, where you think you're going, baby?
Hey, I just met you & this is crazy" "Call Me Maybe" |
| #8734, aired 2022-11-03 | ADVERBS $400: In the first line of the novel "Jaws", it's how "The great fish moved... through the night water" silently |
| #8732, aired 2022-11-01 | HE DIRECTED THAT? $800: Sylvester Stallone directed this ah, ha, ha, ha sequel to "Saturday Night Fever", featuring music by his brother Frank Staying Alive |
| #6, aired 2022-10-30 | TUNING INTO THE '90s $1000: Exit light, enter night & now, "Enter Sandman" by this band; go ahead & sleep with one eye open, gripping your pillow tight Metallica |
| #8727, aired 2022-10-25 | ESSAY QUESTIONS $800: The title of David Foster Wallace's "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again" refers to a 7-night one of these a cruise |
| #5, aired 2022-10-23 | A LITTLE POETRY $300: William Blake wrote about a "Tyger Tyger, burning bright, / In the forests of" this the night |
| #8722, aired 2022-10-18 | PRESIDENTIAL SPEECHES $400: "Last night Japanese forces attacked Guam" FDR |
| #8722, aired 2022-10-18 | ASTRONOMY $400: When the Sun is above the Earth's equator & day & night are the same length, one of these is happening an equinox |
| #8721, aired 2022-10-17 | LYRICALLY YOURS $400: "You keep on shoutin', I... wanna rock & roll all night, & party ev-er-y day" Kiss |
| #4, aired 2022-10-16 | LET'S TAKE A WALK $300: Someone going home early Sunday morning in Saturday night's clothes is taking this stroll the walk of shame |
| #4, aired 2022-10-16 | THE 7 WONDERS OF THE ANCIENT WORLD $1,000 (Daily Double): The Pharos of Alexandria was one of these that stood on an island in the city harbor, with a fire lit at the top every night a lighthouse |
| #8720, aired 2022-10-14 | THAT MOVIE'S GOT LEGS $1000: Showing some leg while hitchhiking won Claudette Colbert a 1934 Oscar, one of 5 for this film It Happened One Night |
| #8712, aired 2022-10-04 | SEE '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 2022-10-03 | FILM NOIR $400: In "The Night of the Hunter", Robert Mitchum's brutal villain has these antonyms tattooed across the knuckles of his hands love & hate |
| #8711, aired 2022-10-03 | WHEN POLK WAS PRESIDENT $1600: He sat out the first 2 years of the Polk presidency alone at a pond, though he did spend a night in jail for not paying a poll tax Thoreau |
| #8706, aired 2022-09-26 | SHAKESPEARE'S KINGS & QUEENS $400: In "A Midsummer Night's Dream", Titania works her magic as queen of these creatures fairies |
| #8706, aired 2022-09-26 | SHAKESPEARE'S KINGS & QUEENS $1200: The night before a fateful battle, the ghosts of the murdered Edward V & Henry VI appear to this king & curse him Richard III |
| #1, aired 2022-09-25 | TELLING A BEDTIME STORY $400: ...& after the step-mom of these 2 kids abandoned them, they ate a local witch's house, then burned her to death; how Grimm! G'night! Hansel & Gretel |
| #1, aired 2022-09-25 | APOLOGIES $1500: Near the end of "A Midsummer Night's Dream", this fairy says, "If we shadows have offended, think but this and all is mended" Puck |
| #8703, aired 2022-09-21 | 4 CONSONANTS IN A ROW $2000: As depicted here, this word once meant a spirit that plagued you during sleep; it still has a sleep-related meaning a nightmare |
| #8701, aired 2022-09-19 | TAKE THE BROADWAY HOME $1200: In 2022 this veteran funnyman took to the stage as the mahvelous Buddy Young Jr. in "Mr. Saturday Night" Billy Crystal |
| #8701, aired 2022-09-19 | TAKE THE BROADWAY HOME $1600: Future Golden Girl Bea Arthur was Yente in the 1964 opening night cast of this musical set in 1905 Fiddler on the Roof |
| #8698, aired 2022-09-14 | PRIMING THE PUMP $400: New mom Sarah Palin once remarked that in the middle of the night she would have to "put down the BlackBerrys & pick up" this a breast pump |
| #8695, aired 2022-07-29 | HOW DO YOU SLEEP AT NIGHT? $200: With a pillow & mattress made from this "spring-back" foam; perhaps you recall that engineer Charles Yost invented it memory foam |
| #8695, aired 2022-07-29 | HOW DO YOU SLEEP AT NIGHT? $400: The pineal gland in my brain is secreting the right amount of this hormone that's also an antioxidant, so just fine melatonin |
| #8695, aired 2022-07-29 | HOW DO YOU SLEEP AT NIGHT? $600: Better now that I've got these window coverings that sound like they simulate a power outage to stop all light from coming in blackout curtains |
| #8695, aired 2022-07-29 | HOW DO YOU SLEEP AT NIGHT? $800: Really well after a hot bath infused with the essential oil of this fragrant purple flower, a noted natural sleep aid lavender |
| #8695, aired 2022-07-29 | HOW DO YOU SLEEP AT NIGHT? $1000: Like millions of other Americans with the mask known by this 4-letter name to combat my sleep apnea a CPAP |
| #8692, aired 2022-07-26 | FILL IN THE PLAY TITLE $400: A Tony winner:
"The ____ Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" Curious |
| #8692, aired 2022-07-26 | FILL IN THE PLAY TITLE $600: A reptilian title:
Tennessee Williams'
"The Night of the ____" the Iguana |
| #8692, aired 2022-07-26 | SIRIUS-LY DEDICATED $800: This icon who can "Prove It All Night" has some "Glory Days" on his dedicated channel "the Boss", Bruce Springsteen |
| #8689, aired 2022-07-21 | CLOSING STATEMENTS $1200: "Max... sailed back... into the night of his very own room where he found his supper waiting for him and it was still hot" Where the Wild Things Are |
| #8685, aired 2022-07-15 | NOVEL "T"s $1000: This novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald tells of the troubled marriage of Dick & Nicole Diver Tender is the Night |
| #8684, aired 2022-07-14 | TV SHOWS BY EPISODE TITLE $800: "Wind Sprints" &
"Black Eyes & Broken Hearts" Friday Night Lights |
| #8683, aired 2022-07-13 | WELSH FOLK $600: A commander of the Order of the British Empire, this Oscar winner made her Broadway debut in 2009 in "A Little Night Music" Catherine Zeta-Jones |
| #8683, aired 2022-07-13 | PLAYS & 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 |
| #8680, aired 2022-07-08 | HISTORIC STRUCTURES $400: Charles I was the last monarch to sleep in this castle, the night before he was crowned king of Scotland in 1633 Edinburgh Castle |
| #8680, aired 2022-07-08 | DANGER! DANGER! $600: You can sleep all night & work all day, but Time magazine listed this outdoor job as the USA's most dangerous a lumberjack |
| #8674, aired 2022-06-30 | THANKS FOR THE MEMOIRS $1200: "I was Better Last Night" is by this Tony winner for "Torch Song Trilogy" & "La Cage aux Folles" Harvey Fierstein |
| #8674, aired 2022-06-30 | DRINK $1600: It's a dark & stormy night, so have a Dark 'n' Stormy cocktail made with ginger beer & this (dark) rum |
| #8672, aired 2022-06-28 | 12-LETTER WORDS $400: Hen night is Brit speak for this party for a bride prior to her wedding bachelorette |
| #8670, aired 2022-06-24 | & ON DRUMS... $2000: Conan O'Brien's onetime "Late Night" bandleader, this "Mighty Max" also holds down the beat in the E Street Band Max Weinberg |
| #8668, aired 2022-06-22 | THE SONG OF THE DAY $200: In 2013 Rebecca Black naturally followed up "Friday" with this song, a collaboration with the perfectly named Dave Days "Saturday" |
| #8668, aired 2022-06-22 | THE SONG OF THE DAY $400: Duran Duran sang of a "New Moon" then "and a firedance through the night" a "New Moon On Monday" |
| #8668, aired 2022-06-22 | FACE/PALM $400: In "'Twas the Night Before Christmas", St. Nick's these "were like roses, his nose like a cherry!" cheeks |
| #8654, aired 2022-06-02 | THEATER $2000: His "Long Day's Journey into Night" didn't debut on Broadway until 3 years after his death Eugene O'Neill |
| #8651, aired 2022-05-30 | ON THE WALL $400: Perfect for your bedroom, this item is thought to provide protection through the night a dream catcher |
| #8642, aired 2022-05-17 | MOVIE TITLE BEFORE & AFTER $1200: George Romero's original zombies from 1968 recruit a wisecracking superhero to add to the mayhem Night of the Living Deadpool |
| #8639, aired 2022-05-12 | THE BILLBOARD MUSIC AWARDS $1000: At the 2021 show, this letter-perfect indie pop trio gave a smokin' performance of "Bang!"
"So put your best face on everybody /
Pretend you know this song /
Everybody come hang /
Let's go out with a bang /
Bang! Bang! Bang!" AJR |
| #8636, aired 2022-05-09 | PREPOSITIONAL LITERATURE $800: African-American detective Virgil Tibbs must solve a murder in the Deep South in this John Ball novel from 1965 In the Heat of the Night |
| #8634, aired 2022-05-05 | IT'S TV MOTHER'S DAY $400: Tami Taylor, on this Texas-set drama: "It's part of my job to make sure that you don't grow up stupid. It's bad for the world" Friday Night Lights |
| #8634, aired 2022-05-05 | ASTRONOMY $800: The brightest star in the night sky is this binary star in Canis Major Sirius |
| #8629, aired 2022-04-28 | POETS & POETRY $400: In an Edna St. Vincent Millay poem, this "burns at both ends; it will not last the night" a candle |
| #8621, aired 2022-04-18 | ART ON COMMISSION $1200: Here's this Rembrandt work, temporarily restored to how it looked before pieces were cut off to fit into the town hall The Night Watch |
| #8620, aired 2022-04-15 | THESE SONGS REALLY MOVE $1600: Not to be trusted as scientists, Coldplay claimed that "birds go flying at" this; they, in fact, do not the speed of sound |
| #8618, aired 2022-04-13 | BAT QUIZ $1200: Bats navigate at night using this system of acoustic orientation that incorporates nature's version of radar echolocation |
| #8617, aired 2022-04-12 | AMAZON PRIME $400: Let this alliterative Amazon water creature light up your night... & despite its name, it's a knifefish an electric eel |
| #8607, aired 2022-03-29 | WHERE THERE'S A "WILL" $400: It's where you pick up your theater tickets on the night of will call |
| #8607, aired 2022-03-29 | AFRICAN-AMERICANA $800: Watch Night is a New Year's Eve tradition dating back to the eve of January 1, 1863, the date this took effect the Emancipation Proclamation |
| #8604, aired 2022-03-24 | IF YOU LIKED IT $800: In the '70s we liked this brother act behind the "Saturday Night Fever" soundtrack, which has sold over 40 million copies the Bee Gees |
| #8601, aired 2022-03-21 | GIVING YOU A PLUM ASSIGNMENT $800: The kids in "'Twas the Night Before Christmas" had "visions of" these--likely not fruit but sweetened seeds sugar plums |
| #8597, aired 2022-03-15 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $1200: He composed the famous "Wedding March" heard here as part of the incidental music for "A Midsummer Night's Dream" Mendelssohn |
| #8595, aired 2022-03-11 | BRIT LIT $2000: Squire Allworthy finds a baby in his bed one night--the title character of this 1749 novel by Henry Fielding Tom Jones |
| #8592, aired 2022-03-08 | POETRY FILL IN THE BLANK $2000: Byron: "She walks in ____, like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies" beauty |
| #8591, aired 2022-03-07 | FROM BOOK TO TV $200: In this novel & the TV series based on it, Beth Harmon pictures a chessboard on the ceiling above her in bed at night The Queen's Gambit |
| #8588, aired 2022-03-02 | ROAD TRIP $2000: This ancient Greek historian wrote, "Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night" stopped messengers on the royal road Herodotus |
| #8587, aired 2022-03-01 | REMEMBERING STEPHEN SONDHEIM $400: For "A Little Night Music", not a circus, Sondheim wrote the song "Send In" these, "don't bother, they're here" the clowns |
| #17, aired 2022-02-22 | LYRICS TO REMEMBER $800: This group in 2009:
"I gotta feeling (woo-hoo) that tonight's gonna be a good night... that tonight's gonna be a good, good night" The Black Eyed Peas |
| #15, aired 2022-02-18 | ESPN $200: (Steve Levy delivers the clue.) Some said it wouldn't work in 1970 when this program brought the NFL to primetime, but in 2020 I became the seventh play-by-play announcer as it celebrated 50 years on the air Monday Night Football |
| #14, aired 2022-02-17 | NIGHTTIME NEWS WITH WORLD NEWS NOW $1200: (Mona Kosar Abdi delivers the clue.) Thousands of people with lights gathered at Le Bourget Aerodrome on the night of May 21, 1927, confusing this man, who expected pitch blackness & circled the field several times before landing at 10:24 PM (Charles) Lindbergh |
| #14, aired 2022-02-17 | NIGHTTIME NEWS WITH WORLD NEWS NOW $1600: (Andrew Dymburt delivers the clue.) On the night of April 14, 1865, as John Wilkes Booth stalked Abraham Lincoln, would-be assassin Louis Powell entered the home of this Secretary of State & stabbed him repeatedly, but he survived (William) Seward |
| #14, aired 2022-02-17 | NIGHTTIME NEWS WITH WORLD NEWS NOW $2000: (Mona Kosar Abdi delivers the clue.) Vacationing on his family farm on an August night in 1923, this man was awakened with news that Warren Harding had died; by the light of a kerosene lamp, he was sworn in as president by his father, a justice of the peace (Calvin) Coolidge |
| #13, aired 2022-02-17 | THE PLACES YOU'LL GO! $200: You could visit the Rijksmuseum & watch "Operation Night Watch" as it studies one of this man's masterworks with a stereomicroscope Rembrandt |
| #11, aired 2022-02-16 | LITERATURE: "GOOD" OR "GREAT" $800: "Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight" is a line from this Dylan Thomas poem "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night" |
| #8577, aired 2022-02-15 | IT'S THE ONLY VOWEL $2000: ...in the 2 title words of a Shakespeare comedy where we meet Sir Andrew Aguecheek (2 different vowels) E, I |
| #10, aired 2022-02-15 | COOKING WITH DAVID CHANG $800: (David Chang delivers the clue.) For convenience, I'm a big fan of the microwave & the most basic thing you can make for dinner or a late-night snack is a baked potato; poke a few holes in this most common brown variety & cook about five minutes on each side a russet potato |
| #6, aired 2022-02-10 | COMEDIANS' ROLES $800: In a 2018 film Kevin Hart attends the title "Night School" & this female comic is his teacher Tiffany Haddish |
| #5, aired 2022-02-10 | GAME SHOW HOSTS $600: This current late night host has folks pick their "final answer" on "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" Jimmy Kimmel |
| #5, aired 2022-02-10 | GAME SHOW HOSTS $800: After "Saturday Night Live", she began hosting "Supermarket Sweep" Leslie Jones |
| #5, aired 2022-02-10 | THIS PARTY IS LIT $1200: In the medieval Icelandic "Prose Edda", slain warriors party every night in this hall Valhalla |
| #8571, aired 2022-02-07 | & THEN TO THE OPERA HOUSE! $200: Have a g'day at this city's Taronga Zoo, opened in 1884, then have a g'night at the opera house Sydney |
| #8560, aired 2022-01-21 | BALDERDASH $400: A depiction of a witches' Sabbath, Mussorgsky's composition "Night On Bald Mountain" was used in this 1940 Disney film Fantasia |
| #8560, aired 2022-01-21 | FICTIONAL PLANETS $600: This unusual-looking family first seen on "Saturday Night Live" pose as earthlings but are really from Remulak the Coneheads |
| #8558, aired 2022-01-19 | POTENT POTABLES $200: On a cold wintry night, warm up with a traditional hot buttered this drink rum |
| #8558, aired 2022-01-19 | "BIG" TALK $800: In 1958 the Fresno Bee reported that this had a 50-inch stride & traveled only at night Bigfoot |
| #8554, aired 2022-01-13 | CUTS FROM THE CLASSIC ALBUM $800: "Hells Bells" &
"You Shook Me All Night Long"
(1980) Back in Black |
| #8553, aired 2022-01-12 | LET ME IN!! $1000: Kool & the Gang sang of this, often a bar promotion, "and the feeling's right" "Ladies Night" |
| #8553, aired 2022-01-12 | CLASSIC SITCOMS $2000: Harry Anderson presided over this sitcom while Markie Post played a public defender Night Court |
| #8549, aired 2022-01-06 | FLY BY NIGHT $200: Who wants to try their luck as we fly over this city's Strip Las Vegas |
| #8549, aired 2022-01-06 | FLY BY NIGHT $400: Commissioned in 1806 following a great victory, it's this famous landmark by night the Arc de Triomphe |
| #8549, aired 2022-01-06 | FLY BY NIGHT $600: Batter up at this ballpark; notice the Gateway Arch to the right Busch Stadium |
| #8549, aired 2022-01-06 | FLY BY NIGHT $800: Let's go back in time as we take a little flyby of this famous hill the Acropolis |
| #8549, aired 2022-01-06 | FLY BY NIGHT $1000: Here are the lights of this largest Chinese city, about 700 miles from Beijing Shanghai |
| #8547, aired 2022-01-04 | RECENT POP CULTURE $400: It's the 3-letter title of the M. Night Shyamalan movie about people aging with terrifying speed Old |
| #8547, aired 2022-01-04 | WATERLOGGED READING $600: The Amity Police Department gets a call that Christine Watkins hasn't returned from a late night swim in this novel Jaws |
| #8547, aired 2022-01-04 | TAGLINES OF SCARY MOVIES $800: 2013:
"One night a year, all crime is legal" The Purge |
| #8542, aired 2021-12-28 | YOU NEED A VITAMIN BOOST $800: Night blindness may result from a lack of this vitamin that helps to activate rhodopsin, which aids in maintaining light sensitivity vitamin A |
| #8541, aired 2021-12-27 | YOU STUBBED YOUR TOE ON LIVE TV $800: 2 words that completed Red Skelton's signoff, "Good night and..." God bless |
| #8539, aired 2021-12-23 | FIRST AMONG SEQUELS $1600: Logically, George Romero followed up "Night of the Living Dead" with this 1978 sequel Dawn of the Dead |
| #8538, aired 2021-12-22 | THE HOST OF CHRISTMAS PAST $200: Elvis Costello, Toby Keith & old pal Jon Stewart were part of this late night host's "Christmas: The Greatest Gift of All!" Colbert |
| #8537, aired 2021-12-21 | SHAKESPEARE, YOU'RE DRUNK $1000: In this comedy Sir Toby Belch asks, "Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes & ale?" Twelfth Night |
| #8533, aired 2021-12-15 | PLAYING PROFESSOR $1000: Judith Light is among those who have portrayed the professor stricken with cancer in this Pulitzer-winning play Wit |
| #8532, aired 2021-12-14 | AN AD JUNKED $600: The last TV ad for cigarettes to play in the U.S., for Virginia Slims, aired January 1, 1971 on this man's late night talk show (Johnny) Carson |
| #8530, aired 2021-12-10 | YACHT ROCK SAILS AGAIN $400: This ex-Commodore sailed to the top of the charts in 1983 with "All Night Long" (Lionel) Richie |
| #8530, aired 2021-12-10 | WINTER HOLIDAYS $400: Twelfth Night precedes the feast of this, also known as Three Kings' Day the Epiphany |
| #8527, aired 2021-12-07 | POP CULTURE $200: Seen here, she brought the funny to shows like "Shrill" & "Saturday Night Live" Aidy Bryant |
| #8527, aired 2021-12-07 | NAME THE MUSICAL $1200: "I could have danced all night, and still have begged for more" My Fair Lady |
| #8523, aired 2021-12-01 | WRITERS, WITH STYLE $2000: He didn't use sci-fi in 1961's "Mother Night", about an American playwright spying on the Nazis. He passed away in 2007. So it goes Vonnegut |
| #8517, aired 2021-11-23 | '38 $1000: German name for the night of Nov. 9, when Jews & their property were attacked across Germany Kristallnacht |
| #8516, aired 2021-11-22 | BEATLES MOVIES & DOCS $200: Paul McCartney said The Beatles wanted to be in a film, but wanted to make a good one--& did with this first film of theirs A Hard Day's Night |
| #8516, aired 2021-11-22 | YOU GOT A LOT OF IRV, PAL! $1200: Irving Thalberg, who has a building named for him on our Sony lot, produced "A Night at the Opera" for this comedy team in 1935 the Marx Brothers |
| #8515, aired 2021-11-19 | ESSAYS $600: A few years before his death from cancer, this film critic reflected on his life in "Go Gentle Into That Good Night" Ebert |
| #8512, aired 2021-11-16 | OPERA SOURCE MATERIAL $1200: Henry Purcell's "The Fairy Queen", usually dubbed the first Shakespearean opera, is based on this play A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| #8508, aired 2021-11-10 | UP ALL NIGHT $200: In Luke 6, Jesus "continued all night in prayer to God" & "when it was day, he called unto him his disciples", of which he chose this many 12 |
| #8508, aired 2021-11-10 | UP ALL NIGHT $400: This energy drink says it "vitalizes body & mind" but having 9 before bedtime may not be the best idea Red Bull |
| #8508, aired 2021-11-10 | UP ALL NIGHT $600: In June 1935 Huey Long spoke in the Senate for 15 hours & 30 minutes, using this tactic until 4 A.M. filibustering |
| #8508, aired 2021-11-10 | UP ALL NIGHT $800: In 1946 this chain of stores put its hours in its new name, but in 1963, some decided to go 24-7 7-Eleven |
| #8508, aired 2021-11-10 | UP ALL NIGHT $1000: 90,000 enter, & 90,000 leave Sambadrome Marquês de Sapucaí, we'll samba all night there in this city during Carnival Rio |
| #8508, aired 2021-11-10 | SITCOMS $1600: Aaron Sorkin spent a year in a hotel room writing a movie script & watching ESPN; the latter led him to create this sitcom Sports Night |
| #8503, aired 2021-11-03 | SHAKESPEARE PLAY SETTINGS $1600: Arden, Shakespeare's mother's maiden name, is the name of the forest where this comedy is set As You Like It |
| #8497, aired 2021-10-26 | LITERARY JOURNALISM $200: Norman Mailer won a Pulitzer for "The Armies of the Night", about the 1967 march on this Defense Department building the Pentagon |
| #8496, aired 2021-10-25 | WHAT HAPPENED WHEN $4,200 (Daily Double): While surveying the night sky in 1781, William Herschel made this big discovery Uranus |
| #8494, aired 2021-10-21 | WORD PUZZLES $600: Something done continuously, all day & all night around the clock |
| #8494, aired 2021-10-21 | SPORTS BOOKS $1,000 (Daily Double): The basis for a movie & TV series, this bestseller is subtitled "A Town, a Team, and a Dream" Friday Night Lights |
| #8494, aired 2021-10-21 | WORD PUZZLES $1000: Bette Davis said, "Fasten your seat belts; it's gonna be" this a bumpy night |
| #8492, aired 2021-10-19 | 5 BURROS $1000: In "A Midsummer Night's Dream", the mischievous Puck gives this poor weaver the head of an ass (Nick) Bottom |
| #8488, aired 2021-10-13 | THE SABBATH $800: NFLer Davion Taylor held onto his football dreams though this Christian faith kept him from playing high school football Seventh-day Adventist |
| #8487, aired 2021-10-12 | YOU'VE BEEN A GREAT AUDIENCE $600: Partly to keep the audience awake, he kept the Ed Sullivan Theater at 55 degrees when taping his late-night show that ended in 2015 David Letterman |
| #8486, aired 2021-10-11 | GEORGE WASHINGTON DID IT $400: On Christmas night, 1776, Washington crossed the Delaware; the battle of this now-state capital was the next day Trenton |
| #8484, aired 2021-10-07 | SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE PEOPLE $200: This actress & bestselling author was the first female head writer of the show (Tina) Fey |
| #8484, aired 2021-10-07 | SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE PEOPLE $400: Yes, this "Weekend Update" co-anchor is named for the revolutionary Che |
| #8484, aired 2021-10-07 | SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE PEOPLE $600: "The ears aren't quite as big", said President Obama of this SNLer who regularly portrayed him Fred Armisen |
| #8484, aired 2021-10-07 | SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE PEOPLE $800: Back in 1975 this late comedian hosted the very first "Saturday Night Live" (George) Carlin |
| #8484, aired 2021-10-07 | SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE PEOPLE $1000: Her character Mary Catherine Gallagher was based on her own Catholic school experience Molly Shannon |
| #8481, aired 2021-10-04 | 4-LETTER BOOK TITLES $600: Coming between "Night" & "Day", it's the middle title in Elie Wiesel's acclaimed trilogy Dawn |
| #8481, aired 2021-10-04 | THE ARTS $1600: Eugene O'Neill described this 4-act family drama as "old sorrow written in tears & blood" Long Day's Journey into Night |
| #8480, aired 2021-10-01 | NAME CALLING $400: This man adapted Charles Barbier's night writing code into a writing system for the blind Braille |
| #8474, aired 2021-09-23 | LITERARY TERMS $800: Juliet's "Good night, good night!" is followed by these 5 words that include an oxymoron Parting is such sweet sorrow |
| #8473, aired 2021-09-22 | __R__M $400: Study all night for a test the next morning cram |
| #8473, aired 2021-09-22 | COMEDY ON TV $1600: This '70s show was inspired by a New York Magazine article about workers on the night shift at a cab company Taxi |
| #8471, aired 2021-09-20 | ALLITERATIVE PEOPLE $600: One of the greatest songs he's written is "Send In The Clowns" from "A Little Night Music" Sondheim |
| #8471, aired 2021-09-20 | A WORD IN SPANISH $1000: In Spanish it's not someone taking the law into his own hands, it's just a watchman, like a night watchman vigilante |
| #8466, aired 2021-09-13 | NO MAN $1000: Dear Diary, in 1662 he was not a fan of "A Midsummer Night's Dream", "which I had never seen before, nor shall ever again" (Samuel) Pepys |
| #8463, aired 2021-08-11 | NAME THAT SHAKESPEARE PLAY $400: A literal fairy tale that gets to the bottom of things with a triple wedding A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| #8457, aired 2021-08-03 | TALK SHOWS $800: This "Saturday Night Live" alum has Lorne Michaels as his show's executive producer & Fred Armisen leading the house band Seth Meyers |
| #8451, aired 2021-07-26 | PARTY IN THE BACK $400: Are you going to be shy all night & act like this proverbial yellow perennial plant or are you going to cut loose & dance? wallflower |
| #8449, aired 2021-07-22 | DOWN TO "RTH" $400: Once upon a time home was where this fireplace area was, providing heat & light at night, & fire for cooking a hearth |
| #8446, aired 2021-07-19 | AGREE, 2 DISAGREE $200: An act of admitting a point, especially on election night; Newsweek detailed "50 Years of Presidential" these "Speeches" concessions |
| #8444, aired 2021-07-15 | BROADWAY MUSICALS BY SETTING $800: A junkyard on the night of the Jellicle Ball Cats |
| #8443, aired 2021-07-14 | TV SHOWS BY SIBLINGS $600: Sam & Dean Winchester, hunters of demons & things that go bump in the night Supernatural |
| #8442, aired 2021-07-13 | TUNE A FISH $1000: "Joy to the fishes in the deep blue sea", says a No. 1 hit by this group with a different animal in its name Three Dog Night |
| #8435, aired 2021-07-02 | PHRASES YOU LIKELY DIDN'T DO FOR REAL $600: Studying for that test until dawn, you "burned" this timely 2-word phrase but probably not for real, as it's not 1855 the (mid)night oil |
| #8432, aired 2021-06-29 | HERE'S YOUR CONSTELLATION PRIZE $200: Gotta fly now! Of course Aquila, this bird, had the stuff to make it in the starry night an eagle |
| #8429, aired 2021-06-24 | MYTHOLOGY $2000: A weaver by day & an unraveler by night, she kept suitors at bay during Odysseus' absence by never finishing her shroud Penelope |
| #8426, aired 2021-06-21 | QUITE A PARADOX $400: Olbers' paradox is the fact that the night sky is dark; why don't these light it up? stars |
| #8424, aired 2021-06-17 | TV BEFORE & AFTER $200: Ned Stark faces a trio of women & asks them questions in order to select one for a night out The Dating Game of Thrones |
| #8422, aired 2021-06-15 | 5 NIGHTS $800: Also called Freedom's Eve, Watch Night is a celebration of this edict issued on January 1, 1863 the Emancipation Proclamation |
| #8422, aired 2021-06-15 | 5 NIGHTS $1200: One night taken this city on the French Riviera, known for a movie festival & an international pyrotechnic festival Cannes |
| #8422, aired 2021-06-15 | 5 NIGHTS $1600: Shakespeare knew that the Eve of the Epiphany also goes by this ordinal name Twelfth Night |
| #8422, aired 2021-06-15 | 5 NIGHTS $2000: Laylat al-Qadr, "Night of Power", commemorates when this angel revealed the Koran to Muhammad Gabriel |
| #8417, aired 2021-06-08 | LATE $600: "Carpool Karaoke" is a segment on this CBS show The Late Late Show with James Corden |
| #8414, aired 2021-06-03 | 20th CENTURY BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: This Holocaust survivor & author of "Night" also wrote "Dawn", which takes place at night (Elie) Wiesel |
| #8413, aired 2021-06-02 | EUROPEAN HISTORY $200: This barbarian ruler who had terrorized Europe died on his wedding night in 453 A.D. Attila the Hun |
| #8412, aired 2021-06-01 | SCIENTISTS $200: Ernest Rutherford wrote that this colleague for whom a "counter" is named "could count... for a whole night" Hans Geiger |
| #8410, aired 2021-05-28 | KEEPING UP WITH THE JOANS $800: In 2017 this singer of "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Joan Baez |
| #8410, aired 2021-05-28 | NONFICTION $1200: "World of Wonders" mentions the glimmer-pop of this insect on a summer night fireflies |
| #8406, aired 2021-05-24 | MUSIC FOR CHAMPIONS $200: In 2007, he performed his song, "Champion", on "Saturday Night Live" Kanye West |
| #8401, aired 2021-05-17 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $2000: Witchcraft in a story by Gogol inspired this "Night" music by Mussorgsky "Night On Bald Mountain" |
| #8400, aired 2021-05-14 | POP CULTURE $800: On Oscar night in 2017, this film took home 6 awards, including Best Director for Damien Chazelle La La Land |
| #8395, aired 2021-05-07 | CLICHÉS $200: Do something stealthily & you're like this kind of criminal "in the night" a thief |
| #8389, aired 2021-04-29 | CHARACTER-TITLED NOVELS $400: The title teen's prom night is extra-excitiing in this 1974 debut novel Carrie |
| #8388, aired 2021-04-28 | AMERICA BEFORE 1800 $800: In addition to 2,400 troops, George Washington ferried 18 cannons & many horses across this river on Christmas night, 1776 the Delaware River |
| #8387, aired 2021-04-27 | RECENT BOOKS $800: A head writer of "Saturday Night Live", he titled his memoir "A Very Punchable Face" Colin Jost |
| #8386, aired 2021-04-26 | STARTS WITH 3 CONSONANTS $400: "What the Night Knows" is part of a "3-Book" this genre "Collection" from Dean Koontz the Thriller |
| #8381, aired 2021-04-19 | FICTION $1200: "A Wrinkle in Time" starts with what might be called an infamous quotation, these 7 words that also open an 1830 novel "It was a dark and stormy night" |
| #8379, aired 2021-04-15 | IT'S FRIDAY NIGHT $200: Spend some time in the loop in this city & you can hit Daley Plaza Chicago |
| #8379, aired 2021-04-15 | IT'S FRIDAY NIGHT $400: Start the weekend with a cocktail, like a deep, dark secret, made with kahlúa & the dark type of this rum |
| #8379, aired 2021-04-15 | IT'S FRIDAY NIGHT $600: Take a trip to Flavortown with Guy Fieri on this Food Network show, "DDD" for short Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives |
| #8379, aired 2021-04-15 | IT'S FRIDAY NIGHT $800: A chilly evening? Relax around this backyard accessory, burning wood like the portable model called the Solo Stove Bonfire a fire pit |
| #8379, aired 2021-04-15 | IT'S FRIDAY NIGHT $1000: Named for an area of Northeastern Europe, this dog breed seen here needs a walk on Friday night a Pomeranian |
| #8375, aired 2021-04-09 | HISTORIC PEOPLE $1600: This former New York governor serving in Lincoln's cabinet survived an attempt on his life the night the president was shot (William) Seward |
| #8373, aired 2021-04-07 | CHESS TERMS $400: The first night of a play at a theater an opening |
| #8372, aired 2021-04-06 | A STUDENT OF TELEVISION $800: High school QB Jason Street's life changed forever after he was injured in the very first episode of this show in 2006 Friday Night Lights |
| #8368, aired 2021-03-31 | FUNNY BOOKS $2,000 (Daily Double): His memoir "Riding the Elephant" ranges from growing up in Glasgow to hosting a late night American TV show Ferguson |
| #8366, aired 2021-03-29 | THEY LIVED TO 100 $800: In 1996 this star of "The Sunshine Boys" reached 100 before he said, "Good night, Gracie" George Burns |
| #8363, aired 2021-03-24 | ABOUT THAT SONG $600: Dan Wilson of Semisonic said this song is about a baby leaving the womb as much as it is about the end of the night at a bar "Closing Time" |
| #8361, aired 2021-03-22 | R&B & SOUL HITS $2000: He's remembered for hits like "You Send Me" & "Twistin' The Night Away" Sam Cooke |
| #8360, aired 2021-03-19 | JOBS IN THE BIBLE $200: In Luke 2 they're "abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night" shepherds |
| #8358, aired 2021-03-17 | TERRIFIC TV $200: Her characters on "Saturday Night Live" have included Oprah, Liza Minnelli & Kamala Harris Maya Rudolph |
| #8358, aired 2021-03-17 | NIFTY NOVELS $800: Daphne du Maurier described it as "the influence of a first wife on a second... until wife 2 is haunted day and night" Rebecca |
| #8352, aired 2021-03-09 | PICTURE THE MUSICAL ACT $1000: Joy to the world Three Dog Night |
| #8349, aired 2021-03-04 | A BREAK FOR SPRING $200: Spring begins officially at this cosmic moment of equal parts day & night the equinox |
| #8349, aired 2021-03-04 | ALPHABET DOGS $800: D: This breed was developed in Germany by a night watchman whose first name was Karl Doberman |
| #8345, aired 2021-02-26 | AROUND THE WORLD $800: Embedded with stones that glow in the dark, the Van Gogh Path in the Netherlands was inspired by this painting Starry Night |
| #8344, aired 2021-02-25 | SHEDDING LIGHT $400: A symbol of enlightenment, its torch is covered in 24-karat gold & lit by 16 floodlights at night the Statue of Liberty |
| #8343, aired 2021-02-24 | HORSE & WRITER $2000: He wrote about "Riders of the Purple Sage" & owned 2 horses called Black Star & Night Zane Grey |
| #8341, aired 2021-02-22 | THROWING THE BOOK AT YOU $800: Father & daughter go out at night in a children's classic by Jane Yolen titled this bird "Moon" Owl Moon |
| #8341, aired 2021-02-22 | HAMBURGERS $2000: Orchestra leader & Hamburger Bert Kaempfert is known for classic hits like this tune that Sinatra also recorded "Strangers In The Night" |
| #8337, aired 2021-02-16 | LITERATURE $1600: Dylan Thomas' best-known poem urges his father, "Do not" do this. "Rage, rage against the dying of the light" go gentle into that good night |
| #8334, aired 2021-02-11 | 1930s AMERICA $600: New York City's hottest ticket at Christmastime 1932 was the night this theater opened, featuring the then "Roxyettes" Radio City Music Hall |
| #8331, aired 2021-02-08 | THE B__G's $600: A night out involving a brief stay at a succession of taverns barhopping |
| #8330, aired 2021-02-05 | DAY, DRINKING $800: Hoist a dram on the evening of January 25, the night Scotland celebrates this iconic poet Burns |
| #8328, aired 2021-02-03 | TV & MOVIE PAIRS $400: The recurring "Wayne's World" sketch on "Saturday Night Live" featured these 2 performers as Wayne & Garth Mike Myers & Dana Carvey |
| #8328, aired 2021-02-03 | LET'S GO SNORKELING $600: Hawaii's Big Island is renowned for its night snorkeling with these gentle giants nicknamed devil fish manta rays |
| #8324, aired 2021-01-28 | BIOGRAPHIES $400: "Last Night at the Viper Room" is the story of this actor, Joaquin's big bro, who died tragically in 1993 River Phoenix |
| #8323, aired 2021-01-27 | FUNNY BUSINESS $1600: Starting way back in 2003 (& still going strong), he's the longest-tenured cast member of "Saturday Night Live" Kenan Thompson |
| #8323, aired 2021-01-27 | LITERARY VACATIONS $1600: Rosemary Hoyt, a young actress vacationing on the Riviera, tempts the hero of this author's "Tender is the Night" Fitzgerald |
| #8322, aired 2021-01-26 | HISTORIC SURVIVORS $800: (Jeff Probst presents the clue.) This great Italian tenor was staying at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco when the 1906 earthquake struck; he had performed in "Carmen" the previous night & woke to his room rocking like a boat on the sea Caruso |
| #8315, aired 2021-01-15 | ENTERTAINING BROTHERS $400: These brothers starred in the classic film "A Night at the Opera" the Marx Brothers |
| #8315, aired 2021-01-15 | TAKE NOTE $400: "Thank You Notes" is a segment on his late night talk show & also the title of 2 books he's written Jimmy Fallon |
| #8312, aired 2021-01-12 | THESE SONGS COULD KILL YOU $1000: Hall & Oates sang that this title killer will "only come out at night...watch out boy she'll chew you up" "Maneater" |
| #8312, aired 2021-01-12 | WEATHER FORECAST INSIDE $2000: Late 19th century entertainers often toured the country this way, doing one-night shows in makeshift theaters barnstorming |
| #8311, aired 2021-01-11 | EARTH AT NIGHT IN COLOR $200: To maximize their ability to hear insects, spectral tarsiers tug on their ears before setting out on this nightly activity hunting |
| #8311, aired 2021-01-11 | EARTH AT NIGHT IN COLOR $400: When the full moon gets too bright, an African owl named for this other mighty bird of prey, resorts to chasing its own prey on foot eagle |
| #8311, aired 2021-01-11 | EARTH AT NIGHT IN COLOR $600: To get the ideal conditions for recording this phenomenon, a cameraman traveled miles on skis into a pitch-dark forest the Northern Lights |
| #8311, aired 2021-01-11 | EARTH AT NIGHT IN COLOR $800: Adults are too heavy, but a young python can climb even the thinnest branches to seek prey in this upper level of a rainforest the canopy |
| #8311, aired 2021-01-11 | EARTH AT NIGHT IN COLOR $1000: Prey animals usually avoid predators, but at night these big African antelopes actually follow cheetahs to keep them in sight wildebeests |
| #8311, aired 2021-01-11 | AMERICAN ARTISTS $1200: This artist depicted 3 customers in an all-night diner & "the loneliness of a large city" in his painting "Nighthawks" Hopper |
| #8310, aired 2021-01-08 | ARTISTS IN EUROPE $1000: While visiting van Gogh at Arles, this painter did his own take on "The Night Café" and Madame Ginoux all in one Gauguin |
| #8309, aired 2021-01-07 | LITERARY KINGS $600: In "A Midsummer Night's Dream", Oberon is the spouse of Titania & the king of these beings fairies |
| #8309, aired 2021-01-07 | TELEVISION $1600: The announcers on "NBC Sunday Night Football" are Al Michaels & this former wide receiver Cris Collinsworth |
| #8304, aired 2020-12-17 | THAT WORD WAS A TRADEMARK $1000: Black Flag still makes this brand of insect trap that has now come to mean a seedy place to spend the night a Roach Motel |
| #8304, aired 2020-12-17 | AUDIO DRAMAS $2000: "Welcome to" this mysterious desert town is a podcast "where every conspiracy is true" Night Vale |
| #8303, aired 2020-12-16 | ON A HIGH NOTE $1600: A tenor in this title role hits a high A flat singing "Let your soul take you where you long to be!" from "The Music Of The Night" The Phantom of the Opera |
| #8302, aired 2020-12-15 | REALITY TV $400: Kandi Burruss, under wraps as the Night Angel, was finally revealed to be the season 3 winner of this musical competition The Masked Singer |
| #8300, aired 2020-12-11 | THE NOT-SO-WILD WEST $400: A theater called this grand style of music "House" opened in Leadville, Co. in 1879; opening night was overshadowed by a nearby hanging an opera |
| #8299, aired 2020-12-10 | WHAT'S THAT ON YOUR HEAD? $2,000 (Daily Double): "'Twas the Night Before Christmas" has mamma in this headgear "and I in my cap" a kerchief |
| #8298, aired 2020-12-09 | 21st CENTURY TONY WINNERS $2000: Jessica Lange added to her trophy case, winning a Tony in 2016 for this "Long" Eugene O'Neill play Long Day's Journey Into Night |
| #8294, aired 2020-12-03 | TO DONUTS $200: "The Donut" by Michael Krondl says the treat became popular with this profession back when all-night food options were few policemen |
| #8293, aired 2020-12-02 | EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY $200: On Dec. 16, 1773 during a wild night of partying, 342 chests of this were dumped into Boston Harbor tea |
| #8291, aired 2020-11-30 | YIDDISH $400: Sometimes in the middle of the night I'll head to the kitchen & do some of this, from the Yiddish for "snacking" noshing |
| #8289, aired 2020-11-26 | TV SPORTS MIX $600: This state's Dillon Panthers were the focus of "Friday Night Lights" Texas |
| #8285, aired 2020-11-20 | SILENT "L" $200: In the Christmas carol "Silent Night", "all is" this, "all is bright" calm |
| #8284, aired 2020-11-19 | PATRIOTIC ART? $800: Before moving southwest, she loved the Adirondacks & painted a starlit night over Lake George Georgia O'Keeffe |
| #8281, aired 2020-11-16 | JEOPARDY! WORLD TOUR $1200: We've landed at Suvarnabhumi Airport for a stay in this capital; we hear one night there makes a hard man humble Bangkok |
| #8277, aired 2020-11-10 | OXYMORONS $1200: This type of fill-in was once common on late-night TV; in March 2020 Pete Buttigieg was one for Jimmy Kimmel a guest host |
| #8276, aired 2020-11-09 | A NIGHT AT THE OPERA $200: After his U.S. debut with Joan Sutherland in 1965, this bearded Italian tenor hit the high C's as Tonjo in "La fille du régiment" Pavarotti |
| #8276, aired 2020-11-09 | A NIGHT AT THE OPERA $400: Opera hits a real low note (a "D") in an aria by Osmin, a role for this vocal range in Mozart's "Abduction from the Seraglio" bass |
| #8276, aired 2020-11-09 | A NIGHT AT THE OPERA $800: In a Samuel Barber opera, you know that this queen is about to die when a man enters carrying a basket of figs Cleopatra |
| #8276, aired 2020-11-09 | A NIGHT AT THE OPERA $1000: The king's aria to a tree is a highlight of Handel's "Serse", about the Persian king better known as this Xerxes |
| #8276, aired 2020-11-09 | PODCASTS $1000: Turns out this TBS late night show host "Needs a Friend"; Malcolm Gladwell & Tina Fey were happy to oblige Conan O'Brien |
| #8276, aired 2020-11-09 | A NIGHT AT THE OPERA $3,000 (Daily Double): The name of this famed opera house in Milan built by Maria Theresa in the 1770s translates to "the staircase" La Scala |
| #8274, aired 2020-11-05 | MUSIC VENUES $2000: This cafe in a Nashville strip mall is famous for hosting an open mic night on Mondays the Bluebird Café |
| #8273, aired 2020-11-04 | HERE'S THE PLAY $800: David Frost gets a drunken late-night call from this other title man just before the final interview (Richard) Nixon |
| #8267, aired 2020-10-27 | THE BOOK OF JOB $1200: John le Carre:
"The Night ____" Manager |
| #8265, aired 2020-10-23 | HISTORIC OBJECTS $200: The rocking chair he was sitting in, the night he was assassinated in 1865, somehow ended up at the Henry Ford Museum in Michigan Lincoln |
| #8259, aired 2020-10-15 | ON THE BILLBOARD CHARTS IN 2020 $800: Arizona Zervas, you don't have to put on the red light to tell us about this title woman--"all she wanna do is party all night" Roxanne |
| #8256, aired 2020-10-12 | FESTIVALS OF LIGHT $800: This city comes alive at night during its yearly Vivid Light Festival Sydney |
| #8250, aired 2020-10-02 | CLUES FROM A 1965 JEOPARDY! HOME GAME $600: TIME: "Traditional bath & date night" Saturday |
| #8248, aired 2020-09-30 | THEATER TIME $1200: His "Long Day's Journey into Night" begins on a morning in August 1912 Eugene O'Neill |
| #8248, aired 2020-09-30 | PLAYING THE PART ON TV $2000: Angela Abar / Sister Night on "Watchmen"; Sandra Palmer on "24" Regina King |
| #8239, aired 2020-09-17 | DAILY READING $600: A 1958 novel (later an Albert Finney film) about a worker whose only pleasure is weekend blowouts is called this "& Sunday Morning" Saturday Night |
| #8239, aired 2020-09-17 | SCIENCE & NATURE $2,000 (Daily Double): Aside from the Sun & the Moon, this is the brightest natural object in the night sky Venus |
| #8232, aired 2020-06-09 | TALK SHOW $1600: This legend of NBC late night turned down the role that Jerry Lewis eventually played in "The King of Comedy" Johnny Carson |
| #8229, aired 2020-06-04 | EMMYS FOR WRITING $400: In 2015 govt. work paid off for Armando Iannucci, who won for co-writing the "Election Night" episode of this HBO comedy Veep |
| #8229, aired 2020-06-04 | EMMYS FOR WRITING $1000: In 2011 Jason Katims had clear eyes, a full heart & couldn't lose an Emmy for this H.S. football drama Friday Night Lights |
| #8227, aired 2020-06-02 | I'M FULL OF "N.V." $400: The Sightmark Ghost Hunter Goggle Binoculars will give you this night vision |
| #8219, aired 2020-05-21 | RUN ON SENTENCES $2000: In this Shakespeare comedy, Lysander says, "The course of true love never did run smooth" A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| #8218, aired 2020-05-20 | LITERARY LANDMARKS $2000: Nineteen of this man's monologues, including "Morning, Noon, and Night", were written at his home in Sag Harbor, New York Spalding Gray |
| #8215, aired 2020-05-01 | NAMES IN POP CULTURE $2000: In 2019, this Canadian YouTube star made the jump to late night television, hosting "A Little Late" on NBC Lilly Singh |
| #8207, aired 2020-04-21 | LIT-POURRI $200: "'Twas the night before Christmas", begins the poem "A Visit From" him Saint Nicholas |
| #8204, aired 2020-04-16 | ON THE RECENT BESTSELLER LIST $200: This late-night ABC funnyman was a hit with kids recently with his book about "The Serious Goose" Jimmy Kimmel |
| #8204, aired 2020-04-16 | MOVIE COMEDIES $600: Academic overachievers Kaitlyn Dever & Beanie Feldstein cram 4 years of fun into one night in this 2019 comedy Booksmart |
| #8202, aired 2020-04-14 | FROM THE LATIN $1200: Some animals are described as this, from the Latin for "of the night" nocturnal |
| #8201, aired 2020-04-13 | ARTS & CULTURE $200: "Wait until the evening before opening night", said Rossini of writing these instrumental pieces played before operas overtures |
| #8201, aired 2020-04-13 | BEFORE & AFTER $800: Night sack for a snoozing Boy Scout that's the set of skills available to someone like a magician a sleeping bag of tricks |
| #8193, aired 2020-04-01 | FBI QUANTICO $1000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from the FBI Training Academy in Quantico, Virginia.) New agents train at a mock town called Hogan's Alley, where the movie theater is actually an FBI office, and the marquee always reads "Manhattan Melodrama", just like it did on the 1934 night when agents gunned down this notorious bank robber outside the real Biograph Theater in Chicago John Dillinger |
| #8184, aired 2020-03-19 | HEAR HERE, NEW YORK! $600: It's Showtime at this venue on 125th Street for its comedy club & amateur night the Apollo |
| #8173, aired 2020-03-04 | AMERICA'S RICHEST SELF-MADE WOMEN $800: Billionaires Kathy Fields & Katie Rodan created this "forward" -thinking acne treatment brand often seen on late night TV Proactiv |
| #8167, aired 2020-02-25 | DISTILL CRAZY $600: In Prohibition times, this 10-letter type of bootlegger made booze in illegal stills at night a moonshiner |
| #8166, aired 2020-02-24 | 19th CENTURY HISTORY $400: April 9, 1878 was a normal night in Dodge City; Jack Wagner killed marshal Ed Masterson & this brother of Ed's killed Jack Bat Masterson |
| #8165, aired 2020-02-21 | YOU'RE OUT OF THE HOLE $400: These armored insectivores of the U.S. south emerge from their burrows at night an armadillo |
| #8159, aired 2020-02-13 | JUST SAY "N.O." $200: Avian term for someone who stays up late a night owl |
| #8147, aired 2020-01-28 | SHAKESPEARE BY NIGHT $400: In this play Oberon says, "Ill met by moonlight, proud Titania" A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| #8147, aired 2020-01-28 | SHAKESPEARE BY NIGHT $800: "Romeo and Juliet": "Good night, good night!" these 5 words "that I shall say good night till it be morrow" "Parting is such sweet sorrow" |
| #8147, aired 2020-01-28 | SHAKESPEARE BY NIGHT $1200: Act II of this play ends with Cornwall saying, "'Tis a wild night. My Regan counsels well. Come out o' the storm" King Lear |
| #8147, aired 2020-01-28 | SHAKESPEARE BY NIGHT $1600: Speaking to Viola in this play, Olivia says, "Love's night is noon" Twelfth Night |
| #8147, aired 2020-01-28 | SHAKESPEARE BY NIGHT $2000: Marcellus asks this friend of Hamlet "to watch the minutes of this night, that if again this apparition come, he may...speak to it" Horatio |
| #8145, aired 2020-01-24 | IKEA NAMES $200: Spoka, meaning "to haunt", is a line of these to illuminate kids' rooms night lights |
| #8144, aired 2020-01-23 | THE REST OF THE MOVIE'S TITLE $400: This film series: "Battle of the Smithsonian" Night at the Museum |
| #8142, aired 2020-01-21 | WORDS START WITH "U" $400: Bear with us--in the night skies, it precedes "Major" & "Minor" Ursa |
| #8141, aired 2020-01-20 | SECOND CITY ALUMNI $400: She came out of Second City & into your living room on "Glee" & as the host of "Hollywood Game Night" Jane Lynch |
| #8137, aired 2020-01-14 | POEMS' SECOND LINES $800: In a poem by William Blake, these 4 words precede the second line, "In the forests of the night" Tyger! Tyger! burning bright |
| #8136, aired 2020-01-13 | TRICKY CLUES $800: If you put off retiring, you could be one of these nocturnal avians a night owl |
| #8135, aired 2020-01-10 | BOOK MARKS $1200: Mark Haddon got the title of this novel from an observation made by Sherlock Holmes in an 1892 story The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time |
| #8133, aired 2020-01-08 | QUOTING POETS $1600: This Dylan Thomas title is rhymed with "Though wise men at their end know dark is right" Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night |
| #8133, aired 2020-01-08 | A SPARKLING CATEGORY $2000: In the U.S. sparklers are big on July 4th; in the U.K., they come out for the November day & night named for this conspirator (Guy) Fawkes |
| #2, aired 2020-01-07 | AMERICAN IDOLS $200: (Lionel Richie delivers the clue.) In 2012 I had the honor of singing for my idol, Muhammad Ali, at a benefit for his center that fights this disease--we helped raise $9.1 million that night Parkinson's |
| #1, aired 2020-01-07 | THE OSCARS $400: On Oscar night 2016 Best Animated Short went to "Bear Story"; this other bear story won Best Actor & Best Director The Revenant |
| #1, aired 2020-01-07 | THE SHAKESPEARE PLAY, & I QUOTE... $600: Mustardseed,
Act III, scene i:
"Mustardseed" A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| #8129, aired 2020-01-02 | ELTON JUAN? $800: "El Sábado Por La Noche Esta Bien (Para Luchar)" "Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting" |
| #8128, aired 2020-01-01 | O IS THE ONLY VOWEL $400: It's a perch for chickens to rest on at night a roost |
| #8126, aired 2019-12-30 | BEHIND THE LITERATURE $400: William Brodie, craftsman by day & criminal by night, was the inspiration for this Robert Louis Stevenson tale The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde |
| #8124, aired 2019-12-26 | WORDS SHAKESPEARE ONLY USED ONCE $800: In this play Sir Toby belches out Shakespeare's only use of "implacable" Twelfth Night |
| #8124, aired 2019-12-26 | WORDS SHAKESPEARE ONLY USED ONCE $2000: In this character's fight with Hermia in "A Midsummer Night's Dream", she utters the bard's only use of "bashfulness" Helena |
| #8123, aired 2019-12-25 | ASTROLOGICAL TERMS $200: Now a term for any astrological prediction, this term described the position of heavenly bodies in the night sky at any "hour" a horoscope |
| #8122, aired 2019-12-24 | A CHRISTMAS CAROL COLLAGE $800: O! American clergyman Phillips Brooks wrote the words to this Christmas carol after a pilgrimage to the Holy Land "O Little Town of Bethlehem" |
| #8120, aired 2019-12-20 | THAT'S OXYMORONIC $400: A 1968 horror movie was titled "Night of" these zombies the Living Dead |
| #8119, aired 2019-12-19 | MAMMAL FACTS $800: It's also known as the Cape anteater & it earns that name by eating tens of thousands a night an aardvark |
| #8118, aired 2019-12-18 | IT'S ASTRONOMICAL $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents by a display monitor.) 20 times more luminous than the Sun, Sirius, also known as the Dog Star, is the brightest star in the night sky and in the constellation known by this Latin name where it sometimes appears to form the nose Canis Major |
| #8116, aired 2019-12-16 | SPARK JOY $800: "Jeremiah was a bullfrog, was a good friend of mine", begins the 1971 No. 1 hit "Joy To The World" by this numerical group Three Dog Night |
| #8113, aired 2019-12-11 | A HAT TIP TO YOU $800: Abe Lincoln kept papers & speeches in this type of top hat he wore to Ford's Theatre the night he was shot stovepipe |
| #8111, aired 2019-12-09 | ELECTED TWICE TO THE ROCK HALL OF FAME $2000: He did the 2-fer in one night in 1997: as the middle name in a harmony-singing trio & with Buffalo Springfield Stephen Stills |
| #8109, aired 2019-12-05 | LITERARY LOCALES $1000: This author set his play "The Night of the Iguana" at the Costa Verde Hotel in Puerto Barrio, Mexico Tennessee Williams |
| #8108, aired 2019-12-04 | LET'S SCIENCE THE HECK OUT OF THIS $1600: The polar night jet is not a new airline; it's another name for this phenomenon that froze the Midwest in Jan. 2019 the polar vortex |
| #8101, aired 2019-11-25 | SHOW ME THE MONEY! $400: The night of the 2016 U.S. election, the currency of this nation fell 12% to a record low against the dollar Mexico |
| #8093, aired 2019-11-13 | FAMOUS AMERICANS $3,000 (Daily Double): During the Blitz, Edward R. Murrow borrowed this 5-word phrase from Londoners who weren't sure they'd survive the evening Good night, and good luck |
| #8087, aired 2019-11-05 | BEFORE & LAUGHTER $1000: Candy-coated popcorn & peanuts that has some amusing "Deep Thoughts" on "Saturday Night Live" Cracker Jack Handeys |
| #8086, aired 2019-11-04 | THE HARVARD LAMPOON $200: Now a fixture as a late-night TV talk show host, in the 1980s, this very tall redhead was a two-year president of the "Harvard Lampoon" Conan O'Brien |
| #8086, aired 2019-11-04 | THE HARVARD LAMPOON $800: Ex-Lampooner Jim Downey not only wrote for "Saturday Night Live" longer than anybody else, he also created this perennial list read by David Letterman the Top 10 List |
| #8086, aired 2019-11-04 | THE HARVARD LAMPOON $1000: Writers and performers who've gone from the "Lampoon" to "Saturday Night Live" include this young fellow who co-hosts "Weekend Update" with Michael Che Colin Jost |
| #8086, aired 2019-11-04 | OPERA & BALLET $2,000 (Daily Double): You'll find the Queen of Night in this, Mozart's last opera The Magic Flute |
| #8083, aired 2019-10-30 | CUBA LIBRO $600: Reinaldo Arenas' memoir "Before Night Falls" recounts his attempts to flee Communist Cuba, even swimming to this U.S. naval station Guantánamo Bay |
| #8083, aired 2019-10-30 | CUBA LIBRO $1000: Joe falls for a Cuban revolutionary in "Live by Night" by this "Shutter Island" author, who normally does Massachusetts Dennis Lehane |
| #8077, aired 2019-10-22 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $1600: In this piece, the oboe & bassoon help depict a celebration on the treeless Mount Triglav Night on Bald Mountain |
| #8075, aired 2019-10-18 | BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS $400: Clark Gable as Fletcher Christian helped propel this 1935 film to best picture, the first remake to win the Oscar Mutiny on the Bounty |
| #8071, aired 2019-10-14 | & CARRIE $800: In a 1976 film, she played Carrie White, whose prom night was quite memorable Sissy Spacek |
| #8069, aired 2019-10-10 | THE "NIGHT" WATCH $400: Billy Bob Thornton played coach Gary Gaines in this film; the TV show of the same name had Kyle Chandler as coach Eric Taylor Friday Night Lights |
| #8069, aired 2019-10-10 | THE "NIGHT" WATCH $800: A group of dropouts are trying to get their G.E.D.s in this film starring Tiffany Haddish & Kevin Hart Night School |
| #8069, aired 2019-10-10 | A JOB IN TV $1000: Guillermo Rodriguez is much more than just a security guard on this late-night talk show Jimmy Kimmel |
| #8069, aired 2019-10-10 | THE "NIGHT" WATCH $1600: Bounty hunter Robert de Niro is escorting bail-jumping accountant Charles Grodin to L.A. in this 1988 comedy Midnight Run |
| #8069, aired 2019-10-10 | THE "NIGHT" WATCH $2000: This Clark Gable-Claudette Colbert screwball comedy was the great sleeper film of 1934 It Happened One Night |
| #8069, aired 2019-10-10 | THE "NIGHT" WATCH $2,500 (Daily Double): 1967 film in which Sidney Poitier clarifies, "They call me Mr. Tibbs!" In the Heat of the Night |
| #8068, aired 2019-10-09 | BUILDINGS $1200: Cincinnati's Ingalls Building was the first high-rise made of reinforced this; in 1903, a reporter waited all night for it to fall down concrete |
| #8062, aired 2019-10-01 | FILM DIRECTORS $1200: He was born in Pondicherry, India & named Manoj, which he shortened to M. M. Night Shyamalan |
| #8059, aired 2019-09-26 | BACHELOR OF ARTS $200: He proposed to at least 3 women, including Eugenie Loyer in 1873, but this painter never wed on a "Starry Night"--or any other van Gogh |
| #8056, aired 2019-09-23 | CLOCKS $2,800 (Daily Double): Athens' ancient Tower of the Winds measured time with a water clock when these weren't working--say, at night sundials |
| #8053, aired 2019-09-18 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $400: As Act 1 of this Neil Simon play begins, we're told, "it is a warm summer night in Oscar Madison's apartment" The Odd Couple |
| #8051, aired 2019-09-16 | ART & ARTISTS $200: This popular name for Rembrandt's 1642 portrait of a militia group is a result of its old darkened varnish, now cleaned off The Night Watch |
| #8046, aired 2019-09-09 | LAST NAME FLOW-TOGETHERS $1200: Journalist Ted, who brought us the news late at night, & politician Nancy, who makes news on many days Koppelosi |
| #8035, aired 2019-07-12 | PITTSBURGH $600: Director George Romero worked for this Pittsburgh kids' TV legend, who came to the "Night of the Living Dead" premiere Mr. Rogers |
| #8034, aired 2019-07-11 | THE WALL $400: It was originally made of barbed wire on the night of August 12-13, 1961 the Berlin Wall |
| #8033, aired 2019-07-10 | NEVER WON AN EMMY $2000: Hugh Laurie's 0 for 10 Emmy score includes noms for "House" & this AMC series about arms dealers The Night Manager |
| #8029, aired 2019-07-04 | GALA $600: "Fashion's biggest night out", the Met Gala in New York City is chaired by this magazine's Anna Wintour Vogue |
| #8029, aired 2019-07-04 | FLOATING HOLIDAYS $800: Hindus perform this 4-letter physical discipline on the great night of Shiva, which is in February or March yoga |
| #8024, aired 2019-06-27 | MASKS $600: The "Music Of The Night" might surround you when you wear the mask from this musical The Phantom of the Opera |
| #8020, aired 2019-06-21 | ONE ACTOR, MULTIPLE ROLES $1200: In a sequel to this comedy, Amy Adams plays Amelia Earhart & later, a modern look-alike who meets Ben Stiller Night at the Museum |
| #8017, aired 2019-06-18 | A WRITER'S LIFE $800: Nicole Diver in "Tender is the Night" is based in part on his wife Zelda Fitzgerald |
| #8017, aired 2019-06-18 | CLASS(ICAL MUSIC) IS IN $1200: Debussy was a master of nocturnes, music inspired by this, as the name suggests the night |
| #8007, aired 2019-06-04 | LITERARY GEOGRAPHIC FEATURES $1600: In "The Beggar's Opera", "every night would kiss and play if with me you'd fondly stray" these 3 words "and far away" over the hills |
| #8000, aired 2019-05-24 | QUEEN VICTORIA $1200: After attending this Shakespeare comedy, the queen mentioned "Mendelssohn's beautiful overture" in her diary A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| #7992, aired 2019-05-14 | SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE ALUMNI $200: In 2017 he received an honorary doctorate & delivered the commencement address at his alma mater, USC Will Ferrell |
| #7992, aired 2019-05-14 | SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE ALUMNI $400: On receiving the Mark Twain Prize for Humor, she thanked Sarah Palin: "My...resemblance & her crazy voice are the 2 luckiest things" Tina Fey |
| #7992, aired 2019-05-14 | SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE ALUMNI $600: She's given voice to characters in "The Emoji Movie" & "The Nut Job" (Maya) Rudolph |
| #7992, aired 2019-05-14 | SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE ALUMNI $800: "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon" leads into "Late Night With" this fellow alumnus Seth Meyers |
| #7992, aired 2019-05-14 | SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE ALUMNI $1000: He plays hitman & wannabe actor Barry Berkman on HBO Bill Hader |
| #7992, aired 2019-05-14 | POETS & POETRY $2000: Struck by the appearance of his cousin in a spangled mourning dress, he wrote, "She walks in beauty, like the night" Lord Byron |
| #7991, aired 2019-05-13 | SHOW $1000: In "I Am the Night", Chris Pine is a reporter caught up in this real-life unsolved Hollywood murder case the Black Dahlia |
| #7990, aired 2019-05-10 | THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD $9,000 (Daily Double): "The Drinking Gourd" was this group of stars that helped runaways find the North Star in the night sky the Big Dipper |
| #7989, aired 2019-05-09 | FILM TEACHERS $800: In "Night School" Tiffany Haddish uses extreme methods to help this comedian get his G.E.D. (Kevin) Hart |
| #7984, aired 2019-05-02 | OF BIBLICAL PROPORTIONS $600: Luke 12 mentions the second & third of these 3-hour periods of being on guard at night watches |
| #7984, aired 2019-05-02 | ON THE CALENDAR $800: The 14th night of a March new moon on this religion's calendar:
the festival of Maha Shivaratri Hinduism |
| #7978, aired 2019-04-24 | WHAT DAY IS THAT SONG? $1200: Sam Cooke faced "Another" one "Saturday Night" |
| #7978, aired 2019-04-24 | GROSS CONFESSIONS $2000: This "In the Night Kitchen" author was childless, but would've preferred a daughter; "if I had a son, I'd leave him at the A & P" Maurice Sendak |
| #7970, aired 2019-04-12 | CLASSIC FILM $1600: 1930s comedy classics starring this zany trio include "A Day at the Races" & "A Night at the Opera" the Marx Brothers |
| #7969, aired 2019-04-11 | 25 TCM $600: (Ben Mankiewicz gives the clue.) On TCM, I get to talk about my great-uncle Joseph L. Mankiewicz, who won Oscars for writing & directing this 1950 film, the ultimate backstage drama where Bette Davis memorably says, "Fasten your seatbelts, it's going to be a bumpy night" All About Eve |
| #7967, aired 2019-04-09 | "PORTER" $1000: He was the songwriter behind classics like "Night & Day" & "Love For Sale" Cole Porter |
| #7966, aired 2019-04-08 | ROOT '66 $200: Owner Jay Sarno rode a chariot on opening night & this Vegas casino was open for business in 1966 Caesars Palace |
| #7966, aired 2019-04-08 | TRUE CRIME BOOK SHELF $800: "Perfect Murder, Perfect Town" tells of the still unsolved Christmas night murder of this little girl in Boulder, Colorado JonBenét Ramsey |
| #7966, aired 2019-04-08 | THEATRE $8,615 (Daily Double): Act 1 of this autobiographical Eugene O'Neill drama begins at 8:30 a.m.; Act 4 begins at midnight Long Day's Journey into Night |
| #7965, aired 2019-04-05 | MAKE TIME FOR TIME $600: It's the fixed time designated by authority by which citizens must be inside at night curfew |
| #7965, aired 2019-04-05 | 18th CENTURY SCIENCE $2000: In 1787, but not on a midsummer night, William Herschel discovered these 2 largest moons of Uranus Oberon and Titania |
| #7963, aired 2019-04-03 | QUOTES FROM SHAKESPEARE $400: "Twelfth Night" gave us the maxim "Some are born" this, "some achieve" thisness "and some have" thisness "thrust upon them" great |
| #7960, aired 2019-03-29 | AD SLOGANS $400: These 2 adverbs complete the classic Federal Express ad slogan "When it ____, ____ has to be there over night" absolutely, positively |
| #7958, aired 2019-03-27 | FILL IN THE TONY-WINNING PLAY TITLE $1200: 2015:
"The ____ Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" curious |
| #7956, aired 2019-03-25 | NONFICTION $800: Based on interviews with more than 50 survivors, Walter Lord's "A Night to Remember" details this tragedy the sinking of the Titanic |
| #7954, aired 2019-03-21 | THE ARTS $800: In 2019 visitors to the Rijksmuseum can observe as conservators restore this 1642 Rembrandt masterpiece Night Watch |
| #7952, aired 2019-03-19 | VAN GOGH $400: In 1889 while convalescing at an asylum near Saint-Rémy, France, Van Gogh painted this masterpiece Starry Night |
| #7950, aired 2019-03-15 | BEWARE! $800: The National Fire Protection Assoc. reports 200 fires involving these lights each Dec. & Jan., so unplug yours at night Christmas lights |
| #7943, aired 2019-03-06 | COLD PLAY $200: This tragic Shakespeare title king has a cold night reflect on filial ingratitude King Lear |
| #7940, aired 2019-03-01 | ON THE SOUNDTRACK $400: 1977:
"Stayin' Alive",
"More Than a Woman" Saturday Night Fever |
| #7940, aired 2019-03-01 | TV $400: Currently on TBS, he's been on late night TV since 1993, hosting 3 different shows Conan O'Brien |
| #7937, aired 2019-02-26 | LAUGHING $800: The Festrunk brothers were the "Two Wild & Crazy Guys" played by this pair on "Saturday Night Live" Steve Martin & Dan Aykroyd |
| #7932, aired 2019-02-19 | WHAT'S HAPPENING THIS MONTH? $1000: England's Twelfth Night,
Battle of New Orleans Day January |
| #7921, aired 2019-02-04 | EUGENE $200: Children's poet Eugene Field wrote these 2 "& Nod one night sailed off in a wooden shoe" Wynken and Blynken |
| #7921, aired 2019-02-04 | LITERARY FIRST LINES $400: A 1970s bestseller:
"The great fish moved silently through the night water" Jaws |
| #7921, aired 2019-02-04 | LITERARY FIRST LINES $1200: A New York Times Best Book of the Year from 2010:
"Today I'm five. I was four last night going to sleep in wardrobe" Room |
| #7917, aired 2019-01-29 | TV WORKPLACE SETTINGS $400: "The Larry Sanders Show" & "Nightcap" starring Ali Wentworth a late-night talk show |
| #7916, aired 2019-01-28 | CELEBRITIES: THEY'RE JUST LIKE US! $200: Ah, date night! In 2011 Justin Bieber rented this L.A. Lakers home arena to screen "Titanic" for Selena Gomez; that was easy! the Staples Center |
| #7911, aired 2019-01-21 | ONE-NAME TV TITLES $800: From 2006 to 2013 Showtime killed it with this show about a crime lab worker with a very different night job Dexter |
| #7911, aired 2019-01-21 | POET IDENTIFICATION, PLEASE $2000: "Me, who am only Pippa,--old-year's sorrow, / Cast off last night, will come again to-morrow" Robert Browning |
| #7905, aired 2019-01-11 | WRITERS WHO WENT TO JAIL $1600: In 1846, as part of an act of protest against the U.S. war with Mexico, he spent a night in the Concord jail Thoreau |
| #7904, aired 2019-01-10 | ON THE RADIO $200: One night in 1927, a DJ in this city said he's been playing grand opera & now was switching to the Grand Old Opry Nashville |
| #7904, aired 2019-01-10 | MENAGERIE $1600: Generally graceful & long-legged, these wading birds also come in a medium-sized night type heron |
| #7903, aired 2019-01-09 | COMPOSING, DECOMPOSING $1200: He wrote some lively "Hungarian Dances"; on April 3, 1897 it was lullaby & good night Brahms |
| #7902, aired 2019-01-08 | TIME TO GO GREEN $1200: "In brightest day, in blackest night", this 2011 Ryan Reynolds superhero movie went dark, losing a reported $90 mil. the Green Lantern |
| #7900, aired 2019-01-04 | SUMMING UP THE SHAKESPEARE PLAY $200: All heck breaks loose after the Puck drops; love is truly magic; ow! My Hermia! A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| #7900, aired 2019-01-04 | 2019 HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $200: In 2019 this 8-day Jewish observance begins on the night of December 22 Hanukkah |
| #7899, aired 2019-01-03 | MONDAY NIGHT NON-FOOTBALL TV $200: This actor moved west & rapped things up as "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" Will Smith |
| #7899, aired 2019-01-03 | MONDAY NIGHT NON-FOOTBALL TV $400: Jennifer Love Hewitt takes the emergency calls on this 3-digit Fox drama 9-1-1 |
| #7899, aired 2019-01-03 | MONDAY NIGHT NON-FOOTBALL TV $600: Aunt Bee & Opie were part of the small-town fun on this Monday night show The Andy Griffith Show |
| #7899, aired 2019-01-03 | MONDAY NIGHT NON-FOOTBALL TV $800: On this game show Howie Mandel asked a simple question that often elicited a difficult answer Deal or No Deal |
| #7899, aired 2019-01-03 | MONDAY NIGHT NON-FOOTBALL TV $1000: A cat-craving alien from Melmac was adopted by an American family on this sitcom ALF |
| #7898, aired 2019-01-02 | ONE-WORD MOVIE TITLES $400: The Beatles reteamed with director Richard Lester after "A Hard Day's Night" to make this movie Help! |
| #7894, aired 2018-12-27 | CONFUSING LYRICS $600: In this Stephen Foster song, "it rained all night the day I left, the weather it was dry, the sun so hot I froze to death" "Oh! Susanna" |
| #7891, aired 2018-12-24 | IT'S CHRISTMAS EVE $200: "All is calm, all is bright" in this song whose 200th birthday is Christmas Eve 2018 "Silent Night" |
| #7891, aired 2018-12-24 | IT'S CHRISTMAS EVE $600: His heart is 2 sizes too small--that's why he sets out at night to ruin Christmas in Who-ville the Grinch |
| #7890, aired 2018-12-21 | DREAMY LITERATURE $2000: The first line of this Daphne du Maurier novel is "Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again" Rebecca |
| #7884, aired 2018-12-13 | OTHER LONG-RUNNING TV SHOWS $200: The "Night in Canada" celebrating this sport began airing in 1952 hockey |
| #7874, aired 2018-11-29 | THE MARK TWAIN PRIZE FOR AMERICAN HUMOR $1600: Longtime employee Biff Henderson showed up with headset to help this late night host accept his trophy in 2017 David Letterman |
| #7861, aired 2018-11-12 | CLASSIC LITERATURE $1600: This Holocaust survivor based "Night" on his own experiences in Nazi death camps (Elie) Wiesel |
| #7859, aired 2018-11-08 | BROADWAY DEBUTS $600: After leaving "Saturday Night Live", Taran Killam made his debut as King George III in this musical Hamilton |
| #7854, aired 2018-11-01 | NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC ALMANAC 2019 $400: (Cara Santa Maria presents the clue.) A photo in the section on the solar system shows a view from Earth of the luminous band of stars & gas clouds in the night sky that gave this spiral galaxy its name the Milky Way |
| #7853, aired 2018-10-31 | SONG TITLE WOMEN BY LYRIC $2000: She "rings like a bell through the night & wouldn't you love to love her?" "Rhiannon" |
| #7850, aired 2018-10-26 | GRAMMY'S ALBUM OF THE YEAR $1200: In 1979 the soundtrack to this film danced away with a win Saturday Night Fever |
| #7849, aired 2018-10-25 | WORDS WITH A "WAY" $2000: "Tales of" this inn begins, "One autumn night, in Sudbury town, across the meadows bare and brown" the Wayside Inn |
| #7846, aired 2018-10-22 | ARE YOU READY FOR SOME MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL? $400: In 2016 "MNF" aired its first game from outside the U.S. as the Raiders beat the Texans in this city's Estadio Azteca Mexico City |
| #7846, aired 2018-10-22 | ARE YOU READY FOR SOME MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL? $600: In Dec. 1974 Howard Cosell interviewed this music star in the "MNF" booth; in Dec. 1980, Cosell announced his murder John Lennon |
| #7846, aired 2018-10-22 | ARE YOU READY FOR SOME MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL? $800: On Dec. 21, 2003 his dad passed away; on Dec. 22 he had the highest passer rating of his career in a 41-7 Packers win (Brett) Favre |
| #7846, aired 2018-10-22 | ARE YOU READY FOR SOME MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL? $1000: This jack-of-all-sports-trades has had the longest sting of any "MNF" play-by-play guy, from 1986 through 2005 (Al) Michaels |
| #7846, aired 2018-10-22 | CLASSICAL RAPPERS $2000: This modest "Night on Bald Mountain" composer was an imposing member of the Russian crew "The Five" Modest Mussorgsky |
| #7841, aired 2018-10-15 | OPERA $2000: Amahl plays the same tune on his pipe at the beginning & end, before & after he meets this title group the night visitors |
| #7840, aired 2018-10-12 | MODERN HEALTH $2000: (Travis Stork presents the clue.) Put away bright phones & computer screens & turn off the lights at bedtime for a good night's rest--darkness stimulates the pineal gland's production of this sleep-inducing hormone melatonin |
| #7837, aired 2018-10-09 | GREEK LETTER, PLEASE $200: Sirius, the brightest star in the night sky, is AKA this Canis Majoris Alpha Canis Majoris |
| #7836, aired 2018-10-08 | FORT NIGHT $200: The 1814 bombardment of this Maryland fort almost made it to a second night, but the flag was still there Fort McHenry |
| #7836, aired 2018-10-08 | FORT NIGHT $400: Before this war had even started, Austrians took a Serbian fortress in a midnight attack in July 1914 World War I |
| #7836, aired 2018-10-08 | FORT NIGHT $600: In 1756 only 23 of the 146 British soldiers survived the night in the "black hole" of Fort William in this Indian city Calcutta |
| #7836, aired 2018-10-08 | FORT NIGHT $800: David Farragut sent 1,500 soldiers in a nighttime assault on Fort Gaines to begin the Civil War battle of this bay Mobile |
| #7836, aired 2018-10-08 | FORT NIGHT $1000: In 1779 this "Mad" revolutionary led a daring midnight raid to take the fort at Stony Point (Anthony) Wayne |
| #7835, aired 2018-10-05 | THE TELEVISION ACADEMY HALL OF FAME $800: The class of 2017 included the original 7-member cast of this show that debuted on NBC in 1975 SNL or Saturday Night Live |
| #7829, aired 2018-09-27 | AT 5 O'CLOCK $800: If you're on the West Coast & it's an October Monday, you only have to wait 15 minutes for the kickoff of this Monday Night Football |
| #7829, aired 2018-09-27 | POP CULTURE ADAPTS SHAKESPEARE $1600: Amanda Bynes pretends to be a boy & plays soccer at Illyria Prep in "She's the Man", loosely based on this comedy Twelfth Night |
| #7825, aired 2018-09-21 | LINES FROM THE TV COMEDY $1600: "Have you seen that movie? Maris & I rented the video. I don't mind telling you, we pushed our beds together that night" Frasier |
| #7819, aired 2018-09-13 | I GOT A FEVER $400: His performance in "Saturday Night Fever" earned him an Oscar nomination for leading actor (John) Travolta |
| #7818, aired 2018-09-12 | HISTORY IN BRIEF $200: 1938:
"The Night of Broken" this in Germany glass |
| #7815, aired 2018-07-27 | THE WORST PICTURE RAZZIE $1000: Come out to the coast, we'll have a few laughs...he starred in Worst Pics 3 years apart--"Hudson Hawk" & "Color of Night" Bruce Willis |
| #7814, aired 2018-07-26 | FOR ME & MY GAL GADOT $800: While Tina Fey & Steve Carell are having this title evening in a 2010 film, they meet Mark Wahlberg & Gal Date Night |
| #7811, aired 2018-07-23 | HISTORY WILL NOTE $200: An Aug. 12, 1961 decree by the East German Volkskammer led to the start of building this land-mark that night the Berlin Wall |
| #7811, aired 2018-07-23 | DIRECTOR CAMEOS $1200: Ah, ah, ah, ah, director Sylvester Stallone bumps into John Travolta in this sequel to "Saturday Night Fever" Stayin' Alive |
| #7811, aired 2018-07-23 | DIRECTOR CAMEOS $1600: The annoying saxophone player in "Night Shift" is this child star & sitcom actor turned director Ron Howard |
| #7809, aired 2018-07-19 | O'BOY $200: This late night host: "Autumn in California, where the leaves change color if you use the right Instagram filter" Conan O'Brien |
| #7805, aired 2018-07-13 | NAME DESIRED $600: After a NASA naming contest, the COLBERT, named for late night host Stephen, was a treadmill usable aboard this the International Space Station |
| #7804, aired 2018-07-12 | CHECK IN TO THE POP CULTURE HOTEL $200: In an Eagles hit "My head grew heavy & my sight grew dim, I had to stop for the night" here the Hotel California |
| #7798, aired 2018-07-04 | 5, 5 $1000: In Manhattan, an average of 70-90 cases are heard in each session of this, held from 6 p.m. to 1 a.m. night court |
| #7797, aired 2018-07-03 | TV MOVIES? $800: "Good Night, and Good Luck." starred David Strathairn as this TV & radio man in conflict with Joe McCarthy (Edward R.) Murrow |
| #7793, aired 2018-06-27 | WAY BACK IN THE '60s, MAN $800: On Sept. 29, 1662 he wrote in his diary, "Saw 'Midsummer Night's Dream'...it is the most insipid ridiculous play" (Samuel) Pepys |
| #7793, aired 2018-06-27 | 15 MINUTES OF FAME $1600: Brian Cullinan, working for this company on Oscar night in 2017, got his 15 minutes after mixing up envelopes Pricewaterhouse |
| #7791, aired 2018-06-25 | "M"YTHOLOGY $800: One of his magic tricks was the construction of Stonehenge (in a single night!) Merlin |
| #7789, aired 2018-06-21 | YEARLY BELOVED $1000: This "night" on the eve of May Day was believed in medieval times to be when witches celebrated their sabbath Walpurgis Night |
| #7780, aired 2018-06-08 | THIS CATEGORY WILL BLOW YOU AWAY $400: In this play Oberon tells Puck, "I know a bank where the wild thyme blows" A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| #7779, aired 2018-06-07 | I'LL HAVE SECONDS $400: It's the second-most brilliant natural object in the night sky & also another second in our heavens Venus |
| #7779, aired 2018-06-07 | DECADES OF NO. 1-RATED TV SHOWS $600: In 2016 "Sunday Night Football" blitzed the competition as Cris Collinsworth & this play-by-play man led the league Al Michaels |
| #7776, aired 2018-06-04 | THE OLD 3, 4 $1600: Having food stuck to you & still wearing the shirt you slept in last night are 2 of Cosmo's signs you are this a hot mess |
| #7775, aired 2018-06-01 | DAY & NIGHT BOOKSTORE $400: Gray is tired from being used to color elephants & beige hates being called brown in the kids' book "The Day" these "Quit" the crayons |
| #7775, aired 2018-06-01 | DAY & NIGHT BOOKSTORE $1200: The hero of "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time" has this autism spectrum condition named for an Austrian Asperger's |
| #7775, aired 2018-06-01 | DAY & NIGHT BOOKSTORE $1600: Stephen King's "Night Shift" short story collection includes this one about a deadly cult of kids in farm country the "Children of the Corn" |
| #7775, aired 2018-06-01 | DAY & NIGHT BOOKSTORE $2,000 (Daily Double): A butler recalls the successes & failures of his own life in this Kazuo Ishiguro novel The Remains of the Day |
| #7775, aired 2018-06-01 | DAY & NIGHT BOOKSTORE $2000: Set designer Tod Hackett glimpses firsthand the artificiality of Hollywood in this 1939 work by Nathanael West Day of the Locust |
| #7767, aired 2018-05-22 | ART & ARTISTS $800: Whistler gave musical titles to his paintings; twilight & night scenes were called this, from the French for "night" a Nocturne |
| #7764, aired 2018-05-17 | BOOKS OF THE BIBLE $200: "Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night" Genesis |
| #7761, aired 2018-05-14 | DEAD POETS' SOCIETY $200: His advice:
"Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light" (Dylan) Thomas |
| #7759, aired 2018-05-10 | QUOTES ABOUT MUSIC $1200: In this Shakespeare comedy Duke Orsino delivers the line "if music be the food of love, play on" Twelfth Night |
| #7759, aired 2018-05-10 | TV: WHO PLAYED 'EM? $2000: Tami Taylor of "Friday Night Lights" & Rayna James on "Nashville" Connie Britton |
| #7750, aired 2018-04-27 | EARNING BEYOND THE GRAVE $400: No. 3 with $38 million, this cartoonist passed in his sleep the night before his final strip hit newspapers Charles Schulz |
| #7749, aired 2018-04-26 | THE SPITTING IMAGE $800: It's not surprising that Larry David not only plays this man on "Saturday Night Live", but is his distant relative Bernie Sanders |
| #7743, aired 2018-04-18 | THE GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS $1600: He won in 2017 as "The Night Manager", but a Norse trickster god may have messed with his victory speech Tom Hiddleston |
| #7740, aired 2018-04-13 | THEIR DEBUT ALBUMS $600: 2012:
"Night Visions" Imagine Dragons |
| #7737, aired 2018-04-10 | OWL NIGHTER $400: Many night owls have these sense organs set at different heights to better pinpoint a prey's location ears |
| #7737, aired 2018-04-10 | HAMLET $800: Perhaps because a ghost was seen the night before, the play opens with foreboding when a sentry asks this 2-word question "Who's there?" |
| #7737, aired 2018-04-10 | OWL NIGHTER $1200: To better hunt at night, most owls' eyes have retinas full of these cells that detect movement better than color rods |
| #7732, aired 2018-04-03 | SHAKESPEARE IN GOV $1600: This embattled government organization was faulted for funding a wordless production of "Twelfth Night" National Endowment for the Arts |
| #7730, aired 2018-03-30 | COLA $600: This cult cola launched in 1985 is a favorite of "Gamers, hackers...& other night owls" Jolt Cola |
| #7729, aired 2018-03-29 | "BLACK" $600: "You Shook Me All Night Long" was on this classic album of the '80s Back in Black |
| #7721, aired 2018-03-19 | ON-SCREEN ROMANCES $1200: (Iain Armitage of Young Sheldon presents the clue.) 50 years after these 2 actors fell in love in "Barefoot in the Park", they fell in love again in "Our Souls at Night", co-starring me, Iain Armitage Jane Fonda and Robert Redford |
| #7719, aired 2018-03-15 | SPORTS TRADITIONS $600: In a Dec. game, Taylor U. hoops fans don't make a sound until the team hits point 10; later, all sing this appropriate carol "Silent Night" |
| #7717, aired 2018-03-13 | ENTERTAINMENT 2017 $2,000 (Daily Double): In 2017 Bill Murray made news when he attended this Broadway musical & then, of course, came back the next night Groundhog Day |
| #7714, aired 2018-03-08 | I AM NOT A (PRACTICING) LAWYER $1200: Before he was on "Wide World of Sports & "Monday Night Football", this announcer represented Willie Mays Howard Cosell |
| #7711, aired 2018-03-05 | THOMAS LESS $800: There was one Thomas less after this poet went ungently into the good night November 9, 1953 Dylan Thomas |
| #7708, aired 2018-02-28 | ODD-NUMBERED PHRASES $1600: This Christmas carol says, "O star of wonder, star of night... guide us to thy perfect light" "We Three Kings" |
| #7707, aired 2018-02-27 | LITERARY HOMES $400: "Rebecca" begins, "Last night I dreamt I went to" this home "again" Manderley |
| #7707, aired 2018-02-27 | HOW ARE "THINGS"? $1600: Deliver us "from ghoulies & ghosties & long-leggedy beasties, &" these 7-word noisy creepies things that go bump in the night |
| #7706, aired 2018-02-26 | THE TV CHARACTER IS HAVING A MOMENT $200: I was ready to run through a wall when Coach Taylor gave the "clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose" speech on this show Friday Night Lights |
| #7706, aired 2018-02-26 | HAVE A GREAT ONE! $800: This "Long" Eugene O'Neill play that premiered in 1956 ranks among the greatest plays of the past 100 years Long Day's Journey Into Night |
| #7704, aired 2018-02-22 | LAUGH-IN AT 50 $400: Before he created "Saturday Night Live", he practiced his sketch skills as a "Laugh-In" writer Lorne Michaels |
| #7702, aired 2018-02-20 | DEATH, AMERICAN STYLE $800: On April 12, 1912 it was good night, this Civil War nurse, the "Angel of the Battlefield" Clara Barton |
| #7701, aired 2018-02-19 | "LADY" $600: Florence Nightingale's care for the wounded, especially at night, earned her this nickname Lady of (or with) the Lamp |
| #7699, aired 2018-02-15 | THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA $400: Act 2 opens at the opera house with a lavish masquerade ball to celebrate this festive winter night
"Masquerade / Every face a different shade / Masquerade..." New Year's Eve |
| #7699, aired 2018-02-15 | THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA $600: 17 million people have seen Broadway's Phantom ferry Christine to his home under the streets of this city
"And in this labyrinth / Where night is blind..." Paris |
| #7699, aired 2018-02-15 | THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA $800: The first African-American actor to play the Phantom on Broadway, Norm Lewis donned the mask to perform this iconic song
"Turn your thoughts away from cold unfeeling light..." "The Music Of The Night" |
| #7693, aired 2018-02-07 | THE STATEN ISLAND FERRY IN POP CULTURE $400: The opening credits of CBS' "The Late Show with" him included a night view of an illuminated Staten Island Ferry David Letterman |
| #7688, aired 2018-01-31 | EUROPEAN ART $800: This painting depicting a militia company had to be cut down to a mere 12 by 14 feet to fit in Amsterdam's Town Hall The Night Watch |
| #7687, aired 2018-01-30 | THROWING SHADE $1600: A Postal Service motto says, "Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor" this darkness "of night" gloom |
| #7685, aired 2018-01-26 | TV SHOWS BY WORKPLACE $1000: On NBC, San Antonio Memorial Hospital, featuring doctors Jordan & TC working late Night Shift |
| #7682, aired 2018-01-23 | WOMEN AUTHORS $1000: This author of "My Sister's Keeper" & "Nineteen Minutes" says she writes about the things that keep her up at night Jodi Picoult |
| #7682, aired 2018-01-23 | QUESTIONABLE MOVIE TITLES $1200: Ashton Kutcher tries to remember where he parked last night Dude, Where's My Car? |
| #7679, aired 2018-01-18 | MOVIE SPOILERS $200: In this M. Night Shyamalan film, Bruce Willis' character eventually discovers that he's a ghost The Sixth Sense |
| #7677, aired 2018-01-16 | FIRST-TIME EMMY NOMINEES 2017 $800: After 7 years on this show, Vanessa Bayer got a nomination for her final year Saturday Night Live |
| #7675, aired 2018-01-12 | TITLES FROM POETRY $1600: F. Scott Fitzgerald's last complete novel; its 4-word title is taken from "Ode to a Nightingale" by John Keats Tender is the Night |
| #7671, aired 2018-01-08 | HANDY ADVICE $400: In 1914 Popular Mechanics suggested affixing a V-shaped guide to the door to find this when coming home at night the keyhole |
| #7671, aired 2018-01-08 | BROADWAY MUSICALS BY SONGS $800: "Dawn (Go Away)" & "December, 1963 (Oh, What A Night)" Jersey Boys |
| #7665, aired 2017-12-29 | PAINT THE TOWN RED $600: At night, omnipresent lights give a crimson tinge to a certain district in this European city Amsterdam |
| #7658, aired 2017-12-20 | SANTA CLAUS IS COMIN' TO TOWN $800: Santa hops on Route 12 to hit Kill Devil Hills, Nags Head & perhaps to enjoy a night in Rodanthe in this state North Carolina |
| #7655, aired 2017-12-15 | ALL MY... $1600: He adapted his song "All My Rowdy Friends Are Coming Over Tonight" for "Monday Night Football" in 1989 Hank Williams, Jr. |
| #7653, aired 2017-12-13 | SHAKESPEARE PLAY BY GRADUALLY EASIER CHARACTER $800: Snug,
Helena,
Oberon A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| #7652, aired 2017-12-12 | SCENES FROM AN ITALIAN RESTAURANT $1600: In the final scene of this film, Secondo makes a frittata for brother Primo in the Paradise restaurant Big Night |
| #7651, aired 2017-12-11 | "GREAT" STUFF $800: "I am looking forward to your arrival on Halloween night", wrote Linus to this entity on an animated TV special the Great Pumpkin |
| #7648, aired 2017-12-06 | OF THE TIGER $800: "Tyger Tyger, burning bright, in the forests of the night", begins a poem in his 1794 collection "Songs of Experience" (William) Blake |
| #7644, aired 2017-11-30 | MOZART $400: The joyful quality of this serenade makes it a favorite "A Little Night Music" |
| #7638, aired 2017-11-22 | UNTOLD TV STORIES $400: This crime-fighting dog got his name thanks to Sinatra's smooth stylings in "Strangers In The Night" Scooby-Doo |
| #7632, aired 2017-11-14 | ART $400: This 1889 van Gogh work depicts a crescent moon in a swirling sky, a church spire & a cypress tree The Starry Night |
| #7629, aired 2017-11-09 | "N" TITLED TO LITERATURE $1000: Tennessee Williams set this play in a seedy Mexican hotel Night of the Iguana |
| #7628, aired 2017-11-08 | BROADWAY 2017 $1200: Revived in 2017 & set during the final days of the Vietnam War, "Miss Saigon" was inspired by this Puccini opera
"And hold me tight / And dance like it's the last night / Of the world..." Madame Butterfly |
| #7624, aired 2017-11-02 | ENTERTAINMENT TONIGHT TRAVELS THROUGH TIME $800: (Nancy O'Dell and Kevin Frazier of Entertainment Tonight present the clue.)
(Kevin) It's "E.T." for March 28, 1973 & last night, the Academy made him an offer he refused
(Nancy) We sit down with Sacheen Littlefeather, who turned down the Oscar for this leading man Marlon Brando |
| #7623, aired 2017-11-01 | AUTHORS' NEW DIRECTIONS $1600: His third novel, "Mother Night", was his first to abandon science fiction Vonnegut |
| #7620, aired 2017-10-27 | 1970s ALBUMS $2000: Queen followed up "A Night at the Opera" with this 1976 album, also the title of a Marx Brothers film A Day at the Races |
| #7611, aired 2017-10-16 | WITH YOUR HAND $600: When Puck says, "Give me your hands" in "A Midsummer Night's Dream", he's asking for this applause |
| #7610, aired 2017-10-13 | RICKENBACKER GUITARS $400: (Kelly of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Rickenbacker Guitars HQ in Santa Ana, California.)
Rickenbacker changed the sound of the 1960s when it gave the second-ever Model 360 12-string to George Harrison, who used it for the opening chord of the theme song for this 1964 movie A Hard Day's Night |
| #7610, aired 2017-10-13 | TIME'S 100 MOST INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE 2017 $800: Russell Crowe wrote the article on this "Saturday Night Live" star who owns all of who she is Leslie Jones |
| #7602, aired 2017-10-03 | NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC'S MUST SEE PLACES FOR 2017 $6,400 (Daily Double): After touching down at Incheon International Airport, this city that's kinetic, buzzed & up all night Seoul (South Korea) |
| #7593, aired 2017-09-20 | LET'S HEAR IT FOR WEDNESDAY $1,500 (Daily Double): Black Wednesday, sometimes called the biggest night of the year for bars & partying, is in this month November |
| #7588, aired 2017-09-13 | PEOPLE IN POETRY $2000: "And" he, "one calm summer night, went home and put a bullet through his head" Richard Cory |
| #7585, aired 2017-07-28 | IN VULNERABLE $400: A smear, or last night after a few too many cocktails a blur |
| #7583, aired 2017-07-26 | THE DIRECTOR'S CUT $600: The original director of this 1977 classic about weekends at the disco was forced to boogie away Saturday Night Fever |
| #7581, aired 2017-07-24 | FAKE NEWS $800: He created the TV series "Sports Night" & "The Newsroom" Aaron Sorkin |
| #7578, aired 2017-07-19 | IN THE NEWS: 2017 $600: In an Oscar night, goof, "La La Land" was Best Picture for about 2 minutes until the award rightfully went to this film Moonlight |
| #7575, aired 2017-07-14 | MUSIC TO MY YEARS $2000: "Oh What A Night" The Four Seasons had in late December of this title year 1963 |
| #7575, aired 2017-07-14 | THE BIBLE $2000: Appropriately, "she weepeth sore in the night" & "the ways of Zion do mourn" are in this Old Testament book Lamentations |
| #7570, aired 2017-07-07 | BOOKS BY TV PERSONALITIES $800: Garry Shandling wrote "Confessions of a Late Night Talk Show Host: The Autobiography of" this character Larry Sanders |
| #7568, aired 2017-07-05 | HERE'S FINAL JEOPARDY $400: In London on August 13, 1910, it was good night, this nurse Florence Nightingale |
| #7565, aired 2017-06-30 | STAY WOKE $400: This musical "nap" the Bee Gees might like is taking a snooze to get ready to play hard later that night at a certain venue a disco nap |
| #7564, aired 2017-06-29 | FREQUENTLY BANNED BOOKS $400: This H.G. Bissinger book about a small-town Texas football squad was oft-penalized Friday Night Lights |
| #7563, aired 2017-06-28 | PAINTINGS $400: The centerpiece of the Rijksmuseum is this painting misnamed after varnish & years of dirt darkened the piece The Night Watch |
| #7561, aired 2017-06-26 | RADIO, RADIO $2000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a diagram on the monitor.) At night, radio waves can be reflected farther due to the greater elevation of this layer of the atmosphere, characterized by charged particles, allowing short-wave radio to travel better the ionosphere |
| #7560, aired 2017-06-23 | THE KOREAN WAR $800: As commander in chief of the U.N. command from July 1950 to April 1951, he didn't stay over in Korea a single night MacArthur |
| #7557, aired 2017-06-20 | RETURN TO THE MOVIES $600: 1968's "Night of" these creatures apparently didn't finish them off; 1985 witnessed "The Return of" them the living dead |
| #7556, aired 2017-06-19 | HOUSE FULL OF LIT $600: "Good night--you princes of Maine!" is a line from this John Irving work that takes place in part in an orphanage The Cider House Rules |
| #7555, aired 2017-06-16 | VEEP $600: Last night I dreamt of -mandering again & of this man who became veep in 1813 Elbridge Gerry |
| #7552, aired 2017-06-13 | A BEATLES SONG & MOVIE TITLE $800: "But when I get home to you, I find the things that you do, will make me feel alright" "A Hard Day's Night" |
| #7551, aired 2017-06-12 | "A" IN THE LAW $200: In Latin, it means "elsewhere"--do you have one for your whereabouts the night of the 16th? an alibi |
| #7550, aired 2017-06-09 | RECENT MOVIES $1000: Ron Howard's documentary on the Beatles' touring years had this song in its title "Eight Days A Week" |
| #7548, aired 2017-06-07 | THE NAISMITH MEMORIAL BASKETBALL HALL OF FAME $200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, MA.) On March 2, 1962, five Philadelphia Warriors combined to score 69 points; the sixth, this man, who wore this jersey that night, added another 100 Wilt Chamberlain |
| #7548, aired 2017-06-07 | OF SURPRISE $800: To attack Hessians on Xmas night 1776, George Washington secretly led 2,400 troops across this ice-packed river the Delaware River |
| #7544, aired 2017-06-01 | LONG NONSTOP FLIGHTS $800: G'day! & g'night! This carrier flies 8,600 miles & 15 1/2 hours between Sydney & Dallas Qantas |
| #7540, aired 2017-05-26 | OPERA & BALLET $400: "The Dream" is a one-act ballet that uses Felix Mendelssohn's music & is based on this Shakespeare play A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| #7540, aired 2017-05-26 | 400 SHOWS ON IN 2017 $400: Here's a "Full Frontal" shot of this woman, host of a bitingly funny late night show Samantha Bee |
| #7539, aired 2017-05-25 | BARBRA STREISAND DUETS $800: Barbra & Michael Crawford recorded a rendition of "The Music Of The Night" from this musical Phantom of the Opera |
| #7537, aired 2017-05-23 | HISTORY $800: This Siberian mystic didn't make it to New Year's 1917, getting poisoned, shot twice, tied up & drowned, all in 1 rough Dec. night Rasputin |
| #7537, aired 2017-05-23 | A "LITTLE" IN TITLE $1600: This Sondheim show with a Mozartean title returned to Broadway in 2009 with Catherine Zeta-Jones A Little Night Music |
| #7534, aired 2017-05-18 | WRITTEN IN 18-SOMETHING $200: "A Visit from St. Nicholas" ends, "Happy Christmas to all, and to all" this a good night |
| #7534, aired 2017-05-18 | TV SITCOM BY EPISODES $400: "A Hard Jay's Night" &
"Phil on Wire" Modern Family |
| #7533, aired 2017-05-17 | MYTHOLOGY $1000: The ultimate night watchman, the mythical giant Argus has 100 of these eyes |
| #7532, aired 2017-05-16 | YOU'RE SO POSSESSIVE! $200: On this festive night in 1999, a new ball made of Waterford crystal made its descent in Times Square New Year's Eve |
| #7531, aired 2017-05-15 | IN THE BOOKSTORE $400: "Live from New York: The Complete, Uncensored History of" this TV show Saturday Night Live |
| #7528, aired 2017-05-10 | FRIENDS OF DOROTHY $1600: Karen Carpenter flew in for the opening night of the Ice Capades--she had become friends with this skater Dorothy Hamill |
| #7524, aired 2017-05-04 | SPOKEN WORD GRAMMY AWARDS $200: This late night TV host won in 2013 for "America Again: Re-becoming the Greatness We Never Weren't" Stephen Colbert |
| #7522, aired 2017-05-02 | BYE LINES $400: "Good night good night! Parting is such" this oxymoron sweet sorrow |
| #7519, aired 2017-04-27 | A TV GUIDE $1200: John Turturro has problems with his feet & Riz Ahmed has problems with the law on this HBO show based on a BBC show The Night Of |
| #7515, aired 2017-04-21 | IT'S ALL SAM-ANTICS $1200: For hits like "Cupid" & "Twistin' The Night Away", he was known as "The King of Soul" Sam Cooke |
| #7513, aired 2017-04-19 | SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE $200: The moose never stood a chance on "Weekend Update" when this "Sisters" star did a hard-core gangsta rap about Sarah Palin Amy Poehler |
| #7513, aired 2017-04-19 | SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE $400: This "Saturday Night Live" regular is seen here showing George W. Bush how to imitate his dad, George H.W. Dana Carvey |
| #7513, aired 2017-04-19 | SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE $600: We enjoy this recurring sketch with categories like "BYE, FELICIA!" & "THEY OUT HERE SAYING" "Black Jeopardy!" |
| #7513, aired 2017-04-19 | SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE $800: Played by Chris Farley, Matt Foley was a motivational speaker who lived "in a van" at this location down by the river |
| #7513, aired 2017-04-19 | SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE $1000: Alliterative name of Rachel Dratch's eternally negative "SNL" character Debbie Downer |
| #7512, aired 2017-04-18 | DUG OUT $1600: Britain's Anatomy Act of 1832 halted this practice that involved some digging, presumably at night grave robbery |
| #7508, aired 2017-04-12 | HAPPY 70th, DAVID LETTERMAN $600: Who ya gonna call to be Dave's first guest on "Late Night" & the last scheduled guest on "Late Show"? This actor Bill Murray |
| #7506, aired 2017-04-10 | ANIMAL LIT FILL-IN $800: Tennessee Williams:
"The Night of the ____" an iguana |
| #7505, aired 2017-04-07 | ENTERTAINING OCCUPATIONS $600: Who was that payaso, this professional, that I saw you with at the Spanish circus last night? clown |
| #7504, aired 2017-04-06 | IN THE KING JAMES BIBLE $200: In Genesis 1 it's described as the "lesser light to rule the night" the moon |
| #7503, aired 2017-04-05 | "BEFORE", NO AFTER $400: These are the 5 words that begin the poem "A Visit from St. Nicholas" "Twas the night before Christmas" |
| #7503, aired 2017-04-05 | "BEFORE", NO AFTER $1200: Ethan Hawke & Julie Delpy share one night in Vienna in this 1995 film Before Sunrise |
| #7502, aired 2017-04-04 | SHAKESPEAREAN OPERA $1200: Edmund Spenser's famous poem has the same title as this Henry Purcell opera based on "A Midsummer Night's Dream" The Faerie Queene |
| #7501, aired 2017-04-03 | CONSTELLATIONS $9,600 (Daily Double): Zeus placed Callisto in the night sky as one of these animals; her son Arcturus was her "keeper" in the stars a bear |
| #7496, aired 2017-03-27 | 1970s "SONG" TITLES $1000: This Three Dog Night tune was "comin' down in 3-part harmony" "An Old Fashioned Love Song" |
| #7495, aired 2017-03-24 | OH, THE HORROR! $200: In the original film it's the night in 1963 when 6-year-old Michael Myers stabbed his sister to death Halloween |
| #7493, aired 2017-03-22 | CLASSIC TV CHARACTERS $1000: Tyra Collette was more than just the bad girl of Dillon, Texas on this drama Friday Night Lights |
| #7492, aired 2017-03-21 | THE 20th CENTURY $1000: Called the Night of Broken Glass in English, it's the German name for the terrible night of November 9-10, 1938 Kristallnacht |
| #7490, aired 2017-03-17 | YOUR IDIOM IS FOREIGN TO ME $600: You're probably familiar with carpe diem, but the less-used carpe noctem translates to this seize the night |
| #7486, aired 2017-03-13 | LITERATURE ACROSS AMERICA $2000: (I'm Julie Nelson from Kare 11.) The Minnesota State Fair is the setting of the 1928 story "A Night at the Fair" by this author born in St. Paul Fitzgerald |
| #7484, aired 2017-03-09 | '90s R&B HITMAKERS $800: "I'll make love to you, like you want me to, and I'll hold you tight, baby all through the night, I'll make love to you" Boyz II Men |
| #7483, aired 2017-03-08 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $400: This Shakespeare comedy set in Illyria is said to have first been performed on January 6 Twelfth Night |
| #7482, aired 2017-03-07 | TELEVISION $1200: This funny lady who played Sue Sylvester on "Glee" hosts TV's "Hollywood Game Night" Jane Lynch |
| #7476, aired 2017-02-27 | POETRY & BRIDGES $2000: "Bridge, lifting night to cycloramic crest of deepest day" is from his 1930 masterpiece "The Bridge" Hart Crane |
| #7472, aired 2017-02-21 | NO MAN'S SKY $1600: This largest moon of Uranus was named for the queen of the fairies in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" Titania |
| #7470, aired 2017-02-17 | ROAMIN' THROUGH ROMANIA $2000: This late, great author of the Holocaust-set "Night" was born in Romania (Elie) Wiesel |
| #7468, aired 2017-02-15 | SHAKESPEAREAN YARD SALE $600: This comedy makes use of the mask seen here A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| #7467, aired 2017-02-14 | TIME TO PULL AN ALL-NIGHTER $200: A song by them says, "The story of my life, I take her home, I drive all night to keep her warm" One Direction |
| #7467, aired 2017-02-14 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $1200: Originally, his "A Little Night Music" contained an additional minuet, but it has been lost Mozart |
| #7465, aired 2017-02-10 | WON'T YOU TAKE ME TO FUNKYTOWN? $400: Giving us "Uptown Funk!", he sang, "Saturday night and we in the spot, don't believe me, just watch!" Bruno Mars |
| #7463, aired 2017-02-08 | FINE FEATHERED IDIOMS $400: Someone who likes to stay up late a night owl |
| #7462, aired 2017-02-07 | CAPTAINS $800: This Rembrandt painting is a group portrait of the company of Captain Frans Banning Cocq The Night Watch |
| #7460, aired 2017-02-03 | Q PEOPLE $800: In 1956 director Jose Quintero staged the first Broadway production of this "Long" Eugene O'Neill play Long Day's Journey Into Night |
| #7459, aired 2017-02-02 | EMMY-WINNING WOMEN $400: She won for "The Mary Tyler Moore Show"& "The Golden Girls" & more recently for hosting "Saturday Night Live" Betty White |
| #7458, aired 2017-02-01 | ANNUAL EVENTS $800: First Night, an arts festival in Boston, is held on this celebratory night New Year's Eve |
| #7457, aired 2017-01-31 | THE DRUMMER SINGS $1600: Meg White stepped out from behind the kit to croon "In The Cold, Cold Night" for this duo the White Stripes |
| #7456, aired 2017-01-30 | YES, MR. MOVIE PRESIDENT $800: Robin Williams saddled up to play this president in "Night at the Museum" Teddy Roosevelt |
| #7450, aired 2017-01-20 | PARTS OF SPEECH $600: Narf! What are we going to do tomorrow night, Brain?:
narf an interjection |
| #7445, aired 2017-01-13 | BOOKS $400: In this 2005 novel Bella tells Edward, "I like the night. Without the dark, we'd never see the stars" Twilight |
| #7445, aired 2017-01-13 | RUNNING A HOTEL $600: Tom Hiddleston plays this title hotel functionary in the 2016 miniseries based on John le Carre's novel The Night Manager |
| #7441, aired 2017-01-09 | NOISE $400: Nose bands didn't help Jenny Chapman, whose 111.6db this made her hubby very sad at night...& maybe the neighbors, too snore |
| #7441, aired 2017-01-09 | WOMEN & THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION $1000: In April 1777 Sybil Ludington pulled a Paul Revere-style all-night ride to tell of a British attack on Danbury in this state Connecticut |
| #7440, aired 2017-01-06 | MONTY VIDEO $400: Monty Woolley, a friend of this man, played himself when Cary Grant portrayed the songwriter in "Night and Day" Cole Porter |
| #7436, aired 2017-01-02 | COMPLETE THE BOOK TITLE $800: About the Titanic:
"A Night to ____" Remember |
| #7435, aired 2016-12-30 | GEORGIA IN SONG $1600: Reba McEntire is among those who've sung about this title evening of murder injustice & power outage "The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia" |
| #7430, aired 2016-12-23 | POWER AWARDS $800: The "Election Night" episode of this HBO show won the Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series Emmy in 2015 Veep |
| #7426, aired 2016-12-19 | TONY BENNETT $600: (Tony Bennett gives the clue.) On October 1, 1962 I joined Joan Crawford & Mel Brooks as the guests on this man's very first night as the host of the "Tonight" show Johnny Carson |
| #7426, aired 2016-12-19 | DECK THE "HALL" $600: In 1992 Bill Clinton played sax on this man's late night show Arsenio Hall |
| #7426, aired 2016-12-19 | TONY BENNETT $1000: (Tony Bennett gives the clue.) In 2015 the 20th edition of this Las Vegas gala doubled as my birthday party; with the same name as a Celine Dion love song, it has raised over $100 million in its history; wow! "The Power of Love" |
| #7414, aired 2016-12-01 | SHAKESPEAREAN SHORTIES $600: Puck makes an ass of Nick Bottom in this comedy A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| #7410, aired 2016-11-25 | FEEL THE ROBERT BURNS! $800: At "Burns Night" dinners, one of these puddings is brought in on a platter & ceremonially sliced the haggis |
| #7409, aired 2016-11-24 | 1990s MOVIE QUOTES $800: "Good morning! Oh, and in case I don't see you, good afternoon, good evening, and good night!" The Truman Show |
| #7408, aired 2016-11-23 | ARTS $800: Mozart's Serenade No. 13 in G Major has this nickname that includes the time of day it was intended for "A Little Night Music" (Eine kleine Nachtmusik) |
| #7405, aired 2016-11-18 | CONTEMPORARY AUTHORS $1000: Mark Haddon, who worked with people with autism, made his main character autistic in this "Curious" novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time |
| #7404, aired 2016-11-17 | ANNUAL EVENTS $800: In many places in the South, this festive season opens on Twelfth Night & climaxes with Mardi Gras Carnival |
| #7395, aired 2016-11-04 | "READY" WHEN YOU ARE $1200: This name for the original troupe of "Saturday Night Live" performers reflected their late night work the Not Ready for Prime Time Players |
| #7388, aired 2016-10-26 | THE QUOTABLE BROWNINGS $800: Elizabeth "heard last night a little child go singing 'Neath Casa Guidi windows" in this Italian city on the Via Maggio Florence |
| #7388, aired 2016-10-26 | JUNIOR LEAGUE $1200: In 2011 ESPN decided, nope, we're not ready for this man to sing the opening of "Monday Night Football" anymore Hank Williams, Jr. |
| #7387, aired 2016-10-25 | JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE $200: J.T. & this late night host cover everything from the Sugarhill Gang to Kendrick Lamar in "The History Of Rap" Jimmy Fallon |
| #7387, aired 2016-10-25 | THE "IV" LEAGUE $600: Late at night while you're sleeping, Toxicodendron radicans, this, comes around poison ivy |
| #7386, aired 2016-10-24 | BREAKING BAD $1200: In 1985 this Redskin QB's career came to a gruesome end when he broke his leg on "Monday Night Football" Joe Theismann |
| #7382, aired 2016-10-18 | ROCK "ME" $1600: "When the night has come and the land is dark", I'll be okay if you do this "Stand By Me" |
| #7379, aired 2016-10-13 | "N"TERTAINMENT $800: Real-life historical people who came to life in this 2006 Ben Stiller film included Teddy Roosevelt & Sacajawea Night at the Museum |
| #7366, aired 2016-09-26 | EDUCATION $400: The National PTA suggests that 12th graders spend no more than 2 hours a night on this homework |
| #7366, aired 2016-09-26 | MORE POETRY, PLEASE $2000: "Do not go gentle into that good night, old age should burn and rave at close of day, rage, rage..." against the dying of the light |
| #7360, aired 2016-09-16 | BAT DANCE $800: While bats have mostly rods in their eyes for night vision, some have a few of these receptors to see in daylight cones |
| #7359, aired 2016-09-15 | ENTERTAINING REDHEADS $200: (Hi, I'm Louis C.K.) I got my big break in 1993 when I became a writer on "Late Night" with this other redhead; I was also the first to do stand-up on his show Conan O'Brien |
| #7357, aired 2016-09-13 | I'M JUST A SAYING $1000: "All cats are gray" under this condition means beauty isn't so important in the dark (or in the night) |
| #7357, aired 2016-09-13 | IN THE BASEBALL TEAM'S LINEUP $1000: 1991:
Kent Hrbek, Dan Gladden & Kirby Puckett, & we'll see you tomorrow night! the Twins |
| #7356, aired 2016-09-12 | "BEST" WISHES $600: A lyric by One Direction reminisces, "And we danced all night to" this "the best song ever" |
| #7354, aired 2016-07-28 | CROSSWORD CLUES "B" $800: Mom & dad's date night essential (10) a babysitter |
| #7349, aired 2016-07-21 | ON BROADWAY $2000: "Long" after playwright Eugene O'Neill's death, this tale of family dysfunction returned to Broadway in 2016 Long Day's Journey into Night |
| #7343, aired 2016-07-13 | "LOG" JAM $400: To terminate communication with a computer system; please do it every night before you leave the office log out |
| #7339, aired 2016-07-07 | ALL HAIL THE CREATOR $600: In 1998 this man played up "Sports Night"; the next year, he came up with "The West Wing" Sorkin |
| #7332, aired 2016-06-28 | HISTORY BOOKSHELF $400: Walter Lord's "A Night to Remember" is a classic minute-by-minute account of this marine disaster the Titanic |
| #7331, aired 2016-06-27 | OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB CLASSICS $2000: "Night" is this author's autobiographical work about a 12-year-old enduring Nazi camps (Elie) Wiesel |
| #7328, aired 2016-06-22 | A MAJOR LEAGUER IN THE SONG $200: "The last known survivor stalks his prey in the night and he's watching us all with the eye of the ____" tiger |
| #7325, aired 2016-06-17 | GOING ____ ON CLASSICAL MUSIC $600: In 1951 TV viewers got an opera, "Amahl and the ____ Visitors" Night |
| #7321, aired 2016-06-13 | BOOK ENDS $400: "Before the night has come, have I lived to see the last warrior of the wise race..." The Last of the Mohicans |
| #7317, aired 2016-06-07 | THEATRE TO THEATER $2000: A rough night at George & Martha's, this 1962 Broadway drama went 2-dimensional in '66 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? |
| #7315, aired 2016-06-03 | TV IN ALL FORMS $1200: Craig Ferguson handed off his late-night hosting job to this more jovial Brit James Corden |
| #7309, aired 2016-05-26 | ROMANTICS $1000: From the Italian for "open air", it's a love song sung perhaps beneath a sweetheart's window at night a serenade |
| #7305, aired 2016-05-20 | ON THE BOOKSHELF $400: "Blood Sport" is part one of this Stephen King novel; part two is "Prom Night" Carrie |
| #7302, aired 2016-05-17 | PEOPLE IN HISTORY $1200: For this notorious Hun, the honeymoon was over before it began; he died in 453 A.D. on his wedding night Attila the Hun |
| #7301, aired 2016-05-16 | BALLPARK FACTS & FIGURES $600: It only became the "Friendly Confines" for night games in 1988; it was the last ballpark to install lights Wrigley |
| #7297, aired 2016-05-10 | LITERARY POTPOURRI $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Lake Geneva in Switzerland.) Lake Geneva has long been a place of literary pilgrimage; this writer called it "blue as the heavens" when she lived here with her poet husband, who almost drowned one night on the lake & did drown in Italy a few years later Mary Shelley |
| #7296, aired 2016-05-09 | TOOTING YOUR OWN HORN $200: A Broadway nightclub, Birdland, was named for him; he performed on opening night in late 1949 Charlie Parker |
| #7295, aired 2016-05-06 | FINISH THE LITERARY LINE $1000: "Listen to them--the children of the night. what..." these 3 words music they make |
| #7295, aired 2016-05-06 | MY FAVORITE BURRO $1200: The painting seen here depicts Bottom, a character in this Shakespeare comedy A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| #7282, aired 2016-04-19 | SHAKESPEARE'S FIRST LINES $2000: One midsummer night, this Duke of Athens declares, "Now, fair Hippolyta, our nuptial hour draws on apace" Theseus |
| #7281, aired 2016-04-18 | THEATRICAL QUOTES $800: After a flop, George S. Kaufman said this type of often caustic comedy "is what closes on Saturday night" satire |
| #7280, aired 2016-04-15 | COUNTRY MUSIC $200: In 2015 this mother-daughter duo reunited for "Girls Night Out", a series of shows in Las Vegas the Judds (Naomi & Wynonna) |
| #7280, aired 2016-04-15 | TV SHOWS BASED ON MOVIES $400: Billy Bob Thornton played a high school football coach in this 2004 film; Kyle Chandler in the TV series Friday Night Lights |
| #7280, aired 2016-04-15 | ODDS & "N"s $1600: Irish composer John Field is considered the originator of these romantic compositions evocative of night nocturnes |
| #7274, aired 2016-04-07 | MOVIE TITLES IN OTHER COUNTRIES $1200: The Chinese call this wild 2007 comedy "One Night Big Belly" (Katherine Heigl's) Knocked Up |
| #7271, aired 2016-04-04 | GRAMMY'S BEST NEW ARTIST $400: On Grammy night in 2013, this group also took home Song of the Year for "We Are Young" fun. |
| #7266, aired 2016-03-28 | CHICAGO TV $2000: Subtitle of the 1970s show that starred Darren McGavin as Carl Kolchak, a reporter covering the supernatural The Night Stalker |
| #7262, aired 2016-03-22 | ADJECTIVES OF THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS $800: (Mishael Morgan and Bryton James give the clue as Hilary and Devon from The Young and the Restless.) "Devon, please! You're like a teenage boy, we have the whole night to ourselves"
"I know, Hilary. I'm sorry. It's just that my passion for you, sometimes it's so overwhelming, so undeniable. It's this adjective, from the Latin for 'devour'" voracious |
| #7260, aired 2016-03-18 | HITT"ING" THE TOP 40 $200: The title of this song by Drake refers to a late-night cellphone call "Hotline Bling" |
| #7260, aired 2016-03-18 | BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS $400: "Beware, the Snowman" & "Night of the Living Dummy" are 2 titles in this R.L. Stine book series Goosebumps |
| #7259, aired 2016-03-17 | ONE-VOWEL WORDS $1,000 (Daily Double): Sir Toby Belch is a character in this Shakespeare comedy with a 2-word, 2-vowel title Twelfth Night |
| #7257, aired 2016-03-15 | TV TIME $400: To the nearest half hour, when "Saturday Night Live" goes live in Chicago 10:30 |
| #7257, aired 2016-03-15 | TV TIME $1000: Your "Late Night with David Letterman" began in 1982 at this time, Eastern 12:30 AM |
| #7255, aired 2016-03-11 | THE ENTERTAINMENT BUSINESS? $600: Scavo Pizzeria was opened by Tom & Lynette on this Sunday night series Desperate Housewives |
| #7248, aired 2016-03-02 | BIBLE BOOKS IN POP MUSIC $800: First word of Three Dog Night's "Joy To The World" Jeremiah |
| #7244, aired 2016-02-25 | SINGLE S, DOUBLE S $800: There's a syndrome named for these "legs" that keep you from lying still at night restless legs syndrome |
| #7244, aired 2016-02-25 | "LAST" FILMS $2000: Based on a David Mamet play, this '80s film about 2 guys & 2 girls was remade in 2014 with Kevin Hart About Last Night... |
| #7241, aired 2016-02-22 | FERGUSON $600: Comedian & former late late night TV host Craig Ferguson became the host of this lively game show Celebrity Name Game |
| #7221, aired 2016-01-25 | "AT" THE MOVIES $600: The sequel to this 2006 film was subtitled "Battle of the Smithsonian" Night at the Museum |
| #7219, aired 2016-01-21 | IN THE ORIGINAL $600: With this horror movie, director George Romero started a franchise but never used the word "zombie" Night of the Living Dead |
| #7212, aired 2016-01-12 | THE WEEKEND IN POP CULTURE $200: In this TV show's 1st sketch, Michael O'Donoghue said, "I would like to feed your fingertips to the wolverines" Saturday Night Live |
| #7212, aired 2016-01-12 | THE WEEKEND IN POP CULTURE $1000: This band was No. 1 for one "S-A-T-U-R-D-A-Y Night" in 1975 the Bay City Rollers |
| #7210, aired 2016-01-08 | ALEXANDER POPE $3,000 (Daily Double): Pope wrote "Nature and nature's laws lay hid in night: God said, let" this scientist "be! and all was light" (Isaac) Newton |
| #7209, aired 2016-01-07 | LIVING THE SPACED-OUT LIFE $1,200 (Daily Double): More than an acre of these provide power to the I.S.S. & also make it the brightest object in the night sky after the Moon solar panels |
| #7207, aired 2016-01-05 | MOVIE BIOGRAPHIES $1600: 2005:
David Strathairn as Edward R. Murrow Good Night, and Good Luck. |
| #7202, aired 2015-12-29 | "M"USIC $800: In 1826 at just 17 he produced the dazzling "Midsummer Night's Dream" overture (Felix) Mendelssohn |
| #7202, aired 2015-12-29 | NATIONAL MEDAL OF ARTS WINNERS $1600: "It Happened One Night" in 1986 that this film director was awarded his medal Frank Capra |
| #7199, aired 2015-12-24 | VAN THE MAN $2000: "It's a marvelous night for" this lunar frolic, the title of one of Van's albums Moondance |
| #7197, aired 2015-12-22 | OTHER CHRISTMAS SONGS $400: This title line is followed by "underneath the mistletoe last night" "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus" |
| #7196, aired 2015-12-21 | I HATE QUOTES $2000: In this Shakespeare play, Viola says "I hate ingratitude more in a man than lying, vainness", etc. Twelfth Night |
| #7195, aired 2015-12-18 | THE NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD $1000: (Will Shortz delivers the clue.) On Friday there's no theme, so you just have to know this 10-letter "TV host who followed Jimmy Fallon on late night" Seth Meyers |
| #7192, aired 2015-12-15 | CAROLS $200: The second verse of this "quiet" tune rhymingly says, "Shepherds quake at the sight" "Silent Night" |
| #7185, aired 2015-12-04 | THAT WAS ON TV $200: Wayne's sidekick Garth & Austrian bodybuilder Hans were 2 of his characters on "Saturday Night Live" Dana Carvey |
| #7178, aired 2015-11-25 | U.S. MOUNTAINS $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from a view of Mount Misery at Valley Forge Nat'l Historic Park.) Mount Misery & Mount Joy, which make Valley Forge's valley, are said to have gotten their name from a miserable night this Quaker & state founder spent lost surveying the area, & the joyful next day where he could see his way William Penn |
| #7176, aired 2015-11-23 | WELL-SEASONED BOOKS $2,000 (Daily Double): Shakespeare was hot & cold with these 2 plays that have seasons in the title A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Winter's Tale (A Winter's Tale accepted) |
| #7173, aired 2015-11-18 | FOOD & DRINK $200: This Southern gravy made from fried ham drippings & black coffee sounds like it could keep you up all night red-eye |
| #7172, aired 2015-11-17 | TOUGH BALLET $1200: (I'm Blaine Hoven.) Male ballet dancers rarely are called upon to dance en pointe, except when playing the part of the donkey named Bottom in the ballet based on this Shakespeare fantasy A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| #7171, aired 2015-11-16 | MORTAL MATTERS $1600: This word originally meant an all-night vigil with a body; the Irish party during that time came later a wake |
| #7164, aired 2015-11-05 | POP CULTURE FROM BARTLETT'S $600: This movie line is listed under M. Night Shyamalan, though Bartlett's notes that it was spoken by Hayley Joel Osment "I see dead people" |
| #7159, aired 2015-10-29 | ART $1000: This 1642 masterpiece by Rembrandt portrays members of an Amsterdam civic militia company The Night Watch |
| #7158, aired 2015-10-28 | OLIVIA $1200: Nothing is ordinary for Olivia in this Shakespeare comedy: she loves Cesario, who is Viola in disguise Twelfth Night |
| #7157, aired 2015-10-27 | TIMELY LIT $2000: Mark Haddon's novel, "The Curious Incident of" this came to Broadway in 2014 with Alex Sharp as the teen sleuth the Dog in the Night-Time |
| #7156, aired 2015-10-26 | SHAKESPEARE $400: Puck says, "Lord, what fools these mortals be!" in Act III of this play A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| #7154, aired 2015-10-22 | & THE HOLOGRAMS $800: Using holograms, this diva aka Mimi sang "Silent Night" in 5 different European cities in 2011 Mariah Carey |
| #7152, aired 2015-10-20 | JEOPARDY! ON THE MOVIE MARQUEE $200: 1968:
"Night of the Living Jeopardy!" Night of the Living Dead |
| #7140, aired 2015-10-02 | MEMOIRS $1600: In "Night", this Nobel Peace Prize winner described the horrors he witnessed as a young boy in a Nazi death camp Wiesel |
| #7135, aired 2015-09-25 | FICTIONAL TV TOWNS $400: Dillon, Texas Friday Night Lights |
| #7128, aired 2015-09-16 | REVOLUTIONARY WAR BEFORE & AFTER $800: "Drag Race" host who had a dramatic horseback ride on the night of April 18, 1775 RuPaul Revere |
| #7117, aired 2015-07-21 | FILMS INSPIRED BY MAGAZINE ARTICLES $200: Nik Cohn admitted that his "Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night", which inspired this disco film, was a fabrication Saturday Night Fever |
| #7116, aired 2015-07-20 | SPORTS & SONG $1000: Dandy Don Meredith would sing this song on "Monday Night Football" when a game's outcome was decided "The Party's Over" |
| #7115, aired 2015-07-17 | "L"AKES $400: On a clear night in Arizona's white mountains, look for the Moon's reflection in this lake, Spanish for "moon" Luna |
| #7114, aired 2015-07-16 | THAT'S OXYMORONIC! $200: "Saturday Night Live" has a visiting one for every show, including J.K. Simmons in January 2015 a guest host |
| #7114, aired 2015-07-16 | POE-ETRY $400: How these title items "tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, in the icy air of night!" the bells |
| #7113, aired 2015-07-15 | WORDPLAY-POURRI $600: Before & after:
A creepy man who looks through windows at night QBs the Patriots Peeping Tom Brady |
| #7110, aired 2015-07-10 | TV $1200: In January 2014 Sasheer Zamata joined the cast of this show as its first black female cast member in 6 years Saturday Night Live |
| #7096, aired 2015-06-22 | WORKING ON A BUILDING $1200: 1941-43: 13,000 American workers labor day & night to turn swampland into this federal office complex the Pentagon |
| #7096, aired 2015-06-22 | BIBLE "B" BOYS $1,400 (Daily Double): This Babylonian is slain the same night as his feast at which Daniel reads the writing on the wall Belshazzar |
| #7095, aired 2015-06-19 | CLASSICAL MUSIC ADJECTIVES $200: There's this much "Night Music" in a 1787 work a little |
| #7091, aired 2015-06-15 | A VISIT WITH KATIE COURIC $1000: (Katie Couric delivers the clue.) In 2008 I was honored to accept this journalism award named for this legend whose life was recounted in the film "Good Night, and Good Luck" Edward R. Murrow |
| #7091, aired 2015-06-15 | MOVIE TITLE POSSESIVES $1600: "Hired killers by day... lovers by night. Until they found their next assignment was each other" was this film's tagline Prizzi's Honor |
| #7089, aired 2015-06-11 | 11th HOUR CLUES $800: 11th night festivities in Northern Ireland entail bonfires being lit by this religious group, the biggest there Protestants |
| #7084, aired 2015-06-04 | SOURCE OF THE LATE NIGHT BIT $200: "Jaywalking" Jay Leno |
| #7084, aired 2015-06-04 | SOURCE OF THE LATE NIGHT BIT $400: "Freestylin' with the Roots" Jimmy Fallon |
| #7084, aired 2015-06-04 | SOURCE OF THE LATE NIGHT BIT $600: "Celebrities Read Mean Tweets" Jimmy Kimmel |
| #7084, aired 2015-06-04 | SOURCE OF THE LATE NIGHT BIT $800: "Carnac the Magnificent" Johnny Carson |
| #7084, aired 2015-06-04 | SOURCE OF THE LATE NIGHT BIT $1000: "Will It Float?" Letterman |
| #7083, aired 2015-06-03 | THE TONY AWARDS $1000: Mark Rylance was a double nominee in 2014: as Richard III (he lost) & as this countess in "Twelfth Night" (he won) Olivia |
| #7083, aired 2015-06-03 | TOUGH DAY AT $1,600 (Daily Double): the Garrett Farm on April 26, 1865, for this man who'd caused a bad night at the theater a couple of weeks earlier John Wilkes Booth |
| #7080, aired 2015-05-29 | MR. SMITH $2000: When he launched FedEx in 1973, it delivered 186 packages the first night; now it handles more than 10 mil. a day Frederick Smith |
| #7079, aired 2015-05-28 | PAINTERS & PAINTINGS $400: In the 1890s he portrayed night life in "A Corner of the Moulin de la Galette" & "At the Moulin Rouge" Toulouse-Lautrec |
| #7075, aired 2015-05-22 | THE MUSICAL TYPOGRAPHICAL MARK $1600: ...you can't shake from the guys who sang "You Shook Me All Night Long" a slash |
| #7070, aired 2015-05-15 | ON THE RUNWAY $2000: On the runway in Pisa at night, look at the stars as you leave the airport named for this 17th c. Italian astronomer Galileo |
| #7069, aired 2015-05-14 | THE COMEDIANS $1000: This comic known for his "7 Dirty Words" routine hosted the first episode of "Saturday Night Live" George Carlin |
| #7069, aired 2015-05-14 | LITERATURE $1000: This Jazz Age author epitomized his time with works like "Tender is the Night" F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| #7069, aired 2015-05-14 | STEPHEN SONDHEIM $2000: "Send In The Clowns" is a beloved song from this "small" Sondheim show A Little Night Music |
| #7068, aired 2015-05-13 | QUOTES FROM SHAKESPEARE $2000: "A Midsummer Night's Dream" contains the line "The course of" these 2 words "never did run smooth" true love |
| #7067, aired 2015-05-12 | TRAVELING AMONGST THE STARS $200: allmovie.com's review of "Run All Night" noted "the constant hissing of threats into cell phones" by this Irish actor (Liam) Neeson |
| #7067, aired 2015-05-12 | TRAVELING AMONGST THE STARS $800: In 1966 this crooner hit No. 1 on the Billboard charts with "Strangers In The Night" Frank Sinatra |
| #7066, aired 2015-05-11 | SMASH BROADWAY MUSICALS $600: Songs from this musical include "Opening Night" & "Springtime For Hitler" The Producers |
| #7064, aired 2015-05-07 | THE WILD WEST $1200: This rough Arizona town's Bird Cage Theatre was called the wildest "night spot between Basin Street and the Barbary Coast" Tombstone |
| #7063, aired 2015-05-06 | LIGHT THE CANDLES $200: Idiomatically, do this to the candle & you're going too hard by both day & night burning it at both ends |
| #7062, aired 2015-05-05 | MULTIPLE ROLES, SAME MOVIE $800: Ben Stiller as Larry Daley & the caveman Laaa (the third film, "Secret of the Tomb") Night at the Museum |
| #7061, aired 2015-05-04 | STAMPS $1200: 4 circular stamps depict different designs of this, the spotlight Commissioner Gordon used in Gotham's night sky the Bat-Signal |
| #7060, aired 2015-05-01 | TV "NIGHT" $400: "Clear eyes. Full hearts. Can't lose" was a motto on this series about high school football Friday Night Lights |
| #7060, aired 2015-05-01 | NICE ENDING, SHAKESPEARE! $800: "Give me your hands, if we be friends: And Robin shall restore amends" A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| #7060, aired 2015-05-01 | TV "NIGHT" $800: In 1980 Ted Koppel was hosting the nightly update "The Iran Crisis" when it became this show Nightline |
| #7060, aired 2015-05-01 | TV "NIGHT" $1200: Harry Anderson played the presiding judge on this '80s comedy Night Court |
| #7060, aired 2015-05-01 | TV "NIGHT" $1600: Peter Krause & Josh Charles played co-anchors on this show set at the CSC Network Sports Night |
| #7060, aired 2015-05-01 | TV "NIGHT" $2000: After "The Twilight Zone", Rod Serling had this 1970s supernatural anthology series Night Gallery |
| #7059, aired 2015-04-30 | THINGS TO DO ON A RAINY DAY $800: Brush up your Shakespeare & read one of his comedies, like this one about twins Viola & Sebastian Twelfth Night |
| #7059, aired 2015-04-30 | TITLES $2000: This 1934 F. Scott Fitzgerald novel gets its nocturnal title from John Keats' "Ode to a Nightingale" Tender is the Night |
| #7051, aired 2015-04-20 | IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT $400: November 4, 1605:
Guy Fawkes is caught playing with fireworks under the House of these dukes, earls, etc. Lords |
| #7051, aired 2015-04-20 | IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT $800: April 18, 1775:
Sexton Robert Newman climbs this church's 190-foot steeple the Old North Church |
| #7051, aired 2015-04-20 | IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT $1200: June 17, 1972:
Frank Wills, a guard here, spots tape on a door latch Watergate |
| #7051, aired 2015-04-20 | IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT $2000: September 12, 1759:
A British force under this general scales the cliffs below the Plains of Abraham General Wolfe |
| #7051, aired 2015-04-20 | IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT $8,600 (Daily Double): April 14, 1865:
With tickets starting at 25 cents, some 1,700 people attend a show at this venue Ford's Theatre |
| #7045, aired 2015-04-10 | PUT ON YOUR DISCO SHOES $800: The Trammps wanted to "burn that mother down" with this song from "Saturday Night Fever" "Disco Inferno" |
| #7043, aired 2015-04-08 | 1995 BESTSELLERS $1000: "Silent Night" by this 3-named woman is a Christmas suspense novel Mary Higgins Clark |
| #7029, aired 2015-03-19 | HOLLYWOOD IS DESTRUCTIVE $1000: "They're coming to get you, Barbara" in this 1968 film that saw a group of people in a farmhouse hiding from zombies Night of the Living Dead |
| #7027, aired 2015-03-17 | I WANT TO ROCK & ROLL ALL NIGHT $200: In 1975 "Rock And Roll All Nite" became the first Top 40 hit for this band unafraid of a little stage makeup Kiss |
| #7027, aired 2015-03-17 | SHAKESPEARE'S COMEDIES $400: Cobweb & Mustardseed are 2 of the fairies in this play A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| #7027, aired 2015-03-17 | I WANT TO ROCK & ROLL ALL NIGHT $400: Irish band Thin Lizzy's biggest U.S. hit came when telling us that they "Are Back In Town" "The Boys" |
| #7027, aired 2015-03-17 | I WANT TO ROCK & ROLL ALL NIGHT $600: Paul McCartney sang, "But if this ever-changing world in which we live in, makes you give in and cry... say" this "Live And Let Die" |
| #7027, aired 2015-03-17 | I WANT TO ROCK & ROLL ALL NIGHT $800: In 2014 this band's "Songs of Innocence" made a stealthy showing in people's iTunes; some shot down that idea U2 |
| #7027, aired 2015-03-17 | I WANT TO ROCK & ROLL ALL NIGHT $1000: Jeff Tweedy wrote "Standing O" & "Sunloathe" for this group's album "The Whole Love" Wilco |
| #7020, aired 2015-03-06 | THE TV "A" $2000: On '70s late-night TV, he brought Beldar Conehead to life (Dan) Aykroyd |
| #7017, aired 2015-03-03 | OH "NO"! $1200: A musical composition suggestive of night a nocturne |
| #7015, aired 2015-02-27 | MUSICAL SHE'S $800: "She rings like a bell through the night & wouldn't you love to love her" "Rhiannon" |
| #7014, aired 2015-02-26 | THAT '90s SHOW $1000: Just between you & me, CBS had us "Eye to Eye with" this woman on a Thursday night newsmagazine from 1993 to 1995 Connie Chung |
| #7009, aired 2015-02-19 | MOVIE TITLE OVERLAPS $1600: "It Happened ____ ____" in the Tropics" One Night |
| #7006, aired 2015-02-16 | HIT MEN $1000: "Against The Wind" &
"Night Moves" Bob Seger |
| #6999, aired 2015-02-05 | SHAKING UP SHAKESPEARE $800: It is a fairy tale:
"RUMMAGE MASTERMIND DISH" A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| #6998, aired 2015-02-04 | TELL 'EM WHAT THEY'VE WON, JOHNNY! $1000: It's a pirate getaway as you'll enjoy a 3-day, 2-night stay at the port of Berbera in this East African country Somalia |
| #6996, aired 2015-02-02 | HARD ROCKERS $1600: "The walls were shaking, the earth was quaking, my mind was aching, & we were making it, & you... shook me all night long" AC/DC |
| #6994, aired 2015-01-29 | FILM SONGS $200: "Stayin' Alive" Saturday Night Fever |
| #6990, aired 2015-01-23 | WORLD CAPITAL POINTS OF INTEREST $600: One night in this Asian city, go to Wat Traimit, a temple with a 5 1/2-ton solid gold Buddha statue Bangkok |
| #6989, aired 2015-01-22 | THE BIG PICTURE $1000: This 17th century work originally 13x16 feet has been cut down to a much more manageable 12x15 The Night Watch |
| #6986, aired 2015-01-19 | LITTLE WEASELS $600: Also known as the striped weasel, the zorilla of this continent feeds at night on insects & small rodents Africa |
| #6985, aired 2015-01-16 | "DOWN" & "OUT" $600: One of Syfy's most watched shows is the WWE's Friday Night this SmackDown |
| #6984, aired 2015-01-15 | DOUBLE "O" $200: Lunar term for working a second job at night moonlighting |
| #6983, aired 2015-01-14 | JOBS IN ART $400: Edward Hopper's wife was his model for this worker at a filing cabinet in "Office at Night" a secretary |
| #6982, aired 2015-01-13 | I'M "N"TITLED! $2000: Title of Marsha Norman's 1983 prize-winning play, or something you might say before heading off to bed 'night, Mother |
| #6980, aired 2015-01-09 | FAMOUS FIRST WORDS $1600: These 7 words penned by Edward Buller-Lytton have inspired an annual contest dedicated to bad opening lines It was a dark and stormy night |
| #6978, aired 2015-01-07 | LERNER & LOEWE SONGS $800: For "Gigi", L&L wrote of "The Night They Invented" this sparkling potable champagne |
| #6973, aired 2014-12-31 | MILITARY MISTAKES $400: In 1896 an Ethiopian army defeated a force from this nation that had launched an ill-advised night attack Italy |
| #6973, aired 2014-12-31 | PLACES OF FABLE $1200: The name of this mythic Tibetan Buddhist kingdom inspired a Three Dog Night hit song Shambala |
| #6968, aired 2014-12-24 | PLAY SETTINGS $5,000 (Daily Double): This O'Neill drama:
Act I begins at 8:30 a.m.: Act IV is set about 15 hours later Long Day's Journey into Night |
| #6966, aired 2014-12-22 | ORIGINATOR OF THE ROLE $2000: Chief Gillespie from "In the Heat of the Night" (Rod) Steiger |
| #6965, aired 2014-12-19 | POINTS! $400: NBAer Al Attles joked about the night in 1962 that this man "& I combined for 117 points"; Al did score a solid 17 Wilt Chamberlain |
| #6961, aired 2014-12-15 | PARKS $1200: The planetarium in this city's Fountain of Youth Park features the night sky as Ponce de Leon would have seen it St. Augustine |
| #6960, aired 2014-12-12 | MASTERS OF SAX $800: It was nuthin' but a G thang when this sax player popped up in Katy Perry's "Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)" video Kenny G |
| #6958, aired 2014-12-10 | 6'4" $400: "Clueless Gamer" is a feature on this 6'4" man's late night show Conan O'Brien |
| #6957, aired 2014-12-09 | A EUROPEAN HOLIDAY $800: Celebrated by dressing in costume & playing pranks, this holiday is named for Saint Walburga Walpurgis Night |
| #6954, aired 2014-12-04 | CATS & DOGS $2000: In the late 1800s a German night watchman with this last name developed a breed of guard dog called the Pinscher Doberman |
| #6945, aired 2014-11-21 | CHANNING TATUM MOVIES BY ROLE $400: Roofer by day, "enchanting" stripper by night Magic Mike |
| #6944, aired 2014-11-20 | 1940s TELEVISION $1200: Boxing was big on the small screen, like on the "Cavalcade of Sports" Friday night fights from this NYC venue Madison Square Garden |
| #6941, aired 2014-11-17 | GREAT AMERICAN NOVELS $4,200 (Daily Double): "At Auschwitz, tell me, where was God?" is a query from this 1979 novel Sophie's Choice |
| #6940, aired 2014-11-14 | FUNNY PEOPLE $800: She's done HBO specials & had her own late-night talk show, & in 2014, she was a mentor on "Last Comic Standing" Wanda Sykes |
| #6936, aired 2014-11-10 | FROM OUTER SPACE $600: Scientifically Alpha Canis Majoris, it is a mere 8.6 light years away & the brightest star in the night sky Sirius |
| #6934, aired 2014-11-06 | PUBLISHED POSTHUMOUSLY $2000: Unfinished at his death, his "Silent Night: A Spenser Holiday Novel" was completed by his agent & published in 2013 (Robert) Parker |
| #6933, aired 2014-11-05 | EYEBROW-BEATING YOU $600: Seen here are the brows of this sage of Sunday night television Andy Rooney |
| #6932, aired 2014-11-04 | AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL CATEGORY $1600: This cable talk show host penned the tell-all "My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands" Chelsea Handler |
| #6929, aired 2014-10-30 | TV SHOWS' OPENING LYRICS $1200: "I can't count the reasons I should stay, one by one they all just fade away" (it should be the Greendale fight song) Community |
| #6926, aired 2014-10-27 | ART MASTERPIECES $800: This 1889 painting shows a swirling sky with 11 magnified stars & a large orange-y moon over the town of Saint-Remy Starry Night (by van Gogh) |
| #6924, aired 2014-10-23 | WHAT THE?! $600: Dante would love the "Saturday Night Fever" tune that goes, "burn baby burn, disco" this inferno |
| #6923, aired 2014-10-22 | LIVING AT THE WATERGATE $200: This Kansas senator was head of the RNC & living at the Watergate during the '72 break-in but was in Chicago that night Bob Dole |
| #6919, aired 2014-10-16 | INVENTIVE THINKING $800: The National Inventors Hall of Fame said his 1863 sleeping car was "a parlor by day and a first-class hotel room at night" (George) Pullman |
| #6917, aired 2014-10-14 | CHAINED TO A HOTEL $600: I'm not sure how I managed to solve the Riemann hypothesis, but I did "stay smart" at this "Express" chain last night Holiday Inn Express |
| #6915, aired 2014-10-10 | POP CULTURE $800: When Jimmy Fallon took over "The Tonight Show", this "SNL" vet began hosting "Late Night" on NBC Seth Meyers |
| #6913, aired 2014-10-08 | MOVIE SOUND FX $1600: It's a spooky night if we hear the sound of this "great" raptor the great horned owl |
| #6909, aired 2014-10-02 | NAME THE FAITH $200: The Shema, recited morning & night Judaism |
| #6908, aired 2014-10-01 | BEFORE & AFTER AT THE MOVIES $400: Clark Gable & Claudette Colbert hitchhike across George Romero's original apocalypse It Happened One Night of the Living Dead |
| #6907, aired 2014-09-30 | LAYING THINGS M TO M $800: A stately tomb; it's hard to enjoy an eternal night at the... mausoleum |
| #6897, aired 2014-09-16 | GHOSTBUSTERS $1000: (Here's Sarah to wrap up the category.) Dan Aykroyd wanted it to be black, but because of all the night scenes, the 1959 Cadillac known as this-1 was painted white instead & the rest is history Ecto |
| #6890, aired 2014-07-25 | NONFICTION $1200: This book about high school football, "a town, a team, and a dream" inspired a movie & a TV series; go Panthers! Friday Night Lights |
| #6888, aired 2014-07-23 | JULY $600: On July 4 Norfolk, Virginia has its annual "Great American Picnic and" these in the night sky Fireworks |
| #6883, aired 2014-07-16 | HEADLINE NEWS $400: In January 1949 it was front-page news in the L.A. Times that this "Falls for Third Night, Tangling... Traffic" Snow |
| #6883, aired 2014-07-16 | HEADLINE NEWS $800: "Bite of the Century" was a June 29, 1997 headline referring to this athlete's conduct the night before Mike Tyson |
| #6881, aired 2014-07-14 | SHAKESPEARE'S ENDINGS $1,000 (Daily Double): "With the help of your good hands, gentle breath of yours my sails must fill, or else my project fails" The Tempest |
| #6880, aired 2014-07-11 | WORKS OF ART $1200: "Circus Sideshow", completed in 1888, was this artist's first night painting using the Pointillist technique (Georges) Seurat |
| #6877, aired 2014-07-08 | SHAKESPEAREAN ACTORS $200: How fitting that she starred in "Twelfth Night" in 2009--she has the same name as Shakespeare's wife Anne Hathaway |
| #6875, aired 2014-07-04 | ON THE "LEFT" $200: Mmmmmmmm! Dinner from last night, reheated & served today leftovers |
| #6873, aired 2014-07-02 | IM-PASTORS $2000: In this Shakespeare play, Viola dresses as a man & Feste masquerades as clergyman Sir Topas Twelfth Night |
| #6868, aired 2014-06-25 | POLITICAL PARTIES $600: Brother Billy skipped the Plains, Georgia election-night party for this guy in 1980, but it was a bust anyway Jimmy Carter |
| #6864, aired 2014-06-19 | A SOFT TOUCH $200: "Do not go" this "into that good night" gentle |
| #6860, aired 2014-06-13 | U.S. FRANCHISES $800: Out west you'll find this convenience store at Arco stations, morning or night AM-PM |
| #6854, aired 2014-06-05 | PUTTING THE HAM IN HAMLET $2000: "Good night, sweet prince; and flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!" Horatio |
| #6851, aired 2014-06-02 | DIDN'T MAKE THE BILLBOARD TOP 40 $1200: At No. 55, their "Let's Spend The Night Together" The Rolling Stones |
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Amanda J. Ray, a sophomore at the University of Virginia from Harrisonburg, Virginia
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2010-B College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
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Tim Relihan, a senior from the University of Nebraska from Stromsburg, Nebraska
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2010-B College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
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Ellen Eichner, a junior from the Ohio State University from Northbrook, Illinois
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2010-B College Championship semifinalist: $10,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
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Stephen Weingarten, a paraeducator from Portland, Oregon
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2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $96,690...
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Dave Belote, the base commander from Nellis Air Force Base, Las Vegas
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2010 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 26 5-time champion:...
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Kimberly Jantz, an attorney from Tulsa, Oklahoma
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Season 26 1-time champion: $22,200 + $2,000. Kimberly Jantz - an...
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Kerri Regan, a senior from Bethpage, New York
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2005 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. 17 at the time of the...
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Jerome Vered, a writer from Los Angeles, California
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"The 1-day record of $34,000 he set in 1992 stood for...
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Allan Long, a freshman from Tallahassee, Florida
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2005 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. 14 at the time of the...
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Rebecca Lobo, a future Women\'s Basketball Hall of Famer and ESPN analyst originally from the WNBA
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\"Later this year, she\'ll be inducted into the Women\'s Basketball Hall...
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Tommy Maranges, a junior from Fort Lauderdale, Florida
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2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games quarterfinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time...
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Pam Mueller, a graduate student in psychology from Princeton, New Jersey
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\"She was a student at Loyola University when she won the...
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Pam Mueller, a think tank researcher from Culver City, California
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• 2000 College Championship winner • Semifinalist in all other tournaments...
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Celeste DiNucci, a recent graduate student from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2014 Battle of the Decades...
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Pam Mueller, a junior at Loyola University, Chicago from Wilmette, Illinois
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2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2019 All-Star Games member of...
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Pam Mueller, a college student from Wilmette, Illinois
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2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2019 All-Star Games member of...
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Pam Mueller, a justice researcher originally from Chicago, Illinois
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2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2019 All-Star Games member of...
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Tom Nichols, a professor originally from Chicopee, Massachusetts
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\"A five-time champion in 1994, he used his winnings for a...
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Liese Tamburrino, an international sales manager from Pahrump, Nevada
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Season 20 player (2004-07-21).
KJL game 36.
First name pronounced like "LEE-suh".
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Viki Radden, a high school English and literacy teacher from Bakersfield, California
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"She teaches at the largest high school district in California. From...
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Leonard Kendall, a hotel night auditor from The Bronx, New York
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Season 3 player (1987-05-06).
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Jim Davis, a college music and humanities instructor from Freeport, Illinois
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Season 25 2-time champion: $62,802 + $2,000. Not be to confused...
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B.D. Schwarz, a twelve-year-old from Oakland, California
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"He wants to make others happy by opening a little game...
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Aria Gerson, an eleven-year-old from Orem, Utah
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"Shine an apple for our future teacher. From Orem, Utah, class,...
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Kara Spak, a newspaper reporter from Chicago, Illinois
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2011 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
Season 27 5-time champion: $83,401 + $2,000.
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Sarah Bauer, a junior at Indiana University from Carmel, Indiana
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2012 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 21 at the time of the...
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Chris Wallace, a TV host from Fox News Sunday
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"In March, this Fox News anchor was honored by the National...
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Lisa Makar, a senior from University of Maryland
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"As a seventh grader, she was planning a career as a...
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, a Basketball Hall of Famer and all-time leading scorer from the NBA
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"In January, the State Department named this NBA Hall of Famer...
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Chris Matthews, a TV host from Hardball and The Chris Matthews Show
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"He served as a speechwriter for Jimmy Carter, and later as...
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Rob Schrader, a junior from Lexington, Kentucky
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2012 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. Younger brother of 2008-B Teen Tournament...
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Carl Bradshaw, a financial manager from St. Louis, Missouri
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Season 27 2-time champion: $17,899 + $2,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: Titmouse
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Yoni Freund, a Ph.D. student from Columbia University
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"He has always wanted to be a writer, and now that...
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Nate Austin, a student from Hutchinson Community College
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"His original plan was to own a chain of international hotels...
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Max Johansen, a senior from the University of Miami
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"As a seventh grader, he was planning on a career in...
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Guy Jordan, a graduate student from College Park, Maryland
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Season 19 player (2003-06-10). Guy won at least $169,000 on two...
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Markie Post, an actress from Night Court and Hearts Afire
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1994 Celebrity Jeopardy! player (1994-11-11). Playing for Stop Cancer. Markie died...
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Ben Schenkel, a junior from Allentown, Pennsylvania
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2007 Teen Tournament 1st runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $42,800. 17 at...
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Jeffrey Gerlomes, a freshman from Napa, California
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2007 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
14 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Oliver Stone, a screenwriter and director from A Child's Night Dream
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"The winner of three Academy Awards for his work as a...
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Doug Perez, a database developer from Monrovia, California
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Season 31 1-time champion: $17,000 + $1,000.
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Louie C.K., a comedian, actor, director, writer, and producer from Louie and Horace and Pete
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"This multitalented actor, writer, producer, and director is also the star...
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Anderson Cooper, a host from AC360°
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"He covers major news stories from around the world and plays...
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Danielle Zsenak, a senior from Marquette University
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2008 College Championship 1st runner-up: $50,000. Last name pronounced like "zshen-NOCK"....
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Rob Pold, a graduate student from Downers Grove, IL
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Season 4 1-time champion: $9,450 + a 3-night trip to San...
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Rosie O'Donnell, a comedienne from the hit film A League of Their Own
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"From the hit film A League of Their Own, comedienne..." 1999-B...
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Al Arsenault, a computer security engineer from Ellicott City, Maryland
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Season 20 player (2004-06-11). KJL game 8. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Ryan Ballengee, a senior from Pasadena, Maryland
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2001 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $5,000.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Brett Dvorak, a junior at Indiana University from Granger, Indiana
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2001 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $5,000. Brett was 20 at the...
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Susan Haarman, a sophomore at Marquette University from Louisville, Kentucky
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2001 College Championship quarterfinalist: $2,500. Susan was 19 at the time...
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Jeremy King, a laundromat night manager from Columbia, South Carolina
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Season 15 1-time champion: $16,600.
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Aaron Thompson, a special assistant from Washington, D.C.
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2006 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 21 3-time champion:...
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Kermin Fleming, a student from Lexington, Kentucky
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2006 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions...
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Brady Newell, from Derwood, Maryland
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"She loves diving and gymnastics, but is headed toward being either...
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, a superstar from the NBA
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2012 Power Players Week player. 2009-2010 Million Dollar Celebrity Invitational quarterfinalist....
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Sid Chandrasekhar, a senior from the University of Pennsylvania from Saratoga, California
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2010-B College Championship semifinalist: $10,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
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Saad Hasan, a nanotechnology scientist from Nashville, Tennessee
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Season 26 1-time champion: $22,700 + $2,000. Saad Hasan Nashville, TN...
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Vito Cortese, a software engineer and Italian translator from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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Season 27 3-time champion: $68,485 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Laura Hughes, a mom from New Market, Maryland
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Season 26 1-time champion: $27,500 + $2,000. Wife of Season 16...
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Pam Jones-Pigott, a farmers' market coordinator from Pflugerville, Texas
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Season 27 1-time champion: $16,800 + $1,000.
Last name pronounced like "johnz-PIE-gut".
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Bob Fleenor, a newspaper copy editor from Martinsburg, West Virginia
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"Legislative work in his home state was suspended so that lawmakers...
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Stephanie Radke, a senior from McLean, Virginia
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2009 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. As an accommodation for a disability,...
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Stacy Braverman, a public interest lawyer from Washington, D.C.
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Season 26 1-time champion: $14,984 + $2,000. As detailed in a...
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Alan Bailey, a playwright and director from North Hills, California
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"This playwright and director became a 5-time winner in 2001. Today,...
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Matt DeTura, a recent law school graduate from Washington, D.C.
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Season 27 3-time champion: $61,601 + $2,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: MDT
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Steven Milton, a legal case assistant from San Diego, California
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Season 26 2-time champion: $30,299 + $1,000. Steve Milton San Diego,...
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Bernard Holloway, a sophomore at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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"He was a 2002 Teen Champion. He's now a sophomore at...
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David Sampugnaro, a writer and internet specialist from North White Plains, New York
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"A 5-time winner from 1996, he's now a writer and internet...
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Tessa Fleming, a high school history teacher from Mission Viejo, California
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Season 31 player (2014-09-16). Tessa's father was a 2-time champion on...
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Janet Bradlow, an insurance agent from New York, New York
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Season 26 3-time champion: $58,000 + $2,000. Janet Bradlow New York,...
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Rachael Schwartz, a lawyer from Washington, D.C.
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"In 1994, she was the first female winner of a Tournament...
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Chris Rodrigues, a personal banking representative from New Bedford, Massachusetts
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Season 26 3-time champion: $41,498 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Aisha Tyler, an actress, comedian, author and reality-show host from Archer
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"In addition to film and TV roles, she performs comedy at...
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Cheech Marin, an actor, comedian, director, writer and musician from Lost
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"He's played a cop on Nash Bridges, voiced a 1959 Chevy...
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Tim Koch, a 12-year-old sixth grader from Cliffwood, New Jersey
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"He would like to be a teacher because you get to...
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Don Meals, an environmental scientist from Burlington, Vermont
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Season 27 3-time champion: $42,599 + $2,000.
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Emily Heaney, a freelance costume designer from White Bear Lake, Minnesota
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Season 25 1-time champion: $2,200 + $1,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Rob Schneider, an actor from Men Behaving Badly
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"From Men Behaving Badly, you might remember when he was just...
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Zane Li, a ten-year-old from Provo, Utah
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"He's a chess champion and a two-time Geography Bee winner..." 2002...
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Jen McFann, a Peace Corps recruiter from Astoria, New York
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Season 26 1-time champion: $19,410 + $2,000. Jen McFann Astoria, New...
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Justin Bernbach, a lobbyist from Brooklyn, New York
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2010 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 25 7-time champion: $155,001...
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Jordan Brand, an anesthesiologist from Westchester, New York
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Season 26 1-time champion: $24,405 + $2,000. The Sesame Street character...
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Katie Orphan, a freshman at Whitworth College from Reno, Nevada
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2002 College Championship semifinalist: $5,000.
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Sanders Kleinfeld, a publishing technology specialist from Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Season 25 1-time champion: $26,597 + $2,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, a Basketball Hall of Famer and all-time leading scorer from the NBA
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"He's one of the greatest NBA players in history. Here's Hall...
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Justin Bernbach, a lobbyist from Brooklyn, New York
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2010 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 25 7-time champion: $155,001...
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Christine Valada, a photographer and attorney originally from Walton, New York
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2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $68,703...
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Molly Rosenbusch, a night court clerk from Twin Lakes, Idaho
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Season 27 1-time champion: $19,601 + $2,000.
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Andy Srinivasan, a high school science teacher from Clayton, North Carolina
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2010 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $69,600...
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Anthony Dedousis, a sophomore from Harvard University
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2009 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 19 and from Manhasset, New York...
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Kadeem Cooper, a junior from the University of Virginia
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2009 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 20 and from Brooklyn, New York...
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Laura Myers, a senior from the University of Missouri
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2009 College Championship second runner-up: $29,900. 22 and from Richmond, Virginia...
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Francois Dominic Laramée, a writer and TV personality from Verdun, Quebec, Canada
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Season 25 2-time champion: $46,300 + $1,000. Francois's name was printed...
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Jennifer Duann, a senior from the Ohio State University
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2009 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 21 and from Worthington, Ohio at...
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Yevgeny Shrago, a research assistant originally from Rochester, New York
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Season 26 1-time champion: $24,600 + $2,000. Name pronounced like "yev-GHEN-ee...
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Leah Anthony Libresco, a junior from Yale University
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2010-A College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Hometown: Mineola, New York. Jeopardy!...
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Prashant Raghavendran, a sophomore from the University of Texas, Dallas
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2010-A College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. Hometown: Austin, Texas. Prashant Raghavendran Blog...
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Gary Bechtold, a garage door company owner from St. Cloud, Minnesota
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Season 26 3-time champion: $42,001 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Nick Yozamp, a junior from Washington University in St. Louis
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2010 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 2010-A College Championship winner:...
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Robbie Berg, a freshman from the University of Pennsylvania
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2010-A College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. Hometown: Davie, Florida. Robbie Berg Blog...
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Neil Patrick Harris, an actor from How I Met Your Mother
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"He's received critical acclaim on Broadway and on TV, and his...
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Samira Missaghi, a junior from the University of Minnesota
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2010-A College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Hometown: Eden Prarie, Minnesota. Samira...
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Will Warren, a senior from the University of Alabama
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2010-A College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. Hometown: Madison, Alabama. Will Warren Blog...
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Rachel Landau, a museum night security guard from Chicago, Illinois
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Season 26 player (2009-09-24).
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Andy Srinivasan, a high school science teacher from Garner, North Carolina
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2010 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $69,600...
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Sonja Srinivasan, an education consultant and musician from San Diego, California
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Season 20 2-time champion: $24,250 + $2,000.
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Ken Basin, a junior at the University of Southern California from Huntington Beach, California
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2003 College Championship semifinalist: $5,000. Blog at kbasin.blogspot.org. Appearing as a...
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Carolyn Young, a homemaker from Marietta, Georgia
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Season 25 1-time champion: $30,000 + $2,000. Mother of Season 32...
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Elizabeth Perkins, an actress from Weeds
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"For the past five seasons, she's played the calculating and manipulative...
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Elizabeth Perkins, an actress from Big and Weeds
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2009 Celebrity Jeopardy! player: $25,000 to the New England Learning Center...
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Stefan Goodreau, a video game tester and camp counselor from Los Angeles, California
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2010 Tournament of Champions 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $50,000. Season...
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Katie Singh, a sophomore from Northwestern University from Austin, Texas
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2010-B College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
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Jennifer Broders, a junior high school social studies teacher from Stockton, Iowa
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Season 26 2-time champion: $59,801 + $1,000. Jennifer Broders - a...
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Steph Gagelin, a sophomore from the University of North Dakota from Grand Forks, North Dakota
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2010-B College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
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Neil Patrick Harris, an actor from How I Met Your Mother
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"He's appeared on Broadway in Proof, Assassins, and Cabaret. He's now...
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Joshua Malina, a TV actor and creator/producer from Celebrity Poker Showdown
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"He created and produced Celebrity Poker Showdown for the Bravo Channel,...
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Jason McCune, an actor originally from Jasper, Indiana
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2003 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Season 18 4-time champion: $90,041.
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Kristiana Henderson, a junior from Kent, Washington
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2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games quarterfinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time...
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Aiden Pink, a freshman from St. Louis Park, Minnesota
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2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games semifinalist: $10,000. 15 at the time...
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Claire Slavovsky, a graduate student from Virginia Beach, Virginia
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Season 24 player (2007-12-06).
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Rishi Bhandari, a first-year law student from New York City, New York
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Season 16 player (2000-04-18). Won $100,000 on Who Wants to Be...
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Josh Kamensky, a communications director from Los Angeles, California
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Season 23 player (2007-07-09). Josh was the runner-up on the 2020-10-13...
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Paul Shaffer, a composer and musical director from The Late Show with David Letterman
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"David Letterman's musical director for 24 years, he's also musical producer...
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Susan Lucci, an actress from All My Children
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"One of daytime TV's most beloved actresses, she's played Erica Kane...
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Mark Lowenthal, an assistant director for the Central Intelligence Agency from Reston, Virginia
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"The winner of the 1988 Tournament of Champions, he's an assistant...
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Alex Stambaugh, a 12-year-old from Paris, Kentucky
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"He feels he can use his talents in math and science...
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Sara Jansson, a 10-year-old from Monmouth Junction, New Jersey
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"She wants to become a singer because she loves music so...
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Sean Ryan, a graduate student from Whitehall, Pennsylvania
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
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Reggie Jackson, a former pro baseball player originally from Wyncote, Pennsylvania
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"Twice a World Series MVP, his powerhouse hitting earned him the...
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Martina Navratilova, a former tennis pro and novelist originally from Prague, Czechoslovakia
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"With 9, she's won more singles titles at Wimbledon than any...
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, a former pro basketball player and actor originally from Brooklyn, New York
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"Three decades in the NBA netted him six championship rings and...
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Andrew Garen, an associate director of consumer marketing from Austin, Texas
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"He was a project manager when he won his 5 shows...
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Jim Stalley, a crime data specialist from Denver, Colorado
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2004 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Season 19 4-time champion: $84,100 + $2,000.
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Diane Siegel, an educational consultant and writer from Northridge, California
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"A full-time mom when she won five games in 1993, now...
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Jason Block, an Internet researcher from Brooklyn, New York
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Season 17 4-time champion: $36,701. Won $125,000 on Who Wants to...
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Emily Sturtz, from Parsippany, New Jersey
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"Because she would like to help people, she wants to become...
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Ryan Holznagel, a writer originally from Forest Grove, Oregon
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"He was the winner of the 1995 Tournament of Champions. Now,...
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Julie Seitter, a voice talent from Littleton, Massachusetts
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Season 22 player (2006-02-28). Julie's voice can be heard in the...
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Whitney Prince, a sophomore from Maryville, Tennessee
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2005 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500.
15 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Chloé White, a senior from Mission Hills, Kansas
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2005 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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