#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 |
#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 |
#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 |
#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" |
#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 |
#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) |
#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" |
#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 |
#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 |
#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 |
#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 |
#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 |
#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 |
#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" |
#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 |
#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 |
#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 |
#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 |
#8530, aired 2021-12-10 | WINTER HOLIDAYS $400: Twelfth Night precedes the feast of this, also known as Three Kings' Day the Epiphany |
#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 |
#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 |
#8494, aired 2021-10-21 | WORD PUZZLES $600: Something done continuously, all day & all night around the clock |
#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 |
#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 |
#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 |
#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 |
#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 |
#8349, aired 2021-03-04 | A BREAK FOR SPRING $200: Spring begins officially at this cosmic moment of equal parts day & night the equinox |
#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 |
#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 |
#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 |
#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 |
#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 |
#7978, aired 2019-04-24 | WHAT DAY IS THAT SONG? $1200: Sam Cooke faced "Another" one "Saturday Night" |
#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 |
#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 | 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 |
#7932, aired 2019-02-19 | WHAT'S HAPPENING THIS MONTH? $1000: England's Twelfth Night,
Battle of New Orleans Day January |
#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 | 2019 HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $200: In 2019 this 8-day Jewish observance begins on the night of December 22 Hanukkah |
#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" |
#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 |
#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 |
#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 |
#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 |
#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 |
#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 |
#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 |
#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" |
#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" |
#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 |
#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 |
#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 |
#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 |
#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) |
#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 |
#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 |
#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 |
#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 |
#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 |
#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 |
#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 |
#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 |
#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 |
#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 |
#6945, aired 2014-11-21 | CHANNING TATUM MOVIES BY ROLE $400: Roofer by day, "enchanting" stripper by night Magic Mike |
#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 |
#6839, aired 2014-05-15 | HATE SONGS $1600: This Joan Jett & The Blackhearts hit was the basis for "Waiting All Day For Sunday Night", the "SNF" theme song "I Hate Myself For Loving You" |
#6721, aired 2013-12-02 | A CHRISTMAS STORY $200: "It's Christmas Day!", said this character, "I haven't missed it. The spirits have done it all in one night" Ebenezer Scrooge |
#6623, aired 2013-06-05 | LIGHT VERSE $1600: This poem by Dylan Thomas says, "old age should burn and rave at close of day; rage, rage against the dying of the light" "Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night" |
#6583, aired 2013-04-10 | GIVING US THE TIME OF DAY $2000: Elie Wiesel first wrote this Holocaust memoir in Yiddish as "And the World Has Remained Silent" Night |
#6483, aired 2012-11-21 | CELEBRITIES' FAVORITE MOVIES $400: (Hi. I'm Cheech Marin, and...) You can't help feeling the exuberance of the Beatles in this, their first movie A Hard Day's Night |
#6480, aired 2012-11-16 | MOVIE TERMS $2000: D/N stands for this 3-word type of shot in which sunlight masquerades as moonlight day-for-night |
#6453, aired 2012-10-10 | IT'S GETTING WARM $200: It can reach 800 degrees during the day on this planet (Venus is a little hotter), but the night's a bit brisk at -275 Mercury |
#6390, aired 2012-06-01 | DAY SONGS $600: Katy Perry topped the charts with this song subtitled "(T.G.I.F.)" "Last Friday Night" |
#6357, aired 2012-04-17 | WE'LL LEAVE TONIGHT $400: 822 aircraft with parachutists & gliders hit the skies during the night preceding this June 6, 1944 event the storming of the beach of Normandy (D-Day) |
#6323, aired 2012-02-29 | TO PAY PAUL $1600: Pay Paul Stanley: buy "Dressed to Kill" by this band, rocking & rolling all night & partying ev-er-y day since 1973 Kiss |
#6310, aired 2012-02-10 | SUPERHERO MOVIES $800: "In brightest day, in blackest night, no evil shall escape my sight" begins the oath of this hero; beware his power! the Green Lantern |
#6162, aired 2011-05-31 | BEATLES LAST LINES $800: "You know I feel all right" "A Hard Day's Night" |
#6058, aired 2011-01-05 | BRITISH ROYAL HOUSE, PLEASE $1600: Take a "G" away from what you have the next day after too many Pimm's cups the night before to get this royal house Hanover |
#6049, aired 2010-12-23 | GET "L"IT $2000: No curtain call for playwright Eugene O'Neill when this domestic drama premiered in 1956; he was 3 years dead Long Day's Journey into Night |
#6010, aired 2010-10-29 | HALLOWEEN-POURRI $1600: "Halloween" is short for "All Hallows' Eve" as it's the night before this holiday once called All Hallows' Day (All) Saint's Day |
#5979, aired 2010-09-16 | THE TREES WERE ANGRY THAT DAY, MY FRIENDS $2000: In M. Night Shyamalan's "The Happening", the trees are mad at us, & Elliot Moore, played by him, must deal with it (Mark) Wahlberg |
#5975, aired 2010-07-30 | "NIGHT" & "DAY" $400: It's supervision for preschoolers while parents work daycare |
#5975, aired 2010-07-30 | "NIGHT" & "DAY" $800: A cocktail just before bedtime a nightcap |
#5975, aired 2010-07-30 | "NIGHT" & "DAY" $1200: Groovy term for the dazzling yellow hosiery seen here DayGlo |
#5975, aired 2010-07-30 | "NIGHT" & "DAY" $1600: Old World member of the thrush family, celebrated for its vocal powers the nightingale |
#5975, aired 2010-07-30 | "NIGHT" & "DAY" $2000: Hyphenated film term for shooting footage in the morning or afternoon but making it look like it's dark day-for-night |
#5967, aired 2010-07-20 | TOP U.S. FRANCHISES $200: Oh, thank heaven for this largest chain of convenience stores where you can get a Big Gulp day or night 7-Eleven |
#5937, aired 2010-06-08 | I LOVE A SHOW TUNE $1000: He wrote the song from "The Gay Divorcee" that says, "Night and day, you are the one" Cole Porter |
#5887, aired 2010-03-30 | "W"RITERS $800: This Holocaust survivor followed "Night" with "Dawn" & "Day" (Elie) Wiesel |
#5831, aired 2010-01-11 | WORD PLAY $400: Eugene O'Neill asked that this piece not be produced until after his death Long Day's Journey into Night |
#5803, aired 2009-12-02 | ALCOHOLICS UNANIMOUS $1,000 (Daily Double): This alcoholic playwright created the bitter alcoholic Jamie Tyrone & a "long day" for his cursed family Eugene O'Neill |
#5802, aired 2009-12-01 | NIGHTS $800: This 1964 Beatles film was made for $500,000 & shot in a little over 6 weeks (they were working like dogs!) A Hard Day's Night |
#5648, aired 2009-03-11 | THE OLD FARMER'S ALMANAC $800: March & September will see the vernal & autumnal this, when day & night are approximately the same length equinox |
#5644, aired 2009-03-05 | MIT DEN BEATLES $600: Astrid Kirchherr & Klaus Voormann are characters in this movie dramatization of The Beatles' time in Germany Backbeat |
#5583, aired 2008-12-10 | THIS & THAT $200: Title 4 of the U.S. code says you can fly one of these 24 hours a day; if you fly it at night, you have to illuminate it the American Flag |
#5555, aired 2008-10-31 | DAYS OF CREATION $800: On the fourth day God created the greater & lesser lights to rule over these 2 things day & night |
#5507, aired 2008-07-15 | BEFORE & AFTER GOES TO THE MOVIES $800: Film of a typical day in the life of the Beatles, which includes running from bloodthirsty zombie fans in a Romero classic A Hard Day's Night of the Living Dead |
#5455, aired 2008-05-02 | "P"EOPLE $400: The 1946 film "Night and Day" was about this composer who wrote "Begin the Beguine" & "It's De-Lovely" (Cole) Porter |
#5439, aired 2008-04-10 | MOVIE "NIGHT" $200: Wilfrid Brambell played Paul McCartney's granddad, "a clean old man", in this 1964 film A Hard Day's Night |
#5350, aired 2007-12-07 | LITERARY GEOGRAPHY $400: In the preface to "The Moonstone", Vishnu commands 3 Brahmins in this country to guard the title gem night & day India |
#5347, aired 2007-12-04 | COMPOSERS ON FILM $400: Cary Grant
in "Night and Day" Cole Porter |
#5294, aired 2007-09-20 | THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER LYRICS $1000: The 2 times of day mentioned in the first 2 lines dawn & twilight |
#5267, aired 2007-07-03 | I'LL BE YOUR WAITER $400: He may've won at Waterloo if he'd attacked earlier in the day, but heavy rain the night before had him wait until noon Napoleon |
#5184, aired 2007-03-08 | PLACES IN SONG $2000: In "South Pacific" this mysterious & exotic island "may call you, any night, any day" Bali Ha'i |
#5179, aired 2007-03-01 | GIVING YOU THE MUSICAL TIME OF DAY $400: Elton John sang, "She packed my bags last night pre-flight, zero hour, 9 A.M." in this hit song "Rocket Man" |
#5171, aired 2007-02-19 | NAME THE POET $800: "Do not go gentle into that good night, old age should burn and rave at close of day" Dylan Thomas |
#5066, aired 2006-09-25 | ALL ABOUT EVES $1200: Detroit became notorious for "Devil's Night", a yearly arson spree on the eve of this day Halloween |
#4982, aired 2006-04-18 | PLAYWRIGHTS $400: He wrote "Long Day's Journey into Night" in 1941, but it wasn't performed until 1956, 3 years after his death O'Neill |
#4921, aired 2006-01-23 | HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $600: This holiday is the night before All Saints' Day Halloween |
#4904, aired 2005-12-29 | PREMIERE $200: This Beatles film premiered in London on July 6, 1964 A Hard Day's Night |
#4893, aired 2005-12-14 | SPORTING EVENTS $1,000 (Daily Double): It's a long day's journey into night in this event held each June on the Circuit de la Sarthe in France (the 24-hour Grand Prix at) Le Mans |
#4816, aired 2005-07-11 | JOEL SCHUMACHER $2000: (Schumacher reads his clue.) The tagline of this movie I directed was "Sleep all day. Party all night. Never grow old. Never die. It's fun to be a vampire." The Lost Boys |
#4801, aired 2005-06-20 | JOHN/PAUL $2000: The jarring chord that opens this Lennon-McCartney composition is a G7 with an added ninth & suspended fourth "A Hard Day's Night" |
#4747, aired 2005-04-05 | CLASSIC SONGS' FIRST LINES $200: A CCR title:
"Left a good job in the city, workin' for the man every night and day" "Proud Mary" |
#4727, aired 2005-03-08 | AUTHOR BIOS $600: Born in a hotel in 1888, took a "Long Day's Journney into Night" in a hotel in 1953 Eugene O'Neill |
#4713, aired 2005-02-16 | THE L WITH U $200: Monty Python famously sang, "I'm" one of these "and I'm okay, I sleep all night and I work all day" a lumberjack |
#4703, aired 2005-02-02 | VOCABULARY $1600: Term for one of the two times each year when day & night are of equal length equinox |
#4701, aired 2005-01-31 | PARTY ANIMALS $800: The short-eared type of this bird hunts by day, but many others are strictly the "night" type the owl |
#4690, aired 2005-01-14 | 1964 BEATLES NO. 1 HITS $1600: This hit was also the title of the band's first film, which one critic called "the Citizen Kane of jukebox musicals" "A Hard Day's Night" |
#4669, aired 2004-12-16 | WHO-SIERS $800: Indianan who composed such standards as "Night And Day" & "Begin The Beguine" Cole Porter |
#4562, aired 2004-06-08 | QUOTATIONS $400: Poet F.W. Bourdillon wrote, "The night has a thousand" of these, "and the day but one" eyes |
#4535, aired 2004-04-30 | BROADWAY LYRICS $2000: In "South Pacific", it "may call you any night, any day. In your heart you'll hear it call you, 'Come away, come away'" Bali Ha'i |
#4526, aired 2004-04-19 | MOVIE PHONE $800: Liz Taylor got an Oscar for playing Gloria Wandrous, model by day, call girl by night, reached at this title number BUtterfield 8 |
#4522, aired 2004-04-13 | PICK UP YOUR CLOTHES $1000: The hours of the day you work; hopefully you're not on the night one shift |
#4521, aired 2004-04-12 | COMPLETES THE PLAY TITLE $400: Eugene O'Neill's "Long Day's Journey..." into Night |
#4519, aired 2004-04-08 | FOREIGN FILM OSCAR NATIONS $600: 1973:
"Day for Night" France |
#4467, aired 2004-01-27 | ____FOR____ $2000: Truffaut's "La Nuit Americaine" is known as this in America Day for Night |
#4457, aired 2004-01-13 | MOVIE VILLAINS $1200: In this 1988 film Alan Rickman as Hans Gruber spoils Bruce Willis' day -- well, night Die Hard |
#4444, aired 2003-12-25 | CINEMACABRE $1200: George Romero directed "Night of," "Dawn of" & "Day of" these title creatures the Dead |
#4426, aired 2003-12-01 | NOTHING BUT TIME $800: Along the equator, each day or night is this many hours long, all year 12 |
#4329, aired 2003-05-29 | SOUNDS LIKE A TV DETECTIVE SHOW $200: Working at night in addition to your full-time day job Moonlighting |
#4304, aired 2003-04-24 | BEATLES HITS IN OTHER WORDS $800: "One Difficult 24-Hour Period's Evening" "A Hard Day's Night" |
#4283, aired 2003-03-26 | ULTRA-LOUNGE $200: The CD "On The Rocks Part One" includes Peggy Lee singing this title song of the first Beatles movie "A Hard Day's Night" |
#4279, aired 2003-03-20 | ART & ARTISTS $800: He wrote to his brother Theo, "I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day" van Gogh |
#4219, aired 2002-12-26 | "LONG" FILMS $800: In this jolly 1962 film based on an O'Neill play, Hepburn's on dope, Robards is an alcoholic & Stockwell has TB Long Day's Journey into Night |
#4172, aired 2002-10-22 | THEATRE $400: Jessica Lange went to London in 2000 to play the drug-addicted mom in his play "Long Day's Journey Into Night" Eugene O'Neill |
#4152, aired 2002-09-24 | OSCAR NIGHT FASHION $400: Her see-through outfit the night she won for "Funny Girl" inspired a few "On A Clear Day..." jokes Barbra Streisand |
#4115, aired 2002-06-21 | CELEBRATE THE CENTURY STAMPS $1,200 (Daily Double): This decade has Earth Day & Monday Night Football 1970s |
#4075, aired 2002-04-26 | LITERARY LUSHES $1200: Edmund deals with an alcoholic brother in this playwright's drama "Long Day's Journey into Night" O'Neill |
#4032, aired 2002-02-26 | TOO "HARD" $200: Some say a comment by an overworked Ringo gave this Beatles song its title "A Hard Day's Night" |
#4028, aired 2002-02-20 | SOUTH AMERICAN SAFARI $1000: Day 23 (night)" True to its name, the bushmaster of this venomous snake family knows the jungle; it just found m... viper |
#4006, aired 2002-01-21 | SCIENCE CLASS $800: Equinoxes occur when these 2 things are of approximately equal length everywhere on Earth day & night ("Daylight and darkness, or nighttime" accepted) |
#3953, aired 2001-11-07 | MOVIE TAGLINES $600 (Daily Double): 2000:
"After a night they can't remember, comes a day they'll never forget" Dude, Where's My Car? |
#3941, aired 2001-10-22 | JASON MILLER $800: When Jason played Edmund in "Long Day's Journey into Night", this "First Lady of the American Theatre" played his mother Helen Hayes |
#3883, aired 2001-06-20 | BEFORE & AFTER AT THE MOVIES $800: In this black & white horror classic, zombies also "Seize the Day" with Robin Williams Night of the Living Dead Poets Society |
#3843, aired 2001-04-25 | "LONG" BEACH $800: Play in which James Tyrone's insensitivity drives his wife Mary mad "Long Day's Journey Into Night" |
#3826, aired 2001-04-02 | THAT'LL BE THE DAY $500: For over 30 years ABC has had a prime-time show with this day in the title Monday (Monday Night Football) |
#3802, aired 2001-02-27 | MYTHELLANEOUS $200: Calypso kept this hero on an island all day, all night for 1 to 10 years, depending on who tells the tale Odysseus |
#3778, aired 2001-01-24 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $800: The Finnish greeting "hyvaa paivaa" is literally "good" this, which is 2 months long in northern Finland in summer good day |
#3776, aired 2001-01-22 | SPEAK OF THE DEAD $1000: Poet who implored you, "Do not go gentle into that good night/old age should burn and rave at close of day" Dylan Thomas |
#3665, aired 2000-07-07 | DUTCH TREATS $300: Day or night you can buy (& eat) these fish, raw or pickled, served with gherkins & onions Herring |
#3636, aired 2000-05-29 | SONGS' OPENING LINES $200: Creedence Clearwater Revival: "Left a good job in the city, workin' for the man every night and day" "Proud Mary" |
#3629, aired 2000-05-18 | HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $1000: This Swedish holiday goes back to Viking times when the night of Dec. 12-13 was the year's longest St. Lucia's Day |
#3614, aired 2000-04-27 | A NIGHT AT THE OPERA $400: Verdi's "Un Giorno Di Regno", translated as "King For" this long, got only 1 performance A day |
#3556, aired 2000-02-07 | BRIT LIT $400: The second line of this Dylan Thomas poem says, "Old age should burn and rave at close of day" "Do not go gentle into that good night" |
#3516, aired 1999-12-13 | A "HARD" PLACE $300: Song that tells us, "When I get home to you, I find the things that you do will make me feel alright" "A Hard Day's Night" |
#3515, aired 1999-12-10 | BEFORE & AFTER $100: He called for his fiddlers three to help him compose "Night and Day" Old King Cole Porter |
#3475, aired 1999-10-15 | BETRAYED! $1000: A maid betrayed this wife of Odysseus, revealing she undid her day's weaving each night Penelope |
#3414, aired 1999-06-10 | OH MAYAN GODS! $800: Kinich Ahau had a day job as sun god, but at night he roamed the underworld as this jungle cat Jaguar |
#3389, aired 1999-05-06 | NAME THE PLAYWRIGHT $600: "Long Day's Journey into Night" Eugene O'Neill |
#3360, aired 1999-03-26 | "DAY" OR "NIGHT" $100: If you're habitually up & active late into the night you're one of these "bird"s a night owl |
#3360, aired 1999-03-26 | "DAY" OR "NIGHT" $200: A trademark for luminous paints & colors like that of my "Rocket Red" underwear DayGlo |
#3360, aired 1999-03-26 | "DAY" OR "NIGHT" $300: One of mine is being chased by a Tyrannosaurus rex, one of yours may be "on Elm Street" a nightmare |
#3360, aired 1999-03-26 | "DAY" OR "NIGHT" $400: The goddess Eos knows it's another word for dawn daybreak |
#3360, aired 1999-03-26 | "DAY" OR "NIGHT" $500: On his 20th attempt, Dale Earnhardt won this grueling auto race February 15, 1998 the Daytona 500 |
#3331, aired 1999-02-15 | GEORGE WASHINGTON $300: On December 23,1776 Washington wrote that "Our attempt on" this city was fixed for "Christmas Day or night" Trenton |
#3283, aired 1998-12-09 | YALIES $400: He wrote songs like "Eli" while at Yale & "Begin The Beguine" & "Night And Day" later Cole Porter |
#3208, aired 1998-07-08 | UP LATE WITH DAVID LETTERMAN $200: In 1982, he was in "Tootsie" & on the first "Late Night"; in 1993, in "Groundhog Day" & on the first "Late Show" Bill Murray |
#3197, aired 1998-06-23 | THE BOOK OF REVELATION $800: Satan is cast into a lake of these 2 things, & "shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever" Fire & brimstone |
#3195, aired 1998-06-19 | “HARD” & “EASY” MOVIES $400: 1964 film that brought us a day in the life of the Fab Four A Hard Day's Night |
#3190, aired 1998-06-12 | CRUSTACEANS $800: The ghost type of this crustacean burrows in the sand by day & scavenges on the beach at night the crab |
#3185, aired 1998-06-05 | BAD HAIR DAYS $500: This Irish singer had more than a bad hair day when she tore the pope's picture on "Saturday Night Live" Sinead O'Connor |
#3175, aired 1998-05-22 | ALL THE WORLD'S A STAGE $600: Several of his plays, including "Long Day's Journey Into Night", had their world premieres in Stockholm Eugene O' Neill |
#3159, aired 1998-04-30 | "DAY" & "NIGHT"! $200: When this begins in April, remember to "spring forward" Daylight saving time |
#3159, aired 1998-04-30 | "DAY" & "NIGHT"! $400: Before "Dave's World", Harry Anderson kept disorder as Judge Harry T. Stone on this sitcom Night Court |
#3159, aired 1998-04-30 | "DAY" & "NIGHT"! $600: This actor proved himself a fighter in both "My Left Foot" & 1997's "The Boxer" Daniel Day-Lewis |
#3159, aired 1998-04-30 | "DAY" & "NIGHT"! $800: Before 1997's "Titanic", there was this 1958 film about the ship, based on a Walter Lord book "A Night to Remember" |
#3159, aired 1998-04-30 | "DAY" & "NIGHT"! $1000: Make the most of this clue & tell us the literal translation of "carpe diem" Seize the day |
#3134, aired 1998-03-26 | READ 'EM & WEEP $1000: This playwright chronicled the troubled Tyrone family in "Long Day's Journey Into Night" Eugene O' Neill |
#3081, aired 1998-01-12 | CRITTERS $400: The females of this largest living bird take turns sitting on eggs all day & the males take over at night Ostrich |
#3066, aired 1997-12-22 | BORN ON CHRISTMAS DAY $800: His birthday may have inspired him to write "Night of the Meek", a Christmas episode of "The Twilight Zone" Rod Serling |
#3051, aired 1997-12-01 | ON STAGE $200: "Long Day's Journey Into Night" was the first of his plays produced on Broadway after his death Eugene O'Neill |
#3033, aired 1997-11-05 | FLOWER POWER $100: Its name is derived from "day's eye"; like an eye, its blossoms close at night & open by day the daisy |
#2994, aired 1997-09-11 | "HARD" QUESTIONS $200: The title of this first Beatles film may have come from a line in John Lennon's book "In His Own Write" "A Hard Day's Night" |
#2967, aired 1997-06-24 | SONGS $1,500 (Daily Double): Beatles song whose opening chord is heard here: "A Hard Day's Night" |
#2961, aired 1997-06-16 | ROCK LYRICS $300: The CCR song about her begins, "Left a good job in the city, workin' for the man every night and day" "Proud Mary" |
#2897, aired 1997-03-18 | MOVIES ABOUT THE MOVIES $1000: This French director played a director in his 1973 film "Day For Night" Francois Truffaut |
#2852, aired 1997-01-14 | NAME THE POET $800: "Old age should burn and rave at close of day; rage, rage against the dying of the light" Dylan Thomas ("Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night") |
#2819, aired 1996-11-28 | EUGENE O'NEILL $500 (Daily Double): This play about the Tyrone family was so painful personally, O'Neill wouldn't allow its release during his life Long Day's Journey into Night |
#2751, aired 1996-07-15 | THE BEATLES $400: This 1964 film, The Beatles' first, received an Oscar nomination for its musical score A Hard Day's Night |
#2724, aired 1996-06-06 | MONTHS $500: On a morn in this month, Neil Diamond "danced until the night became a brand new day" September |
#2689, aired 1996-04-18 | THE MOVIES $500: This composer was played by Cary Grant in the 1946 musical "Night and Day" Cole Porter |
#2680, aired 1996-04-05 | "NIGHT" MOVIES $500: Truffaut's 1973 movie about making movies "Day For Night" |
#2587, aired 1995-11-28 | COMPOSERS ON FILM $600: Monty Woolley, this composer's friend from Yale days, appeared as himself in "Night and Day" Cole Porter |
#2581, aired 1995-11-20 | POP MUSIC $100: On July 6, 1964 this first Beatles film premiered in London A Hard Day's Night |
#2558, aired 1995-10-18 | MYTHS & LEGENDS $200: Nox, a daughter of Chaos, is the personification of this time of day night |
#2516, aired 1995-07-10 | CROONERS $400: This crooner's brother Bob also recorded "Where the Blue of the Night Meets the Gold of the Day" Bing Crosby |
#2482, aired 1995-05-23 | SCIENCE $400: Term for 1 of the 2 times each year when day & night are of equal length everywhere an equinox |
#2458, aired 1995-04-19 | HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $500 (Daily Double): In England Mischief Night precedes this observance, November 5 Guy Fawkes Day |
#2453, aired 1995-04-12 | "M" TV $500: This 1960s sitcom was inspired by the 1964 Beatles movie "A Hard Day's Night" The Monkees |
#2433, aired 1995-03-15 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $1000: At the end of this O'Neill tragedy, Mary Tyrone has gone totally mad Long Day's Journey into Night |
#2356, aired 1994-11-28 | FILMS OF THE '60s $200: Wilfrid Brambell played Paul's grandfather, "A Clean Old Man", in this first Beatles film A Hard Day's Night |
#2353, aired 1994-11-23 | 1950s SONG LYRICS $500: "All day, all night", this woman, "down by the seashore, sifting sand" "Mary Ann" |
#2341, aired 1994-11-07 | HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $100: Jokingly, this May observance is said to fall nine months after Father's Night Mother's Day |
#2322, aired 1994-10-11 | THEATRE $200: This playwright dedicated "Long Day's Journey into Night" to his wife Carlotta O'Neill |
#2312, aired 1994-09-27 | ANTONYMS $500: Using antonyms, this Mussorgsky musical title becomes "A Day In Hairy Valley" A Night on Bald Mountain |
#2305, aired 1994-09-16 | FAMOUS SOUTHPAWS $400: He must have worked "Night and Day" to "Begin The Beguine" with his left hand Cole Porter |
#2216, aired 1994-04-04 | PLAYS $400: James Tyrone Jr. appears in his "Long Day's Journey into Night" & "A Moon for the Misbegotten" Eugene O'Neill |
#2197, aired 1994-03-08 | PLAYS $200: His "Long Day's Journey into Night" is 3 acts longer than his "The Long Voyage Home" O'Neill |
#2158, aired 1994-01-12 | "NIGHT" MUSIC $100: The only Top 40 hit by the Beatles that fits the category "A Hard Day's Night" |
#2158, aired 1994-01-12 | "NIGHT" MUSIC $400: This Cole Porter classic begins, "Like the beat, beat, beat of the tom-tom, when the jungle shadows fall" "Night And Day" |
#2135, aired 1993-12-10 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1000: Tao House, where he wrote "Long Day's Journey into Night", is a National Historic Site in California Eugene O'Neill |
#2118, aired 1993-11-17 | POP MUSIC $300: No. 1 song that begins "Imagine me and you, I do, I think about you day and night..." "Happy Together" |
#2105, aired 1993-10-29 | BATS $100: All native bats in North America are active at this time of day only night |
#2083, aired 1993-09-29 | POP LYRICS $300: This Bobbie Gentry song begins, "It was the third of June, another sleepy, dusty, delta day" "Ode to Billie Joe" |
#2023, aired 1993-05-26 | 5-LETTER WORDS $200: The philosopher Heraclitus said, "God is day and night, winter and summer, war and" this peace |
#1988, aired 1993-04-07 | "GO" FOR IT $500: Dylan Thomas wrote, "Do not" do this, "old age should burn and rave at close of day" go gentle into that good night |
#1929, aired 1993-01-14 | POETRY $400: "The night has a thousand eyes, the day but one...the mind has a thousand eyes, and" this organ "but one" the heart |
#1926, aired 1993-01-11 | AMERICAN COMPOSERS $1000: While at Yale, this "Night and Day" composer wrote the football songs "Bingo Eli Yale" & "Bull Dog" Cole Porter |
#1914, aired 1992-12-24 | STEPHEN FOSTER LYRICS $100: "It rained all night the day I left, the weather it was" this dry |
#1871, aired 1992-10-26 | SONG STANDARDS $600: "And its torment won't be through till you let me spend my life making love to you" then "Night And Day" |
#1858, aired 1992-10-07 | 7 WONDERS OF THE ANCIENT WORLD $1000: A fire burned day & night at the top of this ancient wonder the lighthouse at Alexandria |
#1852, aired 1992-09-29 | SAINTS $200: It is said during the day, Crispin & Crispinian preached the gospel; by night, they made these, like elves shoes |
#1844, aired 1992-09-17 | THEATER $600: "Long Day's Journey Into Night" had its world premiere in this country; King Gustav VI Adolf attended Sweden |
#1836, aired 1992-09-07 | MUSICAL THEATRE $500: Completes the title of the 1979 musical "A Day in Hollywood..." A Night in the Ukraine |
#1740, aired 1992-03-06 | THE BIBLE $200: God guided the Israelites out of this country with a pillar of cloud by day & of fire by night Egypt |
#1594, aired 1991-07-04 | ROCK LYRICS $100: "It's been a hard day's night and I've been working" like one of these a dog |
#1563, aired 1991-05-22 | PLAYS $200: The setting for Tom Stoppard's "Night and Day" is Kambawe, a fictional country on this continent Africa |
#1558, aired 1991-05-15 | ANATOMICAL QUOTES $400: Francis Bourdillon wrote, "The night has a thousand of" these "and the day, but one" Eyes |
#1483, aired 1991-01-30 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $400: If a senorita greets you by saying "Buenas tardes", she's wishing you this good afternoon |
#1418, aired 1990-10-31 | BIBLICAL QUOTES $800: The New Testament says "That the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in" this the night |
#1404, aired 1990-10-11 | REPTILES $300: While a nocturnal reptile is active at night, this type is active during the day diurnal |
#1392, aired 1990-09-25 | PLAYWRIGHTS $800: Act II of "A Day in Hollywood/ A Night in the Ukraine" was loosely based on this Russian's "The Bear" Anton Chekhov |
#12, aired 1990-09-01 | THE AMERICAN FLAG $400: You can fly the flag 24 hours a day, but if you fly it at night, you have to do this light it |
#1370, aired 1990-07-13 | AUTHORS $800: "Night and Day" was the second novel by this distaff member of the Bloomsbury Group Virginia Woolf |
#1343, aired 1990-06-06 | THE BEATLES $200: This 1964 film is a fictional account of 2 days in the life of The Beatles A Hard Day's Night |
#1303, aired 1990-04-11 | DRAMA $200: Eugene O'Neill wrote about a "Long Day's Journey into" this Night |
#1227, aired 1989-12-26 | "BABY" SONGS $500 (Daily Double): A No. 12 hit in 1976, it reached No. 1 in 1988 as part of a melody:
"Shadows grow so long before my eyes, and they're moving, across the stage, suddenly, the day turns into night..." "Baby, I Love Your Way" |
#1225, aired 1989-12-22 | SUBSTITUTE SANTAS $500: In Italy children get their gifts from an old woman named Befana on this January 6 feast day the Epiphany (Twelfth Night) |
#1224, aired 1989-12-21 | POTPOURRI $1000: The word that completes the title of the musical "A Day in Hollywood / A Night in the..." Ukraine |
#1182, aired 1989-10-24 | PHYSICAL SCIENCE $300: When equinoxes occur, these 2 are of equal length day & night |
#1172, aired 1989-10-10 | ANTONYMS $600: Antonymically speaking, this classic soap opera becomes "The Center of Day" "The Edge of Night" |
#1106, aired 1989-05-29 | STEPHEN FOSTER LYRICS $300: "It rained all night the day I left, the weather it was dry; the sun so hot I" did this froze to death |
#1068, aired 1989-04-05 | ANIMAL TRIVIA $500 (Daily Double): It spends the day almost completely submerged in water & comes out at night to graze hippopotamus |
#1037, aired 1989-02-21 | NATIONAL SYMBOLS $300: All day, all night, she's the personification of the French Republic & is now modeled on C. Deneuve Marianne |
#952, aired 1988-10-25 | BROADWAY MUSICALS $500 (Daily Double): This Cole Porter show about a shipwreck was rewritten after the Morro Castle disaster:
"The world has gone mad today / And good's bad today / And black's white today / And day's night today / And most guys today / That women prize today / Are just silly gigolos / And though I'm not a great romancer / I know that I'm bound to answer / When you propose..." Anything Goes |
#837, aired 1988-04-05 | THE BEATLES $200: Alphabetically 1st of films featuring the Beatles, it was also their 1st film A Hard Day's Night |
#814, aired 1988-03-03 | FLOWERS $100: From Old English for "day's eye", this flower opens anew each morning & closes again at night the daisy |
#778, aired 1988-01-13 | THE ARTIST OF RECORD $800: A Night at the Opera,
A Day at the Races,
Live Killers Queen |
#754, aired 1987-12-10 | "ANGEL"IC SONGS $500 (Daily Double): Only Billboard Top 40 hit for Alan O'Day, it climbed all the way to No. 1:
"Cryin' on my pillow, lonely in my bed /
Then I heard a voice beside me, and she softly said /
Wonder is your night light, magic is your dream..." "Undercover Angel" |
#725, aired 1987-10-30 | INSECTS $200: While most butterflies fly during the day, these, their closest relatives, tend to fly at night moths |
#716, aired 1987-10-19 | REPTILES $800: For most reptiles active at night, they're slit-shaped, for most active during the day, round pupils |
#702, aired 1987-09-29 | "MOORE" OR "LES" $500: Film director who "Help"ed the Beatles through "A Hard Day's Night" Richard Lester |
#700, aired 1987-09-25 | REMBRANDT $800: By the 18th c., his 1642 portrait of civic guards had been so darkened by dirt, it got this name The Night Watch |
#669, aired 1987-07-02 | MUSICAL INTROS $400: Like the beat beat beat of the tom-tom/ When the jungle shadows fall "Night and Day" |
#630, aired 1987-05-08 | ANAGRAMS $200: It's just the thing to follow day night (from thing) |
#600, aired 1987-03-27 | NOVEL PLOTS $300: A London physician discovers he's as different as night & day Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde |
#590, aired 1987-03-13 | BIRDS $100: Incubation among these huge flightless birds is done by females during the day & males at night ostriches |
#584, aired 1987-03-05 | "HARD" $600: Playing Paul's grandfather, Wilfrid Brambell was continuously called "a clean old man" in this film A Hard Day's Night |
#580, aired 1987-02-27 | SCARY MOVIES $200: Director George Romero gave us their "Night" in 1968, their "Dawn" in '79, & their "Day" in '85 the Dead |
#521, aired 1986-12-08 | ANIMALS $100: Traveling during this part of day protects many migratory birds from birds of prey during the night |
#520, aired 1986-12-05 | PEOPLE $800 (Daily Double): In 1986, "A Taste of Honey" was one of their 1st 2 sanctioned albums to be released back in the U.S.S.R. the Beatles |
#517, aired 1986-12-02 | MOVIE DIRECTORS $500: He directed 4 rock 'n' rollers in "A Hard Day's Night" & 4 musketeers in "The 3 Musketeers" (Richard) Lester |
#515, aired 1986-11-28 | "BABY" TALK $500: Like some infants, these tree-hopping primates sleep all day & jump around all night a bush baby |
#402, aired 1986-03-25 | MUSICAL NIGHTS $500: Song title used by both Cole Porter & Dion & the Belmonts "In The Still Of The Night" |
#389, aired 1986-03-06 | FRANCOIS TRUFFAUT $800: This 1973 film about movie-making won a Best Foreign Film Oscar "Day For Night" |
#388, aired 1986-03-05 | THE BEATLES $200: Working title for film "A Hard Day's Night", it became title for an "incredible simulation" instead Beatlemania |
#385, aired 1986-02-28 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $200: R. L. Stevenson character(s) based on Deacon W. Brodie, paragon of virtue by day, thief by night Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde |
#368, aired 1986-02-05 | "CRY"ING SONGS $400: This Gerry & the Pacemakers 1964 hit suggests you should do you weeping at night "Don't Let The Sun Catch You Crying" |
#337, aired 1985-12-24 | THE BEATLES $100: Their 1st movie A Hard Day's Night |
#263, aired 1985-09-11 | 6-LETTER WORDS $500 (Daily Double): 6-letter word in the title of the following:
"Every single day /
Every word you say /
Every game you play /
Every night you stay /
I'll be watching you /
Oh, can't you see /
You belong to me?..." breath |
#170, aired 1985-05-03 | THE OSCARS $300: Both "Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow" & "Day for Night" won this Best Foreign Film |
#170, aired 1985-05-03 | BIOLOGY $1000: The body's circadian rhythms are based on this cycle the day/night rhythm |
#125, aired 1985-03-01 | BASEBALL $100: 2 games played the same day or night a doubleheader |
#117, aired 1985-02-19 | HAIR $500: In "A Hard Day's Night", what George Harrison called his hairdo Arthur |
#95, aired 1985-01-18 | MOVIE COMPOSERS $200: Played Cole Porter in "Night & Day" without once saying "Judy, Judy, Judy" Cary Grant |
#68, aired 1984-12-12 | "HARD" $500: Album & film featuring "Tell Me Why" & "You Can't Do That" A Hard Day's Night |
#66, aired 1984-12-10 | LITERATURE $1,000 (Daily Double): Vowel missing from entire 50,000 word text of Ernest Wright's "Gadsby"
"Gatsby was walking back from a visit down to Branton Hill's manufacturing district on a Saturday night. A busy day's traffic had had its noisy run; and with not many folks in sight, His Honor got along without having to stop to grasp a hand, or talk; for a mayor out of City Hall is a shining mark for any politician." the letter E |
#64, aired 1984-12-06 | BOTANY $400: Because like an eye, they close at night, the English first called these flowers "day's eyes" daisies |
#57, aired 1984-11-27 | DRAMA $1000: As he wished, the last play of Eugene O'Neill was produced after his death Long Day's Journey Into Night |
#48, aired 1984-11-14 | "DAY" TIME $800: Truffaut's movie about making a movie Day for Night |
#45, aired 1984-11-09 | HOLIDAYS $1,000 (Daily Double): Massachusetts Patriots Day commemorates event in this Longfellow poem:
"And yet, through the gloom and the light, / The fate of a nation was riding that night" Paul Revere's ride ("The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere") |
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Fred Beukema, a structural engineer from Minneapolis, Minnesota
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Season 25 3-time champion: $69,401 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Robert Knecht Schmidt, a patent agent from Cleveland, Ohio
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Season 26 1-time champion: $12,799 + $1,000. Middle name pronounced like...
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Suchita Shah, a senior from the University of Wisconsin-Madison
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2008 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 20 and from Holmen, WI...
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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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Larissa Charnsangavej, a senior from Rice University
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2009 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 21 and from Houston, Texas at...
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Melanie Baker-Streevy, a United Methodist pastor from Parma, Michigan
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Season 25 1-time champion: $26,900 + $1,000. Melanie Baker-Streevy - A...
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Gail Flemmons, a history teacher from Clinton, Mississippi
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Season 25 2-time champion: $46,399 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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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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Hans von Walter, a junior from Southern Adventist University from Avon Park, Florida
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2010-B College Championship 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $25,000 + a...
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Carl Brandt, an investor originally from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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2009 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 25 4-time champion: $70,799...
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Jason Pratt, a middle school history teacher from Woodbridge, Virginia
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Season 25 2-time champion: $32,701 + $1,000. Jason Pratt - A...
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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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David Hudson, a junior from the University of Virginia
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"His musical taste has changed since he won $10,000 on Kids...
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Greg Lichtenstein, a freshman from Vassar College
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2009 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 18 and from Plainview, New York...
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Andrew Chung, a sophomore from Harvey Mudd College
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2008 College Championship 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $25,000. 20 and...
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James Grant, a junior from Georgetown University
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2008 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 21 and from Manhattan Beach,...
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Kevin Wilson, a communications specialist from Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Season 26 3-time champion: $76,998 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Kori Tyler, a high school teacher from Cordova, Tennessee
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Season 26 player (2010-02-26). Season 25 1-time champion: $20,000 + $2,000....
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Elza Reeves, a bank teller from Louisville, Kentucky
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Season 25 1-time champion: $16,400 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Ben Bishop, a student originally from Seattle, Washington
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2009 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 25 4-time champion: $114,800...
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Eric Betts, a senior from Emory University
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2009 College Championship first runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $50,000. 21 and...
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Ryan Stoffers, a sophomore from UCLA
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2010-A College Championship 1st runner-up: $50,000. Hometown: Saratoga, California. Ryan Stoffers...
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Judy Mermelstein, a Census field representative from Queens, New York
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Season 25 1-time champion: $38,401 + $1,000. Judy also appeared on...
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Matt Jacobs, a science teacher originally from Stratford, Connecticut
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Season 25 1-time champion: $10,323 + $1,000. Matt resided in Silver...
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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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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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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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Carolyn Young, a homemaker from Marietta, Georgia
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Season 25 1-time champion: $30,000 + $2,000. Mother of Season 32...
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Justin 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Wolf Blitzer, a journalist from The Situation Room
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"Since 1990, he's covered every major story for CNN, including the...
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Tom Nissley, an online books editor from Seattle, Washington
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2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2011 Tournament of Champions...
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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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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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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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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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Lan Djang, a health policy analyst from Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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"He was a 5-time champion in 2001. Today he's a health...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Paul Kursky, a copywriter from San Francisco, California
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2011 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 5-time champion: $109,411...
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Susan Bellenot, a senior from Lakeview Terrace, California
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2003 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Amy Wilson, a creative writing and women's studies student originally from Portland, Oregon
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Season 26 1-time champion: $19,999 + $2,000. Not to be confused...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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