| #9034, aired 2024-02-08 | END OF STORY $1600: A dystopian first-person tale: "But you, O my brothers, remember sometimes thy little Alex that was. Amen. And all that cal" A Clockwork Orange |
| #9024, aired 2024-01-25 | ON MY HISTORIC CV $200: 1972: first tenured female faculty member, Columbia Law; 1993: nominated to Supreme Court to replace Byron White Ruth Bader Ginsburg |
| #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 | OBSCURE NOVELS $500: Her 1912 novel "Alexander's Bridge"? Not so famous. "O, Pioneers!" & "My Ántonia"? She's in the canon now Willa Cather |
| #25, aired 2024-01-16 | SPELLING BIZ $400: Bronies know this plaything debuted in 1983; you can't spell it without spelling...
_ _
_ _ T _ _ _
_ O _ Y My Little Pony |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | ANIMAL IDIOM BRAINTEASERS $600: Don't forget how many other single people are out there in the dating pool:
T.A.P.O.F.I.T.S. there are plenty of fish in the sea |
| #9008, aired 2024-01-03 | PAINT, BY NUMBERS $1200: Nature can be expensive! In 2014 "Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1" by this New Mexico woman went for $44.4 million Georgia O'Keeffe |
| #8991, aired 2023-12-11 | THE 7 DEADLY SIN-ONYMS $400: "O, beware, my lord, of" this synonym for envy jealousy |
| #21, aired 2023-11-29 | POEMS ABOUT POETRY $400: "O Captain! My Captain!", its words full of grief / Whitman's lament to this commander in chief Lincoln |
| #8971, aired 2023-11-13 | WHOSE LINE IS IT ANYWAY? $2000: In "My Favorite Year" he wails, "I'm not an actor, I'm a movie star!" Peter O'Toole |
| #18, aired 2023-10-25 | OLD POP MUSIC HAD SOME VOWELS: E-I-E-I-O $300: Christina Aguilera sings, "You gotta rub me the right way in this 1999 No. 1 hit
_ E _ I E / I _ / _ / _ O _ _ _ _ "Genie In A Bottle" |
| #18, aired 2023-10-25 | OLD POP MUSIC HAD SOME VOWELS: E-I-E-I-O $1200: Her 80s hits include "Only in My Dreams" & "Electric Youth"
_ E _ _ I E / _ I _ _ O _ Debbie Gibson |
| #8924, aired 2023-07-27 | BOOKS OF THE OLD TESTAMENT $400: One of the 2 middle verses of the King James Bible is this book 103:2, "Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits" Psalms |
| #8870, aired 2023-05-12 | HYMNS & SPIRITUALS $2000: Asking for comfort & guidance, do this, "fast falls the eventide", "in life, in death, O Lord" do this abide with me |
| #8834, aired 2023-03-23 | THE LINCOLN HIGHWAY $2000: (Amor Towles presents the clue.) The setting for my novel's first chapter & also for Willa Cather's "O Pioneers!", where I got my epigraph, is in this state, which happens to be the midpoint of the Lincoln Highway Nebraska |
| #8822, aired 2023-03-07 | ALLITERATIVE AUTHORS $400: This American poet wrote, "O captain! My captain! Our fearful trip is done" (Walt) Whitman |
| #8784, aired 2023-01-12 | THE SPEAKER IN SHAKESPEARE $1200: "O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; it is the green-eyed monster" Iago |
| #10, aired 2023-01-12 | O CANADA $900: (Mattea Roach presents the clue.) Did you forget about me, Mr. Duplicity? I hope not, as "you oughtta know" this Ontario-born singer who had one of the biggest albums of the 1990s Alanis Morissette |
| #10, aired 2023-01-12 | O CANADA $1200: (Mattea Roach presents the clue.) Saying that is belonged to the world & not to him, Frederick Banting wanted diabetics to be able to afford this hormone he helped extract in 1921; he sold his patent to my alma mater the University of Toronto for $1 insulin |
| #8724, aired 2022-10-20 | POETS & POETRY $1600: He wrote, "O my luve's like a red, red rose that's newly sprung in June" Rabbie Burns |
| #8715, aired 2022-10-07 | "O" MY $200: As a verb, it means to leak out slowly; as a noun, it's the mudlike sediment on the floor of oceans & lakes ooze |
| #8715, aired 2022-10-07 | "O" MY $400: Something with a lot of oomph can be described as "high" this, a word associated with gasoline octane |
| #8715, aired 2022-10-07 | "O" MY $600: It can mean not transparent to light or obscure in meaning opaque |
| #8715, aired 2022-10-07 | "O" MY $800: This simple acoustic interval is made up of 8 diatonic degrees an octave |
| #8715, aired 2022-10-07 | "O" MY $1000: Bones develop through a process called osteogenesis or this word with the same first 2 letters ossification |
| #8706, aired 2022-09-26 | SHAKESPEARE'S KINGS & QUEENS $1600: "O, my dear Hamlet!" cries this queen, who dies after drinking from a poisoned cup intended for her son Gertrude |
| #8703, aired 2022-09-21 | 2 BOOKS IN 1 $1200: "O Ántonia" O Pioneers! & My Ántonia |
| #8681, aired 2022-07-11 | CHEERY-"O" $800: Shakespeare wrote, "Why, then the world's" my this "which I with sword will open"; hopeful indeed! oyster |
| #8605, aired 2022-03-25 | HISTORY'S MISTER "E"s $800: Director John Ford said he based the gunfight at the O.K. Corral in "My Darling Clementine" on this man's recollections Wyatt Earp |
| #8592, aired 2022-03-08 | POETRY FILL IN THE BLANK $400: Whitman: "Exult O shores, and ring O bells! But I with mournful tread, walk the deck my ____ lies, fallen cold and dead" my Captain |
| #8585, aired 2022-02-25 | LAST LINE OF A SHAKESPEARE ACT $200: Act II of this play ends, "My Regan counsels well; come out o' the storm" King Lear |
| #8546, aired 2022-01-03 | AMERICAN POETRY $400: His 1865 poem "O Captain! My Captain!" paid homage to President Lincoln, "fallen cold and dead" Whitman |
| #8546, aired 2022-01-03 | BILLBOARD TOP 200 ALBUMS IN 2021 $800: This R&B w.o.m.a.n. was far from the "Back of My Mind" & close to the top of the chart H.E.R. |
| #8524, aired 2021-12-02 | LET THERE BE ART & MUSIC $400: Pavarotti took this Neapolitan song whose title means "my own sun" to new heights "'O Sole Mio" |
| #8524, aired 2021-12-02 | FROM THE GREEK $800: "O, beware, my lord, of" this! From the Greek for "zeal" jealousy |
| #8387, aired 2021-04-27 | LET'S PLAY COWBOYS $2000: The John Ford classic "My Darling Clementine" is a fictionalized account of this bloody 1881 encounter the shootout at the O.K. Corral |
| #8386, aired 2021-04-26 | AT THE MOVIES $800: Her, as the bride: "So, O-Ren... any more subordinates for me to kill?" Uma Thurman |
| #8372, aired 2021-04-06 | BEFORE & BAFTA $4,000 (Daily Double): Zombies from an AMC drama stand on desks & moan, "O Captain! My Captain!" to Robin Williams The Walking Dead Poets Society |
| #8301, aired 2020-12-14 | SEZ YOU, SHAKESPEARE! $600: "The potent poison quite o'ercrows my spirit. I cannot live to hear the news from England" (& a few words later, he's correct) Hamlet |
| #8301, aired 2020-12-14 | SEZ YOU, SHAKESPEARE! $800: "What, will these hands ne'er be clean? No more O' that, my lord, no more O' that. You mar all with this starting" Lady Macbeth |
| #8298, aired 2020-12-09 | KEN JENNINGS KNOWS THE G.O.A.T. (GREATEST OF ALL TIME) $600: (Ken Jennings presents the clue.) This writer once said his first book wasn’t an important novel, but it ranks among the great ones, & its line, “I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me” is among the most haunting of the 20th century Ralph Ellison |
| #8298, aired 2020-12-09 | KEN JENNINGS KNOWS THE G.O.A.T. (GREATEST OF ALL TIME) $1000: (Ken Jennings presents the clue.) Even with his 1997 loss to Deep Blue, an IBM computer (I know how that feels), this Soviet-born chess master ranks as probably the greatest player of all time--though for my money, his Sicilian defense got a bit predictable Kasparov |
| #8252, aired 2020-10-06 | KEN JENNINGS KNOWS MOUNTAIN G.O.A.T.s $200: (Ken Jennings presents the clue.) One of the first two men to summit Everest and a part of my personal Mount Rushmore of all-time climbers, he also tractored to the South Pole five years later in 1958 Edmund Hillary |
| #8252, aired 2020-10-06 | KEN JENNINGS KNOWS MOUNTAIN G.O.A.T.s $600: (Ken Jennings presents the clue.) Though the Freerider route takes most people four days, it took Alex Honnold about four hours, ropeless and using some holds the width of a pencil, to climb El Capitan in this national park Yosemite |
| #8248, aired 2020-09-30 | FLOWERS ON THE WALL $3,000 (Daily Double): This woman said, "I'll paint what I see--what the flower is to me, but -I'll paint it big" Georgia O'Keeffe |
| #8229, aired 2020-06-04 | SUMMER READING $400: During WWII, a Jewish girl protects an escaped P.O.W. in Bette Greene's Y.A. novel "Summer of My" this nationality "Soldier" German |
| #8186, aired 2020-03-23 | THAT'S A RED LINE $400: Robert Burns exulted, "O my luve's like a red, red" this a rose |
| #8153, aired 2020-02-05 | STATE SONGS $600: Maryland's state song "Maryland, My Maryland" is sung to the tune of this Christmas song "O Tannenbaum" |
| #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 |
| #8, aired 2020-01-14 | SURPRISE ME, TREBEK $800: (Conan O'Brien delivers the clue.) 2 of you contestants will love this: the supercomputer Watson come on my show & irritated this sidekick so much, he took Watson to the roof & threw it off Andy Richter |
| #5, aired 2020-01-09 | COMEDIANS $200: (Conan O'Brien delivers the clue.) Strange but true: this comedian from Worcester, Massachusetts is my cousin, & when he came on my show he told me he's often mistaken for other celebrities, like Willem Dafoe & Jane Lynch Denis Leary |
| #8100, aired 2019-11-22 | YELL "O" $600: Someday you may find me by a well or spring at this small green area in a desert an oasis |
| #8092, aired 2019-11-12 | HAIL, CAESAR! $400: The character King Kaiser is based on Sid Caesar in this 1982 Peter O'Toole film set in the world of 1950s TV My Favorite Year |
| #8092, aired 2019-11-12 | DON'T FORGET THE LYRICS $800: "No no no no no, oo-eee-hoo, I'll tell you once more, before I get off the floor", this E.L.O. title "Don't Bring Me Down" |
| #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 |
| #8051, aired 2019-09-16 | 200 YEARS OF WALT WHITMAN $400: Whitman's 1865 poems "O Captain! My Captain!" & "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" are elegies for this hero of his Lincoln |
| #8037, aired 2019-07-16 | O CAPTAIN! MY CAPTAIN! $400: You'd think after 56 years, there'd be a premium version of this cereal where its mascot gets his long-deserved admiral promotion Cap'n Crunch |
| #8037, aired 2019-07-16 | O CAPTAIN! MY CAPTAIN! $600: J.M. Barrie wrote that this pirate was "cadaverous...his hair dressed in long curls which look like black candles about to melt" Captain Hook |
| #8037, aired 2019-07-16 | O CAPTAIN! MY CAPTAIN! $800: Valentine's Day in Hawaii sounds perfect for most, but in 1779, this captain was killed in a dispute over a stolen cutter Captain Cook |
| #8037, aired 2019-07-16 | O CAPTAIN! MY CAPTAIN! $1000: The 2003 novel "Gilligan's Wake" gives this TV character a backstory as a WWII PT boat captain hanging with JFK the Skipper |
| #8026, aired 2019-07-01 | WHIPS & CHAINS $200: Me-ouch! It's the implement seen here cat o' nine tails |
| #7800, aired 2018-07-06 | SCENE OF THE RHYME $600: The Pretenders' "My City Was Gone" rhymes "malls" with Cuayhoga Falls & "A-O-way to go" with this state Ohio |
| #7789, aired 2018-06-21 | WHO HAS MY LETTER? $600: In Irish family names, this prefix means "descendant" O |
| #7778, aired 2018-06-06 | CALL ME BY YOUR NAME $200: That's neat-o keen:
____-dandy jim-dandy |
| #7761, aired 2018-05-14 | DEAD POETS' SOCIETY $400: Abraham Lincoln lies "fallen cold and dead" in his poem "O Captain! My Captain!" Walt Whitman |
| #7752, aired 2018-05-01 | TAKE MY MONEY! $200: If your order is C.O.D., you pay at the time of this "D" delivery |
| #7665, aired 2017-12-29 | HERE'S THE NAKED TRUTH $2000: "O" my, said viewers at the Salon of 1865 on seeing this very un-romanticized nude by Manet Olympia |
| #7624, aired 2017-11-02 | ENTERTAINMENT TONIGHT TRAVELS THROUGH TIME $600: (Nancy O'Dell and Kevin Frazier of Entertainment Tonight present the clue.)
(Kevin) It's November 21, 1980, with an actors' strike pushing the TV season back, it's been 8 months since we saw this character get shot
(Nancy) Tonight, 80 million viewers around the country will finally find out who done it--
(Kevin) My money's on the sister-in-law J.R. |
| #7580, aired 2017-07-21 | BANG THAT TAMBOURINE! $2000: "It took me so-o-o long to find out" about the tambourine on this 1965 hit "Day Tripper" |
| #7570, aired 2017-07-07 | MO-POURRI $800: In "Black's Law Dictionary", M.O. stands for this Latin phrase modus operandi |
| #7548, aired 2017-06-07 | THE NAISMITH MEMORIAL BASKETBALL HALL OF FAME $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, MA.) I wear a size 10 shoe; the largest shoe in the hall of fame, a size 23, belonged to this man who broke into the NBA with Orlando in 1992 Shaquille O'Neal |
| #7542, aired 2017-05-30 | LYRICAL SPELLING BEE $400: ABBA sang, "Nothing else can save me" then this distress signal S.O.S. |
| #7427, aired 2016-12-20 | STANDING "O" $400: I wouldn't mind sitting like other members of this group, but I guess nobody made me take up the xylophone the orchestra |
| #7427, aired 2016-12-20 | STANDING "O" $600: Defending my client, I stand in court & shout this word to let the judge know I disapprove, procedurally objection |
| #7427, aired 2016-12-20 | STANDING "O" $800: As part of this type of training with my unruly whippet, I have to stand & call his name over & over obedience training |
| #7420, aired 2016-12-09 | THE BIBLE $600: The 26th of these biblical poems begins, "Judge me, O Lord; for I have walked in mine integrity" Psalms |
| #7380, aired 2016-10-14 | DOUBLE Y-ed $200: This international radio distress signal used by ships & aircraft comes from the French for "help me" mayday |
| #7380, aired 2016-10-14 | BARTLETT'S FAMILIAL QUOTATIONS $1,500 (Daily Double): Bartlett's cites the lines "O my prophetic soul! My uncle!" from this Shakespeare play Hamlet |
| #7362, aired 2016-09-20 | A WHITMAN SAMPLER $400: In a eulogy for Lincoln: "O ____! My ____! Our fearful trip is done" captain |
| #7360, aired 2016-09-16 | MY NAME IS PRINCE $600: This Irish lass' No. 1 hit "Nothing Compares 2 U" was written by Prince Sinead O'Connor |
| #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 |
| #7330, aired 2016-06-24 | HUGE TRACTS "O" LAND $400: There were 66 sq. mi. less o' land when the Grand Lake o' the Cherokees was created in 1940 in this state Oklahoma |
| #7316, aired 2016-06-06 | CANADIANA $800: (I'm Kevin O'Leary of Shark Tank.) A free market guy like me & this public TV network in Canada: it couldn't last forever, so in 2014 I left the show "Dragons' Den" after an 8-year run the CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) |
| #7254, aired 2016-03-10 | WALT WHITMAN $2,000 (Daily Double): Whitman paid homage to this man, "fallen cold and dead" in his poem "O Captain! My Captain!" Lincoln |
| #7224, aired 2016-01-28 | "O" IN LITERATURE $2,000 (Daily Double): This tale includes the line "Fish, you are going to have to die anyway. Do you have to kill me too?" The Old Man and the Sea |
| #7210, aired 2016-01-08 | THE NEW YORK TIMES: MOVIES $200: (New York Times film critic A.O. Scott delivers the clue.) When I reviewed "Despicable Me", I referred to these supporting characters as "industrious little doodads" that look like "extra-strength pain-reliever capsules with eyes and limbs" minions |
| #7210, aired 2016-01-08 | THE NEW YORK TIMES: MOVIES $1000: (New York Times film critic A.O. Scott delivers the clue.) My review of this film starring Oscar winner J.K. Simmons & Miles Teller was titled "Drill Sergeant in the Music Room" Whiplash |
| #7190, aired 2015-12-11 | A 3-D CATEGORY $400: (I'm Kevin O'Leary of Shark Tank.) One of the main investment areas for my O'Leary Funds is blue-chip stocks that pay out these; why not get paid while you wait! dividends |
| #7190, aired 2015-12-11 | SHAKESPEARE'S WOMEN SPEAK $2000: "O, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown!... O, woe is me! To have seen what I have seen, see what I see!" Ophelia |
| #7152, aired 2015-10-20 | HYMNS $1600: "When other helpers fail and comforts flee, help of the helpless, O" do this abide with me |
| #7147, aired 2015-10-13 | NEW ENGLAND $400: (I'm Kevin O'Leary of Shark Tank.) In the '90s I made millions from selling software in my headquarters in this university city, part of the East Coast version of Silicon Valley Cambridge, Massachusetts |
| #7116, aired 2015-07-20 | AMERICAN LIT $400: Thunderhead is the title horse in Mary O'Hara's follow-up to "My Friend" her Flicka |
| #7114, aired 2015-07-16 | BIBLE BELTS $400: Par-tay! "Song of" him says, "I have drunk my wine with my milk: eat, O friends; drink, yea, drink abundantly" Solomon |
| #7090, aired 2015-06-12 | A RIVER RUNS THROUGH THE BOOK $400: It's "over" or "on" in the title of this Pierre Boulle WWII novel about a Japanese attempt to get a train route in Burma Bridge over the River Kwai (or Bridge on the River Kwai) |
| #7027, aired 2015-03-17 | STAR-CHITECTS $1600: My architect has a first name, it's O-S-C-A-R; he also has this last name, and designed Brazil's Congress building Niemeyer |
| #7009, aired 2015-02-19 | SCIENCE FICTION $400: (I'm Elon Musk, C.E.O. of Spacex) My belief in the importance of space travel & planetary colonization for the survival of the human species was influenced in part by the epic depiction of the rise & fall of civilizations in this author's "Foundation" series Isaac Asimov |
| #7000, aired 2015-02-06 | BAD POETRY ABOUT POETS $800: Nursing in the Civil War / Was unlike what I did before / I wrote of "my captain" Lincoln / O the tears back I was blinkin' (Walt) Whitman |
| #6998, aired 2015-02-04 | YOUR TV CHARACTER IS DEAD TO ME $2000: T.R. Knight's Dr. George O'Malley was pulseless in Seattle after getting bussed off this long-running drama Grey's Anatomy |
| #6997, aired 2015-02-03 | QUOTABLE PLAYS $400: From Shakespeare: "Kiss me, Kate, we will be married o' Sunday" The Taming of the Shrew |
| #6979, aired 2015-01-08 | THAT'S MY WIFE $1000: Adam Brody of "The O.C.":
This "Gossip Girl" girl Leighton Meester |
| #6952, aired 2014-12-02 | SPELL IT OUT FOR ME $200: This gaming console that comes in PS4 & PS Vita models P-L-A-Y-S-T-A-T-I-O-N |
| #6952, aired 2014-12-02 | SPELL IT OUT FOR ME $600: This title monster who squares off with the MUTOs in a 2014 film G-O-D-Z-I-L-L-A |
| #6952, aired 2014-12-02 | SPELL IT OUT FOR ME $800: This Olympic sport that consists of 10 track & field events D-E-C-A-T-H-L-O-N |
| #6952, aired 2014-12-02 | SPELL IT OUT FOR ME $1000: This dinosaur also known as Brontosaurus A-P-A-T-O-S-A-U-R-U-S |
| #6920, aired 2014-10-17 | O CAPTAIN! MY LITERATURE CAPTAIN! $800: Captain First Rank Marko Ramius ordered a sub to go (defect) in this Tom Clancy novel The Hunt for Red October |
| #6920, aired 2014-10-17 | O CAPTAIN! MY LITERATURE CAPTAIN! $1600: This 1870 sci-fi captain claimed the South Pole with an appropriate flag Captain Nemo |
| #6920, aired 2014-10-17 | O CAPTAIN! MY LITERATURE CAPTAIN! $2000: Captain Jack Aubrey & surgeon Stephen Maturin first set sail in 1969 in this Patrick O'Brian novel Master and Commander |
| #6920, aired 2014-10-17 | O CAPTAIN! MY LITERATURE CAPTAIN! $4,000 (Daily Double): He "went content to the crocodile"; instead of "Bad form", his last words should have been "Here's seconds!" Captain Hook |
| #6893, aired 2014-07-30 | POP CULTURE $1000: It's the group heard here
"So let me ho-o-o-o-ld / Both your hands / In the holes of my sweater" The Neighbourhood |
| #6854, aired 2014-06-05 | PUTTING THE HAM IN HAMLET $800: "No, no, the drink, the drink--O my dear Hamlet--the drink, the drink! I am poisoned!" Gertrude |
| #6846, aired 2014-05-26 | SUPER-HEAR-O $1600: The Man of Steel isn't such a fan, but other superheroes think this 3 Doors Down song has real substance
"If I go crazy, then you can call me Superman" "Kryptonite" |
| #6824, aired 2014-04-24 | STATE OF THE ART $800: Georgia O'Keeffe's "My Backyard", painted in 1937 New Mexico |
| #6768, aired 2014-02-05 | CINEMA OF MY YOUTH $800: William Holden's acceptance speech upon winning the Oscar for playing a P.O.W. in this film was a terse "Thank you" Stalag 17 |
| #6768, aired 2014-02-05 | CINEMA OF MY YOUTH $1600: This actress was a frequent presence in the films of John Ford Maureen O'Hara |
| #6758, aired 2014-01-22 | CLEAN UP YOUR ACT $1000: Act of ____:
"O my God, I am heartily sorry" an act of contrition |
| #6752, aired 2014-01-14 | U.S. GOVERNMENT $800: (Former Justice of the Supreme Court Sandra Day O'Connor gives the clue.) In 1925 Harlan Fiske Stone became the first nominee to personally go before this group; in 1981 I was relieved when Bob Dole told me I was among friends there the Senate Judiciary Committee |
| #6707, aired 2013-11-12 | THE RACE IS TO THE STRONG $1000: The brutal Barkley Marathons came to be after news of this assassin covering only 8 mi. after fleeing a Tenn. prison in 1977 James Earl Ray |
| #6699, aired 2013-10-31 | FRANKLY, MY DEAR $800: P.J. O'Rourke said this -ism was "the result of... women letting the cat out of the bag about which is the superior sex" feminism |
| #6698, aired 2013-10-30 | THE NEW YORK TIMES MOVIE REVIEWS $1600: (A.O. Scott presents the clue.) I can sum up this animated Disney delight, one of my Critics' Picks of 2010, by saying, "Back to the castle, where it's all about the hair" Tangled |
| #6694, aired 2013-10-24 | WHAT'S ON YOUR iPOD? $600: (I'm Kelly O'Donnell of NBC News.) Sometimes I like to go country on my iPod, listening to this trio whose hits include "Here Comes Goodbye" & "Life Is a Highway" Rascal Flatts |
| #6658, aired 2013-07-24 | RECENTLY UNEARTHED CIVIL WAR LETTERS? $1000: O fair Lulubelle, my pancreas lies somewhere in S.C. but its islets of this, whose beta cells make insulin, live in my mem'ry Langerhans |
| #6644, aired 2013-07-04 | WHAT'S ON YOUR iPOD? $800: (CNN correspondent Lizzie O'Leary delivers the clue.) I'm having a flashback to my high school days lately, listening to the hip-hop trio known as "A Tribe Called" this Quest |
| #6638, aired 2013-06-26 | RED ALERT $400: Burns wrote, "O, my luve's like a red, red rose that's newly sprung in" this month June |
| #6633, aired 2013-06-19 | BLANK VERSE $800: "O ___! My ___! Our fearful trip is done" captain |
| #6624, aired 2013-06-06 | BODY QUOTES $200: "O, Susanna! O, don't you cry for me, I've come from Alabama with my" this banjo on my knee |
| #6609, aired 2013-05-16 | CLASSIC TOYS $800: This Wham-O product is made of compressed "zectron"; drop it from 10 feet & it'll bounce 9 feet high Super Ball |
| #6588, aired 2013-04-17 | DR. SEUSS ON THE 11 O'CLOCK NEWS $800: A big scare "on the far-away island of Sala-ma-Sond" today, as this "king of the pond" fell & nearly became a shell of himself Yertle the Turtle |
| #6578, aired 2013-04-03 | POET, KNOW IT $400: "Farewell the glen sae bushy, O! Farewell the plain sae rashy, O! To other lands I now must go, To sing my highland lassie, O" Robert Burns |
| #6567, aired 2013-03-19 | RETIRED $600: 2012 was not "My Favorite Year" once it brought the retirement of this British acting legend at age 79 Peter O'Toole |
| #6562, aired 2013-03-12 | TAKE ME OUT TO THE BASEBALL MOVIE $600: The ace pitcher on a boys' Little League team is a girl (Tatum O'Neal) in this comedy from 1976 The Bad News Bears |
| #6558, aired 2013-03-06 | QUOTES FILLED WITH BOOZE $1200: This poet wrote, "Go fetch to me a pint o' wine... that I may drink, before I go, a service to my bonnie lassie" (Rabbie) Burns |
| #6551, aired 2013-02-25 | VARIETY SLANGUAGE $400: Abbreviated B.O., it can be boffo, socko or even whammo box office |
| #6542, aired 2013-02-12 | AMERICAN LIT $2000: She wrote a couple of famous "teen" novels, "O Pioneers!" from 1913 & "My Antonia" from 1918 Willa Cather |
| #6512, aired 2013-01-01 | KINDLY CORRECT NIGEL'S SPELLING $1000: You will aggravate our quarrel if you persist in failing to recognise my authority R-E-C-O-G-N-I-Z-E |
| #6500, aired 2012-12-14 | ADVENTURES IN JOURNALISM $800: (I'm CNN Correspondant Lizzie O'Leary.) My favorite question to ask is "How much are you paid?"--I get great responses or non-responses, as when I asked Kenneth Feinberg, head of the Gulf Coast Claims Fund paid out by this oil company BP |
| #6475, aired 2012-11-09 | TEACHERS IN THE MOVIES $800: O Captain!
My Captain!
He played English teacher John Keating in "Dead Poets Society" Robin Williams |
| #6470, aired 2012-11-02 | CROSBY $1000: Crosby won a 1944 Oscar for his role as singing priest Father O'Malley in this film Going My Way |
| #6414, aired 2012-07-05 | "O" MY $400: In other words, a Pollyanna an optimist |
| #6414, aired 2012-07-05 | "O" MY $800: Said of god, it means almighty & all-powerful omnipotent |
| #6414, aired 2012-07-05 | "O" MY $1200: It means to shun, snub or exclude from a group ostracize |
| #6414, aired 2012-07-05 | "O" MY $1600: The process by which bones are formed & people's ideas become inflexible is called this 12-letter word ossification |
| #6414, aired 2012-07-05 | "O" MY $2,000 (Daily Double): In math, it's 1/8 of a circle or a 45-degree angle; it's also an instrument for measuring angles an octant |
| #6400, aired 2012-06-15 | OPERA LOVERS $800: "I Got Plenty O' Nuttin'" & "Oh Lawd, I'm On My Way" are arias in the opera about this title couple Porgy & Bess |
| #6396, aired 2012-06-11 | I DON'T KNOW YOU FROM ADAMS $1600: Ansel Adams' 1937 portrait of this painter told me nothing new about her Georgia O'Keeffe |
| #6372, aired 2012-05-08 | WHO WROTE THE LINE? $800: "Tell me, O muse, of that ingenious hero who traveled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy" Homer |
| #6269, aired 2011-12-15 | BURNS, BABY, BURNS $800: Finish the burns line: "Give me a spark O' nature's fire! / that's a' the learning I..." "desire" |
| #6215, aired 2011-09-30 | EXPLOSIVE MUSIC $2000: It's the "explosive" name of the Taio Cruz hit heard here
"I throw my hands up in the air sometimes /
Saying ay-o /
Gotta let go /
I wanna celebrate..." "Dynamite" |
| #6165, aired 2011-06-03 | JERSEY SURE $1600: New Jersey said sure, so the Camden home of this "O Captain! My Captain!" poet is a state historic site Whitman |
| #6147, aired 2011-05-10 | O POURI $600: Oprah was an executive producer of this 2009 film that earned Mo'nique an Oscar Precious |
| #6147, aired 2011-05-10 | O POURI $1000: (Oprah sits in her usual chair.) This autobiography by Maya Angelou was the first book I ever read that made me feel my life as a colored girl growing up in Mississippi deserved validation I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings |
| #6144, aired 2011-05-05 | POLITICIANS MAKE ME CUSS $1000: South Carolina legislator John "O'Goshen!" land |
| #6120, aired 2011-04-01 | BIBLICAL WHO SAID IT? $800: "O my son Absalom, o Absalom, my son, my son!" King David |
| #6120, aired 2011-04-01 | PIRATE HAIKU--"AR" $2000: O! Greek hunt goddess /
No wench ye be, fair maiden /
Save me from the plank Artemis |
| #6113, aired 2011-03-23 | MY PRESIDENTIAL FANTASY DRAFT $2000: His O-LZT (out-living Zachary Taylor) looms large but I worry about his short pres. career of only 32 months (Millard) Fillmore |
| #5958, aired 2010-07-07 | SPELL IT OUT FOR ME $400: The element we need to breathe to survive O-X-Y-G-E-N |
| #5958, aired 2010-07-07 | SPELL IT OUT FOR ME $800: The written note from a doctor to a pharmacist telling what medicine you need P-R-E-S-C-R-I-P-T-I-O-N |
| #5942, aired 2010-06-15 | WHAT'S ON YOUR iPOD? $1600: (I'm Soledad O'Brien.) My iPod is rarely without this Motown man who performed "Never Dreamed You'd Leave In Summer" at Michael Jackson's memorial Stevie Wonder |
| #5897, aired 2010-04-13 | ONE O, THEN 2 O's $200: All rise! Don't judge me, but it's where a law judge judges courtroom |
| #5891, aired 2010-04-05 | COMPLETES THE POETIC LINE $1200: "But O heart! heart! heart! O the bleeding drops of red, where on the deck my captain lies, fallen cold and ____" dead |
| #5867, aired 2010-03-02 | NAME THE SHAKESPEARE PLAY $2000: "I am all the subjects that you have... here you sty me, in this hard rock, whiles you do keep from me the rest o' the island" The Tempest |
| #5859, aired 2010-02-18 | CHEERY "O"s $1000: This type of "phile" is a lover of wines, like me an oenophile |
| #5854, aired 2010-02-11 | "UO" ME! $2000: Do not deny him or refuse his name, it's John Bartlett's "familiar" specialty quotations |
| #5844, aired 2010-01-28 | KIDDY LIT $1000: "Thunderhead" was a sequel to this 1941 Mary O'Hara novel about Ken McLaughlin and his colt My Friend Flicka |
| #5805, aired 2009-12-04 | MY SPACE $800: O-type stars are hot, massive blue stars that radiate strongly in this part of the spectrum from 10 to 400 nanometers ultraviolet |
| #5802, aired 2009-12-01 | THAT'S WHAT SHE SAID $3,600 (Daily Double): "I'll paint (the flower) big and they'll be surprised into taking time to look at it" Georgia O'Keeffe |
| #5754, aired 2009-09-24 | YE OLDE JOBBE FAIRE $1200: Day-O! This job was for those who secured payments for goods on credit, like bananas maybe tallyman |
| #5734, aired 2009-07-09 | CITY SPELLING $1000: Pardon me, boy, but this city is on the Moccasin Bend of the Tennessee River C-H-A-T-T-A-N-O-O-G-A |
| #5733, aired 2009-07-08 | GET OUTTA MY DREAMS $600: My desire to buy a near-vowelless animal would come true with no A, E, I, O or U in this wildcat; down, kitty! a lynx |
| #5724, aired 2009-06-25 | SHAKESPEARE QUOTES $400: "Kiss me, Kate, we will be married o' Sunday" The Taming of the Shrew |
| #5706, aired 2009-06-01 | ABBREVIATED LINES OF POETRY $2000: "I am the master of my fate;"
I.A.T.C.O.M.S. I am the captain of my soul |
| #5683, aired 2009-04-29 | NAME THE SHAKESPEARE PLAY $400: "O, beware, my lord, of jealousy" Othello |
| #5676, aired 2009-04-20 | FILL IN THE SONG TITLE $2000: Taylor Swift:
"T.O.M.G." "Teardrops On My Guitar" |
| #5665, aired 2009-04-03 | BANANARAMA $600: "Daylight come and me wan' go home" is the last line of this song, also known as "Day-O" "The Banana Boat Song" |
| #5583, aired 2008-12-10 | ABBA LYRICS $2000: "So when you're near me, darling can't you hear me…" this S.O.S. |
| #5564, aired 2008-11-13 | YOU CAN QUOTE ME ON THAT $800 (Daily Double): This author concluded a famous novel with the line "After all, tomorrow is another day" Margaret Mitchell |
| #5544, aired 2008-10-16 | O CAPTAIN, MY CAPTAIN $200: On Oct. 28, 1492 this captain was in the Bay of Bariay off Cuba & not near the Asian mainland Columbus |
| #5544, aired 2008-10-16 | O CAPTAIN, MY POP CULTURE CAPTAIN $400: He earned his commission as a kids' show host on CBS from 1955 to 1985 Captain Kangaroo |
| #5544, aired 2008-10-16 | O CAPTAIN, MY CAPTAIN $400: In 674 King Charles II made this captain the lt. governor of Jamaica: raise a glass of his rum to that Captain Morgan |
| #5544, aired 2008-10-16 | O CAPTAIN, MY CAPTAIN $600: The "news" is that a Virginia city bears the name of this captain who brought over the Jamestown colonists (Christopher) Newport |
| #5544, aired 2008-10-16 | O CAPTAIN, MY POP CULTURE CAPTAIN $800: Love has kept this pop singing duo together since their 1975 wedding the Captain & Tennille |
| #5544, aired 2008-10-16 | O CAPTAIN, MY CAPTAIN $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1610 he set sail on his ship the Discovery; a strait & bay would later be named for him Henry Hudson |
| #5544, aired 2008-10-16 | O CAPTAIN, MY CAPTAIN $1000: In the 1770s he & his crew became the first Europeans known to have visited Hawaii--didn't end well, though Captain Cook |
| #5544, aired 2008-10-16 | O CAPTAIN, MY POP CULTURE CAPTAIN $1200: Daniel J. Travanti tried to be "careful out there" as Captain Furillo on this show Hill Street Blues |
| #5544, aired 2008-10-16 | O CAPTAIN, MY POP CULTURE CAPTAIN $1600: Every little breeze whispered Dom Deluise when he played Captain Chaos in this 1981 Burt Reynolds car race flick Cannonball Run |
| #5544, aired 2008-10-16 | O CAPTAIN, MY POP CULTURE CAPTAIN $2000: "You will always remember this as the day that you almost caught" this captain, seen in a trilogy of films Jack Sparrow |
| #5528, aired 2008-09-24 | LET'S GET BIBLICAL $200: "Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples" is found in this O.T. "song" book the Song of Solomon |
| #5527, aired 2008-09-23 | MY OFF-SHOW WARDROBE $600: Hey, there, Daddy-O--it's the rhymin' name of the threads I'm stylin' here a zoot suit |
| #5523, aired 2008-09-17 | LITERARY VILLAINS' PERSONAL ADS $800: Turn-ons: Type O-positive personalities; turn-offs: Dutch metaphysicians who try to kill me Dracula |
| #5471, aired 2008-05-26 | WRITERS $2000: In 1939 he wrote,
"O tell me all
about Anna Livia!
I want to hear all
about Anna Livia...
Tell me all.
Tell me now" James Joyce |
| #5429, aired 2008-03-27 | NURSERY RHYMES ON THE 11 O'CLOCK NEWS $600: She terrorized 3 non-sighted rodents & dismembered them; I've never seen such a sight in my life the farmer's wife |
| #5424, aired 2008-03-20 | AMERICAN LIT $2,000 (Daily Double): In a Whitman poem in memory of Abraham Lincoln, it's the title that precedes "Our fearful trip is done" "O Captain! My Captain!" |
| #5379, aired 2008-01-17 | COLORFUL WORDS & PHRASES $4,000 (Daily Double): In "Othello", Iago warns, "O! Beware, my lord, of jealousy", it is this creature a green-eyed monster |
| #5362, aired 2007-12-25 | BOOK DEDICATIONS $2000: This Willa Cather novel about a Bohemian girl was dedicated "in memory of affections old and true" My Antonia |
| #5341, aired 2007-11-26 | O CANADA $800: Its name is the French form of the Algonquin word for "where the river narrows", a reference to the St. Lawrence Quebec |
| #5242, aired 2007-05-29 | "O" THE PLACES YOU'LL GO $1200: ...Like my hometown of Sudbury that's in this second-largest & southernmost Canadian province Ontario |
| #5238, aired 2007-05-23 | SUPERMAN $400: (Hi, I'm Michael McKean.)
My guest appearance as Perry White made this show successful; my wife, Annette O'Toole, may also have helped Smallville |
| #5186, aired 2007-03-12 | EYEWITNESS TO HISTORY $2000: (I'm Soledad O'Brien of CNN.) One of my toughest assignments was reporting on the aftermath of the tsunami from Phuket, a resort island in this country Thailand |
| #5121, aired 2006-12-11 | PISTOL PETE $2,800 (Daily Double): In a 1962 film, this actor says, "That was before Aqaba anyway, I had to execute him with my pistol" Peter O'Toole |
| #5106, aired 2006-11-20 | ALL MY CHILDREN $1000: This playwright's daughter Oona married Charlie Chaplin when he was 54 & she was only 18! Eugene O'Neill |
| #5068, aired 2006-09-27 | HALLMARK HALL OF FAME $800: In 2004 this funny lady played a developmentally challenged woman in “Riding the Bus with My Sister” Rosie O’Donnell |
| #5054, aired 2006-07-27 | ALLITERATIVE FILL IN THE BLANK $1600: Robert Burns:
"O, my luve's like a
___, ___ ___ that's newly sprung in June" red, red rose |
| #5027, aired 2006-06-20 | SUPERHERO BEFORE & AFTER $1200: Whitman "Leaves of Grass" poetic entry that, with patriotic shield in hand, battles the Red Skull "O Captain! My Captain! America" |
| #5016, aired 2006-06-05 | HOLD ME CLOSER, TONY DANZA $1200: Tony's role of Rocky in this man's "The Iceman Cometh" in 1999 won him some Broadway raves Eugene O'Neill |
| #4987, aired 2006-04-25 | TAUNT "O" $400: Being around you has completely killed my sense of this, the tendency to expect the best of life optimism |
| #4980, aired 2006-04-14 | 4-LETTER WORDS $2000: This old pronoun is sung as the last word of the English version of "O Canada" thee |
| #4955, aired 2006-03-10 | QUOTABLE WOMEN $1200: She once remarked, "The power I exert on the court depends on the power of my arguments, not on my gender" Sandra Day O'Connor |
| #4876, aired 2005-11-21 | WELCOME TO WYOMING $1600: (Kelly reports from horse country, horse in hand, in Grand Teton Nat'l Park, Wyoming.) While living in Wyoming, Mary O'Hara created a classic equine literary character: "My Friend" this horse Flicka |
| #4857, aired 2005-10-25 | THE "O.C." $1200: Me, him & her are examples of this form of a pronoun objective case |
| #4848, aired 2005-10-12 | SPELLING $1200: Convince me that you can spell... P-E-R-S-U-A-S-I-O-N |
| #4844, aired 2005-10-06 | THE STORY OF "O" $400: I'd like to thank my mother, my agent & my director for this word used for "O" in the radio alphabet Oscar |
| #4842, aired 2005-10-04 | TOP O' THE CHARTS $800: Madonna's "This Used To Be My Playground" was sung over the closing credits of this 1992 film A League of Their Own |
| #4804, aired 2005-06-23 | PETER O'TOOLE TIME $1200: O'Toole played an actor--er, make that a movie star--reminiscent of Errol Flynn in this 1982 flick My Favorite Year |
| #4773, aired 2005-05-11 | BOBBING FOR POETS $400: In 1785 he wrote "Gie me ae spark o'nature's fire, that's a' the learning I desire" Bobby Burns |
| #4745, aired 2005-04-01 | TIM, TOM, TAMMY $200: "This will be pure H-E double L for me, oh, I wish that we could stop this D-I-V-O-R-C-E", sang this woman Tammy Wynette |
| #4720, aired 2005-02-25 | AIRPORTS $1600: Its airport code, ORD, comes from Orchard Field, the airport previously on the site O'Hare |
| #4693, aired 2005-01-19 | CHARACTERS' FAREWELLS $1000: "Precious, precious, precious! My precious! O my precious!" Gollum |
| #4660, aired 2004-12-03 | THAT'S POETRY TO MY EAR $800: Robert Burns wrote, "And we'll tak' a cup o'kindness yet for" this auld lang syne |
| #4644, aired 2004-11-11 | ALBUMS $2000: "All I Have" with LL Cool J was a last-minute addition to this Jennifer Lopez CD This Is Me... Then |
| #4623, aired 2004-10-13 | WE LOVE YOU CONRAD $400: This novel was adapted into the film seen here
"You must let me free the lifeboats!"
"Why? So you can abandon us?"
"You believe that?" Lord Jim |
| #4615, aired 2004-10-01 | ANAGRAMMED WEST WING STARS $600: We're still "laugh-in" at her:
O MY ILL LINT Lily Tomlin |
| #4576, aired 2004-06-28 | THE CINEMA $600: The popular soundtrack of this 2000 film includes "I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow" & "You Are My Sunshine" O Brother, Where Art Thou? |
| #4550, aired 2004-05-21 | LUNCH COUNTER LINGO $1000: (Hi, I'm Joe Theismann.) My column for espn.com is called this, slang for a serving of coffee Cup O' Joe |
| #4548, aired 2004-05-19 | SURPRISE ME! $1200: This writer's name became synonymous with surprise endings after works like "The Gift of the Magi" O. Henry |
| #4544, aired 2004-05-13 | 20th CENTURY WOMEN $200 (Daily Double): "Brooklyn Bridge" was one of the last of her NYC paintings before she moved permanently to New Mexico Georgia O'Keeffe |
| #4516, aired 2004-04-05 | DISCO IN-FILM-O $400: Tara on "All My Children", Karen Lynn Gorney was a star of this 1977 disco film that could have been Bee-Gee rated Saturday Night Fever |
| #4511, aired 2004-03-29 | ALL MY LIFE $1600: Born 1925 in Chicago, made 'em laugh, talked to a mule, shuffled off in 2003 Donald O'Connor |
| #4497, aired 2004-03-09 | STAPLES CENTER $800: (I'm Derek Fisher) One highlight of the Lakers' first game at Staples Center was my alley-oop pass to this big guy who scored 28 points Shaquille O'Neal |
| #4493, aired 2004-03-03 | THE MAUREEN CORPS $1200: Born in Ireland in 1920, she appeared in several John Ford films, starting with "How Green Was My Valley" Maureen O'Hara |
| #4480, aired 2004-02-13 | WELL "RED" $600: Robert Burns wrote, "O, my luve's like" one of these "that's newly sprung in June" "a red, red rose" |
| #4452, aired 2004-01-06 | SONGS EVERYBODY KNOWS $1000: This Italian classic whose title translates as "O My Sun!" dates from 1898 "'O Sole Mio" |
| #4445, aired 2003-12-26 | "O" MY! $200: The only person to play for both the NL's Dodgers & the NHL's Rangers, Gladys Gooding played this instrument the organ |
| #4445, aired 2003-12-26 | "O" MY! $400: (Hey, this is Wayne Brady and this is your clue.) This city, my hometown, is home to Sea World of Florida & college football's annual Citrus Bowl Orlando |
| #4445, aired 2003-12-26 | "O" MY! $600: In WWII, the U.S. estimated the number of enemy soldiers on Pacific islands by counting these from the air outhouses |
| #4445, aired 2003-12-26 | "O" MY! $800: Lewis Grizzard mused on marriage in "If Love Were" this "I'd Be About a Quart Low" oil |
| #4445, aired 2003-12-26 | "O" MY! $1000: Elected to the Hall of Fame in 1951, this N.Y. Giant hit a career 511 home runs Mel Ott |
| #4427, aired 2003-12-02 | MOVIE SOUNDTRACKS $600: (This is Alison Krauss.) 3 of my songs, including "I'll Fly Away", are on the multi-Platinum soundtrack to this Coen Brothers film O Brother, Where Art Thou? |
| #4423, aired 2003-11-26 | RECENT OSCAR WINNERS $800: Accepting his honorary Oscar, this great Irish actor said, "Always a bridesmaid, never a bride, my foot!" Peter O'Toole |
| #4393, aired 2003-10-15 | ME TARZAN $1200: In a 1981 film Miles O'Keeffe was Tarzan to this lady's Jane Bo Derek |
| #4386, aired 2003-10-06 | POETRY $1200: His poem "O Captain! My Captain!" is an elegy on the death of Abraham Lincoln Walt Whitman |
| #4385, aired 2003-10-03 | THE 7 DEADLY SIN-ONYMS $400: O, beware, my lord, of" this synonym for envy jealousy |
| #4385, aired 2003-10-03 | TV NEWS $1600: As Tim O'Hara, Bill Bixby worked as a newspaper reporter for the Los Angeles Sun on this silly '60s sitcom My Favorite Martian |
| #4360, aired 2003-07-11 | HIT ME WITH THE HITS $600: The Ventures had a Top 10 hit with this song in 1969 "Theme from 'Hawaii Five-O'" |
| #4351, aired 2003-06-30 | BRUSH UP YOUR SHAKESPEARE $400: He's the character who rhapsodizes, "It is my lady; O, it is my love! O, that she knew she were!" Romeo |
| #4332, aired 2003-06-03 | ALBUMS $800: (Hi, I'm Lorrie Morgan.) I recorded "You And Me" for a 1998 tribute album to this late legend; Rosanne Cash contributed "D‑I‑V‑O‑R‑C‑E" Tammy Wynette |
| #4310, aired 2003-05-02 | OH, THE AMENITIES! $600: Ah! A lavishly stocked mini bar! It could distract me from the dancing fountains & the "O" show at this Vegas hotel The Bellagio |
| #4305, aired 2003-04-25 | YOU O ME $400: Pile an O atop this Swiss mountain to get this dog food Alp & Alpo |
| #4305, aired 2003-04-25 | YOU O ME $800: A one-person compartment with a telephone; remove an O & you get a word referring to 2 people booth & both |
| #4305, aired 2003-04-25 | YOU O ME $1200: The title of this 1847 Melville novel is the sound an Irish cow might make Omoo & moo |
| #4305, aired 2003-04-25 | YOU O ME $1600: An extra O differentiates these 2 words, both pictured here dragon & dragoon |
| #4305, aired 2003-04-25 | YOU O ME $2000: These 2 words, one O different, combine to form the name of a plant disease root & rot (rootrot) |
| #4281, aired 2003-03-24 | "O" BABY! $400: "Strike them all dead! What right have they to butcher me?" says Fagin in this Dickens tale "Oliver Twist" |
| #4261, aired 2003-02-24 | RAPS $2000: It's what the "O.G." stood for in Ice-T's album title of the same name "Original Gangster" |
| #4260, aired 2003-02-21 | ENDS IN "O" $400: In the song "Wind Beneath My Wings", Bette Midler asks, "Did you ever know that you're my" this hero |
| #4238, aired 2003-01-22 | MUSICAL MATTERS $1200: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports.) When I make my Carnegie Hall conducting debut, I'll begin with this stroke that begins each measure downbeat |
| #4232, aired 2003-01-14 | BESTSELLERS $400: This talk show host's candid memoir "Find Me" came out in April 2002 Rosie O'Donnell |
| #4217, aired 2002-12-24 | WHOSE LINE IS IT ANYWAY? $2000: In "My Favorite Year" he wails, "I'm not an actor, I'm a movie star!" Peter O'Toole |
| #4206, aired 2002-12-09 | SHAKESPEARE'S EARLY DRAFTS $800: "O, wherefore art thou, my love?" "Down here in the oleander! I fear I tasted of some bad eel at your kinsmen's feast" Romeo and Juliet |
| #4157, aired 2002-10-01 | MUSICAL NUMBERS $2000: This song by the Vogues begins, "Up every mornin' just to keep a job, I gotta fight my way through the hustling mob" "Five O'Clock World" |
| #4154, aired 2002-09-26 | TV THEME SONGS $400: Spell it out:
he's "The Leader of the Club That's Made for You and Me" M-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E |
| #4094, aired 2002-05-23 | BADA BING $1600: Bing reprised the role of Father Chuck O'Malley in this 1945 sequel to "Going My Way" The Bells of St. Mary's |
| #4087, aired 2002-05-14 | TOP O' THE CHARTS $400: In a 1957 No. 1 hit, he sang, "Darling, you send me, honest you do" Sam Cooke |
| #4087, aired 2002-05-14 | TOP O' THE CHARTS $600: In 1992 Madonna topped the charts with "This Used To Be My Playground", a track from this Penny Marshall film A League of Their Own |
| #4080, aired 2002-05-03 | BEFORE & AFTER $400: Walt Whitman poem about the duo that sang "Love Will Keep Us Together" "O Captain! My Captain! & Tennille" |
| #4062, aired 2002-04-09 | SHAKESPEARE PLAYS $400: "O, beware, my lord, of jealousy! It is the green-eyed monster" Othello |
| #3998, aired 2002-01-09 | ODES & ENDS $1200: "O let me steal one liquid kiss, For Oh! my soul is parched with love", wrote this Scot in "Delia, An Ode" Rabbie Burns |
| #3980, aired 2001-12-14 | "LING"O $200: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from Central Park.) My little pal is waiting to hear the ending of this Hans Christian Andersen story about one of his feathered friends The Ugly Duckling |
| #3979, aired 2001-12-13 | THE BIBLE $1000: In II Samuel he laments, "Would God I had died for thee, O Absalom, my son, my son!" David |
| #3968, aired 2001-11-28 | MY GOD $1600: Aizen-Myo-o,
Mahabrama,
Yama Buddhism |
| #3958, aired 2001-11-14 | O CAPTAIN, MY CAPTAIN $100: This captain's "five year mission" actually only lasted about 3 (until syndication & films) Captain Kirk |
| #3958, aired 2001-11-14 | O CAPTAIN, MY CAPTAIN $200: Let's give a hand to this villain, created in 1904 by James M. Barrie Captain Hook |
| #3958, aired 2001-11-14 | O CAPTAIN, MY CAPTAIN $300: Let's give a hand (no, a leg) to this seafaring captain created in 1851 Captain Ahab |
| #3958, aired 2001-11-14 | O CAPTAIN, MY CAPTAIN $400: Climb aboard the S.S. Guppy at this breakfast food mascot's website Cap'n Crunch |
| #3958, aired 2001-11-14 | O CAPTAIN, MY CAPTAIN $500: The secret identity of this patriotic shield-sporting Marvel superhero was Steve Rogers Captain America |
| #3954, aired 2001-11-08 | TOP O' THE CHARTS $800: In this 1998 hit, No. 1 for 13 weeks, Brandy & Monica sang, "I'm sorry that you seem to be confused, he belongs to me" "The Boy Is Mine" |
| #3946, aired 2001-10-29 | IT'S MY LIFE $800: Read up on this longtime speaker of the House in his 1987 memoir "Man of the House" Tip O'Neill |
| #3904, aired 2001-07-19 | MOVIES OF THE "YEAR" $400: For writer Mark Linn-Baker, the title of this 1982 comedy refers to 1954, when he chaperoned movie star Peter O'Toole My Favorite Year |
| #3901, aired 2001-07-16 | WHERE THEY'RE FROM $200: (Hey. I'm Wayne Brady.) I started my performing career in this Florida city sometimes called O-Town Orlando |
| #3888, aired 2001-06-27 | "WO" IS ME $400: Asian archenemy of "Hawaii Five-O" Wo Fat |
| #3880, aired 2001-06-15 | HELP ME WITH THIS CROSSWORD! $1000: Shiver, in Cherbourg:
[17 Across: F _ _ _ _ O N] Frisson |
| #3869, aired 2001-05-31 | POETS & POETRY $200: Robert Burns wrote, "O, my love is like a red, red" one of these "that's newly sprung in June" rose |
| #3766, aired 2001-01-08 | "CAT"ECHISM $400: For serious penance, this nine-strand knotted flogging whip might be required Cat o' nine tails |
| #3763, aired 2001-01-03 | LEND ME YOUR MOUSEKETEER EARS $400: '50s club member Cubby O'Brien continued to play this instrument as an adult for the Carpenters & Bernadette Peters Drums |
| #3756, aired 2000-12-25 | THE DREADED SPELLING CATEGORY $500: Do me a favor & spell... A-C-C-O-M-M-O-D-A-T-E |
| #3687, aired 2000-09-19 | SHAKESPEARE'S EXIT LINES $800: "And kiss me Kate, we will be married O'Sunday" Petruchio |
| #3573, aired 2000-03-01 | SHAKESPEAREAN DYING WORDS $1000: "Yea, noise? Then I'll be brief. O happy dagger, this is thy sheath. There rest, and let me die" Juliet |
| #3557, aired 2000-02-08 | SHAKESPEARE $500: "'Tis incredible to believe how much she loves me. O the kindest Kate!" Petruchio says in this play "The Taming of the Shrew" |
| #3527, aired 1999-12-28 | 1999 BOFFO B.O. $100: Yeah, Baby! Mike Myers' Austin Powers has another go-round with Mike Myers' Dr. Evil in this movie sequel Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me |
| #3508, aired 1999-12-01 | ROBERT BURNS $200: "O, my luve's like a red red" one of these "that's newly sprung in June" Rose |
| #3482, aired 1999-10-26 | '80s FILM COMEDY $600: He played movie star & TV guest star Alan Swann in 1982's "My Favorite Year" Peter O'Toole |
| #3477, aired 1999-10-19 | THE TITLE ESCAPES ME $600: Steve McQueen did his own motorcycle stunts in this 1963 film set in a Nazi P.O.W. camp The Great Escape |
| #3446, aired 1999-09-06 | SPELL IT OUT FOR ME! $100: We'll all sing your praises when you spell... C-H-O-I-R |
| #3446, aired 1999-09-06 | SPELL IT OUT FOR ME! $300: I hungrily await you to spell... N-E-C-T-A-R-I-N-E |
| #3446, aired 1999-09-06 | SPELL IT OUT FOR ME! $500: You won't be exasperated if you can spell... A-G-G-R-A-V-A-T-I-O-N |
| #3336, aired 1999-02-22 | GREEK GODS $600: God who's prayed to in the following reading from Homer by Homer Simpson
O hear me Lord, blue girdler of the islands... Poseidon |
| #3308, aired 1999-01-13 | JOHNNY GILBERT DOES SHAKESPEARE! $2,500 (Daily Double): Johnny's performance in this role featured the death scene heard here:
"O happy dagger this is thy sheath; there rest and let me die..." Juliet (in Romeo and Juliet) |
| #3292, aired 1998-12-22 | "O" $500: Title of the 1974 suspense film seen here:
"All I did was to obey my orders. Don't compare yourself with a soldier... you were an executioner..." The Odessa File |
| #3274, aired 1998-11-26 | A WHITMAN SAMPLER $600: It's the title of the movie that featured the following:
"A poem by Walt Whitman about Mr. Abraham Lincoln; now in this class you can either call me 'Mr. Keating', or if you're slightly more daring, 'O Captain! My Captain!'" Dead Poets Society (Robin Williams) |
| #3270, aired 1998-11-20 | POET-TREE $600: "O my palm-tree…rustle thy boughs and set thy trunk all bare", she wrote in "Sonnets from the Portuguese" Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
| #3267, aired 1998-11-17 | DR. SEUSS MEETS THE BARD $600: "My only love sprung from my only hate! O! Why can't I find a better date?" Romeo And Juliet |
| #3217, aired 1998-09-08 | BEFORE & AFTER MOVIE TITLES $400: This 1952 Gene Kelly film is on at 8 o'clock; it's 102 minutes; Gene Kelly on at 8 o'clock; 102 minutes Singin' in the Rain Man |
| #3179, aired 1998-05-28 | TOP O' THE WORLD, MA! $100: Satellite measurements in 1987 suggested that this peak reaches 29,108' -- 80' higher than thought Mount Everest |
| #3179, aired 1998-05-28 | TOP O' THE WORLD, MA! $200: An ice cave at over 10,000 feet near Gangotri in the Himalayas is the source of this sacred Indian river Ganges |
| #3179, aired 1998-05-28 | TOP O' THE WORLD, MA! $300: This shaggy-haired beast of Tibet is often called the grunting ox because of the sound it makes Yak |
| #3179, aired 1998-05-28 | TOP O' THE WORLD, MA! $400: Some have suggested that this mythical Himalayan creature is a pre-human primate Yeti/Abominable Snowman |
| #3179, aired 1998-05-28 | TOP O' THE WORLD, MA! $500: These Nepalese people are much sought after as porters for Himalayan climbing expeditions Sherpas |
| #3143, aired 1998-04-08 | SMOOCHING IN SHAKESPEARE $300: In this comedy Petruchio says, "Kiss me, Kate, we will be married o' Sunday" Taming of the Shrew |
| #3035, aired 1997-11-07 | SHAKESPEARE $1,300 (Daily Double): Shakespearean character who speaks the lines heard here:
"O, I die, Horatio; The potent poison quite o'er-crows my spirit: ...the rest is silence" Hamlet |
| #2989, aired 1997-09-04 | BEFORE & AFTER $300: Walt Whitman poem about Mr. Green Jeans' buddy "O Captain! My Captain Kangaroo" |
| #2977, aired 1997-07-08 | LITERATURE $1000: Willa Cather's "My Antonia", "O Pioneers!" & "A Lost Lady" are set on the frontier in this Midwestern state Nebraska |
| #2953, aired 1997-06-04 | ON "MY" TV $500: Uncle Martin to Tim O'Hara "My Favorite Martian" |
| #2834, aired 1996-12-19 | O CAPTAIN! MY CAPTAIN! $200: With Christopher Jones as captain, this ship departed Plymouth, Mass. April 15, 1621 & returned to England Mayflower |
| #2834, aired 1996-12-19 | O CAPTAIN! MY CAPTAIN! $400: He & his loyal crew members charted part of the coast of Australia after being set adrift from the Bounty Captain Bligh |
| #2834, aired 1996-12-19 | O CAPTAIN! MY CAPTAIN! $600: This author drew on his experiences as captain of a west African river steamer for "Heart of Darkness" Joseph Conrad |
| #2834, aired 1996-12-19 | O CAPTAIN! MY CAPTAIN! $1000: In a play by this man, Captain Shotover is the eccentric owner of Heartbreak House George Bernard Shaw |
| #2808, aired 1996-11-13 | "O" MY $100: My bologna's first name O-S-C-A-R |
| #2808, aired 1996-11-13 | "O" MY $200: Marine mollusk good at arm to arm to arm to arm to arm to arm to arm to arm combat octopus |
| #2808, aired 1996-11-13 | "O" MY $300: Zeus' mount Olympus |
| #2808, aired 1996-11-13 | "O" MY $400: Clinton can't be cornered in it the Oval Office |
| #2808, aired 1996-11-13 | "O" MY $500: Branch of medicine concerned with "labor" relations...& babies obstetrics |
| #2703, aired 1996-05-08 | SHAKESPEARE $400: In "Othello" it's this villain who says, "O beware, my lord, of jealousy; it is the green-eyed monster" Iago |
| #2656, aired 1996-03-04 | MAUREENS $400: Her filmography includes "How Green Was My Valley" & "Miracle on 34th Street" Maureen O'Hara |
| #2619, aired 1996-01-11 | FAMOUS MARGARETS $600: Found at a swap meet, the special Oscar stolen from this child star of "Meet Me In St. Louis" was returned in 1995 Margaret O' Brien |
| #2541, aired 1995-09-25 | CLASSIC SITCOMS $200: William Frawley played Bub O'Casey on "My Three Sons" & this role on "I Love Lucy" Fred (Mertz) |
| #2330, aired 1994-10-21 | ARTISTS $1000: She said of bones, "To me they are strangely more living than the animals walking around" Georgia O'Keeffe |
| #2309, aired 1994-09-22 | LITERARY TRILOGIES $400: This 1941 Mary O'Hara book about a boy & his horse was the first of a trilogy My Friend Flicka |
| #2286, aired 1994-07-11 | REALLY OLD SONGS $400: According to the title by James Blake, it's where "me and Mamie O'Rorke tripped the light fantastic" "The Sidewalks of New York" |
| #2171, aired 1994-01-31 | "MY" MOVIES $300: Peter O'Toole played an Errol Flynn type in this 1982 comedy about the early days of TV My Favorite Year |
| #2171, aired 1994-01-31 | "MY" MOVIES $500: Director John Ford said he based this film on Wyatt Earp's own version of the O.K. Corral My Darling Clementine |
| #2154, aired 1994-01-06 | THE BRITISH THEATRE $1000: Peter O'Toole was to star in John Osborne's 1992 sequel to this 1956 play, but left the cast Look Back in Anger |
| #2124, aired 1993-11-25 | GEORGE & RINGO $300: George said this song was inspired by "O Happy Day", but others suggest "He's So Fine" "My Sweet Lord" |
| #2114, aired 1993-11-11 | TRAVEL $200: In England crumpets & Chelsea buns are often served at this 4:00 p.m. pick-me-up tea time |
| #2083, aired 1993-09-29 | THE BIBLE $400: He said, "O that my grief were thoroughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!" Job |
| #2069, aired 1993-09-09 | FEET $500: Song with the line "O, be swift, my soul, to answer him! Be jubilant, my feet! Our God is marching on" "The Battle Hymn Of The Republic" |
| #2051, aired 1993-07-05 | TELEVISION $400: On "My Three Sons", Bub O'Casey was related to Mike, Robbie & Chip in this way grandfather |
| #2045, aired 1993-06-25 | THE AMERICAN THEATRE $800: This 1982 Peter O'Toole film set in the '50s became a musical in 1992 & Lainie Kazan was in both My Favorite Year |
| #2010, aired 1993-05-07 | NURSERY RHYMES $500: He rapped at the window & cried through the lock, "Are the children all in bed? For now it's 8 o'clock" Wee Willie Winkie |
| #2004, aired 1993-04-29 | SONG STANDARDS $200: In the last line of "Do-Re-Mi", these 5 musical syllables follow do-re-mi fa-so-la-ti-do |
| #1991, aired 1993-04-12 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $400: The French fairy tale character Le Petit Poucet is known in English as Hop O' my this Thumb |
| #1980, aired 1993-03-26 | THE MOVIES $500: As Wyatt Earp, Henry Fonda fought the Clantons at the O.K. Corral in this 1946 John Ford Western My Darling Clementine |
| #1834, aired 1992-07-16 | POETS & POETRY $800: Scotsman who wrote about his wife, "There's not a bonie bird that sings, but minds me o' my Jean" (Robert) Burns |
| #1773, aired 1992-04-22 | ANCIENT HISTORY $200: His father said, "O, my son, seek out a kingdom worthy of thyself for Macedonia is too little for thee" Alexander the Great |
| #1765, aired 1992-04-10 | MOVIE QUOTES $200: It was Rhett Butler's parting shot to Scarlet O'Hara in "Gone With the Wind" Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn |
| #1717, aired 1992-02-04 | "O" NO! $500: You could say she's sown some wild books, including "Do With Me What You Will" Joyce Carol Oates |
| #1684, aired 1991-12-19 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: This poet's collection, "Sequel to Drum Taps", contained "O Captain! My Captain!" Whitman |
| #1660, aired 1991-11-15 | '60s SITCOMS $400: The 2 Williams who played O'Caseys on "My Three Sons" Demarest & Frawley |
| #1607, aired 1991-09-03 | CHARACTERS IN FILM $800: Father O'Malley, Genevieve Linden & Father Fitzgibbon Going My Way |
| #1599, aired 1991-07-11 | MONTHS $1000: Burns wrote, "O, my luve is like a red, red, rose, that's newly sprung in" this month June |
| #1584, aired 1991-06-20 | STARTS WITH "O" $600: "No other play has moved me so deeply" said Alexander Woollcott of this Thornton Wilder play Our Town |
| #1570, aired 1991-05-31 | BIBLICAL QUOTES $1,000 (Daily Double): He wailed, "Would God I had died for thee, O Absalom, my son, my son!" King David |
| #1487, aired 1991-02-05 | PLAYWRIGHTS $1000: He dedicated "The Plough and the Stars" to "the gay laugh of my mother at the gate of the grave" Seán O'Casey |
| #1484, aired 1991-01-31 | SHAKESPEARE $400: Her last words were, "O happy dagger, this is thy sheath, there rest and let me die" Juliet |
| #1476, aired 1991-01-21 | MARYLAND $300: The state song, "Maryland, My Maryland", is sung to the tune of this German Christmas Carol "O Tannenbaum" |
| #8, aired 1990-08-04 | TV SITCOMS $600: "Bub" was Michael Francis O'Casey's nickname on this series My Three Sons |
| #1321, aired 1990-05-07 | POETS & POETRY $400: His "O Captain! My Captain!" is a lamentation on the assassination of Lincoln Walt Whitman |
| #1250, aired 1990-01-26 | POLITICAL TERMS & SLOGANS $500: Opponents of this 1807 act directed at France & Britain called it "o grab me" The Embargo ("O Grab Me") Act |
| #1188, aired 1989-11-01 | SHOW MUSIC $200: The line that follows "Oh I got plenty o' nuttin'" in the song from "Porgy & Bess" and nothings plenty for me |
| #1187, aired 1989-10-31 | "BELL"s $400: Bing Crosby starred as Father O'Malley in both "Going My Way" & this 1945 sequel The Bells of St. Mary's |
| #1158, aired 1989-09-20 | ACTOR-DIRECTORS $1000: The 1st film Richard Benjamin directed was this '82 Peter O'Toole comedy about the early days of TV "My Favorite Year" |
| #1148, aired 1989-09-06 | SONGS THAT "DO" $100: Oh my darling, it's the theme from "High Noon" “Do Not Forsake Me, O My Darling” |
| #1045, aired 1989-03-03 | MORTAL MATTERS $800: The song "The Ocean Burial" became this cowboy lament about choosing a burial place "'O Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie" |
| #955, aired 1988-10-28 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $1000: The fathers of Hop O'-My-Thumb and Hansel & Gretel did this for a living cut wood |
| #887, aired 1988-06-14 | SHAKESPEAREAN LAST LINES $600: She said, "O happy dagger, this is thy sheath; there rest, & let me die." Juliet |
| #887, aired 1988-06-14 | SHAKESPEAREAN LAST LINES $800: She gasped, "O my dear Hamlet -- the drink, the drink! I am poisoned!" Gertrude (his mother) |
| #864, aired 1988-05-12 | DIRECTORS' REAL NAMES $1000: Sean Aloysius O'Fearna directed "How Green Was My Valley" under this name John Ford |
| #848, aired 1988-04-20 | BODIES OF WATER $1,100 (Daily Double): Type of body of water, common in parts of the South that's mentioned in this song:
"Jambalaya and a crawfish pie and filé gumbo / Cause tonight I'm gonna see my ma cher amio / Pick guitar fill fruit jar and be gay-o..." bayou |
| #847, aired 1988-04-19 | MUSICALS $600: This Lerner & Loewe show set in Calif. features a ballet number called "Hand Me Down That Can O' Beans" Paint Your Wagon |
| #787, aired 1988-01-26 | POETRY $300: He wrote! "O Captain!" My Captain!" Walt Whitman |
| #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" |
| #739, aired 1987-11-19 | GEOGRAPHICAL SONGS $300: "Me and Mamie O'Rourke tripped the light fantastic on" these "Sidewalks Of New York" |
| #729, aired 1987-11-05 | NEBRASKANS $800: Influenced by her own Nebraska childhood, she wrote "O Pioneers!", "My Antonia" & "A Lost Lady" Willa Cather |
| #718, aired 1987-10-21 | MEATY QUOTES $800: "A plague o' both your houses! They have made worms' meat of me," are lines from this Shakespearean play Romeo and Juliet |
| #665, aired 1987-06-26 | AMERICAN MUSIC $400: When 1st presented, July 4th, 1831, the song "America" went by this title, its 1st liine "My Country, Tis of Thee" |
| #636, aired 1987-05-18 | TIME $400: 1982 film set in 1954 & starring Peter O'Toole My Favorite Year |
| #553, aired 1987-01-21 | O.R. $200: "You'll like my gourmet popping corn better or my name isn't..." this Orville Redenbacher |
| #541, aired 1987-01-05 | TV COPS $100: It was Thursday, 9 o'clock; turned on this show; cop named Friday wanted "Just the facts, ma'am" Dragnet |
| #514, aired 1986-11-27 | POTENT POTABLES $400: Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn if you don't like this red Southern Comfort cocktail a Scarlett O'Hara |
| #512, aired 1986-11-25 | THE '50s $1000: A prosecuting attorney in the Rosenberg case, he later assisted Sen. Joe McCarthy Roy Cohn |
| #505, aired 1986-11-14 | DAYS IN SONG $1,000 (Daily Double): Title of the following headbreaking, not heartbreaking, song:
"It's getting late have you seen my mates /
Ma tell me when the boys get here /
It's seven o'clock and I want to rock /
Want to get a belly full of beer..." "Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting" |
| #485, aired 1986-10-17 | MOVIE TRIVIA $500: "I just adore her, even when she does hit me," said Peter O'Toole of this "Lion in Winter" co-star Katharine Hepburn |
| #438, aired 1986-05-14 | ICE $600: Coleridge poem with the line "and ice, mast-high, came floating by, as green as emerald" The Rime of the Ancient Mariner |
| #421, aired 1986-04-21 | CAPTAINS $400: Walt Whitman's poem, "O Captain, My Captain", is a tribute to this slain president Abraham Lincoln |
| #341, aired 1985-12-30 | BELLS $500 (Daily Double): Title of the following Christmas song:
"Ding, dong, ding, dong that is their song / With joyful ring all caroling / One seems to hear words of good cheer / From everywhere filling the air / O, how they pound raising the sound / Oer hill and dale telling their tale..." the "Carol Of The Bells" |
| #315, aired 1985-11-22 | O'HOLLYWOOD $200: In "My Favorite Year", his character admitted "I'm not an actor; I'm a movie star" Peter O'Toole |
| #315, aired 1985-11-22 | THE HOSPITAL $300 (Daily Double): A temporary Civil War hospital was only one ever in New Orleans with this famous title: the St. James Infirmary |
| #42, aired 1984-11-06 | SPELLING $200: "Put them all together" & they're "a word that means the world to me" M-O-T-H-E-R |
| #37, aired 1984-10-30 | CAPTAINS $1000: Walt Whitman poem lamenting Lincoln's death "O Captain! My Captain!" |
| #25, aired 1984-10-12 | SPELLING $100: Follows “Who’s the leader of the club that’s made for you and me...” M-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E |
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Julie Bowen, a TV and film actress from Boston Legal, Lost and Modern Family
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"For two seasons, she played attorney Denise Bauer in Boston Legal....
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Brad Rutter, a network administrator from Lancaster, Pennsylvania
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"The reigning Tournament of Champions winner, he attended Johns Hopkins University...
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Brad Rutter, a network administrator from Lancaster, Pennsylvania
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2020 Jeopardy!: The Greatest of All Time 2nd runner-up: $250,000. 2019...
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Chris O. Cook, a college English teacher from Brooklyn, New York
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Season 29 player (2013-05-27).
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Ethan Brosowsky, an actor from Los Angeles, California
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Season 24 1-time champion: $21,600 + $2,000. Ethan and his "pub...
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Røb Severson, a custodial facilitator from St. Louis, Missouri
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Season 26 player (2009-11-17). Name pronounced like "ROB SEE-ver-sun". Røb wore...
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Roopa Kalyanaraman Marcello, a public health professional from Brooklyn, New York
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Season 26 player (2009-10-30). Middle and last names pronounced like "KAL-ya-na-RA-man...
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Victoria Harkavy, an AmeriCorps service member from Potomac, Maryland
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Season 25 2-time champion: $40,100 + $1,000.
Last name pronounced like "HARK-uh-vee".
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Rachel Gottesman, a junior from Cortlandt Manor, New York
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2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 17 at the...
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Alex Johnson, an 11-year-old from Indianapolis, Indiana
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"He wants to be a chemist in the future. From Indianapolis,...
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Al Franken, an author and radio talk show host from New York City
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"One of the original writers on Saturday Night Live, he's done...
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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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Josh Powell, a phone-based health coach from San Diego, California
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Season 27 3-time champion: $26,900 + $1,000.
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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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Stefan Goodreau, a video game tester 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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Greg Peterson, a senior from Park Ridge, Illinois
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2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games 1st runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $38,600....
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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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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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Okey Chikezie, from Egg Harbor Township, New Jersey
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"He wants to be a professional soccer player when he grows...
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Jill Rowley, a flight attendant from Baltimore, Maryland
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Season 30 2-time champion: $43,802 + $2,000.
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Jason Ross, an engineer from Folsom, California
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Season 24 player (2007-12-07).
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Evan Struble, a librarian from Columbus, Ohio
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Season 30 player (2013-12-13).
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Rick Faulkner, a law student from Orange, California
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Season 20 player (2004-06-22).
KJL game 15.
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John Baur, an author and pirate from Albany, Oregon
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Season 24 player (2008-06-26). John was a co-originator of International Talk...
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Chris Hoeh, an architect from Riverdale, Georgia
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Season 31 player (2014-10-16). Chris's Howdy refers to a frosted orange...
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Chris Matthews, a TV host from Hardball and The Chris Matthews Show
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"Once a presidential speechwriter, he's had his own political talk show...
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Jen Fick, a records manager from Bethesda, Maryland
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Season 26 1-time champion: $9,300 + $2,000.
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Bryan Cothorn, a math tutor from Baltimore, Maryland
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Season 25 player (2009-06-03).
Last name pronounced like "CO-thorn".
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Grayson Holmes, a legal assistant from Washington, D.C.
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Season 21 2-time champion: $44,411 + $2,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: Manet_fan
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