| #9367, aired 2025-07-01 | STING! $800: The village of Key Biscayne, not the city of Lisbon, says to avoid this marine animal with a nasty sting even if it's dead a Portuguese man o' war |
| #9366, aired 2025-06-30 | THE TITLE'S NOT IN THE LYRICS $1200: A classic by The Who is titled "Baba O'riley", not "Teenage" this place, as the chorus might suggest Wasteland |
| #9355, aired 2025-06-13 | DIE HARD $600: Referring to its Pop-O-Matic dice device, a board game has used the slogan "There's more" this "in the bubble" Trouble |
| #9346, aired 2025-06-02 | ART & ARTISTS $2,000 (Daily Double): One of her favorite views to paint was Pedernal Mountain & she had her ashes scattered on it after she died Georgia O'Keeffe |
| #9344, aired 2025-05-29 | OF CHINA $800: You need 3 O's & only 3 O's as vowels in this type of tea that dates back at least 1,000 years oolong |
| #9344, aired 2025-05-29 | THE GREAT SQUALL $1000: In a Shakespearean storm, King Lear is joined by his fool & by this character disguised as poor Tom Edgar |
| #52, aired 2025-05-28 | WHAT A "WO"MAN! $400: Her acting career has taken her from the O.C. up to Monterrey for "Big Little Lies" (Shailene) Woodley |
| #51, aired 2025-05-28 | BOOKS & BOOK SERIES $1000: (Here's Rebecca Yarros.) I majored in history & grew up in a 2nd-generation military family, so I can appreciate how this author's series "Master and Commander" combines history & military valor (Patrick) O'Brian |
| #50, aired 2025-05-27 | DOES THAT MAKE YOU UNCOMFORTABLE? $600: Spelling in front of millions? Please do for this 13-letter adjective meaning relating to the current office of Ron DeSantis G-U-B-E-R-N-A-T-O-R-I-A-L |
| #49, aired 2025-05-27 | IT WILL ALL END WITH "Q" $2000: Marcel Duchamp's playful defacement of the Mona Lisa added this to it L.H.O.O.Q. |
| #9341, aired 2025-05-26 | YOU SEEM DISTANT $2000: Britain end-to-end is proverbially to John o'Groat's from here in Cornwall; try the journey in a polo & chinos from a clothing retailer Land's End |
| #9338, aired 2025-05-21 | SEEK & YE SHALL FIND $600: A TV movie with Tony Curtis as David O. Selznick & Edward Winter as Clark Gable was about the search for an actress to play her Scarlett O'Hara |
| #9337, aired 2025-05-20 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $1600: Early in this play by Eugene O'Neill, some drinkers await the arrival of Hickey in Harry Hope's Saloon The Iceman Cometh |
| #46, aired 2025-05-20 | DOCUMENTARIES $1000: A 2024 Oscar winner, "The Only Girl in the Orchestra" tells of double bassist Orin O'Brien, hired by him for the N.Y. philharmonic (Leonard) Bernstein |
| #9336, aired 2025-05-19 | AMERICANA $400: Opened in 1987, Terminal 1 at this U.S. airport is the flagship terminal of United Airlines O'Hare |
| #9334, aired 2025-05-15 | YOU PUT ME ON THE SUPREME COURT $400: Breaking new ground (at last) with Sandra Day O'Connor Reagan |
| #9334, aired 2025-05-15 | "L.O." $400: A pink flamingo or a cute little garden gnome, for example lawn ornament |
| #9334, aired 2025-05-15 | "L.O." $800: During the War of 1812, ships like Hamilton & Scourge sank here, near the Niagara River Lake Ontario |
| #9334, aired 2025-05-15 | "L.O." $1200: Not a request, you should follow one of these, legally issued by a police officer, or you may risk jail time a lawful order |
| #9334, aired 2025-05-15 | "L.O." $1600: In 1984 the NBA Championship Trophy was renamed for this sports executive who managed JFK's presidential run Larry O'Brien |
| #9334, aired 2025-05-15 | "L.O." $2000: The Southern U.S. is dotted with these evergreens used for shade & shelter live oaks |
| #9332, aired 2025-05-13 | METRO STATIONS $600: In Chicago the Blue Line takes you to O'Hare, while the Orange Line takes you to the station for this other airport Midway |
| #9332, aired 2025-05-13 | SITCOMS $800: Ed O'Neill was a longtime TV dad on "Married... with Children" & then again on this sitcom that ran from 2009 to 2020 Modern Family |
| #9331, aired 2025-05-12 | LETTER PERFECT $400: In an emergency or not, in Morse code 3 dashes represent this letter O |
| #9329, aired 2025-05-08 | OLD MacDONALD HAD A WIND FARM $400: & on his farm O-Mac has a turbine for personal use; he got a tax credit for using this kind of renewable energy rhyming with green clean |
| #41, aired 2025-05-07 | BEFORE, DURING & AFTER $1200: Play featuring Benedick & Beatrice, who slip into Sinéad O'Connor's song about an axis type of submarine from World War II Much Ado About Nothing Compares 2 U-Boat |
| #41, aired 2025-05-07 | WHOA! HORSES! $1600: Grantland Rice said that this horse also called "Big Red" had "a furious desire to win" Man o' War |
| #9327, aired 2025-05-06 | OSCAR HOSTS $600: Starting in 1990:
This man, called the best ever at it by 2025 host Conan O'Brien Billy Crystal |
| #9323, aired 2025-04-30 | A VOWEL OF SILENCE $200: In an 8-letter synonym for danger that you're in right now. Seriously. Right now. In front of millions of people O |
| #40, aired 2025-04-30 | OPPOSITE GEOGRAPHY $400: Parts of this tony area include East, where Jackie O. summered, & West, chosen by Coopers & Mannings Hamptons |
| #9320, aired 2025-04-25 | ABSOLUTE POWER $200: P.O.A. is short for this, which enables someone to act on your behalf; durable & springing are 2 types of it power of attorney |
| #9320, aired 2025-04-25 | IF I ONLY HAD A BRAIN $1,000 (Daily Double): This jelly-like creature named for its resemblance to a fighting ship is made up of many brainless polyps a (Portuguese) man o' war |
| #9318, aired 2025-04-23 | DIFFICULT BUT FUNNY TV CHARACTERS $800: Speaking to grad students, he says he was one at 14, & had already done more than most could have hoped to "despite my 9 o'clock bedtime" Sheldon Cooper |
| #9317, aired 2025-04-22 | CHAT, GPS $1000: Take AZ-80 to N. 4th Street; E. Allen St. & your destination is ahead at this landmark that gained fame in 1881; enjoy your holliday! the O.K. Corral |
| #9316, aired 2025-04-21 | "X" MEN $1600: This Spanish missionary & saint, also an O.G. Jesuit, was instrumental in bringing Christianity to Asia (Francis) Xavier |
| #9311, aired 2025-04-14 | OH! THESE WORLD CITIES END IN "O" $400: This Bosnian city boasts many mosques & the Bascarsija, an ancient Ottoman marketplace Sarajevo |
| #9311, aired 2025-04-14 | OH! THESE WORLD CITIES END IN "O" $800: This San Joaquin Valley city, Spanish for "ash tree", is historically a center for Armenian immigrants Fresno |
| #9311, aired 2025-04-14 | OH! THESE WORLD CITIES END IN "O" $1200: Halab is the Arabic name for this city of northern Syria that became a major trading center of the Ottoman Empire by the 16th century Aleppo |
| #9311, aired 2025-04-14 | OH! THESE WORLD CITIES END IN "O" $1600: Founded in the 16th century, this seaport city of Central Chile has been home to the country's national congress since 1990 Valparaiso |
| #9311, aired 2025-04-14 | OH! THESE WORLD CITIES END IN "O" $2000: Just one more thing: the name of this Sri Lankan city on the Indian Ocean likely comes from the Sinhalese for "port" or "ferry" Colombo |
| #9310, aired 2025-04-11 | AUTHORS' ALMA MATERS $800: He wrote for the University of Maine school newspaper & sold his first short story, "The Glass Floor", before he graduated Stephen King |
| #9309, aired 2025-04-10 | GOING TO PIECES $1000: Going 18,000 mph, defunct satellites, missile fragments & parts of rockets are among the space junk termed this, O.D. for short orbital debris |
| #9309, aired 2025-04-10 | A BRIEF MEDICAL TALK $2000: Before -sis, these 7 letters refer to a blood clot T-H-R-O-M-B-O (thrombo) |
| #9307, aired 2025-04-08 | TALK O' TUESDAY $200: With 4 times the usual number of shares traded, the U.S. stock market crashed on "Black Tuesday" in this year 1929 |
| #9307, aired 2025-04-08 | TALK O' TUESDAY $400: After Thanksgiving, there's Black Friday, Shop Small Saturday, Cyber Monday & then this day to be generous to others Giving Tuesday |
| #9307, aired 2025-04-08 | TALK O' TUESDAY $600: This redundantly titled Taylor Swift breakup song begins, "Once upon a time, I believe it was a Tuesday when I caught your eye" "Forever And Always" |
| #9307, aired 2025-04-08 | TALK O' TUESDAY $800: This author's "Tuesdays with Morrie" includes flashbacks to its characters back in college as student & professor Mitch Albom |
| #9307, aired 2025-04-08 | TALK O' TUESDAY $1000: 2017's Tuesday Night Massacre occurred when Donald Trump fired this FBI head for his handling of the Hillary Clinton email controversy Comey |
| #9303, aired 2025-04-02 | PLACING THE SONG $800: This song by The Clash ends with a Morse code signal of S.O.S. "London Calling" |
| #9301, aired 2025-03-31 | RHYME TIME $400: 5-o'clock shadow peril beard feared (stubble trouble) |
| #9298, aired 2025-03-26 | BE MY TV SHOW GUEST $1000: This star of the O.G. "Shaft" guest starred as 2 different characters on "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" Richard Roundtree |
| #9296, aired 2025-03-24 | ABBREV. $800: In computerese: DoS with a little o is denial of service; DOS with a big O is this disk operating system |
| #9294, aired 2025-03-20 | ART OF THE STATE $800: Who else but this artist would give us the oil-on-canvas "Bear Lake, New Mexico, 1930" Georgia O'Keeffe |
| #9291, aired 2025-03-17 | MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS $200: Google's mobile O.S. is still named for this software company it bought in 2005 for around $50 million Android |
| #9290, aired 2025-03-14 | MID-ATLANTIC TRAVEL $1000: The Pacific has Orange County, the Mid-Atlantic has this Maryland O.C., known for its beaches & boardwalk Ocean City |
| #9288, aired 2025-03-12 | BIG "W" $2000: Hyphenated term for the phosphorescent light over swampy areas will-o'-the-wisp |
| #9284, aired 2025-03-06 | 2024 WORDLES, DEFINED $600: A person's strong point, or Will of "MacGruber" fame:
_ O _ _ _ forte |
| #9283, aired 2025-03-05 | ALL THE NON-HUMAN BOOK CHARACTERS $1000: In a book by Robert C. O'Brien, this widowed mouse meets up with some rats from the National Institute of Mental Health Mrs. Frisby |
| #9283, aired 2025-03-05 | LAYING DOWN THE LAW $9,600 (Daily Double): The D.O.J. states that elements of this paired crime involve the "intent to facilitate the commission of a crime by another" aiding & abetting |
| #9282, aired 2025-03-04 | WORLD HISTORY $1000: This son of an Irish-born father was Chile's chief liberator & its first leader after independence (Bernardo) O'Higgins |
| #9281, aired 2025-03-03 | CRYPT-O! $400: Christina Ricci took on Jenna Ortega in Crackstone's crypt on this series Wednesday |
| #9281, aired 2025-03-03 | SHORT BUT SWEET $600: 5 letters, 1 hyphen:
"There's always room for" this, around since 1897 Jell-O |
| #9281, aired 2025-03-03 | CRYPT-O! $800: The crypts of Winterfell, home to this royal house on "Game of Thrones", are spooky & filled with intrigue Stark |
| #9281, aired 2025-03-03 | CRYPT-O! $1200: Lucifer's crypt was a subject of mystery on this aptly named series featuring Sam & Dean Winchester Supernatural |
| #9281, aired 2025-03-03 | CRYPT-O! $1600: Walton Goggins makes a ghoulish entrance from a cemetery in this 2024 sci-fi series Fallout |
| #9281, aired 2025-03-03 | CRYPT-O! $2000: Nadja gives a tour of her crypt in this comedy & she really hates a wicked-looking stuffed goat down there What We Do in the Shadows |
| #9280, aired 2025-02-28 | THE COUNTY LINE $1200: O'Brien County, Iowa is a perfect square, this many miles each side for a total of 576 very square miles 24 |
| #9280, aired 2025-02-28 | BEFORE & AFTER $1600: Turns out the frontwoman of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs is a universal blood donor Karen O negative |
| #9278, aired 2025-02-26 | POETS GO TO THE CINEMA $1200: Frank O'Hara wrote a poem for this film star after he died in a 1955 car accident James Dean |
| #33, aired 2025-02-26 | SPELLING "B"s $200: In this city, the capital of Idaho, you can stay the night in a hotel shaped like a potato B-O-I-S-E |
| #33, aired 2025-02-26 | SPELLING "B"s $400: In 1990, George H.W. Bush declared, "I'm president of the United States, & I'm not going to eat any more" of this green vegetable B-R-O-C-C-O-L-I |
| #9276, aired 2025-02-24 | SMALL, MEDIUM, LARGE $1200: Moku o Keawe is the traditional equivalent of this geographic nickname that's 2 English words the Big Island |
| #9274, aired 2025-02-20 | SURPRISE! SHAKESPEARE! $1600: Somewhat ironically, Autolycus sings about daffodils, "the sweet o' the year" & "summer songs" in this play The Winter's Tale |
| #9273, aired 2025-02-19 | AUTHORS NOT AUTHORING $800: When this short story writer was on the lam, he headed down Honduras way, hung out with a bank robber & wrote "Cabbages & Kings" O. Henry |
| #9272, aired 2025-02-18 | THE '80s: WHO SAID IT? $1200: On her nomination to the Supreme Court: "This is a momentous day in my life and the life of my family" Sandra Day O'Connor |
| #32, aired 2025-02-12 | ANIMAL IDIOM BRAINTEASERS: THE SEQUEL $200: Sometimes folks get set in their ways & it's difficult to change their habits:
Y.C.T.A.O.D.N.T. you can't teach an old dog new tricks |
| #32, aired 2025-02-12 | ANIMAL IDIOM BRAINTEASERS: THE SEQUEL $300: People with similar interests tend to gravitate toward each other:
B.O.A.F.F.T. birds of a feather flock together |
| #32, aired 2025-02-12 | ANIMAL IDIOM BRAINTEASERS: THE SEQUEL $400: You're running around in a frenzied, distracted manner:
L.A.C.W.I.H.C.O. like a chicken with its head cut off |
| #32, aired 2025-02-12 | ANIMAL IDIOM BRAINTEASERS: THE SEQUEL $500: Trying to solve a problem, you accidentally made it even more complicated:
O.A.C.O.W. opened a can of worms |
| #9266, aired 2025-02-10 | TV SHOW CHANGE A LETTER $600: Richie, Fonzie, Potsie & Ralph Malph gather to sing the opening word of the "Banana Boat Song" Happy Day-O |
| #9265, aired 2025-02-07 | CEOs $1200: O say can you see, Gail Boudreaux took over as CEO of this health insurance provider in 2017; it's now called Elevance Health Anthem |
| #9261, aired 2025-02-03 | BETTER LUCK NEXT TIME $200: A favorite in this 10-event event for the 1992 Olympics, Dan O'Brien failed to make the U.S. team; in 1996 he did & got the gold the decathlon |
| #9260, aired 2025-01-31 | PLAYING SPORTSBALL $1000: In 2024 the only Jewish starting QB in college football was Jake Retzlaff of this Provo school, one of 3 M.O.T.s on the whole campus BYU |
| #9259, aired 2025-01-30 | PRE-BOOTS $800: In 2018 Juliet Higgins helped solve mysteries in Hawaii on this show, but back in 1980, it was Jonathan Higgins on the case Magnum, P.I. |
| #9258, aired 2025-01-29 | RELIGIOUS WORDS & PHRASES $800: This Jewish dietary word is used in other contexts, like "Father O'Leary says miniskirts at mass are not..." kosher |
| #30, aired 2025-01-29 | ALL I SEE IS Y-O-U $100: This food is made by letting warm, bacteria-laden milk sit out for hours; sounds delicious
YO_U__ yogurt |
| #30, aired 2025-01-29 | ALL I SEE IS Y-O-U $200: John Fogerty sang that he was born on this type of waterway, but he's actually from Northern California
__YOU a bayou |
| #30, aired 2025-01-29 | ALL I SEE IS Y-O-U $300: This nimble dog breed can reach top speeds of up to 45 mph
___Y_OU__ a greyhound |
| #30, aired 2025-01-29 | ALL I SEE IS Y-O-U $400: This Massachusetts town is home to Pilgrim Memorial State Park; it really rocks
__Y_OU__ Plymouth |
| #30, aired 2025-01-29 | ALL I SEE IS Y-O-U $500: It's the longest side of a right triangle
_Y_O___U__ a hypotenuse |
| #30, aired 2025-01-29 | WHICH BILL SAID IT? $1200: "This is it... we're on live in the No Spin Zone. It's a nightmare place for charlatans & deceivers" Bill O'Reilly |
| #9257, aired 2025-01-28 | FROM TV SHOW TO FILM $800: A 2022 headline said, "'Jackass Forever' was attuned to the passing of wind & time", & called this actor the first "Jackass" silver fox Johnny Knoxville |
| #9255, aired 2025-01-24 | '90s NO. 1 HITS $800: Sinéad O'Connor's "Nothing Compares 2 U" was written by him Prince |
| #9254, aired 2025-01-23 | FROM PAGE TO SCREEN $800: This beloved middle school novel became a 2024 film with Lupita Nyong'o as the voice of Roz, the title automaton The Wild Robot |
| #9253, aired 2025-01-22 | WOMEN THROUGH THE YEARS $400: While she was at Cornell, this future Supreme Court justice took Vladimir Nabokov's European lit class (Ruth Bader) Ginsburg |
| #29, aired 2025-01-22 | I HAVE A MEME $100: Don't click on that hyperlink! You could become a victim of this O.G. meme, a bait-&-switch prank involving '80s singer Rick Astley a rickroll |
| #29, aired 2025-01-22 | WHAT'S THE DEAL WITH THE PERIODIC TABLE? $300: What's with those noble gases? They all end in "O-N" except for this one, He--& what's so "noble" about filling up balloons? helium |
| #29, aired 2025-01-22 | SCIENCE, TECH & TV $400: This longtime late-night host said his doctor told him "I've never, ever, ever had a DNA result like this... you are 100% Irish" Conan O'Brien |
| #29, aired 2025-01-22 | SAVE THE DRAMA FOR YO' MOMMA $600: His play "Long Day's Journey into Night" opens after mom's return home from a rehab stint for morphine addiction Eugene O'Neill |
| #9251, aired 2025-01-20 | FARM TOOLS & MACHINERY $800: This type of silo with a conveyor belt to take grain up to the top level is mentioned in the first paragraph of "O Pioneers!" a grain elevator |
| #9249, aired 2025-01-16 | SHORT STORIES $1200: This O. Henry classic tells the story of a young, poor couple who try to get the perfect Christmas presents for each other "The Gift of the Magi" |
| #9247, aired 2025-01-14 | CROSSWORD CLUES "O" $400: Hidden or supernatural
(6 letters) occult |
| #9247, aired 2025-01-14 | CROSSWORD CLUES "O" $800: Cranial nerve to smell ya later
(9 letters) olfactory |
| #9247, aired 2025-01-14 | CROSSWORD CLUES "O" $1200: King of the fairies or moon of Uranus
(6 letters) Oberon |
| #9247, aired 2025-01-14 | CROSSWORD CLUES "O" $1600: Straight-up hatred
(5 letters) odium |
| #9247, aired 2025-01-14 | CROSSWORD CLUES "O" $2000: An oven for drying hops
(4 letters) an oast |
| #9246, aired 2025-01-13 | OTHER USES OF TEXTING ABBREVIATIONS $200: LOL, without JK:
This company that grew by selling butter in sticks Land O'Lakes |
| #9244, aired 2025-01-09 | ALL IN THE FAMILY $1600: Actress Oona Chaplin is the granddaughter of Charlie Chaplin & the great grand-daughter of this Nobel-winning playwright (Eugene) O'Neill |
| #27, aired 2025-01-08 | AMERICAN MASTERS $1500: Despite her denials, this modernist's work, including "Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1", is thought to have erotic undertones Georgia O'Keeffe |
| #9239, aired 2025-01-02 | YOU SAY TOBAGO, I SAY TOBAGO $600: After being in "Black Panther", Tobagonian actor Winston Duke co-starred with Lupita Nyong'o in this horror film Us |
| #9238, aired 2025-01-01 | PEOPLE OF AFRICA $1600: Lesotho minus L-E gets you the Sotho people; the Western Sotho are called these, another country minus B-O the Tswana |
| #9238, aired 2025-01-01 | PEOPLE OF AFRICA $2000: Ethiopia's 2 largest ethnic groups are the triple-O Oromo & this triple-A group whose name recalls a local language the Amhara |
| #9237, aired 2024-12-31 | FROM "M" TO "Y" $800: A Robert Burns poem says, "O my love is like" this "that's sweetly played in tune" a melody |
| #9236, aired 2024-12-30 | ART & ARTISTS $800: In 1930 Georgia O'Keeffe detailed a "Black Mesa Landscape," this state New Mexico |
| #9235, aired 2024-12-27 | STARTS & ENDS WITH "O" $200: Founded by King Harald Hardrada around 1050, it's home to more than 1 million people Oslo |
| #9235, aired 2024-12-27 | STARTS & ENDS WITH "O" $400: This type of work takes its name from a chapel in Rome where musical performances were held in the 16th century oratorio |
| #9235, aired 2024-12-27 | STARTS & ENDS WITH "O" $600: In Spanish this palindromic word means "eye" or in slang, "watch out!" ojo |
| #9235, aired 2024-12-27 | STARTS & ENDS WITH "O" $800: Shopping for ingredients in the marinade for souvlaki? Don't forget this essential herb oregano |
| #9235, aired 2024-12-27 | STARTS & ENDS WITH "O" $1000: A word coined in the 1960s, it's the segment of music heard here... making a nice capper to my clue reading outro |
| #9231, aired 2024-12-23 | NAME THAT SUPREME COURT JUSTICE $1600: This former dean of Harvard Law School was pictured with a robe & gavel in her 1977 New York high school yearbook Elena Kagan |
| #9228, aired 2024-12-18 | VICTORIAN VERSE $800: In this poem, Tennyson wrote, "When can their glory fade? O the wild charge they made! All the world wondered" "The Charge of the Light Brigade" |
| #9228, aired 2024-12-18 | VICTORIAN VERSE $1600: His "Barrack Room Ballads" covers India & beyond, as in "Ford o' Kabul River" Kipling |
| #9222, aired 2024-12-10 | A MEAT & POTATOES CATEGORY $1000: O Canada! This type of potato with buttery yellow flesh is great for mashing Yukon Gold |
| #9219, aired 2024-12-05 | CROSSWORD CLUES "O" $400: Spiel or speech
(7 letters) oratory (oration) |
| #9219, aired 2024-12-05 | CROSSWORD CLUES "O" $800: It means family in Hawaiian
(5 letters) ohana |
| #9219, aired 2024-12-05 | CROSSWORD CLUES "O" $1200: Like Pollyanna
(10 letters) optimistic |
| #9219, aired 2024-12-05 | CROSSWORD CLUES "O" $1600: Egg-shaped
(5 letters) ovoid |
| #9219, aired 2024-12-05 | CROSSWORD CLUES "O" $2000: Government by the few
(9 letters) oligarchy |
| #9216, aired 2024-12-02 | SPORTS STAR RECORDS $800: In 2022 this former Laker aka DJ Diesel joined Steve Aoki on the electronic song "Welcome To The Playhouse" Shaquille O'Neal (Shaq) |
| #9216, aired 2024-12-02 | FLORIDA WOMAN $1000: Feminist activist Roxcy O'Neal Bolton of Coral Gables was the driving force behind making August 26 this annual day Women's Equality Day |
| #9214, aired 2024-11-28 | ASIAN LITERATURE $400: In the Iraqi novel "The President's Gardens", Abdullah spends 2 decades as a P.O.W. in this country after the 1980s war Iran |
| #9209, aired 2024-11-21 | OTHER NAMES FOR THE CITY $600: You can't miss out on "The Big 'O"' aka this city just north of the Platte River Omaha |
| #9208, aired 2024-11-20 | AUTHORS' EPITAPHS $800 (Daily Double): Her East Sussex grave says, "Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O death! The waves broke on the shore" Virginia Woolf |
| #9208, aired 2024-11-20 | ANIMAL PLANET $2000: The cnidarians include jellyfish & this stinging animal named for its fancied resemblance to an old-time fighting ship a Portuguese man o' war |
| #9205, aired 2024-11-15 | I DIDN'T COME HERE TO MAKE FRIENDS $800: David Schwimmer was there for you as this late lawyer, defending O.J. Simpson in "American Crime Story" Robert Kardashian |
| #9204, aired 2024-11-14 | O'ER THE LAND OF THE FREE $200: You can soar above the 11,842 lakes of 10 acres or more in this not quite accurately nicknamed state Minnesota |
| #9204, aired 2024-11-14 | AVIATORS $400: Tuskegee Airmen flew under the command of Benjamin O. Davis Jr., the first Black person in the 20th century to graduate from this academy West Point |
| #9204, aired 2024-11-14 | O'ER THE LAND OF THE FREE $400: We're beginning our descent into this city; out your window, you may be able to see Coit Tower & Ghirardelli Square San Francisco |
| #9204, aired 2024-11-14 | O'ER THE LAND OF THE FREE $600: It's about 3 hours by car from Pocatello to Sun Valley in this state, but what the heck! Let's fire up the Piper Cub! Idaho |
| #9204, aired 2024-11-14 | O'ER THE LAND OF THE FREE $800 (Daily Double): If you fly west out of Columbia, Missouri to Denver, basically above I-70, you'll cross this state in its entirety Kansas |
| #9204, aired 2024-11-14 | O'ER THE LAND OF THE FREE $1000: Why just o'er? Why just land? We're going to put our seaplane down on this 730-square-mile Florida lake & do a little fishing Okeechobee |
| #9193, aired 2024-10-30 | WHERE TO GO WHEN... $400: You want to see Tyler O'Neill play & maybe catch a home run ball off his bat: this ballpark's Green Monster seats Fenway |
| #9184, aired 2024-10-17 | HORSING AROUND $1600: In his two years of racing, 1919 & 1920, he won 20 of 21 races; in 1999, he was named Horse of the Century Man o' War |
| #9182, aired 2024-10-15 | DUBLINERS: THEY WRITE, THEY PERFORM $400: In 2023 music fans mourned her, a 1991 Grammy winner for Best Alternative Music Performance for "I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got" Sinead O'Connor |
| #9181, aired 2024-10-14 | FAMILY FEUD $400: "Boyfights", a series of videos created by George Bluth Sr. on this sitcom, featured his sons Michael & G.O.B. brawling Arrested Development |
| #9181, aired 2024-10-14 | THE CHARACTERS THEY BIRTHED $800: Ellen O'Hara,
Melanie Wilkes Margaret Mitchell |
| #9181, aired 2024-10-14 | THE CHARACTERS THEY BIRTHED $1600: O-Lan, a mother;
Lotus, a concubine (Pearl S.) Buck |
| #9180, aired 2024-10-11 | A LITTLE DAY MUSIC $1000: "Six o'clock already I was just in the middle of a dream", begins this Bangles hit that Prince wrote "Manic Monday" |
| #9175, aired 2024-10-04 | U.S. MUSEUMS $3,000 (Daily Double): Her story is told in 9 galleries through photos, drawings, paintings & personal possessions at her museum in downtown Santa Fe (Georgia) O'Keeffe |
| #9171, aired 2024-09-30 | WOMEN ON TV $1600: She's currently the only woman to anchor a nightly network news broadcast on one of the big three networks O'Donnell |
| #9170, aired 2024-09-27 | O CANADA PROVINCE CAPITAL $200: In 1758 Halifax, capital of this province, was the site of Canada's first representative government Nova Scotia |
| #9170, aired 2024-09-27 | O CANADA PROVINCE CAPITAL $400: Founded by Samuel de Champlain in 1608, this city has a name that comes from Algonquian for "the river narrows here" Quebec (City) |
| #9170, aired 2024-09-27 | O CANADA PROVINCE CAPITAL $600: This Alberta city is called "The Gateway to the North" & in the 2022-23 season, the gateway to 64 Connor McDavid goals Edmonton |
| #9170, aired 2024-09-27 | O CANADA PROVINCE CAPITAL $800: This Manitoba city is called "The Gateway to the West" & in the 2022-23 season, the gateway to 42 Mark Scheifele goals Winnipeg |
| #9170, aired 2024-09-27 | O CANADA PROVINCE CAPITAL $1000: It has been the capital of British Columbia ever since the province joined Canada in 1871 Victoria |
| #9169, aired 2024-09-26 | PSYCHOLOGY $2000: In I/O, this & organizational psychology, the Hawthorne studies showed that workers had human needs beyond pay industrial |
| #9164, aired 2024-09-19 | LITERARY EPITAPHS $1200: For his epitaph, he wrote, "A poet lies, or that which one seem'd he,--O, lift one thought in prayer for S.T.C." Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
| #9161, aired 2024-09-16 | FUN WITH U.S. STATE CAPITAL NAMES $1000: The name of Germany's fifth-largest city differs by one letter from the name of this capital Frankfort |
| #9161, aired 2024-09-16 | EXITS & ENTRANCES $2000: Reported last words of this Pulitzer-winning playwright in 1953, "I knew it"; born in a hotel room & died in a hotel room Eugene O'Neill |
| #9160, aired 2024-09-13 | STATELY PRECEDERS $200: Peach or O'Keeffe Georgia |
| #9151, aired 2024-07-22 | 3 "O"s $400: Here's an actual one of these at a space center in Houston Moon rock |
| #9151, aired 2024-07-22 | 3 "O"s $800: These performers can bend over backwards, literally, & twist their bodies in all kinds of unusual ways contortionist |
| #9151, aired 2024-07-22 | 3 "O"s $1200: Seen here in full bloom, it's the state tree of Virginia as well as its state flower dogwood |
| #9151, aired 2024-07-22 | 3 "O"s $1600: The name of a biblical king gives us this adjective meaning "wise" Solomonic |
| #9151, aired 2024-07-22 | 3 "O"s $2000: Mohammed VI became king of it in 1999 Morocco |
| #9150, aired 2024-07-19 | BRITISH HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): The name of this venue built in 1599 fit its circular shape, a "wooden O", some would say the Globe Theatre |
| #9148, aired 2024-07-17 | 3 CONSECUTIVE LETTERS $1600: It's the study of church songs like "Be Thou My Vision" & "Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah" hymnology |
| #9145, aired 2024-07-12 | WHO'S SPEAKING IN THE HARRY POTTER BOOKS $600: "Tiny little bloke, my dad was. By the time I was six I could lift him up an' put him on top o' the dresser" Hagrid |
| #9143, aired 2024-07-10 | ROUGH TIMES IN THE CITY $200: In 1871 Patrick & Catherine O'Leary owned a cow in this city; a bovine pyromaniac? History is unsure, but the fire was devastating Chicago |
| #9138, aired 2024-07-03 | DON'T GO, JASON $800: Playing the evil Gideon in this Edgar Wright flick, Jason Schwartzman gets his head kicked in; K-O, Cera Cera Scott Pilgrim vs. the World |
| #9137, aired 2024-07-02 | WHAT DO YOU STAND FOR? $400: In the workplace, P.T.O. can stand for this, like a vacation day paid time off |
| #9137, aired 2024-07-02 | THE LITERARY CHARACTER WHO SAID... $800: "O master! O master! ... O yonder there, one, two, three canoes; one, two, three!" Friday |
| #9136, aired 2024-07-01 | O CANADA $400: Rising sea levels threaten the isthmus that connects Nova Scotia, "New Scotland", & this province with "New" in its name New Brunswick |
| #9136, aired 2024-07-01 | BASED ON A TRUE STORY $400: In "Gunfight at the O.K. Corral", Kirk Douglas played Doc Holliday & Burt Lancaster played this lawman Wyatt Earp |
| #9136, aired 2024-07-01 | O CANADA $800: Once a part of the Northwest Territories, it became its own territory in 1898 the Yukon Territory |
| #9136, aired 2024-07-01 | BASED ON A TRUE STORY $800: Jack O'Connell played Olympic runner & World War II P.O.W. Louis Zamperini in this film based on a nonfiction bestseller Unbroken |
| #9136, aired 2024-07-01 | O CANADA $1200: The Ottawa River is a tributary of this one that becomes a seaway St. Lawrence |
| #9136, aired 2024-07-01 | O CANADA $1600: Canada recognizes more than 600 groups of indigenous people known by this ordinal term First Nations |
| #9136, aired 2024-07-01 | O CANADA $2000: More "O Canada" lyrics! In 2018 this kind of love "in all thy sons command" became "in all of us command" true patriot love |
| #9135, aired 2024-06-28 | INTERNET CELEBRITIES $800: Before "SNL" this comedy troupe featuring Andy Samberg made the web series "The 'Bu", a parody of "The O.C." The Lonely Island |
| #9133, aired 2024-06-26 | ELLIS ISLAND $400: Ellis Island immigrants Abe Beame & William O'Dwyer rose to this office, like Fiorello La Guardia, who was an interpreter there mayor of New York City |
| #9133, aired 2024-06-26 | AROUND THE WORLD $600: This annual event in Munich kicks off with the exclamation "O'zapft is!", "It's tapped!" Oktoberfest |
| #9128, aired 2024-06-19 | TAKE TO TASK $600: This festive headwear gets its name from a Robert Burns character tam o' shanter |
| #9128, aired 2024-06-19 | OPRAH-POURRI $800: Oprah's friend for nearly 50 years, she's the co-host of "CBS Mornings" & entered the O-zone when both worked at WJZ Baltimore Gayle King |
| #9127, aired 2024-06-18 | THE SCANDAL OF IT ALL $200: In 1995 the premier of British Columbia quit amid scandal over funds embezzled from a charity version of this game-o bingo |
| #9127, aired 2024-06-18 | ENTERTAINING AUTOBIOS $800: There's not much this performer from the "Jackass" series wouldn't do, including titling his memoir, "Professional Idiot" Steve-O |
| #9126, aired 2024-06-17 | CANDY IS DANDY $800: The bee on its wrappers calls the product "nutty little honey chews" Bit-O-Honey |
| #9123, aired 2024-06-12 | VOWEL SWITCHEROO $800: Jim O'Connor of "Glass Menagerie" fame was a "gentleman" one
&
a room for Merlots caller & cellar |
| #9120, aired 2024-06-07 | BRAVING THE ELEMENTS' SYMBOLS $800: Going with atomic No. 8, this single-letter symbol represents something you just can't live without... literally O |
| #9117, aired 2024-06-04 | OTHER GOOD BOOKS $400: Flannery O'Connor titled a collection of short stories "A Good Man Is" these 3 words; preach, sister Hard to Find |
| #9117, aired 2024-06-04 | MODERN POTPOURRI $1600: In 2009 Patrick O. Brown took a sabbatical from Stanford & began work on what would become this brand of plant-based burgers Impossible |
| #9114, aired 2024-05-30 | PLAY CHARACTERS $400: "O, I am fortune's fool!" says this Shakespeare title character after killing Tybalt Romeo |
| #9113, aired 2024-05-29 | THIS & THAT $600: This George Gershwin opera that premiered in 1935 features the song "I Got Plenty O' Nuttin"' Porgy and Bess |
| #9113, aired 2024-05-29 | CLASSIC RAP LYRICS $800: Naughty By Nature hit the Top 10 with the musical question, "You down with" this? & also provided an answer: "Yeah, you know me" O.P.P. |
| #9113, aired 2024-05-29 | NOVELS $1000: This Willa Cather book about folks in a new land says, "The absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing" things O Pioneers! |
| #9105, aired 2024-05-17 | ENTER THE LITERARY CHARACTER $400: We meet her "seated with Stuart and Brent Tarleton in the cool shade of the porch of Tara, her father's plantation " Scarlett O'Hara |
| #9105, aired 2024-05-17 | I'M A FUN GUY $400: There's nothing more fun than getting all sudsy & going down this "original backyard water slide" from Wham-O a Slip 'N Slide |
| #33, aired 2024-05-17 | BEFORE, DURING & AFTER $800: Darlin', can't you hear a title ABBA distress signal that gets motor oil treatment & becomes an acronym for kissing & such S.O.S.T.P.D.A. |
| #9104, aired 2024-05-16 | APPROXIMATE WEIGHTS & MEASURES $1200: In his 1916 poem "Home", Edgar Guest wrote that "It takes" this much "o' livin' in a house t' make it home" a heap |
| #31, aired 2024-05-15 | IS THIS THING AWNING? $2000: No, we're indoors, & that's this structure over an altar; it can end in just "N" or in "N-O", & one at St. Peter's is pretty elaborate a baldachin |
| #9102, aired 2024-05-14 | EVE $200: "We'll take a cup o' kindness yet for" this song that makes New Year's Eve New Year's Eve "Auld Lang Syne" |
| #9100, aired 2024-05-10 | "O" SAY $200: "I need physics more than friends", said this scientist, who could have used a few more during a 1954 investigation into his life Oppenheimer |
| #9100, aired 2024-05-10 | BUSINESS NAMES $400: One of the most powerful women in business, Karen Lynch became C-E-O of this healthcare co. & drugstore chain in 2021 CVS |
| #9100, aired 2024-05-10 | "O" SAY $400: In 1892 she told an interviewer, "It is impossible to shoot brilliantly in a tight-fitting bodice" (Annie) Oakley |
| #9100, aired 2024-05-10 | "O" SAY $600: This HBO host: "Cuba. Florida's teardrop tattoo" John Oliver |
| #9100, aired 2024-05-10 | "O" SAY $800: He joked, "These days, I look in the mirror & I... admit, I'm not the strapping young Muslim socialist that I used to be" Obama |
| #9100, aired 2024-05-10 | "O" SAY $1000: This Greek shipping magnate: "If you sleep 3 hours less each night for a year, you will have an extra month & a half to succeed in" Onassis |
| #9099, aired 2024-05-09 | SHAKESPEARE BEFORE & AFTER $800: Beatrice & Benedick discover a Sinead O'Connor No. 1 hit Much Ado about Nothing Compares 2 U |
| #25, aired 2024-05-08 | LITERATURE: WHO SAID IT? $15,400 (Daily Double): "She betrayed you, Winston. Immediately--unreservedly. I have seldom seen anyone come over to us so promptly" O'Brien |
| #9097, aired 2024-05-07 | WORDS IN JEOPARDY $400: This verb meaning to love & worship is found in the lyrics of "O Come, All Ye Faithful" adore |
| #23, aired 2024-05-06 | DEATH OF A WRITER $400: This Pulitzer Prize winner was hit & killed in 1949 as she tried to cross Peachtree Street in Atlanta (Margaret) Mitchell |
| #9093, aired 2024-05-01 | 16th CENTURY STUFF $400: The O-"G", this name I Vasa, founded Sweden's Vasa ruling line & reigned from 1523 until his 1560 death Gustav |
| #9093, aired 2024-05-01 | -OLOGIES $4,200 (Daily Double): Remove 2 letters from the study of weather to get this, the study of weights & measures metrology |
| #22, aired 2024-05-01 | SPELL IT! $200: Referring to non-canonical Bible books, this adjective describes anything of dubious authenticity A-P-O-C-R-Y-P-H-A-L |
| #22, aired 2024-05-01 | SPELL IT! $400: You know, that Lea & Perrins sauce that has way too many letters for 3 syllables? Yeah, spell that W-O-R-C-E-S-T-E-R-S-H-I-R-E |
| #22, aired 2024-05-01 | ADVENTURES OF A BRITISH NOVEL HERO $400: In Chapter 7 our hero gets nicked; in Chapter 8 he's at His Majesty's pleasure, which means he's here jail |
| #21, aired 2024-05-01 | CLASSIC MOVIES $400: This actor who starred in "Paper Moon" & "Barry Lyndon" passed away in 2023 (Ryan) O'Neal |
| #21, aired 2024-05-01 | INTERNET SLANG $400: In classical music an op. is an opus, but over on Reddit, an O.P. is an abbreviation for this the original poster |
| #9092, aired 2024-04-30 | BLANK VERSE $2000: Shelley:
"O, wild
____ ____,
thou breath of autumn's being" West Wind |
| #9090, aired 2024-04-26 | POETRY FOR THEE $1600: Whitman got tired of this somewhat cheesy 1865 elegy for Lincoln & wrote another, "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" "O Captain! My Captain!" |
| #9088, aired 2024-04-24 | MOVEMENT $1000: In 1845 magazine editor John L. O'Sullivan wrote of this 2-word phrase regarding America's westward expansion manifest destiny |
| #9085, aired 2024-04-19 | ANATOMY A TO Z $600: O:
They're the major source of estrogen ovaries |
| #9084, aired 2024-04-18 | WHAT A LITERARY CHARACTER $200: This character who married Melanie instead of Scarlett O'Hara was said to have been based on Doc Holliday Ashley (Wilkes) |
| #9084, aired 2024-04-18 | WHAT A LITERARY CHARACTER $1000: In "1984", Julia meets with this man secretly, bringing him contraband chocolate & stirring forgotten memories Winston Smith |
| #9081, aired 2024-04-15 | 3-LETTER SPELLING BEE $400: Here & there, it's hither's proverbial partner Y-O-N |
| #9078, aired 2024-04-10 | NOT PERSIMMON $800: We think this hybrid fruit would sound great as a Jell-O flavor tangelo |
| #9071, aired 2024-04-01 | AUTHORS AT WAR $1000: This author of "Going After Cacciato" was wounded by shrapnel from a grenade in Vietnam & received a Purple Heart Tim O'Brien |
| #9071, aired 2024-04-01 | AUTHORS AT WAR $1,800 (Daily Double): As a P.O.W., Kurt Vonnegut survived the 1945 Allied firebombing of this German city because he was working underground Dresden |
| #9070, aired 2024-03-29 | SOUTH AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: Huascar co-ruled the Inca from Cuzco; his brother Atahualpa ruled from this city that also ends in "O" Quito |
| #9068, aired 2024-03-27 | MUSIC COLLABS $400: He had a collab with Miles Davis called "Can I Play With U?", included on a "Sign o' the Times" reissue Prince |
| #9066, aired 2024-03-25 | IAMB A POET $1600: I, William Wordsworth, wrote this iambic line that precedes "that floats on high o'er vales and hills" I wandered lonely as a cloud |
| #9065, aired 2024-03-22 | IN THE NATIONAL WOMEN'S HALL OF FAME $400: This first woman appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court Sandra Day O'Connor |
| #9063, aired 2024-03-20 | 19th CENTURY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS $2000: Joseph Medill, publisher of the Chicago Tribune, was a founder of the G.O.P. & helped make these debates happen in 1858 the Lincoln-Douglas debates |
| #9062, aired 2024-03-19 | NEWER MACHINES & INVENTIONS $800: With a name like another musical instrument, the "O-" this uses an optical sensor & keyboard to make violin music the O-bow (an optical bow) |
| #9060, aired 2024-03-15 | MOVIE SONGS $1200: This song shot to No. 1, 2, 3 o'clock after being featured in the 1955 film "Blackboard Jungle" "Rock Around The Clock" |
| #9060, aired 2024-03-15 | MOVIE SONGS $1600: "All Is Love", "Rumpus" & "Food Is Still Hot" are numbers by Karen O & the Kids for this kids' book adaptation Where the Wild Things Are |
| #9059, aired 2024-03-14 | THE NAME ON THE OSCAR $1600: Best Supporting Actress, 1973, for "Paper Moon" Tatum O'Neal |
| #9058, aired 2024-03-13 | SINGERS $400: This singer's 2023 N.Y. Times obituary said her biggest hit was "a breathtaking rendition of... 'Nothing Compares 2 U"' Sinéad O'Connor |
| #9056, aired 2024-03-11 | IT'S CURTAINS $2000: Her first short story collection, "A Curtain of Green", contains her most famous story, "Why I Live at the P.O." Welty |
| #9052, aired 2024-03-05 | TV IN THE AUGHTIES $200: Ben McKenzie played Ryan Atwood, a tough kid from Chino taken in by a wealthy Newport Beach family on this show The O.C. |
| #9052, aired 2024-03-05 | "O-U-R" SOMETHING $400: Feed the body, or the soul nourish |
| #9052, aired 2024-03-05 | "O-U-R" SOMETHING $800: It's the French-derived word for a device used to stop severe bleeding; a belt or strong piece of cloth can do in a pinch a tourniquet |
| #9052, aired 2024-03-05 | "O-U-R" SOMETHING $1200: Condolences to the dark-colored butterfly known as this type of cloak the mourning cloak butterfly |
| #9052, aired 2024-03-05 | "O-U-R" SOMETHING $1600: Billie Eilish has spoken publicly about having this syndrome, which is just part of who she is Tourette's |
| #9052, aired 2024-03-05 | "O-U-R" SOMETHING $2000: France lost about 6,000 troops, England, less than 500, in the 1415 battle of this village Agincourt |
| #9049, aired 2024-02-29 | DETECTIVE FICTION $400: G.K. Chesterton based this detective on his friend John O'Connor, who was a priest Father Brown |
| #9047, aired 2024-02-27 | A NICE SHORT STORY SPOILED $2000: Turns out O. Henry's "Ransom of" him ends up costing the kidnappers $250 just to get the dad to take the kid off their hands "The Ransom of Red Chief" |
| #9045, aired 2024-02-23 | JUDGES $1200: Bertha Wilson, Canada's Sandra Day O'Connor, allowed this syndrome as a defense of Angelique Lavallee, who killed "Rooster" Rust battered wife syndrome |
| #9043, aired 2024-02-21 | BOOZY $1000: Many a classic cocktail calls for a wee bit o' this Scotch whisky liqueur flavored with heather honey Drambuie |
| #9039, aired 2024-02-15 | POP MUSIC $800: She's named in honor of her grandfather William; the rest of her name is Pirate Baird O'Connell Billie Eilish |
| #9038, aired 2024-02-14 | THE AIR THAT I BREATHE $400: In the 1970s Nik-O-Lok, pioneer of pay toilets, began making folks pay for air at these facilities a gas station |
| #9038, aired 2024-02-14 | TOUGH 10-LETTER WORDS $2000: "O", it means excessively compliant or servile obsequious |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #9033, aired 2024-02-07 | LITERATURE BINGO $600: "O" (No!), 1898: William S. Porter was convicted of embezzlement; after prison, he put out short stories under this name O. Henry |
| #9030, aired 2024-02-02 | ETCH & SKETCH $800: Not surprisingly, among her drawings are "Antelope Horns" & flowers like the poppy Georgia O'Keeffe |
| #3, aired 2024-02-02 | RHYMING FOLKS $400: Nicknamed "The Big Aristotle", this big Basketball Hall of Famer hosts "The Big Podcast" Shaquille O'Neal |
| #9028, aired 2024-01-31 | QUESTIONABLE MOVIES $1000: The title of this Coen Bros. film comes from a movie Joel McCrea wanted to make in Preston Sturges' "Sullivan's Travels" O Brother, Where Art Thou? |
| #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 |
| #9024, aired 2024-01-25 | DRINKING VESSELS $400: Used to drink this alcoholic beverage, a ceramic o-choko can have two blue rings on a white base on the inside of the cup sake |
| #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 $200: This gasoline brand merged with Exxon in 1999; you can't spell it without spelling...
_ O _ I L Mobil |
| #25, aired 2024-01-16 | 50% "OFF" $300: Besides chocolate (of course), a key ingredient in the candy bar invented in 1928 by Bayard & Everett Heath toffee |
| #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 |
| #2, aired 2024-01-12 | MARINE LIFE $800: The most intelligent of all invertebrates is thought to be O. vulgaris, the common type of this cephalopod octopus |
| #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 |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | ANIMAL IDIOM BRAINTEASERS $1000: You can do anything you wish or go anywhere you want in this life:
T.W.I.Y.O. the world is your oyster |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | FEMALE FIRSTS $1500: Decades before becoming the first female Supreme Court justice, she refused a marriage proposal from future Chief Justice Rehnquist Sandra Day O'Connor |
| #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 |
| #9007, aired 2024-01-02 | THE CHARLES III KIND $600: This actor, who was Charles in "The Crown", says he'd like to ask the king about his experience as a fellow sticky-out-eared man Josh O'Connor |
| #9006, aired 2024-01-01 | PEOPLE $600: Ernie Barnes' 1976 painting "The Sugar Shack" was used in the credits of this dyn-o-mite '70s sitcom Good Times |
| #8999, aired 2023-12-21 | EUR"O"s $400: This town in Provence gave its name to a Dutch royal house Orange |
| #8999, aired 2023-12-21 | EUR"O"s $800: This capital of France's Loiret départements is old, not new Orleans |
| #8999, aired 2023-12-21 | EUR"O"s $1200: What's that smell? Must be all the industrial pollution in this big river that forms part of the Poland-Germany border the Oder |
| #8999, aired 2023-12-21 | EUR"O"s $1600: From northern Scotland, cross the Pentland Firth to get to these islands the Orkneys |
| #8999, aired 2023-12-21 | EUR"O"s $2000: It's home to the immersive digital museum Viking Planet Oslo |
| #8992, aired 2023-12-12 | McPEOPLE $2000: Get to know the real Jackie O at a 2023-2024 exhibit at the National First Ladies' Library at this woman's Canton, Ohio home Ida McKinley |
| #8991, aired 2023-12-11 | THE 7 DEADLY SIN-ONYMS $400: "O, beware, my lord, of" this synonym for envy jealousy |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | SHOUT IT OUT! $300: Try yelling out "O-H!" in a crowded place; chances are, any Buckeyes fan within earshot will yell these two letters in return I-O |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | SHAKESPEARE PLAYS BY INITIALS $500: Valentine & Proteus are the guys that form this titular pair:
T.T.G.O.V. The Two Gentlemen of Verona |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | LITERARY TOURISM $1000: Have a pint at Pete's Tavern in the Big Apple but don't expect to get the booth where O. Henry wrote this poignant Christmas story "The Gift of the Magi" |
| #8987, aired 2023-12-05 | A PARANORMAL CATEGORY $800: Also called an O.B.E., it's the sensation that one's self is in a different location from one's physical form an out-of-body experience |
| #8983, aired 2023-11-29 | READING RAINBOW $3,400 (Daily Double): In a children's classic by Scott O'Dell, San Nicolas Island is better known as this title place the Island of the Blue Dolphins |
| #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 |
| #8981, aired 2023-11-27 | COUNTRY MUSIC HITS $400: In 1968, she had back-to-back No. 1 country hits with "D-I-V-O-R-C-E" & "Stand By Your Man" Tammy Wynette |
| #8981, aired 2023-11-27 | SUPREME COURTSHIP $400: She married John in 1952, 29 years before Reagan appointed her to the Supreme Court Sandra Day O'Connor |
| #8981, aired 2023-11-27 | LETTER HISTORIES $800: The 15th letter in our alphabet, this vowel's from the 15th letter in the Greek alphabet O |
| #8980, aired 2023-11-24 | SIGN O' THE TIMES $200: On a telephone it's commonly to the immediate right of the zero the pound sign |
| #8980, aired 2023-11-24 | SIGN O' THE TIMES $400: In Catholicism it's made by touching the forehead, the chest, the left shoulder & then the right the sign of the cross |
| #8980, aired 2023-11-24 | SIGN O' THE TIMES $600: One of these "in the cloud" was God's sign to Noah that he would never again flood the Earth a rainbow |
| #8980, aired 2023-11-24 | SIGN O' THE TIMES $800: If you see someone displaying the sign of distress seen here, be prepared to perform this maneuver the Heimlich maneuver |
| #8980, aired 2023-11-24 | SIGN O' THE TIMES $1000: Add a vertical line to the bottom half of a Mercedes logo & you'll have this familiar symbol the peace sign |
| #8974, aired 2023-11-16 | BRIDGE ON THE RIVER $1200: The O'Connell & Seán O'Casey Bridges the Liffey |
| #8973, aired 2023-11-15 | FINISH THE TERRIBLE RHYME $600: "Prepare to meet thy God, O Israel" was not writ just to shame us / It is, however, right here now, from the Bible's book the Book of Amos |
| #20, aired 2023-11-15 | SAD SONGS $200: This weepy Sinéad O'Connor ballad might not be about lost love; Prince is rumored to have written it about his housekeeper "Nothing Compares 2 U" |
| #8971, aired 2023-11-13 | LETTER & WORD $600: The most common human blood type (make sure to include whether it's positive or negative) O positive |
| #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 |
| #8969, aired 2023-11-09 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $600: "Grosso" sometimes follows this word-o for a type of composition a concerto |
| #8964, aired 2023-11-02 | O-E-O-E $400: Depressed or sad because of a lack of friends or companionship; are you this tonight? lonesome |
| #8964, aired 2023-11-02 | O-E-O-E $800: It's a foot-pound per-second unit of power; let's see what you've got under the hood horsepower |
| #8964, aired 2023-11-02 | O-E-O-E $1200: Job description of George Balanchine & Bob Fosse choreographer |
| #8964, aired 2023-11-02 | O-E-O-E $1600: Drink up! It can precede "whale", though the dolphin types get more press bottlenose |
| #8964, aired 2023-11-02 | O-E-O-E $2000: In Marxist theory, this class is primarily concerned with property values the bourgeoisie |
| #8958, aired 2023-10-25 | BOOK 'EM, DAN-O $200: In 1977, he wrote "The Camera Never Blinks: Adventures of a TV Journalist" Dan Rather |
| #8958, aired 2023-10-25 | BOOK 'EM, DAN-O $400: From 1704 to 1713 he produced his own periodical, "The Review"; "Robinson Crusoe" washed ashore in 1719 Defoe |
| #8958, aired 2023-10-25 | BOOK 'EM, DAN-O $600: "Standing Firm" & "Worth Fighting For" are two books by this ex-vice president (Dan) Quayle |
| #8958, aired 2023-10-25 | BOOK 'EM, DAN-O $800: When he made the 2005 "Time" 100 list, his book was described as "the novel that ate the world" Dan Brown |
| #8958, aired 2023-10-25 | BOOK 'EM, DAN-O $1000: Lemony Snicket should know this novelist penned "Adverbs" & "Watch Your Mouth" Daniel Handler |
| #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 $600: It's the former boy band of Harry Styles
_ _ E / _ I _ E _ _ I O _ One Direction |
| #18, aired 2023-10-25 | OLD POP MUSIC HAD SOME VOWELS: E-I-E-I-O $900: Billboard called her "the Queen of Adult Contemporary"
_ E _ I _ E / _ I O _ Celine Dion |
| #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 |
| #18, aired 2023-10-25 | OLD POP MUSIC HAD SOME VOWELS: E-I-E-I-O $1500: It's a greatest hits album released by Madonna in 1990
_ _ E / I _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ E / _ _ _ _ _ _ _ I O _ The Immaculate Collection |
| #8957, aired 2023-10-24 | THE USTA $400: To become a USTA umpire or linesman, you must submit a form from a physician or one of these specialists with an O.D. degree an optometrist |
| #8952, aired 2023-10-17 | DUST TO DUST $2,400 (Daily Double): In a poem named for him, Rudyard Kipling calls this man a "limpin' lump o' brick-dust" Gunga Din |
| #8951, aired 2023-10-16 | BRITISH SPELLING BEE $400: In England Walt Disney would have had a "Wonderful World of" this C-O-L-O-U-R |
| #8951, aired 2023-10-16 | O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU? $400: Thou wishest to party in this South American city & climb its 1,300-foot Sugarloaf Mountain, verily Rio |
| #8951, aired 2023-10-16 | O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU? $800: What? You drove all the way from Duncansby Head to Land's End in this country? No wonder you're tired! the UK |
| #8951, aired 2023-10-16 | O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU? $1200: Huzzah! Thou hast undertaken a tour of Iqaluit & Yellowknife, territorial capitals in this country Canada |
| #8951, aired 2023-10-16 | IN THE BASEBALL TEAM'S LINEUP $1600: 1906:
Charley O'Leary,
Pinky Lindsay & here's one who might help a bit... Ty Cobb the Detroit Tigers |
| #8951, aired 2023-10-16 | O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU? $1600: Thy travels have taken thee to Wels, Graz & Innsbruck in this country Austria |
| #8951, aired 2023-10-16 | O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU? $2,000 (Daily Double): Zoinks! Thou findest thyself at this South American country's border with Panama Colombia |
| #8950, aired 2023-10-13 | WE WHISTLE WHILE YOU WORK $400: All rise & name this national anthem heard here "O Canada" |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | ALL YOU NEED IS "L-O-V-E" $100: A company called "London" this "tours" provides "a whirlwind tour of the history of the British public toilet" loo |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | ALL YOU NEED IS "L-O-V-E" $200: Bert Lahr, who played the Cowardly Lion in "The Wizard of Oz", was fittingly born under this zodiac sign symbolized by a lion a Leo |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | ALL YOU NEED IS "L-O-V-E" $300: Led Zeppelin warned that this type of wall is "going to break", while Don McLean lamented that it was dry a levee |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | ALL YOU NEED IS "L-O-V-E" $400: This Swedish automaker's museum features a full-sized XC90 SUV made from Legos Volvo |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | ALL YOU NEED IS "L-O-V-E" $500: As Charles Darwin could tell you, to do this is to gradually change or develop over time evolve |
| #8944, aired 2023-10-05 | I DON'T GIVE A... $400: The Mike O'Callaghan-Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge is near this landmark the Hoover Dam |
| #8942, aired 2023-10-03 | THE CONGO RIVER $1,000 (Daily Double): These 2 capital cities, of the R.O.C & the D.R.O.C., lie across from each other on opposite banks of the Congo River Kinshasa & Brazzaville |
| #8941, aired 2023-10-02 | ARE YOU SHAKESPEARIENCED? $200: "O mighty Caesar! Dost thou lie so low? Are all thy conquests, glories, triumphs, spoils, shrunk..." Julius Caesar |
| #8941, aired 2023-10-02 | THEY PLAYED WYATT EARP $400: Burt Lancaster took the role in the 1957 film that could only be called "Gunfight at" this place the O.K. Corral |
| #14, aired 2023-09-27 | AIRPORT STORES $1200: African Origins and MadeInSA are two craft stores in O.R. Tambo airport, a hub located in this city Johannesburg |
| #8937, aired 2023-09-26 | IN THE CORPORATE ARENA $800: O-ho, this wagon is a-comin' down the street, bringing the money to get its name on the Philadelphia Flyers' arena Wells Fargo |
| #8932, aired 2023-09-19 | MAILED IT! $2000: Lawrence O'Brien was appointed to this government job by LBJ in 1965; in '75 Larry did a nifty crossover & got the NBA commissioner gig Postmaster General |
| #8932, aired 2023-09-19 | MAILED IT! $5,000 (Daily Double): RFD, short for this, began in 1896; previously, about 65% of Americans lived in the "R" area & had to pick up mail at the P.O. Rural Free Delivery |
| #8925, aired 2023-07-28 | IT GETS OLD $800: V.S.O.P., standing for very superior old pale, is a premium grade of this liquor aged at least 4 years cognac |
| #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 |
| #8924, aired 2023-07-27 | RETITLED MOVIE ADAPTATIONS $1000: "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" was loosely based on this epic written about 2,800 years before The Odyssey |
| #8923, aired 2023-07-26 | "DA" OR "BA" OR "DEE" $200: When Santa gives these creatures P.T.O. in the summer, some travel up to 800 miles for grazing grounds reindeer |
| #8921, aired 2023-07-24 | MUSICAL WORKS $400: Thea Musgrave's first commissioned work, in 1953, was "Suite O' Bairnsangs" for a festival in this, her native country Scotland |
| #8921, aired 2023-07-24 | UNIFORM NUMBERS $400: Tennis-related last name of NBA center Kevin, who wore 0 for the Cleveland Cavaliers for O-regon & O-hio Love |
| #8920, aired 2023-07-21 | THAT HOLLOW FEELING $600: The national museum of Ireland has a plaster cast of an early 1900s "ghost turnip" this; we use pumpkins a jack-o'-lantern |
| #8919, aired 2023-07-20 | A VACATION FROM POP CULTURE $1600: The barks in this Lindsey Buckingham song aren't the dog that's in "National Lampoon's Vacation"--it's a co-o-o-o-o-o-o-incidence "Holiday Road" |
| #8914, aired 2023-07-13 | ESPAÑ-O $400: It's Spanish for "open" & goes with "open" on a bilingual sign in a store or cafe window abierto |
| #8914, aired 2023-07-13 | ESPAÑ-O $800: It comes immediately before Junio & Julio Mayo |
| #8914, aired 2023-07-13 | ESPAÑ-O $1200: In the live action movie "Dora & the Lost City of Gold", Dora asks the audience, "Can you say" this tasty word? delicioso |
| #8914, aired 2023-07-13 | ESPAÑ-O $1600: This word completes a Spanish-language release title of a classic '70s film, "Fiebre del ____ por la Noche" Sábado |
| #8914, aired 2023-07-13 | ESPAÑ-O $2000: This type of tequila, Spanish for "rested", takes a siesta in its barrel for several months, developing a golden hue Reposado |
| #8909, aired 2023-07-06 | A TV SERIES $600: Hosts of "The Tonight Show": Steve Allen, Jack Paar, Johnny Carson, this man, Conan O'Brien, Jimmy Fallon Jay Leno |
| #8900, aired 2023-06-23 | MUSICAL ACT ETYMOLOGY $1,600 (Daily Double): Karen O said this name of her band comes from "a New York City... reaction to everything" the Yeah Yeah Yeahs |
| #8896, aired 2023-06-19 | TV $200: After her daytime talk show ended, she spent some time on "The View", & in 2022 she made a cameo on the reboot of "A League of Their Own" (Rosie) O'Donnell |
| #8891, aired 2023-06-12 | POP SONGS $600: This NBA big man's 1994 rap song "Biological Didn't Bother" is dedicated to his stepfather Shaq (Shaquille O'Neal) |
| #8889, aired 2023-06-08 | LATE NIGHT TALKING $1000: In the '90s Conan O'Brien first peered into the future in a bit called "In the Year" this... which was still recurring in 2003 2000 |
| #8887, aired 2023-06-06 | THIS & THAT $1200: This producer of "The Crazy Heart" & "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" soundtracks has a steak--er, star--on the St. Louis Walk of Fame T Bone Burnett |
| #8885, aired 2023-06-02 | WOMEN AUTHORS $400: In "Hamnet", Maggie O'Farrell reimagines the life of this writer & his family, including his son, who may have died of bubonic plague William Shakespeare |
| #8884, aired 2023-06-01 | "MAN" O' WAR $400: Army general Omar Bradley was the first to hold this position on the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff a chairman |
| #8884, aired 2023-06-01 | "MAN" O' WAR $800: "War is cruelty, you cannot refine it", said this Civil War man (William T.) Sherman |
| #8884, aired 2023-06-01 | "MAN" O' WAR $1200: Lothar von Richthofen was a noted World War I ace; his brother, named this, was more famous Manfred |
| #8884, aired 2023-06-01 | "MAN" O' WAR $2000: WWII Medal of Honor recipient John Basilone, who served in the Philippines in the 1930s, had this "capital" nickname Manila |
| #8884, aired 2023-06-01 | "MAN" O' WAR $3,000 (Daily Double): Appropriately, noted clockmaker Aaron Willard was one of these colonial militiamen a minuteman |
| #8881, aired 2023-05-29 | WHO WAS THAT MASKED MAN? $1000: He's the other title guy alongside Chris O'Donnell in 1997's "Batman & Robin", & he wishes we hadn't reminded you George Clooney |
| #8876, aired 2023-05-22 | ASSISTING THE DETECTIVE $600: This TV series had Detective Steve McGarrett saying to his sidekick, "Book 'em, Danno" Hawaii Five-O |
| #8876, aired 2023-05-22 | POP CULTURE 2003 $2000: This hero of books by Patrick O'Brian came to cinemas in the person of Russell Crowe Jack Aubrey |
| #13, aired 2023-05-17 | 3 "O"s $200: At a certain age, someone wanting to have a baby may feel this ticking biological clock |
| #13, aired 2023-05-17 | 3 "O"s $400: Borrowed from Greek, it means the masses or common people hoi polloi |
| #13, aired 2023-05-17 | 3 "O"s $600: Seen here is "The Music Lesson" by François Boucher, one of the leading painters in this style Rococo |
| #13, aired 2023-05-17 | 3 "O"s $800: When you're offered one option or nothing at all, it's this 2-word term Hobson's choice |
| #13, aired 2023-05-17 | 3 "O"s $1000: From Latin for "call together", it's a group of people called together for an assembly, be it of clergy or college students a convocation |
| #8872, aired 2023-05-16 | POP METAL BANDS $800: "Oh! Look what you've done to this rock 'n' roll clown! O-oh! Look what you've done! Photograph... I don't want your..." Def Leppard |
| #8871, aired 2023-05-15 | NEW ZEALAND GEOGRAPHY $400: In the city of Rotorua, you can visit the geothermal area of Wai-O-Tapu, home to Lady Knox, one of these that erupts daily a geyser |
| #10, aired 2023-05-15 | WHATEVER FLOATS $1200: A company's stock float is calculated by subtracting restricted stock from these, abbreviated O/S outstanding shares |
| #8870, aired 2023-05-12 | STATE CAPITAL TO STATE CAPITAL $1000: It's a 29-hour, 2,000-mile drive from Oklahoma City to this state capital, the only other that begins with "O" Olympia |
| #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 |
| #8868, aired 2023-05-10 | STRAIGHT TO JAIL $2000: In 1898 this "Gift of the Magi" author spent time in the pokey for embezzlement of bank funds O. Henry |
| #6, aired 2023-05-10 | WORLD OF WORDS & IDIOMS $800: In the Netherlands "So it's like that!" is "O, op die fiets", "On that" this transport the Dutch love bicycle |
| #6, aired 2023-05-10 | THE MALE GAZE $800: "Blue-Eyed Cool" is the subtitle of a book featuring photos of this legendary actor known for his piercing blue eyes Paul Newman |
| #4, aired 2023-05-09 | RHYMINGLY NAMED CELEBS $400: In 1997 he was up for a Grammy, made a cameo in "Good Burger" & ended the season shooting 48% from the free throw line Shaquille O'Neal (Shaq accepted) |
| #3, aired 2023-05-09 | PLAY: THE GAME $800: Advance to Harry Hope's bar; lose turn waiting for Hickey; play your pipe dream card; chill at bar after Hickey is arrested The Iceman Cometh (by Eugene O'Neill) |
| #1, aired 2023-05-08 | 20/23 $1000: Some of the greatest portraits of Georgia O'Keeffe were taken by this photographer-husband, 23 years her senior Stieglitz |
| #8865, aired 2023-05-05 | IT'S A TV MYSTERY $200: "O.M.I.T.B." is short for this, a show & the podcast within it Only Murders in the Building |
| #8865, aired 2023-05-05 | DUNCE, DUNCE $800: Margaret Mitchell wrote that she "had not willingly opened a book since leaving the Fayetteville Female Academy" Scarlett O'Hara |
| #8865, aired 2023-05-05 | EVERYTHING'S COMING UP ROSE $1000: D.C. socialite Rose O'Neal Greenhow sent word that Union troops were moving on Manassas, helping the Confederates before this battle the Battle of Bull Run |
| #8863, aired 2023-05-03 | MIX -OLOGY $200: Acts of God:
O GET HOLY theology |
| #8863, aired 2023-05-03 | THEATER BEFORE & AFTER $1600: Stella & Stanley forego the magnolias & head on over to Eugene O'Neill's play for some "arboreal" passion A Streetcar Named Desire Under the Elms |
| #8861, aired 2023-05-01 | DOCTOR: WHO? $400: He made it out of the O.K. Corral, but after Nov. 8, 1887, he could no longer be anybody's huckleberry Doc Holliday |
| #8860, aired 2023-04-28 | IT'S GERMAN FOR... $800: Boat--
spelling please; it's just one letter different B-O-O-T |
| #8854, aired 2023-04-20 | '80s & '90s R&B SONGS $200: The O is actually a sign in "Sign 'O' the Times", a classic 1987 album by this man of royal talent Prince |
| #8853, aired 2023-04-19 | MUSIC-"O"-LOGY $400: It's the speed of a musical piece; before "primo", it means at the original pace tempo |
| #8853, aired 2023-04-19 | MUSIC-"O"-LOGY $800: Our Facts on File Dictionary of Music says it is "a direction implying a faster speed than allegro", but has nothing for "chango" presto |
| #8853, aired 2023-04-19 | MUSIC-"O"-LOGY $1200: Let's listen to a demonstration of this term--you can't actually "reach" one because it means constantly increasing crescendo |
| #8853, aired 2023-04-19 | MUSIC-"O"-LOGY $2000: A lively, whimsical piece that's not too long; Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky wrote one "Italien" a capriccio |
| #8853, aired 2023-04-19 | MUSIC-"O"-LOGY $5,800 (Daily Double): Play the notes of a chord in sequence instead of together & you've got this an arpeggio |
| #8847, aired 2023-04-11 | ONE HOT MoMA $800: Her 1977 oil on canvas "From a Day with Juan II" was a bequest of this painter from New Mexico O'Keeffe |
| #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 |
| #8833, aired 2023-03-22 | RESILIENCE $1600: Resilience is in the subtitle of this Laura Hillenbrand book about Olympian, airman & P.O.W. Louis Zamperini Unbroken |
| #8830, aired 2023-03-17 | IRISH AUTHORS $1200: It's a historic Irish coronation site, the O'Hara home in American lit, & the title "Road" where Maeve Binchy set a novel Tara |
| #8827, aired 2023-03-14 | SCRAMBLED U.S. HISTORY $400: 1930s calamity:
O DESPERATE GRINS the Great Depression |
| #8827, aired 2023-03-14 | DISEASES $1600: Avril Lavigne's song "Head Above Water" & Meghan O'Rourke's book "The Invisible Kingdom" are by sufferers of this tick-borne disease Lyme disease |
| #8822, aired 2023-03-07 | ALLITERATIVE AUTHORS $400: This American poet wrote, "O captain! My captain! Our fearful trip is done" (Walt) Whitman |
| #8822, aired 2023-03-07 | MARCH MADNESS $800: Last name of USC's Cheryl, winner of back-to-back titles & M.O.P.s in 1983 & '84; she's in the hall of fame with her brother Reggie Miller |
| #8819, aired 2023-03-02 | TRANSPORT OVER THE AGES $800: America's first commercial railway, the B&O, short for this, was used by some traveling on the Underground Railroad the Baltimore & Ohio |
| #8818, aired 2023-03-01 | BRIDGES $400: O say, can you see the Francis Scott Key Bridge that opened in 1977 & crosses the harbor of this city? Yes, yes you can Baltimore |
| #8810, aired 2023-02-17 | MEMOIRS OF GOVERNMENT & POLITICS $1200: "Man of the House" was a bestseller by Tip O'Neill, who held this post from 1977 to 1987 Speaker of the House |
| #8805, aired 2023-02-10 | BEFORE THEY WERE SUPREME COURT JUSTICES $1,600 (Daily Double): In 1973 became the Arizona Senate Majority Leader Sandra Day O'Connor |
| #8802, aired 2023-02-07 | WHOA, "O"! $200: A small, fertile area in the desert, or a band that wanted to "Live Forever" (but did not) Oasis |
| #8802, aired 2023-02-07 | WHOA, "O"! $400: 17th century painter Bartolomé Esteban Murillo became one of these by age 10 & often painted kids who looked to be ones as well an orphan |
| #8802, aired 2023-02-07 | WHOA, "O"! $600: This word takes an umlaut when it comes between "Blue" & "Cult" Öyster |
| #8802, aired 2023-02-07 | WHOA, "O"! $800: Words that imitate natural sounds like bonk, clank & clunk are examples of this onomatopoeia |
| #8802, aired 2023-02-07 | WHOA, "O"! $1000: Sounding like an all-carrying mode of transport, it describes a legislative bill with a whole bunch of provisions omnibus |
| #8801, aired 2023-02-06 | PRISONERS OF WAR $1600: A P.O.W. in Japan, James Clavell wrote the screenplay to this Steve McQueen film set in a German P.O.W. camp The Great Escape |
| #8800, aired 2023-02-03 | THE PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS ARE THE THING $800: He played the extremely long game with "Mourning Becomes Electra", a trilogy of plays with a total of 13 acts Eugene O'Neill |
| #8799, aired 2023-02-02 | ART-POURRI $400: In 1930 she did a series of 6 paintings of an oversized jack-in-the-pulpit flower O'Keeffe |
| #8796, aired 2023-01-30 | ENDS IN A DOUBLE VOWEL POTPOURRI $200: Wham-O first sold this in 1957 as a "Pluto Platter" a Frisbee |
| #8792, aired 2023-01-24 | THEY'RE BAD IN BOOKS $200: O'Brien is a powerful & shadowy member of the Inner Party in this Orwell work 1984 |
| #8784, aired 2023-01-12 | THE SPEAKER IN SHAKESPEARE $400: "O happy horse, to bear the weight of Antony!" Cleopatra |
| #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 $300: (Mattea Roach presents the clue.) In the 1960s, the Pearson Pennant was one of three finalists to be our national flag, but the Flag Committee went with a design using a single one of these leaves instead a maple leaf |
| #10, aired 2023-01-12 | O CANADA $600: (Mattea Roach presents the clue.) Tracing its roots to 1980s Canadian street performance, this "circus of the sun" hit Las Vegas with its first permanent show Mystère in 1993 Cirque du Soleil |
| #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 |
| #10, aired 2023-01-12 | O CANADA $1500: (Mattea Roach presents the clue.) Prairie trading posts with names like Stand Off & Whoop-Up were dominated by sleazy whiskey traders; this law enforcement group was created to clean them up the Mounties (the RCMP, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police) |
| #8778, aired 2023-01-04 | TV THEME SONGS $1200: "California here we come, right back where we started from" The O.C. |
| #8778, aired 2023-01-04 | TRANSPORTATION $1600: Coach USA's bus service from O'Hare to Mitchell Airport in this city is 70 miles straight up I-94, but it's still called a shuttle Milwaukee |
| #8777, aired 2023-01-03 | AMERICAN ART & ARTISTS $400: In 1929 she painted "The Lawrence Tree", which she enjoyed gazing upon at D.H. Lawrence's New Mexico ranch Georgia O'Keeffe |
| #8772, aired 2022-12-27 | ALBUM COVERS $1200: Alberto Vargas painted model Candy Moore posing on a Ferrari for this band's "Candy-O" The Cars |
| #8769, aired 2022-12-22 | CLIMATE $2000: One climate provision in 2022's big Democratic bill provides money to protect these "O.G." forests old growth |
| #8767, aired 2022-12-20 | SOUTH AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL $2000: Check out the gorgeous Bernardo O'Higgins National Park, the largest park in this nation & home to nearly 50 glaciers Chile |
| #8765, aired 2022-12-16 | ORNAMENTS OF YORE $400: Both tam o' shanters & Balmoral caps are adorned with these double-speak fluffy balls pom poms |
| #8763, aired 2022-12-14 | CAPITAL CITY RIVERS $400: Cross the River Liffey using O'Connell Bridge & grab a stout or 2 at one of the welcoming pubs in this city Dublin |
| #8763, aired 2022-12-14 | WHO LOU? $400: Before making his exit in 2021, he hosted the most watched show on the Fox Business Network Lou Dobbs |
| #8763, aired 2022-12-14 | IN THE PUDDING $600: Godiva makes a mix for this kind of pudding; so does Jell-O chocolate pudding |
| #8763, aired 2022-12-14 | THE NONFICTION SECTION $1600: Cathy O'Neil's "Weapons of" this punning kind of "Destruction" looks at how algorithms & big data control us Math |
| #8763, aired 2022-12-14 | 1982: A YEAR IN FILM $2000: In "Poltergeist", after watching TV in a room that gets shaky, Heather O'Rourke makes this 2-word declaration to her parents "they're here" |
| #8762, aired 2022-12-13 | PLACE"O" $200: You gotta pay your bills in this port city about 20 miles southeast of Niagara Falls Buffalo |
| #8762, aired 2022-12-13 | PLACE"O" $400: The seat of Lucas County in Ohio, this city lies along the southwestern tip of Lake Erie Toledo |
| #8762, aired 2022-12-13 | PLACE"O" $800: In 1876 it was a frontier town of 600 people; today this North Dakota city has around 125,000 Fargo |
| #8762, aired 2022-12-13 | PLACE"O" $1000: This country highlighted here formerly declared its independence in 2008 but some EU members did not recognize it Kosovo |
| #8762, aired 2022-12-13 | PLACE"O" $1,400 (Daily Double): Only Greenland & New Guinea are larger islands in size than this one in the Pacific Borneo |
| #8758, aired 2022-12-07 | TV SIDEKICKS $400: Computer whiz Chloe O'Brian was introduced on Season 3 (or Day 3) of this drama 24 |
| #8757, aired 2022-12-06 | BLOOD, SWEAT & TEARS $800: The Red Cross says if you have this blood type, you're a universal donor, so come in & donate O negative |
| #8750, aired 2022-11-25 | WHETHER YOU'RE A BROTHER OR WHETHER YOU'RE A MOTHER $800: Billie Eilish & her brother & collaborator have both dropped the last name O'Connell; he just goes by this name now Finneas |
| #8748, aired 2022-11-23 | A LOUD CATEGORY $800: A 1976 concert by this band is noted for playing songs like "Baba O'Riley" at a level comparable to a chainsaw The Who |
| #8746, aired 2022-11-21 | NUMERICAL TERMS $200: A 1930s ad for a razor gave us this phrase for the beginnings of a beard at the end of the day 5 o'clock shadow |
| #8743, aired 2022-11-16 | RAPPERS WHO ACT $400: In 1991 he had a rap hit with "O.G. Original Gangster"; 9 years later, he began playing a cop on NBC & he's been doing it ever since Ice-T |
| #8741, aired 2022-11-14 | FROM "D" TO "O" $200: Term for an electric generator at a power plant or a hardworking doer at the office a dynamo |
| #8741, aired 2022-11-14 | FROM "D" TO "O" $400: In the mid-1400s he sculpted the biblical David a bit over 5 feet high in bronze Donatello |
| #8741, aired 2022-11-14 | FROM "D" TO "O" $600: A Brooklyn neighborhood has this acronymic name that fits the category DUMBO |
| #8741, aired 2022-11-14 | FROM "D" TO "O" $800: Room 222 at the Strater Hotel in this Colorado city was where Louis L'Amour wrote many of his Western novels Durango |
| #8741, aired 2022-11-14 | FROM "D" TO "O" $1000: It's the proprietary name for an acoustic guitar with a metal resonator built into its body; it's popular for country music Dobro |
| #8740, aired 2022-11-11 | THE ARTS $1,000 (Daily Double): The title of this play by Eugene O'Neill refers in part to a pair of trees that surrounds the Cabot farmhouse Desire Under the Elms |
| #7, aired 2022-11-06 | POLITICS $600: In November 2018 he defeated Beto O'Rourke to retain his Senate seat & grew a beard Ted Cruz |
| #7, aired 2022-11-06 | JOHNNY GILBERT SAYS THE NO. 1 HITS $900: "She's got eyes of the bluest skies, as if they thought of rain, I'd hate to look into those eyes and see an ounce of pain" "Sweet Child O' Mine" |
| #6, aired 2022-10-30 | PATRIOT ACT $100: Daniel O'Connell, a patriot of this country, got the British to pass the Catholic Emancipation Act of 1829 Ireland |
| #6, aired 2022-10-30 | PATRIOT ACT $200: Montrealer Robert Stanley Weir wrote this national anthem with its stirring final words, "we stand on guard for thee" "O Canada" |
| #6, aired 2022-10-30 | STAR TRACK: THE NEXT GENERATION $300: In the film "Straight Outta Compton", O'Shea Jackson Jr. played this man, his rapper father Ice Cube |
| #6, aired 2022-10-30 | THE CHASE $1500: (Brad Rutter delivers the clue.) Chevy Chase never lived in Chevy Chase, a suburb of Washington, D.C., in this state, but Sandra Day O'Connor did while she was on the Supreme Court Maryland |
| #8729, aired 2022-10-27 | OCTOBERFEST $400: She joined the Supreme Court as its second female justice October 4, 1993 Ruth Bader Ginsburg |
| #8729, aired 2022-10-27 | THE ANIMAL KINGDOM $400: O. vulgaris, a species of this cephalopod, can change its skin color thanks to pigment-bearing cells octopus |
| #8728, aired 2022-10-26 | A STANDING MIDDLE O $400: It's a small collapsible bed a cot |
| #8728, aired 2022-10-26 | A STANDING MIDDLE O $800: To sign the back of a check, or to say, "Pervis Q. Turbleburk Jr. for mayor!" endorse |
| #8728, aired 2022-10-26 | A STANDING MIDDLE O $1200: In geologic time, it's less than a period but greater than an age an epoch |
| #8728, aired 2022-10-26 | A STANDING MIDDLE O $1600: A camera's one-legged support, as opposed to 3 a monopod |
| #8728, aired 2022-10-26 | A STANDING MIDDLE O $2000: It's an encampment of troops with little or no shelter, as seen here a bivouac |
| #8726, aired 2022-10-24 | NEWS MAKERS & WRITERS '22 $1600: Josh Gerstein of this news organization-o got the big leaked Supreme Court draft opinion story of the year Politico |
| #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 |
| #8723, aired 2022-10-19 | A PLACE IN HISTORY $200: O say can you see--OK, just say--the name of this fort that defended Baltimore from the Brits on Sept. 13 & 14, 1814 Fort McHenry |
| #8723, aired 2022-10-19 | FAITH, HOPE & CHARITY $1600: The ironically named Harry Hope runs the saloon full of deluded losers in this play by Eugene O'Neill The Iceman Cometh |
| #8721, aired 2022-10-17 | AN IMPRESSIVE VOCABULARY $600: "O" is for this unfriendly word; in ancient Greece, it was a way to vote you out of the community ostracize |
| #8718, aired 2022-10-12 | "GO"ING PLACES $1200: Southeastern Wyoming is the land o' this county that shares its name with an ancient home of the Hebrews Goshen |
| #3, aired 2022-10-09 | THE TERMINAL LIST $200: Terminal 1 at this Chicago airport mainly serves Chicago-based United Airlines O'Hare |
| #3, aired 2022-10-09 | A LONG RUN ON TV WITH KEN JENNINGS $600: (Ken delivers the clue.) Starting in 1954, it's been Allen, Parr, Carson, Leno, O'Brien & now this funny guy behind the desk on "The Tonight Show" Jimmy Fallon |
| #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 | 2-LETTER SPELLING BEE $400: Negative reply N-O |
| #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 |
| #8715, aired 2022-10-07 | 2-LETTER SPELLING BEE $1200: Domesticated bovine O-X |
| #8715, aired 2022-10-07 | 2-LETTER SPELLING BEE $1600: Jewish "So? Come on!" N-U |
| #8715, aired 2022-10-07 | 2-LETTER SPELLING BEE $2000: Mystic mantra O-M |
| #8712, aired 2022-10-04 | SHIPS & BOATS $200: After decades of pushing other boats, the W.O. Decker, New York City's last wooden this, now hauls tourists around the harbor a tugboat |
| #8709, aired 2022-09-29 | READING RAINBOW $2000: Karana says a ship looks like "a small shell afloat on the sea" in this kids' classic by Scott O'Dell Island of the Blue Dolphins |
| #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 |
| #1, aired 2022-09-25 | SAME FIRST & LAST LETTER $500: A fancy design of your initials that you use on stationery or clothing a monogram |
| #8704, aired 2022-09-22 | OLD FASHIONED $1600: In dictionaries O.E. is Old English & O.H.G. is this European language used until about 1200 Old High German |
| #8703, aired 2022-09-21 | BUDWEISER & SPORTS $200: In 2020 Bud Light became the official beer of the championship series of this video game, L.O.L. for short League of Legends |
| #8703, aired 2022-09-21 | 2 BOOKS IN 1 $1200: "O Ántonia" O Pioneers! & My Ántonia |
| #8690, aired 2022-07-22 | SPELLING THEIR EGOTS $400: Her O:
Best Supporting Actress for "Ghost" Whoopi Goldberg |
| #8690, aired 2022-07-22 | SPELLING THEIR EGOTS $1200: Her G: Best Children's Album for "The Electric Company"; her O: Best Supporting Actress for "West Side Story" Rita Moreno |
| #8690, aired 2022-07-22 | SPELLING THEIR EGOTS $2000: This singer/songwriter/producer's O: Best Original Song for "Glory", from "Selma" John Legend |
| #8686, aired 2022-07-18 | TROPHY HUSBAND $1600: John McEnroe won his last few ATP singles titles while he was married to this former child star Tatum O'Neal |
| #8684, aired 2022-07-14 | 4 OF THE SAME LETTER $2000: If you support another person's alibi, you provide this 4-"O" word from the Latin for "to strengthen" corroboration |
| #8681, aired 2022-07-11 | CHEERY-"O" $200: Kahlil Gibran wrote this cheery sort of person "sees the rose and not its thorns" an optimist |
| #8681, aired 2022-07-11 | CHEERY-"O" $400: A "standing" one of these after your powerful monologue is sure to bring you a smile an ovation |
| #8681, aired 2022-07-11 | CHEERY-"O" $600: Cheers to the NCAA Final Four, where the MVP is called the "M.O.P.", with the "O" short for this outstanding |
| #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 |
| #8681, aired 2022-07-11 | CHEERY-"O" $1000: Greeks of good cheer will exclaim this 3-letter word, perhaps after breaking a plate opa |
| #8675, aired 2022-07-01 | "X"s & "O"s $200: The formal act of adding territory to a nation, it happened to Hawaii in 1898 annexation |
| #8675, aired 2022-07-01 | "X"s & "O"s $400: A small book to aid priests performing one of these rites is called "Prayers Against the Powers of Darkness" exorcism |
| #8675, aired 2022-07-01 | "X"s & "O"s $600: It's the natural color & appearance of your face complexion |
| #8675, aired 2022-07-01 | "X"s & "O"s $800: It means "tense" & "uneasy" but everyone except language fussbudgets also uses it to mean "eager" anxious |
| #8675, aired 2022-07-01 | "X"s & "O"s $1000: This employee, who handles the care & upkeep of a church, sometimes has the specific responsibility seen here the sexton |
| #8672, aired 2022-06-28 | NEVER WON AN EMMY $1000: 3 noms for "Modern Family" but no wins for Ed O'Neill & no noms at all as this other sitcom dad, despite 11 seasons in the role Al Bundy |
| #8670, aired 2022-06-24 | 2022 ANNIVERSARIES $400: Happy 65th to this flying disc that Wham-O began rolling out in 1957 the Frisbee |
| #8670, aired 2022-06-24 | & ON DRUMS... $2000: Conan O'Brien's onetime "Late Night" bandleader, this "Mighty Max" also holds down the beat in the E Street Band Max Weinberg |
| #8666, aired 2022-06-20 | AIR TRAVEL $800: O'Hare Airport in Chicago is about a 25-mile drive from this other international airport that's closer to downtown Midway |
| #8664, aired 2022-06-16 | THE "O" MEN $200: Done with manufacturing wagons, he set up an elevator shop in Yonkers in 1853 & business just went up from there Otis |
| #8664, aired 2022-06-16 | THE "O" MEN $400: Later a shipping magnate, this businessman whose middle name was Socrates made his first million by age 25 dealing tobacco Onassis |
| #8664, aired 2022-06-16 | THE "O" MEN $600: Dining out as Ron Swanson on "Parks & Rec", he introduced the "turf & turf. It's a 16-ounce T-bone & a 24-ounce porterhouse" Nick Offerman |
| #8664, aired 2022-06-16 | THE "O" MEN $800: More than just a mantra homophone, this German has a unit of electrical resistance named for him Ohm |
| #8664, aired 2022-06-16 | THE "O" MEN $1000: Rossini called this Prussian-born composer "our little Mozart of the Champs-Élysées" Jacques Offenbach |
| #8662, aired 2022-06-14 | 3 FOR THE SHOW $400: CBS cops (or C.O.P.S.?) Lina Esco, David Lim & Alex Russell S.W.A.T. |
| #8659, aired 2022-06-09 | ABBREVIATED TV $600: This drama premiered in 2003 with a troubled kid from Chino being taken in by a wealthy family in Newport Beach The O.C. |
| #8658, aired 2022-06-08 | 5-LETTERS, ENDS IN "O" $400: Culturally off limits taboo |
| #8658, aired 2022-06-08 | 5-LETTERS, ENDS IN "O" $800: It's orbited by Charon Pluto |
| #8658, aired 2022-06-08 | 5-LETTERS, ENDS IN "O" $1200: "Top Chef" channel Bravo |
| #8658, aired 2022-06-08 | 5-LETTERS, ENDS IN "O" $1600: Cannon fire volley a salvo |
| #8658, aired 2022-06-08 | 5-LETTERS, ENDS IN "O" $2000: Slow & dignified, musically largo |
| #8657, aired 2022-06-07 | THE CABINET $600: Though it doesn't have a secretary, the O.M.B. is a cabinet-level agency that writes this "B" for the president budget |
| #8657, aired 2022-06-07 | WAR GODS $1200: M-O-double R-I-G-A-N spells Morrigan, a Celtic war goddess who turned into this ominous black bird a raven (a crow) |
| #8654, aired 2022-06-02 | THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE $400: In 1973, after nearly 6 years as a P.O.W. in Vietnam, this future senator returned home a hero John McCain |
| #8654, aired 2022-06-02 | A SHORT GOODBYE $1600: In English
(or British, really)
T.:
it also has 4 O's toodle-oo |
| #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 |
| #8653, aired 2022-06-01 | BALLPARK FUN $1,000 (Daily Double): Traditionally, home fans of this A.L. East team give particular emphasis to yelling "O!" during the national anthem the Baltimore Orioles |
| #8643, aired 2022-05-18 | HISTORIC AMERICANS $1000: Held as a P.O.W., this Apache warrior asked Theodore Roosevelt to be allowed to return home to the S.W. but was denied Geronimo |
| #8642, aired 2022-05-17 | INDIGENOUS PEOPLES $400: The Nation of the Tohono O'odham, whose name means this "people", is in the Sonoran one a desert |
| #8642, aired 2022-05-17 | MOVIE TITLE BEFORE & AFTER $2000: Allied prisoners tunnel out of a German P.O.W. camp in a Disney movie about kids with magical powers The Great Escape to Witch Mountain |
| #8641, aired 2022-05-16 | FACE THE MUSIC $600: Erin Everly's smile reminded Axl Rose of childhood memories in this Guns N' Roses hit "Sweet Child O' Mine" |
| #8641, aired 2022-05-16 | A HORSE WITH A NAME $800: In 1938, in one of the great races of the century, this grandson of Man o' War beat War Admiral in a one-on-one match Seabiscuit |
| #8625, aired 2022-04-22 | WHINE $400: This tormented Shakespeare title character moans, "O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I" the Hamlet |
| #8625, aired 2022-04-22 | MEMORABLE MOVIE MELODIES $400: "I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow"
(2000) O Brother, Where Art Thou? |
| #8621, aired 2022-04-18 | ART ON COMMISSION $400: Better known for her paintings of the Southwest, in the 1930s she was commissioned by Dole to paint a pineapple for its ads Georgia O'Keeffe |
| #8620, aired 2022-04-15 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $200: On October 8, 1871, a fire broke out near the barn of Patrick & Catherine O'Leary; & the next morning this city was in ruins Chicago |
| #8619, aired 2022-04-14 | CELEBRITIES' FIRSTS $1200: This Harvard grad & future talk show host's first L.A. apartment was at Cochran & 3rd, $380 a month, living on tuna & miracle whip Conan O'Brien |
| #8612, aired 2022-04-05 | CAN'T LOSE $600: On Sept. 21,1981 the Senate confirmed her Supreme Court nomination, 99-0 Sandra Day O'Connor |
| #8612, aired 2022-04-05 | INSTRUMENTAL TV THEMES $600: The Ventures had a hit with the theme for this "stately" cop show, rebooted in 2010 with the same theme Hawaii Five-O |
| #8608, aired 2022-03-30 | CONTRACTIONS $400: This time-telling contraction lost its "F" centuries ago o'clock |
| #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 |
| #8604, aired 2022-03-24 | SCI. & MED. ABBREV. $2000: In trig, S=O/H is deciphered as sine equals this opposite over hypotenuse |
| #8601, aired 2022-03-21 | 3 LETTERS IN A ROW ALPHABETICALLY $2000: He led the Greeks against Troy Agamemnon |
| #8599, aired 2022-03-17 | "X"s & "O"s $400: Heard here, it's a cousin to the glockenspiel a xylophone |
| #8599, aired 2022-03-17 | "X"s & "O"s $800: It's the side of a coin with the principal design obverse |
| #8599, aired 2022-03-17 | "X"s & "O"s $1200: From Greek for "dry" & "writing", this 10-letter word was described in 1948 as "a revolutionary process of inkless printing" xerography |
| #8599, aired 2022-03-17 | "X"s & "O"s $1600: It's defined as government by the few oligarchy |
| #8599, aired 2022-03-17 | "X"s & "O"s $2000: It's a gesture such as a bow to show reverence or respect an obeisance |
| #8598, aired 2022-03-16 | BOWL-O-RAMA $200: In 2021 NBC rebooted "College Bowl" with this former Colts quarterback as the host Peyton Manning |
| #8598, aired 2022-03-16 | BOWL-O-RAMA $400: You can serve soup in a bread bowl; use this kind of bread, just like Panera does sourdough |
| #8598, aired 2022-03-16 | BOWL-O-RAMA $600: Before the Rose Bowl, this Ivy League Bowl opened at the world's biggest stadium, pioneering fully circular seating the Yale Bowl |
| #8598, aired 2022-03-16 | BOWL-O-RAMA $800: "If Life is" this, asked a humorous book title by Erma Bombeck, "What Am I Doing in the Pits?" a Bowl of Cherries |
| #8598, aired 2022-03-16 | BOWL-O-RAMA $1000: The bowl of a pipe is often made of this mineral whose name is German for "sea foam" meerschaum |
| #8594, aired 2022-03-10 | WOMEN MAKE PASSES $400: She pursues Tom Hanks in "Sleepless in Seattle"; she also makes a pass ("incomplete") at Dennis Quaid in "D.O.A." Meg Ryan |
| #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 |
| #8591, aired 2022-03-07 | SINGLE-NAMED CELEBRITIES $400: In 2020 a super deluxe edition of his "Sign o' the Times" was released with 63 previously unreleased tracks Prince |
| #8586, aired 2022-02-28 | LETTERS FROM FAMOUS PEOPLE $2000: Georgia O'Keeffe wrote often to this photographer whom she called "Dearest Duck" Alfred Stieglitz |
| #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 |
| #8585, aired 2022-02-25 | THE DISNEY LADY SINGS $200: "Belle", performed by Paige O'Hara Beauty and the Beast |
| #8585, aired 2022-02-25 | LAST LINE OF A SHAKESPEARE ACT $1000: Stephano tells him, "O brave monster! Lead the way" Caliban |
| #8583, aired 2022-02-23 | ARE YOU SMARTER THAN A 1905 5th GRADER? $2000: Reading:
This O. Henry story about a poor couple at Christmastime makes a good read in the New York Sunday World "The Gift of the Magi" |
| #8581, aired 2022-02-21 | ENDS WITH "OUT"! $800: On October 26, 1881 a famous one of these took place at the O.K. Corral a shootout |
| #15, aired 2022-02-18 | A LOFTY CATEGORY $600: "O" is for this type of tall stone shaft like Cleopatra's Needle or the Washington Monument obelisk |
| #8579, aired 2022-02-17 | A MEASURE OF AUTHOR-ITY $2000: O! This author of "O Pioneers" was featured on a stamp in 1973 Cather |
| #8578, aired 2022-02-16 | 6-LETTER ADVERBS $400: Often found on prescriptions, P.O. means a medicine should be taken this way orally |
| #12, aired 2022-02-16 | THEY'RE MULTI-TALENTED $600: Onscreen, this big guy was "Kazaam"; on the music scene, he knew "You Can't Stop the Reign"; on the court, he won 4 NBA titles Shaquille O'Neal |
| #8577, aired 2022-02-15 | IT'S THE ONLY VOWEL $800: ...in the word that follows "any" when it precedes "in a storm" O |
| #8576, aired 2022-02-14 | SCIENCE $1200: O say, can you see--SrCO3, this two-word compound that causes the red glare seen here strontium carbonate |
| #7, aired 2022-02-11 | W.H.O. $400: As this group was forming in 1945, Brazil & China asked for a global health organization; the W.H.O. would show up in 1948 the UN |
| #7, aired 2022-02-11 | W.H.O. $800: In 2021 the W.H.O. recommended a promising vaccine for this disease that kills some 250,000 sub-Saharan children a year malaria |
| #7, aired 2022-02-11 | W.H.O. $1200: Seen here, Korea's first W.H.O. chief, Lee Jong-wook, was this type of doctor that focuses on diseases affecting many at a time epidemiologist |
| #7, aired 2022-02-11 | W.H.O. $1600: The W.H.O. helps in global crises, like the decade-long one in this Mideast country that it aids with cross-border partners in Turkey Syria |
| #7, aired 2022-02-11 | W.H.O. $2000: The logo of the W.H.O. displays the rod of this Greek god of healing who inspired a serpentine cult Asclepius |
| #8574, aired 2022-02-10 | AMUSING CANADIANS $600: She's the international treasure seen here who introduced amazing new ways to pronounce "gala" & "philosophic" (Catherine) O'Hara |
| #8573, aired 2022-02-09 | 20th CENTURY HISTORY & THE MOVIES $1600: Peter O'Toole played "the most shameless exhibitionist since Barnum & Bailey" in this epic film set in the Mideast Lawrence of Arabia |
| #1, aired 2022-02-08 | BIO 201 $400: In the 1950s Edward O. Wilson studied colonies of these insects & found that they communicate primarily via pheromones ants |
| #8570, aired 2022-02-04 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $2,000 (Daily Double): Bill O'Reilly subtitled this 2012 alliterative bestseller "The End of Camelot" Killing Kennedy |
| #8566, aired 2022-01-31 | STUPID ANSWERS $800: Man o' War's first defeat came in 1919 at Saratoga in an upset by this horse Upset |
| #8565, aired 2022-01-28 | LINE $400: "O true apothecary, thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die" Romeo and Juliet |
| #8564, aired 2022-01-27 | THE W.H.O. SAYS... $400: Hormonal influences make this headache disorder twice as common in women as in men migraine |
| #8564, aired 2022-01-27 | THE W.H.O. SAYS... $800: This inflammation & narrowing of airways is the most common chronic disease of children asthma |
| #8564, aired 2022-01-27 | THE W.H.O. SAYS... $1200: You can reduce your risk of stroke, heart disease & this, also called high blood pressure, by limiting your salt intake hypertension |
| #8564, aired 2022-01-27 | THE W.H.O. SAYS... $1600: Often found in home-canned foods, the bacterial toxins that cause this illness are among the most lethal substances known botulism |
| #8564, aired 2022-01-27 | THE W.H.O. SAYS... $2000: Early supportive care & rehydration improve survival of this viral hemorrhagic fever named for a Central African river Ebola |
| #8563, aired 2022-01-26 | CEREAL $1000: These O-shaped delights with a fruit name were originally just orange; the green ones were added in 1998 Apple Jacks |
| #8561, aired 2022-01-24 | FROM TV TO FILM $1200: In the film version of this TV show, Crockett & Tubbs left the Sunshine State for a bit to go to Cuba & Haiti Miami Vice |
| #8560, aired 2022-01-21 | SYMPHONIES $800: Part of Arlene Sierra's "Nature Symphony" was inspired by this artist's paintings of the New Mexico landscape Georgia O'Keeffe |
| #8555, aired 2022-01-14 | MISS, MR. OR MRS. SONG $1000: E.L.O.:
"A celebration," he's "up there waitin"' "Mr. Blue Sky" |
| #8552, aired 2022-01-11 | STATE YOUR BUSINESS $200: General Mills,
Land O'Lakes Minnesota |
| #8547, aired 2022-01-04 | WATERLOGGED READING $1000: Overmatched Capt. Jack Aubrey & Dr. Stephen Maturin take on a Spanish frigate in this 1st Patrick O'Brian book in a series Master and Commander |
| #8546, aired 2022-01-03 | PLACE YOUR FAST FOOD ORDER $200: A Mocha Frappé & a Filet-O-Fish McDonald's |
| #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 | ON THE POLITICAL SPECTRUM $800: This colorful banner, title of a song to the tune of "O Tannenbaum", has symbolized socialism & communism for 150 years the red flag |
| #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. |
| #8545, aired 2021-12-31 | TV TALK $200: This numeric synonym for the fuzz comes from a 1968-1980 TV show 5-O |
| #8544, aired 2021-12-30 | THE FIRST AFRICAN-AMERICAN... $1200: General in this service was Benjamin O. Davis Jr., son of the first African-American U.S. Army general the Air Force |
| #8541, aired 2021-12-27 | MUSICAL 3‑INITIALers $1600: BTO was this group; the "O" was originally a trucking magazine Bachman-Turner Overdrive |
| #8538, aired 2021-12-22 | THE HOST OF CHRISTMAS PAST $600: A very 1999 special had Rosie O'Donnell enjoying Savage Garden & this Bass/Fatone/Kirkpatrick/Chasez/some other guy boy band *NSYNC |
| #8537, aired 2021-12-21 | GO HOME $1000: Yo ho, now we set sail / Of this kind of home, I'll tell you a tale / A wooden hut & sailor's song it is / & now be the end o' our quiz a shanty |
| #8536, aired 2021-12-20 | O HOLY KNIGHT $200: Father Michael McGivney founded a Catholic service organization & called it the Knights of this sailor of 1492 Columbus |
| #8536, aired 2021-12-20 | O HOLY KNIGHT $400: Angelo Tancredi was the first knight to join the order of this man of Assisi & was singing to him when he died Francis |
| #8536, aired 2021-12-20 | O HOLY KNIGHT $600: Knight-turned-missionary Ramon Llull wrote a manual of this, the honorable conduct expected of knights chivalry |
| #8536, aired 2021-12-20 | O HOLY KNIGHT $800: Led by Hugh de Payns, they formed in the early 12th century to protect pilgrims headed to Jerusalem the Knights Templar |
| #8536, aired 2021-12-20 | O HOLY KNIGHT $1000: Minister Thomas W. Stringer formed the African-American version of the "Knights of" him, Damon's friend Pythias |
| #8532, aired 2021-12-14 | POP CULTURE MR. OR MRS. $800: Kevin O'Leary, one of the investors on this series, is frequently referred to as Mr. Wonderful Shark Tank |
| #8529, aired 2021-12-09 | LIT CHARACTERS' BAD CHOICES $800: He makes the mistake of trusting O'Brien, which leads to a harsh re-education at the Ministry of Love Winston (Smith) |
| #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 |
| #8524, aired 2021-12-02 | "T" FOR... $1200: This board game has a Pop-O-Matic dice roller Trouble |
| #8521, aired 2021-11-29 | WHO'S YOUR "C-O"? $400: In the U.S. Army, it's "the base level of the noncommissioned officer" ranks corporal |
| #8521, aired 2021-11-29 | WHO'S YOUR "C-O"? $800: In the British military, it ranks just below brigadier colonel |
| #8521, aired 2021-11-29 | WHO'S YOUR "C-O"? $1200: This word from the rowing team also means the most important member of a Coast Guard small boat crew a coxswain |
| #8521, aired 2021-11-29 | WHO'S YOUR "C-O"? $1600: The Army has medics; the Navy has these corpsmen |
| #8521, aired 2021-11-29 | WHO'S YOUR "C-O"? $2000: This boss of a squadron once ranked just below a rear admiral a commodore |
| #8517, aired 2021-11-23 | BUSINESS HISTORY $4,000 (Daily Double): This pair's first computer venture, Traf-O-Data for the Washington Roads Department, helped them launch a bigger company soon after Bill Gates & Paul Allen |
| #8516, aired 2021-11-22 | YOUR DESTINATION AWAITS $800: Why this city, you may ask? It has the Rock & Roll H.O.F. & the Great Lakes Science Center, & as far as I'm concerned, it rocks! Cleveland |
| #8512, aired 2021-11-16 | AIRPORTS $800: This airport's code, ORD, goes back to the previous tenant on the site, Orchard Field O'Hare |
| #8508, aired 2021-11-10 | CELEBRITY ENTREPRENEURS $200: She was told successful Internet companies have double "O"s in their names; she put them between her initials to make Goop Paltrow |
| #8501, aired 2021-11-01 | KANSAS CITY: NEWS CLUES $1000: (Hi, I'm Christel Bell.) In 1997, the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum opened its new permanent home under the leadership of Buck O'Neill, who had been a star for this Kansas City Negro Leagues team, as had greats like Satchel Paige & Jackie Robinson the Monarchs |
| #8499, aired 2021-10-28 | AT THE BALLET $800: Subtitled "The Courting at Burnt Ranch", this Aaron Copland ballet uses elements of hoedown dancing & bronco busting Rodeo |
| #8496, aired 2021-10-25 | WRITTEN IN THE DUST $1600: This title man is described as a "limping lump o' brick-dust" in a Rudyard Kipling poem Gunga Din |
| #8492, aired 2021-10-19 | FORTUNE 500 FORTUNES $600: O say can you see the $121 billion in revenue of this for-profit health federation that operates Blue Cross & Blue Shield Anthem |
| #8488, aired 2021-10-13 | HODGEPODGE $800: This flat Scottish cap usually has a pompom in the center a tam (tam o'shanter) |
| #8481, aired 2021-10-04 | BASEBALL HALL OF FAMERS BY INITIALS $1000: He took a big lead & slid into the H.O.F. in 2009: R.H. Henderson |
| #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 |
| #8474, aired 2021-09-23 | REVIVAL $400: Nationality name for the literary revival that included writers like Yeats & O'Casey Irish |
| #8468, aired 2021-09-15 | REDUPLICATIVES $400: This kids' slang meaning extremely simple is in the 1940 movie "The Long Voyage Home", based on Eugene O'Neill's plays easy-peasy |
| #8466, aired 2021-09-13 | THAT'S CANADIAN ENTERTAINMENT $800: Canadians starring on this sketch show included Eugene Levy, Catherine O'Hara & John Candy SCTV (Second City TV) |
| #8466, aired 2021-09-13 | SOMEBODY WROTE THAT $1000: Newspaper editor Francis Pharcellus Church wrote the 1897 reply to young Virginia O'Hanlon that's known by these 7 words Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus |
| #8466, aired 2021-09-13 | AUTHORS NOT AUTHORING $1600: As a student at Stanford in 1959, he was part of an army experiment on mind-altering drugs & later, worked in a hospital psych ward (Ken) Kesey |
| #8463, aired 2021-08-11 | WE'LL GET TOGETHER $1000: Get C, H & O together in the right proportions & you've got this gasoline additive also called ethyl alcohol ethanol |
| #8458, aired 2021-08-04 | HOWDY, SHERIFF $400: Sheriff Johnny Behan arrested 3 Earp brothers, also lawmen, after a shootout at this place; the 3 were exonerated the O.K. Corral |
| #8450, aired 2021-07-23 | COP SHOWS BY CHARACTERS $200: Sergeant Duke Lukela; Lieutenant Chin Ho Kelly Hawaii Five-O |
| #8448, aired 2021-07-21 | MED SCHOOL $1000: As opposed to M.D.s, some students become D.O.s, doctors of this type of medicine osteopathic doctors |
| #8448, aired 2021-07-21 | THEY'VE GOT AN EGOT $2000: Nov. 8, 2014 was a great day-o for this singer & actor who received an honorary Oscar for his humanitarian work Belafonte |
| #8445, aired 2021-07-16 | "O"PPOSITES $200: Of vacant
(8 letters) occupied |
| #8445, aired 2021-07-16 | "O"PPOSITES $400: Of written
(4 letters) oral |
| #8445, aired 2021-07-16 | "O"PPOSITES $600: Of chaos
(5 letters) order |
| #8445, aired 2021-07-16 | THE WEEKLY CONFERENCE CALL $600: The accounting team says the R.O.I., short for this, was solid on the Plotsky deal return on investment |
| #8445, aired 2021-07-16 | "O"PPOSITES $1000: Of pellucid
(6 letters) opaque |
| #8445, aired 2021-07-16 | "O"PPOSITES $3,000 (Daily Double): Of powerless
(10 letters) omnipotent |
| #8443, aired 2021-07-14 | MUSIC, IN THE CLASSICAL SENSE $2000: Really putting the "O" in orchestra, E.L.O. did a live performance of "In The Hall Of The Mountain King" by this composer Grieg |
| #8434, aired 2021-07-01 | THE FIRST OF JULY $800: This song officially became a national anthem July 1, 1980 "O Canada" |
| #8434, aired 2021-07-01 | THE MOVIE IN QUESTION $800: 2000,
set in the 1930s:
"O ____ ,
____ ____ ____?" O Brother, Where Are Thou? |
| #8429, aired 2021-06-24 | ENDS IN "A-D-O" $400: It's also called a twister a tornado |
| #8429, aired 2021-06-24 | ENDS IN "A-D-O" $800: Borrowed from Spanish, it's a big fan or devotee of something, perhaps sports aficionado |
| #8429, aired 2021-06-24 | ENDS IN "A-D-O" $1200: "Tequila Sunrise" is a track from this Eagles album that had an Old-West concept Desperado |
| #8429, aired 2021-06-24 | ENDS IN "A-D-O" $1600: When you're out of touch or refuse to have contact with someone, you're this 13-letter word incommunicado |
| #8429, aired 2021-06-24 | ENDS IN "A-D-O" $2000: A "Cask of" this sherry figures prominently in an Edgar Allan Poe tale Amontillado |
| #8426, aired 2021-06-21 | MOVIE TITLE MIDDLE WORD $400: O'shea Jackson Jr. plays Ice Cube (his dad)
(2015) "Outta" |
| #8425, aired 2021-06-18 | CINEMAPOURRI $600: Paige O'Hara & Robby Benson voiced the title pair of this Disney film Beauty and the Beast |
| #8424, aired 2021-06-17 | TV BEFORE & AFTER $400: Sofia Vergara dumps Ed O'Neill for Michael J. Fox & forms a new home Modern Family Ties |
| #8424, aired 2021-06-17 | NORTH AMERICAN GEOGRAPHY $1000: This capital of Saskatchewan started out as a hunters' camp called Pile O'Bones due to all the buffalo parts lying around Regina |
| #8424, aired 2021-06-17 | MEDICAL LATIN $1600: O.D. can stand for an overdose or for this body part, oculus dexter in Latin the right eye |
| #8423, aired 2021-06-16 | DESERT ISLAND READS $400: Civil War P.O.W.s crash land in a hot air balloon onto this French author's "Mysterious Island" Jules Verne |
| #8420, aired 2021-06-11 | 1930s LITERATURE $800: In this Pearl Buck novel, Wang betrays his wife O-Lan for another woman The Good Earth |
| #8419, aired 2021-06-10 | BOOK-BORNE WORDS & PHRASES $1200: O. Henry called the fictional Central American country of Anchuria this 2-word entity, referring to an export a banana republic |
| #8418, aired 2021-06-09 | ADDITIVES $1600: The W.H.O. suggests face masks made with polypropylene, which has this water-repelling adjective that means "afraid of water" hydrophobic |
| #8416, aired 2021-06-07 | CONSCIOUSNESS OF STREAM WRITING $1200: Whistle a happy tune & name this Pierre Boulle World War II P.O.W. novel that was made into an Oscar-winning film Bridge on the River Kwai |
| #8409, aired 2021-05-27 | H TO O $200: A noisy outburst by an angry or excited group hullabaloo |
| #8409, aired 2021-05-27 | H TO O $400: Jolly hyphenated exclamation by Grumpy & his housemates on the way home from the mine heigh-ho! |
| #8409, aired 2021-05-27 | H TO O $600: This adverb means up until the present moment hitherto |
| #8409, aired 2021-05-27 | H TO O $800: Legendary priestess of Aphrodite who left the light on for her lover Hero |
| #8409, aired 2021-05-27 | H TO O $1000: From the Spanish for "little oven", it's a mound of molten lava hornito |
| #8407, aired 2021-05-25 | THE FAMILY BUSINESS $600: The Haas family enjoyed a combined net worth of $4.7 billion after a 2019 I.P.O. of this California-based jeans company Levi |
| #8406, aired 2021-05-24 | NEVER ENOUGH $800: This letter blood type belonging to 45% of Caucasians but over 50% of African Americans is always in high demand O |
| #8403, aired 2021-05-19 | WATER $1,500 (Daily Double): In ROWPU, a system that purifies any water source, the "R" stands for "reverse" & the "O" stands for this process osmosis |
| #8402, aired 2021-05-18 | I'M ON A BOAT! $400: The 20th novel in Patrick O'Brian's seafaring saga is called "Blue at the Mizzen", referring to a flag hoisted upon this a mast |
| #8402, aired 2021-05-18 | WELL VERSED IN POETRY $1600: A poem by Wordsworth begins, "I wandered lonely as" this "that floats on high o'er vales and hills" a cloud |
| #8399, aired 2021-05-13 | THE TUNNEL $1200: A tunnel named for late House Speaker Tip O'Neill carries the route known as the Central Artery under this city's downtown Boston |
| #8398, aired 2021-05-12 | 'CAUSE WE SPELL GOOD $400: These 2 letters are between M & F in a word from the French for the use of disguise in the military O & U |
| #8396, aired 2021-05-10 | SHORT STORIES $2000: This Pulitzer winner from Mississippi published her first short story in 1936; her classic "The Petrified Man", 5 years later Welty |
| #8395, aired 2021-05-07 | ADJECTIVAL EVIDENCE $800: As an adjective, it means hardened or feeling no sympathy; as a noun, without the "O", it is a hardening on your skin callous |
| #8393, aired 2021-05-05 | SHAKESPEARE FAMILY TIES $1,800 (Daily Double): This "Tempest"uous daughter of Prospero says, "O brave new world, that has such people in it!" Miranda |
| #8392, aired 2021-05-04 | PRONOUNS $1600: It's the last word of "O Canada" thee |
| #8390, aired 2021-04-30 | SEE 3 "P", "O" $400: This spicy sausage is a popular pie topper pepperoni |
| #8390, aired 2021-04-30 | SEE 3 "P", "O" $800: Congratulations! You've been this for a credit card you haven't even applied for preapproved |
| #8390, aired 2021-04-30 | SEE 3 "P", "O" $1200: One matchup of this contest that aired on the NFL's biggest Sunday saw Team Fluff take on Team Ruff the Puppy Bowl |
| #8390, aired 2021-04-30 | SEE 3 "P", "O" $1600: Adjective meaning not suitable for a particular situation or place inappropriate |
| #8390, aired 2021-04-30 | SEE 3 "P", "O" $2000: It's the type of engraved metal image seen here copperplate |
| #8389, aired 2021-04-29 | ORDER IN THE COURT $800: A T.R.O. is a temporary one of these, protecting someone from being threatened, stalked or harassed a restraining order |
| #8387, aired 2021-04-27 | RECENT BOOKS $400: One letter off from "Hamlet", the title of this bestselling novel by Maggie O'Farrell honors Shakespeare's son Hamnet |
| #8387, aired 2021-04-27 | RECENT BOOKS $800: A head writer of "Saturday Night Live", he titled his memoir "A Very Punchable Face" Colin Jost |
| #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 |
| #8385, aired 2021-04-23 | 3 O's $400: First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes this trip for just the 2 of you a honeymoon |
| #8385, aired 2021-04-23 | 3 O's $800: A stand-up comic's routine, or a prolonged talk by a single speaker in a play a monologue |
| #8385, aired 2021-04-23 | 3 O's $1200: Little Big Town sings about "makin' waves and catchin' rays up on the roof" of this type of boat a pontoon |
| #8385, aired 2021-04-23 | 3 O's $1600: Seen here are ciliates, a group of these single-celled organisms that feed on bacteria protozoa |
| #8385, aired 2021-04-23 | 3 O's $2000: This ornate style of art & architecture originated in France in the early 1700s Rococo |
| #8383, aired 2021-04-21 | COMING BACK TO WIN THE GAME $800: Down 5 to the Oilers in 1982, this "royal" NHL team tied it with 5 seconds left & won the "Miracle on Manchester" in O.T. the (Los Angeles) Kings |
| #8378, aired 2021-04-14 | WARM THOUGHTS $400: Thomas De Quincey wrote of "the divine pleasures of" a fireside in this season: "candles at four o'clock, warm hearth-rugs, tea" winter |
| #8378, aired 2021-04-14 | 3-NAMED CELEBRITIES $1200: When he first rocked out to "Pink Houses" & "R.O.C.K. In The U.S.A.", he was using these 3 names John Cougar Mellencamp |
| #8378, aired 2021-04-14 | WARM THOUGHTS $2000: In "Tam O'Shanter" he writes of a wife "gathering her brows like gathering storm, nursing her wrath to keep it warm" Robert Burns |
| #8376, aired 2021-04-12 | COUNTING ON TELEVISION $400: In 2010 TV viewers said aloha as in "hello" to this remake with Alex O'Loughlin; in 2020 it was aloha as in "goodbye" Hawaii Five-0 |
| #8374, aired 2021-04-08 | THE IVY LEAGUE $1000: Harvard banned filming of Hollywood movies after this Ryan O'Neal/Ali MacGraw tearjerker ruined trees with fake snow Love Story |
| #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 |
| #8370, aired 2021-04-02 | NEW PHONE, WHO DISCO? $1000: The O'Jays sang, "People all over the world... join hands... start a" this title conveyance, which we adore on our playlist "Love Train" |
| #8365, aired 2021-03-26 | ENTERTAINMENT ADD A LETTER $2000: A Josh Hartnett Shakespeare reworking becomes an HBO prison series O & Oz |
| #8364, aired 2021-03-25 | THE PLAY'S THE THING $800: James Earl Jones & Jason Robards have both played Hickey in this chilly play by Eugene O'Neill The Iceman Cometh |
| #8360, aired 2021-03-19 | GET 'EM WHILE THEY'RE COLD $200: A hot day is a good time for this jiggly treat, "America's most famous dessert" Jell-O |
| #8359, aired 2021-03-18 | BOYS $2000: The Soggy Bottom Boys was a fictional band formed by the chain gang escapees in this film O Brother, Where Art Thou? |
| #8358, aired 2021-03-17 | POTENT POTABLES $800: Pat O'Brien's in New Orleans is famous for this stormy cocktail that has its own tall glass a Hurricane |
| #8358, aired 2021-03-17 | TERRIFIC TV $800: We won't say the name of the sitcom, but we can tell you this woman won a Best Lead Actress Emmy in 2020 for playing Moira Rose Catherine O'Hara |
| #8356, aired 2021-03-15 | "T.O.C." $400: At the summer Solstice, the Sun is directly over this line north of the equator the Tropic of Cancer |
| #8356, aired 2021-03-15 | "T.O.C." $800: It's the tarot card seen here the Three of Cups |
| #8356, aired 2021-03-15 | THAT'S TOTALLY LIT $1000: O. Henry told of "The Ransom of" this title kid, so troublesome his kidnappers pay dad to take him back Red Chief |
| #8356, aired 2021-03-15 | "T.O.C." $1200: Make this "sweet" computer change if you want websites to remember you when you revisit them turn on cookies |
| #8356, aired 2021-03-15 | "T.O.C." $1600: One of Bob Barker's first gigs, it's also the name of a New Mexico City Truth or Consequences |
| #8356, aired 2021-03-15 | "T.O.C." $2000: Beginning with its debut in 2006, this cycling race took riders through the Golden State the Tour of California |
| #8355, aired 2021-03-12 | BUSINESS ABBREV. $600: The C.T.O. is this officer who might deal with data & cloud storage the chief technical officer (chief technology officer) |
| #8352, aired 2021-03-09 | FERRIS & OBSERVATION WHEELS $800: The Big O wheel in Tokyo Dome City has an open center without spokes so this other type of ride can pass through a roller coaster |
| #8348, aired 2021-03-03 | ILLUSTRATORS $400: In the early 1900s Rose O'Neill's popular drawings of this winged god evolved into wildly popular Kewpie dolls Cupid |
| #8347, aired 2021-03-02 | FISH & CHIPS $200: Alaskan pollock is the key ingredient in this alliterative McDonald's sandwich Filet-O-Fish |
| #8343, aired 2021-02-24 | LET'S TALK PLUMBING $600: A letter plus a word makes the name of these round rubber washers used to seal connections O-ring |
| #8340, aired 2021-02-19 | BALTIMORE: NEWS CLUES $800: (Tom Rodgers of FOX45 in Baltimore presents the clue.) Camden Yards opened in 1992, masterly rehabilitating a warehouse of this historic railroad familiar to players of Monopoly The B&O Railroad |
| #8335, aired 2021-02-12 | AFTER THE SUPREME COURT $400: Not long after her 2006 retirement, this justice founded the iCivics website that teaches about government Sandra Day O'Connor |
| #8334, aired 2021-02-11 | THE SAME VOWEL, FRONT & BACK $2000: This 4-letter word means hodgepodge, which also has 2 O's olio |
| #8332, aired 2021-02-09 | BANKS FOR THE MEMORIES $400: This bank that asks "What's in your wallet?" traces its roots to an I.P.O. in 1994 Capital One |
| #8332, aired 2021-02-09 | SQUID PRO QUO $400: Parodying "Nothin' On You" by B.o.B., this funny guy has a song about getting "another tattoo", "maybe a squid, or a tarantula" "Weird Al" Yankovic |
| #8330, aired 2021-02-05 | CORPORATE NAMES $400: Let's talk turkey--Earl Olson named this company after his daughter Jennifer Jennie-O |
| #8330, aired 2021-02-05 | FROM THE GRIDIRON TO TV $600: Later known as a TV dad, this man seen here once signed with the Steelers as an undrafted rookie Ed O'Neill |
| #8328, aired 2021-02-03 | LET'S GO SNORKELING $400: S.O.O.S.! To protect vulnerable reefs & sea life, snorkelers are urged to "stand only on" this stuff sand |
| #8328, aired 2021-02-03 | FEELING LITERARY $800: Eugene O'Neill drew up Greek tragedy:
"____ Under the Elms" Desire |
| #8318, aired 2021-01-20 | POLY ESTHER $400: Esther Rolle played Florida Evans on "Maude" & this "dyn-o-mite" sitcom Good Times |
| #8315, aired 2021-01-15 | ALL KINDS OF WINE $400: Perhaps Don Ho meant Hula o Maui, a sparkling wine made of this fruit, when singing of "tiny bubbles in the wine" pineapple |
| #8314, aired 2021-01-14 | THE BEST OF TIMES $400: Monarchos in 2001 & this horse in 1973, still the record holder, are the only horses to run the Kentucky Derby in under 2 minutes Secretariat |
| #8314, aired 2021-01-14 | 2-LETTER LIT $600: L. Frank Baum said he got the name for this after looking at his file cabinet Oz |
| #8313, aired 2021-01-13 | 2 MIDDLE NAMES $600: Keeping things simple, New Zealand singer-songwriter Ella Marija Lani Yelich-O'Connor works under this name Lorde |
| #8311, aired 2021-01-11 | TELEVISION BY THE NUMBER $400: Scott Caan booked 'em as Danno on the reboot of this cop show Hawaii Five-O |
| #8307, aired 2021-01-05 | OY! IT'S WORDS FROM "O" TO "Y" $400: It's a long, eventful journey or ordeal; a mythological one took 10 years an odyssey |
| #8307, aired 2021-01-05 | OY! IT'S WORDS FROM "O" TO "Y" $800: Meaning to become bone, this verb is used for ideas that have become fixed ossify |
| #8307, aired 2021-01-05 | POSSESSION IS 9/10 $1200: Day-o! Daaaay-o! A dinner party takes a very unexpected musical turn in this! this! this! 1988 Tim Burton film Beetlejuice |
| #8307, aired 2021-01-05 | OY! IT'S WORDS FROM "O" TO "Y" $1200: This raptor flies over water to hunt, plunging in feet first to catch fish in its talons an osprey |
| #8307, aired 2021-01-05 | OY! IT'S WORDS FROM "O" TO "Y" $1600: Numbering about 175,000, these upper Midwesterners are one of the largest native peoples north of Mexico Ojibway |
| #8307, aired 2021-01-05 | OY! IT'S WORDS FROM "O" TO "Y" $2000: From Latin for "shaded", it means non-transparency in an image opacity |
| #8306, aired 2021-01-04 | WORDS ABOUT WORDS $2000: An eponym is a word derived from a person's name; this is a word for a person from a particular place, like Muscovite demonym |
| #8305, aired 2020-12-18 | MOVING $1000: B.O.L. is short for this, basically a customer's itemized contract with a moving company bill of lading |
| #8304, aired 2020-12-17 | AUTHORS & THEIR PETS $400: Flannery O'Connor kept these vibrant birds & sent their ornate tail feathers as gifts a peacock |
| #8304, aired 2020-12-17 | NET FLICKS $800: This Brazilian soccer star was in the film "Victory", about allied P.O.W.s set to play soccer against the German national team Pelé |
| #8304, aired 2020-12-17 | 1800s AMERICA $3,000 (Daily Double): In 1830 the first 13 miles of this railroad opened for service, all within Maryland the B&O Railroad (Baltimore & Ohio) |
| #8303, aired 2020-12-16 | DOUBLE "O" 7-LETTER WORDS $200: On commercial airlines, exit rows & bulkhead seats typically offer extra this legroom |
| #8303, aired 2020-12-16 | DOUBLE "O" 7-LETTER WORDS $400: At 380 feet, the tallest living tree is a coast this in California redwood |
| #8303, aired 2020-12-16 | DOUBLE "O" 7-LETTER WORDS $600: Vespa is an iconic brand of this a scooter |
| #8303, aired 2020-12-16 | DOUBLE "O" 7-LETTER WORDS $800: Nickname for a person from Muncie a Hoosier |
| #8303, aired 2020-12-16 | DOUBLE "O" 7-LETTER WORDS $1000: This term for a habitual object of abuse can also refer to something that invites you into a house a doormat |
| #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 | MOVIES BY MATCHUP $800: Black Mamba (aka The Bride) vs. Cottonmouth (aka O-Ren Ishii) Kill Bill |
| #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 |
| #8301, aired 2020-12-14 | WORLD CAPITAL BINGO $1000: "O", around 1300: Akershus Castle is built in this city; it's still there today, south of a street called Karl Johans Gate Oslo |
| #8300, aired 2020-12-11 | QUOTABLE WOMEN $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1981 she told the Senate Judiciary Committee, "I do well understand... the difference between legislating & judging" Sandra Day O'Connor |
| #8299, aired 2020-12-10 | LEO POTPOURRI-O $200: The zodiac constellation Leo represents the Nemean lion, slain by him Hercules |
| #8299, aired 2020-12-10 | LEO POTPOURRI-O $400: The mascot of this movie studio, began roaring in 1928 MGM |
| #8299, aired 2020-12-10 | LEO POTPOURRI-O $600: Leo Rosten brought readers "The New Joys of" this language, including words like kvell & kvetch Yiddish |
| #8299, aired 2020-12-10 | LEO POTPOURRI-O $800: LEO can be an abbreviation for this type of officer law enforcement officer |
| #8299, aired 2020-12-10 | LEO POTPOURRI-O $1000: Giovanni, the second son of Lorenzo of this family, was just shy of 40 upon becoming Pope Leo X the Medicis |
| #8299, aired 2020-12-10 | WHAT'S THAT ON YOUR HEAD? $1600: "But pleasures are like poppies spread", says this Robert Burns poem, also the name of a cap "Tam o' Shanter" |
| #8298, aired 2020-12-09 | KEN JENNINGS KNOWS THE G.O.A.T. (GREATEST OF ALL TIME) $200: (Ken Jennings presents the clue.) The greatest minds of all time include Einstein, of course, Isaac Newton, & this woman, a student of mathematics, physics & chemistry, & also the first to win a Nobel Prize Marie Curie |
| #8298, aired 2020-12-09 | KEN JENNINGS KNOWS THE G.O.A.T. (GREATEST OF ALL TIME) $400: (Ken Jennings presents the clue.) 1967 saw the Summer of Love & the release of what “Rolling Stone” calls the greatest album of all time, this Beatles classic that Paul McCartney conceived of as being by an alter ego group Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band |
| #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) $800: (Ken Jennings presents the clue.) Among the greatest archaeological discoveries are King Tut’s tomb, & more recently, the remains of this last Plantagenet king of England; his skeleton, uncovered in a Leicester parking lot, of all places, showed signs of a fatal battle wound & scoliosis Richard III |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #8292, aired 2020-12-01 | TV $1000: This "Kitchen Nightmares" man received an O.B.E. in 2006 (Gordon) Ramsay |
| #8289, aired 2020-11-26 | ON YOUR WEDDING DAY $200: A true MVP, an unwed M.O.H., short for this, plans the bridal shower, answers guest queries & yes, hits the dance floor! maid of honor |
| #8288, aired 2020-11-25 | A LETTER, THEN A WORD $2000: The failure of these little rubber seals seems to be what doomed the Space Shuttle Challenger O-rings |
| #8284, aired 2020-11-19 | PATRIOTIC ART? $800: Before moving southwest, she loved the Adirondacks & painted a starlit night over Lake George Georgia O'Keeffe |
| #8283, aired 2020-11-18 | V.O. INITIALS $200: Ted in "Ted":
S.M. Seth MacFarlane |
| #8283, aired 2020-11-18 | V.O. INITIALS $400: Ralph in "Wreck-It Ralph":
J.C.R. John C. Reilly |
| #8283, aired 2020-11-18 | V.O. INITIALS $600: Mater in "Cars":
L.T.C.G. Larry the Cable Guy |
| #8283, aired 2020-11-18 | V.O. INITIALS $800: Remy from "Ratatouille":
P.O. Patton Oswalt |
| #8283, aired 2020-11-18 | V.O. INITIALS $1000: Wyldstyle/Lucy in "The Lego Movie":
E.B. Elizabeth Banks |
| #8279, aired 2020-11-12 | DOUBLE O, DOUBLE E $200: IBC or Barq's, for example root beer |
| #8279, aired 2020-11-12 | DOUBLE O, DOUBLE E $400: A visual examination of something; let's have a... a look-see |
| #8279, aired 2020-11-12 | DOUBLE O, DOUBLE E $600: "Be of" these 2 words denoting happy spirits good cheer |
| #8279, aired 2020-11-12 | DOUBLE O, DOUBLE E $800: 2-word name for the flat pan used to bake up some snickerdoodles a cookie sheet |
| #8279, aired 2020-11-12 | DOUBLE O, DOUBLE E $1000: To excessively pamper someone with a utensil, metaphorically to spoon-feed them |
| #8276, aired 2020-11-09 | PODCASTS $1000: Turns out this TBS late night show host "Needs a Friend"; Malcolm Gladwell & Tina Fey were happy to oblige Conan O'Brien |
| #8275, aired 2020-11-06 | U.S. HISTORY $800: The Senate didn't ratify the Treaty of Versailles, so this G.O.P. president proclaimed peace between the U.S. & Germany in 1921 Harding |
| #8274, aired 2020-11-05 | 3-NAMED MARYS $600: On "24", Mary Lynn Rajskub was the very efficient Chloe O'Brian, helping this Kiefer Sutherland character Jack Bauer |
| #8271, aired 2020-11-02 | FAILURE TO LUNCH $200: Sorry, everyone! I'm on the diet known as O.M.A.D., short for this; I only eat at 5 p.m. one meal a day |
| #8266, aired 2020-10-26 | A 5-MARTINI LIBRARY $2000: An early literary reference to the martini is in this American's short story "Hostages to Momus"--it didn't come with a twist O. Henry |
| #8265, aired 2020-10-23 | HELPFUL HINTS $1200: "Double O, double K, double E" helps you to spell this job correctly bookkeeper |
| #8260, aired 2020-10-16 | 2-LETTER WORDS $800: In the title of a Eugene O'Neill play, it precedes "Wilderness!" Ah |
| #8257, aired 2020-10-13 | TV THEME SONG LYRICS $800: "So no one told you life was gonna be this way, your job's a joke, you're broke, your love life's D.O.A." Friends |
| #8257, aired 2020-10-13 | LANGUAGES $800: Korean is an S.O.V. language, meaning this part comes after the subject & object in a sentence a verb |
| #8257, aired 2020-10-13 | MEDICAL HISTORY $1600: In 1952 Bjorn Ibsen said, let's keep the patient intubated & ventilated like in the O.R., creating the first of these hospital units the ICUs |
| #8255, aired 2020-10-09 | "BEE" GOOD $200: This flying disc from Wham-O got its name in part from a comic strip a Frisbee |
| #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 $400: (Ken Jennings presents the clue.) In 2015, Dani Arnold climbed this 14,700-foot peak in the Pennine Alps in one hour, 46 minutes, but I did Disneyland's in, like, a minute the Matterhorn |
| #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 |
| #8252, aired 2020-10-06 | KEN JENNINGS KNOWS MOUNTAIN G.O.A.T.s $800: (Ken Jennings presents the clue.) Braving subzero temps on June 7th, 1913, Walter Harper was the first person to stand atop this 20,310-foot peak; Of Athabascan heritage, he was the one Native American member of the expedition, and the mountain itself is now known by its indigenous name Denali (Mount McKinley) |
| #8252, aired 2020-10-06 | ADD A VOWEL $800: O: a male sheep & the way he might wander around ram & roam |
| #8252, aired 2020-10-06 | KEN JENNINGS KNOWS MOUNTAIN G.O.A.T.s $1000: (Ken Jennings presents the clue.) "Go Canada" In 2018, Monique Richard overcame a fall into a crevice to be the first woman to solo summit this mountain, Canada's tallest Mount Logan |
| #8251, aired 2020-10-05 | BRITISH ACTRESSES $400: She beat the likes of Bette Davis & Katharine Hepburn for the coveted role of southern belle Scarlett O'Hara Vivien Leigh |
| #8251, aired 2020-10-05 | WORD DERIVATIONS $800: In Spanish, the language it's from, this word for a show of daring ends with "t-a" instead of "d-o" bravata |
| #8249, aired 2020-10-01 | THE YOUNG & THE RECKLESS $1600: Stunt man Bud Ekins, not Steve McQueen, made the iconic motorcycle jump over a barbed-wire fence in this 1963 P.O.W. breakout movie The Great Escape |
| #8248, aired 2020-09-30 | AMERICANA $400: Naval Academy graduate Edward "Butch" O'Hare, class of 1937, had one of these named for him in 1949 an airport |
| #8248, aired 2020-09-30 | THEATER TIME $1200: His "Long Day's Journey into Night" begins on a morning in August 1912 Eugene O'Neill |
| #8248, aired 2020-09-30 | 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 |
| #8244, aired 2020-09-24 | RAISE THE FLAG $600: In a third verse this title object "in triumph doth wave / O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave" the star-spangled banner |
| #8241, aired 2020-09-21 | ROCK STARS $400: (Conan O'Brien presents the clue.) Forced to engage in a guitar battle with the virtuoso Jack Black, I cheated a smidge and employed this curly-haired, top-hatted legend, aka Saul Hudson Slash |
| #8239, aired 2020-09-17 | ONE-LETTER GEOGRAPHY $1200: Sweden, Denmark & Norway all have villages with the "ring" type of this vowel for a name A |
| #8235, aired 2020-06-12 | TROOP-POURRI $1200: A C.O.S., short for this operations specialist, protects the army's computer networks from getting hacked cyber |
| #8234, aired 2020-06-11 | TV CATCHPHRASES BY SHOW $1000: "Book 'em, Danno" Hawaii Five-O |
| #8231, aired 2020-06-08 | A NATIONAL MONUMENT-AL CHALLENGE $200: O say can you see this national monument & historic shrine? You sure can, at 2400 East Fort Avenue in Baltimore Fort McHenry |
| #8230, aired 2020-06-05 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $800: Josh O'Connor played budding writer Lawrence Durrell on "The Durrells in Corfu"; on season 3 of "The Crown", he's this royal son Prince Charles |
| #8230, aired 2020-06-05 | ALL ABOUT ART $1600: This artist is seen here in New Mexico, holding one of her own canvasses (Georgia) O'Keeffe |
| #8230, aired 2020-06-05 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $1600: If you really want to call this young actor by his name, pronounce it the French way, Tim-o-tay Chalamet |
| #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 |
| #8227, aired 2020-06-02 | GREATEST HITS FROM THE SUPREMES $800: In Williams v. U.S. William O. Douglas warned of the police taking matters "in their own hands" & these "beastly" courts a kangaroo court |
| #8222, aired 2020-05-26 | WOMEN'S FIRSTS $400: She's the woman being sworn into her new post in 1981 Sandra Day O'Connor |
| #8222, aired 2020-05-26 | SONG SUNG BLUE $2000: E.L.O. asked this title guy, "Tell us why you had to hide away for so long... where did we go wrong?" Mr. Blue Sky |
| #8217, aired 2020-05-19 | BILLS, BILLS, BILLS $800: In 2013 "Killing Jesus" by Martin Dugard & this pundit topped the bestseller list Bill O'Reilly |
| #8214, aired 2020-04-30 | CHILDREN'S LIT $800: In this novel by Scott O'Dell, a girl named Karana is alone on the title isle Island of the Blue Dolphins |
| #8214, aired 2020-04-30 | TOOT SUITE $1200: In the 1950s Chico O'Farrill's "Afro-Cuban Jazz Suite" featured this "avian" saxophonist tootin' Charlie "Birdman" Parker |
| #8212, aired 2020-04-28 | A LANDMARK ADDRESS $1000: Relive 30 seconds of history at this site at 326 East Allen Street, Tombstone the Battle of the O.K. Corral |
| #8212, aired 2020-04-28 | BARACK OBAMA'S READING LIST $2000: We don't know if Mr. O thought "What is the What" was some more staggering genius by this man, but it got the stamp of approval David Eggers |
| #8205, aired 2020-04-17 | POP CULTURE $400: (Conan O'Brien presents the clue.) In a "Clueless Gamer" segment, I attacked a strip club with a missile-carrying helicopter while playing the fifth installment of this Rockstar game; sadly, the bouncer had a grenade GTA (Grand Theft Auto) |
| #8204, aired 2020-04-16 | JUNIORS & SENIORS $800: Longtime publisher Arthur O. Sulzberger Sr. decided to publish the Pentagon Papers in this newspaper The New York Times |
| #8199, aired 2020-04-09 | MOVIE & TV ROMANCES $1600: In this comedy, Maya Rudolph is marrying Doug, but we see more of maid of honor Kristen Wiig's romance with Chris O'Dowd Bridesmaids |
| #8192, aired 2020-03-31 | BEHIND THE TV & RADIO CALL LETTERS $1600: KOIT--K-O-I-T--is in this California city, home to Coit Tower San Francisco |
| #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 |
| #8185, aired 2020-03-20 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $2000: "O"! This best-known song from "Carmina Burana" has a Latin title "O Fortuna" |
| #8184, aired 2020-03-19 | LAKES & RIVERS $1200: Popular for bass fishing, the manmade Grand Lake o' the Cherokees is in this state Oklahoma |
| #8182, aired 2020-03-17 | ALLITERATIVE ACTRESSES $800: She proved hard to kill as O-Ren Ishii, aka Cottonmouth, in "Kill Bill" Lucy Liu |
| #8180, aired 2020-03-13 | ATHLETIC ACHIEVEMENTS $400: Known as O Rei, Portuguese for "the king", this man born in 1940 has the most men's World Cup championships, with 3 Pelé |
| #8179, aired 2020-03-12 | TV TALK $600: Abbreviated V.O., it's an unseen announcer heard over a program a voiceover |
| #8178, aired 2020-03-11 | PUT THAT SINGER'S NAME ON A POST OFFICE! $400: It's not New York, New York but Hoboken, Hoboken that has a P.O. named for this native son & crooning legend Sinatra |
| #8178, aired 2020-03-11 | PUT THAT SINGER'S NAME ON A POST OFFICE! $600: Buck Owens got P.O.ed in 2007 after 17 years hosting this country music show in which an animated donkey brayed the title Hee Haw |
| #8178, aired 2020-03-11 | PEOPLE $1200: (Alex Trebek presents from the Harvard Lampoon Building in Cambridge, Massachusetts.) As editor of the "Harvard Lampoon" in the 1970s he had the last word; today he hosts "The Last Word" on MSNBC Lawrence O'Donnell |
| #8177, aired 2020-03-10 | STUDENT WORD LIST $800: A Protestant group promoting Christian unity is called these "of Christ", D.O.C. for short Disciples |
| #8177, aired 2020-03-10 | POET-POURRI $2,400 (Daily Double): Katharine Lee Bates' book containing this patriotic song used similar language about Mont Blanc: "O beautiful beyond all dream" "America The Beautiful" |
| #8176, aired 2020-03-09 | HOW ABOUT DESERT? $400: This Bible book of songs features a desert: "Restore our fortunes, O Lord, like streams in the Negeb" Psalms |
| #8175, aired 2020-03-06 | LITERARY AWARDS $800: No twist necessary in the short stories that since 1919 win the prize named for this short story author O. Henry |
| #8169, aired 2020-02-27 | SHAKESPEAREAN JEOPARDY! $400: "O Jeopardy!, Jeopardy!, wherefore art thou Jeopardy!?" Romeo |
| #8168, aired 2020-02-26 | LET'S SPEAK HINDI! $400: Chanted before "Krishna", this word means "O God!" Hare |
| #8165, aired 2020-02-21 | MAKE A SELECTION $600: As a favor to this catcher's dad in 1988, Tommy Lasorda had the Dodgers draft him in round 62, 1,390 overall--he made the H.O.F. Mike Piazza |
| #8163, aired 2020-02-19 | 4-LETTER WORDS ENDING IN "O" $200: A reflection of sound waves back to the listener an echo |
| #8163, aired 2020-02-19 | 4-LETTER WORDS ENDING IN "O" $400: Disc of light above a revered figure a halo |
| #8163, aired 2020-02-19 | 4-LETTER WORDS ENDING IN "O" $600: A short note sent to someone you work with a memo |
| #8163, aired 2020-02-19 | 4-LETTER WORDS ENDING IN "O" $800: This martial art takes its name from the Japanese for "gentle way" judo |
| #8163, aired 2020-02-19 | 4-LETTER WORDS ENDING IN "O" $1000: This computer command at Control-Z or Command-Z can save you from awful mistakes undo |
| #8159, aired 2020-02-13 | JUST SAY "N.O." $200: Avian term for someone who stays up late a night owl |
| #8159, aired 2020-02-13 | 3/4 OF AN EGOT $400: This "Divine Miss M" could still really use an "O"--that'd be Oscar--as her 2 nominations did not lead to victory Bette Midler |
| #8159, aired 2020-02-13 | JUST SAY "N.O." $400: This gas is used by dentists as an anesthetic nitrous oxide |
| #8159, aired 2020-02-13 | JUST SAY "N.O." $600: It's the delicacy seen here a navel orange |
| #8159, aired 2020-02-13 | JUST SAY "N.O." $800: It's a French phrase whose sentiment is that the rich should take care of the poor noblesse oblige |
| #8159, aired 2020-02-13 | JUST SAY "N.O." $1000: This astronomical site in D.C. is responsible for the U.S. time service the Naval Observatory |
| #8158, aired 2020-02-12 | RAPPER'S DELIGHT $2000: Rapper Danny Boy O'Connor loved the Tulsa house used in the film version of this author's "The Outsiders", so he restored it S.E. Hinton |
| #8155, aired 2020-02-07 | O CANADA PROVINCE $200: Some familiar names in this eastern province--Annapolis, Sydney, Liverpool--but New Glasgow might help you the most Nova Scotia |
| #8155, aired 2020-02-07 | O CANADA PROVINCE $400: The 5,420-foot Mont D'Iberville is this province's highest point Quebec |
| #8155, aired 2020-02-07 | O CANADA PROVINCE $600: This province includes the Haida Gwaii island group, 60 miles off the mainland British Columbia |
| #8155, aired 2020-02-07 | O CANADA PROVINCE $800: The Winnipeg metro area is home to more than 50% of the population of this province Manitoba |
| #8155, aired 2020-02-07 | O CANADA PROVINCE $1000: This one of Canada's maritime provinces is highlighted here New Brunswick |
| #8154, aired 2020-02-06 | PUTTING A "B" IN YOUR BONNET $200: This flat hat is the Basque equivalent of the Scottish tam-o'-shanter a beret |
| #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" |
| #8149, aired 2020-01-30 | THAT'S POLITICS $400: In his political campaigns, Robert Francis O'Rourke has used this childhood nickname Beto |
| #8148, aired 2020-01-29 | A LITTLE ALLITERATION $400: Four o'clock or so, when Earl Grey is traditionally served tea time |
| #8147, aired 2020-01-28 | MILITARY ABBREVIATIONS $200: In battle you better follow the R.O.E., rules of this engagement |
| #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 |
| #8145, aired 2020-01-24 | THIS & THAT $600: O. vulgaris, a species of this mollusk, has been called the most intelligent of all invertebrate animals an octopus |
| #8144, aired 2020-01-23 | THE OPERATING THEATER $600: A Spotify survey shows most surgeons listen to music in the O.R. & the No. 1 selection is this band's "Rock You Like A Hurricane" the Scorpions |
| #8141, aired 2020-01-20 | HOLIDAYS AROUND THE WORLD $1000: Not a Halloween tradition, English Jack o' Lents were made on this mid-week Christian holiday Ash Wednesday |
| #8141, aired 2020-01-20 | SECOND CITY ALUMNI $1600: She joined Second City Toronto in the 1970s as Gilda Radner's understudy & is still on TV with her SCTV pal Eugene Levy Catherine O'Hara |
| #8140, aired 2020-01-17 | MIDDLE "O" $200: In times of good fortune, you "live high on" it the hog |
| #8140, aired 2020-01-17 | MIDDLE "O" $400: You pledge your this 5-letter word when engaging to marry troth |
| #8140, aired 2020-01-17 | MIDDLE "O" $600: This interjection is from the Danish & used as a toast skoal |
| #8140, aired 2020-01-17 | MIDDLE "O" $800: It's a collection of writings by several authors concerning a similar subject an anthology |
| #8140, aired 2020-01-17 | MIDDLE "O" $1000: One of a fingerprint's central ridges whorl |
| #8137, aired 2020-01-14 | NOW, THE EXCHANGE OF VOWELS $200: I to O: to lose your foothold, perhaps in a type of pig food slip & slop |
| #8137, aired 2020-01-14 | NOW, THE EXCHANGE OF VOWELS $600: A to O: a work of drama on a stage employs a maneuver to gain a strategic advantage play & ploy |
| #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 came on my show & irritated this sidekick so much, he took Watson to the roof & threw it off Andy Richter |
| #8134, aired 2020-01-09 | HOMOPHONE CALLS $400: Remember: "A", for the city that is the official seat of government in a state; "O", for a state legislature building capital & capitol |
| #6, aired 2020-01-09 | JUST THE FACTS $200: Of the 4 main blood groups, this one is the most common; that group negative is the universal donor O |
| #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 |
| #1, aired 2020-01-07 | BEFORE, DURING & AFTER $2000: Elizabeth Barrett Browning's poems to an "Iberian" jellyfish relative, now heroic in Don Cheadle's supersuit Sonnets from the Portuguese Man o' War Machine |
| #8131, aired 2020-01-06 | 3-NAMED PEOPLE $1200: This Irish dramatist wrote, "A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth" George Bernard Shaw |
| #8130, aired 2020-01-03 | SLIDING INTO YOUR CMs $400: This MSNBC host served as the top aide for House Speaker Tip O'Neill in the '80s Chris Matthews |
| #8129, aired 2020-01-02 | GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS $2000: Sarah Paulson nabbed a trophy for playing this prosecutor in "American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson" (Marcia) Clark |
| #8128, aired 2020-01-01 | O IS THE ONLY VOWEL $400: It's a perch for chickens to rest on at night a roost |
| #8128, aired 2020-01-01 | O IS THE ONLY VOWEL $800: It was the alma mater of Hugh Grant & Sir Roger Bannister Oxford |
| #8128, aired 2020-01-01 | O IS THE ONLY VOWEL $1200: A 2018 statement from the Latter-Day Saints says not to call them these Mormons |
| #8128, aired 2020-01-01 | PEOPLE $1600: Shared last name of the two men seen here, New York's Archbishop & one of the city's sports team owners (Timothy & James) Dolan |
| #8128, aired 2020-01-01 | O IS THE ONLY VOWEL $1600: This '50s music style is what The Turbans are saying in their song "When You Dance" doo-wop |
| #8128, aired 2020-01-01 | O IS THE ONLY VOWEL $2000: Just one more thing--this Asian capital city is home to Gangaramaya Temple Colombo |
| #8127, aired 2019-12-31 | A, E, I, O--NO U $400: To question formally, like a cop does to a suspect interrogate |
| #8127, aired 2019-12-31 | A, E, I, O--NO U $800: This instrument records earthquake vibrations a seismograph |
| #8127, aired 2019-12-31 | A, E, I, O--NO U $1200: This type of pressure is also called atmospheric pressure barometric |
| #8127, aired 2019-12-31 | A, E, I, O--NO U $1600: These "waters" are traditionally within 3 miles of a nation's shores territorial |
| #8127, aired 2019-12-31 | A, E, I, O--NO U $2000: 11-letter word meaning to give something in return, perhaps your feelings reciprocate |
| #8122, aired 2019-12-24 | FROM O TO O $400: 7,300 square miles in area, it's the smallest of the Great Lakes Ontario |
| #8122, aired 2019-12-24 | A CHRISTMAS CAROL COLLAGE $400: In English, it's "O Christmas Tree"; in German, it's "O" this Tannenbaum |
| #8122, aired 2019-12-24 | FROM O TO O $800: To exceed one's previous best effort is to this "yourself" outdo |
| #8122, aired 2019-12-24 | A CHRISTMAS CAROL COLLAGE $800: O! American clergyman Phillips Brooks wrote the words to this Christmas carol after a pilgrimage to the Holy Land "O Little Town of Bethlehem" |
| #8122, aired 2019-12-24 | FROM O TO O $1200: A long piece of classical music for singers & an orchestra an oratorio |
| #8122, aired 2019-12-24 | FROM O TO O $1600: Often used in soups, it's a pasta shaped like grains of rice orzo |
| #8122, aired 2019-12-24 | FROM O TO O $2000: Early Shakespeare poems & plays were sometimes printed in this format about 5x7 inches, smaller than a quarto octavo |
| #8121, aired 2019-12-23 | THEIR JOBS IN 2019 $800: She's the C.O.O. of Facebook Sheryl Sandberg |
| #8118, aired 2019-12-18 | WORLD HISTORY $2000: 2 aided by José de San Martín, Bernardo O'Higgins took control of this country after beating Spanish forces in 1817 Chile |
| #8113, aired 2019-12-11 | TAKING A VOWEL OF SILENCE $200: O:
In this spotted cat leopard |
| #8112, aired 2019-12-10 | WORLD CAPITAL ATTRACTIONS $200: The Daniel O'Connell monument on O'Connell Street Dublin |
| #8112, aired 2019-12-10 | DOUBLE DOUBLE O $400: West Indian religion derived from African cult worship Voodoo |
| #8112, aired 2019-12-10 | DOUBLE DOUBLE O $800: Goodbye! So long! This old-time informal synonym! toodle-oo |
| #8112, aired 2019-12-10 | DOUBLE DOUBLE O $1200: Doc's, this type of billiards establishment, is an important setting in the novel "Native Son" poolroom |
| #8112, aired 2019-12-10 | DOUBLE DOUBLE O $1600: Never-failing; the clue is this! foolproof |
| #8112, aired 2019-12-10 | DOUBLE DOUBLE O $2000: A bugle boy, or a rhyming form of instrumental blues for the piano boogie woogie |
| #8111, aired 2019-12-09 | GEO, DUDE $800: Lafitte's blacksmith shop...isn't one? It says it is "the oldest structure used as a bar in the U.S.", on this N.O. St.? We're so there! Bourbon Street |
| #8109, aired 2019-12-05 | LITERARY LOCALES $600: An early name of this O'Hara plantation was Fontenoy Hall Tara |
| #8109, aired 2019-12-05 | LITERARY LOCALES $1000: This author set his play "The Night of the Iguana" at the Costa Verde Hotel in Puerto Barrio, Mexico Tennessee Williams |
| #8106, aired 2019-12-02 | I WON'T BE IN TODAY $600: From Billy Clanton, October 26, 1881: Got a dental appointment... with this killer dentist Doc Holliday |
| #8105, aired 2019-11-29 | THE OLD WEST $1,500 (Daily Double): This Arizona site that entered Old West legend in 1881 had ' "Livery and Feed Stables" in its full name the O.K. Corral |
| #8104, aired 2019-11-28 | DICTATOR TOTS $400: Hitler tried to return Yakov Dzhugashvili, this Soviet leader's son, in a P.O.W. swap; dad declined, saying "War is war" Stalin |
| #8104, aired 2019-11-28 | MIRANDAS, RIGHT? $1600: Miranda in this play says, "O brave New World, that has such people in't!" The Tempest |
| #8100, aired 2019-11-22 | YELL "O" $200: It measures a car's travel an odometer |
| #8100, aired 2019-11-22 | YELL "O" $400: This instrument has a tubular body & a double-reed mouthpiece an oboe |
| #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 |
| #8100, aired 2019-11-22 | YELL "O" $800: Get a leg up after an injury with this type of M.D. who specializes in your skeletal system an orthopedist |
| #8100, aired 2019-11-22 | YELL "O" $1000: Some people of the 46th state have reclaimed this Dust Bowl-era epithet, putting it on mugs & T-shirts Okie |
| #8099, aired 2019-11-21 | PUTTING OUT THE WELCOME MATH $1000: "O" say can you say this kind of triangle having no right angle? Or at least make some kind of indirect reference? an oblique triangle |
| #8097, aired 2019-11-19 | BASKETBALL: PIC & ROLE $1000: In a 1996 comedy basketball fans Mike O'Hara (Daniel Stern) & Jimmy Flaherty (Dan Aykroyd) have lots of this "Pride" Celtic |
| #8095, aired 2019-11-15 | CLASSIC AMERICAN PLAYS $1600: In 1933 his play "Ah, Wilderness!" opened in New York with George M. Cohan as one of the leads (Eugene) O'Neill |
| #8092, aired 2019-11-12 | "X"s & "O"s $200: It's the practice of sending U.S. jobs overseas outsourcing |
| #8092, aired 2019-11-12 | "X"s & "O"s $400: From Latin for "all devouring", it's the term for an animal that eats both animals & plants omnivore |
| #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 | "X"s & "O"s $600: From the Greek for "wood", it's plant tissue that conveys water up from the roots xylem |
| #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" |
| #8092, aired 2019-11-12 | "X"s & "O"s $800: It's a 9-letter word meaning to banish or exclude someone from a particular group ostracize |
| #8092, aired 2019-11-12 | "X"s & "O"s $1000: X marks the spot for this word that means shaped like a sword xiphoid |
| #8088, aired 2019-11-06 | THE NAME OF THE GAME $800: Bag o' nuts,
breakfast,
bull & cork darts |
| #8087, aired 2019-11-05 | FROCK AROUND THE CLOCK $800: For 5 o'clock, maybe try this simple dress that has the same name as the key under "caps lock" a shift |
| #8087, aired 2019-11-05 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS $2000: "The Good Earth" begins with Wang Lung's marriage day--to this woman O-Lan |
| #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 |
| #8084, aired 2019-10-31 | NEW TESTAMENT QUOTES $600: Chide those who don't believe in you by quoting Matthew 6: "O ye of" this little faith |
| #8082, aired 2019-10-29 | AMERICAN GOTHIC $3,000 (Daily Double): This southern Gothic O'author wrote her novel "Wise Blood" about a preacher in the church without Christ Flannery O'Connor |
| #8081, aired 2019-10-28 | HALLOWEEN TRADITIONS $200: A Celtic tradition of using hollowed-out turnips with candles inside led to these distinctive & larger Halloween gourds jack-o-lanterns |
| #8076, aired 2019-10-21 | CANADIAN NATIONAL STUFF, EH? $1000: The national anthem "O Canada" was first sung in 1880 here, Canada's only walled city Quebec City |
| #8074, aired 2019-10-17 | 4-WORD EXCHANGE $1000: 4-word phrase that's the title of a 2002 book about Ronco & Popeil products like the Veg-O-matic but wait, there's more |
| #8073, aired 2019-10-16 | SHIP OF THE LINE $2000: "Long time ago, from Amsterdam a vessel sailed away", begins John Boyle O'Reilly's poem about this spooky title ship the Flying Dutchman |
| #8073, aired 2019-10-16 | FLOWER POWER $2000: If only "Jeopardy!" had Smell-O-Vision, then you could really enjoy the star type of this fragrant flowering shrub jasmine |
| #8072, aired 2019-10-15 | OH OH, 3 O'S $400: It describes your peepers when they've caught the red eye bloodshot |
| #8072, aired 2019-10-15 | OH OH, 3 O'S $800: Short but demanding type of race, seen here motocross |
| #8072, aired 2019-10-15 | OH OH, 3 O'S $1200: The scientific field of Franz Boas & Margaret Mead anthropology |
| #8072, aired 2019-10-15 | OH OH, 3 O'S $2000: You'll give a piece of your mind with this brain-cutting operation lobotomy |
| #8072, aired 2019-10-15 | OH OH, 3 O'S $4,000 (Daily Double): It's the Royal Navy rank just below Rear Admiral Commodore |
| #8069, aired 2019-10-10 | A JOB IN TV $200: In 2019 Conan O'Brien cut a half hour from his TBS show but kept this sidekick (Andy) Richter |
| #8069, aired 2019-10-10 | OLD PHRASES $1200: Mercutio says "a plague o' both your houses", but often people say this other "P" word instead of "plague" pox |
| #8061, aired 2019-09-30 | FUN-TO-SAY QUOTATIONS $400: In an Edward Lear poem, this character says to the Owl, "O let us be married! too long we have tarried" the Pussycat |
| #8060, aired 2019-09-27 | CABLE TELEVISION $600: FX's "American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson" followed up with the story of this man's assassination (Gianni) Versace |
| #8057, aired 2019-09-24 | ALLUSIONS $400: Someone dubbed a "White Rabbit" or a "10 o'clock scholar" must be chronically this late |
| #8053, aired 2019-09-18 | BRAND NAMES: SPELL IN THE BLANK $200: Play-____ modeling compound D-O-H |
| #8053, aired 2019-09-18 | CLASSIC METAL BANDS $7,600 (Daily Double): "We're Not Gonna Take It" by this Dee Snider band has some musical roots in "O Come, All Ye Faithful" Twisted Sister |
| #8052, aired 2019-09-17 | SHAKESPEARE'S EXIT LINES $1200: "O true apothecary! Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die" Romeo |
| #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 |
| #8051, aired 2019-09-16 | GIMME "5" $600: shavetalks.com has tips on avoiding this five o'clock shadow |
| #8050, aired 2019-09-13 | CROSSWORD CLUES "O" $400: A person in their 80s (12) octagenarian |
| #8050, aired 2019-09-13 | CROSSWORD CLUES "O" $800: To swing back & forth (9) oscillate |
| #8050, aired 2019-09-13 | CROSSWORD CLUES "O" $1200: A musical composition (4) opus |
| #8050, aired 2019-09-13 | CROSSWORD CLUES "O" $1600: Spanish stew pot (4) olla |
| #8050, aired 2019-09-13 | THEIR ENTIRE OSCAR SPEECH $2000: Best actor William Holden, for this "numeric" 1953 film set in a German P.O.W. camp: "Thank you. Thank you" Stalag 17 |
| #8050, aired 2019-09-13 | CROSSWORD CLUES "O" $2000: Hatred (5) odium |
| #8046, aired 2019-09-09 | HEALTH WATCH $600: Abbreviated O.T., it's designed to maintain &/or improve a patient's living skills occupational therapy |
| #8045, aired 2019-07-26 | MAKE IT SNAPPY $1600: This hyphenated tool company owns brands like Car-O-Liner & Kansas Jack Snap-On |
| #8044, aired 2019-07-25 | TV SPINOFFS $1000: Here's a bit of truthiness: this show started as a bit on "The Daily Show" that parodied Bill O'Reilly The Colbert Report |
| #8043, aired 2019-07-24 | LETTER IMPERFECT $2000: It was one of the 3 original blood groups discovered in 1900 but got changed to O C |
| #8041, aired 2019-07-22 | AT THE BALLPARK $400: An Eddie Murray statue & the B&O warehouse Camden Yards (or Oriole Park) |
| #8040, aired 2019-07-19 | LANDS O' LAKES $400: Lake Managua Nicaragua |
| #8040, aired 2019-07-19 | LANDS O' LAKES $800: Lake Ladoga,
Lake Kubenskoye Russia |
| #8040, aired 2019-07-19 | LANDS O' LAKES $1200: In Europe, Lake Como Italy |
| #8040, aired 2019-07-19 | LANDS O' LAKES $1600: Lake Chapala Mexico |
| #8040, aired 2019-07-19 | LANDS O' LAKES $2000: Great Slave Lake Canada |
| #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 |
| #8035, aired 2019-07-12 | VOWEL FLOP $200: A helmsman of the Enterprise has his U's turned into O's & becomes this other space pilot Solo |
| #8032, aired 2019-07-09 | 65" $800: In a 1962 biopic 6'2" Peter O'Toole portrayed this 5'5" man whose height may have been stunted by mumps in childhood Lawrence of Arabia |
| #8032, aired 2019-07-09 | PLASMA $2000: To make a Red Cross plasma donation, it's great if you have this, the fourth major blood group discovered AB |
| #8031, aired 2019-07-08 | ON WEEKENDS $1000: One fine Saturday, this "O"hio liberal arts college will move up from Div. III & take down Alabama football, 70-21; go Yeomen! Oberlin |
| #8030, aired 2019-07-05 | "G.O." $400: Christian denomination predominant in Athens Greek Orthodox |
| #8030, aired 2019-07-05 | "G.O." $800: "Precious metal" term for a song that was a hit decades ago a golden oldie |
| #8030, aired 2019-07-05 | LITERARY MINNESOTA $1000: Minnesotan Tim O'Brien wrote books like "Going After Cacciato" & "Lake of the Woods" about those who fought in this war the Vietnam War |
| #8030, aired 2019-07-05 | "G.O." $1200: A legal action by a court restricting comment by the participants in a lawsuit a gag order |
| #8030, aired 2019-07-05 | "G.O." $1600: There's shiny lip color in this idiom meaning to minimize problems or unpleasant events gloss over |
| #8030, aired 2019-07-05 | "G.O." $2000: When a satellite is "in" one of these, it appears to be in a fixed position with respect to the Earth below geosynchronous orbit |
| #8026, aired 2019-07-01 | WHIPS & CHAINS $200: Me-ouch! It's the implement seen here cat o' nine tails |
| #8025, aired 2019-06-28 | FINISH THE CLASSIC AMERICAN LYRIC $400: "O beautiful for spacious skies..." for amber waves of grain |
| #8019, aired 2019-06-20 | "O" POURRI $400: A shade of white, or a producer of pearls an oyster |
| #8019, aired 2019-06-20 | "O" POURRI $800: When you need braces on your teeth, you see this specialist an orthodontist |
| #8019, aired 2019-06-20 | "O" POURRI $1200: Listen up! It's the instrument being played here an oboe |
| #8019, aired 2019-06-20 | "O" POURRI $1600: In mythology & in the Marvel universe, he's Thor's dad Odin |
| #8019, aired 2019-06-20 | "O" POURRI $2000: It's a 9-letter word for one's kids or descendants offspring |
| #8015, aired 2019-06-14 | "O" IS FOR OPERA $200: A moving scene in Ambroise Thomas' opera "Hamlet" includes the funeral procession of this character Ophelia |
| #8015, aired 2019-06-14 | "O" IS FOR OPERA $600: Opera composer Christoph Gluck wrote that this instrumental segment should prepare people for the play's plot the overture |
| #8015, aired 2019-06-14 | "O" IS FOR OPERA $800: Richard Strauss' "Elektra" has a big recognition scene between the title character & him Orestes |
| #8015, aired 2019-06-14 | "O" IS FOR OPERA $1,000 (Daily Double): Spoiler: Eurydice dies in Monteverdi's 1607 opera named for this protagonist Orpheus |
| #8015, aired 2019-06-14 | "O" IS FOR OPERA $1000: Unfinished at his death, his "Tales of Hoffmann" had to be completed by somebody else Offenbach |
| #8014, aired 2019-06-13 | ALTAR EGOS $800: Donald Trump & Rosie O'Donnell were in attendance at the over-the-top 2002 wedding of David Gest to this Oscar winner (Liza) Minnelli |
| #8014, aired 2019-06-13 | ALTAR EGOS $1000: Mikhail Gutseriev, on a Treasury Dept. list as this "O" word, put on a 2016 "billion dollar wedding" for his son an oligarch |
| #8013, aired 2019-06-12 | COLLEGE TOWNS $200: O this little town of Pennsylvania is home to Lehigh University & Moravian College Bethlehem |
| #8011, aired 2019-06-10 | ACCENT MARKS & SPECIAL LETTERS $1600: The field of digging up human artifacts is occasionally spelled with an ash in the middle--these 2 letters mushed together an A and an E |
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Kelly O'Donnell, a political reporter from NBC News
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"An Emmy-winning political reporter, she has covered Capitol Hill and the...
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Soledad O'Brien, an anchor and special correspondent from CNN's Special Investigations Unit
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Lizzie O'Leary, an aviation and regulation correspondent from CNN
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Brendan O'Connor, an Internet security engineer from San Francisco, California
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Soledad O'Brien, a broadcast journalist from CNN's American Morning
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Chris Matthews, a TV host from Hardball and The Chris Matthews Show
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Colin O’Bannon, a pool room owner from Columbus, Ohio
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Season 34 player (2017-09-29).
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Bridget O'Donnell, a law enforcement specialist from Burlington, Vermont
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Season 30 player (2014-01-01).
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Kate O'Connor, an insurance salesperson from Florence, New Jersey
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Season 34 3-time champion: $61,800 + $1,000.
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Tara O'Byrne, a senior advisor on aviation security from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Season 34 player (2018-07-24).
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Caitlion O'Neill, a vegan cheesemaker from New Orleans, Louisiana
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Season 34 player (2018-07-18).
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Ashley O'Mara, a Ph.D. candidate and teaching associate from Baldwinsville, New York
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Season 34 player (2018-03-12).
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Abby O'Reilly, a teacher's aide and tutor from Clifton, New Jersey
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Season 29 player (2012-10-19).
JBoard user name: abioreilly
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Eileen O'Toole, a student of economics from Boulder, Colorado
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Season 28 player (2012-03-23).
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Sally O'Rourke, a freelance copywriter originally from Baton Rouge, Louisiana
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Season 27 1-time champion: $33,601 + $1,000.
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Kitty O'Rourke, a nurse from Fort Walton Beach, Florida
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Season 25 player (2008-10-07).
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Denise O'Connor, a health care attorney from Oak Ridge, New Jersey
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Season 27 1-time champion: $31,700 + $1,000.
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Jamie O'Hagin, a museum education coordinator from Center Tuftonboro, New Hampshire
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Season 27 player (2010-12-07).
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Sean O'Connor, an attorney originally from St. Louis, Missouri
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Season 28 player (2012-01-24).
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Rebecca O'Brien, a writer from Brooklyn, New York
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Season 27 player (2010-11-24).
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Karen O'Donnell, a website manager from Washington, D.C.
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Season 29 player (2013-07-04).
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Chris O'Toole, a writer from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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Season 29 player (2012-12-03). Identical twin sister of Season 27 1-time...
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Christie O'Shaughnessy, a math and science educator from Princeton, New Jersey
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Season 32 1-time champion: $14,401 + $2,000.
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Rosie O'Donnell, from The Rosie O'Donnell Show
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"Her love of Broadway led this talk show host to emceeing...
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Janet O'Keefe, a librarian from Flint, Michigan
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Season 24 player (2008-03-18).
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John O'Leary, a middle school history teacher from Walpole, Massachusetts
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Season 24 player (2007-12-04).
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Andy Richter, from NBC's Late Night With Conan O'Brien
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"He's a first-rate second banana and the sidekick on NBC's Late...
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Ronnie O'Rourke, a homemaker from Marietta, Georgia
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Season 18 1-time champion: $2,000 + $2,000. Ronnie describes her experience...
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Doug O'Brien, a public health official from Chicago, Illinois
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Season 22 player (2006-06-15).
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Bobby O'Neill, a senior fraud investigator from Andover, Massachusetts
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Season 32 player (2015-09-17).
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Kristine O'Connell-McCoy, a former probation officer and mom from Santa Barbara, California
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Season 20 player (2004-07-23).
KJL game 38.
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Jim O'Malley, a retired police sergeant from the Bronx, New York
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Season 21 player (2005-07-07).
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Jay O'Brien, a physics instructor from Waterford, New York
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Season 32 player (2015-12-21).
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Steve O'Connor, a communications consultant from Naperville, Illinois
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Season 22 2-time champion: $33,401 + $1,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: SteveO
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Claire O'Brien, an administrative assistant from Seattle, Washington
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Season 22 player (2005-10-24).
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Shelby O'Neill, a freelance writer and editor from Austin, Texas
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Season 30 player (2014-06-13).
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Rosann O'Reilly, an elementary school teacher from the Bronx, New York
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Season 21 player (2005-01-18).
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Darren O'Connor, a police officer from Norfolk, Virginia
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Season 30 1-time champion: $14,400 + $2,000.
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Clare O'Keeffe, an editorial assistant from Hyannisport, Massachusetts
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Season 25 player (2009-07-08).
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Ellie O'Donnell, a systems analyst from Bloomington, Illinois
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Season 20 1-time champion: $9,800 + $2,000.
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Michael McKean, a Grammy winner, Oscar nominee and multi-talented performer from Hairspray and The Pajama Game
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"This multi-talented performer is a Grammy winner and Oscar nominee and...
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Michael O'Malley, a prosecutor from Chicago, Illinois
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Season 25 1-time champion: $15,000 + $2,000.
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Kathleen O'Day, a home decor product manager from Oakdale, Minnesota
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Season 25 player (2009-07-10).
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Katie O'Reilly, a receptionist from Somerville, Massachusetts
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Season 26 player (2009-09-25).
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: kamarile
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Michael O'Hara, a director of customer service from West Hollywood, California
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Season 23 player (2007-04-24).
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Andy Richter, an actor/comedian from The Tonight Show
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"This multitalented actor/comedian is now back on the couch with Conan...
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Andy Richter, a comedian from Yorkville, Illinois
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"A comedian from Yorkville, Illinois, he was Conan O'Brien's sidekick on...
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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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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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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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Jane Kaczmarek, a TV, film and Broadway actress from Malcolm in the Middle and Raising the Bar
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"She went from playing a hard-nosed mom in Malcolm in the...
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Chris O'Malley, an executive director from New York, New York
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Season 38 player (2021-12-24).
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Katie O'Callaghan, a teacher from Tucson, Arizona
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1988 Senior Tournament quarterfinalist: $1,000.
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Lisa O'Donnell, an ESL teacher from Vienna, Virginia
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Season 41 player (2024-12-09).
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John O'Donnell, a Ph.D. candidate originally from New York City, New York
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Season 11 player (1994-09-06).
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Kathleen O'Shea, a PR content manager from Chicago, Illinois
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Season 35 player (2019-07-19).
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Terry O'Shea, a software engineer from Brooklyn, New York
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2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2014 Tournament of Champions semifinalist:...
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Alicia O'Hare, a social worker from Long Beach, New York
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2022 Second Chance competition semifinalist: $1,000.
Season 38 player (2022-07-06).
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Brian O'Heron, a graduate student from Saint Louis, Missouri
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Season 41 player (2025-06-06).
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Sheila O'Donnell, an attorney from Euclid, Ohio
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Season 37 player (2021-04-30).
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Brad Rutter, a network administrator from Lancaster, Pennsylvania
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2025 Jeopardy! Masters 7th place player (eliminated in knockout round): $15,000....
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Brad Rutter, a college student from Lancaster, Pennsylvania
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2025 Jeopardy! Masters 7th place player (eliminated in knockout round): $15,000....
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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 $3.2-million winner from Los Angeles, California
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"In 2000, he became a 5-time champion and went on to...
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Brad Rutter, a TV quiz show host from Lancaster, Pennsylvania
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2025 Jeopardy! Masters 7th place player (eliminated in knockout round): $15,000....
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George O'Neal, a retired management analyst from Phoenix, Arizona
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1994 Seniors Tournament quarterfinalist: $1,000.
George did not win on Jeopardy! in 1974.
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Brad Rutter, an actor and producer from Los Angeles, California
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• Highest all-time winnings (over $4.3 million) • Has never lost...
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Brad Rutter, an actor and producer from Hollywood, California
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"He was a college student from Lancaster, Pennsylvania, when he won...
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Brad Rutter, the biggest money winner from Los Angeles, California
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2025 Jeopardy! Masters 7th place player (eliminated in knockout round): $15,000....
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Brad Rutter, an actor and producer from Los Angeles, California
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2025 Jeopardy! Masters 7th place player (eliminated in knockout round): $15,000....
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Christine O'Donnell, a philanthropic advisor from Elmwood Park, New Jersey
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Season 35 player (2018-09-17).
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Jean O'Hearn, a freshman from New York University
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1991 College Championship quarterfinalist: $1,000.
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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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Kathleen O'Reilly, a market researcher from Ardsley, New York
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Season 2 player (1986-04-30).
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Teresa O'Neill, a contract administrator from Santa Clara, California
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Season 2 1-time champion: $16,799. A political candidate profile of Teresa...
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Lisa Ann Walter, an actor and stand-up comedian originally from Washington, D.C.
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2023 Primetime Celebrity Jeopardy! winner: $1,000,000 for the Entertainment Community Fund....
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Lisa O'Brien, a stay-at-home mom and community volunteer from Edina, Minnesota
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Season 37 1-time champion: $16,100 + $1,000.
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Teagan O'Sullivan, a freshman from Charlotte, North Carolina
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2023 High School Reunion Tournament quaterfinalist: $5,000.
2019 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000.
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Steven Oppenheim, a supply chain analyst from Shaker Heights, Ohio
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Season 35 1-time champion: $33,201 + $2,000.
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Les O'Shea, a real estate broker originally from San Francisco, California
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Season 9 player (1993-02-04).
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Robin O'Donnell, a computer network manager from Berkeley, California
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Season 8 player (1991-11-28).
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Peggy O'Toole, an actress and secretary from New York City, New York
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Season 7 player (1991-03-21).
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John O'Brien, a contract specialist from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Season 10 player (1994-04-12).
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Teagan O'Sullivan, a first-year student at American University from Watertown, Massachusetts
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"A high school freshman from Charlotte, North Carolina, when she became...
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Joe Baldanza
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Season 3 X-time champion: $X. Missing occupation and hometown because the...
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Jonathan Dinerstein, a composer from Los Angeles, California
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Season 35 4-time champion: $93,301 + $1,000. Jonathan shared a $600,000...
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Dennis O'Brien, a computer programmer from East Meadow, New York
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Season 10 1-time champion: $16,201.
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Linda O'Neill, a housewife from Bethesda, Maryland
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Season 11 player (1994-09-28).
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Rowan Ward, a chart caller, writer, and editor from Chicago, Illinois
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2022 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2022 Second Chance competition winner:...
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Shayna O'Neill, a stage manager from Columbia, Maryland
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Season 36 player (2020-01-03).
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Maureen O'Neil, an executive assistant from Cambridge, Massachusetts
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2022 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000
Season 38 4-time champion: $58,200 + $1,000.
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Brian O'Shea, a gifted specialist and teacher from Winston-Salem, North Carolina
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Season 40 player (2024-05-29).
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Maureen O'Neil, an executive assistant from Rye Beach, New Hampshire
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2022 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000.
Season 38 4-time champion: $58,200 + $1,000.
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Elaine O'Gara, a travel writer from Austin, Texas
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Season 12 1-time champion: $10,401.
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Karen O'Callaghan, a staff assistant originally from Brooklyn, New York
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Season 10 player (1994-05-26).
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Alicia O'Hare, a social worker from Long Beach, New York
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2022 Second Chance competition semifinalist: $1,000.
Season 38 player (2022-07-06).
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Mike O'Brien, a travel agent originally from Chicago, Illinois
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Season 7 player (1990-12-25).
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Rob O'Leary, an educational development specialist from Springfield, Massachusetts
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Season 19 player (2003-03-05).
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Meg O'Hare, a product manager from Somerville, Massachusetts
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Season 37 player (2021-07-19).
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Tom O'Brien, a writer-researcher from Seattle, Washington
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Season 1 player (1985-02-26). Tom won $500,000 on Who Wants to...
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Kerri O'Neill, a sales representative from Peabody, Massachusetts
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Season 19 player (2003-04-04).
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June O'Connor, a school nurse from Bergenfield, New Jersey
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Season 11 player (1995-06-21).
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Peter O'Malley, a writer and teacher from Boston, Massachusetts
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Season 19 1-time champion: $7,600 + $2,000.
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Genaro Lopez, a contract administrator from Portland, Oregon
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Season 27 1-time champion: $29,001 + $2,000.
First name pronounced like "heh-NAR-o".
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Mary Clare O'Grady, a full-time mother and part-time underwriter from Chicago, Illinois
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Season 2 player (1985-11-06).
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Katie O'Meara, an 11-year-old from Plano, Texas
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"This future kindergarten teacher is straight-A's in our book. From Plano,...
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Lewis Black, a stand-up comedian from Lewis Black's Root of All Evil
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"With success in films, plays, books, and TV specials, he tours...
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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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Dr. Mehmet Oz, a cardiac surgeon and TV host from The Dr. Oz Show
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"He is a renowned cardiac surgeon who has written seven New...
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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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Erin O'Leary, an attorney from New York, New York
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Season 38 player (2022-01-24).
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David Javerbaum, a junior from Maplewood, New Jersey
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1998 Teen Reunion Tournament 1st runner-up: $15,000. 1988 Teen Tournament 1st...
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Sue O'Neil, a child support specialist from Patterson, New Jersey
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Season 8 player (1992-03-16).
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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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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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Kyrie O'Connor, a newspaper editor from West Hartford
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Season 13 1-time champion: $10,201.
First name pronounced like "KEE-ree".
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Claire Theoret, a high school registrar from Essex, Vermont
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Season 39 player (2023-01-03).
Last name pronounced like "THEE-o-ret".
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Susie O'Gorman, a homemaker from Mobile, Alabama
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Season 37 player (2021-06-04).
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Diane O'Keefe, a hospital librarian from Southgate, Michigan
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Season 9 2-time champion: $15,600.
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Faith O'Neal, an attorney from New York, New York
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Season 20 1-time champion: $12,000 + $2,000.
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Thompson O'Sullivan, an assistant director from Toluca Lake, California
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Season 5 player (1989-05-26).
Thompson's IMDb page.
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Sean O'Donnell, an administrative assistant from Long Beach, California
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Season 16 player (1999-10-01).
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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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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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Mary Ellen O'Hagan, a school food service manager from Pearl River, New York
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Season 16 player (1999-09-21).
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Aaron Brown, an Emmy Award-winning newsman from CNN's popular primetime newscast
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"A journalist for over 25 years, he now anchors CNN's popular...
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Danny Devries, a junior from the University of Michigan
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2008 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 21 and from West Bloomfield, MI...
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Sue O'Connor, a senior from Saint Mary's College
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1990 College Championship quarterfinalist: $1,000.
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Terry O'Shea, a junior at Princeton University from Bridgewater, New Jersey
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2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2014 Tournament of Champions semifinalist:...
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Michael O'Mara, a scenic artist from Duluth, Georgia
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Season 20 player (2003-11-24).
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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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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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Rosie O'Donnell, a comedienne from the hit film A League of Their Own
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"From the hit film A League of Their Own, comedienne..." 1999-B...
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Jennifer O'Brien, a professor from Lake Forest, Illinois
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Season 16 player (1999-10-14).
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Bill O'Donnell, a national park ranger from Eminence, Missouri
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Season 18 2-time champion: $28,700 + a trip to Aruba. Bill...
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Roberta Ellington, a marketing coordinator from Tustin, California
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Season 22 2-time champion: $41,701 + $2,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: RutgersFan
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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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Michael Steele, a political analyst and host from MSNBC and Steele & Ungar
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"He was elected lieutenant governor of Maryland in 2003, and later...
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Michael McKean, an actor, writer, and director from This is Spinal Tap, A Mighty Wind, and The Pajama Game
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"His movies have included This is Spinal Tap and A Mighty...
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John Gershkoff, a realtor from Fort Lauderdale, Florida
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Season 23 player (2006-12-11).
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: jmgersh
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Tim O'Brien, a freelance writer from Chicago, Illinois
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Season 17 player (2001-04-25).
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Robin O'Brien, a project manager from New York City, New York
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Season 17 1-time champion: $9,201.
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Dan O'Rourke, an attorney from Fort Walton Beach, Florida
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Season 17 player (2001-07-02).
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Brian O'Riordan, an audio/visual manager from San Diego, California
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Season 18 1-time champion: $18,000 + $2,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: bpor
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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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Tanis O'Connor, a senior from Clearwater, Florida
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1997-A Teen Tournament semifinalist: $5,000.
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Sue O'Donnell, a registered nurse from DeWitt, New York
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Season 3 player (1987-02-13).
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Martha O'Malley, a downsize accountant from Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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Season 13 player (1997-02-27).
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Colin O'Grady, a high school English teacher from Alexandria, Virginia
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2015 Teachers Tournament semifinalist: $10,000. Colin taught English at West Potomac...
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Amy O'Brien, a veterinarian from Prospect Heights, Illinois
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Season 13 1-time champion: $8,601.
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Pat O'Connor, an executive assistant from Levittown, Pennsylvania
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Season 4 1-time champion: $16,800.
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Ryan O'Shea, an engineer from Hermosa Beach, California
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Season 33 player (2016-12-02).
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Maura O'Keefe, a legal assistant from West Roxbury, Massachusetts
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Season 19 player (2003-04-14).
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Brian O'Rourke, a director of development from Marblehead, Massachusetts
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Season 18 player (2001-09-10).
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Alan Bailey, a playwright and director from Sherman Oaks, California
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2003 Tournament...
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Christen O'Connor, a mother of three from Acton, Massachusetts
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Season 18 player (2001-09-06).
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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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Terry O'Shea, a sophomore at Princeton University from Bridgewater, New Jersey
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2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2014 Tournament of Champions semifinalist:...
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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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Kevin O'Leary, an entrepreneur from Shark Tank
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"He's opinionated, ruthless, and one of North America's most successful entrepreneurs,...
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Alyssa McRae, a gift card production designer from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Season 25 3-time champion: $50,402 + $2,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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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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Elizabeth Perkins, an actress from Weeds
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"For the past five seasons, she's played the calculating and manipulative...
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Olivia Colangelo, a junior from the University of Notre Dame from Murrysville, Pennsylvania
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2010-B College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
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Enrique Machado, an oil filtration business developer from Orlando, Florida
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Season 26 1-time champion: $30,799 + $2,000. Enrique Machado September 16,...
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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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Anderson Cooper, an anchor from CNN's Anderson Cooper 360°
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"As a baby, he was photographed by Diane Arbus of Harper's...
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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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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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Carol Denny, a writer for a non-profit environmental foundation from Arnold, Maryland
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Season 27 1-time champion: $13,199 + $1,000.
Identical twin sister of Season 29 player Chris O'Toole.
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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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Tom Baker, a writer from Tokyo, Japan
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2004 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000.
Season 20 3-time champion: $102,300 + $2,000.
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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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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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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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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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Justin Waters, a resident physician from Royal Oak, Michigan
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Season 25 1-time champion: $7,199 + $2,000. Justin Waters Royal Oak,...
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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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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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Lyndsey Romick, a sophomore from Lewis & Clark College
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2010-A College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. Hometown: Grants Pass, Oregon. Lyndsey Romick...
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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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Jane Curtin, an actress from Kate & Allie and 3rd Rock from the Sun
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"One of Saturday Night Live's original Not Ready for Primetime Players,...
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Rebecca Lobo, a future Women's Basketball Hall of Famer and ESPN analyst originally from the WNBA
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"Later this year, she'll be inducted into the Women's Basketball Hall...
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Neil Patrick Harris, an actor from How I Met Your Mother
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"He's received critical acclaim on Broadway and on TV, and his...
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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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Todd O'Bryan, a graduate student originally from Louisville, Kentucky
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Season 16 1-time champion: $12,001. Todd was a student of linguistics...
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Roy Arias, a building inspector from Rancho Cucamonga, California
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Season 23 player (2007-06-29).
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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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Kevin O'Neill, a stay-at-home father from Strongsville, Ohio
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Season 16 player (2000-01-12).
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Heather O'Neill, a program assistant from Tarboro, North Carolina
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Season 14 2-time champion: $12,800.
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Rob O'Carroll, a cost accountant from Oceanside, California
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Season 16 player (2000-03-31).
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Julie O'Keefe, a freelance writer from Chester, New Jersey
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Season 14 player (1998-07-08).
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Sharon O'Quinn, a retail manager from Ogunquit, Maine
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Season 17 player (2000-10-26).
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Declan O'Connell, a caddy from Port Chester, New York
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Season 14 player (1998-06-10).
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Jim O'Leary, a police officer from Rockville Centre, New York
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Season 13 player (1996-09-02).
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Alan Bailey, a playwright and director from Sherman Oaks, California
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2003 Tournament...
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Valerie O'Brien, a Spanish instructor from Arlington, Virginia
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Season 18 player (2002-01-10).
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Ned O'Rourke, a restaurant owner from Los Angeles, California
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Season 13 player (1997-03-21).
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Phil O'Donoghue, an insurance administrator from Baltimore, Maryland
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Season 14 player (1997-10-28).
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Barbara Von Pagel, a reservations agent from Seattle, Washington
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Season 14 player (1997-10-27). Barbara won $64,000 on Who Wants to...
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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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