| #9373, aired 2025-07-09 | OLD REVIEWS $400: In 1890 art critic Albert Aurier praised his "Skies", which "at times, expose radiating, torrid solar disks" van Gogh |
| #9373, aired 2025-07-09 | OLD REVIEWS $800: From 1891: This man's "'Gates of Hell'... rendered the... battle of the sexes with a force... no sculptor has hitherto equalled" Rodin |
| #9373, aired 2025-07-09 | OLD REVIEWS $1200: A 1994 review of the album "Illmatic"--this "20-year-old New Yorker captured street life in all its emotional complexities" Nas |
| #9373, aired 2025-07-09 | OLD REVIEWS $1600: H.L. Mencken said his "Sister Carrie" "was the ancient story of the seduced village maiden purged of all its... pecksniffery" Dreiser |
| #9373, aired 2025-07-09 | OLD REVIEWS $2000: An 1889 article about this New York dining establishment called it "the most famous in America" Delmonico's |
| #9373, aired 2025-07-09 | SKETCHES GIVE STITCHES $2000: (Robin Thede presents the clue.) I play roles like philsophizer & conspiracizer Hertep,
Dr. Haddassah Olayinka Ali-Youngman, Pre Ph.D. &
the con artist three-year-old Baby Annie on this sketch show I created A Black Lady Sketch Show |
| #9372, aired 2025-07-08 | HOT TIME IN THE OLD TOWN $200: A 2022 report said many Kuwait City residents were deficient in this vitamin, as extreme heat kept them indoors D |
| #9372, aired 2025-07-08 | HOT TIME IN THE OLD TOWN $600: 2024 was brutal in Bangkok, as the oceanic pattern known by this childish name helped induce deadly heat levels El Niño |
| #9372, aired 2025-07-08 | HOT TIME IN THE OLD TOWN $800: As part of a heat-reduction plan, Athens is employing one of these built by the Romans to irrigate a "cool corridor" an aqueduct |
| #9372, aired 2025-07-08 | HOT TIME IN THE OLD TOWN $1000: Dating to Roman times & host of a World's Fair 2 millennia later, it's been called "the Iberian oven" Seville (Sevilla), Spain |
| #9372, aired 2025-07-08 | HOT TIME IN THE OLD TOWN $1,800 (Daily Double): This city's History Museum displays a nearly 7-ton metal blob of nails & other hardware melted in a store basement in 1871 Chicago |
| #9371, aired 2025-07-07 | "WATER"-Y RESPONSES $200: Meaning "forget about it", it's what you might tell an old friend about that issue you 2 had a falling-out over water under the bridge |
| #9371, aired 2025-07-07 | THEY WON THE BATTLE $400: In 1862 this then-brigadier general got one over on his Old West Point chum Simon Bolivar Buckner at Fort Donelson Grant |
| #9370, aired 2025-07-04 | HOW "AUD" $400: A federal appeals court said this crime "needs no definition. It is as old as falsehood & as versatile as human ingenuity" fraud |
| #9367, aired 2025-07-01 | PLEASE WELCOME TO THE STAGE... $200: For Adam Lambert's Broadway debut in 2024, life was this show, old chum, with Adam as your emcee who sings "I Don't Care Much" Cabaret |
| #9367, aired 2025-07-01 | ART HOUSE $800: In 1944, at almost 84, she painted "The Old Checkered House in 1860", the year of her birth Grandma Moses |
| #9367, aired 2025-07-01 | I LOVE LAMP $800: The 513,654 bricks used to build this Boston landmark with one lamp or 2 were made & fired in kilns at nearby Medford the Old North Church |
| #9366, aired 2025-06-30 | 18th CENTURY ARTS $400: Georgian architecture was all the rage in colonial America, as seen in the old statehouse that's now on this city's Freedom Trail Boston |
| #9365, aired 2025-06-27 | TOXIC CULTURE $1600: This actor, Imhotep in 1932's "The Mummy", played the bad dude Jonathan Brewster in the play "Arsenic & Old Lace" Boris Karloff |
| #9364, aired 2025-06-26 | COMPOUND ADJECTIVES $200: You, if you're specifically about 45 to 65 years old, like gen Xers today middle-aged |
| #9363, aired 2025-06-25 | Xs & Os $400: Called the Peacemaker, the colt .45 was one of these numerical firearms in the Old West a six-shooter |
| #9362, aired 2025-06-24 | ADD A LETTER $600: Add an R to an old-timey word for a thicket of trees to get this word for a dead body a corpse (from copse) |
| #9360, aired 2025-06-20 | LAW REVUE $200: Lawyer Billy Flynn in the musical "Chicago" gives 'em the old this rhyming song; "they let ya get away with murder" "Razzle Dazzle" |
| #9358, aired 2025-06-18 | CLOTHES TIME $1000: An official of the old Chinese empire, it's also a type of narrow collar & a type of straight-cut jacket a Mandarin |
| #9357, aired 2025-06-17 | OLD TO THE OED $400: The Kaiser's War was a way to describe this conflict World War I |
| #9357, aired 2025-06-17 | OLD TO THE OED $800: A neread is this creature found in a Hans Christian Andersen title a mermaid |
| #9357, aired 2025-06-17 | IN THE JUNK DRAWER $800: Still can't find the scissors, but I've got three of these proprietary Apple cables for charging an old iPhone circa 2014 Lightning |
| #9357, aired 2025-06-17 | OLD TO THE OED $1200: To lachryme is to do this action, as in "I wanted to lachryme upon losing to Watson" cry |
| #9357, aired 2025-06-17 | OLD TO THE OED $1600: This animal-"drunk" meant not just any kind of drunk but a satyr-esque lustful drunk goat-drunk |
| #9357, aired 2025-06-17 | OLD TO THE OED $2,000 (Daily Double): In the olden days, this "D" word just meant a discourse or dissertation; now it means more of an angry rant a diatribe |
| #9356, aired 2025-06-16 | PARENTHETICAL SONG TITLES $1600: He's not talking about an old engine:
"(Soulja Boy)" "Crank That" |
| #9355, aired 2025-06-13 | PLACES IN WORLD HISTORY $800: At the battle of Waterloo in 1815, 72-year-old Field Marshal Blücher commanded the forces of this German kingdom Prussia |
| #9355, aired 2025-06-13 | BOOK TOURS $1000: The title of this Terry McMillan novel refers to Ms. Payne, a divorced 42-year-old woman, & a trip to Jamaica How Stella Got Her Groove Back |
| #9354, aired 2025-06-12 | PROSPERO $600: This daughter of Prospero was but 3 years old when she was set adrift in a boat with her father Miranda |
| #9353, aired 2025-06-11 | "OLD" SONGS $200: The young 'uns are familiar with the Cocomelon version of this classic that mentions a pig, a cow & the various noises they make "Old MacDonald Had A Farm" |
| #9353, aired 2025-06-11 | "OLD" SONGS $400: In this tune Bob Seger sang, "Today's music ain't got the same soul" "Old Time Rock And Roll" |
| #9353, aired 2025-06-11 | "OLD" SONGS $600: A nostalgic Macklemore song says, "I wish somebody would have told me... someday, these would be" these the good old days |
| #9353, aired 2025-06-11 | "OLD" SONGS $800: The title of this Four Tops song precedes the lyric "but with a different meaning since you been gone" "It's The Same Old Song" |
| #9353, aired 2025-06-11 | "OLD" SONGS $1000: Rod Stewart told us that this title object "been broke a thousand times" "This Old Heart Of Mine" |
| #9350, aired 2025-06-06 | WEIGHTS & MEASURES $800: The name of this traditional system of weight comes from Old French for "goods of weight"--how clever! avoirdupois |
| #9350, aired 2025-06-06 | HODGEPODGE $800: Longevity must run in the family--this son of Lamech & grandson of Methuselah lived to the ripe old age of 950 Noah |
| #9350, aired 2025-06-06 | VOLCANOES ARE SO HOT RIGHT NOW $1200: Scientists think centuries-old ash at the bottom of the North Atlantic came from Katla, one of this country's myriad volcanoes Iceland |
| #9349, aired 2025-06-05 | ONIONS $400: The melodic name of fegato alla veneziana, a traditional dish of this organ meat & onions, may fail to lure your 9-year-old liver |
| #53, aired 2025-06-04 | BROADWAY MUSICAL CHANGE A LETTER $1600: Show in which the title character is equally good with a rifle & the Bible & is out to retrieve Mother Superior in the Old West Annie Get Your Nun |
| #9347, aired 2025-06-03 | LIFE IS A 5-LETTER WORD $400: The name of this venomous snake can also mean a toxic person or, in old jazz slang, a marijuana user a viper |
| #9347, aired 2025-06-03 | FROM THE KIDZ BOP VERSION $1200: This song:
"My life is a movie / Bull ridin' & bougie / Cowboy hat from Gucci / Wrangler like on TV" "Old Town Road" |
| #51, aired 2025-05-28 | A LITTLE OLD FASHION $400: Goya portrayed the Duchess of Alba wearing this Spanish-named veil draped around her shoulders a mantilla |
| #51, aired 2025-05-28 | A LITTLE OLD FASHION $800: This garment was originally a man's tight-fitting jacket worn under another layer; now it's a decorative underskirt a petticoat |
| #51, aired 2025-05-28 | HEY, "KID" $1000: This triumphant meme template shows 11-month-old Sam Griner clenching his fist on a beach in a green & white shirt Success Kid |
| #51, aired 2025-05-28 | A LITTLE OLD FASHION $1200: 1920s & '30s designer Jessie Franklin Turner was known for using this French-named fabric woven with metallic yarns lamé |
| #51, aired 2025-05-28 | A LITTLE OLD FASHION $1600: Hip-length, close-fitting with a high collar, this jacket was named for a world leader who died in 1964 Nehru |
| #51, aired 2025-05-28 | A LITTLE OLD FASHION $2000: In Victorian times a woman wearing one of these had on a bodice, not a member of a southern European ethnic group a basque |
| #49, aired 2025-05-27 | IT'S A MORASS $2000: This swampy national park with old-growth trees bears the name of a Native American tribe that lived in South Carolina Congaree |
| #9341, aired 2025-05-26 | IT HAPPENED ONE LEAP YEAR $400: The first modern Olympic Games were held in 1896, in this city for old time's sake Athens |
| #9341, aired 2025-05-26 | IT HAPPENED ONE LEAP YEAR $2000: He administered the first experimental vaccination for smallpox in 1796, to an 8-year-old boy named James Phipps (Edward) Jenner |
| #9338, aired 2025-05-21 | THAT'S "SUPER" $1600: This verb means to become old, out of date or retired superannuate |
| #48, aired 2025-05-21 | THE VINTAGE COCKTAIL HOUR $400: An old recipe book said of this cocktail, "four... taken in swift succession will unrevive" it the corpse reviver |
| #48, aired 2025-05-21 | BUILDERS & FOUNDERS $800: Before he got into founding, a 21-year-old carpenter named Ezra Cornell settled in this city in 1828 Ithaca |
| #48, aired 2025-05-21 | AROUND THE BIG WATER JUST SOUTH & WEST OF FLORIDA $1200: A Louisiana bay has the same name as this 4-year-old in a children's TV show created in Quebec Caillou |
| #45, aired 2025-05-20 | THE ARTS $2000: Old Civil War cannons were used to cast the iconic work seen here by this sculptor Daniel Chester French |
| #9335, aired 2025-05-16 | OLD TESTAMENT NAMES $400: The Bible calls her "the mother of all living" Eve |
| #9335, aired 2025-05-16 | OLD TESTAMENT NAMES $800: The Bible book named for her says she was also known as Hadassah Esther |
| #9335, aired 2025-05-16 | OLD TESTAMENT NAMES $1200: The mother of Samuel, her 6-letter name is a palindrome Hannah |
| #9335, aired 2025-05-16 | BOOK TITLE TATTLE $1,500 (Daily Double): The opening line of William Butler Yeats' "Sailing to Byzantium" provided the title for this Cormac McCarthy novel No Country for Old Men |
| #9335, aired 2025-05-16 | OLD TESTAMENT NAMES $1600: Shadrach, Meshach & Abednego endured a stay in a furnace in the book of this man Daniel |
| #9335, aired 2025-05-16 | OLD TESTAMENT NAMES $2000: Head to the end of the alphabet for this name of Moses' wife Zipporah |
| #9334, aired 2025-05-15 | THE NAME ON THE DISEASE $1200: Those most prone to develop this gastrointestinal disease are people in their 20s, not old witchy women Crohn's |
| #9333, aired 2025-05-14 | JESUS HAD A DAY $800: The Transfiguration involved Jesus' clothing turning white & a chat with Elijah & this other major Old Testament guy Moses |
| #9333, aired 2025-05-14 | WE ARE REALLY GOING TO STUMP YOU $800: The Old Man of the Lake is a hemlock stump that sits peacefully in this Oregon lake formed violently over 7,000 years ago Crater Lake |
| #9333, aired 2025-05-14 | AUTHORS' HOMES $2,400 (Daily Double): Some years after vacating the "Old Manse", he purchased a home from the Alcotts & called it "The Wayside" Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| #43, aired 2025-05-14 | ON THE OLD CABIN'S BOOKSHELF $400: I'm in the mood for Lloyd C. Douglas' book about this title garment, won by the Roman Marcellus at Jesus' crucifixion The Robe |
| #43, aired 2025-05-14 | A PHOTOGRAPHIC MEMORY $400: The AKC recognizes 6 breeds of these, including the Redbone; they're specialists in treeing their prey coonhound |
| #43, aired 2025-05-14 | ON THE OLD CABIN'S BOOKSHELF $800: Ooh, a nice collection of his short stories like "A Sound of Thunder" & "There Will Come Soft Rains" Bradbury |
| #43, aired 2025-05-14 | ON THE OLD CABIN'S BOOKSHELF $1600: I'm trying this 1896 book in which Edward Prendick is shipwrecked on a Pacific isle where a madman is doing horrific experiments The Island of Doctor Moreau |
| #43, aired 2025-05-14 | ON THE OLD CABIN'S BOOKSHELF $2000: Ahh, Franz Werfel's "Song" of this sainted 19th century Frenchwoman--a classic!
Now for some cocoa! Saint Bernadette |
| #43, aired 2025-05-14 | ON THE OLD CABIN'S BOOKSHELF $5,000 (Daily Double): There are several water-damaged books on fishing, including this Montana-set Norman Maclean tale "& Other Stories" A River Runs Through It |
| #9332, aired 2025-05-13 | THE CHILDREN'S AUTHOR WHO WROTE... $1000: "Soon Fudge would be a famous television star and I would be plain old Peter Hatcher--fourth grade nothing" (Judy) Blume |
| #9332, aired 2025-05-13 | OPERA $1600: More like Mademoiselle Butterfly! This character also called Madam Butterfly is just 15 years old Cio-Cio-San |
| #9331, aired 2025-05-12 | JEOPORTMANTEAU! $400: A mental survey of the past that follows "in"
+
old-timey term for eyeglasses retrospectacles |
| #9330, aired 2025-05-09 | PROPERTY WATCHING $400: This show's first season aired in 1979; it chronicled the renovation of an abandoned home in Dorchester, Massachusetts This Old House |
| #9330, aired 2025-05-09 | THERE'S A BIRD IN YOUR RESPONSE $600: Like the buckhorn in Pinos Altos, New Mexico, it's another name for a tavern, especially in the Old West a saloon |
| #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 |
| #9329, aired 2025-05-08 | OLD MacDONALD HAD A WIND FARM $800: E-I-E-I... energy! The mechanical kind, made by a turbine's rotor & converted into electricity via this device, from Latin for "produce" a generator |
| #9329, aired 2025-05-08 | OLD MacDONALD HAD A WIND FARM $1200: & on his farm he had some turbines, which had a high L/D, the ratio of lift to this other aerodynamic force drag |
| #9329, aired 2025-05-08 | OLD MacDONALD HAD A WIND FARM $1600: Everywhere a whoosh, whoosh--you'll find the largest U.S. wind farm, Alta Wind Energy Center, in this state's Tehachapi Mountains California |
| #9329, aired 2025-05-08 | OLD MacDONALD HAD A WIND FARM $2000: E-I-E-I... this device! There's one mounted atop each MacDonald-owned turbine tower to measure wind speed anemometer |
| #9328, aired 2025-05-07 | DOCTORED TELEVISION $1000: After the Civil War, this character moved from Boston to Colorado Springs, facing some Old West misogyny Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman |
| #9328, aired 2025-05-07 | HOW ABOUT A LITTLE SCIENCE? $1600: The atoms in your body are billions of years old; the hydrogen & this lightest metal may date to the Big Bang lithium |
| #42, aired 2025-05-07 | HYMNS & SPIRITUALS $1600: "On a hill far away stood" this "cross, the emblem of suffering and shame" an old rugged cross |
| #9326, aired 2025-05-05 | LITERARY DRESS-UP $400: "An old, pointed blue hat, that had belonged to some Munchkin" is part of his ensemble the Scarecrow |
| #9325, aired 2025-05-02 | A LITTLE BIT OF LIT $200: Her cupboard... bare. Her dog... dead. But suddenly, the dog's alive, & smoking a pipe. Terror has a new name--this nursery rhyme woman Old Mother Hubbard |
| #9325, aired 2025-05-02 | FANCY A WORD? $800: A gentleman with an "air" of confidence may be this adjective, from Old French for "of good lineage" debonair |
| #9325, aired 2025-05-02 | A LITTLE BIT OF LIT $800: Mark this Cuban character who got top billing over "the Sea" (at least as "The Old Man") in 1952 Santiago |
| #9324, aired 2025-05-01 | STATE SONG LYRICS $200: "I love your old gray missions, love your vineyards stretching far" California |
| #40, aired 2025-04-30 | OPPOSITE GEOGRAPHY $1600: You can visit the ancient ruins called Old this just north of Salisbury, England, which was once New this Sarum |
| #9321, aired 2025-04-28 | SCIENCE & NATURE $800: Kalium is the old name for this element potassium |
| #9320, aired 2025-04-25 | THE WIZARD OF OZ $800: Terry was the real name of the 5-year-old who played this character; she'd previously starred with Shirley Temple Toto |
| #9319, aired 2025-04-24 | IN THE CARDS $200: In October 1965 22-year-old David Miller became the first person to be arrested for publicly burning one of these a draft card |
| #9319, aired 2025-04-24 | "OK", BOOMER $600: Why do you insist on using this old-fashioned word for handbag? It's so much faster to just say "purse" pocketbook |
| #9318, aired 2025-04-23 | MAKING SOME POUR DECISIONS $600: This "Old No. 7" whiskey is "mellowed ... through 10 feet of sugar maple charcoal", but mellow feelings may or may not follow Jack Daniels |
| #9316, aired 2025-04-21 | MAKEUP THROUGH HISTORY $200: What's been called the oldest type of this makeup is a 4,000-year-old "tube" in Iran that contains bright red hematite lipstick |
| #9314, aired 2025-04-17 | MYTHOLOGY $800: Stronger than dirt, this great warrior eventually went mad & killed himself Ajax |
| #9313, aired 2025-04-16 | BOOKS & WAR $400: Howard Fast's Revolutionary War novels include this month "Morning", about a 15-year-old in the battle of Lexington April |
| #9311, aired 2025-04-14 | IN THE DICTIONARY $1200: An Old English word for "insane" gave us this milder word meaning dizzy, perhaps "with excitement" giddy |
| #9308, aired 2025-04-09 | A 2000-ERA MALL RAT $400: Indonesia has lost 25% of old-growth this type of area since 1990 & in 2025 we are down to just 23 of the same-named "Cafe" worldwide a rainforest |
| #9308, aired 2025-04-09 | OUR GREEN PLANET $800: About 30 minutes from Columbia, Congaree National Park in this state is an intact example of old growth forest in the South South Carolina |
| #9308, aired 2025-04-09 | PAST, THE DUCHY $1200: At just 6 years old in 1337, Edward the Black Prince became the first duke of this duchy in southwestern England Cornwall |
| #9307, aired 2025-04-08 | ANCIENT HISTORY $2000: King Tut's father was this religious reformer who abandoned & attacked the old religion of Egypt Akhenaten |
| #9306, aired 2025-04-07 | EAR, EAR $400: This century-old cotton swab brand should not be used to clear out ear wax--it can damage your ears & push the wax in deeper a Q-tip |
| #9305, aired 2025-04-04 | THIS MEANS "WAR" $400: This "mistress" is an old term for the person in a theater company who keeps Hamlet's doublet pressed (the wardrobe) mistress |
| #9305, aired 2025-04-04 | MOVIE & TV ROLES $600: After a career in film, he got his first TV starring role in "Tulsa King", as a 75-year-old gangster just out of prison Stallone |
| #9305, aired 2025-04-04 | YOUR VERB FORM IS MOST IRREGULAR $1200: In a famous Brent Musburger call, it's the past participle that follows "Flutie flushed... throws it down..." caught |
| #9302, aired 2025-04-01 | THE OLD WEST $200: The longest one of these on the Transcontinental Railroad was a 1,659-footer through Sierra Nevada granite a tunnel |
| #9302, aired 2025-04-01 | THE OLD WEST $400: Let's take an excursion east to Hartford & the dome & horse statue of this company that made the gun that won the West Colt |
| #9302, aired 2025-04-01 | THE OLD WEST $600: In 1842 the first ship built in Oregon by settlers sailed 5 days down the coast to this city where it was traded for 350 cows San Francisco |
| #9302, aired 2025-04-01 | THE OLD WEST $800: This people lived in Colorado & the state one west named for them; other Indians called them "Bad Lodges" for their ill-built tipis the Utes |
| #9302, aired 2025-04-01 | THE OLD WEST $1000: Named for a declaration, this Missouri city was the "Queen City of the Trails" as many pioneers headed west from there Independence |
| #9301, aired 2025-03-31 | I GOT ME A CAR $200: Travel to a little old place where we can get together in this company's Corolla Toyota |
| #9301, aired 2025-03-31 | COUNTRY MUSIC HISTORY $200: Touring together for Sun Records, he called new friend Johnny Cash "Old Man", & Cash called him "The Shaky Kid" Elvis Presley |
| #9301, aired 2025-03-31 | GETTING RELIGION $800: Marcionism, an early Christian sect, held that the gods of these 2 volumes were separate entities, one just but cruel, one loving & good the Old & New Testaments |
| #9300, aired 2025-03-28 | IN THE 19th CENTURY $2000: 24-year-old Julia Gardiner married this widower, aged 54, on June 26, 1844 John Tyler |
| #9299, aired 2025-03-27 | AT THE MALL $200: Though it sounds like it honors a maritime force, the name of this store comes from a Paris bar Old Navy |
| #9297, aired 2025-03-25 | ART HISTORY $2000: Around 1800 Antonio Canova was the greatest sculptor of this old-is-new style with works depicting Cupid, Perseus & Daedalus neoclassicism |
| #9296, aired 2025-03-24 | A SITE FOR MORE EYES $800: Said to be around 800 years old, the Avenue of the Baobabs isn't just any old street on this large island nation off Africa Madagascar |
| #9296, aired 2025-03-24 | BILLS OF MORTALITY FOR 17th C. LONDON $1600: "Lights" is an old word for these; "rising of the lights", possibly emphysema or croup, took out 81 Londoners in 1699 lungs |
| #9296, aired 2025-03-24 | JOHNNY ON THE AXE $2000: Morrissey got together with this 18-year-old Johnny in 1982 & an alt rock legend was born Johnny Marr |
| #9295, aired 2025-03-21 | PALACES $400: The centuries-old adobe Palace of the Governors in this state capital got decked out for statehood in 1912 Santa Fe |
| #9295, aired 2025-03-21 | LITERARY CHARACTERS, HAVING A DAY $600: He says, "You know, old sport, I've never used that pool all summer?" (he really should've stuck to that) Gatsby |
| #9291, aired 2025-03-17 | ALSO A NEW WAVE BAND $600: In old TV ads, Mr. Whipple said not to do it to Charmin squeeze |
| #9290, aired 2025-03-14 | MID-ATLANTIC TRAVEL $400: This university is home to a Greek Revival building called Old College & maybe someday the Joe Biden Presidential Library the University of Delaware |
| #9290, aired 2025-03-14 | ALLITERATION $400: An old, unsolved investigation, especially for TV's Lilly Rush of the Philadelphia Police Department cold case |
| #9288, aired 2025-03-12 | BIG "W" $800: From the Old English for "twist" or "bend", it means to wriggle in embarrassment or pain writhe |
| #9287, aired 2025-03-11 | 3-NAMED PEOPLE $200: Her "An Old-Fashioned Girl" wasn't quite as popular as her "Little Women" Alcott |
| #9286, aired 2025-03-10 | TAKE ME TO CHURCH $800: In 1775 2 lit lanterns seen in its steeple signaled that the British were coming, & not by land but by sea the Old North Church |
| #9286, aired 2025-03-10 | PARTS OF THE BOOK $800: The oxidized reddish-brown spots on old books are named after the reddish-brown coat of this wild canine a fox |
| #9284, aired 2025-03-06 | COLLEGE SEALS $400: The tree on the seal of this school represents el Palo Alto, a more than 1,000-year-old redwood Stanford |
| #34, aired 2025-03-05 | SNACK ATTACK $1500: Debuting years before Wetzel's Pretzels, this rhyming brand boasts it's been "making great pretzels since 1917" Rold Gold |
| #9282, aired 2025-03-04 | OLD MAN (OR WOMAN) RIVER $200: In 1925 the Netul River of northwest Oregon was renamed to honor these 2 men who'd passed by 120 years earlier Lewis & Clark |
| #9282, aired 2025-03-04 | OLD MAN (OR WOMAN) RIVER $400: Named for the wife of its first governor, the Diamantina River rises in this Aussie state also named for a woman Queensland |
| #9282, aired 2025-03-04 | OLD MAN (OR WOMAN) RIVER $600: It rises from Lake Tear of the Clouds in the Adirondacks & winds 315 miles to a harbor on the Atlantic the Hudson River |
| #9282, aired 2025-03-04 | STARTS WITH A BODY PART $1000: An old-timey adjective referring to bawdy, vulgar speech ribald |
| #9282, aired 2025-03-04 | OLD MAN (OR WOMAN) RIVER $1000: Named for the site where the Cree & Beaver settled a dispute, the Peace River is a branch of this largest Canadian river the Mackenzie |
| #9282, aired 2025-03-04 | OLD MAN (OR WOMAN) RIVER $3,200 (Daily Double): Quinobequin to the natives, it was called the Massachusetts by explorers, then renamed in 1614 for a then-prince the Charles River |
| #9282, aired 2025-03-04 | ON TOUR $5,000 (Daily Double): This 16-year-old's diary entry for Oct.18, 2006: "Oh my god I am on the Rascal Flatts tour... I'm opening up for the last nine dates" Taylor Swift |
| #9279, aired 2025-02-27 | TALES OF ADVENTURE $800: This masked swashbuckler who fought for justice in Old California debuted in the 1919 story "The Curse of Capistrano" Zorro |
| #9279, aired 2025-02-27 | LOOK & SEE THE DOUBLE VOWELS $1000: Flowering plants, or old-timey loose trousers that women used to wear for athletics bloomers |
| #9279, aired 2025-02-27 | THE 15th CENTURY $1,400 (Daily Double): The structure called this, after the old city of Tokyo, was built; over centuries, it expanded greatly, then contracted Edo Castle |
| #9277, aired 2025-02-25 | 2 WORDS, 4 SYLLABLES $400: Dating to the 16th century, this synonym for 13 is said to come from an old retail custom a baker's dozen |
| #9277, aired 2025-02-25 | OLDEN LANGUAGE $1200: Old school, it was a merchant or peddler; it was also Johnny Appleseed's real last name Chapman |
| #9276, aired 2025-02-24 | CELEBRITIES $800: His memoir "From Under the Truck" chronicles being raised in Paso Robles & his roles in "Goonies" & "No Country for Old Men" Josh Brolin |
| #9275, aired 2025-02-21 | IT'S COUNTRY MUSIC, Y'ALL $200: A "Greatest Hits" album by this legend included "I Will Always Love You" & "Old Flames (Can't Hold A Candle To You)" Dolly Parton |
| #9275, aired 2025-02-21 | OLD STUFF $400: In 2022 the perfectly preserved remains of a 30,000-year-old baby one of these tusked animals were discovered in the Yukon a woolly mammoth |
| #9275, aired 2025-02-21 | OLD STUFF $800: The oldest person in the Bible, Methuselah lived to this ripe old palindromic age 969 |
| #9275, aired 2025-02-21 | OLD STUFF $1200: The paintings discovered in this French cave Sept. 12, 1940 likely date to the Upper Paleolithic period Lascaux |
| #9275, aired 2025-02-21 | OLD STUFF $1600: Completed in 1345 this bridge that spans the Arno River in Florence has a name meaning "old bridge" Ponte Vecchio |
| #9275, aired 2025-02-21 | OLD STUFF $2000: Founded in 1764 this New England newspaper is the oldest continuously published paper in America the Hartford Courant |
| #9274, aired 2025-02-20 | SEEMS LIKE OLD TIMES $200: Jazz Age icon Josephine Baker came to stardom during the exuberant decade known by this nickname the Roaring Twenties |
| #9274, aired 2025-02-20 | SEEMS LIKE OLD TIMES $400: The late 1600s & early 1700s in this country are known as its Petrine era Russia |
| #9274, aired 2025-02-20 | SEEMS LIKE OLD TIMES $600: The transition between the Stone Age & this other prehistoric era is sometimes called the Chalcolithic, or "copper-stone" the Bronze Age |
| #9274, aired 2025-02-20 | SEEMS LIKE OLD TIMES $1000: In 1644 China's Ming dynasty was succeeded by this one that rhymes with Ming also called the Manchu (the) Qing (dynasty) |
| #9274, aired 2025-02-20 | SEEMS LIKE OLD TIMES $2,800 (Daily Double): Historians use "the long 19th century" to refer to the 125-year period between the starts of these 2 European cataclysms the French Revolution & World War I |
| #9273, aired 2025-02-19 | I'M "DRAGON" TODAY $1000: This warning is not really found on old maps but really is found (in Latin) on a globe circa 1510 here there be dragons |
| #9272, aired 2025-02-18 | "ISM"s $200: Seen in some workplaces, it's discrimination based on how old someone is ageism |
| #9272, aired 2025-02-18 | BORDERLINE $1,500 (Daily Double): Now a tourist attraction, the demilitarized zone separating these 2 countries was officially abolished in 1976 North & South Vietnam |
| #9271, aired 2025-02-17 | ANCIENT TIMES $400: The nomadic Scythians prized these; some found in burial mounds were 20 years old at death & interred in elaborate regalia horses |
| #9271, aired 2025-02-17 | CLOTHES MINDED $800: I say, old chap, if we are saddling up, we should wear these riding breeches with a name from India jodhpurs |
| #9269, aired 2025-02-13 | ADDRESSES $5,000 (Daily Double): The New Mexico State Capitol is at 490 Old this route blazed in 1821 Santa Fe Trail |
| #9268, aired 2025-02-12 | MONOGRAM MADNESS $600: One of his nicknames was "Old Kinderhook":
MVB Martin Van Buren |
| #9268, aired 2025-02-12 | ON THE RUN $1600: Jeff Bridges packs up his passports & his Rottweilers, trying to stay one step ahead of his fate in this FX spy thriller The Old Man |
| #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 |
| #9267, aired 2025-02-11 | AMERICAN GOVERNMENT $400: Until 1935 this body didn't have its own building; it met in the Old Senate Chamber, & members ate lunch in the Robing Room the Supreme Court |
| #9266, aired 2025-02-10 | CLINKY DRINKS $800: In 1883 a bartender told the Chicago Tribune his patrons preferred this American whiskey to bourbon in their old-fashioneds rye |
| #9265, aired 2025-02-07 | LANDMARKS $1,800 (Daily Double): Its name is Quechua for "old peak" Machu Picchu |
| #9264, aired 2025-02-06 | STOCKING THE CABINET $200: This chief justice of the U.S. moonlighted at his old secretary of state gig for John Adams (John) Marshall |
| #9264, aired 2025-02-06 | KIND OF BLUE POP CULTURE $400: In this frat comedy, Will Ferrell sings a riveting rendition of "Dust In The Wind" at the funeral of his pal Blue Old School |
| #9263, aired 2025-02-05 | HAVE I GOT NEWS FOR YOU $200: Dug up in France, in 2019 one of these from WWI was mistaken for a potato & sent to a chip factory before police detonated it a grenade |
| #31, aired 2025-02-05 | WHO POSTED IT? $400: In 2020, almost 30 years after the release of "Home Alone":
"Hey guys, wanna feel old? I'm 40. You're welcome" Macaulay Culkin |
| #9258, aired 2025-01-29 | ERNEST HEMINGWAY $400: Hemingway, an avid angler, caught many of these large sport fish; his "Old Man" character only managed one blue one marlin |
| #30, aired 2025-01-29 | WHICH BILL SAID IT? $600: "If you're looking for a place to relax with an old lady, look no further. New York's hottest club is 'Spicy"' Bill Hader (doing Stefon) |
| #30, aired 2025-01-29 | A CLUE TOO "FAR" $600: This old-timey British coin was worth about 1/4 of a penny--in other words, diddly-squat a farthing |
| #30, aired 2025-01-29 | THE GREATEST YEAR IN MOVIE HISTORY? $800 (Daily Double): 2007?
"There Will Be Blood", "No Country for Old Men" & this drama starring George Clooney as a law firm fixer Michael Clayton |
| #29, aired 2025-01-22 | WANNA BET? $500: In may 2024 more than $210 million was wagered on this race won by a 3-year-old named Mystik Dan the Kentucky Derby |
| #9252, aired 2025-01-21 | THE BIBLE $2000: When the 39 books of the Old Testament in the King James Bible are listed alphabetically, they run from Amos to this prophet Zephaniah |
| #9249, aired 2025-01-16 | SHORT STORIES $1600: In a story by Herman Melville, 12-year-old Ginger Nut works in the office with this reluctant title guy Bartleby |
| #9248, aired 2025-01-15 | TEARJERKERS $800: We'll spare you the full ending of this 1957 Disney film, but yes, the title dog does have rabies Old Yeller |
| #9248, aired 2025-01-15 | TEARJERKERS $1600: Saoirse Ronan got her first Oscar nomination for her role as a 13-year-old who causes endless regret in this WWII-set film Atonement |
| #9246, aired 2025-01-13 | ENDS IN "UE" $2000: Remove an "R" from a word meaning to squabble to get this old term for malaria & the feverish symptoms that accompany it ague |
| #9245, aired 2025-01-10 | TATE EXPECTATIONS $1200: I say, it's George Stubbs' painting of a couple of these dogs for ye old hunt, bred from the Earl of Yarborough's pack, old chap foxhounds |
| #9244, aired 2025-01-09 | WE SHALL ENDURE $200: Unfortunately killed by researchers trying to determine its age, an ocean quahog type of this turned out to have been 507 years old a clam |
| #9244, aired 2025-01-09 | CLASSIC TV $1200: He played Pa Ingalls on "Little House on the Prairie" & a probationary angel on "Highway to Heaven" Michael Landon |
| #9243, aired 2025-01-08 | NO RYAN, I WOULD NOT LIKE TO BUY A VOWEL $600: Old ads for Campbell's said their soup was this! This! Good! M'm! M'm! |
| #27, aired 2025-01-08 | HOT GOSSIP $100: You didn't hear this from us, but that super-famous geyser in Yellowstone that spews hot water on the regs? Everyone calls it this Old Faithful |
| #9241, aired 2025-01-06 | SOY QUE? $400: Soy guía turístico, your tour guide, & just look at the very old & beautiful iglesia, this church |
| #9239, aired 2025-01-02 | WHISKEY, & KEEP 'EM COMIN' $1200: In the 1930 film "Anna Christie", this actress says, "Gimme a whiskey, ginger ale on the side & don't be stingy, baby" Greta Garbo |
| #9237, aired 2024-12-31 | NONFICTION $800: "The Barn" recounts the brutal murder of this 14-year-old African-American boy from Chicago, in Mississippi to visit relatives Emmett Till |
| #9237, aired 2024-12-31 | NOT FOR THE MONEY $800: Especially since a purge of old white ladies, the Art Institute of Chicago has openings for volunteer educators, aka this word a docent |
| #9237, aired 2024-12-31 | ANIMAL EXPRESSIONS $1000: An old medical aphorism says, "When you hear hoofbeats, think horses, not" these zebras |
| #9234, aired 2024-12-26 | SCIENCE NEWS $1600: Genetic analysis of Ötzi the Iceman, a 5,300-year-old mummy from the Alps, shows he had dark skin & MPB, this form of hair loss male pattern baldness |
| #9231, aired 2024-12-23 | THE CINEMATIC VAMPIRE $1600: (Nicholas Hoult presents the clue.) Ages-old Miriam in "The Hunger" was played by this Paris-born actress; her sanguine tastes ran from David Bowie to Susan Sarandon Catherine Deneuve |
| #9230, aired 2024-12-20 | WORLD RELIGION $2,000 (Daily Double): Confucianism is more a philosophy--so this, with Beijing temples 1,300 years old, is China's only recognized home-grown religion Taoism |
| #9229, aired 2024-12-19 | U.S. HISTORY $600: Located in Wyoming & of volcanic origin, it was the first U.S. national monument to be established Devils Tower |
| #9227, aired 2024-12-17 | ART CLASS $400: In his Blue Period, Picasso painted an old man playing one of these; later, he used sheet metal to sculpt a 3-D one a guitar |
| #9227, aired 2024-12-17 | CROSSWORD CLUES "R" $1600: A magic spell or a letter in an old Anglo-Saxon alphabet
(4 letters) a rune |
| #9227, aired 2024-12-17 | FROM THE AFI CATALOG $1600: "Spielberg cast 13-year-old actor Christian Bale... principal photography began 1 Mar 1987" Empire of the Sun |
| #9227, aired 2024-12-17 | JURY DUTY $2000: From Old French for "to speak the truth", it's the preliminary examination of prospective jurors by a judge or lawyer voir dire |
| #9226, aired 2024-12-16 | SONGWRITING WITH LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA $200: (Lin-Manuel Miranda presents the clue.) Inspiration can come from anywhere; for the song "My Shot", I based a section of the music on the old America Online dial-up tones to reflect how this character's words would soon connect with the wider world Hamilton |
| #9223, aired 2024-12-11 | THE OLD TESTAMENT $800: In an 18th century artwork, he's not conducting a band but bringing water from a rock by striking it, disobeying God Moses |
| #9223, aired 2024-12-11 | THE OLD TESTAMENT $1200: PTL for short, this 3-word phrase in the last verse of the last Psalm gave an evangelical club its name praise the Lord |
| #9223, aired 2024-12-11 | THE OLD TESTAMENT $1600: Mosaics found in the Galilee in 2022 have the earliest known depictions of Jael & Deborah, heroines from this book of the Old Testament Judges |
| #9223, aired 2024-12-11 | THE OLD TESTAMENT $4,000 (Daily Double): It's twins for Rebekah: "the first came out red, all over like an hairy garment; and they called his name" this Esau |
| #9222, aired 2024-12-10 | WOMEN WRITERS $2000: Known for writing about old New York, she had some of her shorter work published in the 1924 collection "Old New York" Edith Wharton |
| #9219, aired 2024-12-05 | EPONYMS $800: In the 1860s, a former Kentucky legislator developed this variety of lettuce on the ground of his old Kentucky home Bibb |
| #9218, aired 2024-12-04 | A REAL SOB STORY $2000: Little Nell sobs herself to sleep in this "Old" Dickens novel The Old Curiosity Shop |
| #9217, aired 2024-12-03 | CAMERAS & PHOTOGRAPHY $4,000 (Daily Double): His first roll of pictures from a Brownie camera was developed at Pillsbury's Pictures in Old Yosemite Village Ansel Adams |
| #9216, aired 2024-12-02 | CHEERS TO BEERS! $1000: This popular 400-year-old Dutch brand of beer is known for its distinctive green bottle with a swing-top cap Grolsch |
| #9215, aired 2024-11-29 | AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: On April 19, 1775 patriots turned back the advancing British at this bridge spanning the Concord River the Old North Bridge |
| #9214, aired 2024-11-28 | ASIAN LITERATURE $2000: In "The Temple of the Golden Pavilion" by Yukio Mishima, a Buddhist monk burns down the title temple in this old capital Kyoto |
| #9211, aired 2024-11-25 | ANIMAL QUOTES $400: Joe Biden quoted his mom with an old favorite: "Joey, if it looks like" this "& walks like" this... "it's" this a duck |
| #9211, aired 2024-11-25 | RAP, SCHOOLS OLD & NEW $400: The Beastie Boys promised, "No! sleep! 'til" this borough! Even if you don't know the song, you have a 1-in-5 shot Brooklyn |
| #9211, aired 2024-11-25 | HERE'S MY WRITING SAMPLE $400: "My biggest problem is my brother, Farley Drexel Hatcher. He's two-and-a-half years old. Everybody calls him Fudge" Judy Blume |
| #9211, aired 2024-11-25 | RAP, SCHOOLS OLD & NEW $800: In this title place, "I'm a doll but I still wanna party, pink 'Vette like I'm ready to bend, I'm a ten so I pull in a Ken" Barbie World |
| #9211, aired 2024-11-25 | RAP, SCHOOLS OLD & NEW $1200: MC Hammer used Rick James' "Super Freak" in this 1990 Top 10 hit with a "tactile" title "U Can't Touch This" |
| #9211, aired 2024-11-25 | RAP, SCHOOLS OLD & NEW $1600: "911 Is A Joke" is a track on their 1990 album "Fear of a Black Planet" Public Enemy |
| #9211, aired 2024-11-25 | RAP, SCHOOLS OLD & NEW $2000: 2023 rap songs with movie title titles included "The Gods Must Be Crazy" & Ken Carson's recalling this Megan Fox-Amanda Seyfried film Jennifer's Body |
| #9209, aired 2024-11-21 | COHAB VOCAB $600: A censorious old phrase for a boyfriend & girlfriend sharing a home, or a book about cohabitation in Victorian times living in sin |
| #9208, aired 2024-11-20 | 21st CENTURY MOVIE MOMENTS $400: Somehow Javier Bardem as Anton Chigurh made tossing a coin seem malevolent in this film No Country for Old Men |
| #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 |
| #9207, aired 2024-11-19 | PEOPLE ON U.S. MONEY $400: Having his face on some old twenties is appropriate for Hugh McCullough who headed this U.S. government department twice after the Civil War the Treasury |
| #9206, aired 2024-11-18 | SIMOLEONS, MOOLAH, SCRATCH, MONEY $200: Often following "pounds", this general term for British currency comes from the name of an old silver coin sterling |
| #9206, aired 2024-11-18 | SIMOLEONS, MOOLAH, SCRATCH, MONEY $800: People mistook Lady Liberty on an old ten-cent piece for a Roman god, leading to this name for the coin the Mercury dime |
| #9204, aired 2024-11-14 | FASHION DESIGNERS $2000: In 1980 this designer created controversy with provocative jeans ads that featured 15-year-old Brooke Shields Calvin Klein |
| #9203, aired 2024-11-13 | ADULT CONTEMPORARY LIT $600: Robinne Lee wrote this novel about a 39-year-old who falls for a boy band singer; it's now a film with Anne Hathaway The Idea of You |
| #9201, aired 2024-11-11 | ALLITERATIVE PHRASES $1000: On a road trip in my big old whip, we had to stop for fuel every couple of hours--the car is definitely one of these a gas guzzler |
| #9201, aired 2024-11-11 | ETYMOLOGY $1600: A centuries-old fair held outside a Dublin suburb gave its name to this type of free-for-all melee a donnybrook |
| #9198, aired 2024-11-06 | WORLD WAR II FICTION $800: In a 2006 John Boyne novel, a 9-year-old German kid named Bruno sees a boy in these title clothes & makes friends with him the striped pajamas |
| #9197, aired 2024-11-05 | CANONIZED SHOTS $800: Born in this town in France, 14-year-old Bernadette had visions of the Virgin Mary, leading to her canonization by Pope Pius XI Lourdes |
| #9197, aired 2024-11-05 | SHORT MOVIE TITLES $1200: The appearance of grumpy old Carl Fredricksen in this 2009 animated film was partially modeled after Spencer Tracy Up |
| #9197, aired 2024-11-05 | "OON" DOGGLE $1600: In European armies of old, it was a mounted soldier armed with a musket a dragoon |
| #9192, aired 2024-10-29 | SORRY, NO SHAKE TODAY $1000: It follows "shake hands" in a referee instruction & in the title of an old compendium of great early 20th century boxing matches come out fighting |
| #9192, aired 2024-10-29 | ALASKAN CITIES $1000: This city in Southeast Alaska is home to a historic Russian Orthodox church, St. Michael's Cathedral Sitka |
| #9192, aired 2024-10-29 | HISTORIC WOMEN $2000: In 1895, aged 80, this 3-named activist published her "Woman's Bible", which says the Old Testament proclaims female equality Elizabeth Cady Stanton |
| #9191, aired 2024-10-28 | CAUTION $2,000 (Daily Double): Unexplored parts on some old maps could be designated with pictures of monsters & this 2-word Latin designation terra incognita |
| #9190, aired 2024-10-25 | RETRONYMS $200: It's the plain old H2O that you drink from the faucet tap water |
| #9190, aired 2024-10-25 | SEOUL $400: Just like at Buckingham Palace, you can witness this centuries-old ritual at Seoul's Gyeongbokgung Palace the changing of the guard |
| #9190, aired 2024-10-25 | ROCKTOBER $2000: In Oct. 1988 he went on trial for plagiarizing his own CCR song "Run Through The Jungle" in "The Old Man Down The Road" John Fogerty |
| #9187, aired 2024-10-22 | THAT'S JUST PART OF THE STORY $600: The hero of this tale thinks, "Do you believe the great DiMaggio would stay with a fish as long as I will stay with this one?" The Old Man and the Sea |
| #9187, aired 2024-10-22 | POP STARS $1200: This singer/rapper's "Old Town Road" used a sample from Nine Inch Nails' "34 Ghosts IV" Lil Nas X |
| #9186, aired 2024-10-21 | GREAT MOVIE ROM-DRAMS $200: (Andrew Garfield presents the clue.) It's still the same old story, but this 1942 film about Rick & Ilsa remains not just one of the great love stories but one of the greatest films of all time Casablanca |
| #9186, aired 2024-10-21 | NURSERY RHYME LINES $600: "Old King Cole" doesn't need much to be merry--his pipe, his bowl & this musical act fiddlers three |
| #9186, aired 2024-10-21 | NURSERY RHYME LINES $800: "There was an old lady who swallowed a fly", but shockingly, this is next on the menu a spider |
| #9186, aired 2024-10-21 | IN CONSEQUENTIAL $2000: I say, old chap, let's toss small, circular ropes onto a peg in a game of this quoits |
| #9185, aired 2024-10-18 | LIGHTER VERSE $200: Serious poet W.H. Auden's anthology of light verse includes "the old woman who lived" here, but she buys a coffin for her "many children" a shoe |
| #9185, aired 2024-10-18 | 12-LETTER WORDS $2000: Named for colorful hosiery, it's an old-fashioned term for a female writer a bluestocking |
| #9184, aired 2024-10-17 | "I_I_I" $1200: Legacybox is a service that does this to your old photos & movies so you can store them in the cloud digitize |
| #9183, aired 2024-10-16 | SHOW BIZ MOVIES $600: (Jason Reitman presents the clue.) I cast 21-year-old Gabriel LaBelle in "Saturday Night" to play this producer, who was 30 in 1975, to emphasize his young genius & demonstrate the generational divide between the old network executives & the "Not Ready for Prime Time Players" Lorne Michaels |
| #9182, aired 2024-10-15 | HARD 9-LETTER WORDS $800: Old is new again with this word paired with "will"--it's a will that distributes property testament |
| #9181, aired 2024-10-14 | ALLITERATION $1600: In a much-imitated spiel, old travel films end, "as the sun sinks slowly into XX body of water, we bid" this alliterative goodbye a fond farewell |
| #9179, aired 2024-10-10 | THE VERY OLD SONG & DANCE $400: In 1949 "Le Combat" was first performed as an extended one of these French-named ballet dances for 2 performers a pas de deux |
| #9179, aired 2024-10-10 | THE VERY OLD SONG & DANCE $800: This Scottish folk song about "my Bonnie" may actually be about royal pretender Prince Charlie "My Bonnie Lies Over The Ocean" |
| #9179, aired 2024-10-10 | PROOF $1000: Andrew Wiles electrified the 1990s math world with a proof of the 350-year-old mystery known as this man's last theorem Fermat |
| #9179, aired 2024-10-10 | THE VERY OLD SONG & DANCE $1200: "The sun shines bright" on this Stephen Foster tune written in the 1850s & designated a state song in 1928 "My Old Kentucky Home" |
| #9179, aired 2024-10-10 | THE VERY OLD SONG & DANCE $1600: Moving to music in 2/4 time with 3 quick steps & a hop, this lively Bohemian folk dance can be seen in Smetana's "The Bartered Bride" polka |
| #9179, aired 2024-10-10 | THE VERY OLD SONG & DANCE $2000: On Nov. 26, 1945 this saxophone great recorded "Ko Ko" with Dizzy Gillespie & a teenaged Miles Davis Charlie Parker |
| #9176, aired 2024-10-07 | PLURAL-ONLY NOUNS $600: "I think of my life as vintage wine from fine old kegs / From the brim to" these the dregs |
| #9174, aired 2024-10-03 | ALSO A PAPAL NAME $1000: From Latin for "good" & "fate", it's an old-timey word for any innkeeper boniface |
| #9174, aired 2024-10-03 | A GLIMPSE INTO THE PAST $2000: In the 1880s, daring New Yorkers rode of these early cycles named for the resemblance of the wheels to two old British coins a penny-farthing |
| #9170, aired 2024-09-27 | DYING ON TV $200: Oh, I say, bad luck old chap--Matthew Crawley made Lady Mary a widow on this drama; Dan Stevens wanted to leave the show Downton Abbey |
| #9170, aired 2024-09-27 | WILD LINES $800: In the Old Testament an angel tells Hagar that she will bear a son who "will be a wild man" & that she should call him this Ishmael |
| #9168, aired 2024-09-25 | OLD-FASHIONED $200: Per ziprecruiter.com most people fail to send this after a job interview; a handwritten letter may be too old-timey in the WFH era a thank you note |
| #9168, aired 2024-09-25 | OLD-FASHIONED $400: Flip phones are making a comeback after 2 decades of being outmoded & this brand has even revived its Razr model Motorola |
| #9168, aired 2024-09-25 | OLD-FASHIONED $600: This cold dessert salad with oranges, coconut & marshmallows doesn't seem so divine to palates today ambrosia |
| #9168, aired 2024-09-25 | CLASSIC COCKTAILS $800: An old fashioned is whiskey, a sugar cube (or simple syrup), an orange slice, a maraschino cherry & a couple of dashes of these bitters |
| #9168, aired 2024-09-25 | OLD-FASHIONED $1000: Both a bit old-fashioned, they are polite behavior & a bended-knee gesture, the second word derived from the first courtesy & curtsy |
| #9168, aired 2024-09-25 | HOW 'BOUT A GAME OF CARDS? $1200: The goal of this game with a not exactly PC name is to not be holding a queen at the end Old Maid |
| #9168, aired 2024-09-25 | OLD-FASHIONED $2,400 (Daily Double): Basically plaid in only 2 colors, this fabric pattern was rocked by early 20th c. women but Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm gets sick of it gingham |
| #9163, aired 2024-09-18 | THE HISTORICAL HOOSEGOW $800: An old prison in the Argentinian city Ushuaia, "the city at the end of the world", overlooks this channel named for Darwin's ship the Beagle Channel |
| #9162, aired 2024-09-17 | PHILADELPHIA $200: The Phillies' old home Baker Bowl had a RF wall just 280' from the plate, helping Chuck Klein set a league record--43 these in 1929 home runs (homers) |
| #9162, aired 2024-09-17 | PHILADELPHIA $400: Mac's Tavern in Old City was co-founded by Kaitlin Olson & Rob McElhenney, who hang out at a different bar on this TV show It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia |
| #9159, aired 2024-09-12 | TV CHARACTERS $1200: The child of a 2-faced man & a 4,000-year-old mummy, he was the uniquely handsome host of an HBO anthology show the Crypt Keeper |
| #9158, aired 2024-09-11 | PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION LOSERS $400: There were 3 losers the first time Lincoln won: John C. Breckinridge, John Bell & this old debate foe Douglas |
| #9157, aired 2024-09-10 | ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY $400: The sentinels of the 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment, who keep an eye on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, are known as the "Old" this Guard |
| #9157, aired 2024-09-10 | 4 OF THE SAME CONSONANT $400: Whether the "old man" plays it on your thumb or not, it's a name for a trinket or curio a knickknack |
| #9157, aired 2024-09-10 | UNCUT JAMS $800: On a 2021 episode of "SNL", Taylor Swift "remembered" a 10-minute version of this song with a mention of an old scarf "All Too Well" |
| #9157, aired 2024-09-10 | HAVE A DAY! $1000: Celebrating April 11 as this old-timey singing foursome day dates back to 1938 when 26 men gathered for a songfest; wait... not 24 or 28? a barbershop quartet |
| #9157, aired 2024-09-10 | MISHMASH $1600: Around 1720 Allan Ramsay published a poem with this first line familiar from New Year's Eve, but going on, "tho' they return with scars" should old acquaintance be forgot |
| #9156, aired 2024-09-09 | SONGS FOR THE YOUNG & OLD $400: The lyric "I hope I die before I get old" is from their song "My Generation" The Who |
| #9156, aired 2024-09-09 | CHURCHES & CATHEDRALS $400: Boston's oldest surviving house of worship, Christ Church was built in 1723 & is also called this the Old North Church |
| #9156, aired 2024-09-09 | HISTORIC GROUPS OF 3 $400: On Columbus' first transatlantic voyage, this ship in the fleet of 3 made it to the New World, but not back to the old the Santa Maria |
| #9156, aired 2024-09-09 | SONGS FOR THE YOUNG & OLD $800: At the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival, Nina Simone performed the song titled "To Be Young" & these 2 things Gifted & Black |
| #9156, aired 2024-09-09 | SONGS FOR THE YOUNG & OLD $1200: Billy Joel said that this song of his "wasn't so much anti-Catholic as pro-lust" "Only The Good Die Young" |
| #9156, aired 2024-09-09 | SONGS FOR THE YOUNG & OLD $1600: This 2024 Coachella headliner's "Young And Beautiful" appeared on the soundtrack for "The Great Gatsby" Lana Del Rey |
| #9156, aired 2024-09-09 | SONGS FOR THE YOUNG & OLD $2000: "New Person, Same Old Mistakes" by this music project that's basically just Kevin Parker was covered by Rihanna Tame Impala |
| #9155, aired 2024-07-26 | FACE BOOKS $800: Hawthorne's story "The Great Stone Face" refers to a natural landmark that was in the White Mountains of this state New Hampshire |
| #9154, aired 2024-07-25 | FACTS ABOUT WORLD WAR I $400: In 1915, British troops landed at Cape Helles near Gallipoli to try to seize this strait whose old name may be an easier get the Hellespont (the Dardanelles) |
| #9153, aired 2024-07-24 | NOVEL CHANGE A LETTER $2000: Cormac McCarthy's saga of an aged, female chicken caught up in a world of drugs & killers No Country for Old Hen |
| #9152, aired 2024-07-23 | THE ROARING '20s $400: In 1921, in Atlantic City, 16-year-old Margaret Gorman became the first woman to win this national beauty title Miss America |
| #9151, aired 2024-07-22 | THAT'S AN EXECUTIVE ORDER $2000: In 1964 LBJ made this soon-to-be 70-year-old exempt from impending compulsory retirement under federal law J. Edgar Hoover |
| #9150, aired 2024-07-19 | OLD HOLLYWOOD POWER COUPLES $400: Her 27-year relationship with Spencer Tracy was one of Hollywood's great love stories Katharine Hepburn |
| #9150, aired 2024-07-19 | THE OLYMPICS $400: This 18-year-old from Louisville won the light heavyweight boxing gold medal in 1960 Muhammad Ali |
| #9150, aired 2024-07-19 | IT'S SOME KIND OF LAW $600: The first 5 books of the Old Testament are called simply "The Law" or, in Hebrew, this the Torah |
| #9150, aired 2024-07-19 | OLD HOLLYWOOD POWER COUPLES $800: After sparks flew on the set of "Cleopatra", they married & divorced not once, but twice Burton & Taylor |
| #9150, aired 2024-07-19 | OLD HOLLYWOOD POWER COUPLES $1200: Jamie Lee Curtis called this power couple mom & dad Tony Curtis & Janet Leigh |
| #9150, aired 2024-07-19 | OLD HOLLYWOOD POWER COUPLES $1600: Mrs. Robinson in the movies, she was Mrs. Mel Brooks for more than 40 years Bancroft |
| #9150, aired 2024-07-19 | OLD HOLLYWOOD POWER COUPLES $2000: A film producer extraordinaire & an eventual 6-time Best Actress Oscar nominee, they could have been called "Irvma" Irving Thalberg & Norma Shearer |
| #9149, aired 2024-07-18 | THAT'S "AA"WESOME $400: The animated star of his own show on PBS, Arthur Read is just an average 8-year-old one of these insectivores an aardvark |
| #9149, aired 2024-07-18 | WORLD HERITAGE SITES $1200: Come with me to this section of Algiers, with palaces & the remains of the Old Citadel the Casbah |
| #9148, aired 2024-07-17 | U.S. PLACE NICKNAMES $800: "The Home of the Blues", Tennessee Memphis |
| #9147, aired 2024-07-16 | ON THE GO $400: Coco taxis as well as old classic cars are popular ways to get around this Caribbean nation Cuba |
| #9146, aired 2024-07-15 | EXTREME WEATHER $600: (Glen Powell presents the clue.) The hottest air temperature ever recorded on Earth was here in the good old U.S.A.; 134 degrees Fahrenheit in this desolately named spot near the Panamint Mountains Death Valley |
| #9144, aired 2024-07-11 | OCCUPATIONAL POTPOURRI $400: An old line says an unpopular politician "couldn't get elected" to this job, now with the upgraded name animal control officer dog catcher |
| #9144, aired 2024-07-11 | ALPHABETICALLY LAST $800: Of the Pentateuch (the first 5 books of the Old Testament) Numbers |
| #9141, aired 2024-07-08 | BOOKS $400: 9-year-old Oskar's dad died in the World Trade Center on September 11 in the novel "Extremely Loud and" this Incredibly Close |
| #9140, aired 2024-07-05 | TV "B"-RUNS $1600: Alice Pearce won an Emmy for Best Supporting Actress for playing nosy neighbor Gladys Kravitz on this sitcom Bewitched |
| #9139, aired 2024-07-04 | SEE YOU IN THE FUNNY PAPYRUS $2000: The Westcar Papyrus contains stories about the royal court of this pharaoh of the Old Kingdom, aka Cheops Khufu |
| #9138, aired 2024-07-03 | READ 'EM & WEEP $600: A wolf infected with this viral disease attacks Old Yeller, so Travis makes the heart-wrenching decision to put down his dog (sob!) rabies |
| #9137, aired 2024-07-02 | THAT'S OLD NEWS $400: By the early 1200s Genghis Khan & his Mongol horde were attacking northern China, taking this current capital city in 1215 Beijing |
| #9137, aired 2024-07-02 | THAT'S OLD NEWS $800: Several of the Ancient Wonders of the World, like the Colossus of Rhodes, were destroyed by this type of natural calamity an earthquake |
| #9137, aired 2024-07-02 | THAT'S OLD NEWS $1200: From about 400 to 800 A.D., 16 kings ruled from this empire's city of Copán in Central America the Mayan |
| #9137, aired 2024-07-02 | THAT'S OLD NEWS $1600: In 218 B.C. Hannibal crossed the Alps with tens of thousands of infantry & cavalry during the second of these wars the Punic Wars |
| #9137, aired 2024-07-02 | THAT'S OLD NEWS $2000: Shown here with a ram's head, this deity combined the names of a creator god & the sun god Amun-Ra |
| #9136, aired 2024-07-01 | NOVELLAS $800: At the end of this Hemingway tale, the title character's former helper Manolin agrees to go fishing with him again The Old Man and the Sea |
| #9135, aired 2024-06-28 | "B" WEAR $600: When asked this age-old choice of underwear options, Bill Clinton didn't give a definitive answer boxers or briefs |
| #9134, aired 2024-06-27 | GETTING ARTY $400: "Old Man with a Gold Chain" is one of his many works marrying light & shadow Rembrandt |
| #9133, aired 2024-06-26 | ELLIS ISLAND $1200: In 2008 the museum's library was named for this ski-nosed comedian who came through Ellis Island as a 4-year-old Bob Hope |
| #9132, aired 2024-06-25 | LITERARY BADDIES $2000: John Claggart is the mean old master-at-arms aboard the Indomitable in this Herman Melville tale Billy Budd |
| #9129, aired 2024-06-20 | MUSEUMS $400: A Las Vegas museum bearing the name of this noble gas has a "boneyard" of old, glitzy signs--they even have one with Vegas Vic neon |
| #9129, aired 2024-06-20 | MUSEUMS $800: A museum in Nantucket about the history of this profession is housed in an old spermaceti candle factory whaling |
| #9128, aired 2024-06-19 | POETIC OBJECTS $1000: Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote of this, "Her deck once red with heroes' blood, where knelt the vanquished foe" Old Ironsides |
| #9126, aired 2024-06-17 | STATE SONGS $200: The third verse of this state's song begins, "I love your old gray missions, love your vineyards stretching far" California |
| #9126, aired 2024-06-17 | THE HUMAN RACE $400: They're the 2 main human language modalities; one might have begun 2 million years ago, the other 5,000 speech & writing |
| #9126, aired 2024-06-17 | STATE SONGS $600: In 1960 Ray Charles took this "old sweet song" to No. 1 "Georgia On My Mind" |
| #9126, aired 2024-06-17 | STATE SONGS $1000: John Philip Sousa was an admirer of this college song about the "grand old badger state" "On, Wisconsin!" |
| #9125, aired 2024-06-14 | 1824 $400: 18-year-old Henriette Sontag was the soprano as this man's final symphony premiered in Vienna Beethoven |
| #9124, aired 2024-06-13 | RECITING POETRY $200: Pt. II of this ends, "What evil looks had I from old and young! Instead of the cross, the albatross about my neck was hung" The Rime of the Ancient Mariner |
| #9122, aired 2024-06-11 | FROM THE AD $800: "Where are you? You're on a boat with the man your man could smell like" Old Spice |
| #9120, aired 2024-06-07 | THE MAIL PERSPECTIVE $1000: In 1914, 5-year-old May Pierstorff's parents bought 53 cents of stamps to mail the child this alliterative way to see Grammy & Grampy parcel post |
| #9120, aired 2024-06-07 | AMERICANA $1600: Yay, there's a vacancy at the 85-year-old Blue Swallow Motel on historic Route 66 in Tucumcari in this state New Mexico |
| #9119, aired 2024-06-06 | TRAVEL & TOURISM $400: With some buildings about a century old, Pretoriuskop Rest Camp has hosted many on this kind of trip with a name from Swahili safari |
| #9118, aired 2024-06-05 | THE REAL RED TAILS $800: (Sheryl Lee Ralph presents the clue.) 99-year-old Tuskegee Airman Harry T. Stewart talks about training in areas where segregation was the law below this line, named for two surveyors Mason-Dixon |
| #9118, aired 2024-06-05 | "GATE"KEEPING $1000: Per the Judicial Branch of California, "to repeal or cancel an old law using another law" to abrogate |
| #9118, aired 2024-06-05 | U.S. REP. & PREZ $2,000 (Daily Double): Rep. Franklin Pierce was such a devoted supporter of Andrew Jackson, he got this nickname alluding to his age (29) Young Hickory |
| #9116, aired 2024-06-03 | AROUND NEW YORK $400: Stay on the Downtown 6 to catch glimpses of the old station named for this building where Eric Adams works City Hall |
| #9116, aired 2024-06-03 | STARTS WITH "J" $4,000 (Daily Double): This word for a lamentation full of complaints references an Old Testament prophet a jeremiad |
| #9112, aired 2024-05-28 | THINK "SMALL" $200: 19-year-old George Washington caught this disease, which left him with a scarred face for the rest of his life smallpox |
| #38, aired 2024-05-22 | NEW MATERIAL ABOUT OLD MATERIAL $400: About 15 feet long by 4 feet wide, this linen relic has been preserved since 1578 at the cathedral of San Giovanni Battista the Shroud of Turin |
| #38, aired 2024-05-22 | NEW MATERIAL ABOUT OLD MATERIAL $800 (Daily Double): Taken to England in 1296, this 26x16x11 block of pale yellow sandstone has but one decoration--a Latin cross the Stone of Scone |
| #38, aired 2024-05-22 | NEW MATERIAL ABOUT OLD MATERIAL $1200: The National Archives copy of the Articles of Confederation is written on this, much more durable than the articles parchment |
| #38, aired 2024-05-22 | NEW MATERIAL ABOUT OLD MATERIAL $1600: Before this rock was a classroom writing surface, it was used to make the 3000s B.C. version of friendship bracelets in Finland slate |
| #38, aired 2024-05-22 | NEW MATERIAL ABOUT OLD MATERIAL $2000: A London museum has 2 of these, steel, each weighing 17 1/2 pounds, made in France, 1790-94 guillotine blades |
| #36, aired 2024-05-20 | SHOOTING MY LITERARY SHOT $600: In this E.M. Forster work, George shoots his shot with Lucy & goes in for a big old smooch in an Italian field of blue violets A Room with a View |
| #35, aired 2024-05-20 | THERE'S "A" NOUN FOR THAT $400: It's a furniture covering originally meant to protect against an old type of hair oil antimacassar |
| #35, aired 2024-05-20 | THERE'S "A" NOUN FOR THAT $600: It's an old-timey word for a balloonist an aeronaut |
| #9105, aired 2024-05-17 | WORDS FROM FILM $400: In "Ghostbusters" Bill Murray gave an old word a new meaning, saying a "chick is" this breakfast item, meaning finito toast |
| #34, aired 2024-05-17 | TRIPLE LETTER FUN $1000: 3 Ts:
Word for a rickety old car that makes a lot of noise a rattletrap |
| #33, aired 2024-05-17 | SCANDINAVIA $400: A trip to Copenhagen wouldn't be complete without visiting this 180-year-old theme park with rides, lush scenery & entertainment Tivoli |
| #33, aired 2024-05-17 | BROADWAY $1200: The title character of this Tony-winning musical is a 16-year-old with a rare genetic disorder that causes rapid aging Kimberly Akimbo |
| #9101, aired 2024-05-13 | ALSO A COLLECTIVE NOUN $800: A circle of an Old-Fashioned & a Mojito a round |
| #9101, aired 2024-05-13 | ____ FROM THE ____ $1600: Meaning to speak frankly, this saying alludes to Old West gunslinger days shoot from the hip |
| #30, aired 2024-05-13 | WHAT MONTH IS IT? $800: A set of early 1500s tapestries in a Milan castle has one for each month; the old man represents Saturn, whose -alia was in this month December |
| #29, aired 2024-05-13 | I WANT CANDY $400: Popular in the South, this old-fashioned meringue-based, nougat-like candy sounds heaven sent divinity |
| #29, aired 2024-05-13 | SPORTS JEOPARDY! LIVES AGAIN! $800: In the 1979-80 NHL season, he scored 15 goals & had 26 assists for the Hartford Whalers; not a bad season... for a 51-year-old (Gordie) Howe |
| #9100, aired 2024-05-10 | BIRDPLAY $600: Every day the old folks wander down to the lake to see this dabbler a swan (in folks wander) |
| #9100, aired 2024-05-10 | PREPOSITIONAL BOOK TITLES $600: In this Nick Hornby novel, a 12-year-old misfit & a 36-year-old man-child strike up a friendship that teaches them both valuable lessons About a Boy |
| #28, aired 2024-05-10 | POINTS OF VIEW $1200: Lenore Skenazy, who wrote of letting her 9-year-old ride the NYC subway alone, moved this term from raising chickens to raising kids free range |
| #27, aired 2024-05-10 | COMING TO AMERICA $200: On January 1, 1892 17-year-old Annie Moore of County Cork became the first person processed here Ellis Island |
| #9098, aired 2024-05-08 | NURSERY RHYME CHARACTERS $400: Her quest to find canine sustenance in a storage cabinet ends in vain Old Mother Hubbard |
| #9098, aired 2024-05-08 | QUARTERS $2000: New Orleans' French Quarter is called this in French, meaning "old square" Vieux Carré |
| #9096, aired 2024-05-06 | STATE MOTTOES $200: In the 1950s a 12-year-old boy went to Columbus & got this state's lawmakers to adopt "With God All Things Are Possible" Ohio |
| #24, aired 2024-05-06 | WORLD CITIES $400: The Old Tobacco Factory in this Andalusian city is now the seat of the city's oldest university Seville |
| #24, aired 2024-05-06 | EXCESSIVE CELEBRATION $400: Ooh, maybe that was a li'l too much gold--that's the ultra-premium class of this 86-year-old vodka brand Stoli |
| #24, aired 2024-05-06 | WE OUT HERE TRYNA MINE $1600: Old-time miners in Death Valley used a green-flame test to see if they had found this 5-letter salt, often used in cleaning products borax |
| #23, aired 2024-05-06 | SAME FIRST & LAST LETTER $800: Type of container meaning "2-handled" & often holding wine; the Acropolis museum has a 3,400-year-old one amphora |
| #9095, aired 2024-05-03 | ON CINEMA AT THE CINEMA $400: In this 2023 film old man Paul Giamatti & young man Dominic Sessa check out the 1970 Dustin Hoffman film "Little Big Man" The Holdovers |
| #9095, aired 2024-05-03 | CALLING "HR" $600: It's from the Greek for "love of humankind"; an old definition also meant the love of god for humanity philanthropy |
| #9095, aired 2024-05-03 | A NUMBER FROM 1 TO 10 $600: They were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1990 for hits including "Baby, I Need Your Loving" & "It's The Same Old Song" the Four Tops |
| #21, aired 2024-05-01 | AMERICAN FICTION $800: A Yeats poem gave Cormac McCarthy the title of this novel that follows a drug deal gone wrong No Country for Old Men |
| #9092, aired 2024-04-30 | BLANK VERSE $1200: By Jenny Joseph:
"When I am an old woman, I shall wear ____ with a red hat which doesn't go" purple |
| #9091, aired 2024-04-29 | COMMUNICATION $1000: Over 200 years old, this debating society brings lively discussion (hopefully with British manners) to Oxford University the (Oxford) Union |
| #9090, aired 2024-04-26 | JAPANESE CITIES $400: Home to the Atsuta Shrine, said to be almost 2,000 years old, Nagoya is found on this largest Japanese island Honshu |
| #9089, aired 2024-04-25 | ASSAULTS & BATTERIES $600: In 1856, South Carolina's Preston Brooks used a cane to assault Charles Sumner of Massachusetts in the Capitol's soon to be replaced Old this Chamber the Senate Chamber |
| #9089, aired 2024-04-25 | VOCABULARY $3,000 (Daily Double): Italian gives us this word for an outline of what could happen, also an old word for a screenplay a scenario |
| #9088, aired 2024-04-24 | THE RITE STUFF $200: Hebrew for "daughter of commandment" , this rite celebrates the transition of 12-year-old Jewish girls into adulthood a bat mitzvah |
| #9088, aired 2024-04-24 | FEEL "OLD" YET? $400: This temporary structure supports workers doing repairs on a building a scaffold |
| #9088, aired 2024-04-24 | FEEL "OLD" YET? $800: A circle enclosing the letters bf is a proofreaders' mark meaning to set text in this kind of type bold(face) |
| #9088, aired 2024-04-24 | CELEBRITY MEMOIRS $1000: Chapters in his "All About Me!" include "Carl Reiner and the 2000 Year Old Man" & "Kismet--Meeting Anne Bancroft" Mel Brooks |
| #9088, aired 2024-04-24 | FEEL "OLD" YET? $1200: It's the person who purchased an insurance contract the policyholder |
| #9088, aired 2024-04-24 | FEEL "OLD" YET? $1600: An exhaust kind of this car part funnels gases away from the cylinders a manifold |
| #9088, aired 2024-04-24 | FEEL "OLD" YET? $2000: Tips to do this from indeed.com include create a script, use a local number & keep the conversation personable cold calling |
| #9087, aired 2024-04-23 | WORDS & THEIR MEANINGS $1000: It once meant a light, fast ship but has come to mean one that's old & worn-out & possibly dismantled a hulk |
| #9087, aired 2024-04-23 | THE PICTURE OF SOMEONE NAMED GREY $1600: Like many of his bestsellers, 1921's "The Mysterious Rider" concerns cowboys & gunslingers in the Old West Zane Grey |
| #9084, aired 2024-04-18 | PATIENTS $1200: On July 6, 1885 Louis Pasteur took a bite out of this disease with a new vaccination for 9-year-old victim Joseph Meister rabies |
| #9082, aired 2024-04-16 | JUST FOR FUN "Z"s $400: As a 5-year-old hockey fan, Ariana Grande got hit twice with a puck & got to ride on one of these at a Florida Panthers game a Zamboni |
| #9082, aired 2024-04-16 | THE MOVIES $600: Steve Carell getting his chest waxed is comedy gold in this 2005 film The 40-Year-Old Virgin |
| #9082, aired 2024-04-16 | SIBLINGS IN POP CULTURE $2000: Sid & Marty Krofft produced '70s Saturday morning TV like "H.R. Pufnstuf" & this one where a family ends up in a time with dinosaurs Land of the Lost |
| #9081, aired 2024-04-15 | A LOVE FOR BOOKS $5,000 (Daily Double): Roddy Doyle's novel "Love" finds 2 old friends reconnecting in this world capital for a revealing evening of drinking Dublin |
| #9077, aired 2024-04-09 | LOOKS LIKE WE'RE IN BUSINESS $400: An 8-year-old girl was the namesake of this frozen dessert brand known for pound cake, cheesecake & more Sara Lee |
| #9076, aired 2024-04-08 | DAVID PLAYED $800: This 40-year-old slugger retired after a 2016 season in which he hit .315, with 38 home runs & 127 RBIs Ortiz |
| #9076, aired 2024-04-08 | CONSONANT-VOWEL x3 $800: Boze-dee-boze-dee-bop! Ziddy bop! It's just this old-time term for a male escort a gigolo |
| #9076, aired 2024-04-08 | ACHES & PAINS $800: Lord Byron rhymed this old-time word for feverish pain with "plague you" ague |
| #9076, aired 2024-04-08 | NOVEL TITLE CHARACTERS $11,200 (Daily Double): The first name of this title character of a Defoe novel is an old word for a prostitute Moll Flanders |
| #9074, aired 2024-04-04 | A CATEGORY MADE OF STEEL $800: Using an old steel saw in 1837, he created one of the 1st successful steel plows & his company was soon making 1,000 plows a year (John) Deere |
| #9074, aired 2024-04-04 | A BEACON IN THE NIGHT $2000: Old Baldy, protecting the entrance to this river since 1817, is North Carolina's oldest standing lighthouse the Cape Fear River |
| #9073, aired 2024-04-03 | SPRINKLE, SPRINKLE $400: This good "Old" seasoning that is often sprinkled on blue crab was first concocted in Maryland Old Bay |
| #9072, aired 2024-04-02 | FICTION $200: Agatha Christie set part of this 1937 mystery at the Old Cataract Hotel in Aswan Death on the Nile |
| #9072, aired 2024-04-02 | U.S. HISTORY $400: Also called the Old Pennsylvania State House, it's where John Hancock signed his John Hancock July 4, 1776 Independence Hall |
| #9070, aired 2024-03-29 | CLASSIC AD SLOGANS & JINGLES $1000: "Quick, Henry," this old-time insecticide that also means to move quickly from place to place Flit |
| #9069, aired 2024-03-28 | HIP-POP $1200: Kanye's 10-year-old daughter, she raps on her dad's 2024 track "Talking/Once Again" North West |
| #9068, aired 2024-03-27 | EQUINE WORDS $600: This equine term refers to an old veteran such as a politician or soldier who's served a long time & has a lot of experience a war horse |
| #9067, aired 2024-03-26 | MAMMALS $1000: This type of deer, often seen in British parks, gets its name from an old word for brownish yellow, not for lying unseeded fallow |
| #9065, aired 2024-03-22 | THE OLD TESTAMENT $400: According to the psalmist & Bob Marley, "by the rivers of" here we sat down & "wept, when we remembered Zion" Babylon |
| #9065, aired 2024-03-22 | THE LYRICAL STYLINGS OF JOHNNY GILBERT $600: "If you want my body, & you think I'm sexy, come on sugar, let me know, if you really need me, just reach out & touch me" Rod Stewart |
| #9065, aired 2024-03-22 | THE OLD TESTAMENT $800: This book says "They cast pur, that is, the lot"--hence the holiday of Purim Esther |
| #9065, aired 2024-03-22 | THE OLD TESTAMENT $1600: He's the mighty man of wealth depicted with Ruth, whom he marries Boaz |
| #9065, aired 2024-03-22 | THE OLD TESTAMENT $2000: This man really wanted Jacob to marry his older daughter, Leah, before his younger, Rachel Laban |
| #9065, aired 2024-03-22 | THE OLD TESTAMENT $12,000 (Daily Double): This name of the first minor prophet in book order often comes before "can you see" in punny sermon titles Hosea |
| #9063, aired 2024-03-20 | FIRST NAMES $400: This Spanish name for boys & old fishermen literally means "Saint James" Santiago |
| #9062, aired 2024-03-19 | SPEECHMAKING $400: In a 1951 speech General Douglas MacArthur shared that "Old soldiers never die, they just" do this fade away |
| #9062, aired 2024-03-19 | UNDERGROUND $1200: Seen here is an old elevated highway in Boston & the same area after the road was buried as part of the huge project called this the Big Dig |
| #9062, aired 2024-03-19 | UNDERGROUND $2000: You can go under this square, the heart of Old Seattle, to see bits of what the city looked like before a great fire in 1889 Pioneer Square |
| #9061, aired 2024-03-18 | INTRODUCTORY WORDS $1200: According to an old joke, it's what you call the person who graduates last in their medical school class Doctor |
| #9058, aired 2024-03-13 | VIRTUO-SO GOOD $800: On the album "Songs from the Labyrinth", Sting went strings, reviving centuries-old songs from John Dowland, master of this the lute |
| #9057, aired 2024-03-12 | FROM THE NEWSPAPERS $200: A subhead from 1929: "Istanbul, not found in recent atlases, has replaced" this old name Constantinople |
| #9054, aired 2024-03-07 | GITALONG, OLD PAINT $400: Her interest in Mexican folk art can be seen in a 1931 portrait of herself with her new husband, a fellow artist Frida Kahlo |
| #9054, aired 2024-03-07 | GITALONG, OLD PAINT $800: Rather than the Magi, Guido Reni depicted "The Adoration of" these rustic fellows the Shepherds |
| #9054, aired 2024-03-07 | BOOKS BY CHARACTERS $1000: Squealer &
Old Major Animal Farm |
| #9054, aired 2024-03-07 | GITALONG, OLD PAINT $1200: This painter who was totally for the birds gave us the oil-on-canvas "Washington Sea Eagle" around 1839 John James Audubon |
| #9054, aired 2024-03-07 | GITALONG, OLD PAINT $1600: Sunday, Sunday, Sunday! Seurat's "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte" helped pioneer this -ism using small, detached strokes Pointillism |
| #9054, aired 2024-03-07 | GITALONG, OLD PAINT $2000: As it's by this painter, you might call an 1876 view of the Mediterranean at l'Estaque a "C" scape Paul Cezanne |
| #9050, aired 2024-03-01 | DECADES $200: This old-timey nickname for the 2000-to-2009 years contains an old-timey word for zero the aughts (the aughties) |
| #9050, aired 2024-03-01 | CHEMISTRY CLASS $1200: This silvery-white element, atomic number 31, takes its name from an old name for France gallium |
| #9049, aired 2024-02-29 | DETECTIVE FICTION $200: She followed up "Sharp Objects" with "Dark Places", in which a secret society wants to solve a 25-year-old murder Gillian Flynn |
| #9048, aired 2024-02-28 | FEELING CHARITABLE $200: This charity traces its origins to a 7-year-old boy battling cancer who got to fulfill his dream of being a police officer Make-A-Wish |
| #9048, aired 2024-02-28 | LESSER-KNOWN SCIENCES $400: Here, a man holds this item fallen from the skies; call an expert in aerolithology, an old word for the study of them meteorites |
| #9047, aired 2024-02-27 | TELEVISION $400: 72-year-old widower Gerry Turner was the title figure of this recent reality competition on ABC the Golden Bachelor |
| #9046, aired 2024-02-26 | WORLD CITIES $1200: We are marching to this city where the Peace of Vereeniging was signed in 1902, ending the Boer War Pretoria |
| #9043, aired 2024-02-21 | SCIENCE QUIZ $600: Most snapping turtles are this type of equal-opportunity eater, happy to eat any old animal or vegetable for brunch an omnivore |
| #9043, aired 2024-02-21 | FUN & GAMES $1000: In this centuries-old game with a hyphenated name, you throw a knife at your opponent's feet; what could go wrong? mumblety-peg |
| #9042, aired 2024-02-20 | HANSEL CULTURE $600: In 1991 3-year-old Hansel won this race, the third leg of the Triple Crown the Belmont |
| #9039, aired 2024-02-15 | SAFE MODE $200: If you're a rich guy in an old movie, such as "Gilda", you keep your important papers in a wall safe behind this a painting |
| #9039, aired 2024-02-15 | THOSE WORDS PACKED SOMETHING TO EAT $1600: The English word for unagi is inside this old pirate torture where you got dragged by ropes under the ship keelhauling |
| #9038, aired 2024-02-14 | SNAKES IN A BOOK $1200: In the 4,000-year-old epic of him, this hero finds a plant that grants immortality, but a snake snatches it away & eats it Gilgamesh |
| #9038, aired 2024-02-14 | THOSE MEDDLING KID KINGS & QUEENS $1600: In 1543 she was crowned queen at 9 months old at a ceremony officiated by the Archbishop of St. Andrews Mary, Queen of Scots |
| #9038, aired 2024-02-14 | SNAKES IN A BOOK $1600: In Kipling's "The Jungle Book", this old python is a friend & savior to Mowgli Kaa |
| #9036, aired 2024-02-12 | SOME VERY MOVING WORDS $1000: Let's hurry around the city to find this same-named part of an old-fashioned skirt a bustle |
| #9036, aired 2024-02-12 | RHYMING SYNONYMS $1600: Sounds that are fit for a mouse or old bones squeak & creak |
| #9034, aired 2024-02-08 | THE MOURNING NEWS $200: This songwriter did not compose "God Bless Cuba", where his 20-year-old wife fell fatally ill on their honeymoon Irving Berlin |
| #9033, aired 2024-02-07 | LITERATURE BINGO $200: "N", 2005: Llewelyn Moss decides to take off with millions in drug money in this Cormac McCarthy tale; Llewelyn comes to regret that No Country for Old Men |
| #9033, aired 2024-02-07 | QUOTING THE OLD TESTAMENT $400: He proclaimed, "Joseph my son is yet alive: I will go and see him before I die" Jacob |
| #9033, aired 2024-02-07 | THE "ICK" $400: A 16-year-old wrote this 19th century waltz that shares its name with paired eating utensils "Chopsticks" |
| #9033, aired 2024-02-07 | QUOTING THE OLD TESTAMENT $800: The lines "A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace" come from this book Ecclesiastes |
| #9033, aired 2024-02-07 | QUOTING THE OLD TESTAMENT $1,200 (Daily Double): The second verse of this book begins, "Take ye the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel..." Numbers |
| #9033, aired 2024-02-07 | QUOTING THE OLD TESTAMENT $1200: "Take us the" these "the little" these "that spoil the vines: for our vines have tender grapes" foxes |
| #9033, aired 2024-02-07 | QUOTING THE OLD TESTAMENT $2000: From Judges 6, "The spirit of the Lord came upon" this man, "and he blew a trumpet" Gideon |
| #9032, aired 2024-02-06 | 2 BOOKS IN 1 $800: "A Farewell to the Sea" A Farewell to Arms & The Old Man and the Sea |
| #3, aired 2024-02-02 | NATO PHONETIC ALPHABET CODE WORDS $400: It's a Peruvian city, old bean Lima |
| #9028, aired 2024-01-31 | A SQUARE MEAL $200: The "original" flavor of this century-old woven cracker brand has 3 ingredients: whole grain wheat, canola oil & sea salt Triscuit |
| #9028, aired 2024-01-31 | TECH TALK $1200: Seen here, is a more than 2,000-year-old one of these, also what you use to take notes in Kobo eReaders & ebooks a stylus |
| #9027, aired 2024-01-30 | ENGINEERING $400: Charles Kao got a Nobel by applying to telephony the "old, old idea" of transmitting light through this material glass |
| #9027, aired 2024-01-30 | AROUND THE WORLD $2000: Up we go! There are more than a dozen old-school funiculars in Valparaíso on the coast of this South American country Chile |
| #9023, aired 2024-01-24 | ONE-TERM PRESIDENTS $2000: Not wanting to admit Texas as a slave state helped this man get the Kinderhook, though he also pandered to the pro-slavery vote Van Buren |
| #9022, aired 2024-01-23 | YOUNG PEOPLE'S NONFICTION $800: "You" do this is an old insult on the ball field; now it's the 4-word title of softball star Jennie Finch's book teaching self-belief Throw Like a Girl |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | BOX OFFICE SLEEPERS $1500: So she wouldn't hear Alan Arkin's profane tirades, 9-year-old Abigail Breslin wore headphones in several scenes in this 2006 hit Little Miss Sunshine |
| #9021, aired 2024-01-22 | WORD ORIGINS $1000: An Old English word for "sea" gave us this word for the creatures whose singing J. Alfred Prufrock has heard mermaids |
| #9019, aired 2024-01-18 | THE MISING LETER $800: Fennig (old coin) P (pfennig) |
| #9019, aired 2024-01-18 | WHAT IN THE WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS...? $1000: Deferred payments in a 2000 MLB contract had this 53-year-old "Jr." making $3.6 million as the Reds' 4th-highest paid player in 2023 Ken Griffey Jr. |
| #9019, aired 2024-01-18 | A WOMAN'S PLACE $1200: On Chartres Street in this U.S. city stands the Old Ursuline Convent, spared by a 1794 fire after ferocious prayer from the nuns New Orleans |
| #9018, aired 2024-01-17 | FRAILTY, THY NAME IS MAN $1200: Lying about in bed all day, this 96-year-old was "delicate & weak", but spry enough to glom on to a Wonka tour Grandpa Joe |
| #9017, aired 2024-01-16 | MAJOR "KEY" ALERT $400: In "His Girl Friday" Rosalind Russell defines journalism as "peeking through" these openings & "stealing pictures off old ladies" the keyholes |
| #25, aired 2024-01-16 | THE MOUNT RUSHMORE OF... $200: Will Ferrell films: "Old School", "Anchorman", "Step Brothers" & this comedy set in the Big Apple & the North Pole Elf |
| #9015, aired 2024-01-12 | BOOK TITLES $2000: According to an old spiritual, "no more water," this title of James Baldwin's 1963 bestseller about racial tensions in America The Fire Next Time |
| #1, aired 2024-01-12 | BREAK-UPS $600: Rob in this Nick Hornby novel deals with Laura's departure as with most things, by thinking a lot about old records High Fidelity |
| #1, aired 2024-01-12 | HEAR ME ROAR $2000: Alphabetically first in Old Testament books comes this prophet who says, "The Lord will roar from Zion" Amos |
| #9014, aired 2024-01-11 | OLD YORK, OLD YORK $200: York is "the Chocolate City" & in 1935 was the birthplace of this candy bar made up of breakoffable fingers a Kit Kat |
| #9014, aired 2024-01-11 | OLD YORK, OLD YORK $400: A York native, she began bonding with 007 as M in 1995's "GoldenEye" Judi Dench |
| #9014, aired 2024-01-11 | OLD YORK, OLD YORK $600: Also meaning a total mess, as in "left the place in" these, it's the name for an area of York with narrow, medieval streets shambles |
| #9014, aired 2024-01-11 | OLD YORK, OLD YORK $800: The Sixth, a York-based Roman legion, was big in the making of the wall begun in 122 A.D. on the orders of this emperor Hadrian |
| #9014, aired 2024-01-11 | OLD YORK, OLD YORK $1000: Born in York in 1570, he would have an annual day in November named for him, but he probably would not appreciate it Guy Fawkes |
| #9014, aired 2024-01-11 | FORMER NAMES OF CAPITAL CITIES $2000: Called Ciudad Trujillo from 1936 to 1961 in honor of its dictator, this city returned to its old name after his assassination Santo Domingo |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | NUMBER ONE HITS $800: In 2019, "Old Town Road" broke this Mariah Carey/Boyz II Men song's record for most weeks at #1 "One Sweet Day" |
| #9010, aired 2024-01-05 | NYMING -NYMS $600: A retronym is a new term created to show the difference between new & old forms, like paper book or this rhyming postal term snail mail |
| #9010, aired 2024-01-05 | THIS & THAT $600: Look at the name MOhandas DEwese for the stage name of this artist who slayed Busy Bee in an early rap battle Kool Moe Dee |
| #9010, aired 2024-01-05 | ALLITERATION $1600: Old West mom, did your little one burn himself? Administer this stuff made from the fat of the gander goose grease |
| #9008, aired 2024-01-03 | ____ & ____ BUSINESS $600: This company's dizzying array of brands includes Old Spice, Pepto Bismol, Gillette & Cascade Procter & Gamble |
| #9008, aired 2024-01-03 | 11-LETTER WORDS $800: Keep up! The son of your brother's child is this relationship to you, old-timer great nephew (grandnephew) |
| #9007, aired 2024-01-02 | AT THE MUSEUM $600: The former Radium Institute is now a Paris museum where you can see her old chemistry lab, which was decontaminated in 1981 Marie Curie |
| #23, aired 2024-01-02 | PERSONAL FINANCE $300: This form of income is officially called "Old-Age, Survivors, & Disability Insurance"; most people just call it this Social Security |
| #23, aired 2024-01-02 | ELEMENTARY POP CULTURE $500: This toxic element is paired with "Old Lace" in the title of a 1944 movie starring Cary Grant arsenic |
| #9005, aired 2023-12-29 | GLAD-JECTIVES $400: "'Twas the Night Before Christmas" described St. Nicholas as "a right" this "old elf" jolly |
| #9004, aired 2023-12-28 | HEY, WHERE'S THAT? $1000: In this Long Island locale: Jay Gatsby's mansion, old sport West Egg |
| #9004, aired 2023-12-28 | MEASUREMENT $1200: I say, old chap, are you really leaving the fish & chips shop? I hope you gave a fortnight's notice, this long two weeks |
| #9003, aired 2023-12-27 | POETRY ABOUT PROSE $800: Doubles! they're doubles! / But they're thought quite insane / A royal mistake / Time to catch an old Twain The Prince and the Pauper |
| #9003, aired 2023-12-27 | BAYS $800: Chesapeake Bay is an estuary that's home to this "colorful" crustacean that's best eaten on the bay with bae & with some Old Bay a blue crab |
| #9003, aired 2023-12-27 | PRESIDENTS NOT PRESIDENTING $1000: A big cockfight enthusiast, this man was known to yell "Twenty dollars on my Bernadotte!" outside the Old Nashville Inn Andrew Jackson |
| #9002, aired 2023-12-26 | TIMES: NEW ROMAN $1000: In 2023, "P" was for the 2,000-year-old palazzo reopened to the public after 50 years of restoration, as well as this Roman hill it's on the Palatine |
| #9002, aired 2023-12-26 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $1000: In "Ghost Boys" the ghost of 12-year-old Jerome meets that of this real teen whose 1955 murder helped launch the civil rights movement (Emmett) Till |
| #9001, aired 2023-12-25 | HOBBIES $2,000 (Daily Double): It's a period in British history, or a hobby involving refurbishing old cars the Restoration |
| #9000, aired 2023-12-22 | CONTEMPORARIES $400: When Isaac Newton died in 1727, this 21-year-old Philadelphia clerk was still a few years away from taking up science Franklin |
| #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 | BOOK TOCK $800: Published in 1930, "The Secret of the Old Clock" was the first mystery this teen detective solved Nancy Drew |
| #8997, aired 2023-12-19 | CAUTIONARY RHYMES $200: An old adage tells us, "Red sky at night, sailors' delight. Red sky at morning, sailors take" this warning |
| #8992, aired 2023-12-12 | HAVE YOU 8? $800: It's a common knot or an old compulsory move for skaters a figure 8 |
| #8992, aired 2023-12-12 | WORDS OF PEACE $1200: Although they meant it in another sense, Three Dog Night sang of "an old fashioned love song comin' down in three-part" this harmony |
| #8989, aired 2023-12-07 | A DONUT SHOP DICTIONARY $800: No longer in vogue old-fashioned |
| #8988, aired 2023-12-06 | OUT OF CON TEXT $400: By Stephen King: "The inmates made jokes about the chair... they called it Old Sparky, or the Big Juicy" The Green Mile |
| #8988, aired 2023-12-06 | CLASSIC COMIC STRIPS $1200: It followed the imaginative adventures of a 6-year-old boy & his trusty toy tiger Calvin and Hobbes |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | PIZZA AT THE MOVIES $1000: In "Home Alone", Kevin pays the pizza delivery guy & then plays audio of an old gangster delivering this memorable line "Keep the change, ya filthy animal" |
| #8987, aired 2023-12-05 | FEEDBACK: SANDWICH $1000: I'm glad we've gone from paper to wafers to cookies as the "bread" for this "sandwich"; I still like the old name, hokey pokey an ice cream sandwich |
| #8987, aired 2023-12-05 | FROM DAWN 'TIL DUSK $1600: A sheriff in the Old West might do this to someone, making him part of law enforcement deputize |
| #8985, aired 2023-12-01 | LANDMARKS FOR SALE $600: 4,500 years old, its royal headdress of limestone makes it the finest in noseless architecture! the Sphinx |
| #21, aired 2023-11-29 | FILMS TURNING THE BIG FOUR-OH $100: Al Pacino permanently damaged his nasal passages from snorting so much fake cocaine in this crime drama Scarface |
| #8982, aired 2023-11-28 | FLOWER POWER $800: I can't recall the last time that I saw one of these hyphenated perennials, from the Old French "ne m'oubliez mie" a forget-me-not |
| #8981, aired 2023-11-27 | COUNTRY MUSIC HITS $800: The Judds wanted him to "take me back to yesterday" & "tell me 'bout the good old days" Grandpa |
| #8980, aired 2023-11-24 | IT'S THE COCKATIEL HOUR $600: Like dogs, cockatiels like to nibble on this untanned leather, also the title of an old TV Western rawhide |
| #8979, aired 2023-11-23 | PUT ME IN $400: You can't use plain old rice if you're going to make sushi; it's got to be treated with me, the "rice" type of this vinegar |
| #8979, aired 2023-11-23 | BIBLICAL ZOO $400: The Old Testament talks about the jungle on the Jordan's banks & this animal roaring within a lion |
| #8979, aired 2023-11-23 | NORDIC LITERATURE $1200: Sweden is a grim place in this first book of the "Millennium" series in which Lisbeth & Mikael solve a 40-year-old crime The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo |
| #8977, aired 2023-11-21 | ALL ABOUT ACTING $200: An old superstition says, "bad" this last full run-through in costume, "good show" dress rehearsal |
| #8975, aired 2023-11-17 | HETERONYMS $800: An undercoat of paint, or an old-time school book primer & primer |
| #8975, aired 2023-11-17 | NAME THE JAMES $800: In the 1820s, this author introduced his character Leatherstocking as an old man, depicting his youth in later novels James Fenimore Cooper |
| #8975, aired 2023-11-17 | PALINDROMIC YEARS $1200: Pat Garrett makes sure Billy the Kid will never be Billy the old man 1881 |
| #8974, aired 2023-11-16 | BRIDGE ON THE RIVER $800: Old Vicksburg Bridge the Mississippi |
| #8974, aired 2023-11-16 | WHAT THE DICKENS! $800: Nell Trent's grandfather runs the title establishment at the opening of this novel The Old Curiosity Shop |
| #8973, aired 2023-11-15 | LET'S TAKE A BATH $200: The waiting room of New York City's old Penn Station was inspired by the Baths of Caracalla, built in the 3rd century in this city Rome |
| #8971, aired 2023-11-13 | OLD NAMES FOR MEDICAL CONDITIONS $200: This older name for tuberculosis referred to the disease's wasting away of the body consumption |
| #8971, aired 2023-11-13 | OLD NAMES FOR MEDICAL CONDITIONS $400: This infectious illness has long been known as the "kissing disease" mononucleosis |
| #8971, aired 2023-11-13 | OLD NAMES FOR MEDICAL CONDITIONS $600: In "Julius Caesar", Shakespeare mentions "falling sickness", this disorder characterized by seizures epilepsy |
| #8971, aired 2023-11-13 | OLD NAMES FOR MEDICAL CONDITIONS $800: An old name for influenza wasn't grab or clutch but this, from French for "seize" the grippe |
| #8971, aired 2023-11-13 | OLD NAMES FOR MEDICAL CONDITIONS $1000: Pens down, scrivener's palsy is an old term for this, also known as graphospasm writer's cramp |
| #8970, aired 2023-11-10 | GOLF $800: A rare old gold coin, or an even rarer 3 under par on a single hole a double eagle |
| #8969, aired 2023-11-09 | ALTERED STATES $200: OLD FAIR Florida |
| #8969, aired 2023-11-09 | FAMOUS FORMER TEACHERS $200: This "Mad Men" star taught drama at his old high school Jon Hamm |
| #8969, aired 2023-11-09 | "LOVE" $1600: It's an old name for the tomato a love apple |
| #8968, aired 2023-11-08 | ON THE OLD MAP $200: Called New Towne when Harvard College was established, the city soon got this name Cambridge |
| #8968, aired 2023-11-08 | ON THE OLD MAP $400: 1990 was the end for this country whose districts included Neubrandenburg, Leipzig & Karl-Marx-Stadt East Germany |
| #8968, aired 2023-11-08 | ON THE OLD MAP $600: Separate states until 1964, Tanganyika & Zanzibar combined to form this country Tanzania |
| #8968, aired 2023-11-08 | ON THE OLD MAP $800: Here is a map of this former country in 1945; now the region today Czechoslovakia |
| #8968, aired 2023-11-08 | ON THE OLD MAP $1000: Since 1964 the former Northern Rhodesia has been this, now second from the end alphabetically Zambia |
| #8967, aired 2023-11-07 | TAXES $600: In January 2012, this GOP candidate said he was "proud of the fact I pay a lot of taxes" Mitt Romney |
| #8966, aired 2023-11-06 | POTPOURRI $1200: This word meaning to raise anchor has nothing to do with how heavy it is; it's from old Saxon for to lift or carry weigh |
| #8965, aired 2023-11-03 | ART HEISTS $2000: 14 years after they were stolen, 7 of her paintings, including "The Old Inn", turned up at a Bennington, Vermont museum Grandma Moses |
| #8964, aired 2023-11-02 | FICTION-ALE $400: You'll find Ent-draughts, served by an old stick, in this trilogy The Lord of the Rings |
| #8964, aired 2023-11-02 | WOOD $600: Pirates shiver when woodsmen yell this word from the Old English for "trees for building" timber |
| #8964, aired 2023-11-02 | MISNOMERS $800: This old corset-stiffening substance is actually baleen whalebone |
| #19, aired 2023-11-01 | A YEAR THAT ENDS IN ZERO $600: Nat King Cole hits No. 1 with "Mona Lisa",
NATO turns one year old 1950 |
| #8962, aired 2023-10-31 | SHOW ME THE MONKEY $400: Old World monkeys like our friend the pottos don't have prehensile these; many New World monkeys do prehensile tails |
| #8962, aired 2023-10-31 | SOURCE OF THE LATE NIGHT BIT $800: "Will It Float?" David Letterman |
| #8960, aired 2023-10-27 | THE MAORI $1000: In this 2002 movie starring Keisha Castle-Hughes, a 12-year-old girl wants to be chief of her Maori tribe; granddad says no Whale Rider |
| #8958, aired 2023-10-25 | ON THE "ROAD" AGAIN $600: In this hit Lil Nas X mentions his "cowboy hat from Gucci" "Old Town Road" |
| #18, aired 2023-10-25 | BY THE NUMBERS $200: Dialing it for directory assistance may be old news, but as slang for "information", this number is still in service 411 |
| #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 | LIBRARIES $600: The initialism of the New York public library is NYPL; as an acronym, some enjoy pronouncing it like this body part nipple |
| #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 | SNEAKER BRANDS $1000: Sk8-Hi &
Old Skool Vans |
| #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 | NOVEL IDEAS $1000: A 13-year-old boy is drawn into the underworld of art in "The Goldfinch" by this author Donna Tartt |
| #8956, aired 2023-10-23 | ALWAYS SAY NEVER $200: Created by Bill Watterson, this comic strip kid says of class bully Moe, "Never argue with a 6-year-old who shaves" Calvin |
| #8956, aired 2023-10-23 | THE REALLY OLD COLLEGE TRY $200: In 1638 the first class was in at this university, which consisted of 1 master in a single frame house & a college "yahd" Harvard |
| #8956, aired 2023-10-23 | ALWAYS SAY NEVER $400: Line that precedes "they simply fade away" in a British army song old soldiers never die |
| #8956, aired 2023-10-23 | THE REALLY OLD COLLEGE TRY $400: This university was formed around 1209 by people fleeing "town & gown" tensions in Oxford Cambridge University |
| #8956, aired 2023-10-23 | THE REALLY OLD COLLEGE TRY $600: Around 1257 the apparently unbashful theologian Robert de Sorbon founded the Sorbonne at the Univ. of this Paris |
| #8956, aired 2023-10-23 | JUST KIDDING $800: The irreplaceable Robin Williams said, "To a 3-year-old" this guy "is a 6-foot rat!" Mickey Mouse |
| #8956, aired 2023-10-23 | THE REALLY OLD COLLEGE TRY $800: Franz Joseph inaugurated the new main building of the university of this capital, the oldest university in the German-speaking world the University of Vienna |
| #8956, aired 2023-10-23 | THE REALLY OLD COLLEGE TRY $1000: I come to wive it wealthily at the university of this, founded in 1222 by ex-University of Bologna students Padua |
| #8956, aired 2023-10-23 | NO, I DON'T NEED A DOCTOR $2000: I don't personally have a gnarled extremity--this feature is on my old-fashioned bathtub a claw foot |
| #8955, aired 2023-10-20 | JUSTIN TIME $400: 2009's "My World" was the debut EP from this then 15-year-old (Justin) Bieber |
| #8955, aired 2023-10-20 | AMY POEHLER IS AWESOME $2000: She's got this old-fashioned word for spirited determination; it's also the title of a 2021 Amy Poehler film moxie |
| #8954, aired 2023-10-19 | "UNK" IN THE TRUNK $800: This term for a dilapidated old auto like my '52 Chrysler refers to the sound it makes a clunker |
| #8953, aired 2023-10-18 | "SMOKE" $400: In song, the 5 words that precede "all covered with snow" On top of Old Smokey |
| #8953, aired 2023-10-18 | OOH, LOOK, SHINY THINGS! $400: Referring to its rapid movement & shiny surface, quicksilver is an old name for this liquid metal mercury |
| #17, aired 2023-10-18 | "POP" QUIZ, HOTSHOT $500: In 1953, 10-year-old Gayla Peevey sang about wanting this large animal for Christmas a hippopotamus |
| #17, aired 2023-10-18 | MIDDLE "MAN" $800: Published annually, this type of reference book is full of facts & information, like the "World" or "Old Farmer's" one an almanac |
| #17, aired 2023-10-18 | NONAGENARIANS $11,400 (Daily Double): Making comedy fans wait over 40 years for a sequel, this 97-year-old released "History of the World, Part II" in 2023 Mel Brooks |
| #8951, aired 2023-10-16 | THE LITERARY CHARACTER WHO SAID... $1200: "Then came the war, old sport. It was a great relief, & I tried very hard to die, but I seemed to bear an enchanted life" Jay Gatsby |
| #8949, aired 2023-10-12 | LET'S PLAY SPORTSBALL $1000: In 1764 this storied Scottish golf club trimmed its Old Course from 22 holes to 18, setting a new standard St. Andrews |
| #8948, aired 2023-10-11 | TAKE MY "Y", PLEASE! $1000: Take this role in "Fiddler on the Roof"; I wanted to play it, but Bea Arthur's old Broadway costume doesn't fit me Yenta |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | FOR SWEATER OR WORSE $200: Do the players wear "jerseys" or "sweaters"? it's an age-old debate among fans of this sport, known for its fights hockey |
| #8947, aired 2023-10-10 | COMPOSERS & THEIR KIN $600: At the age of 3 in Salzburg, he began to mimic the keyboard playing of his 7-year-old sister Nannerl Mozart |
| #8945, aired 2023-10-06 | THE CRIMEAN WAR $400: Historian Yakup Bektas called the war the "most illustrated war to date", mentioning this new tech less than 30 years old photography |
| #8941, aired 2023-10-02 | EGYPTIAN MYTHOLOGY $1600: In Old Egypt, this cross shaped like a "T" with a loop at the top was a symbol of life an ankh |
| #8937, aired 2023-09-26 | WHO "AR" THEY? $400: In 2006 audio experts said they found the missing "a" in a 37-year-old statement by this man Armstrong |
| #8935, aired 2023-09-22 | "C" IN LITERATURE $400: Right before the epilogue to this novel, Raskolnikov confesses, "It was I killed the old pawnbroker woman and her sister" Crime and Punishment |
| #8934, aired 2023-09-21 | JOHNNY GILBERT GOES COUNTRY $400: "...Found new thread for my old spool, just because I'm blonde, don't think I'm dumb, 'cause this dumb blonde ain't nobody's fool" Dolly Parton |
| #8934, aired 2023-09-21 | WORLD SOCCER $800: Juventus, a top pro team in this country, is affectionately known as "The Old Lady" Italy |
| #8934, aired 2023-09-21 | PAST HISTORY $1600: "Up until this time" is the meaning of this old-timey 8-letter word hitherto |
| #8930, aired 2023-09-15 | THIRST $400: Gatorade bills itself as a thirst this, from the Old English for "extinguish" a quencher |
| #8930, aired 2023-09-15 | IN YOUR ELEMENT $400: Traces of Pb, this element, are found in everyday substances like old house paint, where they can be dangerous lead |
| #8930, aired 2023-09-15 | CURRENCY $2000: Curacao uses the Netherlands Antillean this, the name of the old Dutch currency a guilder |
| #8929, aired 2023-09-14 | LET'S "SEE" $600: "See" is right in the middle of this old-timey word meaning to beg or implore beseech |
| #8927, aired 2023-09-12 | THAT'S T-B-D $600: A Russian thistle, bouncing down an Old West street in the wind a tumbleweed |
| #8927, aired 2023-09-12 | QUITE A FOX $800: General Cornwallis called this commander of the Continental Army "The Old Fox" George Washington |
| #8926, aired 2023-09-11 | SOUNDS LIKE FOOD $400: Related to Old Norse "hvina", it's a complaining cry or sound a whine |
| #8925, aired 2023-07-28 | IT GETS OLD $200: The ship Old Ironsides has bolts & sheathing made by this patriot & metalworker Paul Revere |
| #8925, aired 2023-07-28 | IT GETS OLD $400: In the classic children's song, she "ain't what she used to be, many long years ago" the old gray mare |
| #8925, aired 2023-07-28 | IT GETS OLD $600: Buchanan, in this state, is a beautiful storybook town per Matthew Ramsay of the band Old Dominion who grew up there Virginia |
| #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 |
| #8925, aired 2023-07-28 | IT GETS OLD $1000: An unfulfilled claimant to the British throne, in the 18th century James Edward Stuart was known as the "Old" one of these the Old Pretender |
| #8924, aired 2023-07-27 | BOOKS OF THE OLD TESTAMENT $200: It introduces the 10 plagues & the 10 Commandments Exodus |
| #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 | BOOKS OF THE OLD TESTAMENT $600: The book of this woman tells the story of a Moabite widow who was an ancestor of King David Ruth |
| #8924, aired 2023-07-27 | BOOKS OF THE OLD TESTAMENT $800: This "Song" has been viewed as an allegory of God's love for his chosen people & as simply some steamy love poetry Song of Solomon |
| #8924, aired 2023-07-27 | BOOKS OF THE OLD TESTAMENT $1000: The Hebrew name of this prophet with his own book is Yeshayahu, "God is salvation" Isaiah |
| #8922, aired 2023-07-25 | SOMETHING'S ROTTEN $200: The first film to get a score on this now 25-year-old website was "Star Trek: Insurrection" back in 1998 Rotten Tomatoes |
| #8922, aired 2023-07-25 | SOMETHING'S ROTTEN $1000: After the Sex Pistols, Johnny Rotten, now John Lydon, fronted this band, PiL for short Public Image Ltd |
| #8920, aired 2023-07-21 | OLD HOLLYWOOD SCRIBES $400: Dorothy Parker contributed to the script for "Saboteur", a 1942 thriller by this director Alfred Hitchcock |
| #8920, aired 2023-07-21 | OLD HOLLYWOOD SCRIBES $800: Pulp writer Jim Thompson helped write the script for "The Killing", a heist movie by this director of "The Shining" Kubrick |
| #8920, aired 2023-07-21 | TRACK & FIELD $800: At the 2020 Olympics, this 35-year-old mom became the most decorated U.S. track & field athlete ever Felix |
| #8920, aired 2023-07-21 | SHAKESPEARE $1000: An arras is a curtain or wall hanging; in "Hamlet", this old man hides behind one & is stabbed through it Polonius |
| #8920, aired 2023-07-21 | INTERNALLY YOURS $1,200 (Daily Double): It sounds like an old name for Troy, but it's the lowest section of the small intestine where certain vitamins salts are absorbed ileum |
| #8920, aired 2023-07-21 | OLD HOLLYWOOD SCRIBES $1200: This author of "The Year of Magical Thinking" helped write the 1976 version of "A Star Is Born" (Joan) Didion |
| #8920, aired 2023-07-21 | OLD HOLLYWOOD SCRIBES $1600: Who killed the chauffeur in this film with Bogie as Philip Marlowe? The screenwriters & Raymond Chandler didn't know either The Big Sleep |
| #8920, aired 2023-07-21 | OLD HOLLYWOOD SCRIBES $2000: It's thought that Harry Lime from Graham Greene's "The Third Man" was based on this British spy & Soviet double agent Kim Philby |
| #8919, aired 2023-07-20 | YOU'VE GOT SOME BAGGAGE $200: The second paragraph of this novel mentions a sea-chest belonging to the old sailor, Billy Bones Treasure Island |
| #8918, aired 2023-07-19 | FASHION OLD & NEW $200: A bright color palette that was big in the '80s & has made a comeback on the festival scene is called this, like a noble gas neon |
| #8918, aired 2023-07-19 | FASHION OLD & NEW $400: Novio in Spanish, this significant other is the name of a style of loose-fitting jeans for women boyfriend |
| #8918, aired 2023-07-19 | FASHION OLD & NEW $600: This one-piece garment that is named for its original use by parachuters is now high fashion a jumpsuit |
| #8918, aired 2023-07-19 | FASHION OLD & NEW $800: A 2021 article title: "Why Do Men Wear" these knit caps "That Don't Cover Their Ears?" Beanies |
| #8918, aired 2023-07-19 | FASHION OLD & NEW $1000: A 1914 ad said this piece of outerwear was "made of a hard khaki... lined sheepskin" & "absolutely waterproof" a trench coat |
| #8917, aired 2023-07-18 | 3-WORD RESPONSES $1600: The Natl. Highway Traffic Safety Admin.'s family of these includes 50th percentile adult male & 6-year-old weighted child crash test dummy |
| #8916, aired 2023-07-17 | WORLD ROYALTY $800: Mad King Ludwig of this old German kingdom got his nickname for stunts like building Neuschwanstein Castle Bavaria |
| #8915, aired 2023-07-14 | WHO'S WHO IN THE OLD TESTAMENT $400: This long-liver was the grandfather of Noah Methuselah |
| #8915, aired 2023-07-14 | A TOUCH OF GREY $800: Known for Old West novels, Zane Grey died in 1939, the year he published an "Epic of a Single Strand of Wire" about this company Western Union |
| #8915, aired 2023-07-14 | WHO'S WHO IN THE OLD TESTAMENT $800: For helping 2 of Joshua's spies, Rahab & her family were spared when Joshua captured this city Jericho |
| #8915, aired 2023-07-14 | FAMILIES IN U.S. HISTORY $1000: This old Boston family produced poet Robert & Harvard president A. Lawrence Lowell |
| #8915, aired 2023-07-14 | WHO'S WHO IN THE OLD TESTAMENT $1200: Following this king's death, David laments, "The beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places: how are the mighty fallen!" Saul |
| #8915, aired 2023-07-14 | WHO'S WHO IN THE OLD TESTAMENT $2000: When Sarah thought she was unable to give Abraham children, she gave him this handmaid, who bore Ishmael Hagar |
| #8915, aired 2023-07-14 | WHO'S WHO IN THE OLD TESTAMENT $5,000 (Daily Double): Armed with trumpets & torches inside jars or pitchers, he led an army of 300 in victory over the Midianites Gideon |
| #8912, aired 2023-07-11 | 2 BOOKS IN ONE $1600: "All the Pretty Old Men" All the Pretty Horses & No Country for Old Men |
| #8910, aired 2023-07-07 | EAGLES $200: On Dec. 15, 1968 the Phila. Eagles were 2-11 as fans booed & hurled snowballs at a teen picked from the stands to play this jolly old soul Santa Claus |
| #8910, aired 2023-07-07 | COUNTRY SINGERS IN COUNTRY SONGS $400: "Yeah, I kinda need to wash my truck but hell, I kinda don't care. I think old Alan Jackson said it best: It's" this:00 "somewhere" 5:00 |
| #8910, aired 2023-07-07 | TAKE IT "E-Z" $400: For "Pulp Fiction", Quentin Tarantino actually rewrote the Bible for Jules Winnfield's quotation of this Old Testament book Ezekiel |
| #8910, aired 2023-07-07 | A BRIDGE TOO FAR $1200: A bridge over 200 years old across a canyon in Málaga, Spain is called this, reminiscent of one in Paris that's over 400 years old New Bridge (Puente Nuevo) |
| #8909, aired 2023-07-06 | ROAD $2,600 (Daily Double): Lively Las Ramblas is a main street in this city & links Plaça de Catalunya to the city's Old Harbor Barcelona |
| #8908, aired 2023-07-05 | OPPOSITES $200: As seen on Old West posters, rewards were offered for the bad guys captured one of these 2 ways dead or alive |
| #8905, aired 2023-06-30 | HISTORIC GREATS $800: Part of this 11-letter name of the king of the Franks means "great" in Old French Charlemagne |
| #8902, aired 2023-06-27 | WORD ORIGINS $2000: This synonym for "obsolete" is from Latin for literally "over one year old" superannuated |
| #8897, aired 2023-06-20 | NONPROFITS $800: Providing aid to veterans & their families, Soldiers' Angels was founded by a relative of this "Old Blood & Guts" general Patton |
| #8897, aired 2023-06-20 | LET'S STICK TOGETHER $2000: Put on this old "L.P.", a thick white adhesive that, as you might guess, can be used for bookbinding library paste |
| #8896, aired 2023-06-19 | IT'S A SPECIAL DAY $600: This U.S. territory celebrates Flag Day on April 17, the day in 1900 that Old Glory was raised in Fagatogo on Tutuila Island American Samoa |
| #8894, aired 2023-06-15 | THE CZAR $400: A true great, in 1721 he dumped "czar" for "emperor of all Russia" to help with primacy over the church but the old title stuck Peter the Great |
| #8891, aired 2023-06-12 | NARRATOR OF THE NOVEL $200: This novel:
16-year-old Hazel Grace Lancaster, who has cancer The Fault in Our Stars |
| #8891, aired 2023-06-12 | NARRATOR OF THE NOVEL $1000: This downer of a novel:
14-year-old Susie Salmon, from heaven, because she's been murdered The Lovely Bones |
| #8891, aired 2023-06-12 | THE WAR OF 1812 $1200: This U.S. ship, later nicknamed Old Ironsides, defeated the HMS Guerriere in quick fashion August 19, 1812 the Constitution |
| #8890, aired 2023-06-09 | PETS ON FILM $200: Miss Gulch takes away this cairn terrier early on in a classic film; the heroine calls her a "wicked old witch" Toto |
| #8889, aired 2023-06-08 | A "MID" CATEGORY $1,600 (Daily Double): Karl Marx wrote, "Force is the" this "of every old society pregnant with a new one" midwife |
| #8888, aired 2023-06-07 | INTO THE WOODS $600: Old tree cutting practices are being used in Lower Woods Reserve in the UK to bring back its population of these after-dark songbirds nightingales |
| #8888, aired 2023-06-07 | A NOVEL CHARACTER BREAKDOWN $1600: An (Oliver) twisted old man; manager of the Artful Dodger; it's all in the execution Fagin |
| #8887, aired 2023-06-06 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: At the start of this Hemingway book, Santiago hasn't caught a fish in a long time; it ends with his fish being eaten by sharks The Old Man and the Sea |
| #8887, aired 2023-06-06 | IT COMES IN "WAVE"s $1200: This old term for what's now called a tsunami just means fluctuation caused by the gravity of the Sun & Moon a tidal wave |
| #8880, aired 2023-05-26 | RESEARCH $200: Owned by ancestry.com, this.com allows you to dig up old defunct dailies like the Daily Tombstone newspapers.com |
| #8880, aired 2023-05-26 | RESEARCH $600: Head down to the local library to look at old documents in this format with a name that sounds like a tiny movie microfilm |
| #8879, aired 2023-05-25 | MUSIC OF THE MONTH $1600: Fashioned from an Old English nursery rhyme, Simon & Garfunkel's "April Come She Will" was featured in this 1967 film The Graduate |
| #19, aired 2023-05-24 | SOME HARD WORDS $1000: Old French for "diamond", it can mean a diamond or other object of unyielding firmness adamant |
| #18, aired 2023-05-23 | IT'S THE SILENT CONSONANT $800: In an old word for a compound produced in food by bacteria; it used to be found before "poisoning" P (ptomaine) |
| #18, aired 2023-05-23 | FICTIONAL CASTLES $800: In this 17th century work, Great-Heart & Old Honest rescue Mr. Despondency & Much-Afraid, prisoners in Doubting Castle Pilgrim's Progress |
| #17, aired 2023-05-23 | OH, WE HAVE '80s POP CULTURE REFERENCES $600: As Roger Murtaugh in this 1987 film, Danny Glover got a catchphrase--"I'm too old for this (stuff)" (but Danny didn't say "stuff") Lethal Weapon |
| #8876, aired 2023-05-22 | BOOK-POURRI $800: An almost 12-year-old girl, last name Simon, is mentioned in the title of this classic by Judy Blume Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret |
| #8876, aired 2023-05-22 | RICE PUDDING $1600: "A lot of shoes, a lot of rice" in this old song about a wedding that doesn't end in happily ever after "Makin' Whoopee" |
| #8876, aired 2023-05-22 | A LOSS FOR WORDS $1600: This 11-letter word for a period of mourning after a loss comes from an old word for "steal" bereavement |
| #8876, aired 2023-05-22 | WALKING IN A REDWOOD FOREST $2,000 (Daily Double): A national monument in Marin County known for old growth redwoods is named after this conservationist Muir |
| #8876, aired 2023-05-22 | POP CULTURE 2003 $2,200 (Daily Double): In this film, the emperor of Japan wants Algren (Tom Cruise) to modernize his army but Algren deeply respects the old ways The Last Samurai |
| #8874, aired 2023-05-18 | ON A VISIT TO THE STATE CAPITAL $200: Copley Square & the Old North Church Boston |
| #8872, aired 2023-05-16 | WOMEN WORLD LEADERS $2000: In 2023 this 42-year-old prime minister of New Zealand made the surprise announcement she's leaving the job Ardern |
| #12, aired 2023-05-16 | COMMUNICATION $600: MLB's Matt Williams has moved just a few feet from his old playing position to this job that involves relaying signals to players third base coach |
| #10, aired 2023-05-15 | 3-WORD PLACE NAMES $1600: This spot northwest of Philly got its name from a tavern named for Frederick II King of Prussia |
| #9, aired 2023-05-15 | CHESS, MASTERS $400: (Jennifer Shahade delivers the clue.) In what became known as the "game of the century", in 1956 this then-little-known 13-year-old announced his presence with a spectacular queen sacrifice to defeat one of America's top masters (Bobby) Fischer |
| #8, aired 2023-05-12 | GAMES, OLD & NEW $400: Named for a historic trek, there's now an online version of this game from 1971 in which death from typhoid & snakebite are commonplace Oregon Trail |
| #8, aired 2023-05-12 | GAMES, OLD & NEW $800: The 1981 edition of Trivial Pursuit has this name that you may be familiar with from binomial nomenclature Genus (Edition) |
| #8, aired 2023-05-12 | GAMES, OLD & NEW $1200: Around 1870 the Tenth Hussars faced the Ninth Lancers in this game that's been around for 2,000 years or so polo |
| #8, aired 2023-05-12 | GAMES, OLD & NEW $1600: This gaming company that had a splashy IPO in 2021 gets "virtual explorers" to create worlds by themselves or with friends Roblox |
| #8, aired 2023-05-12 | GAMES, OLD & NEW $2000: Aperture Science Laboratories is the setting of this classic that's among Steam's top-ranked games Portal |
| #7, aired 2023-05-12 | REVOLT-ING HISTORY $4,400 (Daily Double): The Cranberries marked the date of Ireland's Easter Rising when they sang, "It's the same old theme since" this year 1916 |
| #6, aired 2023-05-10 | PITCHERS HAVE BIG YEARS $400: In 1973 Nolan Ryan struck out 383 batters, breaking this lefty's 8-year-old record by one Koufax |
| #6, aired 2023-05-10 | LET'S GET VERTICAL $1000: This town in southwestern Colorado has a decades-old film festival & a ski area with a 4,000-foot vertical Telluride |
| #5, aired 2023-05-10 | DEALING WITH THE GOVERNMENT $800: NYC's Eric Adams said, "I don't care what anyone says, there are ghosts in there", there being this 224-year-old mayoral residence Gracie Mansion |
| #5, aired 2023-05-10 | TOUGH MOVIE STUFF $1600: James Dean starred in only 3 films--these 3 Rebel Without a Cause, Giant & East of Eden |
| #8867, aired 2023-05-09 | BURT BACHARACH $400: This 1969 Western about a pair of Old West outlaws won Burt 2 Oscars Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid |
| #3, aired 2023-05-09 | PLAY: THE GAME $400: Travel to Elsinore; glean what afflicts old pal Hamlet; try to find where he put Polonius; get betrayed; win 1968 Tony Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead |
| #2, aired 2023-05-08 | COMIN' TO YOUR CITY $400: Catch a Red Devils game at Old Trafford when visiting this city Manchester |
| #2, aired 2023-05-08 | SING YOU A COUNTRY SONG $600: State the name of this band who did "Mountain Music", "Old Flame" & "My Home's In..."--oh wait, we almost said too much Alabama |
| #2, aired 2023-05-08 | FLYIN' HIGHER THAN A JET AIRLINER $800: In 2021 90-year-old William Shatner boldly went aboard a spacecraft from this "colorful" company as the oldest person to fly in space Blue Origin |
| #2, aired 2023-05-08 | COMIN' TO YOUR CITY $800: Designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1978, Old Town in this capital of Ecuador is something to see, & now you can Quito |
| #2, aired 2023-05-08 | A LITTLE READING MATERIAL $800: This 135-year-old magazine has helped fund more than 15,000 grants in its history; recipients include Richard Byrd & Jacques Cousteau National Geographic |
| #2, aired 2023-05-08 | A LITTLE READING MATERIAL $1000: This annual has a hole in the upper left corner so one can hang it in the house or outhouse, making it handy for reading & other uses The Old Farmer's Almanac |
| #1, aired 2023-05-08 | A TRIP TO ASIA $1200: Let's head to the Kota, or Old Batavia, in this world capital on the northwest coast of Java Jakarta |
| #8864, aired 2023-05-04 | FLORIDA PLACES $800: Each September this very old city reenacts the 1565 landing of its founder Pedro Menéndez de Avilés St. Augustine |
| #8863, aired 2023-05-03 | THERE'S GOLD IN THEM THAR HILLS $800: An old miner's trick to separate gold from minerals: mix with this liquid metal, put that inside a potato & toss in the fire mercury |
| #8863, aired 2023-05-03 | THE "USS" $800: A few people on "Pawn Stars" have brought in this kind of centuries-old short-barreled gun a blunderbuss |
| #8863, aired 2023-05-03 | "D" TOUR $3,000 (Daily Double): In this Old West town, you can pay your respects to Wild Bill Hickok & Calamity Jane Deadwood |
| #8854, aired 2023-04-20 | LITERARY FRUIT STAND $200: In "War & Watermelon", a 12-year-old boy in 1969 goes along for the ride to this music fest & gains a new outlook on life Woodstock |
| #8854, aired 2023-04-20 | LITERARY FRUIT STAND $600: A vicious 15-year-old Droog is sent to a facility to be reformed in this 1962 novel A Clockwork Orange |
| #8853, aired 2023-04-19 | OLIVE YOU $600: At least 2,000 years old, one of the oldest olive trees still bearing fruit is found in Ano Vouves on this largest Greek island Crete |
| #8853, aired 2023-04-19 | JUSTINIAN TIME $7,000 (Daily Double): Justinian didn't "want to thank" this 900-year-old Athenian school, which closed after pagan teachers were banned the Academy |
| #8852, aired 2023-04-18 | OLD WAR $400: Lysander, an admiral of this city-state, starved Athens into surrendering in 404 B.C. during the Peloponnesian War Sparta |
| #8852, aired 2023-04-18 | LET'S GUESS YOUR WAIT $800: An elderly woman recognizes this now-old Washington Irving character & asks, "Where have you been these twenty long years?" Rip Van Winkle |
| #8852, aired 2023-04-18 | OLD WAR $800: To gain a port, Florence leaned hard into this nearby 4-letter city in the 14th century, finally taking it in 1406 Pisa |
| #8852, aired 2023-04-18 | OLD WAR $1600: In 732 he defeated an invading Muslim army in the decisive Battle of Tours, earning the nickname "The Hammer" Charles Martel |
| #8852, aired 2023-04-18 | OLD WAR $2000: Formed in the 14th century, this elite army corps of the Ottoman Empire had a name from Turkish, meaning "new troops" the Janissaries |
| #8852, aired 2023-04-18 | OLD WAR $2,500 (Daily Double): 1462's Battle of Piltown was the only major battle fought in Ireland as part of these dynastic civil wars the Wars of the Roses |
| #8851, aired 2023-04-17 | TEXAS STATE SYMBOLS $800: In 2005 Texas chose this Old West food truck as its state vehicle the chuck wagon |
| #8850, aired 2023-04-14 | NEW YORK NICKS $800: This funny man starred on Broadway with John Mulaney as old New Yorkers in "Oh, Hello" Nick Kroll |
| #8850, aired 2023-04-14 | THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE $800: The lasting legacy of Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent includes the wall around the Old City of this world capital Jerusalem |
| #8849, aired 2023-04-13 | THE SCENIC SOUTHWEST $1000: Nevada's Valley of Fire State Park is home to petrified trees & these similarly named inscriptions, some 2,000 years old petroglyphs |
| #8849, aired 2023-04-13 | HERE'S A BIT OF EVERYTHING $2000: Locust Grove in Louisville, where Lewis & Clark & John James Audubon stayed as guests, could be called this, the state song "My Old Kentucky Home" |
| #8848, aired 2023-04-12 | OUR NATION OF IMMIGRATION $400: Famous Americans of this heritage include Barack Obama seen here on a visit to the old country Ireland |
| #8846, aired 2023-04-10 | A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT $1200: It's misleading to put this word before "dementia" because dementia is not a necessary part of getting old senile (Nile) |
| #8846, aired 2023-04-10 | AIR TRAVEL $2000: Air China owns about 30% of this other carrier whose name reflects old China Cathay Pacific |
| #8845, aired 2023-04-07 | POP CULTURE $400: He gave us the "Produce Pete" segment of "The Daily Show" before becoming "The 40-Year-Old Virgin" Steve Carell |
| #8842, aired 2023-04-04 | PAINT ME A PICTURE $400: "The Old Guitarist" is one of the most famous paintings of this artist's Blue Period Picasso |
| #8841, aired 2023-04-03 | ADJECTIVE THEN NOUN $800: Rap music until about 1985; let's put on some Treacherous Three & kick it... old school |
| #8840, aired 2023-03-31 | SONGS FROM '60s MUSICALS $1000: "The Lees Of Old Virginia" & "But, Mr. Adams" 1776 |
| #8837, aired 2023-03-28 | FANCIFIED BEASTLY IDIOMS $200: It's impossible to instruct the elder canine with state-of-the-art maneuvers you can't teach an old dog new tricks |
| #8833, aired 2023-03-22 | AROUND THE HOUSE $600: Found in the title of an 1870s novel, it's the old-fashioned name for the mirror seen here a looking-glass |
| #8833, aired 2023-03-22 | LONG-LIVED CRITTERS $600: A trapdoor this named Number 16 made it to age 43 & a wasp, not old age, likely did Ms. 16 in a trapdoor spider |
| #8832, aired 2023-03-21 | I LOVE A MAN IN CUNEIFORM $400: This ruler's legal decisions were codified in cuneiform in the Old Babylonian language in the 18th century B.C. Hammurabi |
| #8831, aired 2023-03-20 | PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURATIONS $2000: He, his wife & 9-year-old daughter were the first first family to walk all the way from the Capitol to the White House the Carters |
| #8830, aired 2023-03-17 | ETYMOLOGY $400: Old French for "daily" gives us this type of register in which events of the day are recorded a journal |
| #8830, aired 2023-03-17 | SONGS FROM MOVIES $400: Naturally, it's the title song as Gene Kelly & Frank Sinatra play old-time baseball players "Take Me Out To The Ball Game" |
| #8824, aired 2023-03-09 | ONE-SYLLABLE BODY PARTS $1,600 (Daily Double): Macrophages destroy old or damaged cells when blood passes through this organ the spleen |
| #8820, aired 2023-03-03 | COMPLETE THE PANGRAM $800: "We promptly judged" this old word "ivory buckles for the next prize" antique |
| #8818, aired 2023-03-01 | ONOMATOPOEIA $600: Imitative of a fast sound, this Nike logo is 50 years old the Swoosh |
| #8817, aired 2023-02-28 | THEY WROTE 'EM $2000: "No Country for Old Men" (2005) &
"The Passenger" (2022) Cormac McCarthy |
| #8816, aired 2023-02-27 | PURE POETRY $2000: In 1950 "Bitter Strawberries" by this Boston-born woman became her 1st nationally published poem; not bad for a 17-year-old Sylvia Plath |
| #8815, aired 2023-02-24 | HITS OF THEN & NOW $200: With her 2019 song "Bad Guy", at 17 years old this artist became the first born in the 21st century to have a No. 1 song Billie Eilish |
| #8815, aired 2023-02-24 | GET READY FOR THE "G-R-E"s $1000: John Gardner wrote a novel from the point of view of this monster from an Old English epic Grendel |
| #8814, aired 2023-02-23 | OLD HISTORY $400: From 1588 to 1629 Abbas the Great was shah of this country & its empire Persia |
| #8814, aired 2023-02-23 | ANNUAL EVENTS $800: In 1970 15-year-old Mike Towry co-founded this San Diego event that has become a pop culture phenomenon Comic-Con |
| #8814, aired 2023-02-23 | POST-GRADUATION $1000: A top music industry award gets its name from this old-time record player with a big horn a gramophone |
| #8814, aired 2023-02-23 | OLD HISTORY $1200: Atahualpa, last emperor of the Inca, was captured & executed by this conquistador in 1533 Pizarro |
| #8814, aired 2023-02-23 | OLD HISTORY $1600: Greek cities of the 3rd century B.C. formed the Achaean League to expel invaders from this kingdom of Philip & Alexander Macedonia |
| #8814, aired 2023-02-23 | OLD HISTORY $2,000 (Daily Double): These Easterners were poised to invade Western Europe in 1241 when the death of their supreme leader called them back the Mongols |
| #8814, aired 2023-02-23 | OLD HISTORY $2000: From the 16th to the 19th centuries, the Huron peoples were in conflict with this multi-tribe confederacy to the east the Iroquois |
| #8813, aired 2023-02-22 | A JOLLY RHYME $400: Streetcar transit from days of old is being revived, like the one seen here in St. Louis, called this a (Loop) trolley |
| #8811, aired 2023-02-20 | RELIGION HAS ITS PLACE $400: "Kirk" is a Scottish word for church, & Greyfriar's Kirk has stood for 400 years in this capital's Old Town Edinburgh |
| #8807, aired 2023-02-14 | YE OLDE BRITISH MONEY $2000: The name of an old-timey bicycle with a large front wheel & a much smaller back wheel combines penny & this smaller coin farthing |
| #8803, aired 2023-02-08 | THE CORPORATE STRUCTURE $800: A Chicago building is named for this product, & to play on an old commercial, you're soaking it in Palmolive |
| #8803, aired 2023-02-08 | I BEFORE E $2000: This old word for a psychiatrist comes from French for "insanity" alienists |
| #8803, aired 2023-02-08 | COMEDY TIME $2000: 1940s:
Cary Grant learns that his aunts are homicidal maniacs Arsenic and Old Lace |
| #8799, aired 2023-02-02 | DWIGHT EISENHOWER $200: Too old at 20 for the Naval Academy, Ike graduated from this academy, class of 1915, at 24 West Point |
| #8799, aired 2023-02-02 | WORD & PHRASE ORIGINS $800: Nothing to do with a gospel writer, this word meaning "tepid" comes from Old English lukewarm |
| #13, aired 2023-02-02 | LAKES & RIVERS $300: An old video game is called Cleopatra, Queen of this, & yes, it is just a river in Africa the Nile |
| #13, aired 2023-02-02 | THOUGHT YOU'D LIKE TO KNOW $600: These tall timepieces were named for a 19th-century song that said, "It stopp'd short--never to go again--When the old man died" a grandfather clock |
| #8797, aired 2023-01-31 | HEAD GEAR $400: Popularized by the movie "Old School", these protectors are slang for "Kid, you shouldn't hear this" earmuffs |
| #8795, aired 2023-01-27 | HISTORIC NICKNAMES $1200: Born 1784 in Gordonsville, Virginia: "Old Rough & Ready" (Zachary) Taylor |
| #12, aired 2023-01-26 | POP MUSIC $200: Though the title mentions a different car part, Nicky Youre is in a convertible in the video for this hit song heard here
"You got me stuck on the thought of you /
You're making me feel brand new /
You're more than the sunshine in my eyes /
La da la da da, la da dai /
La da la da di dai..." "Sunroof" |
| #12, aired 2023-01-26 | POP MUSIC $300: In the '80s we were "Head Over Heels" for this all-female group; they did, in fact, have the beat The Go-Go's |
| #12, aired 2023-01-26 | ALL THINGS IRISH $400: The name of these mischievous little people of folklore may have come from Old Irish words for "small" & "body" leprechaun |
| #12, aired 2023-01-26 | CHARACTER/ACTOR $1000: As Anton Chigurh in this 2007 film, Javier Bardem & his haircut were both downright frightening No Country for Old Men |
| #8792, aired 2023-01-24 | 3.7 TRILLION FISH IN THE OCEAN $1000: This colorful food fish of the deep ocean may live to be 150 years old orange roughy |
| #8789, aired 2023-01-19 | THE ROPES $1000: These strong ropes seen here give support to the mast; it's also an old word for another supporter--a corset stays |
| #11, aired 2023-01-19 | 2 WORDS, 3 LETTERS EACH $3,000 (Daily Double): It doesn't sound super-medical, but Queen Elizabeth II's death certificate lists the cause as this, at 96 old age |
| #8788, aired 2023-01-18 | SAME FIRST & LAST LETTER $600: This term for a privileged, high status group within a society is from Old French for "chosen" elite |
| #8788, aired 2023-01-18 | SONGS OF THE 2010s $600: This collaboration between Lil Nas X & Billy Ray Cyrus was Billboard's No. 1 Hot 100 Song of the Year for 2019 "Old Town Road" |
| #8787, aired 2023-01-17 | 1980s BESTSELLERS $1600: This bestseller from Dr. Seuss was billed as "a book for obsolete children" You're Only Old Once |
| #8786, aired 2023-01-16 | DOG TALES $600: In a story set in the 19th century, a mad wolf with rabies is the last fight this faithful title canine has, & now I'm crying Old Yeller |
| #8786, aired 2023-01-16 | MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL TEAMS $600: In 2022 this team gave 73-year-old Dusty Baker his 1st championship as a manager; he's the oldest skipper to win a World Series the Astros |
| #8783, aired 2023-01-11 | SEARCH HIGH & LOW $1000: High:
Also found on old televisions, it means reaching far into the sky aerial |
| #8782, aired 2023-01-10 | NYC SUBWAY STOPS $600: Give my regards to Broadway, remember me to this square, named for an old-time newspaper, & its stop on the D train Herald Square |
| #8779, aired 2023-01-05 | MANY RIVERS TO CROSS $400: The Black Hawk Bridge & the Old Vicksburg Bridge are 2 of the many ways to get across this river the Mississippi |
| #9, aired 2023-01-05 | VIRGINNY & GEORGIA $300: In March 1979 Ray Charles sang this old sweet song for Georgia's legislature; in April, it became the official state song "Georgia On My Mind" |
| #8778, aired 2023-01-04 | OH MY GODS! $400: This grain is part of the kanji that makes up the name of Inari, a Japanese god of that grain often portrayed as a bearded old man rice |
| #8777, aired 2023-01-03 | THE GOOD, OLD, U.S. OF A. $400: From c. 1640 & built using dovetailing, the USA's oldest of these 2-word symbols of hardy pioneer life is in western New Jersey a log cabin |
| #8777, aired 2023-01-03 | THE GOOD, OLD, U.S. OF A. $800: A mound-building culture 1,000 years ago left monuments like the Marching these carnivores; you can see it from above in Iowa bears |
| #8777, aired 2023-01-03 | THE GOOD, OLD, U.S. OF A. $1200: This sizable city a bit south of Seattle has re-created Fort Nisqually, the first British outpost on Puget Sound Tacoma |
| #8777, aired 2023-01-03 | THE GOOD, OLD, U.S. OF A. $1600: As well as a building material, it's a structure made of it; the Avila one is the oldest existing house in Los Angeles adobe |
| #8777, aired 2023-01-03 | THE GOOD, OLD, U.S. OF A. $2000: Have an electrifying visit to this, "New York's Birthplace Park" at the southern tip of Manhattan the Battery |
| #8776, aired 2023-01-02 | FRIENDS 'TIL THE ENDS $800: As the song says, "Life is a cabaret, old" this synonym for friend chum |
| #8776, aired 2023-01-02 | GIVING YOU SOME METALS $800: Rubbings are hand-made copies of the engraved plates of this metal that adorned many an old tomb brass |
| #8774, aired 2022-12-29 | TV TO SEE IN 2022 $1200: He turned up on "Sea Hunt" as a kid, but an ex-CIA agent being hunted on "The Old Man" is his first starring role in a TV series Jeff Bridges |
| #8774, aired 2022-12-29 | RINGS OF DRAGONS $1600: The apocryphal "Bel & the Dragon", added to this Old Testament book, finds the title guy in a lion's den again Daniel |
| #8771, aired 2022-12-26 | WRONG TIME $800: You're so out of touch with societal mores, you're this; now time for the same-named bourbon cocktail old-fashioned |
| #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 |
| #8764, aired 2022-12-15 | DUTCH TREAT $1000: The painters of Rembrandt's time, or a brand of cigars with Rembrandt's "Syndics of the Drapers' Guild" on the box Dutch Masters |
| #8762, aired 2022-12-13 | SOUNDS $600: As in an old kitchen-based catchphrase meaning things are going well, "Now we're" doing this cooking with gas |
| #8762, aired 2022-12-13 | SPANISH ART & ARTISTS $1600: It's an old Spanish word for a pretty young woman; Goya painted several, including some "on a Balcony" a maja |
| #8761, aired 2022-12-12 | SEW & SEW $1200: An old adage that's helpful when preparing your fabric is do this "twice, cut once" measure |
| #8759, aired 2022-12-08 | MARK'S BROTHERS & SISTERS $1000: This brother of fellow astronaut Scott became a senator from Arizona, in John McCain's old spot Mark Kelly |
| #8756, aired 2022-12-05 | TREE TIME $1600: Couroupita guianensis is known as this tree, after the type of old-time artillery projectile its fruits resemble cannonball |
| #8755, aired 2022-12-02 | OLD TECHNOLOGY $400: It's the 2-word former computer necessity here, & players, if you're not at least of a certain age, you may be toast a floppy disk |
| #8755, aired 2022-12-02 | NFL TEAMS BY HOME STADIUM $400: The frozen tundra of Lambeau Field the Green Bay Packers |
| #8755, aired 2022-12-02 | OLD TECHNOLOGY $800: In 2022 Apple said they'd no longer make this MP3 player, which is now unbelievably in an old tech category an iPod |
| #8755, aired 2022-12-02 | IT'S EPIC $1200: Compiled from old folklore, songs & oral poems, the Kalevala is the national epic of this country Finland |
| #8755, aired 2022-12-02 | OLD TECHNOLOGY $1600: Ford began offering this "numeric" tape deck in 1966 models; not so much now an 8-track |
| #8755, aired 2022-12-02 | OLD TECHNOLOGY $2000: Fed with a long sheet of paper, this type of printer you're hearing now has lingered with businesses like airport car rental dot matrix |
| #8755, aired 2022-12-02 | OLD TECHNOLOGY $7,000 (Daily Double): On Nov. 18, 1963 AT&T cut in half the time to make a local call, introducing push button phones, officially this alliterative system touch-tone (dialing) |
| #8754, aired 2022-12-01 | REMEMBERING OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN $600: At 29, Olivia was worried she was too old to play a high schooler in this musical, but her role as Sandy became iconic Grease |
| #8753, aired 2022-11-30 | YOU CAN QUOTE "ME" $2000: In the King James version of the Old Testament, this 3-word lamentation of personal suffering occurs 7 times woe is me |
| #8753, aired 2022-11-30 | THEM'S FIGHTIN' WORDS $2000: A centuries-old fair held in a Dublin suburb gave its name to this type of melee donnybrook |
| #8748, aired 2022-11-23 | SPEECH OF THE DICKENS $1600: In "The Old Curiosity Shop", this means a miser, even without an initial "skin" flint |
| #8744, aired 2022-11-17 | HISTORIC DATES $1,600 (Daily Double): In a historic first, this 75-year-old was sworn in as president of his country May 10, 1994 Mandela |
| #8743, aired 2022-11-16 | MAKING AN ASSONANCE OF YOURSELF $1000: In a song title from the 1920s, these 2-word noisemakers for nuptials "are breaking up that old gang of mine" wedding bells |
| #8743, aired 2022-11-16 | BEASTLY BOOK TITLES $1000: An extended family of primitive humans adopts 5-year-old Ayla The Clan of the Cave Bear |
| #8743, aired 2022-11-16 | COLD AROUND THE GLOBE $1200: In 2021 this capital of Saskatchewan broke a 137-year-old temperature record, dropping to -37.5 degrees Regina |
| #8742, aired 2022-11-15 | FIRST-TIME RESPONSES $2000: An Old French word gives us this term for a cut gem that's rounded & polished but not faceted a cabochon |
| #8, aired 2022-11-13 | GOING THROUGH SOME CYCLES $200: Velocipede a pedale was an Old French term for what we know today as this a bicycle |
| #8, aired 2022-11-13 | HISTORIC SHIPS $1000: This U.S. ship from the War of 1812 is nicknamed "Old Ironsides" the USS Constitution |
| #8740, aired 2022-11-11 | SENIOR MOMENTS $800: When this Old Testament king is "old & stricken in years", even the fair maiden Abishag does not rouse his interest David |
| #8739, aired 2022-11-10 | CELEBS $800: This 18-year-old dancer has 145 million followers on TikTok Charli D'Amelio |
| #8736, aired 2022-11-07 | IN THAT NOVEL $400: Old Major sings "Beasts of England" Animal Farm |
| #8736, aired 2022-11-07 | 13-LETTER WORDS $1600: It's the fear of old people gerontophobia |
| #7, aired 2022-11-06 | HISTORY IN COMEDY $300: Did this man really steal from the rich & give to the poor? The 2,000 Year Old Man: no, he stole from everybody & kept everything Robin Hood |
| #8735, aired 2022-11-04 | HOMOPHONES $400: Archery accessory &
old-time boyfriend bow/beau |
| #8735, aired 2022-11-04 | SOUTH AMERICA $1000: Thousands of years old, large geoglyphs representing plants & animals can be seen 15 miles northwest of this Peruvian city Nazca |
| #8735, aired 2022-11-04 | HISTORY $1600: Giovanni Cornaro II, Doge of Venice until 1722, was the last one to rule over the Morea, an old name for this Greek peninsula the Peloponnesian |
| #8734, aired 2022-11-03 | ADVERBS $1000: 2 rhyming words:
One is how "We Roll Along" in a musical title; the other is old-timey for truly & certainly merrily verily |
| #8733, aired 2022-11-02 | YOU LEFT ME $200: Abandoned at a difficult time, I was "left in the" this, from the name of an old game lurch |
| #8731, aired 2022-10-31 | YOU'RE THE BEST AROUND $800: Seen here is Striker, a type of this Russian-named dog that won Westminster's title in 2022 for best Working Group dog a Samoyed |
| #8731, aired 2022-10-31 | FIVE CHANCES $1200: In an old superstition, to see five of these thieving birds at once meant company was coming a magpie |
| #8730, aired 2022-10-28 | MYTH-POURRI $2000: Balder will be back from the dead after this event, "doom of the gods" in Old Norse Ragnarok |
| #8728, aired 2022-10-26 | BIRDS WITHIN WORDS $800: While riding my scooter, I spotted this old bird a coot (in scooter) |
| #8726, aired 2022-10-24 | DESTINATION EUROPE $400: Time to make a pilgrimage & tee it up at this revered golf club's Old Course in Scotland St. Andrews |
| #8726, aired 2022-10-24 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $400: "Sometimes You Have to Lie" is a 2020 biography of Louise Fitzhugh, creator of this 11-year-old spy Harriet (the Spy) |
| #5, aired 2022-10-23 | YES, CHEF! $300: Whether the second part of its name is "chuck" or "rump", this dish needs to cook an hour per pound & the old folks start ordering it at 5:00 P.M. pot roast |
| #5, aired 2022-10-23 | GOT A BRIDGE TO SELL YOU $500: Climb the Old Town Bridge Tower on the Charles Bridge, which dates back to 1357, & get a lovely view of this Czech capital Prague |
| #8725, aired 2022-10-21 | 2 BITS $600: This state has the dome of its statehouse & the nickname "The Old Line State" Maryland |
| #8725, aired 2022-10-21 | BEFORE & AFTER $1600: The seafood seasoning from the abortive 1961 invasion of Cuba Old Bay of Pigs |
| #8723, aired 2022-10-19 | THE PARENT COMPANY $1200: Of Old Navy the Gap |
| #4, aired 2022-10-16 | MASCOTS $300: This battery mascot that's been going & going since the late 1980s has entered the OED to mean something or someone persistent the Energizer Bunny |
| #8720, aired 2022-10-14 | STORIES WITH HEART $200: Mitch Albom subtitled this book about his former college professor "An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson" Tuesdays with Morrie |
| #8719, aired 2022-10-13 | THE REST, AS THEY SAY... $400: An old saying goes, "Guests, like fish begin to" do this; how you waited 72 hours is beyond us smell after three days |
| #8717, aired 2022-10-11 | OLD WORDS $400: This adjective meaning loathsome dates to the 1300s, though it wasn't applied to snowmen until the 20th century abominable |
| #8717, aired 2022-10-11 | OLD WORDS $800: This word for a time of extreme hunger & starvation dates at least as far back as the 1360s poem "Piers Plowman" famine |
| #8717, aired 2022-10-11 | OLD WORDS $1200: This word for a broad, heavy knife made its way from Latin America into English in the late 1500s machete |
| #8717, aired 2022-10-11 | OLD WORDS $1600: Chaucer's "Miller's Tale" used this word for part of a roof centuries before a Hawthorne novel title did gable |
| #8717, aired 2022-10-11 | OLD WORDS $11,600 (Daily Double): Meaning to consecrate or make holy, it was around for nearly a millennium before it appeared in the Gettysburg Address hallow |
| #3, aired 2022-10-09 | AMERICANA $100: In 1969, 108-year-old Vassar College began admitting these people, "sensitive & humble" ones men |
| #3, aired 2022-10-09 | AMERICANA $300: Seen here is this famous Wyoming landmark named for its regular eruptions Old Faithful |
| #3, aired 2022-10-09 | AMERICANA $400: Yankee magazine says this New England state is known for chowder, old money & being the home of TV's Gilmore girls Connecticut |
| #3, aired 2022-10-09 | WORDS OF LOVE $900: An old song goes, "Oh my" this, "oh my" this, "oh my" this "Clementine" darling |
| #8715, aired 2022-10-07 | ANAGRAMMED BIBLE PEOPLE $400: Old-timer:
HEALTH MUSE Methuselah |
| #8712, aired 2022-10-04 | A "C" IN LITERATURE $200: He calls Winnie-the-Pooh "silly old bear" Christopher Robin |
| #2, aired 2022-10-02 | AUSTIN TENDS BAR $300: (Austin holds a glass full of a dark beer at his bar.) Tending bar at an Irish pub, I've poured many a pint of draft beer from this 260+-year-old Dublin brewery; there's a technique, here--it's not just flip & drip Guinness |
| #2, aired 2022-10-02 | 19th CENTURY NOVELS $400: This Mark Twain hero says, "Now, Old Jim, you're a free man again, and I bet you won't ever be a slave no more" Huckleberry Finn |
| #2, aired 2022-10-02 | AUSTIN TENDS BAR $900: (Austin shakes drops from a bottle into a glass with a red drink.) Whether you use the Angostura or Peychaud's brand, life has its share of these aromatic spirits used to flavor classic cocktails like the Old Fashioned bitters |
| #2, aired 2022-10-02 | CELEBRITY CAMEOS $900: James Earl Jones & Old Sheldon did a ding dong dash on this sitcom; Carrie Fisher was not amused Big Bang Theory |
| #2, aired 2022-10-02 | TV SHOW THEME SONGS $1000: "She's a magical gal in a small-town locale" went one tune for this show with Elizabeth Olsen immersed in old sitcoms WandaVision |
| #8710, aired 2022-09-30 | IT'S "OVER" $200: In both the Old & New Testaments, it's referred to as "The Feast of Unleavened Bread" Passover |
| #8709, aired 2022-09-29 | FROM DAWN TO DUSK $1600: An old coin from the Republic of Venice, it became slang for any money the ducat |
| #8708, aired 2022-09-28 | HISTORY $200: In 1914 19-year-old Serb Gavrilo Princip triggered World War I by assassinating this man Franz Ferdinand |
| #8708, aired 2022-09-28 | MATERIAL $1000: Dogs like to chew this untanned material, also the title of an old Clint Eastwood TV Western rawhide |
| #8707, aired 2022-09-27 | CREDITS $400: Old-timey images of bars & bar patrons were seen in the opening credits of this 1980s sitcom set in Boston Cheers |
| #8707, aired 2022-09-27 | THE MAP OF INDIA $600: The "Old" part of this city was once a walled city called Shahjahanabad Delhi |
| #1, aired 2022-09-25 | THE WILD WEST $200: The Oregon, Mormon & Old Spanish were famous these via which settlers from points east reached the West trails |
| #1, aired 2022-09-25 | THE WILD WEST $400: Deadwood is in South Dakota; this other fatal-sounding town notorious for Old West gunfights is in Arizona Tombstone |
| #1, aired 2022-09-25 | TELLING A BEDTIME STORY $500: Her cupboard, bare; she found her dog dead, left to buy a coffin, then found the pup laughing... sounds more like Stephen King Old Mother Hubbard |
| #1, aired 2022-09-25 | "R"ELIGION $800: The cult of this 2-letter sun god of ancient Egypt reached its peak during the Old Kingdom around 2500 B.C. Ra |
| #8704, aired 2022-09-22 | OLD FASHIONED $400: A 19th century depiction of this nursery rhyme character is seen here in all her austere predicament Old Mother Hubbard |
| #8704, aired 2022-09-22 | OLD FASHIONED $800: Old Dominion University is found in this "Old Dominion" state, one of the original 13 colonies Virginia |
| #8704, aired 2022-09-22 | OLD FASHIONED $1200: Old World monkeys are classified as catarrhines or downward this body part; New World monkeys, not shown, have flat ones noses |
| #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 |
| #8704, aired 2022-09-22 | OLD FASHIONED $2000: This "old style" calendar was dominant for more than 1,000 years before the "new style" Gregorian one came along in 1582 the Julian |
| #8703, aired 2022-09-21 | SHOES! $600: These shoes are named for an old comic strip character, Buster Brown's sister Mary Janes |
| #8703, aired 2022-09-21 | MODERN WESTERNS $2000: In this neo-Western film, Anton Chigurh asks the killer query, "What's the most you ever lost on a coin toss?" No Country for Old Men |
| #8701, aired 2022-09-19 | 4-SYLLABLE VERBS $1600: It means to put emphasis on; an old song said to do it to "The Positive" accentuate |
| #8700, aired 2022-09-16 | MAGAZINE COVERS $600: The June 1985 cover of this magazine showed a 12-year-old Afghan refugee & described her "haunted eyes" National Geographic |
| #8696, aired 2022-09-12 | HERE COMES 39 $1000: In the King James Bible, the Old Testament has 39 books, with Kings, Chronicles & this prophet each having a 1 & 2 book Samuel |
| #8695, aired 2022-07-29 | ISLANDS & PENINSULAS $200: Michigan is all about peninsulas; the Old Mission & the Leelanau are sub-peninsulas of this one that takes up most of the state the Lower Peninsula |
| #8695, aired 2022-07-29 | HISTORY $800: In 2001 55-year-old Birendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev, this country's king, was assassinated in Kathmandu by his own son Nepal |
| #8691, aired 2022-07-25 | BREAKFAST TIME $400: Nothing better than one of these classic donuts that shares its name with a venerable whiskey cocktail an old-fashioned |
| #8690, aired 2022-07-22 | METALLIC EXPRESSIONS $400: Airtight, like an alibi, or an old armor-plated warship ironclad |
| #8690, aired 2022-07-22 | AT CROSS PURPOSES $600: In the Japanese TV show "Old Enough", kids as young as 2 run errands, using a yellow flag to help them do this cross the street |
| #8690, aired 2022-07-22 | SPELLING THEIR EGOTS $800: 3 Es as Outstanding Guest Actor for
"Mad About You";
a Comedy Album G for "The 2000 Year Old Man in the Year 2000" Mel Brooks |
| #8689, aired 2022-07-21 | THE OLD WEST $200: This type of wagon was where food was served; its name referred to grub, & no one eats until cookie calls a chuck wagon |
| #8689, aired 2022-07-21 | CLOSING STATEMENTS $400: "I think of Dean Moriarty, I even think of old Dean Moriarty the father we never found, I think of Dean Moriarty" On the Road |
| #8689, aired 2022-07-21 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $400: In 1955 13-year-old Susie asked her dad about an easier way to treat her asthma; dad ran Riker Labs & presto! the metered dose this device an inhaler |
| #8689, aired 2022-07-21 | THE OLD WEST $400: Wild Bill Hickok stopped a man from beating this other famous Bill who was 11 at the time & the two became lifelong friends Buffalo Bill (Cody) |
| #8689, aired 2022-07-21 | THE OLD WEST $600: Before becoming sheriff of this South Dakota town, Seth Bullock opened a hardware store there with partner Sol Star Deadwood |
| #8689, aired 2022-07-21 | THE OLD WEST $800: Prospector John Bozeman blazed a trail to gold-rush towns in what is now this state Montana |
| #8689, aired 2022-07-21 | WHAT'S YOUR "ANGLE"? $1000: In addition to being a verb meaning to mutilate, it's also a word for an old-timey machine to iron laundry mangle |
| #8689, aired 2022-07-21 | THE OLD WEST $1000: When Butch & Sundance & their Wild Bunch gang hid in the Wyoming spot seen here, they were part of this gang named for it the Hole-in-the-Wall Gang |
| #8688, aired 2022-07-20 | QUIZ BOWL $1000: This holiday drink whose name derives from an Old Norse toast to health is traditionally served in a large bowl of the same name a wassail |
| #8685, aired 2022-07-15 | MUSICIANS' REAL NAMES $800: Declan MacManus:
This new wave star who took the name of an old-school legend Elvis Costello |
| #8685, aired 2022-07-15 | YOU WILL GET BETTER HERE $2000: From the Latin for "heal", it's an old-timey place to heal from tuberculosis a sanitorium (sanitarium) |
| #8684, aired 2022-07-14 | UNITS OF MEASURE $600: A braza, about 5 1/2 feet, is an old Spanish measure based on the reach of outspread these arms |
| #8679, aired 2022-07-07 | OLD NEWSPAPERS $400: On January 1, 1788 the Universal Daily Register of London changed its name to this, which it has today The Times |
| #8679, aired 2022-07-07 | OLD NEWSPAPERS $800: Founded in 1703 in this city, the Wiener Zeitung is considered the world's oldest surviving daily newspaper Vienna |
| #8679, aired 2022-07-07 | OLD NEWSPAPERS $1200: The Cincinnati this was first published in 1841, more than a century before the "National" tabloid Enquirer |
| #8679, aired 2022-07-07 | OLD NEWSPAPERS $1600: This Founding Father founded the New York Post in 1801 to promote the Federalist Party Alexander Hamilton |
| #8679, aired 2022-07-07 | OLD NEWSPAPERS $2000: French for "current", as in events, gives this city's over 250-year-old paper its name Hartford |
| #8678, aired 2022-07-06 | BILLBOARD NO. 1 LYRICS $400: 2019:
"I got the horses in the back, horse tack is attached" "Old Town Road" |
| #8678, aired 2022-07-06 | HISTORICAL HODGEPODGE $400: Abyssinia is an old name for this African country Ethiopia |
| #8678, aired 2022-07-06 | MOVIE MAGIC & WIZARDRY $400: At age 78, Ian McKellen said this character "is over 7,000 years old, so I'm not too old" Gandalf |
| #8677, aired 2022-07-05 | A NOVEL DEATH $200: Spoiler for a 15-year-old book! this house-elf doesn't make it all the way through "The Deathly Hallows" Dobby |
| #8676, aired 2022-07-04 | OLD MOVIES $400: 908 S. Broadway in Los Angeles is where Harold Lloyd dangled from this in "Safety Last", one of the most famous movie stunts a clock |
| #8676, aired 2022-07-04 | OLD MOVIES $800: Sometimes forgotten among the many movies teaming this actor & Katharine Hepburn is the Elia Kazan frontier tale "The Sea of Grass" Spencer Tracy |
| #8676, aired 2022-07-04 | OLD MOVIES $1200: "Baby Face", with a rather unchaste Barbara Stanwyck, is a classic of the early '30s films called "Pre"-this set of restrictions Pre-Code |
| #8676, aired 2022-07-04 | OLD MOVIES $1600: This Nevada-set 1964 movie was Elvis' highest-grossing film Viva Las Vegas |
| #8676, aired 2022-07-04 | OLD MOVIES $2000: In an Oscar winner, Piletti is the last name of Ernest Borgnine's butcher character; this first name is the title Marty |
| #8673, aired 2022-06-29 | STANNING THAT SHIP $200: Launched in Boston in 1797 with its oak seemingly impenetrable, it is the world's oldest commissioned warship still afloat Old Ironsides |
| #8673, aired 2022-06-29 | LITERARY TITLE CHARACTERS $1200: "A Man Called" this name is a 59-year-old curmudgeon who drives a Saab Ove |
| #8671, aired 2022-06-27 | SOUTHERN CAPITALS $800: This capital was named for the man called "Old Hickory" Jackson |
| #8671, aired 2022-06-27 | I SPEAK FOR THE TREES $800: "An 11-year-old girl sitting on this fire escape could imagine that she was living in a tree", says this classic by Betty Smith A Tree Grows in Brooklyn |
| #8671, aired 2022-06-27 | BOOKS & THEIR MOVIES $3,000 (Daily Double): The title of this 2007 film adapted from a novel comes from a Yeats poem that says, "An aged man is but a paltry thing" No Country for Old Men |
| #8670, aired 2022-06-24 | FOXES $1000: A female fox is a vixen; a male fox can be called a dog or this, the name of a fox from Old French tales reynard |
| #8669, aired 2022-06-23 | KITCHEN TOOLS $200: The name of this utensil used to serve soup comes from the Old English for "load" a ladle |
| #8668, aired 2022-06-22 | OLD AD SLOGANS $200: People began to "Fly the friendly skies" with this airline in 1965; the slogan eventually flew off but returned in 2013 United |
| #8668, aired 2022-06-22 | OLD AD SLOGANS $400: Aawon Buhw! Aawon Buhw! Michael Bay directed the 1993 commercial that ended with this 2-word slogan-question Got Milk? |
| #8668, aired 2022-06-22 | OLD AD SLOGANS $600: "When it absolutely, positively has to be there overnight", this company said it would deliver Federal Express |
| #8668, aired 2022-06-22 | OLD AD SLOGANS $800: "I'd walk a mile for" this brand of cigarette dates to 1921, but smoke enough of them & distance walking gets problematic Camel |
| #8668, aired 2022-06-22 | OLD AD SLOGANS $1000: This beverage became "The Uncola" in the '60s, man 7 Up |
| #8666, aired 2022-06-20 | OLD NAMES ON THE MAP $400: This Central European country only existed in the 20th century Czechoslovakia |
| #8666, aired 2022-06-20 | OLD NAMES ON THE MAP $800: It was once known as the Zaire, but now it's this & it still carries more water than any river except the Amazon Congo |
| #8666, aired 2022-06-20 | OLD NAMES ON THE MAP $1200: Once a mighty kingdom, it was abolished by the Allies after WWII during the reorganization of Germany Prussia |
| #8666, aired 2022-06-20 | OLD NAMES ON THE MAP $1600: At one time the capital of Upper Canada, this city was once named York, in honor of a duke of York Toronto |
| #8666, aired 2022-06-20 | OLD NAMES ON THE MAP $2000: Yugoslavia ceased to be in 2003, becoming the Union of Serbia and this Montenegro |
| #8665, aired 2022-06-17 | STATELY RIVERS $1000: It empties into Long Island Sound between the towns of Old Saybrook & Old Lyme the Connecticut River |
| #8664, aired 2022-06-16 | PLACES IN THE USA $800: An Idaho city gave its name to a geyser there called these "Springs"; it was Beer Springs but went non-alcoholic Soda Springs |
| #8664, aired 2022-06-16 | PLACES IN THE USA $1600: Sheffield, Alabama is home to these "Shoals", the studio where "Wild Horses" & "Old Time Rock & Roll" were recorded Muscle Shoals |
| #8661, aired 2022-06-13 | TEXTING, TEXTING $400: Although it's been said many times, many ways, in Dec. 1992 a 22-year-old software engineer sent these 2 words in the very 1st text Merry Christmas |
| #8661, aired 2022-06-13 | KNIGHT AFTER KNIGHT $1000: Though too frail to kneel, this 85-year-old silent film star was tapped in 1975, just a few miles from where he grew up in poverty Chaplin |
| #8661, aired 2022-06-13 | BOOK TITLE REFERENCES $1000: In a Paulo Coelho novel, a 200-year-old who can transform base metals into gold The Alchemist |
| #8659, aired 2022-06-09 | ONE-LETTER FIRST NAME CHANGE $1000: "Old Hickory" & Soviet nuclear physicist & peace activist Sakharov Andrew & Andrei |
| #8659, aired 2022-06-09 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $5,000 (Daily Double): "Saturn, The Bringer of Old Age" was Gustav Holst's favorite part of this work of his The Planets |
| #8658, aired 2022-06-08 | AROUND THE WORLD $800: Modern-day Druids visit this Mystic circle north of Salisbury, England that's thousands of years old Stonehenge |
| #8654, aired 2022-06-02 | YE OLD "E" CATEGORY $400: Now we know it as a magazine title, but back in the day it was a young man who attended a knight esquire |
| #8654, aired 2022-06-02 | YE OLD "E" CATEGORY $800: Much of Germanic mythology comes from old texts known as the "poetic" & "prose" these eddas |
| #8654, aired 2022-06-02 | YE OLD "E" CATEGORY $1200: Perhaps you've heard of the one of these from Nantes; before that, the 313 one of Milan established Christian tolerance the edicts |
| #8654, aired 2022-06-02 | YE OLD "E" CATEGORY $1600: Long before Tokyo got its current name, it was known as this Edo |
| #8654, aired 2022-06-02 | YE OLD "E" CATEGORY $3,000 (Daily Double): Gladiatorial combat may have originated as a funeral custom among these Roman precursors the Etruscans |
| #8653, aired 2022-06-01 | U.S. GOVERNMENT HISTORY $400: This 29-year-old was made acting director of the Bureau of Investigation in May 1924; "acting" was gone by December (J. Edgar) Hoover |
| #8652, aired 2022-05-31 | WOOD $400: The shagbark species of this tree can produce seeds until it's 300 years old--"old" this indeed old hickory |
| #8650, aired 2022-05-27 | ALLITERATION ALL AROUND $2000: A little birdie told us that General Winfield Scott had the nickname "Old" these 2 things Fuss and Feathers |
| #8648, aired 2022-05-25 | THE ONE BEFORE THE FAMOUS ONE $1600: No one's written a musical about this Manhattan street, but the century-old Nederlander Theatre is on it 41st Street |
| #8644, aired 2022-05-19 | ASIAN MUSEUMS $200: Flagstaff House, an old Colonial building in Hong Kong, is now a museum devoted to this beverage & its accessories tea |
| #8644, aired 2022-05-19 | CONTAINERS $400: The word etui is an old favorite in crossword puzzles, where its standard clue is a case for these sewing necessities needles |
| #8642, aired 2022-05-17 | TOOL TIME: PAIRS EDITION $600: Go old school with a pestle & this partner, a bowl-shaped vessel mortar |
| #8640, aired 2022-05-13 | D.C. TOURISM $1000: In the 1880s, General Meigs designed the Pension Bureau building, now a museum; some called it "Meigs' Old Red" this Meigs's Old Red Barn |
| #8639, aired 2022-05-12 | IN THE NATIONAL PARK $200: Great Fountain Geyser Yellowstone |
| #8637, aired 2022-05-10 | JEWISH-AMERICAN TRADITIONS $800: 2022 marks the 100th anniversary of 12-year-old Judith Kaplan reading from the Torah, credited as the first of these events a bat mitzvah |
| #8637, aired 2022-05-10 | "G" WHIZ $2,000 (Daily Double): Add "S" to the end of a word meaning pertaining to old age to get this branch of medicine that focuses on the elderly geriatrics |
| #8636, aired 2022-05-09 | 2 "R"s NOT TO REASON WHY $400: From Old French for "speak", it's a room used for entertaining guests a parlor |
| #8636, aired 2022-05-09 | 2 "R"s NOT TO REASON WHY $800: Also an adjective for straightness, it's the old-time firearm accessory in use here a ramrod |
| #8634, aired 2022-05-05 | DESCRIBING THE PULITZER FICTION WINNER $400: 1953: Sharks plunder elderly Santiago's catch The Old Man and the Sea |
| #8633, aired 2022-05-04 | PREFIXED PAIRS $400: Medical condition of abnormally high blood pressure & getaway move to another part of the universe in old video games hypertension & hyperspace |
| #8632, aired 2022-05-03 | BIBLE BELTS $800: Talking to this much put-upon Old Testament guy, Zophar says, "The bow of steel shall strike" the wicked man Job |
| #8632, aired 2022-05-03 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS $1600: In a Kafka novella, the charwoman said to him, "Come along, then, you old dung beetle!" Gregor Samsa |
| #8631, aired 2022-05-02 | COUNTRY MUSIC SONG TITLES $400: Billy Ray Cyrus lamented the good old days in his tongue-in-cheek song entitled "I Want My" this hairstyle "Back" Mullet |
| #8630, aired 2022-04-29 | FELINES IN FICTION $1600: Mungojerrie & Bustopher Jones are memorable characters in this T.S. Eliot work Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats |
| #8629, aired 2022-04-28 | OLD YORK $200: Ivar the Boneless showed some spine when he led these Scandinavians on raids of York in the 9th century the Vikings |
| #8629, aired 2022-04-28 | OLD YORK $400: After this king won at Hastings, York was "seething with discontent"; he would soon march in & build 2 castles there William the Conqueror |
| #8629, aired 2022-04-28 | OLD YORK $600: York came to be when members of Rome's Ninth this set up camp & called it Eboracum Ninth Legion |
| #8629, aired 2022-04-28 | OLD YORK $800: After battling the Picts in 305, this "Great" man was proclaimed emperor of Rome in York Constantine |
| #8629, aired 2022-04-28 | OLD YORK $1000: York's Franciscan Order of Greyfriars was dissolved by Henry VIII in 1538 as part of this period of religious upheaval the Reformation |
| #8628, aired 2022-04-27 | FINISH THE OLD PROVERB $200: "He whose father is" this court official "goes safe to his trial" the judge |
| #8628, aired 2022-04-27 | FINISH THE OLD PROVERB $400: This strong desire for sustenance "is the best sauce" hunger |
| #8628, aired 2022-04-27 | FINISH THE OLD PROVERB $600: "No one can have a mouth full of" this baking essential "& also blow on a fire" flour |
| #8628, aired 2022-04-27 | FINISH THE OLD PROVERB $800: "A live dog is better than a dead" one of these regal beasts a lion |
| #8628, aired 2022-04-27 | FINISH THE OLD PROVERB $1000: This "is as good as a rest" a change |
| #8628, aired 2022-04-27 | MISCELLANY $1200: A 400-year-old one of these mighty trees, Iowa's state tree, was found near Des Moines in 2018 an oak |
| #8627, aired 2022-04-26 | THE MIDDLE AGES $800: Merchant & craft were the 2 main types of these business associations, from an old word for "payment" guilds |
| #8627, aired 2022-04-26 | ____, ____ & ____ $4,000 (Daily Double): These items were tolled, closed & extinguished in an old Catholic ceremony bell, book & candle |
| #8626, aired 2022-04-25 | LET'S PLAY OLD-TIME PRIVATE EYE $200: I eyed the bartender. This potent potable, I said. "Jim Beam black extra-aged" this. "& don't be stingy on the pour" bourbon |
| #8626, aired 2022-04-25 | LET'S PLAY OLD-TIME PRIVATE EYE $400: I knew she was trouble the minute she walked in; after all, she was this WWI dancer & spy whose name means "eye of the day" Mata Hari |
| #8626, aired 2022-04-25 | LET'S PLAY OLD-TIME PRIVATE EYE $600: The dame had gams for days, from here to this planet visited by the Galileo orbiter & probe in December 1995 Jupiter |
| #8626, aired 2022-04-25 | LET'S PLAY OLD-TIME PRIVATE EYE $800: It was 1994. This Munch painting was gone. Vamoosed. The thieves even left a note saying thanks for the bad security The Scream |
| #8626, aired 2022-04-25 | LET'S PLAY OLD-TIME PRIVATE EYE $1000: The man lived in Caddo Parish, in this Louisiana "port" city. Well... had lived. Turns out some guys don't mix well with threshers Shreveport |
| #8625, aired 2022-04-22 | OLD JOB NAMES $200: One of these subterranean laborers was a groover a miner |
| #8625, aired 2022-04-22 | OLD JOB NAMES $600: If you were a nob Thatcher, you might make hats or these to cover the same area wigs |
| #8625, aired 2022-04-22 | OLD JOB NAMES $800: A Granger was one of these, especially the tenant type a farmer |
| #8625, aired 2022-04-22 | OLD JOB NAMES $1,000 (Daily Double): In Latin, this food preparation job is carnifex; in medieval England it also meant executioner a butcher |
| #8625, aired 2022-04-22 | OLD JOB NAMES $1000: This nickname today for an unskilled golfer once meant a seller of cheap goods a duffer |
| #8625, aired 2022-04-22 | 1980s TV $1000: Little "Cheers" ditty / 'Bout Sam & Diane / Diane, played by this actress / Doing the best she can Shelley Long |
| #8624, aired 2022-04-21 | BOOK TITLE GEOGRAPHY $800: The sequel to "Lonesome Dove":
"Streets of ____" Laredo |
| #8624, aired 2022-04-21 | A GOLF COURSE $800: From an old Scots word, it means both a piece of turf dug out by a club on a swing & the resulting hole a divot |
| #8622, aired 2022-04-19 | "ICU" THERE! $2000: You cad! Let us engage in these, an old-time plural word for an exchange of punches fisticuffs |
| #8618, aired 2022-04-13 | AROUND THE USA $800: Head west on I-40 in New Mexico, & you can go from Acoma to Zuni, visiting two of the state's 19 of these centuries old Native American communities pueblos |
| #8617, aired 2022-04-12 | A CHRISTIE MYSTERY $1200: (Lucy Boynton presents the clue.) Agatha Christie wrote 12 novels & 20 short stories featuring this woman & regretted making her so old at the outset; she would have been well over 100 by the time Christie finished writing about her Miss Marple |
| #8616, aired 2022-04-11 | IN MOM'S FREE TIME $600: Tired of little heads going thunk, a daycare staff wanted something to prop kids up; Susan Henderson created this pillow the Boppy |
| #8616, aired 2022-04-11 | THE ORIGIN TRAIL $800: In the 1790s, Old East, still a residence hall was the entire campus of the University of North Carolina in this city Chapel Hill |
| #8614, aired 2022-04-07 | LITERATURE FOR YOUNGER READERS $1000: Billy has a pair of hounds named Old Dan & Little Ann in the kids' classic "Where" this plant "Grows" the Red Fern |
| #8614, aired 2022-04-07 | COMPUTERS & THE INTERNET $2,200 (Daily Double): Old monitors needed a screensaver, which moved so it wouldn't burn in; today you can use this static image, also a home decorating item wallpaper |
| #8613, aired 2022-04-06 | WESTERNS $600: Seen here, he played Rufus Buck, just out of prison & ready to collide with an old rival in the 2021 Western "The Harder They Fall" Idris Elba |
| #8613, aired 2022-04-06 | WOMEN IN MUSIC $1600: A chip off the old block, this daughter of Pete Escovedo has led her own "Glamorous Life" as a world famous percussionist Sheila E. |
| #8612, aired 2022-04-05 | INSTRUMENTAL TV THEMES $400: The jaunty "William Tell Overture" was the theme song for this old show about a masked man The Lone Ranger |
| #8610, aired 2022-04-01 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1200: In "The Overstory", many of these are essentially characters, including a centuries-old one named Mimas trees |
| #8605, aired 2022-03-25 | TIME TO CALL IT A DAY $1200: Abbreviated TBT, it's that time towards the end of the week for uploading old pics Throwback Thursday |
| #8604, aired 2022-03-24 | MYTHOLOGICAL ENDINGS $400: One myth says Jason was an old man when the prow of this rotting ship fell on him & killed him the Argo |
| #8600, aired 2022-03-18 | MIDDLE E $2000: From the Old English for "kill", it means to suppress a riot or rebellion quell |
| #8598, aired 2022-03-16 | CALL ME SOMETIME $1000: He played 17-year-old Elio in the film "Call Me by Your Name" (Timothée) Chalamet |
| #8598, aired 2022-03-16 | ONLINE & TEXTING ABBREV. $2000: eli5 is shorthand for this expression, so use small words to clarify explain it to me like I'm 5 |
| #8597, aired 2022-03-15 | WATER, WATER $600: As well as a neighborhood of Queens & the subject of an old joke, it's a river there & the bay it flows into Flushing |
| #8597, aired 2022-03-15 | THE ANCIENT MARINER $800: This Pooh creator wrote a poem about "An old sailor my grandfather knew who had so many things which he wanted to do" Milne |
| #8595, aired 2022-03-11 | HOPPER $400: Here are some kids playing an old-timey version of this game hopscotch |
| #8595, aired 2022-03-11 | BRIT LIT $800: 50 years after slaying a monster & its mother, the hero of this Old English poem must battle a dragon Beowulf |
| #8595, aired 2022-03-11 | ARTISTS $1000: A portrait by him, Leonardo's almost exact contemporary, sold in 2021 for $92 million, a record for an old master not named Leonardo Botticelli |
| #8594, aired 2022-03-10 | VACCINES $400: Prior to the vaccine, 3 to 4 million people a year in the U.S. got this disease also called rubeola measles |
| #8594, aired 2022-03-10 | WOMEN MAKE PASSES $1600: In "Indiscreet", this acting legend makes a pass at her old "Notorious" co-star Cary Grant Ingrid Bergman |
| #8593, aired 2022-03-09 | IN RECENT NEWS $600: 2021 saw this nation sever its 55-year-old ties to Queen Elizabeth II & then as a new republic, titled Rihanna a "national hero" Barbados |
| #8593, aired 2022-03-09 | 3-LETTER MOVIE TITLES $1000: A retired CIA assassin reunites with his old team to expose a conspiracy Red |
| #8589, aired 2022-03-03 | DETROIT: NEWS CLUES $600: (I'm Devin Scillian.) On October 3, 1997, the International Hockey League's Detroit Vipers welcomed a new teammate playing in his sixth decade; this 69-year-old ex-Red Wing, Alex Trebek's hero, took a 46-second shift in his very last pro game Gordie Howe |
| #8589, aired 2022-03-03 | ESPERANTO FILM FESTIVAL $2000: "Neniu Lando por Maljunaj Viroj" No Country for Old Men |
| #8586, aired 2022-02-28 | OLD SCHOOL $200: One of several of its colleges, Merton College was founded in 1264 without one Rhodes scholar (as that was a 1902 thing) Oxford |
| #8586, aired 2022-02-28 | OLD SCHOOL $400: Established in 1505, the university of this Spanish city now uses what was Europe's first tobacco factory as Carmen would know Seville |
| #8586, aired 2022-02-28 | OLD SCHOOL $600: Known for its work in medicine, this university dates back to 1876 & was originally in downtown Baltimore Johns Hopkins |
| #8586, aired 2022-02-28 | OLD SCHOOL $800: One of the 7 Sisters colleges, it was founded in 1879 as the Harvard Annex Radcliffe |
| #8586, aired 2022-02-28 | OLD SCHOOL $1000: 2 very different things, plexiglass & the artificial blood cell, were invented at this Montreal university founded in 1821 McGill |
| #8585, aired 2022-02-25 | HOW PUNGENT! $1200: John Goodman's Sulley gives Mike his choice of odorants--old dumpster, smelly garbage or wet dog--in this film Monsters, Inc. |
| #8584, aired 2022-02-24 | SENATE COMMITTEES $600: A long-time member & sometime chair of the Finance Committee, in 2021 this 88-year-old Iowan announced he's running again (Chuck) Grassley |
| #8584, aired 2022-02-24 | RHYMING SYNONYMS $1600: A "-sayer" of old & the verity of what is said sooth & truth |
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Brandon Hensley, a sophomore from Caltech
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2008 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 19 and from Huntington, WV at...
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Danielle Zsenak, a senior from Marquette University
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2008 College Championship 1st runner-up: $50,000. Last name pronounced like "zshen-NOCK"....
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Ariella Goldstein, a junior from Muhlenberg College
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2009 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 20 and from Cortlandt Manor,...
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Emma Couture, a twelve-year-old from St. Petersburg, Florida
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"Here's a portrait of a smart young girl who sees her...
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Justin Hofstetter, a sixth and seventh grade language arts and social studies teacher from Kansas City, Missouri
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Courtney Jones, a 12-year-old from Largo, Maryland
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Ryan Elkins, a 12-year-old from Bensalem, Pennsylvania
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"He wants to study physics and unlock the mysteries of the...
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Gabrielle McMahan, a junior from Florida A&M University
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2008 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 20 and from Springfield, VA at...
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Jason Richards, a pharmacy technician from Old Town, Maine
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2006 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
Season 22 4-time champion: $99,200 + $2,000.
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Julie Meister, a mom from Old Greenwich, Connecticut
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Season 21 player (2005-06-02).
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Brad Plovan, an attorney from Baltimore, Maryland
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"With the money from his five wins in 1995, he bought...
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Jeanne Breen, a physician from Old Saybrook, Connecticut
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Season 27 player (2010-11-05).
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Fred Cofone, a copy editor from Old Greenwich, Connecticut
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Season 27 2-time champion: $24,400 + $2,000.
Last name pronounced like "kuh-FONE".
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Holly Flynn, an 11-year-old from Holmes, Pennsylvania
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"She started performing in community theatre when she was just 4...
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Heather Peden, a 10-year-old from Tulsa, Oklahoma
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"This 10-year-old has already made her ruling: she wants to be...
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Lindsay Eanet, a senior from the University of Missouri
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2010-A College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. Hometown: Deerfield, Illinois. Last name pronounced...
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Rebecca Maxfield, a freshman from Brown University
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2010-A College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. Hometown: New Rochelle, New York. Rebecca...
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Aisha Tyler, a comedienne, host and actress from Talk Soup, Friends, The 5th Wheel and Ghost Whisperer
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2009 Celebrity Jeopardy! winner: $50,000 split between the International Rescue Committee/Congo...
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Michael Glick, a 12-year-old from Smithtown, New York
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"He's in math honors this year, even though math is one...
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Jason Richards, a pharmacy technician from Old Town, Maine
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2006 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
Season 22 4-time champion: $99,200 + $2,000.
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Nicole Tantoco, a 12-year-old from San Ramon, California
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"She has two simple dreams: to attend Stanford and then become...
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Robert Knecht Schmidt, a patent agent from Cleveland, Ohio
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Season 26 1-time champion: $12,799 + $1,000. Middle name pronounced like...
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David Hudson, a junior from the University of Virginia
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"His musical taste has changed since he won $10,000 on Kids...
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Dmitry Spivak, a junior from Northwestern University
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"The 11-year-old wasn't really kidding when he said he wanted to...
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Rick Knutsen, a musician and stay-at-home dad from Brooklyn, New York
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"A finalist in the 2001 Tournament of Champions, he's a musician...
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Jim Scott, an attorney from Arlington, Virginia
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"He was a legal assistant living near D.C. when he won...
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Elliot Shteir, an attorney from Somerville, New Jersey
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1995-A Seniors Tournament 1st runner-up: $10,000. Dr. Elliot Shteir won $8,230...
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Laura Hughes, a mom from New Market, Maryland
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Season 26 1-time champion: $27,500 + $2,000. Wife of Season 16...
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Liz Murphy, a foreign service officer originally from Scranton, Pennsylvania
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2010 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 25 5-time champion: $121,302...
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Thomas L. Friedman, an author and foreign affairs columnist from The New York Times
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"He has won three Pulitzer Prizes and authored six best sellers,...
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Lisa Makar, a senior from University of Maryland
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"As a seventh grader, she was planning a career as a...
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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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Frank Firke, a junior from Chicago, Illinois
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2007 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 16 at the time of...
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Katie Winter, a senior from Tufts University
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2008 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 22 and from Hershey, PA at...
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Nico Martinez, a college junior from Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
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2006 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2005 College Champion: $100,000 +...
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Dave Abbott, a musician and licensing executive from Fort Thomas, Kentucky
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"He won the 1999 Tournament of Champions. A musician and licensing...
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Tom Nichols, a professor originally from Chicopee, Massachusetts
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"A five-time champion in 1994, he used his winnings for a...
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Bob Fleenor, a newspaper copy editor from Martinsburg, West Virginia
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"Legislative work in his home state was suspended so that lawmakers...
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India Cooper, a copy editor from Madison, Indiana
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"She was an actor and copy editor in New York City...
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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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Vito Cortese, a software engineer and Italian translator from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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Season 27 3-time champion: $68,485 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Scott Menke, a senior from Johns Hopkins University
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2009 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 21 and from Flemington, New Jersey...
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Jordan Brand, an anesthesiologist from Westchester, New York
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Season 26 1-time champion: $24,405 + $2,000. The Sesame Street character...
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Jen McFann, a Peace Corps recruiter from Astoria, New York
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Season 26 1-time champion: $19,410 + $2,000. Jen McFann Astoria, New...
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Ryan Chaffee, a tutor from Los Angeles, California
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2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $91,900...
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Stephen Weingarten, a stay-at-home dad from Portland, Oregon
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2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $96,690...
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Andy Srinivasan, a high school science teacher from Clayton, North Carolina
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2010 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $69,600...
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Jove Graham, a biomedical engineer from Lewisburg, Pennsylvania
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Season 26 1-time champion: $34,401 + $1,000. Jove's second contestant interview...
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Matt Jacobs, a science teacher originally from Stratford, Connecticut
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Season 25 1-time champion: $10,323 + $1,000. Matt resided in Silver...
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Fred Beukema, a structural engineer from Minneapolis, Minnesota
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Season 25 3-time champion: $69,401 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Mike Marmesh, a veterinarian from Miami, Florida
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Season 26 1-time champion: $4,700 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Judy Mermelstein, a Census field representative from Queens, New York
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Season 25 1-time champion: $38,401 + $1,000. Judy also appeared on...
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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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Burns Cameron, a realtor from Standish, Maine
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1990 Super Jeopardy! quarterfinalist: $5,000. Burns appeared on the original version...
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Christine Kennedy, a freshman from the University of Notre Dame
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2007 College Championship 2nd runner-up: $25,000. 19 at the time of...
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Mark Brown, an administrative assistant and father from Peoria, Arizona
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2003 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 19 5-time champion: $68,094...
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Dino Alexander, a medical lab scientist from Fayetteville, North Carolina
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Season 35 player (2018-09-21). Dino also goes by the name Chico...
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Mandy Walker, an account tech from Mount Juliet, Tennessee
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Season 38 player (2022-05-30). Mandy appeared on the 1982-83 game show...
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Brooke Levine, a workforce manager from Old Bridge, New Jersey
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Season 41 player (2024-10-01).
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Leonard Schmidt, an optometrist from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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1992 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $5,000. 1992 Seniors Tournament winner:...
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Dave Mattingly, a director of technology from Old Forge, Pennsylvania
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Season 34 3-time champion: $77,400 + $2,000.
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Max Davison, a writer from Studio City, California
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2023 Second Chance competition semifinalist: $2,000. Season 39 player (2023-01-10). Son...
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Dennis Coffey, a bartender from Old Orchard Beach, Maine
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Season 36 3-time champion: $51,203 + $1,000.
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Shannon Brahma, a flight attendant originally from Old Orchard Beach, Maine
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Season 7 player (1991-01-10).
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Denise Shames, an office manager from Old Orchard Beach, Maine
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Season 9 player (1993-03-16).
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Clement Doucette, a 12-year-old seventh grader from Hudson, Massachusetts
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"This science lover wants to do something in the medical field....
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Blythe McWhirter, an 11-year-old sixth grader from Decatur, Georgia
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"She'll do swimmingly as a marine biologist. From Decatur, Georgia, let's...
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Josiah Washington, a 12-year-old seventh grader from Columbia, South Carolina
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"Fasten your seat belts for this future CEO of a roller-coaster...
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Ben Dufour, a credit specialist from Old Orchard Beach, Maine
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Season 19 player (2003-03-07).
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Kathy Casavant, a high school English teacher from Oxford, Massachusetts
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"Originally she wanted to do anything but teach. Well, she's been...
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Brenton Montie, a sixth grade social studies teacher from South Lyon, Michigan
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"He teaches at a school ranked in the top 5% in...
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Omar Ahmed, an analytics manager from Old Hickory, Tennessee
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Season 40 player (2024-05-14).
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Holly Boivin, a 12-year-old seventh grader from Nashua, New Hampshire
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"She wants to be a teacher, just like her mom. From...
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Patrick Aimone, a 12-year-old seventh grader from Long Beach, California
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"Teacher, scientist, lawyer--he just wants to use his debating skills. From...
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Xan Vessels, a 12-year-old seventh grader from Mechanicsville, Virginia
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"This phenomenal phenom wants to be a phenomenologist. From Mechanicsville, Virginia,...
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Thomas Hurley, a 12-year-old seventh grader from Newtown, Connecticut
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"Watch out, Alex. This kid wants to host Jeopardy! He says...
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Skyler Hornback, a 12-year-old seventh grader from Sonora, Kentucky
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"Honestly, this Abe Lincoln lover wants to go into politics. From...
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Jean MacKay Jackson, an online researcher from Tulsa, Oklahoma
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Season 25 player (2008-11-24).
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: pinkfreud
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Shuli Jones, a 12-year-old seventh grader from Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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"She likes being creative, so she's considering design or writing. From...
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Ben Christenson, an attorney from Chicago, Illinois
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Season 29 player (2013-06-21).
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Jim Davis, a college music and humanities instructor from Freeport, Illinois
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Season 25 2-time champion: $62,802 + $2,000. Not be to confused...
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Eric Oberhand, a computer consultant from Los Angeles, California
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Season 3 player (1987-06-18). Eric appeared on Art Linkletter's House Party...
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Sallie Rawlston, a 10-year-old fifth grader from Soddy-Daisy, Tennessee
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"We're sure she'll be a top scorer as a video game...
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Aarin Martinez, a 12-year-old seventh grader from Torrance, California
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"This future journalist wants to write for National Geographic. From Torrance,...
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John Wilkins, an 11-year-old sixth grader from Chevy Chase, Maryland
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"He likes constitutional law and debating, so he sees lawyering in...
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Zoë Assasie, an 11-year-old fifth grader from Urbana, Maryland
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"Bon apétit ! She wants to be a chef and own...
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Jonathan Shoemaker, an 11-year-old sixth grader from Austin, Texas
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"Game on! We believe he will be victorious as a game...
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Erin Wenokur, a 12-year-old seventh grader from Lafayette, California
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"She's interested in world affairs and politics, with dreams of becoming...
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Maddie Harrington, a twelve-year-old from Palm Beach Gardens, Florida
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"She wants to be a theater critic and she gets rave...
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Tony Harkin, an eleven-year-old from New Milford, Connecticut
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"Dig this--he wants to be an archaeologist when he grows up....
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Dominic Olivera, a twelve-year-old from Bristow, Virginia
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"Oh, good heavens! He wants to be a priest when he's...
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Ann Thurlow, an aspiring novelist and retired salesperson from Mendham, New Jersey
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Season 28 1-time champion: $26,805 + $1,000.
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Brooke Martin, an eleven-year-old from Galway, New York
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"It looks like smooth sailing for this marine biologist. From Galway,...
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Bruce Richards, an urban planning consultant from Metairie, Louisiana
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Season 29 player (2013-07-26).
JBoard user name: B-Rich
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Emma Johnson, an eleven-year-old from St. Petersburg, Florida
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"She'll hit a high note in her future musical career as...
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Neil Patel, a twelve-year-old from Plano, Texas
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"He wants to become an environmental scientist and help protect our...
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B.D. Schwarz, a twelve-year-old from Oakland, California
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"He wants to make others happy by opening a little game...
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Rahul Francis, a twelve-year-old from Flushing, New York
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"This electronic wizard's current plans are to run a technology company....
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Andrew Zazzera, a twelve-year-old from Virginia Beach, Virginia
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"He has a sunny future as a meteorologist. From Virginia Beach,...
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Dillon McCormick, a twelve-year-old from Erlanger, Kentucky
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"A politician, maybe. An archaeologist, perhaps. Or a psychologist like grandpa....
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Graham Doskoch, a twelve-year-old from Berkeley Heights, New Jersey
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"He wants to put his love of design and building to...
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Meg Walker, an eleven-year-old from Brandon, Mississippi
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"She wants to help people with disabilities have a better life...
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Charlotte Scott, a twelve-year-old from Washington, D.C.
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"Watch out, Diane Sawyer. This future news anchor is ready for...
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Aria Gerson, an eleven-year-old from Orem, Utah
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"Shine an apple for our future teacher. From Orem, Utah, class,...
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Jessica Dell'Era, a third grade Spanish bilingual teacher from Oakland, California
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"She has wanted to be a teacher since she was 7...
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Brian Meacham, a film preservationist originally from Anchorage, Alaska
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2011 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 27 4-time champion: $90,500...
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Stephen Huey, a lawyer from Arlington, Virginia
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Season 27 player (2011-03-21).
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Larkin Breitner, an 11-year-old from Fleming Island, Florida
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"She wants to be an actress, and she's ready for her...
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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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Katrina Whitehead, a strategic analyst from Sandston, Virginia
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Season 29 player (2013-05-30).
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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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Neha Embar, a 12-year-old from Alpharetta, Georgia
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"No kidding--she wants to be a pediatrician when she grows up....
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Greg Boscaiu, a 12-year-old from Brea, California
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"As an urban planner, he wants to help build greener communities....
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Max Davison, a writer from Studio City, California
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2023 Second Chance competition semifinalist: $2,000. Season 39 player (2023-01-10). Son...
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Sarah Bauer, a junior at Indiana University from Carmel, Indiana
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2012 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 21 at the time of the...
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Hallie Fox, a 12-year-old from Ypsilanti, Michigan
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"It's elementary. She wants to be a teacher when she's older....
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Julia Martinez, an 11-year-old from Fairfax, Virginia
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"Get ready, Pennsylvania Avenue. She wants to be president of the...
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Andrew Grace, a 12-year-old from Apex, North Carolina
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"He wants to be a soccer player and an orthopedic surgeon,...
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Harvey Becker, an attorney turned writer from Old Bridge, New Jersey
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1986 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $1,000. Season 2 4-time champion: $55,400....
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Partha Purushotham, an 11-year-old from Palo Alto, California
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"He is fair-minded, so he thinks he would make a good...
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Injee Hong, a 12-year-old from Metairie, Louisiana
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"If her dreams of becoming a lawyer don't come true, she...
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Ryan Griffin, an 11-year-old from Waldwick, New Jersey
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"We're sure he'll do swimmingly as an aquatic biologist. From Waldwick,...
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Weston Mangin, a freshman at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo from Arroyo Grande, California
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2012 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000.
19 at the time of the College Championship.
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Mandy Berry, an 11-year-old from Baltimore, Maryland
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"She wants to dedicate her life to helping animals by becoming...
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Elza Reeves, a bank teller from Louisville, Kentucky
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Season 25 1-time champion: $16,400 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Arjun Malhotra, a 12-year-old from Sammamish, Washington
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"He says he's not naturally inclined to be an athlete, so...
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Anna Cambron, a 10-year-old from Louisville, Kentucky
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"Her fascination with the human mind leads her to the field...
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Matthew Cline, a 12-year-old from Maumelle, Arkansas
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"John Grisham's books have inspired him. He's firm. He wants to...
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Robert Gibbs, a former press secretary from the Obama White House
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"In 2004, he joined Barack Obama's senatorial campaign as communications director,...
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Zach Safford, a senior from Williams College
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"His early interest in cryptozoology has been replaced by a history...
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Cassie Hill, a recent graduate from the University of Mary Washington
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"Her dad is a lawyer, and by the seventh grade, she...
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Robert Arshonsky, a senior from Cal Poly
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"As a 12-year-old, he wanted to be the first person on...
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Carl Brandt, an investor originally from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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2009 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 25 4-time champion: $70,799...
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Yoni Freund, a Ph.D. student from Columbia University
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"He has always wanted to be a writer, and now that...
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Mike Maheu, a high school teacher from San Diego, California
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Season 25 2-time champion: $46,242 + $1,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Max Johansen, a senior from the University of Miami
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"As a seventh grader, he was planning on a career in...
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Kailyn LaPorte, a sophomore from Decatur, Georgia
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2011 Teen Tournament 1st runner-up: $42,600. 15 at the time of...
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Lisa Makar, a 12-year-old from Chesterland, Ohio
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2008 Kids Week Reunion player (2008-09-18).
1999 Back-to-School Week player (1999-09-10).
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Curtis Joseph, a 12-year-old from College Point, New York
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2008 Kids Week Reunion player (2008-09-17).
1999 Back-to-School Week player (1999-09-10).
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Joel Serna, an 11-year-old from Fort Worth, Texas
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2008 Kids Week Reunion winner: $25,000. 1999 Back-to-School Week winner: $12,200...
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Anjali Tripathi, an 11-year-old from Woodland Hills, California
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2008 Kids Week Reunion winner: $25,000.
1999 Back-to-School Week player (1999-09-09).
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Claire Ward, a project manager from Richmond, Virginia
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Season 23 player (2007-02-27).
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Max Johansen, a 12-year-old from Boca Raton, Florida
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2008 Kids Week Reunion winner: $25,000. 1999 Back-to-School Week player (1999-09-09)....
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Melanie Bruchet, an 11-year-old from Tallahassee, Florida
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2008 Kids Week Reunion player (2008-09-15). 1999 Back-to-School Week winner: $12,001...
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Dmitry Spivak, an 11-year-old from Glenview, Illinois
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2008 Kids Week Reunion player (2008-09-18).
1999 Back-to-School Week player (1999-09-08).
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Robert Arshonsky, a 12-year-old from Cincinnati, Ohio
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2008 Kids Week Reunion player (2008-09-19). 1999 Back to School Week...
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Kendra Pettis, an 11-year-old from Maplewood, New Jersey
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2008 Kids Week Reunion player (2008-09-17). 1999 Back-to-School Week player (1999-09-08)....
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Davine Scarlett, a 12-year-old from Miami, Florida
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1999 Back-to-School Week player (1999-09-07).
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Yoni Freund, a 12-year-old from Hartford, Connecticut
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2008 Kids Week Reunion player (2008-09-16).
1999 Back-to-School Week player (1999-09-07).
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Myles Jeffrey, a senior from Seal Beach, California
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2007 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Tyler Van Patten, from Burlington, Wisconsin
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"He's focusing on becoming a corporate attorney, because of his fascination...
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Zane Ice, a 12-year-old from West Palm Beach, Florida
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"He wants to build a business in emerging technologies to help...
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Olivia Woods, a 12-year-old from Cincinnati, Ohio
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"She loves working with little kids and would like to become...
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Gabby Fusco, an 11-year-old from Maspeth, New York
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"She's loved everything about science she was a little kid, so...
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Jake McCrory, an 11-year-old from Pueblo, Colorado
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"He wants to make a positive change in our nation's future...
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Krissy Brzycki, an 11-year-old from Indianapolis, Indiana
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"Her love of helping her community and her interest in politics...
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Joe Schneider, a senior index editor from Old Bridge, New Jersey
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Season 33 player (2016-10-04).
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Adam Barrow, an 11-year-old from Greensboro, North Carolina
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"And he wants to be a sportswriter, so he can combine...
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Victoria Agrinya, a 12-year-old from Woodbridge, Virginia
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"She would like to be a successful entrepreneur when she grows...
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Will Harter, a 12-year-old from Park Ridge, Illinois
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"He would like to be a professional athlete. If that doesn't...
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Janelle Lambert, a senior from Brooklyn, New York
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2008-A Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Jonathan Hawley, a sophomore from Harvard University
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2008 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 19 and from Oceanside, CA at...
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Cerulean Ozarow, an 11-year-old from Brooklyn, New York
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"His future is full of options. He wants to become either...
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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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Than Hedman, a freshman from University of Colorado-Boulder
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2008 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 19 and from Denver, CO at...
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Andrew Chung, a sophomore from Harvey Mudd College
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2008 College Championship 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $25,000. 20 and...
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Dara Lind, a junior from Yale University
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2008 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 20 and from Cincinnati, OH at...
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Allex Fambles, a 12-year-old from San Antonio, Texas
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2008 Kids Week Reunion player (2008-09-16).
1999 Back-to-School Week player (1999-09-10).
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Sidney Tison, a veterinarian from Suwanee, Georgia
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Season 22 1-time champion: $13,400 + $2,000.
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Margaret Monroe, a junior from South Plainfield, New Jersey
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2002 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. Margaret was 16 at the time...
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Andy Siegler, a senior from Cinnaminson, New Jersey
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2001 Teen Tournament 1st runner-up: $15,000.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Blake Hernandez, a senior from Burke, Virginia
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2002 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. Blake was 16 at the time...
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Logan Bell, a senior from Rock Falls, Illinois
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2001 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $5,000. 15 at the time of the...
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Farah Zolghadr, a sophomore from Springfield, Illinois
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2001 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500.
15 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Seth Disner, a senior from Los Angeles, California
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2002 Teen Tournament 2nd runner-up: $28,900. Seth was 17 at the...
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Alexis Stephens, a senior from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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2001 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $5,000.
15 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Lan Djang, a business analyst from Toronto, Canada
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Elite Eighteen (Round 2 winners) member:...
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Michelle Clum, an executive assistant from Wichita, Kansas
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2001 Tournament...
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Kunle DeMuren, a 12-year-old from Virginia Beach, Virginia
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"And this world traveler has visited Mozart's birthplace as well as...
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Babu Srinivasan, a history professor from Houston, Texas
|
2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
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Jimmy McKew, an 11-year-old from Portland, Maine
|
"Because he enjoys the strategy of the game, he will likely...
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Gracie Studdard, a 12-year-old from Locust Grove, Georgia
|
"When this contestant's father was on the show, he couldn't think...
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Amy Merrick, a university instructor from Chicago, Illinois
|
Season 31 player (2015-06-15). When Amy was six years old, she...
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Aaron Thompson, a special assistant from Washington, D.C.
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2006 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 21 3-time champion:...
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Adam Pinson, a senior at the University of Alabama at Birmingham from Pinson, Alabama
|
2005 College Championship 1st runner-up: $50,000. Won $100,000 on Who Wants...
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Chelsea He, a sophomore at Duke University from Raleigh, North Carolina
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2005 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Last name pronounced like "HEE".
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Deirdre Kessler, a ten-year-old from Brooklyn, New York
|
2003 Back to School Kids Week player (2003-09-25).
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Eric Newhouse, a director of technical assistance from Vermillion, South Dakota
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"He won both the 1989 Teen Tournament and the 1998 Teen...
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Malisha Butts, a senior at North Carolina Central University from Durham, North Carolina
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2005 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000.
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Ashley Smith, an eleven-year-old seventh-grader from Greencastle, Indiana
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2003 Back to School Kids Week player (2003-09-25).
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Raymond Singh, a twelve-year-old from Phoenix, Arizona
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2003 Back to School Kids Week player (2003-09-24).
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Miri Baker, a ten-year-old from Warner Robins, Georgia
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2003 Back to School Kids Week player (2003-09-23).
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Suzie Turnage, a twelve-year-old seventh-grader from Panama City, Florida
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2003 Back to School Kids Week player (2003-09-24).
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Bruce Naegeli, a retired law librarian from Phoenix, Arizona
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"He finished second in the 1988 Tournament of Champions. A retired...
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Michael Daunt, an accountant from Oakville, Ontario, Canada
|
"In 1996, he was a finalist in the Tournament of Champions....
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John Ryan, a corporate controller from Richmond, California
|
"As a college student, he was the top winner of the...
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Kyle Hale, a college senior from Katy, Texas
|
"Representing Texas A&M, he won the 2002 College Championship. Now he's...
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Chacko George, a senior at the University of Texas at Austin from Austin, Texas
|
"He won the November 1999 Teen Tournament. Now he's a senior...
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Steve Berman, a teacher from Santa Monica, California
|
"He was a film executive when he won five shows in...
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Amy Fine, a part-time teacher from Bethesda, Maryland
|
"She was the last 5-time winner in the 1993-94 season. A...
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Bev Schwartzberg, an adult literacy program coordinator from Santa Barbara, California
|
"She finished second in the 1993 Tournament of Champions. Today, she's...
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Brian Wangsgard, from Salt Lake City, Utah
|
"He was the biggest winner in the 1988-1989 season, and a...
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John Beck, a creative director from Torrance, California
|
"He played in 2003, and was the last retired 5-time champ...
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Eddie Timanus, a sportswriter from Oak Hill, Virginia
|
"His 5 wins in 1999 made him one of the most...
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Jeremy Bate, an emergency medical technician and writer from Tujunga, California
|
"A second-place finisher in the 2000 Tournament of Champions, he's now...
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Bernard Holloway, a sophomore at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from Chapel Hill, North Carolina
|
"He was a 2002 Teen Champion. He's now a sophomore at...
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Arthur Phillips, an author from Brooklyn, New York
|
"He was a speechwriter from Boston when he won five shows...
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Michael Dupée, an attorney from Gainesville, Florida
|
"He was the winner of the 1996 Tournament of Champions. Today...
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Leslie Frates, a retired Spanish teacher from Hayward, California
|
"She was a Spanish teacher at Cal State-Hayward when she became...
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Michael Rankins, a minister and writer from Rohnert Park, California
|
"A 5-show winner from 1988, he has been a minister with...
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Theodora Messalas, an 11-year-old sixth grader from Brooklyn, New York
|
"This future author and illustrator placed second in a regional story-telling...
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Laura Mogul, an executive director from Port Washington, New York
|
Season 32 player (2016-03-31). Laura appeared on the original Jeopardy! with...
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Ross Gardiner, an 11-year-old sixth grader from La Plata, Maryland
|
"And this self-proclaimed sports fanatic likes all the teams in the...
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Kelly Scurry, an 11-year-old seventh grader from Lauderhill, Florida
|
"It's very convenient that Washington, D.C. is his favorite city, because...
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Tim Koch, a 12-year-old sixth grader from Cliffwood, New Jersey
|
"He would like to be a teacher because you get to...
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Alyssa McRae, a gift card production designer from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
|
Season 25 3-time champion: $50,402 + $2,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Paul Nelson, a Senate staff aide originally from Iowa City, Iowa
|
2013 Tournament of champions semifinalist: $10,000.
Season 29 5-time champion: $54,900 + $2,000.
JBoard user name: PaulNelson2012
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Diane Armstrong, a consultant and retired Navy officer from Alexandria, Virginia
|
Season 26 player (2009-09-21).
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Saad Hasan, a nanotechnology scientist from Nashville, Tennessee
|
Season 26 1-time champion: $22,700 + $2,000. Saad Hasan Nashville, TN...
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Wolf Blitzer, a journalist from The Situation Room
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"Since 1990, he's covered every major story for CNN, including the...
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Vivian Lappenbusch, a twelve-year-old from Seattle, Washington
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"She finds other people's stories and cultures fascinating, so anthropology is...
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Dana Delany, an actress from Desperate Housewives
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"She won two Emmys for her work on China Beach. This...
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Sita Yerramsetti, an eleven-year-old from Houston, Texas
|
"Her heart is set on becoming a cardiac surgeon. From Houston,...
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Jack Weisman, a twelve-year-old from Beachwood, Ohio
|
"He's considering becoming a lawyer, just like Mom and Dad. From...
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Josh Charnin-Aker, a twelve-year-old from Lighthouse Point, Florida
|
"And, whether in neonatology or as a Navy SEAL, he plans...
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Jessica Anderson, a twelve-year-old from Cranston, Rhode Island
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"She's known she wanted to be a teacher for six years--that's...
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Mike Scott, an eleven-year-old from Lake Villa, Illinois
|
"He really likes doing challenging projects in school, but hates doing...
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Hans von Walter, a junior from Southern Adventist University from Avon Park, Florida
|
2010-B College Championship 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $25,000 + a...
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Thomas Horn, a twelve-year-old from Piedmont, California
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"He plans on making the world a better place as an...
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David McIntyre, a twelve-year-old from Riverside, California
|
"When this Boy Scout was young, he thought that running from...
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Caroline Evans, a twelve-year-old from Bethesda, Maryland
|
"The sky's not the limit. She wants to be the first...
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Matt Drury, a government analyst from New York, New York
|
Season 26 1-time champion: $18,799 + $2,000. Matthew Drury - A...
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Joli Millner, an eleven-year-old from Charlottesville, Virginia
|
"No kidding, she wants to be a pediatrician when she grows...
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Molly Gier, a twelve-year-old from Chesterfield, Missouri
|
"She is preparing for a teaching career by tutoring her peers....
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Bryce Piotrowski, a twelve-year-old from Madison, Wisconsin
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"He has no idea what he wants to do later in...
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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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Ethan Waldman, a twelve-year-old from West Hills, California
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"This wizard of words wants to be a fantasy author when...
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Andrea Salt, a twelve-year-old from Gilbert, Arizona
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"This animal lover plans on becoming a veterinarian. From Gilbert, Arizona,...
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Will Walters, a twelve-year-old from Lexington, Kentucky
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"He wants to follow in the footsteps of his idols, Albert...
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Surabhi Iyer, a ten-year-old from Franklin, Massachusetts
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"Her research scientist dad has inspired her to become a neuroscientist....
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John Farley, an eleven-year-old from Marietta, Georgia
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"This young man has a plan--Notre Dame, professional lacrosse player and...
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Sam Daub, an eleven-year-old from Eden Prairie, Minnesota
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"And he finds video games enticing and has made a fantasy...
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Kyle Ziemnick, an eleven-year-old from Purcellville, Virginia
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"He likes logical arguments and debates, so would like to be...
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Inta Antler, a retired computer programmer from Scarborough, Ontario, Canada
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Season 25 1-time champion: $12,700 + $2,000. Inta Antler - A...
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Nicole Savin, an eleven-year-old from Lindenhurst, New York
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"This little 4'4" New York Yankees fan and her friends started...
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Tory Gilliam, a twelve-year-old from Powhatan, Virginia
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"As a member of his school's debate team, he likes to...
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Anissa Chitour, a ten-year-old from Princeton, New Jersey
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"Her extracurricular activities include playing violin, playing field hockey and shopping...
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Maxwell Baldi, a ten-year-old from Los Angeles, California
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"This future U.S. attorney general has always been interested in the...
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Jason Zollinger, an engine assembler from South Dayton, New York
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2010 Tournament of Champions 1st runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $100,000. Season...
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Neal Freyman, a ten-year-old from Longmeadow, Massachusetts
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"He's not sure recess counts as a subject, but if it...
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Lisa Dvorak, a grocery store chain administrative assistant from Millersville, Maryland
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Season 27 1-time champion: $31,201 + $2,000.
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Billy Hackenson, an eleven-year-old from Great Falls, Virginia
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"As a descendant of President Taft, it's no surprise that he's...
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Elena Botella, an eleven-year-old from Charlotte, North Carolina
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"This future journalist loves to find answers, today, she'll have to...
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Eureka Nutt, a paralegal from Canoga Park, California
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Season 27 2-time champion: $38,701 + $1,000.
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Zane Li, a ten-year-old from Provo, Utah
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"He's a chess champion and a two-time Geography Bee winner..." 2002...
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Cheech Marin, an actor, comedian, director, writer and musician from Lost
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"He's played a cop on Nash Bridges, voiced a 1959 Chevy...
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Ari Stern, a mathematician from San Diego, California
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Season 27 1-time champion: $17,201 + $1,000.
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Janet Bradlow, an insurance agent from New York, New York
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Season 26 3-time champion: $58,000 + $2,000. Janet Bradlow New York,...
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Chris Rodrigues, a personal banking representative from New Bedford, Massachusetts
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Season 26 3-time champion: $41,498 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Allyson McDonough, a twelve-year-old from Marietta, Georgia
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"Not only does she like sleepovers and designing clothes, she has...
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Matt Bischoff, a twelve-year-old seventh-grader from Sicklerville, New Jersey
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2003 Back to School Kids Week player (2003-09-26).
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Patrick Tucker, a senior from the University of Notre Dame
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2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2009 College Championship winner: $100,000...
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Ken Basin, a junior at the University of Southern California from Huntington Beach, California
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2003 College Championship semifinalist: $5,000. Blog at kbasin.blogspot.org. Appearing as a...
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Patrick Derocher, a twelve-year-old from Oak Hill, Virginia
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"This future architect likes designing large buildings and admires the designs...
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Becca Portman, a twelve-year-old seventh-grader from Deerwood, Maryland
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2003 Back to School Kids Week player (2003-09-26).
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Kori Tyler, a high school teacher from Cordova, Tennessee
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Season 26 player (2010-02-26). Season 25 1-time champion: $20,000 + $2,000....
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Ben Gammage, an eleven-year-old from San Diego, California
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"And when he grows up, he wants to be either a...
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Eric Betts, a senior from Emory University
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2009 College Championship first runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $50,000. 21 and...
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Francis Musella, a twelve-year-old from Boynton Beach, Florida
|
"This member of the American Numismatic Association wants to be a...
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Josh Woo, an eleven-year-old seventh-grader from River Ridge, Louisiana
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2003 Back to School Week player (2003-09-26). Josh hosted 50 episodes...
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Ina Jazic, an eleven-year-old from Bolingbrook, Illinois
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"She doesn't have a least favorite subject now, but in elementary...
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Elyssa Browning, a junior from St. John's College
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2009 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 21 and from Austin, Texas at...
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Jennifer Broders, a junior high school social studies teacher from Stockton, Iowa
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Season 26 2-time champion: $59,801 + $1,000. Jennifer Broders - a...
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Kadeem Cooper, a junior from the University of Virginia
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2009 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 20 and from Brooklyn, New York...
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Max Wagner, an eleven-year-old from Bedford, New York
|
"He thinks insects are beautiful and can't wait to discover new...
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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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Courtney Trezise, a senior from Michigan State University
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2009 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 21 and from Okemos, Michigan at...
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Wil Curiel, an 11-year-old from Costa Mesa, California
|
"His favorite subject is science, so it's not surprising that this...
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Anthony Fox, an account executive from Arlington Heights, Illinois
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Season 27 4-time champion: $51,998 + $1,000. Playing as "Tony", Anthony...
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Michelle Chang, an 11-year-old from Suwanee, Georgia
|
"This sixth grader picks the most unusual places to lose her...
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Crystal Durham, a 12-year-old from Fort Pierce, Florida
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"She would like to be an Irish stepdancing teacher, because dancing...
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Mark Petterson, a senior from the University of Kansas
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2009 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 21 and from Prairie Village,...
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Alex Silady, an 11-year-old from Edison, New Jersey
|
"He hopes to be an entrepreneur, because he likes doing things...
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Jessica Stapp, an administrative assistant from Tucson, Arizona
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Season 26 2-time champion: $49,700 + $1,000.
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Johnny Forrest, a patent agent from Washington, D.C.
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Season 26 1-time champion: $20,001 + $2,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: JFoDC
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Naomi Senbet, an 11-year-old from Washington, D.C.
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"This sixth grader doesn't like to be late for anything; maybe...
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Marty Scott, an assistant district attorney from Forney, Texas
|
Season 26 3-time champion: $64,002 + $2,000. Marty won $250,000 on...
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Diane Trap, a librarian and graphics specialist from Athens, Georgia
|
Season 25 1-time champion: $21,400 + $1,000. Diane Trap - a...
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Francois Dominic Laramée, a writer and TV personality from Verdun, Quebec, Canada
|
Season 25 2-time champion: $46,300 + $1,000. Francois's name was printed...
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Danny Brylow, a 12-year-old from Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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"A theologian, an actor, or a playwright? This young man has...
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Brooks Colleton, a 12-year-old from Jacksonville, Florida
|
"There's more to this young man than straight academia: he's also...
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Reilly Kiernan, a 12-year-old from Pelham, New York
|
"You're never too young to take up a cause, and this...
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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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Jennifer Gilbert, an 11-year-old from Fairfax, Virginia
|
"She co-hosts a game show at school, but today, she's here...
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William Coats, a 12-year-old from Ada, Oklahoma
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"He's mowing lawns now, but he's thinking big bucks, he's thinking...
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Matthew Cohn, a 12-year-old from Sunrise, Florida
|
"If you're already in trouble, you're going to have to do...
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Marissa Goldsmith, a web developer from Springfield, Virginia
|
Season 27 3-time champion: $44,100 + $2,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: marteena
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Tom Toce, an actuary from New York, New York
|
Season 26 2-time champion: $39,200 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Alycia Kennedy, a 13-year-old from Lynnfield, Massachusetts
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"She runs the fastest mile in her grade; tonight, we'll see...
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Adam Bock, a 13-year-old from St. Louis, Missouri
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"We're pretty sure that he's the only one of our contestants...
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Mike Kim, a 12-year-old from Wiesbaden, Germany
|
"Under the heading of "Came the Farthest", this young man wins...
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Joshua Malina, a TV actor and creator/producer from Celebrity Poker Showdown
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"He created and produced Celebrity Poker Showdown for the Bravo Channel,...
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Elizabeth Rogers, a 12-year-old from Owensboro, Kentucky
|
"Academic Team, Math Team, Student Council... we're just glad she could...
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A.J. Schumacher, a radio show production intern from St. Paul, Minnesota
|
Season 25 1-time champion: $10,800 + $2,000. AJ Schumacher Saint Paul,...
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Billy King, a 13-year-old from St. Albans, West Virginia
|
"With his love of math and his interest in design, he...
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Sandra Thomas, a 12-year-old from Hartsdale, New York
|
"This young woman is very sure about what she'll do with...
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Gail Flemmons, a history teacher from Clinton, Mississippi
|
Season 25 2-time champion: $46,399 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Tarun Chitra, an 11-year-old from Hockessin, Delaware
|
"In the Boy Scouts he learned to [missing audio]... today, we're...
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Diane Hyra, an ESL teacher from Richmond, Virginia
|
Season 25 player (2008-12-19).
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Anastasia Knasiak, a 12-year-old from Brookfield, Illinois
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"We don't know if there's a doctor in the house, but...
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Stefan Goodreau, a video game tester and camp counselor from Los Angeles, California
|
2010 Tournament of Champions 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $50,000. Season...
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Benjamin Schwartz, a 12-year-old from East Providence, Rhode Island
|
"When you were 11, did you host your own webpage on...
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Michael Bergen, a 12-year-old from Clarksville, Tennessee
|
"To be or not to be a Shakespearean actor, that's the...
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Emily Moin, a 12-year-old from Rockville Centre, New York
|
"Whether it's music or drama, she just loves to perform..." 2000...
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Becky Anderson, a retired software specialist originally from Morganton, North Carolina
|
Season 25 1-time champion: $16,401 + $2,000. Becky Anderson - A...
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Cate Heine, a 12-year-old from Louisville, Kentucky
|
"She's leaving her career path open, but wants to use the...
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Sandra McClellan, a granny nanny from Arlington, Texas
|
Season 27 1-time champion: $4,199 + $2,000.
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Andrew Bryson, a 12-year-old from Durham, North Carolina
|
"He plays on the school soccer team, but he wins his...
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Liz Maziarz, an English professor and mom from Seattle, Washington
|
Season 27 1-time champion: $18,400 + $2,000.
Last name pronounced like "MAY-zee-ar".
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Liz Murphy, a foreign service officer originally from Scranton, Pennsylvania
|
2010 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 25 5-time champion: $121,302...
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Thulasi Seshan, a 12-year-old from Draper, Utah
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"The sky is the limit for this future astronomer. From Draper,...
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Akshai Raj, a 10-year-old from Harleysville, Pennsylvania
|
"And his favorite subjects: all of them; least favorite, none of...
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Kevin Yokum, a 12-year-old from New Orleans, Louisiana
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"He plans on becoming an engineer just like both his mom...
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Matthew Silski, an 11-year-old from Laurel, Maryland
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"He has wanted to be on the show since he was...
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Jacob Hambalek, a 12-year-old from Fresno, California
|
"If he had to choose a career right now, he'd be...
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Parker Norton, a 12-year-old from Knoxville, Tennessee
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"As a doctor treating infectious diseases, he hopes to heal others....
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Tayonna Jones, a 12-year-old from Indianapolis, Indiana
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"She hopes to have her law degree by her 18th birthday...
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Daniel Stauss, a federal claims examiner from Seattle, Washington
|
Season 25 1-time champion: $25,500 + $2,000. Daniel Stauss - A...
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Katie Fulton, a 12-year-old from Tewksbury, Massachusetts
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"She's thinking vet, because she loves animals and everything about them..."...
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Nikhil Bumb, an 11-year-old from Greer, South Carolina
|
"He's a world traveler, but he can always be found on...
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Derek Schaible, an 11-year-old from St. Paul, Minnesota
|
"Stress? This future air traffic controller eats it up..." 2000 Back...
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Ethan Russo, an 11-year-old from Austin, Texas
|
"He really likes a big challenge. He wants to be the...
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Nick Yozamp, a junior from Washington University in St. Louis
|
2010 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 2010-A College Championship winner:...
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Gabby Dannunzio, a 12-year-old from Largo, Florida
|
"This future author is already trying to publish her book. From...
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Dave Belote, the base commander from Nellis Air Force Base, Las Vegas
|
2010 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 26 5-time champion:...
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Michelle Schrier, an 11-year-old from Potomac, Maryland
|
"She plans on being a news reporter while waiting for her...
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John Fabros, a 12-year-old from Downers Grove, Illinois
|
"This well-rounded young man is a computer programmer, violinist and award-winning...
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Amy Mandel, a 12-year-old from Miami, Florida
|
"Even though she's an expert in politics, she still wants to...
|
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Zachary Baumgartner, a 10-year-old from Deer Park, New York
|
"He'll hit all the right notes in the future as a...
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Rachel Mills, a 12-year-old from Lexington, Kentucky
|
"She spent her summer vacation babysitting, but frankly, she'd much rather...
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Jacob Joyner, an 11-year-old from Quantico, Virginia
|
"As a politician, he plans on improving the lives of Americans....
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Scotty Ballard, a 12-year-old from Murphy, Texas
|
"When he grows up, he hopes to serve justice as a...
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Samira Missaghi, a junior from the University of Minnesota
|
2010-A College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Hometown: Eden Prarie, Minnesota. Samira...
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Sophia Marianiello, an 11-year-old from Newark, Delaware
|
"She plans on putting her love of building with cardboard and...
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Jimmy Miotto, an 11-year-old from Northborough, Massachusetts
|
"He wants to be a Disney Imagineer and the president of...
|
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Savannah Morgan, a 12-year-old from Charlotte, North Carolina
|
"Her future recipe for success is as the star of her...
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Amanda J. Ray, a sophomore at the University of Virginia from Harrisonburg, Virginia
|
2010-B College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
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Alison Stone Roberg, an administrative assistant from Kansas City, Missouri
|
Season 26 3-time champion: $85,102 + $2,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Rebecca Dixon, a graduate student and musician from Vancouver, Washington
|
Season 26 2-time champion: $53,002 + $1,000. Rebecca and her partner...
|
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Katie Singh, a sophomore from Northwestern University from Austin, Texas
|
2010-B College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
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CCH Pounder, an actress from Avatar and Brothers
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"She earned an Emmy nomination for her role as Claudette Wyms...
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Tom Morris, a substitute teacher and grad student from Irvine, California
|
2009 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 24 4-time champion: $100,801...
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Ben Davis, a law student from Chicago, Illinois
|
Season 26 2-time champion: $51,802 + $1,000. Ben was a 30-year-old...
|
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Steph Gagelin, a sophomore from the University of North Dakota from Grand Forks, North Dakota
|
2010-B College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
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|
Elizabeth Perkins, an actress from Big and Weeds
|
2009 Celebrity Jeopardy! player: $25,000 to the New England Learning Center...
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Ellen Eichner, a junior from the Ohio State University from Northbrook, Illinois
|
2010-B College Championship semifinalist: $10,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
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Bethlehem Lema, a 12-year-old from San Diego, California
|
"Either being an astrophysicist or a pediatrician is in her future..."...
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Erin McLean, a sophomore from Boston University from Danvers, Massachusetts
|
2011 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 2010-B College Championship winner:...
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William Garrett, a 12-year-old from Greenfield, Indiana
|
"Serving his country as an officer in the military is his...
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Jackson Ruzzo, a 12-year-old from Waccabuc, New York
|
"He wants to be a Broadway actor, because he likes to...
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Lea Tottle, a junior from Florida State University from Oldsmar, Florida
|
2010-B College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000 + a Nintendo Wii +...
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Shay Collins, an 11-year-old from Averill Park, New York
|
"His passion for music helps this future rock star to play...
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Michelle Cinguina, an 11-year-old from Stamford, Connecticut
|
"Her favorite things to do are act, play the piano and...
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Elijah Granet, a 12-year-old from San Diego, California
|
"Because he loves animals, biology, and helping others, he's thinking of...
|
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Terry Parker, a high school history teacher from Cutler Bay, Florida
|
"Don't try to pin down this wrestling coach, history teacher, and...
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|
Michael Farabaugh, a high school chemistry teacher from Charlottesville, Virginia
|
"This chemistry teacher has been making things fizz, smoke, and explode...
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Braden Corkum, a 12-year-old from Niceville, Florida
|
"He likes making things, so he's going to be an inventor..."...
|
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Nicole Yoon, a 12-year-old from Asbury, New Jersey
|
"She has set her sights on becoming a medical doctor or...
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|
Justin Otor, a 12-year-old from Texarkana, Texas
|
"His chosen profession will be something in the field of science...
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Lindsey Nicolai, a junior from Hampton, Virginia
|
2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games quarterfinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time...
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Charlie Blatt, an 11-year-old from Scarsdale, New York
|
"Besides cooking, working on the computer, and tap dancing, she likes...
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Eddie Kwiatkowski, a 10-year-old from Cumberland, Rhode Island
|
"His interests in presidents and their history could lead to a...
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|
Kaitlin Welborn, a sophomore from the University of Pennsylvania
|
2007 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 20 at the time of the...
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Rachel Millena, a 10-year-old from Concord, California
|
"Her sights are set on becoming a writer, journalist, photographer, or...
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Kizzle Cote, a 12-year-old from Ludlow, Massachusetts
|
"This future ichthyologist has a 30-gallon aquarium in his bedroom..." 2007...
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Nicole Karrow, an 11-year-old from Lewes, Delaware
|
"Her goals are to be a horse breeder and trainer..." 2007...
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Harry Haghanegi, a 10-year-old from Chicago, Illinois
|
"Extracting DNA was one project this future geneticist enjoyed..." 2007 Kids...
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Nate Austin, a 12-year-old from Kansas City, Kansas
|
2008 Kids Week Reunion player (2008-09-15). 1999 Back to School Week...
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Zach Safford, an 11-year-old from Roswell, Georgia
|
2008 Kids Week Reunion winner: $25,000.
1999 Back to School Week player (1999-09-06).
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|
Cassie Hill, a 12-year-old from Merrick, New York
|
2008 Kids Week Reunion player (2008-09-19). 1999 Back to School Week...
|
|
Mike Davison, a TV producer from Studio City, California
|
Season 13 1-time champion: $10,200. Father of Season 39 player Max...
|
|
Justin Budinoff, an administrative coordinator from Framingham, Massachusetts
|
Season 22 player (2006-07-18).
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|
Chris Palmquist, an eleven-year-old from Stanton, Iowa
|
2003 Holiday Kids Week player (2003-01-07).
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|
Bobby Bretz, an 11-year-old from Bristol, Rhode Island
|
"It's either archaeology or pro baseball for this sports-loving scientist. From...
|
|
Rachel Beckman, an 11-year-old from Danville, Kentucky
|
"As a member of her school's academic team, she has no...
|
|
William Tarpeh, a twelve-year-old from Alexandria, Virginia
|
2003 Holiday Kids Week player (2003-01-07).
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Meredith Dedopoulos, a 12-year-old from Durham, New Hampshire
|
"This spelling bee champion has also won many sports awards. From...
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Jessie Robertson, an eleven-year-old from Hudson Oaks, Texas
|
2003 Holiday Kids Week player (2003-01-07).
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Thomas McIntyre, a 12-year-old from Marino Valley, California
|
"This self-proclaimed Star Wars freak, who has earned star rank in...
|
|
Andrew Goldfein, a 12-year-old from Lincolnwood, Illinois
|
"He likes to argue and help people, so it's off to...
|
|
Ariel Edwards-Levy, an 11-year-old from Sherman Oaks, California
|
"Whether she's dancing, tumbling, or swimming, she's always on the move....
|
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Emily Kamm, a 12-year-old from Arlington, Virginia
|
"This member of Model United Nations has been on the principal's...
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|
Neville Fogarty, an 11-year-old from Kingwood, Texas
|
"This chess player is planning his career moves very carefully. From...
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Michael Schulson, a 12-year-old from Chattanooga, Tennessee
|
"As a member of bug club, it's only natural that he...
|
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David Hudson, Jr., an 11-year-old from Richmond, Virginia
|
"If the L.A. Lakers don't have a spot for him, he'll...
|
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Josh Lacey, a 10-year-old from Ellicott City, Maryland
|
"The International Olympic Committee does such good work, he would like...
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Tiffany Wen, a 12-year-old from Exton, Pennsylvania
|
"This figure skater is also on the distinguished honor roll. From...
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Jared Rothenberg, an 11-year-old from Houston, Texas
|
"When he's not on the mound, he's warming up in the...
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Suzie Lisky, a 12-year-old from Mendham, New Jersey
|
"She's not sure what she wants to be when she grows...
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Nick Dnistrian, an 11-year-old from Webster, New York
|
"With a nickname like Elvis, this future chemist is already the...
|
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Allyson Lieberman, a 12-year-old from Whitmore Lake, Michigan
|
"Since she was little, she has truly loved to act. Broadway,...
|
|
Lauren Kutner, an 11-year-old from Newtown, Pennsylvania
|
"The best part of middle school for this seventh grader is...
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|
Trevor Norris, a management analyst from Washington, D.C.
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2003 Tournament...
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Joely Fisher, an actress from 'Til Death
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"She made her Broadway debut in Grease, and earned rave reviews...
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Jacob Collins, a twelve-year-old seventh-grader from Charlotte, North Carolina
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2003 Holiday Kids Week player (2003-01-08).
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Nina Garcia, a twelve-year-old seventh grader from Burke, Virginia
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2003 Holiday Kids Week player (2003-01-08).
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Ian Manka, a twelve-year-old seventh-grader from Tallmadge, Ohio
|
2003 Holiday Kids Week player (2003-01-08). Ian won $30,000 on Who...
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James Denton, an actor from Desperate Housewives
|
"He plays Mike Delfino, Wisteria Lane's sexy plumber on the hit...
|
|
Harry Shearer, an actor/writer/producer from The Simpsons and Le Show
|
"His many credits include providing voices for The Simpsons, and he's...
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Iddoshe Hirpa, a junior from Louisville, Kentucky
|
2006 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000.
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|
Madeleine Schwartz, a twelve-year-old from New York, New York
|
2003 Holiday Kids Week player (2003-01-10).
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Michael Blake, a 12-year-old from Hamburg, New York
|
"Our top story tonight is this young man, who wants to...
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Alex Stambaugh, a 12-year-old from Paris, Kentucky
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"He feels he can use his talents in math and science...
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Neha Gokhale, a 10-year-old from Houston, Texas
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"Because she liked 4th and 5th grade so much, she wants...
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Sara Jansson, a 10-year-old from Monmouth Junction, New Jersey
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"She wants to become a singer because she loves music so...
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Brian Cunningham, a 12-year-old from Los Angeles, California
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"It's either fighter pilot or computer technician for this 8th grader....
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Ivan Kleinfeld, an 11-year-old from Arlington, Virginia
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"He would like to be a doctor so that he can...
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Whitney Dearden, an 11-year-old from Washington Crossing, Pennsylvania
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"She enjoys working with animals and would like to become a...
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Eric Webb, a 12-year-old from Austin, Texas
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"He wants to be a cartoonist so he can make people...
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Aki Terasaki, an 11-year-old from Newark, Delaware
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"This future millionaire would like to be a professional writer and...
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William Marengo, an 11-year-old from the Bronx, New York
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"He will be the next Bronx Bomber, maybe--if it's up to...
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Katie Baxter, a 10-year-old from Glenside, Pennsylvania
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"She has already won a presidential award. So why not the...
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Dan Amboy, a 12-year-old from Lapeer, Michigan
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"He hopes to get into the best college that he can....
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Kristin Frankhouser, a 12-year-old from Baton Rouge, Louisiana
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"Her future plans include becoming a physical therapist, a wife, and...
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Kate Dzurilla, a 12-year-old from Syosset, New York
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"It's a slam dunk for this basketball lover and future WNBA...
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Doug Lach, a marketing manager from Columbus, Ohio
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2001 Tournament...
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Bob Fleenor, a newspaper copy editor from Martinsburg, West Virginia
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2001 Tournament...
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Leonard Schmidt, an optometrist and 1992 Seniors Tournament champion from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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1992 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $5,000. 1992 Seniors Tournament winner:...
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Steve Chernicoff, a technical writer from Berkeley, California
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"He was one of the top 1-day winners in the 1994-95...
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Frank Spangenberg, a police lieutenant from Douglaston, New York
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2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
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Steven Popper, an economist from Topanga, California
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"A winner of 5 shows in 1988, he has since founded...
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Eric Newhouse, a public policy coordinator from Sioux City, Iowa
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"Alex called our next alumnus a 'Powerhouse.' He was the youngest...
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Tom Walsh, a writer from Washington, D.C.
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
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David Siegel, a paralegal from Los Angeles, California
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"He was a finalist in the 1995 Tournament of Champions. A...
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Pat Connor, a management consultant from Cummaquid, Massachusetts
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Season 27 player (2011-06-23).
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Grace Veach, a librarian from Lakeland, Florida
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"After winning 5 games in 1997, she was the grand marshall...
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Michael Rooney, a college professor from Pasadena, California
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"He was a winner of 5 games in 1999, and is...
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Elaine Zollner, a physician from Glendale, California
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"A winner of 5 shows in 1990, she used her Jeopardy!...
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Ari Schoenholtz, a senior at Williams College from Bethesda, Maryland
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2004 College Championship 1st runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $50,000. Jeopardy! Message...
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Brad Selvig, a sophomore at Florida State from Jacksonville, Florida
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2004 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000.
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Nithya Kubendran, an 11-year-old seventh grader from Quartz Hill, California
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"When asked about her future plans, she said, 'World domination sounds...
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Emily Riippa, a 12-year-old seventh grader from Grand Rapids, Michigan
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"She is a fast reader, and her mother says she was...
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Lorna Johnson, a 12-year-old seventh grader from Willowbrook, Illinois
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"She loves all animals, especially her dogs Duke and Rudy, but...
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Edward Lee, a 12-year-old seventh grader from Sacramento, California
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"Of the numerous projects he has completed, making gliders and bottle...
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Alex Nutman, a 12-year-old seventh grader from Chevy Chase, Maryland
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"This future investment banker won 'best in grade' in a state...
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Josh Klein, a 12-year-old seventh grader from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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"And, his favorite subjects in school are math, social studies, and...
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Grace Thomas, an 11-year-old sixth grader from Raleigh, North Carolina
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"This captain of the Brain-Bowl team can name all the countries...
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Tamika Turner, an 11-year-old eighth grader from Sylvania, Ohio
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"She wants to be a journalist, because it’s important for the...
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Jake Houser, a 12-year-old seventh grader from Aptos, California
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"And this straight-A student would like to become a geneticist so...
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Megan Fraedrich, a 12-year-old seventh grader from Springfield, Virginia
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"And she was recently an evil stepsister in a performance of...
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Tom Walsh, a writer from Washington, D.C.
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
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Patrick Zakem, an 11-year-old sixth grader from Louisville, Kentucky
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"He would like to become an architect because he enjoys visualizing...
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