| #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 |
| #8583, aired 2022-02-23 | SCIENCE $1600: Aqua fortis is an old name for this corrosive liquid, HNO3 nitric acid |
| #18, aired 2022-02-22 | DOCUMENTARY SUBJECTS $1200: "They Shall Not Grow Old"; Peter Jackson documents this early 20th century event World War I |
| #18, aired 2022-02-22 | SCARY STORIES $1600: In a classic tale by M.R. James, a man is cursed when he's given a slip of paper written with these Old Nordic letters runes |
| #17, aired 2022-02-22 | LYRICS TO REMEMBER $2000: This old school punk band:
"Twenty, twenty, twenty-four hours to go, I wanna be sedated" The Ramones |
| #16, aired 2022-02-18 | A DAY AT THE SORBONNE $600: I was too late for petit dejeuner, so it's time for regular old dejeuner, also called this--so off to the cafeteria lunch |
| #16, aired 2022-02-18 | "YA"S $1600: Sea captains & pirates are "woven" into the fabric of the 1835 book "An Old Sailor's" these tales yarns |
| #15, aired 2022-02-18 | GEOGRAPHIC NAME CHANGES $400: Batmania & Bearbrass were old names for this second-most populous city in Australia Melbourne |
| #8579, aired 2022-02-17 | ABRAHAM LINCOLN $400: (Doris Kearns Goodwin presents the clue.) Lincoln was a struggling 30-year-old lawyer when he began wooing this 21-year-old, & though she came from a prominent family & had many suitors, eventually won her hand in marriage Mary Todd |
| #8579, aired 2022-02-17 | THE MOVIE TITLE ELEMENT $2000: "Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops", Cary Grant says in a 1944 comedy about his aunts' use of this arsenic |
| #13, aired 2022-02-17 | A KID DID THAT $200: Look it up online: a 9-year-old boy came up with this word for 1 followed by 100 zeroes a googol |
| #13, aired 2022-02-17 | A KID DID THAT $600: 12-year-old Kokona Hiraki medaled in 2021 in this new Olympic event's park discipline, held in what looks like an empty pool skateboarding |
| #13, aired 2022-02-17 | TENNIS LESSON $1000: In 2021, this 18-year-old won the U.S. Open, the first British woman to win a Grand Slam tennis title since 1977 (Emma) Raducanu |
| #8578, aired 2022-02-16 | 6-LETTER ADVERBS $800: Old-timey adverb that can follow "come" & precede "yon" hither |
| #12, aired 2022-02-16 | THROWING SERIOUS SHADE $200: "Great" these "from little acorns grow", & grow they do; here's Ohio's six-century-old Logan one oak |
| #11, aired 2022-02-16 | THE HARDER THEY FALL $1000: Sadly, on May 3, 2003, this beloved New Hampshire granite landmark seen here collapsed & fell the Old Man of the Mountain |
| #8577, aired 2022-02-15 | FROM THE OLD TOOL SHED $400: First made from bone & animal horn, eyed versions of this tool made from iron popped up in the Low Countries in the 15th century a needle |
| #8577, aired 2022-02-15 | EDIBLE ETYMOLOGY $600: In England, it's a cookie & in the U.S. it's a roll, but either way, it's from Old French for "twice baked" a biscuit |
| #8577, aired 2022-02-15 | FROM THE OLD TOOL SHED $800: Here's sculptor Antoine Coysevox holding this tool that he put to good use while at Versailles a chisel |
| #8577, aired 2022-02-15 | OH, THE THINGS I'VE DONE $1000: Around 342 B.C. I got the call from Philip II of Macedonia to tutor his 13-year-old kid, Al; well, that's just great Aristotle |
| #8577, aired 2022-02-15 | FROM THE OLD TOOL SHED $1200: A symbol of the Grim Reaper, this long-handled farming tool had its "hay" -day mowing down hay until around the 1850s a scythe |
| #8577, aired 2022-02-15 | FROM THE OLD TOOL SHED $1600: This 3-letter hole-poking tool can be used on hides or leather; Africa's Blombos Cave has Stone Age ones an awl |
| #8577, aired 2022-02-15 | FROM THE OLD TOOL SHED $2000: Seen here is an engraving showing one of these tools that turns wood a lathe |
| #10, aired 2022-02-15 | I BRAIN RADIO $400: At 14 this future DNA double helix discoverer went on radio's "Quiz Kids" for 3 weeks, beaten by 8-year-old Ruth Duskin (James) Watson |
| #9, aired 2022-02-15 | CHAPTERS IN THE NOVEL $800: "The Old Pyncheon Family",
"The Arched Window" The House of the Seven Gables |
| #9, aired 2022-02-15 | A SEMESTER ABROAD $1000: Off you go to this capital of Azerbaijan to see the centuries-old Palace of the Shirvanshahs Baku |
| #8576, aired 2022-02-14 | BEHIND THE OLD TESTAMENT NAME $400: Appropriately, his name means "man" or "man of the red earth" Adam |
| #8576, aired 2022-02-14 | BEHIND THE OLD TESTAMENT NAME $800: "Oh" this name, "don't you cry for me", it comes from a word meaning "lily" Susanna |
| #8576, aired 2022-02-14 | BEHIND THE OLD TESTAMENT NAME $1600: Here's the buzz--the name of this prophetess who appears in Judges comes from the Hebrew for "bee" Deborah |
| #8576, aired 2022-02-14 | BEHIND THE OLD TESTAMENT NAME $2000: This son, this son of David had a name meaning "father of peace" Absalom |
| #8576, aired 2022-02-14 | BEHIND THE OLD TESTAMENT NAME $5,000 (Daily Double): This youngest son of Jacob had a name meaning "son of my right hand" Benjamin |
| #8575, aired 2022-02-11 | TRANSLATE THE BRITISH ENGLISH $800: Old Mrs. Dudge still has an aerial on her telly an antenna |
| #7, aired 2022-02-11 | OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES $600: On a summer day, you're not too old to run through these, such as the oscillating type a sprinkler |
| #7, aired 2022-02-11 | THE 1920s $800: At almost 80 years old, he attended the dedication of his father's memorial in 1922 Robert Todd Lincoln |
| #6, aired 2022-02-10 | WORLD CAPITALS $2000: The Vardar River divides this capital of North Macedonia into old & new sections Skopje |
| #4, aired 2022-02-09 | LITTLE, MEDIUM OR BIG DOG ON CAMPUS $400: The AKC says the Old English this "is the archetypical shaggy dog, famous for his... peek-a-boo hairdo" a sheepdog |
| #4, aired 2022-02-09 | RIVER CITY $1600: This city on the Yamuna River has "New" & "Old" sections with more than 20 million residents Delhi |
| #8572, aired 2022-02-08 | AROUND THE USA $200: Almost 300 years old, this house of justice in King William County, Virginia is the USA's oldest in continuous use a courthouse |
| #8572, aired 2022-02-08 | AROUND THE USA $800: Head to New Orleans' French Quarter to visit the Old Absinthe House named for this pirate Jean Lafitte |
| #1, aired 2022-02-08 | BIBLE BOOKS $200: This word for the 4 books that recount Jesus' life is from Old English for "good tidings" the Gospels |
| #8569, aired 2022-02-03 | ROCKS & MINERALS $1600: 4.4 billion-year-old deposits have been found of this end-of-the-alphabet mineral, a December birthstone zircon |
| #8563, aired 2022-01-26 | THAT 1770s SHOW $1200: The "One (lantern) if by land & 2 if by sea" in this building were not meant to signal Paul Revere, but allies in Charlestown the Old North Church |
| #8563, aired 2022-01-26 | OMG! $1600: A version of the Old Germanic deity Donar, he's the Norse god of thunder & storms Thor |
| #8562, aired 2022-01-25 | BOOKS WITH HORSEPOWER $1600: Don Quixote's steed has this name from Spanish meaning "old nag" Rocinante |
| #8561, aired 2022-01-24 | SPICE UP YOUR LIFE $800: An ingredient in old bay seasoning is this type of salt with a crunchy vegetable in its name celery salt |
| #8558, aired 2022-01-19 | "BIG" TALK $400: He's seen here in an old illustration meeting his end the Big Bad Wolf |
| #8557, aired 2022-01-18 | THE MUPPET NAME $800: Blyleven & Campaneris, because our writers absolutely love old-school baseball Bert |
| #8555, aired 2022-01-14 | OATS $200: Ask Goldilocks--oats are a mainstay in the preparation of this boiled treat that she partook of in an old tale porridge |
| #8553, aired 2022-01-12 | 3 SHORT WORDS $1000: Samuel Butler's 19th century translation of the "Iliad" includes this phrase for "to die" more associated with the Old West bite the dust |
| #8551, aired 2022-01-10 | BETWEEN THE WORLD WARS $800: In 1935 Congress passed this act that established unemployment relief & old age pensions the Social Security Act |
| #8550, aired 2022-01-07 | METAPHORS $200: A problem individual in an organization ruins things for everyone, as in the old saying this "spoils the barrel" one bad apple (a bad apple) |
| #8550, aired 2022-01-07 | OPENING LINES IN DR. SEUSS $200: "1 fish, 2 fish
red fish
blue fish.
Black fish
blue fish"
this fish
"new fish" old fish |
| #8550, aired 2022-01-07 | HIS WIDOW LIVED ON $400: In 2019, 96-year-old Rachel Robinson attended ceremonies at this stadium in her husband's centennial year Dodger Stadium |
| #8547, aired 2022-01-04 | RECENT POP CULTURE $400: It's the 3-letter title of the M. Night Shyamalan movie about people aging with terrifying speed Old |
| #8547, aired 2022-01-04 | GETTING ADJECTIVAL $1000: As an adjective, it means out of date; as a noun, it's a cocktail that's never out of date old-fashioned |
| #8545, aired 2021-12-31 | NEW YORK-SET FICTION $200: From this novella: "Holly Golightly had been a tenant in the old brownstone; she'd occupied the apartment below mine" Breakfast at Tiffany's |
| #8545, aired 2021-12-31 | MODERN FOLK HEROES $1200: The U.N. made July 12 her day, honoring when the 16-year-old Pakistani gave a fiery speech there in 2013 Malala |
| #8544, aired 2021-12-30 | PANTS $1000: This old-timey fashion choice ends with a word that can mean a type of bird pantaloons |
| #8542, aired 2021-12-28 | OLD WORDS $200: Elflock was tangled this, perhaps mussed by mischievous sprites hair |
| #8542, aired 2021-12-28 | OLD WORDS $400: A cordwainer made these paired leather items shoes |
| #8542, aired 2021-12-28 | OLD WORDS $600: An expergefactor was someone or something that did this to you, like a rooster woke you up |
| #8542, aired 2021-12-28 | OLD WORDS $800: A gossip was one of these, a sponsor at a child's baptism a godparent |
| #8542, aired 2021-12-28 | OLD WORDS $1000: To be pot valiant was to be brave when in this condition drunk |
| #8541, aired 2021-12-27 | CLASSIC NOVELS $1,200 (Daily Double): The end of this Twain tale says while Tom Canty lived to be very old, King Edward VI lived to the age of 15 The Prince and the Pauper |
| #8538, aired 2021-12-22 | THE HOST OF CHRISTMAS PAST $200: Elvis Costello, Toby Keith & old pal Jon Stewart were part of this late night host's "Christmas: The Greatest Gift of All!" Colbert |
| #8538, aired 2021-12-22 | THE HOST OF CHRISTMAS PAST $400: 17-year-old Liza Minnelli performed in the 1963 "Christmas Show" of this woman, her mom Judy Garland |
| #8538, aired 2021-12-22 | THE 1920s $600: In 1924, just 29 years old, he became director of the FBI & stuck around for 48 years (J. Edgar) Hoover |
| #8538, aired 2021-12-22 | CRUISIN' FOR A BOOZIN' $600: Make like an old British sailor & serve this, rum & water; Admiral Edward Vernon was nicknamed "Old" it grog |
| #8536, aired 2021-12-20 | WE 5 "KING"s $200: This nursery rhyme guy called for his pipe, his bowl & "his fiddlers three!" Old King Cole |
| #8536, aired 2021-12-20 | ANGELS WE HAVE HEARD ON HIGH $800: This angel proclaims, "And, behold, thy cousin Elisabeth, she hath also conceived a son in her old age" Gabriel |
| #8534, aired 2021-12-16 | THE 15th CENTURY $200: Mid-century, Lorenzo Ghiberti completed his set of bronze baptistery doors with Old Testament scenes called "The Gates of" this Paradise |
| #8531, aired 2021-12-13 | SAY SOMETHING SILLY, PROFESSOR $400: A trademark of President Biden is using this old-timey word for nonsense or drivel malarkey |
| #8531, aired 2021-12-13 | FOSSIL WORDS $600: From Old French for "good", this adjective meant good but now is mainly a companion to "companion" boon |
| #8530, aired 2021-12-10 | ORGAN RECITAL $400: The largest internal organ in humans, it destroys old red blood cells the liver |
| #8530, aired 2021-12-10 | "EX"AM TIME $1600: A Latin word, this old-timey stage direction means it's time for 2 or more characters to exit a scene exeunt |
| #8529, aired 2021-12-09 | STATE SONGS $1200: This state has an official song & several honorary ones including "Live Free Or Die" & "The Old Man Of The Mountain" New Hampshire |
| #8528, aired 2021-12-08 | MORE THAN 100 $200: The Bible says this grandfather of Noah lived to be 969 years old Methuselah |
| #8527, aired 2021-12-07 | IN THE CURRICULUM $400: An old special object kept due to its association with a saint relic |
| #8526, aired 2021-12-06 | POST DOCTORAL $800: A position of utmost leadership in old-time Venice & Genoa a doge |
| #8525, aired 2021-12-03 | NOVELS $800: The narrator of this Ralph Ellison novel joins "The Brotherhood", which renames him, but we never learn his old or new name Invisible Man |
| #8524, aired 2021-12-02 | LET THERE BE ART & MUSIC $800: Nearly 2,200 years old & carved from marble, she's from Melos but resides in Paris; she now has a tough time shaking hands Venus de Milo |
| #8522, aired 2021-11-30 | "BLACK" ON THE MAP $600: Old this river in Ireland, keep on rollin' across County Waterford's Drum Hills to the sea (River) Blackwater |
| #8519, aired 2021-11-25 | "COME" & "GO" $1000: Tess of the d'Urbervilles was described as this, an old-timey word meaning good-looking comely |
| #8518, aired 2021-11-24 | NEWS $1600: A computer chip shortage caused Peugeot to put old-fashioned analog these to tell you your km/h in some models speedometers |
| #8516, aired 2021-11-22 | YEAH, BABY, SHE'S GOT IT $1600: I'd describe her with this word that means enthralling or fascinating; an old definition of it is "taking prisoner" captivating |
| #8516, aired 2021-11-22 | TV COMEDY SKETCHES $1600: This late genius as an inept dentist & a very old man on "The Carol Burnett Show" Tim Conway |
| #8514, aired 2021-11-18 | POETRY COLLECTIONS $800: He wrote many of the poems in "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats" for his godchildren Eliot |
| #8513, aired 2021-11-17 | NATIONS BY WORLD HERITAGE SITES $600: The Cave of Altamira & the Old City of Salamanca Spain |
| #8513, aired 2021-11-17 | NATIONS BY WORLD HERITAGE SITES $800: The old city of Dubrovnik & Stari Grad Plain Croatia |
| #8513, aired 2021-11-17 | BIBLICAL FIRST NAMES $1000: Zeke is often short for this name of an Old Testament prophet whose book follows Lamentations Ezekiel |
| #8512, aired 2021-11-16 | COMEDIANS' CATCHPHRASES $400: "Can we talk?" Joan Rivers |
| #8512, aired 2021-11-16 | BOOK TITLES EN FRANCAIS $400: A classic: "Le vieil homme et la mer" The Old Man and the Sea |
| #8512, aired 2021-11-16 | AMERICAN IDLE $1,000 (Daily Double): Mid-20th-century California pioneered these 2-word places to relax, making them from old wine vats hot tubs |
| #8512, aired 2021-11-16 | EXOPLANETS $1200: One exoplanet thought to be 13 billion years old has been called this, like Noah's grandfather Methuselah |
| #8511, aired 2021-11-15 | NOVEL QUOTES $800: In this novel 17-year-old Augustus Waters introduces himself as having had "a little touch of osteosarcoma" The Fault in Our Stars |
| #8506, aired 2021-11-08 | GETTING INTO THE SPIRITS $600: Chapter 1 of "Treasure Island" mentions this liquor in an old sea song rum |
| #8506, aired 2021-11-08 | GETTING INTO THE SPIRITS $800: This liqueur is distilled from wormwood, & an old word for wormwood gives it its name absinthe |
| #8506, aired 2021-11-08 | NATIONAL HISTORIC LANDMARKS $1600: Landmarks in two states include the 155-year-old bridge connecting Covington, Kentucky to this city Cincinnati |
| #8505, aired 2021-11-05 | KINGS & QUEENS $800: Hadassah was another name for this queen of the Old Testament (Queen) Esther |
| #8504, aired 2021-11-04 | OLD LITERATURE $400: Epinician odes, from the word Nike, include a series about this event, such as ones praising the boxer Diagoras the Olympic Games |
| #8504, aired 2021-11-04 | OLD LITERATURE $800: The Panchatantra animal fables were written in this ancient language of India & used to teach princes Sanskrit |
| #8504, aired 2021-11-04 | OLD LITERATURE $1200: This hero of Virgil's famous work escapes with a handful of survivors after the fall of Troy Aeneas |
| #8504, aired 2021-11-04 | "ANTI" UP $1600: It's one who studies ancient relics, or a type of bookstore dealing in old & rare volumes antiquarian |
| #8504, aired 2021-11-04 | OLD LITERATURE $1600: Spell 125 in this collection of funerary texts involves Anubis weighing the deceased's heart in the hall of truth the Egyptian Book of the Dead |
| #8504, aired 2021-11-04 | OLD LITERATURE $2000: In an ancient Mesopotamian epic, this king of Rruk meets the goddess Ishtar Gilgamesh |
| #8503, aired 2021-11-03 | CHAIR-ISH $200: Not just any old armchair, the Coronation Chair has been used since the 1300s & is in this London abbey Westminster Abbey |
| #8503, aired 2021-11-03 | 10-, 11- & 12-LETTER WORDS $1600: Some describe this old timey soft drink as tasting like licorice; others, like root beer sarsaparilla |
| #8501, aired 2021-11-01 | THE MAN'S PEN NAME $400: Mathematician & photographer Charles Lutwidge Dodgson is better known to readers young & old by this pen name Lewis Carroll |
| #8501, aired 2021-11-01 | THE MAN'S PEN NAME $800: N.W. Clerk--a play on Old English for "I know not what scholar"--was a pen name for this creator of Aslan C.S. Lewis |
| #8500, aired 2021-10-29 | NON-MEDICAL FEVERS $800: The Indiana Fever is a 21-year-old professional sports franchise in this league the WNBA |
| #8500, aired 2021-10-29 | THE VILLAIN OF THE PIECE $800: Anton Chigurh is the implacable, coin-tossing hitman in this Cormac McCarthy novel No Country for Old Men |
| #8500, aired 2021-10-29 | PRESIDENTS WHO WEREN'T BORN IN THE UNITED STATES $800: He wasn't "Old" in 1767, when he fell from the tree in the backwoods of the Carolina colonies Andrew Jackson |
| #8498, aired 2021-10-27 | PLOT POINT REWRITES $200: "Glad the sharks didn't get it", said the dock official, "But we just hit our marlin quota for the season. Toss it, Santiago" The Old Man and the Sea |
| #8498, aired 2021-10-27 | PLOT POINT REWRITES $600: The green room was terrifying. A young mouse. The red balloon. The old lady whispering "Hush" ...sleep would never come to me Goodnight Moon |
| #8498, aired 2021-10-27 | PLOT POINT REWRITES $800: McMurphy returned to the ward as his old self, even livelier--instead of the planned surgery, the doctor had fixed a troubling hernia One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest |
| #8497, aired 2021-10-26 | FILL OUT YOUR "W"2 $1000: The old job on the left gave us this last name of the man on the right Wainwright |
| #8493, aired 2021-10-20 | BOATS & SHIPS $1000: The 107-year-old steamboat Belle of Louisville offers lunch & dinner cruises as it paddles up & down this river the Ohio |
| #8489, aired 2021-10-14 | OLD SLANG $200: A young man living alone was "batching", from this noun a bachelor |
| #8489, aired 2021-10-14 | OLD SLANG $400: Barnacles & blinkers were these vision aids glasses |
| #8489, aired 2021-10-14 | OLD SLANG $600: If someone said you had beetle-crushers, it meant big these body parts feet |
| #8489, aired 2021-10-14 | OLD SLANG $800: A heavy drinker with a red nose was this naval bigwig "of the red" an admiral |
| #8489, aired 2021-10-14 | MY FIRST NAME IS A TV SHOW TITLE $800: Mr. Read, an 8-year-old aardvark Arthur |
| #8489, aired 2021-10-14 | OLD SLANG $1000: From a character in popular entertainment, a Peck's this was a man who didn't obey social norms Peck's Bad Boy |
| #8489, aired 2021-10-14 | MURDER, HE WROTE $1600: A body is found on a bridge in 1896 New York in this Caleb Carr novel whose title is an old term for a psychiatrist The Alienist |
| #8484, aired 2021-10-07 | COMPOUND WORDS $200: Here's an old-fashioned pair of these for a winter activity snowshoes |
| #8482, aired 2021-10-05 | I BEFORE E AFTER C $400: This word meaning really old is in the full name of St. Andrews Golf Club, open for 18-hole play since 1764 Ancient |
| #8481, aired 2021-10-04 | THIS CATEGORY IS FILLER $1600: Used as filling in a defensive wall near Mount Olympus, a 2,200-year-old statue of this queen & goddess was found in 2006 Hera |
| #8481, aired 2021-10-04 | THE ARTS $1600: Eugene O'Neill described this 4-act family drama as "old sorrow written in tears & blood" Long Day's Journey into Night |
| #8479, aired 2021-09-30 | OLD-SCHOOL SELFIES $400: Philippe-Laurent Roland did things the hard way, taking a 1787 selfie in this rock marble |
| #8479, aired 2021-09-30 | OLD-SCHOOL SELFIES $1200: But of course, this Postimpressionist posed in a beret for an 1890 selfie Cézanne |
| #8479, aired 2021-09-30 | OLD-SCHOOL SELFIES $1600: This great Spaniard needed just oil & canvas to snap a selfie 17th century style (Diego) Velázquez |
| #8479, aired 2021-09-30 | OLD-SCHOOL SELFIES $2000: Elongated figures are characteristic of works by this Italian painter who depicted himself that way as seen here Modigliani |
| #8479, aired 2021-09-30 | OLD-SCHOOL SELFIES $3,000 (Daily Double): After returning to Paris in the 1890s, he took a selfie in his Polynesian-themed studio (Paul) Gauguin |
| #8478, aired 2021-09-29 | WEBCAMS $600: In 2019 a webcam captured the fire that collapsed this 850-year-old cathedral's spire & roof Notre Dame |
| #8478, aired 2021-09-29 | SOUTHERN LITERATURE $800: 14-year-old Lily finds her way to Tiburon, S.C. & the Boatwright sisters in Sue Monk Kidd's "The Secret Life of" these Bees |
| #8477, aired 2021-09-28 | MISSING POISONS UNIT $400: In 1986 "____ and Old Lace" returned to Broadway with Jean Stapleton & Abe Vigoda Arsenic |
| #8477, aired 2021-09-28 | GOING "GREEN" $800: An old term for a newcomer, especially one unfamiliar with the manners & customs of a new place greenhorn |
| #8475, aired 2021-09-24 | GET-TOGETHERS $800: At this Latin American celebration the 15-year-old honoree gets her last doll, a symbol of the transition to adulthood quinceañera |
| #8474, aired 2021-09-23 | MY INTEREST $400: Vecturists crave these small round items, like old ones from the New York City Transit Authority subway tokens |
| #8474, aired 2021-09-23 | REVIVAL $2000: Baroque revival architecture is typified by London's criminal courts building called the "Old" this (it was New in 1907) Bailey |
| #8472, aired 2021-09-21 | DECIPHER OUR TOP-SECRET CODE $800: Attitudinal quality for Old Saint Nick:
10-15-12-12-25 jolly |
| #8471, aired 2021-09-20 | YOUTHFUL POP STARS $800: This 17-year-old singer was appearing on "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet" when he released his album "Ricky" Ricky Nelson |
| #8469, aired 2021-09-16 | MUHAMMAD ALI $200: (Hana Ali presents the clue.) "I am free to be what I wanna be and think what I wanna think", my 22-year-old dad told reporters after winning the heavyweight title in 1964; soon after, he announced his conversion to this centuries-old faith & remained devoted to it & its teachings Islam |
| #8469, aired 2021-09-16 | MUHAMMAD ALI $800: (Hana Ali presents the clue.) In 1978, my then 36-year-old dad won the heavyweight title for an unprecedented third time with a triumphant decision over this young Olympic champion who had taken his crown just seven months earlier Leon Spinks |
| #8468, aired 2021-09-15 | REDUPLICATIVES $600: Let's "give 'em the old" this, showy action that causes a distraction razzle-dazzle |
| #8467, aired 2021-09-14 | THE OLD TESTAMENT $400: "This is the day which the lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it" is from the 118th of these sacred poems Psalms |
| #8467, aired 2021-09-14 | THE WILD WEST $800: Get the feel of the West at Old Trail Town in this Wyoming city, developed by & named for a Western hero Cody |
| #8467, aired 2021-09-14 | THE OLD TESTAMENT $1200: After the death of Moses, Joshua leads the Israelites in their conquest of this promised land Canaan |
| #8467, aired 2021-09-14 | THE OLD TESTAMENT $1600: The first 5 books of the Bible are known as the Torah or by this name from the Greek the Pentateuch |
| #8467, aired 2021-09-14 | THE OLD TESTAMENT $2,000 (Daily Double): Potiphar's wife tries to seduce this dream translator, who resists & ends up being sent to jail Joseph |
| #8467, aired 2021-09-14 | THE OLD TESTAMENT $2000: At God's command, Abraham goes to this mountainous place to sacrifice Isaac Mount Moriah |
| #8465, aired 2021-08-13 | IDIOMS $400: The TV series "Entourage" got people changing plain old "hug" into this 3-word phrase hug it out |
| #8465, aired 2021-08-13 | CROSSWORD CLUES "Q" $2000: Term for a 40-to-49 year old
(14 letters) quadragenarian |
| #8463, aired 2021-08-11 | AN AUGUST CATEGORY $400: August 1935: Note the grinning 66-year-old as this act providing a system of benefits becomes law Social Security |
| #8460, aired 2021-08-06 | NOVELS SINCE 1900 $200: 23-year-old Andrea Sachs gets a job as a personal assistant at Runway magazine in this Lauren Weisberger novel The Devil Wears Prada |
| #8460, aired 2021-08-06 | OLD SYNONYMS $400: Ahoy! It's a cethegrande or spouter, this mammal whale |
| #8460, aired 2021-08-06 | ASH TREE $400: Planted before 1911, "Old Granddad" is a landmark ash tree in the shade-hungry city of Modesto in this state California |
| #8460, aired 2021-08-06 | OLD SYNONYMS $800: Sunrist was this direction east |
| #8460, aired 2021-08-06 | ASH TREE $800: Ash trees are home to more than 500 species of these symbiotic organisms, including old man's beard lichen |
| #8460, aired 2021-08-06 | OLD SYNONYMS $1200: If you saw one of these, you might've called it a haunt, a shade or a wraith ghost |
| #8460, aired 2021-08-06 | OLD SYNONYMS $1600: Syrup of soot & ninny-broth were 17th century words for this; go-juice & mud came later coffee |
| #8460, aired 2021-08-06 | OLD SYNONYMS $2000: An erring star or a wanderer was one of these planet |
| #8458, aired 2021-08-04 | AUDIBLE $200: She gives her life in lyrics in "Songteller"
"Well, I've often said that my songs are my children and I expect them to support me when I'm old. Well, I am old and they are!" Parton |
| #8456, aired 2021-08-02 | SCIENCE $400: Crabs reabsorb calcium carbonate from their old shells and secrete enzymes to shed them in this process of getting new duds molting |
| #8456, aired 2021-08-02 | HODGEPODGE $400: In 1985 the Cubs' speedy Davey Lopes had 47 of these, failing only 4 times--not bad for a 40-year-old! stolen base |
| #8455, aired 2021-07-30 | OLDE MUSIC $1000: One of Gabriel Faure's most famous pieces is his pavane, a centuries-old dance that gets its name from this Italian "P" city Padua |
| #8455, aired 2021-07-30 | 3 CONSECUTIVE VOWELS $4,000 (Daily Double): He's the Old Testament prophet most quoted in the New Testament Isaiah |
| #8454, aired 2021-07-29 | OLD MILITARY ABBREV. $400: Union veterans of the Civil War made up the G.A.R., the Grand Army of this, which they'd fought to save the Republic |
| #8454, aired 2021-07-29 | OLD MILITARY ABBREV. $800: Capable of firing 650 rounds a minute, the B.A.R., or Browning this, was in service with the U.S. Army from 1918 to 1957 automatic rifle |
| #8454, aired 2021-07-29 | OLD MILITARY ABBREV. $1200: During the occupation of Japan, MacArthur was CINCFE: commander-in-chief for this 2-word directional term for the region the Far East |
| #8454, aired 2021-07-29 | OLD MILITARY ABBREV. $1600: The B.E.F., which crossed the Channel in both World War I & World War II, was this force British Expeditionary Force |
| #8454, aired 2021-07-29 | OLD MILITARY ABBREV. $2000: To sailors in the Brown Water Navy in Vietnam, PBR wasn't beer, but this 2-word vessel proceeding "river", many on the Mekong patrol boat |
| #8453, aired 2021-07-28 | CHILDREN IN THE BIBLE $400: Chapter 22 of this book of wisdom says that if you start children off on the right path, even when old, they will not stray from it Proverbs |
| #8448, aired 2021-07-21 | MATH IN THE OLD DAYS $400: The Mayans were using this by the 4th century; the concept of that number didn't make it to Europe until the 1200s or so zero |
| #8448, aired 2021-07-21 | MATH IN THE OLD DAYS $800: An ancient Hindu text calculates the square root of this integer as 1.4142156, which is correct to 5 decimal places 2 |
| #8448, aired 2021-07-21 | MATH IN THE OLD DAYS $1600: The Babylonians used base 60, which could be counted on 5 fingers of one hand & the 12 these on 4 fingers of the other the knuckles |
| #8448, aired 2021-07-21 | MATH IN THE OLD DAYS $2000: Some think Ancient Egyptians represented fractions using symbols from the eye of this falcon god Horus |
| #8448, aired 2021-07-21 | MATH IN THE OLD DAYS $6,000 (Daily Double): Their numerals weren't handy for arithmetic, so ancient Romans did most of their calculating on this device an abacus |
| #8447, aired 2021-07-20 | TV SHOW EPISODE TITLES $1600: "Old Friends",
"How Do You Solve a Problem Like Sophia" The Golden Girls |
| #8446, aired 2021-07-19 | WHAT'S IN THE CAVE? $600: It wasn't just mammoths--these fur-covered rhinos are depicted in 30,000-year-old art in France's Chauvet Cave woolly |
| #8446, aired 2021-07-19 | FIRST NAMES IN THE DICTIONARY $1200: An old song says "A pretty girl is like" this, a pleasing tune a melody |
| #8445, aired 2021-07-16 | TODAY I LEARNED $600: The food & drink shop here was uncovered in 2020, complete with traces of 2,000-year-old food in this city buried by a volcano Pompeii |
| #8442, aired 2021-07-13 | OLD JOBS $200: No longer needed because of computers, linotype operators made sure these things got to one's doorstep daily newspapers |
| #8442, aired 2021-07-13 | OLD JOBS $400: In "Mary Poppins", a fittingly sooty Dick Van Dyke sings "Chim Chim Cher-ee", a song about this job a chimney sweep |
| #8442, aired 2021-07-13 | OLD JOBS $600: Back in the day, there was some heavy lifting for the guy with this job, also Val Kilmer's nickname in "Top Gun" iceman |
| #8442, aired 2021-07-13 | OLD JOBS $800: You used to be able to get a job as a pinsetter at one of these establishments a bowling alley |
| #8442, aired 2021-07-13 | OLD JOBS $1000: A rector is a university head; one letter different is this person from Latin "to read", who would read to factory workers a lector |
| #8442, aired 2021-07-13 | OVER BUDGET $1600: The 1858 $250,000 budget for the Old New York County Courthouse climbed to $12 million, much going into the pocket of this man Tweed |
| #8441, aired 2021-07-12 | OLD TV THEME SONGS $400: Sherwood Schwartz wrote the lyrics to this theme song about a group that "must somehow form a family" "The Brady Bunch" |
| #8441, aired 2021-07-12 | OLD TV THEME SONGS $800: Tired of "packing and unpacking, town to town up & down the dial"; you're "living on the air" at this radio station WKRP in Cincinnati |
| #8441, aired 2021-07-12 | OLD TV THEME SONGS $1200: The title good ole boys of this show were "fightin' the system like a true modern day Robin Hood" The Dukes of Hazzard |
| #8441, aired 2021-07-12 | OLD TV THEME SONGS $1600: "Keep movin' movin' movin', though they're disapprovin', keep them dogies movin"', this Western Rawhide |
| #8441, aired 2021-07-12 | OLD TV THEME SONGS $2000: "Through early morning fog I see", begin this song's lyrics, heard in the 1970 movie "M*A*S*H" but not in the TV show's theme "Suicide Is Painless" |
| #8437, aired 2021-07-06 | ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME NICKNAMES $800: Smokey Robinson said this "Let's Get It On" singer's Motown nickname was "Dad" because he "used to walk like an old man" Marvin Gaye |
| #8435, aired 2021-07-02 | THE ART OF THE LIMERICK $2000: 19th century first & last lines often ended with the same word, as in this nonsense master's "There was an old man with a beard" Lear |
| #8434, aired 2021-07-01 | LANDFORMS $200: Down in Florida, Canaveral is one of these, from Old French for "head" a cape |
| #8434, aired 2021-07-01 | LANDFORMS $800: This word for a type of landform comes from Old Norse for "inlet" a fjord |
| #8433, aired 2021-06-30 | ADD AN S TO THE FRONT $1000: An adjective meaning more than enough becomes a piece of an old song used in a new one ample & sample |
| #8432, aired 2021-06-29 | LIT-POURRI $400: His follow-up to "A Christmas Carol" was "The Chimes", a "story of some bells that rang an old year out and a new year in" (Charles) Dickens |
| #8431, aired 2021-06-28 | TALKING HEADS $200: In an April 19, 1951 speech, he gave new life to the well-worn phrase "Old soldiers never die; they just fade away" MacArthur |
| #8430, aired 2021-06-25 | JOLIE OLD FRANCE $400: In the 50s B.C. this man led Roman military campaigns into France, which was then part of Transalpine Gaul Caesar |
| #8430, aired 2021-06-25 | SINGING $400: If you hit a random piano key & your 5-year-old tells you it's a D-sharp, she has this quality & a singing career may be in store perfect pitch |
| #8430, aired 2021-06-25 | JOLIE OLD FRANCE $800: In an effort to strangle it economically, Napoleon imposed his "Continental System" blockade on this nation, France's foe England |
| #8430, aired 2021-06-25 | JOLIE OLD FRANCE $1200: Here is painter Jean-Pierre Houël's depiction of the fall of this fortress to revolutionary forces in 1789 the Bastille |
| #8430, aired 2021-06-25 | JOLIE OLD FRANCE $1600: Jean-Jacques Rousseau advocated for human liberty in works like this 1762 "Social" one contract |
| #8430, aired 2021-06-25 | JOLIE OLD FRANCE $2000: In 751 Charles Martel's son, this guy "the Short", deposed the last Merovingian ruler & became king of the Franks Pepin |
| #8429, aired 2021-06-24 | ENDS IN "A-D-O" $1200: "Tequila Sunrise" is a track from this Eagles album that had an Old-West concept Desperado |
| #8428, aired 2021-06-23 | IN A BOTTLE $400: 6 liters of wine fits in a bottle called this, the name of an extremely old guy in the Bible Methuselah |
| #8428, aired 2021-06-23 | LIGHTNING $1000: In a country song George Jones "asked my old pappy why he called his brew" this 2-word stuff white lightning |
| #8428, aired 2021-06-23 | CATCH $2,000 (Daily Double): Alfred Glassell set a record catching a "black" one of these in 1953; footage of the catch was later used in "The Old Man and the Sea" a marlin |
| #8427, aired 2021-06-22 | SCULPTURE & STATUES $400: Want to see a pair of Nikes almost 2,000 years old? Visit the Athens museum named for this hill the Acropolis |
| #8426, aired 2021-06-21 | SOME RANDOM INFO $600: The last person to receive a pension from this war died in 2020; the 90-year-old woman's dad changed sides midway through the American Civil War |
| #8426, aired 2021-06-21 | FAMILIAR PHRASES $800: Longtime Philly DJ Jerry Blavat helped popularize this "explosive" rhyming phrase for something good out of the old days blast from the past |
| #8423, aired 2021-06-16 | FAWKES & FRIENDS $600: This king, only son of Mary, Queen of Scots, was one intended target, with his 9-year-old daughter to be a puppet queen James I |
| #8423, aired 2021-06-16 | THE COMICS $800: A 1930s comic strip starring a woman named Fritzi Ritz introduced this 8-year-old girl Nancy |
| #8422, aired 2021-06-15 | HOME, SWEET ANIMAL HOME $1600: These crustaceans with a "solitary" name seek new shells to live in after outgrowing their old ones hermit crabs |
| #8421, aired 2021-06-14 | MOBITUARIES WITH MO ROCCA $1000: (Mo Rocca presents the clue.) This English dandy with an alliterative name, was an influencer of men's fashion in the 1800s, counting Lord Byron among his fans; today his name is an old-fashioned term for a fashion plate Beau Brummell |
| #8421, aired 2021-06-14 | A MESSY CATEGORY $1000: Shambles is an old word for one of these workplaces, a literal scene of carnage a slaughter house |
| #8420, aired 2021-06-11 | NAME CALLING $800: Using the old family name, Winston Churchill referred to this world leader as "Herr Schicklgruber" Hitler |
| #8419, aired 2021-06-10 | 15 LOVE $200: In a 2003 book this 15-year-old could have "counted the freckles on" Cho Chang's nose as she steals a kiss from him Harry Potter |
| #8419, aired 2021-06-10 | 15 LOVE $400: "One Time" in 2009 this 15-year-old kid from Ontario hit us with the lyrics "Girl I love, girl I love you" Justin Bieber |
| #8419, aired 2021-06-10 | BIBLICAL BROADWAY $800: Richard Rodgers' musical "Two by Two" is about this Old Testament man Noah |
| #8419, aired 2021-06-10 | BIBLICAL BROADWAY $1600: Paddy Chayefsky's "Gideon" is based on this "occupational" book of the Old Testament Judges |
| #8417, aired 2021-06-08 | FASHIONABLY $500 (Daily Double): I say, old chap! Wide neckties include the cravat & this one suitable for wear at the British racecourse of the same name an ascot |
| #8416, aired 2021-06-07 | HEIR GUITAR $400: Playing with this Beatle's son Dhani, Paul McCartney repeated the line, "It looks like he stayed young and we all got old" (George) Harrison |
| #8415, aired 2021-06-04 | A QUICK STUDY $400: Gerontology the elderly or old people (aging) |
| #8410, aired 2021-05-28 | KEEPING UP WITH THE JOANS $800: In 2017 this singer of "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Joan Baez |
| #8409, aired 2021-05-27 | COMPUTER SPEAK $600: An old external modem not communicating fast enough? You may need to increase this measure of speed, bps for short bits per second |
| #8407, aired 2021-05-25 | DOUBLE THE DOUBLE VOWELS $800: Job title of an Old West owner of an establishment such as the Bucket of Blood in Nevada saloonkeeper |
| #8407, aired 2021-05-25 | A PALACE IN HISTORY $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna, Austria.) The iron bed at Schönbrunn Palace was where this 86-year-old emperor died in 1916; he barely left the palace the previous two years, but mainly did so to visit wounded soldiers Franz Joseph |
| #8407, aired 2021-05-25 | THE "TOC" $1200: Fans of vintage stuff covet old unsold items classed as this inventory with a "mortal" name dead stock |
| #8406, aired 2021-05-24 | NEVER ENOUGH $400: In 2020 the U.S. Mint established a task force over weak circulation of these; empty your old jars, America! pennies (coins) |
| #8406, aired 2021-05-24 | CHINESE THEATRE HAND & FOOTPRINTS $2000: She played 110-year-old Miss Jane Pittman in 1974 & left her prints in 2018 at age 93 Cicely Tyson |
| #8404, aired 2021-05-20 | BATTLES $400: Engagements during this conflict included the Battles of Old Baldy & Heartbreak Ridge Korea (the Korean War) |
| #8404, aired 2021-05-20 | 5-LETTER 3-SYLLABLE WORDS $800: A brown pigment associated with old photos sepia |
| #8403, aired 2021-05-19 | ETYMOLOGY $1600: This word for a spooky warning spirit of folklore comes from old Irish meaning "woman of the fairies" a banshee |
| #8402, aired 2021-05-18 | WELL VERSED IN POETRY $400: "Antique" title of a poem about a warship that mentions "her deck, once red with heroes' blood" "Old Ironsides" |
| #8402, aired 2021-05-18 | 4 OF THE SAME LETTER $1200: From old words for "one & all", today it means disreputable or undesirable people riff-raff |
| #8399, aired 2021-05-13 | THE DAILY TRIPLE $400: Unafraid to get his merry on, Old King Cole called for his bowl & then these musicians fiddlers three |
| #8398, aired 2021-05-12 | WORD ORIGINS $400: This term for the loan agreement to purchase a dwelling comes from Old French for "dead wage" mortgage |
| #8397, aired 2021-05-11 | ALL THE BOOZE $200: Town & Country's combo for a Oaxacan Old Fashioned has mezcal, bitters & Corralejo Reposado this booze tequila |
| #8397, aired 2021-05-11 | ALL THE BOOZE $800: This brand offers a 3-step recipe:
1) put ice in a highball glass;
2) pour its Old No. 7 over ice;
3) top with Coke Jack Daniel's |
| #8394, aired 2021-05-06 | HOT STUFF $800: About every 90 minutes, you can count on this geyser erupting with 200-degree water Old Faithful |
| #8393, aired 2021-05-05 | NON-ALEXANDER HAMILTON $200: By 7, mathematician William Rowan Hamilton had a good grasp on Latin, Greek & this main language of the Old Testament Hebrew |
| #8391, aired 2021-05-03 | YE OLDE SCIENCE $400: Transmutation was a key goal of this science, whether from old age to youth or base metal to gold alchemy |
| #8390, aired 2021-04-30 | AROUND LOS ANGELES $200: This beach city has a famous ferris wheel, & a 112-year-old pier with a marker for the end of historic Route 66 Santa Monica |
| #8390, aired 2021-04-30 | 2020 VISION $600: This Foo Fighters frontman got in a drum battle with a 10-year-old, lost, then wrote a song about her David Grohl |
| #8390, aired 2021-04-30 | AFRICAN AMERICAN MEMOIRS $800: "Vernon Can Read!", the title of a memoir by this civil rights activist & advisor to Bill Clinton, was a quote from an old boss Vernon Jordan |
| #8390, aired 2021-04-30 | TIME TRAVELIN' MOVIES $1000: It was far from bogus when these 2 title guys--& their old pal, Death!--returned to "Face the Music" in 2020 Bill & Ted |
| #8389, aired 2021-04-29 | WHAT'S THE DEAL"IO"? $400: A Brit might bid farewell to an "old chap" using this word cheerio |
| #8388, aired 2021-04-28 | GET OFF OF MY CLOUD $2000: A reunion with an old friend at a pub becomes depressing in "A Little Cloud", a tale in this James Joyce short story collection Dubliners |
| #8386, aired 2021-04-26 | OFFICIAL STATE SONGS $1000: "Old Folks At Home", also known as "Swanee River" Florida |
| #8384, aired 2021-04-22 | SECRETS OF THE WHALES $600: Belugas get a spa day at a secret site off Canada's coast; traveling far to use rocks there & do this, shed the surface of old skin molt |
| #8381, aired 2021-04-19 | WET WORDS $1600: From the Latin for "wash away", it's a word for the flood in the Old Testament a deluge |
| #8379, aired 2021-04-15 | HEAD FOR THE LIGHT $200: Starlight is said to do this, from the Old English for "blink" twinkle |
| #8378, aired 2021-04-14 | OLD OCCUPATIONS $400: Oyez! Oyez! Oyez! The herald with this 2-word job announced important news & proclamations the town crier |
| #8378, aired 2021-04-14 | OLD OCCUPATIONS $800: Oddly, the same person who performed minor surgeries once also had this job, joined with surgeon in the name of a guild a barber |
| #8378, aired 2021-04-14 | OLD OCCUPATIONS $1200: In these 2 similarly named jobs, one ground grain into flour & the other, often a woman, made & sold clothes & hats a miller & a milliner |
| #8378, aired 2021-04-14 | OLD OCCUPATIONS $2000: Like Bartleby in Melville's title, it was a clerk or copyist a scrivener |
| #8378, aired 2021-04-14 | OLD OCCUPATIONS $3,000 (Daily Double): It wasn't just a purple color & flower, it was also a washerwoman lavender |
| #8374, aired 2021-04-08 | IT HAPPENED IN EUROPE! $400: This festival started by Ludwig of Bavaria is more than 200 years old Oktoberfest |
| #8373, aired 2021-04-07 | LITERARY ANIMALS $1000: In a 1939 T.S. Eliot poem, this cat "has lived many lives in succession" Old Deuteronomy |
| #8373, aired 2021-04-07 | DISCOVERIES IN SCIENCE $2000: A 9-year-old found a clavicle that turned out to belong to an unknown species of this "southern ape" genus that also included Lucy Australopithecus |
| #8372, aired 2021-04-06 | BADJECTIVES $1600: It followed "penny" in the name of an old-timey novel dreadful |
| #8371, aired 2021-04-05 | POP CULTURE-POURRI $200: In 2021 Queen Latifah rebooted this old Edward Woodward TV role of righting wrongs that no one else will The Equalizer |
| #8371, aired 2021-04-05 | HEMINGWAY $4,500 (Daily Double): (Ken Burns narrates the clue.) An anecdote in the 1936 Esquire piece was the basis for this 1952 bestseller that brought Hemingway new acclaim The Old Man and the Sea |
| #8367, aired 2021-03-30 | THE OLD TESTAMENT $400: The name of this book of the Pentateuch has 5 syllables Deuteronomy |
| #8367, aired 2021-03-30 | KIPLING CHARACTERS $400: Brave 6-year-old Percival William Williams is known as "Wee" this, from a book of nursery rhymes Willie (Wee Willie Winkie) |
| #8367, aired 2021-03-30 | THE OLD TESTAMENT $800: The Greek for "time" gives us the names of 1 & 2 this Chronicles |
| #8367, aired 2021-03-30 | THE OLD TESTAMENT $1200: King Saul's time is detailed in the 2 books named for this prophet Samuel |
| #8367, aired 2021-03-30 | THE OLD TESTAMENT $2000: The last book of the Old Testament is named for this prophet whose name means "my messenger" Malachi |
| #8367, aired 2021-03-30 | THE OLD TESTAMENT $5,000 (Daily Double): This book is aptly titled--it consists of 5 chapters of woe over the destruction of Jerusalem in 586 B.C. Lamentations |
| #8366, aired 2021-03-29 | GETTING DOWN TO BUSINESS $3,600 (Daily Double): As tires weren't colored black until 1912, Bibendum, the now-123-year-old mascot of this company, is white Michelin |
| #8365, aired 2021-03-26 | CATHAY SOCIETY $400: The merit-based civil servants of old Cathay were called these, from the language they spoke Mandarins |
| #8362, aired 2021-03-23 | NO. 1 LYRICS $400: In "Old Town Road", Lil Nas X sports this type of headwear "from Gucci", not Stetson a cowboy hat |
| #8362, aired 2021-03-23 | HAVE A DRINK AT... $400: This merry old soul of children's rhyme presides from a mural over the bar named for him at the St. Regis in New York City Old King Cole |
| #8361, aired 2021-03-22 | SLEEPY TIME $800: An old song says, this personification of sleep, "bring me a dream" Sandman |
| #8360, aired 2021-03-19 | JOBS IN THE BIBLE $1000: Jesus calls these old-time copyists hypocrites & tells them, "Woe unto you" scribes |
| #8359, aired 2021-03-18 | COMPLETE THE AD SLOGAN $1000: Smith Barney:
They make money
the ____-____ way old-fashioned |
| #8359, aired 2021-03-18 | BOYS $1200: Frank & Joe are these fictional brothers who've solved mysteries like "The Secret of the Old Mill" The Hardy Boys |
| #8358, aired 2021-03-17 | AT THE END OF THE SCARY MOVIE $800: "I do wish we could chat longer, but I'm having an old friend for dinner" The Silence of the Lambs |
| #8358, aired 2021-03-17 | THEY GO LOW $1600: Historically, combat engineers who dug tunnels as part of a siege were called sappers, from an Old French word for this implement a spade |
| #8357, aired 2021-03-16 | STARTS & ENDS WITH "E" $400: This stationery word is from Old French for "wrap up" envelope |
| #8357, aired 2021-03-16 | IT'S THEIR SONG $1200: In this superhero's "Song", Crash Test Dummies sang, "He stayed in the city, kept on changing clothes in dirty old phone booths" Superman |
| #8355, aired 2021-03-12 | BEFORE & AFTER $1600: It's "your old" home turf where you really put your foot down about having that hamburger meat stomping ground beef |
| #8355, aired 2021-03-12 | IN MY RECORD COLLECTION $2000: Her French song "La Vie En Rose", on an old 78 Edith Piaf |
| #8354, aired 2021-03-11 | LINE, ITEM $1600: In a Maya Angelou poem, "the dark" one of these old-time lamps "of world sadness has cast its shadow upon the land" a lantern |
| #8353, aired 2021-03-10 | U.S. COINS $1,000 (Daily Double): Old West artist James Earle Fraser designed this 1913 coin with a Native American design nickel |
| #8349, aired 2021-03-04 | HIT: THE "ROAD" $400: Lil Nas X got the beat for this megahit for $30 from a Dutch teenager who had created it & put it online "Old Town Road" |
| #8349, aired 2021-03-04 | BIBLE BABES $400: "Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings", says this Old Testament book of sacred songs Psalms |
| #8349, aired 2021-03-04 | TERMS FROM HISTORY $1600: This country has been accused of irredentism, the reclaiming of old territory, over the Nagorno-Karabakh area in Azerbaijan Armenia |
| #8348, aired 2021-03-03 | MEGALITHS $1600: The roof box in the 5,000-year-old Newgrange tomb in Ireland allows light to enter during this annual winter event the solstice |
| #8346, aired 2021-03-01 | AUTHORS' ROAD TRIPS $400: At age 64, before her "Little House" books, she traveled in a 1923 Buick named Isabelle from Missouri to her old Dakota home Laura Ingalls Wilder |
| #8346, aired 2021-03-01 | LONDON MONOPOLY GEOGRAPHY $400: Old Kent Road is the only London Monopoly location south of this body of water the Thames |
| #8346, aired 2021-03-01 | HOW 'BOUT A GAME OF CARDS? $400: In this kids' game, one of the 4 queens is removed from the 52-card deck & you don't wanna be stuck with its odd pair in the end Old Maid |
| #8344, aired 2021-02-25 | FILMS OF THE '80s $1200: Much of this film with Robert Redford as Roy Hobbs was filmed at Buffalo's War Memorial Stadium because of its old-timey feel The Natural |
| #8343, aired 2021-02-24 | BUY ME $1000: How about a 60-year-old bottle of Macallan 1926, this booze? One sold at auction for $1.9 million scotch |
| #8341, aired 2021-02-22 | "P" FOR SCIENCE $400: A very old vertebrate, the Greenland shark takes nearly 150 years to reach this; for humans, it's around age 10 or 11 puberty |
| #8341, aired 2021-02-22 | CROSSWORD CLUES "T" $1000: Old-fashioned "fool"ishness
(10) tomfoolery |
| #8338, aired 2021-02-17 | '80s TALK $800: This old verb got a new meaning in the '80s: to pass a credit card through a reader swipe |
| #8338, aired 2021-02-17 | THE NOVEL'S NARRATOR $1600: 5-year-old Jack, in this bestseller by Emma Donoghue Room |
| #8336, aired 2021-02-15 | ALTERNATE ANTHEMS $1600: If it's got to be about the stars & stripes, how about "The Stars & Stripes Forever" or George M. Cohan's "You're A" these 3 words Grand Old Flag |
| #8334, aired 2021-02-11 | TV $800: For her role on HBO's "Euphoria", this 24-year-old recently became the youngest winner of an Emmy for Lead Actress in a Drama Zendaya |
| #8329, aired 2021-02-04 | MUSICALS BY SONG LYRICS $400: "Tale as old as time, song as old as rhyme" Beauty and the Beast |
| #8328, aired 2021-02-03 | THERE'S A WORD FOR THAT $1600: A new term for a suddenly old version of something, like "film camera" a retronym |
| #8327, aired 2021-02-02 | OLD NEWSPAPERS $400: Published in this southern city beginning in 1856, the Daily Creole was the first African-American daily newspaper New Orleans |
| #8327, aired 2021-02-02 | OLD NEWSPAPERS $800: This London newspaper first published in 1785 had a daily circulation of about 400,000 in 2019 The Times of London |
| #8327, aired 2021-02-02 | OLD NEWSPAPERS $1200: The name of this 19th century William Lloyd Garrison abolitionist newspaper reminds us of Simon Bolivar The Liberator |
| #8327, aired 2021-02-02 | OLD NEWSPAPERS $2,000 (Daily Double): A furious rivalry between NYC's World & Journal papers in the 1890s led to this term used for sensational news reporting yellow journalism |
| #8327, aired 2021-02-02 | OLD NEWSPAPERS $2000: Begun in 1764, this Hartford, Connecticut Journal is the oldest continuously published newspaper in the USA The Hartford Courant |
| #8325, aired 2021-01-29 | POET-POURRI $400: "Dear, old, sleepy place... full of spells", wrote Amy Lowell about this city's Athenaeum Library, founded by her ancestor Boston |
| #8325, aired 2021-01-29 | TO PHRASE A COIN $800: To "drop" one of these is to inform on someone, like by calling the cops from an old payphone a dime |
| #8324, aired 2021-01-28 | CALL A "CAB" $200: The Old French for "small chamber" gives us this word meaning an advisory council a cabinet |
| #8323, aired 2021-01-27 | COULD YOU? $800: Mix me an old fashioned with just a dash of these aromatic flavorings named for their astringent taste bitters |
| #8323, aired 2021-01-27 | COULD YOU? $2000: Play me a little Bach on this old-time type of keyboard instrument that's "Well-Tempered" in a Bach title a clavier |
| #8322, aired 2021-01-26 | TV-POURRI $2000: This actor did some skilled driving on TV as P.I. Jim Rockford James Garner |
| #8320, aired 2021-01-22 | LIT-POURRI $800: This Ian McEwan novel follows the consequences of a lie 13-year-old Briony Tallis tells & her attempts to make up for it Atonement |
| #8320, aired 2021-01-22 | LIT-POURRI $1600: In books by Eoin Colfer, this 12-year-old is a millionaire, a genius & a criminal mastermind Artemis Fowl |
| #8319, aired 2021-01-21 | BOOKS FOR YOUNG ADULTS $1000: In this bestseller by Angie Thomas, 16-year-old Starr Carter sees her friend shot dead by a police officer The Hate U Give |
| #8318, aired 2021-01-20 | POLY ESTHER $400: Esther Rolle played Florida Evans on "Maude" & this "dyn-o-mite" sitcom Good Times |
| #8318, aired 2021-01-20 | EVERYBODY WANTS TO RULE THE WORLD $600: In December 1398 Tamerlane sacked this old city in northern India amid great carnage (Old) Delhi |
| #8318, aired 2021-01-20 | WORD ORIGINS $2000: The name of this old shotgunlike firearm with a short barrel comes from the Dutch for "thunder gun" blunderbuss |
| #8317, aired 2021-01-19 | LIBROS EN ESPAÑOL $400: For the Ernest amongst you:
"El viejo y el mar" The Old Man and the Sea |
| #8315, aired 2021-01-15 | ALL KINDS OF WINE $1000: In "Arsenic and Old Lace", the old ladies put poison in wine made from these berries elderberries |
| #8313, aired 2021-01-13 | FLAG TALK $600: The U.S. flag code says Old Glory "shall be flown at" this rhyming term upon the death of an important person half-staff |
| #8313, aired 2021-01-13 | LYRICAL C.V. $1200: "Badder than old King Kong, meaner than a junkyard dog" Leroy Brown |
| #8312, aired 2021-01-12 | THESE SONGS COULD KILL YOU $400: In "A Clockwork Orange", the Droogs were up for "a bit of the old ultra-" this; Lana Del Rey sang about it in 2014 violence |
| #8311, aired 2021-01-11 | KNIGHTS $800: Sir Norman Hartnell designed this 21-year-old's wedding dress for her 1947 ceremony & was knighted for his services in 1977 Elizabeth II |
| #8308, aired 2021-01-06 | GADGET $400: The fully automatic AT-LP60X one of these from Audio-Technica lists for less than $100; time to break out those old 45s a turntable |
| #8307, aired 2021-01-05 | OF THE LAW $1200: The Fair Housing Act of 1968 says victims of discrimination by seller or landlord can appeal to this then 3-year-old cabinet department Housing and Urban Development (HUD) |
| #8305, aired 2020-12-18 | IN EXCELSIS DEO $2000: Term for a very old manuscript volume of the scriptures a codex |
| #8304, aired 2020-12-17 | FIRST WORDS $1200: The first line of an Old Testament book is "The proverbs of" him, "the son of David, king of Israel" Solomon |
| #8301, aired 2020-12-14 | OLYMPIC SPORTS YOU CAN DO BAREFOOT $800: With a new partner, Brooke Sweat, 42-year-old Kerri Walsh Jennings plans to go for her 4th gold in this 2-word sport in 2021 beach volleyball |
| #8301, aired 2020-12-14 | THE ANGELS DID SAY $2000: A suddenly visible angel asks this Old Testament man why he's been striking his faithful beast Balaam |
| #8299, aired 2020-12-10 | NEEDLESS VERBIAGE $2000: Researchers at the Arthur D. Little Co. felt compelled to add this word to plain old "flavor" to describe how tastes work together profile |
| #8297, aired 2020-12-08 | GEOGRAPHIC FOURS $200: Jewish, Muslim, Christian & Armenian are the 4 quarters of the "Old" part of this city Jerusalem |
| #8297, aired 2020-12-08 | LANGUAGES $800: Compiled in the Middle Ages, the Eddas were written down in the language called "Old" this Old Norse |
| #8296, aired 2020-12-07 | BRIDGES $800 (Daily Double): Not everything in this city is 500 years old--the Constitution Bridge over the Grand Canal opened in 2008 Venice |
| #8296, aired 2020-12-07 | OXFORD'S VERY SHORT INTRODUCTIONS $1200: "Film Music" reports that Paul Simon wrote new music for this 1967 film but that Mike Nichols mostly used Paul's old songs The Graduate |
| #8295, aired 2020-12-04 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE $800: This Stevenson classic is divided into 6 parts including "The Old Buccaneer" & "Captain Silver" Treasure Island |
| #8294, aired 2020-12-03 | TRANSPORTATION $400: The Antonov AN-2, a model of this old-style stack-wing aircraft, was produced until 2001 a biplane |
| #8293, aired 2020-12-02 | NON-PROPHETS $1200: In the Old Testament this true prophet, Eliyahu in Hebrew, humiliates & then kills the 450 false prophets of Baal Elijah |
| #8292, aired 2020-12-01 | HAVE A CHAIR $600: A little old place where we can get together, this small, 2-person upholstered piece is also called a courting chair a loveseat |
| #8291, aired 2020-11-30 | A ROYAL PAIN $2000: In 2012 some Spaniards were not sympathetic to this 74-year-old king who injured his hip on an elephant-hunting expedition Juan Carlos |
| #8290, aired 2020-11-27 | REAL-DEAL RHYME TIME $1000: Hyphenated term for someone old-fashioned & out of touch a fuddy-duddy |
| #8288, aired 2020-11-25 | OH, HELLO SONGS $600: In 1965 this duo began "The Sound Of Silence" with "Hello darkness, my old friend" Simon & Garfunkel |
| #8284, aired 2020-11-19 | "ALL" THAT $600: From Old Norse for "shriek", it's an angry storm at sea a squall |
| #8283, aired 2020-11-18 | WORRY LINES $1200: An old song says, "What's the use of worrying... so, pack up your troubles in your old kit bag and" do this, this, this smile, smile, smile |
| #8282, aired 2020-11-17 | BLANK "UM" $800: In an old-fashioned grandfather clock, it swings back & forth regulating the time & causing the tick tock, tick tock a pendulum |
| #8280, aired 2020-11-13 | ANAGRAMS $200: I seem to recall the old house having this room to store food over the winter a cellar (from recall) |
| #8280, aired 2020-11-13 | 37 IS HEAVEN $800: The character of Rick Blaine in this classic movie is 37 years old Casablanca |
| #8278, aired 2020-11-11 | AUTHORS' HOMES $1600: In 1842, he & his new bride moved into the old manse in Concord, Massachusetts, hence his "Mosses from an Old Manse" Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| #8277, aired 2020-11-10 | OXYMORONS $800: You're not telling us anything we haven't heard before; your story is this dated type of information old news |
| #8275, aired 2020-11-06 | GO WEST $400: A stroll west over the Vltava River on the Charles Bridge takes you from this capital's Old Town to the Mala Strana Prague |
| #8272, aired 2020-11-03 | WEIGHT, WHAT'S THAT? $400: An old system used to weigh precious stones & metals is called this, like an ancient city where the Greeks horsed around troy (weight) |
| #8272, aired 2020-11-03 | COMPOUND WORDS $800: Used to clean clothes or to make music, it's the old-timey object seen here a washboard |
| #8272, aired 2020-11-03 | COMPOUND WORDS $4,000 (Daily Double): An old term for a jailer, in real estate it's a house that's move-in ready a turnkey |
| #8271, aired 2020-11-02 | 27 DRESSES $800: Hey, 27-year-old putting on this garment over your T-shirt, is that a Levi's Type III Trucker one? jean jackets |
| #8270, aired 2020-10-30 | FICTION $400: In her first book this teen detective solves "The Secret of the Old Clock"; then in No. 2, she explores "The Hidden Staircase" Nancy Drew |
| #8268, aired 2020-10-28 | HODGEPODGE $200: In 1968 Congress passed the Fair this act, a word also in the name of a then 3-year-old cabinet department Housing |
| #8267, aired 2020-10-27 | PLATFORMS $200: Many an old-time hobo song includes a lyric about "standing on a platform" waiting for one of these a train |
| #8264, aired 2020-10-22 | CHAIN STORES $800: We salute you if you know that this clothing chain, owned by Gap Inc., was named for a bar in Paris; grog, anyone? Old Navy |
| #8263, aired 2020-10-21 | A "DIAMOND" $1200: "Men grow cold as girls grow old, and we all lose our charms in the end", Marilyn sang in this jewel of a song "Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend" |
| #8262, aired 2020-10-20 | YOU GOTTA HAVE "ART" $1600: Named for an old province in France, these "wells" don't require pumps, as they flow under natural pressure artesian |
| #8261, aired 2020-10-19 | THE AMERICAN FLAG $400: The flag is known as "Old Glory", "The Stars & Stripes" & this, popularized by Francis Scott Key "The Star-Spangled Banner" |
| #8261, aired 2020-10-19 | PRIMATES $3,200 (Daily Double): About 30,000 years old, an early Homo sapiens skull called this "1" was discovered in 1868 at the French site of the same name Cro-Magnon |
| #8260, aired 2020-10-16 | AROUND THE HOUSE $400: Perhaps you have this type of old-fashioned desk that's pretty handy but doesn't take dictation secretary |
| #8260, aired 2020-10-16 | POETS & POETRY $1200: This patriotic Oliver Wendell Holmes poem warns, "the harpies of the shore shall pluck the eagle of the sea!" "Old Ironsides" |
| #8259, aired 2020-10-15 | BERRY SPECIAL $2000: This "old" berry of the genus Sambucus goes into wine & is also used in syrups to reduce cold symptoms & boost immunity an elderberry |
| #8258, aired 2020-10-14 | OK, BOOMERANG $1000: Possibly the world's oldest boomerang was found in 1987 in a 23,000-year-old Polish cave & was made out of the tusk of one of these a woolly mammoth |
| #8256, aired 2020-10-12 | ANCIENT HISTORY $1200: Ranging from about 2600 to 1000 B.C., its 3 major kingdoms are termed the Old, the Middle & the New Egypt |
| #8256, aired 2020-10-12 | ANAGRAMS OF EACH OTHER $2,800 (Daily Double): To hit the books & the condition of old books left unread for years study & dusty |
| #8254, aired 2020-10-08 | NURSERY RHYMES $400: Her cupboard bare, she went to the baker's to buy her dog bread Old Mother Hubbard |
| #8253, aired 2020-10-07 | WORDSWORTH AT 250 $800: Thinking he was too old, William initially rejected this high position in 1843, but Queen Victoria insisted poet laureate |
| #8251, aired 2020-10-05 | RESTAURANTS $800: Country fried steak is a popular dish at this chain & "Old Country Store" Cracker Barrel |
| #8250, aired 2020-10-02 | TRANSPORTATION $400: An "iron horse" was an old nickname for this type of transportation a locomotive (train) |
| #8250, aired 2020-10-02 | BIG BUSINESS NEWS OF THE 2010s $800: In 2012 this iconic 244-year-old reference company announced that its 2010 32-volume edition would be its last in print Encyclopaedia Britannica |
| #8249, aired 2020-10-01 | YANKEE STADIUM $200: In 2009 Jorge Posada hit the first HR in the new Yankee Stadium; in 1923 the first in the old park was, naturally, hit by this man Babe Ruth |
| #8249, aired 2020-10-01 | YANKEE STADIUM $600: It wasn't just baseball at the old stadium; this Frank Gifford team moved there in 1956 & promptly won a championship the New York Giants |
| #8247, aired 2020-09-29 | LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT GRAMMYS $2000: 2019 recipients included this 76-year-old Spaniard with many a romantic crossover hit Julio Iglesias |
| #8246, aired 2020-09-28 | WRITERS ANONYMOUS $400: This anonymous Old English poem about a hero fighting monsters survives in the Nowell Codex at the British Library "Beowulf" |
| #8246, aired 2020-09-28 | WRITERS ANONYMOUS $1000: In 1827 this 18-year-old American anonymously published "Tamerlane and Other Poems", including "Visit of the Dead" Edgar Allan Poe |
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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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"This sixth and seventh grade teacher is in his first year...
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Courtney Jones, a 12-year-old from Largo, Maryland
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"She wants to dedicate her life to building things that benefit...
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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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Jeanne Breen, a physician from Old Saybrook, Connecticut
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Season 27 player (2010-11-05).
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Neville Fogarty, an 11-year-old from Kingwood, Texas
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\"This chess player is planning his career moves very carefully. From...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Michael Rankins, a minister and writer from Rohnert Park, California
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\"A 5-show winner from 1988, he has been a minister with...
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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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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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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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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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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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Hans von Walter, a junior from Southern Adventist University from Avon Park, Florida
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2010-B College Championship 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $25,000 + a...
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Denise Shames, an office manager from Old Orchard Beach, Maine
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Season 9 player (1993-03-16).
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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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Ben Dufour, a credit specialist from Old Orchard Beach, Maine
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Season 19 player (2003-03-07).
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Ben Christenson, an attorney from Chicago, Illinois
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Season 29 player (2013-06-21).
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Stephen Huey, a lawyer from Arlington, Virginia
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Season 27 player (2011-03-21).
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Katrina Whitehead, a strategic analyst from Sandston, Virginia
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Season 29 player (2013-05-30).
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Cassie Hill, a 12-year-old from Merrick, New York
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2008 Kids Week Reunion player (2008-09-19). 1999 Back to School Week...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Erin McLean, a sophomore from Boston University from Danvers, Massachusetts
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2011 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 2010-B College Championship winner:...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Laura Mogul, an executive director from Port Washington, New York
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Season 32 player (2016-03-31). Laura appeared on the original Jeopardy! with...
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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
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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
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"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
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"When this contestant's father was on the show, he couldn't think...
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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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Deirdre Kessler, a ten-year-old from Brooklyn, New York
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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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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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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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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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Paul Nelson, a Senate staff aide originally from Iowa City, Iowa
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2013 Tournament of champions semifinalist: $10,000.
Season 29 5-time champion: $54,900 + $2,000.
JBoard user name: PaulNelson2012
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Adam Pinson, a senior at the University of Alabama at Birmingham from Pinson, Alabama
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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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Saad Hasan, a nanotechnology scientist from Nashville, Tennessee
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Season 26 1-time champion: $22,700 + $2,000. Saad Hasan Nashville, TN...
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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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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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Sita Yerramsetti, an eleven-year-old from Houston, Texas
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"Her heart is set on becoming a cardiac surgeon. From Houston,...
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Jack Weisman, a twelve-year-old from Beachwood, Ohio
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"He's considering becoming a lawyer, just like Mom and Dad. From...
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Caroline Evans, a twelve-year-old from Bethesda, Maryland
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"The sky's not the limit. She wants to be the first...
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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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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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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
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"She is preparing for a teaching career by tutoring her peers....
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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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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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Bruce Naegeli, a retired law librarian from Phoenix, Arizona
|
"He finished second in the 1988 Tournament of Champions. A retired...
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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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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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Will Walters, a twelve-year-old from Lexington, Kentucky
|
"He wants to follow in the footsteps of his idols, Albert...
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John Ryan, a corporate controller from Richmond, California
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"As a college student, he was the top winner of the...
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Michael Daunt, an accountant from Oakville, Ontario, Canada
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"In 1996, he was a finalist in the Tournament of Champions....
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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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Surabhi Iyer, a ten-year-old from Franklin, Massachusetts
|
"Her research scientist dad has inspired her to become a neuroscientist....
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John Farley, an eleven-year-old from Marietta, Georgia
|
"This young man has a plan--Notre Dame, professional lacrosse player and...
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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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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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Chacko George, a senior at the University of Texas at Austin from Austin, Texas
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"He won the November 1999 Teen Tournament. Now he's a senior...
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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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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
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"He was the biggest winner in the 1988-1989 season, and a...
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John Beck, a creative director from Torrance, California
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"He played in 2003, and was the last retired 5-time champ...
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Eddie Timanus, a sportswriter from Oak Hill, Virginia
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"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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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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Arthur Phillips, an author from Brooklyn, New York
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"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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Janet Bradlow, an insurance agent from New York, New York
|
Season 26 3-time champion: $58,000 + $2,000. Janet Bradlow New York,...
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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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Chris Rodrigues, a personal banking representative from New Bedford, Massachusetts
|
Season 26 3-time champion: $41,498 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
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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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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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Cheech Marin, an actor, comedian, director, writer and musician from Lost
|
"He's played a cop on Nash Bridges, voiced a 1959 Chevy...
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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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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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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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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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David McIntyre, a twelve-year-old from Riverside, California
|
"When this Boy Scout was young, he thought that running from...
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Matt Bischoff, a twelve-year-old seventh-grader from Sicklerville, New Jersey
|
2003 Back to School Kids Week player (2003-09-26).
|
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Christine Valada, a photographer and attorney originally from Walton, New York
|
2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $68,703...
|
|
Michelle Chang, an 11-year-old from Suwanee, Georgia
|
"This sixth grader picks the most unusual places to lose her...
|
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Becca Portman, a twelve-year-old seventh-grader from Deerwood, Maryland
|
2003 Back to School Kids Week player (2003-09-26).
|
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Crystal Durham, a 12-year-old from Fort Pierce, Florida
|
"She would like to be an Irish stepdancing teacher, because dancing...
|
|
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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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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Josh Woo, an eleven-year-old seventh-grader from River Ridge, Louisiana
|
2003 Back to School Week player (2003-09-26). Josh hosted 50 episodes...
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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...
|
|
Naomi Senbet, an 11-year-old from Washington, D.C.
|
"This sixth grader doesn't like to be late for anything; maybe...
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Sam Daub, an eleven-year-old from Eden Prairie, Minnesota
|
"And he finds video games enticing and has made a fantasy...
|
|
Johnny Forrest, a patent agent from Washington, D.C.
|
Season 26 1-time champion: $20,001 + $2,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: JFoDC
|
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Nicole Savin, an eleven-year-old from Lindenhurst, New York
|
"This little 4'4" New York Yankees fan and her friends started...
|
|
Tory Gilliam, a twelve-year-old from Powhatan, Virginia
|
"As a member of his school's debate team, he likes to...
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Maxwell Baldi, a ten-year-old from Los Angeles, California
|
"This future U.S. attorney general has always been interested in the...
|
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Neal Freyman, a ten-year-old from Longmeadow, Massachusetts
|
"He's not sure recess counts as a subject, but if it...
|
|
Anissa Chitour, a ten-year-old from Princeton, New Jersey
|
"Her extracurricular activities include playing violin, playing field hockey and shopping...
|
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Elena Botella, an eleven-year-old from Charlotte, North Carolina
|
"This future journalist loves to find answers, today, she'll have to...
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Zane Li, a ten-year-old from Provo, Utah
|
"He's a chess champion and a two-time Geography Bee winner..." 2002...
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Billy Hackenson, an eleven-year-old from Great Falls, Virginia
|
"As a descendant of President Taft, it's no surprise that he's...
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Justin Bernbach, a lobbyist from Brooklyn, New York
|
2010 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 25 7-time champion: $155,001...
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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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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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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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Francis Musella, a twelve-year-old from Boynton Beach, Florida
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"This member of the American Numismatic Association wants to be a...
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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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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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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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Max Wagner, an eleven-year-old from Bedford, New York
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"He thinks insects are beautiful and can't wait to discover new...
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Tom Toce, an actuary from New York, New York
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Season 26 2-time champion: $39,200 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Francois Dominic Laramée, a writer and TV personality from Verdun, Quebec, Canada
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Season 25 2-time champion: $46,300 + $1,000. Francois's name was printed...
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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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Diane Armstrong, a consultant and retired Navy officer from Alexandria, Virginia
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Season 26 player (2009-09-21).
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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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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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Diane Trap, a librarian and graphics specialist from Athens, Georgia
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Season 25 1-time champion: $21,400 + $1,000. Diane Trap - a...
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Alison Stone Roberg, an administrative assistant from Kansas City, Missouri
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Season 26 3-time champion: $85,102 + $2,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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A.J. Schumacher, a radio show production intern from St. Paul, Minnesota
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Season 25 1-time champion: $10,800 + $2,000. AJ Schumacher Saint Paul,...
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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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Nick Yozamp, a junior from Washington University in St. Louis
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2010 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 2010-A College Championship winner:...
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Samira Missaghi, a junior from the University of Minnesota
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2010-A College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Hometown: Eden Prarie, Minnesota. Samira...
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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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Gail Flemmons, a history teacher from Clinton, Mississippi
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Season 25 2-time champion: $46,399 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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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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Diane Hyra, an ESL teacher from Richmond, Virginia
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Season 25 player (2008-12-19).
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Marissa Goldsmith, a web developer from Springfield, Virginia
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Season 27 3-time champion: $44,100 + $2,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: marteena
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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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Bethlehem Lema, a 12-year-old from San Diego, California
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"Either being an astrophysicist or a pediatrician is in her future..."...
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William Garrett, a 12-year-old from Greenfield, Indiana
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"Serving his country as an officer in the military is his...
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Becky Anderson, a retired software specialist originally from Morganton, North Carolina
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Season 25 1-time champion: $16,401 + $2,000. Becky Anderson - A...
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Jackson Ruzzo, a 12-year-old from Waccabuc, New York
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"He wants to be a Broadway actor, because he likes to...
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Shay Collins, an 11-year-old from Averill Park, New York
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"His passion for music helps this future rock star to play...
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Michelle Cinguina, an 11-year-old from Stamford, Connecticut
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"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
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"Because he loves animals, biology, and helping others, he's thinking of...
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Daniel Stauss, a federal claims examiner from Seattle, Washington
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Season 25 1-time champion: $25,500 + $2,000. Daniel Stauss - A...
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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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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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Braden Corkum, a 12-year-old from Niceville, Florida
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"He likes making things, so he's going to be an inventor..."...
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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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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
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"His chosen profession will be something in the field of science...
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Brooks Colleton, a 12-year-old from Jacksonville, Florida
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"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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Charlie Blatt, an 11-year-old from Scarsdale, New York
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"Besides cooking, working on the computer, and tap dancing, she likes...
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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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Eddie Kwiatkowski, a 10-year-old from Cumberland, Rhode Island
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"His interests in presidents and their history could lead to a...
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Jennifer Gilbert, an 11-year-old from Fairfax, Virginia
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"She co-hosts a game show at school, but today, she's here...
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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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Nate Austin, a 12-year-old from Kansas City, Kansas
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2008 Kids Week Reunion player (2008-09-15). 1999 Back to School Week...
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Rachel Millena, a 10-year-old from Concord, California
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"Her sights are set on becoming a writer, journalist, photographer, or...
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Mike Kim, a 12-year-old from Wiesbaden, Germany
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"Under the heading of "Came the Farthest", this young man wins...
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Zach Safford, an 11-year-old from Roswell, Georgia
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2008 Kids Week Reunion winner: $25,000.
1999 Back to School Week player (1999-09-06).
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Tom Morris, a substitute teacher and grad student from Irvine, California
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2009 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 24 4-time champion: $100,801...
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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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Kizzle Cote, a 12-year-old from Ludlow, Massachusetts
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"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
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"Her goals are to be a horse breeder and trainer..." 2007...
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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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Harry Haghanegi, a 10-year-old from Chicago, Illinois
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"Extracting DNA was one project this future geneticist enjoyed..." 2007 Kids...
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Elizabeth Perkins, an actress from Big and Weeds
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2009 Celebrity Jeopardy! player: $25,000 to the New England Learning Center...
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Billy King, a 13-year-old from St. Albans, West Virginia
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"With his love of math and his interest in design, he...
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Elizabeth Rogers, a 12-year-old from Owensboro, Kentucky
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"Academic Team, Math Team, Student Council... we're just glad she could...
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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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Anastasia Knasiak, a 12-year-old from Brookfield, Illinois
|
"We don't know if there's a doctor in the house, but...
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Tarun Chitra, an 11-year-old from Hockessin, Delaware
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"In the Boy Scouts he learned to [missing audio]... today, we're...
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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
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"When you were 11, did you host your own webpage on...
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Amanda J. Ray, a sophomore at the University of Virginia from Harrisonburg, Virginia
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2010-B College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
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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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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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Jennifer Broders, a junior high school social studies teacher from Stockton, Iowa
|
Season 26 2-time champion: $59,801 + $1,000. Jennifer Broders - a...
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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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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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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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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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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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Akshai Raj, a 10-year-old from Harleysville, Pennsylvania
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"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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Jacob Hambalek, a 12-year-old from Fresno, California
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"If he had to choose a career right now, he'd be...
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Matthew Silski, an 11-year-old from Laurel, Maryland
|
"He has wanted to be on the show since he was...
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Ellen Eichner, a junior from the Ohio State University from Northbrook, Illinois
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2010-B College Championship semifinalist: $10,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
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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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Jessica Stapp, an administrative assistant from Tucson, Arizona
|
Season 26 2-time champion: $49,700 + $1,000.
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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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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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Katie Fulton, a 12-year-old from Tewksbury, Massachusetts
|
"She's thinking vet, because she loves animals and everything about them..."...
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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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Gabby Dannunzio, a 12-year-old from Largo, Florida
|
"This future author is already trying to publish her book. From...
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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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Ethan Russo, an 11-year-old from Austin, Texas
|
"He really likes a big challenge. He wants to be the...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Scotty Ballard, a 12-year-old from Murphy, Texas
|
"When he grows up, he hopes to serve justice as a...
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Savannah Morgan, a 12-year-old from Charlotte, North Carolina
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"Her future recipe for success is as the star of her...
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Chris Palmquist, an eleven-year-old from Stanton, Iowa
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2003 Holiday Kids Week player (2003-01-07).
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William Tarpeh, a twelve-year-old from Alexandria, Virginia
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2003 Holiday Kids Week player (2003-01-07).
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Jessie Robertson, an eleven-year-old from Hudson Oaks, Texas
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2003 Holiday Kids Week player (2003-01-07).
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Mike Davison, a TV producer from Studio City, California
|
Season 13 1-time champion: $10,200. Father of Season 39 player Max...
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Joshua Malina, a TV actor and creator/producer from Celebrity Poker Showdown
|
"He created and produced Celebrity Poker Showdown for the Bravo Channel,...
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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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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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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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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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Lindsey Nicolai, a junior from Hampton, Virginia
|
2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games quarterfinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time...
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Justin Budinoff, an administrative coordinator from Framingham, Massachusetts
|
Season 22 player (2006-07-18).
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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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Bobby Bretz, an 11-year-old from Bristol, Rhode Island
|
"It's either archaeology or pro baseball for this sports-loving scientist. From...
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Rachel Beckman, an 11-year-old from Danville, Kentucky
|
"As a member of her school's academic team, she has no...
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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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Thomas McIntyre, a 12-year-old from Marino Valley, California
|
"This self-proclaimed Star Wars freak, who has earned star rank in...
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Andrew Goldfein, a 12-year-old from Lincolnwood, Illinois
|
"He likes to argue and help people, so it's off to...
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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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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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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,...
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Lauren Kutner, an 11-year-old from Newtown, Pennsylvania
|
"The best part of middle school for this seventh grader is...
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Madeleine Schwartz, a twelve-year-old from New York, New York
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2003 Holiday Kids Week player (2003-01-10).
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David Siegel, a paralegal from Los Angeles, California
|
"He was a finalist in the 1995 Tournament of Champions. A...
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Frank Spangenberg, a police lieutenant from Douglaston, New York
|
2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
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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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Lorna Johnson, a 12-year-old seventh grader from Willowbrook, Illinois
|
"She loves all animals, especially her dogs Duke and Rudy, but...
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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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Ari Schoenholtz, a senior at Williams College from Bethesda, Maryland
|
2004 College Championship 1st runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $50,000. Jeopardy! Message...
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Edward Lee, a 12-year-old seventh grader from Sacramento, California
|
"Of the numerous projects he has completed, making gliders and bottle...
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James Denton, an actor from Desperate Housewives
|
"He plays Mike Delfino, Wisteria Lane's sexy plumber on the hit...
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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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Michael Rooney, a college professor from Pasadena, California
|
"He was a winner of 5 games in 1999, and is...
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Grace Thomas, an 11-year-old sixth grader from Raleigh, North Carolina
|
"This captain of the Brain-Bowl team can name all the countries...
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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
|
"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
|
"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
|
"It's either fighter pilot or computer technician for this 8th grader....
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Leonard Schmidt, an optometrist and 1992 Seniors Tournament champion from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
|
1992 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $5,000. 1992 Seniors Tournament winner:...
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Alex Nutman, a 12-year-old seventh grader from Chevy Chase, Maryland
|
"This future investment banker won 'best in grade' in a state...
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Ivan Kleinfeld, an 11-year-old from Arlington, Virginia
|
"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
|
"She enjoys working with animals and would like to become a...
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Eric Webb, a 12-year-old from Austin, Texas
|
"He wants to be a cartoonist so he can make people...
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Aki Terasaki, an 11-year-old from Newark, Delaware
|
"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
|
"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
|
"She has already won a presidential award. So why not the...
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Dan Amboy, a 12-year-old from Lapeer, Michigan
|
"He hopes to get into the best college that he can....
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Grace Veach, a librarian from Lakeland, Florida
|
"After winning 5 games in 1997, she was the grand marshall...
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Kristin Frankhouser, a 12-year-old from Baton Rouge, Louisiana
|
"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
|
"It's a slam dunk for this basketball lover and future WNBA...
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Steve Chernicoff, a technical writer from Berkeley, California
|
"He was one of the top 1-day winners in the 1994-95...
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Steven Popper, an economist from Topanga, California
|
"A winner of 5 shows in 1988, he has since founded...
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Jake Houser, a 12-year-old seventh grader from Aptos, California
|
"And this straight-A student would like to become a geneticist so...
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Pat Connor, a management consultant from Cummaquid, Massachusetts
|
Season 27 player (2011-06-23).
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Eric Newhouse, a public policy coordinator from Sioux City, Iowa
|
"Alex called our next alumnus a 'Powerhouse.' He was the youngest...
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Iddoshe Hirpa, a junior from Louisville, Kentucky
|
2006 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000.
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Nithya Kubendran, an 11-year-old seventh grader from Quartz Hill, California
|
"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
|
"She is a fast reader, and her mother says she was...
|
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Megan Fraedrich, a 12-year-old seventh grader from Springfield, Virginia
|
"And she was recently an evil stepsister in a performance of...
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Jacob Collins, a twelve-year-old seventh-grader from Charlotte, North Carolina
|
2003 Holiday Kids Week player (2003-01-08).
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Doug Lach, a marketing manager from Columbus, Ohio
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2001 Tournament...
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Nina Garcia, a twelve-year-old seventh grader from Burke, Virginia
|
2003 Holiday Kids Week player (2003-01-08).
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Bob Fleenor, a newspaper copy editor from Martinsburg, West Virginia
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Tamika Turner, an 11-year-old eighth grader from Sylvania, Ohio
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Elaine Zollner, a physician from Glendale, California
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Josh Klein, a 12-year-old seventh grader from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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