| #9078, aired 2024-04-10 | IT'S A FACT $400: This organization's New York City HQ was built on land bought in 1946 with an $8.5 million gift from John D. Rockefeller Jr. the U.N. |
| #9064, aired 2024-03-21 | ON THE NOSE $800: Since its U.S. debut "Day" in 2015, this colorfully named campaign to end child poverty has raised more than $421 million Red Nose Day |
| #9047, aired 2024-02-27 | A WORLD OF DEPRESSIONS $1200: The name of this depression on the southern side of Haiti sounds like a dead end street Cul-de-Sac |
| #9044, aired 2024-02-22 | WORLD CAPITALS $1000: Climbing up on Medvednica Hill, I could see this end-of-the-alphabet city's light & pictured its 13th c. invasion by Mongols Zagreb |
| #9036, aired 2024-02-12 | GENIUS: MLK/X $200: (Kelvin Harrison Jr. presents the clue.) My character, MLK, felt a moral obligation to speak out regarding this conflict in Asia, although it would end up alienating him from Lyndon B. Johnson & his allies the Vietnam War |
| #9019, aired 2024-01-18 | WHAT IN THE WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS...? $200: Making the best of a bad past situation, this ex-heavyweight champ from Brooklyn put out edibles in the shape of ears in 2022 Mike Tyson |
| #9004, aired 2023-12-28 | FOR THE GRAM $800: The Infatuation was behind the #eeeeeats on Instagram & acquired this end-of-the-alphabet restaurant guide in 2018 Zagat |
| #8989, aired 2023-12-07 | SUPER BOWL STARS $600: The career leader in Super Bowl points is this 49er & Raider who was on the receiving end of 8 TD passes Jerry Rice |
| #8980, aired 2023-11-24 | NASHVILLE, GEOGRAPHIC $1200: Nashville's Centennial Park on West End Avenue sports a full-size replica of this Athenian temple the Parthenon |
| #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 $1000: Since 1964 the former Northern Rhodesia has been this, now second from the end alphabetically Zambia |
| #8940, aired 2023-09-29 | WORDS THAT END WITH "E" $600: The United Nation's IPCC stands for the Intergovernmental Panel on this phrase Climate Change |
| #8922, aired 2023-07-25 | JUST GOOGLY IT $200: You could put googly eyes on each end of the name of this province here, & you're welcome for the logo idea, northern neighbors Ontario |
| #8921, aired 2023-07-24 | THE "END" ZONE $1000: Someone who throws money away on things they don't need might be called this compound word a spendthrift |
| #8914, aired 2023-07-13 | MOVIE BEFORE & AFTER $400: Darth Vader chops off Luke's hand, so Marty fills in on guitar at the dance The Empire Strikes Back to the Future |
| #8908, aired 2023-07-05 | OPPOSITES $1000: Regarding blood pressure, these 2 words that end with the same 6 letters refer to how the heart muscles relax & contract systolic & diastolic |
| #8894, aired 2023-06-15 | THE GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE $600: The first step in construction was placing 60,000-ton concrete blocks on each end called this, like an Alaskan city anchorage |
| #8888, aired 2023-06-07 | ETYMOLOGY $400: Checkmate means the king is done for on a chessboard, as check refers etymologically to one of these Persian bigwigs a shah |
| #8887, aired 2023-06-06 | NONFICTION TV $800: The final leg of this show had Derek & Claire get their Jack Daniel's on (at the distillery) before winning big after 16 cities The Amazing Race |
| #8880, aired 2023-05-26 | THAT BOOK CHARACTER DOES THINGS $1600: Likes being a sailor or foretopman, depending on the edition; kills Claggart; doesn't make it to the end of the story Billy Budd |
| #19, aired 2023-05-24 | 3-"SY"LLABLE WORDS $1200: The seat of Onondaga County, it's on the south end of Onondaga lake Syracuse |
| #17, aired 2023-05-23 | FOR MASTERS ONLY $800: With a fruit at the end of its name, this city on the Bay of Bengal was a French possession even in the time of British India Pondicherry |
| #8875, aired 2023-05-19 | HURRAY FOR HOLLYWOOD! $600: Created as a real estate ad 100 years ago in 1923, the Hollywood Sign originally had this 4-letter word tacked on to the end land |
| #10, aired 2023-05-15 | WHAT A LITERARY CHARACTER! $2,000 (Daily Double): At the end of a Thomas Pynchon book, Oedipa Maas awaits the bidding on a stamp collection with this auction number lot 49 |
| #8853, aired 2023-04-19 | A EUROPEAN VACATION $400: Let's break out the map of Romania, if we head east out of Arad, we can hit Sinaia & Sulina on our way to this sea the Black Sea |
| #8796, aired 2023-01-30 | OUT ON A BOOK TOUR $2000: The Jason Segel film "The End of the Tour" was an adaptation of a book subtitled "A Road Trip with" this 3-named author David Foster Wallace |
| #8794, aired 2023-01-26 | THE "END"s OF THE EARTH $800: One posh & home to famed theaters & one notoriously poor, these 2 London districts are on opposite sides of the city's center the West End & East End |
| #8794, aired 2023-01-26 | LET'S TALK ABOUT SAX, BABY $1000: "I said hey babe, take" this Lou Reed title, add Ronnie Ross' killer sax solo at the end, & you've got yourself a classic tune "Take A Walk On The Wild Side" |
| #8783, aired 2023-01-11 | HISTORICAL TV $2000: Nurses & nuns in London's East End deliver babies in the PBS import "Call" this person, based on a series of memoirs the midwife |
| #9, aired 2023-01-05 | MERRIAM-WEBSTER DEFINES IT AS... $300: Near the end of the alphabet: "any of various large raptorial birds... that subsist...on carrion" or a "predatory person" a vulture |
| #9, aired 2023-01-05 | VIRGINNY & GEORGIA $400: Norfolk, Virginia is on the south end of this long bay that lies between Virginia & Maryland Chesapeake |
| #9, aired 2023-01-05 | BOOZY PHRASES $1500: These "sparkling" tastes mean a desire for high-end living; unfortunately, some have them on a tight budget champagne (tastes) |
| #8761, aired 2022-12-12 | BEN FRANKLIN $600: Ben's discoveries led to the lightning rod & to the end of the electrocution of more than a hundred of these colleagues of Quasimodo bell ringers |
| #8738, aired 2022-11-09 | STANFORD ATHLETICS $600: (Haley Jones presents the clue.) The coaches wanted to move him to defensive end & later made him the sixth-stringer, but in 1970, quarterback Jim Plunkett became the Cardinal's first winner of this trophy instituted in 1935 the Heisman |
| #5, aired 2022-10-23 | HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $1000: This holiday is a symbol of summer's end in the U.S. but in Europe, its equivalent is celebrated on May 1 Labor Day |
| #8711, aired 2022-10-03 | A COMMON CATEGORY $400: Thomas Paine's pamphlet "Common Sense" was published on January 10 of this revolutionary year 1776 |
| #8676, aired 2022-07-04 | ORCHESTRAL INSTRUMENTS $600: It's the low-end woodwind seen here that's held aslant on a sling when played the bassoon |
| #8674, aired 2022-06-30 | BE MERRY $1200: At the end of the "Odyssey", suitors are vanquished, a family is reunited & the wine is poured on this island Ithaca |
| #8670, aired 2022-06-24 | & ON DRUMS... $400: Meg pounded the skins behind husband Jack in this 2-piece band that helped kickstart the 2000s garage rock revival The White Stripes |
| #8664, aired 2022-06-16 | ALL ALLITERATIVE FAMILIAR PHRASES $200: To be near the end is to be "on your" these anatomical items last legs |
| #8656, aired 2022-06-06 | ON THE COASTER $400: Usually the coaster is on the table--here, this type of table, named for its spot next to the arm of a couch, is on the coaster an end table |
| #8647, aired 2022-05-24 | WARTIME U.S. PRESIDENTS $200: As president-elect, Eisenhower said, "Small attacks on small hills would not end this war" that ended months later the Korean War |
| #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 |
| #8628, aired 2022-04-27 | CELEBRITY MEMOIRS $400: In "A Life in Parts", he writes of the end of a day on set: "I'd... let everything soak off ... leeching myself of Walter White" Bryan Cranston |
| #8627, aired 2022-04-26 | ON THE MEDITERRANEAN $1200: At the far east end of the Mediterranean, the Gulf of Iskenderun indents this country Turkey |
| #8616, aired 2022-04-11 | LITERATURE $2000: At the end of this first F. Scott Fitzgerald novel, Amory Blaine is lonely, broke & traveling back to Princeton on foot This Side of Paradise |
| #8608, aired 2022-03-30 | LET'S PUT ON A SHOW $400: Antique lovers enjoyed having "Show" added to this word in the title of a PBS show Road |
| #8607, aired 2022-03-29 | TO 5 DECIBEL PLACES $400: The National Hot Rod Association says this loud sport first topped 100 mph on the Muroc Dry Lake bed in the Mojave Desert drag racing |
| #8600, aired 2022-03-18 | SOUTH AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: In 1864 this country in the middle of the continent took on Brazil, later Argentina & Uruguay; half its population would end up dead Paraguay |
| #8599, aired 2022-03-17 | CHEMICAL PEOPLE $2000: 19th c. Scottish chemist Thomas Graham is known for his namesake law on the rate of this dissemination of gases diffusion |
| #8597, aired 2022-03-15 | BUILDINGS IN HISTORY $2000: At Sengakuji Temple in Tokyo, visitors honor the 47 these, samurai who avenge their dead master & are buried there ronin |
| #8593, aired 2022-03-09 | NAMES IN POP CULTURE $400: This character on "Dawson's Creek" was named after the heroine of "Little Women" Joey |
| #8590, aired 2022-03-04 | BORDERING RUSSIA $1200: I've got this nation on the Black Sea on my mind, along with Mount Kazbek, an extinct volcano that's one of its highest points Georgia |
| #8582, aired 2022-02-22 | ICONOGRAPHY $2,000 (Daily Double): The base that the bodhisattva sits on is a stylized version of this symbolic flower, also the name of the position he's in lotus |
| #18, aired 2022-02-22 | HISTORIC POTPOURRI $800: His life came to an end in 1805 after being hit by enemy fire on the deck of his flagship, the HMS Victory Horatio Nelson |
| #8580, aired 2022-02-18 | END YOUR RESPONSE WITH A PREPOSITION $2000: When reporting for duty on a U.S. Navy ship, the first thing you'll say is "Request permission to" do this phrase come aboard |
| #8571, aired 2022-02-07 | THE WRATH OF KHAN $600: A shah paid the ultimate price after going back on his word to allow Genghis to trade on this legendary route the Silk Road |
| #8552, aired 2022-01-11 | JOHN F. KENNEDY $200: On Sept. 12, 1962, JFK said, "We choose to go" here; "It will be done. & It will be done before" the end of the decade the Moon |
| #8524, aired 2021-12-02 | WORDS IN ELEMENTS $800: Si:
this, a symbol for a program on your computer desktop an icon |
| #8507, aired 2021-11-09 | MOVIE REWARDS $1000: At the end of a 2009 movie this title guy is offered his dream job but instead continues to protect shoppers at the West Orange Pavilion Paul Blart: Mall Cop |
| #8504, aired 2021-11-04 | RE-CHARTED $400: Come on, baby, & name this man seen here who had a No. 1 hit with "The Twist" in 1960 & again in 1962 Chubby Checker |
| #8488, aired 2021-10-13 | THE SABBATH $1000: Early Christians observed the Sabbath on Saturday but Sunday was the day for this commemoration of the Last Supper the Lord's Supper (Eucharist or Communion) |
| #8487, aired 2021-10-12 | EDUCATION FIRSTS $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1761 Claude Bourgelat, who wrote "Sur la médecine des chevaux", set up the first school for this profession a veterinarian |
| #8452, aired 2021-07-27 | AT THE BEACH $400: Much of the white sand on Hawaii's beaches comes from parrotfish, which excrete these indigestible reef animals as sand coral |
| #8450, aired 2021-07-23 | ANIMALS IN ART $800: On a subway car in 2020, Banksy depicted images of these "r"odents with masks & hand sanitizer rats |
| #8426, aired 2021-06-21 | THE OLYMPIC FLAME $1,200 (Daily Double): In 1956 on a flight from Singapore to Jakarta, the Olympic torch crossed this for the first time the equator |
| #8415, aired 2021-06-04 | ANCIENT HISTORY $800: The ancient Assyrian capital of Nineveh was located at the intersection of trade routes on this river the Tigris |
| #8399, aired 2021-05-13 | "LIGHT" AT THE END $800: A line of players moves & stops on command in this game Red Light, Green Light |
| #8394, aired 2021-05-06 | ON SPEAKING $4,400 (Daily Double): Father to a Supreme Court justice, this poet wrote, "Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall" Oliver Wendell Holmes |
| #8388, aired 2021-04-28 | IN-CAR-CERATED $200: Like cops, a process server may have to endure hours on one of these, sitting in a car looking for the target to come out a stakeout |
| #8388, aired 2021-04-28 | FLAG ON THE PLAY $1000: If the offense is called for holding in its own end zone, this score is awarded to the defense 2 points |
| #8362, aired 2021-03-23 | NO. 1 LYRICS $1600: In Billboard's top single of 2018, this 2-word Drake title precedes "I can't do this on my own" "God's Plan" |
| #8361, aired 2021-03-22 | BOOTS ON THE GROUND $600: Lands' End says these "avian" boots were "a mashup, with a waterproof, rubber-shoe sole" & "a lace-up boot shaft" duck boots |
| #8358, aired 2021-03-17 | EUROPE $800: While this country on the Riviera is known for its high-end casinos, its citizens aren't allowed to gamble Monaco |
| #8358, aired 2021-03-17 | AT THE END OF THE SCARY MOVIE $1200: Sung: "One, two, Freddy's coming for you..." Nightmare on Elm Street |
| #8354, aired 2021-03-11 | FLAGS OF OUR FEATHERS $1600: The bird on the flag of this end of the alphabet African country was found on carvings in an ancient city of the region Zimbabwe |
| #8354, aired 2021-03-11 | RELIGIOUS OBSERVANCES $1600: In Judaism this holy day begins the 10 days of repentance that end on Yom Kippur Rosh Hashanah |
| #8350, aired 2021-03-05 | IT'LL ALL END IN "X" $1200: A blend of grape varieties, this type of red wine is named for a French city on the Garonne River Bordeaux |
| #8350, aired 2021-03-05 | RYAN GOSLING MOVIE ROLES $1600: A mysterious stuntman who moonlights as a getaway chauffeur Drive |
| #8345, aired 2021-02-26 | ROAD TRIP TO THE SAME-NAMED PLACE $2,000 (Daily Double): You start on Interstate 91 out of the one in Massachusetts & you end up on I-55 to reach the one in Illinois Springfield |
| #8325, aired 2021-01-29 | THE SPORTSCASTER'S QUOTE $600: Joe Starkey, mid-kickoff return as Cal Berkeley beat this rival: "Oh, the band is out on the field! He's gonna go into the end zone!" Stanford |
| #8321, aired 2021-01-25 | LETTER PERFECT CINEMA $400: At the end of "Logan", Laura turns the cross on Wolverine's grave to make it into one of these letters an "X" |
| #8314, aired 2021-01-14 | RICK'S ROLE $1600: In 2016 Ricky Gervais was back as this "Office" character in "Life on the Road" David Brent |
| #8307, aired 2021-01-05 | HISTORIC HAPPENINGS $200: A newspaper gave Robert Peary $4,000 on condition that he reach this point & sure enough, in 1909 he wired them that he had the North Pole |
| #8307, aired 2021-01-05 | NORWEGIANS $800: Great Norwegian musicians include Pal Waaktaar, Magne Furuholmen & Morten Harket, who wrote this No. 1 hit for a-ha "Take On Me" |
| #8296, aired 2020-12-07 | LITERARY VIDEO GAMES $600: In the mobile game based on this 1873 novel, you can end up with a different itinerary than the one Jules Verne created Around the World in 80 Days |
| #8295, aired 2020-12-04 | DUET PARTNERS $800: At the end of the movie "Grease", they duet on "You're The One That I Want" John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John |
| #8278, aired 2020-11-11 | SHE SHOOTS $400: While she was working on a kibbutz in 1969, this celeb photographer's boyfriend got her a subscription to Rolling Stone Annie Leibovitz |
| #8274, aired 2020-11-05 | 21st CENTURY BLACK & WHITE MOVIES $1200: This Bruce Dern movie named for a Plains state was in B&W in the theaters but was shown in color on cable Nebraska |
| #8249, aired 2020-10-01 | HISTORIC WOMEN $3,000 (Daily Double): Her services refused due to prejudice, Jamaican-born Mary Seacole helped care for British soldiers on her own during this 1850s war the Crimean War |
| #8248, aired 2020-09-30 | LET'S GET MEDICAL $400: In 2014 the first FDA-approved study in decades on this hallucinogen showed it has promise for end-of-life anxiety LSD |
| #8245, aired 2020-09-25 | WJPY CLASSICAL RADIO $600: On Sunday at 2 P.M. I'll feature Vivaldi when I host my weekly show "If It Ain't" this musical period Baroque |
| #8245, aired 2020-09-25 | PLAYS $800: Tracie Bennett was spot on as this legendary performer in "End of the Rainbow", set towards the end of her life Judy Garland |
| #8237, aired 2020-09-15 | ON THE GO $600: Ride the track from one end of the Las Vegas Strip to the other in about 15 minutes via this, similar to the one at Disneyland a monorail |
| #8237, aired 2020-09-15 | KNOW YOUR RIGHTS $800: On July 17, 1918 this czar was proved mistaken in his belief in the divine right of kings, that only God can punish rulers Nicholas II |
| #8232, aired 2020-06-09 | WOMEN ARTISTS $2000: "The End: A Meditation on Death and Extinction" is a recent series of works by this "Windy City" feminist artist Judy Chicago |
| #8230, aired 2020-06-05 | OTHER SPORTS $400: I hereby challenge Pat Sajak to this sport where we'll attempt to stay on a spinning piece of floating wood log rolling |
| #8225, aired 2020-05-29 | LAB PARTNERS $600: Thomas Watson worked in the lab with this man & in 1876 was on the other end of a very important phone call (Alexander Graham) Bell |
| #8218, aired 2020-05-20 | THE "END" IS JUST THE BEGINNING $800: This type of medical examination uses a very small camera on a long thin tube to look at the body's interior an endoscopy |
| #8208, aired 2020-04-22 | ADJECTIVES $400: Sorry, language nerds: the OED allows modifications like "very" on this 6-letter word meaning "one of a kind" unique |
| #8206, aired 2020-04-20 | SPORTS TALK $2000: In archery it's the 4-letter word for the groove at the rear end of an arrow that fits on the bowstring nock |
| #8205, aired 2020-04-17 | POSITIVE HISTORY $1600: This structure fell on November 9, 1989, symbolically bringing an end to the political division between East & West the Berlin Wall |
| #8204, aired 2020-04-16 | POETRY FOR PHYSICISTS $400: A poem in "The Da Vinci Code" alludes to the fact that an apple is not depicted on this British physicist's tomb Isaac Newton |
| #8204, aired 2020-04-16 | MOVIE COMEDIES $400: "What We Do in the Shadows" is a New Zealand mockumentary focused on a cadre of these creatures vampires |
| #8193, aired 2020-04-01 | WE'RE ON A CRUSADE $1600: Heading a large army of crusaders, this "Red Beard" German king drowned en route to the third crusade Frederick Barbarossa |
| #8188, aired 2020-03-25 | SHORT RUNS ON BROADWAY $2000: "La Strada", based on this director's film, starred a young Bernadette Peters & said arrivederci after one show Federico Fellini |
| #8186, aired 2020-03-23 | BRUSHING UP ON YOUR SPANISH HISTORY $800: After more than 350 years, nobody expected this tribunal established to maintain orthodoxy would end in 1834 the Spanish Inquisition |
| #8185, aired 2020-03-20 | HISTORIC NAMES $800: As queen consort & regent of France, Italian-born Catherine takes an "S" on the end of this famed Florentine last name de Medici |
| #8183, aired 2020-03-18 | PLACES IN FANTASY $3,000 (Daily Double): The name of this 2-word ancestral dwelling in Tolkien is a play on the translation of the French "cul-de-sac" Bag End |
| #8182, aired 2020-03-17 | ON TIME $600: "The Good Son" was the June 12, 2017 cover description of this son-in-law with access to the president Jared Kushner |
| #8181, aired 2020-03-16 | SHAKESPEARE MEANS SOMETHING ELSE $2000: In modern life this 8-letter word means "not having a romantic partner for the evening"; in "Richard II" it means "without end" dateless |
| #8177, aired 2020-03-10 | THE END OF THE EMPEROR $400: He passed away in 14 A.D. on the 19th of the month named for him Augustus |
| #8171, aired 2020-03-02 | THE TOOLSHED $1200: If you need to take out your frustration on sheet metal, then this hammer with a hemispherical head at one end is for you a ball peen hammer |
| #8171, aired 2020-03-02 | CRANKY TV CHARACTERS $1600: This cranky TV news director character on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" later got his own show Lou Grant |
| #8167, aired 2020-02-25 | ANCIENT GREEK THEATER $5,000 (Daily Double): Aristotle wrote about drama in his "Poetics" & used this word for the release of strong, emotions brought on by a play catharsis |
| #8162, aired 2020-02-18 | RELIGIOUS IDIOMS $1200: One who's nearing the end of life is knocking on this, as in a 1973 Bob Dylan song heaven's door |
| #8162, aired 2020-02-18 | "V" END OF THE RUSSIAN NAME $1600: You remember his brilliant pawn sacrifice on the 14th move of the 10th game of the 1995 match against Anand Kasparov |
| #8144, aired 2020-01-23 | NEW ON THE BOOKSHELF $5,000 (Daily Double): Christy Lefteri's "The Beekeeper of Aleppo" details a married couple's flight from this war-torn country Syria |
| #8141, aired 2020-01-20 | THE AMERICAS BEFORE COLUMBUS $400: On a high stone pyramid, Aztec priests performed sacrifices to Huitzilopochtli, god of this heavenly body the Sun |
| #8140, aired 2020-01-17 | MONEY TALKS $1,500 (Daily Double): In frontier general stores, this was often used as a table or counter; hence "cash on" it to mean payment right away the barrel (the barrelhead) |
| #8138, aired 2020-01-15 | BORDER RIVERS $3,000 (Daily Double): The only river that serves as part of a national border in the Caribbean is the Artibonite River on this island Hispaniola |
| #8, aired 2020-01-14 | WELCOME BACK BOYS! $1000: On Dec. 19, 1972 astronauts Cernan, Schmitt & Evans splashed down in the Pacific as this last manned Moon mission came to an end Apollo 17 |
| #8135, aired 2020-01-10 | WHERE'S THAT CHURCH? $200: Built in the 300s A.D., the Church of the Nativity Israel |
| #8126, aired 2019-12-30 | 17th CENTURY HISTORY $3,000 (Daily Double): This Virginia Native American died in 1618, but wars that bore his name were fought on & off between 1622 & 1646 Powhatan |
| #8124, aired 2019-12-26 | THE SINGER OR BAND IN QUESTION $1200: A Motown legend: "What's Going On", also the name of one of his albums Marvin Gaye |
| #8123, aired 2019-12-25 | 9-LETTER WORDS $800: It means toward the rear & is also a polite word for the part you sit on posterior |
| #8111, aired 2019-12-09 | QUOTES OF NOTE $1600: Dick Cheney, talking of this, something his daughter Mary went on to do: "I think freedom means freedom for everyone" gay marriage |
| #8098, aired 2019-11-20 | THERE'S A NATIONAL DAY FOR THAT $400: Write (actually write, on paper) a letter on June 1, the National Day for these alliterative & friendly correspondents Pen Pals |
| #8090, aired 2019-11-08 | BLACK HOLES $2000: The world didn't end Sept. 10, 2008, when this was switched on near Geneva; though it may create tiny black holes, they're no threat the CERN Large Hadron Collider |
| #8078, aired 2019-10-23 | THE MARCH ON WASHINGTON $2,000 (Daily Double): 10 times Martin Luther King spoke these 3 words that end the first verse of "My Country, 'Tis Of Thee" Let freedom ring |
| #8074, aired 2019-10-17 | PUT THE ASTRONAUTS ON THE MISSION $1200: Fred Haise, James Lovell, Jack Swigert handled some problems on this mission Apollo 13 |
| #8071, aired 2019-10-14 | THE MANY BUILDINGS OF I.M. PEI $2000: Pei was in his 90s when the Museum of Islamic Art on Doha Bay opened in this country in 2008 Qatar |
| #8063, aired 2019-10-02 | GOVERNMENT & POLITICS $1600: In 1965, Harry Truman looked on as President Johnson signed this program into law Medicare |
| #8060, aired 2019-09-27 | WATER $400: Major ports on this lake include Mwanza & Entebbe Victoria |
| #8055, aired 2019-09-20 | 2019 MOVIES $200: Arcade Fire performs the song "Baby Mine" during the end credits of this Tim Burton film based on a Disney cartoon Dumbo |
| #8054, aired 2019-09-19 | THE HINTING OF HULL HOUSE $200: Founded in 1889 on Halsted St. in this city, Hull House was the most famous settlement house, kind of an immigrant community center Chicago |
| #8054, aired 2019-09-19 | 16-LETTER WORDS $400: A toast of grog to Sir Francis Drake, who completed this type of round-the-world voyage on Sept. 26, 1580 circumnavigation |
| #8046, aired 2019-09-09 | WORLD CURRENCY $400: After the U.S. pulled out of the 2015 nuclear deal with this country in 2018, its currency plunged Iran |
| #8044, aired 2019-07-25 | FOR ALL IT'S WORTH $800: Appraisers on this PBS show often give a piece's insurance value; Spanish desk circa 1760, $10,000-$15,000 Antiques Roadshow |
| #8041, aired 2019-07-22 | WHAT'D THE CAPTAIN SAY? $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a bit on the monitor.) A bit is a sturdy post in a deck for fastening cables & ropes, so when the captain says, "Hold on to" this, it means to grab the last part of a line, not to hang on until no hope remains the bitter end |
| #8036, aired 2019-07-15 | KILLED OFF THE TV SHOW $1000: Dean Norris played this character who ended up on the wrong end of the gun on "Breaking Bad" Hank |
| #8027, aired 2019-07-02 | BONE UP ON YOUR ANAGRAMS $200: It's not so funny when you hit the end of it:
EMU RUSH the humerus |
| #8013, aired 2019-06-12 | FAR FROM $400: You can't get much farther from ocean water than the west end of this desert on the Mongolia/China border the Gobi |
| #8010, aired 2019-06-07 | RISE TO THE OCCASION $800: At the end of this film, Tom Hanks & Meg Ryan finally meet on the observation deck of the Empire State Building Sleepless in Seattle |
| #8003, aired 2019-05-29 | SPACE "EX" $800: To astronomers, this isn't the end of a species but the atmospheric dimming of a star when it's low on the horizon extinction |
| #7997, aired 2019-05-21 | ADAMS NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew presents from Adams National Historical Park.) With this seal, John Adams literally sealed the deal to end the Revolutionary War, leaving his wax impression on the 1783 Treaty of this city Paris |
| #7992, aired 2019-05-14 | LET'S PUT ON A MUSICAL $1200: Sets we're going to need for "Carrie":
the White home, the pig farm & this festive event where things get bloody at the end the prom |
| #7980, aired 2019-04-26 | PLAYERS ON THE CHAMPIONSHIP TEAM $200: 2016:
Anthony Rizzo & Kris Bryant helped end a long dry spell the Cubbies (or the Chicago Cubs) |
| #7980, aired 2019-04-26 | SOCIAL STUDIES $400: The book "Gunfight" focuses on the history & interpretation of this amendment to the Constitution the Second |
| #7980, aired 2019-04-26 | MONTY PYTHON PHRASES $1600: This ditty from the end of "Life of Brian" is the most requested song at British funerals "Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life" |
| #7969, aired 2019-04-11 | 25 TCM $200: (Ben Mankiewicz gives the clue.) The movie that's had the most airings on TCM, currently at 150, is this 1942 classic starring Humphrey Bogart Casablanca |
| #7966, aired 2019-04-08 | CAROL KAYE PLAYED BASS ON THAT $400: That's legendary session musician Carol Kaye playing bass on "Good Vibrations" & a bunch of other hits by this band The Beach Boys |
| #7959, aired 2019-03-28 | PUT A "RING" ON IT $1000: On the end of a small bay to get this protective layer covering |
| #7953, aired 2019-03-20 | "R.R." $200: In this playground game of trying to break through lines, everybody's on the winning team at the end red rover |
| #7951, aired 2019-03-18 | TV SERIES FINALES $400: On Feb. 28, 1983 nearly 106 million people watched a war end with the last original episode of this CBS show M*A*S*H |
| #7948, aired 2019-03-13 | TRENDING AT MERRIAM-WEBSTER $1600: This procedure to end a debate, after Mitch McConnell filed a motion to end the debate on Brett Kavanaugh's nomination cloture |
| #7943, aired 2019-03-06 | IN THE "MI"DDLE $800: It can be the end point on a transportation line, or the city in which it's located a terminus |
| #7943, aired 2019-03-06 | THIS IS "MY" SONG $1600: The Pet Shop Boys covered this Willie Nelson hit that begins, "Maybe I didn't love you quite as often as I could have" "Always On My Mind" |
| #7927, aired 2019-02-12 | ANIMAL FAKERS $1000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows the crabeater seal on the monitor.) The crabeater seal doesn't even eat crabs; its teeth are designed to make it a filter feeder, dining mostly on these tiny crustaceans just like blue whales do krill |
| #7924, aired 2019-02-07 | MARCH ON! $800: "Tell Your Mother I'll Vote Dry" was a hymn you might have heard during a march for this teetotaling "T" movement temperance |
| #7920, aired 2019-02-01 | STAMPS $2,000 (Daily Double): A musician plays a guitar, exemplifying the Delta blues, on the stamp honoring its 200th anniversary of statehood Mississippi |
| #7912, aired 2019-01-22 | TAKING STOCK $1000: Running its own market index as well as providing credit ratings, "S&P" stands for this company Standard & Poor's |
| #7905, aired 2019-01-11 | FICTIONAL AMUSEMENT PARKS $2000: Woody Harrelson & Jesse Eisenberg battle the undead on a road trip to a California amusement park in this 2009 film Zombieland |
| #7901, aired 2019-01-07 | REJECTED SUPERHEROES $200: He was rejected on the grounds that he couldn't stop telling everybody he was sorry the Apologizer |
| #7894, aired 2018-12-27 | ON THE HEAVENLY BODY $2000: A planetoid--Burney Crater, named for the little girl who named the planetoid Pluto |
| #7893, aired 2018-12-26 | DEATH ON THE NILE $400: This virus that kills both birds & humans was first isolated in Uganda in 1937 West Nile Virus |
| #7885, aired 2018-12-14 | TEAMS ON THE MOVE $1000: After the 2005 season, this MLS city's original Quakes moved to Houston; in 2008 it got a new swarm San Jose |
| #7883, aired 2018-12-12 | HODGEPODGE $2000: This is a blank page at the beginning or end of a book, not a spot for bugs to gather on a plant a flyleaf |
| #7875, aired 2018-11-30 | WATCHING THE TV DETECTIVES $1000: This actor broke many a criminal during interrogations as Det. Bobby Goren on "Law & Order: Criminal Intent" (Vincent) D'Onofrio |
| #7875, aired 2018-11-30 | CHURCHES & CATHEDRALS $1600: Florence's skyline is marked by a feature of the cathedral Santa Maria del Fiore, with this Italian nickname il Duomo |
| #7873, aired 2018-11-28 | ON THE MOVE $200: This word for an airport building or train station tells you you've reached the end of the line a terminal |
| #7872, aired 2018-11-27 | TROPHY HUNTER $800: The Pritzker Prize medal, given for excellence in this field, is based on the designs of Louis Sullivan architecture |
| #7870, aired 2018-11-23 | YOU'RE GONNA NEED A BIGGER BOAT $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a ship on the monitor.) At over 1,500 feet in length, the Seawise Giant measured taller than the Petronas Towers if it were placed on end, truly befitting of this type of craft, the "super" this supertanker |
| #7866, aired 2018-11-19 | WOMEN ON TV $600: In 2017 it was the end of a fairy tale for Emma Swan when Jennifer Morrison said she wouldn't be coming back to this drama Once Upon a Time |
| #7866, aired 2018-11-19 | MEDDLING IN YOUR BUSINESS $800: "America's Diner", as of 2017 it put its slams & skillets on a new on demand app Denny's |
| #7858, aired 2018-11-07 | SPORTS ABBREV. $400: A boxer wants to be on the giving end:
TKO a technical knockout |
| #7854, aired 2018-11-01 | A DOCTOR IN THE HOUSE... OR SENATE $800 (Daily Double): A representative from Idaho & also this medical professional, Mike Simpson introduced a resolution on water fluoridation a dentist |
| #7853, aired 2018-10-31 | HALLOWEEN WITH GENE SIMMONS $2000: (Gene Simmons presents the clue.) Legend says that death awakens the dead with a fiddle on Halloween & invites the skeletons to this French-named dance of death danse macabre |
| #7848, aired 2018-10-24 | SEEN ON MY WALK TODAY $600: Could it be? It is! The house species of this bird, & so early in the season a sparrow |
| #7846, aired 2018-10-22 | CLASSICAL RAPPERS $2000: This modest "Night on Bald Mountain" composer was an imposing member of the Russian crew "The Five" Modest Mussorgsky |
| #7841, aired 2018-10-15 | OPERA $2000: Amahl plays the same tune on his pipe at the beginning & end, before & after he meets this title group the night visitors |
| #7838, aired 2018-10-10 | THE END OF THE ROAD $1600: On the east, London's Horse Guards Avenue ends at the embankment named for her Victoria |
| #7832, aired 2018-10-02 | FRENCH ARTISTS $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows an example of chronophotography on the monitor.) In the 1880s, Etienne-Jules Marey developed chronophotography, in which the entire sequence of a movement was captured in a single image, inspiring the superimposed images of a figure descending a staircase in the 1912 painting by this French artist Marcel Duchamp |
| #7821, aired 2018-09-17 | STRIPES ON THE FLAG $2000: Head toward central Asia & the far end of the alphabet to get to this former Soviet republic & now independent nation Uzbekistan |
| #7815, aired 2018-07-27 | TRAVEL HAWAII $800: In 2013 the beautiful Kilauea Point Lighthouse on the north end of Kauai was renamed to honor this late senator (Daniel) Inouye |
| #7814, aired 2018-07-26 | IT'S A JUNGLE OUT THERE $800: See gorillas in their jungle habitat on a safari to the republic of this river Congo |
| #7805, aired 2018-07-13 | THE SOCIAL NETWORK $400: Ship captains rely on this group; for Mardi Gras, it's spelled with a "K" at the start & an extra "E" at the end a crew/krewe |
| #7784, aired 2018-06-14 | POLAR EXPLORATION $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows the South Pole on the monitor.) Here is Amundsen's route to and from the South Pole, & here is the 1911-1912 route from Cape Evans led by this man--on the return trip, he met his end just 11 miles from shelter (Robert Falcon) Scott |
| #7778, aired 2018-06-06 | COMIC RELIEF $600: In 2017 her "Project" came to an end on Hulu with the series finale episode, "It Had to Be You" Mindy Kaling |
| #7777, aired 2018-06-05 | PORTUGAL, THE MAN $1,000 (Daily Double): Despite his nickname, this prince who sponsored many voyages didn't go on the expeditions himself Henry the Navigator |
| #7774, aired 2018-05-31 | BOOKS OF THE 1990s $600: The beautifully dangerous Lucky Santangelo takes on Hollywood in this author's novel "Lady Boss" Jackie Collins |
| #7771, aired 2018-05-28 | THE BODY HUMAN $200: When you're cold or frightened, your arrector pili muscles make this "stand on end" your hair |
| #7754, aired 2018-05-03 | PUT A "LID" ON IT $400: On the end of a state postal abbreviation to get this synonym for "true" valid |
| #7754, aired 2018-05-03 | PUT A "LID" ON IT $1200: On the end of a London landmark to get this body part where you might get conjunctivitis your eyelid |
| #7747, aired 2018-04-24 | SUPER HEROIC TERMS $1200: This term for a hero's partner once had "-er" on the end a sidekick |
| #7746, aired 2018-04-23 | A RuVIEW OF MOVIES $400: (RuPaul presents the clue.) In a twist, Nathan Lane's flamboyant character is out of drag & Gene Hackman's conservative senator is in drag at the end of this film based on "La Cage aux Folles" The Birdcage |
| #7728, aired 2018-03-28 | PIPE SHOW $1600: The blowpipe & dart seen here are from Sarawak on the Malaysian part of this island Borneo |
| #7722, aired 2018-03-20 | BODIES OF WATER WORDS $2000: Meaning "prudish", this hyphenated word is the right way for putting on a bodice straitlaced |
| #7721, aired 2018-03-19 | MUST SEA TV $400: The crab fishermen of "Deadliest Catch" operate out of the port of Dutch Harbor on the southern edge of this sea the Bering Sea |
| #7705, aired 2018-02-23 | CHESTER A. ARTHUR $555 (Daily Double): On his last day in office, Arthur nominated this ex-president for the retired list of the Army with full pay Grant |
| #7704, aired 2018-02-22 | LAUGH-IN AT 50 $800: Edith Ann was one of the characters this comedienne performed on the show--& that's the truth Lily Tomlin |
| #7700, aired 2018-02-16 | EPONYMOUS BRANDS $1000: The "Father of the Modern Drugstore" was born Charles Rudolph this, with no 's on the end Walgreen |
| #7697, aired 2018-02-13 | SAD! $2000: Lifelong friends Bette Midler & Barbara Hershey sit on the sand one last time at the end of this uber-chick flick Beaches |
| #7696, aired 2018-02-12 | THE EUROVISION SONG CONTEST $1600: A decade after they were walking on sunshine, this group won the 1997 Eurovision contest for the United Kingdom Katrina and the Waves |
| #7692, aired 2018-02-06 | PEWTER $600: The Danforth name has meant pewter for centuries; a 1795 plate set was appraised at $3,000 in Raleigh on this PBS series Antiques Roadshow |
| #7690, aired 2018-02-02 | "X" = Z $400: Wooden hammers hit wooden bars to make beautiful music on this a xylophone |
| #7682, aired 2018-01-23 | IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS $1600: Richard Rogers, also known as Lord Rogers of Riverside, designed this edifice on the Thames riverside the Millennium Dome |
| #7679, aired 2018-01-18 | TARZAN $400: Elmo Lincoln was the first actor to play Tarzan on film in this year that also saw the end of a war 1918 |
| #7673, aired 2018-01-10 | LETHAL WEAPON $800: Depending on who's wielding it, this item here can be either a nifty Irish walking stick or a cudgel a shillelagh |
| #7672, aired 2018-01-09 | A BOUNTY OF BAHNEN $2000: Depending on the city, the "S" in S-Bahn can stand for Stadt ("city") or for this German word for "fast" schnell |
| #7666, aired 2018-01-01 | SAVED BY THE BELA $800: On Dec. 20, 1918 Bela Kun, a disciple of Lenin, founded this party in Hungary the Communist Party |
| #7662, aired 2017-12-26 | ON BOXING DAY $1200: This UFC champion's crossover into boxing came up a bit short against Floyd Mayweather in August 2017 (Conor) McGregor |
| #7652, aired 2017-12-12 | ROBERT SIEGEL SIGNS OFF $600: (Robert Siegel reads the clue.) On January 20, 1981, the day Ronald Reagan was sworn in, I was in West Germany covering this other big story, the end of a 14-month crisis the Tehran hostage crisis (or the release of the hostages in Iran) |
| #7649, aired 2017-12-07 | "I" LOVE OPERA $1600: Sir Arthur Sullivan composed operettas like "Iolanthe" but only one grand opera, this one based on a Walter Scott book Ivanhoe |
| #7638, aired 2017-11-22 | CHAPELS SHOW $1600: The Chapel of the Holy Cross in Sedona, Arizona is on this type of energy hub for which the city is known a vortex |
| #7633, aired 2017-11-15 | A TRIANGLE SCHEME $200: After 1918, no one had an eye on the USS Cyclops, one of the first U.S. ships recorded missing in this mysterious region the Bermuda Triangle |
| #7631, aired 2017-11-13 | MUSIC FOR CHAMPS $200: "We'll keep on fighting 'til the end" of this 1977 Queen smash "We Are The Champions" |
| #7631, aired 2017-11-13 | MUSIC FOR CHAMPS $800: In a 2013 hit that recalls a No. 1 from the '70s, Imagine Dragons was "On Top Of" it top of the world |
| #7624, aired 2017-11-02 | BRIDGE ACROSS THE "C" $800: Going from Delmarva peninsula to S.E. Virginia, you're likely on the bridge & tunnel system that spans this bay the Chesapeake |
| #7618, aired 2017-10-25 | CANADIAN NATIONAL PARKS $1200: There are only 20 main islands in this park on the St. Lawrence but a lot more in its name Thousand Islands |
| #7614, aired 2017-10-19 | WASHINGTON, D.C. $1,000 (Daily Double): This 3-word motto is on D.C. license plates to protest its lack of voting rights; a 2016 proposal is start the motto "end" "Taxation Without Representation" |
| #7612, aired 2017-10-17 | INVENTION & DISCOVERY $400: On October 13, 1983 David Meilahn & Bob Barnett made the first calls on a commercial one of these, talking to Bell's grandkid a cellular telephone |
| #7610, aired 2017-10-13 | "DED" END $600: If you've been falsely convicted, you've been this, & you're on the wrong end of the choo-choo railroaded |
| #7609, aired 2017-10-12 | THE END IS NEAR $600: It's been 23 1/2 hours, so better look quick at the image I posted on this service, taken with a "spectacles" camera Snapchat |
| #7596, aired 2017-09-25 | THE CITY'S TV SHOW $800: Lee Iacocca, G.Gordon Liddy & the Fat Boys guested on this 1980s Don Johnson superhip cop show Miami Vice |
| #7594, aired 2017-09-21 | WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KELVIN $1200: Kelvin was the driving force in the laying of the transatlantic one of these in 1866 telegraph cable |
| #7584, aired 2017-07-27 | THE UNION, JACK $400: In November 1862 this bewhiskered man replaced General McClellan as head of Union troops Burnside |
| #7581, aired 2017-07-24 | MUSICAL THEATER $400: On January 15, 2017 Frankie Valli took the stage to say a few words at the end of this musical's 11-year run on Broadway Jersey Boys |
| #7580, aired 2017-07-21 | FASHION HISTORY $1600: This artificial gem used for costume jewelry was originally made in Strasbourg on the river for which it's named rhinestone |
| #7567, aired 2017-07-04 | 1960s POP MUSIC $400: This Temptations hit begins, "I've got sunshine on a cloudy day, when it's cold outside I've got the month of May" "My Girl" |
| #7552, aired 2017-06-13 | THE AGONY OF DA FEET $1200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents.) On the X-ray you can see the small pointed bony projection at the bottom of the heel indicating the patient had one of these, which can cause discomfort when walking a spur |
| #7549, aired 2017-06-08 | TRICKY ANIMALS $1000: Prey are attracted to the end of the appendage on this tricky creature, whose name contains a term for a fisherman an anglerfish |
| #7548, aired 2017-06-07 | HOUSES OF WORSHIP $400: Built on the ruins of 2 earlier churches, it lies at the eastern end of the Ile de la Cite in Paris Notre-Dame |
| #7546, aired 2017-06-05 | TV DOCTORS $2000: On this 1960s sitcom, when Samantha Stephens had an emergency, she would call Dr. Bombay, her family physician Bewitched |
| #7540, aired 2017-05-26 | 400 SHOWS ON IN 2017 $400: Here's a "Full Frontal" shot of this woman, host of a bitingly funny late night show Samantha Bee |
| #7539, aired 2017-05-25 | MORTAL MATTERS $400: This emblem of death is used as a warning sign on poisons, ya scalawag! skull and crossbones |
| #7519, aired 2017-04-27 | KINDA SCIENCEY $800: Kids shouldn't use this word on the playground, but they can use it to describe acids like palmitic with long carbon chains fatty |
| #7517, aired 2017-04-25 | THE CALIFORNIA GOLD RUSH $1000: This California city on a river of the same name grew rapidly during the rush & became the western end of the Pony Express Sacramento |
| #7514, aired 2017-04-20 | ON "LINE" $1200: Retronym for a 20th century-style telephone connection a landline |
| #7511, aired 2017-04-17 | BORDER FRENZY $1200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) Bearing the name of a 14th century ruler of the Golden Horde, this "stan" only borders other countries that end in "stan" Uzbekistan |
| #7500, aired 2017-03-31 | BREAKFAST CEREALS $800: Items on drop-down menus at the website of this cereal include "Our honey", "Our oats" & "Healthy hearts" Cheerios |
| #7493, aired 2017-03-22 | JAZZ $1200: The Eddy Davis New Orleans Jazz Band features Woody Allen on this instrument the clarinet |
| #7489, aired 2017-03-16 | CABINET DEPARTMENTS $600: This department's headquarters were directly attacked on 9/11 the Department of Defense |
| #7485, aired 2017-03-10 | 5 KNIGHTS $6,200 (Daily Double): Freedom isn't free! On Aug. 23, 1305 this Scot's day included hanging & disembowelment William Wallace |
| #7484, aired 2017-03-09 | BRAND NAMES--FIRST & LAST $400: General Mills created her to reply to homemakers; her name is still on cake mixes & lots of other stuff Betty Crocker |
| #7481, aired 2017-03-06 | THIS CATEGORY GOES TO THE 1100s $4,000 (Daily Double): In 1141 this monk was condemned by a church court on theological grounds, not for fooling around with a student Abelard |
| #7480, aired 2017-03-03 | PRESIDENTIAL HOMES $1000: In Marion in this state you can stand on the front porch for which Warren Harding's laid-back 1920 campaign is named Ohio |
| #7480, aired 2017-03-03 | BRITISH GEOGRAPHY $2000: 2,036-foot Snaefell is the tallest-- & only--mountain on this isle in the Irish Sea the Isle of Man |
| #7477, aired 2017-02-28 | ON YOUR LEFT! $800: Left of Argentina Chile |
| #7476, aired 2017-02-27 | TV & MOVIE JENNYS $2000: In 2012 Jenny Lee learned a lot about life & birthing babies in 1950s London as "Call" this person debuted on PBS the Midwife |
| #7475, aired 2017-02-24 | OLYMPIANS $200: At Rio 2016, he blamed his glacial time of 9.81 secs. in the 100m on the short rest period between the semifinal & final (Usain) Bolt |
| #7461, aired 2017-02-06 | FOREIGN EXCHANGE $600: Sweden's 200-kronor note honors this director with a depiction of him on the set of "The Seventh Seal" (Ingmar) Bergman |
| #7461, aired 2017-02-06 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $2000: In a performance of this 1931 suite, the percussionist needs coconut shells to imitate a burro on the trail Grand Canyon Suite |
| #7460, aired 2017-02-03 | 20th CENTURY ART & ARTISTS $1600: Magritte said, "To be" this type of artist means "being always on the lookout for what has never been" a surrealist |
| #7449, aired 2017-01-19 | ON THE LAOS $2000: Gen. Vang Pao & his fellow soldiers of this ethnic group helped the U.S. fight a secret war in Laos Hmong |
| #7445, aired 2017-01-13 | RUNNING A HOTEL $600: Tom Hiddleston plays this title hotel functionary in the 2016 miniseries based on John le Carre's novel The Night Manager |
| #7445, aired 2017-01-13 | THE 1860s $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a ship and a map on the monitor.) In 1869, the end of the glamorous tea clipper era was at hand; steamships could economically bring tea from China because they needed less coal with the opening of this waterway the Suez Canal |
| #7443, aired 2017-01-11 | HBO, GO! $800: (I'm Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner.) "Mad Men" was doubly rewarding for me; long before the show was made, my script was read by David Chase, who then put me on the staff of this HBO drama The Sopranos |
| #7438, aired 2017-01-04 | EARLY HUMANOIDS $400: Scientists believe Gigantopithecus of Asia stood almost 10' in height & lived largely on a diet of this tall grass bamboo |
| #7438, aired 2017-01-04 | HISTORIC OBJECTS $2,500 (Daily Double): More than 70 scenes are depicted on it with the last, chronologically, showing the English retreating at Hastings in 1066 the Bayeux Tapestry |
| #7436, aired 2017-01-02 | FLAGS OF THE AMERICAS $1600: The stripes on the flags of Venezuela & Ecuador resembled those of this neighbor of which they were once a part Colombia |
| #7433, aired 2016-12-28 | ITALIAN GEOGRAPHY $2000: Italy's chief seaport, it lies on the northern end of the Ligurian Sea Genoa |
| #7429, aired 2016-12-22 | NICARAGUA $800: This highway system that has one end in Alaska passes through Nicaragua on its way to the tip of Tierra del Fuego the Pan-American Highway |
| #7428, aired 2016-12-21 | ON YOUR SLEEVE $600: A military badge of this country recently at odds with Russia shows a trident over its blue & yellow flag Ukraine |
| #7425, aired 2016-12-16 | SONGS ON TV $400: "Don't Stop Believin'" by this band is playin' at the end of the last episode of "The Sopranos", until suddenly, it isn't Journey |
| #7421, aired 2016-12-12 | THE POPES $800: He was the first pope to choose a double name but, sadly, only had 34 days on the job John Paul |
| #7418, aired 2016-12-07 | THE GREAT LOOP $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports.) On the western portion of the trip, loopers cruise several stately rivers including the Mississippi, the Tennessee & this one between Cairo & Paducah the Ohio |
| #7418, aired 2016-12-07 | DIRECTORS ON FILM $1600: Long after "The Maltese Falcon", this director played the sinister Noah Cross in 1974's "Chinatown" John Huston |
| #7413, aired 2016-11-30 | THE ERIE CANAL $400: When the canal opened in 1825, it was only 4 feet deep & ran 363 miles from Albany to this city on Lake Erie Buffalo |
| #7406, aired 2016-11-21 | MANIC PIXEL DREAM GIRLS $400: In "Ocarina of Time", this title princess is counting on Link to save the kingdom Zelda |
| #7405, aired 2016-11-18 | I GET AROUND $2000: In "Jupiter Ascending", this actor gets around on his cool boots that can levitate Channing Tatum |
| #7397, aired 2016-11-08 | YES TO NOVEMBER $200: Veterans Day is celebrated on this date, the anniversary of the end of World War I November 11th |
| #7395, aired 2016-11-04 | AUTO SHOP TALK $200: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows an automotive animation on the monitor.) In a car's catalytic converter, exhaust fumes go through reduction, then oxidation occurs using catalysts such as platinum & palladium filters; for example, one extra oxygen molecule converts a toxic gas into this harmless gas carbon dioxide |
| #7386, aired 2016-10-24 | ISLANDS $400: New York City's highest natural point is Todt Hill, on this island reachable by ferry Staten Island |
| #7384, aired 2016-10-20 | A BETTE MIDLER MEDLEY $1200: On a recent concert tour, Bette sang "I Put A Spell On You" dressed as Winifred from this movie Hocus Pocus |
| #7383, aired 2016-10-19 | CROSSED OFF WALTZ $1200: Mastery of the bop waltz stylings from this piano-playing jazz "holy man" has been attained--on to the next Thelonious Monk |
| #7382, aired 2016-10-18 | DOME, DOME ON THE RANGE $800: This concert, NFL & Atlanta Olympics venue has 4 A/C units totaling 5,000 tons the Georgia Dome |
| #7373, aired 2016-10-05 | STAMPS $600: On a 2016 stamp, sunlight bathes la Cueva del Indio, or the Cave of the Indian, near Arecibo on this U.S. commonwealth Puerto Rico |
| #7363, aired 2016-09-21 | STORIES OF THE WAR $400: "All Quiet on the Western Front" &
"Parade's End" World War I |
| #7361, aired 2016-09-19 | SCHTICK $800: Pronouns abound in "Who's on First?", a classic comedy routine by this duo Abbott & Costello |
| #7352, aired 2016-07-26 | BOOKS BY CHAPTER TITLES $600: "The Battle of Hogwarts" Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows |
| #7337, aired 2016-07-05 | TALKING BASEBALL $600: Throw a quick pitch & an ump may call this; if the bases are empty, a ball is called a balk |
| #7334, aired 2016-06-30 | THE SUPREME COURT $1600: He's seen here near the beginning & near the end of his time on the Court--the longest of any justice in history William O. Douglas |
| #7333, aired 2016-06-29 | TIME FOR SPACE $2,000 (Daily Double): Designated one of these objects like Pluto, distant Haumea spins so fast on its axis that it's twice as tall as it is wide a dwarf planet |
| #7325, aired 2016-06-17 | TOUGH AARON SPELLING WOMEN $1600: Kaley Cuoco made life miserable for Phoebe, Paige & Piper, real witches themselves on this drama Charmed |
| #7321, aired 2016-06-13 | NEW IN SCIENCE $2000: Scientists are helping Darwin's finches on these islands fight off parasitic flies with the help of a mild pesticide the Galápagos |
| #7304, aired 2016-05-19 | SANTA ANNA $1200: In exile on Staten Island, Santa Anna brought chicle to the U.S., helping start America's affair with this chewy stuff chewing gum |
| #7297, aired 2016-05-10 | 2016 STAMPS $800: This natural wonder of the Pacific Northwest, a canyon through the Cascades, is depicted here on a 2016 stamp the Columbia River Gorge |
| #7284, aired 2016-04-21 | REALITY TV JUDGES $800: Tom Colicchio blogged "Why Stefan's dish was the worst" in a post called "Hog Hell" on this Bravo show's website Top Chef |
| #7272, aired 2016-04-05 | THE BEATLES... GEAR! $800: That crashing chord at the end of "A Day In The Life" is John, Paul, Ringo & Mal Evans on 3 of these pianos |
| #7260, aired 2016-03-18 | LET'S RIDE THE WHEEL! $1000: Enjoy a butler-served meal on the "Flyer" in this Asian island & city-state at the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula Singapore |
| #7259, aired 2016-03-17 | WHAT'S GOING ON IN THE NEWS? $600: The 4 leaders of Congress asked people not to try to shake the hand of this visitor in the House chamber on Sept. 24, 2015 the Pope (Francis) |
| #7258, aired 2016-03-16 | A GRIP ON IT $600: As key grip on this AMC series from 2007 to 2015, Pat O'Mara helped light up 1960s Manhattan Mad Men |
| #7256, aired 2016-03-14 | 1980s BOOKS $400: "The House of the Spirits" by Isabel Allende is set in an unnamed country based on this one Chile |
| #7252, aired 2016-03-08 | TRAVELING ALONG ROUTE 66 $200: One end of Route 66 is at Grant Park on the corner of Jackson & Michigan Avenues in this city Chicago |
| #7251, aired 2016-03-07 | DRINKS ARE ON ME! $800: This drink of fermented honey & water goes back to Biblical times mead |
| #7243, aired 2016-02-24 | AGRICULTURE $3,000 (Daily Double): In the 1930s, Pan Am grew vegetables on Wake Island for passengers by using this soilless method hydroponics |
| #7238, aired 2016-02-17 | SYFY MOVIES $400: Syfy's take on medieval times is "Dark Relic", set in the Mideast in 1099, at the end of the first of these the Crusades |
| #7235, aired 2016-02-12 | BTW $800: Submariners don't call their sub a ship or vessel; they usually just say "come on aboard" this the boat |
| #7235, aired 2016-02-12 | YOU BUG ME $1,200 (Daily Double): The queen of this destructive insect of the order Isoptera can lay 30,000 eggs a day for years on end a termite |
| #7218, aired 2016-01-20 | SCREAMS, SHOUTS $400: At the end of the song "Helter Skelter", this drummer screams, "I got blisters on my fingers!" Ringo Starr |
| #7215, aired 2016-01-15 | TURN ON YOUR T-V $400: Get your drink on at one of these, another term for a bar or pub a tavern |
| #7215, aired 2016-01-15 | PLAYING AT WOODSTOCK $800: On Sunday morning at 2 A.M., this big-voiced woman gave the crowd a shot of "Kozmic Blues" & a "Piece Of My Heart" (Janis) Joplin |
| #7214, aired 2016-01-14 | BIBLICAL GEOGRAPHY $1600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) Scholars believe the Exodus didn't go across the Red Sea, but somewhere on land between two bodies of water--this sea & this gulf the Gulf of Suez & the Mediterranean Sea |
| #7213, aired 2016-01-13 | STARS IN THE SKY $800: Margot Robbie played one of the glamorous stewardesses on this '60s-set TV show named for a defunct airline Pan Am |
| #7211, aired 2016-01-11 | LOUIS XIV $2000: In 1674 Louis met, liked & ennobled this explorer who 8 years later put the king's name on Louisiana (Sieur) de La Salle |
| #7209, aired 2016-01-07 | WORLD HISTORY $2000: On May 7, 1954 a French outpost at this location fell to Communist Vietnamese forces Dien Bien Phu |
| #7206, aired 2016-01-04 | EMMY: THE WOMEN $2000: Emmy Verhey, who wields a 1676 Guarneri in concert, is a virtuoso on this instrument the violin |
| #7196, aired 2015-12-21 | REMEMBER THE '80s? $400: How square! In the mid-'80s this "amazing" puzzle showed off its colors on its own cartoon series the Rubik's Cube |
| #7194, aired 2015-12-17 | THAT DARN LITTLE ICE AGE $1600: Temps fell in the 17th century, hurting the North Atlantic fisheries based on this food fish of the genus Gadus cod |
| #7191, aired 2015-12-14 | "Y"? BECAUSE WE LIKE YOU $2000: Grilled chicken on a skewer, Japanese style yakitori |
| #7190, aired 2015-12-11 | COBBLERS $400: On "Sex and the City" Carrie was obsessed with the fancy heels by this high-end Spanish shoe designer Manolo Blahnik |
| #7190, aired 2015-12-11 | PUNS $1000: These features on the mouth of a llama relative bring us close to the end of the world alpaca lips |
| #7188, aired 2015-12-09 | A CATEGORY WITH GAPS $2000: Neel Gap to Unicoi Gap is a scenic hike on this very long trail near its south end in Georgia the Appalachian Trail |
| #7187, aired 2015-12-08 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $800: For the percussion heard here, Rossini originally had the string players bang these on candlesticks the violinists' bows |
| #7176, aired 2015-11-23 | ADD AN "E" $1600: This body of military men becomes one of the fallen when an "E" goes on the end corps |
| #7165, aired 2015-11-06 | GEMS & JEWELRY $1600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from a dock on Rangiroa Atoll.) To culture black pearls, an irritant is inserted into a black-lipped oyster, & during the next two years, thousands of layers of this substance build over the irritant nacre |
| #7149, aired 2015-10-15 | 1965 $4,000 (Daily Double): On March 23 this space project launched its first mission with Gus Grissom & John Young as commander & pilot Gemini |
| #7144, aired 2015-10-08 | SITCOM MOMS $400: On this classic sitcom, Carol had 3 very lovely girls--Marcia, Jan & Cindy--& 3 stepsons The Brady Bunch |
| #7140, aired 2015-10-02 | TOP 10 GLOBAL BRANDS $200: If only there were some kind of way to search the Internet for this $174 billion tech company, No. 2 on the list Google |
| #7136, aired 2015-09-28 | ODE ON A $1200: Vocalists sing this Schiller poem at the end of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony "Ode To Joy" |
| #7133, aired 2015-09-23 | GONNA MESS AROUND $400: Jon Snow was hit by Cupid's arrows... no, wait, those were fired by Ygritte, who Jon messed around with on this show Game of Thrones |
| #7130, aired 2015-09-18 | RATERS GONNA RATE $400: A green splat icon denotes a bad review on this movie & TV rating site Rotten Tomatoes |
| #7129, aired 2015-09-17 | AROUND THE WORLD $400: Seen here, this port city of 5 million is found on both banks of the Neva River Saint Petersburg |
| #7116, aired 2015-07-20 | YOUR NUMBER IS UP $600: The layout of a clock face led to the military slang "on your" this number, meaning directly behind you your six |
| #7116, aired 2015-07-20 | ACTRESSES' EMMYS $800: Uzo Aduba won for playing Crazy Eyes, an inmate on this series Orange Is the New Black |
| #7113, aired 2015-07-15 | AFTERNOON TEA $1,000 (Daily Double): It sounds appropriate to show a quartet of these tea cakes, though the French name does not refer to a number petit fours |
| #7108, aired 2015-07-08 | WITNESS $800: Literally millions witnessed this man murder another on Nov. 24, 1963 Jack Ruby |
| #7101, aired 2015-06-29 | THE WAR OF 1912 $1600: At war's end in 1913, this country on the Adriatic achieved independence from Turkey after 4 centuries Albania |
| #7099, aired 2015-06-25 | THE END OF THE SOVIET UNION $400: On Dec. 25, 1991 he announced, "I hereby discontinue my activities at the post of president of the USSR" Gorbachev |
| #7086, aired 2015-06-08 | COURT-LY LOVE $2000: Abbreviated ICJ; its primary function is to pass judgment on disputes between sovereign nations the International Court of Justice |
| #7078, aired 2015-05-27 | AYE $1000: Ending debate on Vivek Murthy's nomination for Surgeon General, on Dec. 15, 2014 the Senate agreed to invoke this cloture |
| #7073, aired 2015-05-20 | DEBUTING IN 1984 $600: One possible thing Bill Murray whispered to her at the end of "Lost in Translation" was "You were born on Nov. 22, 1984" Scarlett Johansson |
| #7073, aired 2015-05-20 | NEW TWISTS ON JEOPARDY! FAVORITES $800: The first mention of him: Season 16; some 170 clues later, we'll tell you Prof. Binns taught him the history of magic Harry Potter |
| #7072, aired 2015-05-19 | CHARLIE $200: A small museum devoted to the history of this barrier is located at Checkpoint Charlie on Friedrichstrasse the Berlin Wall |
| #7071, aired 2015-05-18 | ON YOUR FACE $800: It's clown-white makeup, red lipstick & black eyeliner to look like this type of performer a mime |
| #7070, aired 2015-05-15 | FINE FOOD $1000: Columbus was a fan of these, also a generic Italian term for cookies, because they resisted mold on voyages biscotti |
| #7068, aired 2015-05-13 | ON THE GO $1600: The Pride of America sails for this cruise line with a Scandinavian name Norwegian |
| #7066, aired 2015-05-11 | LIKE SUNDAY MORNING $200: First things first! Get breakfast going, maybe this egg dish that can have "-te" at the end, or not omelette (or omelet) |
| #7063, aired 2015-05-06 | TV ODDS & ENDS $400: Robin Leach promised "champagne wishes & caviar dreams" on the TV show "Lifestyles of" these people the Rich and Famous |
| #7052, aired 2015-04-21 | THE BIGGEST LOSER $200: In this game: the Denver Broncos, on the wrong end of a 55-10 score in 1990 the Super Bowl |
| #7036, aired 2015-03-30 | THE MUSICAL '90s $800: In the 1990s this group spent an amazing 51 weeks at No. 1, beginning with "End of the Road", on top for 13 weeks Boyz II Men |
| #7034, aired 2015-03-26 | CHECKING IN ON MARCH 26 $400: Many happy returns to Michael Imperioli, known for his role as Chris-tu-fuh Moltisanti on this HBO drama The Sopranos |
| #7030, aired 2015-03-20 | LITERARY CHARACTERS BASED ON REAL PEOPLE $2000: Self-destructive poet Delmore Schwartz was the model for this title gift-giver in a Saul Bellow book Humboldt |
| #7026, aired 2015-03-16 | THE LONDON STAGE $1600: In 2012 this murder mystery snared a record 60th year on the London stage The Mousetrap |
| #7024, aired 2015-03-12 | COMPUTER ACTIONS $1000: Releasing someone's personal info on the Internet is this word that can have 1 or 2 "X"s in the middle doxing (or doxxing) |
| #7023, aired 2015-03-11 | YOU DO THE MATH $400: Yards between the end zone on an NFL field divided by the number of 15-minute periods in a game 25 |
| #7022, aired 2015-03-10 | CALIFORNIA, HERE YOU COME! $400: Do you know the way to this city once big in fruit, now high on tech? Head to the southern end of I-280 San Jose |
| #7013, aired 2015-02-25 | THE END OF THE LINE $200: She lost her head on the guillotine, October 16, 1793 Marie Antoinette |
| #7013, aired 2015-02-25 | THE END OF THE LINE $600: O say, can you see he became D.A. of D.C. in 1833 but was D.O.A. on Jan. 11, 1843 Francis Scott Key |
| #7013, aired 2015-02-25 | THE END OF THE LINE $800: On July 30, 1898 this Prussian was sunk Bismarck |
| #7013, aired 2015-02-25 | THE END OF THE LINE $1000: This ex-president got the kinderhook on July 24, 1862 Martin Van Buren |
| #7013, aired 2015-02-25 | THE END OF THE LINE $2000: A Beckett work ends, "you must go on, I can't go on," then these 3 words I'll go on |
| #6995, aired 2015-01-30 | PABLO PICASSO SAID $1000: Turning on this American patron, P.P. said she sent a picture of herself in front of a car "and you couldn't even see the car" Gertrude Stein |
| #6979, aired 2015-01-08 | BODY CHECK $800: 2 prominences on either side of its lower end form the upper half of the knee joint; you give me this bone the femur |
| #6978, aired 2015-01-07 | THE $1 BILL $600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows currency on the monitor.) At the end of the 19th century, the U.S. issued a $1 bill featuring her, the only woman ever to appear on a U.S. currency note Martha Washington |
| #6977, aired 2015-01-06 | STATE FIRSTS $400: Wright on to this state that in 1903 saw the first successful powered airplane flight North Carolina |
| #6976, aired 2015-01-05 | STARS OF BUSINESS $800: This brand of Italian sparkling mineral water has a red star on its cyan label as well as a red star on its blue cap San Pellegrino |
| #6971, aired 2014-12-29 | AROUND THE HOUSE $400: A Home Depot how-to video on this says "one of the easiest ways to save is by making our homes airtight" weather-stripping |
| #6966, aired 2014-12-22 | KEEP ON TRUCKIN' $1600: A high center of gravity & excessive speed on a curve can both lead to this deadliest type of trucking accident a rollover |
| #6963, aired 2014-12-17 | WHAT A COUP! $800: By the end of the day on Sept. 11, 1973, Augusto Pinochet had done an end run on this president of Chile Salvador Allende |
| #6933, aired 2014-11-05 | FILMS OF THE 1950s $1600: "The Caddy" stars this duo as a golf pro & his caddy/manager; they duet on "That's Amore" & end up in show biz Dean Martin and (Jerry) Lewis |
| #6926, aired 2014-10-27 | THE CONGRESS OF VIENNA $1,900 (Daily Double): The Congress redrew the map of Europe: Prussia gained much of this area centered on a river, including Bonn the Rhineland |
| #6919, aired 2014-10-16 | EGGING YOU ON $600: Bust out your español for this dish, fried corn tortillas topped with fried eggs & then a layer of salsa huevos rancheros |
| #6916, aired 2014-10-13 | SAINTLY WOMEN $1600: It's said that she wiped the face of Christ with a veil while he was on the way to his crucifixion Saint Veronica |
| #6914, aired 2014-10-09 | EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION $1600: In 2006 this Kristen Bell TV title character was off to Hearst College; in 2014 she got kickstarted back to life on film Veronica Mars |
| #6910, aired 2014-10-03 | THE 20th CENTURY $600 (Daily Double): On April 3, 1968 he said, "So I'm happy tonight, I'm not worried about anything, I'm not fearing any man" Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| #6907, aired 2014-09-30 | COLLEGE FOOTBALL STADIUM NICKNAMES $600: This school's Gamecocks rough it up in "The Cockpit" the University of South Carolina |
| #6907, aired 2014-09-30 | LIGHTHOUSES $2000: Le Phare de Cordouan, France's oldest working light, lies at the mouth of the Gironde on this bay the Bay of Biscay |
| #6898, aired 2014-09-17 | CRITTERS $2000: This smallest subspecies of tiger lives only on the Indonesian island near Java for which it's named the Sumatran tiger |
| #6887, aired 2014-07-22 | ON YOUTUBE $2000: Feb. 9, 2013 was the day this animal started to end the cat's viral reign as it sang on "I Knew You Were Trouble" a goat |
| #6881, aired 2014-07-14 | "I" LOVE SCIENCE $1200: (Kelly of the Clue Crew pulls on the end of a string of beads in a beaker, and the whole string comes out.) To create an external force, I'll tug this string, which transfers energy from bead to bead & keeps them moving, illustrating this law of motion inertia |
| #6879, aired 2014-07-10 | ON THE SQUARE $400: St. Basil's Cathedral lies at the southern end of this bricked expanse in the heart of Moscow Red Square |
| #6849, aired 2014-05-29 | ON THE OLD MAP $200: 1990 was the end for this country whose districts included Neubrandenburg, Leipzig & Karl-Marx-Stadt East Germany |
| #6849, aired 2014-05-29 | ON THE OLD MAP $400: Since 1964 the former Northern Rhodesia has been this, second from the end on the African alphabet Zambia |
| #6836, aired 2014-05-12 | 4-SYLLABLE WORDS $2000: From the Latin for "uncertain", it refers to a judgment based on one's whim rather than on a rule arbitrary |
| #6830, aired 2014-05-02 | WRIT IN WATER $1000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) On September 2, 31 B.C., this man's fleet was fighting the Battle of Actium against Octavian's fleet; an opening in the lines allowed his girlfriend to slip away with her ships; he followed her, & all was lost Marc Anthony |
| #6815, aired 2014-04-11 | SHAKESPEARE WITH SPOILER ALERTS $200: A soothsayer tells him to beware the ides of March; (spoiler alert) he doesn't & ends up on the pointy end of a knife Julius Caesar |
| #6803, aired 2014-03-26 | MANAGEMENT $800: Have an HR person there & get right to the point are tips on doing this, from the Latin for "end" termination (or to terminate) |
| #6802, aired 2014-03-25 | CON MEN $2000: Often preying on seniors, this type of phone-sales scam operation shares its name with part of a ship a boilerroom scam |
| #6801, aired 2014-03-24 | AMERICAN ART & ARTISTS $1600: James Earle Fraser, whose "End of the Trail" sculpture shows a weary Indian on his horse, also designed this coin the buffalo nickel |
| #6794, aired 2014-03-13 | FILMED IN HAWAII $800: Some scenes for this adventure: "At World's End" were filmed on Molokai & Maui Pirates of the Caribbean |
| #6793, aired 2014-03-12 | TOO BAD $1000: On July 26, 1794 this Frenchman seemed to call for an end to the use of terror, but thousands had died already due to him Robespierre |
| #6767, aired 2014-02-04 | THIS IS THE END $400: 5-letter word for the last newspaper edition published on a day the final |
| #6763, aired 2014-01-29 | CELEBRITIES' FAVORITE BOOKS $1000: (I'm Chris Wallace.) The influence of the title country house on the lives of the Schlegels & the Wilcoxes is at the heart of this E.M. Forster book, my favorite novel Howards End |
| #6758, aired 2014-01-22 | ALSO ON THE FOOTBALL TEAM $200: Idiomatically, it follows "at wit's" end |
| #6756, aired 2014-01-20 | LET'S PLAY SOME GULF $400: The Gulf of Finland is bordered by Finland, Estonia & this country on its eastern end Russia |
| #6750, aired 2014-01-10 | SHELVING! YES, SHELVING! $1000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew explains a picture of shelves on a monitor.) Allowing better visibility to potential customers, shelves that are supported only in the back are termed this, like a similar type of bridge cantilever |
| #6744, aired 2014-01-02 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents the clue.) With Missouri as its starting point, the Great Plains, the Rockies & the present state capitals of Salt Lake City, Carson City & Sacramento were on the route of this 19th century service the Pony Express |
| #6739, aired 2013-12-26 | LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI $800: This Mississippi River port city was called "the Gibraltar of the Confederacy"; it fell to Union forces July 4, 1863 Vicksburg |
| #6734, aired 2013-12-19 | LOOK ON THE UNION LABEL $2000: More than 70% of the members of this union, the CWA, work on the information highway Communications Workers of America |
| #6732, aired 2013-12-17 | AMERICAN INVENTORS $1200: In 1875 dentist George Green patented the electric version of this device, improving on his pedal-powered one drill |
| #6724, aired 2013-12-05 | I GUESTED ON LAW & ORDER $2000: On "L&O" Ty Burrell played a guy named Paul in 2000 & a guy named Herman in 2003; now he plays this doofy dad on "Modern Family" Phil |
| #6718, aired 2013-11-27 | REMEMBER 1791? $2000: After New York gave up claims to its territory, on March 4 it joined the Union as the 14th state Vermont |
| #6715, aired 2013-11-22 | THE KOREAN WAR $800 (Daily Double): "War's End Near" said a jubilant U.S. headline on the capture of this metropolis October 19, 1950 Pyongyang |
| #6713, aired 2013-11-20 | MUSIC OF TODAY $800: "Sail" by Awolnation says, "Blame it on my own sick pride, blame it on my" this 3-letter behavioral syndrome ADD |
| #6705, aired 2013-11-08 | AMERICAN POETRY $800 (Daily Double): In "Paul Revere's Ride", these 9 words precede "and I on the opposite shore will be" "one if by land, and two if by sea" |
| #6704, aired 2013-11-07 | ON THE WALL $800: ...of the Prado is a Tiepolo showing Mary stomping a serpent, representing this event's freedom from original sin the Immaculate Conception |
| #6702, aired 2013-11-05 | THE NEW YORK TIMES THEATRE $400: (Ben Brantley gives the clue.) Based on a movie, this musical about an Irish guy & a Czech girl uses song & dance in a way I've never experienced in an American musical: to convey a beautiful shimmer of might-have-been regret Once |
| #6702, aired 2013-11-05 | TV, SELF-HELP ME! $1000: Bravo! for Ted Allen & Carson Kressley, 2 of the stars who dealt with food, fashion & other issues on this show Queer Eye for the Straight Guy |
| #6697, aired 2013-10-29 | THE NEW YORK TIMES ALL THE NEWS THAT'S FIT TO CLICK $2000: (I'm legal columnist Linda Greenhouse.) In a multimedia feature, I gave a tour of the papers of this Supreme Court Justice who wrote the majority opinion in Roe v. Wade & about whom I've also written a book Harry Blackmun |
| #6691, aired 2013-10-21 | 1990s HITMAKERS $800: This 1995 Seal hit appeared on the "Batman Forever" soundtrack & won 3 Grammy Awards "Kiss From A Rose" |
| #6690, aired 2013-10-18 | AMERICAN IDOL ALUMNI $600: Constantine Maroulis originated the role of aspiring rocker Drew on Broadway in this musical Rock of Ages |
| #6690, aired 2013-10-18 | CIVIL WAR PEOPLE $1600: After the War, this Union general known for his whiskers was elected Governor of Rhode Island 3 times (Ambrose) Burnside |
| #6687, aired 2013-10-15 | HIT PARADES $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1893 this popular parade adopted a "never on Sunday" policy, so the 2012 one was held on January 2 the Rose Parade |
| #6686, aired 2013-10-14 | THE USO $600: On my 2012 USO tour, I got to know the troops & the equipment, like this vehicle, whose full name includes "high mobility" a humvee |
| #6685, aired 2013-10-11 | AS HEARD ON TV $1000: "Oh my God, Brian, there's a message in my Alpha-Bits. It says 'Oooooo'". "Peter, those are Cheerios" Family Guy |
| #6683, aired 2013-10-09 | THE AMERICAN FRONTIER $800: Nearly everyone on the frontier was affected by ague, basically this disease borne by mosquitos malaria |
| #6679, aired 2013-10-03 | WORD PUZZLES $1000: On the calendar, it's a beginning, as well as an end turn of the century |
| #6674, aired 2013-09-26 | ON THE MARQUIS $1,200 (Daily Double): Of the British surrender at Yorktown, he said, "The play is over... the fifth act has just come to an end" (the Marquis de) Lafayette |
| #6673, aired 2013-09-25 | I SAW IT ON BUZZFEED $600: BuzzFeed loves the baby meme named for this word that can mean either making a face or assaulting with intent to rob mugging |
| #6672, aired 2013-09-24 | TYPES OF FISHING $1200: Grouper are often caught using this method of slowly pulling a lure on a line behind a boat trolling |
| #6662, aired 2013-07-30 | WEATHER $400: On May 3, 1999 one of these with record 318-mph winds ripped through Moore, Oklahoma a tornado |
| #6655, aired 2013-07-19 | OLD NAMES ON THE MAP $1200: Because it was the end of a railroad line, Atlanta had this original name, Latin for "end" Terminus |
| #6653, aired 2013-07-17 | MAKE ROOM FOR ROONEY $2000: This soccer star made his pro debut at 16 & was once the youngest player ever on England's national team Wayne Rooney |
| #6615, aired 2013-05-24 | HISTORY'S ODDS & ENDS $1000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) In Wyoming on July 18, as many turned right to the familiar route west, this 20-wagon party went left toward Fort Bridger & Hastings Cutoff; that did not end well the Donner party |
| #6599, aired 2013-05-02 | ACTRESSES PLAYING ACTRESSES $400: In 2012 Tracie Bennett starred on Broadway as this entertainer in "End of the Rainbow" Judy Garland |
| #6597, aired 2013-04-30 | I WATCH THAT SHOW RELIGIOUSLY $400: I pray Carrie & Brody can somehow end up together on this drama... & that he finally turns out to be a good guy Homeland |
| #6593, aired 2013-04-24 | BUT THE END IS ROUGH $200: Of the 23 stab wounds he received on March 15, 44 B.C., only one was fatal, but one is always enough Julius Caesar |
| #6593, aired 2013-04-24 | BUT THE END IS ROUGH $400: Accused of 2 murders, this man was killed on Nov. 24, 1963 in front of literally millions of witnesses Lee Harvey Oswald |
| #6593, aired 2013-04-24 | BUT THE END IS ROUGH $1000: After his capture, this slave & preacher made a lengthy confession & was hanged on Nov. 11, 1831 Nat Turner |
| #6590, aired 2013-04-19 | -E-I-E-I OH! $1200: A movie that plays shamelessly on your emotions has this maudlin quality sentimentalism |
| #6585, aired 2013-04-12 | BLANKING ON THE BIBLE $400: Mark:
"Now as he walked by the Sea of ____, he saw Simon and Andrew... casting a net into the sea" Galilee |
| #6581, aired 2013-04-08 | ON BASS & VOCALS $800: Geddy Lee laid down the low end & sang "The Spirit of Radio" & "Closer to the Heart" for this Canadian band Rush |
| #6577, aired 2013-04-02 | PONCE DE LEON & FLORIDA $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows us the map of Ponce de Leon's continuing voyage past the south end of Florida.) On June 21st, 1513 Ponce de Leon's ships arrived in this small island group where his men, needing food, caught the large turtles that gave the islands their name the Dry Tortugas |
| #6576, aired 2013-04-01 | THE U.S. CONSTITUTION $600: The term of office for the president & vice president shall end at this time on the 20th of January noon |
| #6569, aired 2013-03-21 | TIME TO JAZZ-ERCISE $800: The modestly named Great Jazz Trio was Ron Carter on bass, Tony Williams on percussion & Hank Jones playing this piano |
| #6548, aired 2013-02-20 | MOVIES: THE LINE OF THE END $800: Sung (but not by me!): "Always look on the bright side of life" The Life of Brian |
| #6542, aired 2013-02-12 | HOW NOBEL OF THEM $600: For his work on monetary theory, Milton Friedman won the 1976 Nobel Prize for this Economics |
| #6525, aired 2013-01-18 | HORRIFYINGLY REAL MOTHER GOOSE $1600: "Died on Saturday, buried on Sunday, this is the end of" this guy; 'night, kids! Sweet dreams! Solomon Grundy |
| #6513, aired 2013-01-02 | THE 6 SIMPLE MACHINES $2,000 (Daily Double): (Jimmy of the Clue Crew operates a doorknob.) It's hard turning just the post of a doorknob, but put the knob on, & it's now the simple machine known as the wheel & this axle |
| #6507, aired 2012-12-25 | U.S. MOUNTAINS $1600: (Alex gives the clue from the tracks of the Western Maryland Scenic Railroad.) On our trip on the Western Maryland Scenic Railroad, we're about to go through the U.S.A.'s first gateway to the west - a passage in the Allegheny Mountains, which are part of this longer chain Appalachians |
| #6493, aired 2012-12-05 | GREENBACKS $800: A star at the end of this indicates that it's out of sequence with those on the other bills in its series the serial number |
| #6487, aired 2012-11-27 | ANCIENT JERUSALEM $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows us the model of ancient Jerusalem at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem.) At the west end of the second temple was the section called the Holy of the Holies, entered only once a year on this holiest of days in Judaism Yom Kippur |
| #6486, aired 2012-11-26 | CHICAGO THE BEAUTIFUL $600: This is the stadium where the Bears play, but please don't put an "s" on the end Soldier Field |
| #6478, aired 2012-11-14 | BEFORE & AFTER $2000: Type of union at the hip between bones with a round end fitting into a cup that advises the president on military matters a ball-and-socket Joint Chiefs of Staff |
| #6476, aired 2012-11-12 | WEAK END $3,000 (Daily Double): Slate called the last scene of this 2007 Oscar winner based on Cormac McCarthy's novel "a tacked on chunk of meaning" No Country for Old Men |
| #6464, aired 2012-10-25 | SITE $800: Insider content on this website can get you NBA Rumor Central or NFL draft analysis by Mel Kiper, Jr. ESPN |
| #6464, aired 2012-10-25 | ONE MAN, ONE BOAT $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) The Panama Canal hadn't been built in 1895, so Joshua Slocum, the first man to sail solo around the world, took the long way, passing through this strait on his three-year voyage the Strait of Magellan |
| #6463, aired 2012-10-24 | THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE $1000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map of the U.S. on the monitor.) The North & South were clearly divided in 1888, when Republican Benjamin Harrison lost the popular vote but edged out this incumbent in the Electoral College Grover Cleveland |
| #6462, aired 2012-10-23 | TRUNK SHOW $800: In an animated series on Disney Junior, this elephant king has a grandson named Badou Babar |
| #6458, aired 2012-10-17 | LIVING IN TENTS $600: Described by Thoreau, a baker tent gets its name because it's open to the fire on one end & is warm as this inside an oven |
| #6453, aired 2012-10-10 | STOPS $800: On I-80 in Iowa you'll find what claims to be the world's largest this; it has a 300-seat restaurant & 24 private showers a truck stop |
| #6449, aired 2012-10-04 | LIFE ON THE MEKONG $1000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from a temple courtyard in Cambodia.) Originally built to house the earthly remains of the Buddha & his associates, these commemorative monuments that house relics or saintly remains can be seen all along the Mekong stupas |
| #6447, aired 2012-10-02 | WHATCHAMACALLIT $400: A witch could tell you a besom is one of these with a cluster of brush or twigs on the end a broom |
| #6447, aired 2012-10-02 | WHATCHAMACALLIT $1000: Hey cowboy! This term for the small spiked wheel on the end of a spur is from the Latin for "wheel" a rowel |
| #6446, aired 2012-10-01 | SPORTS PEOPLE $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows an animation on the monitor.) His account of a shot at the 2012 Masters says all he did was keep it under a tree, make it rise, then hook about 40 yards--just another example of what this man calls "Bubba Golf" Bubba Watson |
| #6445, aired 2012-09-28 | NONFICTION $600 (Daily Double): It's John Krakauer's epic personal account of disaster on Mount Everest in 1996 Into Thin Air |
| #6444, aired 2012-09-27 | ON SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE $400: In 2009, as "Weekend Update" anchor, he reported the birth of a 19.2-pound baby; "My only question is, a baby what?" Seth Meyers |
| #6428, aired 2012-07-25 | NASHVILLE, GEOGRAPHIC $1600: Nashville's Centennial Park on West End Ave. sports a full-size replica of this Athenian temple the Parthenon |
| #6428, aired 2012-07-25 | THE 1870s $2,000 (Daily Double): On June 16, 1870 this was dedicated in Atlantic City; at the end of the summer season, it was taken apart & stored the Boardwalk |
| #6427, aired 2012-07-24 | ALBUM COVER ART $800: Among her photographs is the one on Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA" album showing the Boss' rear end Annie Leibovitz |
| #6419, aired 2012-07-12 | DON'T MESS WITH TAXES $2000: This term for a tax placed on property is Latin for "according to value", which is how it's assessed ad valorem |
| #6416, aired 2012-07-09 | SEAS OF THE WORLD $1000: The Lincoln Sea stretches from Cape Columbia, Canada to Cape Morris Jesup on this large island to the east Greenland |
| #6412, aired 2012-07-03 | THEY DIED WITH THEIR BOOZE ON $1600: This dashing "Captain Blood" star died in 1959 at the end of a week-long binge Errol Flynn |
| #6410, aired 2012-06-29 | HISTORIC DAYS OF OUR LIVES $600 (Daily Double): (The Days Of Our Lives cast delivers the clue.) Carrie, I'm really sorry I missed your wedding--I know you marrying Austin was a once in a lifetime event.
Yes, I felt like Mary I of England on July 25, 1554 marrying Philip II of this Catholic country Spain |
| #6408, aired 2012-06-27 | FASHION $800: Carrie on "Sex and the City" worshipped the high-end women's shoes designed by this man, real first name Manuel (Manolo) Blahnik |
| #6405, aired 2012-06-22 | RED, RED WINE $1600: These grapes add body and softness to blended reds; I like them a "lot" merlot |
| #6402, aired 2012-06-19 | THE CELEBRITY TWEETS $1600: Mr. Sulu, phasers on stunning: "I'm going to violate Leviticus by wearing a cotton/polyester blend" George Takei |
| #6391, aired 2012-06-04 | SCIENCE GRAB BAG $1200: In 2001 Near Shoemaker became the first spacecraft to land on one of these, Eros an asteroid |
| #6391, aired 2012-06-04 | SCIENCE GRAB BAG $13,600 (Daily Double): Of the 10 listings on the Mohs scale, one of the 2 that end in "Z" quartz or topaz |
| #6376, aired 2012-05-14 | COMPOSERS $2,300 (Daily Double): Put on your cap & gown & name this Edward Elgar composition "Pomp And Circumstance" ("The Land Of Hope And Glory" accepted) |
| #6373, aired 2012-05-09 | CARS IN AMERICA $800: (Vice President Joe Biden delivers the clue.) The Jeep came to America's notice when soldiers depended on it during WWII... today, it's a popular vehicle from this, one of the big 3 automakers Chrysler |
| #6365, aired 2012-04-27 | CHINESE GEOGRAPHY $600: There are over 2 million people in the mineral processing center of Baotou, on this desert's southern edge the Gobi |
| #6365, aired 2012-04-27 | NOVELTY SONG LYRICS $1,500 (Daily Double): 1984:
"My hope of winning sank, 'cause I got the Daily Double now, and then my mind went blank" "I Lost On Jeopardy" |
| #6359, aired 2012-04-19 | YO-YO MA $1,000 (Daily Double): "Yearning of the Sword" is a Yo-Yo Ma cut on the soundtrack of this 2000 movie with Chow Yun-Fat & Michelle Yeoh Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon |
| #6357, aired 2012-04-17 | COWBOY TALK $1,600 (Daily Double): As a verb, it meant to shoot someone; as a noun it referred to a rectangular bar of chewing tobacco plug |
| #6348, aired 2012-04-04 | SPACE: THE FINAL CATEGORY $1200: An approaching one of these named Elenin caused fear in 2011; in the end, a NASA scientist said his car had more pull on Earth a comet |
| #6347, aired 2012-04-03 | A "LEG" TO STAND ON $400: The soybean is a member of this plant family legume |
| #6346, aired 2012-04-02 | ON THE RANGE $2000: To cook Japanese noodles, whether somen, soba or these thick wheat ones, gradually add them to a pot of boiling water udon |
| #6345, aired 2012-03-30 | RECORD DESTROYERS $800: FOIA requests for files on Rosa Parks & Walter Cronkite came up empty, as this agency said it had destroyed those the FBI |
| #6344, aired 2012-03-29 | THE MARQUEE DE SAD $800: Bette Midler & Barbara Hershey as lifelong friends in this weepie; at the end, they sit on the sand one last time Beaches |
| #6339, aired 2012-03-22 | A MATTER OF HOURS $600: It premiered on CBS in 1988; in 2002 the title added "Investigates" & in 2004, that became "Mystery" 48 Hours |
| #6302, aired 2012-01-31 | BUSINESS & FINANCE NEWS $1600: Amid the phone-hacking scandal, Rupert Murdoch withdrew his bid for this biggest British broadcaster BSkyB |
| #6299, aired 2012-01-26 | BIBLICAL GEOGRAPHY $800: This city is also called Zion, referring to one of the hills on which it stood Jerusalem |
| #6291, aired 2012-01-16 | COATS OF ARMS $2000: On Singapore's coat of arms, the lion represents Singapore itself & a tiger represents its historical link to this country Malaysia |
| #6290, aired 2012-01-13 | LAKES & RIVERS $800: Major ports on this river include Yaroslavl, Nizhny Novgorod & Rybinsk the Volga |
| #6289, aired 2012-01-12 | WINDMILLS $1600: This French cabaret is named for a red windmill, & has one on its roof the Moulin Rouge |
| #6281, aired 2012-01-02 | THAT "BIT" AT THE END $400: This type of card can be used to make an electronic withdrawal of funds on deposit in a bank debit |
| #6280, aired 2011-12-30 | ON DECK $2000: As its name indicates, this 3-letter deck on old warships had cannons end to end the gun deck |
| #6276, aired 2011-12-26 | FAMOUS TOMBS $1000: There's no name in the inscription on this much-visited tomb the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier |
| #6276, aired 2011-12-26 | PLAYING THE PONIES $1600: Robert Shaw bets on Lucky Dan at 4-1 in this movie, but not to place--oops! The Sting |
| #6274, aired 2011-12-22 | IN BRITAIN'S NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY $2000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a painting on the monitor.) Holding a compass with his plans for the west end of St. Paul's Cathedral, this man was 79 when his portrait was painted in 1711 Christopher Wren |
| #6274, aired 2011-12-22 | IN BRITAIN'S NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY $4,000 (Daily Double): (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a painting on the monitor.) It looks like the painter initially included himself but then changed his mind; that shy artist was Branwell, the brother of these literary siblings, in their only group portrait the Brontës |
| #6273, aired 2011-12-21 | CLASSIC CINEMA $2000: A 1961 Gregory Peck film was shot on Rhodes, but it's about destroying guns on this other Aegean island Navarone |
| #6267, aired 2011-12-13 | MARS NEEDS CONTESTANTS $2000: This tallest volcano on Mars rises about 16 miles above the plains, majestic enough for Greek gods Olympus Mons |
| #6265, aired 2011-12-09 | BODIES OF WATER $400: At its northern end, this "colorful" sea branches into the Gulf of Suez on the west & the Gulf of Aqaba on the east the Red |
| #6252, aired 2011-11-22 | PUT ON A SUIT $800: When a tailor puts 1 end of a tape at your pants cuff & the other where a tape doesn't usually go, he's measuring this inseam |
| #6242, aired 2011-11-08 | TAKE A DRIVE ON I-65 $1000: Won't you get hip to this timely jive / & just south of this Great Lake arrive / At the north end of I-65 Lake Michigan |
| #6236, aired 2011-10-31 | IT'S NOT THE END OF THE WORLD $800: & lo, the world would go dark at midnight on Jan. 1, 2000, due to this alphanumeric event, & lo... it did not come to pass Y2K |
| #6236, aired 2011-10-31 | IT'S NOT THE END OF THE WORLD $1200: In 1980 on "The 700 Club", he said, "I guarantee you by the end of 1982 there is going to be a judgment on the world" Pat Robertson |
| #6234, aired 2011-10-27 | MYTHBUSTERS $800: (The Mythbusters deliver the clue.) 500 mirrors reflected the sun's rays on a ship's sail which got hot, but failed to catch fire; at President Obama's request we were testing a method invented by this ancient Greek mathematician Archimedes |
| #6213, aired 2011-09-28 | KISS ME, KATE $800: In "How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days" she & Matthew McConaughey end up on the kiss cam at Madison Square Garden (Kate) Hudson |
| #6213, aired 2011-09-28 | KISS ME, KATE $1200: At the end of "Temple of Doom" Indy snaps his whip around Willie (this actress) & lays a kiss on her Capshaw |
| #6207, aired 2011-09-20 | A CELTIC CATEGORY $400: Celtic independence on the European continent came to an end with this leader's 58 to 51 B.C. conquest of Gaul Julius Caesar |
| #6197, aired 2011-07-19 | CELEBRATED ON THEIR BIRTHDAYS $1000: Peter Pan Day,
May 9 J.M. Barrie |
| #6193, aired 2011-07-13 | CHANCE $800: Theoretically, a U.S. casino's ability to make money on roulette relies on the presence of these 2 green figures 0 & 00 |
| #6189, aired 2011-07-07 | THE LIBERTY BELL RANG... $1200: on July 8, 1763 to give notice of the end of this war the French and Indian War |
| #6188, aired 2011-07-06 | ICE CREAM $600: Candy Center Crunch & Strawberry Shortcake are ice creams on a stick from this "good" company, man Good Humor |
| #6176, aired 2011-06-20 | A FANCY DRESS BAWL $800: Kelly on "90210", she was nicknamed "Puddles" for crying as a child & cried when she was voted off "Dancing with the Stars" Jennie Garth |
| #6174, aired 2011-06-16 | FUN WITH ELEMENTS $400: This element, No. 16 on the periodic table, has a pelt at the end of its name sulfur |
| #6151, aired 2011-05-16 | REALLY BIG SHOW $800: On Aug. 29, 1967 nearly half of the U.S. saw the running end for Dr. Richard Kimble on this show The Fugitive |
| #6139, aired 2011-04-28 | WAR! $2000: On June 24, 1970 the Senate voted to repeal this 6-year-old resolution, helping end the Cambodian Campaign the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution |
| #6133, aired 2011-04-20 | AT THE "END" $1000: From the Latin for "things to be read", it's a table explaining symbols on a map or chart a legend |
| #6127, aired 2011-04-12 | THE END $1600: On a movie set when the first A.D. calls "that's" this, it sounds like he's identifying a type of sandwich a wrap |
| #6122, aired 2011-04-05 | ON BATTERED KNEE $1200: When it comes to gruesome leg injuries, this Redskin quarterback's 1985 one is always cringe-worthy (Joe) Theismann |
| #6119, aired 2011-03-31 | BIG DEAL $800: In 1987 UAL, Inc. sold off Westin, Hertz & Hilton to focus on this main subsidiary United Airlines |
| #6119, aired 2011-03-31 | I'M A ROCK STAR $1000: She sang back-up on Don Henley's "The End Of The Innocence" before her own hit "Come To My Window" Melissa Etheridge |
| #6119, aired 2011-03-31 | OUR 1st ANNUAL HISTORY AWARDS $2,000 (Daily Double): The Taking My Life in My Hands Award of 1543:
This woman, for marrying Henry VIII near the end of his rule, on July 12 Catherine Parr |
| #6110, aired 2011-03-18 | CLASSIC MOVIE TRAILERS $600: We're heading for Arizona with this 1957 original
"Soon a man, scared but brave, would run an outlaw gauntlet to put a prisoner on the gallows-bound train" 3:10 to Yuma |
| #6109, aired 2011-03-17 | GET A LOAD OF THIS CLOWN $1600: Don't let your guard down on this type of Great Dane that's named for a clown; I think I see a bottle of seltzer a harlequin |
| #6106, aired 2011-03-14 | FROM HERE TO THERE $2000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map of Great Britain on the monitor.) Proverbially, to walk Great Britain end to end, go from John o' Groats in Scotland to Land's End in this county Cornwall |
| #6083, aired 2011-02-09 | FRENCH HISTORY $2,600 (Daily Double): (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) At one point in the Hundred Years War, England & its allies possessed about half of France; by war's end in 1453, however, the French had pushed England off the mainland, except for this port the port of Calais |
| #6078, aired 2011-02-02 | IMMORTALITY $1200: Legend says that an Arawak chief named Sequene went in search of this pool of immortality on the Island of Bimini the Fountain of Youth |
| #6077, aired 2011-02-01 | A MAN, A PLAN, A CANAL... ERIE! $600: Part of the plan:
To put the canal's western end at this city on Lake Erie Buffalo |
| #6076, aired 2011-01-31 | GOOD GNUS $500 (Daily Double): Gnus are one of the main sights for those on safari in this Tanzanian national park established in 1951 the Serengeti National Park |
| #6075, aired 2011-01-28 | SO SAYETH THE TALK SHOW HOST $800: This "Live" ABC guy, on Pam Anderson: "Don't be fooled by the dumb blonde routine. This woman is as smart as a rock" Jimmy Kimmel |
| #6070, aired 2011-01-21 | JOB HUNTING $1600: In a 60-year-old man age really takes its toll on the body, no matter which sport he works in manager (in man age really) |
| #6065, aired 2011-01-14 | THEY'RE ON CABLE TV $1000: If you're "Obsessed" & need an "Intervention", you can see those 2 shows on this letter perfect channel A&E |
| #6054, aired 2010-12-30 | A "BACH" OF CLUES $1,000 (Daily Double): Made famous in 1945, it's an extinct volcano on Iwo Jima Mount Suribachi |
| #6051, aired 2010-12-27 | THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew stands by a bas-relief.) The figures in the middle of this sculpture acknowledge life in all directions, while the tribal dancers on either end pray for this, which is essential for life water |
| #6049, aired 2010-12-23 | I'M GAME $400: In Europe & Australia this board game has "do" on the end; in Brazil it's called "Detective" Clue |
| #6036, aired 2010-12-06 | THE ANHEUSER- BUSCH BREWERY $600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew holds the reins to a Clydesdale horse.) A symbol for over 75 years, the Budweiser Clydesdales were formally introduced on April 7, 1933 to honor the end of this 13-year period in American history Prohibition |
| #6030, aired 2010-11-26 | THE DEAL $800: This firm that tabulates Oscar balloting has had Coopers on the end of its name since a 1998 merger Price Waterhouse |
| #6015, aired 2010-11-05 | I WISH I KNEW HOW TO ACQUIT YOU $800: I can't acquit you because you were doing this on that street corner, lingering or standing around too long loitering |
| #5987, aired 2010-09-28 | CELEBRITIES' FAVORITE BOOKS $800: (I'm Michael McKean.) A favorite of mine is this author's "Cat's Cradle", a book named for a children's game but dealing with the end of life on Earth Kurt Vonnegut |
| #5986, aired 2010-09-27 | PUT UP YOUR DUKES $400 (Daily Double): On the death of his father, Robert I, William the Conqueror inherited this title, as well as the region the Duke of Normandy |
| #5984, aired 2010-09-23 | 2-WORD SCIENCE TERMS $600: This can build up after a good hair brushing, & when you remove a wool hat, it can make your hair stand on end static electricity |
| #5974, aired 2010-07-29 | x 2 $2,000 (Daily Double): It's the number of stars & stripes on the U.S. flag x 2 126 |
| #5968, aired 2010-07-21 | WHATEVER $200: It's a flag or banner that tapers to a point on one end & yes, the Cubs will win one again someday a pennant |
| #5968, aired 2010-07-21 | BRITISH ART & ARTISTS $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a painting on the monitor.) Henry Fuseli painted this literary character, whose father said, "My story would make your hair stand on end" Hamlet |
| #5956, aired 2010-07-05 | ANIMATED FILMS $600: 2005:
4 animals from the New York City zoo end up on an African island Madagascar |
| #5945, aired 2010-06-18 | TELL TCHAIKOVSKY THE NEWS $2000: You need money; write this piece for the opening of a cathedral on the 70th anniversary of Russia's defeat of Napoleon the "1812 Overture" |
| #5930, aired 2010-05-28 | GETTING TICKED ON $1200: The tick species Ixodes dammini has as its favorite hosts white-footed mice & white-tailed these deer |
| #5929, aired 2010-05-27 | OK, CORRAL ME $1200: I'm this kind of cow, & I'm eager to end up on a plate at the "genuine American steakhouse" of the same name the Black Angus |
| #5909, aired 2010-04-29 | ROMEO ON THE RADIO $800: If you don't remember this Blue Oyster Cult song that mentions Romeo, maybe a little cowbell will help "(Don't Fear) The Reaper" |
| #5906, aired 2010-04-26 | LABRADOR $1600: Found on the coast, opalescent specimens of a feldspar known as labradorite are sold under this "lunar" name moonstone |
| #5904, aired 2010-04-22 | THE COMPOSER CONDUCTS $1600: On Dec. 22, 1808 Beethoven conducted his 5th & 6th symphonies &, from the keyboard, his 4th this piano concerto |
| #5902, aired 2010-04-20 | BIBLICAL IMPERSONATORS $2000: She fooled Jacob by posing as her sister Rachel on his wedding night Leah |
| #5900, aired 2010-04-16 | MOUNT RUSHMORE $1200: About 90% of the carving on the mountain, removing about 450,000 tons of granite, was done using this dynamite |
| #5895, aired 2010-04-09 | KNIT IT $800: Make that scarf for your nephew look fancy with these on the end, from the Old French for "clasp" tassels |
| #5887, aired 2010-03-30 | ECUADOR OF YORE $2000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from the Parque Histórico in Guayaquil, Ecuador.) The Malecón, or river walk, was rebuilt on a more grand scale after the 1896 fire, which some said was set on purpose to keep President Alfaro from moving the capital here to Guayaquil from this city Quito |
| #5884, aired 2010-03-25 | ATHLETIC EYEWEAR $1600: In 1977 this Miami field general became the first NFL quarterback to wear glasses on the field Bob Griese |
| #5877, aired 2010-03-16 | AMERICAN PRESIDENT: THE SOAP OPERA $800: First Teapot Dome, & now Daugherty, his A.G., was on trial for shady dealings; he kept feeling that the end was near Warren Harding |
| #5871, aired 2010-03-08 | WORDS CONTAINING ROMAN NUMERALS $600: This word for an add-on at the start of a word ends with the Roman numeral 9 prefix |
| #5859, aired 2010-02-18 | LIFE'S A (MILITARY) CAMPAIGN $600: On June 5, 1967 this country's sudden air assault destroyed Egypt's Air Force on the ground; Syria & Jordan were next Israel |
| #5827, aired 2010-01-05 | IF JUDD APATOW ADAPTED THE CLASSICS $800: Agamemnon goes on a hilarious bender after sacrificing his daughter to gain a fair wind to this city Troy |
| #5825, aired 2010-01-01 | PICK A PLANET $800: It's the third largest in our solar system Neptune (Uranus also accepted) |
| #5816, aired 2009-12-21 | FARM AID $1600: Tomatoes sometimes come in this "old" variety, meaning they're open-pollinated & not grown widely heirloom |
| #5814, aired 2009-12-17 | STABLER $1600: Lithium was used on gout when doctors noticed it made moods more stable; now it's used for this up-&-down disorder manic depression (or bipolar) |
| #5796, aired 2009-11-23 | STATES THAT END IN HAMPSHIRE $800: New Hampshire's Squam Lakes provided the title location for this 1981 Fonda & Hepburn film On Golden Pond |
| #5796, aired 2009-11-23 | SNL CELEBRITY JEOPARDY! $800: Ben Stiller played this star of "The Firm" on a show where one category was "FOODS THAT END IN 'AMBURGER'" Tom Cruise |
| #5780, aired 2009-10-30 | BRIDGES $600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows an architectural rendering on the monitor.) During construction, you can see the free arm bridge decks, from which this type of bridge gets its name, are anchored at one end, supported by piers & meet in the middle a cantilever bridge |
| #5776, aired 2009-10-26 | WHEN $1000: On Dec. 17, 1819 this "George Washington of South America" became Gran Colombia's first president Bolívar |
| #5769, aired 2009-10-15 | ON THE COVER OF PEOPLE $1000: December 17, 2007: "Stop Calling Me Fat!"; this "Ghost Whisperer" "Urges Women to 'Put on a Bikini and Stay Strong'" Jennifer Love Hewitt |
| #5749, aired 2009-09-17 | DESPERADO HOUSEWIVES $1200: In 2009 a housewife who practiced file-sharing was found to have infringed these on 24 songs & hit with a $2 mil. judgment copyright |
| #5737, aired 2009-07-14 | SASHA & MALIA $1200: On inaugural night, the girls had a White House scavenger hunt, & these singing brothers turned up at the end the Jonas Brothers |
| #5726, aired 2009-06-29 | PRESIDENTIAL QUOTES $400: On Sept. 25, 1961 he told the U.N., "Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind" Kennedy |
| #5715, aired 2009-06-12 | "ON" THE END $400: The Greek words for "exit" & "elastic" start with this Greek letter epsilon |
| #5715, aired 2009-06-12 | "ON" THE END $800: This herb has narrow, pointed leaves & a licorice flavor tarragon |
| #5715, aired 2009-06-12 | "ON" THE END $1200: An example of this is seen at the end of the clue; it means "I'm upset"
:-( an emoticon |
| #5715, aired 2009-06-12 | "ON" THE END $1600: It's a spiked iron plate worn on a boot to walk on ice or snow a crampon |
| #5715, aired 2009-06-12 | "ON" THE END $2000: This river was the ancient boundary between Cisalpine Gaul & Italy the Rubicon |
| #5712, aired 2009-06-09 | UPPERS & DOWNERS $2,000 (Daily Double): You step over a comb plate to start & end each ride on one of these an escalator |
| #5702, aired 2009-05-26 | LET'S GET I.T. ON $3,000 (Daily Double): This type of local area network was named for the medium through which light waves were once thought to move Ethernet |
| #5693, aired 2009-05-13 | TIME FOR A "NAP" $1000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a micrographic animation on the monitor.) In the nervous system, when an impulse gets to the end of a nerve, cell neurotransmitters shoot across one of these spaces a synapse |
| #5691, aired 2009-05-11 | WORLD CAPITALS $2,000 (Daily Double): This European capital lies on a plain near the southern end of the Attic Peninsula Athens |
| #5688, aired 2009-05-06 | LANDMARKS $600: This Gothic cathedral stands on the eastern end of Paris' Ile de la Cite Notre Dame |
| #5683, aired 2009-04-29 | AROUND A GREEK TEMPLE $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows an architectural graphic on the monitor.) The triangular face of the pediment has this Latin name that's also a medical term for the eardrum the tympanum |
| #5666, aired 2009-04-06 | AMERICAN LIT $400: At the end of his novel "Typee", the hero escapes on a whaler Melville |
| #5662, aired 2009-03-31 | TRICKY STUPID ANSWERS $800: In an ESPN ad, Danica Patrick's race car is towed from a designated space as this ex-"SportsCenter" anchor looks on Dan Patrick |
| #5648, aired 2009-03-11 | THE OLD FARMER'S ALMANAC $200: On May 1 in the western U.S. this is estimated to be 6:13 A.M.; by month's end it will be 5:44 sunrise |
| #5639, aired 2009-02-26 | BACK AT THE CBC $1600: (Alex delivers the clue from back at the CBC.) In 1967, the CBC international broadcast center was used by crews from all around the world who were here to report on this World's Fair Expo '67 |
| #5636, aired 2009-02-23 | GREEN LIVING $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew stands outside on the porch and the camera pans up.) The photovoltaic system on the roof provides shade & produces 75% of the home's power all from waves toward the violet end of this the light spectrum |
| #5628, aired 2009-02-11 | TONY-WINNING MUSICALS IN OTHER WORDS $2000: 1949: "Put Your Lips on Mine, Ms. Winslet" Kiss Me, Kate |
| #5626, aired 2009-02-09 | TRANSPORTATION $3,500 (Daily Double): On the BBC's "Cranford", set in the 1840s, the title village freaks out because this is coming a train (or railway) |
| #5609, aired 2009-01-15 | PUMP IT "UP" $600: Pants with a loop at the end of each leg, or a loop on a saddle to rest your foot stirrups |
| #5593, aired 2008-12-24 | TECH-KNOW-LEDGY $200: On Feb. 17, 2009 this type of TV broadcast technology will end in the U.S.; we're going digital analog |
| #5592, aired 2008-12-23 | THE LONDON STAGE $1600: (Jon of the Clue Crew shows a map of London on the monitor.) Getting its name from its position in relation to the older area called "the City", on a map this theatre district is actually in the middle of London the West End |
| #5582, aired 2008-12-09 | FROM THE NECK UP $2000: (Jon of the Clue Crew shows an anatomical animation on the monitor.) High-end cognitive thought is done at the extreme anterior of the brain in this cortex; yours is probably humming right now prefrontal cortex |
| #5577, aired 2008-12-02 | MEET THE BROWNS $600: His 1998 techno-thriller "Digital Fortress" focuses on NSA cryptographer Susan Fletcher Dan Brown |
| #5569, aired 2008-11-20 | SUPERBAD $400: On Aug. 7, 1888 this murderer struck for the first time in London's East End Jack the Ripper |
| #5559, aired 2008-11-06 | THE CIVIL WAR: A FILM BY KEN BURNS $1200: (Ken Burns reads.) In 1859 Robert E. Lee was called upon to lead a force of Marines to end John Brown's raid on the arsenal at this site Harpers Ferry |
| #5558, aired 2008-11-05 | A WORD ODDITY $6,000 (Daily Double): This Asian city is the only world capital whose name in English has 3 dotted letters in succession Beijing |
| #5551, aired 2008-10-27 | MOVIES ON MY TiVo DVR $800: Josh Brolin took the money / Wait, this is the end? Where'd Josh Brolin go? No Country for Old Men |
| #5536, aired 2008-10-06 | CHANGE ONE LETTER $3,000 (Daily Double): "Begin" with this word; end with this one, meaning harsh or desolate, as a landscape start & stark |
| #5533, aired 2008-10-01 | HAPPY 50th NASA $200: NASA took up JFK's 1961 challenge to do this by decade's end & met it with 5 months to spare put a man on the Moon |
| #5531, aired 2008-09-29 | MONTHS THAT END WITH "BER", TREBEK $600: Boston & Pittsburgh played the first-ever World Series game on the 1st of this, 1903 October |
| #5531, aired 2008-09-29 | MONTHS THAT END WITH "BER", TREBEK $800: The Dutch celebrate the Feast of Sinterklaas on the 6th of this December |
| #5525, aired 2008-09-19 | ...SEE WHAT'S ON THE SLAB $2000: This slab that's inscribed in 3 different languages was found by the French in 1799 the Rosetta Stone |
| #5524, aired 2008-09-18 | WORK ON IT $2000: If you like short workdays, just sitting on this critter for 8 seconds can gain you fame with the PBR a bull |
| #5524, aired 2008-09-18 | ACCELERATOR $2,500 (Daily Double): (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Stanford Linear Accelerator at Menlo Park, CA.) At one end of the accelerator, particles are fired out of a gun that uses this type of negative electrode, just like the ray on your TV set cathode |
| #5522, aired 2008-09-16 | THE DISAPPOINTING 21st CENTURY $1000: We hoped by now all music would be on this spooky-sounding instrument a theremin |
| #5522, aired 2008-09-16 | GEOMETRY $5,000 (Daily Double): (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a triangle with two angles labeled on the monitor.) In this triangle, if angle A is 42 degrees & angle B is 60 degrees, then angle C has to equal this 78 degrees |
| #5515, aired 2008-07-25 | THE NEW YORK TIMES 2008 NEWS $800: A tentative deal with producers reported on February 10 proved to be the end of this labor action the Writers Guild strike |
| #5511, aired 2008-07-21 | THE NAVY SEALS $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew stands on shore as 2 attack boats approach at the Navy Amphibious Base in Coronado, CA.) The Navy SEALs were created by this U.S. president who had been a small-unit naval commander & who knew what a small, tough force could do JFK |
| #5481, aired 2008-06-09 | HEY, JUDE LAW! $5,000 (Daily Double): Jude was Sean Penn's beast of (Jack) Burden in this 2006 film based on a Robert Penn Warren novel All the King's Men |
| #5479, aired 2008-06-05 | HBO $1600: She played a corrections officer on "Oz" but is more famous as Tony's dissatisfied wife Carmela Soprano Edie Falco |
| #5465, aired 2008-05-16 | SLANGUAGE $2000: An "empty chair interview" occurred on NPR when this "No Spin" guy walked off before the end of the show Bill O'Reilly |
| #5463, aired 2008-05-14 | THE NEW YORK TIMES TECH BIZ $1600: The Times reported Best Buy is giving $50 gift cards to buyers of this format that is on the losing end of the video battle HD-DVD |
| #5457, aired 2008-05-06 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS $1200: At the end of this Ibsen play, Nora Helmer claims her independence & walks out on her family A Doll's House |
| #5430, aired 2008-03-28 | ALMOST BEFORE & AFTER $1200: "Watery" Milli Vanilli tune that accuses Robespierre et al. of commiting crimes from 1793-1794 "Blame It On The Reign Of Terror" |
| #5430, aired 2008-03-28 | "I" ON THE WORLD $2,000 (Daily Double): Appropriately, this Swiss town takes its name from its position between Lake Brienz in the East & Lake Thun in the West Interlaken |
| #5412, aired 2008-03-04 | MUSICAL BEFORE & AFTER $600: Michael Jackson song from "Dangerous" becomes a basketball film in which Rosie Perez is on "Jeopardy!" "Black Or White Men Can't Jump" |
| #5405, aired 2008-02-22 | ON THE RADIO $800: In 2007 Justin Timberlake hit the radio with this R&B diva in a remix of "Until The End Of Time" Beyoncé |
| #5397, aired 2008-02-12 | THE JEFFERSON ADMINISTRATION $2000: In 1805 U.S. Marines stormed the shores of this Barbary state at Derna, helping to end the raids on American ships Tripoli |
| #5390, aired 2008-02-01 | THE DEEP BLUE SEA $800: It's found on the southern end of the Suez Canal the Red Sea |
| #5381, aired 2008-01-21 | EUROPEANA $800: From the name of the peninsula on which they lie, Greece & Albania are considered 2 of these "states" Balkan states |
| #5378, aired 2008-01-16 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD $1200: On June 1, 1976 the United Kingdom & this Atlantic island nation agreed to end the "Cod War" Iceland |
| #5368, aired 2008-01-02 | IT'S ON THE TIP OF MY TONGUE $200: You know, this place... London's West End... 775 rooms, 4 main wings, a 40-acre garden... Ah, geez... Buckingham Palace |
| #5368, aired 2008-01-02 | "Z" END $1200: A schmancy hotel gives us this word for a fancy display that you might "put on" the Ritz |
| #5362, aired 2007-12-25 | FURNITURE WORDS $200: Something up for debate is "on" it; someone who's had a few too many drinks can end up "under" it the table |
| #5351, aired 2007-12-10 | WHAT THE HECK IS IT? $200: On a snail, on ommatophore is a stalk with this at the end an eye |
| #5343, aired 2007-11-28 | THE LBJ LIBRARY & MUSEUM $2000: (Jon speaks from the Oval Office.) On March 31, 1968, LBJ spoke from the Oval Office exactly 2 months after this North Vietnamese attack; though he said it was a failure, it changed the view of the war at home the Tet Offensive |
| #5333, aired 2007-11-14 | FRENCH MENU $600: Hmm... the name of these small cream puffs tells me that the restaurant makes quite a "profit" on them profiteroles |
| #5304, aired 2007-10-04 | AC-CENT-TCHU-ATE $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows the following agudas on the monitor: nariz, ciudad, profesor, canción, detrás, menú.) Spanish words with the stress on the last syllable are called agudas & have accent marks only if they end in "N", "S" or one of these a vowel |
| #5296, aired 2007-09-24 | SOPRANOS $2000: This African-American soprano sang on Broadway & TV before her opera stage debut in 1957 Leontyne Price |
| #5293, aired 2007-09-19 | THE GEORGE H.W. BUSH PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY $1600: (Jon reports again.) The Bush Library has a replica of the office at Camp David where on Feb. 1, 1992, President Bush & this Russian president pledged to end remnants of Cold War hostility Yeltsin |
| #5273, aired 2007-07-11 | VIENNA'S IMPERIAL PALACE $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from within the Imperial Palace in Vienna, Austria.) From 1857 to 1916, these apartments were the home of this emperor, who saw himself as a soldier, & slept on this simple iron bed Emperor Franz Joseph |
| #5264, aired 2007-06-28 | THE 21st CENTURY $400: (Jon of the Clue Crew reports from Cheyenne Mountain.) Since the end of the Cold War, the only emergency closing of these 25-ton blast doors at NORAD's Cheyenne Mountain complex was on this 21st-century date September 11, 2001 |
| #5261, aired 2007-06-25 | "TWO" NIGHT $800: Play stops on or about this official time-out near the end of each half in an NFL game the two-minute warning |
| #5259, aired 2007-06-21 | CLASSIC TV CHARACTERS $1000: Catsuited cutie cavorting with John Steed on "The Avengers" Emma Peel |
| #5243, aired 2007-05-30 | BEGINNING & END $3,000 (Daily Double): In 2006 it began on July 1 in Strasbourg & ended on July 23 in Paris the Tour de France |
| #5226, aired 2007-05-07 | SILENT B $2000: Carpenters use this type of line with a weight on the end of it to determine a true vertical plumb |
| #5221, aired 2007-04-30 | I'M GOING TO DISNEYLAND $1000: Well, zip-a-dee-doo-dah! I can't wait to get soaked on this ride that has a 5-story plunge near the end Splash Mountain |
| #5213, aired 2007-04-18 | ROUTE 66 REVISITED $1600: "Well it winds from Chicago to L.A." but you're at the end of the road in this beach city on the Pacific Santa Monica |
| #5207, aired 2007-04-10 | WELCOME TO OLE MISS $1600: The Center for the Study of Southern Culture puts out a magazine on this form of American music the blues |
| #5148, aired 2007-01-17 | MANNA FEST $1000: The last Biblical mention of manna comes in this New Testament book where it is promised to the faithful Revelation |
| #5142, aired 2007-01-09 | 6-LETTER WORDS $1600: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew stands next to an angle depicted on a board.) In the angle ABC the line segments that form the sides of the angle have a common end point, B, called this vertex |
| #5117, aired 2006-12-05 | THE GREEN BAY PACKERS $1000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew holds a football in the end zone at Lambeau Field.) On this spot, Bart Starr snuck in the winning touchdown at the 1967 NFL Championship Game given this 2-word name due to the -46 degree windchill the Ice Bowl |
| #5108, aired 2006-11-22 | AROUND THE DRUM KIT $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew plays with cymbals.) The snowshoe, a cymbal set on the floor, moved up a bit & became the low boy, which moved up some more & became this a high hat |
| #5107, aired 2006-11-21 | PHYSICS, BRAIN SURGERY & ROCKET SCIENCE $1600: As you know, Dr., the frontal this in the brain is key to emotion & reason; stay away from the one on the ear this time lobe |
| #5107, aired 2006-11-21 | KING OF THE "HILL" $2,800 (Daily Double): A great Greek warrior, or a tendon attached to the heel Achilles |
| #5105, aired 2006-11-17 | THE "END" $2000: Keep on schedule with the Hebrew, Muslim, Julian or Gregorian one of these a calendar |
| #5104, aired 2006-11-16 | SCIENCE $3,000 (Daily Double): Also known as epinephrine, this hormone is secreted in response to stress, like fear or injury adrenaline |
| #5102, aired 2006-11-14 | FLYOVER COUNTRY $200: Heading north on Interstate 29 from South Dakota, you pass through this state before reaching Canada North Dakota |
| #5101, aired 2006-11-13 | SNAKES ON A GAME $800: Crotalus horridus is the timber species of this "noisy" venomous snake rattlesnake |
| #5099, aired 2006-11-09 | ORSON WELLES $600: In 1952 Orson took on the Shakespearean film role of this Moor of Venice Othello |
| #5098, aired 2006-11-08 | STRAIGHT MEN $1000: His name had top billing on "Laugh-In"; look that up in your Funk & Wagnalls (Dan) Rowan |
| #5094, aired 2006-11-02 | THE RECORD SHOWS I TOOK THE BLOWS $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1775 his leg was severely wounded in an assault on Quebec & he was promoted to brig. gen.; 5 years later, he'd be in disgrace Benedict Arnold |
| #5073, aired 2006-10-04 | ADVENTUROUS TOURISM $400: Take a day trip to Iceland & stand on the edge of Hekla, an active one of these a volcano |
| #5071, aired 2006-10-02 | "Y" END IT? $1200: The Father, the Son & the Holy Ghost, as honored on the first Sunday after Pentecost the Trinity |
| #5071, aired 2006-10-02 | "Y" END IT? $1600: This word is used in tennis & soccer for when you hit the ball before it bounces on the ground volley |
| #5007, aired 2006-05-23 | FAMILY FEUD $2,000 (Daily Double): The Trask at hand is this 1952 novel, where Caleb tells twin bro Aron the truth mom, with bad results East of Eden |
| #5004, aired 2006-05-18 | VICE PRESIDENT... THE SITCOM! $800: On a very special episode, this Virginian's run as the first Whig VP comes to a stunning end (John) Tyler |
| #5001, aired 2006-05-15 | AN ENGLISH-SPORTS DICTIONARY $200: English: sweet glaze on a cake;
hockey: shooting the puck all the way down from your own end icing |
| #4998, aired 2006-05-10 | TV NUMBERS $800: 714 was the number on the badge seen at the beginning & end of this show that debuted in 1951 Dragnet |
| #4989, aired 2006-04-27 | BRIT-POURRI $1600: In 1759 Francis Gastrell, enraged by a stream of visitors to his house in this town, destroyed the house Stratford-on-Avon |
| #4974, aired 2006-04-06 | THE NEW YORK TIMES HISTORIC HEADLINES $400: It's the capital city on the losing end of a 1971 headline Taipei |
| #4968, aired 2006-03-29 | MUSIC/TELEVISION $1200: This country star became a sitcom grandma at the end of her first season on the WB Reba McEntire |
| #4966, aired 2006-03-27 | NURSERY RHYME PREVIEWS $800: A cop has his own demons to face on the trail of a wife trapped in a gourd by this ticking time bomb of insanity Peter, Peter Pumpkin Eater |
| #4966, aired 2006-03-27 | FOUR NOW $1200: There are 4 white fleurs-de-lis depicted on this Canadian province's flag Quebec |
| #4951, aired 2006-03-06 | ANCIENT GREEK DRAMA $800: In ancient Greek plays, this group of performers often served as a narrator & commented on the action the chorus |
| #4945, aired 2006-02-24 | THE FOUNTAINS OF EUROPE $1600: Female figures symbolizing the Tisza, Drava & Sava Rivers appear on the Budapest fountain named for this river the Danube |
| #4943, aired 2006-02-22 | WHERE THERE'S A WILLIAM $1000: After this man's speech at the National Convention in 1896, the Democrats came out pro-silver William Jennings Bryan |
| #4942, aired 2006-02-21 | HE WAS IN THAT? $800: Wayne Knight, who played Newman on "Seinfeld", got to interrogate Sharon Stone in this revealing thriller Basic Instinct |
| #4928, aired 2006-02-01 | ON BROADWAY $800: (Jon of the Clue Crew reads from the Shubert Theatre in New York.) The creators of "Spamalot" proudly proclaim that it is "lovingly ripped off" from this be-knighted British film Monty Python and the Holy Grail |
| #4916, aired 2006-01-16 | OF THE END $1600: In 2001 Russia announced that it was closing its eavesdropping station on this Western Hemisphere island Cuba |
| #4913, aired 2006-01-11 | CLASSICAL CLASSICS $6,600 (Daily Double): Despite its name, this "Air" from Bach's Suite No. 3 was not inspired by the sight of a stripper's laundry drying on the line "(Air On The) G String" |
| #4904, aired 2005-12-29 | TV DRAMA MAMAS $800: This actress balances the duties of mom, wife & U.S. president on "Commander in Chief" Geena Davis |
| #4903, aired 2005-12-28 | HAIR TODAY $2000: There's very little hair on an adult elephant; the longest & thickest are the eyelashes & those found on this the tip of the tail |
| #4900, aired 2005-12-23 | BE B.C. $800: This physician was referred to as the Asclepiad of Cos--I'd swear an oath on it Hippocrates |
| #4894, aired 2005-12-15 | HOOKED ON PHOENICIA $400: The end finally came for the Phoenicians when this man's forces defeated them in 332 B.C. Alexander the Great |
| #4881, aired 2005-11-28 | DE CAMERON $1200: He was in the "Thick" of things as Mike Seaver on "Growing Pains" Kirk Cameron |
| #4854, aired 2005-10-20 | DOUBLE "H" $200: To catch a bass, you'll need some sort of bait on one of these dangling from the end of the line on your pole fishhook |
| #4851, aired 2005-10-17 | THE MATE Rx $400: A "Brief History" of this physicist includes the fact that he married his nurse after leaving his wife in 1990 Stephen Hawking |
| #4848, aired 2005-10-12 | A ROYAL VISIT $800: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from the Old North Church in Boston, MA.) The first reigning British monarch to visit Boston, she took part in a Sunday morning service here at Old North Church on July 11, 1976 Queen Elizabeth (II) |
| #4843, aired 2005-10-05 | VILLES DE FRANCE $800: The dagger stuck on the end of a rifle may have been developed in & named for this French town Bayonne |
| #4842, aired 2005-10-04 | ANIMAL TRACKS $1600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew displays some animal tracks on a monitor.) The overlapping track of this animal, also known as the bay lynx, is similar to that of the Siamese but bigger & deeper a bobcat |
| #4839, aired 2005-09-29 | MATH $2,300 (Daily Double): For a line, this is defined as the ratio of vertical to horizontal distance it covers slope |
| #4828, aired 2005-09-14 | I, MAX $400: On "M*A*S*H", this character used a great wardrobe to try & get out of the Army on a Section 8 Max Klinger |
| #4826, aired 2005-09-12 | A BALTIC CRUISE $1200: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew reads from Russia.) Here at the east end of the Baltic, a palace known as the Russian Versailles was built by this man who opened Russia to the West Peter the Great |
| #4812, aired 2005-07-05 | OBJECTS $1000: Many car owners have this device with a spherical cap on one end & a sliding scale on the other a tire pressure gauge |
| #4800, aired 2005-06-17 | PACKAGING $600: Whitman's was the 1st company to put a guide on the inside lid of this type of package to which Mr. Gump compared life (a box of) chocolates |
| #4796, aired 2005-06-13 | BUT I'M TALKIN' ABOUT SHAQ $800: On March 6, 2000 Shaq dropped a career-high 61 points on this team that calls Staples Center home the Clippers |
| #4794, aired 2005-06-09 | DEAD RECKONING $1200: On Nov. 9, 1970 this world leader passed away after a heart attack, one year after resigning his presidency de Gaulle |
| #4794, aired 2005-06-09 | SPACE TECHNOLOGY $1600: The last 2 Salyut stations had a port on each end for this spacecraft-linking activity docking |
| #4791, aired 2005-06-06 | LIKE A ROLLING STONE $400: You got nothin' to lose in this game with 15 white & black "stones" that mercifully end up on the bar after being "hit" backgammon |
| #4786, aired 2005-05-30 | WHERE AM I? $1200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew stands on a hill overlooking a steaming watercourse.) In 1872 Congress established this area of over 2 million acres after seeing photos taken by William Jackson Yellowstone National Park |
| #4781, aired 2005-05-23 | IT CHANGED THE WORLD $1200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew stands before a portrait of George Marshall in the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia.) George Marshall became Chief of Staff of a 200,000 man army on this date, when WWII began; by war's end, the number was 8 million September 1, 1939 |
| #4766, aired 2005-05-02 | SPELLINGE WYTH GEOFFREY CHAUCER $400: One of the Canterbury Tales tells of the Wyf of this place (which Chaucer spelled with an E on the end) Bath |
| #4765, aired 2005-04-29 | IN THE NAVY $400: Time is kept on Navy ships through the sounding of these; 8 of them signify the end of a 4-hour watch bells |
| #4719, aired 2005-02-24 | WOODY ALLEN'S MANHATTAN $1000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew stands in Times Square, New York.) A group of celebrities gaze out on Times Square at the end of this Valentine to '40s broadcasting Radio Days |
| #4716, aired 2005-02-21 | WHY NOT? $1000: In holding back at this city at the E. end of the Strait of Dover, Hitler may have thought he'd force peace on England Dunkirk |
| #4675, aired 2004-12-24 | TEAMS THAT DON'T END IN S $1200: "Rudy" & "Knute Rockne, All American" are both films that focus on the football team nicknamed this the Fighting Irish |
| #4673, aired 2004-12-22 | SOUNDS LIKE A SIMPSONS CHARACTER $400: First name of the cousin of Goober who was regularly on the receiving end of Sgt. Carter's tirades Gomer |
| #4638, aired 2004-11-04 | KNIGHTS & KNIGHTHOOD $1600: From the French col, meaning "neck", it was a tap on the shoulder during the knighthood ceremony an accolade |
| #4637, aired 2004-11-03 | STUPID ANSWERS $200: This large Swiss city is on the western end of Lake Geneva Geneva |
| #4636, aired 2004-11-01 | THE NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE $400: (Hi, I'm Maria Bartiromo.) Heard every day to end trading, it's also the title of an afternoon show I host on CNBC closing bell |
| #4633, aired 2004-10-27 | "J" WALKING $800: On the eastern end of I-10 is this city, home to the Gator Bowl Jacksonville, Florida |
| #4626, aired 2004-10-18 | SIGNS & SYMBOLS $400: On a map of a country, a star inside a circle indicates this the national capital |
| #4611, aired 2004-09-27 | COUNTRIES THAT END IN "IA" $600: This Baltic republic is bordered on the north by the Gulf of Finland Estonia |
| #4608, aired 2004-09-22 | FISHING FOR VOCABULARY $1,000 (Daily Double): It might be a social blunder to use one of these long poles with a hook on the end to land large fish a gaff |
| #4608, aired 2004-09-22 | AROUND THE CELL $1000: If you mark off each day on the wall, & you serve exactly 40% of a 5-year sentence, you end up with this many marks 730 (or 731) |
| #4608, aired 2004-09-22 | AROUND THE CELL $2,000 (Daily Double): (Jimmy of the Clue Crew motions to a diagram on a chalkboard.) During cell division, structures called spindles attach these to one end of the cell chromosomes |
| #4605, aired 2004-09-17 | I'M A LUMBERJACK $1600: You've gotta love the torque converter on the 988G Log Loader from this giant equipment company Caterpillar |
| #4589, aired 2004-07-15 | INDUSTRY LEADERS $1600: Look down at the little tab on this on your clothing--chances are it'll bear the name YKK the zipper |
| #4556, aired 2004-05-31 | BIG DAYS ON THE COURT $1000: (I'm NBA Hall of Famer Walt Frazier.) On May 8, 1970 I scored 36 points to lead this team to their first championship the New York Knicks |
| #4542, aired 2004-05-11 | WASHINGTON POST CARDS $1200: Hey Souter,
Quit calling me "The Baby" just because I'm the youngest on the bench Clarence Thomas |
| #4541, aired 2004-05-10 | CROSSWORD CLUES "D" $800: He's the shadowy Watergate source
(4,6) "Deep Throat" |
| #4523, aired 2004-04-14 | LATINO STARS $1200: The villain Khan on "Star Trek", he's now the grandfather of the Spy Kids Ricardo Montalban |
| #4522, aired 2004-04-13 | THEY PUT ME ON HOLD AGAIN! $800: Calling a Sherpa guide's house in Tibet might get you this hold music "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" |
| #4517, aired 2004-04-06 | I'M GONNA MARRY HENRY VIII! $1600: Henry VIII had this next-to-last wife beheaded on Tower Green when he learned she'd been involved with several men Catherine Howard |
| #4516, aired 2004-04-05 | THUMB ENCHANTED EVENING $800: The "thumb" on the geographic mitten that is Michigan juts into this Great Lake Lake Huron |
| #4510, aired 2004-03-26 | FACTS IN THE WORLD ALMANAC $800: Prior to Sacagawea, she was the last woman on the $1 coin in general circulation Susan B. Anthony |
| #4502, aired 2004-03-16 | THE STANLEY CUP $800: The Cup's first winner was an amateur team from this city whose NHL team has won it more than 20 times Montreal |
| #4486, aired 2004-02-23 | BE ON YOUR KIERKEGAARD $1600: Kierkegaard's powerful work "Frygt og Baeven" is usually translated into English as "Fear and" this Trembling |
| #4481, aired 2004-02-16 | STARTS & ENDS WITH "N" $2000: The 2 common gases on the periodic table that start & end with "N" neon & nitrogen |
| #4460, aired 2004-01-16 | THE END $400: There was no escaping death for this magician; he died on Halloween night in 1926 Harry Houdini |
| #4460, aired 2004-01-16 | THE "END" $800: It's a bonus paid by a company to its stockholders, often on a quarterly basis dividend |
| #4460, aired 2004-01-16 | THE END $5,000 (Daily Double): All the money in the world couldn't save him from dying on a plane en route to a Houston hospital in 1976 Howard Hughes |
| #4451, aired 2004-01-05 | WHAT'S YOUR SINE? $800: Trig comes into play in figuring out distances between points on one of these math shapes, like the Earth sphere |
| #4443, aired 2003-12-24 | "E" $800: Found in the medicine cabinet, it has a small rubber bulb on top of a glass tube with a tapered open end eyedropper |
| #4432, aired 2003-12-09 | "D" TALKS $1600: This French seaport on the English Channel was the site of a disastrous Allied commando raid August 19, 1942 Dieppe |
| #4424, aired 2003-11-27 | ECONOMICS $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows an economics graphic.) Depression, recovery, boom, recession; investors take a ride on this series of fluctuations of economic activity the business cycle |
| #4402, aired 2003-10-28 | I'M HERE TO PLAY $800: It's high hijinks on the high seas in this 2003 film as Cuba Gooding , Jr. pretends to be gay Boat Trip |
| #4396, aired 2003-10-20 | TV GUIDE: 1953 $1200: Just the facts, Ma'am: he missed being on the first cover by 1 week & was back the end of the year on the Dec. 11 cover Jack Webb |
| #4394, aired 2003-10-16 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $800: Rachmaninoff's 1913 symphony "The Bells" was based on a Russian translation of this American's poem Edgar Allan Poe |
| #4373, aired 2003-09-17 | LIFE ON THE TITANIC $1200: The orchestra had a repertoire of some 350 pieces, including this tune they're said to have played near the end "Nearer, My God, To Thee" |
| #4372, aired 2003-09-16 | PHILADELPHIA $1600: On New Year's Day comics, fancies, string bands & fancy brigades hit the streets during this famous procession the Mummers Parade |
| #4371, aired 2003-09-15 | MOVIE LOCATIONS $1000: (Sofia of the Clue Crew presents from a beach.) At the end of this steamy film, Kathleen Turner lounges here, on Kauai's Tunnels Beach Body Heat |
| #4370, aired 2003-09-12 | THE TWENTIETH $200: It stipulates that the terms of Senators & Representatives shall end at noon on the third of January the 20th Amendment |
| #4365, aired 2003-07-18 | LITTLE GREEN MEN $600: Inflation? In 1907 he was on the 5-dollar bill; today he's worth 4 times that Andrew Jackson |
| #4345, aired 2003-06-20 | WONDER YEARS ALUMNI $800: Before "Friends" he was seen on "The Wonder Years" as Karen's boyfriend, then husband, Michael David Schwimmer |
| #4341, aired 2003-06-16 | ON THE FLAG $1600: Its flag, adopted in 1929, has a 3-tiered tiara & a set of keys on it Vatican City |
| #4321, aired 2003-05-19 | POND CROSSERS $2000: This last name of British lord Jeffrey, who captured Montreal, is on a Massachusetts college Amherst |
| #4309, aired 2003-05-01 | HARD BALLS $800: The only player on a soccer team who can touch a live ball with his hands the goalie |
| #4308, aired 2003-04-30 | AMERICAN DREAMS $800: In May 1961 he vowed to land a man on the moon & return him safely to Earth by the end of the decade John F. Kennedy |
| #4306, aired 2003-04-28 | GEORGIAN ON MY MIND $800: Born in Athens, Georgia, she starred in "9 1/2 Weeks" & played Eminem's mom in "8 Mile" Kim Basinger |
| #4305, aired 2003-04-25 | BODIES OF WATER $1000: In 1957 a deep channel was completed allowing ocean ships to reach this largest Venezuelan lake Lake Maracaibo |
| #4299, aired 2003-04-17 | THE MIGHTY U.S.S. MISSOURI $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reads from on the deck of the U.S.S. Missouri in Hawaii.) This admiral, nicknamed "Bull", walked the deck of the Missouri, his flagship, in the latter part of World War II William F. Halsey, Jr. |
| #4297, aired 2003-04-15 | 2-LETTER ABBREV. $200: ...And one more thing--you tack it on to the end of a letter to tack on an extra thought PS |
| #4290, aired 2003-04-04 | "GO" TO THE END $1000: In mythology this ship on which Jason sailed contained magic wood from a sacred oak Argo |
| #4287, aired 2003-04-01 | "W" $1200: This impulse to travel is the title of Rebecca Solnit's book on the history of walking wanderlust |
| #4279, aired 2003-03-20 | LOONEY TUNES $2000: Tune with the line "They'll never want to see a rake or a plow, and who the deuce can parley-vous a cow?" "How Ya Gonna Keep 'Em Down On The Farm (After They've Seen Paree?)" |
| #4274, aired 2003-03-13 | GIRL SCOUT BADGES $1,200 (Daily Double): In 1926 a Girl Scout could earn a badge for this job, sung about on the 8th day of Christmas dairy maid ("eight maids-a-milking") |
| #4267, aired 2003-03-04 | IN OLD DETROIT $1,000 (Daily Double): In the early 1800s Judge Augustus Woodward planned Detroit on a hub-&-spokes plan modeled on this city Paris (or Washington, D.C.) |
| #4264, aired 2003-02-27 | TRAVEL EUROPE $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew in London) First, look right when crossing a London street or you may end up on someone's hood, which the British call this bonnet |
| #4259, aired 2003-02-20 | MARLON BRANDO MOVIES $600: "Joey, Joey Doyle!... Hey I got one of your birds... He flew into my coop" On the Waterfront |
| #4229, aired 2003-01-09 | GET INTO SHAPE $1600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a diagram on the chalkboard.) An oval that's pointed at each end is described as this nut shape almond |
| #4215, aired 2002-12-20 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $1000: The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution & Peace is part of this Palo Alto university Stanford |
| #4178, aired 2002-10-30 | GUITARIST'S LINGO $1600: At the end of a show, it's cool to lean your guitar on your amp & let it deafen the crowd with this noise feedback |
| #4155, aired 2002-09-27 | THE END OF THE LINE $400: Mike Ditka & Kellen Winslow played this position on football's offensive line tight end |
| #4155, aired 2002-09-27 | THE END OF THE LINE $1200: From the Latin for "to look at", it's often the final step on an assembly line inspection |
| #4150, aired 2002-09-20 | SCIENCE PRIZES $2000: The R.U. Lemieux Award is given in Canada for work on the organic branch of this science chemistry |
| #4148, aired 2002-09-18 | SOUNDS GOOD TO ME $200: We don't stand on ceremony, but we will stand for this ceremony that accompanies the music heard here a wedding |
| #4147, aired 2002-09-17 | MOVIE STARS SPEAK $1200: When his kids ask him to talk like his "Shrek" donkey character, "it depends on what mood" they catch him in Eddie Murphy |
| #4142, aired 2002-09-10 | PLACES IN THE NEWS $2000: On June 14, 2001 the U.S. said it would end bombing exercises on this Puerto Rican island Vieques |
| #4116, aired 2002-06-24 | BITS & PIECES $800: The jabby bit on the end of a fork; you can call them prongs or these tines |
| #4103, aired 2002-06-05 | THERE OUGHTA BE A LAW $8,000 (Daily Double): Mother of mercy! Is this 1970 federal law the end of us wiseguys? the RICO |
| #4077, aired 2002-04-30 | PAY THE "BILL" $1600: It was Michael Jackson's first music video to play on MTV "Billie Jean" |
| #4065, aired 2002-04-12 | ON OLD MAPS $2000: What was once the Gold Coast is now called this & is still filed under "G" Ghana |
| #4061, aired 2002-04-08 | BOATS & SHIPS $2000: Henry Hudson & James Cook's expeditions each shuttled across the ocean on a ship called this Discovery |
| #4045, aired 2002-03-15 | A DATE WITH HISTORY $1200: Bobby Fischer became the first American world chess champion defeating this man on Sept. 1, 1972 Boris Spassky |
| #4044, aired 2002-03-14 | FRENCH LITERATURE $2,000 (Daily Double): During his 15-year exile on the island of Guernsey, Victor Hugo completed this, the longest of his novels Les Misérables |
| #4040, aired 2002-03-08 | WORD PUZZLES $1600: An old, unlucky superstition three on a match |
| #4033, aired 2002-02-27 | AUTHORS' MAIDEN NAMES $800: The maiden name of Laura Wilder, it's the last name of the family in her "Little House on the Prairie" Ingalls |
| #4030, aired 2002-02-22 | JUST COS $800: On this "cloak & dagger" '60s show, Bill played Tempe grad & Rhodes Scholar Alexander Scott I Spy |
| #4011, aired 2002-01-28 | AMERICANA $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents from on a paddle-wheel boat.) While minister to France (1801-1804) Robert Livingston partnered up with this American to develop a paddle-wheel steamboat Robert Fulton |
| #3999, aired 2002-01-10 | MUSIC MEN $800: (Sofia of the Clue Crew at the Waldorf Astoria.) I'm playing a song by this composer on his piano at the Waldorf. "I get no kick from champagne" Cole Porter |
| #3997, aired 2002-01-08 | CITY SEALS $400: Mountain range depicted on the seal of Calgary, Alberta Rockies |
| #3997, aired 2002-01-08 | THE BARBARY WARS $800: In a 3-hour battle on August 1, 1801 this ship under Lt. Andrew Sterrett, not Lt. Uhura, beat the Tripoli Enterprise |
| #3978, aired 2001-12-12 | COME TO GATHER $800: (Sofia reports from the United Nations.) People from Uruguay to Ukraine have held the presidency of this body that meets here the General Assembly |
| #3974, aired 2001-12-06 | CAMILLA $400: In an irony to end all ironies, Prince Charles proposed to this woman in 1981 on the grounds of Camilla's estate Lady Diana Spencer |
| #3970, aired 2001-11-30 | 1890s AVIATION $1600: In 1897 3 Swedes (partly funded by Alfred Nobel) tried to reach this point on Earth by balloon -- they died the North Pole |
| #3966, aired 2001-11-26 | ODDS & ENDS $2000: "Night Ride Home", which aired on February 7, 1999, was its 200th "presentation" Hallmark Hall of Fame |
| #3959, aired 2001-11-15 | CHESS NUTS $600: The 17th letter of the English alphabet, in chess notation it stands for the most powerful piece on the board Q (for queen) |
| #3958, aired 2001-11-14 | WHAT'S THAT CALLED? $800: It's the notch that fits on the bowstring in the non-business end of an arrow the nock |
| #3933, aired 2001-10-10 | DO YOU LIKE ME.? $300: As seen on the flag, the state coat of arms has one of these largest deers lying under a pine tree moose |
| #3932, aired 2001-10-09 | POMEGRANATE PRESS $800: "Madonna of the Pomegranate" is one of the many Madonnas in the Uffizi by this "Venus on the Half Shell" artist Sandro Botticelli |
| #3915, aired 2001-09-14 | HOW DO YOU WORK THIS THING? $200: Insert the metal fitting into the buckle & tighten by pulling on the loose end of the strap a seat belt |
| #3913, aired 2001-09-12 | MOVIE SONGS $100: "Springtime for Hitler" (a '60s classic) The Producers |
| #3911, aired 2001-09-10 | 20th CENTURY BALLET $400: Phillip Feeny's eerie music for the British ballet based on this spooky 19th C. novel is heard here Dracula |
| #3902, aired 2001-07-17 | JEOPARDY! PLACE THE FINAL EPISODE $500: (Gilbert reads, with organ music.) At Emily and Drake's wedding, Trent meets Brad; they hit it off & take a "fun" cruise on this Kathie Lee advertised line Carnival |
| #3896, aired 2001-07-09 | ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER $2,000 (Daily Double): (Hi, I'm Jane Krakowski of Ally McBeal.) In 1987 I rollerskated on Broadway in this Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Starlight Express |
| #3894, aired 2001-07-05 | LAS VEGAS MUSEUMS?! $300: The Guinness World of Records displays over 2,000 of these "bags" collected by the Vermeulen family on plane trips airsick bags |
| #3892, aired 2001-07-03 | HOW COME? $400: You'll look "sharp" coming to school on this brand of scooter that led a 2000 craze Razor |
| #3889, aired 2001-06-28 | CHEMICAL COMPOUNDS $500 (Daily Double): Rhyming names of 2 common petroleum products, one used in your tank & one on your skin gasoline & Vaseline |
| #3887, aired 2001-06-26 | WHO'S THERE? $800: Standing on top of Mount Everest on May 29, 1953 Sir Edmund Hillary |
| #3874, aired 2001-06-07 | IT'S ALL POLITICS $200: In July 1804 Alexander Hamilton ended up on the losing end of a duel with this politician Aaron Burr |
| #3870, aired 2001-06-01 | ISLAMIC CLUES "K" $600: The majority of the 2 million people in this nation on the Arabian coast are Sunni Muslims Kuwait |
| #3867, aired 2001-05-29 | ISRAEL $600: Among those buried on this Jerusalem mount, or believed to be, are the prophet Haggai & Prince Philip's mother the Mount of Olives |
| #3866, aired 2001-05-28 | ASIAN LIT $400: In the Chinese play "The Palace of Eternal Youth" lovers are reunited on this heavenly body the moon |
| #3843, aired 2001-04-25 | SIT ON IT! $200: At the Jackie Kennedy Onassis auction in 1996, one of these chairs used by JFK sold for $442,500 a rocking chair |
| #3825, aired 2001-03-30 | 25 YEARS AGO - 1976 $600: This pair's book "The Final Days", on the end of Nixon's presidency, was a 1976 bestseller Bob Woodward & Carl Bernstein |
| #3825, aired 2001-03-30 | SKIN CARE $800: If you normally burn in 20 minutes & apply on SPF-15 sunscreen, you should be protected for this long 300 minutes/5 hours |
| #3823, aired 2001-03-28 | THE END $600: In this book Miss Havisham dies when her wedding dress catches on fire Great Expectations |
| #3823, aired 2001-03-28 | THE END $800: Hit by a stray bullet, Paul Baumer dies at the end of this Erich Maria Remarque novel All Quiet on the Western Front |
| #3818, aired 2001-03-21 | USC $600: When up & running, USC has a webcam focused on a bronze statue of this guy, its symbol Tommy Trojan |
| #3800, aired 2001-02-23 | EUROPEAN LAKES & RIVERS $500: The castle of Chillon on this lake's eastern shore was made famous in a Lord Byron poem Lake Geneva |
| #3796, aired 2001-02-19 | SCIENTISTS & INVENTORS $1000: In his 1619 "Harmonice Mundi', he announced his third law of planetary motion Johannes Kepler |
| #3791, aired 2001-02-12 | THE WORLD IN 1901 $100: In 2000 the state of Alabama voted to end a 1901 ban on this type of marriage Interracial marriage |
| #3791, aired 2001-02-12 | JULIO IGLESIAS $400: "La Cumparsita" is found on Julio's album named for this South American dance Tango |
| #3788, aired 2001-02-07 | ABBREVIATED S $100: On a compass south |
| #3772, aired 2001-01-16 | 30 DAYS HATH SEPTEMBER $600: A highlight of Marie Antoinette's day on September 19, 1783 was watching a sheep, duck & rooster do this go up in a hot air balloon |
| #3754, aired 2000-12-21 | BARRE TENDERS $800: In 1936 he staged the "Slaughter on Tenth Avenue" sequence for the Rodgers & Hart musical "On Your Toes" George Balanchine |
| #3739, aired 2000-11-30 | SHAKESPEAREAN BEFORE & AFTER $1000: Hero of Agincourt who goes solo on a date with 2 other couples Henry V Wheel |
| #3696, aired 2000-10-02 | COMMON BONDS $1000: Fez,
bowler,
Stetson hats |
| #3659, aired 2000-06-29 | LESSER-KNOWN NAMES $500 (Daily Double): Union soldier John McTammany was on a roll when he invented this honky-tonk musical instrument the player piano |
| #3646, aired 2000-06-12 | THEY CAME FROM ANOTHER WORLD $400: Julia Shearer on "Another World", she was the quirky Corky on "Murphy Brown" Faith Ford |
| #3635, aired 2000-05-26 | AT TIFFANY'S $600: The original store was called Tiffany & Young, & it wasn't on 5th Avenue but on this theatrical street Broadway |
| #3634, aired 2000-05-25 | GREECE IS THE WORD $1000: It was on this now Greek isle that the famous statue of Nike, now in the Louvre, was found in 1863 Samothrace |
| #3631, aired 2000-05-22 | ACTRESSES ON TELEVISION $1000: The '50s sitcom "Pride of the Family" featured this "King Kong" star & Natalie Wood as mother & daughter Fay Wray |
| #3618, aired 2000-05-03 | SHOW TUNES $1000: "Kids",
"Put on a Happy Face" Bye Bye Birdie |
| #3610, aired 2000-04-21 | THE U.S. MINT $300: Perhaps the young woman seen here is looking to these 2 expedition leaders for their next words to translate: Lewis & Clark |
| #3607, aired 2000-04-18 | ASSUME THE POSITION $400: (Hi, I'm Wesley Walls of the Carolina Panthers. The answer is...) As a tight end, I'm usually less than a yard from this player on the offensive line tackle |
| #3589, aired 2000-03-23 | THE BODY HUMAN $200: When you're frightened your arrector pili muscles make this "stand on end" Hair |
| #3585, aired 2000-03-17 | THE 8th CENTURY $800: On this date around 735, Pope Gregory II dedicated a chapel in St. Peter's to all saints November 1 |
| #3580, aired 2000-03-10 | OPTIMISTS $600: On May 25, 1961 JFK called for the U.S. to achieve this goal by decade's end to put a man on the Moon |
| #3572, aired 2000-02-29 | EUROPEAN CAPITALS $400: It lies on a plain at the south end of Attica, a peninsula that extends into the Aegean Sea Athens |
| #3519, aired 1999-12-16 | WEATHER CHANNEL $200: On a weather map a line with little triangles is this type of front a cold front |
| #3514, aired 1999-12-09 | SAY YOUR PRAYERS $400: At the end of his life, this man prayed for the strength to avenge himself on the Philistines Samson |
| #3514, aired 1999-12-09 | DANCE! $800: Agnes De Mille wrote the book on the "Life and Work of" this doyenne of modern dance Martha Graham |
| #3485, aired 1999-10-29 | THE "LAST" BOOKS ON EARTH $1,000 (Daily Double): Martin Scorsese brought this controversial Kazantzakis work to the big screen in 1988 "The Last Temptation of Christ" |
| #3464, aired 1999-09-30 | SEPTEMBER 30 $400: The U.S. Treasury announced a budget surplus of $70 billion on Sept. 30, 1998, the end of this financial period Fiscal year |
| #3453, aired 1999-09-15 | ACTORS ON BROADWAY $600: (Hi, I'm Jane Seymour.) I starred on Broadway as Mozart's wife in this acclaimed drama Amadeus |
| #3452, aired 1999-09-14 | BLACK HERITAGE STAMPS $800: A. Philip Randolph unionized men in this job held by the men depicted on the stamp seen here: sleeping car porters |
| #3448, aired 1999-09-08 | LAKES & RIVERS $600 (Daily Double): This lake on the French-Swiss border shares its name with the Swiss city at its southern end Lake Geneva |
| #3446, aired 1999-09-06 | THE '80s $400: On Jan. 20, 1985 this man was sworn in for his second term as U.S. president Reagan |
| #3445, aired 1999-07-23 | WHERE IN THE WORLD? $1000: The region ruled by the Queen of Sheba is in this small nation on the southern end of the Arabian Peninsula Yemen |
| #3431, aired 1999-07-05 | IT GROWS ON TREES $200: This type of orange is so named because it has a small secondary fruit growing at the end navel orange |
| #3427, aired 1999-06-29 | THE KOREAN WAR $300: The death of this Soviet premier on March 5, 1953 probably accelerated the end of the conflict Joseph Stalin |
| #3427, aired 1999-06-29 | SPACE EXPLORATION $600: In 1981 this first space shuttle became the first U.S. spacecraft to end its mission by landing on terra firma Columbia |
| #3421, aired 1999-06-21 | AUTHORS ON AUDIOTAPE $400: He tells you all about Fern, Wilbur & a certain spider when he reads his own "Charlotte's Web" E.B. White |
| #3407, aired 1999-06-01 | BRITISH ACTRESSES $1,000 (Daily Double): In the late '70s she starred as Fontaine Khaled in "The Stud", based on a novel by her sister Joan Collins |
| #3406, aired 1999-05-31 | ROCK $1,000 (Daily Double): While some people can "talk" one, chalcanthite & azurite can leave one on a hard surface a blue streak |
| #3404, aired 1999-05-27 | NORSE $600: This Norse god led his brothers in an attack on Ymir, the first giant Odin |
| #3395, aired 1999-05-14 | SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA $400: L.A. visitors flock to the carousel on this famous pier at the end of Colorado Blvd. Santa Monica Pier |
| #3387, aired 1999-05-04 | CLIFFS NOTES $500: German soldier goes to fight in World War I; gets killed; end of story "All Quiet on the Western Front" |
| #3358, aired 1999-03-24 | THEY REST IN NEBRASKA $800: Long-time Nebraska senator George Norris, who helped create this project, the TVA, is buried in McCook the Tennessee Valley Authority |
| #3355, aired 1999-03-19 | POPES $800: Paul VI's anti-birth control encyclical was called "Humanae Vitae", or "On" this Human Life |
| #3354, aired 1999-03-18 | ENGLISH "T" $300: This square is located at the north end of Whitehall, not on the southwest coast of Spain Trafalgar Square |
| #3352, aired 1999-03-16 | RIGHT HERE IN RIVER CITY $400: Northwest Airlines & The 3M Corp. are headquartered in suburbs of this capital on both banks of the Mississippi St. Paul |
| #3351, aired 1999-03-15 | THE NEW $20 BILL $400 (Daily Double): This building on the back of the bill was trashed by revelers the night the man on the front moved in The White House (when Andrew Jackson moved in) |
| #3346, aired 1999-03-08 | ON THE PRAIRIE $400: A pioneer wagon with a sail-like top, or a literary magazine at the University of Nebraska Schooner |
| #3345, aired 1999-03-05 | WAY BACK IN 1995 $200: On February 7, 1995 Pres. Clinton announced he "struck out" in trying to end this controversial strike the baseball strike |
| #3337, aired 1999-02-23 | NEWTONIAN PHYSICS $800: It's the inward force that a string exerts on a ball whirling on the end of it Centripetal force |
| #3332, aired 1999-02-16 | BEFORE & AFTER $800: The end of his Rico character comes when he's marooned on an island Edward G. Robinson Crusoe |
| #3307, aired 1999-01-12 | BLACK & WHITE CLASSICS $1,100 (Daily Double): (Hi, I'm Janet Leigh.) In "Psycho", it's the name of the establishment where I met my end the Bates Motel |
| #3299, aired 1998-12-31 | PARTY ON! $200: Term for the paper hats & noisemakers given to guests, or the tokens fair ladies gave to their knights favors |
| #3286, aired 1998-12-14 | PHUN WITH PHOENICIANS $600: For the Phoenicians this began on the autumnal equinox; for us, it begins 3 months later the new year |
| #3268, aired 1998-11-18 | THE FREEDOM TRAIL $500: At the end of the Freedom Trail a granite monument on Breed's Hill marks the site of this important battle Bunker Hill |
| #3266, aired 1998-11-16 | 10-LETTER COUNTRIES $1000: From the early 1500s to 1975 this country on Africa's southeast coast was at least partly occupied by Portugal Mozambique |
| #3264, aired 1998-11-12 | MYTH ME? $500: Serge Lifar's ballet "Icare" is based on the myth of this father & son flying team Daedalus & Icarus |
| #3260, aired 1998-11-06 | 4-LETTER WORDS $600: A computer ready to receive information over a modem is "on" this line |
| #3255, aired 1998-10-30 | LET'S VISIT AUSTRIA $1,000 (Daily Double): This English king was held prisoner in 1193 in a castle above Durnstein, Austria Richard the Lionheart (on his way back from one of the Crusades) |
| #3254, aired 1998-10-29 | WORLD HODGEPODGE $500: When shopping on Saba, an island in this sea, look for the beautiful, delicate Saba lace the Caribbean Sea |
| #3243, aired 1998-10-14 | "DAY"S OF WRATH $800: It was the beginning of the end for the Nazis on this "designated" day D-Day |
| #3234, aired 1998-10-01 | AROUND THE EQUATOR $1000: 14-letter adjective for a satellite's orbit that keeps it above the same point on the equator geosynchronous |
| #3233, aired 1998-09-30 | OPERA & BALLET $1,000 (Daily Double): In an 1869 Marius Petipa ballet he puts a metal basin on as a helmet & goes seeking adventure Don Quixote |
| #3214, aired 1998-07-16 | INTERIOR DESIGN $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1991 Charles Hall sued Aqua Queen & other companies for infringing his patent on this furniture item the waterbed |
| #3204, aired 1998-07-02 | A GOOD LAUGH $600: Disrespectful laughter, or a popular candy bar Snickers |
| #3202, aired 1998-06-30 | ALL THUMBS $1000: It's what the dictionary on the right is as opposed to the dictionary on the left: thumb-indexed |
| #3193, aired 1998-06-17 | FURNITURE $600: A ball-and-claw, scroll or Dutch foot may be on the end of a cabriole one of these a leg |
| #3185, aired 1998-06-05 | BAD HAIR DAYS $500: This Irish singer had more than a bad hair day when she tore the pope's picture on "Saturday Night Live" Sinead O'Connor |
| #3184, aired 1998-06-04 | THE REAL LAND OF OZ $300: It's played on a field up to 200 yards long with 4 posts at each end Australian Rules Football |
| #3183, aired 1998-06-03 | STREET SMARTS $400: While British prime minister, Margaret Thatcher had gates put up on the Whitehall end of this street Downing Street |
| #3155, aired 1998-04-24 | MAY DAY! MAY DAY! $800: This singer heard here was born on May 1, 1909: Kate Smith |
| #3151, aired 1998-04-20 | HONSHU $400: A national park on Honshu boasts lakes, hot springs, beaches & this tallest Japanese mountain Fuji |
| #3138, aired 1998-04-01 | ATHLETIC CUPS $300: This cup was first presented by England's Royal Yacht Squadron on August 22, 1851 the Americas Cup |
| #3130, aired 1998-03-20 | SATURDAY NIGHT ON THE TOWN $400: Beer lovers head for the beer halls of this Bavarian city, the birthplace of Oktoberfest Munich |
| #3117, aired 1998-03-03 | WORLD HISTORY $1000: On Feb. 12, 1912, the last emperor of this dynasty abdicated, ending more than 3,000 years of Chinese monarchy Manchu |
| #3115, aired 1998-02-27 | CREATURES OF THE WILD $500: Europe's only wild monkey, it's found on the Rock of Gibraltar & the southern tip of Spain the Barbary ape |
| #3111, aired 1998-02-23 | IT'LL END IN "TEER"s $1000: It's like a dictionary, only the entries are the names found on a map a gazetteer |
| #3107, aired 1998-02-17 | HOMONYMS $500: Copied on paper by memory wrote/rote |
| #3082, aired 1998-01-13 | INTERIOR DESIGN $800: From the Greek for "daubed on", it provides a smooth surface for wall coverings like frescoes plaster |
| #3076, aired 1998-01-05 | PROVERBS $1,400 (Daily Double): This proverb about taking a spill is attributed to heavyweight boxer Robert Fitzsimmons "The bigger they are, the harder they fall" |
| #3073, aired 1997-12-31 | NOISEMAKERS $500: On this Scottish instrument, the melody is played on the chanter while the other tubes drone out single notes bagpipes |
| #3066, aired 1997-12-22 | SONGS OF THE '60s $400: Fittingly, it's the last song on the 1967 album "The Doors" "The End" |
| #3066, aired 1997-12-22 | DOWN UNDER $600: Japanese bombs & a 1974 cyclone have slowed the "evolution" of this city on the north coast Darwin |
| #3062, aired 1997-12-16 | SEWING $400: To make the turnback type of this, start by putting a wide hem on a sleeve a cuff |
| #3053, aired 1997-12-03 | PRESIDENTS ON THE MOVE $600: In 1943, in Morocco, FDR became the 1st sitting president since this one to visit an actual theater of war Abraham Lincoln |
| #3051, aired 1997-12-01 | EXPLORERS $1,500 (Daily Double): In 1770 this British sea captain nearly wrecked the Endeavour on the Great Barrier Reef Captain James Cook |
| #3044, aired 1997-11-20 | AS THE OLD ADAGE SAYS... $200: Completes "What you don't know can't..." hurt you |
| #3033, aired 1997-11-05 | "END" AT THE BEGINNING $200: Unfortunately, leopards, Asian elephants & gray whales are on this animal list Endangered species list |
| #3030, aired 1997-10-31 | 10-LETTER WORDS $200: Ice cream flavor seen here in an astronaut version: Neapolitan |
| #3029, aired 1997-10-30 | COOKING ON TV $300: Based on an actual New York restaurateur, this Seinfeld character refused to serve Elaine the Soup Nazi |
| #3026, aired 1997-10-27 | RESEARCH $600: London's Public Record Office is the British equivalent of this repository on Washington's Constitution Ave. the National Archives |
| #3014, aired 1997-10-09 | ELVIS MOVIES $1000: Mary Stone on "The Donna Reed Show", she was the only female to co-star with Elvis in 3 films Shelley Fabares |
| #3011, aired 1997-10-06 | TAKE ME OUT TO THE BALLPARK $600: On May 4, 1984 Dave Kingman hit a ball through the roof of this Twins park but was only credited with a double the Metrodome |
| #3009, aired 1997-10-02 | POP ICONS $1000: Her 1987 album "Canciones de Mi Padre" went platinum, although it only reached No. 42 on the pop charts Linda Ronstadt |
| #3008, aired 1997-10-01 | CLASSICAL MUSICIANS $1,000 (Daily Double): Heinz Holliger, heard here playing Bach, is the most famous modern performer on this instrument the oboe |
| #3001, aired 1997-09-22 | PEOPLE ON MONEY $400: Jesus affirmed this man's right to tribute because his image was on Roman coins Caesar |
| #3000, aired 1997-09-19 | NUMBER, PLEASE $200: Number of players on an indoor volleyball team, or consecutive consonants in the surname of star Bob Ctvrtlik 6 |
| #3000, aired 1997-09-19 | MISSED ON SHOW NO. 1 $1,000 (Daily Double): INVENTIONS
This fastener gets its name from a brand of galoshes it was used on a zipper |
| #2999, aired 1997-09-18 | GIMME YOUR NUMBER $200: It's the number of bishops on a chess board at the start of a game 4 |
| #2998, aired 1997-09-17 | AROUND THE HOUSE WITH PIERRE $800: If you sample too much from Pierre's well-stocked wine cellar; you might end up on the plancher, this Floor |
| #2997, aired 1997-09-16 | ONE-HIT WONDERS $600: Before reaching No. 1 with "Eve of Destruction", he sang lead on the New Christy Minstrels' "Green, Green" Barry McGuire |
| #2989, aired 1997-09-04 | "ITZ" AT THE END $600: Skiers who fall on their derrieres leave this German "mark" in the snow a sitz mark |
| #2989, aired 1997-09-04 | BIG DATES $600: On April 6, 1909 he & his assistant Matthew Henson reached 90 degrees N. latitude Robert Peary |
| #2989, aired 1997-09-04 | "ITZ" AT THE END $2,000 (Daily Double): Song title that follows the line heard here:
"If you're blue and you don't know where to go to why don't you go where fashion sits..." "Puttin' On The Ritz" |
| #2979, aired 1997-07-10 | ANCIENT RELIGION $400: A girl sacrificed by these people on Peru's Nevado Ampato was found frozen in 1995 the Incas |
| #2967, aired 1997-06-24 | LATE-NIGHT TV $200: He was Johnny Carson's daytime sidekick on "Who Do You Trust?" before joining him on "The Tonight Show" Ed McMahon |
| #2957, aired 1997-06-10 | HITS OF THE 1890s $400: "Casey would waltz with a strawberry blonde" and this happened "The Band Played On" |
| #2942, aired 1997-05-20 | NOVELS & NOVELISTS $1,800 (Daily Double): Originally, this "Omoo" author's name was spelled without an "E" on the end Herman Melville |
| #2931, aired 1997-05-05 | BARNYARD ANIMALS $300: A "maid" may have a special stool to sit on while attending to this bovine animal a cow |
| #2930, aired 1997-05-02 | ANNUAL EVENTS $300: Lent begins on this day of the week Ash Wednesday |
| #2923, aired 1997-04-23 | MY NAME IS BARBARA $800: She appeared with Lassie in the 1949 film "The Sun Comes Up" before she played Beaver's mother on TV Barbara Billingsley |
| #2920, aired 1997-04-18 | BOOK PARTS $200: Posted on the front end paper, it bears the owner's name & often a design Book plate |
| #2920, aired 1997-04-18 | ACTORS ON BROADWAY $800: Maybe the "Scent of a" theatre pulled him back; he starred in & directed a revival of "Hughie" in 1996 Al Pacino |
| #2899, aired 1997-03-20 | 17th CENTURY AMERICA $500: On April 6, 1650 he granted Maryland a bicameral legislature Cecil Calvert (the 2nd Lord Baltimore) |
| #2894, aired 1997-03-13 | FINANCE $300: Put these 3 letters, the date, the amount & the debtor's signature on paper & it's a legal debt IOU |
| #2882, aired 1997-02-25 | THEATER $200: At the end of this musical, Curly & Laurey ride off in the surrey with the fringe on top "Oklahoma!" |
| #2851, aired 1997-01-13 | JAPANESE FOOD $300: Tendon is a one-dish meal of rice topped with this mix of battered & fried seafood & vegetables tempura |
| #2824, aired 1996-12-05 | THE MARINE CORPS $500 (Daily Double): Island on which the action depicted here took place: Iwo Jima |
| #2823, aired 1996-12-04 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $400: On Jan. 16, 1855 the first territorial legislature of Nebraska met at this city on the Missouri River Omaha |
| #2823, aired 1996-12-04 | SHE SELLS $500: It wasn't just Eva Herzigova's career that got a lift on her "Look me in the eyes" billboards for this Wonderbra |
| #2822, aired 1996-12-03 | TITLES $1000: Daughters of a Spanish monarch are given this "childish" title infanta |
| #2821, aired 1996-12-02 | PARTS $400: It's found on the head of a monarch and on the end of a watch stem crown |
| #2814, aired 1996-11-21 | ON THE INTERNET $400: At the end of a domain name, .nl would mean this country the Netherlands |
| #2766, aired 1996-09-16 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS $800: "Go Tell It on the Mountain" that he wrote "The Amen Corner", a play about a female evangelist (James) Baldwin |
| #2764, aired 1996-09-12 | QUOTABLE WOMEN $800: On posing nude for a calendar, Marilyn Monroe said, "It's not true that I had nothing on. I had" this "on" the radio |
| #2746, aired 1996-07-08 | FILM DIRECTORS $400: This director of "The Birth of a Nation" was the son of a Confederate army officer D.W. Griffith |
| #2741, aired 1996-07-01 | HODGEPODGE $200: Draculase, an experimental drug that helps dissolve arterial clots, comes from this mammal's saliva a vampire bat |
| #2732, aired 1996-06-18 | POTPOURRI $1000: If John Chapman, better known as this, lived today, he might keep track of his plantings on a Macintosh Johnny Appleseed |
| #2728, aired 1996-06-12 | MUSICAL THEATRE $300: At the end of this musical, Tevye & Golde leave Anatevka for America to join their uncle Abram Fiddler on the Roof |
| #2726, aired 1996-06-10 | 1601 $400: The word for this hot drink first appeared in English in 1601, though it had only 1 E on the end coffee |
| #2693, aired 1996-04-24 | GAMES $300: In this game tiles with the same number of pips on each end are placed crosswise dominoes |
| #2678, aired 1996-04-03 | "LAND" HO! $600: A lighthouse built in the 1790s stands on this peninsula, the westernmost point of England Land's End |
| #2664, aired 1996-03-14 | THE FANNIE FARMER COOKBOOK $600: Fannie suggests serving creamed sardines on this, the way many people serve creamed chipped beef toast |
| #2632, aired 1996-01-30 | POTPOURRI $300: On Jan. 16, 1969 Metroliner high-speed train service began between New York City & this city at the other end Washington, D.C. |
| #2620, aired 1996-01-12 | ELIZABETH TAYLOR FILMS $800: In 1967 she starred in this Shakespearean comedy with Richard Burton The Taming of the Shrew |
| #2601, aired 1995-12-18 | THE DUMONT NETWORK $800: On Tuesday nights 1952-55 his talks on "Life is Worth Living" competed against Milton Berle Bishop Sheen |
| #2575, aired 1995-11-10 | HISTORY $400: Under Thutmose III this empire was bounded by Libya on the west & Nubia on the south Egypt |
| #2573, aired 1995-11-08 | HISTORIC BANDS $200: The first recorded raid by a band of these Norsemen was 793 on the island of Lindisfarne, off England the Vikings |
| #2566, aired 1995-10-30 | THEATRE $600: In March 1995 Maria Conchita Alonso replaced Vanessa Williams on Broadway in this musical set in South America Kiss of the Spider Woman |
| #2554, aired 1995-10-12 | THE GAME SHOW NETWORK $300: On this show the host asked at the end of the voting, "Will the real (John Doe) please stand up!" To Tell the Truth |
| #2543, aired 1995-09-27 | STATE CAPITALS $300: This capital lies at the southern end of Puget Sound on Budd Inlet & Capitol Lake Olympia(, Washington) |
| #2539, aired 1995-09-21 | WHAT'S IN A NAME? $1000: It's the sixth letter of the Greek alphabet, but on an alphabetical list of names it's near the end zeta |
| #2533, aired 1995-09-13 | VENOMOUS ANIMALS $300: This arachnid has lobsterlike claws in front & a stinger on the end its tail a scorpion |
| #2510, aired 1995-06-30 | TOOL TIME $500: Miners know it has a heavy blade on one side of its head & a pointed end on the other a pick (a pickax) |
| #2506, aired 1995-06-26 | MEDICINE MEN $400: Impressed by the deductive skills of Dr. Joseph Bell, his mentor, he based a detective on him Arthur Conan Doyle |
| #2453, aired 1995-04-12 | MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS $600: The double reed of this bass woodwind is on the end of a curved metal tube set into the tenor joint bassoon |
| #2444, aired 1995-03-30 | NOVEL OPERAS $600: Mr. Fezziwig is featured in Thea Musgrave's opera based on this Dickens novel A Christmas Carol |
| #2439, aired 1995-03-23 | FAMOUS WOMEN $600: She operated a riding school & studied horse training in Argentina before becoming an expert on dogs Barbara Woodhouse |
| #2429, aired 1995-03-09 | FAMOUS FIRSTS $100: Make no mistake about it: Hyman Lipman got a patent in 1858 for putting this on the end of a pencil an eraser |
| #2399, aired 1995-01-26 | ON THE ROAD $200: "Hurried" term given to either end of the business day when traffic is the heaviest rush hour |
| #2370, aired 1994-12-16 | OLD, OLD SONGS $600: In an 1895 Charles B. Ward song he "would waltz with a strawberry blonde, and the band played on" Casey |
| #2358, aired 1994-11-30 | POLITICIANS $400: In the 1950s this current Massachusetts senator was an end on the Harvard football team (Ted) Kennedy |
| #2351, aired 1994-11-21 | HEMINGWAY BOOKS $100: At the end of this 1952 novella, Manolin promises to accompany Santiago on future fishing trips "The Old Man and the Sea" |
| #2345, aired 1994-11-11 | CATS & DOGS $500: The Jack Russell type of this dog is named for the clergyman who developed it terrier |
| #2299, aired 1994-09-08 | HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $500: On the day of this annual occurrence, you should be able to stand an uncooked egg on its end the equinox |
| #2286, aired 1994-07-11 | THE 20th CENTURY $300: On Dec. 5, 1933 at 5:32 p.m., drinkers toasted the end of this Prohibition |
| #2244, aired 1994-05-12 | MONTHS $500: It's the only month that can start on a Sunday & end on a Saturday February |
| #2236, aired 1994-05-02 | VOCABULARY $200: On its own it's a mode of water transportation; at the end of a word, it indicates a rank or condition ship |
| #2233, aired 1994-04-27 | HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $500 (Daily Double): On April 18 this southern African country commemorates the end of white minority rule Zimbabwe |
| #2225, aired 1994-04-15 | RELIGION $200: In Judaism the ten days of repentance end on this holy day Yom Kippur |
| #2223, aired 1994-04-13 | THE LIBERTY BELL $1000: On Jan. 26, 1763 the Liberty Bell was rung to signify the end of this war the French and Indian War |
| #2178, aired 1994-02-09 | BIRDS $100: The lorikeet has threadlike papillae on the end of its tongue to help it mop up this from flowers pollen (or nectar) |
| #2168, aired 1994-01-26 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $400: In 1993 this U.S. co. ranked No. 1 on Fortune Magazine's list of the top 500 industrial co.s in the world GM (General Motors) |
| #2165, aired 1994-01-21 | SONGS OF THE '60s $500: "Why does the sun go on shinning? Why does the sea rush to shore? Don't they know it's" this "The End Of The World" |
| #2110, aired 1993-11-05 | SCIENCE $1000: The digits on an LED clock or calculator are formed by these, hence the term LED light-emitting diode |
| #2090, aired 1993-10-08 | ENDS WITH "END" $800: The list of symbols on a map or chart a legend |
| #2081, aired 1993-09-27 | HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $2,000 (Daily Double): On June 25 Mozambique celebrates the end of its struggle against this European power Portugal |
| #2026, aired 1993-05-31 | BIOLOGY $600: Often triggered by cold or shock, piloerection is the literal standing of these on end hairs |
| #1995, aired 1993-04-16 | 1992 MOVIES $500: The title of this Merchant Ivory film based on an E.M. Forster novel refers to a country home Howards End |
| #1976, aired 1993-03-22 | WEIGHTS & MEASURES $500: Without an "E" on the end, it's a thousandth of an inch; with an "E", it's 1,760 yards a mil (or a mile) |
| #1976, aired 1993-03-22 | PRESIDENTIAL TRIVIA $800: Between his terms as president he lived on Madison Ave. in New York & took the train to his job at a law firm (Grover) Cleveland |
| #1949, aired 1993-02-11 | TOOLS $500: It's a string with a weight on the end & it's used to judge if something is straight up & down a plumb (plumb line, plumb bob) |
| #1947, aired 1993-02-09 | TRAVEL & TOURISM $2,000 (Daily Double): Exhibits on nuclear energy are on display at the American Museum of Science & Energy in this Tennessee city Oak Ridge |
| #1939, aired 1993-01-28 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $1000: Nicknamed the "Sunshine City", it's located on the south end of Florida's Pinellas Peninsula St. Petersburg |
| #1928, aired 1993-01-13 | CHINESE HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): These people who founded Macao were the first Europeans to arrive on China's coast, in 1517 the Portuguese |
| #1915, aired 1992-12-25 | DANCE $300: The Mexican Hat Dance used to be a courtship dance; if the girl did this at the end it meant "yes" put on the hat |
| #1914, aired 1992-12-24 | 1992 $400: By the end of his first term on the Supreme Court, he had written 9 majority opinions Clarence Thomas |
| #1899, aired 1992-12-03 | WEATHER $100: A safety tip says if your hair stands on end, hit the ground; this may be about to strike lightning |
| #1872, aired 1992-10-27 | WORLD HISTORY $400: In 1853 Turkey declared war on Russia, beginning this conflict the Crimean War |
| #1862, aired 1992-10-13 | COOKING EQUIPMENT $200: The curler commonly used on this spread has a serrated hook on one end butter |
| #1826, aired 1992-07-06 | GENEVA $3,200 (Daily Double): The Canton of Geneva is bordered on 3 sides by this country France |
| #1796, aired 1992-05-25 | SONG LYRICS $400: "Why does the sun go on shining? Why does the sea rush to shore? Don't they know it's" this the end of the world |
| #1779, aired 1992-04-30 | LITERARY CHARACTERS $600: By the end of this Erich Maria Remarque novel, Muller, Kat & Paul are all killed in WWI All Quiet on the Western Front |
| #1771, aired 1992-04-20 | SCIENTISTS & INVENTORS $200: In 1928 he noticed that a mold had killed staphylococcus bacteria on a culture plate Fleming |
| #1745, aired 1992-03-13 | GLASS & GLASSWARE $400: The molten blob of glass on the end of a blowpipe, or a slang word for a sailor a gob |
| #1727, aired 1992-02-18 | PARLIAMENTARY PROCEDURE $800: In 1876 this U.S. Army major published his popular book on "Rules of Order" (Major Henry) Robert |
| #1702, aired 1992-01-14 | 1942 $200: The Army bombed lava flows that endangered the city of Hilo on this island Hawaii |
| #1698, aired 1992-01-08 | BLACK AUTHORS $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1989 this "Beloved" author became a professor of Creative Writing at Princeton Toni Morrison |
| #1697, aired 1992-01-07 | SPORTS $300: In this sport, a player wears a curved basket called a cesta on his hand jai alai |
| #1675, aired 1991-12-06 | THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH $400: On Broadway you sit in the orchestra; in the West End you, not the horses, sit in these stalls |
| #1656, aired 1991-11-11 | MODERN HISTORY $300: On July 27, 1953 the armistice to end this war was signed at Panmunjom Korea |
| #1645, aired 1991-10-25 | WRITING INSTRUMENTS $400: In 1861 Eberhard Faber built the first factory to produce these in the U.S. pencils |
| #1639, aired 1991-10-17 | HORSES $600: Based on the width of a man’s palm, this unit is used to measure a horse’s height the hand |
| #1609, aired 1991-09-05 | SPELL THAT NAME $200: Jacques, who probably doesn't sing calypso, but does explore on the Calypso C-O-U-S-T-E-A-U |
| #1609, aired 1991-09-05 | TECHNOLOGY $800: This 1950s technique used three synchronized projectors to show film on a curving screen Cinerama |
| #1594, aired 1991-07-04 | INSECTS $400: One way to tell a moth from a butterfly is these on a butterfly end in a knob the antennae |
| #1587, aired 1991-06-25 | PLAYWRIGHTS $800: This South African playwright published his first novel "Tsotsi" in 1980 Athol Fugard |
| #1558, aired 1991-05-15 | LAW $2,600 (Daily Double): The 20th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution sets these to end at noon on January 3rd Congressional Terms |
| #1540, aired 1991-04-19 | U.S. CITIES $800: Claimed by Mass. but held on to by New Hampshire, it was named this in 1765 for the harmonious end of the dispute Concord |
| #1481, aired 1991-01-28 | LOBSTERS $200: You'll find these organs on the end of a lobster's stalks eyes |
| #1474, aired 1991-01-17 | NATIONAL COAT-OF-ARMS $2,000 (Daily Double): Among the symbols used on its coat-of-arms are two Gurkhas & the Himalayas Nepal |
| #1461, aired 1990-12-31 | HODGEPODGE $300: Late Norwegian who titled her autobiography "Wings on My Feet", not "Skates on My Feet" Sonja Henie |
| #1416, aired 1990-10-29 | STAR TREK $500: One-letter name shared by John deLancie's character on "Star Trek: The Next Generation" & J. Bond's armorer Q |
| #1410, aired 1990-10-19 | OPERA CHARACTERS $4,000 (Daily Double): In a Stravinsky opera based on a fairy tale, this title bird saves the life of the emperor of China a nightingale |
| #1406, aired 1990-10-15 | BURT LANCASTER $600: In a memorable scene in this 1953 film, Burt sizzled on the sand with Deborah Kerr From Here to Eternity |
| #1402, aired 1990-10-09 | SCIENCE $400: These 1-celled fungi feed on sugar & convert it into CO yeast |
| #1391, aired 1990-09-24 | COUNTRY MUSIC $5 (Daily Double): She made her TV debut on "Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts" January 21, 1957, singing the following:
"I go out walkin' after midnight / Out in the moonlight / Just like we used to do / I'm always walkin'" Patsy Cline |
| #1389, aired 1990-09-20 | GOVERNMENT AGENCIES $1,000 (Daily Double): Commission referred to by its initials in the following song
"Well I pulled out of Pittsburgh rolling down that Eastern seaboard / I got my diesel wound up and she's a running like never before / There's a speed zone ahead, but alright / I don't see a cop in sight / Six days on the road and I'm gonna make it home tonight" the Interstate Commerce Commission (the ICC) |
| #1384, aired 1990-09-13 | STATE FLAGS $1,000 (Daily Double): You'll find a pelican with her young on this state's flag Louisiana |
| #1380, aired 1990-09-07 | THE OLYMPICS $500: A shot is just a metal ball; this is a metal ball attached to a wire with a handle on the other end a hammer |
| #1376, aired 1990-09-03 | COLONIAL AMERICA $1000: Shawmut was the Indian name for the peninsula on which this city was founded in 1630 Boston |
| #1371, aired 1990-07-16 | LEATHER $200: Heavy coats of oil varnish put on at the end of the finishing process give this leather its gloss patent leather |
| #1368, aired 1990-07-11 | TV NEWS $500: In April 1962 Walter Cronkite replaced this man on the "CBS Evening News" Douglas Edwards |
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Marty Scott, an assistant district attorney from Forney, Texas
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Season 26 3-time champion: $64,002 + $2,000. Marty won $250,000 on...
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Justin Bernbach, a lobbyist from Brooklyn, New York
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2010 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 25 7-time champion: $155,001...
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Sanders Kleinfeld, a publishing technology specialist from Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Season 25 1-time champion: $26,597 + $2,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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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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Larissa Charnsangavej, a senior from Rice University
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2009 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 21 and from Houston, Texas at...
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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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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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Melanie Baker-Streevy, a United Methodist pastor from Parma, Michigan
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Season 25 1-time champion: $26,900 + $1,000. Melanie Baker-Streevy - A...
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Gail Flemmons, a history teacher from Clinton, Mississippi
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Season 25 2-time champion: $46,399 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Jennifer Broders, a junior high school social studies teacher from Stockton, Iowa
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Season 26 2-time champion: $59,801 + $1,000. Jennifer Broders - a...
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Lindsey Hargrove, a senior at the University of Texas from Bellaire, Texas
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2004 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
Mother's Jeopardy! Message Board user name: collegemom
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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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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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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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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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Carolyn Young, a homemaker from Marietta, Georgia
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Season 25 1-time champion: $30,000 + $2,000. Mother of Season 32...
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Nathaniel Barnes, a composer and bartender from Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Season 25 3-time champion: $57,300 + $2,000. In his first game,...
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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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Amy Wilson, a creative writing and women's studies student originally from Portland, Oregon
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Season 26 1-time champion: $19,999 + $2,000. Not to be confused...
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Enrique Machado, an oil filtration business developer from Orlando, Florida
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Season 26 1-time champion: $30,799 + $2,000. Enrique Machado September 16,...
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Ryan Stoffers, a sophomore from UCLA
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2010-A College Championship 1st runner-up: $50,000. Hometown: Saratoga, California. Ryan Stoffers...
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Judy Mermelstein, a Census field representative from Queens, New York
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Season 25 1-time champion: $38,401 + $1,000. Judy also appeared on...
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Kimberly Jantz, an attorney from Tulsa, Oklahoma
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Season 26 1-time champion: $22,200 + $2,000. Kimberly Jantz - an...
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Christine Carrino Gorowara, a teacher educator from Wilmington, Delaware
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Season 25 2-time champion: $43,202 + $1,000. Wife of Season 26...
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Kyle Kahan, a senior from Texas A&M University from Houston, Texas
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2010-B College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000 + a Nintendo Wii +...
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Brian Muth, a headmaster from Napa, California
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Season 25 2-time champion: $43,800 + $1,000. Last name pronounced like...
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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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Kara Spak, a newspaper reporter from Chicago, Illinois
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2011 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 27 5-time champion:...
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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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Andy Davis, a Chyron operator from South Boston, Massachusetts
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Season 25 2-time champion: $49,799 + $1,000. Andy Davis - A...
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Elizabeth Galoozis, a reference librarian from Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Season 26 2-time champion: $38,801 + $2,000. Elizabeth Galoozis - 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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Gary Bechtold, a garage door company owner from St. Cloud, Minnesota
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Season 26 3-time champion: $42,001 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Rebecca Dixon, a graduate student and musician from Vancouver, Washington
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Season 26 2-time champion: $53,002 + $1,000. Rebecca and her partner...
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Justin Waters, a resident physician from Royal Oak, Michigan
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Season 25 1-time champion: $7,199 + $2,000. Justin Waters Royal Oak,...
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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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Ben Bishop, a student originally from Seattle, Washington
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2009 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 25 4-time champion: $114,800...
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Ken Jennings, a software engineer from Salt Lake City, Utah
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2020 Jeopardy!: The Greatest of All Time winner: $1,000,000 + a...
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Ken Jennings, the winner of 74 consecutive games from Seattle, Washington
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2020 Jeopardy!: The Greatest of All Time winner: $1,000,000 + a...
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Dan Pawson, a legislative aide from Boston, Massachusetts
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2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2014 Battle of the Decades...
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Celeste DiNucci, a recent graduate student from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2014 Battle of the Decades...
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Brooks Humphreys, a high school social studies teacher from Omaha, Nebraska
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"He teaches at an all-girls Catholic school operated by the Sisters...
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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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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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Russ Schumacher, a graduate student and newlywed from Fort Collins, Colorado
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"He won the most recent Tournament of Champions. A graduate student...
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Alyssa McRae, a gift card production designer from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Season 25 3-time champion: $50,402 + $2,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Michael Dupée, an attorney from Gainesville, Florida
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"He was the winner of the 1996 Tournament of Champions. Today...
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Rachel Pildis, a software developer from Oak Park, Illinois
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Season 26 1-time champion: $12,000 + $2,000. Rachel Pildis - A...
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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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Jenifer Thomas, a teacher assistant from Jacksonville, North Carolina
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Season 26 1-time champion: $13,400 + $2,000. Jenifer Thomas October 5,...
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Tom Nissley, an online books editor from Seattle, Washington
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2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2011 Tournament of Champions...
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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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Tom Nissley, a writer from Seattle, Washington
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2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2011 Tournament of Champions...
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Bob Blake, an actuary from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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"In 1990, he won the Tournament of Champions. An actuary from...
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Alan Bailey, a playwright and director from North Hills, California
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"This playwright and director became a 5-time winner in 2001. Today,...
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David Duchovny, an actor from Californication
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"He's won two Golden Globes and stars as troubled novelist Hank...
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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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Brad Rutter, the biggest money winner from Los Angeles, California
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2020 Jeopardy!: The Greatest of All Time 2nd runner-up: $250,000. 2019...
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Allie Pape, a sophomore from Ponte Vedra, Florida
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2002 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. Allie was 14 at the time...
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Paul Thompson, a human resources manager from Cheverly, Maryland
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"He was the first 5-time champion in the 1995-96 season. A...
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Nick Swezey, a publisher from Washington, D.C.
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2007 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
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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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Matt Schnippert, a sophomore at Florida State University from Jacksonville, Florida
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2001 College Championship 1st runner-up: $19,801. Matt was 19 at the...
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Erin Bogart, a junior at Miami University of Ohio from Cincinnati, Ohio
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2001 College Championship quarterfinalist: $2,500. Erin was 20 at the time...
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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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Terri Pous, a social media editor from New York, New York
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Season 31 2-time champion: $36,801 + $2,000. Terri produced a podcast...
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Vinita Kailasanath, a consultant from San Mateo, California
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"She represented Stanford University when she won the 2001 College Tourney....
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Carolyn Cracraft, a grad student at the University of California-Berkeley from Berkeley, California
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"She was a junior at the University of Chicago when she...
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Reggie White, a minister and defensive end from the Green Bay Packers
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"From the Green Bay Packers, nobody in the history of the...
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Jaldhar Vyas, a software developer and Hindu priest from Jersey City, New Jersey
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Season 28 player (2012-01-04). Last name pronounced like "VYAS" (in 1...
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Chris Mullins, a computer programmer from Louisville, Kentucky
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Season 21 player (2005-01-04). Chris's wife, Scheri Mullins, an administrative assistant...
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Stevie Benson, a chocolatier from El Centro, California
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Season 25 1-time champion: $28,000 + $2,000. Stevie played his games...
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Matt DeTura, a recent law school graduate from Washington, D.C.
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Season 27 3-time champion: $61,601 + $2,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: MDT
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Sara Wilkinson, a country club concierge from Athens, Georgia
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Season 27 3-time champion: $72,701 + $2,000.
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Diane Wilshere, an actor and playwright from Manassas, Virginia
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Season 25 1-time champion: $18,801 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Ingrid Nelson, a judicial assistant from Lake Mills, Wisconsin
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Season 25 2-time champion: $27,802 + $2,000. Ingrid Nelson - A...
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Paul Wampler, a web programmer from Knoxville, Tennessee
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Season 27 4-time champion: $72,001 + $2,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: paul5562
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Lan Djang, a health policy analyst from Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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"He was a 5-time champion in 2001. Today he's a health...
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Quinn McDonald, an inventory control manager from Lowville, New York
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Season 27 1-time champion: $20,600 + $1,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: Mighty Q
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Craig Westphal, a paramedic from Tucson, Arizona
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2007 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
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Ken Jennings, a writer from Seattle, Washington
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• 74-game champion with longest winning streak • Total earnings over...
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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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Ken Jennings, a 74-game champion from Seattle, Washington
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"In 2004, his record-breaking 74-game win streak set a standard for...
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Ken Jennings, a writer from Seattle, Washington
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"He was a software engineer living in Salt Lake City, Utah,...
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Jesse Cuevas, a corporate lawyer originally from Leawood, Kansas
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Season 27 3-time champion: $65,981 + $2,000. Brother of Season 30...
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Stacy Braverman, a public interest lawyer from Washington, D.C.
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Season 26 1-time champion: $14,984 + $2,000. As detailed in a...
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Paul Kursky, a copywriter from San Francisco, California
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2011 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 5-time champion: $109,411...
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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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Ken Jennings, a software engineer from Salt Lake City, Utah
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2020 Jeopardy!: The Greatest of All Time winner: $1,000,000 + a...
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Diane Siegel, an educational consultant and writer from Northridge, California
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"A full-time mom when she won five games in 1993, now...
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Mike Nelson, a mechanical engineer from Geneva, Illinois
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Season 27 2-time champion: $20,800 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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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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Brad Rutter, an actor and producer from Hollywood, California
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"He was a college student from Lancaster, Pennsylvania, when he won...
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Dave Belote, a recently retired base commander from Woodbridge, Virginia
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2010 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 26 5-time champion:...
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Brad Rutter, an actor and producer from Los Angeles, California
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• Highest all-time winnings (over $4.3 million) • Has never lost...
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Brad Rutter, a $3.2-million winner from Los Angeles, California
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"In 2000, he became a 5-time champion and went on to...
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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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Alan Bailey, a playwright and director from Sherman Oaks, California
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2003 Tournament...
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Jason McCune, an actor originally from Jasper, Indiana
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2003 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Season 18 4-time champion: $90,041.
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Brad Rutter, a college student from Lancaster, Pennsylvania
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2020 Jeopardy!: The Greatest of All Time 2nd runner-up: $250,000. 2019...
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Carl Bradshaw, a financial manager from St. Louis, Missouri
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Season 27 2-time champion: $17,899 + $2,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: Titmouse
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Kathleen Mikulis, a stay-at-home mom from Mountain View, California
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Season 27 1-time champion: $25,201 + $2,000. Kathleen's contestant experience blog....
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Andrew Westney, a singer and actor from Atlanta, Georgia
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"In 1991, he won the Teen Tournament. Today, he's a singer...
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Emily Jusino, a Ph.D. candidate in Greek literature originally from Fredericksburg, Virginia
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Season 27 1-time champion: $18,801 + $1,000.
Last name pronouned like "hoo-SEE-no".
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Robert Wargo, a student from Fairfield, Connecticut
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Season 2 player (1986-05-29). Robert appeared on seven episodes of Connecticut...
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Brian Weikle, a project manager from Minneapolis, Minnesota
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
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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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Ethan Brosowsky, an actor from Los Angeles, California
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Season 24 1-time champion: $21,600 + $2,000. Ethan and his "pub...
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Rich Rosenlof, a sales representative from Sacramento, California
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Season 18 3-time champion: $80,800 + $2,000. Alex erroneously reported Rich's...
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Dan Ford, an editor from Arlington, Virginia
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Season 21 player (2004-11-24). KJL game 71. Dan resides in Tysons...
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Liz Maziarz, an English professor and mom from Seattle, Washington
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Season 27 1-time champion: $18,400 + $2,000.
Last name pronounced like "MAY-zee-ar".
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Susan Blum, an attorney from Fairfield, Connecticut
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Season 2 1-time champion: $18,000. At the end of her first...
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Carolyn Cracraft, a junior at the University of Chicago from San Jose, California
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2000 Tournament...
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Marah Eakin, a publicist from Brooklyn, New York
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Season 22 1-time champion: $8,800 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Matt Kohlstedt, a grad student originally from La Grange, Illinois
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2009 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
Season 25 5-time champion: $77,803 + $2,000.
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Andrew Watkins, a junior from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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2006 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: everyday847
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Jonathan Dinerstein, a composer from Los Angeles, California
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Season 35 4-time champion: $93,301 + $1,000. Jonathan shared a $600,000...
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Hema Karunakaram, a senior from Saline, Michigan
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2009 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000. Name pronounced like "HAY-ma kah-ROO-nuh-KAH-ram". Jeopardy!...
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Alan Bailey, a playwright and director from Sherman Oaks, California
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2003 Tournament...
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Steven Evenhouse, a junior high school social studies teacher from Orland Hills, Illinois
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"He likes teaching because it gives him a captive audience for...
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Eric Floyd, a college student from Calhoun, Georgia
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2003 Tournament of Champions 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $25,000.
Season 18 4-time champion: $97,800 + $2,000.
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Papa Chakravarthy, a sophomore from Lexington, Kentucky
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2006 Teen Tournament champion: $75,000.
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Sharla Zwirek, an editorial manager from Medway, Massachusetts
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Season 28 player (2012-03-16).
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Carolyn Cracraft, a college senior from Chicago, Illinois
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2000 Tournament...
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