#9066, aired 2024-03-25 | IAMB A POET $2000: Aye, I did write "The Lay of the Last Minstrel" & many another bonny iambic work, & ye needn't call me sir! (Walter) Scott |
#9065, aired 2024-03-22 | THE LYRICAL STYLINGS OF JOHNNY GILBERT $1000: "I got a woman, way over town, that's good to me, oh yeah. Say, I got a woman way over town that's good to me, oh yeah" Ray Charles |
#9064, aired 2024-03-21 | CLASSIC TV $400: Oh, Rob... Petrie & Sally Rogers & Alan Brady were all characters on this classic sitcom The Dick Van Dyke Show |
#9062, aired 2024-03-19 | MIND THE GAP $9,600 (Daily Double): Near where Virginia, Kentucky & Tennessee meet, you'll find this pass named for a son of George II the Cumberland Gap |
#9061, aired 2024-03-18 | MUSICAL FILMS $400: Norman Jewison directed the 1973 film version of this musical about the most famous Jew & son of all Jesus Christ Superstar |
#9061, aired 2024-03-18 | MUSICAL FILMS $1000: In this 1963 musical a teen idol's fans sing, "We love you, Conrad, oh yes, we do, we love you Conrad, and we'll be true" Bye Bye Birdie |
#9060, aired 2024-03-15 | FOOD & DRINK $600: With spinach as a star ingredient, the dish seen here goes by this 2-word name, partly after a city quiche Florentine |
#9060, aired 2024-03-15 | THAT'S SO 18th CENTURY $800: On May 1, 1776, Adam Weishaupt founded the Perfectibilists, a branch of this "enlightened" secret society... oh dear, I may've said too much the Illuminati |
#9059, aired 2024-03-14 | SONGS OF YOUTH $400: Inspired by her bestie, Tay Tay sang when "somebody tells you they love you" at this title age "you're gonna believe them" 15 |
#9058, aired 2024-03-13 | SKY & SEA $1200: At the beach, beware of riptides, rip currents & this, which despite its name won't drag you offshore into deep water the undertow |
#9058, aired 2024-03-13 | 17th CENTURY WRITING $9,200 (Daily Double): In his 1624 history of Virginia & New England, he included the famous story of his rescue John Smith |
#9056, aired 2024-03-11 | DEALING WITH TV REALITY $400: Oh, the Scandoval! Let's say Ariana did not wish Tom well after he cheated on her with Raquel on this show that debuted in 2013 Vanderpump Rules |
#9054, aired 2024-03-07 | GITALONG, OLD PAINT $1200: This painter who was totally for the birds gave us the oil-on-canvas "Washington Sea Eagle" around 1839 John James Audubon |
#9051, aired 2024-03-04 | COCKTAILS $400: This cocktail traditionally served in a copper mug gets its "kick" from lime juice, ginger beer & oh yeah, vodka a Moscow mule |
#9050, aired 2024-03-01 | THAT'S A LONG STORY $3,200 (Daily Double): "Yes I said yes I will yes" are the last of this 1922 story's many, many words Ulysses |
#9049, aired 2024-02-29 | NAME, IMAGE, LIKENESS $200: It's the nickname of Alabama CB Ga'quincy McKinstry, whose smile resembled this pitch "man"; now he has an NIL deal with the drink, oh yeah Kool-Aid |
#9048, aired 2024-02-28 | FEELING CHARITABLE $1000: Founded to protect places & species threatened by human development, it got its name & its giant panda logo in 1961 the WWF (World Wildlife Fund) |
#9047, aired 2024-02-27 | ARTISTS ON FILM $1600: "Midnight in Paris" found Owen Wilson's character bumping into Salvador Dali, portrayed by this Oscar-winning actor (Adrien) Brody |
#9047, aired 2024-02-27 | WHERE IS THAT? $1600: 8 versions of Monet's "Water Lilies": this museum in Paris' Tuileries gardens the Orangerie |
#9045, aired 2024-02-23 | TV COMEDY $600: Let's bring the Payne! Allen Payne played C.J. Payne on some 300 episodes of this creator's "House of Payne" Tyler Perry |
#9045, aired 2024-02-23 | 1960s FICTION $1000: This British expat in Southern California wrote openly of gay subject matter in "A Single Man" Christopher Isherwood |
#9043, aired 2024-02-21 | EXTREMELY RANDOM CALCULATIONS $2000: Forbes' annual wealthiest Americans minus Fortune's annual biggest U.S. companies by revenue -100 |
#9042, aired 2024-02-20 | ARTISTS & THEIR SUBJECTS $2000: Oh, her, the tale of this woman "and the Elders" is a common subject & Lorenzo Lotto's from 1517 is one of those with minimal boobage Susanna |
#9041, aired 2024-02-19 | POP $2000: He took over from his father Ivan in directing the "Ghostbusters" film franchise Jason Reitman |
#9040, aired 2024-02-16 | TRANSPORTATION $200: Serving 16 million passengers a year, their fleet vehicles feature a dog on the hood Greyhound |
#9040, aired 2024-02-16 | OH, "MY" WORD! $400: This word can refer to physical nearsightedness or a mental lack of foresight myopia |
#9040, aired 2024-02-16 | OH, "MY" WORD! $800: This Asian critter is known for its ability to mimic human speech the mynah |
#9040, aired 2024-02-16 | OH, "MY" WORD! $1200: This polyester film from DuPont is useful in making things like survival blankets where heat retention is critical Mylar |
#9040, aired 2024-02-16 | OH, "MY" WORD! $1600: It's the muscular center layer of your heart wall, & you don't want it infarcted the myocardium |
#9040, aired 2024-02-16 | CANADIAN GEOGRAPHY $2000: The world's largest freshwater archipelago, Ontario's Georgian Bay Islands are found in this Great Lake Huron |
#9040, aired 2024-02-16 | OH, "MY" WORD! $2000: According to legend, this prehistoric Greek city was Agamemnon's capital Mycenae |
#9040, aired 2024-02-16 | MYTHOLOGY $2000: He was just a shepherd when he was asked to judge which of 3 goddesses was the most beautiful Paris |
#9037, aired 2024-02-13 | OH, THE PLACES YOU "CAN" GO! $200: It's a 100-mile-long peninsula on the east coast of Florida, or a cape that's a small part of it Canaveral |
#9037, aired 2024-02-13 | OH, THE PLACES YOU "CAN" GO! $400: A causeway links the Zona Hotelera to the Mexican city of this name Cancun |
#9037, aired 2024-02-13 | OH, THE PLACES YOU "CAN" GO! $600: Named for a German travel guide, the "Baedeker raids" were bombing attacks on historic British sites like this cathedral city Canterbury |
#9037, aired 2024-02-13 | OH, THE PLACES YOU "CAN" GO! $1,000 (Daily Double): "The accent is on the 'Can"', said the woman announcing the name of this newly chosen, yet-to-be-built capital in 1913 Canberra |
#9037, aired 2024-02-13 | OH, THE PLACES YOU "CAN" GO! $1000: This national monument in Arizona preserves hundreds of pre-Columbian cliff dwellings Canyon de Chelly |
#9033, aired 2024-02-07 | WHAT DO YOU COLLECT? $400: In "Diner", Daniel Stern plays an avid collector of these; when wife Ellen Barkin says, "Who cares" what's on the flip side?, uh-oh LPs (records) |
#9032, aired 2024-02-06 | IT'S A BIRD! IT'S A PLANE! $4,000 (Daily Double): During World War II, one job of the Howard DGA-15 was as a Navy air ambulance with this bird name that's associated with nursing Nightingale |
#9029, aired 2024-02-01 | 2-LETTER WORDS $1200: An exclamation, or an actress who has played a doctor & an MI6 agent on TV Oh |
#9029, aired 2024-02-01 | CANADIANS INVADE OUR LIVING ROOM! $2000: The CBC launched the careers of stars like this "Bonanza" actor, known as the "Voice of Doom" on CBC Radio Lorne Greene |
#9028, aired 2024-01-31 | SILENT H $400: This exclamation of frustration by Homer Simpson was inspired by utterances of actor James Finlayson in Laurel & Hardy films D'oh! |
#9028, aired 2024-01-31 | SILENT H $600: It can be submission to one of superior rank or a song written in imitation of an admired artist homage |
#9027, aired 2024-01-30 | 4-LETTER INTERJECTIONS $600: This hyphenated term is paired with SpaghettiOs in an ad Uh-oh! |
#9027, aired 2024-01-30 | 4-LETTER INTERJECTIONS $1000: The fictional dimwitted English gentleman Bertie Wooster uses this interjection, an alteration of "Oh God!" Egad! |
#9027, aired 2024-01-30 | ENGINEERING $1600: Your degree isn't just on paper--oh yes it is, from this Atlanta school's former paper engineering program Georgia Tech |
#9026, aired 2024-01-29 | WOMEN IN SPORTS $400: In 2019 FIFA named her Women's Player of the Year; in 2020 she proposed to girlfriend Sue Bird Megan Rapinoe |
#9026, aired 2024-01-29 | THE COUNTRY THAT BORDERS BOTH $400: Turkey &
Bulgaria Greece |
#9025, aired 2024-01-26 | SILENT-CONSONANT WORDS $7,000 (Daily Double): Relevant or suitable, it comes from a French phrase meaning "to the purpose" àpropos |
#9024, aired 2024-01-25 | BACKWORDS & FOREWORDS $800: A division of a hospital & to pull back a bow string draw & ward (ward & draw) |
#9023, aired 2024-01-24 | THE ERRORS TOUR $600: Thank you on behalf of this group, but the 15 songs they cut on Jan. 1, 1962 in London did not pass Decca Records' audition... D'oh! The Beatles |
#26, aired 2024-01-23 | PEAK TV $200: Due to a mix-up, the giant robot doll from this South Korean series was briefly displayed in front of a museum Squid Game |
#26, aired 2024-01-23 | OZZY OSBOURNE'S FAVORITE SONGS $300: Said to be inspired by Judy Garland, this Elton John hit is actually about giving up the fast lane for a quieter life "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" |
#26, aired 2024-01-23 | ADVANCED CINEMATOGRAPHY $400 (Daily Double): Erik Messerschmidt shot the film "Mank" primarily in deep focus as a nod to this Orson Welles opus that pioneered the technique Citizen Kane |
#26, aired 2024-01-23 | WACKY FAD OBITUARIES $600: Funeral services for this line dance will be held on the nearest cruise ship, featuring a special performance by Los del Rio the "Macarena" |
#9020, aired 2024-01-19 | BRITISH TV $800: From this sitcom created in 1992:
Eddy: "Sweetie, what are you drinking?"
Patsy: "Oh this? Chanel No. 5" Absolutely Fabulous |
#9020, aired 2024-01-19 | AGRICULTURE $2000: This former governor of Iowa served 8 years as Obama's Secretary of Agriculture & now has the same position under Biden Tom Vilsack |
#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 |
#9017, aired 2024-01-16 | 1980s PRO WRESTLING $800: Randy Savage went by this nickname, also the first Top 40 hit for the Village People in 1978 "Macho Man" |
#25, aired 2024-01-16 | TREES $300: This Bay Area city has a tree on its official flag (it's the type of tree featured in the city's name) Oakland |
#25, aired 2024-01-16 | TREES $400: Balsa, magnolia or sequoia: it's the tree that becomes the name of another tree when you add an "M" to its end balsa (balsam accepted) |
#25, aired 2024-01-16 | THE FRENCH HORN $2,000 (Daily Double): In one of the least alluring rituals of horn maintenance, players must invert their instruments routinely to drain them of this spit |
#24, aired 2024-01-09 | COUNTRIES THAT START WITH "I" $400: An anagram of "Arabs", Basra is a port city in this country Iraq |
#24, aired 2024-01-09 | ANIMAL IDIOM BRAINTEASERS $600: Don't forget how many other single people are out there in the dating pool:
T.A.P.O.F.I.T.S. there are plenty of fish in the sea |
#24, aired 2024-01-09 | FEMALE FIRSTS $1200: In 2018, she became the first American woman to win a medal in every single event at the World Gymnastics Championships Simone Biles |
#24, aired 2024-01-09 | ON THE PERIODIC TABLE $5,000 (Daily Double): Going in order on the periodic table, uranium and neptunium are followed by this element named for a dwarf planet plutonium |
#9007, aired 2024-01-02 | CHILD PERFORMERS $1600: In this movie child actor Jonathan Lipnicki told Tom Cruise the human head weighs 8 pounds Jerry Maguire |
#23, aired 2024-01-02 | OATHS $200: Though not in the Constitution, these four words are typically spoken at the end of the presidential oath of office so help me God |
#23, aired 2024-01-02 | KNOW YOUR -OLOGIES $1,500 (Daily Double): Geek out if you graduated from MIT where the "T" stands for this Technology |
#9006, aired 2024-01-01 | MISHEARD LYRICS $2000: This Juice Newton plea to a departing lover does not ask, "Just brush my teeth before you leave me, baby" "Just call me angel of the morning" |
#9002, aired 2023-12-26 | HOMOPHONIC PAIRS $200: A beloved moose a dear deer |
#9002, aired 2023-12-26 | FORKS, KNIVES, SPOONS $800: A classic TV commercial showed that this brand of knife could cut through a tin can & still slice a tomato with precision Ginsu |
#8998, aired 2023-12-20 | OH, "IC" $200: It's the term for a 200th anniversary; what's the traditional gift? bicentennial |
#8998, aired 2023-12-20 | OH, "IC" $400: This form of poem might begin, "There once was a man from Kentucky" & get... saucy a limerick |
#8998, aired 2023-12-20 | OH, "IC" $600: It's a difficult situation that leaves you with a tough choice; you've gotten into a fine 11-letter one a predicament |
#8998, aired 2023-12-20 | OH, "IC" $800: You're responding correctly so often, you're "putting on a" this! we're gonna call you Mayo! clinic |
#8998, aired 2023-12-20 | OH, "IC" $1000: Generally speaking, the president appoints this "General" to assist the Attorney General the solicitor general |
#8995, aired 2023-12-15 | FICTIONAL LANGUAGES $800: You can be like Daenerys & actually learn about 4,000 words of this language of Khal Drogo Dothraki |
#8995, aired 2023-12-15 | FLOWERS $3,000 (Daily Double): Oh, the vanity! These flowers represent egotism, as their mythological name indicates narcissus |
#8994, aired 2023-12-14 | IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF HISTORY $1000: Retracing this 1930s journey will take you thousands of miles from Ruijin to Yan'an the Long March |
#8993, aired 2023-12-13 | SCIENCE $400: Ocean sediment may be made up of coccolithophores, these tiny organisms, 6 billion to the square foot algae |
#8993, aired 2023-12-13 | WHO'S THE MRS.? $1200: John Krasinski Emily Blunt |
#8992, aired 2023-12-12 | BLACK MYSTERY & CRIME FICTION $1000: The name of this underworld author of "Mama Black Widow" & "Pimp" inspired the "Ice" part of Ice-T's stage name Iceberg Slim |
#8992, aired 2023-12-12 | McPEOPLE $4,000 (Daily Double): Today an asteroid bears the name of this New Hampshire teacher Christa McAuliffe |
#8991, aired 2023-12-11 | ARTS $800: Mozart's Serenade No. 13 in G major has this nickname that includes the time of day it was intended for "A Little Night Music" |
#8990, aired 2023-12-08 | CLASSIC MOVIE ORIGINAL DIALOGUE? $800: "Oh, geez... George, it turns out Bedford Falls would be better off if you'd never been born. Now... this is awkward" It's a Wonderful Life |
#8989, aired 2023-12-07 | DURING LOU GEHRIG'S CONSECUTIVE GAME STREAK $400: This man came & went in the highest office in the land Hoover |
#22, aired 2023-12-06 | "OO"! "OO"! I KNOW! $200: This animal sound is sung several times in the children's song "Good Morning Mr. Rooster" cock-a-doodle-doo |
#22, aired 2023-12-06 | "OO"! "OO"! I KNOW! $400: It's the type of publication Irma Rombauer, Julia Child & Edna Lewis are famous for writing a cookbook |
#22, aired 2023-12-06 | LITERARY TOURISM $600 (Daily Double): Scotland's remote island of Jura is famous for 2 things: a whisky distillery & the farmhouse where George Orwell wrote this classic 1984 |
#22, aired 2023-12-06 | "OO"! "OO"! I KNOW! $600: Kevin Bacon once said that when he attends a wedding, he bribes the DJ to not play this song from a 1984 movie he starred in "Footloose" |
#22, aired 2023-12-06 | "OO"! "OO"! I KNOW! $800: Dolls & amulets are among the items sold at a New Orleans store called "Reverend Zombie's House of" this religion Voodoo |
#22, aired 2023-12-06 | "OO"! "OO"! I KNOW! $1000: Typically played on the piano, this musical style with a rhyming name was popularized in Chicago honky-tonks in the 1920s boogie-woogie |
#8983, aired 2023-11-29 | BEN FRANKLIN'S DRINKER'S DICTIONARY $1200: "He sees" these (Ben probably didn't mean Walter Payton & Dick Butkus) bears |
#21, aired 2023-11-29 | RULES OF THE GAME $100: If you touch the metal edge of the cavity, you'll set off the buzzer & make Sam's nose light up! Operation |
#21, aired 2023-11-29 | FILMS TURNING THE BIG FOUR-OH $100: Al Pacino permanently damaged his nasal passages from snorting so much fake cocaine in this crime drama Scarface |
#21, aired 2023-11-29 | FILMS TURNING THE BIG FOUR-OH $200: Three Stephen King novels made it to the big screen in 1983: "The Dead Zone", "Christine", & this film about a rabid St. Bernard Cujo |
#21, aired 2023-11-29 | FAR OUT $300: Ancient Egyptians called this planet "Her Desher", meaning, "the red one" Mars |
#21, aired 2023-11-29 | FILMS TURNING THE BIG FOUR-OH $300: In "A Christmas Story", Ralphie says the "Queen Mother of dirty words" but this other "F" word is swapped in to keep it clean fudge |
#21, aired 2023-11-29 | FILMS TURNING THE BIG FOUR-OH $400: Thanks to the Griswolds' pea-green Family Truckster, sales of these plummeted after the release of "Vacation" a station wagon |
#21, aired 2023-11-29 | THIS DAY IN WORLD HISTORY $400: November 17, 1869:
After ten years of grueling construction, this country officially opens the Suez Canal Egypt |
#21, aired 2023-11-29 | FILMS TURNING THE BIG FOUR-OH $500: Meryl Streep & Nora Ephron first worked together on this film about a nuclear facility whistleblower Silkwood |
#21, aired 2023-11-29 | WHISTLING HALL OF FAME $2,000 (Daily Double): Along with "wastin' time", add whistling to the list of things Otis Redding was doing in a 1968 hit about "Sittin"' here "On The Dock Of The Bay" |
#8981, aired 2023-11-27 | THE 23rd PSALM $200: They're the first 5 words of the Psalm The Lord is my shepherd |
#8981, aired 2023-11-27 | TRIPLE RHYME TIME $2000: Weighty Camaro tax a heavy Chevy levy |
#8978, aired 2023-11-22 | "B"OOKS $1,000 (Daily Double): The title of this bestseller by Ann Patchett refers to a smooth style of opera singing bel canto |
#8977, aired 2023-11-21 | INTERNATIONAL CINEMA SHOWCASE $1200: Bérénice Bejo played 1920s actress Peppy Miller in this 2011 multi-Oscar winner from France The Artist |
#8977, aired 2023-11-21 | TEACHING $4,000 (Daily Double): This term for a list of items to be covered in a course is from the Greek for "parchment label" a syllabus |
#8974, aired 2023-11-16 | ROBIN WILLIAMS MOVIE QUOTES $4,400 (Daily Double): "Look at me, son. It's not your fault" Good Will Hunting |
#20, aired 2023-11-15 | SCIENCE MUSEUMS $1000: Hey, fulcrum lovers! At Columbus, Ohio's Center of Science & Industry, kids can lift a 2,437-lb. car using this bar a lever |
#20, aired 2023-11-15 | SCIENCE MUSEUMS $2,000 (Daily Double): Behind thick glass in the Gems & Minerals Hall of the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, Tom's Baby is an 8-lb nugget of this gold |
#8972, aired 2023-11-14 | OF "STAR"s $1600: In 1985 this Jefferson-less Grace Slick group had a No. 1 hit with "We Built This City" Starship |
#8971, aired 2023-11-13 | DESCRIBING THE ARTWORK $400: God, aided by cherubim, reaches out to this bored-looking guy; oh yeah, it's on a ceiling Adam |
#8968, aired 2023-11-08 | MORE THAN ONE MEANING $1600: Polite & friendly, or maybe an amaretto cordial |
#8964, aired 2023-11-02 | CLIFFS NOTES: DRAMA $400: Willy: "I'm tired."
Howard: "Oh yeah? You're fired" Death of a Salesman |
#8964, aired 2023-11-02 | WOOD $1000: In German, this Strauss waltz is known as "Geschichten aus dem Wienerwald" "Tales From The Vienna Woods" |
#19, aired 2023-11-01 | ICONIC MAN-PERMS $100: This beloved painter started perming his hair in the '80s to save money on happy little haircuts (Bob) Ross |
#19, aired 2023-11-01 | CONSTITUTIONAL MATTERS $100: Fittingly, this number of the amendment that repealed prohibition is also the legal drinking age in the U.S. the 21st Amendment |
#19, aired 2023-11-01 | MARRIAGE STORY $200: 1946:
"Julia McWilliams! What's cookin'?"
"I just got married"
"Tasty! To whom?"
"His last name is" this Child |
#19, aired 2023-11-01 | MARRIAGE STORY $300: 1932:
"Rosa McCauley! Any activism today?"
"I just got married"
"Do I know him?"
"His last name is" this Parks |
#19, aired 2023-11-01 | MARRIAGE STORY $400: 1985:
"Phylicia Ayers-Allen!
How's TV?"
"I just got married"
"Who's the groom?"
"His last name is" this Rashad |
#19, aired 2023-11-01 | BEST PICTURE WINNERS IN A NUTSHELL $500 (Daily Double): 1978:
Lifelong friends from a Pennsylvania steel town deal with the devastating effects of the Vietnam War The Deer Hunter |
#19, aired 2023-11-01 | CONSTITUTIONAL MATTERS $500: In 1790, this smallest of the 13 original colonies became the last to ratify the Constitution Rhode Island |
#19, aired 2023-11-01 | BEST PICTURE WINNERS IN A NUTSHELL $600: 2020:
After losing everything, a van-dwelling woman travels the American West looking for work Nomadland |
#19, aired 2023-11-01 | HAIL TO THE CHEF $1,100 (Daily Double): A distillery at this historic Virginia estate makes whiskey based on George Washington's own recipe Mount Vernon |
#19, aired 2023-11-01 | COMPOSER PLAYLISTS $3,000 (Daily Double): "Treemonisha";
"Maple Leaf Rag";
"The Ragtime Dance";
"The Entertainer" Scott Joplin |
#8961, aired 2023-10-30 | NON-NAUGHTY WORDS $400: Oh, this! Rising 770 feet on the Feather River, Oroville is the highest one in the United States dam |
#8961, aired 2023-10-30 | TRIANGLES $1000: In 1911 a devastating fire at this company's factory in New York City killed 146 garment workers the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory |
#8961, aired 2023-10-30 | ACCENTÉ $1600: This accented word follows "actor" & "artist" to mean failure in those dreams manqué |
#8958, aired 2023-10-25 | BETTER ASK FOR DIRECTIONS $200: Tropical cyclones in the southern hemisphere rotate in this timely direction clockwise |
#18, aired 2023-10-25 | NAME DROPPERS $100: Time to make the... oh, never mind. This chain officially dropped "Donuts" from its name in 2019 Dunkin' |
#18, aired 2023-10-25 | OH, BROTHER! $200: Adam and Eve's first two sons; you may have heard they had a falling out Cain & Abel |
#18, aired 2023-10-25 | FUNGUS AMONG US $300: Some fungi form umbrella-shaped "fruiting bodies" that hold fungal reproductive spores; stir-fry enthusiasts know them as these mushrooms |
#18, aired 2023-10-25 | NAME DROPPERS $400: Partly to distance themselves from J.K. Rowling, athletes are now replacing this name for their sport with "quadball" quidditch |
#18, aired 2023-10-25 | FIX THE MOVIE QUOTE $400: Judy Garland:
"Lions and tigers and Labradoodles, oh my!" bears |
#18, aired 2023-10-25 | OH, BROTHER! $400: Famously feuding brothers Noel and Liam Gallagher don't look back in anger at 1991, the year they formed this band Oasis |
#18, aired 2023-10-25 | PRIDE & POTUS $500: This POTUS joined the Republican Unity Coalition, a gay rights organization, roughly 25 years after leaving the White House Gerald Ford |
#18, aired 2023-10-25 | THE NOBEL PRIZE $600: The youngest-ever Nobel Prize winner is also a best-selling author, for her 2013 memoir titled "I Am" this Malala |
#18, aired 2023-10-25 | OH, BROTHER! $600: One of the great actors of his era, Edwin Booth's fame was eclipsed by his younger brother, this infamous assassin John Wilkes Booth |
#18, aired 2023-10-25 | OLD POP MUSIC HAD SOME VOWELS: E-I-E-I-O $600: It's the former boy band of Harry Styles
_ _ E / _ I _ E _ _ I O _ One Direction |
#18, aired 2023-10-25 | OH, BROTHER! $800: This Safdie Brothers film was inspired by stories their father told them about working in New York City's Diamond District Uncut Gems |
#18, aired 2023-10-25 | OH, BROTHER! $1000: These NFL siblings made history in 2023 by becoming the first brothers to compete against each other in the Super Bowl the Kelce brothers (Jason & Travis Kelce) |
#18, aired 2023-10-25 | THE NOBEL PRIZE $2,000 (Daily Double): The Peace Prize is the only Nobel Prize awarded not in Stockholm, but in this fjord-tastic neighboring capital Oslo |
#17, aired 2023-10-18 | HISTORICAL MARKERS $100: Located in Kokomo, Indiana, "Haynes' Horseless Carriage" is on the spot where Elwood Haynes first tested one of these in 1894 automobile |
#17, aired 2023-10-18 | OTHER WORDS FOR DOIN' IT $200: In a simpler time, this phrase meant "hang out & watch a movie"; it's evolved to mean "hang out, watch a movie &... you know" Netflix & chill |
#17, aired 2023-10-18 | BOARD GAMES $500: In Monopoly, Boardwalk is in the same color group as this alliterative property Park Place |
#8952, aired 2023-10-17 | DUST TO DUST $1000: In "King Lear", Albany tells her, "You are not worth the dust which the rude wind blows in your face" Goneril |
#8951, aired 2023-10-16 | THE LITERARY CHARACTER WHO SAID... $3,200 (Daily Double): "What did it matter where you lay once you were dead?... You were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that" Philip Marlowe |
#8950, aired 2023-10-13 | LIKE A ROCK $600: In earlier days, this pro-am golf tournament on California's Monterey peninsula was called the Crosby Clambake Pebble Beach |
#8949, aired 2023-10-12 | GOT MILK? $600: Commercial cow's milk is commonly enriched with these 2 vitamins A & D |
#16, aired 2023-10-11 | FRENCH HISTORY $0: Drink up! A famous New Orleans street is named after this dynasty that ruled France for most of the 17th & 18th centuries Bourbon |
#16, aired 2023-10-11 | OH, THAT'S RICH $100: Chef Jamie Oliver's website says that if you use lamb instead of beef for cottage pie, it should go by this occupational name shepherd's pie |
#16, aired 2023-10-11 | OH, THAT'S RICH $200: Intoxicated West Point cadets started a riot on Christmas Eve, 1826 named for this seasonal treat which they clearly spiked egg nog |
#16, aired 2023-10-11 | OH, THAT'S RICH $300: One signature of Detroit-style pizza is that instead of mozzarella, it uses brick cheese from this dairy state Wisconsin |
#16, aired 2023-10-11 | FICTIONAL TV TOWNS $400: Sunnydale, California (FYI, the local high school sits on top of a portal to a demonic dimension) Buffy the Vampire Slayer |
#16, aired 2023-10-11 | OH, THAT'S RICH $400: To make a Black Forest cake you'll need chocolate, whipped cream and these fruits pitted cherries |
#16, aired 2023-10-11 | OH, THAT'S RICH $500: Appropriately, the name of this dish consisting of French fries, cheese curds & gravy is also slang for "mess" in Québec poutine |
#16, aired 2023-10-11 | FICTIONAL TV TOWNS $800: Capeside, Massachusetts (a small town with a big teen angst problem) Dawson's Creek |
#16, aired 2023-10-11 | FASHION FOR ALL $900: Because clasps in the back can be painful to reach, Liberare is a brand that sells front-opening types of this undergarment a bra (brassiere) |
#16, aired 2023-10-11 | PEW! PEW! PEW! $3,000 (Daily Double): Derived from the French word for "flea", it's a dark shade of red similar to burnt sienna puce |
#8946, aired 2023-10-09 | CANDLE IN THE WIND $5,000 (Daily Double): From Latin for "barely connected", this solid white substance is water-insoluble & can precede "oil" paraffin |
#8945, aired 2023-10-06 | PICK A NUMBER BETWEEN 5 & 477 $600: Oh, craps! On the first dice roll I threw boxcars, this number 12 |
#8944, aired 2023-10-05 | I DON'T GIVE A... $1000: Unit of weight; it's equal to 3.89 grams a dram |
#15, aired 2023-10-04 | NO CAP $600: It's a domesticated woolly relative of the camel
_ L _ _ _ _ alpaca |
#15, aired 2023-10-04 | NAME GAME $1000: 16th century queen of Scotland + last name = this actress who plays Joon in 1993's "Benny & Joon" Mary Stuart Masterson |
#15, aired 2023-10-04 | ESTATE PLANNING $1,200 (Daily Double): In law, it's one party managing another's property for the benefit of a third; in life, some say it's the key to a good relationship trust |
#15, aired 2023-10-04 | BYGONE TECH $3,000 (Daily Double): Fuel injection has replaced this engine part whose name begins with a synonym for automobile carburetor |
#8940, aired 2023-09-29 | FACTS ABOUT THE BEST PICTURE WINNER $7,200 (Daily Double): Doug Jones said the latex rubber suit he wore in this film acted "as a sponge" The Shape of Water |
#8939, aired 2023-09-28 | NATURAL BIOLOGY $400: It's often a warning when this tuft or plume on a cockatoo's head stands up a crest (a comb) |
#8938, aired 2023-09-27 | A SOVIET UNION $1000: After the Communists came into power in 1917, this party of theirs ratified a "code of marriage, the family and guardianship" the Bolsheviks (Reds) |
#14, aired 2023-09-27 | ANTS $100: Ants inhabit every continent except this one (whose first syllable, ironically, is "ant") Antarctica |
#14, aired 2023-09-27 | CHICKEN FIVE WAYS $200: Said to have been invented in Glasgow in the 1970s, this spiced Indian curry is often called a national dish of Britain chicken tikka masala |
#14, aired 2023-09-27 | OH, THE IRONY! $300: "Tall" is actually among the shorter group of cup sizes at this national coffee chain Starbucks |
#14, aired 2023-09-27 | ANTS $300: If you can't make it to the Houston Zoo, check out these types of ants on the zoo's live webcam leaf cutter ants |
#14, aired 2023-09-27 | MEDITATION $400: "The Atlantic" described this 4-letter meditation app as "one of the most popular apps in existence, full stop" Calm |
#14, aired 2023-09-27 | OH, THE IRONY! $600: Even though it anagrams to "vote loser", it's the surname of two men who were elected U.S. president Roosevelt |
#14, aired 2023-09-27 | OH, THE IRONY! $1200: Dimes and quarters are 91.67% copper and, ironically, 8.33% this nickel |
#14, aired 2023-09-27 | OH, THE IRONY! $1500: Even though his first name ends with "war", this president of Egypt won a Nobel Peace Prize in 1978 Anwar Sadat |
#14, aired 2023-09-27 | OH, THE IRONY! $2,000 (Daily Double): Though it's said to "gather no moss", this magazine featured Elisabeth Moss on its cover in 2010 Rolling Stone |
#8936, aired 2023-09-25 | SHAKESPEARE -LOGUES ON $1000: "When I did him at this advantage take, an ass's noll I fixed on his head" Puck |
#8935, aired 2023-09-22 | SCHOOL RHYME TIME $1000: A comparative chart of all the school's employees a staff graph |
#8933, aired 2023-09-20 | THE REAL (WHITE HOUSE) WIVES OF D.C. $1200: She met the future president in 1938 when they both tried out for a local play in Whittier, California Pat Nixon |
#8932, aired 2023-09-19 | MAILED IT! $5,000 (Daily Double): RFD, short for this, began in 1896; previously, about 65% of Americans lived in the "R" area & had to pick up mail at the P.O. Rural Free Delivery |
#8922, aired 2023-07-25 | SOMEBODY WROTE THAT $4,000 (Daily Double): "I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me" Ralph Ellison |
#8913, aired 2023-07-12 | STATE INSECTS $1,000 (Daily Double): This industrious insect important to agriculture was chosen by Nebraska & Missouri a honeybee |
#8911, aired 2023-07-10 | INTERNATIONAL SUPERMODELS $1000: She wrote that she is eternally grateful for late fellow German Karl Lagerfeld Claudia Schiffer |
#8911, aired 2023-07-10 | STITCH INCOMING $1600: Uh oh! You have a weakness in your abdominal wall in your groin area... you'll need surgery to fix an inguinal one of these a hernia |
#8908, aired 2023-07-05 | WORLD OF FOOD $200: This name for a pizza turnover comes from the Italian for "pant leg" calzone |
#8908, aired 2023-07-05 | U.S. CITY OF THE BOOK $201 (Daily Double): "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil":
Go South! Savannah, Georgia |
#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 |
#8907, aired 2023-07-04 | WHERE'S MY FOOD? $1,500 (Daily Double): This dessert of sponge cake, ice cream & meringue that's finished in the oven was created to honor an 1867 land purchase a baked Alaska |
#8901, aired 2023-06-26 | UNITED KINGDOM ELECTION CONSTITUENCIES $1,600 (Daily Double): Bordering Dover & Folkestone & Hythe, this district on England's east coast has a few ancient "Tales" to tell Canterbury |
#8899, aired 2023-06-22 | WRITING ON THE WALLS $2,500 (Daily Double): Alistair Moffat's nonfiction book on this structure is called "Rome's Greatest Frontier" Hadrian's Wall |
#8894, aired 2023-06-15 | DATING/APPS $600: I'm vegan & you ordered this app of dough-wrapped & baked cocktail sausages? Oh wow, look at the time...! pigs in a blanket |
#8894, aired 2023-06-15 | DATING/APPS $1000: Oh, you like to travel? I'd love to visit Myanmar but the closest I've gotten is this geographic cream cheese & crab app crab Rangoon |
#8893, aired 2023-06-14 | A CHORUS LINE $600: "Oh let me be your sledgehammer, this will be my testimony" Peter Gabriel |
#8891, aired 2023-06-12 | BEN & JERRY'S FLAVOR GRAVEYARD $600: A 1980s effort honored a Revolutionary War Vermont hero--not just almond but this first name preceding "Almond" Ethan |
#8887, aired 2023-06-06 | S-LESS, CHAPS $400: To gulp down devours an S & decides to sprawl in a luxurious way swallow & wallow |
#8885, aired 2023-06-02 | YOU HAVE SELECTED REGICIDE $400: This king this king, oh no, he gotta go, said the French National convention in 1793 Louis XVI |
#17, aired 2023-05-23 | OH, WE HAVE '80s POP CULTURE REFERENCES $200: On Nov. 21, 1980 76% of Americans watching television tuned in to finally find out "who shot" this character J.R. |
#17, aired 2023-05-23 | OH, WE HAVE '80s POP CULTURE REFERENCES $400: On "SNL", it was too hot in the hot tub for this performer as James Brown; he also let us know, "I'm Gumby, dammit!" Eddie Murphy |
#17, aired 2023-05-23 | OH, WE HAVE '80s POP CULTURE REFERENCES $600: As Roger Murtaugh in this 1987 film, Danny Glover got a catchphrase--"I'm too old for this (stuff)" (but Danny didn't say "stuff") Lethal Weapon |
#17, aired 2023-05-23 | OH, WE HAVE '80s POP CULTURE REFERENCES $800: In a 1984 Wendy's ad Clara Peller was not a fan of big buns, hon & asked this 3-word question; now you will, too Where's the beef? |
#17, aired 2023-05-23 | OH, WE HAVE '80s POP CULTURE REFERENCES $1000: Seen here is the quintessentially 80s haircut of this New Wave band, who had a hit with "Space Age Love Song" A Flock of Seagulls |
#8874, aired 2023-05-18 | REPEATS ITSELF $800 (Daily Double): In an Ian Fleming tale, the title vehicle makes these 4 sounds after it is started for the first time chitty chitty bang bang |
#14, aired 2023-05-17 | WORD ORIGINS $8,000 (Daily Double): Greek for "forgetting" gives us the name of Hades' river of forgetfulness & this adjective meaning "sluggish" lethargic |
#8872, aired 2023-05-16 | POP METAL BANDS $800: "Oh! Look what you've done to this rock 'n' roll clown! O-oh! Look what you've done! Photograph... I don't want your..." Def Leppard |
#10, aired 2023-05-15 | MY MISSED CAREER, SUBSTITUTE TEACHER $200: Let's take roll... A.A. Ron...? Oh, just like this composer of 1957's "Piano Fantasy" Copland |
#10, aired 2023-05-15 | ARCHAEOLOGY $800: Wooden furniture & a loaf of bread in an oven have been found preserved in this city 10 miles northwest of Pompeii Herculaneum |
#10, aired 2023-05-15 | 3-WORD PLACE NAMES $1600: This spot northwest of Philly got its name from a tavern named for Frederick II King of Prussia |
#9, aired 2023-05-15 | AND THE OSCAR WENT TO... $1600: In 1937 an honorary Oscar was named for this MGM "boy wonder" who died young, & oh--the building named for him is not far (Irving G.) Thalberg |
#9, aired 2023-05-15 | LET'S GO ON A SAFARI $11,800 (Daily Double): A unique way to see wildlife in the Mosi-oa-Tunya National Park is to take a sunset cruise on this river above Victoria Falls Zambezi |
#8870, aired 2023-05-12 | A BIRTHDAY TO REMEMBER $600: In 2022 the TV industry celebrated the 100th birthday of this creative legend & the 50th of his show "Maude" Norman Lear |
#8, aired 2023-05-12 | GAMES, OLD & NEW $1200: Around 1870 the Tenth Hussars faced the Ninth Lancers in this game that's been around for 2,000 years or so polo |
#8, aired 2023-05-12 | TV TITLE REFERENCES $9,600 (Daily Double): Slang meaning undergoing the terrible agony of withdrawal from opiates like Oxycontin dopesick |
#7, aired 2023-05-12 | JOHNNY GILBERT'S MUSICAL THEATER AUDITION $800: "Oh, wouldn't it be loverly? Oh, so loverly sittin' absobloominlutely still/ I would never budge till spring crept over me winder sill" My Fair Lady |
#4, aired 2023-05-09 | RHYMINGLY NAMED CELEBS $400: In 1997 he was up for a Grammy, made a cameo in "Good Burger" & ended the season shooting 48% from the free throw line Shaquille O'Neal (Shaq accepted) |
#4, aired 2023-05-09 | OVERWROUGHT HISTORY $800: July 28, 1794: Hold up, he dominated the Committee of Public Safety! Guillotine?! You just can't do that to this guy! Oh... I guess you can Robespierre |
#3, aired 2023-05-09 | ____ OF THE ____ $1200: In the Bible, Pharaoh says Joseph's family may come & eat of this, what Lennie longs for in "Of Mice & Men" the fat of the land |
#2, aired 2023-05-08 | SING YOU A COUNTRY SONG $400: He sang, "I'm not big on social graces, think I'll slip on down to the oasis, oh, I've got friends in low places" Garth Brooks |
#2, aired 2023-05-08 | SING YOU A COUNTRY SONG $600: State the name of this band who did "Mountain Music", "Old Flame" & "My Home's In..."--oh wait, we almost said too much Alabama |
#2, aired 2023-05-08 | COMIN' TO YOUR CITY $600: So much history in this city! The 16th century Red Fort, the Jami Masjid, or Friday Mosque, & oh yeah... the Taj Mahal Agra |
#2, aired 2023-05-08 | SAME FIRST & LAST LETTER $1600: This verb can mean to weaken or disembowel, figuratively & literally eviscerate (or gutting) |
#1, aired 2023-05-08 | A TRIP TO ASIA $1600: Oh, man! As you can see, the Mohammed Al Ameen Mosque is breathtaking in this capital city on the Gulf of Oman Muscat |
#8865, aired 2023-05-05 | "OH", YES! $400: Keep your mask on, the sign here is a warning of this 9-letter threat biohazard |
#8865, aired 2023-05-05 | "OH", YES! $800: This leading seaport & industrial center is found on the western shore of Tokyo Bay Yokohama |
#8865, aired 2023-05-05 | "OH", YES! $1600: Also called turnip cabbage, this member of the mustard family has a thick stem eaten like a vegetable kohlrabi |
#8865, aired 2023-05-05 | "OH", YES! $2000: Now extinct, this earliest horse was a dog-sized ancestor that lived in North America 50 million years ago the eohippus |
#8865, aired 2023-05-05 | "OH", YES! $3,000 (Daily Double): In physics it's the intermolecular force that holds together a liquid or solid cohesion |
#8861, aired 2023-05-01 | HI, TV NEIGHBOR $1200: Winnie Cooper The Wonder Years |
#8860, aired 2023-04-28 | A REAL BODY BUSY $800: Keepin' busy, this soft, fatty tissue inside your bones makes platelets & oh yeah, billions of new blood cells daily bone marrow |
#8860, aired 2023-04-28 | LITERARY LIONS $2000: In this poet's "The Second Coming", "a shape with lion body and the head of a man... slouches towards Bethlehem to be born" Yeats |
#8857, aired 2023-04-25 | LET'S SEE A MO-"V" $800: Like, oh my god, Deborah Foreman & Nicolas Cage are totally star-crossed lovers in this iconic '80s flick Valley Girl |
#8857, aired 2023-04-25 | BAR LINES $1000: Did anyone ever tell you your eyes are--oh, I'm dripping with this trendy "spritz" made with an Italian aperitif invented in 1919 Aperol |
#8856, aired 2023-04-24 | SYNONYMS & ANTONYMS $400: Indoors? I'd prefer the opposite & dine this 2-word way, a borrowing from Italian... oo, Italian sounds good, let's do that al fresco |
#8856, aired 2023-04-24 | BEATLES "S"ONGS $600: "With a love like that you know you should be glad" "She Loves You" |
#8850, aired 2023-04-14 | NEW YORK NICKS $800: This funny man starred on Broadway with John Mulaney as old New Yorkers in "Oh, Hello" Nick Kroll |
#8845, aired 2023-04-07 | POP CULTURE $800: Edie Falco thought a 2022 sequel to this 2009 film had flopped, having shot it 4 years prior & not realizing it had never been released Avatar |
#8845, aired 2023-04-07 | DE-COMPOSING $1,000 (Daily Double): On March 25, 1918 the sun set on this "Moonlight" composer in Paris (Claude) Debussy |
#8842, aired 2023-04-04 | THE WORLD OF MIDDLE-EARTH $400: This creepy guy calls the ring of power his "precious" Sméagol (Gollum) |
#8841, aired 2023-04-03 | COMMON BOND CUISINE $1200: Oyster,
morel,
chanterelle mushrooms |
#8841, aired 2023-04-03 | ROCKS & MINERALS $2,000 (Daily Double): In 2019 a giant raft of this rock measuring more than 50 square miles was found floating in the Pacific near Tonga pumice |
#8840, aired 2023-03-31 | OH, THE LITERARY PLACES YOU DON'T WANT TO GO! $400: Isla Nublar off Costa Rica sets the scene of this 1990 Michael Crichton novel that bioengineers some terror Jurassic Park |
#8840, aired 2023-03-31 | LAST LINES OF MOVIES $800: 1933:
"Oh, no. It wasn't the airplanes. It was Beauty killed the Beast" King Kong |
#8840, aired 2023-03-31 | OH, THE LITERARY PLACES YOU DON'T WANT TO GO! $800: As in "The Trial", this author uses a protagonist named K. in "The Castle"; a dark city with odd locals keeps K, busy Kafka |
#8840, aired 2023-03-31 | OH, THE LITERARY PLACES YOU DON'T WANT TO GO! $1200: The Sprawl is a rough city with an artificial gray sky in "Mona Lisa Overdrive", a novel from this cyberpunk master Gibson |
#8840, aired 2023-03-31 | OH, THE LITERARY PLACES YOU DON'T WANT TO GO! $1600: In a Dennis Lehane novel, this title place is home to Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane & you may be stuck there Shutter Island |
#8840, aired 2023-03-31 | OH, THE LITERARY PLACES YOU DON'T WANT TO GO! $2000: The idyllic school Hailsham harbors grotesque deeds in "Never Let Me Go" from this Japanese-born author Kazuo Ishiguro |
#8839, aired 2023-03-30 | "EI", OH! $400: The average cup of coffee has about 100 milligrams of it caffeine |
#8839, aired 2023-03-30 | "EI", OH! $1200: The use of this rousing bugle call dates to 1812 in the U.S. military "Reveille" |
#8839, aired 2023-03-30 | "EI", OH! $1600: A coil of yarn, or a group of geese in flight a skein |
#8839, aired 2023-03-30 | "EI", OH! $2,000 (Daily Double): A famous one on a kids' TV show debuted in 1968 & included a scale model trolley a neighborhood |
#8839, aired 2023-03-30 | "EI", OH! $2000: "Second generation" is the literal meaning of this word for American-born kids whose parents emigrated from Japan Nisei |
#8838, aired 2023-03-29 | WRITERS & POETS $200: You want tales? Oh, we got some tales to tell! "The Clerk's", "The Manciple's", "The Reeve's"... all part of this The Canterbury Tales |
#8838, aired 2023-03-29 | Ps OUT! $600: Cut all 3 Ps from a flower of remembrance to get this Yiddish interjection oy (from poppy) |
#8837, aired 2023-03-28 | 3 MEN $200: Formed around 60 B.C., the First Roman Triumvirate was made up of Crassus, Pompey & this guy Julius Caesar |
#8835, aired 2023-03-24 | CHANGE A LETTER $600: The edge of a garment modifies itself into a magical spell hem & hex |
#8828, aired 2023-03-15 | LITERARY VILLAINS $800: In "You Only Live Twice", he says, "The piranhas & the volcanic mud are useful housekeepers" (maybe for "better lairs & gardens") Blofeld |
#8826, aired 2023-03-13 | GOVERNORS $1200: Michael Dukakis was in his third term as governor of this state when he ran for president in 1988 Massachusetts |
#8823, aired 2023-03-08 | FANS OF THE SINGER $1600: BTS has its Army & she has her Navy Rihanna |
#8821, aired 2023-03-06 | "A"DJECTIVES $600: Greater than pH 7, it means capable of neutralizing an acid alkaline |
#8820, aired 2023-03-03 | YOU'RE SUCH AN IDIOM! $400: Oh, boy, you've got a problem now; you did this literally opened up a can of worms |
#8819, aired 2023-03-02 | COURSE DESCRIPTIONS $200: Psych 200:
Analyzing 1901's "The Psychopathology of Everyday Life" by this man; also, how your mom figures in to that, in some way Freud |
#8816, aired 2023-02-27 | BEGINS & ENDS WITH "L" $200: It's the first name of singer Richie & soccer great Messi, though they pronounce it differently Lionel |
#8811, aired 2023-02-20 | A CRASH COURSE IN JOHN GREEN $600: (John Green presents the clue.) With a mission to increase awesome & decrease suck & to champion causes to help others, fans of my brother Hank & I & our VlogBrothers videos are called these from the misreading of the name of a video game Nerdfighters |
#8809, aired 2023-02-16 | WOMEN AUTHORS $2000: This native of Jackson, Mississippi wrote the novel "Delta Wedding" about a southern plantation family Eudora Welty |
#8809, aired 2023-02-16 | SAME FIRST & LAST LETTER GEOGRAPHY $4,000 (Daily Double): Check out Akershus Fortress, begun in 1299, & a major landmark in this world capital Oslo |
#8805, aired 2023-02-10 | AN ENDLESS CATEGORY $5,800 (Daily Double): Continuing indefinitely, or flowers such as daylilies & peonies perennials |
#8804, aired 2023-02-09 | MUSIC FOR SHARKS $600: In this No. 1 hit, Bobby Darin sang, "Oh, the shark, babe, has such teeth, dear & it shows them pearly white" "Mack The Knife" |
#8803, aired 2023-02-08 | COMEDY TIME $1200: 1990s:
David Spade & Chris Farley have a wild encounter with a deer on the road Tommy Boy |
#8802, aired 2023-02-07 | WE'RE HALFWAY THERE $400: Oo, we've got you in this wrestling move, where one arm goes under your foe's & your hand is on the back of their neck a half nelson |
#8802, aired 2023-02-07 | SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY $800: Deuterium is also known as heavy this element hydrogen |
#8802, aired 2023-02-07 | THE 20th CENTURY BY COUNTRY $1200: Tommie Smith & John Carlos peacefully demonstrate at the 1968 Summer Olympics Mexico |
#8800, aired 2023-02-03 | THE NATIONAL PARK SYSTEM $1200: An Alabama historic site invites you to journey back to the 1940s & learn about this group of Black military aviators the Tuskegee Airmen (or Red Tails) |
#8799, aired 2023-02-02 | SEVEN HEAVEN $200: Mickey Mantle's No. 7 jersey was retired in an emotional ceremony at this venue in 1969 Yankee Stadium |
#13, aired 2023-02-02 | THOUGHT YOU'D LIKE TO KNOW $400: Oh, baby! In space, with no gravity to keep solid & liquid food down as gas escapes your mouth, you can't do this 4-letter action burp |
#13, aired 2023-02-02 | IT'S ALSO A GREEK LETTER $600: This letter got some bad publicity when it became a COVID variant first detected in South Africa in 2021 omicron |
#8797, aired 2023-01-31 | MEDICAL FOLKS $3,000 (Daily Double): Helen Taussig developed the first treatment for cyanotic infants, this alliterative syndrome blue babies |
#8795, aired 2023-01-27 | I "OU" $400: With 208, Jerry Rice holds the record for total these scored in a career touchdowns |
#8795, aired 2023-01-27 | I "OU" $800: A Manhattan cocktail calls for the sweet type of this, as opposed to the dry type vermouth |
#8795, aired 2023-01-27 | I "OU" $1200: It's a factory where metal is melted & poured into molds & then cooled to create objects a foundry |
#8795, aired 2023-01-27 | I "OU" $1600: This French word originally referred to a bride's clothing, linens & accessories that she gathered before her wedding a trousseau |
#8795, aired 2023-01-27 | I "OU" $2000: Often mistaken for a primate, this arboreal cousin of the raccoon has a name that goes back to Algonquin a kinkajou |
#12, aired 2023-01-26 | 4-LETTER ADJECTIVES $200: Uh-oh, someone left the door this way, partly open ajar |
#12, aired 2023-01-26 | PSYCHOLOGY $400: The American Psychological Assoc. defines these 2 personality types as "inward & self-directed" & "outward & social-directed" introvert & extrovert |
#12, aired 2023-01-26 | ____ & ____ $800: Lunar enthusiasts are partial to this alliterative idiom of 2 verbs that refers to any periodic change in size or strength waxing & waning |
#12, aired 2023-01-26 | A SIGN OF SHAME $3,000 (Daily Double): In this Nathaniel Hawthorne novel, single mom Hester Prynne must wear a red "A" on her dress The Scarlet Letter |
#8785, aired 2023-01-13 | LET'S TALK GALAXIES $1000: These 2 "clouds" are satellite galaxies of the Milky Way Large Magellanic & Small Magellanic |
#8784, aired 2023-01-12 | YOU'RE MY INSPIRATION $600: The Altair 8800 & its creator, Dr. Ed Roberts, inspired these two teenage pals from Seattle who became famous Bill Gates & Paul Allen |
#10, aired 2023-01-12 | I LOVE MY DAD $100: Phil Dunphy, on this sitcom: "I'm the cool dad... I'm hip... I text. LOL, laugh out loud. OMG, oh my God. WTF, why the face" Modern Family |
#10, aired 2023-01-12 | TRIANGLES $600: You need a triangle for this action to set up billiard balls for the break shot racking |
#10, aired 2023-01-12 | THE 20th CENTURY $1000: "Oh, the humanity" when 36 lives were lost as this airship burst into flames while landing in New Jersey the Hindenburg |
#8779, aired 2023-01-05 | TV: WHO PLAYED 'EM? $1200: Dr. Cristina Yang &
Eve Polastri (Sandra) Oh |
#9, aired 2023-01-05 | A TOTAL FRAME JOB $500 (Daily Double): Britannica says this Munch painting "can be seen as a symbol of modern spiritual anguish" but it reminds us of a loud "Home Alone" moment The Scream |
#9, aired 2023-01-05 | BLENDED WORDS $600: Uh-oh, we have a potentially dangerous situation, judging by this type of suit worn here hazmat |
#9, aired 2023-01-05 | FAMOUS WOMEN $600: She was Czechoslovakia's top women's tennis player when she defected to the U.S. in 1975 Martina Navratilova |
#9, aired 2023-01-05 | BOOZY PHRASES $1,500 (Daily Double): This phrase became a meme as the words spoken just before doing a reckless stunt hold my beer and watch this |
#8778, aired 2023-01-04 | OH MY GODS! $400: This grain is part of the kanji that makes up the name of Inari, a Japanese god of that grain often portrayed as a bearded old man rice |
#8778, aired 2023-01-04 | OH MY GODS! $800: The Konark Sun Temple is a representation of one of these vehicles, driven by the Hindu god Surya a chariot |
#8778, aired 2023-01-04 | OH MY GODS! $1600: A magnificent jade head unearthed in 1968 in Belize, is of Kinich Ahau, the sun god of these people the Mayans |
#8778, aired 2023-01-04 | OH MY GODS! $2,000 (Daily Double): This group of early Greek gods includes Hyperion & Phoebe the Titans |
#8778, aired 2023-01-04 | OH MY GODS! $2000: In the Bible, Elijah led the struggle against worship of this Phoenician god that Ahab followed Baal |
#8777, aired 2023-01-03 | SAME FIRST & LAST LETTER $800: An area of land, or a pamphlet a tract |
#8771, aired 2022-12-26 | STAGE MUSICALS BY SONG LYRICS $1200: "Hodel, oh Hodel, have I made a match for you! He's handsome, he's young! Alright, he's 62" Fiddler on the Roof |
#8767, aired 2022-12-20 | "OO", SORRY $400: The Chacma species of this monkey lives in southern Africa baboon |
#8767, aired 2022-12-20 | "OO", SORRY $800: The first electric implement to apply these designs was patented in the U.S. in 1891 tattoos |
#8767, aired 2022-12-20 | DR. SEUSS BAKING CHALLENGE $800: (Tamera Mowry presents the clue.) Travel is the theme in what our teams came up with for this book that says, "You can steer yourself any direction you choose" Oh, the Places You'll Go! |
#8767, aired 2022-12-20 | "OO", SORRY $1200: It's the basketball play seen here an alley-oop |
#8767, aired 2022-12-20 | "OO", SORRY $1600: It's a romantic trip taken by parents-to-be shortly before an infant's birth a babymoon |
#8767, aired 2022-12-20 | "OO", SORRY $2000: A part of the mouth begins this word that means tasty toothsome |
#8766, aired 2022-12-19 | LINE OF FIRE $4,000 (Daily Double): An ode Emerson wrote for this town where he lived includes, "Oh tenderly the haughty day, fills his blue urn with fire" Concord |
#8762, aired 2022-12-13 | YOU GET LETTERS $400: You get an adjacent letter if you don't know it's the 7th letter of the English alphabet G |
#8760, aired 2022-12-09 | PLACES NAMED FOR PEOPLE $1000: Shahr means "city" & after 1979's Iranian revolution, a place was redubbed this last name "Shahr" to honor the new leader Khomeini |
#8760, aired 2022-12-09 | RUSSIAN WRITERS $2000: His 1995 autobiography "Invisible Allies" described his last years in the Soviet Union before he got deported Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn |
#8758, aired 2022-12-07 | COLLEGE FOOTBALL BOWL BIZ $200: "What's in your wallet?" Oh, it's a ticket to the Orange Bowl sponsored by this bank Capital One |
#8758, aired 2022-12-07 | LIFE'S PEAKS & VALLEYS $400: Oh my gods! This 9,600-foot Greek peak is on the border of the regions Macedonia & Thessaly Olympus |
#8756, aired 2022-12-05 | "OO", BOOZE! $200: Bang! Add a few letters to get this other word for a shot of booze like a Kamikaze or a Flaming Dr. Pepper a shooter |
#8756, aired 2022-12-05 | ANIMALS IN BOOKS $200: In the last line of the book, Dorothy says, "and here is" this pup, "too. And oh, Aunt Em! I'm so glad to be at home again!" Toto |
#8756, aired 2022-12-05 | "OO", BOOZE! $400: Merriam-Webster defines it as "intoxicating liquor" & "especially: illegally distilled corn whiskey" moonshine |
#8756, aired 2022-12-05 | "OO", BOOZE! $600: The 1980s had these fizzy drinks, mixing something like Chardonnay & 7UP; today there are hard seltzers wine coolers |
#8756, aired 2022-12-05 | "OO", BOOZE! $800: This premium vodka brand is made from French winter wheat & spring water Grey Goose |
#8756, aired 2022-12-05 | "OO", BOOZE! $1000: This brand of British gin says every batch is made with "labour and patience" Boodles Gin |
#8755, aired 2022-12-02 | FIZZ-ICS $800: FYI, the French pronunciation ends with "wah"; this sparkling water brand founded in Wisconsin, "oy" LaCroix |
#8755, aired 2022-12-02 | THEIR '80s NO. 1 ALBUM $1600: Oh what a feeling, his "Dancing on the Ceiling" (Lionel) Richie |
#8750, aired 2022-11-25 | SELLIN' IT! $1200: In 2014 Arby's launched this slogan we have the meats |
#8746, aired 2022-11-21 | WITH CREAM CHEESE $2000: Turn cream cheese mayonnaise into sauce parisienne by adding this parsley relative, one of the 4 classic fines herbes chervil |
#8741, aired 2022-11-14 | THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE $600: This geographical line runs around the globe at approximately 23 degrees 27 minutes south latitude the Tropic of Capricorn |
#8, aired 2022-11-13 | THE BIBLE $600: There was some serious sibling rivalry with these first 2 sons of Adam & Eve Cain & Abel |
#8740, aired 2022-11-11 | SPANISH WORDS & PHRASES $800: This versatile & filling food is as common in El Salvador as the taco is elsewhere pupusas |
#8740, aired 2022-11-11 | ELEGIES $16,800 (Daily Double): 1855's "Haworth Churchyard" was Matthew Arnold's tribute to these literary sisters, written soon after the last one passed the Brontë sisters |
#8738, aired 2022-11-09 | RIVER RUN $3,000 (Daily Double): Rivers that border Manhattan include the East River & these 2 "H" rivers the Hudson and the Harlem |
#8737, aired 2022-11-08 | NUMBER, PLEASE $400: Normally, the human body contains this number of chromosomal pairs 23 |
#8737, aired 2022-11-08 | HOPE YOU READ MIDDLEMARCH $400: Of a swamp, a cathedral or a town, it's what Middlemarch is a town |
#8737, aired 2022-11-08 | WRONG BUT EXCELLENT $800: We were surprised to get Pierre Laclede as a response instead of this French explorer with a big U.S. lake named for him Champlain |
#8736, aired 2022-11-07 | BRIT BITS $400: At Christopher Wren's suggestion, in the 1670s the ruined Greenwich Castle became the site of a new this, designed by Wren observatory |
#7, aired 2022-11-06 | HISTORY IN COMEDY $300: Did this man really steal from the rich & give to the poor? The 2,000 Year Old Man: no, he stole from everybody & kept everything Robin Hood |
#7, aired 2022-11-06 | SITCOMS $500 (Daily Double): Daniel Stern began narrating this '60s-set show in 1988; Don Cheadle handled the task in the 2021 reboot The Wonder Years |
#7, aired 2022-11-06 | FACTS ABOUT COUNTRIES $4,000 (Daily Double): The Maori were the first inhabitants of this country & today make up about 15% of the population New Zealand |
#8733, aired 2022-11-02 | BAROQUE $600: This 17th century Italian painter & sculptor also wrote comedies & oh yeah, did some Vatican City architecture Bernini |
#8733, aired 2022-11-02 | 5, 5 $600: Rick Nielsen & Robin Zander are members of this band that's been around since the 1970s Cheap Trick |
#8733, aired 2022-11-02 | THE LAW $800: In New Hampshire every pet dog & cat must be vaccinated against this disease at 3 months--oh, & every ferret, too rabies |
#8731, aired 2022-10-31 | THIS CATEGORY IS CONFUSING $1600: Meteorological words for befuddlement include hazy, cloudy & this superlative that often comes before "notion" foggiest |
#6, aired 2022-10-30 | PATRIOT ACT $100: Daniel O'Connell, a patriot of this country, got the British to pass the Catholic Emancipation Act of 1829 Ireland |
#6, aired 2022-10-30 | DIRECTIONAL GEOGRAPHY IN AMERICA $300: Visit Pineapple Fountain & Fort Sumter when you go to Charleston, which, no, is not the capital of this "Original 13" state South Carolina |
#6, aired 2022-10-30 | PATRIOT ACT $300: Italian patriot Garibaldi captured Palermo in 1860 with colorful troops called these, like a college athlete sitting out a year a redshirt |
#6, aired 2022-10-30 | TUNING INTO THE '90s $400: The first thing we hear in this 1992 Sir Mix-a-Lot hit is, "Oh. My. God, Becky, look at her butt" "Baby Got Back" |
#6, aired 2022-10-30 | ANSWER IN THE FORM OF AN ABBREVIATION $400: If you get this degree from Harvard, first given in 1873, you can call yourself doctor but don't try to diagnose me a Ph.D. |
#6, aired 2022-10-30 | PRETTY LITTLE LIES $500: How's this for a flex? You just got back from the gym, & get this, you dead-lifted a ton & a half, this many pounds 3,000 |
#6, aired 2022-10-30 | DIRECTIONAL GEOGRAPHY IN AMERICA $1500: Don't fuggedabout this 16-mile-long body of water separating Brooklyn & Manhattan; Rikers Island is there the East River |
#6, aired 2022-10-30 | HI, FINANCE $7,000 (Daily Double): A chapter no one ever wants to read, this one is often called a "reorganization" bankruptcy, like J.C. Penney in 2020 Chapter 11 |
#5, aired 2022-10-23 | YES, CHEF! $100: Oh come on! If a Pixar rodent can make this eggplant, tomato, onion, bell pepper, zucchini, garlic & herbs dish, you can too! ratatouille |
#5, aired 2022-10-23 | YES, CHEF! $200: I told you to nuke this pasta staple from Campbell's that first hit shelves in 1965 for 2 minutes! Why on earth did you say "Uh-oh"?! SpaghettiOs |
#8723, aired 2022-10-19 | SECOND CHANCE SONGS $800: "Oh, baby, give me one more chance to show you that I love you", this quintet sang in 1969 The Jackson 5 |
#8721, aired 2022-10-17 | ACTORS GET THEIR ROLES MIXED UP $800: Here I am, just a lowly Hobbit from the Shire who finally took the field for Notre Dame; hey! I got a sack Sean Astin |
#4, aired 2022-10-16 | AUTUMN $500: October is the history month for this Asian-American ethnic group that includes Olivia Rodrigo & Jo Koy Filipinos |
#4, aired 2022-10-16 | SHAKESPEARE $1000: After killing the King & the Prince of Wales in "Henry VI, Part 3", this king with body image issues gets his own play King Richard III |
#8719, aired 2022-10-13 | WEIRD SCIENCE $600: Bananas have a tiny amount of radioactivity due to this element, which can emit .01 millirems of radiation potassium |
#8719, aired 2022-10-13 | TUDOR TIMES $5,000 (Daily Double): Alas, my love, it's probably not true that Henry VIII wrote this song, which actually dates from later in the Tudor era "Greensleeves" |
#3, aired 2022-10-09 | WORDS OF LOVE $900: An old song goes, "Oh my" this, "oh my" this, "oh my" this "Clementine" darling |
#8714, aired 2022-10-06 | MUSICAL ALTER EGOS $400: Using this name, Donald Glover let us know, "Oh, if you want it, yeah, you can have it, oh oh oh, if you need it, oo, we can make it" Childish Gambino |
#8712, aired 2022-10-04 | FILMS BY CHARACTERS $1200: Siblings Michael, Gertie & Elliott E.T. |
#8711, aired 2022-10-03 | 20th CENTURY POP MUSIC $200: Kurt Cobain expressed his own apathy with this song's lyric "Oh well, whatever, nevermind" "Smells Like Teen Spirit" |
#2, aired 2022-10-02 | CREATURES GREAT & SMALL $300 (Daily Double): Oddly, opossums are related to kangaroos, as both belong to this group of pouched mammals a marsupial |
#2, aired 2022-10-02 | FRENCH WORDS & PHRASES $400: The "R" in RSVP stands for "repondez", while the last 3 letters stand for this, French for "if you please" s'il vous plait |
#2, aired 2022-10-02 | WHAT HAPPENS IN VEGAS $800: No surprise, the Paris Las Vegas hotel has a 540-foot-tall replica of this landmark the Eiffel Tower (or tour Eiffel) |
#1, aired 2022-09-25 | TELLING A BEDTIME STORY $500: Her cupboard, bare; she found her dog dead, left to buy a coffin, then found the pup laughing... sounds more like Stephen King Old Mother Hubbard |
#1, aired 2022-09-25 | THE SKELETAL SYSTEM $1200: Also called the clavicle, it's a popular but, like all bones, a more painful tattoo site the collarbone |
#8704, aired 2022-09-22 | CHANGE ONE LETTER WORD PAIRS $200: Enjoyment for an ardent sports follower fun & fan (fan fun) |
#8704, aired 2022-09-22 | HUMANS IN SPACE $1600: In 2021 Laura Shepard Churchley, daughter of the first American in space, went up on this colorful co.'s New Shepard Blue Origin |
#8703, aired 2022-09-21 | SHOES! $200: El Paso-based Tony Lama is a legendary maker of these, like the Jinglebob & the Rowel cowboy boots |
#8703, aired 2022-09-21 | EMPERORS $10,000 (Daily Double): 14th century African Emperor Musa I is best remembered for the splendor & wealth exhibited during his 1324 pilgrimage to here Mecca |
#8699, aired 2022-09-15 | SINGERS WHO ACT $2000: This rocker played Jareth, the Goblin King in the 1986 cult classic fantasy "Labyrinth" David Bowie |
#8695, aired 2022-07-29 | MASHED-UP SITCOM TITLES $800: "Will & Greg" Will & Grace & Dharma & Greg |
#8695, aired 2022-07-29 | "C"HARACTER STUDY $3,000 (Daily Double): She's the heroine of "Wuthering Heights" & Alex Trebek loved to imitate Laurence Olivier repeating her name Catherine (Earnshaw) |
#8693, aired 2022-07-27 | ACCEPTABLE 2-LETTER SCRABBLE WORDS $600: George Takei's 2-word catchphrase oh my |
#8690, aired 2022-07-22 | BOOKS OF THE CIVIL WAR ERA $4,000 (Daily Double): In addition to fiction portraying herself & her sisters, she penned "Hospital Sketches" from her time as a Civil War nurse Louisa May Alcott |
#8688, aired 2022-07-20 | THE TITLE THAT COMPLETES THE RHYME $400: "And I'm just like oh-oh oh-oh oh-oh oh-oh oh-oh you need to just stop like can you just not step on my gown?" "You Need To Calm Down" |
#8687, aired 2022-07-19 | SAN DIEGO: NEWS CLUES $600: (Sheena Parveen of NBC 7 in San Diego presents the clue.) In 1986, the San Diego Museum of Arts mounted the first ever retrospective exhibit for this longtime La Jolla resident who had recently been named one of San Diego’s living treasures Dr. Seuss |
#8668, aired 2022-06-22 | ON PLANET POP CULTURE $3,000 (Daily Double): This member of singing royalty said, "Rod Stewart, Elton John & I were going to form a band... called Hair, Nose & Teeth" Freddie Mercury |
#8666, aired 2022-06-20 | SADJECTIVES $1600: U is the only vowel in this 4-letter adjective that means dull or sullen glum |
#8657, aired 2022-06-07 | WAR GODS $800: The Hittite war god Jarri helped the king in battle, but uh oh! was also the god of this contagion plague |
#8656, aired 2022-06-06 | MOVIE TITLES OF A LIFETIME (NETWORK) $800: Oh dear... a college student finds her own way to pay her expensive tuition in "From Straight A's to" this 3-letter movie rating XXX |
#8656, aired 2022-06-06 | NON-MEDICAL DOCTORS $2,000 (Daily Double): Near the Mass. Ave. T stop on the Orange Line is where this man lived in the 1950s getting his theology Ph.D. at Boston University Martin Luther King Jr. |
#8654, aired 2022-06-02 | A SHORT GOODBYE $1600: In English
(or British, really)
T.:
it also has 4 O's toodle-oo |
#8649, aired 2022-05-26 | THE UNITED NATIONS $1,000 (Daily Double): Of the 6 official languages of the U.N., this one is first alphabetically Arabic |
#8647, aired 2022-05-24 | SPORTS SHORTS $600: This Ram runneth over the Bengals' secondary to be MVP of Super Bowl LVI Cooper Kupp |
#8641, aired 2022-05-16 | SKELETON CREW $3,000 (Daily Double): This bone fits into the acetabulum, the cup-shaped cavity of the hip the femur |
#8639, aired 2022-05-12 | THE BILLBOARD MUSIC AWARDS $400: "Straight Up" now name this woman who closed the 2019 show with a greatest hits medley
"Straight up now tell me /
Do you really want to love me forever (oh, oh, oh) /
Or am I caught in a hit-and-run?" (Paula) Abdul |
#8638, aired 2022-05-11 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): These 4 words of advice from newspaper editor Horace Greeley were followed by "and grow up with the country" Go West, young man |
#8636, aired 2022-05-09 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $2,000 (Daily Double): Besides Boston & D.C., they're the 3 largest cities by population in the megalopolis known as the BosWash Corridor New York City, Philadelphia & Baltimore |
#8634, aired 2022-05-05 | IT'S TV MOTHER'S DAY $800: Malory, mom of this title spy: "Who put out a burn notice on Sterling?... but I would never...! Oh, dear God" Archer |
#8634, aired 2022-05-05 | AMERICAN GRAB BAG $1000: Ground that's frozen year round is called this; for research in Alaska, the Army Corps of Engineers built a tunnel in it permafrost |
#8634, aired 2022-05-05 | CROSS THAT BRIDGE $2,000 (Daily Double): You'll have to wait to cross the Forbes Ave. bridge in this city; it collapsed in 2022 just before a presidential visit about infrastructure Pittsburgh |
#8633, aired 2022-05-04 | WORLD CURRENCIES $800: Cyprus & Estonia are 2 in a group of countries that use this currency the euro |
#8632, aired 2022-05-03 | EASY LISTENING $1200: Elvis Presley & Imagine Dragons recorded songs with this 4-word title idiom, oh, well "Easy Come, Easy Go" |
#8630, aired 2022-04-29 | MIDDLE P $4,000 (Daily Double): 2 linked lines of verse a couplet |
#8628, aired 2022-04-27 | THE LEAGUE MVP's TEAM $200: Barry Sanders, who could really "motor" down a football field the Detroit Lions |
#8628, aired 2022-04-27 | MISCELLANY $2000: That's no humpback whale you're hearing--it's the singing dog breed in Papua on the western side of this in Indonesia New Guinea |
#8627, aired 2022-04-26 | ____, ____ & ____ $4,000 (Daily Double): These items were tolled, closed & extinguished in an old Catholic ceremony bell, book & candle |
#8626, aired 2022-04-25 | TO THE "N"s OF THE EARTH $4,000 (Daily Double): 3 of Canada's 4 Atlantic provinces start with "N": Nova Scotia, Newfoundland & Labrador, this one New Brunswick |
#8625, aired 2022-04-22 | WHINE $400: This tormented Shakespeare title character moans, "O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I" the Hamlet |
#8620, aired 2022-04-15 | THESE SONGS REALLY MOVE $2000: The 1993 Breeders song about one of these projectiles makes a "crash" & a "splash" "Cannonball" |
#8618, aired 2022-04-13 | OH ME OF LITTLE FAITH $400: This Amherst woman wrote, "'Faith' is a fine invention / For gentlemen who see! / But microscopes are prudent / In an emergency!" Dickinson |
#8618, aired 2022-04-13 | OH ME OF LITTLE FAITH $800: After an admiral bags on his beliefs, this film villain says, "I find your lack of faith disturbing" & forces the issue Darth Vader |
#8618, aired 2022-04-13 | OH ME OF LITTLE FAITH $1200: This "Derek" star tweeted atheists were fighting again "over who doesn't believe in any god the most... wait... that never happens" Ricky Gervais |
#8618, aired 2022-04-13 | OH ME OF LITTLE FAITH $1600: In 1796 Samuel Miles, an elector for this political party, went "faithless" & voted against John Adams the Federalists |
#8618, aired 2022-04-13 | OH ME OF LITTLE FAITH $2000: 1 of the 2 Brits, a biologist & a political writer, in "The Four Horsemen of Atheism" with Americans Daniel Dennett & Sam Harris (1 of) Christopher Hitchens or Richard Dawkins |
#8616, aired 2022-04-11 | LITERATURE $2,000 (Daily Double): With works like "Redgauntlet" & "Kenilworth", this U.K. author created the historical novel in the 19th century Sir Walter Scott |
#8615, aired 2022-04-08 | WHAT KIND OF PLACE IS THIS? $2,000 (Daily Double): Smaller than it sounds, this Illinois place was designated "Home of Superman" in 1972 Metropolis |
#8601, aired 2022-03-21 | PICTURE/BOOK $1000: A first novel dealing with the Second World War The Naked and the Dead |
#8596, aired 2022-03-14 | LIBRARIES $4,000 (Daily Double): The National Library of Medicine is maintained by the National Institutes of Health in this unincorporated Maryland community Bethesda |
#8595, aired 2022-03-11 | 6-LETTER WORLD CAPITALS $2000: 3 A's are the only vowels in the name of this capital of Eritrea Asmara |
#8594, aired 2022-03-10 | POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY $1600: This monarchal-sounding term means a country's authority to govern itself; China is touchy about violations of its sovereignty |
#8593, aired 2022-03-09 | FURNITURE $800: Oh, my heavens, I am positively swooning, kindly direct me to this appropriately named furniture here, good person a fainting couch |
#8591, aired 2022-03-07 | 3-LETTER INITIALISMS $400: The emoji seen here is commonly used in place of this exclamation of astonishment that actually goes back to the early 1900s OMG (Oh, my God) |
#8589, aired 2022-03-03 | ESPERANTO FILM FESTIVAL $400: "Verda Libro" Green Book |
#8586, aired 2022-02-28 | 2-WORD BOOK TITLES $200: "'Oh no, he isn't grown up', Wendy assured her confidently, 'and he is just my size"'; "he" is also the title of the book Peter Pan |
#8578, aired 2022-02-16 | OUR AVIAN FRIENDS $800: The adjective "pinnate" means having the shape of one of these bird features a feather |
#8577, aired 2022-02-15 | OH, THE THINGS I'VE DONE $200: The very first czar, in 1565 I formed the Oprichnina to deal with traitors as I wished (& my wishes were kinda super-harsh) Ivan the Terrible |
#8577, aired 2022-02-15 | OH, THE THINGS I'VE DONE $400: In 1931 I took an autogiro up to a record 18,415 feet; oh yeah, I wed George Putnam that year too, so y'know... busy Amelia Earhart |
#8577, aired 2022-02-15 | OH, THE THINGS I'VE DONE $600: In June 1791, I tried to escape captivity, fleeing Paris in a regular-guy hat; unfortunately, people tend to recognize the king King Louis XVI |
#8577, aired 2022-02-15 | OH, THE THINGS I'VE DONE $800: Czech-born, in 1997 I was confirmed by the Senate to be Secretary of State, 99-0. Think that'd happen today? Madeleine Albright |
#8577, aired 2022-02-15 | OH, THE THINGS I'VE DONE $1000: Around 342 B.C. I got the call from Philip II of Macedonia to tutor his 13-year-old kid, Al; well, that's just great Aristotle |
#8577, aired 2022-02-15 | IT'S THE ONLY VOWEL $1600: ...in a clear or yellowish fluid that helps remove bacteria from body tissues Y |
#10, aired 2022-02-15 | TV CHARACTER ANALYSIS $200: "Stranger Things" have happened;
name her number Eleven |
#8576, aired 2022-02-14 | BEHIND THE OLD TESTAMENT NAME $800: "Oh" this name, "don't you cry for me", it comes from a word meaning "lily" Susanna |
#8576, aired 2022-02-14 | JOHNNY GILBERT READS LYRICS FROM THE HEART $1200: "Life was a willow & it bent right to your wind (oh)... I'm begging for you to take my hand, wreck my plans, that's my man" Taylor Swift |
#8576, aired 2022-02-14 | JOHNNY GILBERT READS LYRICS FROM THE HEART $1600: "I get the joy of rediscovering you, oh girl, you stand by me, I'm forever yours... faithfully", then some whoa oh ohs Journey |
#8575, aired 2022-02-11 | TRANSLATE THE BRITISH ENGLISH $2000: Oh no! Colin has stopped on the verge of the M1; his car broke down shoulder |
#4, aired 2022-02-09 | THE ELEMENTS $1,000 (Daily Double): This element makes up about 25% of the mass in your average star helium |
#3, aired 2022-02-09 | SCIENTIFIC ISMs $400: Some plant roots exhibit "negative" this -ism, turning away from the source of light phototropism |
#3, aired 2022-02-09 | ON THE TRANSCRIPT... $1600: Of the radio broadcast of this 1937 disaster: "There's smoke and there's flames... Oh, the humanity" the burning of the Hindenburg |
#3, aired 2022-02-09 | ON THE TRANSCRIPT... $3,000 (Daily Double): Of this senator's 1954 hearings investigating the U.S. Army: "Have you no sense of decency?" Joseph McCarthy |
#8569, aired 2022-02-03 | TRIBUTARIES $1600: The Tha, the Ou & the Ngum are part of its flow the Mekong |
#8564, aired 2022-01-27 | ALWAYS BROADWAY $1000: I've got a lead for you... Alan Alda portrayed Shelly Levene in this Mamet play in 2005 Glengarry Glen Ross |
#8562, aired 2022-01-25 | MOVIES THAT MENTION THEIR TITLES $1200: Hugh Grant's opening narration: "If you look for it, I've got a sneaky feeling you'll find that" this title "is all around" Love Actually |
#8558, aired 2022-01-19 | AN ORANGE CATEGORY $400: Oh, my darlin', it's this variety of small mandarin orange a clementine |
#8553, aired 2022-01-12 | CHINESE CALENDAR ANIMALS $600: A Merino a sheep |
#8550, aired 2022-01-07 | THAT'S BORDER LINE $2000: You have a couple of choices if you're heading directly across the eastern border of Wyoming--these 2 states South Dakota & Nebraska |
#8548, aired 2022-01-05 | A PLAYER TO BE NAMED RIGHT NOW $600: Oi! Oi! Oi! Robert Flower of Melbourne could be my wingman anytime with 315 goals in a hall of fame career in this rough sport Australian rules football |
#8540, aired 2021-12-24 | 20th CENTURY SONG, 21st CENTURY AD $2000: Oh, oh, oh,
it's this '70s song by Pilot that diabetes drug Ozempic adapted "Magic" |
#8534, aired 2021-12-16 | PLANTS & ANIMALS & FUNGI, OH MY! $400: 360 to 300 million B.C. is sometimes called the "Age of" these nonflowering, spore-producing plants Ferns |
#8534, aired 2021-12-16 | PLANTS & ANIMALS & FUNGI, OH MY! $800: All animals possess this protein that keeps skin firm & is used as a dietary supplement & cosmetic lip injection collagen |
#8534, aired 2021-12-16 | PLANTS & ANIMALS & FUNGI, OH MY! $1200: The Greek for "mushroom" gives us this word for the study of fungi mycology |
#8534, aired 2021-12-16 | PLANTS & ANIMALS & FUNGI, OH MY! $2000: Plants, animals, fungi & protists are the 4 kingdoms of these organisms, from Greek for "good" & "kernel" eukaryotes |
#8534, aired 2021-12-16 | PLANTS & ANIMALS & FUNGI, OH MY! $2,600 (Daily Double): To the Romans, Robigus was the god of this fungus that appears as red, orange or yellow spots on plants a rust |
#8533, aired 2021-12-15 | PLAYING PROFESSOR $600: On Netflix she's Ji-Yoon Kim, "The Chair" of a struggling English department Sandra Oh |
#8531, aired 2021-12-13 | BRITISH HUMOR $800: An exchange on this TV comedy: "I met someone"; "oh my god, that's amazing! What does he do?"; "He's a priest" Fleabag |
#8530, aired 2021-12-10 | HEY SHAKESPEARE, WHO SAID THAT? $400: "Deny thy father and refuse thy name; or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love" Juliet |
#8528, aired 2021-12-08 | MORE THAN 100 $800: Stephen Kinnock & Ian Paisley Jr. are 2 of the 650 members of this body whose chamber seats 427 the House of Commons |
#8522, aired 2021-11-30 | JOHNNY GILBERT IS THE ACTION MOVIE CHARACTER $400: "Oh, I'm very sorry, Hans... I figured since I waxed Tony & Marco & his friend here I figured you & Karl & Franco might be a little lonely" (John) McClane |
#8520, aired 2021-11-26 | THE MOVIES $1600: Knock knock! Oh hi, it's this creepy title monster who inhabits Amelia in a 2014 Australian film The Babadook |
#8519, aired 2021-11-25 | "COME" & "GO" $400: A Van Dyke is a type of this goatee |
#8512, aired 2021-11-16 | AMERICAN IDLE $800: This two-piece casual apparel seen here takes its name from time used for relaxation leisure suit |
#8509, aired 2021-11-11 | TREYS $800: Oh, Vlad III Draculea is so formal! Please, call me Vlad this nickname, one I acquired for my high stakes atrocities the Impaler |
#8507, aired 2021-11-09 | THE END $1000: "Oh, my girls, however long you may live, I never can wish you a greater happiness than this!" Little Women |
#8506, aired 2021-11-08 | FIX THE ELTON JOHN LYRIC $400: "I'm not the man they think I am at home, oh no no no, I'm a hired hand" a rocket man |
#8503, aired 2021-11-03 | 10-, 11- & 12-LETTER WORDS $1600: Some describe this old timey soft drink as tasting like licorice; others, like root beer sarsaparilla |
#8501, aired 2021-11-01 | 2 WORDS, 2 SYLLABLES EACH $5,000 (Daily Double): Meaning you're good at talking with others, this alliterative phrase begins with a plural word & ends with its singular form a people person |
#8498, aired 2021-10-27 | PLOT POINT REWRITES $1000: "Oh, wow, this is super embarrassing! You're Joseph K.? 'K', like Kafka? We were after Joseph J.! Our mistake! You're free to go" The Trial |
#8497, aired 2021-10-26 | WHEN BAY IS ON THE MAP $2000: Oh, to live on Sugarloaf Mountain, overlooking the entrance of this Brazilian bay Guanabara Bay |
#8496, aired 2021-10-25 | WRITTEN IN THE DUST $2,000 (Daily Double): Chapter 1 of this 1939 novel has quite a lot to say about dust, like "In the morning" it "hung like fog" The Grapes of Wrath |
#8494, aired 2021-10-21 | "OI"! $400: It means to raise up, like a flag hoist |
#8494, aired 2021-10-21 | FAMILIAR SOUNDING TRIOS $600: For example:
ferret, fennel or fluorite animal, vegetable or mineral |
#8494, aired 2021-10-21 | "OI"! $800: Senator William Marcy popularized the phrase "To the victor belong" these the spoils |
#8494, aired 2021-10-21 | "OI"! $1200: From the material traditionally used to make films, it's a nostalgic word for a motion picture celluloid |
#8494, aired 2021-10-21 | "OI"! $2000: It's a fancy name for ring toss quoits |
#8494, aired 2021-10-21 | "OI"! $2,600 (Daily Double): In his "Funeral Oration", Pericles used this rhyming term, Greek for "the many" hoi polloi |
#8488, aired 2021-10-13 | "NOD" $400: A worrisome mass of tissue in humans, or a nitrogen-fixing structure in soybeans a nodule |
#8484, aired 2021-10-07 | U.S. FRANCHISES $400: "Oh thank heaven for" this chain of convenience stores & for its Slurpees 7-Eleven |
#8478, aired 2021-09-29 | THE NON-COASTAL U.S. $3,800 (Daily Double): Oh, for an ocean breeze! In August 2020 the average high in this southwestern capital city was 111 degrees Fahrenheit Phoenix |
#8471, aired 2021-09-20 | OH MY GODS! $400: This leader of the Norse gods stole a potion containing the art of poetry from Suttung the giant & gave it to human wordsmiths Odin |
#8471, aired 2021-09-20 | OH MY GODS! $800: Saraswati, Hindu goddess of learning & the arts, is considered the inventor of this language Sanskrit |
#8471, aired 2021-09-20 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1,000 (Daily Double): "War & Peace" opens in this year, 7 years before a fateful invasion 1805 |
#8471, aired 2021-09-20 | OH MY GODS! $1600: Appearing as a swan to Leda, Zeus became a dad to at least one of these twins, the Dioscuri; obviously, that's complicated Castor & Pollux |
#8471, aired 2021-09-20 | OH MY GODS! $2,000 (Daily Double): Amulius wanted Mars' sons Romulus & Remus drowned in this river, but turns out Rome wasn't gonna found itself the Tiber |
#8471, aired 2021-09-20 | OH MY GODS! $2000: Quetzalcoatl was worshiped at Tula, also called Tollan, by this people from whom the Aztecs claimed descent Toltec |
#8470, aired 2021-09-17 | PEACE $400: Some tomahawks were modified opposite the blade as one of these to represent peace at treaty signings a peace pipe |
#8466, aired 2021-09-13 | THAT'S CANADIAN ENTERTAINMENT $1000: Eve on "Killing Eve", she considered studying journalism but went to Montreal's National Theatre School instead (Sandra) Oh |
#8463, aired 2021-08-11 | NAME THAT SHAKESPEARE PLAY $2000: Demetrius is among the many, many casualties by the end & oh yeah... there's cannibalism! Titus Andronicus |
#8460, aired 2021-08-06 | OCEANOGRAPHIC TERMS $800: Measuring the warmth of the water off the western coast of South America, the ONI is the "Oceanic" this Spanish word "Index" Niño |
#8456, aired 2021-08-02 | PLAYS $1200: A critic called Harold Pinter's "The Birthday Party" a "comedy of menace", punning on this phrase for plays about high society a comedy of manners |
#8454, aired 2021-07-29 | HERE, THERE & EVERYWHERE $200: D'oh! It may seem like there's a town named this in every state, but the USGS says it's only 34, including Missouri & Oregon Springfield |
#8454, aired 2021-07-29 | HELLO, GOODBYE $1000: Was Scot-free in 1835, steel-ed himself in America, sold off his shares for good in 1919 Carnegie |
#8454, aired 2021-07-29 | NAME THAT BEATLES TUNE $1000: "I read the news today, oh boy, about a lucky man who made the grade" "A Day In The Life" |
#8451, aired 2021-07-26 | TOUGH 3-LETTER WORDS $1600: This Latin word meaning "thus" begins Virginia's state motto Sic |
#8450, aired 2021-07-23 | LITERARY GEOGRAPHY $600: Oh, the shame if you don't know "The Scarlet Letter" is set in what is today this U.S. state Massachusetts |
#8450, aired 2021-07-23 | MILITARY EMBLEMS OF BELIEF $1600: The faravahar signifies this Persian religion Zoroastrianism |
#8448, aired 2021-07-21 | 2 LETTERS, 3 LETTERS $600: This exclamation of enthusiasm or surprise is an interjection followed by a young male Oh, boy! |
#8448, aired 2021-07-21 | 2 LETTERS, 3 LETTERS $800: Dictionaries that say it expresses dismay & frustration don't quite capture the spirit of this borrowing from Yiddish oy vey |
#8441, aired 2021-07-12 | GAMER'S DELIGHT $600: (J.D. Witherspoon presents the clue.) Uh-oh, friends, it looks like Dr. Nefarious is back to his evil ways, forcing Ratchet once again strap this little robot buddy on his back & fight the good fight Clank |
#8432, aired 2021-06-29 | SO CLOSE... $800: It's the alliterative contest-ending evidence seen here a photo finish |
#8430, aired 2021-06-25 | AROUND THE GARDEN? $800: In a Simon & Garfunkel song, this quartet is in the line after "Are you going to Scarborough Fair?" parsley, sage, rosemary & thyme |
#8418, aired 2021-06-09 | TV COMEDY CHARACTER NAMES $2000: Oh, brother! After some analysis, David Hyde Pierce takes 4 Emmys Niles Crane |
#8417, aired 2021-06-08 | A LITERATURE SAMPLER $400: In 2020 he had a No. 1 kids' picture book bestseller with "I Promise"... oh yeah, he also won an NBA title with the Lakers LeBron James |
#8414, aired 2021-06-03 | 20th CENTURY BOOKS & AUTHORS $2,000 (Daily Double): Lucy in this Forster novel: "Charlotte, you mustn't spoil me: of course, you must look over the Arno, too" A Room with a View |
#8410, aired 2021-05-28 | NONFICTION $1600: "Metamorphosis" covers the storied career of this Hollywood makeup legend seen here Rick Baker |
#8408, aired 2021-05-26 | U.K. PLACES $3,000 (Daily Double): Doing something redundant is like "carrying coals" to this city, formerly a coal-mining center Newcastle |
#8407, aired 2021-05-25 | ROCK BANDS $800: There "Ain't No Rest For The Wicked" for this band with a name that includes a pachyderm Cage the Elephant |
#8407, aired 2021-05-25 | MEDICAL MILESTONES $5,000 (Daily Double): File under "S": in the 1950s these 2 microbiologists each developed a polio vaccine Salk & Sabin |
#8402, aired 2021-05-18 | 4 OF THE SAME LETTER $2000: Collective name for strategic measures taken by a nation to discourage hostile action by another deterrence |
#8398, aired 2021-05-12 | 'CAUSE WE SPELL GOOD $400: These 2 letters are between M & F in a word from the French for the use of disguise in the military O & U |
#8394, aired 2021-05-06 | 12-LETTER WORDS $600: It's a part of speech that expresses emotion & is capable of standing alone, like wow! Or oh! an interjection |
#8393, aired 2021-05-05 | OH, I'VE OFFENDED YOU? $400: His first epistle to the Corinthians says, "If meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh" Paul |
#8393, aired 2021-05-05 | DOUBLE "OU" WORDS $400: A building for holding legal proceedings a courthouse |
#8393, aired 2021-05-05 | OH, I'VE OFFENDED YOU? $800: The sign seen here attempts to alleviate this offense manspreading |
#8393, aired 2021-05-05 | DOUBLE "OU" WORDS $800: An offensive person who says a lot of annoying & noisy things a loudmouth |
#8393, aired 2021-05-05 | OH, I'VE OFFENDED YOU? $1200: On September 13, 2020 D.C.'s NFL squad took the field with this less-offensive name the Washington Football Team |
#8393, aired 2021-05-05 | DOUBLE "OU" WORDS $1200: Polite or genteel, especially in a formal way courteous |
#8393, aired 2021-05-05 | OH, I'VE OFFENDED YOU? $1600: Thomas Cranmer, holder of this religious post, said in 1556, "My hand offended" by signing recantations of his Protestant beliefs the Archbishop of Canterbury |
#8393, aired 2021-05-05 | OH, I'VE OFFENDED YOU? $2000: A lesson in a 1500s work by this man: One "should not offend a prince and afterwards trust him" Machiavelli |
#8393, aired 2021-05-05 | DOUBLE "OU" WORDS $2000: Traditional Mediterranean music maker heard here bouzouki |
#8393, aired 2021-05-05 | DOUBLE "OU" WORDS $3,000 (Daily Double): City of southern France on the Garonne River Toulouse |
#8389, aired 2021-04-29 | ANNOYING WORD! $800: To bug, intrude or pester, or as Winnie the Pooh's catchphrase goes, "Oh", this bother |
#8388, aired 2021-04-28 | "LAND" FILL $1000: The Pomeranian Lakeland has more than 1,000 lakes in this country Poland |
#8384, aired 2021-04-22 | 5 FIRST DATES $1000: Possible first date chat, 1928--Anne: Nice car. Him: Oh, thanks, it's an Airman. The company named the model in my honor (Charles) Lindbergh |
#8379, aired 2021-04-15 | HISTORIC WEAPONS $1600: Used during the American Revolution, the brown Bess was a type of this weapon, a precursor to the rifle a musket |
#8377, aired 2021-04-13 | TITLE WAVES $600: They swept over the NBA, winning the title every year from 1959 to 1966 the Boston Celtics |
#8369, aired 2021-04-01 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $1,000 (Daily Double): About 275 miles due west of the famous Four Corners, the Three Corners where Utah, Arizona & this state meet has its own monument Nevada |
#8366, aired 2021-03-29 | A GUSTY MOVE $200: Even the greatest golfers fear the notorious swirling wind at the 12th hole of this home course of The Masters Augusta |
#8360, aired 2021-03-19 | JOBS IN THE BIBLE $400: In Matthew 4 Jesus is walking by the Sea of Galilee when he sees 2 brothers doing this job & recruits them fishing |
#8360, aired 2021-03-19 | PIRATE FLAGS $1000: Act I of this Gilbert & Sullivan operetta has the lyric "Oh, better far to live and die/ Under the brave black flag I fly" The Pirates of Penzance |
#8357, aired 2021-03-16 | ROLE IN COMMON $1000: Carolyn Jones &
Anjelica Huston Morticia Addams |
#8351, aired 2021-03-08 | REAL REVIEWS OF THE NOVEL $800: Oh, Heathcliff! "The only consolation which we have in reflecting upon" this Bronte work "is that it will never be generally read" Wuthering Heights |
#8349, aired 2021-03-04 | IN LATIN, PLEASE $400: "Hail Mary" ave Maria |
#8344, aired 2021-02-25 | ANTARCTICA $400: As with tree rings, glaciologists examine long cylinders of ice called these to explore layers of Antarctica's history ice cores |
#8335, aired 2021-02-12 | FRUIT FORWARD $200: A traditional song: "Oh my darling, oh my darling, oh my darling ____" Clementine |
#8329, aired 2021-02-04 | POETRY $1600: The 1827 volume "Poems By Two Brothers" had poems by 3 brothers in this family: Charles, Frederick & oh, Lord, Alfred Tennyson |
#8328, aired 2021-02-03 | NOTORIOUS $1600: A 1950s psychiatrist predicted the Mad Bomber wore a double-breasted suit, buttoned, using this technique; he was right profiling |
#8328, aired 2021-02-03 | FOREIGN ELECTIONS $5,000 (Daily Double): Televised debates dubbed "The Road to Carthage" were a new feature in this country's 2019 elections Tunisia |
#8327, aired 2021-02-02 | RHYME TIME $1600: Temperamental & capricious coinage metal fickle nickel |
#8326, aired 2021-02-01 | VIDEO GAMES $1000: In 2020 it was time to find some "New Horizons" & build your own island paradise with this Nintendo Switch game Animal Crossing |
#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 |
#8325, aired 2021-01-29 | BIG STAR $1200: In the top 5 brightest stars, Arcturus is found in this constellation in the northern sky; oh, shake shake shake, shake your... Bootes |
#8322, aired 2021-01-26 | FICTIONAL BEINGS $8,000 (Daily Double): In "Bitten" Jeremy Danvers is one of these creatures of legend & the alpha of his pack a werewolf |
#8317, aired 2021-01-19 | SONG REFERENCES $1200: David Paich of Toto said Ms. Arquette was the inspiration for the title of this 1982 hit "Rosanna" |
#8316, aired 2021-01-18 | SPACE-PODGE $800: Neptune was once called a gas giant, but is now termed this less gassy 3-letter type of giant an ice giant |
#8316, aired 2021-01-18 | CELEBRITY NAMES IN COMMON $1000: Oh &
Dee Sandra |
#8313, aired 2021-01-13 | BEFORE & AFTER $1200: Harry Potter novel involving Arizona's NBA squad Order of the Phoenix Suns |
#8312, aired 2021-01-12 | WEATHER FORECAST INSIDE $1600: This bird is famous for its lovely song heard after dark a nightingale (a nightin-gale) |
#8307, aired 2021-01-05 | OY! IT'S WORDS FROM "O" TO "Y" $400: It's a long, eventful journey or ordeal; a mythological one took 10 years an odyssey |
#8307, aired 2021-01-05 | OY! IT'S WORDS FROM "O" TO "Y" $800: Meaning to become bone, this verb is used for ideas that have become fixed ossify |
#8307, aired 2021-01-05 | OY! IT'S WORDS FROM "O" TO "Y" $1200: This raptor flies over water to hunt, plunging in feet first to catch fish in its talons an osprey |
#8307, aired 2021-01-05 | A REAL PRIZE $1,600 (Daily Double): 300,000 euros go to the winner of the LVMH Prize for someone under 40 in this profession with at least 2 collections a fashion designer |
#8307, aired 2021-01-05 | OY! IT'S WORDS FROM "O" TO "Y" $1600: Numbering about 175,000, these upper Midwesterners are one of the largest native peoples north of Mexico Ojibway |
#8307, aired 2021-01-05 | NORWEGIANS $1600: Incidentally, this man born in Bergen wrote the incidental music to "Peer Gynt" (Edvard) Grieg |
#8307, aired 2021-01-05 | OY! IT'S WORDS FROM "O" TO "Y" $2000: From Latin for "shaded", it means non-transparency in an image opacity |
#8306, aired 2021-01-04 | -OLOGIES $10,000 (Daily Double): Ethnology is a branch of this -ology that is closely related to sociology anthropology |
#8303, aired 2020-12-16 | THIS & THAT $1000: "The king of cakes is at your door", said Hostess of this chocolate treat Ding Dongs |
#8303, aired 2020-12-16 | ENDING $1200: "Oh, I've had such a curious dream!" remarks the title girl at the end of this work Alice in Wonderland |
#8303, aired 2020-12-16 | MINCED OATHS $1600: Instead of referencing the almighty's son, this rhyming phrase with the same initial letters was used jeepers creepers |
#8297, aired 2020-12-08 | COLLABS $600: This pair did okay together, writing musicals like "My Fair Lady" & "Camelot" Lerner & Loewe |
#8294, aired 2020-12-03 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $2,000 (Daily Double): The bone marrow doesn't produce enough blood cells in the aplastic type of this disease anemia |
#8288, aired 2020-11-25 | OH, HELLO SONGS $200: In 2015 her song "Hello" became the first to sell a million downloads in the first week of release Adele |
#8288, aired 2020-11-25 | OH, HELLO SONGS $400: "You say goodbye, & I say hello... hello, hello" to one of the 3 chart-topping tunes by this band in 1967 The Beatles |
#8288, aired 2020-11-25 | OH, HELLO SONGS $600: In 1965 this duo began "The Sound Of Silence" with "Hello darkness, my old friend" Simon & Garfunkel |
#8288, aired 2020-11-25 | OH, HELLO SONGS $800: A No. 1 song by him asks, "Hello, is it me you're looking for?" Lionel Richie |
#8288, aired 2020-11-25 | OH, HELLO SONGS $1000: Not only did the Beastie Boys get "No Sleep Till" this borough, the group also said "Hello" to it as well Brooklyn |
#8287, aired 2020-11-24 | THE GIRL IN THE SONG $1600: "Cheer up", this sleepy girl, "oh, what can it mean to a daydream believer & a homecoming queen" Sleepy Jean |
#8277, aired 2020-11-10 | MARIAH CAREY $2000: (Mariah Carey presents the clue.) I dug deep to share the story of my life in my new memoir, "The Meaning of Mariah Carey", which coincides with the 30th anniversary of my debut album; I had this--"and it was all that you've given to me" "Vision Of Love" |
#8274, aired 2020-11-05 | HISTORICAL FACTS $3,000 (Daily Double): During the Gladiator or Third Servile War in the 70s B.C., this rebel & his forces gained control over most of southern Italy Spartacus |
#8268, aired 2020-10-28 | HODGEPODGE $400: In the 2010s LoL, this multiplayer game, surpassed WoW as the world's most popular video game League of Legends |
#8265, aired 2020-10-23 | MOVIE SUM-UP $2000: Death takes a chess holiday; your move, Max von Sydow The Seventh Seal |
#8264, aired 2020-10-22 | ANIMAL QUOTES $1600: "Oh" it "has pretty teeth, dear, and he shows them, pearly white" a shark |
#8260, aired 2020-10-16 | 2-LETTER WORDS $800: In the title of a Eugene O'Neill play, it precedes "Wilderness!" Ah |
#8258, aired 2020-10-14 | PIC-POURRI $400: Oh, give me a home where the buffalo or bison roam in this national park; it has the largest number of them on public land Yellowstone |
#8256, aired 2020-10-12 | BEHIND THE VOICES $800: Frank Simms tried to sound like a mix of Barry White & David Lee Roth when saying "Oh yeah!" in ads for this drink brand Kool-Aid |
#8256, aired 2020-10-12 | UNIVERSE $5,000 (Daily Double): To find this zodiac constellation, look for Spica, its brightest star; it marks the sheaf of wheat the maiden holds Virgo |
#8254, aired 2020-10-08 | YOUR 4 "I"s ONLY $1600: Look it up online! In Hawaiian this double talk word means "quickly" wikiwiki |
#8250, aired 2020-10-02 | THE SISTERS SISTERS $600: Last name of the twins whose retail biz is a billion-dollar brand & oh yeah, they have a movie star sister the Olsens |
#8243, aired 2020-09-23 | MUSICAL INSTRUMENT ETYMOLOGY $600: The name of this oval flute, which can have up to ten finger holes, is from the Italian ocarina |
#8241, aired 2020-09-21 | THE ROOM WHERE IT HAPPENS $600: West Wing crisis center since 1961 the Situation Room |
#8238, aired 2020-09-16 | WHAT TO WEAR $600: This raincoat, just like Columbo & reporters in movies a trench coat |
#8238, aired 2020-09-16 | SAND PAINTING $2000: Australian Charles Conder took a lot from Impressionism like painting his works here, French for outdoors plein-air |
#8234, aired 2020-06-11 | TV CATCHPHRASES BY SHOW $200: "D'oh!" The Simpsons |
#8234, aired 2020-06-11 | THE FRENCH REVOLUTION $1600: The motto of the radical Jacobin Club was "Vivre libre ou mourir", translated as this Live free or die |
#8234, aired 2020-06-11 | PATRON SAINTS $2,000 (Daily Double): St. Erasmus, also known by this shorter name, is a patron saint of sailors St. Elmo |
#8231, aired 2020-06-08 | A NATIONAL MONUMENT-AL CHALLENGE $2,000 (Daily Double): Wind-blown gypsum gives this national monument in New Mexico it's self-evident 2-word name White Sands |
#8231, aired 2020-06-08 | TRANSCENDENTAL WORDS $3,000 (Daily Double): To pour that Cabernet oh-so-gently into another container decant |
#8230, aired 2020-06-05 | SOME QUARTER GIVEN $200: Georgia's 25-cent piece offers "Wisdom", "Justice", "Moderation" & oh yeah, this fruit, naturally a peach |
#8228, aired 2020-06-03 | ABBREVIATIONS $800: When going on a journey, your ETA is this your estimated time of arrival |
#8226, aired 2020-06-01 | THE A.V. CLUB $3,800 (Daily Double): Almost 500 concerti from this Venetian survive today Vivaldi |
#8222, aired 2020-05-26 | E_I_E_I UH OH! $400: Traditional number of piano keys, or mph needed for time travel in "Back to the Future" eighty-eight |
#8222, aired 2020-05-26 | E_I_E_I UH OH! $800: This hyphenated "aural" term can describe a very harsh type of scream ear-piercing |
#8222, aired 2020-05-26 | STUDY GROUPS $1000: Pteridologists study these plants such as bracken that reproduce using spores ferns |
#8222, aired 2020-05-26 | E_I_E_I UH OH! $1200: Presidents may invoke this 2-word right to withhold information from Congress & the courts executive privilege |
#8222, aired 2020-05-26 | E_I_E_I UH OH! $1600: 2-word term for the state's legal ability to take private property for public use eminent domain |
#8222, aired 2020-05-26 | E_I_E_I UH OH! $2000: What's called photographic memory may actually be this type of "imagery", the ability to describe an image no longer present eidetic |
#8220, aired 2020-05-22 | A "BOTTLE" IN FRONT OF ME $600: Dr. Spock advises about this practice, "sterilize carefully... germs thrive on milk, just the way babies do" *bottle feeding (**using a bottle to feed your baby) |
#8220, aired 2020-05-22 | BROADWAY MUSICALS' OPENING NUMBERS $800: "Oh, What A Beautiful Mornin"' Oklahoma! |
#8220, aired 2020-05-22 | ON THE MONEY $1200: The back of the $2 bill shows John Turnbull's painting of this document's presentation to Congress the Declaration of Independence |
#8216, aired 2020-05-18 | THE ANDES MOUNTAINS $800: Over its some 5,000-mile range, the Andes are home to major cities like La Paz, Quito, and this other capital city Bogota |
#8216, aired 2020-05-18 | DA, YOU SPEAK RUSSIAN $2,000 (Daily Double): Also called the great sturgeon, this species lends its name to a type of caviar beluga |
#8214, aired 2020-04-30 | TOOT SUITE $300 (Daily Double): There's a bassoon solo in the Rimsky-Korsakov suite named for this woman who told great stories Scheherazade |
#8213, aired 2020-04-29 | BILLBOARD MUSIC AWARDS $800: As the recipient of the 2018 Icon Award, she took "Control" & took to the stage in her first live TV performance in nearly a decade
"Nasty, nasty boys, lemme see your nasty body move /
Oh, you nasty boys..." Janet Jackson |
#8210, aired 2020-04-24 | HERE'S LOOKING AT EUCLID $6,000 (Daily Double): Euclid put in some time on the elliptical & this German admirer of Euclid found it to be the shape of orbits Johannes Kepler |
#8205, aired 2020-04-17 | 3 G's $2000: From the Latin for "join together", it's a new whole formed by combining several separate elements aggregate |
#8198, aired 2020-04-08 | THE SOLAR SYSTEM $6,200 (Daily Double): Believed to be made of metallic hydrogen, not water, the largest ocean in the solar system is on this planet Jupiter |
#8196, aired 2020-04-06 | I'M YOUR NEW PERSONAL TRAINER! $800: Reclining hero pose! Into corpse pose! Oh yeah, you bet we're going heavy on this 4-letter discipline right now! yoga |
#8190, aired 2020-03-27 | STATE CAPITALS $2,000 (Daily Double): Appropriately, the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament is in the capital of this western state California |
#8189, aired 2020-03-26 | "OO", SORRY $400: It means free to travel about & is often paired with "fancy-free" footloose |
#8189, aired 2020-03-26 | "OO", SORRY $800: This nickname for Oklahoma comes from settlers who were early to stake claims the Sooner State |
#8189, aired 2020-03-26 | "OO", SORRY $1200: Pandas live in these forests in China bamboo |
#8189, aired 2020-03-26 | "OO", SORRY $1600: Wild Bill Hickok died in this type of establishment in Deadwood, South Dakota a saloon |
#8189, aired 2020-03-26 | "OO", SORRY $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents from SpaceX in Hawthorne, California.) After Falcon Heavy's successful first launch, SpaceX brought back two of these first-stage rockets and stuck a dramatic simultaneous landing booster rockets |
#8187, aired 2020-03-24 | COLONIAL AMERICA $400: 1767's Townshend Acts placed duties on imports to the colonies on lead, glass, paint, paper & (uh-oh!) this nonpotent potable tea |
#8187, aired 2020-03-24 | FILM ANALYSIS $400: The high-flying Maverick is on cruise control but Goose gets cooked; oh, & there's some shirtless volleyball Top Gun |
#8187, aired 2020-03-24 | CAR "MA" $400: It makes the Gran Turismo & the Quattroporte Maserati |
#8186, aired 2020-03-23 | HEY, THAT'S FANCY! $600: Oh, my! A Jacquard patterned slim tuxedo from this Italian designer? Ciao, Giorgio! Armani |
#8182, aired 2020-03-17 | SIPPIN' ON GIN &/OR JUICE $600: This drink with a man's full name has lemon juice, sugar, club soda, a cherry, an orange slice & oh yeah, gin a Tom Collins |
#8181, aired 2020-03-16 | RADIOACTIVE $400: Oh, K...one isotope of this silvery metallic element, atomic number 40, is radioactive potassium |
#8180, aired 2020-03-13 | FIRST NAMES OF FAMOUS PAIRS $600: Woodward & Bernstein Bob & Carl |
#8175, aired 2020-03-06 | LITERARY AWARDS $1200: 2019 Nobel Prize winner Peter Handke is perhaps best known for the novel this player's "Anxiety at the Penalty Kick" the goalie |
#8172, aired 2020-03-03 | COMMON BOND CUISINE $600: Bayonne, Westphalian, Smithfield ham |
#8168, aired 2020-02-26 | WORDS IN PLAIN SIGHT $200: Dude, where's your girlfriend? You're going to the party this way? Oh, deer! stag |
#8164, aired 2020-02-20 | GEOGRAPHICALLY SPEAKING $400: This popular breaded & fried veal dish is named for the capital of Austria wiener schnitzel |
#8162, aired 2020-02-18 | RELIGIOUS IDIOMS $3,000 (Daily Double): Something bad that later turns out to be good is one of these at first hidden signs of favor a blessing in disguise |
#8161, aired 2020-02-17 | ENTERTAINMENT $400: This song was written in 1908 & over 100 years later it's still sung during the seventh-inning stretch "Take Me Out To The Ball Game" |
#8159, aired 2020-02-13 | CAST OF THE TV SHOW $200: On NBC... oh man, I'll try to finish but now I'm crying--Sterling K. Brown, Susan Kelechi Watson, Logan Shroyer This Is Us |
#8158, aired 2020-02-12 | SNAKES! $500 (Daily Double): The yellow type of this South American snake can reach 15 feet long; its green cousin can reach 30 the anaconda |
#8154, aired 2020-02-06 | 1980s POP LYRICS $200: The Police: "Oh, can't you see you belong to me" "Every Breath You Take" |
#8147, aired 2020-01-28 | NEWER NECCO CANDY HEARTS $800: In 1998, between "Call me" & "Text me", came this 2-word phrase invoking now-outmoded telecommunications "Fax me" (or "Page me") |
#8147, aired 2020-01-28 | SHAKESPEARE BY NIGHT $2000: Marcellus asks this friend of Hamlet "to watch the minutes of this night, that if again this apparition come, he may...speak to it" Horatio |
#8147, aired 2020-01-28 | JUST A SAMPLE $2000: Oh darlin', darlin'--Sean Kingston's "Beautiful Girls" sampled some of this Ben E. King classic "Stand By Me" |
#8146, aired 2020-01-27 | THE 2019 FORBES GLOBAL 2,000 $2,000 (Daily Double): These 2 6-letter aircraft makers topped the Aerospace section on the list Boeing & Airbus |
#8144, aired 2020-01-23 | NEW ON THE BOOKSHELF $1000: "The Girl Who Lived Twice" is the latest novel featuring this tattooed heroine introduced by Stieg Larsson Lisbeth Salander |
#8139, aired 2020-01-16 | STATES' COMMON SURNAMES $400: It's the most common last name in over half of the 50 states Smith |
#8, aired 2020-01-14 | MATH TO ROMAN NUMERALS TO INITIALS TO NAMES $1,000 (Daily Double): (1,000 / 2) - 350 to this rock singer who was also a 1997 Golden Globe nominee Courtney Love |
#8136, aired 2020-01-13 | I LEARNED IT ON YOUTUBE $1200: How to identify the differences between antique copper & these 2 "B" alloys bronze & brass |
#8135, aired 2020-01-10 | WHERE'S THAT CHURCH? $400: Antoni Gaudí's Sagrada Família Spain |
#6, aired 2020-01-09 | SAME FIRST & LAST LETTER $1200: A resident of Najaf or Kirkuk Iraqi |
#6, aired 2020-01-09 | SAME FIRST & LAST LETTER $2000: It's a Hollywood term for a long prose synopsis of a screenplay treatment |
#5, aired 2020-01-09 | TV GREEN THUMB $1200: On "The Handmaid's Tale", this wife of Commander Waterford has some pivotal scenes in her greenhouse Serena |
#5, aired 2020-01-09 | GOVERNMENT IN CRISIS $9,200 (Daily Double): This 1832-33 crisis ended when South Carolina backed down from its efforts to void federal law Nullification |
#3, aired 2020-01-08 | CLASSIC MOVIE QUOTES $2000: Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka: "You stole Fizzy Lifting Drinks!...so you get nothing! You lose!" this 3-word farewell "Good day, sir!" |
#8129, aired 2020-01-02 | PLACES $6,000 (Daily Double): Home to its 2 most sacred cities, the Hejaz is a region in this country Saudi Arabia |
#8126, aired 2019-12-30 | "C_MENT" $400: The Dalai Lama has tweeted "a sense of" this "is crucial to being happy" contentment |
#8126, aired 2019-12-30 | BEHIND THE LITERATURE $1,000 (Daily Double): Kevin Kwan said he based this 2013 bestseller on the Kwan, Oh & Hu families Crazy Rich Asians |
#8125, aired 2019-12-27 | MAIL-ORDER NOVELTIES $600: Classic practical joke novelties include this one that sends liquid trickling down a drinker's chin a dribble glass |
#8122, aired 2019-12-24 | FILL IN THE BANKS $800: In the name of TD Bank, T is this city & D is dominion Toronto |
#8120, aired 2019-12-20 | TAKE MY RHYME $800: To leave someone when they still need you; oh, my darling, do not forsake |
#8115, aired 2019-12-13 | MOVIE EXCHANGES $800: 2 characters: "Look, your worshipfulness... I take orders from just one person: me"; "It's a wonder you're still alive" Han Solo & Princess Leia |
#8114, aired 2019-12-12 | RHYMES WITH A SEASON $400: A complex like Westfield Citrus Park in Tampa a mall |
#8113, aired 2019-12-11 | A CINDERELLA STORY $2000: The best-known versions of the rags-to-royalty story are based on the one by this French fairy tale author in the 1600s Charles Perrault |
#8112, aired 2019-12-10 | DOUBLE DOUBLE O $800: Goodbye! So long! This old-time informal synonym! toodle-oo |
#8109, aired 2019-12-05 | ACTOR & ROLES $200: Genie & Hitch, which sounds like its own buddy cop film, doesn't it? Will Smith |
#8107, aired 2019-12-03 | BROADWAY NAMES $800: In 2019, the lights on Broadway dimmed in memory of this legend who passed away at the age of 97 Carol Channing |
#8105, aired 2019-11-29 | THE OLD WEST $2000: "Swan River Mania" brought settlers to what's now "Western" this in 1829 Western Australia |
#8102, aired 2019-11-26 | MEETING GOD $800: Graham Chapman kneels in this film but God says, "Oh, don't grovel! One thing I can't stand, it's people groveling!" Monty Python and the Holy Grail |
#8102, aired 2019-11-26 | AMERICAN CATHEDRALS $2,000 (Daily Double): Both Spanish & French governors worshipped at a church on the site of what's now this city's St. Louis Cathedral New Orleans |
#8101, aired 2019-11-25 | DOUBLE LETTERS IN THE MIDDLE $4,000 (Daily Double): An 8-letter Olympic game of horse dressage |
#8100, aired 2019-11-22 | U.S. NAVAL ACADEMY GRADUATES $2,400 (Daily Double): Wally Schirra, who was the only astronaut to fly in all 3 of these NASA programs Mercury, Gemini & Apollo |
#8100, aired 2019-11-22 | QUOTABLE BOOKS $4,000 (Daily Double): 1990: "You have brains in your head, you have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose" Oh, The Places You'll Go! |
#8099, aired 2019-11-21 | "HOLD" IT $600: A 2016 report said Ford had "revolutionized" this central console compartment the cup holder |
#8095, aired 2019-11-15 | "R"CHITECTURE $8,615 (Daily Double): As a style, it was early 19th century British; as a building, it's the Atlanta Hyatt that began the hotel atrium era Regency |
#8092, aired 2019-11-12 | HAIL, CAESAR! $400: The character King Kaiser is based on Sid Caesar in this 1982 Peter O'Toole film set in the world of 1950s TV My Favorite Year |
#8092, aired 2019-11-12 | DON'T FORGET THE LYRICS $800: "No no no no no, oo-eee-hoo, I'll tell you once more, before I get off the floor", this E.L.O. title "Don't Bring Me Down" |
#8092, aired 2019-11-12 | DON'T FORGET THE LYRICS $1200: Walk the Moon: "Oh don't you dare look back, just keep your eyes on me, I said you're holding back, she said" do this shut up and dance with me |
#8091, aired 2019-11-11 | TRUE STORY $800: A gopher is on the cover of the book titled this comedy film: "The Making of a Hollywood Cinderella Story" Caddyshack |
#8090, aired 2019-11-08 | STAMPS $1600: That's the spotted type of this eel on the coral reef postcard stamp a moray |
#8090, aired 2019-11-08 | REVELATIONS $5,400 (Daily Double): A bestselling 1836 "Autobiography" by this frontiersman who died that year was revealed as a hoax in the 1880s Davy Crockett |
#8089, aired 2019-11-07 | NAME & NUMBER $400: In 1521 he was named "Defender of the Faith"--oh, the irony! Henry VIII |
#8087, aired 2019-11-05 | THIS LAND IS YOUR LANDLOCKED COUNTRY $600: Serbia, Albania, oo I wanna take ya to Montenegro, Macedonia, come on, pretty mama... those all border this new country Kosovo |
#8081, aired 2019-10-28 | JUST GIVE US THE CANDY! $1000: "Sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don't"; better get one of each of these just to be sure Mounds & Almond Joy |
#8080, aired 2019-10-25 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $600: Oy, you're so clumsy--in fact, you're this Yiddish word for a clumsy person, from a word meaning "wooden beam" a klutz |
#8076, aired 2019-10-21 | AMERICAN HISTORY $5,000 (Daily Double): Woeful economic conditions helped reduce immigration from 4.2 million the decade before to less than 700,000 in this decade the 1930s |
#8075, aired 2019-10-18 | WORDS IN ICELANDIC $1200: In the winter of 2010, a 27-foot-long one was seen hanging under a Scottish bridge icicle |
#8074, aired 2019-10-17 | LEGAL BRIEFS $400: President's ex-lawyer; he lied to Congress; sentenced to 3 years in prison in 2018 Michael Cohen |
#8073, aired 2019-10-16 | IT'S CRUNCH TIME $200: Oh, this word! When attached to ginger, often indicates a perfectly crispy cookie a snap |
#8072, aired 2019-10-15 | OH OH, 3 O'S $400: It describes your peepers when they've caught the red eye bloodshot |
#8072, aired 2019-10-15 | OH OH, 3 O'S $800: Short but demanding type of race, seen here motocross |
#8072, aired 2019-10-15 | EXPLORERS $1000: In 1855 he saw the falls Africans called Mosi-oa-Tunya ("smoke that thunders"), which he renamed for his queen (Dr.) Livingstone |
#8072, aired 2019-10-15 | OH OH, 3 O'S $1200: The scientific field of Franz Boas & Margaret Mead anthropology |
#8072, aired 2019-10-15 | OH OH, 3 O'S $2000: You'll give a piece of your mind with this brain-cutting operation lobotomy |
#8072, aired 2019-10-15 | OH OH, 3 O'S $4,000 (Daily Double): It's the Royal Navy rank just below Rear Admiral Commodore |
#8070, aired 2019-10-11 | KURT VONNEGUT $2,800 (Daily Double): Sci-fi author Theodore Sturgeon was the inspiration for this recurring Vonnegut character who also had a fishy name (Kilgore) Trout |
#8059, aired 2019-09-26 | HIP-HOP MUSICIANS' REAL NAMES $1600: This leader of Public Enemy was originally Carlton Ridenhour Chuck D |
#8055, aired 2019-09-20 | STATE OF CHIEFS $5 (Daily Double): Tecumseh (same as William Tecumseh Sherman) Ohio |
#8053, aired 2019-09-18 | TALKING TO YOUR SPANIEL IN ESPAÑOL $1000: ¡Trae el palo! Fetch the stick! |
#8049, aired 2019-09-12 | COUNTRY MUSIC $200: (Ken Burns delivers the clue.) A star on Chicago's WLS Radio, "Oklahoma Cowboy" Gene Autry made the rendition of this song that was said to be a favorite of FDR
"Oh, give me a home where the buffalo roam / Where the..." "Home On The Range" |
#8044, aired 2019-07-25 | JULIANNE MOORE DOESN'T SEE THE END OF THE FILM $1600: Oh, it was definitely "The End of the Affair" for Julianne with this actor who also played "The English Patient" Ralph Fiennes |
#8039, aired 2019-07-18 | "OY", THE PLACES YOU'LL GO! $400: You'll feel like a king on this isle in Lake Superior, the least visited national park in the lower 48 states Isle Royale |
#8039, aired 2019-07-18 | "OY", THE PLACES YOU'LL GO! $800: Maybe you'll go to this Chicago university, founded in 1870 as St. Ignatius College Loyola |
#8039, aired 2019-07-18 | "OY", THE PLACES YOU'LL GO! $1200: Go to the north bank of the Thames to stay at this London hotel, a blend of art deco & Edwardian elegance the Savoy |
#8039, aired 2019-07-18 | "OY", THE PLACES YOU'LL GO! $1600: About 50 miles north of Milwaukee, this Wisconsin city on Lake Michigan was established as a fur-trading post Sheboygan |
#8039, aired 2019-07-18 | "OY", THE PLACES YOU'LL GO! $2000: This town on Long Island gained fame as the site of Sagamore Hill, Theodore Roosevelt's summer White House Oyster Bay |
#8038, aired 2019-07-17 | FAKE GNUS $1200: Sharing its Afrikaans name with a big shoe company, this antelope seen here is definitely not a gnu a reebok |
#8035, aired 2019-07-12 | DESERT-POURRI $400: Ernest Giles' journal of crossing Australia's deserts says, "Oh, would that I had" these! "What are horses in such a region?" camels |
#8034, aired 2019-07-11 | NO. 1 HITS OF THE '80s $2000: In '82 there was no denying it: "Oh", this guy, "You're so fine, you're so fine, you blow my mind, hey" this guy! "Hey," this guy! Mickey |
#8033, aired 2019-07-10 | MNEMONICS $800: It has atomic number 19, it's essential to life, but how to spell it? Oh yeah, "one tea, 2 sugars" potassium |
#8028, aired 2019-07-03 | AN ACTOR & A SUPPORTING ROLE $1200: Donald Rumsfeld in "Vice" Steve Carell |
#8025, aired 2019-06-28 | NEWER WORDS & PHRASES $600: It's a less-than-chiseled paternal physique a dad bod |
#8025, aired 2019-06-28 | IT'S TIME FOR TIME $1,000 (Daily Double): Jet lag is a disruption in these rhythms of the body, from Latin words for "about the day" circadian |
#8025, aired 2019-06-28 | FINISH THE CLASSIC AMERICAN LYRIC $1000: "Oh my darling, oh my darling, oh my darling Clementine..." you are lost and gone forever, oh my darling Clementine |
#8020, aired 2019-06-21 | POP MUSIC $800: A song by Zedd, Maren Morris & Grey asks, "Oh baby, why don't you just meet me in" this title place the middle |
#8015, aired 2019-06-14 | ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST JACKET $1200: Susie in this Alice Sebold novel is already in heaven, but she watches her murderer covering his tracks The Lovely Bones |
#8014, aired 2019-06-13 | HISTORY $1000: Replacing the Qing dynasty, the republic of China was founded on Jan, 1, 1912 with this medical man as president Sun Yat-sen |
#8011, aired 2019-06-10 | ENTERTAINMENT $200: Oh yes, Captain Kirk worked with Batman when he starred as "Alexander the Great", with Adam West as Cleander William Shatner |
#8008, aired 2019-06-05 | TIMBERLAND $800: GP is this big lumber & paper products company; the "G" is for the state where it began Georgia Pacific |
#8008, aired 2019-06-05 | 1- & 2-SYLLABLE HETERONYMS $1200: 1 syllable: injured; 2 syllables: metallic fabric lame and lamé |
#8008, aired 2019-06-05 | 1- & 2-SYLLABLE HETERONYMS $2000: 1 syllable: masculine; 2 syllables: the capital of the Maldives male and Malé |
#8007, aired 2019-06-04 | WE BORDER GERMANY $400: It has a total area of about 1,000 square miles; oh, you're in Grand Duchy now! Luxembourg |
#8007, aired 2019-06-04 | WE BORDER GERMANY $4,600 (Daily Double): A peninsula, 406 nearby islands & other possessions make up this nation Denmark |
#8000, aired 2019-05-24 | LET'S GO TO THE OPERA $2,000 (Daily Double): The waiting list for the annual Wagner Festival in this Bavarian city can be 10 years long Bayreuth |
#7999, aired 2019-05-23 | LOS ANGELES IN THE MOVIES $400: Interiors of Grant High School (OMG, totally in the Valley!) were used in this film with Alicia Silverstone as Cher Clueless |
#7992, aired 2019-05-14 | SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE ALUMNI $1000: He plays hitman & wannabe actor Barry Berkman on HBO Bill Hader |
#7991, aired 2019-05-13 | PARTS OF SPEECH $600: I'll close with the final stitch now...uh-oh, where's my watch?:
uh-oh exclamation (or interjection) |
#7991, aired 2019-05-13 | 3 OF A KIND $600: Oh Hell!,
slapjack,
war card games |
#7986, aired 2019-05-06 | DOOMED TO REPEAT "IT" $800: Uh-oh, my Visa's maxed out--I must've reached this credit limit |
#7986, aired 2019-05-06 | DOOMED TO REPEAT "IT" $1600: Restaurants like Da Nico & Il Cortile line Mulberry Street in this section of Manhattan Little Italy |
#7985, aired 2019-05-03 | NOBODY EXPECTS $600: David Niven & the audience were taken unawares when one of these rushed the Oscars stage in 1974 a streaker |
#7980, aired 2019-04-26 | MONTY PYTHON PHRASES $1,000 (Daily Double): This, in the film of that title, is defined in part as "Be nice to people, avoid eating fat, read a good book" the meaning of life |
#7975, aired 2019-04-19 | ANIMAL ROCKS $400: A rock in Mongolia is named for its resemblance to one of these reptiles--oh yeah, I see the shell a turtle |
#7971, aired 2019-04-15 | ONOMATOPOETIC WORDS $400: Pigeon pen a coop |
#7963, aired 2019-04-03 | ____ OF ____ $800: Used as an antacid or laxative, Mg(OH)2 is better known as this milk of magnesia |
#7957, aired 2019-03-26 | IT HAPPENED IN SOUTH AMERICA $1000: Oh Rio, Rio, hear them shout across the land that this 125' statue was inaugurated on Oct. 12, 1931 Christ the Redeemer |
#7952, aired 2019-03-19 | TV's MIDDLE CHILD $600: Oh, my god! He's the middle child in the McCormick family on "South Park" Kenny |
#7949, aired 2019-03-14 | ALL BETS ARE OFF $400: This Greek letter gave us part of the word for all the letters that make up a language alpha |
#7946, aired 2019-03-11 | NONFICTION $1,200 (Daily Double): A book about this body is subtitled "The Rise & Fall of America's Favorite Planet" Pluto |
#7946, aired 2019-03-11 | NORMAN LEAR, THE FIRST 96 YEARS $1600: (Norman Lear delivers the clue.) Of all the TV characters I've created, the one who most shares my passions & my politics is this woman who lived in Tuckahoe, New York Maude |
#7945, aired 2019-03-08 | PLANT-ED EVIDENCE $1,800 (Daily Double): Ancient Egyptians got a lot of out of this water plant:
cloth, mats, sails & oh yeah, material on which to write papyrus |
#7944, aired 2019-03-07 | READING TALK $400: I get it, I hear you, "I read you" these 2 ways I read you loud and clear (or five by five) |
#7941, aired 2019-03-04 | MEANINGS OF CELEBRITY NAMES $600: Greek for "pure" is the origin of the first name of this actress, whose work is pure joy to watch Catherine Keener |
#7938, aired 2019-02-27 | FAMILIAR BRANDS IN SONGS $1000: Lorde was still a teenager when she wrote "Royals", which namechecks Cristal & this French vodka Grey Goose |
#7938, aired 2019-02-27 | DATES $2000: The Dominion of Canada was proclaimed on this date in 1867 July 1st |
#7935, aired 2019-02-22 | THE ARCTIC $100 (Daily Double): Going from Norway to Alaska, this Scandinavian completed the first trip through the Northwest Passage in 1906 Amundsen |
#7920, aired 2019-02-01 | MO"V"IES $1600: Like, oh my God, the Galleria would be a gnarly place to watch this 1983 movie with Nicolas Cage romancing a young So. Cal. gal Valley Girl |
#7919, aired 2019-01-31 | I BEFORE E, AFTER C $800: It's an Italian lawn bowling game boccie |
#7919, aired 2019-01-31 | BIO PICKED $1600: The story of the man you see is told in this 1994 film with a soundtrack including the "Pastoral Symphony" Immortal Beloved |
#7914, aired 2019-01-24 | EDIBLE HOMOPHONES $1000: It's what bilge water comes from a leak |
#7911, aired 2019-01-21 | STEAMY SCIENCE $10,800 (Daily Double): Earthquakes have lengthened the average interval between its famed eruptions of water & steam by about 30 minutes Old Faithful |
#7909, aired 2019-01-17 | CHEMISTRY $2000: By combining nitrogen & hydrogen, Fritz Haber created a process to create this gas needed for fertilizers ammonia |
#7907, aired 2019-01-15 | CLASSIC ALBUMS $400: Oh well, whatever, name this 1991 Nirvana album that includes "Smells Like Teen Spirit" Nevermind |
#7903, aired 2019-01-09 | FOOD & DRINK $200: Oh, yeah! This non-carbonated beverage is Nebraska's state soft drink Kool-Aid |
#7900, aired 2019-01-04 | SUMMING UP THE SHAKESPEARE PLAY $200: All heck breaks loose after the Puck drops; love is truly magic; ow! My Hermia! A Midsummer Night's Dream |
#7900, aired 2019-01-04 | SUMMING UP THE SHAKESPEARE PLAY $1000: When in Rome, revenge is a dish, all right; S-A/T-U-R/N-I-N/U-S! Oh, man, does everyone die Titus Andronicus |
#7896, aired 2018-12-31 | PLAYING IN THE BAND $800: This Brit band is Jonny, Will & Guy--oh, & some guy named Chris Coldplay |
#7894, aired 2018-12-27 | CONFUSING LYRICS $600: In this Stephen Foster song, "it rained all night the day I left, the weather it was dry, the sun so hot I froze to death" "Oh! Susanna" |
#7893, aired 2018-12-26 | FAMILY TIES $3,000 (Daily Double): Ivan's repudiation of God looms large in this Dostoyevsky work The Brothers Karamazov |
#7892, aired 2018-12-25 | IT'S "NATIONAL" $200: Ecuador's is "Salve, Oh Patria" national anthem |
#7891, aired 2018-12-24 | WORDS OF COMFORT $400: This triple rhyme phrase could describe a content flea in a type of floor covering snug as a bug in a rug (a snug bug rug accepted) |
#7884, aired 2018-12-13 | THE FRENCH I TOOK $400: This word for hello! is the title of several books on basic French, including one that gives you help from Louis L'Escargot bonjour |
#7884, aired 2018-12-13 | WORDS FOR YOUR DOG $400: It was a verb meaning to grind into small bits before it was a noun for dog food pellets kibble |
#7884, aired 2018-12-13 | THE 12 DAYS OF CHRISTMAS SHOPPING LIST $1000: A couple of these birds that winter in central Africa? Oh, my true love, you shouldn't have! Really. I mean that turtle doves |
#7874, aired 2018-11-29 | THE MOVIES $1000: For "On the Waterfront", Elia Kazan originally cast this singer who Kazan said "spoke perfect Hobokenese" Frank Sinatra |
#7868, aired 2018-11-21 | WACKY WEDNESDAY $200: Oh, Florida woman! Your stomach pains weren't from food poisoning by General Tso's this in 2018--you were 37 weeks pregnant! chicken |
#7849, aired 2018-10-25 | TV $800: In 2018 this former "Grey's Anatomy" actress had the title role as she hunted a hit woman on "Killing Eve" Sandra Oh |
#7848, aired 2018-10-24 | SPEAKING WORDS OF WISDOM $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1934 this humorist said, "Every Harvard class should have one Democrat to rescue it from oblivion" Will Rogers |
#7847, aired 2018-10-23 | LITERARY OPENINGS $3,000 (Daily Double): The first in a series:
"Once there were four children whose names were Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy" The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe |
#7845, aired 2018-10-19 | HANGING WITH FAMOUS PEOPLE $1000: These two men, an actor-director & a writer, have a nice chat, perhaps about their last names being homophones Orson Welles and H.G. Wells |
#7844, aired 2018-10-18 | TRAITOROUS ACTIVITY $800: The going rate for selling out America in 1780? For him, 6,315 pounds, but it's not like his name was totally destroyed...oh wait Benedict Arnold |
#7843, aired 2018-10-17 | NUTS ABOUT DOUGHNUTS $600: A Bangles song says, "All the cops in the donut shop say ay oh whey oh, ay oh whey oh", this title instruction "Walk Like An Egyptian" |
#7841, aired 2018-10-15 | DRIVING $400: Cruising around Phoenix--that driver must be awfully short--oh, it's Waymo, Google's version of these self-driving cars |
#7841, aired 2018-10-15 | THE 5 Ws IN THE BOOKSTORE $1200: "When the Game was Ours" is a co-memoir of pro basketball by this Laker & this Celtic who battled in the 1980s Larry Bird and Magic Johnson |
#7840, aired 2018-10-12 | EDUCATION $800: A hot debate topic:
Should teachers be granted this, giving them permanent status & protecting them from dismissal? tenure |
#7837, aired 2018-10-09 | BEFORE & AFTER AT THE MALL $400: A lingerie chain known for its "Angels" that picks names at random to give Christmas presents Victoria's Secret Santa |
#7835, aired 2018-10-05 | LET IT GO $600: Oh, it's like I'm drifting down the river itself in a dream whenever I hear this "colorful" tune "The Blue Danube" |
#7831, aired 2018-10-01 | GETTING SPECIFIC AT GENERAL HOSPITAL $200: (Nancy Lee Grahn and Michelle Stafford give the clue as Alexis and Nina from General Hospital.) "You think you're getting away with it, Nina, but I'm on to you"
"Oh, really Alexis? Well your little world, your sterile field, is about to be in this condition, compromised by the introduction of foreign bacteria" infected (or contaminated) |
#7831, aired 2018-10-01 | POP CULTURE POPS $400: He'll be your daddy, oh! This singer became a "father figure", taking that song all the way to No. 1 in 1988 George Michael |
#7831, aired 2018-10-01 | COUNTRY, HIP-HOP & JAZZ $800: Garth Brooks sang, "I'm not big on social graces, think I'll slip on down to the oasis, oh I've got friends in" here low places |
#7831, aired 2018-10-01 | AROUND THE CARIBBEAN $1600: This 5-letter Panamanian city sits on Limón Bay near the Caribbean entrance to the canal Colón |
#7828, aired 2018-09-26 | NAME THE NOVEL $400: "Oh, fiddle-dee-dee! But look at Mrs. Merriwether. She's selling pies to Yankees and that's worse than running a sawmill" Gone With the Wind |
#7826, aired 2018-09-24 | WORDS FROM THE COMICS $400: This character inspired a suit, a collar & shoe with his name Buster Brown |
#7824, aired 2018-09-20 | 8-LETTER WORDS $1600: It's the type of vehicle seen here a rickshaw |
#7821, aired 2018-09-17 | REINSTATE SONGS $800: "Oh, baby, give me one more chance", the Jackson 5 sang in this plea, their first No. 1 hit "I Want You Back" |
#7821, aired 2018-09-17 | STATE SONGS $1,200 (Daily Double): "In its fair western home, may the columbine bloom til our great mountain rivers run dry" Colorado |
#7821, aired 2018-09-17 | REINSTATE SONGS $1200: 1, 2, 3, they gonna run back to her:
Elle King's former lovers all wanted to be reinstated in this 2015 hit "Ex's and Oh's" |
#7819, aired 2018-09-13 | CONTRACTIONS $2000: 3 contractions led to this triple rhyme phrase meaning basically "if only I had--but oh well" coulda, woulda, shoulda |
#7818, aired 2018-09-12 | OR BUST $800: Oh say can you see the bust of this lawyer, who became D.C.'s D.A. in 1833 (Francis Scott) Key |
#7818, aired 2018-09-12 | MOVIE ROLE, TV ROLE $800: Inigo Montoya in "The Princess Bride"; Saul Berenson on "Homeland" Mandy Patinkin |
#7815, aired 2018-07-27 | QUICK BOOKS $1000: 1908:
Oh, the Rat & the Toad should be friends The Wind in the Willows |
#7811, aired 2018-07-23 | LITERARY TITLE REFERENCES $800: "The Godfather" Don Vito Corleone |
#7809, aired 2018-07-19 | CLASSIC SONGS' FIRST LINES $600: From the Beatles, of course:
"I read the news today, oh boy" "A Day In The Life" |
#7809, aired 2018-07-19 | CLASSIC SONGS' FIRST LINES $1000: "You never close your eyes anymore when I kiss your lips" "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'" |
#7808, aired 2018-07-18 | SOCRATES, PLATO & ARISTOTLE $4,800 (Daily Double): Aristotle wrote that for this genre, the plot must "imitate actions arousing fear and pity" tragedy |
#7805, aired 2018-07-13 | THE SOCIAL NETWORK $1200: To law enforcement, KA's are known these, potential accomplices the suspected bad guys hang out with known associates |
#7802, aired 2018-07-10 | KING OF THE CASTLE $600: El Pardo, 1975-2014:
This recent abdicator Juan Carlos |
#7798, aired 2018-07-04 | "OO"DLES OF WORDS $400: Before digital cameras, a photographer needed one of these places to develop film a darkroom |
#7798, aired 2018-07-04 | "OO"DLES OF WORDS $800: A big wind in Asia, or the season when it blows monsoon |
#7798, aired 2018-07-04 | "OO"DLES OF WORDS $1200: One of the official colors of Texas A&M is Aggie this maroon |
#7798, aired 2018-07-04 | "OO"DLES OF WORDS $1600: A large male kangaroo goes by this resounding name a boomer |
#7798, aired 2018-07-04 | "OO"DLES OF WORDS $2000: Let's hear it for this king mackerel relative that the Hawaiians call ono the wahoo |
#7797, aired 2018-07-03 | STATE CAPITAL COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $600: Thomas Edison State College Trenton |
#7790, aired 2018-06-22 | UH OH, TALKIN' MORE FOOTBALL $200: This word for the snapper should tell you he lines up in the middle of the offensive line a center |
#7790, aired 2018-06-22 | UH OH, TALKIN' MORE FOOTBALL $400: Don't grab this, the protective cage in front of a player's helmet, or you'll get a 15-yard penalty the facemask |
#7790, aired 2018-06-22 | UH OH, TALKIN' MORE FOOTBALL $600: A player who can legally catch a pass is this type of receiver; some are bachelors, too eligible |
#7790, aired 2018-06-22 | UH OH, TALKIN' MORE FOOTBALL $800: In the NFL each of these measures 10 yards by 53 1/3 yards the end zone |
#7790, aired 2018-06-22 | UH OH, TALKIN' MORE FOOTBALL $1000: A kick returner who touches but fails to catch the ball has committed one of these hand warmers a muff |
#7780, aired 2018-06-08 | TONGUE-TWISTER PROTAGONISTS $1000: This husband of Zipporah in the Old Testament Moses |
#7777, aired 2018-06-05 | TRUE CRIME BOOKS, SWEETHEART $1,000 (Daily Double): "The Skies Belong to Us" narrates one 1972 instance of this crime that was unfortunately big in that era skyjacking |
#7775, aired 2018-06-01 | MOVIE! $1000: In this 1977 film George Burns tells John Denver that creating ostriches was a big mistake--"silly looking things" Oh, God! |
#7775, aired 2018-06-01 | SHOW BIZ NICKNAMES $2000: Starring in the 1927 movie "It" made her the "It" girl & the quintessential flapper Clara Bow |
#7768, aired 2018-05-23 | IN GENERAL $400: In 2012, this ex-Cabinet member here was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom (Madeleine) Albright |
#7768, aired 2018-05-23 | MIND YOUR "P"s & "Q"s $800: Uh oh! It's a sudden, unexpected test for students a pop quiz |
#7763, aired 2018-05-16 | MOVIE QUOTES $1600: 2003:
"Santaaaa! Oh my God! Santa here? I know him! I know him" Elf |
#7762, aired 2018-05-15 | TRIPLE RHYME TIME $1200: The bag into which the very dark commemorative tablet goes the black plaque sack |
#7760, aired 2018-05-11 | WHAT'S ON? $1000: Oh, honey, he's been half of "Will & Grace" for 20 years now Eric McCormack |
#7759, aired 2018-05-10 | GREAT AMERICAN NOVELS $600: Chief Bromden, a Native American who feigns muteness, is the narrator of this Ken Kesey novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest |
#7758, aired 2018-05-09 | DIFFERS BY A VOWEL $400: The waltz & a dimwit dance and dunce |
#7758, aired 2018-05-09 | DISNEY FACTS $1000: The title animal in this, Disney's first live-action comedy, is a Bratislavian sheepdog The Shaggy Dog |
#7753, aired 2018-05-02 | YOUR HUDDLED MASSES $200: This 8-team college football league has Lions & Tigers & Bears, oh my! (& Quakers, too) the Ivy League |
#7753, aired 2018-05-02 | MIDDLE T $200: Swine enclosure a sty |
#7752, aired 2018-05-01 | NOVEL TITLE CHARACTERS $400: Ow, she's a Wood...house! Her beau is Knightley Knightley, just lettin' it all hang out Emma |
#7749, aired 2018-04-26 | POLITICS $2,200 (Daily Double): In 1913 James Hamilton Lewis became the first senator in this job of counting votes & rounding up members whip |
#7749, aired 2018-04-26 | THE OLD WEST $4,000 (Daily Double): The source of the Old West term "buckaroo", it's Spanish for cowboy vaquero |
#7744, aired 2018-04-19 | YOU KIDS & YOUR MUSIC THESE DAYS $600: This band has gone nation wide singing, "Oo woo, I'm a rebel just for kicks now, I been feelin' it since 1966, now" Portugal. The Man |
#7736, aired 2018-04-09 | TRY THIS ON FOR SCIENCE $2000: It's a watch brand & a Nissan your parents drove--oh, & a star that emits regular bursts of radio waves a pulsar |
#7735, aired 2018-04-06 | GREED, OH! $200: CNBC's David Faber wrote "And Then the Roof Caved In: How" this street's "Greed & Stupidity Brought Capitalism to Its Knees" Wall Street |
#7735, aired 2018-04-06 | GREED, OH! $400: In "Treasure of the Sierra Madre", he plays gold-greedy Fed C. Dobbs, sweetheart Bogart |
#7735, aired 2018-04-06 | GREED, OH! $600: On a Kanye song, this type of woman "take my money when I'm in need, yea, she's a trifling friend indeed" a golddigger |
#7735, aired 2018-04-06 | GREED, OH! $800: The greed of this title Sinclair Lewis character spurs him into leading a burgeoning Methodist congregation Elmer Gantry |
#7735, aired 2018-04-06 | GREED, OH! $1000: The greedy wolf Isengrim is the antagonist of this medieval fox Reynard the fox |
#7732, aired 2018-04-03 | LYDIA, OH LYDIA $400: In her teens Lydia Ko became this golf tour's youngest winner of an event & youngest No. 1 the LPGA |
#7732, aired 2018-04-03 | LYDIA, OH LYDIA $800: Found in the book of Acts, Lydia was the first European convert of this saint St. Paul |
#7732, aired 2018-04-03 | LYDIA, OH LYDIA $1600: Hawaii's Queen Liliuokalani, born Lydia Kamakaeha, wrote this song also called "Farewell To Thee" "Aloha Oe" |
#7732, aired 2018-04-03 | LYDIA, OH LYDIA $2000: The name of this Lydian king is synonymous with vast wealth Croesus |
#7732, aired 2018-04-03 | LYDIA, OH LYDIA $3,500 (Daily Double): Being of this pacifist faith didn't keep Lydia Darragh from spying for Washington's army Quaker |
#7728, aired 2018-03-28 | MYSTERIOUS WORDS $2000: O say can you "C" this puzzling word that may involve puns? Oh, it's a... a conundrum |
#7727, aired 2018-03-27 | ISLANDS $1600: No man is an island, but the Isle of Man is found in this "national" sea the Irish Sea |
#7726, aired 2018-03-26 | GEOGRAPHIC SPELLING BEE $1600: The Dole Pineapple Company once owned 98% of this 5-letter Hawaiian island L-A-N-A-I |
#7719, aired 2018-03-15 | '80s MUSIC $1200: Oh, "Come On"! She's the title gal in the first & subsequently last Top 40 hit by Dexys Midnight Runners Eileen |
#7718, aired 2018-03-14 | PERFECT RESPONSES FOR JEOPARDY! $400: The song "Over The Rainbow" ends with this 3-word question "Why can't I?" |
#7712, aired 2018-03-06 | DIRECT ME TO THE DIRECTIONAL UNIVERSITY $200: From L.A.'s Staples Center, take Figueroa past the 110 & hang a right on McCarthy Way University of Southern California |
#7709, aired 2018-03-01 | FOOD FRANCHISES $600: Oh yeah, I'll have a blast at this franchised drive-in that once promised "service at the speed of sound" Sonic |
#7708, aired 2018-02-28 | 4 OF THE SAME VOWEL, ONE WORD $800: "The Silver Palate" one, first published in 1982, is still influential today a cookbook |
#7703, aired 2018-02-21 | SITCOMEDY TONIGHT $800: Before becoming an action movie star, he hung around Indiana as Andy Dwyer on "Parks & Rec" Chris Pratt |
#7700, aired 2018-02-16 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: 1971 events at this prison east of Buffalo were one of the bloodiest clashes between Americans in the 20th century Attica |
#7699, aired 2018-02-15 | ON THEIR LIVE AID SETLIST $600: "Sultans Of Swing" Dire Straits |
#7693, aired 2018-02-07 | THE WASHINGTON POST $400: Donald L. Neiffer is the chief one of these doctors at the National Zoo in Washington, D.C. veterinarian |
#7690, aired 2018-02-02 | IMPEACHED, REMOVED OR JUST QUIT $1000: This leader of Japanese descent tried to quit as Peru's president in 2000 but the Congress fired him Alberto Fujimori |
#7688, aired 2018-01-31 | CATCHING "FIRE" $1000: "Light the fire within" is the motto of this youth organization that began accepting boys in 1975 Campfire |
#7687, aired 2018-01-30 | AIR FORCE BASE $1,000 (Daily Double): Since the 1950s the USAF & this air force have shared a base at Mildenhall in Suffolk the Royal Air Force (or RAF) |
#7686, aired 2018-01-29 | JAPANESE AUTHORS $800: In 1994 rebellious Kenzaburo Oe rejected the Japanese Order of Culture but accepted this more famous prize the Nobel |
#7685, aired 2018-01-26 | SIMILES IF YOU PLEASE $600: It's what Forrest Gump's mama always said "Life is like a box of chocolates" |
#7680, aired 2018-01-19 | 19th CENTURY OCCUPATIONS $2,000 (Daily Double): This person didn't drive trucks but rather horses or oxen hauling cargo a teamster |
#7671, aired 2018-01-08 | BROADWAY MUSICALS BY SONGS $800: "Dawn (Go Away)" & "December, 1963 (Oh, What A Night)" Jersey Boys |
#7671, aired 2018-01-08 | WORDS MADE UP OF ROMAN NUMERALS $1000: Absolutely furious! livid |
#7671, aired 2018-01-08 | BRITISH AUTHORS $2000: Banned upon publication, this author's "The Rainbow" was described by one magistrate as "utter filth" D.H. Lawrence |
#7670, aired 2018-01-05 | WHERE THE GRASS IS GREEN $200: "Wild" this grain isn't this grain at all but the seed of an aquatic grass wild rice |
#7670, aired 2018-01-05 | TAKE ME "DOWN" $200: 15,406... 15,405... 15,404... man, this is going to take a while a countdown |
#7669, aired 2018-01-04 | HELP! TV POLICE! $400: This police chief-- "Mrs. Simpson... your husband was found D.O.A....oh wait, I mean D.W.I.! I always get those 2 mixed up!" Chief (Clancy) Wiggum |
#7668, aired 2018-01-03 | 2-DIGIT NUMBERS $1600: Janis Joplin & Jimi Hendrix are members of this morbid numeric club, as they were both this age when they passed 27 |
#7662, aired 2017-12-26 | FRANCE IN YOUR PANTS $400: Pardon me... would you have any of this Dijon mustard brand from Kraft Heinz? Oh, it's in your pocket? Never mind Grey Poupon |
#7660, aired 2017-12-22 | WEIGHTS & MEASURES $200: Oh, Lord, this unit of temperature is abbreviated K Kelvin |
#7660, aired 2017-12-22 | IDIOMS AROUND THE WORLD $600: In the U.S. someone frantic has his hair in this state; in China the same thing happens to the eyebrows on fire |
#7660, aired 2017-12-22 | AIRPORT CODES $800: Oh my God! The OMG belongs to Omega Airport in the Kavango region of this African nation Namibia |
#7660, aired 2017-12-22 | MIDDLE "P" $1600: Force out, such as air from the lungs respire |
#7660, aired 2017-12-22 | CHARGING BULL $9,800 (Daily Double): This city has a sharp right turn from Mercaderes Street onto Estafeta; easy for a running man, less for a bull Pamplona |
#7660, aired 2017-12-22 | FEARLESS GIRL $11,400 (Daily Double): A young woman from Chile moves to Calif. during the gold rush in "Daughter of Fortune" by this author Isabel Allende |
#7658, aired 2017-12-20 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS' MOST-HATED MOVIES $1200: Olaf the Snowman confessed he found this 1962 David Lean epic "hard to watch" Lawrence of Arabia |
#7652, aired 2017-12-12 | ____ING ON POETRY $2000: "Oh, weep for ____! Though our tears thaw not the frost" Adonais |
#7648, aired 2017-12-06 | THE EYE $600: In surgery for this condition, an artificial lens replaces your own clouded one cataracts |
#7646, aired 2017-12-04 | DROP THE MIC $1200: From the end of an adjective for pottery to get this last name of actor Michael Cera |
#7644, aired 2017-11-30 | SOME CHOICE WORDS $1,600 (Daily Double): What a parent does to a better-loved child, or what a person limping is doing to the bad leg favoring |
#7643, aired 2017-11-29 | BUILDING, ROMAN $2,000 (Daily Double): Over 2,000 years after it was built, the Bridge of Alcantara in western Spain still crosses this river the Tagus |
#7642, aired 2017-11-28 | COLD PLACES $400: Oh yah, this seat of Cass County, North Dakota got down to minus 31 in January 2008, dontcha know Fargo |
#7642, aired 2017-11-28 | ON THE "GO" $800: Ow, my aching back! Or, medically, this lumbago |
#7639, aired 2017-11-23 | FOR A SONG $1200: Roy Orbison recorded this song years before Van Halen's 1982 hit "Oh, Pretty Woman" |
#7638, aired 2017-11-22 | NOW YOU'RE SPEAKING MY LANGUAGE $400: A Parisian journalist on a hot story will be asking qui, quoi, quand, ou & pourquoi, these 5 words who, what, when, where & why |
#7638, aired 2017-11-22 | NOW YOU'RE SPEAKING MY LANGUAGE $1600: Hawaiian has a glottal one & so does British English, as in "right-oh" a stop |
#7634, aired 2017-11-16 | TRIPLE RHYME TIME $2,800 (Daily Double): A happy 10K for women in habits nun fun run |
#7633, aired 2017-11-15 | STATE SYMBOLS $1,000 (Daily Double): Created at its Toll House Restaurant, the chocolate chip cookie is this state's official state cookie Massachusetts |
#7632, aired 2017-11-14 | FASHION: 1900 TO 1950 $200: Mr. Christian, oh the time has come, to name this designer whose 1940s "New Look" made shoulders less NFL-like Dior |
#7632, aired 2017-11-14 | HIDDEN FIGURES $1200: Pluperfect is one a tense |
#7628, aired 2017-11-08 | EMMY, GRAMMY, OSCAR, TONY $800: Her credits include "Shameless" on TV & "The Phantom of the Opera" on film Emmy Rossum |
#7627, aired 2017-11-07 | MOVIE & TV DEATHS $400: "Oh my God, they killed" this "South Park" character! (over... & over... & over...) Kenny |
#7626, aired 2017-11-06 | "FUSION" $1200: This vehicle out of Detroit that debuted with the 2006 model was once going to be called the Futura the Ford Fusion |
#7625, aired 2017-11-03 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1000: His 1935 novel "It Can't Happen Here" is a cautionary tale about the rise of fascism in the United States Sinclair Lewis |
#7625, aired 2017-11-03 | MISSISSIPPI $2,000 (Daily Double): Sadly, of the 17,000 Union soldiers buried in the national cemetery at this battle site, 75% are listed as unknowns Vicksburg |
#7624, aired 2017-11-02 | CHAIR FORCE $1,200 (Daily Double): This 18th century British furniture maker was known for his rococo chairs with a distinctive back Thomas Chippendale |
#7624, aired 2017-11-02 | BASEBALL RECORDS $1200: "My Oh My" is Macklemore & Ryan Lewis' tribute to Dave Niehaus, the longtime announcer for this A.L. West team the Seattle Mariners |
#7620, aired 2017-10-27 | 1970s ALBUMS $1200: It was on his "Tea for the Tillerman" album that he first sang, "Oh, Baby, Baby, It's a Wild World" Cat Stevens |
#7619, aired 2017-10-26 | OLD POETS' NICKNAMES $400: "The English Terence"--oh, & also "The Swan of Avon" Shakespeare |
#7617, aired 2017-10-24 | IN OTHER WORDS, DEAD $400: Uh oh! You "bought" this tract of land, silo & all the farm |
#7617, aired 2017-10-24 | ROBOTS $1000: Robots don't need goggles to do this job of fusing metal to metal with an electrical charge sparking across a gap arc welding |
#7609, aired 2017-10-12 | STARTS OR ENDS WITH A TREE $400: Ship steering wheel the helm |
#7609, aired 2017-10-12 | HELLO, DOLLY! $1000: This line of dolls includes First Day of School Frankie Stein Monster High |
#7609, aired 2017-10-12 | STARTS OR ENDS WITH A TREE $2000: Slang for a detective gumshoe |
#7608, aired 2017-10-11 | B OFF! $1000: Remove "B" from a German composer to get this German equivalent of "Oh" ach |
#7606, aired 2017-10-09 | VIDEO GAMES $2,000 (Daily Double): Impossible architecture is found in this "valley", a mobile game that shares a name with a place in Utah & Arizona Monument |
#7604, aired 2017-10-05 | IT'S LIEBERMAN! $200: He was majority leader of the Connecticut Senate from 1975 to 1981 Joe Lieberman |
#7604, aired 2017-10-05 | IT'S A PLANE $400: With its pilot dangling beneath it, the 1896 Chanute aircraft was an early one of these gliders a hang glider |
#7598, aired 2017-09-27 | AN IVY LEAGUE EDUCATION $200: Oh yeah, Nietzsche & Freud come up in the "Guilt and Shame" philosophy course at this Rhode Island school Brown |
#7598, aired 2017-09-27 | THE SIMPLER 4-LETTER SYNONYM $600: Bogus or counterfeit fake |
#7597, aired 2017-09-26 | "O" YES, OPERA! $2000: Oh boy! The title role in Verdi's first opera is an Italian count who shares his name with this sausage & jerky maker Oberto |
#7593, aired 2017-09-20 | LET'S HEAR IT FOR WEDNESDAY $1200: What's that smudge of a cross on your forehead? Oh, it must be this first day of Lent Ash Wednesday |
#7593, aired 2017-09-20 | WORDS OF OPPOSITION $2000: Diametric 9-letter term meaning on the opposite side of the globe antipodal |
#7592, aired 2017-09-19 | MEN IN HATS $800: Oh, tell us the name of this Italian operatic composer (Giuseppe) Verdi |
#7584, aired 2017-07-27 | THE UNION, JACK $400: In November 1862 this bewhiskered man replaced General McClellan as head of Union troops Burnside |
#7579, aired 2017-07-20 | PARTS OF SPEECH... IN SONG! $600: "Baby baby baby oh, like baby baby baby no, like baby baby baby oh, thought you'd always be mine":
mine a pronoun |
#7579, aired 2017-07-20 | A PSYCHOTIC EPISODE $1000: On HBO's "Oz", this Oscar winner found his tempo as a neo-Nazi who oh-so-casually threatened his cellmate's family J.K. Simmons |
#7577, aired 2017-07-18 | AN OO SOUND $200: A female with dark brown hair a brunette |
#7577, aired 2017-07-18 | AN OO SOUND $400: The late guitarist B.B. King was called the king of this musical genre blues |
#7577, aired 2017-07-18 | AN OO SOUND $600: A plaintiff, or a man who courts a woman a suitor |
#7577, aired 2017-07-18 | AN OO SOUND $800: This closed 2-door auto is shorter than a sedan of the same model a coupe |
#7577, aired 2017-07-18 | AN OO SOUND $1000: From the French for "I commend you to God", it means farewell adieu |
#7575, aired 2017-07-14 | MUSIC TO MY YEARS $2000: "Oh What A Night" The Four Seasons had in late December of this title year 1963 |
#7568, aired 2017-07-05 | LITERARY SPOILER ALERT! $2,000 (Daily Double): In this Dennis Lehane novel, the investigator is really an inmate & the docs are letting him live out a fantasy Shutter Island |
#7567, aired 2017-07-04 | CASINO ROYALE $600 (Daily Double): Gary, Indiana's Majestic Star Casino has a royal view of this Great Lake Lake Michigan |
#7563, aired 2017-06-28 | NEWER WORDS & PHRASES $2000: 2 body parts are joined in this expression & gesture meaning "oh no!" facepalming |
#7558, aired 2017-06-21 | LINCOLN QUOTES $600: Abe called him "vigilant & self-reliant" but never really said, Oh, he drinks? Then send his brand to my other generals Grant |
#7556, aired 2017-06-19 | THE CENTURY OF THE FIGHT $4,200 (Daily Double): The Wars of the Roses the 15th century |
#7550, aired 2017-06-09 | IN MY ELEMENT $800: This strong alkaline solution lye |
#7546, aired 2017-06-05 | STATE NAMES $2,000 (Daily Double): This state's name originally began with "Ou" until Congress changed it to a "W" Wisconsin |
#7543, aired 2017-05-31 | SOME FASHION CENTS $1200: Oh, Domenico & Stefano, heads of this brand, your $3,495 cherry-motif striped A-line dress is just to die for! Dolce & Gabbana |
#7541, aired 2017-05-29 | FINGER-SNAPPING TUNES $1600: Oh, snap! This hit had "jet planes, islands, tigers on a gold leash, we don't care, we aren't caught up in your love affair" "Royals" |
#7535, aired 2017-05-19 | ALTERNATIVE FACTS $5,000 (Daily Double): The 18th c. had the phlogiston theory of combustion; Lavoisier subbed in the theory of this newly discovered gas oxygen |
#7534, aired 2017-05-18 | A ROUND OF GULF $400: This gulf's leading ports include Basra & Abu Dhabi the Persian Gulf |
#7533, aired 2017-05-17 | I NEED SOME TUDOR-ING $1200: The Tudors claimed the British throne with a victory over this monarch at Bosworth Field Richard III |
#7527, aired 2017-05-09 | PEOPLE ON THE PAGE $2,000 (Daily Double): This sea captain "with a crucifixion in his face" seeks revenge, but not on a person Captain Ahab |
#7522, aired 2017-05-02 | BYE LINES $800: This British Romantic poet & lord wrote, "Maid of Athens, ere we part, give, oh give me back my heart!" Lord Byron |
#7520, aired 2017-04-28 | LIT-POURRI $4,000 (Daily Double): In a Stowe novel he tells Uncle Tom, "I'm your church now...you've got to be as I say" Simon Legree |
#7509, aired 2017-04-13 | "B" MY LOVE $200: This 2-word alliterative product should effervesce your spirits as well as the water you soak in bubble bath |
#7502, aired 2017-04-04 | BATTLE HIM $400: "Oh, but we had a bully fight", he said, referring to the 1898 Battle of San Juan Hill Teddy Roosevelt |
#7496, aired 2017-03-27 | OH MY GODS! $200: Roman emperor Augustus claimed descent from this Olympian & sun god Apollo |
#7496, aired 2017-03-27 | OH MY GODS! $400: In Norse mythology, this trickster god can change his shape & gender at will Loki |
#7496, aired 2017-03-27 | OH MY GODS! $800: Ganesha, the Hindu god of beginnings & good fortune, has a human body & the head of this animal an elephant |
#7496, aired 2017-03-27 | OH MY GODS! $1000: This god of fire & patron of craftsmen was really lame... really Vulcan (or Hephaestus) |
#7496, aired 2017-03-27 | OH MY GODS! $2,400 (Daily Double): This Roman god has his own fountain in Madrid Neptune |
#7495, aired 2017-03-24 | OH, THE HORROR! $200: In the original film it's the night in 1963 when 6-year-old Michael Myers stabbed his sister to death Halloween |
#7495, aired 2017-03-24 | OH, THE HORROR! $400: "Roanoke", about a haunted farm house in North Carolina, is the sixth season of this FX anthology American Horror Story |
#7495, aired 2017-03-24 | OH, THE HORROR! $600: Both a 1999 film & its 2016 sequel feature found footage exploring this title figure in the Maryland woods The Blair Witch Project |
#7495, aired 2017-03-24 | OH, THE HORROR! $800: "What's Wrong With Norman" was an episode of this drama on A&E Bates Motel |
#7495, aired 2017-03-24 | OH, THE HORROR! $1000: Ghostface, the white-masked killer in this 1996 film, asks, "What's your favorite scary movie? Scream |
#7488, aired 2017-03-15 | WALK, THIS WAY $600: "Ain't nothin' gonna break my" this, long steps walked with vitality, "Nobody gonna slow me down, oh no" stride |
#7480, aired 2017-03-03 | BRITISH GEOGRAPHY $400: Nine UK rivers bear this name, including the one seen here; oh, that's the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in the background Avon |
#7480, aired 2017-03-03 | THE DREADED SPELLING CATEGORY $800: Medical condition characterized by involuntary sleeping N-A-R-C-O-L-E-P-S-Y |
#7479, aired 2017-03-02 | THE POET WRITES $2000: "Oh weep for Adonais--he is dead! Wake, melancholy mother, wake and weep!" Shelley |
#7475, aired 2017-02-24 | WORD ORIGINS $800: We bet Ken Jennings celebrates Jan. 4, the national day for this, from the Latin for "the place where 3 roads meet" trivia |
#7473, aired 2017-02-22 | ESSAY TEST $800: This transcendentalist preached the ethics of "Self-Reliance" in an essay with that title (Ralph Waldo) Emerson |
#7472, aired 2017-02-21 | VIDEO GAMES $2000: "Hyrule Legends" & "Link's Crossbow Training" are Wii options in this "legendary" game series The Legend of Zelda |
#7471, aired 2017-02-20 | ALL IN A DAY'S WORK $600: Uh oh! A visit from HR, this department human resources |
#7467, aired 2017-02-14 | 10-LETTER WORDS $2,500 (Daily Double): "Madam, I'm Adam" is a famous one a palindrome |
#7463, aired 2017-02-08 | NBA GREATS $800: At the Beijing Olympics, the Chinese called this Laker Xiao Fei Xia or Peter Pan, due to his "flying" ability Kobe Bryant |
#7462, aired 2017-02-07 | MILESTONE BIRTHDAYS 2017 $800: Feliz cumpleaños to this Colombian music superstar on her 40th Shakira |
#7457, aired 2017-01-31 | TRAVEL & TOURISM $400: Every even year watch the world's top sailors in the Atlantic Cup, a 1,000-mile race from this S.C. port to Portland, Me. Charleston |
#7457, aired 2017-01-31 | TRAVEL & TOURISM $800: It's the French name of the Seine's Left Bank, home to the Sorbonne & intellectual life the Rive Gauche |
#7456, aired 2017-01-30 | ROUTE '60-SOMETHING $2,000 (Daily Double): "The two poles of classical civilization" describes the 1960 Olympic torch relay from here to here Athens and Rome |
#7455, aired 2017-01-27 | GOVERNMENT & TV $2000: Raj on "The Big Bang Theory" was once tapped by this government entity to work on a unique message NASA |
#7440, aired 2017-01-06 | 2-LETTER WORDS $800: The archaic plural form of thou ye |
#7428, aired 2016-12-21 | RHYMIN' SIMON $600: Hinderin' with trivialities, not coins nickel-and-dimin' |
#7427, aired 2016-12-20 | THE MUSICAL STYLINGS OF JOHNNY GILBERT $1600: "1, 2, 3, they gonna run back to me, they always wanna come, but they never want to leave, ex's & the oh, oh, oh's" King |
#7420, aired 2016-12-09 | BALLET UP TO THE BARRE $2000: It's been said that "Coppelia" is ballet's great comedy & this 1841 tale of a doomed maiden, its great tragedy Giselle |
#7418, aired 2016-12-07 | OPERATION $600: Breadbasket: boycott of discriminatory businesses begun in 1962 by the SCLC, this the Southern Christian Leadership Conference |
#7410, aired 2016-11-25 | GRAND THEFT "OO" $400: Lose both "O"s from the end of this "forbidden" word & you're left with this soft drink taboo & TaB |
#7410, aired 2016-11-25 | GRAND THEFT "OO" $800: What "the game is", meaning "in progress", shrinks down to a boating word afoot & aft |
#7410, aired 2016-11-25 | GRAND THEFT "OO" $1200: A word meaning "emotionally distant" loses its "O"s & becomes a TV alien life form aloof & ALF |
#7410, aired 2016-11-25 | GRAND THEFT "OO" $1600: A word meaning "flowed slowly" loses its initial "O"s & becomes this British word for a letter of the alphabet oozed & zed |
#7410, aired 2016-11-25 | GRAND THEFT "OO" $2000: What you do with your loved one in private becomes this object that might illuminate the scene canoodle & candle |
#7409, aired 2016-11-24 | 1990s MOVIE QUOTES $800: "Good morning! Oh, and in case I don't see you, good afternoon, good evening, and good night!" The Truman Show |
#7397, aired 2016-11-08 | ROCK OF LOVE $400: His 1957 hit "Oh, Boy!" begins, "All of my love, all of my kissin', you don't know what you been a-missin'" Buddy Holly |
#7395, aired 2016-11-04 | A SPANISH INQUISITION $1000: ¿Quien paga por el muro? Who pays for the wall? |
#7395, aired 2016-11-04 | TRAVEL & TOURISM $1600: While in Fiji see this ceremony natives call vilavilairevo, or "jumping into the oven", & listen for "Ow! Ow! Ow!" hot coal walking |
#7392, aired 2016-11-01 | YOU'RE THE TOP $800: Consumed by many each morning, this alkaloid is the most widely used psychoactive substance in the world caffeine |
#7391, aired 2016-10-31 | LIKE A ROCK $1,000 (Daily Double): The object of a pursuit, such as a hunted animal quarry |
#7389, aired 2016-10-27 | THE PLAYWRIGHT WRITES $2000: "A big nose is indicative of a soul affable, and kind" Edmond Rostand |
#7388, aired 2016-10-26 | JUNIOR LEAGUE $1600: The 2 juniors on the current Supreme Court; one joined in 2005, the other, the following year John Roberts & Alito |
#7386, aired 2016-10-24 | IN COGNITO $1000: This hybrid offspring of two big cats a tigon |
#7384, aired 2016-10-20 | HISTORICAL TO-DO LISTS $2000: June 22, 1611:
Make sure mutineers don't set me & my son adrift in the bay named for me; uh-oh Henry Hudson |
#7380, aired 2016-10-14 | SCRAMBLED HARRY POTTER CHARACTERS $1000: A caretaker:
CIGAR FLUSH Argus Filch |
#7374, aired 2016-10-06 | BRITISH SPELLING TEST $400: Recognize R-E-C-O-G-N-I-S-E |
#7373, aired 2016-10-05 | FLORAL BOOK TITLES $400: In Deborah Moggach's "Tulip Fever", a mania for the title bulbs sweeps this Dutch city in the 1630s Amsterdam |
#7372, aired 2016-10-04 | WHAT A TV CHARACTER! $400: From 1970 to 2011 "All My Children" sizzled with Susan Lucci as this character Erica Kane |
#7371, aired 2016-10-03 | PRONOUN-CIATION $600: Number that goes pronoun as a substitute for "you" or "I" one |
#7370, aired 2016-09-30 | "OOT" & ABOUT $800: An Australian marsupial a bandicoot |
#7366, aired 2016-09-26 | LAST LETTER, FIRST LETTER $2000: The Ancient Mariner tells his tale to this person, on the groom's side the wedding guest |
#7365, aired 2016-09-23 | THE "SYM"s $1200: Adjective for a relationship that may be beneficial to both individuals involved symbiotic |
#7363, aired 2016-09-21 | '80s POP LYRICS IN LATIN $1000: "Oh, what a feeling, when we're dancing on the tectum" ceiling |
#7362, aired 2016-09-20 | WORDS THAT SHOULD RHYME $400: A pass that helps another player score & the guy playing a low-toned string instrument assist and bassist |
#7361, aired 2016-09-19 | CARROT $2,500 (Daily Double): Carrots are a great source of beta-carotene, which the human body turns into this vitamin vitamin A |
#7356, aired 2016-09-12 | COLLEGE FOOTBALL $800: (Dan Patrick delivers the clue as Will Ferrell does some sportscasting.) Will Ferrell appeared on my show in character as Ron Burgundy to re-create some of the great calls in sports history, including Doug Flutie's Hail Mary pass...
"Oh, he got it!
Did he get it?
He got it!
Touchdown! Touchdown!
Touchdown! Touchdown!"
...that won the game for this school over Miami in 1984 Boston College |
#7354, aired 2016-07-28 | SOUNDS LIKE A STAR WARS CHARACTER $1000: Of the 7 hills of Rome, the one where Romulus & Remus were found the Palatine |
#7353, aired 2016-07-27 | COMEDY TONIGHT $1600: Lucille Bluth, on this show: "That coat cost more than your house!... Oh, that's how we joke. She doesn't even have a house" Arrested Development |
#7350, aired 2016-07-22 | THAT GAME OF THRONES GUY WITH THE BEARD $200: Oh, my sun & stars! In 2011 Jason Momoa took over this title film role from Arnold & got all barbaric Conan |
#7350, aired 2016-07-22 | YOU "DY" $600: Oh, Rob... the Petries were the family on this sitcom The Dick Van Dyke Show |
#7350, aired 2016-07-22 | THAT GAME OF THRONES GUY WITH THE BEARD $1000: This Emmy winner said, "Dwarves are still the butt of jokes. It's one of the last bastions of acceptable prejudice" Peter Dinklage |
#7349, aired 2016-07-21 | THE LETTER OF THE LAW $400: B:
Handgun violence prevention act passed in 1993 Brady (Law) |
#7349, aired 2016-07-21 | ON BROADWAY $1600: "The Sound of Music" & this 1957 Broadway show each have a song called "Maria" West Side Story |
#7348, aired 2016-07-20 | THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE $400: Electoral maps from these 2 years are seen here--what some called "Mr. Wilson's war" was in between 1916 & 1920 |
#7346, aired 2016-07-18 | MAN-AGRAMS $800: A 19th century president:
RUN VIBRANT AMEN Martin Van Buren |
#7343, aired 2016-07-13 | "LOG" JAM $200: What's that noise? Oh, it's this wooden shoe dance; go, Grandma, go a clog dance |
#7343, aired 2016-07-13 | PETER THE NOT GREAT $1000: Oh no! Peter tore his ACL, short for this, which helps connect the tibia to the femur the anterior cruciate ligament |
#7341, aired 2016-07-11 | BORN IN CONNECTICUT $200: A book called "Homegrown Terror" chronicles this patriot-turned-traitor & the burning of New London Benedict Arnold |
#7341, aired 2016-07-11 | NO. 2 ON THE CHARTS $2000: Oh, what a feelin', when this guy hit No. 2 in 1986 with "Dancing On The Ceiling" Lionel Richie |
#7340, aired 2016-07-08 | A PETITE DEJEUNER $800: This bite-size cereal from Kellogg's has flavors like frosted strawberry & maple brown sugar Mini-Wheats |
#7339, aired 2016-07-07 | JETS $1200: This company's 787 has a 70-yard wingspan & cruises at Mach .82 Boeing |
#7335, aired 2016-07-01 | NICE LONG DANES $800: In 1012 Danish marauders under Thorkell the Tall seized England's Archbishop of this & brutally beat him with steak bones Canterbury |
#7332, aired 2016-06-28 | OH, GOD! $200: "Volcano" comes from the name of this fire god Vulcan |
#7332, aired 2016-06-28 | OH, GOD! $400: This sea god telling his wife Amphitrite that Pegasus was the result of his love affair must have been an adventure Poseidon |
#7332, aired 2016-06-28 | OH, GOD! $600: In Egyptian myth, when Geb retired to heaven, this guy, the big "O", became pharaoh & took Isis as his queen Osiris |
#7332, aired 2016-06-28 | OH, GOD! $800: This god is seen here flaying Marsyas who defeated him in a lyre & flute contest Apollo |
#7332, aired 2016-06-28 | OH, GOD! $1000: At Ragnarok, this one-eyed god will be eaten by a wolf named Fenrir, so he has that to look forward to Odin |
#7325, aired 2016-06-17 | Y, OH Y $200: Because they mean the same thing, mix & blend are said to be these synonyms |
#7325, aired 2016-06-17 | Y, OH Y $400: A long, involved, Homeric journey, especially to get home odyssey |
#7325, aired 2016-06-17 | Y, OH Y $600: More than one wife or one husband at the same time; uh oh... polygamy |
#7325, aired 2016-06-17 | Y, OH Y $800: A bushman of the Kalahari a pygmy |
#7325, aired 2016-06-17 | Y, OH Y $1000: Central Asian country with the som as its currency Kyrgyzstan |
#7324, aired 2016-06-16 | THREE CHEERS FOR THE RED, WHITE $2,000 (Daily Double): It features a single G2 V dwarf star Japan |
#7323, aired 2016-06-15 | HIGHLAND BLING $600: General Campbell is looking sporty in his trous, linguistically similar to what we call these pants trousers |
#7323, aired 2016-06-15 | INTERNATIONAL DAYS OF THE WEEK $2000: Thank God it's "Friday" in Spanish viernes |
Dara Lind, a junior from Yale University
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2008 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 20 and from Cincinnati, OH at...
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Nick Yozamp, a junior from Washington University in St. Louis
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2010 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 2010-A College Championship winner:...
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Danny Devries, a junior from the University of Michigan
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2008 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 21 and from West Bloomfield, MI...
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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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Jove Graham, a biomedical engineer from Lewisburg, Pennsylvania
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Season 26 1-time champion: $34,401 + $1,000. Jove's second contestant interview...
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Stefan Goodreau, a video game tester from Los Angeles, California
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2010 Tournament of Champions 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $50,000. Season...
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Max Johansen, a senior from the University of Miami
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"As a seventh grader, he was planning on a career in...
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Zack Terrill, a senior at Vanderbilt University from Winter Springs, Florida
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2012 College Championship 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $25,000. 21 at...
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Aaron Wicks, a planning and evaluation manager from Rochester, New York
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Season 26 1-time champion: $18,001 + 1,000. Aaron Wicks Rochester, NY...
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Chris Rodrigues, a personal banking representative from New Bedford, Massachusetts
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Season 26 3-time champion: $41,498 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Justin Hofstetter, a sixth and seventh grade language arts and social studies teacher from Kansas City, Missouri
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"This sixth and seventh grade teacher is in his first year...
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Leslie Shannon, a manager of a research lab from Sydney, Australia
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"A recent art history graduate when she became Jeopardy! champion in...
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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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Leszek Pawlowicz, a shovel bum from Flagstaff, Arizona
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"He was a material scientist living in Phoenix when he won...
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Christine Valada, a photographer and attorney originally from Walton, New York
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2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $68,703...
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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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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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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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Kristiana Henderson, a junior from Kent, Washington
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2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games quarterfinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time...
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Peter Severson, a senior from Sioux Falls, South Dakota
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2005 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time of the...
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Trisha Eustaquio, a biomedical engineer from Silver Spring, Maryland
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Season 35 player (2018-12-19). Last name pronounced like "ey-yoo-stuh-KEE-oh". (Johnny Gilbert...
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Judd Hess, a high school English teacher from Huntington Beach, California
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"In college, he volunteered to help in a classroom and was...
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Kate Wilson, a high school AP English teacher from Montgomery, Alabama
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"She is a top-10 AP English language teacher at Alabama's number-one...
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Joon Pahk, a college physics teacher from Somerville, Massachusetts
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2011 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000.
Season 28 7-time champion: $199,000 + $2,000.
JBoard user name: jpahk
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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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Ari Stern, a mathematician from San Diego, California
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Season 27 1-time champion: $17,201 + $1,000.
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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 + $2,000.
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Dan Smith, a student from Chicago, Illinois
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Season 25 3-time champion: $69,200 + $1,000. Dan Smith - a...
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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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Vanamali Compton, a junior from Clarkdale, Arizona
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2005 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. 16 at the time of the...
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Lauren Romero, a senior from Denver, Colorado
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2006 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. According to the official Jeopardy! web...
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Charles Temple, a high school English teacher from Ocracoke, North Carolina
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"He teaches at the smallest public school in North Carolina, and...
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Jesse Tow, an after-school program coach from Austin, Texas
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Season 28 player (2012-04-04). Last name pronounced to rhyme with "OW"...
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Leslie Decker, a high school German and ESL teacher from Austin, Texas
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"She taught English to Europeans. Now she teaches German to Americans....
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Buddy Wright, an operations engineer from Fort Worth, Texas
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2011 Tournament of Champions 2nd runner-up: $50,000. Season 26 4-time champion:...
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Charles Temple, a high school English teacher from Ocracoke, North Carolina
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2011 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000.
2011 Teachers Tournament winner: $100,000.
JBoard user name: lonesomeseagull
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David Skaar, a research scientist from Raleigh, North Carolina
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Season 25 3-time champion: $102,000 + $2,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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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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David Hudson, a junior from the University of Virginia
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"His musical taste has changed since he won $10,000 on Kids...
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Kevin Yang, a junior from Birmingham, Alabama
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2012 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000.
16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Raynell Cooper, a senior from Rockville, Maryland
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2011 Teen Tournament winner (semifinalist by wildcard): $75,000. 16 at the...
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Mike Maheu, a high school teacher from San Diego, California
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Season 25 2-time champion: $46,242 + $1,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Ben Greenho, a junior from Plano, Texas
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2012 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Julio Trujillo, a substitute teacher from Denver, Colorado
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Season 31 player (2015-03-31). Name pronounced like "HOO-lee-oh troo-HEE-oh". Julio appeared...
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Stephen Fritz, a sophomore from Lexington, Kentucky
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2007 Teen Tournament 2nd runner-up: $25,460.
15 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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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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Suchita Shah, a senior from the University of Wisconsin-Madison
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2008 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 20 and from Holmen, WI...
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Bernard Holloway, a junior from Mitchellville, Maryland
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2002 Teen...
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Ben Goldman, a sophomore at New York University from Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania
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2005 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
Son of Season 17 1-time champion Marjorie Goldman.
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Rachael Schwartz, a lawyer with an international law firm from Washington, D.C.
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"In 1994, she became the first woman ever to win the...
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Paul Gutowski, an alcohol and drug counselor from Rockford, Illinois
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"He was the first 5-time winner in 1997. An alcohol and...
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Laura Hughes, a mom from New Market, Maryland
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Season 26 1-time champion: $27,500 + $2,000. Wife of Season 16...
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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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India Cooper, a copy editor from Madison, Indiana
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"She was an actor and copy editor in New York City...
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Emily Heaney, a freelance costume designer from White Bear Lake, Minnesota
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Season 25 1-time champion: $2,200 + $1,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Kevin Wilson, a communications specialist from Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Season 26 3-time champion: $76,998 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Lisa Dvorak, a grocery store chain administrative assistant from Millersville, Maryland
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Season 27 1-time champion: $31,201 + $2,000.
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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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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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Jeff Spoeri, a university administrator from Boynton Beach, Florida
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2007 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD...
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Jonathan Corbblah, a chess teacher from Harlem, New York
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Season 27 1-time champion: $13,000 + $1,000. Jonathan appeared as a...
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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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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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Marshall Flores, a senior from Arizona State University from Avondale, Arizona
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2010-B College Championship semifinalist: $10,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
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Sophia Marianiello, an 11-year-old from Newark, Delaware
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"She plans on putting her love of building with cardboard and...
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Harry Shearer, a humorist, Spinal Tap bassist, and voice from The Simpsons
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"He recently celebrated the 25th anniversary of This Is Spinal Tap...
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Brady Cassis, a junior from Yale University
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2007 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 20 at the time of the...
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Scott Renzoni, a bartender and actor from Burlington, Vermont
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2004 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Season 20 4-time champion: $112,998 + $2,000.
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Bryan Brzycki, a stay-at-home dad from Indianapolis, Indiana
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Season 34 player (2018-02-21). Father of Season 31 Kids Week contestant...
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Monica Thieu, a sophomore at the University of North Texas from Dallas, Texas
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2019 All-Star Games member of 1st runner-up Team Ken: a share...
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Mary Ellen LaRubbio, a legal secretary originally from Brooklyn, New York
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Season 8 player (1992-06-12): a collection of Armitron All-Sport water-resistant sport...
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Tom Walsh, a writer from Washington, D.C.
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
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Osei Boakye, a graduate student of history from Clearwater, Florida
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Season 30 player (2014-01-14).
Name pronounced like oh-SAY-ee boh-AH-chee.
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Brian Olewnick, a capital assets manager from New York City, New York
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Season 7 player (1991-04-12).
Last name pronounced like \"oh-LEV-nick\".
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Olev Jaakson, a research analyst from New York, New York
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Season 34 player (2018-01-02).
Name pronounced like "OH-lev YAHK-sahn".
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Henry Ayoola, a Ph.D. student from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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Season 34 1-time champion: $14,800 + $2,000.
Last name pronounced like "eye-OH-lah".
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Eli Barrieau, a high school history teacher from Hardwick, Massachusetts
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"He found working in a window factory a 'pain'. Now it's...
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Karen Cafaro, an English literature and composition teacher from Georgetown, South Carolina
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"She recently celebrated her silver anniversary of teaching. From Georgetown, South...
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Rex Moroux, a commercial real estate broker from Lafayette, Louisiana
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Season 34 player (2018-04-23).
Last name pronounced like "MORE-oh".
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Gus Iurillo, a business ownership coach from Glen Allen, Virginia
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Season 30 player (2013-10-28).
Last name pronounced like "yoo-RILL-oh".
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Dave Simpson, a pastor from Belcamp, Maryland
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2009 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 24 4-time champion:...
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Rose Schaefer, a junior from Portland, Oregon
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2012 Teen Tournament 1st runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $36,000. 16 at...
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Nadège Aoki, a marine biology graduate student from Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Season 38 player (2022-03-23).
Name pronounced like "nah-DEHZH ah-OH-kee".
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Fran Fried, a writer, editor and DJ from Prospect, Connecticut
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Season 34 player (2017-10-17).
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Basia Pioro, a development manager from George Town, Grand Cayman
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Season 29 player (2012-12-03).
Name pronounced like "BAHSH-ah pee-OR-oh".
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Hans von Walter, a junior from Southern Adventist University from Avon Park, Florida
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2010-B College Championship 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $25,000 + a...
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Patrick Pacheco, a labor and employment specialist from Denver, Colorado
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Season 37 player (2021-08-06).
Last name pronounced like "PUH-check-oh".
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Matt Polazzo, a high school U.S. government teacher from Brooklyn, New York
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"He teaches at one of the most selective high schools in...
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Betsy Knudson, an attorney from Salt Lake City, Utah
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Season 34 3-time champion: $61,402 + $1,000.
Last name pronounced like \"kuh-NOOD-sun\".
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Luciano D'Orazio, a social studies teacher from Deer Park, New York
|
Season 25 1-time champion: $27,200 + $1,000.
Name pronounced like "loo-chee-AH-no door-AHT-zee-oh".
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Brenton Montie, a sixth grade social studies teacher from South Lyon, Michigan
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"He teaches at a school ranked in the top 5% in...
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Virginia Ogozalek, a professor emeritus from Shrewsbury, Massachusetts
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Season 27 player (2011-04-27).
Last name pronounced like "oh-go-ZAH-lek".
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Paul Nelson, a Senate staff aide originally from Iowa City, Iowa
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2013 Tournament of champions semifinalist: $10,000.
Season 29 5-time champion: $54,900 + $2,000.
JBoard user name: PaulNelson2012
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Neil Ashar, an attorney from Washington, D.C.
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Season 28 player (2012-06-18).
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Richard Elepano, a pediatrician from New York, New York
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Season 28 player (2012-03-12).
Last name pronounced like "ell-uh-PAHN-oh".
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Dominic Olivera, a twelve-year-old from Bristow, Virginia
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"Oh, good heavens! He wants to be a priest when he's...
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Maddie Harrington, a twelve-year-old from Palm Beach Gardens, Florida
|
"She wants to be a theater critic and she gets rave...
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Brooke Martin, an eleven-year-old from Galway, New York
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"It looks like smooth sailing for this marine biologist. From Galway,...
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Emma Johnson, an eleven-year-old from St. Petersburg, Florida
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"She'll hit a high note in her future musical career as...
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Aria Gerson, an eleven-year-old from Orem, Utah
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"Shine an apple for our future teacher. From Orem, Utah, class,...
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Elijah Odunade, a junior at the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia
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2022 National College Championship quarterfinalist: $10,000. Elijah was majoring in political...
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Pian Wong, a high school English teacher from New York, New York
|
"She teaches at a Bronx school that's been ranked the most...
|
Christopher Short, a pub trivia editor from Crawfordsville, Indiana
|
2011 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 27 6-time champion: $94,752...
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Tom Aquino, a lawyer from Boston, Massachusetts
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Season 20 player (2004-07-06). KJL game 25. Last name pronounced like...
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Jacqueline Liao, an engineer from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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Season 39 player (2022-10-04).
Last name pronounced like "LEE-ow".
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Patrick Quinn, a high school German teacher from Chesterfield, Missouri
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"He teaches at a school whose history goes back to a...
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Chuck Todd, a journalist and chief White House correspondent from NBC News and Meet the Press
|
"Chief White House correspondent and political director for NBC News, he...
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Lewis Black, a stand-up comedian from Lewis Black's Root of All Evil
|
"With success in films, plays, books, and TV specials, he tours...
|
Elza Reeves, a bank teller from Louisville, Kentucky
|
Season 25 1-time champion: $16,400 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Anderson Cooper, a news anchor and correspondent from CNN
|
"He anchors his own prime-time news show, a syndicated daytime talk...
|
Chris Wallace, a TV host from Fox News Sunday
|
"In March, this Fox News anchor was honored by the National...
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Lisa Makar, a senior from University of Maryland
|
"As a seventh grader, she was planning a career as a...
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Ego Nwodim, a comedian from Baltimore, Maryland
|
"A comedian from Baltimore, Maryland, her one-woman show enjoyed a sold-out...
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Donesh Olyaie, a strategist from Corona, California
|
2023 Champions Wildcard quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Season 37 1-time champion: $28,400 + $1,000.
Last name pronounced like \"OH-lee-ay\".
|
Catherine Briley, a senior from Grand Prairie, Louisiana
|
2012 Teen Tournament 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $31,000. 17 at...
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Donesh Olyaie, a marketing director from Los Angeles, California
|
2023 Champions Wildcard quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Season 37 1-time champion: $28,400 + $1,000.
Last name pronounced like \"OH-lee-ay\".
|
Joel Simeone, a sports information assistant from Azusa, California
|
Season 37 player (2021-06-23).
Last name pronounced like "sim-ee-OH-nee".
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Erin McLean, a sophomore from Boston University from Danvers, Massachusetts
|
2011 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 2010-B College Championship winner:...
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Erin McLean, a junior at Boston University from Danvers, Massachusetts
|
2011 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 2010-B College Championship winner:...
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Cliff Galiher, a sophomore from UCLA
|
2007 Tournament of Champions 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $50,000 +...
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Sarah Walsh, a children’s librarian from Rockville, Maryland
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Season 34 player (2017-12-27). Sarah appeared on The Chase on 2021-01-21....
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Al Franken, an author and radio talk show host from New York City
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"One of the original writers on Saturday Night Live, he's done...
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Allison Dziuba, a junior from Ridgefield, Connecticut
|
2007 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time of the...
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Rachel "Steve" Cooke, a senior from Fishers, Indiana
|
2008-A Teen Tournament 1st runner-up: $25,000. 17 at the time of...
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Jill Locascio, an academic librarian from Brooklyn, New York
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Season 31 player (2015-03-23).
Last name pronounced like "lo-CASH-ee-oh".
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Christine Gengaro, a college professor and writer from Los Angeles, California
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Season 32 player (2015-10-13).
Last name pronounced like "jen-GARE-oh".
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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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Jonathan Hawley, a sophomore from Harvard University
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2008 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 19 and from Oceanside, CA at...
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Cerulean Ozarow, an 11-year-old from Brooklyn, New York
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"His future is full of options. He wants to become either...
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Heidi Liu, a senior from Plymouth, Minnesota
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2007 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Ezgi Ustundag, a student from Durham, North Carolina
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Season 32 player (2015-10-01).
Last name pronounced like "oo-STOON-dah".
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Taylor Gailliot, from Woodbridge, Virginia
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"When asked what she wanted us to know about her, she...
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Andrew Chung, a sophomore from Harvey Mudd College
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2008 College Championship 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $25,000. 20 and...
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Louie C.K., a comedian, actor, director, writer, and producer from Louie and Horace and Pete
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"This multitalented actor, writer, producer, and director is also the star...
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Brandon Hensley, a sophomore from Caltech
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2008 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 19 and from Huntington, WV at...
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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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Mario Mainero, a trial lawyer from Corona del Mar, California
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Season 4 player (1988-04-28). Johnny Gilbert pronounced Mario's last name as...
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Lindsey Bartlett, a junior from Winter Haven, Florida
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2002 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $5,000. Lindsey was 16 at the time...
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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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Heidi Greimann, a junior from Columbia, Missouri
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2002 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $5,000. Heidi was 15 at the...
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Liana Walters, a junior from Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania
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2002 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $5,000. Liana was 16 at the...
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Kevin Keach, an operations manager from St. Ann, Missouri
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2001 Tournament...
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Anthony Szabo, an office manager from Portland, Oregon
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Season 32 player (2016-07-25).
Last name pronounced like "SEBB-oh".
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Babu Srinivasan, a history professor from Houston, Texas
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2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
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Thomas Zamora, a junior at the University of Southern California from Cypress, California
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2001 College Championship 2nd runner-up: $14,100. Thomas was 20 at the...
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Tony Nagatani, a junior at Ithaca College from Honolulu, Hawaii
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2001 College Championship quarterfinalist: $2,500. Tony was 20 at the time...
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Nicholas Bérubé, an architect originally from State College, Pennsylvania
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Season 31 2-time champion: $19,600 + $2,000. Nicholas won $30,000 on...
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Olivia Colangelo, a junior from the University of Notre Dame from Murrysville, Pennsylvania
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2010-B College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
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Sid Chandrasekhar, a senior from the University of Pennsylvania from Saratoga, California
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2010-B College Championship semifinalist: $10,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
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Mitchell Vogel, from Madison, Wisconsin
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"This future governor of Wisconsin enjoys rollerblading, reading, and playing saxophone....
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Antonia Wang, a sophomore at Purdue University from Carmel, Indiana
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2005 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
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Bob Harris, an author, comedian, and radio commentator from Los Angeles, California
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"A 5-time champion and a finalist in the Tournament of Champions,...
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Silvio Menzano, a psychologist and university counseling center director from Washington, D.C.
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Season 27 1-time champion: $10,300 + $1,000.
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Larry Cloud, a bookkeeper and computer consultant from Inglewood, California
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"He won five times in 2001, allowing him to make a...
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Will Walters, a twelve-year-old from Lexington, Kentucky
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"He wants to follow in the footsteps of his idols, Albert...
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Bernie Cullen, a biologist from Santa Barbara, California
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"He was the first 5-time champion of the 1996-97 season. A...
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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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Surabhi Iyer, a ten-year-old from Franklin, Massachusetts
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"Her research scientist dad has inspired her to become a neuroscientist....
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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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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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Eddie Timanus, a sportswriter from Oak Hill, Virginia
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"His 5 wins in 1999 made him one of the most...
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Janet Wong, a development officer for a museum from Hoboken, New Jersey
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"As a senior at Drew University, she won the February 2000...
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Lindsay Oxx, a senior from Longmeadow, Massachusetts
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2009 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
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Lance Johnson, a model aircraft engine technician from Champaign, Illinois
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"He was the first to get to the 5-win mark in...
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Zach Blumenfeld, a junior from Lincolnshire, Illinois
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2009 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000.
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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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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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Leslie Frates, a retired Spanish teacher from Hayward, California
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"She was a Spanish teacher at Cal State-Hayward when she became...
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Anderson Cooper, an anchor from CNN's Anderson Cooper 360°
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"As a baby, he was photographed by Diane Arbus of Harper's...
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Cheech Marin, an actor, comedian, director, writer and musician from Lost
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"He's played a cop on Nash Bridges, voiced a 1959 Chevy...
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Josh Charnin-Aker, a twelve-year-old from Lighthouse Point, Florida
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"And, whether in neonatology or as a Navy SEAL, he plans...
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Sari Laufer, a rabbi from New York, New York
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Season 30 player (2014-06-11). Name pronounced like "SARE-ee LAU-fur" ("LAU" rhyming...
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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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Steve Reynolds, a loan accounting clerk from Norman, Oklahoma
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2004 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 20 4-time champion:...
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Anne Triolo, a screenwriter and bookstore manager from Bellefonte, Pennsylvania
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Season 26 1-time champion: $27,800 + $2,000.
Last name pronounced like "tree-OH-lo".
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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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Don Meals, an environmental scientist from Burlington, Vermont
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Season 27 3-time champion: $42,599 + $2,000.
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Marisa Tam, an archives assistant from Minneapolis, Minnesota
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Season 27 player (2010-09-20).
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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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Cathy Melocik, an editor for a business school from Wilder, Vermont
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Season 26 2-time champion: $46,002 + $1,000.
Last name pronounced like "MELL-oh-sik".
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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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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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Vijay Balse, a chemical engineer from Chatham, New Jersey
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2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2010 Tournament of Champions...
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Fred Cofone, a copy editor from Old Greenwich, Connecticut
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Season 27 2-time champion: $24,400 + $2,000.
Last name pronounced like "kuh-FONE".
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Stephen Weingarten, a stay-at-home dad from Portland, Oregon
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2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $96,690...
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Ariella Goldstein, a junior from Muhlenberg College
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2009 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 20 and from Cortlandt Manor,...
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Nick Yozamp, a biology student from St. Cloud, Minnesota
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2010 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 2010-A College Championship winner:...
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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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Chris Matthews, a TV host from Hardball and The Chris Matthews Show
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"Once a presidential speechwriter, he's had his own political talk show...
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Greg Lichtenstein, a freshman from Vassar College
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2009 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 18 and from Plainview, New York...
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Liz Murphy, a foreign service officer originally from Scranton, Pennsylvania
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2010 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 25 5-time champion: $121,302...
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Elyssa Browning, a junior from St. John's College
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2009 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 21 and from Austin, Texas at...
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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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Eureka Nutt, a paralegal from Canoga Park, California
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Season 27 2-time champion: $38,701 + $1,000.
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Francois Dominic Laramée, a writer and TV personality from Verdun, Quebec, Canada
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Season 25 2-time champion: $46,300 + $1,000. Francois's name was printed...
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Russell Berris, a junior from Baton Rouge, Louisiana
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2003 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $5,000.
16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Tyler Allard, a senior from Garrett Park, Maryland
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2003 Teen Tournament first runner-up: $28,400.
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Anthony Fox, an account executive from Arlington Heights, Illinois
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Season 27 4-time champion: $51,998 + $1,000. Playing as "Tony", Anthony...
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Dan Jensen, a restaurant manager from Reston, Virginia
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Season 27 3-time champion: $58,203 + $1,000.
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Neil Patrick Harris, an actor from How I Met Your Mother
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"He's received critical acclaim on Broadway and on TV, and his...
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Samira Missaghi, a junior from the University of Minnesota
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2010-A College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Hometown: Eden Prarie, Minnesota. Samira...
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Lyndsey Romick, a sophomore from Lewis & Clark College
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2010-A College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. Hometown: Grants Pass, Oregon. Lyndsey Romick...
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Jason Pratt, a middle school history teacher from Woodbridge, Virginia
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Season 25 2-time champion: $32,701 + $1,000. Jason Pratt - A...
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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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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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Steve Gratz, a freelance artist from Washington, D.C.
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Season 27 2-time champion: $30,999 + $1,000.
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Genaro Lopez, a contract administrator from Portland, Oregon
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Season 27 1-time champion: $29,001 + $2,000.
First name pronounced like "heh-NAR-o".
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Andy Srinivasan, a high school science teacher from Garner, North Carolina
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2010 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $69,600...
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Keith Williams, a freshman at Middlebury College from Manchester, Vermont
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2004 Tournament...
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Marissa Goldsmith, a web developer from Springfield, Virginia
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Season 27 3-time champion: $44,100 + $2,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: marteena
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Steve Unite, a writer from Studio City, California
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2007 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
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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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Harris Cohen, a family physician from Lower Gwynedd, Pennsylvania
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Season 25 2-time champion: $17,800 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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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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Aaron Schroeder, a grad student from San Diego, California
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2009 Tournament of Champions second runner-up: $50,000. Season 24 5-time champion:...
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Charlie Penrod, an assistant professor of law from Natchitoches, Louisiana
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Season 27 1-time champion: $17,000 + $2,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: CharlieP
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Aisha Tyler, a comedienne, host and actress from Talk Soup, Friends, The 5th Wheel and Ghost Whisperer
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2009 Celebrity Jeopardy! winner: $50,000 split between the International Rescue Committee/Congo...
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Amanda J. Ray, a sophomore at the University of Virginia from Harrisonburg, Virginia
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2010-B College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
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Sam Spaulding, a sophomore from Yale University from Wilmington, North Carolina
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2010-B College Championship 1st runner-up: $50,000 + a Nintendo Wii +...
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Ellen Eichner, a junior from the Ohio State University from Northbrook, Illinois
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2010-B College Championship semifinalist: $10,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
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Lea Tottle, a junior from Florida State University from Oldsmar, Florida
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2010-B College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000 + a Nintendo Wii +...
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Colby Burnett, a high school world history teacher from Chicago, Illinois
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"He teaches at a school started by the Dominicans of St....
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Sarah Nothnagel, a sophomore from the University of Southern California
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2007 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 19 at the time of the...
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Will Schultz, a freshman from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
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2007 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 19 at the time of the...
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Emily Love, from Overland Park, Kansas
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"This future chef wants to run her own restaurant and have...
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Sam Waterston, an actor from Law & Order
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"A Best Actor Oscar nominee for The Killing Fields, he's now...
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Doug Savant, an actor from Desperate Housewives
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"He plays Tom Scavo, the sometimes-befuddled husband of Felicity Huffman on...
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Curt Schilling, a pitcher from the Boston Red Sox
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"In helping the Red Sox to win the 2004 World Series,...
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Jeffrey Baer, a senior from Thornhill, Ontario, Canada
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2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games semifinalist: $10,000. 17 at the time...
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Eric Barela, an educational researcher from Los Angeles, California
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Season 23 3-time champion: $68,802 + $2,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: EBarela
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Kathy Cassity, a closed captioner from Honolulu, Hawaii
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2003 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 18 4-time champion: $59,200....
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Kyle Neblett, a senior from Beaverton, Oregon
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2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games 2nd runner-up: $36,400. 18 at the...
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Aiden Pink, a freshman from St. Louis Park, Minnesota
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2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games semifinalist: $10,000. 15 at the time...
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Ben Noe, a sophomore from Flushing, Michigan
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2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games quarterfinalist: $5,000. 16 at the time...
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Meryl Federman, a senior from Livingston, New Jersey
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2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games champion (semifinalist by wildcard): $75,000. 18...
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Julie Bowen, a TV and film actress from Boston Legal, Lost and Modern Family
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"For two seasons, she played attorney Denise Bauer in Boston Legal....
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Jane Kaczmarek, a TV, film and Broadway actress from Malcolm in the Middle and Raising the Bar
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"She went from playing a hard-nosed mom in Malcolm in the...
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Andrew Goldfein, a 12-year-old from Lincolnwood, Illinois
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"He likes to argue and help people, so it's off to...
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Josh Lacey, a 10-year-old from Ellicott City, Maryland
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"The International Olympic Committee does such good work, he would like...
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Tiffany Wen, a 12-year-old from Exton, Pennsylvania
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"This figure skater is also on the distinguished honor roll. From...
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Sebastian Johnson, a senior from Takoma Park, Maryland
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2006 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Listed as "Sebi" on the...
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Loren Loiacono, a senior from Setauket, New York
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2006 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
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Claudia Perry, a sports copy editor from Jersey City, New Jersey
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"A pop music critic when she first appeared on Jeopardy!, she's...
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Kate Waits, a law professor at the University of Tulsa from Tulsa, Oklahoma
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"A Harvard Law graduate when she competed in the 1988 Tournament...
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Bob Verini, a director of academics for a national test preparation company from Los Angeles, California
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2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
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Joely Fisher, an actress from 'Til Death
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"She made her Broadway debut in Grease, and earned rave reviews...
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Brian Stokes Mitchell, an actor from the Broadway musical Ragtime
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"His Broadway credits include Ragtime and Kiss Me, Kate, for which...
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Whitney Dearden, an 11-year-old from Washington Crossing, Pennsylvania
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"She enjoys working with animals and would like to become a...
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Cynthia Kocanovic, a fundraiser from Toronto, Canada
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Season 18 1-time champion: $14,300.
Last name pronounced ko-SAHN-oh-vich.
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Sean Ryan, a graduate student from Whitehall, Pennsylvania
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
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David Hoffelmeyer, a senior from St. Joseph, Missouri
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2006 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000.
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Casey Retterer, a sophomore at the University of Maryland from Olney, Maryland
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2004 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
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Iddoshe Hirpa, a junior from Louisville, Kentucky
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2006 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000.
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Dave Oosterhuis, a graduate student from Minneapolis, Minnesota
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Season 21 player (2004-11-09).
KJL game 70.
Last name pronounced like "OH-ster-hice".
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John Beck, an associate creative director from Torrance, California
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 winner: $29,000. 2004 Tournament...
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Mike Thayer, a mathematics teacher from North Plainfield, New Jersey
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"He was a junior at Rutgers University when he won the...
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Caitlin Cook, a sophomore from Arden, North Carolina
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2005 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $5,000.
16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Ruvani Fonseka, a junior from Grosse Pointe, Michigan
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2005 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $5,000. 15 at the time of...
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Anne Boyd, a freelance writer and student from Los Angeles, California
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2004 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 20 4-time champion: $84,600...
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Orlando Zambrano, a junior from Tampa, Florida
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2005 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $5,000.
16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Chloé White, a senior from Mission Hills, Kansas
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2005 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Kelley Burd, a junior at West Virginia University from Bristol, West Virginia
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2004 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000.
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