| #9087, aired 2024-04-23 | CULTURE, POPULARLY $1000: Heirs get split one by one in this 2023 Netflix miniseries based on a Poe short story & starring Mary McDonnell as Madeline The Fall of the House of Usher |
| #9082, aired 2024-04-16 | DON'T EAT THAT! $1000: This Peter Frampton band sang "30 Days In The Hole" Humble Pie |
| #9081, aired 2024-04-15 | "P"EOPLE $1600: What you earn on your savings account & what you pay for groceries are partly in the hands of this man, Fed chair since 2018 Jerome Powell |
| #9072, aired 2024-04-02 | SONG SIMILES $400: Simile-titled hit by Foreigner about a lover who'll someday "pay the price" "Cold As Ice" |
| #9072, aired 2024-04-02 | BUS. ABBREV. $1000: LWOP:
Luckily something that won't happen to you contestants leave without pay(ment) |
| #9060, aired 2024-03-15 | FAMOUS WOMEN $400: In 2023 all living first ladies gathered in Atlanta to pay tribute to this first lady who passed away at 96 Rosalynn Carter |
| #9057, aired 2024-03-12 | INVESTING & BUSINESS TERMS $600: For a sales team, the number of contracts signed per quarter might be one of these indicators, KPI for short a key performance indicator |
| #9057, aired 2024-03-12 | SOUP'S ON $800: This Vietnamese soup has its own national day in its homeland--December 12 pho |
| #9054, aired 2024-03-07 | BRIDGERS $1600: You might guess that Gustave Eiffel of tower fame built the Maria Pia Bridge over the Douro River in this Portuguese city famous for wine Oporto |
| #9052, aired 2024-03-05 | JAZZ' GREAT DAY IN HARLEM $1200: Charles Mingus got low on this instrument on "Goodbye Pork Pie Hat", which he wrote about Lester Young, also in the picture the bass |
| #9050, aired 2024-03-01 | ARCHITECTURE $1200: This architect designed the Louvre's glass pyramid; the public was initially not in love with it I.M. Pei |
| #9049, aired 2024-02-29 | COMPOUND WORDS $400: Today, fewer cars have this installed from the factory; you'll pay extra to have one put in to stash your gum wrappers an ashtray |
| #9047, aired 2024-02-27 | A NICE SHORT STORY SPOILED $800: Take the rest of the day off, Columbo--the murderer gives himself up in this Poe story by offering up a body part "The Tell-Tale Heart" |
| #9046, aired 2024-02-26 | THE '70s TOTALLY ROCKED $800: This quartet gave us a tour of "Kashmir" in 1975 & enjoyed some "Custard Pie" Led Zeppelin |
| #9042, aired 2024-02-20 | PILES $200: H.C. Andersen's way to identify one of these: have her sleep on a pea under a pile of 20 mattresses under 20 feather beds a princess |
| #9041, aired 2024-02-19 | POP $1200: Trying to get back to his daughter, Nic Cage as Cameron Poe picks up no frequent flier miles in this 1997 flick Con Air |
| #9038, aired 2024-02-14 | THE AIR THAT I BREATHE $400: In the 1970s Nik-O-Lok, pioneer of pay toilets, began making folks pay for air at these facilities a gas station |
| #9036, aired 2024-02-12 | INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS $2000: The U.S. refused to pay reparations to Nicaragua, run by this party, in 1986, as the Intl. Court of Justice has no enforcement powers the Sandinistas |
| #9030, aired 2024-02-02 | DELICIOUS BEFORE & AFTER $1600: "Pastoral" lamb & mashed potato casserole that's a fanciful dream not likely to be attained shepherd's pie in the sky |
| #3, aired 2024-02-02 | OCCUPATIONS $1000: A licensed insurance one of these investigates claims to see if or how much his company should pay adjuster |
| #9026, aired 2024-01-29 | MYTH AROUND & FIND OUT $2000: In Egyptian myth Seth went all Edgar Allan Poe on this bro of his & put him in a coffin while he was still alive Osiris |
| #9022, aired 2024-01-23 | GREEK CUISINE $800: This paper-thin pastry dough is used in such delights as tiropita, a feta cheese pie phyllo |
| #9022, aired 2024-01-23 | GREEK CUISINE $1600: A vegan version of this spinach pie can be made by substituting tofu for the cheese spanakopita |
| #9020, aired 2024-01-19 | ASIAN CAPITAL CITIES $400: Cultural attractions in Bangkok include Wat Pho & Wat Arun, temples of this religion Buddhism |
| #9018, aired 2024-01-17 | IF FOOD BE THE LOVE OF MUSIC $1600: Warrant had a Top 10 hit with this song about a dessert (really), "put a smile on your face, ten miles wide" "Cherry Pie" |
| #25, aired 2024-01-16 | WHERE ART THOU? $200: You're snapping a selfie at this museum's main entrance, a glass pyramid designed by architect I.M. Pei the Louvre |
| #9015, aired 2024-01-12 | DOUBLE TALK GEOGRAPHY $1000: In this Asian country, the Phi Phi islands are an island group between Phuket & the Straits of Malacca Thailand |
| #9014, aired 2024-01-11 | THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION $1200: This oldest delegate's proposal that presidents should serve without pay was disregarded without vote or debate Franklin |
| #9008, aired 2024-01-03 | WHERE'D YOU GO? $800: Back in the 1880s Wellesley College specified this type of leave from teaching should be spent in Europe, with 1/2-year pay a sabbatical |
| #23, aired 2024-01-02 | PERSONAL FINANCE $900: It's a number that signals to lenders how likely you are to pay back a loan; above 670 is pretty deece your FICO score (credit score) |
| #23, aired 2024-01-02 | PERSONAL FINANCE $1200: It's the "H-E" in "HELOC", a line of credit that can pay for your kitchen reno, your wedding... even your divorce home equity |
| #9002, aired 2023-12-26 | JUST "E"AT IT $1000: These can be purple to black in color, sour right off the tree, but good in a jam or pie elderberries |
| #8999, aired 2023-12-21 | TRIPLY ALLITERATIVE $800: When you buy one of these, like a McDonald's or an Arby's, you might have to pay the parent company a percentage of sales a fast food franchise |
| #8997, aired 2023-12-19 | UNOFFICIAL TEAM NICKNAMES $800: Phi Slama Jama:
The 1983 Houston Cougars, led by this "Nigerian Nightmare" & future Hall of Famer Hakeem Olajuwon |
| #8989, aired 2023-12-07 | GREEK ALPHABET PUZZLERS $1200: Around 1960, it was a state-of-the-art music system a hi-phi |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | THREESOMES $400: If "American Pie" is your karaoke go-to, you know they're "the three men I admire most" who "caught the last train for the coast" Father, Son & the Holy Ghost |
| #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 |
| #8977, aired 2023-11-21 | COMMUNICATION $1600: Before home pay-per-view, if you wanted to see a big fight like Ali-Frazier, you went to a theater to watch it on CCTV, this closed-circuit television |
| #8976, aired 2023-11-20 | A MATTER OF TASTE $400: The item seen here or the taste it might have if made with lemons a tart |
| #8972, aired 2023-11-14 | BILLIONS & BILLIONS $2000: Following this 19th century war, France was forced to pay its neighbor 5 billion francs in reparations the Franco-Prussian War |
| #8971, aired 2023-11-13 | CITY MUSEUMS $1600: The Edgar Allan Poe House & Museum Baltimore |
| #8969, aired 2023-11-09 | A LITTLE LEGALESE $600: You pay this to have a lawyer available whenever you need legal help, like suing that orthodontist for giving you a bad one a retainer |
| #8968, aired 2023-11-08 | I PITY DA FOOD! $400: Slaughterhouses don't have to ask & pay for USDA grades for this meat, be it in chop, loin or rib form pork |
| #8968, aired 2023-11-08 | FAN MAIL TO HISTORIC FIGURES $1000: You got the Eastern Roman Empire to pay a ton of gold per year! Will you speak to our "Scourge of God" fan club? Attila the Hun |
| #8967, aired 2023-11-07 | TAXES $600: In January 2012, this GOP candidate said he was "proud of the fact I pay a lot of taxes" Mitt Romney |
| #8967, aired 2023-11-07 | TAXES $1000: It ensures that those who get tax breaks pay at least a certain amount; Kiplinger's called it "the tax we love to hate" the AMT (Alternative Minimum Tax) |
| #8957, aired 2023-10-24 | WAR & PEAS $400: Pea soup was a staple in the ships of this navy that beat the French & Spanish at Trafalgar the English Navy (the Royal Navy) |
| #8957, aired 2023-10-24 | WAR & PEAS $800: In the 1940s General Mills helped the war effort with dried pea soup; also, cereal bars for these "alphabetical" army rations the K-rations |
| #8957, aired 2023-10-24 | WAR & PEAS $1000: Every Thursday, this country's armed forces get served a traditional pea soup called ärtsoppa Sweden |
| #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 | PEW! PEW! PEW! $300: Gross! Barf, hurl, vomit, upchuck: they're all synonyms of this word puke |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | PEW! PEW! PEW! $600: Paul Rudd once joked this stage of life "hit me pretty hard. all of a sudden I woke up and I had really curly hair" puberty |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | PEW! PEW! PEW! $900: Henry David Thoreau pondered why a bucket of water becomes this foul word "but frozen remains sweet forever" putrid |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | PEW! PEW! PEW! $1500: An alloy commonly used to make tableware in medieval Europe, it's primarily composed of tin, antimony & copper pewter |
| #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 | THOMAS AQUINAS, ADVICE COLUMNIST $600: Dear Struggling: Sorry, but the poor must pay these, whether the traditional tenth of income or more tithe |
| #8942, aired 2023-10-03 | LITERARY BIOGRAPHY $400: A book about Poe "& the forging of American science" points out that in his one year at this school, Edgar was great at math West Point |
| #8941, aired 2023-10-02 | SIGNS & SYMBOLS $400: Even before it was immortalized by Poe, this bird was a near-universal symbol of ill omen the raven |
| #8938, aired 2023-09-27 | A SOVIET UNION $800: Friends of Soviet grooms have been known to playfully make him "pay" one of these, something usually given to get a kidnap victim back a ransom |
| #8936, aired 2023-09-25 | A PLACE IN HISTORY $1200: Pericles might have misappropriated some funds from the Delian League to pay for this Acropolis building, begun in 447 B.C. the Parthenon |
| #8935, aired 2023-09-22 | THAT'S JUST OFFAL $400: Fancy a traditional steak & this pie? The one at London's Guinea Grill is famous kidney |
| #8932, aired 2023-09-19 | PHRASES & IDIOMS $2000: A James Thurber character who's full of expressions not only uses "the catbird seat" but "tearing up" this garden area the pea patch |
| #8930, aired 2023-09-15 | CAT LOVERS $800: This American author had a beloved pet named Catterina, who we hope was not the inspiration for his horror tale "The Black Cat" Poe |
| #8927, aired 2023-09-12 | "M"MMMM $400: Martha Stewart suggests copper bowls to get proper fluffiness in this egg-white pie preparation meringue |
| #8926, aired 2023-09-11 | MISSISSIPPI LEARNING $1600: Let's get down & dirty! In chocolate desserts, this word comes between Mississippi & either pie or cake mud |
| #8916, aired 2023-07-17 | WORLD ROYALTY $400: 11th century Olaf "the Tax King" was the first Swedish monarch to issue these, which must have made it easier to pay up coins |
| #8916, aired 2023-07-17 | WHO'S THAT POET? $800: Usher-ed in "The Haunted Palace"; fell for Whitman (Sarah, not Walt); bit of a drinking problem Poe |
| #8914, aired 2023-07-13 | EAT IT! WEAR IT! OR SIT ON IT! $400: The dried chilies in this spicy Szechwan chicken dish might have a little too much "pao" for some kung pao chicken |
| #8910, aired 2023-07-07 | HISTORICAL HODGEPODGE $800: The colonists balked at the taxes on newspapers & pamphlets imposed by this 1765 act & refused to pay the Stamp Act |
| #8907, aired 2023-07-04 | WHERE'S MY FOOD? $200: The official state dessert of Massachusetts, it's actually a cake, despite its name Boston cream pie |
| #8904, aired 2023-06-29 | FUN WITH AIRPORT CODES $600: This dessert is the code of St. Pete-Clearwater International & completes its rhyming website "fly2..." pie |
| #8902, aired 2023-06-27 | BANKING "A" "B" "C"s $2,000 (Daily Double): "A":
this word meaning to pay off a debt in installments comes partly from Latin for "dead" amortize |
| #8888, aired 2023-06-07 | A '90s KID $400: Many a '90s mom thought all these alliterative stuffed animals would increase in value & pay for her kid's college education Beanie Babies |
| #18, aired 2023-05-23 | LABOR $2000: The 2009 Fair Pay Act was named for this woman who sued her employer Goodyear for pay discrimination (Lilly) Ledbetter |
| #16, aired 2023-05-22 | POP GOES THE MUSIC $600: In 2009 their "Boom Boom Pow" was knocked out of the No. 1 spot by their "I Gotta Feeling" the Black Eyed Peas |
| #15, aired 2023-05-22 | ALL AROUND THE WORLD $600: A ship found off Madagascar may be the vessel of this British pirate whose riches Poe wrote of in "The Gold Bug" Kidd |
| #15, aired 2023-05-22 | KING OF THE MOUNTAIN $2,800 (Daily Double): Mont Ventoux in Provence, during the Seven Years' War Louis XV |
| #8873, aired 2023-05-17 | POE"M"S $400: This title object of a Thoreau poem is "full-orbed" & "does not wane" the Moon |
| #8873, aired 2023-05-17 | POE"M"S $800: Paul Laurence Dunbar wrote, "We wear the" this "that grins and lies, it hides our cheeks and shades our eyes" mask |
| #8873, aired 2023-05-17 | POE"M"S $1200: Elizabeth Bishop's "I Am in Need of" this says, "There is a magic made by melody" music |
| #8873, aired 2023-05-17 | POE"M"S $1600: Last name of Sam; Robert Service told a tall tale of the frozen north in "The Cremation of" him McGee |
| #8873, aired 2023-05-17 | POE"M"S $2000: "The apparition of these faces in the crowd: petals on a wet, black bough" is the entirety of Ezra Pound's "In a Station of" this the Metro |
| #13, aired 2023-05-17 | INTERNATIONAL FOOD WITH PADMA LAKSHMI $600: (Padma Lakshmi reads.) It may surprise you, but a cherished dish of mine involves something salty, spicy, crunchy & cheesy known as this "pie" that's often served in the snack products bag Frito pie |
| #8872, aired 2023-05-16 | POE PLACES $200: In "To Helen", her "naiad airs have brought me home/ to the glory that was Greece, and the grandeur that was" this Rome |
| #8872, aired 2023-05-16 | POE PLACES $400: Asked what its name is "on the night's Plutonian shore", the raven quoths this nevermore |
| #8872, aired 2023-05-16 | POE PLACES $600: In "Lenore" a saintly soul floats on this river of the underworld the Styx |
| #8872, aired 2023-05-16 | POE PLACES $800: This Poe maiden lies "in her sepulchre there by the sea--in her tomb by the sounding sea" Annabel Lee |
| #8872, aired 2023-05-16 | POE PLACES $1000: Poe rhymed this fabled city of gold with "down the valley of the shadow" El Dorado |
| #12, aired 2023-05-16 | A NEW HOPE $1000: Subject of the bio "Man of Hope", Padre Pio received these holy wounds not once but twice in his life, attracting numerous pilgrims stigmata |
| #8868, aired 2023-05-10 | FROM THE FRENCH $400: The pecan pie seen here is served this 3-word way à la mode |
| #8868, aired 2023-05-10 | WAY BACK IN THE 1900s $1000: Victorious general Giap compared the French position in this decisive 1954 battle in Vietnam to the bottom of a rice bowl Dien Bien Phu |
| #4, aired 2023-05-09 | LITERATURE $800: Poe's short story "The Murders" here marked the first appearance of the French detective C. Auguste Dupin in the Rue Morgue |
| #3, aired 2023-05-09 | PLAY: THE GAME $2,400 (Daily Double): Teach evolution to your science class; get arrested; be prosecuted by a 3-time presidential candidate; guilty card, pay $100 Inherit the Wind |
| #8866, aired 2023-05-08 | SCANDAL! $600: You & I pay fees for this, withdrawing money we don't have; in a '90s scandal 300 congressmen did it with the House bank no problem overdraft |
| #8865, aired 2023-05-05 | THE GREAT AMERICAN BAKING SHOW WITH ELLIE KEMPER $600: (Ellie Kemper presents the clue.) In one challenge, our bakers were asked to combine two classics--a chiffon cake with this citrus-based Florida dessert favorite key lime pie |
| #8863, aired 2023-05-03 | "D" TOUR $3,000 (Daily Double): In this Old West town, you can pay your respects to Wild Bill Hickok & Calamity Jane Deadwood |
| #8861, aired 2023-05-01 | WORLD OF BELIEF $400: In the 19th c. this people of New Zealand, not happy with missionaries, formed a native Christian movement called Pai Marire the Maori |
| #8860, aired 2023-04-28 | IT'S A COOKBOOK! $800: Enjoy "Uncommon Recipes from" this Brooklyn pie shop; its 4-word name is what was "baked in a pie" in a nursery rhyme Four & Twenty Blackbirds |
| #8860, aired 2023-04-28 | LITERARY LIONS $1600: The Colosseum is the setting for the climax of George Bernard Shaw's play called him "and the Lion" Androcles |
| #8856, aired 2023-04-24 | WHEREFORE ART, THOU $1600: Odilon Redon made an 1882 series of prints inspired by the imagery of this American author Poe |
| #8855, aired 2023-04-21 | SPEAK OF THE DICKENS $400: Dickens had a pet bird of this variety that he featured in "Barnaby Rudge" & that, in turn, may have inspired a Poe poem a raven |
| #8848, aired 2023-04-12 | DINING OUT $200: Columbia Restaurant, this state's oldest, serves dishes like mahi mahi Cubana, tapas, & of course, key lime pie for dessert Florida |
| #8848, aired 2023-04-12 | SAY THE ROMAN NUMERAL $800: Greek letter rhyming with "bye":
11 XI |
| #8845, aired 2023-04-07 | AMERICANA $800: Try a lattice top for this dessert, long a symbol of America even though it originated elsewhere apple pie |
| #8844, aired 2023-04-06 | NOT MAKING IT TO THE END OF THE MOVIE $800: Look how they massacred my boy; James Caan wore 100-plus squibs to pay a heavy price at the tollbooth in this 1972 film The Godfather |
| #8844, aired 2023-04-06 | WORD PUZZLES $1000: A single serving of a November dessert
☮UMPKIN 3.141592 a piece of pumpkin pie |
| #8843, aired 2023-04-05 | 3-LETTER WORDS $400: An expression for close but wrong is "right church, wrong" this pew |
| #8827, aired 2023-03-14 | CONTRONYMS $400: To do this can mean either to remove something like dirt from your house, or to sprinkle something like sugar on a pie to dust |
| #8827, aired 2023-03-14 | A PLEASURE TO HAVE IN CLASS $400: Pew Research Center found "the share of adults who live in" this "class households fell from 61% in 1971 to 50% in 2021" (shrinking) middle class |
| #8827, aired 2023-03-14 | THE TITLE TV CHARACTER'S BUDDIES $600: Cowboy Curtis & Miss Yvonne, playing for laughs in the Playhouse Pee-wee Herman |
| #8822, aired 2023-03-07 | THIS IS HOW I WIN $200: Acquire property, avoid jail, pay your taxes, run your possibly now-former friends into bankruptcy Monopoly |
| #8819, aired 2023-03-02 | THAT'S D-MINUS WORK $1000: The stuff farmers give their horses & cows eats up a D & becomes a fixed charge you pay fee & feed |
| #8814, aired 2023-02-23 | GREEK LIFE $1000: This 400s B.C. physician had a school at Cos where he taught for fees; no word on if he had a loan program Hippocrates |
| #8813, aired 2023-02-22 | IT'S GREAT TO "CU" $200: No joke, Whoopi Goldberg considered using the stage name Whoopi this Cushion |
| #8810, aired 2023-02-17 | AROUND AMERICA $1,000 (Daily Double): While in this city, belly up to the bar at the saloon called The Horse You Came In On, which has a seat designated "Poe's Last Stop" Baltimore |
| #8803, aired 2023-02-08 | ACTS OF CONGRESS $200: 2016's 21st Century Cures Act told this agency to speed up the drug approval process & pay more heed to "patient experience data" the FDA |
| #8803, aired 2023-02-08 | SQUIRRELS JUST WANT TO HAVE FUN $800: Like your pal who can bend his fingers back horrifically, squirrel hind leg "wrists" are this, so paw directions can reverse double-jointed |
| #8801, aired 2023-02-06 | HOT TUNES $1600: This Billy Joel song /history lesson references the Rosenbergs, Dien Bien Phu, the Edsel & of course, "Wheel of Fortune" "We Didn't Start The Fire" |
| #8799, aired 2023-02-02 | PLAY THAT GAME $600: This casino game with numbers on a ticket from 1 to 80 is of Chinese origin & dates back at least 2,000 years keno |
| #8797, aired 2023-01-31 | AD VERBS & TAGLINES $600: Target:
"____ more.
Pay less." Expect |
| #8790, aired 2023-01-20 | JASON $1200: Jason Biggs played Jim Levenstein in this raunchy 1999 film & its sequels American Pie |
| #8785, aired 2023-01-13 | & EVERYTHING THAT GOES WITH IT $400: Since the 1950s this family status has gone before apple pie to signify the traditional American values motherhood |
| #10, aired 2023-01-12 | EVERYDAY ITALIAN $200: "When the Moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that's" this, that's love amore |
| #10, aired 2023-01-12 | EXPLOSIVE MUSIC $1200: "Boom Boom Pow" is an explosive track from this group that includes will.i.am the Black Eyed Peas |
| #9, aired 2023-01-05 | LET ME NOODLE ON THAT $500: This 3-letter Vietnamese dish is a flat rice noodle served in clear broth; you can slurp it year-round, any time of day phở |
| #8774, aired 2022-12-29 | 3-NAMED WRITERS $400: His short story collection "Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque" was published in 1839 (Edgar Allan) Poe |
| #8774, aired 2022-12-29 | YOU'RE WEARING YOUR FOOD $400: Long associated with the U.S. Navy & even worn by its iconic Lone Sailor memorial, it has been replaced by a parka a pea coat |
| #8774, aired 2022-12-29 | YOU'RE WEARING YOUR FOOD $600: This snap-brimmed hat with a meaty name was popular for men in the 1930s & '40s pork pie |
| #8771, aired 2022-12-26 | WORD PUZZLES $200: How about a nice healthy cup of this?
SOUI⊃ split pea soup |
| #8771, aired 2022-12-26 | WRONG TIME $4,000 (Daily Double): This idiom applies literally if you promise to pay 10 bucks on Tuesday & show up with 9 on Wednesday a day late & a dollar short |
| #8770, aired 2022-12-23 | THAT WAS MY HOME $800: Pickfair, a 42-room Beverly Hills estate, was owned by these 2 early film stars & later, by Pia Zadora & Lakers owner Jerry Buss Douglas Fairbanks & Mary Pickford |
| #8770, aired 2022-12-23 | LITERATURE: BLANK IT & BANK IT $800: "The deep and dank tarn at my feet closed sullenly and silently over the fragments of the 'House of ____!'" Usher |
| #8769, aired 2022-12-22 | NICOLE KIDMAN SAYS $400: & Nicole Kidman sings! To Ewan McGregor:
"The only way of loving me baby, is to pay a lovely fee" Moulin Rouge! |
| #8767, aired 2022-12-20 | DR. SEUSS BAKING CHALLENGE $1000: (Tamera Mowry presents the clue.) This book was written the year of the first Earth Day & our creations pay tribute to the natural world The Lorax |
| #8764, aired 2022-12-15 | HERE'S THE PLAY OF THE DAY! $400: Pay attention! In 2012 Andrew Garfield made his Broadway debut as Biff in this Arthur Miller play Death of a Salesman |
| #8763, aired 2022-12-14 | LIGHTS, CAMERA, AUCTION! $800: I'd pay $1.5 million to know the time, said someone after taking home a Daytona John Player Special 6264 watch by this luxury brand Rolex |
| #8762, aired 2022-12-13 | PLACE"O" $200: You gotta pay your bills in this port city about 20 miles southeast of Niagara Falls Buffalo |
| #8762, aired 2022-12-13 | CITY SPEAK $1200: Fern or cream pie Boston |
| #8757, aired 2022-12-06 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $800: Pao de Acucar in Portuguese, this "sweet" peak rises over Guanabara Bay Sugarloaf |
| #8756, aired 2022-12-05 | POINTING OUT DECIMALS $800: It's easy as pie to take pi to 2 decimal places (there's even a day for it) but take it to 3.these 5 digits 3.14159 |
| #8751, aired 2022-11-28 | FOOT, THE BILL $600: A Calif. ex-con may have to pay for an ankle monitor to track him, using this technology first developed for the U.S. military GPS |
| #8749, aired 2022-11-24 | STARS OF OSCARS BEST PICTURE $1600: Crime did pay for Leonardo DiCaprio & Jack Nicholson The Departed |
| #8735, aired 2022-11-04 | HOMOPHONES $1000: A visual aid following "pie" & newspaper slang following "nut" graph/graf |
| #8729, aired 2022-10-27 | BRING ME A SOUVENIR! $200: From Japan, a maneki-neko good luck figurine depicting one of these with upraised paw a cat |
| #8729, aired 2022-10-27 | LEARNED LEAGUES $2000: A signature gold key represents this philosophical society founded on Dec. 5, 1776 Phi Beta Kappa |
| #5, aired 2022-10-23 | ADVERBS THAT MAKE YOUR DAY $400: Wimpy of Popeye fame used this adverb to describe the manner in which he'd "pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today" gladly |
| #5, aired 2022-10-23 | CATS THROUGH TIME $1000: Legend says the maneki-neko, or "lucky cat", raised a paw, an invitation to one of these warriors to enter a temple during a storm a samurai |
| #5, aired 2022-10-23 | ADVANCED CRIMINAL LAW $1200: Sometimes a judge might, hopefully, just sentence you to do this, work without pay, perhaps for a nonprofit community service |
| #5, aired 2022-10-23 | A LITTLE POETRY $13,000 (Daily Double): Poe used this 3-syllable word 11 times in "The Raven", including as the last word nevermore |
| #4, aired 2022-10-16 | COLORFUL RESPONSES $300: It's the crime of making someone pay you to not reveal their embarrassing secrets blackmail |
| #4, aired 2022-10-16 | MASCOTS $600: A character named Pow was a buddy of this elfin trio that represents Rice Krispies Snap, Crackle & Pop |
| #8719, aired 2022-10-13 | LOOKING SHARP! $800: It's the sharp object in Aesop's tale of Androcles a thorn |
| #8713, aired 2022-10-05 | SHORT STORIES & NOVELLAS $800: Horrors! "The Man in the Black Suit" threatens to eat a child in a prize-winning short story by this author, of course Stephen King |
| #8710, aired 2022-09-30 | AS CREDITED ON THEIR IMDb PAGE $800: Outcome #3 in "The Bourne Legacy" & Poe Dameron in "The Last Jedi" Oscar Isaac |
| #8710, aired 2022-09-30 | OFFICIAL STATE STUFF $1000: Mmm, state pie! For Illinois, it's this seasonal favorite pumpkin pie |
| #8706, aired 2022-09-26 | "S" WORDS $1600: The name of this wrinkly dog is Chinese for "sand fur" Shar Pei |
| #8684, aired 2022-07-14 | TERRIBLE SUPERVILLAIN NAMES $600: This insurance duo--the big cost you owe before your insurer kicks in & the money given to your doc as you get services--are just the worst deductible & co-pay |
| #8684, aired 2022-07-14 | THE FOUNDING FATHERS $800: This Virginian first became prominent for his oratory in a 1763 case about whether it was OK to pay clergy with cash rather than tobacco Patrick Henry |
| #8681, aired 2022-07-11 | THE RAVEN-POURRI $600: "Presently my soul grew stronger", & I'd wait no longer! This "small" French cake I'd make, I swore! "Quoth the raven..." petit four |
| #8676, aired 2022-07-04 | IT'S KIND OF A FUNNY STORY $1200: Sloan Crosley's collection of humorous narratives of life in NYC has the tasty title "I was Told There'd be" this treat Cake |
| #8674, aired 2022-06-30 | "EAT" $1600: Suet & dried fruit go into this British dessert pie mincemeat |
| #8671, aired 2022-06-27 | SUMMER'S HERE $600: Summer analyst is this type of learning position at companies like Goldman Sachs or Morgan Stanley & can pay $40 an hour intern |
| #8668, aired 2022-06-22 | THE SENATOR'S FIRST NAME $600: Let's toss in 2 ex-senators with Ohio's Portman to make this phrase: Portman Fitzgerald "to pay" Wellstone rob Peter to pay Paul |
| #8667, aired 2022-06-21 | TAKING STOCK SYMBOL $1000: Hal...? Open the stock pay doors, Hal... (Hal being this oil company) Halliburton |
| #8663, aired 2022-06-15 | STATE FLORA $1600: Hawaii's state plant is kalo, the local name for this root used to make poi taro |
| #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 |
| #8655, aired 2022-06-03 | APPLES $200: These green-skinned apples go into apple pie & at See's Candies, go into the apple pie truffles Granny Smiths |
| #8654, aired 2022-06-02 | COME "INN" $200: What's packaged as apple pie spice is mainly a blend of nutmeg, allspice & this cinnamon |
| #8654, aired 2022-06-02 | THEATER $400: In 2010, Paul Reubens brought this comic persona to the Broadway stage Pee-wee Herman |
| #8651, aired 2022-05-30 | PUNNY MYSTERY TITLES $1000: A secret passage, a skeleton & a nod to Edgar Allan Poe: "The Plot and the" this Pendulum |
| #8639, aired 2022-05-12 | OCCUPATIONAL HOMONYMS $600: Not just an occupation, it's also a type of fruity pie a cobbler |
| #8638, aired 2022-05-11 | "4"! $400: A Mother Goose nursery rhyme says, "Sing a song of sixpence, a pocket full of rye" this many blackbirds "baked in a pie" four and twenty |
| #8634, aired 2022-05-05 | A GLUTEN-FREE CATEGORY $200: Seen here, it'd be weird to get one à la mode a pie chart |
| #8631, aired 2022-05-02 | COLLEGE FOOTBALL HISTORY $1000: This Notre Dame hero who died at age 25 in 1920 helped pay his school expenses as a pool shark George "The Gipper" Gipp |
| #8628, aired 2022-04-27 | THE CHICKEN OR THE EGG $200: This French-named dish is basically an egg pie; the Lorraine region is associated with it quiche |
| #8626, aired 2022-04-25 | THE MEXICAN-AMERICAN WAR $200: This author was jailed in Concord in 1846 for refusing to pay taxes in protest of the Mexican-American War Thoreau |
| #8614, aired 2022-04-07 | WHO WANTS DESSERT? $1200: This tangy dessert is an official state food of Florida key lime pie |
| #8613, aired 2022-04-06 | TOMBSTONES $800: "Service to others is the rent you pay for your room in heaven" is inscribed on the tombstone of this great boxer who died in 2016 Muhammad Ali |
| #8608, aired 2022-03-30 | GOOD LINE, FAMOUS NAME! $400: Will Rogers said the only way to stop bootlegging "is to make them pay" this annual levy. It "has stopped every other industry" income tax |
| #8601, aired 2022-03-21 | 3 LETTERS IN A ROW ALPHABETICALLY $800: A failure to pay money on a loan default |
| #8600, aired 2022-03-18 | LEMON SQUEEZY $600: A classic pie is filled with tart lemon & topped with this, stiffly beaten egg whites & sugar meringue |
| #8596, aired 2022-03-14 | "SH"! $1200: Once considered a rare breed, this dog was originally used for hunting & guarding in China Shar-Pei |
| #8595, aired 2022-03-11 | HERE BE LIONS $1600: In a Roman story, this hero pulls a thorn from a lion's paw & is repaid for his kindness by not being eaten later in the arena Androcles |
| #8593, aired 2022-03-09 | IN RECENT NEWS $400: Pres. Biden tried to move Manchins to pass this alliterative plan that would pay for child care & fight climate change the Build Back Better Act |
| #8593, aired 2022-03-09 | "CAT" GOT YOUR TONGUE $1000: If a person has made you one of these, you've become an unwitting accomplice a cat's paw |
| #8584, aired 2022-02-24 | LIT-POURRI $1200: The word detective was brand new at the time this author introduced C. Auguste Dupin, the model for the detective in fiction Edgar Allan Poe |
| #8582, aired 2022-02-22 | TWEETS $800: In 2017 a fan asked this "Starships" rapper to pay her tuition; she tweeted, "Show me straight A's... and I'll pay" (& did) Nicki Minaj |
| #8579, aired 2022-02-17 | DESSERT $200: Popular in the South, chess pie is basically this pie without those big brown nuts pecan pie |
| #14, aired 2022-02-17 | A LITTLE BODY ENGLISH $600: To deal with the consequences of your actions; hope the tune is at least catchy when you do face the music |
| #13, aired 2022-02-17 | HETERONYMS $800: Mouth wide open &
God's love for mankind agape ["uh-GAPE"] & agape ["ah-GAH-pay"] |
| #8578, aired 2022-02-16 | GREEK LETTERS, ROMAN NUMERALS $600: "Love of learning is the guide of life" is the motto of this academic honor society Phi Beta Kappa |
| #12, aired 2022-02-16 | GET YOUR "M_B_A" $200: 2-word expression meaning "I am at fault" my bad |
| #11, aired 2022-02-16 | THEY WROTE YOUR TEXTBOOKS $400: Neil Campbell of the Campbell-Reece text on this life science was an expert on mimosas--not the drink but a pea family plant biology |
| #6, aired 2022-02-10 | "PU" $400: Cinnamon, nutmeg & ginger go into the blend called this "pie spice" pumpkin |
| #6, aired 2022-02-10 | FEMALE AUTHORS $600: This Zora was a Zeta--one of the first sorors of Zeta Phi Beta--when she attended Howard in the 1920s Zora Neale Hurston |
| #5, aired 2022-02-10 | HOME ECONOMICS WITH TOPHER GRACE $400: (Topher Grace delivers the clue.) Sometimes life comes at you fast--ouch--glad everyone was okay--good thing you have car insurance; but now you must pay this, the part of the covered loss that's out of pocket; $500 tends to be the popular choice the deductible |
| #8573, aired 2022-02-09 | IN AUTHORS' FOOTSTEPS $2000: Pay your respects to the bronze Gerald & Lawrence Durrell on this Greek island where they spent much of their youth Corfu |
| #3, aired 2022-02-09 | APPS & WEBSITES $200: Pay or get paid with this app whose name comes partly from the Latin for "to sell" Venmo |
| #8567, aired 2022-02-01 | KILLER TV SHOWS $2000: "Better pay attention or this world we love so much might just kill you", Randy Newman sang in this show's opening theme Monk |
| #8567, aired 2022-02-01 | READ IT OR EAT IT? $2000: Just after World War II, a woman learns of a group of book lovers on one of the Channel Islands The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society |
| #8559, aired 2022-01-20 | THE ENERGY BIZ $1600: This Texas company agreed to pay $1.1 billion to settle claims from the Deepwater Horizon disaster of 2010 Halliburton |
| #8557, aired 2022-01-18 | ESCAPIST LITERATURE $400: "The Wooden Horse" by Eric Williams is the fact-based story of escaping Stalag Luft III, this type of place a POW camp |
| #8548, aired 2022-01-05 | A PLAYER TO BE NAMED RIGHT NOW $800: In March 2021 she testified on gender discrimination to a House committee; in April, she scored on a penalty kick for the U.S. vs. Sweden Megan Rapinoe |
| #8533, aired 2021-12-15 | WHIRLED MENU $1000: In Ireland diners flock to it:
HEPPER DISHES shepherd's pie |
| #8531, aired 2021-12-13 | SAY SOMETHING SILLY, PROFESSOR $2000: This lonely alien brought "Pee-wee's Playhouse" to space so he could have playmates Zyzzybalubah |
| #8523, aired 2021-12-01 | WRITERS, WITH STYLE $800: Was I nervous?--true!--nervous, yes, waiting, wondering, if it was known that he wrote "The Premature Burial" in 1844? or was I mad? Poe |
| #8517, aired 2021-11-23 | THE BODY HUMAN $800: The ciliary muscle changes the curvature of this eye part that determines how near or far we can see the lens |
| #8517, aired 2021-11-23 | BUSINESS HISTORY $1600: In 2020 the Justice Dept. wound up its case against this Sackler Family opioid maker, which agreed to pay $8 billion in penalties Purdue (Pharma) |
| #8514, aired 2021-11-18 | IN ALL THE WRONG PLACES $200: In Monopoly, you roll the dice & you'll pay the price if your Community Chest card reads, "Go to" here, "Go directly to" here Jail |
| #8514, aired 2021-11-18 | AMEND THE AMENDMENT $1000: 24th: "The right of citizens... to vote... shall not be denied... by reason of failure to pay any redonkulous tax or other tax" poll |
| #8513, aired 2021-11-17 | READERS, DIGEST $1200: Key lime pie is dumped on a philandering hubby's head in "Heartburn"; in real life, she poured wine on Carl Bernstein Nora Ephron |
| #8509, aired 2021-11-11 | THE REST IS HISTORY $600: In 2019 it was revealed Harold "Pie" Keller was one of 6 Marines raising the flag in a photo taken Feb. 23, 1945 on this island Iwo Jima |
| #8507, aired 2021-11-09 | ANOTHER ONE BITES THE CRUST $200: I want some more key lime pie, especially with a crust made using these Honey Maid items graham crackers |
| #8502, aired 2021-11-02 | FAIRY TALES: A CLOSER LOOK $800: A woman's royal lineage is determined using bedding to reveal her demanding nature & sense of privilege "The Princess and the Pea" |
| #8499, aired 2021-10-28 | RED $800: In a short story, Poe wrote that this 2-word malady "had long devastated the country" the Red Death |
| #8495, aired 2021-10-22 | IS IT ME YOU'RE LOOKING FOR? $600: Abducted & sealed away "In a sepulchre by the sea", I'm this lost love, sought for in a Poe poem Annabel Lee |
| #8493, aired 2021-10-20 | 2 CONSONANTS, THEN ONE VOWEL $800: Noodle soup with beef that's the national dish of Vietnam pho |
| #8492, aired 2021-10-19 | MONOPOLY: SPECIAL EDITIONS $200: Instead of income tax, you have to pay a Central Perk Tab in the Monopoly edition based on this TV show Friends |
| #8490, aired 2021-10-15 | HIGH/LOW $400: Working with the firm Webb & Knapp, I.M. Pei designed the Mile High Center in this city in the mid-1950s Denver |
| #8484, aired 2021-10-07 | "EZ" GEOGRAPHY $800: Brigitte Bardot & the filming of "And God Created Woman" made this "saint"ly French Riviera town an international destination Saint-Tropez |
| #8480, aired 2021-10-01 | NAME CALLING $1200: Creator of TV's "Fargo", Noah Hawley won this mystery award named for a certain Poe-et Edgar |
| #8478, aired 2021-09-29 | SEE, IT STARTS WITH "CL" $2000: It's basically a cherry pie with a fancy French name clafoutis |
| #8475, aired 2021-09-24 | FURRY ROAD $400: With claws retracted, the paw of this furry animal, Panthera leo, doesn't look so scary a lion |
| #8475, aired 2021-09-24 | GET-TOGETHERS $400: A trip to Hawaii might include this traditional feast with music, hula dancing & food like poi & kalua pig luau |
| #8475, aired 2021-09-24 | NOVELS BY QUOTE $2,000 (Daily Double): "One man's life or death were but a small price to pay for the acquirement of the knowledge which I sought" Frankenstein |
| #8475, aired 2021-09-24 | NOTABLE ASIAN AMERICANS $6,000 (Daily Double): Not a fan of rock music, he initially turned down the job of designing the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame (I.M.) Pei |
| #8470, aired 2021-09-17 | THIS CONSTITUTION $800: Ratified in 1992, an amendment limiting congressional pay raises was first proposed by this "Father of the Constitution" (James) Madison |
| #8469, aired 2021-09-16 | A LOOK AT BOOKS $1200: Yann Martel named the tiger in "Life of Pi" after this shipwreck victim in Edgar Allan Poe's "Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym" Richard Parker |
| #8465, aired 2021-08-13 | NOVEL VOCABULARY $800: The Oxford English Dictionary cites his novel "Christine" as the origin for "Shut your pie-hole" (Stephen) King |
| #8464, aired 2021-08-12 | RIDDLE ME THIS $800: To pay up for a riddle solved, this biblical strongman murders 30 men who had nothing to do with it and steals their stuff Samson |
| #8458, aired 2021-08-04 | 3-LETTER WORDS $400: This verb means to handle something roughly, like an animal would paw |
| #8457, aired 2021-08-03 | INVESTING TERMS $800: It's the commission or sales fee you pay when buying shares; some mutual funds are "no"-it load |
| #8455, aired 2021-07-30 | LEGAL $400: In many states, a borrower who couldn't pay the mortgage has the right of redemption, to stop this process until auction time foreclosure |
| #8444, aired 2021-07-15 | ARCHITECTS $3,000 (Daily Double): Here is this architect outside his famous pyramid I.M. Pei |
| #8443, aired 2021-07-14 | EPONYMOUS LEGISLATION $1200: The Lilly Ledbetter Act resets this time period whenever an employee receives a paycheck based on discriminatory pay the statute of limitations |
| #8442, aired 2021-07-13 | OVER BUDGET $800: The government of New South Wales held a lottery for 30 years to pay for this building whose budget went from $7 mil. to $102 mil. the Sydney Opera House |
| #8438, aired 2021-07-07 | TOYS & GAMES $200: Seen here is a tin from this pie company; Yale students repurposed it later Frisbee |
| #8431, aired 2021-06-28 | SOUND GARDEN $400: I heard you coming up the garden walkway due to the crunchy stones called "pea" this I used to line the path gravel |
| #8431, aired 2021-06-28 | TALKING HEADS $800: This American Red Cross founder said she'd sometimes teach for free but if paid, "Never do a man's work for less than a man's pay" Clara Barton |
| #8429, aired 2021-06-24 | ENDS IN "A-D-O" $2000: A "Cask of" this sherry figures prominently in an Edgar Allan Poe tale Amontillado |
| #8424, aired 2021-06-17 | THE LANGUAGE OF FOOD $1000: You "eat" this 2-word non-treat when forced to apologize; a literal version is the viscera & other deer parts humble pie |
| #8424, aired 2021-06-17 | DID YOU READ... $2000: ...this classic W.W. Jacobs short story that warns us, "The first man had his three wishes... the third was for death" "The Monkey's Paw" |
| #8406, aired 2021-05-24 | FLAGS $400: Mary Hoff, whose husband was shot down over Laos, had the idea for this, the only flag on permanent display in the Capitol rotunda the POW flag (MIA flag) |
| #8399, aired 2021-05-13 | FOR YOUR PIES ONLY $200: Pillsbury's "Perfect" this pie includes 6 cups of the main item as well as cinnamon & nutmeg; why, it's American as... apple pie |
| #8399, aired 2021-05-13 | FOR YOUR PIES ONLY $400: 19th century confectioner, Elizabeth Goodfellow introduced this sweet & tart delight to America lemon meringue pie |
| #8399, aired 2021-05-13 | FOR YOUR PIES ONLY $600: Let's go nuts with this pie staple, a hickory genus member grown in Georgia with a fat content of (yipes!) over 70% pecan pie |
| #8399, aired 2021-05-13 | FOR YOUR PIES ONLY $800: Sour ones or Bings can be used to make this summer pie, & maybe spruce it up with a lattice crust cherry pie |
| #8399, aired 2021-05-13 | FOR YOUR PIES ONLY $1000: Patti LaBelle is famed for this pie that can actually be made with yams instead of the tubers in its name sweet potato pie |
| #8397, aired 2021-05-11 | OUTLAWS & IN-LAWS $600: Maria Clemm was this poet's aunt &, after he married Maria's daughter Virginia, his mom-in-law; quoth the host... uuuuugh Poe |
| #8391, aired 2021-05-03 | THE FOOD NETWORK $200: Hey, Lorraine! I made this kind of pastry pie filled with custard, bacon bits & Gruyère a quiche |
| #8390, aired 2021-04-30 | SEE 3 "P", "O" $400: This spicy sausage is a popular pie topper pepperoni |
| #8384, aired 2021-04-22 | KNOWN BY THEIR INITIALS $800: Architect Ieoh Ming I.M. Pei |
| #8383, aired 2021-04-21 | SNOOZE CLUES $1200: In other words, this "sleepy" rhyming expression means if you don't pay attention, you're liable to miss out on an opportunity you snooze, you lose |
| #8382, aired 2021-04-20 | MOVIE TO STAGE $200: Songs in this "ogreish" musical include "Donkey Pot Pie" & "Freak Flag" Shrek |
| #8380, aired 2021-04-16 | DISSECTING THE LYRICS $2000: Warrant: "She's my" this dessert, "cool drink of water, such a sweet surprise", the surprise being its transformation from food to drink cherry pie |
| #8368, aired 2021-03-31 | KITCHEN MEASUREMENTS $800: Standard sizes of these are 8" to 10" in diameter & about 1" tall; deep dish ones can be 10" X 2" & hold more cups of fruit filling a pie pan |
| #8366, aired 2021-03-29 | YOU'LL EAT THOSE WORDS $800: A baseball brouhaha is also known as this edible pie plant a rhubarb |
| #8365, aired 2021-03-26 | MULTIPLE-CAPITAL COUNTRIES $1200: In 2006 Myanmar's capital moved to Nay Pyi Taw, but this city is still its commercial capital Yangon |
| #8365, aired 2021-03-26 | FAREWELL TO THE AUTHOR $1200: Beginning 100 years after this author's death, a mysterious stranger visited annually leaving cognac & 3 roses at his Baltimore grave Edgar Allan Poe |
| #8364, aired 2021-03-25 | TV LOCALES $1600: Amidst odd happenings on this show, agent Dale Cooper ate delicious cherry pie at the Double R Diner Twin Peaks |
| #8361, aired 2021-03-22 | INITIALLY YOURS $1600: This revered Chinese-born American architect passed away in 2019 shortly after his 102nd birthday (I.M.) Pei |
| #8358, aired 2021-03-17 | LOSING U $800: An artificial water channel drops its "U" & turns into this perfect pie portion slice (from sluice) |
| #8357, aired 2021-03-16 | POETS & POETRY $1600: "It was many and many a year ago", begins a poem by Edgar Allan Poe about this maiden Annabel Lee |
| #8356, aired 2021-03-15 | THAT'S TOTALLY LIT $1000: O. Henry told of "The Ransom of" this title kid, so troublesome his kidnappers pay dad to take him back Red Chief |
| #8355, aired 2021-03-12 | THAT'S MY SECRET $1000: This secret society at Yale was formed in 1832, possibly after a dispute with Phi Beta Kappa Skull and Bones |
| #8355, aired 2021-03-12 | IN MY RECORD COLLECTION $1200: "The Best of" this singer-songwriter, including his classic "American Pie" Don McLean |
| #8350, aired 2021-03-05 | BROADWAY MUSICALS $1000: Set in a royal castle, "Once Upon a Mattress" is a musical based on this fairy tale "The Princess and the Pea" |
| #8348, aired 2021-03-03 | "WEE" FOLK $400: Paul Reubens named this childlike alter ego after a harmonica Pee-wee Herman |
| #8346, aired 2021-03-01 | HOW 'BOUT A GAME OF CARDS? $800: Being dealt the unbeatable number in the first 2 cards can pay 3 to 2 in a standard casino game of this Blackjack |
| #8344, aired 2021-02-25 | "DIS"INFORMATION $800: People pay good money for this type of jeans that come already torn up distressed |
| #8340, aired 2021-02-19 | BALTIMORE: NEWS CLUES $400: (Patrice Sanders of FOX45 in Baltimore presents the clue.) Halloween is special here in Baltimore when brave spirits come to Westminster Hall to see the grave of this "Telltale Heart" author & local resident, & descend into nearby catacombs Poe |
| #8335, aired 2021-02-12 | FRUIT FORWARD $400: Neat & tidy:
____-pie order apple |
| #8319, aired 2021-01-21 | SHAPELY SPEECH $200: Pay an airline for your flight there & back & you've bought this kind of ticket round trip |
| #8319, aired 2021-01-21 | CANADIAN PLACES $400: Henry Cobb & I.M. Pei designed Place Ville-Marie, a landmark in this city Montreal |
| #8318, aired 2021-01-20 | GIRL YOU KNOW IT'S TRUE $400: On Sept. 18, 1872 10 of the 20 female students at Syracuse University formed one of these a sorority |
| #8317, aired 2021-01-19 | 3-LETTER RESPONSES $200: John McCain's status from 1967 until his release in 1973 a POW |
| #8312, aired 2021-01-12 | HISTORY $200: This ex-first lady was part of the Tractors for Freedom Committee to pay a ransom for prisoners taken at the Bay of Pigs Eleanor Roosevelt |
| #8312, aired 2021-01-12 | SCIENCE CENTER $1600: This pea-sized "master gland" produces hormones that regulate many of the body's other endocrine glands the pituitary |
| #8308, aired 2021-01-06 | BILLBOARD NO. 1 SONG OF THE YEAR $400: "Boom Boom Pow" by this "leguminous" group satisfied onomatopoeic musical cravings in 2009 the Black Eyed Peas |
| #8305, aired 2020-12-18 | MOVING $600: Some companies charge per stair, so you'll pay dearly to move into a NYC fifth-floor this, meaning there's no elevator a walk-up |
| #8288, aired 2020-11-25 | ____ THE ____ $200: To deal with the consequences of your actions is to dance & do this, give compense to a certain musician pay the piper |
| #8287, aired 2020-11-24 | WE'LL GIVE YOU PAWS $800: The paw of one of these predators from Greenland may give you a chill a polar bear |
| #8287, aired 2020-11-24 | WE'LL GIVE YOU PAWS $2000: Here's the paw of one of these unusual cats, from the Greek for "many-toed" polydactyl |
| #8283, aired 2020-11-18 | TV CRIME SHOWS $400: As Marty Byrde on "Ozark", this actor relocates his family to Missouri to try to pay off a debt to a drug cartel Jason Bateman |
| #8265, aired 2020-10-23 | MOVIE SUM-UP $1600: Peckin-pow! Holden & Oates are part of a bloody, bloody good supergroup to avenge Angel The Wild Bunch |
| #8263, aired 2020-10-21 | BROADWAY DEBUTS $500 (Daily Double): Katharine McPhee served up a fine performance as server & pie-maker Jenna in this musical Waitress |
| #8261, aired 2020-10-19 | POE "M" $200: In an 1842 Poe story a prince & his noble guests find that this title costume ball is no haven from "the Red Death" Masque |
| #8261, aired 2020-10-19 | POE "M" $400: This 2-letter abbreviation precedes "Found in a Bottle" in the title of a Poe tale MS. |
| #8261, aired 2020-10-19 | POE "M" $600: In the title of a Poe story, "in the Rue" is in between these 2 words Murders & Morgue |
| #8261, aired 2020-10-19 | POE "M" $800: The narrator of "The Tell-Tale Heart" asks, "Why will you say that I am" this?; read it & find out mad |
| #8261, aired 2020-10-19 | POE "M" $1000: A powerful storm is at the center of Poe's story "A Descent into" this the Maelstrom |
| #8248, aired 2020-09-30 | HOUSEHOLD NAMES $400: A 2015 study showed that even if they pay online, more than 90% of U.S. households still preferred these to be mailed to them bills |
| #8246, aired 2020-09-28 | WRITERS ANONYMOUS $1000: In 1827 this 18-year-old American anonymously published "Tamerlane and Other Poems", including "Visit of the Dead" Edgar Allan Poe |
| #8242, aired 2020-09-22 | THE MAN, THE POETRY $800: "Bells" (interspersed more than 60 times within the poem) (Edgar Allan) Poe |
| #8240, aired 2020-09-18 | POTPOURRI $800: In 1932 Brazil's Olympic team had to sell bags of this crop while sailing to Los Angeles in order to pay for the trip coffee |
| #8236, aired 2020-09-14 | OPENING STATEMENTS $1000: This Poe story begins, "True!--nervous--very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am" "The Tell-Tale Heart" |
| #8234, aired 2020-06-11 | PUN-FORGIVABLE $1200: "What you say to scare a lemon pie topping", or an Australian aboriginal weapon Boo! meringue |
| #8225, aired 2020-05-29 | COOL NEWS $600: In 2020 this sports league & its players association reached a deal that will pay top centers & point guards in excess of $500,000 a year the WNBA |
| #8224, aired 2020-05-28 | AMERICAN HEALTH CARE $400: It's the "E" in EMTALA, a 1986 federal law that says a hospital must treat patients with serious conditions who can't pay emergency |
| #8214, aired 2020-04-30 | PAY RESPECTS $200: At his 2018 funeral his son said he was "The brightest of a thousand points of light" George Herbert Walker Bush |
| #8214, aired 2020-04-30 | PAY RESPECTS $400: Many funeral homes suggest keeping this to 5 minutes or less a eulogy |
| #8214, aired 2020-04-30 | PAY RESPECTS $600: Her 1997 funeral included a song with the revised lyrics "Goodbye England's rose, may you ever grow in our hearts" Princess Diana |
| #8214, aired 2020-04-30 | PAY RESPECTS $800: Pollen found in burial caves used by these ancient humans named for a German valley suggests flowers were laid with their dead Neanderthals |
| #8214, aired 2020-04-30 | PAY RESPECTS $1000: Venerating the underworld goddess Mictecacihuatl, this celebration was moved to coincide with All Saints' Day & All Souls' Day Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) |
| #8207, aired 2020-04-21 | B IN THE MIDDLE $800: To pay back or refund reimburse |
| #8204, aired 2020-04-16 | SONGS OF YOUR OLDER SIBLINGS $1200: "You so 2000 & late", says this Black Eyed Peas song with an onomatopoetic title "Boom Boom Pow" |
| #8201, aired 2020-04-13 | CROSSWORD CLUES "P" $4,000 (Daily Double): Stolen, like the "Letter" in an Edgar Allan Poe story (9) purloined |
| #8199, aired 2020-04-09 | SHOPPING $200: This large retailer uses the slogan "Expect More. Pay Less." Target |
| #8198, aired 2020-04-08 | ALL ABOUT APRIL $1000: The daisy is one special flower for those born in April; another is this sweet one seen here a sweet pea |
| #8195, aired 2020-04-03 | TIME TO PAY THE "TAB" $400: To record or count something systematically tabulate |
| #8195, aired 2020-04-03 | HAVE YOU HEARD? $400: Son, I say son, pay attention! It's the weather-related warning item sounding here! a foghorn |
| #8195, aired 2020-04-03 | TIME TO PAY THE "TAB" $800: Captain Cook brought this forbidding word into English from the south seas taboo |
| #8195, aired 2020-04-03 | THE CODE OF HAMMURABI $1000: Hammy's law 137 says if a man & wife have kids & he leaves, he has to pay this; now U.S. CFR Title 45 sets guidelines for it child support |
| #8195, aired 2020-04-03 | TIME TO PAY THE "TAB" $1200: Here's a hot tip: it's a state of southeast Mexico Tabasco |
| #8195, aired 2020-04-03 | TIME TO PAY THE "TAB" $1600: From Arabic, it's a salad with crushed wheat tabbouleh |
| #8195, aired 2020-04-03 | TIME TO PAY THE "TAB" $2000: This type of musical notation used lines to denote an instrument's strings tablature |
| #8186, aired 2020-03-23 | THE OSCARS $1000: Winner Emma Thompson said she went to Jane Austen's grave "to pay my respects...& tell her about the grosses" of this pic Sense and Sensibility |
| #8185, aired 2020-03-20 | PAY UP $200: If you've got pets, the extra-efficient "Ball Animal 2" one of these from Dyson might be worth it at close to $400 a vacuum |
| #8185, aired 2020-03-20 | AMERICAN POETRY $200: A poem by Edgar Allan Poe mentions silver & golden these, jingling, tinkling, chiming bells |
| #8185, aired 2020-03-20 | PAY UP $400: This company with Charles in charge will charge you nothing for a phone-assisted stock trade--plus a $5 service fee Charles Schwab |
| #8185, aired 2020-03-20 | PAY UP $600: Good for unlimited train travel for a week through Austria, France & 29 other countries, it'll cost you at least $375 a Eurail Pass |
| #8185, aired 2020-03-20 | PAY UP $800: You'll need a million dollars plus to own a 918 Spyder from this manufacturer Porsche |
| #8185, aired 2020-03-20 | PAY UP $1000: The devil's in the details of the $1,870 Saffiano leather bucket bag from this Italian company Prada |
| #8183, aired 2020-03-18 | CLASSIC SONGS $400: "When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that's" this amore |
| #8178, aired 2020-03-11 | THEIR FINAL NOVEL $200: "The Mystery of Edwin Drood" (Charles) Dickens |
| #8177, aired 2020-03-10 | STUDENT WORD LIST $200: It can be a trainee working short-term without pay, or a recent medical school grad working in a hospital prior to a residency an internship |
| #8175, aired 2020-03-06 | THE SAINTS $800: AKA Padre Pio, St. Pio of Pietrelcina is one of 60+ saints said to have exhibited these signs of the crucified Jesus the stigmata |
| #8174, aired 2020-03-05 | CONGRESS $1000: Originally to be in the Bill of Rights, the amendment regulating this action by Congress was finally ratified in 1992 as the 27th Congress raising its own pay |
| #8173, aired 2020-03-04 | CURRENT SPORTS NICKNAMES $600: Andy Smith, one of the world's best players at this pub game, is nicknamed "The Pie Man" darts |
| #8172, aired 2020-03-03 | CHARITABLE CELEBS $400: LeBron James pledged to pay for more than 1,000 scholarships in this Ohio city of his birth Akron |
| #8159, aired 2020-02-13 | FOOD & DRINK WORDS & PHRASES $600: It's a circular representation of relative percentages making up a whole a pie chart |
| #8157, aired 2020-02-11 | "INNA" $800: In the first stanza of a poem, Edgar Allan Poe used this lengthy word to describe the sound of "the bells" tintinnabulation |
| #8156, aired 2020-02-10 | PRIZE $200: midwestliving.com posted a mouth-watering slideshow of 12 foods that won this prize at state fairs--mmm, butterscotch pie a blue ribbon |
| #8151, aired 2020-02-03 | WRITER'S TOOLBOX $800: Boom! Slam! Pow! are all examples of this, a word that imitates the sound it refers to onomatopoeia |
| #8143, aired 2020-01-22 | YE OLDE JOB FAIRE $800: Proverbially, you have to pay this strolling musician who plays a small wind instrument the piper |
| #5, aired 2020-01-09 | WHAT'S IN YOUR BRAIN? $1600: This pea-sized gland secretes a hormone regulating sleep; science has not confirmed Descartes' belief that it's the seat of the soul the pineal |
| #3, aired 2020-01-08 | SHORT STORY SYLLABUS $1,000 (Daily Double): W.W. Jacobs came up with pretty much the opposite of a lucky rabbit's foot with this story of a dad, a son & 3 wishes gone bad "The Monkey's Paw" |
| #8132, aired 2020-01-07 | SOFT WORDS $1000: In Poe's "The Raven", her whispered name is heard in the darkness Lenore |
| #8126, aired 2019-12-30 | BEHIND THE LITERATURE $800: Many think Daniel Webster's summation at a murder trial inspired this man to write "The Tell-Tale Heart" Edgar Allan Poe |
| #8114, aired 2019-12-12 | THE PRESIDENT HAD MONEY TROUBLES $600: Deep in the red after years of public service, this 5th president got the government to pay off at least a portion Monroe |
| #8114, aired 2019-12-12 | POLYNESIAN WORDS $1000: In Hawaii say this 3-letter word if you want an edible paste; in Tahiti, put "Po" before it poi |
| #8112, aired 2019-12-10 | SPEAK TO ME OF FRUITS & VEGETABLES $200: A pea souper is one of these weather phenomenons a fog |
| #8107, aired 2019-12-03 | NOT-SO-EASY KIDS' TV $800: A boy named Ryder leads this program's plucky pups who pine for professions like policeman Paw Patrol |
| #8104, aired 2019-11-28 | STATUESQUE AUTHORS $800: Never mind the "Nevermore",he's been in Baltimore since 1921 (Edgar Allan) Poe |
| #8078, aired 2019-10-23 | BOTANISTS $1200: A statue in the Czech Republic honoring this botanist monk is crawling with pea vines (Gregor) Mendel |
| #8071, aired 2019-10-14 | THE MANY BUILDINGS OF I.M. PEI $400: A cantilevered auditorium is one feature of this hall of fame designed by Pei on Lake Erie in Cleveland the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame |
| #8071, aired 2019-10-14 | THE MANY BUILDINGS OF I.M. PEI $1,000 (Daily Double): 2 of I.M. Pei's early designs to be built were at an airport & a presidential library both honoring this man (John F.) Kennedy |
| #8071, aired 2019-10-14 | THE MANY BUILDINGS OF I.M. PEI $1200: The triangular prisms Pei designed for the Bank of China Tower, make it stand out among the crowded skyline of this city Hong Kong |
| #8071, aired 2019-10-14 | THE MANY BUILDINGS OF I.M. PEI $2000: Pei was in his 90s when the Museum of Islamic Art on Doha Bay opened in this country in 2008 Qatar |
| #8062, aired 2019-10-01 | CLUES ACROSS AMERICA $400: (Hi, I'm Lisa Hughes from WBZ. In 1856 the chef at the Parker House was said to have invented this 3-word dessert; despite the name, it's actually a 2-layer sponge cake Boston cream pie |
| #8062, aired 2019-10-01 | LITERARY NARRATORS $2000: Montresor, the narrator of this Poe story, lures Fortunato to his doom with the promise of a fine Spanish sherry "The Cask of Amontillado" |
| #8053, aired 2019-09-18 | DESCRIBING THE CASINO GAME $1000: The joker is semi-wild & dressed as an ace;
one hand becomes 2;
the Asian name of the game pai gow poker |
| #8046, aired 2019-09-09 | THE "BEAN" STALK $800: Scientifically known as Glycine max, this member of the pea family is native to Asia the soybean |
| #8039, aired 2019-07-18 | THE 3-NAMED EDGARS $400: In 1845 he lit into fellow poet Mr. Longfellow with accusations of plagiarism, which did not go over well Edgar Allan Poe |
| #8035, aired 2019-07-12 | ACRONYMS & ABBREVS. $1600: Seen on pay stubs, FICA is short for these 2 words "Contributions Act" federal insurance |
| #8033, aired 2019-07-10 | ANCIENT EGYPT $400: In the 12th century B.C., hungry necropolis workers staged one of the earliest ones of these, demanding back pay a strike |
| #8027, aired 2019-07-02 | CORRUPTION ALL AROUND $800: A bribe can be paid upfront; if an official helps me first & I pay him later, it's this 8-letter word a kickback |
| #8019, aired 2019-06-20 | BOOKS OF MYSTERY $2000: One of the first detective stories was "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" by this man, also known to rhyme a phrase or 2 Edgar Allan Poe |
| #7998, aired 2019-05-22 | DON'T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK $1200: In the first line of Poe's "The Raven", this dark adjective describes midnight dreary |
| #7989, aired 2019-05-09 | LITERARY CHARACTERS $1600: A tailor in a play by G.B. Shaw, he extracts a thorn from a lion's paw & is spared later in the arena by that lion Androcles |
| #7988, aired 2019-05-08 | THEM'S THE RULES $1200: Per Monopoly rules, if you land on this space, you must pay the bank either $200 or 10% of your total worth Income Tax |
| #7987, aired 2019-05-07 | CENTRAL AMERICA $400: Oil tankers & other ships pay a fee to take this 50-mile Central American shortcut the Panama Canal |
| #7980, aired 2019-04-26 | 1930s SLANG $400: Pay off a debt with a $100 bill & you've parted with one of these letter-word hyphenations a C-note |
| #7978, aired 2019-04-24 | WHERE AM I? $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents.) I'm in the Nyhavn area of this capital--it looks like a fairy tale setting, & fairy tales like "The Princess and the Pea" were written here Copenhagen |
| #7973, aired 2019-04-17 | MOVIE & TV TERMS $800: Sounds fishy, but it's just the minimum pay approved by a union for a specific job scale |
| #7969, aired 2019-04-11 | MOVIE & SONG, SAME TITLE $400: Don McLean,
1971;
Jason Biggs,
1999 "American Pie" |
| #7965, aired 2019-04-05 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $400: Phi Beta Kappa, America's oldest Greek-letter society, was founded in 1776 at this Virginia college William & Mary |
| #7960, aired 2019-03-29 | CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST $800: Biscoito casadinho at Pao & Comapnhia in Belo Horizonte South America |
| #7957, aired 2019-03-26 | TO BE ELF-EVIDENT $200: In the 1950s, Snap, Crackle & Pop were joined by a 4th elf named Pow to help sell this cereal, but soon Pow went poof Rice Krispies |
| #7948, aired 2019-03-13 | WORLD LEADERS 1919 $800: President Raymond Poincaré of France was a firm believer in Germany's need to pay reparations as outlined in this document Treaty of Versailles |
| #7942, aired 2019-03-05 | WRITERS ON THE STORM $1600: In a Poe story a fisherman is pulled into this Norwegian whirlpool by a hurricane the maelstrom |
| #7942, aired 2019-03-05 | COLONIAL AMERICA $10,000 (Daily Double): The 1764 Sugar Act taxed molasses imports to help pay for this recently concluded war the French and Indian War |
| #7941, aired 2019-03-04 | WHAT'S YOUR NUMBER? $1200: Created by Congress in 1996, this 3-digit plan, AKA the Qualified Tuition Program, can be used to help pay for college 529 |
| #7940, aired 2019-03-01 | TV $1000: A game pie & charlotte russe were featured in a season 3 episode of this "Great" show from across the pond The Great British Bake Off |
| #7938, aired 2019-02-27 | 4,3,4 $1000: A body part is in this expression meaning to pay expenses someone has run up foot the bill |
| #7935, aired 2019-02-22 | POETRY FILL-IN $1200: Kipling:
"We were promised abundance for all, by robbing selected Peter to pay for collective ____" Paul |
| #7934, aired 2019-02-21 | OPEN YOUR PIE HOLE $200: Some celebrate National this Pie Day on October 12, not long before Halloween pumpkin pie |
| #7934, aired 2019-02-21 | OPEN YOUR PIE HOLE $400: It was a capital idea when this "pie" became the official state dessert of Massachusetts Boston cream pie |
| #7934, aired 2019-02-21 | OPEN YOUR PIE HOLE $600: The sour Montmorency type of this fruit makes a tasty pie cherry |
| #7934, aired 2019-02-21 | OPEN YOUR PIE HOLE $800: Some recipes for Jefferson Davis pie call for this nut, familiar from another Southern pie staple a pecan |
| #7934, aired 2019-02-21 | OPEN YOUR PIE HOLE $1000: Using lemon juice, Montgomery pie is a more tart version of this pie from Pennsylvania that's so sweet it attracts insects shoo-fly pie |
| #7931, aired 2019-02-18 | ANTEBELLUM $400: The Battle of Dien Bien Phu basically ended the first Indochina War but precipitated this other conflict the Vietnam War |
| #7931, aired 2019-02-18 | DEPRESSION-ERA DINING $400: Emeril Lagasse has brought back the desperation pie, which uses the apple cider type of this instead of lemons vinegar |
| #7923, aired 2019-02-06 | APPLE PIE ORDER $200: I'll have mine with ice cream--this way, s'il vous plait à la mode |
| #7923, aired 2019-02-06 | APPLE PIE ORDER $400: I'll take one from this chain, though as I recall it tasted better before they went from fried to baked in 1992 McDonald's |
| #7923, aired 2019-02-06 | APPLE PIE ORDER $600: You can have this "apple" pie made with Ritz crackers; I'll have the real thing mock apple pie |
| #7923, aired 2019-02-06 | APPLE PIE ORDER $800: Gimme this alliterative "feminine" dessert, crustless pie with apples & brown sugar apple brown betty |
| #7923, aired 2019-02-06 | APPLE PIE ORDER $1000: Pasadena's Pie 'n Burger will serve you this "national" apple pie with a crumbly streusel topping Dutch apple pie |
| #7919, aired 2019-01-31 | OFFICIAL STATE FOODS $600: This tangy dessert is a state food of Florida key lime pie |
| #7916, aired 2019-01-28 | CELEBRITIES: THEY'RE JUST LIKE US! $800: "Mercy, Mercy, Me!" This late Motown singer did an album called "Here, My Dear" to pay for his divorce Marvin Gaye |
| #7914, aired 2019-01-24 | POTENT POE TALES $400: "The Pit and the Pendulum" finds a man sentenced to death by this tribunal in Toledo the Inquisition |
| #7914, aired 2019-01-24 | POTENT POE TALES $1200: "I admit the deed!--Tear up the planks!" shouts the murderer as he shows the police this title body part the tell-tale heart |
| #7914, aired 2019-01-24 | POTENT POE TALES $1600: A stolen document provides the title of this story featuring detective C. Auguste Dupin "The Purloined Letter" |
| #7914, aired 2019-01-24 | POTENT POE TALES $2000: It is noted twice in a certain Poe short story that Luchesi cannot tell the difference between sherry & this other drink amontillado |
| #7914, aired 2019-01-24 | POTENT POE TALES $3,600 (Daily Double): This Poe story's title is realized as the narrator flees the "House" as it cracks & is torn asunder "The Fall of the House of Usher" |
| #7910, aired 2019-01-18 | MADLIBERALS $1200: Joe Hill: "Work and pray, live on hay, you'll get pie in the sky when you (verb)" die |
| #7909, aired 2019-01-17 | THE WORLD THROUGH LITERATURE $2000: In "In the Time of Butterflies", rebels in this country pay the ultimate price for standing up to Trujillo the Dominican Republic |
| #7898, aired 2019-01-02 | USA $800: We cannot tell a lie--the National this Festival in Traverse City, Michigan includes pie-eating & pit spit contests the Cherry Festival |
| #7897, aired 2019-01-01 | TEXT ALERTS $2000: This Poe story describes an ape, "Razor still in hand", running through the streets at 3 in the morning "Murders in the Rue Morgue" |
| #7892, aired 2018-12-25 | BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS $2000: In a novel, Juliet Ashton finds the subject of her next book: this island's "Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society" Guernsey |
| #7891, aired 2018-12-24 | ANAGRAMMED MINERALS $800: No foolin': TRY PIE pyrite |
| #7891, aired 2018-12-24 | LITERARY CHARACTERS BASED ON REAL PEOPLE $1200: Murder victim Mary Rogers had her name Frenchified as this character in an Edgar Allan Poe mystery Marie Rogêt |
| #7891, aired 2018-12-24 | STICKER SHOCK $1600: A car's sticker price, which is what the dealer wants you to pay, is aka this term with a 4-letter abbreviation manufacturer's suggested retail price (MSRP) |
| #7890, aired 2018-12-21 | PUT ON YOUR "P.J."s $1200: A sailor's heavy woolen double-breasted coat a pea jacket |
| #7886, aired 2018-12-17 | COMING AT YOU IN 3 T $600: You can "pay" it as you "stand at" it attention |
| #7883, aired 2018-12-12 | 21st CENTURY FILMS $600: Director Rian Johnson said Laura Dern could not resist saying "Pew!" every time she fired her blaster in this film The Last Jedi |
| #7875, aired 2018-11-30 | WATCHING THE TV DETECTIVES $400: As Special Agent Dale Cooper on this show, Kyle MacLachlan enjoyed cherry pie & damn fine coffee Twin Peaks |
| #7871, aired 2018-11-26 | ENGLISH MAJORS $400: He bought his 1793 promotion from major to lt. colonel; the investment would pay off at Waterloo Wellington |
| #7870, aired 2018-11-23 | COSTS A LITTLE EXTRA $800: If you need a passport quickly, pay the State Department for this rush processing, meaning sped up expedited |
| #7870, aired 2018-11-23 | COSTS A LITTLE EXTRA $1000: In this type of medicine named for a helpful hotel employee, you pay a fee for personal attention on top of your insurance concierge |
| #7869, aired 2018-11-22 | VWLLSS HWN $600: P
(taro paste) poi |
| #7863, aired 2018-11-14 | UNDERSTANDING MONEY $1200: Equifax & Experian are companies that calculate this "score", a measure of your ability to pay your bills credit score |
| #7863, aired 2018-11-14 | UNDERSTANDING MONEY $2000: Yay! Your folks made millions selling that house! Not as yay! They must pay the tax called these "gains" capital gains |
| #7854, aired 2018-11-01 | THE DECLARATION OF RIGHTS FOR WOMEN $600: The declaration makes the same case as the 20th century slogan "equal" this "for equal work" pay |
| #7853, aired 2018-10-31 | WORLD CAPITAL PUNISHMENT $400: Should you call the capital of this Asian country Rangoon or Yangon? Neither--it's now Nay Pyi Taw, 200 miles away Myanmar |
| #7852, aired 2018-10-30 | ETYMOLOGY $800: The "pied" in "pied piper" meant he dressed in multicolored clothing, like this bird, "pie" for short a magpie |
| #7849, aired 2018-10-25 | DOC TREBEK'S DIAGNOSIS $1000: Too much pie? Could be indigestion, AKA this medical term from the Greek for "difficult to digest" dyspepsia |
| #7845, aired 2018-10-19 | PAYING THE PIPER $400: If you liked his tune in Saskatoon, pay him with one of these "crazy" dollar coins a loony |
| #7845, aired 2018-10-19 | PAYING THE PIPER $1600: If you liked his ditty while in Quezon City, pay the piper 50 of these, with Sergio Osmeña on the bill pesos |
| #7844, aired 2018-10-18 | AMERICANA $800: Named for his literary relative, Edgar Allan Poe was named to the 1st of these elite college athletic teams in 1889 All-American |
| #7840, aired 2018-10-12 | EDUCATION $600: You can see why Arizona teachers demanding higher pay & more funds used the rhyming slogan this "For Ed" red |
| #7835, aired 2018-10-05 | POTPOURRI $400: Generous donors pay for college for almost every graduate from public schools in Kalamazoo in this state Michigan |
| #7834, aired 2018-10-04 | IF I WERE IN RICHMOND... $400: I'd nevermore long to see the museum on Main St. devoted to this poet & Richmond resident (Edgar Allan) Poe |
| #7834, aired 2018-10-04 | FIDDLER $1000: Though his fans included Napoleon's sister, this 19th c. Italian virtuoso once sold his violin to pay off gambling debts (Niccolo) Paganini |
| #7827, aired 2018-09-25 | QUEEN CONSORT $1,000 (Daily Double): Cities in North Carolina, Virginia & Prince Edward Island are named for this consort of George III Charlotte |
| #7825, aired 2018-09-21 | TENDER INSIDE $400: This type of tender, airy cake is the basis of angel food cake as well as Boston cream pie sponge cake |
| #7823, aired 2018-09-19 | POETS & POETRY $800: Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven" begins with these 5 words once upon a midnight dreary |
| #7816, aired 2018-09-10 | BUSINESS $400: This 3-letter memorandum of debt is a strong but not legally binding promise to pay I.O.U. |
| #7813, aired 2018-07-25 | I WANT TO GO NUTS! $1000: Grown in Georgia, this hickory family nut is a prime ingredient in Tanya Holland's chocolate bourbon pie recipe pecans |
| #7813, aired 2018-07-25 | WORLD WAR II TIMELINE $1200: December 17, 1940:
FDR proposes this alliterative policy to help future U.S. allies pay for war materials lend-lease |
| #7808, aired 2018-07-18 | NEW PHONE $2000: The numbers are running out, so you may have to pay if you want your new phone to have this original NYC area code 212 |
| #7807, aired 2018-07-17 | A LIGHT CATEGORY $2000: Poe's last story is about this job & the narrator is "thoroughly alone... Neptune, large as he is, is not... 'society'" a lighthouse keeper |
| #7806, aired 2018-07-16 | DESIGN ACROSS AMERICA $1200: (Hi, I'm Erin Christiansen from KGUN-9.) Many of the stone bridges of Sabino Canyon were built as part of the New Deal by this agency whose "W" stands for "Works" the WPA |
| #7803, aired 2018-07-11 | "LITTLE" NURSERY RHYME CHARACTERS $400: They soiled their mittens by eating pie the three little kittens |
| #7800, aired 2018-07-06 | IMMIGRANTS $2000: In 1986 a dozen naturalized citizens got the 1st Medals of Liberty, including I.M. Pei, Bob Hope & this ex-Sec. of State Henry Kissinger |
| #7790, aired 2018-06-22 | POETS & POETRY $1200: Tintinnabulation "so musically wells" in this piece by Edgar Allan Poe "The Bells" |
| #7788, aired 2018-06-20 | I GIVE YOU EVERYTHING... $200: This phrase meaning to do good deeds for strangers who then do the same became the title of a 2000 movie pay it forward |
| #7762, aired 2018-05-15 | FROM "B" TO "Y" $400: 2-word term for overdue wages back pay |
| #7761, aired 2018-05-14 | DEAD POETS' SOCIETY $1000: A wind chilled & killed this maiden "who lived with no other thought than to love & be loved by" Edgar Allan Poe Annabel Lee |
| #7760, aired 2018-05-11 | "V"ERBS $200: To give official sanction to, maybe to help pay for your parking validate |
| #7758, aired 2018-05-09 | POLITICAL TERMS $1200: It can mean a wallet, a purse or a type of issue that affects the take-home pay of workers a pocketbook |
| #7755, aired 2018-05-04 | PLACES OF SPORT & AMUSEMENT $800: California's official state theater is the Pasadena one; on TV, Pee-Wee Herman had a more informal one a playhouse |
| #7752, aired 2018-05-01 | TAKE MY MONEY! $200: If your order is C.O.D., you pay at the time of this "D" delivery |
| #7748, aired 2018-04-25 | BALL $800: No one survives a masked ball in Edgar Allan Poe's story "The Masque of" this colorful pestilence the Red Death |
| #7748, aired 2018-04-25 | DAMON RUNYONESQUE GANGSTER LINGO $1000: Runyon gangsters use this word for the face; Jackie Gleason put it after "Pow! Right in the..." kisser |
| #7747, aired 2018-04-24 | STATE CONSUMABLES $800: You've still got a little right here after eating this pie, Maine's state dessert blueberry pie |
| #7742, aired 2018-04-17 | OFFICIAL STATE STUFF $600: You'll shout with joy the name of this pie, Maine's state treat a whoopie pie |
| #7741, aired 2018-04-16 | HETERONYMS $1000: Adjective for one from Gdansk & to make shiny by rubbing Polish [POH-lish] and polish [PAW-lish] |
| #7741, aired 2018-04-16 | ROADS SCHOLAR $1600: A fictional street in Paris, it's the location of murders in an 1841 Edgar Allan Poe tale the Rue Morgue |
| #7736, aired 2018-04-09 | DOWN IN SOUTH AMERICA $3,000 (Daily Double): Chile had to pay millions after officials failed to warn coastal cities about this after a deadly 2010 earthquake a tsunami |
| #7734, aired 2018-04-05 | FEW ARE CHOSEN $600: 1 in 10 arts & science college graduates is asked to join this "oldest academic honor society" Phi Beta Kappa |
| #7724, aired 2018-03-22 | ON THE BOARD GAME $1,600 (Daily Double): Start Career,
Pay Day The Game of Life |
| #7718, aired 2018-03-14 | BIOGRAPHIES $1600: Marquis James' biography "The Raven" isn't about Edgar Allan Poe but about this flamboyant pres. of early Texas Sam Houston |
| #7716, aired 2018-03-12 | "SHOW" & "TELL" $1600: A piece of fabric on a boat mast to show wind direction, or a Poe title adjective a telltale |
| #7710, aired 2018-03-02 | YOU'VE GOT A POINT $800: Androcles had a few tense moments until he removed one of these pointy things from a lion's paw a thorn |
| #7705, aired 2018-02-23 | CHESTER A. ARTHUR $555 (Daily Double): On his last day in office, Arthur nominated this ex-president for the retired list of the Army with full pay Grant |
| #7705, aired 2018-02-23 | WINNING CLAMS AT THE CASINO $1000: One joker is added to a 52-card deck & may be used to complete any flush or a straight in this Asian type of poker pai gow |
| #7704, aired 2018-02-22 | COLLUSION $1,400 (Daily Double): In 2000 these 2 art auction houses agreed to pay $500 million in restitution for engaging in price-fixing Christie's and Sotheby's |
| #7703, aired 2018-02-21 | ____ OF THE ____ $600: In Monopoly, a Chance card says, "You have been elected" to this position; "pay each player $50" chairman of the board |
| #7695, aired 2018-02-09 | SHAKESPEARE, & I QUOTE $1000: "Why, there they are, both baked in this pie; whereof their mother daintily hath fed" Titus Andronicus |
| #7689, aired 2018-02-01 | ADJECTIVES $2000: If you can't pay certain fees, a court may declare you this synonym for needy indigent (destitute accepted) |
| #7687, aired 2018-01-30 | WRITE, PATTERSON $200: James Patterson's first novel, "The Thomas Berryman Number", won this literary award named for Mr. Poe the Edgar Award |
| #7686, aired 2018-01-29 | DOG BREEDS $400: In 1931 this Japanese breed was designated a national monument in its native land the Akita |
| #7684, aired 2018-01-25 | 3-LETTER WORDS $600: A church bench a pew |
| #7683, aired 2018-01-24 | LET'S TALK DESSERT $2000: If you boast & come up short, you may have to eat this metaphorical pastry humble pie |
| #7679, aired 2018-01-18 | HOMOPHONIC ANIMALS $1200: When this leaping insect can't pay rent, he just gets the heck out of Dodge a flea |
| #7674, aired 2018-01-11 | STATE SEALS $800: 8 leaves of this poi-producing plant are on Hawaii's seal taro |
| #7667, aired 2018-01-02 | ALL-AMERICAN FOOD $200: You'll cover several food groups dining on this city's lettuce, baked beans & cream pie Boston |
| #7661, aired 2017-12-25 | THERE IS ROOM ON THAT BOARD! $1600: We need another body on this alliterative committee to figure out who much to pay the CEO the compensation committee |
| #7660, aired 2017-12-22 | I KNOW THAT PERFORMER'S FACE $800: Jennifer Coolidge, a regular in Christopher Guest films and on "2 Broke Girls", was also Stiffler's mom in this 1999 comedy American Pie |
| #7659, aired 2017-12-21 | BLANK "UM" $400: Pit's partner in a Poe title the pendulum |
| #7658, aired 2017-12-20 | BYE, PHOENICIA! $800: After invasions in the 7th century, Phoenicians were forced to convert to this religion or pay a jizya Islam |
| #7638, aired 2017-11-22 | POE FOLKS $400: Things are not going well when we meet Edgar Allan Poe's Roderick, proprietor of "the house of" this Usher |
| #7638, aired 2017-11-22 | POE FOLKS $800: Tiny "Hop-Frog" is one of these royal amusers who gets revenge upon an abusive king & his court by setting them all on fire a jester |
| #7638, aired 2017-11-22 | POE FOLKS $1200: "The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar" see a dying man undergo this early form of hypnotism with horrific results mesmerism |
| #7638, aired 2017-11-22 | POE FOLKS $1600: In "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", this sleuth is said to come from an illustrious family C. Auguste Dupin |
| #7638, aired 2017-11-22 | POE FOLKS $2000: Suffering with an affliction that makes him appear dead, a man fears the title of this Poe story "A Premature Burial" |
| #7635, aired 2017-11-17 | MONSTER MASH $600: Former Reddit CEO Ellen Pao said in 2015 that these "are winning" the battle for the internet the trolls |
| #7628, aired 2017-11-08 | YOU'LL STOP AT "NOTHING" $800: If I lose, I pay you $100; if you lose, you pay back the $50 you just won double or nothing |
| #7626, aired 2017-11-06 | WRITERS WHO SELF-PUBLISHED $2000: In 1827 he paid a printer to publish 50 copies of "Tamerlane and Other Poems" Edgar Allan Poe |
| #7618, aired 2017-10-25 | PROVERBIALLY SPEAKING $800: "Rob" this guy "to pay" this second guy Peter to pay Paul |
| #7618, aired 2017-10-25 | JELLY BELLY FLAVORS $800: Be careful with the Beanboozled set: skunk spray & licorice look identical, as do lawn clippings & this citrus flavor lime |
| #7615, aired 2017-10-20 | THE 20th CENTURY $1000: Forces of this nation held off Vietminh attacks at Dien Bien Phu for 56 days but finally surrendered on May 7, 1954 French forces |
| #7603, aired 2017-10-04 | AUTHORS: BORN & DIED $1,000 (Daily Double): Edgar Allan Poe's tale began in Boston in 1809 & ended in this other "B" city in 1849 Baltimore |
| #7602, aired 2017-10-03 | OCCUPATIONS $1000: A licensed insurance one of these investigates claims to see if or how much his company should pay an adjuster |
| #7599, aired 2017-09-28 | GOING 24/7/365 $800: A nursery rhyme tells of 24 of these European thrushes miraculously surviving a brush with pie blackbirds |
| #7599, aired 2017-09-28 | GOING 24/7/365 $2000: The 24th Amendment says the right of U.S. citizens to vote "shall not be denied... by reason of failure to pay" this specific tax a poll tax |
| #7598, aired 2017-09-27 | KILLER SHAKESPEARE $1000: Saturninus kills this man, but only after that man has cooked his stepsons into a pie Titus Andronicus |
| #7597, aired 2017-09-26 | EPONYMS $400: This toy we throw around was based on a tin pie plate made by & named for a Connecticut baker Frisbee |
| #7586, aired 2017-09-11 | HIGHWAY TO HELL $600: West of Akron, Route 57 takes you over this 4-letter river, & you don't have to pay a toll to Charon the Styx |
| #7582, aired 2017-07-25 | THE MUSICAL '70s $400: References to Buddy Holly abound in this Don McLean hit about "the day the music died" "American Pie" |
| #7580, aired 2017-07-21 | THE KITCHEN LIBRARY $1000: Andrea Nguyen gives many ways to make this, "Vietnam's favorite soup and noodles" pho |
| #7571, aired 2017-07-10 | EVERYBODY "PAY"S $200: PPV for short, it's the way many UFC fans watch the big fight on TV pay-per-view |
| #7571, aired 2017-07-10 | EVERYBODY "PAY"S $400: In an ungrammatical idiom from the mid-1800s, this phrase comes before "you takes your choice" You pays your money |
| #7571, aired 2017-07-10 | EVERYBODY "PAY"S $600: The politically controversial idea of basically creating Medicare for everyone is known as this type of health care single-payer |
| #7571, aired 2017-07-10 | EVERYBODY "PAY"S $800: To keep up your good standing in the Teamsters, or to earn your position by hard work & tough times pay your dues |
| #7571, aired 2017-07-10 | EVERYBODY "PAY"S $1000: It's the word for one who is the customer of an electric utility & must deal with its bills ratepayer |
| #7570, aired 2017-07-07 | LARRY $800: He was still going by "Larry" in the credits when he played Cowboy Curtis on "Pee-wee's Playhouse" Laurence Fishburne |
| #7570, aired 2017-07-07 | STAR TALK $1600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows an image of stars on the monitor.) The European Southern Observatory released one of its largest images--a 2 billion pixel beauty showing the lobster nebula and this other one named for a feline feature a cat's paw |
| #7568, aired 2017-07-05 | FREE RHYMES $400: Both syllables rhyme with "free" in the name of this tot left on Popeye's doorstep in 1933 and officially adopted in 2004 Swee'Pea |
| #7562, aired 2017-06-27 | GENRES $400: Negus is a title of Haile Selassie; Ras Michael & the Sons of Negus pay him homage with songs in this genre reggae |
| #7555, aired 2017-06-16 | SUPERSTITION $400: Whoever eats this "silly" bird "on Michaelmas Day, shall never lack money his debts to pay" a goose |
| #7551, aired 2017-06-12 | THIS & THAT $1000: This "creep" doesn't mean an unpleasant guy; it's when you pay a higher tax rate due to inflation bracket creep |
| #7546, aired 2017-06-05 | LIFE IS JUST A BOWL OF CHERRIES $400: 1960s radical H. Rap Brown once told the press, violence is as American as this cherry pie |
| #7544, aired 2017-06-01 | THIS IS 5-"D" $1200: In "Oliver!", Nancy warbles about this kind of tune "they're singing in the city" called "Oom-Pah-Pah" a ditty |
| #7537, aired 2017-05-23 | HISTORY $1000: On March 13, 1954 50,000 Vietminh attacked 10,000 French troops at a base in this village Dien Bien Phu |
| #7537, aired 2017-05-23 | A "LITTLE" IN TITLE $1200: Every bro knows Twilight Sparkle & Pinkie Pie are characters in this "Friendship is Magic" animated series My Little Pony |
| #7535, aired 2017-05-19 | POETRY $1200: About these, Edgar Allan Poe wrote, "What a world of merriment their melody foretells!" the bells |
| #7519, aired 2017-04-27 | ROMAN BRITAIN $400: He built a wall to separate "Romans from the barbarians"; no word if he wanted the barbarians to pay for it Hadrian |
| #7519, aired 2017-04-27 | KINDA SCIENCEY $400: 2-word term for the soil or gravel in which gold is found, or what you "hit" when you make a fortunate discovery pay dirt |
| #7517, aired 2017-04-25 | POETS & POETRY $1200: It's thought that Poe's child bride Virginia Clemm inspired this poem of his about a maiden in a kingdom by the sea "Annabel Lee" |
| #7514, aired 2017-04-20 | GREAT ROCK SONGS $400: It asks, "Do you recall what was revealed, the day the music died?" "American Pie" |
| #7511, aired 2017-04-17 | THIS CATEGORY IS JUST FLUFF $400: In "The Princess & the Pea", the princess has to deal with one of these that isn't as fluffy as her one back home a mattress |
| #7511, aired 2017-04-17 | BODY PART TITLES $600: Poe played an organ of a different sort--under the floorboards-- in this tense short story "The Tell-Tale Heart" |
| #7511, aired 2017-04-17 | 3 + 3 $1000: Creation of a kid playing by the river, or of a baker working with chocolate mud pie |
| #7510, aired 2017-04-14 | HIDDEN GENIUS $800: A great many men delved into the mysteries of genetics before this pea brain did Mendel (in men delved) |
| #7509, aired 2017-04-13 | LITERARY QUOTES $800: In this Poe story, "I had scarcely stepped from my... bed of horror... when the motion of the hellish machine ceased" The Pit and the Pendulum |
| #7508, aired 2017-04-12 | SHAKESPEARE IS KILLING ME! $2000: Chiron & Demetrius from "Titus Andronicus": made part of this treat a pie |
| #7507, aired 2017-04-11 | LIBRARIES $1200: Jay Walker used his fortune from this say-what-you-want-to-pay website to create his "Library of Human Imagination" Priceline.com |
| #7503, aired 2017-04-05 | AVIAN LITERATURE $2000: This literary pair "went to sea in a beautiful pea-green boat" the Owl and the Pussycat |
| #7498, aired 2017-03-29 | "A" CAST $400: 1999:
Alyson Hannigan,
Jason Biggs American Pie |
| #7497, aired 2017-03-28 | PIE-POURRI $200: To make this pie topping, stiffly beat egg whites & add granulated sugar one tablespoon at a time meringue |
| #7497, aired 2017-03-28 | PIE-POURRI $400: Confusingly, this official state dessert of Massachusetts is called pie but made with sponge cake Boston cream pie |
| #7497, aired 2017-03-28 | PIE-POURRI $600: In olden times, finely chopped meat gave this pie its name; today, it's a mix of fruit & spices but usually no meat mincemeat (pie) |
| #7497, aired 2017-03-28 | PIE-POURRI $800: Seen here, it's also known as pie plant, because of its frequent use in pies rhubarb |
| #7497, aired 2017-03-28 | PIE-POURRI $1000: This crisscross top of a pie crust is often woven lattice |
| #7495, aired 2017-03-24 | "BETA" TEST $1600: It was founded at the College of William & Mary in 1776; are you a member? Phi Beta Kappa |
| #7484, aired 2017-03-09 | PATCHES $800: On a Space Shuttle mission patch, the 7 & the orbiting capsule pay homage to this earlier project the Mercury program |
| #7483, aired 2017-03-08 | THE SAVAGE BEAST $200: Puppy Bowl, seen on this appropriate channel during the Super Bowl, has young canids fighting fang & paw Animal Planet |
| #7482, aired 2017-03-07 | IN THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS $2,000 (Daily Double): 2 items: "Everyone, without any discrimination, has the right to equal ____ for equal ____" pay for work |
| #7476, aired 2017-02-27 | GIMME A SLICE $200: If you divide up a circle like a pie, this is the geometric term for each slice; we've heard of the private one sector |
| #7476, aired 2017-02-27 | PIZZA $800: A Harris poll found out that this creature of family Engraulidae topped the list of least-favorite pie toppings anchovy |
| #7475, aired 2017-02-24 | AMERICAN LIT $400: It's the last word of "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe Nevermore |
| #7471, aired 2017-02-20 | FLOWERS $400: April's birth month flower is this "sweet" climbing one, a member of the legume family a pea |
| #7464, aired 2017-02-09 | LOVE $800: L'amour is the raison d'etre of this character who does "zee woo-ing" in cartoons like "For Scent-imental Reasons" Pepé le Pew |
| #7464, aired 2017-02-09 | PLAYING TRIBUTE $800: The Fillers & Hot Fuss are U.K. bands that pay tribute to this Las Vegas quartet The Killers |
| #7459, aired 2017-02-02 | THIS, OR THAT $400: Yer pie hole, or the river's end flowing into the sea a mouth |
| #7459, aired 2017-02-02 | FUNERALS $600: In Poe's "Lenore" let this "funeral song be sung... for her, the doubly dead in that she died so young" a dirge |
| #7458, aired 2017-02-01 | ANNUAL EVENTS $600: The inedible one is celebrated March 14; the edible one is January 23, as in "1-2-3, as easy as..." pie |
| #7456, aired 2017-01-30 | ECONOMICS $400: Chris Rock on this economic rule: it's your boss saying ,"If I could pay you less, I would, but it's against the law" minimum wage |
| #7449, aired 2017-01-19 | ON THE LAOS $2000: Gen. Vang Pao & his fellow soldiers of this ethnic group helped the U.S. fight a secret war in Laos Hmong |
| #7447, aired 2017-01-17 | ODD COMBINED RESPONSES $1600: 5-letter synonym for "person" + blows thrown with your south paw human lefts |
| #7441, aired 2017-01-09 | BRAZILIAN CUISINE $1600: Pao de queijo, or cheese puffs, are a popular accompaniment to meals made from Parmesan cheese & this cassava flour tapioca |
| #7435, aired 2016-12-30 | THE LEADERS & BEST $400: In 1992 the Presidential Medal of Freedom was awarded to this Chinese-American architect I.M. Pei |
| #7431, aired 2016-12-26 | PICK YOUR BATTLE $600: The arrows flew:
Dien Bien Phu,
Crécy,
Balaklava Crécy |
| #7421, aired 2016-12-12 | LANDMARKS $1600: In Brazil this mountain is called Pão de Açúcar Sugarloaf |
| #7420, aired 2016-12-09 | DOCUMENTARIES $800: Mais oui, a documentary short on this Looney Tunes character is called "The Charm of Stink" Pepé Le Pew |
| #7417, aired 2016-12-06 | THAT'S JUST NUTS! $400: When shaken, the kernel of this 5-letter nut of the walnut family should not rattle but should go into a delicious pie pecan |
| #7415, aired 2016-12-02 | BREAK-UPS $200: A No. 1 song by this duo said, "They say our love won't pay the rent"; after their 1975 divorce, it was "I Don't Got You, Babe" Sonny & Cher |
| #7413, aired 2016-11-30 | SHORT STORIES $800: Montresor seeks revenge on wine connoisseur Fortunato in his 1846 tale "The Cask of Amontillado" (Edgar Allan) Poe |
| #7407, aired 2016-11-22 | POETRY FILL IN THE BLANK $200: Poe: "Once upon a midnight dreary, / while I pondered, weak and ___" weary |
| #7401, aired 2016-11-14 | I'M LIKE ON PAGE 1 $1600: He began a book, "I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe" (Ralph) Ellison |
| #7400, aired 2016-11-11 | STARTS & ENDS WITH "E" $800: When the moonlight doesn't hit your eye like a big pizza pie, that's this scientific phenomenon an eclipse |
| #7394, aired 2016-11-03 | A NON-COMPOTE CLAUSE $200: Unlike compote, pie has this; the perfect one has been described as "wonderfully flaky, tender" & golden brown crust |
| #7391, aired 2016-10-31 | HOW NOVEL $400: The only complete novel by this American master of the macabre is "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym" Edgar Allan Poe |
| #7381, aired 2016-10-17 | CLASSICAL MUSICIANS $2000: In 1970 100 cellists gathered in NYC to pay tribute to this 94-year-old master by playing his "Sardana" under his direction Pablo Casals |
| #7380, aired 2016-10-14 | 6-SYLLABLE WORDS $2000: In "The Bells" Poe used this long word meaning the ringing of bells tintinnabulation |
| #7378, aired 2016-10-12 | CHICKEN DINNER $800: The name of this spicy Chinese chicken & peanut dish is believed to derive from a Sichuan official Kung Pao chicken |
| #7371, aired 2016-10-03 | BASEBALL IN UNIFORM $600: Seen here as Navy bluejackets are Pee Wee Reese & Phil Rizzuto, two greats at this position shortstop |
| #7369, aired 2016-09-29 | MICHIGAN HISTORY $1200: In 1925 Gertrude Brown was the first this pie fruit queen & Traverse City's annual festival was born cherry |
| #7364, aired 2016-09-22 | INQUISITIVE WRITERS $800: This Poe tale begins, "True!...Nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?" "The Tell-Tale Heart" |
| #7363, aired 2016-09-21 | RELATIVE POP CULTURE $1200: "Big Adventure" time! one of Israel's first fighter pilots was the dad of Paul Reubens, aka this film & TV character Pee-wee Herman |
| #7359, aired 2016-09-15 | TAKE ME TO COURT $2000: FICA is a line on your pay stub; this law set up a special court to approve national security warrants FISA |
| #7358, aired 2016-09-14 | AWARDS FOR WRITING $800: The Newbery Medal goes to writers in this genre; Eleanor Estes won for 1952 with "Ginger Pye" children's writing |
| #7355, aired 2016-07-29 | WORKING WITH A BEATLE $1200: In 1997 Ringo said, "Baby, I Love Your Way" & had this ex-Humble Pie guy in the All-Starr Band Peter Frampton |
| #7353, aired 2016-07-27 | KICK OUT THE "JAM"s $800: I'll skip the crawfish pie & file gumbo, but pass me this rice, meat & seafood dish jambalaya |
| #7351, aired 2016-07-25 | VICE PRESIDENTS $600: In 1981 he was ordered to pay Maryland $250,000 to compensate for bribes taken while governor & vice president Agnew |
| #7337, aired 2016-07-05 | IT'S ALL "APPLE" SAUCE $800: Fittingly, the first American cookbook had a recipe for this, with cinnamon & rosewater apple pie |
| #7316, aired 2016-06-06 | CROSSWORD CLUES "P" $200: Italian pie joint
(8) pizzeria |
| #7315, aired 2016-06-03 | C.T. $2000: IRS code 4947(a)(1) covers these entities; the Pew ones try to solve today's most challenging problems charitable trusts |
| #7314, aired 2016-06-02 | VIRGINIA IS FOR WRITERS $400: This writer of creepy tales grew up largely in Richmond & one of his last readings was in 1849 at the Exchange Hotel (Edgar Allan) Poe |
| #7296, aired 2016-05-09 | WHAT'S MY LION? $1600: This legendary 1st century slave is said to have removed a thorn from a lion's paw & was later saved by the same lion Androcles |
| #7293, aired 2016-05-04 | GRAVE MATTERS $1600: Edgar Allan Poe's original burial site has a marker that bears this 4-word quote from one of his poems "Quoth the raven, 'Nevermore'" |
| #7284, aired 2016-04-21 | HYPHENATED TERMS $400: Pillsbury trademarked this term for a type of contest it has been holding since 1949 the Bake-Off |
| #7281, aired 2016-04-18 | THEATRICAL QUOTES $2000: This "Private Lives" playwright advised actors", if you must have motivation, think of your pay packet Noël Coward |
| #7274, aired 2016-04-07 | PAY $200: In classic Monopoly, you can pay 50 bucks to escape this jail |
| #7274, aired 2016-04-07 | I.M. PEI $400: The ground-level entrance to this museum is crowned by a steel-&-glass pyramid designed by I.M. Pei the Louvre |
| #7274, aired 2016-04-07 | PAY $400: For its first 70 years, you could buy a Coca-cola for this princely sum five cents |
| #7274, aired 2016-04-07 | PAY $600: If you initiate a business transaction between 2 entities, you may be eligible for one of these alliterative sums a finder's fee |
| #7274, aired 2016-04-07 | I.M. PEI $800: I.M. Pei designed the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and it's safe to say he didn't make a mistake by this lake Lake Erie |
| #7274, aired 2016-04-07 | PAY $800: A downpayment is usually required when purchasing something using this rhyming "plan" layaway plan |
| #7274, aired 2016-04-07 | I.M. PEI $1200: Pei designed a pentagonal air traffic control tower for this government agency the FAA (Federal Aviation Agency) |
| #7274, aired 2016-04-07 | I.M. PEI $1600: Boston is proud of its Pei-designed tower named for this revolutionary. (John) Hancock |
| #7274, aired 2016-04-07 | I.M. PEI $2000: Among Pei's crowning achievements is the Museum of Islamic Art in this country's capital, Doha Qatar |
| #7274, aired 2016-04-07 | PAY $2,500 (Daily Double): 2-word term for any large sum; in 1360 it was literally 3 million gold crowns for John II a king's ransom |
| #7270, aired 2016-04-01 | OSCARS $1600: This member of the double-first-name club has played Llewyn Davis & Poe Dameron Oscar Isaac |
| #7268, aired 2016-03-30 | SENSORY LIT $400: Pew is a blind pirate in this Robert Louis Stevenson tale Treasure Island |
| #7263, aired 2016-03-23 | WOMEN ON TV $600: Lena Headey took a naked walk of shame! shame! shame!... on this drama; someone will eventually pay! pay! pay! Game of Thrones |
| #7262, aired 2016-03-22 | HOT POTATO $800: Shepherd's pie has a traditional crust of this on top whipped potatoes |
| #7253, aired 2016-03-09 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: The narrator of this Poe story says, "The disease had sharpened my senses... Above all was the sense of hearing acute" "The Tell-Tale Heart" |
| #7252, aired 2016-03-08 | ALPHABETIC HOMOPHONES $800: The Random House Dictionary calls it "a medium or yellowish green" pea |
| #7250, aired 2016-03-04 | COMPOUND WORD CONSTRUCTION $200: Liquid precipitation +
something directing a bank to pay money =
this I.O.U. a raincheck |
| #7237, aired 2016-02-16 | WOMEN IN POETRY $1200: Poe wrote that he laid "down by the side" of this maiden "in her sepulchre there by the sea, in her tomb by the sounding sea" Annabel Lee |
| #7221, aired 2016-01-25 | BEE WORDS $800: There are several shapes of these atop chickens' heads, including the rose, the walnut & the pea a comb |
| #7220, aired 2016-01-22 | "EYE" WITNESS $1600: When this happens in a song lyric, "that's amore!" When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie |
| #7216, aired 2016-01-18 | ACCOUNTING $1200: From the Old French for "remove from a purse", it means to pay out money from a fund disburse |
| #7214, aired 2016-01-14 | I'LL HAVE WHAT SHE'S HAVING $400: Sausages with an outside covering like pie dough are called these cozy porkers, & I'd also like some pigs in a blanket |
| #7209, aired 2016-01-07 | WORLD HISTORY $2000: On May 7, 1954 a French outpost at this location fell to Communist Vietnamese forces Dien Bien Phu |
| #7208, aired 2016-01-06 | ____ IN THE ____ $800: An empty promise is like this dessert up where the clouds are pie in the sky |
| #7207, aired 2016-01-05 | LODGE PODGE $400: In "The Song of Hiawatha", you'll find Pau-Puk-Keewis, "chief and king of all" these animals who live in lodges beavers |
| #7205, aired 2016-01-01 | LITERARY AWARDS $400: These awards presented by the Mystery Writers of America are named for Mr. Poe the Edgars |
| #7200, aired 2015-12-25 | "BAM"! "POW!" $200: Light, dry snow powder |
| #7200, aired 2015-12-25 | "BAM"! "POW!" $400: To hoodwink or deceive bamboozle |
| #7200, aired 2015-12-25 | "BAM"! "POW!" $600: 2-word phrase for the elation of bossing others around power trip |
| #7200, aired 2015-12-25 | "BAM"! "POW!" $800: Another nickname of George Herman Ruth the Bambino |
| #7200, aired 2015-12-25 | "BAM"! "POW!" $1000: Capital of Mali Bamako |
| #7199, aired 2015-12-24 | AT THE "END" $3,000 (Daily Double): From the Latin for "soldier's pay", it's a fixed & regular payment, such as an allowance stipend |
| #7197, aired 2015-12-22 | 8-LETTER WORDS $800: Egg white & sugar pie material meringue |
| #7197, aired 2015-12-22 | 8-LETTER WORDS $1200: A pay-to-drive highway turnpike |
| #7190, aired 2015-12-11 | A 3-D CATEGORY $400: (I'm Kevin O'Leary of Shark Tank.) One of the main investment areas for my O'Leary Funds is blue-chip stocks that pay out these; why not get paid while you wait! dividends |
| #7170, aired 2015-11-13 | HETERONYMS $2000: Pale, like a complexion, &
a meat pie pasty ["PACE-tee"/"PASS-tee"] |
| #7169, aired 2015-11-12 | ADS & TAGLINES $800: "Expect more. Pay less" Target |
| #7168, aired 2015-11-11 | RULE OF LAW $800: A 2015 SEC rule says companies must disclose the pay gap between workers & this 3-letter boss the CEO |
| #7167, aired 2015-11-10 | SAME MOVIE & SONG TITLE $400: Movie:
starred Jason Biggs;
song:
about Buddy Holly American Pie |
| #7164, aired 2015-11-05 | GOTHIC LITERATURE $1600: Edgar Allan Poe fed a 19th century Gothic revival with stories like this supernatural tale about Roderick & his doomed family The Fall of the House of Usher |
| #7162, aired 2015-11-03 | SHORT STORIES $2000: This creepy W.W. Jacobs object had "a spell on it so that three separate men could each have three wishes from it" the monkey's paw |
| #7160, aired 2015-10-30 | QUOTATIONS IN AMERICAN HISTORY $800: Her, in 1869 in a women's suffrage newspaper:
"Join the union, girls, and together say equal pay for equal work" Susan B. Anthony |
| #7159, aired 2015-10-29 | GOING BANANAS $1000: A 2013 Bon Appetit article called this, not apple pie, the "most American diner dessert" banana cream pie |
| #7156, aired 2015-10-26 | SHAKESPEARE $2,200 (Daily Double): Tamora eats a pie in this play; problem is that the pie was made with the heads of Demetrius & Chiron, her sons Titus Andronicus |
| #7150, aired 2015-10-16 | GRAMMY-WINNING MUSIC VIDEOS $800: 2009:
"Boom Boom Pow" the Black Eyed Peas |
| #7150, aired 2015-10-16 | "CAT"EGORICAL $2000: Anatomical term for a person used to serve the purposes of another a cat's-paw |
| #7150, aired 2015-10-16 | ARCHITECTS $2,800 (Daily Double): In 1982 he completed his first project in his native China, the Fragrant Hill Hotel in Beijing I.M. Pei |
| #7146, aired 2015-10-12 | ALWAYS PAY YOUR DEBTS $400: 2007 brought what's sometimes called this "mortgage crisis", after a high-risk type of lending subprime |
| #7146, aired 2015-10-12 | YOU KNOW NOTHING $400: Antonio in "The Merchant of Venice" promises to pay this gruesome price if he can't repay a loan in time a pound of flesh |
| #7146, aired 2015-10-12 | ALWAYS PAY YOUR DEBTS $600: Charles Dickens' father was tossed into prison for debt, a life event the writer used in this "Little" 1850s novel Little Dorrit |
| #7146, aired 2015-10-12 | ALWAYS PAY YOUR DEBTS $800: This word comes from the Italian for "broken bench", which would happen to failed Italian businesses bankrupt |
| #7146, aired 2015-10-12 | ALWAYS PAY YOUR DEBTS $2,400 (Daily Double): TILA is short for this "Act" that dictates how Visa or Amex can raise your variable interest rate Truth in Lending |
| #7144, aired 2015-10-08 | MR. PEABODY & SHERMAN $400: "Pay attention, Sherman; I've set the WABAC for this famous & dangerous June 1815 battle site;"
"Maybe that short tempered general can tell us its name?"
"Of course he can Sherman, of course he can" Waterloo |
| #7139, aired 2015-10-01 | GREEK ALPHABET PUZZLERS $400: It's a symbol of the all-american way of life apple pie |
| #7137, aired 2015-09-29 | FRUITS & VEGETABLES $1000: Pickled pods of this have been called "a standard hors d'oeuvre at... every Southern cocktail party" okra |
| #7134, aired 2015-09-24 | 3-LETTER WORDS $800: It's a Vietnamese soup with noodles & thin slices of meat pho |
| #7131, aired 2015-09-21 | YIPES, MOTHER GOOSE $1000: Whoa! An alternate version has "four and twenty naughty boys baked in a pie" & a bag, not a pocket, full of this rye |
| #7128, aired 2015-09-16 | MINOR GODS & GODDESSES $2,000 (Daily Double): Those useless little facts will pay off if you know that being goddess of the crossroads gave this Roman deity her name Trivia |
| #7127, aired 2015-09-15 | "TAKE" $800: The amount of salary you actually get after taxes & other deductions are withheld take-home pay |
| #7126, aired 2015-09-14 | DAYTIME TELEVISION $400: This daytime TV judge called her book "Don't Pee on My Leg and Tell Me It's Raining" Judge Judy |
| #7124, aired 2015-07-30 | MOTOWN $2000: 4-word title of the first chart topper for the Four Tops; it's also known as "Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch" "I Can't Help Myself" |
| #7122, aired 2015-07-28 | "PAY" DAY $200: In June 2011 this online transaction service reached 100 million active accounts PayPal |
| #7122, aired 2015-07-28 | "PAY" DAY $400: To perform an ovario-hysterectomy on a dog to spay |
| #7122, aired 2015-07-28 | "PAY" DAY $600: This 1-word 1959 scandal enveloped many prominent DJs payola |
| #7122, aired 2015-07-28 | "PAY" DAY $800: The explosive charge carried by a missile the payload |
| #7122, aired 2015-07-28 | "PAY" DAY $1000: The IRS W-9 form is a polite "request for" this "identification number and certification" a taxpayer identification number |
| #7119, aired 2015-07-23 | LINGO $400: This slang phrase meaning "inform on someone" refers to the longtime 10-cent cost of a pay phone call drop a dime |
| #7118, aired 2015-07-22 | JULES VERNE $400: Verne drew from Edgar Allan Poe to write his first novel, "Five Weeks in" this aerial transport a Balloon |
| #7114, aired 2015-07-16 | POE-ETRY $400: How these title items "tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, in the icy air of night!" the bells |
| #7114, aired 2015-07-16 | POE-ETRY $600: "The angels, whispering to one another, can find... none so devotional as that of" this relative a mother |
| #7114, aired 2015-07-16 | POE-ETRY $800: "O God! Can I not save one from the pitiless wave? Is all that we see or seem but a" this "within a" this dream |
| #7114, aired 2015-07-16 | POE-ETRY $1000: "I was a child and she was a child" in a kingdom by the sea, "she" being this title maiden Annabel Lee |
| #7110, aired 2015-07-10 | MIXED BERRIES $400: Berry pie at the Chicken Dinner restaurant is a reminder of the heritage of this Buena Park, Calif. theme park Knott's Berry Farm |
| #7107, aired 2015-07-07 | ASIAN ISLANDS $1200: This country's Phu Quoc Island is famous for its black pepper Vietnam |
| #7102, aired 2015-06-30 | WHAT'S COOKING AT THE NEW YORK TIMES $800: You should learn how to do this to your pie crust to seal it before baking crimping |
| #7089, aired 2015-06-11 | HAIRMAGEDDON $400: Synthetic hair woven into your own is called this, like what you ask for when you want to pay a bill late extensions |
| #7088, aired 2015-06-10 | TOYS & GAMES $800: Applejack & Pinkie Pie are 2 of the teensy equines in this toy line My Little Pony |
| #7086, aired 2015-06-08 | AMERICAN QUOTATIONS $400: Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote that these levies "are what we pay for civilized society" taxes |
| #7070, aired 2015-05-15 | THE PEN IS MIGHTIER $2000: Though this poet was noted for drinking, rabies rather than alcohol may have caused his 1849 death in Baltimore Edgar Allan Poe |
| #7066, aired 2015-05-11 | LIKE SUNDAY MORNING $400: At church, pay attention to this lecture from the preacher the sermon |
| #7062, aired 2015-05-05 | WRITERS BY MIDDLE NAMES $200: Allan, who was "nevermore" as of Oct. 7, 1849 (Edgar Allan) Poe |
| #7059, aired 2015-04-30 | THINGS TO DO ON A RAINY DAY $600: Cook up this classic dish with ground lamb or beef & don't forget the mashed potato crust on top shepherd's pie |
| #7048, aired 2015-04-15 | "IN" BUSINESS $1600: This state of being unable to pay creditors often leads to a bankruptcy filing insolvency |
| #7034, aired 2015-03-26 | POE FOLKS $400: This maiden "lived with no other thought than to love and be loved by me" Annabel Lee |
| #7034, aired 2015-03-26 | POE FOLKS $800: Last name of Rodrick, who owns a "tumble down" old mansion Usher |
| #7034, aired 2015-03-26 | POE FOLKS $1200: This prince who tries to evade the Red Death in a secluded castle bears the name of a Shakespearean island dweller Prospero |
| #7034, aired 2015-03-26 | POE FOLKS $1600: His "narrative" of his adventures aboard the Grampus includes mutiny & shipwreck Gordon Pym |
| #7034, aired 2015-03-26 | POE FOLKS $2000: In "The Cask of Amontillado", Montresor seeks revenge on this wine connoisseur Fortunato |
| #7029, aired 2015-03-19 | WORLD PEAS $1600: Popeye dotes on lathyrus odoratus, this fragrant flowering pea native to Italy sweet pea |
| #7029, aired 2015-03-19 | WORLD PEAS $2000: You can thank St. Patrick for the fact that several pea varieties with 3-part leaves are known as this a shamrock |
| #7027, aired 2015-03-17 | STAR-CHITECTS $800: A 1960 design competition entry helped get this Chinese American selected to design the multi-airline terminal at JFK I.M. Pei |
| #7018, aired 2015-03-04 | STATE HOLIDAYS $800: "We will never forget" Wisconsin's special observance day in September for these paired 3-letter groups POW & MIA |
| #7017, aired 2015-03-03 | TRIPLE TALK SONGS $2000: In this 1999 hit Destiny's Child complains, "You're slowly making me pay for things your money should be handling" "Bills, Bills, Bills" |
| #7016, aired 2015-03-02 | HIDDEN GEMS $400: Jones says his app hires drivers; we can pay them with this blue gem sapphire (in his app hires) |
| #7011, aired 2015-02-23 | FOREIGN WORDS IN SONG TITLES $200: "When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that's" this amore |
| #7005, aired 2015-02-13 | NON-FAILURE TO COMMUNICATE $400: Poe-etically, this type of bird carries messages to & fro on "Game of Thrones" a raven |
| #7004, aired 2015-02-12 | SHAKE IT UP! $600: For September in its Blizzard of the Month promotion, this eatery offered an apple pie Blizzard Dairy Queen |
| #7000, aired 2015-02-06 | 8-LETTER WORDS $400: It indicates an omission, as in "The Case of Lady M*" an asterisk |
| #6999, aired 2015-02-05 | SHAKING UP SHAKESPEARE $1600: It's got murders, rape & heads baked in a pie:
"CUSTODIAN NUT SIR" Titus Andronicus |
| #6998, aired 2015-02-04 | SOLVE THE MYSTERY TITLE $400: A Poe story featuring C. Auguste Dupin:
"The ____ Letter" Purloined |
| #6995, aired 2015-01-30 | PIZZA, BEER & BALLGAMES $1000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew gets ready to chow down on a slice at Gino's East Pizza in Chicago.) Nick Offerman, who plays this character on "Parks and Rec" (who knows a little something about meat), said that one slice of Gino's East stuffed sausage pizza is a bigger meal than an entire New York pie Ron Swanson |
| #6993, aired 2015-01-28 | ICE CREAM $800: A 1921 ad for this product called it "a chocolate covered, tin foil wrapped ice cream bar" an Eskimo Pie |
| #6992, aired 2015-01-27 | RENTING $200: In Alaska, a failure to pay utility bills can be grounds for this process against a tenant within 5 days eviction |
| #6987, aired 2015-01-20 | DEAD POETS $1600: "Lenore 'hath gone before', with hope, that flew beside, leaving thee wild for the dear child that should have been thy bride" (Edgar Allan) Poe |
| #6978, aired 2015-01-07 | LERNER & LOEWE SONGS $400: "Early dawn was the time, she would pay for her crime, or would Lancelot reappear, come and rescue" her Guinevere |
| #6975, aired 2015-01-02 | 5-LETTER WORDS $400: In the song "American Pie", it was dry the levee |
| #6973, aired 2014-12-31 | MILITARY MISTAKES $800: European hubris at this mountain outpost in 1954 helped a peasant army surround & defeat 16,000 elite troops Dien Bien Phu |
| #6973, aired 2014-12-31 | POETIC LAST LINES $1600: "In her sepulchre there by the sea, in her tomb by the sounding sea" ends this poem "Annabel Lee" |
| #6966, aired 2014-12-22 | INTERNATIONAL CUISINE $400: Spanakopita is a rich Greek this green veggie pie spinach |
| #6964, aired 2014-12-18 | THE NATIVITY $200: In the KJV, Joseph & Mary were in Bethlehem to pay these, according to "a decree from Caesar Augustus" taxes |
| #6951, aired 2014-12-01 | VOCABULARY $11,000 (Daily Double): This instrument measures atmospheric pressure: its name is used to mean anything that indicates change a barometer |
| #6946, aired 2014-11-24 | BOSTON ACCENTS $800: This dessert consists of a 2-layer cake with a thick filling & chocolate icing Boston cream pie |
| #6943, aired 2014-11-19 | WHAT DAY IS IT? $1000: Wimpy in "Popeye" will gladly pay you ____ for a hamburger today Tuesday |
| #6941, aired 2014-11-17 | IN MEMORIAM 2014 $600: Louis Zamperini, Olympic hero & WWII POW whose story of survival is told in this Laura Hillenbrand book, died at 97 Unbroken |
| #6932, aired 2014-11-04 | POETRY & THEE $800: "To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells from the bells, bells, bells, bells" (He added 3 more bells there) Poe |
| #6927, aired 2014-10-28 | & YOU'LL HEAR A TALE $400: "Once Upon a Midnight Dreary" (or maybe at 2 a.m.) Christopher Walken recorded this Poe poem "The Raven" |
| #6927, aired 2014-10-28 | COMMANDER & CHEF $600: Roland Mesnier, executive pastry chef for 25 years, was hired by this First Family & made them pecan bourbon pie the Carters |
| #6920, aired 2014-10-17 | NSFW $400: In a cheesy bit, a TV magician was hospital-bound after getting hit with one of these pies thrown by Sooty the puppet a pizza pie |
| #6913, aired 2014-10-08 | THAT BOOK GAVE ME A NIGHTMARE $1200: This children's author is not so innocent--a kitten is almost baked in a pie in her "Tale of Samuel Whiskers" Beatrix Potter |
| #6912, aired 2014-10-07 | SHORT STORIES $2,000 (Daily Double): In this Edgar Allan Poe story, a fatal & hideous pestilence causes scarlet stains upon the body & "face of the victim" "The Masque of the Red Death" |
| #6905, aired 2014-09-26 | WHY DOES THAT SOUND FAMILIAR? $1600: In 2014 the Supreme Court said that this chain of stores could refuse to pay for employees' birth control Hobby Lobby |
| #6903, aired 2014-09-24 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: This Poe story tells of a prisoner's torture during the Spanish Inquisition "The Pit and the Pendulum" |
| #6895, aired 2014-08-01 | 3-LETTER WORDS WITH 2 VOWELS $800: In a fairy tale, a princess can feel it through 20 mattresses pea |
| #6892, aired 2014-07-29 | POETS & POETRY $400: The first stanza of this poem mentions "Some visitor... tapping at my chamber door--only this and nothing more" "The Raven" |
| #6884, aired 2014-07-17 | COUNTRY MUSIC MOVERS & SHAKERS $800: You can crash his party any time Luke Bryan |
| #6878, aired 2014-07-09 | 11-LETTER WORDS $400: Pertaining to a pay raise effective as of a past date retroactive |
| #6878, aired 2014-07-09 | NURSERY RHYME CATS $1200: For losing their mittens, the 3 little kittens "began to cry" & were denied this dessert by their mother pie |
| #6876, aired 2014-07-07 | CHINESE HISTORY $1200: In 1901 China agreed to pay 11 nations about $330 million in damages that arose from this rebellion the Boxer Rebellion |
| #6873, aired 2014-07-02 | A HISTORY LESSON $200: Scotland acquired these islands known for their pony in 1472 when a Norse king didn't pay his daughter's dowry to James III the Shetlands |
| #6873, aired 2014-07-02 | COOKING TERMS $800: This verb meaning to make a decorative edge in a pie crust shares its name with a woodwind flute |
| #6873, aired 2014-07-02 | LITERARY QUOTES $2,000 (Daily Double): This Edgar Allan Poe short story ends, "The Inquisition was in the hands of its enemies" "The Pit and the Pendulum" |
| #6871, aired 2014-06-30 | MAN OVERLORD! $200: Here comes this Hun king, who in the 440s made the Eastern Roman Empire pay 2,100 pounds of gold per year Attila |
| #6866, aired 2014-06-23 | OFFICIAL STATE STUFF $200: The Vermont legislature says apple is the state pie & suggests serving it with a scoop of this ice cream |
| #6852, aired 2014-06-03 | WORD PROBLEM PROBLEMS $600: If Joe has 6 dozen eggs & buys 3 dozen more, he'll have plenty to beat into this egg white confection for a type of lemon pie meringue |
| #6850, aired 2014-05-30 | POKER $1000: Want to get an edge in pai gow? Take this role in which you win all "copy" hands; Monopoly games have one too a banker |
| #6850, aired 2014-05-30 | TWO OF A KIND $1600: In this Edgar Allan Poe tale, Roderick confesses that his not-dead-yet twin sister Madeline has been laid in the family tomb "The Fall of the House of Usher" |
| #6846, aired 2014-05-26 | MAUI? WOWIE! $800: Maui was created by 2 of these, Puu Kukui & Haleakala volcanoes |
| #6841, aired 2014-05-19 | MAKING THE GRADE $600: Something too important for you to decide is "above your" this, a level of salary in the military a pay grade |
| #6833, aired 2014-05-07 | GOVT. MED. ABBREV. $800: Not subject to income tax, an H.S.A. is one of these used to pay medical expenses a health savings account |
| #6832, aired 2014-05-06 | TECH TALK $1000: In 2014 Facebook agreed to pay $2 billion for Oculus, a maker of this immersive technology virtual reality |
| #6827, aired 2014-04-29 | STATISTICS $800: According to a Pew report, today 20% of Americans 18-29 have this status; in 1960 it was 59% married |
| #6826, aired 2014-04-28 | 2-LETTER SCRABBLE WORDS $600: It's slang for a cheesy Italian pie za |
| #6823, aired 2014-04-23 | COOKING "P"s $400: The consistency of this Hawaiian dish eaten with the fingers ranges from "1-finger" to "3-finger" in thickness poi |
| #6823, aired 2014-04-23 | COOKING "P"s $1000: This Vietnamese noodle dish consists of meat & rice noodles served in a bowl of beef broth & seasonings pho |
| #6823, aired 2014-04-23 | BEFORE & AFTER $1200: Dessert made from citrus fruit named for its Florida origin becomes an informative circle divided into sectors key lime pie chart |
| #6821, aired 2014-04-21 | THAT '70s SONG $800: "I can't remember if I cried when I read about his widowed bride, but something touched me deep inside the day the music died" "American Pie" |
| #6817, aired 2014-04-15 | SONG OF THE SOUTH $1200: This "stately" country group sings, "Song, song of the south, sweet potato pie and I shut my mouth" Alabama |
| #6804, aired 2014-03-27 | NURSERY RHYMES $600: Little Jack Horner put his thumb in a Christmas pie & pulled out this fruit plum |
| #6803, aired 2014-03-26 | PARENTHETICAL SONGS $1600: The Four Tops:
"(Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch)" "Can't Help Myself" |
| #6796, aired 2014-03-17 | BIOGRAPHY SUBJECTS $200: "Nevermore: A Photobiography of" him (Edgar Allan) Poe |
| #6790, aired 2014-03-07 | TELL US WHAT HE'S WON! $2000: 1983:
I.M. Pei wins "the Nobel Prize of Architecture" the Pritzker |
| #6789, aired 2014-03-06 | ISLANDS IN THE STREAM $1600: Off continental Europe:
Temple Mill Island &
Eel Pie Island the Thames |
| #6783, aired 2014-02-26 | PEAS ON EARTH $800: This "chilly" name of an Asian pea popular for its flat, edible pod is common in stir-fry cooking a snow pea |
| #6783, aired 2014-02-26 | PEAS ON EARTH $1600: You can boll a pea farmer over by telling him his crops are infested with Bruchus pisorum, the pea this a weevil |
| #6783, aired 2014-02-26 | PEAS ON EARTH $2000: Popular in the South, the cowpea, or China bean, is also known by this "colorful" name a black-eyed pea |
| #6782, aired 2014-02-25 | NET ADVERTISING $1600: One online ad payment model is PPS, pay per sale; PPC stands for "pay per" this, meaning only a view is needed click |
| #6777, aired 2014-02-18 | FRUITS & VEGETABLES $800: Prunus cerasus is the botanical name for the sour type of this popular pie fruit the cherry |
| #6777, aired 2014-02-18 | A SPAIN IN THE BODY PART $1200: I'd hate to put my pie in my boca (both, please) foot & mouth |
| #6768, aired 2014-02-05 | STARTS & ENDS WITH THE SAME VOWEL $800: This pea family crop is like steak to horses alfalfa |
| #6765, aired 2014-01-31 | I HAVE THE WINE $600: This pale, dry Spanish sherry is mentioned in the title of an Edgar Allan Poe story Amontillado |
| #6762, aired 2014-01-28 | THE PALACE OF NATIONS $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew walks through the Palace of Nations in Geneva, Switzerland.) On July 22, 1954 shortly after Dien Bien Phu & here at Geneva's Palace of Nations, a general from this country signed a truce document with the Viet Minh France |
| #6760, aired 2014-01-24 | TAXES $1000: It ensures that those who get tax breaks pay at least a certain amount; Kiplinger's called it "the tax we love to hate" the alternative minimum tax |
| #6755, aired 2014-01-17 | SPORTS SIBLINGS $200: Hoopsters Marc & Pau Gasol |
| #6754, aired 2014-01-16 | METROPOLIS $400: A reclining Buddha, 49 feet high, can be found at the Wat Pho temple in this Thai capital city Bangkok |
| #6753, aired 2014-01-15 | SINGERS IN TOON $800: This Black Eyed Pea dropped it low as Pedro in "Rio" will.i.am |
| #6746, aired 2014-01-06 | MEYER TO NAUVOO $600: In this comic opera by Gilbert & Sullivan, the Emperor's son, Nanki-Poo, poses as a minstrel Mikado |
| #6746, aired 2014-01-06 | EAT, DRINK $800: It can mean "sour" or a small pie tart |
| #6743, aired 2014-01-01 | GUESS WHAT I'VE GOT? $800: A key from this organization founded in 1776 that believes "Love of Learning is the Guide of Life" Phi Beta Kappa |
| #6740, aired 2013-12-27 | WORLD HISTORY $200: The 1360 Treaty of Bretigny in which France agreed to pay a ransom for King John II created a temporary peace in this war the Hundred Years War |
| #6740, aired 2013-12-27 | POP CULTURE $800: As a baby poriferan, this animated TV character's first words were "May I take your order?" SpongeBob |
| #6739, aired 2013-12-26 | "TOM" & "HUCK" $200: The Obamas have this pie every Thanksgiving huckleberry |
| #6739, aired 2013-12-26 | THE PAUPER $600: He worked in a laundry to help pay the bills, at least until "Carrie" took off in 1974 (Stephen) King |
| #6732, aired 2013-12-17 | RHYME SPREE $200: Rhyming name of
the man-child seen here Pee-wee Herman |
| #6726, aired 2013-12-09 | A TIP O' THE "HUN" $800: It's a 2-word outlaw-capturing job for pay, dog a bounty hunter |
| #6717, aired 2013-11-26 | FOOD WORDS CREATED IN THE AMERICAS $400: This nut from the state tree of Texas is a Southern pie staple pecan |
| #6716, aired 2013-11-25 | POTENT POE‑TABLES $400: "The Bells" features golden wedding bells & sledges with bells of this metal (might make a good Christmas carol) silver |
| #6716, aired 2013-11-25 | POTENT POE‑TABLES $800: This poem includes the line "much I marvelled this ungainly fowl to hear discourse so plainly" "The Raven" |
| #6716, aired 2013-11-25 | POTENT POE‑TABLES $1200: "And this was the reason that, long ago, in this kingdom by the sea, A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling my beautiful" her Annabel Lee |
| #6716, aired 2013-11-25 | POTENT POE‑TABLES $1600: The violent killings of an old woman & her daughter are the title crimes of this detective story (The) Murders in the Rue Morgue |
| #6716, aired 2013-11-25 | POTENT POE‑TABLES $2000: The narrator of "The Tell-Tale Heart" hears a low, dull sound--"such a sound as a watch makes when enveloped in" this cotton |
| #6712, aired 2013-11-19 | FRONT TO BACK, BACK TO FRONT $400: Spend money on a service & bark noisily pay/yap |
| #6712, aired 2013-11-19 | TEXTING IN CLASS $800: Dad makes big $? Yr family is in this class w/name of a pie layer the upper crust |
| #6709, aired 2013-11-14 | IT ENDS WITH "U" $800: The poi & fish
seen here are traditional foods
for this event a luau |
| #6707, aired 2013-11-12 | ACTORS PLAYING WRITERS $400: In "The Raven" a serial killer is inspired by the works of this author played by John Cusack (Edgar Allan) Poe |
| #6689, aired 2013-10-17 | KENTUCKY-ANA $200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from Lexington, KY.) The rolling plateaus of Lexington, Ky.'s Fayette County are covered with Poa pratensis, also known as this, the name of a region here & a type of music bluegrass |
| #6685, aired 2013-10-11 | LITERARY RECORDS $1200: His "Murders in the Rue Morgue" in 1841 is considered the first detective story in English (Edgar Allan) Poe |
| #6681, aired 2013-10-07 | TYPES OF RESTAURANTS $400: This type of ristorante gets its name from your favorite Italian pie pizzeria |
| #6676, aired 2013-09-30 | OSCAR-NOMINATED WARNER BROS. CARTOONS $400: "Tweetie Pie", co-starring this foe Sylvester |
| #6670, aired 2013-09-20 | FIND YOUR "VOICE" $1200: Smart leaders pay attention to vox populi, this the voice of the people |
| #6668, aired 2013-09-18 | BUTTON HOOK $600: This nautical device is depicted on the buttons of genuine navy pea coats an anchor |
| #6666, aired 2013-09-16 | INTELLIGENCE $1200: Campus chapters of this fraternity founded in 1776 invite straight-A students to join Phi Beta Kappa |
| #6665, aired 2013-08-02 | NURSERY RHYME THINGS $1000: These were the wares of the man Simple Simon met going to the fair pie |
| #6662, aired 2013-07-30 | ANIMALS IN POETRY $2000: Coleridge, not Poe, wrote a poem with the question "Where then did" this bird "go?" a raven |
| #6660, aired 2013-07-26 | RENTERS $600: "Owner Pays" means prospective landlords will pay this, the agent's fee to get a renter in the commission |
| #6656, aired 2013-07-22 | .orgANIZATIONS $400: pbk.org: it's an honor--society Phi Beta Kappa |
| #6655, aired 2013-07-19 | SURVEY SAYS...! $200: Pew research reports these people have gone from 4 hours of household chores a week in 1965 to 10 hours today husbands |
| #6652, aired 2013-07-16 | MEDITERRANEAN ISLANDS $1200: The people of this island were not happy with a 2013 plan to raid their savings accounts to pay for a bank bailout Cyprus |
| #6646, aired 2013-07-08 | POISONOUS PLANTS $1200: The red stalks of this pie plant are fine, but its leaves can cause convulsions & death rhubarb |
| #6642, aired 2013-07-02 | 3 "E"s $800: Not to be confused with a pie topping, it's a popular Latin American ballroom dance characterized by a limping step the merengue |
| #6634, aired 2013-06-20 | GEOGRAPHIC FOODS $1000: Mud pie of Muddy Waters' birth state Mississippi |
| #6634, aired 2013-06-20 | I SEE A "GHOST" $1600: Entity mentioned in St. Thomas Aquinas' "Summa Theologica" & Don McLean's "American Pie" The Holy Ghost |
| #6632, aired 2013-06-18 | THE GILDED PAGE $600: The 1843 mystery "The Gold-Bug" won him a $100 prize from a Philadelphia newspaper (Edgar Allan) Poe |
| #6628, aired 2013-06-12 | AN UNFINISHED CATEG $400: Like an apple pie that's only been in the oven 30 minutes, your plan is half-... baked |
| #6626, aired 2013-06-10 | THEY'RE NO. 1! $400: 2009: blowing up with "Boom Boom Pow" The Black Eyed Peas |
| #6620, aired 2013-05-31 | ADD AN E $1600: A synonym for fear adds an E to become cargo transported for pay fright & freight |
| #6618, aired 2013-05-29 | IT'S "NATIONAL" $2000: Its East Building, completed in 1978 in Washington, D.C., was designed by I.M. Pei the National Gallery of Art |
| #6617, aired 2013-05-28 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS $800: Some of what this title character eats: "one piece of cherry pie, one sausage, one cupcake" & a slice of watermelon The Very Hungry Caterpillar |
| #6616, aired 2013-05-27 | CHARACTERS IN THE BROADWAY PLAY $400: Pay attention to Linda & Biff Loman Death of a Salesman |
| #6614, aired 2013-05-23 | "IE" TIMES 2 $1600: In 1954 this Vietnam village was the site of the decisive battle of the first Indochina war Dien Bien Phu |
| #6613, aired 2013-05-22 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $200: In 2012 this oil company agreed to pay the largest criminal fine in U.S. history BP |
| #6613, aired 2013-05-22 | GIVE ME A "C" $2000: In FICA, on your pay stub Contributions |
| #6602, aired 2013-05-07 | EMERSON $400: Emerson first gave "The American Scholar" as a lecture to this Greek letter honor society at Harvard Phi Beta Kappa |
| #6601, aired 2013-05-06 | POETRY $200: Poe's "ebony bird" "The Raven" |
| #6595, aired 2013-04-26 | ABBREV. TV $1000: Drama starring Jim Caviezel: "POI" Person of Interest |
| #6586, aired 2013-04-15 | JACKIE ROBINSON $1200: For 10 seasons Jackie shared the infield with friend and shortstop Harold Reese, better known by this diminutive Pee Wee |
| #6582, aired 2013-04-09 | DATA STRATA $1000: These 2 positions, in the army & navy, are both rated O-10 & both top out in pay at more than $19,000 a month general and admiral |
| #6581, aired 2013-04-08 | "CH"OW $800: The lightness of this type of pie is achieved with stiffly beaten egg whites chiffon |
| #6580, aired 2013-04-05 | MONOGRAMS OF THE FAMOUS & INFAMOUS $400: Hard-drinking 19th century poet & critic EAP Edgar Allan Poe |
| #6571, aired 2013-03-25 | PHI BETA KAPPA $400: 1904: deaf, blind & a Radcliffe Phi Beta Kappa Helen Keller |
| #6571, aired 2013-03-25 | PHI BETA KAPPA $800: 1997: Tennessee it to believe it! a Colts & now Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning |
| #6571, aired 2013-03-25 | PHI BETA KAPPA $1200: 1941: what a Betty, 22 years before "The Feminine Mystique" (Betty) Friedan |
| #6571, aired 2013-03-25 | PHI BETA KAPPA $1600: 1916: at Bowdoin, a 1948 researcher on sex (but not drugs & rock & roll) Kinsey |
| #6571, aired 2013-03-25 | THE END OF THE STORY $2000: "One bird said to Billy Pilgrim, 'Poo-tee-weet'?" Slaughterhouse-Five |
| #6571, aired 2013-03-25 | PHI BETA KAPPA $2000: 1842: at Bowdoin, a novelist from Salem, Massachusetts Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| #6564, aired 2013-03-14 | SOLVE THE MYSTERY TITLE $2000: By Edgar Allan Poe, "The Mystery of ___ Roget" Marie |
| #6559, aired 2013-03-07 | THAT '80s SHOW $400: In 1986 his "playhouse" premiered on Saturday morning television Pee-wee (Herman) |
| #6556, aired 2013-03-04 | AMERICAN ARCHITECTS $400 (Daily Double): His projects in the country of his birth include the Suzhou Museum I.M. Pei |
| #6556, aired 2013-03-04 | 3-LETTER WORDS $800: This Hawaiian dish made from cooked taro root that's pounded to a paste is eaten with the fingers poi |
| #6556, aired 2013-03-04 | GEOGRAPHIC TITLES $1600: Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows:
"The ____ Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society" Guernsey |
| #6550, aired 2013-02-22 | MONOLITHS $1200: Spectacular views of Copacabana & other beaches are offered at the top of this monolith AKA Pao de Acucar Sugarloaf |
| #6546, aired 2013-02-18 | AN "IMP"ISH CATEGORY $800: To pinch pie crust or put waves in hair crimp |
| #6542, aired 2013-02-12 | VIDEO GAME TIMELINE $200: 1980:
This pie-shaped character chomps its way into arcades Pac-Man |
| #6542, aired 2013-02-12 | AMERICAN LIT $400: In an 1845 poem he quoted the raven as saying "Nevermore" Poe |
| #6542, aired 2013-02-12 | ODD ENDS $800: In an O. Henry story, a boy kidnapped for this payment is so much trouble that in the end the kidnappers pay to return him ransom |
| #6536, aired 2013-02-04 | HEALTHY EATING $2000: Pumpkin is loaded with beta carotene, so a slice of pumpkin pie packs 250% of the RDA of this vitamin Vitamin A |
| #6533, aired 2013-01-30 | BODY LANGUAGE $600: Having this "in the pie" means you're meddling in something your finger |
| #6531, aired 2013-01-28 | NOT JUST DESSERTS $800: A whole that is divided up to be shared, like the wealth of a society pie |
| #6530, aired 2013-01-25 | NAME THE POET $400: "'Tis some visitor,' I muttered, 'tapping at my chamber door--only this, and nothing more'" (Edgar Allan) Poe |
| #6525, aired 2013-01-18 | HORRIFYINGLY REAL MOTHER GOOSE $2000: It was post-pie revenge later in this rhyme when "down came a blackbird and snapped off" a maid's nose! "Sing A Song Of Sixpence" |
| #6524, aired 2013-01-17 | FOOD WORDS & PHRASES $600: Something perfectly neat is in this dessert "order" apple pie |
| #6522, aired 2013-01-15 | I'D LOVE SOME "POI" $400: To name to a position, like Supreme Court justice appoint |
| #6522, aired 2013-01-15 | I'D LOVE SOME "POI" $800: We bet you're itching to name this vine with trifoliate leaves & whitish berries poison ivy |
| #6522, aired 2013-01-15 | I'D LOVE SOME "POI" $1200: Proverbially, "to the victor belong" these the spoils |
| #6522, aired 2013-01-15 | I'D LOVE SOME "POI" $1600: Composure or dignified bearing poise |
| #6522, aired 2013-01-15 | I'D LOVE SOME "POI" $2000: Affecting or moving the emotions, like a heart-tugging movie scene poignant |
| #6506, aired 2012-12-24 | IT'S A GAMBLE $400: A joker is added to the 52-card deck in this Asian version of poker where you make both 5- & 2-card hands pai gow |
| #6505, aired 2012-12-21 | DOUBLE TALK $1000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew holds a root in Molokai, HI.) Made from a root, the mildly sedative ancient elixir of Hawaii is called "'awa" locally but is known elsewhere by this double talk name kava-kava |
| #6496, aired 2012-12-10 | WHAT'S FOR LUNCH? $800: This "pie", diced lamb mixed with gravy & veggies topped with mashed potatoes shepherd's pie |
| #6494, aired 2012-12-06 | AUTHORS ON AUTHORS $2,500 (Daily Double): Conan Doyle wrote, "Where was the detective story until" this author "breathed the breath of life into it?" Edgar Allan Poe |
| #6490, aired 2012-11-30 | IT'S CHILE IN HERE $600: One of Chile's national dishes is this single-serving folded meat pie an empanada |
| #6480, aired 2012-11-16 | IN THE "MM"IDDLE $400: On the Los Angeles Lakers, Pau Gasol's relationship to Kobe Bryant his teammate |
| #6476, aired 2012-11-12 | BODY LANGUAGE $200: "Pay through the ____" nose |
| #6475, aired 2012-11-09 | COLOR MY WORLD $800: Market, or bottom pie black |
| #6472, aired 2012-11-06 | LONG SONGS $200: In 1971 Don McLean served up this 8 1/2-minute anthem about "the day the music died" "American Pie" |
| #6469, aired 2012-11-01 | POLYNESIA $600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from Molokai, HI.) A staple starch of traditional Polynesian cuisine, this cultivated plant & its tuber are used to make laulau & poi the taro |
| #6465, aired 2012-10-26 | A SPANISH INQUISITION $400: May I have just one more piece of platano cream pie? banana |
| #6460, aired 2012-10-19 | 7-LETTER WORDS $800: Send me those shoes pronto; I'll pay the P&H, this "& handling" postage |
| #6459, aired 2012-10-18 | QUOTH THE POET $1200: "The owl and the pussy-cat went to sea in a beautiful pea-green boat" (Edward) Lear |
| #6449, aired 2012-10-04 | LIKE A VESTAL VIRGIN $2000: So as not to spill their blood, vestal non-virgins were killed this way, which Poe called a "ghastly extreme of agony" burying them alive |
| #6447, aired 2012-10-02 | FAN MAIL TO HISTORIC FIGURES $1000: You got the Eastern Roman Empire to pay a ton of gold per year! Will you speak to our "Scourge of God" fan club? Attila the Hun |
| #6444, aired 2012-09-27 | APPLE PIE $200: After his final battle, this legendary king was conveyed to Avalon, the "Island of Apples" Arthur |
| #6444, aired 2012-09-27 | APPLE PIE $400: In 1952 Nina Ricci used apple-shaped glass bottles to launch Fille d'Eve, a type of this product perfume |
| #6444, aired 2012-09-27 | APPLE PIE $600: This humorist's 1924 book "The Illiterate Digest" says, "I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce" Will Rogers |
| #6444, aired 2012-09-27 | AMERICAN POETS & POETRY $800: Poe wrote, "For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams of" this beautiful maiden Annabel Lee |
| #6444, aired 2012-09-27 | APPLE PIE $800: This city, home to Kansas State University, is nicknamed "The Little Apple" Manhattan |
| #6444, aired 2012-09-27 | APPLE PIE $1000: In this musical Conrad visits his fans in Sweet Apple, Ohio Bye Bye Birdie |
| #6440, aired 2012-09-21 | PROLOGUES $3,000 (Daily Double): A prologue by this author says, "I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe" (Ralph Waldo) Ellison |
| #6428, aired 2012-07-25 | BIOGRAPHIES $400: Marquis James' 1929 biography "The Raven" was the story of this president of Texas, not Edgar Allan Poe Sam Houston |
| #6424, aired 2012-07-19 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1000: The narrator of this Poe story says, "above all was the sense of hearing acute" The Tell-Tale Heart |
| #6419, aired 2012-07-12 | ELECTION YEAR BEFORE & AFTER $600: Paul Reubens' childlike (& childish) alter ego who once ran Godfather's Pizza Pee-wee Herman Cain |
| #6413, aired 2012-07-04 | HALLEY'S CATEGORY $800: The Royal Society said that Halley should pay to have this man's "Principia" published, so Halley ponied up Newton |
| #6409, aired 2012-06-28 | THIS & THAT $800: In 1240 the city of Pisa put this math man on salary; maybe in the third year they gave him the sum of his pay in the first 2 Leonardo Fibonacci |
| #6406, aired 2012-06-25 | YOUR PEAS $200: "Pea soup" has been used to describe this type of London air condition at least as far back as Herman Melville in 1849 fog |
| #6406, aired 2012-06-25 | YOUR PEAS $1000: John Irving & Gore Vidal went to this New Hampshire boarding school abbreviated PEA Phillips Exeter Academy |
| #6403, aired 2012-06-20 | ONE NIGHT WHEN I COULDN'T SLEEP... $600: 1:58: Took my dog for a walk; he's this breed--see why I named him Michelin Man? a shar pei |
| #6400, aired 2012-06-15 | 3-LETTER WORDS $600: It's any of the bench-like seats with a fixed back arranged in rows in churches a pew |
| #6398, aired 2012-06-13 | "Q"-LINARY TERMS $800: This egg & cheese pie with a geographic name contains chopped bacon quiche Lorraine |
| #6392, aired 2012-06-05 | CELEBRATIONS OF THE MONTH $1000: Wear Red Day & National Cherry Pie Day February |
| #6383, aired 2012-05-23 | MORE THAN ONE MEANING $200: A person who mends shoes, or a type of fruit pie a cobbler |
| #6381, aired 2012-05-21 | "BIG" MOVIE QUOTES $800: 1985:
"Be sure and tell 'em Large Marge sent ya" Pee-wee's Big Adventure |
| #6372, aired 2012-05-08 | 8-LETTER WORDS $1200: The person to whom apartment dwellers pay rent a landlord |
| #6372, aired 2012-05-08 | WHO WROTE THE LINE? $2000: "He cried out twice, a cry that was no more than a breath--'The horror! The horror!"' Joseph Conrad |
| #6367, aired 2012-05-01 | "A.P." EXAM $400: One of Vermont's official state foods is this fruity dessert; I'll have mine a la mode! apple pie |
| #6366, aired 2012-04-30 | SCARY LITERATURE $2000: This 19th century American writer's scary short stories include "The Sphinx" & "The Oblong Box" Edgar Allan Poe |
| #6362, aired 2012-04-24 | JUST DESSERTS $200: You don't have to go to Florida to enjoy this dessert key lime pie |
| #6358, aired 2012-04-18 | THAT'S WHERE I DRAW THE LION $400: British artist P J Crook painted this slave & his lion friend Androcles |
| #6357, aired 2012-04-17 | COWBOY TALK $1000: It's the money used to finance a miner's activities a grubstake |
| #6350, aired 2012-04-06 | HAROLDRY $400: Brooklyn Dodger shortstop Harold Reese was known by this nickname, which he got as a champion marble shooter Pee Wee Reese |
| #6345, aired 2012-03-30 | POE'S PROSE $400: A watch-like ticking below the floor causes a man to confess to the murder of an old man in this story "The Tell-Tale Heart" |
| #6345, aired 2012-03-30 | POE'S PROSE $800: In "The Premature" this, the narrator equips his tomb with various "escape" devices Burial |
| #6345, aired 2012-03-30 | POE'S PROSE $1200: Prince Prospero & 1,000 knights & dames retired to a castle to escape a fatal pestilence in this story "The Masque of the Red Death" |
| #6345, aired 2012-03-30 | POE'S PROSE $1600: In this story, 2 friends & a servant go on a hunt for Captain Kidd's buried treasure "The Gold Bug" |
| #6345, aired 2012-03-30 | POE'S PROSE $2000: The final line in this Poe story is "The inquisition was in the hands of its enemies" "The Pit and the Pendulum" |
| #6344, aired 2012-03-29 | LOOKING TO THE FUTURE $1200: The Pew Research Forum says by 2030 the world population of this religion will cross the 1/4 of humanity mark Islam |
| #6344, aired 2012-03-29 | 14-, 15- & 16-LETTER WORDS $2000: Poe knows this word for the ringing or sound of bells starts with a bit of double talk tintinnabulation |
| #6342, aired 2012-03-27 | DOUBLE M $600: A sale of secondhand items, or to paw through them rummage |
| #6337, aired 2012-03-20 | MOVIE QUOTES $400: 1939: "Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain" The Wizard of Oz |
| #6333, aired 2012-03-14 | AMERICAN FOOD $1000: This trademarked Louisville chocolate nut dessert derives its name from being served on the first Saturday in May Derby Pie |
| #6323, aired 2012-02-29 | TO PAY PAUL $400: Pay Paul Shaffer: buy "We'll Be Here for the Rest of Our Lives", a memoir with tales of life as this late night host's sidekick David Letterman |
| #6323, aired 2012-02-29 | TO PAY PAUL $800: Pay Paul McCartney: shell out for this band "over America", a 28-track documentary of a 1970s U.S. tour Wings |
| #6323, aired 2012-02-29 | TO PAY PAUL $1200: Pay Paul Hewson (who works under another name): buy this band's 1984 album "'The Unforgettable Fire" U2 |
| #6323, aired 2012-02-29 | TO PAY PAUL $1600: Pay Paul Stanley: buy "Dressed to Kill" by this band, rocking & rolling all night & partying ev-er-y day since 1973 Kiss |
| #6323, aired 2012-02-29 | TO PAY PAUL $2000: Pay Paul Pierce: buy a replica of the No. 34 jersey he wears as captain of this NBA team the Boston Celtics |
| #6317, aired 2012-02-21 | ACTS OF CONGRESS $3,000 (Daily Double): Britain couldn't afford to pay cash for war materials much longer, so FDR proposed this alliterative act in December 1940 the Lend-Lease Act |
| #6306, aired 2012-02-06 | POP CULTURE $400: Tech blog Boing Boing made its site look like an old Mac computer to pay tribute to this late Apple visionary Steve Jobs |
| #6300, aired 2012-01-27 | VARIE-TEAS $800: The name of this Indian tea made with milk & spices like cinnamon & cardamom is one syllable & rhymes with "pie" chai |
| #6298, aired 2012-01-25 | THE BAND IS REALLY COOKING $800: Killdozer fed us dessert with a cover version of this Don McLean hit "American Pie" |
| #6297, aired 2012-01-24 | JACK BE HOMONYM-BLE $1600: A piece of wood, or to furnish with meals & lodging for pay board |
| #6295, aired 2012-01-20 | AIRBORNE $600: Nicolas Cage plays Cameron Poe, a prisoner with a heart of gold, in this flighty film Con Air |
| #6294, aired 2012-01-19 | NURSERY RHYMES $400: "I had a little hobby-horse and it was dapple gray; its head was made of pea-straw, its tail was made of" this hay |
| #6293, aired 2012-01-18 | ONE LETTER DIFFERENT $800: A hole in the ground for your baked pastry a pie pit |
| #6289, aired 2012-01-12 | LITERARY CHARACTER PERSONAL TRAINER $400: Mr. Hugo created you; now you're mine! & when you turn yourself in for theft, then escape & run, the leg lifts'll pay off Jean Valjean |
| #6278, aired 2011-12-28 | ORANGE YOU HUNGRY? $1600: The country tune "Song Of The South" mentions pie made from this tuber sweet potato |
| #6274, aired 2011-12-22 | A WHALE OF A BOOK $2000: The hero stows away on a whaler in Poe's "Narrative of A. Gordon Pym, of" this Massachusetts island Nantucket |
| #6273, aired 2011-12-21 | THE 21st $1200: This 21st Greek letter is sometimes found before the 2nd letter, beta phi |
| #6271, aired 2011-12-19 | BOWL GAME CITIES $1000: The Bridgepoint Education Holiday Bowl at Qualcomm Stadium San Diego |
| #6266, aired 2011-12-12 | AMERICAN POETS $600: Shortly after becoming engaged to Sarah Shelton, he fell ill in a Baltimore tavern & died 4 days later on October 7, 1849 (Edgar Allan) Poe |
| #6261, aired 2011-12-05 | AMERICAN NOVELISTS $200: While collecting material for "The Fountainhead", she worked without pay as a typist for a New York City architect (Ayn) Rand |
| #6250, aired 2011-11-18 | EAT LIKE A HORSE $1000: This protein-rich plant of the pea family is like steak for horses; don't give the little rascals too much of it alfalfa |
| #6248, aired 2011-11-16 | I'M GONNA MOON YOU! $1600: When the Moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, it has 3 interior zones--core, mantle & this (just like Earth) crust |
| #6245, aired 2011-11-11 | PUTTING CELEBRITIES ON THE MAP $1600: A boxer from Louisville has a big pay day in Bamako when you add a letter to his name Muhammad Mali |
| #6242, aired 2011-11-08 | CLASSIC COUNTRY MUSIC $1000: This country music legend didn't weigh "Sixteen Tons", but he was known as "The Ol' Pea Picker" Tennessee Ernie Ford |
| #6238, aired 2011-11-02 | PAY BALL! $200: His 1927 salary with the Yankees was $70,000, or $1,166.67 per homer Babe Ruth |
| #6238, aired 2011-11-02 | PAY BALL! $400: Say hey! Say what? In 1965 he hit 52 homers & won his ninth straight Gold Glove--& made $105,000 Willie Mays |
| #6238, aired 2011-11-02 | PAY BALL! $600: This player nicknamed "Big Papi" pulls down $12.5 million with the Red Sox David Ortiz |
| #6238, aired 2011-11-02 | PAY BALL! $800: In 1979 this no-hit king became the first major leaguer with a guaranteed $1 million salary Nolan Ryan |
| #6238, aired 2011-11-02 | PAY BALL! $1000: After hitting .350 in 1907, this Pittsburgh Pirates shortstop got his salary doubled for 1908--to a whopping $10,000 (Honus) Wagner |
| #6232, aired 2011-10-25 | MILLION DOLLAR $600: In 1979 the final construction cost of the JFK Library & Museum, designed by this Chinese American, was $12 million I.M. Pei |
| #6228, aired 2011-10-19 | THE ROCK & ROLL CALENDAR $1200: In "American Pie" it "made me shiver with every paper I'd deliver" February |
| #6226, aired 2011-10-17 | PRO TEENS $1000: Lionel Messi from this country joined Spanish pro soccer at 13 when a team agreed to pay for his growth hormones Argentina |
| #6224, aired 2011-10-13 | LITERARY NARRATORS $400: In this author's "The Cask of Amontillado ", Montresor narrates his own revenge on Fortunato (Edgar Allan) Poe |
| #6221, aired 2011-10-10 | CONSTITUTIONAL NO-NOs $2000: No denial of voting rights for "failure to pay" this specific tax a poll tax |
| #6206, aired 2011-09-19 | FRIENDS WITH BENEFITS $2000: Shh, don't tell! Suzanne used her medical FSA, short for this, to pay for botox treatments a flexible spending account |
| #6202, aired 2011-07-26 | LETTERMAN $800: Spend a night at museums designed by this architect, including Qatar's Museum of Islamic Art & Kyoto's Miho I.M. Pei |
| #6201, aired 2011-07-25 | ARE YOU EATING? $400: Hawaiians carefully boil the taro root to make this staple, as the raw tubers are poisonous--no pun intended poi |
| #6192, aired 2011-07-12 | SWEET SPOTS $1200: Kermit's in Key West is your one-stop shoppe for this flavor ice cream, cookies, jelly beans & pie on a stick Key lime |
| #6190, aired 2011-07-08 | QUOTATIONS IN LITERATURE $400: Hans Christian Andersen story in which you'll read, "Heaven knows what was in that bed... I am black and blue!" "The Princess and the Pea" |
| #6190, aired 2011-07-08 | THE OBJECT OF THE HASBRO GAME $1000: What a fun game--buy insurance; pay taxes; get in a ski accident; get fired; bottom line--get the highest dollar amount Life |
| #6188, aired 2011-07-06 | IT'S A SCIENTIFIC FACT $1,000 (Daily Double): (Here is the clue. Pay attention to Sarah.) Chairs, a broom, some string, and a can full of sand are all you need for the experiment that creates one of these swinging devices, similar to the one physicist Foucault used to show the earth's rotation a pendulum |
| #6186, aired 2011-07-04 | THE LANGUAGE OF FOOD $200: "Easy as" this, be it farmhouse raisin or double berry icebox pie |
| #6186, aired 2011-07-04 | CLASSIC KIDS' POEMS $600: T.S. Eliot: "Macavity's a mystery cat: he's called the hidden paw--for he's the master criminal who can defy" this the law |
| #6184, aired 2011-06-30 | THE 1930s $2000: World War I veterans demanding extra pay for their service made up the 1930s group known as this army the Bonus Army |
| #6179, aired 2011-06-23 | TERMS OF ENDEARMENT $1600: The first line of "I Can't Help Myself" by The Four Tops is "Sugar Pie" followed by this 2-word term of endearment "Honey Bunch" |
| #6178, aired 2011-06-22 | BEN & JERRY'S FLAVORS $800: Ben & Jerry's has a flavor called this, also the name of the official dessert of Massachusetts Boston Cream Pie |
| #6177, aired 2011-06-21 | GHOUL-ASH $600: Edgar Allan Poe referred to ghouls in the 4th section of this poem about objects that jingle, tinkle & clang The Bells |
| #6177, aired 2011-06-21 | MUSICAL THEATER $2000: When this musical was tried out before moving to Broadway, it was known as "The Princess and the Pea" Once Upon a Mattress |
| #6170, aired 2011-06-10 | IT'S THE "PIT"S $400: This pea-sized gland is also called the hypophysis pituitary |
| #6165, aired 2011-06-03 | HAWAII 5-O $400: Eat too much poi & your opu, meaning this, might get larger stomach |
| #6164, aired 2011-06-02 | BRITISH CUISINE $400: In the U.K., cottage pie generally uses beef, & this similar dish uses lamb shepherd's pie |
| #6158, aired 2011-05-25 | NFL TEAM MASCOTS $800: Formerly Edgar, Allan & Poe: now just Poe the Baltimore Ravens |
| #6157, aired 2011-05-24 | STARS OF SPORT $800: When Barcelona-born Pau Gasol joined this NBA team in 2008, it was called the "Spanish Acquisition" the Lakers |
| #6154, aired 2011-05-19 | TAXED BY TAXES $600: This first "Survivor" winner was voted off his home & into a jail for failing to pay taxes on his winnings Richard Hatch |
| #6154, aired 2011-05-19 | TATTOOED LADIES $2000: Evan Rachel Wood has a quotation from this "Ulalume" luminary between her shoulder blades (Edgar Allan) Poe |
| #6151, aired 2011-05-16 | WAR STUFF $1600: Most of the "French" troops besieged in this doomed Asian city in spring 1954 were foreign Legionnaires Dien Bien Phu |
| #6149, aired 2011-05-12 | QUOTES ABOUT TEACHING $800: In 1963 this pres. said cynics would pay "those to whom they entrust the minds of their children" less than their plumbers Kennedy |
| #6136, aired 2011-04-25 | TIME FOR A SOLO $1600: Try acting out in prison & you may get sent to this solitary place; Humble Pie sang about "30 Days" in it the hole |
| #6133, aired 2011-04-20 | SPORTS SPONSORSHIP $800: Barclays halved--from $400 to $200 million--how much it will pay in arena naming rights when this NBA team moves to Brooklyn the Nets |
| #6129, aired 2011-04-14 | SOUP & SALAD $400: I contributed a recipe to "Cooking for Heroes", a Red Cross cookbook: French-Canadian pea soup with this type of meat ham |
| #6127, aired 2011-04-12 | A CAPITAL IDEA? $400: Seen here, this breed originated around 800 B.C. a Lhasa Apso |
| #6121, aired 2011-04-04 | POETIC QUESTIONS $400: This piece of Edgar Allan Poe-try asks, "Is there--is there balm in Gilead?--tell me--tell me, I implore!" "The Raven" |
| #6110, aired 2011-03-18 | BAD FORTUNE COOKIES $800: You are always on our minds... says this agency in the Treasury Dept., established in 1862 to help pay Civil War costs the IRS |
| #6102, aired 2011-03-08 | WHEN LIFE GIVES YOU LEMONS $200: Make your own version of Marie Callender's top-selling pie, this one with stiffly beaten egg whites a lemon meringue pie |
| #6094, aired 2011-02-24 | WEDDINGS $800: Among this person's traditional duties are to pay the officiant & sign the marriage license as a witness the best man |
| #6088, aired 2011-02-16 | WHAT TO WEAR? $400: This plain-weave, sheer fabric made with tightly twisted yarn is also used to describe a pie or cake chiffon |
| #6082, aired 2011-02-08 | STATE UNIVERSITY BY ALUMS $800: Walter Reed,
Edgar Allan Poe,
George F. Allen (who later was governor & a U.S. senator) Virginia |
| #6081, aired 2011-02-07 | GETTING INTO CHARACTER $800: To prepare for this movie, Helena Bonham Carter took singing & pie-making lessons Sweeney Todd |
| #6078, aired 2011-02-02 | 3-LETTER WORDS $200: Steal from "Peter to pay Paul" rob |
| #6068, aired 2011-01-19 | LIVE IN TEXAS $400: Check out the I.M. Pei-designed city hall at the south end of downtown in this city, cowboy; it's i-m-pressive Dallas |
| #6067, aired 2011-01-18 | "PAY" UP $400: This online purchasing service was founded in 1998 PayPal |
| #6067, aired 2011-01-18 | "PAY" UP $800: It sounds positive, but it can also be the act of taking revenge payback |
| #6067, aired 2011-01-18 | "PAY" UP $1200: It's a bribe paid to a radio DJ to play & promote a particular song or act payola |
| #6067, aired 2011-01-18 | "PAY" UP $1600: If you "hit" this 2-word term for a profitable discovery, it might be earth or gravel containing gold pay dirt |
| #6067, aired 2011-01-18 | "PAY" UP $2000: Your Social Security contribution is this type of levy that comes out of your salary each week a payroll tax (a payroll deduction accepted) |
| #6058, aired 2011-01-05 | "I"s IN THE PRIZE $1000: The Medal of Honor named for this island was "designed to pay homage to the immigrant experience" Ellis Island |
| #6056, aired 2011-01-03 | NUMBERS $800: A nursery rhyme says, "sing a song of sixpence, a pocket full of rye," this many "blackbirds baked in a pie" four and twenty |
| #6053, aired 2010-12-29 | TV CHARACTERS $1600: On "Cheers" we saw only the feet of this character's wife Vera, & once we saw her pie-covered face Norm |
| #6052, aired 2010-12-28 | LOONEY TUNES $1600: In "The Cats Bah", he pops open a bottle of bubbly & is interviewed about the great love of his life Pepé Le Pew |
| #6043, aired 2010-12-15 | AMERICAN POETRY $1600: This Poe maiden lived "in a kingdom by the sea" Annabel Lee |
| #6042, aired 2010-12-14 | IT RINGS A BELL $400: You better pay up after hearing the bell on this the cash register |
| #6035, aired 2010-12-03 | GREEN FOOD $400: Spanakopita, a savory Greek pie, is made with this green vegetable, spanaki in Greek spinach |
| #6034, aired 2010-12-02 | OH "PH" $1600: A finger bone, or a group of heavily armed infantry with overlapping weapons a phalanx |
| #6032, aired 2010-11-30 | NEWS FROM THE EQUATOR $800: In the olden navy the "crossing the line" ceremony forced new sailors to undergo hazing & pay tribute to this Roman god Neptune |
| #6025, aired 2010-11-19 | FRENCH NOVELISTS $1200: This sci-fi writer's "An Antarctic Mystery" attempts to finish Poe's "Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym" Jules Verne |
| #6023, aired 2010-11-17 | WORLD RELIGIONS $400: Once a year members of this religion pay a tax called zakat, Arabic for "purification" Islam |
| #6017, aired 2010-11-09 | TITLES CONTAINING TITLES $200: Hans Christian Anderson:
"The ____ and the Pea" Princess |
| #5988, aired 2010-09-29 | A FREEZER FULL OF FOOD $800: I can't decide between a Swanson pot pie & one of this "famished" brand's "it's good to be full" meals Hungry-Man |
| #5986, aired 2010-09-27 | GOOD OLD SOUTHERN EATS $600: A popular recipe for this pie was created by the wife of a sales executive at Karo syrup pecan pie |
| #5977, aired 2010-09-14 | THEY'RE IN HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER $2000: Alyson Hannigan made "this one time, at band camp" a catchphrase in this 1999 movie comedy American Pie |
| #5976, aired 2010-09-13 | FEELS LIKE "FALL" $1000: Edgar Allan Poe's poem "The Haunted Palace" appears as part of this 1839 tale The Fall of the House of Usher |
| #5969, aired 2010-07-22 | PASTRY $800: "Make 'Em Laugh" mentions this pastry-employing gag that's always fun (for the onlookers, anyway) a pie in the face |
| #5967, aired 2010-07-20 | OPERA CHARACTERS $800: Yum-Yum, who is due to marry Ko-Ko, falls in love with the minstrel Nanki-Poo in this operetta The Mikado |
| #5962, aired 2010-07-13 | LIFE IN HELL $400: First, we get you into hell & Charon will ferry you over; pay him with one of these items, the traditional fare a coin |
| #5955, aired 2010-07-02 | LITTLE SEIZERS $1600: The pea type of this lives on bivalves & grabs food from bivalves with its pincers a crab |
| #5954, aired 2010-07-01 | THE GREEK LETTER EQUIVALENT $1000: F phi |
| #5952, aired 2010-06-29 | ARCHITECTS $1200: In the 1970s this Chinese American designed the aluminum-clad skyscraper at 88 Pine Street in New York City I.M. Pei |
| #5952, aired 2010-06-29 | CLASSIC YUMMY ROCKERS $1200: "30 Days in the Hole" if you can't name this old Peter Frampton band whose name refers to a forced apology Humble Pie |
| #5942, aired 2010-06-15 | THE FOOD CHAIN $800: Shepherd's
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plant pie |
| #5939, aired 2010-06-10 | CLASSIC GAME COMING ATTRACTIONS $200: In a world where greed knows no bounds, $50 can get you out of jail or pay your insurance premium Monopoly |
| #5932, aired 2010-06-01 | THE NOVEL'S LAST LINE $2000: "One bird said to Billy Pilgrim, 'Poo-tee-weet?'" Slaughterhouse-Five |
| #5931, aired 2010-05-31 | OR AN "AUDI" $800: A small business owner who fails to pay payroll taxes may find this person at his door an auditor |
| #5928, aired 2010-05-26 | POE IS ME! $400: "Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered," this & this weak & weary |
| #5928, aired 2010-05-26 | POE IS ME! $800: "Keeping time, time, time, in a sort of runic rhyme, to the throbbing of" these title items bells |
| #5928, aired 2010-05-26 | POE IS ME! $1600: "And one by one dropped the revellers in the blood-bedewed halls of their revel" in "The Masque of" this "the Red Death" |
| #5928, aired 2010-05-26 | POE IS ME! $2,000 (Daily Double): "And this maiden she lived with no other thought than to love and be loved by me" Annabel Lee |
| #5928, aired 2010-05-26 | POE IS ME! $2000: "Luchesi cannot tell" this title pale, dry Spanish wine "from sherry" amontillado |
| #5925, aired 2010-05-21 | SONG LYRICS $600: They were the "3 men I admire most" in Don McLean's "American Pie" the Father, Son & the Holy Ghost |
| #5913, aired 2010-05-05 | DOLLARS & NONSENSE $600: In Feb. 2010 this huge insurance co. we all bailed out said it would pay as much as $100 million in employee bonuses AIG |
| #5910, aired 2010-04-30 | GREEK LETTERS $1600: This Greek letter, number eight, is represented here theta |
| #5906, aired 2010-04-26 | INSIDE THE ACTORS STUDIO $200: (James Lipton delivers the clue.) He told us, as a struggling actor, he used the pay phone at Pioneer Chicken as his office, before he got "Family Ties" Michael J. Fox |
| #5906, aired 2010-04-26 | HUSKY $2,000 (Daily Double): From the Latin for "oaken" & "strong", this word is used to describe a rich, strong cup of coffee robust |
| #5905, aired 2010-04-23 | THE GRAMMYS 2010 $600: Their haul included best short form video, for "Boom Boom Pow" The Black Eyed Peas |
| #5901, aired 2010-04-19 | BIRTH MONTH FLOWERS $2000: As Popeye's adopted baby could tell you, April brings this flower the sweet pea |
| #5900, aired 2010-04-16 | I'D RATHER PAY TAXES $400: He died April 15, 1865, after a really bad night at the theater Lincoln |
| #5900, aired 2010-04-16 | I'D RATHER PAY TAXES $800: This screen legend found herself alone at last April 15, 1990 Garbo |
| #5900, aired 2010-04-16 | I'D RATHER PAY TAXES $1200: Raymond Bailey, who played banker Milburn Drysdale on this sitcom, made his final withdrawl April 15, 1980 The Beverly Hillbillies |
| #5900, aired 2010-04-16 | I'D RATHER PAY TAXES $1600: George Calvert, better known as Lord this, died clear across the pond from Maryland April 15, 1632 Lord Baltimore |
| #5900, aired 2010-04-16 | I'D RATHER PAY TAXES $2000: On April 15, 1980 this French existentialist got a firsthand look at being & nothingness (Jean-Paul) Sartre |
| #5899, aired 2010-04-15 | RHYME SCENE INVESTIGATION $200: Poe rhymed, "Thy naiad airs have brought me home / To the glory that was Greece / And the grandeur that was" this Rome |
| #5896, aired 2010-04-12 | WAR & PEAS $600: Pea soup was a staple in the ships of this navy that beat the French & Spanish at Trafalgar the British navy |
| #5880, aired 2010-03-19 | CHARACTER ASSASSINATION $800: This writer didn't flat out say, "Roderick Usher's own house fell on him", but the implication is clear (Edgar Allan) Poe |
| #5878, aired 2010-03-17 | INTERNATIONAL SEAFOOD $400: A Maltese specialty, lampuki pie is made with the fish better known by this double talk name mahi mahi |
| #5876, aired 2010-03-15 | STORY PROBLEMS $1600: A widget costs 64 cents & you pay with a dollar; you get 4 coins in change, these a penny, a quarter & two nickels |
| #5872, aired 2010-03-09 | ALSO AN AIRLINE $200: Like Mom & apple pie American |
| #5871, aired 2010-03-08 | A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS $1600: Bernard Fall wrote "Hell in a Very Small Place: The Siege of" this place lost by the French to the Viet Minh Dien Bien Phu |
| #5860, aired 2010-02-19 | FLORAL QUOTES $3,000 (Daily Double): Edgar Allan Poe described this daughter of Zeus & Leda as having "hyacinth hair" & a "classic face" Helen |
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Andrew Pau, an assistant professor from Amherst, Ohio
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2017 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 32 6-time champion: $170,202...
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Erin McLean, a sophomore from Boston University from Danvers, Massachusetts
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2011 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 2010-B College Championship winner:...
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Chris Pae, a high school history teacher from Suwanee, Georgia
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"He studied pre-med, then pre-law, but discovered his passion was teaching....
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Dave Pai, a field application scientist originally from Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania
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2023 Champions Wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
Season 37 2-time champion: $32,700 + $2,000.
Last name pronounced like \"PIE\".
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Dave Pai, a field application scientist originally from Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania
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2023 Champions Wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
Season 37 2-time champion: $32,700 + $2,000.
Last name pronounced like \"PIE\".
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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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Mark Petterson, a senior from the University of Kansas
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2009 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 21 and from Prairie Village,...
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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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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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Michael Torman, a funeral director from Paw Paw, Illinois
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Season 36 player (2020-04-22).
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Carl Brandt, an investor originally from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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2009 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 25 4-time champion: $70,799...
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Rachel Pepe, an operations manager from St. Louis, Missouri
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Season 31 player (2015-04-21).
Last name pronounced like "PEH-pay".
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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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Bryce Piotrowski, a twelve-year-old from Madison, Wisconsin
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"He has no idea what he wants to do later in...
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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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Marty Scott, an assistant district attorney from Forney, Texas
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Season 26 3-time champion: $64,002 + $2,000. Marty won $250,000 on...
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Roger Craig, a graduate student of computer science from Newark, Delaware
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2019 All-Star Games member of wildcard-match 2nd-place Team Austin: a share...
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Hill Harper, an author and actor from CSI: NY
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"As an award-winning author, he's written three New York Times best...
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Cathy Flanagan, an administrator from Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada
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Season 25 player (2008-12-26).
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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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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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Kaitlin Welborn, a sophomore from the University of Pennsylvania
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2007 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 20 at the time of the...
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Rick Rorapaugh, a customer service representative from Carlsbad, California
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Season 1 1-time champion: $10,000.
Last name pronounced like "ROAR-uh-paw".
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Patricia Belcher, a clinical social worker from Los Angeles, California
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Season 1 player (1985-05-01). Patricia's IMDb page. First name pronounced like...
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Nate Pochomis, an airline pilot from West Grove, Pennsylvania
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Season 34 player (2018-01-31).
Last name pronounced like "puh-KO-miss".
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Andy Richter, an actor/comedian from The Tonight Show
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\"This multitalented actor/comedian is now back on the couch with Conan...
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Rebecca Lobo, a future Women\'s Basketball Hall of Famer and ESPN analyst originally from the WNBA
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\"Later this year, she\'ll be inducted into the Women\'s Basketball Hall...
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Chuck Forrest, a lawyer and CEO from London, United Kingdom
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\"He became a winner of the second-ever Tournament of Champions in...
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Chuck Forrest, an attorney for the UN IFAD from Marino, Italy
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\"In 1986, he was a law student living in Grand Blanc,...
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Ursula Ziegler-Sullivan, a writer originally from Media, Pennsylvania
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Season 3 1-time champion: $14,100. Ursula's IMDb page, with TV writing...
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Mark Pawlowski, a financial advisor originally from Montreal, Canada
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Season 7 player (1990-12-18).
Last name pronounced like \"paw-LEV-skee\".
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Cora Peck, a high school teacher and grad student from Aliso Viejo, California
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2009 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 24 5-time champion:...
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Andrew Pau, an associate professor from Amherst, Ohio
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2017 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000.
Season 32 6-time champion: $170,202 + $2,000.
JBoard user name: pauerpoint
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Steve Crupi, a retired police department information supervisor from Las Vegas, Nevada
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2023 Champions Wildcard quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Season 37 2-time champion: $22,000 + $2,000.
Last name pronounced like \"CROO-pee\".
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Steve Crupi, a retired police information supervisor from Las Vegas, Nevada
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2023 Champions Wildcard quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Season 37 2-time champion: $22,000 + $2,000.
Last name pronounced like \"CROO-pee\".
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Amanda Walker, a junior at Gonzaga University from East Wenatchee, Washington
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2005 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user name:...
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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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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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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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Viki Radden, a high school English and literacy teacher from Bakersfield, California
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"She teaches at the largest high school district in California. From...
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Anupama Srirangan, a technology director from Aurora, Illinois
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Season 34 player (2017-09-25).
Name pronounced like \"ah-NOO-pah-mah shree-RAHN-gahn\".
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Chris Sullivan, a land protection specialist from Traverse City, Michigan
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Season 28 player (2012-07-06). Not to be confused with Season 11...
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Austin Baird, a start-up counsel from Provo, Utah
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Season 28 player (2012-06-20).
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Rich Carroll, an administrative traffic judge from Highlands Ranch, Colorado
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Season 20 player (2004-07-12).
KJL game 29.
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Ben Parks-Stamm, an apple farmer from Winthrop, Maine
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Season 28 player (2012-03-06).
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Alex Johnson, an 11-year-old from Indianapolis, Indiana
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"He wants to be a chemist in the future. From Indianapolis,...
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Dana Perino, a TV host from Fox News Channel's The Five
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"White House press secretary under George W. Bush, she now appears...
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Robert Arshonsky, a senior from Cal Poly
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"As a 12-year-old, he wanted to be the first person on...
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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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Gabriela Gonzales, a senior from Winston-Salem, North Carolina
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2012 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Curtis Joseph, a sophomore from Scottsdale Community College
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"In 1999, his nickname was 'Curtles the Troll', and he wanted...
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Elyse Mancuso, a junior from Omaha, Nebraska
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2012 Teen Tournament winner: $79,600. 16 at the time of the...
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Anjali Tripathi, a senior from MIT
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"Math and science were her favorite subjects in seventh grade. We're...
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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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Cliff Galiher, a student from Half Moon Bay, California
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2007 Tournament of Champions 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $50,000 +...
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Carlos Capellan, an IT manager from Queens, New York
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Season 31 player (2015-04-13).
Last name pronounced like cah-pay-YAHN.
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Netanel Paley, a senior at Yeshiva University from Teaneck, New Jersey
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2017 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
Name pronounced like "neh-TAHN-ul PAH-lee".
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Naomi Hinchen, a senior from Brooklyn, New York
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2007 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Neha Rao, from Johns Creek, Georgia
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"She's hoping to become a teacher and inspire her students in...
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Kweisi Mfume, a president from the NAACP
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2004 Power Players Week player (2004-05-11). Name pronounced like "kwah-EE-see oom-FOO-may"....
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Daniel Morgan, an attorney from Silver Creek, Georgia
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Season 20 player (2004-05-24).
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Paul Nethercut, a financial consultant from Sacramento, California
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Season 20 1-time champion: $22,500 + $1,000.
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Katie Winter, a senior from Tufts University
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2008 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 22 and from Hershey, PA at...
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Babatope Ogunmola, a sample specialist originally from Buffalo, New York
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Season 24 1-time champion: $8,400 + $1,000. First name pronounced like...
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Vera Swain, a junior from the University of South Carolina
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2008 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 21 and from Charleston, SC...
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Danny Shapiro, a gynecologist originally from Miami, Florida
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Season 7 player (1990-11-22).
Last name pronounced like Sha-PIE-ro.
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Chris Mazurek, an assistant professor from Columbia, Missouri
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2007 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
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Matt Prasse, an attorney from Needham, Massachusetts
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Season 30 player (2014-03-25).
Last name pronounced like "PRAHSS-ee".
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Brent Povis, a board game designer from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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Season 32 1-time champion: $24,789 + $2,000.
Last name pronounced like "POH-viss".
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Jeff Filippini, an astrophysicist from Pasadena, California
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Season 30 player (2014-07-18).
Last name pronounced like "fill-ip-PEE-nee".
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Vik Vaz, a medical student from Austin, Texas
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2006 Tournament of Champions 1st runner-up: $100,000. Season 22 3-time champion:...
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Katie Pieper, a Ph.D. student from Athens, Georgia
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Season 32 player (2016-07-11).
Last name pronounced like "PEE-per".
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Matt Tick, from Escondido, California
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"Will take violin lessons and loves science, but he really wants...
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Pam Jones-Pigott, a farmers' market coordinator from Pflugerville, Texas
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Season 27 1-time champion: $16,800 + $1,000.
Last name pronounced like "johnz-PIE-gut".
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Robert Slaven, a technical products specialist originally from Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada
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"He won 5 times in 1992. Today, he's a technical products...
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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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Stacy Braverman, a public interest lawyer from Washington, D.C.
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Season 26 1-time champion: $14,984 + $2,000. As detailed in a...
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Vinita Kailasanath, a consultant from San Mateo, California
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"She represented Stanford University when she won the 2001 College Tourney....
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Forrest Sturgill, a senior from Kingsport, Tennessee
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2009 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Last name pronounced like "STIR-jill".
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Jean Grewe, a graphic designer from Oak Park, Illinois
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"She was the last 5-time champion in 1993. Today she's a...
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Jeff Richmond, an attorney from Los Angeles, California
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"He used his 1988 5-game winnings to pay for law school....
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Joshua Allen, a student from North Hollywood, California
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Season 21 2-time champion: $39,001 + $1,000.
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Leslie Frates, a Spanish teacher from Hayward, California
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"A Jeopardy! tournament veteran, her best-known Jeopardy! appearance may be in...
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Matt Kleinmaier, a medical student from Chicago, Illinois
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Season 21 player (2004-10-12).
KJL game 55.
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Rachel Pildis, a software developer from Oak Park, Illinois
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Season 26 1-time champion: $12,000 + $2,000. Rachel Pildis - A...
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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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Ryan Stander, a college student from Liberty, Missouri
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Season 26 player (2010-03-11).
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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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Justin Bernbach, a lobbyist from Brooklyn, New York
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2010 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 25 7-time champion: $155,001...
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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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Damon White, a bartender from Darlington, South Carolina
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Season 25 player (2009-06-18).
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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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Soledad O'Brien, an anchor and special correspondent from CNN's Special Investigations Unit
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"Currently the host of CNN's Special Investigations Unit, she's received critical...
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Joey Beachum, an Air Force intelligence officer from Conway, Arkansas
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2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2008 College Championship winner: $100,000...
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Patrick Tucker, a senior from the University of Notre Dame
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2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2009 College Championship winner: $100,000...
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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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Larissa Charnsangavej, a senior from Rice University
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2009 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 21 and from Houston, Texas at...
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Eric Betts, a senior from Emory University
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2009 College Championship first runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $50,000. 21 and...
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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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Laura Myers, a senior from the University of Missouri
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2009 College Championship second runner-up: $29,900. 22 and from Richmond, Virginia...
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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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Martha Stewart, a TV personality from Martha Stewart Living
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"When Americans want to learn how to make the perfect pie...
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Leah Anthony Libresco, a junior from Yale University
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2010-A College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Hometown: Mineola, New York. Jeopardy!...
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A.J. Schumacher, a radio show production intern from St. Paul, Minnesota
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Season 25 1-time champion: $10,800 + $2,000. AJ Schumacher Saint Paul,...
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Jean Cui, a student originally from Garden City, New York
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Season 25 2-time champion: $14,200 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
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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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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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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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Will Warren, a senior from the University of Alabama
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2010-A College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. Hometown: Madison, Alabama. Will Warren Blog...
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Joe Pieper, a research engineer from Minneapolis, Minnesota
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Season 25 player (2009-04-17).
Last name pronounced like "PEE-per".
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Christian Haines, a college student originally from Newport News, Virginia
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2007 Tournament of champions semifinalist: $10,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
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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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Christine Carrino Gorowara, a teacher educator from Wilmington, Delaware
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Season 25 2-time champion: $43,202 + $1,000. Wife of Season 26...
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Pat Sajak, a game show host from Wheel of Fortune
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"A former TV weatherman, he's gone on to become the world's...
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Fred Beukema, a structural engineer from Minneapolis, Minnesota
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Season 25 3-time champion: $69,401 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Kizzle Cote, a 12-year-old from Ludlow, Massachusetts
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"This future ichthyologist has a 30-gallon aquarium in his bedroom..." 2007...
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Tope Charlton, a graduate student from Gaithersburg, Maryland
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Season 24 player (2007-10-24).
First name pronounced like "TOW-pay".
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Stefan Goodreau, a video game tester and camp counselor from Los Angeles, California
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2010 Tournament of Champions 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $50,000. Season...
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Katie Singh, a sophomore from Northwestern University from Austin, Texas
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2010-B College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
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Folake Dosu, a senior from Stanford University from Bellwood, Illinois
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2010-B College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
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Jacob Hambalek, a 12-year-old from Fresno, California
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"If he had to choose a career right now, he'd be...
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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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Toho Soma, a public health analyst from Portland, Maine
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Season 23 player (2007-06-06).
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: whoopie pie
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Lenzy Krehbiel-Burton, a graduate student originally from Tulsa, Oklahoma
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Season 23 1-time champion: $10,300 + $2,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: orangecrayon
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Joshua Malina, a TV actor and creator/producer from Celebrity Poker Showdown
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"He created and produced Celebrity Poker Showdown for the Bravo Channel,...
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Carson Kressley, a fashion maven from Queer Eye for the Straight Guy
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"This star of TV's Queer Eye for the Straight Guy says...
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Alexandra Petri, a college freshman originally from Fond du Lac, Wisconsin
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Season 23 player (2006-09-20).
Last name pronounced like "PEE-try".
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Robert Bethune, a middle school science teacher from Rancho Palos Verdes, California
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Season 26 1-time champion: $20,700 + $1,000.
Last name pronounced like "beth-OON".
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Ann Gavaghan, a congressional staffer from Washington, D.C.
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Season 24 1-time champion: $12,399 + $1,000. Ann is a current...
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Heather Pharo, a writer from Manahawkin, New Jersey
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Season 22 player (2005-09-23).
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Michael Rooney, a college professor from Pasadena, California
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"He was a winner of 5 games in 1999, and is...
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Wendy Brown, a shipping manager from Portland, Oregon
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Season 22 player (2006-04-03).
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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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Melissa Prepster, a teacher from Kyle, Texas
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Season 22 2-time champion: $43,706.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: The_Prepster
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David Venderbush, a lawyer from New York, New York
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"His 5 wins in 1993 came just in time to pay...
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Russ Schumacher, a graduate student from Fort Collins, Colorado
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2014 Battle of the Decades semifinalist: $25,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
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