| #9085, aired 2024-04-19 | FUN FACTS $400: These marshmallow chick candies took 27 hours to make individually by hand in 1953; now 509 are hatched every 8 seconds Peeps |
| #9065, aired 2024-03-22 | THE LYRICAL STYLINGS OF JOHNNY GILBERT $600: "If you want my body, & you think I'm sexy, come on sugar, let me know, if you really need me, just reach out & touch me" Rod Stewart |
| #9063, aired 2024-03-20 | FIRST NAMES $600: Owl tell you right now, Hedy, as in Hedy Lamarr, was short for this German name Hedwig |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM $300: Before flowers & bones, the open skies of Texas were one of her early subjects, like the 1917 work "Starlight Night" Georgia O'Keeffe |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | WACKY FAD OBITUARIES $600: Funeral services for this line dance will be held on the nearest cruise ship, featuring a special performance by Los del Rio the "Macarena" |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | SCIENCE IS COOL $1500: Unlike most solids, dry ice doesn't melt into a liquid, but turns directly into a gas, a process known as this sublimation |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | I'M JUST KEN $10,400 (Daily Double): In 2023 this documentarian released his latest film, a four-hour series examining the rich history of the American buffalo Ken Burns |
| #1, aired 2024-01-12 | WIDE WORLD OF WEIRD WORDS $5,400 (Daily Double): Sigmund knows that this is from the German for "damage" & "joy" & I'm getting a certain amount of it right now schadenfreude |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | OPPOSITES OF NOVEL TITLES $600: Hunter S. Thompson's "Courage and Fondness in Las Vegas" Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas |
| #8985, aired 2023-12-01 | A RED-HOT LATIN LAWYER $400: Meaning "under the penalty", you've been served! (with this word from Latin, right now) subpoena |
| #8974, aired 2023-11-16 | POP MUSIC $400: In 2021 she became the youngest artist to debut at No. 1 on the Hot 100 with her song "drivers license" Olivia Rodrigo |
| #8973, aired 2023-11-15 | SCIENTISTS AS PARENTS $400: Behave or I'll turn this car around right now! This many degrees--half a circle; don't think I won't 180 |
| #8973, aired 2023-11-15 | FINISH THE TERRIBLE RHYME $600: "Prepare to meet thy God, O Israel" was not writ just to shame us / It is, however, right here now, from the Bible's book the Book of Amos |
| #19, aired 2023-11-01 | G-I TRACT $400: Celeb chef Giada De Laurentiis has a recipe for this dish that calls for salt, pepper, flour, an egg and 1 1/2 pounds of Russet potatoes gnocchi |
| #19, aired 2023-11-01 | RIGHT "U-R" $600: It's the last name of the rapper who released the 1991 album "2Pacalypse Now" Shakur |
| #19, aired 2023-11-01 | IN BOOKSTORES NOW $1500: At one point in 2022, six of her books were in the top ten on the New York Times' paperback fiction bestseller list Colleen Hoover |
| #18, aired 2023-10-25 | LIBRARIES $600: The initialism of the New York public library is NYPL; as an acronym, some enjoy pronouncing it like this body part nipple |
| #18, aired 2023-10-25 | BY THE NUMBERS $800: As slang, it sounds a lot less serious than "shoplifting" -- though your arresting officer might not agree five-finger discount |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | DEMONYMS $500: It's how you might refer to a resident of Tirana, a capital city near the Adriatic coast--or to a resident of NY's state capital an Albanian |
| #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 |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | ESTATE PLANNING $1,200 (Daily Double): In law, it's one party managing another's property for the benefit of a third; in life, some say it's the key to a good relationship trust |
| #8935, aired 2023-09-22 | TV $1000: Sandy Dvore designed the animated title sequence of a mother bird & 5 chicks for this 1970s series The Partridge Family |
| #8894, aired 2023-06-15 | ROLLING STONES LYRICS $200: "But it's all right now, in fact, it's a gas" "Jumpin' Jack Flash" |
| #8890, aired 2023-06-09 | RETRONYMS $400: It's the retronym seen here; if you're over 40 you might have a distinct advantage right now, because you had a landline a dial phone (a rotary phone) |
| #19, aired 2023-05-24 | IN THE WORLD CAPITAL $1,000 (Daily Double): The Zytglogge tower & astronomical clock, which inspired Einstein & his special theory of relativity Bern |
| #19, aired 2023-05-24 | NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARKS $1600: A historical park devoted to the whaling industry in this Massachusetts city features a museum & the schooner Ernestina New Bedford |
| #18, aired 2023-05-23 | LABOR $1600: Born Mary Harris, she was called the "most dangerous woman in America" in 1902 for her success in organizing mine workers Mother Jones |
| #15, aired 2023-05-22 | KING OF THE MOUNTAIN $2,800 (Daily Double): Mont Ventoux in Provence, during the Seven Years' War Louis XV |
| #14, aired 2023-05-17 | SECRETS OF THE ANGELENOS $200: In "Annie Hall" it's called L.A.'s only cultural advantage; now some want it eliminated for pedestrian safety the right turn on red |
| #5, aired 2023-05-10 | DON'T CONFUSE THE TWO $1200: Language or jargon used by lawyers & a language or people of Sri Lanka legalese & Sinhalese |
| #4, aired 2023-05-09 | LITERATURE $1200: Lewis Carroll was the pen name of this mathematician turned children's author Charles Dodgson |
| #3, aired 2023-05-09 | THE MAP OF EUROPE $1600: It's the largest & southernmost of Ireland's counties Cork |
| #2, aired 2023-05-08 | COMIN' TO YOUR CITY $1,000 (Daily Double): Take in the earthquake-resistant "Cardboard Cathedral", built after a 2011 event in this New Zealand city Christchurch |
| #2, aired 2023-05-08 | WOMEN WRITERS $8,000 (Daily Double): Min Jin Lee's novel "Pachinko" follows generations of a Korean immigrant family overcoming bias in this other Asian nation Japan |
| #8829, aired 2023-03-16 | FOOD STUFF $800: Hot dog! Phelps, New York is the "capital" of this cabbage-based topping, & it's time to pile some on right now sauerkraut |
| #8798, aired 2023-02-01 | HODGEPODGE $1000: After the queen's death, the names of Prince William's children now end with "of" this place instead of Cambridge Wales |
| #8797, aired 2023-01-31 | "IN" THE RIGHT PLACE $200: Benjamin Harrison's home is now a museum in this Midwestern capital Indianapolis |
| #9, aired 2023-01-05 | FAMOUS WOMEN $200: Her resume includes Secretary of State, senator from New York & first lady Hillary Clinton |
| #9, aired 2023-01-05 | A TOTAL FRAME JOB $500 (Daily Double): Britannica says this Munch painting "can be seen as a symbol of modern spiritual anguish" but it reminds us of a loud "Home Alone" moment The Scream |
| #7, aired 2022-11-06 | FUN WITH FLAGS $1000: After the Soviet Union broke apart, so did its flag with a gold star & these 2 symbols representing workers & peasants a hammer & sickle |
| #2, aired 2022-10-02 | HISTORY QUIZ $700 (Daily Double): Now a kids' swimming pool game, he was originally an Italian who traveled to China in the 13th century Marco Polo |
| #8708, aired 2022-09-28 | THE RIGHT BROTHERS $1600: After the death of 5 brothers of this last name in WWII, the U.S. instituted the sole survivor policy to prevent a repeat Sullivan |
| #8702, aired 2022-09-20 | BEFORE & AFTER PEOPLE $1200: "Karma Chameleon" singer who turned down an Oscar for his performance in "Patton" Boy George C. Scott |
| #8694, aired 2022-07-28 | YOU CALL YOURSELF A FAN? $600: The "Cameron Crazies" are students who show undying support for this university's Blue Devils basketball teams Duke |
| #8691, aired 2022-07-25 | EASTERN EUROPEAN HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): Now written in the Latin alphabet, Moldova's language used to be written in this alphabet named for a 9th century priest Cyrillic |
| #8640, aired 2022-05-13 | TREATIES $1200: An 1846 treaty with New Granada--now Colombia & this country--gave the U.S. a right of way in Central America Panama |
| #8633, aired 2022-05-04 | IT'S YOUR TOP 40 PRESIDENTIAL COUNTDOWN $1200: He had a big debut with "Back To Normalcy" but now he's singing the blues with "Teapot Dome Got Me Down"; at No. 29, here's... Harding |
| #8625, aired 2022-04-22 | FIRSTS $2,000 (Daily Double): On Oct. 13, 1983 the first call on a commercial cell phone was made to a grandson of this inventor Alexander Graham Bell |
| #8608, aired 2022-03-30 | A DISH OF SCHUBERT $400: A son of this capital, Franz was baptized in what's now known as the Schubert Church & at 17 wrote & conducted a mass there Vienna |
| #8604, aired 2022-03-24 | CLASSIC CARS $600: After Peugeot complained it had patented a three-digit model number, Porsche added 10 to get this now classic model 911 |
| #15, aired 2022-02-18 | ESPN $1000: (Michael Eaves delivers the clue.) ESPN has brought you the UFC since 2019 & we cover it all, including this pre-fight confrontation that's now an essential part of MMA, but became popular around 1930 at boxing weigh-ins with fighters like Jack Sharkey the stare-down |
| #8548, aired 2022-01-05 | A PLAYER TO BE NAMED RIGHT NOW $200: On Sept. 23, 2001 Drew Bledsoe of the Patriots was injured & this man became first-string QB; Drew's playing time then decreased a bit Tom Brady |
| #8548, aired 2022-01-05 | A PLAYER TO BE NAMED RIGHT NOW $400: This 14-time All-Star & one-time highest-paid Major Leaguer joined the ESPN broadcast team in 2018 Alex Rodriguez |
| #8548, aired 2022-01-05 | A PLAYER TO BE NAMED RIGHT NOW $600: Oi! Oi! Oi! Robert Flower of Melbourne could be my wingman anytime with 315 goals in a hall of fame career in this rough sport Australian rules football |
| #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 |
| #8548, aired 2022-01-05 | A PLAYER TO BE NAMED RIGHT NOW $1000: One of his incredible NHL seasons was 1983-84, with 87 goals & 118 assists for Edmonton Gretzky |
| #8528, aired 2021-12-08 | A LITTLE MATH IN YOUR MOVIE $800: As a math term, this Keanu Reeves film title refers to a set of numbers in rows & columns that form an array The Matrix |
| #8525, aired 2021-12-03 | YOU GET A "C" $400: This adjective relates to the brain or describes someone with great intellect like you right now, hopefully cerebral |
| #8486, aired 2021-10-11 | RECENT MOVIES $1200: Tom Hardy is back in rare form again playing Eddie Brock, a journalist who shares his body with this alien symbiote Venom |
| #8381, aired 2021-04-19 | SCI-FI MOVIE BY QUOTE $600: Joaquin Phoenix to Scarlett Johansson: "Are you talking to anyone else right now...? --Yeah. --How many others? --8,316" Her |
| #8318, aired 2021-01-20 | POLY ESTHER $400: Esther Rolle played Florida Evans on "Maude" & this "dyn-o-mite" sitcom Good Times |
| #8313, aired 2021-01-13 | NATIONAL HERITAGE AREAS $600: The first NHA was the Illinois & Michigan Canal, which in 1848 linked the Illinois River with this one that now gets dyed green the Chicago River |
| #8306, aired 2021-01-04 | CHRISTMAS ON BROADWAY $1200: This musical auntie sings, "We need a little Christmas, right this very minute, candles in the window, carols at the spinet" Mame |
| #8291, aired 2020-11-30 | WORDS IN THE SONG $1600: "Hurry hurry hurry before I go insane" "I Wanna Be Sedated" |
| #8287, aired 2020-11-24 | SPEAK NOW $200: This word hospitals use to mean "right now!" comes from the Latin for "to stand" stat |
| #8287, aired 2020-11-24 | SPEAK NOW $400: Something in style right now is "in" this, also the name of a fashion magazine vogue |
| #8277, aired 2020-11-10 | MARIAH CAREY $400: (Mariah Carey presents the clue.) In 2019, I made a festive new video for this holiday song--the "Make My Wish Come True" edition "All I Want For Christmas Is You' |
| #8252, aired 2020-10-06 | ADD A VOWEL $600: I: a high-fiber cereal item transforms into an organ you should be using right now brain & bran |
| #8220, aired 2020-05-22 | A 1970s YEAR $800: Following impeachment hearings, President Richard Nixon resigns 1974 |
| #8201, aired 2020-04-13 | CROSSWORD CLUES "P" $400: South American cloak (6) a poncho |
| #8196, aired 2020-04-06 | I'M YOUR NEW PERSONAL TRAINER! $800: Reclining hero pose! Into corpse pose! Oh yeah, you bet we're going heavy on this 4-letter discipline right now! yoga |
| #8161, aired 2020-02-17 | SURVIVOR $800: (Jeff Probst, the host of Survivor, presents the clue.) A fan favorite from "Survivor: The Australian Outback", she went on to co-host "The View" & "Fox & Friends" (Elisabeth) Hasselbeck |
| #8159, aired 2020-02-13 | 3/4 OF AN EGOT $1600: This actress still needs a Tony, so right now, she will have to settle for having a "Titanic" "EGO" Kate Winslet |
| #8154, aired 2020-02-06 | SHAPELY BOOK TITLES $800: Title of Charles Berlitz' 1974 bestseller about the ships & planes that have vanished in an area, of the Atlantic The Bermuda Triangle |
| #8116, aired 2019-12-16 | AN "A" IN MEDICINE $800: Giving oxygen by mask during sleep is one treatment for this sleep disorder apnea |
| #8098, aired 2019-11-20 | FIRST NAME SONG TITLES $2000: Kiss got all ballad-y singing this woman, "I hear you callin', but I can't come home right now" Beth |
| #8091, aired 2019-11-11 | REAL NAMES ON THE MARQUIS $800: Concino Concini, AKA the Marquis d'Ancre, was shot to death on the drawbridge of this palace (now a museum) on the right bank of the Seine the Louvre |
| #8074, aired 2019-10-17 | LEGAL BRIEFS $1000: 3-word principle established in 1896; overturned in Brown V. Board of Education of Topeka Separate but equal |
| #8066, aired 2019-10-07 | PLACES OF BUSINESS $1,000 (Daily Double): Despite the state found in the name of this airline, its home offices are in Seattle Alaska Airlines |
| #8057, aired 2019-09-24 | "GEN" KNOWLEDGE $200: Adjective for something sold without a trademark or brand generic |
| #8056, aired 2019-09-23 | COUP COUP $600: On Feb. 4, 1992 he led some Venezuelan military officers in a failed coup; 6 years later, he was elected prez Chávez |
| #8056, aired 2019-09-23 | GEOGRAPHIC TRIOS $800: St. Croix, St. Thomas & St. John make up this U.S. possession U.S. Virgin Islands |
| #8054, aired 2019-09-19 | FERDINAND $200: This explorer was joined on his 4th voyage in 1502 by illegitimate son Ferdinand, who later wrote dad's biography Columbus |
| #8008, aired 2019-06-05 | VANS $2,000 (Daily Double): A music competition named for him has been called "the most prestigious classical piano contest in the world" Van Cliburn |
| #7991, aired 2019-05-13 | PARTS OF SPEECH $200: Ohhhhh man, that curry just ain't sitting well right now:
curry a noun |
| #7985, aired 2019-05-03 | NOBODY EXPECTS $600: David Niven & the audience were taken unawares when one of these rushed the Oscars stage in 1974 a streaker |
| #7942, aired 2019-03-05 | POP MUSIC ACROSS THE DECADES $400: Now you try... & you try... & you try...& you try to name this Rolling Stones song that was No. 1 for 4 weeks in 1965 "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" |
| #7939, aired 2019-02-28 | IDIOMS DELIGHT $1200: Raally upset? You're "mad as" this moistened fowl a wet hen |
| #7891, aired 2018-12-24 | VERY DEFINITELY FOR PROFIT $10,600 (Daily Double): Around 1920 he turned a $30 investment into a get-rich-quick "scheme" that defrauded folks out of $15 million (Carlo) Ponzi |
| #7864, aired 2018-11-15 | SCIENCE $600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew holds an inflated balloon.) Right now the inflated balloon has potential energy; when I let it go, the potential energy turns into this, the mechanical energy of motion kinetic energy |
| #7756, aired 2018-05-07 | MOVIES IN THE SKY $1600: It's a rhyming nickname for a drone (t's watching us right now!), or a Helen Mirren film about them Eye in the Sky |
| #7713, aired 2018-03-07 | HUMANS IN THE GALAPAGOS $1000: (Alex presents the clue from the Galapagos.) I'm at Post Office Bay on the island of Floreana--when sailors' messages to their families back home were intercepted right here by U.S. Navy captain David Porter & his crew, they indicated the positions of their ships, & that information helped destroy the British Pacific whaling fleet during this war the War of 1812 |
| #7667, aired 2018-01-02 | THE '80s: WHO SAID IT? $600: At the Oscars:
"I can't deny the fact that you like me, right now, you like me!" Sally Field |
| #7651, aired 2017-12-11 | THAT'S SOME SHAMELESS PANDERING $200: They say this synonym for fawning "will get you nowhere" but right now that's not true at all flattery |
| #7638, aired 2017-11-22 | NOW YOU'RE SPEAKING MY LANGUAGE $1600: Hawaiian has a glottal one & so does British English, as in "right-oh" a stop |
| #7633, aired 2017-11-15 | STEPPENWOLF THEATRE ALUMNI $800: Actor-writer Tracy Letts first mounted this "August" play at Steppenwolf & won a Tony & Pulitzer for it August: Osage County |
| #7632, aired 2017-11-14 | COLORFUL AMERICAN CITIES $800: The statue of Adolph Coors seen here is in this Colorado city Golden |
| #7623, aired 2017-11-01 | GOLF $400: It's a right-handed golfer's shot that veers to the left, or the punch he might want to throw after it does hook |
| #7601, aired 2017-10-02 | MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS $15,700 (Daily Double): German for "play of bells", it has 2 rows of metal bars with the upper row corresponding to the black keys on a piano a glockenspiel |
| #7584, aired 2017-07-27 | THE LITERARY DR. PHIL SHOW $2000: It's time to search your heart & try to forgive yourself right now for axing that pawnbroker & her half sister Raskolnikov |
| #7539, aired 2017-05-25 | MORTAL MATTERS $200: It's the elected medical official whose job it is to investigate deaths not due to natural causes a coroner |
| #7536, aired 2017-05-22 | THE BOLD & THE BEAUTIFUL $1000: (Heather Tom and Thorsten Kaye give the clue as Katie and Ridge from The Bold and the Beautiful.) "Ridge, why are you still concealing the truth?" "Because, Katie, it is our secret to reveal, no one else's. & I'll stand behind that like Leonidas & his 300 men at this famous mountain pass in the 5th century B.C." Thermopylae |
| #7522, aired 2017-05-02 | PUNNY KNIGHTS $1000: He's insolent, he's gruff, he's just an ill-tempered knight Sir Ly (surly) |
| #7520, aired 2017-04-28 | CELEBRITY FRAGRANCES $600: Gold & Heat are his & her fragrances from this music power couple Jay-Z & Beyoncé |
| #7518, aired 2017-04-26 | DOUBLE T IN THE MIDDLE $800: This word for excessive praise will get you nowhere, except for right now flattery |
| #7506, aired 2017-04-10 | ANIMATED CHARACTERS $200: A 2017 film subtitled "The Lost Village" introduces new characters in this title group, familiar from TV the Smurfs |
| #7499, aired 2017-03-30 | PEN NAMES $2000: In the 1950s this prolific sci-fi author wrote a series of books for young adults using the name Paul French Asimov |
| #7483, aired 2017-03-08 | MUSIC SOOTHES $1000: The song heard here at a Jewish wedding reception means that it's time for this Israeli round dance the hora |
| #7451, aired 2017-01-23 | PYRAMIDS $2000: The reverse of the Great Seal of the United States features an unfinished pyramid with this right above it an eye (the Eye of God) |
| #7428, aired 2016-12-21 | YOUR HEART $800: In the '90s rare heart-valve lesions were found in women taking this homophonic diet drug, which soon went bye-bye Fen-phen |
| #7424, aired 2016-12-15 | MOVING JOURNALISM $1,500 (Daily Double): British Airways' in-flight magazine has this name, like a Miller beer brand High Life |
| #7421, aired 2016-12-12 | ISLAND NATIONS $800: The majority of the citizens of Antananarivo, this nation's capital, are of Indonesian ancestry Madagascar |
| #7392, aired 2016-11-01 | REPTILES $400: Chelonoidis nigra is the scientific name of a tortoise that lives in this island group the Galápagos |
| #7379, aired 2016-10-13 | STATE YOUR CASE $2000: A case regarding the Voting Rights Act in 2013 pitted Shelby County of this state v. Holder Alabama |
| #7352, aired 2016-07-26 | THE AMAZING SPACE-MAN $1600: Astronaut Wally Schirra did a TV commercial for Actifed, this kind of drug that he used during one of his space flights a sinus decongestant |
| #7350, aired 2016-07-22 | POISONOUS PLANTS $400: The stinging variety of this plant is covered in minute hairs that inject irritants when they are touched nettle |
| #7346, aired 2016-07-18 | MUSIC FROM THE 2000s $1000: "Stand Up" in 2005 was the 4th No. 1 studio album in a row by the band named for this S. Afr.-born man; they're big live too The Dave Matthews Band |
| #7316, aired 2016-06-06 | ELLIS ISLAND $1600: While attending law school, this future NYC mayor known as "The Little Flower" served as an interpreter on the island LaGuardia |
| #7310, aired 2016-05-27 | SHE-CAGO $600: Maiden name of Chicago socialite Edith, who donated land for the Brookfield Zoo; her father was John D. Rockefeller |
| #7306, aired 2016-05-23 | WHOOPS $800: 2 words:
A Confederate battle cry Rebel Yell |
| #7303, aired 2016-05-18 | IT'S NOT ROCKET SCIENCE $800: You dilute a solution by watering it down; you do this to your pupils, 1 letter different, by making them expand dilate |
| #7299, aired 2016-05-12 | HEY, "MAC" $600: Right now, head west on Constitution Ave. & soon you'll be on its shore the Potomac River |
| #7296, aired 2016-05-09 | ASIAN CAPITAL CITIES $2000: Tango & Cheri are important Buddhist monasteries near Thimphu in this Himalayan nation Bhutan |
| #7255, aired 2016-03-11 | FROM "C" TO SHINING "C" $1000: A person skeptical of others' motives, or a member of an ancient Greek sect founded by Antisthenes a cynic |
| #7237, aired 2016-02-16 | HISTORY $1000: Name of the king who after beating Rome at Asculum but taking heavy casualties, said one more such win would undo him Pyrrhus |
| #7220, aired 2016-01-22 | ARCHER $1,000 (Daily Double): In the 1730s the "Chronicon Helveticum" expounded on the legend of this archer William Tell |
| #7218, aired 2016-01-20 | THE WORLD ALMANAC 2016 EDITION $200: This U.S. paper currency features B. Franklin & a bell that changes color from copper to green as a security measure a $100 bill |
| #7198, aired 2015-12-23 | NHL TEAMS' HOME ICE $400: United Center the (Chicago) Blackhawks |
| #7191, aired 2015-12-14 | WOMEN IN POLITICS $400: In 1974 Ella Grasso of Connecticut became the first woman elected to this job whose husband hadn't once held the job governor |
| #7190, aired 2015-12-11 | A 3-D CATEGORY $2000: This poem by Sylvia Plath says, "You stand at the blackboard... in the picture I have of you" "Daddy" |
| #7180, aired 2015-11-27 | AS THE CROW FLIES $800: Once common on the slopes of volcanoes, the 'alala, the crow of this state, is now extinct in the wild Hawaii |
| #7178, aired 2015-11-25 | REMEMBER NOVEMBER $2000: This Virginia slave revolt leader was tried & convicted on Nov. 5, 1831 & executed on Nov. 11 Nat Turner |
| #7174, aired 2015-11-19 | RIGHT NOW SCIENCE $400: A study suggests these chimp parts are more evolved than ours, but let's see them play "Foggy Mountain Breakdown" fingers (or hands) |
| #7174, aired 2015-11-19 | RIGHT NOW SCIENCE $800: Astronomers geared up for fireworks when the enormous gas cloud G2 passed Sagittarius A*, one of these a black hole |
| #7174, aired 2015-11-19 | RIGHT NOW SCIENCE $1200: Scientists at the LHC, this, recently found proof of the pentaquark, a subatomic particle sought for decades the Large Hadron Collider |
| #7174, aired 2015-11-19 | RIGHT NOW SCIENCE $1600: This spacecraft did a flyby of Pluto within 8,000 miles of the surface, showing it as never before New Horizons |
| #7174, aired 2015-11-19 | RIGHT NOW SCIENCE $2000: Research suggests Joseph "The Elephant Man" Merrick's illness was this syndrome named for a shape-changing god the Proteus syndrome |
| #7162, aired 2015-11-03 | ADVENTURE & EXPLORATION $1600: "Deepsea Challenge 3D" puts this director in front of the camera, documenting his descent to 7 miles under the Pacific James Cameron |
| #7160, aired 2015-10-30 | LORD OF THE JUNGLE $400: As emperor of India from 1910 to 1936, he was George of a heck of a lot of jungle George V |
| #7157, aired 2015-10-27 | MOVERS & SHAKERS $1000: The Franks' big one of these shook & opened the walls of Jerusalem during the First Crusade in July 1099 a battering ram |
| #7152, aired 2015-10-20 | RIGHT "UR" $200: You should feel a state of this noun meaning imperativeness, so ring in now! now! urgency |
| #7152, aired 2015-10-20 | 12-LETTER WORDS $600: "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds" says, "Somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly, a girl with" these "eyes" kaleidoscope eyes |
| #7149, aired 2015-10-15 | REORDERING THE NOTED PAIR $200: Smucker's blackberry & Jif's extra crunchy, in that order jelly & peanut butter |
| #7146, aired 2015-10-12 | THE NORTH REMEMBERS $600: ...to pluralize the name of this vast region whose website is www.gov.nt.ca the Northwest Territories |
| #7145, aired 2015-10-09 | A LITTLE ALLITERATION $600: Gregory Keller, a Catholic priest, invented a machine to automate the process for making these Christmas sweets candy canes |
| #7141, aired 2015-10-05 | WHERE AM I? $1000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports.) I'm in this largest township in Johannesburg, South Africa; once notorious for repression, now setting trends in fashion & art Soweto |
| #7136, aired 2015-09-28 | COMPUTER HISTORY $200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew clicks the signaling device from behind a familiar lectern at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California; Jimmy is her sole human competitor.) The museum has an homage to this "Jeopardy!" cyber contestant, whose brilliance is now being put to work diagnosing illnesses, recommending better investments & helping researchers around the world find information faster Watson |
| #7127, aired 2015-09-15 | GIVE $600: This 150-year-old "military" charity uses $2 billion in annual donations to help people in more than 100 countries the Salvation Army |
| #7127, aired 2015-09-15 | GETTING OFF THE GROUND $1600: (Hi, I'm Mark Kelly.) In 2011 I commanded the final mission of this space shuttle named for the ship commanded by Captain James Cook on his first voyage of discovery in the Pacific the Endeavour |
| #7116, aired 2015-07-20 | AT THE MONASTERY $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Monastery of the Holy Spirit in Georgia.) Trappist monks take three of these--stability to remain with one community, obedience to abbots & conversion, meaning to change one's nature; there's no actual one of silence a vow |
| #7116, aired 2015-07-20 | SPORTS & SONG $1000: Dandy Don Meredith would sing this song on "Monday Night Football" when a game's outcome was decided "The Party's Over" |
| #7090, aired 2015-06-12 | THE STATE OF THINGS $600: The World of Coca-Cola,
Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest Georgia |
| #7086, aired 2015-06-08 | HEALTH-RELATED ORGANIZATIONS $1000: This organization, the NKF for short, asks that you consider being a living donor the National Kidney Foundation |
| #7076, aired 2015-05-25 | WE'LL ALWAYS HAVE PARROTS $800: The Sisserou parrot is found only on this Caribbean island whose name is Latin for "Sunday" Dominica |
| #7075, aired 2015-05-22 | GREEN BOOKS $400: A nature trail in Van Cortlandt Park is named for John Kieran, author of "A Natural History of" this metropolis New York |
| #7073, aired 2015-05-20 | SALUTE TO 7000 $600: 55 is where I set my 7000 model of this customizable bed Sleep Number |
| #7072, aired 2015-05-19 | ETERNAL DAN NATION $400: 19th century nationalist leader Daniel O'Connell Ireland |
| #7069, aired 2015-05-14 | THE 5 SENSES $800: Haydn called Mozart the greatest composer he knew because he had this sense good taste |
| #7020, aired 2015-03-06 | THE TVA $400: "Frying eggs from 93 million miles away--now that's power" says tva.com of this type of energy solar |
| #7020, aired 2015-03-06 | INTRODUCTIONS $1600: Nice to make your acquaintance & seize your ships; in this war, Oliver Hazard Perry said, "we have met the enemy and they are ours" the War of 1812 |
| #7018, aired 2015-03-04 | TIME TO GO EXPLORIN' $400: 982:
Greenland gets its name from this man with another color in his name Erik the Red |
| #7015, aired 2015-02-27 | NOT IN THE BIBLE $600: Alexander,
Amenhotep,
Agrippa Amenhotep |
| #6993, aired 2015-01-28 | ROMAN EMPERORS $1200: In retaliation for the murder of Emperor Pertinax, Septimius Severus reorganized this bodyguard group the Praetorians |
| #6987, aired 2015-01-20 | FISHY SCIENCE $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from the Georgia Aquarium.) Maintaining water quality is key when a fish first enters quarantine to match temperature, salinity & this measurement; a fish fresh from the ocean would be used to a level between 8.0 & 8.4 pH |
| #6982, aired 2015-01-13 | A REAL MYSTERY $4,200 (Daily Double): The murder in this mystery takes place aboard the Karnak, a small river steamboat Death on the Nile |
| #6979, aired 2015-01-08 | BODY CHECK $1600: Hey, muscles, shoulder the burden of naming the right & left type of this muscle the trapezius muscles |
| #6976, aired 2015-01-05 | DEFOE $800 (Daily Double): "Memoirs of a Cavalier" was a fictional account of this decades-long war of 17th century continental Europe the Thirty Years' War |
| #6961, aired 2014-12-15 | PARKS $2,000 (Daily Double): It took workers months in 1880 to transport this 69-foot shaft from a Staten Island dock to Central Park Cleopatra's Needle (the obelisk accepted) |
| #6927, aired 2014-10-28 | JUST SIT RIGHT BACK $3,000 (Daily Double): The Montgolfier is a Louis XVI chair created by Georges Jacob with a back shaped like one of these a balloon |
| #6905, aired 2014-09-26 | & THE CATEGORY OF GEOGRAPHY $1200: In January 1855, 15 years after the founding of what's now this New Zealand capital, it suffered an 8.2 earthquake Wellington |
| #6900, aired 2014-09-19 | DOLLAR "BIL" $2000: Lodging for a soldier a billet |
| #6866, aired 2014-06-23 | IN TV'S SUPPORTING CAST $1200: The truth is right here! This "X-Files" star played Hannibal Lecter's psychiatrist Gillian Anderson |
| #6861, aired 2014-06-16 | FINISH THE TERRIBLE RHYME $800: "Prepare to meet thy God, O Israel" was not writ just to shame us / It is, however, right here now, from the Bible's book of... Amos |
| #6834, aired 2014-05-08 | I'M A PAPAL PERSON! $1000: Some say the 12th pope of this name should be made a saint; others say he was too quiet during WWII Pius |
| #6810, aired 2014-04-04 | WHAT A "GAL" $1000: This area, though culturally unified for thousands of years, is now politically divided between two countries Bengal |
| #6803, aired 2014-03-26 | MOUNT RUSHMORE $2000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from Mount Rushmore in South Dakota.) Amazingly, there were no fatalities & only a few minor injuries during the 14 years it took to carve Mount Rushmore, though workers were lowered from the face of the mountain in swing seats, known as these chairs boatswain chairs |
| #6780, aired 2014-02-21 | JOHNNY GILBERT PERFORMS TODAY'S HITS $1000: "I'm beginning to feel like a rap god, rap god, all my people from the front to the back nod, back nod" Eminem |
| #6763, aired 2014-01-29 | KISSING COUSINS $400: In 1951 this son of A.A. Milne opened a bookshop in Dartmouth, England with his cousin/wife Lesley Christopher Robin |
| #6748, aired 2014-01-08 | FICTIONAL WITCHES $1,000 (Daily Double): In "The Thirteenth Sacrifice", witches have returned to this city & Boston cop Samantha Ryan is hunting them Salem |
| #6719, aired 2013-11-28 | THE BARNES FOUNDATION $400: (Alex presents the clue from the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia, PA.) For "The Dance", this artist pinned paper cutouts to the canvas; now, this made it much easier to make changes to the mural, but it also gave him a working method that he used to great acclaim later in his career Matisse |
| #6706, aired 2013-11-11 | THOSE "R" THE TOP 10 HITS $2000: Jesus Jones,
1991 "Right Here, Right Now" |
| #6702, aired 2013-11-05 | THE NEW YORK TIMES THEATRE $2000: (Ben Brantley gives the clue.) A 1997 revival of this Ibsen classic made me remember why I love the theatre; the play is more than a century old but it felt like the part of Nora had only just been written, & written specifically for Janet McTeer A Doll's House |
| #6680, aired 2013-10-04 | SCIENCE $400: Similar to reflex, humans' average for this time is roughly 1/4 second & we're going to test yours... right... now ! reaction |
| #6667, aired 2013-09-17 | POTENT POTABLES $1000: (Kathie Lee and Hoda give the clue.) French scientists say the best method of pouring champagne is down the side of the glass, which preserves up to twice as much of this gas, keeping the fizz in your bubbly carbon dioxide |
| #6644, aired 2013-07-04 | ANATOMICALLY CORRECT $1000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue.) Two-word name for the part of the brain that executes voluntary muscle movement; you'll use it right now to respond frontal lobe |
| #6597, aired 2013-04-30 | THEY WERE RIGHT $200: In 1912 Alfred Wegener got it right when he proposed what's now called the Theory of Continental this Drift |
| #6470, aired 2012-11-02 | WHO'S THAT GIRL DIRECTOR? $2000: "Clueless" &
"Fast Times at Ridgemont High" Amy Heckerling |
| #6442, aired 2012-09-25 | PHOENIX $400: The Salt River Valley, home to Phoenix as well as Mesa & Tempe, is nicknamed "The Valley of" this the Sun |
| #6426, aired 2012-07-23 | SCULPTURE $2,000 (Daily Double): In 2011 the scales went missing from a statue representing this in front of Louisville's Metro Hall Justice |
| #6422, aired 2012-07-17 | SMART WORDS $600: "A word to the" this (& hopefully that's you right now): it means informed or in the know wise |
| #6401, aired 2012-06-18 | TERMS OF ENDANGERMENT $2000: Right now, you really can't avoid this word, from the Old French for "divided game"; it's all around you! jeopardy |
| #6379, aired 2012-05-17 | PAGE TURNERS $800: You presumed right if you think you're looking at this Chicago-born author of legal thrillers Scott Turow |
| #6378, aired 2012-05-16 | WASHINGTON, D.C. $400: (Alex presents the clue from the Newseum in Washington, D.C.) From the front balcony of the Newseum, we can easily see its neighbor, the embassy of this longtime U.S. ally; it's the embassy that's closest to the U.S. Capitol building Canada |
| #6370, aired 2012-05-04 | LITERARY CHARACTERS $0: Although he doesn't actually appear in "1984", his presence is everywhere--on posters, coins & telescreens Big Brother |
| #6354, aired 2012-04-12 | INTERVIEWING THE INTERVIEWER $2,000 (Daily Double): About his famous interviews with Richard Nixon, he said he felt empathy, not sympathy, for Nixon David Frost |
| #6332, aired 2012-03-13 | A RED-HOT LATIN LAWYER $800: Meaning "under the penalty", you've been served! (with this word from Latin, right now) subpoena |
| #6326, aired 2012-03-05 | SHRINKING YOUR TV $200: This Kelsey Grammer doc said, "I'm a humane man, but right now I could kick a kitten through an electric fan" Frasier Crane |
| #6286, aired 2012-01-09 | POINT THE "FINGER" $1000: Elmira Corning Regional Airport is one gateway to this scenic region the Finger Lakes |
| #6275, aired 2011-12-23 | THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION $400: This novel was a bestseller & won Pearl S. Buck a Pulitzer in 1932 The Good Earth |
| #6271, aired 2011-12-19 | CHRISTMASTIME IN NEW YORK $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents the clue from New York City.) It may not be crowded right now, but come New Year's Eve, there'll be more revelers gathered in this festive New York City location where the ball has dropped for more than 100 years Times Square |
| #6264, aired 2011-12-08 | THE ANNIE HALL OF FAME $1200: In 1991 she had her first museum exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, a rare honor for a living photographer Annie Leibovitz |
| #6227, aired 2011-10-18 | REMEMBER 2008? $200: Drydock called for this "queenly" vessel, the longest-serving ship in Cunard's history the Q.E. 2 |
| #6225, aired 2011-10-14 | THE GREATEST IN SPORTS WITH MIKE & MIKE $2000: (Mike & Mike deliver the clue.) One of the greatest coaches ever has got to be Phil Jackson; he's won 11 titles, something even Red Auerbach couldn't do
Yeah, Phil's a legend, no doubt about it, but I'll pick this college basketball wizard who won 10 men's NCAA titles from 1964 to 1975 (John) Wooden |
| #6224, aired 2011-10-13 | THE 2011 TIME 100 $2000: "Now in his second stint as Israel's prime minister, he is Bibi; as with Bono, a single name suffices" (except right now) (Benjamin) Netanyahu |
| #6208, aired 2011-09-21 | E3 $1000: This portion of the brain coordinates voluntary movements & balance the cerebellum |
| #6194, aired 2011-07-14 | NFL COACH OF THE YEAR $400: Da 1985 NFC choice was this coach of da Bears (Mike) Ditka |
| #6188, aired 2011-07-06 | WHAT WILL YOU BE WHEN YOU GROW UP? $400: I look a little fishy right now at an early stage but soon I'll grow up & become this a frog |
| #6186, aired 2011-07-04 | GEOGRAPHIC TERMS $1000: From a French word meaning "mound", it's a steep-sided, flat-topped hill like the one seen here in Wyoming a butte |
| #6170, aired 2011-06-10 | NYSE $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange.) In 1979, the New York Stock Exchange formed a new exchange for trading in these forward-looking securities; right now I can buy 33.2 ounces of gold for delivery next January futures |
| #6161, aired 2011-05-30 | CATCHING A FEW "Z"s $400: 6-letter word: go to the left, now right, back left, then right again zigzag |
| #6148, aired 2011-05-11 | RHYMES WITH COOL $600: If you're superstitious, I guess I'm supposed to do this kiss a fool |
| #6120, aired 2011-04-01 | ACTUAL FBI FILES $200: This "subject is very vulnerable right now because of her rejection by Arthur Miller and also by Joe DiMaggio" (Marilyn) Monroe |
| #6106, aired 2011-03-14 | WE ARE THE CHILDREN $1,600 (Daily Double): Of this painter: Paulo, Maya, Claude & Paloma Pablo Picasso |
| #6082, aired 2011-02-08 | DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER $800: Acquired by the House of Winston the day before Halloween, a 5.54-carat vivid orange diamond was dubbed this the Pumpkin Diamond |
| #6066, aired 2011-01-17 | NOW WE ARE SIX $200: Enacted in 1791, it guarantees the right to a trial by jury the Sixth Amendment |
| #5977, aired 2010-09-14 | THEY'RE IN HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER $800: Before playing Robin, Cobie Smulders shared the screen with Clark, Lana & Lex on this drama Smallville |
| #5963, aired 2010-07-14 | NUMBER WORD PLAY $1200: This multiple of 10 is the only number whose letters are in alphabetical order forty |
| #5946, aired 2010-06-21 | DRIVING SAFETY $600: (Alex reports from Ford Motor Company in Dearborn, MI.) Undergoing testing right now is an innovative collision warning feature that will alert drivers to an unexpected hazard; it's based on this kind of technology, a term coined in 1940 radar |
| #5932, aired 2010-06-01 | FOOD SCIENCE $1,200 (Daily Double): From the French for "sour wine", this liquid will go bad over time, so it should be stored in a cool, dark place vinegar |
| #5867, aired 2010-03-02 | MORE THAN ONE MEANING $800: 3-word phrase meaning "Stop that right now!" or "Medically excise that thing from my body" Cut it out! |
| #5866, aired 2010-03-01 | MULTIPLE DIAGNOSES $1000: The fever clearly indicates mono--oops, colitis. No, TB. Of course, this bacterial ailment aka septic sore throat strep throat |
| #5863, aired 2010-02-24 | WHEN WE WERE KINGS $800: 1973 to present, in Sweden Carl Gustaf |
| #5754, aired 2009-09-24 | GETTING SHIFT-Y WITH YOUR KEYBOARD $1000: I don't mean to be diacritical, but this mark is found above tab right now, not mañana the tilde |
| #5751, aired 2009-09-21 | THE "UNITED" NATIONS $600: Its annual population growth rate is nearly 4% the United Arab Emirates |
| #5749, aired 2009-09-17 | "E" TIMES 3 $2000: Selected some material from a larger work excerpted |
| #5735, aired 2009-07-10 | THE NIFTY 1930s $800: (Jon of the Clue Crew reports from Tavern on the Green.) Tavern on the Green opened as a restaurant in 1934; this New York City mayor opened the door with a brass key & sampled the cuisine LaGuardia |
| #5731, aired 2009-07-06 | MOONRAKER $200: For the Moon this process is the opposite of waning waxing |
| #5729, aired 2009-07-02 | COLLEGE FOOTBALL QUOTES $1000: This 1980s Notre Dame coach, now on ESPN: "On this team, we're all united in one goal--to keep my job" Lou Holtz |
| #5727, aired 2009-06-30 | ECONOMICS $1200: The cost of a fixed market basket of goods & services purchased by a household is used to calculate this, the CPI the consumer price index |
| #5707, aired 2009-06-02 | ANGRY MOMS OF FUTURE PRESIDENTS $800: The 1960s president shudders when Mom uses this full name, followed by, "Turn that chair around right now" Lyndon Baines Johnson |
| #5687, aired 2009-05-05 | LET'S GET PHYSICS-AL $3,000 (Daily Double): It's the branch of physics that deals with the relationship between heat, work, temperature & energy thermodynamics |
| #5685, aired 2009-05-01 | DA VINCI $400: By 1513 da Vinci's patron was Giuliano, a member of this powerful Florentine family the Medicis |
| #5672, aired 2009-04-14 | ALPHABETICALLY LAST LETTER $200: ...in the title of the TV show you're on right now Y |
| #5653, aired 2009-03-18 | ALSO A VEGAS CASINO $2,200 (Daily Double): It extends upwards from the tropopause to about 30 miles above the Earth the stratosphere |
| #5613, aired 2009-01-21 | SCIENTISTS AS PARENTS $400: Behave or I'll turn this car around right now! this many degrees--half a circle; don't think I won't 180 |
| #5609, aired 2009-01-15 | NIAGARA FALLS $400: (Alex reports from Niagara Falls.) There's plenty of water going over the Falls right now, but would you believe that in March 1848 for about 30 hours the Falls actually stopped flowing due to a massive upstream accumulation of this stuff ice |
| #5595, aired 2008-12-26 | THE CONSTITUTION TODAY $800: An influential 1890 article was titled "the right to" this, now seen as covered (though unnamed) by the Bill of Rights privacy |
| #5582, aired 2008-12-09 | FROM THE NECK UP $2000: (Jon of the Clue Crew shows an anatomical animation on the monitor.) High-end cognitive thought is done at the extreme anterior of the brain in this cortex; yours is probably humming right now prefrontal cortex |
| #5512, aired 2008-07-22 | I'M HUNGRY! $400: I bought a special log to grow the shiitake type of these; let's grill some right now mushrooms |
| #5510, aired 2008-07-18 | SINGLE DADS ON THE TUBE $1000: At 11:59 P.M. of the last episode of season one, this character's wife, Teri, is found dead, shot by Nina Myers Jack Bauer |
| #5498, aired 2008-07-02 | I'M WALKIN' HERE! $1200: ...& now I'm running as I'm in the Festival of San Fermin in this city, & a bull named El Terrible is right behind me Pamplona |
| #5464, aired 2008-05-15 | GET ME A SNACK! $400: Sheboygan is the "Capital of the World" for these, "brats" for short--
let's go there right now bratwursts |
| #5418, aired 2008-03-12 | THROWDOWN WITH BOBBY FLAY $2000: (Booby Flay sautés some onions.) Right now, the onions are what we call sweated. I'll keep going until they turn brown, meaning they're this caramelized |
| #5406, aired 2008-02-25 | SONG TITLES -- NOW IN GERMAN $1600: 1992:
Right Said Fred,
"Ich Bin Zu Reizvoll" "I'm Too Sexy" |
| #5387, aired 2008-01-29 | TARZAN MOVIE REVIEW $600: Tarzan build ballpark in jungle after view this 1989 Kevin Costner film; now have deep need game of catch with dad Field of Dreams |
| #5384, aired 2008-01-24 | ROCK STARS SELL OUT $800: Van Halen's "Right Now" spearheaded the campaign for this "crystal" drink in the 1990s Pepsi |
| #5380, aired 2008-01-18 | PHOTOGRAPHY $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew gets nearer, much larger.) It's the camera attachment that accounts for the way you're seeing me right now a fisheye lens |
| #5374, aired 2008-01-10 | HOW I LOOK DURING MY SUMMER VACATIONS $800: Back in 1979 I put Ms. Derek to shame with this hairstyle seen here cornrows |
| #5365, aired 2007-12-28 | ASIAN COUNTRIES $1000: The former Asian monarch seen here reigned in this country until 2004, when he turned the throne over to his son Cambodia |
| #5357, aired 2007-12-18 | DEATH SENTENCES $400: "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive" is attributed to this movie mogul Samuel Goldwyn |
| #5349, aired 2007-12-06 | "A" IN SCIENCE $2,000 (Daily Double): (Jon of the Clue Crew reports from the University of Mississippi.) Focused ultrasound waves are propelling the water here at Ole Miss's cutting-edge NCPA--National Center for Physical these Acoustics |
| #5342, aired 2007-11-27 | EXERCISE WEAR $1000: It's a French term for a one-piece swimsuit, like, say, the one Carol Alt wore on page 187 of Sports Illustrated in 1989 a maillot |
| #5299, aired 2007-09-27 | ARCHIPELAGOS $800: This Pacific island country is named for a British sea captain, not "Happy Days" producer Garry Marshall Islands |
| #5284, aired 2007-07-26 | STORY SPOILERS $1,400 (Daily Double): Sherlock Holmes discovers a cane, then a family curse. Howling is heard. The culprit drowns on the moors The Hound of the Baskervilles |
| #5235, aired 2007-05-18 | WOULD YOU MURRAY ME? $400: On film he said, "A Cinderella story outta nowhere. Former greenskeeper & now about to become... Masters champion" Bill Murray |
| #5196, aired 2007-03-26 | WORLD CAPITALS $4,000 (Daily Double): The name of this South American city translates to "fair winds" Buenos Aires |
| #5163, aired 2007-02-07 | ISLANDS $5,000 (Daily Double): This third-largest island in the world is shared by Brunei, Malaysia & Indonesia Borneo |
| #5108, aired 2006-11-22 | "RIGHT" NOW $400: On film, Brendan Fraser played this title Canadian Mountie Dudley Do-Right |
| #5108, aired 2006-11-22 | "RIGHT" NOW $800: It's the land covered by a public road or over which a power line passes a right-of-way |
| #5108, aired 2006-11-22 | "RIGHT" NOW $1200: Founded in 1978, the group called this "watch" is a smaller U.S. counterpart to Amnesty International Human Rights Watch |
| #5108, aired 2006-11-22 | "RIGHT" NOW $1600: It's a claim on property by a person who openly possesses & occupies it without legal authority squatter's rights |
| #5108, aired 2006-11-22 | "RIGHT" NOW $2000: The Supreme Court decided states must provide a lawyer to the accused in the ruling Gideon v. this person Wainwright |
| #5107, aired 2006-11-21 | HARPS & HARPERS $800: Of 7, 47 or 147, the number of strings on a modern pedal harp 47 |
| #5104, aired 2006-11-16 | THE ILIAD, MACBETH OR THE HOBBIT $600: 3 witches prophesy in a thunderstorm Macbeth |
| #5103, aired 2006-11-15 | SMITH $1600: A New York City Fire Department fireboat is named for this 1928 pres. candidate known as the "Happy Warrior" Al Smith |
| #5101, aired 2006-11-13 | NEW TABLOID DUOS $800: Stephen Colbert dubbed this acting duo Filliam H. Muffman Felicity Huffman & William H. Macy |
| #5087, aired 2006-10-24 | OCCUPATIONS $800: Trained in engineering, a ship designer is often called a naval one of these architect |
| #5087, aired 2006-10-24 | "G" FORCE $2,000 (Daily Double): Coined in 1944 by politician Maury Maverick & derived from an animal noise, it means unintelligible nonsense gobbledygook |
| #5077, aired 2006-10-10 | FREE SPEECH $4,000 (Daily Double): It can be an adjective meaning "slack" or a verb meaning "set free" loose |
| #5051, aired 2006-07-24 | COLLEGE SPORTS $800: The athletic teams from Morehead State & Boston College share this nickname the Eagles |
| #5036, aired 2006-07-03 | 3 Es FOR ME! $2000: French term for the neckline of a dress cut low in the front & often across the shoulders decolletage (or décolleté) |
| #5035, aired 2006-06-30 | PALINDROMIC WORDS $2,000 (Daily Double): An important article of religious faith a tenet |
| #5025, aired 2006-06-16 | HUMMINGBIRDS $1000: This species, which shares its name with a steam organ, is North America's smallest bird at around 2 3/4" in length the Calliope hummingbird |
| #4999, aired 2006-05-11 | WORLD CAPITALS $3,400 (Daily Double): Guyanese capital named for a Hanoverian monarch Georgetown |
| #4986, aired 2006-04-24 | BIG FISH $2,000 (Daily Double): One of these freshwater pond fish was anything but "koi" when weighing in at 75 lbs., 11oz. in France in 1987 a carp |
| #4965, aired 2006-03-24 | QUOTABLE CINEMA $200: 1939:
"I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog, too!" The Wizard of Oz |
| #4962, aired 2006-03-21 | EGGHEADS $500 (Daily Double): She went to the U. of Denver at 15 & got a Ph.D. there studying the USSR; she's now in the Cabinet Condoleezza Rice |
| #4949, aired 2006-03-02 | REMEMBERING RICKY NELSON $1000: This song heard here was Rick's last Top 40 hit, in 1972
"But it's all right now /
I've learned my lesson well /
You see, you can't please everyone..." "Garden Party" |
| #4944, aired 2006-02-23 | FOOD, DUDE $400: Right now I'm so jonesing for a batter-fried fish taco, the kind that originated on this Mexican peninsula the Baja |
| #4940, aired 2006-02-17 | LET'S LOOK TO THE STARS $3,500 (Daily Double): In 1862 Alvan Clark discovered the first White Dwarf, a companion of this star also called Alpha Canis Majoris Sirius |
| #4911, aired 2006-01-09 | TAKING THE FIFTH $200: Before he was president, Gerald Ford was a congressman from this state's Fifth District Michigan |
| #4905, aired 2005-12-30 | "SPIN" CITY $1,200 (Daily Double): Native to Asia, its species name is oleracea spinach |
| #4894, aired 2005-12-15 | THE PRICE IS RIGHT $400: This man's then record-setting 70th home run ball sold for more than $3 million; he's now retired McGwire |
| #4880, aired 2005-11-25 | DOWN TO EARTH $9,000 (Daily Double): "Cast" in the role of the fourth most abundant element in the Earth's crust, its atomic number is 26 iron |
| #4858, aired 2005-10-26 | ENDS WITH 2 VOWELS $200: It's a type of one-room apartment, or the facility you're in right now a studio |
| #4852, aired 2005-10-18 | ANNUAL EVENTS $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew holds up a lantern.) Lanterns are popular in Cairo's bazaar right now, as they're a symbol of this holy month of daylight fasting Ramadan |
| #4844, aired 2005-10-06 | PICTURES AT AN EXHIBITION $4,000 (Daily Double): Also the title of a 2003 film, it's the famous work from around 1665 seen here The Girl with a Pearl Earring |
| #4831, aired 2005-09-19 | SONNETS $7,800 (Daily Double): "When I consider how my light is spent" begins this sonnet about his loss of sight Milton |
| #4829, aired 2005-09-15 | DICKENS HEARS FROM HOLLYWOOD $2,400 (Daily Double): Uncle Ralph's OK... nice alliterative title for this... but Wackford Squeers is now Ford Sears; we get 2 product placements for 1! Nicholas Nickleby |
| #4824, aired 2005-07-21 | THE WORLD OF NAT KING COLE $1200: The two things required of you in the title of this song
"A brother took a monkey for a ride in the air /
The monkey thought that everything was on the square /
The brother tried to throw the monkey off his back /
But the monkey grabbed his neck and said, 'Now listen, Jack...'" "Straighten Up And Fly Right" |
| #4820, aired 2005-07-15 | VEGGIES' SCIENTIFIC NAMES $200: Allium cepa, & stop that crying right now! onion |
| #4814, aired 2005-07-07 | ANDREW JACKSON'S HERMITAGE $100 (Daily Double): During his last months of life, Jackson was troubled by the low price of this, the Hermitage's cash crop cotton |
| #4780, aired 2005-05-20 | PRE-DATERS $2,000 (Daily Double): The last city to host the Olympics before St. Moritz in 1948 Berlin |
| #4760, aired 2005-04-22 | THE NEW YORKERS $5,200 (Daily Double): He was the first president born in New York Martin Van Buren |
| #4722, aired 2005-03-01 | BEFORE & AFTER JOBS $2000: With little effort & big pay, this railroad man will take your ticket a gravy train conductor |
| #4714, aired 2005-02-17 | OPERA $2,000 (Daily Double): In a Wagner opera, this title knight tells Elsa he'll marry her so long as she never asks his identity Lohengrin |
| #4693, aired 2005-01-19 | BUILDING FEATURES $800: All right. See the dome, players? Now see the little "domey" thing on top of the dome? That's called this, from the Latin for tub a cupola |
| #4684, aired 2005-01-06 | NOW THAT'S INVENTIVE! $1,000 (Daily Double): In the '40s AT&T used a radio with no conventional vacuum tubes to demonstrate this device invented in its lab a transistor |
| #4654, aired 2004-11-25 | ASIA $6,200 (Daily Double): If you plan to walk from Beijing to Ulan Bator, take lots of water, as you'll be crossing this land region the Gobi Desert |
| #4653, aired 2004-11-24 | U.S. "S"ITIES $1200: You can score some points right now if you know that this city is "The Birthplace of Basketball" Springfield (Mass.) |
| #4653, aired 2004-11-24 | NAMES FROM THE GERMAN $13,200 (Daily Double): In English it means "truthful"; in German it's "Frenchman" Frank |
| #4608, aired 2004-09-22 | WIDE WORLD OF WEIRD WORDS $2000: Sigmund knows that this is from the German for "damage" & "joy" & I'm getting a certain amount of it right now schadenfreude |
| #4590, aired 2004-07-16 | THE ANATOMY OF EVEL $400: They may be the strongest & longest bones in the body but Evel snapped both of 'em in the famous leap at Caesars the femur |
| #4586, aired 2004-07-12 | SCIENCE $2000: Kelp is an especially rich source of this halogen iodine |
| #4586, aired 2004-07-12 | RANKS & TITLES $4,100 (Daily Double): London police ranks range from commissioner down to this constable |
| #4585, aired 2004-07-09 | KENNEDY FAMILY MEMBERS $6,400 (Daily Double): Lost the 1980 Democratic presidential nomination to Jimmy Carter Ted Kennedy |
| #4583, aired 2004-07-07 | MEXICAN FOOD & DRINK $1000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew has seconds at Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico.) One of my favorite Mexican dishes is this one--raw seafood marinated in lime juice, garnished with onions & tomatoes ceviche |
| #4582, aired 2004-07-06 | PEARLS OF WISDOM $5,000 (Daily Double): A 17th century writer:
"Angling can be said to be so like the mathematics, that it can never be fully learnt" Izaak Walton |
| #4575, aired 2004-06-25 | EARLY 19th CENTURY AMERICA $5,100 (Daily Double): On March 1, 1803 it became the first state created out of the Northwest Territory Ohio |
| #4569, aired 2004-06-17 | JEOPARDY! OF FORTUNE $600: The Oracle of Omaha Warren Buffett |
| #4566, aired 2004-06-14 | HITHER & YON $400: Both in size & population it's by far the largest city in Iraq Baghdad |
| #4560, aired 2004-06-04 | MY DEER $2,800 (Daily Double): When running, this deer species seen here shows off the feature for which it is named a white-tail (deer) |
| #4551, aired 2004-05-24 | GET YOUR PHIL $400: Now a coach, he was nicknamed "the Mop" for diving after loose balls during 13 seasons in the NBA Phil Jackson |
| #4534, aired 2004-04-29 | GONNA "FLY" NOW $400: Proverbially, "Straighten up" & do this fly right |
| #4514, aired 2004-04-01 | HOT SPOTS $1,600 (Daily Double): On December 27, 1978 this spot on Earth reached a balmy record high of 7.5 degrees the South Pole |
| #4514, aired 2004-04-01 | THEY REALLY SAID IT $1600: This 30th president noted, "When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results" (Calvin) Coolidge |
| #4485, aired 2004-02-20 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $2,006 (Daily Double): At noon on April 22, 1889 settlers rushed to claim land in this new territory: many entered "sooner" than noon Oklahoma |
| #4476, aired 2004-02-09 | BORN IN THE 20th CENTURY $2000: Old Mrs. Kerfuffle looks good for someone born in this year in which Pres. Wilson signed the Treaty of Versailles 1919 |
| #4418, aired 2003-11-19 | SPEECH! $200: Speaking at an 1848 convention, Elizabeth Cady Stanton said, "We now demand our right to" do this vote |
| #4367, aired 2003-09-09 | GRAPHICS $2000: One paragraph seen here is right ragged, the other is right this, also called aligned & flush justified |
| #4328, aired 2003-05-28 | FORMER TECHNOLOGY $4,000 (Daily Double): (Sofia of the Clue Crew stands in front of the ship Santa Maria in Columbus, Ohio.) Columbus used this instrument superseded by the sextant to measure the positions of stars an astrolabe |
| #4296, aired 2003-04-14 | WHAT COULD SHE BE DOING IN THERE? $1000: Using this Jergens brand's strips to clean out her pores -- I wouldn't go in right now Bioré |
| #4254, aired 2003-02-13 | OFFICIAL STATE THINGS $3,200 (Daily Double): The juice of this bog fruit is Massachusetts' state beverage cranberry |
| #4231, aired 2003-01-13 | 30 YEARS' WAR CALL-IN $600: (Alex: Well, on the line right now is General Albrecht von Wallenstein) Hey, King Christian IV of this Scandinavian country give me your best shot, pal. You got nothing! Denmark |
| #4230, aired 2003-01-10 | I'M SUPERSTITIOUS! $1000: One well-known superstition is that it's bad luck to walk under one of these a ladder |
| #4226, aired 2003-01-06 | VOCABULARY TEST $400: Originally a farmer who lived nearby, now it's any nearby resident, especially one right next door neighbor |
| #4183, aired 2002-11-06 | ____ OF THE ____ $200: A Baskin-Robbins program, or an expression meaning "popular for right now" flavor of the month |
| #4171, aired 2002-10-21 | "UR" RIGHT $1200: This American author's first book, "Battle Cry", was drawn from his World War II experiences Leon Uris |
| #4163, aired 2002-10-09 | THE WEST COAST $800: Capt. Vancouver thought this friend's name "sound"ed just right for a region in what's now Washington Peter Puget |
| #4121, aired 2002-07-01 | WILD WEST TALK $600: Borrowed from Spanish, this word means "right now, quickly"; it can follow "vamoose" pronto |
| #4092, aired 2002-05-21 | NOW, YOU TELL ME $2000: This "national" figure, who retired in 2001 as NOW's president, says, "The right to safety should be fundamental" Patricia Ireland |
| #4087, aired 2002-05-14 | THEY'VE BEEN BENCHED $5,200 (Daily Double): He resigned from the Supreme Court in 1916 to run for president & was reappointed in 1930 as chief justice Charles Evans Hughes |
| #4081, aired 2002-05-06 | YOU'VE GOT A "TUDE", MISTER $400: Yours right now is approximately 74 degrees west longitude |
| #4080, aired 2002-05-03 | KING ME! $3,000 (Daily Double): He was deposed by the Bavarian government in 1886; must've made him really "Mad" Ludwig II |
| #4046, aired 2002-03-18 | TV THEME SONGS $800: "Now the world don't move to the beat of just one drum, what might be right for you may not be right for some" Diff'rent Strokes |
| #4039, aired 2002-03-07 | THE CLINTON YEARS $2000: (Former President Clinton wraps things up for us.) This program providing financial aid for education was created with the 1993 signing of the National & Community Service Trust Act Ameri-Corps |
| #3999, aired 2002-01-10 | ALICE IN WONDERLAND $800: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew at the Alice statue in Central Park.) It was this worm-like creature who told Alice
that eating a mushroom would make her taller or shorter Caterpillar |
| #3997, aired 2002-01-08 | THE BARBARY WARS $6,800 (Daily Double): He lost his ship the Philadelphia & his brother James, but was still a hero right or wrong Stephen Decatur |
| #3993, aired 2002-01-02 | BEFORE, AFTER $900 (Daily Double): They're the 2 different names of this city before & after the events seen here Saigon & Ho Chi Minh City |
| #3988, aired 2001-12-26 | UNREAL ESTATE $800: In a classic poem, the Owl and this creature sail off to the land where the bong-tree grows Pussycat |
| #3983, aired 2001-12-19 | REMEMBER THE '60s? $1,000 (Daily Double): Hundreds died in a student protest in Mexico City on Oct. 2, 1968, 10 days before these opened Summer Olympics |
| #3961, aired 2001-11-19 | "I" OPENERS $400: Alanis Morissette says "It's like rain on your wedding day... a free ride when you've already paid", "Isn't it" this? ironic |
| #3952, aired 2001-11-06 | ALONG CAME A SPIDER $100: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from a laboratory.) The Mexican red knee variety of this type of spider is crawling on my hand right now tarantula |
| #3950, aired 2001-11-02 | NOBEL LAUREATES SPEAK $400: (Hi, I'm Rudy Marcus, Nobel Prize winner in chemistry.) Ferrous sulfide is produced when these 2 elements are heated together iron & sulphur |
| #3944, aired 2001-10-25 | FIRST LADIES $500: Largely an invalid, Eliza, wife of this "Tennessee Tailor", made only 2 public appearances as first lady Andrew Johnson |
| #3930, aired 2001-10-05 | FRENCH ART & ARTISTS $600: (The entire Clue Crew lounges about on the grass, picnic-style, with Cheryl reading.) It's what we're having right now, or the title of a scandalous 1863 Manet painting Luncheon on the Grass |
| #3916, aired 2001-09-17 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $400: This firm began in 1897 as Nippon Gakki Company, an organ manufacturer; electronic organs came along in 1959 Yamaha |
| #3893, aired 2001-07-04 | WORD PUZZLES $500: It's the clothing article I have on right now:
WEAR
POLKA DOT polka dot(ted) underwear |
| #3847, aired 2001-05-01 | MANIA MANIA! $400: If you're thinking about setting the stage on fire right now, you have this "mania" (& please don't) pyromania |
| #3750, aired 2000-12-15 | WHOSE LINE IS IT ANYWAY? $200: (Hi, I'm Wayne Brady of Whose Line Is It Anyway?) This comedian reportedly uttered the now classic line, "Anyone who hates children and dogs can't be all bad" W.C. Fields |
| #3746, aired 2000-12-11 | ISN'T IT BYRONIC? $1000: Byron first came to fame with a poem about this young noble's "Pilgrimage" Childe Harold |
| #3738, aired 2000-11-29 | SINGERS' AUTOBIOGRAPHIES $800 (Daily Double): "I Used to be an Animal, but I'm All Right Now" Eric Burdon (who was in The Animals) |
| #3699, aired 2000-10-05 | SECONDS, PLEASE $400: This group's second CD was a holiday special, 1998's "Home for Christmas" 'N Sync |
| #3661, aired 2000-07-03 | DOCUMENTARIES $1000: Wim Wenders directed this acclaimed 1999 film about legendary Cuban musicians The Buena Vista Social Club |
| #3634, aired 2000-05-25 | SIMON SAYS $200: In a '70s song:
"...She kissed me and I realized she probably was right, there must be 50 ways to leave your lover" Paul Simon |
| #3494, aired 1999-11-11 | A "MAN"LY CATEGORY $200: It's the island we're all standing on right now Manhattan |
| #3431, aired 1999-07-05 | SCULPTURE $100: This statue discovered in the Cyclades Islands in 1820 may have held her garment in her now lost right hand Venus de Milo |
| #3361, aired 1999-03-29 | LIQUOR BY LABEL $300: Bombay,
Beefeater,
Tanqueray gin |
| #3300, aired 1999-01-01 | CLIP ART $200: If she were real, it's the material you'd be now stone |
| #3288, aired 1998-12-16 | FUNNY WESTERNS $200: Chevy Chase, Steve Martin & Martin Short played reluctant Western heroes in this 1986 film The Three Amigos |
| #3285, aired 1998-12-11 | TV THEME SONGS $500: "When it looks like you will take a lickin'... just callllll for" him Super Chicken |
| #3273, aired 1998-11-25 | THOMAS PAINE $400: In this pamphlet, he wrote, "The birthday of a new world is at hand" Common Sense |
| #1, aired 1998-05-03 | ROOMIES $1,600 (Daily Double): (Vivian and Marian, the San Francisco Twins, deliver the clue in person and in unison.) These co-stars & co-writers of "Good Will Hunting" were co-renters of a place in L.A. Ben Affleck & Matt Damon |
| #3094, aired 1998-01-29 | NEW JERSEYITES $1,200 (Daily Double): Pair seen here, they were both born in New Jersey
"All right, you take Joan and I'll take Sandra."
"Oh, Sandra sends me."
"Well then I'll take Joan!"
"Joan sends me too."
"Now listen, you... I'm going to send you!"
"Sorry, you don't even appeal to me." Abbott & Costello |
| #3064, aired 1997-12-18 | BARNYARD ANIMALS $500: Around the world this animal sounds different: "K' ok' iyo" in Korean & "Goh-geh-goh-goh" in Chinese rooster |
| #3043, aired 1997-11-19 | POLITICAL QUOTES $1,800 (Daily Double): Famous politician heard here on Sept. 23, 1952:
"The kids, like all kids, love the dog and I just want to say this right now that regardless of what they say about it, we're going to keep him..." Richard Nixon |
| #3034, aired 1997-11-06 | it's microscopic $600 (Daily Double): People who are allergic to dust are actually more allergic to this arachnid, seen here: a dust mite |
| #2815, aired 1996-11-22 | ANATOMY $200: 2 muscles, the brachialis & this one, allow you to bend your arm at the elbow the biceps |
| #2751, aired 1996-07-15 | COMPANY SYMBOLS $200: McDonald's are "golden" the Arches |
| #2525, aired 1995-07-21 | U.S. OLYMPIC HALL OF FAME $200: The first boxer inducted, he won the gold in 1960 under a different name than he uses now Cassius Clay (Muhammad Ali) |
| #2512, aired 1995-07-04 | FAMOUS TEXANS $200: This San Antonio resident helps out America's homemakers with lots of "Hints" Heloise |
| #2347, aired 1994-11-15 | NOTABLE NAMES $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1951, this American biologist went to Cambridge, where his life became intwined with Francis Crick's James D. Watson |
| #2344, aired 1994-11-10 | 5-LETTER WORDS $200: It's the sharp sound of a whip or thunder crack |
| #2274, aired 1994-06-23 | SPANISH WORDS & PHRASES $500: No tengo nada que declarar, a phrase often heard at the customs office, means this I have nothing to declare |
| #2146, aired 1993-12-27 | SAINTS $2,000 (Daily Double): Murdered in 1170, he was canonized in 1173 Thomas a Becket |
| #2023, aired 1993-05-26 | GODS & GODDESSES $100: Hermes was also known for conducting souls to this wretched place Hades |
| #2019, aired 1993-05-20 | MEN OF LETTER $3,000 (Daily Double): His rescue of 2 EDS employees from a prison in Iran was the subject of Ken Follett's "On Wings of Eagles" H. Ross Perot |
| #2015, aired 1993-05-14 | POP & ROCK MUSIC $2,000 (Daily Double): This group won 3 1992 Billboard Music Awards for the single heard here Boyz II Men |
| #1984, aired 1993-04-01 | GENERAL SCIENCE $400: About 70% of this pungent gas produced is converted into fertilizer ammonia |
| #1886, aired 1992-11-16 | ANAGRAMS $300: Soon after I'd risen, I heard the wailing of this siren (risen) |
| #1857, aired 1992-10-06 | OLD TESTAMENT $1000: After the death of Moses, this son of Nun became leader of the Israelites Joshua |
| #1839, aired 1992-09-10 | DRAMA $500: In 1989 actress Pauline Collins won Olivier & Tony awards for this one-woman show "Shirley Valentine" |
| #1784, aired 1992-05-07 | MONEY MATTERS $300: Used to finance a home, it's a legal document pledging property as security for a debt mortgage |
| #1775, aired 1992-04-24 | ARTISTS $1,500 (Daily Double): His "Allegory of Spring" & "The Birth of Venus" were painted for Lorenzo de Medici's villa Botticelli |
| #1774, aired 1992-04-23 | WORLD HISTORY $300: The Great Leap Forward refers to the radical policies pursued in this country from 1958-1960 China |
| #1681, aired 1991-12-16 | BALLERINAS $300: Antoinetta Dell'era was the 1st ballerina to play the role of this fairy in "The Nutcracker", in 1892 the Sugarplum Fairy |
| #1634, aired 1991-10-10 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $100: If you can tell me what "gelt" means in Yiddish, you'll earn some right now money |
| #1617, aired 1991-09-17 | CLOTHING $2,400 (Daily Double): A cloth worn under the chin & a piece of lace worn around the neck & shoulders form this phrase bib and tucker |
| #1615, aired 1991-09-13 | THE CIVIL WAR $200: It broke away from Virginia over the issue of secession in 1861 & became the 35th state in 1863 West Virginia |
| #1615, aired 1991-09-13 | SEASONAL QUOTES $1,500 (Daily Double): Title character who mentions winter & summer in the first lines of Shakespeare's play about him Richard III |
| #1612, aired 1991-09-10 | QUOTABLE QUOTES $1000: Tennyson wrote "Man is the hunter;" this "is his game" woman |
| #1581, aired 1991-06-17 | USA $300: Southwest Airlines now has 3 planes painted to look like this SeaWorld star Shamu |
| #1517, aired 1991-03-19 | SINGERS $500 (Daily Double): Discovered by Burt Bacharach, this singer had her first hit with the following:
"Don't make me over / Now that I'd do anything for you / Don't make me over / Now that you know how I adore you" Dionne Warwick |
| #1458, aired 1990-12-26 | NUMBER, PLEASE $300 (Daily Double): Number of the Beethoven symphony heard here the 9th |
| #1375, aired 1990-07-20 | MYTHOLOGY $2,800 (Daily Double): Orion's father, he gave his son the power to walk on the sea Poseidon |
| #5, aired 1990-07-14 | COMMUNICATIONS $1500: U Thant spoke to the U.N. general assembly in English, although this was his native tongue Burmese |
| #1309, aired 1990-04-19 | UTAH $500: The state's largest ski area, Park City, is on the eastern slopes of this range of the Rockies Wasatch |
| #1217, aired 1989-12-12 | FROM THE TOP $100: "Well, it's one for the money two for the show / Three to get ready now go, cat, go / But don't you..." "Blue Suede Shoes" |
| #1169, aired 1989-10-05 | SCULPTURE $200: You probably have one or more of these examples of bas-relief in your pocket or purse right now coins |
| #1150, aired 1989-09-08 | HERE'S "JOHNNY" $100: This former nightclub singer is the announcer on "Jeopardy!" Johnny Gilbert |
| #1147, aired 1989-09-05 | CARS $100: In 1973 this motorcycle manufacturer created a splash in the U.S. with the Civic car Honda |
| #1103, aired 1989-05-24 | ADDRESSES $200: At night you'll have no trouble spotting this stadium at 1060 W. Addison St., Chicago--it's now lighted Wrigley Field |
| #1090, aired 1989-05-05 | MEDICINE $200: A sharp pain in your temple, blurred vision & nausea are all symptoms of this type of severe headache migraine |
| #1087, aired 1989-05-02 | 1986 $500: In a TV ad, this late actor said, "Now that I'm gone, I tell you: don't smoke..." Yul Brynner |
| #1050, aired 1989-03-10 | IN THE OCEAN $800 (Daily Double): Related to the pipe fish, its head is at a right angle to its body & it has a prehensile tail the seahorse |
| #1035, aired 1989-02-17 | NATIONAL PARKS $200: Lake Windermere, this country's largest lake, is located in its Lake District National Park England |
| #1031, aired 1989-02-13 | INTERNATIONAL SINGERS $500 (Daily Double): Country from which the singer of the following hot hit of '88 hails:
"Everybody's doing a brand-new dance, now / (Come on baby, do the Loco-motion)..." Australia |
| #992, aired 1988-12-20 | ADS & COMMERCIALS $100: At one time the only choice, this communications company now says it's "The right choice" AT&T |
| #990, aired 1988-12-16 | FAMOUS COUSINS $800 (Daily Double): In 1894, shortly after ascending the throne, he married his distant cousin, a German princess named Alix Czar Nicholas II |
| #917, aired 1988-09-06 | POTENT POTABLES $500: American Brands makes Sunshine cookies, Jergens lotion & this biggest selling bourbon Jim Beam |
| #840, aired 1988-04-08 | TRANSPORTATION $500 (Daily Double): 1 of 2 cars mentioned in the following 1958 hit by The Playmates:
"Beep beep, beep beep /
His horn went beep beep beep..." Little Nash Rambler (or Cadillac) |
| #839, aired 1988-04-07 | COLONIAL AMERICA $10,000 (Daily Double): Rather than towns & villages, early Maryland settlers built these medieval estates manors |
| #819, aired 1988-03-10 | "T" TIME $200: A "tercentenary" celebrates this anniversary the 300th (year) |
| #770, aired 1988-01-01 | BALLET CHARACTERS $600: At the end of 1 version of this ballet, he sets off with Sancho, but in another he just dies Don Quixote |
| #770, aired 1988-01-01 | LITERATURE $1000: A chance meeting in 1794 led to a strong friendship between Schiller & this German literary giant (Johann Wolfgang von) Goethe |
| #769, aired 1987-12-31 | TELEVISION $400: Initially, this "Outlaw Singer" narrated "The Dukes of Hazzard" Waylon Jennings |
| #725, aired 1987-10-30 | MEDICINE $200: On a hospital P.A. system, "stat" means this in a hurry |
| #714, aired 1987-10-15 | POE-POURRI $600: Young Edgar's foster family, they're reflected in his name the Allans |
| #641, aired 1987-05-25 | 2-LETTER WORDS $200: Direction in which you'd have to look right now to see a catwalk up |
| #637, aired 1987-05-19 | OSCAR-LOSING SONGS $500 (Daily Double): Celestial songs losing '36 Oscars included "A Melody from the Sky", "When Did You Leave Heaven" & this: [Piano instrumental plays] "Pennies from Heaven" |
| #635, aired 1987-05-15 | QUOTES $100: Lauren Bacall said "He cried at every one of his own weddings--& with good reason" Humphrey Bogart |
| #621, aired 1987-04-27 | TRANSPORTATION $400 (Daily Double): Group which topped the country charts with the following song about a truck driver:
[Truck noises]
"Roll on, highway /
Roll on along /
Roll on, Daddy, 'til you get back home /
Roll on family /
Roll on crew /
Roll on, Mama, like I asked you to do /
And roll on eighteen wheeler, roll on /
(Roll on!)..." Alabama |
| #610, aired 1987-04-10 | CATS $500 (Daily Double): 2 of the 9 long-haired cat breeds now commonly recognized in the U.S. Persian, Himalayan, Birman, Balinese, Somali, Angora, Maine Coon, Cymric, Norwegian Forest |
| #561, aired 1987-02-02 | FORMER CAPITALS $500: In 1812, this state's capital was moved from Lancaster to its present site Pennsylvania |
| #533, aired 1986-12-24 | FROGS $900 (Daily Double): Name of the frog mentioned in this song:
If I were the king of the world
Tell you what I'd do
I'd throw away the cars and the bars and the war
Make sweet love to you
Sing it now
Joy to the world
All the boys and girls... Jeremiah the bullfrog |
| #530, aired 1986-12-19 | BOWLING $200: "Bedposts" is a term for this dreaded split 7-10 |
| #492, aired 1986-10-28 | ODD COUPLES $100: Chet Huntley's former partner & Billy Joel's present one David Brinkley & Christie Brinkley |
| #480, aired 1986-10-10 | TV ANIMALS $400: Howdy Doody show pet who was a combination of 8 animals Flub-A-Dub |
| #476, aired 1986-10-06 | TRANSPORTATION $400: Walter O'Malley had this stadium designed so you could park right behind your club-level seats Dodger Stadium |
| #425, aired 1986-04-25 | "CON"s $200: When Uncle Sam wants you, whether you want him or not conscription |
| #381, aired 1986-02-24 | MARXISMS $100: Groucho said he wouldn't belong to any club that would allow this having me as a member |
| #367, aired 1986-02-04 | WHAT'S "UP" DOC $400: The 20th letter of the Greek alphabet upsilon |
| #363, aired 1986-01-29 | PHYSICAL SCIENCE $1000: The science of forces which produce or change Earth's physical features geophysics |
| #352, aired 1986-01-14 | MOVIE LAST LINES $400: In ceremony ending this musical, the minister says, "I now pronounce you men & wives" Seven Brides for Seven Brothers |
| #346, aired 1986-01-06 | PERRY COMO $500 (Daily Double): In 1973, Perry had a hit with this song:
"And, yes, I know how lonely life can be. / The shadows follow me, / And the night won't set me free" "And I Love You So" |
| #343, aired 1986-01-01 | SPORTS $1000: In 1953, Tenley Albright became the 1st U.S. woman to win a world title in this figure skating |
| #336, aired 1985-12-23 | HODGEPODGE $200: His "War of the Worlds" broadcast, Sept. 30, 1938 had half of N.J. fleeing the Martians Orson Welles |
| #324, aired 1985-12-05 | THE PLANETS $400: Only for a 20-year period every 248 years is this planet closer to the Sun than Neptune Pluto |
| #316, aired 1985-11-25 | GWTW $200: Her father, president of the Atlanta Historical Society, checked her background material Margaret Mitchell |
| #304, aired 1985-11-07 | PEOPLE $200: At 14 his magic show paid him $3, now he makes millions on "Tonight" Johnny Carson |
| #289, aired 1985-10-17 | LAST LINES $100: Jules Verne classic that closes, "Only 2 men now... have the right to answer: Captain Nemo & myself" 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea |
| #266, aired 1985-09-16 | AUTOMOBILES $200: Yep. He & Clark Gable bought the only 2 SSJ Duesenbergs sold Gary Cooper |
| #262, aired 1985-09-10 | UTILITIES $100: Both the U.S. & Canada draw electricity by harnessing this natural wonder on their border Niagara Falls |
| #262, aired 1985-09-10 | HAMLET $500: He advises his son Laertes, "Neither a borrower nor a lender be" Polonius |
| #193, aired 1985-06-05 | GAME SHOWS $300: Original host of "The Price is Right", he now hosts "The Joker's Wild" Bill Cullen |
| #182, aired 1985-05-21 | FRANCE $300: Motto of the revolution, it's now the national motto Liberté, égalité, fraternité (liberty, equality & fraternity) |
| #165, aired 1985-04-26 | HISTORY $200: East Jerusalem was part of this country from 1948-67 Jordan |
| #142, aired 1985-03-26 | AMERICAN INDIANS $400: Algonquin tribe for whom New York City’s central island is named Manhattan |
| #101, aired 1985-01-28 | GREECE $100: Central hill of ancient Athens, it survived many wars but is now endangered by smog the Acropolis |
| #72, aired 1984-12-18 | ANIMALS $200: Specifically, the only cat with a mane a male lion |
| #54, aired 1984-11-22 | WORLD WAR II $200: Second A-bomb used in the war used on this city Nagasaki |
| #45, aired 1984-11-09 | MIDWEST CITIES $500 (Daily Double): State capital, its name is a combination of the state name & the Greek name for “city” Indianapolis |
| #43, aired 1984-11-07 | DEMOCRATS $1000: Former bartender & UN ambassador, now New York senator Daniel Moynihan |
| #30, aired 1984-10-19 | BRITISH ROYALTY $100: Title for husband of a reigning queen; Prince Philip is one a consort |
| #25, aired 1984-10-12 | DESSERTS $100: Thin French pancakes sometimes served “Suzette” style crêpes |
| #15, aired 1984-09-28 | U.S. HISTORY $1,200 (Daily Double): Episode in history this song is associated with:
"Once I built a railroad, I made it run /
Made it race against time..." the Great Depression |
| #10, aired 1984-09-21 | TOURIST TRAPS $400: Seaside resort that has a monopoly on East Coast gambling Atlantic City, New Jersey |
| #8, aired 1984-09-19 | U.S. MAYORS $1000: Former New York mayor has run for office as Republican, Liberal, independent & is now a Democrat John Lindsay |
| #6, aired 1984-09-17 | WORD ORIGINS $400: This Australian animal's name literally means "I don't know" kangaroo |
| #4, aired 1984-09-13 | ANATOMY $3,500 (Daily Double): Prominent zygomatic bones, considered an attractive facial feature cheek bones |
| #2, aired 1984-01-01 | U.S. LANDMARKS $50: It scrapes the sky at 5th Avenue & 34th Street, New York City the Empire State Building |
| #2, aired 1984-01-01 | MOVIES $750 (Daily Double): Best Picture of '42, it featured the following: Casablanca |
| #1, aired 1983-09-18 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $100: The only country in Europe barred to American tourists Albania |
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"He was a 2002 Teen Champion. He's now a sophomore at...
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India Cooper, an actor and copy editor from New York City, New York
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\"A semifinalist in the Tournament of Champions in 1992, now an...
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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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Eric Newhouse, a director of technical assistance from Vermillion, South Dakota
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"He won both the 1989 Teen Tournament and the 1998 Teen...
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Bob Harris, an author, comedian, and radio commentator from Los Angeles, California
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"A 5-time champion and a finalist in the Tournament of Champions,...
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Rachael Schwartz, a lawyer with an international law firm from Washington, D.C.
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"In 1994, she became the first woman ever to win the...
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Frank Spangenberg, a lieutenant in the New York Police Department from Douglaston, New York
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"He still holds the record for the most money won in...
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Brad Rutter, a network administrator from Lancaster, Pennsylvania
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"The reigning Tournament of Champions winner, he attended Johns Hopkins University...
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Claudia Perry, a sports copy editor from Jersey City, New Jersey
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"A pop music critic when she first appeared on Jeopardy!, she's...
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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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Aisha Tyler, an actress, comedian, author and reality-show host from Archer
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"In addition to film and TV roles, she performs comedy at...
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Kate Waits, a law professor at the University of Tulsa from Tulsa, Oklahoma
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"A Harvard Law graduate when she competed in the 1988 Tournament...
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Jove Graham, a biomedical engineer from Lewisburg, Pennsylvania
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Season 26 1-time champion: $34,401 + $1,000. Jove's second contestant interview...
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Liz Murphy, a foreign service officer originally from Scranton, Pennsylvania
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2010 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 25 5-time champion: $121,302...
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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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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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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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Aaron Wicks, a planning and evaluation manager from Rochester, New York
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Season 26 1-time champion: $18,001 + 1,000. Aaron Wicks Rochester, NY...
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Sanders Kleinfeld, a publishing technology specialist from Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Season 25 1-time champion: $26,597 + $2,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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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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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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Dylan Smith, from the Bronx, New York
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"This honor roll student wants to invent a teleporting system. From...
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Jesse Cuevas, a corporate lawyer originally from Leawood, Kansas
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Season 27 3-time champion: $65,981 + $2,000. Brother of Season 30...
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Aisha Tyler, a comedienne, host and actress from Talk Soup, Friends, The 5th Wheel and Ghost Whisperer
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2009 Celebrity Jeopardy! winner: $50,000 split between the International Rescue Committee/Congo...
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Tom Nissley, an online books editor from Seattle, Washington
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2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2011 Tournament of Champions...
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David Walter, a senior from Wilmington, Delaware
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2007 Teen Tournament winner (semifinalist by wildcard): $75,000. 17 at the...
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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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Max Johansen, a senior from the University of Miami
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"As a seventh grader, he was planning on a career in...
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Jonathan Hawley, a sophomore from Harvard University
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2008 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 19 and from Oceanside, CA at...
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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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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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Ellen Kimmel, a school nurse from Nanuet, New York
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Season 27 2-time champion: $37,000 + $1,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: SkoolRN
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Amanda J. Ray, a sophomore at the University of Virginia from Harrisonburg, Virginia
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2010-B College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
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Brooks Humphreys, a high school social studies teacher from Omaha, Nebraska
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"He teaches at an all-girls Catholic school operated by the Sisters...
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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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Andrew Ceppos, a senior from Tufts University
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2009 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 21 and from Verona, New...
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Danielle Zsenak, a senior from Marquette University
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2008 College Championship 1st runner-up: $50,000. Last name pronounced like "zshen-NOCK"....
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Anurag Kashyap, a senior from Poway, California
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2008-B Teen Tournament winner: $75,000. Anurag was also the winner of...
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John Krizel, a writer originally from Oceanside, New York
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2011 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $105,204...
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Cathy Lanctot, a law professor from Wilmington, Delaware
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2007 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
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Antonia Wang, a sophomore at Purdue University from Carmel, Indiana
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2005 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
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Paul Kursky, a copywriter from San Francisco, California
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2011 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 5-time champion: $109,411...
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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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Robbie Berg, a freshman from the University of Pennsylvania
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2010-A College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. Hometown: Davie, Florida. Robbie Berg Blog...
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Neil Patrick Harris, an actor from How I Met Your Mother
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"He's appeared on Broadway in Proof, Assassins, and Cabaret. He's now...
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Cliff Galiher, a sophomore from UCLA
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2007 Tournament of Champions 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $50,000 +...
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Carl Bradshaw, a financial manager from St. Louis, Missouri
|
Season 27 2-time champion: $17,899 + $2,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: Titmouse
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Kyle Kahan, a senior from Texas A&M University from Houston, Texas
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2010-B College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000 + a Nintendo Wii +...
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Jane Kaczmarek, a TV, film and Broadway actress from Malcolm in the Middle and Raising the Bar
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"She went from playing a hard-nosed mom in Malcolm in the...
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Peter Severson, a senior from Sioux Falls, South Dakota
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2005 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time of the...
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Jonathan Groff, a writer and producer for television from Los Angeles, California
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\"A 5-show winner in 1995, he\'s now a writer and producer...
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Catherine Briley, a senior from Grand Prairie, Louisiana
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2012 Teen Tournament 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $31,000. 17 at...
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Andrew Westney, a sports business writer from Charlotte, North Carolina
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"He was a high-school student from Atlanta when he won the...
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James Hill III, a freshman from Santa Clara University
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2010-A College championship semifinalist: $10,000. Hometown: San Jose, California. [No contestant...
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Charlie Penrod, an assistant professor of law from Natchitoches, Louisiana
|
Season 27 1-time champion: $17,000 + $2,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: CharlieP
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Tim Relihan, a senior from the University of Nebraska from Stromsburg, Nebraska
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2010-B College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
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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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Veronica Fazio, from Roselle, Illinois
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"She dances, plays softball, and hangs with her friends, but wants...
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Eddie Timanus, a sports reporter from Arlington, Virginia
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"A 5-time champion, he went on to become a semifinalist in...
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Robin Carroll, an instructional designer from Marietta, Georgia
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"Winner of both the 2000 Tournament of Champions and the 2001...
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Cheech Marin, an actor, comedian, director, writer and musician from Lost
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"He's played a cop on Nash Bridges, voiced a 1959 Chevy...
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Julie Bowen, a TV and film actress from Boston Legal, Lost and Modern Family
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"For two seasons, she played attorney Denise Bauer in Boston Legal....
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Joely Fisher, an actress from 'Til Death
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"She made her Broadway debut in Grease, and earned rave reviews...
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Steve Golden, a junior from Brookeville, Maryland
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2005 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $5,000. 16 at the time of the...
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Whitney Prince, a sophomore from Maryville, Tennessee
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2005 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500.
15 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Bill Hammon, a video editor and freelance writer from Bristol, Connecticut
|
Season 30 player (2014-01-27).
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Pam Mueller, an entering law student originally from Chicago, Illinois
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\"Representing Loyola University, she won the College Championship in November, 2000....
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Tyler Benedict, a junior at Columbia University from Dayton, Ohio
|
2012 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000.
21 at the time of the College Championship.
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Anderson Cooper, a news anchor and correspondent from CNN
|
"He anchors his own prime-time news show, a syndicated daytime talk...
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Kevin Yang, a junior from Birmingham, Alabama
|
2012 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000.
16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Tavis Smiley, a talk show host from PBS's The Tavis Smiley Show
|
"He's interviewed such diverse personalities as Fidel Castro, Pope John Paul...
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Ben Schenkel, a junior from Allentown, Pennsylvania
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2007 Teen Tournament 1st runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $42,800. 17 at...
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Will Casper, a senior from Basin City, Washington
|
2008-A Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 17 at the time of...
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Bernard Holloway, a junior from Mitchellville, Maryland
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2002 Teen...
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Ryan Ballengee, a senior from Pasadena, Maryland
|
2001 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $5,000.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Erin Bogart, a junior at Miami University of Ohio from Cincinnati, Ohio
|
2001 College Championship quarterfinalist: $2,500. Erin was 20 at the time...
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Sita Yerramsetti, an eleven-year-old from Houston, Texas
|
"Her heart is set on becoming a cardiac surgeon. From Houston,...
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Beth Cimini, a junior at Boston University from East Longmeadow, Massachusetts
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2005 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: BrightStars1212
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Steve Robin, a writer and producer from Miami, Florida
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"He finished second place in the 1991 Tournament of Champions. He's...
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David Traini, a high school administrator from Moorestown, New Jersey
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"This 5-time champ finished second in the 1987 Tournament of Champions....
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Seth Alcorn, a bookstore supervisor from Alexandria, Virginia
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2004 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
Season 19 3-time champion: $106,400 + $1,000.
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Scott Harris, a videographer and elementary school librarian from Las Vegas, Nevada
|
Season 27 1-time champion: $19,201 + $2,000. Scott won $30,000 on...
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Wolf Blitzer, a journalist from The Situation Room
|
"Since 1990, he's covered every major story for CNN, including the...
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Genaro Lopez, a contract administrator from Portland, Oregon
|
Season 27 1-time champion: $29,001 + $2,000.
First name pronounced like "heh-NAR-o".
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Keith Williams, a freshman at Middlebury College from Manchester, Vermont
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2004 Tournament...
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Paul Glaser, a research scientist from Albany, New York
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2007 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
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Elijah Granet, a 12-year-old from San Diego, California
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"Because he loves animals, biology, and helping others, he's thinking of...
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Liz Maziarz, an English professor and mom from Seattle, Washington
|
Season 27 1-time champion: $18,400 + $2,000.
Last name pronounced like "MAY-zee-ar".
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Bob Kennedy, a college linguistics instructor from Santa Barbara, California
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Season 27 2-time champion: $33,800 + $1,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: Bobk
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George Tsuji, a software engineer from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Season 27 1-time champion: $20,000 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
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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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Dianisbeth Acquie, from Brooklyn, New York
|
"This ballet, jazz, and tap dancing Girl Scout would like to...
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Craig Boge, a senior from Stanford University
|
2007 College Championship 1st runner-up: $50,000. 21 at the time of...
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Margaret J. McCarthy, a retired attorney originally from Boston, Massachusetts
|
Season 22 player (2006-07-24).
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Tawney Pearson, a teacher originally from Peoria, Illinois
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Season 22 player (2006-02-02).
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Miguel Ferrer, an actor from Crossing Jordan
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"He began his career as a studio drummer and played on...
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Steve Schirripa, an actor from The Sopranos
|
"Once the entertainment director at the Riviera Hotel in Las Vegas,...
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Lindsey Hargrove, a senior at the University of Texas from Bellaire, Texas
|
2004 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
Mother's Jeopardy! Message Board user name: collegemom
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Josh DenHartog, an actuarial technician from Thousand Oaks, California
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"He was the Teen Tournament champion in 1997. Now he's an...
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Scott Gillispie, a project manager and expectant father from Atlanta, Georgia
|
"While attending Georgia Tech, he won the 1991 College Championship. Now...
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Amory Jendrek, a freshman at Davidson College from Knoxville, Tennessee
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2004 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
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Diane Siegel, an educational consultant and writer from Northridge, California
|
"A full-time mom when she won five games in 1993, now...
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Camille Bullock, a senior from New Orleans, Louisiana
|
2006 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: Camille88
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Matt Klein, a senior from Pittsford, New York
|
2006 Teen Tournament 2nd runner-up: $15,000. Won $1,000 on Who Wants...
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Megan Fraedrich, a 12-year-old seventh grader from Springfield, Virginia
|
"And she was recently an evil stepsister in a performance of...
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Ryan Holznagel, a writer originally from Forest Grove, Oregon
|
"He was the winner of the 1995 Tournament of Champions. Now,...
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Vicky Manos, a sophomore at St. John’s University from Levittown, New York
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2004 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000.
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Stefan Goodreau, a video game tester and camp counselor from Los Angeles, California
|
2010 Tournament of Champions 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $50,000. Season...
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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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Tom Toce, an actuary from New York, New York
|
Season 26 2-time champion: $39,200 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Becky Anderson, a retired software specialist originally from Morganton, North Carolina
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Season 25 1-time champion: $16,401 + $2,000. Becky Anderson - A...
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Robert Knecht Schmidt, a patent agent from Cleveland, Ohio
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Season 26 1-time champion: $12,799 + $1,000. Middle name pronounced like...
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Dave Belote, the base commander from Nellis Air Force Base, Las Vegas
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2010 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 26 5-time champion:...
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Ryan Chaffee, a tutor from Los Angeles, California
|
2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $91,900...
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Mike Maheu, a high school teacher from San Diego, California
|
Season 25 2-time champion: $46,242 + $1,000. Last name pronounced like...
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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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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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Chris Rodrigues, a personal banking representative from New Bedford, Massachusetts
|
Season 26 3-time champion: $41,498 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
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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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Judy Mermelstein, a Census field representative from Queens, New York
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Season 25 1-time champion: $38,401 + $1,000. Judy also appeared on...
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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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Jordan Brand, an anesthesiologist from Westchester, New York
|
Season 26 1-time champion: $24,405 + $2,000. The Sesame Street character...
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Hans von Walter, a junior from Southern Adventist University from Avon Park, Florida
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2010-B College Championship 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $25,000 + a...
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Ingrid Nelson, a judicial assistant from Lake Mills, Wisconsin
|
Season 25 2-time champion: $27,802 + $2,000. Ingrid Nelson - A...
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Gary Bechtold, a garage door company owner from St. Cloud, Minnesota
|
Season 26 3-time champion: $42,001 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Carolyn Young, a homemaker from Marietta, Georgia
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Season 25 1-time champion: $30,000 + $2,000. Mother of Season 32...
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Lisa Makar, a senior from University of Maryland
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"As a seventh grader, she was planning a career as a...
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Lindsay Eanet, a senior from the University of Missouri
|
2010-A College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. Hometown: Deerfield, Illinois. Last name pronounced...
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Ryan Stoffers, a sophomore from UCLA
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2010-A College Championship 1st runner-up: $50,000. Hometown: Saratoga, California. Ryan Stoffers...
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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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Jim Davis, a college music and humanities instructor from Freeport, Illinois
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Season 25 2-time champion: $62,802 + $2,000. Not be to confused...
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Thomas L. Friedman, an author and foreign affairs columnist from The New York Times
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"He has won three Pulitzer Prizes and authored six best sellers,...
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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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Kevin Wilson, a communications specialist from Toronto, Ontario, Canada
|
Season 26 3-time champion: $76,998 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Courtney Trezise, a senior from Michigan State University
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2009 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 21 and from Okemos, Michigan at...
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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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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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Inta Antler, a retired computer programmer from Scarborough, Ontario, Canada
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Season 25 1-time champion: $12,700 + $2,000. Inta Antler - A...
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Stefan Goodreau, a video game tester from Los Angeles, California
|
2010 Tournament of Champions 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $50,000. Season...
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Laura Myers, a senior from the University of Missouri
|
2009 College Championship second runner-up: $29,900. 22 and from Richmond, Virginia...
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David Skaar, a research scientist from Raleigh, North Carolina
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Season 25 3-time champion: $102,000 + $2,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Alyssa McRae, a gift card production designer from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Season 25 3-time champion: $50,402 + $2,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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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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Elza Reeves, a bank teller from Louisville, Kentucky
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Season 25 1-time champion: $16,400 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Brian Muth, a headmaster from Napa, California
|
Season 25 2-time champion: $43,800 + $1,000. 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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Janet Bradlow, an insurance agent from New York, New York
|
Season 26 3-time champion: $58,000 + $2,000. Janet Bradlow New York,...
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A.J. Schumacher, a radio show production intern from St. Paul, Minnesota
|
Season 25 1-time champion: $10,800 + $2,000. AJ Schumacher Saint Paul,...
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Tom Nissley, a writer from Seattle, Washington
|
2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2011 Tournament of Champions...
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Zach Safford, a senior from Williams College
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"His early interest in cryptozoology has been replaced by a history...
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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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Elizabeth Galoozis, a reference librarian from Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Season 26 2-time champion: $38,801 + $2,000. Elizabeth Galoozis - A...
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Rebecca Dixon, a graduate student and musician from Vancouver, Washington
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Season 26 2-time champion: $53,002 + $1,000. Rebecca and her partner...
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David Madden, a student originally from Ridgewood, New Jersey
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2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament semifinalist: $10,000. 2019 All-Star Games member of...
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Dmitry Spivak, a junior from Northwestern University
|
"The 11-year-old wasn't really kidding when he said he wanted to...
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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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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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Enrique Machado, an oil filtration business developer from Orlando, Florida
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Season 26 1-time champion: $30,799 + $2,000. Enrique Machado September 16,...
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Gail Flemmons, a history teacher from Clinton, Mississippi
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Season 25 2-time champion: $46,399 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Melanie Bruchet, a senior from Bryn Mawr
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"Everyone wants to be an astronaut when they're a kid, but...
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Laura Hughes, a mom from New Market, Maryland
|
Season 26 1-time champion: $27,500 + $2,000. Wife of Season 16...
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Paul Wampler, a web programmer from Knoxville, Tennessee
|
Season 27 4-time champion: $72,001 + $2,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: paul5562
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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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Michael Braun, a junior from Silver Spring, Maryland
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2005 Teen...
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Nathaniel Barnes, a composer and bartender from Toronto, Ontario, Canada
|
Season 25 3-time champion: $57,300 + $2,000. In his first game,...
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Blake Hernandez, a senior from Burke, Virginia
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2002 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. Blake was 16 at the time...
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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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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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Jennifer Duann, a senior from the Ohio State University
|
2009 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 21 and from Worthington, Ohio at...
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Dan Jensen, a restaurant manager from Reston, Virginia
|
Season 27 3-time champion: $58,203 + $1,000.
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Josh Powell, a phone-based health coach from San Diego, California
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Season 27 3-time champion: $26,900 + $1,000.
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Stephen Weingarten, a paraeducator from Portland, Oregon
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2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $96,690...
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Kimberly Jantz, an attorney from Tulsa, Oklahoma
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Season 26 1-time champion: $22,200 + $2,000. Kimberly Jantz - an...
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Nate Austin, a student from Hutchinson Community College
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"His original plan was to own a chain of international hotels...
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Mitchell Vogel, from Madison, Wisconsin
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"This future governor of Wisconsin enjoys rollerblading, reading, and playing saxophone....
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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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Larry Cloud, a bookkeeper and computer consultant from Inglewood, California
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"He won five times in 2001, allowing him to make a...
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Bob Fleenor, a newspaper copy editor from Martinsburg, West Virginia
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"Legislative work in his home state was suspended so that lawmakers...
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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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Matt Drury, a government analyst from New York, New York
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Season 26 1-time champion: $18,799 + $2,000. Matthew Drury - A...
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Jason Zollinger, an engine assembler from South Dayton, New York
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2010 Tournament of Champions 1st runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $100,000. Season...
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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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Jason Pratt, a middle school history teacher from Woodbridge, Virginia
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Season 25 2-time champion: $32,701 + $1,000. Jason Pratt - A...
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Sandra McClellan, a granny nanny from Arlington, Texas
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Season 27 1-time champion: $4,199 + $2,000.
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Lea Tottle, a junior from Florida State University from Oldsmar, Florida
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2010-B College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000 + a Nintendo Wii +...
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Andrew Watkins, a junior from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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2006 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: everyday847
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Jay Rosenberg, a college professor from Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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\"After winning 5 times in 1985, he became the moderator for...
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Colby Burnett, a high school world history teacher from Chicago, Illinois
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\"He teaches at a school started by the Dominicans of St....
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Ken Jennings, a writer from Seattle, Washington
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• 74-game champion with longest winning streak • Total earnings over...
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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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Celeste DiNucci, a recent graduate student from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2014 Battle of the Decades...
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Eli Barrieau, a high school history teacher from Hardwick, Massachusetts
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"He found working in a window factory a 'pain'. Now it's...
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Roger Craig, a computer scientist 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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Cassie Hill, a recent graduate from the University of Mary Washington
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\"Her dad is a lawyer, and by the seventh grade, she...
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Robert Gibbs, a former press secretary from the Obama White House
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"In 2004, he joined Barack Obama's senatorial campaign as communications director,...
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Al Franken, an author and radio talk show host from New York City
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"One of the original writers on Saturday Night Live, he's done...
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Peggy Noonan, a contributing editor from The Wall Street Journal
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2004 Power Players Week player (2004-05-10).
Charity: The Sisters of Life.
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Ken Jennings, a writer from Seattle, Washington
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"He was a software engineer living in Salt Lake City, Utah,...
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Kevin Marshall, a student from Metairie, Louisiana
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2006 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 22 6-time champion: $98,201...
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John Krizel, a green community program coordinator from Beckley, West Virginia
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2011 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $105,204...
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Adam Pinson, a senior at the University of Alabama at Birmingham from Pinson, Alabama
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2005 College Championship 1st runner-up: $50,000. Won $100,000 on Who Wants...
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Elaine Thacker, a writer and consultant from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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Season 21 player (2005-06-21).
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Dave Ellis, a singer-songwriter from Los Angeles, California
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Season 27 1-time champion: $16,000 + $2,000. Not to be confused...
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Craig Barker, an Advanced Placement history teacher from Livonia, Michigan
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"In 1997 he won the College Championship. Today he's an Advanced...
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Eddie Timanus, a sportswriter from Oak Hill, Virginia
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"His 5 wins in 1999 made him one of the most...
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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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David Jackman, a doctor from Boston, Massachusetts
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Season 21 player (2005-01-03).
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Emily Jusino, a Ph.D. candidate in Greek literature originally from Fredericksburg, Virginia
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Season 27 1-time champion: $18,801 + $1,000.
Last name pronouned like "hoo-SEE-no".
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James Erwin, a writer from Des Moines, Iowa
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Season 25 2-time champion: $22,598 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Vijay Balse, a chemical engineer from Chatham, New Jersey
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2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2010 Tournament of Champions...
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Roger Mueller-Kim, a high school social studies teacher from Dublin, California
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Season 27 1-time champion: $17,401 + $1,000.
Last name pronounced like "MULL-er KIM".
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Jenifer Thomas, a teacher assistant from Jacksonville, North Carolina
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Season 26 1-time champion: $13,400 + $2,000. Jenifer Thomas October 5,...
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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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Steve Gratz, a freelance artist from Washington, D.C.
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Season 27 2-time champion: $30,999 + $1,000.
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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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Ariel Schneider, a biology student from West Lafayette, Indiana
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Season 27 2-time champion: $46,300 + $2,000.
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Charlie Blatt, an 11-year-old from Scarsdale, New York
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"Besides cooking, working on the computer, and tap dancing, she likes...
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Kristiana Henderson, a junior from Kent, Washington
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2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games quarterfinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time...
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Loren Loiacono, a senior from Setauket, New York
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2006 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
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Vanamali Compton, a junior from Clarkdale, Arizona
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2005 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. 16 at the time of the...
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Orlando Zambrano, a junior from Tampa, Florida
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2005 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $5,000.
16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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