| #9081, aired 2024-04-15 | 3-LETTER SPELLING BEE $1000: It's placed in parentheses after a misspelled word to show it was meant to be printed that way (but spell this word correctly!) S-I-C |
| #9078, aired 2024-04-10 | ASK FORGIVENESS $400: An older Elwin Wilson, once part of this notorious white-klad group, asked John Lewis to forgive him for a 1961 assault in S.C. the Ku Klux Klan |
| #9073, aired 2024-04-03 | HISTORIC REFUSALS $1000: The refusal by the island of Melos to surrender to Athens in 416 B.C. is chronicled in this historian's "Melian Dialogue" Thucydides |
| #9070, aired 2024-03-29 | BIOLOGY "A", "B", "C"s $400: "A":
This clear fluid surrounds a baby in its mother's womb amniotic fluid |
| #9070, aired 2024-03-29 | BIOLOGY "A", "B", "C"s $1200: "A":
You get one set of these alternative forms of genes from mom & one from dad alleles |
| #9070, aired 2024-03-29 | BIOLOGY "A", "B", "C"s $1600: "B":
This pigment gives bile its yellowish color & can lead to gallstones bilirubin |
| #9070, aired 2024-03-29 | BIOLOGY "A", "B", "C"s $2000: "C" "C":
2-word term for the multistage process via which the basic unit of life reproduces itself the cell cycle |
| #9070, aired 2024-03-29 | BIOLOGY "A", "B", "C"s $6,400 (Daily Double): "C":
In myth, it's a fire-breathing hybrid monster, in genetics, it's an organism with 2 distinct sets of DNA chimera |
| #9069, aired 2024-03-28 | DEFINITIONS FROM THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY $200: Under C:
"A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head" a cabbage |
| #9061, aired 2024-03-18 | "K"-TOWN $800: This capital of Malopolskie Province can also be spelled with 2 C's Kraków |
| #9058, aired 2024-03-13 | THE CLOCK & THE CALENDAR $1000: The Julian calendar had leap years--Feb. 23 lasted 48 hours--& the first one was this last full year of Julius Caesar's life 45 B.C. |
| #9054, aired 2024-03-07 | GITALONG, OLD PAINT $2000: As it's by this painter, you might call an 1876 view of the Mediterranean at l'Estaque a "C" scape Paul Cezanne |
| #9048, aired 2024-02-28 | THAT'S IN ASIA $400: Dating back to 4000 B.C. fortified settlements, it's the largest city in Jordan & the residence of the king Amman |
| #9048, aired 2024-02-28 | BRITISH ACTORS & ACTRESSES $1600: He played C.S. Lewis in 1993's "Shadowlands"; in his role in "Freud's Last Session", he debates Lewis on the existence of God Anthony Hopkins |
| #9045, aired 2024-02-23 | TV COMEDY $600: Let's bring the Payne! Allen Payne played C.J. Payne on some 300 episodes of this creator's "House of Payne" Tyler Perry |
| #9044, aired 2024-02-22 | WORLD CAPITALS $1000: Climbing up on Medvednica Hill, I could see this end-of-the-alphabet city's light & pictured its 13th c. invasion by Mongols Zagreb |
| #9043, aired 2024-02-21 | IT'S REIGNING MEN! $400: The I didn't even rule Egypt for a year & a half, but this pharaoh II of the 19th dynasty clocked in for 66, 1279-1213 B.C. Ramses |
| #9042, aired 2024-02-20 | PILES $200: H.C. Andersen's way to identify one of these: have her sleep on a pea under a pile of 20 mattresses under 20 feather beds a princess |
| #9036, aired 2024-02-12 | INITIALS OF HISTORIC PEOPLE $1000: 5th wife of Henry VIII & possibly Thomas Culpeper's sneaky link: C.H. Catherine Howard |
| #9034, aired 2024-02-08 | THE MOURNING NEWS $1000: This British author kept 2 initials & a 5-letter last name as N.W. Clerk to write "A Grief Observed" about his wife's death C.S. Lewis |
| #9032, aired 2024-02-06 | LAYERS $800: The layers of a company's hierarchy appear in this type of chart, a term popularized in the early 1900s by Willard C. Brinton an org. chart |
| #9030, aired 2024-02-02 | TALKING ABOUT TOLKIEN $2000: Humphrey Carpenter's bio of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis & like-minded friends has this title, like their literary circle the Inklings |
| #9027, aired 2024-01-30 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $1,000 (Daily Double): The land donated to start this ACC sports powerhouse was home to the estate of John C. Calhoun Clemson University |
| #9025, aired 2024-01-26 | HISTORIC BATTLES $800: 490 B.C.'s Battle of Marathon showed the Greeks for the first time that they could defeat a force of this mighty empire the Persian Empire |
| #9023, aired 2024-01-24 | ONE-TERM PRESIDENTS $1600: This late 19th c. grandson blew a surplus, lost the House, lost his own re-election bid, then wed his dead wife's niece Benjamin Harrison |
| #9022, aired 2024-01-23 | GO IVth & RULE $1200: Yohannes IV, emperor of this African country, spent much of his 19th c. reign repelling military threats from Egypt & Italy Ethiopia |
| #9022, aired 2024-01-23 | GO IVth & RULE $1600: Elector Frederick IV's efforts to unite Protestants against Catholics in Germany helped set the stage for this 17th c. war the Thirty Years' War |
| #9012, aired 2024-01-09 | U.S. NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS $1200: Before winning a Peace Prize in 1962, scientist & vitamin C advocate Linus Pauling won one in this category in 1954 chemistry |
| #9011, aired 2024-01-08 | FROM C TO D $800: Here's a lovely one of these central areas, with a fountain a courtyard |
| #9011, aired 2024-01-08 | ITALIAN LITERATURE $1600: In Umberto Eco's "The Name of the Rose", murders at a 14th c. monastery center on a book on laughter by this ancient Greek Aristotle |
| #9010, aired 2024-01-05 | NYMING -NYMS $1000: Crohn's disease, the Ferris wheel & Parkinson's law (for Burrill, George & C. Northcote, respectively) are these -nyms eponyms |
| #23, aired 2024-01-02 | BOOKS IN THE SERIES $300: C.S. Lewis:
"The Magician's Nephew";
"Prince Caspian";
"The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" The Chronicles of Narnia |
| #9002, aired 2023-12-26 | TV COMEDIES BY WORKPLACE $1200: CONTROL, a D.C.-based counter-intelligence agency Get Smart |
| #9001, aired 2023-12-25 | GETTING POSSESSIVE $1000: On January 30, 1968, CBS broadcast the reopening of this D.C. landmark; the stage had been dark for 103 years Ford's Theater |
| #8993, aired 2023-12-13 | YOUR DAY IN "C"OURT $1600: A judge other than a chief judge at one of the U.S. courts of appeals a circuit judge |
| #8990, aired 2023-12-08 | AS EASY AS A-B-C $400: It describes Shakespeare's pentameter iambic |
| #8989, aired 2023-12-07 | FIRE PLACE $1,000 (Daily Double): Circa 50 B.C.:
This city's library is torched (by Julius Caesar, some say) Alexandria |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | SHAKESPEARE PLAYS BY INITIALS $100: The title character utters the famous line, "Et tu, Brute?":
J.C. Julius Caesar |
| #8983, aired 2023-11-29 | A, B OR C $200: Alphabetically, it's the first letter that does not begin a state name B |
| #8983, aired 2023-11-29 | A, B OR C $600: In the name of the outfit that first broadcast the U.S. House in 1979, this precedes "SPAN" C |
| #8983, aired 2023-11-29 | A, B OR C $800: A vitamin found in vegetables & dairy products, it's also called retinol vitamin A |
| #8983, aired 2023-11-29 | HERE COMES THE NEIGHBORHOOD $1000: A real Charleston, S.C. neighborhood was the inspiration for this "Row" in the opera "Porgy & Bess" Catfish Row |
| #21, aired 2023-11-29 | COLLEGE PRESS $1500: Hint: say its name quickly! The Ubyssey is the student newspaper of the university of this Canadian province British Columbia |
| #8977, aired 2023-11-21 | CHICKEN SOUP $1000: During the 16th c. Wojna Kokosza, or "Chicken War" in this country, rebels ate nearly all of the region's poultry Poland |
| #8977, aired 2023-11-21 | SPEAK OF THE DEVIL $2,600 (Daily Double): This 17th c. work says, "Abashed the devil stood, and felt how awful goodness is... saw, and pined his loss" Paradise Lost |
| #8973, aired 2023-11-15 | LET'S TAKE A BATH $1000: The earliest known surviving bathtub dates back to 1700 B.C. & was used in the palace of Knossos on this island Crete |
| #20, aired 2023-11-15 | SCIENCE MUSEUMS $200: At Pittsburgh's Carnegie Science Center, he's inducted in the Robot Hall of Fame; so is his sidekick R2-D2 C-3PO |
| #8968, aired 2023-11-08 | AT A LOSS FOR WORLDS $800: At the end of Arthur C. Clarke's "Childhood's End" this world is destroyed the Earth |
| #8968, aired 2023-11-08 | A "C" IN ANATOMY $1600: It's Latin for "neck" & can mean the neck as well as the outer end of the uterus the cervix |
| #8968, aired 2023-11-08 | A "C" IN ANATOMY $2000: If your left brain hemisphere needs to "cc" your right, it's a good thing they're connected by this "cc" corpus callosum |
| #19, aired 2023-11-01 | CONSTITUTIONAL MATTERS $200: You can grab a cheesesteak at the Delegates' Cafe in the National Constitution Center, one of this city's historic attractions Philadelphia |
| #8962, aired 2023-10-31 | MONSTER MANUAL $1600: It had a woman's head & a bird's body & met up with the Argonauts; c'mon, get... harpies |
| #8961, aired 2023-10-30 | CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND $4,600 (Daily Double): Waged from 149 to 146 B.C., the Third Punic War resulted in the final destruction of this city & its people's enslavement Carthage |
| #8954, aired 2023-10-19 | IT'S OUR TURN TO SACK ROME!!! $200: 390 B.C.:
These people usually associated with ancient France sack Rome the Gauls |
| #8951, aired 2023-10-16 | CHANGE A LETTER $1200: It's to swindle or trick someone, like George C. Scott does in a 1967 film flim-flam |
| #8948, aired 2023-10-11 | AN IMMODEST PROPOSAL $1200: Sorry about your hubby Marcellus' death, Octavia! But it's 40 B.C. & I love Y--no, I'm not into Egyptian girls. Why? Mark Antony |
| #8948, aired 2023-10-11 | AN IMMODEST PROPOSAL $2000: 'Cilla Mullins, it's the 17th c., baby, & I'm speaking for myself. Come on, li'l mama! We'll have 10 kids & make Plymouth rock! John Alden |
| #8944, aired 2023-10-05 | EX-SOVIET REPUBLICS $2000: Following the independence of Belarus in 1991, its capital Minsk became the headquarters of this organization, the C.I.S. the Commonwealth of Independent States |
| #8943, aired 2023-10-04 | WAXING PHILOSOPHICAL $1600: In "Metaphysics of Morals", this 18th c. man wrote that one who makes himself a worm can't complain if he's stepped on Immanuel Kant |
| #8943, aired 2023-10-04 | MERRY MELODIES $6,000 (Daily Double): This 19th c. composer's Mazurka No. 9 (Op. 7 No. 5) is one of the peppier ones Chopin |
| #14, aired 2023-09-27 | ANTS $500: Ants crawl on a seemingly infinite loop in this Dutch artist's 1963 work "Möbius Strip II" M.C. Escher |
| #8935, aired 2023-09-22 | "C" IN LITERATURE $200: It's where "Native Son" & "A Raisin in the Sun" are set Chicago |
| #8935, aired 2023-09-22 | "C" IN LITERATURE $800: In "East of Eden" this twin brother of Aron Trask reveals to him that their mother is a madam Caleb |
| #8933, aired 2023-09-20 | THE REAL (WHITE HOUSE) WIVES OF D.C. $800: At Wellesley's 1990 commencement, this Texan said, "Someone in the crowd could also become a presidential spouse and I wish him well" Barbara Bush |
| #8933, aired 2023-09-20 | THE REAL (WHITE HOUSE) WIVES OF D.C. $3,000 (Daily Double): A year before her death in 1962, she began chairing JFK's Commission on the Status of Women Eleanor Roosevelt |
| #8928, aired 2023-09-13 | "C"s THE DAY $400: August 4 celebrates the birth of this branch of the U.S. military the Coast Guard |
| #8928, aired 2023-09-13 | "C"s THE DAY $800: This holiday that commemorates the victory of Mexico at the Battle of Puebla is also a day to celebrate Mexican culture Cinco de Mayo |
| #8928, aired 2023-09-13 | "C"s THE DAY $1200: "Dedication" in Hebrew, it can be spelled without a "C" & actually spans 8 days, but you still need to know it now Chanukah |
| #8928, aired 2023-09-13 | "C"s THE DAY $1600: September 17 commemorates the signing of this in 1787 the Constitution |
| #8928, aired 2023-09-13 | "C"s THE DAY $2000: Catholics usually celebrate the Thursday after Trinity Sunday as the feast of this, Latin for "Christ's body" Corpus Christi |
| #8927, aired 2023-09-12 | THAT'S T-B-D $1000: This inn is found in "The Canterbury Tales" & today in Washington, D.C., where it's a favorite brunch spot the Tabard Inn |
| #8922, aired 2023-07-25 | STATE THE 19th CENTURY SENATOR $1600: John C. Calhoun & John E. Colhoun, but what's in a name, Y'all? South Carolina |
| #8920, aired 2023-07-21 | INTERNALLY YOURS $2000: Named for a 19th c. French pathologist, this "area" of the left front part of the brain contains neurons involved in speech function Broca's area |
| #8912, aired 2023-07-11 | FRIENDS $800: Conversations about language & myths initially bonded these two titans of fantasy influencing each other & their work C.S. Lewis & J.R.R. Tolkien |
| #8911, aired 2023-07-10 | THE HIGH "C"s $200: At 6,800 feet, it's the state with the highest average altitude Colorado |
| #8911, aired 2023-07-10 | THE HIGH "C"s $400: Meaning "city", it comes before Juárez in the name of a lofty city in Mexico Ciudad |
| #8911, aired 2023-07-10 | THE HIGH "C"s $600: Seen here are some high-flying gargoyles on this Manhattan building the Chrysler Building |
| #8911, aired 2023-07-10 | THE HIGH "C"s $800: The Andean type of this bird raises its young on ledges or in caves, sometimes at over 10,000 feet a condor |
| #8911, aired 2023-07-10 | THE HIGH "C"s $1000: Funded by DARPA & the CIA, some of the earliest spy satellites were part of this program sharing a name with a part of the Sun CORONA |
| #8908, aired 2023-07-05 | U.S. CITY OF THE BOOK $800: "A Confederacy of Dunces":
not so easy for the Big Guy New Orleans |
| #8905, aired 2023-06-30 | THE SAILOR MAN $1,100 (Daily Double): Lord Drinian is captain of this title vessel in a book by C.S. Lewis the Dawn Treader |
| #8902, aired 2023-06-27 | BANKING "A" "B" "C"s $400: "B":
an especially big payment that comes due at the end of a loan a balloon |
| #8902, aired 2023-06-27 | BANKING "A" "B" "C"s $800: "A":
this type of interest that has accumulated but not yet been paid accrued |
| #8902, aired 2023-06-27 | BANKING "A" "B" "C"s $1200: "C.C.":
the expenses incurred in finalizing the transfer of property ownership closing costs |
| #8902, aired 2023-06-27 | BANKING "A" "B" "C"s $2,000 (Daily Double): "A":
this word meaning to pay off a debt in installments comes partly from Latin for "dead" amortize |
| #8902, aired 2023-06-27 | BANKING "A" "B" "C"s $2000: "B.B.":
securities with no registered owner payable to whoever holds the certificate bearer bonds |
| #8901, aired 2023-06-26 | SCIENTISTS $800: In 1847, Maria Mitchell, America's first professional female astronomer, discovered one of these, officially known as C/1847 T1 a comet |
| #8897, aired 2023-06-20 | THERE WILL BE MATH $1600: It's the law that says a(b+c) = ab + ac the distributive law |
| #8896, aired 2023-06-19 | GETTING AN EYEFUL $200: A call for an act of retribution, it's No. 196 in the 18th century B.C. code of Hammurabi eye for an eye |
| #8896, aired 2023-06-19 | GENERAL ASSEMBLY $800: At Columbia, S.C.'s state house, bronze stars mark the spots where shells from this general's cannons once hit Sherman |
| #8890, aired 2023-06-09 | DIASPORA $600: A 19th c. migration from this land began the community of Y Wladfa in Patagonia, with a Patagonian form of their Celtic language Wales |
| #8882, aired 2023-05-30 | THE BAND'S SONGS TELL A STORY $400: "I Gotta Feeling" you know this hip-hop group! They did "Don't Stop The Party"... c'mon, "Don't Phunk With My Heart"! Black Eyed Peas |
| #8881, aired 2023-05-29 | PLAY "FREE" WORDS $1600: C.S. Lewis wrote that this ability is "the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having" free will |
| #8879, aired 2023-05-25 | OUR RETURNING CHAMPION $200: After defeating Pompey's army, this leader returned to Rome & became dictator for life in the 40s B.C. Julius Caesar |
| #8879, aired 2023-05-25 | EURO COINS $1200: The image of an owl on this nation's 1-euro coin was copied from a 4-drachma coin from the 5th century B.C. Greece |
| #8876, aired 2023-05-22 | AMERICANA $200: In 2010, tens of thousands celebrated Earth Day on this D.C. area, America's front lawn the National Mall |
| #14, aired 2023-05-17 | ROCK"ER"S $800: This "Even Flow" & "Better Man" singer has recorded under the pseudonym Wes C. Addle Eddie Vedder |
| #14, aired 2023-05-17 | BRING WHAT? $1000: An inscription at Washington, D.C.'s Union Station says, "He that would bring home" this phrase "must carry" this phrase "with him" the wealth of the Indies |
| #11, aired 2023-05-16 | CURRENT U.S. GOVERNORS $800: He cheers for MLB's Reds in his own state as well as the Asheville, N.C. Tourists minor league team, which his family owns Mike DeWine |
| #8871, aired 2023-05-15 | IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD $2000: Many an artist has lived in this neighborhood in Manhattan's East Village that runs through avenues A, B, C & D Alphabet City |
| #7, aired 2023-05-12 | ISLE BE "C"ING YOU $400: Cape Maisi, this island's easternmost point, lies in the province of Guantanamo Cuba |
| #7, aired 2023-05-12 | ISLE BE "C"ING YOU $800: Popular tourist highlights on this Italian isle are the Blue Grotto & the Castiglione, a medieval castle Capri |
| #7, aired 2023-05-12 | ISLE BE "C"ING YOU $1600: With sites like the Palancar Caves, this Mexican isle popular with cruise ships is one of the world's best destinations for scuba divers Cozumel |
| #6, aired 2023-05-10 | LET'S GET VERTICAL $600: The C-suite is discussing V.I., or vertical this, where every stage of production of a good is controlled by one company integration |
| #5, aired 2023-05-10 | CLASSICAL MUSIC CLASSICS $1200: An audio clue on Robert Schumann's "Träumerei", meaning this activity that interested Freud, has to be long b/c it's played so slow dreaming |
| #4, aired 2023-05-09 | LITERATURE $800: Poe's short story "The Murders" here marked the first appearance of the French detective C. Auguste Dupin in the Rue Morgue |
| #8866, aired 2023-05-08 | CHILDREN'S LIT $600: This nickname for many kings follows "M.C. Higgins" in the title of the first Newbery Medal winner by a Black author the Great |
| #8865, aired 2023-05-05 | EVERYTHING'S COMING UP ROSE $1000: D.C. socialite Rose O'Neal Greenhow sent word that Union troops were moving on Manassas, helping the Confederates before this battle the Battle of Bull Run |
| #8865, aired 2023-05-05 | QUICK PLANETS $1000: It's surrounded by phenomena named
A, B, C, D, E, F & G Saturn |
| #8864, aired 2023-05-04 | SCIENCE $2000: Let's "C" if you can name this electrical property measured in farads capacitance |
| #8863, aired 2023-05-03 | JOHN C. REILLY $200: John's hometown, or the movie musical for which he received an Oscar nomination as Amos Hart Chicago |
| #8863, aired 2023-05-03 | JOHN C. REILLY $600: John is seen here at a Lakers game years before playing this owner of the team on HBO's "Winning Time" (Jerry) Buss |
| #8863, aired 2023-05-03 | JOHN C. REILLY $1000: John in "Talladega Nights": "If you smell a delicious crispy smell after the race, it's not your tailpipe, it's" this catchphrase (a little bit of) Shake 'n Bake |
| #8859, aired 2023-04-27 | "A_B_C_D" $800: It's a longer way of saying vitamin C ascorbic acid |
| #8859, aired 2023-04-27 | READY TO WEAR $1000: Let's "C", it's the umbrella term covering bow ties, neckties, scarves & ascots cravats |
| #8853, aired 2023-04-19 | A EUROPEAN VACATION $2000: Take six pals & be seven against this Greek city where you can check out what's left of the circa 1400 B.C. Palace of Cadmus Thebes |
| #8849, aired 2023-04-13 | TRADEMARKED SOUNDS $1000: This fast food chain trademarked a "bong" that is E below middle C Taco Bell |
| #8846, aired 2023-04-10 | THAT'S ANCIENT HISTORY $400: Known for ruling Egypt in the 30s B.C., she was of Macedonian descent but still staked a claim as the new Isis on Earth Cleopatra |
| #8846, aired 2023-04-10 | THAT'S ANCIENT HISTORY $1200: This age began in Britain around 2500 B.C., led by the Beaker people named for vessels like the one here the Bronze Age |
| #8846, aired 2023-04-10 | THAT'S ANCIENT HISTORY $2000: In the 1300s B.C. the empire of this Indo-European people established itself in Syria, making the Egyptians see them as a rival the Hittites |
| #8843, aired 2023-04-05 | LITERARY BAD DAY FOR THE PLANET $1200: Arthur C. Clarke's "The Star" is a sun that went supernova, killing a planet, & is this celestial object from the New Testament the Star of Bethlehem |
| #8841, aired 2023-04-03 | THEIR LESSER-KNOWN BOOKS $400: This author went to Venus instead of Narnia in his space novel "Perelandra" C.S. Lewis |
| #8834, aired 2023-03-23 | WITH A SCULPTURE ON TOP $200: A classical statue called "Freedom" sits atop the dome of this Washington, D.C. building the U.S. Capitol |
| #8833, aired 2023-03-22 | 1963 $800: "She" made a rare visit to the U.S. from the Louvre & was displayed in Washington, D.C. & New York before her return trip the Mona Lisa |
| #8832, aired 2023-03-21 | I LOVE A MAN IN CUNEIFORM $400: This ruler's legal decisions were codified in cuneiform in the Old Babylonian language in the 18th century B.C. Hammurabi |
| #8832, aired 2023-03-21 | MADE IN PENNSYLVANIA $600: Fans of these from Pennsylvania's C.F. Martin & Co. have included Muddy Waters, Hank Williams & Willie Nelson guitars |
| #8825, aired 2023-03-10 | SHOPPING AT THE MALL $200: I feel like glamming it up, so let's drop by MAC, which sells these, what the "C" stands for cosmetics |
| #8822, aired 2023-03-07 | AMERICAN COMPOSERS $400: In 2016, aged 94, Pulitzer winner George Walker composed a tribute to the dead of the Emanuel AME Church in this S.C. city Charleston |
| #8819, aired 2023-03-02 | ACTION & ADVENTURE NOVELS $2000: In 11 books by C.S. Forester, this intrepid sailor starts as a midshipman & ultimately becomes an admiral Horatio Hornblower |
| #8815, aired 2023-02-24 | I LIKE TO SCIENCE! $800: Once a resident of Smiljan, he immigrated to the U.S. with 4 cents & later patented a polyphase system of A.C. dynamos Tesla |
| #8814, aired 2023-02-23 | GREEK LIFE $200: Details are sketchy on him; was he a 9th century B.C. guy? 8th? From Ionia? Did he really create the 2 epic poems he's credited with? Homer |
| #8811, aired 2023-02-20 | TIME TO HIT THE LIBRARY $2000: Ashurbanipal, book lover & king of this ancient kingdom ruled from Nineveh, built the world's first known library in the 600s B.C. Assyria |
| #8809, aired 2023-02-16 | THE LETTER AFTER C $200: ...in a title for a Russian hereditary ruler Z |
| #8809, aired 2023-02-16 | THE LETTER AFTER C $400: ...in a goat-bodied, flame-spewing monster of Greek myth H |
| #8806, aired 2023-02-13 | LOGOS $600: The logo of this fashion house named for its founder contains 2 interlocking "C"s, backwards & forwards Chanel |
| #8805, aired 2023-02-10 | DON'T FALL IN! $1000: It's 10 feet wide & 260 deep, so don't fall into Australia's Standley this "C" word--a chi word in Greek Chasm |
| #8803, aired 2023-02-08 | THE "C" SHORE $600: Steep cliffs line the shores of both the N. & S. Islands of New Zealand separated by this strait named for a British captain (the) Cook (Strait) |
| #8803, aired 2023-02-08 | THE "C" SHORE $800: Those basking on this lake's shore 25 miles north of Milan enjoy the Tivano wind from the north & the Breva from the south Lake Como |
| #8802, aired 2023-02-07 | WHICH WAR? $600: In 431 B.C., Spartan ally Thebes goes after Plataea, an Athenian pal, & it's on the Peloponnesian War |
| #8797, aired 2023-01-31 | THE SILENT & NOT-SILENT LETTER $800: In one of the academic STEM subjects a C |
| #8797, aired 2023-01-31 | MEDICAL FOLKS $2000: Pernicious anemia was once called by the name of this 19th c. doctor for whom a disease of the adrenal glands is still named Thomas Addison |
| #8793, aired 2023-01-25 | GARDEN VARIETY STORIES $400: Mysteries abound as plucky Agatha Raisin tries to find a killer in M.C. Beaton's novel "Pushing up" these flowers Daisies |
| #8789, aired 2023-01-19 | WHEN IN ANCIENT ROME $200: As a patrician, you could not do this with a plebeian until 445 B.C.'s Lex Canuleia marry |
| #11, aired 2023-01-19 | STARTS WITH A SILENT LETTER $600: Whether it begins with a silent "T" or a silent "C", it's the title for a former ruler of Russia a czar |
| #11, aired 2023-01-19 | LANDMARKS $1,000 (Daily Double): Now that's a construction project! 13,000 miles long & found in part in Gansu province, this dates to the 600s B.C. the Great Wall of China |
| #8787, aired 2023-01-17 | SCIENCEY STUFF $1600: You'll get an "A", but won't give one by naming this computer programming language with a name 3 characters long C++ |
| #8782, aired 2023-01-10 | ON THE SCIENTIST'S RÉSUMÉ $200: c. 1491-94: Student of astronomy & astrology, U. of Krakow; c. 1515: invited to Fifth Lateran Council to aid calendar reform Copernicus |
| #8782, aired 2023-01-10 | BETWEEN 2 "C"s $400: It describes an opera like "The Maid as Mistress", or can mean any funny performer comic |
| #8782, aired 2023-01-10 | BETWEEN 2 "C"s $800: Adjective meaning having the innocent nature of a childlike angel cherubic |
| #8782, aired 2023-01-10 | BETWEEN 2 "C"s $1200: Distilled from white wine, it bears the name of the region where it's made Cognac |
| #8782, aired 2023-01-10 | BETWEEN 2 "C"s $1600: To reduce harmful emissions in auto exhausts, this type of "converter" removes unburned hydrocarbons catalytic |
| #8782, aired 2023-01-10 | BETWEEN 2 "C"s $2000: Starting & ending with "C", it's the plain yet elegant white fabric worn here cambric |
| #8781, aired 2023-01-09 | RANDOM FACTS $2000: When he was VP of the U.S., a Colorado town bore his name; when he became a Confederate general, it changed its "kin" to "ken" John C. Breckinridge |
| #8777, aired 2023-01-03 | THE GOOD, OLD, U.S. OF A. $400: From c. 1640 & built using dovetailing, the USA's oldest of these 2-word symbols of hardy pioneer life is in western New Jersey a log cabin |
| #8777, aired 2023-01-03 | ORGS. FOR SHORT $800: It owns & operates Washington, D.C.'s Constitution Hall, opened in 1929 the DAR (Daughters of the American Revolution) |
| #8776, aired 2023-01-02 | WRITERS' MIDDLE NAMES $2000: Of C.S. Lewis; his first name was Clive Staples |
| #8764, aired 2022-12-15 | GIVING YOU SOME T-L-C $200: It's the "I" in IQ, & it will be incredibly embarrassing for all of us if no one rings in now intelligence |
| #8764, aired 2022-12-15 | GIVING YOU SOME T-L-C $400: Reggie's bringing the potato salad & Veronica, the stew to this type of supper a potluck |
| #8764, aired 2022-12-15 | GIVING YOU SOME T-L-C $600: It's slang for voluptuously attractive; Destiny's Child sang, "'cause my body too" this title "for ya, babe" bootylicious |
| #8764, aired 2022-12-15 | GIVING YOU SOME T-L-C $800: It's the birdie you bop in badminton a shuttlecock |
| #8763, aired 2022-12-14 | THE "J.C"s $400: In 2019, at age 94 years & 172 days, he became the longest-living president in U.S. history Jimmy Carter |
| #8763, aired 2022-12-14 | THE "J.C"s $800: In 2022, Hollywood mourned the death of this legendary actor whose career touched 7 decades James Caan |
| #8763, aired 2022-12-14 | THE "J.C"s $1200: Premiering in 2022, an HBO Max drama looks at the life & career of this "French chef" Julia Child |
| #8763, aired 2022-12-14 | THE "J.C"s $1600: He founded a society that strives to "uncover the secrets held within our water planet" & "work to keep it alive and healthy" Jacques Cousteau |
| #8763, aired 2022-12-14 | THE "J.C"s $2000: "The Enormous Radio" is among the 1979 Pulitzer Prize-winning "Stories of" this writer John Cheever |
| #8756, aired 2022-12-05 | HISTORY ON THE DOUBLE $2,000 (Daily Double): Prophetically, around 30 B.C., these 2 lovers founded a club called Those Who Will Die Together Antony & Cleopatra |
| #8747, aired 2022-11-22 | UNDER THE "C" $600: Per Black's Law, you can file this "conduct that defies the authority... of a court" under "C", & you can be held in it too contempt |
| #8743, aired 2022-11-16 | SPELEMENTARY $1600: Silver +
nobelium +
sulfur +
titanium +
carbon agnostic (Ag No S Ti C) |
| #8743, aired 2022-11-16 | HEARD IN THE MOVIE $2000: "Fred C. Dobbs ain't a guy likes bein' taken advantage of--do the mug in, I say" The Treasure of the Sierra Madre |
| #8738, aired 2022-11-09 | ONOMATOPOEIA $2000: "The Bells" pairs clamor with this word that also starts with "C-L-A" clangor |
| #7, aired 2022-11-06 | ALL ABOUT ALLITERATIVE BOOK CHARACTERS $200: Peter Pevensie is one of the children who come to reign over this land created by C.S. Lewis Narnia |
| #8734, aired 2022-11-03 | GET DOWN TO BUSINESS $2000: AFLAC is the American Family Life Assurance Company of this Georgia "C"ity where it's headquartered Columbus |
| #6, aired 2022-10-30 | PRETTY LITTLE LIES $300: They'll love the story about how you went to Churchill Downs in 2022 for this big race & put a C-note on 80-1 longshot Rich Strike the Kentucky Derby |
| #6, aired 2022-10-30 | HI, FINANCE $7,000 (Daily Double): A chapter no one ever wants to read, this one is often called a "reorganization" bankruptcy, like J.C. Penney in 2020 Chapter 11 |
| #8728, aired 2022-10-26 | D.C.-AREA ATTRACTIONS $1600: This library has been known to host Renaissance music to honor Shakespeare's birthday the Folger |
| #8728, aired 2022-10-26 | D.C.-AREA ATTRACTIONS $2000: Unlike JFK's, this president's grave at Arlington National Cemetery lacks an eternal flame but does have a 14-foot monument Taft |
| #8726, aired 2022-10-24 | "C" BAND LYRICS $800: 1996:
"He's going the distance, he's going for speed" Cake |
| #8726, aired 2022-10-24 | "C" BAND LYRICS $1200: 1992:
"Thursday doesn't even start, it's Friday I'm in love" The Cure |
| #8726, aired 2022-10-24 | "C" BAND LYRICS $1600: 1977:
"That's why I'm easy, easy like Sunday morning" the Commodores |
| #8725, aired 2022-10-21 | FROM C TO D $200: In music it's 3 or more notes sounded together a chord |
| #8725, aired 2022-10-21 | FROM C TO D $400: This word for how you want your abs to look contains a sculptor's tool chiseled |
| #8725, aired 2022-10-21 | FROM C TO D $600: It's French for le duck le canard |
| #8725, aired 2022-10-21 | FROM C TO D $1000: A man's overcoat & a sofa with rolled arms, as seen here, are named for the Earl of this Chesterfield |
| #8719, aired 2022-10-13 | LOOKING SHARP! $400: Let's face it, the King C. this brand double edge safety razor can smooth things out Gillette |
| #8719, aired 2022-10-13 | PONY TALES $800: In C.S. Lewis' "The Horse & His Boy", young Shasta & a talking pony named Bree travel to this magical land Narnia |
| #3, aired 2022-10-09 | ANCIENT ROME $1000: In the 70s B.C. this gladiator led a slave revolt; Kirk Douglas played him on film Spartacus |
| #8715, aired 2022-10-07 | 2022 SPORTS NEWS $1000: Washington, D.C.'s NFL team "took charge" of their future, choosing this as their new team name Commanders |
| #8712, aired 2022-10-04 | A "C" IN LITERATURE $800: From the works of Charles Dickens, it's the last name of the father & son seen here Cratchit |
| #8708, aired 2022-09-28 | A LETTER, THEN A WORD $2000: It's the area where a company's top executives all have their offices the C-suite |
| #8695, aired 2022-07-29 | "C"HARACTER STUDY $3,000 (Daily Double): She's the heroine of "Wuthering Heights" & Alex Trebek loved to imitate Laurence Olivier repeating her name Catherine (Earnshaw) |
| #8693, aired 2022-07-27 | "B.C." $400: It's slang for basic training of new military recruits boot camp |
| #8693, aired 2022-07-27 | "B.C." $1200: It's one of the few animals commonly called by its genus and species names a Boa constrictor |
| #8693, aired 2022-07-27 | "B.C." $1600: It's the Chinese veggie seen here bok choy |
| #8692, aired 2022-07-26 | ACROSS HISTORY $400: Around 630 B.C. this militaristic city-state basically turned Messenia's people into serfs Sparta |
| #8688, aired 2022-07-20 | HISTORY $2000: This 5th century B.C. leader of Athens strengthened its leadership of Greece's city-states & had the Parthenon built Pericles |
| #8687, aired 2022-07-19 | 20th CENTURY AMERICA $1000: In 1960 4 students in Greensboro, N.C. staged a sit-in at this store's whites-only lunch counter, sparking other sit-ins in the South Woolworth's |
| #8687, aired 2022-07-19 | LET'S BUILD A HOUSE $2000: "C" if you can come up with this term for a projecting beam that's supported at only one end a cantilever |
| #8676, aired 2022-07-04 | THE POWER OF THE DOGE $400: At the end of the 7th c., Paolo Lucio Anafesto became, by tradition, Venice's 1st doge, Venetian Italian for this European noble title a duke |
| #8676, aired 2022-07-04 | ORCHESTRAL INSTRUMENTS $1000: As a visual aid, all the C's are red & the F's are black on the many strings of a standard type of this instrument a harp |
| #8672, aired 2022-06-28 | THE MAP OF EUROPE $800: Founded as far back as the 7th century B.C., Constanta is one of Romania's main ports on this sea the Black Sea |
| #8670, aired 2022-06-24 | PALINDROMIC NUMBERS $800: Washington, D.C.'s longtime area code 202 |
| #8662, aired 2022-06-14 | 3 FOR THE SHOW $400: CBS cops (or C.O.P.S.?) Lina Esco, David Lim & Alex Russell S.W.A.T. |
| #8659, aired 2022-06-09 | ABBREVIATED TV $1000: The forces of T.H.R.U.S.H. were enemies of "The Man from" this 1960s title spy organization U.N.C.L.E. |
| #8649, aired 2022-05-26 | THAT'S MY BOY! $1000: He fathered Campbell Scott George C. Scott |
| #8647, aired 2022-05-24 | U.S. GEOGRAPHIC HISTORY $2,000 (Daily Double): Reflecting the name of Istanbul's harbor, c. 1846 the strait connecting this U.S. bay to the ocean was dubbed "Chrysopylae" the San Francisco Bay |
| #8642, aired 2022-05-17 | POETS $400: Poetic insult contests called flyting, basically 15th c. rap battles, are parodied in this Scottish poet's "To a Louse" (Robert) Burns |
| #8640, aired 2022-05-13 | D.C. TOURISM $200: In 2022 the Smithsonian's Zoo celebrated 50 years of its breeding & conservation work for these animals imported from China pandas |
| #8640, aired 2022-05-13 | D.C. TOURISM $1000: In the 1880s, General Meigs designed the Pension Bureau building, now a museum; some called it "Meigs' Old Red" this Meigs's Old Red Barn |
| #8636, aired 2022-05-09 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $2,000 (Daily Double): Besides Boston & D.C., they're the 3 largest cities by population in the megalopolis known as the BosWash Corridor New York City, Philadelphia & Baltimore |
| #8632, aired 2022-05-03 | HISTORY $1600: It's been estimated that around 480 B.C. close to half of the world's population was in this empire founded by Cyrus the Great the Persian Empire |
| #8631, aired 2022-05-02 | AROUND THE WORLD $400: Built in what's now this country in the 300s B.C. & still in use today, the theater at Epidaurus seats about 13,000 Greece |
| #8622, aired 2022-04-19 | POSSESSIVE THINGS $1000: 9th c. English King Alfred the Great collected this saint's "Pence" for the pope; you can donate to a fund of the same name Peter's Pence |
| #8607, aired 2022-03-29 | IT HAPPENED IN EGYPT $400: In the 330s B.C. a Macedonian tough guy took over in Egypt & founded this city that's named for him Alexandria |
| #8602, aired 2022-03-22 | 1860s AMERICA $200: One of the first U.S. colleges for the deaf, Gallaudet University in this city was founded in 1864 Washington, D.C. |
| #8602, aired 2022-03-22 | SCIENTIFIC INITIALS $800: M.C.
(born M.S.),
a 2-time Nobel winner Marie Curie |
| #8595, aired 2022-03-11 | BANK "C" $400: While you don't sign the cashier's one, this double-"C" item that's also guaranteed is signed by you & a bank official a certified check |
| #8595, aired 2022-03-11 | BANK "C" $600: It's payment earned on the sum of an original principal plus the money the principal has already accrued compound interest |
| #8595, aired 2022-03-11 | BANK "C" $800: Also called a cap, it's the upper limit of a variable in a transaction, like the rate of an adjustable-rate mortgage the ceiling |
| #8588, aired 2022-03-02 | THE MAN IN THE DIRECTOR'S CHAIR $200: In 2009 he shot a documentary of "Kobe Doin' Work"; c'mon, do the right thing & name him Spike Lee |
| #8584, aired 2022-02-24 | THE INNER "EAR" $200: In the 15th century B.C. Egyptian queen Hatshepsut was depicted wearing men's attire & a fake one of these a beard |
| #8584, aired 2022-02-24 | BOOK OF THE YEAR $600: This author's novel "3001" is subtitled "The Final Odyssey" (Arthur C.) Clarke |
| #8584, aired 2022-02-24 | HISTORIC WOMEN $1200: One of America's first self-made female millionaires, this founder of a beauty empire was the subject of a Netflix series Madam C.J. Walker |
| #18, aired 2022-02-22 | "C" THE ANIMALS $800: Found in South America & seen here, it's the largest rodent a capybara |
| #17, aired 2022-02-22 | & NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT $1000: This 18th c. dictionary maker & subject of James Boswell's great biography liked to empty his pockets & roll down a hill Samuel Johnson |
| #8579, aired 2022-02-17 | ANIMALS OF NOTE $800: In 218 B.C. Hannibal left Spain with at least 37 of these animals; it's said the one-tusked Surus lasted the longest elephants |
| #13, aired 2022-02-17 | AFTER THE WAR $2000: The "Long Walls" of Athens were destroyed at this war's end to the accompaniment of flute music, but rebuilt in 393 B.C. the Peloponnesian War |
| #12, aired 2022-02-16 | THE FUTURE'S NOT SO BRIGHT... $1200: On this Amazon show set in the 24th c., a terrorist faction among the asteroid belt drops a big rock on Earth with devastating effect The Expanse |
| #8577, aired 2022-02-15 | OH, THE THINGS I'VE DONE $1000: Around 342 B.C. I got the call from Philip II of Macedonia to tutor his 13-year-old kid, Al; well, that's just great Aristotle |
| #8573, aired 2022-02-09 | IN AUTHORS' FOOTSTEPS $800: This author of fantasy novels & of "Mere Christianity" worshiped at Holy Trinity Church in Oxford & you can too (C.S.) Lewis |
| #8566, aired 2022-01-31 | STATE CAPITAL HISTORY $200: A famous speedway was built to test cars for this city's many early 20th c. automakers, like the National Motor Vehicle Company Indianapolis |
| #8566, aired 2022-01-31 | BIG NAMES ON CAMPUS $800: In 2021 this S.E.C. school in Alabama renamed Eagle Hall to honor Dr. Josetta Brittain Matthews, its first African-American graduate Auburn University |
| #8560, aired 2022-01-21 | LANDMARK OF THE CITY $200: The memorial seen here, this city Washington, D.C. |
| #8560, aired 2022-01-21 | SYMPHONIES $1200: It's thought that the grand scale & exuberant energy of Mozart's Symphony No. 41 in C major earned it this nickname the "Jupiter" Symphony |
| #8557, aired 2022-01-18 | MURALS $1200: Relocated to Washington, D.C., Marvin Beerbohm's "Automotive Industry" mural was originally created for a public library in this city Detroit |
| #8555, aired 2022-01-14 | FROM "C" TO "Y" $800: It's the type of seed seen here a caraway seed |
| #8555, aired 2022-01-14 | FROM "C" TO "Y" $2000: Hell's bells! It's the study of bells campanology |
| #8553, aired 2022-01-12 | IRON MAN $1000: Called the NBA's Iron Man, A.C. Green played 1,192 consecutive games & also collected 3 championship rings with this team the L.A. Lakers |
| #8545, aired 2021-12-31 | POETRY IN MOTION PICTURES $2000: It's the title of a 19th c. poem that Nelson Mandela loved, & of a movie in which Mandela gives a copy to a Rugby player Invictus |
| #8542, aired 2021-12-28 | MY GOVERNMENT JOB $1600: Celebrity in his own right if only for his facial hair, C. Everett Koop, from 1982 to 1989 U.S. surgeon general |
| #8538, aired 2021-12-22 | MAMMALS $4,000 (Daily Double): Its milk, a popular Saharan beverage, has 3 times the vitamin C of a cow's a camel |
| #8527, aired 2021-12-07 | OFFICE, OURS $800: Amal leads the pool in the Mega Millions lottery; Brad runs the pool for this one that's in D.C. & all but 5 states Powerball |
| #8525, aired 2021-12-03 | YOU GET A "C" $200: It's a movable object on a computer screen, not one who swears a lot a cursor |
| #8525, aired 2021-12-03 | YOU GET A "C" $600: It means unbroken & is used to describe the lower 48 U.S. states contiguous |
| #8525, aired 2021-12-03 | YOU GET A "C" $800: As a noun, it's a convent; as a verb, it means to confine cloister |
| #8522, aired 2021-11-30 | THE CIVIL WAR $400: Known as the C.S.S. Virginia when it fought the Monitor, the South's first ironclad was built from the captured U.S.S. this Merrimack |
| #8521, aired 2021-11-29 | WHO'S YOUR "C-O"? $400: In the U.S. Army, it's "the base level of the noncommissioned officer" ranks corporal |
| #8521, aired 2021-11-29 | WHO'S YOUR "C-O"? $800: In the British military, it ranks just below brigadier colonel |
| #8521, aired 2021-11-29 | WHO'S YOUR "C-O"? $1200: This word from the rowing team also means the most important member of a Coast Guard small boat crew a coxswain |
| #8521, aired 2021-11-29 | WHO'S YOUR "C-O"? $1600: The Army has medics; the Navy has these corpsmen |
| #8521, aired 2021-11-29 | WHO'S YOUR "C-O"? $2000: This boss of a squadron once ranked just below a rear admiral a commodore |
| #8518, aired 2021-11-24 | SHORTZ $800: One of Will's favorites from his NPR Sunday puzzle is the fact that this type of pain has the sequence "A-C-H" twice in a row a stomachache |
| #8512, aired 2021-11-16 | HISTORIC NAMES $1200: Born around 610 B.C. on Lesbos, this poet integrated elements of Aphrodite's rituals like incense-laden altars into her work Sappho |
| #8505, aired 2021-11-05 | FLORIST'S READING LIST $800: "Petals on the Wind" & "If There Be Thorns" are sequels to this V.C. Andrews novel Flowers in the Attic |
| #8504, aired 2021-11-04 | EPONYMOUS -ISMs $400: It wasn't until after his 479 B.C. death that the "ism" named for him became China's leading philosophy Confucius |
| #8501, aired 2021-11-01 | THE MAN'S PEN NAME $800: N.W. Clerk--a play on Old English for "I know not what scholar"--was a pen name for this creator of Aslan C.S. Lewis |
| #8491, aired 2021-10-18 | HISTORY'S MYSTERIES $800: Dead by her own hand in 30 B.C., she was thought to have been buried in Alexandria, but her tomb has never been found Cleopatra |
| #8487, aired 2021-10-12 | & PLAYING TRIANGLE $800: This 6th century B.C. man's theorem about the lengths of the sides of a right triangle is actually far older than even he is Pythagoras |
| #8478, aired 2021-09-29 | SOUTHERN LITERATURE $800: 14-year-old Lily finds her way to Tiburon, S.C. & the Boatwright sisters in Sue Monk Kidd's "The Secret Life of" these Bees |
| #8478, aired 2021-09-29 | I NOMINATE YOU FOR A NOBEL PRIZE! $800: Pearl Buck, W.H. Auden & C.S. Lewis all nominated this "North of Boston" poet for Literature, but he never won (Robert) Frost |
| #8469, aired 2021-09-16 | "C" FLAT $600: Divided into 64 squares, it's usually found with royalty on it a chessboard |
| #8469, aired 2021-09-16 | "C" FLAT $1000: The X's give an extra hint to this popular form of embroidery cross-stitch |
| #8463, aired 2021-08-11 | WE'LL GET TOGETHER $1000: Get C, H & O together in the right proportions & you've got this gasoline additive also called ethyl alcohol ethanol |
| #8458, aired 2021-08-04 | "C" IN SCIENCE $400: The Earth's mantle is sandwiched between these two layers core & crust |
| #8455, aired 2021-07-30 | POETRY IN MOTION PICTURES $800: In "The Outsiders" C. Thomas Howell recites this poet's "Nothing Gold Can Stay" Frost |
| #8452, aired 2021-07-27 | SCIENCE FICTION $8,400 (Daily Double): Arthur C. Clarke's "Rendezvous with" this isn't about a Hindu god but rather a spooky craft that's entered our galaxy Rama |
| #8451, aired 2021-07-26 | U.S. GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS $1600: Ariel Rios, who died battling the flow of cocaine, is honored with his name on the D.C. headquarters of this bureau named for other substances the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms |
| #8446, aired 2021-07-19 | LET'S GET SERIOUS $1600: Hepatitis C can lead to this other serious "C" disease, permanent scarring & hardening of the liver cirrhosis |
| #8445, aired 2021-07-16 | S.E.C.! S.E.C.! $400: University of Mississippi alumni include Shepard Smith, Michael Oher & this bestselling author of "The Street Lawyer" Grisham |
| #8445, aired 2021-07-16 | S.E.C.! S.E.C.! $800: In 1965 scientists at the University of Florida came up with this beverage to help the football team stay better hydrated Gatorade |
| #8445, aired 2021-07-16 | S.E.C.! S.E.C.! $1600: Gov. George Wallace protested the court-ordered end of racial segregation at this school in 1963 the University of Alabama |
| #8445, aired 2021-07-16 | S.E.C.! S.E.C.! $2000: He was the first superintendent of Louisiana State but resigned to "march" off into the Union Army Sherman |
| #8445, aired 2021-07-16 | S.E.C.! S.E.C.! $5,300 (Daily Double): The University of Tennessee is one of 2 S.E.C. schools from the state; this one founded by a shipping magnate in 1873 is the other Vanderbilt |
| #8442, aired 2021-07-13 | YOU CAN'T $200: ...buy more of the golden Kellogg's cereal named for this "Star Wars" droid; it was discontinued years ago C-3PO |
| #8441, aired 2021-07-12 | THE SECRETARY OF STATE, IN BRIEF $400: The first U.S. Secretary of State, he helped arrange for D.C. to be the capital Thomas Jefferson |
| #8439, aired 2021-07-08 | A MOMENT OF SCIENCE $200: The c. 300 B.C. "De Historia Plantarum" helped establish Plato's student Theophrastus as the founder of this 6-letter science botany |
| #8434, aired 2021-07-01 | "C" AS IN CAT $200: Sadly, this fast spotted cat hasn't prospered--it's endangered a cheetah |
| #8434, aired 2021-07-01 | TRYING ON SOME GENES $2000: It's the "T" in the representation G-C-A-T of the 4 nucleic acid building blocks of DNA thymine |
| #8427, aired 2021-06-22 | C.G., I $2000: In the 1970s I had a giant hit with the song "Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue" Crystal Gayle |
| #8423, aired 2021-06-16 | NOT QUITE STUPID ANSWERS $200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from outside the Smithsonian Castle in Washington, D.C.) This scientist's will provided the funds that established the Smithsonian Institution; his crypt is here in the Smithsonian Castle & the institution he endowed has grown around him, exceeding anything he could have envisioned Smithson |
| #8411, aired 2021-05-31 | SOUVENIRS $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from the National Air & Space Museum in Washington, D.C.) The Smithsonian's National Air & Space Museum store sells a Barbie doll of Katherine Johnson, a pioneering NASA mathematician who was portrayed by Taraji P. Henson in this Oscar-nominated 2016 film Hidden Figures |
| #8410, aired 2021-05-28 | IMBIBER'S LEXICON $400: 16th c. Brits would soak a gunpowder pellet in liquor, then try to light it; that test led to this 5-letter term for alcohol content proof |
| #8402, aired 2021-05-18 | I'M ON A BOAT! $800: There's a long & an alternate shortened spelling of this ship area, seen here the forecastle (fo'c'sle) |
| #8400, aired 2021-05-14 | HISTORICAL FICTION $1200: Mary Renault's "The Persian Boy" tells the story of a courtesan in love with this 4th century B.C. warrior king Alexander the Great |
| #8396, aired 2021-05-10 | FROM C TO D $1000: Referring to its crunch, it's another name for iceberg lettuce crisphead |
| #8393, aired 2021-05-05 | OH, I'VE OFFENDED YOU? $1200: On September 13, 2020 D.C.'s NFL squad took the field with this less-offensive name the Washington Football Team |
| #8392, aired 2021-05-04 | READING MATERIAL $200: Look, nothing's written in this--well, the tablet of Assyrian King Tukulti-Ninurta from the 1200s B.C. is stone |
| #8391, aired 2021-05-03 | HISTORY $200: Around 1530 B.C. Queen Ahhotep rallied this kingdom's troops to victory against a Hyksos invasion Egypt |
| #8391, aired 2021-05-03 | PROM MUSIC $1200: Vitamin C's "Graduation" rhymes, "As our lives change / Come whatever / We will still be" this alliterative phrase friends forever |
| #8383, aired 2021-04-21 | THEY NAMED A SCHOOL FOR ME $1000: Acknowledging that this Shoshone woman's name can be spelled different ways, a Seattle public school spells it with a C & a J Sacajawea |
| #8381, aired 2021-04-19 | "M.C." $200: The reading section of the S.A.T. includes 52 questions of this type multiple choice |
| #8379, aired 2021-04-15 | CAPITAL "C" $2,000 (Daily Double): This capital lies on the banks of the world's longest river Cairo |
| #8378, aired 2021-04-14 | 3-NAMED CELEBRITIES $1200: When he first rocked out to "Pink Houses" & "R.O.C.K. In The U.S.A.", he was using these 3 names John Cougar Mellencamp |
| #8359, aired 2021-03-18 | AUTHORS WHO SERVED IN THE MILITARY $800: C.S. Lewis fought in this war, arriving at the front lines in the Somme Valley on his 19th birthday World War I |
| #8357, aired 2021-03-16 | HISTORIC HENRYS $2,000 (Daily Double): The Senate's "Great Triumvirate" was John C. Calhoun, Daniel Webster & him Henry Clay |
| #8356, aired 2021-03-15 | "T.O.C." $800: It's the tarot card seen here the Three of Cups |
| #8356, aired 2021-03-15 | "T.O.C." $1600: One of Bob Barker's first gigs, it's also the name of a New Mexico City Truth or Consequences |
| #8355, aired 2021-03-12 | ALLITERATIVE LIT $800: First name of C.S. Forester's creation Captain Hornblower of the Royal Navy Horatio |
| #8354, aired 2021-03-11 | NBA LOGOS $400: This team's logo has 3 stars for D.C., Maryland & Virginia the Washington Wizards |
| #8353, aired 2021-03-10 | NICKNAMES $1000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents from FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C.) An official of the FBI's New York office said in 1992, "The Don is covered in Velcro" & every charge stuck when the Bureau, at last, succeeded in convicting mafia boss John Gotti, known by this slippery nickname "The Teflon Don" |
| #8352, aired 2021-03-09 | 16-LETTER WORDS $2000: With a name that spans oceans, this global hotel brand includes London's Park Lane & the Willard in Washington, D.C. Intercontinental |
| #8349, aired 2021-03-04 | ALPHABET DOGS $600: C: Toto was one of these Scottish terriers bred to chase vermin in rock piles a cairn terrier |
| #8348, aired 2021-03-03 | B.C.-ING YOU $200: The city of Larsa wasn't up to this Babylonian's code, so he conquered it in the 1760s B.C. Hammurabi |
| #8330, aired 2021-02-05 | ISLANDS $2000: "C" is for Caribbean & for this, Mexico's largest island in that sea Cozumel |
| #8328, aired 2021-02-03 | SCIENTISTS $600: Pierre-Gilles de Gennes won a Nobel Prize for explaining the behavior of these "L.C."s whose "D" is used in video screens liquid crystals |
| #8319, aired 2021-01-21 | 5 MORE "C"s OF DIAMONDS $800: This other word for "war" is applied by the U.N. to diamonds that finance war conflict |
| #8319, aired 2021-01-21 | 5 MORE "C"s OF DIAMONDS $1200: A diamond is this type of solid, usually with 8 faces a crystal |
| #8319, aired 2021-01-21 | 5 MORE "C"s OF DIAMONDS $1600: "The Panther" is an onyx & diamond bracelet made by this French jeweler; in 2010 it sold for $4.5 million Cartier |
| #8319, aired 2021-01-21 | 5 MORE "C"s OF DIAMONDS $2000: Giant gem seller De Beers has been called "the most successful" this modern commerce cooperative arrangement cartel |
| #8317, aired 2021-01-19 | LIBROS EN ESPAÑOL $800: From C.S. Lewis:
"La silla de la plata" The Silver Chair |
| #8311, aired 2021-01-11 | NONFICTION $600: In "A Grief Observed", he left the land of Narnia to grapple with his feelings of loss after his wife's death C.S. Lewis |
| #8296, aired 2020-12-07 | OXFORD'S VERY SHORT INTRODUCTIONS $7,800 (Daily Double): "A Very Short Introduction to" him says that like Marx & Freud, this 18th c. economist's work "is more invoked than it is read" (Adam) Smith |
| #8291, aired 2020-11-30 | 3 C's $400: Adjective meaning so small it can't be seen with the naked eye microscopic |
| #8291, aired 2020-11-30 | 3 C's $800: 3-"c" word for the thin red feature on top of a rooster's head cockscomb |
| #8291, aired 2020-11-30 | 3 C's $1200: It's a pastoral letter written by the pope on matters of doctrine encyclical |
| #8291, aired 2020-11-30 | 3 C's $1600: In Italian cuisine, this preparation of thinly sliced beef makes for appetizing appetizers carpaccio |
| #8291, aired 2020-11-30 | 3 C's $2000: Adjective for a letdown, like the end of "The Epic of Gilgamesh"--the hero's quest for a magic plant... ends without it anticlimactic |
| #8290, aired 2020-11-27 | C AS IN "CAT" $2000: It's a question & answer method of religious instruction catechism |
| #8284, aired 2020-11-19 | IT'S A FACT $400: Spelled with a "C", it's a unit of weight for diamonds; spelled with a "K", it's a measure of the purity of gold carat |
| #8276, aired 2020-11-09 | A NIGHT AT THE OPERA $200: After his U.S. debut with Joan Sutherland in 1965, this bearded Italian tenor hit the high C's as Tonjo in "La fille du régiment" Pavarotti |
| #8274, aired 2020-11-05 | HISTORICAL FACTS $3,000 (Daily Double): During the Gladiator or Third Servile War in the 70s B.C., this rebel & his forces gained control over most of southern Italy Spartacus |
| #8273, aired 2020-11-04 | CLUES ACROSS THE SMITHSONIAN $200: (Bill Kelly presents from the National Air & Space Museum in Washington, D.C.) I'm Bill Kelly from ABC7: the Air and Space Museum's Pioneers of Flight Gallery include such treasures as the bright red Lockheed Vega in which this woman became the first woman and second person to fly solo across the Atlantic in 1932 Amelia Earhart |
| #8273, aired 2020-11-04 | CLUES ACROSS THE SMITHSONIAN $600: (Bill Kelly presents from the National Air & Space Museum in Washington, D.C.) The Air and Space Museums's Milestones of Flight Hall is filled with historic crafts, like this plane that made headlines around the world in the spring of 1927 the Spirit of St. Louis |
| #8273, aired 2020-11-04 | CLUES ACROSS THE SMITHSONIAN $800: ( Jonathan Elias presents from outside The Castle in Washington, D.C.) Hi, I'm Jonathan Elias from ABC7: the architect of the Smithsonian's Castle said the color of the sandstone he used was close to ashes of roses; it was quarried in Maryland along this nearby river the Potomac |
| #8270, aired 2020-10-30 | FICTION $2000: In a WWI-set novel by C.S. Forester, Rose Sayer & uncouth Captain Charlie Allnutt are thrown together on this title boat The African Queen |
| #8267, aired 2020-10-27 | THE BOOK OF JOB $2000: C.S. Lewis:
"The ____'s Nephew" Magician |
| #8263, aired 2020-10-21 | THE "A", "B", "C"s OF GOLF $200: pga.com says a good one of these assistants "can be worth several strokes a round" a caddy |
| #8263, aired 2020-10-21 | THE "A", "B", "C"s OF GOLF $400: 3-letter aka for a hole in one ace |
| #8263, aired 2020-10-21 | THE "A", "B", "C"s OF GOLF $600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew demonstrates a golf grip.) All ten fingers are placed on the club in this type of grip, named for another sport baseball |
| #8263, aired 2020-10-21 | THE "A", "B", "C"s OF GOLF $800: It's the amount of sideways curve or bend to a putt break |
| #8263, aired 2020-10-21 | THE "A", "B", "C"s OF GOLF $1000: Often traveling 100 yards plus, it's a shot hit to get up close to the green on a longer hole an approach |
| #8262, aired 2020-10-20 | DENNIS, ANYONE? $800: Dennis Ritchie of Bell Labs was known for his book about this letter's "Programming Language" C |
| #8262, aired 2020-10-20 | WORLD HERITAGE SITES IN THE U.S. $2000: Occupied c. 700-1400, Cahokia Mounds in Ill. are remnants of the largest settlement n. of Mexico eponymously called pre-this Columbian |
| #8255, aired 2020-10-09 | THE DOCTOR WILL "C" YOU NOW $4,000 (Daily Double): Hermes' wand, this symbol of the U.S. Army Medical Corps, is a staff with 2 serpents coiled around it the caduceus |
| #8253, aired 2020-10-07 | HISTORY $600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents by a display monitor.) Tradition says here's the roughly 25-mile route Pheidippides ran in 490 B.C., bringing news of victory to Athens from this plain whose name is known beyond ancient history Marathon |
| #8246, aired 2020-09-28 | HISTORY $400: In 1800 the U.S. capital was moved to Washington, D.C. from this city Philadelphia |
| #8244, aired 2020-09-24 | "A" IS FOR AUTUMN $400: Each fall Alabama & this S.E.C. football archrival meet in "The Iron Bowl" Auburn |
| #8241, aired 2020-09-21 | THE TEMPLETON PRIZE $1000: 1982's winner was this man from N.C. who "took his message of Christianity into the...world of radio and television" Billy Graham |
| #8235, aired 2020-06-12 | TROOP-POURRI $1200: A C.O.S., short for this operations specialist, protects the army's computer networks from getting hacked cyber |
| #8231, aired 2020-06-08 | FONTS OF WISDOM $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents by a display monitor.) California’s 3rd and Texas 3th district make the A; Ohio’s 12th and 7th districts make the B, and Connecticut’s 1st district is the C in a new font called Ugly Gerry in which “Gerry” stands for this partisan process gerrymandering |
| #8228, aired 2020-06-03 | IS IT BIGGER THAN A CHICKEN? $200: Yes, it's this Acropolis temple completed in 438 B.C.; the foundation seems good, but it could probably use a little roof work the Parthenon |
| #8224, aired 2020-05-28 | A POTPOURRI OF PICTURES $1600: Germany's Stuttgart City Library has been described as having the feel of this Dutch artist's mind-bending works (M.C.) Escher |
| #8223, aired 2020-05-27 | A WRITER'S LIFE $1,000 (Daily Double): Born 1898, taught at Oxford & Cambridge, chronicled big cats, enchantresses & closets, died 1963 C.S. Lewis |
| #8223, aired 2020-05-27 | SAY IT IN FRENCH $1000: That's life c'est la vie |
| #8217, aired 2020-05-19 | STILL STANDING IN EUROPE $200: The sculptor Phidias supervised this building's construction beginning in the year 447 B.C. the Parthenon |
| #8215, aired 2020-05-01 | MAY DAY! MAY DAY! $600: Until May 1, 2008 Washington, D.C.'s cabs didn't have these; they used a zone system instead meters |
| #8212, aired 2020-04-28 | SILENT "C" $200: An elephant's trunk contains roughly 40,000 of these, more than you have in your whole body muscles |
| #8212, aired 2020-04-28 | SILENT "C" $600: Title for a Russian empress, like Nicholas II's Alexandra czarina |
| #8209, aired 2020-04-23 | LITERATURE $400: All published in the 1950s, 7 books make up this series by C.S. Lewis The Chronicles of Narnia |
| #8208, aired 2020-04-22 | AT REST IN WASHINGTON, D.C. $800: At St. Paul's Rock Creek Cemetery, writer Gore Vidal and this longtime host of "Meet the Press" Tim Russert |
| #8204, aired 2020-04-16 | AMERICAN HISTORY $600: In 1832 S.C. passed "an ordinance to" do this, void certain federal laws; Pres. Jackson said it's your ordinance that's void! nullify or nullification |
| #8198, aired 2020-04-08 | STRAIGHT C'S $400: 17th century pirates who raided Spanish colonies, or a 21st century team that may take on the Raiders buccaneers |
| #8198, aired 2020-04-08 | STRAIGHT C'S $800: A person's usual job, or the seizure & control of territory by a foreign army occupation |
| #8198, aired 2020-04-08 | STRAIGHT C'S $1200: Having gained the title, a new king does this to the throne accede |
| #8198, aired 2020-04-08 | STRAIGHT C'S $1600: The color of the packets on the right tells you they contain this compound saccharin |
| #8198, aired 2020-04-08 | STRAIGHT C'S $2000: After the second, each term is the sum of its 2 predecessors in this sequence that begins 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5... Fibonacci |
| #8195, aired 2020-04-03 | NOBEL LITERARY NOMINEES $400: C.S. Lewis nominated this friend & fellow fantasy writer for a Nobel Tolkien |
| #8192, aired 2020-03-31 | C BEFORE E, AFTER I $1600: It's a narrow opening in a cliff a crevice |
| #8190, aired 2020-03-27 | LATIN PHRASES $1600: Julius Caesar summed up his victory in a 47 B.C. campaign with these 3 Latin words "Veni, vidi, vici" |
| #8188, aired 2020-03-25 | THAT'S GOTTA HURT! $200: Park ranger Roy C. Sullivan survived being struck by this 7 times, though he suffered some burns & hair loss lightning |
| #8180, aired 2020-03-13 | SMITHSONIAN AIR & SPACE MUSEUM $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from the Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum in Washington, D.C.) Known as "the couch", the seat inside Friendship 7 was custom-made to fit this Project Mercury pilot and future U.S. Senator John Glenn |
| #8174, aired 2020-03-05 | "C" AS IN SEIZE $200: It's a car pedal, or a verb meaning to hold tightly a clutch |
| #8174, aired 2020-03-05 | MONUMENTS & MEMORIALS $800: Near the famous wall, a D.C. memorial to women's service in this war was unveiled on Veterans Day 1993 the Vietnam War |
| #8173, aired 2020-03-04 | HELLER $200: The Supreme Court's decision in the case of D.C. v. Heller used this amendment to strike down a gun control law the Second Amendment |
| #8170, aired 2020-02-28 | SPELL IT LIKE THE BRITS $400: Your singing is lovely, Georgina; win "Britain's Got Talent" & Simon Cowell might hand you one of these for 250,000 pounds C-H-E-Q-U-E |
| #8166, aired 2020-02-24 | AROUND THE WORLD $1000: One of Asia's most vulnerable rainforests is in the mountains of Cambodia named for this spice that also starts with the letter C cardamom |
| #8161, aired 2020-02-17 | BEARD MAN $200: A Guinness World Record, Hans Langseth's over 17-foot-long beard was eventually cut & donated to this D.C. institution the Smithsonian |
| #8159, aired 2020-02-13 | JUST SAY "N.O." $1000: This astronomical site in D.C. is responsible for the U.S. time service the Naval Observatory |
| #8159, aired 2020-02-13 | OPERA ZINGERS $1600: "You inconsiderate jade" is one of the nicer things said to Polly in this 1728 "opera" that inspired the 20th c. "Threepenny Opera" The Beggar's Opera |
| #8153, aired 2020-02-05 | NICKNAMES $400: The grand scale of Mozart's Symphony No. 41 in C Major earned it this nickname, after the chief Roman god Jupiter |
| #8152, aired 2020-02-04 | IN THE ENVIRONMENT $200: It's the name in common to Paris' subway & Washington, D.C.'s rail system Metro |
| #8151, aired 2020-02-03 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN ATHLETES $200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew is at the National Museum of African American History & Culture in Washington, D.C.) The Game Changers Exhibit honors such athletes as this track & field star whose four gold medals at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin upset Hitler's dreams to demonstrate Aryan superiority Jesse Owens |
| #8151, aired 2020-02-03 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN ATHLETES $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew is at the National Museum of African American History & Culture in Washington, D.C.) Dominating women's tennis, Althea Gibson broke the color barrier & became the first African-American to win the French & U.S. Open Singles as well as, in 1957 & 1958, this oldest Grand Slam event Wimbledon |
| #8150, aired 2020-01-31 | HISTORIC PLEAS $800: An 11th c. chronicle says Lady Godiva pleaded with her husband to lower the people's taxes; he said okay, if you'll do this horseback ride naked through the town |
| #8143, aired 2020-01-22 | POUND! SAND! $1200: Readers got Ezra Pound's views on art, poetry & philosophy in his "Guide to" this, oddly spelled starting "K-U-L-C-H" Culture |
| #8140, aired 2020-01-17 | WHAT'S THE BIG IDEA? $1600: Some say this 2-word power of personal choice is an illusion; C.S. Lewis said it "makes evil possible" but also goodness free will |
| #8139, aired 2020-01-16 | STATES' COMMON SURNAMES $400: It's the most common last name in over half of the 50 states Smith |
| #8135, aired 2020-01-10 | THE IRISHMAN $800: Dublin's Leinster House inspired James Hoban's design of this Washington, D.C. building the White House |
| #8134, aired 2020-01-09 | AMERICAN "CITY" $800: This Nevada city bears the name of John C. Fremont's scout Carson City |
| #8132, aired 2020-01-07 | OCCUPATION ETYMOLOGY $1000: This word goes way back in Britain, despite the legend that the 1st ones hung out in D.C.'s Willard Hotel to nag Pres. Grant a lobbyist |
| #8131, aired 2020-01-06 | STATUE OF NO LIMITATIONS $1000: Some are up in arms over this marble statue carved around 150 B.C., saying she's really the sea goddess Amphitrite the Venus de Milo |
| #8130, aired 2020-01-03 | I'M SO THERE FOR IT! $200: It's 399 B.C. & I'm ready for my trial; 500 Greek jurors are sure to give this harmless elderly philosopher a fair shake Socrates |
| #8129, aired 2020-01-02 | WHITE HOUSE HUNTERS $200: Jimmy & Rosalynn are moving to D.C.; he's putting his farm of this crop into a trust to avoid conflicts of interest peanut |
| #8129, aired 2020-01-02 | THAT'S HERESY! $2000: Arianism, which argued that God & Jesus weren't one & the same, was condemned by the 4th c. council of this "Creed" city Nicaea |
| #8128, aired 2020-01-01 | UNCOMMON $800: There are 3 C's in this word for someone who has a truly unconventional personality eccentric |
| #8121, aired 2019-12-23 | FBI HEADQUARTERS $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from the FBI headquarters in Washington, D.C.) These passports belonged to Cynthia and Richard Murphy, real names Lidiya and Vladimir Guryev, who were among 10 foreign agents arrested in a 2010 operation that inspired this Emmy-winning FX series about Russian spies masquerading as U.S. citizens The Americans |
| #8121, aired 2019-12-23 | THEIR JOBS IN 2019 $800: She's the C.O.O. of Facebook Sheryl Sandberg |
| #8121, aired 2019-12-23 | FBI HEADQUARTERS $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from the FBI headquarters in Washington, D.C.) Nearly 95% of the over 500 who've appeared on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted fugitives list have been found, including this man who was listed twice--first following an April 1968 assassination and again briefly after a short 1977 prison escape James Earl Ray |
| #8121, aired 2019-12-23 | FBI HEADQUARTERS $1000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from the FBI headquarters in Washington, D.C.) After much internal debate over the wisdom of giving in to terrorists, in 1995, the FBI allowed publication of this criminal's long rambling manifesto. The move paid off when the man's brother recognized his writing and alerted authorities the Unabomber (Ted Kaczynski) |
| #8119, aired 2019-12-19 | NATIVE AMERICANS: THE REALITY $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew is at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C.) Soon after this 1876 battle, the U.S. had almost all the region's Native Americans confined to reservations, yet that one setback looms large and made the Sioux and other plains people the iconic image of Native Americans the Battle of Little Bighorn |
| #8119, aired 2019-12-19 | NATIVE AMERICANS: THE REALITY $1600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew is at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C.) Disputes over treaties between tribes and the U.S. may seem far in the past, but this mile marker says otherwise. It was part of the 2016 protest by the Standing Rock Tribe that claimed this pipeline violated an 1868 pact the Dakota Access Pipeline |
| #8117, aired 2019-12-17 | CONTEMPORARY REVIEWS OF CHILDREN'S BOOKS $200: C.S. Lewis' review of this 1937 work by pal J.R.R. Tolkien said, "Prediction is dangerous but" it "may well prove a classic" The Hobbit |
| #8116, aired 2019-12-16 | C'MON, THAT'S ANCIENT HISTORY! $400: Protected on 3 sides by mountains, this Greek city-state not big on luxury was on the bank of the Eurotas River Sparta |
| #8116, aired 2019-12-16 | C'MON, THAT'S ANCIENT HISTORY! $800: I'm walkin' in this capital of Ancient Egypt, founded around 3000 B.C., but do I really feel the way I feel? Memphis |
| #8116, aired 2019-12-16 | C'MON, THAT'S ANCIENT HISTORY! $1200: Noted for his wisdom, this B.C. ruler organized Ancient Israel into 12 districts, appointing his own gov. for each one Solomon |
| #8116, aired 2019-12-16 | C'MON, THAT'S ANCIENT HISTORY! $1600: Newsflash, 338 B.C.! I'm hearing Philip II, ruler of this land, has taken Greece & I, for one, welcome our new overlord Macedonia |
| #8116, aired 2019-12-16 | C'MON, THAT'S ANCIENT HISTORY! $4,000 (Daily Double): Gaius Julius Vindex rebelled against this emperor after seeing him "playing pregnant women & slaves" on stage Nero |
| #8112, aired 2019-12-10 | PINK-POURRI $400: In the late 19th c. some U.S. states required this non-dairy product to be dyed pink so it would not be confused for butter margarine |
| #8112, aired 2019-12-10 | AMERICAN HISTORY $600: This man's 1825 inaugural address had to compete with a traveling circus performing in D.C. (John) Quincy Adams |
| #8110, aired 2019-12-06 | OLD BOOKS $2000: Chretien de Troyes' 12th c. Arthurian tale about this young knight's search for the grail was the basis for a Wagner opera Parsifal |
| #8101, aired 2019-11-25 | MODELS OF THE HEAVENS $2000: A NASA scale model uses a grapefruit-sized sun in D.C.; the Sun's "neighbor", Proxima this, would be a cherry in California Centauri |
| #8097, aired 2019-11-19 | AUTHORS' FICTIONAL PLACES $200: Narnia (C.S.) Lewis |
| #8096, aired 2019-11-18 | WAR STORIES $2000: "The African Queen" by C.S. Forester World War I |
| #8095, aired 2019-11-15 | "R"CHITECTURE $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Smithsonian Castle in Washington, D.C.) The Castle, the Smithsonian Institution's main building, was designed by this prolific 19th century architect, who would go on to design St. Patrick's Cathedral James Renwick |
| #8088, aired 2019-11-06 | THAT'S ENTERTAINMENT! $400: The only actor to perform in all the "Star Wars" movies is Anthony Daniels, who plays this character C-3PO |
| #8085, aired 2019-11-01 | "B.C." $200: It's a less appealing 2-word name for tofu bean curd |
| #8085, aired 2019-11-01 | B.C. $400: Starting around 600 B.C. many Jews were deported east from the kingdom of Judah in what's known as the Babylonian this forced departure Babylonian Exile (or diaspora) |
| #8085, aired 2019-11-01 | NAMED FOR A PRESIDENT $600: Founded in Africa in 1822, it's the only world capital (besides Washington, D.C.) that's named for a U.S. president Monrovia |
| #8085, aired 2019-11-01 | "B.C." $800: It's the slang term for the ideological barrier separating China from the West Bamboo Curtain |
| #8085, aired 2019-11-01 | B.C. $1200: Ostia, at the mouth of this river, served as Rome's naval base & commercial harbor the Tiber |
| #8072, aired 2019-10-15 | EXPLORERS $800: As part of the topographical corps of the U.S. Army, this "Pathfinder" surveyed the upper Missouri River (John C.) Fremont |
| #8072, aired 2019-10-15 | THAT CODEX MOMENT $1200: The Madrid Codex is one of a handful of this Mesoamerican culture's hieroglyphic texts to survive 16th C. Spanish burnings the Maya |
| #8062, aired 2019-10-01 | WHAT'S THAT AWARD FOR? $200: The Arthur C. Clarke Award science fiction |
| #8052, aired 2019-09-17 | HALLEY'S COMET IN HISTORY $400: It's been speculated that Halley's Comet in 12 B.C. was this star from Matthew 2:2 the Star of Bethlehem (the star that the Magi followed accepted) |
| #8043, aired 2019-07-24 | HISTORY BOOKS $2,000 (Daily Double): A look at great historic clashes, Philip Sabin's "Lost Battles" includes this 490 B.C. battle the Persians lost to the Greeks Marathon |
| #8041, aired 2019-07-22 | FROM "C" TO "X" $1600: It's an ancient manuscript that is the earliest form of a book; there is a Madrid one & a Dresden one a codex |
| #8041, aired 2019-07-22 | FROM "C" TO "X" $2000: It's the diacritical mark seen here over the letter "A" circumflex |
| #8038, aired 2019-07-17 | ABBREV. TV CHANNELS $400: The "C" & the "S" in C-SPAN, they are 2 ways of receiving television in the home cable and satellite |
| #8037, aired 2019-07-16 | IT'S ALL IN THE PAST $1000: The 12th c. Knights Hospitallers helped pilgrims in the Holy Land while the Knights this protected 'em coming & going the Templar |
| #8032, aired 2019-07-09 | FAMOUS AMERICAN WOMEN $800: In 1777 the Pennsylvania State Navy Board paid her for making "ship's colours, &c" Betsy Ross |
| #8021, aired 2019-06-24 | SILENT LETTER BUT DEADLY $1000: A silent "C" is the second letter of this agricultural implement, Death's symbolic tool of the trade a scythe |
| #8019, aired 2019-06-20 | 23 & YOU $2000: The 23rd Amendment to the U.S. Constitution permitted citizens of this place to vote for president Washington, D.C. |
| #8001, aired 2019-05-27 | FEELING ART "C" $400: This French-named technique involves sticking photos, papers or really anything onto a canvas or backing a collage |
| #8001, aired 2019-05-27 | FEELING ART "C" $800: MoMA has a series of 32 Andy Warhol paintings of these cans, including clam chowder & chicken noodle Campbell's soups |
| #7995, aired 2019-05-17 | AND A BOOK $200: This author introduced the Pevensie children in "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" C.S. Lewis |
| #7995, aired 2019-05-17 | MVP! MVP! $1000: We get a kick out of Wayne Rooney, D.C. United's 2018 team MVP & also winner of the squad's coveted "Golden" this Golden Boot |
| #7993, aired 2019-05-15 | ANCIENT BATTLES $400: This man defeated Vercingetorix at the 52 B.C. Battle of Alesia, & Gaul was Rome's Julius Caesar |
| #7993, aired 2019-05-15 | ANCIENT BATTLES $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a diagram of a battle on the monitor.) At the decisive 331 B.C. Battle of Gaugamela, Alexander the Great's phalanxes opened ranks to let these wheeled Persian weapons pass through, then wipe them out chariots |
| #7980, aired 2019-04-26 | CRAZY WEATHER WE'RE HAVING! $600: A S.C. man said this experience "cooks you from the inside out like being in a microwave" & says it's happened to him 11 times being struck by lightning |
| #7976, aired 2019-04-22 | I WROTE IT $1600: "The Silver Chair", in which King Caspian is an old man C.S. Lewis |
| #7959, aired 2019-03-28 | LETTER PERFECT $1600: 16th c. scholar Gian Giorgio Trissino is "the father of" this letter that is used to start the Savior's name J |
| #7958, aired 2019-03-27 | GETTING AN EDUCATION $1000: In 2005 this D.C. university's Walsh School of Foreign Service opened its first foreign campus, in Qatar Georgetown |
| #7956, aired 2019-03-25 | 1960s AMERICA $4,400 (Daily Double): In 1964 D.C. residents were allowed to vote for president for the first time, going 85% for this man Lyndon Johnson |
| #7952, aired 2019-03-19 | THE BOOK TITLE TITLE $400: "The African ____" by C.S. Forester queen |
| #7943, aired 2019-03-06 | TALK LIKE AN OLD SAILOR $1600: This term for the forward section of the upper deck can be shortened & spelled with 3 apostrophes the forecastle (or fo'c's'le) |
| #7940, aired 2019-03-01 | "E"PONYMOUS $7,400 (Daily Double): The plane truth is that this 2-word branch of math is named for a Greek who lived around 300 B.C. Euclidean geometry |
| #7938, aired 2019-02-27 | A WALK IN THE PARK $1000: Stop to enjoy the landscaping of Dumbarton Oaks park in this city D.C., or Washington, D.C. |
| #7938, aired 2019-02-27 | A LONG, LONG TIME AGO $1200: Don't call Ayla in "The Clan of the Cave Bear" a Neanderthal--she's this kind of human that emerged later, around 40,000 B.C. a Cro Magnon |
| #7935, aired 2019-02-22 | LET'S "C" SOME DANCING $400: This dance that shares its name with a Southern city was popularized by a 1923 Broadway show the Charleston |
| #7935, aired 2019-02-22 | LET'S "C" SOME DANCING $800: This dance calls for a line, as seen here the conga |
| #7935, aired 2019-02-22 | LET'S "C" SOME DANCING $1200: In the 1890s a woman known as la goulue was said to be Paris' best at this dance dance the can-can |
| #7935, aired 2019-02-22 | LET'S "C" SOME DANCING $1600: Bruno noted the "replacement hip action" of a "Dancing With the Stars" competitor in this dance dance dance the cha-cha-cha |
| #7935, aired 2019-02-22 | LET'S "C" SOME DANCING $2000: "La Bayadere" has 40 arabesques in the entrance for this group, a 3-word French term for a dance troupe's non-soloists the corps de ballet |
| #7931, aired 2019-02-18 | NAME THE VENUE $2000: The world premiere of the drama "The Widow Lincoln"--this D.C. venue, January 2015 Ford's Theater |
| #7927, aired 2019-02-12 | CLASSIC ADVENTURE NOVELS $1600: This C.S. Forester naval hero debuted in "Beat to Quarters" (a call to battle stations--not a chicken recipe instruction) (Horatio) Hornblower |
| #7924, aired 2019-02-07 | A MAN OF CONSTANT $2000: Per Viswanath's constant, if you randomize this number sequence named for a 13th c. Italian, it'll still follow a pattern Fibonacci |
| #7922, aired 2019-02-05 | FROM B TO C $600: It's a cockroach's least favorite acid boric acid |
| #7920, aired 2019-02-01 | RELIGIOUS LITERATURE $1600: In addition to his books featuring talking lions, this author also wrote "Out of the Silent Planet", a book of religious sci-fi C.S. Lewis |
| #7919, aired 2019-01-31 | "M.C." $400: The half of a credit card receipt that goes to the establishment you've patronized the merchant copy |
| #7919, aired 2019-01-31 | I BEFORE E, AFTER C $800: It's an Italian lawn bowling game boccie |
| #7919, aired 2019-01-31 | "M.C." $1200: AKA John-117, he's the main man in the Halo video games Master Chief |
| #7914, aired 2019-01-24 | THAT'S SO "P.C." $200: Red, yellow or blue primary colors |
| #7914, aired 2019-01-24 | THAT'S SO "P.C." $400: The fellow seen here was made from these pipe cleaners |
| #7914, aired 2019-01-24 | THAT'S SO "P.C." $600: Shortly after he became president, JFK founded this international volunteer program the Peace Corps |
| #7914, aired 2019-01-24 | THAT'S SO "P.C." $800: The logo seen here belongs to a bestselling brand of these, around for more than 130 years playing cards |
| #7914, aired 2019-01-24 | THAT'S SO "P.C." $1000: It's a small room where violent patients or inmates are held so they can't hurt themselves a padded cell |
| #7909, aired 2019-01-17 | "C" IN COOKING $200: It's the alias of rapeseed oil canola oil |
| #7901, aired 2019-01-07 | A BIRD $2000: This man's 414 B.C. comedy "The Birds" features a chorus of them that directly addresses the audience Aristophanes |
| #7897, aired 2019-01-01 | MIDDLE "C" $1600: Here's one tree that thrives indoors a ficus |
| #7884, aired 2018-12-13 | JACK THE RIPPER SUSPECTS $800 (Daily Double): This 19th c. author has been looked at; later writers pitted his creation against the Ripper in books like 2009's "Dust and Shadow" Arthur Conan Doyle |
| #7874, aired 2018-11-29 | ELEMENTAL U.S. PLACES $400: Silver Spring, Maryland is a suburb of this city Washington, D.C. |
| #7872, aired 2018-11-27 | LANGUAGE $400: 12th c. Andalusian writer Ibn Tufayl wrote what's been called the first novel in this language, not Spanish Arabic |
| #7868, aired 2018-11-21 | BLACK FRIDAY $1000: This black Friday:
C.S. Lewis & Aldous Huxley died the same day JFK was assassinated November 22, 1963 |
| #7861, aired 2018-11-12 | IN THE SPANISH DICTIONARY $600: Under C:
Castillo de arena is this, something you see at the beach a sandcastle |
| #7861, aired 2018-11-12 | SCHOOL UNIFORMS $1000: In 1987 schools in D.C. & this "Old Line State" began to implement the first use of uniforms in U.S. public schools Maryland |
| #7845, aired 2018-10-19 | C'EST LA TV $400: Robert Hewitt Wolfe & Brannon Braga co-wrote "A Fistful of Datas" in 1992, bringing the old West to this show's Holodeck Star Trek: Next Generation |
| #7845, aired 2018-10-19 | C'EST LA TV $800: Here's a not-so-small claim--she sold her 5,000-plus court show archive back to CBS for $95 mil, give or take Judge Judy |
| #7835, aired 2018-10-05 | THE TRIAL'S VENUE $2000: The trial of Leon Czolgosz--this city, not D.C. Buffalo, New York |
| #7834, aired 2018-10-04 | FIDDLER $1000: Though his fans included Napoleon's sister, this 19th c. Italian virtuoso once sold his violin to pay off gambling debts (Niccolo) Paganini |
| #7829, aired 2018-09-27 | RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY BOOKS $2000: "Mere Christianity" was a non-fiction testament of faith by this novelist of fantastic children's tales C.S. Lewis |
| #7827, aired 2018-09-25 | LETTER PERFECT $400: It's used with dates to mean approximately or around that time a C |
| #7819, aired 2018-09-13 | ANCIENT BRO-MANS $800: I'm gonna be best in bro at the chariot races this weekend at the C.M., short for this hippodrome in Rome the Circus Maximus |
| #7818, aired 2018-09-12 | OR BUST $800: Oh say can you see the bust of this lawyer, who became D.C.'s D.A. in 1833 (Francis Scott) Key |
| #7818, aired 2018-09-12 | OR BUST $1200: A bronze head of this man who became Rome's sole ruler in 27 B.C. was found in 1910 Augustus |
| #7817, aired 2018-09-11 | U.S. HISTORY $1000: On Feb. 1, 1960 4 students held a historic sit-in at a lunch counter in this N.C. city in protest over segregation Greensboro |
| #7817, aired 2018-09-11 | RELIGIOUS LEADERS $3,400 (Daily Double): John Carroll, the first Roman Catholic bishop in the U.S., founded this D.C. university in 1789 Georgetown |
| #7815, aired 2018-07-27 | THE U.S. CONGRESS WITH NANCY PELOSI $1200: (Nancy Pelosi reads the clue.) Nonvoting members of Congress include Eleanor Holmes Norton representing Washington, D.C. & Jenniffer González-Colón serving this hurricane-devastated island Puerto Rico |
| #7811, aired 2018-07-23 | HIT THE BEACHES $4,000 (Daily Double): Edisto Beach, S.C. says no lights on the beach after dusk in summer to protect these sea turtles named for their big "heads" loggerheads |
| #7810, aired 2018-07-20 | LANGUAGE $1600: (Kelly shows two French words on the monitor.) In French words like garçon & français, this diacritical mark goes under the "C" to soften it to an "S" sound, not a "K" sound a cedilla |
| #7810, aired 2018-07-20 | FAMOUS JEWISH AMERICANS $2000: This early 20th c. Supreme Court justice got his name on the USA's only nonsectarian Jewish-sponsored university (Louis) Brandeis |
| #7810, aired 2018-07-20 | "C" YOU IN THE FUNNY PAPERS $2000: It's about a grumpy bus driver Crankshaft |
| #7809, aired 2018-07-19 | FROM BOOK TO TV $1200: Arthur C. Clarke's "Childhood's End" is about an alien invasion, so this is the obvious network to have aired it in 2015 Syfy |
| #7806, aired 2018-07-16 | 4, 4 $200: It's 202 for Washington, D.C. the area code |
| #7801, aired 2018-07-09 | ANCIENT ROME $400: Around 509 B.C. the Romans formed this kingless type of government mentioned in the U.S. pledge of allegiance a republic |
| #7793, aired 2018-06-27 | POET-POURRI $1200: In the 600s B.C. the Greek poet Tyrtaeus composed verses to inspire this militaristic city's people to fight bravely Sparta |
| #7785, aired 2018-06-15 | MEANWHILE... $1600: The Sumerians settled the city of Ur in the 3000s B.C., the beginning of this civilization's "long count" calendar the Maya |
| #7781, aired 2018-06-11 | "C" IT NOW $1200: Get out the blowtorch--it's time to make this custard dessert creme brulee |
| #7781, aired 2018-06-11 | "C" IT NOW $2000: It's the typical sailors' & pirates' weapon seen here a cutlass |
| #7775, aired 2018-06-01 | SPY STUFF $1200: It's not just in movies: D.C.'s International Spy Museum has these disguised as pens, lighters & from around 1950, a watch a camera |
| #7760, aired 2018-05-11 | LET'S HAVE A GARAGE SALE $600: A copy of this book printed in mid-15th c. Germany has gone for over $5 million; maybe rethink tagging it for $8 the Gutenberg Bible |
| #7741, aired 2018-04-16 | LETTER MEN $800: This "Narnia" creator taught medieval & Renaissance English lit at Cambridge University (C.S.) Lewis |
| #7737, aired 2018-04-10 | B.C.-ING YOU $400: Just before dying in Cleopatra's arms, he urged her to make peace with Octavian Antony |
| #7730, aired 2018-03-30 | R.C. $200: He was Cuba's Defense minister until 2008 when he became the head of state Raul Castro |
| #7730, aired 2018-03-30 | R.C. $400: It's not just a (game) theory--he played mathematician John Nash in "A Beautiful Mind" Russell Crowe |
| #7730, aired 2018-03-30 | R.C. $1000: This author's story "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love" is adapted as a stage play in the film "Birdman" Raymond Carver |
| #7730, aired 2018-03-30 | EXTINCT PEOPLES $1600: The Morini Celts of Gaul revolted against this empire in 30 B.C., & that's the last anyone heard of the Morini the Roman empire |
| #7729, aired 2018-03-29 | THAT'S NOT FLYING! $1600: The flying this reptile goes from a "J" shape to an "S" shape to a "C" shape to get air a snake |
| #7728, aired 2018-03-28 | MYSTERIOUS WORDS $2000: O say can you "C" this puzzling word that may involve puns? Oh, it's a... a conundrum |
| #7726, aired 2018-03-26 | GEOGRAPHIC SPELLING BEE $1200: It's Paraguay's largest city A-S-U-N-C-I-O-N |
| #7721, aired 2018-03-19 | MUST "C" TV $1000: Crack addict Tyrone Biggums was a recurring character on this sketch comedy series Chappelle's Show |
| #7717, aired 2018-03-13 | HISTORIC WOMEN $1600: 19th c. editor of Ladies' Magazine guided U.S. tastes & even convinced Lincoln to enact this holiday Thanksgiving Day |
| #7713, aired 2018-03-07 | SUFFRAGETTE CITY $600: In 1913 Alice Paul arranged for a demonstration of over 5,000 women before this man's inauguration in D.C. Wilson |
| #7706, aired 2018-02-26 | BEJEWELED $1000: Seen here, both these gems are vulnerable to scratching; they become adjectives by adding "E-S-C-E-N-T" opal and pearl |
| #7704, aired 2018-02-22 | PLACES TO "C" $1000: For more than 3 centuries, this "Garden" in the city of Westminster was home to London's flower market Covent Garden |
| #7703, aired 2018-02-21 | "C" THE FLOWERS $200: These flowers are the symbol of Mother's Day: pink if Mom is living, white if she is not carnations |
| #7703, aired 2018-02-21 | "C" THE FLOWERS $800: It's also known as a trumpet lily a calla lily |
| #7703, aired 2018-02-21 | "C" THE FLOWERS $1000: Linnaeus named this pretty flower for a Jesuit missionary camellia |
| #7699, aired 2018-02-15 | WHAT'S FOR BREAKFAST? $400: It was created as a health food in the 19th c. & returned to tables as Heartland Natural Cereal in 1972 granola |
| #7698, aired 2018-02-14 | EDISON: THE LIGHT & THE DARK $1000: To discredit the A.C. power system, Edison tried to make this tycoon's name synonymous with electrocution Westinghouse |
| #7696, aired 2018-02-12 | WORLD WAR I LITERATURE $400: R.C. Sherriff's "Journey's End" is set in a dugout connected to one of these, which have come to symbolize the war a trench |
| #7693, aired 2018-02-07 | THE WASHINGTON POST $400: Donald L. Neiffer is the chief one of these doctors at the National Zoo in Washington, D.C. veterinarian |
| #7693, aired 2018-02-07 | AUTHORS' FICTIONAL PLACES $1000: Calormen--it's south of a more famous land C. S. Lewis |
| #7693, aired 2018-02-07 | AUTHORS' FICTIONAL PLACES $2,000 (Daily Double): Brobdingnag Jonathan Swift |
| #7687, aired 2018-01-30 | EVERY YEAR $1600: Hampton, S.C. has been holding a warm-weather festival in honor of these large gourd fruits since 1939 watermelons |
| #7681, aired 2018-01-22 | FROM "C" TO "D" $1600: It's another name for a canine tooth a cuspid |
| #7679, aired 2018-01-18 | PRISONER OF WAR CAMPS $5,000 (Daily Double): The only president who had been a P.O.W., he was held in Camden, S.C. by the British while just a teenager in 1781 Andrew Jackson |
| #7677, aired 2018-01-16 | GETTING POSSESSIVE $200: Stoddard's Way was a religious innovation in 17th c. New England allowing anyone to receive this during mass communion |
| #7677, aired 2018-01-16 | ANCIENT TIMES $400: Still in use, China's "Grand" one of these man-made waterways may date back to the 300s B.C. a canal |
| #7677, aired 2018-01-16 | HARD "C" $400: One gardening encyclopedia says it's a name for generally obnoxious weeds, particularly in lawns crabgrass |
| #7677, aired 2018-01-16 | ANCIENT TIMES $800: This Egyptian port was founded around 332 B.C. by--well, let's just say by a pretty great guy Alexandria |
| #7677, aired 2018-01-16 | HARD "C" $1200: It's the name for the white siding on the house seen here clapboard |
| #7676, aired 2018-01-15 | STREET SMARTS $400: (Alex presents the clue from the Canadian Embassy in Washington, D.C.) Reflecting the close relationship that exists between our two countries, Canada is the only one to have its embassy on a section of this stately Washington avenue that connects the White House to the U.S. Capitol Pennsylvania |
| #7671, aired 2018-01-08 | NATIONAL COATS OF ARMS $800: (Alex presents the clue from the Canadian embassy in Washington, D.C.) Adopted in 1921, Canada's coat of arms bears the symbols of 4 of its founding nations: 3 lions for England, 1 lion for Scotland, the fleur-de-lis for France & the harp of Tara for this country Ireland |
| #7670, aired 2018-01-05 | -ISMS & -OLOGIES $4,000 (Daily Double): 19th c. English physician John Snow's knowledge of chloroform & ether made him a master of this -ology anesthesiology |
| #7664, aired 2017-12-28 | EUROPEAN HISTORY $400: Starting c. 600 there were fewer free peasants & more of these lowliest people, bonded to a nobleman's estate serfs |
| #7661, aired 2017-12-25 | THERE IS ROOM ON THAT BOARD! $2000: If you're the vice president or chief justice, there's a spot for you on this D.C. institution's Board of Regents the Smithsonian |
| #7658, aired 2017-12-20 | SANTA CLAUS IS COMIN' TO TOWN $200: Mr. C is flying down I-15 to a 5,000-room hotel in this seat of Clark County, 'cause Santa's feelin' lucky! Las Vegas |
| #7657, aired 2017-12-19 | "HOPE"FUL ENTERTAINMENT $1600: In The Who's "My Generation", "Things they do look awful c-c-cold", which leads to this wish "I hope I die before I get old" |
| #7650, aired 2017-12-08 | FROM B TO C $200: Hollywood slang for a movie that tells the story of a real person's life a biopic |
| #7650, aired 2017-12-08 | FROM B TO C $400: Quarterback Jameis Winston, or any other member of the NFL's Tampa Bay team Buc |
| #7647, aired 2017-12-05 | HALLS OF FAME $800: It's automatic--19th c. physiologist Marshall Hall explained these responses to stimuli reflexes |
| #7646, aired 2017-12-04 | COUNTRIES BY FIRST LETTER $400: Heading southwest across South America, it's B, B, C--Brazil & these 2 Bolivia & Chile |
| #7645, aired 2017-12-01 | U.S. LANDMARKS $200: (D.C. mayor Muriel Bowser presents the clue.) The cornerstone of this structure was laid on July 4, 1848; Abraham Lincoln & the 90-year-old widow of Alexander Hamilton were in attendance the Washington Monument |
| #7644, aired 2017-11-30 | "C" IN COOKING $200: It's Spanish for meat; when followed by "asada", it means it's been roasted carne |
| #7644, aired 2017-11-30 | "C" IN COOKING $600: It's the plural French word for an appetizer of raw vegetables; it just means "rawness" crudites |
| #7631, aired 2017-11-13 | LIGHT UP A CIGAR $400: Brownish-red cigars are classed as "C", standing for this Spanish word, also a U.S. state colorado |
| #7626, aired 2017-11-06 | B.C. PLACES $400: Around 700 B.C., long after the war told of by Homer, Greeks occupied this city's site & called it Ilion Troy |
| #7626, aired 2017-11-06 | B.C. PLACES $1200: After 1400 B.C. this city near Crete's northern coast reverted from mighty capital to just another town Knossos |
| #7626, aired 2017-11-06 | B.C. PLACES $1600: During this Babylonian king's reign, he captured Jerusalem twice, the second time destroying the city's temple Nebuchadnezzar |
| #7624, aired 2017-11-02 | BRIDGE ACROSS THE "C" $800: Going from Delmarva peninsula to S.E. Virginia, you're likely on the bridge & tunnel system that spans this bay the Chesapeake |
| #7624, aired 2017-11-02 | BRIDGE ACROSS THE "C" $2000: Austin's Pennybacker Bridge offers a picturesque view of this river the Colorado |
| #7622, aired 2017-10-31 | GREAT BOOKS OF SCIENCE $1200: Written around 350 B.C., this Greek's work "Physics" held sway over science for 2,000 years Aristotle |
| #7614, aired 2017-10-19 | WASHINGTON, D.C. $400: The White House has been called "the President's palace" & this "mansion" the Executive Mansion |
| #7614, aired 2017-10-19 | WASHINGTON, D.C. $800: The world's largest collection of Shakespeareana is housed at this library the Folger |
| #7611, aired 2017-10-16 | THE HISTORY BOOKSHELF $400: Charles C. Mann's work entitled this year, subtitled "New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus" 1491 |
| #7608, aired 2017-10-11 | CARVE OUT $200: Third-generation stone carver Nick Benson engraved the words on this man's D.C. memorial, which was dedicated in 2011 Martin Luther King, (Jr.) |
| #7605, aired 2017-10-06 | 19th CENTURY WOMEN AUTHORS $1200: Henrik Ibsen was influenced by Camilla Collett, a 19th c. novelist & women's rights advocate in this, their home country Norway |
| #7600, aired 2017-09-29 | NATIONAL SPELLING BEE WINNING WORDS $800: In 1948 the winning word was this medical branch that deals with the treatment & prevention of mental illness P-S-Y-C-H-I-A-T-R-Y |
| #7600, aired 2017-09-29 | NATIONAL SPELLING BEE WINNING WORDS $1200: In 1981 Paige Pipkin buried the competition with this word for an ancient stone coffin S-A-R-C-O-P-H-A-G-U-S |
| #7595, aired 2017-09-22 | TIME FOR A DRINK $400: I'm gonna party like it's 44 "B.C."! Mix me one of these, a Bloody Mary with clamato rather than tomato juice a Bloody Caesar |
| #7594, aired 2017-09-21 | ONE-NAMED AUTHORS $1200: This Roman poet's "Art of Love" from around 1 B.C. is a hedonistic seduction manual still useful today Ovid |
| #7594, aired 2017-09-21 | ONE-NAMED AUTHORS $2000: The 13th c. Persian poet of "spiritual couplets", Rumi followed this mystical practice that's about as old as Islam itself Sufiism |
| #7586, aired 2017-09-11 | "A-C"/"D-C" $600: Late in 2016 President Obama expelled from the U.S. several Russian members of this corps the diplomatic corps |
| #7584, aired 2017-07-27 | LET'S ALL GO TO THE LIBRARY $1600: Have a cup of coffee before taking in this D.C. Shakespeare library's 255,000 books & 55,000 manuscripts Folger |
| #7583, aired 2017-07-26 | WHO WROTE IT? $600: "The Screwtape Letters" C.S. Lewis |
| #7582, aired 2017-07-25 | THE EMPIRE STRIKES OUT $800: Based in Patna in what's now this country, the Mauryan empire declined after Emperor Ashoka died c. 232 B.C. India |
| #7578, aired 2017-07-19 | DOWN TO A "SCIENCE" $800: C'mon, we're only talking the Titan II & Saturn V! It's not this! Wait! It totally is! rocket science |
| #7575, aired 2017-07-14 | ICYMI $600: Mexico's first Trump-era IPO was a success for this tequila company named for an 18th c. señor Jose Cuervo |
| #7569, aired 2017-07-06 | A SPARKLE QUIZ $800: Of the 4 "C"s of the diamond world, the facets created by this one really help the gems sparkle with light cut |
| #7565, aired 2017-06-30 | CANADA 150 $400: (Alex presents from the Canadian embassy in Washington, D.C.) Canada's sesquicentennial celebrates the 150th anniversary of the British North America Act of 1867, which joined Nova Scotia & New Brunswick to Ontario & this province in a single dominion under the British monarch Quebec |
| #7565, aired 2017-06-30 | CANADA 150 $3,500 (Daily Double): (Alex presents from the Canadian embassy in Washington, D.C.) The embassy's art collection includes a reminder of the warm relations between Canada & this country; during World War II, Canada helped provide refuge for its royal family, including the young Princess Beatrix, & later, Canada helped liberate this country from Nazi rule the Netherlands |
| #7564, aired 2017-06-29 | WORLD HISTORY $1600: During the reign of Egypt's Ptolemy II around 280 B.C., Sostratus completed this ancient wonder the Lighthouse at Alexandria |
| #7563, aired 2017-06-28 | AFRICAN AMERICANS $800: (I'm D.C. mayor Muriel Bowser.) On January 2, 1975 Walter Washington became D.C.'s first elected mayor in a century as he was sworn in by this fellow Howard University alumnus Thurgood Marshall |
| #7554, aired 2017-06-15 | U.S. MUSEUMS $800: This museum in Washington, D.C. includes a Hall of Witness & a Hall of Remembrance the Holocaust Museum |
| #7552, aired 2017-06-13 | SAILING STORIES $2000: In a C.S. Lewis work, King Caspian & the kids sail the seas aboard this title vessel the Dawn Treader |
| #7552, aired 2017-06-13 | THE THRILL OF VICTORY $2,400 (Daily Double): At 18 in 338 B.C. he helped his dad's army to victory at Chaeronea, bringing Greece under Macedonian control Alexander the Great |
| #7540, aired 2017-05-26 | LIBERTY $800: In 1857 she led her parents out of Maryland to freedom & from 1863 to 1865 served in S.C. as a scout for Union forces (Harriet) Tubman |
| #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 |
| #7534, aired 2017-05-18 | THE ART OF WAR $400: Frederick Hart's sculpture in D.C. honors the soldiers of this war the Vietnam War |
| #7528, aired 2017-05-10 | TYPES OF STREETS $400: D.C.'s Pennsylvania, which has been called America's Main Street avenue |
| #7522, aired 2017-05-02 | ART "C" $400: The picture of Dorian Gray from the 1945 movie hangs at the Art Institute of this U.S. city Chicago |
| #7515, aired 2017-04-21 | U.S. HERSTORY $200: In 1774 Penelope Barker organized an Edenton, N.C. version of this 1773 Boston protest the Boston Tea Party |
| #7513, aired 2017-04-19 | SOCIETY $1000: It's the small group at the top; C. Wright Mills said a "power" one really runs things in America the elite |
| #7505, aired 2017-04-07 | LIGHTHOUSES $3,000 (Daily Double): This N.C. cape's lighthouse, the USA's tallest at 200 feet, was used as a lookout tower for German subs in WWII Cape Hatteras |
| #7504, aired 2017-04-06 | MARITIME FLAGS OF CONVENIENCE $400: F.O.C. offer fewer regs & lower fees; on paper, the Marshall Islands in this ocean has one of the world's largest fleets the Pacific |
| #7501, aired 2017-04-03 | WHERE ART THOU? $600: At Bladensbug, Md.'s "dark and bloody grounds", where dozens of D.C. gents once came to settle scores via this by duel |
| #7498, aired 2017-03-29 | IT'S EPIC $1,400 (Daily Double): This Roman poet wrote his own epic around 19 B.C. & in 1321 A.D. appeared as a character in one Virgil |
| #7483, aired 2017-03-08 | EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY $1200: The first Atlantic-crossing ship built in what's now the U.S. took French settlers home from this S.C. island now used by the Marines Parris Island |
| #7480, aired 2017-03-03 | THE DREADED SPELLING CATEGORY $800: Medical condition characterized by involuntary sleeping N-A-R-C-O-L-E-P-S-Y |
| #7478, aired 2017-03-01 | A SMALL COLLEGE $400: This D.C. schools says it's "the world's only university designed to be barrier-free for deaf & hard of hearing students" Gallaudet |
| #7478, aired 2017-03-01 | PLUS "C" $1600: Join a "C" to what's seen on the left to get this weapon seen on the right lane and lance |
| #7477, aired 2017-02-28 | ANCIENT BATTLES $800: This commander's victory over Pompey in 48 B.C. at Pharsalus took him to the pinnacle of power Julius Caesar |
| #7477, aired 2017-02-28 | ANCIENT BATTLES $1,000 (Daily Double): Defeat at the 207 B.C. Battle of the Metaurus River ended this man's efforts to conquer Italy Hannibal |
| #7476, aired 2017-02-27 | THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & CULTURE $400: (Alex gives the clue from the Nat'l Museum of African American History & Culture in Washington, D.C.) Guests at the opening ceremony for the museum included these men who trained in Alabama as part of this World War II group of aviators who escorted over 200 bombing missions with the loss of just a handful of bombers the Tuskegee Airmen |
| #7476, aired 2017-02-27 | THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & CULTURE $800: (Alex gives the clue from the Nat'l Museum of African American History & Culture in Washington, D.C.) Among the museum's largest artifacts is a railroad car whose colored section had no luggage racks & smaller bathrooms--just a reminder of these laws of segregation that persisted until the 1960s Jim Crow laws |
| #7472, aired 2017-02-21 | UNCHARTED $400: This 13th c. Italian's memoirs of China include one of the first European references to the Pacific Ocean Marco Polo |
| #7472, aired 2017-02-21 | THEY NAMED A SCHOOL FOR ME $800: A Union officer & head of the Freedman's Bureau gave his name to this historically black university in Washington, D.C. Howard |
| #7461, aired 2017-02-06 | NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY AND CULTURE $1200: (Alex delivers the clue from the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C.) Among Harriet Tubman's most treasured possessions was a lace shawl she received in recognition of her heroic efforts from this woman, who was celebrating her diamond jubilee Queen Victoria |
| #7461, aired 2017-02-06 | NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY AND CULTURE $2000: (Alex delivers the clue from the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C.) The tape recorder was used by this man, whose ideas for black activism couldn't be contained by the Nation of Islam, leading to the sad correctness of his prediction in his autobiography that, "I, too, will die by violence" Malcolm X |
| #7457, aired 2017-01-31 | TRAVEL & TOURISM $400: Every even year watch the world's top sailors in the Atlantic Cup, a 1,000-mile race from this S.C. port to Portland, Me. Charleston |
| #7452, aired 2017-01-24 | DEEP BLUE "C" $200: Salute if you know there's a hue named for these West Pointers seen here cadet |
| #7450, aired 2017-01-20 | MUST "C" TV $400: NYPD Detective Beckett accepted the title character's proposal on season 6 of this now-departed show Castle |
| #7450, aired 2017-01-20 | WORLD HISTORY $800: The Olmecs flourished form around 1200 to 400 B.C. along Mexico's Gulf Coast in what became Veracruz & this "hot" state Tabasco |
| #7446, aired 2017-01-16 | "C"OUNTIES $800: Ireland's second-most populous Cork |
| #7446, aired 2017-01-16 | "C"OUNTIES $2000: Ohio's most populous; Cleveland is there Cuyahoga |
| #7445, aired 2017-01-13 | RUNNING A HOTEL $400: In 1963 D.C.'s Madison Hotel pioneered this room feature with convenient drinks, snacks & 300% price markups a mini-bar |
| #7442, aired 2017-01-10 | FORT-ITUDE $400: This "boastful" N.C. fort is home to the Army's psychological warfare dept., which once trained Manuel Noriega Fort Bragg |
| #7433, aired 2016-12-28 | MANET/MONET $400: Manet's "Battle of the U.S.S. Kearsarge and the C.S.S. Alabama" shows the battle off France's coast during this U.S. war the Civil War |
| #7432, aired 2016-12-27 | SCULPTURE $800: Myron's most famous bronze was made around 425 B.C. & depicts an Olympic athlete throwing this object a discus |
| #7430, aired 2016-12-23 | PLACES THAT BECAME WORDS $600: A Hungarian town spelled K-O-C-S gave us this word for a class of travel or for a vehicle for travel coach |
| #7422, aired 2016-12-13 | ALL ABOUT ANIMALS $200: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from the Smithsonian's National Zoo in Washington, D.C.) In China, giant pandas, with their black-&-white fur, were thought to be a physical manifestation of these two principles that come together to create peace & harmony yin & yang |
| #7422, aired 2016-12-13 | ALL ABOUT ANIMALS $1000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Smithsonian's National Zoo in Washington, D.C.) Extinct in the wild until recently, Przewalski's horse, the only truly wild horse, has been reintroduced back into China & this landlocked neighbor to the north, where it is a symbol of national heritage Mongolia |
| #7411, aired 2016-11-28 | A SPELLING BEE $800: It's the sea that surrounds Jamaica & Cuba C-A-R-I-B-B-E-A-N |
| #7405, aired 2016-11-18 | "C" THE WORLD $1600: About 1/4 of this Central American country's land has been set aside as protected area for the nation's diverse wildlife Costa Rica |
| #7405, aired 2016-11-18 | "C" THE WORLD $4,000 (Daily Double): It's a small New Hampshire town as well as an ancient name for Palestine Canaan |
| #7403, aired 2016-11-16 | ENDANGERED ANIMALS AT THE SMITHSONIAN'S NATIONAL ZOO $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from Smithsonian's National Zoo in Washington, D.C..) They're symbols of peace & friendship, & sadly, in their native China, only about 1,800 giant pandas remain in the wild, primarily due to destruction of the forests that provide this tall, woody grass that these guys can each eat over 50 pounds of daily bamboo |
| #7403, aired 2016-11-16 | ENDANGERED ANIMALS AT THE SMITHSONIAN'S NATIONAL ZOO $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew presents from Smithsonian's National Zoo in Washington, D.C.) Without native mammals present, kiwis thrived for over 35 million years, but today they're endangered & facing extinction, largely because they're flightless and can't escape from introduced predators in this, their native country New Zealand |
| #7403, aired 2016-11-16 | ENDANGERED ANIMALS AT THE SMITHSONIAN'S NATIONAL ZOO $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from Smithsonian's National Zoo in Washington, D.C..) Known since ancient times & extinct in the wild until recent reintroductions, the scimitar-horned oryx is noted for its long, curved horns; if one breaks off, it doesn't grow back, which may have inspired the myth of this legendary creature the unicorn |
| #7403, aired 2016-11-16 | ENDANGERED ANIMALS AT THE SMITHSONIAN'S NATIONAL ZOO $1600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from Smithsonian's National Zoo in Washington, D.C..) With fewer than 50,000 left in the wild, Asian elephants, like their larger African cousins, are facing extinction due to habitat loss, human-elephant conflict, & this crime, the illegal killing, capturing, or stealing of wildlife poaching |
| #7403, aired 2016-11-16 | ENDANGERED ANIMALS AT THE SMITHSONIAN'S NATIONAL ZOO $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from Smithsonian's National Zoo in Washington, D.C..) The Sumatran tiger is the smallest subspecies & has the narrowest stripes; largely due to habitat loss & the illegal wildlife trade, there are as few as 400 left on their native island in this country Indonesia |
| #7395, aired 2016-11-04 | "C"s THE DAY $200: This holiday is known as "natale" in Italian & "noel" in French Christmas |
| #7395, aired 2016-11-04 | "C"s THE DAY $400: Whether besting melanoma or leukemia, you can celebrate the first Sunday in June as "National" this "Survivors Day" Cancer |
| #7395, aired 2016-11-04 | "C"s THE DAY $600: The second Monday in March is this day & more than 60 countries & dependencies get to hear from the British monarch Commonwealth Day |
| #7395, aired 2016-11-04 | "C"s THE DAY $800: Marking the ascension to the throne by King Bhumibol, this Thai national holiday is held on May 5 Coronation Day |
| #7395, aired 2016-11-04 | "C"s THE DAY $1000: February 2 is this day when Mary went to the Temple in Jerusalem to be purified after birth Candlemas |
| #7392, aired 2016-11-01 | E BEFORE I, BUT NO C DO I SPY $600: It's the soothing color in use here beige |
| #7390, aired 2016-10-28 | INITIALITERATURE $200: "L.C.L."
by D.H. Lawrence Lady Chatterley's Lover |
| #7390, aired 2016-10-28 | HISTORY: HIRED & FIRED $800: You found paths for the pathfinder John C. Fremont. You're hired! & we'll name Nevada's capital for you! (Kit) Carson |
| #7388, aired 2016-10-26 | "C"ITIES $400: In North Africa, it's Arabic for "the victorious" Cairo |
| #7388, aired 2016-10-26 | "C"ITIES $2000: One of the world's largest freshwater aquariums is in this city on the Tennessee River Chattanooga |
| #7374, aired 2016-10-06 | BRITISH SPELLING TEST $400: Recognize R-E-C-O-G-N-I-S-E |
| #7372, aired 2016-10-04 | RISING $1600: Abbreviated C.O.L.A., it's a wage increase to help workers keep up with rising prices a cost of living allowance |
| #7371, aired 2016-10-03 | U.S. MUSEUMS $1200: Not surprisingly, the basement of this building in Washington, D.C. houses a museum of Lincoln memorabilia Ford's Theatre |
| #7369, aired 2016-09-29 | MICHIGAN HISTORY $1600: A city up north is named for this French priest who founded Michigan's first permanent Eur. settlement c. 1668 Father Marquette |
| #7368, aired 2016-09-28 | THAT'S T-B-D $1000: This inn is found in "The Canterbury Tales" & today in Washington, D.C., where it's a favorite brunch spot the Tabard Inn |
| #7367, aired 2016-09-27 | IT'S EASY AS "A_B_C_D" $1200: Vitamin C ascorbic acid |
| #7361, aired 2016-09-19 | COLLEGE FIRSTS $400: America's first Catholic college was this one founded in 1789 in Washington, D.C. Georgetown |
| #7360, aired 2016-09-16 | DOUBLE TALK $2000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Smithsonian's National Zoo in Washington, D.C.) Born in 2015, the newest member of the panda family at the Smithsonian's National Zoo was given this name which actually means "precious treasure", not newborn Bei Bei |
| #7359, aired 2016-09-15 | I'M HERE TO SEE HERBERT HOOVER $200: The half-inch of rain in D.C. on the day of Hoover's inaugural in this year did not bode well 1929 |
| #7358, aired 2016-09-14 | FOLKS OF SCIENCE $2000: This 17th c. British scientist's law states in part that volume increases as pressure decreases (Robert) Boyle |
| #7356, aired 2016-09-12 | THE QUEEN'S EXPIRATION DATE $200: August 30 B.C.
in Alexandria Cleopatra |
| #7355, aired 2016-07-29 | "C-U" $200: It's a person in charge of a museum collection; Margaret Mead was one at the American Museum of Natural History a curator |
| #7355, aired 2016-07-29 | "C-U" $400: He's the Stooge in the middle Curly |
| #7355, aired 2016-07-29 | "C-U" $800: (Hi, I'm Al Roker.) You can expect heavy rain, lightning & thunder from this type of cloud that's recognized by its anvil-shaped top cumulonimbus |
| #7345, aired 2016-07-15 | HERE COMES THE NEIGHBORHOOD $1000: A real Charleston, S.C. neighborhood was the inspiration for this "Row" in the opera "Porgy & Bess" Catfish Row |
| #7344, aired 2016-07-14 | ARCHITECTURE $800: Frank Lloyd Wright's pyramidal Tokyo Imperial Hotel reflected a revival named for this C. Am. culture big around 700 A.D. the Maya |
| #7344, aired 2016-07-14 | ARCHITECTURE $1600: In the '60s it was D.C.'s 1st mixed-use development & the only U.S. project by Rome Olympics architect Luigi Moretti Watergate |
| #7343, aired 2016-07-13 | POLYSYLLABIC $4,000 (Daily Double): 5 syllables: a 19th c. song said, “I am” this / “then urge me not to pause / for joyfully do I enlist / in freedom’s sacred cause” abolitionist |
| #7342, aired 2016-07-12 | GETTING READY FOR THE OLYMPICS $2000: It's Thomas Bach's first Summer Games in this job; Jacques Rogge will be a tough act to follow head (or president) of the I.O.C. |
| #7341, aired 2016-07-11 | KIND OF A GREY AREA $400: The ghostly "Grey Man" of Pawleys Island, S.C., appears to warn residents of these approaching storms hurricanes |
| #7335, aired 2016-07-01 | DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME $2000: A request to Congress to change a state's DST status should be for the "convenience of" this other "C" word commerce |
| #7333, aired 2016-06-29 | HISTORIC OOPSIES $800: By 1959 Ford had sunk $250 million into developing this model; 21st c. inflation adjusted, that's nearly $2 billion the Edsel |
| #7331, aired 2016-06-27 | BIBLE BRIEFS $800: A trio of sons:
C., A. & S. Cain, Abel & Seth |
| #7327, aired 2016-06-21 | AS EASY AS C-D-E $400: Known as a poison, it's also used to extract gold cyanide |
| #7327, aired 2016-06-21 | AS EASY AS C-D-E $800: It describes a witness worthy of belief; that's...! credible |
| #7326, aired 2016-06-20 | THE BILLBOARD ALL-TIME HOT 100 $400: No. 1:
C'mon baby, let's do this Chubby Checker dance sensation that topped the chart in both 1960 & 1962 "The Twist" |
| #7324, aired 2016-06-16 | WHOSE WHAT? $400: In 1894 a throng of unemployed men known as "Coxey's Army" marched to this city to demand jobs & public spending Washington, D.C. |
| #7315, aired 2016-06-03 | C.T. $800: She's the model & TV host seen here Chrissy Teigen |
| #7315, aired 2016-06-03 | C.T. $1600: Peter Rabbit's mom put him to bed & gave him this beverage chamomile tea |
| #7315, aired 2016-06-03 | C.T. $2000: IRS code 4947(a)(1) covers these entities; the Pew ones try to solve today's most challenging problems charitable trusts |
| #7308, aired 2016-05-25 | THE OLD MAN & THE "C" $400: A grandson does this carrying job & doesn't mind shaving a few strokes off the old man's scorecard caddying (or caddie) |
| #7308, aired 2016-05-25 | THE OLD MAN & THE "C" $800: It's finally time to open that 1964 Pomerol, so he'll need this implement a corkscrew |
| #7308, aired 2016-05-25 | THE OLD MAN & THE "C" $1000: It's not his toothpaste, it's his cholesterol medication aka rosuvastatin, one of the USA's most prescribed drugs Crestor |
| #7306, aired 2016-05-23 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: This Washington, D.C. guest house of U.S. Presidents was named for an advisor to Andrew Jackson & built in 1824 Blair House |
| #7303, aired 2016-05-18 | D.C. HISTORY $400: Slaves in Washington, D.C. were freed in April 1862, 9 months before this January 1, 1863 manifesto the Emancipation Proclamation |
| #7303, aired 2016-05-18 | D.C. HISTORY $1200: Recently, D.C.'s Latino population has grown with a very large number from this smallest Central American nation by area El Salvador |
| #7300, aired 2016-05-13 | SUPERIOR $600: During the 17th c. this scientific instrument was improved by making it reflecting, starting with Zucchi's circa 1616 a telescope |
| #7299, aired 2016-05-12 | TELL ME SOMETHING I DON'T KNOW $400: The first kitten born via this method was named C.C. by Texas A&M researchers; some say it's for "copy cat" cloning |
| #7293, aired 2016-05-04 | IN THE D.C. AREA $400: Like his palatial home, this president's memorial was based in part on the Roman Pantheon Jefferson |
| #7293, aired 2016-05-04 | IN THE D.C. AREA $1000: 82-acre President's Park is home each December to this tall attraction the National Christmas Tree |
| #7291, aired 2016-05-02 | IT'S ABOUT TIME $1000: A movie showing an 18th c. pirate checking his email is an example of this, from Greek for "against time" anachronism |
| #7290, aired 2016-04-29 | "C" THE WORLD $400: It's the legislative capital of South Africa Cape Town |
| #7289, aired 2016-04-28 | PEOPLES $600: The USA's so-called "5 civilized tribes" were 4 that began with "C" & this southern one that began with "S" Seminole |
| #7288, aired 2016-04-27 | THE POLITICS OF TV $600: Joshua Malina plays the Attorney General on this show that's technically set in D.C. but c'mon, it's in Shondaland Scandal |
| #7286, aired 2016-04-25 | CHICKEN SOUP $1000: During the 16th c. Wojina Kokosza, or "Poultry War" in this country, rebels ate nearly all of the region's chickens Poland |
| #7278, aired 2016-04-13 | THE HOLY "C" $800: Distinguished from the laity, it's the collective term for priests clergy |
| #7278, aired 2016-04-13 | LITERARY MISCELLANIES $800: John Aubrey's 17th c. Miscellany of the Occult tells of Richard Napier, who spoke with Raphael, one of these beings an angel |
| #7275, aired 2016-04-08 | A SWEDISH KING NAMED GUS $2000: A patron of the arts, Gustav III reigned over an intellectual & cultural period of the 18th c. called Sweden's this Enlightenment |
| #7272, aired 2016-04-05 | SUTTER'S FORT $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Sutter's Fort in Sacramento, CA.) In July 1846, this army officer known as "The Pathfinder" took temporary control of the fort after the Bear Flag Revolt, renaming it Fort Sacramento, thus leaving John Sutter as a figurehead in his own fort (John C.) Frémont |
| #7271, aired 2016-04-04 | POETRY, NON-POETICALLY $600: When you write of an 18th c. hero like Longfellow did & end line 1 with "hear", it's a given this guy's name is coming up in line 2 Paul Revere |
| #7262, aired 2016-03-22 | IT'S POTPOURRI, "C"? $200: In this sport, a googly is a bowled ball that breaks in an unexpected direction cricket |
| #7262, aired 2016-03-22 | IT'S POTPOURRI, "C"? $400: The Sumerians used this system of writing cuneiform |
| #7262, aired 2016-03-22 | IT'S POTPOURRI, "C"? $600: French slang for "friend", this Chevy muscle car can go from 0 to 60 in 5.9 seconds Camaro |
| #7262, aired 2016-03-22 | IT'S POTPOURRI, "C"? $800: This gap that's near where Kentucky, Virginia & Tennessee meet is named for a son of George II Cumberland |
| #7262, aired 2016-03-22 | IT'S POTPOURRI, "C"? $1000: Chapter 5 of "Weather for Dummies" covers cloud names & is punningly titled "Getting" this type of cloud cirrus |
| #7259, aired 2016-03-17 | FOUNTAINS $600: This Missouri city's seal boasts, "City of Fountains", like the J.C. Nichols Kansas City |
| #7251, aired 2016-03-07 | MONUMENTS & MEMORIALS $800: Here's one of these Depression-era lines as depicted in bronze at the FDR Memorial in Washington, D.C. a bread line |
| #7236, aired 2016-02-15 | "C" IN LITERATURE $800: He's the very dramatic Russian seen here around 1900 Chekhov |
| #7236, aired 2016-02-15 | "C" IN LITERATURE $1200: He's the only human in the "Winnie-the-Pooh" stories Christopher Robin |
| #7236, aired 2016-02-15 | "C" IN LITERATURE $1600: This sci-fi author's "C" novels include "Childhood's End" & "Cradle", about contact with an alien civilization Arthur C. Clarke |
| #7234, aired 2016-02-11 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $800: This "Carmen" composer's "Symphony in C" was written in 1855 but only discovered & performed in 1935 (Georges) Bizet |
| #7225, aired 2016-01-29 | PO PRESENTS UNCONVENTIONAL WARRIORS $800: (Po delivers the clue.) I'm a big fan of this Shakespeare knight but Prince Hal ends up telling him, "the grave doth gape for thee thrice wider"--c'mon, that's not what you say to an old buddy Sir John Falstaff |
| #7224, aired 2016-01-28 | NO C $400: It's a food that little Miss Muffet was eating on her tuffet whey |
| #7224, aired 2016-01-28 | NO C $1200: Partner in the title of Elgar's March in D major, Opus 39, Number 1 pomp |
| #7221, aired 2016-01-25 | SPELLING BEE WORDS $1600: A scary New Testament quartet is known as the Four Horsemen of it A-P-O-C-A-L-Y-P-S-E |
| #7221, aired 2016-01-25 | SPELLING BEE WORDS $2000: French word for a phase of the moon or a buttery pastry C-R-O-I-S-S-A-N-T |
| #7220, aired 2016-01-22 | U.S. UNIVERSITY TOWNS $1600: American University Washington, D.C. |
| #7218, aired 2016-01-20 | BETWEEN 5 FERNS $800: For a yummy treat that's high in vitamins A & C, steam this type of fern named for a stringed musical instrument a fiddlehead |
| #7206, aired 2016-01-04 | IF THEY MARRIED $600: If a poster girl "Charlie's Angel" had wed the actor who was Sonny Corleone, she could've marched to D.C. as... Farrah Caan |
| #7201, aired 2015-12-28 | C'EST LA VEEP $200: Before he became Nixon's first VP, this son of a Greek immigrant won a Bronze Star for his service in WWII in France Spiro Agnew |
| #7201, aired 2015-12-28 | C'EST LA VEEP $600: In 1981 Reagan sent VP Bush for a tete-a-tete with him, France's new Socialist president Mitterrand |
| #7197, aired 2015-12-22 | WE 3 "ING"S $800: All beginning with "C", the 3 ways to win in rock, paper, scissors are crushing, covering, & this cutting |
| #7191, aired 2015-12-14 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $2,000 (Daily Double): Until the 20th c. it formed part of the University of Paris & its name was synonymous with the school's the Sorbonne |
| #7187, aired 2015-12-08 | FAMILY FOLIO $2000: "The White Queen" & "The Red Queen" are the first 2 of this author's "Cousins' War" historical novels Philippa Gregory |
| #7183, aired 2015-12-02 | LET'S CONTINUE TO PODCAST $1600: As "The Smartest Man in the World", Greg Proops spoke of AT&T Park, the late Anne Meara & this "2001" author all in one show Arthur C. Clarke |
| #7181, aired 2015-11-30 | PHYSICISTS $2,000 (Daily Double): In the 18th c., this physicist & instrument maker found that the boiling point of liquids varies with air pressure Fahrenheit |
| #7178, aired 2015-11-25 | QUOTES OF 2015 $600: 3 words completing George W. Bush's commencement speech line "C students, you too..." can be president |
| #7173, aired 2015-11-18 | ORGANIZATIONS $400: Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C. was built in 1929 to house the annual convention for this women's organization the DAR (Daughters of the American Revolution) |
| #7173, aired 2015-11-18 | WHAT'S THE WORD? $2000: For unusually severe laws like those promulgated by a 600s B.C. Athenian statesman draconian laws |
| #7163, aired 2015-11-04 | FICTIONAL ORGANIZATIONS $400: This evil organization that 007 has battled in many movies is the title of the 2015 James Bond film S.P.E.C.T.R.E. |
| #7160, aired 2015-10-30 | LORD OF THE JUNGLE $600: In the 19th c. Radama I ruled the lemurs of this once jungle-rich island that's now been largely deforested Madagascar |
| #7159, aired 2015-10-29 | LAND OF ENCHANTMENT $400: "The Horse and His Boy" by C.S. Lewis begins, "This is the story of an adventure that happened" here Narnia |
| #7158, aired 2015-10-28 | THE U.S. MARINE CORPS $1600: Marine recruits receive basic training in one of 2 places: Parris Island, S.C. or this Southern California city San Diego |
| #7149, aired 2015-10-15 | ANCIENT ROMAN LITERATURE $2000: Julius Caesar described his victories in the 50s B.C. in what's now France in his "Commentaries on" these "Wars" the Gallic Wars |
| #7147, aired 2015-10-13 | MY KIND OF "TOWN" $4,000 (Daily Double): About 2.5 miles northwest of the Capitol, it's at the confluence of the Potomac & Rock Creek Georgetown |
| #7138, aired 2015-09-30 | "C" IN SCIENCE $800: Sounds sweet, but it's actually an electronic footprint that allows websites to monitor a user's online movements a cookie |
| #7138, aired 2015-09-30 | "C" IN SCIENCE $1600: It's the second-largest part of the brain the cerebellum |
| #7136, aired 2015-09-28 | PLAYING POLITICS $600: Photos taken in this D.C. space that's 36 by 29 feet (well, roughly) may not be used in political campaigns the Oval Office |
| #7133, aired 2015-09-23 | ANCIENT TIMES $800: 475-221 B.C. witnessed what's known as the Warring States period in this Asian country China |
| #7131, aired 2015-09-21 | STAMPS $600: The photos for the stamps depicting these aquatic flowers were taken at a D.C. garden, not at Monet's Giverny water lilies |
| #7130, aired 2015-09-18 | THE ____ OF ____ $200: This Washington, D.C. landmark's Thomas Jefferson building houses its main reading room the Library of Congress |
| #7129, aired 2015-09-17 | PUBLIC DOMAIN RINGTONES $800: For immigrants from Italy, this 19th c. song stirred up nostalgia for the homeland "’O sole mio" |
| #7128, aired 2015-09-16 | QUICK LIT $2000: A devil instructs his young charge in these "Letters", a novel by C.S. Lewis The Screwtape Letters |
| #7115, aired 2015-07-17 | "L"AKES $2000: Georgia's Blue Ridge Mountains are home to Lake Sidney this, named for a 19th c. Southern poet Lanier |
| #7113, aired 2015-07-15 | LIVING SPACES $1000: It's a set of buildings for housing soldiers in garrison, like the one for the U.S. Marines in Washington, D.C. barracks |
| #7111, aired 2015-07-13 | D.C.-AREA LANDMARKS $400: In the 1860s Constantino Brumidi painted the fresco for the dome of this building's rotunda the Capitol Building |
| #7111, aired 2015-07-13 | D.C.-AREA LANDMARKS $600: This 146-acre stretch of lawn has been called "America's front yard" the Mall |
| #7105, aired 2015-07-03 | DESIGNER INITIALS $200: He's been in style for an "Eternity":
C.K. Calvin Klein |
| #7099, aired 2015-06-25 | "V"OCABULARY $200: This 20th c. word describes someone who avoids animal products in clothes & household items, not just food vegan |
| #7099, aired 2015-06-25 | THE END OF THE SOVIET UNION $1600: This entity, the C.I.S., keeps some of the old Soviet countries together in an economic & cultural confederation the Commonwealth of Independent States |
| #7097, aired 2015-06-23 | U.S. AREAS & TERRITORIES $400: Hacienda Buena Vista, a restored 19th c. coffee plantation, is a must-see during a visit to Ponce in this commonwealth Puerto Rico |
| #7097, aired 2015-06-23 | ALPHANUMERICS $1200: This section of the U.S. Internal Revenue Code sets out the requirements for tax exempt status for charities 501(c)(3) |
| #7095, aired 2015-06-19 | HISTORY $800: This dictator's last battle was the defeat of Pompey's sons at Munda in 45 B.C. Julius Caesar |
| #7093, aired 2015-06-17 | GOVERNMENT AGENCIES $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) Leaving Wall St. & heading to Washington D.C., a lawyer never has to go outside, as D.C.'s Union Station connects directly to this regulatory commission on F Street the SEC |
| #7090, aired 2015-06-12 | DIPLOMA"C" $400: Everybody stop shooting! It's high time we had one of these suspensions of armed conflict a cease-fire |
| #7090, aired 2015-06-12 | DIPLOMA"C" $600: It's an office established by one country inside another to support & protect its citizens & aid commerce a consulate |
| #7090, aired 2015-06-12 | DIPLOMA"C" $1000: I get a jolt out of this French term for a diplomat just below the rank of ambassador chargé d'affaires |
| #7086, aired 2015-06-08 | ONLY THE LONELY $400: In the 500s B.C. the Jews were in the Babylonian this type of expulsion from one's land exile |
| #7085, aired 2015-06-05 | WHERE THE BUFFALO ROAM $400: The water buffalo is aka the buffalo of this country, where it's been enjoying the Ganges since at least 1000 B.C. India |
| #7085, aired 2015-06-05 | PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING BIOGRAPHIES $1,500 (Daily Double): Forrest Wilson's 1942 winner "Crusader in Crinoline" tells the story of this 19th c. abolitionist & author Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| #7084, aired 2015-06-04 | LET'S DUKE IT OUT $400: In the early 17th c. the Duke de Lerma helped expel the Moriscos, or Christian Moors, from this country Spain |
| #7083, aired 2015-06-03 | TIP YOUR "CAP" $1600: One syllable longer than a D.C. elevation, it's the hill seen here Capitoline |
| #7080, aired 2015-05-29 | "YM", NO C-A $800: In Hodgkin's disease, these nodes become enlarged lymph nodes |
| #7080, aired 2015-05-29 | "YM", NO C-A $1200: Seen here, at 9,570 feet, it's Greece's highest mountain Olympus |
| #7080, aired 2015-05-29 | "YM", NO C-A $2000: It's a figure of speech like "cruel kindness" or, as some soldiers say, "military intelligence" an oxymoron |
| #7079, aired 2015-05-28 | ISLANDS IN THE "C"s $200: The ruins of Knossos are on this Greek island Crete |
| #7079, aired 2015-05-28 | ISLANDS IN THE "C"s $400: An old song says, "26 miles across the sea" this island "is a-waitin' for me" Catalina |
| #7079, aired 2015-05-28 | ISLANDS IN THE "C"s $600: Willemstad is the capital & chief town of this Dutch island in the Caribbean Curaçao |
| #7079, aired 2015-05-28 | ISLANDS IN THE "C"s $1,000 (Daily Double): These islands, Grand & Little, are named for the alligators reported to be native there the Cayman Islands |
| #7079, aired 2015-05-28 | ISLANDS IN THE "C"s $1000: The flag of these islands has a lot in common with the flag of New Zealand the Cook Islands |
| #7074, aired 2015-05-21 | "C" IN SCIENCE $400: It's a substance that accelerates a chemical reaction without itself being affected a catalyst |
| #7074, aired 2015-05-21 | "C" IN SCIENCE $800: It's a process, such as nuclear fission, in which the result of one event triggers another, usually of the same kind a chain reaction |
| #7074, aired 2015-05-21 | "C" IN SCIENCE $1600: This intestinal disorder is named for an American gastro-enterologist Crohn's disease |
| #7072, aired 2015-05-19 | IT'S A "CUR"IOUS THING $1600: It's caused by vitamin C deficiency scurvy |
| #7070, aired 2015-05-15 | THE STAR OF OSCAR'S BEST PICTURE $2000: 1970:
George C. Scott Patton |
| #7059, aired 2015-04-30 | LONG-RUNNING MUSICALS IN SHORT $1000: It's a gay old time:
"L.C.A.F." La Cage aux Folles |
| #7058, aired 2015-04-29 | INDIANAPOLIS $200: Known as "Circle City", Indianapolis is laid out in a wheel pattern inspired by the pattern of this eastern U.S. city Washington, D.C. |
| #7055, aired 2015-04-24 | LET'S GO OLD SCHOOL! $400: Old school: this Roman Catholic university in D.C. was founded in 1789; new school: it opened a Qatar campus in 2005 Georgetown |
| #7055, aired 2015-04-24 | POTPOURRI $1600: This Democrat's U.S. Senate service, from 1959 to 2010, was the longest in history (Robert C.) Byrd |
| #7053, aired 2015-04-22 | SOJOURNER TRUTH $1600: Shouting, "I want to ride", Truth helped rid D.C.'s streetcars of the segregated system named for this character Jim Crow |
| #7048, aired 2015-04-15 | A MIXED BAG OF MIXED BAGS $800: Seal your lunch in the polyethylene of these S.C. Johnson sandwich bags Ziploc bags |
| #7048, aired 2015-04-15 | WOMEN ON A PEDESTAL $1000: This Washington, D.C. university has a statue of a deaf girl, Alice Cogswell, sitting with the school's namesake Gallaudet |
| #7045, aired 2015-04-10 | LITERARY LANDMARKS $1,000 (Daily Double): You can visit the Belfast buildings where as a child this author saw a lion door knocker & an elaborate wardrobe C.S. Lewis |
| #7032, aired 2015-03-24 | U.S. CITIES' INTERNATIONAL AIRPORTS $800: George Bush Intercontinental Houston |
| #7027, aired 2015-03-17 | STAR-CHITECTS $1600: My architect has a first name, it's O-S-C-A-R; he also has this last name, and designed Brazil's Congress building Niemeyer |
| #7026, aired 2015-03-16 | 19th C. NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS $400: Jesper Harding, publisher of what's now this Philly newspaper, was for a time the USA's largest Bible publisher the Inquirer |
| #7023, aired 2015-03-11 | LITERA-SEA $1200: This fictional captain created by C.S. Forester was inspired by Horatio Nelson & Thomas Cochrane (Horatio) Hornblower |
| #7019, aired 2015-03-05 | MONSTER MANUAL $1600: It had a woman's head & a bird's body & met up with the Argonauts; c'mon get... a harpy |
| #7011, aired 2015-02-23 | FOREIGN WORDS IN SONG TITLES $400: "That's Life"; that's this French song title "C'est La Vie" |
| #7009, aired 2015-02-19 | SCIENCE FICTION $400: (I'm Elon Musk, C.E.O. of Spacex) My belief in the importance of space travel & planetary colonization for the survival of the human species was influenced in part by the epic depiction of the rise & fall of civilizations in this author's "Foundation" series Isaac Asimov |
| #7007, aired 2015-02-17 | ANGELS $1600: There's a whole book of the angel sermons of C.H. Spurgeon, a 19th c. preacher in this "immersive" denomination Baptist |
| #7000, aired 2015-02-06 | THEY NAMED A SCHOOL FOR ME! $800: This D.C. university bears the last name of the man who founded one of the first U.S. schools for deaf students Gallaudet |
| #6998, aired 2015-02-04 | "C"OUNTRIES $200: In Greek this island's official name is Kipriaki Dhimokratia Cyprus |
| #6998, aired 2015-02-04 | THAT'S ANCIENT CITY HISTORY $400: Bollywood wasn't even a gleam in Ashoka's eye when he ruled this island city in the 3rd century B.C. Mumbai |
| #6998, aired 2015-02-04 | "C"OUNTRIES $600: You don't mess with the Zoran when he's Zoran Milanovic, the prime minister of this country Croatia |
| #6998, aired 2015-02-04 | "C"OUNTRIES $800: This Asian country's flag depicts one of its historical treasures Cambodia |
| #6998, aired 2015-02-04 | THAT'S ANCIENT CITY HISTORY $1200: This Biblical city's first walls, dating to 8000 B.C., were some 13 feet high & supported by a 28-foot watchtower Jericho |
| #6998, aired 2015-02-04 | THAT'S ANCIENT CITY HISTORY $2000: Erech & Kish were cities of this earliest known civilization that flourished in Iraq in the 3rd millennium B.C. Sumeria |
| #6996, aired 2015-02-02 | "C" YOU AT THE MOVIES $400: Elizabeth Taylor's costume budget for this 1963 historical drama was $194,800 & included a gold cloth dress Cleopatra |
| #6996, aired 2015-02-02 | "C" YOU AT THE MOVIES $600: Paul Newman's role as a chain gang prisoner in this film was inspired by a safecracker named Donald Garrison Cool Hand Luke |
| #6991, aired 2015-01-26 | THAT WOMAN CAN SING! $200: In 2010 this Detroit legend said she'd prefer Halle Berry to play her in a film bio; R-E-S-P-E-C-T her wishes! Aretha Franklin |
| #6989, aired 2015-01-22 | ANCIENT GREECE $1,000 (Daily Double): In the 350s B.C. Demosthenes started warning Greeks about aggression by this Macedonian dad Philip |
| #6987, aired 2015-01-20 | A BRIEF HISTORY OF MIME $800: Circa 45 B.C., Decimus Laberius & Publilius Syrus engaged in a mime contest at this man's command; Publilius won Caesar |
| #6981, aired 2015-01-12 | THEY SAID IT ON TV $800: As Dexter he said, "He's all I've got; nothing else could love me... or is that just a dark lie the dark passenger tells me?" (Michael C.) Hall |
| #6979, aired 2015-01-08 | THAT'S MY WIFE $1000: Adam Brody of "The O.C.":
This "Gossip Girl" girl Leighton Meester |
| #6976, aired 2015-01-05 | KNOW YOUR A‑B‑C's $200: The official language of Syria Arabic |
| #6976, aired 2015-01-05 | KNOW YOUR A‑B‑C's $400: To illegally seize & take away abduct |
| #6976, aired 2015-01-05 | KNOW YOUR A‑B‑C's $600: If you're "taken" this, you're disconcerted aback |
| #6976, aired 2015-01-05 | KNOW YOUR A‑B‑C's $800: The mood or atmosphere of a place such as a restaurant ambience |
| #6976, aired 2015-01-05 | KNOW YOUR A‑B‑C's $1000: A deviation from the normal type, way or course aberrance |
| #6970, aired 2014-12-26 | ABBREVIATED MAGAZINES $1000: It's got luxury & style:
T&C Town & Country |
| #6968, aired 2014-12-24 | "C" PORTS $800: It's at the mouth of the Cuyahoga River Cleveland |
| #6968, aired 2014-12-24 | "C" PORTS $1600: It's the double "C" port seen here Corpus Christi |
| #6964, aired 2014-12-18 | U.S NEWS & WORLD REPORT BEST OF 2014 $400: For part-time law programs, think D.C.; George Washington U. was No. 2 & this university topped the list Georgetown |
| #6962, aired 2014-12-16 | GETTING LUCKY WORDS $1600: Hmm... "propitious"--let's swap the first 3 letters for new ones, replace the "T" with a "C" &, lucky for us, get this synonym auspicious |
| #6950, aired 2014-11-28 | JUDGES $200: Columbia, S.C.'s this building is named for Matthew J. Perry, the first black federal judge from the Deep South federal courthouse |
| #6939, aired 2014-11-13 | WHERE THERE'S A WILL... $3,000 (Daily Double): This heiress' 1993 will disposed of property in NYC, Newport, Beverly Hills & Honolulu & sent $10 million to Durham, N.C. (Doris) Duke |
| #6938, aired 2014-11-12 | MOVIE "LAND" $1200: Debra Winger was Oscar-nominated for her part in this 1993 film in which Anthony Hopkins played C.S. Lewis Shadowlands |
| #6931, aired 2014-11-03 | C.I.A. DIRECTORS $500 (Daily Double): Appointed by Gerald Ford, he's the only man to serve as both C.I.A. director & U.S. president George H.W. Bush |
| #6931, aired 2014-11-03 | C.I.A. DIRECTORS $800: Once President Clinton's Chief of Staff, he served as Secretary of Defense & C.I.A. director in the Obama administration Leon Panetta |
| #6931, aired 2014-11-03 | C.I.A. DIRECTORS $2000: An Air Force base on California's Central Coast is named for this general & 1940s C.I.A. director Hoyt Vandenberg |
| #6930, aired 2014-10-31 | IT'S ALL IN THE PAST $2000: Ancient Greek for "hot gates", this mountain pass was the site of a famous battle in 480 B.C. Thermopylae |
| #6928, aired 2014-10-29 | INITIALLY YOURS $1200: Beatrix Potter's stories of dressed, talking animals influenced some "chronicles" by this author, 32 years younger C.S. Lewis |
| #6925, aired 2014-10-24 | LIBRARIES $800: This D.C. school's Moorland-Spingarn Library includes rare works by Phillis Wheatley & Frederick Douglass Howard University |
| #6925, aired 2014-10-24 | FINISH THE C.P. ABBREV. $2000: It's insurance-speak, so we'll give you the "CPC" (Chartered Property & Casualty) but this "U" is up to you underwriter |
| #6924, aired 2014-10-23 | THAT IS LIKE SO LATE 20th CENTURY $600: "It's all about" these first names, aka C-notes Benjamins |
| #6917, aired 2014-10-14 | TODAY'S CHECKLIST $200: Check my own one of these from Equifax or Experian; 700? C'mon, 700? a credit score |
| #6915, aired 2014-10-10 | STAMPS $1200: The stamps seen here celebrate the Centennial of Tokyo's gift of these trees to Washington, D.C. cherry trees |
| #6911, aired 2014-10-06 | ATLAS CHAPS $400: Richard Bullington was project manager for the 9th & newest edition of this D.C. organization's renowned altas the National Geographic |
| #6905, aired 2014-09-26 | HISTORIC NAMES $200: In 1984 this 17th c. Quaker who governed a colony was made an honorary U.S. citizen William Penn |
| #6905, aired 2014-09-26 | WE LOVE "R" MUSIC $400: Aerosmith's Steven Tyler & Joe Perry joined this rap trio on their 1986 hit "Walk This Way" Run-D.M.C. |
| #6901, aired 2014-09-22 | WORD PUZZLES $800: An aid in spelling "I before E, except after C" |
| #6901, aired 2014-09-22 | "D.C."ING YOU $3,000 (Daily Double): It's the only capital-&-state combo that fits the category Denver, Colorado |
| #6896, aired 2014-09-15 | "C" TO "C" $2,000 (Daily Double): It's distilled from white wine & is named for a city in western France cognac |
| #6891, aired 2014-07-28 | LET'S VISIT D.C. $200: The memorial to this man was dedicated on April 13, 1943, the 200th anniversary of his birth Thomas Jefferson |
| #6891, aired 2014-07-28 | LET'S VISIT D.C. $400: Seen here at holiday time,
the Red Room in this landmark is often used for parties White House |
| #6891, aired 2014-07-28 | LET'S VISIT D.C. $600: In 2010, six names were added to the memorial for veterans of this war, bringing the total to 58,272 Vietnam War |
| #6891, aired 2014-07-28 | LET'S VISIT D.C. $800: Here's the view from this D.C. landmark completed in 1884 Washington Monument |
| #6891, aired 2014-07-28 | LET'S VISIT D.C. $1,600 (Daily Double): Though he didn't even live to see 1777, he is honored with a statue for his contribution to the American Revolution Nathan Hale |
| #6876, aired 2014-07-07 | CHINESE HISTORY $400: Begun in 486 B.C., China's "Grand" this is the world's longest manmade waterway Canal |
| #6876, aired 2014-07-07 | WHO KNOWS "C‑P‑R"? $1,000 (Daily Double): It's the study of secret writing, including codes & ciphers cryptography |
| #6876, aired 2014-07-07 | WHO KNOWS "C‑P‑R"? $1000: Found in the Southwest, it's a dense growth of shrubs or small trees a chaparral |
| #6865, aired 2014-06-20 | LITERARY SHIPPING $1,000 (Daily Double): In a C.S. Forester novel, Charlie Allnutt pilots this title craft on the Ulanga River The African Queen |
| #6864, aired 2014-06-19 | AN IMMODEST PROPOSAL $1200: Sorry about your hubby Marcellus' death, Octavia! But it's 40 B.C. & I love y--no, I'm not into Egyptian girls. Why? Marc Anthony |
| #6864, aired 2014-06-19 | AN IMMODEST PROPOSAL $2000: 'Cilla Mullins, it's the 17th c., baby, & I'm speaking for myself. Come on, li'l mama! We'll have 11 kids & make Plymouth rock! John Alden |
| #6858, aired 2014-06-11 | A "TON" OF CITIES $200: L'Enfant, but not L'Enfant Terrible, designed this U.S. city Washington, D.C. |
| #6853, aired 2014-06-04 | THAT'S ALL IN THE PAST $800: Once called Lacedaemon, it was a city-state that eventually came under Rome's control in 146 B.C.; this is...! Sparta |
| #6852, aired 2014-06-03 | FIRE PLACE $200: 586 B.C.:
Nebuchadnezzar burns this city's first temple Jerusalem |
| #6852, aired 2014-06-03 | FIRE PLACE $800: Circa 50 B.C.:
This city's library is torched (by Julius Caesar, some say) Alexandria |
| #6848, aired 2014-05-28 | ASIAN HISTORY $600: In the 17th c. this country's East India Company took over the Moluccas & controlled the world clove trade the Netherlands |
| #6840, aired 2014-05-16 | B.C.-ING YOU $1200: The festival of Hanukkah commemorates this Jewish hero's restoration of the Temple in Jerusalem Judah Maccabee |
| #6839, aired 2014-05-15 | MISHMASH $800: Tell T.C. & Rick to keep it down! It's time for this TV show whose theme is heard here Magnum, P.I. |
| #6837, aired 2014-05-13 | FIRST RESPONSES $200: Here's our first clue about this website, covering D.C. since 2007 & named from slang for an electee Politico |
| #6837, aired 2014-05-13 | WON THE BATTLE, LOST THE WAR $600: Around 428 B.C. Athens kept control of Lesbos but by 404 things had swung Sparta's way in this war the Peloponnesian War |
| #6834, aired 2014-05-08 | I'M A PAPAL PERSON! $600: In an archbishop of Canterbury tale, Innocent III excommunicated this 13th c. king in a dispute on who'd be archbishop King John |
| #6830, aired 2014-05-02 | WRIT IN WATER $1000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) On September 2, 31 B.C., this man's fleet was fighting the Battle of Actium against Octavian's fleet; an opening in the lines allowed his girlfriend to slip away with her ships; he followed her, & all was lost Marc Anthony |
| #6828, aired 2014-04-30 | NATIONAL SPELLING BEE WINNING WORDS $800: 1956:
An apartment that's owned, not rented C-O-N-D-O-M-I-N-I-U-M |
| #6815, aired 2014-04-11 | U.S. PLACE NAMES $800: Named for Ralph Edwards' old radio show, this New Mexico city is called "T or C" for short Truth or Consequences |
| #6811, aired 2014-04-07 | TV HOSTS BY INITIALS $600: "America's Got Talent":
N.C. Nick Cannon |
| #6810, aired 2014-04-04 | THE AGE OF THE ROBBER BARONS $1600: 5 years after this act was passed, the Supreme Court gutted it in 1895's United States v. E.C. Knight the Sherman Antitrust Act |
| #6809, aired 2014-04-03 | THE LONG & THE SHORT OF IT $800: Not much time--so I'll be this word with 3 C's succinct |
| #6803, aired 2014-03-26 | LET'S GO "C" A PLAY $400: Caius Marcius' victory at Corioli earns him this name, the title of a Shakespeare tragedy Coriolanus |
| #6803, aired 2014-03-26 | LET'S GO "C" A PLAY $1200: This 1955 play by Tennessee Williams won a Pulitzer Prize Cat on a Hot Tin Roof |
| #6803, aired 2014-03-26 | LET'S GO "C" A PLAY $1600: In this play set in the 1600s, John Proctor tells Rev. Hale, "though you be ordained in God's own tears, you are a coward" The Crucible |
| #6803, aired 2014-03-26 | LET'S GO "C" A PLAY $2000: Phyllis Frelich played deaf student Sarah in this Broadway play; Marlee Matlin played her in the film version Children of a Lesser God |
| #6803, aired 2014-03-26 | LET'S GO "C" A PLAY $3,000 (Daily Double): This 1904 Russian play ends with the sound of an axe striking a tree The Cherry Orchard |
| #6796, aired 2014-03-17 | LET'S PLAY BRIDGE $1200: In the mid-20th c. contract bridge became big & this formerly most popular form was going once, going twice... auction bridge |
| #6782, aired 2014-02-25 | 2013 BESTSELLERS $800: Full of greed, ego & backstabbing, this is the town covered in Mark Leibovich's "This Town" Washington, D.C. |
| #6781, aired 2014-02-24 | THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN HISTORY $600: (Alex delivers the clue from the National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C.) A sit-in by four young African-Americans in 1960 in Greensboro, North Carolina, sparked nationwide interest & activity in the civil-rights movement & also led this five-and-dime store to desegregate its lunch counters just about six months later Woolworth's |
| #6781, aired 2014-02-24 | THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN HISTORY $800: (Alex delivers the clue from the National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C.) I'm with one of the earliest locomotives of the U.S. railroad system--it looks like it could still run, doesn't it?--& it actually did in 1981 as it celebrated its 150th birthday; it was built in England, & it is named for this symbolic Englishman John Bull |
| #6781, aired 2014-02-24 | THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN HISTORY $1000: (Alex delivers the clue from the National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C.) Old 091 here took part in Operation Cedar Falls in January 1967, the largest offensive of the Vietnam War up to that point; she's a Bell UH-1, the workhorse helicopter of the war, known affectionately by this nickname a Huey |
| #6780, aired 2014-02-21 | FICTIONAL COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $400: Bracton College in "That Hideous Strength" by C.S. Lewis is home to the tomb of this magician Merlin the magician |
| #6778, aired 2014-02-19 | RECENTLY BANNED OR CHALLENGED BOOKS $600: This 1985 Margaret Atwood novel was challenged in N.C. as "sexually explicit, violently graphic and morally corrupt" The Handmaid's Tale |
| #6774, aired 2014-02-13 | STATE GOVERNORS $400: In the 1970s this Texas governor served in the U.S. Air Force flying C-130 tactical airlift aircraft Rick Perry |
| #6766, aired 2014-02-03 | PRE-'80s HISTORY $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) By law, Roman generals couldn't lead forces out of their assigned province; Caesar's 49 B.C. crossing of this stream separating Cisalpine Gaul from Italy acted as a war declaration the Rubicon |
| #6765, aired 2014-01-31 | SHAKESPEAREAN SPELLING BEE $1,000 (Daily Double): Lear's virtuous daughter C-O-R-D-E-L-I-A |
| #6757, aired 2014-01-21 | "C" THE WORLD $200: This city's international film festival was first held in 1946 Cannes |
| #6757, aired 2014-01-21 | ENTERTAINMENT BY THE NUMBERS $200: C-3PO's robot buddy R2-D2 |
| #6754, aired 2014-01-16 | CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND $1200: Waged from 149 to 146 B.C., the third Punic war resulted in the final destruction of this city & its people's enslavement Carthage |
| #6750, aired 2014-01-10 | VACATION $1000: It's safety first on vacay, & as of July 2, 2013, texting while driving is illegal on this alliterative S.C. island Hilton Head |
| #6748, aired 2014-01-08 | FICTIONAL WITCHES $600: Jadis of Charn is the evil White Witch laying chilly havoc to this C.S. Lewis land Narnia |
| #6743, aired 2014-01-01 | NATIONAL MEMORIALS $200: Justice & hope are forever enshrined in this man's Washington, D.C. memorial Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| #6736, aired 2013-12-23 | STREET SMARTS $1000: Manhattan's Alphabet City gets its name from these, lettered A, B, C & D (no Q) Avenues |
| #6733, aired 2013-12-18 | SCIENTISTS $2000: This 17th c. French scientist's law states that a fluid in a container transmits pressure equally in all directions Blaise Pascal |
| #6731, aired 2013-12-16 | FLORENCE $1200: The world's largest Franciscan church, the Basilica of Santa Croce is the burial place of this 17th c. astronomer Galileo |
| #6727, aired 2013-12-10 | GUARDS $1600: A state or federal prison guard may be called a C.O., short for this corrections officer |
| #6719, aired 2013-11-28 | ANCIENT GREEKS $400: Alexander the Great's tutelage under this Greek ended in 336 B.C. after the assassination of Alexander's dad Aristotle |
| #6716, aired 2013-11-25 | I C U R A 1-LETTER RESPONSE $400: It's the letter seen here in American Sign Language L |
| #6716, aired 2013-11-25 | I C U R A 1-LETTER RESPONSE $1600: It's the 4th tone in the scale of C major F |
| #6716, aired 2013-11-25 | I C U R A 1-LETTER RESPONSE $2000: Chemically, it's the symbol for tungsten W |
| #6715, aired 2013-11-22 | PASSWORD $200: One of the earliest accounts of the use of passwords is by Polybius, describing their use by this army around 150 B.C. the Roman army |
| #6713, aired 2013-11-20 | BEFORE & AFTER $2000: C.S. Lewis' Narnia book that showed off a little too much skin at the 2004 Super Bowl halftime show The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe Malfunction |
| #6710, aired 2013-11-15 | GIVE US 2 C's & AN A $400: The offering of a life to a deity, truly moving the runner along a sacrifice |
| #6710, aired 2013-11-15 | GIVE US 2 C's & AN A $800: Sorcery practiced by a female, it's... witchcraft |
| #6710, aired 2013-11-15 | GIVE US 2 C's & AN A $1200: This math branch can also pose a problem for your dentist as a hard deposit on your teeth calculus |
| #6710, aired 2013-11-15 | GIVE US 2 C's & AN A $1600: Golden Earring? Billy Squier? It's this rock format like WROQ 101 classic rock |
| #6710, aired 2013-11-15 | READING THE DETECTIVES $1600: D.C. is in crisis after the president's kids get kidnapped in "Kill" this James Patterson detective Alex Cross |
| #6710, aired 2013-11-15 | GIVE US 2 C's & AN A $2000: A system that reflects on a large scale the structure of a smaller system a macrocosm |
| #6708, aired 2013-11-13 | U.S. LANDMARKS $400: A mural depicting the Angel of Truth freeing a slave is on the south wall of this Washington, D.C. landmark the Lincoln Memorial |
| #6707, aired 2013-11-12 | THAT'S TOTALLY HISTORICAL! $600: In the 20s B.C., after Octavian took this imperial name, he established the Praetorian Guard to guard his body Caesar Augustus |
| #6701, aired 2013-11-04 | "C" THE WORLD $1200: This African country's English name doesn't fit the category, but its French name does Cote d'Ivoire |
| #6700, aired 2013-11-01 | IT'S ABOUT TIME $1000: Used instead of B.C. as a secular date reference, B.C.E stands for this Before Common Era |
| #6699, aired 2013-10-31 | ABBREVIATED VIDEO GAME TITLES $1000: The "III" version of "A.C.", this game, takes place in part in 1775 Colonial America Assassin's Creed |
| #6695, aired 2013-10-25 | "C" IN AMERICAN HISTORY $400: When it was founded as King's College in 1754, classes were held in a little schoolhouse in Lower Manhattan Columbia University |
| #6695, aired 2013-10-25 | "C" IN AMERICAN HISTORY $800: A scout for John C. Fremont's expeditions west, he later became a federal Indian agent in New Mexico (Kit) Carson |
| #6695, aired 2013-10-25 | "C" IN AMERICAN HISTORY $1000: In 1856 a storm felled this Connecticut tree in which the colony's document of rights was held 169 years earlier the Charter Oak |
| #6688, aired 2013-10-16 | WASHINGTON, NOT D.C. $800: Washington in the north of England, home of George's ancestors, is historically associated with mining this coal |
| #6688, aired 2013-10-16 | WASHINGTON, NOT D.C. $1200: Though it's named for someone else, James Black is credited with creating this knife in Washington, Arkansas Bowie |
| #6688, aired 2013-10-16 | WASHINGTON, NOT D.C. $2000: General W. passed 3 times through what's now Washington in this state's Litchfield County Connecticut |
| #6687, aired 2013-10-15 | LIBRARIES $1600: This Washington, D.C. library boasts "the world's largest and finest collection of Shakespeare materials" the Folger Shakespeare Library |
| #6685, aired 2013-10-11 | SAILING THE 3 C's $400: Wow, that's so weird--I was just thinking about this word for a striking occurrence of 2 events at 1 time a coincidence |
| #6685, aired 2013-10-11 | SAILING THE 3 C's $800: This college degree is total B.S. a Bachelor of Sciences |
| #6685, aired 2013-10-11 | SAILING THE 3 C's $1200: These household pests targeted by Raid have lived on earth for 250 million years cockroaches |
| #6685, aired 2013-10-11 | SAILING THE 3 C's $2,000 (Daily Double): It's the last of the "5 stages of grief" acceptance |
| #6685, aired 2013-10-11 | SAILING THE 3 C's $2000: From the Latin for "to cook together", it means to devise or contrive concoct |
| #6680, aired 2013-10-04 | INDOOR DRAMAS $400: Martha said she'd murder me if my sneezes made this fluffy French egg dish fall, but I couldn't hold back a souffle |
| #6680, aired 2013-10-04 | "WATER" WORKS $400: It's an archaic word for a sluice or channel, not just an infamous D.C. complex watergate |
| #6680, aired 2013-10-04 | BETWEEN JOBS $1000: In tarot, the card between magician and empress is a female one of these, which there's only been in legend pope |
| #6680, aired 2013-10-04 | 1967 $2,000 (Daily Double): In January LBJ proposed these "talks" to end the costly U.S.-Soviet weapons race SALT (Strategic Arms Limitation Talks) |
| #6680, aired 2013-10-04 | INDOOR DRAMAS $2000: Roger let a Russian phrase slip out--he's one of these spy agents who stay deep undercover for years! a sleeper |
| #6676, aired 2013-09-30 | FRAGRANCES $200: C'mon, get this, the bestselling women's fragrance in the Clinique line Happy |
| #6675, aired 2013-09-27 | TITLES & SUCH $2000: After Haskell Wexler's name you might have seen ASC, the C for this movie job a cinematographer |
| #6666, aired 2013-09-16 | ABBREVIATIONS $400: Part of the armed forces:
U.S.C.G. the United States Coast Guard |
| #6663, aired 2013-07-31 | AUTHORS $200: He wove the Book of Revelation into his final Narnia book, "The Last Battle" C.S. Lewis |
| #6659, aired 2013-07-25 | ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS $800: Around 3000 B.C. the Harappan civilization around this river in what's now Pakistan began cultivating cotton the Indus |
| #6658, aired 2013-07-24 | RECENTLY UNEARTHED CIVIL WAR LETTERS? $1000: O fair Lulubelle, my pancreas lies somewhere in S.C. but its islets of this, whose beta cells make insulin, live in my mem'ry Langerhans |
| #6656, aired 2013-07-22 | HISTORICAL NOVELS $3,400 (Daily Double): Steven Pressfield's "Gates of Fire" is an epic novel about this battle lost by the Spartans in 480 B.C. (the Battle of) Thermopylae |
| #6649, aired 2013-07-11 | WORLD HISTORY $2000: The legendary wealth of this king in what's now Turkey didn't help in 546 B.C. when the Persians defeated him Croesus |
| #6639, aired 2013-06-27 | GO "C" THE COUNTRY $1000: This island in the West Indies is 777 miles long but no more than 119 miles wide Cuba |
| #6629, aired 2013-06-13 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $400: In the U.S. hepatitis C is the main reason for this delicate operation first done successfully in 1967 liver transplant |
| #6625, aired 2013-06-07 | SPLIT "N"s $1000: A state's suspension of certain federal laws; S.C. attempted it with tariff laws in 1832 nullification |
| #6621, aired 2013-06-03 | OFFICIAL STATE STUFF $1,000 (Daily Double): To represent the abundance of Washington's forests, historian C.T. Conover coined this nickname the Evergreen State |
| #6620, aired 2013-05-31 | THINGS & STUFF $800: This 17th c. Brit's "choice" meant customers at his stable had to take the horse nearest the door (Thomas) Hobson's |
| #6619, aired 2013-05-30 | THE COLOMBIA ENCYCLOPEDIA $800: Under "C":
it's Colombia's most important legal agricultural export coffee |
| #6618, aired 2013-05-29 | IT'S "NATIONAL" $2000: Its East Building, completed in 1978 in Washington, D.C., was designed by I.M. Pei the National Gallery of Art |
| #6616, aired 2013-05-27 | MIDDLE "C" $400: In the movies it was Tarzan's garment of choice a loincloth |
| #6616, aired 2013-05-27 | MIDDLE "C" $1000: The Seven Seas, Steven Spielberg's luxury one of these, includes an infinity pool, a helipad & an indoor cinema a yacht |
| #6614, aired 2013-05-23 | THE VICE PRESIDENCY $1000: (Vice President Biden delivers the clue.) In 1832, after ticking off President Jackson & defending a state's right to nullify an act of the Congress, this proud Southerner became the first vice president to resign (John C.) Calhoun |
| #6613, aired 2013-05-22 | GIVE ME A "C" $400: It's the "C" in the organization ASPCA Cruelty |
| #6612, aired 2013-05-21 | THE DAYS OF THE STAGECOACH $1200: A luxury coach was named for this New Hampshire "C"ity; today there's a bus service of the same name Concord |
| #6611, aired 2013-05-20 | RELIGIOUS LEADERS $200: John Carroll, the first Catholic bishop in the U.S., founded this Washington, D.C. school in 1789 Georgetown |
| #6609, aired 2013-05-16 | YES "WAY" $400: It's the nickname for the highway that encircles the Washington, D.C. area beltway |
| #6606, aired 2013-05-13 | ALL THE SINGLE LADIES $200: Austria's archduke & Sweden's king were among many vying for this 16th c. English queen's hand; no dice, boys Elizabeth I |
| #6593, aired 2013-04-24 | HERE'S THE BEGINNING $200: At the start of this C.S. Lewis book: "Once there were 4 children whose names were Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy" The Lion, the Witch, & the Wardrobe |
| #6587, aired 2013-04-16 | "M.C." $400: Usually a den with a TV & not a hollow in the earth, it's a place where a guy can get away from it all a man cave |
| #6587, aired 2013-04-16 | "M.C." $1600: It's the feature of the garment seen here that fits the category a Mandarin collar |
| #6587, aired 2013-04-16 | "M.C." $2,600 (Daily Double): It's "my bad"--in Latin mea culpa |
| #6584, aired 2013-04-11 | ON THE GREEK DEITY'S RESUMÉ $5,000 (Daily Double): Awards & Honors:
•400s B.C.--
The Parthenon dedicated to me, wisely Athena |
| #6579, aired 2013-04-04 | U.N. ALPHABET SOUP $1600: It's the C in UNESCO cultural |
| #6573, aired 2013-03-27 | I'LL TAKE YOUR CHARACTER $1200: With "Jane Fairfax", Joan Aiken is just one of the authors building on this woman's early 19th c. works (Jane) Austen |
| #6572, aired 2013-03-26 | MUSICAL THEATRE $400: (Alex gives us the clue from the stage of the Ford's Theater in Washington, D.C.) I'm on the set of a Sherman Edwards musical set in this very significant year in American history 1776 |
| #6567, aired 2013-03-19 | AUTHORS $1000: This author's losing entry in a 1948 literary contest became the basis for the movie "2001" (Arthur C.) Clarke |
| #6563, aired 2013-03-13 | ODE TO A TV SHOW $1000: Michael Westen, Miami spy / Always knows what to do / A phony name, C-4 goes boom / & now our story's through Burn Notice |
| #6561, aired 2013-03-11 | THE HITTITES $800: Around 1400 B.C. the Hittites began working with this metal that's softer than bronze, helping to usher in its "Age" Iron |
| #6558, aired 2013-03-06 | WASHINGTON, D.C. SCULPTURE $800: "Viva" this revolutionary who stands life-size on the lawn in front of Mexico's embassy (Emiliano) Zapata |
| #6550, aired 2013-02-22 | EARN YOUR LETTER $800: Dim but well-connected Ivy Leaguers traditionally got a "Gentleman's" this grade C |
| #6540, aired 2013-02-08 | LET'S VISIT A MUSEUM $1200: A god rose from the sea... or a 460 B.C. statue of one did, & it's at this capital's Natl. Archaeological Museum Athens |
| #6538, aired 2013-02-06 | ART & ARTISTS $800: Stuart Davis was influenced by this 20th c. music style; the title of his 1940s "Mellow Pad" echoes the slang of its musicians jazz |
| #6532, aired 2013-01-29 | MINT MARKS $1000: A "C" on gold coins stands for this city named for George III's queen Charlotte |
| #6530, aired 2013-01-25 | A, B, C, D, E & THAT'S ALL $400: A Murphy one comes out of the wall a bed |
| #6530, aired 2013-01-25 | A, B, C, D, E & THAT'S ALL $800: A taxi, or to travel in one cab |
| #6530, aired 2013-01-25 | A, B, C, D, E & THAT'S ALL $1200: To recede, like the tide; it's often paired with "flow" ebb |
| #6530, aired 2013-01-25 | A, B, C, D, E & THAT'S ALL $1600: To yield territory cede |
| #6530, aired 2013-01-25 | A, B, C, D, E & THAT'S ALL $2000: A work of classical Icelandic poetry an edda |
| #6527, aired 2013-01-22 | ANCIENT HISTORY $400: Much of what is known about Babylonian society comes from this 18th century B.C. king's code Hammurabi |
| #6519, aired 2013-01-10 | HISTORICAL ONLINE CHECK-INS $2000: 480 B.C.: Crossing the Hellespont, supported by 700 ships; it's good to be the Persian king! Xerxes |
| #6517, aired 2013-01-08 | EDITOR $1200: Gary Moulton edited this 19th c. duo's journal--not easy when they spelled "Sioux" 27 different ways Lewis & Clark |
| #6515, aired 2013-01-04 | 10-LETTER WORDS $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from the Newseum in Washington, D.C.) This invention sped up the flow of news from behind the beyond; in 2001, this one sent the only real-time images of U.S. surveillance personnel being freed from China a videophone |
| #6512, aired 2013-01-01 | KINDLY CORRECT NIGEL'S SPELLING $600: I can't conceive why you believed you had licence to dissemble in such a fashion L-I-C-E-N-S-E |
| #6512, aired 2013-01-01 | KINDLY CORRECT NIGEL'S SPELLING $1000: You will aggravate our quarrel if you persist in failing to recognise my authority R-E-C-O-G-N-I-Z-E |
| #6510, aired 2012-12-28 | LETTERS, WE GET LETTERS $400: The 11th letter, it's rarely used in languages that developed from Latin K |
| #6508, aired 2012-12-26 | STARTS WITH "C" $400: Traditionally, it's what you're told to say so you'll be smiling in a photograph cheese |
| #6508, aired 2012-12-26 | STARTS WITH "C" $800: Jane Austen's writing room door made this noise, which she liked because it warned her of visitors a creak |
| #6506, aired 2012-12-24 | ON CABLE $1000: This Oscar nominee won a Golden Globe for her starring role on Showtime's "The Big C" Laura Linney |
| #6505, aired 2012-12-21 | COLLEGE BASKETBALL $400: In one of college basketball's biggest upsets, Villanova beat this Patrick Ewing-led D.C. school for the 1985 men's title Georgetown |
| #6501, aired 2012-12-17 | MATH FUN $1,600 (Daily Double): (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents the clue.) The Venn diagram here contains three sets: A, B & C, but, there's another set that includes all possible things that's called this the universal set |
| #6498, aired 2012-12-12 | ADVENTUROUS FOLKS $800: Isabella Bird's 19th c. journeys in this land, now Iran, included having to pull a gun on angry tribespeople Persia |
| #6488, aired 2012-11-28 | THE OAKLAND "B"s $1000: Francis Smith, the 19th c. "king" of this mineral soap additive, helped build Oakland's streetcar system borax |
| #6486, aired 2012-11-26 | THE GREAT PRETENDERS $400: Though born in what's now Slovenia, Don Carlos was a 19th c. pretender to this country's throne Spain |
| #6482, aired 2012-11-20 | DIFFERS BY A LETTER $1000: With a "C", they're natives of Zagreb; with a "G", it's hulled crushed grain, like buckwheat Croats/groats |
| #6480, aired 2012-11-16 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: Financial vultures beware! In 2012 "Jeopardy!" champ Richard Cordray became 1st head of the CFPB, helping these "C"s consumers |
| #6476, aired 2012-11-12 | TWO'S DAY $400: A 2.0 grade point average is equivalent to this letter C |
| #6472, aired 2012-11-06 | LITERARY AWARDS $1600: A British sci-fi award named for this "Childhood's End" author consists of an engraved bookend Arthur C. Clarke |
| #6470, aired 2012-11-02 | SCIENCE "C" STUFF $1600: It's the most recent era of geologic time, from about 65 million years ago to the present the Cenozoic |
| #6470, aired 2012-11-02 | SCIENCE "C" STUFF $2000: (Alex Trebek stands by railroad tracks.) I love the smell of this in the morning; it's a distillation of coal & wood tar, & for years & years, it has been the main preservative for wooden railroad ties (don't say napalm) creosote |
| #6467, aired 2012-10-30 | U.S. BODIES OF WATER $400: Widely considered the most beautiful bridge in D.C., the Arlington Memorial Bridge spans this river the Potomac River |
| #6461, aired 2012-10-22 | A LONG TIME AGO $800: By the waters of the Euphrates, this city became a Mesopotamian capital in the early 2nd millennium B.C. Babylon |
| #6458, aired 2012-10-17 | WHERE'S WALDO $600: Waldo joins other Americans in pondering beside this body of water in Washington, D.C. the Reflecting Pool |
| #6456, aired 2012-10-15 | THE ASSASSINATION OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN $200: (Alex walks the stage of Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C.) President Lincoln arrived late at Ford's Theatre; the show was already underway, but when he was spotted walking down the stairs toward the presidential box, everything here stopped; then the orchestra struck up "Hail To The Chief", the audience gave him a thunderous round of applause, the President waved & bowed, & then the performance of this play continued Our American Cousin |
| #6456, aired 2012-10-15 | THE ASSASSINATION OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN $400: (Alex stands on the stage of Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C.) Police work in those days could be a little bit shoddy: hours after the murder, a man named William Kent came back to the presidential box looking for his keys; what he found was the murder weapon, the small .44-caliber single-shot pistol bearing the name of this Philadelphia gunsmith who invented it Henry Deringer |
| #6456, aired 2012-10-15 | DR. SEUSS TITLES BY INITIALS $600: "H.T.G.S.C!" How the Grinch Stole Christmas! |
| #6456, aired 2012-10-15 | THE ASSASSINATION OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN $800 (Daily Double): (Alex walks the stage of Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C.) Illustrating the difference in memories, some people said that Booth shouted this Latin phrase right from here, center stage; others said, "No, it was from the box"; Booth himself wrote that he spoke the words before shooting Lincoln; perhaps he said these words more than once Sic semper tyrannis |
| #6452, aired 2012-10-09 | THERE'S AN ANIMAL ON YOUR CAR $800: On this caar, a griffin (though you only see the eagle head, wearing a crown) Saab |
| #6441, aired 2012-09-24 | IT'S A MYTH $1200: This resident of the labyrinth is seen here in a Greek artwork from the 500s B.C the Minotaur |
| #6432, aired 2012-07-31 | HODGEPODGE $800: In the sentence "Yo, check it, I left my CD on C-Dub's desk", "on" is this part of speech a preposition |
| #6430, aired 2012-07-27 | DEMOCRA "C" $400: A resident of a congressman's district a constituent |
| #6430, aired 2012-07-27 | DEMOCRA "C" $800: After talk of moving them to December, Iowa's first in the nation these were held January 3, 2012 caucuses |
| #6423, aired 2012-07-18 | "C" MONSTERS $1200: Scylla's fearsome counterpart Charybdis |
| #6419, aired 2012-07-12 | I'M JUST SWAMPED! $1000: Once home to runaway slaves, this "Great" swamp in Va. & N.C. appears in Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Dred" the Great Dismal Swamp |
| #6419, aired 2012-07-12 | NIXON'S ENEMIES LIST $1200: Reporter James Reston of The New York Times was on the list, along with Stanley Karnow of this D.C. paper The Washington Post |
| #6412, aired 2012-07-03 | LETTER-HEADS $600: Reasons for having one of these: the baby's too big: it's in distress; it's not in a head-down position a C-section |
| #6410, aired 2012-06-29 | C.C: ME $1200: He's been seen in films ranging from "American Beauty" to "The Muppets" Chris Cooper |
| #6409, aired 2012-06-28 | PEN NAMES $200: This Narnia author's first published work was "Spirits in Bondage", a book of verse written as Clive Hamilton C. S. Lewis |
| #6400, aired 2012-06-15 | CELEBRITIES' FAVORITE MOVIES $800: (I'm Andy Richter.) I'm crazy about 1934's "It's a Gift", the masterpiece of this comedian & his alcoholic, henpecked persona W.C. Fields |
| #6398, aired 2012-06-13 | LEFTOVERS $600: In 63 B.C. Tiro invented a system of this to record Cicero's speeches shorthand |
| #6396, aired 2012-06-11 | THE BRITISH MUSEUM'S HISTORY OF THE WORLD IN 100 OBJECTS $400: No. 1 is the inner coffin of Hornedjitef, an ancient priest of this kingdom, from the 3rd century B.C. Egypt |
| #6396, aired 2012-06-11 | THE BRITISH MUSEUM'S HISTORY OF THE WORLD IN 100 OBJECTS $4,500 (Daily Double): The 19th C. is represented by a chronometer from this ship that helped make scientific history in the 1830s The Beagle |
| #6392, aired 2012-06-05 | MEDICAL HISTORY $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows us statues at the Int'l Museum of Surgical Science in Chicago.) The Hall of Immortals honors medical pioneers, like Madame Curie, ancient Egypt's Imhotep, &
of course, this man, born in Greece around 460 B.C. Hippocrates |
| #6391, aired 2012-06-04 | C.D.s $200: "An Eye for an Eye" is a book by this Scopes Trial lawyer (Clarence) Darrow |
| #6391, aired 2012-06-04 | C.D.s $400: When this Victorian novelist was 12, his father went to debtors' prison Charles Dickens |
| #6391, aired 2012-06-04 | C.D.s $600: In 1947 this fashion designer introduced his "New Look" Christian Dior |
| #6391, aired 2012-06-04 | C.D.s $800: After 30 years as a U.S. senator from Connecticut, he now heads the Motion Picture Association of America (Christopher) Dodd |
| #6391, aired 2012-06-04 | C.D.s $1000: In 1884 this French composer won the Grand Prix de Rome with his cantata "L'enfant prodigue" Claude Debussy |
| #6390, aired 2012-06-01 | AN "R_____T" CATEGORY $1000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew demonstrates a science experiment.) It's a substance used to test for another substance. When mixed with orange juice, the type that tests for vitamin C turns clear reagent |
| #6385, aired 2012-05-25 | SPELLING WITH THE STARS $200: 1967 No. 1 for Aretha--give her some! R-E-S-P-E-C-T |
| #6382, aired 2012-05-22 | YOUR DAY IN "C"OURT $1600: A judge other than a chief judge at one of the U.S. courts of appeals a circuit judge |
| #6380, aired 2012-05-18 | "A.C." $400: Here's a mystery: she wrote romantic novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott Agatha Christie |
| #6379, aired 2012-05-17 | THE NEW YORK TIMES MOVIES $1600: Stephen Holden noted this 17th c. title trio's return to the big screen in 2011 with "All for one, and then maybe a sequel" the Three Musketeers |
| #6378, aired 2012-05-16 | WASHINGTON, D.C. $200: The Smithsonian museums are along the National this, "America's Front Lawn" the Washington Mall |
| #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 |
| #6378, aired 2012-05-16 | "BLOW" HARDS $1600: Fictional C.S. Forester navy man Horatio Hornblower |
| #6377, aired 2012-05-15 | OTHER POWER PLAYERS $400: Sheryl Sandberg is the C.O.O. for this website born in a Harvard dorm; its users number over 10% of the world's people Facebook |
| #6376, aired 2012-05-14 | LAW & ORDER $800: A U.S.D.C. is one of these, charged with the jurisdiction of a specific region a district court |
| #6371, aired 2012-05-07 | B.C.-ING YOU $1200: It's believed this rock group was built in England in three phases over 1,500 years, beginning around 3100 B.C. Stonehenge |
| #6370, aired 2012-05-04 | ALL WE NEED IS A TITLE $1600: Thomas Hardy's "The M of C" The Mayor of Casterbridge |
| #6370, aired 2012-05-04 | ALL WE NEED IS A TITLE $2000: Alan Paton's "C, the B C" Cry, the Beloved Country |
| #6353, aired 2012-04-11 | IN CONJUNCTION $800: The earliest known use of this whitish metallic element was around 3500 B.C. in what's now Iran tin |
| #6348, aired 2012-04-04 | BOW TIES ARE COOL $800: America's family doctor, this 1980s Surgeon General rocked a bow tie (C. Everett) Koop |
| #6346, aired 2012-04-02 | CRITIQUING SHAKESPEARE $600: Of "A Midsummer Night's Dream", this 17th c. diarist wrote that it was "the most insipid ridiculous play that ever I saw" (Samuel) Pepys |
| #6346, aired 2012-04-02 | HUSBANDS $800: Octavia's (we'll give you Gaius Marcellus, whom she married around 54 B.C., but you supply this second hubby) Mark Antony |
| #6340, aired 2012-03-23 | GOVERNORS SPEAK $800: This S.C. Gov. said, "I developed a relationship with what started out as a dear, dear friend from Argentina" (Mark) Sanford |
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Steve Money, an international education specialist from Washington, D.C.
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Season 29 player (2013-01-07).
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Chris Wallace, a TV host from Fox News Sunday
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"In March, this Fox News anchor was honored by the National...
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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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Karen O'Donnell, a website manager from Washington, D.C.
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Season 29 player (2013-07-04).
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Rob Landolfi, an environmental protection specialist from Washington, D.C.
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Season 28 player (2011-09-30).
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Sharon Boyd, a public health advisor from Washington, D.C.
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Season 31 player (2015-04-02).
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Christina McTighe, a library associate from Washington, D.C.
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Season 31 2-time champion: $36,800 + $2,000.
Last name pronounced like "mick-TY".
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Ed Patterson, an attorney from Washington, D.C.
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Season 30 1-time champion: $28,400 + $2,000.
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Tom Cubbage, an attorney from Washington, D.C.
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"In 1989, he was the first College Champion and remains the...
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Larry Bellinger, a journalist from Washington, D.C.
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Season 21 player (2004-10-13).
KJL game 56.
Last name pronounced like "BEL-lin-jer".
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Shaama Pandya, an economic consultant from Washington, D.C.
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Season 27 player (2010-09-17).
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Jesse Achtenberg, a documentary filmmaker from Washington, D.C.
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Season 26 1-time champion: $25,200 + $1,000.
Last name pronounced like "OCK-ten-berg".
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Leslie Hurd, a preschool teacher from Washington, D.C.
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Season 26 player (2010-02-24).
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Edith Roberts, an attorney and part-time traffic court judge from Washington, D.C.
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Season 25 player (2009-01-01).
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Tom Ogorzalek, a writer and editor from Washington, D.C.
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Season 20 player (2004-03-24).
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Evelyn Chester, a park ranger from Washington, D.C.
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Season 25 player (2009-04-24).
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Nick Swezey, a publisher from Washington, D.C.
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2007 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
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Diane Wilshere, an actor and playwright from Manassas, Virginia
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Season 25 1-time champion: $18,801 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Christine Carrino Gorowara, a teacher educator from Wilmington, Delaware
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Season 25 2-time champion: $43,202 + $1,000. Wife of Season 26...
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Nicole Karrow, an 11-year-old from Lewes, Delaware
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"Her goals are to be a horse breeder and trainer..." 2007...
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Bruce Borchardt, a metrologist from Washington, D.C.
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"A winner of five shows in 1995, he spent most of...
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Aaron Thompson, an executive assistant from Washington, D.C.
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2006 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 21 3-time champion:...
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Pam Mueller, a college student from Wilmette, Illinois
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2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2019 All-Star Games member of...
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Kadeem Cooper, a junior from the University of Virginia
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2009 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 20 and from Brooklyn, New York...
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Kelly O'Donnell, a political reporter from NBC News
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"An Emmy-winning political reporter, she has covered Capitol Hill and the...
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Tom Walsh, a writer from Washington, D.C.
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
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Than Hedman, a freshman from University of Colorado-Boulder
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2008 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 19 and from Denver, CO at...
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Jim Scott, an attorney from Arlington, Virginia
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"He was a legal assistant living near D.C. when he won...
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Anthony Dedousis, a sophomore from Harvard University
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2009 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 19 and from Manhasset, New York...
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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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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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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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Amanda Hall, from Farmington, Maine
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"Whether it's writing a biography of Yo-Yo Ma or working on...
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Paul Boymel, a civil rights attorney from Potomac, Maryland
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"He was the top winner of the 1984-85 season. Now he's...
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Matt Jackson, a paralegal from Washington, D.C.
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2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament semifinalist: $10,000. 2019 All-Star Games member of...
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Richard Cordray, the head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau from Grove City, Ohio and Washington, D.C.
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\"He had just graduated from law school and was clerking for...
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Ian Booth, a trade specialist from Washington, D.C.
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Season 34 1-time champion: $23,201 + $1,000.
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Lisa Ann Walter, an actor and stand-up comedian originally from Washington, D.C.
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2023 Primetime Celebrity Jeopardy! winner: $1,000,000 for the Entertainment Community Fund....
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Nam Vu, a senior at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.
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2022 National College Championship semifinalist: $20,000. Nam was majoring in environmental...
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Zach Klitzman, a public historian from Washington, D.C.
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Season 32 1-time champion: $37,601 + $1,000.
Son of Season 19 player Justine Lisser.
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Ross Gardiner, an 11-year-old sixth grader from La Plata, Maryland
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"And this self-proclaimed sports fanatic likes all the teams in the...
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Kim Taylor, a professor and scientist from Falls Church, Virginia
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Season 26 player (2009-10-07). Not to be confused with Season 18...
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Lauren Kutner, an 11-year-old from Newtown, Pennsylvania
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"The best part of middle school for this seventh grader is...
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Rebekah Smith, a library associate from Washington, D.C.
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Season 34 player (2017-10-06). Not to be confused with Season 34...
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Joanna Rom, a docent from Washington, D.C.
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Season 35 player (2018-10-22). Joanna appeared on the original version of...
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Sara Helmers, an attorney from Washington, D.C.
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Season 34 player (2018-02-01).
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Rebecca Heide, an economist from Washington, D.C.
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Season 34 player (2018-06-12).
Last name pronounced like "HI-dee".
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Julie Zauzmer, a reporter and balloon twister from Washington, D.C.
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Season 34 player (2018-01-11).
Last name pronounced like "ZAHZ-mer".
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Charlie Harless, a procurement analyst from Washington, D.C.
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Season 34 player (2017-12-25).
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Johnny Leon, a political media analyst from Washington, D.C.
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Season 34 1-time champion: $11,100 + $1,000.
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Keith Fudge, a policy analyst from Washington, D.C.
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Season 33 player (2017-07-19).
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Beth Schoenbach, a communications director from Washington, D.C.
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Season 34 player (2018-07-24).
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Dominick Fiorentino, a consultant from Washington, D.C.
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Season 34 player (2018-04-06).
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Kathie Hite, an attorney from Washington, D.C.
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Season 3 player (1987-07-20). Spelling of last name, occupation and hometown...
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Jacob Farrell, a strategy consultant from Washington, D.C.
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Season 33 player (2017-07-04).
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Tristan Mohabir, a nonprofit associate director from Washington, D.C.
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Season 34 1-time champion: $15,200 + $1,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Monica Ashar, an attorney from Washington, D.C.
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Season 34 1-time champion: $12,801 + $1,000.
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Erica Irving, a web developer from Washington, D.C.
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Season 34 1-time champion: $18,801 + $2,000.
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Anand Kandaswamy, an economist from Washington, D.C.
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Season 34 3-time champion: $57,001 + $1,000.
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McKayle Bruce, an attorney from Washington, D.C.
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Season 34 player (2018-03-13).
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Ivan Plis, a magazine editor from Washington, D.C.
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Season 34 1-time champion: $23,200 + $2,000.
First name pronounced like \"ee-VAHN\".
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Brian Kato, a State Department contractor from Washington, D.C.
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Season 34 player (2017-10-11).
Last name pronounced like \"KAH-toe\".
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Jess Agyepong, a senior from Howard University in Washington, D.C.
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2022 National College Championship quarterfinalist: $10,000. Jess was majoring in biology....
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Mark Japinga, a legislative researcher from Washington, D.C.
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2014 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 29 4-time champion:...
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Hunter Manchak, a product director from Washington, D.C.
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Season 33 player (2016-10-20).
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Sala Levin, a writer and editor from Washington, D.C.
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Season 33 player (2016-09-21).
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Caroline Bartman, a senior from Washington, D.C.
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2007 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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André Hereford, a writer from Washington, D.C.
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Season 33 player (2016-09-13).
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Tim Mercure, a graduate student in mathematics from Washington, D.C.
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Season 32 1-time champion: $20,401 + $1,000.
Husband of Season 32 player Shoshana Gordon Ginsburg.
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Jose Garriga, a communications specialist from Washington, D.C.
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Season 31 2-time champion: $38,402 + $2,000.
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Ben Rothenberg, a sportswriter from Washington, D.C.
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Season 32 player (2016-04-28).
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Erin Bowers, a patent examiner from Washington, D.C.
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Season 32 1-time champion: $30,001 + $1,000.
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Kim Vu, an international development project manager from Washington, D.C.
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Season 32 player (2016-03-21). First name pronounced like "KEEM". Older brother...
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Aaron Thompson, a special assistant from Washington, D.C.
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2006 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 21 3-time champion:...
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Udit Banerjea, an international relations graduate student from Washington, D.C.
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Season 32 1-time champion: $21,300 + $2,000.
Last name pronounced like "BAN-er-jee".
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Adrien Schless-Meier, a philanthropist from Washington, D.C.
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Season 32 player (2016-01-25).
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Randi Kristensen, a professor from Washington, D.C.
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Season 32 player (2016-01-18).
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Jennifer Roberson, a U.S. Fire Administration program manager from Ashburn, Virginia
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Season 26 player (2010-06-11).
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Matt Orlovick, a program analyst from Washington, D.C.
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Season 32 player (2016-01-06).
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Jen Maloney, an in-house security and web designer from Millersville, Maryland
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Season 24 player (2007-10-02).
Husband's Jeopardy! Message Board user name: mefailenglish
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Trevor Norris, a management analyst from Washington, D.C.
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2003 Tournament...
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Jill Bunzendahl Chimka, a speech and language pathologist from Washington, D.C.
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2003 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 18 4-time champion: $85,099...
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Chris Capozzola, a graduate student from Washington, D.C.
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"Ten years ago, he was a junior in Worcester, New York....
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Lindsay Eanet, a senior from the University of Missouri
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2010-A College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. Hometown: Deerfield, Illinois. Last name pronounced...
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Tucker Carlson, an author and co-host from Crossfire
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2004 Power Players Week player (2004-05-10). Charities: American Camping Association &...
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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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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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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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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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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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Bob Woodward, an assistant managing editor from The Washington Post
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2004 Power Players Week player (2004-05-10).
Charity: Sidwell Friends School.
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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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Matt Kohlstedt, a grad student originally from La Grange, Illinois
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2009 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
Season 25 5-time champion: $77,803 + $2,000.
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Amy Fletcher, a junior from Cincinnati, Ohio
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2005 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500.
16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Pam Mueller, a junior at Loyola University, Chicago from Wilmette, Illinois
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2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2019 All-Star Games member of...
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Pam Mueller, a justice researcher originally from Chicago, Illinois
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2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2019 All-Star Games member of...
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Greer Mackebee, a senior at Duke University from Knoxville, Tennessee
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2012 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 22 at the time of the...
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Ari Fleischer, a former White House Press Secretary from the current Bush administration
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"For the first two years of the current Bush administration, he...
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Emily Zhang, from Indianapolis, Indiana
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"A National Science Merit Award recipient, she plans on becoming a...
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Dan Melia, a retired professor from Berkeley, California
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"He was a professor at U.C. Berkeley when he won the...
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Paul Gutowski, an alcohol and drug counselor from Rockford, Illinois
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"He was the first 5-time winner in 1997. An alcohol and...
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Gabe Orlet, a senior from Belleville, Illinois
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2009 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
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Kaitlin Welborn, a sophomore from the University of Pennsylvania
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2007 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 20 at the time of the...
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Allison Peña, a junior from Sunrise, Florida
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2006 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
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Jonathan Capehart, a journalist from The Washington Post
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"This Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist is a member of the Washington Post...
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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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Adam Bibler, an economist originally from Lancaster, Ohio
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Season 27 1-time champion: $12,000 + $2,000.
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Larissa Kelly, an editor for academic competitions from Richmond, California
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\"She was a graduate student at U.C. Berkeley in Season 24...
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Diane Mezzanotte, an analyst for the federal government from Laurel, Maryland
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Season 29 player (2013-04-11).
Last name pronounced like "mez-zan-NOT-tee".
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Andrew Nerlinger, a senior at the University of Notre Dame from Wilmington, Delaware
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2001 College Championship quarterfinalist: $2,500. Andrew was 21 at the time...
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Peggy Enright, a realtor from Chevy Chase, Maryland
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Season 26 player (2010-06-17).
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Ryan Wenstrup-Moore, an associate director of social media from Cincinnati, Ohio
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Season 36 player (2020-01-29). Ryan's sign-in included a small "C.E." below...
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Tim Gray, a law student originally from Alexandria, Virginia
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Season 28 player (2011-11-30).
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Max Niles, a senior at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island
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2022 National College Championship quarterfinalist: $10,000. Max was majoring in history...
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Veronica Mance, a policy and research analyst from Chevy Chase, Maryland
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Season 29 player (2012-09-19).
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Rachel Shuman, a curriculum coordinator from Silver Spring, Maryland
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Season 29 1-time champion: $19,600 + $2,000.
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Dava-Leigh Brush, a stay-at-home mom from Arnold, Missouri
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Season 31 3-time champion: $31,501 + $2,000.
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Nathan Chadwick, a public librarian from Germantown, Maryland
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Season 30 player (2014-03-25).
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LeeAundra Temescu, a communications coach originally from Troy, Michigan
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Season 22 1-time champion: $20,001 + $2,000.
Web site at thecontrarypublicspeaker.com.
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Paulette Beete, a writer from Takoma Park, Maryland
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Season 22 player (2005-10-21).
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: mouthflowers
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Regina Fitzsimmons, a homemaker from Springfield, Virginia
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Season 20 player (2004-01-19).
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Paula Currall, a stay-at-home mom from Oakton, Virginia
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Season 27 player (2010-10-18).
Last name pronounced like "KUR-al".
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Michael Starsinic, a mathematical statistician from Bowie, Maryland
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Season 21 player (2004-12-31).
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Josh Kolchins, a homeland security consultant from Bethesda, Maryland
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Season 21 player (2004-12-02).
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Kelly Scurry, an 11-year-old seventh grader from Lauderhill, Florida
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"It's very convenient that Washington, D.C. is his favorite city, because...
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Bryan Porter, a prosecutor from Alexandria, Virginia
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Season 25 player (2009-06-26).
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Diane Armstrong, a consultant and retired Navy officer from Alexandria, Virginia
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Season 26 player (2009-09-21).
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Jen Fick, a records manager from Bethesda, Maryland
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Season 26 1-time champion: $9,300 + $2,000.
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James Poulos, a grad student and writer from Arlington, Virginia
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Season 26 1-time champion: $7,600 + $1,000.
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Ashley Grand, a freshman from Harvard University
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2007 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 19 at the time of the...
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Vince Valle, a foreign service officer from Arlington, Virginia
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Season 20 player (2004-03-01).
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Kathryn Dorminey, an evaluations analyst from Arlington, Virginia
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Season 21 player (2004-10-06). KJL game 51. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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