| #9078, aired 2024-04-10 | SLANGIN' WITH MR. JENNINGS $400: It's become controversial, but earlier, this word simply described one whose eyes have become more opened to social injustice woke |
| #9075, aired 2024-04-05 | IN THE PAST $4,200 (Daily Double): In ancient Rome the conflict of the orders refers to the struggle between these 2 social classes with names that start with "P" patricians & plebeians |
| #9068, aired 2024-03-27 | TRENDING $800: Co-founder Tom Anderson was your first friend on this social media platform; in 2005 he sold his company Myspace |
| #9045, aired 2024-02-23 | 2020s & 1920s SLANG $800: This shortened word precedes "check" in a term used on social media for reviewing one's attire before hitting the town fit |
| #9028, aired 2024-01-31 | PLATFORMING $1000: Upvote or downvote posts on this social media platform that has communities like AMA (Ask Me Anything) & WallStreetBets Reddit |
| #9015, aired 2024-01-12 | HISTORIC AMERICAN WOMEN $1200: Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins was a key player in the design of this 1935 act creating a national pension system Social Security |
| #23, aired 2024-01-02 | PERSONAL FINANCE $300: This form of income is officially called "Old-Age, Survivors, & Disability Insurance"; most people just call it this Social Security |
| #9004, aired 2023-12-28 | WOMEN ON TRIAL $2000: In 1993 Dorothea Puente was convicted of killing tenants at her boarding-house for these, which arrived in the mail monthly Social Security checks |
| #9001, aired 2023-12-25 | TOLD YOU "SO" $800: It's the "S" in SJW, a mocking term for an overly progressive person social |
| #8984, aired 2023-11-30 | WE SELL FUN $800: Farmville & Words with Friends are social games from this end-of-the-alphabet company Zynga |
| #8981, aired 2023-11-27 | I WANT MY "BABY" BACK, "BABY" BACK $400: In 2007 the first of these, born 1 second after midnight January 1, 1946, filed for Social Security a Baby Boomer |
| #8976, aired 2023-11-20 | LESSER-KNOWN ANCIENT ROMANS $400: What a social climber! His name precedes "symbol" to mean something that represents high position Status |
| #8969, aired 2023-11-09 | OSCAR-WINNING SCREENPLAYS $400: 2010:
Aaron Sorkin, from the book "The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook" The Social Network |
| #8955, aired 2023-10-20 | JUSTIN TIME $600: Him, as Sean Parker in "The Social Network": "You don't even know what the thing is yet, how big it can get, how far it can go" Justin Timberlake |
| #17, aired 2023-10-18 | NONAGENARIANS $300: After turning 90 in 2023, she was still active on social media and retweeted an article about the peace songs of her husband, John Lennon Yoko Ono |
| #8944, aired 2023-10-05 | I HAVE A PREPOSITION FOR YOU $1000: You "go" this "to get" this to make a social situation go smoothly along |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | RISING UP $1000: Washington, D.C. mayor Muriel Bowser unveiled a 2-block plaza on 16th Street NW named for this social justice group Black Lives Matter |
| #8940, aired 2023-09-29 | BACK TO SCHOOL $600: Social studies: In 1984 this Baptist minister established the National Rainbow Coalition Jesse Jackson |
| #8936, aired 2023-09-25 | FARMING PHRASES $2000: This type of social hierarchy is named for the way dominant poultry freely strike lesser birds pecking order |
| #8929, aired 2023-09-14 | THE OHIO UNIVERSITIES $1,000 (Daily Double): In 2012 this Ohio univ. opened its May 4 Visitors Center to place a 1970 event in historical, political & social context Kent State |
| #8905, aired 2023-06-30 | NUMBERS IN THE NEWS $800: In 2023 France raised the retirement age to this, still younger than Social Security's longtime number until 1983 64 |
| #8904, aired 2023-06-29 | THE HYPOCRITIC OAF $1600: Though he gave us "The Social Contract", this Swiss-French philosopher abandoned his 5 kids in an orphanage Rousseau |
| #8899, aired 2023-06-22 | MED. ABBREV. $600: ASD stands for this, a broad range of conditions involving challenges with social interactions & communication autism spectrum disorder |
| #8891, aired 2023-06-12 | COLOR MY WORLD $800: Colorful name of the social insect seen here that commonly builds concealed nests underground a yellowjacket |
| #8889, aired 2023-06-08 | 2 PARTS MAKE A WHOLE $1000: One of Santa's reindeer
+
a festive social gathering = this doomed group of American pioneers the Donner Party |
| #8888, aired 2023-06-07 | JOIN THE CLUB $1600: Ry Cooder assembled legendary Cuban musicians into this "Club" that was featured in a documentary of the same name The Buena Vista Social Club |
| #8872, aired 2023-05-16 | COLLEGE: THE DROP/ADD PERIOD $1000: Drop "for Social Research" from this NYC institution, like it did in the 1990s the New School |
| #9, aired 2023-05-15 | ABBREV. $600: On a social media post, CFBR stands for this; it helps amplify the message commenting for better reach |
| #2, aired 2023-05-08 | SING YOU A COUNTRY SONG $400: He sang, "I'm not big on social graces, think I'll slip on down to the oasis, oh, I've got friends in low places" Garth Brooks |
| #1, aired 2023-05-08 | 10-LETTER WORDS $800: The act of taking over someone else's computer with the goal of affecting social or political change is this portmanteau word hacktivism |
| #8856, aired 2023-04-24 | THAT'S AN ANIMAL SOUND $400: Social media can be hazardous to your career health! Winston Moss said he got fired as a coach in 2018 for one of these posts a tweet |
| #8852, aired 2023-04-18 | HOROSCOPES $600: It sounds like a water sign, but it's an air sign & those born under it, such as Abraham Lincoln, are intellectual & highly social Aquarius |
| #8827, aired 2023-03-14 | HERE'S YOUR REPORT CARD $1000: Britain's 1942 Beveridge Report proposed lifelong social support--in a common metaphor, between these 2 resting places the cradle & the grave |
| #8825, aired 2023-03-10 | FROM STEM TO STERN $400: Also a printing process, this word refers to a simplified generalization about a social group a stereotype |
| #8820, aired 2023-03-03 | NOVEL KEYWORDS $1000: A Pulitzer winner: Marginality, social;
mothers & sons;
New Orleans A Confederacy of Dunces |
| #8816, aired 2023-02-27 | SOCIAL SCIENCE $400: Growing out of its 1970s women's studies program, in 2006 Indiana University began the USA's first Ph.D. program in this gender studies |
| #8816, aired 2023-02-27 | SOCIAL SCIENCE $800: Economists know inflation-fighting interest rate hikes can tip the economy into this downturn, which can devolve into a depression a recession |
| #8816, aired 2023-02-27 | SOCIAL SCIENCE $1200: It's a lack of integrity in public officials, like via fraud & bribery; Argentina's ex-pres. was convicted of it in 2022 corruption |
| #8816, aired 2023-02-27 | SOCIAL SCIENCE $2000: In poli-sci, it doesn't refer to the image here, but to any legislature with two separate houses bicameral |
| #8816, aired 2023-02-27 | SOCIAL SCIENCE $3,000 (Daily Double): It's a social ideal meant to motivate people toward success; a book by a N.Y. Times columnist is subtitled "Waking Up from" it the American Dream |
| #8811, aired 2023-02-20 | REUNION SHOWS $600: Online during the pandemic, this NBC show's Ron Swanson told Leslie, "I've been practicing social distancing since I was 4" Parks and Recreation |
| #8810, aired 2023-02-17 | COOK, THE BOOKS $600: Fan favorites including pesto egg toast & ramen lasagna are featured in "As Cooked on" this social media platform TikTok |
| #8799, aired 2023-02-02 | WORD & PHRASE ORIGINS $2000: The belief that members of the highest social ranks are duty-bound to help the poor is the crux of this 2-word French phrase noblesse oblige |
| #12, aired 2023-01-26 | PSYCHOLOGY $400: The American Psychological Assoc. defines these 2 personality types as "inward & self-directed" & "outward & social-directed" introvert & extrovert |
| #8793, aired 2023-01-25 | WE'RE ALL COUNTING ON YOU $1200: Social sciences range from 300-399 in the library classification system named for this man Dewey |
| #8786, aired 2023-01-16 | THE SINGER WHO PLAYED... $800: Sean Parker in "The Social Network" Timberlake |
| #8786, aired 2023-01-16 | TATTOOS $800: Far from keeping them secret, in the 1930s many Americans got tattoos of these recently issued identifiers Social Security numbers |
| #8786, aired 2023-01-16 | ROYAL HISTORY $2000: The establishment of the Romanov Dynasty in 1613 ended the Russian "Time of" these, a period of political & social crisis Troubles |
| #8782, aired 2023-01-10 | POTPOURRI $600: This social media platform was originally called musical.ly TikTok |
| #8748, aired 2022-11-23 | A 20th CENTURY FACTS PRODUCTION $400: In 1973 the U.N. denounced this South African social policy but its end via legislation took 2 more decades apartheid |
| #8743, aired 2022-11-16 | BEASTLY BOOK TITLES $600: A teen who is good with animals & numbers but bad at social situations tries to solve the killing of a neighborhood pet The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time |
| #8729, aired 2022-10-27 | THE ANIMAL KINGDOM $3,800 (Daily Double): Males of these mammals engage in bouts called necking to establish a social hierarchy giraffes |
| #8726, aired 2022-10-24 | I PLAYED A REAL PERSON $400: Jesse Eisenberg played this guy, still at Harvard, in "The Social Network" Zuckerberg |
| #8721, aired 2022-10-17 | TRYING TO GET SOME WORKS DONE $2000: "Child with Toy Hand Grenade" from 1962, a famous image by this woman who often photographed social outcasts (Diane) Arbus |
| #8707, aired 2022-09-27 | ALSO IN THE CIRCUS $400: 2-word term for insurance or social programs designed to assist those that have "fallen" on hard times safety net |
| #8685, aired 2022-07-15 | MODEL BEHAVIOR $2000: "Mirror, Mirror" is a novel about teens coming of age by this actress, model & social media star Cara Delevingne |
| #8671, aired 2022-06-27 | FEMALE FOUNDERS $800: Following her husband's assassination in 1968, she founded a center for nonviolent social change in Atlanta (Coretta Scott) King |
| #8670, aired 2022-06-24 | FACTS & FIGURES $800: For those born in 1960 or later, full retirement benefits from social security are payable at this age 67 |
| #8668, aired 2022-06-22 | FACE/PALM $1000: Palmar hyperhidrosis is the technical name for these, which can cause embarrassment, especially during social introductions sweaty palms |
| #8658, aired 2022-06-08 | RECENT SLANG $200: If a teen has a Finsta, it's a secret account on this social media platform, hidden from parents Instagram |
| #8657, aired 2022-06-07 | DEER-POURRI $800: A men-only social gathering, or the way you "go" to a party if unaccompanied by a date stag |
| #8647, aired 2022-05-24 | YES, YES, YES $1600: This word found before "action" in the name of a social remedy can also be used to say "yes" affirmative |
| #8638, aired 2022-05-11 | MORE THAN ONE MEANING $200: Fruit of the palm & a social engagement a date |
| #8631, aired 2022-05-02 | FROM BOOK TO MOVIE WITH A DIFFERENT TITLE $600: Ben Mezrich's "The Accidental Billionaires" became this movie about the startup of Facebook The Social Network |
| #8630, aired 2022-04-29 | ENTERTAINMENT AWARDS $800: This social satire from director Bong Joon-ho won the Palme d'Or at the 2019 Cannes film festival Parasite |
| #8584, aired 2022-02-24 | HISTORIC WOMEN $1600: In 1889 social reformers Jane Addams & Ellen Gates Starr founded this famous settlement house in Chicago Hull-House |
| #8583, aired 2022-02-23 | ARE YOU SMARTER THAN A 1905 5th GRADER? $1200: Social studies:
It first appeared in "The Youth's Companion" only 13 years ago in 1892 & we say it in class every day the Pledge of Allegiance |
| #18, aired 2022-02-22 | "C" THE ANIMALS $200: The name of this bewhiskered water dweller can also mean a person who uses a fake profile on social media a catfish |
| #8581, aired 2022-02-21 | ENDS WITH "OUT"! $600: Someone who's trying to get more followers on social media is said to be "chasing" this clout |
| #14, aired 2022-02-17 | MILLENNIALS $1200: He came to the forefront of social activism during the 2016 NFL season Colin Kaepernick |
| #5, aired 2022-02-10 | MEDICAL SPECIALTIES $200: As seen on TV & social media, Sandra Lee, also known as Dr. Pimple Popper, is board-certified in this field dermatology |
| #1, aired 2022-02-08 | SOCIAL MEDIA STARS $400: Not surprisingly, it's Dwayne Johnson's Instagram handle @therock |
| #1, aired 2022-02-08 | SOCIAL MEDIA STARS $800: One of TikTok's top influencers, in 2021 she made her acting debut in the teen romcom "He's All That" Addison Rae |
| #1, aired 2022-02-08 | SOCIAL MEDIA STARS $1200: In 2021 this teen became the first celebrity on "Dancing with the Stars" to have a same-sex partner JoJo Siwa |
| #1, aired 2022-02-08 | SOCIAL MEDIA STARS $1600: This singer of "Scars To Your Beautiful" was discovered via her YouTube channel after she began posting videos at 13 Alessia Cara |
| #1, aired 2022-02-08 | SOCIAL MEDIA STARS $2000: Once the most popular personality on Vine, "all hail" this funnyman, actor, producer & content creator seen here King Bach |
| #8557, aired 2022-01-18 | WORLD HISTORY $400: The Latin for fief, a vassal's domain, gave this political & social system of Europe's middle ages its name feudalism |
| #8551, aired 2022-01-10 | BETWEEN THE WORLD WARS $800: In 1935 Congress passed this act that established unemployment relief & old age pensions the Social Security Act |
| #8539, aired 2021-12-23 | THOMAS HOBBES $400: Hobbes was an Erastian, meaning that in the tension between these 2 social entities, the first is subordinate to the second church & state |
| #8535, aired 2021-12-17 | MOVIE TAGLINES $400: 2010:
"You don't get to 500 million friends without making a few enemies"; what's on your mind? The Social Network |
| #8531, aired 2021-12-13 | LET THERE BE ENLIGHTENMENT $3,000 (Daily Double): This concept of an actual or implicit agreement between rulers & the ruled gave a 1762 Rousseau work its title The Social Contract |
| #8505, aired 2021-11-05 | PLAYING "CARD"s $200: Once upon a time it was proper etiquette to present one of these alliterative items during a social visit a calling card |
| #8493, aired 2021-10-20 | IN BOX $1000: In 2000 Al Gore said he wanted to put this government program in a "lockbox", as it then had a surplus of $150 billion Social Security |
| #8489, aired 2021-10-14 | OLD SLANG $1000: From a character in popular entertainment, a Peck's this was a man who didn't obey social norms Peck's Bad Boy |
| #8483, aired 2021-10-06 | INTERPLANETARY WORDS $2000: From the French for "arrive", they're people newly arrived on the social scene & not yet accepted parvenus |
| #8463, aired 2021-08-11 | AN AUGUST CATEGORY $400: August 1935: Note the grinning 66-year-old as this act providing a system of benefits becomes law Social Security |
| #8430, aired 2021-06-25 | JOLIE OLD FRANCE $1600: Jean-Jacques Rousseau advocated for human liberty in works like this 1762 "Social" one contract |
| #8406, aired 2021-05-24 | NEWER HISTORY BOOKS $600: In Isabel Wilkerson's book, this 5-letter title doesn't refer to India's social hierarchy, but America's Caste |
| #8374, aired 2021-04-08 | WIPE OUT $800: A term for something no longer in fashion loses "out", becoming this past tense verb regarding social coupling dated (from outdated) |
| #8355, aired 2021-03-12 | BUSINESS ABBREV. $1000: Corporate citizenship is also known as corporate this, CSR for short corporate social responsibility |
| #8350, aired 2021-03-05 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $800: 3 words become one in this .com, "the world's largest, free social fundraising platform" GoFundMe |
| #8349, aired 2021-03-04 | TERMS FROM HISTORY $800: Term for the post-Civil War period in which attempts were made to repair the physical & social damage from the war Reconstruction |
| #8346, aired 2021-03-01 | ANTHROPOLOGY $800: George P. Murdock popularized the term this type of family (mom, dad, kids) & called it "a universal human social grouping" a nuclear family |
| #8329, aired 2021-02-04 | POETRY $1200: In 2020 Patrick Stewart read these on social media starting with No. 116, "Let me not to the marriage of true minds" Shakespeare sonnets |
| #8324, aired 2021-01-28 | CLOTHING TIME $800: These wide & loose pants were named for a 19th century social reformer & feminist bloomers |
| #8323, aired 2021-01-27 | BLUE'S CLUES $400: A stylized blue silhouette suggestive of a bird is the logo of this social media site Twitter |
| #8291, aired 2020-11-30 | THE BIRDS & THE BEES $500 (Daily Double): Mason & carpenter bees are classified as this type that practices social distancing full time solitary bees |
| #8289, aired 2020-11-26 | MOVIE QUOTES $1200: "Okay, let me tell you the difference between Facebook & everybody else: we don't crash ever!" The Social Network |
| #8279, aired 2020-11-12 | FEMINISM $600: In a feminist move the women's social & political union insisted on saying this word with a hard "G", as in "We'll get the vote" suffragette |
| #8278, aired 2020-11-11 | HE SCORES! $600: Producer Atticus Ross & this Nine Inch Nails frontman shared a 2010 Oscar for their score for "The Social Network" Trent Reznor |
| #8277, aired 2020-11-10 | MARIAH CAREY $1600: (Mariah Carey presents the clue.) In 2009, I got to show my dramatic side as a tough-love social worker who tries to help Gabourey Sidibe in this Academy Award-winning film Precious |
| #8271, aired 2020-11-02 | ONCE-POPULAR FIRST NAMES $1,000 (Daily Double): Meaning "noble" (remember the Roman social class), this girls' name was top 5 in the U.S. in the 1940s Patricia |
| #8232, aired 2020-06-09 | HISTORY OF HUNGARY $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from Budapest, Hungary in Memento Park.) The Republic of Councils monument --now mocked as "Sir, You Forgot Your Scarf!"--was meant to immortalize Hungary's first government by this party, which merged with the Social Democrats in 1919, just before taking power the Communists |
| #8216, aired 2020-05-18 | DA, YOU SPEAK RUSSIAN $2000: This word borrowed from Russian refers to the influential educated social & political classes intelligentsia |
| #8214, aired 2020-04-30 | COLLEGE & UNIVERSITY ORIGINS $1000: This NYC school of design was founded in 1896 & became a division of The New School for Social Research in 1970 Parsons |
| #8201, aired 2020-04-13 | CROSSWORD CLUES "P" $1000: Social outcast (6) a pariah |
| #8200, aired 2020-04-10 | FILM SCHOOLS $400: Johns Hopkins doubled for Harvard in this 2010 film with Jesse Eisenberg as Mark Zuckerberg The Social Network |
| #8193, aired 2020-04-01 | AMERICAN WOMEN $800: Frances Perkins, the first female cabinet secretary, was on the committee that designed this "security" blanket made law in 1935 Social Security |
| #8187, aired 2020-03-24 | GET-TOGETHERS $1200: In Amish culture, a frolic is an event combining practical and social aspects, like the raising of this structure a barn |
| #8170, aired 2020-02-28 | WE CAN BE HEROES $800: Heather Heyer won the Ali Humanitarian for Social Justice Award after losing her life protesting Neo-Nazis in this Va. city in 2017 Charlottesville |
| #8169, aired 2020-02-27 | A LITTLE ALLITERATION $1600: In high school, courses such as history, geography & civics come under this heading social studies |
| #8167, aired 2020-02-25 | PLAYING REAL PEOPLE $1200: Armie Hammer played both Cameron & Tyler Winklevoss in this 2010 film The Social Network |
| #8160, aired 2020-02-14 | X MARKS THE WORD $800: A social gathering for people to get to know each other a mixer |
| #8155, aired 2020-02-07 | SLANG TERMS $1600: Like the feedback type, in a "compulsion" this, you endlessly cycle through checking your social media apps a loop |
| #8144, aired 2020-01-23 | ENTERING THE LANGUAGE $400: From @stoweboyd on twitter.com August 25, 2007: this ubiquitous social media word derived from a keyboard symbol hashtag |
| #8139, aired 2020-01-16 | REAL PEOPLE ON SCREEN $600: An entrepreneur: Anthony Michael Hall in "Pirates of Silicon Valley" & Steve Sires in "The Social Network" Bill Gates |
| #8135, aired 2020-01-10 | # $1000: #FF, short for this, is used to recommend social media accounts you enjoy followfriday |
| #3, aired 2020-01-08 | TAKE AN "IQ" TEST $1200: "Invasion of the Boy Snatchers" is a book in a young adult series named for this type of social group a clique |
| #8118, aired 2019-12-18 | MUSICIANS WHO ACT $2000: Playing Napster's Sean Parker in "The Social Network", this singer says, "Drop the 'The'. Just 'Facebook'. It's cleaner" Justin Timberlake |
| #8108, aired 2019-12-04 | MODERN ACTIVISM $1200: Started in Victoria, British Columbia in 1987, the Raging "these", older relatives, fight for social and economic justice Grannies |
| #8105, aired 2019-11-29 | THE WWE SLAMMY AWARDS $400: Doing the work of 2 1/2 men, this actor beat Tyson, Schwarzenegger & the Muppets to be Top Social Media Ambassador in 2012 Charlie Sheen |
| #8100, aired 2019-11-22 | WINDY CITY POLITICS $1200: Begun on the South Side of Chicago, the social justice movement known as Operation PUSH was headed by this man Jesse Jackson |
| #8093, aired 2019-11-13 | SOCIOLOGY $400: Marked by things like expensive cars or homes, this type of "symbol" of social rank comes from the Latin for "to stand" a status symbol |
| #8093, aired 2019-11-13 | SOCIOLOGY $1200: In 2017, Jim Brown & Kareem helped launch San Jose State's Institute for the Study of this, Society and Social Change Sport |
| #8093, aired 2019-11-13 | SOCIOLOGY $2000: William Sumner, a pioneer in sociology, advocated social this -ism, where the poorly adapted die out Darwinism |
| #8088, aired 2019-11-06 | "ALL" IN $400: Botanical term for someone at a social event who has no one to dance with or talk to a wallflower |
| #8083, aired 2019-10-30 | AMERICAN THINKERS $2000: Instead of Christmas the family in the movie "Captain Fantastic" observes the birthday of this linguist & left-wing social critic Noam Chomsky |
| #8068, aired 2019-10-09 | BUT "OK" $400: urbandictionary.com caustically says this is being "pretentious about how much you care about a social issue" woke |
| #8064, aired 2019-10-03 | SHIFT THE STRESS $600: To say no & a social loser (there's a band of All-American ones) Rejects & reject |
| #8043, aired 2019-07-24 | "P" IS FOR SCIENCE $1200: Among species, there are brood, social & sexual types of this relationship in which someone is usually a loser a parasitic relationship |
| #8040, aired 2019-07-19 | THE REAL MOVIE PERSON $1200: After meeting the real Winklevoss twins Armie Hammer had played in this movie, Armie said, "I felt like the smaller triplet" The Social Network |
| #8027, aired 2019-07-02 | A GEM OF A WORD $200: Proverbially, a nice person without a lot of social grace is one of these "in the rough" a diamond |
| #8024, aired 2019-06-27 | THE 1600s $2,000 (Daily Double): Her marriage to John Rolfe was the Virginia social event of 1614 Pocahontas |
| #8021, aired 2019-06-24 | FAMILY MATTERS $400: Basic "atomic" social unit of parents & their kids only the nuclear family unit |
| #8020, aired 2019-06-21 | A S.T.E.A.M. CATEGORY $1200: How far apart your eyes are is one metric of FRS, short for this tech system used by social media & law enforcement facial recognition system |
| #8018, aired 2019-06-19 | THE D.C. UNIVERSE $400: A little birdie told me Dick Costolo became CEO of this social media site after a 2010 boardroom coup Twitter |
| #8015, aired 2019-06-14 | 2-LETTER WORDS $400: The 2013 meeting of the Canadian Linguistics Association included a paper on "The Social Meaning of" this word eh |
| #8010, aired 2019-06-07 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: 1996's Personal Responsibility & Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act was part of the reform of this social program welfare |
| #8003, aired 2019-05-29 | ROBOTS $1000: As a social experiment, in 2014 a bot traveled 6,000 miles through Canada this way, but in the U.S. in 2015, soon met a bad end hitchhiking |
| #7998, aired 2019-05-22 | STARTS WITH 2 VOWELS, ENDS WITH ONE $600: It's a powerful feeling of anger, maybe about social injustice outrage |
| #7995, aired 2019-05-17 | CELEBS ON SOCIAL MEDIA $400: You can "Ask (this) Amy" about love, exams, volunteering & just about anything else on her "Smart Girls" channel on YouTube Amy Poehler |
| #7995, aired 2019-05-17 | CELEBS ON SOCIAL MEDIA $800: Despite passing away in 1981, this reggae legend is quite active on Twitter, blue check & all (his estate manages the account) Bob Marley |
| #7995, aired 2019-05-17 | CELEBS ON SOCIAL MEDIA $1200: @colesprouse to @dylansprouse: "Were you Zack or" this kid? Dylan: "I don't remember...I was too busy carrying the show on my back" Cody |
| #7995, aired 2019-05-17 | CELEBS ON SOCIAL MEDIA $1600: After Kylie Jenner wrote, "Does anyone else not open" this instant messaging app "anymore", its stock took a $1.3 billion hit Snapchat |
| #7995, aired 2019-05-17 | CELEBS ON SOCIAL MEDIA $2000: Twitter erupted when this co-host of "The View" responded to a critic with the tweet "You were at my wedding Denise" Meghan McCain |
| #7989, aired 2019-05-09 | SOCIAL STUDIES $200: It's South America's most populous country Brazil |
| #7989, aired 2019-05-09 | SOCIAL STUDIES $400: It precedes "blight" or "decay" to refer to unsightly parts of a town or city urban |
| #7989, aired 2019-05-09 | SOCIAL STUDIES $600: In January 2019 this South American country's national assembly declared its president a "usurper" & named its own replacement Venezuela |
| #7989, aired 2019-05-09 | SOCIAL STUDIES $800: Something a popular circus has, or the idea that a political party can accommodate diverse views a big tent |
| #7989, aired 2019-05-09 | SOCIAL STUDIES $1000: A 1951 work on this person in societies of northern Asia says he is "magician and medicine man... priest, mystic and poet" a shaman |
| #7985, aired 2019-05-03 | GOVERNMENT & POLITICS $2000: The USA's second-longest of these lasted 21 days in 1995-96, over budgets & social program spending a government shutdown |
| #7980, aired 2019-04-26 | SOCIAL STUDIES $400: The book "Gunfight" focuses on the history & interpretation of this amendment to the Constitution the Second |
| #7980, aired 2019-04-26 | SOCIAL STUDIES $1200: Law professor Randall Kennedy's "For Discrimination" argues in favor of this effort to boost minorities in education affirmative action |
| #7980, aired 2019-04-26 | SOCIAL STUDIES $1600: A book by Matthew Desmond looks at some folks whose rent is 80% of their income & end up getting this, the book's title Evicted |
| #7980, aired 2019-04-26 | SOCIAL STUDIES $2,000 (Daily Double): "The Righteous Mind" examines polarization, specifically why 2 subjects so divide us:
politics & this religion |
| #7980, aired 2019-04-26 | SOCIAL STUDIES $2000: He's a senator from Nebraska & the author of "Them: Why We Hate Each Other--and How to Heal" Senator Ben Sasse |
| #7976, aired 2019-04-22 | I WROTE IT $11,914 (Daily Double): "The Social Contract", 1762 advice on how to recover liberty Rousseau |
| #7974, aired 2019-04-18 | GREEK & ROMAN LIT $9,812 (Daily Double): From around 170 A.D., the "Meditations" of this Roman emperor reflect on subjects like moral & social virtue Marcus Aurelius |
| #7969, aired 2019-04-11 | I'VE GOT YOUR NUMBER $200: These 9-digit government-issued numbers will never begin with 666--take that, Satan! Social Security numbers |
| #7957, aired 2019-03-26 | ONE T, DOUBLE T $400: French word for proper conduct in a social setting etiquette |
| #7944, aired 2019-03-07 | STEAMED PUNK $1000: In 2018 this band's frontman Mike Ness was accused of anti-socially punching out a heckler at a Sacramento show Social Distortion |
| #7930, aired 2019-02-15 | THE WORLD ALMANAC 2019 $600: Top 10 news topics of 2018 include this movement, known by a social media hashtag, leading to legal action for sexual assault #MeToo |
| #7925, aired 2019-02-08 | BY GEORGE $800: George McGovern:
"____ Security and the Golden Age" social |
| #7919, aired 2019-01-31 | BIO PICKED $400: The man seen here is depicted in this 2010 film set largely at Harvard The Social Network |
| #7919, aired 2019-01-31 | 1960s AMERICA $800: These 2 health insurance programs went into effect as Titles 18 & 19 of the Social Security Act Medicare and Medicaid |
| #7911, aired 2019-01-21 | LIFE DURING WAR $1200: If you were a U.S. male with a birthday of September 14, you might get unlucky No. 001 in the Dec. 1, 1969 lottery for this the draft |
| #7898, aired 2019-01-02 | COUNT $400: In social media, this count is the number of times a Twitter user's message was posted by others on their feeds retweets |
| #7887, aired 2018-12-18 | LIKES & RAVERS $200: In 2016 this social network sextupled the ways you can react to a posting, adding emojis to plain old "like" Facebook |
| #7871, aired 2018-11-26 | PREDICTIONS BY 2030 $1000: In 2018 this social network site got a few "thumbs up", with a market cap of about $540 billion; by 2030, that number will be...more? Facebook |
| #7869, aired 2018-11-22 | SOCIAL SCIENCE $400: In the 19th century Auguste Comte coined this "ology" for the study of human communities & institutions sociology |
| #7869, aired 2018-11-22 | SOCIAL SCIENCE $800: Oddly, linguists say New Orleans is now the best place to hear the accent called this NYC borough-ese, as in "berl the water" Brooklynese |
| #7869, aired 2018-11-22 | SOCIAL SCIENCE $1200: Proxemics is defined as the study of how this between people affects interactions, like with a close talker space |
| #7869, aired 2018-11-22 | SOCIAL SCIENCE $1600: This economic doctrine that advocates minimal government interference is French for "allow to do" laissez-faire |
| #7869, aired 2018-11-22 | SOCIAL SCIENCE $2000: Political scientist Seymour Martin Lipset called elections "the democratic" this type of Marxian "struggle" class struggle |
| #7841, aired 2018-10-15 | SOCIAL MEDIA ABBREV. $200: On Twitter "RT" is short for this, which helps you not get accused of plagiarism retweet |
| #7841, aired 2018-10-15 | SOCIAL MEDIA ABBREV. $400: The one who started it all, the "OP" in a Facebook thread is short for this the original poster |
| #7841, aired 2018-10-15 | SOCIAL MEDIA ABBREV. $600: Tedious things warrant "MEGO", meaning "my eyes" do this action my eyes glaze over |
| #7841, aired 2018-10-15 | SOCIAL MEDIA ABBREV. $800: When you want to bump a post up from obscurity, use "TTT" for this directional phrase to the top |
| #7841, aired 2018-10-15 | SOCIAL MEDIA ABBREV. $1000: "WCW" is short for this, the weekday some groups post images of their favorite actresses Woman Crush Wednesday |
| #7838, aired 2018-10-10 | HELLO! $800: This co. that has let people say "hello" for almost 140 years now has a youthful social media studio called Hello Lab AT&T |
| #7831, aired 2018-10-01 | COUNTRY, HIP-HOP & JAZZ $800: Garth Brooks sang, "I'm not big on social graces, think I'll slip on down to the oasis, oh I've got friends in" here low places |
| #7830, aired 2018-09-28 | YOUR SIGNIFICANT AUTHOR $2000: Though not into big government, she did take social security payments & medicare benefits under the name Ann O'Connor Ayn Rand |
| #7828, aired 2018-09-26 | COLLEGE COURSES $1000: Examining how her music affected progressive social change, this state U. of N.J. got into "Politicizing Beyonce" Rutgers |
| #7826, aired 2018-09-24 | WORDS FROM THE COMICS $800: This alliterative term for a social misfit comes from the title comic strip character seen here sad sack |
| #7810, aired 2018-07-20 | AFTER NOON $600: Hey, this standard of social behavior, sit down & have a beer a norm |
| #7807, aired 2018-07-17 | SINGLE T, DOUBLE T $600: Miss Manners is an expert on this standard of appropriate behavior in social settings etiquette |
| #7805, aired 2018-07-13 | THE SOCIAL NETWORK $400: Ship captains rely on this group; for Mardi Gras, it's spelled with a "K" at the start & an extra "E" at the end a crew/krewe |
| #7805, aired 2018-07-13 | THE SOCIAL NETWORK $800: A community for fans of the Cleveland Indians can be found online at www.letsgo this 5-letter word tribe |
| #7805, aired 2018-07-13 | THE SOCIAL NETWORK $1200: To law enforcement, KA's are known these, potential accomplices the suspected bad guys hang out with known associates |
| #7805, aired 2018-07-13 | THE SOCIAL NETWORK $1600: Under this 3-letter word, a "Dictionary of American Regionalisms" has "Family, relations. 'He ain't no ____ of mine'" kin |
| #7805, aired 2018-07-13 | THE SOCIAL NETWORK $2000: A hot beverage & the German for "gossip" give us this term for a gathering of minds a coffee klatsch |
| #7802, aired 2018-07-10 | NAT GEO $2000: Social & jazz critic Nat Hentoff also wrote a memoir about his youth in the Roxbury section of this city Boston |
| #7770, aired 2018-05-25 | 4-SYLLABLE WORDS $1600: It's the buzzword for providing TMI on social media oversharing |
| #7764, aired 2018-05-17 | DOUBLE THAT DOUBLE S! $600: A society with no social demarcations (& no sessions of school) classless |
| #7764, aired 2018-05-17 | WORDS THAT SHOULD RHYME $1600: Your gustatory sense & a hereditary social division of India taste and caste |
| #7763, aired 2018-05-16 | SOCIOLOGY $400: This 5-letter plural follows "social" to refer to platforms like Twitter that have changed communication media |
| #7760, aired 2018-05-11 | ELEMENTARY $200: Social studies:
The 3 branches of government are executive, judicial & this legislative |
| #7738, aired 2018-04-11 | TIME FOR CLASS $400: Colorful clothing term describing the social class of miners or mechanics blue collar |
| #7738, aired 2018-04-11 | TIME FOR CLASS $2000: In 1997 K.R. Narayanan became the first member of this lowest Indian social caste to be head of state the Untouchables |
| #7733, aired 2018-04-04 | IT'S MEDICINAL $1600: In New York conditions that make one eligible for this alliterative aid include A.L.S., M.S. & Parkinson's medical marijuana |
| #7729, aired 2018-03-29 | WE'RE ALL AMERICANS $200: She is a champion of tennis & for social justice Billie Jean King |
| #7719, aired 2018-03-15 | WEBSITES $200: Thinking about retiring? This agency has a retirement estimator you can use at ssa.gov Social Security Administration |
| #7713, aired 2018-03-07 | SOUND $800: A speaker for high-frequency sounds, or a high-frequency social media messager a Tweeter |
| #7702, aired 2018-02-20 | LANGUAGES OF INDIA $1,200 (Daily Double): Some dialects are characteristic of one of these Indian social divisions, like Ahirani, spoken by cattle herders a caste |
| #7693, aired 2018-02-07 | "SECURITY" $400: FDR sent it to Congress as the Economic Security Bill; Congressman Frank Buck suggested the name change Social Security Act |
| #7679, aired 2018-01-18 | JANE $800: In 1915, this Chicago social reformer organized the Woman's Peace Party and became president of the International Congress of Women Jane Addams |
| #7669, aired 2018-01-04 | FAUX PAS $400: An actress from Texas sued imdb.com for revealing this bit of information; social faux pas, imdb her age |
| #7664, aired 2017-12-28 | UNREAL MINISTRIES $2000: Before he was the 12th Doctor, this actor tormented the staff of the Minister for Social Affairs on "The Thick of It" Peter Capaldi |
| #7661, aired 2017-12-25 | THE BEST VOCABULARY $800: Your social standing could be described as this, the uppermost part of the cabinet or dresser top shelf (or top drawer) |
| #7657, aired 2017-12-19 | "SOCIAL" $200: Entomological personality who flits from one public gathering to another a social butterfly |
| #7657, aired 2017-12-19 | "SOCIAL" $400: An assistant who handles someone's correspondence & plans appointments; doesn't everybody have one? a social secretary |
| #7657, aired 2017-12-19 | "SOCIAL" $600: The Motion Picture Academy "liked" this 2010 offering, awarding it 3 Oscars The Social Network |
| #7657, aired 2017-12-19 | "SOCIAL" $800: Before literary fame, Alice Walker had this job with the New York City Welfare Department a social worker |
| #7657, aired 2017-12-19 | "SOCIAL" $1000: According to this 2-word -ism, civilization is subject to the same laws of natural selection as animals Social Darwinism |
| #7653, aired 2017-12-13 | OF "ORDER" $1,000 (Daily Double): Originally observed in hens, it's the social hierarchy in animal groups pecking order |
| #7653, aired 2017-12-13 | CONTRONYMS $1200: A person of equal legal status, or a person of higher social status a peer |
| #7630, aired 2017-11-10 | DEMOCRATS $800: In the party of chancellors Helmut Schmidt & Gerhard Schroder, this word comes before "Democratic" social |
| #7612, aired 2017-10-17 | ANCIENT WISDOM $1600: In the 4th century B.C., Aristotle said that "man is by nature" this type of "animal" a political animal |
| #7601, aired 2017-10-02 | IRREGULAR VERBS $200: Meaning "roused from sleep", it has a new adjectival meaning referring to social awareness woke |
| #7593, aired 2017-09-20 | BRITISH PLAYWRIGHTS $1600: Before "The Mikado" & other librettos, he wrote serious plays on social themes like "Ought We to Visit Her?" Gilbert |
| #7587, aired 2017-09-12 | MULTIPLE ROLES, SAME FILM $2000: This actor played the Winklevoss twins Cameron & Tyler in "The Social Network" Armie Hammer |
| #7574, aired 2017-07-13 | WEBBY AWARD WINNERS $400: Breakout of the Year, 2006:
this pioneering social networking site that later got flattened by Facebook MySpace |
| #7569, aired 2017-07-06 | BRIT LIT $2000: In 1910 E.M. Forster published this novel about British social divisions told through the Wilcox & Schlegel families Howards End |
| #7552, aired 2017-06-13 | LAST WORD IN THE ACRONYM, PLEASE $400: WASP, the social group Protestants |
| #7549, aired 2017-06-08 | THE NEW DEAL $400: Title I of this 1935 act grants financial assistance "to aged needy individuals" the Social Security Act |
| #7529, aired 2017-05-11 | 9-LETTER WORDS $800: Fiefs were part of this social system that was a big hit in the Middle Ages feudalism |
| #7513, aired 2017-04-19 | SOCIETY $600: This word for the established conventions of polite social interaction is from Old French for "label" etiquette |
| #7513, aired 2017-04-19 | SOCIETY $800: Some might need to flaunt a "symbol" of this, the position that a person occupies in a particular social setting a status symbol |
| #7506, aired 2017-04-10 | THE GILDED AGE $1200: A champion of social welfare reform, Jane Addams founded Hull House to help the poor in this Midwest city in 1889 Chicago |
| #7503, aired 2017-04-05 | THE WORLD ALMANAC 2017 $200: Under surprising facts, Americans in 2016 paid an average of 25.6% of their earnings in income tax & into this fund Social Security |
| #7473, aired 2017-02-22 | ON TO GRAD SCHOOL $200: Probe the mind with a UCLA Ph.D. after getting trained in clinical, cognitive or social this field psychology |
| #7468, aired 2017-02-15 | "EV"ERYTHING $1000: It's a synonym for "gut", as when in "The Social Network" it's suggested, let's gut the nerd eviscerate |
| #7467, aired 2017-02-14 | SIX FEET UNDER $1600: These social insects use the "waggle dance" to communicate the location of distant food sources bees |
| #7463, aired 2017-02-08 | AND SO IT BEGINS... $1200: "An act to provide for the general welfare by establishing a system of federal old-age benefits..." the Social Security Act |
| #7436, aired 2017-01-02 | SOCIAL STUDIES $200: This group is composed of those of your same age or social position; in a courtroom, you might face a jury of them peers |
| #7436, aired 2017-01-02 | SOCIAL STUDIES $400: The top, crispy 1% of the bread, or the very richest part of a society the upper crust |
| #7436, aired 2017-01-02 | SOCIAL STUDIES $800: This social science focuses on the characteristics of human populations such as size, growth & distribution demography |
| #7436, aired 2017-01-02 | COMPANY "B" $1,000 (Daily Double): Blue Shirt Nation was a social network for this retailer's employees Best Buy |
| #7436, aired 2017-01-02 | SOCIAL STUDIES $1000: Max Weber, a founder of modern sociology, wrote of this religious "Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism" the Protestant ethic |
| #7436, aired 2017-01-02 | SOCIAL STUDIES $2,000 (Daily Double): Bernie Sanders spent much of 2016 urging change to this 2-word Latin term for the existing state of affairs the status quo |
| #7422, aired 2016-12-13 | THE MILITARY AT HOME $1200: Pairing veterans with the community at large via physical & social activity, team RWB is short for this, natch Red, White & Blue |
| #7402, aired 2016-11-15 | MTV $400: Via blog posts, 15-year-old Jenna narrates this show whose name means "lacking social graces" Awkward |
| #7387, aired 2016-10-25 | JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE $800: Justin plays Napster founder Sean Parker in this movie about a start-up The Social Network |
| #7370, aired 2016-09-30 | WE SELL FUN $1200: The social games Farmville & Words with Friends were developed by this end-of-the-alphabet company Zynga |
| #7369, aired 2016-09-29 | HONORS & AWARDS $1200: A social media account called Goats of Anarchy was a 2016 winner of one of these, honoring Internet excellence a Webby |
| #7352, aired 2016-07-26 | THEOLOGY BRANCHES $1200: This controversial theology centered in Latin America tries to combine Catholicism & social justice for the poor liberation theology |
| #7334, aired 2016-06-30 | HOW NOVEL! $1600: Becky Sharp is a social climber in this pretty "Fair" 1840s British novel Vanity Fair |
| #7314, aired 2016-06-02 | ANTHROPOLOGY $1600: Divisions of anthropology include this type also called ethnology, which studies human social behavior cultural anthropology |
| #7302, aired 2016-05-17 | THE REAGAN WHITE HOUSE $1200: (George Stephanopoulos gives the clue.) My mother-in-law, Mabel Brandon Cabot, held this alliterative job in the Reagan White House, working with the First Lady in planning events like state dinners Social Secretary |
| #7301, aired 2016-05-16 | "GAD"ZOOKS! $1000: 8-letter person who moves about aimlessly from one social activity to another a gadabout |
| #7284, aired 2016-04-21 | POPULAR WEBSITES $600: 600 reasons you'll name this Jonah Peretti-founded social news site Buzzfeed.com |
| #7270, aired 2016-04-01 | WORDS OF SUBSTANCE $1200: A Hindu social division with its own privileges & restrictions caste |
| #7258, aired 2016-03-16 | I HAVE A PREPOSITION FOR YOU $1000: You "go" this "to get" this to make a social situation go smoothly along |
| #7257, aired 2016-03-15 | ROLE & ROCK $2000: As Sean Parker in "The Social Network", he says, "A million dollars isn't cool. You know what's cool"--a billion dollars (Justin) Timberlake |
| #7256, aired 2016-03-14 | WORLD OF RELIGION $800: Members of the upper classes in this religion's social system are considered dvija, meaning "twice-born" Hinduism |
| #7211, aired 2016-01-11 | TECH LOGOS $1600: Now known as "Noface Chillah", the ghost logo of this social networking site lost its silly grin in 2013 Snapchat |
| #7208, aired 2016-01-06 | ____ IN THE ____ $1600: A person with potential but who lacks social graces is often described by this gem of an expression a diamond in the rough |
| #7192, aired 2015-12-15 | THE DEWEY DECIMAL SYSTEM $800: 300-399: this alliterative term for fields like economics & anthropology social studies |
| #7178, aired 2015-11-25 | 2 WORDS $800: Per the OED this 2-word term for websites & apps that allow users to network dates back only to 2004 social media |
| #7174, aired 2015-11-19 | WEBSITES $400: In 2012 & 2013 this online bulletin board/scrapbook won Webby Awards for Best Social Media Pinterest |
| #7170, aired 2015-11-13 | FALLING OFF A LOG $800: In Madagascar, the hissing type of this insect is semi-social as they nest together and take care of their offspring cockroach |
| #7159, aired 2015-10-29 | WHAT'S YOUR MOVIE NUMBER? $1,200 (Daily Double): 1994:
A quintet of social occasions, one not-so-happy Four Weddings and a Funeral |
| #7153, aired 2015-10-21 | SCRAMBLED 20th CENTURY DECADES $200: Big social change:
"IT IS SEX" the sixties |
| #7142, aired 2015-10-06 | PUBLISHED FIRST $1000: "Thus Spake Zarathustra",
Hobbes' "Leviathan",
"The Social Contract" Leviathan |
| #7138, aired 2015-09-30 | EDUCATION $200: The "formal" type of this Latin word is the course of study; the "hidden" one is the social cues & values kids pick up the curriculum |
| #7134, aired 2015-09-24 | OSCAR-WINNING WRITERS $1200: 2010, adaptation:
"The Social Network" (Aaron) Sorkin |
| #7121, aired 2015-07-27 | COMPOUND WORDS $400: On social media the abbreviation TBT means it's this kind of Thursday throwback Thursday |
| #7098, aired 2015-06-24 | SCRABBLE PLAYERS DICTIONARY "G" $600: A social blunder, 5 letters gaffe |
| #7084, aired 2015-06-04 | "ICE" PACK $400: In social gatherings this type of opening line is used to ease tension an icebreaker |
| #7060, aired 2015-05-01 | CARD TRICKS $1000: The .gov dedicated to this card says, "Do not carry your card with you. Keep it in a safe place with your other important papers" your Social Security card |
| #7042, aired 2015-04-07 | FILM SCHOOL $600: Status update: met "The Winklevii" at Harvard in this 2010 film The Social Network |
| #7036, aired 2015-03-30 | HODGEPODGE $800: Titles XVIII & XIX of the Social Security Act are these 2 health insurance programs Medicare & Medicaid |
| #7028, aired 2015-03-18 | WORDS BORROWED FROM INDIA $1000: Today meaning a social outcast, it comes from Tamil for a member of a low caste pariah |
| #7017, aired 2015-03-03 | ICE DANCING $200: (Meryl Davis and Charlie White deliver the clue.) Ice dancing was once a social sport in which top-hatted men parade on the ice with ladies in long dresses;
the skaters incorporated elements of ballroom dancing, like this elegant dance from Vienna the waltz |
| #6973, aired 2014-12-31 | IPOs $400: A little birdie told me that this social media company raised $2.1 billion in its Nov. 2013 initial public offering Twitter |
| #6927, aired 2014-10-28 | ANTISOCIAL SCIENCE $600: The book "Dancing at Armageddon" has in its subtitle this "-ism"of preparing to endure massive social disaster survivalism |
| #6919, aired 2014-10-16 | SOCIAL SCIENCE BOOKS $400: This color comes before "illusions" in the title of a book on the "dirty secrets of clean energy" green |
| #6919, aired 2014-10-16 | SOCIAL SCIENCE BOOKS $800: James Surowiecki wrote of "The Wisdom of" these large groups, as opposed to elites crowds |
| #6919, aired 2014-10-16 | SOCIAL SCIENCE BOOKS $1,000 (Daily Double): "What do school teachers and sumo wrestlers have in common?" is one question asked in this "crazy" 2005 book Freakonomics |
| #6907, aired 2014-09-30 | MRS. WARREN'S PROFESION $800: Mrs. Warren is on the Senate committee known as HELP: Health, Eduction, Labor & these retirement benefits Pensions |
| #6878, aired 2014-07-09 | POP CULTURE COLLEGE COURSES $800: Northwestern took on "Consumerism and Social Change in" this AMC drama "America, 1960-1965" Mad Men |
| #6877, aired 2014-07-08 | 2 TERMS MAKE A NEW BAND NAME $800: Alliteration time! A dog less than a year old plus a 6-letter term for a social outcast who is despised & avoided Puppy Pariah |
| #6867, aired 2014-06-24 | THE MOVIE'S CHARACTERS $800: Eduardo Saverin,
Erica Albright,
the Winklevoss twins The Social Network |
| #6860, aired 2014-06-13 | SPOILER MOVIE TITLES $2000: 1994:
Hugh & Andie have a series of social engagements Four Weddings and a Funeral |
| #6856, aired 2014-06-09 | NOVELS & NOVELISTS $400: Thomas Paine wrote "The Age of Reason"; Edith Wharton wrote this 1920 satire of social life in 1870s New York City The Age of Innocence |
| #6842, aired 2014-05-20 | READING RAINBOW $1000: Aldous Huxley's first novel, a social satire of British literati, is called "Crome" this color Yellow |
| #6840, aired 2014-05-16 | B.C.-ING YOU $800: On Lesbos she ran an academy for unmarried women, teaching them social graces, poetry & singing Sappho |
| #6809, aired 2014-04-03 | PHILOSOPHERS $600: This Geneva-born guy wrote "The Social Contract" & inspired the leaders of the French Revolution (Jean-Jacques) Rousseau |
| #6808, aired 2014-04-02 | NEW IN THE 2000s $400: News Corporation paid $580 million in 2005 to get this social networking site that sold for $35 million in 2011 Myspace |
| #6801, aired 2014-03-24 | INSECT, REPELLENT $600: Don't get the bullet species of this social bug for your "farm"--it's said to have the most painful sting of any insect ant |
| #6783, aired 2014-02-26 | A BUG'S LIFE $1000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from the Madikwe Game Reserve in South Africa.) Most spiders are solitary; communal homes like this one show that a few species are this other "S" word, like ants, termites, & some wasps social |
| #6779, aired 2014-02-20 | SOCIAL LIFE $400: Your school's sports teams may have these enthusiastic fans & promoters who form entire "clubs" boosters |
| #6779, aired 2014-02-20 | SOCIAL LIFE $800: Sister Carrie lives in "a moderately well-furnished" this type of "house", not to be confused with a bawdy house boarding house |
| #6779, aired 2014-02-20 | SOCIAL LIFE $1200: To you it may mean a fun party dancing to Solar Spectrum; to the CDC it means "ecstasy overdoses!" a rave |
| #6779, aired 2014-02-20 | SOCIAL LIFE $2000: In the '60s flower children was another name for these people hippies |
| #6779, aired 2014-02-20 | SOCIAL LIFE $2,200 (Daily Double): If you're the youngest, mom & dad's gloom after you leave home has been medically identified as this syndrome empty nest |
| #6776, aired 2014-02-17 | "U.S.", EH $1000: This author whose early 20th century novels argued for social reform ran unsuccessfully for Californla governor Upton Sinclair |
| #6739, aired 2013-12-26 | THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION $2000: The 1903 Social Democratic Party congress saw a split between the Bolsheviks & this faction led by Martov the Mensheviks |
| #6737, aired 2013-12-24 | OUR HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS $1200: The 1947 speech that launched this plan said Europe must have help "or face economic social & political deterioration" Marshall Plan |
| #6730, aired 2013-12-13 | THE MOVIE IS COMPLIMENTARY $800: 2010:
"You are probably going to be a very successful computer person" The Social Network |
| #6729, aired 2013-12-12 | NEW TO THE OXFORD DICTIONARIES $400: "A photograph that one has taken of oneself... with a smartphone... & uploaded to a social media website" selfie |
| #6722, aired 2013-12-03 | HOOK $1,200 (Daily Double): Used on fishing boats, this long pole with an iron hook is a homophone of a social blunder a gaff |
| #6713, aired 2013-11-20 | GIVING YOU THE BUSINESS $400: It's estimated that more than 40% of Americans visit this website on any given day; how very social! (& good for business) Facebook |
| #6710, aired 2013-11-15 | TEACHERS' LOUNGE CUISINE $200: Social studies teacher Mr. Clinchy nukes a DiGiorno thin crust one of these & of course, offers to share a pizza |
| #6678, aired 2013-10-02 | TECH IQ $200: hashtags.org tracks keywords on this social site that popularized the hashtag Twitter |
| #6674, aired 2013-09-26 | OSCAR-WINNING SCREENPLAYS $400: 2010:
Aaron Sorkin, from the book "The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook" The Social Network |
| #6671, aired 2013-09-23 | ANTHROPOLOGIST'S DICTIONARY $400: This type of "rite", such as baptism, accompanies an individual's change in social status within a group rite of passage |
| #6624, aired 2013-06-06 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS $2000: (Professor Henry Louis Gates delivers the clue.) This prolific social critic & author of "Race Matters" was my co-author on the 1996 book "The Future of the Race" Cornel West |
| #6616, aired 2013-05-27 | THE GOLDEN GLOBES: BEST DIRECTOR $1600: 2011:
"The Social Network" David Fincher |
| #6602, aired 2013-05-07 | MY BROTHER'S IN THE SERVICE $1200: I saw a picture of his dog tag, listing his name, social security number, religion & this "type" his blood type |
| #6598, aired 2013-05-01 | THE DAILY QUADRUPLE $800: In radio communication, "F" is for this social dance that's in quadruple meter foxtrot |
| #6591, aired 2013-04-22 | "SAFE" $800: Medicaid & social security are described as part of this to help the non-rich a safety net |
| #6583, aired 2013-04-10 | LIVING SOCIAL $200: This word for a border on clothes may be "lunatic" when it's the extreme minority on the edge of a movement fringe |
| #6583, aired 2013-04-10 | LIVING SOCIAL $400: An invisible barrier in the workplace that blocks the promotion of a qualified individual because of gender or ethnicity glass ceiling |
| #6583, aired 2013-04-10 | LIVING SOCIAL $600: It sounds like a country of E.T.s but it's really the feeling of being estranged from society alienation |
| #6583, aired 2013-04-10 | LIVING SOCIAL $800: As a verb it's to violate sanctity; as an adjective, it refers to the common elements of life, as opposed to the sacred profane |
| #6583, aired 2013-04-10 | LIVING SOCIAL $1000: A classic movie set in fascist Italy is titled this, one who goes along with others even against his own conscience The Conformist |
| #6576, aired 2013-04-01 | SOCIOLOGY $1200: This German social scientist co-wrote "The Communist Manifesto" & edited Marx' "Das Kapital" (Friedrich) Engels |
| #6572, aired 2013-03-26 | COMPACTS $200: Compact is another word for a formal contract, like this "contract" that's also a Jean-Jacques Rousseau title The Social Contract |
| #6570, aired 2013-03-22 | "ACT" LOCAL $400: It's someone working for political or social change, often with an organized group an activist |
| #6539, aired 2013-02-07 | "A" "P" HISTORY $1000: In ancient Rome the 2 main social classes were the aristocratic patricians & these common citizens the plebeians |
| #6531, aired 2013-01-28 | WOMEN AUTHORS $800: This picture of social life in New York during the 1870s earned Edith Wharton a Pulitzer Prize The Age of Innocence |
| #6529, aired 2013-01-24 | VOWELICIOUS $800: It now means rules of social behavior; in French it meant a posting of military orders etiquette |
| #6529, aired 2013-01-24 | LET'S MAKE A QUILT $800: These social gatherings where women would make quilts together were a popular feature of frontier life a bee |
| #6524, aired 2013-01-17 | SOCIAL MEDIA $400: @ChrisRRegan, @ this site: "Higgs boson is the name of the villain on the next season of 'Justified'" Twitter |
| #6524, aired 2013-01-17 | SOCIAL MEDIA $800: Top passwords stolen at a 2012 breach of this business resume site included "job", "career" & of course "link" LinkedIn |
| #6524, aired 2013-01-17 | SOCIAL MEDIA $1200: A health data-sharing platform, patientslikeme.com was founded by 3 engineers from this Boston-area univ., "initially" MIT |
| #6524, aired 2013-01-17 | SOCIAL MEDIA $1600: "Find your style!" on this site that lets you "organize and share all the beautiful things you find on the web" Pinterest |
| #6524, aired 2013-01-17 | SOCIAL MEDIA $2000: This site "helps you make the most of where you are" & boasts 2 billion check-ins Foursquare |
| #6518, aired 2013-01-09 | IN-LAWS $1600: Social philosopher William Godwin was dad-in-law to this romantic poet Shelley |
| #6497, aired 2012-12-11 | ANTHROPOLOGY $600: This term for a basic social unit of parents & their offspring sounds like they are radioactive a nuclear family |
| #6497, aired 2012-12-11 | ANTHROPOLOGY $800: This type of social group, from the Greek for "nation", is linked by language, culture, origin or religion an ethnicity (or ethnic group) |
| #6488, aired 2012-11-28 | THE ERA OF ERAS $2,000 (Daily Double): In the 1890s this era of economic, political & social reform in the U.S. began moving forward, as it name says the Progressive Era |
| #6482, aired 2012-11-20 | LITERARY RELATIVES $1,600 (Daily Double): His mother, Charlotte Champe Stearns, was a poet & social worker T.S. Eliot (or Thomas Stearns Eliot) |
| #6476, aired 2012-11-12 | HUMP DAY $1200: The thorny devil lizard, which has a spiny hump, feeds entirely on this social insect & may eat 3,000 in a single meal an ant |
| #6470, aired 2012-11-02 | WORDS THAT SHOULD RHYME $800: Virginally pure &
a Hindu social class chaste & caste |
| #6457, aired 2012-10-16 | NEW DEAL PROGRAMS $200: This 1935 act provided assistance to the elderly using payroll tax funds Social Security |
| #6439, aired 2012-09-20 | THE WORLD ALMANAC NO. 1 $200: It's the most-visited social networking website Facebook |
| #6431, aired 2012-07-30 | BOOK REPORT $800: Mildred D. Taylor's Newbery Medal-winning novel about racism & social injustice is called "Roll of Thunder," this Hear My Cry |
| #6416, aired 2012-07-09 | "M-S" WORD $1600: This Greek word refers to one underlying system of beliefs of a social group mythos |
| #6397, aired 2012-06-12 | ABBREVIATIONS AFTER YOUR NAME $600: M.S.W., Master of this helping profession Master of Social Work |
| #6392, aired 2012-06-05 | ADD A LETTER $1000: Add a letter to a word for a social engagement to get this Italian poet Dante |
| #6391, aired 2012-06-04 | A SENSE OF ENTITLEMENT PROGRAMS $2,400 (Daily Double): In the 1930s Alf Landon called this government program "a cruel hoax" Social Security |
| #6389, aired 2012-05-31 | THE GILDED AGE $1,800 (Daily Double): Gilded Age advocates of the theory called "Social" this -ism applauded the "survival of the fittest" Darwinism |
| #6378, aired 2012-05-16 | "BLOW" HARDS $400: It can be a wild social affair or an easy one-sided victory in sports a blowout |
| #6375, aired 2012-05-11 | ALSO A MUSICAL TERM $800: An organized social cause, like the Civil Rights one a movement |
| #6365, aired 2012-04-27 | POTPOURRI $800: Both a religious & social event, a quinceañera celebrates a girl's passage to adulthood at this age 15 |
| #6354, aired 2012-04-12 | REVOLUTION $400: The power loom & steam engine helped fuel this "revolution" of economic & social changes starting around 1760 the Industrial Revolution |
| #6347, aired 2012-04-03 | GOOD NEWS $600: To provide old-age retirement benefits & unemployment insurance, Congress passed this act on August 9, 1935 the Social Security Act |
| #6337, aired 2012-03-20 | MOVIE QUOTES $200: 2010: "Drop the 'the'. Just Facebook, it's cleaner" The Social Network |
| #6334, aired 2012-03-15 | NEW YORK CITY $600: (I'm Geoffrey Canada.) I'm president of a unique organization providing not just education, but health care & social services to the children of 97 blocks in this Manhattan neighborhood, from 116th St. up to 143rd St. Harlem |
| #6332, aired 2012-03-13 | SLANG $800: A social one of these reptiles changes the way he interacts depending on the people he's around chameleon |
| #6321, aired 2012-02-27 | SOCIAL STUDIES $400: "Days in the Lives of Social" these professionals follows them as they deal with prisoners, youths & the elderly social workers |
| #6321, aired 2012-02-27 | SOCIAL STUDIES $800: David S, Barnes' "The Making of a Social Disease" is subtitled this lung illness "in 19th century France" tuberculosis |
| #6321, aired 2012-02-27 | SOCIAL STUDIES $1600: Brooks Adams' "The Theory of Social" these discusses the French & industrial ones, among others Revolutions |
| #6321, aired 2012-02-27 | SOCIAL STUDIES $2000: Jean-Jacques Rousseau's classic "The Social" this was published in 1762 The Social Contract |
| #6321, aired 2012-02-27 | SOCIAL STUDIES $4,000 (Daily Double): "The Social" this plural noun "Marketing Book" has chapters on networks like Myspace and Facebook Media |
| #6307, aired 2012-02-07 | AALL AABOUT AARON $800: His screenplay for "The Social Network" got us to care deeply about intellectual property law (Aaron) Sorkin |
| #6285, aired 2012-01-06 | I WANT MY "BABY" BACK, "BABY" BACK $600: In 2007 the first of these, born 1 second after midnight January 1, 1946, filed for social security a Baby Boomer |
| #6270, aired 2011-12-16 | THE INTERNET $800: Press "Scan" on the social site that bills itself as "Chat" this game & you are visually connected to a random user Roulette |
| #6268, aired 2011-12-14 | BACK TO SCHOOL $600: Social studies: In 1984 this Baptist minister established the National Rainbow Coalition Jesse Jackson |
| #6267, aired 2011-12-13 | "BLIND" LEADING THE BLIND $200: A social engagement with someone you've never met in person a blind date |
| #6255, aired 2011-11-25 | PORTMANTEAU WORDS $600: It's the code of online social behavior netiquette |
| #6254, aired 2011-11-24 | MOVIE DIRECTORS $2000: This director shot 99 takes of the opening scene in "The Social Network" David Fincher |
| #6245, aired 2011-11-11 | RUSSIA THEN & NOW $2000: In 1903 the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party split into the Bolsheviks & this group whose name means "minority" Mensheviks |
| #6242, aired 2011-11-08 | ABBREV. $400: A C.S.W. is a certified one of these, who helps improve the welfare of a community a social worker |
| #6240, aired 2011-11-04 | WEBSITES $800: This professional site whose name implies that it connects you became the USA's No. 2 social network in 2011 LinkedIn |
| #6230, aired 2011-10-21 | THAT'S "UN" CALLED FOR! $200: The 1935 Social Security Act established this type of insurance nationally unemployment |
| #6207, aired 2011-09-20 | A CELTIC CATEGORY $1,800 (Daily Double): Celts were divided into social classes such as warriors, commoners & this priestly class, performers of religious rituals druids |
| #6203, aired 2011-07-27 | THE "SOCIAL" NETWORK $200: This 1935 U.S. federal law provided assistance in old age pensions, insurance & unemployment Social Security |
| #6203, aired 2011-07-27 | THE "SOCIAL" NETWORK $400: This term for someone attempting to gain a higher position in society sounds like a casual mountaineer a social climber |
| #6203, aired 2011-07-27 | THE "SOCIAL" NETWORK $600: The USSR was a Union of Soviet these Socialist Republics |
| #6203, aired 2011-07-27 | THE "SOCIAL" NETWORK $800: S.A.D. can stand for this psychological condition, a fear of being humiliated in front of others the social anxiety disorder |
| #6203, aired 2011-07-27 | THE "SOCIAL" NETWORK $1000: Implicit agreement in which the individual surrenders liberty in return for protection a social contract (or social compact) |
| #6201, aired 2011-07-25 | THE NEW YORK TIMES BEST 1,000 MOVIES EVER MADE $1000: This pic shows "the social changes taking place in the south between 1948 and 1973, and (a) remarkable 25-year friendship Driving Miss Daisy |
| #6200, aired 2011-07-22 | ROLES IN 2010 BEST PICTURE OSCAR NOMINEES $800: Prince Albert,
Bill Gates The Social Network |
| #6174, aired 2011-06-16 | DOUBLE THE W $2000: This word means "lacking dexterity" & can also describe a difficult social situation awkward |
| #6162, aired 2011-05-31 | SUMMER SCHOOL AT YALE $400: "Introduction to" this explored its "approaches to the biological, cognitive, social, and emotional bases of behavior" psychology |
| #6156, aired 2011-05-23 | CELEBRITIES' FAVORITE BOOKS $800: (Julie Bowen presents the clue.) As in "Age of Innocence", this author depicts a struggle with the New York social order in "The House of Mirth", & I think even more powerfully Edith Wharton |
| #6155, aired 2011-05-20 | PHILOSOPHERS $1600: In "The Social Contract", this French thinker claimed that "Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains" Rousseau |
| #6149, aired 2011-05-12 | QUOTES ABOUT TEACHING $2000: This 19th c. pioneer of public schools called education a "great equalizer...balance-wheel of the social machinery" (Horace) Mann |
| #6146, aired 2011-05-09 | SOCIAL SCIENCE $200: This violent, large-scale public protest gives its name to the "gear" worn by policemen dealing with it a riot |
| #6146, aired 2011-05-09 | SOCIAL SCIENCE $400: Mick sang, "gimme" this, a place where homeless people can get something to eat & spend the night shelter |
| #6146, aired 2011-05-09 | SOCIAL SCIENCE $600: An area that goes upscale, driving out low-income folks & maybe some character, is undergoing this gentrification |
| #6146, aired 2011-05-09 | SOCIAL SCIENCE $800: In society it's denying one's identity to be accepted by another group; in sports it's done by Jay Cutler passing |
| #6146, aired 2011-05-09 | SOCIAL SCIENCE $1000: 2-word term for the world as a single small community linked by mass media the global village |
| #6145, aired 2011-05-06 | SCHOOLING YOU IN LATIN $1600: The name of this type of social club is from the Latin for "sister" sorority |
| #6139, aired 2011-04-28 | "CHARM"ED, I'M SURE $800: A place where social graces are taught a charm school |
| #6132, aired 2011-04-19 | ON THE BRITISH MONARCHY'S WEBSITE $600: The Queen & the British monarchy have pages on this social networking site; you can "like" them but you can't "friend" them Facebook |
| #6121, aired 2011-04-04 | ONLINE $400: In this rural social networking game from Zynga, you start with 6 plots of land Farmville |
| #6094, aired 2011-02-24 | HODGEPODGE $400: In 2009 Facebook overtook this rival to become the biggest social networking website Myspace |
| #6093, aired 2011-02-23 | SOCIAL STUDIES $200: A rural group with collective ownership--your skeevy uncle was in the "Hog Farm" one in the '70s a commune |
| #6093, aired 2011-02-23 | SOCIAL STUDIES $400: The "Great Migration" from the south brought 120,000 African Americans to this "Windy City" in the 1920s Chicago |
| #6093, aired 2011-02-23 | SOCIAL STUDIES $600: The Bengali language is spoken by more people than Russian or French, with the greatest number in this country Bangladesh |
| #6093, aired 2011-02-23 | SOCIAL STUDIES $800: It's a person's level of social standing or prestige; a big house is an alliterative "symbol" of it status |
| #6093, aired 2011-02-23 | SOCIAL STUDIES $1000: It means a government with no monarch; Ben Franklin said we have one, "if you can keep it" a republic |
| #6092, aired 2011-02-22 | POP CULTURE $800: You might want to friend this actor, a co-star of "The Social Network" (Andrew) Garfield |
| #6081, aired 2011-02-07 | 4-LETTER "S" WORDS $600: A man "goes" this animal term when attending a social event unaccompanied by a woman stag |
| #6080, aired 2011-02-04 | CLUBS $600: Now a prestigious musical group, the glee club of this Boston-area school began in 1858 basically as a social club Harvard |
| #6077, aired 2011-02-01 | NEWSMAKERS OF 2010 $400: This chief Facebooker is the subject of the biopic "The Social Network" Zuckerberg |
| #6067, aired 2011-01-18 | "PAY" UP $2000: Your Social Security contribution is this type of levy that comes out of your salary each week a payroll tax (a payroll deduction accepted) |
| #6064, aired 2011-01-13 | WEBSITES $600: You can keep up with the "Jeopardy!" clue crew on this social networking site Facebook |
| #6062, aired 2011-01-11 | SIGNIFICANT OLD BOOKS $2000: This Swiss-French writer's 18th century political covenant "The Social Contract" Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
| #6034, aired 2010-12-02 | THE OLD WEST $800: The usual male social center; in "The Spoilers" John Wayne & Randolph Scott have an epic brawl in one a saloon |
| #6032, aired 2010-11-30 | "P.G." $1600: No pressure now, but yours would include associates of similar age, background & social status a peer group |
| #6018, aired 2010-11-10 | HOMOPHONES $600: This word can refer to a boat's large hooked pole or a social blunder gaff/gaffe |
| #5987, aired 2010-09-28 | MAN ABOUT THE HOUSE $2000: California's Xavier Becerra became the first Latino to serve on this committee that oversees Social Security Ways and Means |
| #5978, aired 2010-09-15 | IT'S NOT EASY BEING TWEEN $1600: Alliterative 2-word term for the actions of a tween's social group to make him or her conform peer pressure |
| #5937, aired 2010-06-08 | LISTED IN THE WORLD ALMANAC $800: World Almanac lists his birth name (Paul David Hewson) & calls him a "musician, social activist, and philanthropist" Bono |
| #5918, aired 2010-05-12 | ENDS WITH 3 VOWELS $600: Social or cultural surroundings milieu |
| #5917, aired 2010-05-11 | FLOWERY PROSE $400: This outspoken title girl of a Henry James novel travels Europe and flouts social convention Daisy Miller |
| #5904, aired 2010-04-22 | PRIMARY COLORS $1000: The group known as "Code" this calls itself a "women-initiated grassroots peace & social justice movement" Code Pink |
| #5902, aired 2010-04-20 | DUMB CRIMINALS $200: While robbing a West Virginia home, a man logged into this social network site but did not log out Facebook |
| #5901, aired 2010-04-19 | POETS $400: In 1957 a judge ruled that this poet's "Howl" was not obscene & had redeeming social value Ginsberg |
| #5897, aired 2010-04-13 | NATURE $200: Yellow jackets are a social type of this stinging insect wasps |
| #5893, aired 2010-04-07 | RUPERT MURDOCH, OWNER OF A LOT OF STUFF $1000: We wonder if Rupe discontinued his Facebook account when he bought this social network site for $580 million in 2005 Myspace |
| #5872, aired 2010-03-09 | DANCE, I SAY! $1000: It's a lively French social dance or the ball at which debutantes are presented a cotillion |
| #5832, aired 2010-01-12 | MAKE A "DOWN" PAYMENT $1000: Yeehaw! It's a boisterous social gathering featuring square dancing a hoedown |
| #5830, aired 2010-01-08 | "G"-5 $1000: A clumsy social error a gaffe |
| #5828, aired 2010-01-06 | THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES $800: (Alex reports from the National Archives in Washington, D.C.) One of the Archives' treasures is a 1912 wax cylinder recording, like this one, of this American president talking about his Progressive Party's movement for social & industrial justice
"Are the American people fit to govern themselves, to rule themselves, to control themselves?" Theodore Roosevelt |
| #5810, aired 2009-12-11 | ELVES $1000: Elf characters get a +2 for dexterity in this role-playing game whose players get a -2 for social skills Dungeons & Dragons |
| #5791, aired 2009-11-16 | THINGS ARE LOOKING "UP" $1000: It can be a lifting of the earth's crust or a sudden change in political or social conditions an upheaval |
| #5729, aired 2009-07-02 | I'M FUNEMPLOYED $800: I'm working as this, the same job as Julie McCoy on "The Love Boat", & I get to organize all the social events a cruise director |
| #5711, aired 2009-06-08 | THAT'S HISTORIC $600: In this medieval social system, vassals received land from lords in exchange for services the feudal system |
| #5643, aired 2009-03-04 | THE SOUTHERN DANDY EXPOUNDS $600: Before we part, ah present to you this alliterative paper item with all mah pertinent social information calling card |
| #5597, aired 2008-12-30 | SEASONS $2000: In Britain this alliterative period when debutantes come out includes Royal Ascot & the Henley Regatta the social season |
| #5574, aired 2008-11-27 | THEOLOGY $2000: This "theology" from Latin America that calls for social justice is the title of a book by Rosemary Ruether Liberation Theology |
| #5551, aired 2008-10-27 | POLITICS $1600: Type of benefit, like Social Security, to which you have an automatic right if you meet certain criteria an entitlement |
| #5545, aired 2008-10-17 | JONES $800: It's the social justice magazine named after a female labor leader of the 19th century Mother Jones |
| #5533, aired 2008-10-01 | TV PSYCHOLOGY WITH DR. JOYCE BROTHERS $1600: (An image of Ken Osmond is displayed.) Social psychologists studying ingratiation have a perfect case in the way this friend of Wally Cleaver acted toward adults Eddie Haskell |
| #5494, aired 2008-06-26 | ON WORDS $1600: A Tamil word for "drummer" gave us this term for a social outcast; it's also a member of a low caste in India a pariah |
| #5477, aired 2008-06-03 | HISTORIC WOMEN $1000: "Democracy and Social Ethics" is a 1902 book by this founder of Hull House (Jane) Addams |
| #5472, aired 2008-05-27 | DON'T TAZE ME, BRO $1600: When I dropped your dog, it was really just one of these social blunders, from the French for "false step" faux pas |
| #5463, aired 2008-05-14 | THE NEW YORK TIMES TECH BIZ $800: Hoping to regain its luster, this Time Warner online service is buying the no. 3 social networking site, Bebo AOL |
| #5460, aired 2008-05-09 | GOVERNMENT $800: This program takes up more than half of the HHS budget--& the Baby Boomers aren't getting younger Medicare |
| #5449, aired 2008-04-24 | THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS $800: "All children, whether born in or out of" this, "shall enjoy the same social protection" wedlock |
| #5417, aired 2008-03-11 | WEB SLINGERS $1200: This social network similar to Myspace started in a Harvard dorm & originally only allowed students Facebook |
| #5416, aired 2008-03-10 | THE WORLD OF MR. BURNS $600: For me, this number is naught naught naught, naught naught, naught naught naught 2; curse you, Roosevelt! social security number |
| #5349, aired 2007-12-06 | FRENCH CLASS $2000: Klondike Kat knows that this hyphenated trait meaning tact or social grace "ees everywhere" savoir-faire |
| #5338, aired 2007-11-21 | FOOD & DRINK $600: In 1680 the French social critic Marquise de Sevigne made the first mention of adding this to tea milk |
| #5328, aired 2007-11-07 | INSIDE THE ARTIST'S STUDIO $2000: (James Lipton reads.) Missouri-born, your 1931 mural "America Today" graced the New School for Social Research's walls for decades (Thomas Hart) Benton |
| #5326, aired 2007-11-05 | CRIME TIME $800: It's obtaining & using another person's name, social security number & other personal info to commit fraud identity theft |
| #5309, aired 2007-10-11 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: The "New Deal" refers to the economic recovery & social reforms implemented by this U.S. president Franklin Roosevelt |
| #5278, aired 2007-07-18 | INSECT INVASION $800: There are 20,000 known species of these insects, including social, parasitic & "killer" types bees |
| #5277, aired 2007-07-17 | GETTING TESTY $400: The A.C.T. college entrance exam includes a set of 4 multiple-choice tests covering English, science, reading & this mathematics |
| #5244, aired 2007-05-31 | RHYME WAVE $200: The social status of an oar puller on an ancient Roman galley slave |
| #5238, aired 2007-05-23 | IT'S A PLANE! $400: 2-syllable social wasp of the family Vespidae hornet |
| #5195, aired 2007-03-23 | ABRAHAM, ISAAC, JACOB $2000: Born in Denmark, this photographer spurred social reform with his pictures & words on NYC tenements in the 1890s Jacob Riis |
| #5191, aired 2007-03-19 | NATURE STUDY $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew holds a honeycomb tray at the University of Nebraska's Dept. of Entomology.) Carpenter & mason bees are classified as solitary types; honeybees, which live in colonies of tens of thousands, are this opposite kind social |
| #5157, aired 2007-01-30 | ENGLISHMEN $1200: Following the implementation of harsh taxes, Wat Tyler led the 1381 revolt named for this social class peasants |
| #5136, aired 2007-01-01 | GET IN TOUCH WITH YOUR FEMININE SIDE $400: New Mexico's Acoma people have this form of social organization with the mother as the head of the family matriarchy |
| #5134, aired 2006-12-28 | THE MAN WHO WASN'T THERE $1200: Snip "man" from a term for a junior or senior in college & get this term for something of high social rank upper-class |
| #5113, aired 2006-11-29 | HE SAID, SHE SAID $1000: He said his "Social Contract" was undertaken "without thinking of the limitations of my powers" Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
| #5088, aired 2006-10-25 | NEW DEAL PROGRAMS $800: This 1935 act that provides unemployment insurance was born out of the New Deal the Social Security Act |
| #5063, aired 2006-09-20 | COLONIAL AMERICA $1200: In 1755 John Adams graduated from this school, 14th in a class of 24, reflecting his social standing, not grades Harvard |
| #5011, aired 2006-05-29 | GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT $1000: Fort Dix is an Army Reserve training center; this Dix was a social reformer in the 1840s Dorothea Dix |
| #5008, aired 2006-05-24 | THE JEOPARDY! MOVIE "CLUB" $2000: 1999:
Legendary Cuban musicians are brought together to record an album Buena Vista Social Club |
| #5002, aired 2006-05-16 | SOCIOLOGY $200: Going from rags to riches is what sociologists call "social" this, specifically the "upward" type mobility |
| #4969, aired 2006-03-30 | THE NON-CATEGORY $5,200 (Daily Double): MLK Jr. said the "Gandhian emphasis on love and" this led him to the method for social reform that he'd been seeking non-violence |
| #4965, aired 2006-03-24 | INSECTS $800: Some solitary ones make their nests out of mud; social ones, usually from paper wasps |
| #4962, aired 2006-03-21 | EGGHEADS $200: Edward O. Wilson, an authority on these very social colony insects, linked human to animal behavior in "Sociobiology" ants |
| #4950, aired 2006-03-03 | THAT IS LIKE SO LAST CENTURY $400: 1965 amendments to the Social Security Act, titles 18 & 19, created these 2 huge healthcare programs Medicare & Medicaid |
| #4945, aired 2006-02-24 | T3: RISE OF THE CONSONANTS $400: Conventional requirements as to social behavior, from the French for "ticket" etiquette |
| #4941, aired 2006-02-20 | COLLEGE "N" SHOTS $800: Bob Kerrey never became U.S. president, but he is president of this school for social research in the Big Apple the New School |
| #4932, aired 2006-02-07 | SOCIAL STUDIES $400: Color of the "collar" of a desk worker white |
| #4932, aired 2006-02-07 | SOCIAL STUDIES $800: A low-level college geology course is often rhymingly called "rocks for" these athletic types jocks |
| #4932, aired 2006-02-07 | SOCIAL STUDIES $1600: French words meaning "office rule" gave us this word for an official rigidly devoted to rules bureaucrat |
| #4932, aired 2006-02-07 | SOCIAL STUDIES $2000: 80% of the U.S. economy is in this "sector", including hotel clerks & burger flippers the service sector |
| #4932, aired 2006-02-07 | SOCIAL STUDIES $3,000 (Daily Double): Insert a letter in "teen" to get this newer word for a preadolescent tween |
| #4905, aired 2005-12-30 | "SPIN" CITY $2000: In "Ethics", this philosopher observed that "Man is a social animal" Spinoza |
| #4893, aired 2005-12-14 | THE VATICAN'S INDEX OF FORBIDDEN BOOKS $500 (Daily Double): We must confess, both this Frenchman's "Emile" & "The Social Contract" are listed Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
| #4875, aired 2005-11-18 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $1200: Japanese for "teacher" or "master", this one will teach you karate, not social studies sensei |
| #4859, aired 2005-10-27 | MOB HITS $400: Rotund name of "The Simpsons" head mobster who hangs out at "The Legitimate Businessman's Social Club" Fat Tony |
| #4802, aired 2005-06-21 | WHAT'S UP, DUCK? $1000: This controversial social drama by Henrik Ibsen premiered in Norway in 1885 The Wild Duck |
| #4799, aired 2005-06-16 | SOCIAL TYPES $200: A fictional mutant monster gave us this term for a woman who's unbearable while planning her wedding Bridezilla |
| #4799, aired 2005-06-16 | SOCIAL TYPES $400: A toff is a member of the upper classes of society, usually in this country England |
| #4799, aired 2005-06-16 | SOCIAL TYPES $600: The "Simpsons" character seen here has no name; he's simply called this Comic Book Guy |
| #4799, aired 2005-06-16 | SOCIAL TYPES $800: A yuppie who lives for great dining experiences may be this word also ending in -ie a foodie |
| #4799, aired 2005-06-16 | SOCIAL TYPES $1000: Ms. Poole from accounting who's tough on expense accounts, is known by this leguminous 2-word term bean counter |
| #4786, aired 2005-05-30 | BEFORE & AFTER $800: Crude incendiary grenade with a Russian name that's an explosive social gathering Molotov Cocktail Party |
| #4772, aired 2005-05-10 | CELIBACY $1200: The singer for The Smiths, his claims of social maladjustment & celibacy endeared him to his audience Morrissey |
| #4748, aired 2005-04-06 | HOT "ROD"s $1000: Entombing his still-living sister Madeline, always a social faux pas, wasn't this Poe boy's best move Roderick Usher |
| #4729, aired 2005-03-10 | COME TO THE POINT $1000: Author Malcolm Gladwell calls the moment when social phenomena reach critical mass this title point the tipping point |
| #4715, aired 2005-02-18 | 19th CENTURY QUOTES $2000: Poet Charles Baudelarie said, "Il faut epater", or "You must shock", this social group the bourgeoisie |
| #4707, aired 2005-02-08 | ACADEMIC PENTATHLON $200: Social Studies:
This document was first read publicly on July 8, 1776 the Declaration of Independence |
| #4701, aired 2005-01-31 | PARTY ANIMALS $2000: It's not a social insect like an ant, but it follows "social" to describe a person who gets around butterfly |
| #4689, aired 2005-01-13 | A TOUR OF GREECE $800: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from Athens, Greece.) Socrates was often to be found chatting people up in this area, the social & administrative heart of Athens the Agora |
| #4681, aired 2005-01-03 | LET'S GET IT "ON"! $600: A person of low social status, or a day laborer peon |
| #4664, aired 2004-12-09 | SOCIAL TYPES $200: A "man on the street" is an ordinary Joe; a bon vivant is a "man about" this town |
| #4664, aired 2004-12-09 | SOCIAL TYPES $400: A boomer was born in the '50s; a flapper was popular mainly during this decade the '20s |
| #4664, aired 2004-12-09 | SOCIAL TYPES $600: This 7-letter neologism describes someone who desires to emulate Madonna's or Britney's success wannabe |
| #4664, aired 2004-12-09 | SOCIAL TYPES $800: One who wields his power unofficially is this color eminence gray |
| #4664, aired 2004-12-09 | SOCIAL TYPES $1000: After literati, men of letters become famous & wealthy, they get a couple letters more & become part of this group glitterati |
| #4625, aired 2004-10-15 | MUSIC IN "C" $2000: This eclectic American guitarist produced the album "Buena Vista Social Club" Ry Cooder |
| #4621, aired 2004-10-11 | THE VIKINGS $1000: A "thrall", from which we get the word "enthrall", was a person of this lowest social class a serf (or a slave) |
| #4615, aired 2004-10-01 | SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY $200: Social insects, termites live in groups of a few hundred to several million called these colonies |
| #4608, aired 2004-09-22 | FISHING FOR VOCABULARY $1,000 (Daily Double): It might be a social blunder to use one of these long poles with a hook on the end to land large fish a gaff |
| #4607, aired 2004-09-21 | BALLROOM BLITZ $600: An 18th century dance & a social ball are both called this, from a French word for "petticoat" a cotillion |
| #4578, aired 2004-06-30 | BROWN $200: Brown belongs to this group of 8 colleges & universities known for their academic & social prestige the Ivy League |
| #4572, aired 2004-06-22 | ON A POSITIVE NOTE $400: PC, as in deeply concerned with social fairness, stands for "politically" this correct |
| #4563, aired 2004-06-09 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN $200: After her husband's death in 1968, she founded a center in Atlanta, Georgia for nonviolent social change Coretta Scott King |
| #4513, aired 2004-03-31 | QUOTATIONS $2000: This treatise by Jean-Jacques Rousseau says, "Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains" The Social Contract |
| #4463, aired 2004-01-21 | WHEN WE DANCE $800: The Fox Trot is an example of this type of social dance named for the place where it's danced ballroom dancing |
| #4420, aired 2003-11-21 | LESSER-KNOWN ANCIENT ROMANS $400: What a social climber! His name precedes "symbol" to mean something that represents high position Status |
| #4411, aired 2003-11-10 | GRADE $800: Sixth grade social studies teach about renewable energy, like solar, & nonrenewable, like this solid fossil fuel coal |
| #4376, aired 2003-09-22 | DRESSING UP $1000: Centuries ago the length of this long, trailing part of a dress indicated social rank a train |
| #4366, aired 2003-09-08 | NAME THE DECADE $800: U.S. Social Security becomes law the 1930s |
| #4363, aired 2003-07-16 | 1867 $1000: Minnesota farmer Oliver Kelley established this organization of American farmers as a social & educational group The Grange |
| #4339, aired 2003-06-12 | INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS $400: Publications dealing with this religious & social welfare group include "War Cry" The Salvation Army |
| #4320, aired 2003-05-16 | OVER CASTE $1600: Alphas, Betas, Gammas, Deltas & Epsilons are the 5 social castes in this futuristic tale Brave New World |
| #4317, aired 2003-05-13 | AMERICAN WOMEN $1600: During the Civil War, this social reformer was superintendent of the U.S. Army women nurses Dorothea Dix |
| #4274, aired 2003-03-13 | AFRICAN MAMMALS $1200: All of the lionesses in this social grouping are related to each other & most spend their entire life in it pride |
| #4271, aired 2003-03-10 | ANCIENT ROME $800: This highest social class, whose name still refers to aristocracy, once made up the entire Senate Patricians |
| #4266, aired 2003-03-03 | DON'T BE CHICKEN $800: This term for a group hiearchy is based on the social behavior of poultry pecking order |
| #4254, aired 2003-02-13 | IN THE DICTIONARY $800: The name of this social insect comes from the Latin word vespa wasp |
| #4248, aired 2003-02-05 | LONG WORDS $400: This 15-letter word describes social activities like football or drama which aren't part of the required program extracurricular |
| #4228, aired 2003-01-08 | HAPPY ENDINGS $1,000 (Daily Double): Social misfit Mia Thermopolis turns into a beautiful young woman fit for the throne of Genovia in this 2001 film The Princess Diaries |
| #4221, aired 2002-12-30 | FRENCH LIT $400: Begun in 1845 & published in 1862, this Victor Hugo work condemns the social injustices of 19th century France "Les Miserables" |
| #4182, aired 2002-11-05 | ALPHABETIC HOMOPHONES $800: At this social gathering people combine amusement & competition while making such things as quilts bee (B) |
| #4165, aired 2002-10-11 | A NATIONAL ENQUIRER $800: The chancellor of this nation is a longtime member of the Social Democratic Party Germany |
| #4158, aired 2002-10-02 | LOST IN LAOS $400: Much of Laotian social life centers on the festivals & holidays of this religion Buddhism |
| #4123, aired 2002-07-03 | CLINTON'S BILLS $1600: A Nov. 6, 2000 Clinton's signature helped protect the confidentiality of these 9 digits a Social Security number |
| #4094, aired 2002-05-23 | "AU" STRUCK $2,000 (Daily Double): Lacking social experience; in France you'll feel "left" out gauche |
| #4083, aired 2002-05-08 | BEFORE, DURING & AFTER $1200: Flowing warm through the Atlantic, this rapid succession of ideas increases awareness of social needs Gulf Stream of consciousness raising |
| #4068, aired 2002-04-17 | AGAINST THE "WALL" $800: It can be a plant with fragrant colorful flowers or a shy person unnoticed at a social event a wallflower |
| #4053, aired 2002-03-27 | THE 60s $1600: In 1983 Congress passed legislation gradually raising the minimum age for full Social Security benefits to this age 67 |
| #4037, aired 2002-03-05 | ARTHUR-IAN LEGENDS $1200: He retired from tennis in 1980 & became a social activist for AIDS research Arthur Ashe |
| #3968, aired 2001-11-28 | 4-LETTER ORGANIZATIONS $800: The ICSW, an anti-poverty, pro-food group, is the International Council on Social this Welfare |
| #3889, aired 2001-06-28 | "ACT" UP $200: An ardent pursuer of political or social ends an activist |
| #3870, aired 2001-06-01 | PEOPLE IN HISTORY $800: "Democracy and Social Ethics" is a 1902 book by this founder of Hull House Jane Addams |
| #3862, aired 2001-05-22 | MUSICALS! $400: In Act I of this musical, Curly asks Laurey to the Box Social Oklahoma! |
| #3847, aired 2001-05-01 | GROUNDED $400: A lofty social class is called the "upper" this, also a geological word for the Earth's outermost part crust |
| #3846, aired 2001-04-30 | SENIORS PROM $1000: If the excitement makes Grandma ill, she may get coverage from this government program that turned 35 in 2000 Medicare |
| #3821, aired 2001-03-26 | 20th CENTURY WOMEN $400: Former wife of Nelson, she was South Africa's first black medical social worker Winnie Mandela |
| #3811, aired 2001-03-12 | THE PREZ SAYS $100: In his debates with Stephen Douglas, Lincoln called it “A moral, social, and political evil” slavery |
| #3782, aired 2001-01-30 | FAMOUS FACES $600: This Englishman's detailed & highly popular novels examined 19th century social conditions Charles Dickens |
| #3782, aired 2001-01-30 | THE '40s $800 (Daily Double): The women for whom Walter Annenberg founded this magazine in 1944 are now on Social Security Seventeen |
| #3769, aired 2001-01-11 | YMCA $1000: In 1941 the YMCA & 5 other groups formed this to provide entertainment & social services to American G.I.s USO (United Service Organizations) |
| #3749, aired 2000-12-14 | AMERICAN ART $1000: Asked if there was any "social content" in his work, this "Nighthawks" artist replied, "None whatsoever" Edward Hopper |
| #3747, aired 2000-12-12 | MOTHER POLAND $400: In January 1990 it voted itself out of existence & reformed as the Social Democrats Communist Party |
| #3747, aired 2000-12-12 | THAT'S ENOUGH STALIN $800: When the Russian Social Democratic Party split into 2 factions in 1903, Stalin stuck with this one Bolsheviks |
| #3745, aired 2000-12-08 | GREAT BRITS $100: One of the social events of 1999 was this Spice Girl's castle wedding to soccer star David Beckham Posh Spice |
| #3713, aired 2000-10-25 | SOCIAL SCIENCE $200: To Supreme Court watchers, strict construction isn't a building code but a narrow interpretation of this document Constitution |
| #3713, aired 2000-10-25 | SOCIAL SCIENCE $400: Subjects in the Milgram obedience experiment obediently agreed to administer these to others, who simulated pain Electric shocks |
| #3713, aired 2000-10-25 | SOCIAL SCIENCE $600: The 1992 book "Reinventing" this inspired Al Gore to try to do just that Government |
| #3713, aired 2000-10-25 | SOCIAL SCIENCE $800: Linguists call the hypothetical ancestor of the Germanic & Romance languages P.I.E., Proto-this Indo-European |
| #3713, aired 2000-10-25 | SOCIAL SCIENCE $1000: 17-letter word for one whose studies may cover the Scottish bagpipes & the Indian tabla Ethnomusicologist |
| #3691, aired 2000-09-25 | THE 1930s $500: In 1931 this social worker picked up a Nobel Peace Prize to put in her house Jane Addams |
| #3661, aired 2000-07-03 | DOCUMENTARIES $1000: Wim Wenders directed this acclaimed 1999 film about legendary Cuban musicians The Buena Vista Social Club |
| #3644, aired 2000-06-08 | 4-LETTER ABBREVIATIONS $400 (Daily Double): On a paycheck, it indicates your Social Security payroll tax FICA (Federal Insurance Contributions Act) |
| #3623, aired 2000-05-10 | THE 18th CENTURY $800: France's political & social system before the revolution was known as the "Ancien" this Regime |
| #3586, aired 2000-03-20 | NOTABLE NAMES $200: Years after his death, the social teachings of this man reached into the heart of America:
(died in 1948) Mahatma Gandhi |
| #3538, aired 2000-01-12 | "L"EMENTARY $100: Members on the extreme periphery of a political or social group are part of this "fringe" the lunatic fringe |
| #3536, aired 2000-01-10 | SOCIAL SCIENTIST'S DICTIONARY $200: Kshatriyas & Vaisyas are 2 of these hereditary social divisions of Hinduism castes |
| #3536, aired 2000-01-10 | SOCIAL SCIENTIST'S DICTIONARY $400: Technically it's any ethnic group in which the average height of adult males is less than 4' 11" pygmies |
| #3536, aired 2000-01-10 | SOCIAL SCIENTIST'S DICTIONARY $600: Authority is held by females in this type of family or society matriarch |
| #3536, aired 2000-01-10 | SOCIAL SCIENTIST'S DICTIONARY $800: Ceremonies that mark important transitional periods in a person's life as these kinds of "rites" rites of passage |
| #3536, aired 2000-01-10 | SOCIAL SCIENTIST'S DICTIONARY $1000: The results are in -- it's the quantitative study of human populations demography |
| #3495, aired 1999-11-12 | THE FUTURE $500: In April 1998 the trustees of this government retirement fund announced it will last until 2032, not 2029 Social Security |
| #3462, aired 1999-09-28 | WORLD HISTORY $200: This system of ranking social orders was developed by the Aryans in ancient India the caste system |
| #3457, aired 1999-09-21 | BEFORE & AFTER $400: Government retirement benefits that Charles Schulz' Linus can hold on to Social Security blanket |
| #3449, aired 1999-09-09 | SOCIAL STUDIES $100: 3 of the 6 biggest U.S. newspapers are this city's Wall Street Journal, Daily News & the Times New York City |
| #3449, aired 1999-09-09 | SOCIAL STUDIES $200: As opposed to latitude, these meridian lines run from the North Pole to the South Pole Longitude |
| #3449, aired 1999-09-09 | SOCIAL STUDIES $300: In the 15th century, Cheng Ho explored the Indian Ocean while in the service of this country China |
| #3449, aired 1999-09-09 | SOCIAL STUDIES $400: Anthropology, the study of mankind, includes this other -ology that digs up old artifacts Archaeology |
| #3449, aired 1999-09-09 | SOCIAL STUDIES $500: Henry Ford devised this production "line" that reduced the cost of making cars Assembly line |
| #3434, aired 1999-07-08 | KNOWN BY THEIR INITIALS $500: Social reformer William Edward Burghardt... W.E.B. Du Bois |
| #3417, aired 1999-06-15 | JUNE SWOON $800: The Romans named the month for Juno, patron goddess of women & this social rite Marriage |
| #3415, aired 1999-06-11 | HUMANITARIANS $600: In 1931 this social reformer & Hull House founder was a co-winner of the Nobel Peace Prize Jane Addams |
| #3407, aired 1999-06-01 | FAMOUS LAST WORDS $300: A social leader, 1965:
"Let's cool it, brothers!" Malcolm X |
| #3397, aired 1999-05-18 | SOCIAL ISSUES $100: California's Proposition 13, limiting property assessments, pioneered this type of "revolt" tax/taxpayers' revolt |
| #3397, aired 1999-05-18 | SOCIAL ISSUES $200: The flow of these from the south to states with tighter laws is called the "Iron Pipeline" guns |
| #3397, aired 1999-05-18 | SOCIAL ISSUES $300: Also used by trapeze artists, it refers to programs like Medicare that protect the needy safety net |
| #3380, aired 1999-04-23 | MANY "COUNTRY"s $300: Membership can be expensive at one of these suburban properties for social life, golf & other recreation a country club |
| #3370, aired 1999-04-09 | THE SOCIAL SCIENCES $200: A specialist in the science of language, or someone who speaks many languages Linguist |
| #3370, aired 1999-04-09 | THE SOCIAL SCIENCES $400: From 1932 to 1947 this pollster was research director of the Young & Rubicam ad agency George Gallup |
| #3370, aired 1999-04-09 | THE SOCIAL SCIENCES $800: In 1764 Cesare Beccaria argued for fair punishment in one of the first works devoted to this -ology Criminology |
| #3370, aired 1999-04-09 | THE SOCIAL SCIENCES $1000: The Development Studies Institute is part of the London School of this Economics |
| #3370, aired 1999-04-09 | THE SOCIAL SCIENCES $2,000 (Daily Double): From the Greek for "soul", this social science has clinical, developmental & social branches Psychology |
| #3348, aired 1999-03-10 | "OUT" $200: It can be a fugitive, a criminal or a social nonconformist; Josey Wales was one outlaw |
| #3344, aired 1999-03-04 | A BUG'S LIFE $800: Social wasps include hornets & these "well dressed" members, Vespula maculifrons Yellow jackets |
| #3337, aired 1999-02-23 | 20th CENTURY AMERICA $1000: This 1935 act set up a system of old-age benefits for Americans Social Security Act |
| #3304, aired 1999-01-07 | THE HINDU RELIGION $100: The Untouchables social class was renamed "Harijan" or "Children of God" by this great Indian leader Mahatma Gandhi |
| #3222, aired 1998-09-15 | DEEP THINKERS $1,400 (Daily Double): This Jean Jacques Rousseau work says, "Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains" The Social Contract |
| #3221, aired 1998-09-14 | PSYCHOLOGY JARGON $800: 5-letter word that's similar to guilt, but results more from violating social expectation Shame |
| #3195, aired 1998-06-19 | WRONG! $2,000 (Daily Double): French for a “false step”, you don't want to commit a social one faux pas |
| #3194, aired 1998-06-18 | ANT-ONYMS $400: Like termites, ants are this type of insect, not solitary social |
| #3177, aired 1998-05-26 | WHAT'S "UP"? $400: The highest social class, or maybe their favorite part of a pie Upper crust |
| #3167, aired 1998-05-12 | OH, THE HUMANITIES! $300: The humanities sometimes includes the social types of this subject, but not the physical ones Sciences |
| #3165, aired 1998-05-08 | COLLEGE MAJORS $400: Washington State offers majors in both this social science & the "home" version economics |
| #3148, aired 1998-04-15 | CROSSWORD CLUES "G" $300: Social blunder
(5) gaffe |
| #3142, aired 1998-04-07 | CAUGHT ON TAPE $100: This Teflon Don & Gambino Family boss spilled the beans on tape at the Ravenite Social Club in Manhattan John Gotti |
| #3137, aired 1998-03-31 | "OOP"SY $300: It's what they call a killjoy who spoils a social occasion a party pooper |
| #3125, aired 1998-03-13 | EUROPEAN HISTORY $800: A political or social system; an "ancien" one governed France until 1789 a regime |
| #3124, aired 1998-03-12 | WHAT CITY ARE WE IN? $600: The Mauritshuis,
The International Institute for Social Studies,
The International Court of Justice The Hague |
| #3120, aired 1998-03-06 | NUMBER, PLEASE $100: Currently, it's the age an American becomes eligible for "full retirement" Social Security benefits 65 |
| #3101, aired 1998-02-09 | MEDIEVAL BESTSELLERS $1000: Title character of William Langland's social protest in verse, written under "Piers" pressure Piers Plowman |
| #3078, aired 1998-01-07 | "P"OTPOURRI $500: This term for a social outcast is from the Tamil for "drummer", a position once held by a person of low caste Pariah |
| #3042, aired 1997-11-18 | COMING OUT $1000: This league was founded in 1901 by 2 debutantes eager to display social responsibility Junior League |
| #3016, aired 1997-10-13 | NATURE $300: The major groups of social bees are honeybees, tropical stingless bees & these bees bumblebees |
| #2970, aired 1997-06-27 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: Because of his deist beliefs, this "Age of Reason" author died a social outcast in New York City in 1809 Thomas Paine |
| #2965, aired 1997-06-20 | LETTERS & NUMBERS $400: Filed by employers with the SSA, this form shows workers' yearly wages & taxes withheld W-2 |
| #2934, aired 1997-05-08 | QUOTATIONS $1000: In "The Social Contract" he wrote, "Man was born free and he is everywhere in chains" Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
| #2908, aired 1997-04-02 | AUGUST $100: On August 14, 1935 FDR signed this act establishing old-age benefits & unemployment insurance Social Security |
| #2879, aired 1997-02-20 | AUTHORS ON AUTHORS $200: Saul Bellow said this "Jazz Age" author "couldn't distinguish between innocence and social climbing" F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| #2877, aired 1997-02-18 | CROSSWORD CLUES "E" $200: Social dos & don'ts (9) etiquette |
| #2877, aired 1997-02-18 | U.S. AGENCIES $800: In 1981 this agency of volunteers who perform social services overseas became independent Peace Corps |
| #2856, aired 1997-01-20 | EDUCATORS $400: Among the Challenger crew on its fateful mission was this social studies teacher from New Hampshire Christa McAuliffe |
| #2816, aired 1996-11-25 | WOMEN SAINTS $200: August 23 is the feast of St. Rose of this capital city; she's credited with starting social services in Peru Lima |
| #2812, aired 1996-11-19 | AMERICANA $200: Now a social center, Lion House in Salt Lake City was the home of several of this man's wives Brigham Young |
| #2805, aired 1996-11-08 | ARTISTS $600: An example of social realism is his "Epic of the Mexican People..." in Mexico's Palacio Nacional Diego Rivera |
| #2721, aired 1996-06-03 | MONEY $200: Needing money to maintain his & his wife Margaret's social life, he turned traitor in 1779 Benedict Arnold |
| #2676, aired 1996-04-01 | -OLOGIES $800: Penology is a branch of this social science criminology |
| #2673, aired 1996-03-27 | COLLEGE POTPOURRI $500: It's a campus building used for social activities; its name sounds like a labor organization student union |
| #2668, aired 1996-03-20 | FAMOUS AMERICANS $400: In 1889 she took over a Chicago home built by a man named Hull & made it a social welfare center (Jane) Addams |
| #2661, aired 1996-03-11 | SOCIAL SECURITY $100: This agency collects Social Security taxes the IRS |
| #2661, aired 1996-03-11 | SOCIAL SECURITY $200: A fully qualified worker can begin to receive full benefits at this retirement age 65 |
| #2661, aired 1996-03-11 | SOCIAL SECURITY $300: It's the number of digits in your Social Security Number 9 |
| #2661, aired 1996-03-11 | SOCIAL SECURITY $400: Titles XVIII & XIX of the Social Security Act initiated these 2 public insurance plans Medicare & Medicaid |
| #2661, aired 1996-03-11 | SOCIAL SECURITY $500: Prior to chairing the Federal Reserve Board, he headed a Social Security Reform Commission (Alan) Greenspan |
| #2621, aired 1996-01-15 | TAX TIME $300: Your TIN or taxpayer identification number is usually this 9-digit number your social security number |
| #2603, aired 1995-12-20 | LITERARY ALLUSIONS $800: A scheming young woman is called a Becky Sharp after the social climbing heroine of this Thackeray novel Vanity Fair |
| #2579, aired 1995-11-16 | ECONOMICS $400: In 1990, about two-thirds of Americans over 65 relied on this for over half their income Social Security |
| #2576, aired 1995-11-13 | NEWSPAPERS & MAGAZINES $100: Originally a social satire magazine, it became a pictorial weekly when bought by Luce in 1936 Life |
| #2565, aired 1995-10-27 | HISTORIC AMERICANS $200: In 1902 this Hull House founder wrote a book called "Democracy and Social Ethics" (Jane) Addams |
| #2560, aired 1995-10-20 | SOCIETY $200: The rules of polite social interaction; Emily Post is a popular name in the field etiquette |
| #2552, aired 1995-10-10 | SOCIAL STUDIES $200: Gunpowder invented during China's T'ang dynasty was first used in these, not in weapons fireworks |
| #2552, aired 1995-10-10 | SOCIAL STUDIES $400: In this ancient Greek city boys from age 7 to 20 lived in barracks & had physical & military training Sparta |
| #2552, aired 1995-10-10 | SOCIAL STUDIES $600: This venerable English historian created the dating concept of A.D. Bede |
| #2552, aired 1995-10-10 | SOCIAL STUDIES $800: This company, founded by the Dutch in 1602, drove the Portuguese out of Ceylon the Dutch East India Trading Company |
| #2552, aired 1995-10-10 | SOCIAL STUDIES $1000: The Risorgimento was a 19th century movement to unify this country Italy |
| #2519, aired 1995-07-13 | LITERARY ALLUSIONS $400: This hero of "Les Miserables" became the prototype of a poor man suffering social injustice Jean Valjean |
| #2519, aired 1995-07-13 | PRESIDENTIAL TRIVIA $800: In 1976 he was the candidate of the Social Democrats as well as the Democrats Jimmy Carter |
| #2503, aired 1995-06-21 | HISTORIC AMERICANS $1000: He organized the Social Democratic Party of America in 1897 & was its candidate for president in 1900 (Eugene) Debs |
| #2481, aired 1995-05-22 | FAMOUS FIRSTS $300: In 1940 65-year-old Ida Fuller received the 1st of these benefit checks & got them until her death at age 100 a Social Security check |
| #2481, aired 1995-05-22 | PHILOSOPHERS $800: In his 1762 treatise "The Social Contract", this Swiss-French philosopher made a case for civil rights Rousseau |
| #2446, aired 1995-04-03 | NATURE $300: The yellow jacket is a social one of these insects; the cicada killer is a solitary one wasp |
| #2433, aired 1995-03-15 | MIDDLE NAMES $1000: This social reformer's middle initial B. stood for Brownell Susan B. Anthony |
| #2421, aired 1995-02-27 | HISTORICAL TERMS $400: This author of "Das Kapital" coined the term Lumpenproletariat to describe "social scum" Marx |
| #2397, aired 1995-01-24 | SOCIAL REFORMERS $200: In 1869 Elizabeth Cady Stanton & this woman founded the National Woman Suffrage Association Susan B. Anthony |
| #2397, aired 1995-01-24 | SOCIAL REFORMERS $400: In 1837 Friedrich Froebel opened his first of these schools, for children in Blankenburg kindergartens |
| #2397, aired 1995-01-24 | SOCIAL REFORMERS $600: In 1910 she published "Twenty Years at Hull House" (Jane) Addams |
| #2397, aired 1995-01-24 | SOCIAL REFORMERS $800: Charles Kingsley was against sweated labor & was one of the 1st churchmen to support this evolutionist Darwin |
| #2397, aired 1995-01-24 | SOCIAL REFORMERS $2,000 (Daily Double): Born in 1839, this British chocolate maker provided housing & pensions for his workers Cadbury |
| #2353, aired 1994-11-23 | 20th CENTURY AMERICA $200: With the passage of this act in 1935, seniors began looking forward to a pension Social Security Act |
| #2320, aired 1994-10-07 | RELIGION $800: Li or proper social conduct is a central virtue of this Chinese religion Confucianism |
| #2315, aired 1994-09-30 | LEGAL "E"s $500: A right to benefits, like Social Security, which may not be abridged without due process an entitlement |
| #2299, aired 1994-09-08 | 1921 $800: Hjalmar Branting, Social Democratic prime minister of this country, won the 1921 Nobel Peace Prize Sweden |
| #2290, aired 1994-07-15 | FEDERAL AGENCIES $800: The Social Security Administration is an agency of this department Health and Human Services |
| #2283, aired 1994-07-06 | RELIGION $1000: During Holi, a spring festival in this religion, caste and social distinctions are temporarily suspended Hindu |
| #2249, aired 1994-05-19 | GET-TOGETHERS $500: The box in a box social contains this a lunch |
| #2237, aired 1994-05-03 | FAMOUS LAWYERS $200: In 1958 he married South Africa's first black medical social worker, Nomzamo Winifred Madikizela Nelson Mandela |
| #2181, aired 1994-02-14 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: The title of this Amy Tan book refers to a social club formed by mothers who play mah jongg The Joy Luck Club |
| #2144, aired 1993-12-23 | WORLD RELIGIONS $100: The Brahmins are the most elevated of the 4 varnas of this religion's social system Hindu |
| #2135, aired 1993-12-10 | PSYCH 101 $500: This Austrian examined social ills in his 1930 book "Civilization and its discontents" Freud |
| #2082, aired 1993-09-28 | WOMEN $200: In 1940 Ida Fuller received the first government check in this program Social Security |
| #2058, aired 1993-07-14 | COLONIES $400: A colony of the Amazon species of this social insect may have a slave population ants |
| #2023, aired 1993-05-26 | RUSSIAN HISTORY $200: In 1903 the Russian Social Democratic Workers' Party split into the Mensheviks & this group the Bolsheviks |
| #2018, aired 1993-05-19 | U.S. GOVERNMENT $200: This agency is responsible for retirement, disability & death benefits for about 90% of U.S. workers Social Security |
| #2010, aired 1993-05-07 | CATEGORY ON ICE $400: In the U.S. during the 1880s, everyone took a turn at the crank at these "socials" ice cream social |
| #1956, aired 1993-02-22 | U.S. HISTORY $400: The Social Security Act was part of this president's New Deal FDR |
| #1954, aired 1993-02-18 | ORGANIZATIONS $300: This organization was founded in 1941 to provide American military personnel with social clubs the USO |
| #1936, aired 1993-01-25 | INSECTS $800: A number of social wasps are called this, after their colorful markings yellow jackets |
| #1933, aired 1993-01-20 | YOUR FEDERAL TAXES $300: You must list one of these for each dependent over 1 year old or risk a $50 fine for each omission a Social Security number |
| #1925, aired 1993-01-08 | MONEY MATTERS $600: The federal SSI program is run by this federal pension system the Social Security Administration |
| #1890, aired 1992-11-20 | NORTH & SOUTH $900 (Daily Double): In 1861 this social reformer was appointed Union Superintendent of Nurses at age 59 Dorothea Dix |
| #1846, aired 1992-09-21 | GOVERNMENT & POLITICS $100: By 2027 the qualifying age to receive full retirement benefits from this program will increase to 67 Social Security |
| #1843, aired 1992-09-16 | ENDS ON "OO" $300: It's something forbidden or prohibited, usually by religious or social convention taboo |
| #1834, aired 1992-07-16 | MISS MANNERS' MANNERS $500: When asked if it's proper to do this during social events, Miss Manners said, "Madame Defarge did" knit |
| #1828, aired 1992-07-08 | INSECTS $400: Most species of these are solitary, but the paper ones & yellow jackets are social wasps |
| #1826, aired 1992-07-06 | AMERICAN HISTORY $500: During WWI this Illinois social worker was president of the International Congress of Women Jane Addams |
| #1674, aired 1991-12-05 | POLITICS $200: A commissioner allegedly called this retirement program "the most complex... God and Congress ever created" Social Security |
| #1637, aired 1991-10-15 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $800: Mass. social worker who, in a 3-year period in the 1840s, visited over 800 jails, asylums & almshouses Dorothea Dix |
| #1581, aired 1991-06-17 | THE BEES $200: Common name of the hairy social bee of the genus Bombus the bumblebee |
| #1555, aired 1991-05-10 | THE SOVIET UNION $200: He led the Bolshevik wing of the Social Democratic Workers' Party that took power in 1917 Lenin |
| #1554, aired 1991-05-09 | COLLEGE DEGREES $400: A M.S.W. is a master of this kind of work social work |
| #1531, aired 1991-04-08 | COLUMNISTS $400: Columnist whose 1922 “Etiquette: The Blue Book of Social Usage” sold over half a million copies Emily Post |
| #1525, aired 1991-03-29 | FEBRUARY $300: It was founded in Feb. 1941 to serve the social, religious, educational & welfare needs of our servicemen the USO |
| #1518, aired 1991-03-20 | THE U N $1000: The U.S., Britain & Singapore have withdrawn from UNESCO, which stands for this United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization |
| #1497, aired 1991-02-19 | WOMEN IN HISTORY $400: She was a social worker in Boston in the 1920s before she became a world-famous aviatrix Amelia Earhart |
| #1469, aired 1991-01-10 | SCIENCE & NATURE $400: The only social insects that have soldiers of both sexes; they love to munch on cellulose termites (white ants) |
| #1460, aired 1990-12-28 | FACTS & FIGURES $200: World Military & Social Expenditures Report said in 1989 no new ones began, a first in 31 years wars |
| #1416, aired 1990-10-29 | THE ROARING '20s $600: When it took effect in 1920, Herbert Hoover called it "a great social & economic experiment" Prohibition |
| #1405, aired 1990-10-12 | "G" WHIZ $500: A magnificent Spanish or Portuguese nobleman of high social position a grandee |
| #13, aired 1990-09-08 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $2000: Some think his works, including "The Social Contract", inspired the French Revolution Rousseau |
| #1380, aired 1990-09-07 | LITERARY RELATIVES $1000: Her father, William Godwin, was a prominent social philosopher & anarchist Mary Shelley |
| #1329, aired 1990-05-17 | SOCIAL SCIENCE $200: The value of all the goods & services a country produces in one year is called this GNP (Gross National Product) |
| #1329, aired 1990-05-17 | SOCIAL SCIENCE $400: It's the study of the principles of punishment as well as the management of prisons Penology |
| #1329, aired 1990-05-17 | SOCIAL SCIENCE $600: The first black to receive a Ph.D. from Harvard, his initials stood for William Edward Burghardt W.E.B. Du Bois |
| #1329, aired 1990-05-17 | SOCIAL SCIENCE $800: "Chicago School" of economic thought is associated with this conservative who once taught at U. of Chicago Milton Friedman |
| #1329, aired 1990-05-17 | SOCIAL SCIENCE $1000: German thinker who saw a link between "The Protestant Ethic & the Spirit of Capitalism" Max Weber |
| #1321, aired 1990-05-07 | CURRENT EVENTS $300: This N.Y. Senator proposed eliminating the Social Security surplus by reducing the payroll tax Moynihan |
| #1315, aired 1990-04-27 | GOVERNMENT $1000: Unemployment insurance was one of the provisions of this 1935 act the Social Security Act |
| #1299, aired 1990-04-05 | SOCIAL SCIENCE $100: Term for a mock tribunal that ignores justice; it can be held anywhere, not just in Australia a kangaroo court |
| #1299, aired 1990-04-05 | SOCIAL SCIENCE $200: In anthropology, the used word for a member of any human group whose males are less than 4'11' in average height pygmies |
| #1299, aired 1990-04-05 | SOCIAL SCIENCE $400: Family member who's the biggest winner under the inheritance system known as primogeniture the eldest son |
| #1299, aired 1990-04-05 | SOCIAL SCIENCE $500: "Misogyny" is from the Greek for "to hate women" & this is from the Greek "to hate mankind" misanthropy |
| #1299, aired 1990-04-05 | SOCIAL SCIENCE $1,000 (Daily Double): Term for the hierarchy within a social group or community based on the social behavior of chickens the pecking order |
| #1294, aired 1990-03-29 | 18TH CENTURY AMERICA $300: In 1776, with a membership of 5 students, it became the 1st social fraternity at a U.S. college Phi Beta Kappa |
| #1291, aired 1990-03-26 | ORGANIZATIONS $1000: Social welfare organization founded in the 19th century, whose bimonthly publication is "The War Cry" The Salvation Army |
| #1258, aired 1990-02-07 | SOCIAL STUDIES $200: Among the people who live within this "Circle" are the Yakuts of Siberia & the Lapps of Scandinavia Arctic Circle |
| #1258, aired 1990-02-07 | SOCIAL STUDIES $400: Collective name of American Indian tribes like the Hopi & Zuni, it comes from the Spanish for "village" Pueblo |
| #1258, aired 1990-02-07 | SOCIAL STUDIES $600: An overwhelming majority of its population are members of the Han nationality People's Republic of China |
| #1258, aired 1990-02-07 | SOCIAL STUDIES $800: The term "Caucasian" is properly applied to people who live in the Caucasus of this country Soviet Union |
| #1258, aired 1990-02-07 | SOCIAL STUDIES $1000: More familiar name of the San people, the hunters & gatherers of the Kalahari Desert Bushmen |
| #1245, aired 1990-01-19 | BEST SELLERS $400: "Parting the Waters" by Taylor Branch is a history of this social movement in America Civil Rights Movement |
| #1218, aired 1989-12-13 | BEES $1000: Honeybees live in permanent hives, while these social bees build new homes each year bumblebees |
| #1199, aired 1989-11-16 | WISCONSINITES $1000: Elected governor of Wisconsin in 1900, this "Battling Bob" founded a dynasty of politicians & social reformers Robert LaFollette |
| #1179, aired 1989-10-19 | ORGANIZATIONS $1000: It was est. in 1910 by black & white social workers to help rural Southerners adjust to city life National Urban League |
| #1143, aired 1989-07-19 | WESTERNS $800: In movie titles the name of this tribe precedes "Autumn" & "Social Club" Cheyenne |
| #1101, aired 1989-05-22 | LITERATURE $500: This heroine of "Vanity Fair" is a scheming social climber, unlike her more virtuous friend Amelia Becky Sharp |
| #1095, aired 1989-05-12 | SOCIAL SCIENCE $200: Early man who was found in the Neander Valley near Düsseldorf in 1856 Neanderthal |
| #1095, aired 1989-05-12 | SOCIAL SCIENCE $400: A woman who practices polyandry has 2 or more of these husbands |
| #1095, aired 1989-05-12 | SOCIAL SCIENCE $600: Ancestral symbols used by many cultures, they're carved into poles by American Indians totem poles (totems) |
| #1095, aired 1989-05-12 | SOCIAL SCIENCE $800: Kind of "procedure" governed by Roberts Rules of Order parliamentary (*parliamentarian) |
| #1095, aired 1989-05-12 | SOCIAL SCIENCE $1,000 (Daily Double): Economists use these 2 words to describe how consumers influence the production of goods & services supply & demand |
| #1051, aired 1989-03-13 | THE U.N. $1000: 3 of the 6 major organs of the U.N. (3 of) Secretariat, General Assembly, Security Council, International Court of Justice, Economic & Social Council, & Trusteeship Council |
| #1045, aired 1989-03-03 | THE MIDDLE AGES $600: This social system prevalent in Europe in the middle ages was based on protection, not money Feudalism |
| #1044, aired 1989-03-02 | AMERICAN HISTORY $200: Medicare was passed into law in 1965 as an amendment to this 1935 act Social Security |
| #1023, aired 1989-02-01 | FURNITURE $300: Type of cabinet introduced in 1925 & named for an early evening social habit popular then... & now cocktail cabinet |
| #1013, aired 1989-01-18 | LINCOLN SPEAKS $200: Lincoln believed that if this social institution "is not wrong, nothing is wrong" slavery |
| #1010, aired 1989-01-13 | ARCTIC ANIMALS $400: Encyclopedia of Mammals likens these "social organs" of a walrus to antlers of deer or horns of sheep tusks |
| #860, aired 1988-05-06 | SOCIAL STUDIES $100: Kshatriyas, Vaisyas, Sudras, & Brahmans are the names of 4 of these social divisions found in India caste |
| #860, aired 1988-05-06 | SOCIAL STUDIES $200: Thoreau's refusing to pay taxes is 1 example of this public refusal to obey a law civil disobedience |
| #860, aired 1988-05-06 | SOCIAL STUDIES $300: Also called citizenship education, it's the study of the rights & responsibilities of citizens civics |
| #860, aired 1988-05-06 | SOCIAL STUDIES $400: Demography is the study of size, distribution & composition of this population |
| #860, aired 1988-05-06 | SOCIAL STUDIES $500: One of America's early social workers, her Hull House spearheaded the U.S. settlement house movement Jane Addams |
| #839, aired 1988-04-07 | HOLLYWOOD HISTORY $300: Charles Black was dropped from the Social Register for marrying this ex-child star in 1950 Shirley Temple |
| #803, aired 1988-02-17 | LIFE SCIENCE $800: The part of a flower that receives pollen during pollination, or a mark of social shame stigma |
| #802, aired 1988-02-16 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $300: The women's "eating houses" at Davidson take the place of these social groups found at other colleges sororities |
| #767, aired 1987-12-29 | SUBURBS $500: Your Social Security file is maintained at agency HQ in Woodlawn, a suburb of this Mid-Atlantic port Baltimore |
| #766, aired 1987-12-28 | GOVERNMENT $600: To be claimed as a dependent on '87 tax forms, a child 5 or over now needs 1 of these Social Security number |
| #746, aired 1987-11-30 | COLLEGES $200: Boston College, Rice & Notre Dame don't have these "brotherly" & "sisterly" social organizations fraternities & sororities |
| #745, aired 1987-11-27 | PHILOSOPHY $400: He say, key to orderly social life is the gentleman of noble character, not of noble birth Confucius |
| #741, aired 1987-11-23 | ARCHAEOLOGY $400: Relative & absolute dating are not terms for an archaeologist's social life, but for this dating for how old things are (age of a find, an artifact) |
| #716, aired 1987-10-19 | RHYME TIME $400: What you might call the leg joints of a flying social insect bee's knees |
| #715, aired 1987-10-16 | BEETHOVEN $200: Since he couldn't stay in time with the music, Ludwig never learned this social grace dancing |
| #701, aired 1987-09-28 | CULTS $1000: "Cults of America" says members of current U.S. cults are mainly from this race & social class the white middle class |
| #697, aired 1987-09-22 | SCHOOL DAYS $400: Alliterative elementary school course which combined geography, history, gov't & sociology social studies |
| #687, aired 1987-09-08 | MUSICALS $200: 1962's racy Roman romp in which Zero Mostel played a "social zero" -- a slave A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum |
| #554, aired 1987-01-22 | AUGUST $200: Enactment of this law on Aug. 14, 1935 created an instance need for "FICA" spaces on paychecks the Social Security Act |
| #541, aired 1987-01-05 | THE BRITISH ISLES $400: Meaning "offspring", it's a traditional Scottish social unit sharing common ancestry & surname a clan |
| #526, aired 1986-12-15 | 20TH C. AMERICANS $200: She was a social worker before being 1st woman to fly the Atlantic Amelia Earhart |
| #519, aired 1986-12-04 | WASPS $800: Social wasps mix this with old wood & plant fibers to produce the paper used to build nests saliva |
| #438, aired 1986-05-14 | SICKNESS & HEALTH $600: Health insurance financed by 4 Social Security trust funds Medicare |
| #394, aired 1986-03-13 | TAX FACTS $100: From 1935-49, no worker ever paid more than $30 per year for this tax Social Security |
| #385, aired 1986-02-28 | SOCIAL STUDIES $200: The opposite of inflation, signifying falling as opposed to rising prices deflation |
| #385, aired 1986-02-28 | SOCIAL STUDIES $400: What a sole seller of a given commodity has, as with parker bros. & this game a monopoly |
| #385, aired 1986-02-28 | SOCIAL STUDIES $600: In Soviet edition of Oxford Dictionary socialism is "economic system which is replacing" this capitalism |
| #385, aired 1986-02-28 | SOCIAL STUDIES $800: "Radical chic", coined by this Am. journalist, refers to intellectuals affecting left-wing views Thomas Wolfe |
| #385, aired 1986-02-28 | SOCIAL STUDIES $1000: Philosopher whose "Social Contract" begins "Man is born free, yet everywhere he is in chains" (Jean-Jacques) Rousseau |
| #372, aired 1986-02-11 | FOREIGN PHRASES $200: French for "false step", it's a social error like stepping on someone's false teeth a faux pas |
| #353, aired 1986-01-15 | "UPPER"s $100: The top part of a pie, or the top part of a social class the upper crust |
| #346, aired 1986-01-06 | ELEPHANTS $400: A dangerous, anti-social, loner-type elephant, his picture should be in a "gallery" a rogue |
| #336, aired 1985-12-23 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: Literary social movement of the '50s advocating nonconformity, poverty, & jazz Beat movement (Generation) |
| #332, aired 1985-12-17 | HISTORY $500: Though neither knew the other had it, both Japan & Europe used this medieval social system feudalism |
| #293, aired 1985-10-23 | COLLEGES $800 (Daily Double): 1 of 3 major social advances in which Oberlin College of Ohio was 1st (1 of) admitting women (accepting students regardless of race and conferring degrees on women) |
| #275, aired 1985-09-27 | TV TRIVIA $500: Profession shared by Gale Storm on "The Gale Storm Show" & Lauren Tewes on "The Love Boat" a cruise (social) director |
| #273, aired 1985-09-25 | U.S. HISTORY $200: President who signed Social Security Act in 1935 Franklin Roosevelt |
| #183, aired 1985-05-22 | BABY CARE $100: For kids like Linus, it provides social "security" his blanket |
| #170, aired 1985-05-03 | BIOLOGY $800: A herpetologist studies one of these animal classes, not social diseases reptiles (and amphibians) |
| #162, aired 1985-04-23 | 50TH ANNIVERSARIES $300: If you were working when this gov't prog. was started 50 years ago, you're probably on it now Social Security |
| #152, aired 1985-04-09 | INSECTS $200: Sometimes called "white ants", these social insects are really after cellulose, not your house termites |
| #141, aired 1985-03-25 | SOCIAL STUDIES $200: 3-letter term for fashions that come & go quickly, such as hula hoops & coonskin caps a fad |
| #141, aired 1985-03-25 | SOCIAL STUDIES $400: "Jus soli", the right of soil, makes you this in the country of your birth a citizen |
| #141, aired 1985-03-25 | SOCIAL STUDIES $600: Not a radioactive clan, but the core group of one's relatives the nuclear family |
| #141, aired 1985-03-25 | SOCIAL STUDIES $800: U.S. equivalent to the bourgeoisie which developed between the aristocrats & the peasants in France business class or middle class (merchant class accepted) |
| #141, aired 1985-03-25 | SOCIAL STUDIES $1000: It's suffered by one who goes from his simple society to a very complex one culture shock |
| #113, aired 1985-02-13 | STATE CAPITALS $2,000 (Daily Double): State whose capital is mentioned in this song:
"They say to have her hair done, Liz flies all the way to France / And Jackie's seen in a discotheque doing a brand new dance / And the White House social season should be glittering and gay / But here in Topeka, the rain is a-falling / The faucet is a-dripping and the kids are a-bawling" Kansas |
| #99, aired 1985-01-24 | THE '30s $700 (Daily Double): Established in 1935, 90% of all U.S. workers are required to participate in this program Social Security |
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Justin Hofstetter, a sixth and seventh grade language arts and social studies teacher from Kansas City, Missouri
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"This sixth and seventh grade teacher is in his first year...
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Kathryn Wendling, a high school social studies teacher from Farmington, Minnesota
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"Her high school newspaper predicted she would be on Jeopardy! From...
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Ellen Wernecke, a social media analyst from Chicago, Illinois
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Season 34 2-time champion: $24,910 + $1,000.
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Becky Giardina, a 7th grade social studies teacher from Martinez, Georgia
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"Her students range from the learning disabled to the gifted. From...
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Bob Julian, a 7th and 8th grade social studies teacher from Phoenix, Oregon
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2018 Teachers Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000 + a $2,500 grant. At the...
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Kate Jovin, a social worker from Somerville, Massachusetts
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Season 34 1-time champion: $28,799 + $1,000.
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Steven Evenhouse, a junior high school social studies teacher from Orland Hills, Illinois
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"He likes teaching because it gives him a captive audience for...
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Brooks Humphreys, a high school social studies teacher from Omaha, Nebraska
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"He teaches at an all-girls Catholic school operated by the Sisters...
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Barbra Resnick, a social worker from Altamonte Springs, Florida
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Season 32 2-time champion: $26,799 + $1,000.
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Jay Singleton, a high school government and social studies teacher from Waynesboro, Virginia
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2015 Teachers Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. Jay taught social studies and government...
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Holly Flynn, an 11-year-old from Holmes, Pennsylvania
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"She started performing in community theatre when she was just 4...
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Naomi Senbet, an 11-year-old from Washington, D.C.
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"This sixth grader doesn't like to be late for anything; maybe...
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Jennifer Broders, a junior high school social studies teacher from Stockton, Iowa
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Season 26 2-time champion: $59,801 + $1,000. Jennifer Broders - a...
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Susan Turi, a social worker from Woodmere, New York
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Season 23 player (2006-10-30).
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Marshall Tan, from Gaithersburg, Maryland
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"His favorite subject is social studies, and he knows a lot...
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Michael Steele, a political analyst and host from MSNBC and Steele & Ungar
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"He was elected lieutenant governor of Maryland in 2003, and later...
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Joli Millner, an eleven-year-old from Charlottesville, Virginia
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"No kidding, she wants to be a pediatrician when she grows...
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Sanders Kleinfeld, a publishing technology specialist from Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Season 25 1-time champion: $26,597 + $2,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Patsy Lester, a social studies teacher from Patchogue, New York
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Season 38 player (2022-01-07).
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Randy Conry, a social studies teacher from La Mesa, California
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Season 1 player (1985-05-09). Randy died 2019-05-22 at the age of...
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John Carlson, a clinical social worker from Omaha, Nebraska
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Season 34 player (2018-02-20).
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Patrick Healy, a social studies teacher from Bronxville, New York
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Season 35 player (2018-10-23).
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Ken Jennings, the winner of 74 consecutive games from Seattle, Washington
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2020 Jeopardy!: The Greatest of All Time winner: $1,000,000 + a...
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Emily Gadek, a web and social media editor from Palm Springs, California
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Season 30 player (2014-01-21).
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Patricia Belcher, a clinical social worker from Los Angeles, California
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Season 1 player (1985-05-01). Patricia's IMDb page. First name pronounced like...
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Alicia O'Hare, a social worker from Long Beach, New York
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Season 38 player (2022-07-06).
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Ed Peterson, a social studies teacher from Whippany, New Jersey
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Season 8 player (1991-12-02).
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Stephanie Sumulong, a middle school social studies teacher from Fort Collins, Colorado
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Season 36 1-time champion: $12,399 + $1,000.
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Ken Jennings, a writer from Seattle, Washington
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• 74-game champion with longest winning streak • Total earnings over...
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Jeff Gitomer, a Social Security manager from Glendale, California
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Season 5 player (1988-09-22).
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Sally Reed, a retired social service administrator from Redlands, California
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Season 2 player (1985-12-13).
Last name may not be correctly spelled.
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Wendy Foster, a social worker from Portland, Oregon
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Season 35 player (2019-07-04).
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Ryan Kious, a social media and web writer from Albuquerque, New Mexico
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Season 33 player (2017-07-27).
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Erin Merrill, a middle school social studies teacher from Woodbridge, Virginia
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Season 37 player (2021-04-06).
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Nik Berry, a social studies teacher from Baltimore, Maryland
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2024 Champions Wildcard play-in quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Season 39 1-time champion: $9,601 + $1,000.
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Mike Nickel, a social worker from St. Louis, Missouri
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Season 30 1-time champion: $29,210 + $1,000.
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Mac McGowan, a social worker from Phoenix, Arizona
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Season 9 1-time champion: $14,601.
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Paula Weissman, a social worker from St. Louis, Missouri
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Season 3 player (1987-02-10).
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Mary Beth Hammerstrom, a high school social studies teacher from Anchorage, Alaska
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"This former lawyer sets the bar high for her students. From...
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Yogesh Raut, a social and personality psychologist from Vancouver, Washington
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2024 Tournament of Champions winner: $250,000.
Season 39 3-time champion: $96,403 + $2,000.
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Jasmine Leonas, a social media specialist from Chicago, Illinois
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Season 35 player (2019-04-29). Jasmine won $1,000 on Master Minds on...
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Andrea Massar, a clinical social worker from Rockville, Maryland
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Season 30 player (2013-11-01).
Name pronounced like "an-DRAY-uh MASS-ar".
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Jon Carnegie, a social media manager from Brooklyn, New York
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Season 39 player (2023-05-11).
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Bob Butler, a social worker originally from Erlanger, Kentucky
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Season 3 player (1987-03-03).
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Suzy Langevin, a social worker from Framingham, Massachusetts
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Season 35 player (2019-01-14).
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Nik Berry, a social studies teacher from Baltimore, Maryland
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2024 Champions Wildcard quarterfinalist (quarterfinalist by play-in): $5,000.
Season 39 1-time champion: $9,601 + $1,000.
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Anthony Christopher-Smith, a social worker from Newark, New Jersey
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Season 38 player (2021-10-05).
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Christopher Cartagena, a social studies educator from Royal Palm Beach, Florida
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Season 36 player (2020-02-25).
Last name pronounced like "KART-uh-JEEN-uh".
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Jonathan Greenstein, a high school social studies teacher from Mount Laurel, New Jersey
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Season 35 player (2019-06-05).
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Kimberly Brazier, a social advertising strategist from Queens, New York
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Season 36 player (2020-02-21).
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John Patlan, a social worker from Austin, Texas
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Season 6 2-time champion: $25,202.
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Ivory Johnson, a high school social studies teacher from Hollandale, Mississippi
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2020 Teachers Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
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Nick Auricchio, a social studies teacher from Mission Viejo, California
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Season 38 player (2021-09-15).
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Emily Campbell, a social media producer from Los Angeles, California
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Season 33 player (2017-07-03).
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Anji Nyquist, a social media coordinator from Minneapolis, Minnesota
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2024 Champions Wildcard play-in game player (2024-01-12).
Season 39 1-time champion: $8,800 + $1,000.
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Sara Tayyar, a clinical social worker from Pasadena, California
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Season 37 player (2020-09-24).
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Leah Q. Pence, a social studies teacher from Woodstock, Georgia
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Season 38 player (2022-04-12).
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Mary Hetherington, a social worker from Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Season 10 1-time champion: $7,300.
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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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Becky Molder, a social media specialist from Salt Lake City, Utah
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Season 39 player (2023-02-08).
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Beth Feest, a social studies teacher from Franksville, Wisconsin
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Season 34 player (2018-07-06).
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Bob Daugherty, a social studies teacher from Houston, Texas
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Season 9 player (1993-04-12).
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Justin Broughman, a high school social studies teacher from Strasburg, Virginia
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Season 34 player (2017-10-19).
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Catherine Carson, a fourth grade language arts, math, and social studies teacher from Washington, D.C.
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"She is new to teaching--she's in her second year. From Washington,...
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Sophia Weng, a senior social studies major at Harvard College from Chevy Chase, Maryland
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2023 Second Chance semifinalist: $2,000.
2019 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
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Lisa Lyons, a social media consultant from Van Nuys, California
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Season 28 player (2012-04-06).
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Luciano D'Orazio, a social studies teacher from Deer Park, New York
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Season 25 1-time champion: $27,200 + $1,000.
Name pronounced like "loo-chee-AH-no door-AHT-zee-oh".
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Brenton Montie, a sixth grade social studies teacher from South Lyon, Michigan
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"He teaches at a school ranked in the top 5% in...
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Alicia O'Hare, a social worker from Long Beach, New York
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2022 Second Chance semifinalist: $1,000.
Season 38 player (2022-07-06).
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Andy Levin, a social worker from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Season 27 player (2011-04-26).
Last name pronounced like "luh-VIHN".
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Jennifer Bernstein, a social worker from St. Louis, Missouri
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Season 28 player (2011-12-07).
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Maria Boyland, a social studies and English teacher from Rockaway Park, New York
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Season 27 player (2011-07-20).
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Camron Conners, a high school social studies teacher from Rancho Santa Margarita, California
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2023 Champions Wildcard quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Season 38 1-time champion: $24,200 + $1,000.
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Camron Conners, a high school social studies teacher from Rancho Santa Margarita, California
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2023 Champions Wildcard quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Season 38 1-time champion: $24,200 + $1,000.
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John Paul Gove, a social media marketer and go-go dancer from Laverne, California
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Season 33 player (2017-03-08).
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Thomas L. Friedman, an author and foreign affairs columnist from The New York Times
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"He has won three Pulitzer Prizes and authored six best sellers,...
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Jennifer Kronenberger, a social worker from Metarie, Louisiana
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Season 38 player (2022-02-07).
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Paula Menasche, a high school social studies teacher from Coral Gables, Florida
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Season 29 3-time champion: $55,100 + $1,000.
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Christen Lee, a social enterprise lawyer from Richmond, California
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Season 28 player (2012-01-25).
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Joanne Timmins, a social worker from Ardsley, New York
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Season 12 player (1995-10-10).
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Caleb Olson, a senior from Chariton, Iowa
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2012 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $10,000.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Yoni Freund, a Ph.D. student from Columbia University
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"He has always wanted to be a writer, and now that...
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Raya Elias-Pushett, a junior from Aventura, Florida
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2011 Teen Tournament 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $20,851. First name...
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Judy Strong, a social worker from Bellevue, Washington
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Season 29 player (2012-12-13).
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Amanda Seales, a comedian and social justice advocate from Los Angeles, California
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2023 Primetime Celebrity Jeopardy! quarterfinalist: $30,000 for the Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors...
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Ken Jennings, a 74-game champion from Seattle, Washington
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"In 2004, his record-breaking 74-game win streak set a standard for...
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Ina Gail Goldberg, a social worker originally from Baltimore, Maryland
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Season 8 player (1992-03-18).
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Marilyn Muller, a social worker from Beverly, Massachusetts
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Season 19 player (2003-06-09).
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Amanda Bain Wysocki, a social worker from Kansas City, Missouri
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Season 39 player (2023-04-04).
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Emily Moody, a social worker from Easton Maryland
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Season 31 player (2014-12-12).
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David Walter, a senior from Wilmington, Delaware
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2007 Teen Tournament winner (semifinalist by wildcard): $75,000. 17 at the...
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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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Courtney Jones, a 12-year-old from Largo, Maryland
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"She wants to dedicate her life to building things that benefit...
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Krissy Brzycki, an 11-year-old from Indianapolis, Indiana
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"Her love of helping her community and her interest in politics...
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Taylor Gailliot, from Woodbridge, Virginia
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"When asked what she wanted us to know about her, she...
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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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Melissa Harris-Perry, a professor and editor-at-large from Elle.com
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"She is the Maya Angelou Presidential Chair at Wake Forest University,...
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Steve Alper, a clinical social worker from La Mesa, California
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Season 12 player (1995-09-15).
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David Gregory, a political analyst and author from CNN and How's Your Faith?
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"An NBC correspondent and anchor for nearly 20 years, he recently...
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Sunny Hostin, a senior legal correspondent and analyst from ABC News
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"She recently joined ABC News as their senior legal correspondent and...
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Keith Parrish, a social studies teacher from Goldsboro, North Carolina
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Season 19 1-time champion: $29,801 + $2,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: Kroxquo
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Blair Moorhead, a social worker from Arlington, Virginia
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Season 33 1-time champion. $17,402 + $2,000.
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Gabrielle Donnald, a social worker from Ellicott City, Maryland
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Season 18 player (2002-03-25).
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Erica Eaton, a social worker and grad student from New York, New York
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Season 23 player (2007-02-02).
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Christina Bussmann, a social worker from Columbus, Ohio
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Season 33 player (2017-01-06).
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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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Brandon Hensley, a sophomore from Caltech
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2008 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 19 and from Huntington, WV at...
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Lara Logan, a correspondent from 60 Minutes on CBS
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"Her bold, award-winning reporting has earned her a prominent spot among...
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Mary Webster, a Social Security quality assessor from Los Angeles, California
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1991 Seniors Tournament 2nd runner-up: $10,800.
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Chantelle Schofield, an E.R. social worker from Fort Myers, Florida
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Season 33 2-time champion: $32,402 + $2,000.
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Cheryl Weiss, a social studies teacher from Panama City, Florida
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Season 15 player (1999-02-02).
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Lisa Carotenuto, a high school social studies teacher from Tucson, Arizona
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Season 17 player (2001-07-19).
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Ken Jennings, a writer from Seattle, Washington
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"He was a software engineer living in Salt Lake City, Utah,...
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Chris Burke, a social studies teacher from Toms River, New Jersey
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Season 33 player (2017-05-02).
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Ellen Rourke, a high school social studies teacher from Chicago, Illinois
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Season 18 1-time champion: $1,601.
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Marques Redd, a sophomore at Harvard University from Macon, Georgia
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2001 College Championship semifinalist: $5,000. Marques was 18 at the time...
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Julie Spencer, a social worker from Harbor Springs, Michigan
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Season 15 player (1998-11-27).
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Terri Pous, a social media editor from New York, New York
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Season 31 2-time champion: $36,801 + $2,000. Terri produced a podcast...
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Lindsay Wilson, a graduate student of social work from Severn, Maryland
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Season 30 player (2014-03-21).
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David Rigsby, a Social Security Administration attorney from Alexandria, Virginia
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Season 33 1-time champion: $8,200 + $1,000.
Husband of Season 31 champion Ryan Alley.
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Diana Peloquin, a graduate student of law and social work from Ann Arbor, Michigan
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Season 30 1-time champion: $15,700 + $2,000.
Article about Diana's defeat of Arthur Chu.
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Dana Ezell, a social worker from Baton Rouge, Louisiana
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Season 15 player (1998-11-30).
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Madeline Suchard, from Placentia, California
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"She has her sights set on becoming the Supreme Court Justice,...
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Matt Tick, from Escondido, California
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"Will take violin lessons and loves science, but he really wants...
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Michele Consoli, a social worker from Clifton, New Jersey
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Season 30 player (2014-06-23).
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Stefanie Small, a geriatric social worker from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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Season 26 player (2010-06-28).
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Michael Dupée, an attorney from Gainesville, Florida
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"He was the winner of the 1996 Tournament of Champions. Today...
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Lisa Horowitz, a social media editor from Los Angeles, California
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Season 26 player (2010-03-22).
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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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Crystal Durham, a 12-year-old from Fort Pierce, Florida
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"She would like to be an Irish stepdancing teacher, because dancing...
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Neal Freyman, a ten-year-old from Longmeadow, Massachusetts
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"He's not sure recess counts as a subject, but if it...
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Soledad O'Brien, an anchor and special correspondent from CNN's Special Investigations Unit
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"Currently the host of CNN's Special Investigations Unit, she's received critical...
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Paul Wampler, a web programmer from Knoxville, Tennessee
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Season 27 4-time champion: $72,001 + $2,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: paul5562
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Roger Mueller-Kim, a high school social studies teacher from Dublin, California
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Season 27 1-time champion: $17,401 + $1,000.
Last name pronounced like "MULL-er KIM".
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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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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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Keith Olbermann, an anchorman from Fox Sports News
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"He returned to sports coverage this year as the senior anchor...
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Ian Silverman, a high school social studies teacher from San Diego, California
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Season 26 1-time champion: $16,000 + $2,000.
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Rice Whaley, a high school history teacher from Hermitage, Pennsylvania
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Season 20 player (2004-02-02).
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Becky Anderson, a retired software specialist originally from Morganton, North Carolina
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Season 25 1-time champion: $16,401 + $2,000. Becky Anderson - A...
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Shay Collins, an 11-year-old from Averill Park, New York
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"His passion for music helps this future rock star to play...
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Judy Shulman, a school social worker from Goldens Bridge, New York
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Season 25 player (2009-04-01).
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Keri McConaghy, a social worker from Chelsea, Massachusetts
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Season 27 player (2010-12-13).
Last name pronounced like "mick-KAWN-ah-ghee".
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Carol Camper, a social work supervisor from Toronto, Canada
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Season 24 player (2007-11-22).
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Bill Cute, a social studies teacher from Rehoboth, Massachusetts
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Season 13 2-time champion: $19,601.
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Justin Otor, a 12-year-old from Texarkana, Texas
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"His chosen profession will be something in the field of science...
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Charlie Blatt, an 11-year-old from Scarsdale, New York
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"Besides cooking, working on the computer, and tap dancing, she likes...
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Charlie Penrod, an assistant professor of law from Natchitoches, Louisiana
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Season 27 1-time champion: $17,000 + $2,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: CharlieP
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Kizzle Cote, a 12-year-old from Ludlow, Massachusetts
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"This future ichthyologist has a 30-gallon aquarium in his bedroom..." 2007...
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Mike Bartley, a social studies teacher originally from New Berlin, Wisconsin
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Season 16 player (1999-12-10).
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Folake Dosu, a senior from Stanford University from Bellwood, Illinois
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2010-B College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
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Ellen Eichner, a junior from the Ohio State University from Northbrook, Illinois
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2010-B College Championship semifinalist: $10,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
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John Hines, a high school social studies teacher from Tacoma, Washington
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"He teaches at Todd Beamer High School, named for a heroic...
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Brian Lamb, a teacher from Bakersfield, California
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Season 23 player (2007-06-26). Season 22 2-time champion: $39,201 + $1,000....
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Kathi Weiss, a clinical social worker from Fort Wayne, Indiana
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Season 13 player (1997-03-27).
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Lois Rothman, a social worker from Miami, Florida
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Season 2 player (1986-04-23).
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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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Mark Johnson, a social studies teacher from Woodland Hills, California
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Season 14 player (1998-05-29). Not to be confused with Season 35...
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Rebecca Watt, a high school social studies teacher from Vienna, Virginia
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Season 24 player (2007-12-13).
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Lisa Llanes-Simpson, a social worker and notary public from Poughkeepsie, New York
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Season 22 player (2006-07-14).
Last name pronounced like "LANES-SIMP-son".
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Emily Kamm, a 12-year-old from Arlington, Virginia
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"This member of Model United Nations has been on the principal's...
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Dan Mathews, a social studies teacher from New Preston, Connecticut
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Season 15 player (1998-09-28).
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Jeff Park, a social studies teacher from Denver, Colorado
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Season 13 player (1997-04-16).
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Andrew Sims, a high school social studies teacher from Laguna Niguel, California
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Season 18 player (2002-02-01).
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Hon. Margaret Spellings, a U.S. Secretary of Education from Washington, D.C.
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"As an advisor to President George W. Bush, she helped craft...
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Richard Kaplan, a retired attorney from Los Angeles, California
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1992 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $5,000. Season 8 5-time champion:...
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Ken Jennings, a software engineer from Salt Lake City, Utah
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2020 Jeopardy!: The Greatest of All Time winner: $1,000,000 + a...
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Ari Schoenholtz, a senior at Williams College from Bethesda, Maryland
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2004 College Championship 1st runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $50,000. Jeopardy! Message...
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Mary Near, a social studies teacher from Ironton, Ohio
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Season 16 player (2000-03-27).
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Scottie Szewczyk, from Belleville, Illinois
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"He enjoys science and sports, and would like to work as...
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Ken Jennings, a software engineer from Salt Lake City, Utah
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2020 Jeopardy!: The Greatest of All Time winner: $1,000,000 + a...
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Josh Klein, a 12-year-old seventh grader from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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"And, his favorite subjects in school are math, social studies, and...
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