| #9085, aired 2024-04-19 | NOT YOUR EVERYDAY WORDS $1200: In South Asia, you might give your dhoti, seen here, to a dhoby, a person with this job laundry (washing clothes) |
| #9084, aired 2024-04-18 | SECOND CITIES $200: The Castle of Good Hope dates to the 1660s in this city in South Africa Cape Town |
| #9084, aired 2024-04-18 | MEDALS & DECORATIONS $1600: In 1912 Norway's King Haakon awarded this explorer & his crew the South Pole Medal Amundsen |
| #9082, aired 2024-04-16 | JUST FOR FUN "Z"s $1000: Down South, Cher, this traditional music heard here is also known as chanky-chank zydeco |
| #9081, aired 2024-04-15 | A LOVE FOR BOOKS $400: The Hazard & Main families are divided by this conflict in "Love & War", part of John Jakes' "North & South" trilogy the Civil War |
| #9075, aired 2024-04-05 | IN THE PAST $200: All your favorite medieval travel influencers went through South India, like Ibn Battuta, Zheng He & this Venetian guy Marco Polo |
| #9073, aired 2024-04-03 | STARS & CONSTELLATIONS $3,600 (Daily Double): If you're really smart, you should know that this constellation was named for South Africa's Table Mountain Mensa |
| #9070, aired 2024-03-29 | SOUTH AMERICAN HISTORY $400: This man whose name went on 2 continents explored the coast of Suriname in 1499 (Amerigo) Vespucci |
| #9070, aired 2024-03-29 | STATE FLAGS $400: In 1992 this state replaced the words "The Sunshine State" on its flag with the words "The Mount Rushmore State" South Dakota |
| #9070, aired 2024-03-29 | SOUTH AMERICAN HISTORY $1200: Cemented in Argentine history is this man, whose 1986 World Cup goal was aided by the "Hand of God" Maradona |
| #9070, aired 2024-03-29 | SOUTH AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: Huascar co-ruled the Inca from Cuzco; his brother Atahualpa ruled from this city that also ends in "O" Quito |
| #9070, aired 2024-03-29 | SOUTH AMERICAN HISTORY $2,000 (Daily Double): Simon Iturri Patiño was once Bolivia's rey del estaño, king of this metal in which the land is rich tin |
| #9070, aired 2024-03-29 | SOUTH AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: This Venezuelan president said in 2019 that protesters would not go unpunished & accused the U.S. of plotting against him Nicolás Maduro |
| #9069, aired 2024-03-28 | HOP ON THE INTERSTATE $800: Enjoy 1,700 miles of the I-95 system, south from Bangor to this 2-word city whose name comes from Spanish for "mouse's mouth" Boca Raton |
| #9067, aired 2024-03-26 | FLAT EARTH $200: Once home to numerous antelope, Springbok Flats is in this country's Limpopo Province South Africa |
| #9066, aired 2024-03-25 | THE THEATER $1000: Teatro Astor Piazzolla, named for the composer & musician seen here, is in this South American capital city Buenos Aires |
| #9065, aired 2024-03-22 | TIME FOR DESERT $1200: In 2016, NASA began testing a new prototype rover & its life-detecting instruments in this South American desert the Atacama |
| #9061, aired 2024-03-18 | ANNUAL EVENTS $1000: "The ride. The roar. The rally" is a motto for the annual motorcycle rally in this South Dakota city Sturgis |
| #9060, aired 2024-03-15 | EXTINCT ANIMALS $1600: The Stephens Island wren on an isle just off this country's South Island was eaten to extinction by a lighthouse keeper's cats New Zealand |
| #9056, aired 2024-03-11 | DOWN IN THE VALLEY $1000: During the Civil War North & South battled for control of this fertile valley that extends southwest from Harpers Ferry the Shenandoah |
| #9056, aired 2024-03-11 | "AI" $1600: Heads up! It's this South American cousin of the crocodile a caiman |
| #9056, aired 2024-03-11 | WORLD OF LIT $2000: The short story collection "Face to Face" was the first book by this South African woman who won a 1991 Nobel Prize Nadine Gordimer |
| #9055, aired 2024-03-08 | SOUTH OF THE EQUATOR $400: Durban, South Africa was once named Port Natal; Natal is Portuguese for this holiday Christmas |
| #9055, aired 2024-03-08 | SOUTH OF THE EQUATOR $800: One activity if, you're in Gurue in northern Mozambique is a hike to the Cascata, this feature, a good place to cool off a waterfall |
| #9055, aired 2024-03-08 | SOUTH OF THE EQUATOR $1200: Named for an earl, not a duke, this major New Zealand port has the country's largest concentration of Maori Auckland |
| #9055, aired 2024-03-08 | SOUTH OF THE EQUATOR $1600: Ready for some golf? Head to this very remote South Atlantic island & its 9-hole Longwood golf course St. Helena |
| #9055, aired 2024-03-08 | SOUTH OF THE EQUATOR $2000: New Britain is the largest island in this German-named archipelago in the southwest Pacific the Bismarck Archipelago |
| #9054, aired 2024-03-07 | UNUSUAL NICKNAMES $1000: Glasgow's Clyde Auditorium was opened in 1997 & soon became known as this animal of Texas & Central & South America the armadillo |
| #9051, aired 2024-03-04 | LANGUAGES $800: Quinine & quinoa are words derived from this South American language Quechua |
| #9049, aired 2024-02-29 | NAME, IMAGE, LIKENESS $600: Auburn QB Bo Nix made an NIL deal with Milo's, maker of this 2-word sugary drink--then transferred out of the South to Oregon sweet tea |
| #9049, aired 2024-02-29 | COLORS OF THE RAINBOW $1000: In the 1740s growers of this dye plant in South Carolina benefited from government subsidies indigo |
| #9048, aired 2024-02-28 | A LITTLE HISTOR"E" $1000: This ancient people inhabited an area between the Arno & Tiber rivers & west & south of the Apennines the Etruscans |
| #9046, aired 2024-02-26 | LET'S AUDIT A COLLEGE COURSE $1000: History 383 at this military college of South Carolina examined patterns of war to 1763 the Citadel |
| #9044, aired 2024-02-22 | BLOWIN' IN THE WIND $2000: The Tehuantepecer is named for the gulf just south of the same-named isthmus, this country's narrowest point Mexico |
| #9043, aired 2024-02-21 | PLACES TO VISIT $8,800 (Daily Double): Tourists who make their way to these islands 600 miles off South America often miss the fur seals, which love rocky & shady areas the Galápagos |
| #9042, aired 2024-02-20 | THE 13 COLONIES $800: Originally a single province, they became 2 distinct southern colonies after separating beginning in 1712 North & South Carolina |
| #9042, aired 2024-02-20 | BODIES OF WATER $1200: There's a Colorado River in the U.S. & another one in this South American nation where it flows across the Pampas Argentina |
| #9041, aired 2024-02-19 | NATIONAL STATUARY HALL $2000: Charleston took down a statue of him in 2020, but this pro-slavery VP still stands in the Hall for South Carolina John C. Calhoun |
| #9038, aired 2024-02-14 | SO FAR AWAY $800: We heart this heart-shaped island state 150 miles south of Victoria where you can have a devil of a time Tasmania |
| #9037, aired 2024-02-13 | DUCK SOUP $800: This presidential daughter had pet ducks that often waddled their way into the fountain on the White House South Lawn Caroline Kennedy |
| #9036, aired 2024-02-12 | SOME VERY MOVING WORDS $600: In South Africa, to travel by ox wagon; in space, to travel by enterprise to trek |
| #9035, aired 2024-02-09 | ____ OF ____ $800: While native to South Africa, this flower is a common sight in Southern California bird-of-paradise |
| #9035, aired 2024-02-09 | ADD A LETTER: GEOGRAPHY EDITION $1600: Virginia county home to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier & South Carolina home to a museum commemorating NASCAR history Arlington & Darlington |
| #9034, aired 2024-02-08 | SIMPLE SPANISH $600: It's a form of "named", as in "Como se ____ usted?"; pronounced the Anglo way, it's a South American pack animal llama |
| #9031, aired 2024-02-05 | LAKES & RIVERS $1000: Europe's longest river, the Volga flows more than 2,000 miles south into this large inland body of water the Caspian Sea |
| #3, aired 2024-02-02 | RHYMING FOLKS $800: He took some severe punishment south of the border in the title role of "Nacho Libre" Jack Black |
| #3, aired 2024-02-02 | WILL YOU STILL NEED "ME" $1200: It flows into the South China Sea the Mekong |
| #9028, aired 2024-01-31 | BUSINESS & FINANCE HISTORY $2000: In 1720 the value of this trading company's stock rose from 128 1/2 to 1,000, creating a disastrous "bubble" the South Sea Company |
| #9027, aired 2024-01-30 | HARLEM HELLFIGHTERS $600: (Robin Roberts presents the clue.) After facing racial discrimination near their training facility in South Carolina in 1917, the Harlem Hellfighters were among the first U.S. units to ship to France as they joined this vast body of troops--AEF for short the American Expeditionary Force |
| #9027, aired 2024-01-30 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $1,000 (Daily Double): The land donated to start this ACC sports powerhouse was home to the estate of John C. Calhoun Clemson University |
| #9027, aired 2024-01-30 | AROUND THE WORLD $2000: Up we go! There are more than a dozen old-school funiculars in Valparaíso on the coast of this South American country Chile |
| #9025, aired 2024-01-26 | 2-3 ZONE $1000: When what's now this country was South West Africa, its southern 2/3 was a "police zone" set aside for white settlers Namibia |
| #9023, aired 2024-01-24 | SHAKE IT OFF $1,200 (Daily Double): Drop "it" from a word for a hollow space to get this South American rodent a cavy (from cavity) |
| #9022, aired 2024-01-23 | U.S. CITIES $800: In 1786 it was chosen to replace Charleston as a state capital Columbia |
| #9022, aired 2024-01-23 | YOUNG PEOPLE'S NONFICTION $1000: Indigenous wisdom is passed on to the TikTok generation in "Braiding", this plant, made into baskets in the South for centuries sweetgrass |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | PEAK TV $200: Due to a mix-up, the giant robot doll from this South Korean series was briefly displayed in front of a museum Squid Game |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | BEST TIME TO VISIT $1000: Dry season months like November are ideal for hiking "the Roof of Africa" at Simien National Park in this country on Africa's horn Ethiopia |
| #9018, aired 2024-01-17 | AROUND THE GLOBE $600: The Tian Shan Mountains separate Kyrgyzstan from this big neighbor to the south & east China |
| #9018, aired 2024-01-17 | AROUND THE GLOBE $800: They're the 2 U.N. member countries in Africa with a cardinal direction in their names South Sudan & South Africa |
| #9017, aired 2024-01-16 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $200: Formed at the end of the last ice age, this sea includes the Gulf of Bothnia in the north & the Gulf of Gdansk in the south the Baltic Sea |
| #25, aired 2024-01-16 | TREES $100: This South American rainforest is said to be home to roughly 390 billion trees the Amazon |
| #25, aired 2024-01-16 | THE ONE AND ONLY... $600: Oscar winner named Oscar: this lyricist of "Oklahoma!" & "South Pacific" Oscar Hammerstein |
| #9016, aired 2024-01-15 | AFRICAN CITIES $800: South Africa has 3 capitals; Pretoria (executive), Bloemfontein (judicial) & this one (legislative) Cape Town |
| #9015, aired 2024-01-12 | DOUBLE TALK GEOGRAPHY $800: A port city on Tutuila Island, Pago Pago is the capital of this U.S. territory in the South Pacific American Samoa |
| #2, aired 2024-01-12 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $400: Colleges in this state include Black Hills State University & Oglala Lakota College South Dakota |
| #2, aired 2024-01-12 | JUST DESERTS $1000: La Guajira desert is connected by gas pipeline to nearby Barranquilla in this South American country Colombia |
| #1, aired 2024-01-12 | A CITY ON THE WATER $1600: Pierre,
South Dakota the Missouri |
| #9011, aired 2024-01-08 | GET TO THE POINT $400: Colombia's Point Gallinas, the northernmost part of mainland South America, juts into this sea the Caribbean Sea |
| #9011, aired 2024-01-08 | GET TO THE POINT $800: Further from land than anywhere else on Earth, a South Pacific spot is called Point this, after a fictional captain Nemo |
| #9011, aired 2024-01-08 | IT'S CORN $1600: The murals at the Mitchell Corn Palace in this state are designed by students at a nearby university South Dakota |
| #9010, aired 2024-01-05 | FAMOUS OBJECTS $400: Edward I, called the "Hammer of the Scots", took this coronation block of theirs south to England in 1296 the Stone of Scone |
| #9010, aired 2024-01-05 | COUNTRY OVERLAPS $1600: North America's second most populous hooks up with South America's second most populous Mexicolombia |
| #9009, aired 2024-01-04 | ALL ABOUT AUTHORS $1,200 (Daily Double): This 19th century author of adventure novels suffered from tuberculosis & moved to the South Seas for his health, dying in Samoa Robert Louis Stevenson |
| #9008, aired 2024-01-03 | BIG & LITTLE GEOGRAPHY $600: Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park lies within this scenic California region that's just south of Monterey Big Sur |
| #9007, aired 2024-01-02 | GEOGRAPHY TEST $800: This strait named for an explorer separates Tierra del Fuego from mainland South America Strait of Magellan |
| #9007, aired 2024-01-02 | GEOGRAPHY TEST $1000: Cuba is about 90 miles south of the U.S.; this 4,200-square-mile island is about 90 miles south of Cuba Jamaica |
| #9005, aired 2023-12-29 | CANADIAN POSTAL ABBREVIATIONS $200: Some areas in the south have mild weather year-round:
BC British Columbia |
| #9003, aired 2023-12-27 | BAYS $1200: A South Florida national park with this bay in its name is home to more than 500 species of reef fish Biscayne |
| #9001, aired 2023-12-25 | TOLD YOU "SO" $1600: Starring Whoopi Goldberg, "Sarafina!" is about South African students fighting apartheid in this township Soweto |
| #8998, aired 2023-12-20 | QUITE A SITE $200: Dynamite was used for 90% of the carving of this South Dakota landmark named for a New York lawyer in 1885 Mount Rushmore |
| #8997, aired 2023-12-19 | IT HAPPENED IN 2023 $800: In February, one of these, reportedly carrying spy tech from China, was shot down off the coast of South Carolina a balloon |
| #8996, aired 2023-12-18 | U.S. FIRSTS $7,000 (Daily Double): The first woman mayor of a major U.S. city was Bertha Landes in Seattle; soon after came Dorothy Lee in this city 172 miles south Portland (Oregon) |
| #8995, aired 2023-12-15 | TRAILER PARK $600: In a trailer for this animated feature from 1999, Satan is in bed with Saddam Hussein South Park: The Movie (South Park: Bigger, Longer, Uncut) |
| #8991, aired 2023-12-11 | CIRCLE TIME $1000: Parallel to the equator, it runs along 66 degrees, 30 minutes south latitude the Antarctic Circle |
| #8984, aired 2023-11-30 | ISLANDS & PENINSULAS $3,000 (Daily Double): Vietnam & China both claim the Paracel islands, which include Rocky Island & Woody Island, in this body of water the South China Sea |
| #8979, aired 2023-11-23 | MODERN ARCHITECTURAL STYLES $1600: Architect Oscar Niemeyer was an exponent of modern design in South America, like his own work designing this capital city Brasilia |
| #8979, aired 2023-11-23 | ____ OF ____ $2000: As seen on the map, this island lies between England & Ireland, & about 20 miles south of Scotland the Isle of Man |
| #8978, aired 2023-11-22 | SORRY ABOUT THAT $2000: After taking power in South Africa, this party apologized for the faulty timing of some bombs as it battled apartheid the ANC (African National Congress) |
| #8977, aired 2023-11-21 | INTERNATIONAL CINEMA SHOWCASE $1600: "City of God" is about 2 boys growing up in a violent favela in this South American country Brazil |
| #8974, aired 2023-11-16 | JAILHOUSE ROCK $600: The infamous penal colony on this rocky islet off the coast of South America opened in 1852 Devil's Island |
| #8974, aired 2023-11-16 | KAUAI $2000: In the movie version of "South Pacific", Kauai's beautiful North Shore was used as this exotic isle Bali Hai |
| #20, aired 2023-11-15 | FOR THE LOVE OF PETE $400: Back in South Bend, this former presidential hopeful went by "Mayor Pete"; now he goes by "Secretary of Transportation" Pete Buttigieg |
| #19, aired 2023-11-01 | HAIL TO THE CHEF $300: In 2009, Barack Obama was grillin' & chillin' on the South Lawn with this celebrity chef Bobby Flay |
| #8962, aired 2023-10-31 | THE TROPIC OF CAPRICORN $400: This South American behemoth is the only country crossed by both the Tropic of Capricorn & the equator Brazil |
| #8962, aired 2023-10-31 | THE TROPIC OF CAPRICORN $800: The Tropic of Capricorn separates two climatic zones--the tropical one & this zone that extends south to the Antarctic Circle a temperate zone (the southern temperate zone) |
| #8961, aired 2023-10-30 | BRING OUT YOUR FRED $2000: In 1989, he became president of South Africa; a few years later, he was deputy president Frederik Willem de Klerk |
| #8960, aired 2023-10-27 | FABRICS $200: Jeans & overalls can be made from this fabric whose name comes from a city in the south of France denim |
| #8959, aired 2023-10-26 | MAP HAPPY $200: It's name says where it's at South Africa |
| #18, aired 2023-10-25 | FAILING HISTORY $200: Comic Trevor Noah's biracial background proved that this system designed to keep races separate in South Africa just didn't work apartheid |
| #8956, aired 2023-10-23 | PEOPLE WITH MUPPET NAMES $400: This grouchy librettist won a 1950 Pulitzer for his work on "South Pacific" Oscar Hammerstein |
| #8951, aired 2023-10-16 | O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU? $400: Thou wishest to party in this South American city & climb its 1,300-foot Sugarloaf Mountain, verily Rio |
| #8951, aired 2023-10-16 | O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU? $2,000 (Daily Double): Zoinks! Thou findest thyself at this South American country's border with Panama Colombia |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | "EZ" GEOGRAPHY $300: Of all the countries in South America, this one comes alphabetically last Venezuela |
| #8945, aired 2023-10-06 | IF AT FIRST YOU DON'T SECEDE... $800: It was the first U.S. state to secede, leading to the Civil War South Carolina |
| #8945, aired 2023-10-06 | IF AT FIRST YOU DON'T SECEDE... $1600: In 2011 the south part of this northeast African nation became independent Sudan |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | FAMOUS TV SPOILERS $300: Who is Cartman's dad? Jack Tenorman! Who was cooked into a pot of chili! South Park |
| #8942, aired 2023-10-03 | THIS IS MY COUNTRY $600: 1999-2008--Thabo Mbeki South Africa |
| #8941, aired 2023-10-02 | SOUTH AFRICA $400: The urban complex of Soweto adjoins this metropolis of about 6 million, the nation's leading industrial & commercial city Johannesburg |
| #8941, aired 2023-10-02 | SOUTH AFRICA $800: Of South Africa's 12 official languages, this 4-letter African one is the most spoken in the country Zulu |
| #8941, aired 2023-10-02 | GEOGRAPHY "B" $1000: The 2 countries of South America that begin with "B" are these 2 Bolivia & Brazil |
| #8941, aired 2023-10-02 | SOUTH AFRICA $1200: Parts of this coastal city & its suburbs wind up towards & around Table Mountain Cape Town |
| #8941, aired 2023-10-02 | SOUTH AFRICA $2,000 (Daily Double): The majestic Victorian City Hall in East London, South Africa held the first hearing of the post-apartheid TRC, this commission Truth and Reconciliation Commission |
| #8941, aired 2023-10-02 | SOUTH AFRICA $2000: South Africa's national bird is the blue variety of this avian; also warriors once wore its feathers into battle a (blue) crane |
| #8940, aired 2023-09-29 | COW COUNTRY $1200: Criollo cattle include Texas longhorns & a breed named for this South American country of champion beef eaters Argentina |
| #8939, aired 2023-09-28 | AROUND THE HORN $1600: In 1910 he said he was sailing from Norway to the Arctic Ocean via Cape Horn, but he was really headed to the South Pole Amundsen |
| #14, aired 2023-09-27 | AIRPORT STORES $600: Hungry? Many restaurants at Incheon airport serve bibimbap as well as this, the national dish of South Korea kimchi |
| #14, aired 2023-09-27 | AIRPORT STORES $1200: African Origins and MadeInSA are two craft stores in O.R. Tambo airport, a hub located in this city Johannesburg |
| #8934, aired 2023-09-21 | WORLD SOCCER $600: In 2010, this plastic horn infamously made its presence known among World Cup crowds in South Africa the vuvuzela |
| #8930, aired 2023-09-15 | CAT LOVERS $600: Not satisfied with your basic kitty, Salvador Dalí owned Babou, one of these wild cats of Central & South America an ocelot |
| #8930, aired 2023-09-15 | BUILDING, AMERICA $800: On a clear day you can see Illinois, Indiana & Michigan from the skydeck of this building on South Wacker Drive the Willis Tower |
| #8928, aired 2023-09-13 | TO SIR PAUL, WITH LOVE $1600: On April 21, 1990 at Maracana Stadium, Paul had an intimate show for 184,000 friends as he rocked in this huge South American city Rio de Janeiro |
| #8926, aired 2023-09-11 | STARTS WITH "G" $1600: The mascot seen here represents these University of South Carolina sports teams the Gamecocks |
| #8925, aired 2023-07-28 | BRITISH LITERATURE $1200: Elizabeth Gaskell's 1855 novel "North & South" depicts this British city as a cotton-spinning hellmouth, calling it "Milton" Manchester |
| #8923, aired 2023-07-26 | I'M BLUE $1000: The skinny on the flag of this South American nation is that the blue symbolizes the sky; while the white is for the snow on the Andes Chile |
| #8922, aired 2023-07-25 | STATE THE 19th CENTURY SENATOR $1600: John C. Calhoun & John E. Colhoun, but what's in a name, Y'all? South Carolina |
| #8922, aired 2023-07-25 | STATE THE 19th CENTURY SENATOR $2000: Charles Sumner, a free stater nearly beaten to death on the Senate floor by a southerner Massachusetts |
| #8921, aired 2023-07-24 | SPACE MEN & WOMEN $400: As this country's first astronaut, Soyeon Yi packed kimchi to share with her colleagues on the International Space Station South Korea |
| #8917, aired 2023-07-18 | WORLD OF FIRST NAMES $800: For the last several years, this name of a Dickens hero has been the most popular boys' name in New South Wales Oliver |
| #8917, aired 2023-07-18 | AFRICAN FILMS $800: Called the first major film of South Africa after apartheid, "Cry, the Beloved Country" stars this American actor seen here James Earl Jones |
| #8917, aired 2023-07-18 | AFRICAN FILMS $1200: This 2009 sci-fi film features aliens nicknamed "Prawns" living in an area of South Africa District 9 |
| #8916, aired 2023-07-17 | I'LL "B" THERE $400: The third-largest island in the world, it touches the Java, Sulu & South China Seas Borneo |
| #8916, aired 2023-07-17 | 6-LETTER WORDS $600: This wild cat seen here ranges from Argentina to South Texas an ocelot |
| #8915, aired 2023-07-14 | IN SYNDICATION $2000: It's the shortened 5-letter name of the raccoon cousin seen here, found in Arizona, New Mexico & further south the coati |
| #8913, aired 2023-07-12 | DOUBLE-VOWEL PLACES $2000: In 1994 this South African province was divided up into 4 smaller ones that include what's now called Limpopo the Transvaal |
| #8910, aired 2023-07-07 | HOTEL CALIFORNIA $1000: The historic Hotel Atwater on this island south of L.A. dates from the 1920s Santa Catalina |
| #8910, aired 2023-07-07 | A BRIDGE TOO FAR $2000: Connecting South Africa & Namibia, the Ernest Oppenheimer Bridge spans this colorful river the Orange |
| #8909, aired 2023-07-06 | ROAD $600: In Phoenix the Stack is the name for the interchange where I-17, going north-south, meets this east-west interstate I-10 |
| #8908, aired 2023-07-05 | U.S. CITY OF THE BOOK $201 (Daily Double): "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil":
Go South! Savannah, Georgia |
| #8905, aired 2023-06-30 | WELCOME TO THE BIG URBAN AREA $3,200 (Daily Double): Due south of Egypt, this capital with about 6 million people began as an Egyptian army camp in 1821 Khartoum |
| #8903, aired 2023-06-28 | GET KOALA-FIED $800: Cece the koala is the mascot of Columbia College, a liberal arts school in the capital of this state South Carolina |
| #8902, aired 2023-06-27 | COUNTRY, PLEASE $400: The musical genre K-pop South Korea |
| #8902, aired 2023-06-27 | STARTS WITH "Z" $400: At roughly 10 million, it's the largest ethnic group in South Africa Zulu |
| #8901, aired 2023-06-26 | UNITED KINGDOM ELECTION CONSTITUENCIES $800: Covering all its directional bases, this capital of Northern Ireland has constituencies North, South, East & West Belfast |
| #8901, aired 2023-06-26 | WAR OF THE WORDS $2000: In 1976, Mario Vargas Llosa gave this other 3-named South American Nobelist a literal black eye Gabriel García Márquez |
| #8899, aired 2023-06-22 | LET'S "T" UP THE MAP $400: This city in northwestern Baja California is about 15 miles south of San Diego Tijuana |
| #8899, aired 2023-06-22 | LET'S "T" UP THE MAP $800: East of Vietnam & an arm of the South China Sea, this gulf was the site of an international incident in 1964 Tonkin |
| #8897, aired 2023-06-20 | LOVE ISLAND U.K. $800: "Remain!" In 2013 people in this South Atlantic territory were nearly unanimous in their vote to stay under British rule the Falkland Islands |
| #8897, aired 2023-06-20 | LOVE ISLAND U.K. $2,000 (Daily Double): Bligh me! In 1970 the British high commissioner in New Zealand became gov. of this very small, volcanic island in the South Pacific Pitcairn |
| #8896, aired 2023-06-19 | THE ANIMAL KINGDOM $1000: As with flamingos, the scarlet species of this bird of South America gets its color from the crustaceans that it eats an ibis |
| #8895, aired 2023-06-16 | CONTINENTAL GEOGRAPHY $400: Africa's 54 nations are more than any other continent has, with this country the newest South Sudan |
| #8895, aired 2023-06-16 | CONTINENTAL GEOGRAPHY $600: It's the windiest continent & on average, the highest Antarctica |
| #8894, aired 2023-06-15 | AMERICAN CAVES $800: Located in the Black Hills region of this state, Wind Cave National Park boasts 160 miles of explored cave passageways South Dakota |
| #8894, aired 2023-06-15 | "G", LOOK AT THAT $1200: Like its relative the vicuna, this wild camelid of South America has a wool coat used to make high-grade cloth the guanaco |
| #8892, aired 2023-06-13 | 4-LETTER WORLD CITIES $800: This large South American city is nicknamed the "City of Kings" Lima |
| #8892, aired 2023-06-13 | 4-LETTER WORLD CITIES $2000: Fiji's capital, it's home to the University of the South Pacific Suva |
| #8891, aired 2023-06-12 | COLOR MY WORLD $1600: The Orange Free State is a historic region that became a province of this country in 1910 South Africa |
| #8890, aired 2023-06-09 | DIASPORA $400: Like Afro-Brazilians, it was to cultivate this crop that thousands of Indo-Fijians were brought to the South Pacific sugar |
| #8887, aired 2023-06-06 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $2000: Her novel "Kindred" tells of Dana, a young Black woman who is transported from the 1970s back in time to the pre-Civil War South (Octavia E.) Butler |
| #8883, aired 2023-05-31 | THE NATURAL ORDER $200: These animals including the 6-banded South American variety seen here, make up the order Cingulata armadillo |
| #8883, aired 2023-05-31 | FAMOUS SIBLINGS $800: It's the last name of Shawn & Marlon, writers & stars of "Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood" Wayans |
| #8881, aired 2023-05-29 | THE GULF OF MEXICO $6,000 (Daily Double): This 76,000-square-mile peninsula juts up into the Gulf's south end the Yucatan Peninsula |
| #8880, aired 2023-05-26 | THAT'S ADORABLE $200: A new carnivore species was announced in 2013--the olinguito, found in the cloud forest of this South American mountain chain the Andes |
| #8878, aired 2023-05-24 | THANKS A MILLION $200: The Million Dollar Band is the celebrated marching band of this university down South in Tuscaloosa Alabama |
| #20, aired 2023-05-24 | YOU KNOW IT'S NOT THE SAME AS IT WAS $1200: The Democratic National Committee has taken the first presidential primary away from New Hampshire & given it to this state South Carolina |
| #19, aired 2023-05-24 | 3-"SY"LLABLE WORDS $1200: The seat of Onondaga County, it's on the south end of Onondaga lake Syracuse |
| #8877, aired 2023-05-23 | HISTORICAL HODGEPODGE $400: Baa baa, Kara Koyunlu, i.e. these, have you any land? Yes, in 1410 our alliance conquered from Azerbaijan south to Baghdad black sheep |
| #17, aired 2023-05-23 | FOR MASTERS ONLY $1600: He wrote the novel "True Grit" but his funnier books like "The Dog of the South" won him a cult following (Charles) Portis |
| #8876, aired 2023-05-22 | VACATION SPOTS $800: The North & South Kaibab Trails lead down to the Colorado River along the rims of this wonder the Grand Canyon |
| #8876, aired 2023-05-22 | HISTORIC PEOPLE $1200: In 1780, this earl won big against Horatio Gates in South Carolina; we can't talk of what happened about a year later at Yorktown Cornwallis |
| #16, aired 2023-05-22 | CITIES & TOWNS $1200: This seat of Meade County, South Dakota hosts a huge annual motorcycle rally Sturgis |
| #8873, aired 2023-05-17 | Y'KNOW, THE MOVIE WHERE... $400: An animated elderly man's wife dies, his house is literally uprooted & a boy is kidnapped (OK, inadvertently) to South America Up |
| #8873, aired 2023-05-17 | PANTOMIME HORSE $800: The Roaring Forties, Furious Fifties & Screaming Sixties are names for these that occur south of the horse latitudes winds |
| #14, aired 2023-05-17 | BODIES OF WATER $400: An inlet of the Caribbean Sea, this lake is actually a lagoon & considered by some to be South America's largest natural lake Maracaibo |
| #13, aired 2023-05-17 | CITIES OF SOUTH AMERICA $200: The design of this capital city that began construction in the 1950s is said to resemble a bird or an airplane Brasília |
| #13, aired 2023-05-17 | CITIES OF SOUTH AMERICA $400: This judicial capital of Bolivia is named for the country's first constitutionally elected president Sucre |
| #13, aired 2023-05-17 | CITIES OF SOUTH AMERICA $600: Nieuw Nickerie & Nieuw Amsterdam are cities in this country Suriname |
| #13, aired 2023-05-17 | CITIES OF SOUTH AMERICA $800: Most flights to & from the Galapagos Islands stop at or originate in this city, Ecuador's largest Guayaquil |
| #13, aired 2023-05-17 | CITIES OF SOUTH AMERICA $1000: On the Atlantic coast, Maldonado is 70 miles east of this capital city Montevideo |
| #13, aired 2023-05-17 | AUTHORS $2000: Terrorists take hostages at a party in the South America-set novel "Bel Canto" by this woman Patchett |
| #12, aired 2023-05-16 | INTERNATIONAL LIT $1200: For her stand against apartheid, many of her novels, including "Burger's Daughter", were banned in her native South Africa Gordimer |
| #11, aired 2023-05-16 | CURRENT U.S. GOVERNORS $1000: In 1990 she promoted the state of South Dakota as its reigning Snow Queen; today she promotes the state as governor Noem |
| #11, aired 2023-05-16 | WOMEN IN HISTORY $1200: Known for her extreme piety & care of Peru's needy, she was the first woman of South America to be declared a saint Rose of Lima |
| #10, aired 2023-05-15 | 3-WORD PLACE NAMES $9,200 (Daily Double): A South American cidade & estado both go by this name Rio de Janeiro |
| #9, aired 2023-05-15 | THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE $1000: Located on a river of the same name, it's the South American natural wonder seen here Iguazú Falls |
| #7, aired 2023-05-12 | REVOLT-ING HISTORY $800: After 4 years of negotiations, in 2016 the government of this South American country made a peace deal with FARC rebels Colombia |
| #8869, aired 2023-05-11 | LIONS & TIGERS & BEERS $200: Punning on a word for a group of lions, South Africa's Lion Lager called itself the this "of beers" pride |
| #8869, aired 2023-05-11 | ASIAN GEOGRAPHY $400: The city of Daejeon is known as "South Korea's" this high-tech area near San Francisco Silicon Valley |
| #8869, aired 2023-05-11 | ASIAN GEOGRAPHY $1200: This river flows 2,700 miles from northwest China to the South China Sea & forms part of the border between Thailand & Laos the Mekong |
| #8868, aired 2023-05-10 | CLASSIC MOVIES $600: John Singleton was the first African-American directing Oscar nominee with this film, set in South Central L.A. where he grew up Boyz n the Hood |
| #8868, aired 2023-05-10 | HERE, THERE & EVERYWHERE $1000: A desert by the sea, Punta Gallinas, in this nation is the northernmost point in continental South America Colombia |
| #6, aired 2023-05-10 | U.S. "BURG"S $1000: This South Carolina city was named for a local militia that helped win the Battle of Cowpens in the American Revolution Spartanburg |
| #3, aired 2023-05-09 | COLONIAL AMERICA $400: South Carolina was a top producer of this plant that produces a blue dye; round cakes of it were often used as currency indigo |
| #3, aired 2023-05-09 | THE MAP OF EUROPE $2000: & quiet flows this 3-letter river, mostly south about 1,200 miles to the Sea of Azov the Don |
| #8866, aired 2023-05-08 | THE SOUTH PACIFIC $400: Vaka moana are traditional double-hulled these boats used to travel vast ocean distances catamarans (canoes) |
| #8866, aired 2023-05-08 | THE SOUTH PACIFIC $800: Including Palmerston & Pukapuka, this vast expanse of islands was named after a British captain who visited in 1773 (the) Cook (Islands) |
| #8866, aired 2023-05-08 | THE SOUTH PACIFIC $1200: Including the Loyalty Islands, the island group known as "New" this basically means "New Scotland" New Caledonia |
| #8866, aired 2023-05-08 | THE SOUTH PACIFIC $1600: This double-talk island of the Society Islands is surrounded by coral reefs Bora Bora |
| #8866, aired 2023-05-08 | THE SOUTH PACIFIC $2000: Although this country has more than 300 islands, about 70% of the population lives on its largest, Viti Levu Fiji |
| #8865, aired 2023-05-05 | THE GREAT AMERICAN BAKING SHOW WITH ELLIE KEMPER $800: (Ellie Kemper presents the clue.) During Pastry Week, we asked our bakers to make a dozen of these south-of-the-border treats made with a choux pastry & filled with a yummy chocolate ganache churros |
| #8862, aired 2023-05-02 | WORLD CITIES $2,000 (Daily Double): Over 10,000 feet in elevation, this South American capital is one of the International Cities of Peace La Paz |
| #8861, aired 2023-05-01 | WORLD OF BELIEF $200: Because capybaras are semi-aquatic, South American Catholics may eat them even during this religious season, like fish Lent |
| #8858, aired 2023-04-26 | THE NEW CAPITAL $800: The urban plan for this post-Rio South American capital was called "Plano Piloto" Brasília |
| #8856, aired 2023-04-24 | AFRICAN GEOGRAPHY $1000: 3 of South Africa's 9 provinces, making up more than half the country's area, are called Eastern, Western & Northern this Cape |
| #8855, aired 2023-04-21 | FOREIGN POLITICAL PARTIES $2,000 (Daily Double): Banned from 1960 to 1990 by the South African government, this party led the fight to destroy apartheid the ANC (the African National Congress) |
| #8854, aired 2023-04-20 | REPTILES $3,200 (Daily Double): A kin of alligators & crocodiles, this Central & South American reptile lends its name to an island group near Jamaica a caiman |
| #8852, aired 2023-04-18 | LET'S GUESS YOUR WAIT $1000: It took Fritz Hollings 36 years to become South Carolina's senior senator, as this man stuck around for a while, living to 100 Strom Thurmond |
| #8851, aired 2023-04-17 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $1600: The 23 provinces of this South American country include Catamarca & Mendoza, home to the highest peak in the hemisphere Argentina |
| #8849, aired 2023-04-13 | THE SCENIC SOUTHWEST $600: Volcanic cinder cones are a feature of the national monument called El Malpais, whose name means this, like a region of South Dakota the Badlands |
| #8849, aired 2023-04-13 | SECRETARIES OF STATE $1,600 (Daily Double): Secretary 1933-1944, Cordell Hull advocated respect for Central & South American nations, a policy known by this friendly nickname the Good Neighbor Policy |
| #8848, aired 2023-04-12 | THIS LAND IS "UR" LAND $1200: It borders Brazil & the South Atlantic Uruguay |
| #8845, aired 2023-04-07 | NORWAY IS FAMOUS FOR... $1000: Being the home of this explorer who led the first expedition to reach the South Pole Amundsen |
| #8843, aired 2023-04-05 | TV EATS $600: During a "Terrance & Phillip" commercial break, this "South Park" kid shows up in a Cheesy Poofs ad Eric Cartman |
| #8843, aired 2023-04-05 | SCRAMBLED STATE CAPITALS $1000: Down south:
ASHES ATE ALL Tallahassee |
| #8839, aired 2023-03-30 | WORLD PLACE NAMES $800: He named the Bounty Islands of the South Pacific after his ship Bligh |
| #8838, aired 2023-03-29 | TREE-NAMED PLACES $1600: Seen here, this South Carolina resort sounds like it has 2 trees in its name Myrtle Beach |
| #8837, aired 2023-03-28 | GEOMETRICAL GEOGRAPHY $800: This not-quite-round 17-acre park area is just south of the White House the Ellipse |
| #8834, aired 2023-03-23 | WITH A SCULPTURE ON TOP $600: The colossal Christ the Redeemer Statue on Mount Corcovado towers over this South American city Rio de Janeiro |
| #8834, aired 2023-03-23 | THE LINCOLN HIGHWAY $800: (Amor Towles presents the clue.) Figuring prominently in my novel is a 1948 Studebaker Land Cruiser, a car manufactured in this Lincoln Highway Indiana city, which is also home to students attending Notre Dame South Bend |
| #8833, aired 2023-03-22 | RESILIENCE $400: For this material brought from South Amer. in the 1700s, resilience is the quality of returning to its former shape after deformation rubber |
| #8833, aired 2023-03-22 | APPLY THE RAINBOW COLOR $1,500 (Daily Double): The highest point in South Carolina, the 3,560-foot Sassafras Mountain is part of this Appalachian range the Blue Ridge Mountains |
| #8828, aired 2023-03-15 | THE MORNING AFTER $1,500 (Daily Double): An October 9, 1871 headline declared this city was "utterly destroyed... both North and South Sides smoking ruins" Chicago |
| #8827, aired 2023-03-14 | "B" IN GEOGRAPHY $800: This country finds itself in the middle of things, with a northern border with Russia & on its south, Ukraine Belarus |
| #8826, aired 2023-03-13 | GOVERNORS $800: The daughter of Indian immigrants, Clemson graduate Nikki Haley was this state's first female governor South Carolina |
| #8823, aired 2023-03-08 | WE ARE PRO-ANTONYMS $200: "I'm stuck like a dope with a thing called hope" in the "South Pacific" song about a cockeyed pessimist optimist |
| #8822, aired 2023-03-07 | COLLEGE TALK $1600: Positioning relative to compass points; north-south is one type orientation |
| #8821, aired 2023-03-06 | HISTORY $200: At Caracas in 1811 he said, "Let us lay the cornerstone of South American freedom without fear" Simón Bolívar |
| #8821, aired 2023-03-06 | THE TECH BEAT $800: In 2019 South Korea was the first country to adopt this in its mobile network, logically a 25% improvement 5G |
| #8821, aired 2023-03-06 | SEA HERE $1600: It's bounded by historic Thrace to the north & Crete to the south the Aegean Sea |
| #8820, aired 2023-03-03 | COLORS OF THE RAINBOW $800: Near Newark are communities known as East, South & West this Orange |
| #8817, aired 2023-02-28 | SOUTH AMERICANA $400: The Cuzco School was a group of multiethnic artists centered in what's now this country Peru |
| #8817, aired 2023-02-28 | SOUTH AMERICANA $800: Seen here, the ñanduti style of this 4-letter fabric is a treasured construct of Paraguayan crafters lace |
| #8817, aired 2023-02-28 | SOUTH AMERICANA $1200: "Yo soy Betty, la fea", the progenitor of "Ugly Betty", was one of these soap operas in Colombia a telenovela |
| #8817, aired 2023-02-28 | SOUTH AMERICANA $1600: A folk hero of Argentina is this nomadic cowboy of the grasslands of the Pampas a gaucho |
| #8817, aired 2023-02-28 | SOUTH AMERICANA $2,000 (Daily Double): Isabel Allende "casts a spell" with this 2-word writing style in which myth & fantasy are key elements magic realism |
| #8817, aired 2023-02-28 | GET "SET" $2000: The babies of this primate from the forests of South America are usually born as twins a marmoset |
| #8816, aired 2023-02-27 | NONPOTENT POTABLES $1000: Meaning "red bush", this caffeine-free South African tea has surged in popularity in recent years rooibos tea |
| #8815, aired 2023-02-24 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $3,800 (Daily Double): This desert that's rich in wildlife covers parts of Botswana, Namibia & South Africa the Kalahari |
| #8812, aired 2023-02-21 | THE REST OF THE WORLD IN 2018 & '19 $600: Hopes of peace were raised when North Korean leader Kim Jong-un entered this buffer area to meet with South Korean Pres. Moon the DMZ |
| #8812, aired 2023-02-21 | TRIOS $2000: "The Immortal Trio" of 19th c. politics were Henry Clay, Daniel Webster & this South Carolinian big on states' rights Calhoun |
| #8811, aired 2023-02-20 | BODIES OF WATER $600: You'll find the United Arab Emirates at the south end of this body of water the Persian Gulf |
| #8811, aired 2023-02-20 | LET'S TAKE A SPRING BREAK $800: Spring break is major party time on the beaches of SPI, this Texas spot South Padre Island |
| #8811, aired 2023-02-20 | NATIONAL ANTHEMS $1200: This country's anthem contains lyrics in its 5 most widely spoken languages, including Xhosa, Zulu & English South Africa |
| #8808, aired 2023-02-15 | ACC SCHOOL HISTORY $200: Its website says it opened in 1864 in the South End to educate its city's "predominantly Irish, Catholic immigrant community" Boston College |
| #8808, aired 2023-02-15 | ACC SCHOOL HISTORY $800: The founder of this university willed his South Carolina home & 814 acres to start an agricultural college Clemson |
| #8808, aired 2023-02-15 | LANDMARKS $800: Some 275 separate waterfalls form this spectacular South American landmark whose name means "great water" Iguazú Falls |
| #8808, aired 2023-02-15 | LOVE $4,000 (Daily Double): This Gabriel Garcia Marquez novel takes place in South America amid the outbreak of disease Love in the Time of Cholera |
| #8807, aired 2023-02-14 | STATE TREES $400: Visit this state to see its Black Hills spruce South Dakota |
| #8804, aired 2023-02-09 | MUSIC FOR SHARKS $200: This kids' song by South Korea's educational outfit Pinkfong became an international sensation "Baby Shark" |
| #8804, aired 2023-02-09 | SOUTH AMERICAN GEOGRAPHY $200: This country's Urubamba River Valley is better known as the Sacred Valley of the Incas Peru |
| #8804, aired 2023-02-09 | SOUTH AMERICAN GEOGRAPHY $400: The name of this, the continent's highest peak, may come from Ackon Cahuak, Quechua for "sentinel of stone" Aconcagua |
| #8804, aired 2023-02-09 | SOUTH AMERICAN GEOGRAPHY $600: You get an "A" for identifying this long desert that lies between the Andes & the Pacific the Atacama |
| #8804, aired 2023-02-09 | SOUTH AMERICAN GEOGRAPHY $800: These flat grasslands cover almost 300,000 square miles of Argentina the Pampas |
| #8804, aired 2023-02-09 | SOUTH AMERICAN GEOGRAPHY $1000: It's Guyana's smaller immediate neighbor to the east Suriname |
| #8804, aired 2023-02-09 | YOU'RE ON THE WORLD MONEY $1600: South Africa's banknotes have Nelson Mandela on the front & are in this currency rand |
| #8803, aired 2023-02-08 | THE "C" SHORE $800: Those basking on this lake's shore 25 miles north of Milan enjoy the Tivano wind from the north & the Breva from the south Lake Como |
| #8801, aired 2023-02-06 | MONTHS THAT START WITH FEB $400: February 1990:
In South Africa, the 30-year ban on this political party is lifted by president F.W. de Klerk the ANC |
| #8801, aired 2023-02-06 | DOCTOR WHO $1000: WHO South-East Asia Director Poonam Khetrapal Singh aims to eradicate NTDs, neglected these diseases of warm latitudes tropical diseases |
| #8800, aired 2023-02-03 | JUICE BAR $1000: The berries & juice of this Central & South American palm are touted as a superfood açaí |
| #13, aired 2023-02-02 | IT'S ALSO A GREEK LETTER $600: This letter got some bad publicity when it became a COVID variant first detected in South Africa in 2021 omicron |
| #8796, aired 2023-01-30 | SAINTS & THEIR CITIES $1600: Canonized in 1671, the first saint of South America, Rose of this city Lima |
| #8795, aired 2023-01-27 | GEOGRAPHY $800: This "national" sea is separated from the East China Sea on the south by the Tsushima & Korea Straits the Sea of Japan |
| #8795, aired 2023-01-27 | GEOGRAPHY $1600: This South American nation, whose name means "land of waters", was visited by Walter Raleigh in 1595, looking for El Dorado Guyana |
| #12, aired 2023-01-26 | IT GROWS ON TREES $1500: As seen here, this invasive, fast-growing vine brought from Asia to the U.S. has overtaken trees in the South kudzu |
| #8793, aired 2023-01-25 | HOW DO I GET THERE? $200: This venue that opened in 1891:
Go south on 5th past Central Park, hook a right onto 57th, hit 7th & also practice, practice, practice Carnegie Hall |
| #8793, aired 2023-01-25 | 3-LETTER RESPONSES $600: This federal agency has its headquarters in Atlanta largely because the South was once the epicenter of malaria outbreaks the CDC |
| #8793, aired 2023-01-25 | HOW DO I GET THERE? $1000: This nation:
Head south out of Estonia & you're there, but if you keep going & head into Lithuania, you've gone too far Latvia |
| #8790, aired 2023-01-20 | SOUND $600: The Neuse & Tar Rivers drain the central part of this state & flow into Pamlico Sound North Carolina |
| #8788, aired 2023-01-18 | THE 1890s $400: Moving up from Mexico, this pest invaded U.S. cotton fields, devastating crops throughout the south the boll weevil |
| #8788, aired 2023-01-18 | KNOW YOUR BOUNDARIES $1200: Often cited as the southernmost point of South America, this rocky headland marks the northern boundary of the Drake Passage Cape Horn |
| #8787, aired 2023-01-17 | A LITTLE WORLD HISTORY $1600: In what's known as the South Sea this of 1720, stock in a British company skyrocketed, then crashed, "bursting" investors' hopes a bubble |
| #8786, aired 2023-01-16 | CIRCLES, SQUARES & DODECAHEDRONS $1000: Found at 66 1/2 degrees south latitude, it's one of the 5 major geographic circles of the Earth the Antarctic Circle |
| #10, aired 2023-01-12 | THEY CAME TO AMERICA $600: Monarch butterflies go south to the state of Michoacán in this country & many michoacanos have come north to the United States Mexico |
| #8783, aired 2023-01-11 | THE EX-STATE CAPITAL $800: Let's not dance around things; the Dock Street Theatre is in this city that became South Carolina's ex-capital in 1786 Charleston |
| #8781, aired 2023-01-09 | WHITES & COLORS $200: There are 2 symbols on this state's blue flag: a white crescent & a white palmetto tree South Carolina |
| #8780, aired 2023-01-06 | LETTER PERFECT $800: Chicago's rapid transit system; the South Side section opened in 1892 the L |
| #9, aired 2023-01-05 | VIRGINNY & GEORGIA $400: Norfolk, Virginia is on the south end of this long bay that lies between Virginia & Maryland Chesapeake |
| #8777, aired 2023-01-03 | THE GOOD, OLD, U.S. OF A. $1200: This sizable city a bit south of Seattle has re-created Fort Nisqually, the first British outpost on Puget Sound Tacoma |
| #8773, aired 2022-12-28 | WORLD CAPITALS $3,000 (Daily Double): Of South Africa's 3 capitals, this judicial one is alphabetically first Bloemfontein |
| #8772, aired 2022-12-27 | FLYOVER COUNTRIES $1200: We're next in line for departure; we'll head south out of Ecuador into this nation & finally touch down in Chile Peru |
| #8770, aired 2022-12-23 | AROUND ASIA $400: The plateau of this disputed land is the major source of the rivers of South & East Asia Tibet |
| #8770, aired 2022-12-23 | NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY $400: The Havasupai are the "guardians of" this landmark & live on a reservation below its south rim the Grand Canyon |
| #8769, aired 2022-12-22 | CLIMATE $800: This climate region is defined as being between about 23.5 degrees north & south of the equator the tropics |
| #8768, aired 2022-12-21 | PACIFIC ISLANDS $800: There are about 900 stone figures on this island 2,300 miles off the coast of South America Easter Island |
| #8767, aired 2022-12-20 | SOUTH AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL $400: You can sleep in one of the pods overlooking Peru's Sacred Valley of this historic people, not far from Cusco the Inca |
| #8767, aired 2022-12-20 | SOUTH AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL $800: Paradoxically, this cataract in Venezuela drops 3,200 feet from a plateau called Devils Mountain Angel Falls |
| #8767, aired 2022-12-20 | SOUTH AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL $1200: Light & water conditions cause amazing effects on Colombia's Caño Cristales River, called the "liquid" this 7-letter word rainbow |
| #8767, aired 2022-12-20 | SOUTH AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL $1600: A volcano rising nearly 20,000 feet & with a nearly symmetrical cone, Cotopaxi is just outside this capital of Ecuador Quito |
| #8767, aired 2022-12-20 | SOUTH AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL $2000: Check out the gorgeous Bernardo O'Higgins National Park, the largest park in this nation & home to nearly 50 glaciers Chile |
| #8766, aired 2022-12-19 | BIRDS ARE REAL $600: Sharing its name with a pro baseball team, this orange & black bird with a 2-word name can also range down to South America a Baltimore Oriole |
| #8765, aired 2022-12-16 | THAT'S A BIG ANIMAL $800: Before the arrival of big cats over a new isthmus, flightless 10-foot terror birds were the apex predators of this continent South America |
| #8764, aired 2022-12-15 | DUTCH TREAT $400: The 12 provinces of the Netherlands include this southwest one that lends its name to a "New" nation of the South Pacific Zeeland |
| #8762, aired 2022-12-13 | FOOD AS YOU MIGHT SAY IT $800: A hero in the south: Destitute lad a po' boy |
| #8761, aired 2022-12-12 | "Y-U" $1600: Its neighbors include Alaska to the west & British Columbia to the south the Yukon |
| #8761, aired 2022-12-12 | LOW DOWN $2000: In Scotland, the Lowlands can refer to the valley lying in the basins between the River Forth & this other river to the south the Clyde |
| #8761, aired 2022-12-12 | CHICAGO TV $2000: "The Chi" about kids & adults on the South Side, was created by this actress, seen with castmate Alex Hibbert Lena Waithe |
| #8760, aired 2022-12-09 | PLACES NAMED FOR PEOPLE $600: It didn't work out for this king with the American Revolution, but they named a town & nearby peak for him in South Africa George III |
| #8760, aired 2022-12-09 | STATE POSTAL ABBREVIATION WORDS $1200: A mark left on the skin after a wound has healed South Carolina & Arkansas |
| #8758, aired 2022-12-07 | FAMOUS SOUTH AMERICANS $400: Seen here, this Brazilian-born woman says she launched the Luz Foundation to bring light into the world (Gisele) Bündchen |
| #8758, aired 2022-12-07 | FAMOUS SOUTH AMERICANS $800: Ernesto was the real first name of this revolutionary leader; his famous nickname is an Argentinean interjection Guevara |
| #8758, aired 2022-12-07 | FAMOUS SOUTH AMERICANS $1200: Colombian author Gabriel Garcia Marquez was a founder of this "fantastic" literary genre magical realism |
| #8758, aired 2022-12-07 | FAMOUS SOUTH AMERICANS $1600: As the fifth man in this job, Javier Perez de Cuellar of Peru helped end wars & helped get the Soviets out of Afghanistan the Secretary-General of the United Nations |
| #8758, aired 2022-12-07 | FAMOUS SOUTH AMERICANS $2000: The documentary "The Judge & the General" is about Juan Guzman, who investigated this Chilean dictator & in 2000 indicted him Pinochet |
| #8757, aired 2022-12-06 | THE SURPRISINGLY SUCCESSFUL LEAGUE OF NATIONS $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1925 the League headed off a Balkan war between Bulgaria & this neighbor to the south Greece |
| #8757, aired 2022-12-06 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $1200: The Kuril Islands extend south from Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula to this nation that claims some of them Japan |
| #8755, aired 2022-12-02 | AFRICAN LAKES & RIVERS $1000: This "colorful" river forms the southwestern boundary of South Africa's Free State province the Orange |
| #8753, aired 2022-11-30 | OUR DIVIDED NATION $600: Designed by Golden Gate Bridge builder Joseph Strauss, Burnside Bridge, over the Willamette, divides this city's north from south Portland |
| #8753, aired 2022-11-30 | A GIANT CATEGORY $800: Giant's Castle is a peak in the Drakensberg Mountains of this country's KwaZulu-Natal province South Africa |
| #8750, aired 2022-11-25 | 2-WORD BOOK TITLES $2000: Alliterative title of Richard Wright's book about racism & intellectual awakening in the segregated South Black Boy |
| #8749, aired 2022-11-24 | IT'S A THANKSGIVING MIRACLE! $1000: We somehow avoided politics, except dad ranting about this president; we get it, dad, he blew it letting South Carolina secede Buchanan |
| #8749, aired 2022-11-24 | SIMPLY GORGES $1200: The Carnarvon Gorge northwest of Brisbane in this state right above New South Wales is a great place to see Aboriginal art Queensland |
| #8749, aired 2022-11-24 | TAKE THE FIFTH $2000: In 1980 South Korea's president Chun Doo-hwan ushered in this; France did the same with its government back in 1958 the Fifth Republic |
| #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 |
| #8747, aired 2022-11-22 | BUILDINGS $400: The Lotte World Tower in the South has taken over from the Ryugyong Hotel in the North as this peninsula's tallest building Korea |
| #8747, aired 2022-11-22 | STORIES OF THE SOUTH $400: In "The Night the Lights Went Out" by Karen White, Merilee Dunlap fittingly moves to Sweet Apple in this state Georgia |
| #8747, aired 2022-11-22 | STORIES OF THE SOUTH $800: Fannie Flagg wrote of Idgie & Ruth, who ran the Whistle Stop Cafe, known for this "colorful" title fare fried green tomatoes |
| #8747, aired 2022-11-22 | SOCCER'S WORLD CUP IN THE 21st CENTURY $800: 2010 saw South Africa become the first host from its continent & the world's introduction to this ubiquitous noisemaker the vuvuzela |
| #8747, aired 2022-11-22 | STORIES OF THE SOUTH $1200: After graduating from Ole Miss in this Kathryn Stockett novel, Skeeter can't find her former maid & nanny The Help |
| #8747, aired 2022-11-22 | STORIES OF THE SOUTH $1600: "Black Thunder" is about one of these events in 1800 planned by Gabriel Prosser, with the goal of seizing Richmond a slave uprising |
| #8747, aired 2022-11-22 | VOCABULARY WORDS $2000: Related to the guinea pig, the rock this is found in South America the rock cavy |
| #8747, aired 2022-11-22 | STORIES OF THE SOUTH $2000: In Rebecca Wells' tale of this "Sisterhood", Siddalee Walker returns to uncover some "Divine Secrets" Ya-Ya |
| #8746, aired 2022-11-21 | BODIES OF WATER $2,000 (Daily Double): The Komandorski Islands are part of a 1,200-mile arc separating this sea from the Pacific Ocean to the south the Bering Sea |
| #8744, aired 2022-11-17 | NATIVE AMERICAN PLACE NAMES IN THE U.S. $400: This island seen here is about 30 miles south of Cape Cod Nantucket |
| #8744, aired 2022-11-17 | MISCELLANY $1200: The leaves of this plant native to South America are the source of the same-named sugar substitute stevia |
| #8743, aired 2022-11-16 | AMERICAN HISTORY $200: This fort, built to protect Charleston, South Carolina, saw the first fatality of the Civil War Fort Sumter |
| #8743, aired 2022-11-16 | AMERICAN HISTORY $600: Named for a U.S. minister to Mexico, this 1850s purchase gave the U.S. an additional strip of land south of the Gila River the Gadsden Purchase |
| #8743, aired 2022-11-16 | COLD AROUND THE GLOBE $800: South of Fez is the town of Ifrane, dubbed the Switzerland of this country Morocco |
| #8741, aired 2022-11-14 | THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE $600: This geographical line runs around the globe at approximately 23 degrees 27 minutes south latitude the Tropic of Capricorn |
| #8, aired 2022-11-13 | HISTORIC SHIPS $600: The HMS Beagle took this scientist on an 1830s voyage to South America, where the sites influenced his theories of evolution Darwin |
| #8739, aired 2022-11-10 | ALL OVER THE MAP $200: Keep up... Northville is west of downtown this Michigan city; Southfield is north, & "South" this, as sung by Journey, doesn't really exist Detroit |
| #8738, aired 2022-11-09 | TRAVEL $200: Stamps in your passport of this entry endorsement are a thing of the past on visits to many countries, like South Korea a visa |
| #8738, aired 2022-11-09 | RIVER RUN $1600: Good Catholics know South Bend, Indiana is named for a curvature of this river the St. Joseph |
| #7, aired 2022-11-06 | FIRE ISLAND $300: Playing all the hits of 2020, it's hot 102.7 in Veguitas in this Caribbean country about 90 miles south of Florida Cuba |
| #8735, aired 2022-11-04 | SOUTH AMERICA $200: This name for a huge flat region of plains in Argentina is also used for a stretch of desert in Chile Pampas |
| #8735, aired 2022-11-04 | GIVE US SOME DIRECTION $200: Initiated by the founder of the Joseon Dynasty, here is the beautiful Gyeongbokgung Palace in this nation South Korea |
| #8735, aired 2022-11-04 | SOUTH AMERICA $400: In March 1736 Charles-Marie de la Condamine landed in what's now this country to determine the Earth's shape & circumference Ecuador |
| #8735, aired 2022-11-04 | SOUTH AMERICA $600: This huge body of water by Venezuela's northwest coast is called an estuarine lake, as it mingles with the Caribbean Lake Maracaibo |
| #8735, aired 2022-11-04 | SOUTH AMERICA $800: Nieuw Nickerie & Lelydorp are among the largest cities in this country Suriname |
| #8735, aired 2022-11-04 | SOUTH AMERICA $1000: Thousands of years old, large geoglyphs representing plants & animals can be seen 15 miles northwest of this Peruvian city Nazca |
| #8733, aired 2022-11-02 | THE LAW $600: If "The Graduate" were set in South Australia, Ben could have gotten 2 years or a $10,000 fine for interrupting this type of event a wedding |
| #6, aired 2022-10-30 | DIRECTIONAL GEOGRAPHY IN AMERICA $300: Visit Pineapple Fountain & Fort Sumter when you go to Charleston, which, no, is not the capital of this "Original 13" state South Carolina |
| #6, aired 2022-10-30 | GOING GREEN $400: Seen here, Mahershala Ali won a 2018 Supporting Actor Oscar for this film in which he played a musician touring the South The Green Book |
| #6, aired 2022-10-30 | DIRECTIONAL GEOGRAPHY IN AMERICA $600: Enjoy Capitol Street & Capitol Market in Charleston, which, yes, is the capital of this state that was admitted in 1863 West Virginia |
| #6, aired 2022-10-30 | WORLD CAPITAL ATTRACTIONS $600: Grab a tasty soondae & score some K-pop music in the Myeongdong District of this South Korean capital Seoul |
| #8729, aired 2022-10-27 | LEARNED LEAGUES $1600: Contestants in LearnedLeague, a web-based trivia game, are called these South American animals llamas |
| #8727, aired 2022-10-25 | WOMEN ON THE MAP $1000: This capital of South Australia was named for the wife of Britain's King William IV Adelaide |
| #5, aired 2022-10-23 | WHOSE LINE IS IT ANYWAY? $500: This South African leader:
"The greatest glory of living lies not in never falling but in rising every time you fall" Mandela |
| #8724, aired 2022-10-20 | SOUTHERN CITIES $1000: In 2022 this South Carolina city topped Southern Living's list of the South's best cities for the fifth time Charleston |
| #8724, aired 2022-10-20 | IT HAS A NAME $2000: A calotte is a skullcap & also means the circles used for the north & south poles on these globes |
| #8721, aired 2022-10-17 | WORLD FACTS $600: France's overseas possessions include this one in South America once known for its penal colonies like Devil's Island French Guiana |
| #4, aired 2022-10-16 | FAMOUS NAMES ON THE MAP $800: An 18th century British captain gave his name to these South Pacific islands, now a popular tourist destination the Cook Islands |
| #8720, aired 2022-10-14 | "P"OTPOURRI $1600: This state capital has a population of just 14,000 Pierre |
| #8719, aired 2022-10-13 | THE AUTOMOTIVE WORLD $800: The Pony was a 1976 model from this South Korean carmaker Hyundai |
| #8714, aired 2022-10-06 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $600: In "The Warmth of Other Suns", Isabel Wilkerson tells of the "Great" this, an Exodus of African Americans from the South to the North Migration |
| #8711, aired 2022-10-03 | GEOGRAPHY $1200: Indenting New South Wales, Botany Bay is an inlet of this sea the Tasman Sea |
| #2, aired 2022-10-02 | "GO" INTO THE DICTIONARY $900: Music for this South American ballroom favorite is heard the tango |
| #8709, aired 2022-09-29 | THE EX-COUNTRY $600: Gran this was a South American republic from 1819 to 1830 whose land included the rough area of 4 present-day nations Gran Colombia |
| #8709, aired 2022-09-29 | U.S. COUNTIES $1600: Longfellow fans in the legislature gave South Dakota's most populous county this name of a "dark-eyed daughter" Minnehaha |
| #8708, aired 2022-09-28 | AND THE STATE GOES TO... $1600: Mississippi & South Carolina, 1952 Adlai Stevenson |
| #8706, aired 2022-09-26 | COUNTRY MEN & WOMEN $800: Elon Musk &
Miriam Makeba South Africa |
| #8706, aired 2022-09-26 | MOUNTAIN WORLD $1200: 3,500-foot Table Mountain overlooks this South African city of more than 4 million people Cape Town |
| #1, aired 2022-09-25 | BOOKS BY FUNNY PEOPLE $300: He wrote about growing up in South Africa in "Born a Crime" Trevor Noah |
| #1, aired 2022-09-25 | THE WILD WEST $400: Deadwood is in South Dakota; this other fatal-sounding town notorious for Old West gunfights is in Arizona Tombstone |
| #8705, aired 2022-09-23 | IT'S ONLY "A" COUNTRY $3,000 (Daily Double): The Tropic of Capricorn passes through this Indian Ocean island nation about 300 mi. south of the capital, Antananarivo Madagascar |
| #8704, aired 2022-09-22 | FARMING $200: The hard red spring type of this is a specialty of North Dakota; further south in Kansas is where they grow the hard red winter type wheat |
| #8703, aired 2022-09-21 | PEOPLE & PLACES $2000: King Goodwill Zwelithini, who passed away in 2021, led this Bantu-speaking people of South Africa for 50 years the Zulu |
| #8700, aired 2022-09-16 | EXPLORERS $800: Pedro Cabral was on his way to India when he somehow landed on the coast of South America & claimed this country for Portugal Brazil |
| #8699, aired 2022-09-15 | ISLE, 5 $800: The remote Isle Royale, just south of the U.S.-Canada border, is a national park in this Great Lake (Lake) Superior |
| #8698, aired 2022-09-14 | AFRICA $1200: Get out of the Land Rover in Zambia's South Luangwa National Park, called the birthplace of the "walking" this tour safari |
| #8694, aired 2022-07-28 | A FASHIONABLE CATEGORY $200: These wide-legged pants resemble those worn by South American cowboys, hence their name gaucho pants |
| #8692, aired 2022-07-26 | MOUNTAINS $400: They extend over 4,000 miles from Venezuela to South America's southern tip the Andes |
| #8689, aired 2022-07-21 | THE OLD WEST $600: Before becoming sheriff of this South Dakota town, Seth Bullock opened a hardware store there with partner Sol Star Deadwood |
| #8687, aired 2022-07-19 | HYBRID ANIMAL PARENTS $1000: Of the Huarizo, these 2 domesticated South American camelids a llama & an alpaca |
| #8687, aired 2022-07-19 | 20th CENTURY AMERICA $1000: In 1960 4 students in Greensboro, N.C. staged a sit-in at this store's whites-only lunch counter, sparking other sit-ins in the South Woolworth's |
| #8687, aired 2022-07-19 | INTERNATIONAL NATIONAL PARKS $2000: This country's parks include Bontebok, a reserve for the rare bontebok antelope, as well as Kruger & Agulhas South Africa |
| #8686, aired 2022-07-18 | FEELIN' INDEPENDENT $400: This Asian country, not yet divided into North & South:
From France, 1945 Vietnam |
| #8686, aired 2022-07-18 | ACTING UP ON TV $600: An Oscar winner as the outspoken Erin Brockovich, in 2022 she was "Gaslit" on TV as "Mouth of the South" Martha Mitchell Julia Roberts |
| #8685, aired 2022-07-15 | WORLD OF OPERA $1200: This composer set "Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg" in a city south of his birthplace, Leipzig Wagner |
| #8683, aired 2022-07-13 | ANTARCTICA $400: Antarctica is circular except for a peninsula that stretches toward this continent & gets within 600 miles South America |
| #8683, aired 2022-07-13 | ANTARCTICA $1200: Arriving in December 1911, this Norwegian's expedition won the race to be the first to reach the South Pole Amundsen |
| #8681, aired 2022-07-11 | LICENSE PLATE MOTTOS $1,000 (Daily Double): "Great Faces,
Great Places" South Dakota |
| #8677, aired 2022-07-05 | THE III $200: "South Park" star/ writer/producer/ director/creator Randolph Severn Parker III keeps it simple & goes by this first name Trey |
| #8676, aired 2022-07-04 | BYE, GEORGE $600: This governor who led the South's fight against integration died in Montgomery in 1998 George Wallace |
| #8672, aired 2022-06-28 | 12-LETTER WORDS $800: It was a scornful term for a Northerner who went to the South after the Civil War to profit from Reconstruction carpetbagger |
| #8671, aired 2022-06-27 | SUMMER'S HERE $200: It's a festive Fourth of July in South Carolina, where consumer-grade these are legal to use if you're over 16 fireworks |
| #8663, aired 2022-06-15 | ON THE MAP OF AFRICA $1200: The Limpopo River between South Africa & Botswana is also known as this river, after a large predator (the) Crocodile (River) |
| #8662, aired 2022-06-14 | ISLES OF THE BRITISH ISLES $1200: In 1897 this guy experimented & sent a radio transmission from the Isle of Wight off the south coast of England Marconi |
| #8661, aired 2022-06-13 | FINANCE BROS $400: Anderson Brothers Bank was founded in 1933 in the depths of this to give desperately needed support to South Carolina farmers the Great Depression |
| #8660, aired 2022-06-10 | WHERE AM I? $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents the clue.) I’m here on board the fire boat John S. Damrell helping protect this city’s harbor south of Winthrop & north of Quincy Boston |
| #8659, aired 2022-06-09 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $1200: In 1830 German composer Felix Mendelssohn traveled south & found inspiration for this "national" symphony the Italian Symphony |
| #8658, aired 2022-06-08 | AROUND THE WORLD $400: You don't have to go to Antarctica; Boulders Beach in South Africa has the African type of this flightless bird, with pink "eyebrows" penguins |
| #8657, aired 2022-06-07 | HISTORIC NAMES $800: This liberator's birthday, July 24th, is celebrated by many in South America Bolívar |
| #8656, aired 2022-06-06 | ON THE COAST $1000: Incheon, on South Korea's West Coast, is a port on this sea north of the East China Sea the Yellow Sea |
| #8653, aired 2022-06-01 | PICTURE THE NOVEL $800: Lowry goes low, south of the border Under the Volcano |
| #8651, aired 2022-05-30 | TV THEME SONGS $800: Chicago artist Sasha Go Hard singing, "I was born on" this "Side, I was raised on" this "Side" is the theme to an HBO Max show South Side |
| #8650, aired 2022-05-27 | EUROPE $1600: This Italian name for a major city in the south of the country is in the lyrics of "That's Amore" Napoli |
| #8649, aired 2022-05-26 | SNEAKERS WITH JACQUES SLADE $1000: (Jacques Slade presents the clue.) Needing a brand name after learning that his intended choice of Mercury was taken, this company's founder scrolled through a dictionary & landed on a word for a South African antelope Reebok |
| #8648, aired 2022-05-25 | FUN WITH U.S. CITY FLAGS $600: After a less-than-stellar review of its previous flag, Rapid City, South Dakota put this landmark front & center Mount Rushmore |
| #8648, aired 2022-05-25 | MOVIE SUPERVILLAINS $600: "Kneel before" this general! In a 1980 film, he finally gets his wish that Superman does so, but things go south real fast (General) Zod |
| #8648, aired 2022-05-25 | FUN WITH U.S. CITY FLAGS $1000: The unofficial flag of this very south Florida city bears the words "Conch Republic", a nation/state of mind set up in the area in 1982 Key West |
| #8646, aired 2022-05-23 | IT'S AN "AD", "AD", "AD", "AD" WORLD $400: The name of this national park in South Dakota tells you its rough terrain is almost devoid of vegetation the Badlands |
| #8646, aired 2022-05-23 | IT'S AN "AD", "AD", "AD", "AD" WORLD $2000: This South Australian city lies at the base of the Mount Lofty Ranges Adelaide |
| #8645, aired 2022-05-20 | SOUTH AMERICAN CITIES $200: This capital's name comes from its original Spanish settlement, Santa Fé de Bacatá Bogotá |
| #8645, aired 2022-05-20 | SOUTH AMERICAN CITIES $400: The narrow streets of Cusco are still lined with mortarless stone walls built by these people the Inca |
| #8645, aired 2022-05-20 | SOUTH AMERICAN CITIES $800: This judicial capital of Bolivia is named for a former president of that country Sucre |
| #8645, aired 2022-05-20 | SOUTH AMERICAN CITIES $1000: The Chilean city of Calama is in this desert the Atacama |
| #8645, aired 2022-05-20 | SOUTH AMERICAN CITIES $1,600 (Daily Double): La Plata & Mar del Plata are cities in this country Argentina |
| #8643, aired 2022-05-18 | MUSEUMS FOR FOODIES $600: Named one of the world's healthiest foods, this fermented cabbage dish has its own museum in Seoul, South Korea kimchi |
| #8641, aired 2022-05-16 | THAT'S OUR ISLAND $400: Robben Island,
Duiker Island South Africa |
| #8640, aired 2022-05-13 | HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $800: Since 1901 Boston's St. Patrick's Day Parade has been held in this directional & historically Irish part of town South Boston |
| #8638, aired 2022-05-11 | FROM QUEENS $800: This rapper was born Curtis Jackson III in South Jamaica, Queens (but known as Boo-Boo as a child) 50 Cent |
| #8636, aired 2022-05-09 | ALL ABOUT AMPHIBIANS $400: Seen here, a small frog of South America, is named for this man who discovered the species on an 1830s voyage (Charles) Darwin |
| #8636, aired 2022-05-09 | PREPOSITIONAL LITERATURE $800: African-American detective Virgil Tibbs must solve a murder in the Deep South in this John Ball novel from 1965 In the Heat of the Night |
| #8633, aired 2022-05-04 | AFRICA $1200: Go due south from Lisbon & this is the first African country you'll reach Morocco |
| #8631, aired 2022-05-02 | FAMOUS NAMES $400: Oliver Tambo was instrumental in the fight against apartheid as president of South Africa's ANC, short for this African National Congress |
| #8631, aired 2022-05-02 | MIAMI NEWS CLUES $600: (I'm Jenise Fernandez.) Hitting South Florida in 1992 with 165-mile-per-hour winds, destroying around 25,000 homes, taking 44 lives, & causing more than $25 billion in damage, it made news as the then most expensive Atlantic hurricane in history Hurricane Andrew |
| #8631, aired 2022-05-02 | CONGRESS IN THE 19th CENTURY $800: In 1820 the North & South came to a compromise that enabled this to become our 24th state Missouri |
| #8631, aired 2022-05-02 | CONGRESS IN THE 19th CENTURY $2000: Latin for "force of the county", these 2 words titled an 1878 act that prevented the use of the army to enforce law in the South posse comitatus |
| #8630, aired 2022-04-29 | STATES' MOST POPULOUS CITIES $800: The biggest cities of these 2 "directional" states have the same name West Virginia & South Carolina |
| #8630, aired 2022-04-29 | STATES' MOST POPULOUS CITIES $1000: More than twice as populous as No. 2 Rapid City, this South Dakota city also has a water feature in its name Sioux Falls |
| #8628, aired 2022-04-27 | THE LEAGUE MVP's TEAM $400: LeBron in 2009 & 2010, before taking a trip south the Cleveland Cavaliers |
| #8626, aired 2022-04-25 | OUT IN THE OCEAN $200: Sailors gave the name "Roaring Forties" not to a decade but to a windy region between 40 & 50 degrees south this latitude |
| #8626, aired 2022-04-25 | MANE-SPLAINING $800: Also found in South Australia, the fur seal named for this nation has a thick mane of long guard hairs New Zealand |
| #8625, aired 2022-04-22 | FLAGS OF FORMER COUNTRIES $1600: General Dương Văn Minh was the last president of this former nation, whose flag is seen here South Vietnam |
| #8623, aired 2022-04-20 | THEATRICAL HAPPENINGS $200: In 2021, Shakespeare in the Park was back in this park with "Merry Wives", changing the Bard's setting to South Harlem Central Park |
| #8620, aired 2022-04-15 | YOUR TV HOST WITH THE MOST $200: This "Daily Show" host acted on a South African soap opera called "Isidingo" when he was 18 Trevor Noah |
| #8613, aired 2022-04-06 | THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN $1000: To climb the 7 Summits, you need to climb this South American one that begins & ends with the same letter Aconcagua |
| #8613, aired 2022-04-06 | TOMBSTONES $1000: South Georgia Island off Antarctica is home to the gravestone of this man who explored the region in his ship the Endurance (Ernest) Shackleton |
| #8612, aired 2022-04-05 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $800: Located off the southern tip of South America, Cape Horn is found in this "blazing" archipelago Tierra del Fuego |
| #8610, aired 2022-04-01 | MUSICALS BY SONG LYRICS $1000: "Some enchanted evening, you may see a stranger" South Pacific |
| #8607, aired 2022-03-29 | IT HAPPENED IN EGYPT $1600: In 1970 a rockfill dam across the Nile was completed just south of this Egyptian city Aswan |
| #8606, aired 2022-03-28 | THE PLACE TO "B" $600: This "colorful" mountainous region is a site to see between South Dakota & Wyoming the Black Hills |
| #8605, aired 2022-03-25 | POP MUSIC PHILLY-STYLE $800: Fabian & this "Twist" sensation attended South Philadelphia High School together in the '50s Chubby Checker |
| #8603, aired 2022-03-23 | WE READ IT IN THE '80s $800: South American politics & magic realism are big in her novels, like "The House of the Spirits" & "Of Love & Shadows" (Isabel) Allende |
| #8602, aired 2022-03-22 | THOSE DARN ETRUSCANS $2000: The Etruscans lived from the Tiber River in the south to this 150-mile river of Florence in the north the Arno |
| #8601, aired 2022-03-21 | SEISMIC ACTIVITY $2000: In 1960 an 8.1 quake that devastated Concepción in this South American nation was but a foreshock to a 9.5 event the next day Chile |
| #8600, aired 2022-03-18 | SOUTH AMERICAN HISTORY $400: In 1822 Brazil declared independence from this country, which recognized that action 3 years later Portugal |
| #8600, aired 2022-03-18 | SOUTH AMERICAN HISTORY $800: In 1919 South America got its first commercial airline: Avianca, now headquartered in this capital of Colombia Bogotá |
| #8600, aired 2022-03-18 | SOUTH AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: In 1864 this country in the middle of the continent took on Brazil, later Argentina & Uruguay; half its population would end up dead Paraguay |
| #8600, aired 2022-03-18 | SOUTH AMERICAN HISTORY $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1997, 30 years after his death in Bolivia, the remains of this revolutionary were returned to Cuba "Che" Guevara |
| #8600, aired 2022-03-18 | SOUTH AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: In the early 2000s this ex-president of Chile lost his immunity from prosecution & was charged with human rights abuses Pinochet |
| #8597, aired 2022-03-15 | WATER, WATER $1000: The Humboldt Current is sometimes called this South American country's current the Peru Current (the Chilean) |
| #8594, aired 2022-03-10 | POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY $2,000 (Daily Double): One of the 2 nations known as "perforated states", as they completely surround another country (1 of) South Africa or Italy |
| #8590, aired 2022-03-04 | HISTORY $400: In 1867 young Erasmus Jacobs found the "Eureka" this "upon which the future success of South Africa will be built" diamond |
| #8590, aired 2022-03-04 | NOW WE ARE SIX $600: Found in South America, the tatu peludo is a 6-banded species of this plated omnivore an armadillo |
| #8589, aired 2022-03-03 | 1972: 50 YEARS AGO $400: This Democrat from South Dakota came up short in his run for president McGovern |
| #8583, aired 2022-02-23 | BROOM SERVICE $600: Running for pres. of this South American country, Janio da Silva Quadros used a broom as a symbol of his pledge to sweep out corruption Brazil |
| #18, aired 2022-02-22 | "C" THE ANIMALS $800: Found in South America & seen here, it's the largest rodent a capybara |
| #17, aired 2022-02-22 | BROADWAY MUSICALS $400: Trey Parker & Matt Stone of "South Park" won Tonys for their work on this musical about Elder Price & Elder Cunningham The Book of Mormon |
| #17, aired 2022-02-22 | A PLACE WITH DIRECTION $800: Aberdeen is one of only 5 cities in this Midwest state to have more than 20,000 people South Dakota |
| #8581, aired 2022-02-21 | THE KOREAN WAR $200: This capital of South Korea changed hands 4 times during the course of the war Seoul |
| #8581, aired 2022-02-21 | SCRAMBLED HATS $400: Go south by southwest:
MORE ORBS a sombrero |
| #8581, aired 2022-02-21 | THE KOREAN WAR $600: In 2018 South Korea's Moon Jae-in & this North Korean leader pledged to formally end the war but it hasn't happened... yet Kim Jong-un |
| #8579, aired 2022-02-17 | DESSERT $200: Popular in the South, chess pie is basically this pie without those big brown nuts pecan pie |
| #8579, aired 2022-02-17 | BRITISH TERRITORIES & DEPENDENCIES $3,000 (Daily Double): Point Christian & Bounty Bay are features of this South Pacific island territory Pitcairn Island |
| #14, aired 2022-02-17 | THE CROP REPORT $400: South Carolina politician James Hammond, who in 1858 said this crop "is king", was an awful man cotton |
| #13, aired 2022-02-17 | AFTER THE WAR $400: In the mid-1950s this country trailed its neighbor in development, but the '60s "Miracle on the Han River" changed that South Korea |
| #8578, aired 2022-02-16 | COUNTRIES ON THE EQUATOR $800: Ecuador takes its name from "equator" & this capital city is just south of the line Quito |
| #12, aired 2022-02-16 | THROWING SERIOUS SHADE $600: South of Alaska, there's a Sitka one of these trees in Oregon that's 144 feet tall with a 93-foot crown spread a spruce |
| #12, aired 2022-02-16 | THROWING SERIOUS SHADE $1,000 (Daily Double): Architectural Digest: "Say" this & "most people envision large shade trees with fragrant blossoms that evoke the American South" magnolia |
| #11, aired 2022-02-16 | MARVEL $200: This Black Panther actor wanted T'Challa's accent to be authentically African, so he spoke in a dialect based on South African Xhosa Chadwick Boseman |
| #11, aired 2022-02-16 | AFRICAN GEOGRAPHY $800: Juba is the capital of this newest nation of Africa that seceded from its northern neighbor in 2011 South Sudan |
| #11, aired 2022-02-16 | AFRICAN GEOGRAPHY $1600: Partly in Namibia, partly in South Africa, Namaqualand is divided by this "colorful" river the Orange River |
| #8577, aired 2022-02-15 | THE 50 STATES $800: In 2021, this state raised a new flag, doing away with the Confederate battle emblem, & adding a magnolia Mississippi |
| #10, aired 2022-02-15 | ON THE "MA"P $2000: This strait connects the Indian Ocean to the South China Sea the Strait of Malacca |
| #9, aired 2022-02-15 | A SEMESTER ABROAD $200: Sail from Tasman Bay & the South Island of this nation & swing around to the Bay of Plenty New Zealand |
| #8576, aired 2022-02-14 | AMERICAN FIVES $200: Of the 5 California MLB teams, the one that plays its home games the farthest south the Padres |
| #8575, aired 2022-02-11 | A PLACE IN THE SUN $1600: With over 300 sunny days each year, this tourist destination in the south of Spain has a name meaning "sun coast" the Costa del Sol |
| #8, aired 2022-02-11 | OR TAKE THE "M" CATS $400: The puma of north & South America is also known as the cougar, the panther, & this 2-word name a mountain lion |
| #6, aired 2022-02-10 | WORLD CAPITALS $400: This South American capital was originally named for "Our Lady Saint Mary of the Fair Winds" or "Good Air" Buenos Aires |
| #8573, aired 2022-02-09 | ISLE "B" $400: Captain William Bligh discovered a group of South Pacific islands in 1788 & named them for this ship the Bounty |
| #8572, aired 2022-02-08 | SOUTH AMERICAN CAPITALS $400: At about 10.5 degrees north latitude it's the northernmost of South America's capitals Caracas |
| #8572, aired 2022-02-08 | SOUTH AMERICAN CAPITALS $800: Buenos Aires & Montevideo are situated on opposite sides of this "river of silver" estuary Rio de la Plata |
| #8572, aired 2022-02-08 | SOUTH AMERICAN CAPITALS $1,000 (Daily Double): Guyana's capital was founded in 1781 & named for him, a far-off king at the time George III |
| #8572, aired 2022-02-08 | SOUTH AMERICAN CAPITALS $1200: Like our own capital city, this South American capital sometimes has "D.C." after its name Bogotá |
| #8572, aired 2022-02-08 | SOUTH AMERICAN CAPITALS $2000: The world's highest national capital, La Paz, Bolivia lies on the edge of this Andean region, from the Spanish for "high plain" the Altiplano |
| #2, aired 2022-02-08 | PIER 5 $200: Seen here, South Africa's Umhlanga Pier has an archway named for this animal's bones a whale |
| #2, aired 2022-02-08 | PIER 5 $600: At over 1,000 feet in length, Myrtle Beach's Springmaid Pier is one of this state's longest South Carolina |
| #2, aired 2022-02-08 | MY HERO OF ACADEMIA $1200: Fatima Meer, the first non-white teacher at a white South African university, wrote the first authorized bio of this man Nelson Mandela |
| #1, aired 2022-02-08 | FLORAL GEOGRAPHY $2,000 (Daily Double): The Fourth Raadsaal, a word meaning council chamber, is in this South African judicial capital Bloemfontein |
| #8570, aired 2022-02-04 | "R" TOWN $400: This capital is about 160 miles north of Vilnius & 160 miles south of Tallinn Riga |
| #8570, aired 2022-02-04 | DANCE PARTY $400: Curiously, not the Charleston but the shag is this state's official state dance South Carolina |
| #8567, aired 2022-02-01 | INTERNATIONAL GET-TOGETHERS $1200: This Austin-based meet-up was focused on music when it launched in 1987, but now includes other media South by Southwest |
| #8566, aired 2022-01-31 | STUPID ANSWERS $400: What we call the "magnetic" this attracts the north magnetic poles of compass needles, so it's actually a south magnetic pole the magnetic north pole |
| #8564, aired 2022-01-27 | THANKS VERMILION $800: This state's Vermilion Cliffs National Monument is not as popular as the Grand Canyon just to its south, but worth a visit Arizona |
| #8564, aired 2022-01-27 | U.S. PLACE NAMES $1000: 2 1/2 hours south of Indianapolis is this town named for an ethnicity & for the salt deposits that deer & buffalo once enjoyed French Lick, Indiana |
| #8563, aired 2022-01-26 | THE CAROLINAS $400: For South Carolina, the state bird is the Carolina wren; for North Carolina, it's the northern this cardinal |
| #8563, aired 2022-01-26 | THE CAROLINAS $600: These colorful mountains of the Appalachians pass through both North & South Carolina & several other states as well Blue Ridge Mountains |
| #8562, aired 2022-01-25 | FRENCH ART & ARTISTS $1200: This onetime stockbroker abandoned business for art, traveled widely & died in the South Pacific in 1903 Gauguin |
| #8561, aired 2022-01-24 | WRITERS DO RIGHT $800: Dave Eggers' book about this group that shares a name with Peter Pan's gang led to building a school in South Sudan the Lost Boys |
| #8561, aired 2022-01-24 | '90s R&B & HIP-HOP $1000: "I'm kinda buzzed & it's all because" of this Montell Jordan No. 1 R&B hit; we also learned "South Central does it like nobody does" "This Is How We Do It" |
| #8560, aired 2022-01-21 | BALDERDASH $800: Found just south of the North Carolina border, 4,784-foot Brasstown Bald is the highest point in this state Georgia |
| #8560, aired 2022-01-21 | EXPLORERS $2000: Lope de Aguirre was among those who sought this mythic South American land of gold El Dorado |
| #8559, aired 2022-01-20 | SOUTH ASIA $400: Today with about 15 million people, this city on the Hooghly River was capital of British India from 1772 to 1911 Calcutta (Kolkata) |
| #8559, aired 2022-01-20 | SOUTH ASIA $800: Gyanendra was the last king of this nation that abolished the monarchy & became a republic in 2008 Nepal |
| #8559, aired 2022-01-20 | SOUTH ASIA $1600: Tashichho Dzong, a remodeled monastery, houses the royal government of this remote Himalayan kingdom Bhutan |
| #8559, aired 2022-01-20 | SOUTH ASIA $2000: Dating from B.C. times, this faith with similarities to Hinduism & Buddhism emphasizes ahimsa, nonviolence to all creatures Jainism |
| #8559, aired 2022-01-20 | SOUTH ASIA $5,000 (Daily Double): Born in Karachi, she served twice as prime minster of her country, from 1988 to 1990 & 1993 to 1996 (Benazir) Bhutto |
| #8556, aired 2022-01-17 | INTERNATIONAL FOOD & DRINK $2000: Popular in South America & said to have health benefits, the first part of this tea's name is from Spanish for "herb" yerba mate |
| #8555, aired 2022-01-14 | WORLD HISTORY $2000: Scholars struggle to decipher the language of the IVC, the civilization of this river valley, a power in south Asia in the 2000s B.C. the Indus River |
| #8553, aired 2022-01-12 | HOW PROVINCIAL $400: Later split into 3 provinces, South Africa's Cape Province was also known officially as the Cape of this Good Hope |
| #8551, aired 2022-01-10 | SUBURBS $400: Our efforts at a SUBURB"IA" category fizzled out after Livonia, Michigan & Arcadia, New South Wales, a suburb of this city Sydney |
| #8550, aired 2022-01-07 | POP CULTURE MONIKERS $2,000 (Daily Double): Born on the South Side of Chicago, he originally had "Sense" behind his name in his early rap years Common |
| #8550, aired 2022-01-07 | THAT'S BORDER LINE $2000: You have a couple of choices if you're heading directly across the eastern border of Wyoming--these 2 states South Dakota & Nebraska |
| #8549, aired 2022-01-06 | THE MISSOURI COMPROMISE $1200: The 1820 compromise allowed slavery only south of a line of this; it still forms state boundaries & there's a marker on it in Enid, Oklahoma latitude |
| #8548, aired 2022-01-05 | YOUR PARADE $200: Savannah has the South's biggest of these March parades with lots of folks dressed in green St. Patrick's Day |
| #8546, aired 2022-01-03 | I'LL "PUNCH" YOU $400: Hotels in St. Louis & in Charleston, South Carolina have been credited with giving this rum drink its name Planter's Punch |
| #8546, aired 2022-01-03 | AMERICAN POETRY $800: In 1987 Gwendolyn Brooks wrote "Winnie" about this South African woman Winnie Mandela |
| #8546, aired 2022-01-03 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $800: Traveling south from Ghent in this country, St. Ghislain awaits Belgium |
| #8545, aired 2021-12-31 | DIRECTIONAL GEOGRAPHY $1200: Part of this body of water lies between the Philippines & Vietnam: the South ____ ____ the South China Sea |
| #8545, aired 2021-12-31 | PLANTS & ANIMALS $2000: Native to South America & Southeast Asia, these big mammals are relatives of the rhino a tapir |
| #8545, aired 2021-12-31 | DIRECTIONAL GEOGRAPHY $2000: Juba is the capital of this country that came into being in 2011:
South ____ Sudan |
| #8543, aired 2021-12-29 | COUNTRIES BY DIVISIONS $1200: Limpopo,
Eastern Cape South Africa |
| #8540, aired 2021-12-24 | IT HAPPENED IN DECEMBER $1000: Deciding he was better suited for the Senate, in December 1832 this South Carolinian resigned as vice president Calhoun |
| #8538, aired 2021-12-22 | HOW GREEN WAS MY FLAG $800: In 1992 the flag of this South American nation was revised, but its big green background stayed Brazil |
| #8534, aired 2021-12-16 | PROTEST SONGS $1200: He was the man behind 1985's "Sun City", about artists refusing to play at that resort in apartheid-era South Africa Little Steven (Steven Van Zandt) |
| #8534, aired 2021-12-16 | SNOW-POURRI $1200: Mount Snow, Vermont calls itself these mountains' most accessible ski resort from the big cities south of it the Green Mountains |
| #8533, aired 2021-12-15 | WORLD CITIES $2000: South of Quito, this largest Ecuadorian city is seen here in all its colors Guayaquil |
| #8531, aired 2021-12-13 | LATIN AMERICAN GEOGRAPHY $1200: It's the second-largest country in area in South America Argentina |
| #8529, aired 2021-12-09 | IN RECENT YEARS $400: The 2016 Summer Olympics were held in this South American city Rio |
| #8525, aired 2021-12-03 | PULLING INTO "TOWN" $400: The South African parliament meets in this city that dates back to 1652 with the construction of a Dutch east India refreshment station Cape Town |
| #8524, aired 2021-12-02 | FUNNY LADIES $600: Order in the court! If she ever tires of being funny, she has a law degree from the University of New South Wales to fall back on (Rebel) Wilson |
| #8522, aired 2021-11-30 | THE CIVIL WAR $400: Known as the C.S.S. Virginia when it fought the Monitor, the South's first ironclad was built from the captured U.S.S. this Merrimack |
| #8519, aired 2021-11-25 | WORLD HISTORY $4,000 (Daily Double): In 1893 he went to South Africa to do some legal work; he stayed for 21 years to work for Indian rights Gandhi |
| #8515, aired 2021-11-19 | LIKE A NATURALIZED WOMAN $2000: This South African-born woman got a one-way ticket to California from her mom, so her 2007 naturalization was kind of inevitable Charlize Theron |
| #8511, aired 2021-11-15 | WORLD COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $1000: The oldest university in Scandinavia is in Uppsala, Sweden; the second oldest, in this capital a few hundred miles south Copenhagen |
| #8504, aired 2021-11-04 | ZOMBIETHON $400: "Train to Busan" is set in this Asian country during a zombie outbreak there South Korea |
| #8504, aired 2021-11-04 | CHARTED $800: Louis de Freycinet mapped much of this large Australian island due south of Melbourne Tasmania |
| #8503, aired 2021-11-03 | PHYSICS $400: Bi- this is a term from psychiatry; magnets are di- this, with north attracted to south polar |
| #8503, aired 2021-11-03 | COLOR, MY WORLD $2,000 (Daily Double): It's a city in New South Wales, a river in Southern Africa & a county in Southern California Orange |
| #8502, aired 2021-11-02 | ORGANIZATIONS $400: Mercosur seeks to integrate the economies of its member countries on this continent South America |
| #8501, aired 2021-11-01 | ONCE UPON A NOVEMBER $1200: On Nov. 29, 1929 he commanded the first flight over the South Pole, for which he'd receive a promotion to rear admiral (Richard) Byrd |
| #8497, aired 2021-10-26 | SONGS TO JINGLES $1000: This song from "South Pacific" was used by Clairol, only "man" is replaced with "gray" "I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outa My Hair" |
| #8496, aired 2021-10-25 | THE LANDLOCKED NATION $200: The Arabian Sea is 300 miles south of this often invaded but incredibly hard to conquer nation directly east of Iran Afghanistan |
| #8494, aired 2021-10-21 | THIS IS THE WAY $600: Drive your Jaguar out of Jacksonville on I-95 south & I-4 for a couple of hours to this city to enjoy attractions like EPCOT Orlando |
| #8493, aired 2021-10-20 | THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE $1600: Georgetown is the chief port & capital of this South American country Guyana |
| #8493, aired 2021-10-20 | BRIDAL WAVES $1600: Some 2,500 couples took vows at a 2014 mass wedding staged by the Unification Church in this country South Korea |
| #8492, aired 2021-10-19 | POLITICAL NICKNAMES $1200: "Snarlin' Arlen" was the nickname of Arlen Specter, a long-time senator from this state Pennsylvania |
| #8492, aired 2021-10-19 | ANNUS HORRIBILIS $2,200 (Daily Double): In the space of a few weeks in 1912, Robert Falcon Scott's trek to this landmark ended in death, then Titanic sailed into history the South Pole |
| #8490, aired 2021-10-15 | THE IMPASSABLE DREAM $2000: This 90-mile stretch of California south of Monterey is known for its scenic highway that sometimes does become impassble Big Sur |
| #8489, aired 2021-10-14 | TWISTER! $400: Disaster on top of disaster: when one of these hit South Texas in 1967, its thunderstorms spun off more than 100 tornadoes a hurricane |
| #8489, aired 2021-10-14 | GEO TRIOS $2000: Of South Africa's 3 capital cities, this administrative one is part of the municipality of Tshwane Pretoria |
| #8488, aired 2021-10-13 | DOUBLE-LETTER GEOGRAPHY $1600: Randburg & Midrand are suburbs of this chief commercial city of South Africa Johannesburg |
| #8485, aired 2021-10-08 | WE LOOK DOWN ON THAT STATE $600: A big chunk of South Dakota is upstairs from it Nebraska |
| #8485, aired 2021-10-08 | THE GRAND OLE OPERA HOUSE $2000: In 1973 Prokofiev's "War and Peace" was the first opera performed at this opera house very far south of Russia the Sydney Opera House |
| #8484, aired 2021-10-07 | SEEN HERE $1000: You can see why this country was known as South West Africa until 1968 Namibia |
| #8484, aired 2021-10-07 | THE EARTH $1200: You've heard of the ones in New York, but here's another type of this body part lake on New Zealand's South Island fingers (a finger lake) |
| #8483, aired 2021-10-06 | PENINSULAS $800: Oil refineries in this South American country utilize pipes that stretch from Lake Maracaibo to Paraguaná Peninsula Venezuela |
| #8482, aired 2021-10-05 | THE AMERIC-ANNS $1600: John Allen & Elisha Rumsey were both married to women named Ann when they founded this city amidst some groves in 1824 Ann Arbor |
| #8478, aired 2021-09-29 | THE NON-COASTAL U.S. $800: This large national memorial that's about 25 miles southwest of Rapid City, South Dakota was named for a New York lawyer Mount Rushmore |
| #8475, aired 2021-09-24 | FURRY ROAD $2000: Varieties of this semi-aquatic cutie are the sea, small-clawed & the 6-foot-long giant types in South America otters |
| #8473, aired 2021-09-22 | COMEDY ON TV $400: The parents of Stan & Kyle on this show are named after the parents of their creators, Trey & Matt South Park |
| #8469, aired 2021-09-16 | RIGHT HERE IN RIVER CITY $600: Well south of Kansas, the original falls on the Wichita River in this state are gone, so the city built a new set upstream Texas |
| #8467, aired 2021-09-14 | THE WILD WEST $7,600 (Daily Double): Founded in 1876, this South Dakota city was named for the deceased trees found in the area Deadwood |
| #8464, aired 2021-08-12 | FEATURES OF THE MOON $1,000 (Daily Double): Apollo 17 astronauts landed near a mountain called "South" this; you may be familiar with the Vinson one in Antarctica Massif |
| #8463, aired 2021-08-11 | COME OUT TO THE COAST $400: Bordering Central America, this South American country has a coastline on both the Atlantic & the Pacific Colombia |
| #8462, aired 2021-08-10 | NATIONS $1200: This small nation is mainland South America's only country with English as an official language Guyana |
| #8461, aired 2021-08-09 | AROUND THE USA $600: A live type of this tree is a must-see for visitors to Johns Island, South Carolina oak |
| #8461, aired 2021-08-09 | LET'S SEA $800: The China Sea is divided into these 2 directional seas the East China Sea & the South China Sea |
| #8460, aired 2021-08-06 | OCEANOGRAPHIC TERMS $800: Measuring the warmth of the water off the western coast of South America, the ONI is the "Oceanic" this Spanish word "Index" Niño |
| #8459, aired 2021-08-05 | AROUND THE WORLD $2000: Cotopaxi, meaning "shining peak", is an active volcano in this South American nation Ecuador |
| #8459, aired 2021-08-05 | AROUND THE WORLD $4,000 (Daily Double): This African capital due south of Sicily got its name from a region with 3 ancient Phoenician cities Tripoli |
| #8455, aired 2021-07-30 | FOWL BALLS $400: This NFC South team blew a 25-point lead & lost Super Bowl LI in 2017 the Atlanta Falcons |
| #8455, aired 2021-07-30 | COUNTRIES THAT START WITH "S" $800: Until 2004 the guilder was the currency of this South American country Suriname |
| #8455, aired 2021-07-30 | POETRY IN MOTION PICTURES $2000: This South American poet is a character in "Il Postino" & his poems like "Ode to the Sea" are featured in it Neruda |
| #8452, aired 2021-07-27 | ALPHABETICALLY NEXT GEOGRAPHY $600: South American nations: Bolivia,
Brazil... Chile |
| #8451, aired 2021-07-26 | TOUGH 3-LETTER WORDS $2000: A depression in the path of a mountain's summit; Hillary climbed Everest's "South" a Col |
| #8450, aired 2021-07-23 | BUTTE OF COURSE $800: A place for vision quests & sun dances, Bear Butte in South Dakota is a sacred site to these Native American people who call it "Mato Paha" (the) Lakota (Sioux) |
| #8449, aired 2021-07-22 | MLB MASCOTS $400: A fuzzy green guy named Southpaw, born on the South Side White Sox |
| #8449, aired 2021-07-22 | SOMETHING BIG IS COMING! $800: The wingspan of the royal species of this seabird of the South Pacific can reach more than 10 feet albatross |
| #8448, aired 2021-07-21 | YOU "PIC" IT $2000: Now meaning trifling, it was originally used in Louisiana & elsewhere in the South to refer to a coin of little value picayune |
| #8446, aired 2021-07-19 | WHAT'S IN THE CAVE? $400: A cave system in the Philippines has a 5-mile-long underground one of these flowing into the South China Sea river |
| #8446, aired 2021-07-19 | HEY, WHERE'S THAT DISH? $800: If you're pro-antioxidant, this South American foodstuff, seen here, is rich in selenium Brazil nuts |
| #8446, aired 2021-07-19 | WHAT'S IN THE CAVE? $1000: Calcite honeycombing, called boxwork, is a feature almost unique to Wind Cave National Park in this state South Dakota |
| #8445, aired 2021-07-16 | 6-LETTER THE BETTER $800: To sell off all shareholdings from your portfolio, as people did to protest apartheid in South Africa divest |
| #8442, aired 2021-07-13 | OVER BUDGET $800: The government of New South Wales held a lottery for 30 years to pay for this building whose budget went from $7 mil. to $102 mil. the Sydney Opera House |
| #8442, aired 2021-07-13 | LET'S GO TO THE BEACH $1600: The beach Matthew Arnold was talking about must not have been this sunny spot on Barbados' south coast; it's no darkling plain Dover Beach |
| #8442, aired 2021-07-13 | LET'S GO TO THE BEACH $2000: Between Fish Hoek & Cape Point, Boulders Beach gets all kinds of tourists in this country South Africa |
| #8440, aired 2021-07-09 | JULY $400: On July 8, 2014 in a semifinal game at the men's World Cup, Germany eliminated this host country, 7-1 Brazil |
| #8439, aired 2021-07-08 | THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION $1200: For his leadership in the war, Thomas Sumter was known as "The Carolina" this bird known to South Carolina football fans gamecock |
| #8436, aired 2021-07-05 | THEY DON'T LIVE ON SESAME STREET $200: South African-born Ernie Els is a longtime standout performer in this pro sport golf |
| #8433, aired 2021-06-30 | MAPPING THE MIDWEST $400: Directions from Sioux Falls to Box Elder in this state: hop on I-90, go west for about 300 miles, stop South Dakota |
| #8433, aired 2021-06-30 | MAPPING THE MIDWEST $1200: They're the two cities here--one a territorial capital that was north of the Platte, & the other a state capital south of the river Omaha & Lincoln |
| #8431, aired 2021-06-28 | AMERICA $200: Residents of this South Dakota capital pronounce it to rhyme with "ear" Pierre |
| #8429, aired 2021-06-24 | OFFICIAL STATE FOSSILS $1200: The skull of a Triceratops, this state's fossil, is on display at the museum of geology in Rapid City South Dakota |
| #8428, aired 2021-06-23 | COUNTRY FACTS $4,000 (Daily Double): Of the 7 countries that make up the mainland of Central America, this one is farthest south Panama |
| #8427, aired 2021-06-22 | AROUND THE WORLD $2000: The fourth-most populous of the British Isles is this holiday isle off the south coast of England the Isle of Wight |
| #8426, aired 2021-06-21 | YOU'RE ALL OVER THE MAP $1600: Extending from the Arctic coast to the Kazakhstan border, this Russian mountain range goes north/south for about 1,500 miles the Urals |
| #8425, aired 2021-06-18 | A TALE OF 2 GEORGIAS $1200: In the U.S., Georgia borders Alabama; on its south, Georgia borders this country that also begins & ends with "A" Armenia |
| #8423, aired 2021-06-16 | ODD STATE FACTS $1000: The oddly named town of Chicken Bristle is south of Champaign in this state Illinois |
| #8423, aired 2021-06-16 | COUNTRY NAME ORIGINS $1600: In South America, from the name of a man born in 1783 Bolivia |
| #8420, aired 2021-06-11 | GROUPS OF 12 $400: This nation is last alphabetically of the 12 independent mainland countries of South America Venezuela |
| #8416, aired 2021-06-07 | LANDMARKS $1000: A surveyor named this monolith for a south Australian prime minister; its Aboriginal name has no direct English translation Uluru (Ayers Rock) |
| #8415, aired 2021-06-04 | MAGNA CARTOGRAPHY $800: Found in this country's Western Cape Province, the plateau basin known as Great Karoo may be listed as Groot Karoo on a local map South Africa |
| #8415, aired 2021-06-04 | AFRICAN AMERICANS $1200: Sadly, this rapper, activist & entrepreneur known for giving back to his South LA community lost his life there in 2019 Nipsey Hussle |
| #8413, aired 2021-06-02 | "A" VOWEL $1000: The name of this gourd rattle is from a South American Indian word maracas |
| #8411, aired 2021-05-31 | SOUVENIRS $1000: When you visit the country just south of Kenya, you can bring home some of this mineral named for it tanzanite |
| #8409, aired 2021-05-27 | STRAITS $1600: This strait between mainland South America & Tierra del Fuego links the Atlantic & Pacific Oceans the Strait of Magellan |
| #8405, aired 2021-05-21 | 2-WORD COUNTRIES $3,600 (Daily Double): Population 52 million, it has twice the people but 20 times the per capita GDP of its neighbor to the north South Korea |
| #8403, aired 2021-05-19 | THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE $400: Go south from Concepción, Paraguay or Rehoboth, Namibia & you're crossing this tropic line the Tropic of Capricorn |
| #8401, aired 2021-05-17 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: It was the first Confederate state to secede from the Union South Carolina |
| #8401, aired 2021-05-17 | TIME MAGAZINE PERSON OF THE YEAR $1600: 1965:
This West Point grad who was commander of U.S. forces in South Vietnam (William) Westmoreland |
| #8399, aired 2021-05-13 | NUMBERING THE NONFICTION BOOKS $1000: The book subtitled "Eight Progressive Senators Who Changed America" includes this South Dakotan who ran for president in 1972 McGovern |
| #8398, aired 2021-05-12 | 7-LETTER COUNTRIES $800: This country has the Gulf of Bothnia to its west & a gulf named for it to its south Finland |
| #8398, aired 2021-05-12 | 7-LETTER COUNTRIES $1200: In 2006 Evo Morales, a member of the Aymara people, became the first indigenous president of this South American country Bolivia |
| #8397, aired 2021-05-11 | GIVE ME A SEA $1200: Named for certain sea life, it merges with the Tasman Sea, to the south the Coral Sea |
| #8392, aired 2021-05-04 | 20th CENTURY NAMES $1600: In 1967 this South African surgeon led a team in performing the world's first human heart transplant Christiaan Barnard |
| #8391, aired 2021-05-03 | CHANNELS $400: Terminating south of the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge, the Ambrose Channel is located between these 2 states New York & New Jersey |
| #8389, aired 2021-04-29 | LANGUAGES $800: This country's 11 official languages include Setswana & isiXhosa South Africa |
| #8388, aired 2021-04-28 | AUTHORS NOT GOING PLACES $2000: "The Lost City of Z" is about South America explorer Percy Fawcett, who helped Arthur Conan Doyle WFH this "Lost" book The Lost World |
| #8387, aired 2021-04-27 | KING $400: Prior to the Civil War, the South's economic staple was frequently referred to as "king" this cotton |
| #8385, aired 2021-04-23 | ELECTORAL COLLEGE ALUMNI $1000: In "Presidential Lottery", this "Tales of the South Pacific" author wrote about being an elector in the 1968 election James Michener |
| #8384, aired 2021-04-22 | ISLANDS IN THE GROUP $400: Rabbit Island & Sea Lion Island are in this disputed South American group the Falklands |
| #8384, aired 2021-04-22 | ISLANDS IN THE GROUP $1,000 (Daily Double): Display your wisdom & name this South Pacific chain that includes Santa Isabel & Vella Lavella the Solomon Islands |
| #8381, aired 2021-04-19 | ANCIENT CITIES $400: The ruins of Pachacamac, an ancient American city later occupied by the Inca, lie just south of this world capital Lima |
| #8380, aired 2021-04-16 | DIETARY MATTERS $800: Miami M.D. Arthur Agatston wrote this book with a "plan for fast and healthy weight loss" The South Beach Diet |
| #8380, aired 2021-04-16 | NATIVE AMERICANS $2000: In 1973 this South Dakota massacre site was seized by Native Americans & held for 71 days Wounded Knee |
| #8379, aired 2021-04-15 | GEMS & JEWELRY $4,000 (Daily Double): The most prized of these flashy gems are the black ones, the actual colors can vary, from New South Wales, Australia an opal |
| #8376, aired 2021-04-12 | GEOGRA-SEA, & ALSO LAKES $600: The St. Clair River is a conduit by which the waters of Lake Huron eventually flow south into this other Great Lake Erie |
| #8372, aired 2021-04-06 | A SWAMPY SITUATION $200: The immense wetland area called Pantanal, from Portuguese for "swamp", is mostly in this South American country Brazil |
| #8371, aired 2021-04-05 | STATE THE STATE $1000: 244,000 acres of it make up Badlands National Park South Dakota |
| #8369, aired 2021-04-01 | CURRENCIES $800: The currency of this nation of 59 million features wildlife commonly found there South Africa |
| #8368, aired 2021-03-31 | ANIMALS $400: Not quite as ferocious as in legend, this South American river dweller has a name from Tupi for "tooth fish" a piranha |
| #8367, aired 2021-03-30 | LAKES & RIVERS $7,000 (Daily Double): Dipping into Ohio, this one of the Great Lakes extends farthest south Erie |
| #8366, aired 2021-03-29 | AROUND THE USA $400: This South Carolina resort island is named for English sea captain William, not for a hotel chain Hilton Head |
| #8366, aired 2021-03-29 | ASIA $1200: The strategic Strait of Hormuz leads from the Persian Gulf into this body of water to the south the Arabian Sea |
| #8366, aired 2021-03-29 | ASIA $2000: Separated from the mainland by a narrow strait, China's smallest province is this island in the South China Sea Hainan |
| #8365, aired 2021-03-26 | MULTIPLE-CAPITAL COUNTRIES $2000: This one of South Africa's 3 capital cities has a name meaning "fountain of flowers" Bloemfontein |
| #8365, aired 2021-03-26 | OPERA SETTINGS $2000: "Porgy and Bess" is set in an area known by this "fishy" name Catfish Row |
| #8364, aired 2021-03-25 | TV LOCALES $400: While "The Walking Dead" takes place primarily in the South, "Fear the Walking Dead" started in this city Los Angeles |
| #8363, aired 2021-03-24 | WORDS THAT START WITH 2 CONSECUTIVE LETTERS $1600: From a Sanskrit word for "to sprinkle", it's a clarified butter used in south Asian cooking ghee |
| #8363, aired 2021-03-24 | BODIES OF WATER FILED UNDER B $1600: Blommestein Lake is the largest reservoir in this South American nation Suriname |
| #8361, aired 2021-03-22 | BAY WATCH $400: Marine iguanas are among the weird animals you can see at Academy Bay in these islands off South America the Galapagos |
| #8360, aired 2021-03-19 | ENDS IN A FEMALE FIRST NAME $800: A landlocked nation of South America Bolivia |
| #8356, aired 2021-03-15 | A COLLEGE CONFERENCE CALL $3,000 (Daily Double): Southern: This school was established in 1842 & combined with the Arsenal to form the South Carolina Military Academy the Citadel |
| #8355, aired 2021-03-12 | 6-LETTER COUNTRIES $200: It occupies about half the land mass of the South American continent Brazil |
| #8354, aired 2021-03-11 | FLAGS OF OUR FEATHERS $800: Including lands below 60 degrees south latitude, the British Antarctic territory has this native bird on its flag the penguin |
| #8353, aired 2021-03-10 | COLORFUL RIVERS $1200: On its way to the Atlantic Ocean, the Orange River crosses the vast veld region of this country South Africa |
| #8352, aired 2021-03-09 | FERRIS & OBSERVATION WHEELS $200: This wheel is cantilevered over the South Bank of the River Thames the Eye of London |
| #8352, aired 2021-03-09 | CONSTELLATION DERIVATIONS $1600: An organization for the brilliant, or a constellation named for South Africa's Table Mountain Mensa |
| #8349, aired 2021-03-04 | BORDERS $800: Saudi Arabia's longest border is with this country to the south that the Saudis began bombing in 2015 Yemen |
| #8348, aired 2021-03-03 | LANGUAGES $1600: This language is known as hanguk-mal in the south & choson-mal in the north Korean |
| #8347, aired 2021-03-02 | SPORTS TROPHIES & AWARDS $600: South African Gary Player was the first non-American to receive this association's lifetime achievement award the PGA |
| #8346, aired 2021-03-01 | LONDON MONOPOLY GEOGRAPHY $400: Old Kent Road is the only London Monopoly location south of this body of water the Thames |
| #8345, aired 2021-02-26 | ASIAN HISTORY $600: A junta led by General Park Chung-hee took over this country, ending its second republic in 1961 South Korea |
| #8345, aired 2021-02-26 | ROAD TRIP TO THE SAME-NAMED PLACE $800: You'll head south on I-65--& remember I said south--when you go from Miami University to the University of Mississippi Oxford |
| #8345, aired 2021-02-26 | AROUND THE WORLD $1200: What became this South African city started in 1652 as a Dutch East India Company refreshment station Cape Town |
| #8343, aired 2021-02-24 | CITIES OF THE MIDWEST $200: To accommodate "South Platters", the capital of Nebraska was moved in 1867 from Omaha to here Lincoln |
| #8342, aired 2021-02-23 | AFRICAN COUNTRIES $1600: Formerly French, this large nation has its main cities like Oran up near the Mediterranean & a vast, largely empty south Algeria |
| #8339, aired 2021-02-18 | POTPOURRI $2000: This city that's just south of Turin in Italy's Piedmont region is known for its sparkling wine Asti |
| #8338, aired 2021-02-17 | EUROPEAN HISTORY $2000: In 1919 this country gained South Tyrol & Trieste from Austria-Hungary Italy |
| #8335, aired 2021-02-12 | VALLEY $1600: The Harappan civilization of South Asia began around 2500 B.C. along the valley of this 2,000-mile river the Indus |
| #8333, aired 2021-02-10 | WHAT DOES NOT KILL US... $600: Whether cooked in a microwave or crushed by the Mir Space Station, this "South Park" kid has endured all manner of death Kenny |
| #8332, aired 2021-02-09 | COUNTRIES' TRANSLATED NAMES $400: "Little Venice"
(South America) Venezuela |
| #8332, aired 2021-02-09 | COUNTRIES' TRANSLATED NAMES $800: "Land beside the silvery river"
(South America) Argentina |
| #8331, aired 2021-02-08 | PEOPLE & PLACES $800: The people of the Sentinel Islands, west of Thailand at the south edge of this bay, resist contact & enforce that with arrows the Bay of Bengal |
| #8330, aired 2021-02-05 | ISLANDS $1200: This island nation is 40 miles south of Turkey & 60 miles west of Syria Cyprus |
| #8329, aired 2021-02-04 | MAN'S PLAIN $200: Much of this capital of New South Wales lies on the Cumberland Plain, named for a British duke Sydney |
| #8328, aired 2021-02-03 | ATLAS ALLITERATION $1200: In 2011, 6 years after a comprehensive peace agreement, this African country came to be South Sudan |
| #8328, aired 2021-02-03 | 1961, WHAT A YEAR! $1600: March: with other nations disapproving of apartheid, South Africa withdraws from this body rooted in the British Empire the British Commonwealth |
| #8327, aired 2021-02-02 | THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE $400: Though large & powerful, this South American empire flourished for only about 100 years until the Spanish conquered it in 1532 Inca |
| #8327, aired 2021-02-02 | THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE $1600: The name of these islands off the southern tip of South America means "land of fire" Tierra del Fuego |
| #8326, aired 2021-02-01 | A CATEGORY OF 2 CITIES $400 (Daily Double): It's about 800 miles from South Africa's executive capital of Pretoria to this legislative capital on the southwest coast Cape Town |
| #8326, aired 2021-02-01 | CARPET $600: This traveling item gave its name to Yankees heading south during Reconstruction carpetbaggers |
| #8324, aired 2021-01-28 | THAT'S SO GORGE! $400: The North Rim of this Arizona chasm is about 1,000 feet higher than its South Rim the Grand Canyon |
| #8322, aired 2021-01-26 | YOU CROSSED THE LINE $400: ...motoring south from Nicaragua into this country with active volcanoes & a rich coast Costa Rica |
| #8322, aired 2021-01-26 | YOU CROSSED THE LINE $800: ...trekking south, exiting Egypt to cross into this nation that's almost twice as vast Sudan |
| #8321, aired 2021-01-25 | TAEKWONDO $600: (Zee James presents the clue.)
Blue represents the negative, red the positive in the Taegeuk, the symbol of this country that in 2018 named taekwondo its official sport South Korea |
| #8319, aired 2021-01-21 | AMPHIBIANS $1600: Poison dart frogs of this continent gain toxicity from their food; in captivity on a different diet, they are harmless South America |
| #8317, aired 2021-01-19 | LIBROS EN ESPAÑOL $1200: Set in the American south:
"Luz de agosto" Light in August |
| #8312, aired 2021-01-12 | AMERICAN CITIES $400: The Magic Kingdom south, it was once known as Jernigan but got a name change in 1857 & a Wet 'n Wild water park, a bit later Orlando |
| #8310, aired 2021-01-08 | HIT SONGS OF THE 1960s $800: A South African song became "Wimoweh" before it was turned into this hit song by The Tokens in 1961 "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" |
| #8310, aired 2021-01-08 | CROSS WORLD CLUES $3,000 (Daily Double): It is sandwiched between Queensland & Victoria
(3,5,5) New South Wales |
| #8309, aired 2021-01-07 | ABOVE & BEYOND $4,600 (Daily Double): The name of this country that stretches along the South China Sea means people beyond (China's) southern border Vietnam |
| #8308, aired 2021-01-06 | CAVEAT SCULPTOR $1600: In 1904 this Danish-American sculptor who later thought much bigger in South Dakota gave us "Mares of Diomedes" (Gutzon) Borglum |
| #8307, aired 2021-01-05 | HISTORIC HAPPENINGS $200: A newspaper gave Robert Peary $4,000 on condition that he reach this point & sure enough, in 1909 he wired them that he had the North Pole |
| #8307, aired 2021-01-05 | NORWEGIANS $2000: He sailed aboard the Fram on his journey to become the first to reach the South Pole Amundsen |
| #8306, aired 2021-01-04 | REPLICAS $2000: In 1947 Thor Heyerdahl sailed from Peru to Polynesia on this raft, a replica of ones used by ancient south Americans Kon-Tiki |
| #8306, aired 2021-01-04 | GEOGRAPHIC ETYMOLOGY $5,200 (Daily Double): Early Spanish settlers gave this South American city a name meaning "fair winds" Buenos Aires |
| #8304, aired 2020-12-17 | ARCHAEOLOGISTS $1600: In 1993 this South American country awarded Maria Reiche the Order of the Sun for her work on the mysterious Nazca Lines Peru |
| #8303, aired 2020-12-16 | THE COUNTRY SHE LED $800: South America's Michelle Bachelet Chile |
| #8301, aired 2020-12-14 | WORLD CAPITAL BINGO $1000: "O", around 1300: Akershus Castle is built in this city; it's still there today, south of a street called Karl Johans Gate Oslo |
| #8300, aired 2020-12-11 | SOUTH PARK $400: Atlanta's Freedom Park features a sculpture of this iconic Baptist minister, his arm outstretched Martin Luther King Jr. |
| #8300, aired 2020-12-11 | SOUTH PARK $800: Centennial Park, across from Vanderbilt University in this city, features a replica of the Parthenon Nashville |
| #8300, aired 2020-12-11 | SOUTH PARK $1200: City Park in this city has been the site of Voodoo Fest, where you can hear all sorts of great music New Orleans |
| #8300, aired 2020-12-11 | SOUTH PARK $1600: You might see a crab or 2 at Fish Haul Beach Park on Hilton Head in this state South Carolina |
| #8300, aired 2020-12-11 | SOUTH PARK $2000: A Birmingham park is named for this Roman deity of the forge; the god himself is there in the form of a ginormous cast-iron statue Vulcan |
| #8298, aired 2020-12-09 | A TRIP TO -BURG -TON -VILLE $400: This South African city of about 5 million is also called Egoli, a Zulu name for "City of Gold" Johannesburg |
| #8296, aired 2020-12-07 | BRIDGES $1000: The Juscelino Kubitschek Bridge in this South American capital is named for the 20th century leader behind the building of the city Brasília |
| #8293, aired 2020-12-02 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD $2000: The name of this kingdom just south of Tibet may be derived from Sanskrit for the "end of Tibet" Bhutan |
| #8291, aired 2020-11-30 | GEOGRAPHY $1,000 (Daily Double): One of the 2 landlocked South American nations; both have Spanish & Guarani as official languages (1 of) Paraguay (or Bolivia) |
| #8290, aired 2020-11-27 | ADVENTURE CAPITAL $400: Seal Island just off this South African capital is a good place to swim with sharks--if you have a sturdy enough cage Cape Town |
| #8287, aired 2020-11-24 | WE'LL GIVE YOU PAWS $400: Here's one of these hanging out in a tree in South Africa's Kruger National Park a leopard |
| #8287, aired 2020-11-24 | BODIES OF WATER $1,000 (Daily Double): This mighty river rises in the Tibetan Plateau & empties into the South China Sea near Ho Chi Minh City the Mekong |
| #8286, aired 2020-11-23 | COINS $2000: A gold coin is named for this man who was president of the South African Republic from 1883 to 1900 Paul Kruger |
| #8285, aired 2020-11-20 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1600: "Stories From a South African Childhood" is the subtitle of this memoir by Trevor Noah Born a Crime |
| #8284, aired 2020-11-19 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $400: One of the oldest repositories of African-American history, the DuSable Museum is a fixture of this Midwest city's South Side Chicago |
| #8283, aired 2020-11-18 | '90s NEWSMAKERS $400: In 1994, 4 years after his release from prison, he became president of South Africa Mandela |
| #8281, aired 2020-11-16 | DAM BUILDING $1000: The Guri Dam near the Guyana border was built to ease this South American country's dependence on oil Venezuela |
| #8280, aired 2020-11-13 | ABANDONED PLACES $1000: A station for hunting these at Grytviken on South Georgia has been abandoned for decades, & that's fine with us whales |
| #8278, aired 2020-11-11 | GEOGRAPHIC GATEWAYS $1200: North of Pacifica & San Bruno, & just south of this city, Daly City, Calif. is the "Gateway to the Peninsula" San Francisco |
| #8277, aired 2020-11-10 | BEVERAGE RHYME TIME $1000: Rather than espresso, a South American beverage made with leaves is frothed with milk a maté latte |
| #8277, aired 2020-11-10 | ODD PAIRS $1600: Trinity portrayer from "The Matrix" & "national" grayish plant that drapes trees throughout the south Carrie Ann & Spanish moss |
| #8275, aired 2020-11-06 | LET ME GIVE YOU A HAND $200: Things go south when they go here "in a handbasket" hell |
| #8275, aired 2020-11-06 | GO WEST $1,000 (Daily Double): Drive west from Maseru, capital of this country, & you arrive in South Africa--heck, drive east & you'll end up there as well Lesotho |
| #8275, aired 2020-11-06 | GO WEST $2000: The ferry from Wellington on New Zealand's North Island to Picton on the south one goes west across this strait the Cook Strait |
| #8274, aired 2020-11-05 | TAKE A HIKE $200: Beware the big drop on Bright Angel Trail, a feature of this perennial Arizona attraction's South Rim the Grand Canyon |
| #8273, aired 2020-11-04 | ANIMATED TV $400: Isaac Hayes was the voice of Jerome "Chef" McElroy on this TV show South Park |
| #8267, aired 2020-10-27 | SOUTH AMERICA $400: This Brazilian city's Avenida Paulista, laid out in 1891, was once lined with the villas of coffee barons São Paulo |
| #8267, aired 2020-10-27 | SOUTH AMERICA $800: A former colony of the Netherlands, Suriname was once known as "Dutch" this Dutch Guiana |
| #8267, aired 2020-10-27 | SOUTH AMERICA $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents by a display monitor.) In existence only from 1819 to 1830, Simon Bolivar's Republic spanned the top of South America, incorporating what is now Panama, Venezuela, Ecuador and this nation, whose name echoes that of the republic Colombia |
| #8267, aired 2020-10-27 | SOUTH AMERICA $1600: Blazing pyres set by the Ona people & viewed from offshore by Magellan inspired the name of this chilly region Tierra del Fuego |
| #8267, aired 2020-10-27 | SOUTH AMERICA $5,000 (Daily Double): This South American capital is named for an event not mentioned in the Bible but declared dogma by Pius XII in 1950 Asunción |
| #8266, aired 2020-10-26 | WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS $400: In 2019 a team from River Ridge, Louisiana won this sport's championship in South Williamsport, Pennsylvania the Little League Championship |
| #8259, aired 2020-10-15 | ANIMALS $800: This South American river predator is fearsome, thanks to its sharp teeth, seen here a piranha |
| #8259, aired 2020-10-15 | MICRONATIONS $800: For nearly 150 years, the tiny republic of Parva Domus has existed in the south of this Uruguayan capital Montevideo |
| #8258, aired 2020-10-14 | IT'S A FACT $800: The name of these 2 states goes back to a Sioux word for "friend" or "ally" the Dakotas (North & South Dakota) |
| #8256, aired 2020-10-12 | FRANCE $800: Your year in this region in the south of France might include passing through its lavender fields Provence |
| #8255, aired 2020-10-09 | WHERE AM I? $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents the clue.) I’m in this city, south of Los Angeles, that’s been running its prestigious Grand Prix since 1977 Long Beach |
| #8253, aired 2020-10-07 | "WAT"s IN A NAME $800: It's a little south of Brussels & a little north of Cedar Rapids Waterloo |
| #8252, aired 2020-10-06 | KEN JENNINGS KNOWS MOUNTAIN G.O.A.T.s $200: (Ken Jennings presents the clue.) One of the first two men to summit Everest and a part of my personal Mount Rushmore of all-time climbers, he also tractored to the South Pole five years later in 1958 Edmund Hillary |
| #8250, aired 2020-10-02 | WE'LL GIVE YOU SOME LATITUDE $400: France lays claim to Adelie Land, though at 66 degrees 30 minutes south, it's part of this continent Antarctica |
| #8250, aired 2020-10-02 | BEASTLY REVIEWS $600: This long-tailed, long-legged agile primate of South America has an arachnid in its name; 2 out of 5 stars a spider monkey |
| #8249, aired 2020-10-01 | GNAT GEO $1600: You might encounter the fungus gnat on safari in this country's Kwazulu-Natal province South Africa |
| #8248, aired 2020-09-30 | SEEMED SO FAR AWAY $800: About a third of the continent's population lives in this "directional" Australian state New South Wales |
| #8247, aired 2020-09-29 | ELECTION ODDITIES $600: In 1955 this country's P.M. Ngo Dinh Diem printed his ballots on lucky red paper & his opponent's ballot on unlucky green paper South Vietnam |
| #8246, aired 2020-09-28 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $1000: At its south end this 25,000-square-mile desert named for a people borders the Sonoran Desert the Mojave |
| #8244, aired 2020-09-24 | BODIES OF WATER $1600: Named for an Englishman, it connects the Atlantic & the Pacific between Cape Horn & the South Shetland Islands Drake's Passage |
| #8241, aired 2020-09-21 | TUNNELS $400: South Africa's over 50-mile-long Orange-Fish Tunnel gets its name from 2 of these that it connects rivers |
| #8237, aired 2020-09-15 | TV SHOWS BY EPISODES $800: "Sexual Harassment Panda",
"Kenny Dies" South Park |
| #8234, aired 2020-06-11 | PATRON SAINTS $2000: Pope Clement IX made Rose of Lima patron of this country; Clement X made her patron saint of all of South America Peru |
| #8233, aired 2020-06-10 | CATHOLIC NATIONS $400: The country with the highest population of Catholics is this South American one with about 123 million Brazil |
| #8232, aired 2020-06-09 | THE PLAIN TRUTH $2000: The Russian Plain extends from the country's western border to these mountains that run 1,550 miles from north to south the Urals |
| #8232, aired 2020-06-09 | THE PLAIN TRUTH $3,000 (Daily Double): The Colombian Abyssal Plain underlies the south-central part of this sea the Caribbean |
| #8231, aired 2020-06-08 | THIS IS LEOPARDY! $2000: A leopard conservation success story, Akagera National Park is a 2 1/2-hour drive from Kigali in this country Rwanda |
| #8230, aired 2020-06-05 | SOME QUARTER GIVEN $1000: South Carolina's coin features this tree that gives the state its nickname as well as that nickname itself, written out the palmetto |
| #8227, aired 2020-06-02 | BIRDS OF PREY $400: Found in South America, the harpy is a crested variety of this bird of prey with a wingspan that can reach seven feet an eagle |
| #8226, aired 2020-06-01 | KINDER GARDEN $1000: Yes, Iggy, this rhododendron variety is the pride of the South azalea |
| #8226, aired 2020-06-01 | NATIONS' SECOND-LARGEST CITIES $1200: Its second city of Pusan is located at the southeast tip of this nation's peninsula South Korea |
| #8223, aired 2020-05-27 | FORM "E" $600: Take a look from above & you'll see why an area just south of the White House has this geometric name the Ellipse |
| #8219, aired 2020-05-21 | GEOGRAPHY $200: The Casiquiare River forms a link between the drainage systems of the Orinoco & this bigger South American river the Amazon |
| #8219, aired 2020-05-21 | GEOGRAPHY $1000: The Philippines' largest islands are Luzon and this one down south Mindanao |
| #8219, aired 2020-05-21 | HIGHWAYS $1200: For years, "DH" marked this highway that despite its name wasn't only in the South--it got as far north as Detroit the Dixie Highway |
| #8218, aired 2020-05-20 | PORT LAND $600: Incheon, also home to this country's busiest airport South Korea |
| #8218, aired 2020-05-20 | HIGH-SCORING 4-LETTER SCRABBLE WORDS $2000: This humped variety of ox originated in South Asia (15 points) a zebu |
| #8217, aired 2020-05-19 | COOL BEANS $400: Though this bean gets its more common name from Peru, it's also called the Madagascar bean & down south, butter bean a lima bean |
| #8216, aired 2020-05-18 | THE ANDES MOUNTAINS $400: At their southern end, the Andes begin in this "fiery" archipelago at the tip of South America Tierra del Fuego |
| #8214, aired 2020-04-30 | WORLD CAPITAL RIVERS $5,600 (Daily Double): Of the 4 capitals that stand on the Danube, 3 start with a "B": Bratislava, Budapest & this one further south Belgrade |
| #8212, aired 2020-04-28 | A LANDMARK ADDRESS $800: At 4 South Market Street in Boston, you can find Faneuil Hall and this venerable market and shop to your heart's content Quincy |
| #8211, aired 2020-04-27 | THE ZULUS $400: Zulu is a subgroup of this 5-letter language group of South & Central Africa Bantu |
| #8211, aired 2020-04-27 | AROUND THE USA $800: A 50-foot stainless steel South Dakota statue called "Dignity" honors the culture of the Dakota and this group whose name rhymes with "Dakota" the Lakota |
| #8208, aired 2020-04-22 | WHAT SORT OF ESTABLISHMENT IS THIS? $600: If you encounter a meat & three establishment in the American South, the "three" refers to these the side dishes |
| #8207, aired 2020-04-21 | ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED! $600: In 2019, a six-man team endured huge frigid waves to row 600 miles across this passage between South America and Antarctica named for an explorer the Drake Passage |
| #8206, aired 2020-04-20 | THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE $400: (MSNBC's Steve Kornacki presents by a display monitor.) 1972 was one of the biggest landslides in Electoral College history as Republican incumbent Richard Nixon piled up 49 states, and this antiwar Democratic senator captured only Massachusetts and the District of Columbia, failing to carry even his home state of South Dakota McGovern |
| #8206, aired 2020-04-20 | THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE $2000: (MSNBC's Steve Kornacki presents by a display monitor.) The 1860 electoral map revealed the deep divisions of a country hurtling towards civil war. Abraham Lincoln won the North, the West, and the presidency; border states went for compromise candidate John Bell. Stephen Douglas carried Missouri, and this incumbent vice president and defender of slavery carried the South Breckinridge |
| #8205, aired 2020-04-17 | POSITIVE HISTORY $2000: A fundamental shift in government policy starting in 1990 led to the end of this policy of discrimination in South Africa apartheid |
| #8204, aired 2020-04-16 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents by a display monitor.) Following the United States' annexation of Texas in 1845, Mexico said Texas' border ended here at the Nueces River; the U.S. said it was this river further south, and war soon followed the Rio Grande |
| #8201, aired 2020-04-13 | CROSSWORD CLUES "P" $400: South American cloak (6) a poncho |
| #8201, aired 2020-04-13 | U.N. OBSERVANCES $800: 2019 to 2028 is the "Decade of Peace" named for this South African Mandela |
| #8200, aired 2020-04-10 | MODERN MUSIC $400: In 2019 BTS learned they might be forced to break up due to this country's compulsory conscription laws South Korea |
| #8200, aired 2020-04-10 | HEAD FOR THE HILLS $800: Cerro Bolivar rises more than 1,500 feet above the grasslands of the Guiana highlands in this South American nation Venezuela |
| #8195, aired 2020-04-03 | AFRICAN GEOGRAPHY $700 (Daily Double): The British South Africa Company's Fort Salisbury later became Harare, capital of this present country Zimbabwe |
| #8195, aired 2020-04-03 | TIME TO PAY THE "TAB" $800: Captain Cook brought this forbidding word into English from the south seas taboo |
| #8194, aired 2020-04-02 | THE VIETNAM WAR $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents by a display monitor.) During the Vietnam War, the major supply route from north to south that went through Laos and Cambodia in order to avoid U.S. forces, was named for this Communist leader Ho Chi Minh |
| #8191, aired 2020-03-30 | BIRDIES $400: Flightless birds range from the 6-inch rail of the south Atlantic to this 9-footer an ostrich |
| #8190, aired 2020-03-27 | STATE CAPITALS $400: In 1786 this state's senate voted & Columbia beat out Washington as the name of the new capital South Carolina |
| #8189, aired 2020-03-26 | "OO", SORRY $1600: Wild Bill Hickok died in this type of establishment in Deadwood, South Dakota a saloon |
| #8186, aired 2020-03-23 | THE OSCARS $800: In 1948 James Baskett won a special Oscar for playing this storyteller in "Song of the South" Uncle Remus |
| #8185, aired 2020-03-20 | HISTORIC NAMES $2000: In 1488, not da Gama or Magellan, but this Portuguese man led the first European voyage to round the tip of South Africa Bartolomeu Dias |
| #8182, aired 2020-03-17 | MEDICINE MEN $4,200 (Daily Double): A 2019 surgery on a 60-year-old woman revealed a nearly 50-year-old mitral valve that this South African man had implanted Dr. Christiaan Barnard |
| #8181, aired 2020-03-16 | NORTH KOREAN GEOGRAPHY $1600: North Korea borders South Korea, China & this country whose leader met Kim Jong un for the first time at a 2019 summit Russia |
| #8180, aired 2020-03-13 | STATE THE PROBLEM $200: The 1972 Black Hills flood claims more than 200 lives South Dakota |
| #8179, aired 2020-03-12 | MALE WRITERS $1600: Me, Alex. Him, this serial novelist who oldest WWII correspondent in South Pacific theatre at age 66 Edgar Rice Burroughs |
| #8175, aired 2020-03-06 | FLAG CREATORS $1000: Philosopher Raimundo Teixeira Mendes created this South American country's flag as well as the motto "Ordem e Progresso" Brazil |
| #8175, aired 2020-03-06 | POSTAL ABBREVIATION WORDS $1600: Hoosiers join up with their neighbor directly south to form this newspaper-stained word inky (Indiana & Kentucky) |
| #8175, aired 2020-03-06 | MUSICALS $2000: "Fo' Dolla"' & "Our Heroine" were 2 of the "Tales of" this author made into the show "South Pacific" Michener |
| #8174, aired 2020-03-05 | CONTINENTAL $1000: With a leg span of about 12 inches, the Goliath bird-eating spider is native to this continent South America |
| #8171, aired 2020-03-02 | MICRONESIA $400: Micronesia is both a country & a larger region of about 2,000 islands within the 10,000 that make up this South Pacific region Oceania |
| #8170, aired 2020-02-28 | EXPLORERS $400: When Robert Falcon Scott reached the South Pole in 1912, he found this country's flag left 5 weeks earlier by Amundsen Norway |
| #8169, aired 2020-02-27 | WALLS & BRIDGES $200: Check out the Moonlight Rainbow show on the Banpo Bridge spanning the Han River in this capital of South Korea Seoul |
| #8168, aired 2020-02-26 | THE EARTH $200: This type of tropical grassland plain found in South America & Africa sounds like a city in Georgia savanna |
| #8168, aired 2020-02-26 | INTERNATIONAL AIRLINES $2000: By 1924 Imperial, the ancestor of this current airline, had routes to Australia, India & South Africa British Airways |
| #8168, aired 2020-02-26 | THE EARTH $3,200 (Daily Double): This is a narrow strip of land connecting 2 larger land areas, like the one connecting North & South America an isthmus |
| #8167, aired 2020-02-25 | THAT'S SO 500 YEARS AGO! $400: On Sept. 20, 1519 this Portuguese captain led his 5-ship fleet towards South America without even using GPS! Magellan |
| #8166, aired 2020-02-24 | MACHO CHEESE $1600: This large Italian island due south of Corsica is famous for casu marzu, a pungent cheese Sardinia |
| #8165, aired 2020-02-21 | SOUTH AMERICAN PLACES $400: 9,500 feet up in the Andes, Portillo, Chile is South America's oldest resort for this winter activity skiing |
| #8165, aired 2020-02-21 | YOU'RE OUT OF THE HOLE $400: These armored insectivores of the U.S. south emerge from their burrows at night an armadillo |
| #8165, aired 2020-02-21 | SOUTH AMERICAN PLACES $800: This planned capital city was founded after World War II & today is home to more than 2.5 million Brasilia |
| #8165, aired 2020-02-21 | SOUTH AMERICAN PLACES $1200: The Sugarcane Fair is a tourist draw in Cali in this country Colombia |
| #8165, aired 2020-02-21 | SOUTH AMERICAN PLACES $2000: This capital of Suriname was ceded by the English to the Dutch by the 1667 Treaty of Breda Paramaribo |
| #8165, aired 2020-02-21 | SOUTH AMERICAN PLACES $5,000 (Daily Double): Magdalena, Argentina, & Las Piedras, Uruguay are on opposite sides of this waterway the Rio de la Plata |
| #8164, aired 2020-02-20 | ESTABLISHING SOME BORDERS $800: As seen here, the South China Sea to its east & south Vietnam |
| #8164, aired 2020-02-20 | LESSER-KNOWN NAMES $800: Seen here, 19th century's Spanish general Pablo Morillo was sent to South America to finish off this man but had to make peace with him (Simon) Bolivar |
| #8164, aired 2020-02-20 | ESTABLISHING SOME BORDERS $2000: Russia to its north, Uzbekistan to its south Kazakhstan |
| #8161, aired 2020-02-17 | THE NOT-SO-VICIOUS CIRCLE $800: For at least one day in December, the sun does not set south of this circle the Antarctic |
| #8161, aired 2020-02-17 | WORLD RIVERS $2000: Not the Seine but this river that enters the Atlantic south of Brittany is the longest in France the Loire |
| #8159, aired 2020-02-13 | TRIAL MIX $2000: Seized in South America in 1960, this high-ranking Nazi was transported to Israel, where he was tried & executed Adolf Eichmann |
| #8158, aired 2020-02-12 | 21st CENTURY JAPAN $400: In May-June 2002 32 teams competed as Japan co-hosted this international sporting event with South Korea the FIFA World Cup |
| #8158, aired 2020-02-12 | SNAKES! $500 (Daily Double): The yellow type of this South American snake can reach 15 feet long; its green cousin can reach 30 the anaconda |
| #8154, aired 2020-02-06 | IT'S NOT YOU; IT'S ME $2,500 (Daily Double): Only 1.17% of this new African country's population voted to stay with the old country in 2011 Southern (South) Sudan |
| #8150, aired 2020-01-31 | @ $200: About 1,600 smaller islands surround the main one of this nation that's 90 miles south of Key West Cuba |
| #8150, aired 2020-01-31 | WORLD TRANSPORTATION $2000: In 31 hours South Africa's blue train travels in luxury between these 2 cities, the administrative & legislative capitals Cape Town & Pretoria |
| #8148, aired 2020-01-29 | PLACES $2000: Sweet! This South American judicial capital lies at 9,000 feet on the Quirpinchaca River Sucre |
| #8145, aired 2020-01-24 | GEOGRAPHIC NUMBERS $1,400 (Daily Double): It's in the middle of the Susquehanna River just south of Harrisburg Three Mile Island |
| #8144, aired 2020-01-23 | THE COUNTY LINE $400: Rev up your big ol' RV & go to this Wisconsin county south of Waupaca & east of Waushara Winnebago |
| #8142, aired 2020-01-21 | A CAPITAL CITY IDEA $800: In 1976 it became the capital of the reunified North & South Vietnam Hanoi |
| #8140, aired 2020-01-17 | NORTH, SOUTH, EAST, WEST $400: In Spanish they're the Indias Occidentales the West Indies |
| #8140, aired 2020-01-17 | NORTH, SOUTH, EAST, WEST $800: In 1977 the Soviet icebreaker Arktika became the first surface ship to reach it the North Pole |
| #8140, aired 2020-01-17 | NORTH, SOUTH, EAST, WEST $1200: Celebrated April 27, Freedom Day, this country's national holiday, commemorates an event of 1994 South Africa |
| #8140, aired 2020-01-17 | NORTH, SOUTH, EAST, WEST $2000: The then Agricultural College of the State of Michigan was founded in what's now this city in 1855 East Lansing |
| #8140, aired 2020-01-17 | NORTH, SOUTH, EAST, WEST $4,000 (Daily Double): You'll find this state in Australia's lower right-hand corner New South Wales |
| #8139, aired 2020-01-16 | NATIONAL SPELLING BEE WINNING WORDS $400: South-of-the-border dog breed (1967) Chihuahua |
| #8139, aired 2020-01-16 | PARK CITY $800: This South Dakota city and its beautiful Falls Park are both named for the same landmark Sioux Falls |
| #8136, aired 2020-01-13 | RECOGNIZING THE COUNTRY $800: From north to south, it's long enough to stretch from Michigan to Florida Vietnam |
| #8135, aired 2020-01-10 | BEFORE & AFTER $400: South African host of "The Daily Show" who came up with an American dictionary of the English language Trevor Noah Webster |
| #8134, aired 2020-01-09 | HOMOPHONE CALLS $1200: A dull person can become exciting as a South African of Dutch extraction bore [Boer] |
| #8134, aired 2020-01-09 | AMERICAN "CITY" $1600: It's home to the South Dakota School of Mines & Technology Rapid City |
| #5, aired 2020-01-09 | PREQUELS & SEQUELS $1000: In 1847 Herman Melville published this sequel to "Typee" subtitled "A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas" Omoo |
| #5, aired 2020-01-09 | ROAD TRIP! $1600: Forget Route 66! We're going north to south on this numerical highway that turns into the "Blues Highway" down south 61 |
| #5, aired 2020-01-09 | GOVERNMENT IN CRISIS $9,200 (Daily Double): This 1832-33 crisis ended when South Carolina backed down from its efforts to void federal law Nullification |
| #8132, aired 2020-01-07 | FUN WITH ZIP CODES $600: To promote the use of ZIP Codes, Ethel Merman recorded a jingle to the tune of this song from "Song of the South" "Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah" |
| #8132, aired 2020-01-07 | POLITICS $1000: He served South Carolina as a senator from 1954 to 2003, dying short of his 101st birthday Strom Thurmond |
| #8132, aired 2020-01-07 | IN THE COUNTRY $1200: Chuncheon, just below the 38th parallel South Korea |
| #1, aired 2020-01-07 | BEFORE, DURING & AFTER $400: Oscar-nominated "South Park" song that soars in a V formation, with a 1970s Yankee closer "Blame Canada" Goose Gossage |
| #8128, aired 2020-01-01 | WHERE YA FROM? $1000: A Paceño is from this South American capital La Paz |
| #8127, aired 2019-12-31 | WHERE AM I? $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew is standing in the street.) I'm in this South Dakota city named for the fallen timbers left by a forest fire. Today the entire city is a national historic landmark Deadwood |
| #8123, aired 2019-12-25 | NORTHERN CALIFORNIA $1200: I have found it! --this city about 100 miles south of the Oregon border whose name is also the state motto Eureka |
| #8119, aired 2019-12-19 | STUPID ANSWERS $800: Bordering Angola & Botswana, what is now Namibia was administered by this South African country until 1990 South Africa |
| #8117, aired 2019-12-17 | BATTLE LOSERS $400: South Mountain: McClellan tops this top general (Robert E.) Lee |
| #8116, aired 2019-12-16 | SPARK JOY $1,000 (Daily Double): One a Buddhist, one a South African Anglican, these 2 religious leaders co-wrote "The Book of Joy" the Dalai Lama & Desmond Tutu |
| #8115, aired 2019-12-13 | NELLIE BLY $400: Venturing south to report from this country, Bly reported "American food is insipid in comparison" to the local food Mexico |
| #8114, aired 2019-12-12 | BOOK OF THE YEAR $800: 2 books published 50 years apart identify 1877 as a year of violence & as the end of this post-slavery period in the south Reconstruction |
| #8113, aired 2019-12-11 | IN FULL $1,000 (Daily Double): "'The Military College of South Carolina" is in the full name of this school the Citadel |
| #8112, aired 2019-12-10 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: Saying "I will make them twins", in 1889 President Harrison blindly signed these 2 states into the Union so no one knows which was first North & South Dakota |
| #8109, aired 2019-12-05 | "B" SIEGE $1200: The British were under siege from these South Africans at Mafikeng for more than 200 days before reinforcements came the Boers |
| #8106, aired 2019-12-02 | LAFAYETTE, IT IS THERE $400: New Orleans' Lafayette Square is just south of this district AKA the Vieux Carre, naturellement the French Quarter |
| #8106, aired 2019-12-02 | 5 CLICKS $1000: The "X"-factor of this South African language is 18 different clicks Xhosa |
| #8104, aired 2019-11-28 | PAMPAS $200: The Pampas cover an area in South America of about 300,000 square miles from the Atlantic to the foothills of these mountains the Andes |
| #8104, aired 2019-11-28 | PAMPAS $1000: This flightless South American bird, a relative to the ostrich, lives on the Pampas the rhea |
| #8103, aired 2019-11-27 | WE SHARE THAT WATER $2000: The Savannah River Georgia & South Carolina |
| #8102, aired 2019-11-26 | FUN WITH G20 COUNTRIES $1600: The 2 members with the initials S.A. South Africa & Saudi Arabia |
| #8101, aired 2019-11-25 | WORD ON THE STREET $600: In Chicago: North Lake Shore or South Wacker Drive |
| #8101, aired 2019-11-25 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $5,000 (Daily Double): This peninsula stretches south about 700 miles from the Isthmus of Kra to Singapore the Malay Peninsula |
| #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 |
| #8098, aired 2019-11-20 | PLUNDER WOMAN $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents by a display monitor.) The most successful pirate of all time was a woman; Ching Shih grew her late husband's fleet into more than 1,000 ships, controlling almost all the piracy in this sea; the Emperor had to offer her amnesty to end it the South China Sea |
| #8097, aired 2019-11-19 | MISLEADING NAMES $1200: As a rodent from South America, this critter hardly lives up to its porcine name a guinea pig |
| #8094, aired 2019-11-14 | TONY-WINNING ROLES $1600: Juanita Hall won at the fourth Tonys as Bloody Mary in this WWII-set musical South Pacific |
| #8093, aired 2019-11-13 | U.N. INTERNATIONAL YEARS $1000: 1982 was the Year of Sanctions against this country that was suspended from the General Assembly in 1974 & readmitted in 1994 South Africa |
| #8093, aired 2019-11-13 | TROPIC OF CAPRICORN $1200: If you're following the tropic westward, just south of Tonga Monday becomes Tuesday as you do this crossing the International Date Line |
| #8093, aired 2019-11-13 | TROPIC OF CAPRICORN $8,000 (Daily Double): 4 countries lie completely south of the tropic: New Zealand, Eswatini, Lesotho & this one in South America Uruguay |
| #8092, aired 2019-11-12 | MAMMALS $1000: Seen here is the collared species of this pig-like mammal of the U.S. Southwest & South America a peccary |
| #8091, aired 2019-11-11 | TRUE STORY $400: Natalie Y. Moore examined "The South Side: A Portrait of" this city "and American Segregation " Chicago |
| #8089, aired 2019-11-07 | U.S. ISLANDS $800: This South Carolina island is roughly 12 miles long, 5 miles wide & home to more than 20 championship golf courses Hilton Head |
| #8088, aired 2019-11-06 | IT'S NOT AUSTRALIA $400: It has twice as many people, 1.3 million of them in Córdoba, & it's in South America Argentina |
| #8088, aired 2019-11-06 | SCIENCE & EXPLORATION $800: In 1768 then-Lt. James Cook set off for the South Pacific to observe the transit of this planet, & many discoveries followed Venus |
| #8088, aired 2019-11-06 | SCIENCE & EXPLORATION $4,000 (Daily Double): In the early 1800s this German studied the ocean currents of South America; one off South America's West Coast is named for him Humboldt |
| #8087, aired 2019-11-05 | ANAGRAMS OF EACH OTHER $800: A yell & a cardinal compass direction shout & south |
| #8087, aired 2019-11-05 | THIS LAND IS YOUR LANDLOCKED COUNTRY $800: Most people in this South American country speak an indigenous language called Guarani, also the name of its monetary unit Paraguay |
| #8087, aired 2019-11-05 | PAC-12 SCHOOLS $1200: In 2017 this private school opened a new $700 million "Village" featuring South L.A.'s first Trader Joe's USC |
| #8087, aired 2019-11-05 | GEOGRAPHICA $1600: You'll find each of these 2 geographic entities at 90 degrees latitude the North and South Pole |
| #8087, aired 2019-11-05 | PAC-12 SCHOOLS $1600: Alums of this U.--former Liberian Pres. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf & (bigger hint) Trey Parker & Matt Stone of "South Park" University of Colorado |
| #8086, aired 2019-11-04 | ALLITERATION ON THE MAP $800: Juba is the capital city of this recently independent nation South Sudan |
| #8086, aired 2019-11-04 | TO THE STARS $2000: Many of the European space agency's launches happen at its spaceport in this South American territory French Guiana |
| #8085, aired 2019-11-01 | BIG & SMALL SCREEN CLASSICS $800: It's 10 years later as Al Swearengen & friends celebrate South Dakota statehood on the 2019 movie based on this HBO series Deadwood |
| #8084, aired 2019-10-31 | FICTIONAL FLAGS FLYING $4,000 (Daily Double): After arriving by submarine, this character claims the South Pole with a black flag bearing a gold "N" Captain Nemo |
| #8083, aired 2019-10-30 | COLLEGE TOWNS $1,400 (Daily Double): Ulysses would fit right in in this city at the south end of Cayuga Lake Ithaca |
| #8082, aired 2019-10-29 | COASTLINES $200: This South American country has about 4,600 miles of Atlantic coastline Brazil |
| #8080, aired 2019-10-25 | THE WESTERN CONFERENCE $800: At the 1822 Guayaquil Conference, José de San Martín met this other South American liberator in western Ecuador (Simón) Bolívar |
| #8080, aired 2019-10-25 | THE WESTERN CONFERENCE $1200: South by Southwest is an annual festival in this Texas city Austin, Texas |
| #8076, aired 2019-10-21 | BAN THAT BOOK! $800: This Stowe novel was banned in parts of the slave-holding South & in serf-holding Russia Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| #8076, aired 2019-10-21 | & NATIVE LAND $1000: Nobel Peace Prize winner F.W. de Klerk South Africa |
| #8073, aired 2019-10-16 | OLD SCHOOL MOVIES $800: In 1998 this actor was "The Waterboy" for South Central Louisiana State until he became a tackling machine on the gridiron Adam Sandler |
| #8073, aired 2019-10-16 | RAINY DAY GEAR $1000: This British brand known for its plaid-lined raincoats outfitted Amundsen for his 1911 South Pole expedition Burberry |
| #8071, aired 2019-10-14 | LET'S LIVE ABROAD $400: ...But not too far abroad! This border city about 15 miles south of San Diego will keep us close to the good ol' USA Tijuana |
| #8070, aired 2019-10-11 | WELCOME TO THE MONKEY HOUSE $800: A shell-like organ in its throat gives resonance to the voice of this South American monkey, leading to its name a howler monkey |
| #8070, aired 2019-10-11 | SOUTHERN POLITICIAN/AUTHOR $1600: Jesse Helms' memoir "Here's Where I Stand" says he likes seeing others from this state succeed, like Clay Aiken on "American Idol" North Carolina |
| #8070, aired 2019-10-11 | SOUTHERN POLITICIAN/AUTHOR $2,000 (Daily Double): The first novel ever published by a U.S. president was "The Hornet's Nest", his saga of the Revolutionary War in the South Jimmy Carter |
| #8068, aired 2019-10-09 | LITERARY CHARACTERS $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew at Texas Beeworks in Austin.) In the story "His Last Bow", this fictional character says of his retirement, "I live and keep bees upon the South Downs," and shows Dr. Watson the book he wrote on beekeeping Sherlock Holmes |
| #8068, aired 2019-10-09 | CLASSIC TELEVISION $1600: 9114 South Central Avenue in L.A. was the TV home of this title father & son's house & junkyard Sanford and Son |
| #8066, aired 2019-10-07 | THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION $2000: For his elusive tactics in South Carolina marsh areas, guerrilla leader Francis Marion was known by this nickname the Swamp Fox |
| #8065, aired 2019-10-04 | SAINTS ON THE MAP $800: Napoleon lived at the Briars Pavilion & then at Longwood on this island in the South Atlantic Saint Helena |
| #8063, aired 2019-10-02 | THE NOT-SO-GOOD DOCTOR $800: Nicknamed the "Angel of Death", this Nazi doctor fled to South America after World War II Mengele |
| #8062, aired 2019-10-01 | CLUES ACROSS AMERICA $800: (Hi, I'm Ben Bailey with Local 4.) You'll actually go south to Canada if you take your merry wife onto the Ambassador Bridge, which connects Detroit & this city Windsor (Ontario) |
| #8060, aired 2019-09-27 | CABLE TELEVISION $400: Stan, Cartman & the whole town of "South Park" helped put this cable channel on the map Comedy Central |
| #8060, aired 2019-09-27 | WATER $800: This strait named for an explorer who passed through it in 1520 separates mainland South America from Tierra del Fuego Island the Strait of Magellan |
| #8060, aired 2019-09-27 | ANTIQUITY CUSTODY BATTLES $2000: In 2017 South Korea returned stolen dinosaur fossils, including the Tarbosaurus bataar, to this Asian country Mongolia |
| #8059, aired 2019-09-26 | NAMES IN POLITICS $600: Pete Buttigieg, whose last name is from the Maltese for "lord of the poultry", is mayor of this Indiana city South Bend |
| #8058, aired 2019-09-25 | THE FRENCH & INDIAN WAR $600: The British deported French-speaking settlers from Acadia in Nova Scotia; many went south, where their descendants became these people the Cajuns |
| #8058, aired 2019-09-25 | GETTING TO THE AIRPORT $1000: It's 28 miles south of London between Povey Cross & Lowfield Heath, & it's not Heathrow Gatwick |
| #8057, aired 2019-09-24 | THE LAND DOWN UNDER $600: Down under Botswana South Africa |
| #8054, aired 2019-09-19 | MOVIES ABOUT GEOGRAPHY $800: After a plane crash in "Alive", a Rugby team stranded in these snow-swept peaks struggles to survive Andes |
| #8053, aired 2019-09-18 | "M" PORTS $800: In June 2018 the Ovation of the Seas, the largest cruise ship ever to dock in the Philippines, arrived in this port's South Harbor Manila |
| #8051, aired 2019-09-16 | WHICH PRESIDENT? $7,000 (Daily Double): 7 of the first 10 presidents were born south of the White House; Martin Van Buren & these 2 men were from the north John Adams & John Quincy Adams |
| #8049, aired 2019-09-12 | BEEN AROUND AWHILE $4,000 (Daily Double): Ernest Hollings, who died in 2019 at age 97, was a junior senator longer than anyone else--36 years from this state South Carolina |
| #8045, aired 2019-07-26 | BEFORE & AFTER: SINGERS & WRITERS $800: "Super Freak" singer who also told "Tales of the South Pacific" Rick James Michener |
| #8044, aired 2019-07-25 | GATES $2000: The Donuimun Gate in this capital was dismantled during Japanese occupation in 1915, so now it's called the Invisible Gate Seoul, South Korea |
| #8042, aired 2019-07-23 | STATE OF THE ART $400: Lucy the Elephant in Margate, formerly known as South Atlantic City New Jersey |
| #8042, aired 2019-07-23 | STATE OF THE ART $2,000 (Daily Double): The Crazy Horse memorial South Dakota |
| #8038, aired 2019-07-17 | "LIM"ITED LIABILITY $2000: For much of its 1,100-mile length, it forms South Africa's border with Botswana & Zimbabwe the Limpopo |
| #8037, aired 2019-07-16 | STATE CAPITALS $800: 6 bronze stars on South Carolina's State House in this city mark where Sherman's cannonballs hit it during the Civil War Columbia |
| #8036, aired 2019-07-15 | KILLED OFF THE TV SHOW $800: After getting impaled on "South Park", this Isaac Hayes character was the meal for a bear & a mountain lion Chef |
| #8034, aired 2019-07-11 | A WAR BY ANY OTHER NAME $400: In the South, the American Civil War is sometimes called the War of Northern this 10-letter word aggression |
| #8033, aired 2019-07-10 | ANCIENT EGYPT $1200: Before the one in Tennessee, there was this capital of ancient Egypt south of modern Cairo Memphis |
| #8032, aired 2019-07-09 | STATE OF THE COUNTIES $200: There's Marlboro country--er, county--along with Greenville & Sumter South Carolina |
| #8028, aired 2019-07-03 | MY LAWN $800: I plant the same tall fescue grass used in this directional lawn that hosts an annual Easter Egg Roll the South Lawn at the White House |
| #8026, aired 2019-07-01 | HOMELAND $200: South Africa is home to the Afrikaners, descendants of these people, from a Dutch word for "farmer" a Boer |
| #8026, aired 2019-07-01 | HOW ANGELIC $800: On this continent's Kerepakupai Meru River, Angel Falls plummets 3,212 feet South America |
| #8025, aired 2019-06-28 | "P"LACES ON THE MAP $1000: This South African city was the capital of the Transvaal Pretoria |
| #8025, aired 2019-06-28 | INTERNATIONAL SPORTS $2000: A tournament in this sport named after a school is held yearly among Argentina, South Africa, Australia & New Zealand rugby |
| #8024, aired 2019-06-27 | THE 1600s $1000: European settlement in South Africa began with the wreck of a Dutch ship rounding this cape in 1647 the Cape of Good Hope |
| #8023, aired 2019-06-26 | INSTA-GRAHAM $1000: In 2003 Lindsey Graham took over Strom Thurmond's Senate seat to represent this Southern state South Carolina |
| #8023, aired 2019-06-26 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD $1600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) Of the 12 independent countries in South America, Brazil, which occupies nearly half the continent, borders 9 of them--all except for Chile & this country Ecuador |
| #8021, aired 2019-06-24 | ANIMATED TV $200: This series featuring Kyle & Cartman grew out of a video that went 1995 "viral" as a Christmas card South Park |
| #8021, aired 2019-06-24 | MEMORIALS $400: An early model shows what this South Dakota memorial might have looked like Mount Rushmore |
| #8019, aired 2019-06-20 | METEOROLOGY $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows storms on a map.) In the north Atlantic & northeast Pacific, "hurricane" is the regional term; in the northwest Pacific, it's "typhoon", but in the south Pacific & Indian Ocean, this word is used, from Greek for "circle" a cyclone |
| #8019, aired 2019-06-20 | WHERE YOU GO FROM HERE $800: If you take a shortcut south through the Suez Canal, you end up in this sea the Red Sea |
| #8018, aired 2019-06-19 | ANIMALS $400: The giant species of this South American insectivore has no teeth & an up to 2-foot-long tongue an anteater |
| #8018, aired 2019-06-19 | BIG RIVERS $800: At 3,000 miles, the Parana River is only the second-longest river on this continent South America |
| #8017, aired 2019-06-18 | GRAPHIC NOVELS $600: "Trinity" deals with the history of the first atomic bomb that was exploded 200 miles south of Los Alamos in this state New Mexico |
| #8017, aired 2019-06-18 | THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE $800: Alaska's Brooks Range is the northern part of this mountain system that extends south into New Mexico the Rockies |
| #8017, aired 2019-06-18 | THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE $2,000 (Daily Double): Named after a saint, this most populous Brazilian city is also the most populous metro area south of the Equator São Paulo |
| #8011, aired 2019-06-10 | 3-WORD CITY NAMES $400: This state capital is south of Ogden & north of Provo Salt Lake City |
| #8011, aired 2019-06-10 | 3-WORD CITY NAMES $6,000 (Daily Double): The full name of this South American city begins with Cidade de Sao Sebastiao do Rio de Janeiro |
| #8008, aired 2019-06-05 | CROCS $1000: Crocodilians include crocodiles, alligators, gavials & these semiaquatic reptiles of Central & South America caimans |
| #8007, aired 2019-06-04 | THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS $1000: In 1520 this Portuguese explorer reported he encountered 8-foot natives in South America he called patagones Magellan |
| #8006, aired 2019-06-03 | CAPITAL "A" $1600: Called City of Churches, this capital of South Australia has the country's oldest Catholic cathedral Adelaide |
| #8005, aired 2019-05-31 | COLONIAL PENNSYLVANIA $400: To settle a land dispute in the 1760s, Mason & Dixon marked the border between Penn. & this state to the south Maryland |
| #8003, aired 2019-05-29 | AWARDS & PRIZES $1600: This vaunted trophy is given out each year in the south of France; the first one went to Delbert Mann for his film "Marty" in 1955 the Palme d'Or |
| #8002, aired 2019-05-28 | THE EASTERN SEABOARD $400: This "Beach", a seaside resort, is home to South Carolina's first state park Myrtle Beach |
| #8001, aired 2019-05-27 | VERB: ATE 'EM $400: A South Carolina BBQ joint is named for this phrase meaning to make a hog of yourself pig out |
| #8001, aired 2019-05-27 | ACTRESSES $800: This South African-born beauty won an Oscar for playing a "Monster", serial killer Aileen Wuornos Charlize Theron |
| #7997, aired 2019-05-21 | PEOPLE $800: In 2012 the Mo Ibrahim Foundation gave this South African archbishop a special award for "speaking truth to power" Desmond Tutu |
| #7997, aired 2019-05-21 | ACRONYMS & INITIALISMS $4,800 (Daily Double): In 2018 this dividing strip of land was the site of a historic meeting between Kim Jong Un & South Korea's president the DMZ |
| #7995, aired 2019-05-17 | SOMETIMES CAPITALIZED $1000: Capitalized, it's a historical South African province; lowercase, it means relating to birth Natal/natal |
| #7992, aired 2019-05-14 | CANADIANA $200: Each fall in the Arctic, a herd of these deer--as many as 250,000--travels south to feed in forested regions caribou |
| #7991, aired 2019-05-13 | WATER, WATER EVERYWHERE $1200: It's the gulf seen here--that's Prince Edward Island near the south end the Gulf of St. Lawrence |
| #7989, aired 2019-05-09 | SOCIAL STUDIES $200: It's South America's most populous country Brazil |
| #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 | COUNTRIES' MUSIC $3,000 (Daily Double): Jaiva, or township jive, is native to this country South Africa |
| #7986, aired 2019-05-06 | GEOGRAPHY $1000: Within a former province of South Africa, you'll find the name of this river on its southern edge the Vaal |
| #7985, aired 2019-05-03 | WORLD CITIES $1600: If you're gonna lie in the heart of something, make it the gold field of the Witwatersrand, like this huge South African city Johannesburg |
| #7984, aired 2019-05-02 | WORLD OF SPORT $600: In August 2018 a Hawaiian squad beat the team of youngsters from South Korea to take this championship the Little League championship |
| #7980, aired 2019-04-26 | CRAZY WEATHER WE'RE HAVING! $1000: In 2013 there were 114-degree temps in La Rioja, the wine belt of this South American country Argentina |
| #7980, aired 2019-04-26 | GREEK CUISINE $3,200 (Daily Double): Made from the roe of the grey mullet, avgotaraho is sometimes called this delicacy "of the south" caviar |
| #7979, aired 2019-04-25 | WHAT'S FOR DINNER? $400: We're going south of the border for homemade these--get 'em while they're hot tamales |
| #7978, aired 2019-04-24 | WHERE AM I? $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents.) I'm outside South Africa's oldest building, the Castle of Good Hope in this city, named for its location on a peninsula Cape Town |
| #7977, aired 2019-04-23 | WORLD NEWSPAPERS $1200: The Chosun Ilbo South Korea |
| #7977, aired 2019-04-23 | WORLD NEWSPAPERS $1600: O Globo (in South America) Brazil |
| #7976, aired 2019-04-22 | NEW COUNTRY $800: A 24-year armed conflict led to the independence of this nation from South Africa in 1990 Namibia |
| #7976, aired 2019-04-22 | DOUBLE-LETTER PLACES $800: About 20 miles south of Kampala, this city is at the end of a peninsula that juts into Lake Victoria Entebbe |
| #7976, aired 2019-04-22 | NEW COUNTRY $9,812 (Daily Double): The 2 Saudi-adjacent countries called this (Aden) & this (Sanaa) merged in 1990 to form a new nation North and South Yemen |
| #7974, aired 2019-04-18 | THE AUNT HILL $200: A book by M.M. Manring analyzes this pancake mix symbol's roots in the mammy figure of the old South Aunt Jemima |
| #7972, aired 2019-04-16 | THE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE $2000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew gives the clue from the Franklin Institute.) The Franklin Institute features a four-story pendulum named for this Frenchman; in the morning the museum starts the pendulum swinging in a north-south direction, & by 5, half the pegs are knocked down Foucault |
| #7971, aired 2019-04-15 | WORLD FULL OF IDIOMS $600: Meaning "wasted effort", a Thai idiom is "riding" one of these South Asian beasts "to catch a grasshopper" an elephant |
| #7968, aired 2019-04-10 | ACROSS STATE LINES $600: Going south on U.S. 281:
Nebraska,
Kansas,
this Oklahoma |
| #7961, aired 2019-04-01 | MOROCCO $1600: Ranges spanning Morocco include the Rif Mountains in its north & these mountains toward the south the Atlas Mountains |
| #7961, aired 2019-04-01 | CLOTHING $4,000 (Daily Double): Among the Ndebele of South Africa, a jocolo is an apron worn starting with this occasion marriage |
| #7960, aired 2019-03-29 | CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST $800: Biscoito casadinho at Pao & Comapnhia in Belo Horizonte South America |
| #7959, aired 2019-03-28 | NAME THAT NOVELIST! $400: "'There's not been a direwolf sighted south of the wall in two hundred years" (George R.R.) Martin |
| #7957, aired 2019-03-26 | IT HAPPENED IN SOUTH AMERICA $200: Around 1300 southern Peru was the site where this group of South American Indian people founded an empire the Inca |
| #7957, aired 2019-03-26 | IT HAPPENED IN SOUTH AMERICA $400: The Peronist party has governed this country for most of the 21st century, though Juan Peron died in 1974 Argentina |
| #7957, aired 2019-03-26 | IT HAPPENED IN SOUTH AMERICA $600: These 2 Wild Bunch outlaws are said to have died c. 1909 in a few places; 1 possible checkout spot was near San Vicente, Bolivia Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid |
| #7957, aired 2019-03-26 | IT HAPPENED IN SOUTH AMERICA $800: Later to lay down its arms, around the year 2000 this country's FARC insurgency had 20,000 fighters Colombia |
| #7957, aired 2019-03-26 | IT HAPPENED IN SOUTH AMERICA $1000: Oh Rio, Rio, hear them shout across the land that this 125' statue was inaugurated on Oct. 12, 1931 Christ the Redeemer |
| #7956, aired 2019-03-25 | LET'S HEAD NORTH $600: South Bend is in northern Indiana; North Bend, near Coos Bay, is in this coastal state Oregon |
| #7955, aired 2019-03-22 | U.S. ISLANDS $2000: From 1817 to 1821 Jean Lafitte ran his main smuggling operation from this island off the coast of Texas Galveston |
| #7954, aired 2019-03-21 | MYTH-POURRI $1600: After her marriage to Jason goes south, this sorceress weds King Aegeus Medea |
| #7953, aired 2019-03-20 | LYRICALLY INACCURATE $800: Journey's Steve Perry admitted he made up the geographic locale of "South Detroit" in this song "Don't Stop Believing" |
| #7952, aired 2019-03-19 | TV's MIDDLE CHILD $600: Oh, my god! He's the middle child in the McCormick family on "South Park" Kenny |
| #7952, aired 2019-03-19 | VOCABULARY $1600: This South American rodent has velvety-soft fur & can be kept as a pet the chinchilla |
| #7951, aired 2019-03-18 | COUNTRY SHORTCUTS $400: Lesotho & eSwatini (formerly Swaziland) South Africa |
| #7951, aired 2019-03-18 | ARCHAEOLOGY $1600: In this South Dakota city where Calamity Jane lived, a 2001-2004 dig found 250,000 artifacts just in Chinatown Deadwood |
| #7948, aired 2019-03-13 | WORLD LEADERS 1919 $1600: In August Jan Smuts said, "a wave of the deepest emotion has passed over" this country at the news of PM Botha's death South Africa |
| #7947, aired 2019-03-12 | CIA WORLD FACTBOOK NO. 1s $1000: South Africa: 7.2 million people living with this communicable affliction AIDS |
| #7946, aired 2019-03-11 | 1870s AMERICA $400: In 1874 a U.S. Army expedition to South Dakota found gold in them thar hills the Black Hills |
| #7946, aired 2019-03-11 | CHANNEL SURFING $3,000 (Daily Double): Dusky dolphins surf this South American channel, named for a 19th century science ship the Beagle |
| #7945, aired 2019-03-08 | SWAP THE VOWELS $1200: A south-of-the-border currency swaps vowels to become this FX show with transgender performers Pose |
| #7941, aired 2019-03-04 | THE SEA'S THE LIMIT $2000: The north coast of this island nation lies on the Gulf of Mexico & the Atlantic; the south coast is on the Caribbean Cuba |
| #7940, aired 2019-03-01 | TRAVEL $1600: Named for a statesman, this largest national park in South Africa offers the chance to see amazing wildlife up close Kruger |
| #7938, aired 2019-02-27 | INTERNATIONAL DISPUTES $2000: Falklands foes Argentina & the U.K. also bicker over the South these Islands, an old name for far-off Hawaii the South Sandwich Islands |
| #7937, aired 2019-02-26 | LAKES & RIVERS $1600: The Amazon River begins not in Brazil but with headwaters in this western South American country Peru |
| #7937, aired 2019-02-26 | JUST THE FACTS $2000: Maynard Jackson's 1973 election as the first black mayor of this state capital was seen as a sign of "The New South" Atlanta |
| #7930, aired 2019-02-15 | PRESIDENTS' DAYS $800: Presidents' Day in Alabama honors Washington & this next president from the South Jefferson |
| #7930, aired 2019-02-15 | LIQUIDS $1200: Once, the South's main industry was this tree product, now used for paint removal but then for pitch & tar on ships turpentine |
| #7928, aired 2019-02-13 | A REAL HORROR STORY $600: A N.Y. Times review said this Stephen King title character "runs psychically amok" & things go south for her & everyone Carrie (White) |
| #7921, aired 2019-02-04 | OUR FAIR CITY $1,200 (Daily Double): The river in the name of this South American metropolis is really Guanabara Bay Rio de Janeiro |
| #7919, aired 2019-01-31 | MISCELLANEOUS $200: The South American members of the camel family are the alpaca, guanaco, vicuna & this pack animal a llama |
| #7917, aired 2019-01-29 | GOVERNMENT $1000: It's the grade-"A" job of those on the Rapid City, South Dakota city council an alderman |
| #7915, aired 2019-01-25 | BETTER 1, BETTER 2? $400: Robert Scott's expedition No. 1 didn't reach this spot; trip No. 2 did, but everyone died en route home the South Pole |
| #7914, aired 2019-01-24 | CARACAS $800: Here's a statue of this general, the George Washington of South America, in the Caracas plaza named for him Bolivar |
| #7911, aired 2019-01-21 | THIS & THAT $1000: South Carolina's state tree; it's featured on the state flag, seen here palmetto |
| #7911, aired 2019-01-21 | FOREIGN MONEY $1200: This South American nation's dollar has the currency code GYD Guyana |
| #7911, aired 2019-01-21 | FOREIGN MONEY $1600: Wildlife including rhinos & elephants appear on different denominations of this monetary unit of South Africa the rand |
| #7910, aired 2019-01-18 | IN THE NATO PHONETIC ALPHABET $600: An Nguni person of South Africa Zulu |
| #7909, aired 2019-01-17 | THE WORLD THROUGH LITERATURE $800: Nadine Gordimer's final novel, 2012's "No Time Like the Present", is the story of an interracial couple in this country South Africa |
| #7904, aired 2019-01-10 | OF CORSICA $200: Corsica & this island just a few miles south together formed a province of the ancient Roman Empire Sardinia |
| #7904, aired 2019-01-10 | MENAGERIE $1200: Enthusiasts of these mammals flock to Austin each year to catch them emerging from the South Congress Bridge bats |
| #7897, aired 2019-01-01 | WORLD HISTORY $400: In 1869 the discovery of diamonds near what became the town of Kimberley in this nation led to quite a rush South Africa |
| #7895, aired 2018-12-28 | THE BEER HUNTER $800: If you're hunting Elephant lager, your destination might be Carlsberg headquarters in this country Denmark |
| #7892, aired 2018-12-25 | OLYMPIANS FROM COUNTRIES THAT NO LONGER EXIST $400: 1964, judo:
Nguyen Van Binh of this country South Vietnam |
| #7891, aired 2018-12-24 | LET'S PUT ON A SHOW $800: Collaborating with Robert Lopez, Trey Parker & Matt Stone of "South Park" fame created this show about missionaries The Book of Mormon |
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Mallory Banks, from Summerville, South Carolina
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"And this future physicist loves figuring out the underlying components of...
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Viki Radden, a high school English and literacy teacher from Bakersfield, California
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"She teaches at the largest high school district in California. From...
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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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Sydney Mokel, a senior from South Windsor, Connecticut
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2014 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000. 17 at the time of the...
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Kelly Croissant, an emergency medical technician originally from Sioux Falls, South Dakota
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Season 22 player (2005-11-29).
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Andy Davis, a Chyron operator from South Boston, Massachusetts
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Season 25 2-time champion: $49,799 + $1,000. Andy Davis - A...
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Andrew Ceppos, a senior from Tufts University
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2009 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 21 and from Verona, New...
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Diana North, a first grade teacher from Rock Hill, South Carolina
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"She recently celebrated her silver anniversary of teaching. From Rock Hill,...
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Rita Schwab-Parcel, a clinical information support specialist from Sioux Falls, South Dakota
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Season 23 1-time champion: $37,000 + $2,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: rsparcel
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Peter Severson, a senior from Sioux Falls, South Dakota
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2005 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time of the...
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Dan Oxman, a senior at the University of Maryland from South Orange, New Jersey
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\"He was a senior from South Orange, New Jersey when he...
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Michael Townes, an English and language arts teacher from Greenville, South Carolina
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\"He\'s a third-generation teacher. From Greenville, South Carolina, say hello to...
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Robert Barron, a teacher from Columbia, South Carolina
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Season 34 player (2017-09-28).
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Chris Dellicarpini, a screenwriter from South Huntington, New York
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Season 23 1-time champion: $25,199 + $2,000. Chris was a high...
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Marika Kuspa, a graduate student of biology from South Bend, Indiana
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Season 30 player (2014-01-09).
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Karen Cafaro, an English literature and composition teacher from Georgetown, South Carolina
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"She recently celebrated her silver anniversary of teaching. From Georgetown, South...
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Vicky Smith, a children's book review editor from South Portland, Maine
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Season 33 player (2017-07-14).
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Ryan Presler, a senior at Brandon Valley High School from Sioux Falls, South Dakota
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"He was only in 8th grade when he became a finalist...
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Liz McCarthy, a communications executive from South Orange, New Jersey
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Season 34 player (2018-03-08). Liz\'s mother won about $50,000 on Tic-Tac-Dough...
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Josiah Washington, a 12-year-old seventh grader from Columbia, South Carolina
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"Fasten your seat belts for this future CEO of a roller-coaster...
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Matt Harriss, a tire and lube technician from Clemson, South Carolina
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Season 28 player (2011-12-14).
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Lisa Rhae Burgess, a retired high school teacher from Surfside Beach, South Carolina
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Season 34 player (2017-10-11).
Middle name pronounced like \"RAY\".
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Pauline Bisaccio, a junior at Clemson University in Clemson, South Carolina
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2022 National College Championship quarterfinalist: $10,000. Pauline was majoring in biochemistry...
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Joshua Brakhage, a TV news producer originally from South Coffeyville, Oklahoma
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2014 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000.
Season 29 5-time champion: $103,205 + $1,000.
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Mathew Safer, a transportation planner from South Orange, New Jersey
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Season 25 2-time champion: $44,701 + $1,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: masafer
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John Owens, an ER physician from South Haven, Michigan
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Season 24 player (2008-05-26).
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Gail Sneyers, an administrative assistant from Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
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Season 24 1-time champion: $15,200 + $2,000.
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Abigail Rosenthal, a graduate student from Sioux Falls, South Dakota
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Season 24 player (2008-03-25).
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Grant Garrigan, a real estate broker originally from Highmore, South Dakota
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Season 24 player (2008-03-14).
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Matt Wauben, a systems engineer from Hanahan, South Carolina
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Season 22 player (2006-06-12).
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William Lee, a software engineer from South San Francisco, California
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Season 22 2-time champion: $62,500 + $2,000. Not to be confused...
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Pat Godwin, a reference assistant from Clemson, South Carolina
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Season 22 player (2005-11-25).
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Shelley Fellner-Rosenberg, a psychotherapist from South Windsor, Connecticut
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Season 22 player (2005-11-04).
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: shellfr
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Campbell Warner, a military attorney originally from Rock Hill, South Carolina
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Season 30 2-time champion: $37,200 + $2,000. Campbell appeared on the...
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Eric Newhouse, a director of technical assistance from Vermillion, South Dakota
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"He won both the 1989 Teen Tournament and the 1998 Teen...
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Erica Hersh, a health communications writer originally from South Orange, New Jersey
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Season 31 player (2014-09-17).
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Frank Amanat, an attorney from South Orange, New Jersey
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Season 20 3-time champion: $55,900 + $1,000. Season 20 player (2003-11-03)....
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Jonathan Sanchez, a writer and bookstore owner from Charleston, South Carolina
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Season 26 player (2010-03-22).
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Kerry Breitenbach, a marketing analyst from South Euclid, Ohio
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2006 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 21 5-time champion: $90,400...
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Terrill Wilkins, a high school history teacher from Spartanburg, South Carolina
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Season 26 player (2010-06-21).
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Sara Kniffen, a graduate student from Vermillion, South Dakota
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Season 26 player (2009-10-29).
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Fayaz Kabani, a grad student from Columbia, South Carolina
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Season 25 player (2009-01-16).
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Erik Krauss, an educator from South Williamsport, Pennsylvania
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Season 25 player (2009-05-20).
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Toni Vitanza, a flight attendant from Clemson, South Carolina
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Season 25 player (2009-05-01).
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Jason Zollinger, an engine assembler from South Dayton, New York
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2010 Tournament of Champions 1st runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $100,000. Season...
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Britt Terry, a Ph.D. student from Fountain Inn, South Carolina
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Season 24 player (2007-10-03).
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Trip Robertson, a non-profit development director from Charleston, South Carolina
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Season 24 player (2007-10-15).
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Sarah Martin, a humanitarian advocate originally from Sumter, South Carolina
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Season 23 player (2007-06-06).
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Ruth Merriam, an accountant from South Orange, New Jersey
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Season 23 player (2007-03-21).
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James Washick, a professor from Greenville, South Carolina
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Season 22 1-time champion: $20,801 + $2,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: eldermaas
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Nick Ruiz, a student originally from South Lake Tahoe, California
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Season 22 player (2006-03-15).
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Justin Porter, a landscaper from Charleston, South Carolina
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Season 22 player (2005-10-05).
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Chris Ward, a foreign service officer from Johannesburg, South Africa
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"A 5-game winner in 1998, he was living in Peru when...
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Adam Weinstein, a graduate student from Fort Lauderdale, Florida
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Season 22 2-time champion: $39,700 + $1,000.
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Christine Valada, a photographer and attorney originally from Walton, New York
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2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $68,703...
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Anderson Cooper, a news anchor and correspondent from CNN
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"He anchors his own prime-time news show, a syndicated daytime talk...
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Chris Wallace, a TV host from Fox News Sunday
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"In March, this Fox News anchor was honored by the National...
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Adam Pinson, a senior at the University of Alabama at Birmingham from Pinson, Alabama
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2005 College Championship 1st runner-up: $50,000. Won $100,000 on Who Wants...
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Anderson Cooper, an anchor from CNN's Anderson Cooper 360°
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"As a baby, he was photographed by Diane Arbus of Harper's...
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Ariella Goldstein, a junior from Muhlenberg College
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2009 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 20 and from Cortlandt Manor,...
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Dan Smith, a student from Chicago, Illinois
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Season 25 3-time champion: $69,200 + $1,000. Dan Smith - a...
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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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Peter Pinnow, a high school English teacher from Oxford, Mississippi
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Season 25 2-time champion: $39,200 + $1,000.
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Susan Loring, a telecommunications consultant originally from Charleston, South Carolina
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Season 9 player (1993-06-14). Susan appeared on the Art Fleming version...
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Julie Holzmann, a proofreader and virtual assistant from Columbia, South Carolina
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Season 35 player (2018-10-17).
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Heather Brown, a civil servant from South Berwick, Maine
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Season 38 player (2022-07-07).
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Carter Lockwood, an attorney from Columbia, South Carolina
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Season 38 1-time champion: $17,401 + $2,000.
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Sandy Falck, a physical therapist from South Euclid, Ohio
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Season 12 3-time champion: $28,201.
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Ben Ingram, an IT consultant originally from Florence, South Carolina
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2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2019 All-Star Games member of...
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Carol Gwynn, a property manager from South Pasadena, California
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Season 1 player (1984-11-05). Carol was a former theatrical agent who...
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Ben Ingram, an IT consultant originally from Florence, South Carolina
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2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2019 All-Star Games member of...
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Ben Ingram, a business technology integration consultant from Lake Wylie, South Carolina
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• 8-game champion • 2014 Tournament of Champions winner 2024 Jeopardy!...
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Ben Ingram, a business control specialist originally from Florence, South Carolina
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2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2019 All-Star Games member of...
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Pam Schoenberg, a dentist and entrepreneur from South Salem, New York
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Season 38 player (2021-11-30). JBoard user name: MasterCone Pam won $1,000...
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Pam Schoenberg, a dentist and entrepreneur from South Salem, New York
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2022 Second Chance semifinalist: $2,000. Season 38 player (2021-11-30). JBoard user...
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Christina Wilber, a bartender from South Seaside Park, New Jersey
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Season 12 player (1996-01-26).
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Nelson Brooks, a senior from University of South Carolina
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1993 College Championship semifinalist: $5,000.
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Phil Stehle, a production control supervisor from Seneca, South Carolina
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1987 Senior Tournament semifinalist: $5,000.
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Kevin Krebs, a medical student from Charleston, South Carolina
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Season 6 player (1990-02-23). The player information comes from the chat...
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Ryan Presler, an eighth grader from Sioux Falls, South Dakota
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2023 High School Reunion Tournament quaterfinalist: $5,000. 2019 Teen Tournament 1st...
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Leland Graham III, a research specialist and project coordinator from Rock Hill, South Carolina
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Season 25 2-time champion: $48,400 + $1,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: Leland Graham
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K.C. Harris, a senior from South Hill, Virginia
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1992 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $1,000.
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Andre Havrylyshyn, a Ph.D. student from Irmo, South Carolina
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Season 36 player (2019-10-22).
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Mark Strauch, a molecular biologist originally from South Bend, Indiana
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Season 7 2-time champion: $17,601.
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Cole Bolton, an A.I. writer originally from South Hero, Vermont
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Season 37 player (2020-10-21).
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Marc Muneal, an assistant professor of English from Barnesville, Georgia
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Season 30 player (2013-10-07).
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Daniel Lee, an orthopedic surgeon from South Pasadena, California
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Season 37 player (2020-10-15). Not to be confused with Season 22...
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Sean McShane, a tour guide from South Boston, Massachusetts
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2024 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 39 3-time champion: $80,401...
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Manav Jain, an undergraduate student from Clemson, South Carolina
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Season 38 player (2022-04-28).
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Michelle Mueckler, a stay-at-home mom from Elgin, South Carolina
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Season 34 player (2018-07-19).
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Conor McMahon, a museum curator from Rapid City, South Dakota
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Season 35 player (2018-12-18).
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Karen Bland, an online English teacher from Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
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Season 36 player (2019-09-24).
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Loni Lewis, a teacher librarian from Charleston, South Carolina
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Season 38 player (2022-04-20).
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Inez Seeger, a sleep researcher originally from Ecuador, South America
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Season 7 player (1991-02-05).
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Karen Dalal, an educational consultant from South Holland, Illinois
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Season 7 player (1990-09-20).
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Nathan Berger, a restaurateur and sommelier from South Portland, Maine
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Season 36 1-time champion: $11,999 + $1,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Dan Czekalski, a project manager from Columbia, South Carolina
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Season 39 player (2023-05-03).
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Bob Harrenga, an informational specialist originally from South Dakota
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Season 4 1-time champion: $14,000.
No city was given in Bob's introduction.
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Jesse Darland, an editor from Charleston, South Carolina
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Season 34 player (2018-03-05).
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David Westgor, an attorney originally from Sioux Falls, South Dakota
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Season 10 player (1994-02-01).
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Chris Strom, an actuary from Greenville, South Carolina
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Season 3 player (1986-12-15): a Technics compact disc player.
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Rick Brown, a video tape editor and videographer from South Toms River, New Jersey
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Season 11 2-time champion: $26,801.
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Dan Oxman, a senior from South Orange, New Jersey
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2023 High School Reunion Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2018 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist:...
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Nancy Ferro, a lawyer originally from Greenville, South Carolina
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Season 9 player (1993-06-18).
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Ariel San Jose, a digital marketing manager from South San Francisco, California
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Season 38 player (2022-03-15).
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Matt Douma, a standardized test scorer from Minneapolis, Minnesota
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Season 28 2-time champion: $54,100 + $2,000.
Last name pronounced like "DOO-ma".
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Patrick Rostock, a fulfillment manager from Fort Lauderdale, Florida
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Season 28 player (2011-12-28).
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John Fausz, a bartender from St. Louis, Missouri
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Season 29 player (2012-11-27). Last name rhymes with cows.
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Erin Schmidt, a freelance writer and editor from Mishawaka, Indiana
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Season 29 player (2013-03-04).
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Sara Plant, a travel specialist from Redondo Beach, California
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Season 28 player (2011-12-23).
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Bob McGreevy, an attorney from South Salem, New York
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Season 3 1-time champion: $11,150. Bob, being from New York, declined...
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Nancy Zende, a homemaker from Greenville, South Carolina
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Season 3 player (1986-11-04).
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Randy Cauthen, a poet and professor originally from Charleston, South Carolina
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Season 28 player (2012-04-02).
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Wade Ballard, an attorney from Greenville, South Carolina
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Season 3 player (1986-09-12).
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Haley Batz, a senior from Charlotte, North Carolina
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2008-B Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. Last name pronounced like "BOTS". Jeopardy!...
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Greg Rose, a law student from South Pasadena, California
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Season 10 player (1993-12-24).
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Kevin Smith, a television news reporter and producer from South Pasadena, California
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Season 16 player (2000-07-21). Not to be confused with Season 10...
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Carolyn Goolsby, a writer from Columbia, South Carolina
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Season 19 1-time champion: $13,599 + $2,000.
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Eddie Nwabuoku, a web developer originally from New York, New York
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Season 28 player (2012-06-12).
Last name pronounced like "nwah-BWAH-koo".
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Kevin Leonard, an international consultant originally from South Amboy, New Jersey
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Season 11 player (1994-10-12). Not to be confused with Season 11...
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Casey Clough, a junior from Columbia, South Carolina
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2008-B Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Last name pronounced like "CLUE".
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Matt Downing, a senior at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana
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2022 National College Championship quarterfinalist: $10,000. Matt was majoring in marketing...
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Jim Walke, a project manager from Greenville, South Carolina
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Season 29 player (2012-09-20).
Last name pronounced like "WALLK".
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Sara Shiver, a periodicals librarian from Columbia, South Carolina
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Season 28 player (2012-05-28).
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Veronica Gonzalez Rubio, an apprentice film director originally from Ecuador, South America
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Season 1 player (1984-11-22).
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Sarah Conrad, a senior program associate from Columbia, South Carolina
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Season 19 1-time champion: $10,200 + $2,000.
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Nancy Janow, a cooking instructor from South Orange, New Jersey
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Season 6 player (1989-11-28).
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Erin Maxwell, a high school English and drama teacher from Chicago, Illinois
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Season 27 player (2011-03-21).
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Roger Beebe, a student originally from Columbia, South Carolina
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Season 9 player (1993-03-25).
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Laura Hatcher, a communications consultant from Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
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Season 37 player (2021-07-06).
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Jody Clark, a retail associate from Garretson, South Dakota
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Season 28 player (2012-05-23).
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Chris O. Cook, a college English teacher from Brooklyn, New York
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Season 29 player (2013-05-27).
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Elza Reeves, a bank teller from Louisville, Kentucky
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Season 25 1-time champion: $16,400 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Katty Kay, a Washington, D.C. anchor from BBC World News America
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"She's the Washington, D.C. anchor for BBC World News America, as...
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Carrie Tian, a freshman at Harvard from Greenville, South Carolina
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2012 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000.
17 at the time of the College Championship.
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Heather Anstaett, an auditor from West Palm Beach, Florida
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Season 28 player (2011-10-21).
Last name pronounced like "AN-stett".
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Scott Singer, an attorney from Boca Raton, Florida
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Season 29 1-time champion: $40,401 + $2,000.
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Larry Toppman, a journalist from Charlotte, South Carolina
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Season 2 player (1986-04-08).
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Michael Price, a writer originally from South Plainfield, New Jersey
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Season 9 player (1993-03-18).
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Chris Matthews, a TV host from Hardball and The Chris Matthews Show
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"He served as a speechwriter for Jimmy Carter, and later as...
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Evan Eschliman, a sophomore from Olathe, Kansas
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2012 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000.
16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Elliot Shteir, an attorney from Somerville, New Jersey
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1995-A Seniors Tournament 1st runner-up: $10,000. Dr. Elliot Shteir won $8,230...
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Carl Brandt, an investor originally from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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2009 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 25 4-time champion: $70,799...
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Fiona Power, a registered nurse from South Boston, Massachusetts
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Season 10 1-time champion: $2,198.
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Jesse Roach, a senior from Aiken, South Carolina
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1993 Teen Tournament first runner-up: $12,600.
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Debbi Hopkins, an administrative assistant from Charleston, South Carolina
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Season 33 1-time champion: $18,300 + $2,000.
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Dolph Chaney, a project manager from Homewood, Illinois
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Season 32 player (2016-06-30).
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Amanda Garrett, a telecommunications technician from Greenville, South Carolina
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Season 31 player (2015-05-01).
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Marjika Howarth, a mother of 4 from South Jordan, Utah
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Season 32 player (2016-06-23).
Name pronounced like "mar-EYE-kah HOW-warth".
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Ken Hill, a nuclear power plant inspector from Mauldin, South Carolina
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Season 32 player (2015-11-05).
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Clark Dawson, an attorney from Columbia, South Carolina
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Season 38 player (2022-01-13).
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Ramar Wright, an attorney originally from Aiken, South Carolina
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Season 19 player (2003-06-09).
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Scott Lewis, a director of judicial affairs from Columbia, South Carolina
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Season 15 player (1999-04-26).
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Joel Richards, a carpenter from South Lake Tahoe, California
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Season 5 player (1989-04-27).
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Ann Burger, a food editor from Charleston, South Carolina
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Season 19 player (2002-09-10).
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Jim Paluszak, a senior from Spartanburg, South Carolina
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1991 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $5,000
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Alan Walters, a policeman from Georgetown, South Carolina
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Season 15 1-time champion: $12,001.
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Adia Benton, a junior at Brown University from Columbia, South Carolina
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1998 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $5,000.
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Alex Weathers, a sophomore at MIT from Greenville, South Carolina
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1998 College Championship first runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $16,199.
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Doak Fairey, a computer consultant from Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
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Season 5 3-time champion: $33,200. Doak won $9,000 on The Challengers...
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Darrin Gershman, a graduate student originally from Coral Springs, Florida
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Season 24 player (2008-06-25).
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Tim Russert, a moderator from Meet the Press
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"He's the Washington Bureau Chief of NBC News and the longtime...
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Lynn McAleece, a program buyer originally from Sioux Falls, South Dakota
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Season 15 player (1999-04-08).
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Nancy Ellis, a teacher from Columbia, South Carolina
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Season 15 player (1999-04-07).
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Mark Born, a musician, writer and teacher from Bangkok, Thailand
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\"He was the top winner of the 1990-91 season. He\'s a...
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Lisa Thimjon, a sophomore at Luther College from Sioux Falls, South Dakota
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2000-B College Championship quarterfinalist: $2,500.
20 at the time of the College Championship.
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Carrie Wright, a marketing specialist from Spartanburg, South Carolina
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Season 24 player (2008-04-18).
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Scott Duquette, a junior from South Hamilton, Massachusetts
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1999-B Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500.
16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Wes Johnson, a band manager and attorney from Columbia, South Carolina
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Season 20 2-time champion: $22,000 + $2,000.
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Jeremy Eaton, a graduate student and instructor originally from Gambrills, Maryland
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Season 32 player (2016-06-03).
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Anderson Cooper, a host from CNN's Anderson Cooper 360°
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2004 Power Players Week player (2004-05-11).
Charity: American Heart Association.
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Aaron Brown, an Emmy Award-winning newsman from CNN's popular primetime newscast
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"A journalist for over 25 years, he now anchors CNN's popular...
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Todd Faulkenberry, a junior from Moore, South Carolina
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2008-A Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 16 at the time of...
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Kweisi Mfume, a president from the NAACP
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2004 Power Players Week player (2004-05-11). Name pronounced like "kwah-EE-see oom-FOO-may"....
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Ryan Real, a sports information director from Clinton, South Carolina
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Season 30 player (2014-05-22).
Last name pronounced like "ray-AL".
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Ernestine Gardner, an administrative assistant from South Bend, Indiana
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Season 32 player (2015-10-06).
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Scott Astle, a teacher from South Pasadena, California
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Season 12 player (1995-09-15).
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Cheryl Guy, a high school principal from Columbia, South Carolina
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Season 33 1-time champion: $20,600 + $2,000.
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Eric Huff, a history teacher from Spartanburg, South Carolina
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Season 19 player (2002-11-04).
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Vera Swain, a junior from the University of South Carolina
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2008 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 21 and from Charleston, SC...
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Tim Bobinski, a U.S. Air Force pilot originally from South Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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Season 24 player (2008-03-06). According to the official web site, Tim...
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Wanda Bartschat, a health care improvement specialist from Columbia, South Carolina
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Season 24 player (2008-05-02). Last name pronounced like "BART-shot". Wanda's contestant...
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Joshua Brakhage, a TV news producer originally from South Coffeyville, Oklahoma
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2014 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000.
Season 29 5-time champion: $103,205 + $1,000.
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Lee Diveley, a geographic information systems analyst from Columbia, South Carolina
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Season 15 player (1999-03-16).
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Brad Wright, a distribution associate from Spartanburg, South Carolina
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Season 30 player (2014-04-23).
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Lisette Pringle, a jewelry store assistant manager from Little River, South Carolina
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Season 33 player (2017-05-31).
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Debra Bricker, a dance teacher from Columbia, South Carolina
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Season 15 1-time champion: $5,699.
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Kyle Murphy, an I.T. support specialist from Charlotte, North Carolina
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Season 32 player (2016-07-21).
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Clark Floyd, an accountant from Savannah, Georgia
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Season 22 2-time champion: $36,400 + $2,000.
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Wendi Rottweiler, a librarian from South Brunswick, New Jersey
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Season 33 player (2016-12-07).
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Margaret Monroe, a junior from South Plainfield, New Jersey
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2002 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. Margaret was 16 at the time...
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Quinn Saunders, a filmmaker originally from Lumberton, New Jersey
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Season 22 player (2006-06-07).
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Steven Wijnberg, an assistant executive director originally from Johannesburg, South Africa
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Season 13 player (1996-10-13).
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John Gershkoff, a realtor from Fort Lauderdale, Florida
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Season 23 player (2006-12-11).
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: jmgersh
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Amy Ware, a registered nurse from South Deerfield, Massachusetts
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Season 32 player (2016-07-12).
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Liz Hutchens, a registered nurse from Lake Wylie, South Carolina
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Season 33 player (2016-11-25).
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Harold Skinner, a teacher and playwright from Columbia, South Carolina
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Season 18 1-time champion: $7,700.
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Ranz Errazo, a sixth-grader from Goose Creek, South Carolina
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2003 Back to School Kids Week player (2003-09-25).
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Chris Seybolt, an attorney from Columbia, South Carolina
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Season 15 player (1998-12-07).
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Jeremy King, a laundromat night manager from Columbia, South Carolina
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Season 15 1-time champion: $16,600.
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Kemp Chester, an Army captain from Columbia, South Carolina
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Season 15 player (1998-11-26).
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Karen Spinale, a high school teacher from Duxbury, Massachusetts
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Season 22 player (2005-12-21). According to the official Jeopardy! web site,...
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Jim Diggins, a legal editor from South Euclid, Ohio
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Season 13 3-time champion: $19,901.
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Marissa Edelman, an attorney from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Season 31 1-time champion: $9,400 + $2,000.
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Martha Thomas, a communications center director from Columbia, South Carolina
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Season 15 player (1998-12-21).
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Neil Sondov, a psychotherapist from Greenville, South Carolina
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Season 32 player (2016-07-07).
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Justin Powell, a junior from Charleston, South Carolina
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1997-A Teen Tournament 1st runner-up: $17,125.
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Julie Hornick, a middle school librarian from Summerville, South Carolina
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Season 30 player (2014-03-12).
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Scott Speer, a loan officer from West Columbia, South Carolina
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Season 15 player (1998-12-25).
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Gary Amundson, a systems analyst originally from Clear Lake, South Dakota
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Season 4 player (1988-03-14).
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Jo-Ann Raines, an associate director from South Orange, New Jersey
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Season 8 player (1992-01-16).
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Nico Martinez, a junior at Stanford University from Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
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2006 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2005 College Champion: $100,000 +...
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Chris Breen, a sophomore at Princeton University from Springfield, Massachusetts
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2005 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. According to the official Jeopardy! web...
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Bryn Reinecke, a chemist from West Columbia, South Carolina
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Season 26 player (2010-07-15).
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Rony Josaphat, a master's student of television from North Miami, Florida
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Season 27 player (2010-11-04).
First name pronounced like "RON-nee".
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Cigus Vanni, a psychologist originally from South Amboy, New Jersey
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1989 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $5,000. Season 5 5-time champion: $40,400...
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Steve Gavenas, an artist and business consultant from South Pasadena, California
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Season 33 player (2017-04-11).
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Amy Carruthers, a homemaker from Culver, South Carolina
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Season 20 1-time champion: $16,375 + $2,000.
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Sofi Albizuri, a writer and mom from Miami, Florida
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Season 30 player (2014-02-24).
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Corinth Matéra, a high school English teacher from Minneapolis, Minnesota
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Season 21 player (2005-06-09).
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Dave Abbott, a musician and licensing executive from Fort Thomas, Kentucky
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"He won the 1999 Tournament of Champions. A musician and licensing...
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Doug Jungemann, a satellite operations technician from Rapid City, South Dakota
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Season 20 player (2003-09-29).
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Lionel Goldbart, a newsstand clerk from South Miami Beach, Florida
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1993 10th Anniversary Tournament semifinalist: $5,000. 1990 Super Jeopardy! quarterfinalist: $5,000....
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Sonam Shah, a healthcare consultant originally from Greenville, South Carolina
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Season 32 player (2016-01-26).
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Bill Johnson, a cattle breeder from Fort Mill, South Carolina
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Season 14 1-time champion: $11,510.
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Carolyn Cracraft, a grad student at the University of California-Berkeley from Berkeley, California
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"She was a junior at the University of Chicago when she...
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Steve McManus, a systems administrator from Columbia, South Carolina
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Season 13 player (1997-02-17).
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Tatiana Walton, a graphic designer from Cutler Bay, Florida
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Season 26 player (2010-03-24).
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Andrea West, a college composition instructor from Columbia, South Carolina
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Season 30 1-time champion: $21,800 + $2,000.
JBoard user name: theajw
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Bill Cossen, a Ph.D. candidate in history originally from Lexington, South Carolina
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Season 31 3-time champion: $50,602 + $1,000.
JBoard user name: JeopardyBill
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Sharyle Doherty, a Canadian program executive from Davie, Florida
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Season 26 player (2010-06-23).
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Will Dantzler, a senior from Mount Pleasant, South Carolina
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2009 Teen Tournament first runner-up: $31,600.
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Cheech Marin, an actor, comedian, director, writer and musician from Lost
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"He's played a cop on Nash Bridges, voiced a 1959 Chevy...
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Josh Rosenfeld, a graduate student from Torrance, California
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Season 21 player (2004-10-15).
KJL game 58.
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Lois Petzold, an ombudsman from Anderson, South Carolina
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Season 27 player (2010-10-04).
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Emily Heaney, a freelance costume designer from White Bear Lake, Minnesota
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Season 25 1-time champion: $2,200 + $1,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Nancy Floyd, a statistician from Lexington, South Carolina
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Season 20 player (2004-04-29).
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Gerry Cuddyer, an elections administrator from South Boston, Massachusetts
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Season 26 player (2010-06-02). Last name pronounced like "kuh-DY-er" (or "kuh-DY-yuh"...
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Ann Rusthoven, a housewife from Florence, South Carolina
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Season 26 player (2010-03-04).
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Damon White, a bartender from Darlington, South Carolina
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Season 25 player (2009-06-18).
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Liz Rapelye, a mother and writer from South Plainsfield, New Jersey
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Season 31 player (2015-05-19).
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Evelyn Beddow, a stay-at-home mom from Weston, Florida
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Season 26 player (2009-10-16).
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Kevin Wilson, a communications specialist from Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Season 26 3-time champion: $76,998 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Ingrid Nelson, a judicial assistant from Lake Mills, Wisconsin
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Season 25 2-time champion: $27,802 + $2,000. Ingrid Nelson - A...
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Kori Tyler, a high school history teacher from Cordova, Tennessee
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Season 26 player (2010-02-26). Season 25 1-time champion: $20,000 + $2,000....
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Jorge Rivero, a contamination control technician from Sunrise, Florida
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Season 25 1-time champion: $18,100 + $1,000.
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Jason Zollinger, an engine assembler from South Dayton, New York
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2010 Tournament of Champions 1st runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $100,000. Season...
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Stewart Yeargin, a restaurant owner from Greenville, South Carolina
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Season 26 player (2010-02-23).
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Patrick Tucker, a senior from the University of Notre Dame
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2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2009 College Championship winner: $100,000...
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David Garcia, a waiter from Greenville, South Carolina
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Season 26 player (2009-10-13). Not to be confused with Season 38...
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Ron Roberts, a poker impresario from Pompano Beach, Florida
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Season 27 player (2011-02-01).
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Chris Matthews, a TV host from Hardball and The Chris Matthews Show
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"Once a presidential speechwriter, he's had his own political talk show...
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Michael Portnoy, a teacher from Miami, Florida
|
Season 25 2-time champion: $40,000 + $2,000.
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Mark Petterson, a senior from the University of Kansas
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2009 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 21 and from Prairie Village,...
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Stephen Byrd, a hardware store manager from Hartsville, South Carolina
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Season 32 player (2015-12-28).
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Brittany McCants, a junior from Winnsboro, South Carolina
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2003 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500.
16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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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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Wolf Blitzer, a journalist from The Situation Room
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"Since 1990, he's covered every major story for CNN, including the...
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Liz Murphy, a foreign service officer originally from Scranton, Pennsylvania
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2010 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 25 5-time champion: $121,302...
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Brandon Haschke, an inside sales engineer originally from Sioux Falls, South Dakota
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Season 32 player (2015-12-11).
Last name pronounced like "HASS-kee".
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Alexandra Whitehill Smith, an administrative assistant from Columbia, South Carolina
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Season 32 player (2015-12-04).
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Karen Marlowe, a state and local planning coordinator from South Orange, New Jersey
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Season 16 1-time champion: $6,000.
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Brandon Grace, a county government employee from Anderson, South Carolina
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Season 19 1-time champion: $23,800 + $2,000.
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Heather Menzel, a high school history teacher from South Fork, North Carolina
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Season 25 1-time champion: $15,599 + $1,000. Won $68,500 on Who...
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Kathy Trice, a media buyer from Columbia, South Carolina
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Season 16 player (1999-10-27).
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Donna Isbell Walker, an entertainment writer from Greenville, South Carolina
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Season 20 player (2004-03-11).
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Thomas Meringolo, a high school language arts teacher from Wilton Manors, Florida
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Season 26 player (2010-01-13).
Last name pronounced like "mare-in-GO-lo".
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Matthew Warren, a computer engineer from Charleston, South Carolina
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Season 27 player (2010-11-25). Matthew won $63,700 in cash & prizes...
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Greg Hodgin, a senior at Emory University from Columbia, South Carolina
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2000-A College Championship 2nd runner-up: $10,000. 21 at the time of...
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Molley Jesse, a senior at the University of Virginia from Columbia, South Carolina
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2000-A College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $5,000. 21 at the time of...
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Amanda Folk, a paralegal from Columbia, South Carolina
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Season 16 1-time champion: $7,800.
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Linda Zell Randall, an attorney from Naples, Florida
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Season 24 1-time champion: $20,400 + $2,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: LZRandall
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Nikhil Bumb, an 11-year-old from Greer, South Carolina
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"He's a world traveler, but he can always be found on...
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Glenda Kendrick, a speech writer originally from Rapid City, South Dakota
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Season 14 player (1997-12-09).
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Ron Grant, a consulting company president from Greenville, South Carolina
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Season 23 1-time champion: $19,001 + $1,000.
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CCH Pounder, an actress from The Shield
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"Now co-starring in the critically acclaimed FX series The Shield..." Playing...
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Ashley Grand, a freshman from Harvard University
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2007 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 19 at the time of the...
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Jane Kaczmarek, an Emmy-nominated actress from Help Me Help You
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"As Lois on Malcolm in the Middle, she earned seven straight...
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Regis Philbin, a TV host from Live with Regis and Kelly
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"In 2004 he entered the Guinness Book of Records as having...
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Dianne Lindsay, a publisher's representative from Baton Rouge, Louisiana
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Season 23 player (2007-05-30). Diane also appeared on the original Art...
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Larry Dundas, a police officer from South Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Season 3 1-time champion: $14,000.
Larry also appeared on Tic Tac Dough in 1984.
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Heather Williams, a homemaker and writer from Rock Hill, South Carolina
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Season 23 player (2007-06-14).
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Jeff Spoeri, a university administrator from Boynton Beach, Florida
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2007 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD...
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Brian Marshall, a registered nurse from Audubon, New Jersey
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Season 23 player (2007-04-27).
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Allen Upchurch, a mathematics teacher from Camden, South Carolina
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Season 15 player (1998-11-03).
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Juli Hinds, a city planner from South Burlington, Vermont
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Season 23 player (2007-04-27).
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Amy Varallo, a senior from Aiken, South Carolina
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2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games quarterfinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time...
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Ryan Swaim, a vacation rental manager from Garden City Beach, South Carolina
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Season 26 player (2009-12-01).
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Kitty Roberts, a junior from Columbia, South Carolina
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1999 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500.
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Mike Marmesh, a veterinarian from Miami, Florida
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Season 26 1-time champion: $4,700 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Jeff Jacobberger, a U.S. Army captain originally from South San Francisco, California
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Season 8 player (1992-05-20).
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Steve Toffler, a travel marketing executive from Boca Raton, Florida
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Season 22 player (2006-02-22).
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: StevieT
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Jane Kaczmarek, a TV, film and Broadway actress from Malcolm in the Middle and Raising the Bar
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"She went from playing a hard-nosed mom in Malcolm in the...
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Bruce Pickett, a bond trader from South Boston, Massachusetts
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Season 17 player (2000-12-12).
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Bryan McKown, an archivist from Columbia, South Carolina
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Season 13 player (1997-04-23).
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Becky Hudson, an administrative support person originally from Sioux Falls, South Dakota
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Season 19 player (2003-06-16).
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Tom Streit, a real estate lawyer from Jupiter, Florida
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Season 22 player (2005-09-28).
Last name pronounced like "STRATE".
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Sebastian Johnson, a senior from Takoma Park, Maryland
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2006 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Listed as "Sebi" on the...
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Tim Abou-Sayed, a plastic surgeon from Manalapan, Florida
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Season 23 3-time champion: $49,402 + $1,000.
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Jennifer Gossett, a band director from North Charleston, South Carolina
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Season 23 player (2007-07-06).
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Harrison Bell, an attorney from Charleston, South Carolina
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Season 18 player (2002-05-29).
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John Moore, a talk radio show host from Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Season 22 player (2006-01-31).
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Steve Newman, a partner in a small computer company from Rockville, Maryland
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"He was the first player to win 5 games in the...
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Jennifer Tobias-Turner, a retailer & importer originally from Rapid City, South Dakota
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Season 13 player (1997-06-06).
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Aimee Watson, a mother and erstwhile attorney from Lake Wylie, South Carolina
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Season 21 player (2004-10-08).
KJL game 53.
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Brian Stokes Mitchell, an actor from the Broadway musical Ragtime
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"His Broadway credits include Ragtime and Kiss Me, Kate, for which...
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Chip Hicks, a law student from North Augusta, South Carolina
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Season 15 player (1998-11-13).
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Alex Nutman, a 12-year-old seventh grader from Chevy Chase, Maryland
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"This future investment banker won 'best in grade' in a state...
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Kathy Vanderford, a quality manager from Winnsboro, South Carolina
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Season 16 1-time champion: $9,700.
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Eric Newhouse, a director of technical assistance from Sioux City, Iowa
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
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Ben Lyon, an industrial scaleman from Dallas, Texas
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"Representing the University of Oklahoma, he won the 1995 College Championship....
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Diane Siegel, an educational consultant and writer from Northridge, California
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"A full-time mom when she won five games in 1993, now...
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Eric Newhouse, a public policy coordinator from Sioux City, Iowa
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"Alex called our next alumnus a 'Powerhouse.' He was the youngest...
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Ryan Holznagel, a writer originally from Forest Grove, Oregon
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"He was the winner of the 1995 Tournament of Champions. Now,...
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John Shivers, a marketing interviewer from Madison, Wisconsin
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Season 22 player (2005-09-14). According to the official Jeopardy! web site,...
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