| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | ANIMAL IDIOM BRAINTEASERS $600: Don't forget how many other single people are out there in the dating pool:
T.A.P.O.F.I.T.S. there are plenty of fish in the sea |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | ANIMAL IDIOM BRAINTEASERS $1000: You can do anything you wish or go anywhere you want in this life:
T.W.I.Y.O. the world is your oyster |
| #9004, aired 2023-12-28 | TRIPLE INITIAL WRITERS $2000: The "A" that's the 3rd initial of this German writer was originally W--for Wilhelm--but he changed it to honor Mozart's Amadeus E.T.A. Hoffmann |
| #9001, aired 2023-12-25 | GETTING POSSESSIVE $600: For many years "Betcha can't eat just one" was an ad slogan for these chips named for Herman W. Lay's (potato chips) |
| #8780, aired 2023-01-06 | LETTER PERFECT $1000: It's the chemical symbol for tungsten W |
| #8696, aired 2022-09-12 | DISCOVERIES $400: Around 1860 Dr. W.F. Daniell took cola nuts for intestinal issues, couldn't sleep & discovered that they contain this chemical caffeine |
| #8663, aired 2022-06-15 | GETTING "W-R-M" $800: A memorable line from "Dr. Strangelove": "Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the ____ ____" the war room |
| #8662, aired 2022-06-14 | 3 FOR THE SHOW $400: CBS cops (or C.O.P.S.?) Lina Esco, David Lim & Alex Russell S.W.A.T. |
| #8647, aired 2022-05-24 | WARTIME U.S. PRESIDENTS $400: George H.W. Bush assembled a multinational coalition to win this war, but it didn't help him at reelection time the Gulf War |
| #8533, aired 2021-12-15 | STARTS WITH "W" $400: The identity of the murderer typically isn't revealed until the end in this type of story a whodunit |
| #8382, aired 2021-04-20 | RELAX $200: Do this activity that uses abbreviations like yon (yarn over needle), p2tog (purl 2 stitches together) & w&t (wrap & turn) knitting |
| #8324, aired 2021-01-28 | THE 5 W's, HISTORICALLY $1000: Why... didn't this nation get more help rising up against its leader Pol Pot as 1 million died at the regime's hands between 1975 & 1979? Cambodia |
| #8117, aired 2019-12-17 | NEW MILLENNIUM TV $600: Shemar Moore heads up an elite unit on the streets of L.A. on this CBS reboot S.W.A.T. |
| #8096, aired 2019-11-18 | A MAN OF THE CLOTH $4,000 (Daily Double): In 1878 this retailing pioneer suggested the price of a nickel for items that weren't selling quickly F.W. Woolworth |
| #8060, aired 2019-09-27 | WHISKEY BUSINESS $400: Most scotch is distilled twice; this type of whiskey, like Bushmills & Tullamore D.E.W., 3 times Irish whiskey |
| #7944, aired 2019-03-07 | ILLEGAL BABY NAMES $2000: This North Atlantic island nation bans names that contain C, W or Q since those letters aren't in their alphabet Iceland |
| #7903, aired 2019-01-09 | WHEEL OF JEOPARDY! $800: Precursor to the SUV
S T _ T _ _ _
W _ G _ _ station wagon |
| #7863, aired 2018-11-14 | NOTABLE AFRICAN AMERICANS $2000: Among this educator's many books is "Up from Slavery", his autobiography published in 1901 (Booker T.) Washington |
| #7811, aired 2018-07-23 | BEFORE & AFTER PEOPLE $800: Voice of Mr. Incredible who shared a Nobel Peace Prize with F.W. De Klerk Craig T. Nelson Mandela |
| #7684, aired 2018-01-25 | THE PRODUCERS $1200: In 2017 Shawn Ryan, creator of the L.A. cop show "The Shield", produced this CBS reboot with Shemar Moore S.W.A.T. |
| #7593, aired 2017-09-20 | BUSH I & II CABINET MEMBERS $1,000 (Daily Double): Married to a Kansas senator, she was Secretary of Labor for H.W. Elizabeth Dole |
| #7580, aired 2017-07-21 | WEST VIRGINIA $1000: Charleston has a memorial to this black educator whose family moved to nearby Malden in 1865 Booker T. Washington |
| #7575, aired 2017-07-14 | ABBREVIATED NO. 1 TV SHOWS $400: On ABC, 1999-2000:
"W.W.T.B.A.M." Who Wants to be a Millionaire |
| #7559, aired 2017-06-22 | "W"ORDS $3,500 (Daily Double): The part of a vessel shown or the area of a strike zone where a batter hits the ball best the wheelhouse |
| #7468, aired 2017-02-15 | WHOSE LINE IS IT ANYWAY? $1600: "I knew then that 'W-A-T-E-R' meant the wonderful cool something that was flowing over my hand" Helen Keller |
| #7356, aired 2016-09-12 | NATIONAL MEMORIALS $1200: Completed in 1941 during WWII, this Black Hills memorial wasn't formally dedicated until 1991 by George H.W. Bush Mount Rushmore |
| #7346, aired 2016-07-18 | DOUBLE U, DOUBLE V OR DOUBLE W $600: Strip down to your this, underwear consisting of a cotton T-shirt & shorts... Stop! No! We were kidding! skivvies |
| #7299, aired 2016-05-12 | NONFICTION $2000: He challenged Booker T. Washington's leadership in his 1903 collection of essays "The Souls of Black Folk" W.E.B. Du Bois |
| #7279, aired 2016-04-14 | HORNS YOU CAN'T PLAY $800: This fastest land mammal in the W. hemisphere is sometimes called an antelope, but they're not closely related a pronghorn |
| #7226, aired 2016-02-01 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): This institute founder was the first African American featured on a U.S. postage stamp Booker T. Washington |
| #7099, aired 2015-06-25 | "V"OCABULARY $400: Synonyms for this adjective include coarse, crude & unrefined vulgar |
| #7059, aired 2015-04-30 | LONG-RUNNING MUSICALS IN SHORT $600: Ease on down the road with this musical:
"T.W." The Wiz |
| #7019, aired 2015-03-05 | LORD BYRON $2000: Lord Byron got a bit childish & replaced the "W" at the beginning of this "Prelude" poet's name with a "T" William Wordsworth |
| #6935, aired 2014-11-07 | 4-LETTER TV SHOW TITLES $2000: Jump in & hold on! This '70s show's theme song is heard here S.W.A.T. |
| #6927, aired 2014-10-28 | COMMANDER & CHEF $800: Pierre Chambrin, who quit as White House chef in 1994, said it wasn't true that this President ate a lot of fast food Bill Clinton |
| #6837, aired 2014-05-13 | LIBRARIES $2,000 (Daily Double): The George W. Bush Presidential Library is on the campus of this university SMU (Southern Methodist) |
| #6740, aired 2013-12-27 | FUN WITH ACRONYMS $400: This police task force sounds like something you might do to get rid of a fly S.W.A.T. |
| #6423, aired 2012-07-18 | FILL IN THE BEST PICTURE TITLE $2000: 1945's makes you wish it was Monday: "T.L.W." The Lost Weekend |
| #6203, aired 2011-07-27 | ABBREVIATED NO. 1 HITS $1000: The Beatles,
1970:
"T.L.A.W.R." "The Long And Winding Road" |
| #6201, aired 2011-07-25 | "W"HAT? $800: Shakespeare used this word for a tunnel made by an invertebrate; he didn't know it would come up in astrophysics a wormhole |
| #6197, aired 2011-07-19 | MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL $200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew stands on a stage.) W.T.G. Morton made history here in Mass General's surgical amphitheater; on October 14, 1886 he performed the first public successful surgery using this anesthetic ether |
| #6182, aired 2011-06-28 | MOVIES BY INITIALS $1600: 2007, actually about religion & oil: "T.W.B.B." There Will Be Blood |
| #6161, aired 2011-05-30 | FILL IN THE SONG TITLE $600: Cheap Trick:
"I.W.Y.T.W.M." "I Want You To Want Me" |
| #5998, aired 2010-10-13 | ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY $800: In 1990, the very first "E.W." cover didn't feature a movie or TV star, but this alternative country singer k.d. lang |
| #5924, aired 2010-05-20 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE $2000: His "Souls of Black Folk" expressly attacked Booker T. Washington, the most powerful black American of that time (W.E.B.) Du Bois |
| #5894, aired 2010-04-08 | THE JAMES BEARD FOUNDATION $400: You can have a great meal at James' townhouse on W. 12th St. in this NYC area; James won't be there, though Greenwich Village |
| #5887, aired 2010-03-30 | "W"RITERS $2000: He adapted "Le Morte D"Arthur" into a quartet of novels called "The Once and Future King" (T.H.) White |
| #5802, aired 2009-12-01 | THAT'S WHAT SHE SAID $400: "I knew then that 'W-A-T-E-R' meant the wonderful cool something that was flowing over my hand" Helen Keller |
| #5762, aired 2009-10-06 | FILL IN THE STEINBECK TITLE $400: "T.G.O.W." The Grapes of Wrath |
| #5706, aired 2009-06-01 | ABBREVIATED LINES OF POETRY $400: "How do I love thee?"
L.M.C.T.W. Let me count the ways |
| #5706, aired 2009-06-01 | ABBREVIATED LINES OF POETRY $1600: "By the shores of Gitche Gumee,"
B.T.S.B-S-W by the shining big-sea-water |
| #5661, aired 2009-03-30 | IF THEY'D TAUGHT AEROBICS INSTEAD $400: Helen! Feel it! W-A-T-E-R! Water! You can do it! Anne Sullivan |
| #5582, aired 2008-12-09 | THE PRESIDENT AS KING $600: George III
(wait, didn't we kick him out, like, 200 years ago?) George W. Bush |
| #5569, aired 2008-11-20 | WHEEL OF JEOPARDY! $2000: Gaborone is its capital
_ O T S W _ _ _ Botswana |
| #5550, aired 2008-10-24 | FILL IN THE BOOK TITLE $400: "T.W.A.T.G."
by John Irving The World According to Garp |
| #5546, aired 2008-10-20 | JEOPARDY! DITLOIDS $400: Hop-happy song:
99 B O B O T W "99 Bottles Of Beer On The Wall" |
| #5546, aired 2008-10-20 | JEOPARDY! DITLOIDS $600: Includes an ancient temple:
T 7 W O T W the 7 Wonders of the World |
| #5546, aired 2008-10-20 | JEOPARDY! DITLOIDS $1000: Tale that recounts a "Fogg"y journey:
A T W I 80 D Around the World in 80 Days |
| #5520, aired 2008-09-12 | ABBREVIATED PROVERBS $1200: "Strike
W. T. I. I. H." while the iron is hot |
| #5520, aired 2008-09-12 | ABBREVIATED PROVERBS $3,000 (Daily Double): "The eyes are
the W. O. T. S." windows of the soul |
| #5438, aired 2008-04-09 | "T.W." $200: This brand was introduced as Plastone, a premium car polish, in 1944 Turtle Wax |
| #5438, aired 2008-04-09 | "T.W." $400: The younger, often second, spouse of a rich middle-aged man a trophy wife |
| #5438, aired 2008-04-09 | "T.W." $600: You might have learned to ride your bike with the help of these attachments training wheels |
| #5438, aired 2008-04-09 | "T.W." $800: This Southerner wrote the 1959 classic "Sweet Bird of Youth" Tennessee Williams |
| #5438, aired 2008-04-09 | "T.W." $1000: Dominating the tropics, these blow mainly from the northeast in the Northern Hemisphere trade winds |
| #5428, aired 2008-03-26 | POLICE & THIEVES $800: NYPD calls its quick responders the E.S.U.; L.A. calls its squad this 4-letter acronym S.W.A.T. |
| #5396, aired 2008-02-11 | DESCRIBING THE PRESIDENT $800: "Texas tea" man, enjoy's his dad's office, seems to have a problem saying "nuclear" (nuke-u-lar just isn't right, kids) George W. Bush |
| #5391, aired 2008-02-04 | FILL IN THE BOOK TITLE $1600: "T.E.W.W.G."
by Zora Neale Hurston Their Eyes Were Watching God |
| #5312, aired 2007-10-16 | ENTERTAINMENT HISTORY $400: Born William Claude Dukenfield, he's supposed to have said, "Anyone who hates children and dogs can't be all bad" W.C. Fields |
| #5293, aired 2007-09-19 | THE GEORGE H.W. BUSH PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY $400: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from the Bush Library.) I'm in a mock-up of Bush's Air Force One office. The President banned this from the menu of the presidential jet, saying he hadn't liked it since his mother made him eat it broccoli |
| #5149, aired 2007-01-18 | BOND MOVIES BY INITIALS $800: "T.S.W.L.M." The Spy Who Loved Me |
| #5139, aired 2007-01-04 | FILL IN THE SHAKESPEARE TITLE $3,000 (Daily Double): "T.M.W.O.W." The Merry Wives of Windsor |
| #5055, aired 2006-07-28 | DAY TIME $400: In English, it's alphabetically the last day of the week Wednesday |
| #5019, aired 2006-06-08 | CLASSIC TV THEMES $2000: Stand back! It's the '70s action series whose theme is heard here S.W.A.T. |
| #4966, aired 2006-03-27 | FILL IN THE LITERARY TITLE $2000: "T.P.O.T.W.W."
by John Millington Synge The Playboy of the Western World |
| #4952, aired 2006-03-07 | AIRPORT I.D. CODES $1000: Reserved for commercial radio stations, K & W can't begin IDs, so "EYW" serves this southernmost city in the cont. U.S. Key West |
| #4932, aired 2006-02-07 | FILL IN THE NOVEL TITLE $400: "T.G.O.W."
by John Steinbeck The Grapes of Wrath |
| #4929, aired 2006-02-02 | IF THEY MARRIED... $800: Mary, co-host of "E.T.", weds Watergate "Deep Throat" W. Mark & hyphenates to get this sincere name Mary Hart-Felt |
| #4915, aired 2006-01-13 | PROVERBS BY INITIALS $200: "Blood is T.T.W." thicker than water |
| #4765, aired 2005-04-29 | SIDESHOW CINEMA $800: In "You Can't Cheat an Honest Man", he played circus owner Larson E. Whipsnade W.C. Fields |
| #4754, aired 2005-04-14 | BUSH $400: ...born in Midland, Texas & earned a masters degree at the University of Texas Laura Bush |
| #4736, aired 2005-03-21 | THE RADIO ALPHABET $1600: Give me this word for "W" & don't be stingy, baby whiskey |
| #4712, aired 2005-02-15 | OPERAS BY CHARACTER $400: Dick Deadeye, a sailor;
Admiral Sir Joseph Porter;
Captain Corcoran H.M.S. Pinafore |
| #4674, aired 2004-12-23 | PRESIDENTIAL PUZZLES $400: After George Washington left office in 1797, we didn't get another George in office until this year 1989 |
| #4581, aired 2004-07-05 | BUILDING BRIDGES $4,200 (Daily Double): In Thailand a sound & light show depicts the bombing of this bridge built by P.O.W.s the bridge on the River Kwai |
| #4562, aired 2004-06-08 | QUOTATIONS $800: W.C. Fields said, these "are like elephants to me. I like to look at them, but I wouldn't want to own one" women |
| #4556, aired 2004-05-31 | "W"ORDS $1000: In "The Hollow Men", T.S. Eliot wrote, "The world ends not with a bang but" this a whimper |
| #4544, aired 2004-05-13 | 20th CENTURY WOMEN $400: Before taking her seat in the Senate, Dianne Feinstein was Mayor of this California city San Francisco |
| #4544, aired 2004-05-13 | W M Ds $1600: Roman numeral symbol for 500 D |
| #4467, aired 2004-01-27 | "W"HODUNNIT? $1200: His last complete novel, 1974's "Aunts Aren't Gentlemen", involves further adventures of Wooster & Jeeves P.G. Wodehouse |
| #4293, aired 2003-04-09 | DECODE THE PERSONAL AD $800: Nothing casual for this S.A.F., H.W.P. -- she wants this, an L.T.R. long-term relationship |
| #4257, aired 2003-02-18 | NATIONAL THINGS $2000: This playwright's theater on NYC's W. 49th Street isn't a historic site, but his home in Danville, California is Eugene O'Neill |
| #4208, aired 2002-12-11 | PEN NAMES $400: Otis Criblecoblis was the name he used as a scriptwriter of "Never Give a Sucker an Even Break" W.C. Fields |
| #4071, aired 2002-04-22 | I PROTEST! $2,000 (Daily Double): (Cheryl of the Clue Crew presents from the Plaza Hotel.) In protest of the Oak Room's men-only lunch policy, this organization staged a sit-in at the Plaza on February 12, 1969 N.O.W. (the National Organization for Women) |
| #3961, aired 2001-11-19 | MUSIC CLASS $800: While he didn't invent it, W.C. Handy is often considered "the father of" this moody music the blues |
| #3948, aired 2001-10-31 | SPELL THE LAST NAME $1000: Maiden name of the author of "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman" W-O-L-L-S-T-O-N-E-C-R-A-F-T |
| #3929, aired 2001-10-04 | WHEEL OF JEOPARDY! $300: A final irritation
T _ E
_ _ S T
S T _ _ W the last straw |
| #3838, aired 2001-04-18 | HOLLYWOOD $100: Anyone born with the name William Claude Dukenfield, like this man seen here, can't be all bad W.C. Fields |
| #3775, aired 2001-01-19 | "W"ORDS $500: Don't let dull knives dampen your spirit, use one of these abrasive items to sharpen them Whetstone |
| #3772, aired 2001-01-16 | 20 QUESTIONS $400: The 20th consonant in the English alphabet, some Canadians say it's always a vowel Y |
| #3750, aired 2000-12-15 | WHOSE LINE IS IT ANYWAY? $200: (Hi, I'm Wayne Brady of Whose Line Is It Anyway?) This comedian reportedly uttered the now classic line, "Anyone who hates children and dogs can't be all bad" W.C. Fields |
| #3625, aired 2000-05-12 | QUOTATIONS $600: The witticism "A verbal agreement isn't worth the paper it's written on" is attributed to this film pioneer Samuel Goldwyn |
| #3483, aired 1999-10-27 | DON'T MIND "F" I DO $1000: As president of South Africa, he ended the ban on the African National Congress F.W. de Klerk |
| #3437, aired 1999-07-13 | "W"RITERS $400: Raised on a farm, she didn't begin writing her "Little House" series until she was 65 Laura Ingalls Wilder |
| #3397, aired 1999-05-18 | N.E.W.S. $500 (Daily Double): Of north, east, west or south, the one that doesn't start a U.S. state's name east |
| #3295, aired 1998-12-25 | THE RED-NOSED $100: Leo Rosten said of this hard-drinking comic, "Any man who hates small dogs & children can't be all bad" W.C. Fields |
| #3222, aired 1998-09-15 | CAN'T QUITE PLACE YOU $400: F.W. De Klerk became president of this country in 1989, shared the Nobel Prize in 1993 & quit politics in 1997 South Africa |
| #3137, aired 1998-03-31 | THE SCREAM ACTORS GUILD $2,100 (Daily Double): This 1922 F.W. Murnau drama, seen here, was one of the world's first horror movies: Nosferatu |
| #3064, aired 1997-12-18 | I WISH $500: In a classic 1902 story by W.W. Jacobs, it's the sinister simian object that supposedly grants wishes The Monkey's Paw |
| #3018, aired 1997-10-15 | AMERICAN HERSTORY $400: She wrote, "I knew then that 'W-A-T-E-R' meant the ... cool something that was flowing over my hand" Helen Keller |
| #2835, aired 1996-12-20 | IF YOU CAN'T SAY SOMETHING NICE $300: Bartletts quotes this comedian: "I never forget a face, but in your case I'll make an exception" Groucho Marx |
| #2723, aired 1996-06-05 | FEMINISM $400: In 1981 N.O.W. was disappointed the Supreme Court didn't reverse the ban on women registering for this the draft |
| #2621, aired 1996-01-15 | MOVIES IN BLACK & WHITE $800: In Wim Wender's "Wings of Desire", these creatures saw the world in B&W angels |
| #2416, aired 1995-02-20 | SENATORS $1000: This W.V. Democrat & president pro tem didn't learn his real name was Cornelius Sale until his teens Robert Byrd |
| #2069, aired 1993-09-09 | SPELL THAT NAME $400: The Tammy who taught us to spell D-I-V-O-R-C-E W-Y-N-E-T-T-E |
| #2069, aired 1993-09-09 | SPELL THAT NAME $500: In "Double Indemnity", this Barbara was a "Ball of Fire" S-T-A-N-W-Y-C-K |
| #2051, aired 1993-07-05 | TELEVISION $1000: The younger brother of Dana Andrews, he starred as Lt. Hondo Harrelson on "S.W.A.T." Steve Forrest |
| #2006, aired 1993-05-03 | SPELLING $400: SK is the postal abbreviation for this Canadian province S-A-S-K-A-T-C-H-E-W-A-N |
| #1935, aired 1993-01-22 | STREETS $2,000 (Daily Double): W.C. Handy wrote & played his blues compositions from Pee Wee's Saloon on this Memphis street Beale Street |
| #1932, aired 1993-01-19 | QUOTES $400: A favorite saying of W.C. Fields was "You can't" do this to "an honest man" cheat |
| #1908, aired 1992-12-16 | DECEMBER 1969 $400: This rich Texan took 2 planes to N. Vietnam loaded with gifts for U.S. P.O.W.s but wasn't let in Ross Perot |
| #1850, aired 1992-09-25 | BIRDS $400: In the 1930s, due to crop damage, W. Australia's gov't encouraged killing these large flightless birds emus |
| #1697, aired 1992-01-07 | QUOTES $200: W.T. Ballard said, "You can take a boy out of" this NYC borough, "but you can never get" it "out of the boy" Brooklyn |
| #1589, aired 1991-06-27 | ARKANSAS $500 (Daily Double): When it was a territory the name didn't end in "S", but with this letter a W |
| #1522, aired 1991-03-26 | THE LETTER F $300: What the F stands for in the sequence S‑M‑T‑W‑T‑F‑S Friday |
| #1422, aired 1990-11-06 | QUOTES $500: Leo Rosten said of him, "Anyone who hates babies & dogs can't be all bad" W.C. Fields |
| #1306, aired 1990-04-16 | CIRCUS MOVIES $300: He played circus owner Larson E. Whipsnade in "You Can't Cheat an Honest Man" W.C. Fields |
| #1115, aired 1989-06-09 | CELEBRITY SPELLING $400: Any 1 of the last names of folk trio Peter, Paul & Mary T-R-A-V-E-R-S (or Y-A-R-R-O-W or S-T-O-O-K-E-Y) |
| #1103, aired 1989-05-24 | ADDRESSES $200: At night you'll have no trouble spotting this stadium at 1060 W. Addison St., Chicago--it's now lighted Wrigley Field |
| #924, aired 1988-09-15 | POTENT POTABLES $400: It isn't proper to drink Danish aquavit w/o 1st raising your glass to another person & saying this skål |
| #848, aired 1988-04-20 | "LITTLE" MOVIES $200: Mae West & W.C. Fields co-wrote the script for this comedy classic, & they didn't come "cheep" My Little Chickadee |
| #843, aired 1988-04-13 | W.C. FIELDS $400: Proverb Fields followed up with "Then quit. There's no use being a fool about it." If at first you don't succeed, try, try again |
| #825, aired 1988-03-18 | MUSIC ON THE MAP $5 (Daily Double): You can buy a record w/"The Hawaiian Wedding Song" on 1 side & this Andy Williams hit on the other:
"Once I was alone /
So lonely /
And then /
You came..." "Canadian Sunset" |
| #819, aired 1988-03-10 | TEXANS $700 (Daily Double): This Texan was so popular in Britain that when he toured w/the Beatles, they gave him equal billing:
"Pretty woman, walkin' down the street /
Pretty woman, the kind I'd like to meet /
Pretty woman /
I don't believe you..." Roy Orbison |
| #661, aired 1987-06-22 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $300: A "walk down the aisle" just isn't the same w/out the march by this grandson of a Jewish philosopher (Felix) Mendelssohn |
| #655, aired 1987-06-12 | PEN NAMES $400: His pen names supposedly included A. Shoeboy, Abel Roper, T. Fribble, & Lemuel Gulliver Jonathan Swift |
| #639, aired 1987-05-21 | INITIALS $400: Expect quarts of milk to be brought to a BYOB party by members of this W.C.T.U., this organization Woman's Christian Temperance Union |
| #570, aired 1987-02-13 | SHOW BIZ BUSINESS $1,000 (Daily Double): 3 of the 4 founders of United Artists (3 of) Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, Charles Chaplin & D.W. Griffith |
| #467, aired 1986-09-23 | SPELLING $400: Steak sauce, made of vinegar, soy, & other ingredients, named for a county in England W-O-R-C-E-S-T-E-R-S-H-I-R-E |
| #448, aired 1986-05-28 | FLORIDA $200 (Daily Double): Once representing Okla. in Miss Amer. Pageant, this singer became identified w/Dade County:
"I realize the way your eyes deceived me / With tender..." Anita Bryant |
| #431, aired 1986-05-05 | THEATER $800: "The Drunkard", called by W.C. Fields "The Greatest Show on Earth", was presented by this showman in 1843 P.T. Barnum |
| #387, aired 1986-03-04 | G.W. CARVER $100: Before he began his research, this legume hadn't even been recognized as a crop peanuts |
| #387, aired 1986-03-04 | G.W. CARVER $200: It wasn't until his late twenties that he completed this level of education high school |
| #387, aired 1986-03-04 | G.W. CARVER $300: For many years he worked with this Black educator at Tuskegee Institute Booker T. Washington |
| #374, aired 1986-02-13 | #1 SONGS $500 (Daily Double): Amazingly this immortal rocker didn't have a No. 1 hit until 1972, w/ following:
"We got the new alma mater /
We must do our alma mater /
When I was..." Chuck Berry |
| #368, aired 1986-02-05 | TRANSPORTATION $200: W. & O. Wright felt passengers wouldn't mind flying in this position they 1st flew in themselves on their stomachs |
| #331, aired 1985-12-16 | TV THEME SONGS $500 (Daily Double): This theme song "shot" to the top of the charts in 1975:
[Theme plays] "Theme From S.W.A.T." |
| #285, aired 1985-10-11 | FOOD & DRINK $500 (Daily Double): Satisfied w/single serving of over 9 tons, Guinness won’t accept new records for this food: the mashed potato |
| #162, aired 1985-04-23 | WEATHER $500: It happened to W.C. Fields when he opened his door & said, "It ain't a fit night out for man nor beast" snow getting in his face |
| #100, aired 1985-01-25 | SPORTS TRIVIA $100: A major thoroughfare in W. Berlin is named for this Olympic legend Jesse Owens |
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"White House press secretary under George W. Bush, she now appears...
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Ken Basin, a junior at the University of Southern California from Huntington Beach, California
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2003 College Championship semifinalist: $5,000. Blog at kbasin.blogspot.org. Appearing as a...
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Nick Yozamp, a junior from Washington University in St. Louis
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2010 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 2010-A College Championship winner:...
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Thomas L. Friedman, an author and foreign affairs columnist from The New York Times
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"He has won three Pulitzer Prizes and authored six best sellers,...
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Hon. Margaret Spellings, a U.S. Secretary of Education from Washington, D.C.
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"As an advisor to President George W. Bush, she helped craft...
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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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Kelly O'Donnell, a political reporter from NBC News
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"An Emmy-winning political reporter, she has covered Capitol Hill and the...
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Chris Rodrigues, a personal banking representative from New Bedford, Massachusetts
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Season 26 3-time champion: $41,498 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Rebecca Dixon, a graduate student and musician from Vancouver, Washington
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Season 26 2-time champion: $53,002 + $1,000. Rebecca and her partner...
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Rachel Rothenberg, a senior from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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2009 Teen Tournament winner (semifinalist by wildcard): $75,000. Jeopardy! Message Board...
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Dan Jensen, a restaurant manager from Reston, Virginia
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Season 27 3-time champion: $58,203 + $1,000.
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Robert Gibbs, a former press secretary from the Obama White House
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"In 2004, he joined Barack Obama's senatorial campaign as communications director,...
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Tom Nissley, an online books editor from Seattle, Washington
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2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2011 Tournament of Champions...
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Brooks Humphreys, a high school social studies teacher from Omaha, Nebraska
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"He teaches at an all-girls Catholic school operated by the Sisters...
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