| #9081, aired 2024-04-15 | THE VOICE OF TELEVISION $200: Billy Dee Williams voiced Fudge Turnover as well as himself on this "mechanized poultry" show that debuted on TV in 2005 Robot Chicken |
| #9081, aired 2024-04-15 | THE VOICE OF TELEVISION $400: After Cheryl, voiced by Judy Greer on this spy cartoon series, is reminded she hates babies, she replies, "Just baby people" archer |
| #9081, aired 2024-04-15 | THE VOICE OF TELEVISION $600: Paul F. Tompkins gave voice to Mr. Peanutbutter, a dog with gubernatorial aspirations on this Netflix show BoJack Horseman |
| #9081, aired 2024-04-15 | THE VOICE OF TELEVISION $800: Jeff Fischer got the role he was born to play: Jeff Fischer, Hayley Smith's hubby & pal to a talking fish & an alien on this TBS cartoon American Dad! |
| #9081, aired 2024-04-15 | THE VOICE OF TELEVISION $1000: Seen here, but not heard from 2015 to 2021, he learned "F is for Family" & if you don't know him, "I'm gonna put you through a wall" (Bill) Burr |
| #9079, aired 2024-04-11 | ABBREVIATED TELEVISION $200: Celebs show off their moves on "DWTS" Dancing with the Stars |
| #9079, aired 2024-04-11 | ABBREVIATED TELEVISION $400: In the '90s we had "ST: DS9" Star Trek: Deep Space Nine |
| #9079, aired 2024-04-11 | ABBREVIATED TELEVISION $600: A comedy with a bright disposition:
"IASIP" It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia |
| #9079, aired 2024-04-11 | ABBREVIATED TELEVISION $800: Don't space out (or do) with "FAM" For All Mankind |
| #9079, aired 2024-04-11 | ABBREVIATED TELEVISION $1000: A period comedy:
"TMMM" The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel |
| #9078, aired 2024-04-10 | '70s TV DRAMA $400: Ed Asner moved from TV news on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" to working in this form of media on "Lou Grant" a newspaper |
| #9047, aired 2024-02-27 | TELEVISION $200: In 2023 Kelsey Grammer returned as this title psychiatrist, back in Boston & teaching at Harvard Frasier Crane |
| #9047, aired 2024-02-27 | TELEVISION $400: 72-year-old widower Gerry Turner was the title figure of this recent reality competition on ABC the Golden Bachelor |
| #9047, aired 2024-02-27 | TELEVISION $600: Natasha Lyonne solves a mystery a week in this 2023 series named for a useful feature when playing cards Poker Face |
| #9047, aired 2024-02-27 | TELEVISION $800: Asa Butterfield offers relationship advice to his schoolmates in this Netflix series Sex Education |
| #9047, aired 2024-02-27 | TELEVISION $1000: In the miniseries "Feud: Capote vs. the Swans", a top Swan is Naomi Watts as Babe, wife of this CBS honcho William S. Paley |
| #9045, aired 2024-02-23 | JUDGES $800: In 1955 Texas judge Drummond W. Bartlett allowed this for the 1st time in a murder trial, & presumably combed his hair & adjusted his robe television cameras |
| #9035, aired 2024-02-09 | NUMERICAL TELEVISION $200: On the first episode of this show, a family moves to a new city where brother & sister meet new friends at the posh high school Beverly Hills, 90210 |
| #9035, aired 2024-02-09 | NUMERICAL TELEVISION $400: Based on a book by Jay Asher, this controversial Netflix series dealt with a teen suicide & its aftermath 13 Reasons Why |
| #9035, aired 2024-02-09 | NUMERICAL TELEVISION $600: There was a new family in the neighborhood on this sitcom, not from another city, but from another planet 3rd Rock from the Sun |
| #9035, aired 2024-02-09 | NUMERICAL TELEVISION $800: Working for the CTU, this character played by Kiefer Sutherland raced against time, often with just "24" hours to save the day (Jack) Bauer |
| #9035, aired 2024-02-09 | NUMERICAL TELEVISION $1000: Would you believe these were the 2 code numbers used by the 2 main CONTROL agents fighting KAOS on "Get Smart!" 86 & 99 |
| #9027, aired 2024-01-30 | TELEVISION $400: There wasn't a dry eye in the house when this show recently paid tribute to the late Len Goodman with a waltz Dancing with the Stars |
| #9027, aired 2024-01-30 | TELEVISION $800: Quinta Brunson & Sheryl Lee Ralph play teachers on this comedy that Brunson created Abbott Elementary |
| #9027, aired 2024-01-30 | TELEVISION $1200: For 5 seasons Idris Elba played this title BBC detective, struggling with his own demons while hunting down murderers in London Luther |
| #9027, aired 2024-01-30 | TELEVISION $1600: Tony Danza was ballplayer-turned-domestic Tony Micelli on this sitcom Who's the Boss? |
| #9027, aired 2024-01-30 | TELEVISION $2000: Barnabas Collins was the resident vampire on this Gothic soap of the 1960s & early '70s Dark Shadows |
| #9015, aired 2024-01-12 | TELEVISION $200: Christopher's fiancee Adriana pays the ultimate price for being an FBI informant in the "Long Term Parking" episode of this show The Sopranos |
| #9015, aired 2024-01-12 | TELEVISION $400: He played Fox Mulder, Dana Scully's partner at the FBI David Duchovny |
| #9015, aired 2024-01-12 | TELEVISION $600: Bruce Willis became a household name in 1985, partnering with Cybill Shepherd on this detective series Moonlighting |
| #9015, aired 2024-01-12 | TELEVISION $800: (Mandy Patinkin presents the clue.) In 2021, I joined my friend Christine Baranski on this legal drama as pseudo judge Hal Wackner who holds court in the back of a copy shop The Good Fight |
| #9015, aired 2024-01-12 | TELEVISION $1000: Way back in season 2, he joined the cast of "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" as Frank Reynolds & hasn't looked back Danny DeVito |
| #8995, aired 2023-12-15 | FICTIONAL LANGUAGES $400: Linguist Marc Okrand created this language spoken by Worf (among others) on television Klingon |
| #8977, aired 2023-11-21 | COMMUNICATION $1600: Before home pay-per-view, if you wanted to see a big fight like Ali-Frazier, you went to a theater to watch it on CCTV, this closed-circuit television |
| #8923, aired 2023-07-26 | PHYSICS $2000: In the early 1900s the "plum pudding" model for the internal structure of these was replaced by the planetary model the atom |
| #8913, aired 2023-07-12 | THE ____ OF CANADA $400: The Gemini Awards, last given in 2011 for excellence in television: these, after awards first given in 1949 (the) Emmys (of Canada) |
| #8912, aired 2023-07-11 | A CENTURY AGO: 1923 $2000: This Russian immigrant files a patent for the iconoscope, the first television transmission tube Vladimir Zworykin |
| #8906, aired 2023-07-03 | A JOB IN TELEVISION $200: This title guy is a fry cook under the sea SpongeBob SquarePants |
| #8906, aired 2023-07-03 | A JOB IN TELEVISION $400: For 11 years, this character was miserable as a women's shoe salesman on "Married... with Children" Al Bundy |
| #8906, aired 2023-07-03 | A JOB IN TELEVISION $600: Seen here, Barbara Feldon had this job in her most famous role a spy |
| #8906, aired 2023-07-03 | A JOB IN TELEVISION $800: It's the job of the "Extraordinary" Woo Young-woo, a streaming fave lawyer (an attorney) |
| #8906, aired 2023-07-03 | A JOB IN TELEVISION $1000: On "Two and a Half Men", Charlie Harper was this specific type of ad writer a jingle writer |
| #8904, aired 2023-06-29 | 21st CENTURY TELEVISION $200: Nicholas Braun imbues cousin Greg with the perfect amount of awkwardness on this drama Succession |
| #8904, aired 2023-06-29 | 21st CENTURY TELEVISION $400: Mike Judge co-created this comedy about engineers & tech start-ups Silicon Valley |
| #8904, aired 2023-06-29 | 21st CENTURY TELEVISION $600: On the anthology "Miracle Workers" he has portrayed God, a peasant during the Dark Ages & an outlaw on the Oregon Trail Buscemi |
| #8904, aired 2023-06-29 | 21st CENTURY TELEVISION $800: Season One of "True Detective" starred Woody Harrelson & him as detective partners Matthew McConaughey |
| #8904, aired 2023-06-29 | 21st CENTURY TELEVISION $1000: "The Office" was set at the Scranton branch of this paper company Dunder Mifflin |
| #19, aired 2023-05-24 | IN THE WORLD CAPITAL $1,000 (Daily Double): The Zytglogge tower & astronomical clock, which inspired Einstein & his special theory of relativity Bern |
| #17, aired 2023-05-23 | OH, WE HAVE '80s POP CULTURE REFERENCES $200: On Nov. 21, 1980 76% of Americans watching television tuned in to finally find out "who shot" this character J.R. |
| #5, aired 2023-05-10 | EPONYMOUS TELEVISION $200: Challenges both professional & personal have played out at Seattle Grace Hospital on this series Grey's Anatomy |
| #5, aired 2023-05-10 | EPONYMOUS TELEVISION $400: From the '70s, it could have alternately been titled "Defazio & Feeney" Laverne & Shirley |
| #5, aired 2023-05-10 | EPONYMOUS TELEVISION $600: "The Germans" is an episode of this British comedy about running a hotel Fawlty Towers |
| #5, aired 2023-05-10 | EPONYMOUS TELEVISION $800: The title of this show, a continuation of "All in the Family", refers to a bar Archie Bunker's Place |
| #5, aired 2023-05-10 | EPONYMOUS TELEVISION $1000: Green Gables Farm on Prince Edward Island is home to this show's title character played by Amybeth McNulty Anne with an E |
| #8824, aired 2023-03-09 | LET'S GET DIRTY $800: "The Seven Dirty Words You Can Never Say on Television" was a routine by this late, great humorist George Carlin |
| #8803, aired 2023-02-08 | COMEDY TIME $1200: 1990s:
David Spade & Chris Farley have a wild encounter with a deer on the road Tommy Boy |
| #8766, aired 2022-12-19 | TELEVISION THEN & NOW $200: Everybody who was anybody appeared on the talk show hosted by this man, near & dear to "Jeopardy!" Merv Griffin |
| #8766, aired 2022-12-19 | TELEVISION THEN & NOW $400: This "Game of Thrones" prequel opens 172 years before the birth of Daenerys Targaryen the House of the Dragon |
| #8766, aired 2022-12-19 | TELEVISION THEN & NOW $600: Tatiana Maslany stars as this title character: "Attorney at Law" She-Hulk |
| #8766, aired 2022-12-19 | TELEVISION THEN & NOW $800: "Which Witch is Which" is an episode of this sitcom starring Elizabeth Montgomery as Samantha Stephens Bewitched |
| #8766, aired 2022-12-19 | TELEVISION THEN & NOW $1,800 (Daily Double): The main characters of "Back to the Future" helped inspire this animated series that debuted in 2013 Rick and Morty |
| #8756, aired 2022-12-05 | ENTERTAINMENT AWARDS $1000: These music awards are named for a chairman of Canada's Radio-Television & Telecommunications Commission & spelled like a Roman goddess a Juno |
| #8731, aired 2022-10-31 | TELEVISION $400: After 8 seasons, Dre & Bow opted for a new beginning as this sitcom came to a close black-ish |
| #8731, aired 2022-10-31 | TELEVISION $800: Clark Kent's high school years & time at Central Kansas A&M were covered in this show named for Clark's hometown Smallville |
| #8731, aired 2022-10-31 | TELEVISION $1200: "Like sands through the hourglass, so are the" this TV soap title, the show now on Peacock after 57 years on NBC Days of Our Lives |
| #8731, aired 2022-10-31 | TELEVISION $1600: According to his '60s theme song, he lived "in a world full of wonder, flying there under, under the sea" Flipper |
| #8731, aired 2022-10-31 | TELEVISION $2000: After she was sprung from "Orange is the New Black", she went on to co-create & star in "Russian Doll" Natasha Lyonne |
| #6, aired 2022-10-30 | PICK A "CARD" $1200: Patrick Stewart has played this Starfleet captain in film & on television Captain Picard |
| #8705, aired 2022-09-23 | AMERICAN HISTORY $2,000 (Daily Double): Speaking at the opening of a World's Fair, he was the first U.S. president to appear on television FDR |
| #8700, aired 2022-09-16 | TELEVISION $400: A 3-part documentary from Ken Burns titled "The U.S. &" this dispels the myth that Americans were unaware of Nazi atrocities the Holocaust |
| #8700, aired 2022-09-16 | TELEVISION $800: 2008 Emmys went to Paul Giamatti as this Founding Father & Laura Linney as his wife Abigail John Adams |
| #8700, aired 2022-09-16 | TELEVISION $1200: He played an Appalachian doctor on the front lines of the opioid crisis in "Dopesick" (Michael) Keaton |
| #8700, aired 2022-09-16 | TELEVISION $1600: From 1971 to 1992 Alistair Cooke ushered in dramas on the PBS series then known by this 2-word title Masterpiece Theatre |
| #8700, aired 2022-09-16 | TELEVISION $2000: Amanda Seyfried portrayed this Theranos founder in "The Dropout" (Elizabeth) Holmes |
| #8697, aired 2022-09-13 | BROADCASTING HISTORY $800: In 1946 "Faraway Hill", about a widow in love with a man engaged to another woman, brought this genre to network television soap opera |
| #8658, aired 2022-06-08 | STORIES OF THE SAINTS $5,000 (Daily Double): In a vision on the wall of her room, St. Clare witnessed a mass & so today is the patron saint of this modern invention television |
| #8647, aired 2022-05-24 | NEWS PERSONALITIES PAST & PRESENT $2000: With Fred Friendly, he had a radio broadcast called "Hear It Now", which became "See It Now" on television Edward R. Murrow |
| #8622, aired 2022-04-19 | NONFICTION TELEVISION $200: Detailing the 1990s success of this NBA team, ESPN's "The Last Dance" won the Emmy for Best Nonfiction Series the Chicago Bulls |
| #8622, aired 2022-04-19 | NONFICTION TELEVISION $400: With 40-foot waves & freezing temperatures, this series showcases the perils of crab fishermen Deadliest Catch |
| #8622, aired 2022-04-19 | NONFICTION TELEVISION $600: A newspaper feature first published in 1918 about bizarre curiosities inspired this TV show most recently hosted by Bruce Campbell Ripley's Believe It or Not! |
| #8622, aired 2022-04-19 | NONFICTION TELEVISION $800: "An avalanche can be caused by a person yodeling" was one of many misbeliefs debunked on this TV show MythBusters |
| #8622, aired 2022-04-19 | NONFICTION TELEVISION $1000: For 24 years, James Lipton interviewed the likes of Ellen Barkin & Russell Crowe while giving us a look "Inside" this title place Inside the Actors Studio |
| #8615, aired 2022-04-08 | TELEVISION $200: In season 8 the Linz siblings covered 50 cities in 25 days to win this reality show's first family edition The Amazing Race |
| #8615, aired 2022-04-08 | TELEVISION $400: A blond mullet topped the head of this subject of Tiger King", a zookeeper & felon born Joseph Schreibvogel Joe Exotic |
| #8615, aired 2022-04-08 | TELEVISION $600: This actress is one of the Yellowjackets, coping as adults after a plane crash 25 years earlier Juliette Lewis |
| #8615, aired 2022-04-08 | TELEVISION $800: Carrie Bradshaw returned to TV screens in this follow-up to "Sex & the City" And Just Like That |
| #8615, aired 2022-04-08 | TELEVISION $1000: In 1986 Arthur Miller was the first subject of this PBS series of profiles in greatness that has earned more than 25 Emmys American Masters |
| #8596, aired 2022-03-14 | '70s TELEVISION $200: The alien Mork came to Earth to study humans like this other title character he bonds with Mindy |
| #8596, aired 2022-03-14 | '70s TELEVISION $400: Bo & Luke, this title pair, were always working to stay one step ahead of Sheriff Coltrane & Boss Hogg the Dukes of Hazzard |
| #8596, aired 2022-03-14 | '70s TELEVISION $600: Jan, Cindy & this eldest were the 3 daughters in "The Brady Bunch" Marcia |
| #8596, aired 2022-03-14 | '70s TELEVISION $800: For three seasons, this actress helped protect our world as Diana Prince, an Amazon better known as Wonder Woman Lynda Carter |
| #8596, aired 2022-03-14 | '70s TELEVISION $1000: According to our "Files", this private eye lived in a trailer in Malibu but drove his Pontiac Firebird all over Los Angeles Rockford |
| #8573, aired 2022-02-09 | THE BUSINESS OF TELEVISION $200: Fans of "The Office" could buy Dunder Mifflin 20-pound branded this that had slogans like "Our motto is, 'quabity first' " paper |
| #8573, aired 2022-02-09 | THE BUSINESS OF TELEVISION $400: Think back, & remember a time when Don Draper made a beautiful & poignant pitch about Kodak's Carousel on this drama Mad Men |
| #8573, aired 2022-02-09 | THE BUSINESS OF TELEVISION $600: On "The Simpsons" varieties of this beer brand include Raspberry this, Lady this & Tartar-Control this Duff |
| #8573, aired 2022-02-09 | THE BUSINESS OF TELEVISION $800: Now boarding Oceanic Air Flight 815 for this drama; objects may shift through time & don't expect a happy landing Lost |
| #8573, aired 2022-02-09 | THE BUSINESS OF TELEVISION $1000: Los Pollos Hermanos is run by this "Better Call Saul" man played by Giancarlo Esposito, but he has another job, too Gus Fring |
| #8546, aired 2022-01-03 | 1950s TELEVISION $400: On a family sitcom set in suburbia, it was the last name of brothers Wally & Theodore, who was better known by a nickname Cleaver |
| #8546, aired 2022-01-03 | 1950s TELEVISION $800: Practice made perfect for Raymond Burr, seen here around the time he began playing this defense lawyer Perry Mason |
| #8546, aired 2022-01-03 | 1950s TELEVISION $1200: Nov. 7, 1954 was the premiere date for this show, CBS' answer to "Meet the Press" Face the Nation |
| #8546, aired 2022-01-03 | 1950s TELEVISION $1600: On radio, this soap opera was all about a minister, but he had been written out when it began a 57-year TV run in 1952 Guiding Light |
| #8546, aired 2022-01-03 | 1950s TELEVISION $2000: Upscale dramas on "Playhouse 90" included this one about ill-fated boxer Mountain McClintock "Requiem for a Heavyweight" |
| #8523, aired 2021-12-01 | PULITZER PRIZE WINNERS $200: Before Roger Ebert won the 1st Pulitzer for Movie Criticism, his paper-mate Ron Powers won the 1st as a critic of this medium television |
| #8498, aired 2021-10-27 | TELEVISION $400: In the 2010s this "Homeland" actress was nominated 5 straight years for an Emmy, winning twice Claire Danes |
| #8498, aired 2021-10-27 | TELEVISION $800: In 1963, British actor William Hartnell became the first lead on this series; there have been 12 playing it since Doctor Who |
| #8498, aired 2021-10-27 | TELEVISION $1200: Inmate Suzanne "Crazy Eyes" Warren on "Orange Is the New Black", in 2021 she handed out therapy on "In Treatment" Uzo Aduba |
| #8498, aired 2021-10-27 | TELEVISION $1600: In 2021, Miranda Cosgrove returned a bit more grown up as the heroine of this series originally on Nickelodeon iCarly |
| #8498, aired 2021-10-27 | TELEVISION $2000: On this Epix series Forest Whitaker is out of prison & taking on the mob to regain his former New York City turf Godfather of Harlem |
| #8496, aired 2021-10-25 | TELEVISION HISTORY $400: The first program to incorporate this mirthful addition in the finished product was "The Hank McCune Show" in 1950 canned laughter |
| #8496, aired 2021-10-25 | TELEVISION HISTORY $800: This cable network was formed in 1972 to air uncut, commercial-free movies & subscribers paid extra for it from the beginning HBO (Home Box Office) |
| #8496, aired 2021-10-25 | TELEVISION HISTORY $1200: The first live nationwide color TV broadcast was of this event on California streets January 1, 1954 the Rose Parade |
| #8496, aired 2021-10-25 | TELEVISION HISTORY $1600: For years, Americans had two events each Sunday--church & the show hosted by this man who brought many new artists into their homes Ed Sullivan |
| #8496, aired 2021-10-25 | TELEVISION HISTORY $2000: A 1996 law mandated all TVs have this chip to help parents control kids' viewing, but it was never used much a V-chip |
| #8441, aired 2021-07-12 | AN ILLUSTRATED LIFE $400: "Twilight Man" is a graphic novel biography about this writer & "the Birth of Television" Rod Serling |
| #8436, aired 2021-07-05 | DOCTORED TELEVISION $400: John "J.D." Dorian, a rookie doctor at Sacred Heart Hospital Scrubs |
| #8436, aired 2021-07-05 | DOCTORED TELEVISION $800: Dr. Abigail Bartlet, who put in a D.C. residency The West Wing |
| #8436, aired 2021-07-05 | DOCTORED TELEVISION $1200: Plastic surgeons Sean McNamara & Christian Troy Nip/Tuck |
| #8436, aired 2021-07-05 | DOCTORED TELEVISION $1600: Joel Fleischman, a fish out of water in Alaska Northern Exposure |
| #8436, aired 2021-07-05 | DOCTORED TELEVISION $2000: Early 20th century physician & drug addict John Thackery The Knick |
| #8415, aired 2021-06-04 | AFRICAN AMERICANS $400: Robert L. Johnson, the first African-American billionaire, launched this cable network back in 1980 BET (Black Entertainment Television) |
| #8376, aired 2021-04-12 | COUNTING ON TELEVISION $400: In 2010 TV viewers said aloha as in "hello" to this remake with Alex O'Loughlin; in 2020 it was aloha as in "goodbye" Hawaii Five-0 |
| #8376, aired 2021-04-12 | FORMER WEBSITES $600: Mercilessly recapping your nightly shows was the website called "Television Without" this, which would itself be canceled Pity |
| #8376, aired 2021-04-12 | COUNTING ON TELEVISION $800: "That '70s Show" helped launch the careers of Mila Kunis, Topher Grace & this actor who played Michael Kelso Ashton Kutcher |
| #8376, aired 2021-04-12 | COUNTING ON TELEVISION $1200: Rita Moreno starred as Cuban-American grandma Lydia Riera on this reboot of a 1970s sitcom One Day at a Time |
| #8376, aired 2021-04-12 | COUNTING ON TELEVISION $1600: "16 and Pregnant" on this cable channel follows the trials & tribulations of young women unexpectedly expecting MTV |
| #8376, aired 2021-04-12 | COUNTING ON TELEVISION $2000: This Nevada-set "Cops" parody features inept deputies & police uniform short shorts for men Reno 911! |
| #8372, aired 2021-04-06 | A STUDENT OF TELEVISION $200: Kevin McHale sang strong as high school student Artie Abrams on this FOX show Glee |
| #8372, aired 2021-04-06 | A STUDENT OF TELEVISION $400: In 1970s TV, he was Sweathog student Vinnie Barbarino; in a 1994 film, he was gun-toting non-student Vincent Vega John Travolta |
| #8372, aired 2021-04-06 | A STUDENT OF TELEVISION $600: Turns out Henry Jennings is pretty good at algebra, to the surprise of his parents, spies for Russia on this show The Americans |
| #8372, aired 2021-04-06 | A STUDENT OF TELEVISION $800: High school QB Jason Street's life changed forever after he was injured in the very first episode of this show in 2006 Friday Night Lights |
| #8372, aired 2021-04-06 | A STUDENT OF TELEVISION $1000: In 1999 class was in session for Martin Starr, Linda Cardellini & Jason Segel in this rhymingly named NBC show Freaks and Geeks |
| #8311, aired 2021-01-11 | TELEVISION BY THE NUMBER $200: This title ZIP code was first addressed in 1990, repackaged in 2008 & sent again in 2019 90210 |
| #8311, aired 2021-01-11 | TELEVISION BY THE NUMBER $400: Scott Caan booked 'em as Danno on the reboot of this cop show Hawaii Five-O |
| #8311, aired 2021-01-11 | TELEVISION BY THE NUMBER $600: On this NBC sitcom Tracy Morgan said, "I yelled 'baba booey' at Walter Cronkite's funeral" 30 Rock |
| #8311, aired 2021-01-11 | TELEVISION BY THE NUMBER $800: In a cartoon title debuting in 2005, Ben found a device that transformed its wearer into this many possible alien creatures 10 |
| #8311, aired 2021-01-11 | TELEVISION BY THE NUMBER $1000: On this series, Mahershala Ali was one of thousands of missing people who got returned on the same day The 4400 |
| #8309, aired 2021-01-07 | TELEVISION $400: Taking its name from a George Orwell character, this show with housemates under surveillance has watchers all over the world Big Brother |
| #8309, aired 2021-01-07 | TELEVISION $800: Wednesday & Pugsley were the children of Gomez & Morticia on this kooky comedy classic The Addams Family |
| #8309, aired 2021-01-07 | TELEVISION $1200: Pull up a stool next to Homer at this bar on "The Simpsons" Moe's (Tavern) |
| #8309, aired 2021-01-07 | TELEVISION $1600: The announcers on "NBC Sunday Night Football" are Al Michaels & this former wide receiver Cris Collinsworth |
| #8309, aired 2021-01-07 | TELEVISION $2000: He was a long-time presence on television as an amiable astronaut & as an ominous oilman Larry Hagman |
| #8308, aired 2021-01-06 | "ME" TV $400: Chuck Todd hosts this longest-running show on network television Meet the Press |
| #8275, aired 2020-11-06 | PROSE BY BROS $600: Twins Matt & Ross, Emmy-nominated for writing "Chapter Nine: The Gate" for the television show "Stranger Things" the Duffer Brothers |
| #8268, aired 2020-10-28 | DO YOUR JOB! $200: Collective term for the workers on a ship or a television show a crew |
| #8255, aired 2020-10-09 | TELEVISION $200: "The Morning Show" on Apple TV+ stars her as longtime anchor Alex Levy Jennifer Aniston |
| #8255, aired 2020-10-09 | TELEVISION $400: Southfork Ranch was the residence of the Ewings on this nighttime soap Dallas |
| #8255, aired 2020-10-09 | TELEVISION $600: Freddie Highmore has directed episodes of this medical drama on which he plays the lead The Good Doctor |
| #8255, aired 2020-10-09 | TELEVISION $800: Capeside was the setting of this series with James Van Der Beek in the title role Dawson's Creek |
| #8255, aired 2020-10-09 | TELEVISION $1000: On Amazon Prime's "Hunters", he plays Meyer Offerman, who leads an elite group of Nazi hunters Al Pacino |
| #8247, aired 2020-09-29 | GAMES $600: In Charades if you draw a rectangle around your head, you're going to act out the title of one of these a television show |
| #8243, aired 2020-09-23 | JOURNALISTS $1600: (David Muir of ABC World News Tonight presents the clue.) In 2018, ABC's "World News Tonight" and I were proud to be named Best Newscast as recipients of the Radio-Television Digital News Association Award named for this legendary newsman (Edward R.) Murrow |
| #8241, aired 2020-09-21 | THE TEMPLETON PRIZE $1000: 1982's winner was this man from N.C. who "took his message of Christianity into the...world of radio and television" Billy Graham |
| #8219, aired 2020-05-21 | CHANNEL THAT ABBREV. $800: It's where you can watch "NBA on TNT":
TNT Turner Network Television |
| #8215, aired 2020-05-01 | NAMES IN POP CULTURE $2000: In 2019, this Canadian YouTube star made the jump to late night television, hosting "A Little Late" on NBC Lilly Singh |
| #8164, aired 2020-02-20 | TV DRAMA $400: This is the longest-running medical drama & also the longest-running daytime drama still on television General Hospital |
| #8159, aired 2020-02-13 | CAST OF THE TV SHOW $400: Time traveling on BBC America without the lead actress: Mandip Gill, Tosin Cole, Bradley Walsh Doctor Who |
| #8152, aired 2020-02-04 | MONUMENTAL TELEVISION $200: A Milwaukee statue of Henry Winkler's "Happy Days" character is rhymingly called "The Bronze" this Fonz |
| #8152, aired 2020-02-04 | MONUMENTAL TELEVISION $400: A statue in Salem, Massachusetts honoring this 1960s sitcom has the main character riding a broomstick Bewitched |
| #8152, aired 2020-02-04 | MONUMENTAL TELEVISION $600: This Kansas "City" that attracts western-loving tourists has a life-size statue of Marshal Dillon from "Gunsmoke" Dodge City |
| #8152, aired 2020-02-04 | MONUMENTAL TELEVISION $800: Complete with carved Johnny, Johnny Carson Park is in this L.A. suburb, the longtime home of "The Tonight Show" Burbank |
| #8152, aired 2020-02-04 | MONUMENTAL TELEVISION $1000: A statue of this Jackie Gleason character graces the New York Port Authority Bus Terminal Ralph Kramden |
| #8146, aired 2020-01-27 | PUBLIC TELEVISION $200: Watch this PBS show & guess how much grandma's old postcards might be appraised for Antiques Roadshow |
| #8146, aired 2020-01-27 | PUBLIC TELEVISION $400: I say, old chap, it's time for "A Question of Sport", a quiz show on this network since 1970 BBC |
| #8146, aired 2020-01-27 | PUBLIC TELEVISION $600: Norm Abram earned his spot on the debut of this renovation show 40 years ago by having a minuscule scrap pile This Old House |
| #8146, aired 2020-01-27 | PUBLIC TELEVISION $800: Real programs on this type of TV seen in "Wayne's World" include "The Mr. Science Show" & "Cast Iron TV" public access |
| #8146, aired 2020-01-27 | PUBLIC TELEVISION $1000: The CBC's "Road to Avonlea" made a star of this actress named Sarah who played young Sara Stanley Sarah Polley |
| #8136, aired 2020-01-13 | THE TELEVISION WILL BE REVOLUTIONIZED $200: The Sony X800G is one of these "clever" TVs with Internet connectivity a smart TV |
| #8136, aired 2020-01-13 | THE TELEVISION WILL BE REVOLUTIONIZED $400: In the 1990s the flat screen began replacing the CRt, this boxy tube a cathode ray tube |
| #8136, aired 2020-01-13 | THE TELEVISION WILL BE REVOLUTIONIZED $600: In 1952 an Ohio man annoyed by loud ads invented the Blab-Off, an early version of this feature on your remote the mute button |
| #8136, aired 2020-01-13 | THE TELEVISION WILL BE REVOLUTIONIZED $800: When CBS got FCC approval to broadcast in this in 1950, only about 2 dozen sets could receive it color |
| #8136, aired 2020-01-13 | THE TELEVISION WILL BE REVOLUTIONIZED $1000: At the 1999 Las Vegas Consumer Electronics Show, ReplayTV won a best in show prize for unveiling this technology DVR |
| #8119, aired 2019-12-19 | 1999 TELEVISION PREMIERES $200: This show about an animated fellow "Who lives in a pineapple under the sea" SpongeBob SquarePants |
| #8119, aired 2019-12-19 | 1999 TELEVISION PREMIERES $400: This series introducing Tony, Carmela, Meadow & A.J. The Sopranos |
| #8119, aired 2019-12-19 | 1999 TELEVISION PREMIERES $800: Starring David Boreanaz, this spin-off from "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" Angel |
| #8119, aired 2019-12-19 | 1999 TELEVISION PREMIERES $1000: This drama starring Ms. Brenneman as Ms. Gray, who presided over family court cases Judging Amy |
| #8103, aired 2019-11-27 | THE HOLLYWOOD WALK OF FAME $400: Stars are awarded in five main categories--Recording, Live Performance, Motion Pictures, Television, and this, denoted by a microphone Radio |
| #8103, aired 2019-11-27 | WORDS, WORDS, WORDS $1200: This word for a local station in a television network comes from a Latin word meaning "to adopt as a son" an affiliate |
| #8100, aired 2019-11-22 | GOOD TELEVISION $400: This "Cheers" actor plays Michael, designer of "The Good Place" Ted Danson |
| #8100, aired 2019-11-22 | GOOD TELEVISION $800: David Hartman was the host for this ABC a.m. show when it premiered in 1975 Good Morning America |
| #8100, aired 2019-11-22 | GOOD TELEVISION $1200: This "Mad Men" actress robs a supermarket on "Good Girls" Christina Hendricks |
| #8100, aired 2019-11-22 | GOOD TELEVISION $1600: This 2-word title got Michelle Dockery's Letty out of prison early on a TNT drama Good Behavior |
| #8100, aired 2019-11-22 | GOOD TELEVISION $2000: This actress fights "The Good Fight" as Diane Lockhart, as she did on "The Good Wife" Christine Baranski |
| #8084, aired 2019-10-31 | COLOR TELEVISION $200: The trials & tribulations of doctors play out at a Seattle hospital on this show Grey's Anatomy |
| #8084, aired 2019-10-31 | COLOR TELEVISION $400: David Attenborough narrated this "global" 2017 nature documentary series for the BBC Blue Planet |
| #8084, aired 2019-10-31 | COLOR TELEVISION $600: On this TV drama, master criminal James Spader is Red all over The Blacklist |
| #8084, aired 2019-10-31 | COLOR TELEVISION $800: Led by Kevin Costner, a ranching family in Montana faces off against those encroaching on their land in this series Yellowstone |
| #8084, aired 2019-10-31 | COLOR TELEVISION $1000: Inspired by stories of G.K. Chesterton, this show features a Catholic priest with a knack for solving mysteries in an English village Father Brown |
| #8077, aired 2019-10-22 | 21st CENTURY TELEVISION $200: Fans of this show called it "The Jack Bauer Power Hour" 24 |
| #8077, aired 2019-10-22 | 21st CENTURY TELEVISION $400: Casey Webb has taken over for Adam Richman on this Travel Channel show that pits humanity against digestion Man v. Food |
| #8077, aired 2019-10-22 | 21st CENTURY TELEVISION $600: Justin Timberlake & Frankie Muniz were the first 2 victims on this MTV prank show Punk'd |
| #8077, aired 2019-10-22 | 21st CENTURY TELEVISION $800: As Sydney Bristow on "Alias", this actress worked for SD-6 & the CIA (Jennifer) Garner |
| #8077, aired 2019-10-22 | 21st CENTURY TELEVISION $1000: Amybeth McNulty stars in the series "Anne with an E", a grittier take on this 1908 Canadian novel Anne of Green Gables |
| #8072, aired 2019-10-15 | LONDON'S BLUE PLAQUES $400: A blue plaque shows the Soho location where John Logie Baird, a claimant as the inventor of this medium, first demoed it in 1926 television |
| #8068, aired 2019-10-09 | CLASSIC TELEVISION $400: The Ministry of Silly Walks was a sketch on this British troupe's comedy show Monty Python |
| #8068, aired 2019-10-09 | CLASSIC TELEVISION $800: This daytime host pioneered the audience participation talk show Phil Donahue |
| #8068, aired 2019-10-09 | CLASSIC TELEVISION $1200: The Ponderosa was the name of the Nevada ranch where Ben Cartwright & his sons lived on this western Bonanza |
| #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 |
| #8068, aired 2019-10-09 | CLASSIC TELEVISION $2000: Telemundo's 1998 show "Reyes y Rey" was loosely based on this '70s cop show starring David Soul & Paul Michael Glaser Starsky and Hutch |
| #8062, aired 2019-10-01 | FILM DIRECTORS $800: Known for his political dramas, this filmmaker has also interviewed Vladimir Putin for television Oliver Stone |
| #8060, aired 2019-09-27 | CABLE TELEVISION $200: An all-time record for HBO, in May 2019, 19.3 million tuned in to watch "The Iron Throne" episode of this series Game of Thrones |
| #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 | CABLE TELEVISION $600: FX's "American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson" followed up with the story of this man's assassination (Gianni) Versace |
| #8051, aired 2019-09-16 | FAMILY TELEVISION $200: Judy & Elroy were (or is that will be) the kids on this visionary show The Jetsons |
| #8051, aired 2019-09-16 | FAMILY TELEVISION $400: Blackmail, betrayal & bravado were always on tap for this scheming oil family on "Dallas" the Ewings |
| #8051, aired 2019-09-16 | FAMILY TELEVISION $600: On "The Simpsons" she's Bart & Lisa's pacifier-equipped baby sister Maggie |
| #8051, aired 2019-09-16 | FAMILY TELEVISION $800: Salinger was the last name of the siblings living without parents on this 1990s TV show Party of Five |
| #8051, aired 2019-09-16 | FAMILY TELEVISION $1000: This "Happy Days" family included Richie, Joanie & Chuck, who was last seen at Christmas but didn't make it to New Year's the Cunninghams |
| #8049, aired 2019-09-12 | BLANK THAT GUY $200: Connived his way to control of the New York City Treasury in the 1870s:
William "____" ____ "Boss" Tweed |
| #8048, aired 2019-09-11 | 4-LETTER WORDS $200: "Don't touch that" this, the tuning knob on a radio or television dial |
| #8038, aired 2019-07-17 | ABBREV. TV CHANNELS $400: The "C" & the "S" in C-SPAN, they are 2 ways of receiving television in the home cable and satellite |
| #8038, aired 2019-07-17 | ABBREV. TV CHANNELS $600: Gabrielle Union was a single news anchor looking for love on "Being Mary Jane" on this channel, BET Black Entertainment Television |
| #8038, aired 2019-07-17 | ABBREV. TV CHANNELS $1000: Eat up "Chicken People" or "NASCAR: The Rise of American Speed" on this network, CMT Country Music Television |
| #8028, aired 2019-07-03 | THERE'S A TIME & A PLACE FOR EVERYTHING $200: East Pittsburgh,
Nov. 2, 1920:
Election returns are the first commercial broadcast in this medium radio |
| #8006, aired 2019-06-03 | NIXON SAID IT $200: "The American people don't believe anything's real until they see it" here television |
| #7977, aired 2019-04-23 | THE MAGIC OF TELEVISION $400: On the BBC Colin Morgan played this magician in his teen years, around when he meets Prince Arthur Merlin |
| #7977, aired 2019-04-23 | THE MAGIC OF TELEVISION $800: As Alex Russo on the Disney Channel, this young singer was one of the "Wizards of Waverly Place" Selena Gomez |
| #7977, aired 2019-04-23 | THE MAGIC OF TELEVISION $1200: From 2005 to 2010 Criss Angel blew all our cerebrums with this very modern magic TV show Mindfreak |
| #7977, aired 2019-04-23 | THE MAGIC OF TELEVISION $1600: "Bewitched" gave birth to a sequel about her, Samantha's daughter who had inherited magical powers Tabitha |
| #7977, aired 2019-04-23 | THE MAGIC OF TELEVISION $2000: This early 2000s WB drama about 3 sisters with unique powers got a reboot in 2018 Charmed |
| #7892, aired 2018-12-25 | TV FROM THE NEXT ROOM $1000: "There is nothing wrong with your television set. Do not attempt to adjust the picture. We are controlling transmission" The Outer Limits |
| #7877, aired 2018-12-04 | TECHNOLOGY: OLD & NEW $400: We call television this 4-letter word because of the cathode ray ones the sets once contained the tube |
| #7874, aired 2018-11-29 | AN ABBREVIATED CATEGORY $400: Abbreviated VOD, it's one way to watch television video on demand |
| #7869, aired 2018-11-22 | PIONEERING TELEVISION $400: In the B.C. (before Carson) era, Steve Allen & Jack Paar were hosts of this show The Tonight Show |
| #7869, aired 2018-11-22 | PIONEERING TELEVISION $800: Decades before MTV & "TRL", there was this Dick Clark music show that made you want to dance American Bandstand |
| #7869, aired 2018-11-22 | PIONEERING TELEVISION $1600: In 1950 "Crusader Rabbit" was the 1st cartoon made for TV; this 1960 show about a family was the 1st animated primetime series The Flintstones |
| #7869, aired 2018-11-22 | PIONEERING TELEVISION $2000: The family-friendly TV of the '50s was typified by "The Adventures of" this real-life couple, parents of Ricky & David Ozzie and Harriet (Nelson) |
| #7869, aired 2018-11-22 | PIONEERING TELEVISION $4,000 (Daily Double): On June 25, 1951 a CBS program called "Premiere" was the first TV broadcast featuring this innovation color |
| #7841, aired 2018-10-15 | A JOB IN TELEVISION $400: Sam Malone on "Cheers" & Luke Cage on "Jessica Jones" a bartender |
| #7841, aired 2018-10-15 | A JOB IN TELEVISION $800: Tom Kirkman, after he's the "Designated Survivor" president |
| #7841, aired 2018-10-15 | A JOB IN TELEVISION $1200: Mike Brady on "The Brady Bunch" an architect |
| #7841, aired 2018-10-15 | A JOB IN TELEVISION $1600: Bobby Axelrod on "Billions", running this type of financial enterprise a hedge fund |
| #7841, aired 2018-10-15 | A JOB IN TELEVISION $2000: Barry Berkman on "Barry"--both his big-money gig & the job he's pursing in class hit man and actor |
| #7835, aired 2018-10-05 | THE TELEVISION ACADEMY HALL OF FAME $400: The first "Seinfeld" star to be inducted, she was part of the class of 2014 (Julia Louis-)Dreyfus |
| #7835, aired 2018-10-05 | THE TELEVISION ACADEMY HALL OF FAME $800: The class of 2017 included the original 7-member cast of this show that debuted on NBC in 1975 SNL or Saturday Night Live |
| #7835, aired 2018-10-05 | THE TELEVISION ACADEMY HALL OF FAME $1200: Inductee Brandon Stoddard oversaw "Roots", "The Winds of War" & "The Thorn Birds", the 3 most-watched these in TV history miniseries |
| #7835, aired 2018-10-05 | THE TELEVISION ACADEMY HALL OF FAME $1600: This late writer, director, producer & actor was inducted into the Hall in 1997 Garry Marshall |
| #7835, aired 2018-10-05 | THE TELEVISION ACADEMY HALL OF FAME $2000: The Hall inducted this co-creator of "Big Bang Theory" & "Two and a Half Men" (Chuck) Lorre |
| #7830, aired 2018-09-28 | TV CRIMESOLVERS $800: MeTV stated that a "roller disco scene" on this Erik Estrada cop show "is the most 1970s moment in 1970s television" CHiPs |
| #7797, aired 2018-07-03 | TV MOVIES? $1000: Robert Redford directed this 1994 movie about scandal in 1950s television Quiz Show |
| #7789, aired 2018-06-21 | TELEVISION $200: The 2017 edition of this reality competition had designers working with models from size 2 to size 22 Project Runway |
| #7789, aired 2018-06-21 | TELEVISION $400: Paddy's Pub is the fictional bar in this sitcom whose title is a weather forecast It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia |
| #7789, aired 2018-06-21 | TELEVISION $600: (I'm Iain Armitage.) I played Ziggy, the son of Miss Shailene Woodley's character, on this HBO miniseries that won 8 Emmy Awards including 1 for Miss Nicole Kidman Big Little Lies |
| #7789, aired 2018-06-21 | TELEVISION $800: This 2017 series is set 10 years before Kirk, Spock & the rest of the Enterprise crew Star Trek: Discovery |
| #7789, aired 2018-06-21 | TELEVISION $1000: In 2017, she could be seen on TV on "Atypical" as well as on "Twin Peaks" Jennifer Jason Leigh |
| #7785, aired 2018-06-15 | SINGLE MOMS ON TELEVISION $400: Chris, Tracy, Danny, Laurie & Keith were the solo concerns of a singing single mom on this show The Partridge Family |
| #7785, aired 2018-06-15 | SINGLE MOMS ON TELEVISION $800: As Christie on "Mom", this actress gets sober & struggles through parenthood with the help of her own mom Anna Faris |
| #7785, aired 2018-06-15 | SINGLE MOMS ON TELEVISION $1200: On "Desperate Housewives", this actress played Susan Mayer, a single mom who was the daughter of a single mom Teri Hatcher |
| #7785, aired 2018-06-15 | SINGLE MOMS ON TELEVISION $1600: 41 years apart, it's the title in common to the two shows featuring the divorced single moms seen here One Day at a Time |
| #7785, aired 2018-06-15 | SINGLE MOMS ON TELEVISION $2000: Alexis Bledel & this actress were the "Gilmore Girls" teenage daughter & single mom Lauren Graham |
| #7767, aired 2018-05-22 | QUESTIONABLE TELEVISION $400: In the 1960s N.Y. police car 54 & Scooby-Doo were asked this question in show titles "Where are you?" |
| #7767, aired 2018-05-22 | QUESTIONABLE TELEVISION $800: On a PBS game show for kids, this title question was sung a cappella at the beginning of every episode--did they ever find her? "Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego?" |
| #7767, aired 2018-05-22 | QUESTIONABLE TELEVISION $1200: On NBC & then TLC, a genealogy show has asked celebrities this title question "Who do you think you are?" |
| #7767, aired 2018-05-22 | QUESTIONABLE TELEVISION $1600: Contestants on this game show didn't forget their dialogue--they were asking panelists to guess their occupations What's My Line? |
| #7767, aired 2018-05-22 | QUESTIONABLE TELEVISION $2000: John Quiñones asks this title question on ABC by taping staged hypothetical situations with hidden cameras "What would you do?" |
| #7741, aired 2018-04-16 | COLLEGE HONORS $400: The College Television Awards are given out by the same academy as these awards the Emmys |
| #7732, aired 2018-04-03 | OPPOSITES $1600: An old brand of television, in astronomy it's the opposite of nadir Zenith |
| #7729, aired 2018-03-29 | THE CENSUS ASKS $200: 1940:
Whether an occupied dwelling had one of these entertainment devices a radio |
| #7728, aired 2018-03-28 | NOVELS ABOUT JESUS $1200: "The Gospel According to" this "Myra Breckinridge" author moves the crucifixion to the television age Gore Vidal |
| #7727, aired 2018-03-27 | TELEVISION $200: On Sunday, he is so last week (John) Oliver |
| #7727, aired 2018-03-27 | TELEVISION $400: The obstacle course in this NBC competition is based on one at Mount Midoriyama in Japan American Ninja Warrior |
| #7727, aired 2018-03-27 | TELEVISION $600: She's been on TV as a teen detective & a resident of "The Good Place" (Kristen) Bell |
| #7727, aired 2018-03-27 | TELEVISION $800: Cole Sprouse dons an updated version of Jughead's hat on this dark take on the Archie comics Riverdale |
| #7727, aired 2018-03-27 | TELEVISION $1000: Freddie Highmore plays a surgeon with autism & savant syndrome on this ABC drama The Good Doctor |
| #7726, aired 2018-03-26 | WRONG $200: In 1946 movie mogul Darryl Zanuck said this wouldn't last because people "will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box" television |
| #7715, aired 2018-03-09 | ENTER-TEEN-MENT $800: She returned to television in 2017 as "The Sinner" Jessica Biel |
| #7681, aired 2018-01-22 | TELEVISION $400: Sing, dance, juggle or contort yourself for Simon Cowell & the other 3 judges to win this show America's Got Talent |
| #7681, aired 2018-01-22 | TELEVISION $800: Jim Cramer hosts "Mad Money" on this network CNBC |
| #7681, aired 2018-01-22 | TELEVISION $1200: In the 1975 final episode of this series, Felix moved out to remarry his ex-wife The Odd Couple |
| #7681, aired 2018-01-22 | TELEVISION $1600: Competitors on the original series like Adrian Zmed face off against newcomers in this rebooted ABC "Battle" Battle of the Network Stars |
| #7681, aired 2018-01-22 | TELEVISION $2000: David Tennant was Detective Inspector Alec Hardy on this BBC America series set in the title seaside village Broadchurch |
| #7619, aired 2017-10-26 | DECADE, PLEASE $800: The last ad for cigarettes airs on U.S. television the '70s |
| #7613, aired 2017-10-18 | THE ELECTRIC COMPANY $1600: Like "Sesame Street", "'The Electric Company" was a product of the CTW, short for this the Children's Television Workshop |
| #7581, aired 2017-07-24 | 20th CENTURY WORDS $400: Before this word was common, some folks used "radio with pictures" television |
| #7542, aired 2017-05-30 | OCCUPATIONS IN NEWS $1000: A 2014 award from the GTC, the Guild of Television these "men", went to a BBC newsman for dramatic footage of Syrian children cameramen |
| #7539, aired 2017-05-25 | GET YOUR "PHIL" $1600: In 1948 this TV manufacturer launched a "Television Playhouse" Philco |
| #7487, aired 2017-03-14 | WOMEN ON TELEVISION $200: (I'm political commentator Ana Navarro.) In 2015 I became a political contributor for this show that is co-hosted by Joy Behar & Whoopi Goldberg The View |
| #7487, aired 2017-03-14 | WOMEN ON TELEVISION $400: (I'm Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner.) A few good things happened in the '90s: I was a "Jeopardy!" champ in 1992 & in '97 I got to write for "The Naked Truth" with this woman, now "Madam Secretary" Téa Leoni |
| #7487, aired 2017-03-14 | WOMEN ON TELEVISION $600: Seen here, she's had stints on "60 Minutes" & "The Today Show" Meredith Vieira |
| #7487, aired 2017-03-14 | WOMEN ON TELEVISION $800: On Netflix, Ellie Kemper stars as this "Unbreakable" woman, rescued from a cult Kimmy Schmidt |
| #7487, aired 2017-03-14 | WOMEN ON TELEVISION $1000: Working in the coroner's office gives Liv Moore access to fresh brains on this CW series iZombie |
| #7486, aired 2017-03-13 | REALITY TELEVISION $200: In 2016 the title guy on this show chose Lauren Bushnell as the winner The Bachelor |
| #7486, aired 2017-03-13 | REALITY TELEVISION $400: Episodes of this competition show include "Glamazonian Airways" & "RuPocalypse Now!" RuPaul's Drag Race |
| #7486, aired 2017-03-13 | REALITY TELEVISION $600: After getting $60,000 in capital for her lemonade on this show, an 11-year-old got a bigger deal with Whole Foods Shark Tank |
| #7486, aired 2017-03-13 | REALITY TELEVISION $1000: In an "SNL" parody of this survival show, Leslie Jones was only the first part of the title; Peter Dinklage took care of both Naked and Afraid |
| #7482, aired 2017-03-07 | TELEVISION $800: It ended its run with Don Draper meditating on a clifftop Mad Men |
| #7482, aired 2017-03-07 | TELEVISION $1200: This funny lady who played Sue Sylvester on "Glee" hosts TV's "Hollywood Game Night" Jane Lynch |
| #7482, aired 2017-03-07 | TELEVISION $1600: Actor Micah Fowler, who has cerebral palsy, doesn't need lines to get laughs on this ABC comedy Speechless |
| #7482, aired 2017-03-07 | TELEVISION $2000: In 1980 Waylon Jennings had a country & pop hit with "Good Ol' Boys", the theme from this TV series The Dukes of Hazzard |
| #7478, aired 2017-03-01 | THE GREAT DEPRESSION $1200: Americans forgot their cares with this household item that was owned by 40% of families in 1930 & 90% in 1940 radio |
| #7460, aired 2017-02-03 | TELEVISION CITY $200: "Cheers" to "Ally McBeal" Boston |
| #7460, aired 2017-02-03 | TELEVISION CITY $400: "Breaking Bad" was "In Plain Sight" Albuquerque |
| #7460, aired 2017-02-03 | TELEVISION CITY $600: "iCarly" & "Grey's Anatomy" Seattle |
| #7460, aired 2017-02-03 | TELEVISION CITY $800: For a "Thirtysomething", it's where "American Bandstand" started Philadelphia |
| #7460, aired 2017-02-03 | TELEVISION CITY $1000: "Burn Notice" & "Austin & Ally"; what a crossover episode that would've been Miami |
| #7455, aired 2017-01-27 | JUST "ASP" ME $600: It's the width-to-height ratio of a film or television image the aspect ratio |
| #7386, aired 2016-10-24 | THE NEW GOLDEN AGE OF TELEVISION $400: This period drama had Maggie Smith say, "Don't be defeatist, dear. It's very middle class" Downton Abbey |
| #7386, aired 2016-10-24 | THE NEW GOLDEN AGE OF TELEVISION $800: Characters on this series included Sally Draper & office manager Joan Holloway Mad Men |
| #7386, aired 2016-10-24 | THE NEW GOLDEN AGE OF TELEVISION $1200: The cast of this gritty show included Idris Elba as drug kingpin Stringer Bell The Wire |
| #7386, aired 2016-10-24 | THE NEW GOLDEN AGE OF TELEVISION $1600: Nicholas Brody gave intel that led to the death of terrorist leader Abu Nazir on this drama Homeland |
| #7386, aired 2016-10-24 | THE NEW GOLDEN AGE OF TELEVISION $2000: She's breaking boundaries as Litchfield prisoner Sophia Burset on "Orange Is the New Black" Laverne Cox |
| #7382, aired 2016-10-18 | L.A. TELEVISION $200: Throughout the '90s, David Hasselhoff & company kept L.A. County beaches safe on this TV series Baywatch |
| #7382, aired 2016-10-18 | L.A. TELEVISION $400: His trusty agent & close circle of friends helped film star Vince Chase navigate L.A. on this show Entourage |
| #7382, aired 2016-10-18 | L.A. TELEVISION $600: As inner city L.A. cop Vic Mackey on "The Shield", this actor wasn't above breaking a few rules (Michael) Chiklis |
| #7382, aired 2016-10-18 | L.A. TELEVISION $800: As this title fixer for the L.A. rich & famous, Liev Schreiber seems to solve everyone's problems but his own Ray Donovan |
| #7382, aired 2016-10-18 | L.A. TELEVISION $1000: 5 decades apart, we spent time on this title road, at "77" & in "Studio 60" the Sunset Strip |
| #7362, aired 2016-09-20 | FICTIONAL LANGUAGES $400: Linguist Marc Okrand created this language spoken by Worf (among others) on television Klingon |
| #7350, aired 2016-07-22 | SHE'S A REAL SAINT! $1200: When St. Clare was unable to attend mass, the ceremony became visible on her wall--today she's the patron of this device the television |
| #7278, aired 2016-04-13 | RADIO & TV GAME SHOWS $1600: College teams including Columbia & Notre Dame faced off on this show that moved from radio to television College Quiz Bowl |
| #7278, aired 2016-04-13 | RADIO & TV GAME SHOWS $2000: Say the not-so-secret title of this quiz show, hosted by Groucho Marx on both radio & television You Bet Your Life |
| #7276, aired 2016-04-11 | THE WAY WE "WOR" $800: In the name of the folks that bring you Elmo, "Sesame" has replaced "Children's Television" before this word Workshop |
| #7271, aired 2016-04-04 | ASSORTED FRUIT $800: Television's Mr. Hound Huckleberry |
| #7221, aired 2016-01-25 | INVENTIVE MINDS $1200: For his work with the iconoscope & the kinescope, Vladimir Zworykin is called "The Father of" this medium television |
| #7140, aired 2015-10-02 | WRITING FOR TELEVISION $200: A 2015 Writers Guild Award went to Brian Kelley for "Brick Like Me", a Lego-themed episode of this series--excellent The Simpsons |
| #7140, aired 2015-10-02 | WRITING FOR TELEVISION $400: Don Mankiewicz wrote the pilots of "Marcus Welby, M.D." & this show with Raymond Burr as a wheelchair-bound former cop Ironside |
| #7140, aired 2015-10-02 | WRITING FOR TELEVISION $600: Carlton Cuse & Damon Lindelof left a few questions unanswered in the 2010 finale of this island series Lost |
| #7140, aired 2015-10-02 | WRITING FOR TELEVISION $800: Sivert Glarum wrote "Mad Marc", "Marc's Dad" & "Marc on Talking Dead" for this comic's IFC show Marc Maron |
| #7140, aired 2015-10-02 | WRITING FOR TELEVISION $1000: In 2012 Robert Doherty created this CBS detective show; well, Robert had inspiration from a 19th c. chap Elementary |
| #7132, aired 2015-09-22 | ROCKET, MAN $2000: The radio link between the ground & a rocket or missile isn't called television but this tele-word telemetry |
| #7126, aired 2015-09-14 | DAYTIME TELEVISION $400: This daytime TV judge called her book "Don't Pee on My Leg and Tell Me It's Raining" Judge Judy |
| #7126, aired 2015-09-14 | DAYTIME TELEVISION $800: Cedric the Entertainer & Terry Crews both hosted the daytime version of this show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire |
| #7126, aired 2015-09-14 | DAYTIME TELEVISION $1200: One of the highest ratings ever in daytime TV came in 1981 when this "General Hospital" pair got married Luke & Laura |
| #7126, aired 2015-09-14 | DAYTIME TELEVISION $1600: At 7 A.M. on this cable network, political junkies can watch "Washington Journal" & even call in C-SPAN |
| #7126, aired 2015-09-14 | DAYTIME TELEVISION $2000: This daytime doc wrote the self-help book "Life Strategies: Doing What Works, Doing What Matters" Dr. Phil |
| #7062, aired 2015-05-05 | "GOOD" PEOPLE $600: In 1993 he became the 1st game show producer inducted into the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Hall of Fame Mark Goodson |
| #7051, aired 2015-04-20 | THE FIRST PRESIDENT $800: ...to appear on television Roosevelt |
| #7032, aired 2015-03-24 | WHAT A TV DRAMA QUEEN! $200: "What a wonderful time for women on television", she said on accepting her 2014 Emmy for "The Good Wife" Julianna Margulies |
| #7028, aired 2015-03-18 | LAUGHABLE TELEVISION $200: From this Garden State reality show: "I know I'm not the smartest crayon in the box, but this isn't rocket scientist" Jersey Shore |
| #7028, aired 2015-03-18 | LAUGHABLE TELEVISION $400: "Why should you go to jail for a crime someone else... noticed?" asked attorney Bob Loblaw on this Bluth-tastic show Arrested Development |
| #7028, aired 2015-03-18 | LAUGHABLE TELEVISION $600: Talking tattoo art with Letterman, this Canadian teen idol said, "I'm not going for the 16th chapel look" Justin Bieber |
| #7028, aired 2015-03-18 | LAUGHABLE TELEVISION $800: This Bill Hader guy:
"N.Y.'s hottest club is Push!... (It) has... ghosts... banjos... a stuck-up kitten who won't sign autographs..." Stefon |
| #7028, aired 2015-03-18 | LAUGHABLE TELEVISION $1000: Players in this duo's "East/West Collegiate Bowl" included Bismo Funyuns, D'Pez Poopsie & Quackadilly Blip Key & Peele |
| #7026, aired 2015-03-16 | RAGE FOR THE MACHINE $6,000 (Daily Double): From 1947 to 1953 U.S. production of these devices rose from fewer than 200,000 to more than 7 million a year television sets |
| #7021, aired 2015-03-09 | FILL OUT YOUR BRACKET $200: IKEA's Ekby Hensvik product is a bracket for supporting these bookshelf (or shelf) |
| #7010, aired 2015-02-20 | TELEVISION POP QUIZ $200: Martin Crane Frasier |
| #7010, aired 2015-02-20 | AT THE MUSEUM $400: (Alex Trebek reads the clue from the Smithsonian.) Higher than normal counters helped accommodate the 6'2" height of this chef, who used this very kitchen not only privately, but also to achieve television fame--bon appetit ! Julia Child |
| #7010, aired 2015-02-20 | TELEVISION POP QUIZ $400: Rob Petrie The Dick Van Dyke Show |
| #7010, aired 2015-02-20 | TELEVISION POP QUIZ $600: Dan Conner Roseanne |
| #7010, aired 2015-02-20 | TELEVISION POP QUIZ $800: Jason Seaver Growing Pains |
| #7010, aired 2015-02-20 | TELEVISION POP QUIZ $1000: Frank Reagan Blue Bloods |
| #6995, aired 2015-01-30 | "Y.D." DO IT? $2000: She was a movie actress before she gained a new audience as Lily Munster on 1960s television Yvonne De Carlo |
| #6972, aired 2014-12-30 | TELEVISION FOR SHORT $400: "Asylum" & "Freak Show" are seasons of this show, "AHS" for short American Horror Story |
| #6972, aired 2014-12-30 | TELEVISION FOR SHORT $800: The "H" in "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." stands for this, also in the name of a Cabinet department Homeland |
| #6972, aired 2014-12-30 | TELEVISION FOR SHORT $1200: This celeb-obsessed show got its name from a "zone" with a 30-mile radius, used to monitor film shoots TMZ |
| #6972, aired 2014-12-30 | TELEVISION FOR SHORT $1600: On CBS "JAG" stood for this military investigation arm Judge Advocate General |
| #6972, aired 2014-12-30 | TELEVISION FOR SHORT $2000: "M.D." was in the full title of this show that hung up its stethoscope in 2012 House, M.D. |
| #6953, aired 2014-12-03 | MAKING YOU WATCH TELEVISION $400: An app for this NBC competition show makes you the coach & asks, "Who will you turn your chair for?" The Voice |
| #6953, aired 2014-12-03 | MAKING YOU WATCH TELEVISION $800: Phoebe & Max are brother & sister on this Nick show about a family of superheroes trying to fit in The Thundermans |
| #6953, aired 2014-12-03 | MAKING YOU WATCH TELEVISION $1200: The 7th season of this ABC obstacle course show had a "Tournament of Champions"--a solid idea--&, as always, made a big splash Wipeout |
| #6953, aired 2014-12-03 | MAKING YOU WATCH TELEVISION $1600: Brothers Chris & Martin Kratt cleverly snuck their name into this show about their animal adventures Wild Kratts |
| #6953, aired 2014-12-03 | MAKING YOU WATCH TELEVISION $2000: Octavia Spencer's Nurse Jackson takes no guff from the young Ocean Park Hospital patients on this Fox drama Red Band Society |
| #6944, aired 2014-11-20 | 1940s TELEVISION $400: On a Sept. 22, 1949 episode of this series, a character wonders, "Who's the masked man?" The Lone Ranger |
| #6944, aired 2014-11-20 | 1940s TELEVISION $800: In 1948 this freckle-faced, plaid-shirted puppet had "plastic" surgery to improve his looks Howdy Doody |
| #6944, aired 2014-11-20 | 1940s TELEVISION $1200: Boxing was big on the small screen, like on the "Cavalcade of Sports" Friday night fights from this NYC venue Madison Square Garden |
| #6944, aired 2014-11-20 | 1940s TELEVISION $1600: TV's first telethon was 1949's "Damon Runyon Memorial Cancer Fund" hosted by this man, "Mr. Television" (Milton) Berle |
| #6944, aired 2014-11-20 | 1940s TELEVISION $2000: On Aug. 10, 1948 he brought his radio hit "Candid Microphone" to television (Allen) Funt |
| #6933, aired 2014-11-05 | EYEBROW-BEATING YOU $600: Seen here are the brows of this sage of Sunday night television Andy Rooney |
| #6933, aired 2014-11-05 | TV $1000: "24: Live Another Day" was shot in & is set in this city London |
| #6914, aired 2014-10-09 | EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION $800: Gleeks will speak of William McKinley High School & this singing star Emmy-nominated for her role of Rachel Berry Lea Michele |
| #6914, aired 2014-10-09 | EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION $1200: Weeks & weeks at William McKinley High School were seen on this coming-of-age Fred Savage sitcom on ABC The Wonder Years |
| #6914, aired 2014-10-09 | EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION $1600: In 2006 this Kristen Bell TV title character was off to Hearst College; in 2014 she got kickstarted back to life on film Veronica Mars |
| #6914, aired 2014-10-09 | EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION $2000: She was high-school coach's wife Tami Taylor before moving to another down-home show Connie Britton |
| #6881, aired 2014-07-14 | THE MONUMENTS WOMEN $200: We love this comedienne who earned her place
at the hall of fame plaza
at the television academy Lucille Ball |
| #6860, aired 2014-06-13 | HISTORIC TV $400: Before "Survivor" & "Big Brother", this MTV show took television into a house where 7 young people lived together The Real World |
| #6791, aired 2014-03-10 | ALFRED HITCHCOCK SAID $200: "Television has brought" this crime "back into the home, where it belongs" murder |
| #6742, aired 2013-12-31 | CELEBRITIES' FAVORITE MOVIES $200: (I'm Chuck Todd of NBC News.) The longer I am in television, the more I like this feature film comedy with Will Ferrell as a San Diego newsman, & I'm really looking forward to the sequel Anchorman(: The Legend of Ron Burgundy) |
| #6740, aired 2013-12-27 | POP CULTURE $400: On May 31, 2000 Sonja Christopher became the first person to suffer this cruel reality television fate voted off the island |
| #6734, aired 2013-12-19 | HODGEPODGE $600: This small blonde Oklahoma-born dynamo has been "Wicked" on stage & full of "Glee" on television Kristin Chenoweth |
| #6732, aired 2013-12-17 | TV $1000: Mitch & Cam got engaged on the first episode of season 5 of this comedy Modern Family |
| #6719, aired 2013-11-28 | THE BARNES FOUNDATION $1200: (Alex presents the clue from the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia, PA.) Pointillism may seem like a novelty, but it's really a scientific use of colored dots to create an overall image; your computer monitor & your television screen work the same way, so in the 1880s, this artist was years ahead of his time Seurat |
| #6715, aired 2013-11-22 | LITERARY OPENINGS $2000: Gibson:
"The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel" Neuromancer |
| #6709, aired 2013-11-14 | COLOR TV $1000: "____ Bloods" Blue Bloods |
| #6693, aired 2013-10-23 | SEVEN UP $1200: His comedy routine "Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television" led to a landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling George Carlin |
| #6671, aired 2013-09-23 | BROADWAY $400: (Kelly of the Clue Crew presents the clue from Broadway, New York.) Originally airing on television, "Cinderella", which stepped out on Broadway for the first time in 2013, features a new book by Douglas Carter Beane & the classic songs of this pair Rodgers & Hammerstein |
| #6669, aired 2013-09-19 | WHAT ARE YOU SELLING? $800: "Stay thirsty, my friends", says the most interesting man in the world, who prefers this beer Dos Equis |
| #6638, aired 2013-06-26 | YOU MUST BE PRESIDENT TO WIN $1,400 (Daily Double): The International Radio & Television Society gave him its gold medal as "America's most accomplished communicator" Ronald Reagan |
| #6627, aired 2013-06-11 | RANK $400: Bilko
of television sergeant |
| #6599, aired 2013-05-02 | TV SUPPORTING CASTS $600: Vic Tayback as Mel, Polly Holliday as Flo (there was a lot of grits-kissing) Alice |
| #6594, aired 2013-04-25 | WHAT'S YOUR TECHNIQUE? $400: (Kelly of the Clue Crew presents the clue in front of a television monitor.) A single moving image is suddenly held persistently in this film technique freeze (frame) |
| #6584, aired 2013-04-11 | GENERAL SCIENCE $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a chemical equation on a television monitor.) In an equation for a chemical reaction, a formula over the arrow refers to a substance playing this role, speeding up the reaction catalyst |
| #6571, aired 2013-03-25 | 1960s TELEVISION $400: On Dec. 18, 1966 the cartoon special of this Dr. Seuss character voiced by Boris Karloff aired for the first time the Grinch |
| #6571, aired 2013-03-25 | 1960s TELEVISION $800: "Hi Diddle Riddle", the debut episode of this series, featured Frank Gorshin as the Riddler Batman |
| #6571, aired 2013-03-25 | 1960s TELEVISION $1200: This NBC western starring Lorne Greene was the No. 1 series for 3 straight seasons in the mid-1960s Bonanza |
| #6571, aired 2013-03-25 | 1960s TELEVISION $1600: On Nov. 16, 1968 this Control agent married 99 in an episode titled "With Love and Twitches" Maxwell Smart |
| #6571, aired 2013-03-25 | 1960s TELEVISION $2000: Carl Reiner won 3 Emmys for writing for this sitcom on which he occasionally played TV comedian Alan Brady The Dick Van Dyke Show |
| #6559, aired 2013-03-07 | THAT '80s SHOW $400: In 1986 his "playhouse" premiered on Saturday morning television Pee-wee (Herman) |
| #6543, aired 2013-02-13 | THE LATE, GREAT COMEDIAN $2000: He said, "There are 400,000 words in... English... & there are 7 of them you can't say on television. What a ratio... 399,993:7" (George) Carlin |
| #6520, aired 2013-01-11 | INTO THE SHARK TANK $1200: (Here's Mark Cuban.) You're a go-getter from Utah who's transmitted a 60-line image of a dollar sign--I like your style! I think this television thing might have a future...Partner! Philo Farnsworth |
| #6516, aired 2013-01-07 | UCLA CELEBRITY ALUMNI $600: Attending UCLA in the '60s, he was no "Meathead", he just played one later on television Rob Reiner |
| #6513, aired 2013-01-02 | GOLDEN GLOBE WINNERS $400: In 2001:
The president of the United States on television Martin Sheen |
| #6482, aired 2012-11-20 | THE LIVING ROOM $200: In 1950 10% of American living rooms had this device; by 1960 it was about 90% a television |
| #6475, aired 2012-11-09 | NETWORK INITIALS $400: HGTV Home and Garden Television |
| #6445, aired 2012-09-28 | AFTRA $1000: In 1938 stars like Edgar Bergen supported a big deal with CBS & NBC; back then "AFTRA" was missing this letter T |
| #6408, aired 2012-06-27 | IN UTAH ROW $2000: This Beaver-born tinkerer is sometimes considered the inventor of television Philo T. Farnsworth |
| #6400, aired 2012-06-15 | .gov $400: Its .gov website says it "regulates interstate and international communications by radio, television... satellite & cable" FCC |
| #6329, aired 2012-03-08 | HALL OF FAMERS $200: Among the first class of inductees into the Television Hall of Fame were Milton Berle & this zany redhead Lucille Ball |
| #6299, aired 2012-01-26 | FAMOUS FIRSTS $600: In 1963, for the 1st network use of this technology, Lindsey Nelson cautioned that "Army did not score again" instant replay |
| #6248, aired 2011-11-16 | GILLIGAN'S ISLAND $400: This tour boat was named for the chairman of the FCC who called television "a vast wasteland" the Minnow |
| #6222, aired 2011-10-11 | ONE-LINERS $400: Fred Allen, 1950:
This "is a new medium. It's called a medium because nothing is well done" television |
| #6180, aired 2011-06-24 | MAY I QUOTE YOU ON THAT? $800: A 1939 editorial:
The problem with this is "people must sit and keep their eyes glued... the average American family hasn't time" television |
| #6173, aired 2011-06-15 | ICONS OF DAYTIME TELEVISION $200: Captain Kangaroo's crew included this right-hand man, played by Hugh Brannum Mr. Green Jeans |
| #6173, aired 2011-06-15 | ICONS OF DAYTIME TELEVISION $400: On Jan. 18, 2011, after 28 years on the morning shift, this morning co-host announced he was retiring Regis Philbin |
| #6173, aired 2011-06-15 | ICONS OF DAYTIME TELEVISION $600: Now that's stamina! Since 1970, this soap opera character played by Susan Lucci has been married 12 times Erica Kane |
| #6173, aired 2011-06-15 | ICONS OF DAYTIME TELEVISION $800: Barbara Walters started as a writer on this NBC morning show in 1961 & eventually became its first female co-host The Today Show |
| #6173, aired 2011-06-15 | ICONS OF DAYTIME TELEVISION $1000: Ruta Lee & Elaine Stewart rolled the giant dice on this game show; whatever happened to that debonair fellow? High Rollers |
| #6172, aired 2011-06-14 | INVENTED IN THE 20th CENTURY $2000: Using a rotating red, blue & green disk, Peter Goldmark invented a version of this approved by the FCC in 1950 a color television |
| #6149, aired 2011-05-12 | COUNTRY: STRONG $800: As well as music videos, this network airs shows like "My Big Redneck Wedding" CMT (Country Music Television) |
| #6124, aired 2011-04-07 | TV ALPHABET $200: TNT Turner Network Television |
| #5999, aired 2010-10-14 | "CO" CO.s $600: Started as a glass company, it went on to make light bulbs, television tubes &, of course, cookware Corning |
| #5969, aired 2010-07-22 | JOAN $2000: This founder of the Children's Television Workshop is in the National Women's Hall of Fame Joan Ganz Cooney |
| #5956, aired 2010-07-05 | TELL US OF TELEVISION $400: Usually, 26 sealed briefcases aren't so exciting, but this game show sure jazzes 'em up Deal or No Deal |
| #5956, aired 2010-07-05 | TELL US OF TELEVISION $800: Kitchen mates Mung Daal & Shnitzel cook up adventures for this title Cartoon Network guy Chowder |
| #5956, aired 2010-07-05 | TELL US OF TELEVISION $1200: As Sylar, Zachary Quinto enjoyed picking the occasional brain on this NBC show Heroes |
| #5956, aired 2010-07-05 | TELL US OF TELEVISION $1600: nick.com says "They wear underwear on the outside of their costumes! They're... Fanboy &" this kid Chum Chum |
| #5956, aired 2010-07-05 | TELL US OF TELEVISION $2000: Mike Rowe's filthy occupations on this Discovery Channel show have included maggot farmer & diaper cleaner Dirty Jobs |
| #5939, aired 2010-06-10 | '70s SITCOMS $1000: Les Nessman was the news director on this sitcom WKRP in Cincinnati |
| #5927, aired 2010-05-25 | ORGANIZATIONS & AWARDS $400: When the Academy of Television first handed out these awards in 1949, there were only 6 categories the Emmys |
| #5915, aired 2010-05-07 | RETRONYMS $2000: This word is used for television that's sent over the airwaves, in contrast to cable or satellite broadcast |
| #5907, aired 2010-04-27 | FUN WITH WORDS $800: George Carlin joked about this many words "you can never say on television" 7 |
| #5894, aired 2010-04-08 | THE JAMES BEARD FOUNDATION $200: In 1946 author & chef James Beard became the first to do cooking instruction using this medium television |
| #5893, aired 2010-04-07 | THE USUAL GANG OF IDIOTS $400: urbandictionary.com informs us that an "idiot box" is actually one of these electronic devices a television |
| #5749, aired 2009-09-17 | SCIENTISTS $800: "The Undersea World of" this marine explorer was a television fixture from 1968 to 1976 Jacques Cousteau |
| #5719, aired 2009-06-18 | WALTER CRONKITE $1600: In 1950 this legendary newsman persuaded Walter to leave radio journalism for television (Edward R.) Murrow |
| #5710, aired 2009-06-05 | I REMEMBER TELEVISION $400: I remember this variety show that signed off with "I'm So Glad We Had This Time Together" from 1967 to 1978 The Carol Burnett Show |
| #5710, aired 2009-06-05 | I REMEMBER TELEVISION $800: I remember Bob Crane outwitting Werner Klemperer on this show every week from 1965 to 1971 Hogan's Heroes |
| #5710, aired 2009-06-05 | I REMEMBER TELEVISION $1200: I remember this 1960-64 show with Tod & Buz cruising the U.S. (actually, I remember the theme better) Route 66 |
| #5710, aired 2009-06-05 | I REMEMBER TELEVISION $1600: I remember these 2 hunky doctor shows that dueled on ABC & NBC from 1961 to 1966 Dr. Kildare & Ben Casey |
| #5710, aired 2009-06-05 | I REMEMBER TELEVISION $2000: I remember this 1966-1971 soap opera about vampires, witches & werewolves Dark Shadows |
| #5642, aired 2009-03-03 | FAB 5 FREDDY $600: The middle name of this public television legend was McFeely Mister Rogers |
| #5517, aired 2008-09-09 | FROM LETTERMAN'S TOP 10 LISTS $800: "Programs On" her "New Television Network" include "Two and a Half Stedmans" Oprah Winfrey |
| #5515, aired 2008-07-25 | COLOR MY WORLD $200: This TV co-hostess was recognized by "The Guinness Book of World Records" as television's most frequent clapper Vanna White |
| #5508, aired 2008-07-16 | TELEVISION $200: Kyle Chandler is the coach of a small-town high school football team on this critically acclaimed TV show Friday Night Lights |
| #5508, aired 2008-07-16 | TELEVISION $400: Just when Wentworth Miller thought he was out, they pull him back--into jail--on this Fox drama Prison Break |
| #5508, aired 2008-07-16 | TELEVISION $600: Starbuck is a woman on the Sci-Fi Channel's version of this series Battlestar Galactica |
| #5508, aired 2008-07-16 | TELEVISION $800: This perky actress plays Olive Snook, a waitress at the Pie Hole on "Pushing Daisies" Kristin Chenoweth |
| #5508, aired 2008-07-16 | TELEVISION $1000: Mick St. John is a P.I. who sucks--blood, that is--on this vampirific CBS show Moonlight |
| #5465, aired 2008-05-16 | TELEVISION $200: Ellen Pompeo plays one of the healers in training on this drama Grey's Anatomy |
| #5465, aired 2008-05-16 | TELEVISION $400: Kyle MacLachlan moved onto Wisteria Lane as Orson Hodge, Bree's new husband, on this soapy series Desperate Housewives |
| #5465, aired 2008-05-16 | TELEVISION $600: Jorge Garcia keeps the humor alive as Hugo "Hurley" Reyes on this enigmatic show Lost |
| #5465, aired 2008-05-16 | TELEVISION $800: Who can resist John Krasinski as prankster Jim Halpert on this sitcom? The Office |
| #5465, aired 2008-05-16 | TELEVISION $1000: Jack Coleman, who plays the mysterious H.R.G. on this show, is a descendant of Benjamin Franklin Heroes |
| #5445, aired 2008-04-18 | BIRD-BRAINED TELEVISION $400: A little bird told me that Susan Dey played Laurie on this '70s series The Partridge Family |
| #5445, aired 2008-04-18 | BIRD-BRAINED TELEVISION $800: This 1989 CBS Western was the highest-rated miniseries in 5 years Lonesome Dove |
| #5445, aired 2008-04-18 | BIRD-BRAINED TELEVISION $1200: Gina Lollobrigida showed up as Jane Wyman's half-sister on this series about a winery Falcon Crest |
| #5445, aired 2008-04-18 | BIRD-BRAINED TELEVISION $1600: Edward Everett Horton played a medicine man named Roaring Chicken on this goofy cavalry sitcom F-Troop |
| #5445, aired 2008-04-18 | BIRD-BRAINED TELEVISION $2000: Morgan Fairchild was tickled "pink" to star in this '80s TV series based on a Joan Crawford film Flamingo Road |
| #5426, aired 2008-03-24 | "W"ORDPLAY $1000: In 1961 Newton Minnow described television as a vast this wasteland |
| #5416, aired 2008-03-10 | SECRET IDENTITIES $2000: Zorro Don Diego de la Vega |
| #5409, aired 2008-02-28 | TALL STRUCTURES $600: The world's tallest supported structure is a 2,036-foot tower in North Dakota used primarily for this television broadcasting |
| #5385, aired 2008-01-25 | IT HAPPENED IN SAN FRANCISCO $1600: Philo Farnsworth transmitted the first television image at the foot of this hill named for a means of communication Telegraph Hill |
| #5382, aired 2008-01-22 | 1940s TELEVISION $400: Boxing came to network TV in 1944 with "Cavalcade of Sports" sponsored by this razor company Gillette |
| #5382, aired 2008-01-22 | 1940s TELEVISION $800: When this series debuted in 1948, it used its radio title "Candid Microphone"; the title was changed 9 months later Candid Camera |
| #5382, aired 2008-01-22 | 1940s TELEVISION $1200: This "Howdy Doody" host had a variety show during the 1948-49 season called "the Gulf Road Show" "Buffalo Bob" Smith |
| #5382, aired 2008-01-22 | 1940s TELEVISION $1600: First seen on experimental TV in 1939, Burr Tillstrom's series about this trio began airing on NBC in 1948 Kukla, Fran & Ollie |
| #5382, aired 2008-01-22 | 1940s TELEVISION $2000: Beginning in 1948, this long-time Miss America host had 2 game shows on the air: "Stop the Music" & "Break the Bank" Bert Parks |
| #5368, aired 2008-01-02 | CRAIGS LIST $800: This funny Scotsman is seen here & on late, late television Craig Ferguson |
| #5346, aired 2007-12-03 | RETRONYMS $1600: Merriam-Webster's example of a retronym is "console" (as opposed to LCD or plasma flat-panel) this television |
| #5323, aired 2007-10-31 | OKLAHOMIES $4,100 (Daily Double): Born near Ada, Oklahoma in 1918, he was one of the first evangelists to hold large-scale television revivals Oral Roberts |
| #5318, aired 2007-10-24 | HEY, MR.! $1200: In TV's early days, this comedian known as "Mr. Television" was responsible for the explosion in sales of TV sets (Milton) Berle |
| #5299, aired 2007-09-27 | & THE EMMY GOES TO... $1000: 2002:
Michael Chiklis The Shield |
| #5271, aired 2007-07-09 | OPERA $800: Gian Carlo Menotti's 1963 opera "Labyrinth" was written for this medium television |
| #5269, aired 2007-07-05 | THE "M-E"s $400: Newspapers, magazines, radio & television media |
| #5268, aired 2007-07-04 | "IDI" I MEAN $800: The television is sometimes referred to as this kind of "box", though not when you're watching our show the idiot box |
| #5259, aired 2007-06-21 | YOU NEED HELP $800: This first female co-anchor on "60 Minutes" helped Nixon write his bestselling memoirs Diane Sawyer |
| #5256, aired 2007-06-18 | AMERICAN PLAYS $1600: (Hi, I'm Sam Waterston.) I received my 1st Emmy nomination for the television version of this play; I played Tom & Katharine Hepburn played my mother, Amanda Wingfield The Glass Menagerie |
| #5245, aired 2007-06-01 | '90s TV $2000: This title assassin seen here debuted on MTV's Liquid Television in 1991. Charlize Theron played her in the live action film Aeon Flux |
| #5199, aired 2007-03-29 | THE GOLDEN AGE OF TELEVISION $200: In the 1950s, Sgt. Friday's partners on this show included Sgt. Ben Romero, Sgt. Ed Jacobs & Officer Frank Smith Dragnet |
| #5199, aired 2007-03-29 | THE GOLDEN AGE OF TELEVISION $400: The opening of his anthology series showed the silhouette of this director filling a line drawing of his profile Alfred Hitchcock |
| #5199, aired 2007-03-29 | THE GOLDEN AGE OF TELEVISION $600: For the 1958-59 season, 7 of the top 10 series were Westerns, with this one set in Kansas ranked No. 1 Gunsmoke |
| #5199, aired 2007-03-29 | THE GOLDEN AGE OF TELEVISION $800: Shows named for & starring these 2 movie pooches debuted in the fall of 1954 Lassie & Rin Tin Tin |
| #5199, aired 2007-03-29 | THE GOLDEN AGE OF TELEVISION $1000: In 1959 Barbara Hale won an Emmy for playing secretary Della Street on this long-running courtroom drama Perry Mason |
| #5106, aired 2006-11-20 | LET'S PLAY POKER $400: In this type of poker, the bidding is done with articles of clothing strip poker |
| #5037, aired 2006-07-04 | NAMES IN SPORTS $800: (Hi, I'm James Worthy.) In the 1980s my L.A. Lakers got this "entertaining" nickname, also the name of a cable television network "Showtime" |
| #5035, aired 2006-06-30 | CABLE TELEVISION $400: This graphic FX drama centers on plastic surgeons Sean McNamara & Christian Troy Nip/Tuck |
| #5035, aired 2006-06-30 | CABLE TELEVISION $800: Bravo showed viewers what it's like "Being" this R&B singer who's married to Whitney Houston Bobby Brown |
| #5035, aired 2006-06-30 | CABLE TELEVISION $1200: Hank Azaria is the title character in this Showtime series about a psychiatrist with a dysfunctional family Huff |
| #5035, aired 2006-06-30 | CABLE TELEVISION $1600: Having problems with your pooch? Get guidance from Cesar Millan on this National Geographic Channel show The Dog Whisperer |
| #5035, aired 2006-06-30 | CABLE TELEVISION $2000: Style gurus Stacy London & Clinton Kelly teach fashion do's & don'ts on this TLC show What Not to Wear |
| #4989, aired 2006-04-27 | TV INSPIRATIONS $1600: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew gives the clue from the JFK Library & Museum.) A famous 1961 photo of President Kennedy at his desk is echoed in the opening credits of this popular television series The West Wing |
| #4979, aired 2006-04-13 | WE "LOVE" TELEVISION $400: Hooray for Captain Stubing, who was played by Gavin MacLeod on this series The Love Boat |
| #4979, aired 2006-04-13 | WE "LOVE" TELEVISION $800: "All's fair in" these 2 things, also the title of a Susan Dey sitcom Love & War |
| #4979, aired 2006-04-13 | WE "LOVE" TELEVISION $1200: In the title of yet another Susan Dey series, this phrase followed "Loves Me" Loves Me Not |
| #4979, aired 2006-04-13 | WE "LOVE" TELEVISION $1600: What can you say about a '50s game show with the same name (sob) as this Erich Segal novel Love Story |
| #4979, aired 2006-04-13 | WE "LOVE" TELEVISION $2000: This classic Sinatra hit served as the theme song for "Married... with Children" "Love And Marriage" |
| #4968, aired 2006-03-29 | MUSIC/TELEVISION $400: Phil Collins, Ted Nugent & The Fat Boys hit the Sunshine State on this '80s cop show Miami Vice |
| #4968, aired 2006-03-29 | MUSIC/TELEVISION $800: Legendary singer Eartha Kitt was just purr-fect as this "Batman" villainess Catwoman |
| #4968, aired 2006-03-29 | MUSIC/TELEVISION $1200: This country star became a sitcom grandma at the end of her first season on the WB Reba McEntire |
| #4968, aired 2006-03-29 | MUSIC/TELEVISION $1600: Going from Salt-N-Pepa to Dr. Pepa, the musician was in the house counseling Janice Dickinson on this VH1 reality show The Surreal Life |
| #4968, aired 2006-03-29 | MUSIC/TELEVISION $2000: Hey, now! Elvis Costello sold Hank Kingsley a lemon of a sports car on this HBO comedy The Larry Sanders Show |
| #4946, aired 2006-02-27 | THAT'S MY BUSINESS $1200: (One of television's most recognizable commercial spokespersons delivers the clue.) Oh, no--I lost another one to this mortgage company Ditech |
| #4945, aired 2006-02-24 | IMPORTED TELEVISION $1200: Britain's "Changing Rooms" gave its designers only around $900; this TLC show goes nuts & gives them $1,000 Trading Spaces |
| #4945, aired 2006-02-24 | IMPORTED TELEVISION $1600: A scientist was quoted as saying contestants on this Dutch show suffered from "post container stress disorder" Big Brother |
| #4945, aired 2006-02-24 | IMPORTED TELEVISION $2000: A presenter on the BBC version of this PBS show called it "a detective story, a game show, and a history lesson" Antiques Roadshow |
| #4914, aired 2006-01-12 | NEXT OF "KIN" $1200: A film of a transmitted television program a kinescope |
| #4906, aired 2006-01-02 | NETWORKING $800: "Digging for the Truth",
"Wild West Tech",
"Mail Call" The History Channel |
| #4870, aired 2005-11-11 | MOVIE SONGS $1000: "Farewell and adieu to you fair Spanish ladies", croons Robert Shaw in this Spielberg splasher flick Jaws |
| #4851, aired 2005-10-17 | MY OWN PRIVATE IDAHO $800 (Daily Double): Calling itself the birthplace of television, Rigby, Idaho was the boyhood home of this technology pioneer Philo Farnsworth |
| #4838, aired 2005-09-28 | ARRESTING TELEVISION $200: "Just the facts..." You need more?! OK, this show aired in prime time on 3 different days but never on Fridays Dragnet |
| #4838, aired 2005-09-28 | ARRESTING TELEVISION $400: Gary Sinise dusts for DNA as Det. Mac Taylor on this Gotham-based whodunit CSI: New York |
| #4838, aired 2005-09-28 | ARRESTING TELEVISION $600: Sherry Stringfield practiced law on this "colorful" ABC cop show before getting her medical degree on "ER" NYPD Blue |
| #4838, aired 2005-09-28 | ARRESTING TELEVISION $800: Sgt. Esterhaus led roll call on this '80s drama & hey! Let's be careful out there Hill Street Blues |
| #4838, aired 2005-09-28 | ARRESTING TELEVISION $1000: After writing for "My Two Dads", Shawn Ryan did a serious 180 & created this Michael Chiklis cop show The Shield |
| #4806, aired 2005-06-27 | ANIMAL WORDS & PHRASES $600: Slang term for an indoor television antenna with 2 adjustable aerials rabbit ears |
| #4791, aired 2005-06-06 | YOU DESERVE A SHOWBIZ AWARD! $1200: Starting in 1972, the ACT awards were handed out for achievement in television aimed at this demographic children |
| #4759, aired 2005-04-21 | "LOVE" ON TELEVISION $200: Madylin Sweeten plays the daughter & her brothers play the twin sons on this sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond |
| #4759, aired 2005-04-21 | "LOVE" ON TELEVISION $400: She hosted "True Tales of Teen Trauma" on MTV & also played Sarah on "Party of Five" Jennifer Love Hewitt |
| #4759, aired 2005-04-21 | "LOVE" ON TELEVISION $600: Yikes! Tiny Tim once played a suspected vampire on this comedy anthology series that debuted in 1969 Love, American Style |
| #4759, aired 2005-04-21 | "LOVE" ON TELEVISION $800: Our own Johnny Gilbert was once the announcer for this dating show hosted by Chuck Woolery Love Connection |
| #4759, aired 2005-04-21 | "LOVE" ON TELEVISION $1000: This '80s sitcom was based on a TV movie in which Tony Randall played a gay man Love, Sidney |
| #4755, aired 2005-04-15 | CORPORATE SPONSORSHIP $400: In 1997 this television network's president called Exxon Mobil "our corporate Medici" PBS |
| #4750, aired 2005-04-08 | JOBS IN THE ARTS $200: At the theatre it's the sole job of--Line!--following the script & reminding actors what to say next prompter |
| #4710, aired 2005-02-11 | MODERN QUOTATIONS $800: In 1994, Richard Nixon quipped, "The American people don't believe anything until they see it" here on television |
| #4681, aired 2005-01-03 | EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION $200: The Sweathogs attended James Buchanan High in Brooklyn on this '70s show Welcome Back, Kotter |
| #4681, aired 2005-01-03 | EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION $400: This show focused on the escapades of Zack, Screech & their friends at Bayside High School Saved by the Bell |
| #4681, aired 2005-01-03 | EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION $600: The overachieving students on this show learned life lessons from substitute teacher Howard Hesseman Head of the Class |
| #4681, aired 2005-01-03 | EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION $800: This drama featuring Lloyd Haynes as a concerned teacher was set at Walt Whitman High Room 222 |
| #4681, aired 2005-01-03 | EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION $1000: Sarah Jessica Parker was a nerdy teen hoping to be part of the "in" crowd at Weemawee High on this '80s sitcom Square Pegs |
| #4638, aired 2004-11-04 | '50s TV $200: In 1953 Edward R. Murrow gave a TV tour of this network's new West Coast facility, Television City CBS |
| #4633, aired 2004-10-27 | "J" WALKING $600: (Hi, I'm Tim Russert of NBC's Meet the Press.) In 1985 I supervised a broadcast from Rome featuring a live interview with this man, a first for American television Pope John Paul II |
| #4588, aired 2004-07-14 | TELEVISION MILESTONES $200: When Samantha joined Darrin, it became the first live-action show to regularly put a man & wife in the same bed Bewitched |
| #4588, aired 2004-07-14 | TELEVISION MILESTONES $400: The first color TV transmission was produced by John Baird in this European capital in 1928 London |
| #4588, aired 2004-07-14 | TELEVISION MILESTONES $600: American television's first Hispanic superstar was this bandleader Desi Arnaz |
| #4588, aired 2004-07-14 | TELEVISION MILESTONES $800: One of the first British productions to play in the U.S. was a 1955 series about this 12th century outlaw Robin Hood |
| #4588, aired 2004-07-14 | TELEVISION MILESTONES $1000: One of the first TV miniseries was this 1976 adaptation of a bestselling Irwin Shaw novel about 2 brothers Rich Man, Poor Man |
| #4587, aired 2004-07-13 | EDUCATION $400: 2 past presidents of the National Education Association lead an effort to reduce this to improve learning class size |
| #4583, aired 2004-07-07 | MARVEL COMICS HEROES $2000: "The Invincible" Iron Man |
| #4573, aired 2004-06-23 | SHAKESPEAREAN ACTORS $800: Now an assistant DA on television, he's seen here in 1968 playing Prince Hal in "Henry IV, Part II" Sam Waterston |
| #4567, aired 2004-06-15 | HOME, SWEET TELEVISION HOME $200: Send mail to this critter c/o the Ranger's Station, Jellystone Park Yogi Bear |
| #4567, aired 2004-06-15 | HOME, SWEET TELEVISION HOME $400: Sometime in the 23rd century & somewhere in the Alpha Quadrant, Lt. Uhura makes her home on this vessel the Enterprise |
| #4567, aired 2004-06-15 | HOME, SWEET TELEVISION HOME $600: Micky, Mike, Davy & Pete all lived together at 1334 N. Beechwood Dr. in Los Angeles on this show The Monkees |
| #4567, aired 2004-06-15 | HOME, SWEET TELEVISION HOME $800: A lavish gadget-laden railroad car called the "Nimrod" housed & transported this show's heroes The Wild Wild West |
| #4567, aired 2004-06-15 | HOME, SWEET TELEVISION HOME $1000: A Depression-era family live on their own mountain in Jefferson County, Virginia on this show The Waltons |
| #4552, aired 2004-05-25 | CBS $1600: He hosts the longest-running game show in television history Bob Barker |
| #4541, aired 2004-05-10 | CROSSWORD CLUES "D" $800: He's the shadowy Watergate source
(4,6) "Deep Throat" |
| #4510, aired 2004-03-26 | A QUESTION ABOUT TELEVISION $200: This question is the first line of the theme song from "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" Who can turn the world on with her smile? |
| #4510, aired 2004-03-26 | A QUESTION ABOUT TELEVISION $400: After this hero left the scene, someone inevitably asked, "Who was that masked man?" The Lone Ranger |
| #4510, aired 2004-03-26 | A QUESTION ABOUT TELEVISION $600: This 5-word question became a catchphrase for Gary Coleman on "Different Strokes" What'chu talkin' 'bout, Willis? |
| #4510, aired 2004-03-26 | A QUESTION ABOUT TELEVISION $800: Watching "Twin Peaks", the lynch mob wondered, "Who killed" this teenager Laura Palmer |
| #4510, aired 2004-03-26 | A QUESTION ABOUT TELEVISION $1000: This popular game show featured the question "Will our mystery guest enter and sign in, please?" What's My Line? |
| #4505, aired 2004-03-19 | THAT OLD TIME TELEVISION $400: This 1950s Nelson family sitcom ran for 14 years Ozzie and Harriet |
| #4505, aired 2004-03-19 | THAT OLD TIME TELEVISION $800: 2 of the 3 full-time "Tonight Show" hosts before Jay Leno (2 of 3) Steve Allen, Jack Paar & Johnny Carson |
| #4505, aired 2004-03-19 | THAT OLD TIME TELEVISION $1200: This actress' TV character Alexis Carrington was once described as "starts with B, rhymes with rich" Joan Collins |
| #4505, aired 2004-03-19 | THAT OLD TIME TELEVISION $1600: With boxing as her category, Dr. Joyce Brothers won the top prize on this TV quiz show The $64,000 Question |
| #4505, aired 2004-03-19 | THAT OLD TIME TELEVISION $2000: Jeepers, Dr. Smith! On TV's "Lost in Space", this actor played the youngest Robinson Billy Mumy |
| #4482, aired 2004-02-17 | TELEVISION $400: Brooke Burns hosts this show, sort of a cross between "Fear Factor" & "The Weakest Link" Dog Eat Dog |
| #4482, aired 2004-02-17 | TELEVISION $800: Ryan moves from Chino to upscale Newport Beach on this Fox series The O.C. |
| #4482, aired 2004-02-17 | TELEVISION $1200: Michael Vartan plays CIA agent Michael Vaughn on this ABC thriller Alias |
| #4482, aired 2004-02-17 | TELEVISION $1600: Grieving dad Treat Williams moved his family to this title Colorado town on a WB drama Everwood |
| #4482, aired 2004-02-17 | TELEVISION $2000: A young Robin is seen here from this anime-influenced show Teen Titans |
| #4475, aired 2004-02-06 | THE '60s $600: In a 1961 speech FCC chairman Newton Minow called television a "vast" this wasteland |
| #4447, aired 2003-12-30 | '90s TELEVISION $400: Twins Brandon & Brenda had just moved to L.A. when this series debuted in 1990 Beverly Hills, 90210 |
| #4447, aired 2003-12-30 | '90s TELEVISION $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Alaska.) A moose wandered the streets in the credits of this 1990s TV show, set in Alaska Northern Exposure |
| #4447, aired 2003-12-30 | '90s TELEVISION $1200: Called "Hill Street Blues" with singing, this show from Steven Bochco lasted 3 months in 1990 Cop Rock |
| #4447, aired 2003-12-30 | '90s TELEVISION $1600: This sitcom was set primarily at an airfield on Nantucket Wings |
| #4447, aired 2003-12-30 | '90s TELEVISION $2000: Nerdy neighbor Brian Krakow pined for Angela on this teen angst show starring Claire Danes My So-Called Life |
| #4446, aired 2003-12-29 | TELEVISION & THE '60s $200: (Sofia of the Clue Crew reports from Kauai, Hawaii.) On November 22, 1963, while making the pilot for this Bob Denver series here on Kauai, the cast learned that JFK had been shot Gilligan's Island |
| #4446, aired 2003-12-29 | TELEVISION & THE '60s $400: By the time this series ended, it was set in the '60s & The Fonz had become Dean of Boys at a high school Happy Days |
| #4446, aired 2003-12-29 | TELEVISION & THE '60s $600: Barbara Walters started out as a writer on this morning show in 1961, eventually working her way up to co-host Today |
| #4446, aired 2003-12-29 | TELEVISION & THE '60s $800: Debuting in 1966, this Marlo Thomas sitcom paved the way for other shows about independent career women That Girl |
| #4446, aired 2003-12-29 | TELEVISION & THE '60s $1000: A Red Cross worker named Cherry White was killed in the 1968 Tet Offensive on a 1989 episode of this series China Beach |
| #4434, aired 2003-12-11 | "T"EASE ME $600: Beginning in 1952, it was network television's first early-morning program Today |
| #4368, aired 2003-09-10 | SHE'S CANADIAN, EH? $600: As a kid, this angry alt-rocker from Ottawa starred on Nickelodeon's "You Can't Do That on Television" Alanis Morissette |
| #4362, aired 2003-07-15 | TELEVISION $400: This show won the Outstanding Drama Series Emmy in 1968, but we disavow any knowledge of it Mission: Impossible |
| #4362, aired 2003-07-15 | TELEVISION $800: The actress seen here (Kathy Kinney) plays this sitcom character Mimi |
| #4362, aired 2003-07-15 | TELEVISION $1200: Believe it or not, back in 1949, he was the original host of "Believe It or Not" Robert Ripley |
| #4362, aired 2003-07-15 | TELEVISION $1600: She's the "Night Court" actress seen here Markie Post |
| #4362, aired 2003-07-15 | TELEVISION $2000: The 1985-86 troupe on this show included Anthony Michael Hall, Joan Cusack & Robert Downey, Jr. Saturday Night Live |
| #4331, aired 2003-06-02 | COMMUNICATIONS $800: This medium was originally called "wireless telegraohy" radio |
| #4326, aired 2003-05-26 | YOU'VE GOT TO STAND FOR SOMETHING $1600: (Hi, I'm Billy Ray Cyrus) You might have seen some of my videos on CMT; CMT stands for this Country Music Television |
| #4262, aired 2003-02-25 | "EX" RATED $1200: Boyd Matson hosts this National Geographic television program Explorer |
| #4217, aired 2002-12-24 | "SMALL"VILLE $800: Slang for television small screen |
| #4195, aired 2002-11-22 | '40s TECH $400: A primitive 3-D color version of this was demonstrated by John Logie Baird in 1941 television |
| #4143, aired 2002-09-11 | CLASSIC ADS & SLOGANS $1000: "We'll Leave the Light on for You" Motel 6 |
| #4129, aired 2002-07-11 | PEOPLE $400: He appeared on the February 8, 1961 "I've Got a Secret" with the secret "I've been hit in the face with 14,000 pies" Soupy Sales |
| #4120, aired 2002-06-28 | WIZARDS $600: In July of 1973 this game show, my first in America, debuted on NBC The Wizard of Odds |
| #4105, aired 2002-06-07 | NOTHING BUT TIME $2000: The one developed by the Society of Motion Picture & Television Engineers shows hours, minutes, seconds & frames a video timecode |
| #4084, aired 2002-05-09 | SAINTS $1000: A follower of St. Francis, this "poor" saint is the patroness of television Clare |
| #4077, aired 2002-04-30 | LET'S HAVE A DRINK! $1000: This brand's bottle shows a lithograph, seen here, of a plantation down in Dixie Southern Comfort |
| #4071, aired 2002-04-22 | JUST GIVE "ME" $200: Radio, newspapers & television, collectively media |
| #4023, aired 2002-02-13 | TV ALPHABET $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1990 this cable network began publishing the magazine YSB, Young Sisters & Brothers BET (Black Entertainment Television) |
| #4012, aired 2002-01-29 | HOLY MOVIE ROLES $2000: 1999:
Jon Voight Noah |
| #4009, aired 2002-01-24 | DISNEY MOVIES $600: "The Fairest of Them All" was a 1983 television special honoring the re-release of this classic Snow White |
| #3951, aired 2001-11-05 | THAT WAS NO LADY $400: Born in 1908, he was in over 40 silent films before becoming "Mr." (& sometimes Miss) "Television" Milton Berle |
| #3951, aired 2001-11-05 | ENTERTAINMENT MILESTONES $1000: In 1955 the Independent Television Authority broke this corporation's monopoly on TV in England the BBC |
| #3946, aired 2001-10-29 | IT'S MY LIFE $1000: This TV news producer tells his own story in "Tell Me a Story: Fifty Years & 60 Minutes in Television" Don Hewitt |
| #3922, aired 2001-09-25 | WHEN IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA $400: This "Eye" network's "Television City" is next to the Farmer's Market CBS |
| #3903, aired 2001-07-18 | MILITARY TELEVISION $100: Bad guys should stay out of harm's way (that's Cmdr. Harmon Rabb's way) on this military-legal series JAG |
| #3903, aired 2001-07-18 | MILITARY TELEVISION $200: (Hi, I'm Dana Delany.) Appropriately, the final episode of this TV series on which I starred featured a visit to the Vietnam Veteran's Memorial China Beach |
| #3903, aired 2001-07-18 | MILITARY TELEVISION $300: This future star of "The Love Boat" earned his sea legs playing "Happy" Haines on "McHale's Navy" Gavin MacLeod |
| #3903, aired 2001-07-18 | MILITARY TELEVISION $400: On a '50s series, this German Shepherd & his master, Rusty, were adopted by cavalry soldiers at Fort Apache Rin Tin Tin |
| #3903, aired 2001-07-18 | MILITARY TELEVISION $500: This oldest of the Wayans Brothers co-starred with Yaphet Kotto on the 1983 drama series "For Love and Honor" Keenen Ivory Wayans |
| #3888, aired 2001-06-27 | SO YOU WANT TO BE IN MOVIES $500: They're the 2 main unions that represent professional TV & film actors in Hollywood AFTRA & SAG |
| #3874, aired 2001-06-07 | BIRDS $1,000 (Daily Double): Richard Chamberlain might know that the chestnut-backed & freckle-breasted are varieties of this bird thornbirds |
| #3849, aired 2001-05-03 | SITCOMS $400: Mrs. Mamie Dubcek is the colorful landlady of this alien family on "3rd Rock from the Sun" the Solomons |
| #3834, aired 2001-04-12 | AND I QUOTE $1000: Publishing term for the type of quote seen here: [Trebek's...made it into record books as host of television's #1-rated quiz show.] Pull quote |
| #3833, aired 2001-04-11 | SHOW BIZ SAYINGS $300: Proverbially, it "adds 10 pounds" Camera |
| #3808, aired 2001-03-07 | CRIME-TIME TELEVISION $200: This Mike Connors P.I. was parodied by Bob & Ray's "Blimmix", who got beaten up in every episode Mannix |
| #3808, aired 2001-03-07 | CRIME-TIME TELEVISION $400: Tony, the main character in this HBO series, is in the waste management business -- & others The Sopranos |
| #3808, aired 2001-03-07 | CRIME-TIME TELEVISION $600: Stavros & Crocker were 2 put-upon minions of this Manhattan South police detective Theo Kojak |
| #3808, aired 2001-03-07 | CRIME-TIME TELEVISION $800: In series titles, this word preceded "Eye" in the '60s & "Heat" in the '80s Hawaiian |
| #3808, aired 2001-03-07 | CRIME-TIME TELEVISION $1000: "NYPD Blue" premiered in 1993; 2 years later the other coast got this: "Life on the Beat" LAPD |
| #3754, aired 2000-12-21 | TELEVISION $200: Amy Brenneman's real-life relationship with her mom inspired this TV legal drama Judging Amy |
| #3754, aired 2000-12-21 | TELEVISION $400: It gave us the catchphrase "The tribe has spoken" Survivor |
| #3754, aired 2000-12-21 | TELEVISION $600: In 2000 Mary Tyler Moore & this actress reunited for the TV movie "Mary and Rhoda" Valerie Harper |
| #3754, aired 2000-12-21 | TELEVISION $800: (Hi, I'm Katie Wagner.) One of the highlights of hosting this "Live" music show for TBS was that I got to flirt with Tom Jones Live from the House of Blues |
| #3754, aired 2000-12-21 | TELEVISION $1000: Fran Drescher was "The Nanny" & she was the nanny of "Nanny and the Professor" Juliet Mills |
| #3752, aired 2000-12-19 | DID I HEAR THAT RIGHT? $100: "Saturday Night Live" editorialist Emily Litella wasn't sure why all the fuss about these "on television" Violins |
| #3747, aired 2000-12-12 | NAME THE TV SHOW $500: "There is nothing wrong with your television set. Do not attempt to adjust the picture" The Outer Limits |
| #3743, aired 2000-12-06 | WORDS YOU CAN SAY ON TELEVISION $100: Even Disney uses this word, putting it in a title between "That" & "Cat" Darn |
| #3743, aired 2000-12-06 | WORDS YOU CAN SAY ON TELEVISION $200: To fire; if you speak without thinking, you do it "from the hip" Shoot |
| #3743, aired 2000-12-06 | WORDS YOU CAN SAY ON TELEVISION $300: It followed "Hong Kong" in the name of a crime-fighting cartoon dog Phooey |
| #3743, aired 2000-12-06 | WORDS YOU CAN SAY ON TELEVISION $400: As well as an alteration of the devil's home, it's also an attachment on a loom Heck |
| #3743, aired 2000-12-06 | WORDS YOU CAN SAY ON TELEVISION $500: This 4-letter word is derived from the phrase "od rot" or "God rot" Drat |
| #3715, aired 2000-10-27 | TELEVISION $200: "Kidnapped By UFOs?" was a probing episode of this PBS series whose name is Latin for "new" Nova |
| #3715, aired 2000-10-27 | TELEVISION $400: (Hi, I'm Wallace Langham.) My mother was a costume designer on this first TV variety series hosted by this brother-&-sister duo Donny & Marie Osmond |
| #3715, aired 2000-10-27 | TELEVISION $600: On this D.C.-set sitcom, Phil faked his own death & went into hiding because he knew too much about Whitewater Murphy Brown |
| #3715, aired 2000-10-27 | TELEVISION $800: It isn't quite as harrowing as "ER" when real people get makeovers on the E! series known as "Fashion" this Fashion Emergency |
| #3715, aired 2000-10-27 | TELEVISION $1000: On "SNL" this performer with a rhyming name portrayed Arianna the Cheerleader, Mariah Carey & Judge Judy Cheri Oteri |
| #3706, aired 2000-10-16 | 'TOON IN $300: It's the longest-running animated prime time series in the history of television The Simpsons |
| #3697, aired 2000-10-03 | TELEVISION $100: Ben Gould & Samantha Becker roam the halls of Bayside High as part of "The New Class" on this show Saved by the Bell |
| #3697, aired 2000-10-03 | TELEVISION $200: The series finale of this Fox drama aired on May 17, 2000, 2 weeks after the last "Party of Five" Beverly Hills, 90210 |
| #3697, aired 2000-10-03 | TELEVISION $300: This wallaby's "Modern Life" takes place in O Town with his dog Spunky & his pal Heffer Rocko |
| #3697, aired 2000-10-03 | TELEVISION $400: Alice is the housekeeper on this classic sitcom; Sam the butcher is her boyfriend The Brady Bunch |
| #3697, aired 2000-10-03 | TELEVISION $500: On this NBC sci-fi drama, genius Jarod was played by Michael T. Weiss as a man & by Ryan Merriman as a boy The Pretender |
| #3677, aired 2000-09-05 | TELEVISION $100: Jack, Chrissy & Janet shared a Santa Monica apartment on this sitcom Three's Company |
| #3677, aired 2000-09-05 | TELEVISION $200: On "The Naked Truth", she was Nora Wilde, a photographer, later a reporter, for the National Inquisitor Tea Leoni |
| #3677, aired 2000-09-05 | TELEVISION $300: In the '60s this character's ooky maiden name was Frump Morticia Addams |
| #3677, aired 2000-09-05 | TELEVISION $400: (Hi, I'm Wendie Malick from "Just Shoot Me!")
I played Brian Benben's ex-wife Judith on this HBO comedy series that featured clips from old movies Dream On |
| #3677, aired 2000-09-05 | TELEVISION $500: He served as the anchor of CBS' "Public Eye" & as the host of HBO's "Real Sports" Bryant Gumbel |
| #3661, aired 2000-07-03 | VIVA LA REVOLUTION! $400: MTV launched the music-television revolution in 1981, one year after this channel began the news revolution CNN (Cable News Network) |
| #3632, aired 2000-05-23 | TELEVISION $200: In 1998 Brian Dennehy made his first appearance as Red Finch, David Spade's firefighter father, on this hit series Just Shoot Me! |
| #3632, aired 2000-05-23 | TELEVISION $400: (Hi, I'm Heather Tom of The Young and the Restless.) My sister Nicholle played Mr. Sheffield's daughter Maggie on this Fran Drescher sitcom The Nanny |
| #3632, aired 2000-05-23 | TELEVISION $600: In January 2000 this libidinous HBO show won the Golden Globe for Best Comedy Series Sex and the City |
| #3632, aired 2000-05-23 | TELEVISION $800: In 1999 an ABC sitcom dropped "a Pizza Place" from its name, which changed to this Two Guys and a Girl |
| #3632, aired 2000-05-23 | TELEVISION $1000: "Gilligan's Island" creator Sherwood Schwartz said he wrote this role with his friend Jim Backus in mind Thurston Howell III |
| #3631, aired 2000-05-22 | ACTRESSES ON TELEVISION $200: Morgan Fairchild, Francine Tacker & Priscilla Presley all appeared as Bobby's old flame Jenna Wade on this series Dallas |
| #3631, aired 2000-05-22 | ACTRESSES ON TELEVISION $1000: The '50s sitcom "Pride of the Family" featured this "King Kong" star & Natalie Wood as mother & daughter Fay Wray |
| #3629, aired 2000-05-18 | TELEVISION $100: Before she was Will's Grace, Debra Messing was Gail O'Grady's sister Dana Abandando on this cop drama NYPD Blue |
| #3629, aired 2000-05-18 | TELEVISION $200: "(Hi, I'm A Martinez) Before joining "General Hospital", I won an Emmy playing Cruz on this California-based soap" Santa Barbara |
| #3629, aired 2000-05-18 | TELEVISION $300: This gritty drama focuses on the police, paramedics & firefighters who work the 3-11 P.M. shift Third Watch |
| #3629, aired 2000-05-18 | TELEVISION $400: Frankie Muniz is the title kid on this quirky family sitcom that premiered on FOX in 2000 Malcolm In The Middle |
| #3629, aired 2000-05-18 | TELEVISION $500: On "The Simpsons", the chief executive of Springfield is this corrupt mayor nicknamed Diamond Joe Mayor Quimby |
| #3605, aired 2000-04-14 | BIGGER THAN A BREADBOX $500: State of the art models of these use 1080 lines of resolution instead of the old 525 High-definition television |
| #3590, aired 2000-03-24 | TELEVISION $200: He's the host of the American version of "Whose Line is it Anyway?" Drew Carey |
| #3590, aired 2000-03-24 | TELEVISION $400: On her spinoff "Time of Your Life", this former "party" girl is partying in the Big Apple Jennifer Love Hewitt |
| #3590, aired 2000-03-24 | TELEVISION $600: From 1988 to 1991 Conan O'Brien wrote for this long-running NBC series Saturday Night Live |
| #3590, aired 2000-03-24 | TELEVISION $800: On "The West Wing", this former Brat Packer plays deputy communications director Sam Seaborn Rob Lowe |
| #3590, aired 2000-03-24 | TELEVISION $1000: (Hi, I'm Gil Bellows) In addition to "Ally McBeal", this man has created such great shows as "Chicago Hope" & "PIcket Fences" David E. Kelley |
| #3538, aired 2000-01-12 | BIG WORDS $400: In 1961 Newton Minow described television as this type of "wasteland" Vast |
| #3535, aired 2000-01-07 | WE GET LETTERS $300: This cable television network uses an exclamation point in its name E! |
| #3520, aired 1999-12-17 | TELEVISION $100: Roz Doyle, a character on this sitcom, is named for a late producer of the NBC sitcom "Wings" Frasier |
| #3520, aired 1999-12-17 | TELEVISION $200: This Emmy-winning drama series features the opening heard here:
("In the criminal justice system, the people are represented by two separate & equally important groups: the police, who investigate crime, & the district attorneys who prosecute the offenders. These are their stories.") Law & Order |
| #3520, aired 1999-12-17 | TELEVISION $300: Robert Pastorelli was the star of "Cracker", but he's best-known for playing Eldin the Painter on this sitcom Murphy Brown |
| #3520, aired 1999-12-17 | TELEVISION $400: Diane Keaton directed an episode of this David Lynch series about a strange town in the Northwest Twin Peaks |
| #3520, aired 1999-12-17 | TELEVISION $500: In the mid-'80s Barbara Bel Geddes left this series & Donna Reed stepped in briefly as Miss Ellie Dallas |
| #3501, aired 1999-11-22 | TELEVISION $200: He was "X"-static when the first "X-Files" episode he directed aired 1 day after the birth of his baby. David Duchovny |
| #3501, aired 1999-11-22 | TELEVISION $400: This sitcom's last show of the '98-'99 season ended with the cast singing & dancing to "Brotherhood of Man" The Drew Carey Show |
| #3501, aired 1999-11-22 | TELEVISION $800: "Cosmetic" name of the magazine that's the focus of "Just Shoot Me", or what its racier episodes may make you do Blush |
| #3501, aired 1999-11-22 | TELEVISION $1000: Like Burton & Taylor, Billy Zane & Leonor Varela had a romance when they played these lovers (in a 1999 miniseries) Antony & Cleopatra |
| #3501, aired 1999-11-22 | TELEVISION $1,200 (Daily Double): "Matlock" & "Designing Women" were both set in this state capital Atlanta |
| #3498, aired 1999-11-17 | NEW YORK CITY TELEVISION $100: Ross has worked for NYC's Museum of Natural History on this show about 6 Manhattanites Friends |
| #3498, aired 1999-11-17 | NEW YORK CITY TELEVISION $200: Issued in November of '99, the stamp seen here honors a classic sitcom set in this NYC borough Queens |
| #3498, aired 1999-11-17 | NEW YORK CITY TELEVISION $300: Louie, Latka & Elaine all worked for the Sunshine Cab Co. on this NYC sitcom Taxi |
| #3498, aired 1999-11-17 | NEW YORK CITY TELEVISION $400: His preppy character Alex P. Keaton might have prepared him for his yuppie NYC character Michael Flaherty Michael J. Fox |
| #3498, aired 1999-11-17 | NEW YORK CITY TELEVISION $500: He's the veteran actor seen here who played a NYC cop on "Barney Miller" Abe Vigoda |
| #3474, aired 1999-10-14 | TV TO FILM $200: (Hi, I'm Steve Harris of The Practice.) I played detective Briggs in the 1999 movie revival of this television series featuring youthful undercover cops The Mod Squad |
| #3473, aired 1999-10-13 | ACTRESSES ON TELEVISION $200: This "Mad About You" star played the cute girl next door on the '70s drama "The Fitzpatricks" Helen Hunt |
| #3473, aired 1999-10-13 | ACTRESSES ON TELEVISION $400: From 1987 to '89 Courteney Cox played Alex Keaton's girlfriend Lauren on this sitcom Family Ties |
| #3473, aired 1999-10-13 | ACTRESSES ON TELEVISION $600 (Daily Double): (Hi, I'm Jane Seymour.) I was nominated for a Golden Globe for playing this famous woman in the TV movie "The Woman He Loved" Duchess of Windsor (Wallis Warfield) |
| #3473, aired 1999-10-13 | ACTRESSES ON TELEVISION $600: Diane Brewster was seen in flashbacks as the murdered Helen Kimble on this '60s series The Fugitive |
| #3473, aired 1999-10-13 | ACTRESSES ON TELEVISION $1000: Lee Remick played Kay Summersby in the '70s miniseries about this president's war years Dwight D. Eisenhower |
| #3471, aired 1999-10-11 | NICKNAMES $300: Tuesday night's "Mr. Television" Milton Berle |
| #3459, aired 1999-09-23 | TELEVISION $100: Susan Sullivan & Mitchell Ryan once played doctors on "Julie Farr, M.D."; now they're Greg's parents on this sitcom Dharma & Greg |
| #3459, aired 1999-09-23 | TELEVISION $200: Cordell is the first name of this crimefighter played by Chuck Norris Walker, Texas Ranger |
| #3459, aired 1999-09-23 | TELEVISION $300: Delta Burke played Dixie Carter's ex-mother-in-law on "Filthy Rich" before playing her sister on this sitcom Designing Women |
| #3459, aired 1999-09-23 | TELEVISION $400: John Ritter appeared as the minister who married Ted & Georgette on this classic sitcom The Mary Tyler Moore Show |
| #3459, aired 1999-09-23 | TELEVISION $500: (Hi, I'm Kathy Kinney of The Drew Carey Show.) I played the town librarian of Stratford, Vermont on this '80s sitcom set mainly at the Stratford Inn Newhart |
| #3458, aired 1999-09-22 | THEY SAID THAT? $200: FCC chairman Mark Fowler called it "just another appliance...a toaster with pictures" Television |
| #3451, aired 1999-09-13 | CITY TELEVISION $100: This NBC drama series is filmed in part in the Rhode Island city for which it's named Providence |
| #3451, aired 1999-09-13 | CITY TELEVISION $200: Before starring as Greg on "Dharma & Greg", Thomas Gibson played Dr. Daniel Nyland on this medical series Chicago Hope |
| #3451, aired 1999-09-13 | CITY TELEVISION $300: Sheena Easton appeared as a rock singer who married detective Sonny Crockett on this series Miami Vice |
| #3451, aired 1999-09-13 | CITY TELEVISION $400: Brenda & Dylan's spring dance rendezvous was a highlight of this series' first season Beverly Hills, 90210 |
| #3451, aired 1999-09-13 | CITY TELEVISION $500: Dame Judith Anderson starred as grande dame Minx Lockridge when this Calif.-set soap debuted in 1984 Santa Barbara |
| #3440, aired 1999-07-16 | ADVERTISING $800: Peggy Charren founded "Action for" this kind of "Television" to help reduce overbearing advertising in it Children's Television |
| #3430, aired 1999-07-02 | MILITARY TELEVISION $100: Army psychiatrist Dr. Sidney Freedman had his hands full analyzing the 4077th on this classic series M*A*S*H |
| #3430, aired 1999-07-02 | MILITARY TELEVISION $200: As the irascible Sergeant Carter, Frank Sutton was often less than neighborly to Jim Nabors on this sitcom Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. |
| #3430, aired 1999-07-02 | MILITARY TELEVISION $300: This Tom Selleck title character was a Vietnam veteran who had served in Navy intelligence Magnum, P.I. |
| #3430, aired 1999-07-02 | MILITARY TELEVISION $400: Dan Quayle appeared on this Gerald McRaney sitcom in a 1990 episode honoring the Marine Corps' 215th anniversary Major Dad |
| #3430, aired 1999-07-02 | MILITARY TELEVISION $500: It's what "JAG" stands for in the TV series of the same name Judge Advocate General |
| #3423, aired 1999-06-23 | TELEVISION $200: Now a "20/20" co-anchor, she was 1 of 2 women reporters in the press corps that accompanied Nixon to China Barbara Walters |
| #3423, aired 1999-06-23 | TELEVISION $400: Originally, this sitcom was going to be called "Country Cousins" or "The Eddie Albert Show" Green Acres |
| #3423, aired 1999-06-23 | TELEVISION $800: Guy Williams won this swashbuckling role because he was one of the few actors tested who could fence Zorro |
| #3423, aired 1999-06-23 | TELEVISION $1,000 (Daily Double): Robert Clary, who played Corporal LeBeau in this series, was interned in Nazi concentration camps in WWII Hogan's Heroes |
| #3423, aired 1999-06-23 | TELEVISION $1000: This Buddy Ebsen series had a Nielsen average of 39.1 for 1963-64, the highest season rating from 1960 to today The Beverly Hillbillies |
| #3408, aired 1999-06-02 | SIGNS & SYMBOLS $200: This network developed the peacock design to promote color television NBC |
| #3408, aired 1999-06-02 | BOOKS BY TV NEWSPEOPLE $400: He & Kyle Gibson wrote "Nightline: History in the Making and the Making of Television" Ted Koppel |
| #3398, aired 1999-05-19 | TELEVISION $200: It's the first word spoken in the opening title sequence on the original "Star Trek" series Space |
| #3398, aired 1999-05-19 | TELEVISION $400: Dang! This actor rode to success as TV's Sam McCloud Dennis Weaver |
| #3398, aired 1999-05-19 | TELEVISION $600: Kevin James plays sports-crazed, blue-collar working stiff Doug Heffernan on this "royal" CBS sitcom The King of Queens |
| #3398, aired 1999-05-19 | TELEVISION $1000: Howard Hesseman spun out the tunes as this hip "medical" deejay on "WKRP in Cincinnati" Dr. Johnny Fever |
| #3398, aired 1999-05-19 | TELEVISION $2,000 (Daily Double): (Hi everybody, I'm Brandy!) In the TV movie "Cinderella", I played Cinderella & this singer played my fairy godmother Whitney Houston |
| #3395, aired 1999-05-14 | TELEVISION $200: In February 1999, after 5 seasons in the "ER", this handsome actor checked out George Clooney |
| #3395, aired 1999-05-14 | TELEVISION $400: On "Friends" Courteney Cox & David Schwimmer play this sister & brother Monica & Ross Geller |
| #3395, aired 1999-05-14 | TELEVISION $600: Once one of New York's toughest judges, today she does her tough-talking in her TV courtroom Judge Judy |
| #3395, aired 1999-05-14 | TELEVISION $800: (Hi, I'm Laura Lee Bell from The Young and the Restless.) My parents William & Lee Bell created both "The Young and the Restless" & this soap opera which premiered in 1987 The Bold and the Beautiful |
| #3395, aired 1999-05-14 | TELEVISION $1000: Norman Lear called this late "Good Times" actress the one true black matriarch on series television Esther Rolle |
| #3377, aired 1999-04-20 | TECHNOLOGY $100: Suggestions on what to call this device ranged from farscope to telebaird television |
| #3368, aired 1999-04-07 | QUOTABLE DEFINITIONS $200: John Mason Brown's famous definition of this is "chewing gum for the eyes" Television |
| #3366, aired 1999-04-05 | MR. MIKE $400: One of the senior journalists on U.S. television, he's been the leading host of "60 Minutes" since 1968 Mike Wallace |
| #3359, aired 1999-03-25 | MUSEUM OF TELEVISION & RADIO $100: Orson Welles shocked the USA with his 1938 radio production of this novel The War of the Worlds |
| #3359, aired 1999-03-25 | MUSEUM OF TELEVISION & RADIO $200: It's the name of the classic TV troupe that included Idle, Palin, Chapman, Jones, Gilliam & Cleese Monty Python |
| #3359, aired 1999-03-25 | MUSEUM OF TELEVISION & RADIO $300: The first TV appearance of the alien Earth observer Mork was on this nostalgic sitcom Happy Days |
| #3359, aired 1999-03-25 | MUSEUM OF TELEVISION & RADIO $400: This groundbreaking journalist's TV show "See It Now" exposed the ruthlessness of Sen. Joe McCarthy Edward R. Murrow |
| #3359, aired 1999-03-25 | MUSEUM OF TELEVISION & RADIO $500: The name of this type of fundamental radio tube comes from a Latin word for "empty" a vacuum tube |
| #3343, aired 1999-03-03 | THE 20th CENTURY $400: In January 1926 in London, John L. Baird demonstrated this new invention which used a cathode ray tube Television |
| #3340, aired 1999-02-26 | ABBREVIATIONS $200: On television:
CNN the Cable News Network |
| #3339, aired 1999-02-25 | TELEVISION $100: In 1997, TV Guide's No. 2 pick for the 100 greatest episodes of all time was her stint selling Vitameatavegamin Lucille Ball |
| #3339, aired 1999-02-25 | TELEVISION $200: On this sitcom, the character Joey landed a part on "Days of Our Lives" Friends |
| #3339, aired 1999-02-25 | TELEVISION $300: Jenna Elfman & Thomas Gibson play this title pair, a kooky yoga teacher & an uptight U.S. attorney Dharma & Greg |
| #3339, aired 1999-02-25 | TELEVISION $400: John Cleese guest-starred as a wacky professor who was John Lithgow's rival on this show 3rd Rock from the Sun |
| #3339, aired 1999-02-25 | TELEVISION $500: For sister witches Shannen Doherty, Alyssa Milano & Holly Marie Combs, 3 is a magic number on this show Charmed |
| #3335, aired 1999-02-19 | TELEVISION $100: The 2 "North And South" miniseries featured this "Dirty Dancing" star Patrick Swayze |
| #3335, aired 1999-02-19 | TELEVISION $200: Like "Picket Fences", "Step By Step" was set in this state Wisconsin |
| #3335, aired 1999-02-19 | TELEVISION $300: In 1981 she stepped out of "Three's Company" Suzanne Somers |
| #3335, aired 1999-02-19 | TELEVISION $400: Belinda Montgomery was Patrick Duffy's Dr. on "The Man From Atlantis" & Neil Patrick Harris' mom on this show Doogie Howser, M.D. |
| #3335, aired 1999-02-19 | TELEVISION $500 (Daily Double): (Hi, I'm Patrick Duffy.) In the fall 1986 "Dallas" opener, Pamela woke up & saw me doing this, making the last season a dream taking a shower |
| #3321, aired 1999-02-01 | TELEVISION $100: Michael Richards won 3 Emmys for playing this "Seinfeld" character Cosmo Kramer |
| #3321, aired 1999-02-01 | TELEVISION $200: The producers found the name of this first mate of the S.S. Minnow in a telephone book Gilligan |
| #3321, aired 1999-02-01 | TELEVISION $300: On an April 10, 1957 episode of his parents' sitcom, he sang "I'm Walkin'", his first record Ricky Nelson |
| #3321, aired 1999-02-01 | TELEVISION $500: In 1992 Paul Sorvino, who played detective Phil Cerreta, left this series to sing opera Law & Order |
| #3321, aired 1999-02-01 | TELEVISION $800 (Daily Double): (Hi, I'm Regis Philbin.) On February 26, 1998, I was accused of killing Kathie Lee Gifford in an episode of this Dick Van Dyke series Diagnosis Murder |
| #3302, aired 1999-01-05 | NAME THAT ROYAL $200: Seen here, this third son is now involved in television production Prince Edward |
| #3299, aired 1998-12-31 | PITCHMEN $400: On television, Paul Reiser touts this long distance provider's "One Rate Plus" AT&T |
| #3261, aired 1998-11-09 | TELEVISION $200: Part of this sitcom's 100th episode, aired Nov. 11, 1997, was shot on location in Seattle Frasier |
| #3261, aired 1998-11-09 | TELEVISION $600: In May 1998 the final episode of this sitcom featured Julia Roberts falling for Frank Fontana Murphy Brown |
| #3261, aired 1998-11-09 | TELEVISION $800: Sam Neill played this whiz of a wizard in a 1998 miniseries Merlin |
| #3261, aired 1998-11-09 | TELEVISION $1000: This star of "Webster" was 16 years old when the series ended its 4-year run in 1987 Emmanuel Lewis |
| #3261, aired 1998-11-09 | TELEVISION $1,200 (Daily Double): (Hi, I'm Jason Alexander.) This actor co-starred with me on a sitcom called "E/R" before starring on the medical series "ER" George Clooney |
| #3254, aired 1998-10-29 | THE LAST MAN $500: In "The Almanac of Famous People" is this "Father of Television" Vladimir Zworykin |
| #3250, aired 1998-10-23 | TELEVISION $100: She gained mass exposure on "The Tonight Show" in 1966 but had a falling-out with Johnny Carson 20 years later Joan Rivers |
| #3250, aired 1998-10-23 | TELEVISION $300: 1997 ads for ABC used slogans like "Scientists say we use 10% of" this; "that's way too much" Our brains |
| #3250, aired 1998-10-23 | TELEVISION $400: In 1951 Milton Berle signed a 30-year contract with this network at $200,000 per annun NBC |
| #3250, aired 1998-10-23 | TELEVISION $500 (Daily Double): (Hi, I'm Dan Cortese.) In 1993 I filled Martin Milner's shoes in a new version of this show about 2 guys & a Corvette" Route 66 |
| #3250, aired 1998-10-23 | TELEVISION $500: Elizabeth Taylor voiced the first word spoken by this young Simpson: "Daddy" Maggie |
| #3241, aired 1998-10-12 | TELEVISION $200: Santa's Little Helper, the Simpson family dog, is this breed of racing dog Greyhound |
| #3241, aired 1998-10-12 | TELEVISION $600: Alice left New Jersey to be a singer but ended up as a waitress at his Phoenix diner Mel Sharples |
| #3241, aired 1998-10-12 | TELEVISION $700 (Daily Double): (Hi, I'm Fred Savage.) In an episode of "Working", I pick up Danica McKellar, who played this "Wonder Years" character Winnie Cooper |
| #3241, aired 1998-10-12 | TELEVISION $800: In the final episode of their original animated series, these 2 title characters "Are Dead" Beavis & Butt-head |
| #3241, aired 1998-10-12 | TELEVISION $1000: One of vampire-slaying Buffy's friends is this shy girl, played by Alyson Hannigan Willow |
| #3232, aired 1998-09-29 | CBS TV AT 50 $200: The book "Total Television" calls this CBS show "Television's first smash hit situation comedy" I Love Lucy |
| #3224, aired 1998-09-17 | THE SMALL SCREEN $500: This "Television For Women" channel's series include "Intimate Portrait" & "What Every Baby Knows" Lifetime |
| #3196, aired 1998-06-22 | SONGS $200: Billy Joel's "Sleeping With the Television On" samples this song played by TV stations at sign-off "The Star-Spangled Banner" |
| #3194, aired 1998-06-18 | TELEVISION $100: The apartment complex located at 4616 on this title L.A. street is home to some "Fox"y ladies Melrose Place |
| #3194, aired 1998-06-18 | TELEVISION $200: "Promised Land" with Gerald McRaney is a spinoff of this heavenly CBS series Touched by an Angel |
| #3194, aired 1998-06-18 | TELEVISION $300: He's played Pete Ryan, Alexander Mundy & Jonathan Hart Robert Wagner |
| #3194, aired 1998-06-18 | TELEVISION $500 (Daily Double): (Hi, I'm Julie Pinson.) "Port Charles" is a spin-off from this soap that's also set in Port Charles General Hospital |
| #3194, aired 1998-06-18 | TELEVISION $500: After NBC canceled this Sam Waterston series in 1993, PBS produced a movie to wrap up its loose ends I'll Fly Away |
| #3187, aired 1998-06-09 | 1990s TELEVISION $100: This FOX drama follows the plight of the Salinger children, who were orphaned by a car wreck Party of Five |
| #3187, aired 1998-06-09 | 1990s TELEVISION $300: Roslyn, Washington represented Cicely, Alaska, the setting of this Rob Morrow series Northern Exposure |
| #3187, aired 1998-06-09 | 1990s TELEVISION $400: The quirky drama "Picket Fences" was set in this town in Wisconsin, not in Italy Rome |
| #3187, aired 1998-06-09 | 1990s TELEVISION $500 (Daily Double): (Hi, I'm Arianna Huffington) Al Franken & I did a "Point-Counterpoint" segment called "Strange Bedfellows" for this Bill Maher show Politically Incorrect |
| #3187, aired 1998-06-09 | 1990s TELEVISION $500: "Twin Peaks" was the first TV venture for this avant-garde filmmaker David Lynch |
| #3151, aired 1998-04-20 | WOMEN ON TELEVISION $100: Kristen Johnston's Sally Solomon is an alien posing as a leggy woman on this hit sitcom 3rd Rock from the Sun |
| #3151, aired 1998-04-20 | WOMEN ON TELEVISION $200: Yvonne Zima is Anthony Edwards' daughter Rachel Greene on "ER"; this actress is Rachel Green on "Friends" Jennifer Aniston |
| #3151, aired 1998-04-20 | WOMEN ON TELEVISION $300: Caroline Rhea is this teenage witch's kooky Aunt Hilda Sabrina |
| #3151, aired 1998-04-20 | WOMEN ON TELEVISION $400: Before replacing Farrah Fawcett on "Charlie's Angels", this actress sang on "Josie and the Pussycats" Cheryl Ladd |
| #3151, aired 1998-04-20 | WOMEN ON TELEVISION $500: The Borg Seven of Nine & Captain Kathryn Janeway are 2 of the women aboard this Federation starship Voyager |
| #3142, aired 1998-04-07 | TELEVISION $100: This sitcom was well into its first season when Jaleel White joined it as Steve Urkel Family Matters |
| #3142, aired 1998-04-07 | TELEVISION $200: In 1997 TV Guide described this Bob Newhart-Judd Hirsch comedy as "More Grumpier Old Men" George & Leo |
| #3142, aired 1998-04-07 | TELEVISION $300: This man, seen here, now does his presiding on television: Mayor Koch |
| #3142, aired 1998-04-07 | TELEVISION $400: After a 10-year absence, this series returned in 1997 with Stacy Keach reprising the title role Mike Hammer |
| #3142, aired 1998-04-07 | TELEVISION $500: In the early '60s Martin Milner & George Maharis got their kicks riding around on this series Route 66 |
| #3135, aired 1998-03-27 | MUSTY TV $400: On television, this German shepherd served as a private in the U.S. cavalry Rin Tin TIn |
| #3129, aired 1998-03-19 | AFTER THEY LEFT OFFICE $200: In 1977 David Frost interviewed this former president on television Nixon |
| #3128, aired 1998-03-18 | "M" TV $800: Debuting in 1947 & now hosted by the man seen here, it's network television's oldest program Meet the Press |
| #3127, aired 1998-03-17 | CLASSIC GAME SHOW THEMES $300: [theme music] The Dating Game |
| #3068, aired 1997-12-24 | TELEVISION $100: In October 1996 Superman got married in his own comic book & on this TV show Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman |
| #3068, aired 1997-12-24 | TELEVISION $200: This former White House correspondent co-anchors "Primetime Live" with Diane Sawyer Sam Donaldson |
| #3068, aired 1997-12-24 | TELEVISION $300: MTV's 1997 spin-off "Daria" features a character from this moronic animated series Beavis and Butt-Head |
| #3068, aired 1997-12-24 | TELEVISION $400: NBC refused to let this CBS talk show host use its clips on his 1997 prime-time special David Letterman |
| #3068, aired 1997-12-24 | TELEVISION $500: Peter Boyle & Doris Roberts play the parents & neighbors of Ray Romano on this CBS sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond |
| #3061, aired 1997-12-15 | TELEVISION $100: In the pilot of "Seinfeld", Jerry lived across the hall from Hoffman, not this Michael Richards character Cosmo Kramer |
| #3061, aired 1997-12-15 | TELEVISION $200: This character & his friends brew Buzz Beer in his garage -- "It's the Beer That Throws Up Smooth" Drew Carey |
| #3061, aired 1997-12-15 | TELEVISION $300: In 1997 this show's season premiere drew 43 million viewers to NBC ER (they did it live) |
| #3061, aired 1997-12-15 | TELEVISION $400: In February 1997 TV sleuths Joe Mannix & Ben Matlock made guest appearances on this Dick Van Dyke series Diagnosis Murder |
| #3061, aired 1997-12-15 | TELEVISION $500: During 27 years of "On The Road" reports, he had 5 motor homes; the last is now in the Henry Ford Museum Charles Kuralt |
| #3057, aired 1997-12-09 | ODD WORDS $600: The name of an exhibit at the 1939 World's Fair gave us this 8-letter word for a futuristic display-o-rama Futurama |
| #3055, aired 1997-12-05 | TV INITIALS $100: MTV Music Television |
| #3055, aired 1997-12-05 | TV INITIALS $500: BET Black Entertainment Television |
| #3054, aired 1997-12-04 | TELEVISION $100: In January 1997 he bid a tearful farewell after almost 15 years as "Today" Show co-host Bryant Gumbel |
| #3054, aired 1997-12-04 | TELEVISION $200: Formerly Rhoda's sister Brenda, Julie Kavner now provides the voice of this Simpson matriarch Marge Simpson |
| #3054, aired 1997-12-04 | TELEVISION $300: In 1996 Anthony Edwards & Eric Roberts starred in a TV adaptation of this Truman Capote tale In Cold Blood |
| #3054, aired 1997-12-04 | TELEVISION $400: Premiering in 1997 & set in a California coastal community, it's Aaron Spelling's first daytime soap Sunset Beach |
| #3054, aired 1997-12-04 | TELEVISION $500: From 1985 to 1992 Richard Dean Anderson played this resourceful agent for the Phoenix Foundation MacGyver |
| #3009, aired 1997-10-02 | HISTORY'S MYSTERIES $500 (Daily Double): (Hello, I'm Patrick Duffy.) According to Plato, Solon discovered the legend of this lost continent while on a trip to Egypt Atlantis |
| #3008, aired 1997-10-01 | CLASSICAL MUSICIANS $200: This conductor, later seen on television, gained fame substituting on a 1943 New York Philharmonic radio broadcast Leonard Bernstein |
| #3003, aired 1997-09-24 | TELEVISION $100: In 1996 Larry Hagman, Patrick Duffy & other actors from this series reunited for a TV movie Dallas |
| #3003, aired 1997-09-24 | TELEVISION $200: On a 1995 episode of this sitcom, JFK Jr. dropped by the offices of "FYI" Murphy Brown |
| #3003, aired 1997-09-24 | TELEVISION $300: Carol Burnett & Carroll O'Connor have appeared as Jamie's parents on this sitcom Mad About You |
| #3003, aired 1997-09-24 | TELEVISION $400: This British comedy troupe's "Flying Circus" landed on American TV in 1974 Monty Python |
| #3003, aired 1997-09-24 | TELEVISION $500: "Dragnet"'s Jack Webb also developed this police series starring Martin Milner & Kent McCord Adam-12 |
| #2993, aired 1997-09-10 | BAY WATCHING $500 (Daily Double): (Hello, I'm Donna D'Errico.) A glacier named for this American naturalist who sighted it in 1879 flows into Glacier Bay, Alaska John Muir |
| #2989, aired 1997-09-04 | TELEVISION $100: The owner of the stud farm where this "talking" horse was bred is seeking landmark status for the site Mr. Ed |
| #2989, aired 1997-09-04 | TELEVISION $200: "Men Are Pigs", Tim Allen's Showtime special about men's love for hardware, inspired this series Home Improvement |
| #2989, aired 1997-09-04 | TELEVISION $400: "Laverne & Shirley" was the top show of 1977-78; this series from which it was spun off was No. 2 Happy Days |
| #2989, aired 1997-09-04 | TELEVISION $500 (Daily Double): (Hi, I'm Chris Hardwick.) In 1985 MTV launched this sister channel to play adult contemporary & soft-rock videos for an older generation VH1 |
| #2989, aired 1997-09-04 | TELEVISION $500: In "Newhart"'s final episode, Bob Newhart woke up with this former TV wife by his side Suzanne Pleshette |
| #2988, aired 1997-09-03 | TELEVISION $200: The face of Maris, Niles' wife on this sitcom, has never been seen Frasier |
| #2988, aired 1997-09-03 | TELEVISION $400: In 1996 Jack Larson guest-starred on "Lois & Clark" in this role he played on the original TV "Superman" Jimmy Olsen |
| #2988, aired 1997-09-03 | TELEVISION $600: It starred Louise Lasser, Louise Lasser in the title role Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman |
| #2988, aired 1997-09-03 | TELEVISION $800: "General Hospital" is set in Port Charles & "All My Children" is set in this fictional town Pine Valley |
| #2988, aired 1997-09-03 | TELEVISION $1000: On "I Love Lucy", it was Lucy Ricardo's maiden name McGillicuddy |
| #2977, aired 1997-07-08 | FAMILY TELEVISION $100: The 1996 Thanksgiving episode of this Tim Allen sitcom featured a claymation dream sequence Home Improvement |
| #2977, aired 1997-07-08 | FAMILY TELEVISION $200: Al Bundy is head of the household on this TV sitcom Married... with Children |
| #2977, aired 1997-07-08 | ASTRONOMY & SPACE $300: America's first weather satellite, its name stood for Television & Infrared Observation Satellite TIROS |
| #2977, aired 1997-07-08 | FAMILY TELEVISION $300: Dick Van Patten played Tom Bradford, father of many, on this ABC drama Eight Is Enough |
| #2977, aired 1997-07-08 | FAMILY TELEVISION $400: Stephen Collins plays a minister & father of 5 on this WB Network drama 7th Heaven |
| #2977, aired 1997-07-08 | FAMILY TELEVISION $500: She played Kate Lawrence, mother of 4, on the '70s series "Family" Sada Thompson |
| #2968, aired 1997-06-25 | TELEVISION $100: On June 10, 1996 her syndicated talk show debuted with George Clooney & Susan Lucci as guests Rosie O'Donnell |
| #2968, aired 1997-06-25 | TELEVISION $200: The theme song to this Tim Daly sitcom is based on the fourth movement of Schubert's Piano Sonata in A Major "Wings" |
| #2968, aired 1997-06-25 | TELEVISION $300: This Phil Silvers character was master sergeant of the motor pool at Fort Baxter, Kansas Sgt. Bilko |
| #2968, aired 1997-06-25 | TELEVISION $400: In 1996 he won the first acting Emmy for a cable TV series for playing Artie on "The Larry Sanders Show" Rip Torn |
| #2968, aired 1997-06-25 | TELEVISION $500: In this 1950s sitcom Theodore's classmates at Grant Ave. School included Larry Mondello, Gilbert Bates & Whitey "Leave It To Beaver" |
| #2960, aired 1997-06-13 | TELEVISION $100: "Mama's Family", which starred Vicki Lawrence, was based on sketches first seen on this show The Carol Burnett Show |
| #2960, aired 1997-06-13 | TELEVISION $200: This Aaron Spelling sizzler set in Georgia centers on 3 sultry women: Lane, Peyton & Reese Savannah |
| #2960, aired 1997-06-13 | TELEVISION $300: On the cartoon series "Ren & Stimpy", Ren is this breed of dog Chihuahua |
| #2960, aired 1997-06-13 | TELEVISION $400: Jonathan Silverman plays the title bachelor on this sitcom The Single Guy |
| #2960, aired 1997-06-13 | TELEVISION $500: Once a Brat Packer, now he's Brooke Shields' publisher on "Suddenly Susan" Judd Nelson |
| #2943, aired 1997-05-21 | TELEVISION $100: This series features a fox & a wolf, Matthew Fox & Scott Wolf Party of Five |
| #2943, aired 1997-05-21 | TELEVISION $200: This actress who played Mallory on "Family Ties" now stars on "Men Behaving Badly" Justine Bateman |
| #2943, aired 1997-05-21 | TELEVISION $300: When they premiered in 1994, "ER" & this medical drama aired opposite each other Chicago Hope |
| #2943, aired 1997-05-21 | TELEVISION $400: It's the first name shared by Frasier Crane's brother & the butler on "The Nanny" Niles |
| #2943, aired 1997-05-21 | TELEVISION $500: This comedian hosts TV's "Politically Incorrect" Bill Maher |
| #2933, aired 1997-05-07 | FILM DIRECTORS $400: His 1983 film "Fanny and Alexander" was edited from a larger television miniseries Ingmar Bergman |
| #2914, aired 1997-04-10 | TELEVISION $100: The top show of 1976-77 was "Happy Days"; the following season it was this "Happy Days" spin-off Laverne & Shirley |
| #2914, aired 1997-04-10 | TELEVISION $200: In 1996 shows, Steve Harvey, Mitch Mullany & Tom Rhodes all starred as characters with this profession Teaching |
| #2914, aired 1997-04-10 | TELEVISION $300: She plays Dr. Michaela Quinn Jane Seymour |
| #2914, aired 1997-04-10 | TELEVISION $400: In a classic episode of this show, Chuckles the Clown, dressed as a peanut, is killed by an elephant The Mary Tyler Moore Show |
| #2914, aired 1997-04-10 | TELEVISION $500: Frances Lear, considered the inspiration for this TV title character, passed away in 1996 Maude |
| #2899, aired 1997-03-20 | THE MOVIES $400: In "Mission: Impossible", Jon Voight played this role that Peter Graves had played on television Mr. Phelps |
| #2897, aired 1997-03-18 | JAPAN $100: In 1953 this broadcasting medium was inaugurated in Japan by Nippon Hoso Kyokai or NHK Television |
| #2876, aired 1997-02-17 | TELEVISION $100: This comedian's TV roles have included Alexander Scott, Dr. Cliff Huxtable & Hilton Lucas Bill Cosby |
| #2876, aired 1997-02-17 | TELEVISION $200: In a 1981 TV movie, the castaways from this series met the Harlem Globetrotters Gilligan's Island |
| #2876, aired 1997-02-17 | TELEVISION $300: For 3 months in 1950, this red-haired entertainer had a series on which he gave ukulele lessons Arthur Godfrey |
| #2876, aired 1997-02-17 | TELEVISION $400: On "The Dick Van Dyke Show", Rob Petrie was a comedy writer for this series The Alan Brady Show |
| #2876, aired 1997-02-17 | TELEVISION $500: On "The Munsters", it was Eddie Munster's middle name Wolfgang |
| #2864, aired 1997-01-30 | TELEVISION $100: His sitcom is admittedly about "nothing", just little things people experience but never see on TV Seinfeld |
| #2864, aired 1997-01-30 | TELEVISION $200: This Will Smith sitcom ended its 6-year run in 1996 The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air |
| #2864, aired 1997-01-30 | TELEVISION $300: This sitcom ended the 1995-96 season with Jamie discovering she's finally pregnant Mad About You |
| #2864, aired 1997-01-30 | TELEVISION $400: When it returned in June of '96 with Raquel Welch & Gerald McRaney, it was retitled "CPW" Central Park West |
| #2864, aired 1997-01-30 | TELEVISION $500: Late '60s undercover police unit made up of Pete Cochrane, Linc Hayes & Julie Barnes The Mod Squad |
| #2860, aired 1997-01-24 | TELEVISION $100: After 12 seasons, Angela Lansbury closed the book on this series in 1996 "Murder, She Wrote" |
| #2860, aired 1997-01-24 | TELEVISION $200: Erika Slezak has played the role of Victoria Lord on this daytime soap since 1971 "One Life To Live" |
| #2860, aired 1997-01-24 | TELEVISION $300: This cable network's "Biography" won a 1995 Cableace Award for best documentary series A&E (Arts & Entertainment Network) |
| #2860, aired 1997-01-24 | TELEVISION $400: He spent 8 years on "Saturday Night Live" before starring as anchorman Bill McNeal on "NewsRadio" Phil Hartman |
| #2860, aired 1997-01-24 | TELEVISION $500 (Daily Double): This sitcom is set at Tom Nevers Field "Wings" |
| #2845, aired 1997-01-03 | 1990s BUSINESS $300: In 1995 NBC & this giant software company announced plans for an all-news television channel Microsoft |
| #2841, aired 1996-12-30 | TELEVISION $100: This Candice Bergen character gave up drinking after a stay at the Betty Ford Clinic Murphy Brown |
| #2841, aired 1996-12-30 | TELEVISION $200: On this series, Sgt. Phil Esterhaus ended roll call with "And, hey -- let's be careful out there" "Hill Street Blues" |
| #2841, aired 1996-12-30 | TELEVISION $300: The silver for his bullets came from a mine owned by himself & his late brother The Lone Ranger |
| #2841, aired 1996-12-30 | TELEVISION $400: On "Rocky And His Friends", Charlie Ruggles voiced the role of this "fabled" old philosopher Aesop |
| #2841, aired 1996-12-30 | TELEVISION $500: Airline navigator Howard Borden was Dr. Robert Hartley's neighbor on this show "The Bob Newhart Show" |
| #2837, aired 1996-12-24 | MAY DAYS $100: On May 22, 1992 an era in late-night television ended when he hosted his last "Tonight Show" Johnny Carson |
| #2834, aired 1996-12-19 | TELEVISION $100: After the May 30, 1996 telecast, he left "Entertainment Tonight" to pursue his musical career John Tesh |
| #2834, aired 1996-12-19 | TELEVISION $200: This "Lois & Clark" star wrote the April 28, 1996 episode, her first script for the series Teri Hatcher |
| #2834, aired 1996-12-19 | TELEVISION $300: Earl Hindman plays Wilson, Tim Taylor's partially-seen neighbor, on this series "Home Improvement" |
| #2834, aired 1996-12-19 | TELEVISION $400: Mendocino, California was used to represent Cabot Cove on this CBS series "Murder, She Wrote" |
| #2834, aired 1996-12-19 | TELEVISION $500: He starred in "Gabriel's Fire" & performs the opening voice-over of "3rd Rock From The Sun" James Earl Jones |
| #2833, aired 1996-12-18 | 1982 $100: He had the dynamite idea to launch a new television network known as TNT Ted Turner |
| #2829, aired 1996-12-12 | TELEVISION $100: On Dec. 3, 1995 Marc Kudisch starred as Conrad Birdie in a remake of this musical Bye Bye Birdie |
| #2829, aired 1996-12-12 | TELEVISION $200: In a 1995 episode of this Fox animated series, Glenn Close played Homer's long-lost mother The Simpsons |
| #2829, aired 1996-12-12 | TELEVISION $300: The most frequent sketch on this series was "Mr. Bill" with 24 appearances "Saturday Night Live" |
| #2829, aired 1996-12-12 | TELEVISION $500: On this cartoon series, you'll find such characters as Plucky Duck, Dizzy Devil & Buster Bunny Tiny Toon Adventures |
| #2829, aired 1996-12-12 | TELEVISION $1,500 (Daily Double): In 1985 he replaced Coach behind the bar at "Cheers" Woody Harrelson (the character's name was Woody Boyd) |
| #2825, aired 1996-12-06 | TELEVISION $100: This Sunday night series is subtitled "The New Adventures of Superman" Lois & Clark |
| #2825, aired 1996-12-06 | TELEVISION $200: "Freddy's Nightmares", a horror anthology that debuted in 1988, was based on this movie series Nightmare on Elm Street |
| #2825, aired 1996-12-06 | TELEVISION $300: This crime drama with Robert Wagner & Stefanie Powers was created by Sidney Sheldon Hart to Hart |
| #2825, aired 1996-12-06 | TELEVISION $500: Jack Wagner, formerly of "General Hospital", now plays Dr. Peter Burns on this Fox drama Melrose Place |
| #2825, aired 1996-12-06 | TELEVISION $600 (Daily Double): Character seen here, his action-packed journeys are legendary: Hercules (Kevin Sorbo) |
| #2803, aired 1996-11-06 | TELEVISION $100: The Rembrandts' "I'll Be There For You", the theme from this series, was nominated for a recent Grammy Friends |
| #2803, aired 1996-11-06 | TELEVISION $200: Debbe Dunning, who has her own 1996 calendar, plays this role on "Home Improvement" the Tool Time girl |
| #2803, aired 1996-11-06 | TELEVISION $300: On this series Bobby Simone's badge number, 3118, was worn by supervising producer & ex-cop Bill Clark NYPD Blue |
| #2803, aired 1996-11-06 | TELEVISION $400: Cable network that airs "The Secret World of Alex Mack", "Rugrats" & "Gullah Gullah Island" Nickelodeon |
| #2803, aired 1996-11-06 | TELEVISION $500 (Daily Double): "90210" actress seen here; she was chosen by TV Guide as one of TV's Best Dressed for 1996: Jennie Garth |
| #2798, aired 1996-10-30 | TELEVISION $100: For 4 seasons on this series, Penny Marshall played Oscar Madison's secretary Myrna Turner The Odd Couple |
| #2798, aired 1996-10-30 | TELEVISION $200: Brandon Tartikoff suggested this show after he saw Andy Griffith play an attorney in the "Fatal Vision" miniseries Matlock |
| #2798, aired 1996-10-30 | TELEVISION $300: The sitcom "Alice" was based on this 1975 film starring Ellen Burstyn Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore |
| #2798, aired 1996-10-30 | TELEVISION $400: Written by Paul Williams & sung by Jack Jones, this show's theme began, "Love, exciting and new" The Love Boat |
| #2798, aired 1996-10-30 | TELEVISION $500: Doc Holliday, played by Douglas Fowley, didn't appear in this Western until 1957, in its third season The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp |
| #2788, aired 1996-10-16 | TELEVISION $100: This animated series ended its '94-'95 season with a "Who Shot Mr. Burns?" cliffhanger The Simpsons |
| #2788, aired 1996-10-16 | TELEVISION $200: Dean Martin played himself in "Half-Nelson", a 1985 cop show starring this "My Cousin Vinny" lawyer Joe Pesci |
| #2788, aired 1996-10-16 | TELEVISION $300: The fall '95 network season featured these 2 shows with "Murder" in their titles on Thursday nights Murder, She Wrote & Murder One |
| #2788, aired 1996-10-16 | TELEVISION $400: His TV characters included Dr. Johnny Fever, Sam Royer & Charlie Moore Howard Hesseman |
| #2788, aired 1996-10-16 | TELEVISION $500: In 1988 the Christian Broadcasting Network changed its cable channel's name to this The Family Channel |
| #2782, aired 1996-10-08 | TELEVISION HISTORY $200: This cable network was created by the merger of Ha! & the Comedy Channel Comedy Central |
| #2782, aired 1996-10-08 | TELEVISION HISTORY $400: This Fred MacMurray series ran 5 seasons on ABC & 7 more on CBS My Three Sons |
| #2782, aired 1996-10-08 | TELEVISION HISTORY $600: In 1964 CBS News paired Roger Mudd & Robert Trout in response to the popularity of this NBC duo Huntley and Brinkley |
| #2782, aired 1996-10-08 | TELEVISION HISTORY $800: This PBS science series was begun in 1974 by WGBH-TV producer Michael Ambrosino Nova |
| #2782, aired 1996-10-08 | TELEVISION HISTORY $1000: The PBS series "An American Family" focused on this family: Bill, Pat, Lance, Kevin, Grant, Delilah & Michele the Loud family |
| #2774, aired 1996-09-26 | LIGHT $500: Colors on this household object are produced by beams of electrons hitting colored phosphors a television |
| #2754, aired 1996-07-18 | ROYALTY $800: She designed costumes for a Danish television production of Hans Christian Andersen's "The Shepherdess and the Sweep" Queen Margrethe |
| #2723, aired 1996-06-05 | 1970s TELEVISION $200: This long-running sitcom made "Meathead" & "Dingbat" household words All in the Family |
| #2723, aired 1996-06-05 | 1970s TELEVISION $400: Among the characters on this controversial comedy were Jessica Tate & Jodie Dallas Soap |
| #2723, aired 1996-06-05 | 1970s TELEVISION $800: From 1971 to '74 Arthur Hill played this widower & "Counselor at Law" Owen Marshall |
| #2723, aired 1996-06-05 | 1970s TELEVISION $1,000 (Daily Double): Crime series that debuted in 1976 & featured the theme heard here: Charlie's Angels |
| #2723, aired 1996-06-05 | 1970s TELEVISION $1000: Oscar winner Miyoshi Umeki played housekeeper Mrs. Livingston on this 1969-1972 series The Courtship of Eddie's Father |
| #2716, aired 1996-05-27 | TELEVISION $100: This executive producer of "Beverly Hills, 90210" was the producer of "The Smothers Brothers Show" Aaron Spelling |
| #2716, aired 1996-05-27 | TELEVISION $200: This "Today" show co-host initially gave sports reports on the show 3 times a week Bryant Gumbel |
| #2716, aired 1996-05-27 | TELEVISION $300: This "Let's Make A Deal" host began his career on the game show "Who Am I?" in Canada Monty Hall |
| #2716, aired 1996-05-27 | TELEVISION $400: Brooke Shields, Jean-Claude Van Damme & Julia Roberts appeared on this sitcom on Super Bowl Sunday 1996 Friends |
| #2716, aired 1996-05-27 | TELEVISION $500: In 1986 he limited his involvement in "The 700 Club" to run for president Pat Robertson |
| #2714, aired 1996-05-23 | TELEVISION HISTORY $100: This CBS magazine show began in a Tuesday night time slot in 1968; it moved to Sunday in 1971 60 Minutes |
| #2714, aired 1996-05-23 | TELEVISION HISTORY $200: "Rhoda" was a 1970s sitcom based on a character spun off from this series The Mary Tyler Moore Show |
| #2714, aired 1996-05-23 | TELEVISION HISTORY $300: A 26-episode series based on this Pulitzer-Prize winning book by JFK premiered in 1964 Profiles in Courage |
| #2714, aired 1996-05-23 | TELEVISION HISTORY $400: This creator of "Howdy Doody" began in broadcasting as a musician on radio station WBEN "Buffalo Bob" Smith |
| #2714, aired 1996-05-23 | TELEVISION HISTORY $500: "See It Now" debuted November 18, 1951 with this newsman as its host Edward R. Murrow |
| #2702, aired 1996-05-07 | TELEVISION $100: Tim Conway played Ensign Parker on "McHale's Navy" & Courtney Thorne-Smith plays Alison Parker on this Melrose Place |
| #2702, aired 1996-05-07 | TELEVISION $200: "Step by Step"'s Brandon Call was the original Hobie Buchannon on this beach series Baywatch |
| #2702, aired 1996-05-07 | TELEVISION $300: As a Love Boat mermaid in 1985, she performed in production numbers; now she's Lois Lane Teri Hatcher |
| #2702, aired 1996-05-07 | TELEVISION $500: Roanne on "Phenom", Jennifer Lien now plays the alien Kes on this series Star Trek: Voyager |
| #2702, aired 1996-05-07 | TELEVISION $1,000 (Daily Double): His show is set in Cleveland: Drew Carey |
| #2697, aired 1996-04-30 | "BLUE" MOVIES $400: This 1983 movie about a police helicopter later became a television series Blue Thunder |
| #2690, aired 1996-04-19 | BUSINESS BIGGIES $400: In 1986 Capital Cities bought this television network for $3.5 billion ABC |
| #2688, aired 1996-04-17 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $2,500 (Daily Double): In 1995 a majority stake in this last U.S. television manufacturer was sold to a South Korean company Zenith |
| #2685, aired 1996-04-12 | TELEVISION $100: After "Perry Mason" was canceled, Raymond Burr returned as this wheelchair-bound detective "Ironside" |
| #2685, aired 1996-04-12 | TELEVISION $200: In the 1995 miniseries "Buffalo Girls", Anjelica Huston played this notorious frontierswoman Calamity Jane |
| #2685, aired 1996-04-12 | TELEVISION $300: Before heading a "Dynasty", he played professor Mike Endicott on "To Rome With Love" John Forsythe |
| #2685, aired 1996-04-12 | TELEVISION $400: From 1982 to 1985 Julia Louis-Dreyfus was one of the regulars on this comedy show "Saturday Night Live" |
| #2685, aired 1996-04-12 | TELEVISION $500: In 1995 Kristy McNichol, who flew the coop from this sitcom, returned for the final episode "Empty Nest" |
| #2661, aired 1996-03-11 | TELEVISION $100: This "Wheel of Fortune" host got his start as a weatherman on WSM-TV in Nashville Pat Sajak |
| #2661, aired 1996-03-11 | TELEVISION $200: "Upstairs, Downstairs" ran on this Alistair Cooke-hosted PBS series 1974-77 Masterpiece Theatre |
| #2661, aired 1996-03-11 | TELEVISION $300: The Children's Television Workshop was created in 1967 to produce this show Sesame Street |
| #2661, aired 1996-03-11 | TELEVISION $400: This NBC sitcom was the top show of the 1994-95 television season Seinfeld |
| #2661, aired 1996-03-11 | TELEVISION $500: This Fox series starring Gillian Anderson & David Duchovny won a Golden Globe for Best Drama in 1995 The X-Files |
| #2650, aired 1996-02-23 | TELEVISION $100: People with new shows of this type in 1995 included Danny Bonaduce & Tempestt Bledsoe talk show |
| #2650, aired 1996-02-23 | TELEVISION $300: Last name of the 3 real brothers who star on "Brotherly Love" Lawrence |
| #2650, aired 1996-02-23 | TELEVISION $400: On this series Tea Leoni stars as Nora Wilde, tabloid photographer The Naked Truth |
| #2650, aired 1996-02-23 | TELEVISION $500: On Tuesday nights ABC advises "viewer discretion" before this Steven Bochco cop show NYPD Blue |
| #2650, aired 1996-02-23 | TELEVISION $1,000 (Daily Double): He played the title role in the series with the following theme: Scott Baio |
| #2642, aired 1996-02-13 | BIOGRAPHIES $400: "King of the Night" is a 1989 book about this former late night television host Johnny Carson |
| #2637, aired 1996-02-06 | TELEVISION $100: This Tim Allen sitcom finished the 1993-94 season as television's No. 1 show Home Improvement |
| #2637, aired 1996-02-06 | TELEVISION $200: After shooting the first 4 episodes of the 1994-95 season, he left "NYPD Blue" to pursue a film career (David) Caruso |
| #2637, aired 1996-02-06 | TELEVISION $300: On "In the Heat of the Night", Howard Rollins played this role that Sidney Poitier originated on film (Virgil) Tibbs |
| #2637, aired 1996-02-06 | TELEVISION $400: Robert Young won 2 Emmys in the 1950s for "Father Knows Best" & another in 1970 for this drama Marcus Welby, M.D. |
| #2637, aired 1996-02-06 | TELEVISION $500: For 8 years this comedian played Dick Loudon, owner of the Stratford Inn Bob Newhart |
| #2636, aired 1996-02-05 | CLASSIC TELEVISION $100: "The Ballad Of Jed Clampett" was the theme to this sitcom The Beverly Hillbillies |
| #2636, aired 1996-02-05 | CLASSIC TELEVISION $200: Its opening asked, "Can two divorced men share an apartment without driving each other crazy?" The Odd Couple |
| #2636, aired 1996-02-05 | CLASSIC TELEVISION $300: On this British import, Honor Blackman preceded Diana Rigg in playing Patrick Macnee's partner The Avengers |
| #2636, aired 1996-02-05 | CLASSIC TELEVISION $400: For 7 years Clint Eastwood kept "them dogies rollin"' on this western Rawhide |
| #2636, aired 1996-02-05 | CLASSIC TELEVISION $500: Mid-1960s science fiction series in which you'd hear The Robot exclaim, "Warning. Warning." Lost in Space |
| #2624, aired 1996-01-18 | TELEVISION $100: On the November 16, 1968 episode of "Get Smart", Maxwell Smart married her Agent 99 |
| #2624, aired 1996-01-18 | TELEVISION $200: In 1990 Jimmy Smits won a Best Supporting Actor Emmy for his work on this NBC drama L.A. Law |
| #2624, aired 1996-01-18 | TELEVISION $300: This series' Flub-A-Dub had the head of a duck & the body of a dachshund Howdy Doody |
| #2624, aired 1996-01-18 | TELEVISION $400: This Jane Wyman series was set in the fictitious Tuscany Valley in California Falcon Crest |
| #2624, aired 1996-01-18 | TELEVISION $500: In 1966 Alice Pearce won a posthumous Emmy for her role as neighbor Gladys Kravitz on this ABC sitcom Bewitched |
| #2615, aired 1996-01-05 | TELEVISION $100: In 1995 Candice Bergen received her fifth Emmy for playing this title role Murphy Brown |
| #2615, aired 1996-01-05 | TELEVISION $200: On this series Kevin attended Robert F. Kennedy Junior High The Wonder Years |
| #2615, aired 1996-01-05 | TELEVISION $300: On "Gunsmoke" Miss Kitty was the owner of this Dodge City watering hole the Long Branch Saloon |
| #2615, aired 1996-01-05 | TELEVISION $400: This series' theme song, "The Unknown Stuntman", was sung by Lee Majors The Fall Guy |
| #2615, aired 1996-01-05 | TELEVISION $500: This housekeeper was based on Ted Key's cartoons for the Saturday Evening Post Hazel |
| #2599, aired 1995-12-14 | "T" TIME $500: T.S. Eliot said it "permits millions... to listen to the same joke at the same time and yet remain lonesome" television |
| #2597, aired 1995-12-12 | 1980s TELEVISION $200: This character was a 16-year-old resident physician at Eastman Medical Center Doogie Howser |
| #2597, aired 1995-12-12 | 1980s TELEVISION $400: 1 of the 3 women who played Chris Cagney, partner of Tyne Daly's Mary Beth Lacey Loretta Swit (or Meg Foster or Sharon Gless) |
| #2597, aired 1995-12-12 | 1980s TELEVISION $600: In the tradition of "Have Gun, Will Travel, Wire Paladin", in 1985 it was "Odds against you? Call..." him The Equalizer |
| #2597, aired 1995-12-12 | 1980s TELEVISION $800: Airwolf, stolen & used by Stringfellow Hawke, was one of these a helicopter |
| #2597, aired 1995-12-12 | 1980s TELEVISION $1000: On "Family Ties" this was the nickname of Irwin Handelman, Alex Keaton's best friend Skippy |
| #2581, aired 1995-11-20 | ART & ARTISTS $100: This pop artist & filmmaker appeared on the television program "The Love Boat" Andy Warhol |
| #2577, aired 1995-11-14 | TELEVISION $100: On May 22, 1995 USA Today reported she "weighs anchor, no longer eye-to-eye with CBS News" Connie Chung |
| #2577, aired 1995-11-14 | TELEVISION $200: ABC's comedy "Hudson Street" stars Lori Loughlin & this former "Who's the Boss?" housekeeper Tony Danza |
| #2577, aired 1995-11-14 | TELEVISION $300: This company had a "Television Theater" in 1947; its "Music Hall" didn't premiere until 1958 Kraft |
| #2577, aired 1995-11-14 | TELEVISION $400: Both "Happy Days" & "Laverne & Shirley" were set in this city Milwaukee |
| #2577, aired 1995-11-14 | TELEVISION $500: Among her TV roles were Jill Danko, Sabrina Duncan & Amanda King Kate Jackson |
| #2576, aired 1995-11-13 | TELEVISION HISTORY $100: In 1992, 29 years after her last NBC show, she began "Lamb Chop's Play-Along" on PBS Shari Lewis |
| #2576, aired 1995-11-13 | TELEVISION HISTORY $200: This star, called "Mr. Television", hosted a prime-time bowling series for NBC in the 1960s Milton Berle |
| #2576, aired 1995-11-13 | TELEVISION HISTORY $300: The FCC deleted this channel number from VHF allocations in 1948 1 |
| #2576, aired 1995-11-13 | TELEVISION HISTORY $400: This first host of "The Tonight Show" emceed "Meeting of Minds" for PBS in 1977 Steve Allen |
| #2576, aired 1995-11-13 | TELEVISION HISTORY $500: In 1957 this duo created the musical "Cinderella" expressly for television Rodgers & Hammerstein |
| #2568, aired 1995-11-01 | TELEVISION $100: Moose, a Jack Russell Terrier, plays Eddie on this sitcom Frasier |
| #2568, aired 1995-11-01 | TELEVISION $200: She's "The Nanny" Fran Drescher |
| #2568, aired 1995-11-01 | TELEVISION $300: Roy Huggins, who created "The Fugitive", also produced this 1965-68 Ben Gazzara series Run for Your Life |
| #2568, aired 1995-11-01 | TELEVISION $400: She picked up an Emmy for her portrayal of "...the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom" Holly Hunter |
| #2568, aired 1995-11-01 | TELEVISION $500: "Wings" is set in an airport; "The John Larroquette Show", in one of these a bus station |
| #2567, aired 1995-10-31 | COSTUMES $100: On television she played the character who wore the costume seen here; or maybe not seen here Barbara Eden |
| #2566, aired 1995-10-30 | CONGRESS $800: In 1952 this Speaker of the House from Texas banned television cameras from House committee sessions Sam Rayburn |
| #2549, aired 1995-10-05 | TELEVISION $100: When "Cheers" ended, this Kelsey Grammer character moved to Seattle & became a radio shrink Frasier |
| #2549, aired 1995-10-05 | TELEVISION $200: In the 1994 TV movie "A Burning Passion", Shannen Doherty portrayed this southern author Margaret Mitchell |
| #2549, aired 1995-10-05 | TELEVISION $300: In 1989, on the final episode of this series, Crockett & Tubbs considered leaving the force Miami Vice |
| #2549, aired 1995-10-05 | TELEVISION $400: Matthew Broderick's father James Broderick played Kristy McNichol's dad on this 1970s series Family |
| #2549, aired 1995-10-05 | TELEVISION $500: This male housekeeper was played by Christopher Hewett; Bob Uecker played his employer Mr. Belvedere |
| #2546, aired 1995-10-02 | "LOVE" ON FILM $500: This film based on a Jacqueline Susann novel is set at a television network The Love Machine |
| #2542, aired 1995-09-26 | TELEVISION HISTORY $100: In 1967 this NBC anchor crossed an AFTRA picket line while partner David Brinkley struck Chet Huntley |
| #2542, aired 1995-09-26 | TELEVISION HISTORY $200: This unit that combines a videotape recorder & a camera first appeared in the 1980s a camcorder |
| #2542, aired 1995-09-26 | TELEVISION HISTORY $300: This pay-cable service presented its first original movie in 1983, "The Terry Fox Story" HBO |
| #2542, aired 1995-09-26 | TELEVISION HISTORY $400: In 1971 Michael Tilson Thomas succeeded this man as conductor of CBS' "Young People's Concerts" Leonard Bernstein |
| #2542, aired 1995-09-26 | COMMON BONDS $500 (Daily Double): This one, this one & this one Quincys |
| #2542, aired 1995-09-26 | TELEVISION HISTORY $500: He left as producer of "Saturday Night Live" in 1980 & returned in 1985 Lorne Michaels |
| #2540, aired 1995-09-22 | TELEVISION $100: Series featuring the pair seen here Mad About You |
| #2540, aired 1995-09-22 | TELEVISION $200: The Virtual Stupidity CD-ROM stars this MTV pair seen here Beavis & Butthead |
| #2540, aired 1995-09-22 | TELEVISION $300: First names of the ABC daytime talk show hosts seen here Mike & Maty |
| #2540, aired 1995-09-22 | TELEVISION $400: 1995's Best Daytime Drama Series Emmy went to this show featuring the pair seen here General Hospital |
| #2540, aired 1995-09-22 | TELEVISION $500: Reporter played over 40 years apart by the women seen here Lois Lane |
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Ellen Eichner, a junior from the Ohio State University from Northbrook, Illinois
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2010-B College Championship semifinalist: $10,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
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Aisha Tyler, an actress, comedian, author and reality-show host from Archer
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"In addition to film and TV roles, she performs comedy at...
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Robin Quivers, a radio and television personality from The Howard Stern Show
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"Howard Stern's news anchor and sidekick for the past 28 years,...
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Jonathan Groff, a writer and producer for television from Los Angeles, California
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\"A 5-show winner in 1995, he\'s now a writer and producer...
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Carol Burnett, an actress, comedienne, and star from stage, screen and television
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"Actress, comedienne, star of stage, screen and television..." Charity: amfAR (American...
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Andrew Shue, an actor from television's hot new series Melrose Place
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"Billy Campbell from television's hot new series Melrose Place…" Charity: Rock...
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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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Dana Delany, an actress from Desperate Housewives
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"She won two Emmys for her work on China Beach. This...
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Christian Haines, a college student originally from Newport News, Virginia
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2007 Tournament of champions semifinalist: $10,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
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Pat Sajak, a game show host from Wheel of Fortune
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"A former TV weatherman, he's gone on to become the world's...
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Aisha Tyler, a comedienne, host and actress from Talk Soup, Friends, The 5th Wheel and Ghost Whisperer
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2009 Celebrity Jeopardy! winner: $50,000 split between the International Rescue Committee/Congo...
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Keith Olbermann, a news anchor from MSNBC
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"In 2004, this veteran reporter will provide extensive coverage of the...
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Suchita Shah, a senior from the University of Wisconsin-Madison
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2008 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 20 and from Holmen, WI...
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Matthew Weiner, a series creator and executive producer from Mad Men
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"He is the creator and executive producer of one of the...
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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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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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Jane Curtin, an actress from Kate & Allie and 3rd Rock from the Sun
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"One of Saturday Night Live's original Not Ready for Primetime Players,...
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Neil Patrick Harris, an actor from How I Met Your Mother
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"He's received critical acclaim on Broadway and on TV, and his...
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Doug Savant, an actor from Desperate Housewives
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"He met and then married his wife while both were costarring...
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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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Peggy Noonan, a contributing editor from The Wall Street Journal
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2004 Power Players Week player (2004-05-10).
Charity: The Sisters of Life.
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James Erwin, a writer from Des Moines, Iowa
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Season 25 2-time champion: $22,598 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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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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Hill Harper, an author and actor from CSI: NY
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"As an award-winning author, he's written three New York Times best...
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Andy Srinivasan, a high school science teacher from Garner, North Carolina
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2010 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $69,600...
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Gail Flemmons, a history teacher from Clinton, Mississippi
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Season 25 2-time champion: $46,399 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Christopher Meloni, a star from Law & Order: SVU and HBO's Oz
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"On TV, he's worked both sides of the law. Once a...
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Susan Lucci, an actress from All My Children
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"One of daytime TV's most beloved actresses, she's played Erica Kane...
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Dana Delany, an actress from Kidnapped
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"She won two Emmys for playing Army nurse Colleen McMurphy on...
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Dara Lind, a junior from Yale University
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2008 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 20 and from Cincinnati, OH at...
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Louie C.K., a comedian, actor, director, writer, and producer from Louie and Horace and Pete
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"This multitalented actor, writer, producer, and director is also the star...
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Michael Galvin, a consultant from Penn Wynne, Pennsylvania
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"He was the first winner of the Teen Tournament back in...
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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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Robert Knecht Schmidt, a patent agent from Cleveland, Ohio
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Season 26 1-time champion: $12,799 + $1,000. Middle name pronounced like...
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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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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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Larissa Charnsangavej, a senior from Rice University
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2009 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 21 and from Houston, Texas at...
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Laura Myers, a senior from the University of Missouri
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2009 College Championship second runner-up: $29,900. 22 and from Richmond, Virginia...
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Isaac Mizrahi, a fashion designer and TV personality from the QVC Network
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"His fashion designs are a favorite among celebrities on the red...
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Jason Pratt, a middle school history teacher from Woodbridge, Virginia
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Season 25 2-time champion: $32,701 + $1,000. Jason Pratt - A...
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Carolyn Young, a homemaker from Marietta, Georgia
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Season 25 1-time champion: $30,000 + $2,000. Mother of Season 32...
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Justin Waters, a resident physician from Royal Oak, Michigan
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Season 25 1-time champion: $7,199 + $2,000. Justin Waters Royal Oak,...
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Elizabeth Perkins, an actress from Weeds
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"For the past five seasons, she's played the calculating and manipulative...
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Tom Bergeron, an Emmy Award-winning host from Dancing with the Stars
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2009 Celebrity Jeopardy! player: $25,000 to the Muscular Dystrophy Association. "He's...
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Elizabeth Perkins, an actress from Big and Weeds
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2009 Celebrity Jeopardy! player: $25,000 to the New England Learning Center...
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Tim Relihan, a senior from the University of Nebraska from Stromsburg, Nebraska
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2010-B College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
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Nancy Grace, a TV legal expert from Headline News/Court TV
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"She hosts her own legal analysis program on Headline News and...
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Joshua Malina, a TV actor and creator/producer from Celebrity Poker Showdown
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"He created and produced Celebrity Poker Showdown for the Bravo Channel,...
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Michael McKean, an actor, writer, and director from This is Spinal Tap, A Mighty Wind, and The Pajama Game
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"His movies have included This is Spinal Tap and A Mighty...
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Brad Selvig, a sophomore at Florida State from Jacksonville, Florida
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2004 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000.
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Joely Fisher, an actress from 'Til Death
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"She made her Broadway debut in Grease, and earned rave reviews...
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Stuart Cleland, a public television producer from Wilmette, Illinois
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Season 4 player (1987-09-15). The player information comes from the chat...
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Cal Sanchez, a television associate director from New York City, New York
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Season 11 player (1995-03-07).
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Frank Epstein, a police officer from Los Angeles, California
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\"He was a 5-time champion in 1992, and is still serving...
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Larissa Kelly, a grad student from El Cerrito, California
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2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament semifinalist: $10,000. 2019 All-Star Games member of...
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Darlene Lieblich, a television executive from Van Nuys, California
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2000 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $2,500. Season 16 5-time champion: $35,197...
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Darlene Lieblich, a television executive from Van Nuys, California
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2000 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $2,500. Season 16 5-time champion: $35,197...
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Andy Richter, an actor/comedian from The Tonight Show
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\"This multitalented actor/comedian is now back on the couch with Conan...
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Colby Burnett, a high school world history teacher from Chicago, Illinois
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\"He teaches at a school started by the Dominicans of St....
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Victoria Groce, a writer and television personality from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament winner: $100,000 + advance to Jeopardy! Masters....
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Rebecca Lobo, a future Women\'s Basketball Hall of Famer and ESPN analyst originally from the WNBA
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\"Later this year, she\'ll be inducted into the Women\'s Basketball Hall...
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Jeffrey Williams, a television editor originally from Detroit, Michigan
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Season 37 player (2020-12-14).
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India Cooper, an actor and copy editor from New York City, New York
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\"A semifinalist in the Tournament of Champions in 1992, now an...
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Georgia Popplewell, a television producer originally from Trinidad and Tobago
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Season 11 player (1994-12-20): a Wallace Silversmiths tea service + candelabra.
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Eartha Kitt, an actress and singer from New York City
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\"An acclaimed international star of stage, screen, television and cabaret, the...
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Leslie Frates, a Spanish teacher from Hayward, California
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\"A Jeopardy! champion in 1991, she\'s now a Spanish teacher listed...
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Ben Scripps, a television director from Cadillac, Michigan
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Season 36 2-time champion: $38,158 + $2,000.
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Elliott Kim, a television editor from Los Angeles, California
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2024 Champions Wildcard quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Season 39 1-time champion: $24,400 + $2,000.
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Elliott Kim, a television editor from Los Angeles, California
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2024 Champions Wildcard quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Season 39 1-time champion: $24,400 + $2,000.
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Dean Cain, a Man of Steel from television's Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
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1993 Celebrity Jeopardy! player: $10,000 to the Amanda Foundation.
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Sherri Shepherd, a daytime television talk show host, actress, and comedian originally from Chicago, Illinois
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2023 Primetime Celebrity Jeopardy! quarterfinalist: $30,000 for the Move-In Day Mafia...
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Kelsey Grammer, a television's favorite psychiatrist, Dr. Frasier Crane from Frasier
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1993 Celebrity Jeopardy! winner: $10,000 to charity.
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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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Deniz Cordell, a freelance writer and musical director from West Chesterfield, New Hampshire
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Season 28 player (2012-06-25).
First name pronounced like "Dennis".
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Brian Baumgartner, an actor and podcast host originally from Atlanta, Georgia
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2023 Primetime Celebrity Jeopardy! quarterfinalist: $30,000 for the Motion Picture Television Fund.
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Jeric Brual, a senior at NYU in New York, New York
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2022 National College Championship quarterfinalist: $10,000. Jeric was majoring in film...
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Chris Espe, a writer & television extra from Hollywood, California
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Season 19 player (2003-04-24).
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Kathryn Wendling, a high school social studies teacher from Farmington, Minnesota
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"Her high school newspaper predicted she would be on Jeopardy! From...
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Roger Craig, a computer scientist from Newark, Delaware
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2019 All-Star Games member of wildcard-match 2nd-place Team Austin: a share...
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Chuck Todd, a journalist and chief White House correspondent from NBC News and Meet the Press
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"Chief White House correspondent and political director for NBC News, he...
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Lewis Black, a stand-up comedian from Lewis Black's Root of All Evil
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"With success in films, plays, books, and TV specials, he tours...
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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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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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Simu Liu, an actor from Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
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"An actor from Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, he starred in the Canadian...
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Lizzie O'Leary, an aviation and regulation correspondent from CNN
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"She broke the news that Chrysler would file for Chapter 11...
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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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Mark Leinwand, a television business affairs executive from Los Angeles, California
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1986 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $1,000. Season 2 4-time champion: $43,700....
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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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Elyse Mancuso, a junior from Omaha, Nebraska
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2012 Teen Tournament winner: $79,600. 16 at the time of the...
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Mike Maheu, a high school teacher from San Diego, California
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Season 25 2-time champion: $46,242 + $1,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Nate Austin, a student from Hutchinson Community College
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"His original plan was to own a chain of international hotels...
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Ed Asner, a winner of 5 Golden Globes and 7 Emmy Awards for acting from television
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1993 Celebrity Jeopardy! winner: $10,900 to Celebrity Outreach, which puts celebrities...
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Sarah Monteith, a television development assistant originally from Sugar Land, Texas
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Season 27 player (2011-02-11).
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Danny Jobe, a cable television system manager from Forest, Virginia
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Season 19 1-time champion: $6,399 + $1,000.
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Carol Burnett, from the Broadway revue Putting It Together
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"She's the stage and television legend who heads the Stephen Sondheim...
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Sinbad, an actor and comedian from film and television
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1998 Celebrity Invitational winner: $15,000 to the Children's Defense Fund.
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Tavis Smiley, a talk show host from PBS's The Tavis Smiley Show
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"He's interviewed such diverse personalities as Fidel Castro, Pope John Paul...
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Jonathan Belford, a television researcher originally from Garland, Texas
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Season 39 player (2023-06-19).
JBoard user name: BurbankGuy10
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Al Franken, an author and radio talk show host from New York City
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"One of the original writers on Saturday Night Live, he's done...
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Gretchen Carlson, a journalist from the CBS Saturday Early Show
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"Since winning the 1989 Miss America crown, she's built an extensive...
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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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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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Katie Gill, a sophomore from Jackson, Mississippi
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2008-A Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000.
15 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Catherine Crier, a journalist from The Crier Report
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"Once the youngest elected state judge in Texas, she now hosts...
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Tim Russert, a journalist from Meet the Press
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"The host of the longest-running show in the history of television,...
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Katie Winter, a senior from Tufts University
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2008 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 22 and from Hershey, PA at...
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Miles Neff, a television cameraman from Long Beach, California
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Season 2 player (1986-02-11).
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Melissa Harris-Perry, a professor and editor-at-large from Elle.com
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"She is the Maya Angelou Presidential Chair at Wake Forest University,...
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David Gregory, a political analyst and author from CNN and How's Your Faith?
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"An NBC correspondent and anchor for nearly 20 years, he recently...
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Joey Beachum, a senior from Mississippi State University
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2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2008 College Championship winner: $100,000...
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Mike Ponterotto, a film and television producer from North Hollywood, California
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Season 33 player (2017-06-06).
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Danielle Zsenak, a senior from Marquette University
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2008 College Championship 1st runner-up: $50,000. Last name pronounced like "zshen-NOCK"....
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Lara Logan, a correspondent from 60 Minutes on CBS
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"Her bold, award-winning reporting has earned her a prominent spot among...
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Chuck Todd, a political director and host from NBC News and NBC's Meet the Press
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"He is the political director of NBC News, the host of...
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Brian Dennehy, from the play Death of a Salesman
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"He's the film and television star who won a Tony Award...
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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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Yuri Bershidski, a television producer from Moscow, Russia
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2001 International Championship semifinalist: $5,000.
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Dave Osborne, a television production assistant from Chicago, Illinois
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Season 10 2-time champion: $10,400.
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Sanjit Das, a television producer originally from Charlottesville, Virginia
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Season 17 player (2001-04-26).
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Thomas Zamora, a junior at the University of Southern California from Cypress, California
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2001 College Championship 2nd runner-up: $14,100. Thomas was 20 at the...
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Sara Dean, a junior at Syracuse University from Olney, Maryland
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2001 College Championship semifinalist: $5,000. Sara was 19 at the time...
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Tracy Bond Bird, a television and commercial announcer from Louisville, Kentucky
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Season 18 2-time champion: $54,100.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: tbirdy
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Tony Reece, a television editor from Los Angeles, California
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Season 14 player (1998-04-21).
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Laurie Dinnerstein, a television intern from West Hollywood, California
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Season 20 player (2003-11-07).
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David Braxton, a television producer from Hyattsville, Maryland
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Season 22 player (2005-11-02).
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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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Steve Greene, a senior from UCLA from Elk Grove, California
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2010-B College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000 + a Nintendo Wii +...
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Steve Clark, a training manager from Rochester Hills, Michigan
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Season 21 player (2005-06-24).
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David Tambling, a strategic planning manager from Menlo Park, California
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Season 21 player (2005-06-23).
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Aaron Wicks, a planning and evaluation manager from Rochester, New York
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Season 26 1-time champion: $18,001 + 1,000. Aaron Wicks Rochester, NY...
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Bob Fleenor, a newspaper copy editor from Martinsburg, West Virginia
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"Legislative work in his home state was suspended so that lawmakers...
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Bill Sloan, a realtor from Mission Viejo, California
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"Since winning five shows in 1996, he has gone on to...
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Stacy Braverman, a public interest lawyer from Washington, D.C.
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Season 26 1-time champion: $14,984 + $2,000. As detailed in a...
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James Burns, a television graphic designer from Avondale Estates, Georgia
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Season 20 player (2003-09-15).
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Bob Harris, a writer from Los Angeles, California
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"This 5-time champ was a finalist in the 1998 Tournament of...
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Kermin Fleming, a junior at Carnegie Mellon University from Lexington, Kentucky
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"He's the current College Champion. A junior at Carnegie Mellon University...
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Janet Bradlow, an insurance agent from New York, New York
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Season 26 3-time champion: $58,000 + $2,000. Janet Bradlow New York,...
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Rachael Schwartz, a lawyer from Washington, D.C.
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"In 1994, she was the first female winner of a Tournament...
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Steven Chinn, an attorney originally from London, England
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Season 4 player (1988-01-04). At the time of his show's taping,...
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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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Paul Kursky, a copywriter from San Francisco, California
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2011 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 5-time champion: $109,411...
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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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Marty Scott, an assistant district attorney from Forney, Texas
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Season 26 3-time champion: $64,002 + $2,000. Marty won $250,000 on...
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Chris Hardwick, a television personality from Singled Out
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"From the hit show Singled Out, his father has been singled...
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Judith Ivey, an actress from Designing Women
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"Two-time winner of Broadway's Tony Award, now appearing in television's Designing...
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Justin Bernbach, a lobbyist from Brooklyn, New York
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2010 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 25 7-time champion: $155,001...
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Jordan Brand, an anesthesiologist from Westchester, New York
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Season 26 1-time champion: $24,405 + $2,000. The Sesame Street character...
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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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Sanders Kleinfeld, a publishing technology specialist from Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Season 25 1-time champion: $26,597 + $2,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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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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Soledad O'Brien, an anchor and special correspondent from CNN's Special Investigations Unit
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"Currently the host of CNN's Special Investigations Unit, she's received critical...
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Mike Duval, a television production coordinator from Norwood, Massachusetts
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Season 31 player (2015-05-06). Mike won $100,000 on Who Wants to...
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Eric Betts, a senior from Emory University
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2009 College Championship first runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $50,000. 21 and...
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Charles Shaughnessy, an actor from Mad Men
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"As Shane Donovan on Days of Our Lives, he won three...
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David Duchovny, an actor from Californication
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"He's won two Golden Globes and stars as troubled novelist Hank...
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Scott Menke, a senior from Johns Hopkins University
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2009 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 21 and from Flemington, New Jersey...
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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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Brian Gohacki, a graduate student from San Francisco, California
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Season 25 player (2008-12-31).
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Francois Dominic Laramée, a writer and TV personality from Verdun, Quebec, Canada
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Season 25 2-time champion: $46,300 + $1,000. Francois's name was printed...
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Jennifer Duann, a senior from the Ohio State University
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2009 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 21 and from Worthington, Ohio at...
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Charles Barkley, a former pro basketball player from Turner Network Television
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"He won 2 Olympic gold medals while playing for America's "Dream...
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Stephanie Ehresman, a senior from Shirley, New York
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2003 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $5,000.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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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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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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A.J. Schumacher, a radio show production intern from St. Paul, Minnesota
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Season 25 1-time champion: $10,800 + $2,000. AJ Schumacher Saint Paul,...
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Prashant Raghavendran, a sophomore from the University of Texas, Dallas
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2010-A College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. Hometown: Austin, Texas. Prashant Raghavendran Blog...
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Surya Sabhapathy, a senior from the University of Michigan
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2010-A College Championship 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $26,600. Hometown: Northville,...
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Jean Cui, a student originally from Garden City, New York
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Season 25 2-time champion: $14,200 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
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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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Enrique Machado, an oil filtration business developer from Orlando, Florida
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Season 26 1-time champion: $30,799 + $2,000. Enrique Machado September 16,...
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CCH Pounder, an actress from Avatar and Brothers
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"She earned an Emmy nomination for her role as Claudette Wyms...
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Lyndsey Romick, a sophomore from Lewis & Clark College
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2010-A College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. Hometown: Grants Pass, Oregon. Lyndsey Romick...
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Melanie Baker-Streevy, a United Methodist pastor from Parma, Michigan
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Season 25 1-time champion: $26,900 + $1,000. Melanie Baker-Streevy - A...
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Jane Seymour, an actress from Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman
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"The story of her medicine woman continues on CBS Television in...
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Mike Farrell, an actor from Providence
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"16 years after M*A*S*H, he returns to series television as Dr....
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Harris Cohen, a family physician from Lower Gwynedd, Pennsylvania
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Season 25 2-time champion: $17,800 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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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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Michael McKean, an actor and comic from Uncomfortably Close with Michael McKean
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"He's the film and television comic who hosts Comedy Central's Uncomfortably...
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Andrew Fechner, a television programmer from Montclair, New Jersey
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Season 26 1-time champion: $26,001 + $1,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: arfnj
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Daniel Stauss, a federal claims examiner from Seattle, Washington
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Season 25 1-time champion: $25,500 + $2,000. Daniel Stauss - A...
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Al Michaels, a sportscaster from ABC's Monday Night Football
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"Named Sportscaster of the Year in 1996 by the American Sportscasters...
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Deborah Fitzgerald, a retired government employee from McLean, Virginia
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2009 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Season 24 4-time champion: $55,901 + $1,000.
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Roy Flynn, a public television producer from Centerville, Ohio
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Season 16 player (1999-12-17).
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Jennifer Broders, a junior high school social studies teacher from Stockton, Iowa
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Season 26 2-time champion: $59,801 + $1,000. Jennifer Broders - a...
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Bebe Neuwirth, an actress from Frasier and the Broadway revival of Chicago
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"She won two Emmys for playing Dr. Frasier Crane's acerbic wife...
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Hayes Davenport, a television writer originally from Dover, Massachusetts
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Season 26 player (2009-12-31).
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Neil Patrick Harris, an actor from How I Met Your Mother
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"He's appeared on Broadway in Proof, Assassins, and Cabaret. He's now...
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Judy Weisman, a surgeon from Plattsburgh, New York
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Season 20 player (2004-03-03).
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Michael Farabaugh, a high school chemistry teacher from Charlottesville, Virginia
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"This chemistry teacher has been making things fizz, smoke, and explode...
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Stephen Weingarten, a paraeducator from Portland, Oregon
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2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $96,690...
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Jeff Probst, a television personality from Survivor
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"As host of Survivor, he's traveled the world, from Borneo to...
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Kathryn Erbe, an actress from Law & Order: Criminal Intent
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"On stage, she earned a 1991 Tony nomination for Speed of...
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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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Doug Savant, an actor from Desperate Housewives
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"He plays Tom Scavo, the sometimes-befuddled husband of Felicity Huffman on...
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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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Carson Kressley, a fashion maven from Queer Eye for the Straight Guy
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"This star of TV's Queer Eye for the Straight Guy says...
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Regis Philbin, a TV host from Live with Regis and Kathie Lee
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"The co-host of television's Live with Regis and Kathie Lee..." Charity:...
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Jove Graham, a biomedical engineer from Lewisburg, Pennsylvania
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Season 26 1-time champion: $34,401 + $1,000. Jove's second contestant interview...
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Dave Binnig, a bartender from Portland, Oregon
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Season 22 player (2006-03-22).
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Rachel Beckman, an 11-year-old from Danville, Kentucky
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"As a member of her school's academic team, she has no...
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Jeremy Cohen, a television producer from Washington, D.C.
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Season 18 1-time champion: $5,500.
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Martin Short, a multitalented man from Fame Becomes Me
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"Jiminy Glick and Ed Grimley are among his many memorable characters....
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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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Drew Lachey, a singer and actor from Dancing with the Stars
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"He was working as an emergency medical technician when brother Nick...
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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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Lara Robillard, a policy analyst from Arlington, Virginia
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"She used the winnings from her 5 shows in 1998 to...
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Lee Lassiter, a data modeler from Topeka, Kansas
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"A 5-time winner from 2000, he used his winnings to take...
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Joseph Graumann, a junior from Mays Landing, New Jersey
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2006 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
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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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Sean Ryan, a cab driver from State College, Pennsylvania
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
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Lynn Redgrave, an international star who sparkles on stage, screen, and television originally from London, England
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Celebrity Jeopardy! contestant (1995-11-06).
Lynn died 2010-05-02.
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