Jeopardy! Round, Double Jeopardy! Round, or Tiebreaker Round clues (1000 results returned) (search results maxed out)

#9069, aired 2024-03-282-WORD POP CULTURE $200: In the preface to "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" we learn that these calming words are on the front of the reference book don't panic
#9069, aired 2024-03-28ALPHANUMERICS $400: The U.S. spent $100 billion to defend against this glitch that threatened to doom us all as 1999 ended Y2K
#9069, aired 2024-03-28ROUND HERE $1200: In legend, the Siege Perilous was a seat at King Arthur's round table reserved for the knight destined to do this found the Grail
#9068, aired 2024-03-27CRUISE LINES $200: As this character, Tom Cruise radioed the tower, "This is Ghost Rider requesting a flyby" but was told the pattern was full Maverick
#9068, aired 2024-03-27AUTO PARTS 101 $200: When driving a pal's treasured 1964 Pontiac GTO, go easy on this pedal that releases the crankshaft the clutch
#9068, aired 2024-03-27MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS $800: The Greek for "wood" gives us the name of this instrument that's struck with padded mallets xylophone
#9067, aired 2024-03-26FLAT EARTH $1,000 (Daily Double): The Alkali Flat can be found in this New Mexico national park that's surrounded by a famous missile range White Sands
#9067, aired 2024-03-26MUSEUMS SPREAD THEIR WINGS $1600: Recall who once ruled Flanders, & it makes sense that Flemish works like Clara Peeters' still-lifes are in this museum's north wing the Prado
#9066, aired 2024-03-25NAME THAT TOON $200: It's the fitting name of Bob & Helen Parr's eldest son in "The Incredibles" Dash
#9066, aired 2024-03-25LET'S GET A DRINK $200: A regular B & B is Bénédictine & brandy; if you're drinking a Kentucky B & B, this other "B" is an ingredient bourbon
#9066, aired 2024-03-25IAMB A POET $400: Bill Shakespeare here! Prithee complete my line, "Shall I compare thee to" this? a summer's day
#9066, aired 2024-03-25NAME THAT TOON $400: When she reveals she's pregnant, Fred promises to keep the peace with her mother Wilma Flintstone
#9066, aired 2024-03-25IAMB A POET $800: In Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken", "I took the one" that was this less traveled by
#9066, aired 2024-03-25MARINE BIOLOGY $1600: This member of the weasel family is the only marine mammal that catches fish with its forepaws, not its mouth a sea otter
#9065, aired 2024-03-22THE LYRICAL STYLINGS OF JOHNNY GILBERT $200: "I'm that bad type make your mama sad type, make your girlfriend mad tight might seduce your dad type... I'm the bad guy" Billie Eilish
#9065, aired 2024-03-22THE LYRICAL STYLINGS OF JOHNNY GILBERT $400: "When I'm out walking, I strut my stuff, and I'm so strung out, I'm high as a kite, I just might stop to check you out" Violent Femmes
#9065, aired 2024-03-22THE LYRICAL STYLINGS OF JOHNNY GILBERT $800: "Say it ain't so, I will not go, turn the lights off, carry me home, na-na, na-na, na-na, na-na, na na" Blink-182
#9065, aired 2024-03-22THE LYRICAL STYLINGS OF JOHNNY GILBERT $1000: "I got a woman, way over town, that's good to me, oh yeah. Say, I got a woman way over town that's good to me, oh yeah" Ray Charles
#9065, aired 2024-03-22WORDS IN INVITATIONAL $1000: The seeds of this tropical tree yield a yellowish-red dye that's used as a food coloring, especially for cheese & margarine annatto
#9063, aired 2024-03-20THE HISTORIC 1990s $600: It didn't end well in 1997 for this cult that believed a flying saucer was following comet Hale-Bopp Heaven's Gate
#9063, aired 2024-03-20UNDENIABLE CHEMISTRY $800: C22H24N2O8 is the formula of this antibiotic that's known for fighting acne but can take on cholera too tetracycline
#9061, aired 2024-03-18HORRORS! $400: Catriona Ward's "The Last House on Needless Street" is partly narrated by Olivia, one of these animals, & that can't be good luck black cat
#9061, aired 2024-03-18& 5 SIDES $400: Hal Prince co-produced this New York City-set musical that opened on Broadway on Sept. 26, 1957 West Side Story
#9061, aired 2024-03-18& 5 SIDES $800: Carl Friedrich Gauss solved a math puzzle by constructing a regular-sided heptadecagon, a figure with this many sides 17
#9061, aired 2024-03-18CHOOSE A PROTEIN $1000: It's high in proline so we're giving this most abundant protein in the body that's in tendons, bones & skin some lip service collagen
#9061, aired 2024-03-18HORRORS! $1600: H.P. Lovecraft wrote that the "U"s in the name of this "hellish entity" should sound "about like that in 'full"' Cthulhu
#9061, aired 2024-03-18VICE PRESIDENTIAL QUOTES $1600: It's the -ism that promotes the common man & in 2023 Mike Pence bemoaned "the siren song of" it "unmoored to" conservative ideas populism
#9061, aired 2024-03-18"K"-TOWN $1,800 (Daily Double): It's the capital city on the Nile that fits the category Khartoum
#9060, aired 2024-03-15THAT'S SO 18th CENTURY $200: Russia annexed this peninsula between the Black Sea & the Sea of Azov in 1783; wouldn't be the last time they tried that, either Crimea
#9060, aired 2024-03-15MOVIE SONGS $400: A non-"Let It Go" song from "Frozen" says these "are better than people. Sven, don't you think that's true?" reindeer
#9060, aired 2024-03-15THAT'S SO 18th CENTURY $400: This 12,000-foot volcano in Japan erupted in 1707 but thankfully has been dormant for the ensuing 300+ years Fujiyama
#9060, aired 2024-03-15THAT'S SO 18th CENTURY $600: In 1789 the Marquis de Launay, gov. of this landmark, didn't give up its munitions to the people so easily; bad move the Bastille
#9060, aired 2024-03-15TV DRAMA $800: She starred on dramas like "The Leftovers" & "The Gilded Age" Carrie Coon
#9060, aired 2024-03-15THAT'S SO 18th CENTURY $800: On May 1, 1776, Adam Weishaupt founded the Perfectibilists, a branch of this "enlightened" secret society... oh dear, I may've said too much the Illuminati
#9060, aired 2024-03-15THAT'S SO 18th CENTURY $1000: Not thrilled with the colonies in 1774, Britain's parliament passed 4 punitive measures known not so nicely as these acts the Intolerable Acts
#9059, aired 2024-03-14ANCIENT HISTORY $400: It's thought Chinese emperor Qin Shi Huang died after ingesting this liquid element that he believed would make him immortal mercury
#9059, aired 2024-03-14SONGS OF YOUTH $400: Inspired by her bestie, Tay Tay sang when "somebody tells you they love you" at this title age "you're gonna believe them" 15
#9059, aired 2024-03-14HEALTH & MEDICINE $400: As seen in the X-ray, the patient has this sideways curvature of the spine that's often diagnosed in adolescence scoliosis
#9059, aired 2024-03-14KHAN YOU DIG IT? $800: According to a 13th century "Secret History", this leader was born clutching "a clot of blood the size of a knucklebone" Genghis Khan
#9059, aired 2024-03-14ANCIENT HISTORY $1200: In "Meditations" this Roman emperor reminds himself not to be irritated at other people's bad breath: "That's the way his mouth is" Marcus Aurelius
#9058, aired 2024-03-13SMASH THAT SUBSCRIBE BUTTON $400: A 1957 issue of Apparel Arts Magazine had this subtitle, which would eventually be shortened--or refitted?--to GQ Gentlemen's Quarterly
#9058, aired 2024-03-1317th CENTURY WRITING $800: As you see, there are geese in France but Jean La Fontain's book of fables included the hen that laid these valuables golden eggs
#9058, aired 2024-03-13OFFICIAL STATE STUFF $1200: Oregon's state fish is this type of salmon, also a name for a wind that blows in the Rockies chinook
#9058, aired 2024-03-1317th CENTURY WRITING $9,200 (Daily Double): In his 1624 history of Virginia & New England, he included the famous story of his rescue John Smith
#9057, aired 2024-03-12IDIOMS & EXPRESSIONS $600: 2021 called & wants this phrase back that means evaluating someone's mood or energy a vibe check
#9057, aired 2024-03-12STARTS WITH "P" $800: Also known as the caveman diet, it's a shortened word for a diet that emphasizes lean meats & veggies paleo
#9057, aired 2024-03-12INVESTING & BUSINESS TERMS $800: A military order that keeps troops in the service, in investing, it orders a broker to sell if a stock price falls to a certain point stop-loss
#9056, aired 2024-03-11DEALING WITH TV REALITY $400: Oh, the Scandoval! Let's say Ariana did not wish Tom well after he cheated on her with Raquel on this show that debuted in 2013 Vanderpump Rules
#9055, aired 2024-03-08SUFFIXES $200: It's the very short, Arabic-influenced suffix that makes a demonym (a nationality noun) from Yemen or Pakistan I
#9055, aired 2024-03-08SUFFIXES $400: It's the British spelling of the suffix that makes a verb out of "industrial" I-S-E
#9055, aired 2024-03-08PAPER $600: This French-named arts & crafts material is repulped paper mixed with glue that's used to mold masks & toys papier-mâché
#9055, aired 2024-03-08LITERARY AWARDS $1000: The Hugo Award isn't named after Victor Hugo, but this Hugo who founded the sci-fi magazine Amazing Stories Hugo Gernsback
#9054, aired 2024-03-07BRIDGERS $400: RO&AD Architects built a Dutch bridge that parts the waters rather than going over them, so it's named for this biblical man Moses
#9054, aired 2024-03-07UNUSUAL NICKNAMES $400: This first name of Herr Mendelssohn means "happy", but his manner got him the nickname "discontented Polish count" Felix
#9054, aired 2024-03-07BEFORE & AFTER $600: A Knoxville color that's also a hit country song is served as a high grade tea from Sri Lanka & India Tennessee Orange Pekoe
#9054, aired 2024-03-07BEFORE & AFTER $800: Nation's capital newspaper-caused psychological pain following an event of actual or threatened bodily harm the Washington Post traumatic stress disorder
#9054, aired 2024-03-07GETTING HISTORICAL $800: Calling himself an admiral in a bit of self-promotion, in 1853 he sailed 4 warships into the harbor of Uraga & refused to leave Commodore Matthew Perry
#9054, aired 2024-03-07BEFORE & AFTER $1000: Siam-set musical adaptation of Asimov's book about machines that follow 3 laws The King and I, Robot
#9053, aired 2024-03-06MIDDLE X $600: Multiple blaring horns or warning hooters (that means put an S at the end of this high-score Scrabble word, y'all) claxons
#9053, aired 2024-03-06WAITS $800: At Jefferson's Monticello, the dining room fireplace conceals one of these that's linked to the wine cellar a dumbwaiter
#9052, aired 2024-03-05WORDS IN COLONEL JESSUP'S BIG SPEECH $600: You don't want plaque building up in these of your arteries walls
#9052, aired 2024-03-05PEOPLE NAMED ALEX $800: The first Latino senator from California, Alex Padilla grew up in this L.A. area with a Spanish name the San Fernando Valley
#9051, aired 2024-03-04COCKTAILS $600: It was inevitable that Sarah Jessica Parker would put her name on bottled & canned versions of this cocktail a Cosmopolitan (Cosmo)
#9051, aired 2024-03-04HOBBIES & PASTIMES $1000: That's my jam! Strawberry specifically, to which I'm adding this coagulant, as the fruit naturally only has a little pectin
#9051, aired 2024-03-04A LI'L BALLET, A LI'L OPERA $1200: It's the 1-letter title of Anthony Davis' bio-opera that made its Metropolitan Opera debut in 2023 X
#9050, aired 2024-03-01CHEMISTRY CLASS $400: Composed of 2 or more atoms, it's the smallest particle of a substance that retains its chemical & physical properties a molecule
#9050, aired 2024-03-01THAT'S A LONG STORY $400: Serialized from 1845 to 1847, the seminal & alliterative horror tale "Varney the" this runs to more than 200 chapters Vampire
#9050, aired 2024-03-01FOOD, FAST $400: This cool Indian side dish is often made with cucumber & a yogurt or curd called dahi raita
#9050, aired 2024-03-01COVER ME $800: In 2023 Dolly Parton unveiled a cover of this anthemic Queen hit that should resonate with you, my friends "We Are The Champions"
#9050, aired 2024-03-01THAT'S A LONG STORY $800: Ralph Ellison's posthumous second novel was culled from more than 1,500 pages of writing & titled after this now-federal holiday Juneteenth
#9050, aired 2024-03-01FOOD, FAST $800: Bottom line--it's a burrito that's been deep fried a chimichanga
#9050, aired 2024-03-01RHYMES WITH RHYME $1000: In computer jargon, it's an extension that allows the transfer of different types of data files via email MIME
#9050, aired 2024-03-01THAT'S A LONG STORY $1200: This 1996 David Foster Wallace novel isn't quite as long as its title suggests but does run 1,000+ pages Infinite Jest
#9050, aired 2024-03-01CHEMISTRY CLASS $2000: The heroine of TV's "Lessons in Chemistry" has ideas about this concept that inorganic compounds could have led to life abiogenesis
#9050, aired 2024-03-01COVER ME $2000: That's Urge Overkill's version of this song in "Pulp Fiction", not Neil Diamond's original "Girl, You'll Be A Woman Soon"
#9050, aired 2024-03-01THAT'S A LONG STORY $2000: A Nobel Prize winner, in 1962 she published "The Golden Notebook", which runs to nearly 700 masterful pages Doris Lessing
#9050, aired 2024-03-01THAT'S A LONG STORY $3,200 (Daily Double): "Yes I said yes I will yes" are the last of this 1922 story's many, many words Ulysses
#9049, aired 2024-02-29"LIKE"NESS $1600: Fittingly, it was in the year of the USA's bicentennial that Steve Miller put out the album with this soaring title track "Fly Like An Eagle"
#9048, aired 2024-02-28THE EMMYS $200: He won a 1974 Emmy for his role in "M*A*S*H"; he'd also win for writing & directing that series Alan Alda
#9048, aired 2024-02-28THAT'S IN ASIA $200: Col. H.H. Godwin Austen is a bit of a mouthful for a name, so a 28,000-foot mountain keeps it alphanumeric with this K2
#9048, aired 2024-02-28NAME THAT TOMB $400: The imperial crypt of Dom Pedro I lies on the grounds of Independence Park in this largest Brazilian city São Paulo
#9048, aired 2024-02-28THAT'S IN ASIA $400: Dating back to 4000 B.C. fortified settlements, it's the largest city in Jordan & the residence of the king Amman
#9048, aired 2024-02-28THAT'S IN ASIA $600: The infinity pool is 57 levels up at Marina Bay Sands Hotel in this island city-state Singapore
#9048, aired 2024-02-28NAME THAT TOMB $800: This final resting place in Manhattan of a president & his wife is the largest mausoleum in North America Grant's Tomb
#9048, aired 2024-02-28THAT'S IN ASIA $800: The Krishna River is one of many that flow into this 839,000-square-mile bay, as it is, after all, an 839,000-square-mile bay the Bay of Bengal
#9048, aired 2024-02-28SHALL WE DANCE? $800: Spelled with an I you have a delicious dessert, but with an E, it's this 3-syllable dance that began in the Dominican Republic merengue
#9048, aired 2024-02-28THAT'S IN ASIA $1000: Lake Tengiz is in this large -stan that's on the northern border of 3 other -stans Kazakhstan
#9048, aired 2024-02-28BRITISH ACTORS & ACTRESSES $1200: Knighted in 1947, in 1970 he became the first actor to be named a baron Lord Laurence Olivier
#9048, aired 2024-02-28NAME THAT TOMB $1600: The inscription on this conquistador's tomb in Puerto Rico reads, "Here rest the bones of a valiant lion" Ponce de León
#9048, aired 2024-02-28NAME THAT TOMB $5,800 (Daily Double): Cyrus the Great's tomb still stands at Pasargadae in this country, but his gold sarcophagus is gone Iran
#9048, aired 2024-02-28IN THE DICTIONARY $10,000 (Daily Double): Spur-of-the-moment, or a piano piece that's meant to sound spontaneous, like Chopin's Opus 29 an impromptu
#9047, aired 2024-02-27INAUGURAL ADDRESSES $200: He pointed out that his father might not have been served at a U.S. restaurant less than 60 years earlier Barack Obama
#9047, aired 2024-02-27A NICE SHORT STORY SPOILED $1200: Why, this "Celebrated" amphibian "weigh five pound" & "belched out a double handful of shot" the jumping frog of Calaveras County
#9047, aired 2024-02-27WHERE IS THAT? $1200: Winnie-the-Pooh's home: the forest surrounding this wood the Hundred Acre Wood
#9047, aired 2024-02-27WHERE IS THAT? $1600: 8 versions of Monet's "Water Lilies": this museum in Paris' Tuileries gardens the Orangerie
#9047, aired 2024-02-27ARTISTS ON FILM $2000: Yes, dahling, that was Zsa Zsa Gabor playing dancer Jane Avril to Jose Ferrer's Toulouse-Lautrec in this 1952 film Moulin Rouge
#9046, aired 2024-02-26LET'S AUDIT A COLLEGE COURSE $200: It was a safe bet that this state U. offered gaming management I & also TCA 471, practicum in hotel education UNLV (University of Nevada, Las Vegas)
#9046, aired 2024-02-26LET'S AUDIT A COLLEGE COURSE $600: Taking 340.612.01, epidemiologic basis for tuberculosis control at this U. in Baltimore? Thank you, as that sounds kinda important Johns Hopkins
#9045, aired 2024-02-23THAT BUILDING HAS GREAT BONES $800: The Hyrtl Skull Collection is among the medical treasures at the Mütter Museum in this U.S. city Philadelphia
#9045, aired 2024-02-23THAT BUILDING HAS GREAT BONES $1200: This Channel Island's zoo doesn't just display 'em live; you may see skulls & skeletons at the Durrell Discovery Centre Jersey
#9045, aired 2024-02-23THAT BUILDING HAS GREAT BONES $2000: It's the word for a bone depository, like the Wamba one in Spain an ossuary
#9044, aired 2024-02-22ADVERTISING SLOGANS $600: Power up with this brand that today says it's "still going!" Energizer
#9044, aired 2024-02-22TV CHARACTERS $800: It's the name of the course Annalise Keating taught & the name of the show that Viola Davis starred in as Annalise Keating How to Get Away with Murder
#9044, aired 2024-02-2240 YEARS AGO: 1984 $800: At the Winter Olympics, this American won gold with a four-and-a-half minute program that featured multiple triple jumps Scott Hamilton
#9044, aired 2024-02-22THE KEY WORD IN THE LITERARY SUBTITLE $1000: Evelyn Waugh, re-evaluated... wait, that's not the right word: "Ryder" Brideshead Revisited
#9044, aired 2024-02-22BRIT SPEAK $1200: It's our equivalent of an off-licence a liquor store
#9043, aired 2024-02-21IT'S REIGNING MEN! $200: In a job that does not seem short of perks, the king of this nation hands each Nobel laureate a diploma & a medal annually Sweden
#9043, aired 2024-02-211990s MUSIC $200: "Shakedown" is the first word of this Smashing Pumpkins song named for a year 1979
#9043, aired 2024-02-21HALLELUJAH! $600: dictionary.com has 3 consecutive A's in this slang word, but you can draw it out even more before queen if you want to really show elation yaaas
#9043, aired 2024-02-21IT'S REIGNING MEN! $800: Ivan the Terrible's murder of his son in 1581 led to this family's dynasty that began in 1613 & would have the last czarring role the Romanovs
#9042, aired 2024-02-20WHAT'S THAT SMELL? $200: Naturally, this body part can also mean a smell nose
#9042, aired 2024-02-20HANSEL CULTURE $400: In a model walk-off in "Zoolander", this actor, as Hansel, defeats Ben Stiller by doing something indescribable with his underwear Owen Wilson
#9042, aired 2024-02-20WHAT'S THAT SMELL? $400: "Eau de" can precede this smelly stuff, also the fourth-largest city in Germany Cologne
#9042, aired 2024-02-20WHAT'S THAT SMELL? $600: This smelly word precedes "-Eaters" in a brand that hopes to keep your feet smelling fresh odor
#9042, aired 2024-02-20TAKING FLIGHT $800: 3 major airports serve New York City including this one that's not even in the same state Newark
#9042, aired 2024-02-20WHAT'S THAT SMELL? $800: This 5-letter word can mean the distinct smell left by an animal & used to track prey scent
#9042, aired 2024-02-20WHAT'S THAT SMELL? $1000: This word for a wine's smell is most appropriate before, for example, "of honeysuckle" or "of geranium" bouquet
#9041, aired 2024-02-19THE QUESTION? $400: After a horse walks into a bar in a classic joke, it's the inevitable question asked of it by the bartender Why the long face?
#9041, aired 2024-02-19HEAVY $400: "The head that wears" this might ache wearing the solid gold, nearly 5-pound St. Edward's one used in a 2023 ceremony the crown
#9041, aired 2024-02-19POTENT QUOTABLES $1000: It's the line in "Treasure Island" that precedes & follows "drink and the devil had done for the rest" yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum
#9041, aired 2024-02-19ON STATES' HIGHWAY WELCOME SIGNS $1000: Once on Michigan's welcome signs, this 2-word phrase that doesn't just refer to size was also on its license plates from 1983 to 2007 Great Lakes
#9040, aired 2024-02-16THAT'S GOT 2 HYPHENS $200: Relatively speaking, it's your spouse's dad, to you father-in-law
#9040, aired 2024-02-16THAT'S GOT 2 HYPHENS $400: Benadryl & ibuprofen are this type of medication that's purchased sans prescription over-the-counter
#9040, aired 2024-02-16PRESIDENTIAL TV $600: "The Man from Independence" Harry Truman
#9040, aired 2024-02-16THAT'S GOT 2 HYPHENS $800: It's a brawl with no rules & for our purposes, no cost a free-for-all
#9040, aired 2024-02-16THAT'S GOT 2 HYPHENS $1000: Where a CEO might have a personal assistant, a general has this French-named helper by his side an aide-de-camp
#9040, aired 2024-02-16MYTHOLOGY $1200: This nymph's unrequited love for Narcissus made her fade away until all that was left of her was her voice Echo
#9040, aired 2024-02-16THAT'S GOT 2 HYPHENS $1,600 (Daily Double): Charles V chose to put 3 of these floral symbols on France's royal emblem a fleur-de-lis
#9040, aired 2024-02-16CANADIAN GEOGRAPHY $2000: The world's largest freshwater archipelago, Ontario's Georgian Bay Islands are found in this Great Lake Huron
#9039, aired 2024-02-15CHEMISTRY TEST $400: It's the branch of chemistry that studies elements & compounds containing little or no carbon, i.e. nonliving stuff inorganic
#9039, aired 2024-02-15"F"8 $600: This word meaning "spontaneous" is also the name of the channel that's home to the show "grown-ish" freeform
#9039, aired 2024-02-15CHEMISTRY TEST $600: It's the general term for a chemical process that converts a substance into a different one; give us your gut... reaction
#9038, aired 2024-02-141970s MOVIES $800: 2 things about this 1971 guy--he's "the cat that won't cop out when there's danger all about" & "no one understands him but his woman" Shaft
#9038, aired 2024-02-14THE AIR THAT I BREATHE $1200: The main gas from an erupting volcano is this 2-word one that also forms clouds, but there's also less benign sulfur dioxide water vapor
#9037, aired 2024-02-13OH, THE PLACES YOU "CAN" GO! $200: It's a 100-mile-long peninsula on the east coast of Florida, or a cape that's a small part of it Canaveral
#9037, aired 2024-02-13THERE'S A VACCINE FOR THAT $400: Biothrax protects against this disease that's transmitted to humans from farm animals anthrax
#9037, aired 2024-02-13THERE'S A VACCINE FOR THAT $1200: Breathe easy! We'll only make you identify the "R" in RSV, this syncytial virus, & let you know there's a vaccine available respiratory
#9037, aired 2024-02-13DOCUMENTARIES $1200: "The Quiet Epidemic" makes the case for the existence of the chronic kind of this disease named for a New England town Lyme disease
#9037, aired 2024-02-13THERE'S A VACCINE FOR THAT $1600: There are vaccines to protect against this inflammation of the lining of the brain & spinal cord meningitis
#9037, aired 2024-02-13THERE'S A VACCINE FOR THAT $2000: A vaccine by any other name: both DTaP & Tdap offer sweet protection against tetanus, pertussis & this diphtheria
#9037, aired 2024-02-13THERE'S A VACCINE FOR THAT $7,000 (Daily Double): The CDC wants you to know that the 4 vaccine shots for this are fairly painless & now given in the arm, not the stomach rabies
#9036, aired 2024-02-12POP CULTURE VS. $400: "Red vs. Blue" are 2 armies in an animated series that's an offshoot of this "angelic" video game franchise Halo
#9035, aired 2024-02-09LET'S HAVE A WORD $800: Want the perk of being respected for your vocabulary? Then show us you know that "perk" is short for this small privilege perquisite
#9034, aired 2024-02-08A WILD MOOSE CHASE $600: In this film Chevy Chase is politely told, "Sorry, folks. Park's closed. The moose out front shoulda told ya" National Lampoon's Vacation
#9034, aired 2024-02-08SAME FIRST & LAST LETTER $1200: This adjective can refer to feeling ill due to a lack of liquids, or food that's been preserved by having its water removed dehydrated
#9034, aired 2024-02-08SOUNDS LIKE A HORROR MOVIE, BUT ISN'T $1200: Grisly ghost? No, this Bond title from 2015 refers to the criminal organization that's vexing him Spectre
#9033, aired 2024-02-07U.S. NATIONAL FORESTS $800: The 1.6 million acres of Arizona's Kaibab National Forest are divided by a natural wonder that is divided by this river the Colorado River
#9032, aired 2024-02-06ACTUALLY, THIS IS MY FIRST RODEO $1000: What better way to start off than a trip to this Alberta city's Stampede that's been a-hootin' & a-hollerin' since 1912 Calgary
#9032, aired 2024-02-062 BOOKS IN 1 $1000: "A Prayer for Garp" A Prayer for Owen Meany & The World According to Garp
#9032, aired 2024-02-06AROUND THE ATLANTIC $2000: Ponta Delgada on São Miguel is the capital of this island group that's about 1,000 miles west of Lisbon the Azores
#9032, aired 2024-02-06IT'S A BIRD! IT'S A PLANE! $4,000 (Daily Double): During World War II, one job of the Howard DGA-15 was as a Navy air ambulance with this bird name that's associated with nursing Nightingale
#9031, aired 2024-02-05SINGLE-NAMED SINGERS $400: That's Mrs. Knowles-Carter, to you Beyoncé
#9031, aired 2024-02-05TOOLS $1000: It's not a magnetic tool to help you detect a virile man, but rather its namesake item as well as nails hidden within a wall a stud detector (stud finder)
#9031, aired 2024-02-05TRICKS OF THE SHOW BIZ TRADE $1600: Film composers sync their scores using this measurement that's also big in EDM; 60 goes well with a slow scene, 140 is more pumped BPM (beats per minute)
#9031, aired 2024-02-05FINAL RESTING PLACES $1600: This scientist's sarcophagus at Westminster Abbey shows him leaning on 4 books that include "Opticks" & "Philo. Prin. Math" Newton
#9031, aired 2024-02-05BRITISH LITERATURE $2000: 2020's "The Mirror & the Light" completed Hilary Mantel's trilogy about Thomas Cromwell that began with this lupine novel Wolf Hall
#9030, aired 2024-02-02BILLBOARD'S 500 BEST POP SONGS $400: At No. 1, Billboard picked this Whitney Houston hit that made hitting the floor "feel like an issue of life-or-death urgency" "I Wanna Dance With Somebody"
#9030, aired 2024-02-02DELICIOUS BEFORE & AFTER $800: "Amphibian" British sausage dish cooked in batter that's an ace on the golf course toad in the hole in one
#9030, aired 2024-02-02BILLBOARD'S 500 BEST POP SONGS $1200: Can't you hear that boom-badoom-boom of her "Super Bass", making the list's top 20 Nicki Minaj
#9030, aired 2024-02-02DELICIOUS BEFORE & AFTER $1600: "Pastoral" lamb & mashed potato casserole that's a fanciful dream not likely to be attained shepherd's pie in the sky
#9029, aired 2024-02-01BRAINY QUOTES $1600: "Miss Warren has brains: you can't deny that", says his play "Mrs. Warren's Profession"; the response: "Brains are not everything" Shaw
#9029, aired 2024-02-01RAP WORDS & PHRASES $1,800 (Daily Double): Thug Passion, a cocktail that's one part Alizé & one part Cristal, is referenced on this rapper's 1996 album "All Eyez On Me" Tupac Shakur
#9027, aired 2024-01-30CHAINS $200: In professional wrestling today, steel cage matches usually take place in a ring surrounded by this barrier a chain link fence
#9027, aired 2024-01-30POPE FICTION $400: Vicarius Christi in Latin, this title is also the title of a novel about a Medal of Honor winner turned Chief Justice turned pope Vicar of Christ
#9027, aired 2024-01-30POPE FICTION $4,600 (Daily Double): Andrew Greeley's "Novel of Papal Election" has this colorful title, the signal that a new pope has been chosen the White Smoke
#9026, aired 2024-01-29WOMEN IN SPORTS $400: In 2019 FIFA named her Women's Player of the Year; in 2020 she proposed to girlfriend Sue Bird Megan Rapinoe
#9026, aired 2024-01-29WHERE THERE'S A WILL $400: Snack container inventor Fredric Baur requested that some of his ashes be buried in a can from this brand of potato crisps Pringles
#9026, aired 2024-01-29IT ENDS WITH "U" $800: It's a-pear-antly true that this pear has Belgian roots, despite its French name an Anjou
#9025, aired 2024-01-26THAT'S JUST TEARABLE! $200: Here's the satisfying sound of this fastening brand that was founded in 1952 getting unfastened Velcro
#9025, aired 2024-01-26TOUCH SOME GRASS $200: That's bent grass on the greens of this famed Georgia golf course formally opened in 1933 Augusta
#9025, aired 2024-01-26FULL-COURT PRESS $400: The Sandusky Register affirmed this as the law of the land with 1920's "court declares that dry amendment is constitutional" Prohibition
#9025, aired 2024-01-26THAT'S JUST TEARABLE! $400: Steve Wynn accidentally put a "$40 million elbow" through "Le Rêve", a 1932 painting of the mistress of this Spaniard Picasso
#9025, aired 2024-01-26THAT'S JUST TEARABLE! $600: Shred, split & sever are 5-letter synonyms for tear that begin with S; so is this, which doubles as a name of a noted guitarist slash
#9025, aired 2024-01-26HISTORIC BATTLES $800: 490 B.C.'s Battle of Marathon showed the Greeks for the first time that they could defeat a force of this mighty empire the Persian Empire
#9025, aired 2024-01-26GAS EVERYWHERE $800: Boyle's law states that at a constant temperature the pressure of a gas is inversely proportional to its this volume
#9025, aired 2024-01-26THAT'S JUST TEARABLE! $800: After tearing this, aka the calcaneal tendon: 3 or 4 weeks of immobilization, then high-heeled shoes should be a no-no for a while the Achilles
#9025, aired 2024-01-26THAT'S JUST TEARABLE! $1000: Shakespeare plot twist! "Let the angel... tell thee" this man "was from his mother's womb untimely ripped" Macduff
#9025, aired 2024-01-26DASHIELL HAMMETT $1600: Many of Hammett's stories take place in this inner-city San Francisco neighborhood that shares its name with a cut of beef the Tenderloin
#9025, aired 2024-01-26WHAT'S IN A NAME $4,500 (Daily Double): The name of this ocean liner was a Roman province that included what is now Portugal & western Spain Lusitania
#9024, aired 2024-01-25ON MY HISTORIC CV $400: SECDEF, 1989 to 1993; also 8 years of veep experience Dick Cheney
#9024, aired 2024-01-25QUESTIONABLE SCIENCE IN POP SONGS $600: Their 1977 song "Dreams" claims, "thunder only happens when it's raining"; that's not always the case Fleetwood Mac
#9024, aired 2024-01-25QUESTIONABLE SCIENCE IN POP SONGS $800: This group's "Speed Of Sound" says, "Planets are moving at the speed of light"; even hyper-velocity planets aren't that fast Coldplay
#9024, aired 2024-01-25MOMENTS OF INSPIRATION $1200: Marvin Gaye realized, "I'd been singing too loud"; hence the groove of his 1971 hit that said, "Talk to me, so you can see" this "What's Going On"
#9023, aired 2024-01-24ART & ARTISTS $800: Here's a self-portrait of this Baroque master who didn't make himself look too full-figured Rubens
#9023, aired 2024-01-24BUSINESS TRAVEL $800: Let's give you the bird (word)! This rental car co. that bears its founder's last name began with an $85,000 investment in 1946 Avis
#9023, aired 2024-01-24LOVE STORY $800: In "Love in the Time of Cholera" by him, Florentino has thought of a love affair for 51 years, 9 months & 4 days, not that he's counting Gabriel García Márquez
#9023, aired 2024-01-24THE ERRORS TOUR $1000: "Howbeit the hair of" Samson's "head began to grow again after he was shaven"--these biblical people didn't think of that the Philistines
#9023, aired 2024-01-24ONE-TERM PRESIDENTS $2000: Not wanting to admit Texas as a slave state helped this man get the Kinderhook, though he also pandered to the pro-slavery vote Van Buren
#9022, aired 2024-01-23YOUNG PEOPLE'S NONFICTION $600: A 2005 book tells the chilling saga of this group that included 90% of German kids by 1939 the Hitler Youth
#26, aired 2024-01-23CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $100: Although the mystery lives on, experts agree it's very unlikely that Antonio Salieri killed this prolific composer Mozart
#26, aired 2024-01-23ADVANCED CINEMATOGRAPHY $100: That's what I call range! Rodrigo Prieto was behind the lens for Greta Gerwig's "Barbie" & this 2023 Martin Scorsese drama Killers of the Flower Moon
#26, aired 2024-01-23PEAK TV $200: Due to a mix-up, the giant robot doll from this South Korean series was briefly displayed in front of a museum Squid Game
#26, aired 2024-01-23OZZY OSBOURNE'S FAVORITE SONGS $300: Said to be inspired by Judy Garland, this Elton John hit is actually about giving up the fast lane for a quieter life "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road"
#26, aired 2024-01-23NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM $300: Before flowers & bones, the open skies of Texas were one of her early subjects, like the 1917 work "Starlight Night" Georgia O'Keeffe
#26, aired 2024-01-23COLLEGE-LEVEL HISTORY COURSES $300: Rice boasts that its "20th Century American Presidents" course covers the span of Theodore Roosevelt to this 42nd president (Bill) Clinton
#26, aired 2024-01-23ADVANCED CINEMATOGRAPHY $400 (Daily Double): Erik Messerschmidt shot the film "Mank" primarily in deep focus as a nod to this Orson Welles opus that pioneered the technique Citizen Kane
#26, aired 2024-01-23KINDA RHYMES WITH KATIE $400: It's how you might describe a leafy tree that helps you beat the heat... or that weird neighbor who keeps trying to sell you crypto shady
#26, aired 2024-01-23ORGANIC CHEMISTRY $400: In chemistry, it's the unit of measure equal to 6.02 times 1023 of anything -- atoms, molecules... even mammals that burrow in your lawn a mole
#26, aired 2024-01-23ORGANIC CHEMISTRY $500: Chemically speaking, they're molecules with at least one unpaired electron; true to their name, they can be, like, totally reactive radicals
#26, aired 2024-01-23OZZY OSBOURNE'S FAVORITE SONGS $600: This Pink Floyd classic reminds Ozzy of his LSD days; maybe it's that trippy cash register sound effect "Money"
#26, aired 2024-01-23WACKY FAD OBITUARIES $600: Funeral services for this line dance will be held on the nearest cruise ship, featuring a special performance by Los del Rio the "Macarena"
#26, aired 2024-01-23OZZY OSBOURNE'S FAVORITE SONGS $900: Ozzy said his world stood still the first time he heard this Led Zeppelin tune that lends its title to a film by Richard Linklater "Dazed And Confused"
#26, aired 2024-01-23BOX OFFICE SLEEPERS $1200: Director Bobby Farrelly revealed that his sister's friend once zipped up his "frank & beans", inspiring a scene in this film There's Something About Mary
#26, aired 2024-01-23SCIENCE IS COOL $1500: Unlike most solids, dry ice doesn't melt into a liquid, but turns directly into a gas, a process known as this sublimation
#9021, aired 2024-01-22IT'S GETTING COLD IN HERRE $600: In 1991 this island that's 3 times the size of Texas hit -93 at a weather station Greenland
#9021, aired 2024-01-22WHOSE WHAT $5,000 (Daily Double): Their name comes from Isaiah 43, & their belief that blood transfusions would displease God is based on other biblical passages the Jehovah's Witnesses
#9020, aired 2024-01-19AGRICULTURE $400: More than half of the world's farmers use a nitrogen-based fertilizer that's processed from this gas ammonia
#9020, aired 2024-01-19LET'S PLAY A GAME $800: In Stratego, the pieces that don't move are the bombs & this, & the object of the game is to capture your opponent's flag
#9020, aired 2024-01-19LET'S PLAY A GAME $1000: You get 60 seconds to guess your teammate's sketch in this game that spawned a TV version Pictionary
#9019, aired 2024-01-18TAKE IT BACK! $1,000 (Daily Double): In 2008 the Hindu American Foundation launched "Take Back" this practice that's much more than the physical postures of asana yoga
#9019, aired 2024-01-18THE PAST, PRESENTLY $1000: Numerical nickname for Mao's wife & her allies arrested after Mao's death for actions during the Cultural Revolution the Gang of Four
#9019, aired 2024-01-18AN "H" & "R" BLOCK $1200: It's the "tranquil" musical term for the combination of pitches heard here harmony
#9018, aired 2024-01-17INCONVENIENT WORDS $400: It's a time-stamped document that outlines a buyer's obligation to a seller--a bill, if you will an invoice
#9018, aired 2024-01-17U.S. STAMPS $400: The "Pony Cars" series features 5 classic sporty autos, including this Ford model that inspired the term a Mustang
#9018, aired 2024-01-17THE FIST & THE FURIOUS MOVIES $600: This Carl Weathers boxer is told, "Finish (that) bum, & let's go home"; he does not finish that bum Apollo Creed
#9018, aired 2024-01-17FIND THE FISH $1600: Let's hear a solo on that theremin now, said the conductor minnow
#9017, aired 2024-01-16A MATTER OF LAW $800: A lawsuit that's dismissed "without" this can be refiled; "with" this means it can't prejudice
#9017, aired 2024-01-16MAJOR "KEY" ALERT $1000: It's the NATO phonetic alphabet code word that fits the category Whiskey
#9017, aired 2024-01-16HALF A CATEGORY $1200: Abe Lincoln once declared that the U.S. government "cannot endure, permanently half" this & "half" this half slave & half free
#25, aired 2024-01-16NAME THAT '90s HIT $300: Alanis Morissette: "It's like ten thousand spoons when all you need is a knife" "Ironic"
#25, aired 2024-01-16TREES $400: Balsa, magnolia or sequoia: it's the tree that becomes the name of another tree when you add an "M" to its end balsa (balsam accepted)
#25, aired 2024-01-16KURT RUSSELL FILMS $400: Kurt Russell's Santa is the gift that keeps on giving! He even speaks a fake language called "Elvish" in this holiday romp The Christmas Chronicles
#25, aired 2024-01-16NAME THAT '90s HIT $600: Coolio: "I'm the kinda G the little homies wanna be like, on my knees in the night, sayin' prayers in the streetlight" "Gangsta's Paradise"
#25, aired 2024-01-16WORDS THAT MAKE DOGS GO NUTS $600: It's the "P" in the automotive acronym PRNDL park
#25, aired 2024-01-16NAME THAT '90s HIT $900: Beck: "Baby's in Reno with the vitamin D, got a couple of couches, sleep on the love seat" "Loser"
#25, aired 2024-01-16YUP, IT'S A PORT-A-POTTY $1000: Based in Eau Claire, WI, this port-a-potty company shares its name with the target where a skydiver lands Drop Zone
#25, aired 2024-01-1650% "OFF" $1200: The EPA says it's "from rain and snowmelt that flows over land or impervious surfaces" runoff
#25, aired 2024-01-16THE FRENCH HORN $2,000 (Daily Double): In one of the least alluring rituals of horn maintenance, players must invert their instruments routinely to drain them of this spit
#9015, aired 2024-01-12UFOs $600: It's no small thing that Tom DeLonge of this pop-punk band was mentioned during a congressional hearing about UFOs Blink-182
#9015, aired 2024-01-12AN "A" IN SCIENCE $600: Surname of U.S. physician Virginia who developed a method that scored the health of newborns Apgar
#9015, aired 2024-01-12AN "A" IN SCIENCE $800: John F. Kennedy suffered from Addison's disease, a condition that affects these glands that secrete steroids the adrenal glands
#9015, aired 2024-01-12UFOs $1000: A History Channel show dramatized the story of this real-life U.S. Air Force "Project" that investigated UFOs Project Blue Book
#9015, aired 2024-01-12A SEASONED FILM $1200: Mel Brooks said that in Sweden "The Producers" was released with this title, the name of Bialystock Bloom's musical Springtime for Hitler
#9015, aired 2024-01-12BOOK TITLES $1200: Shakespeare's Miranda salutes this Huxley title "that has such people in't!" Brave New World
#9015, aired 2024-01-12HISTORIC AMERICAN WOMEN $1600: She gave her famous "Ain't I a Woman" speech at an 1851 women's rights convention, though she probably never used that phrase Sojourner Truth
#1, aired 2024-01-12IAMB WOMAN $800: Lady Mary Chudleigh's "To the Ladies" warns fiancees that this "and servant are the same / But only differ in the name" wives
#9014, aired 2024-01-11NOVELS $800: The book that started it all, 1993's "Along Came a Spider", was this author's first novel to feature detective Alex Cross (James) Patterson
#9014, aired 2024-01-11THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION $1200: This oldest delegate's proposal that presidents should serve without pay was disregarded without vote or debate Franklin
#9013, aired 2024-01-10YOU GET NOTHING! YOU LOSE! $400: After scheming to turn European postage stamps into $15 million worth of fraud, he was arrested in 1920 & went to prison Charles Ponzi
#9013, aired 2024-01-10ONE-MAN BAND $600: In 1989, he "Let Love Rule" as basically a one-man band on that debut album, and he's been "Sittin' On Top Of The World" ever since Lenny Kravitz
#9012, aired 2024-01-09DISASTER $200: The earthquake & ensuing fire that struck this U.S. city in 1906 had a 7.9 magnitude & claimed more than 3,000 lives San Francisco
#9012, aired 2024-01-09U.S. NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS $5,400 (Daily Double): "Soldier of Peace" is the subtitle of a biography of this general who helped Europe recover following World War II Marshall
#24, aired 2024-01-09COUNTRIES THAT START WITH "I" $100: Among some of its natives, this country's capital city is known as Baile Átha Cliath; we just call it "Dublin" Ireland
#24, aired 2024-01-09KITTY LIT $200: A stray cat is taken in and then set loose by Holly Golightly in this iconic novella Breakfast at Tiffany's
#24, aired 2024-01-09COUNTRIES THAT START WITH "I" $200: It's home to over 250 kibbutzim Israel
#24, aired 2024-01-09THERE'S AN "APP" FOR THAT $300: Nescafé says this drink is "the perfect balance of espresso, steamed milk, and foam" cappuccino
#24, aired 2024-01-09KITTY LIT $300: The lion Jad-Bal-Ja was created by Edgar Rice Burroughs as a companion to this guy of the jungle Tarzan
#24, aired 2024-01-09"DIS"CONTINUED $400: In law, it's "a justice's nonconcurrence with a decision of the majority"; it's also the nickname of the collar worn by RBG dissent
#24, aired 2024-01-09DATING APPS $400: Claiming to have made 180 million+ matches in the Latino community, it's a dating app that means "spark" in Spanish Chispa
#24, aired 2024-01-09COUNTRIES THAT START WITH "I" $400: An anagram of "Arabs", Basra is a port city in this country Iraq
#24, aired 2024-01-09COUNTRIES THAT START WITH "I" $500: Of the eight member states in the United Nations that begin with an I, it's the first one alphabetically Iceland
#24, aired 2024-01-09THERE'S AN "APP" FOR THAT $600: "Laryngeal prominence" is another name for this bump at the front of some people's throats an Adam's apple
#24, aired 2024-01-09CYBERSECURITY $900: It's the term for malicious software that holds data "hostage" until a payment is made-- or until Mel Gibson gets it back for you ransomware
#24, aired 2024-01-09NEW YORK TIMES OBITUARIES $1000: This actor's 2016 obit mentioned he had outlived by about 34 years an erroneous report of his death that made him a cult figure Abe Vigoda
#24, aired 2024-01-09THERE'S AN "APP" FOR THAT $1200: Hungry for some hard rock? Then fire up this 1987 Guns N' Roses album that leads off with "Welcome to the Jungle" Appetite for Destruction
#24, aired 2024-01-09CYBERSECURITY $1200: It's the government department that includes CISA, the official federal cybersecurity agency created in 2018 Homeland Security
#24, aired 2024-01-09THERE'S AN "APP" FOR THAT $1500: Japan's oldest beer brand is named after this city that hosted the 1972 Winter Olympics Sapporo
#24, aired 2024-01-09OPPOSITES OF NOVEL TITLES $1500: Jane Austen's "Shame and Impartiality" Pride and Prejudice
#24, aired 2024-01-09NEW YORK TIMES OBITUARIES $8,200 (Daily Double): Aretha Franklin's 2018 obit cited this song as "a harbinger of feminism, carried by a voice that would accept nothing less" "Respect"
#24, aired 2024-01-09THERE'S AN "APP" FOR THAT $9,000 (Daily Double): A "2,000 miler" is someone who has hiked this entire route from Maine to Georgia the Appalachian Trail
#9011, aired 2024-01-08IT'S CORN $400: A 2023 survey by the National Confectioners Association found 18% of folks eat the wide yellow end of this sweet first candy corn
#9011, aired 2024-01-08MUSIC $400: There's only one consonant in the name of this woodwind that tunes the orchestra by playing a long sustained A oboe
#9011, aired 2024-01-08COLORS $400: Nebraska fight song lyricists took advantage of the school colors being scarlet & this, which rhymes with team cream
#9011, aired 2024-01-08MUSIC $800: We could drone on & on about this Aussie Aboriginal wind instrument--that it's a 5'-long pipe made of eucalyptus wood, sounds cool... a didgeridoo
#9011, aired 2024-01-08IT'S CORN $800: The Dept. of Energy notes that more than 98% of U.S. gasoline contains this product primarily made from corn ethanol
#9011, aired 2024-01-08PRESIDENTIAL DOGS $800: Reagan's spaniel Rex was indeed kingly; his breed contains this name of multiple English monarchs King Charles
#9010, aired 2024-01-05NYMING -NYMS $400: In addition to being an acronym, this device that determines an object's distance & velocity is also a palindrome radar
#9010, aired 2024-01-05THIS & THAT $1000: Romans, Arabs, Normans etc. have overrun this home of resilient Sicilians that's been called the world's most conquered city Palermo
#9010, aired 2024-01-05COUNTRY OVERLAPS $1200: Kabul's country safaris to East Africa to meet Dar es Salaam's Afghanistanzania
#9010, aired 2024-01-05COUNTRY OVERLAPS $2000: A Balkan "black mountain" country vaults over Serbia to meet the former Walachia & Moldavia Montenegromania
#9009, aired 2024-01-04GAME SHOW $400: If you don't know that Anne Robinson hosted U.S. & U.K. versions of this game show, then good-bye! The Weakest Link
#9009, aired 2024-01-04ALL ABOUT AUTHORS $1,200 (Daily Double): This 19th century author of adventure novels suffered from tuberculosis & moved to the South Seas for his health, dying in Samoa Robert Louis Stevenson
#9009, aired 2024-01-04EARTH SCIENCE $4,400 (Daily Double): This word for a landmass that's large but still part of a larger one has been around since 1845 & is often applied to India a subcontinent
#9008, aired 2024-01-03BIG & LITTLE GEOGRAPHY $400: Little & Big Diomede islands are found in this strait that separates the U.S. & Russia the Bering Strait
#9008, aired 2024-01-03BIG & LITTLE GEOGRAPHY $600: Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park lies within this scenic California region that's just south of Monterey Big Sur
#9008, aired 2024-01-03WILLIAM BLAKE IN POP CULTURE $1600: A chapter that follows Rorschach in this graphic novel draws inspiration from William Blake's poem "The Tyger" the Watchmen
#9007, aired 2024-01-02CLOSE ENCOUNTERS $600: It's a word for a woman's garment that can also mean to go around the edge of an area to skirt
#9007, aired 2024-01-02LET'S TALK ASTRONOMY $800: An asterism is a recognizable star pattern that isn't a full constellation, like this familiar one within Cygnus the Northern Cross
#9007, aired 2024-01-02ALL THE WORLD'S A SHAKESPEARE STAGE $1,400 (Daily Double): "The Winter's Tale" alternates between Sicily & this Czech region that gave us a word for an unorthodox, often arty person Bohemia
#23, aired 2024-01-02"LADY"S FIRST $200: Seen here, this insect's spots & bright color signal to predators that it will taste really bad if eaten the ladybug
#23, aired 2024-01-02URANUS, SHMURANUS $200: With a name like Janus, you'd think it would orbit Uranus, but it's a moon that orbits this ringed planet Saturn
#23, aired 2024-01-02SCIENTISTS $300: A popular way of saying something is uncomplicated is to say it's not this field of Wernher von Braun rocket science
#23, aired 2024-01-02GEOGRAPHY & A LITTLE MATH $400: Central U.S. state + "polis" = this capital city of that same state Indianapolis
#23, aired 2024-01-02SPORTS TEAM HOMOPHONES $400: NHL team that left Hartford in 1997, or Bob Marley's band the Whalers/Wailers
#23, aired 2024-01-02ONE BELLY BUTTON, TWO NIPPLES $500: Epiglottis, naris, testis: it's the one a male has one of epiglottis
#23, aired 2024-01-02SPORTS TEAM HOMOPHONES $500: The individual loops that make up a chain, or Minnesota's WNBA team the links/Lynx
#23, aired 2024-01-02CELEBRITY JEOPARDY AIN'T THE ONLY "CJ" $600: As an April Fools' prank in 2023, Michael Che directed the audience at "SNL" to not laugh at this co-anchor's jokes Colin Jost
#23, aired 2024-01-02TINY DESK CONCERTS $600: It's the network that has broadcast Tiny Desk Concerts (1,000 and counting) since folk singer Laura Gibson did the first in 2008 NPR
#23, aired 2024-01-02PERSONAL FINANCE $900: It's a number that signals to lenders how likely you are to pay back a loan; above 670 is pretty deece your FICO score (credit score)
#23, aired 2024-01-02SCIENTISTS $1200: Not only did this scientist invent the electric battery as his name suggests, he also discovered methane gas Alessandro Volta
#23, aired 2024-01-02PERSONAL FINANCE $1200: It's the "H-E" in "HELOC", a line of credit that can pay for your kitchen reno, your wedding... even your divorce home equity
#23, aired 2024-01-02SOJOURNER TRUTH $1500: Though evidence suggests she never uttered the words, Truth's famous 1851 speech is known by the title "Ain't I a..." this Woman
#9006, aired 2024-01-01IT'S AN EX-CAR FOR A REASON $200: The Corvair from this make that also gave us the Corvette got bad PR from being declared "unsafe at any speed" Chevrolet (Chevy)
#9005, aired 2023-12-29WORDS ON THE MAP $400: It's a circle of the Earth that passes through both poles; the one through Greenwich is considered "prime" a meridian
#9005, aired 2023-12-29FEATURES OF THE PLANET $800: Loxahatchee River Battlefield Park... hold on, that's in Florida; the planet? A slightly oval 10,000-mile-wide reddish storm system Jupiter
#9005, aired 2023-12-29FEATURES OF THE PLANET $1000: Its unique tilt ensures 21-year winters for each pole; we'll throw in that Cupid is an inner moon Uranus
#9004, aired 2023-12-28HEY, WHERE'S THAT? $200: In this Bible book: "And the Lord said unto Cain, why art thou wroth?" Genesis
#9004, aired 2023-12-28NBA NICKNAMES $200: He knew how to operate on a basketball court, so it makes sense that Julius Erving had this medical nickname Dr. J
#9004, aired 2023-12-28HEY, WHERE'S THAT? $400: In this state: St. Bernard Parish, which 45,000 call home Louisiana
#9004, aired 2023-12-28HEY, WHERE'S THAT? $600: In this human body part: the metacarpal bones the hand
#9004, aired 2023-12-28HEY, WHERE'S THAT? $800: In Greek myth: this river with Charon as the ferryman, but where could Charon ever spend the coins on the corpses? Bed Bath & Beyond? the Styx
#9004, aired 2023-12-28HEY, WHERE'S THAT? $1000: In this Long Island locale: Jay Gatsby's mansion, old sport West Egg
#9004, aired 2023-12-28AMAZING ARMENIANS $1600: "Open" is the autobiography of this athlete, who won 8 Grand Slam titles in his career Andre Agassi
#9004, aired 2023-12-28TRIPLE INITIAL WRITERS $2000: The "A" that's the 3rd initial of this German writer was originally W--for Wilhelm--but he changed it to honor Mozart's Amadeus E.T.A. Hoffmann
#9003, aired 2023-12-27IN MY CEILINGS $200: In 2023 this was suspended at $31.4 trillion; it's a 2-word term for the cap that limits the money the govt. is allowed to borrow the debt ceiling
#9003, aired 2023-12-27BAYS $800: Chesapeake Bay is an estuary that's home to this "colorful" crustacean that's best eaten on the bay with bae & with some Old Bay a blue crab
#9002, aired 2023-12-26CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $1000: In "Ghost Boys" the ghost of 12-year-old Jerome meets that of this real teen whose 1955 murder helped launch the civil rights movement (Emmett) Till
#9002, aired 2023-12-26COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $1600: This college located in Emily Dickinson's hometown runs a museum that celebrates her life & work Amherst
#9001, aired 2023-12-25GETTING POSSESSIVE $800: One of these eponymous "rules" is that to conduct business, a quorum must be present Robert's Rules (of Order)
#9001, aired 2023-12-25SCIENCE & NATURE $2000: Greek for "scale" & "wing", it's the insect order that includes moths & butterflies Lepidoptera
#9000, aired 2023-12-22WEATHER IN THE BOOKSTORE $200: 2-word title of "A Celebration of the Sesame Street Theme Song" Sunny Day
#9000, aired 2023-12-22GOING SOFT $200: Mongolia's once vast grasslands are being degraded by overgrazing of the goats that produce this soft sweater fabric cashmere
#9000, aired 2023-12-22CAROLS $600: It's the title question that follows "said the little lamb to the shepherd boy" Do you hear what I hear?
#9000, aired 2023-12-22GOING SOFT $1000: Sand, silt & clay combine to form this other 4-letter type of soil that's rich, soft & good for gardening loam
#8999, aired 2023-12-21SAY, "BUSTER" $400: Originally meaning a very big bomb, now it's a movie that's a very big not bomb a blockbuster
#8999, aired 2023-12-21BOOK TOCK $400: In "Peter Pan", this pirate's arm was eaten by a crocodile that also swallowed a ticking clock Captain Hook
#8999, aired 2023-12-21FOLKLORE & LEGEND $1200: There's a statue of this guy, hammer in hand, outside the Great Bend Tunnel in West Virginia John Henry
#8999, aired 2023-12-21EUR"O"s $1200: What's that smell? Must be all the industrial pollution in this big river that forms part of the Poland-Germany border the Oder
#8998, aired 2023-12-20LET'S TAKE A PEEK $200: The grouping of peacock feathers is called this, like the part of a bride's dress that follows behind her a train
#8998, aired 2023-12-20A REAL SOB STORY $400: In a 1594 play he tells his brother Marcus Andronicus that a woman's tears are like "honey-dew upon a gather'd lily" Titus Andronicus
#8998, aired 2023-12-20LET'S TAKE A PEEK $600: Hagia Sophia has four of these tapered structures that stretch into the sky; the red one is thought to be the oldest minarets
#8998, aired 2023-12-20OH, "IC" $600: It's a difficult situation that leaves you with a tough choice; you've gotten into a fine 11-letter one a predicament
#8998, aired 2023-12-202020s TV $2000: Rosario Dawson wields dual lightsabers as this title hero, a former Jedi out to help a galaxy far, far away Ahsoka
#8996, aired 2023-12-18"P" IN FASHION $200: It's the spritely name for a very short hairstyle that's worn close to the head & combed in points around the face a pixie
#8996, aired 2023-12-18NOT CHESS AGAIN! $1000: (Jennifer Shahade presents the clue.) 32 of the 34 games in the 1927 Capablanca-Alekhine world championship match began with this opening that was in the news again 93 years later thanks to the fictional Beth Harmon the Queen's Gambit
#8996, aired 2023-12-18ODDS & "N"s $1200: This dried seaweed that's sold in sheets can go on the inside or the outside of your sushi nori
#8996, aired 2023-12-18U.S. FIRSTS $1600: The Downing Urn was the first memorial to be placed in this Capitol area that now has many the National Mall
#8996, aired 2023-12-18IN YOUR FACE! $2000: It's that indentation in the middle of your upper lip, just below your nose a Cupid's bow (or the philtrum)
#8995, aired 2023-12-15WISH I'D SAID THAT! $400: Sage advice from Fran Lebowitz: "Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's" doing this buying
#8995, aired 2023-12-15COUNTRY ADD A LETTER $1000: Add a letter to the country that's highlighted & you get this word meaning "harmless" benign (from Benin)
#8995, aired 2023-12-15WATER WORLD $1200: Any smaller river or branch that's a feeder of a larger river or stream a tributary
#8995, aired 2023-12-15WISH I'D SAID THAT! $1600: Attributed to Jeremy Bentham: these are "the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished" lawyers
#8994, aired 2023-12-14HELL $1600: This French existentialist's play "No Exit" posits that hell is other people Sartre
#8993, aired 2023-12-13SCIENCE $400: Ocean sediment may be made up of coccolithophores, these tiny organisms, 6 billion to the square foot algae
#8993, aired 2023-12-13LOOK! UP IN THE SKY! IT'S... $400: One of these that streaked across the sky over Russia in February 2013, then exploded with the force of 30 nuclear bombs a meteor
#8993, aired 2023-12-13NAME THAT CARMAKER $400: There's one U in Outback & 2 in its name Subaru
#8993, aired 2023-12-13WESTERN TV SHOWS $1000: A Paramount+ series follows this Black lawman of the Wild West who in real life apprehended more than 3,000 outlaws, including his son Bass Reeves
#8993, aired 2023-12-13AD-JECTIVES $1600: 6-letter synonym for "robust" that's applied in ads to Chunky soup hearty
#8993, aired 2023-12-13OSCAR, MEYER, WIENER $1600: This industrialist's son Solomon founded a famous New York City museum Meyer Guggenheim
#8992, aired 2023-12-12I'M ABSOLUTELY SURE $400: There are this many feet in 2 statute miles 10,560
#8992, aired 2023-12-12BLACK MYSTERY & CRIME FICTION $1000: The name of this underworld author of "Mama Black Widow" & "Pimp" inspired the "Ice" part of Ice-T's stage name Iceberg Slim
#8992, aired 2023-12-12SEINFELD BEFORE & AFTER $1600: Avuncular Seinfeld relative who kvetched all the way through writing Russian fiction like "The Death of Ivan Ilyich" Uncle Leo Tolstoy
#8991, aired 2023-12-11IT'S THE GENEVA CONVENTION $600: This country signed in 1949 with the reservation that it could use the red shield of David as a symbol Israel
#8991, aired 2023-12-11ARTS $800: Mozart's Serenade No. 13 in G major has this nickname that includes the time of day it was intended for "A Little Night Music"
#8991, aired 2023-12-11HYDROLOGY $800: Effluent is wastewater that flows from one of these facilities, like NYC's Bowery Bay a treatment plant
#8991, aired 2023-12-11GOT YOUR NAME TAG? $1000: Oops, they left off your last name; that's okay, Mr. 10th President, everyone knows it's this Tyler
#8990, aired 2023-12-08THE IVY LEAGUE $400: Its official street address is 2960 Broadway Columbia
#8990, aired 2023-12-08THE IVY LEAGUE $800: Its school color is crimson & that's the veritas Harvard
#8990, aired 2023-12-08CLASSIC MOVIE ORIGINAL DIALOGUE? $2000: "No, no, no, I'm Antoninus! I'm not that guy! You want him! He's right there! The one that looks like Kirk Douglas" Spartacus
#8990, aired 2023-12-08ORGAN RECITAL $2000: Virgil Fox was the longtime virtuoso on the organ at this NYC church on the West Side drive of the same name Riverside Church
#8989, aired 2023-12-07OKLAHOMA! $600: Tahlequah, Oklahoma is the tribal capital of this Native American nation Cherokee
#8989, aired 2023-12-07STAR WARS BEFORE & AFTER $1200: "Wake up" to this 1971 Rod Stewart song that's a perfect greeting for any Jedi "Maggie May" the force be with you
#8989, aired 2023-12-07GREEK ALPHABET PUZZLERS $1600: In song, she's asked, "What's that flower you have on?" Delta Dawn
#8988, aired 2023-12-06DEWEY $400: In 1883 Melvil Dewey took this job at Columbia College librarian
#8988, aired 2023-12-06REAL MEN OF SCIENCE $600: Galileo used a supernova in 1604 to disprove this ancient Greek's theory that the universe never changes Ptolemy (Aristotle)
#8988, aired 2023-12-06AFRICAN CUISINE $1200: Angola's cuisine is influenced by this European country that brought ingredients from its Brazilian colony Portugal
#22, aired 2023-12-06LITERARY TOURISM $200: Road trip down the Laura Ingalls Wilder highway with Ma & Pa and see the places that inspired this beloved children's series Little House on the Prairie
#22, aired 2023-12-06SHOUT IT OUT! $400: This online game spawned a battle cry that's now synonymous with idiocy gone rogue: "Leeroy Jenkins!" World of Warcraft
#22, aired 2023-12-06"OO"! "OO"! I KNOW! $600: Kevin Bacon once said that when he attends a wedding, he bribes the DJ to not play this song from a 1984 movie he starred in "Footloose"
#22, aired 2023-12-06CELEBRITY TELL-ALLS $600: "Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing": He revealed that future editions of his memoir will not include Keanu Reeves Matthew Perry
#22, aired 2023-12-06ALSO A TAYLOR SWIFT SONG $800: It's not yours! It's this word that comes before "craft" & "sweeper" in the names of popular video games mine
#22, aired 2023-12-06CELEBRITY TELL-ALLS $1200: "Greenlights": His father brought a dead cockatiel back to life by giving it mouth-to-mouth Matthew McConaughey
#8987, aired 2023-12-05A PARANORMAL CATEGORY $600: In the 1930s the Daily Mail printed Robert Wilson's now-famous photo that purported to show its head & neck the Loch Ness Monster
#8987, aired 2023-12-05A PARANORMAL CATEGORY $800: Also called an O.B.E., it's the sensation that one's self is in a different location from one's physical form an out-of-body experience
#8987, aired 2023-12-05ALSO A SUPERHERO $1000: Nondescript name of the Volkswagen seen here Thing
#8987, aired 2023-12-05A SONG IN THAT MOVIE $1200: Heard here is a song from this 1979 film Hair
#8986, aired 2023-12-04CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $200: A publisher bet him that he couldn't write a book using 50 or fewer words; the result was "Green Eggs and Ham" Dr. Seuss
#8986, aired 2023-12-04HIS 'DO $800: In the '90s Kid of Kid 'n Play rocked a high top this hairstyle that's shaved on the bottom & long on top a fade
#8986, aired 2023-12-04A BIRD IN THE HAND $800: That's not a chick in the hand but this bird with a longer name a chickadee
#8986, aired 2023-12-04CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $1000: David McKee's stories of this patchwork elephant subtly convey the message that it's OK to be different Elmer
#8986, aired 2023-12-04MASSAGE IN A BOTTLE $1200: Many massage oils have the scent of this purplish plant "the herb of love" that's a member of the mint family lavender
#8986, aired 2023-12-04MATH $2000: Calculated as the ratio of s to r, this measure of an angle is similar to the word that r stands for a radian
#8985, aired 2023-12-01MACBETH'S WITCHES ON FOOD NETWORK $200: Use a whole toad but only the toe of this similar creature--you want that subtle flavor a frog
#8985, aired 2023-12-01AEROSMITH $800: Aerosmith covered "Come Together" in this 1978 movie that starred Peter Frampton & the Bee Gees Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
#8985, aired 2023-12-01NURSERY RHYME PHOBIAS $800: While Mary, Mary was quite contrary, she didn't seem to have anthophobia, a fear of these flowers
#8985, aired 2023-12-01MACBETH'S WITCHES ON FOOD NETWORK $800: Root of this, the plant that killed Socrates; not hard to find at a good organic produce store hemlock
#8985, aired 2023-12-01OK, CORRAL ME $2000: Don't worry, I show no signs of this, FMD for short--the U.S. hasn't had an outbreak since 1929 & let's keep it that way foot-and-mouth disease
#8984, aired 2023-11-30THAT'S "CORN"Y $200: Pipe type used by MacArthur & Frosty the Snowman a corncob pipe
#8984, aired 2023-11-30THAT'S "CORN"Y $400: An oak tree wannabee an acorn
#8984, aired 2023-11-30THAT'S "CORN"Y $600: In a nursery rhyme, "the lion and" this mythical equine "were fighting for the crown" unicorn
#8984, aired 2023-11-30HATS $800: Douli, the Chinese word for the hat seen here, indicates that it's made of this material bamboo
#8984, aired 2023-11-30THAT'S "CORN"Y $800: John with this last name means booze personified John Barleycorn
#8984, aired 2023-11-30THAT'S "CORN"Y $1000: Despite that whole Yorktown debacle, he later fought in Asia & Ireland with great success Lord Cornwallis
#8984, aired 2023-11-30Y_O_Y $1200: To tell a friend that something is really his bag, say "it's right up" these 2 words your alley
#8983, aired 2023-11-29A, B OR C $200: Alphabetically, it's the first letter that does not begin a state name B
#8983, aired 2023-11-29A, B OR C $600: In the name of the outfit that first broadcast the U.S. House in 1979, this precedes "SPAN" C
#8983, aired 2023-11-29BEN FRANKLIN'S DRINKER'S DICTIONARY $1200: "He sees" these (Ben probably didn't mean Walter Payton & Dick Butkus) bears
#8983, aired 2023-11-29LET'S HAVE A "BALL" $2000: Fungus that discharges a cloud of spores when mature a puffball
#21, aired 2023-11-29RULES OF THE GAME $100: If you touch the metal edge of the cavity, you'll set off the buzzer & make Sam's nose light up! Operation
#21, aired 2023-11-29FILMS TURNING THE BIG FOUR-OH $100: Al Pacino permanently damaged his nasal passages from snorting so much fake cocaine in this crime drama Scarface
#21, aired 2023-11-29SKIN CARE $200: It's the most popular brand-name cosmetic injectable in the U.S.--& fun fact: it's made from toxins that cause food poisoning Botox
#21, aired 2023-11-29SHE PLAYED YOU $200: Ellen Ripley: Alien aficionado & fan of slim-fit coveralls Sigourney Weaver
#21, aired 2023-11-29COLLEGE PRESS $300: It's the U.S. state that's home to the Ivy League school that publishes The Daily Princetonian New Jersey
#21, aired 2023-11-29FAR OUT $300: Ancient Egyptians called this planet "Her Desher", meaning, "the red one" Mars
#21, aired 2023-11-29THIS IS JEO-PURR-DY! $400: It's thought that felines go crazy for this herb because it contains a compound that mimics sex pheromones catnip
#21, aired 2023-11-29FAIRY TALE ELEVATOR PITCHES $400: "A vain leader is swindled by con men who claim to make beautiful garments that are invisible to the unwise or incompetent" "The Emperor's New Clothes"
#21, aired 2023-11-29POEMS ABOUT POETRY $600: If you read "If—", you'll be taking a look / At a poem by this author of "The Jungle Book" Kipling
#21, aired 2023-11-29POEMS ABOUT POETRY $800: A mentor to Oprah on & off TV / "Phenomenal Woman", that's she Maya Angelou
#21, aired 2023-11-29COLLEGE PRESS $900 (Daily Double): At the University of Maryland, David Simon edited the school newspaper; he set HBO's "The Wire" in this city Baltimore
#21, aired 2023-11-29SHE PLAYED YOU $1,000 (Daily Double): Marge Gunderson: Pregnant police chief & folksy small-town optimist Frances McDormand
#21, aired 2023-11-29COLLEGE PRESS $1500: Hint: say its name quickly! The Ubyssey is the student newspaper of the university of this Canadian province British Columbia
#21, aired 2023-11-29FAR OUT $2,500 (Daily Double): Seen during a total solar eclipse, this outermost part of the Sun's atmosphere shares its name with a Mexican beer brand corona
#8982, aired 2023-11-28PEACE, LOVE & UNDERSTANDING $1600: The E that's "packaged" in this organization's acronym used to stand for Europe; now it stands for everywhere CARE
#8982, aired 2023-11-28FLOWER POWER $2,800 (Daily Double): Austria's national flower is this one that Rodgers & Hammerstein described as "small & white, clean & bright" edelweiss
#8981, aired 2023-11-27TRIPLE RHYME TIME $1600: A warning that some of the T's & button-downs are grimy a shirt dirt alert
#8981, aired 2023-11-27LETTER HISTORIES $1600: An Anglo-Saxon rune was replaced by this letter that's twice one of its predecessors a W
#8981, aired 2023-11-27COUNTRY MUSIC HITS $1600: In a song that was very close to her heart, Loretta Lynn sang, "Yeah, I'm proud to be" this a coal miner's daughter
#8980, aired 2023-11-24I'D LIKE A DRINK $200: On your Kentucky veranda, you'll sip this bourbon, sugar & crushed ice drink that's garnished with an aromatic herb a mint julep
#8980, aired 2023-11-24SIGN O' THE TIMES $600: One of these "in the cloud" was God's sign to Noah that he would never again flood the Earth a rainbow
#8979, aired 2023-11-23____ OF ____ $400: In football, it's the boundary between the teams prior to the snap of the ball the line of scrimmage
#8979, aired 2023-11-23WHATCHAMACALLIT $800: That part of the comb that holds the teeth, it's also named for a body part a spine
#8979, aired 2023-11-23COACH $1000: Geno Auriemma led this university to back-to-back 39-0 championship years in women's hoops the University of Connecticut
#8979, aired 2023-11-23NAME THAT REBELLION $1600: Virginia, 1676: A "hammy" colonist & his followers versus Native Americans & the governor Bacon's Rebellion
#8979, aired 2023-11-23NAME THAT REBELLION $2000: Virginia, 1831: Led by this man, it was the bloodiest in the history of American slavery Nat Turner's Rebellion
#8978, aired 2023-11-22BUILDING TERMS $400: As seen here, it's a small tower that rises up from a castle wall a turret
#8978, aired 2023-11-2218th CENTURY TECHNOLOGY $400: In 1764 weaver James Hargreaves developed this improved spinning machine that has a girl's name the spinning jenny
#8978, aired 2023-11-22SORRY ABOUT THAT $800: In 1986 the French government apologized & paid compensation for the sinking of this group's ship the Rainbow Warrior Greenpeace
#8978, aired 2023-11-22COMPANY NAME ORIGINS $2000: The "Aerial Services" of this state & this territory of Australia gave Qantas its name Queensland & Northern Territory
#8977, aired 2023-11-21SPEAK OF THE DEVIL $400: Baudelaire: "The devil's finest trick is to persuade you that he does not" this exist
#8977, aired 2023-11-212B OR NOT 2B $600: Speech that's too fast to understand / the end of a pitched roof gable & gabble
#8977, aired 2023-11-21CHICKEN SOUP $800: One of this state's official symbols is seen here Rhode Island
#8977, aired 2023-11-212B OR NOT 2B $1000: A British slang term meaning "swindle" / a British aristocrat such as a duke nobble & noble
#8977, aired 2023-11-21A PAIN IN THE "R"s $1200: It's what the R in the MMR vaccine stands for rubella
#8977, aired 2023-11-2119th CENTURY SCRAPBOOK $1600: This Russian seen here set the table for future chemists Mendeleev
#8977, aired 2023-11-21SPEAK OF THE DEVIL $2,600 (Daily Double): This 17th c. work says, "Abashed the devil stood, and felt how awful goodness is... saw, and pined his loss" Paradise Lost
#8977, aired 2023-11-21TEACHING $4,000 (Daily Double): This term for a list of items to be covered in a course is from the Greek for "parchment label" a syllabus
#8976, aired 2023-11-20ALL GOD'S CREATURES $800: This 2-humped camel is probably named for the ancient country in Central Asia where it originated Bactrian
#8976, aired 2023-11-20PEOPLE IN THEIR ELEMENT $1200: Johan Gadolin wonders will you still need him, will you still feed him now that he's element number this 64
#8975, aired 2023-11-17PITHY QUOTES $400: After recanting his belief that the Earth orbits the Sun, he's said to have muttered, "But it does move" Galileo
#8975, aired 2023-11-17SPRINGSTEEN LYRICS $400: "Got a wife and kids in Baltimore, Jack, I went out for a ride and I never went back" "Hungry Heart"
#8975, aired 2023-11-17MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS $2000: Sir Charles Wheatstone patented this instrument, that was largely replaced by the accordion a concertina
#8975, aired 2023-11-17BROADWAY MUSICAL SETTINGS $2000: The '60s-set "Hairspray" takes place in this American city Baltimore
#8974, aired 2023-11-16POP MUSIC $200: Before she was an independent woman, Beyoncé was part of this group that hit with "Independent Women, Pt. 1" Destiny's Child
#8974, aired 2023-11-16THAT'S MISLEADING $400: A young goat's daytime snooze kid nap
#8974, aired 2023-11-16THAT'S MISLEADING $800: Eyed an equine saw horse
#8974, aired 2023-11-16THAT'S MISLEADING $1200: Hey, yellow fruit, leave, just get on out of here, dig? banana split
#8974, aired 2023-11-16THAT'S MISLEADING $1600: A perch rolls strikes & spares fish bowl
#8974, aired 2023-11-16THAT'S MISLEADING $3,200 (Daily Double): Paintings seen along the sloping path for wheelchairs ramp art
#8973, aired 2023-11-15FINISH THE TERRIBLE RHYME $400: To gather, rouse or summon / You better believe it, buster / It's this word that will be heard / This is the word you'll... muster
#8973, aired 2023-11-15BRIDE'S HEAD REVISITED $2000: A ballerina might wear a veil made of this tutu fabric that also starts with the letters "TU" tulle
#20, aired 2023-11-15THAT'S HALF THE BATTLE $300: A major turning point in the U.S. Civil War G_T_Y_B_R_ Gettysburg
#20, aired 2023-11-15ADVENTUROUS WOMEN $400: Annie Londonderry inspired the 2021 novel "Spin", about her historic 19th-century trip around the world on one of these bicycle
#20, aired 2023-11-15THAT'S HALF THE BATTLE $600: First major battle of the American Revolution B_N_E_ H_L_ Bunker Hill
#20, aired 2023-11-15SAD SONGS $800: This handsome crooner revealed that after a bad breakup, he wrote "Somebody's Crying" inside a closet at a party Chris Isaak
#20, aired 2023-11-15SIX DEGREES OF ACTUAL BACON $800: Tomato sauce is in Sloppy Joes with beef, & beef is with bacon in this beloved Wendy's burger, introduced in 2007 the Baconator
#20, aired 2023-11-15THAT'S HALF THE BATTLE $900: Greeks send the Persian army running away M_R_T_O_ Marathon
#20, aired 2023-11-15MOTHER GOOSE POLICE BLOTTER $1000: Officers responded to anonymous reports that a local man was sequestering his wife inside a large gourd "Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Eater"
#20, aired 2023-11-15SCIENCE MUSEUMS $1000: Hey, fulcrum lovers! At Columbus, Ohio's Center of Science & Industry, kids can lift a 2,437-lb. car using this bar a lever
#20, aired 2023-11-15THAT'S HALF THE BATTLE $1200: A crucial U.S. naval victory in the Pacific M_D_A_ Midway
#20, aired 2023-11-15ROGET'S BUTT $1500: Honky tonk! Trace Adkins chose this synonym for "butt" for a 2005 hit country song badonkadonk
#20, aired 2023-11-15THAT'S HALF THE BATTLE $1500: William the Conqueror conquers H_S_I_G_ Hastings
#8972, aired 2023-11-14OF "STAR"s $800: Luminous celestial object in Matthew that led the magi to the baby Jesus the Star of Bethlehem
#8972, aired 2023-11-14CARL SAGAN $800: Sagan was among the first to suggest that Jupiter's moon Europa might have this & that it might contain life oceans
#8972, aired 2023-11-14'90s MUSIC $800: This country superstar's "Friends In Low Places" was named CMA Single of the Year in 1991 Garth Brooks
#8972, aired 2023-11-14BABY BOOKS $1600: She's not sure if the father is Mark Darcy or Daniel Cleaver in this character's "Baby: the Diaries" Bridget Jones
#8972, aired 2023-11-14OF "STAR"s $2000: It's estimated that during WWII, the European edition of this U.S. military newspaper topped a million in circulation Stars and Stripes
#8971, aired 2023-11-13LIFE SCIENCE $400: Botanically, it's the part of the flowering plant that holds the seeds, so it includes acorns a fruit
#8971, aired 2023-11-13FROM THE ITALIAN $800: Tossed at New Year's, it has a name meaning "sweetmeats", the little candies tossed during carnival confetti
#8971, aired 2023-11-13WHOSE LINE IS IT ANYWAY? $800: 1939: "That's what's wrong with you. You should be kissed, and often and by someone who knows how" Clark Gable
#8971, aired 2023-11-13DESCRIBING THE ARTWORK $3,000 (Daily Double): We're not sure if you'd call that teal or azure the young man with a feathered cap is wearing in this 1770 work The Blue Boy
#8970, aired 2023-11-10WHERE'S THAT? $200: We all should remember this U.S. landmark the Alamo
#8970, aired 2023-11-10LITERARY E-MAIL ADDRESSES $400: fake_leg@moby-dick.net Ahab
#8970, aired 2023-11-10WHERE'S THAT? $400: Parts of this landmark are 35-feet high the Great Wall of China
#8970, aired 2023-11-10WHERE'S THAT? $600: From 1845 to 1847, Henry David Thoreau lived by this body of water Walden Pond
#8970, aired 2023-11-10WHERE'S THAT? $800: No bull, this city hosts the Festival of San Fermín Pamplona
#8970, aired 2023-11-10WHERE'S THAT? $1000: Founded by William the Conqueror, this royal residence in Berkshire has been home to 40 monarchs Windsor (Castle)
#8969, aired 2023-11-09CHANGING WHITE HOUSE TOWEL MONOGRAMS $1600: From WJC to this GWB
#8969, aired 2023-11-09"LOVE" $2000: As there's no "beautifulest", you can use this word that Edward Fitzgerald paired with "the best" loveliest
#8968, aired 2023-11-08FAN MAIL TO HISTORIC FIGURES $400: That translucent pink egg you made is amazing! I think that will sell for $18.5 million at a 2007 auction at Christie's one day! Fabergé
#8968, aired 2023-11-08I PITY DA FOOD! $600: Cook boneless this fowl until the internal temp is 165 degrees; that's a rough day for a capon a hen (chicken)
#8968, aired 2023-11-08DEAR ABBEY $10,000 (Daily Double): St. Mary's Abbey in this city lent part of its name to a theatre that W.B. Yeats co-founded Dublin
#8967, aired 2023-11-07TAXES $1000: It ensures that those who get tax breaks pay at least a certain amount; Kiplinger's called it "the tax we love to hate" the AMT (Alternative Minimum Tax)
#8967, aired 2023-11-07YOU'RE GETTING VERY SLEEPY $2000: He's the Shakespearean character who muses, "...in that sleep of death what dreams may come..." Hamlet
#8966, aired 2023-11-06KISS MY GRITS! $600: The hip-hop group that sings "Let's Get It Started" shares its name with this ingredient of Hoppin' John the Black Eyed Peas
#8966, aired 2023-11-06HAIKU ABOUT THE POET $600: American guy / "The Wreck of the Hesperus" / That's all you should need Longfellow
#8966, aired 2023-11-06KISS MY GRITS! $800: It's said that yapping dogs were fed these fried dumplings to keep quiet, hence their name hush puppies
#8966, aired 2023-11-06A "LA" CARTE $2,900 (Daily Double): It's the celebrated region in Spain that's shown here La Mancha
#8965, aired 2023-11-03GOING THROUGH THE EMOTIONS $400: Emotion that's a homophone of a word meaning "stop!" to a horse woe
#8965, aired 2023-11-03BIG-SCREEN ELVIS $400: An ad for this film said, "It's that 'go-go' guy (Elvis) and that 'bye-bye' gal (Ann-Margret) in the fun capital of the world!" Viva Las Vegas
#8964, aired 2023-11-02WOOD $400: "Knock knock" guess who? It's this bird that made his cartoon debut in "Knock Knock" in 1940 Woody Woodpecker
#8964, aired 2023-11-02ALL THE PRESIDENTS' CHILDREN $400: That's Abraham Lincoln looking at a book with son Thomas, who was better known by this 3-letter nickname Tad
#8964, aired 2023-11-02SOUSED $800: Korbel Brut calls itself "America's favorite California" this champagne
#8964, aired 2023-11-02KENNEDY CENTER HONOREES $800: 1983 "was a very good year" for this entertainer; that's when he was honored Frank Sinatra
#8963, aired 2023-11-01NAME THAT TUNESTER $1000: "She's up all night to the sun, I'm up all night to get some, she's up all night for good fun, I'm up all night to get lucky" Pharrell (Daft Punk)
#19, aired 2023-11-01MARRIAGE STORY $100: 1945: "Eva Duarte! ¿Qué pasa?" "I just got married" "Who's the hombre?" "His last name is" this Perón
#19, aired 2023-11-01CONSTITUTIONAL MATTERS $100: Fittingly, this number of the amendment that repealed prohibition is also the legal drinking age in the U.S. the 21st Amendment
#19, aired 2023-11-01MARRIAGE STORY $400: 1985: "Phylicia Ayers-Allen! How's TV?" "I just got married" "Who's the groom?" "His last name is" this Rashad
#19, aired 2023-11-01BEST PICTURE WINNERS IN A NUTSHELL $500 (Daily Double): 1978: Lifelong friends from a Pennsylvania steel town deal with the devastating effects of the Vietnam War The Deer Hunter
#19, aired 2023-11-01MARRIAGE STORY $500: 1840: "Hi, Elizabeth Cady! How's suffragism?" "I just got married" "Who is he?" "His last name is" this Stanton
#19, aired 2023-11-01"BROWN" OUT $600: It's the 1967 hit that asks, "Do you remember when we used to sing, 'Sha la la la la la la la la la la te da"' "Brown Eyed Girl"
#19, aired 2023-11-01BEST PICTURE WINNERS IN A NUTSHELL $600: 2020: After losing everything, a van-dwelling woman travels the American West looking for work Nomadland
#19, aired 2023-11-01HEADQUARTERED IN $800: International Paper; AutoZone; FedEx; Elvis Presley Enterprises Memphis
#19, aired 2023-11-01A YEAR THAT ENDS IN ZERO $1000: The U.S. hockey team wins Olympic gold, Lin-Manuel Miranda is born 1980
#19, aired 2023-11-01COMPOSER PLAYLISTS $1000: "Living Room Music"; "Instances of Silence"; "Telephones and Birds"; "4'33"" John Cage
#19, aired 2023-11-01HAIL TO THE CHEF $1,100 (Daily Double): A distillery at this historic Virginia estate makes whiskey based on George Washington's own recipe Mount Vernon
#19, aired 2023-11-01IN BOOKSTORES NOW $1200: It's the year in the title of a 2021 bestseller, when captive Africans arrived in America a year before the Mayflower did 1619
#19, aired 2023-11-01RIGHT "U-R" $1,500 (Daily Double): The New York Times called it a "sport in which daredevils race over rooftops, flip over ledges and climb walls without assistance" parkour
#19, aired 2023-11-01HORSE, HOG, OR DOG $1500: The large black & the large white hog
#19, aired 2023-11-01IN BOOKSTORES NOW $1500: At one point in 2022, six of her books were in the top ten on the New York Times' paperback fiction bestseller list Colleen Hoover
#19, aired 2023-11-01COMPOSER PLAYLISTS $3,000 (Daily Double): "Treemonisha"; "Maple Leaf Rag"; "The Ragtime Dance"; "The Entertainer" Scott Joplin
#8962, aired 2023-10-31NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM $800: Edward Hopper captured the isolation of urban life in this 1942 masterpiece depicting a diner that's open late Nighthawks
#8962, aired 2023-10-31HMMM, I WONDER $1,000 (Daily Double): Appropriately, Champ is the name of this lake's version of Nessie, the Loch Ness Monster Lake Champlain
#8962, aired 2023-10-31SEXY STUFF $1000: Vajrayana is another name for this type of Buddhism that's associated with sexuality tantric
#8962, aired 2023-10-31MONSTER MANUAL $1200: The Orkney & Shetland Islands are where selkies, creatures that appear as these "S"ea mammals, call home seals
#8961, aired 2023-10-30THE JOKERS $200: His final role was as Tony in "The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus" in 2009 Heath Ledger
#8961, aired 2023-10-30NON-NAUGHTY WORDS $800: 1-word energy industry technique that's the subject of the film "Gasland" fracking
#8961, aired 2023-10-30NON-NAUGHTY WORDS $1000: That's a load of this, a short "riding" whip crop
#8961, aired 2023-10-30SHAKESPEARE REWRITES THE BEATLES $2000: "I believe I shall be melancholy, I believe it shall be anon... the woman who disturbeth my temper is leaving hence" "Ticket To Ride"
#8961, aired 2023-10-30BRING OUT YOUR FRED $2000: In 1989, he became president of South Africa; a few years later, he was deputy president Frederik Willem de Klerk
#8960, aired 2023-10-27FABRICS $600: Freshly groomed snow that's grooved is called this for its resemblance to a certain fabric corduroy
#8959, aired 2023-10-26MAP HAPPY $1000: Modern country that's Hannibal's historic home Tunisia
#18, aired 2023-10-25FAILING HISTORY $200: Comic Trevor Noah's biracial background proved that this system designed to keep races separate in South Africa just didn't work apartheid
#18, aired 2023-10-25FUNGUS AMONG US $300: Some fungi form umbrella-shaped "fruiting bodies" that hold fungal reproductive spores; stir-fry enthusiasts know them as these mushrooms
#18, aired 2023-10-25AMERICAN BRIDGES $400: It's estimated that more than 100 million vehicles per year cross the Hudson over this bridge, also called the GW the George Washington Bridge
#18, aired 2023-10-25FOODS NAMED AFTER PEOPLE $600: Less is "S'more"? This cracker was created by a preacher who hoped that eating it would promote abstinence a graham cracker
#18, aired 2023-10-25THE NOBEL PRIZE $600: The youngest-ever Nobel Prize winner is also a best-selling author, for her 2013 memoir titled "I Am" this Malala
#18, aired 2023-10-25OLD POP MUSIC HAD SOME VOWELS: E-I-E-I-O $600: It's the former boy band of Harry Styles _ _ E / _ I _ E _ _ I O _ One Direction
#18, aired 2023-10-25SCULPTURES $900: Picasso's 1912 sculpture of this instrument features droopy frets & a sound hole that looks like a toilet paper roll a guitar
#18, aired 2023-10-25OLD POP MUSIC HAD SOME VOWELS: E-I-E-I-O $1500: It's a greatest hits album released by Madonna in 1990 _ _ E / I _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ E / _ _ _ _ _ _ _ I O _ The Immaculate Collection
#18, aired 2023-10-25LIBRARIES $2,000 (Daily Double): On display at the Newark Public Librarv is the copy of "Portnoy's Complaint" this author inscribed to his parents Philip Roth
#8957, aired 2023-10-24COUNTRIES THAT BORDER INDIA $800: India's longest land border, some 2,500 miles, is with this nation that gained independence in 1971 Bangladesh
#8957, aired 2023-10-24COUNTRIES THAT BORDER INDIA $2000: In the northeast, India's Arunachal Pradesh state shares a border with this nation's Kachin state Myanmar (Burma)
#8956, aired 2023-10-23JUST KIDDING $400: This "Price is Right" host: "Hate your job? There's a support group for that--it's called everybody. They meet at a bar" (Drew) Carey
#8956, aired 2023-10-23ALWAYS SAY NEVER $1000: Shelley said of this, "Hail to thee, blithe spirit! Bird thou never wert"; Wordsworth said they "soar, but never roam" skylark
#8956, aired 2023-10-23SMART ANSWERS $2000: This adjective that means "cunning" probably comes from the name of a "tamed" insectivore shrewd
#8956, aired 2023-10-23PEOPLE WITH MUPPET NAMES $2,500 (Daily Double): This patron saint of Mediterranean sailors lent his name to a phenomenon seen during storms St. Elmo
#8955, aired 2023-10-20HOUSEPLANTS $400: Unlike many plants, these, which include the barrel & snowball types, prefer to get completely dry cacti
#8955, aired 2023-10-20WHAT'S NEXT? $400: Apollo missions that landed on the Moon: 11, 12, this 14
#8955, aired 2023-10-20NOT YOUR AVERAGE OPERA $400: Once called "America's most lurid talk show", it inspired a 2001 opera that took London by storm Jerry Springer
#8955, aired 2023-10-20WE MADE IT $400: In the 1960s Robert Moog became a household name for the invention of one of these instruments that bears his name a synthesizer
#8955, aired 2023-10-20JUSTIN TIME $800: This world leader's 2014 book "Common Ground" told of growing up at 24 Sussex Drive Trudeau
#8955, aired 2023-10-20GOOD "P.R." $2000: It's the beef that Lawry's restaurants are famous for serving prime rib
#8955, aired 2023-10-20OLDE ENGLAND $5,600 (Daily Double): This title was re-created in 1301 when Edward I gave it to his son who was born in Caernarfon the Prince of Wales
#8954, aired 2023-10-19ISMs $200: The belief in the need to secure rights & opportunities for women equal to those of men feminism
#8954, aired 2023-10-19CULINARY QUOTES $600: Mark Twain said that cauliflower "is nothing but" this vegetable "with a college education" cabbage
#8954, aired 2023-10-19ROCKET MAN $600: Jason Candle coaches football for the Rockets of this university that's in Ohio but sounds like it could be in Spain Toledo
#8954, aired 2023-10-19MUSIC TERMS $800: A direction to singers, the term "bouche fermée" literally means that your mouth should be this closed
#17, aired 2023-10-18OTHER WORDS FOR DOIN' IT $200: In a simpler time, this phrase meant "hang out & watch a movie"; it's evolved to mean "hang out, watch a movie &... you know" Netflix & chill
#17, aired 2023-10-18"POP" QUIZ, HOTSHOT $400: The United Nations estimated that the world's this reached 8 billion on Nov. 15, 2022 population
#17, aired 2023-10-18RESPOND LIKE A PIRATE $400: There's a cannon in the logo of this English soccer team nicknamed "The Gunners" Arsenal
#17, aired 2023-10-18BOARD GAMES $400: On a standard Scrabble board there are only 8 of these premium squares that boost your points Triple Word Score
#17, aired 2023-10-18RESPOND LIKE A PIRATE $500: The World Tango Museum is located in this country Argentina
#17, aired 2023-10-18PODCASTS $600 (Daily Double): "5-4" is a podcast that calls itself an "occasionally profane take on the ideological battles" of this federal body the Supreme Court
#17, aired 2023-10-18HISTORICAL MARKERS $900 (Daily Double): Along with "Deep Throat", he's the reporter mentioned on a historical marker outside a parking garage in Arlington, VA Bob Woodward
#17, aired 2023-10-18HISTORIC QUOTES REPHRASED $1000: John Paul Jones, 1779: "Surrender? I'm just getting started" "I have not yet begun to fight"
#17, aired 2023-10-18NONAGENARIANS $11,400 (Daily Double): Making comedy fans wait over 40 years for a sequel, this 97-year-old released "History of the World, Part II" in 2023 Mel Brooks
#8952, aired 2023-10-17WEEDER'S DIGEST $400: This member of the parsley family that grows wild in Europe & the U.S. is a main flavoring agent in pickles dill
#8952, aired 2023-10-17DUST TO DUST $600: In Genesis "God said unto" this creature "dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life" the serpent
#8952, aired 2023-10-17WORLD WRITERS $2000: The first non-European winner of the Nobel Prize for lit, this Calcutta-born man is seen here with another Nobel winner Rabindranath Tagore
#8951, aired 2023-10-16I DIDN'T COME HERE TO MAKE FRIENDS $1000: Exodus 23:4 says if you find one of these large animals of your enemy that's gone astray, you have to return it an ox (an ass)
#8951, aired 2023-10-16YOU DO THE MATH $1200: It's 44 plus 7, minus 23, times 10, divided by 2 140
#8951, aired 2023-10-16THE LITERARY CHARACTER WHO SAID... $2000: "Mother, if only you knew how cruelly I've been tricked by a conspiracy of sub-humans. Ironically, the book of Fortuna is itself bad luck" Ignatius J. Reilly
#8950, aired 2023-10-13LET'S GET MEDICAL $1000: In July 1976 a form of pneumonia caused the deaths of 29 members of this organization in Philadelphia American Legionnaires (American Legion)
#8950, aired 2023-10-13WE WHISTLE WHILE YOU WORK $1000: We provide you the best in classical whistling with this piece heard here Four Seasons
#8949, aired 2023-10-12PRESIDENTS' EXECUTIVE ORDERS $400: "There shall be... an office of Lend-Lease Administration" FDR
#8949, aired 2023-10-12SPOOKY LITERATURE $800: (Justin Long presents the clue.) The burial of Stephen King's daughter's cat Smucky helped inspire this novel that the author has said is just as dark as can be Pet Sematary
#8949, aired 2023-10-12GOT MILK? $800: This type of sugar that's less sweet than sucrose is found only in milk lactose
#8949, aired 2023-10-12HAPPIER MOVIE ENDINGS $1600: "Hold the execution. John Coffey's been found innocent. He is a free man." "Phew. That was close" The Green Mile
#8949, aired 2023-10-12"L" ON EARTH $2000: It's "jar"ring to note that before sailing to America in 1620, the Pilgrims lived in this Dutch city for more than 10 years Leiden
#8948, aired 2023-10-11GRAB A "B"ITE $400: It's just side pork that's been cured & smoked bacon
#8948, aired 2023-10-11SURELY YOU JOUST $400: This synonym for jousting that sounds like a pinball term refers to the barrier between the opponents tilt (tilting)
#8948, aired 2023-10-11SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE $400: This "SNL" character who is most definitely his own thing starred in a Halloween special in 2017; any questions?! David S. Pumpkins
#8948, aired 2023-10-11OTHER RED, WHITE & BLUE FLAGS $7,000 (Daily Double): Samoa's flag includes stars that represent this constellation the Southern Cross
#16, aired 2023-10-11OH, THAT'S RICH $100: Chef Jamie Oliver's website says that if you use lamb instead of beef for cottage pie, it should go by this occupational name shepherd's pie
#16, aired 2023-10-11OH, THAT'S RICH $200: Intoxicated West Point cadets started a riot on Christmas Eve, 1826 named for this seasonal treat which they clearly spiked egg nog
#16, aired 2023-10-11AS SEEN ON SHARK TANK $300: This company with a bumblebee-inspired name has the highest lifetime sales in "Shark" history; that's a lot of socks Bombas
#16, aired 2023-10-11OH, THAT'S RICH $300: One signature of Detroit-style pizza is that instead of mozzarella, it uses brick cheese from this dairy state Wisconsin
#16, aired 2023-10-11MERRIAM-WEBSTER'S WORDS OF THE YEAR $400: In 2015, the word was the suffix "-ism" and 2 years later it was this "-ism" associated with Betty Friedan feminism
#16, aired 2023-10-11OH, THAT'S RICH $400: To make a Black Forest cake you'll need chocolate, whipped cream and these fruits pitted cherries
#16, aired 2023-10-11ALL YOU NEED IS "L-O-V-E" $500: As Charles Darwin could tell you, to do this is to gradually change or develop over time evolve
#16, aired 2023-10-11OH, THAT'S RICH $500: Appropriately, the name of this dish consisting of French fries, cheese curds & gravy is also slang for "mess" in Québec poutine
#16, aired 2023-10-11WOULDA, COULDA, SHOULDA $500: Darth Vader's cheery banter with the hero of this Disney+ series includes, "You should've killed me when you had the chance" Obi-Wan Kenobi
#16, aired 2023-10-11HI, I'M J.LO $600: Boxing's greatest "J.Lo" of all time, he had a sports arena named after him in Detroit that was known locally as "the Joe" Joe Louis
#16, aired 2023-10-11BIG DOGS AS LITTLE PUPPIES $600: Here's the great this, a breed named after the mountain range that separates France & Spain Pyrenees
#16, aired 2023-10-11SHAPES IN NATURE $900: Cordate is an adjective used to refer to leaves, like the ones seen here, that have this shape a heart shape
#16, aired 2023-10-11FASHION FOR ALL $900: Because clasps in the back can be painful to reach, Liberare is a brand that sells front-opening types of this undergarment a bra (brassiere)
#16, aired 2023-10-11YOU'RE A HOMOPHONE, DIANE $1,000 (Daily Double): In her 1983 book's acknowledgements, primatologist Dian Fossey thanks mostly humans but also these animals mountain gorillas
#16, aired 2023-10-11FOR SWEATER OR WORSE $1,000 (Daily Double): Sweaters that button in front are named for British officer James Thomas Brudenell, the 7th Earl of this Cardigan
#16, aired 2023-10-11YOU'RE A HOMOPHONE, DIANE $1200: Dianne Wiest plays Peg Boggs in this 1990 film; Johnny Depp plays the title character who gets to cut peg's hair Edward Scissorhands
#16, aired 2023-10-11MERRIAM-WEBSTER'S WORDS OF THE YEAR $2,000 (Daily Double): A 1944 Ingrid Bergman film popularized this 11-letter word of 2022, an act of psychological manipulation gaslighting
#16, aired 2023-10-11HI, I'M J.LO $2,100 (Daily Double): You can buy a copy of "The Call of the Wild" at the gift shop in the California state park dedicated to this "J.Lo" Jack London
#16, aired 2023-10-11PEW! PEW! PEW! $3,000 (Daily Double): Derived from the French word for "flea", it's a dark shade of red similar to burnt sienna puce
#8947, aired 2023-10-10NICE SIDE WHISKERS! $1200: Here's this waltz king at around age 50 Johann Strauss
#8947, aired 2023-10-10I WROTE THAT LINE $1200: "Remedios the beauty stayed there wandering through the desert of solitude... maturing in her dreams without nightmares" Gabriel García Márquez
#8947, aired 2023-10-10FOOD $2000: A story or joke that's been repeated often, maybe too often a chestnut
#8947, aired 2023-10-10I WROTE THAT LINE $2000: "In the actions of all men... where there is no impartial arbiter, one must consider the final result" Machiavelli
#8947, aired 2023-10-10BRANDO $2000: Johnny, leader of the Black Rebels The Wild One
#8947, aired 2023-10-10HERALDRY $2,500 (Daily Double): The white at the top of the Canadian territorial coat of arms represents polar regions; the wavy blue line--this trade route the Northwest Passage
#8946, aired 2023-10-09A BRIEF HISTORY OF THYME $800: Monks know that thyme is an ingredient in this popular upscale French liquor, one of the "B"s in B&B Bénédictine
#8945, aired 2023-10-06THIS OR THAT $800: Last name of the singer of "What A Wonderful World" in '67 & the man who got a Moon's-eye view of it in '69 Armstrong
#8945, aired 2023-10-06THIS OR THAT $1200: The organ that weighs around 3 pounds in an adult, or Pinky's cartoon pal voiced by Maurice LaMarche the brain
#8945, aired 2023-10-06THIS OR THAT $2000: Last name of a Watergate burglar, or a nickname of Robert Dole's wife, who has lived at the Watergate Liddy
#8944, aired 2023-10-05MOVIES AS TV NEWS STORIES $200: Rocky Balboa has begun training Adonis Johnson; will Adonis have the eye of the tiger? That's up next in sports Creed
#8943, aired 2023-10-04WAXING PHILOSOPHICAL $1600: In "Metaphysics of Morals", this 18th c. man wrote that one who makes himself a worm can't complain if he's stepped on Immanuel Kant
#8943, aired 2023-10-04LOONEY TUNES $2000: In "Hare-Way to the Stars", he informs Bugs that he's going to blow up the Earth because it obstructs his view of Venus Marvin the Martian
#8943, aired 2023-10-04WAXING PHILOSOPHICAL $2000: This philosopher's foundation convened an international war crimes tribunal to publicize U.S. atrocities in Vietnam Bertrand Russell
#8943, aired 2023-10-04HOW'S THE KING TAKING IT? $2000: In this event that brought Mussolini to power, King Victor Emmanuel III refused to bring in the army to stop him his March on Rome
#15, aired 2023-10-04EUROPEAN COUNTRY NICKNAMES $200: "The Boot" (It has more World Heritage sites than any other country) Italy
#15, aired 2023-10-04BYGONE TECH $300: The TPS-L2 was the first model of this personal audio player that cost $200 when it debuted in the U.S. in 1980 the Walkman
#15, aired 2023-10-04A BUNDLE OF "FUN" $400: It's what the "F" stands for in the digital asset abbreviated NFT fungible
#15, aired 2023-10-04JOYCE, CARROLL, OATES $400: "Wonderland" Joyce Carol Oates
#15, aired 2023-10-04WHAT A LOAD OF B.S. $400: Sticky Fingers and Bone Suckin' are two brands that make this type of condiment barbecue sauce
#15, aired 2023-10-04WHAT A LOAD OF B.S. $800: "I gets high off your love / I don't know how to behave"; it's the title track on D'Angelo's 1995 album "Brown Sugar"
#15, aired 2023-10-04NAME GAME $1000: 16th century queen of Scotland + last name = this actress who plays Joon in 1993's "Benny & Joon" Mary Stuart Masterson
#15, aired 2023-10-04ESTATE PLANNING $1,200 (Daily Double): In law, it's one party managing another's property for the benefit of a third; in life, some say it's the key to a good relationship trust
#15, aired 2023-10-04SCIENTISTS' RHYME TIME $1,500 (Daily Double): Physicist Isaac's proteins that celiac disease sufferers avoid Newton's glutens
#15, aired 2023-10-04BYGONE TECH $3,000 (Daily Double): Fuel injection has replaced this engine part whose name begins with a synonym for automobile carburetor
#8942, aired 2023-10-034, 4 $800: It's slang for the offspring of a celeb who becomes a celeb too a nepo baby
#8942, aired 2023-10-03WEAVE GOT SEWING CLUES $1600: In myth, this woman bought time by unweaving a burial shroud meant for her husband's father, Laertes Penelope
#8942, aired 2023-10-034, 4 $1600: The Nobel Banquet is held in Stockholm in this room that can hold 1,300 guests the Blue Hall
#8942, aired 2023-10-034, 4 $2000: This situation means one negative consequence leads to another; Jim Collins popularized the term in his book "Good to Great" a doom loop
#8941, aired 2023-10-02ARE YOU SHAKESPEARIENCED? $1,200 (Daily Double): "The isle is full of noises, sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not" The Tempest
#8941, aired 2023-10-02THEY PLAYED WYATT EARP $2000: Long before he was Grandpa Walton, he played Earp in "Winchester '73" Will Geer
#8940, aired 2023-09-29WORDS THAT END WITH "E" $200: It's zero in tennis, the last name of a Beach Boy & all you need love
#8940, aired 2023-09-29THAT'S A VEGAS CASINO $200: It's a deceptive image of a distant object; in this case, both are in the desert a mirage
#8940, aired 2023-09-29CHEMICAL FORMULAS $400: It's sweet, it's simple, it's C6H12O6 glucose
#8940, aired 2023-09-29THAT'S A VEGAS CASINO $400: Lesser in name only, millions of these pink wading birds gather to breed on large lakes in East Africa flamingos
#8940, aired 2023-09-29THAT'S A VEGAS CASINO $600: You'll find "fifteen men on the dead man's chest--yo-ho-ho, & a bottle of rum!" at the start of this novel Treasure Island
#8940, aired 2023-09-29WEIRD AL PARODIES $600: Encyclopedias & a case of Turtle Wax were among the prizes Al didn't win in this song & video that's near & dear to our hearts "I Lost On Jeopardy"
#8940, aired 2023-09-29WORDS THAT END WITH "E" $600: The United Nation's IPCC stands for the Intergovernmental Panel on this phrase Climate Change
#8940, aired 2023-09-29THAT'S A VEGAS CASINO $800: Lyrics in this song include "these vagabond shoes are longing to stray" & "these little town blues are melting away" "New York, New York"
#8940, aired 2023-09-29COMPLETE THE OXYMORON $800: Only 52 degrees today in Tallahassee? That's a low... high
#8940, aired 2023-09-29THAT'S A VEGAS CASINO $1000: A granite shrine of Alexander the Great is in the temple of this capital of Al-Uqsur in Upper Egypt Luxor
#8940, aired 2023-09-29COMPLETE THE OXYMORON $1200: Those diamonds are stolen! Or, in criminal slang, that's some hot... ice
#8940, aired 2023-09-29FACTS ABOUT THE BEST PICTURE WINNER $7,200 (Daily Double): Doug Jones said the latex rubber suit he wore in this film acted "as a sponge" The Shape of Water
#8939, aired 2023-09-28NATURAL BIOLOGY $400: It's often a warning when this tuft or plume on a cockatoo's head stands up a crest (a comb)
#8939, aired 2023-09-28FROM THE GREEK $1600: From Greek for "color", it means pertaining to color, or to a musical scale that's been modified chromatic
#8939, aired 2023-09-28INVEST $1600: From the Latin for "year", it's an investment or retirement fund that pays out yearly an annuity
#8939, aired 2023-09-28AROUND THE HORN $5,400 (Daily Double): An around-the-world yacht race that requires sailors to round Cape Horn awards a trophy named for this author Jules Verne
#8938, aired 2023-09-27MIXED NUTS $400: New World native that's rich in protein: CHEW AS cashew
#8938, aired 2023-09-27TRICKY QUESTIONS $1000: The brother-in-law of your mother's unmarried only sibling is this relative to you your father (stepfather)
#8938, aired 2023-09-27FUNERAL OFFICIANTS $1,200 (Daily Double): In April 2005 Joseph Ratzinger officiated at this man's funeral Pope John Paul II
#14, aired 2023-09-27HEY! THAT'S NOT AN ELEMENT! $100: Einsteinium, curium, snookium snookium
#14, aired 2023-09-27ALSO AN ANIMAL SOUND $100: The very first of these microblogging posts was sent by company cofounder Jack Dorsey on March 21, 2006 a tweet
#14, aired 2023-09-27ALSO AN ANIMAL SOUND $200: To make natural rubber, start by collecting latex by cutting slits in this layer of the rubber tree the bark
#14, aired 2023-09-27CHICKEN FIVE WAYS $200: Said to have been invented in Glasgow in the 1970s, this spiced Indian curry is often called a national dish of Britain chicken tikka masala
#14, aired 2023-09-27HEY! THAT'S NOT AN ELEMENT! $200: Zinc, zirconium, zambonium zambonium
#14, aired 2023-09-27BIG-SCREEN BASKETBALL $200: 1997. Five words: state championship clinched by dog Air Bud
#14, aired 2023-09-27IT "IS" WHAT IT "IS" $300: It's thought that about 40% of Americans can trace their ancestry through this immigration station, seen here Ellis Island
#14, aired 2023-09-27ALASKA $300: Alaska has more of these birds than any other U.S. state --and that's not even counting the ones on the backs of quarters bald eagles
#14, aired 2023-09-27THE DNA OF MUSIC $300: In her song "Can't Be Tamed", she sings "it's set in my DNA"; her dad, Billy Ray, passed down to her some of that genetic code Miley Cyrus
#14, aired 2023-09-27ALSO AN ANIMAL SOUND $300: A Dutch term for a seller of ineffective medicines led to this word for an incompetent physician a quack
#14, aired 2023-09-27HEY! THAT'S NOT AN ELEMENT! $300: Californium, floridium, tennessine floridium
#14, aired 2023-09-27HEY! THAT'S NOT AN ELEMENT! $400: Gold, silver, bronze bronze
#14, aired 2023-09-27OUI, OUI, HISTORY $500: The peace treaty that ended World War I was signed here, in this stately residence's Hall of Mirrors Versailles
#14, aired 2023-09-27CHICKEN FIVE WAYS $500: In Japan, these succulent chicken skewers are grilled over a smokeless type of charcoal called binchotan yakitori
#14, aired 2023-09-27HEY! THAT'S NOT AN ELEMENT! $500: Germanium, italium, francium italium
#14, aired 2023-09-27RANDOM U.S. STATE FACTS $800: Massachusetts and Virginia are two of four states that have this word in their official names Commonwealth
#14, aired 2023-09-27OUI, OUI, HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): After being given the key to this prison overthrown in 1789, the Marquis de Lafayette re-gifted it to his pal George Washington the Bastille
#14, aired 2023-09-27MEDITATION $1000: A state of attention often cited as the goal of meditation practice; it's loosely defined as "being present in the moment" mindfulness
#8937, aired 2023-09-26SAILING THE 3 Cs $400: Wow, that's so weird--I was just thinking about this word for a striking occurrence of 2 events at 1 time a coincidence
#8937, aired 2023-09-26WHO "AR" THEY? $400: In 2006 audio experts said they found the missing "a" in a 37-year-old statement by this man Armstrong
#8937, aired 2023-09-26AMERICAN ISLANDS $2000: The Chamorro are the indigenous ethnic group on this Pacific island that's home to U.S. naval & Air Force bases Guam
#8936, aired 2023-09-25WHAT'S IN THAT CHIP $200: Walkers had a chip that paired hoisin, aka Peking sauce, with this appropriate fowl duck
#8936, aired 2023-09-25SO THAT'S WHAT THOSE LYRICS SAY! $400: "Got a long list of ex-lovers, they'll tell you I'm insane" is in "Blank Space" but her mom heard it as "got a lot of Starbucks lovers" Taylor Swift
#8936, aired 2023-09-25U.S. CAPITAL AIRPORT CODES $400: LIT: A wee city in this state Arkansas
#8936, aired 2023-09-25WHAT'S IN THAT CHIP $400: The Chinese have apparently been big fans of chips that combine lemon with the flavor of this ubiquitous beverage tea
#8936, aired 2023-09-25SHAKESPEARE -LOGUES ON $600: "I know not that; but such a handkerchief--I am sure it was your wife's--did I today see Cassio wipe his beard with" Iago
#8936, aired 2023-09-25WHAT'S IN THAT CHIP $600: Paqui, known for their exotic peppers, of course has a haunted flavor featuring this type of pepper a ghost pepper
#8936, aired 2023-09-25SO THAT'S WHAT THOSE LYRICS SAY! $800: He sang, "Don't give us none of your aggravation, we had it with your discipline, Saturday night's alright for fighting" (we think) Elton John
#8936, aired 2023-09-25WHAT'S IN THAT CHIP $800: Calbee went nuts with this Ukrainian beetroot soup, putting the flavor in a chip borscht
#8936, aired 2023-09-25SO THAT'S WHAT THOSE LYRICS SAY! $1200: She asked, "Or should I just keep chasing pavements?" & not, as some have misheard, "Or should I just keep chasing penguins?" Adele
#8936, aired 2023-09-25SO THAT'S WHAT THOSE LYRICS SAY! $1600: To be clear, this Canadian sang, "As long as you love me, we could be starving", & not "starfish", which is a bit less romantic Justin Bieber
#8936, aired 2023-09-25SO THAT'S WHAT THOSE LYRICS SAY! $2000: This "sibling" band: "As he rises to her apology / Anybody else would surely know / He's watching her go / What a fool believes, he sees" The Doobie Brothers
#8936, aired 2023-09-25WHAT'S IN THAT CHIP $2,600 (Daily Double): Mackie's of Scotland makes chips, err crisps, with hints of this offal dish that Robert Burns once "addressed" haggis
#8935, aired 2023-09-22THAT'S JUST OFFAL $200: This organ meat is great for protein, vitamin A & iron, but animal rights activists have big problems with foie gras the liver
#8935, aired 2023-09-22ALL'S WHALE THAT ENDS WHALE $200: This state's official marine mammal is the bowhead whale, which inhabits Arctic waters Alaska
#8935, aired 2023-09-22ALL'S WHALE THAT ENDS WHALE $400: Whoa! Reaching 80 feet or more in length, the finback whale is second in size only to this one the blue whale
#8935, aired 2023-09-22THAT'S JUST OFFAL $400: Fancy a traditional steak & this pie? The one at London's Guinea Grill is famous kidney
#8935, aired 2023-09-22DO I WANT THAT NAMED FOR ME? $400: Long ones are a proverbial sign of age, & to bishop, to file them down on a horse, is thought to be named after a practitioner of yore teeth
#8935, aired 2023-09-22ALL'S WHALE THAT ENDS WHALE $600: One of the 2 3-letter terms for a group of whales a pod (a gam)
#8935, aired 2023-09-22THAT'S JUST OFFAL $600: A beef this, langue in French, can be 5 lbs. tongue
#8935, aired 2023-09-22ALL'S WHALE THAT ENDS WHALE $800: Gray whales are an example of this toothless class of whales that also have 2 blowholes baleen
#8935, aired 2023-09-22THAT'S JUST OFFAL $800: You don't expect us to swallow this, specifically the honeycomb type that is taken from the second stomach chamber, do you? tripe
#8935, aired 2023-09-22"C" IN LITERATURE $800: In "East of Eden" this twin brother of Aron Trask reveals to him that their mother is a madam Caleb
#8935, aired 2023-09-22DO I WANT THAT NAMED FOR ME? $800: The Battle of Gettysburg had "Pickett's" this, & an equally unsuccessful one led by Elon Farnsworth Charge
#8935, aired 2023-09-22SCOTLAND $1,000 (Daily Double): The highest point in Edinburgh's Holyrood Park is an ancient volcano that shares its name with this legendary king King Arthur
#8935, aired 2023-09-22ALL'S WHALE THAT ENDS WHALE $1000: This solid waxy substance that originates in the intestines of sperm whales is used in perfume making ambergris
#8935, aired 2023-09-22THAT'S JUST OFFAL $1000: The pancreas of a calf provides this delicacy that sounds like it would be available at the bakery rather than the butcher a sweetbread
#8935, aired 2023-09-22TV $1000: Sandy Dvore designed the animated title sequence of a mother bird & 5 chicks for this 1970s series The Partridge Family
#8935, aired 2023-09-22DO I WANT THAT NAMED FOR ME? $2000: Who exactly Norman was is lost to history, but Norman's Woe is the reef made famous in the poem "The Wreck of" this ship the Hesperus
#8935, aired 2023-09-22COMPOUND ADJECTIVES $2000: Mean & unfeeling, like "Hannah, the vamp of Savannah" Hard Hearted
#8934, aired 2023-09-21TAKING A STAR TURN $400: Its radius is 109 times that of Earth, its surface temp is about 5,800 kelvins & it's kind of a majorly important thing for us the Sun
#8934, aired 2023-09-2121st CENTURY BARTLETT'S QUOTATIONS $600: In the screenplay to this film, Christopher Nolan co-wrote the line "Some men just want to watch the world burn" The Dark Knight
#8934, aired 2023-09-21FROM "S" TO "Y" $1000: Stonehenge is about 8 miles from this city that lies on the River Avon Salisbury
#8934, aired 2023-09-21TAKING A STAR TURN $1600: The 5th-brightest star at night, it's also the name of a '70s Chevy that, per MotorTrend, was "a rust-bucket prone to gas tank fires" the Vega
#8934, aired 2023-09-21TAKING A STAR TURN $2,000 (Daily Double): These 2 stars are also known as Alpha Geminorum & Beta Geminorum Castor & Pollux
#8933, aired 2023-09-20BACK IN THE DAY $600: We hope you were expecting this judicial institution that was in the heresy-fighting business from 1478 to 1834 the Spanish Inquisition
#8933, aired 2023-09-20NAME THAT PLAY $800: "It's terrible, dreadful, disgraceful that poor little sister has never received a single gentleman caller" The Glass Menagerie
#8933, aired 2023-09-20MICKEY'S MANTEL $800: Penned by Lin-Manuel Miranda, this song from "Encanto" won the Best Song Written for Visual Media Grammy in 2023 "We Don't Talk About Bruno"
#8933, aired 2023-09-20B MINUS $1000: When a cetacean fatty layer sweats out its B, this unskilled seaman is all that's left a lubber (from blubber)
#8933, aired 2023-09-20NAME THAT PLAY $1000: "Begin thine incantations, and try if devils will obey thy hest, seeing thou hast pray'd and sacrific'd to them" Doctor Faustus
#8933, aired 2023-09-20MICKEY'S MANTEL $1200: "The Wonderful World of Disney" won a Peabody Award in 1999 for this musical that had Kathy Bates as evil Miss Hannigan Annie
#8933, aired 2023-09-20MICKEY'S MANTEL $2000: Angela Lansbury used her witching powers to thwart Nazis in this classic that won an Oscar for special effects in 1971 Bedknobs and Broomsticks
#8932, aired 2023-09-19THE ASIAN GAMES $1000: 2018 competition on these 1-person runabouts took place at Indonesia's Ancol Beach Jet Skis
#8932, aired 2023-09-19MAILED IT! $5,000 (Daily Double): RFD, short for this, began in 1896; previously, about 65% of Americans lived in the "R" area & had to pick up mail at the P.O. Rural Free Delivery
#8931, aired 2023-09-18SCIENCE $800: It's the term for a device used to speed up particles so that they can be collided & studied; it's also another name for a car's gas pedal the accelerator
#8931, aired 2023-09-18WORD"LE" $1200: In physics, it's a hypothetical tunnel that could connect different parts of the universe a wormhole
#8930, aired 2023-09-15IN YOUR ELEMENT $1000: Time to find out who's got the big mo, & this big Mo helps stimulate chemical reactions that get rid of sulfur in petroleum molybdenum
#8929, aired 2023-09-14RECONSTRUCTION $400: Oaks from the Loire region's Forest of Bercé were selected to rebuild the spire of this place that was damaged in 2019 the Cathedral of Notre Dame
#8929, aired 2023-09-14BIOLOGY $800: This spiny, globular "sea" creature has an apparatus called Aristotle's lantern that lets it scrape algae from rocks & munch away an (sea) urchin
#8929, aired 2023-09-14RECONSTRUCTION $800: This Bronx building has been called "The House that George Built"; it's next to where "The House that Ruth Built" once was Yankee Stadium
#8929, aired 2023-09-14SPEECHIFY"ING" $1200: Abe Lincoln, 1863: "It is altogether ____ and proper that we should do this" fitting
#8928, aired 2023-09-133 CONSECUTIVE CONSONANTS $400: You're not outta your gourd! You're into this gourd that's big on Oct. 31 a pumpkin
#8928, aired 2023-09-13"C"s THE DAY $800: This holiday that commemorates the victory of Mexico at the Battle of Puebla is also a day to celebrate Mexican culture Cinco de Mayo
#8928, aired 2023-09-13& WE HAVE A NOVEL TITLE $1600: This numeric title "required that each censored letter bear the censoring officer's name" Catch-22
#8927, aired 2023-09-12THAT'S T-B-D $200: A horse of pure stock a Thoroughbred
#8927, aired 2023-09-12GEORGIA ON MY MIND $400: It should come as no surprise that this is Georgia's state fruit peach
#8927, aired 2023-09-12THAT'S T-B-D $400: A sensational 5-column-wide newspaper a tabloid
#8927, aired 2023-09-12POTPOUR-EVERYTHING $400: It's the first month of the calendar year that has no federal holidays March
#8927, aired 2023-09-12THAT'S T-B-D $600: A Russian thistle, bouncing down an Old West street in the wind a tumbleweed
#8927, aired 2023-09-12THAT'S T-B-D $800: All added up, it means arranged in a systematic form tabulated
#8927, aired 2023-09-12THAT'S T-B-D $1000: This inn is found in "The Canterbury Tales" & today in Washington, D.C., where it's a favorite brunch spot the Tabard Inn
#8927, aired 2023-09-12THE U.S. IN 1964 $1000: In a landmark case the Supreme Court ruled that this newspaper had not libeled Alabama city commissioner L.B. Sullivan the New York Times
#8927, aired 2023-09-12STUCK IN THE MIDDLE WORD WITH YOU $1200: In the sequence 1, 3, 4, 8, 9, 4 is this, like a highway strip median
#8926, aired 2023-09-11WELCOME TO MIAMI $200: The Gold Coast Railroad Museum boasts the train from which this pres. held a paper telling of his 1948 election "defeat" Truman
#8926, aired 2023-09-11GREEK GEOGRAPHY $1200: Greece's 3 main geographic areas are the islands, the mainland & joined by an isthmus, this peninsula, that lent its name to a war the Peloponnesian (Peninsula)
#8926, aired 2023-09-11SCIENCE CLASS $1,600 (Daily Double): Sedimentary deposits near Lake Superior produce the largest U.S. annual yield of hematite, the main ore of this metal iron
#8925, aired 2023-07-28REAL FAST $400: Sifan Hassan holds the women's world record in this track event: 4 minutes, 12.33 seconds a mile
#8925, aired 2023-07-28IF YOU KNOW WHAT'S GOOD FOR YOU $400: It's often said that this is "the best medicine"--it's fun to share, adds joy to life & it relieves stress laughter
#8925, aired 2023-07-28MESSIN' WITH TEXAS $400: Allemande left & take a chance / As you do this state folk dance / Swing yer partner & do-si-do / That's it for now, I got to go square dance
#8925, aired 2023-07-28BREEDS OF SHEEP $400: Suffolk is popular both for lamb & this, meat from a sheep that's a yearling or older mutton
#8925, aired 2023-07-28NATIONAL ANTHEMS $800: Again the U.K.'s anthem, "God Save The King" says, "send him victorious... &" this splendid word that rhymes with victorious glorious
#8925, aired 2023-07-28BREEDS OF SHEEP $1000: Originally a Spanish breed, it first came to Australia in 1797 & changed that country's economy forever the Merino
#8925, aired 2023-07-28BRITISH LITERATURE $2,000 (Daily Double): In the 1850s she published the book-length love poem "Aurora Leigh" Elizabeth Barrett Browning
#8925, aired 2023-07-28NATIONAL ANTHEMS $2,000 (Daily Double): This anthem was made official in a decree of July 14, 1795 "The Marseillaise"
#8924, aired 2023-07-27RETITLED MOVIE ADAPTATIONS $400: Nicholas Pileggi's book "Wiseguy" inspired this gangster film that won Joe Pesci a Best Supporting Actor Oscar Goodfellas
#8924, aired 2023-07-27THAT SONG SLAYS $1200: "Murder by numbers, 1, 2, 3, it's as easy to learn as your ABC", sang this group in 1983; someone should call them about that The Police
#8924, aired 2023-07-27HERE BE PIRATES! $2000: Let's raise a glass of branded rum to this captain, a Welsh buccaneer who somehow ended up as deputy governor of Jamaica in 1674 Captain Morgan
#8923, aired 2023-07-26"DA" OR "BA" OR "DEE" $400: It's the last name of a film character played by both Gary Cooper & Adam Sandler Deeds
#8922, aired 2023-07-25THE IDIOMS GO THATAWAY $400: This phrase describes a plane flying low to evade enemy detection, or anything that's not getting attention nowadays under the radar
#8922, aired 2023-07-25SOMEBODY WROTE THAT $400: "Elinor saw, with concern, the excess of her sister's sensibility" (we're practically giftwrapping this one!) Austen
#8922, aired 2023-07-25SOMETHING'S ROTTEN $400: Valentine in "Army of the Dead" was rotten all over, as a zombie one of these that would make Joe Exotic squeal a tiger
#8922, aired 2023-07-25THAT CAN BE A GREEK LETTER $600: This name of China's president since 2013 is spelled the same way as the Greek letter Xi
#8922, aired 2023-07-25THIS AMERICAN LAKE $800: Lying entirely in the U.S., this Great Lake that made Milwaukee famous reaches a great depth of 923 feet Michigan
#8922, aired 2023-07-25SOMEBODY WROTE THAT $800: "'He shows himself; he's a hunchback. He walks; he's bandy-legged. He looks at you; he's one-eyed. You speak to him; he's deaf"' Hugo
#8922, aired 2023-07-25THE IDIOMS GO THATAWAY $1600: There's a member of genus Corvus in this phrase that means "in a straight line" as the crow flies
#8922, aired 2023-07-25WRITER-DIRECTORS $1600: Born in Austria, he learned English while rooming with Peter Lorre, so it's lucky the people in "Some Like It Hot" don't talk like I am Billy Wilder
#8922, aired 2023-07-25SOMEBODY WROTE THAT $4,000 (Daily Double): "I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me" Ralph Ellison
#8921, aired 2023-07-24UNIFORM NUMBERS $600: Joe Namath offered his retired 12 to this new Jets QB, but he said that'd always be Broadway Joe's & went with his college No. 8 Aaron Rodgers
#8921, aired 2023-07-24THE "END" ZONE $800: When Andrew Carnegie got his first of these monthly checks, he cried, "Here's the goose that lays the golden eggs" dividend
#8921, aired 2023-07-24MAKEOVERS $1200: Rachael Leigh Cook gets a major glow up in this 1999 film with Freddie Prinze Jr.--her glasses are removed She's All That
#8921, aired 2023-07-24STARTS WITH 3 CONSONANTS $1200: It's a machine that removes husks from grain; Andrew Meikle patented one in 1788 a threshing machine
#8921, aired 2023-07-24INTERNATIONAL BOOKS $2000: Milan Kundera's second novel, "Life Is Elsewhere" was not allowed to be published in this, his home country at the time Czechoslovakia
#8920, aired 2023-07-21SHAKESPEARE $400: In this play Puck has some handy juice that makes a sleeper fall in love with the next person he sees A Midsummer Night's Dream
#8920, aired 2023-07-21HAPPY 75th BIRTHDAY, ISRAEL! $600: In 1992, Israel got what's been called its finest public building to house this body that the government wanted to overhaul in 2023 the Israeli Supreme Court
#8920, aired 2023-07-21OLD HOLLYWOOD SCRIBES $2000: It's thought that Harry Lime from Graham Greene's "The Third Man" was based on this British spy & Soviet double agent Kim Philby
#8919, aired 2023-07-20A VACATION FROM POP CULTURE $800: "Vacation, had to get away", sang this band in a 1982 Top 10 hit the Go-Go's
#8919, aired 2023-07-20YOU'VE GOT SOME BAGGAGE $1000: This bag was named after a Victorian prime minister, & even Oscar Wilde called it fashionable a Gladstone bag
#8919, aired 2023-07-20A VACATION FROM POP CULTURE $1600: The barks in this Lindsey Buckingham song aren't the dog that's in "National Lampoon's Vacation"--it's a co-o-o-o-o-o-o-incidence "Holiday Road"
#8919, aired 2023-07-20THE DANUBE $2000: In 1991 this Danube nation S. of Ukraine became independent of Russia, modified its own name a bit & joined the U.N. the next year Moldova
#8918, aired 2023-07-19TITLES WITH PUNCTUATION $800: (,) It's the 1950 title trio that's part of the "Chronicles of Narnia" the Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe
#8918, aired 2023-07-19JULIE & JULIA $1000: This French actress has played Céline in a trilogy of films Julie Delpy
#8918, aired 2023-07-19THE "LL" YOU SAY $1600: It's an artwork that immerses the viewer in an environment, such as Damien Hirst's "Earth, Air, Fire, Water" an installation
#8917, aired 2023-07-18THE SONGS OF MAX MARTIN $200: "& Juliet" imagines the Shakespeare story had the heroine lived & here she is performing this song, Britney Spears' first hit "I must confess, that my loneliness is killing me now..." "...Baby One More Time"
#8917, aired 2023-07-18STARS ON THE NATION'S FLAG $600: In the center of the flag of Dominica are 10 lime green stars surrounding one of these raucous tropical avians native to that isle parrots
#8917, aired 2023-07-18THE SONGS OF MAX MARTIN $600: Shakespeare's wife Anne Hathaway performs "That's The Way It Is", a Top 10 hit for this chanteuse in 2000 "Don't give up on your faith / Love comes to those who believe it" Celine Dion
#8917, aired 2023-07-18STARS ON THE NATION'S FLAG $1000: China's flag's 4 small stars stood for peasants, the petty bourgeoisie, patriotic capitalists & this manual labor class the proletariat
#8917, aired 2023-07-18WORLD OF FIRST NAMES $2,000 (Daily Double): Take a first name meaning "gift of God", change the "th" sound to an "f" & you have this Russian name that means the same Fyodor
#8916, aired 2023-07-17WHAT'S THE NAME OF THAT TV SHOW? $200: Seattle's Café Nervosa was a hangout for the title psychiatrist on this TV series Frasier
#8916, aired 2023-07-17WHO'S THAT POET? $400: Nearing 40, had no poetry books out; took "The Road Not Taken" anyway, made all the difference; a New England patriot Frost
#8916, aired 2023-07-17WHAT'S THE NAME OF THAT TV SHOW? $400: Ms. Weissman is the maiden name of the title character of this show that ran for 5 seasons on Amazon Prime The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
#8916, aired 2023-07-17WHAT'S THE NAME OF THAT TV SHOW? $600: The Great Cornholio is an alter ego of one of this animated title pair Beavis & Butt-Head
#8916, aired 2023-07-17WHO'S THAT POET? $800: Usher-ed in "The Haunted Palace"; fell for Whitman (Sarah, not Walt); bit of a drinking problem Poe
#8916, aired 2023-07-17WHAT'S THE NAME OF THAT TV SHOW? $800: From 2004 to 2012 Hugh Laurie played this crusty but skillful title M.D. House
#8916, aired 2023-07-17OPPENHEIMER $1,000 (Daily Double): (Matt Damon presents the clue.) Oppenheimer wasn't sure why he chose this name for a nuclear test site, but he did recall thinking of John Donne's poems of death & resurrection, including the sonnet that begins, "Batter my heart, three-person'd God" the Trinity test site
#8916, aired 2023-07-17WHAT'S THE NAME OF THAT TV SHOW? $1000: Adrian Zmed was the rookie partner of the title character on this '80s police drama T.J. Hooker
#8916, aired 2023-07-17STATE FLAGS $1000: Delaware's flag prominently displays the date "December 7" this year 1787
#8916, aired 2023-07-17WHO'S THAT POET? $1200: "I shall not be moved"... quite moving; got a Tony nom for a 1973 performance; gone since 2014, but still she rises Maya Angelou
#8916, aired 2023-07-17DOUBLE TALK $1200: It's the pedal that created the musical effect heard here wah-wah
#8916, aired 2023-07-17WITH BELLS ON $1600: Yongs are ancient brass bells that didn't have these tongues inside to make noise as mallets were used for that a clapper
#8916, aired 2023-07-17WHO'S THAT POET? $1600: "Big Shoulders" to cry on; Spanish-American War vet; his kind of town, "Chicago" is Sandburg
#8916, aired 2023-07-17WHO'S THAT POET? $2000: An unabashed romantic; "Unbound" effort; drowning, his sorrows Shelley
#8915, aired 2023-07-14FAMILIES IN U.S. HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): A week after this rich guy IV perished on the Titanic, an inquiry into the disaster began in a hotel with his name on it Astor
#8914, aired 2023-07-13EAT IT! WEAR IT! OR SIT ON IT! $200: With nearly 30-inch legs, IKEA's Yngvar is this type of seat that's perfect for throwing back some cold ones a bar stool
#8914, aired 2023-07-13MEDICINE $800: Both Graves' & Hashimoto's disease are disorders that primarily affect this gland the thyroid
#8914, aired 2023-07-13LIVE CAMS $800: From a webcam in Finland, you can see this nighttime phenomenon that's dependent on a strong solar wind aurora borealis
#8914, aired 2023-07-13FLIGHTSEEING ACROSS AMERICA $2000: Seen here is a shot of this crater in Honolulu that's home to the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific Punchbowl Crater
#8913, aired 2023-07-12REVIVAL $400: Fashionable examples of this alphanumeric turn-of-the-century revival include the dress-over-jeans look & double denim Y2K
#8913, aired 2023-07-12REVIVAL $800: I got the leads for this Mamet play, revived in 2005! Liev Schreiber as Ricky Roma & Alan Alda as Shelly Levene! Glengarry Glen Ross
#8913, aired 2023-07-12READING WITH JENNA BUSH HAGER $1000: (Jenna Bush Hager presents the clue.) I recommended a 2022 novel that's as Gothic & mysterious as you can get; it's named for & set at this branch of the Met that's dedicated to the art of the Middle Ages the Cloisters
#8913, aired 2023-07-12TAKING A RIDE $2000: The largest emirate in area in the UAE, it's home to Formula Rossa, the roller coaster seen here that is 149 mph in 4.9 seconds Abu Dhabi
#8913, aired 2023-07-12DOUBLE-VOWEL PLACES $2000: In 1994 this South African province was divided up into 4 smaller ones that include what's now called Limpopo the Transvaal
#8912, aired 2023-07-11"B" IN MUSIC $2,800 (Daily Double): Russian by birth, he composed the patriotic song heard here for his beloved adopted country Irving Berlin
#8911, aired 2023-07-10POP CULTURE-POURRI $800: "So Much To Say" about the band named for him, like that it sold 7 million copies of 1996's "Crash" Dave Matthews
#8911, aired 2023-07-10QUOTABLE BOOKS $800: Niccolo Machiavelli's work "The Prince" advises that "it is much safer to be feared than" this loved
#8911, aired 2023-07-10EDIBLE ETYMOLOGY $800: This pastry is filled, often with apples, & rolled up; perhaps that's why its name means "eddy" in German strudel
#8911, aired 2023-07-10POP CULTURE-POURRI $1600: This "CHiPs" star teamed up with Tostitos in 2015 to promote National Chip & Dip Day Estrada
#8910, aired 2023-07-07A BRIDGE TOO FAR $1200: A bridge over 200 years old across a canyon in Málaga, Spain is called this, reminiscent of one in Paris that's over 400 years old New Bridge (Puente Nuevo)
#8910, aired 2023-07-07WE LIVE IN A SOCIETY $2000: This French thinker's multi-volume "History of Sexuality" discusses power dynamics in society Michel Foucault
#8909, aired 2023-07-06GEOGRAPHIC ANAGRAMS $400: I would hasten to add that much of the classical world's art & ideas sprang from this city near Mount Pentelicus Athens (from hasten)
#8908, aired 2023-07-05OPPOSITES $1000: Regarding blood pressure, these 2 words that end with the same 6 letters refer to how the heart muscles relax & contract systolic & diastolic
#8908, aired 2023-07-05MEMOIRS $1600: This 18th century lothario's memoir includes a prank with a corpse that goes too far & a duel over an Italian actress Casanova
#8908, aired 2023-07-05MEMOIRS $2000: In "My Last Sigh", director Luis Bunuel recalls this Spanish artist seducing women & putting fried eggs on their shoulders Salvador Dalí
#8907, aired 2023-07-04ART"S" $1200: Seen here is an example of this graphic printing process that utilizes a perforated material a stencil
#8907, aired 2023-07-04WHERE'S MY FOOD? $1,500 (Daily Double): This dessert of sponge cake, ice cream & meringue that's finished in the oven was created to honor an 1867 land purchase a baked Alaska
#8907, aired 2023-07-04SCIENCE $2000: It's the only dwarf planet that orbits the Sun closer than Neptune Ceres
#8906, aired 2023-07-03NO CAP $400: There's no upper age limit for U.S. president; some want one set at this age that Joe Biden blew past in 2012 70
#8906, aired 2023-07-03CAR GO FAST $400: Someone call 911! No, make that 919, as this brand's 919 Evo hybrid takes 4.8 seconds to go from 0 to 120 Porsche
#8906, aired 2023-07-03LIKE AVERSION $1000: A synonym for dislike, it's a Latin word that can mean spirit or anger animus
#8906, aired 2023-07-03BOOKS BY CHAPTERS $2000: "Ice-Nine", "Tutored by Bokonon" Cat's Cradle
#8904, aired 2023-06-29AT THE FARMERS MARKET $600: Let's grab some of these tomatoes whose name reflects that the varieties have been around for at least 50 years heirloom
#8904, aired 2023-06-29HISTORIC SHORTS $1200: Here's this king of Spain, the sixth of his name, rocking a mean pair of shorts Felipe
#8902, aired 2023-06-27BANKING "A" "B" "C"s $400: "B": an especially big payment that comes due at the end of a loan a balloon
#8902, aired 2023-06-27BANKING "A" "B" "C"s $800: "A": this type of interest that has accumulated but not yet been paid accrued
#8901, aired 2023-06-267-LETTER WORDS $1000: It's an oxymoronic portmanteau for a good buddy that you also sorta hate frenemy
#8900, aired 2023-06-23I LEARNED IT ON SCHOOLHOUSE ROCK $400: "You mean even if the whole Congress says you should be a law, the president can still say no?"; "Yes, that's called" this; go Bill go! a veto
#8899, aired 2023-06-22"CHAIN" $200: The U.S. Post Office said that "send-a-dime" these, a craze in 1935, violated federal lottery laws chain mail (chain letters)
#8899, aired 2023-06-22MED. ABBREV. $800: FBS stands for this type of test that measures one's glucose level at least 8 hours after eating fasting blood sugar
#8899, aired 2023-06-22TRUMPET TOOTIN' $1200: That's a piccolo trumpet hitting the high notes in this Beatles song that's "in my ears & in my eyes" "Penny Lane"
#8898, aired 2023-06-21ALLITERATION $800: It's the much-debated theory that scientific research led to the COVID-19 outbreak the lab leak theory
#8898, aired 2023-06-21HISTORY IS ELEMENTAL $2000: Otto von Bismarck's manner of rule led to him getting this nickname that includes an element & a title the Iron Chancellor
#8897, aired 2023-06-20LET'S STICK TOGETHER $1200: Retene is a hydrocarbon isolated from this sticky tree product that baseball batters can't do without pine tar
#8897, aired 2023-06-20THERE WILL BE MATH $1600: It's the law that says a(b+c) = ab + ac the distributive law
#8897, aired 2023-06-20THAT MUSICAL ACT IS UNREAL! $2000: Later a movie, Roddy Doyle's first novel is about this soulful but imaginary Irish band The Commitments
#8897, aired 2023-06-20LET'S STICK TOGETHER $2000: Put on this old "L.P.", a thick white adhesive that, as you might guess, can be used for bookbinding library paste
#8896, aired 2023-06-19TV $400: A classic TV show's opening narration says, "That's the signpost up ahead! Your next stop..." this title The Twilight Zone
#8896, aired 2023-06-19IT'S A SPECIAL DAY $600: This U.S. territory celebrates Flag Day on April 17, the day in 1900 that Old Glory was raised in Fagatogo on Tutuila Island American Samoa
#8896, aired 2023-06-19"F"IVE LETTER WORDS $800 (Daily Double): It's a genus of tree that can be grown as a houseplant such as the fiddle-leaf fig Ficus
#8896, aired 2023-06-19ON THE STATE'S LONGEST WESTERN BORDER $1000: On Ark--on that of Arkansas Oklahoma
#8896, aired 2023-06-19GENERAL ASSEMBLY $2000: Though this brother of Claudius & father of Caligula campaigned near the Rhine, that's not where he got his familiar name Germanicus
#8894, aired 2023-06-15THE GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE $200: Upon completion in 1937, it was the world's tallest & longest bridge of this type that uses cables above the span a suspension bridge
#8894, aired 2023-06-15DATING/APPS $200: You're a Mets fan? Let's hit a sports bar & enjoy these mini sandwiches that share a name with a pitch mastered by Justin Verlander a slider
#8894, aired 2023-06-15THE CZAR $1000: Paul I favored showy army drilling on this type of ground, & that's where a monument to him stands at Gatchina Palace a parade ground
#8893, aired 2023-06-14J NOT SOUNDING LIKE JUH $400: This Scandinavian first name that's big in baby carriers means "bear" Bjorn
#8893, aired 2023-06-14A CHORUS LINE $400: "So it's not just gonna happen like that, 'cause I ain't no hollaback girl" Gwen Stefani
#8893, aired 2023-06-143-, 4- OR 5-LETTER WORDS $400: Before singing "He's my brother", The Hollies noted that "He ain't" this heavy
#8892, aired 2023-06-13CROP TO IT $800: Green manure is a crop or plant that's plowed beneath soil to help give it nutrients, especially this gas nitrogen
#8892, aired 2023-06-13AFTER THE FACT $1000: John Keats described himself as "five feet high"... that's 6 inches taller than this "Rape of the Lock" poet (Alexander) Pope
#8892, aired 2023-06-13CROP TO IT $1200: This crop is the largest source of animal protein feed in the world & second in the vegetable oil race soybean(s)
#8891, aired 2023-06-12BEN & JERRY'S FLAVOR GRAVEYARD $200: Fresh Georgia this flavor "tasted great but couldn't last, 'cuz Georgia's quite a-ways away & trucks don't go that fast" peach
#8891, aired 2023-06-12BEN & JERRY'S FLAVOR GRAVEYARD $600: A 1980s effort honored a Revolutionary War Vermont hero--not just almond but this first name preceding "Almond" Ethan
#8891, aired 2023-06-12BEN & JERRY'S FLAVOR GRAVEYARD $800: "Aloha" the decadent flavor named for this nut, say Ben & Jerry, adding that it got sent off the aisle macadamia
#8890, aired 2023-06-09TV: WHO SAID IT $800: On an '80s sitcom: "Women, you can't live with 'em. Pass the beer nuts" Norm
#8890, aired 2023-06-09PETS ON FILM $1,000 (Daily Double): The title of this 2003 film about a big dog is also a symphony that premiered in 1808 in Vienna Beethoven's 5th
#8890, aired 2023-06-09TV: WHO SAID IT $2000: "We've had vicious kings & we've had idiot kings, but I don't know if we've ever been cursed with a vicious idiot boy king" Tyrion Lannister
#8889, aired 2023-06-08LATE NIGHT TALKING $400: This host's Top Ten rejected "Jeopardy!" categories included "Things that Ooze", "Doorknob Lore" & "Moist Things" (David) Letterman
#8889, aired 2023-06-082 PARTS MAKE A WHOLE $400: Adobe's web content-delivering "player" + another term for the mafia = a group that performs & then disperses quickly a Flash mob
#8889, aired 2023-06-08CATCH OF THE DAY $1000: It's the name of the Floridian fish seen here, a corruption of the Spanish "palometa" or a document that might let you catch it a permit
#8888, aired 2023-06-07A '90s KID $1200: Games for this alphanumeric console included '90s classics like "GoldenEye" & "Banjo-Kazooie" the N64
#8887, aired 2023-06-06RIAA TOP-SELLING ARTISTS $200: This rock band tops the list with more than 183 million album sales, & that's all the clue you get The Beatles
#8887, aired 2023-06-06THIS & THAT $400: Dos is Mattel's sequel to this card game Uno
#8887, aired 2023-06-06STRAIT UP $400: Head up north on Highway 101 from San Francisco & you'll cross this strait that's under the same-named bridge the Golden Gate Strait
#8887, aired 2023-06-06WATERFOWL-POURRI $800: Including the common & the Arctic, there are 5 species of this waterfowl of Canada & the U.S. that's known for its haunting cry the loon
#8887, aired 2023-06-06S-LESS, CHAPS $1000: A flat-topped mountain trims an S to get selfish as the Latin word that means "belonging to me" mesa & mea
#8887, aired 2023-06-06STRAIT UP $2000: Due northwest of the west end of Hispaniola is this passage between that island & Cuba; further S.E. are the same-named islands the Windward
#8886, aired 2023-06-05IT'S ALSO A BOAT $400: Back in my day, Sonny, we enjoyed these "notes" that could appear on one of the inner sleeves of a phonograph record liner notes
#8886, aired 2023-06-05"G"EOGRAPHY $800: Beware monsters in the valley of this river that flows near Yuma; it's where the same-named poisonous lizard hangs out the Gila River
#8886, aired 2023-06-05MYTHOLOGY $1600: Athena's Roman equivalent, this goddess had a shrine on the Aventine that was a meeting place for writers & actors Minerva
#8885, aired 2023-06-02OHIO GEOGRAPHY $400: The Ohio Agricultural & Mechanical College opened near this city in 1873; now it's much bigger & has another name Columbus
#8885, aired 2023-06-02WORDS ENDING IN "Y" $2,000 (Daily Double): It's the branch of a government that oversees the application of laws the judiciary
#8884, aired 2023-06-01POTPOURRI $800: Pour one out for "Mr." this, gone too soon in 2001; it was first named Peppo but Dr Pepper's lawyers had issues with that Mr. Pibb
#8884, aired 2023-06-01TV $1600: We're over the moon about Diego Luna's performance in the title role of this "Star Wars" series that landed in 2022 Andor
#8883, aired 2023-05-318-LETTER WORDS $800: Type of complete breakdown that's in the name of a bee colony disorder a collapse
#8883, aired 2023-05-31LANDMARKS OF GREAT BRITAIN $1200: Seeing what's left of the Helvetia on a beach in Wales, be consoled that the crew had time to do this 2-word nautical action abandon ship
#8881, aired 2023-05-29WHO WAS THAT MASKED MAN? $200: In 2004's "Spider-Man 2", this actor gets unmasked in front of Kirsten Dunst, James Franco & a trainload of New Yorkers (Tobey) Maguire
#8881, aired 2023-05-29WHO WAS THAT MASKED MAN? $400: In 2017's "Spider-Man: Homecoming", this actor accidentally appears unmasked in front of his pal Ned Tom Holland
#8881, aired 2023-05-29WHO WAS THAT MASKED MAN? $600: In 2012's "The Amazing Spider-Man", this actor gets unmasked by NYPD captain Denis Leary (Andrew) Garfield
#8881, aired 2023-05-29WHO WAS THAT MASKED MAN? $800: (I'm Shameik Moore.) In "Spider-Man Across the Spider-Verse" I once again don the spider-mask as this Brooklyn teenager who follows in Peter Parker's webbed footsteps Miles Morales
#8881, aired 2023-05-29WHO WAS THAT MASKED MAN? $1000: He's the other title guy alongside Chris O'Donnell in 1997's "Batman & Robin", & he wishes we hadn't reminded you George Clooney
#8881, aired 2023-05-29TREES COMPANY $1000: "Green is the plane-tree in the square, the other trees are brown / They droop & pine for country air / The plane-tree loves it" here the town
#8881, aired 2023-05-29PLAY "FREE" WORDS $1600: C.S. Lewis wrote that this ability is "the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having" free will
#8881, aired 2023-05-29CHEMISTRY $2000: This Italian's law says that equal volumes of gases at the same temp. & pressure have the same "number" of molecules Avogadro
#8880, aired 2023-05-26THAT'S ADORABLE $200: A new carnivore species was announced in 2013--the olinguito, found in the cloud forest of this South American mountain chain the Andes
#8880, aired 2023-05-26THAT BOOK CHARACTER DOES THINGS $400: Obeys instruction "Eat me"; sees a cat that's all smiles; lets the cards fall where they may Alice
#8880, aired 2023-05-26THAT'S ADORABLE $400: Its giant cousin is more famous for being adorable, but this bamboo eater is pretty cute a red panda
#8880, aired 2023-05-26THAT'S ADORABLE $600: Seen here is a cub of this rarely glimpsed feline species that lives in the mountains of Central Asia a snow leopard
#8880, aired 2023-05-26THAT'S ADORABLE $1000: The cute critter on the left shares this name with the guy on the right, an important partner in retail history a roebuck
#8880, aired 2023-05-26THAT BOOK CHARACTER DOES THINGS $1200: Leaves town, suspected in Huck's murder; gets on a raft with the non-murdered Huck Jim
#8880, aired 2023-05-26THAT'S ADORABLE $1,500 (Daily Double): The scientific name of one species of sloth includes didactylus, meaning this, part of its common name two-toed
#8880, aired 2023-05-26TECHNOLOGY $2000: A mini robot that can shape-shift like T-1000 was created using this element, symbol Ga; it's a metal with a low melting point Gallium
#8880, aired 2023-05-26YOU JUST MADE THAT STUFF UP $2000: This super-bouncy stuff from Disney's much-loved 1961 "The Absent-Minded Professor" was the title of a 1997 remake flubber
#8880, aired 2023-05-26YOU JUST MADE THAT STUFF UP $4,000 (Daily Double): It's the very hard-to-get substance that causes humans to set up shop on Pandora unobtanium
#8879, aired 2023-05-25FLAG TERMINOLOGY $1000: The charge is a flag's main graphic element; on California's flag, that would be this a bear
#8878, aired 2023-05-24THAT'S A WRAP, EVERYBODY! $200: Pre-butterfly, a caterpillar wraps itself in a cocoon-like this & then digests itself, using enzymes to dissolve its tissues a chrysalis
#8878, aired 2023-05-24THAT'S A WRAP, EVERYBODY! $400: It's SC Johnson's trademarked "premium wrap" with polyethylene-low density, a polymer also used to form plastic bags Saran Wrap
#8878, aired 2023-05-24THAT'S A WRAP, EVERYBODY! $600: whattoexpect.com provides a step-by-step on how to do this for an infant, as "Who doesn't love a baby burrito?" swaddling
#8878, aired 2023-05-24THAT'S A WRAP, EVERYBODY! $800: This chain filled the biggest Postmates order of 2019: 220 items, including 20 Crunchwrap Supremes Taco Bell
#8878, aired 2023-05-24THAT'S A WRAP, EVERYBODY! $1000: This loose, skirt-like wrap is noted for its traditional use in the Malay archipelago sarong
#8878, aired 2023-05-24SCIENCE $1600: Lasting about 4 billion years & encompassing Earth's first 3 eons is this time period that "pre"cedes everything else Precambrian
#20, aired 2023-05-24THE 1960s $800: Last name of Henry, a 19th century governor; it follows "the" in the name of a San Francisco area where 1967 activities would not have pleased Henry Haight
#20, aired 2023-05-24IT'S JUST US $2000: Paul Williams, Helen Reddy & Johnny Mathis have all recorded the song that says, "Sometimes it feels like" this mismatch "You And Me Against The World"
#20, aired 2023-05-24IN THIS WORLD $4,600 (Daily Double): Guadalcanal is a Pacific island; the same 6 letters start the name of this river that flows through southern Spain Guadalquivir
#20, aired 2023-05-24NATURE $7,400 (Daily Double): Malay gives us the name of this marine mammal that's similar to a manatee a dugong
#19, aired 2023-05-24SO YOU THINK YOU'RE PRETTY GOOD AT THIS $200: Called invincible, it was sent from Spain in 1588 by King Philip II to invade England; it proved... vincible Spanish Armada
#19, aired 2023-05-24RECENT EVENTS $600: The FDA gave early approval to Leqembi, a breakthrough drug that clears amyloid protein buildup from the brain to fight this disease Alzheimer's
#19, aired 2023-05-24IN THE WORLD CAPITAL $1,000 (Daily Double): The Zytglogge tower & astronomical clock, which inspired Einstein & his special theory of relativity Bern
#19, aired 2023-05-24COMPOSERS $1000: "Hella good fugues, Nicky", or words to that effect, was Tchaikovsky's response when this young composer sent him some works Rimsky-Korsakov
#8877, aired 2023-05-23ANIMALS IN LITERATURE $600: In a book by Paul Gallico, Thomasina is one of these pets that channels the Egyptian goddess Bastet & saves her owner's life a cat
#8877, aired 2023-05-23MEDICINE $3,000 (Daily Double): Blood pressure that's higher in the doctor's office than at home is referred to as this colorful type of hypertension white coat hypertension
#18, aired 2023-05-23COOKING WEIGHTS & MEASURES $600: This word indicates that a dry ingredient should be mounded over the rim of the measuring utensil heaping
#18, aired 2023-05-23THE MOVIES $1000: This 2000 film has a choreographer named Sparky demonstrating, "these are spirit fingers" Bring It On
#18, aired 2023-05-23EPONYMS $1200: This plant that has brilliant scarlet, pink or white petallike bracts is named for a U.S. minister to Mexico in the 1820s poinsettia
#18, aired 2023-05-23LET'S GO GULFING $2000: The Equator & prime meridian intersect in this gulf that stretches from Cape Lopez in Gabon to Cape Palmas in Liberia Gulf of Guinea
#17, aired 2023-05-23BEFORE, DURING & AFTER $800: Kermit's colorful theme song about the group that nominated Ralph Nader & always spoiled the fun at festivities "It's Not Easy Being Green" Party pooper
#17, aired 2023-05-23QUESTIONABLE MUSIC CHOICES $800: John Mulaney has an amazing story of selecting 21 plays on a diner's jukebox of this 1965 Tom Jones hit "What's New, Pussycat?"
#17, aired 2023-05-23SCULPTORS $1600: A 1928 court case determined that this Romanian's "Bird in Space" was a work of art, not a manufactured object Brancusi
#8876, aired 2023-05-22RICE PUDDING $400: The type of rice named for & used for this food is short grain rice that's treated with vinegar, then fanned sushi
#16, aired 2023-05-22A LIFE IN SCIENCE $400: James Chadwick won a 1935 Nobel Prize for discovering this subatomic particle that's part of every atomic nucleus but ordinary hydrogen a neutron
#16, aired 2023-05-22FAMOUS FOLKS $1200: This TikToker seen here starred in the gender-swapped movie remake "He's All That" Addison Rae
#15, aired 2023-05-22CLASSIC GAME SHOW PHRASES $600: "Dumb Dora was so dumb..." Match Game
#15, aired 2023-05-22PURE POETRY $800: (Ada Limón reads.) I'm a big fan of this strong metrical foot that consists of two stressed syllables, like the title of my poem "Dead Stars" spondee
#15, aired 2023-05-22CLASSIC GAME SHOW PHRASES $800: To the mystery guest: "Enter & sign in, please" What's My Line?
#8875, aired 2023-05-19THOSE BALLS HAVE "I"s $400: These perforated plastic balls are made for playing the same-named game in spaces that are too small for baseball Wiffle balls
#8875, aired 2023-05-19GATES $600: This palace's Gate of Honor is a 21st century re-creation of one that was destroyed during the French Revolution Versailles
#8875, aired 2023-05-19HURRAY FOR HOLLYWOOD! $800: Serving fine food & legendary martinis, this iconic restaurant that opened its doors in 1919 is named for 2 of its founders Musso & Frank's
#8875, aired 2023-05-19HIP-HOP NAMES $2000: Hip-hop's 50th bday in 2023 is based on the Aug. 11, 1973 party DJed by Clive Campbell, who used this name from a mythical strongman DJ Kool Herc
#8875, aired 2023-05-19THOSE BALLS HAVE "I"s $4,000 (Daily Double): In addition to its volleyballs, this company has been making the official NFL football since 1941 Wilson
#8874, aired 2023-05-18ORGANIZATIONS $400: It's the "M" in USMA, which had high hopes in the 1970s when it looked like the U.S. might start to measure by that system metric
#8874, aired 2023-05-18RESTAURANTS $1000: Carmy on "The Bear" previously worked at this much-awarded Thomas Keller restaurant that's in California, not Europe the French Laundry
#8873, aired 2023-05-17THAT'S OUR MOTTO! $200: "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity"; the phrase appears in its constitutions of 1946 & 1958 France
#8873, aired 2023-05-17THAT'S OUR MOTTO! $400: "Semper Fidelis", adopted in 1883 the Marines
#8873, aired 2023-05-17THAT'S OUR MOTTO! $600: Per Baden-Powell: "Be Prepared" the Boy Scouts
#8873, aired 2023-05-17POE"M"S $800: Paul Laurence Dunbar wrote, "We wear the" this "that grins and lies, it hides our cheeks and shades our eyes" mask
#8873, aired 2023-05-17THAT'S OUR MOTTO! $1,000 (Daily Double): Of this Massachusetts university, translating from Hebrew: "Truth, even unto its innermost parts" Brandeis University
#8873, aired 2023-05-17THAT'S OUR MOTTO! $1000: For a huge 2022 sporting event: "Together for a shared future" the (Beijing) Winter Olympics
#14, aired 2023-05-17SECRETS OF THE ANGELENOS $400: A columnist wrote that next to the Black Dahlia, L.A.'s biggest whodunit is who killed this streetcar system aka Pacific Electric the Red Car
#14, aired 2023-05-17ROCK"ER"S $800: This "Even Flow" & "Better Man" singer has recorded under the pseudonym Wes C. Addle Eddie Vedder
#14, aired 2023-05-17BRING WHAT? $1000: An inscription at Washington, D.C.'s Union Station says, "He that would bring home" this phrase "must carry" this phrase "with him" the wealth of the Indies
#14, aired 2023-05-17SECRETS OF THE ANGELENOS $1000: Burbank grew around Lockheed, maker of this fighter that took part in World War II's first shoot-down of a German plane by an American one the P-38 (Lightning)
#14, aired 2023-05-17BODIES OF WATER $1200: Henry Rowe Schoolcraft is said to have coined the name of this American lake from Latin for "truth" & "head" Lake Itasca (in Minnesota)
#14, aired 2023-05-17NOT-SO-PLAIN JANES $2000: A longtime friend of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, this dancer from the Moulin Rouge graced several of the artist's works Avril
#13, aired 2023-05-17FAMOUS NAME OVERLAPS $400: The man with a "Plan" that earned a Nobel Peace Prize in 1953 & Eminem's name at birth George Marshall Mathers
#13, aired 2023-05-17INTERNATIONAL FOOD WITH PADMA LAKSHMI $600: (Padma Lakshmi reads.) It may surprise you, but a cherished dish of mine involves something salty, spicy, crunchy & cheesy known as this "pie" that's often served in the snack products bag Frito pie
#13, aired 2023-05-17PAGE TO SCREEN WITH A DIFFERENT TITLE $1000: A sort of sci-fi "Groundhog Day", Hiroshi Sakurazaka's novel "All You Need Is Kill" became this Tom Cruise movie Edge of Tomorrow
#8872, aired 2023-05-16HEAVEN ON EARTH $400: This country's flag bears 2 keys, symbols of the ones given to St. Peter that gave him access to heaven Vatican City
#12, aired 2023-05-16ENDS IN A DOUBLE VOWEL $400: Witty banter full of clever & funny comments repartee
#12, aired 2023-05-16NEW WORLD EXPLORATION $400: Bernal Díaz, who sailed on the voyage that discovered the Yucatan, was a soldier who witnessed this Aztec leader's death Moctezuma
#12, aired 2023-05-1612-LETTER WORDS $600: It's now pretty much lights out for this once-standard type of light bulb, as its filament is less efficient incandescent
#12, aired 2023-05-16COMMUNICATION $600: MLB's Matt Williams has moved just a few feet from his old playing position to this job that involves relaying signals to players third base coach
#12, aired 2023-05-16BRITISH MUSICAL GEOGRAPHY $1200: The lead singer is seen here in 2022 when this band performed back home in Birmingham at the Commonwealth Games closing ceremonies Black Sabbath
#12, aired 2023-05-16NEW WORLD EXPLORATION $1600: When Columbus arrived at the island he named this on October 12, 1492, he wrote that it was green & a pleasure to see San Salvador
#11, aired 2023-05-16MOVIE MUSIC WITH HANS ZIMMER $400: (Hans Zimmer reads and plays.) For this epic I tried to use some international influences, as it opens in Germany, takes place partly in Morocco & the hero is known as "the Spaniard" Gladiator
#11, aired 2023-05-16MOVIE MUSIC WITH HANS ZIMMER $600: (Hans Zimmer reads.) For Denis Villeneuve's sequel to "Blade Runner", we used the same model synth, a Yamaha CS-80, that this Greek genius had used to create the moody sci-fi soundscape for the original film Vangelis
#11, aired 2023-05-16MOVIE MUSIC WITH HANS ZIMMER $800: (Hans Zimmer reads.) Listening to Ennio Morricone's majestic score as a kid while watching this Sergio Leone epic that featured Henry Fonda taking a villainous turn, I thought, "That's what I want to do" Once Upon a Time in the West
#11, aired 2023-05-16KEN JENNINGS: INTERNATIONAL NERD OF MYSTERY $2000: I am going to have a serious discussion of Asimov's 3 laws with this Mass.-based co. that makes Atlas, a robot that does parkour Boston Dynamics
#11, aired 2023-05-16SCIENCE $8,000 (Daily Double): (Here with your clue is quantum physicist Spiros Michalakis.) 2022 Nobel physics laureate Anton Zeilinger has pioneered the quantum type of this, from Latin for "far" & "carry"; it's just a state of 2 entangled particles that is moved--nothing bigger yet teleportation
#8871, aired 2023-05-15SCIENTISTS $800: Galvani said he'd found a new type of this restricted to animal tissue; Volta proved it's the same type that goes through metal electricity
#8871, aired 2023-05-15PUTTING THE "MM" IN YUMMY $800: That's not a tomato but the Japanese variety of this fruit a persimmon
#8871, aired 2023-05-15IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD $2000: Many an artist has lived in this neighborhood in Manhattan's East Village that runs through avenues A, B, C & D Alphabet City
#10, aired 2023-05-15GREAT SPORTS CALLS $200: Andrés Cantor said he almost fainted while making this call after a thrilling Landon Donovan score GOOOAAAL!
#10, aired 2023-05-15FROM THE GREEK $1000: From Greek for "head" & "foot", it's any of the class of mollusks that includes the squid & octopus cephalopod
#10, aired 2023-05-15WHATEVER FLOATS $1600: The Mayo Clinic's page on eye floaters reveals that they're commonly caused by clumps of this fibrous protein collagen
#10, aired 2023-05-15TV THERAPISTS $2000: This onetime shrink played by David Cross on "Arrested Development" suffers from never-nude syndrome Tobias (Fünke)
#9, aired 2023-05-15ABBREV. $200: Eph. is one way to abbreviate this Bible book Ephesians
#9, aired 2023-05-15TECH TALK $600: It follows "self-" to describe a modest person & it's what happens to an app feature that's being eliminated but still works for now deprecating
#9, aired 2023-05-15NOT YOUR EVERYDAY WORDS $800: A tall white chef's hat has this 5-letter name that can be followed by "blanche", if you want to be fancy toque
#9, aired 2023-05-15ABBREV. $1000: Remember your cell biology? E.R. is this membrane system with a name that's fun to say endoplasmic reticulum
#9, aired 2023-05-15LET'S GO ON A SAFARI $11,800 (Daily Double): A unique way to see wildlife in the Mosi-oa-Tunya National Park is to take a sunset cruise on this river above Victoria Falls Zambezi
#8870, aired 2023-05-12TRIPLE RHYME TIME $600: A bird of prey that has been crowned king aboard Darwin's ship a regal Beagle eagle
#8870, aired 2023-05-12STATE CAPITAL TO STATE CAPITAL $1000: It's a 29-hour, 2,000-mile drive from Oklahoma City to this state capital, the only other that begins with "O" Olympia
#8, aired 2023-05-12AUTHORS' PRETTY DECENT REVIEWS $600: The Detroit Free Press said "The Mummy" was "vintage" this novelist; "elegantly erotic & full of enchanting terror" Anne Rice
#8, aired 2023-05-12GAMES, OLD & NEW $800: The 1981 edition of Trivial Pursuit has this name that you may be familiar with from binomial nomenclature Genus (Edition)
#8, aired 2023-05-12MASTERPIECES $800: Some argue that Verdi's masterpiece is "Don Carlos", based on a 1787 play by this German writer Schiller
#8, aired 2023-05-12GROWING UP X $800: This type of printer from Apple that used pins hitting an inked ribbon? You bet it's on display! dot matrix
#8, aired 2023-05-12W-2 $800: It's the name for that extra toenail on your dog's foot a dewclaw
#8, aired 2023-05-12GAMES, OLD & NEW $1200: Around 1870 the Tenth Hussars faced the Ninth Lancers in this game that's been around for 2,000 years or so polo
#8, aired 2023-05-12WORLD FACTS $1200: It's the only country in Africa that's completely surrounded by another country Lesotho
#8, aired 2023-05-12GAMES, OLD & NEW $2000: Aperture Science Laboratories is the setting of this classic that's among Steam's top-ranked games Portal
#8, aired 2023-05-122-LETTER RESPONSES $2000: Signifying negation or absence, it's the response to the famous koan "Does a dog have Buddha nature?" mu
#8, aired 2023-05-12TV TITLE REFERENCES $9,600 (Daily Double): Slang meaning undergoing the terrible agony of withdrawal from opiates like Oxycontin dopesick
#7, aired 2023-05-12JOHNNY GILBERT'S MUSICAL THEATER AUDITION $200: "But the sun rolling high through the sapphire sky/ Keeps great & small on the endless round/ It's the circle of life" The Lion King
#7, aired 2023-05-12REVOLT-ING HISTORY $200: Not long after British taxes led to U.S. independence, Congress passed a tax on liquor that led to this rebellion the Whiskey Rebellion
#7, aired 2023-05-12MNEMONIC POSSESSION $400: For these, "My very educated mother just served us nine pizzas" got cut to "My very educated mother just served us nachos" the planets
#7, aired 2023-05-12INVERTEBRATES $1600: A 2010 study suggested that the fluorescence of this arachnid is a way for it to detect & avoid ultraviolet light scorpion
#8869, aired 2023-05-11LIONS & TIGERS & BEERS $400: During Prohibition, Pennsylvania's Lion Brewery made this rhyming stuff that had just 1/10 the alcohol of regular beer near beer
#8868, aired 2023-05-10MISSION: IMPASSABLE $600: A twist on the Cold War barrier that divided Europe, it was the Pittsburgh NFL team's defense in the 1970s the Steel Curtain
#8868, aired 2023-05-10BETTER TOMES & GARDENS $800: The gamekeeper's little garden in this D.H. Lawrence novel features "double daffodils" that "rose in Tufts" Lady Chatterley's Lover
#8868, aired 2023-05-10CLASSIC MOVIES $800: 1932's "I am a Fugitive from" this shackled-together group stirred outrage against that penal practice a chain gang
#6, aired 2023-05-10CAR STUFF $200: It's a myth that this Chevy didn't sell in Spanish-speaking markets because its name can be translated as "doesn't go" the Nova
#6, aired 2023-05-10U.S. "BURG"S $600: It's the only state capital that fits the category Harrisburg (in Pennsylvania)
#6, aired 2023-05-10WORLD OF WORDS & IDIOMS $800: In the Netherlands "So it's like that!" is "O, op die fiets", "On that" this transport the Dutch love bicycle
#6, aired 2023-05-10U.S. "BURG"S $1000: This South Carolina city was named for a local militia that helped win the Battle of Cowpens in the American Revolution Spartanburg
#6, aired 2023-05-10THE MALE GAZE $1600: Both Superman & this dog of his have X-ray vision; the superpooch also has heat vision & freeze breath! Krypto
#5, aired 2023-05-10MASTERING PASTRY WITH DOMINIQUE ANSEL $400: (Dominique Ansel reads.) It's not actually a thousand, despite the name, but usually three layers of puff pastry that are spread with cream & jam to make this dessert mille-feuille
#5, aired 2023-05-10WIVES OF THE NOT YET PRESIDENTS $800: Georgia belle Ellen Axson, a relative of Confederate Gen. James Longstreet, got to live in Princeton with this not yet president Wilson
#5, aired 2023-05-10CLASSICAL MUSIC CLASSICS $1200: An audio clue on Robert Schumann's "Träumerei", meaning this activity that interested Freud, has to be long b/c it's played so slow dreaming
#5, aired 2023-05-10CLASSICAL MUSIC CLASSICS $19,000 (Daily Double): This composer's most famous piece, eventually annoying him with its fame, was originally titled "Finland Awakes" Sibelius
#8867, aired 2023-05-09WHAT'S THAT SMELL? $400: Oopsie, I accidentally spilled this household product on my shirt bleach
#8867, aired 2023-05-09WHAT'S THAT SMELL? $800: Sorry, just had some shrimp scampi that was extra heavy on this pungent key ingredient; kiss? garlic
#8867, aired 2023-05-09BURT BACHARACH $1200: With Carole Bayer Sager, Burt gave us this song that says, "Keep smiling, keep shining, knowing you can always count on me, for sure" "That's What Friends Are For"
#8867, aired 2023-05-09WHAT'S THAT SMELL? $1200: In "Apocalypse Now" Robert Duvall loved "the smell of" this "in the morning" napalm
#8867, aired 2023-05-09WHAT'S THAT SMELL? $1600: It's this incense fragrance, warm, slightly sweet, slightly musky, from trees in the genus Santalum sandalwood
#8867, aired 2023-05-09WHAT'S THAT SMELL? $2000: It's Vicks VapoRub for cold relief, a combination of menthol, camphor & this strong-smelling tree oil eucalyptus
#4, aired 2023-05-09NEED! COFFEE! NOW! $200: Heidi Klum takes this espresso & steamed milk drink full-fat; Reese Witherspoon favors an almond soy one a latte
#4, aired 2023-05-09RHYMINGLY NAMED CELEBS $400: In 1997 he was up for a Grammy, made a cameo in "Good Burger" & ended the season shooting 48% from the free throw line Shaquille O'Neal (Shaq accepted)
#4, aired 2023-05-09LITERATURE $1200: Lewis Carroll was the pen name of this mathematician turned children's author Charles Dodgson
#4, aired 2023-05-09PLEASE LOOK THROUGH THE TELESCOPE $2000: The bright rays visible at the bottom of the Moon emanate from this impact crater named for an astronomer Tycho (for Tycho Brahe)
#4, aired 2023-05-09"OF" PAINT $13,200 (Daily Double): This 1793 painting seen here depicts an event from July of that year Death of Marat
#3, aired 2023-05-09TV $200: The last advertising idea conceived by Don Draper on "Mad Men" was for this bubbly product Coke
#3, aired 2023-05-09____ OF THE ____ $400: It's the idea that having a little whiskey the morning after you've had a lot of whiskey will somehow make you feel better hair of the dog
#3, aired 2023-05-09TIME TO LAWYER UP $600: A defense that involves claiming one knew nothing, saw nothing & heard nothing is named for this "Hogan's Heroes" character Sergeant Schultz
#3, aired 2023-05-09UNUSUAL MUSEUMS $600: Like Las Vegas, Warsaw, Poland has this type of museum that's really lit (literally) Museum of Neon
#3, aired 2023-05-09THE MAP OF EUROPE $800: There's a southern German state in the name of this Alpine subrange that runs along the border of Germany & Austria the Bavarian Alps
#3, aired 2023-05-09UNUSUAL MUSEUMS $800: Cup Noodles Museum in Osaka honors Momofuku Ando, who invented instant ramen & founded this company that makes it Nissin
#3, aired 2023-05-09DIANE WARREN $2000: (Diane Warren gives the clue.) I honored my own dad for believing in me & my music when I wrote "Because You Love Me" for this film in which Robert Redford played a news director who believed in Michelle Pfeiffer Up Close & Personal
#3, aired 2023-05-09COLONIAL AMERICA $7,200 (Daily Double): This evangelical revival of the 1730s & 1740s was led by such theologians as George Whitefield & Jonathan Edwards the Great Awakening
#8866, aired 2023-05-08YEET! $800: Truman: "I didn't fire" him "because he was a dumb son of a (bleep), although he was, but that's not against the law for generals" MacArthur
#2, aired 2023-05-08BUILD YOUR OWN SPY NOVEL TITLES $800: The + a legendary king of the Geats + either of the 2 main divisions of the Christian Bible The Beowulf Testament
#2, aired 2023-05-08POP CULTURE IN BLACK & WHITE $2000: Nicknamed for something sweet, he joined the all-white New Orleans Rhythm Kings on an early integrated jazz recording session Jelly Roll Morton

Final Jeopardy! Round clues (1000 results returned) (search results maxed out)

#9068, aired 2024-03-27OLD WORDS: First appearing in an English dictionary in 1623, mesonoxian means pertaining to this word midnight
#9067, aired 2024-03-26ELEMENTS: In his "Natural History" Pliny described it as "argentum vivum" mercury
#9066, aired 2024-03-25NOTORIOUS FIGURES: Never even a soldier, this man lied that his nickname came from a shrapnel wound while fighting in the Argonne Al Capone
#9064, aired 2024-03-2120th CENTURY NOVELS: Virginia Woolf disliked this book that was "cutting out the explanations and putting in the thoughts between dashes" Ulysses
#9061, aired 2024-03-18EURASIA: Zvartnots International Airport serves this capital & has the code EVN, all letters found in the city's name Yerevan, Armenia
#9058, aired 2024-03-13BOOKS OF THE BIBLE: This book is named for a tribe of Israel that carried out judgment of the idolaters of the golden calf Leviticus
#9055, aired 2024-03-08LITERATURE & RELIGION: This city now in Turkey is the addressee of one of the New Testament epistles & the setting for "The Comedy of Errors" Ephesus
#9054, aired 2024-03-07ANCIENT DRAMA: From the 470s B.C., Aeschylus' earliest surviving work has this title; he'd fought them repeatedly in the preceding years The Persians
#9051, aired 2024-03-04POETS OF ANCIENT ROME: Far from Rome, this first century poet wrote, "The leader's anger done, grant me the right to die in my native country" Ovid
#9050, aired 2024-03-01COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD: Fearful of independence in 1975, around 120,000 of this country's people, a third of the population, fled to the Netherlands Suriname
#9046, aired 2024-02-26ART HISTORY: The Royal Academy of Arts has this man's "La Fornarina" & in the 1800s the RAA's love of him made some artists retreat to an earlier style Raphael
#9043, aired 2024-02-2119th CENTURY AMERICANS: In 1896, 15 years after a famous showdown, this man was accused of fixing a championship boxing match Wyatt Earp
#9042, aired 2024-02-20PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS: He's the most recent presidential candidate to have officially declared his opponent in that campaign the victor Al Gore
#9039, aired 2024-02-15LANDMARKS: The distance between its 2 legs at ground level is 630 feet, making it as wide as it is tall the Gateway Arch
#9034, aired 2024-02-08COUNTRY MUSIC: "It was kind of a prodding to myself to play it straight", said Johnny Cash of this 1956 hit "I Walk The Line"
#9026, aired 2024-01-29HISTORICAL FICTION: Stan Lee said the alias-using title character of this novel set during the French Revolution "was the 1st superhero I... read about" The Scarlet Pimpernel
#9022, aired 2024-01-23U.S. BUSINESS FOUNDERS: A 1934 note to him: "Received hunting clothes... and thank you for those wonderful shoes they fit perfect... your friend, Babe Ruth" L.L. Bean
#9021, aired 2024-01-22PRESIDENTS & VICE PRESIDENTS: The first vice president & the first president not born in one of the original 13 states were both born in this state Kentucky
#9018, aired 2024-01-1719th CENTURY AMERICA: An 1884 article calls this newly completed structure "the highest work of man" & disagrees with those who call it "a great chimney" the Washington Monument
#25, aired 2024-01-16ICONIC DESIGNERS: Once married to a publishing heir who owned citrus groves, her brightly printed dresses were originally designed to hide juice stains Lilly Pulitzer
#9017, aired 2024-01-16NEW NATIONS: In September 2023 the U.S. recognized 2 new nations in free association with New Zealand: Niue & this archipelago the Cook Islands
#9010, aired 2024-01-05CHILDREN'S BOOKS: A 2020 edition of this beloved 1911 novel came with a glossary of horticultural terms & a location guide The Secret Garden
#9009, aired 2024-01-04HISTORIC AMERICANS: They went their separate ways in 1806 & both became territorial governors: one of Upper Louisiana, the other of Missouri Lewis & Clark
#9007, aired 2024-01-02LANDMARKS: During Pope John Paul II's 1987 visit to Los Angeles, pranksters covered up this letter in a local landmark L
#9002, aired 2023-12-26BOOK CHARACTERS: Early on in a 1966 novel, this title character beats the protagonist in maze races; later on he bites him Algernon
#9001, aired 2023-12-25FAMOUS NAMES IN AMERICA: The name of this animal that died in 1885 after being struck by a train that subsequently derailed lives on as an adjective Jumbo
#8999, aired 2023-12-21FROM PAGE TO STAGE: The opera based on this 1993 memoir was staged at a prison for the first time in 2023, at Sing Sing with a chorus of 14 inmates Dead Man Walking
#8998, aired 2023-12-20COUNTRIES: Of the 14 countries that border China, it's the only monarchy & the only one with a population under 1 million Bhutan
#8994, aired 2023-12-14BUSINESS: Of the Big 4 U.S. airlines, the 4 that each have over 15% of the domestic market, it's the youngest Southwest
#8990, aired 2023-12-08ANCIENT HISTORY: Before visiting Achilles' tomb, this man threw his spear onto the ground in Asia & declared the continent "spear-won" Alexander the Great
#8987, aired 2023-12-052020s TELEVISION: The title locale of this series is really the Belnord, dating to 1908 & located at 86th & Broadway on NYC's Upper West Side Only Murders in the Building
#8985, aired 2023-12-01BODIES OF WATER: The Goshute, a Western people, called this vast body of water Teittse Paa, meaning "bad water" the Great Salt Lake
#20, aired 2023-11-15ARTISTS: Exhumed in 2017 to settle a paternity suit, his mustache had "preserved its classic 10-past-10 position" according to the Spanish press Salvador Dalí
#8966, aired 2023-11-06MUSIC & LITERATURE: John Steinbeck called this "one of the great songs of the world" & wanted the music & lyrics printed in one of his novels "The Battle Hymn Of The Republic"
#8965, aired 2023-11-03BRITISH HISTORY: At Leicester Cathedral in March 2015, the Archbishop of Canterbury led a religious ceremony for this deceased English monarch Richard III
#8964, aired 2023-11-02ANCIENT GEOGRAPHY: Britain became an island less than 10,000 years ago, as warming weather & melting ice filled in this sea the North Sea
#19, aired 2023-11-01PLAY TITLES: This 1959 play's title was taken from a Langston Hughes poem that begins, "What happens to a dream deferred?" A Raisin in the Sun (by Lorraine Hansberry)
#8961, aired 2023-10-30DRIVING THE USA: It's the state with the most miles of Interstate Highway, more than 3,200; one Interstate accounts for 1/4 of that mileage Texas
#8960, aired 2023-10-27FAMOUS AMERICANS: On March 23, 1779 he became the first U.S. diplomat to serve overseas by presenting his credentials to a foreign government Benjamin Franklin
#18, aired 2023-10-25TWEEN LIT: Referring to the lengthy title of her much-discussed novel, this author lamented that she didn't just call the book "Margaret" Judy Blume
#8958, aired 2023-10-25HISTORIC LETTERS: A letter from him begins, "On the thirty-third day after I had left Cadiz, I reached the Indian Ocean" (Christopher) Columbus
#8954, aired 2023-10-19NAMES: The name Jennifer is an alteration of this name that in early Welsh literature belonged to the "first lady of the island" Guinevere
#8952, aired 2023-10-17MILITARY HISTORY: A 1918 article titled "Do Not Shoot at" these said hunters were interfering with the U.S. Signal Corps' training of them (carrier or homing) pigeons
#16, aired 2023-10-11RALLYING CRIES: Don't mess with Texas: Sam Houston's troops shouted this 3-word battle cry while attacking Santa Anna's army at San Jacinto Remember the Alamo!
#8948, aired 2023-10-11FINE ART: An early owner of this 1889 painting full of blue & green noted how well the artist "understood the exquisite nature of flowers!" Irises
#8943, aired 2023-10-04AMERICAN IMMIGRANTS: His 1904 will stipulated that "all the sums hereinbefore specified for prizes shall be used for prizes only" Joseph Pulitzer
#8942, aired 2023-10-03THE 1500s: In the early 1500s he produced a codex in words & pictures on the flight of birds, one of many subjects that interested him Leonardo da Vinci
#8940, aired 2023-09-29U.S. SENATE HISTORY: In 1805, after 4 years presiding over the Senate, he left the chamber, calling it "a sanctuary; a citadel of law, of order" Aaron Burr
#8935, aired 2023-09-22COMPOSERS: A fireworks display followed the April 27, 1749 premiere of a work by this man that had been commissioned by George II (George Frideric) Handel
#8933, aired 2023-09-2020th CENTURY PEOPLE: In 2022 the Dept. of Energy noted "a flawed process" & vacated a 1954 commission's decision "in the matter of" this man (J. Robert) Oppenheimer
#8930, aired 2023-09-15ASTRONOMY: The only dwarf planet located in the inner Solar System, it's named for an ancient deity of planting & harvests Ceres
#8928, aired 2023-09-13ARTISTS: On October 26, 1886 he said, "The dream of my life is accomplished... I see the symbol of unity & friendship between 2 nations" Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi
#8918, aired 2023-07-19FAMOUS PAINTINGS: A German guidebook to a 1937 World's Fair dismissed it as a "hodgepodge of body parts that any four-year-old could have painted" Guernica
#8912, aired 2023-07-11OLYMPIC TEAMS: A city of about 2.5 million people, since 1984 for political reasons it has been in the name of an Olympic team Taipei
#8906, aired 2023-07-03FASHION: The name of these items that became a 1940s fad derives in part from a word meaning "to cut short" bobby socks
#8905, aired 2023-06-30NATIONAL ANTHEMS: The name of this country's national anthem translates as "His Majesty's Reign" & its lyrics come from a 1,000-year-old poem Japan
#8899, aired 2023-06-22THE 19th CENTURY: In 1823 he wrote, "In the war between those new governments and Spain we declared our neutrality" (James) Monroe
#8897, aired 2023-06-20THE OLYMPICS: This sport that made its Olympic debut in 1988 has a playing surface of only about 45 square feet table tennis
#8894, aired 2023-06-15THE U.S. GOVERNMENT: Established in 1938, this congressional group was still issuing subpoenas in 1969 & finally ceased to exist 6 years later the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)
#8890, aired 2023-06-09BRITISH NOVELS: Midway through this 1928 novel, the title character briefly takes "their" instead of his or her Orlando
#8889, aired 2023-06-08BUSINESS HISTORY: What is dubbed "the world's first initial public offering" took place in 1602 in this current European capital Amsterdam
#8881, aired 2023-05-29MEMORIALS: The Vietnam War crypt at this memorial has been empty since the remains once there were identified & moved to St. Louis the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
#20, aired 2023-05-24LATIN IN LITERATURE: A work by this 15th century English writer quotes the phrase "rex quondam rexque futurus" Thomas Malory
#18, aired 2023-05-23OPERA & HISTORY: Appropriately, the last performance at the Vienna State Opera before it was destroyed in 1945 by Allied bombs was this opera from 1876 Götterdämmerung
#8877, aired 2023-05-23SHAKESPEARE'S CHARACTERS: Both of the names of these 2 lovers in a Shakespeare play come from Latin words for "blessed" Beatrice & Benedick
#16, aired 2023-05-22HISTORIC SHIPS: This 16th century ship got its name from the crest of patron Christopher Hatton, which featured a deer the Golden Hind
#8874, aired 2023-05-18BILLBOARD NO. 1 HITS: Billy Joel said, "I think the one time I didn't write the music" before the lyrics was for this 1989 hit, "and I think it shows" "We Didn't Start The Fire"
#8873, aired 2023-05-17U.S. NATIONAL MEMORIALS: Efforts recently began to reintroduce 2 species of oyster to help restore the contaminated waters of this, a national memorial Pearl Harbor
#12, aired 2023-05-16LANDMARKS: For more than a millennium, a huge embroidered work known as the Kiswa has been used to adorn & protect this structure the Kaaba
#8872, aired 2023-05-16AUTHORS: In 1960 Jean-Paul Sartre wrote of this man's "victorious attempt... to snatch every instant of his existence from his future death" (Albert) Camus
#9, aired 2023-05-15THE U.S. GOVERNMENT: Not a department head but of Cabinet rank, the person in this post has had an official residence in a 42nd floor Park Avenue penthouse ambassador to the United Nations
#8, aired 2023-05-12FICTIONAL PLACES: The dominions of this land "extend five thousand blustrugs (about twelve miles in circumference)" Lilliput
#6, aired 2023-05-10HISTORIC HOMES: This residence is part of an estate that includes Ballochbuie Forest, a remnant of the ancient Caledonian pine forest Balmoral
#3, aired 2023-05-0921st CENTURY AUTHORS: Once a journalist himself, he began his first novel with his hero being fined 150,000 kronor for aggravated libel Stieg Larsson
#8867, aired 2023-05-09ACTRESSES & THEIR ROLES: She made her big screen debut as a teen named Laurie in a 1978 film & in 2022 she played that role for the 7th & last time Jamie Lee Curtis
#4, aired 2023-05-09WESTERN HEMISPHERE HISTORY: In 1915 the assassination of President Sam brought Uncle Sam to this country, beginning a 19-year military occupation Haiti
#1, aired 2023-05-08POETRY: A colossal head of Ramses II brought to the British Museum inspired this 1818 poem "Ozymandias"
#8863, aired 2023-05-03BUSINESS & SOCIAL MEDIA: On Twitter in 2023, this food franchise followed an exact total of 11 accounts that included Victoria Beckham, Mel B & Herb Alpert KFC
#8858, aired 2023-04-26HOLLYWOOD HISTORY: Last name of 3 men who missed the 1927 premiere of "The Jazz Singer" because a 4th of that name had died hours before Warner
#8844, aired 2023-04-06FASHION HISTORY: These decorative items get their name from their origin in the port city of Strasbourg, on the border of France & Germany rhinestones
#8842, aired 2023-04-04NOVELISTS: A 2012 book review noted subjects that "sparked his ire": capital punishment, big tobacco & "the plight of the unjustly convicted" John Grisham
#8836, aired 2023-03-27CHEMICAL NAMES: The name of this pungent gaseous compound is ultimately derived from the top god of the ancient Egyptians ammonia
#8834, aired 2023-03-23MOVIE THEME SONGS: Monty Norman, the composer of this character's theme, said the staccato riff conveyed sexiness, mystery & ruthlessness (James) Bond
#8829, aired 2023-03-161980s MOVIES: A writer & producer of this movie said he wanted it to be like a Western or James Bond film, "only it takes place in the '30s" Raiders of the Lost Ark
#8827, aired 2023-03-14COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD: Part of the largest contiguous land empire during the 1200s & 1300s, today it's the world's second-largest landlocked country Mongolia
#8818, aired 2023-03-01LAWS IN U.S. HISTORY: A Radical Republican championed this 1875 act but the Supreme Court struck it down in 1883; a new version was passed 81 years later the Civil Rights Act
#8810, aired 2023-02-17NATIONAL PARKS: It's named for a river indigenous people called Mi tse a-da-zi, translated by French-speaking trappers as "Pierre Jaune" Yellowstone
#8807, aired 2023-02-14ART & SCIENCE: A craft that visited it was named for Giotto, based on the story that 680 years earlier, the painter depicted it as the Star of Bethlehem Halley's Comet
#8806, aired 2023-02-13WORDS FROM WORLD WAR I: "Cistern" & "reservoir" were suggested names for a secret invention, but the British preferred this less clumsy monosyllable a tank
#8802, aired 2023-02-07WORD ORIGINS: This Sanskrit word referring to a spoken word or phrase comes from a word for "to think" mantra
#8790, aired 2023-01-20TELEVISION: Mike Post combined the sound of a slamming jail door, an anvil & 100 men stomping on a floor for this series that debuted in 1990 Law & Order
#10, aired 2023-01-12CORPORATE MASCOTS: Born on an island in a sea of milk, this pitchman was jokingly disavowed by the U.S. Navy by saying he is not in personnel records Cap'n Crunch
#8784, aired 2023-01-12HISTORIC ART: The artwork once known in France as "la tapisserie de la reine Mathilde" is better known as this the Bayeux Tapestry
#9, aired 2023-01-0520th CENTURY PEOPLE: Calling him "the embodiment of pure intellect", in December 1999 Time magazine named him Person of the Century Albert Einstein
#8773, aired 2022-12-28AMERICA AT WAR: Until the Civil War, the January 8 date of this battle of dubious military importance but big morale value was a national holiday the Battle of New Orleans
#8767, aired 2022-12-20CLASSIC SONGS: The shouts of excited children at a 1946 holiday parade are said to have inspired this perennial favorite "Here Comes Santa Claus"
#8766, aired 2022-12-19BRAND NAMES: Unable to make these candies perfectly round, the confectioner embraced this flawed name for the product Milk Duds
#8765, aired 2022-12-16COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD: It's home to 58 UNESCO World Heritage Sites, more than any other country; the sites include a volcano & a lagoon Italy
#8759, aired 2022-12-08NAME'S THE SAME: A cocktail, an island & a WWII venture originally called "Development of Substitute Materials" all bear this name Manhattan
#8754, aired 2022-12-01LANGUAGE & ITS MEANINGS: Now meaning someone with nocturnal habits, it catches a sleeping dove in Shakespeare's "The Rape of Lucrece" a night owl
#8752, aired 2022-11-29NAMES IN U.S. HISTORY: This father was the only man among the 13 plaintiffs in a class-action case filed in 1951 Brown
#8750, aired 2022-11-25STATES & THE CENSUS: The 2020 Census gave Montana a second U.S. House seat; its most populous county, this one that attracts tourists, grew 11% Yellowstone
#8749, aired 2022-11-24SOUTHERN COLLEGES: To aid transport in poorer nations, in the 1920s grads of this college built makeshift buggies celebrated in their fight song Georgia Tech
#8746, aired 2022-11-21PLAYS: The January 12, 1864 Washington Evening Star reported on a performance of this "dashing comedy" to "a full and delighted house" Our American Cousin
#8743, aired 2022-11-16THE NEW TESTAMENT: Paul's letter to them is the New Testament epistle with the most Old Testament quotations Hebrews
#8742, aired 2022-11-15NAME'S THE SAME: Name shared by a Victorian novelist & an 1805 flagship captain whose name is heard in a famous phrase (Thomas) Hardy
#8739, aired 2022-11-10GEOGRAPHIC PAIRS: By ferry, the distance between these 2 paired Mediterranean islands is about 40 miles from Alcudia to Ciutadella Mallorca (Majorca) & Menorca (Minorca)
#8738, aired 2022-11-09CONTEMPORARY AUTHORS: A trip to El Paso with his young son & wondering what the city might look like years in the future inspired a novel by this author Cormac McCarthy
#8737, aired 2022-11-08CHEMICAL ELEMENT NAMES: The 3 elements whose names begin with 2 vowels are iodine & these 2, one synthetic & one natural einsteinium & europium
#7, aired 2022-11-06BRANDS: With wood becoming more difficult to source, this company turned to plastic for its automatic binding bricks, introduced in 1949 Lego
#8733, aired 2022-11-02PHRASES IN AMERICAN HISTORY: Andrew Johnson vetoed a bill that gave reparations to formerly enslaved people, hence this phrase for an unfulfilled promise forty acres and a mule
#8711, aired 2022-10-0320th CENTURY POEM ENDINGS: These 5 words that end a poem are also a proverb; one citation across the centuries includes a reminder not to make the wall too high Good fences make good neighbors
#8710, aired 2022-09-30BEFORE THEY WERE AUTHORS: While working for British naval intelligence during World War II, he was code-named 17F Ian Fleming
#1, aired 2022-09-25LANDLOCKED COUNTRIES: It's the world's smallest landlocked country in both area & population Vatican City
#8702, aired 2022-09-20AMERICAN GOVERNMENT: Delivered on January 8, 1790, the first of these was also the shortest, at 1,089 words the State of Union Address
#8696, aired 2022-09-1219th CENTURY NOVELS: "This bell was named Marie... alone in the southern tower, with her sister Jacqueline, a bell of lesser size", says this novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame
#8690, aired 2022-07-22INAUGURAL BALLS: At the 1993 Tennessee Inaugural Ball, Paul Simon performed this song, his most recent Top 40 hit "You Can Call Me Al"
#8688, aired 2022-07-20HISTORIC AMERICAN ROADS: Originally a Native American trail, the Dutch made it a main road & today it runs 33 miles from State Street to Sleepy Hollow Broadway
#8683, aired 2022-07-13STATE MOTTOS: This motto is the name of a city in that state & is a famous quote by an ancient Greek from the 3rd century B.C. Eureka
#8664, aired 2022-06-16DEBUT NOVELS: Published in 1991, this novel, the first in a series, has been described as "historical fiction with a Moebius twist" Outlander
#8649, aired 2022-05-26HISTORIC GEOGRAPHY: A 1946 speech declared the terminuses of the Iron Curtain to be port cities serving these 2 seas the Baltic & Adriatic Seas
#8643, aired 2022-05-18OSCAR-WINNING SONGS: Johnny Mercer's lyrics to this 1961 Oscar-winning song once began, "I'm Holly" "Moon River"
#8635, aired 2022-05-06USA: These 2 mayors gave their names to a facility built on the site of an old racetrack owned by Coca-Cola magnate Asa Candler William Hartsfield & Maynard Jackson
#8634, aired 2022-05-0520th CENTURY CINEMA: A black & white newsreel in this film begins: "In Xanadu did Kubla Khan a stately pleasure dome decree" Citizen Kane
#8629, aired 2022-04-28BOOKS OF THE 1970s: Aptly, members of a Black family in this novel have biblical names: Pilate, Hagar & the title one, an ancestor of the protagonist Song of Solomon
#8627, aired 2022-04-26AFRICAN SURNAMES: Adetokunbo, "the crown has returned from overseas", is fitting for the Adetokunbo family who left Nigeria for this country in 1991 Greece
#8626, aired 2022-04-25NAMES IN AMERICAN HISTORY: Capable of freighting about 180 tons of cargo, in 1624 it was in disrepair & appraised at a total value of 128 pounds the Mayflower
#8624, aired 2022-04-21FILMS OF THE 1950s: The title character of this film has the same name as the Roman goddess of the dawn Sleeping Beauty
#8622, aired 2022-04-19COUNTRIES OF AFRICA: Old maps depicting what's now this 125,000-square-mile country labeled the area with the French word for "teeth" Côte d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast)
#8619, aired 2022-04-14WOMEN IN BRITISH HISTORY: The orphaned future Queen Elizabeth I was devoted to this stepmother who died 2 days before Elizabeth's 15th birthday Catherine Parr
#8616, aired 2022-04-11WORDS OF THE YEAR: Oxford's word of the year for 2021 was this 3-letter one, short for a word that goes back to the Latin for "cow" vax
#8603, aired 2022-03-23POEMS: The title of this poem comes from a 1920 book that refers to its possible "restoration to fruitfulness" The Waste Land
#8602, aired 2022-03-22HISTORIC NICKNAMES: Napoleon's troops gave him this nickname not to mock him but for showing the courage of an infantryman in battle "The Little Corporal"
#8599, aired 2022-03-17NONFICTION: This 1962 classic was dedicated to Albert Schweitzer, who predicted that man "will end by destroying the earth" Silent Spring
#8595, aired 2022-03-11SYMBOLS: This U.S. politician asked for a multicolored pennant for a parade; demand increased after his death in 1978 Harvey Milk
#8591, aired 2022-03-07CENTRAL AMERICA: A small river connects these 2 lakes that combined form close to 10% of their country's area Lake Nicaragua & Lake Managua
#17, aired 2022-02-22THE PERIODIC TABLE: By 1890, discoveries of 3 "nationalist elements" filled table gaps: scandium in Sweden, germanium in Germany, this in France gallium
#8582, aired 2022-02-22AMERICAN WOMEN: In 1914 she received a patent on a trefoil emblem, which she would transfer to an organization a few years later Juliette Gordon Low
#16, aired 2022-02-18CHARACTERS IN BANNED BOOKS: Introduced in 1928, this character has a disappointing affair with a writer before she begins a more satisfying relationship Lady Chatterley
#11, aired 2022-02-16HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES: The first national observance of Memorial Day was held May 30, 1868 at this site, on land that had belonged to Robert E. Lee's wife Arlington National Cemetery
#8578, aired 2022-02-1618th CENTURY HISTORY: The stated aim of this period was using violence to achieve political goals; its success aided in its demise in under a year the Reign of Terror
#9, aired 2022-02-15PHYSICISTS: A 1927 principle by this Nobel Prize winner says that some knowledge is inaccessible Werner Heisenberg
#6, aired 2022-02-10POETRY: It contains the line "whereat In either hand the hastening Angel caught Our lingering parents, & to the eastern gate Led them direct" Paradise Lost
#8565, aired 2022-01-281970s SINGER-SONGWRITERS: While speaking to Congress in 1985, he explained that his 1973 hit, now a state song, wasn't about drugs John Denver
#8554, aired 2022-01-13THE WORDS OF VICTOR HUGO: This object "is the ultimate expression of law, & its name is vengeance; it is not neutral, nor does it allow us to remain neutral" the guillotine
#8553, aired 2022-01-12HISTORIC AMERICANS: In 1838 he took a new last name, of a family in Walter Scott's "The Lady of the Lake"; for distinction he added a 2nd "S" to the end (Frederick) Douglass
#8537, aired 2021-12-213-NAMED WOMEN: Not primarily known as a suffragist, in 1879 she became the first female resident of Concord, Mass. to register to vote in local elections Louisa May Alcott
#8528, aired 2021-12-0820th CENTURY PEOPLE: Gen. MacArthur said this man's death by "violence is one of those bitter anachronisms that seems to refute all logic" "Mahatma" Gandhi
#8524, aired 2021-12-02JOURNALISTS IN HISTORY: Bismarck Tribune correspondent Mark Kellogg died June 25, 1876 while on a field assignment covering this man (General George) Custer
#8519, aired 2021-11-25FAMOUS DO'S & DON'TS: In 1964 Berkeley alum Jack Weinberg, age 24, told a San Francisco chronicle reporter this now-famous "Don't" "Don't trust anyone over 30"
#8518, aired 2021-11-24AWARDS & HONORS: First awarded in 1731 to electricity pioneer Stephen Gray, the Copley Medal is awarded annually by this organization the Royal Society
#8514, aired 2021-11-18HISTORY: In 1985 the mayor of Rome went to a suburb of Tunis to sign a treaty ending this after more than 2,100 years the (Third) Punic War(s) (Carthaginian Wars)
#8512, aired 2021-11-16MOVIE QUOTES: This 3-word phrase was the protagonist's second line of dialogue in a 1962 movie, the first in a 25-film series "Bond, James Bond"
#8508, aired 2021-11-10WORLD POPULATION: This Asian nation is the world's most populous country that lies mostly in the Southern Hemisphere Indonesia
#8507, aired 2021-11-091970s SONGS: In 1976 "Bohemian Rhapsody" was replaced at No. 1 on the U.K. charts by this Europop song whose title is heard in Queen's lyrics "Mamma Mia"
#8503, aired 2021-11-03PAINTINGS: In 2021 experts in Oslo concluded that it was the artist who wrote on this painting, "Could only have been painted by a madman" The Scream
#8494, aired 2021-10-21WORLD GEOGRAPHY: This country of 16,600 square miles has a possession that's more than 50 times as large Denmark
#8493, aired 2021-10-2019th CENTURY SUPREME COURT DECISIONS: The first "self-evident" truth in the Declaration of Independence was quoted & found not to apply to this plaintiff (Dred) Scott
#8485, aired 2021-10-08THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE: British zoologist George Shaw looked for stitches when he first saw this mammal in 1799, thinking he was being tricked (the) duck-bill(ed) platypus
#8475, aired 2021-09-24HISTORY OF THE 19-TEENS: Saying he ignored warnings of enemy vessels, the British admiralty sought to blame William Turner, this ship's last captain in 1915 the Lusitania
#8472, aired 2021-09-21CHILDREN'S BOOKS: A book by her says, "It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is 'soporific'... but then I am not a rabbit" (Beatrix) Potter
#8470, aired 2021-09-1719th CENTURY U.S. POLITICS: Named after a U.K. political party that helped depose a king, the U.S. Whig Party was formed to oppose this man (Andrew) Jackson
#8466, aired 2021-09-13THE 13 COLONIES: Founded by an advocate of religious freedom, it was the site of America's first Baptist church & oldest synagogue Rhode Island
#8458, aired 2021-08-04THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE: The first published announcement of the Declaration was by a Philadelphia paper that reported it in this foreign language German
#8455, aired 2021-07-30COMEDY & SPORTS: These are the 2 of a reporter's 5 W's that are not on the baseball team in Abbott & Costello's "Who's on First?" Where & When
#8449, aired 2021-07-221970s MOVIE SCENES: Writer Dan O'Bannon based a scene in this film on his own Crohn's disease, which felt like things inside him fighting to get out Alien
#8426, aired 2021-06-21REFERENCE BOOKS: Emily Dickinson made frequent use of a work by this family friend & said that for several years, it was "my only companion" (Noah) Webster
#8424, aired 2021-06-17COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD: On this country's National Day, August 15, all 39,000 residents are invited to Vaduz Castle for festivities & drinks Liechtenstein
#8422, aired 2021-06-15AMERICAN WOMEN: During her second marriage, she split her time among homes in New York, New Jersey, Paris & Greece & a yacht Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
#8410, aired 2021-05-28EUROPEAN BORDERS: It's still there, but none of the countries that bordered this country at the beginning of 1990 exist anymore Poland
#8403, aired 2021-05-19MIDDLE EASTERN GEOGRAPHY: Of the 6 countries that border the Red Sea, it's last alphabetically Yemen
#8399, aired 2021-05-13CHILDREN'S BOOKS: The last book Dr. Seuss published in his lifetime, it climbs bestseller lists every spring Oh, the Places You'll Go!
#8398, aired 2021-05-12WORLD'S FAIRS: The theme of Seattle's 1962 World's Fair was "Man in the" this era Space Age
#8386, aired 2021-04-26CITY ORIGIN STORIES: The mythical founder Byzas consulted the Oracle of Delphi before establishing what's now known as this city Istanbul
#8385, aired 2021-04-23MOVIE TITLE CHARACTERS: In this 2012 film set just before the Civil War, a German dentist declares that the title character's surname is Freeman Django Unchained
#8379, aired 2021-04-15PHYSICS: Modern formulations of Newton's 2 most famous equations both begin with this quantity that's measured in newtons force
#8378, aired 2021-04-14SHAKESPEARE: With 4,042 lines, it's Shakespeare's longest play & it's also the one that's been filmed the most Hamlet
#8371, aired 2021-04-05DAYTIME TV PERSONALITIES: Accepting a Lifetime Achievement Emmy, he said, "Just take... 10 seconds to think of the people who have helped you become who you are" Mr. (Fred) Rogers
#8367, aired 2021-03-30AMERICAN HISTORY: While performing in Philadelphia, the future father of this man sent a letter threatening to slit Andrew Jackson's throat (John Wilkes) Booth
#8364, aired 2021-03-25LITERARY INSPIRATIONS: The now-debunked theories of Luigi Galvani influenced the science in this 1818 novel Frankenstein
#8351, aired 2021-03-08RADIO HISTORY: A 1949 broadcast in Spanish of this drama from 11 years before caused mass panic in Ecuador & the destruction of the radio station "The War of the Worlds"
#8345, aired 2021-02-26EARLY U.S. HISTORY: Elbridge Gerry, Charles Pinckney & John Marshall were the diplomats in this 1797 incident that led to a quasi-war with France the XYZ Affair
#8341, aired 2021-02-22MUSIC: Just 24 notes, this piece is nicknamed "Butterfield's Lullaby" for the U.S. Army general who arranged it "Taps"
#8339, aired 2021-02-1819th CENTURY PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGNS: The first campaign of this man, who at 36 was the youngest major party nominee ever, was supported by the silver mining industry William Jennings Bryan
#8325, aired 2021-01-29BRITISH ARMY HISTORY: The Army's longest continuous campaign, 1969-2007, began in this Northern Ireland city known by either of 2 different names Londonderry/Derry
#8320, aired 2021-01-22STATUES: Statues honoring this man who was killed in 1779 can be found in Waimea, Kauai & in Whitby, England (Captain) Cook
#8318, aired 2021-01-20THE WESTERN U.S.: About 100 miles apart, they were made state capitals 10 years apart in 1854 & 1864 & both grew rapidly due to precious metals Sacramento & Carson City
#8317, aired 2021-01-19THE BUSINESS OF TRAVEL: Adjusted for inflation, the nightly rate this company put in its name in 1962 is now $51 Motel 6
#8316, aired 2021-01-18MOVIE SETTINGS: In 2017 this New York City luxury store opened its first cafe, with truffle eggs, waffles & croissants on the menu Tiffany & Co. (Tiffany's)
#8312, aired 2021-01-12FAMOUS ANIMALS: When she first came to the world's attention in 1957, she was dubbed "Muttnik" by U.S. journalists Laika
#8308, aired 2021-01-06BLOCKBUSTER MOVIES: Released in 2017, this movie is the highest-grossing film in the U.S. that's set during World War I Wonder Woman
#8269, aired 2020-10-29LEAD SINGERS: The New York Times said this late Brit's multi-octave range & operatic quality made "even paeans to bicycle riding sound emotional" Freddie Mercury
#8252, aired 2020-10-06GEOGRAPHY FUN: It's the largest country in area that begins & ends with the same letter Australia
#8246, aired 2020-09-28ON THE OLD MAP: On the U.N. website's map of the world in 1945, these 2 initials of a member state appear 13 times on continental Africa U.K.
#8242, aired 2020-09-22DIPLOMACY: The book "The Eagle & the Elephant" is about the relationship between the U.S. & this Asian country beginning in 1833 Thailand (Siam)
#8225, aired 2020-05-29PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARIES & MUSEUMS: Of the 15 U.S. presidential libraries or museums, 3 are in this state, more than any other Texas
#8214, aired 2020-04-30ADVERTISING: Copywriter Keith Goldberg wrote this question in 1999 for a financial services company; they're still using it What's in your wallet?
#8212, aired 2020-04-281950s FILMS: The last line of this epic film was "Go--proclaim liberty throughout all the lands unto all the inhabitants thereof" The Ten Commandments
#8211, aired 2020-04-27CIVIL WAR PEOPLE: Before they were photographed together in 1862, Lincoln wryly noted this general "should have no problem" sitting still for it George McClellan
#8205, aired 2020-04-17HISTORIC FIGURES: In legend, this real European leader fielded an elite corps called the 12 Peers that included Oliver & Roland Charlemagne
#8200, aired 2020-04-10WORDS IN THE NEWS: On September 25, 2019, searches on merriam-webster.com for the definition of this 3-word Latin term increased by 5,500% quid pro quo
#8163, aired 2020-02-19INTERNATIONAL SPORTS: It’s the only country that has played in every FIFA World Cup tournament, winning 5 times Brazil
#8154, aired 2020-02-06RANKS & TITLES: Canada, Belgium & the U.S. are among nations that bestow this artistic title that dates to the Greeks & a tree sacred to Apollo (Poet) Laureate
#8148, aired 2020-01-2921st CENTURY OSCAR WINNERS: This man won Best Supporting Actor twice, both for films that won Best Picture Mahershala Ali
#8141, aired 2020-01-20CABINET POSITIONS: Of the 4 jobs in George Washington’s cabinet, the 2 that have been filled by women in the 230 years since Secretary of State & Attorney General
#8138, aired 2020-01-15CHILDREN'S LITERATURE: Einstein's theory of relativity & Max Planck's quantum theory inspired this book that won a 1963 Newbery Medal A Wrinkle in Time
#8, aired 2020-01-14SHAKESPEARE'S TRAGEDIES: He has 272 speeches, the most of any non-title character in a Shakespeare tragedy Iago
#3, aired 2020-01-08INFLUENTIAL WRITING: Its second line is "All the powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre: Pope & Czar, Metternich & Guizot..." The Communist Manifesto
#2, aired 2020-01-07ASTRONOMERS: This man's name was given to a comet that crashed into Jupiter in 1994; he's the only human whose remains lie on the Moon Shoemaker
#8117, aired 2019-12-17MILESTONES IN U.S. HISTORY: Congress declared September 6, 2008 Louisa Swain Day because Louisa did this in Wyoming on that date in 1870 voted
#8096, aired 2019-11-18U.S. CITIES: Celebrating electricity & technology, an exposition in this U.S. "City of Light" in 1901 was overshadowed by another major event Buffalo
#8091, aired 2019-11-11FAMOUS PHRASES: In the title of a groundbreaking 1890 expose of poverty in New York City slums, these 3 words follow "How the" Other Half Lives
#8088, aired 2019-11-0620th CENTURY AMERICA: In 1939, turned down by 2 local theaters, Howard University was able to get an outdoor venue for this singer's yearly concert Marian Anderson
#8084, aired 2019-10-31NOVELISTS: In a 1952 novel, he wrote, "But there were dry years too, & they put a terror on the valley. The water came in a thirty-year cycle" John Steinbeck
#8080, aired 2019-10-25BRITISH HISTORY: In 2018 Parliament Square got its first statue of a woman, Millicent Fawcett, a founding member of the London Society for Women's this Suffrage
#8074, aired 2019-10-17MOVIE SOUNDTRACKS: The soundtrack of this 2018 film has "Material Girl" & "Money (That's What I Want)" in Chinese & English Crazy Rich Asians
#8049, aired 2019-09-12AMERICAN MUSEUMS: President Johnson signed a law that added 2 words to the name of this museum established in 1946, D.C.'s most popular the Air & Space Museum
#8047, aired 2019-09-101960s TV HISTORY: The 1967 finale of "The Fugitive" drew in 78 million viewers, surpassing the 73 million who tuned into this show Sunday, February 9, 1964 The Ed Sullivan Show
#8045, aired 2019-07-26HISTORIC SHIPS: 215 passengers were rescued when it sank in July 1918, about 500 fewer than it had rescued 6 years earlier the Carpathia
#8014, aired 2019-06-13WORD HISTORY: This word for a bug or malfunction was popularized in the 1962 book "Into Orbit" by the Mercury astronauts glitch
#8013, aired 2019-06-12POPULAR PRODUCTS: This product that brought virtual tourism into homes in 1939 introduced its first virtual reality device in 2015 View-Master
#8008, aired 2019-06-05THE NATO PHONETIC ALPHABET: This discovery of November 8, 1895 by a German physicist represents a letter in the NATO phonetic alphabet X rays
#8005, aired 2019-05-31OSCAR-NOMINATED FAMILIES: It's the last name of Alfred, Lionel, David, Emil, Thomas & Randy, who with 90 nominations, are the most Oscar-nominated family Newman
#7997, aired 2019-05-21POETRY & THE MOVIES: Robert Lowell's "For the Union Dead" honored the 54th Massachusetts, the infantry unit in this 1989 film that won 3 Oscars Glory
#7990, aired 2019-05-10U.S. STATES: This state entered the Union in 1820 after separating from another state that began with the same 2 letters Maine
#7985, aired 2019-05-03WORDS OF THE 2000s: In 2008 Time magazine described this new practice as "one part social networking and one part capital accumulation" crowdfunding
#7964, aired 2019-04-04U.S. BODIES OF WATER: The Jordan, Bear & Weber Rivers deposit over a million tons of minerals into it annually, much of that chloride & sodium the Great Salt Lake
#7954, aired 2019-03-21AMERICAN AUTHORS: Alfred Hitchcock wrote, "It's because I liked" his "stories so much that I began to make suspense films" Edgar Allan Poe
#7949, aired 2019-03-14STATE CAPITALS EAST OF THE MISSISSIPPI: The last 2 letters of this city's name are the U.S. postal abbreviation for the state that it's the capital of Albany
#7942, aired 2019-03-05CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT MATH: Total of the numbers of the amendments banning state-sponsored official religion, ending slavery & repealing Prohibition 35
#7927, aired 2019-02-12ISLANDS: 650 miles off the U.S., it was the site of a 1609 shipwreck of colonists bound for Jamestown that may have inspired "The Tempest" Bermuda
#7926, aired 2019-02-11PRIMETIME TV: "Complications" was a suggested title for this ABC drama that was renewed for a 15th season in 2018 Grey's Anatomy
#7915, aired 2019-01-25LAW ENFORCEMENT HISTORY: This U.S. group was formed to protect settlers in an area that had recently gained independence from Spain the Texas Rangers
#7903, aired 2019-01-09TV DRAMAS: So that viewers wouldn't think it was about opera, the "R" in this show's logo was turned into a gun The Sopranos
#7894, aired 2018-12-27COASTLINES: At 3,700 miles, the longest ocean trench is named for these 2 nations that share most of South America's Pacific coast Chile and Peru
#7888, aired 2018-12-19POETS' BIRTHPLACES: 5 Cwmdonkin Drive was the address of the family home where he was born in 1914 Dylan Thomas
#7878, aired 2018-12-05NAMES IN AMERICAN HISTORY: In 1999 the U.S. government was ordered to pay his family $16 million for less than 30 seconds of film Abraham Zapruder
#7860, aired 2018-11-09HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES: Puebla is the only Mexican state that officially celebrates this spring holiday that is now more popular in the U.S. Cinco de Mayo
#7846, aired 2018-10-22PLACES IN THE NEWS: In a hint of the future, in 1973 Marjorie Post gave it to the U.S. govt. as a warm-weather presidential retreat, but it was returned Mar-a-Lago
#7832, aired 2018-10-02OSCAR HYPHENATES: This actor has never been nominated for acting--he won, though, as a writer for 1997 & as a producer for 2012 Ben Affleck
#7819, aired 2018-09-13BEFORE THEY WERE PRESIDENT: On October 4, 1940, for the premiere of what's been called his most famous movie role, Ronald Reagan was in this city South Bend, Indiana
#7805, aired 2018-07-13MODERN LANGUAGE: This slang term for an environmentalist is literally true of groups that used passive resistance vs. deforestation, as in India in 1973 a tree hugger
#7804, aired 2018-07-121970s BESTSELLERS: The author of this novel thought of calling it "Silence in the Water" Jaws
#7789, aired 2018-06-21WORLD GEOGRAPHY: Australia's fourth-largest city, it's at the southern end of the road called Indian Ocean Drive Perth
#7782, aired 2018-06-12CHILDREN'S LIT: In 2017 the Maine farm & barn that inspired this classic 1952 novel were put up for sale Charlotte's Web
#7766, aired 2018-05-21U.S. GEOGRAPHIC HISTORY: In 1794 George Washington selected this spot, where today 3 states meet, for the site of a new armory Harpers Ferry
#7762, aired 2018-05-15U.N. LANGUAGES: Of the 6 official U.N. languages, it's the one that is written in a cursive form only Arabic
#7756, aired 2018-05-07U.S. CITIES: This city, also the title of a film that won 2 Oscars, was named for a businessman known for 19th c. transportation Fargo
#7740, aired 2018-04-13U.S. PLACE NAMES: It's the only state named for a woman & whose capital is also named for a woman Maryland
#7738, aired 2018-04-11EXPLORATION NAME'S THE SAME: The deepest part of the Mariana Trench & a submersible that went there share the name of this space shuttle Challenger
#7731, aired 2018-04-02U.S. GOVERNMENT: The portrait here hangs in the building of this Cabinet department & depicts a man who once ran it the Department of Justice
#7728, aired 2018-03-28MUSICAL THEATER: This show has songs that weren't in the 1992 film it's based on, like "I Wanna Dance With Somebody" & "How Will I Know" The Bodyguard
#7727, aired 2018-03-271960s NO. 1 SONGS: Complaints about heavy workloads inspired the titles of 2 songs by this group, No. 1 hits 7 months apart The Beatles
#7707, aired 2018-02-27AMERICANA: A 1931 story in the New Yorker said this "weighs 600,000,000 pounds (&)... contains 37,000,000 cubic feet" the Empire State Building
#7690, aired 2018-02-02OFFICIAL STATE STUFF: Composers of this state's various official songs include Richard Rodgers & Woody Guthrie Oklahoma
#7689, aired 2018-02-01U.S. AUTHORS: In his 1958 essay "Essentials of Spontaneous Prose", he compared a writing technique to a jazz musician's style Jack Kerouac
#7682, aired 2018-01-23LITERARY BROTHERS: This character first appeared in "The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter", an 1893 story in London's Strand Magazine Mycroft Holmes
#7679, aired 2018-01-18SNACK FOODS: The name of this cracker that's been around since 1903 suggests that it was baked 3 times Triscuit
#7676, aired 2018-01-15THE THEATER: In 1915 this play opened for the last time on Broadway, ironically at the Booth Theatre Our American Cousin
#7674, aired 2018-01-11THE MOVIES: It's the first Oscar nominee for Best Picture to be produced by an internet streaming service Manchester by the Sea
#7663, aired 2017-12-27PRESIDENTIAL HOMES: Originally called Rural Retreat, this 19th century presidential home has a name that's a synonym for "retreat" Hermitage
#7660, aired 2017-12-22RECORD LABELS: This label, home to U2 & Bob Marley, was created, fittingly, in Jamaica with an investment of 1,000 pounds sterling Island Records
#7651, aired 2017-12-11ANCIENT SYMBOLS: Taiji, the Great Ultimate, is the source of this pair that's represented by the colors orange & azure respectively yin & yang
#7646, aired 2017-12-04CHILDREN'S BOOKS: For this series of picture books that started in 1987, each crowd scene takes about 8 weeks to illustrate Where's Waldo?
#7641, aired 2017-11-27GERMAN GEOGRAPHY: Of Germany's 16 states, these 2 at opposite ends of the country begin with the same letter & are the largest & smallest Bavaria & Bremen
#7638, aired 2017-11-22THE CALENDAR: November 2017 is in the year 1439 AH in the calendar that dates from an action of this religious figure Muhammad
#7633, aired 2017-11-15HISTORIC NAMES: In 2013 the village of Belrain renamed the last street in France that bore the name of this hero who became a traitor Maréchal Philippe Petain
#7629, aired 2017-11-09THE GREAT DEPRESSION: A street-corner occupation that saved many in the Depression was aided by a 1930 tops-in-the-U.S. crop in this state Washington
#7627, aired 2017-11-07LANDLOCKED COUNTRIES: South of the Tropic of Capricorn, this kingdom is the world's southernmost landlocked country Lesotho
#7619, aired 2017-10-26BOARD GAMES: An early edition of this game that debuted in 1949 says that it's "the great new Sherlock Holmes game" Clue
#7617, aired 2017-10-24ETYMOLOGY: This 8-letter word meaning "cultured" or "intellectual" originated with a phrenology concept highbrow
#7612, aired 2017-10-17ASIAN GEOGRAPHY: It's the only country that borders both the Caspian Sea & the Persian Gulf Iran
#7609, aired 2017-10-12MOVIE HISTORY: A 1947 FBI study chided this holiday film's "attempt to discredit bankers ...a common trick used by Communists" It's A Wonderful Life
#7608, aired 2017-10-11VISUAL VOCABULARY: A Latin word for a sea creature, in photography, it's a color that conveys nostalgia sepia
#7592, aired 2017-09-19POTENT & NONPOTENT POTABLES: Reverse the 2 words in the name of this Canadian whisky brand & you get the name of a cola Crown Royal or Royal Crown
#7581, aired 2017-07-24COLLEGES: When this school opened in 1845, the curriculum for the class of 50 had math & navigation, chemistry & gunnery & steam the U.S. Naval Academy
#7578, aired 2017-07-19HISTORIC EVENTS: In June 1986 a bakers union expressed regret for a disaster in this European city 320 years before London
#7575, aired 2017-07-14CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN AUTHORS: This Pulitzer winner changed his first name to that of an Irish king, avoiding associations with a famous ventriloquist's dummy Cormac McCarthy
#7568, aired 2017-07-05SMALL COUNTRIES: This tiny island nation 700 miles northeast of Madagascar makes a great addition to a classic tongue twister Seychelles
#7559, aired 2017-06-22EUROPE 1962: Rudolf Abel & this American are most associated with Germany's Glienicke Bridge on February 10, 1962 Francis Gary Powers
#7535, aired 2017-05-19U.S. CITIES: In 2015 it returned to the list of the 50 most populous U.S. cities, 10 years after dropping off New Orleans
#7534, aired 2017-05-18WOMEN AUTHORS: A 1936 New York Times review called the debut novel by this author "in all probability, the biggest book of the year: 1,037 pages" Margaret Mitchell
#7530, aired 2017-05-12PLACE NAMES: A town named for its location where a river in Devon meets the English Channel, it's also the name of a college in New Hampshire Dartmouth
#7518, aired 2017-04-26HISTORIC HOMES: While the White House was being built, George Washington's executive mansion was in this city Philadelphia
#7491, aired 2017-03-20PAPAL NAMES: From the mid-20th century, it's the most recent papal name that's the same in Latin & in English Pius
#7473, aired 2017-02-22PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN YEARS: Year the New York World lamented, "The age of statesmen is gone... The age of rail-splitters and tailors... has succeeded" 1864
#7470, aired 2017-02-17WORLD LANDMARKS: Completed in 1884, the Washington Monument became the tallest manmade structure but 4 years later was surpassed by this the Eiffel Tower
#7469, aired 2017-02-16SOUTH AMERICA: This capital's name is a Latinized form of the name of its country Brasilia
#7463, aired 2017-02-08NATIONAL ANTHEMS: In her memoirs Queen Liliuokalani tells us that before Hawaii had its own national anthem, it used this one "God Save The Queen"
#7459, aired 2017-02-02THE U.S.A.: The Empire State Building says that on a clear day you can see 5 states from the top: New York, New Jersey, Connecticut & these 2 Pennsylvania & Massachusetts
#7443, aired 2017-01-11SHAKESPEARE: With a backdrop of war, the 1609 play titled "The History of" this pair takes place earlier than any Shakespeare history play Troilus and Cressida
#7433, aired 2016-12-28FICTIONAL PLACES: This land is described as "all that lies between the lamp-post and the great castle of Cair Paravel on the Eastern Sea" Narnia
#7432, aired 2016-12-27THE CIVIL WAR: Made from a boiler at a Mobile, Alabama machine shop, it was deemed a success though it went down off Charleston 3 times the Hunley
#7431, aired 2016-12-26MOONS & PLANETS: The name of this moon refers to the mythical group that its planet’s name belonged to Titan
#7428, aired 2016-12-21LITTLE COUNTRIES: It's the closest nation to the mainland U.S. where cars customarily drive on the left the Bahamas
#7423, aired 2016-12-14AMERICAN AUTHORS: Nominated 8 previous times, he finally won a Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962, 6 years before his death John Steinbeck
#7422, aired 2016-12-13CITY NAMES: Cuba's second-most populous city & a South American capital share this name that refers to St. James Santiago
#7402, aired 2016-11-15MEN OF SCIENCE: The symbols for 6 chemical elements spell out his name, beginning with cobalt, phosphorus & erbium Copernicus
#7395, aired 2016-11-04HISTORIC DOCUMENTS: William Seward objected to its timing, saying "it may be viewed as the last measure of an exhausted government" the Emancipation Proclamation
#7394, aired 2016-11-03LITERARY ANIMALS: In a 1926 book, he "is in a very sad condition, because it's his birthday, & nobody has taken any notice of it, & he's very gloomy" Eeyore
#7393, aired 2016-11-02EW's 50 GREATEST MOVIE DIRECTORS: He "inaugurated a new depth--both visually... and emotionally... and (had) a voice that paid the bills until he died" Orson Welles
#7389, aired 2016-10-27BRITISH POP MUSIC: This song released on July 11, 1969 to coincide with the Apollo 11 mission was used in the BBC's coverage of the Moon landing "Space Oddity" (by David Bowie)
#7386, aired 2016-10-24ANIMALS: In Greek myth she was a half-serpent & mother of the Sphinx; in zoology it's a weird mammal that lays eggs Echidna
#7381, aired 2016-10-17HISTORIC RELATIVES: In the same year as Waterloo, the Duke of Wellington's brother-in-law Gen. Edward Pakenham died in this battle in North America the Battle of New Orleans
#7378, aired 2016-10-12STATE SONGS: The first line of its state song, "Eight stars of gold on a field of blue", refers to the star group on its flag Alaska
#7370, aired 2016-09-30CORPORATE LOGOS: Created in 1971, this company's logo has been likened to a wing & was supposed to connote motion Nike
#7366, aired 2016-09-26INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS: This European company uses about 1% of the world's lumber each year; it aims to make that 100% sustainable by 2020 IKEA
#7365, aired 2016-09-23AFRICAN GEOGRAPHY: The Zambezi River reaches the ocean in this country that lends its name to the body of water where it happens Mozambique
#7356, aired 2016-09-12ASIAN ISLANDS: Phuket, the largest island of this country, has regained its tourism industry after a natural disaster in 2004 Thailand
#7353, aired 2016-07-2720th CENTURY ENGLISH NOBILITY: In Africa on Nov. 26, 1922, he anxiously asked Howard Carter, “Can you see anything?” Lord Carnarvon
#7342, aired 2016-07-12POLITICAL WORDS: Hamilton began & ended the Federalist Papers warning of this type of person, Greek for "people's leader" a demagogue
#7334, aired 2016-06-30INTERNATIONAL FILM AWARDS: Released in 2011, it's the only film that has won both the Oscar & France's Cesar for Best Film of the Year The Artist
#7328, aired 2016-06-22EUROPEAN GEOGRAPHY: Excluding Russia, it has the longest mainland coastline of any European country, 15,626 miles Norway
#7325, aired 2016-06-17GEOGRAPHY IN THE NEWS: Mexico's Programa Frontera Sur aims to secure its 600-mile-long border with this country Guatemala
#7323, aired 2016-06-15CLASSIC MOVIE SCENES: The director said it took 70 camera setups & 7 days to shoot the classic murder scene in this film that celebrates its 55th anniversary in 2015 Psycho
#7321, aired 2016-06-13BILLBOARD CHART-TOPPERS: This singer's first studio album came out in 1955, but a 2011 duets release was his first album to hit No. 1 Tony Bennett
#7313, aired 2016-06-01COLLEGE TEAM SPORTS: The USA's first intercollegiate athletic event was in 1852 in this, which as a sport goes back to at least the Middle Ages rowing
#7309, aired 2016-05-26ART HISTORY: "Escalier" is in the original title of a work by this artist that scandalized New York City's International Exhibition of Modern Art in 1913 Marcel Duchamp
#7306, aired 2016-05-23U.S. GEOGRAPHY: Of the 8 states that touch the Great Lakes, it's the smallest in area Indiana
#7303, aired 2016-05-18THE SUPREME COURT: With the passing of Antonin Scalia, this Reagan appointee became the longest-tenured justice on the court Anthony Kennedy
#7300, aired 2016-05-1320th CENTURY PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES: He was awarded a DFC in WWII for a combat mission as pilot of the B-24 bomber he named the "Dakota Queen" George McGovern
#7296, aired 2016-05-09LEGISLATION: The original law called this was passed in 1944; today, there's a "Post-9/11" version that also pays for 36 months of university education the G.I. Bill
#7295, aired 2016-05-06AUTHORS: She wrote in her journal in 1867 that a publisher "asked me to write a girls book. Said I'd try." Louisa May Alcott
#7292, aired 2016-05-03U.S. MEMORIALS: Symbolic bookends, these 2 neighboring memorials mark the beginning & end of U.S. involvement in World War II the Arizona & the Missouri
#7290, aired 2016-04-29LITERARY CHARACTERS: In 1929 London's Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital was given all rights to this character created 27 years earlier Peter Pan
#7284, aired 2016-04-21CITY NAME ORIGINS: This city that's home to an NFL team is named for an 18th century British prime minister Pittsburgh
#7279, aired 2016-04-14NORTH AMERICAN GEOGRAPHY: Far from New England, it's the state that has the shortest land border with Canada, only 45 miles Idaho
#7278, aired 2016-04-13FAMOUS HOTELS: The painting seen here, "A Vicious Circle", hangs in this hotel in the room that's portrayed in the painting the Algonquin Hotel
#7272, aired 2016-04-05FOOD & DRINK: This cereal brand that's been with us since the 1920s teamed up with a brewer in 2015 to create a Hefeweizen Wheaties
#7267, aired 2016-03-29STATE CAPITAL GEOGRAPHY: Of the 5 U.S. state capitals that begin with the letter "A", the one that is farthest north Augusta
#7264, aired 2016-03-2419th CENTURY AMERICANS: In 1872 he wrote his thesis "Diseases of the Teeth" & soon after moved west to a drier climate for his health Doc Holliday
#7263, aired 2016-03-2321st CENTURY NEWS: Russia took out $200 million in insurance, anticipating any damage that might be caused by this in 2001 the crash of the Mir space platform
#7253, aired 2016-03-09LITERARY GEOGRAPHY: Shelley subtitled a poem named for this famous geographic feature "Lines Written in the Vale of Chamouni" Mont Blanc
#7230, aired 2016-02-05U.S. PRESIDENTS: He was the only 20th century president who never delivered an inaugural address President Ford
#7216, aired 2016-01-18STATE CAPITALS: A 1957 event led to the creation of a National Historic Site in this city, signed into law by a president whose library is now there too Little Rock, Arkansas
#7212, aired 2016-01-12HYMNS: Slave trader turned minister John Newton wrote this hymn that 1st appeared in 1779 as "Faith's Review And Expectation" "Amazing Grace"
#7202, aired 2015-12-29FAMOUS LAST NAMES: The first woman space shuttle pilot shares this surname with a man on the 1st manned lunar landing 26 years earlier Collins
#7198, aired 2015-12-23BABY GIRLS' NAMES: In 2014 it was No. 1 in Sweden &, thanks to an animated movie, in the top 300 for U.S. baby girls for the first time in decades Elsa
#7182, aired 2015-12-01THE MOVIES: The title of this 2009 Best Picture Oscar nominee alludes to the left tackle's job in a football game The Blind Side
#7175, aired 2015-11-20PHILOSOPHERS: His last name means a type of burial place & in 1855 that's where he went Søren Kierkegaard
#7171, aired 2015-11-16CITIES OF THE EUROPEAN UNION: A Hanseatic city, this port of 1.8 million is the largest European Union city that's not a capital Hamburg, Germany
#7168, aired 2015-11-11ABBREVIATIONS: Its meaning as an individual product dates to 1977; its meaning as conforming to orthodox opinion dates to 1986 PC
#7161, aired 2015-11-02WORLD GEOGRAPHY: This country has 8 of the world's 10 highest peaks Nepal
#7159, aired 2015-10-29AFRICA: On the Horn of Africa, it's the only country whose name in English begins with a silent letter Djibouti
#7153, aired 2015-10-21THE PRIME MERIDIAN: Besides the U.K., it's the only country that the Prime Meridian touches that starts with a vowel Algeria
#7149, aired 2015-10-15THE MIDDLE EAST: With an area of 4,000 square miles, it's the only primarily Arabic-speaking country in the Middle East that has no desert Lebanon
#7143, aired 2015-10-07MOVIE CHARACTERS: Charlton Heston's wardrobe in 1954's "Secret of the Incas" inspired the clothes worn by this adventurous character 27 years later Indiana Jones
#7120, aired 2015-07-24NATIONAL AIRLINES: This small land's airline advertises a "stopover": 7 nights at no extra travel charge to break up a Boston-Brussels trip Iceland
#7111, aired 2015-07-13AMERICAN PRODUCTS: In 1913 this cleaning item was born when its creators named it from a word meaning "bright" or "shining" Brillo
#7085, aired 2015-06-05MOTTOES: Though the 2 men were very different, this 4-word motto came to represent both Oscar Wilde & Louis B. Mayer "Art for art's sake"
#7058, aired 2015-04-29CHAIN STORE NAMES IN THE NEWS: The 1917 first use of what became its name said this 2-word small room "called up the tube that the steamer... was torpedoed" Radio Shack
#7046, aired 2015-04-13GEOGRAPHY: The Caucasian Isthmus lies between these 2 large inland bodies of water the Caspian Sea & the Black Sea
#7043, aired 2015-04-08SHAKESPEARE'S CHARACTERS: One of the Bard's few plays with children on stage is this one with 2 brothers who last appear alive in Act III, Scene i Richard III
#7040, aired 2015-04-03EUROPEAN HISTORY: A 3-letter 9th century tribe is in the names of 2 21st century countries: the world's most vast, & this one Belarus
#7017, aired 2015-03-03U.S. STATES: It's the only state name that can be typed using the letters on only one row of the standard keyboard Alaska
#7012, aired 2015-02-241980s MOVIES: At his term's end, Ronald Reagan took an office in an L.A. high-rise, still a mess from the filming of this 1988 thriller Die Hard
#7004, aired 2015-02-12WORLD GEOGRAPHY: Not in the 10 longest, this 1,560-mile river in a fertile basin flows by 29 cities of over 100,000 people the Ganges
#7003, aired 2015-02-11REFERENCE BOOK MAKERS: In 1863 he used the epigraph "I have gathered... other men's flowers, & nothing but the thread that binds them is mine own" John Bartlett
#6995, aired 2015-01-30INVENTORS: In 1702 Thomas Savery wrote of one of his designs, "Such an engine will do the work or labour of ten or twelve" these horses
#6991, aired 2015-01-26U.S. CITIES: In 1846 it had 200 people; 14 years later, thanks to a discovery, it had over 50,000, making it No. 15 in the country San Francisco
#6953, aired 2014-12-03U.S. GEOGRAPHY: This city of 650,000 people is the most populous U.S. city not found in a U.S. state Washington, D.C.
#6945, aired 2014-11-21SHAKESPEAREAN GEOGRAPHY: Of the 5 cities mentioned in Shakespeare play titles, it's the only one not found in Europe Tyre
#6944, aired 2014-11-2020th CENTURY PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS: In this year, there were no pres's or VPs running, but 3 of the 4 men on the 2 major party ballots would become president 1920
#6943, aired 2014-11-1921st CENTURY BOOKS: Set in the Great Depression, this 2006 novel has an epigraph from "Horton Hatches the Egg" Water for Elephants
#6940, aired 2014-11-14OPERA CHARACTERS: In an 1893 opera that was its composer's greatest success, Peter & Gertrud are the parents of these 2 characters Hansel & Gretel
#6939, aired 2014-11-13TUNNELS: These 2 islands that begin with the same letter are linked by the 33.5-mile Seikan rail tunnel, the world's longest in operation Honshu and Hokkaido
#6936, aired 2014-11-10STATE HOLIDAYS: This is the only state that honors a former U.S. Secretary of State with his own legal holiday Alaska
#6935, aired 2014-11-07SPORTS LOGOS: This NFL team's logo is the only one that is a plant the New Orleans Saints (the Fleur de Lis)
#6926, aired 2014-10-27ROCK & ROLL: A restaurant chain took its name from a British band's fourth chart-topper, this 1967 song "Ruby Tuesday"
#6924, aired 2014-10-23FRENCH FOOD HISTORY: A popular product was born when Jean Naigeon of this city substituted the juice of unripe grapes for vinegar Dijon
#6920, aired 2014-10-17COATS OF ARMS: This country's coat of arms features a palm tree & a 19th century American sailing ship Liberia
#6919, aired 2014-10-16LITERATURE: This title 1864 adventure is embarked upon by a descent into Iceland's Mount Sneffels Journey to the Center of the Earth
#6915, aired 2014-10-10COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD: It became a colony of the U.S. in 1898, a commonwealth in 1935 & an independent country in 1946 the Philippines
#6908, aired 2014-10-01U.S. CITY FIRSTS: Among its firsts are underwater auto tunnel to a foreign country & corp. to net more than $1 billion in a single year Detroit
#6902, aired 2014-09-23ENGLISH MONARCHS: She was born near London; her mother, near Madrid "Bloody" Mary Tudor
#6901, aired 2014-09-22THE BILLBOARD ALBUM CHARTS: 11 movie soundtrack albums by this performer hit the Billboard Top 10, with 4 hitting No. 1 Elvis Presley
#6898, aired 2014-09-17MUSICAL THEATER: In "Godspell" this character leads the company in singing, "Prepare Ye The Way Of The Lord" John the Baptist (or Judas Iscariot)
#6896, aired 2014-09-15AUTHORS: In 1937 his sister said he had "hats of every description" which he would use as a "foundation of his next book" Dr. Seuss
#6894, aired 2014-07-31BESTSELLING BOOKS: This novel is dedicated to Esther Earl, who died of thyroid cancer at 16 & never got to read it The Fault in Our Stars
#6887, aired 2014-07-22WORLD LANDMARKS: Built for a World's Fair in 1889, its visitors that year included the Prince of Wales & Buffalo Bill; it still gets 7 million a year the Eiffel Tower
#6859, aired 2014-06-12CURRENT TELEVISION: George Romero declined to direct a few episodes of this series, calling it "basically... just a soap opera" The Walking Dead
#6855, aired 2014-06-0620th CENTURY AMERICANS: In 1911 Glenn Curtiss received this document Number 1 a pilot's license
#6853, aired 2014-06-04THE BEATLES: Of The Beatles' 20 U.S. No. 1 hits, this song has the shortest title "Help!"
#6847, aired 2014-05-2720th CENTURY PLAY TITLES: This play's title comes from the name of a Greek king said to have carved a statue of a woman & fallen in love with it Pygmalion
#6838, aired 2014-05-14NAMES ON THE MAP: Visited by Jacques Cartier in 1534, it was later renamed for Queen Victoria's father, the Duke of Kent Prince Edward Island
#6835, aired 2014-05-09FAMOUS BOOKS: It was published March 26, 1830; a very popular work with the same name premiered March 24, 2011 The Book of Mormon
#6833, aired 2014-05-07SUPREME COURT DECISIONS: On December 20, 1956 the Court's ruling on Browder v. Gayle went into effect, bringing an end to this 381-day event the Montgomery bus boycott
#6831, aired 2014-05-05WORD ORIGINS: This word for a timid person comes from the last name of a character in a 1920s newspaper comic called "The Timid Soul" milquetoast
#6828, aired 2014-04-30ALBUM COVERS: This band used a picture of the Hindenburg disaster on the cover of its eponymous debut album Led Zeppelin
#6815, aired 2014-04-11HISTORIC IRONY: Theodor Herzl was inspired to begin the work that's the foundation for modern Zionism by an opera by this composer Richard Wagner
#6813, aired 2014-04-09AROUND THE USA: The Mayo Clinic Mile is a walking path that features 1 mile, 5K & 10K routes within this structure the Mall of America
#6810, aired 2014-04-0420th CENTURY NOVEL QUOTES: "It was one of those pictures... so contrived that the eyes follow you... beneath" the picture was this 5-word quote Big Brother is watching you
#6794, aired 2014-03-13WORLD CAPITALS: At 4,000 miles, the farthest-apart capitals of bordering countries are these 2 cities, one on a peninsula Moscow & Pyongyang
#6788, aired 2014-03-054-LETTER WORDS: New research says this word that has become ubiquitous dates back to young men also called "macaronis" dude
#6785, aired 2014-02-28MODERN DAY SUFFIXES: Dating from 1973, this 4-letter suffix indicates a person or thing that has become associated with public scandal -gate
#6782, aired 2014-02-25BUSINESS: "The Everything Store" is a book about this company that in 2012 was home to 1% of all North American Internet traffic Amazon.com
#6780, aired 2014-02-21THE BRITISH EMPIRE: 1713's Treaty of Utrecht concluding the War of the Spanish Succession granted this small 2.3-square-mile area to Great Britain Gibraltar
#6777, aired 2014-02-18PHYSICS: The name of this theory is from viewing sub-atomic particles as 1-dimensional objects, not as 0-dimensional points string theory
#6775, aired 2014-02-14GETTING A "D" IN COLLEGE: The USA's oldest endowed chair is a Harvard chair of this subject, given in 1721 when that was largely what Harvard taught divinity
#6771, aired 2014-02-10ISLANDS: In a satellite photo, volcanic activity can be seen on this 10,000-square-mile island Sicily
#6770, aired 2014-02-07WORLD POLITICS: When these 2 men swapped jobs in 2012, their country's media described the move as "castling" Putin & Medvedev
#6769, aired 2014-02-06COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD: Once a poor British protectorate, in 2012 this peninsular country ranked as the world's richest per capita Qatar
#6768, aired 2014-02-05THE PERIODIC TABLE: Of the element symbols that don't match the element's English name, this element's symbol is alphabetically 1st silver
#6767, aired 2014-02-0420th CENTURY WOMEN AUTHORS: Readers' letters to this author about her 1948 short story asked where the title event was held & if they could go & watch Shirley Jackson
#6765, aired 2014-01-31INVENTORS: In an 1854 demonstration, he said, "Cut the rope"; his invention kicked in, then he said, "All safe, gentlemen" Elisha Otis
#6750, aired 2014-01-10COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD: It's the largest country in area completely south of the equator that has a female president Argentina
#6727, aired 2013-12-10STATE CAPITALS: It's the Southern city in which the building seen here is located; counting the panels may help Austin
#6724, aired 2013-12-0520th CENTURY ARTS: Pretending to be a tree is an exercise in a key textbook of this system that spread from Russia to Broadway & then to Hollywood method acting (the Stanislavski system)
#6713, aired 2013-11-20NOVEL TITLES: These are not found in the Koran, & the angel Gabriel told Muhammad that they were not revealed by God the Satanic Verses
#6710, aired 2013-11-15PLAY CHARACTERS: In Peter Roach's phonetics glossary, this alliterative guy is "the best-known fictional phonetician" Henry Higgins
#6700, aired 2013-11-01NATIONS OF THE WORLD: The only 2 countries in the Americas that border each other & begin with the same letter Brazil & Bolivia
#6692, aired 2013-10-22THE CARIBBEAN: Pico Duarte & Lago Enriquillo in this country 650 miles from Florida are the highest & lowest points in the Caribbean the Dominican Republic
#6686, aired 2013-10-14BIG COUNTRIES: In area, it's the largest former Soviet republic after Russia & the largest nation that doesn't border an ocean Kazakhstan
#6685, aired 2013-10-11WORLD CAPITALS: It's the capital city of the only country that borders both the Mediterranean Sea & the Black Sea Ankara
#6675, aired 2013-09-27EUROPEAN CAPITALS: Since a national split in 1993, it's the only world capital that borders 2 other countries--Austria & Hungary Bratislava
#6673, aired 2013-09-2520th CENTURY NAMES: Since his 1988 death, he's been inducted into the U.S. Hockey, World Figure Skating & National Inventors Halls of Fame Zamboni
#6668, aired 2013-09-18WORLD WAR II: Because time was short, only this ship's starboard side, used for boarding, was repainted September 1, 1945 the USS Missouri
#6666, aired 2013-09-16POETS: Funds provided by his widow were used to set up a literary charity called Old Possum's Practical Trust T.S. Eliot
#6663, aired 2013-07-31THE CIVIL WAR: Abraham Lincoln called this document, which took effect in 1863, "a fit and necessary war measure" the Emancipation Proclamation
#6650, aired 2013-07-12VIDEO GAME HISTORY: The title princess of this game, which launched a best-selling franchise, was named for F. Scott Fitzgerald's wife The Legend of Zelda
#6649, aired 2013-07-11CLASSICAL MUSIC: This piece that premiered in Moscow in 1882 includes strains from "God Save the Czar" & "La Marseillaise" the 1812 Overture
#6642, aired 2013-07-02THE ANCIENT WORLD: The area that the people of ancient Rome called this was their city's equivalent of the Greek agora the forum
#6640, aired 2013-06-281950s FICTION: John Updike wrote "Rabbit, Run" partly in reaction to this more carefree novel that was published 3 years earlier On the Road
#6625, aired 2013-06-07AMERICAN WRITERS: Contemporary reviews called this writer "A Yankee Diogenes" & the "Concord Diogenes" Henry David Thoreau
#6617, aired 2013-05-28AMERICAN ACTORS: Reflecting a long friendship dating to a 1962 film they did together, Brock Peters gave the eulogy at this star's 2003 funeral Gregory Peck
#6615, aired 2013-05-24DISNEY SONGS: This 1964 song was inspired when one of the writer's sons took the oral polio vaccine "A Spoonful Of Sugar"
#6604, aired 2013-05-09THE CONTINENTS: It’s the continent that’s home to the most U.N. member countries, including a new one added in 2011 Africa
#6602, aired 2013-05-07CHARACTERS IN SHAKESPEARE: This character said to represent Shakespeare's philosophy has a name that means "fortunate" in Latin Prospero
#6569, aired 2013-03-21ARTISTS: On his deathbed he told police, "What I have done is nobody else's business"; one theory is he was protecting others (Vincent) van Gogh
#6568, aired 2013-03-20EUROPEANA: In the 16th century the ancestors of the current president of France fled what is now this country the Netherlands
#6565, aired 2013-03-15SHAKESPEARE: Samuel Johnson said Shakespeare "so carefully informs us" that this play is set on the eve of May Day & yet called it this A Midsummer Night's Dream
#6556, aired 2013-03-04COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES: One of its mascots is a restored 1930 Sport Coupe that's been in use at the school since 1961 Georgia Tech
#6554, aired 2013-02-28THE UNIVERSE: In 2006 it was moved to a new list that includes Ceres & Eris Pluto
#6550, aired 2013-02-22ITALY: The Italian word for "shadow" is used as a local variation on the name of this region midway between Rome & Florence Umbria
#6548, aired 2013-02-20CLASSIC JAZZ SONGS: The title of this 1959 instrumental is a synonym for "Time Out", the album on which it first appeared "Take Five"
#6540, aired 2013-02-08U.S. GOVERNMENT: Recently in the news, this agency traces its origins to an 1803 act helping Portsmouth, N.H. after a fire FEMA
#6539, aired 2013-02-07CAPITAL CITIES: It's criss-crossed by dozens of "peace walls" that separate its Catholic & Protestant neighborhoods Belfast
#6537, aired 2013-02-05SHORT STORIES: It says, "The body of the trooper having been buried in the church yard, the ghost rides forth... in nightly quest of his head" "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"
#6536, aired 2013-02-04MOUNT RUSHMORE: It's the only U.S. state that has more than one native-born son honored on Mount Rushmore Virginia
#6532, aired 2013-01-29METEOROLOGICAL TERMS: In the 1940s an anemometer aided Antarctic experiments that 1st determined this measurement heard in weather reports wind chill
#6530, aired 2013-01-25MUSICAL THEATRE: Before this show hit Broadway in 1964, one of its working titles was "The Luckiest People" Funny Girl
#6527, aired 2013-01-22OFFICIAL COUNTRY NAMES: It's the only nation in the world that officially describes itself as a confederation Swiss Confederation
#6512, aired 2013-01-0119th CENTURY AMERICA: Held in 1857, America's first national landscape design contest was for the creation of this place Central Park
#6488, aired 2012-11-28COUNTRIES: It was created in the early 1700s from 2 counties purchased by an Austrian prince; he named the nation for his family Liechtenstein
#6487, aired 2012-11-27BILLBOARD NO. 1 ALBUMS: The soundtrack for this film based on a play holds the record for the most weeks at No. 1, 54 weeks in 1962 & '63 West Side Story
#6486, aired 2012-11-26PLACE NAMES: Built in 1911, this Wisconsin home was named for a Welsh bard associated with King Arthur Taliesin
#6464, aired 2012-10-25WORLD LANGUAGES: Of the Romance languages, it has the greatest number of native speakers in a single country Portuguese
#6460, aired 2012-10-19CABLE TV FIRSTS: When Turner Classic Movies began broadcasting on April 14, 1994, the first movie shown was this one Gone with the Wind
#6456, aired 2012-10-15FICTION: A proposed title for this novel sounded too much like a Vegas heist movie, so the number in the title was doubled Catch-22
#6447, aired 2012-10-02FAMILIAR PHRASES: OED's earliest citation of this 5-word phrase is "Now, Monsieur Poirot, you would without doubt like to visit" this place the scene of the crime
#6440, aired 2012-09-21THE OSCARS: The only remake of a U.S. film to win Best Picture; the original was made in the 1920s, the Oscar-winning remake in the 1950s Ben-Hur
#6427, aired 2012-07-24'80s SITCOM CHARACTERS: Creator Gary David Goldberg wrote this Republican character as unsympathetic, but the actor made him lovable Alex Keaton
#6415, aired 2012-07-06OPERA CHARACTERS: In a play subtitle, she's called "the Chinese Sphinx"; in a later opera her suitor calls her "Principessa di Morte" Turandot
#6405, aired 2012-06-2220th CENTURY TECHNOLOGY: The first major use of simultaneous translation, before adoption by the U.N., was in this European city in 1945 & 1946 Nuremberg
#6396, aired 2012-06-11EVENTS IN THE BIBLE: Acts 1:13 says this event occurred in "an upper room" the Last Supper
#6389, aired 2012-05-31AIRLINE HISTORY: Clipper Goodwill, a Boeing 727, took this airline's last passengers from Barbados to Miami December 4, 1991 Pan Am
#6387, aired 2012-05-29CLASSIC MYSTERY NOVELS: A letter in this mystery says, "We are going... to Luxor and Assuan by steamer, and perhaps on to Khartoum" Death on the Nile
#6383, aired 2012-05-23ANIMALS: A 2005 study reported that this animal named for an island has, pound-for-pound, the most powerful bite of any mammal Tasmanian devil
#6382, aired 2012-05-221957: On September 5, Dwight Eisenhower told this state's governor that "the federal Constitution will be upheld by me by every legal means" Arkansas
#6380, aired 2012-05-18INVENTORS: The National Inventors Hall of Fame said his work "brought the South prosperity", but he was out of business within 5 years Eli Whitney
#6376, aired 2012-05-14AWARDS: This performer is the only person to win an Emmy, the Mark Twain Prize & the Spingarn Medal Bill Cosby
#6372, aired 2012-05-08ANCIENT LANDMARKS: It's believed that its nose was about 3 feet wide when it was first constructed around 2500 B.C. the Sphinx
#6371, aired 2012-05-07ON THE PERIODIC TABLE: Of the 5 elements with 4-letter names, it's the only one that is not a solid at room temperature neon
#6370, aired 2012-05-04THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION: In 1777 an opponent wrote of him "Money is this man's God, and to get enough of it he would sacrifice his country" Benedict Arnold
#6354, aired 2012-04-12SHAKESPEARE'S PLAYS: The only 2 plays whose titles repeat a word, excluding articles & prepositions, are "Measure for Measure" & this All's Well that Ends Well
#6351, aired 2012-04-09THE HOLLYWOOD WALK OF FAME: His widow Maria Elena & actor Gary Busey were on hand when his star was dedicated outside Capitol Records in 2011 Buddy Holly
#6325, aired 2012-03-02BOOK VILLAINS: The first time we meet this man in a 1981 novel, he's in his cell holding "Le Grand Dictionnaire de Cuisine" Hannibal Lecter
#6320, aired 2012-02-24LITERARY BIOGRAPHIES: Quoting a famous line of his, a 2011 biography of this man was titled "And So It Goes" Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
#6315, aired 2012-02-17LITERARY CHARACTERS: The only title character in her creator's 6 major novels, she was portrayed in a 1996 film & a 2009 miniseries Emma (Woodhouse)
#6292, aired 2012-01-17U.S. POPULATION: Between 2000 & 2010 these 2 states that border each other led the nation in highest percentage of population increase, 35% & 25% Arizona and Nevada
#6288, aired 2012-01-11FOOD ETYMOLOGY: Keith Downey developed rapeseed into this cooking product, now a huge cash crop for farmers in Saskatchewan canola
#6283, aired 2012-01-041930s NOVELS: An audio version of this anti-war novel by a once blacklisted author has introductions from Cindy Sheehan & Ron Kovic Johnny Got His Gun
#6280, aired 2011-12-30ROCK ICONS: While he's had 12 Top 10 hits on Billboard, including 7 from a 1984 album, he's never had a No. 1 single Bruce Springsteen
#6277, aired 2011-12-27PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURATIONS: His second inauguration marked the first time that women officially participated in the inaugural parade Woodrow Wilson
#6273, aired 2011-12-21THE NFL: This team that joined the NFL in the mid-1970s is the only one whose name starts with the same 3 letters as its city's name the Seattle Seahawks
#6262, aired 2011-12-06U.S. STRUCTURES: On December 6, 1884 this was capped with a 100-oz., 9-inch-high pyramid-shaped block of aluminum, a metal that was rare at the time the Washington Monument
#6249, aired 2011-11-17HISTORIC DOCUMENTS: It's the shorter, better-known name of the document "United States-Vietnam Relations, 1945-1967" the Pentagon Papers
#6247, aired 2011-11-1519th CENTURY POETRY: He wrote, "He looked upon the garish day With such a wistful eye; The man had killed the thing he loved, & so he had to die" Oscar Wilde
#6245, aired 2011-11-11BUSINESS: A 2005 sale of 14,159,265 shares prompted the headline "Google offers shares, seeks global piece of" this pi
#6240, aired 2011-11-04NOTABLE GROUPS: Harpo Marx was among this group when it met in NYC's Rose Room for its final time, in 1943, & found there was nothing left to say the Algonquin Round Table
#6227, aired 2011-10-18FOREIGN-BORN INVENTORS: His 1922 New York Times obituary mentions that his patent No. 174,465 "has been called the most valuable patent ever issued" Alexander Graham Bell
#6225, aired 2011-10-14THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE: This nation lost its direct access to the Pacific around 1880 but retains a navy that patrols its rivers & a large lake Bolivia
#6205, aired 2011-07-29LOS ANGELES LANDMARKS: A James Dean memorial can be found adjacent to this structure, located at one of the high spots in Los Angeles the Griffith Observatory
#6196, aired 2011-07-18WORLD GEOGRAPHY: Of the 4 largest Asian countries in area, it's the only one that borders the other 3 China
#6195, aired 2011-07-15TRADEMARKS: In 1987 a maker of fiberglass insulation became the first company to trademark a color--this color pink
#6188, aired 2011-07-06U.S. STATE NAMES: Of the 4 states that begin & end with the same vowel, the one that doesn't begin & end with the same letter as the other 3 states Ohio
#6180, aired 2011-06-24WORLD CAPITALS: Built about 50 years ago, it's the only world capital to start with the letter "I" Islamabad
#6170, aired 2011-06-10FRANCE: With about 340,000 people today, it's the most populous French city that came under Italian occupation in World War II Nice
#6168, aired 2011-06-08THE MOVIES: Lt. Col. A.P. Clark played a key role in the elaborate breakout from Stalag Luft III that inspired this 1963 movie The Great Escape
#6167, aired 2011-06-07BESTSELLERS: In the beginning this 2005 novel was simply titled "Forks" Twilight
#6161, aired 2011-05-30SCIENCE TERMS: This term for the lowest level of the ocean that the Sun's rays can reach shares its name with a classic 1960s TV show the twilight zone
#6141, aired 2011-05-02CANADA: It's the only Canadian province that is separated from the North American mainland Prince Edward Island
#6133, aired 2011-04-20HISTORIC AMERICANS: Sharing his first name with the man who took this 1850s photo, he's the diplomat & officer seen here Matthew Perry
#6097, aired 2011-03-0120th CENTURY AUTHORS: A novel set during the Depression earned this author a 1940 Pulitzer Prize & contributed to him winning a Nobel Prize in 1962 John Steinbeck
#6095, aired 2011-02-25GEOGRAPHIC TERMS: This area that includes several countries got its name because the colonizers spoke Spanish, French & Portuguese Latin America
#6087, aired 2011-02-15U.S. CITIES: Its largest airport is named for a World War II hero; its second largest, for a World War II battle Chicago
#6078, aired 2011-02-02U.S. PRESIDENTS: Of the 20 presidents elected to a second term, 2 of the 3 who failed to complete that term (2 of) Lincoln, Nixon & McKinley
#6073, aired 2011-01-26AFRICA: Its Declaration of Independence was signed in 1847 by 11 men in that nation's Providence Baptist Church Liberia
#6072, aired 2011-01-25THE OLD TESTAMENT: In the Book of Job, this name means "accuser", & that was his role in God's court Satan
#6067, aired 2011-01-18STATE NAMES: These are the 2 U.S. states with only one consonant in their names Iowa & Ohio
#6065, aired 2011-01-14THE PRESIDENCY: From the same state, they're the 2 presidents whose occupations are listed by World Book as "planter" George Washington & Thomas Jefferson
#6058, aired 2011-01-05COUNTRIES: By area, it's the world's largest country that's named for a river India
#6041, aired 2010-12-13COUNTRIES: In only 2 cases can you add 2 letters to one country & get another country: Austria/Australia & this pair Niger/Nigeria
#6034, aired 2010-12-02BRITISH WOMEN: It's said that this woman who died in 1976 "made more money out of murder than any woman since Lucrezia Borgia" Agatha Christie
#6030, aired 2010-11-26MUSICAL THEATER: The basis of this show that won a Best Musical Tony & a Pulitzer was a collection of stories that won the Pulitzer in 1948 South Pacific
#6023, aired 2010-11-17PHRASES: In ancient Rome it was a post where racers changed direction; since 1836 it's meant a moment change occurs turning point
#6021, aired 2010-11-15SPORTS IN AMERICA: Seen with a piece of equipment, Bryn Mawr's 1st physical education director brought this sport to the U.S.; it shares part of its name with another sport field hockey
#6002, aired 2010-10-19HOLIDAY HISTORY: Cuba removed Christmas from its list of national holidays in 1969 & restored it in 1997 in anticipation of a visit by this man Pope John Paul II
#6001, aired 2010-10-18U.S. CURRENCY: It's the only U.S. coin or bill produced in 2010 that features the private home of a president on the reverse the nickel
#6000, aired 2010-10-15U.S. PRESIDENTS: He was the first U.S. president to be elected in an Olympic year McKinley
#5994, aired 2010-10-07MAMMALS: One type of this aquatic animal gives milk that's 65% fat; pups are weaned in 4 days, the least of any mammal the seal
#5985, aired 2010-09-24PRESIDENTS: He served the shortest amount of time as president before running for & winning reelection to the job LBJ
#5977, aired 2010-09-14LITERARY & MOVIE TITLE OBJECTS: The inspiration for this title object in a novel & a 1957 movie actually spanned the Mae Khlung River "The Bridge on the River Kwai"
#5975, aired 2010-07-30THE 9 MUSES: In a Balanchine ballet, Apollo, god of music, has a favorite muse, this one Terpsichore
#5974, aired 2010-07-29THE SUPER BOWL: As of 2010 it's the only current NFC team that has never played in the Super Bowl the Detroit Lions
#5958, aired 2010-07-07GEOGRAPHY: 2 of the 4 U.S. states that border Mexico (2 of) Texas, New Mexico, Arizona & California
#5951, aired 2010-06-28BOTANICAL ETYMOLOGY: This plant's name may have come from its use by Italian Renaissance women to dilate pupils, which, they felt, augmented beauty belladonna
#5948, aired 2010-06-23HISTORIC DATES: The signing of the Treaty of Versailles on June 28, 1919 took place exactly 5 years after the related death of this man Archduke Franz Ferdinand
#5937, aired 2010-06-08U.S. MILITARY HISTORY: This general commanded the first official American force to fight on the European continent John Pershing
#5920, aired 2010-05-14THE 50 STATES: It's the only state from which rainwater flows to the Pacific, the Atlantic & Hudson Bay Montana
#5912, aired 2010-05-04OFFICIAL STATE SONGS: In 1953 it became the only state whose official song was written for a Broadway musical Oklahoma
#5911, aired 2010-05-03U.S.A.: Chocolate Avenue & Cocoa Avenue are 2 of the main thoroughfares in this town that was established in 1903 Hershey, Pennsylvania
#5910, aired 2010-04-30TOYS: Original sets of this toy that was first sold in 1918 included plans for building Uncle Tom's Cabin Lincoln Logs
#5908, aired 2010-04-28SCIENCE HISTORY: In August 1971 on the Moon's surface, an astronaut repeated a famous experiment & declared that this man "was correct" Galileo
#5906, aired 2010-04-26U.S. PRESIDENTS: He's the only president sworn in on a Catholic missal; it wasn't his Lyndon Baines Johnson
#5895, aired 2010-04-0919th CENTURY BRITISH LITERATURE: In chapter 10, "The whole mystery of the handkerchiefs, and the watches, and the jewels... rushed upon" this title boy's "mind" Oliver Twist
#5890, aired 2010-04-02THE MIDDLE AGES: Some say the Dark Ages began when Byzantine Emperor Justinian closed this city's school of philosophy in 529 A.D. Athens
#5879, aired 2010-03-18AUTHORS: In 1890 he witnessed a mild cyclone in Aberdeen, South Dakota, fodder for his most famous novel L. Frank Baum
#5875, aired 2010-03-12FILM LEGENDS: His only competitive Oscar win was for Best Score in 1973 for a 1952 film in which he had starred as a washed-up comic Charlie Chaplin
#5857, aired 2010-02-16THE AFI's 50 GREATEST FILM HEROES: Of the 50 on the list, the only character that wasn't portrayed by a human Lassie
#5854, aired 2010-02-11COLLEGE HISTORY: The Pittsburgh university named for Andrew Carnegie is the USA's first to offer a degree in this musical instrument the bagpipes
#5853, aired 2010-02-10AMERICAN HEROES: He said, "I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm's way" John Paul Jones
#5837, aired 2010-01-19U.S. STATE NAMES: It's the only 1-word U.S. state that contains the entire name, in order, of another state Arkansas
#5831, aired 2010-01-11THE PARTS OF SPEECH: Of the traditional 8 parts of speech, it's the only one that doesn't end in the same 4 letters as 1 of the other parts of speech adjective
#5823, aired 2009-12-30THE CONSTITUTION: Just 37 words, it's in the article on the executive branch & is the only part of the Constitution that is in quote marks the Presidential Oath of Office
#5813, aired 2009-12-161970s BESTSELLERS: The preface to this novel says its title is a trademark phrase of General Mills, used on a cereal product Breakfast of Champions
#5810, aired 2009-12-11OPEC: This African nation of 150 million is the only member of OPEC that's also a member of the British Commonwealth Nigeria
#5807, aired 2009-12-08LITERATURE OF THE 1800s: This character said, "I will live in the past, the present, and the future. The spirits of all three shall strive within me" Ebenezer Scrooge
#5803, aired 2009-12-02PHRASE ORIGINS: Used in 1947's "U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey", this 2-word term became widely used again in NYC on 9/11/01 ground zero
#5794, aired 2009-11-19FILM DIRECTORS: His work of the 1930s & '40s is so associated with sentimentality that his name is often combined with "corn" Frank Capra
#5792, aired 2009-11-17MOVIES & DANCE: Derived from other traditional dances & still popular today, the syrtaki was created for this 1964 movie Zorba the Greek
#5788, aired 2009-11-11THE WORLD AFTER WWII: This peninsula was divided when Japan surrendered to the U.S. below the 38th parallel & to the Soviet Union north of it the Korean Peninsula
#5785, aired 2009-11-06STATE CAPITALS: It's the only 3-word state capital Salt Lake City
#5754, aired 2009-09-24FROM PAGE TO SCREEN: A 13-page document typed on April 18, 1945 with the names of 801 men inspired a 1982 book & this 1993 film Schindler's List
#5751, aired 2009-09-21THE INTERNET: In a registered website domain name, it's the only mark allowed that isn't a letter, number or the dot a dash
#5746, aired 2009-09-14WORD ORIGINS: This skilled army job may have been named for a bird because soldiers tested their rifle accuracy by shooting them a sniper
#5745, aired 2009-07-2425 YEARS & COUNTING: In 2009 she was on a world tour at age 69; when "Jeopardy!" premiered in September 1984, she had the USA's No. 1 hit Tina Turner
#5744, aired 2009-07-23FOOD: This cheese was created in 1892 by Emil Frey & named for a New York singing society whose members loved the cheese Liederkranz
#5741, aired 2009-07-20POETS ON POETS: Longfellow began a poem about this earlier poet, "Tuscan, that wanderest through the realms of gloom" Dante Alighieri
#5736, aired 2009-07-13AMERICAN HISTORY: The area that's now the State of Indiana was acquired in this war the Revolutionary War
#5735, aired 2009-07-10THE CALENDAR: This U.S. event was set after the harvest, on a day when rural folk could get there without having to travel on Sunday Election Day
#5731, aired 2009-07-06NAPOLEON: Napoleon died before some of his officers could sneak him to this U.S. state where his death mask now resides Louisiana
#5719, aired 2009-06-18STATE SONGS: It was originally dedicated to a Midwest football team; it's said that Sousa called it the best college song he'd ever heard "On, Wisconsin!"
#5718, aired 2009-06-17THE DOW JONES INDUSTRIAL AVERAGE: Of the 30 corporations that make up the Dow Jones index, it's the only one that began as an entertainment company Disney
#5710, aired 2009-06-05STATE QUARTERS: Of the U.S. state quarters that feature sail-powered craft, the state depicting the oldest ship Florida
#5705, aired 2009-05-29THE ACADEMY AWARDS: Peter Finch was the first winner of a posthumous Best Actor Oscar; he was first to get 2 posthumous acting nominations James Dean
#5702, aired 2009-05-26BRITISH LEGENDARY POETRY: The first edition of this collection of poems did not include "The Last Tournament"; it was added in the 1870s Idylls of the King
#5700, aired 2009-05-2220th CENTURY POLITICS: On September 23, 1952 some 60 million people, the largest TV audience to that time, tuned in for this live address the Checkers Speech
#5695, aired 2009-05-1519th CENTURY AMERICANS: This New Englander began building his house in March 1845 & later wrote that it cost exactly $28.12 1/2 Henry David Thoreau
#5686, aired 2009-05-04THE 50 STATES: An 1881 resolution established that this state's name was to be spelled one way but pronounced another Arkansas
#5679, aired 2009-04-2320th CENTURY SCIENCE: The 1970s saw the coining of the term "runner's high" & the discovery of these opiate proteins that produce it endorphins
#5674, aired 2009-04-16AMERICAN BUSINESS: On Sept. 29, 2008 every stock in the S&P 500 dropped except this maker of comforting food, founded in 1869 Campbell's
#5673, aired 2009-04-15EXPLORERS: In 1611 Henry Greene led a successful mutiny against this captain, but soon after was killed by Eskimos Henry Hudson
#5668, aired 2009-04-08FILM QUOTES: From a 1942 movie, No. 2 on Guinness' top 10 film quotes is a line that mentions this liquor gin
#5656, aired 2009-03-23U.S. PRESIDENTS: You have to go back over a century to find him, the last president who never had a vice president Chester Arthur
#5645, aired 2009-03-06CELEBRATIONS: Homecoming Scotland is a yearlong celebration of this man's 250th birthday on Jan. 25, 2009 Rabbie Burns
#5643, aired 2009-03-04DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS: Of the 4 countries in the world that the U.S. does not have diplomatic relations with, the one that's farthest north North Korea
#5640, aired 2009-02-27ADVERTISING ICONS: On Advertising Age's list of the Top 10 Ad Icons of the 20th c., they're the 2 alliterative entries that end in "Man" the Michelin Man & the Marlboro Man
#5635, aired 2009-02-20ANCIENT WORKS: Astronomers used clues in the text of this epic to figure out the date of its archery contest: April 16, 1178 B.C. The Odyssey
#5634, aired 2009-02-19EXPLORERS: In 1871 he answered, "Yes, and I feel thankful that I am here to welcome you" Dr. Livingstone
#5623, aired 2009-02-0420th CENTURY FIRSTS: On Oct. 14, 1947 in the Mojave Desert the first of these sounds was made by man; it was the byproduct of another first sonic boom
#5621, aired 2009-02-02STATE CAPITALS: It's the only state capital that bears the name of a U.S. vice president Jefferson City
#5615, aired 2009-01-23MYTHOLOGICAL WORDS & PHRASES: This prized object was the coat of the winged ram that flew Phrixus to safety the Golden Fleece
#5610, aired 2009-01-16CULINARY HISTORY: This fruit dessert was created to celebrate Queen Victoria's decades on the British throne cherries jubilee
#5609, aired 2009-01-15WRITER/DIRECTORS: His headstone, using a line from one of his scripts, says, "I'm a writer but then nobody's perfect" Billy Wilder
#5605, aired 2009-01-09ALPHABETS: In the phonetic alphabet used by the U.S. military, it's the only letter that has the same name as a warrior people Zulu
#5603, aired 2009-01-07INDEPENDENCE DAYS: Poland's Independence Day commemorates this month & day in 1918 November 11
#5588, aired 2008-12-17NOVEL INSPIRATIONS: The house in Canada seen here inspired this beloved novel that's celebrating its 100th anniversary in 2008 Anne of Green Gables
#5578, aired 2008-12-03FAMOUS SCIENTISTS: Alexander Pope wrote the epitaph "Nature and nature's laws lay hid in night, God said, let" him "be and all was light" Isaac Newton
#5573, aired 2008-11-26FOOD BRANDS: In 1954 Swift chose this word that means "a chubby person" as its new brand's name to convey plumpness & tenderness Butterball
#5568, aired 2008-11-19NONFICTION WRITERS: On July 21, 1944 she wrote, "I'm finally getting optimistic... an assassination attempt has been made on Hitler's life" Anne Frank
#5554, aired 2008-10-30INVENTORS: A key to Alexander Graham Bell's experiments was one of these, procured by a doctor friend, Clarence Blake an ear
#5546, aired 2008-10-20U.S. GEOGRAPHY: Of the non-state U.S. territories, areas & districts, the only one that is larger in area than the smallest state Puerto Rico
#5539, aired 2008-10-091960s HIT SONGS: The singer/songwriter of this 1960s mega-hit has revealed that it was inspired by a president's daughter "Sweet Caroline"
#5536, aired 2008-10-0620th CENTURY WOMEN: The state building that houses Pennsylvania's Department of Environmental Protection is named in her honor Rachel Carson
#5523, aired 2008-09-17U.S. GEOGRAPHY: It's 277 miles long, it's up to 18 miles wide, it's 6 million years old & at a given time temperatures within it can vary by 25 degrees the Grand Canyon
#5520, aired 2008-09-12ROYALTY: It's the name of today's longest-ruling family in Europe, in power for most of the last 711 years Grimaldi
#5514, aired 2008-07-24FAMOUS NAMES: In 1906 he launched Conjurer's Monthly, a magazine that he pretty much wrote & edited himself Harry Houdini
#5512, aired 2008-07-22WORLD LEADERS: Born in Kiev & later a U.S. citizen, this leader became prime minister in 1969 of a country founded in the 20th century Golda Meir
#5509, aired 2008-07-171970s HITS: In 1970 2 performers reached the Top 20 with this hit whose 6-word title was inspired by Boys Town "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother"
#5505, aired 2008-07-11BASEBALL HISTORY: For nearly 30 years, California's Catalina Island was the spring training camp for this non-California Major League team the Chicago Cubs
#5504, aired 2008-07-10SECRETARIES OF STATE: In 1947 he said Europe's food needs require "substantial additional help" to prevent social deterioration George C. Marshall
#5484, aired 2008-06-12FUN WITH NUMBERS: It's the only whole number that when spelled out has all its letters in reverse alphabetical order one
#5475, aired 2008-05-30WWII: FDR liked to rest near water, but because of fears after Pearl Harbor, this inland place was created for him Camp David
#5454, aired 2008-05-01HISTORIC NAMES: Born at Chateau Chavaniac in 1757, he was later hailed as "the hero of two worlds" the Marquis de Lafayette
#5452, aired 2008-04-29BASEBALL TERMS: Hall of Famer Willie Stargell called it "a butterfly with hiccups" a knuckleball
#5449, aired 2008-04-24STATE CAPITALS: This Plains State capital of only 14,000 people is the only U.S. capital with no letters of its state in its name Pierre, South Dakota
#5448, aired 2008-04-2321st CENTURY OSCAR WINNERS: She's the only performer to win an Oscar for playing a real-life Oscar winner Cate Blanchett
#5444, aired 2008-04-17WWII: In English, it's the word that Mussolini was the first to use to describe the partnership between Berlin & Rome axis
#5439, aired 2008-04-10U.S. AGRICULTURE: In the 50 states, the highlighted area seen here is by far the most important for producing this coffee
#5435, aired 2008-04-04SHOW BUSINESS: The wings on this, created in 1948, represent the "muse of art"; the atom represents the "electron of science" the Emmy Award
#5431, aired 2008-03-31BEFORE THEY WERE SENATORS: Later a U.S. senator, in 1962 he made a famous 75,000-mile trip John Glenn
#5410, aired 2008-02-29NAME'S ALMOST THE SAME: This 900-mile Eastern European mountain range shares most of its name with a ship famous for its April 1912 actions the Carpathian Mountains
#5405, aired 2008-02-22U.S. GOVERNMENT HISTORY: This man cast the first tie-breaking vote in U.S. Senate history John Adams
#5400, aired 2008-02-15AMERICAN POETRY: Walt Whitman called this "the beautiful uncut hair of graves" grass
#5396, aired 2008-02-11THE 50 STATES: It's the only state name that when spelled officially contains a diacritical mark Hawaii
#5395, aired 2008-02-08NORTH AMERICAN GEOGRAPHY: This 1,980-mile river that starts in Canada is the longest in the Western Hemisphere that flows to the Pacific Ocean the Yukon River
#5393, aired 2008-02-06WORLD AUTHORS: In 1898 he wrote, "As for the persons I have accused... they are... embodiments of social malfeasance" Émile Zola
#5389, aired 2008-01-31WORLD CAPITALS: This capital city of 113,000 is the closest national capital to the Arctic Circle Reykjavík
#5385, aired 2008-01-25CLASSIC TV: Among those who objected to this drama series that premiered in October 1959 were Frank Sinatra & J. Edgar Hoover The Untouchables
#5384, aired 2008-01-24RICH & FAMOUS: At $900 million, his fortune was once 2% of the GNP; by his death in 1937, he was down to about $26 million John Rockefeller
#5380, aired 2008-01-18BIBLICAL NAMES: The name of this rebellious young man of the Old Testament can be translated from the Hebrew as "father of peace" Absalom
#5378, aired 2008-01-16FOREIGN FILMS: A series of novels includes "Iron Knight, Silver Vase", "Precious Sword, Golden Hairpin" & this one, made into a film in 2000 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
#5375, aired 2008-01-11OPERA INSPIRATIONS: Scholars think that a panpipe found by Captain Cook in what is now Vanuatu inspired this 18th century opera The Magic Flute
#5373, aired 2008-01-09THE CATHOLIC CHURCH: First mentioned in a letter by Clement IV in 1265, this item worn by the Pope features an image of St. Peter in a boat a ring
#5370, aired 2008-01-04U.S. PRESIDENTS: When this president & his wife didn't want to be understood by others, they spoke to each other in Chinese Herbert Hoover
#5368, aired 2008-01-02THE BOX OFFICE: Rated "R" for violence, this 2004 film set in ancient times is the highest-grossing "R" movie ever in the U.S. The Passion of the Christ
#5367, aired 2008-01-01U.S. TRADE: It's the country from which the U.S. imports the most oil Canada
#5360, aired 2007-12-21POETS: Fired from a job for laziness, he wrote, "I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass" Walt Whitman
#5354, aired 2007-12-13AFRICAN RIVERS: The course of this river that's almost 3,000 miles long is an immense counter-clockwise semi-circle the Congo
#5353, aired 2007-12-1220th CENTURY PERSONALITIES: In 1921 he got a patent for a diving suit that allowed one to quickly discard the suit & escape to the surface Harry Houdini
#5352, aired 2007-12-11SHAKESPEAREAN TRAGEDY CHARACTERS: To the consternation of the title character, we learn that this character was born by C-section Macduff
#5342, aired 2007-11-27CURRENT AMERICAN BUSINESS: This co.'s name is a variation on a word coined by Milton Sirotta & used in the book "Mathematics and the Imagination" Google, Inc.
#5340, aired 2007-11-23PRO SPORTS TEAM NAMES: It's the only NBA team name that uses a state nickname in place of a city or state the Golden State Warriors
#5339, aired 2007-11-22FAMOUS NAMES: In the 19th century he created a new type of reference work, a dictionary named from the Greek for "treasury" Roget
#5332, aired 2007-11-13THE MOVIES: The title of this award-winning 1963 film refers to the number of films its director felt he had made to that point
#5330, aired 2007-11-09HISTORIC ARCHITECTS: He designed S.C.'s State Capitol, burned during the Civil War; his most famous building had burned during the War of 1812 James Hoban
#5329, aired 2007-11-08THE PERSIAN GULF: Its national anthem begins, "O Lord, protect for us Our Majesty the Sultan" Oman
#5326, aired 2007-11-05THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE: Referring to the Great Bear constellation, this area's name is from the Greek meaning "opposite the bear" Antarctica
#5292, aired 2007-09-18MUSICAL HISTORY: It's the nursery rhyme that inspired the title of a famous musical based on a 1913 G.B. Shaw work London Bridge
#5291, aired 2007-09-17AMERICAN PUBLISHING: The 1860 frontier novel "Malaeska", the first of its kind, sold 300,000 copies for total sales revenue of this $30,000
#5287, aired 2007-09-11AFRICAN CITIES: Africa's most populous city not on a navigable body of water; its settlers didn't need water when they had gold Johannesburg
#5282, aired 2007-07-24ANIMALS: The genus of this Asian animal is Ailuropoda, & its species name, appropriately, is melanoleuca the giant panda
#5272, aired 2007-07-10MYTHICAL HEROES: In a play by Euripides, he goes mad & thinks he's tearing down the walls of Mycenae but destroys his own house Hercules
#5270, aired 2007-07-06THE BALKANS: On June 3, 2006 this nation of 600,000 proclaimed its independence, making it the world's newest country Montenegro
#5263, aired 2007-06-27LITERATURE: Maris, Lycon, Laogonus, Erymas, Sarpedon, Erylaus & Patroclus die in Book 16 of this work the Iliad
#5261, aired 2007-06-25RELIGION IN AMERICA: This Protestant movement got its name from an early 20th century text that listed 5 basic elements Fundamentalism
#5260, aired 2007-06-22FOOD & DRINK HISTORY: The world's first pure food & beverage law, one pertaining to beer, was proclaimed by the Duke of this region in 1516 Bavaria
#5255, aired 2007-06-15AMERICANA: The original one of these on Mass.'s Little Brewster Island was built in 1716; automation didn't come until 1998 a lighthouse
#5248, aired 2007-06-06BODIES OF WATER: This sea hundreds of miles east of Florida has no land boundaries the Sargasso Sea
#5244, aired 2007-05-31ACTRESSES: This actress, who won a 1976 Oscar, later earned acclaim for playing an actress who won a 1945 Oscar Faye Dunaway
#5238, aired 2007-05-23MNEMONIC DEVICES: A traditional mnemonic device for remembering these begins, "Willie, Willie, Harry, Stee, Harry, Dick, John, Harry Three" English monarchs
#5237, aired 2007-05-22SPORTS LEGENDS: Between 1977 & 1980, he won a state high school championship, an NCAA championship, & an NBA championship Magic Johnson
#5235, aired 2007-05-18HISTORICAL MOVIES: One of the 2 actresses nominated for Oscars for playing the same person in a 1997 blockbuster (1 of) Kate Winslet & Gloria Stuart
#5228, aired 2007-05-09LINES FROM PLAYS: In an Ibsen play, Nora tells her husband that she's been like one of these to him, just as she was to her father a doll
#5227, aired 2007-05-08U.S. PRESIDENTS: In his first term, this president held the first press conference that would be shown on TV--later that day Dwight Eisenhower
#5226, aired 2007-05-07U.S. STATES: Of all the U.S. states named after European monarchs, it's the one that reaches the farthest west Louisiana
#5224, aired 2007-05-03PRESIDENTIAL SUCCESSION: It's the name of the person next in the line of presidential succession after Robert Byrd Condoleezza Rice
#5222, aired 2007-05-01FICTIONAL CHARACTERS: He's the character mentioned in the first line of "Atlas Shrugged" John Galt
#5213, aired 2007-04-18A REAL RENAISSANCE MAN: The sudden 1559 death of France's King Henry II in a joust caused some to believe in this man's writings Nostradamus
#5208, aired 2007-04-11THE GREEK ALPHABET: Of the 24 letters of the Greek alphabet, it's the only one that ends in an English letter that none of the others does Rho
#5205, aired 2007-04-0620th CENTURY BUSINESSMEN: He published "Hunting, Fishing, and Camping" in 1942 & "My Story: The Autobiography of a Down-East Merchant" in 1960 L.L. Bean
#5202, aired 2007-04-03COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD: In 1839 Thomas Buchanan, cousin of a U.S. president, became the first governor of this future country Liberia
#5200, aired 2007-03-30'60s OSCAR-WINNING FILMS: Although 216 minutes long, this 1962 film had no women in credited speaking roles Lawrence of Arabia
#5193, aired 2007-03-21MUSIC HISTORY: In this building Ella Fitzgerald & Sarah Vaughan both won amateur talent contests, one in 1934 & the other in 1942 the Apollo Theater
#5192, aired 2007-03-20OLYMPIC HISTORY: This event was inspired by a legend mentioned in Plutarch's "On the Glory of Athens" the marathon
#5190, aired 2007-03-16WOMEN OF THE 1930s: 1 of the men who shot her realized when he saw her body that she'd often waited on him at a cafe in Dallas Bonnie Parker
#5183, aired 2007-03-07BRITISH NOVELISTS: In 1946 he wrote, "Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful & murder respectable" George Orwell
#5179, aired 2007-03-01WORLD LEADERS: In 1946 she said, "We only want that which is given naturally to all peoples... to be masters of our own fate" Golda Meir
#5175, aired 2007-02-23LITERATURE: This 1877 novel was written "to induce kindness, sympathy and an understanding treatment of horses" Black Beauty
#5174, aired 2007-02-22THE ACADEMY AWARDS: As of 2006, 1 of only 3 women to be nominated for best director, for 1976, 1993 & 2003 (1 of) Lina Wertmüller, Jane Campion & Sofia Coppola
#5172, aired 2007-02-20FILMS OF THE 1950s: In 2006 Albert II of Monaco attended the Newport Jazz Festival's 50th anniv. celebration of this film that's set during the festival High Society
#5168, aired 2007-02-14ORGANIZATIONS: The emblem seen here is now used in countries where this organization's original emblem was controversial the (International) Red Cross
#5165, aired 2007-02-09TOURISM: The 2 leading foreign destination countries for U.S. tourists Canada & Mexico
#5160, aired 2007-02-02FAMOUS AMERICANS: In part, using donated French tanks, he formed the U.S. Army's first tank training school in 1917 George Patton
#5158, aired 2007-01-31BRITISH ROYAL NAMES: Thomas Malory's posthumous 1485 bestseller inspired this first name of a prince born in 1486 Arthur
#5157, aired 2007-01-30IT HAPPENED IN NEW YORK CITY: On August 10, 2004, 2 days after her death at the age of 96, the Empire State Building dimmed its lights for 15 minutes in her memory Fay Wray
#5149, aired 2007-01-18ANIMATED CHARACTERS: The middle initial of this cartoon critter introduced in 1949 stands for Ethelbert Wile E. Coyote
#5144, aired 2007-01-11AMERICAN THEATRE HISTORY: This 1943 musical is based on a 1931 play that featured Tex Ritter as a cowboy & Lee Strasberg as a peddler Oklahoma!
#5127, aired 2006-12-19THE ACADEMY AWARDS: When this man won, Richard Dreyfuss said goodbye to being the youngest ever to win the Best Actor Oscar Adrien Brody
#5125, aired 2006-12-15POEM TITLES: This poem says, "For all averred, I had killed the bird that made the breeze to blow" The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
#5123, aired 2006-12-13UNIVERSITY GEOGRAPHY: Around 1830 the first Catholic priest ordained in the U.S. obtained land in this state where a university now stands Indiana
#5122, aired 2006-12-12CHIEF JUSTICES: He wrote that if a person in custody "cannot afford an attorney, one will be appointed for him... if he so desires" Earl Warren
#5119, aired 2006-12-07WORLD GEOGRAPHY: The Lusatian Mountains, in the western Sudeten range, form part of the border between these 2 countries Germany & the Czech Republic
#5107, aired 2006-11-21FROM BOOK TO FILM: Among the many movies that have premiered here at Radio City Music Hall was this 1962 film based on a novel by Harper Lee To Kill a Mockingbird
#5102, aired 2006-11-14THE UNITED NATIONS: Of the 5 permanent members of the U.N. Security Council, the one that's the smallest in area the United Kingdom
#5085, aired 2006-10-20LITERARY TITLE OBJECTS: In an 1868 novel, this mysterious title object is believed to sparkle or dim depending on lunar phases the Moonstone
#5080, aired 2006-10-13TRANSPORTATION: The name of this airline established in 1948 means "skyward" El Al
#5077, aired 2006-10-10CLASSIC CARTOON CHARACTERS: The 1935 cartoon "I Haven't Got a Hat" was the first of many cartoons that paired him with a cat named Beans Porky Pig
#5068, aired 2006-09-27FAMOUS PAINTERS: He said, “You could find me anytime at Fournaise’s”, a restaurant right on the Seine Pierre-Auguste Renoir
#5061, aired 2006-09-18CASTLES: The name of this large home located in Aberdeenshire means "the majestic dwelling" in Gaelic Balmoral Castle
#5060, aired 2006-09-15U.S. STATES: Of the 4 U.S. states that are officially called commonwealths, this one was not 1 of the original 13 Colonies Kentucky
#5049, aired 2006-07-20EUROPEAN COUNTRIES: This co-principality is considered to have had the last remnant of Medieval Europe's feudal system Andorra
#5045, aired 2006-07-14FAMOUS PLAYS: This play that is quite concerned with the English language was, oddly enough, first performed in German in 1913 Pygmalion
#5041, aired 2006-07-10ISLANDS: Of the world's 10 largest islands, 3 belong all or in part to Indonesia & 3 belong to this country Canada
#5038, aired 2006-07-05WESTERN HEMISPHERE GEOGRAPHY: The 2 outlets of the Gulf of Mexico, a strait & a channel, bear the names of these 2 land areas Florida & the Yucatán peninsula
#5029, aired 2006-06-22WASHINGTON, D.C.: Originally housed in a boarding house & then in the Capitol, today it occupies 3 buildings named for presidents the Library of Congress
#5023, aired 2006-06-14POLITICAL QUOTATIONS: It was said that being with these 2 leaders, born 1874 & 1882, "was like sitting between 2 lions roaring at the same time" Winston Churchill & Franklin Delano Roosevelt
#5022, aired 2006-06-13LITERARY QUOTES: "I would like to take the great DiMaggio fishing" is a line from this 1952 work; like DiMaggio, it's an American classic The Old Man and the Sea (by Ernest Hemingway)
#5021, aired 2006-06-12U.S. NEWSPAPERS: During the American Revolution, this New England newspaper had the USA's highest circulation; it's still in the top 50 the Hartford Courant
#5019, aired 2006-06-08UNIVERSITIES: It's the only state that doesn't have an undergraduate university or university system named just for the state itself New Jersey
#5007, aired 2006-05-23THE GLOBE: If you dig straight through the Earth's center from Canton, Ohio you'll end up not in China but in this body of water the Indian Ocean
#5005, aired 2006-05-19WORLD LITERATURE: It says, "'O Poet... I beg you, that I may flee this evil & worse evils, to lead me... that I may see the gateway of Saint Peter'" Dante's Inferno
#5002, aired 2006-05-16SCIENTISTS: "American Prometheus" is a biography of this physicist who died in 1967 J. Robert Oppenheimer
#5000, aired 2006-05-12ISLANDS: Davis Strait, named for a Northwest Passage seeker, separates these 2 islands that total over 1 million square miles Greenland & Baffin Island
#4997, aired 2006-05-09COMPOSING CONTEMPORARIES: One of 2 hyphenated composers who flourished in the 1870s, one with "The Maid of Pskov" & one with "Samson et Dalila" (1 of) Camille Saint-Saens & (Nicolai) Rimsky-Korsakov
#4996, aired 2006-05-08SCIENCE: The symbol of this element first isolated in 1783 comes from its German name tungsten
#4995, aired 2006-05-05U.S. PRESIDENTS: Had he lived in ancient Greece, this president would have been called Odysseus Ulysses S. Grant
#4986, aired 2006-04-24ROCKS & MINERALS: Mines near Ticonderoga, New York were once the USA's principal source for this 8-letter mineral graphite
#4982, aired 2006-04-18AMERICAN POLITICIANS: In 2005 he took his first submarine dive since he left the Navy in 1953, on a new nuclear vessel that's named for him Jimmy Carter
#4978, aired 2006-04-12U.S. TERRITORIES: 5 of the 7 islands that make up this U.S. territory are of volcanic origin; the other 2 are coral atolls American Samoa
#4977, aired 2006-04-11THE EARLY 1900s: These 2 nations fought a war on neither nation's soil; the decisive battle came at present-day Shen-Yang Russia & Japan
#4973, aired 2006-04-05STATE CAPITALS: Alphabetically, they're the first two state capitals named for presidents Jackson & Jefferson City
#4972, aired 2006-04-04GERMAN AMERICANS: He famously remarked, "We are all the President's men", giving Woodward & Bernstein their title Henry Kissinger
#4971, aired 2006-04-03AMERICAN AUTHORS: The grandson of a humorist, the son of a children's author, his first novel in 1974 was huge bestseller Peter Benchley
#4966, aired 2006-03-27MILITARY HISTORY: In 2005 a single sapling was planted at an army barracks in Australia to mark the 90th anniversary of this battle Gallipoli
#4963, aired 2006-03-22U.S. STATES: A popular nickname of this state comes from a plant, Poa pratensis, that covers the state Kentucky
#4962, aired 2006-03-2120th CENTURY LITERATURE: "Annie" Sadilek, an immigrant girl from Bohemia, inspired the title character in this 1918 novel of the Great Plains My Antonia (by Willa Cather)
#4948, aired 2006-03-01WORD ORIGINS: This word regarding infidelity came from a certain bird leaving its eggs in other nests to be raised cuckold
#4940, aired 2006-02-17FORMER WORLD CAPITALS: In 1998 Czar Nicholas II & his wife Alexandra were laid to rest in this city St. Petersburg
#4938, aired 2006-02-15LITERARY ANIMALS: In an 1877 novel, he tells us that he was originally called Darkie, & later, Old Crony Black Beauty
#4898, aired 2005-12-21LINES FROM LINCOLN: Though it's not accurate, this meaning of the word "Mississippi" appears in one of Lincoln's most famous lines father of waters
#4888, aired 2005-12-0720th CENTURY NOVELS: This 1955 novel was originally titled "The Kingdom by the Sea", an allusion to Poe's "Annabel Lee" Lolita
#4875, aired 2005-11-18WORLD CAPITALS: Pizarro founded this city whose present name is from a Quechua word meaning "talker" Lima, Peru
#4870, aired 2005-11-1120th CENTURY U.S. PRESIDENTS: His mother, Louise, said, "I do not want my son to be president... his is a judicial mind and he loves the law" William Howard Taft
#4869, aired 2005-11-10BILLBOARD MAGAZINE: Launched in 2004, Billboard's first Top 20 chart for these included "My Boo", the "Halloween" theme & "Ice Ice Baby" ringtones
#4865, aired 2005-11-04PRECIOUS METALS: The largest single accumulation of gold known, about $90 billion from several countries, is found in this U.S. state New York
#4861, aired 2005-10-3120th CENTURY REPUBLICANS: Never president, he was the youngest man ever to receive the Republican presidential nomination (Thomas) Dewey
#4857, aired 2005-10-25YOUTH ORGANIZATIONS: This organization pledges it will strive for "clearer thinking... greater loyalty... larger service, and... better living" in that order 4H
#4855, aired 2005-10-2119th CENTURY LITERARY CHARACTERS: Hanged in an 1837 novel, he so angered some Londoners that his creator toned him down in future editions Fagin
#4850, aired 2005-10-14HISTORIC PEOPLE: At 81, this Pennsylvanian was the oldest delegate at the 1787 Constitutional Convention Benjamin Franklin
#4846, aired 2005-10-10CHILDREN'S LITERATURE: This one-word name is derived from the fact that the character used to sit among the ashes Cinderella
#4835, aired 2005-09-23MILITARY TRADITIONS: At a military funeral, the American flag is folded this many times to resemble a Revolutionary War soldier's hat 13
#4827, aired 2005-09-13THE MAP OF NORTH AMERICA: Number of Canadian provinces that border the Great Lakes 1
#4824, aired 2005-07-21LITERARY FIREARMS: The "Polizei Pistole Kurz" model was often used very effectively by this literary character introduced in 1953 James Bond
#4823, aired 2005-07-20CLASSICAL MUSIC: It's the roughly 70-minute work that includes the sung words "Alle menschen werden bruder" Beethoven's 9th Symphony
#4819, aired 2005-07-14VOLCANOES: In the last 400 years, over 2/3 of all the deaths caused by volcanoes occurred in what is now this nation Indonesia
#4817, aired 2005-07-12THE 50 STATES: Rejected earlier in its bid for statehood, it finally entered the Union in 1876 Colorado
#4813, aired 2005-07-06PEOPLE IN GOVERNMENT: Now in his job over 17 years, he's the longest-serving pres. appointee other than Supreme Court members Alan Greenspan (Chairman of the Federal Reserve)
#4809, aired 2005-06-30OSCAR NOMINEES: In a 1964 film, he played 3 characters but received only one nomination for Best Actor Peter Sellers
#4805, aired 2005-06-24RULERS: Though he was already emperor of one country, Franz Joseph was crowned in this city June 8, 1867 Budapest
#4795, aired 2005-06-10PRESIDENTS: The last time there were no living ex-presidents was when this man was president Richard Nixon
#4779, aired 2005-05-19NUCLEAR POWER: This state, besides having the first, also has the most nuclear reactors Illinois
#4777, aired 2005-05-17FAMILIAR PHRASES: This 5-word rule or maxim has been attributed to both H. Gordon Selfridge & John Wanamaker The customer is always right
#4776, aired 2005-05-16BIBLICAL CITIES: Of the 10 most populous U.S. cities, the one that shares its name with a city mentioned in Revelation Philadelphia
#4767, aired 2005-05-03WORDS FROM MYTHOLOGY: It refers to a mythical bird that calmed waves, or to past happy "days"; spelled differently, it's a sleeping pill halcyon
#4766, aired 2005-05-02WORLD CITIES: Capital of the ancient Roman province of Galatia, it became a modern national capital in 1923 Ankara
#4765, aired 2005-04-2919th CENTURY AMERICAN ART: Some versions of this painting based on a Bible verse show William Penn making a treaty with the Indians in the background Hicks's Peaceable Kingdom
#4762, aired 2005-04-26IN THE DICTIONARY: Much in the news of the world at the end of June 2004, it's the only English word to contain "GNT" consecutively sovereignty
#4761, aired 2005-04-25U.S. CITIES: In 1790 this Midwest city was named for a society that had been named for a Roman citizen-soldier Cincinnati
#4756, aired 2005-04-18INVENTED WORDS: In works by Lewis Carroll, this word means "four in the afternoon; the time when you begin broiling things for dinner" brillig
#4750, aired 2005-04-08CHILDREN'S LITERATURE: Dr. Seuss wrote this book to win a bet that he couldn't write a book using only 50 different words Green Eggs and Ham
#4747, aired 2005-04-05HISTORIC PLACES: The towns of Vierville-sur-Mer & Colleville-sur-Mer entered history with this 2-word area named for a U.S. city Omaha Beach
#4744, aired 2005-03-31ENGLISH LIT: This 17th century poetic follow-up begins, "I who ere while the happy garden sung, by one man's disobedience lost..." Paradise Regained
#4736, aired 2005-03-21WORLD FACTS: In 2004 Brenda Christian became the first woman mayor of this island with a population of about 47 Pitcairn Island
#4734, aired 2005-03-17WORDS: This 6-letter word can mean both a bright light above someone's head & a dark cloud above our heads nimbus
#4730, aired 2005-03-11HISTORIC BRITS: During the American Revolution, in his last moments he said, "It will be but a momentary pang" Major John André
#4719, aired 2005-02-24THE U.S. CENSUS OF 1790: It was the only state in the 1790 census to claim a slave population of zero Massachusetts
#4713, aired 2005-02-16SINGERS: This man who often criticized the government was named for the president elected in 1912, his birth year Woodrow Wilson "Woody" Guthrie
#4702, aired 2005-02-0119th CENTURY LITERATURE: "The Pastor and His Parishioner" is Chapter 17 of this classic novel The Scarlet Letter
#4700, aired 2005-01-28THE WORLD OF ART: It's the room where you'll find the masterpiece that includes "The Flood" & "The Creation of Eve" the Sistine Chapel
#4699, aired 2005-01-27MOUNTAINS: To trek through its Khumbu Icefall, Lhotse Face & South Col, your team needs a $70,000 permit from Nepal's government Mount Everest
#4689, aired 2005-01-13FEDERAL PUBLIC SERVANTS: With 7 years' service, this man who resigned in June 2004 had the longest tenure in his position in over 4 decades George Tenet (former head of the CIA)
#4683, aired 2005-01-051920s NOSTALGIA: A poor couple window-shopping a diamond bracelet at this store inspired the song "I Can't Give You Anything But Love" Tiffany's
#4670, aired 2004-12-17ANNUAL EVENTS: A high-bounce ball inspired businessman Lamar Hunt to give an annual event this name the Super Bowl
#4666, aired 2004-12-13BUSINESS HISTORY: Last names of the 2 men, both engineers, who met & formed a partnership at England's Midland Hotel in May 1904 Rolls and Royce
#4660, aired 2004-12-03U.S. CITIES: Of the USA's 10 most populous cities, 1 of the 2 that dropped in population from 1990 to 2000 (1 of) Detroit or Philadelphia
#4649, aired 2004-11-18AMERICAN NOVELS: The image seen here is part of Faulkner's original text of this 1930 novel As I Lay Dying
#4647, aired 2004-11-16OCCUPATIONS: While working as one, Charlotte Bronte complained that one of these "has no existence, is not considered as a living... being" a governess
#4640, aired 2004-11-06SPORTS: Its solo female winner is awarded the Venus Rosewater Dish Wimbledon
#4634, aired 2004-10-28HISTORIC AREAS: In 1893, as it was disappearing, F.J. Turner wrote a famous essay on "The Significance of" it "in American History" the Frontier
#4632, aired 2004-10-26AUTHORS: After several decades off it, works by this man seen here returned to the New York Times Bestseller List in 2003 J.R.R. Tolkien
#4630, aired 2004-10-22THE OLYMPICS: This sport that's also known as whiff-whaff & flim-flam has been an Olympic sport since 1988 table tennis (or ping pong)
#4627, aired 2004-10-19U.S. GEOGRAPHY: With a common nickname that refers to its size, this is the largest island in the United States Hawaii
#4616, aired 2004-10-04POETS: Called the 2 most innovative 19th century American poets, one didn't read the other after being "told that he was disgraceful" Emily Dickinson & Walt Whitman
#4615, aired 2004-10-01AMERICANISMS: Around 1900 Monroe Rosenfeld remarked that the music heard along NYC's 28th Street sounded like this tin pans
#4611, aired 2004-09-27PULITZER PRIZE WINNERS: 1 of the 2 novels, both Southern, that won the Pulitzer for fiction & became Best Picture Oscar winners (1 of) Gone with the Wind or All the King's Men
#4591, aired 2004-07-19OPERA: The libretto for "William Tell" was in this language, the native tongue of neither the composer, Rossini, nor the subject French
#4590, aired 2004-07-16FOOD: Experts believe that 16th century Dutch growers, through breeding, gave this vegetable its color to honor their ruling house the carrot
#4587, aired 2004-07-13HEADLINES OF THE LAST 40 YEARS: The first 2 New York Times headlines set in 96-point type were in these 2 years, 5 years apart 1969 & 1974
#4586, aired 2004-07-12NAMES IN THE BIBLE: Daniel means "God is my judge", Ezekiel, "God strengthens"; & this name in Genesis 32, "he strives with God" Israel
#4578, aired 2004-06-30HISTORIC NAMES: In 1899 he was released from Devil's Island & pardoned for "treason under extenuating circumstances" Captain Alfred Dreyfus
#4577, aired 2004-06-29CHILDREN'S LIT: This title character's full name is Oscar Zoroaster Phadrig Isaac Norman Henkle Emmannuel Ambroise Diggs the Wizard of Oz
#4574, aired 2004-06-24FILMS OF THE '70s: This 1973 thriller was re-released in 2000 with extra footage, including a scene in which Ritalin is prescribed The Exorcist
#4573, aired 2004-06-23FAMOUS AMERICANS: In 1826 Daniel Webster eulogized these 2 men, saying, "They took their flight together to the world of spirits" Thomas Jefferson & John Adams
#4570, aired 2004-06-18THE 16th CENTURY: In 1582 the man born Ugo Buoncompagni proclaimed this solar dating system still used today the Gregorian calendar
#4567, aired 2004-06-15CLASSIC LITERATURE: "Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay To mould me man..." is the epigraph to this 1818 novel Frankenstein
#4558, aired 2004-06-02THE 2000 OLYMPICS: She's the first female track & field athlete to win medals in 5 different events at a single Olympics Marion Jones
#4552, aired 2004-05-25MYTHS & LEGENDS: At a feast he couldn't enjoy his dinner because his life was literally hanging by a thread Damocles
#4545, aired 2004-05-14THE U.S. SENATE: In the year 1958, the U.S. Senate was made up of this many members 96
#4544, aired 2004-05-13AMERICANA: Beginning an American tradition, in 1801 Aaron Burr's daughter Theodosia & her new husband honeymooned here Niagara Falls
#4542, aired 2004-05-11METALS: Element No. 79, it's estimated that all of it ever mined would only make a cube about 50 feet across gold
#4519, aired 2004-04-08ISLANDS: 1200 miles from the nearest continent, it entered history because of its isolation (here's a map that shows you where it is) St. Helena
#4516, aired 2004-04-05ROCK GROUPS: This rock group took its name from a Johnny Cash album, whose title came from a Winston Churchill speech Blood, Sweat and Tears
#4501, aired 2004-03-15THE 1960s: Used most infamously in 1963, a .38-caliber Colt Cobra handgun belonging to this man sold in 1991 for $220,000 Jack Ruby
#4499, aired 2004-03-11BRAND NAMES: Benjamin Green's work with cocoa butter led to this brand that, ironically, may be used to prevent what's in its name Coppertone
#4495, aired 2004-03-05BOOKS: This book says, "Monday burn Millay, Wednesday Whitman, Friday Faulkner...that's our official slogan" Fahrenheit 451
#4484, aired 2004-02-19THE UNITED NATIONS: Of the 6 official languages used by the U.N., the one that's the native tongue of the most number of people Mandarin Chinese
#4483, aired 2004-02-18U.S. POLITICS: On July 16, 1790 Congress created this area & some of its residents think that by now it should be a state Washington, D.C.
#4468, aired 2004-01-28LATIN LINGO: This 3-word phrase familiar in the U.S. originated in an ancient poem & described assembling foods to make salad E pluribus unum
#4456, aired 2004-01-12AMERICAN WRITERS: In 1936 the San Francisco News sent this man to investigate living conditions among migrant workers John Steinbeck
#4454, aired 2004-01-08FILM TITLES: This Charlie Chaplin film lent its name to a famous bookstore that recently celebrated its 50th anniversary City Lights
#4437, aired 2003-12-16THE OLYMPICS: This city that Napoleon gave to Bavaria in 1806 has hosted the Winter Olympics twice Innsbruck, Austria
#4409, aired 2003-11-06SCIENCE HISTORY: It's the simple 6-letter name of the journal that published the 1953 paper revealing the structure of DNA Nature
#4380, aired 2003-09-26THE TOY BOX: Spud & Yam are 2 of the offspring of this toy introduced in 1952 Mr. Potato Head
#4354, aired 2003-07-03OPERA: Title character of a 1787 opera who says he needs women "more than the food I eat,... than the very air I breathe" Don Juan (or Don Giovanni)
#4348, aired 2003-06-25TELEVISION: In Apple's I-Movie program, the effect seen here that's done with photos is named for this TV filmmaker Ken Burns
#4330, aired 2003-05-30U.S. CITIES: It's the largest U.S. city in population that's named for an American individual Houston
#4328, aired 2003-05-28PSYCHOLOGY: Partly from the Greek algos, "pain", it was first noted in 1688 in Swiss soldiers fighting far from home nostalgia
#4309, aired 2003-05-01GOVERNMENT AGENCIES: In 2000 Emma Peel's leather pants & Maxwell Smart's shoe phone were on display at this agency that's not open to the public the CIA
#4303, aired 2003-04-23CHARACTERS: Person missing from: Rossweisse, Ortlinde, Siegrune, Grimgerde, Helmwige, Gerhilde, Waltraute & Schwertleite Brunhilde (one of the Valkyries)
#4299, aired 2003-04-17CELEBRITY RELATIVES: Over the end credits of "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind" she sings "There's No Business Like Show Business" Rosemary Clooney
#4298, aired 2003-04-16THE SECRET SERVICE: This 20th century U.S. president was the first to receive full-time protection from the Secret Service Theodore Roosevelt
#4296, aired 2003-04-14MOUNTAINS: All of the mountains in the U.S. over 14,500 feet are in this state Alaska
#4291, aired 2003-04-07AMERICAN LITERATURE: Author of the 1889 novel that opens, "Camelot, Camelot... I don't seem to remember hearing of it before" Mark Twain
#4287, aired 2003-04-01WORDS: It's the common English word that is pronounced differently when it becomes the name of a language polish/Polish
#4264, aired 2003-02-27ADVERTISING ICONS: Of Advertising Age's Top 10 Advertising Icons of the 20th Century, one of the 3 that are animals Elsie the Cow, the Energizer Bunny or Tony the Tiger
#4253, aired 2003-02-12NEW ENGLAND: It's the only state in New England that doesn't border the Atlantic Ocean Vermont
#4247, aired 2003-02-04INTERNATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC: By size, it's the largest country that borders only one other country Canada (borders only the United States)
#4236, aired 2003-01-20PATRON SAINTS: It's believed that this patron saint founded many monasteries, including one at Mynyw Saint David
#4222, aired 2002-12-31SOUTH AMERICA: Alphabetically, they're the first & last of the 7 countries where the Andes are found Argentina & Venezuela
#4221, aired 2002-12-30BUSINESS GIANTS: Highly diversified, it's the only co. in the Dow Jones Industrial Average that was included in the original index of 1896 General Electric
#4219, aired 2002-12-26TOYS & GAMES: It was inspired by support for economist Henry George's idea that only land should be taxed Monopoly
#4216, aired 2002-12-23OSCAR WINNERS: She's the first woman to win 2 Best Actress Oscars before the age of 30 Luise Rainer
#4213, aired 2002-12-1820th CENTURY U.S. PRESIDENTS: This president shares his middle name with the name of a 1st c. Jewish theologian mentioned in the New Testament Warren Gamaliel Harding
#4195, aired 2002-11-22CLASSICAL MUSIC: 1 of the 2 planets of the solar system not represented in Gustav Holst's 1916 work "The Planets" Earth or Pluto
#4193, aired 2002-11-20AMERICANA: Baptist minister Francis Bellamy penned this oath in 1892 to reflect his Christian Socialist beliefs the Pledge of Allegiance
#4180, aired 2002-11-01BUSINESS GEOGRAPHY: The U.S. company that now has the greatest revenues is headquartered in this state that's near the bottom in household income Arkansas (Wal-Mart)
#4138, aired 2002-09-04NEW YORK CITY LANDMARKS: Moving several times, the first was originally P.T. Barnum's Monster Classical and Geological Hippodrome Madison Square Garden
#4135, aired 2002-07-19FAMOUS AMERICANS: "May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof" is from this man's 1800 prayer John Adams
#4132, aired 2002-07-16CLASSIC MOVIES: A short feature called "Salzburg Sight & Sound" is included with the DVD 35th Anniversary Edition of this film The Sound of Music
#4119, aired 2002-06-27LITERARY HEROINES: This literary character was inspired by Delphine Delamare, whose adultery led to her 1848 suicide Madame Bovary
#4114, aired 2002-06-20THE EMMY AWARDS: It's the only prime time TV show--comedy or drama--to win the Emmy for Best Series 5 times Frasier
#4105, aired 2002-06-07ACTORS & ROLE: In a 2001 film Jon Voight played this man; in a 2002 TV movie, so did John Turturro Howard Cosell
#4102, aired 2002-06-04ORGANIZATIONS: "Music Man" composer Meredith Willson wrote the song "Banners And Bonnets" for this organization the Salvation Army
#4101, aired 2002-06-03FRANCE: Of France's 22 official regions, this one extends the farthest west Brittany
#4093, aired 2002-05-22RENAISSANCE AUTHORS: In the 16th century he wrote, "Whoever wishes to found a state…must start with assuming that all men are bad…" Machiavelli
#4092, aired 2002-05-21NEWSMAKERS: In May 2001 he said, "Vermont has always been known for its independence" Jim Jeffords
#4087, aired 2002-05-14VICE PRESIDENTS: He was the only vice president to be elected to, & serve, 2 full terms as president Thomas Jefferson
#4079, aired 2002-05-022001 NEWS: In 2001 the zinc industry was up in arms over Rep. Jim Kolbe's bill calling for the phasing out of these pennies
#4077, aired 2002-04-30INTERNATIONAL FILM DIRECTORS: This director of an Oscar-winning film is fighting to preserve Angel Island, site of a former immigration station in S.F. Bay Ang Lee
#4062, aired 2002-04-09QUEENS: Of Henry VIII's wives, the 2 who were not English Anne of Cleves & Catherine of Aragon
#4058, aired 2002-04-03U.S. PRESIDENTS: One of only 2 U.S. presidents to be outlived by their fathers (1 of) John F Kennedy or Warren G. Harding
#4032, aired 2002-02-2619th CENTURY INVENTIONS: Peter Roget's new device for performing mechanically the involution & evolution of numbers the slide rule
#4025, aired 2002-02-1520th CENTURY BRITISH NOVELS: The phrase that's the title of this novel comes from the translation of the Hebrew word Beelzebub Lord of the Flies
#4023, aired 2002-02-13STATE CAPITALS: This least populous state capital falls alphabetically immediately after Alabama's Montpelier, Vermont
#4013, aired 2002-01-30'90s BESTSELLERS: This novel grew out of a series of personal columns that first ran in the Independent of London Bridget Jones's Diary
#3994, aired 2002-01-03FAMILIAR PHARASES: This 2-word term entered the English language after a pilot reported seeing 9 of them near Mt. Rainier in June 1947 flying saucers
#3989, aired 2001-12-27STATE SYMBOLS: Appropriately, the mayflower is the official flower of this state Massachusetts
#3981, aired 2001-12-17AWARDS: In 2001 the Pritzker Prize, architecture's most prestigious, was presented at this historic home in the U.S. Monticello
#3975, aired 2001-12-07COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD: This independent nation is the only Hindu kingdom in the world Nepal
#3970, aired 2001-11-30BESTSELLING AUTHORS: One of the world's bestselling novelists, he created TV's "I Dream of Jeannie" Sidney Sheldon
#3969, aired 2001-11-29ARTISTS: Christopher Buckley called his book on the life and work of this artist "Blossoms and Bones" Georgia O'Keeffe
#3965, aired 2001-11-23ANCIENT ROMANS: According to tradition, he was descended from the clan of the Pontii & killed himself in 39 A.D. Pontius Pilate
#3957, aired 2001-11-13FIRST LADIES: First & last names of the 2 First Ladies who each had a husband & son serve as president Abigail Adams & Barbara Bush
#3956, aired 2001-11-12THE EARLY 20th CENTURY: A 1904 issue of Popular Science Monthly reported their success in North Carolina the previous year the Wright Brothers
#3955, aired 2001-11-09STATE CAPITALS: Of the 4 state capitals named for U.S. presidents, it's the one that's farthest south Jackson, Mississippi
#3954, aired 2001-11-08THE UNIVERSE: It's the body that's about 1 1/4 light-seconds from Earth the Moon
#3953, aired 2001-11-07LEGENDARY CHARACTERS: Led by Nicholas, a German boy, the Children's Crusade of 1212 may have been the inspiration for this character The Pied Piper (of Hamelin)
#3946, aired 2001-10-29HISTORIC GEOGRAPHY: Upon this nation's independence in 1903, it was "moved" from one continent to another Panama
#3941, aired 2001-10-22INTERNATIONAL COASTLINES: It's the only country bordering the Caspian Sea that was not a member of the Soviet Union Iran
#3936, aired 2001-10-15SCIENCE NEWS: It's the reason that airlines altered many of their transpacific flight plans on March 23, 2001 the Mir space station crashing down to Earth
#3921, aired 2001-09-24U.S. GEOGRAPHY: It's the only U.S. state that touches 2 oceans Alaska
#3916, aired 2001-09-17FAMOUS PHRASES: This expression comes from a 1956 novel about Frank Skeffington's final run for mayor "the last hurrah"
#3913, aired 2001-09-12ORGANIZATIONS: Linda Collins's tetanus antitoxin allergy led her parents to found this emergency information service MedicAlert
#3912, aired 2001-09-11VOLCANOS: Of the U.S. states with active volcanos, this state is farthest south Hawaii
#3910, aired 2001-09-07ZOOLOGY: Animal species that's the subject of the longest consecutive study of any group of wild animals, 40 years chimpanzees
#3909, aired 2001-09-06HISTORIC NAMES: In 1978, Congress restored U.S. citizenship to this man seen here Jefferson Davis
#3905, aired 2001-07-20POP MUSIC: The special November 2000 TV Guide cover seen here was part of its tribute to this rock group The Beatles (tribute to their 1968 album, "The White Album")
#3889, aired 2001-06-28FAMOUS SHIPS: A highlight of the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum is the bell from this ship that sank in 1975 Edmund Fitzgerald
#3874, aired 2001-06-07CHILDREN'S LITERATURE: 3 of the countries that make up this land are Gillikin, Winkie & Quadling Oz
#3857, aired 2001-05-15AUTHORS OF THE 1920s: Lawrence Durrell said that in a 1928 novel this man used 4-letter words to canonize & celebrate raw sensuality D.H. Lawrence ("Lady Chatterley's Lover")
#3852, aired 2001-05-08STATE CAPITALS: 1 of the 2 U.S. state capitals that begin with the names of months (1 of 2) Juneau, Alaska or Augusta, Maine
#3843, aired 2001-04-25MATERIALS: The name of the sheet seen here is derived from the name of this material Celluloid
#3833, aired 2001-04-11BIBLICAL GEOGRAPHY: During Absalom's rebellion, David took refuge in this region that's east of the Jordan & known for its balm Gilead
#3826, aired 2001-04-02GREEK & ROMAN MYTHOLOGY: The English names of this god's 2 companions are Panic & Fear Mars
#3814, aired 2001-03-15THE CALENDAR: It's the second-shortest month in most of the U.S., beating out the third-shortest months by one hour April
#3804, aired 2001-03-01RECENT INNOVATIONS: Known by a 3-letter abbreviation, it was first proposed in 1989 by software developer Tim Berners-Lee World Wide Web (www)
#3796, aired 2001-02-19THE U.S. SPACE PROGRAM: Of the Apollo missions, the total number that successfully landed men on the Moon 6 (Apollo 11, 12, 14, 15, 16 & 17)
#3790, aired 2001-02-09CHILDREN'S LITERATURE: First line of the poem thought to be based on Mary Sawyer's experience at a Massachusetts school-house around 1815 "Mary had a little lamb"
#3787, aired 2001-02-06JFK: In an interview, Jackie confided that JFK regularly fell asleep listening to the soundtrack of this Broadway play Camelot
#3786, aired 2001-02-05FAMOUS SHIPS: In December 1620 this vessel came ashore at a secondary destination because of a shortage of beer the Mayflower
#3760, aired 2000-12-29TRAVEL: By population, it's the largest city on a Caribbean island, though you may not be allowed to go there Havana, Cuba
#3758, aired 2000-12-27THE CIVIL WAR: For his service in the Civil War Congress made him General in Chief of the Armies Ulysses S. Grant
#3754, aired 2000-12-21PLANTS & FLOWERS: Named for a U.S. statesman, it was known in Central America as the "Flower of the Holy Night" Poinsettia
#3728, aired 2000-11-15ROYAL RESIDENCES: The only palaces on U.S. soil that were built for monarchs are found in this state Hawaii
#3719, aired 2000-11-02STATE MOTTOES: The state motto of Ohio, adopted in 1959, was ruled unconstitutional in April 2000 as it included this word God
#3698, aired 2000-10-04WORLD GEOGRAPHY: It's the only mainland country in the Western Hemisphere that borders only one country Canada
#3680, aired 2000-09-08FINAL RESTING PLACES: The monument on his grave in Woodlawn Cemetery, Elmira, N.Y. is 12' high; in water depth that's 2 fathoms Mark Twain
#3668, aired 2000-07-12WORLD CAPITALS: Founded in 1840, this city is the world's southernmost national capital Wellington, New Zealand
#3665, aired 2000-07-07CURRENT TELEVISION: Dee Dee Myers is a consultant to this drama series The West Wing
#3646, aired 2000-06-12MAGAZINES: In 1925 it was founded by an ex-editor of Stars and Stripes; in the '90s it was run by an ex-editor of Vanity Fair The New Yorker
#3637, aired 2000-05-30ACTORS: While pregnant with him, the mother of this actor, gazing at the Uffizi's art, 1st felt him move, hence his 1st name Leonardo DiCaprio
#3634, aired 2000-05-25SOCIAL SCIENCE: It's estimated that of 6,000 in the world today, half will vanish in the next 100 years, including Jingulu & Chamicuro Languages
#3631, aired 2000-05-2219th CENTURY CRIMES: It resulted from the perpetrator's delusion that he was going to be ambassador to France The Garfield Assassination
#3613, aired 2000-04-26U.S. CITIES: The 34 peaks of the roof of this city's airport represent mountains that are about 30 miles away Denver
#3607, aired 2000-04-18WORLD WAR II BATTLES: In 1998 Bill Surgi helped locate the sunken aircraft carrier Yorktown, a ship he last saw during this WWII battle Midway
#3577, aired 2000-03-07MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS: Newly discovered, perhaps the oldest playable instrument is one of these, made from a crane's bone Flute
#3575, aired 2000-03-03FAMOUS AMERICANS: He coined the term "Usonian" for his U.S. designs that were meant to bring beauty & humanity to ordinary people Frank Lloyd Wright
#3548, aired 2000-01-26COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD: In area, it's the largest country that does not belong to the United Nations Switzerland
#3543, aired 2000-01-19THE BOOK TRADE: According to USA Today, they're the 2 nonconsecutive months that see the highest cookbook sales May & December
#3531, aired 2000-01-03FROM PLAY TO BALLET: This character became the heroine of the dramatic ballet "The Moor's Pavane" Desdemona
#3518, aired 1999-12-15OPERA: A 1920s discovery proved that some of the instruments used in this 1871 opera were historically accurate Aida
#3497, aired 1999-11-16DIRECTORS: Appropriately, the 100th anniversary of this director's birth was on a Friday the 13th -- August 13, 1999 Alfred Hitchcock
#3476, aired 1999-10-18INDUSTRIALISTS: In 1916 he said, "The only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we make today" Henry Ford
#3474, aired 1999-10-14MAGAZINES: The title of this women's magazine that turned 60 in 1999 used to end with "of Hollywood" Glamour
#3466, aired 1999-10-04THE ANIMAL KINGDOM: John Cleveland defined it as "Nature's Confectioner" Bee
#3460, aired 1999-09-24OLYMPICS 2000: Name of the new Olympic event that will cover a total of 51.5 kilometers the triathlon
#3457, aired 1999-09-21TREES: This type of tree that includes the pecan is common in the eastern U.S., is noted for toughness & can live to 300 Hickory
#3449, aired 1999-09-09HISTORIC DATES: It's reported that on this date King George III wrote in his diary, "Nothing of importance happened today" July 4, 1776
#3446, aired 1999-09-06FAMOUS AMERICANS: On July 20, 1999 it was 30 years since this man said, "Houston... the Eagle has landed" Neil Armstrong
#3430, aired 1999-07-02U.S. GOVERNMENT: William Wirt was attorney general for over 11 years, a record; this attorney general is second, with 6 years Janet Reno
#3410, aired 1999-06-04FAMOUS NAMES OF THE 1950s: The lyricist of the song "That's America to Me" adopted the 2 brothers with this last name, orphaned in 1953 Rosenberg
#3407, aired 1999-06-01QUOTABLE DEFINITIONS: Ted Hughes wrote that it's where a child can sit "with the genius of the Earth" Library
#3395, aired 1999-05-14HISTORIC AMERICANS: This member of William & Mary's Class of 1762 founded a univ. that opened in 1825, one year before his death Thomas Jefferson (University of Virginia)
#3336, aired 1999-02-22WORLD GEOGRAPHY: It's the only body of water with shores on the continents of Asia, Africa & Europe Mediterranean Sea
#3319, aired 1999-01-28POETS' CORNER: One reason he is not buried in Westminster Abbey is his epitaph, which concludes, "Curst be he that moves my bones" William Shakespeare (he's buried at Stratford)
#3311, aired 1999-01-18ENTERTAINERS: Lauren Bacall coined this name for a carousing group including Humphrey Bogart, Judy Garland & Frank Sinatra "The Rat Pack"
#3306, aired 1999-01-11BUSINESS & INDUSTRY: McDonald's' 2 most successful promotional campaigns both involved these Happy Meal toys Beanie Babies
#3302, aired 1999-01-05THE 1970s: In April 1974 Jimmy Carter presented him with a license plate that read "HLA715" Hank Aaron
#3280, aired 1998-12-04AWARDS: In 1927 Cedric Gibbons designed this award that he went on to win 11 times The Academy Award (Oscar)
#3276, aired 1998-11-30BANDS: This band's last surviving brother lives & records in St. Charles, Illinois, far from the ocean The Beach Boys
#3274, aired 1998-11-26CLASSIC CHILDREN'S LIT: This children's story begins with a young farm girl saying to her mother, "Where's Papa going with that ax?" Charlotte's Web
#3260, aired 1998-11-06LEGENDARY PEOPLE: He lived with his girlfriend, a fat priest & a 7-foot-tall archer Robin Hood
#3242, aired 1998-10-13HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES: In 1999 these related events will occur on Tuesday, February 16 & Sunday, April 4 Mardi Gras & Easter
#3225, aired 1998-09-18SPORTS HISTORY: He was president of France the first time France won soccer's World Cup Jacques Chirac
#3165, aired 1998-05-08GEOGRAPHY NEWS: On the initiative of Sen. Patrick Leahy, in 1998 it was designated the sixth Great Lake Lake Champlain
#3157, aired 1998-04-28THE CALENDAR: It's the 5th month mentioned in the rhyme that begins, "Thirty days hath..." February
#3138, aired 1998-04-01APRIL 1 IN HISTORY: April 1 is the anniversary of the Battle of Five Forks, the last decisive battle of this war the Civil War
#3125, aired 1998-03-13HOLY DAYS: On this day you can hear "Remember that you are dust and unto dust you shall return" ritually repeated Ash Wednesday
#3122, aired 1998-03-10EPITAPHS: They're the 3 words found at the top of Mel Blanc's gravestone "That's All Folks"
#3116, aired 1998-03-02TV SITCOMS: For your information, this series that premiered in 1988 is TV's longest-running sitcom still on the air Murphy Brown
#3115, aired 1998-02-27TELEVISION BIOGRAPHIES: The biography of this man on PBS' "American Masters" was subtitled "Submitted for Your Approval" Rod Serling
#3111, aired 1998-02-23THE CARIBBEAN: This capital, founded by Columbus' brother, is the oldest European-founded city in the Western Hemisphere Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
#3104, aired 1998-02-12U.S. STATESMEN: Between 1803 & 1848, he served as a U.S. senator, Sec. of State, president & congressman, in that order John Quincy Adams
#3101, aired 1998-02-09THE SMITHSONIAN: Displayed in a new case in September 1997, it's the centerpiece of the Harry Winston Gallery the Hope Diamond
#3097, aired 1998-02-03ASIAN NATIONS: In population, it's the largest country that's not a member of the United Nations Taiwan (Republic of China)
#3071, aired 1997-12-29WOMEN IN POLITICS: In 1995 she became the first sitting governor to give the rebuttal to a State of the Union address Christine Todd Whitman
#3070, aired 1997-12-26AMERICAN LITERATURE: Controversial even when serialized in the "National Era", it sold over 300,000 copies in book form in 1852 Uncle Tom's Cabin
#3058, aired 1997-12-10WOMEN: 1 of the 3 women in the only statue that depicts women in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda (1 of) Susan B. Anthony, Lucretia Mott & Elizabeth Cady Stanton
#3056, aired 1997-12-08ACTORS & THEIR ROLES: Name shared by characters that Derek Jacobi played in a PBS miniseries & in Kenneth Branagh's film of "Hamlet" Claudius
#3030, aired 1997-10-31HALLOWEEN: Mythical Halloween being in the title of the oft-repeated animated TV special that debuted October 27, 1966 the Great Pumpkin (It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown)
#3005, aired 1997-09-26U.S. GOVERNMENT: This group that first met in 1942 didn't get a permanent chairman until 1949 The Joint Chiefs of Staff
#3003, aired 1997-09-2419th CENTURY FICTION: The 1853 novel "Clotel, or The President's Daughter" alleges that this man had an affair with a slave Thomas Jefferson
#2994, aired 1997-09-11TELEVISION: A 1997 episode of this series guest-starred Philip Michael Thomas & Tommy Chong Nash Bridges
#2974, aired 1997-07-03MEDICINE: While many diseases bear doctors' names, a nerve disease is named for this victim who died in 1941 Lou Gehrig
#2948, aired 1997-05-28AFRICAN COUNTRIES: The northernmost country in Africa, it's much smaller than the countries that border it Tunisia
#2941, aired 1997-05-1918th CENTURY AMERICANS: A military post & a Tennessee city are both named for this first U.S. Secretary of War Henry Knox
#2937, aired 1997-05-13CHILDREN'S BOOKS: It's the first in a trilogy of books that also includes "In the Night Kitchen" & "Outside Over There" Where the Wild Things Are
#2917, aired 1997-04-15NONFICTION: This reference set's 1768 first edition was published by "A Society of Gentlemen in Scotland" the Encyclopædia Britannica
#2911, aired 1997-04-07GERMAN OPERA: The swan that pulls this title character's boat is actually Elsa's enchanted brother, Gottfried Lohengrin
#2908, aired 1997-04-02THE CALENDAR: In the U.S. it's the latest date in November on which Thanksgiving can fall November 28
#2906, aired 1997-03-31SECRETARIES OF STATE: This man who died in 1994 once said, "We're eyeball to eyeball and the other fellow just blinked" Dean Rusk
#2881, aired 1997-02-24INVENTIONS: Introduced at the 1900 World's Fair in Paris, its name comes from Latin for "one that takes you up the ladder" Escalator
#2820, aired 1996-11-29U.S. CITIES: Designed locally & cast in Japan, a peace & friendship bell was dedicated in this Tennessee city in 1996 Oak Ridge
#2818, aired 1996-11-27RIVERS: It was once believed that this river "originated in the Mountains of the Moon" the Nile
#2810, aired 1996-11-15PUBLISHING FIRSTS: In 1908 Ernest Henry Shackleton printed the first book on this continent Antarctica
#2808, aired 1996-11-13GREAT ARTISTS: His first important commission in Amsterdam was to paint that city's guild of surgeons Rembrandt
#2780, aired 1996-10-0415th CENTURY MEN: In 1482 he told the Duke of Milan that he could "make armored wagons to carry artillery" Leonardo da Vinci
#2774, aired 1996-09-26NATIONAL MOTTOES: Country whose motto is "L'Union Fait La Force" or "Eendracht Maakt Macht"—"Union provides strength" Belgium
#2763, aired 1996-09-11THE USA: This structure is the greatest single source of water power in the U.S. the Grand Coulee Dam
#2760, aired 1996-09-06CANADA: The flag & the coat of arms of this Canadian province feature a setting sun British Columbia
#2755, aired 1996-07-19WORLD CAPITALS: It's the easternmost mainland capital in the Americas Brasilia
#2746, aired 1996-07-08SPORTS: The only 2 countries that have defeated the U.S. to win the America's Cup competition Australia & New Zealand
#2735, aired 1996-06-21AMERICAN HISTORY: On May 29, 1765 Patrick Henry's Stamp Act protest was interrupted with this one word Treason
#2722, aired 1996-06-04SPELLING: This tree is the only 7-letter English word that contains all 5 vowels sequoia
#2710, aired 1996-05-17FAMOUS NOVELS: Published in 1605, the first part of this novel was dedicated to the Duque de Bejar, Marques de Gibraleon... Don Quixote
#2707, aired 1996-05-14U.S. PRESIDENTS: He was the only president preceded & succeeded by the same man Benjamin Harrison
#2702, aired 1996-05-07THE ROMAN EMPIRE: Martial's "Book of Spectacles" in 80 A.D. was a book of poems published for this landmark's opening the (Roman) Colosseum (Coliseum)
#2689, aired 1996-04-18THE CONSTITUTION: According to the terms of the 22nd Amendment, it's the maximum number of years one can serve as president 10 years
#2670, aired 1996-03-22CHILDREN'S THEATRE: 1904 British play that includes the line "To die will be an awfully big adventure" Peter Pan
#2642, aired 1996-02-13EXPLORERS: For many years after his death in 1324, he was considered Europe's greatest liar Marco Polo
#2636, aired 1996-02-0520th CENTURY COMPOSERS: This Italian-born American won his 2nd Pulitzer Prize in 1955, for an opera set in NYC's Little Italy (Gian Carlo) Menotti
#2621, aired 1996-01-15POLITICIANS: In 1961, Lyndon Johnson was sworn in as vice president by this mentor Sam Rayburn
#2617, aired 1996-01-09ENGLISH POETS: "Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind" precedes a famous line from his works (John) Donne
#2616, aired 1996-01-08I LOVE LUCY: On the May 9, 1955 show, Lucy imitated Gary Cooper, Clark Gable & this man who guest starred Harpo Marx
#2614, aired 1996-01-04NAMES IN THE NEWS: He was born Newton Leroy McPherson in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania on June 17, 1943 Newt Gingrich
#2599, aired 1995-12-14FAMOUS NAMES: Famous name of Colonel Paul W. Tibbets' mother Enola Gay
#2594, aired 1995-12-07NICKNAMES: Poet Ezra Pound nicknamed this person "Old Possum" T.S. Eliot
#2574, aired 1995-11-09NAMES IN THE NEWS: He's the co-founder & editor-in-chief of a new magazine that hit the stands on September 26, 1995 John F. Kennedy, Jr.
#2571, aired 1995-11-06BUSINESS & LITERATURE: On March 24, 1994 this store held a breakfast to announce the new Truman Capote Literary Trust Tiffany's
#2565, aired 1995-10-27BIRTHSTONES: 1 of the 2 months with the same first letter as their traditional birthstones (1 of) September or October
#2562, aired 1995-10-24HISTORICAL QUOTES: In 1912 he said, "There is only one thing to do... go back to the Republican Party" Theodore (Teddy) Roosevelt
#2558, aired 1995-10-18THE CARIBBEAN: Its peso is symbolized R.D.$ the Dominican Republic
#2546, aired 1995-10-02U.S. STATES: 2 of the 4 states that border only 2 other states (2 of) Florida, Washington, South Carolina & Rhode Island
#2541, aired 1995-09-25NEXT IN LINE: Jacqueline, Claudia, Thelma, … Elizabeth "Betty" (Ford)
#2515, aired 1995-07-07NOTORIOUS: Oscar Collazo, serving a life sentence for his assassination attempt on this president, was released in 1979 Harry Truman
#2504, aired 1995-06-221994 FILMS: This 1994 film is based on Mark Handley's play "Idioglossia" Nell
#2499, aired 1995-06-15THE PRESIDENCY: Annual salary of the first 17 presidents; double it 3 times for today's salary $25,000
#2492, aired 1995-06-06POSTAL ABBREVIATIONS: Among the 2-letter abbreviations for U.S. states, this state's is 1st alphabetically Alaska
#2441, aired 1995-03-27SCIENTISTS: In 1928 he published "Introduzione alla fisical atomica", a university physics textbook Enrico Fermi
#2440, aired 1995-03-24THE 1960s: John Froines, Lee Weiner, David Dellinger & 4 others made up this group the Chicago Seven
#2430, aired 1995-03-10POETS: His wife Caitlin, who outlived him by 41 years, passed away in 1994 at age 80 Dylan Thomas
#2426, aired 1995-03-06THE 1980s: In 1989 a statue called "Goddess of Democracy" was erected in this square Tiananmen Square
#2418, aired 1995-02-22SHAKESPEARE'S PLAYS: Berlioz based his last opera, "Beatrice et Benedict", on this Shakespeare play Much Ado About Nothing
#2394, aired 1995-01-19COINS: This gold coin was so named because its value was originally twice that of an Escudo a doubloon
#2383, aired 1995-01-04UNIVERSITIES: The golden spike removed after the May 10, 1869 ceremony is now at this university Stanford
#2379, aired 1994-12-291994 MOVIES: The title of this 1994 action hit can be traced to a 1919 Supreme Court opinion by Oliver Wendell Holmes Clear and Present Danger
#2373, aired 1994-12-21U.S. ISLANDS: Mount Ada on this island is named for the wife of chewing gum magnate William Wrigley Catalina Island
#2368, aired 1994-12-14AMERICANA: This New York town that was the home of Elizabeth Cady Stanton has a Women's Hall of Fame Seneca Falls
#2364, aired 1994-12-08ROYALTY: Collier's Encyclopedia calls this man "the most famous of Polynesians" King Kamehameha
#2358, aired 1994-11-30BUSINESS & INDUSTRY: 1 of the top 10 companies that operated food services in 1964, in 1994 its lunch counters ranked No. 264 Woolworth's
#2349, aired 1994-11-17NAMES IN THE NEWS: This former U.N. ambassador is a co-chairman of the host city's committee for the 1996 Olympic Games Andrew Young
#2306, aired 1994-09-1919th CENTURY AMERICA: In 1864 the Comm. of Agriculture advocated that the government issue daily ones of these via telegraphs a weather report
#2300, aired 1994-09-09LANDMARKS: This barrier is situated in the British Isles about 100 miles south of the Antonine Wall Hadrian's Wall
#2285, aired 1994-07-08MOUNTAINS: The second peak surveyed in this range was Mount Godwin Austen the Karakoram Range
#2267, aired 1994-06-14FAMOUS NAMES: In 1921 he was appointed an advisor on Arab affairs to then British colonial minister Winston Churchill T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia)
#2264, aired 1994-06-09RULERS: Manuel II, deposed in 1910, was this country's last king Portugal
#2262, aired 1994-06-07SCULPTURE: Since 1948 over 8 million tons of granite have been removed in sculpting this man & he's not finished Chief Crazy Horse
#2253, aired 1994-05-25WOMEN IN TELEVISION: Joan Ganz Cooney was president of this company 1970-1990 the Children's Television Workshop

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Aaron Brown, an Emmy Award-winning newsman from CNN's popular primetime newscast "A journalist for over 25 years, he now anchors CNN's popular...
Todd McCafferty, a compliance manager from Brooklyn, New York Season 34 player (2017-10-05).
Todd Lovell, an engineering manager from Carmel, Indiana Season 31 1-time champion: $26,401 + $2,000.
Todd Gonzalez, a paint sales assistant manager from Rochester, New York Season 32 player (2016-07-28).
Todd Coleman, a physics professor from River Falls, Wisconsin Season 31 player (2015-01-22).
Ryan Chaffee, a tutor from Los Angeles, California 2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $91,900...
Thomas L. Friedman, an author and foreign affairs columnist from The New York Times "He has won three Pulitzer Prizes and authored six best sellers,...
Danny Devries, a junior from the University of Michigan 2008 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 21 and from West Bloomfield, MI...
Suchita Shah, a senior from the University of Wisconsin-Madison 2008 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 20 and from Holmen, WI...
Joey Beachum, a senior from Mississippi State University 2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2008 College Championship winner: $100,000...
Ariella Goldstein, a junior from Muhlenberg College 2009 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 20 and from Cortlandt Manor,...
Ellen Eichner, a junior from the Ohio State University from Northbrook, Illinois 2010-B College Championship semifinalist: $10,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
David Hudson, a junior from the University of Virginia "His musical taste has changed since he won $10,000 on Kids...
Jonathan Hawley, a sophomore from Harvard University 2008 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 19 and from Oceanside, CA at...
Katie Winter, a senior from Tufts University 2008 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 22 and from Hershey, PA at...
Andrew Chung, a sophomore from Harvey Mudd College 2008 College Championship 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $25,000. 20 and...
Danielle Zsenak, a senior from Marquette University 2008 College Championship 1st runner-up: $50,000. Last name pronounced like "zshen-NOCK"....
Jordan Brand, an anesthesiologist from Westchester, New York Season 26 1-time champion: $24,405 + $2,000. The Sesame Street character...
Eric Betts, a senior from Emory University 2009 College Championship first runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $50,000. 21 and...
Laura Myers, a senior from the University of Missouri 2009 College Championship second runner-up: $29,900. 22 and from Richmond, Virginia...
Nick Yozamp, a junior from Washington University in St. Louis 2010 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 2010-A College Championship winner:...
Aisha Tyler, a comedienne, host and actress from Talk Soup, Friends, The 5th Wheel and Ghost Whisperer 2009 Celebrity Jeopardy! winner: $50,000 split between the International Rescue Committee/Congo...
Cassie Hill, a recent graduate from the University of Mary Washington \"Her dad is a lawyer, and by the seventh grade, she...
Elza Reeves, a bank teller from Louisville, Kentucky Season 25 1-time champion: $16,400 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
Erin McLean, a sophomore from Boston University from Danvers, Massachusetts 2011 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 2010-B College Championship winner:...
Brandon Hensley, a sophomore from Caltech 2008 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 19 and from Huntington, WV at...
Justin Bernbach, a lobbyist from Brooklyn, New York 2010 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 25 7-time champion: $155,001...
Michael McKean, a Grammy winner, Oscar nominee and multi-talented performer from Hairspray and The Pajama Game "This multi-talented performer is a Grammy winner and Oscar nominee and...
Larissa Charnsangavej, a senior from Rice University 2009 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 21 and from Houston, Texas at...
Scott Menke, a senior from Johns Hopkins University 2009 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 21 and from Flemington, New Jersey...
Mark Petterson, a senior from the University of Kansas 2009 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 21 and from Prairie Village,...
A.J. Schumacher, a radio show production intern from St. Paul, Minnesota Season 25 1-time champion: $10,800 + $2,000. AJ Schumacher Saint Paul,...
Melanie Baker-Streevy, a United Methodist pastor from Parma, Michigan Season 25 1-time champion: $26,900 + $1,000. Melanie Baker-Streevy - A...
Fred Beukema, a structural engineer from Minneapolis, Minnesota Season 25 3-time champion: $69,401 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
Hans von Walter, a junior from Southern Adventist University from Avon Park, Florida 2010-B College Championship 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $25,000 + a...
Brooks Humphreys, a high school social studies teacher from Omaha, Nebraska "He teaches at an all-girls Catholic school operated by the Sisters...
Zach Safford, a senior from Williams College "His early interest in cryptozoology has been replaced by a history...
Anjali Tripathi, a senior from MIT "Math and science were her favorite subjects in seventh grade. We're...
Max Johansen, a senior from the University of Miami "As a seventh grader, he was planning on a career in...
Sid Chandrasekhar, a senior from the University of Pennsylvania from Saratoga, California 2010-B College Championship semifinalist: $10,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
Leszek Pawlowicz, a shovel bum from Flagstaff, Arizona "He was a material scientist living in Phoenix when he won...
Cheech Marin, an actor, comedian, director, writer and musician from Lost "He's played a cop on Nash Bridges, voiced a 1959 Chevy...
Amy Wilson, a creative writing and women's studies student originally from Portland, Oregon Season 26 1-time champion: $19,999 + $2,000. Not to be confused...
Amanda J. Ray, a sophomore at the University of Virginia from Harrisonburg, Virginia 2010-B College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
Colby Burnett, a high school world history teacher from Chicago, Illinois "He teaches at a school started by the Dominicans of St....
Meryl Federman, a senior from Livingston, New Jersey 2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games champion (semifinalist by wildcard): $75,000. 18...
Dan Pawson, a legislative aide from Boston, Massachusetts 2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2014 Battle of the Decades...
Andy Richter, an actor/comedian from The Tonight Show \"This multitalented actor/comedian is now back on the couch with Conan...
Roger Craig, a computer scientist from Newark, Delaware 2019 All-Star Games member of wildcard-match 2nd-place Team Austin: a share...
Yoni Freund, a Ph.D. student from Columbia University "He has always wanted to be a writer, and now that...
Nate Austin, a student from Hutchinson Community College "His original plan was to own a chain of international hotels...
Dara Lind, a junior from Yale University 2008 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 20 and from Cincinnati, OH at...
James Grant, a junior from Georgetown University 2008 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 21 and from Manhattan Beach,...
David Madden, a student originally from Ridgewood, New Jersey 2019 All-Star Games member of winning Team Brad: a share of...
Roger Craig, a graduate student of computer science from Newark, Delaware 2019 All-Star Games member of wildcard-match 2nd-place Team Austin: a share...
Patrick Tucker, a senior from the University of Notre Dame 2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2009 College Championship winner: $100,000...
Charles Shaughnessy, an actor from Mad Men "As Shane Donovan on Days of Our Lives, he won three...
Robbie Berg, a freshman from the University of Pennsylvania 2010-A College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. Hometown: Davie, Florida. Robbie Berg Blog...
Neil Patrick Harris, an actor from How I Met Your Mother "He's received critical acclaim on Broadway and on TV, and his...
Lyndsey Romick, a sophomore from Lewis & Clark College 2010-A College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. Hometown: Grants Pass, Oregon. Lyndsey Romick...
Jane Kaczmarek, a TV, film and Broadway actress from Malcolm in the Middle and Raising the Bar "She went from playing a hard-nosed mom in Malcolm in the...
Celeste DiNucci, a recent graduate student from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2014 Battle of the Decades...
Brenton Montie, a sixth grade social studies teacher from South Lyon, Michigan "He teaches at a school ranked in the top 5% in...
Justin Hofstetter, a sixth and seventh grade language arts and social studies teacher from Kansas City, Missouri "This sixth and seventh grade teacher is in his first year...
Anderson Cooper, a news anchor and correspondent from CNN "He anchors his own prime-time news show, a syndicated daytime talk...
Gabrielle McMahan, a junior from Florida A&M University 2008 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 20 and from Springfield, VA at...
Greg Lichtenstein, a freshman from Vassar College 2009 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 18 and from Plainview, New York...
Jennifer Duann, a senior from the Ohio State University 2009 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 21 and from Worthington, Ohio at...
Dan D'Addario, a senior from Columbia University 2010-A College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Hometown: Farmington, Connecticut. Daniel D'Addario...
Jason Pratt, a middle school history teacher from Woodbridge, Virginia Season 25 2-time champion: $32,701 + $1,000. Jason Pratt - A...
Pat Sajak, a game show host from Wheel of Fortune "A former TV weatherman, he's gone on to become the world's...
Harry Shearer, an actor/writer/producer from The Simpsons and Le Show "His many credits include providing voices for The Simpsons, and he's...
Chris Wallace, a TV host from Fox News Sunday "In March, this Fox News anchor was honored by the National...
Lisa Makar, a senior from University of Maryland "As a seventh grader, she was planning a career as a...
Rachel Horn, a sophomore from Cincinnati, Ohio 2008-A Teen Tournament winner: $75,000. 15 at the time of the...
Steve Greene, a senior from UCLA from Elk Grove, California 2010-B College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000 + a Nintendo Wii +...
Aisha Tyler, an actress, comedian, author and reality-show host from Archer "In addition to film and TV roles, she performs comedy at...
Wolf Blitzer, a journalist from The Situation Room "Since 1990, he's covered every major story for CNN, including the...
Surya Sabhapathy, a senior from the University of Michigan 2010-A College Championship 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $26,600. Hometown: Northville,...
Jane Curtin, an actress from Kate & Allie and 3rd Rock from the Sun "One of Saturday Night Live's original Not Ready for Primetime Players,...
Ken Basin, a junior at the University of Southern California from Huntington Beach, California 2003 College Championship semifinalist: $5,000. Blog at kbasin.blogspot.org. Appearing as a...
Judy Mermelstein, a Census field representative from Queens, New York Season 25 1-time champion: $38,401 + $1,000. Judy also appeared on...
Steph Gagelin, a sophomore from the University of North Dakota from Grand Forks, North Dakota 2010-B College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
Lea Tottle, a junior from Florida State University from Oldsmar, Florida 2010-B College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000 + a Nintendo Wii +...
Dr. Mehmet Oz, a cardiac surgeon and TV host from The Dr. Oz Show "He is a renowned cardiac surgeon who has written seven New...
Matthew Cline, a 12-year-old from Maumelle, Arkansas "John Grisham's books have inspired him. He's firm. He wants to...
Cerulean Ozarow, an 11-year-old from Brooklyn, New York "His future is full of options. He wants to become either...
Kevin Marshall, a student from Metairie, Louisiana 2006 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 22 6-time champion: $98,201...
India Cooper, a copy editor from Madison, Indiana "She was an actor and copy editor in New York City...
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, a Basketball Hall of Famer and all-time leading scorer from the NBA "He's one of the greatest NBA players in history. Here's Hall...
Will Warren, a senior from the University of Alabama 2010-A College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. Hometown: Madison, Alabama. Will Warren Blog...
Neil Patrick Harris, an actor from How I Met Your Mother "He's appeared on Broadway in Proof, Assassins, and Cabaret. He's now...
Scott Turow, a bestselling novelist and practicing attorney from Chicago, Illinois "He's sold more than 25 million copies of his novels worldwide...
Chuck Forrest, an attorney for the UN IFAD from Marino, Italy \"In 1986, he was a law student living in Grand Blanc,...
Tom Walsh, a writer from Washington, D.C. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
Melanie Bruchet, a senior from Bryn Mawr "Everyone wants to be an astronaut when they're a kid, but...
Olivia Colangelo, a junior from the University of Notre Dame from Murrysville, Pennsylvania 2010-B College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
Bernard Holloway, a sophomore at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from Chapel Hill, North Carolina "He was a 2002 Teen Champion. He's now a sophomore at...
Michael Dupée, an attorney from Gainesville, Florida "He was the winner of the 1996 Tournament of Champions. Today...
Anthony Dedousis, a sophomore from Harvard University 2009 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 19 and from Manhasset, New York...
Kadeem Cooper, a junior from the University of Virginia 2009 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 20 and from Brooklyn, New York...
Lisa Klink, a TV writer from Los Angeles, California 2009 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 24 5-time champion: $70,150...
Doug Savant, an actor from Desperate Housewives "He plays Tom Scavo, the sometimes-befuddled husband of Felicity Huffman on...
Dana Delany, an actress from Kidnapped "She won two Emmys for playing Army nurse Colleen McMurphy on...
Miguel Ferrer, an actor from Crossing Jordan "He began his career as a studio drummer and played on...
Clarence Page, a journalist from The Chicago Tribune "His nationally syndicated column began as a local column for the...
Lizzie O'Leary, an aviation and regulation correspondent from CNN "She broke the news that Chrysler would file for Chapter 11...
Robert Gibbs, a former press secretary from the Obama White House "In 2004, he joined Barack Obama's senatorial campaign as communications director,...
Than Hedman, a freshman from University of Colorado-Boulder 2008 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 19 and from Denver, CO at...
Rachel Rothenberg, a senior from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 2009 Teen Tournament winner (semifinalist by wildcard): $75,000. Jeopardy! Message Board...
Sandra Gore, a corporate researcher from Berkeley, California "After five wins in 1987, she fulfilled her dream of moving...
Andrew Ceppos, a senior from Tufts University 2009 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 21 and from Verona, New...
Courtney Trezise, a senior from Michigan State University 2009 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 21 and from Okemos, Michigan at...
Prashant Raghavendran, a sophomore from the University of Texas, Dallas 2010-A College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. Hometown: Austin, Texas. Prashant Raghavendran Blog...
Ryan Stoffers, a sophomore from UCLA 2010-A College Championship 1st runner-up: $50,000. Hometown: Saratoga, California. Ryan Stoffers...
Rachel Millena, a 10-year-old from Concord, California "Her sights are set on becoming a writer, journalist, photographer, or...
Brian Weikle, a project manager from Minneapolis, Minnesota 2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
Claudia Perry, a sports copy editor from Jersey City, New Jersey "A pop music critic when she first appeared on Jeopardy!, she's...
Kate Waits, a law professor at the University of Tulsa from Tulsa, Oklahoma "A Harvard Law graduate when she competed in the 1988 Tournament...
Jerome Vered, a writer from Los Angeles, California "The 1-day record of $34,000 he set in 1992 stood for...
Kate Wilson, a high school AP English teacher from Montgomery, Alabama "She is a top-10 AP English language teacher at Alabama's number-one...
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, a Basketball Hall of Famer and all-time leading scorer from the NBA "In January, the State Department named this NBA Hall of Famer...
Chris Matthews, a TV host from Hardball and The Chris Matthews Show "He served as a speechwriter for Jimmy Carter, and later as...
Krissy Brzycki, an 11-year-old from Indianapolis, Indiana "Her love of helping her community and her interest in politics...
India Cooper, an actor and copy editor from New York City, New York "A semifinalist in the Tournament of Champions in 1992, now an...
Eddie Timanus, a sportswriter from Oak Hill, Virginia "His 5 wins in 1999 made him one of the most...
Crystal Durham, a 12-year-old from Fort Pierce, Florida "She would like to be an Irish stepdancing teacher, because dancing...
Chris Matthews, a TV host from Hardball and The Chris Matthews Show "Once a presidential speechwriter, he's had his own political talk show...
Dana Delany, an actress from Desperate Housewives "She won two Emmys for her work on China Beach. This...
Samira Missaghi, a junior from the University of Minnesota 2010-A College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Hometown: Eden Prarie, Minnesota. Samira...
Hill Harper, an author and actor from CSI: NY "As an award-winning author, he's written three New York Times best...
Katie Singh, a sophomore from Northwestern University from Austin, Texas 2010-B College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
Joshua Malina, a TV actor and creator/producer from Celebrity Poker Showdown "He created and produced Celebrity Poker Showdown for the Bravo Channel,...
Curtis Joseph, a sophomore from Scottsdale Community College "In 1999, his nickname was 'Curtles the Troll', and he wanted...
Kermin Fleming, a student from Lexington, Kentucky 2006 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions...
Leslie Shannon, a manager of a research lab from Sydney, Australia "A recent art history graduate when she became Jeopardy! champion in...
Bob Verini, a film journalist and test prep teacher from Los Angeles, California "A resident of New York City when he won the 1987...
Eric Newhouse, a director of technical assistance from Vermillion, South Dakota "He won both the 1989 Teen Tournament and the 1998 Teen...
Julie Bowen, a TV and film actress from Boston Legal, Lost and Modern Family "For two seasons, she played attorney Denise Bauer in Boston Legal....
Robin Quivers, a radio and television personality from The Howard Stern Show "Howard Stern's news anchor and sidekick for the past 28 years,...
Steve Chernicoff, a technical writer from Berkeley, California "He was one of the top 1-day winners in the 1994-95...
Diane Siegel, an educational consultant and writer from Northridge, California "A full-time mom when she won five games in 1993, now...
Vera Swain, a junior from the University of South Carolina 2008 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 21 and from Charleston, SC...
Eddie Timanus, a sports reporter from Arlington, Virginia "A 5-time champion, he went on to become a semifinalist in...
Frank Spangenberg, a lieutenant in the New York Police Department from Douglaston, New York "He still holds the record for the most money won in...
Phoebe Juel, a bookseller from Sylva, North Carolina "She won the 1993 College Championship while attending Grinnell College. Today...
Rachael Schwartz, a lawyer from Washington, D.C. "In 1994, she was the first female winner of a Tournament...
Elizabeth Perkins, an actress from Big and Weeds 2009 Celebrity Jeopardy! player: $25,000 to the New England Learning Center...
Kyle Kahan, a senior from Texas A&M University from Houston, Texas 2010-B College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000 + a Nintendo Wii +...
Jay Rosenberg, a college professor from Chapel Hill, North Carolina \"After winning 5 times in 1985, he became the moderator for...
Charles Temple, a high school English teacher from Ocracoke, North Carolina "He teaches at the smallest public school in North Carolina, and...
Tom Kavanaugh, a kickball team captain from St. Louis, Missouri 2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2006 Tournament of Champions...
Madeline Suchard, from Placentia, California "She has her sights set on becoming the Supreme Court Justice,...
Russ Schumacher, a graduate student and newlywed from Fort Collins, Colorado "He won the most recent Tournament of Champions. A graduate student...
Andrew Westney, a sports business writer from Charlotte, North Carolina "He was a high-school student from Atlanta when he won the...
Leah Anthony Libresco, a junior from Yale University 2010-A College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Hometown: Mineola, New York. Jeopardy!...
Elijah Granet, a 12-year-old from San Diego, California "Because he loves animals, biology, and helping others, he's thinking of...
Elizabeth Perkins, an actress from Weeds "For the past five seasons, she's played the calculating and manipulative...
Sam Spaulding, a sophomore from Yale University from Wilmington, North Carolina 2010-B College Championship 1st runner-up: $50,000 + a Nintendo Wii +...
Christopher Meloni, an Emmy-nominated actor from Law & Order: Special Victims Unit "He's played challenging roles on both sides of the law, including...
Ben Lyon, an industrial scaleman from Dallas, Texas "Representing the University of Oklahoma, he won the 1995 College Championship....
Kelly O'Donnell, a political reporter from NBC News "An Emmy-winning political reporter, she has covered Capitol Hill and the...
Mehrun Etebari, a graduate student of international relations from Durham, New Hampshire 2007 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
Nicole Yoon, a 12-year-old from Asbury, New Jersey "She has set her sights on becoming a medical doctor or...
Tim Relihan, a senior from the University of Nebraska from Stromsburg, Nebraska 2010-B College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
Andrew Garen, an associate director of consumer marketing from Austin, Texas "He was a project manager when he won his 5 shows...
Leslie Frates, a Spanish teacher from Hayward, California \"A Jeopardy! champion in 1991, she\'s now a Spanish teacher listed...
Drew Joanides, a high school history teacher from Miami, Florida "He is one of our four teachers competing in our tournament...
Pian Wong, a high school English teacher from New York, New York "She teaches at a Bronx school that's been ranked the most...
Babu Srinivasan, a history professor at Prairie View A&M University from Houston, Texas "A five-time champion in 2001, he's now a history professor at...
Bruce Naegeli, a retired law librarian from Phoenix, Arizona "He finished second in the 1988 Tournament of Champions. A retired...
Ethan Waldman, a twelve-year-old from West Hills, California "This wizard of words wants to be a fantasy author when...
Lan Djang, a health policy analyst from Toronto, Ontario, Canada "He was a 5-time champion in 2001. Today he's a health...
Craig Barker, an Advanced Placement history teacher from Livonia, Michigan "In 1997 he won the College Championship. Today he's an Advanced...
Harry Shearer, a humorist, Spinal Tap bassist, and voice from The Simpsons "He recently celebrated the 25th anniversary of This Is Spinal Tap...
Tom Nichols, a professor originally from Chicopee, Massachusetts \"A five-time champion in 1994, he used his winnings for a...
Mary Ann Stanley, a high school chemistry and physical science teacher from Statesboro, Georgia "She's been teaching for 22 years and is now teaching the...
Christie Whitman, a former governor from New Jersey "She was New Jersey's first woman governor, and later became administrator...
Emma Miller, from San Mateo, California "She loves the idea of creating art that people can live...
Veronica Fazio, from Roselle, Illinois "She dances, plays softball, and hangs with her friends, but wants...
John Cuthbertson, an investment analyst from San Diego, California "He was the highest money winner of the 1993-94 season. An...
Neal Freyman, a ten-year-old from Longmeadow, Massachusetts "He's not sure recess counts as a subject, but if it...
CCH Pounder, an actress from Avatar and Brothers "She earned an Emmy nomination for her role as Claudette Wyms...
Terry Parker, a high school history teacher from Cutler Bay, Florida "Don't try to pin down this wrestling coach, history teacher, and...
Jill Bunzendahl Chimka, a speech and language pathologist from Washington, D.C. 2003 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 18 4-time champion: $85,099...
Alan Bailey, a playwright and director from Sherman Oaks, California 2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2003 Tournament...
John Beck, an associate creative director from Torrance, California 2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 winner: $29,000. 2004 Tournament...
Tom Kunzen, a geotechnical engineer from Orlando, Florida 2011 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 27 5-time champion: $133,402...
Al Franken, an author and radio talk show host from New York City "One of the original writers on Saturday Night Live, he's done...
Maxwell Baldi, a ten-year-old from Los Angeles, California "This future U.S. attorney general has always been interested in the...
Carson Kressley, a fashion maven from Queer Eye for the Straight Guy "This star of TV's Queer Eye for the Straight Guy says...
Frank Spangenberg, a police lieutenant from Douglaston, New York 2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
Lindsey Hargrove, a senior at the University of Texas from Bellaire, Texas 2004 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Mother's Jeopardy! Message Board user name: collegemom
Anne Boyd, a freelance writer and student from Los Angeles, California 2004 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 20 4-time champion: $84,600...
Ryan Chaffee, a tutor from Los Angeles, California 2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $91,900...
Katty Kay, a Washington, D.C. anchor from BBC World News America "She's the Washington, D.C. anchor for BBC World News America, as...
Zane Ice, a 12-year-old from West Palm Beach, Florida "He wants to build a business in emerging technologies to help...
Babu Srinivasan, a history professor from Houston, Texas 2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
Chris Breen, a sophomore at Princeton University from Springfield, Massachusetts 2005 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. According to the official Jeopardy! web...
Jessica Anderson, a twelve-year-old from Cranston, Rhode Island "She's known she wanted to be a teacher for six years--that's...
Marie Braden, a customer service representative from Tempe, Arizona Season 27 1-time champion: $24,800 + $1,000. Marie's boyfriend Kirk's Rock...
Michelle Chang, an 11-year-old from Suwanee, Georgia "This sixth grader picks the most unusual places to lose her...
Tom Bergeron, an Emmy Award-winning host from Dancing with the Stars 2009 Celebrity Jeopardy! player: $25,000 to the Muscular Dystrophy Association. "He's...
Andrew Goldfein, a 12-year-old from Lincolnwood, Illinois "He likes to argue and help people, so it's off to...
Sean Ryan, a graduate student from Whitehall, Pennsylvania 2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
Grace Veach, a librarian from Lakeland, Florida "After winning 5 games in 1997, she was the grand marshall...
Vinita Kailasanath, a recent college graduate originally from Laurel, Maryland 2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
Barbara-Anne Eddy, a civil servant from Vancouver, Canada "Her 5-time winnings from 1988 allowed her to go for nearly...
Monica Thieu, a sophomore at the University of North Texas from Dallas, Texas 2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2019 All-Star Games member of...
Donna Brown, a customer service representative from Seattle, Washington Season 34 1-time champion: $45,600 + $2,000. At the introduction of...
Frank Firke, a junior from Chicago, Illinois 2007 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 16 at the time of...
Neha Rao, from Johns Creek, Georgia "She's hoping to become a teacher and inspire her students in...
Jonathan Reinstein, a junior from Dix Hills, New York 2001 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time of the...
Bob Fleenor, a newspaper copy editor from Martinsburg, West Virginia "Legislative work in his home state was suspended so that lawmakers...
Alan Bailey, a playwright and director from North Hills, California "This playwright and director became a 5-time winner in 2001. Today,...
Leszek Pawlowicz, a computer consultant from Flagstaff, Arizona "He was the winner of the 1992 Tournament of Champions. Today...
Lance Johnson, a model aircraft engine technician from Champaign, Illinois "He was the first to get to the 5-win mark in...
Naomi Senbet, an 11-year-old from Washington, D.C. "This sixth grader doesn't like to be late for anything; maybe...
William Garrett, a 12-year-old from Greenfield, Indiana "Serving his country as an officer in the military is his...
Shay Collins, an 11-year-old from Averill Park, New York "His passion for music helps this future rock star to play...
Doug Savant, an actor from Desperate Housewives "He met and then married his wife while both were costarring...
Justin Otor, a 12-year-old from Texarkana, Texas "His chosen profession will be something in the field of science...
Rowan Spake, from Portland, Oregon "He's interested in nanotechnology and robotics to improve surgery. But getting...
Jonathan Groff, a writer and producer for television from Los Angeles, California \"A 5-show winner in 1995, he\'s now a writer and producer...
Allen Goodman, an economics professor from Huntington Woods, Michigan Season 24 player (2008-06-13). Web site at www.econ.wayne.edu/agoodman. Allen detailed his...
Hope Landsem, from Tualatin, Oregon "She likes to win arguments, and that's why she's going to...
Kathy Cassity, a closed captioner from Honolulu, Hawaii 2003 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 18 4-time champion: $59,200....
James Denton, an actor from Desperate Housewives "He plays Mike Delfino, Wisteria Lane's sexy plumber on the hit...
Emma Couture, a twelve-year-old from St. Petersburg, Florida "Here's a portrait of a smart young girl who sees her...
Lisa Johnston, a fourth and fifth grade reading and religion teacher from East Boston, Massachusetts "She teaches at a parish that's focus is to dream big....
Kerry Breitenbach, a marketing analyst from Cleveland, Ohio 2006 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 21 5-time champion: $90,400...
Babu Srinivasan, a history professor from Houston, Texas "His aggressive wagering helped him become the biggest winner from the...
Tom Morris, a substitute teacher and grad student from Irvine, California 2009 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 24 4-time champion: $100,801...
Brad Rutter, a network administrator from Lancaster, Pennsylvania "The reigning Tournament of Champions winner, he attended Johns Hopkins University...
Ryan Holznagel, a writer originally from Forest Grove, Oregon "He was the winner of the 1995 Tournament of Champions. Now,...
Viki Radden, a high school English and literacy teacher from Bakersfield, California "She teaches at the largest high school district in California. From...
B.D. Schwarz, a twelve-year-old from Oakland, California "He wants to make others happy by opening a little game...
Molly Gier, a twelve-year-old from Chesterfield, Missouri "She is preparing for a teaching career by tutoring her peers....
Bryce Piotrowski, a twelve-year-old from Madison, Wisconsin "He has no idea what he wants to do later in...
Solomon Howard, a freshman from St. Petersburg, Florida 2009 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 14 at the time of...
Kathleen Mikulis, a stay-at-home mom from Mountain View, California Season 27 1-time champion: $25,201 + $2,000. Kathleen's contestant experience blog....
Bob Harris, a writer from Los Angeles, California "This 5-time champ was a finalist in the 1998 Tournament of...
Rachel Beckman, an 11-year-old from Danville, Kentucky "As a member of her school's academic team, she has no...
Josh Lacey, a 10-year-old from Ellicott City, Maryland "The International Olympic Committee does such good work, he would like...
Andrew Westney, a singer and actor from Atlanta, Georgia "In 1991, he won the Teen Tournament. Today, he's a singer...
Mark Lowenthal, an assistant director for the Central Intelligence Agency from Reston, Virginia "The winner of the 1988 Tournament of Champions, he's an assistant...
Brooke Martin, an eleven-year-old from Galway, New York "It looks like smooth sailing for this marine biologist. From Galway,...
Anderson Cooper, a host from CNN's Anderson Cooper 360° 2004 Power Players Week player (2004-05-11). Charity: American Heart Association.
Hill Harper, an actor from CSI: NY "He graduated magna cum laude from Brown University. He has a...
Emily Riippa, a 12-year-old seventh grader from Grand Rapids, Michigan "She is a fast reader, and her mother says she was...
Tom Walsh, a writer from Washington, D.C. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
Ryan Fenster, a banker from SeaTac, Washington 2019 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 34 7-time champion: $156,497...
Larry DeMoss, a high school English teacher from Ellettsville, Indiana "He went from short orders to short stories when he switched...
Lori Kissell, a high school Latin teacher from Fredericksburg, Virginia "She loves everything about Latin and shares that love with her...
Joseph Henares, from Avon, Connecticut "Along with group science projects, history club, writing club, and chess...
Matt Tick, from Escondido, California "Will take violin lessons and loves science, but he really wants...
Tom Halpern, a lawyer originally from New York, New York "A writer and researcher when he won 5 times in 1991,...
Bob Blake, an actuary from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada "In 1990, he won the Tournament of Champions. An actuary from...
Billy Baxter, an attorney from Richmond, Virginia "Representing the College of William & Mary, he won the 1992...
Jeremy Bate, an emergency medical technician and writer from Tujunga, California "A second-place finisher in the 2000 Tournament of Champions, he's now...
Zane Li, a ten-year-old from Provo, Utah "He's a chess champion and a two-time Geography Bee winner..." 2002...
Ashley Wilson, an organization development consultant from Alexandria, Virginia Season 32 2-time champion: $52,402 + $1,000. Ashley returned to the...
Claudia Corriere, a church musician and homemaker from Kennesaw, Georgia Season 32 2-time champion: $29,000 + $2,000. Claudia won show #7195,...
Nicole Karrow, an 11-year-old from Lewes, Delaware "Her goals are to be a horse breeder and trainer..." 2007...
Francesca Leibowitz, a fifth grade English teacher from Brooklyn, New York "She teaches at a school that opened in 1854. From Brooklyn...
Tiffany Wen, a 12-year-old from Exton, Pennsylvania "This figure skater is also on the distinguished honor roll. From...
Alex Stambaugh, a 12-year-old from Paris, Kentucky "He feels he can use his talents in math and science...
Brad Rutter, a TV quiz show host from Lancaster, Pennsylvania 2020 Jeopardy!: The Greatest of All Time 2nd runner-up: $250,000. 2019...
Tyler Van Patten, from Burlington, Wisconsin "He's focusing on becoming a corporate attorney, because of his fascination...
Olivia Woods, a 12-year-old from Cincinnati, Ohio "She loves working with little kids and would like to become...
Taylor Gailliot, from Woodbridge, Virginia "When asked what she wanted us to know about her, she...
Jaime Green, a sophomore at Brown University from Nanuet, New York 2001 College Championship quarterfinalist: $2,500. Jaime was 18 at the time...
Michael Falk, a meteorologist from Milwaukee, Wisconsin 2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2006 Tournament of Champions...
Vivian Lappenbusch, a twelve-year-old from Seattle, Washington "She finds other people's stories and cultures fascinating, so anthropology is...
Madison Ball, from Montgomery, Texas "He loves to design and build things, and that's why becoming...
Tad Carithers, an attorney from New York City, New York "He finished second in the 2001 Tournament of Champions. Today he...
Terry Linwood, a bookseller from North Texas 2010 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 26 5-time champion: $122,705...
Paul Glaser, a research scientist from Albany, New York 2007 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
Kizzle Cote, a 12-year-old from Ludlow, Massachusetts "This future ichthyologist has a 30-gallon aquarium in his bedroom..." 2007...
Michael Glick, a 12-year-old from Smithtown, New York "He's in math honors this year, even though math is one...
Emily Kamm, a 12-year-old from Arlington, Virginia "This member of Model United Nations has been on the principal's...
Michael Day, an attorney from Mill Valley, California "As an MBA Student, he won 5 games in 1985. Today...
Michael Blake, a 12-year-old from Hamburg, New York "Our top story tonight is this young man, who wants to...
Scott Gillispie, a project manager and expectant father from Atlanta, Georgia "While attending Georgia Tech, he won the 1991 College Championship. Now...
William Carpenter, from Bainbridge Island, Washington "Being the scientist that he is, Mom never knows what she...
Brandon Brooks, an HR manager from Chicago, Illinois Season 34 2-time champion: $27,401 + $1,000. During his first contestant...
Victoria Agrinya, a 12-year-old from Woodbridge, Virginia "She would like to be a successful entrepreneur when she grows...
Kyle Hale, a college senior from Katy, Texas "Representing Texas A&M, he won the 2002 College Championship. Now he's...
Kyle Ziemnick, an eleven-year-old from Purcellville, Virginia "He likes logical arguments and debates, so would like to be...
Jared Rothenberg, an 11-year-old from Houston, Texas "When he's not on the mound, he's warming up in the...
Dan Amboy, a 12-year-old from Lapeer, Michigan "He hopes to get into the best college that he can....
Robert Slaven, a technical products specialist originally from Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada "He won 5 times in 1992. Today, he's a technical products...
Michael Arnone, a writer and editor from Alexandria, Virginia "He was the largest 1-day winner in the 2000-2001 season. Today...
Deirdre Thomas, an attorney and editor from Seattle, Washington Season 34 2-time champion: $33,200 + $1,000. Deirdre\'s father Dr. Nicholas...
Vincent Valenzuela, an internal customer service manager from Wheaton, Illinois Season 35 player (2018-09-25). Season 34 player (2018-07-13). Vincent returned to...
Hallie Fox, a 12-year-old from Ypsilanti, Michigan "It's elementary. She wants to be a teacher when she's older....
Liz Haigney Lynch, a freelance writer and genealogist from Montclair, New Jersey Season 32 2-time champion: $49,600 + $1,000. The "G" in Liz's...
Mark Born, a musician, writer and teacher from Bangkok, Thailand \"He was the top winner of the 1990-91 season. He\'s a...
Amanda Hall, from Farmington, Maine "Whether it's writing a biography of Yo-Yo Ma or working on...
Marshall Tan, from Gaithersburg, Maryland "His favorite subject is social studies, and he knows a lot...
Will Walters, a twelve-year-old from Lexington, Kentucky "He wants to follow in the footsteps of his idols, Albert...
Eugene Finerman, a writer from Northbrook, Illinois "A finalist in the 1987 Tournament of Champions, he's a writer....
Sahir Islam, an investment analyst from Somers, New York "The champion of the 1997 Teen Tournament, he's now an investment...
Keith Williams, a college student from Manchester, Vermont 2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2004 Tournament...
Wil Curiel, an 11-year-old from Costa Mesa, California "His favorite subject is science, so it's not surprising that this...
Billy Hackenson, an eleven-year-old from Great Falls, Virginia "As a descendant of President Taft, it's no surprise that he's...
David Duchovny, an actor from Californication "He's won two Golden Globes and stars as troubled novelist Hank...
Marion Penning, a high school science and history teacher from Baltimore, Maryland "She teaches at a Maryland 'green' school that has a solar...
Erik Larsen, a librarian and a licensed amateur boxing official from Jacksonville, Florida "A 5-time champion from 1990, he's a librarian and a licensed...
Josh DenHartog, an actuarial technician from Thousand Oaks, California "He was the Teen Tournament champion in 1997. Now he's an...
Ben Swartz, a senior from Manassas, Virginia 2003 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time of the...
Michelle Cinguina, an 11-year-old from Stamford, Connecticut "Her favorite things to do are act, play the piano and...
Rebecca Zoshak, a language specialist from State College, Pennsylvania Season 34 1-time champion: $14,407 + $2,000. Rebecca returned to the...
Brad Plovan, an attorney from Baltimore, Maryland "With the money from his five wins in 1995, he bought...
Jack Archey, an actor and writer from Los Angeles, California "He was a CPA and comedian when he won his 5th...
Dan Melia, a college professor from Berkeley, California "He was a 1998 Tournament of Champions winner. Today he's a...
Michael Schulson, a 12-year-old from Chattanooga, Tennessee "As a member of bug club, it's only natural that he...
Nick Dnistrian, an 11-year-old from Webster, New York "With a nickname like Elvis, this future chemist is already the...
Lauren Kutner, an 11-year-old from Newtown, Pennsylvania "The best part of middle school for this seventh grader is...
Ivan Kleinfeld, an 11-year-old from Arlington, Virginia "He would like to be a doctor so that he can...
Phil Yellman, a legal assistant from Seattle, Washington "He was an office worker from Albuquerque when he won his...
Russ Schumacher, a graduate student from Fort Collins, Colorado 2014 Battle of the Decades semifinalist: $25,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
Pam Mueller, an entering law student originally from Chicago, Illinois \"Representing Loyola University, she won the College Championship in November, 2000....
Liz Fritz, an intake coordinator from Spring Hill, Kansas Season 32 1-time champion: $16,401 + $2,000. Liz won $30,000 on...
Kiyana Holderbaum, an instructional designer from Long Beach, California Season 32 player (2015-12-18). Kiyana won $103,333.33 of a $310,000 total...
David Gregory, a political analyst and author from CNN and How's Your Faith? "An NBC correspondent and anchor for nearly 20 years, he recently...
April McManus, a homemaker from Hertfordshire, England "A high school senior from Minnesota when she won the 1992...
Kelly Scurry, an 11-year-old seventh grader from Lauderhill, Florida "It's very convenient that Washington, D.C. is his favorite city, because...
Tory Gilliam, a twelve-year-old from Powhatan, Virginia "As a member of his school's debate team, he likes to...
Steve Schirripa, an actor from The Sopranos "Once the entertainment director at the Riviera Hotel in Las Vegas,...
Mike Thayer, a mathematics teacher from North Plainfield, New Jersey "He was a junior at Rutgers University when he won the...
Lara Robillard, a policy analyst from Arlington, Virginia "She used the winnings from her 5 shows in 1998 to...
Will Harter, a 12-year-old from Park Ridge, Illinois "He would like to be a professional athlete. If that doesn't...
Sam Weaver, a sophomore at Bradley University from Pleasanton, California 2001 College Championship quarterfinalist: $2,500. Sam was 20 at the time...
John Ryan, a corporate controller from Richmond, California "As a college student, he was the top winner of the...
Chuck Forrest, a lawyer from Bosnia and Herzegovina 2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2014 Battle of the Decades...
Elizabeth Connor, an art director from Brooklyn, New York Season 34 player (2018-01-31). Elizabeth wore a necklace that said "UGH"...
Sally Umbach, a third grade special education teacher from Cincinnati, Ohio "She teaches at a school district that has been in operation...
Marcia Edmundson, a high school French teacher from Chesterfield, Virginia "In the banking world, she checked credit scores. She's much happier...
Courtney Jones, a 12-year-old from Largo, Maryland "She wants to dedicate her life to building things that benefit...
Jack Weisman, a twelve-year-old from Beachwood, Ohio "He's considering becoming a lawyer, just like Mom and Dad. From...
Fraser Woodford, an investment banker from New York, New York "In 1993, winner of the Teen Tournament, he's now an investment...
Arthur Phillips, an author from Brooklyn, New York "He was a speechwriter from Boston when he won five shows...
Nancy Zerg, a realtor from Ventura, California Season 21 1-time champion: $14,401 + $1,000. Nancy ended Ken Jennings's...
Elyssa Browning, a junior from St. John's College 2009 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 21 and from Austin, Texas at...
Lizz Mullowney, a senior from Crystal Lake, Illinois 2003 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. 17 at the time of the...
Isaac Mizrahi, a fashion designer and TV personality from the QVC Network "His fashion designs are a favorite among celebrities on the red...
Thulasi Seshan, a 12-year-old from Draper, Utah "The sky is the limit for this future astronomer. From Draper,...
Neha Gokhale, a 10-year-old from Houston, Texas "Because she liked 4th and 5th grade so much, she wants...
Jennifer Wu, a high school junior from Arkadelphia, Arkansas "She won the 2004 Teen Tournament at age 15. Now 17,...
Brian Weikle, a consultant from Minneapolis, Minnesota 2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
Ashleigh Banfield, a TV correspondent originally from Canada "She's covered such various stories as the Clinton/Yeltsin summit, the War...
Gabby Fusco, an 11-year-old from Maspeth, New York "She's loved everything about science she was a little kid, so...
Ryan Elkins, a 12-year-old from Bensalem, Pennsylvania "He wants to study physics and unlock the mysteries of the...
Kate Bolduan, a co-host from CNN's At This Hour "As a CNN congressional correspondent, she covered the U.S. House and...
Frank Epstein, a police officer from Los Angeles, California "He was a 5-time champion in 1992, and is still serving...
Jean Grewe, a graphic designer from Oak Park, Illinois "She was the last 5-time champion in 1993. Today she's a...
David McIntyre, a twelve-year-old from Riverside, California "When this Boy Scout was young, he thought that running from...
Bethlehem Lema, a 12-year-old from San Diego, California "Either being an astrophysicist or a pediatrician is in her future..."...
Jonathan Corbblah, a chess teacher from Harlem, New York Season 27 1-time champion: $13,000 + $1,000. Jonathan appeared as a...
Braden Corkum, a 12-year-old from Niceville, Florida "He likes making things, so he's going to be an inventor..."...
Gabby Dannunzio, a 12-year-old from Largo, Florida "This future author is already trying to publish her book. From...
Martin Short, a multitalented man from Fame Becomes Me "Jiminy Glick and Ed Grimley are among his many memorable characters....
Catherine Carson, a fourth grade language arts, math, and social studies teacher from Washington, D.C. "She is new to teaching--she's in her second year. From Washington,...
Philip Tiu, an educator from Atlanta, Georgia Season 32 3-time champion: $96,598 + $1,000. Philip’s $19,000 Daily Double...
Maddie Harrington, a twelve-year-old from Palm Beach Gardens, Florida "She wants to be a theater critic and she gets rave...
Stephanie Hull, a graduate student of philosophy from Columbia, Missouri Season 31 player (2015-03-12). Stephanie's ending score of -$6,800 was the...
John Hines, a high school social studies teacher from Tacoma, Washington "He teaches at Todd Beamer High School, named for a heroic...
Gretchen Carlson, a journalist from the CBS Saturday Early Show "Since winning the 1989 Miss America crown, she's built an extensive...
Robin Kutner, from Newtown, Pennsylvania "This member of jazz band has a cat that is the...
Maria Wenglinsky, a teacher from Brooklyn, New York 2006 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 22 5-time champion: $122,300...
Dan Katz, a lawyer from Owings Mills, Maryland "Since his five wins in 1990, he's seen Bruce Springsteen 16...
Michael Galvin, a consultant from Penn Wynne, Pennsylvania "He was the first winner of the Teen Tournament back in...
Robby Schrum, a junior at Yale University from Crown Point, Indiana 2003 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $5,000. According to the official Jeopardy!...
Whitney Dearden, an 11-year-old from Washington Crossing, Pennsylvania "She enjoys working with animals and would like to become a...
William Marengo, an 11-year-old from the Bronx, New York "He will be the next Bronx Bomber, maybe--if it's up to...
Bob Shore, an attorney from Los Angeles, California Season 21 2-time champion: $47,602 + $2,000. Proponent of Shore's Conjecture....
Andy Richter, from NBC\'s Late Night With Conan O\'Brien \"He\'s a first-rate second banana and the sidekick on NBC\'s Late...
Liz McCarthy, a communications executive from South Orange, New Jersey Season 34 player (2018-03-08). Liz\'s mother won about $50,000 on Tic-Tac-Dough...
Charley Tinkham, an eighth grade history and technology teacher from San Bruno, California "He teaches at a school that has been named a California...
Dominic Olivera, a twelve-year-old from Bristow, Virginia "Oh, good heavens! He wants to be a priest when he's...
Rahul Francis, a twelve-year-old from Flushing, New York "This electronic wizard's current plans are to run a technology company....
Sarah Walsh, a children’s librarian from Rockville, Maryland Season 34 player (2017-12-27). Sarah appeared on The Chase on 2021-01-21....
Dominic Clust, from Metairie, Louisiana "This future lawyer likes to argue and he's good at it....
Beth Dunn, a product demonstrator from Brooklyn, New York Season 32 player (2016-04-21). Beth's mother appeared on the original Jeopardy!...
Cyndi Pruss, a biochemist from Kingston, Ontario, Canada Season 31 player (2015-01-14). JBoard user name: cmp146 Husband's JBoard user...
Joli Millner, an eleven-year-old from Charlottesville, Virginia "No kidding, she wants to be a pediatrician when she grows...
Stephanie Radke, a senior from McLean, Virginia 2009 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. As an accommodation for a disability,...
Eric Terzuolo, a retired diplomat and university professor from Bergen, Noord-Holland, the Netherlands "When he first appeared in 1990, he was a foreign service...
Graham House, a musician from Lincoln, Nebraska Season 21 player (2004-10-14). KJL game 57. Alex riffed off of...
Rebecca Maxfield, a freshman from Brown University 2010-A College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. Hometown: New Rochelle, New York. Rebecca...
Lisa Klink, a TV writer from Los Angeles, California 2009 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 24 5-time champion: $70,150...
Melinda Hautala, an arts administrator from Lexington, Kentucky Season 25 player (2009-01-26). Last name pronounced like "HOW-tah-lah". (In her...
Bobby Bretz, an 11-year-old from Bristol, Rhode Island "It's either archaeology or pro baseball for this sports-loving scientist. From...
Suzie Lisky, a 12-year-old from Mendham, New Jersey "She's not sure what she wants to be when she grows...
Keith Williams, a sophomore at Middlebury College from Middlebury, Vermont "As a freshman from Middlebury College, he won the 2003 College...
Paul Boymel, a civil rights attorney from Potomac, Maryland "He was the top winner of the 1984-85 season. Now he's...
Regina Merrill, from Lincoln, Nebraska "She's very good at writing stories and poetry, but her love...
Elaine Zollner, a physician from Glendale, California "A winner of 5 shows in 1990, she used her Jeopardy!...
Jack Ford, a news anchor from Weekend Today 1998 Celebrity Invitational player: $10,000 for the Women's Center of Monmouth...
Bev Schwartzberg, an adult literacy program coordinator from Santa Barbara, California "She finished second in the 1993 Tournament of Champions. Today, she's...
Vinita Kailasanath, a consultant from San Mateo, California "She represented Stanford University when she won the 2001 College Tourney....
Jeff Richmond, an attorney from Los Angeles, California "He used his 1988 5-game winnings to pay for law school....
Brandon Blackwell, a sophomore from Holliswood, New York 2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2008-B Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist:...
Brandey Chandler, an improv actor and library worker from Lee's Summit, Missouri Season 34 player (2018-01-30).
Sharron Jenkins, an online E.S.L. teacher from Missouri City, Texas Season 34 player (2018-06-06).
Remy Timbrook, a children’s librarian from Oakland, California Season 34 player (2017-12-20). JBoard user name: AcaPulco
LaKedra Pam, a physician from Baton Rouge, Louisiana Season 34 2-time champion: $32,800 + $2,000. First name pronounced like...
Vicky Smith, a children's book review editor from South Portland, Maine Season 33 player (2017-07-14).
Shannan Younger, a writer from Naperville, Illinois Season 34 player (2018-03-29). Shannan's write-up of her Jeopardy! experience.
Kathleen Kosman, an attorney from Dearborn, Michigan Season 34 1-time champion: $20,400 + $2,000. Kathleen played sitting in...
Stew Latwin, a Navy pilot originally from Rye, New York Season 32 2-time champion: $42,601 + $2,000. Stew appeared on the...
Erik Latshaw, a cellar hand from Los Angeles, California Season 32 player (2015-10-08). Eric made a "0" with the fingers...
Dee Dee Myers, a journalist from Vanity Fair "The first woman ever to hold the post of White House...
Dan Royles, a senior from Chula Vista, California 2002 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. Dan was 17 at the time...
Stephanie Engel, a children's book managing editor from Douglassville, Pennsylvania Season 31 1-time champion: $21,199 + $1,000.
Joshua Wennrich, a U.S. Air Force munitions officer originally from Canton, New York Season 32 player (2016-03-22). Joshua appeared on the show in uniform.
Jeff Crosby, a youth ministry consultant from Rochester, New York Season 32 2-time champion: $30,201 + $2,000. JBoard user name: koozbane...
John Schultz, a computer programmer from Ann Arbor, Michigan 2015 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 31 5-time champion:...
India Cooper, an actor and copy editor from New York, New York "She became a 5-time champion in 1991. An actor and copy...
Chacko George, a senior at the University of Texas at Austin from Austin, Texas "He won the November 1999 Teen Tournament. Now he's a senior...
John Beck, a creative director from Torrance, California "He played in 2003, and was the last retired 5-time champ...
Janet Wong, a development officer for a museum from Hoboken, New Jersey "As a senior at Drew University, she won the February 2000...
David Traini, a high school administrator from Moorestown, New Jersey "This 5-time champ finished second in the 1987 Tournament of Champions....
Jack Barry, a chief financial officer from Raleigh, North Carolina Season 30 player (2014-06-09). Not related to the late host of...
Shoshana Gordon Ginsburg, a children's librarian from Washington, D.C. Season 32 player (2015-12-21). Wife of Season 32 1-time champion Tim Mercure.
Parker Norton, a 12-year-old from Knoxville, Tennessee "As a doctor treating infectious diseases, he hopes to heal others....
Michelle Schrier, an 11-year-old from Potomac, Maryland "She plans on being a news reporter while waiting for her...
Diana North, a first grade teacher from Rock Hill, South Carolina "She recently celebrated her silver anniversary of teaching. From Rock Hill,...
Allyson Lieberman, a 12-year-old from Whitmore Lake, Michigan "Since she was little, she has truly loved to act. Broadway,...
Grace Thomas, an 11-year-old sixth grader from Raleigh, North Carolina "This captain of the Brain-Bowl team can name all the countries...
Vicky Manos, a sophomore at St. John’s University from Levittown, New York 2004 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000.
Tina Baybay-Bykov, an AP world history teacher from Orlando, Florida "Ballet used to keep her on her toes. Now it's her...
Andrew Grace, a 12-year-old from Apex, North Carolina "He wants to be a soccer player and an orthopedic surgeon,...
Raya Elias-Pushett, a junior from Aventura, Florida 2011 Teen Tournament 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $20,851. First name...
Ken Hinton, a teacher from Las Vegas, Nevada Season 22 player (2006-05-30). As an accommodation for a disability, Ken...
Caroline Evans, a twelve-year-old from Bethesda, Maryland "The sky's not the limit. She wants to be the first...
Andrea Salt, a twelve-year-old from Gilbert, Arizona "This animal lover plans on becoming a veterinarian. From Gilbert, Arizona,...
Steve Robin, a writer and producer from Miami, Florida "He finished second place in the 1991 Tournament of Champions. He's...
Dianne Lindsay, a publisher's representative from Baton Rouge, Louisiana Season 23 player (2007-05-30). Diane also appeared on the original Art...
Steve Snyder, a chemical and materials engineer from Tiffin, Ohio Season 23 player (2007-03-20). Steve won $3,200 on the Ohio Lottery's...
Max Levaren, a personal success coach from San Diego, California 2003 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 19 4-time champion:...
Sharon Rupe, a children's museum designer from St. Petersburg, Florida Season 22 player (2005-09-14).
Rick Kent, a paralegal from Los Angeles, California Season 24 3-time champion: $67,202 + $1,000. Rick won $5,000 on...
Kate Dzurilla, a 12-year-old from Syosset, New York "It's a slam dunk for this basketball lover and future WNBA...
Dennis Donohue, a general manager from Janesville, Wisconsin "He was administrative services officer from Arizona when he became a...
Sean Ryan, a cab driver from State College, Pennsylvania 2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
Tom Toce, an actuary from New York, New York Season 26 2-time champion: $39,200 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
Jove Graham, a biomedical engineer from Lewisburg, Pennsylvania Season 26 1-time champion: $34,401 + $1,000. Jove's second contestant interview...
Christine Valada, a photographer and attorney originally from Walton, New York 2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $68,703...
Robert Knecht Schmidt, a patent agent from Cleveland, Ohio Season 26 1-time champion: $12,799 + $1,000. Middle name pronounced like...
Stefan Goodreau, a video game tester and camp counselor from Los Angeles, California 2010 Tournament of Champions 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $50,000. Season...
Dave Belote, the base commander from Nellis Air Force Base, Las Vegas 2010 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 26 5-time champion:...
Mike Maheu, a high school teacher from San Diego, California Season 25 2-time champion: $46,242 + $1,000. Last name pronounced like...
Aaron Wicks, a planning and evaluation manager from Rochester, New York Season 26 1-time champion: $18,001 + 1,000. Aaron Wicks Rochester, NY...
Marty Scott, an assistant district attorney from Forney, Texas Season 26 3-time champion: $64,002 + $2,000. Marty won $250,000 on...
Kara Spak, a newspaper reporter from Chicago, Illinois 2011 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 27 5-time champion:...
Inta Antler, a retired computer programmer from Scarborough, Ontario, Canada Season 25 1-time champion: $12,700 + $2,000. Inta Antler - A...
Kevin Wilson, a communications specialist from Toronto, Ontario, Canada Season 26 3-time champion: $76,998 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
Dan Smith, a student from Chicago, Illinois Season 25 3-time champion: $69,200 + $1,000. Dan Smith - a...
Francois Dominic Laramée, a writer and TV personality from Verdun, Quebec, Canada Season 25 2-time champion: $46,300 + $1,000. Francois's name was printed...
Alison Stone Roberg, an administrative assistant from Kansas City, Missouri Season 26 3-time champion: $85,102 + $2,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
Liz Murphy, a foreign service officer originally from Scranton, Pennsylvania 2010 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 25 5-time champion: $121,302...
Andy Srinivasan, a high school science teacher from Garner, North Carolina 2010 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $69,600...
Becky Anderson, a retired software specialist originally from Morganton, North Carolina Season 25 1-time champion: $16,401 + $2,000. Becky Anderson - A...
Carolyn Young, a homemaker from Marietta, Georgia Season 25 1-time champion: $30,000 + $2,000. Mother of Season 32...
Tom Nissley, an online books editor from Seattle, Washington 2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2011 Tournament of Champions...
Matt DeTura, a recent law school graduate from Washington, D.C. Season 27 3-time champion: $61,601 + $2,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user name: MDT
Chris Rodrigues, a personal banking representative from New Bedford, Massachusetts Season 26 3-time champion: $41,498 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
Emily Heaney, a freelance costume designer from White Bear Lake, Minnesota Season 25 1-time champion: $2,200 + $1,000. Last name pronounced like...
Paul Wampler, a web programmer from Knoxville, Tennessee Season 27 4-time champion: $72,001 + $2,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user name: paul5562
Jean Cui, a student originally from Garden City, New York Season 25 2-time champion: $14,200 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
Dan Jensen, a restaurant manager from Reston, Virginia Season 27 3-time champion: $58,203 + $1,000.
Jennifer Broders, a junior high school social studies teacher from Stockton, Iowa Season 26 2-time champion: $59,801 + $1,000. Jennifer Broders - a...
Carl Brandt, an investor originally from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 2009 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 25 4-time champion: $70,799...
Alyssa McRae, a gift card production designer from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Season 25 3-time champion: $50,402 + $2,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
Jen McFann, a Peace Corps recruiter from Astoria, New York Season 26 1-time champion: $19,410 + $2,000. Jen McFann Astoria, New...
Kori Tyler, a high school teacher from Cordova, Tennessee Season 26 player (2010-02-26). Season 25 1-time champion: $20,000 + $2,000....
Gary Bechtold, a garage door company owner from St. Cloud, Minnesota Season 26 3-time champion: $42,001 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
Enrique Machado, an oil filtration business developer from Orlando, Florida Season 26 1-time champion: $30,799 + $2,000. Enrique Machado September 16,...
Gail Flemmons, a history teacher from Clinton, Mississippi Season 25 2-time champion: $46,399 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
Kimberly Jantz, an attorney from Tulsa, Oklahoma Season 26 1-time champion: $22,200 + $2,000. Kimberly Jantz - an...
Mark Dawson, a business manager from Chamblee, Georgia "In 2003, he became the first to win a quarter of...
Jim Davis, a college music and humanities instructor from Freeport, Illinois Season 25 2-time champion: $62,802 + $2,000. Not be to confused...
Sanders Kleinfeld, a publishing technology specialist from Cambridge, Massachusetts Season 25 1-time champion: $26,597 + $2,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
Ingrid Nelson, a judicial assistant from Lake Mills, Wisconsin Season 25 2-time champion: $27,802 + $2,000. Ingrid Nelson - A...
Vijay Balse, a chemical engineer from Chatham, New Jersey 2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2010 Tournament of Champions...
Elizabeth Galoozis, a reference librarian from Cambridge, Massachusetts Season 26 2-time champion: $38,801 + $2,000. Elizabeth Galoozis - A...
Anthony Fox, an account executive from Arlington Heights, Illinois Season 27 4-time champion: $51,998 + $1,000. Playing as "Tony", Anthony...
Josh Powell, a phone-based health coach from San Diego, California Season 27 3-time champion: $26,900 + $1,000.
Stephen Weingarten, a paraeducator from Portland, Oregon 2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $96,690...
Andrew Watkins, a junior from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 2006 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user name: everyday847
Patrick Quinn, a high school German teacher from Chesterfield, Missouri "He teaches at a school whose history goes back to a...
Brian Muth, a headmaster from Napa, California Season 25 2-time champion: $43,800 + $1,000. Last name pronounced like...
David Walter, a senior from Wilmington, Delaware 2007 Teen Tournament winner (semifinalist by wildcard): $75,000. 17 at the...
Rachel Pildis, a software developer from Oak Park, Illinois Season 26 1-time champion: $12,000 + $2,000. Rachel Pildis - A...
Peter Severson, a senior from Sioux Falls, South Dakota 2005 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time of the...
Amanda Walker, a junior at Gonzaga University from East Wenatchee, Washington 2005 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user name:...
Zack Terrill, a senior at Vanderbilt University from Winter Springs, Florida 2012 College Championship 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $25,000. 21 at...
Jesse Cuevas, a corporate lawyer originally from Leawood, Kansas Season 27 3-time champion: $65,981 + $2,000. Brother of Season 30...
Laura Hughes, a mom from New Market, Maryland Season 26 1-time champion: $27,500 + $2,000. Wife of Season 16...
Paul Kursky, a copywriter from San Francisco, California 2011 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 5-time champion: $109,411...
Lindsay Eanet, a senior from the University of Missouri 2010-A College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. Hometown: Deerfield, Illinois. Last name pronounced...
Rebecca Dixon, a graduate student and musician from Vancouver, Washington Season 26 2-time champion: $53,002 + $1,000. Rebecca and her partner...
Marissa Goldsmith, a web developer from Springfield, Virginia Season 27 3-time champion: $44,100 + $2,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user name: marteena
Diane Wilshere, an actor and playwright from Manassas, Virginia Season 25 1-time champion: $18,801 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
Matt Jacobs, a science teacher originally from Stratford, Connecticut Season 25 1-time champion: $10,323 + $1,000. Matt resided in Silver...
Kristiana Henderson, a junior from Kent, Washington 2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games quarterfinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time...
Buddy Wright, an operations engineer from Fort Worth, Texas 2011 Tournament of Champions 2nd runner-up: $50,000. Season 26 4-time champion:...
Catherine Briley, a senior from Grand Prairie, Louisiana 2012 Teen Tournament 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $31,000. 17 at...
Vito Cortese, a software engineer and Italian translator from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Season 27 3-time champion: $68,485 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
Andy Davis, a Chyron operator from South Boston, Massachusetts Season 25 2-time champion: $49,799 + $1,000. Andy Davis - A...
Stefan Goodreau, a video game tester from Los Angeles, California 2010 Tournament of Champions 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $50,000. Season...
Dave Belote, a recently retired base commander from Woodbridge, Virginia 2010 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 26 5-time champion:...
David Skaar, a research scientist from Raleigh, North Carolina Season 25 3-time champion: $102,000 + $2,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
Jason Richards, a pharmacy technician from Old Town, Maine 2006 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 22 4-time champion: $99,200 + $2,000.
John Krizel, a green community program coordinator from Beckley, West Virginia 2011 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $105,204...
Matt Drury, a government analyst from New York, New York Season 26 1-time champion: $18,799 + $2,000. Matthew Drury - A...
Sara Wilkinson, a country club concierge from Athens, Georgia Season 27 3-time champion: $72,701 + $2,000.
James Erwin, a writer from Des Moines, Iowa Season 25 2-time champion: $22,598 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
Yevgeny Shrago, a research assistant originally from Rochester, New York Season 26 1-time champion: $24,600 + $2,000. Name pronounced like "yev-GHEN-ee...
Mike Marmesh, a veterinarian from Miami, Florida Season 26 1-time champion: $4,700 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
Kerri Regan, a senior from Bethpage, New York 2005 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. 17 at the time of the...
Brad Brown, a theater teacher from Nashville, Tennessee "And he is a theater teacher at an international baccalaureate certified...
Brian Meacham, a film preservationist originally from Anchorage, Alaska 2011 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 27 4-time champion: $90,500...
Evan Sandman, a hotel front desk manager from Los Angeles, California Season 28 1-time champion $28,801 + $2,000.
Dmitry Spivak, a junior from Northwestern University "The 11-year-old wasn't really kidding when he said he wanted to...
Mike Nelson, a mechanical engineer from Geneva, Illinois Season 27 2-time champion: $20,800 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
Carl Bradshaw, a financial manager from St. Louis, Missouri Season 27 2-time champion: $17,899 + $2,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user name: Titmouse
Saad Hasan, a nanotechnology scientist from Nashville, Tennessee Season 26 1-time champion: $22,700 + $2,000. Saad Hasan Nashville, TN...
Joey Beachum, an Air Force intelligence officer from Conway, Arkansas 2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2008 College Championship winner: $100,000...
Christian Haines, a college student originally from Newport News, Virginia 2007 Tournament of champions semifinalist: $10,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
Jeff Spoeri, a university administrator from Boynton Beach, Florida 2007 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD...
Camille Bullock, a senior from New Orleans, Louisiana 2006 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user name: Camille88
Anurag Kashyap, a senior from Poway, California 2008-B Teen Tournament winner: $75,000. Anurag was also the winner of...
Elyse Mancuso, a junior from Omaha, Nebraska 2012 Teen Tournament winner: $79,600. 16 at the time of the...
Ben Schenkel, a junior from Allentown, Pennsylvania 2007 Teen Tournament 1st runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $42,800. 17 at...
Brittany Rogers, a sophomore at Saddleback College from Lake Forest, California 2001 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $5,000. Brittany was 18 at the...
Susan Haarman, a sophomore at Marquette University from Louisville, Kentucky 2001 College Championship quarterfinalist: $2,500. Susan was 19 at the time...
Cathy Lanctot, a law professor from Wilmington, Delaware 2007 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
Adam Pinson, a senior at the University of Alabama at Birmingham from Pinson, Alabama 2005 College Championship 1st runner-up: $50,000. Won $100,000 on Who Wants...
Mitchell Vogel, from Madison, Wisconsin "This future governor of Wisconsin enjoys rollerblading, reading, and playing saxophone....
Stacy Braverman, a public interest lawyer from Washington, D.C. Season 26 1-time champion: $14,984 + $2,000. As detailed in a...
Janet Bradlow, an insurance agent from New York, New York Season 26 3-time champion: $58,000 + $2,000. Janet Bradlow New York,...
Don Meals, an environmental scientist from Burlington, Vermont Season 27 3-time champion: $42,599 + $2,000.
Fred Cofone, a copy editor from Old Greenwich, Connecticut Season 27 2-time champion: $24,400 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like "kuh-FONE".
Amanda Sonmor, a virtual assistant originally from Denver, Colorado Season 27 2-time champion: $21,501 + $1,000.
Jenifer Thomas, a teacher assistant from Jacksonville, North Carolina Season 26 1-time champion: $13,400 + $2,000. Jenifer Thomas October 5,...
Craig Westphal, a paramedic from Tucson, Arizona 2007 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
Jim Stevens, a high school math teacher from Fairview Park, Ohio 2009 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 25 6-time champion: $140,600 + $2,000.
Michael Farabaugh, a high school chemistry teacher from Charlottesville, Virginia "This chemistry teacher has been making things fizz, smoke, and explode...
Travis Troyer, a software engineer from Hereford, Maryland 2003 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 19 5-time champion:...
Tommy Maranges, a junior from Fort Lauderdale, Florida 2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games quarterfinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time...
Christopher Short, a pub trivia editor from Crawfordsville, Indiana 2011 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 27 6-time champion: $94,752...
Tom Nissley, a writer from Seattle, Washington 2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2011 Tournament of Champions...
Tara Franey, a senior from Michigan State University 2008 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user name: tarafraney
Bob Harris, an author, comedian, and radio commentator from Los Angeles, California "A 5-time champion and a finalist in the Tournament of Champions,...
Jim Scott, an attorney from Arlington, Virginia "He was a legal assistant living near D.C. when he won...
Tom Toal, an orthopedic surgeon from Lake Oswego, Oregon Season 27 1-time champion: $12,200 + $1,000. Last name pronounced like...
Ruvani Fonseka, a junior from Grosse Pointe, Michigan 2005 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $5,000. 15 at the time of...
Nathaniel Barnes, a composer and bartender from Toronto, Ontario, Canada Season 25 3-time champion: $57,300 + $2,000. In his first game,...
Justin Sausville, a urologist from Baltimore, Maryland 2011 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 27/28 6-time champion:...
Catherine Whitten, a high school history teacher from Plano, Texas "This gifted teacher primarily teaches gifted students. From Plano, Texas, this...
Eliza Scruton, a junior from Louisville, Kentucky 2012 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000. 16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
Raynell Cooper, a senior from Rockville, Maryland 2011 Teen Tournament winner (semifinalist by wildcard): $75,000. 16 at the...
Bernard Holloway, a junior from Mitchellville, Maryland 2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2002 Teen...
Mark Dawson, a business manager from Chamblee, Georgia 2014 Battle of the Decades quarterfinalist: $10,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
Brad Selvig, a sophomore at Florida State from Jacksonville, Florida 2004 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Caitlin Cook, a sophomore from Arden, North Carolina 2005 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $5,000. 16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
Allan Long, a freshman from Tallahassee, Florida 2005 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. 14 at the time of the...
Whitney Prince, a sophomore from Maryville, Tennessee 2005 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. 15 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
Christopher Weis, a sophomore from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 2008-B Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. Last name pronounced like "WISE". Jeopardy!...
Elissa Hoffman, a high school biology and anatomy & physiology teacher from Appleton, Wisconsin "She is in her lucky 13th year of teaching. From Appleton,...
Tyler Benedict, a junior at Columbia University from Dayton, Ohio 2012 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 21 at the time of the College Championship.
Stephen Fritz, a sophomore from Lexington, Kentucky 2007 Teen Tournament 2nd runner-up: $25,460. 15 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
Mollie Haycock, a senior from Rocklin, California 2008-A Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
Kristin Briggs, a senior from Parkland, Florida 2007 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
Tony Nagatani, a junior at Ithaca College from Honolulu, Hawaii 2001 College Championship quarterfinalist: $2,500. Tony was 20 at the time...
Nico Martinez, a college junior from Bloomfield Hills, Michigan 2006 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2005 College Champion: $100,000 +...
Justin Bernbach, a lobbyist from Brooklyn, New York 2010 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 25 7-time champion: $155,001...
Stephen Weingarten, a stay-at-home dad from Portland, Oregon 2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $96,690...
Diane Trap, a librarian and graphics specialist from Athens, Georgia Season 25 1-time champion: $21,400 + $1,000. Diane Trap - a...
Danny Vopava, a sophomore from the University of Wisconsin–River Falls 2010-A College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. Hometown: New Brighton, Minnesota. [No contestant...
Nick Swezey, a publisher from Washington, D.C. 2007 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
Ben Bishop, a student originally from Seattle, Washington 2009 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 25 4-time champion: $114,800...
Matt Kohlstedt, a grad student originally from La Grange, Illinois 2009 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 25 5-time champion: $77,803 + $2,000.
Andy Hutchins, a senior from Rockledge, Florida 2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games semifinalist: $10,000. 17 at the time...
Loren Loiacono, a senior from Setauket, New York 2006 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Amy Fletcher, a junior from Cincinnati, Ohio 2005 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. 16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
Chris Miller, a retail specialist from Louisville, Kentucky 2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Elite Eighteen (Round 2 winners) and...
Claire Winkler, from Fredericksburg, Virginia "This honor roll student participates on both the year-round and summer...
Ann Thurlow, an aspiring novelist and retired salesperson from Mendham, New Jersey Season 28 1-time champion: $26,805 + $1,000.
Naren Tallapragada, a junior from Burke, Virginia 2008-A Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000. 16 at the time of the...
Bill MacDonald, an attorney from Bonita Springs, Florida 2006 Tournament of Champions 2nd runner-up: $50,000. Season 22 4-time champion:...
Jason Zollinger, an engine assembler from South Dayton, New York 2010 Tournament of Champions 1st runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $100,000. Season...
Greg Peterson, a senior from Park Ridge, Illinois 2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games 1st runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $38,600....
Casey Retterer, a sophomore at the University of Maryland from Olney, Maryland 2004 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
Laura Ansley, a senior from Twinsburg, Ohio 2006 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Allison Peña, a junior from Sunrise, Florida 2006 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
Iddoshe Hirpa, a junior from Louisville, Kentucky 2006 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000.
Dan Crosby, a middle school history teacher from Santa Monica, California "He teaches at a school named for a renowned scholar, doctor,...
Mark Runsvold, a student and waiter from Moscow, Idaho 2011 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 27 4-time champion: $153,800 + $1,000. JBoard user name: markrunsvold
Joon Pahk, a college physics teacher from Somerville, Massachusetts 2011 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 28 7-time champion: $199,000 + $2,000. JBoard user name: jpahk
Jeff Haylon, a sophomore from Newtown, Connecticut 2012 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $10,000. 15 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
Jeffrey Gerlomes, a freshman from Napa, California 2007 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 14 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
Thomas Zamora, a junior at the University of Southern California from Cypress, California 2001 College Championship 2nd runner-up: $14,100. Thomas was 20 at the...
Robin Carroll, an instructional designer from Marietta, Georgia "Winner of both the 2000 Tournament of Champions and the 2001...
Paul Gutowski, an alcohol and drug counselor from Rockford, Illinois "He was the first 5-time winner in 1997. An alcohol and...
Ari Stern, a mathematician from San Diego, California Season 27 1-time champion: $17,201 + $1,000.
Regina Robbins, an arts teacher from New York, New York 2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $90,700...
Steve Unite, a writer from Studio City, California 2007 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
Sandra McClellan, a granny nanny from Arlington, Texas Season 27 1-time champion: $4,199 + $2,000.
Charlie Penrod, an assistant professor of law from Natchitoches, Louisiana Season 27 1-time champion: $17,000 + $2,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user name: CharlieP
Jason McCune, an actor originally from Jasper, Indiana 2003 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 18 4-time champion: $90,041.
Ben Tritle, an apartment manager from Los Angeles, California 2003 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 18 5-time champion: $78,600...
Sarah Bart, a senior at Goucher College from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 2012 College Championship 1st runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $50,000. 22 at...
Kevin Yang, a junior from Birmingham, Alabama 2012 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000. 16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
Brett Dvorak, a junior at Indiana University from Granger, Indiana 2001 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $5,000. Brett was 20 at the...
Doug Dorst, a writer and professor from Austin, Texas 2006 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 22 3-time champion: $66,802...
Emily Zhang, from Indianapolis, Indiana "A National Science Merit Award recipient, she plans on becoming a...
Seth Alcorn, a bookstore supervisor from Alexandria, Virginia 2004 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 19 3-time champion: $106,400 + $1,000.
Steve Gratz, a freelance artist from Washington, D.C. Season 27 2-time champion: $30,999 + $1,000.
Harris Cohen, a family physician from Lower Gwynedd, Pennsylvania Season 25 2-time champion: $17,800 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
Christine Carrino Gorowara, a teacher educator from Wilmington, Delaware Season 25 2-time champion: $43,202 + $1,000. Wife of Season 26...
Adam Bibler, an economist originally from Lancaster, Ohio Season 27 1-time champion: $12,000 + $2,000.
Will Schultz, a freshman from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 2007 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 19 at the time of the...
Hayley Clatterbuck, a junior from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln 2007 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 21 at the time of...
Eric Newhouse, a director of technical assistance from Sioux City, Iowa 2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
Jake Houser, a 12-year-old seventh grader from Aptos, California "And this straight-A student would like to become a geneticist so...
Doug Lach, a marketing manager from Columbus, Ohio "He was the biggest winner of the 1999-2000 season. A marketing...
Orlando Zambrano, a junior from Tampa, Florida 2005 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $5,000. 16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
Larissa Kelly, a grad student from El Cerrito, California 2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament 2019 All-Star Games member of winning Team...
Rose Schaefer, a junior from Portland, Oregon 2012 Teen Tournament 1st runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $36,000. 16 at...
Paul Nelson, a Senate staff aide originally from Iowa City, Iowa 2013 Tournament of champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 29 5-time champion: $54,900 + $2,000. JBoard user name: PaulNelson2012
Ellen Lewis, a retired high school math teacher from Mount Vernon, New York Season 28 1-time champion: $10,000 + $1,000.
Matt Olson, a sophomore at Stanford University from Berkeley, California 2012 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 20 at the time of the...
Quinn McDonald, an inventory control manager from Lowville, New York Season 27 1-time champion: $20,600 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user name: Mighty Q
Cliff Galiher, a sophomore from UCLA 2007 Tournament of Champions 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $50,000 +...
Mysti Kofford, a junior at Boston University from New Orleans, Louisiana 2001 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $5,000. Mysti was 19 at the...
Matt Schnippert, a sophomore at Florida State University from Jacksonville, Florida 2001 College Championship 1st runner-up: $19,801. Matt was 19 at the...
Chris Mazurek, an assistant professor from Columbia, Missouri 2007 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
Rachael Schwartz, a lawyer with an international law firm from Washington, D.C. "In 1994, she became the first woman ever to win the...
Gabe Orlet, a senior from Belleville, Illinois 2009 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
Tom Zamojcin, a digital marketing manager from Phoenixville, Pennsylvania Season 27 1-time champion: $22,800 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like "zam-MOH-chin".
Chris Pae, a high school history teacher from Suwanee, Georgia "He studied pre-med, then pre-law, but discovered his passion was teaching....
Craig Boge, a senior from Stanford University 2007 College Championship 1st runner-up: $50,000. 21 at the time of...
Lisa Ackerman, a senior from Livermore, California 2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 17 at the...
Amy Levine, a freshman from North Potomac, Maryland 2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games quarterfinalist: $5,000. 15 at the time...
Bob Verini, a director of academics for a national test preparation company from Los Angeles, California 2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
David Hoffelmeyer, a senior from St. Joseph, Missouri 2006 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000.
Dave Simpson, a pastor from Belcamp, Maryland 2009 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 24 4-time champion:...
Jessica Dell'Era, a third grade Spanish bilingual teacher from Oakland, California "She has wanted to be a teacher since she was 7...
Weston Mangin, a freshman at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo from Arroyo Grande, California 2012 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 19 at the time of the College Championship.
Rachel "Steve" Cooke, a senior from Fishers, Indiana 2008-A Teen Tournament 1st runner-up: $25,000. 17 at the time of...
Kweisi Mfume, a president from the NAACP 2004 Power Players Week player (2004-05-11). Name pronounced like "kwah-EE-see oom-FOO-may"....
Aaron Thompson, a special assistant from Washington, D.C. 2006 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 21 3-time champion:...
Lisa Dvorak, a grocery store chain administrative assistant from Millersville, Maryland Season 27 1-time champion: $31,201 + $2,000.
Aaron Schroeder, a grad student from San Diego, California 2009 Tournament of Champions second runner-up: $50,000. Season 24 5-time champion:...
Jacob Hambalek, a 12-year-old from Fresno, California "If he had to choose a career right now, he'd be...
Kyle Hale, a college student from Katy, Texas 2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 winner: $25,000. 2003 Tournament...
Larry Marshall, a junior at the University of Missouri from Kansas City, Missouri 2004 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Steve Golden, a junior from Brookeville, Maryland 2005 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $5,000. 16 at the time of the...
Matt Klein, a senior from Pittsford, New York 2006 Teen Tournament 2nd runner-up: $15,000. Won $1,000 on Who Wants...
Kathryn Wendling, a high school social studies teacher from Farmington, Minnesota "Her high school newspaper predicted she would be on Jeopardy! From...
Kate Rowland, a family doctor from Chicago, Illinois Season 27 1-time champion: $16,401 + $2,000.
Eliza Urban, a sophomore from Richmond, Virginia 2007 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 15 at the time of the...
Carl Brandt, an investor originally from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 2009 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 25 4-time champion: $70,799 + $2,000.
Anthony Valente, a senior from Staten Island, New York 2003 Teen Tournament second runner-up: $24,799. 17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
Stephanie Ehresman, a senior from Shirley, New York 2003 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
Donna Vogel, a scientist from Bethesda, Maryland 2009 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 24 4-time champion:...
Bob Kennedy, a college linguistics instructor from Santa Barbara, California Season 27 2-time champion: $33,800 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user name: Bobk
Folake Dosu, a senior from Stanford University from Bellwood, Illinois 2010-B College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
Sebastian Johnson, a senior from Takoma Park, Maryland 2006 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Listed as "Sebi" on the...
Jeff Love, a sophomore at Stanford University from Burlingame, California 2004 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. Jeff won $1,000 on Who Wants...
Papa Chakravarthy, a sophomore from Lexington, Kentucky 2006 Teen Tournament champion: $75,000.
Nikhil Desai, a junior from Fremont, California 2011 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000. 16 at the time of the...
Allison Dziuba, a junior from Ridgefield, Connecticut 2007 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time of the...
Jayanth Iyengar, a junior at Washington University in St. Louis from Madison, Wisconsin 2005 College Championship 2nd runner-up: $25,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user name: Jiyen1213
Hema Karunakaram, a senior from Saline, Michigan 2009 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000. Name pronounced like "HAY-ma kah-ROO-nuh-KAH-ram". Jeopardy!...
Sara Terrell, a veterinary technician from Windsor, Connecticut 2007 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
Lindsey Nicolai, a junior from Hampton, Virginia 2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games quarterfinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time...
Meredith Dedopoulos, a 12-year-old from Durham, New Hampshire "This spelling bee champion has also won many sports awards. From...
Vanamali Compton, a junior from Clarkdale, Arizona 2005 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. 16 at the time of the...
Lauren Romero, a senior from Denver, Colorado 2006 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. According to the official Jeopardy! web...
Jay Schrader, a junior from Lexington, Kentucky 2008-B Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000. Older brother of 2012 Teen Tournament...
Heidi Fogle, a senior from Overland Park, Kansas 2007 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000. 17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
Katie Gill, a sophomore from Jackson, Mississippi 2008-A Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000. 15 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
Louie C.K., a comedian, actor, director, writer, and producer from Louie and Horace and Pete "This multitalented actor, writer, producer, and director is also the star...
Patrick Tucker, a graduate student of public policy from St. Louis, Missouri 2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2009 College Championship winner: $100,000...
Andrea Michaels, a freelance writer from Los Angeles, California Season 4 player (1988-07-05): Gibson's Keytek professional keyboard + a Krayco...
John Matthews, a senior from Escondido, California 2003 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
Ariel Schneider, a biology student from West Lafayette, Indiana Season 27 2-time champion: $46,300 + $2,000.
Cary Williams, from Milton, Massachusetts "She won an award in math, and a letter of commendation...
Alex Jacob, a currency trader from Chicago, Illinois 2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2019 All-Star Games member of...
Emma Johnson, an eleven-year-old from St. Petersburg, Florida "She'll hit a high note in her future musical career as...
Bradley Silverman, a junior from Alpharetta, Georgia 2008-B Teen Tournament 1st runner-up: $44,600. Jeopardy! Message Board user name:...
Injee Hong, a 12-year-old from Metairie, Louisiana "If her dreams of becoming a lawyer don't come true, she...
Rob Schrader, a junior from Lexington, Kentucky 2012 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. Younger brother of 2008-B Teen Tournament...
Carlee Jensen, a senior from Santa Monica, California 2011 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Ben Greenho, a junior from Plano, Texas 2012 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000. 17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
Steven Ho, a junior from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 2011 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time of the...
Ken Jennings, a 74-game champion from Seattle, Washington "In 2004, his record-breaking 74-game win streak set a standard for...
Meredith Johnson, a senior from University of Minnesota 2008 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. Attended the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities...
Andrew Pau, an assistant professor from Amherst, Ohio 2017 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 32 6-time champion: $170,202...
Tom Jennings, a maintenance mechanic from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Season 27 1-time champion: $24,000 + $2,000.
Ellen Kimmel, a school nurse from Nanuet, New York Season 27 2-time champion: $37,000 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user name: SkoolRN
Judy Shewmake, a retired middle school history teacher from Murfreesboro, Tennessee Season 27 1-time champion: $20,801 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like "SHOO-make".
Robin Cheney, a middle school teacher from Rancho Santa Margarita, California "All the students at her school go on a camping trip...
Dianisbeth Acquie, from Brooklyn, New York "This ballet, jazz, and tap dancing Girl Scout would like to...
Pete Troyan, a senior from the University of Michigan 2007 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 22 at the time of the...
Regis Philbin, a TV host from Live with Regis and Kelly "In 2004 he entered the Guinness Book of Records as having...
Alice Luo, a junior from Georgia Institute of Technology 2007 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 20 at the time of...
Andrew Kreitz, a senior from Huntington Beach, California 2006 Teen Tournament 1st runner-up: $25,000.
Tom Baker, a writer from Tokyo, Japan 2004 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 20 3-time champion: $102,300 + $2,000.
Charles Temple, a high school English teacher from Ocracoke, North Carolina 2011 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2011 Teachers Tournament winner: $100,000. JBoard user name: lonesomeseagull
Keith Olbermann, a news anchor from MSNBC "In 2004, this veteran reporter will provide extensive coverage of the...
Will Casper, a senior from Basin City, Washington 2008-A Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 17 at the time of...
Aman Birk, from Irvine, California "He may not be the fastest swimmer on the team, but...
Katie James, a sophomore from Winchester, Virginia 2006 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Mandy Berry, an 11-year-old from Baltimore, Maryland "She wants to dedicate her life to helping animals by becoming...
Krishna Bharathala, a sophomore from Fremont, California 2012 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 15 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
Kate Wadman, a junior from Tucson, Arizona 2011 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user name: jeopartygirl
Watson, a deep question answering system from IBM 2011 IBM Challenge winner: $500,000 to World Vision + $500,000 to...
Allie Pape, a sophomore from Ponte Vedra, Florida 2002 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. Allie was 14 at the time...
Erin Bogart, a junior at Miami University of Ohio from Cincinnati, Ohio 2001 College Championship quarterfinalist: $2,500. Erin was 20 at the time...
David Rozenson, a lawyer from Newton, Massachusetts 2006 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 21 3-time champion: $76,000 + $1,000.
Sam Daub, an eleven-year-old from Eden Prairie, Minnesota "And he finds video games enticing and has made a fantasy...
Jelisa Castrodale, a sportswriter from Winston-Salem, North Carolina Season 27 1-time champion: $39,399 + $1,000. Name pronounced like "jell-EES-ah KASS-tro-dale".
Jeff Gorham, an accountant from Richmond, Virginia Season 27 1-time champion: $14,001 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user name: SpacemanSpiff
James Hill III, a freshman from Santa Clara University 2010-A College championship semifinalist: $10,000. Hometown: San Jose, California. [No contestant...
Deborah Fitzgerald, a retired government employee from McLean, Virginia 2009 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 24 4-time champion: $55,901 + $1,000.
Erik Nelson, a grad student originally from Boston, Massachusetts 2009 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 25 4-time champion: $94,404 + $2,000.
Laura Button, an editor and proofreader from Alpharetta, Georgia Season 27 1-time champion: $28,800 + $1,000.
Ben Noe, a sophomore from Flushing, Michigan 2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games quarterfinalist: $5,000. 16 at the time...
Tad Carithers, an attorney from Atlanta, Georgia 2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 winner: $41,300. 2001 Tournament...
Scott Renzoni, a bartender and actor from Burlington, Vermont 2004 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 20 4-time champion: $112,998 + $2,000.
Tom Cilla, from Kings Park, New York "He wants to join the Coast Guard or the Navy, but...
Kelley Burd, a junior at West Virginia University from Bristol, West Virginia 2004 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000.
Meg Walker, an eleven-year-old from Brandon, Mississippi "She wants to help people with disabilities have a better life...
Cliff Galiher, a student from Half Moon Bay, California 2007 Tournament of Champions 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $50,000 +...
Leatrice Potter, from Olney, Illinois "This published poet likes to read at any free moment and...
Mike Scott, an eleven-year-old from Lake Villa, Illinois "He really likes doing challenging projects in school, but hates doing...
Roger Mueller-Kim, a high school social studies teacher from Dublin, California Season 27 1-time champion: $17,401 + $1,000. Last name pronounced like "MULL-er KIM".
Andy Srinivasan, a high school science teacher from Clayton, North Carolina 2010 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $69,600...
Susan Bellenot, a senior from Lakeview Terrace, California 2003 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. 17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
George Tsuji, a software engineer from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Season 27 1-time champion: $20,000 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
Trevor Norris, a management analyst from Washington, D.C. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2003 Tournament...
Aiden Pink, a freshman from St. Louis Park, Minnesota 2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games semifinalist: $10,000. 15 at the time...
Rachel McCool, a sophomore at Dickinson College from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 2004 College Championship 2nd runner-up: $25,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user name: rachel_pi
Ben Chuchla, a senior from Calabasas, California 2008-B Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Last name pronounced like "HOO-kla"....
Caleb Olson, a senior from Chariton, Iowa 2012 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $10,000. 17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
Dave Ellis, a singer-songwriter from Los Angeles, California Season 27 1-time champion: $16,000 + $2,000. Not to be confused...
Lyn Thomas, a library assistant from Redmond, Washington Season 27 1-time champion: $13,100 + $1,000.
Mark Wales, a substitute teacher from Amherst, New York 2009 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 24 5-time champion: $141,804...
Kaitlin Welborn, a sophomore from the University of Pennsylvania 2007 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 20 at the time of the...
Steve Newman, a partner in a small computer company from Rockville, Maryland "He was the first player to win 5 games in the...
Sara Jansson, a 10-year-old from Monmouth Junction, New Jersey "She wants to become a singer because she loves music so...
Michael Braun, a junior from Silver Spring, Maryland 2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2005 Teen...
Robert Arshonsky, a senior from Cal Poly "As a 12-year-old, he wanted to be the first person on...
Maria Bennici, a junior from Walkersville, Maryland 2008-A Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
Emily Karrs, a junior from Gibsonia, Pennsylvania 2002 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $5,000. Emily was 16 at the time...
Colin Brown, a senior at the University of Rochester from Milwaukie, Oregon 2005 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Brady Newell, from Derwood, Maryland "She loves diving and gymnastics, but is headed toward being either...
Jimmy Li, a senior from Chesterfield, Missouri 2005 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time of...
Cora Peck, a high school teacher and grad student from Aliso Viejo, California 2009 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 24 5-time champion:...
Casey Clough, a junior from Columbia, South Carolina 2008-B Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. Last name pronounced like "CLUE".
Graham Doskoch, a twelve-year-old from Berkeley Heights, New Jersey "He wants to put his love of design and building to...
John Botti, a high school history and English teacher from Bethesda, Maryland "He says he keeps his spirit young by spending time with...
Alex Johnson, an 11-year-old from Indianapolis, Indiana "He wants to be a chemist in the future. From Indianapolis,...
Neha Embar, a 12-year-old from Alpharetta, Georgia "No kidding--she wants to be a pediatrician when she grows up....
Matt Rogers, a comedian from Long Island, New York \"A comedian from Long Island, New York, his podcast, Las Culturistas,...
Erin Hart, a junior from Benton Harbor, Michigan 2011 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000. 16 at the time of the...
Kailyn LaPorte, a sophomore from Decatur, Georgia 2011 Teen Tournament 1st runner-up: $42,600. 15 at the time of...
Hank Robinson, a senior from Lithia Springs, Georgia 2007 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000. 17 at the time of the...
Michael Steele, a political analyst and host from MSNBC and Steele & Ungar "He was elected lieutenant governor of Maryland in 2003, and later...
Andy Siegler, a senior from Cinnaminson, New Jersey 2001 Teen Tournament 1st runner-up: $15,000. 17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
George Nelson, a senior from Montgomery, Alabama 2002 Teen Tournament 1st runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $29,497. George was...
Nico Martinez, a junior at Stanford University from Bloomfield Hills, Michigan 2006 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2005 College Champion: $100,000 +...
Malisha Butts, a senior at North Carolina Central University from Durham, North Carolina 2005 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Lynne Wexler, a librarian from Evanston, Illinois "She was the first 5-time champion in 1991. A librarian from...
Mark Eckard, an entrepreneur from Bedford, Massachusetts "A 2001 5-time champion as a software designer, he has now...
Samantha Reback, a sophomore from Bethesda, Maryland 2009 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Nick Yozamp, a biology student from St. Cloud, Minnesota 2010 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 2010-A College Championship winner:...
Gitta Neufeld, a Judaic teacher trainer from Far Rockaway, New York Season 27 1-time champion: $18,300 + $2,000. Name pronounced like "GEE-ta...
Russell Berris, a junior from Baton Rouge, Louisiana 2003 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $5,000. 16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
Andrew Rostan, a writer and script reader originally from Boardman, Ohio 2007 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
Mark Brown, an administrative assistant and father from Peoria, Arizona 2003 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 19 5-time champion: $68,094...
Emily Sturtz, from Parsippany, New Jersey "Because she would like to help people, she wants to become...
Bonny Jain, a senior from Moline, Illinois 2009 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Scott McFadden, a librarian from Muncie, Indiana Season 34 3-time champion: $78,401 + $2,000.
Matt Jackson, a paralegal from Washington, D.C. 2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament 2019 All-Star Games member of 1st runner-up...
Rob Worman, an escalation manager from Edina, Minnesota 2019 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 34 6-time champion: $133,900...
Jordan Nussbaum, a lawyer from Thornhill, Ontario, Canada Season 34 1-time champion: $15,800 + $2,000.
Marty Cunningham, an accountant and voice artist from Arvada, Colorado Season 34 3-time champion: $65,900 + $2,000.
Jenny Rhodes, a university literature instructor from New York, New York Season 34 1-time champion: $11,899 + $1,000.
Jennifer Tomassi, a freelance writer from Los Angeles, California Season 34 1-time champion: $20,401 + $1,000.
David Kleinman, a student from Sharon, Massachusetts Season 34 1-time champion: $31,600 + $2,000.
Ian Booth, a trade specialist from Washington, D.C. Season 34 1-time champion: $23,201 + $1,000.
Henry Ayoola, a Ph.D. student from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Season 34 1-time champion: $14,800 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like "eye-OH-lah".
Virginia Cummings, a geriatrician from Randolph, Massachusetts Season 34 2-time champion: $51,200 + $2,000.
Denise Littlejohn, a project manager from West Hollywood, California Season 34 1-time champion: $21,601 + $2,000. Denise won $0 on...
Ben Raphel, a healthcare data analyst from Boston, Massachusetts Season 34 1-time champion: $25,201 + $1,000. Last name pronounced like...
Josh Hill, a network engineer from North Little Rock, Arkansas 2019 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 34 7-time champion: $163,721...
Alexandra Henkoff, a college admissions counselor from Houston, Texas Season 34 1-time champion: $17,300 + $1,000. Playing as "Alex", Alexandra...
Gavin Borchert, a writer and editor from Seattle, Washington Season 33 3-time champion: $50,200 + $2,000.
Lisa Kristina, a freelance musician from Chicago Heights, Illinois Season 34 2-time champion: $36,100 + $1,000.
Kristin Robbins, an attorney from Red Bank, New Jersey Season 34 2-time champion: $44,994 + $2,000.
Susan Corica, a journalist from Waterbury, Connecticut Season 33 1-time champion: $15,995 + $1,000.
Dave Mattingly, a director of technology from Old Forge, Pennsylvania Season 34 3-time champion: $77,400 + $2,000.
Emily Milan, a nanny from Birmingham, Michigan Season 34 3-time champion: $45,001 + $1,000.
Michelle Cabral, an elementary school music teacher from Toronto, Ontario, Canada Season 34 3-time champion: $46,693 + $2,000.
Mark Ashton, a software engineer from Elmhurst, Illinois Season 34 1-time champion: $29,100 + $2,000.
Kate Jay Zweifler, a Realtor and stay-at-home mom from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Season 35 player (2019-05-01). Daughter of Season 7 player Roz Jay....
Matt Lisiecki, an international development researcher from Brooklyn, New York Season 34 2-time champion: $34,551 + $1,000. Last name pronounced like "ly-SECK-ee".
Lauren Kiehna, a writer from Steeleville, Illinois Season 34 1-time champion: $31,601 + $1,000. Last name pronounced like "KEE-nah".
Sarah Marx, a junior from Chevy Chase, Maryland 2008-B Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user name:...
Leslie Decker, a high school German and ESL teacher from Austin, Texas "She taught English to Europeans. Now she teaches German to Americans....
Rob Russell, a tutoring and testing director from Johnson City, Tennessee Season 32 2-time champion: $43,600 + $1,000.
Lani Gonzalez, a managing director of an art bazaar from Austin, Texas Season 33 3-time champion: $50,600 + $2,000.
Zach Klitzman, a public historian from Washington, D.C. Season 32 1-time champion: $37,601 + $1,000. Son of Season 19 player Justine Lisser.
Idrees Kahloon, a junior from Lexington, Kentucky 2011 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000. 15 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
Harris Stutman, a medical informaticist from Huntington Beach, California Season 32 3-time champion: $63,500 + $2,000.
Susan Cole, a legislative librarian from Bowie, Maryland Season 33 3-time champion: $67,800 + $2,000.
Laura Ashby, an attorney from Marietta, Georgia Season 32 2-time champion: $36,802 + $1,000.
Nate Ross, a systems engineer from Los Angeles, California Season 33 1-time champion: $19,300 + $2,000.
Katie Walker, a biomedical science teacher from Chapel Hill, North Carolina Season 32 1-time champion: $5,000 + $2,000. Katie appeared on the...
Sean Anderson, a law professor from Champaign, Illinois Season 32 3-time champion: $71,600 + $1,000. Sean was the alternate...
Kerry Greene, a volunteer guardian ad litem from Manchester, New Hampshire 2015 Tournament of Champions 2nd runner-up: $50,000. Season 31 6-time champion:...
Seth Wilson, a Ph.D. candidate from Chicago, Illinois 2019 All-Star Games member of first-eliminated Team Julia: a share of...
Hunter Appler, an attorney originally from Mount Airy, North Carolina 2017 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 32 6-time champion: $145,603 + $2,000.
Siddharth Hariharan, a student from Herndon, Virginia Season 33 2-time champion: $28,135 + $2,000.
Naomi Hinchen, a senior from Brooklyn, New York 2007 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000. 17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
Michael Bilow, a Ph.D. student in computer science originally from Chicago, Illinois 2015 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 31 3-time champion: $96,000...
Josh Silverman, a graduate student from Miami, Florida Season 32 2-time champion: $34,800 + $2,000.
Kelly Bayles, a librarian from Tulsa, Oklahoma Season 32 3-time champion: $62,700 + $2,000.
Erin Delaney, an English professor from North Hills, California Season 32 2-time champion: $53,999 + $1,000.
Tucker Dunn, an ESL teacher from Tucson, Arizona Season 33 3-time champion: $39,999 + $1,000. In his first appearance,...
Kristin Sausville, a stay-at-home mom from Newark, Delaware 2015 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 31 5-time champion: $94,201...
Courtney Paulson, a graduate assistant from Los Angeles, California Season 32 1-time champion: $11,700 + $1,000. Upon returning for Season...
Natalie Lips, an office assistant from Lincoln, Nebraska Season 32 3-time champion: $57,601 + $1,000.
Anna Gohmann, a senior from Westlake Village, California 2002 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. Anna was 17 at the time...
Nicole Reimer, a junior from Columbus, Ohio 2001 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. 17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
Doug Behrend, a college professor from Fayetteville, Arkansas Season 32 1-time champion: $16,401 + $2,000.
Pranjal Vachaspati, a Ph.D. student originally from Shaker Heights, Ohio 2017 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 32 6-time champion:...
Buzzy Cohen, a music executive from Los Angeles, California 2019 All-Star Games captain of wildcard-match 3rd-place Team Buzzy: a share...
Steve Stoffle, a leadership trainer from Decatur, Georgia Season 32 1-time champion: $17,599 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
Jayce Newton, a senior at UCLA from Long Beach, California 2001 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $5,000. Jayce was 22 at the...
Gordon Moffat, an e-discovery professional from Nashville, Tennessee Season 32 1-time champion: $24,700 + $2,000.
Bob Mesko, an arts administrator from Denver, Colorado 2006 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 22 5-time champion:...
Natasha Gainey, an artist from Decatur, Georgia Season 32 1-time champion: $14,200 + $1,000.
David Bradley, an author from Atlanta, Georgia Season 32 2-time champion: $55,000 + $1,000.
Ricky Young, a tax accountant originally from Canyonville, Oregon Season 32 2-time champion: $40,000 + $2,000.
Tara Anderson, a public radio reporter from Louisville, Kentucky Season 31 1-time champion: $17,500 + $2,000. JBoard user name: taraeanderson
Andrew Vogl, from Yonkers, New York "He can ski the slopes with ease, but navigating his own...
Alison Jenik, a junior at the University of Maryland from New York, New York 2005 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
Dave Abbott, a musician and licensing executive from Fort Thomas, Kentucky "He won the 1999 Tournament of Champions. A musician and licensing...
Chris Becker, a bus driver and trainer from Orlando, Florida Season 32 3-time champion: $52,999 + $2,000. JBoard user name: cbec
Fred Vaughn, an Internet operations technician from Mineral Point, Wisconsin Season 32 4-time champion: $65,700 + $2,000.
Carol Denny, a writer for a non-profit environmental foundation from Arnold, Maryland Season 27 1-time champion: $13,199 + $1,000. Identical twin sister of Season 29 player Chris O'Toole.
Mike Drummond, an application scientist from Columbus, Ohio Season 32 1-time champion: $20,801 + $2,000. JBoard user name: Mike from Columbus
Adam Hoskins, an attorney from Columbia, Missouri Season 32 2-time champion: $42,402 + $1,000.
Shuyu Wang, a junior from Okemos, Michigan 2003 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $5,000. 16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
Dee Daigle, a substitute teacher from Hebron, Connecticut Season 32 1-time champion: $19,001 + $2,000.
Katie Price, a paraprofessional from Peabody, Massachusetts Season 32 1-time champion: $13,000 + $1,000.
Jon Rossiter, a college geography instructor from San Diego, California Season 32 1-time champion: $13,600 + $1,000.
Doug Hicton, a composer originally from Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada 2007 Tournament of Champions 1st runner-up: $100,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD...
Tommy Hoyt, from Winnetka, Illinois "Journalism may very well be in his future as he feels...
Jane Kaczmarek, an Emmy-nominated actress from Help Me Help You "As Lois on Malcolm in the Middle, she earned seven straight...
Curt Schilling, a pitcher from the Boston Red Sox "In helping the Red Sox to win the 2004 World Series,...
Chloé White, a senior from Mission Hills, Kansas 2005 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. 17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
Beth Cimini, a junior at Boston University from East Longmeadow, Massachusetts 2005 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user name: BrightStars1212
Frank Spangenberg, a police officer from New York City, New York "He was a New York City cop when he won five...
Josh Charnin-Aker, a twelve-year-old from Lighthouse Point, Florida "And, whether in neonatology or as a Navy SEAL, he plans...
Tara Karr, a senior from Laclede, Idaho 2003 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
Kenny Schlax, a junior from Deerfield, Illinois 2006 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. Listed as "Kenneth" on the official web site.
Jonathan Gillerman, a senior from Staten Island, New York 2003 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. 17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
Brittany McCants, a junior from Winnsboro, South Carolina 2003 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. 16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
Brian Stokes Mitchell, an actor from the Broadway musical Ragtime "His Broadway credits include Ragtime and Kiss Me, Kate, for which...
Joseph Graumann, a junior from Mays Landing, New Jersey 2006 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
Ken Jennings, the winner of 74 consecutive games from Seattle, Washington 2020 Jeopardy!: The Greatest of All Time winner: $1,000,000 + a...
Ken Jennings, a writer from Seattle, Washington • 74-game champion with longest winning streak • Total earnings over...
Vinita Kailasanath, a sophomore at Stanford University from Laurel, Maryland 2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
Ken Jennings, a writer from Seattle, Washington "He was a software engineer living in Salt Lake City, Utah,...
Marques Redd, a sophomore at Harvard University from Macon, Georgia 2001 College Championship semifinalist: $5,000. Marques was 18 at the time...
Røb Severson, a custodial facilitator from St. Louis, Missouri Season 26 player (2009-11-17). Name pronounced like "ROB SEE-ver-sun". Røb wore...
Arthur Gandolfi, a commercial real estate executive from Pleasantville, New York 2004 Tournament of Champions 2nd runner-up: $25,000. Season 20 4-time champion:...
Ken Jennings, a software engineer from Salt Lake City, Utah 2020 Jeopardy!: The Greatest of All Time winner: $1,000,000 + a...
Ken Jennings, a software engineer from Salt Lake City, Utah 2020 Jeopardy!: The Greatest of All Time winner: $1,000,000 + a...
Joanna Rom, a docent from Washington, D.C. Season 35 player (2018-10-22). Joanna appeared on the original version of...
Bryce Johnson, a wine cellar rat from Corvallis, Oregon Season 30 player (2013-11-29). Johnny Gilbert chuckled when reading Bryce's occupation....
Caitlin Millat, a kindergarten teacher from Brooklyn, New York "She receives support from Teach for America and works for Achievement...
Clare Dellemann, a credit manager from Huntington Beach, California Season 4 player (1987-09-28). Season 1 player (1984-09-21). Clare was returned...
Clare Dellemann, a credit manager from Huntington Beach, California Season 4 player (1987-09-28). Season 1 player (1984-09-21). Clare was returned...
Elliot Shteir, an attorney from Somerville, New Jersey 1995-A Seniors Tournament 1st runner-up: $10,000. Dr. Elliot Shteir won $8,230...
Lindsey Thiesfeld, a sophomore from Clarendon Hills, Illinois 2011 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
Bill Maher, a comedian and author from Politically Incorrect "A comedian and author, he hosts the lively discussion group called...
Lara Logan, a correspondent from 60 Minutes on CBS "Her bold, award-winning reporting has earned her a prominent spot among...
Tom Morris, a retailer and student from Irvine, California 2009 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 24 4-time champion: $100,801...
Andy Kravis, a freshman from Farmington Hills, Michigan 2002 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $5,000. Andy was 13 at the...
Heidi Greimann, a junior from Columbia, Missouri 2002 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $5,000. Heidi was 15 at the...
Paige Feldman, a sophomore from St. Louis, Missouri 2001 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. 16 at the time of the...
Kevin Keach, an operations manager from St. Ann, Missouri 2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2001 Tournament...
Sara Goodman, a graduate student originally from Huntington Woods, Michigan Season 31 player (2014-10-01). Daughter of Season 24 player Allen Goodman....
Pat Pauken, an attorney and educator from Columbus, Ohio Season 14 1-time champion: $7,200. Season 13 player (1997-01-21). Pat appeared...
Pat Pauken, an attorney and doctoral candidate from Columbus, Ohio Season 14 1-time champion: $7,200. Season 13 player (1997-01-21). Pat appeared...
Bill Dickenson, a college instructor from Richardson, Texas "This 5-time champ from 1996 has taught students from over 100...
Surabhi Iyer, a ten-year-old from Franklin, Massachusetts "Her research scientist dad has inspired her to become a neuroscientist....
Amy Fine, a part-time teacher from Bethesda, Maryland "She was the last 5-time winner in the 1993-94 season. A...
Mike Hodel, a bartender from Bellingham, Washington Season 27 2-time champion: $20,200 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like "ho-DELL".
Holly Flynn, an 11-year-old from Holmes, Pennsylvania "She started performing in community theatre when she was just 4...
Erica Greil, a junior from Princeton University 2009 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 22 and from Hastings, Minnesota at...
Eureka Nutt, a paralegal from Canoga Park, California Season 27 2-time champion: $38,701 + $1,000.
Ashley Walker, a senior from Dartmouth College 2010-A College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. Hometown: Fort Pierce, Florida. [No contestant...
Priscilla Ball, a government contractor from Montgomery Village, Maryland Season 25 2-time champion: $45,200 + $2,000. Priscilla was due to...
Daniel Stauss, a federal claims examiner from Seattle, Washington Season 25 1-time champion: $25,500 + $2,000. Daniel Stauss - A...
Dean Malec, a junior from Northwestern University 2007 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 21 at the time of the...
Eileen Loechel, an operations manager from River Forest, Illinois Season 23 1-time champion: $19,800 + $2,000.
Brian Weikle, a project manager from Minneapolis, Minnesota 2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
JT Nuckolls, a customer service representative from Red Oak, Iowa Season 24 player (2007-09-18).
David Siegel, a paralegal from Los Angeles, California "He was a finalist in the 1995 Tournament of Champions. A...
Scottie Szewczyk, from Belleville, Illinois "He enjoys science and sports, and would like to work as...
Bob Woodward, an assistant managing editor from The Washington Post 2004 Power Players Week player (2004-05-10). Charity: Sidwell Friends School.
Anderson Cooper, a host from AC360° "He covers major news stories from around the world and plays...
Andrew Nerlinger, a senior at the University of Notre Dame from Wilmington, Delaware 2001 College Championship quarterfinalist: $2,500. Andrew was 21 at the time...
Blake Hernandez, a senior from Burke, Virginia 2002 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. Blake was 16 at the time...
Anna Allie, a junior at the University of Michigan at Dearborn from Dearborn, Michigan 2005 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Dylan Smith, from the Bronx, New York "This honor roll student wants to invent a teleporting system. From...
Silvio Menzano, a psychologist and university counseling center director from Washington, D.C. Season 27 1-time champion: $10,300 + $1,000.
Sally O'Rourke, a freelance copywriter originally from Baton Rouge, Louisiana Season 27 1-time champion: $33,601 + $1,000.
Liz Maziarz, an English professor and mom from Seattle, Washington Season 27 1-time champion: $18,400 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like "MAY-zee-ar".
Adam Bock, a 13-year-old from St. Louis, Missouri "We're pretty sure that he's the only one of our contestants...
David Madden, an academic competition director from Ridgewood, New Jersey • 19-game champion • 3rd longest winning streak 2019 All-Star Games...
Grace Acton, from Harvard, Massachusetts "This competitive gymnast is hoping to score a perfect 10 for...
David Shapiro, an insurance adjuster originally from Chicago, Illinois Season 4 player (1987-09-22): Hotpoint refrigerator + Jeopardy! box game or...
David Madden, a student originally from Ridgewood, New Jersey 2019 All-Star Games member of winning Team Brad: a share of...
Mark McDonnell, a triathlon coach and entrepreneur from Miami, Florida Season 27 1-time champion: $27,601 + $1,000.
Christine Valada, a photographer and attorney originally from Walton, New York 2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $68,703...
Greg Gumbel, a sportscaster from NBC Sports "He covers baseball, basketball and football for NBC; he hosted the...
Joel Serna, originally from Fort Worth, Texas \"His 1999 appearance on Kids Week earned him an invitation to...
Mario Cantone, an actor and comedian from Sex and the City \"He played Anthony Marentino, the wedding planner with an attitude, on...
Butch Malec, a freshman at Reed College from Edinboro, Pennsylvania 1999 College Championship quarterfinalist: $2,500. In Butch's game, the entire Double...
Lindsey Bartlett, a junior from Winter Haven, Florida 2002 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $5,000. Lindsey was 16 at the time...
Frank Spangenberg, a transit cop from Douglaston, New York 2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
Frank Spangenberg, a police officer from Flushing, New York 2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
Frank Spangenberg, a police officer from Flushing, New York "A police officer from Flushing, New York, Frank Spangenberg, who has...
Frank Spangenberg, a police officer from Flushing, New York 2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
Burns Cameron, a realtor from Standish, Maine 1990 Super Jeopardy! quarterfinalist: $5,000. Burns appeared on the original version...
Patton Oswalt, a Grammy- and Emmy-award-winning comedian from Portsmouth, Virginia \"A Grammy- and Emmy-award-winning comedian from Portsmouth, Virginia, he rose to...
Whitney Collins, a third grade teacher from New York, New York "She teaches at an all-boys school where every student learns chess...
Tony Harkin, an eleven-year-old from New Milford, Connecticut "Dig this--he wants to be an archaeologist when he grows up....
Reggie Watts, a comedian from Great Falls, Montana "A comedian from Great Falls, Montana, since 2015, he's worked alongside...
Sarah Bauer, a junior at Indiana University from Carmel, Indiana 2012 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 21 at the time of the...
Julia Martinez, an 11-year-old from Fairfax, Virginia "Get ready, Pennsylvania Avenue. She wants to be president of the...
Logan Bell, a senior from Rock Falls, Illinois 2001 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $5,000. 15 at the time of the...
Ryan Ballengee, a senior from Pasadena, Maryland 2001 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
Paul McCrane, an actor from ER [As Paul is introduced, a clip of ER plays, with Dr....
Vik Vaz, a medical student from Austin, Texas 2006 Tournament of Champions 1st runner-up: $100,000. Season 22 3-time champion:...
Ted Senator, a computer scientist from Bethesda, Maryland Season 13 1-time champion: $8,199. Ted's October 2009 losing turn against...
Eddie Timanus, a sportswriter from Oak Hill, Virginia "He was a sportswriter living in Reston, Virginia, when he won...
Leslie Frates, a Spanish teacher from Hayward, California "A Jeopardy! tournament veteran, her best-known Jeopardy! appearance may be in...
Sarah Nothnagel, a sophomore from the University of Southern California 2007 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 19 at the time of the...
Dana Venator, a Ph.D. candidate from Chicago, Illinois "She was a beginning bagpipe player and Teen Tournament finalist; now,...
Aki Terasaki, an 11-year-old from Newark, Delaware "This future millionaire would like to be a professional writer and...
Dan Ford, an editor from Arlington, Virginia Season 21 player (2004-11-24). KJL game 71. Dan resides in Tysons...
Andrew Zazzera, a twelve-year-old from Virginia Beach, Virginia "He has a sunny future as a meteorologist. From Virginia Beach,...
Karan Takhar, a senior from North Attleborough, Massachusetts 2008-B Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000. First name pronounced like "KUR-run". Jeopardy...
Caroline Bartman, a senior from Washington, D.C. 2007 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000. 17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
Nick Philip, a junior from Plainfield, Indiana 2008-A Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
Ben Goldman, a sophomore at New York University from Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania 2005 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Son of Season 17 1-time champion Marjorie Goldman.
Joel Knight, a freshman from Farmington, Michigan 2003 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. 14 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
John Zhang, a junior from Lexington, Kentucky 2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2003 Teen...
Savannah Morgan, a 12-year-old from Charlotte, North Carolina "Her future recipe for success is as the star of her...
Thomas McIntyre, a 12-year-old from Marino Valley, California "This self-proclaimed Star Wars freak, who has earned star rank in...
Anne Shivers, a senior from Peotone, Illinois 2005 Teen Tournament 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $18,000. 17 at...
Josh Klein, a 12-year-old seventh grader from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania "And, his favorite subjects in school are math, social studies, and...
Andy Richter, a comedian from Yorkville, Illinois \"A comedian from Yorkville, Illinois, he was Conan O\'Brien\'s sidekick on...
Richard Cordray, a judicial clerk from Grove City, Ohio 2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000 (prize declined as a...
Richard Cordray, the head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau from Grove City, Ohio and Washington, D.C. \"He had just graduated from law school and was clerking for...
Richard Cordray, a judicial clerk from Grove City, Ohio 2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000 (prize declined as a...
David Rosen, a lawyer from Syosset, New York Season 34 player (2018-01-16). JBoard user name: DavidRosen
Saralee Etter, a writer from Pataskala, Ohio Season 34 1-time champion: $8,000 + $2,000.
David Garcia, an IT communications strategy team lead from Troy, Michigan Season 38 player (2021-10-06). David appeared on Who Wants to Be...
Michael Rankins, a minister and writer from Rohnert Park, California \"A 5-show winner from 1988, he has been a minister with...
Fred Ketteman, a purser from San Francisco, California Season 7 1-time champion: $22,500 + Lalura pure parfum in Baccarat...
Jamey Wiglesworth, a DJ and bar trivia host from Versailles, Kentucky Season 29 player (2013-04-16).
Audrey Hosford, a junior from Annapolis, Maryland 2008-B Teen Tournament 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $26,400. Jeopardy! Message...



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