| #9376, aired 2025-07-14 | DOUGH $200: $1 U.S. will get you about 500 in the currency of Costa Rica that bears an explorer's name--not the Cristóbal but this colón |
| #9376, aired 2025-07-14 | "M"EDICAL $200: Epidemic parotitis isn't parrot fever, it's this disease that causes swelling of the neck, usually in childhood mumps |
| #9376, aired 2025-07-14 | THE PREVIOUS WORLD LEADER $200: Before Raúl Castro, this guy 5 years older than Raúl Fidel Castro |
| #9376, aired 2025-07-14 | IN THE WORLD'S FAIR HOST CITY $2000: We'll be seeing you at Science World, a landmark museum in this city that both celebrated its centennial & hosted the fair in 1986 Vancouver |
| #9375, aired 2025-07-11 | WHERE NOT ON EARTH...?! $400: Here's the Little Dumbbell Nebula, courtesy of this telescope that started out a little fuzzy but came into focus in 1993 the Hubble Space Telescope |
| #9375, aired 2025-07-11 | WHERE NOT ON EARTH...?! $800: Mintaka is one of the three supergiant stars that make up this celestial fashion accessory Orion's Belt |
| #9375, aired 2025-07-11 | SORORITY NOW! $1,500 (Daily Double): Sen. Blanche Lincoln & Nancy Walton Laurie, a daughter of Walmart's co-founder, were Chi Omegas at this state school the University of Arkansas |
| #9375, aired 2025-07-11 | MYTHELLANEOUS FEMALES $3,200 (Daily Double): Stheno & Euryale are her equally monstrous sisters, though she is the only one who is mortal Medusa |
| #9374, aired 2025-07-10 | 3 "E" $600: Tennessee Williams knew that it's a place where wild animals are kept for exhibition menagerie |
| #9374, aired 2025-07-10 | U.S. ARMY CADENCES $800: Your kid tells you what to get her / at this base store that's 2 letters the PX |
| #9374, aired 2025-07-10 | IT'S A DISASTER $800: In 2023 high winds & dry conditions fueled the wildfires that devastated Maui & destroyed this town, the former royal capital Lahaina |
| #9373, aired 2025-07-09 | SPORTY STUFF $400: This San Diego Padre amassed crazy hitting stats like a career .302 with 2 strikes & .415 facing Hall of Famer Greg Maddux Tony Gwynn |
| #9373, aired 2025-07-09 | "STRAIGHT" TALK $800: As 2 words, it's a punk subculture that eschews booze & drugs; as one word, it's a drawing tool straight edge |
| #9373, aired 2025-07-09 | WE ARE LITERARY FAMILY $1000: John Galsworthy's "Saga" about this family is soon to get no less than its third glossy BBC/PBS adaptation Forsyte |
| #9373, aired 2025-07-09 | HOW NOW, DOW JONES 30 SYMBOL $1000: HON is this company that's into aerospace & also industrial automation, which doesn't sound like a scary pairing at all Honeywell |
| #9373, aired 2025-07-09 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1000: In 1865 Mary Surratt was executed by the U.S. government; in 1953, she became the next woman to suffer that fate (Ethel) Rosenberg |
| #9373, aired 2025-07-09 | TAKE A LONG WALK $1200: This "Wild" author has said that much of the journal she kept while hiking the Pacific Coast Trail was "about how much my feet hurt" Cheryl Strayed |
| #9373, aired 2025-07-09 | OFF A NOT-SO-SHORT PIER $2000: Denmark's Kastrup Pier, aka "The Snail" ends in a circular swimming area that juts into this strait; that's Sweden over yonder the Øresund |
| #9372, aired 2025-07-08 | THAT'S HONORIFIC! $200: It's the real honorific for non-real characters like Moriarty,
Langdon &
X Professor |
| #9372, aired 2025-07-08 | THAT'S HONORIFIC! $400: In Canada, his or her worship is for people with this government job, like Scott Gillingham of Winnipeg & Surrey, B.C.'s Brenda Locke a mayor |
| #9372, aired 2025-07-08 | THAT'S HONORIFIC! $600: From 2018 to 2025 Sony employees got updates from CEO Kenichiro Yoshida, often containing this gender-neutral Japanese honorific san |
| #9372, aired 2025-07-08 | THAT'S HONORIFIC! $800: A 12th century Muslim Arab word from "commander" became this now-naval honorific Admiral |
| #9372, aired 2025-07-08 | THAT'S HONORIFIC! $1000: Historically an honorific for English gentry ranked between a gentleman & a knight, it now denotes a lawyer Esquire |
| #9371, aired 2025-07-07 | "WATER"-Y RESPONSES $200: Meaning "forget about it", it's what you might tell an old friend about that issue you 2 had a falling-out over water under the bridge |
| #9371, aired 2025-07-07 | WHAT IS THAT IN THE ARTWORK? $200: Clasped by Marie Antoinette in Élisabeth Vigée-LeBrun's then-edgy portrait:
A pink this, Marie's signature flower a (pink) rose |
| #9371, aired 2025-07-07 | THE DC UNIVERSE WITH JAMES GUNN $400: (James Gunn presents the clue.) I went online & searched "What's the dumbest DC character of all time?" & I found a character who first appeared in Detective Comics No. 300 named Polka-Dot Man; I love him so much that I made him part of my rogues' gallery in this 2021 movie The Suicide Squad |
| #9371, aired 2025-07-07 | WHAT IS THAT IN THE ARTWORK? $600: In "Liberty Leading the People" by Eugène Delacroix:
A musket in Lady Liberty's left hand; in her right hand, this the French flag |
| #9371, aired 2025-07-07 | WHAT IS THAT IN THE ARTWORK? $800: In the lap of Whistler's mother:
A white one of these, to go with her mourning clothes a white handkerchief |
| #9371, aired 2025-07-07 | YES, AND? $1000: Add an "S" to a word meaning "next to" to get this word that can mean "and" in starting a sentence besides |
| #9371, aired 2025-07-07 | WHAT IS THAT IN THE ARTWORK? $1000: In Frida Kahlo's self-portrait "Fulang-Chang and I":
This pet, sporting a ribbon a monkey |
| #9371, aired 2025-07-07 | SOME ECON $4,000 (Daily Double): Milton Friedman held that this portmanteau that hit the U.S. economy in the 1970s marked the end of "Naïve Keynesianism" stagflation |
| #9370, aired 2025-07-04 | THAT IS SOME FLEX $400: It's the muscle being flexed in the familiar "We Can Do It!" poster of World War II bicep |
| #9370, aired 2025-07-04 | THAT IS SOME FLEX $800: You flex your soleus muscle to do this, like to move through a room where someone's asleep tiptoe |
| #9370, aired 2025-07-04 | NICKNAMES $800: Snowboarder Shaun White's mop of red hair earned him this nickname that includes a piece of produce the Flying Tomato |
| #9370, aired 2025-07-04 | THAT IS SOME FLEX $2000: This basic type of exercise that doesn't change the muscle's length can include a thigh-flexing quad workout isometric |
| #9369, aired 2025-07-03 | DESCRIBING THE GOLDEN GLOBE BEST MOTION PICTURE WINNERS $5,000 (Daily Double): In 2023:
TFW you watch home movies & realize your mom was having an affair the whole time The Fabelmans |
| #9368, aired 2025-07-02 | HISTORICAL SHARK TANK $400: Philo Farnsworth could convince Mark Cuban to invest in this electronic medium that can beam Mavs games into anyone's home television |
| #9368, aired 2025-07-02 | CELEBRITIES $600: She appeared with her husband in "Sleepless in Seattle" & has more recently taken up a singing career Rita Wilson |
| #9368, aired 2025-07-02 | ISN'T IT ICONIC? $1000: San Francisco's Pier 39 is part of this iconic area that's not called a pier but something similar Fisherman's Wharf |
| #9367, aired 2025-07-01 | STING! $200: The tail stinger of a bark type of this desert arachnid is the only one in the U.S. powerful enough to do big damage but that's its nature a scorpion |
| #9367, aired 2025-07-01 | STING! $600: That Avenger's gone rogue! The pinprick-like bite of this spider, Latrodectus mactans, causes nausea & mild diaphragm paralysis black widow |
| #9367, aired 2025-07-01 | SOUNDS LIKE ROYALTY $600: Modern & elegant, this cut refers to a diamond or other gemstone that's cut in a square or rectangular shape princess |
| #9367, aired 2025-07-01 | PLACES NAMED FOR PLACES $800: In 1845 this Western city was given its name by Maine-born Francis Pettygrove Portland, Oregon |
| #9367, aired 2025-07-01 | "SH"! $2000: An Irish tune called "Mush-Mush-Mush Tural-I-Addy" mentions lathering someone with this type of cudgel a shillelagh |
| #9367, aired 2025-07-01 | TOUGH TV $3,000 (Daily Double): JFK famously dubbed this show that's still around today "the fifty-first state" Meet the Press |
| #9366, aired 2025-06-30 | 18th CENTURY ARTS $400: Georgian architecture was all the rage in colonial America, as seen in the old statehouse that's now on this city's Freedom Trail Boston |
| #9366, aired 2025-06-30 | WHAT'S THAT CALLED? $400: Stealing these round covers on car wheels was once a rite of passage for young delinquents like Evel Knievel & Steve McQueen hubcaps |
| #9366, aired 2025-06-30 | WHAT'S THAT CALLED? $800: One way to say "start eating" is "strap on" this, usually attached to a horse's head a feed bag |
| #9366, aired 2025-06-30 | EMOTING FOR MY EMMY $1000: That ascending 3-note motif... the dynamics, rising & falling... the sheer melancholy of this 1938 Barber piece... it overwhelms "Adagio For Strings" |
| #9366, aired 2025-06-30 | WHAT'S THAT CALLED? $1200: Four-letter word for a raised platform, like the one for the veep & speaker at the State of the Union address a dais |
| #9366, aired 2025-06-30 | WHAT'S THAT CALLED? $1600: It's the full-length robe worn by Catholic clergy: white for popes, red for Cardinals, black for priests the cassock |
| #9366, aired 2025-06-30 | WHAT'S THAT CALLED? $2000: Basically meaning "little moon", it's the style of window seen here a lunette |
| #9366, aired 2025-06-30 | THE TITLE'S NOT IN THE LYRICS $2000: Am I just paranoid, or do you not know that the title of a 1994 hit by this popular punk trio is actually "Basket Case"? Green Day |
| #9365, aired 2025-06-27 | SOUP! $200: In 2018 Campbell's trademarked this adjective for its hearty canned soups that eat "like a meal" Chunky |
| #9365, aired 2025-06-27 | SOUP! $1000: Julia Child's advice for making this soup? Add whipping cream to a potage parmentier & chill, bro! (the soup, that is) vichyssoise |
| #9365, aired 2025-06-27 | WORDS FROM ASIAN LANGUAGES $2000: Releasing a euphoric stimulant similar to nicotine, this nut that's chewed in Asia has a name from Malayalam the betel nut |
| #9364, aired 2025-06-26 | LET'S "C" THE CRITTER $400: This salmon species that can be more than 10 times the weight of a coho swims 2,000 miles up the Yukon to spawn chinook |
| #9363, aired 2025-06-25 | A DOG OF A STORY $800: India Opal Buloni gets a lot more from the supermarket than expected, but that's "Because of" meeting this dog Winn-Dixie |
| #9362, aired 2025-06-24 | COLORFUL GEOGRAPHY $800: Spanish for "green" is part of the name of this national park that's home to ancestral pueblo cliff dwellings Mesa Verde |
| #9361, aired 2025-06-23 | BEFORE & AFTER $400: Waxing crescent, first quarter, waxing gibbous that are "wider than a mile" in a song from "Breakfast at Tiffany's" phases of the "Moon River" |
| #9361, aired 2025-06-23 | BEFORE & AFTER $1200: Norman Mailer's first novel that leads nowhere, like a cul-de-sac The Naked and the Dead end |
| #9361, aired 2025-06-23 | SUNRISE, SUNSET $1200: Steer clear of the title structure from this 1964 hit by The Animals that's "been the ruin of many a poor boy" "House Of The Rising Sun" |
| #9361, aired 2025-06-23 | BEFORE & AFTER $6,000 (Daily Double): Fruity dessert created at Brennan's in New Orleans that had the 2011 hit song "Pumped Up Kicks" Bananas Foster the People |
| #9360, aired 2025-06-20 | LAW REVUE $1000: It's in court that this character sings "Who Am I?", revealing his identity as prisoner 24601 Jean Valjean |
| #9360, aired 2025-06-20 | BRIT BITS $1600: This lane where you might encounter the Muffin Man runs behind London's oldest theatre that's still in use Drury Lane |
| #9360, aired 2025-06-20 | 5-LETTER WORDS $2000: Rather than a toga, women of ancient Rome often wore a long, loose robe or tunic, called this a stola |
| #9359, aired 2025-06-19 | LET'S GO TO CONEY ISLAND $200: Coney Island's iconic boardwalk & Williams Candy Shop were featured in this 2024 film that won the Oscar for Best Picture Anora |
| #9359, aired 2025-06-19 | AT THE KEYBOARD $200: This is typically the largest key on the keyboard; it's designed that way for easy access since it's used so frequently the space bar |
| #9359, aired 2025-06-19 | SUBTITLES IN THE BOOKSTORE $1200: We curse her Oxford comma subtitles "Women, Work, and the Will to Lead" & "Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy" Sandberg |
| #9359, aired 2025-06-19 | LESSER-KNOWN BLACK AMERICANS $2,000 (Daily Double): Last name of Automotive Hall of Fame member Alma, who with her husband Victor put out a guide for Black travelers Green |
| #9358, aired 2025-06-18 | GETTING INVENTIVE WITH PHINEAS & FERB $200: (Phineas & Ferb present the clue.) Used in 1922, Thomas Edison's improved cement was so strong that it went untouched in this venue in a 1973 renovation--New Yorkers call it "The House that Ruth Built", but I think Edison cement kept it standing Yankee Stadium |
| #9358, aired 2025-06-18 | TIGER BY THE TALE $400: The hungry tiger is a recurring character in the series of books about this land that's also home to lions & bears Oz |
| #9358, aired 2025-06-18 | TIGER BY THE TALE $800: Everything is frozen in "The Last Winter" & the heroine is the last tigress of her kind, this largest type that's not averse to cold Siberian |
| #9358, aired 2025-06-18 | EARLY BLOOMERS $1200: At age 3 this only child was briefly emperor of France--or so said his dad, who was away in Elba Napoleon II |
| #9357, aired 2025-06-17 | IN THE JUNK DRAWER $200: I found the scissors! Wait, no, it's just one of these batteries that can hopefully get my smoke detector to stop chirping 9-volt |
| #9357, aired 2025-06-17 | IN THE JUNK DRAWER $400: I'm looking for a pair of scissors; instead I found a loose piece of this sugarless gum that cited 4 out of 5 dentists in its ads Trident |
| #9357, aired 2025-06-17 | "CON"s $800: Your honor, that statement is pure this, speculation with no proof! conjecture |
| #9357, aired 2025-06-17 | THAT IS SAD $1200: Episode titles for this series include "Woe What a Night" & "Quid Pro Woe", each a nod to the nursery rhyme known as "Monday's Child" Wednesday |
| #9357, aired 2025-06-17 | YOU CAN A FJORD IT $1600: Misty Fjords National Monument can be found in this national forest that covers most of Alaska's panhandle the Tongass National Forest |
| #9356, aired 2025-06-16 | NOVEL PLOT POINTS $200: Huxley AF (that's "After Ford"); ain't no fun being an Epsilon; tough day at the lighthouse Brave New World |
| #9356, aired 2025-06-16 | MEDIUM $600: To contact the spirit realm, a medium may need to enter this semi-conscious state that's also the name of an EDM genre trance |
| #9356, aired 2025-06-16 | VIKING LORE $800: (Mason Thames presents the clue.) Exiled from Iceland, Erik the Red went on to explore this land & hoped to colonize it by giving it a name that he hoped would attract colonists Greenland |
| #9356, aired 2025-06-16 | PARENTHETICAL SONG TITLES $800: Embrace the C+C Music Factory:
"(Everybody Dance Now)" "Gonna Make You Sweat" |
| #9356, aired 2025-06-16 | PARENTHETICAL SONG TITLES $1600: He's not talking about an old engine:
"(Soulja Boy)" "Crank That" |
| #9355, aired 2025-06-13 | JAMAICA $1200: The makers of this Bob Marley biopic found their thrill at Strawberry Hill, a hotel that's one of the movie's authentic locations One Love |
| #9355, aired 2025-06-13 | BILL THE CAT $2000: Looks like Dr. Patches Adams got himself a CAT scan! That's also called a CT scan--CT, short for this--& that heart one cost $6k! computed tomography |
| #9354, aired 2025-06-12 | YOUR FRIENDS & NEIGHBORS $400: (Jon Hamm presents the clue.) One sign your neighbor might be a mole working against the U.S. is if he lives way better than his job would suggest; like two guys in the Virginia suburbs; the CIA's Aldrich Ames & Robert Hanssen of this agency the FBI |
| #9354, aired 2025-06-12 | 9-LETTER VOCAB $400: Usually known by its first 4 letters, it's a protective canvas covering that's been waterproofed a tarpaulin |
| #9354, aired 2025-06-12 | TV SHOW MASHUPS $400: Prohibition comes to Colorado: "Boardwalk Park" Boardwalk Empire & South Park |
| #9354, aired 2025-06-12 | RESERVOIRS, DAWG $800: In water-speak, a reservoir's water is said to be this by a dam, like cars that are illegally parked & get towed impounded |
| #9354, aired 2025-06-12 | HOT, TO GO $800: Beijing Beef & Honey Walnut Shrimp are on the menu of this place that puns, "We wok for you" Panda Express |
| #9354, aired 2025-06-12 | 9-LETTER VOCAB $1200: This adjective with a pair of F's in the middle can refer to something that's not possible to put in words ineffable |
| #9354, aired 2025-06-12 | 9-LETTER VOCAB $1600: It's the chemical compound in chili peppers that brings the heat capsaicin |
| #9354, aired 2025-06-12 | TV SHOW MASHUPS $1600: Freedom for a new musical star:
"Prison Idol" Prison Break & American Idol |
| #9354, aired 2025-06-12 | IS THERE A "D.R." IN THE HOUSE? $1600: "Eat my dust" is surely a common refrain in this competition that despite the name took place in Saudi Arabia this year the Dakar Rally |
| #9354, aired 2025-06-12 | 9-LETTER VOCAB $2000: It's another word for upper case, like all the letters in the clue you're looking at majuscule |
| #9353, aired 2025-06-11 | MOTHER'S MILK $200: It's no surprise that this mammal has the largest mammary glands on Earth; amazingly, its young can drink 100 gallons of milk underwater the blue whale |
| #9353, aired 2025-06-11 | ACTORS & THEIR ROLES $1200: It's no American fiction that this actor has played Colin Powell & Adam Clayton Powell Jr. on film Jeffrey Wright |
| #9353, aired 2025-06-11 | COUNTRIES THAT START WITH A VOWEL $1600: This nation of Central Asia borders 5 other "Stan"s & lies mostly between the Syr Darya & Amu Darya Rivers Uzbekistan |
| #9352, aired 2025-06-10 | DID YOU EAT YET? $200: Snyder's of Hanover & Rold Gold excel at making these baked treats that feature a knot in the middle pretzels |
| #9352, aired 2025-06-10 | HERE'S YOUR INVITATION $200: For her 2018 nuptials, Meghan Markle was the first to use this honorific on a royal wedding invite Ms. |
| #9352, aired 2025-06-10 | U.S. COINS $400: Washington was on the front & a colonial drummer & victory torch on the reverse of a special quarter that came out in this year 1976 |
| #9352, aired 2025-06-10 | LEONARDO DiCAPRIO MOVIES BY CHARACTER $1000: New York City Catholic school kid Jim Carroll The Basketball Diaries |
| #9352, aired 2025-06-10 | IT'S ALL ABOUT THE BOOKS $1200: Each chapter of this tasty novel from Laura Esquivel begins with a recipe from Mexico that's integral to the story Like Water for Chocolate |
| #9352, aired 2025-06-10 | AMERICAN BODIES MOSTLY OF WATER $2000: An episode of ESPN's "Sport Science" showed that this Baylor center & No. 1 WNBA draft pick has bigger hands than LeBron James Brittney Griner |
| #9352, aired 2025-06-10 | ____ OF ____ $2000: In 2004 Barack Obama spoke of this, "in the end, that is God's greatest gift to us" audacity of hope |
| #9352, aired 2025-06-10 | YOU CANNOT BE SIRIUS $2000: Sirius emits more light than you do, so it has a higher this--an intrinsic property of stars that's measured in joules per second luminosity |
| #9351, aired 2025-06-09 | THAT FOOD IS PEOPLE! $400: Let's have a roast with this last name of "She's Come Undone" author Wally Lamb |
| #9351, aired 2025-06-09 | LET'S TALK ABOUT POLLUTION $600: The sometimes deadly "pea soup" fogs of this city, like a 1952 one that killed 12,000, were largely caused by the burning of coal London |
| #9351, aired 2025-06-09 | THAT FOOD IS PEOPLE! $1600: Kyra Sedgwick told Redbook magazine that after years of marriage she's still learning new sides of him Kevin Bacon |
| #9351, aired 2025-06-09 | THAT FOOD IS PEOPLE! $2000: (Court) order up! We'll have this Supreme Court justice, Earl Warren's successor as chief in 1969, & a side of fries (Warren) Burger |
| #9350, aired 2025-06-06 | LONDON LITERARY LANDMARKS $1000: This London landmark is full of memories in "Mrs. Dalloway" & has a garden that Sylvia Plath wrote about Regent's Park |
| #9350, aired 2025-06-06 | WEIGHTS & MEASURES $3,200 (Daily Double): A French scientist is honored in the name of this unit of pressure that's equal to one Newton per square meter a pascal |
| #9349, aired 2025-06-05 | RHYMING EXPRESSIONS IN OTHER WORDS $200: Creatures of the family Formicidae within one's trousers ants in the pants |
| #9349, aired 2025-06-05 | WOMEN ON STAMPS $400: Thank you for being a friend--in March 2025 this beloved TV entertainer was honored on a stamp Betty White |
| #9349, aired 2025-06-05 | ONIONS $600: Making it the state vegetable, the Lone Star legislature saluted the Texas sweet onion for inhibiting this food prep event tears |
| #9348, aired 2025-06-04 | SPORTS FLICKS $800: Philip Seymour Hoffman played A's skipper Art Howe in this film that also featured Chris Pratt & Jonah Hill Moneyball |
| #54, aired 2025-06-04 | THE '20s $200: On April 27, 1521 he led 60 men onto the island of Mactan & never left Magellan |
| #54, aired 2025-06-04 | & YOU QUOTE $400: From a 1926 letter, "der nicht würfelt", meaning that God doesn't do this play dice |
| #54, aired 2025-06-04 | GOBBLIN' MODE $400: The K is not silent in this Jewish deli offering of dough that may be filled with meat, mashed potatoes or buckwheat groats knish |
| #54, aired 2025-06-04 | SEEN ON THE ROAD $2000: My passenger just pointed out a drainage structure & used this 7-letter word for it--I never knew that's what it's called! culvert |
| #53, aired 2025-06-04 | BLACK HISTORY & GENEALOGY $200: (Here's Professor Gates.) While many Black surnames are those of the families that owned our ancestors, another common name, this one of an Oscar-winning actor was taken after the Civil War to indicate no ownership Freeman |
| #53, aired 2025-06-04 | INTERNATIONAL ATHLETES $200: Norway's Bjorn Daehlie won a record 8 Olympic golds in this type of skiing, including 2 in pursuit & 2 in the 50 km freestyle cross-country |
| #53, aired 2025-06-04 | BOOKS OF THE BIBLE $200: The section of Handel's "Messiah" that asks & answers "Who is this king of glory?" comes from the 24th of these Psalms |
| #53, aired 2025-06-04 | BLACK HISTORY & GENEALOGY $400: (Skip Gates.) For decades, one of the best jobs for Black men, & one of the few that showed them a wider world, was this job in railroad cars; the Brotherhood of them was the AFL's first Black union a porter |
| #53, aired 2025-06-04 | INTERNATIONAL ATHLETES $600: Cork County star Christy Ring is a legend of this stick-&-ball sport hurling |
| #53, aired 2025-06-04 | INTERNATIONAL ATHLETES $800: Kenya's Faith Kipyegon is the women's world record holder in the mile & this event that's 359 feet shorter the 1500 meters |
| #53, aired 2025-06-04 | ARCHITECTURE TERMS $1000: Turns out there's a name for the low railing that can stop you from falling off a balcony--this 10-letter one a balustrade |
| #53, aired 2025-06-04 | CELEBRATIONS $1200: This enlightenment is the name of a holiday that honors Siddhartha Gautama's achievement of that awakening to become the Buddha Bodhi Day |
| #9347, aired 2025-06-03 | SAY "NO" MORE $800: There's a business specialty in this popular translation of the Latin saying "de gustibus non est disputandum" there's no accounting for taste |
| #9347, aired 2025-06-03 | LIFE IS A 5-LETTER WORD $2000: The Scotch type of this, sharing the name of something in a closet at home, is ornamental but can be a problem as an invader broom |
| #9347, aired 2025-06-03 | ANCIENT HISTORY $2000: The city today known as Amarna was made the capital of Egypt around 1348 B.C. & dedicated to this newly favored god Aten |
| #9346, aired 2025-06-02 | & WE'RE "OFF" $600: It was widely & sorrowfully reported that Jodie Foster's 1989 Oscar victory dress was bought this way off the rack |
| #9346, aired 2025-06-02 | & WE'RE "OFF" $800: The use of a drug in a way that hasn't been approved; it's common among those often excluded from clinical trials, like pregnant women off-label |
| #9346, aired 2025-06-02 | THE CELEB'S DINING ESTABLISHMENT $1000: Sammy Hagar's Cabo Wabo Cantina began red rocking in 1990 in this Mexican city Cabo San Lucas |
| #9346, aired 2025-06-02 | TOO WEAK $1600: On this sitcom, spindly Eric Forman fails miserably at kicking open Donna's door & is thrown backwards in defeat That '70s Show |
| #9345, aired 2025-05-30 | 20th CENTURY AMERICA $200: In the early 1900s, long before anyone wondered about a Tesla's range, GE introduced a network of these called electrants charging stations |
| #9345, aired 2025-05-30 | IN THE WORDS OF THE POET $400: "And that is the name that you never will guess... but the cat himself knows, and will never confess" (T.S.) Eliot |
| #9345, aired 2025-05-30 | IN THE WORDS OF THE POET $1,000 (Daily Double): "All our woe, with loss of Eden, till one greater man restore us, and regain the blissful seat, sing heav'nly muse" Milton |
| #9345, aired 2025-05-30 | 20th CENTURY AMERICA $1000: At the Supreme Court, Gideon v. Wainwright guaranteed this right that's now in the Miranda warnings right to counsel (to an attorney) |
| #9345, aired 2025-05-30 | MUSIC-POURRI $1600: Alphonse Daudet's play "L'Arlésienne" had incidental music by this other -et guy that Alphonse agreed was better than the play Georges Bizet |
| #9345, aired 2025-05-30 | MAMMALS $1600: When threatened, this small antelope trumpets the double-talk call it's named for the dik dik |
| #9344, aired 2025-05-29 | GHOSTING $200: In this 2023 horror comedy from Disney, Jared Leto voiced the Hatbox Ghost Haunted Mansion |
| #9344, aired 2025-05-29 | GHOSTING $400: In a 1995 film we learn that this "friendly" fellow's last name is McFadden Casper |
| #9344, aired 2025-05-29 | FRUIT $600: You may be on a first-name basis with this fruit that's related to figs & mulberries & used as a meat substitute a jackfruit |
| #9344, aired 2025-05-29 | OF CHINA $800: You need 3 O's & only 3 O's as vowels in this type of tea that dates back at least 1,000 years oolong |
| #9344, aired 2025-05-29 | THE GREAT SQUALL $800: This murder mystery play first performed in London in 1952 is set in Monkswell Manor during a snowstorm The Mousetrap |
| #9344, aired 2025-05-29 | THE GREAT SQUALL $1000: In a Shakespearean storm, King Lear is joined by his fool & by this character disguised as poor Tom Edgar |
| #9343, aired 2025-05-28 | NOTHING GOOD ON TV $1600: Residents of a small town in Kansas think they may be the only Americans left following an observed nuclear explosion Jericho |
| #52, aired 2025-05-28 | WHAT A "WO"MAN! $1600: She took steps toward her later radical feminism (for that time) with 1787's "Thoughts on the Education of Daughters" Wollstonecraft |
| #52, aired 2025-05-28 | TRIPLE RHYME TIME $2000: The method that we came up with to make the smog weaker a pollution dilution solution |
| #51, aired 2025-05-28 | HARD SCIENCE $400: It's the only one of the noble gases with a name that doesn't end in "N" helium |
| #51, aired 2025-05-28 | SAY IT IN A ROMANCE LANGUAGE $800: This Portuguese offering is mostly white, sometimes red & its name contains a color that's neither of those Vinho Verde |
| #51, aired 2025-05-28 | GETTING PHILOSOPHICAL $800: Ayn Rand founded this philosophy that says a main purpose in life is one's own happiness; her novel "Atlas Shrugged" expounded on it Objectivism |
| #51, aired 2025-05-28 | HARD SCIENCE $1600: That's not a bar graph! It's one of these, from Greek for "mast" a histogram |
| #9342, aired 2025-05-27 | YOU CAN GO WITH THIS, YOU CAN GO WITH THAT $200: You can go with this sunglasses company's Clubmaster, or you can go with its classic Aviators Ray-Ban |
| #9342, aired 2025-05-27 | WHAT THE 20th CENTURY KIDS WERE SAYIN' $400: That dame's the head honcho, the top dog, the large Gouda, the immense Camembert, this similar dairy phrase the big cheese |
| #9342, aired 2025-05-27 | HISTORIC ALASKA $400: In 1906 Alaska's capital was moved from Sitka to this southeastern city that can only be reached by aircraft or boat Juneau |
| #9342, aired 2025-05-27 | FACTS & THE CITY $600: We'll gamble that you know that Baltic Ave. runs parallel to Mediterranean Ave. in this city, but Bally's hotel is on Pacific Atlantic City |
| #9342, aired 2025-05-27 | YOU CAN GO WITH THIS, YOU CAN GO WITH THAT $800: Go to Lombardi's for a N.Y. style pizza, or drive northeast one state to Pepe's to try this "New" city's thin-crusted style New Haven |
| #9342, aired 2025-05-27 | SOMETIME IN THE LAST 300 YEARS $1000: From 2008 to 2012 he was president of Russia, because Putin sure wasn't still running things, no sir, it was this guy, 100% Medvedev |
| #9342, aired 2025-05-27 | FACTS & THE CITY $1,600 (Daily Double): You can likely find a good coffee in this South American capital at the base of 2 mountains, Guadalupe & Monserrate Bogotá |
| #50, aired 2025-05-27 | WELL, THAT'S A FASHION CHOICE $200: I say! Let's ring in & name this oblong scarf that's similar to a cravat & was sported by John Larroquette in "Stripes" an ascot |
| #50, aired 2025-05-27 | WELL, THAT'S A FASHION CHOICE $400: No joker! The name of this traditional theatrical costume derives from a role in 16th century commedia dell'arte harlequin |
| #50, aired 2025-05-27 | WELL, THAT'S A FASHION CHOICE $600: Fabric-specific fashion trademark of Ruth Bader Ginsburg; Columbia Law School commissioned one to honor her in 2018 a lace collar |
| #50, aired 2025-05-27 | DOES THAT MAKE YOU UNCOMFORTABLE? $600: Spelling in front of millions? Please do for this 13-letter adjective meaning relating to the current office of Ron DeSantis G-U-B-E-R-N-A-T-O-R-I-A-L |
| #50, aired 2025-05-27 | OVERHEARD ON TIKTOK $600: Sounding a bit like a "Batman" villain, it's a seducer, or the nickname of the eyebrow-raising, chin-stroking kid Christian Joseph the Rizzler |
| #50, aired 2025-05-27 | WORLD OF WEIRD AIRPORTS $800: Ice Runway Airport supplies this big Antarctic station that's run by the National Science Foundation McMurdo |
| #50, aired 2025-05-27 | WELL, THAT'S A FASHION CHOICE $800: It's the Tahitian word for a rectangular piece of cloth worn as a beach coverup pareo |
| #50, aired 2025-05-27 | DOES THAT MAKE YOU UNCOMFORTABLE? $800: Feeling this type of spider with a name that's colorful yet socially distant on your nose as you wake up... not great brown recluse |
| #50, aired 2025-05-27 | OVERHEARD ON TIKTOK $800: On TikTok a duet is a side-by-side video while this feature allows you to "thread" a video with your own stitch |
| #50, aired 2025-05-27 | WELL, THAT'S A FASHION CHOICE $1000: Decades later, golfer Payne Stewart put these 1920s baggy knickers back on course plus fours |
| #50, aired 2025-05-27 | DOES THAT MAKE YOU UNCOMFORTABLE? $1000: In 2024 the world's farthest nonstop commercial flight--nearly 19 hours--was between JFK & Changi airport in this Asian place Singapore |
| #50, aired 2025-05-27 | VICTORIAN WRITING $8,000 (Daily Double): Sergeant Cuff of London solves the mysterious disappearance of this item stolen under the influence of opium the Moonstone |
| #49, aired 2025-05-27 | 5 BANDS $600: Despite their name, this '90s piano-based alternative band that sang, "she's a brick & I'm drowning slowly" was a trio Ben Folds Five |
| #49, aired 2025-05-27 | IT'S A MORASS $800: Found in the names of swamps in Maryland & Florida, these trees survive via pneumatophores, rooty "knees" that grow out of water cypress trees |
| #49, aired 2025-05-27 | BAKING WITH DAME PRUE $800: (Back to Dame Prue.) At Christmas, you might bake a chocolatey rolled sponge cake that's decorated to look like a yule log; it has this fancy French name a bûche de noël |
| #49, aired 2025-05-27 | NONFICTION $1,000 (Daily Double): This 2-word phrase from Scientology is the title of Lawrence Wright's look at the inner workings of that church Going Clear |
| #49, aired 2025-05-27 | ALMOST RHYMES WITH ORANGE $1000: It's a projecting rim on a wheel or pipe that gives it added strength, or a place to attach it to something else a flange |
| #49, aired 2025-05-27 | IT WILL ALL END WITH "Q" $2000: Marcel Duchamp's playful defacement of the Mona Lisa added this to it L.H.O.O.Q. |
| #49, aired 2025-05-27 | IT'S A MORASS $2000: This swampy national park with old-growth trees bears the name of a Native American tribe that lived in South Carolina Congaree |
| #9341, aired 2025-05-26 | GUYS NAMED RICHARD $1600: This prolific author & illustrator created Busytown, a richly detailed world full of animals doing human-like stuff Richard Scarry |
| #9341, aired 2025-05-26 | ONE VOWEL, 3 TIMES $1600: It's not just chimps that may be into cannibalism; this related knuckle-walker has been known to partake as well a bonobo |
| #9340, aired 2025-05-23 | EPONYMOUS CAPITAL CITY AIRPORTS $200: Rome has many esteemed personages to choose from, but it's this artist's name that graces the international airport nearby (Leonardo) da Vinci |
| #9340, aired 2025-05-23 | SPORTS MASCOTS $200: The gold-mining Sourdough Sam leaves his heart on the field for this NFL team & was born on April 9, get it? the 49ers |
| #9340, aired 2025-05-23 | SPORTS MASCOTS $400: How did the White Sox mascot get this name? Well, he's left-handed & was born on the side of Chicago where the Sox play Southpaw |
| #9340, aired 2025-05-23 | "GREEN" DAY $600: AKA "The Emerald Archer", this DC supe had a show based on him debut on October 10, 2012 the Green Arrow |
| #9340, aired 2025-05-23 | POP CULTURE GEMS $1200: In "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes", Marilyn Monroe sings this gem of a song that namechecks Cartier, Tiffany's & Harry Winston "Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend" |
| #9340, aired 2025-05-23 | MAGICIANS $2000: David Mamet's "truest friend", he wrote a book that included a story on a master flatulist & a pig that could read minds Ricky Jay |
| #9340, aired 2025-05-23 | "S" IS FOR SMALL $5,000 (Daily Double): From the Latin for "spark", it's a tiny amount; add -ting & it describes something that's sparkling a scintilla |
| #9339, aired 2025-05-22 | LAST LINES OF THE CHILDREN'S BOOK $1,000 (Daily Double): "But he never knew that it really was his own bunny, come back to look at the child who had first helped him to be real" The Velveteen Rabbit |
| #9339, aired 2025-05-22 | AROUND THE HOUSE $1000: Fisher & Paykel pioneered the drawer version of this kitchen appliance the dishwasher |
| #9339, aired 2025-05-22 | OUTDOOR ART $2,400 (Daily Double): Shepard Fairey used a 1967 photo of this athlete to create a 7-story mural outside a Louisville YMCA Muhammad Ali |
| #9338, aired 2025-05-21 | THAT'S "SUPER" $400: The OED defines it as "a nonsense word, originally used esp. by children" & "made popular by... 'Mary Poppins"' supercalifragilisticexpialidocious |
| #9338, aired 2025-05-21 | MIDCENTURY MUSIC $400: "When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that's" this in a 1953 smash hit song for Dean Martin amore |
| #9338, aired 2025-05-21 | THAT'S "SUPER" $800: Rigel is one of these extremely large & brilliant stars with luminosities that can be 350,000 times that of the Sun a supergiant |
| #9338, aired 2025-05-21 | "J" STORE $800: Juice Club was the original name of this smoothie shop founded in San Luis Obispo Jamba Juice |
| #9338, aired 2025-05-21 | THE HIGHEST POPULATION IN THE STATE $1000: This Delaware non-capital has a touch over 70,000 people (that's how many see a big game at L.A.'s SoFi Stadium) Wilmington |
| #9338, aired 2025-05-21 | THAT'S "SUPER" $1200: It's the part of the mind that provides moral standards, per Freud superego |
| #9338, aired 2025-05-21 | THAT'S "SUPER" $1600: This verb means to become old, out of date or retired superannuate |
| #9338, aired 2025-05-21 | THAT'S "SUPER" $2000: Many violent winds are associated with these storms formed by updrafts around a vertical axis supercell |
| #48, aired 2025-05-21 | AROUND THE BIG WATER JUST SOUTH & WEST OF FLORIDA $400: Defeating Spanish forces at Tampico in 1829 was a big win for this general who was up & down in Mexican politics for decades Santa Anna |
| #48, aired 2025-05-21 | SAILING THROUGH HISTORY $600: Pliny the Elder writes that Himilco & Hanno were sailors from this ancient power Carthage |
| #48, aired 2025-05-21 | GOING IN CIRCLES $600: On April 27, 1974 he ran around & around to set an American record in the 10,000 meters that lived years longer than he did Steve Prefontaine |
| #48, aired 2025-05-21 | FROM THE GREEK FOR... $800: "Unpublished";
it's a short, interesting account of something that happened an anecdote |
| #48, aired 2025-05-21 | UNGULATES $6,200 (Daily Double): About the size of a domestic hog, this ungulate is less aquatic & more solitary than its relative that's 10x larger a pygmy hippopotamus |
| #47, aired 2025-05-21 | EUROPEAN CITIES $600: A Las Vegas hotel shares its name with this Italian town that's been called the "pearl of Lake Como" Bellagio |
| #47, aired 2025-05-21 | A NEW CAR $800: You want an SUV? Sigh... OK, how about one of the alphanumeric models from this Nissan brand that debuted in 1989? Infiniti |
| #9337, aired 2025-05-20 | THAT'S THE END OF THE LINE $200: Back in the day, this state capital was the last horse-&-rider stop on the Pony Express Sacramento |
| #9337, aired 2025-05-20 | AT THE CEMETERY $400: "Cemetery worker" is modern parlance for this job title that's also the name of a famous monster truck gravedigger |
| #9337, aired 2025-05-20 | THAT'S THE END OF THE LINE $400: On Obama's pre-inaugural whistle-stop train tour in 2009, this Washington, D.C. station was the end of the line Union Station |
| #9337, aired 2025-05-20 | THAT'S THE END OF THE LINE $600: 5 days of round-trip choo-chooing on the Royal Canadian Pacific puts you back where you began in this city, Alberta's largest Calgary |
| #9337, aired 2025-05-20 | GEOMETRY $800: As well as a drop of golden sun, it's a line segment that has a fixed starting point & extends infinitely in one direction a ray |
| #9337, aired 2025-05-20 | TAKE ME TO YOUR COMPANY LEADER $800: Ruth Porat is President & Chief Investment Officer for this conglomerate & holding company & you can Google that Alphabet |
| #9337, aired 2025-05-20 | THAT'S THE END OF THE LINE $800: If you ride the MBTA (or "T") to the end of the Green Line's Westbound B branch, you'll be at this Jesuit college founded in 1863 BC (Boston College) |
| #9337, aired 2025-05-20 | TV SHOWS BY EPISODE TITLES $800: "Hybrid Creatures" &
"Werewolf Feud" What We Do in the Shadows |
| #9337, aired 2025-05-20 | THAT'S THE END OF THE LINE $1000: It's no longer where a famous train line ends, but there's still an Orient Express restaurant at this city's Sirkeci Station Istanbul |
| #9337, aired 2025-05-20 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $2000: In an Edward Albee play, on the week of his 50th birthday, an architect confesses that he's in love with a goat named this Sylvia |
| #46, aired 2025-05-20 | ON A STREAK $200: "How many words can you make with 7 letters?" & how many days can you keep a streak going in this N.Y. Times puzzle with that slogan? Spelling Bee |
| #46, aired 2025-05-20 | WHAT DO YOU CALL THAT? $400: It's the horse-grooming device seen here currycomb |
| #46, aired 2025-05-20 | FAILED ASSASSINS $600: Carlito Dimahilig's attempt to kill this first lady in 1972 was thwarted in part by her using her shoes as a defense Imelda Marcos |
| #46, aired 2025-05-20 | WHAT DO YOU CALL THAT? $800: It's the word for a decorative ornament or knob at the top of a lamp, the top of a building or even the end of a curtain rod finial |
| #46, aired 2025-05-20 | SONGS ABOUT SINGERS $1200: John Cale sings, "Wales is not like Californ-i-a in any way" on a tribute song to a member of this band The Beach Boys |
| #46, aired 2025-05-20 | AROUND THE WORLD $3,200 (Daily Double): One letter shorter than a European mountain range, these hills form the "backbone of England" Pennine |
| #45, aired 2025-05-20 | HOT ONES $800: (Back to Sean.) Baseball savants including Bill James say it's plausible the Chicago Cubs were hurt by a fatigue from decades of day games only, like on June 20, 1953, when it was a record 104° at Wrigley & they lost to this team that got a homer from Carl Furillo the Dodgers |
| #45, aired 2025-05-20 | HOT ONES $1200: (Here's Sean Evans.) Arizona has its share of hot spots, like this scientific one where Pluto was discovered & where astronomers are finding bushels of Wolf-Rayet stars with surfaces 30 times hotter than the Sun the Lowell Observatory (in Flagstaff) |
| #9336, aired 2025-05-19 | OUR CHEMISTRY IS PALPABLE $400: A substance that's neutral, neither acid nor alkaline, has this number on the pH scale 7 |
| #9336, aired 2025-05-19 | COUNTRY NAMES $800: Once an ancient Greek colony, this country of about 40,000 people gets its name from the Greek for "single house" Monaco |
| #9336, aired 2025-05-19 | CANADIAN HISTORY $1,200 (Daily Double): Lovers of Latin must have rejoiced when this name was officially adopted in 1713; it's still on a province Nova Scotia |
| #9336, aired 2025-05-19 | COUNTRY NAMES $1200: This South American country that's named for a European city also has a big city called Barcelona Venezuela |
| #9336, aired 2025-05-19 | OUR CHEMISTRY IS PALPABLE $2000: The space around an atom's nucleus where electrons are most likely to be found has this name that mainly reminds us of astronomy an orbital |
| #9335, aired 2025-05-16 | 3 WORDS, 3 SYLLABLES $200: This alliterative prank was a lot more fun before everyone had doorbell cameras ding dong ditch |
| #9334, aired 2025-05-15 | A BARREL OF MONKEYS $200: Tod Sloan popularized the monkey crouch used in this sport of kings horse racing |
| #9334, aired 2025-05-15 | THE EARLY 21st CENTURY $200: In 2004 Merriam-Webster's word of the year was this, meaning "a web site that contains an online personal journal" a blog |
| #9334, aired 2025-05-15 | A BARREL OF MONKEYS $400: The song "Brass Monkey" by this trio informed us "I got a castle in Brooklyn, that's where I dwell" the Beastie Boys |
| #9334, aired 2025-05-15 | SAILOR $400: This popular Gilbert & Sullivan operetta named for a ship is subtitled "The Lass that Loved a Sailor" H.M.S. Pinafore |
| #9334, aired 2025-05-15 | THE DESERT MENU $400: One movement of 1931's "Grand Canyon suite" is named for this famously colorful area that stretches east from the Grand Canyon the Painted Desert |
| #9334, aired 2025-05-15 | THE NAME ON THE DISEASE $2000: Named for Robert from Dublin, this disease causes hyperthyroidism & patients can experience vision loss Graves' disease |
| #9334, aired 2025-05-15 | THE DESERT MENU $2000: About 450 miles east to west, it's the royal desert highlighted here, & don't forget the adjective that begins its name the Great Victoria Desert |
| #9333, aired 2025-05-14 | THAT IS THE QUESTION $200: In Spanish this series of books asks, "Dónde está Wally?" & in French, "Où est Charlie?" Where's Waldo? |
| #9333, aired 2025-05-14 | ON GUARD $200: The Spars, the World War II women's reserve of this, got their name from its motto, Semper Paratus--"Always Ready" the Coast Guard |
| #9333, aired 2025-05-14 | THAT IS THE QUESTION $400: It's a people.com feature about the current lives of stars of past TV shows Where Are They Now? |
| #9333, aired 2025-05-14 | WE ARE REALLY GOING TO STUMP YOU $400: No tall tale, this state's Kings Canyon National Park features the big sequoia stump of the Mark Twain Tree California |
| #9333, aired 2025-05-14 | THAT IS THE QUESTION $600: urbandictionary.com says this 3-word question was "a Vine sensation that everybody says when somebody's shoe game is weak" What are those? |
| #9333, aired 2025-05-14 | FUN AROUND THE U.S. $1600: Fjords aren't just for Norway! A cruise that visits the Kenai Fjords in this state can prove it to you Alaska |
| #9333, aired 2025-05-14 | RHYME TIME $5,600 (Daily Double): A compulsion to sing a song of mourning a dirge urge |
| #44, aired 2025-05-14 | AFRICAN FOOD $400: Ila Alasepo in Nigeria is named for this vegetable that's also central to gumbo okra |
| #44, aired 2025-05-14 | HEY THERE, SPEEDY! $400: This is pretty nimble for something that weighs 925,000 pounds--it's going 17,500 mph right now the International Space Station |
| #44, aired 2025-05-14 | AFRICAN FOOD $800: This tree with 3 "B"s in its name produces a fruit that's used in smoothies for its health benefits baobab |
| #44, aired 2025-05-14 | WEATHERING SOME BOOK TITLES $1000: We learn "That Smilla is a damn great lady... one hundred percent" in this Peter Høeg novel Smilla's Sense of Snow |
| #44, aired 2025-05-14 | HISTORICAL ARTIFACTS $1600: One namesake of this 1928 treaty aiming to end war is shown signing it with a pen now held by the National Museum of American Diplomacy Kellogg–Briand |
| #44, aired 2025-05-14 | STARTS WITH 2 VOWELS $1600: It's another name for the tenor tuba that's used in military parades a euphonium |
| #43, aired 2025-05-14 | DRUMMING $1600: Founded back in 1909, this company got a stratospheric boost when Ringo played their drums on the "Ed Sullivan Show" Ludwig |
| #43, aired 2025-05-14 | WORLD PLACE NAMES $1600: The Spanish word for a certain bird gives us the name of this largest of the British Virgin Islands Tortola |
| #9332, aired 2025-05-13 | SITCOMS $200: In a "30 Rock" episode, this Tina Fey character learns from her high school reunion that she was actually a mean girl Liz Lemon |
| #9332, aired 2025-05-13 | CHANGE A LETTER $200: A paper that lists a voter's choices elects to change one letter & dances in as a classic theatrical art form ballot & ballet |
| #9332, aired 2025-05-13 | THE CHILDREN'S AUTHOR WHO WROTE... $200: "Piglet said (it) was a... good trap... he wouldn't see the very deep pit until he was half-way down, when it would be too late" Milne |
| #9332, aired 2025-05-13 | SITCOMS $400: (Yvette Nicole Brown presents the clue.) I played Shirley Bennett, a Greendale College student--that's nice!--alongside Donald Glover & Alison Brie on this NBC show Community |
| #9332, aired 2025-05-13 | IT'S YOUR DIAMOND ANNIVERSARY $400: 75 years ago, this trademarked device entered TV production as CBS soap opera actors read lines that scrolled by a teleprompter |
| #9332, aired 2025-05-13 | I ACED MY BIOCHEM TEST $800: It just came to me that hemoglobin binds more or less strongly to oxygen in this effect named for Niels' dad, Aage's Grandpa Bohr |
| #9332, aired 2025-05-13 | PROUST'S REMEMBRANCE OF SMELLS PAST $800: Its smell called to mind the essential oils of drum circles past: that most Bohemian of flora, Pogostemon cablin, aka this patchouli |
| #9332, aired 2025-05-13 | I ACED MY BIOCHEM TEST $1200: This adjective means "relating to the synthesis of complex molecules"; it's also a type of steroid that coach warned us about anabolic |
| #9332, aired 2025-05-13 | IT'S YOUR DIAMOND ANNIVERSARY $1600: The 75 years of the Natl. Sci. Found. includes grants key to this process of manufacturing that in fact needs no ink or toner 3D printing |
| #9331, aired 2025-05-12 | SUBURBAN LEGEND $800: Tarbox, Mass. in John Updike's '60s novel "Couples" made the suburbs seem busy with this act against Exodus' 7th commandment adultery |
| #9331, aired 2025-05-12 | MINERALOGY $1000: Almandine is a type of this gemstone that's been favored by lapidaries since ancient times & lends its name to a very dark red garnet |
| #9331, aired 2025-05-12 | ANCIENT PERSIA $2000: Author Marjane's last name derives from this 6-letter title, a provincial governor in the empire satrap |
| #9330, aired 2025-05-09 | ARE WE HAVING FUN YET? $800: Holidog is the mascot for this Indiana theme park that's been providing family fun since it was called Santa Claus Land Holiday World |
| #9330, aired 2025-05-09 | THERE'S A BIRD IN YOUR RESPONSE $800: I can give you a really good deal on this word, never mind that it means easily deceived or duped gullible |
| #9330, aired 2025-05-09 | THE 1913 ARMORY SHOW $1,500 (Daily Double): 10 years after his death, this well-traveled painter from Paris was at the Armory Show in spirit with his "Faa Iheihe" Paul Gauguin |
| #9330, aired 2025-05-09 | QUEEN STORY HOUR $1600: In 1474 Isabella became master of her domain, Queen of Castile; 5 years later, Izzy added this kingdom to the royal portfolio Aragon |
| #9329, aired 2025-05-08 | TV CHARACTERS $400: What's your emergency?--I have to know, is that Casey from "Sports Night" on this ABC drama? It is? You saved my life! 9-1-1 |
| #9329, aired 2025-05-08 | WOMEN IN THE BIBLE $600: In Genesis, Potiphar's wife tempted this man by saying, "Lie with me"; he refused & was jailed Joseph |
| #9329, aired 2025-05-08 | UNOFFICIAL STATE NICKNAMES $3,000 (Daily Double): "The Rainbow State" Hawaii |
| #9328, aired 2025-05-07 | IYKYK $200: This Big Ten university in a city some call "Madtown" once had a mascot who was "too vicious to control" the University of Wisconsin |
| #9328, aired 2025-05-07 | COUP LA LA $400: If an NFL game begins at 2 PM, that's this "time"; the equivalent in a French soccer match is the heure du coup d'envoi kickoff time |
| #9328, aired 2025-05-07 | STAGE NAMES $400: A comedic cushion helped inspire this stage name of Caryn Elaine Johnson Whoopi Goldberg |
| #9328, aired 2025-05-07 | EVENTS OF 2005 $600: The world's fastest & tallest roller coaster at that time, Kingda Ka was opened at this N.J. Six Flags theme park Six Flags Great Adventure |
| #9328, aired 2025-05-07 | 21st CENTURY FICTION $1200: Alma Katsu's "The Hunger" retells the tale of this group of settlers who set out for the West in 1846 Donner Party |
| #9328, aired 2025-05-07 | HOW ABOUT A LITTLE SCIENCE? $1200: Dynamo theory says that movement of liquid iron in this part of the Earth creates the planet's magnetic field the core |
| #42, aired 2025-05-07 | LAW, LEGALITY & COURT STUFF $800: A judge's meeting with lawyers from only one side of a case is conducted this way, & the Latin sure legals it up nicely, right? ex parte |
| #42, aired 2025-05-07 | PRESENTING MYTH GREECE $6,500 (Daily Double): Pallas' daughter, this goddess totes Hermes' staff to carry a message of victory Nike |
| #41, aired 2025-05-07 | THE STARS OF OUR SHOW $400: It's Alpha Orionis,
Alpha Orionis,
Alpha Orionis Betelgeuse |
| #41, aired 2025-05-07 | TALKING IN COLORS $400: Grandma loves this dessert that's flush with apple, cinnamon & crumbly deliciousness Brown Betty |
| #41, aired 2025-05-07 | ...& HORROR ENSUES $600: Let's vamp for time; Lily-Rose Depp has an undead admirer in this 2024 film that got 4 Oscar nominations Nosferatu |
| #41, aired 2025-05-07 | THE STARS OF OUR SHOW $800: Aldebaran is the eye of this constellation that's perpetually charging Orion Taurus |
| #41, aired 2025-05-07 | W. KAMAU BELL'S BELLS CATEGORY $800: (Here's Kamau.) Edgar Allan Poe wrote about the ringing "that so musically wells / From the bells, bells, bells, bells" & notably used this 6-syllable word to describe the noise tintinnabulation |
| #41, aired 2025-05-07 | BEFORE, DURING & AFTER $1600: "Avian" George R.R. Martin title that takes place in a lookout spot atop a mast that's concealing an ovoid retirement plan A Feast for Crows Nest Egg |
| #41, aired 2025-05-07 | THIS IS NOT A LOVE SONG $2000: On "Blue Valentines", his gravel voice sings about whiskey, nightmares & a "burglar that can break a rose's neck" (Tom) Waits |
| #9327, aired 2025-05-06 | WE'RE THE CARP FAMILY $200: Chub will eat almost anything & one popular bait is a paste made with this, such as Stilton cheese |
| #9327, aired 2025-05-06 | HOWDY, NEIGHBOR! $200: Between Calabria, Italy's toe, & Puglia, the heel, sits Basilicata, this part that we hope never becomes fallen the arch |
| #9327, aired 2025-05-06 | IT'S A FACT $400: The Dartmouth was one of the ships that had their cargo dumped in this 1773 event the Boston Tea Party |
| #9327, aired 2025-05-06 | RHYMING SONG TITLES $800: Paul McCartney said this Beatles tune was named for a children's playground slide; that's crazy! "Helter Skelter" |
| #9327, aired 2025-05-06 | COLD WAR TIMES $800: What is today called St. Petersburg was renamed this in 1924 & would bear that name until 1991 & the cold war's end Leningrad |
| #9327, aired 2025-05-06 | WE'RE THE CARP FAMILY $1000: The asp is one of the few in our family that eats others in it, so not carnivorous but this word with a changed first syllable piscivorous |
| #9327, aired 2025-05-06 | JUST MOVED IN? $1000: For Internet access, you can set up this device combining a modem & a router, once the name of a computer retailer from cow country a gateway |
| #9327, aired 2025-05-06 | RHYMING SONG TITLES $1200: This AC/DC song has lyrics like "Yes, I'm let loose from the noose that's kept me hangin' about" "Back In Black" |
| #9327, aired 2025-05-06 | COLD WAR TIMES $10,200 (Daily Double): Countering atheistic communism, in 1954 this 2-word phrase was added to the Pledge of Allegiance under God |
| #9326, aired 2025-05-05 | NEW YORK, NEW YORK $2000: We can ride 31 miles on the city's longest subway line: this one that inspired a jazz standard the A Train |
| #9325, aired 2025-05-02 | FROM THE BRONX $800: Raised in the Bronx, she was nicknamed for a brand of rum & has a sister Hennessy, named for a cognac brand Cardi B |
| #9325, aired 2025-05-02 | GOVERNORS $800: He liked to say he was a "small fish" in D.C., but down in the southern state where he was governor, he was kind of a big deal Huey Long |
| #9325, aired 2025-05-02 | ECHO-NOMICS $1200: Boycotts that had success included of Ford in the 1920s (over Henry's views) & these fruits in the 1960s (for farmworker rights) grapes |
| #9324, aired 2025-05-01 | MOVIE EASTER EGGS $600: That's director Jordan Peele's voice saying "A mind is a terrible thing to waste" in an ad Lil Rel Howery hears in this horror film Get Out |
| #9324, aired 2025-05-01 | MOVIE EASTER EGGS $800: A newspaper owned by this character in an Orson Welles film makes an appearance in "The Magnificent Ambersons" Kane |
| #9324, aired 2025-05-01 | STATE SONG LYRICS $1000: "Oh, the moonlight's fair tonight along the Wabash, from the fields comes the breath of new-mown hay" Indiana |
| #9324, aired 2025-05-01 | JOKING AROUND $1600: This New York institution that's the toast of roasts named its home the Jerry Lewis Monastery the Friars Club |
| #9324, aired 2025-05-01 | THE RICHES OF THE EMERSONIAN MIND $2,000 (Daily Double): Ralphy's first book was titled this word, like a science periodical; he called it "divine charity" that "nourishes man" Nature |
| #9323, aired 2025-04-30 | ART COLLECTORS $400: This actor named for a Renaissance painter leans more toward Basquiat & Ed Ruscha in his own collection DiCaprio |
| #9323, aired 2025-04-30 | WINEMAKER'S GLOSSARY $600: Think it over--Glühwein is a German wine that has gone through this heating & spicing process mulling (mulled) |
| #40, aired 2025-04-30 | THUNDERBOLTS $400: (One more time, David Harbour.) Sometimes, thunder & lightning do strike twice; this song that mentions "thunderbolt and lightning" peaked at No. 9 in the U.S. in 1976, but thanks to its use in a film 16 years later, it reached No. 2 in 1992 "Bohemian Rhapsody" |
| #40, aired 2025-04-30 | BODY PARTS EVERYWHERE $600: That has provoked laughter! It's a real this, implying you're lightly touching one of 24 in my body, so really, stop that rib tickler |
| #40, aired 2025-04-30 | BEASTLY TV TITLES $1000: Novelty song master Allan Sherman voiced this feline who barged into 2 kids' & a lot of America's living rooms March 10, 1971 The Cat in the Hat |
| #39, aired 2025-04-30 | WORLD CAPITALS $400: Still under construction, Nusantara is the in-process new capital of this country Indonesia |
| #39, aired 2025-04-30 | WAS THAT ON YOUR FLASHCARDS? $800: It's rhyming slang for "various bits & pieces" & was the title of an album of outtakes by The Who Odds & Sods |
| #39, aired 2025-04-30 | WAS THAT ON YOUR FLASHCARDS? $1200: California was the first state to allow motorcyclists to do this; if the traffic is slow or stopped, it's called "filtering" split lanes |
| #39, aired 2025-04-30 | THE PEABODY AWARDS $1600: Peabody-honored podcasts include "Serial" & this "sibling successor... the first true audio novel" S-Town |
| #39, aired 2025-04-30 | WAS THAT ON YOUR FLASHCARDS? $1600: It's non-contagious, has a nummular (coin-shaped) type & people in TV ads swear by Rinvoq & Dupixent for it eczema |
| #39, aired 2025-04-30 | WAS THAT ON YOUR FLASHCARDS? $2000: Spanish for "nail", in prison slang it's contraband or a place to stash it clavo |
| #9322, aired 2025-04-29 | SUFFIXES $600: It's often used in geographic names, but as Bridget Jones knows, in regular words it follows single & not much else -ton |
| #9322, aired 2025-04-29 | LEFTOVERS $800: Though it ends with a "C", the name of this bridge that connects Michigan's peninsulas ends with a "W" sound Mackinac |
| #9321, aired 2025-04-28 | QUOTABLE FICTIONAL CHARACTERS $600: "Your native language is the language of Shakespeare & Milton & the Bible", scolds this professor of phonetics Henry Higgins |
| #9321, aired 2025-04-28 | SCIENCE & NATURE $800: Kalium is the old name for this element potassium |
| #9321, aired 2025-04-28 | THE "CO" CO. $800: The As-Seen-on-TV catchphrase has helped sell products like the Pocket Fisherman from this five-letter company of Mr. Popeil Ronco |
| #9321, aired 2025-04-28 | NEVER CEASE $1000: Also meaning "unvarying", it's math talk for a variable that can assume only one value a constant |
| #9321, aired 2025-04-28 | AMERICAN LAKES & RIVERS $1600: Restored as a museum, historic Fort Ticonderoga is on the shores of this lake that's named for an explorer Lake Champlain |
| #9320, aired 2025-04-25 | THE IMPATIENT 19th CENTURY READER $200: Should've known I was in for the long haul when this novel began with an etymology section discussing "Cetus" & "Baleine" Moby-Dick |
| #9320, aired 2025-04-25 | THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE "HOME" $1200: This system of medicine that uses only the smallest doses is based on the idea that "like cures like" homeopathy |
| #9319, aired 2025-04-24 | THE LIGHT $400: This theory from 1905 is based on Einstein's insight that the speed of light does not change the (special) theory of relativity |
| #9319, aired 2025-04-24 | OBJECTION, YOUR HONOR! $800: The witness said, "Clyde told me Bonnie did it", but Clyde's not here, so that testimony isn't admissible because it's this hearsay |
| #9319, aired 2025-04-24 | ANATOMICAL PHRASES $800: Quick-sounding term for a sudden feeling of euphoria, or a feeling of dizziness when you get up too fast a head rush |
| #9319, aired 2025-04-24 | ANATOMICAL PHRASES $1000: As a noun, it's a bony covering for a joint; as a verb, it means to disable that joint, or to really mess someone or something up a kneecap |
| #9319, aired 2025-04-24 | TRIPPING $1600: The hills are alive with skiing at this Vermont resort where you can stay at the Trapp Family Lodge Stowe |
| #9318, aired 2025-04-23 | MAKING SOME POUR DECISIONS $200: Ooo, a Havana cocktail... that's pineapple juice, lemon juice & this potent potable... sounds perfect rum |
| #9318, aired 2025-04-23 | MAKING SOME POUR DECISIONS $400: How 'bout a round of this Mexican beer with 2 red X's on the label that was actually created by a German man, Wilhelm Hasse Dos Equis |
| #9318, aired 2025-04-23 | A PREMIERE MUSICAL EVENT $400: Prague's Estates Theatre was home to the 1787 world premiere of "Don Giovanni" by this man who conducted that night as well Mozart |
| #9318, aired 2025-04-23 | DIFFICULT BUT FUNNY TV CHARACTERS $400: "I'm not fat, I'm festively plump", said this "South Park" kid, & we will respect his authoritah (Eric) Cartman |
| #9318, aired 2025-04-23 | MAKING SOME POUR DECISIONS $600: This "Old No. 7" whiskey is "mellowed ... through 10 feet of sugar maple charcoal", but mellow feelings may or may not follow Jack Daniels |
| #9318, aired 2025-04-23 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $800: Like Patagonia, New Zealand's Central Otago region claims the most southerly of these planted areas that bring joy to oenophiles a vineyard |
| #9317, aired 2025-04-22 | I'LL TAKE THAT ACTION $400: Zach Braff's payout for an on-set bet: an outgoing message recorded by this fellow actor known as the "Voice of God" Morgan Freeman |
| #9317, aired 2025-04-22 | SECRETS OF THE PENGUINS $1000: Known for their crafty yellow crest, this type of penguin that shares its name with a pasta is the world's most numerous at 12 million macaroni |
| #9317, aired 2025-04-22 | I'LL TAKE THAT ACTION $1200: A bet with the rival team's mayor is now a Super Bowl tradition for Mayor Quinton Lucas of this city; his fave wager? Barbecue Kansas City |
| #9317, aired 2025-04-22 | HOT SPOTS $1600: It's a mystery why this part of the Sun that stretches far out into space is millions of degrees hotter than the Sun's surface the corona |
| #9317, aired 2025-04-22 | MUSIC ON TV $2000: As "Hannibal", this actor plays a bit of the "Goldberg" variations, also heard in "The Silence of the Lambs" Mads Mikkelsen |
| #9316, aired 2025-04-21 | MAKEUP THROUGH HISTORY $200: What's been called the oldest type of this makeup is a 4,000-year-old "tube" in Iran that contains bright red hematite lipstick |
| #9316, aired 2025-04-21 | THAT'S SO GANGSTER (MOVIE) $400: In "Scarface", Tony Montana rises to wealth dealing this drug but goes down in a hail of bullets cocaine |
| #9316, aired 2025-04-21 | SCIENCE FICTION $400: The title refers to cataclysms that can last for years in N.K. Jemisin's Hugo Award winner "The Fifth" this (4 is more standard) Season |
| #9316, aired 2025-04-21 | THAT'S SO GANGSTER (MOVIE) $800: As Ray Liotta explains, the title of this Martin Scorsese film is mob slang for fellow gangsters Goodfellas |
| #9316, aired 2025-04-21 | THAT'S SO GANGSTER (MOVIE) $1200: This 1991 film about gang violence in South Central L.A. helped popularize a slang contraction for an inner-city area Boyz n the Hood |
| #9316, aired 2025-04-21 | THAT'S SO GANGSTER (MOVIE) $1600: In "The Godfather", Robert Duvall plays a savvy Corleone family member with this title, Italian for "counselor" consigliere |
| #9316, aired 2025-04-21 | THAT'S SO GANGSTER (MOVIE) $2000: This Japanese word for gangsters is the title of a 1974 Robert Mitchum movie yakuza |
| #9315, aired 2025-04-18 | THE ARTS $400: Thick varnish was the reason for this byname of Rembrandt's 1642 painting of a militia company The Night Watch |
| #9315, aired 2025-04-18 | AROUND THE PACIFIC $1200: A name that literally translates to "northern sea route" is fitting for this most northerly of Japan's main islands Hokkaido |
| #9315, aired 2025-04-18 | 6-LETTER VOCAB $1600: It's a German noun referring to a trashy work of art, yet one that some can't help but love kitsch |
| #9314, aired 2025-04-17 | SILVER $200: In a classic Spanish novel, this squire tells his wife Teresa, "Every man was not born with a silver spoon in his mouth" Sancho Panza |
| #9314, aired 2025-04-17 | SILVER $400: In 2024 this restaurant offered a free piece of fish or chicken on Talk Like a Pirate Day Long John Silver's |
| #9314, aired 2025-04-17 | GAME OVER, MAN! IT'S GAME OVER! $400: You placed a bet on the pass line & rolled a 3; that was quick, better luck next time craps |
| #9314, aired 2025-04-17 | OFF THE SHELVES $1000: A New York court ruled that his "Tropic of Cancer" was "flagrantly obscene" & "dirt for dirt's sake"; ouch! (Henry) Miller |
| #9313, aired 2025-04-16 | BOOKS & WAR $1200: The "this & that" title format of the great Russian novels continued with Vasily Grossman's "Life & Fate", about this 1942-43 battle Stalingrad |
| #9312, aired 2025-04-15 | STARTS WITH "SC" $400: We'll get to the point--it's a sword with a curved blade that was mostly used in the Middle East a scimitar |
| #9312, aired 2025-04-15 | WHAT'S IN YOUR WALLET? $800: Why do I have one of these bills that even the Bureau of Engraving & Printing says "for most of their history... have been unpopular" a $2 bill |
| #9312, aired 2025-04-15 | FAMOUS LAST LYRICS $1600: 2002:
"I better have you naked by the end of this song" "Rock Your Body" |
| #9312, aired 2025-04-15 | GOVERNMENT JOBS $2000: In 1881 William Walter Phelps got the job this assassin wanted as envoy to Austria Guiteau |
| #9311, aired 2025-04-14 | QUOTING THE TARANTINO FILM $200: "That should do it. Here are your names. Mr. Brown. Mr. White. Mr. Blonde. Mr. Blue. Mr. Orange. Mr. Pink" Reservoir Dogs |
| #9311, aired 2025-04-14 | OH, MARY! $400: (Cole Escola as Mary Todd Lincoln presents the clue.) Dated April 2, 1865, Abe's last known letter to me included word from this top general that Sheridan, with his cavalry & the Fifth Corps, had captured three brigades of infantry; oh, Abe, always the romantic Grant |
| #9311, aired 2025-04-14 | IN THE DICTIONARY $400: Latin for "to draw around" gives us this word that can mean to draw a circle that touches all a square's corners circumscribe |
| #9311, aired 2025-04-14 | TV TITLE CHANGE A LETTER $800: Donald Glover's superspy on Amazon is replaced on the wedding cake by Jimmy of "NYPD Blue" Mr. & Mrs. Smits |
| #9311, aired 2025-04-14 | OH! THESE WORLD CITIES END IN "O" $1600: Founded in the 16th century, this seaport city of Central Chile has been home to the country's national congress since 1990 Valparaiso |
| #9310, aired 2025-04-11 | AUTHORS' ALMA MATERS $400: After he was barred from contributing to Dartmouth's humor magazine, Ted Geisel began submitting pieces under this middle name Seuss |
| #9309, aired 2025-04-10 | LATIN CLASS $400: "Pax et Amor", part of the motto of Miles College, means this, which Ringo Starr can get behind peace & love (love & peace) |
| #9309, aired 2025-04-10 | THERE'S NO A IN COUNTRY $1200: Its embassy in Washington, D.C. notes that this principality is roughly the geographic size of Washington, D.C. Liechtenstein |
| #9309, aired 2025-04-10 | LATIN CLASS $1600: Some philosophers think there's no such thing as this Latin-named type of knowledge that's independent of experience a priori knowledge |
| #9309, aired 2025-04-10 | A BRIEF MEDICAL TALK $1600: Let's not gloss over the fact that gloss-pertains to this body part the tongue |
| #9309, aired 2025-04-10 | THERE'S NO A IN COUNTRY $2000: Benin is the only country without an a that borders this 5-letter nation; Mali, Chad & 4 others fail the test Niger |
| #9308, aired 2025-04-09 | OUR GREEN PLANET $1600: It's thought that this tree also called a maidenhair tree was first cultivated in China 1,000 years ago a ginkgo |
| #9307, aired 2025-04-08 | TALK O' TUESDAY $600: This redundantly titled Taylor Swift breakup song begins, "Once upon a time, I believe it was a Tuesday when I caught your eye" "Forever And Always" |
| #9307, aired 2025-04-08 | NOT GOING ANYWHERE $1600: On the BBC since 1942, people have chosen these "Discs" for a place you can't leave; Colin Firth wants Mahler & Curtis Mayfield Desert Island (Discs) |
| #9306, aired 2025-04-07 | EAR, EAR $600: Low frequencies stimulate the top of the spiral in this inner ear organ that's coiled 2 1/2 times around a central pillar the cochlea |
| #9306, aired 2025-04-07 | FINE $800: The company that's now just GSK still had this longer name when it got a $3 billion fine in part for promoting drugs for unapproved uses GlaxoSmithKline |
| #9306, aired 2025-04-07 | HABITATS FOR HUMANITY $1200: Saltbox is a variation on this style of house that's common in New England & named for a coastal region there Cape Cod |
| #9305, aired 2025-04-04 | YOUR VERB FORM IS MOST IRREGULAR $400: This past participle is a noun meaning a basic condition; you must phrase your response as a question--that's one of these a given |
| #9305, aired 2025-04-04 | YOUR VERB FORM IS MOST IRREGULAR $1200: In a famous Brent Musburger call, it's the past participle that follows "Flutie flushed... throws it down..." caught |
| #9305, aired 2025-04-04 | VAN'S THE MAN $2000: This physicist discovered 2 radiation belts that surround the Earth & got his name on them Van Allen |
| #9305, aired 2025-04-04 | ANNUAL EVENTS $2,400 (Daily Double): In 2024 this 3-week competition began in Florence & for the first time in its history, ended in Nice, due to the Olympics the Tour de France |
| #9304, aired 2025-04-03 | JAVA FACTS $400: It's a manual or electrical device used to pulverize your coffee beans that sounds like a dating app a grinder |
| #9303, aired 2025-04-02 | TO THE MOON & BACK $200: Stepping onto the Moon, Pete Conrad: "Whoopie! Man, that may have been a small one for" him, "but that's a long one for me" Armstrong |
| #9303, aired 2025-04-02 | PLACING THE SONG $200: Bienvenidos a this Will Smith song, which sampled "And The Beat Goes On" by The Whispers Miami |
| #9303, aired 2025-04-02 | I LOVE YOU $200: The annual holiday on this date is said to have roots in Lupercalia, a Roman festival that was actually held the day after February 14 |
| #9303, aired 2025-04-02 | 7-LETTER WORDS $800: To the Pueblo people, it's an ancestor spirit that may bring rain, or a person or object dressed as one kachina |
| #9303, aired 2025-04-02 | I LOVE YOU $1000: A Babylonian Pyramus scheme goes awry when that hero thinks this woman & love of his life has been killed by a lion Thisbe |
| #9303, aired 2025-04-02 | FAREWELL TO FRANCE $1600: For the young U.S. he created a city design that included a "Public Walk", today known as the National Mall L'Enfant |
| #9302, aired 2025-04-01 | GEOGRAPH"E" $400: This largest & busiest island in the Tuscan archipelago had a famous visitor from 1814 to 1815 Elba |
| #9302, aired 2025-04-01 | THE OLD WEST $400: Let's take an excursion east to Hartford & the dome & horse statue of this company that made the gun that won the West Colt |
| #9302, aired 2025-04-01 | I DON'T FEEL SEEN $1600: Silicon Valley was the birthplace of this brand that's a clear alternative to braces Invisalign |
| #9302, aired 2025-04-01 | NEW TO THE OED $1600: It's a 2-word term for a hinged computer or phone display that can be folded in for storage or out for use a flip screen |
| #9302, aired 2025-04-01 | BIOLOGY $2000: It's not a shaped vessel that kids poor gooey stuff into, it's the spore-producing, forest floor-loving organism here a slime mold |
| #9301, aired 2025-03-31 | IT'S AS BIG AS A WHALE $400: Viper, a wooden one of these at a Six Flags, boasts a first drop that's "a stomach-flipping 10 stories tall" a roller coaster |
| #9301, aired 2025-03-31 | FLORENCE + THE SIMPLE MACHINE $600: Dog days are over for Florence after she fixed a cracked this, a central steel rod that gets torque from a car's transmission an axle |
| #9301, aired 2025-03-31 | IT'S AS BIG AS A WHALE $800: Apt name for a type of Viking vessel that once dominated the seas, it could reach more than 75 feet & replicas have gone to 100 a longboat (longship) |
| #9301, aired 2025-03-31 | FLORENCE + THE SIMPLE MACHINE $800: DIY-lovin' Florence enjoys her collection of these, including self-tapping, lag & flat-head wood ones screws |
| #9301, aired 2025-03-31 | RHYME TIME $1000: A belligerent aloe or cactus a truculent succulent |
| #9300, aired 2025-03-28 | WELL, THAT'S JUST SCIENCE $400: Let's put it on the table--it's the result of Na & Cl getting together table salt (sodium chloride) |
| #9300, aired 2025-03-28 | BUSINESS TERMS $400: Look up! It's this term for the ongoing costs of a business' operation that aren't related to creating a product or service overhead |
| #9300, aired 2025-03-28 | MODERN LINGO $600: Did someone just walk up & overshare, unsolicited, every awful thing that's happened to them? That's textbook this dumping trauma dumping |
| #9300, aired 2025-03-28 | WELL, THAT'S JUST SCIENCE $800: (Melissa Peterman presents the clue.) After being on "Young Sheldon" for 30-plus episodes, I can finally say it--a subatomic particle's position & momentum can't be accurately determined at the same time, says his Uncertainty Principle. Oh, that felt good. Ungh! Heisenberg |
| #9300, aired 2025-03-28 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $1000: Grab a chair & enjoy the view from these mountains that include New York's highest point, Mount Marcy the Adirondacks |
| #9300, aired 2025-03-28 | WELL, THAT'S JUST SCIENCE $1200: Boasting a silent "G" & a bunch of feldspar & quartz, this metamorphic rock sounds perfectly pleasant gneiss |
| #9300, aired 2025-03-28 | WELL, THAT'S JUST SCIENCE $1600: "Sexual Behavior in the Human Male" was examined in a 1948 bestseller by this human male Kinsey |
| #9300, aired 2025-03-28 | WELL, THAT'S JUST SCIENCE $2000: A 2018 study shows the Bajau people have an enlarged this organ that releases extra red blood cells to make diving easier spleen |
| #9299, aired 2025-03-27 | AT THE MALL $400: Let's get mom a charm bracelet from this jewelry store that has the name of a mythic woman Pandora |
| #9299, aired 2025-03-27 | PASS THE "OX" $400: Often found in stew, as in Jamaican cooking, it's a cow's flyswatter that's braised until it's tender & succulent oxtail |
| #9299, aired 2025-03-27 | HOT TOPIC $600: A hot topic of conversation in August 2024 was that she had become the most decorated female U.S. Olympian of all time Katie Ledecky |
| #9299, aired 2025-03-27 | DICK'S SPORTING: GOOD $800: Canadian swimmer & anti-doping activist Dick Pound was a 44-year member of this body that oversees some big games the IOC (the Olympic Committee) |
| #9299, aired 2025-03-27 | HOT TOPIC $800: This 4-letter co. was a very hot topic in early 2025 after plans to drop fact-checking to combat "censorship"; we won't follow suit Meta |
| #9298, aired 2025-03-26 | HAT TRICKS $600: That's not a hat, that's a knife! & now it's a hat named for this region & worn by none other than Crocodile Dundee himself! an Outback hat |
| #9298, aired 2025-03-26 | "I" ON THE MAP $800: With more than 13 million people, it's the only major city in the world that straddles 2 continents Istanbul |
| #9297, aired 2025-03-25 | THEN, VOYAGER $400: "Erik the Red's Saga" says that this son of Erik was blown off course & ended up in grape-laden North America Leif Erikson |
| #9297, aired 2025-03-25 | HIPPO-POURRI $800: A blue hippo from Egypt's Middle Kingdom is the unofficial mascot of this New York City museum that displays him the Metropolitan Museum (of Art) |
| #9297, aired 2025-03-25 | WOMEN ON TV $800: A regular on "30 Rock", she's more recently hosted a reboot of "Name That Tune"; I can name that actress in... Jane Krakowski |
| #9297, aired 2025-03-25 | PLEAD THE 5th $2000: Do we have an E.T.A. on that? Oh yes, 1810, when his glowing review of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony helped immortalize the work E.T.A. Hoffman |
| #9296, aired 2025-03-24 | 10-LETTER WORDS $200: This type of pressure is that of the Earth's atmosphere; it can be measured in millibars of mercury barometric |
| #9296, aired 2025-03-24 | TWIN "C"s $400: Calcium carbonate mixed with marble & glue can make this plaster-like substance that gives buildings that durable finish stucco |
| #9296, aired 2025-03-24 | TV SLEUTHING $600: It's no mystery that Nathan Fillion starred as this title novelist who helped the NYPD on a murder or 100 Castle |
| #9296, aired 2025-03-24 | JOHNNY ON THE AXE $1200: Mocked by fans as "Johnny Salami", he more than holds his own shredding on the guitar with Dead & Company John Mayer |
| #9295, aired 2025-03-21 | LOST IN AMERICA $200: Whoooa... I was in Vegas last night, but that's the U. of Nevada's flagship campus... how'd I get to this city also big on gambling? Reno |
| #9295, aired 2025-03-21 | A SONG FOR ALL SEASONS $400: "I'm drunk in the back of the car, and I cried like a baby" while doing this, reported Taylor Swift of her "Cruel Summer" coming home from the bar |
| #9295, aired 2025-03-21 | LANGUAGE OF THE DEVOUT? $800: There's a synonym for benediction in this idiom meaning something that at first seemed ominous but turned out well a blessing in disguise |
| #9295, aired 2025-03-21 | FRIED & GONE TO HEAVEN $1000: From the French, this deep-fried New Orleans staple is a yeast pastry that's soft as--but more delicious than--a pillow a beignet |
| #9295, aired 2025-03-21 | LANGUAGE OF THE DEVOUT? $2000: Hindu belief led to this phrase for an idea that is widely accepted & that you question at your peril a sacred cow |
| #9295, aired 2025-03-21 | CAUGHT CHIMPING $2000: In "Rise of the Planet of the Apes", James Franco is tight with the chimp that has this Roman name; he's a real Serkis animal Caesar |
| #9294, aired 2025-03-20 | THAT'S A FACT $200: Time to belly up to the bar, & the drink is on me! It's the main potent potable in a Cuba libre rum |
| #9294, aired 2025-03-20 | ANCIENT GREEK THEATER $400: As well as letting one actor play multiple parts, these projected the voice like a megaphone the mask |
| #9294, aired 2025-03-20 | THE 1300s $400: Culture in China flourished under this dynasty that began ruling in 1368 the Ming |
| #9294, aired 2025-03-20 | THAT'S A FACT $400: Established in 1947, this Major League Baseball award has never been won twice by the same player Rookie of the Year |
| #9294, aired 2025-03-20 | YANGTZE! $600: Parts of the Yangtze are home to the giant type of this amphibian, which can weigh over 100 pounds & wails like a crying infant salamander |
| #9294, aired 2025-03-20 | THAT'S A FACT $600: Forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan returned for book 19 in the series, "A Conspiracy of" these body parts bones |
| #9294, aired 2025-03-20 | THAT'S A FACT $800: Established in 2021, it's the next federal holiday after Memorial Day Juneteenth |
| #9294, aired 2025-03-20 | POETS & POETRY $800: Now this was a guy big into odes, but if I had to pick, that one on the urn, with "mad pursuit" & "wild ecstasy"? that's a nifty ode! Keats |
| #9294, aired 2025-03-20 | THAT'S A FACT $1000: This school whose Welsh name means "high hill" was the first women's college to offer the Ph.D. Bryn Mawr |
| #9293, aired 2025-03-19 | TOUGH 7-LETTER WORDS $400: From the Latin for "blot out", it's what you want the authorities to do to the records of that crime you committed years ago expunge |
| #9293, aired 2025-03-19 | TALKIN' 'BOUT MY GENERATION $400: Covering births from 1965 to 1980 & obviously the best generation, it's aka the MTV generation, but that's just too many letters Generation X |
| #9293, aired 2025-03-19 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $600: Gyaku-Gire, the anger of one who's in the wrong, is also a Panda trading card in this world that sometimes outsells Pokémon Yu-Gi-Oh! |
| #9292, aired 2025-03-18 | THE ROAD TAKEN $200: You can go from I-80 to U.S. 101 at Showplace Square in this city & head south for Los Angeles San Francisco |
| #9292, aired 2025-03-18 | THE DISNEY VILLAIN WHO SAID... $200: "That's enough. Off with their heads" the Queen of Hearts |
| #9292, aired 2025-03-18 | NOW THAT'S ITALIAN $200: Possibly based on the uniforms of an 18th century Milanese militia, the Italian flag is made up of stripes of these 3 colors white, red & green |
| #9292, aired 2025-03-18 | THE DISNEY VILLAIN WHO SAID... $400: "All that's left now is to kill Elsa... and bring back summer" Hans |
| #9292, aired 2025-03-18 | NOW THAT'S ITALIAN $400: On an Italian menu, capelli d'angelo means this type of pasta angel hair |
| #9292, aired 2025-03-18 | NOW THAT'S ITALIAN $600: The top prize at the Venice Film Festival is a winged one of these, which also adorns that city's St. Mark's Basilica a (Golden) Lion |
| #9292, aired 2025-03-18 | NOW THAT'S ITALIAN $800: After about 140 years of using this monetary unit, in 1999 Italy made the euro its official currency the lira |
| #9292, aired 2025-03-18 | NOW THAT'S ITALIAN $1000: Italy's 60th UNESCO World Heritage Site is this road that dates to 312 B.C. the Appian Way |
| #9292, aired 2025-03-18 | AT THE BALLET $2000: Scottish ballet's staging of this Russian's tale sometimes had a Princess Charming dancing off with a Cinderfella Prokofiev |
| #9292, aired 2025-03-18 | "A"UTHORS $2000: This postmodern novelist who died in 2024 & gained fame with "The New York Trilogy" lived & worked specifically in Brooklyn Paul Auster |
| #9291, aired 2025-03-17 | IT'S A BIRD! IT'S A PLANE! IT'S A NEBULA! $600: These eagles that share a name with a derogatory word for a mean wife are monogamous for 30+ years & presumably happy harpy eagles |
| #9291, aired 2025-03-17 | FROM A TEEN'S BOOK REPORT $800: Edgar Linton reps Thrushcross Grange, has got some serious ducats & is fittin' to rizz up Cathy Wuthering Heights |
| #9291, aired 2025-03-17 | "BAD" ENTERTAINMENT $1000: This 1954 novel that introduced little Rhoda Penmark, every parent's nightmare, soon came to the stage & screen The Bad Seed |
| #9290, aired 2025-03-14 | YESTERDAY'S NEWS $400: In 962 Pope John XII--to repeat, the pope--crowned the ruler of what would be this empire that ended about 850 years later the Holy Roman Empire |
| #9290, aired 2025-03-14 | WHAT DID YOU DO WITH THAT POTATO? $800: The NP, this railroad through Idaho, used a skewer through the middle to cook enormous baked potatoes to diner's delight the Northern Pacific |
| #9290, aired 2025-03-14 | IF THESE WALLS COULD TALK $1200: Hadrian's Wall might tell you about the boar symbol of the 20th this, one of the military units that built it (Roman) Legion |
| #9290, aired 2025-03-14 | CELEBRITY HOMETOWNS $2000: He had a good time taking his TV co-workers Katy Perry & Lionel Richie home to Leesburg, Georgia Luke Bryan |
| #9289, aired 2025-03-13 | THAT'S QUITE A 'STACHE! $400: His mustache became bushier over the years & was perhaps the most famous one in science Einstein |
| #9289, aired 2025-03-13 | BEASTLY VERBS $600: It's a burrowing mammal, a nickname for a resident of a Midwest state & a verb that means to annoy badger |
| #9289, aired 2025-03-13 | THAT'S QUITE A 'STACHE! $800: He was the last president to sport a 'stache Taft |
| #9289, aired 2025-03-13 | YES, WE HALVE THAT $800: Solomon calls for a child to be cut in half in 1 this Bible book, but of course there's a wise method to the seeming madness Kings |
| #9289, aired 2025-03-13 | THAT'S QUITE A 'STACHE! $1200: Two of the leaders of the Mexican Revolution were the mustachioed Pancho Villa & this Tiger of Morelos Zapata |
| #9289, aired 2025-03-13 | THAT'S QUITE A 'STACHE! $1600: Perhaps it was his mustache that gave this superman philosopher his strength Nietzsche |
| #9289, aired 2025-03-13 | THAT'S QUITE A 'STACHE! $2000: This mustachioed composer was best known for his opera "Pagliacci" Leoncavallo |
| #9287, aired 2025-03-11 | YIKES, YOU GOT A "V" IN MATH $400: In algebra, it's a letter or symbol that stands in for an unknown value a variable |
| #9287, aired 2025-03-11 | IT'S HYPHENATED $400: It describes a statue of Julius Randle that's 6'8" tall life-size |
| #9287, aired 2025-03-11 | STATE CAPITOLS $1200: Massachusetts' state house sits atop this Boston Hill on land that once served as John Hancock's cow pasture Beacon Hill |
| #9287, aired 2025-03-11 | THE BUSINESS OF SHOW $1200: In 2024 nepo billionaire David Ellison made a deal to acquire control of this studio that made 2 "Top Gun"s & "Double Indemnity" Paramount |
| #9286, aired 2025-03-10 | BASEBALL HALL OF FAME PLAQUES $200: "Holder of more than a score of Major and American League records, including that of playing 2,130 consecutive games" Lou Gehrig |
| #9286, aired 2025-03-10 | LIKE PULLING TEETH $200: It's the part of a tooth above the gumline, or the gold cap that might go over it a crown |
| #9286, aired 2025-03-10 | MISCELLAN-"E" $400: The only U.S. House standing committee with the same number of members from each party is this one that polices member misconduct the Ethics Committee |
| #9286, aired 2025-03-10 | AUSTRALIAN HISTORY $800: The 1851 discovery of this transformed the city of Ballarat, a place that's pivotal in a Sherlock Holmes story gold |
| #9286, aired 2025-03-10 | AROUND THE GLOBE $1,000 (Daily Double): The name of this South American capital refers to a feast day honoring the Virgin Mary Asunción |
| #9286, aired 2025-03-10 | PARTS OF THE BOOK $1600: Remedios the beauty, the daughter of Arcadio, mysteriously floats up to the heavens in this 1967 novel One Hundred Years of Solitude |
| #9286, aired 2025-03-10 | CELEBRITY MENTORS $2000: (Sheryl Lee Ralph presents the clue.) I got my first break & my first film role when this legend hired me to play an outspoken teen named Barbara Hanley in 1977's "A Piece of the Action"; he became a mentor offering encouragement & advice at the start of my career, lessons that I still carry with me Sidney Poitier |
| #9284, aired 2025-03-06 | WHAT'S FOR LUNCH? $200: The Spanish word for bread is hiding inside the name of this Latin American turnover that usually has a savory filling an empanada |
| #9284, aired 2025-03-06 | CANADIANA $600: Justin Trudeau was Canada's 10th prime minister of this party that dominated that job in the 20th century Liberal |
| #9284, aired 2025-03-06 | ADVERBS $800: "Don't take it" this way is an advice book subtitled "The Art of Dealing with Rejection" personally |
| #9284, aired 2025-03-06 | HIP-HOP & RELIGION $1200: Coolio references the 23rd Psalm on this lead single from the "Dangerous Minds" soundtrack (please don't say the hard "ER") "Gangsta's Paradise" |
| #9284, aired 2025-03-06 | ADVERBS $1600: Rob Lowe named his podcast this, like his character's catchphrase on "Parks & Recreation" Literally! |
| #9283, aired 2025-03-05 | ALL THE NON-HUMAN BOOK CHARACTERS $600: A motto of Boxer, the cart horse in "Animal Farm", was that this character "is always right" Napoleon |
| #9283, aired 2025-03-05 | DOCUMENT DUDES $800: The Roosevelt Corollary said that this statement gives the U.S. the right to butt into Latin America; the Clark Memorandum says not Monroe Doctrine |
| #9283, aired 2025-03-05 | RECENT MOVIES $800: As this character in "Dune: Part Two", Timothée Chalamet unites with the Fremen to help seek his revenge on his enemies Paul |
| #9283, aired 2025-03-05 | LAYING DOWN THE LAW $9,600 (Daily Double): The D.O.J. states that elements of this paired crime involve the "intent to facilitate the commission of a crime by another" aiding & abetting |
| #34, aired 2025-03-05 | 10-LETTER WORDS $200 (Daily Double): It's how "U" might describe everything that's everywhere all at once ubiquitous |
| #34, aired 2025-03-05 | CITIES ENDING IN "CITY" $200: El Museo del Canal is a top tourist attraction in this Central American capital city Panama City |
| #34, aired 2025-03-05 | CIVIL RIGHTS SONGS $200: Pete Seeger sang "We Shall Overcome" at a 1957 event attended by this man who allegedly said, "There's something about that song..." Martin Luther King |
| #34, aired 2025-03-05 | DUDE, WHAT'S YOUR SIGN? $400: Considering he's known as pro golf's "GOAT", it makes sense that Tiger Woods was born on December 30 under this sign Capricorn |
| #34, aired 2025-03-05 | CITIES ENDING IN "CITY" $1000: Just across the Hudson River from Manhattan's Financial District, this Garden State city is nicknamed "Wall Street West" Jersey City |
| #34, aired 2025-03-05 | JEOPARDY! IS EVERYWHERE $1,500 (Daily Double): On a 1998 episode of this show, Alex Trebek gets rescued by lifeguards; once he's ashore, he has a scene with David Hasselhoff Baywatch |
| #9282, aired 2025-03-04 | STARTS WITH A BODY PART $800: It's the extremely pleasant name for that itty bitty bouquet of flowers a nosegay |
| #9282, aired 2025-03-04 | POETICA BOTANICA $800: Robert Burns compared his love to "a red, red" this "that's newly sprung in June" rose |
| #9281, aired 2025-03-03 | IN YE OLDE 18th CENTURY BOOKSHOPPE $400: Hey, Alexander Pope? Your 1711 "Essay on" this? We've got a few notes Criticism |
| #9281, aired 2025-03-03 | POTPOURR-ONLY-E $600: Meaning utmost or ultimate but not starting with U, it's also the name of a band that provided "More Than Words" Extreme |
| #9280, aired 2025-02-28 | SOCIAL TYPES $800: 3-word self-description by Taylor Swift as she endorsed Kamala Harris a childless cat lady |
| #9280, aired 2025-02-28 | USE YOUR WORD WORDS $800: It's been said that a language is this regional form "with an army & a navy" a dialect |
| #9280, aired 2025-02-28 | NOT TODAY, SATIN! $1000: Any goat besides an Angora can provide this material made from the soft, downy undercoat, shed in early spring cashmere |
| #9280, aired 2025-02-28 | PERIOD ENTERTAINMENT $5,800 (Daily Double): "The Night That Goldman Spoke in Union Square" is a song from this musical named for a music style that defined an era Ragtime |
| #9279, aired 2025-02-27 | OF (GREEK) MYTHICAL PROPORTIONS $200: You know that it'd be untrue, though it's said he played the lyre, if I was to say to you, this Greek sun god sang "Light My Fire" Apollo |
| #9279, aired 2025-02-27 | LOOK & SEE THE DOUBLE VOWELS $400: It's this job:
Now who wants to bid $100 I hear $100 thank you do I hear 2 yes 2 OK now 4! $400 once... twice... sold for $400! an auctioneer |
| #9279, aired 2025-02-27 | WHAT'S THE USE? $400: Alexis Fraser & Katherine Mason are known for making art using this cosmetic that comes in tubes, like oil paint does lipstick |
| #9279, aired 2025-02-27 | "X" MARKS THE BRAND $600: This gum brand makes Refreshers, gum that's coated in tiny crystals with a chewy center Extra |
| #9279, aired 2025-02-27 | ONE-WORD ANAGRAMS $800: A recount usually happens when neither opponent has done this to the other:
RECOUNT trounce |
| #9279, aired 2025-02-27 | THE 15th CENTURY $800: This Wallachian prince picked up his killing-method-based nickname in battles against the Ottoman Turks Vlad the Impaler |
| #9279, aired 2025-02-27 | "X" MARKS THE BRAND $1000: Here's the logo of this clothing brand that has been around since 1991 Armani Exchange |
| #9279, aired 2025-02-27 | BRITISH ISLES GEOGRAPHY $1200: The "Garden of England", the county of Kent in the southeast is also home to Folkestone, a terminal of this 31-mile marvel the Channel Tunnel (the Chunnel) |
| #9279, aired 2025-02-27 | SONGS ABOUT BUILDINGS & FOOD $1200: No subtext in this hit by DNCE that mentions "lickin' frosting from your own hands": it's surely about dessert on the beach "Cake By The Ocean" |
| #9279, aired 2025-02-27 | ONE-WORD ANAGRAMS $2000: This adjective that might apply to a nonscientist's way of thinking:
NONSCIENTIST inconsistent |
| #9278, aired 2025-02-26 | ALL ABOUT ANIMALS $5 (Daily Double): These pointy denizens of the ocean were actually named after an earlier word for hedgehogs sea urchins |
| #9278, aired 2025-02-26 | SECOND LETTER "Y" $400: This North American tree throws a lot of shade & its peeling bark can look like camouflage a sycamore |
| #9278, aired 2025-02-26 | MONTHS THAT START WITH FEB $400: Perhaps in the spirit of George Washington's birthday, National this dessert Day is celebrated on February 20 cherry pie |
| #9278, aired 2025-02-26 | MONTHS THAT START WITH FEB $800: This English chocolate company is credited with introducing the heart-shaped box of chocolates on Valentine's in 1868 Cadbury |
| #9278, aired 2025-02-26 | MONTHS THAT START WITH FEB $1000: This group went to work for the first time in February 1790 with John Jay presiding the U.S. Supreme Court |
| #9278, aired 2025-02-26 | SECOND LETTER "Y" $1000: To the Greeks it was 10,000 specifically, but we think of it as being innumerable or an abundance of something myriad |
| #9278, aired 2025-02-26 | ALLITERATION $1600: This pair of words is in the title of books that collect the pithy quotes of Oscar Wilde, Abraham Lincoln & others wit & wisdom |
| #9278, aired 2025-02-26 | 4-LETTER CITIES $1600: This picturesque Austrian city on the Danube claims its namesake torte is the oldest cake named for a city Linz |
| #9278, aired 2025-02-26 | POETS GO TO THE CINEMA $1600: John Murillo name-drops Bruce Lee & Jim Kelly in a poem named for this 1973 martial arts film Enter the Dragon |
| #9278, aired 2025-02-26 | ALLITERATION $3,500 (Daily Double): This pair that tests one's forbearance sounds redundant; the phrase was used about St. Paul's epistle to the Romans trials & tribulations |
| #33, aired 2025-02-26 | ABBA $300: In a 1979 song, it's the lyric that follows "Gimme, gimme, gimme" a man after midnight |
| #33, aired 2025-02-26 | HEY "BRA" $400: In 1998 Time magazine put this actor on its list of 100 Persons of the 20th Century--now that's an offer he couldn't refuse! Brando |
| #33, aired 2025-02-26 | AT THE END OF THE DAY $400: Clear your brain before bed with a crossword, maybe one edited by this engimatologist, seen here Will Shortz |
| #33, aired 2025-02-26 | LITERARY LOVE TRIANGLES $500: Booktok was obsessed with the triangle between Feyre, Rhysand & Tamlin in this Y.A. romantasy series, "Acotar" to its fans A Court of Thorns and Roses |
| #33, aired 2025-02-26 | CHEEKY T-SHIRTS: GEOGRAPHY EDITION $600: 2 "slogans" that appear on T-shirts for this U.S. state are "come cut the cheese" & "come smell our dairy air" Wisconsin |
| #33, aired 2025-02-26 | SOUNDS DELICIOUS! $800: Arguably the first supergroup, these Rock & Roll Hall of Famers hit it big with "White Room" & "Sunshine Of Your Love" Cream |
| #33, aired 2025-02-26 | NEW YORK TIMES $1200: 9:30 A.M.--in 1985, this Wall Street "Big Board" opens at a new time; it's been that way ever since the New York Stock Exchange |
| #33, aired 2025-02-26 | CHEEKY T-SHIRTS: GEOGRAPHY EDITION $1500: It's the panhandle state on T-shirts that brazenly offer this accusation: "looks and smells like a sweaty foam finger" Oklahoma |
| #33, aired 2025-02-26 | CHEEKY T-SHIRTS: GEOGRAPHY EDITION $3,000 (Daily Double): It's the U.S. state on a saucy T-shirt that notes it's been "spooning with New Hampshire since 1791" Vermont |
| #9277, aired 2025-02-25 | SOMETHING TO READ $400: "The Edge of Reason" continues this fictional diarist's misadventures that involve ending up in a prison in Thailand Bridget Jones |
| #9276, aired 2025-02-24 | SEVERANCE $200: (Britt Lower presents the clue.) In this 1886 story that's become synonymous with leading a double life, one change is a pair of hands going from firm & white to knuckle-y & hairy Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde |
| #9276, aired 2025-02-24 | CELEBRITIES $800: His memoir "From Under the Truck" chronicles being raised in Paso Robles & his roles in "Goonies" & "No Country for Old Men" Josh Brolin |
| #9276, aired 2025-02-24 | QUOTABLE 21st CENTURY FILMS $1,200 (Daily Double): Alan Arkin:
"If I'm doing a fake movie, it's gonna be a fake hit" Argo |
| #9276, aired 2025-02-24 | SMALL, MEDIUM, LARGE $1200: Moku o Keawe is the traditional equivalent of this geographic nickname that's 2 English words the Big Island |
| #9276, aired 2025-02-24 | PORTMANTEAUS $1200: It's the portmanteau word for a program that is aired at the same time on TV & radio a simulcast |
| #9276, aired 2025-02-24 | FORESTS $4,600 (Daily Double): The Bohemian Forest is mainly along Germany's border with this country to the east Czechia (the Czech Republic) |
| #9275, aired 2025-02-21 | IT'S COUNTRY MUSIC, Y'ALL $400: Mammas tried not to let their babies become them, but Kelsea Ballerini & Noah Kahan taught us that they "Cry Too" "Cowboys" |
| #9275, aired 2025-02-21 | PROLOGUES $400: Carroll's preface to this sequel includes a chess problem that underlies the book's action Through the Looking-Glass |
| #9275, aired 2025-02-21 | PROLOGUES $12,000 (Daily Double): His intro to "Nobody Knows my Name": "In America, the color of my skin had stood between myself & me; in Europe, that barrier was down" (James) Baldwin |
| #9274, aired 2025-02-20 | THAT'S MY SISTER $400: This sister of the princess of Wales has three kids, just like Kate Pippa Middleton |
| #9274, aired 2025-02-20 | MOVIES WITH CHAMPIONS $600: In a 1979 sequel this "Master of Disaster" & "Count of Monte Fisto" goes down, & Rocky Balboa wins the crown Apollo Creed |
| #9274, aired 2025-02-20 | THAT'S MY SISTER $800: Soldiers crave dry these; enter F.P. Nightingale, sis of Florence, who said a batch of knitted ones was "nearly the death of me" socks |
| #9274, aired 2025-02-20 | SEEMS LIKE OLD TIMES $1000: In 1644 China's Ming dynasty was succeeded by this one that rhymes with Ming also called the Manchu (the) Qing (dynasty) |
| #9274, aired 2025-02-20 | THAT'S MY SISTER $1200: Marie Curie's sister Bronia co-founded a Warsaw institute for this medical -ology that used Marie's radiation discoveries oncology |
| #9274, aired 2025-02-20 | YOUR CHARITY AWAITS $1200: Sarah McLachlan said her incredibly sad ads for this worthy charity are "brutal" (oof yes) but that's to "bring the wallet out" (please do!) the ASPCA |
| #9274, aired 2025-02-20 | THAT'S MY SISTER $1600: Lucy Payne, sister of this beloved first lady, married George Washington--not the first pres. but his out-of-control nephew Dolley Madison |
| #9274, aired 2025-02-20 | THAT'S MY SISTER $2000: This French family produced more than one skilled female artist; here's Edma's portrait of her sister, Berthe (Berthe) Morisot |
| #9274, aired 2025-02-20 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $2000: PCOS is short for this syndrome that may interfere with a woman's menstrual cycle polycystic ovary syndrome |
| #9274, aired 2025-02-20 | YOUR CHARITY AWAITS $5,000 (Daily Double): Each year this organization founded in 1944 awards scholarships worth more than $65 million as it aids 37 HBCUs the United Negro College Fund |
| #9274, aired 2025-02-20 | SURPRISE! SHAKESPEARE! $5,600 (Daily Double): The title of this play is fulfilled in Act V, scene 3, when Helena finally gets her Bertram All's Well That Ends Well |
| #9273, aired 2025-02-19 | LET'S PLAY SPORTS $200: If you hit for the cycle in baseball, you've gotten all of these hits in one game, & congrats! a single, a double, a triple & a home run |
| #9273, aired 2025-02-19 | I'M "DRAGON" TODAY $400: This word that follows Uther in the name of King Arthur's father is a title for ancient British chiefs Pendragon |
| #9273, aired 2025-02-19 | THE ELEMENTS $400: Symbol Mg, this element that's essential to life might help with sleep issues & prevent migraines magnesium |
| #9273, aired 2025-02-19 | LET'S PLAY SPORTS $600: A classic volleyball sequence goes bump (stop the shot), set (tee up a teammate), this powerful attacking hit that may yield a kill spike |
| #9273, aired 2025-02-19 | LACK OF ENERGY $800: A turning point in empowering U.S. labor was a 1902 strike of this state's anthracite miners, driving up prices Pennsylvania |
| #9273, aired 2025-02-19 | THE ELEMENTS $800: 27.7% of the Earth's crust is made up of this element that's used in computer chips silicon |
| #9273, aired 2025-02-19 | TOUGH VOCAB $800: French for great generosity, it starts with a word for very big largesse |
| #9273, aired 2025-02-19 | ISLAND MOUNTAINS $1600: On Hokkaido:
This mountain (the island's tallest) that shares its name with a start-of-the-alphabet Japanese beer Asahi |
| #9273, aired 2025-02-19 | RECEDING HEIR-LINES $2,400 (Daily Double): This heir, a valuable pawn after his mom & dad got the guillotine in 1793, was determined to have died in a prison Louis XVII |
| #9272, aired 2025-02-18 | THAT'S NOT A THING ANYMORE $200: A design defect left this car co.'s Pinto open to exploding & its slogan "Pinto leaves you with that warm feeling"... problematic Ford |
| #9272, aired 2025-02-18 | THAT'S NOT A THING ANYMORE $400: I don't wanna wait for you to name this '90s TV drama; I want to know right now: what will it be? Dawson's Creek |
| #9272, aired 2025-02-18 | "ISM"s $400: It's the art or sport of climbing high mountains & not necessarily the ones that gave it its name alpinism |
| #9272, aired 2025-02-18 | THAT'S NOT A THING ANYMORE $600: In 1947 the Navy Department merged with this other Cabinet department to be led by the secretary of defense the War Department |
| #9272, aired 2025-02-18 | "ISM"s $600: Sounds deadly, but it's the belief that events in life are predetermined & people are powerless to change them fatalism |
| #9272, aired 2025-02-18 | THAT'S NOT A THING ANYMORE $800: No, Lucy, you can't be in the show at this Vegas casino, as it got leveled in 2024 to, perhaps, be a new home for baseball's A's the Tropicana |
| #9272, aired 2025-02-18 | THAT'S NOT A THING ANYMORE $1000: Sickle-clawed & quick, this 40-pound dinosaur ran wild about 80 million years ago & again on film in 1993 a Velociraptor |
| #9272, aired 2025-02-18 | "ISM"s $1000: This movement in the arts & literature that began in the late 1700s emphasized passion, emotion & imagination Romanticism |
| #9272, aired 2025-02-18 | BORDERLINE $1,500 (Daily Double): Now a tourist attraction, the demilitarized zone separating these 2 countries was officially abolished in 1976 North & South Vietnam |
| #9272, aired 2025-02-18 | LIBRARIES $2000: A Baroque library in Coimbra in this country is home to a colony of bats that protect the books by eating harmful insects Portugal |
| #9272, aired 2025-02-18 | TRIPLE "A" $5,000 (Daily Double): From Sanskrit for "great", it's a person revered for wisdom & selflessness mahatma |
| #9271, aired 2025-02-17 | THE PRESIDENT IS IN TROUBLE $200: (Anthony Mackie presents the clue.) After James Garfield was shot by Charles Guiteau, Alexander Graham Bell invented an early type of this instrument to help locate the bullet lodged in the President's chest a metal detector |
| #9271, aired 2025-02-17 | THE PRESIDENT IS IN TROUBLE $400: (Anthony Mackie presents the clue.) On August 24, 1814, James Madison had time to grab a few things from the White House & get out before the British burned it; it's thought he crashed that night at an estate called Salonga near McLean in this state Virginia |
| #9271, aired 2025-02-17 | CLOTHES MINDED $400: Hindi gives us the name of this women's garment that's basically 5 to 7 yards of cloth wrapped around the body sari |
| #9271, aired 2025-02-17 | THIS & THAT $800: In a car engine the radiator dissipates heat & this other device circulates the coolant through the engine the water pump |
| #9271, aired 2025-02-17 | WE'RE TALKIN' BASEBALL $800: This new stat that sounds like it's kept by NASA is higher--more than 20 degrees on average--for a fly ball hitter launch angle |
| #9271, aired 2025-02-17 | THIS & THAT $1000: It's the name for that little dot over a lowercase i or j tittle |
| #9271, aired 2025-02-17 | ANCIENT TIMES $2,000 (Daily Double): To ancient Greek poli sci, it was rule by the few & not the best few; the Thirty Tyrants of Athens in 403 B.C. are an example an oligarchy |
| #9271, aired 2025-02-17 | 2-WORD RHYMES $4,000 (Daily Double): Magic phrase that's also a Kurt Vonnegut book title hocus pocus |
| #9270, aired 2025-02-14 | SOUNDS LIKE AN ACTOR'S NAME $400: Sounds like a son of West African U.K. immigrants:
A Lincolnesque formal speech + where your arm bends address elbow |
| #9270, aired 2025-02-14 | SOUNDS LIKE AN ACTOR'S NAME $1,000 (Daily Double): Sounds like a Batman:
3-letter term meaning to prohibit + a company with a duck symbol ban Aflac |
| #9270, aired 2025-02-14 | "IME" ON IT $1000: Unseasonably or inopportunely; Macduff was from his mother's womb that way ripped untimely |
| #9270, aired 2025-02-14 | SOUNDS LIKE AN ACTOR'S NAME $1000: Sounds like "Bad Santa":
A kid who preys on weaker ones + a plastic cover for eating lobster + an unlucky number bully bib thirteen |
| #9270, aired 2025-02-14 | GIMME SOME BACKUP $1000: Her &
the Banshees Siouxsie |
| #9270, aired 2025-02-14 | BIRD "E"s $1600: Often nesting in cactus, the world's tiniest owl is not a dwarf owl or fairy owl, but this diminutive species elf |
| #9270, aired 2025-02-14 | BIRD "E"s $2000: What a dad! The male of this penguin that can weigh around 90 pounds stands guard & warms a single egg for about 65 days emperor |
| #9270, aired 2025-02-14 | BIRD "E"s $8,400 (Daily Double): In the 1930s Australia declared a war of sorts on these large flightless birds emus |
| #9269, aired 2025-02-13 | MATHEMATICAL OVERLAPS $200: It's the distance across the center of that round glass enclosure where you raise indoor plants & animals diameterrarium |
| #9269, aired 2025-02-13 | 20th CENTURY BOOKSHELF $200: In "Tarzan of the Apes", we learn that Professor Archimedes Q. Porter is the father of this woman, the hero's beloved Jane |
| #9269, aired 2025-02-13 | 2-WORD CITIES $400: The U.S. Air Force Academy is found north of this city that includes its state in its name Colorado Springs |
| #9269, aired 2025-02-13 | THAT HAPPENED IN 2024 $400: Attention, this discount store shoppers! Opened in 1962, the last full-size one in the mainland U.S. closed in October Kmart |
| #9269, aired 2025-02-13 | CIVIL WAR PLACES $800: A Union victory in the 1864 Battle of this city on the Cumberland River ended Southern resistance in Tennessee Nashville |
| #9269, aired 2025-02-13 | MATHEMATICAL OVERLAPS $1000: It's a constant that multiplies a variable & gets into the study of bugs coefficientomologist (coefficientomology accepted) |
| #9269, aired 2025-02-13 | ART FOR ART'S SAKE $1200: Installing a doorway in the wall that holds this famous fresco in 1652, workers chopped off Jesus' feet The Last Supper |
| #9268, aired 2025-02-12 | UNESCO's INTANGIBLE CULTURAL HERITAGE $400: Ska & rock steady were contributors to this style of music that made the list for Jamaica in 2018 reggae |
| #9268, aired 2025-02-12 | DIFFERS BY A LETTER $800: A TV show with a limited number of episodes &
the duties of members of the clergy miniseries & ministries |
| #9268, aired 2025-02-12 | ON THE RUN $1200: In "Venom: The Last Dance", this actor plays two characters on the run together, & that's all I know about Venom & Eddie (Tom) Hardy |
| #9268, aired 2025-02-12 | 4, 4 $1600: Tofu sounds less appealing when you call it by this alternate name bean curd |
| #32, aired 2025-02-12 | THE SONG TITLE COMPLETES THE LYRIC (BILLY JOEL EDITION) $100: "And it seems such a waste of time, if that's what it's all about, mama if that's movin' up then I'm..." "Movin' Out" |
| #32, aired 2025-02-12 | THE SONG TITLE COMPLETES THE LYRIC (BILLY JOEL EDITION) $200: "I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints, the sinners are much more fun... You know that..." "Only The Good Die Young" |
| #32, aired 2025-02-12 | WHAT THE $%*@#&?! $300: It's the $%*@#&?! symbol seen here that Italians refer to as chiocciola, meaning "snail" the at symbol (or at sign) |
| #32, aired 2025-02-12 | ANIMAL IDIOM BRAINTEASERS: THE SEQUEL $400: You're running around in a frenzied, distracted manner:
L.A.C.W.I.H.C.O. like a chicken with its head cut off |
| #32, aired 2025-02-12 | SCI-"FI" $500: This technology transmits information as tiny pulses of light through thin transparent wires fiber optics |
| #32, aired 2025-02-12 | WHAT THE $%*@#&?! $600: It's the $%*@#&?! symbol seen here that pop star Kesha removed from her name in 2014 the dollar sign |
| #32, aired 2025-02-12 | MMM, CHOCOLATE $800: It's a 10-letter word that describes someone who is incredibly fond of eating chocolate chocoholic |
| #32, aired 2025-02-12 | WHAT THE $%*@#&?! $900: It's the $%*@#&?! symbol seen here that, with the exclamation point, forms a punctuation mark known as an interrobang a question mark |
| #32, aired 2025-02-12 | 2-PART RESPONSES $1,000 (Daily Double): These are the 2 bands inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame that have had Dave Grohl as a band member Nirvana & the Foo Fighters |
| #32, aired 2025-02-12 | RESPOND LIKE A LOCAL $1,500 (Daily Double): 1 word, 5 syllables: it's how you say "Goodbye" to that handsome stranger you met in Florence Arrivederci |
| #32, aired 2025-02-12 | VANITY PLATES $1500: It's the first name of the Oscar-winning actor who had vanity plates that read "BORG 9" Ernest (Borgnine) |
| #32, aired 2025-02-12 | WHAT THE $%*@#&?! $1500: It's the $%*@#&?! symbol seen here that stands for the word spelled out by the last 3 letters in its name an ampersand |
| #32, aired 2025-02-12 | VANITY PLATES $3,000 (Daily Double): What's up with that, doc?! Mel Blanc had the vanity plate "KMIT"; "kish mir in tuchas" means "kiss my behind" in this language Yiddish |
| #32, aired 2025-02-12 | MAKE IT HAPPEN, CAPTAIN $12,000 (Daily Double): Son of Erik the Red, this Norse explorer is believed to have been one of the first Europeans to reach the shores of North America Leif Erikson |
| #9267, aired 2025-02-11 | UNDER THE MICROSCOPE $400: Grain, cheese & dust are types of these tiny (really, really tiny!) arthropods mite |
| #9267, aired 2025-02-11 | BRIDGES $400: Trajan's Bridge, which spans the Danube, is found in this country named for the people Trajan ruled Romania |
| #9267, aired 2025-02-11 | COMPETITION SHOWS $400: Episodes of this series that began in 2009 include "Glamazon Prime", "Snatch Game" & "Good God Girl, Get Out" RuPaul's Drag Race |
| #9267, aired 2025-02-11 | HODGEPODGE $800: This term for an animal that mostly eats meat is also the name of a diet where humans mostly eat meat & animal products & no carbs carnivore |
| #9267, aired 2025-02-11 | UNDER THE MICROSCOPE $800: SCN is short for this crop's "cyst nematode", a roundworm that may be kept in check by rotating the crop with corn (the) soybean |
| #9267, aired 2025-02-11 | 20th CENTURY NOTABLES $1000: In 1993, this South African was president of the African National Congress Women's League Winnie Mandela |
| #9267, aired 2025-02-11 | THEM'S FIGHTING WORDS $1600: Throwing hands & then eating together? That's not friendly fire but the alliterative friendly this slang word for a fight (the friendly) fade |
| #9266, aired 2025-02-10 | LITERARY QUOTATIONS $400: To Horace, "Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori", it is lovely & honorable to die for this; WWI poet Wilfred Owen called that a lie one's country |
| #9266, aired 2025-02-10 | LIFE SCIENCE $800: This fibrous protein that makes up your hair & nails is also a major component of an animal's claws, hooves & feathers keratin |
| #9266, aired 2025-02-10 | BEFORE, DURING & AFTER $5,000 (Daily Double): Timeless Tevye tune that mentions Superman's nickname & his favorite type of abrasive scouring pad "If I Were A Rich Man Of Steel Wool" |
| #9265, aired 2025-02-07 | HEART WORM-ING MOVIES $400: To celebrate the release of "Dune: Part Two", AMC concession stands sold these in the shape of a sandworm popcorn bucket |
| #9265, aired 2025-02-07 | FLIGHTS OF FANCY $800: This Ukrainian president wasn't seen on video in a strange costume doing a belly dance; that rumor's been debunked Zelenskyy |
| #9265, aired 2025-02-07 | THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE $1000: The document was influenced by this English thinker's tenet that govt. gets its powers from "the consent of the people" John Locke |
| #9265, aired 2025-02-07 | 10/10 WINDS $1200: Here's an Earth-sized storm on this planet, an ice giant that has the strongest winds in the Solar System Neptune |
| #9265, aired 2025-02-07 | 10/10 WINDS $1600: According to Raymond Chandler, these desert SoCal winds make "wives feel the edge of the carving knife & study their husbands' necks" the Santa Ana winds |
| #9264, aired 2025-02-06 | ENDS IN "FF" $600: It's the Hogwarts house that fits the category Hufflepuff |
| #9264, aired 2025-02-06 | YOU NEED TO SEE A SPECIALIST $800: It's thalassemia, so you're short on this protein that carries oxygen in the blood--here's a referral to the hematologist hemoglobin |
| #9264, aired 2025-02-06 | THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE $1000: Pacific port cities of this smallest Central American nation include La Unión & Acajutla El Salvador |
| #9264, aired 2025-02-06 | FUNNY BOY IS AN ACTOR NOW $1600: On film in the '70s this stand-up legend made comedies like "Silver Streak" but also the Marxist auto worker drama "Blue Collar" Richard Pryor |
| #9264, aired 2025-02-06 | YOU NEED TO SEE A SPECIALIST $7,200 (Daily Double): An epileptologist will know how to treat tonic-clonic seizures, the bad kind also known by this French name grand mal |
| #9263, aired 2025-02-05 | ELEMENTAL NAMES $600: This gym was founded in Venice Beach by a bodybuilder & Navy veteran; I saw it in "Pumping Iron" Gold's Gym |
| #9263, aired 2025-02-05 | ENGLISH CLASS $800: (Brian Jordan Alvarez presents the clue.) Want to write a good term paper? You need to nail this introductory statement that sets forth your argument & provides a road map for the rest of your essay; it's from Greek for "proposition" thesis |
| #9263, aired 2025-02-05 | MOVIES AFTER YOU PRESS PLAY $5,000 (Daily Double): 1981:
The Paramount Pictures mountain fades into a Peruvian peak Raiders of the Lost Ark |
| #31, aired 2025-02-05 | LET'S KEEP THIS SHORT $200: The supermarket owner: "You can get a sandwich at the deli--don't make me explain that 'deli' is short for" this word delicatessen |
| #31, aired 2025-02-05 | PODCASTS ABOUT TV SHOWS $300: "That Was Us", a podcast about "This Is Us", is co-hosted by this actor who played Randall Pearson Sterling K. Brown |
| #31, aired 2025-02-05 | LET'S KEEP THIS SHORT $400: The NYC taxi driver: "I'll drop you off at 86th & Lex--don't make me explain that 'Lex' is short for" this avenue Lexington |
| #31, aired 2025-02-05 | LIFE OF "E"s $600: Her stats: 4 Oscar noms, 2 Oscar wins (for her roles in "Cold Mountain" & "Judy"), 3 E's in her first name, 3 E's in her last name Renée Zellweger |
| #31, aired 2025-02-05 | FINISH THE JINGLE $600: The soundtrack to a bygone, pre-inflation sandwich era:
"5... 5 dollar..." 5 dollar footlong |
| #31, aired 2025-02-05 | CRYPTOZOOLOGY $600: This mythological bird that emerged from flames inspired the name of a U.S. state capital the phoenix |
| #31, aired 2025-02-05 | LET'S KEEP THIS SHORT $600: The gardener: "I call them mums--don't make me explain that 'mum' is short for" this flower chrysanthemum |
| #31, aired 2025-02-05 | CRYPTOZOOLOGY $800: Alleged to drink the blood of livestock, this creature's name means "goat-sucker" in Spanish chupacabra |
| #31, aired 2025-02-05 | LET'S KEEP THIS SHORT $800: The dog owner: "This is my Pom--don't make me explain that 'Pom' is short for" this dog breed Pomeranian |
| #31, aired 2025-02-05 | FINISH THE JINGLE $900: It's what khaki-wearing Jake has been telling us for years:
"Like a good neighbor..." State Farm is there |
| #31, aired 2025-02-05 | LET'S KEEP THIS SHORT $1000: The music conductor: "Let's play Rach 1 & Rach 2--don't make me explain that 'Rach' is short for" this composer's name Rachmaninoff |
| #31, aired 2025-02-05 | THANKSGIVING $2,700 (Daily Double): In Puerto Rico, a Thanksgiving turkey might be stuffed with mofongo, a mashed dish made from this cousin of the banana the plantain |
| #31, aired 2025-02-05 | THE BATHROOM $4,600 (Daily Double): No toilet paper needed for your derriere when using this bathroom fixture that's French for "small horse" a bidet |
| #9262, aired 2025-02-04 | IT'S HYPHENATED $400: Mark Cuban & Sara Blakely both worked early on in this hyphenated type of sales that declined once fewer women were home all day door-to-door |
| #9262, aired 2025-02-04 | IT'S HYPHENATED $600: A 2023 change in Oregon law left New Jersey as the only state without this type of gas station self-service |
| #9262, aired 2025-02-04 | IT'S HYPHENATED $800: A warning or telltale sign, or the jump ball that starts a basketball game a tip-off |
| #9262, aired 2025-02-04 | HERE'S 2 "U"! $1200: Brought over from Asia, this fast-growing plant that easily overtakes trees & shrubs is known as "the vine that ate the South" kudzu |
| #9262, aired 2025-02-04 | HERE'S 2 "U"! $1600: This flap of tissue that hangs in the back of your throat prevents food & fluids from going up your nose when you swallow the uvula |
| #9261, aired 2025-02-03 | JUST TAKE THE W $200: ...from the start of a word meaning to flog to get this word meaning cool hip |
| #9261, aired 2025-02-03 | BRAND NAMES $400: This luxury car brand's logo of 4 interlocking rings symbolizes the 4 automakers that formed the company Audi |
| #9261, aired 2025-02-03 | VOYAGING THROUGH HISTORY $1000: In 1802 this German climbed Mount Chimborazo & his study of currents off South America led to one being named for him Alexander von Humboldt |
| #9261, aired 2025-02-03 | BETTER LUCK NEXT TIME $1000: After losing the 2023 WNBA Finals, in 2024 the New York Liberty won it all, with this star's free throws sealing the deciding game Breanna ("Stewie") Stewart |
| #9261, aired 2025-02-03 | WETLANDS $1200: Zambia's Bangweulu Wetlands are home to the black lechwe, a relative of this antelope that fittingly has "water" in its name a waterbuck |
| #9261, aired 2025-02-03 | VOYAGING THROUGH HISTORY $1,400 (Daily Double): Magellan's flagship on his epic journey had this Spanish name that honored the Father, Son & Holy Spirit Trinidad |
| #9261, aired 2025-02-03 | 5-SYLLABLE WORDS $2000: It's the specific scientific profession of the man seen here herpetologist |
| #9260, aired 2025-01-31 | LUCKY 13 $800: The 15th century's "Thirteen Years' War" was between Poland & this order of Germanic knights that began as a Crusader army the Teutonic Knights |
| #9260, aired 2025-01-31 | THE THEATER $800: For its Canadian debut, this play by Heidi Schreck used Canada's Charter of Rights & Freedoms rather than the title U.S. document What the Constitution Means to Me |
| #9260, aired 2025-01-31 | NATURE $800: Used in herbal medicine, there's a fungus among us, named for its resemblance to this fowl's tail turkey |
| #9259, aired 2025-01-30 | LET'S PUT 2 THINGS TOGETHER $800: A word preceding "punishment" when that's applied to a body + married name of Ark. Gov. Sarah = this demoted fried chicken magnate Corporal Sanders |
| #9259, aired 2025-01-30 | LET'S PUT 2 THINGS TOGETHER $1000: 5-letter synonym for terrible that also describes the "Truth" in a film title + the Willis one in Illinois = this European eyesore the Awful Tower |
| #9259, aired 2025-01-30 | U.S. CITIES $1000: Take a load off in this third-largest Iowa city that hosts a famous jazz festival honoring native son Bix Beiderbecke Davenport |
| #9259, aired 2025-01-30 | FILMMAKERS $1200: He directed "Frances Ha" & "Mistress America", both co-written with star Greta Gerwig Baumbach |
| #9259, aired 2025-01-30 | COUNTS & COUNTESSES $1600: 18th c. charlatan Count Cagliostro posed as this, a transmuter of base metal, if you can pose as a job that's already a scam an alchemist |
| #9259, aired 2025-01-30 | AUTHORS $2000: In 2023 an amateur scholar found a creepy story by this Irish novelist, "Gibbet Hill", from an 1890 newspaper & unpublished since Bram Stoker |
| #9259, aired 2025-01-30 | COUNTS & COUNTESSES $2000: Found in The Hague, one of Holland's great museums was the House, or huis, of this man, & there's a portrait of him inside Count Maurits |
| #9258, aired 2025-01-29 | THE REST IS HISTORY $400: (Tom Holland & Dominic Sandbrook present the clue.)
(Dominic: Our listeners have to deal with some Britishisms--in 1790, jailers were gobsmacked to find that Louis XVI & Marie Antoinette had scarpered.)
(Tom: They were trying to get to the protection of Marie's brother, Leopold II, of this country; but they were captured & really copped it) Austria |
| #30, aired 2025-01-29 | ALLITERATIVE ANATOMY $100: Estimates show that, among humans, 10% of these umbilici are "outies" bellybuttons |
| #30, aired 2025-01-29 | ALLITERATIVE ANATOMY $200: Your entire sole is resting on the ground? It's likely you have this condition flat feet |
| #30, aired 2025-01-29 | ALL I SEE IS Y-O-U $200: John Fogerty sang that he was born on this type of waterway, but he's actually from Northern California
__YOU a bayou |
| #30, aired 2025-01-29 | OVER, UNDER, OR EXACTLY 100 $400: Total number of elements on the periodic table over 100 |
| #30, aired 2025-01-29 | WE DON'T DESERVE DOGS $400: A man with a dream, Kevin Malone says, "I just wanna lie on the beach & eat hot dogs. That's all I've ever wanted" on this sitcom The Office |
| #30, aired 2025-01-29 | WHICH BILL SAID IT? $1200: "This is it... we're on live in the No Spin Zone. It's a nightmare place for charlatans & deceivers" Bill O'Reilly |
| #30, aired 2025-01-29 | THE SAME WORD TWICE $1500: It's a gift that you're receiving right now, at this very minute a present present |
| #30, aired 2025-01-29 | LONGER VERSIONS OF HIT SONG TITLES $3,000 (Daily Double): Carly Rae Jepsen, 2011:
"Perchance You Could Give Me A Ring" "Call Me Maybe" |
| #9257, aired 2025-01-28 | UNCLE KEN'S CASA DE PRE-OWNED VEHICLES $400: This automaker may have stopped production on its Celica in 2006, but I've got a 1994 one that gets 26 MPG ready to go Toyota |
| #9257, aired 2025-01-28 | A WINGED CATEGORY $400: This beverage brand informs us that it "gives you wiiings" Red Bull |
| #9257, aired 2025-01-28 | UNCLE KEN'S CASA DE PRE-OWNED VEHICLES $600: That convertible? A 1990 Mazda MX-5 one of these from when it first hit the U.S.--I see you appreciate a sweet ride, my friend a Miata |
| #9257, aired 2025-01-28 | NOISES $600: 2-note come-on heard in the 1943 cartoon "Red Hot Riding Hood" wuh-woo! (wolf whistle) |
| #9257, aired 2025-01-28 | UNCLE KEN'S CASA DE PRE-OWNED VEHICLES $800: Okay, okay, Ralph Nader called this model that debuted in 1960 a one-car accident, but ain't it cute the Corvair |
| #9257, aired 2025-01-28 | A WINGED CATEGORY $800: Take an Olympian like Poseidon, a Gorgon like Medusa & of course those 2 will produce this winged offspring; that's just science Pegasus |
| #9257, aired 2025-01-28 | WORLD WAR II FACTS $1,000 (Daily Double): Force K6, made up of Muslims from the Punjab, was among British units evacuated from this French seaport in spring 1940 Dunkirk |
| #9257, aired 2025-01-28 | IN COMPATIBILITY $1200: "Jaws" taught everyone that this, "as you know, means friendship" amity |
| #9257, aired 2025-01-28 | LET'S KEEP IT ABOVE THE WAIST $2000: The C2 vertebra is also called this; it allows you to rotate your head the axis |
| #9257, aired 2025-01-28 | LET'S KEEP IT ABOVE THE WAIST $3,000 (Daily Double): Blood that's depleted of oxygen returns to the heart via this, either superior or inferior the vena cava |
| #9256, aired 2025-01-27 | HELL'S KITCHEN, THE MUSICAL $200: (Alicia Keys presents the clue.) Practically a character itself, the setting of much of the show is Manhattan Plaza, the real-life building where I grew up among many artists hoping to make it, just a block east to Eighth Ave., the edge of this district the Theater District |
| #9256, aired 2025-01-27 | "CH" AS IN CHAMP $200: A somewhat formal word for a bedroom, or the area of a firearm that holds the ammunition a chamber |
| #9256, aired 2025-01-27 | HELL'S KITCHEN, THE MUSICAL $400: (Alicia Keys presents the clue.) In Hell's Kitchen, you don't need a Steinway or a Stradi to make music; Ali's love interest plays drums on buckets, & she joins in for this song that says, "She's a flame"
"You can try, but you'll never forget her name, she's on top of the world, hottest of the hottest girls say, oh-oh" "Girl On Fire" |
| #9256, aired 2025-01-27 | GAME TIME $600: There's "an infinite world that's yours to shape, one block at a time" in this "ultimate sandbox game" Minecraft |
| #9256, aired 2025-01-27 | HELL'S KITCHEN, THE MUSICAL $800: (Alicia Keys presents the clue.) Along with new songs, the show reimagines some of my classics, like this breakout hit from 2001, about a love that's so much pleasure & so much pain; it has new instrumentation & a new seductive tone, & is sung by a dude
"Lovin' you darlin, makes me so confused" "Fallin'" |
| #9256, aired 2025-01-27 | THAT HAPPENED $800: On June 1, 1969 Canada's CBC stopped accepting ads for this product on TV & radio cigarettes (tobacco) |
| #9256, aired 2025-01-27 | HELL'S KITCHEN, THE MUSICAL $1000: (Alicia Keys presents the clue.)
"New York, concrete jungle where dreams are made of (oh, come on), there's nothin' you can't do"
The closing number's this song that I performed on the Tony Awards in 2024, with of course, a guest vocal by Jay-Z "Empire State of Mind" |
| #9256, aired 2025-01-27 | SPECIAL DAYS $1000: Sheep lactation is involved on Imbolc, a February 1 Celtic & pagan celebration of this, though it's still 7 weeks away the vernal equinox (beginning of spring) |
| #9256, aired 2025-01-27 | IT'S GOT A MOTOR $1200: A clicking noise when you turn the ignition can mean a bad this, the motor that gets your combustion-engine car going a starter |
| #9256, aired 2025-01-27 | IT'S GOT A MOTOR $1600: The fan that cools the CPU, short for this part of your computer, is essentially a little brushless motor a central processing unit |
| #9256, aired 2025-01-27 | CELEBRITY MEMOIRS $2000: Among those he writes about in his family memoir, "The Friday Afternoon Club", are late sister Dominique & Aunt Joan Didion Griffin Dunne |
| #9256, aired 2025-01-27 | THAT HAPPENED $2000: It's the collective term for the Russian conspirators who failed in their late 1825 attempt to overthrow Czar Nicholas I the Decembrists |
| #9256, aired 2025-01-27 | IT'S GOT A MOTOR $2000: An electric motor powers this part of a refrigerator that condenses low-pressure coolant into high-pressure gas the compressor |
| #9254, aired 2025-01-23 | NEWS PERSONALITIES $400: Marking an 80th anniversary in 2024, David Muir traveled with veterans to this French region Normandy |
| #9254, aired 2025-01-23 | FROM PAGE TO SCREEN $600: One of the 5 Oscars that went to this 1975 film was for its screenplay, adapted from Ken Kesey's novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest |
| #9254, aired 2025-01-23 | FROM PAGE TO SCREEN $1000: (Jason Reitman presents the clue.) We didn't get much resistance from tobacco, alcohol or firearms companies, but can you believe the Park Service said no to a reflecting pool scene, adapted from a Christopher Buckley novel for this film? "Forrest Gump" had no such problems Thank You for Smoking |
| #9254, aired 2025-01-23 | JANUARY BABIES $3,000 (Daily Double): In 1929 at age 21 she finished second behind Jean-Paul Sartre in an advanced philosophy exam Madame (Simone) de Beauvoir |
| #9253, aired 2025-01-22 | IT'S A VERB! IT'S A NOUN! $200: To gather animals into a group, or the group that results herd |
| #9253, aired 2025-01-22 | NOT TO BE CONFUSED $400: An atheist doesn't believe that God exists, while one of these believes it's impossible to know agnostic |
| #9253, aired 2025-01-22 | WHATCHA WATCHIN'? $800: This 2024 miniseries that put the focus on Kathryn Hahn's bewitching character from "WandaVision" Agatha All Along |
| #9253, aired 2025-01-22 | SCHOOL OF MUSIC $1000: Here's this country legend, clean-shaven some 70 years ago as a student in Texas, back when they still wore leather football helmets Willie Nelson |
| #9253, aired 2025-01-22 | WHATCHA WATCHIN'? $1600: The "Sex & the Evans Family" episode of this '70s sitcom; hilarity ensues when J.J.'s mom & dad find what they think is his sex manual Good Times |
| #9253, aired 2025-01-22 | ANATOMY $1600: It's the 6-letter name for the thin layer of tissue that covers, protects & cushions the lungs the pleura |
| #29, aired 2025-01-22 | THIS LITTLE PIGGY $200: It's one mammal with a single toe on each foot; also, the only four-legged mammal that regularly wears shoes a horse |
| #29, aired 2025-01-22 | WANNA BET? $200: In craps, this highest possible number that can be rolled has nicknames like "boxcars" & "midnight" 12 (two 6's) |
| #29, aired 2025-01-22 | AN APP FOR EVERY ORG $200: By protecting animals, you earn rankings like "Lieutenant Llama" & "Colonel Chicken" on the app for this org. founded in 1980 PETA |
| #29, aired 2025-01-22 | WHAT'S THE DEAL WITH THE PERIODIC TABLE? $300 (Daily Double): It has the symbol K, but it starts with P & there's not even a "K" in its name!
That's bananas! potassium |
| #29, aired 2025-01-22 | HEY, DINOSAURS, WHERE YOU AT? $300: It's the continent where Aegyptosaurus fossils were discovered in the early 20th century Africa |
| #29, aired 2025-01-22 | I HAVE A MEME $300: A purple milkshake honoring the birthday of this McDonald's mascot sparked a wave of parody horror videos that still haunts us Grimace |
| #29, aired 2025-01-22 | SAVE THE DRAMA FOR YO' MOMMA $400: Dayum! In a Sophocles play, he receives a prophecy that he's going to sleep with his own mother Oedipus |
| #29, aired 2025-01-22 | WANNA BET? $500 (Daily Double): See lots of pink neon & live pink birds at this Vegas casino that's been standing since 1946 (& not just on one leg!) the Flamingo |
| #29, aired 2025-01-22 | VOWEL-LESS U.S. STATES $500: The only state that touches the Arctic Ocean:
LSK Alaska |
| #29, aired 2025-01-22 | DURING HIS PRESIDENCY $800: Spanish Civil War;
end of Prohibition;
launch of the New Deal Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
| #29, aired 2025-01-22 | "Q" THE MUSIC $1200: While a sports fan might say its symbol resembles a golf club, in music in 4/4 time, it's a note that lasts one beat a quarter note |
| #29, aired 2025-01-22 | WHAT'S THE DEAL WITH THE PERIODIC TABLE? $1500: This metal has a 3-letter name, yet they gave it a 2-letter symbol, Sn--why not just "T"?! "T" was available! What's the deal?! tin |
| #29, aired 2025-01-22 | ART CLASS $2,600 (Daily Double): The woman in this 1871 masterpiece is sitting down because she got tired of standing while posing for her son Whistler's Mother |
| #9252, aired 2025-01-21 | THE SHAPE OF THINGS $200: Your classic one of these has a square base & 4 triangular faces a pyramid |
| #9252, aired 2025-01-21 | AUTHORS $200: This author with the given names Elwyn Brooks said he never liked Elwyn but he was a sixth child & his mom ran out of names E.B. White |
| #9252, aired 2025-01-21 | BEFORE & AFTER $400: Traditional spiced holiday cookie shaped like a person that's a musical about Don Quixote a gingerbread Man of La Mancha |
| #9252, aired 2025-01-21 | FOUND ON TEMU $400: How about a sticker for your toilet that makes it look like this rodent, maybe a red or eastern gray one, is popping out to say hi a squirrel |
| #9252, aired 2025-01-21 | FOUND ON TEMU $1000: Get a 2025 calendar of the "World's Greatest" types of this hairstyle that's business in the front & a party in the back a mullet |
| #9252, aired 2025-01-21 | BEFORE & AFTER $2000: 16th century comedy drama with Costard the Clown & the interplanetary Robinson family Love's Labour's Lost in Space |
| #9252, aired 2025-01-21 | SOME WEAR... $2000: Fedoras; others don this similar-looking hat that shares a name with a George du Maurier novel trilby |
| #9252, aired 2025-01-21 | THE BIBLE $10,800 (Daily Double): In the NT we learn Peter's brother Andrew, who also became an apostle, had previously been a disciple of this religious figure John the Baptist |
| #9251, aired 2025-01-20 | PSYCHOLOGY $400: Psychology's "Hierarchy of" these says that more basic ones like food must be met before loftier ones needs |
| #9251, aired 2025-01-20 | MUSEUMS $800: Opened in 1819, this museum has many paintings that were once in the collections of Spain's 16th & 17th century monarchs the Prado |
| #9251, aired 2025-01-20 | LET'S TALK ABOUT POLITICS $1600: "We are the 99%" was the rallying cry of this movement that took over part of Lower Manhattan in 2011 Occupy Wall Street |
| #9250, aired 2025-01-17 | PHYSICAL SCIENCE $1200: Different velocities of fluids are needed to create this force, so it needs motion, like when planes zoom down runways to take off lift |
| #9249, aired 2025-01-16 | HISTORY $400: France's Minister of War between 1929 & 1932 advocated for this defensive barrier that would later bear his name the Maginot Line |
| #9249, aired 2025-01-16 | WHERE'S THE BEEF? $400: This huge steak that includes a ribeye is named after a Native American weapon a tomahawk |
| #9249, aired 2025-01-16 | 10-LETTER VOCAB $400: It's a compound word for something like acetaminophen that slays that headache a painkiller |
| #9249, aired 2025-01-16 | HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): Before a papal tribunal in 1633, he stated, "I abjure, curse & detest the aforesaid errors" Galileo |
| #9249, aired 2025-01-16 | "MORE" OR "LESS" $11,000 (Daily Double): The pope endorsed neither candidate in the 2024 U.S. presidential election but said voters should choose this the lesser evil (the lesser of two evils) |
| #9248, aired 2025-01-15 | POP CULTURE PEOPLE $600: Oh, doctor! When it comes to "The Hangover", he's Mr. Chow, that's his name, that name again is Mr. Chow Ken Jeong |
| #9248, aired 2025-01-15 | ____ & ____ $800: In the '90s this company dropped its man in the moon logo after rumors spread that it had satanic elements Procter & Gamble |
| #9248, aired 2025-01-15 | FICTIONAL FEMALES $1000: In this novel Becky Sharp inspires George to leave his wife, but he gets killed at Waterloo Vanity Fair |
| #9248, aired 2025-01-15 | ____ & ____ $1000: In an Edward Lear poem, this pair "went to sea in a beautiful pea-green boat" the Owl & the Pussy-Cat |
| #9248, aired 2025-01-15 | EVERYTHING FROM B TO Y $1200: One of these that's accessible by glass doors or windows is called a Juliet a balcony |
| #28, aired 2025-01-15 | "BUTT" SERIOUSLY $100: Each holiday season over 50 experts man the phones to talk turkey on this company's turkey talk-line Butterball |
| #28, aired 2025-01-15 | SURVIVING THE MOVIE $100: "The Shawshank Redemption":
Samuel Norton,
Brooks Hatlen,
Ellis Boyd "Red" Redding Red |
| #28, aired 2025-01-15 | VOLCANOES ARE SO HOT RIGHT NOW $400: Let it flow in the shower! It's the leading soap brand that aptly depicts a volcano on its packaging Lava |
| #28, aired 2025-01-15 | PICTURE THE BOOK $400: James Joyce's lengthy tale that takes place in one day, or the preferred first name of this president Ulysses |
| #28, aired 2025-01-15 | PARTY LIKE IT'S 1899 $600: Grab a broom handle & hit the street for this popular game--a variation of baseball using neighborhood objects as bases stickball |
| #28, aired 2025-01-15 | PARTY LIKE IT'S 1899 $800: Crank up the ragtime! Songs from that pre-jazz genre were all the rage, like Scott Joplin's "Maple Leaf Rag" for this instrument piano |
| #28, aired 2025-01-15 | RESPOND IN GERMAN IF YOU DER $900: A groaner of a pun often seen on t-shirts is "German sausage jokes are just the" this Wurst |
| #28, aired 2025-01-15 | DOUBLE TALK $1000: It's a "hare"brained superstition, but lots of people swear by it--saying this for good luck on the first day of each month rabbit, rabbit |
| #28, aired 2025-01-15 | GRUMPY PHILOSOPHERS $1,800 (Daily Double): He warned that life could be "nasty, brutish, & short"; the comic strip tiger named after him was less of a bummer Hobbes |
| #28, aired 2025-01-15 | IN THE KITCHEN WITH INA GARTEN $2,000 (Daily Double): On this sitcom, Liz Lemon imagines a glorious summer vacation that includes an invite to Ina's for bruschetta & wine 30 Rock |
| #28, aired 2025-01-15 | NOT-SO-SURREALISM $2,800 (Daily Double): Its French text says it's "not" this but Popeye & Frosty would disagree; a 1929 René Magritte painting literally depicts this object a pipe |
| #9247, aired 2025-01-14 | ICELANDIA $600: She ranks as the country's most famous personality & it seems that everyone there has a story about this former Sugarcube Björk |
| #9247, aired 2025-01-14 | 1980s MONSTER TRUCKS $1000: The original car crusher was this vehicle created by Bob Chandler that put the monster in monster truck Bigfoot |
| #9246, aired 2025-01-13 | SCIENCE $200: Newton's third law of motion states that "for every action there is" one of these an equal & opposite reaction |
| #9246, aired 2025-01-13 | THAT PHRASE IS MONEY $400: Cent & sensibility; this phrase involves a curiosity about what's going on in a pal's mind after they've been silent for a while a penny for your thoughts |
| #9246, aired 2025-01-13 | THAT PHRASE IS MONEY $800: A word of advice from Shakespeare... actually, let's make it 2 words: "Neither a" this word "nor a" this 2nd word "be" borrower & lender |
| #9246, aired 2025-01-13 | THERE IN THE WORLD IS THAT $1200: Boasting 1,500 miles of southern coastline for its 6.5 million residents, it's the Aussie state highlighted here Victoria |
| #9245, aired 2025-01-10 | TATE EXPECTATIONS $400: In 2025 Tate Modern turns 25 & welcomes this Spaniard's masterpiece "The Three Dancers", celebrating its centennial Picasso |
| #9245, aired 2025-01-10 | NEW YORK COLLEGES $600: In 2023, Otto the Orange, a proud rep of this school, joined Youppi! & Mr. Met in the Mascot Hall of Fame Syracuse |
| #9245, aired 2025-01-10 | THE PRESIDENT'S SIBLING $600: Sam Houston Johnson Lyndon Baines Johnson |
| #9245, aired 2025-01-10 | TATE EXPECTATIONS $2000: A 2024 exhibition at Tate Modern of this colorful group had in its title not just Kandinsky but fellow artist Gabriele Münter the Blue Rider |
| #9245, aired 2025-01-10 | NATIONAL PARKS OF THE WORLD $2000: Ireland's first marine national park is in this southwestern county that starts with a C in the Irish version of the park's name County Kerry |
| #9244, aired 2025-01-09 | CLASSIC TV $100 (Daily Double): "It's no place like home" was a tagline for this series about prison life, HBO's first original hour-long drama Oz |
| #9243, aired 2025-01-08 | AROUND THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE $400: Melbourne lies about 200 miles north of this devilish island Tasmania |
| #9243, aired 2025-01-08 | MAKING SOME BONES ABOUT IT $600: To reduce the risk of broken bones, do weight-bearing exercises & take calcium with this vitamin that's also a hormone vitamin D |
| #9243, aired 2025-01-08 | AROUND THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE $1200: Display your wisdom & name this sea that separates the same-named islands from New Guinea the Solomon Islands (Sea) |
| #9243, aired 2025-01-08 | AROUND THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE $1600: This archipelago at the bottom of South America lends its name to a type of fox, the southernmost living canid Tierra del Fuego |
| #9243, aired 2025-01-08 | GOOD ENOUGH $1600: There's a thespian trapped inside this 5-syllable good-enough word satisfactory |
| #27, aired 2025-01-08 | THAT GUY! ACTORS $200: After playing Ned Ryerson, Stephen Tobolowsky said he went from being "the bald guy to the bald guy from" this Bill Murray comedy Groundhog Day |
| #27, aired 2025-01-08 | FUNNY MATH WORDS $200: A truncated hyperbolic paraboloid looks like one of these "once you pop, you can't stop" snacks that come in a can a Pringle |
| #27, aired 2025-01-08 | THE CONCH REPUBLIC $200: After moving to Key West in the early '70s, this "son of a son of a sailor" wrote the song "I Have Found Me A Home" Jimmy Buffet |
| #27, aired 2025-01-08 | THERE'S AN ANIMAL IN MY BOOK TITLE! $500 (Daily Double): "Something That Happened" was John Steinbeck's working title for this 1937 novella about farm workers George & Lennie Of Mice and Men |
| #27, aired 2025-01-08 | THAT GUY! ACTORS $600: One of the most prolific actors in history, James Hong voices Mr. Ping, a Chinese goose & Po's adoptive dad in this animated series Kung Fu Panda |
| #27, aired 2025-01-08 | FUNNY MATH WORDS $600: Sesquiduplicate means "twice & a half as great", like the number 250 from this number 100 |
| #27, aired 2025-01-08 | THAT GUY! ACTORS $1000: In one of his first major roles, Luis Guzmán starred with Al Pacino in this 1993 film about a criminal trying to go straight Carlito's Way |
| #27, aired 2025-01-08 | APT ANAGRAMS $1000: It's the only other common first name you get when you rearrange the letters in "Dolly" Lloyd |
| #27, aired 2025-01-08 | HARD NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD CLUES $1200: 11-down, 3 letters:
Group that had the first hardcore rap album to reach No. 1 on Billboard NWA |
| #27, aired 2025-01-08 | THERE'S AN ANIMAL IN MY BOOK TITLE! $1500: This Kurt Vonnegut satire about global destruction shares its title with a game that involves making shapes with a loop of string Cat's Cradle |
| #27, aired 2025-01-08 | AMERICAN MASTERS $1500: Despite her denials, this modernist's work, including "Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1", is thought to have erotic undertones Georgia O'Keeffe |
| #9242, aired 2025-01-07 | THAT'S SHOWBIZ $400: Minor studios like Republic specialized in the low-budget productions familiarly graded as these B-movies |
| #9242, aired 2025-01-07 | THAT'S SHOWBIZ $800: A Broadway show is usually considered successful if it hits $1 million in GWBOR, gross weekly these receipts box office |
| #9242, aired 2025-01-07 | HALL OF FAMERS $1000: Charter members of the Hockey Hall of Fame include this eponymic lord inducted as a "Builder" in 1945 Stanley |
| #9242, aired 2025-01-07 | THAT'S SHOWBIZ $1200: Your server will bring tap beer & more to your seat at this Texas-based theater chain acquired by Sony Pictures in 2024 Alamo Drafthouse |
| #9242, aired 2025-01-07 | THAT'S SHOWBIZ $1600: In 1929 Paramount tried to merge with this sibling-owned studio, but the Justice Department said no Warner Bros. |
| #9242, aired 2025-01-07 | POTENT QUOTABLES $1600: This detective is instructed in "The Long Goodbye" that a real gimlet is "half gin & half Rose's lime juice & nothing else" Philip Marlowe |
| #9242, aired 2025-01-07 | POTENT QUOTABLES $2000: "The Sun Also Rises" describes it as "greenish imitation absinthe. When you add water, it turns milky. It tastes like licorice"; yum! Pernod |
| #9242, aired 2025-01-07 | THAT'S SHOWBIZ $2000: RKO Radio Pictures went down the tubes, following its 1948 purchase by this increasingly reclusive magnate Howard Hughes |
| #9242, aired 2025-01-07 | POTENT QUOTABLES $6,000 (Daily Double): This pale dry sherry gets title billing in a Poe tale Amontillado |
| #9240, aired 2025-01-03 | ONLY BIRDERS... $1200: Know that the lawn carp is a nickname used for the Canada type of this bird that's spotted in many urban environs goose |
| #9240, aired 2025-01-03 | SLANG FROM YOUR START-UP JOB $1600: It's an 8-letter portmanteau word for a product that has no cost upfront but has cost for all of the supplemental stuff a freemium |
| #9239, aired 2025-01-02 | THAT'S SOME OPENING ACT $400: This singer/rapper/flautist's first big tour was as an opener for Har Mar Superstar in 2013 Lizzo |
| #9239, aired 2025-01-02 | THAT'S SOME OPENING ACT $800: She opened for *NSYNC on their 1998 tour, before her first album was released & before she & Justin were she & Justin Britney Spears |
| #9239, aired 2025-01-02 | CLASSY CREATURES $1000: Giant scallop, Sydney rock oyster bivalves |
| #9239, aired 2025-01-02 | THAT'S SOME OPENING ACT $1200: The San Francisco venue "was packed with... real spacy, high white people", wrote Miles Davis of opening for this band in 1970 the Grateful Dead |
| #9239, aired 2025-01-02 | THAT'S SOME OPENING ACT $1600: One critic said that newcomer Lady Gaga outsang, outshone & outsexed these headliners, on their 2009 Doll Domination Tour the Pussycat Dolls |
| #9239, aired 2025-01-02 | THAT'S SOME OPENING ACT $2000: Robert Plant recalled that when this band played its first U.S. gig in 1968, the marquee read "Vanilla Fudge, Taj Mahal & Support" Led Zeppelin |
| #9239, aired 2025-01-02 | NOVEL TITLE DROP A LETTER $3,700 (Daily Double): An Edith Wharton title drops a letter & laughter spews from a tube The Hose of Mirth (The House of Mirth) |
| #9238, aired 2025-01-01 | PEOPLE OF AFRICA $400: Early 20th century King Njoya, of the Bamum, defied colonial cartographers with his own map of his land; this, at the top, denotes west the setting sun |
| #9238, aired 2025-01-01 | HAPPY NEW YEAR'S DAY! $800: 1660: Recording that his wife burned her hand preparing a meal & other events of that day, this man makes his first diary entry (Samuel) Pepys |
| #9238, aired 2025-01-01 | I USE 3 INITIALS $1200: "Avatar" & "The Shield" actress, Carole Christine Hilaria CCH Pounder |
| #9238, aired 2025-01-01 | TV MUSIC $1200: Matthew Weiner used an instrumental version of RJD2's "A Beautiful Mine" for the opening of this period drama that he created Mad Men |
| #9238, aired 2025-01-01 | JANE STONE, WWII LINGUIST $1,600 (Daily Double): 17-letter German words are child's play for Jane, who tells the Navy that Unterwasserbomben are these 2-word anti-sub weapons depth charges |
| #9238, aired 2025-01-01 | TV MUSIC $1600: "Everywhere You Look" was the theme song to this show that ran until 1995; Carly Rae Jepsen's cover was used for the Netflix sequel Full House |
| #9237, aired 2024-12-31 | MODERN ABBREVIATIONS $400: WSG is short for this, like when you're inquiring as to how another's day is going What's good? |
| #9237, aired 2024-12-31 | FROM "M" TO "Y" $800: A Robert Burns poem says, "O my love is like" this "that's sweetly played in tune" a melody |
| #9237, aired 2024-12-31 | MODERN ABBREVIATIONS $1600: Disrupting a computer site by overwhelming it with a flood of fake traffic is a DDOS, one of these attacks a distributed denial-of-service (a distributed denial-of-services) |
| #9237, aired 2024-12-31 | SCIENCE TEST $1600: Newton's second law, F = ma, says that net force acting on a body is equal to its mass times its this, abbreviated a acceleration |
| #9237, aired 2024-12-31 | MYTHOLOGY $2,000 (Daily Double): It's said of these twins of myth that one of their pops was Zeus & the other was Tyndareus Castor & Pollux |
| #9237, aired 2024-12-31 | NONFICTION $3,600 (Daily Double): "King of the Osage Hills" & "For the Betterment of the Bureau" are chapters in this 2017 bestseller Killers of the Flower Moon |
| #9236, aired 2024-12-30 | TRANSPORTATION $200: And let's get right into it; that's inventor Dean Kamen demonstrating his human transporter, better known by this name a Segway |
| #9236, aired 2024-12-30 | ART & ARTISTS $1600: An expat painter, she delivered "Mother & Child" around 1899... at least that's the Impressionist I get Cassatt |
| #9235, aired 2024-12-27 | MINOR LEAGUE BASEBALL TEAM GEOGRAPHY $800: The Southern League's Rocket City Trash Pandas play in Madison but were formerly the Bears of this other Alabama "M" city Mobile |
| #9235, aired 2024-12-27 | STARTS & ENDS WITH "O" $1000: A word coined in the 1960s, it's the segment of music heard here... making a nice capper to my clue reading outro |
| #9235, aired 2024-12-27 | F. SCOTT FITZGERALD $1000: Paying her respects over Scott's body, this Round Table wit quoted a line from "The Great Gatsby" that's too salty for us to say Dorothy Parker |
| #9235, aired 2024-12-27 | DOUBLE DOUBLE LETTERS $1600: A woman's name begins this verb that means to indulge or pamper excessively to mollycoddle |
| #9235, aired 2024-12-27 | SHOPPING FOR SOUVENIRS $2000: From Venice, hop a boat to this nearby island & buy some authentic glass of the same name--maybe a vase Murano |
| #9234, aired 2024-12-26 | IT'S A NICE DAY FOR... $1200: Playing this game that you can enjoy on the lawn; it evolved from a French one called paille-maille croquet |
| #9234, aired 2024-12-26 | IT'S A NICE DAY FOR... $2000: A picnic in Rome, perhaps at this villa named for an Italian family that boasted Pope Paul V as a member the Villa Borghese |
| #9233, aired 2024-12-25 | I'M SO INDICTED $800: This, continuously going online to harass or threaten people with physical harm, got an ex-privacy consultant 9 years in 2024 cyberstalking |
| #9233, aired 2024-12-25 | 5, 5 $1000: Stokely Carmichael said, "We have to organize ourselves to speak for each other. That's" this slogan Black power |
| #9233, aired 2024-12-25 | ALL KINDS OF MUSIC $4,000 (Daily Double): Aubades were sung in the morning; these courtship tunes, like Mozart's "Oh, Come To The Window", were meant to be sung at night serenades |
| #9232, aired 2024-12-24 | 19th CENTURY NOVELS $200: Charles Deville's idea that volcanic craters lead to a network of passages inspired this man's "Journey to the Center of the Earth" Jules Verne |
| #9232, aired 2024-12-24 | HOLIDAY ENTERTAINMENT $800: This Dr. Seuss animated special first aired on TV in December 1966 How the Grinch Stole Christmas! |
| #9232, aired 2024-12-24 | WHEN IT'S TIME TO RHYME $1200: Rhyming mnemonics include this exception-riddled one that does help you spell "receive" I before E except after C |
| #9232, aired 2024-12-24 | INSCRUTABLE WORDS $2000: A food made from gluten that's also called wheat meat; some restaurants use it to make mock duck seitan |
| #9231, aired 2024-12-23 | INTERNATIONAL CITIES $400: Come to Sydney for the opera house, stay for SXSW, this festival that's gone pretty far in that direction from its Austin roots South by Southwest |
| #9231, aired 2024-12-23 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $400: Based on Thornton Wilder's play "The Matchmaker", this beloved musical was back where it belonged--back on Broadway in 2017 Hello, Dolly! |
| #9231, aired 2024-12-23 | NAME THAT SUPREME COURT JUSTICE $400: A 1921 newspaper article says, this "former president... realized his life's ambition to head the Judicial Branch" Taft |
| #9231, aired 2024-12-23 | NAME THAT SUPREME COURT JUSTICE $800: In 1986, weeks after becoming a justice, he received an award from the National Italian American Foundation Scalia |
| #9231, aired 2024-12-23 | AT THE PET STORE $800: Add another "T" to the second letter of the Greek alphabet to get the name of this fish that's ubiquitous at pet stores a betta fish |
| #9231, aired 2024-12-23 | THE CINEMATIC VAMPIRE $2000: (Nicholas Hoult presents the clue.) Max Schreck starred as the dastardly Count Orlock, whose fingernails & fangs set the template for the future in the grandfather of vampire films, 1922's "Nosferatu", directed by this man F.W. Murnau |
| #9230, aired 2024-12-20 | BUSINESS NAMES $200: In Pasadena, California in 1967, a Mr. Coulombe started this grocery chain that's full of unique & interesting products Trader Joe's |
| #9230, aired 2024-12-20 | SCIENCE BOOKSHELF $400: Buzz Lightyear's catchphrase, it's also a Neil deGrasse Tyson book that takes readers to the farthest reaches of space to infinity and beyond |
| #9230, aired 2024-12-20 | HISTORIC SONGS OF THE BRITS $2000: The "azure main" (that's the ocean) is in this patriotic song traditionally played at the Last Night of the Proms at Royal Albert Hall "Rule, Britannia!" |
| #9229, aired 2024-12-19 | 3-LETTER, 3-LETTER $600: This Fred Astaire/ Ginger Rogers movie title is also something that completes a spiffy men's outfit Top Hat |
| #9229, aired 2024-12-19 | WRITE FOR TV $800: David Benioff wrote "City of Thieves" then co-created this fantasy show that ran from 2011 to 2019 Game of Thrones |
| #9228, aired 2024-12-18 | THAT'S WEIRD $200: A Mattel doll is based on this Kate McKinnon character from a 2023 movie Weird Barbie |
| #9228, aired 2024-12-18 | THAT'S WEIRD $400: In cognitive science, the acronym "WEIRD" stands for "Western, Educated, Industrialized", this financial state "and Democratic" Rich |
| #9228, aired 2024-12-18 | THAT'S WEIRD $600: Weird Tales magazine published his story "The Black Ferris", which formed the basis for "Something Wicked This Way Comes" Ray Bradbury |
| #9228, aired 2024-12-18 | THAT'S WEIRD $800: The Weird U.S. travel guide includes such sites as the Fall River, Massachusetts house of this accused murderess Lizzie Borden |
| #9228, aired 2024-12-18 | THAT'S WEIRD $1000: It's the formal & familial though maybe not terribly polite way to address the trio of witches in "Macbeth" the Weird Sisters |
| #9228, aired 2024-12-18 | 3 OF A KIND $1000: Eagle,
Orion,
Lagoon nebulae |
| #9228, aired 2024-12-18 | POLI SCI $1000: It's the 3-word doctrine that the individual branches of government are distinct & shall not infringe on the others' authority separation of powers |
| #9228, aired 2024-12-18 | VICTORIAN VERSE $2000: Thackeray wrote that this 1851 London exhibition hall "stands in High Park like Noah's Ark, a rainbow bint above it" the Crystal Palace |
| #9228, aired 2024-12-18 | VICTORIAN VERSE $2,800 (Daily Double): Thomas Hardy really liked this made-up name, writing a poem about its "Captains" as well as a novel about its "Mayor" Casterbridge |
| #9227, aired 2024-12-17 | FOR A DOLLAR $400: Here's the logo of this discount store that's a member of the Fortune 500 Dollar Tree |
| #9227, aired 2024-12-17 | WORLD HISTORY $1600: After Alexander's death, one of his generals began this Egyptian dynasty that lasted about 300 years until Cleopatra's death the Ptolemaic Dynasty |
| #9226, aired 2024-12-16 | SONGWRITING WITH LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA $200: (Lin-Manuel Miranda presents the clue.) Inspiration can come from anywhere; for the song "My Shot", I based a section of the music on the old America Online dial-up tones to reflect how this character's words would soon connect with the wider world Hamilton |
| #9224, aired 2024-12-12 | GEORGIA ON OUR MINDS $400: Georgia's Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest contains the southern end of this trail that goes way up to Maine the Appalachian Trail |
| #9224, aired 2024-12-12 | STOCKS $400: Microsoft, Alphabet & 5 other stocks are part of what's known as this group that shares its name with a 1960 Western film the Magnificent 7 |
| #9224, aired 2024-12-12 | TOP ROW OF THE KEYBOARD WORDS $800: It's a regional version of a complimentary word, as in "that's a real ____ dress you've got on" purty |
| #9224, aired 2024-12-12 | AMERICA BEFORE 1800 $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1763 the Penns & Calverts brought in these 2 English astronomers to settle a boundary dispute Mason & Dixon |
| #9224, aired 2024-12-12 | DODGEPODGE $1000: In 1865 Mary Mapes Dodge opened a literary can of Dutch boy & gave Hans Brinker this title footwear the silver skates |
| #9224, aired 2024-12-12 | NATIONAL BIRDS $1200: Estonia's national bird is this most widespread species of swallow that normally nests in manmade structures the barn swallow |
| #9223, aired 2024-12-11 | TRIPLE "T"s ME $600: Oscar Wilde quipped that he could resist anything but this temptation |
| #9223, aired 2024-12-11 | POLITICAL OOPSIES $600: Ex-rep. William Jefferson got this 2-word alliterative nickname that summed up the $90,000 found in the man's freezer by the FBI "Cold Cash" |
| #9223, aired 2024-12-11 | "X"-RATED MUSIC $800: Elle King hit the Top 10 with this tune that's about former lovers "Ex's & Oh's" |
| #9223, aired 2024-12-11 | TRUE TALES OF TRANSPORTATION $1000: Jessica Bruder traveled the U.S. in a van named "Halen", writing the book called this "land" that inspired an Oscar-winning film Nomadland |
| #9223, aired 2024-12-11 | U.S. PLACE NAMES $2000: This barrier island off Texas was once named Wild Horse for the wild horses that roamed there Mustang Island |
| #9223, aired 2024-12-11 | THE OLD TESTAMENT $4,000 (Daily Double): It's twins for Rebekah: "the first came out red, all over like an hairy garment; and they called his name" this Esau |
| #9222, aired 2024-12-10 | ADJECTIVES $400: The original "Wizard of Oz" novel featured this adjective that's not in the film title wonderful |
| #9222, aired 2024-12-10 | WOMEN WRITERS $400: Her books include 1936's "Murder in Mesopotamia" & 1923's "Murder on the Links" Agatha Christie |
| #9222, aired 2024-12-10 | KING ARTHUR'S VERY PUNNY KNIGHTS $400: He told everyone of his skills for when Britain became even more anarchic, like finding food & shelter & making fires in the wild Sir Vivalist |
| #9222, aired 2024-12-10 | HOW'S YOUR LEGALESE? $1600: This Latin-named brief is advice offered to the court from an entity that's not a party to the case but has a friendly interest amicus |
| #9222, aired 2024-12-10 | A "W" FOR SCIENCE $2,000 (Daily Double): It's the distance between 2 crests of sound or light that are next to each other wavelengths |
| #9222, aired 2024-12-10 | BROADWAY MUSICALS $2000: One of Charlemagne's sons is the title character in this musical that first opened in 1972 Pippin |
| #9221, aired 2024-12-09 | ALLITERATIVE MOVIE TITLES $400: "Ride or Die" was the subtitle of the 2024 entry in this film series, featuring Martin Lawrence & Will Smith Bad Boys |
| #9221, aired 2024-12-09 | THAT'S ALL HISTORY $400: The auto-da-fé, or act of faith, was the ceremony in which the sentences of this were pronounced & carried out the Inquisition |
| #9221, aired 2024-12-09 | THAT'S ALL HISTORY $800: In business around 1070, Hereward the Wake was an Anglo-Saxon hero who rebelled against this other "the" guy William the Conqueror |
| #9221, aired 2024-12-09 | THAT'S ALL HISTORY $1200: French army officer Hippolyte Charles, this woman's lover after her 1796 marriage, somehow lived until 1837 Josephine |
| #9221, aired 2024-12-09 | THAT'S ALL HISTORY $1600: The ruins of the Iron Age city called "Great" this lie south of Harare in the country of the same name Zimbabwe |
| #9221, aired 2024-12-09 | ALLITERATIVE MOVIE TITLES $2000: This Kurosawa film centers on a desperate town that's assaulted by marauders Seven Samurai |
| #9221, aired 2024-12-09 | THAT'S ALL HISTORY $2000: Pushed out of Dacia by the Huns in 376, they moved in to Roman land, did some attacking of their own & went on west the Visigoths |
| #9221, aired 2024-12-09 | MORTAL MATTERS $3,000 (Daily Double): His body preserved, this leader still looks pretty much like he did at his death on January 21, 1924 Lenin |
| #9220, aired 2024-12-06 | A "BARREL" OF FUN $200: You're really scraping this when all that's available is something of the lowest or worst quality the bottom of the barrel |
| #9220, aired 2024-12-06 | IN THE KITCHEN $800: Also known as parboiling, it's this cooking process that boils & shocks veggies blanching |
| #9220, aired 2024-12-06 | 2024 DNC STATE ROLL CALL SONGS $2,000 (Daily Double): "Kiss" & "1999" repped this state Minnesota |
| #9220, aired 2024-12-06 | LITERARY LANDMARKS $2000: To this "H.H." 19th century poet, add "House" & you'll get a building that's an attraction in Düsseldorf Heinrich Heine |
| #9219, aired 2024-12-05 | 4-WORD PHRASES $400: There's a geometric shape & a number in this phrase meaning to start over back to square one |
| #9219, aired 2024-12-05 | PLAY THINGS $1000: Gooper & Brick return for their dad's birthday in this 1955 play that won a Pulitzer, but let's just say the party gets rough Cat on a Hot Tin Roof |
| #9218, aired 2024-12-04 | FAST FASHION $200: The H that begins this brand's short name was originally Hennes, Swedish for "Hers"; ABBA member Anni-Frid was a face of it in the '70s H&M |
| #9218, aired 2024-12-04 | AMERICAN TV SHOWS IN SPANISH $600: "Para Toda La Humanidad" For All Mankind |
| #9218, aired 2024-12-04 | PLAINS, RAINS & AUTOBAHNS $800: The Central Magdalena Valley of this nation gets more than 100 inches of annual rainfall; is that why their coffee's so good? Colombia |
| #9218, aired 2024-12-04 | PLAINS, RAINS & AUTOBAHNS $1600: This U.S. city near the Pacific coast gets quite a bit of rain in winter & some seems to be moving in here Olympia, Washington |
| #9217, aired 2024-12-03 | ITALIAN EXPLORERS $400: November 3, 1493, gimme a sec, was a... Sunday. No, I'm not a savant, I just know that's when this man sighted the island of Dominica Columbus |
| #9217, aired 2024-12-03 | A MIX OF SCIENCE $400: It's a facula that a facula is a bright spot in the photosphere of this body the Sun |
| #9217, aired 2024-12-03 | BRITSPEAK $400: Blimey is an alteration of this 2-word phrase, something that the Philistines did to Samson blind me |
| #9217, aired 2024-12-03 | SECTS $2,200 (Daily Double): In the 19th century the Namdhari sect of this religion began wearing turbans straight across the forehead--no more jaunty angles Sikhism |
| #9216, aired 2024-12-02 | THAT CHAPTER'S NAMED FOR ME! $200: This kid who deals with Olympians is the "I" in chapter 1: "I Accidentally Vaporize My Pre-Algebra Teacher" Percy Jackson |
| #9216, aired 2024-12-02 | THAT CHAPTER'S NAMED FOR ME! $400: "Live and Let Die", chapter 2, is an "Interview with" this letter-perfect head honcho M |
| #9216, aired 2024-12-02 | THAT CHAPTER'S NAMED FOR ME! $600: Chapter 10 of "The Hound of the Baskervilles" is an "Extract from the Diary of" this man Watson |
| #9216, aired 2024-12-02 | THAT CHAPTER'S NAMED FOR ME! $800: A charming Chapter 4 is entitled "In Which" this animal "Loses a Tail and Pooh Finds One" Eeyore |
| #9216, aired 2024-12-02 | THAT CHAPTER'S NAMED FOR ME! $1000: Chapter 6 of "The Wind in the Willows" is named for this character, who gets hustled away from taking a wild ride in a car Mr. Toad |
| #9216, aired 2024-12-02 | MOONS OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM $1200: In 2024 it was announced that the "sand" dunes on this planet's moon Titan may be crushed remains of smaller moons Saturn |
| #9216, aired 2024-12-02 | ADD VERBS $1600: Hey, cowboy, it's time to ____ that horse, also the word for the gear you'll use to hitch it to the wagon harness |
| #9215, aired 2024-11-29 | CAUGHT SNACKING $1000: You swallowed my 5-pack of this Japanese probiotic drink that's said to improve gut health Yakult |
| #9215, aired 2024-11-29 | AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: On April 19, 1775 patriots turned back the advancing British at this bridge spanning the Concord River the Old North Bridge |
| #9214, aired 2024-11-28 | FUN WITH ZIP CODES $400: Batter up & head to this Chavez Ravine ballpark that's not in 90210 but in its anagram, 90012 Dodger Stadium |
| #9214, aired 2024-11-28 | LIFE SCIENCE $800: Geneticist Polly Fordyce dislikes this term for the 98% of DNA that is non-coding; much of it does come out in gene expression junk DNA |
| #9214, aired 2024-11-28 | TURKEY DAY $1000: Before Turkey's largest city was renamed Istanbul, it was Constantinople & just before that, known as this Byzantium |
| #9214, aired 2024-11-28 | GEOGRAPHY $2000: This forest that can be spelled with or without an S at the end is located in both France & Belgium Ardennes |
| #9213, aired 2024-11-27 | SLOGANS $600: This company's "Yeah, we've got that" slogan was replaced in 2003 Staples |
| #9213, aired 2024-11-27 | QUOTING THE KING JAMES BIBLE $800: "Why beholdest thou" this 4-letter thing "that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?" the mote |
| #9213, aired 2024-11-27 | THE DAY $1000: In 2021 Joe Biden became the first U.S. president to formally proclaim this holiday that coincides with another in the fall Indigenous Peoples' Day |
| #9213, aired 2024-11-27 | FOOD & DRINK $2000: Wolfberry is another name for this sour Asian fruit that's high in antioxidants a goji berry |
| #9212, aired 2024-11-26 | THAT'S A FACT $400: Used in coal mining, a BWE is a bucket-wheel this machine an excavator |
| #9212, aired 2024-11-26 | U.S. CITIES $400: We have a problem if you don't know that it's the fourth-largest U.S. city in population Houston |
| #9212, aired 2024-11-26 | NOT IF I "CU" FIRST $800: It's this liqueur that gives a Blue Hawaiian cocktail its color Curaçao |
| #9212, aired 2024-11-26 | THAT'S A FACT $800: Oil still bubbles to the surface of Pearl Harbor from this battleship, now a part of a national memorial the USS Arizona |
| #9212, aired 2024-11-26 | QUEEN VICTORIA $1000: Queen Victoria was the last monarch of this ruling house; her ancestor George I was first (the House of) Hanover |
| #9212, aired 2024-11-26 | THAT'S A FACT $1200: In 1610, Galileo discovered this 2-letter moon of Jupiter, which is about 5 percent wider than ours Io |
| #9212, aired 2024-11-26 | THAT'S A FACT $1600: This language is celebrated every July 26--in 1887, that was the publication day for "Unua Libro", or "First Book" Esperanto |
| #9212, aired 2024-11-26 | POETRY $1600: In his classic "She Walks in Beauty", "all that's best of dark & bright meet in her aspect & her eyes" Lord Byron |
| #9212, aired 2024-11-26 | THAT'S A FACT $2000: Winston Churchill was born at this Oxfordshire palace; a nice example of baroque architecture in England Blenheim Palace |
| #9212, aired 2024-11-26 | IT'S PHYSICS! $2000: A CERN document calls it a material "composed of electrically neutral particles that can... flow without friction" a superfluid |
| #9212, aired 2024-11-26 | U.S. CITIES $2000: It's home to Indiana University & the little 500 bike race that inspired the movie "Breaking Away" Bloomington |
| #9211, aired 2024-11-25 | WORDS WITH DIACRITICAL MARKS $200: The name of this chili pepper literally means "from the capital of Veracruz" a jalapeño |
| #9211, aired 2024-11-25 | ANIMAL QUOTES $800: "Poor Richard's Almanack" included prudent gems like "He that lies down with dogs, shall rise up with" these fleas |
| #9211, aired 2024-11-25 | HERE'S MY WRITING SAMPLE $800: "There, comrades, is the answer to all our problems. It is summed up in a single word--man" George Orwell |
| #9211, aired 2024-11-25 | HERE'S MY WRITING SAMPLE $1000: "Yeager was standing erect with his parachute rolled up... and staring at them quite levelly out of what was left of his face" Tom Wolfe |
| #9210, aired 2024-11-22 | FRENCH-NAMED FOOD & DRINK $200: It's a pre-dinner alcoholic drink, perhaps champagne, that gets you ready for the main event an apéritif |
| #9209, aired 2024-11-21 | COHAB VOCAB $200: It's good before moving in together to set these, which can also be natural features like rivers that function as borders a boundary |
| #9209, aired 2024-11-21 | A LITTLE MATH, A LITTLE SCIENCE $1200: It's a number that represents the power to which a base is to be raised exponent |
| #9208, aired 2024-11-20 | STOCK SYMBOLS $200: Get the door. It's DPZ, this chain that expanded from one location in 1960 to more than 20,000 today Domino's Pizza |
| #9207, aired 2024-11-19 | BILLBOARD MUSIC AWARDS $800: In 1995 Stevie Wonder joined Coolio & L.V. on this song that would win Single of the Year "Gangsta's Paradise" |
| #9207, aired 2024-11-19 | "OVER" & "UNDER" $800: Hoping to change her own food behavior & that of others who needed help, Rozanne S. founded this organization Overeaters Anonymous |
| #9207, aired 2024-11-19 | SITCOM NEIGHBORS $800: In a 1995 episode of "Seinfeld", we learned that this is the first name of Jerry's neighbor Kramer Cosmo |
| #9207, aired 2024-11-19 | IT'S RUINED $800: "A lying tongue hateth those that are afflicted by it; and a flattering mouth worketh ruin" is in this Bible book Proverbs |
| #9207, aired 2024-11-19 | MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS $1600: The gambang is an Indonesian version of this percussion instrument that's struck with sticks or mallets a xylophone |
| #9206, aired 2024-11-18 | WICKED $400: (Jeff Goldblum presents the clue.) I play Oz, the Great & Terrible; learning of Elphaba's magical potential, I summon her to this colorful place where's she's accompanied by that, uh, tag-along Glinda the Emerald City |
| #9205, aired 2024-11-15 | "M"ISCELLANY $800: The aptly named Samantha Bond played this personal assistant in the films "GoldenEye" & "Die Another Day" Miss Moneypenny |
| #9205, aired 2024-11-15 | LAST LINES OF BOOKS $1000: A 5-word title: "In that enchanted place on the top of the forest, a little boy and his bear will always be playing" The House at Pooh Corner |
| #9205, aired 2024-11-15 | TOOLING UP $1000: The deep throat type of this, named for & shaped like the third letter, has extra-long jaws that let it perform its grasping task a C-clamp |
| #9204, aired 2024-11-14 | 20th CENTURY FICTION $400: "Le's do it now. Le's get that place now" were Lennie's last words to George in this Steinbeck novella Of Mice and Men |
| #9204, aired 2024-11-14 | HEY, WE MADE THAT! $600: "Assassin's Creed" in all its many forms, but "U" knew that Ubisoft |
| #9204, aired 2024-11-14 | CATCHING SOME RAYS $800: Watch your step at the Cayman Islands resort city named for these animals stingray |
| #9204, aired 2024-11-14 | HEY, WE MADE THAT! $800: Americone Dream & Boom Chocolatta! Cookie Core Ben & Jerry's |
| #9204, aired 2024-11-14 | WHAT'S "UP"? $800: In the Bible the first line of Job explains that he was from Uz, & that he was "perfect and" this upright |
| #9204, aired 2024-11-14 | MUSICAL ETT(E)s $1600: Robbie Montgomery was an original member of this unheralded girl group that backed Tina Turner on hits like "Proud Mary" The Ikettes |
| #9204, aired 2024-11-14 | MUSICAL ETT(E)s $2,000 (Daily Double): Freddie Gorman, a letter carrier by day, contributed to the lyrics of this song that delivered a No. 1 hit for The Marvelettes "Please Mr. Postman" |
| #9204, aired 2024-11-14 | MUSICAL ETT(E)s $2000: Though dark-haired, Johnette Napolitano was the lead singer of this group that in 1990 sang about Joey Concrete Blonde |
| #9203, aired 2024-11-13 | IT'S A SMALL WORLD $200: It's appropriate that tiny Nauru is part of this Pacific island group that has a name partly meaning small Micronesia |
| #9203, aired 2024-11-13 | FROM THE GREEK $1600: When Oedipus vows to find his father's killer, who in fact is himself, that's the situational type of this word irony |
| #9202, aired 2024-11-12 | ENDS IN "CH" $800: It's white powder that can be made from a grain & used as a thickener starch |
| #9202, aired 2024-11-12 | U.S. HISTORY $800: Before it was annexed by the U.S. in 1845, it claimed a panhandle that extended up into Wyoming Texas |
| #9202, aired 2024-11-12 | WE'RE SALUTIN' GLUTEN $800: Your typical dried pasta is made from this 5-letter type of wheat that's high in protein & gluten durum |
| #9202, aired 2024-11-12 | U.S. HISTORY $1200: In 1974 the U.S. repealed a Depression-era ban on private ownership of this that had been meant to prevent hoarding gold |
| #9202, aired 2024-11-12 | LET'S DABBLE IN SCIENCE $2000: Whoa, nebula, whoa! A new image from the Webb Telescope shows this nebula that's 1,300 light-years away the Horsehead Nebula |
| #9201, aired 2024-11-11 | ALL A BOARD! $200: It's the delicious advertising item in use here a sandwich board |
| #9201, aired 2024-11-11 | TIME MAGAZINE'S PERSON OF THE YEAR $600: 1986:
This Filipina Corazon Aquino |
| #9200, aired 2024-11-08 | THE BODY ELECTRIC $800: This type of implant that improves hearing is named for a tube in the ear that's shaped like a snail shell a cochlear implant |
| #9200, aired 2024-11-08 | SURROUNDED BY WATER $800: Bligh me! Named for the sailor who sighted it, this volcanic island southeast of Tahiti has fertile soil & a subtropical climate Pitcairn Island |
| #9200, aired 2024-11-08 | SHOE BIZ $1,000 (Daily Double): In "Shoe Dog", he wrote, "I liked that Nike was the goddess of victory. What's more important... than victory?" Phil Knight |
| #9200, aired 2024-11-08 | 4-SYLLABLE WORDS $1200: We imagine that if the performer seen here hands out a business card, it lists this profession a funambulist (aerialist) |
| #9199, aired 2024-11-07 | SOME PAINS, SOME GAINS $800: A Delaware senator gave his name to this type of individual retirement account that can reduce an investor's taxes Roth (IRA) |
| #9199, aired 2024-11-07 | BASIC MATH TERMS $1,000 (Daily Double): The result of a basic operation, it's from the Latin for "how many times" a quotient |
| #9199, aired 2024-11-07 | SOUTH AMERICAN GEOGRAPHY $1000: At the southern tip of the continent you'll find this promontory named for the birthplace of a Dutch navigator Cape Horn |
| #9199, aired 2024-11-07 | PURE BED-LAM $1600: Meaning "to cause to roll", it's also a type of bed that stows under another bed a trundle bed |
| #9198, aired 2024-11-06 | FRIENDS OF JOHN BROWN $600: They met for the 1st time in 1858 & she assisted John Brown by drawing from her geographical knowledge of the Mid-Atlantic region Harriet Tubman |
| #9198, aired 2024-11-06 | ALL THE LIGHT WE CAN SEE $2000: Here's a city created by this process that uses lasers to make everything look futuristic holography |
| #9197, aired 2024-11-05 | THE LAWYERS' NOTES ON MY NEW MEMOIR $1000: You may refer to this company only as "an Indianapolis-based provider of medicines founded in the year of our nation's centennial" Eli Lilly |
| #9197, aired 2024-11-05 | A NIGHT AT THE THEATER $1000: Songs in this 1960s musical that's not afraid to get naked include "Hashish" & "Good Morning Starshine" Hair |
| #9196, aired 2024-11-04 | DON'T DO THE MATH $400: If a car can go from 0 to 60 in 2.5 seconds, be careful, that's pretty fast, & also the car is an SF90 Spider from this company a Ferrari |
| #9196, aired 2024-11-04 | 5, 5 $800: It's the only U.S. state capital that fits the category Baton Rouge (or Boise, Idaho) |
| #9196, aired 2024-11-04 | DON'T DO THE MATH $800: If horse 1 is 8 inches tall, that's equal to 2 of these units of length, & enjoy your stay in Lilliput hands |
| #9196, aired 2024-11-04 | ALL SAINTS $1000: 1919's Treaty of Saint-Germain recognized the independence of several countries & the end of this family's empire the Habsburgs |
| #9196, aired 2024-11-04 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $1200: (Maria Menounos presents the clue.) Research on early detection of pancreatic cancer is vital; most patients are still diagnosed at this numerical stage that's also called advanced or metastatic stage 4 |
| #9195, aired 2024-11-01 | THAT'S SO 19th CENTURY $200: Boundaries of the Louisiana Purchase were vague, but by 1818, the Stony Mountains, now called these, became the western limit the Rockies |
| #9195, aired 2024-11-01 | THAT'S SO 19th CENTURY $400: In 1859 she provided "Notes on Nursing: What It Is and What It Is Not", & here's what the book is--still available today Florence Nightingale |
| #9195, aired 2024-11-01 | THAT'S SO 19th CENTURY $600: 3 glasses of whiskey are said to have made his 1865 VP inaugural address a bit of an adventure; a stunned Lincoln couldn't even look Andrew Johnson |
| #9195, aired 2024-11-01 | STYLING HAIR $800: A mistress of King Louis XV gave her name to this hairstyle that's all high & mighty up top a pompadour |
| #9195, aired 2024-11-01 | THAT'S SO 19th CENTURY $800: The Oct. 25, 1854 Battle of Balaklava in this war was immortalized in "The Charge of the Light Brigade" later that year the Crimean War |
| #9195, aired 2024-11-01 | THAT'S SO 19th CENTURY $1000: Napoleon re-premiered at Cannes on March 1, 1815, returning from an extended, unwanted engagement on this island Elba |
| #9195, aired 2024-11-01 | AMONG THE TOP BRITISH BABY NAMES $2000: This name that's in the top 20 belongs to a boy born in 2019 who's sixth in line to the British throne Archie |
| #9194, aired 2024-10-31 | RAP GENRES $400: Rapper Pac Man gets credit for creating drill, a genre associated with this city that's in the state of "Drillinois" Chicago |
| #9194, aired 2024-10-31 | THE KING'S MEN $800: "All that glisters is not gold", says this play, but extra gold was made when the king asked the troupe for a rare repeat performance The Merchant of Venice |
| #9193, aired 2024-10-30 | BEFORE & AFTER $400: Spooky ghost-filled dwelling that's England's current reigning dynasty a haunted house of Windsor |
| #9193, aired 2024-10-30 | THAT'S A REALLY BIG DITCH! $400: Kali Gandaki is a more than 3-mile-deep gorge between Mount Annapurna & Mount Dhaulagiri in this range the Himalaya |
| #9193, aired 2024-10-30 | SHE'S GOT THE POWER $400: Karen Lynch is CEO of this 3-letter pharmacy chain that has a red heart as a symbol CVS |
| #9193, aired 2024-10-30 | THAT'S A REALLY BIG DITCH! $800: Forming part of the border between Serbia & Romania, the Iron Gate is a 2-mile-long gorge on this river the Danube |
| #9193, aired 2024-10-30 | 1980s CATCHPHRASES $800: The movie "Heathers" popularized "What is your" this word instead of "What is your problem?" damage |
| #9193, aired 2024-10-30 | THAT'S A REALLY BIG DITCH! $1200: Liechtenstein Gorge in this Alpine nation, not the principality, has a staircase for great views & is not for the vertigo-prone Austria |
| #9193, aired 2024-10-30 | THAT'S A REALLY BIG DITCH! $1600: Peru's Colca Canyon is home to a number of villages & is advertised as the best place to see this largest raptor the Andean condor |
| #9193, aired 2024-10-30 | THAT'S A REALLY BIG DITCH! $2,000 (Daily Double): This canyon sinks about 8,000 feet below the rim to the Snake River below on the Oregon-Idaho border Hells Canyon |
| #9192, aired 2024-10-29 | SORRY, NO SHAKE TODAY $600: If the machine's not broken, enjoy the minty treat created at McDonald's in 1967; just this first word, please Shamrock |
| #9192, aired 2024-10-29 | THE MACHINE'S BROKEN $1000: In 1962, software that lacked a bar over "R" in a radius symbol doomed this oceanic spacecraft 1, NASA's first effort to reach Venus Mariner (1) |
| #9192, aired 2024-10-29 | AN "A" IN PSYCHOLOGY $1600: It's the emotional bond that develops between infant & parent; the same-named theory says it's an evolutionary advantage attachment |
| #9191, aired 2024-10-28 | EXTREME CANADA $400: A short drive from the capital, St. John's, Cape Spear in this province is Canada's easternmost point Newfoundland & Labrador |
| #9191, aired 2024-10-28 | EXTREME CANADA $1200: Canada's oldest national park is this one in the Rockies that draws 4 million visitors a year Banff |
| #9191, aired 2024-10-28 | EXCLAMATIONS! $2000: 2 words meaning "great, amazing", it's how Andy on "Parks & Rec" responds to April's "I love you" awesome sauce! |
| #9190, aired 2024-10-25 | RETRONYMS $200: It's the plain old H2O that you drink from the faucet tap water |
| #9190, aired 2024-10-25 | RETRONYMS $400: An article jokingly used this rhyming term to describe the delivery method of a 1944 letter arriving 66 years later snail mail |
| #9190, aired 2024-10-25 | ART & ARTISTS $1600: He wrote a poem that said, "My brush, above my face continually, makes it a splendid floor by dripping down" Michelangelo |
| #9190, aired 2024-10-25 | ROCKTOBER $3,000 (Daily Double): On Oct. 1, 2000 Midnight Oil played their hit "Beds Are Burning" at the Olympic closing ceremonies in this city Sydney |
| #9189, aired 2024-10-24 | PHOTOGRAPHERS & THEIR CRAFT $1600: William Wegman's claim to fame--whimsical portraits of this dog breed that also starts with "W" a Weimaraner |
| #9189, aired 2024-10-24 | SONGBIRDS $2000: Shelley wrote of this songbird, "I have never heard praise of love or wine that panted forth a flood or rapture so divine" a skylark |
| #9368, aired 2025-07-02 | MEN OF MEDICINE: He told of a patient who "took hold of his wife's head, tried to lift it off, to put it on" Oliver Sacks |
| #9366, aired 2025-06-30 | THE SUPREME COURT: In this case, "our consideration is limited to the present circumstances" about "equal protection in election processes" Bush v. Gore |
| #9364, aired 2025-06-26 | 20th CENTURY FIGURES: Ironic in light of her name, she was remembered in a eulogy as "the most hunted person of the modern age" Diana, Princess of Wales |
| #9363, aired 2025-06-25 | LITERARY ALLUSIONS: One of the first chatbots was named for this language-learning character from a 1913 play & 1956 musical Eliza Doolittle |
| #9359, aired 2025-06-19 | U.S. NATIONAL PARKS: Much of this 73-square-mile National Park is located beneath the Chihuahuan Desert Carlsbad Caverns |
| #9356, aired 2025-06-16 | BOOK COVERS: In 1974 Allison Maher Stern posed horizontally on stools & pretended to swim for a cover of this book Jaws |
| #54, aired 2025-06-04 | ISLAND COUNTRIES: The only U.N. member state named for a woman, it's named for a 4th century Sicilian martyr Saint Lucia |
| #9345, aired 2025-05-30 | NOVEL CHARACTERS: Likely a nod to the actor who first played him in 1962, this character was subsequently given Scottish ancestry by way of his father James Bond (007) |
| #9344, aired 2025-05-29 | PHRASE ORIGINS: An 1845 article called "Annexation" was the first appearance of this 2-word phrase implying inevitability manifest destiny |
| #9342, aired 2025-05-27 | AMERICAN HISTORY: In 1847, a decade before making national news, he was the plaintiff in a Missouri case against Irene Emerson Dred Scott |
| #9340, aired 2025-05-23 | TIME: Eponymously named & in use for more than 1,600 years, it was based in part on concepts from the Greek mathematician Sosigenes the Julian calendar |
| #45, aired 2025-05-20 | BOOK TITLES: The journey in the title of this 1878 novel is from Paris to "the vast tract of unenclosed wild known as Egdon Heath" Return of the Native (by Thomas Hardy) |
| #9337, aired 2025-05-20 | NFL GEOGRAPHY: It's the state with the lowest population density that's home to an NFL team Nevada |
| #9336, aired 2025-05-19 | DRAMA: The first time a woman played a role on the professional stage in England, it was as this wife of a soldier in a play 50-some years old Desdemona |
| #9334, aired 2025-05-15 | WOMEN OF HISTORY: Regarding the idea of "women first", she queried, "Women demand equal rights on land--why not on sea?" Molly Brown |
| #9332, aired 2025-05-13 | BROADWAY PREMIERES: To avoid licensing fees, this play used bits of "Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush" in place of the Disney tune that inspired its title Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? |
| #9330, aired 2025-05-09 | LITERARY NARRATORS: This work has 10 main narrators, 7 of them women, including Fiammetta & Lauretta The Decameron |
| #41, aired 2025-05-07 | SAINTS: This saint who helped convert Scotland to Christianity shares his name with the Latin word for an animal sent out 3 times by Noah St. Columba |
| #9327, aired 2025-05-06 | WORD ORIGINS: Fittingly, this adjective describing a hit-you-in-the-gut kind of feeling goes back to a Latin word for internal organs visceral |
| #9323, aired 2025-04-30 | BUSINESS & TELEVISION: This TV show that debuted in 1960 licensed its name 8 years later to a childrens' health product that's still around today The Flintstones |
| #40, aired 2025-04-30 | WORLD LITERATURE: A follow-up to an earlier work, this 1671 effort references eventual triumphs written of in the book of Job & the gospels Paradise Regained |
| #9321, aired 2025-04-28 | CONTEMPORARY AUTHORS: At the start of his writing career, his wife told him, if it didn't work out, at 6'4", he could be a reacher in a supermarket Lee Child |
| #9316, aired 2025-04-21 | THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE: This country has 2 capitals, is bounded by 5 other countries & has 37 official languages Bolivia |
| #9314, aired 2025-04-17 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS: This character's efforts in Africa to end an epidemic killing monkeys inspired Jane Goodall to do something similar Doctor Dolittle |
| #9313, aired 2025-04-16 | PLACES IN THE AMERICAN PAST: It's the building where the Stax Records classic "Knock On Wood" was written but it's remembered for other reasons the Lorraine Motel |
| #9307, aired 2025-04-08 | HONORS: Burt Lancaster & Joanne Woodward were among the first 8 honored at a 1958 ceremony held on this street Hollywood Boulevard |
| #9306, aired 2025-04-07 | AMERICAN LITERATURE: His 1821 novel was inspired by stories told to him by John Jay of Jay's experiences with spies during the Revolution James Fenimore Cooper |
| #9300, aired 2025-03-28 | GEOGRAPHIC NEIGHBORS: The "Hermit Nation" & the "Land of the Morning Calm" are nicknames for these 2 neighbors North Korea & South Korea |
| #9299, aired 2025-03-27 | LANDMARKS: This landmark features a relief of Agrippa approving the design of an aqueduct as well as Pietro Bracci's statue of Oceanus the Trevi Fountain |
| #9296, aired 2025-03-24 | ACTING FAMILIES: After leaving a religious group, John & Arlyn Bottom changed their family's last name to this, to signify a rebirth Phoenix |
| #9292, aired 2025-03-18 | CLASSIC TV SHOWS: Posted over the door of this show's setting was a notice reading, "Maximum room capacity 75 persons" Cheers |
| #9289, aired 2025-03-13 | GAMES: This game inaugurated a craze that "scandalized the puritanical and drove chiropractors wild with delight" Twister |
| #34, aired 2025-03-05 | COLORS: Once very expensive to obtain--its dye came from a small Mediterranean Sea snail--this color rarely appears on national flags purple |
| #9275, aired 2025-02-21 | COMPOSERS: Yale takes credit for starting a commencement tradition when it gave this composer an honorary doctorate in 1905 (Edward) Elgar |
| #9274, aired 2025-02-20 | THE SOUTHWEST: The 4-syllable name of this city is almost identical to its namesake town in Spain, except that the Spanish one has an extra "R" Albuquerque |
| #9271, aired 2025-02-17 | LITERATURE & SICKNESS: Still around today, this strep infection that causes a rash has terrible effects in "Little Women" & the "Little House on the Prairie" books scarlet fever |
| #9270, aired 2025-02-14 | MYTHOLOGY: On an early book of Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator's maps, an image of this Titan holding the world was used Atlas |
| #9269, aired 2025-02-13 | GREEK MYTH: Panoptes, meaning all-seeing, was the byname of this legendary figure, slain by Hermes while standing guard over Io Argus (Argos) |
| #9268, aired 2025-02-12 | EUROPEAN ARTWORK: A rope around their leader's neck, the men depicted in this late 19th c. piece seem resigned to death, but in the end they survived The Burghers of Calais |
| #9267, aired 2025-02-11 | CONTEMPORARY AUTHORS: Asked by a student about the Loch Ness Monster, she said a time portal below could allow a prehistoric creature to pass through (Diana) Gabaldon |
| #9266, aired 2025-02-10 | MEN OF WAR: Robert E. Lee's victory at Chancellorsville has been likened to this Greek's victory at Asculum in 279 B.C. Pyrrhus |
| #9264, aired 2025-02-06 | ANCIENT GEOGRAPHY: Wadi al-Malekat in Arabic, this site near a similar & better known location was the burial place of Nefertari & others the Valley of the Queens |
| #9262, aired 2025-02-04 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD: About 80 miles from Vladivostok, its 11-mile land border with Russia is the shortest of that country's 14 neighbors North Korea |
| #9260, aired 2025-01-31 | U.S. PLACE NAMES: Before 1867, this city that lends its name to a type of tree was known as Novo Arkhangelsk Sitka |
| #9259, aired 2025-01-30 | LATIN PHRASES: After Camillagate, a fire at Windsor Castle & marriage problems in her family, Queen Elizabeth II dubbed 1992 this annus horribilis |
| #9257, aired 2025-01-28 | PALINDROMIC DATES: This 7-digit date saw the premiere of Handel's "Water Music" 7/17/1717 |
| #29, aired 2025-01-22 | COMING ATTRACTIONS: Dubbed "The Voice of God", Don LaFontaine was best known for this 3-word phrase that set the stage for many a movie trailer In a world |
| #9244, aired 2025-01-09 | ANIMALS IN SCIENCE: The first mammal species sent on a rocket to space, it's perhaps more famous for an antigen in its blood a rhesus monkey (rhesus macaque) |
| #27, aired 2025-01-08 | HAWAII: Introduced in 1881 to grow ornamental trees, these seeds became one of Hawaii's most valuable crops macadamia nuts |
| #9239, aired 2025-01-02 | SCIENCE: THE ____ OF ____: 4 of these discovered in the early 1600s were given the names of lovers of a mythological deity the moons of Jupiter |
| #9237, aired 2024-12-31 | THEATER ETYMOLOGY: A centuries-old type of performance, this word includes Greek roots meaning "imitator of all" pantomime |
| #9233, aired 2024-12-25 | U.S. PLACE NAMES: A trio including Andrew Jackson founded this city with a name that evokes a great city of the ancient world Memphis |
| #9229, aired 2024-12-19 | SUPER BOWL HISTORY: It's the only team to play in the Super Bowl before Neil Armstrong's Moon walk that has not been back to the Big Game since the Jets |
| #9226, aired 2024-12-16 | GEOGRAPHY: Jebel Musa in Morocco & Mount Hacho near Ceuta are candidates for the southern half of this pair the Pillars of Hercules |
| #9224, aired 2024-12-12 | TV PROPS: A prop central to the title character on this '60s sitcom began as a special Christmas edition whiskey decanter I Dream of Jeannie |
| #9222, aired 2024-12-10 | PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES: The running mates of this candidate included John Kern, Arthur Sewall & Adlai Stevenson I William Jennings Bryan |
| #9221, aired 2024-12-09 | ISLANDS OF EUROPE: In February 1793 the French were repulsed in an attack on this island from one just north that they controlled Sardinia |
| #9220, aired 2024-12-06 | TV CHARACTERS: On TV in the 1960s & the 2020s, this character has a first name that's partly from Latin for "death" Morticia Addams |
| #9219, aired 2024-12-05 | BRAND NAMES: They've been described as having the unique scent of "slightly earthy soap with pungent, leather-like clay undertones" Crayola (Crayons) |
| #9216, aired 2024-12-02 | POETIC CHARACTERS: In an 1842 poem, it is said of this legendary character that his "quaint attire" is much admired the Pied Piper (of Hamelin) |
| #9214, aired 2024-11-28 | U.S. BUSINESSES: In 2024 this company said only 4 of its 400+ locations will let Mr. Munch, Helen Henny, Jasper T. Jowls & its namesake still perform Chuck E. Cheese |
| #9211, aired 2024-11-25 | 19th CENTURY NOVELS: The mention of a new railway section between Rothal & Allahabad in India leads to an argument & then a bet in this novel Around the World in Eighty Days |
| #9203, aired 2024-11-13 | POETRY & PLACES: It's the geographic word in the title of a Robert Burns poem about "the mountains... covered with snow... the straths & green valleys below" Highlands |
| #9195, aired 2024-11-01 | HISTORY & THE MOVIES: This 1935 Best Picture Oscar winner tells of a 1789 event near the isolated Pacific volcano of Tofua Mutiny on the Bounty |
| #9194, aired 2024-10-31 | ANIMALS: The Aztecs called this animal ayotochtli, meaning a "turtle rabbit" for its rabbit-like ears & its turtle-like shell an armadillo |
| #9192, aired 2024-10-29 | NEWS FROM THE STORK: One of the 10 or so babies born at Argentina's Esperanza Base in this place was fittingly named Marisa de las Nieves Antarctica |
| #9190, aired 2024-10-25 | U.S. HISTORY: The largest land deal in U.S. history was formalized in a building at this spot, now named for a military hero & president Jackson Square |
| #9189, aired 2024-10-24 | ON THE U.K. MUSIC CHARTS: "Candle In The Wind 1997" knocked this song that asked a title question from the top spot as the U.K.'s all-time bestselling song "Do They Know It's Christmas?" |
| #9188, aired 2024-10-23 | THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH: This day involving the Holy Spirit & the Apostles is sometimes described as the "birthday" of the Church Pentecost |
| #9184, aired 2024-10-17 | LETTERS OF THE ARTISTS: In 1896 he wrote, "My prices are 2000, 3000 & 4000 dollars for head & shoulders, 3/4 length & full-length respectively" John Singer Sargent |
| #9182, aired 2024-10-15 | PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATION ACCEPTANCE SPEECHES: He talked of a "new Attorney General" 4 times, the end of a "long dark night for America" & "a gentle, Quaker mother" Richard Nixon |
| #9172, aired 2024-10-01 | SITCOMS: The first British sitcom to win a Best Comedy Golden Globe, it was remade in a U.S. version that had almost 15 times as many episodes The Office |
| #9168, aired 2024-09-25 | SHAKESPEARE: "Blood will have blood", says this title character, who is later told, "Be bloody, bold, & resolute" Macbeth |
| #9166, aired 2024-09-23 | 19th CENTURY AMERICANS: Among those who attended his 1864 funeral were Ralph Waldo Emerson, Bronson Alcott & Franklin Pierce Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| #9164, aired 2024-09-19 | NEW YORK MOVIES: Frank Sinatra got upset that a photo of him caught fire in a Brooklyn pizzeria in this film Do the Right Thing |
| #9163, aired 2024-09-18 | THE MOVIES: Hewlett-Packard's first big customer was Walt Disney, who purchased special sound equipment for the making & showing of this film Fantasia |
| #9162, aired 2024-09-17 | CHARACTERS IN BOOK SERIES: This 12-year-old began his first book saying, "Look, I didn't want to be a half-blood" Percy Jackson (Perseus Jackson) |
| #9158, aired 2024-09-11 | WORLD BORDERS: After Canada & the U.S., these 2 countries share the longest land border at more than 4,700 miles Russia & Kazakhstan |
| #9155, aired 2024-07-26 | ANCIENT ANIMALS: The first fossils of these creatures with an elongated 4th digit were described in 1784 by naturalist Cosimo Collini pterodactyls |
| #9153, aired 2024-07-24 | U.S. PLACE NAMES: This name of a national forest means "fool" & may be one Apache group's name for another group; it's also a problematic TV character Tonto |
| #9134, aired 2024-06-27 | BUSINESSMEN: After joining the Army at 16 in 1906 for a brief stint, he received a much higher honorary rank from the governor of his state 29 years later Colonel Sanders |
| #9133, aired 2024-06-26 | LITERATURE: The British Library says of this 19th c. man, "One of his most famous poems... is a warning about the arrogance of great leaders" (Percy Bysshe) Shelley |
| #9131, aired 2024-06-24 | NAMES IN THE HEAVENS: When this body was discovered in 1978, Persephone was suggested as its name Charon |
| #9128, aired 2024-06-19 | BRANDS: In 1978 a new cologne for men came out called this, what's being played in the company's iconic logo Polo |
| #9127, aired 2024-06-18 | GEOGRAPHIC NAME'S ALMOST THE SAME: Legend says in 1876 a dragon built for the first "Ring" cycle had its neck sent to this Mideast capital, not the right German city Beirut |
| #9120, aired 2024-06-07 | WORLD LEADERS: During a 1972 presidential visit, Richard Nixon discussed a poem by this leader called "Ode to the Plum Blossom" Chairman Mao Zedong |
| #9119, aired 2024-06-06 | U.S. HISTORY: Challenged in a courtroom that same year, 1925's Butler Act in Tennessee outlawed this activity & wasn't repealed until 1967 teaching evolution |
| #9116, aired 2024-06-03 | COLLEGES: Of the Seven Sisters colleges, this one located in a place of the same name is the farthest south Bryn Mawr |
| #9115, aired 2024-05-31 | HISTORIC PEOPLE: An island near Cebu City has a statue of Lapulapu & a monument to this man that Lapulapu is said to have killed in 1521 Magellan |
| #36, aired 2024-05-20 | 21st CENTURY LITERARY CHARACTERS: The last name adopted by Damon Fields, the title character of this novel, refers to his red hair Demon Copperhead |
| #35, aired 2024-05-20 | METALLIC ELEMENTS: As it's rarely found in pure form, one explanation of its name is that it comes from Greek for "not alone" or "not one" antimony |
| #34, aired 2024-05-17 | ALSO SEEN AT THE CIRCUS: FDR gets credit for implementing this as a concept in the U.S. & the metaphor was used by FDR Jr., running for office in 1966 safety net |
| #9105, aired 2024-05-17 | BOOK & MOVIE TITLE REFERENCES: The title of this 2001 book, also a 2003 film, forms a partial border between Boston, Chelsea, Medford & Everett Mystic River |
| #29, aired 2024-05-13 | AROUND THE WORLD: Almost twice the size of Texas but with the population of Lubbock, this part of Australia rejected statehood in a 1998 referendum the Northern Territory |
| #27, aired 2024-05-10 | THE 20th CENTURY: Hearing about the speech that launched this eponymous process, the head of the CIA wondered if Nikita Khrushchev had been drunk destalinization |
| #26, aired 2024-05-08 | FAMOUS LAST WORDS: In 1530 he made his last confession & wished that "I had served God as diligently as I have done the king" Cardinal Wolsey |
| #25, aired 2024-05-08 | THE THEATER: This show debuted December 30, 1879 in a theater on the Devon coast, with the cast in costumes from a related show The Pirates of Penzance |
| #24, aired 2024-05-06 | 20th CENTURY WRITERS: Becoming a British subject in 1927, he described himself as a classicist in literature, royalist in politics & Anglo-Catholic in religion T.S. Eliot |
| #23, aired 2024-05-06 | 20th CENTURY LEADERS: 1 of the "Big Four" at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference & a former journalist, he'd supported the Impressionists & Alfred Dreyfus Clemenceau |
| #9096, aired 2024-05-06 | HISTORIC GROUPS: Like their uniform, the flag of this group created in 1506 has stripes of red, blue & yellow, the colors of the Medici family the Swiss Guard |
| #9087, aired 2024-04-23 | BUSINESS: In the 1850s the .925 sterling silver standard was instituted by this company, the first American one to do so Tiffany |
| #9085, aired 2024-04-19 | COMIC BOOK CHARACTERS: Featured in a 2020 film, she gets her name from a 16th c. Italian stock character who often wore diamond-patterned outfits Harley Quinn |
| #9077, aired 2024-04-09 | BODIES OF WATER: The smallest inland sea in the world, it's completely within the territory of a single country & connects 2 other larger seas the Sea of Marmara |
| #9076, aired 2024-04-08 | MYTHOLOGY: A peasant who became the king of Phrygia created this intricate problem that was solved in 333 B.C. the Gordian Knot |
| #9074, aired 2024-04-04 | STATE CAPITALS: It was named for a nearby river that explorer Gabriel Moraga named for one of a religious grouping of 7 Sacramento |
| #9070, aired 2024-03-29 | U.S.S.R.I.P.: Of the 15 countries formed by the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, this one is alphabetically last Uzbekistan |
| #9068, aired 2024-03-27 | OLD WORDS: First appearing in an English dictionary in 1623, mesonoxian means pertaining to this word midnight |
| #9067, aired 2024-03-26 | ELEMENTS: In his "Natural History" Pliny described it as "argentum vivum" mercury |
| #9066, aired 2024-03-25 | NOTORIOUS 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 2024-03-21 | 20th CENTURY NOVELS: Virginia Woolf disliked this book that was "cutting out the explanations and putting in the thoughts between dashes" Ulysses |
| #9061, aired 2024-03-18 | EURASIA: Zvartnots International Airport serves this capital & has the code EVN, all letters found in the city's name Yerevan, Armenia |
| #9058, aired 2024-03-13 | BOOKS 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 2024-03-08 | LITERATURE & 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 2024-03-07 | ANCIENT 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 2024-03-04 | POETS 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 2024-03-01 | COUNTRIES 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 2024-02-26 | ART 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 2024-02-21 | 19th CENTURY AMERICANS: In 1896, 15 years after a famous showdown, this man was accused of fixing a championship boxing match Wyatt Earp |
| #9042, aired 2024-02-20 | PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS: He's the most recent presidential candidate to have officially declared his opponent in that campaign the victor Al Gore |
| #9039, aired 2024-02-15 | LANDMARKS: 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 2024-02-08 | COUNTRY 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 2024-01-29 | HISTORICAL 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 2024-01-23 | U.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 2024-01-22 | PRESIDENTS & 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 2024-01-17 | 19th 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 2024-01-16 | ICONIC 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 2024-01-16 | NEW NATIONS: In September 2023 the U.S. recognized 2 new nations in free association with New Zealand: Niue & this archipelago the Cook Islands |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | TELEVISION HISTORY: According to the BBC, this 1953 event "did more than any other to make television a mainstream medium" the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II |
| #9010, aired 2024-01-05 | CHILDREN'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 2024-01-04 | HISTORIC AMERICANS: They went their separate ways in 1806 & both became territorial governors: one of Upper Louisiana, the other of Missouri Lewis & Clark |
| #9007, aired 2024-01-02 | LANDMARKS: During Pope John Paul II's 1987 visit to Los Angeles, pranksters covered up this letter in a local landmark L |
| #9002, aired 2023-12-26 | BOOK CHARACTERS: Early on in a 1966 novel, this title character beats the protagonist in maze races; later on he bites him Algernon |
| #9001, aired 2023-12-25 | FAMOUS 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 2023-12-21 | FROM 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 2023-12-20 | COUNTRIES: Of the 14 countries that border China, it's the only monarchy & the only one with a population under 1 million Bhutan |
| #8994, aired 2023-12-14 | BUSINESS: 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 2023-12-08 | ANCIENT 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 2023-12-05 | 2020s 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 2023-12-01 | BODIES OF WATER: The Goshute, a Western people, called this vast body of water Teittse Paa, meaning "bad water" the Great Salt Lake |
| #20, aired 2023-11-15 | ARTISTS: 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 2023-11-06 | MUSIC & 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 2023-11-03 | BRITISH HISTORY: At Leicester Cathedral in March 2015, the Archbishop of Canterbury led a religious ceremony for this deceased English monarch Richard III |
| #8964, aired 2023-11-02 | ANCIENT 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 2023-11-01 | PLAY 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 2023-10-30 | DRIVING 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 2023-10-27 | FAMOUS 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 2023-10-25 | TWEEN 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 2023-10-25 | HISTORIC 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 2023-10-19 | NAMES: 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 2023-10-17 | MILITARY 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 2023-10-11 | RALLYING 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 2023-10-11 | FINE 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 2023-10-04 | AMERICAN IMMIGRANTS: His 1904 will stipulated that "all the sums hereinbefore specified for prizes shall be used for prizes only" Joseph Pulitzer |
| #8942, aired 2023-10-03 | THE 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 2023-09-29 | U.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 2023-09-22 | COMPOSERS: 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 2023-09-20 | 20th 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 2023-09-15 | ASTRONOMY: The only dwarf planet located in the inner Solar System, it's named for an ancient deity of planting & harvests Ceres |
| #8928, aired 2023-09-13 | ARTISTS: 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 2023-07-19 | FAMOUS 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 2023-07-11 | OLYMPIC 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 2023-07-03 | FASHION: The name of these items that became a 1940s fad derives in part from a word meaning "to cut short" bobby socks |
| #8905, aired 2023-06-30 | NATIONAL 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 2023-06-22 | THE 19th CENTURY: In 1823 he wrote, "In the war between those new governments and Spain we declared our neutrality" (James) Monroe |
| #8897, aired 2023-06-20 | THE OLYMPICS: This sport that made its Olympic debut in 1988 has a playing surface of only about 45 square feet table tennis |
| #8894, aired 2023-06-15 | THE 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 2023-06-09 | BRITISH NOVELS: Midway through this 1928 novel, the title character briefly takes "their" instead of his or her Orlando |
| #8889, aired 2023-06-08 | BUSINESS HISTORY: What is dubbed "the world's first initial public offering" took place in 1602 in this current European capital Amsterdam |
| #8881, aired 2023-05-29 | MEMORIALS: 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 2023-05-24 | LATIN IN LITERATURE: A work by this 15th century English writer quotes the phrase "rex quondam rexque futurus" Thomas Malory |
| #18, aired 2023-05-23 | OPERA & 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 2023-05-23 | SHAKESPEARE'S CHARACTERS: Both of the names of these 2 lovers in a Shakespeare play come from Latin words for "blessed" Beatrice & Benedick |
| #16, aired 2023-05-22 | HISTORIC SHIPS: This 16th century ship got its name from the crest of patron Christopher Hatton, which featured a deer the Golden Hind |
| #8874, aired 2023-05-18 | BILLBOARD 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 2023-05-17 | U.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 2023-05-16 | LANDMARKS: 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 2023-05-16 | AUTHORS: 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 2023-05-15 | THE 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 2023-05-12 | FICTIONAL PLACES: The dominions of this land "extend five thousand blustrugs (about twelve miles in circumference)" Lilliput |
| #6, aired 2023-05-10 | HISTORIC HOMES: This residence is part of an estate that includes Ballochbuie Forest, a remnant of the ancient Caledonian pine forest Balmoral |
| #3, aired 2023-05-09 | 21st 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 2023-05-09 | ACTRESSES & 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 2023-05-09 | WESTERN HEMISPHERE HISTORY: In 1915 the assassination of President Sam brought Uncle Sam to this country, beginning a 19-year military occupation Haiti |
| #1, aired 2023-05-08 | POETRY: A colossal head of Ramses II brought to the British Museum inspired this 1818 poem "Ozymandias" |
| #8863, aired 2023-05-03 | BUSINESS & 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 2023-04-26 | HOLLYWOOD 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 2023-04-06 | FASHION 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 2023-04-04 | NOVELISTS: A 2012 book review noted subjects that "sparked his ire": capital punishment, big tobacco & "the plight of the unjustly convicted" John Grisham |
| #8836, aired 2023-03-27 | CHEMICAL NAMES: The name of this pungent gaseous compound is ultimately derived from the top god of the ancient Egyptians ammonia |
| #8834, aired 2023-03-23 | MOVIE THEME SONGS: Monty Norman, the composer of this character's theme, said the staccato riff conveyed sexiness, mystery & ruthlessness (James) Bond |
| #8829, aired 2023-03-16 | 1980s 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 2023-03-14 | COUNTRIES 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 2023-03-01 | LAWS 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 2023-02-17 | NATIONAL 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 2023-02-14 | ART & 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 2023-02-13 | WORDS 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 2023-02-07 | WORD ORIGINS: This Sanskrit word referring to a spoken word or phrase comes from a word for "to think" mantra |
| #8790, aired 2023-01-20 | TELEVISION: 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 |
| #8784, aired 2023-01-12 | HISTORIC ART: The artwork once known in France as "la tapisserie de la reine Mathilde" is better known as this the Bayeux Tapestry |
| #10, aired 2023-01-12 | CORPORATE 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 |
| #9, aired 2023-01-05 | 20th CENTURY PEOPLE: Calling him "the embodiment of pure intellect", in December 1999 Time magazine named him Person of the Century Albert Einstein |
| #8773, aired 2022-12-28 | AMERICA 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 2022-12-20 | CLASSIC 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 2022-12-19 | BRAND NAMES: Unable to make these candies perfectly round, the confectioner embraced this flawed name for the product Milk Duds |
| #8765, aired 2022-12-16 | COUNTRIES 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 2022-12-08 | NAME'S THE SAME: A cocktail, an island & a WWII venture originally called "Development of Substitute Materials" all bear this name Manhattan |
| #8757, aired 2022-12-06 | PLAYS: A 1609 story in which an exiled king of Bulgaria creates a sea palace with his magic may have inspired the plot of this play The Tempest |
| #8754, aired 2022-12-01 | LANGUAGE & 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 2022-11-29 | NAMES 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 2022-11-25 | STATES & 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 2022-11-24 | SOUTHERN 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 2022-11-21 | PLAYS: 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 2022-11-16 | THE NEW TESTAMENT: Paul's letter to them is the New Testament epistle with the most Old Testament quotations Hebrews |
| #8742, aired 2022-11-15 | NAME'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 2022-11-10 | GEOGRAPHIC 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 2022-11-09 | CONTEMPORARY 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 2022-11-08 | CHEMICAL ELEMENT NAMES: The 3 elements whose names begin with 2 vowels are iodine & these 2, one synthetic & one natural einsteinium & europium |
| #7, aired 2022-11-06 | BRANDS: With wood becoming more difficult to source, this company turned to plastic for its automatic binding bricks, introduced in 1949 Lego |
| #8733, aired 2022-11-02 | PHRASES 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 2022-10-03 | 20th 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 2022-09-30 | BEFORE THEY WERE AUTHORS: While working for British naval intelligence during World War II, he was code-named 17F Ian Fleming |
| #1, aired 2022-09-25 | LANDLOCKED COUNTRIES: It's the world's smallest landlocked country in both area & population Vatican City |
| #8702, aired 2022-09-20 | AMERICAN 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 2022-09-12 | 19th 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 2022-07-22 | INAUGURAL BALLS: At the 1993 Tennessee Inaugural Ball, Paul Simon performed this song, his most recent Top 40 hit "You Can Call Me Al" |
| #8683, aired 2022-07-13 | STATE 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 2022-06-16 | DEBUT NOVELS: Published in 1991, this novel, the first in a series, has been described as "historical fiction with a Moebius twist" Outlander |
| #8649, aired 2022-05-26 | HISTORIC 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 2022-05-18 | OSCAR-WINNING SONGS: Johnny Mercer's lyrics to this 1961 Oscar-winning song once began, "I'm Holly" "Moon River" |
| #8635, aired 2022-05-06 | USA: 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 2022-05-05 | 20th CENTURY CINEMA: A black & white newsreel in this film begins: "In Xanadu did Kubla Khan a stately pleasure dome decree" Citizen Kane |
| #8629, aired 2022-04-28 | BOOKS 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 2022-04-26 | AFRICAN 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 2022-04-25 | NAMES 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 2022-04-21 | FILMS OF THE 1950s: The title character of this film has the same name as the Roman goddess of the dawn Sleeping Beauty |
| #8622, aired 2022-04-19 | COUNTRIES 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 2022-04-14 | WOMEN 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 2022-04-11 | WORDS 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 2022-03-23 | POEMS: The title of this poem comes from a 1920 book that refers to its possible "restoration to fruitfulness" The Waste Land |
| #8602, aired 2022-03-22 | HISTORIC 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 2022-03-17 | NONFICTION: This 1962 classic was dedicated to Albert Schweitzer, who predicted that man "will end by destroying the earth" Silent Spring |
| #8595, aired 2022-03-11 | SYMBOLS: This U.S. politician asked for a multicolored pennant for a parade; demand increased after his death in 1978 Harvey Milk |
| #8591, aired 2022-03-07 | CENTRAL 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 2022-02-22 | THE PERIODIC TABLE: By 1890, discoveries of 3 "nationalist elements" filled table gaps: scandium in Sweden, germanium in Germany, this in France gallium |
| #8582, aired 2022-02-22 | AMERICAN 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 2022-02-18 | CHARACTERS 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 2022-02-16 | HOLIDAYS & 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 2022-02-16 | 18th 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 2022-02-15 | PHYSICISTS: A 1927 principle by this Nobel Prize winner says that some knowledge is inaccessible Werner Heisenberg |
| #6, aired 2022-02-10 | POETRY: 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 2022-01-28 | 1970s 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 2022-01-13 | THE 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 2022-01-12 | HISTORIC 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 2021-12-21 | 3-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 |
| #8530, aired 2021-12-10 | 19th CENTURY BRITISH AUTHORS: She called herself "the daughter of two persons of distinguished literary celebrity" in an introduction to one of her novels (Mary) Shelley |
| #8528, aired 2021-12-08 | 20th 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 2021-12-02 | JOURNALISTS IN HISTORY: Bismarck Tribune correspondent Mark Kellogg died June 25, 1876 while on a field assignment covering this man (General George) Custer |
| #8519, aired 2021-11-25 | FAMOUS 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 2021-11-24 | AWARDS & HONORS: First awarded in 1731 to electricity pioneer Stephen Gray, the Copley Medal is awarded annually by this organization the Royal Society |
| #8514, aired 2021-11-18 | HISTORY: 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 2021-11-16 | MOVIE 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 2021-11-10 | WORLD POPULATION: This Asian nation is the world's most populous country that lies mostly in the Southern Hemisphere Indonesia |
| #8507, aired 2021-11-09 | 1970s 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 2021-11-03 | PAINTINGS: 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 2021-10-21 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY: This country of 16,600 square miles has a possession that's more than 50 times as large Denmark |
| #8493, aired 2021-10-20 | 19th 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 2021-10-08 | THE 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 2021-09-24 | HISTORY 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 2021-09-21 | CHILDREN'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 2021-09-17 | 19th 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 2021-09-13 | THE 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 2021-08-04 | THE 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 2021-07-30 | COMEDY & 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 2021-07-22 | 1970s 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 2021-06-21 | REFERENCE 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 2021-06-17 | COUNTRIES 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 2021-06-15 | AMERICAN 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 2021-05-28 | EUROPEAN BORDERS: It's still there, but none of the countries that bordered this country at the beginning of 1990 exist anymore Poland |
| #8405, aired 2021-05-21 | AMERICAN AUTHORS: The year before his 1809 birth, his parents acted in "King Lear", leading scholars to believe he was named for a "Lear" character Edgar Allan Poe |
| #8403, aired 2021-05-19 | MIDDLE EASTERN GEOGRAPHY: Of the 6 countries that border the Red Sea, it's last alphabetically Yemen |
| #8399, aired 2021-05-13 | CHILDREN'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 2021-05-12 | WORLD'S FAIRS: The theme of Seattle's 1962 World's Fair was "Man in the" this era Space Age |
| #8386, aired 2021-04-26 | CITY ORIGIN STORIES: The mythical founder Byzas consulted the Oracle of Delphi before establishing what's now known as this city Istanbul |
| #8385, aired 2021-04-23 | MOVIE 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 2021-04-15 | PHYSICS: Modern formulations of Newton's 2 most famous equations both begin with this quantity that's measured in newtons force |
| #8378, aired 2021-04-14 | SHAKESPEARE: With 4,042 lines, it's Shakespeare's longest play & it's also the one that's been filmed the most Hamlet |
| #8371, aired 2021-04-05 | DAYTIME 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 2021-03-30 | AMERICAN 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 2021-03-25 | LITERARY INSPIRATIONS: The now-debunked theories of Luigi Galvani influenced the science in this 1818 novel Frankenstein |
| #8351, aired 2021-03-08 | RADIO 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 2021-02-26 | EARLY 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 2021-02-22 | MUSIC: Just 24 notes, this piece is nicknamed "Butterfield's Lullaby" for the U.S. Army general who arranged it "Taps" |
| #8339, aired 2021-02-18 | 19th 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 2021-01-29 | BRITISH 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 2021-01-22 | STATUES: Statues honoring this man who was killed in 1779 can be found in Waimea, Kauai & in Whitby, England (Captain) Cook |
| #8318, aired 2021-01-20 | THE 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 2021-01-19 | THE BUSINESS OF TRAVEL: Adjusted for inflation, the nightly rate this company put in its name in 1962 is now $51 Motel 6 |
| #8316, aired 2021-01-18 | MOVIE 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 2021-01-12 | FAMOUS ANIMALS: When she first came to the world's attention in 1957, she was dubbed "Muttnik" by U.S. journalists Laika |
| #8308, aired 2021-01-06 | BLOCKBUSTER 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 2020-10-29 | LEAD 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 2020-10-06 | GEOGRAPHY FUN: It's the largest country in area that begins & ends with the same letter Australia |
| #8246, aired 2020-09-28 | ON 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 2020-09-22 | DIPLOMACY: The book "The Eagle & the Elephant" is about the relationship between the U.S. & this Asian country beginning in 1833 Thailand (Siam) |
| #8230, aired 2020-06-05 | 18th CENTURY NOVELS: The title character of this 1726 novel reaches 4 different lands as a result of a shipwreck, a storm at sea, pirates & a mutiny Gulliver's Travels |
| #8225, aired 2020-05-29 | PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARIES & MUSEUMS: Of the 15 U.S. presidential libraries or museums, 3 are in this state, more than any other Texas |
| #8214, aired 2020-04-30 | ADVERTISING: 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 2020-04-28 | 1950s 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 2020-04-27 | CIVIL 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 2020-04-17 | HISTORIC FIGURES: In legend, this real European leader fielded an elite corps called the 12 Peers that included Oliver & Roland Charlemagne |
| #8204, aired 2020-04-16 | SHAKESPEARE'S PLAYS: An account of a deposed Duke of Genoa in a 1549 "History of Italy" is a presumed source for this play The Tempest |
| #8200, aired 2020-04-10 | WORDS 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 |
| #8169, aired 2020-02-27 | 18th CENTURY AMERICA: The first Census, in 1790, listed 24 urban places; this port was the most populous one in the South Charleston |
| #8163, aired 2020-02-19 | INTERNATIONAL SPORTS: It’s the only country that has played in every FIFA World Cup tournament, winning 5 times Brazil |
| #8154, aired 2020-02-06 | RANKS & 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 2020-01-29 | 21st CENTURY OSCAR WINNERS: This man won Best Supporting Actor twice, both for films that won Best Picture Mahershala Ali |
| #8141, aired 2020-01-20 | CABINET 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 2020-01-15 | CHILDREN'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 2020-01-14 | SHAKESPEARE'S TRAGEDIES: He has 272 speeches, the most of any non-title character in a Shakespeare tragedy Iago |
| #3, aired 2020-01-08 | INFLUENTIAL 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 2020-01-07 | ASTRONOMERS: 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 |
| #8131, aired 2020-01-06 | 1960s NOVELS: This book defines its own title as "concern for one's own safety in the face of dangers... was the process of a rational mind" Catch-22 |
| #8117, aired 2019-12-17 | MILESTONES IN U.S. HISTORY: Congress declared September 6, 2008 Louisa Swain Day because Louisa did this in Wyoming on that date in 1870 voted |
| #8116, aired 2019-12-16 | TV THEME MUSIC: A short piece for 2 guitars called "Strange No. 3" was the first part of the theme music for this drama series that debuted in 1959 The Twilight Zone |
| #8096, aired 2019-11-18 | U.S. CITIES: Celebrating electricity & technology, an exposition in this U.S. "City of Light" in 1901 was overshadowed by another major event Buffalo |
| #8094, aired 2019-11-14 | OLD TESTAMENT BOOKS: By Hebrew word count, the longest book bears this name that led to a word for a long complaint or rant Jeremiah |
| #8091, aired 2019-11-11 | FAMOUS 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 |
| #8090, aired 2019-11-08 | LITERARY CHARACTERS: From an 1894 work, his name literally translates to "tiger king" Shere Khan |
| #8088, aired 2019-11-06 | 20th 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 2019-10-31 | NOVELISTS: 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 |
| #8082, aired 2019-10-29 | 1950s CINEMA: Objects of attention in this suspenseful film include a digging dog, a scantily clad dancer & a possible murderer Rear Window |
| #8080, aired 2019-10-25 | BRITISH 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 |
| #8079, aired 2019-10-24 | THE HISTORY OF FRANCE: This modern regime that lasted 4 years changed the national motto to "Travail, Famille, Patrie"--"Work, Family, Fatherland" Vichy France |
| #8078, aired 2019-10-23 | 1930s NOVEL CHARACTERS: Prior to a murder in a 1934 book, he says he hasn't been a detective since 1927 & that his wife inherited a lumber mill Nick Charles |
| #8074, aired 2019-10-17 | MOVIE SOUNDTRACKS: The soundtrack of this 2018 film has "Material Girl" & "Money (That's What I Want)" in Chinese & English Crazy Rich Asians |
| #8059, aired 2019-09-26 | WORLD LANDMARKS: "The Eighth Wonder", by composer Alan John & librettist Dennis Watkins, is about this building that opened in 1973 the Sydney Opera House |
| #8058, aired 2019-09-25 | NATURAL GEOGRAPHIC FEATURES: Timely for 2018, in 1866 Mark Twain wrote of this landmark's "sputtering jets of fire" & "heat from Pele's furnaces" Mount Kīlauea |
| #8049, aired 2019-09-12 | AMERICAN 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 2019-09-10 | 1960s 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 2019-07-26 | HISTORIC SHIPS: 215 passengers were rescued when it sank in July 1918, about 500 fewer than it had rescued 6 years earlier the Carpathia |
| #8020, aired 2019-06-21 | COMPOUND WORDS: This 8-letter word can follow nuclear to refer to a dangerous accident, or mean a total loss of emotional control meltdown |
| #8014, aired 2019-06-13 | WORD HISTORY: This word for a bug or malfunction was popularized in the 1962 book "Into Orbit" by the Mercury astronauts glitch |
| #8013, aired 2019-06-12 | POPULAR PRODUCTS: This product that brought virtual tourism into homes in 1939 introduced its first virtual reality device in 2015 View-Master |
| #8008, aired 2019-06-05 | THE 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 2019-05-31 | OSCAR-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 2019-05-21 | POETRY & 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 2019-05-10 | U.S. STATES: This state entered the Union in 1820 after separating from another state that began with the same 2 letters Maine |
| #7985, aired 2019-05-03 | WORDS OF THE 2000s: In 2008 Time magazine described this new practice as "one part social networking and one part capital accumulation" crowdfunding |
| #7964, aired 2019-04-04 | U.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 2019-03-21 | AMERICAN 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 2019-03-14 | STATE 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 2019-03-05 | CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT MATH: Total of the numbers of the amendments banning state-sponsored official religion, ending slavery & repealing Prohibition 35 |
| #7927, aired 2019-02-12 | ISLANDS: 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 2019-02-11 | PRIMETIME TV: "Complications" was a suggested title for this ABC drama that was renewed for a 15th season in 2018 Grey's Anatomy |
| #7915, aired 2019-01-25 | LAW 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 2019-01-09 | TV 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 2018-12-27 | COASTLINES: 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 2018-12-19 | POETS' BIRTHPLACES: 5 Cwmdonkin Drive was the address of the family home where he was born in 1914 Dylan Thomas |
| #7878, aired 2018-12-05 | NAMES 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 2018-11-09 | HOLIDAYS & 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 2018-10-22 | PLACES 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 2018-10-02 | OSCAR 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 2018-09-13 | BEFORE 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 2018-07-13 | MODERN 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 2018-07-12 | 1970s BESTSELLERS: The author of this novel thought of calling it "Silence in the Water" Jaws |
| #7789, aired 2018-06-21 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY: Australia's fourth-largest city, it's at the southern end of the road called Indian Ocean Drive Perth |
| #7782, aired 2018-06-12 | CHILDREN'S LIT: In 2017 the Maine farm & barn that inspired this classic 1952 novel were put up for sale Charlotte's Web |
| #7766, aired 2018-05-21 | U.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 2018-05-15 | U.N. LANGUAGES: Of the 6 official U.N. languages, it's the one that is written in a cursive form only Arabic |
| #7756, aired 2018-05-07 | U.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 2018-04-13 | U.S. PLACE NAMES: It's the only state named for a woman & whose capital is also named for a woman Maryland |
| #7738, aired 2018-04-11 | EXPLORATION 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 2018-04-02 | U.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 2018-03-28 | MUSICAL 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 2018-03-27 | 1960s 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 2018-02-27 | AMERICANA: 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 2018-02-02 | OFFICIAL STATE STUFF: Composers of this state's various official songs include Richard Rodgers & Woody Guthrie Oklahoma |
| #7689, aired 2018-02-01 | U.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 2018-01-23 | LITERARY BROTHERS: This character first appeared in "The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter", an 1893 story in London's Strand Magazine Mycroft Holmes |
| #7679, aired 2018-01-18 | SNACK FOODS: The name of this cracker that's been around since 1903 suggests that it was baked 3 times Triscuit |
| #7676, aired 2018-01-15 | THE THEATER: In 1915 this play opened for the last time on Broadway, ironically at the Booth Theatre Our American Cousin |
| #7674, aired 2018-01-11 | THE MOVIES: It's the first Oscar nominee for Best Picture to be produced by an internet streaming service Manchester by the Sea |
| #7663, aired 2017-12-27 | PRESIDENTIAL HOMES: Originally called Rural Retreat, this 19th century presidential home has a name that's a synonym for "retreat" Hermitage |
| #7660, aired 2017-12-22 | RECORD 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 2017-12-11 | ANCIENT SYMBOLS: Taiji, the Great Ultimate, is the source of this pair that's represented by the colors orange & azure respectively yin & yang |
| #7646, aired 2017-12-04 | CHILDREN'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 2017-11-27 | GERMAN 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 2017-11-22 | THE CALENDAR: November 2017 is in the year 1439 AH in the calendar that dates from an action of this religious figure Muhammad |
| #7633, aired 2017-11-15 | HISTORIC 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 2017-11-09 | THE 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 2017-11-07 | LANDLOCKED COUNTRIES: South of the Tropic of Capricorn, this kingdom is the world's southernmost landlocked country Lesotho |
| #7625, aired 2017-11-03 | WORLD CAPITALS: The world's highest international airport, at an elevation of over 13,000', serves this South American capital city La Paz, Bolivia |
| #7619, aired 2017-10-26 | BOARD GAMES: An early edition of this game that debuted in 1949 says that it's "the great new Sherlock Holmes game" Clue |
| #7617, aired 2017-10-24 | ETYMOLOGY: This 8-letter word meaning "cultured" or "intellectual" originated with a phrenology concept highbrow |
| #7612, aired 2017-10-17 | ASIAN GEOGRAPHY: It's the only country that borders both the Caspian Sea & the Persian Gulf Iran |
| #7609, aired 2017-10-12 | MOVIE 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 2017-10-11 | VISUAL VOCABULARY: A Latin word for a sea creature, in photography, it's a color that conveys nostalgia sepia |
| #7592, aired 2017-09-19 | POTENT & 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 2017-07-24 | COLLEGES: 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 2017-07-19 | HISTORIC EVENTS: In June 1986 a bakers union expressed regret for a disaster in this European city 320 years before London |
| #7575, aired 2017-07-14 | CONTEMPORARY 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 2017-07-05 | SMALL COUNTRIES: This tiny island nation 700 miles northeast of Madagascar makes a great addition to a classic tongue twister Seychelles |
| #7559, aired 2017-06-22 | EUROPE 1962: Rudolf Abel & this American are most associated with Germany's Glienicke Bridge on February 10, 1962 Francis Gary Powers |
| #7535, aired 2017-05-19 | U.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 2017-05-18 | WOMEN 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 2017-05-12 | PLACE 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 2017-04-26 | HISTORIC HOMES: While the White House was being built, George Washington's executive mansion was in this city Philadelphia |
| #7491, aired 2017-03-20 | PAPAL NAMES: From the mid-20th century, it's the most recent papal name that's the same in Latin & in English Pius |
| #7473, aired 2017-02-22 | PRESIDENTIAL 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 2017-02-17 | WORLD 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 2017-02-16 | SOUTH AMERICA: This capital's name is a Latinized form of the name of its country Brasilia |
| #7463, aired 2017-02-08 | NATIONAL 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 2017-02-02 | THE 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 2017-01-11 | SHAKESPEARE: 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 2016-12-28 | FICTIONAL 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 2016-12-27 | THE 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 2016-12-26 | MOONS & PLANETS: The name of this moon refers to the mythical group that its planet’s name belonged to Titan |
| #7428, aired 2016-12-21 | LITTLE COUNTRIES: It's the closest nation to the mainland U.S. where cars customarily drive on the left the Bahamas |
| #7423, aired 2016-12-14 | AMERICAN AUTHORS: Nominated 8 previous times, he finally won a Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962, 6 years before his death John Steinbeck |
| #7422, aired 2016-12-13 | CITY NAMES: Cuba's second-most populous city & a South American capital share this name that refers to St. James Santiago |
| #7402, aired 2016-11-15 | MEN OF SCIENCE: The symbols for 6 chemical elements spell out his name, beginning with cobalt, phosphorus & erbium Copernicus |
| #7395, aired 2016-11-04 | HISTORIC 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 2016-11-03 | LITERARY 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 2016-11-02 | EW'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 2016-10-27 | BRITISH 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 2016-10-24 | ANIMALS: 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 2016-10-17 | HISTORIC 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 2016-10-12 | STATE 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 2016-09-30 | CORPORATE LOGOS: Created in 1971, this company's logo has been likened to a wing & was supposed to connote motion Nike |
| #7366, aired 2016-09-26 | INTERNATIONAL 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 2016-09-23 | AFRICAN 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 2016-09-12 | ASIAN ISLANDS: Phuket, the largest island of this country, has regained its tourism industry after a natural disaster in 2004 Thailand |
| #7353, aired 2016-07-27 | 20th CENTURY ENGLISH NOBILITY: In Africa on Nov. 26, 1922, he anxiously asked Howard Carter, “Can you see anything?” Lord Carnarvon |
| #7342, aired 2016-07-12 | POLITICAL WORDS: Hamilton began & ended the Federalist Papers warning of this type of person, Greek for "people's leader" a demagogue |
| #7334, aired 2016-06-30 | INTERNATIONAL 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 2016-06-22 | EUROPEAN GEOGRAPHY: Excluding Russia, it has the longest mainland coastline of any European country, 15,626 miles Norway |
| #7325, aired 2016-06-17 | GEOGRAPHY IN THE NEWS: Mexico's Programa Frontera Sur aims to secure its 600-mile-long border with this country Guatemala |
| #7323, aired 2016-06-15 | CLASSIC 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 2016-06-13 | BILLBOARD 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 2016-06-01 | COLLEGE 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 2016-05-26 | ART 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 2016-05-23 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY: Of the 8 states that touch the Great Lakes, it's the smallest in area Indiana |
| #7303, aired 2016-05-18 | THE SUPREME COURT: With the passing of Antonin Scalia, this Reagan appointee became the longest-tenured justice on the court Anthony Kennedy |
| #7300, aired 2016-05-13 | 20th 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 2016-05-09 | LEGISLATION: 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 2016-05-06 | AUTHORS: 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 2016-05-03 | U.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 2016-04-29 | LITERARY 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 2016-04-21 | CITY NAME ORIGINS: This city that's home to an NFL team is named for an 18th century British prime minister Pittsburgh |
| #7279, aired 2016-04-14 | NORTH AMERICAN GEOGRAPHY: Far from New England, it's the state that has the shortest land border with Canada, only 45 miles Idaho |
| #7278, aired 2016-04-13 | FAMOUS 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 2016-04-05 | FOOD & 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 2016-03-29 | STATE CAPITAL GEOGRAPHY: Of the 5 U.S. state capitals that begin with the letter "A", the one that is farthest north Augusta |
| #7264, aired 2016-03-24 | 19th 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 2016-03-23 | 21st 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 2016-03-09 | LITERARY GEOGRAPHY: Shelley subtitled a poem named for this famous geographic feature "Lines Written in the Vale of Chamouni" Mont Blanc |
| #7230, aired 2016-02-05 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: He was the only 20th century president who never delivered an inaugural address President Ford |
| #7216, aired 2016-01-18 | STATE 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 2016-01-12 | HYMNS: Slave trader turned minister John Newton wrote this hymn that 1st appeared in 1779 as "Faith's Review And Expectation" "Amazing Grace" |
| #7202, aired 2015-12-29 | FAMOUS 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 2015-12-23 | BABY 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 2015-12-01 | THE 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 2015-11-20 | PHILOSOPHERS: His last name means a type of burial place & in 1855 that's where he went Søren Kierkegaard |
| #7171, aired 2015-11-16 | CITIES 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 2015-11-11 | ABBREVIATIONS: Its meaning as an individual product dates to 1977; its meaning as conforming to orthodox opinion dates to 1986 PC |
| #7161, aired 2015-11-02 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY: This country has 8 of the world's 10 highest peaks Nepal |
| #7159, aired 2015-10-29 | AFRICA: On the Horn of Africa, it's the only country whose name in English begins with a silent letter Djibouti |
| #7153, aired 2015-10-21 | THE PRIME MERIDIAN: Besides the U.K., it's the only country that the Prime Meridian touches that starts with a vowel Algeria |
| #7149, aired 2015-10-15 | THE 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 2015-10-07 | MOVIE 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 2015-07-24 | NATIONAL 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 2015-07-13 | AMERICAN PRODUCTS: In 1913 this cleaning item was born when its creators named it from a word meaning "bright" or "shining" Brillo |
| #7085, aired 2015-06-05 | MOTTOES: 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 2015-04-29 | CHAIN 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 2015-04-13 | GEOGRAPHY: The Caucasian Isthmus lies between these 2 large inland bodies of water the Caspian Sea & the Black Sea |
| #7043, aired 2015-04-08 | SHAKESPEARE'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 2015-04-03 | EUROPEAN 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 2015-03-03 | U.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 2015-02-24 | 1980s 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 2015-02-12 | WORLD 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 2015-02-11 | REFERENCE 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 2015-01-30 | INVENTORS: 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 2015-01-26 | U.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 2014-12-03 | U.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 2014-11-21 | SHAKESPEAREAN GEOGRAPHY: Of the 5 cities mentioned in Shakespeare play titles, it's the only one not found in Europe Tyre |
| #6944, aired 2014-11-20 | 20th 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 2014-11-19 | 21st CENTURY BOOKS: Set in the Great Depression, this 2006 novel has an epigraph from "Horton Hatches the Egg" Water for Elephants |
| #6940, aired 2014-11-14 | OPERA 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 2014-11-13 | TUNNELS: 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 2014-11-10 | STATE HOLIDAYS: This is the only state that honors a former U.S. Secretary of State with his own legal holiday Alaska |
| #6935, aired 2014-11-07 | SPORTS LOGOS: This NFL team's logo is the only one that is a plant the New Orleans Saints (the Fleur de Lis) |
| #6926, aired 2014-10-27 | ROCK & ROLL: A restaurant chain took its name from a British band's fourth chart-topper, this 1967 song "Ruby Tuesday" |
| #6924, aired 2014-10-23 | FRENCH FOOD HISTORY: A popular product was born when Jean Naigeon of this city substituted the juice of unripe grapes for vinegar Dijon |
| #6920, aired 2014-10-17 | COATS OF ARMS: This country's coat of arms features a palm tree & a 19th century American sailing ship Liberia |
| #6919, aired 2014-10-16 | LITERATURE: This title 1864 adventure is embarked upon by a descent into Iceland's Mount Sneffels Journey to the Center of the Earth |
| #6915, aired 2014-10-10 | COUNTRIES 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 2014-10-01 | U.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 2014-09-23 | ENGLISH MONARCHS: She was born near London; her mother, near Madrid "Bloody" Mary Tudor |
| #6901, aired 2014-09-22 | THE BILLBOARD ALBUM CHARTS: 11 movie soundtrack albums by this performer hit the Billboard Top 10, with 4 hitting No. 1 Elvis Presley |
| #6898, aired 2014-09-17 | MUSICAL 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 2014-09-15 | AUTHORS: 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 2014-07-31 | BESTSELLING 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 2014-07-22 | WORLD 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 2014-06-12 | CURRENT TELEVISION: George Romero declined to direct a few episodes of this series, calling it "basically... just a soap opera" The Walking Dead |
| #6855, aired 2014-06-06 | 20th CENTURY AMERICANS: In 1911 Glenn Curtiss received this document Number 1 a pilot's license |
| #6853, aired 2014-06-04 | THE BEATLES: Of The Beatles' 20 U.S. No. 1 hits, this song has the shortest title "Help!" |
| #6847, aired 2014-05-27 | 20th 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 2014-05-14 | NAMES 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 2014-05-09 | FAMOUS 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 2014-05-07 | SUPREME 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 2014-05-05 | WORD 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 2014-04-30 | ALBUM COVERS: This band used a picture of the Hindenburg disaster on the cover of its eponymous debut album Led Zeppelin |
| #6815, aired 2014-04-11 | HISTORIC 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 2014-04-09 | AROUND 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 2014-04-04 | 20th 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 2014-03-13 | WORLD CAPITALS: At 4,000 miles, the farthest-apart capitals of bordering countries are these 2 cities, one on a peninsula Moscow & Pyongyang |
| #6788, aired 2014-03-05 | 4-LETTER WORDS: New research says this word that has become ubiquitous dates back to young men also called "macaronis" dude |
| #6785, aired 2014-02-28 | MODERN DAY SUFFIXES: Dating from 1973, this 4-letter suffix indicates a person or thing that has become associated with public scandal -gate |
| #6782, aired 2014-02-25 | BUSINESS: "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 2014-02-21 | THE 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 2014-02-18 | PHYSICS: The name of this theory is from viewing sub-atomic particles as 1-dimensional objects, not as 0-dimensional points string theory |
| #6775, aired 2014-02-14 | GETTING 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 2014-02-10 | ISLANDS: In a satellite photo, volcanic activity can be seen on this 10,000-square-mile island Sicily |
| #6770, aired 2014-02-07 | WORLD POLITICS: When these 2 men swapped jobs in 2012, their country's media described the move as "castling" Putin & Medvedev |
| #6769, aired 2014-02-06 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD: Once a poor British protectorate, in 2012 this peninsular country ranked as the world's richest per capita Qatar |
| #6768, aired 2014-02-05 | THE 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 2014-02-04 | 20th 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 2014-01-31 | INVENTORS: In an 1854 demonstration, he said, "Cut the rope"; his invention kicked in, then he said, "All safe, gentlemen" Elisha Otis |
| #6750, aired 2014-01-10 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD: It's the largest country in area completely south of the equator that has a female president Argentina |
| #6727, aired 2013-12-10 | STATE CAPITALS: It's the Southern city in which the building seen here is located; counting the panels may help Austin |
| #6724, aired 2013-12-05 | 20th 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 2013-11-20 | NOVEL 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 2013-11-15 | PLAY CHARACTERS: In Peter Roach's phonetics glossary, this alliterative guy is "the best-known fictional phonetician" Henry Higgins |
| #6700, aired 2013-11-01 | NATIONS OF THE WORLD: The only 2 countries in the Americas that border each other & begin with the same letter Brazil & Bolivia |
| #6692, aired 2013-10-22 | THE 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 2013-10-14 | BIG COUNTRIES: In area, it's the largest former Soviet republic after Russia & the largest nation that doesn't border an ocean Kazakhstan |
| #6685, aired 2013-10-11 | WORLD CAPITALS: It's the capital city of the only country that borders both the Mediterranean Sea & the Black Sea Ankara |
| #6675, aired 2013-09-27 | EUROPEAN CAPITALS: Since a national split in 1993, it's the only world capital that borders 2 other countries--Austria & Hungary Bratislava |
| #6673, aired 2013-09-25 | 20th 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 2013-09-18 | WORLD 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 2013-09-16 | POETS: Funds provided by his widow were used to set up a literary charity called Old Possum's Practical Trust T.S. Eliot |
| #6665, aired 2013-08-02 | BODIES OF WATER: This body of water bearing the name of a country borders 5 U.S. states the Gulf of Mexico |
| #6663, aired 2013-07-31 | THE CIVIL WAR: Abraham Lincoln called this document, which took effect in 1863, "a fit and necessary war measure" the Emancipation Proclamation |
| #6657, aired 2013-07-23 | OSCAR-WINNING ACTORS: They're the only 2 Best Actor winners with the same last name; one was a winner for 1979 & 1988, the other for 2005 Dustin Hoffman & Philip Seymour Hoffman |
| #6650, aired 2013-07-12 | VIDEO 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 2013-07-11 | CLASSICAL MUSIC: This piece that premiered in Moscow in 1882 includes strains from "God Save the Czar" & "La Marseillaise" the 1812 Overture |
| #6642, aired 2013-07-02 | THE 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 2013-06-28 | 1950s 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 2013-06-07 | AMERICAN WRITERS: Contemporary reviews called this writer "A Yankee Diogenes" & the "Concord Diogenes" Henry David Thoreau |
| #6617, aired 2013-05-28 | AMERICAN 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 2013-05-24 | DISNEY SONGS: This 1964 song was inspired when one of the writer's sons took the oral polio vaccine "A Spoonful Of Sugar" |
| #6608, aired 2013-05-15 | FAMOUS EUROPEANS: After moving to Argentina in 1949, this industrialist was named a righteous gentile by Yad Vashem Oskar Schindler |
| #6605, aired 2013-05-10 | FAMOUS NAMES IN TRANSPORTATION: In 1928, a year after making international headlines, it reached its final destination, the Smithsonian the Spirit of St. Louis |
| #6604, aired 2013-05-09 | THE 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 2013-05-07 | CHARACTERS IN SHAKESPEARE: This character said to represent Shakespeare's philosophy has a name that means "fortunate" in Latin Prospero |
| #6569, aired 2013-03-21 | ARTISTS: 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 2013-03-20 | EUROPEANA: In the 16th century the ancestors of the current president of France fled what is now this country the Netherlands |
| #6565, aired 2013-03-15 | SHAKESPEARE: 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 2013-03-04 | COLLEGES & 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 2013-02-28 | THE UNIVERSE: In 2006 it was moved to a new list that includes Ceres & Eris Pluto |
| #6550, aired 2013-02-22 | ITALY: The Italian word for "shadow" is used as a local variation on the name of this region midway between Rome & Florence Umbria |
| #6548, aired 2013-02-20 | CLASSIC 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 2013-02-08 | U.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 2013-02-07 | CAPITAL CITIES: It's criss-crossed by dozens of "peace walls" that separate its Catholic & Protestant neighborhoods Belfast |
| #6537, aired 2013-02-05 | SHORT 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 2013-02-04 | MOUNT RUSHMORE: It's the only U.S. state that has more than one native-born son honored on Mount Rushmore Virginia |
| #6532, aired 2013-01-29 | METEOROLOGICAL TERMS: In the 1940s an anemometer aided Antarctic experiments that 1st determined this measurement heard in weather reports wind chill |
| #6530, aired 2013-01-25 | MUSICAL THEATRE: Before this show hit Broadway in 1964, one of its working titles was "The Luckiest People" Funny Girl |
| #6527, aired 2013-01-22 | OFFICIAL COUNTRY NAMES: It's the only nation in the world that officially describes itself as a confederation Swiss Confederation |
| #6512, aired 2013-01-01 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA: Held in 1857, America's first national landscape design contest was for the creation of this place Central Park |
| #6488, aired 2012-11-28 | COUNTRIES: 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 2012-11-27 | BILLBOARD 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 2012-11-26 | PLACE NAMES: Built in 1911, this Wisconsin home was named for a Welsh bard associated with King Arthur Taliesin |
| #6464, aired 2012-10-25 | WORLD LANGUAGES: Of the Romance languages, it has the greatest number of native speakers in a single country Portuguese |
| #6460, aired 2012-10-19 | CABLE 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 2012-10-15 | FICTION: 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 2012-10-02 | FAMILIAR 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 2012-09-21 | THE 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 2012-07-06 | OPERA 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 2012-06-22 | 20th 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 2012-06-11 | EVENTS IN THE BIBLE: Acts 1:13 says this event occurred in "an upper room" the Last Supper |
| #6389, aired 2012-05-31 | AIRLINE HISTORY: Clipper Goodwill, a Boeing 727, took this airline's last passengers from Barbados to Miami December 4, 1991 Pan Am |
| #6387, aired 2012-05-29 | CLASSIC 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 2012-05-23 | ANIMALS: 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 2012-05-22 | 1957: 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 2012-05-18 | INVENTORS: 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 2012-05-14 | AWARDS: This performer is the only person to win an Emmy, the Mark Twain Prize & the Spingarn Medal Bill Cosby |
| #6372, aired 2012-05-08 | ANCIENT 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 2012-05-07 | ON 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 2012-05-04 | THE 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 2012-04-12 | SHAKESPEARE'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 2012-04-09 | THE 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 2012-03-02 | BOOK 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 2012-02-24 | LITERARY BIOGRAPHIES: Quoting a famous line of his, a 2011 biography of this man was titled "And So It Goes" Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. |
| #6315, aired 2012-02-17 | LITERARY 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 2012-01-17 | U.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 2012-01-11 | FOOD ETYMOLOGY: Keith Downey developed rapeseed into this cooking product, now a huge cash crop for farmers in Saskatchewan canola |
| #6283, aired 2012-01-04 | 1930s 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 2011-12-30 | ROCK 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 2011-12-27 | PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURATIONS: His second inauguration marked the first time that women officially participated in the inaugural parade Woodrow Wilson |
| #6273, aired 2011-12-21 | THE 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 2011-12-06 | U.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 2011-11-17 | HISTORIC DOCUMENTS: It's the shorter, better-known name of the document "United States-Vietnam Relations, 1945-1967" the Pentagon Papers |
| #6247, aired 2011-11-15 | 19th 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 2011-11-11 | BUSINESS: A 2005 sale of 14,159,265 shares prompted the headline "Google offers shares, seeks global piece of" this pi |
| #6240, aired 2011-11-04 | NOTABLE 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 2011-10-18 | FOREIGN-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 2011-10-14 | THE 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 2011-07-29 | LOS 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 2011-07-18 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY: Of the 4 largest Asian countries in area, it's the only one that borders the other 3 China |
| #6195, aired 2011-07-15 | TRADEMARKS: In 1987 a maker of fiberglass insulation became the first company to trademark a color--this color pink |
| #6188, aired 2011-07-06 | U.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 2011-06-24 | WORLD CAPITALS: Built about 50 years ago, it's the only world capital to start with the letter "I" Islamabad |
| #6170, aired 2011-06-10 | FRANCE: 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 2011-06-08 | THE 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 2011-06-07 | BESTSELLERS: In the beginning this 2005 novel was simply titled "Forks" Twilight |
| #6161, aired 2011-05-30 | SCIENCE 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 2011-05-02 | CANADA: It's the only Canadian province that is separated from the North American mainland Prince Edward Island |
| #6133, aired 2011-04-20 | HISTORIC AMERICANS: Sharing his first name with the man who took this 1850s photo, he's the diplomat & officer seen here Matthew Perry |
| #6097, aired 2011-03-01 | 20th 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 2011-02-25 | GEOGRAPHIC TERMS: This area that includes several countries got its name because the colonizers spoke Spanish, French & Portuguese Latin America |
| #6087, aired 2011-02-15 | U.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 2011-02-02 | U.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 2011-01-26 | AFRICA: Its Declaration of Independence was signed in 1847 by 11 men in that nation's Providence Baptist Church Liberia |
| #6072, aired 2011-01-25 | THE OLD TESTAMENT: In the Book of Job, this name means "accuser", & that was his role in God's court Satan |
| #6067, aired 2011-01-18 | STATE NAMES: These are the 2 U.S. states with only one consonant in their names Iowa & Ohio |
| #6065, aired 2011-01-14 | THE 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 2011-01-05 | COUNTRIES: By area, it's the world's largest country that's named for a river India |
| #6041, aired 2010-12-13 | COUNTRIES: In only 2 cases can you add 2 letters to one country & get another country: Austria/Australia & this pair Niger/Nigeria |
| #6034, aired 2010-12-02 | BRITISH 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 2010-11-26 | MUSICAL 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 2010-11-17 | PHRASES: In ancient Rome it was a post where racers changed direction; since 1836 it's meant a moment change occurs turning point |
| #6021, aired 2010-11-15 | SPORTS 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 2010-10-19 | HOLIDAY 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 2010-10-18 | U.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 2010-10-15 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: He was the first U.S. president to be elected in an Olympic year McKinley |
| #5994, aired 2010-10-07 | MAMMALS: 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 2010-09-24 | PRESIDENTS: He served the shortest amount of time as president before running for & winning reelection to the job LBJ |
| #5977, aired 2010-09-14 | LITERARY & 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 2010-07-30 | THE 9 MUSES: In a Balanchine ballet, Apollo, god of music, has a favorite muse, this one Terpsichore |
| #5974, aired 2010-07-29 | THE 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 2010-07-07 | GEOGRAPHY: 2 of the 4 U.S. states that border Mexico (2 of) Texas, New Mexico, Arizona & California |
| #5951, aired 2010-06-28 | BOTANICAL 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 2010-06-23 | HISTORIC 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 2010-06-08 | U.S. MILITARY HISTORY: This general commanded the first official American force to fight on the European continent John Pershing |
| #5920, aired 2010-05-14 | THE 50 STATES: It's the only state from which rainwater flows to the Pacific, the Atlantic & Hudson Bay Montana |
| #5912, aired 2010-05-04 | OFFICIAL STATE SONGS: In 1953 it became the only state whose official song was written for a Broadway musical Oklahoma |
| #5911, aired 2010-05-03 | U.S.A.: Chocolate Avenue & Cocoa Avenue are 2 of the main thoroughfares in this town that was established in 1903 Hershey, Pennsylvania |
| #5910, aired 2010-04-30 | TOYS: Original sets of this toy that was first sold in 1918 included plans for building Uncle Tom's Cabin Lincoln Logs |
| #5908, aired 2010-04-28 | SCIENCE HISTORY: In August 1971 on the Moon's surface, an astronaut repeated a famous experiment & declared that this man "was correct" Galileo |
| #5906, aired 2010-04-26 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: He's the only president sworn in on a Catholic missal; it wasn't his Lyndon Baines Johnson |
| #5895, aired 2010-04-09 | 19th 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 2010-04-02 | THE 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 2010-03-18 | AUTHORS: In 1890 he witnessed a mild cyclone in Aberdeen, South Dakota, fodder for his most famous novel L. Frank Baum |
| #5875, aired 2010-03-12 | FILM 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 2010-02-16 | THE 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 2010-02-11 | COLLEGE 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 2010-02-10 | AMERICAN 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 2010-01-19 | U.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 2010-01-11 | THE 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 2009-12-30 | THE 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 2009-12-16 | 1970s 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 2009-12-11 | OPEC: This African nation of 150 million is the only member of OPEC that's also a member of the British Commonwealth Nigeria |
| #5807, aired 2009-12-08 | LITERATURE 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 2009-12-02 | PHRASE 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 2009-11-19 | FILM DIRECTORS: His work of the 1930s & '40s is so associated with sentimentality that his name is often combined with "corn" Frank Capra |
| #5792, aired 2009-11-17 | MOVIES & DANCE: Derived from other traditional dances & still popular today, the syrtaki was created for this 1964 movie Zorba the Greek |
| #5788, aired 2009-11-11 | THE 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 2009-11-06 | STATE CAPITALS: It's the only 3-word state capital Salt Lake City |
| #5754, aired 2009-09-24 | FROM 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 2009-09-21 | THE 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 2009-09-14 | WORD 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 2009-07-24 | 25 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 2009-07-23 | FOOD: This cheese was created in 1892 by Emil Frey & named for a New York singing society whose members loved the cheese Liederkranz |
| #5741, aired 2009-07-20 | POETS ON POETS: Longfellow began a poem about this earlier poet, "Tuscan, that wanderest through the realms of gloom" Dante Alighieri |
| #5736, aired 2009-07-13 | AMERICAN HISTORY: The area that's now the State of Indiana was acquired in this war the Revolutionary War |
| #5735, aired 2009-07-10 | THE 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 2009-07-06 | NAPOLEON: Napoleon died before some of his officers could sneak him to this U.S. state where his death mask now resides Louisiana |
| #5719, aired 2009-06-18 | STATE 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 2009-06-17 | THE 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 2009-06-05 | STATE QUARTERS: Of the U.S. state quarters that feature sail-powered craft, the state depicting the oldest ship Florida |
| #5705, aired 2009-05-29 | THE 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 2009-05-26 | BRITISH 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 2009-05-22 | 20th 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 2009-05-15 | 19th 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 2009-05-04 | THE 50 STATES: An 1881 resolution established that this state's name was to be spelled one way but pronounced another Arkansas |
| #5679, aired 2009-04-23 | 20th 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 2009-04-16 | AMERICAN 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 2009-04-15 | EXPLORERS: In 1611 Henry Greene led a successful mutiny against this captain, but soon after was killed by Eskimos Henry Hudson |
| #5668, aired 2009-04-08 | FILM QUOTES: From a 1942 movie, No. 2 on Guinness' top 10 film quotes is a line that mentions this liquor gin |
| #5656, aired 2009-03-23 | U.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 2009-03-06 | CELEBRATIONS: Homecoming Scotland is a yearlong celebration of this man's 250th birthday on Jan. 25, 2009 Rabbie Burns |
| #5643, aired 2009-03-04 | DIPLOMATIC 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 2009-02-27 | ADVERTISING 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 2009-02-20 | ANCIENT 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 2009-02-19 | EXPLORERS: In 1871 he answered, "Yes, and I feel thankful that I am here to welcome you" Dr. Livingstone |
| #5623, aired 2009-02-04 | 20th 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 2009-02-02 | STATE CAPITALS: It's the only state capital that bears the name of a U.S. vice president Jefferson City |
| #5615, aired 2009-01-23 | MYTHOLOGICAL WORDS & PHRASES: This prized object was the coat of the winged ram that flew Phrixus to safety the Golden Fleece |
| #5610, aired 2009-01-16 | CULINARY HISTORY: This fruit dessert was created to celebrate Queen Victoria's decades on the British throne cherries jubilee |
| #5609, aired 2009-01-15 | WRITER/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 2009-01-09 | ALPHABETS: 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 2009-01-07 | INDEPENDENCE DAYS: Poland's Independence Day commemorates this month & day in 1918 November 11 |
| #5588, aired 2008-12-17 | NOVEL 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 2008-12-03 | FAMOUS 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 2008-11-26 | FOOD 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 2008-11-19 | NONFICTION 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 2008-10-30 | INVENTORS: A key to Alexander Graham Bell's experiments was one of these, procured by a doctor friend, Clarence Blake an ear |
| #5546, aired 2008-10-20 | U.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 2008-10-09 | 1960s 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 2008-10-06 | 20th CENTURY WOMEN: The state building that houses Pennsylvania's Department of Environmental Protection is named in her honor Rachel Carson |
| #5523, aired 2008-09-17 | U.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 2008-09-12 | ROYALTY: It's the name of today's longest-ruling family in Europe, in power for most of the last 711 years Grimaldi |
| #5514, aired 2008-07-24 | FAMOUS NAMES: In 1906 he launched Conjurer's Monthly, a magazine that he pretty much wrote & edited himself Harry Houdini |
| #5512, aired 2008-07-22 | WORLD 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 2008-07-17 | 1970s 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 2008-07-11 | BASEBALL 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 2008-07-10 | SECRETARIES OF STATE: In 1947 he said Europe's food needs require "substantial additional help" to prevent social deterioration George C. Marshall |
| #5484, aired 2008-06-12 | FUN WITH NUMBERS: It's the only whole number that when spelled out has all its letters in reverse alphabetical order one |
| #5475, aired 2008-05-30 | WWII: FDR liked to rest near water, but because of fears after Pearl Harbor, this inland place was created for him Camp David |
| #5454, aired 2008-05-01 | HISTORIC NAMES: Born at Chateau Chavaniac in 1757, he was later hailed as "the hero of two worlds" the Marquis de Lafayette |
| #5452, aired 2008-04-29 | BASEBALL TERMS: Hall of Famer Willie Stargell called it "a butterfly with hiccups" a knuckleball |
| #5449, aired 2008-04-24 | STATE 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 2008-04-23 | 21st CENTURY OSCAR WINNERS: She's the only performer to win an Oscar for playing a real-life Oscar winner Cate Blanchett |
| #5444, aired 2008-04-17 | WWII: In English, it's the word that Mussolini was the first to use to describe the partnership between Berlin & Rome axis |
| #5439, aired 2008-04-10 | U.S. AGRICULTURE: In the 50 states, the highlighted area seen here is by far the most important for producing this coffee |
| #5435, aired 2008-04-04 | SHOW 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 2008-03-31 | BEFORE THEY WERE SENATORS: Later a U.S. senator, in 1962 he made a famous 75,000-mile trip John Glenn |
| #5410, aired 2008-02-29 | NAME'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 2008-02-22 | U.S. GOVERNMENT HISTORY: This man cast the first tie-breaking vote in U.S. Senate history John Adams |
| #5400, aired 2008-02-15 | AMERICAN POETRY: Walt Whitman called this "the beautiful uncut hair of graves" grass |
| #5396, aired 2008-02-11 | THE 50 STATES: It's the only state name that when spelled officially contains a diacritical mark Hawaii |
| #5395, aired 2008-02-08 | NORTH 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 2008-02-06 | WORLD AUTHORS: In 1898 he wrote, "As for the persons I have accused... they are... embodiments of social malfeasance" Émile Zola |
| #5389, aired 2008-01-31 | WORLD CAPITALS: This capital city of 113,000 is the closest national capital to the Arctic Circle Reykjavík |
| #5385, aired 2008-01-25 | CLASSIC TV: Among those who objected to this drama series that premiered in October 1959 were Frank Sinatra & J. Edgar Hoover The Untouchables |
| #5384, aired 2008-01-24 | RICH & 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 2008-01-18 | BIBLICAL 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 2008-01-16 | FOREIGN 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 2008-01-11 | OPERA 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 2008-01-09 | THE 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 2008-01-04 | U.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 2008-01-02 | THE 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 2008-01-01 | U.S. TRADE: It's the country from which the U.S. imports the most oil Canada |
| #5360, aired 2007-12-21 | POETS: 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 2007-12-13 | AFRICAN RIVERS: The course of this river that's almost 3,000 miles long is an immense counter-clockwise semi-circle the Congo |
| #5353, aired 2007-12-12 | 20th 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 2007-12-11 | SHAKESPEAREAN TRAGEDY CHARACTERS: To the consternation of the title character, we learn that this character was born by C-section Macduff |
| #5342, aired 2007-11-27 | CURRENT 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 2007-11-23 | PRO 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 2007-11-22 | FAMOUS NAMES: In the 19th century he created a new type of reference work, a dictionary named from the Greek for "treasury" Roget |
| #5332, aired 2007-11-13 | THE MOVIES: The title of this award-winning 1963 film refers to the number of films its director felt he had made to that point 8½ |
| #5330, aired 2007-11-09 | HISTORIC 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 2007-11-08 | THE PERSIAN GULF: Its national anthem begins, "O Lord, protect for us Our Majesty the Sultan" Oman |
| #5326, aired 2007-11-05 | THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE: Referring to the Great Bear constellation, this area's name is from the Greek meaning "opposite the bear" Antarctica |
| #5292, aired 2007-09-18 | MUSICAL 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 2007-09-17 | AMERICAN 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 2007-09-11 | AFRICAN 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 2007-07-24 | ANIMALS: The genus of this Asian animal is Ailuropoda, & its species name, appropriately, is melanoleuca the giant panda |
| #5272, aired 2007-07-10 | MYTHICAL 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 2007-07-06 | THE BALKANS: On June 3, 2006 this nation of 600,000 proclaimed its independence, making it the world's newest country Montenegro |
| #5263, aired 2007-06-27 | LITERATURE: Maris, Lycon, Laogonus, Erymas, Sarpedon, Erylaus & Patroclus die in Book 16 of this work the Iliad |
| #5261, aired 2007-06-25 | RELIGION IN AMERICA: This Protestant movement got its name from an early 20th century text that listed 5 basic elements Fundamentalism |
| #5260, aired 2007-06-22 | FOOD & 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 2007-06-15 | AMERICANA: 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 2007-06-06 | BODIES OF WATER: This sea hundreds of miles east of Florida has no land boundaries the Sargasso Sea |
| #5244, aired 2007-05-31 | ACTRESSES: This actress, who won a 1976 Oscar, later earned acclaim for playing an actress who won a 1945 Oscar Faye Dunaway |
| #5238, aired 2007-05-23 | MNEMONIC DEVICES: A traditional mnemonic device for remembering these begins, "Willie, Willie, Harry, Stee, Harry, Dick, John, Harry Three" English monarchs |
| #5237, aired 2007-05-22 | SPORTS LEGENDS: Between 1977 & 1980, he won a state high school championship, an NCAA championship, & an NBA championship Magic Johnson |
| #5235, aired 2007-05-18 | HISTORICAL 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 2007-05-09 | LINES 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 2007-05-08 | U.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 2007-05-07 | U.S. STATES: Of all the U.S. states named after European monarchs, it's the one that reaches the farthest west Louisiana |
| #5224, aired 2007-05-03 | PRESIDENTIAL SUCCESSION: It's the name of the person next in the line of presidential succession after Robert Byrd Condoleezza Rice |
| #5222, aired 2007-05-01 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS: He's the character mentioned in the first line of "Atlas Shrugged" John Galt |
| #5220, aired 2007-04-27 | U.S. TRANSPORTATION: Writing in the 1820s, Lafayette's secretary called it a "great channel of communication, executed in eight years" the Erie Canal |
| #5213, aired 2007-04-18 | A 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 2007-04-11 | THE 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 2007-04-06 | 20th 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 2007-04-03 | COUNTRIES 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 2007-03-21 | MUSIC 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 2007-03-20 | OLYMPIC HISTORY: This event was inspired by a legend mentioned in Plutarch's "On the Glory of Athens" the marathon |
| #5190, aired 2007-03-16 | WOMEN 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 2007-03-07 | BRITISH NOVELISTS: In 1946 he wrote, "Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful & murder respectable" George Orwell |
| #5175, aired 2007-02-23 | LITERATURE: This 1877 novel was written "to induce kindness, sympathy and an understanding treatment of horses" Black Beauty |
| #5174, aired 2007-02-22 | THE 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 2007-02-20 | FILMS 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 2007-02-14 | ORGANIZATIONS: The emblem seen here is now used in countries where this organization's original emblem was controversial the (International) Red Cross |
| #5165, aired 2007-02-09 | TOURISM: The 2 leading foreign destination countries for U.S. tourists Canada & Mexico |
| #5160, aired 2007-02-02 | FAMOUS AMERICANS: In part, using donated French tanks, he formed the U.S. Army's first tank training school in 1917 George Patton |
| #5158, aired 2007-01-31 | BRITISH ROYAL NAMES: Thomas Malory's posthumous 1485 bestseller inspired this first name of a prince born in 1486 Arthur |
| #5157, aired 2007-01-30 | IT 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 2007-01-18 | ANIMATED CHARACTERS: The middle initial of this cartoon critter introduced in 1949 stands for Ethelbert Wile E. Coyote |
| #5144, aired 2007-01-11 | AMERICAN 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 2006-12-19 | THE 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 2006-12-15 | POEM 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 2006-12-13 | UNIVERSITY 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 2006-12-12 | CHIEF 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 2006-12-07 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY: The Lusatian Mountains, in the western Sudeten range, form part of the border between these 2 countries Germany & the Czech Republic |
| #5107, aired 2006-11-21 | FROM 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 2006-11-14 | THE 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 2006-10-20 | LITERARY TITLE OBJECTS: In an 1868 novel, this mysterious title object is believed to sparkle or dim depending on lunar phases the Moonstone |
| #5080, aired 2006-10-13 | TRANSPORTATION: The name of this airline established in 1948 means "skyward" El Al |
| #5077, aired 2006-10-10 | CLASSIC 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 2006-09-27 | FAMOUS PAINTERS: He said, “You could find me anytime at Fournaise’s”, a restaurant right on the Seine Pierre-Auguste Renoir |
| #5061, aired 2006-09-18 | CASTLES: The name of this large home located in Aberdeenshire means "the majestic dwelling" in Gaelic Balmoral Castle |
| #5060, aired 2006-09-15 | U.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 2006-07-20 | EUROPEAN COUNTRIES: This co-principality is considered to have had the last remnant of Medieval Europe's feudal system Andorra |
| #5045, aired 2006-07-14 | FAMOUS PLAYS: This play that is quite concerned with the English language was, oddly enough, first performed in German in 1913 Pygmalion |
| #5041, aired 2006-07-10 | ISLANDS: Of the world's 10 largest islands, 3 belong all or in part to Indonesia & 3 belong to this country Canada |
| #5038, aired 2006-07-05 | WESTERN 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 2006-06-22 | WASHINGTON, 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 2006-06-14 | POLITICAL 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 2006-06-13 | LITERARY 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 2006-06-12 | U.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 2006-06-08 | UNIVERSITIES: 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 2006-05-23 | THE 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 2006-05-19 | WORLD 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 2006-05-16 | SCIENTISTS: "American Prometheus" is a biography of this physicist who died in 1967 J. Robert Oppenheimer |
| #5000, aired 2006-05-12 | ISLANDS: Davis Strait, named for a Northwest Passage seeker, separates these 2 islands that total over 1 million square miles Greenland & Baffin Island |
| #4997, aired 2006-05-09 | COMPOSING 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 2006-05-08 | SCIENCE: The symbol of this element first isolated in 1783 comes from its German name tungsten |
| #4995, aired 2006-05-05 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: Had he lived in ancient Greece, this president would have been called Odysseus Ulysses S. Grant |
| #4986, aired 2006-04-24 | ROCKS & MINERALS: Mines near Ticonderoga, New York were once the USA's principal source for this 8-letter mineral graphite |
| #4982, aired 2006-04-18 | AMERICAN 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 2006-04-12 | U.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 2006-04-11 | THE 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 2006-04-05 | STATE CAPITALS: Alphabetically, they're the first two state capitals named for presidents Jackson & Jefferson City |
| #4972, aired 2006-04-04 | GERMAN AMERICANS: He famously remarked, "We are all the President's men", giving Woodward & Bernstein their title Henry Kissinger |
| #4971, aired 2006-04-03 | AMERICAN 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 2006-03-27 | MILITARY 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 2006-03-22 | U.S. STATES: A popular nickname of this state comes from a plant, Poa pratensis, that covers the state Kentucky |
| #4962, aired 2006-03-21 | 20th 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 2006-03-01 | WORD ORIGINS: This word regarding infidelity came from a certain bird leaving its eggs in other nests to be raised cuckold |
| #4940, aired 2006-02-17 | FORMER WORLD CAPITALS: In 1998 Czar Nicholas II & his wife Alexandra were laid to rest in this city St. Petersburg |
| #4938, aired 2006-02-15 | LITERARY ANIMALS: In an 1877 novel, he tells us that he was originally called Darkie, & later, Old Crony Black Beauty |
| #4898, aired 2005-12-21 | LINES 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 2005-12-07 | 20th CENTURY NOVELS: This 1955 novel was originally titled "The Kingdom by the Sea", an allusion to Poe's "Annabel Lee" Lolita |
| #4875, aired 2005-11-18 | WORLD CAPITALS: Pizarro founded this city whose present name is from a Quechua word meaning "talker" Lima, Peru |
| #4870, aired 2005-11-11 | 20th 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 2005-11-10 | BILLBOARD MAGAZINE: Launched in 2004, Billboard's first Top 20 chart for these included "My Boo", the "Halloween" theme & "Ice Ice Baby" ringtones |
| #4865, aired 2005-11-04 | PRECIOUS 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 2005-10-31 | 20th CENTURY REPUBLICANS: Never president, he was the youngest man ever to receive the Republican presidential nomination (Thomas) Dewey |
| #4857, aired 2005-10-25 | YOUTH ORGANIZATIONS: This organization pledges it will strive for "clearer thinking... greater loyalty... larger service, and... better living" in that order 4H |
| #4855, aired 2005-10-21 | 19th 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 2005-10-14 | HISTORIC PEOPLE: At 81, this Pennsylvanian was the oldest delegate at the 1787 Constitutional Convention Benjamin Franklin |
| #4846, aired 2005-10-10 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE: This one-word name is derived from the fact that the character used to sit among the ashes Cinderella |
| #4835, aired 2005-09-23 | MILITARY TRADITIONS: At a military funeral, the American flag is folded this many times to resemble a Revolutionary War soldier's hat 13 |
| #4827, aired 2005-09-13 | THE MAP OF NORTH AMERICA: Number of Canadian provinces that border the Great Lakes 1 |
| #4824, aired 2005-07-21 | LITERARY FIREARMS: The "Polizei Pistole Kurz" model was often used very effectively by this literary character introduced in 1953 James Bond |
| #4823, aired 2005-07-20 | CLASSICAL MUSIC: It's the roughly 70-minute work that includes the sung words "Alle menschen werden bruder" Beethoven's 9th Symphony |
| #4819, aired 2005-07-14 | VOLCANOES: 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 2005-07-12 | THE 50 STATES: Rejected earlier in its bid for statehood, it finally entered the Union in 1876 Colorado |
| #4813, aired 2005-07-06 | PEOPLE 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 2005-06-30 | OSCAR NOMINEES: In a 1964 film, he played 3 characters but received only one nomination for Best Actor Peter Sellers |
| #4805, aired 2005-06-24 | RULERS: Though he was already emperor of one country, Franz Joseph was crowned in this city June 8, 1867 Budapest |
| #4795, aired 2005-06-10 | PRESIDENTS: The last time there were no living ex-presidents was when this man was president Richard Nixon |
| #4779, aired 2005-05-19 | NUCLEAR POWER: This state, besides having the first, also has the most nuclear reactors Illinois |
| #4777, aired 2005-05-17 | FAMILIAR PHRASES: This 5-word rule or maxim has been attributed to both H. Gordon Selfridge & John Wanamaker The customer is always right |
| #4776, aired 2005-05-16 | BIBLICAL CITIES: Of the 10 most populous U.S. cities, the one that shares its name with a city mentioned in Revelation Philadelphia |
| #4767, aired 2005-05-03 | WORDS 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 2005-05-02 | WORLD CITIES: Capital of the ancient Roman province of Galatia, it became a modern national capital in 1923 Ankara |
| #4765, aired 2005-04-29 | 19th 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 2005-04-26 | IN 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 2005-04-25 | U.S. CITIES: In 1790 this Midwest city was named for a society that had been named for a Roman citizen-soldier Cincinnati |
| #4756, aired 2005-04-18 | INVENTED 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 2005-04-08 | CHILDREN'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 2005-04-05 | HISTORIC 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 2005-03-31 | ENGLISH 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 2005-03-21 | WORLD FACTS: In 2004 Brenda Christian became the first woman mayor of this island with a population of about 47 Pitcairn Island |
| #4734, aired 2005-03-17 | WORDS: This 6-letter word can mean both a bright light above someone's head & a dark cloud above our heads nimbus |
| #4730, aired 2005-03-11 | HISTORIC BRITS: During the American Revolution, in his last moments he said, "It will be but a momentary pang" Major John André |
| #4719, aired 2005-02-24 | THE U.S. CENSUS OF 1790: It was the only state in the 1790 census to claim a slave population of zero Massachusetts |
| #4713, aired 2005-02-16 | SINGERS: This man who often criticized the government was named for the president elected in 1912, his birth year Woodrow Wilson "Woody" Guthrie |
| #4702, aired 2005-02-01 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE: "The Pastor and His Parishioner" is Chapter 17 of this classic novel The Scarlet Letter |
| #4701, aired 2005-01-31 | ASTRONAUTS: Born Edwin in 1930, this Apollo astronaut legally changed his name in 1982 to his popular nickname Buzz Aldrin |
| #4700, aired 2005-01-28 | THE 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 2005-01-27 | MOUNTAINS: 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 2005-01-13 | FEDERAL 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 2005-01-05 | 1920s 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 2004-12-17 | ANNUAL EVENTS: A high-bounce ball inspired businessman Lamar Hunt to give an annual event this name the Super Bowl |
| #4666, aired 2004-12-13 | BUSINESS 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 2004-12-03 | U.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 2004-11-18 | AMERICAN NOVELS: The image seen here is part of Faulkner's original text of this 1930 novel As I Lay Dying |
| #4647, aired 2004-11-16 | OCCUPATIONS: 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 2004-11-06 | SPORTS: Its solo female winner is awarded the Venus Rosewater Dish Wimbledon |
| #4634, aired 2004-10-28 | HISTORIC 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 2004-10-26 | AUTHORS: 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 2004-10-22 | THE 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 2004-10-19 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY: With a common nickname that refers to its size, this is the largest island in the United States Hawaii |
| #4624, aired 2004-10-14 | FAMOUS AMERICANS: After his public comments were criticized by FDR, he resigned his Air Corps Reserve commission in April 1941 Charles Lindbergh |
| #4616, aired 2004-10-04 | POETS: 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 2004-10-01 | AMERICANISMS: Around 1900 Monroe Rosenfeld remarked that the music heard along NYC's 28th Street sounded like this tin pans |
| #4611, aired 2004-09-27 | PULITZER 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 2004-07-19 | OPERA: The libretto for "William Tell" was in this language, the native tongue of neither the composer, Rossini, nor the subject French |
| #4590, aired 2004-07-16 | FOOD: Experts believe that 16th century Dutch growers, through breeding, gave this vegetable its color to honor their ruling house the carrot |
| #4587, aired 2004-07-13 | HEADLINES 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 2004-07-12 | NAMES IN THE BIBLE: Daniel means "God is my judge", Ezekiel, "God strengthens"; & this name in Genesis 32, "he strives with God" Israel |
| #4578, aired 2004-06-30 | HISTORIC NAMES: In 1899 he was released from Devil's Island & pardoned for "treason under extenuating circumstances" Captain Alfred Dreyfus |
| #4577, aired 2004-06-29 | CHILDREN'S LIT: This title character's full name is Oscar Zoroaster Phadrig Isaac Norman Henkle Emmannuel Ambroise Diggs the Wizard of Oz |
| #4574, aired 2004-06-24 | FILMS 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 2004-06-23 | FAMOUS 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 2004-06-18 | THE 16th CENTURY: In 1582 the man born Ugo Buoncompagni proclaimed this solar dating system still used today the Gregorian calendar |
| #4567, aired 2004-06-15 | CLASSIC LITERATURE: "Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay To mould me man..." is the epigraph to this 1818 novel Frankenstein |
| #4558, aired 2004-06-02 | THE 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 2004-05-25 | MYTHS & LEGENDS: At a feast he couldn't enjoy his dinner because his life was literally hanging by a thread Damocles |
| #4545, aired 2004-05-14 | THE U.S. SENATE: In the year 1958, the U.S. Senate was made up of this many members 96 |
| #4544, aired 2004-05-13 | AMERICANA: Beginning an American tradition, in 1801 Aaron Burr's daughter Theodosia & her new husband honeymooned here Niagara Falls |
| #4542, aired 2004-05-11 | METALS: Element No. 79, it's estimated that all of it ever mined would only make a cube about 50 feet across gold |
| #4519, aired 2004-04-08 | ISLANDS: 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 2004-04-05 | ROCK 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 2004-03-15 | THE 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 2004-03-11 | BRAND 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 2004-03-05 | BOOKS: This book says, "Monday burn Millay, Wednesday Whitman, Friday Faulkner...that's our official slogan" Fahrenheit 451 |
| #4484, aired 2004-02-19 | THE 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 2004-02-18 | U.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 2004-01-28 | LATIN 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 2004-01-12 | AMERICAN WRITERS: In 1936 the San Francisco News sent this man to investigate living conditions among migrant workers John Steinbeck |
| #4454, aired 2004-01-08 | FILM TITLES: This Charlie Chaplin film lent its name to a famous bookstore that recently celebrated its 50th anniversary City Lights |
| #4437, aired 2003-12-16 | THE OLYMPICS: This city that Napoleon gave to Bavaria in 1806 has hosted the Winter Olympics twice Innsbruck, Austria |
| #4409, aired 2003-11-06 | SCIENCE HISTORY: It's the simple 6-letter name of the journal that published the 1953 paper revealing the structure of DNA Nature |
| #4380, aired 2003-09-26 | THE TOY BOX: Spud & Yam are 2 of the offspring of this toy introduced in 1952 Mr. Potato Head |
| #4354, aired 2003-07-03 | OPERA: 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 2003-06-25 | TELEVISION: 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 2003-05-30 | U.S. CITIES: It's the largest U.S. city in population that's named for an American individual Houston |
| #4328, aired 2003-05-28 | PSYCHOLOGY: Partly from the Greek algos, "pain", it was first noted in 1688 in Swiss soldiers fighting far from home nostalgia |
| #4309, aired 2003-05-01 | GOVERNMENT 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 2003-04-23 | CHARACTERS: Person missing from: Rossweisse, Ortlinde, Siegrune, Grimgerde, Helmwige, Gerhilde, Waltraute & Schwertleite Brunhilde (one of the Valkyries) |
| #4299, aired 2003-04-17 | CELEBRITY RELATIVES: Over the end credits of "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind" she sings "There's No Business Like Show Business" Rosemary Clooney |
| #4298, aired 2003-04-16 | THE SECRET SERVICE: This 20th century U.S. president was the first to receive full-time protection from the Secret Service Theodore Roosevelt |
| #4296, aired 2003-04-14 | MOUNTAINS: All of the mountains in the U.S. over 14,500 feet are in this state Alaska |
| #4294, aired 2003-04-10 | HISPANIC AMERICANS: He won the USA's only boxing gold medal at the 1992 Olympics Oscar De La Hoya |
| #4291, aired 2003-04-07 | AMERICAN LITERATURE: Author of the 1889 novel that opens, "Camelot, Camelot... I don't seem to remember hearing of it before" Mark Twain |
| #4287, aired 2003-04-01 | WORDS: It's the common English word that is pronounced differently when it becomes the name of a language polish/Polish |
| #4264, aired 2003-02-27 | ADVERTISING 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 2003-02-12 | NEW ENGLAND: It's the only state in New England that doesn't border the Atlantic Ocean Vermont |
| #4247, aired 2003-02-04 | INTERNATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC: By size, it's the largest country that borders only one other country Canada (borders only the United States) |
| #4236, aired 2003-01-20 | PATRON SAINTS: It's believed that this patron saint founded many monasteries, including one at Mynyw Saint David |
| #4222, aired 2002-12-31 | SOUTH AMERICA: Alphabetically, they're the first & last of the 7 countries where the Andes are found Argentina & Venezuela |
| #4221, aired 2002-12-30 | BUSINESS 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 2002-12-26 | TOYS & GAMES: It was inspired by support for economist Henry George's idea that only land should be taxed Monopoly |
| #4216, aired 2002-12-23 | OSCAR WINNERS: She's the first woman to win 2 Best Actress Oscars before the age of 30 Luise Rainer |
| #4213, aired 2002-12-18 | 20th 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 2002-11-22 | CLASSICAL MUSIC: 1 of the 2 planets of the solar system not represented in Gustav Holst's 1916 work "The Planets" Earth or Pluto |
| #4194, aired 2002-11-21 | AMERICAN LITERATURE: One of the original titles of this 1925 novel was "Among Ash Heaps and Millionaires" The Great Gatsby |
| #4193, aired 2002-11-20 | AMERICANA: Baptist minister Francis Bellamy penned this oath in 1892 to reflect his Christian Socialist beliefs the Pledge of Allegiance |
| #4180, aired 2002-11-01 | BUSINESS 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 2002-09-04 | NEW YORK CITY LANDMARKS: Moving several times, the first was originally P.T. Barnum's Monster Classical and Geological Hippodrome Madison Square Garden |
| #4135, aired 2002-07-19 | FAMOUS AMERICANS: "May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof" is from this man's 1800 prayer John Adams |
| #4132, aired 2002-07-16 | CLASSIC 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 2002-06-27 | LITERARY HEROINES: This literary character was inspired by Delphine Delamare, whose adultery led to her 1848 suicide Madame Bovary |
| #4114, aired 2002-06-20 | THE 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 2002-06-07 | ACTORS & ROLE: In a 2001 film Jon Voight played this man; in a 2002 TV movie, so did John Turturro Howard Cosell |
| #4102, aired 2002-06-04 | ORGANIZATIONS: "Music Man" composer Meredith Willson wrote the song "Banners And Bonnets" for this organization the Salvation Army |
| #4101, aired 2002-06-03 | FRANCE: Of France's 22 official regions, this one extends the farthest west Brittany |
| #4093, aired 2002-05-22 | RENAISSANCE 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 2002-05-21 | NEWSMAKERS: In May 2001 he said, "Vermont has always been known for its independence" Jim Jeffords |
| #4087, aired 2002-05-14 | VICE PRESIDENTS: He was the only vice president to be elected to, & serve, 2 full terms as president Thomas Jefferson |
| #4086, aired 2002-05-13 | WORD HISTORIES: In old philosophy this 12-letter word referred to a fifth substance, superior to earth, air, fire or water quintessence |
| #4079, aired 2002-05-02 | 2001 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 2002-04-30 | INTERNATIONAL 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 2002-04-09 | QUEENS: Of Henry VIII's wives, the 2 who were not English Anne of Cleves & Catherine of Aragon |
| #4058, aired 2002-04-03 | U.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 2002-02-26 | 19th CENTURY INVENTIONS: Peter Roget's new device for performing mechanically the involution & evolution of numbers the slide rule |
| #4025, aired 2002-02-15 | 20th 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 2002-02-13 | STATE 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 2002-01-03 | FAMILIAR 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 2001-12-27 | STATE SYMBOLS: Appropriately, the mayflower is the official flower of this state Massachusetts |
| #3981, aired 2001-12-17 | AWARDS: In 2001 the Pritzker Prize, architecture's most prestigious, was presented at this historic home in the U.S. Monticello |
| #3975, aired 2001-12-07 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD: This independent nation is the only Hindu kingdom in the world Nepal |
| #3970, aired 2001-11-30 | BESTSELLING AUTHORS: One of the world's bestselling novelists, he created TV's "I Dream of Jeannie" Sidney Sheldon |
| #3969, aired 2001-11-29 | ARTISTS: Christopher Buckley called his book on the life and work of this artist "Blossoms and Bones" Georgia O'Keeffe |
| #3965, aired 2001-11-23 | ANCIENT ROMANS: According to tradition, he was descended from the clan of the Pontii & killed himself in 39 A.D. Pontius Pilate |
| #3957, aired 2001-11-13 | FIRST LADIES: First & last names of the 2 First Ladies who each had a husband & son serve as president Abigail Adams & Barbara Bush |
| #3956, aired 2001-11-12 | THE EARLY 20th CENTURY: A 1904 issue of Popular Science Monthly reported their success in North Carolina the previous year the Wright Brothers |
| #3955, aired 2001-11-09 | STATE CAPITALS: Of the 4 state capitals named for U.S. presidents, it's the one that's farthest south Jackson, Mississippi |
| #3954, aired 2001-11-08 | THE UNIVERSE: It's the body that's about 1 1/4 light-seconds from Earth the Moon |
| #3953, aired 2001-11-07 | LEGENDARY 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 2001-10-29 | HISTORIC GEOGRAPHY: Upon this nation's independence in 1903, it was "moved" from one continent to another Panama |
| #3941, aired 2001-10-22 | INTERNATIONAL COASTLINES: It's the only country bordering the Caspian Sea that was not a member of the Soviet Union Iran |
| #3936, aired 2001-10-15 | SCIENCE 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 2001-09-24 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY: It's the only U.S. state that touches 2 oceans Alaska |
| #3916, aired 2001-09-17 | FAMOUS PHRASES: This expression comes from a 1956 novel about Frank Skeffington's final run for mayor "the last hurrah" |
| #3913, aired 2001-09-12 | ORGANIZATIONS: Linda Collins's tetanus antitoxin allergy led her parents to found this emergency information service MedicAlert |
| #3912, aired 2001-09-11 | VOLCANOS: Of the U.S. states with active volcanos, this state is farthest south Hawaii |
| #3910, aired 2001-09-07 | ZOOLOGY: Animal species that's the subject of the longest consecutive study of any group of wild animals, 40 years chimpanzees |
| #3909, aired 2001-09-06 | HISTORIC NAMES: In 1978, Congress restored U.S. citizenship to this man seen here Jefferson Davis |
| #3905, aired 2001-07-20 | POP 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 2001-06-28 | FAMOUS SHIPS: A highlight of the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum is the bell from this ship that sank in 1975 Edmund Fitzgerald |
| #3874, aired 2001-06-07 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE: 3 of the countries that make up this land are Gillikin, Winkie & Quadling Oz |
| #3857, aired 2001-05-15 | AUTHORS 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 2001-05-08 | STATE 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 2001-04-25 | MATERIALS: The name of the sheet seen here is derived from the name of this material Celluloid |
| #3833, aired 2001-04-11 | BIBLICAL GEOGRAPHY: During Absalom's rebellion, David took refuge in this region that's east of the Jordan & known for its balm Gilead |
| #3826, aired 2001-04-02 | GREEK & ROMAN MYTHOLOGY: The English names of this god's 2 companions are Panic & Fear Mars |
| #3814, aired 2001-03-15 | THE 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 2001-03-01 | RECENT INNOVATIONS: Known by a 3-letter abbreviation, it was first proposed in 1989 by software developer Tim Berners-Lee World Wide Web (www) |
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Todd Grabarsky, a lawyer from Los Angeles, California
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Season 31 player (2015-05-19). Todd's last name was misspelled as "Grabarksy"...
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Lewis Black, a stand-up comedian from Lewis Black's Root of All Evil
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"With success in films, plays, books, and TV specials, he tours...
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Soledad O'Brien, an anchor and special correspondent from CNN's Special Investigations Unit
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"Currently the host of CNN's Special Investigations Unit, she's received critical...
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Christopher Meloni, a star from Law & Order: SVU and HBO's Oz
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"On TV, he's worked both sides of the law. Once a...
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Chuck Todd, a journalist and chief White House correspondent from NBC News and Meet the Press
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"Chief White House correspondent and political director for NBC News, he...
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David Faber, an anchor and reporter from CNBC's Squawk on the Street and The Faber Report
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"The winner of Emmy, Peabody, DuPont, and Loeb awards, he's a...
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Dana Perino, a TV host from Fox News Channel's The Five
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"White House press secretary under George W. Bush, she now appears...
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Anderson Cooper, an anchor from CNN's Anderson Cooper 360°
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"As a baby, he was photographed by Diane Arbus of Harper's...
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Matt Polazzo, a high school U.S. government teacher from Brooklyn, New York
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"He teaches at one of the most selective high schools in...
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Tavis Smiley, a talk show host from PBS's The Tavis Smiley Show
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"He's interviewed such diverse personalities as Fidel Castro, Pope John Paul...
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Rebecca Lobo, a future Women's Basketball Hall of Famer and ESPN analyst originally from the WNBA
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"Later this year, she'll be inducted into the Women's Basketball Hall...
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Soledad O'Brien, a broadcast journalist from CNN's American Morning
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"This broadcast journalist has covered stories all over the world. Since...
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Chuck Todd, a political director and host from NBC News and NBC's Meet the Press
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"He is the political director of NBC News, the host of...
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Todd Giese, a hotel front desk manager from New Orleans, Louisiana
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Season 32 4-time champion: $82,403 + $1,000.
JBoard user name: cherrypork
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Aaron Brown, an Emmy Award-winning newsman from CNN's popular primetime newscast
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"A journalist for over 25 years, he now anchors CNN's popular...
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Todd McCafferty, a compliance manager from Brooklyn, New York
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Season 34 player (2017-10-05).
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Todd Lovell, an engineering manager from Carmel, Indiana
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Season 31 1-time champion: $26,401 + $2,000.
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Todd Gonzalez, a paint sales assistant manager from Rochester, New York
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Season 32 player (2016-07-28).
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Todd Coleman, a physics professor from River Falls, Wisconsin
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Season 31 player (2015-01-22).
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Joey Beachum, a senior from Mississippi State University
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2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2008 College Championship winner: $100,000...
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Thomas L. Friedman, an author and foreign affairs columnist from The New York Times
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"He has won three Pulitzer Prizes and authored six best sellers,...
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Danny Devries, a junior from the University of Michigan
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2008 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 21 and from West Bloomfield, MI...
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Suchita Shah, a senior from the University of Wisconsin-Madison
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2008 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 20 and from Holmen, WI...
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Katie Winter, a senior from Tufts University
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2008 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 22 and from Hershey, PA at...
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Andrew Chung, a sophomore from Harvey Mudd College
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2008 College Championship 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $25,000. 20 and...
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Ariella Goldstein, a junior from Muhlenberg College
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2009 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 20 and from Cortlandt Manor,...
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Laura Myers, a senior from the University of Missouri
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2009 College Championship second runner-up: $29,900. 22 and from Richmond, Virginia...
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Ryan Chaffee, a tutor from Los Angeles, California
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2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $91,900...
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Ellen Eichner, a junior from the Ohio State University from Northbrook, Illinois
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2010-B College Championship semifinalist: $10,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
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David Hudson, a junior from the University of Virginia
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"His musical taste has changed since he won $10,000 on Kids...
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Jonathan Hawley, a sophomore from Harvard University
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2008 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 19 and from Oceanside, CA at...
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Danielle Zsenak, a senior from Marquette University
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2008 College Championship 1st runner-up: $50,000. Last name pronounced like "zshen-NOCK"....
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Eric Betts, a senior from Emory University
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2009 College Championship first runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $50,000. 21 and...
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Scott Menke, a senior from Johns Hopkins University
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2009 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 21 and from Flemington, New Jersey...
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Jordan Brand, an anesthesiologist from Westchester, New York
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Season 26 1-time champion: $24,405 + $2,000. The Sesame Street character...
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Melanie Baker-Streevy, a United Methodist pastor from Parma, Michigan
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Season 25 1-time champion: $26,900 + $1,000. Melanie Baker-Streevy - A...
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A.J. Schumacher, a radio show production intern from St. Paul, Minnesota
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Season 25 1-time champion: $10,800 + $2,000. AJ Schumacher Saint Paul,...
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Nick Yozamp, a junior from Washington University in St. Louis
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2010 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 2010-A College Championship winner:...
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Aisha Tyler, a comedienne, host and actress from Talk Soup, Friends, The 5th Wheel and Ghost Whisperer
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2009 Celebrity Jeopardy! winner: $50,000 split between the International Rescue Committee/Congo...
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Erin McLean, a sophomore from Boston University from Danvers, Massachusetts
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2011 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 2010-B College Championship winner:...
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Brooks Humphreys, a high school social studies teacher from Omaha, Nebraska
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"He teaches at an all-girls Catholic school operated by the Sisters...
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Elza Reeves, a bank teller from Louisville, Kentucky
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Season 25 1-time champion: $16,400 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Zach Safford, a senior from Williams College
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"His early interest in cryptozoology has been replaced by a history...
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Cassie Hill, a recent graduate from the University of Mary Washington
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"Her dad is a lawyer, and by the seventh grade, she...
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Anjali Tripathi, a senior from MIT
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"Math and science were her favorite subjects in seventh grade. We're...
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Brandon Hensley, a sophomore from Caltech
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2008 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 19 and from Huntington, WV at...
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Justin Bernbach, a lobbyist from Brooklyn, New York
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2010 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 25 7-time champion: $155,001...
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Cheech Marin, an actor, comedian, director, writer and musician from Lost
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"He's played a cop on Nash Bridges, voiced a 1959 Chevy...
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Larissa Charnsangavej, a senior from Rice University
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2009 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 21 and from Houston, Texas at...
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Mark Petterson, a senior from the University of Kansas
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2009 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 21 and from Prairie Village,...
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Michael McKean, a Grammy winner, Oscar nominee and multi-talented performer from Hairspray and The Pajama Game
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"This multi-talented performer is a Grammy winner and Oscar nominee and...
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Fred Beukema, a structural engineer from Minneapolis, Minnesota
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Season 25 3-time champion: $69,401 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Colby Burnett, a high school world history teacher from Chicago, Illinois
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"He teaches at a school started by the Dominicans of St....
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Roger Craig, a computer scientist from Newark, Delaware
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2025 Jeopardy! Masters 2025 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament 1st runner-up: $50,000. 2019...
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Max Johansen, a senior from the University of Miami
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"As a seventh grader, he was planning on a career in...
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Leszek Pawlowicz, a shovel bum from Flagstaff, Arizona
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"He was a material scientist living in Phoenix when he won...
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Andy Richter, an actor/comedian from The Tonight Show
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"This multitalented actor/comedian is now back on the couch with Conan...
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Hans von Walter, a junior from Southern Adventist University from Avon Park, Florida
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2010-B College Championship 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $25,000 + a...
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Sid Chandrasekhar, a senior from the University of Pennsylvania from Saratoga, California
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2010-B College Championship semifinalist: $10,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
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Charles Shaughnessy, an actor from Mad Men
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"As Shane Donovan on Days of Our Lives, he won three...
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Lyndsey Romick, a sophomore from Lewis & Clark College
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2010-A College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. Hometown: Grants Pass, Oregon. Lyndsey Romick...
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Amy Wilson, a creative writing and women's studies student originally from Portland, Oregon
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Season 26 1-time champion: $19,999 + $2,000. Not to be confused...
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Amanda J. Ray, a sophomore at the University of Virginia from Harrisonburg, Virginia
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2010-B College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
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Jane Kaczmarek, a TV, film and Broadway actress from Malcolm in the Middle and Raising the Bar
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"She went from playing a hard-nosed mom in Malcolm in the...
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Meryl Federman, a senior from Livingston, New Jersey
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2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games champion (semifinalist by wildcard): $75,000. 18...
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Roger Craig, a graduate student of computer science from Newark, Delaware
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2025 Jeopardy! Masters 2025 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament 1st runner-up: $50,000. 2019...
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David Madden, a student originally from Ridgewood, New Jersey
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2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament semifinalist: $10,000. 2019 All-Star Games member of...
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Anderson Cooper, a news anchor and correspondent from CNN
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"He anchors his own prime-time news show, a syndicated daytime talk...
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Yoni Freund, a Ph.D. student from Columbia University
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"He has always wanted to be a writer, and now that...
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Nate Austin, a student from Hutchinson Community College
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"His original plan was to own a chain of international hotels...
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Dara Lind, a junior from Yale University
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2008 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 20 and from Cincinnati, OH at...
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James Grant, a junior from Georgetown University
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2008 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 21 and from Manhattan Beach,...
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Gabrielle McMahan, a junior from Florida A&M University
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2008 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 20 and from Springfield, VA at...
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Pat Sajak, a game show host from Wheel of Fortune
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"A former TV weatherman, he's gone on to become the world's...
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Patrick Tucker, a senior from the University of Notre Dame
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2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2009 College Championship winner: $100,000...
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Jennifer Duann, a senior from the Ohio State University
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2009 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 21 and from Worthington, Ohio at...
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Robbie Berg, a freshman from the University of Pennsylvania
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2010-A College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. Hometown: Davie, Florida. Robbie Berg Blog...
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Neil Patrick Harris, an actor from How I Met Your Mother
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"He's received critical acclaim on Broadway and on TV, and his...
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Brenton Montie, a sixth grade social studies teacher from South Lyon, Michigan
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"He teaches at a school ranked in the top 5% in...
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Justin Hofstetter, a sixth and seventh grade language arts and social studies teacher from Kansas City, Missouri
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"This sixth and seventh grade teacher is in his first year...
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Lisa Makar, a senior from University of Maryland
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"As a seventh grader, she was planning a career as a...
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Greg Lichtenstein, a freshman from Vassar College
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2009 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 18 and from Plainview, New York...
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Jason Pratt, a middle school history teacher from Woodbridge, Virginia
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Season 25 2-time champion: $32,701 + $1,000. Jason Pratt - A...
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Dan D'Addario, a senior from Columbia University
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2010-A College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Hometown: Farmington, Connecticut. Daniel D'Addario...
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Steph Gagelin, a sophomore from the University of North Dakota from Grand Forks, North Dakota
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2010-B College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
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Celeste DiNucci, a recent graduate student from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2014 Battle of the Decades...
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Harry Shearer, an actor/writer/producer from The Simpsons and Le Show
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"His many credits include providing voices for The Simpsons, and he's...
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Dr. Mehmet Oz, a cardiac surgeon and TV host from The Dr. Oz Show
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"He is a renowned cardiac surgeon who has written seven New...
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Chris Wallace, a TV host from Fox News Sunday
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"In March, this Fox News anchor was honored by the National...
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Rachel Horn, a sophomore from Cincinnati, Ohio
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2008-A Teen Tournament winner: $75,000. 15 at the time of the...
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Wolf Blitzer, a journalist from The Situation Room
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"Since 1990, he's covered every major story for CNN, including the...
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Steve Greene, a senior from UCLA from Elk Grove, California
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2010-B College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000 + a Nintendo Wii +...
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Aisha Tyler, an actress, comedian, author and reality-show host from Archer
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"In addition to film and TV roles, she performs comedy at...
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Ken Basin, a junior at the University of Southern California from Huntington Beach, California
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2003 College Championship semifinalist: $5,000. Blog at kbasin.blogspot.org. Appearing as a...
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Surya Sabhapathy, a senior from the University of Michigan
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2010-A College Championship 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $26,600. Hometown: Northville,...
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Judy Mermelstein, a Census field representative from Queens, New York
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Season 25 1-time champion: $38,401 + $1,000. Judy also appeared on...
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Jane Curtin, an actress from Kate & Allie and 3rd Rock from the Sun
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"One of Saturday Night Live's original Not Ready for Primetime Players,...
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Lea Tottle, a junior from Florida State University from Oldsmar, Florida
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2010-B College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000 + a Nintendo Wii +...
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Matthew Cline, a 12-year-old from Maumelle, Arkansas
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"John Grisham's books have inspired him. He's firm. He wants to...
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Cerulean Ozarow, an 11-year-old from Brooklyn, New York
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"His future is full of options. He wants to become either...
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Kevin Marshall, a student from Metairie, Louisiana
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2006 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 22 6-time champion: $98,201...
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India Cooper, a copy editor from Madison, Indiana
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"She was an actor and copy editor in New York City...
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, a Basketball Hall of Famer and all-time leading scorer from the NBA
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"He's one of the greatest NBA players in history. Here's Hall...
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Will Warren, a senior from the University of Alabama
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2010-A College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. Hometown: Madison, Alabama. Will Warren Blog...
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Neil Patrick Harris, an actor from How I Met Your Mother
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"He's appeared on Broadway in Proof, Assassins, and Cabaret. He's now...
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Scott Turow, a bestselling novelist and practicing attorney from Chicago, Illinois
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"He's sold more than 25 million copies of his novels worldwide...
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Dana Delany, an actress from Kidnapped
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"She won two Emmys for playing Army nurse Colleen McMurphy on...
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Robert Gibbs, a former press secretary from the Obama White House
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"In 2004, he joined Barack Obama's senatorial campaign as communications director,...
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Melanie Bruchet, a senior from Bryn Mawr
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"Everyone wants to be an astronaut when they're a kid, but...
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Bernard Holloway, a sophomore at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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"He was a 2002 Teen Champion. He's now a sophomore at...
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Michael Dupée, an attorney from Gainesville, Florida
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"He was the winner of the 1996 Tournament of Champions. Today...
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Chuck Forrest, an attorney for the UN IFAD from Marino, Italy
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"In 1986, he was a law student living in Grand Blanc,...
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Olivia Colangelo, a junior from the University of Notre Dame from Murrysville, Pennsylvania
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2010-B College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
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Anthony Dedousis, a sophomore from Harvard University
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2009 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 19 and from Manhasset, New York...
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Kadeem Cooper, a junior from the University of Virginia
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2009 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 20 and from Brooklyn, New York...
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Lisa Klink, a TV writer from Los Angeles, California
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2009 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 24 5-time champion: $70,150...
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Doug Savant, an actor from Desperate Housewives
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"He plays Tom Scavo, the sometimes-befuddled husband of Felicity Huffman on...
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Miguel Ferrer, an actor from Crossing Jordan
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"He began his career as a studio drummer and played on...
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Tom Walsh, a writer from Washington, D.C.
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
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Clarence Page, a journalist from The Chicago Tribune
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"His nationally syndicated column began as a local column for the...
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Lizzie O'Leary, an aviation and regulation correspondent from CNN
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"She broke the news that Chrysler would file for Chapter 11...
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Than Hedman, a freshman from University of Colorado-Boulder
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2008 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 19 and from Denver, CO at...
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Sandra Gore, a corporate researcher from Berkeley, California
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"After five wins in 1987, she fulfilled her dream of moving...
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Rachel Rothenberg, a senior from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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2009 Teen Tournament winner (semifinalist by wildcard): $75,000. Jeopardy! Message Board...
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Andrew Ceppos, a senior from Tufts University
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2009 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 21 and from Verona, New...
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Courtney Trezise, a senior from Michigan State University
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2009 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 21 and from Okemos, Michigan at...
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Prashant Raghavendran, a sophomore from the University of Texas, Dallas
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2010-A College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. Hometown: Austin, Texas. Prashant Raghavendran Blog...
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Ryan Stoffers, a sophomore from UCLA
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2010-A College Championship 1st runner-up: $50,000. Hometown: Saratoga, California. Ryan Stoffers...
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Rachel Millena, a 10-year-old from Concord, California
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"Her sights are set on becoming a writer, journalist, photographer, or...
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Brian Weikle, a project manager from Minneapolis, Minnesota
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
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Claudia Perry, a sports copy editor from Jersey City, New Jersey
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"A pop music critic when she first appeared on Jeopardy!, she's...
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Kate Waits, a law professor at the University of Tulsa from Tulsa, Oklahoma
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"A Harvard Law graduate when she competed in the 1988 Tournament...
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Jerome Vered, a writer from Los Angeles, California
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"The 1-day record of $34,000 he set in 1992 stood for...
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Kate Wilson, a high school AP English teacher from Montgomery, Alabama
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"She is a top-10 AP English language teacher at Alabama's number-one...
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, a Basketball Hall of Famer and all-time leading scorer from the NBA
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"In January, the State Department named this NBA Hall of Famer...
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Chris Matthews, a TV host from Hardball and The Chris Matthews Show
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"He served as a speechwriter for Jimmy Carter, and later as...
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Krissy Brzycki, an 11-year-old from Indianapolis, Indiana
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"Her love of helping her community and her interest in politics...
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India Cooper, an actor and copy editor from New York City, New York
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"A semifinalist in the Tournament of Champions in 1992, now an...
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Eddie Timanus, a sportswriter from Oak Hill, Virginia
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"His 5 wins in 1999 made him one of the most...
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Dana Delany, an actress from Desperate Housewives
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"She won two Emmys for her work on China Beach. This...
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Crystal Durham, a 12-year-old from Fort Pierce, Florida
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"She would like to be an Irish stepdancing teacher, because dancing...
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Joshua Malina, a TV actor and creator/producer from Celebrity Poker Showdown
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"He created and produced Celebrity Poker Showdown for the Bravo Channel,...
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Chris Matthews, a TV host from Hardball and The Chris Matthews Show
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"Once a presidential speechwriter, he's had his own political talk show...
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Samira Missaghi, a junior from the University of Minnesota
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2010-A College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Hometown: Eden Prarie, Minnesota. Samira...
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Katie Singh, a sophomore from Northwestern University from Austin, Texas
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2010-B College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
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Hill Harper, an author and actor from CSI: NY
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"As an award-winning author, he's written three New York Times best...
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Curtis Joseph, a sophomore from Scottsdale Community College
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"In 1999, his nickname was 'Curtles the Troll', and he wanted...
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Kermin Fleming, a student from Lexington, Kentucky
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2006 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions...
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Leslie Shannon, a manager of a research lab from Sydney, Australia
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"A recent art history graduate when she became Jeopardy! champion in...
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Bob Verini, a film journalist and test prep teacher from Los Angeles, California
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"A resident of New York City when he won the 1987...
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Eric Newhouse, a director of technical assistance from Vermillion, South Dakota
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"He won both the 1989 Teen Tournament and the 1998 Teen...
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Julie Bowen, a TV and film actress from Boston Legal, Lost and Modern Family
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"For two seasons, she played attorney Denise Bauer in Boston Legal....
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Robin Quivers, a radio and television personality from The Howard Stern Show
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"Howard Stern's news anchor and sidekick for the past 28 years,...
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Steve Chernicoff, a technical writer from Berkeley, California
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"He was one of the top 1-day winners in the 1994-95...
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Diane Siegel, an educational consultant and writer from Northridge, California
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"A full-time mom when she won five games in 1993, now...
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Kyle Kahan, a senior from Texas A&M University from Houston, Texas
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2010-B College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000 + a Nintendo Wii +...
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Eddie Timanus, a sports reporter from Arlington, Virginia
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"A 5-time champion, he went on to become a semifinalist in...
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Frank Spangenberg, a lieutenant in the New York Police Department from Douglaston, New York
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"He still holds the record for the most money won in...
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Phoebe Juel, a bookseller from Sylva, North Carolina
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"She won the 1993 College Championship while attending Grinnell College. Today...
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Rachael Schwartz, a lawyer from Washington, D.C.
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"In 1994, she was the first female winner of a Tournament...
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Elizabeth Perkins, an actress from Big and Weeds
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2009 Celebrity Jeopardy! player: $25,000 to the New England Learning Center...
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Charles Temple, a high school English teacher from Ocracoke, North Carolina
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"He teaches at the smallest public school in North Carolina, and...
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Vera Swain, a junior from the University of South Carolina
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2008 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 21 and from Charleston, SC...
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Tom Kavanaugh, a kickball team captain from St. Louis, Missouri
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2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2006 Tournament of Champions...
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Madeline Suchard, from Placentia, California
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"She has her sights set on becoming the Supreme Court Justice,...
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Andrew Westney, a sports business writer from Charlotte, North Carolina
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"He was a high-school student from Atlanta when he won the...
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Elizabeth Perkins, an actress from Weeds
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"For the past five seasons, she's played the calculating and manipulative...
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Sam Spaulding, a sophomore from Yale University from Wilmington, North Carolina
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2010-B College Championship 1st runner-up: $50,000 + a Nintendo Wii +...
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Elijah Granet, a 12-year-old from San Diego, California
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"Because he loves animals, biology, and helping others, he's thinking of...
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Christopher Meloni, an Emmy-nominated actor from Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
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"He's played challenging roles on both sides of the law, including...
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Ben Lyon, an industrial scaleman from Dallas, Texas
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"Representing the University of Oklahoma, he won the 1995 College Championship....
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Kelly O'Donnell, a political reporter from NBC News
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"An Emmy-winning political reporter, she has covered Capitol Hill and the...
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Mehrun Etebari, a graduate student of international relations from Durham, New Hampshire
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2007 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
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Russ Schumacher, a graduate student and newlywed from Fort Collins, Colorado
|
"He won the most recent Tournament of Champions. A graduate student...
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Leah Anthony Libresco, a junior from Yale University
|
2010-A College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Hometown: Mineola, New York. Jeopardy!...
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Tim Relihan, a senior from the University of Nebraska from Stromsburg, Nebraska
|
2010-B College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
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Nicole Yoon, a 12-year-old from Asbury, New Jersey
|
"She has set her sights on becoming a medical doctor or...
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Andrew Garen, an associate director of consumer marketing from Austin, Texas
|
"He was a project manager when he won his 5 shows...
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Jay Rosenberg, a college professor from Chapel Hill, North Carolina
|
"After winning 5 times in 1985, he became the moderator for...
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Drew Joanides, a high school history teacher from Miami, Florida
|
"He is one of our four teachers competing in our tournament...
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Pian Wong, a high school English teacher from New York, New York
|
"She teaches at a Bronx school that's been ranked the most...
|
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Bruce Naegeli, a retired law librarian from Phoenix, Arizona
|
"He finished second in the 1988 Tournament of Champions. A retired...
|
|
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...
|
|
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...
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Christie Whitman, a former governor from New Jersey
|
"She was New Jersey's first woman governor, and later became administrator...
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|
Emma Miller, from San Mateo, California
|
"She loves the idea of creating art that people can live...
|
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Leslie Frates, a Spanish teacher from Hayward, California
|
"A Jeopardy! champion in 1991, she's now a Spanish teacher listed...
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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...
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Lan Djang, a health policy analyst from Toronto, Ontario, Canada
|
"He was a 5-time champion in 2001. Today he's a health...
|
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Tom Nichols, a professor originally from Chicopee, Massachusetts
|
"A five-time champion in 1994, he used his winnings for a...
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Ethan Waldman, a twelve-year-old from West Hills, California
|
"This wizard of words wants to be a fantasy author when...
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Neal Freyman, a ten-year-old from Longmeadow, Massachusetts
|
"He's not sure recess counts as a subject, but if it...
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Alan Bailey, a playwright and director from Sherman Oaks, California
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2003 Tournament...
|
|
Donna Brown, a customer service representative from Seattle, Washington
|
Season 34 1-time champion: $45,600 + $2,000. At the introduction of...
|
|
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...
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|
Veronica Fazio, from Roselle, Illinois
|
"She dances, plays softball, and hangs with her friends, but wants...
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John Cuthbertson, an investment analyst from San Diego, California
|
"He was the highest money winner of the 1993-94 season. An...
|
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Maxwell Baldi, a ten-year-old from Los Angeles, California
|
"This future U.S. attorney general has always been interested in the...
|
|
CCH Pounder, an actress from Avatar and Brothers
|
"She earned an Emmy nomination for her role as Claudette Wyms...
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Terry Parker, a high school history teacher from Cutler Bay, Florida
|
"Don't try to pin down this wrestling coach, history teacher, and...
|
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Carson Kressley, a fashion maven from Queer Eye for the Straight Guy
|
"This star of TV's Queer Eye for the Straight Guy says...
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|
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...
|
|
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
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|
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...
|
|
John Beck, an associate creative director from Torrance, California
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 winner: $29,000. 2004 Tournament...
|
|
Barbara-Anne Eddy, a civil servant from Vancouver, Canada
|
"Her 5-time winnings from 1988 allowed her to go for nearly...
|
|
Tom Kunzen, a geotechnical engineer from Orlando, Florida
|
2011 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 27 5-time champion: $133,402...
|
|
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...
|
|
Chris Breen, a sophomore at Princeton University from Springfield, Massachusetts
|
2005 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. According to the official Jeopardy! web...
|
|
Michelle Chang, an 11-year-old from Suwanee, Georgia
|
"This sixth grader picks the most unusual places to lose her...
|
|
Ryan Chaffee, a tutor from Los Angeles, California
|
2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $91,900...
|
|
Frank Spangenberg, a police lieutenant from Douglaston, New York
|
2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
|
|
Grace Veach, a librarian from Lakeland, Florida
|
"After winning 5 games in 1997, she was the grand marshall...
|
|
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...
|
|
Frank Firke, a junior from Chicago, Illinois
|
2007 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 16 at the time of...
|
|
Zane Ice, a 12-year-old from West Palm Beach, Florida
|
"He wants to build a business in emerging technologies to help...
|
|
Jonathan Reinstein, a junior from Dix Hills, New York
|
2001 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time of the...
|
|
Babu Srinivasan, a history professor from Houston, Texas
|
2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
|
|
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...
|
|
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...
|
|
Naomi Senbet, an 11-year-old from Washington, D.C.
|
"This sixth grader doesn't like to be late for anything; maybe...
|
|
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...
|
|
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...
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Justin Otor, a 12-year-old from Texarkana, Texas
|
"His chosen profession will be something in the field of science...
|
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Andrew Goldfein, a 12-year-old from Lincolnwood, Illinois
|
"He likes to argue and help people, so it's off to...
|
|
Rowan Spake, from Portland, Oregon
|
"He's interested in nanotechnology and robotics to improve surgery. But getting...
|
|
Sean Ryan, a graduate student from Whitehall, Pennsylvania
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
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|
Vinita Kailasanath, a recent college graduate originally from Laurel, Maryland
|
2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
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|
Neha Rao, from Johns Creek, Georgia
|
"She's hoping to become a teacher and inspire her students in...
|
|
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...
|
|
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...
|
|
Lance Johnson, a model aircraft engine technician from Champaign, Illinois
|
"He was the first to get to the 5-win mark in...
|
|
Doug Savant, an actor from Desperate Housewives
|
"He met and then married his wife while both were costarring...
|
|
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...
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Brad Rutter, a network administrator from Lancaster, Pennsylvania
|
"The reigning Tournament of Champions winner, he attended Johns Hopkins University...
|
|
Emma Couture, a twelve-year-old from St. Petersburg, Florida
|
"Here's a portrait of a smart young girl who sees her...
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|
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...
|
|
Hope Landsem, from Tualatin, Oregon
|
"She likes to win arguments, and that's why she's going to...
|
|
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...
|
|
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...
|
|
Bob Harris, a writer from Los Angeles, California
|
"This 5-time champ was a finalist in the 1998 Tournament of...
|
|
Bryce Piotrowski, a twelve-year-old from Madison, Wisconsin
|
"He has no idea what he wants to do later in...
|
|
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.
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|
Molly Gier, a twelve-year-old from Chesterfield, Missouri
|
"She is preparing for a teaching career by tutoring her peers....
|
|
Solomon Howard, a freshman from St. Petersburg, Florida
|
2009 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 14 at the time of...
|
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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....
|
|
Emily Riippa, a 12-year-old seventh grader from Grand Rapids, Michigan
|
"She is a fast reader, and her mother says she was...
|
|
Matt Tick, from Escondido, California
|
"Will take violin lessons and loves science, but he really wants...
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|
Tom Halpern, a lawyer originally from New York, New York
|
"A writer and researcher when he won 5 times in 1991,...
|
|
Zane Li, a ten-year-old from Provo, Utah
|
"He's a chess champion and a two-time Geography Bee winner..." 2002...
|
|
Francesca Leibowitz, a fifth grade English teacher from Brooklyn, New York
|
"She teaches at a school that opened in 1854. From Brooklyn...
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|
Hill Harper, an actor from CSI: NY
|
"He graduated magna cum laude from Brown University. He has a...
|
|
Alex Stambaugh, a 12-year-old from Paris, Kentucky
|
"He feels he can use his talents in math and science...
|
|
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...
|
|
Brad Rutter, a TV quiz show host from Lancaster, Pennsylvania
|
2025 Jeopardy! Masters 7th place player (eliminated in knockout round): $15,000....
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|
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...
|
|
Tyler Van Patten, from Burlington, Wisconsin
|
"He's focusing on becoming a corporate attorney, because of his fascination...
|
|
Michael Falk, a meteorologist from Milwaukee, Wisconsin
|
2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2006 Tournament of Champions...
|
|
Ashley Wilson, an organization development consultant from Alexandria, Virginia
|
Season 32 2-time champion: $52,402 + $1,000. Ashley returned to the...
|
|
Joseph Henares, from Avon, Connecticut
|
"Along with group science projects, history club, writing club, and chess...
|
|
Claudia Corriere, a church musician and homemaker from Kennesaw, Georgia
|
Season 32 2-time champion: $29,000 + $2,000. Claudia won show #7195,...
|
|
Madison Ball, from Montgomery, Texas
|
"He loves to design and build things, and that's why becoming...
|
|
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...
|
|
Vivian Lappenbusch, a twelve-year-old from Seattle, Washington
|
"She finds other people's stories and cultures fascinating, so anthropology is...
|
|
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...
|
|
Nicole Karrow, an 11-year-old from Lewes, Delaware
|
"Her goals are to be a horse breeder and trainer..." 2007...
|
|
Michael Glick, a 12-year-old from Smithtown, New York
|
"He's in math honors this year, even though math is one...
|
|
Tiffany Wen, a 12-year-old from Exton, Pennsylvania
|
"This figure skater is also on the distinguished honor roll. From...
|
|
Scott Gillispie, a project manager and expectant father from Atlanta, Georgia
|
"While attending Georgia Tech, he won the 1991 College Championship. Now...
|
|
Michael Day, an attorney from Mill Valley, California
|
"As an MBA Student, he won 5 games in 1985. Today...
|
|
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...
|
|
Tad Carithers, an attorney from New York City, New York
|
"He finished second in the 2001 Tournament of Champions. Today he...
|
|
Emily Kamm, a 12-year-old from Arlington, Virginia
|
"This member of Model United Nations has been on the principal's...
|
|
William Carpenter, from Bainbridge Island, Washington
|
"Being the scientist that he is, Mom never knows what she...
|
|
Michael Blake, a 12-year-old from Hamburg, New York
|
"Our top story tonight is this young man, who wants to...
|
|
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....
|
|
Deirdre Thomas, an attorney and editor from Seattle, Washington
|
Season 34 2-time champion: $33,200 + $1,000. Deirdre's father Dr. Nicholas...
|
|
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...
|
|
Amanda Hall, from Farmington, Maine
|
"Whether it's writing a biography of Yo-Yo Ma or working on...
|
|
Mark Born, a musician, writer and teacher from Bangkok, Thailand
|
"He was the top winner of the 1990-91 season. He's a...
|
|
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...
|
|
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...
|
|
Billy Hackenson, an eleven-year-old from Great Falls, Virginia
|
"As a descendant of President Taft, it's no surprise that he's...
|
|
Wil Curiel, an 11-year-old from Costa Mesa, California
|
"His favorite subject is science, so it's not surprising that this...
|
|
Josh DenHartog, an actuarial technician from Thousand Oaks, California
|
"He was the Teen Tournament champion in 1997. Now he's an...
|
|
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...
|
|
Marshall Tan, from Gaithersburg, Maryland
|
"His favorite subject is social studies, and he knows a lot...
|
|
Eugene Finerman, a writer from Northbrook, Illinois
|
"A finalist in the 1987 Tournament of Champions, he's a writer....
|
|
Will Walters, a twelve-year-old from Lexington, Kentucky
|
"He wants to follow in the footsteps of his idols, Albert...
|
|
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...
|
|
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...
|
|
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...
|
|
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...
|
|
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...
|
|
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,...
|
|
Pam Mueller, an entering law student originally from Chicago, Illinois
|
"Representing Loyola University, she won the College Championship in November, 2000....
|
|
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...
|
|
April McManus, a homemaker from Hertfordshire, England
|
"A high school senior from Minnesota when she won the 1992...
|
|
Liz Fritz, an intake coordinator from Spring Hill, Kansas
|
Season 32 1-time champion: $16,401 + $2,000. Liz won $30,000 on...
|
|
Kelly Scurry, an 11-year-old seventh grader from Lauderhill, Florida
|
"It's very convenient that Washington, D.C. is his favorite city, because...
|
|
Lara Robillard, a policy analyst from Arlington, Virginia
|
"She used the winnings from her 5 shows in 1998 to...
|
|
Mike Thayer, a mathematics teacher from North Plainfield, New Jersey
|
"He was a junior at Rutgers University when he won the...
|
|
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...
|
|
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...
|
|
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...
|
|
Jack Weisman, a twelve-year-old from Beachwood, Ohio
|
"He's considering becoming a lawyer, just like Mom and Dad. From...
|
|
Elyssa Browning, a junior from St. John's College
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2009 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 21 and from Austin, Texas at...
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Lizz Mullowney, a senior from Crystal Lake, Illinois
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2003 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. 17 at the time of the...
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Thulasi Seshan, a 12-year-old from Draper, Utah
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"The sky is the limit for this future astronomer. From Draper,...
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Isaac Mizrahi, a fashion designer and TV personality from the QVC Network
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"His fashion designs are a favorite among celebrities on the red...
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Neha Gokhale, a 10-year-old from Houston, Texas
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"Because she liked 4th and 5th grade so much, she wants...
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Chuck Forrest, a lawyer from Bosnia and Herzegovina
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2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2014 Battle of the Decades...
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Brian Weikle, a consultant from Minneapolis, Minnesota
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
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Jennifer Wu, a high school junior from Arkadelphia, Arkansas
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"She won the 2004 Teen Tournament at age 15. Now 17,...
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Ashleigh Banfield, a TV correspondent originally from Canada
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"She's covered such various stories as the Clinton/Yeltsin summit, the War...
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Gabby Fusco, an 11-year-old from Maspeth, New York
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"She's loved everything about science she was a little kid, so...
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Ryan Elkins, a 12-year-old from Bensalem, Pennsylvania
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"He wants to study physics and unlock the mysteries of the...
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Kate Bolduan, a co-host from CNN's At This Hour
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"As a CNN congressional correspondent, she covered the U.S. House and...
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Frank Epstein, a police officer from Los Angeles, California
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"He was a 5-time champion in 1992, and is still serving...
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Jean Grewe, a graphic designer from Oak Park, Illinois
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"She was the last 5-time champion in 1993. Today she's a...
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David McIntyre, a twelve-year-old from Riverside, California
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"When this Boy Scout was young, he thought that running from...
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Jonathan Corbblah, a chess teacher from Harlem, New York
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Season 27 1-time champion: $13,000 + $1,000. Jonathan appeared as a...
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Gabby Dannunzio, a 12-year-old from Largo, Florida
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"This future author is already trying to publish her book. From...
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Bethlehem Lema, a 12-year-old from San Diego, California
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"Either being an astrophysicist or a pediatrician is in her future..."...
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Braden Corkum, a 12-year-old from Niceville, Florida
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"He likes making things, so he's going to be an inventor..."...
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Martin Short, a multitalented man from Fame Becomes Me
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"Jiminy Glick and Ed Grimley are among his many memorable characters....
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Catherine Carson, a fourth grade language arts, math, and social studies teacher from Washington, D.C.
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"She is new to teaching--she's in her second year. From Washington,...
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Maddie Harrington, a twelve-year-old from Palm Beach Gardens, Florida
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"She wants to be a theater critic and she gets rave...
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Philip Tiu, an educator from Atlanta, Georgia
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Season 32 3-time champion: $96,598 + $1,000. Philip’s $19,000 Daily Double...
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Stephanie Hull, a graduate student of philosophy from Columbia, Missouri
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Season 31 player (2015-03-12). Stephanie's ending score of -$6,800 was the...
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John Hines, a high school social studies teacher from Tacoma, Washington
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"He teaches at Todd Beamer High School, named for a heroic...
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Gretchen Carlson, a journalist from the CBS Saturday Early Show
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"Since winning the 1989 Miss America crown, she's built an extensive...
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Robin Kutner, from Newtown, Pennsylvania
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"This member of jazz band has a cat that is the...
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Maria Wenglinsky, a teacher from Brooklyn, New York
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2006 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 22 5-time champion: $122,300...
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Dan Katz, a lawyer from Owings Mills, Maryland
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"Since his five wins in 1990, he's seen Bruce Springsteen 16...
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Michael Galvin, a consultant from Penn Wynne, Pennsylvania
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"He was the first winner of the Teen Tournament back in...
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Robby Schrum, a junior at Yale University from Crown Point, Indiana
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2003 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $5,000. According to the official Jeopardy!...
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Whitney Dearden, an 11-year-old from Washington Crossing, Pennsylvania
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"She enjoys working with animals and would like to become a...
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William Marengo, an 11-year-old from the Bronx, New York
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"He will be the next Bronx Bomber, maybe--if it's up to...
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Bob Shore, an attorney from Los Angeles, California
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Season 21 2-time champion: $47,602 + $2,000. Proponent of Shore's Conjecture....
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Sarah Walsh, a children’s librarian from Rockville, Maryland
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Season 34 player (2017-12-27). Sarah appeared on The Chase on 2021-01-21....
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Liz McCarthy, a communications executive from South Orange, New Jersey
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Season 34 player (2018-03-08). Liz's mother won about $50,000 on Tic-Tac-Dough...
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Charley Tinkham, an eighth grade history and technology teacher from San Bruno, California
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"He teaches at a school that has been named a California...
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Dominic Olivera, a twelve-year-old from Bristow, Virginia
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"Oh, good heavens! He wants to be a priest when he's...
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Rahul Francis, a twelve-year-old from Flushing, New York
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"This electronic wizard's current plans are to run a technology company....
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Dominic Clust, from Metairie, Louisiana
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"This future lawyer likes to argue and he's good at it....
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Andy Richter, from NBC's Late Night With Conan O'Brien
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"He's a first-rate second banana and the sidekick on NBC's Late...
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Beth Dunn, a product demonstrator from Brooklyn, New York
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Season 32 player (2016-04-21). Beth's mother appeared on the original Jeopardy!...
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Cyndi Pruss, a biochemist from Kingston, Ontario, Canada
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Season 31 player (2015-01-14). JBoard user name: cmp146 Husband's JBoard user...
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Eric Terzuolo, a retired diplomat and university professor from Bergen, Noord-Holland, the Netherlands
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"When he first appeared in 1990, he was a foreign service...
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Graham House, a musician from Lincoln, Nebraska
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Season 21 player (2004-10-14). KJL game 57. Alex riffed off of...
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Joli Millner, an eleven-year-old from Charlottesville, Virginia
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"No kidding, she wants to be a pediatrician when she grows...
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Stephanie Radke, a senior from McLean, Virginia
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2009 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. As an accommodation for a disability,...
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Rebecca Maxfield, a freshman from Brown University
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2010-A College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. Hometown: New Rochelle, New York. Rebecca...
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Melinda Hautala, an arts administrator from Lexington, Kentucky
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Season 25 player (2009-01-26). Last name pronounced like "HOW-tah-lah". (In her...
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Lisa Klink, a TV writer from Los Angeles, California
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2009 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 24 5-time champion: $70,150...
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Bobby Bretz, an 11-year-old from Bristol, Rhode Island
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"It's either archaeology or pro baseball for this sports-loving scientist. From...
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Suzie Lisky, a 12-year-old from Mendham, New Jersey
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"She's not sure what she wants to be when she grows...
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Regina Merrill, from Lincoln, Nebraska
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"She's very good at writing stories and poetry, but her love...
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Keith Williams, a sophomore at Middlebury College from Middlebury, Vermont
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"As a freshman from Middlebury College, he won the 2003 College...
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Paul Boymel, a civil rights attorney from Potomac, Maryland
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"He was the top winner of the 1984-85 season. Now he's...
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Elaine Zollner, a physician from Glendale, California
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"A winner of 5 shows in 1990, she used her Jeopardy!...
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Jack Ford, a news anchor from Weekend Today
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1998 Celebrity Invitational player: $10,000 for the Women's Center of Monmouth...
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Bev Schwartzberg, an adult literacy program coordinator from Santa Barbara, California
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"She finished second in the 1993 Tournament of Champions. Today, she's...
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Vinita Kailasanath, a consultant from San Mateo, California
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"She represented Stanford University when she won the 2001 College Tourney....
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Jeff Richmond, an attorney from Los Angeles, California
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"He used his 1988 5-game winnings to pay for law school....
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Brandey Chandler, an improv actor and library worker from Lee's Summit, Missouri
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Season 34 player (2018-01-30).
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Sharron Jenkins, an online E.S.L. teacher from Missouri City, Texas
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Season 34 player (2018-06-06).
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Remy Timbrook, a children’s librarian from Oakland, California
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Season 34 player (2017-12-20).
JBoard user name: AcaPulco
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LaKedra Pam, a physician from Baton Rouge, Louisiana
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Season 34 2-time champion: $32,800 + $2,000. First name pronounced like...
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Vicky Smith, a children's book review editor from South Portland, Maine
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Season 33 player (2017-07-14).
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Shannan Younger, a writer from Naperville, Illinois
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Season 34 player (2018-03-29).
Shannan's write-up of her Jeopardy! experience.
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Kathleen Kosman, an attorney from Dearborn, Michigan
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Season 34 1-time champion: $20,400 + $2,000. Kathleen played sitting in...
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Brandon Blackwell, a sophomore from Holliswood, New York
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2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2008-B Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist:...
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Joshua Wennrich, a U.S. Air Force munitions officer originally from Canton, New York
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Season 32 player (2016-03-22).
Joshua appeared on the show in uniform.
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Dee Dee Myers, a journalist from Vanity Fair
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"The first woman ever to hold the post of White House...
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Stew Latwin, a Navy pilot originally from Rye, New York
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Season 32 2-time champion: $42,601 + $2,000. Stew appeared on the...
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Erik Latshaw, a cellar hand from Los Angeles, California
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Season 32 player (2015-10-08). Eric made a "0" with the fingers...
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Dan Royles, a senior from Chula Vista, California
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2002 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. Dan was 17 at the time...
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Stephanie Engel, a children's book managing editor from Douglassville, Pennsylvania
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Season 31 1-time champion: $21,199 + $1,000.
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Shoshana Gordon Ginsburg, a children's librarian from Washington, D.C.
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Season 32 player (2015-12-21).
Wife of Season 32 1-time champion Tim Mercure.
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India Cooper, an actor and copy editor from New York, New York
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"She became a 5-time champion in 1991. An actor and copy...
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Chacko George, a senior at the University of Texas at Austin from Austin, Texas
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"He won the November 1999 Teen Tournament. Now he's a senior...
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John Schultz, a computer programmer from Ann Arbor, Michigan
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2015 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 31 5-time champion:...
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John Beck, a creative director from Torrance, California
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"He played in 2003, and was the last retired 5-time champ...
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Janet Wong, a development officer for a museum from Hoboken, New Jersey
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"As a senior at Drew University, she won the February 2000...
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David Traini, a high school administrator from Moorestown, New Jersey
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"This 5-time champ finished second in the 1987 Tournament of Champions....
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Jeff Crosby, a youth ministry consultant from Rochester, New York
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Season 32 2-time champion: $30,201 + $2,000. JBoard user name: koozbane...
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Jack Barry, a chief financial officer from Raleigh, North Carolina
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Season 30 player (2014-06-09). Not related to the late host of...
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Parker Norton, a 12-year-old from Knoxville, Tennessee
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"As a doctor treating infectious diseases, he hopes to heal others....
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Michelle Schrier, an 11-year-old from Potomac, Maryland
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"She plans on being a news reporter while waiting for her...
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Diana North, a first grade teacher from Rock Hill, South Carolina
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"She recently celebrated her silver anniversary of teaching. From Rock Hill,...
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Allyson Lieberman, a 12-year-old from Whitmore Lake, Michigan
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"Since she was little, she has truly loved to act. Broadway,...
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Vicky Manos, a sophomore at St. John’s University from Levittown, New York
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2004 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000.
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Grace Thomas, an 11-year-old sixth grader from Raleigh, North Carolina
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"This captain of the Brain-Bowl team can name all the countries...
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Tina Baybay-Bykov, an AP world history teacher from Orlando, Florida
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"Ballet used to keep her on her toes. Now it's her...
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Andrew Grace, a 12-year-old from Apex, North Carolina
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"He wants to be a soccer player and an orthopedic surgeon,...
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Raya Elias-Pushett, a junior from Aventura, Florida
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2011 Teen Tournament 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $20,851. First name...
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Ken Hinton, a teacher from Las Vegas, Nevada
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Season 22 player (2006-05-30). As an accommodation for a disability, Ken...
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Steve Robin, a writer and producer from Miami, Florida
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"He finished second place in the 1991 Tournament of Champions. He's...
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Caroline Evans, a twelve-year-old from Bethesda, Maryland
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"The sky's not the limit. She wants to be the first...
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Andrea Salt, a twelve-year-old from Gilbert, Arizona
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"This animal lover plans on becoming a veterinarian. From Gilbert, Arizona,...
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Dianne Lindsay, a publisher's representative from Baton Rouge, Louisiana
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Season 23 player (2007-05-30). Diane also appeared on the original Art...
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Rick Kent, a paralegal from Los Angeles, California
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Season 24 3-time champion: $67,202 + $1,000. Rick won $5,000 on...
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Steve Snyder, a chemical and materials engineer from Tiffin, Ohio
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Season 23 player (2007-03-20). Steve won $3,200 on the Ohio Lottery's...
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Max Levaren, a personal success coach from San Diego, California
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2003 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 19 4-time champion:...
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Sharon Rupe, a children's museum designer from St. Petersburg, Florida
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Season 22 player (2005-09-14).
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Kate Dzurilla, a 12-year-old from Syosset, New York
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"It's a slam dunk for this basketball lover and future WNBA...
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Dennis Donohue, a general manager from Janesville, Wisconsin
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"He was administrative services officer from Arizona when he became a...
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Sean Ryan, a cab driver from State College, Pennsylvania
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
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Robert Knecht Schmidt, a patent agent from Cleveland, Ohio
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Season 26 1-time champion: $12,799 + $1,000. Middle name pronounced like...
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Christine Valada, a photographer and attorney originally from Walton, New York
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2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $68,703...
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Tom Toce, an actuary from New York, New York
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Season 26 2-time champion: $39,200 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Stefan Goodreau, a video game tester and camp counselor from Los Angeles, California
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2010 Tournament of Champions 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $50,000. Season...
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Jove Graham, a biomedical engineer from Lewisburg, Pennsylvania
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Season 26 1-time champion: $34,401 + $1,000. Jove's second contestant interview...
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Mike Maheu, a high school teacher from San Diego, California
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Season 25 2-time champion: $46,242 + $1,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Inta Antler, a retired computer programmer from Scarborough, Ontario, Canada
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Season 25 1-time champion: $12,700 + $2,000. Inta Antler - A...
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Aaron Wicks, a planning and evaluation manager from Rochester, New York
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Season 26 1-time champion: $18,001 + 1,000. Aaron Wicks Rochester, NY...
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Dan Smith, a student from Chicago, Illinois
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Season 25 3-time champion: $69,200 + $1,000. Dan Smith - a...
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Marty Scott, an assistant district attorney from Forney, Texas
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Season 26 3-time champion: $64,002 + $2,000. Marty won $250,000 on...
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Francois Dominic Laramée, a writer and TV personality from Verdun, Quebec, Canada
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Season 25 2-time champion: $46,300 + $1,000. Francois's name was printed...
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Dave Belote, the base commander from Nellis Air Force Base, Las Vegas
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2010 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 26 5-time champion:...
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Andy Srinivasan, a high school science teacher from Garner, North Carolina
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2010 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $69,600...
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Paul Wampler, a web programmer from Knoxville, Tennessee
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Season 27 4-time champion: $72,001 + $2,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: paul5562
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Kevin Wilson, a communications specialist from Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Season 26 3-time champion: $76,998 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Liz Murphy, a foreign service officer originally from Scranton, Pennsylvania
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2010 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 25 5-time champion: $121,302...
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Kara Spak, a newspaper reporter from Chicago, Illinois
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2011 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 27 5-time champion:...
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Tom Nissley, an online books editor from Seattle, Washington
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2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2011 Tournament of Champions...
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Becky Anderson, a retired software specialist originally from Morganton, North Carolina
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Season 25 1-time champion: $16,401 + $2,000. Becky Anderson - A...
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Carolyn Young, a homemaker from Marietta, Georgia
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Season 25 1-time champion: $30,000 + $2,000. Mother of Season 32...
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Alison Stone Roberg, an administrative assistant from Kansas City, Missouri
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Season 26 3-time champion: $85,102 + $2,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Alyssa McRae, a gift card production designer from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Season 25 3-time champion: $50,402 + $2,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Gary Bechtold, a garage door company owner from St. Cloud, Minnesota
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Season 26 3-time champion: $42,001 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Emily Heaney, a freelance costume designer from White Bear Lake, Minnesota
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Season 25 1-time champion: $2,200 + $1,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Chris Rodrigues, a personal banking representative from New Bedford, Massachusetts
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Season 26 3-time champion: $41,498 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Jennifer Broders, a junior high school social studies teacher from Stockton, Iowa
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Season 26 2-time champion: $59,801 + $1,000. Jennifer Broders - a...
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Matt DeTura, a recent law school graduate from Washington, D.C.
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Season 27 3-time champion: $61,601 + $2,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: MDT
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Dan Jensen, a restaurant manager from Reston, Virginia
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Season 27 3-time champion: $58,203 + $1,000.
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Jen McFann, a Peace Corps recruiter from Astoria, New York
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Season 26 1-time champion: $19,410 + $2,000. Jen McFann Astoria, New...
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Jean Cui, a student originally from Garden City, New York
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Season 25 2-time champion: $14,200 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Gail Flemmons, a history teacher from Clinton, Mississippi
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Season 25 2-time champion: $46,399 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Kimberly Jantz, an attorney from Tulsa, Oklahoma
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Season 26 1-time champion: $22,200 + $2,000. Kimberly Jantz - an...
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Carl Brandt, an investor originally from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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2009 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 25 4-time champion: $70,799...
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Enrique Machado, an oil filtration business developer from Orlando, Florida
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Season 26 1-time champion: $30,799 + $2,000. Enrique Machado September 16,...
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Kori Tyler, a high school teacher from Cordova, Tennessee
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Season 26 player (2010-02-26). Season 25 1-time champion: $20,000 + $2,000....
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Ingrid Nelson, a judicial assistant from Lake Mills, Wisconsin
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Season 25 2-time champion: $27,802 + $2,000. Ingrid Nelson - A...
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Stephen Weingarten, a paraeducator from Portland, Oregon
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2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $96,690...
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Andrew Watkins, a junior from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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2006 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: everyday847
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Mark Dawson, a business manager from Chamblee, Georgia
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"In 2003, he became the first to win a quarter of...
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Jim Davis, a college music and humanities instructor from Freeport, Illinois
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Season 25 2-time champion: $62,802 + $2,000. Not be to confused...
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Brian Muth, a headmaster from Napa, California
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Season 25 2-time champion: $43,800 + $1,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Sanders Kleinfeld, a publishing technology specialist from Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Season 25 1-time champion: $26,597 + $2,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Anthony Fox, an account executive from Arlington Heights, Illinois
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Season 27 4-time champion: $51,998 + $1,000. Playing as "Tony", Anthony...
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Vijay Balse, a chemical engineer from Chatham, New Jersey
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2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2010 Tournament of Champions...
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Elizabeth Galoozis, a reference librarian from Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Season 26 2-time champion: $38,801 + $2,000. Elizabeth Galoozis - A...
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Josh Powell, a phone-based health coach from San Diego, California
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Season 27 3-time champion: $26,900 + $1,000.
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Dan Pawson, a legislative aide from Boston, Massachusetts
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2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2014 Battle of the Decades...
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Patrick Quinn, a high school German teacher from Chesterfield, Missouri
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"He teaches at a school whose history goes back to a...
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David Walter, a senior from Wilmington, Delaware
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2007 Teen Tournament winner (semifinalist by wildcard): $75,000. 17 at the...
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Laura Hughes, a mom from New Market, Maryland
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Season 26 1-time champion: $27,500 + $2,000. Wife of Season 16...
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Jesse Cuevas, a corporate lawyer originally from Leawood, Kansas
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Season 27 3-time champion: $65,981 + $2,000. Brother of Season 30...
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Rachel Pildis, a software developer from Oak Park, Illinois
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Season 26 1-time champion: $12,000 + $2,000. Rachel Pildis - A...
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Marissa Goldsmith, a web developer from Springfield, Virginia
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Season 27 3-time champion: $44,100 + $2,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: marteena
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Matt Jacobs, a science teacher originally from Stratford, Connecticut
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Season 25 1-time champion: $10,323 + $1,000. Matt resided in Silver...
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Peter Severson, a senior from Sioux Falls, South Dakota
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2005 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time of the...
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Zack Terrill, a senior at Vanderbilt University from Winter Springs, Florida
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2012 College Championship 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $25,000. 21 at...
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Amanda Walker, a junior at Gonzaga University from East Wenatchee, Washington
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2005 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user name:...
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Andy Davis, a Chyron operator from South Boston, Massachusetts
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Season 25 2-time champion: $49,799 + $1,000. Andy Davis - A...
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Paul Kursky, a copywriter from San Francisco, California
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2011 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 5-time champion: $109,411...
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Diane Wilshere, an actor and playwright from Manassas, Virginia
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Season 25 1-time champion: $18,801 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Lindsay Eanet, a senior from the University of Missouri
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2010-A College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. Hometown: Deerfield, Illinois. Last name pronounced...
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Rebecca Dixon, a graduate student and musician from Vancouver, Washington
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Season 26 2-time champion: $53,002 + $1,000. Rebecca and her partner...
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Kristiana Henderson, a junior from Kent, Washington
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2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games quarterfinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time...
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Buddy Wright, an operations engineer from Fort Worth, Texas
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2011 Tournament of Champions 2nd runner-up: $50,000. Season 26 4-time champion:...
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Catherine Briley, a senior from Grand Prairie, Louisiana
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2012 Teen Tournament 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $31,000. 17 at...
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Vito Cortese, a software engineer and Italian translator from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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Season 27 3-time champion: $68,485 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Sara Wilkinson, a country club concierge from Athens, Georgia
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Season 27 3-time champion: $72,701 + $2,000.
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Stefan Goodreau, a video game tester from Los Angeles, California
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2010 Tournament of Champions 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $50,000. Season...
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Dave Belote, a recently retired base commander from Woodbridge, Virginia
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2010 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 26 5-time champion:...
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Brad Brown, a theater teacher from Nashville, Tennessee
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"And he is a theater teacher at an international baccalaureate certified...
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David Skaar, a research scientist from Raleigh, North Carolina
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Season 25 3-time champion: $102,000 + $2,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Jason Richards, a pharmacy technician from Old Town, Maine
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2006 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
Season 22 4-time champion: $99,200 + $2,000.
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Saad Hasan, a nanotechnology scientist from Nashville, Tennessee
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Season 26 1-time champion: $22,700 + $2,000. Saad Hasan Nashville, TN...
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Matt Drury, a government analyst from New York, New York
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Season 26 1-time champion: $18,799 + $2,000. Matthew Drury - A...
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James Erwin, a writer from Des Moines, Iowa
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Season 25 2-time champion: $22,598 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Yevgeny Shrago, a research assistant originally from Rochester, New York
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Season 26 1-time champion: $24,600 + $2,000. Name pronounced like "yev-GHEN-ee...
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Mike Marmesh, a veterinarian from Miami, Florida
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Season 26 1-time champion: $4,700 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
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John Krizel, a green community program coordinator from Beckley, West Virginia
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2011 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $105,204...
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Christian Haines, a college student originally from Newport News, Virginia
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2007 Tournament of champions semifinalist: $10,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
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Jeff Spoeri, a university administrator from Boynton Beach, Florida
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2007 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD...
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Kerri Regan, a senior from Bethpage, New York
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2005 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. 17 at the time of the...
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Brian Meacham, a film preservationist originally from Anchorage, Alaska
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2011 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 27 4-time champion: $90,500...
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Evan Sandman, a hotel front desk manager from Los Angeles, California
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Season 28 1-time champion $28,801 + $2,000.
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Dmitry Spivak, a junior from Northwestern University
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"The 11-year-old wasn't really kidding when he said he wanted to...
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Mike Nelson, a mechanical engineer from Geneva, Illinois
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Season 27 2-time champion: $20,800 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Carl Bradshaw, a financial manager from St. Louis, Missouri
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Season 27 2-time champion: $17,899 + $2,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: Titmouse
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Susan Haarman, a sophomore at Marquette University from Louisville, Kentucky
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2001 College Championship quarterfinalist: $2,500. Susan was 19 at the time...
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Joey Beachum, an Air Force intelligence officer from Conway, Arkansas
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2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2008 College Championship winner: $100,000...
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Camille Bullock, a senior from New Orleans, Louisiana
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2006 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: Camille88
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Anurag Kashyap, a senior from Poway, California
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2008-B Teen Tournament winner: $75,000. Anurag was also the winner of...
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Elyse Mancuso, a junior from Omaha, Nebraska
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2012 Teen Tournament winner: $79,600. 16 at the time of the...
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Ben Schenkel, a junior from Allentown, Pennsylvania
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2007 Teen Tournament 1st runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $42,800. 17 at...
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Brittany Rogers, a sophomore at Saddleback College from Lake Forest, California
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2001 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $5,000. Brittany was 18 at the...
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Cathy Lanctot, a law professor from Wilmington, Delaware
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2007 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
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Adam Pinson, a senior at the University of Alabama at Birmingham from Pinson, Alabama
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2005 College Championship 1st runner-up: $50,000. Won $100,000 on Who Wants...
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Mitchell Vogel, from Madison, Wisconsin
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"This future governor of Wisconsin enjoys rollerblading, reading, and playing saxophone....
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Stacy Braverman, a public interest lawyer from Washington, D.C.
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Season 26 1-time champion: $14,984 + $2,000. As detailed in a...
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Fred Cofone, a copy editor from Old Greenwich, Connecticut
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Season 27 2-time champion: $24,400 + $2,000.
Last name pronounced like "kuh-FONE".
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Janet Bradlow, an insurance agent from New York, New York
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Season 26 3-time champion: $58,000 + $2,000. Janet Bradlow New York,...
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Amanda Sonmor, a virtual assistant originally from Denver, Colorado
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Season 27 2-time champion: $21,501 + $1,000.
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Don Meals, an environmental scientist from Burlington, Vermont
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Season 27 3-time champion: $42,599 + $2,000.
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Jenifer Thomas, a teacher assistant from Jacksonville, North Carolina
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Season 26 1-time champion: $13,400 + $2,000. Jenifer Thomas October 5,...
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Jim Stevens, a high school math teacher from Fairview Park, Ohio
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2009 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Season 25 6-time champion: $140,600 + $2,000.
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Michael Farabaugh, a high school chemistry teacher from Charlottesville, Virginia
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"This chemistry teacher has been making things fizz, smoke, and explode...
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Craig Westphal, a paramedic from Tucson, Arizona
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2007 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
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Travis Troyer, a software engineer from Hereford, Maryland
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2003 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 19 5-time champion:...
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Christopher Short, a pub trivia editor from Crawfordsville, Indiana
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2011 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 27 6-time champion: $94,752...
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Tom Nissley, a writer from Seattle, Washington
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2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2011 Tournament of Champions...
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Tara Franey, a senior from Michigan State University
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2008 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: tarafraney
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Bob Harris, an author, comedian, and radio commentator from Los Angeles, California
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"A 5-time champion and a finalist in the Tournament of Champions,...
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Jim Scott, an attorney from Arlington, Virginia
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"He was a legal assistant living near D.C. when he won...
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Tom Toal, an orthopedic surgeon from Lake Oswego, Oregon
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Season 27 1-time champion: $12,200 + $1,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Ruvani Fonseka, a junior from Grosse Pointe, Michigan
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2005 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $5,000. 15 at the time of...
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Nathaniel Barnes, a composer and bartender from Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Season 25 3-time champion: $57,300 + $2,000. In his first game,...
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Justin Sausville, a urologist from Baltimore, Maryland
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2011 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 27/28 6-time champion:...
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Catherine Whitten, a high school history teacher from Plano, Texas
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"This gifted teacher primarily teaches gifted students. From Plano, Texas, this...
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Eliza Scruton, a junior from Louisville, Kentucky
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2012 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000.
16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Bernard Holloway, a junior from Mitchellville, Maryland
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2002 Teen...
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Tommy Maranges, a junior from Fort Lauderdale, Florida
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2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games quarterfinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time...
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Mark Dawson, a business manager from Chamblee, Georgia
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2014 Battle of the Decades quarterfinalist: $10,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
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Caitlin Cook, a sophomore from Arden, North Carolina
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2005 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $5,000.
16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Allan Long, a freshman from Tallahassee, Florida
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2005 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. 14 at the time of the...
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Whitney Prince, a sophomore from Maryville, Tennessee
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2005 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500.
15 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Brad Selvig, a sophomore at Florida State from Jacksonville, Florida
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2004 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000.
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Christopher Weis, a sophomore from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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2008-B Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. Last name pronounced like "WISE". Jeopardy!...
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Raynell Cooper, a senior from Rockville, Maryland
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2011 Teen Tournament winner (semifinalist by wildcard): $75,000. 16 at the...
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Stephen Fritz, a sophomore from Lexington, Kentucky
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2007 Teen Tournament 2nd runner-up: $25,460.
15 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Mollie Haycock, a senior from Rocklin, California
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2008-A Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Tony Nagatani, a junior at Ithaca College from Honolulu, Hawaii
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2001 College Championship quarterfinalist: $2,500. Tony was 20 at the time...
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Nico Martinez, a college junior from Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
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2006 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2005 College Champion: $100,000 +...
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Diane Trap, a librarian and graphics specialist from Athens, Georgia
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Season 25 1-time champion: $21,400 + $1,000. Diane Trap - a...
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Ben Bishop, a student originally from Seattle, Washington
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2009 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 25 4-time champion: $114,800...
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Matt Kohlstedt, a grad student originally from La Grange, Illinois
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2009 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
Season 25 5-time champion: $77,803 + $2,000.
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Nick Swezey, a publisher from Washington, D.C.
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2007 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
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Andy Hutchins, a senior from Rockledge, Florida
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2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games semifinalist: $10,000. 17 at the time...
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Loren Loiacono, a senior from Setauket, New York
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2006 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
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Amy Fletcher, a junior from Cincinnati, Ohio
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2005 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500.
16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Chris Miller, a retail specialist from Louisville, Kentucky
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Elite Eighteen (Round 2 winners) and...
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Ann Thurlow, an aspiring novelist and retired salesperson from Mendham, New Jersey
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Season 28 1-time champion: $26,805 + $1,000.
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Elissa Hoffman, a high school biology and anatomy & physiology teacher from Appleton, Wisconsin
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"She is in her lucky 13th year of teaching. From Appleton,...
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Tyler Benedict, a junior at Columbia University from Dayton, Ohio
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2012 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000.
21 at the time of the College Championship.
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Naren Tallapragada, a junior from Burke, Virginia
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2008-A Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000. 16 at the time of the...
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Kristin Briggs, a senior from Parkland, Florida
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2007 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Bill MacDonald, an attorney from Bonita Springs, Florida
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2006 Tournament of Champions 2nd runner-up: $50,000. Season 22 4-time champion:...
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Jason Zollinger, an engine assembler from South Dayton, New York
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2010 Tournament of Champions 1st runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $100,000. Season...
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Justin Bernbach, a lobbyist from Brooklyn, New York
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2010 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 25 7-time champion: $155,001...
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Stephen Weingarten, a stay-at-home dad from Portland, Oregon
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2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $96,690...
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Danny Vopava, a sophomore from the University of Wisconsin–River Falls
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2010-A College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. Hometown: New Brighton, Minnesota. [No contestant...
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Greg Peterson, a senior from Park Ridge, Illinois
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2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games 1st runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $38,600....
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Claire Winkler, from Fredericksburg, Virginia
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"This honor roll student participates on both the year-round and summer...
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Laura Ansley, a senior from Twinsburg, Ohio
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2006 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
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Allison Peña, a junior from Sunrise, Florida
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2006 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
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Iddoshe Hirpa, a junior from Louisville, Kentucky
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2006 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000.
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Casey Retterer, a sophomore at the University of Maryland from Olney, Maryland
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2004 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
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Dan Crosby, a middle school history teacher from Santa Monica, California
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"He teaches at a school named for a renowned scholar, doctor,...
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Joon Pahk, a college physics teacher from Somerville, Massachusetts
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2011 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000.
Season 28 7-time champion: $199,000 + $2,000.
JBoard user name: jpahk
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Jeff Haylon, a sophomore from Newtown, Connecticut
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2012 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $10,000.
15 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Robin Carroll, an instructional designer from Marietta, Georgia
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"Winner of both the 2000 Tournament of Champions and the 2001...
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Paul Gutowski, an alcohol and drug counselor from Rockford, Illinois
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"He was the first 5-time winner in 1997. An alcohol and...
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Ari Stern, a mathematician from San Diego, California
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Season 27 1-time champion: $17,201 + $1,000.
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Regina Robbins, an arts teacher from New York, New York
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2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $90,700...
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Sandra McClellan, a granny nanny from Arlington, Texas
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Season 27 1-time champion: $4,199 + $2,000.
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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
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Jason McCune, an actor originally from Jasper, Indiana
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2003 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Season 18 4-time champion: $90,041.
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Ben Tritle, an apartment manager from Los Angeles, California
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2003 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 18 5-time champion: $78,600...
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Mark Runsvold, a student and waiter from Moscow, Idaho
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2011 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000.
Season 27 4-time champion: $153,800 + $1,000.
JBoard user name: markrunsvold
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Kevin Yang, a junior from Birmingham, Alabama
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2012 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000.
16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Jeffrey Gerlomes, a freshman from Napa, California
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2007 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
14 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Thomas Zamora, a junior at the University of Southern California from Cypress, California
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2001 College Championship 2nd runner-up: $14,100. Thomas was 20 at the...
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Brett Dvorak, a junior at Indiana University from Granger, Indiana
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2001 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $5,000. Brett was 20 at the...
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Emily Zhang, from Indianapolis, Indiana
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"A National Science Merit Award recipient, she plans on becoming a...
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Steve Gratz, a freelance artist from Washington, D.C.
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Season 27 2-time champion: $30,999 + $1,000.
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Christine Carrino Gorowara, a teacher educator from Wilmington, Delaware
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Season 25 2-time champion: $43,202 + $1,000. Wife of Season 26...
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Steve Unite, a writer from Studio City, California
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2007 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
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Eric Newhouse, a director of technical assistance from Sioux City, Iowa
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
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Orlando Zambrano, a junior from Tampa, Florida
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2005 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $5,000.
16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Jake Houser, a 12-year-old seventh grader from Aptos, California
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"And this straight-A student would like to become a geneticist so...
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Paul Nelson, a Senate staff aide originally from Iowa City, Iowa
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2013 Tournament of champions semifinalist: $10,000.
Season 29 5-time champion: $54,900 + $2,000.
JBoard user name: PaulNelson2012
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Ellen Lewis, a retired high school math teacher from Mount Vernon, New York
|
Season 28 1-time champion: $10,000 + $1,000.
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Sarah Bart, a senior at Goucher College from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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2012 College Championship 1st runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $50,000. 22 at...
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Rose Schaefer, a junior from Portland, Oregon
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2012 Teen Tournament 1st runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $36,000. 16 at...
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Mysti Kofford, a junior at Boston University from New Orleans, Louisiana
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2001 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $5,000. Mysti was 19 at the...
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Matt Schnippert, a sophomore at Florida State University from Jacksonville, Florida
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2001 College Championship 1st runner-up: $19,801. Matt was 19 at the...
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Doug Dorst, a writer and professor from Austin, Texas
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2006 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 22 3-time champion: $66,802...
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Rachael Schwartz, a lawyer with an international law firm from Washington, D.C.
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"In 1994, she became the first woman ever to win the...
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Seth Alcorn, a bookstore supervisor from Alexandria, Virginia
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2004 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
Season 19 3-time champion: $106,400 + $1,000.
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Adam Bibler, an economist originally from Lancaster, Ohio
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Season 27 1-time champion: $12,000 + $2,000.
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Tom Zamojcin, a digital marketing manager from Phoenixville, Pennsylvania
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Season 27 1-time champion: $22,800 + $2,000.
Last name pronounced like "zam-MOH-chin".
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Harris Cohen, a family physician from Lower Gwynedd, Pennsylvania
|
Season 25 2-time champion: $17,800 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Larissa Kelly, a grad student from El Cerrito, California
|
2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament semifinalist: $10,000. 2019 All-Star Games member of...
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Chris Pae, a high school history teacher from Suwanee, Georgia
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"He studied pre-med, then pre-law, but discovered his passion was teaching....
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Amy Levine, a freshman from North Potomac, Maryland
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2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games quarterfinalist: $5,000. 15 at the time...
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Will Schultz, a freshman from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
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2007 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 19 at the time of the...
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Cliff Galiher, a sophomore from UCLA
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2007 Tournament of Champions 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $50,000 +...
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Hayley Clatterbuck, a junior from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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2007 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 21 at the time of...
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David Hoffelmeyer, a senior from St. Joseph, Missouri
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2006 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000.
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Bob Verini, a director of academics for a national test preparation company from Los Angeles, California
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2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
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Doug Lach, a marketing manager from Columbus, Ohio
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"He was the biggest winner of the 1999-2000 season. A marketing...
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Jessica Dell'Era, a third grade Spanish bilingual teacher from Oakland, California
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"She has wanted to be a teacher since she was 7...
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Matt Olson, a sophomore at Stanford University from Berkeley, California
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2012 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 20 at the time of the...
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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
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Rachel "Steve" Cooke, a senior from Fishers, Indiana
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2008-A Teen Tournament 1st runner-up: $25,000. 17 at the time of...
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Chris Mazurek, an assistant professor from Columbia, Missouri
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2007 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
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Gabe Orlet, a senior from Belleville, Illinois
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2009 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
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Lisa Dvorak, a grocery store chain administrative assistant from Millersville, Maryland
|
Season 27 1-time champion: $31,201 + $2,000.
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Lisa Ackerman, a senior from Livermore, California
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2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 17 at the...
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Craig Boge, a senior from Stanford University
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2007 College Championship 1st runner-up: $50,000. 21 at the time of...
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Kyle Hale, a college student from Katy, Texas
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 winner: $25,000. 2003 Tournament...
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Steve Golden, a junior from Brookeville, Maryland
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2005 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $5,000. 16 at the time of the...
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Larry Marshall, a junior at the University of Missouri from Kansas City, Missouri
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2004 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000.
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Weston Mangin, a freshman at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo from Arroyo Grande, California
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2012 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000.
19 at the time of the College Championship.
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Eliza Urban, a sophomore from Richmond, Virginia
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2007 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 15 at the time of the...
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Kweisi Mfume, a president from the NAACP
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2004 Power Players Week player (2004-05-11). Name pronounced like "kwah-EE-see oom-FOO-may"....
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Aaron Thompson, a special assistant from Washington, D.C.
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2006 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 21 3-time champion:...
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Carl Brandt, an investor originally from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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2009 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Season 25 4-time champion: $70,799 + $2,000.
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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.
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Stephanie Ehresman, a senior from Shirley, New York
|
2003 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $5,000.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Jacob Hambalek, a 12-year-old from Fresno, California
|
"If he had to choose a career right now, he'd be...
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Aaron Schroeder, a grad student from San Diego, California
|
2009 Tournament of Champions second runner-up: $50,000. Season 24 5-time champion:...
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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
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Dave Simpson, a pastor from Belcamp, Maryland
|
2009 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 24 4-time champion:...
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Folake Dosu, a senior from Stanford University from Bellwood, Illinois
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2010-B College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
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Sebastian Johnson, a senior from Takoma Park, Maryland
|
2006 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Listed as "Sebi" on the...
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Papa Chakravarthy, a sophomore from Lexington, Kentucky
|
2006 Teen Tournament champion: $75,000.
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Matt Klein, a senior from Pittsford, New York
|
2006 Teen Tournament 2nd runner-up: $15,000. Won $1,000 on Who Wants...
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Jeff Love, a sophomore at Stanford University from Burlingame, California
|
2004 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. Jeff won $1,000 on Who Wants...
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Kathryn Wendling, a high school social studies teacher from Farmington, Minnesota
|
"Her high school newspaper predicted she would be on Jeopardy! From...
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Nikhil Desai, a junior from Fremont, California
|
2011 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000. 16 at the time of the...
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Kate Rowland, a family doctor from Chicago, Illinois
|
Season 27 1-time champion: $16,401 + $2,000.
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Hema Karunakaram, a senior from Saline, Michigan
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2009 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000. Name pronounced like "HAY-ma kah-ROO-nuh-KAH-ram". Jeopardy!...
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Donna Vogel, a scientist from Bethesda, Maryland
|
2009 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 24 4-time champion:...
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Sara Terrell, a veterinary technician from Windsor, Connecticut
|
2007 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
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Lindsey Nicolai, a junior from Hampton, Virginia
|
2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games quarterfinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time...
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Jay Schrader, a junior from Lexington, Kentucky
|
2008-B Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000. Older brother of 2012 Teen Tournament...
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Heidi Fogle, a senior from Overland Park, Kansas
|
2007 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
|
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Allison Dziuba, a junior from Ridgefield, Connecticut
|
2007 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time of the...
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Katie Gill, a sophomore from Jackson, Mississippi
|
2008-A Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000.
15 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Louie C.K., a comedian, actor, director, writer, and producer from Louie and Horace and Pete
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"This multitalented actor, writer, producer, and director is also the star...
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Jayanth Iyengar, a junior at Washington University in St. Louis from Madison, Wisconsin
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2005 College Championship 2nd runner-up: $25,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: Jiyen1213
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Patrick Tucker, a graduate student of public policy from St. Louis, Missouri
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2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2009 College Championship winner: $100,000...
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Ariel Schneider, a biology student from West Lafayette, Indiana
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Season 27 2-time champion: $46,300 + $2,000.
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Andrea Michaels, a freelance writer from Los Angeles, California
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Season 4 player (1988-07-05): Gibson's Keytek professional keyboard + a Krayco...
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Meredith Dedopoulos, a 12-year-old from Durham, New Hampshire
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"This spelling bee champion has also won many sports awards. From...
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Cary Williams, from Milton, Massachusetts
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"She won an award in math, and a letter of commendation...
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Lauren Romero, a senior from Denver, Colorado
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2006 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. According to the official Jeopardy! web...
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Vanamali Compton, a junior from Clarkdale, Arizona
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2005 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. 16 at the time of the...
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Emma Johnson, an eleven-year-old from St. Petersburg, Florida
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"She'll hit a high note in her future musical career as...
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Injee Hong, a 12-year-old from Metairie, Louisiana
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"If her dreams of becoming a lawyer don't come true, she...
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Carlee Jensen, a senior from Santa Monica, California
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2011 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
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Steven Ho, a junior from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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2011 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time of the...
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Alex Jacob, a currency trader from Chicago, Illinois
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2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2019 All-Star Games member of...
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Meredith Johnson, a senior from University of Minnesota
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2008 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. Attended the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities...
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Andrew Pau, an assistant professor from Amherst, Ohio
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2017 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 32 6-time champion: $170,202...
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Tom Jennings, a maintenance mechanic from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Season 27 1-time champion: $24,000 + $2,000.
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John Matthews, a senior from Escondido, California
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2003 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $5,000.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Ellen Kimmel, a school nurse from Nanuet, New York
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Season 27 2-time champion: $37,000 + $1,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: SkoolRN
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Judy Shewmake, a retired middle school history teacher from Murfreesboro, Tennessee
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Season 27 1-time champion: $20,801 + $2,000.
Last name pronounced like "SHOO-make".
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Regis Philbin, a TV host from Live with Regis and Kelly
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"In 2004 he entered the Guinness Book of Records as having...
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Andrew Kreitz, a senior from Huntington Beach, California
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2006 Teen Tournament 1st runner-up: $25,000.
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Bradley Silverman, a junior from Alpharetta, Georgia
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2008-B Teen Tournament 1st runner-up: $44,600. Jeopardy! Message Board user name:...
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Rob Schrader, a junior from Lexington, Kentucky
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2012 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. Younger brother of 2008-B Teen Tournament...
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Ben Greenho, a junior from Plano, Texas
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2012 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Ken Jennings, a 74-game champion from Seattle, Washington
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"In 2004, his record-breaking 74-game win streak set a standard for...
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Keith Olbermann, a news anchor from MSNBC
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"In 2004, this veteran reporter will provide extensive coverage of the...
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Aman Birk, from Irvine, California
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"He may not be the fastest swimmer on the team, but...
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Robin Cheney, a middle school teacher from Rancho Santa Margarita, California
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"All the students at her school go on a camping trip...
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Pete Troyan, a senior from the University of Michigan
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2007 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 22 at the time of the...
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Alice Luo, a junior from Georgia Institute of Technology
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2007 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 20 at the time of...
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Dianisbeth Acquie, from Brooklyn, New York
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"This ballet, jazz, and tap dancing Girl Scout would like to...
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Tom Baker, a writer from Tokyo, Japan
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2004 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000.
Season 20 3-time champion: $102,300 + $2,000.
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Charles Temple, a high school English teacher from Ocracoke, North Carolina
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2011 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000.
2011 Teachers Tournament winner: $100,000.
JBoard user name: lonesomeseagull
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Watson, a deep question answering system from IBM
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2011 IBM Challenge winner: $500,000 to World Vision + $500,000 to...
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Will Casper, a senior from Basin City, Washington
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2008-A Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 17 at the time of...
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Erin Bogart, a junior at Miami University of Ohio from Cincinnati, Ohio
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2001 College Championship quarterfinalist: $2,500. Erin was 20 at the time...
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Sam Daub, an eleven-year-old from Eden Prairie, Minnesota
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"And he finds video games enticing and has made a fantasy...
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Katie James, a sophomore from Winchester, Virginia
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2006 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
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Kelley Burd, a junior at West Virginia University from Bristol, West Virginia
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2004 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000.
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Meg Walker, an eleven-year-old from Brandon, Mississippi
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"She wants to help people with disabilities have a better life...
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Mandy Berry, an 11-year-old from Baltimore, Maryland
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"She wants to dedicate her life to helping animals by becoming...
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Krishna Bharathala, a sophomore from Fremont, California
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2012 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
15 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Kate Wadman, a junior from Tucson, Arizona
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2011 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: jeopartygirl
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Leatrice Potter, from Olney, Illinois
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"This published poet likes to read at any free moment and...
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Allie Pape, a sophomore from Ponte Vedra, Florida
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2002 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. Allie was 14 at the time...
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David Rozenson, a lawyer from Newton, Massachusetts
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2006 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Season 21 3-time champion: $76,000 + $1,000.
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Mike Scott, an eleven-year-old from Lake Villa, Illinois
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"He really likes doing challenging projects in school, but hates doing...
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Roger Mueller-Kim, a high school social studies teacher from Dublin, California
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Season 27 1-time champion: $17,401 + $1,000.
Last name pronounced like "MULL-er KIM".
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Jeff Gorham, an accountant from Richmond, Virginia
|
Season 27 1-time champion: $14,001 + $1,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: SpacemanSpiff
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Jelisa Castrodale, a sportswriter from Winston-Salem, North Carolina
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Season 27 1-time champion: $39,399 + $1,000.
Name pronounced like "jell-EES-ah KASS-tro-dale".
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Andy Srinivasan, a high school science teacher from Clayton, North Carolina
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2010 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $69,600...
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James Hill III, a freshman from Santa Clara University
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2010-A College championship semifinalist: $10,000. Hometown: San Jose, California. [No contestant...
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Laura Button, an editor and proofreader from Alpharetta, Georgia
|
Season 27 1-time champion: $28,800 + $1,000.
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Erik Nelson, a grad student originally from Boston, Massachusetts
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2009 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 25 4-time champion: $94,404...
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Deborah Fitzgerald, a retired government employee from McLean, Virginia
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2009 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Season 24 4-time champion: $55,901 + $1,000.
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Cliff Galiher, a student from Half Moon Bay, California
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2007 Tournament of Champions 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $50,000 +...
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Ben Noe, a sophomore from Flushing, Michigan
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2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games quarterfinalist: $5,000. 16 at the time...
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Trevor Norris, a management analyst from Washington, D.C.
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2003 Tournament...
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Tom Cilla, from Kings Park, New York
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"He wants to join the Coast Guard or the Navy, but...
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Tad Carithers, an attorney from Atlanta, Georgia
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 winner: $41,300. 2001 Tournament...
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Scott Renzoni, a bartender and actor from Burlington, Vermont
|
2004 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 20 4-time champion: $112,998...
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Susan Bellenot, a senior from Lakeview Terrace, California
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2003 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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George Tsuji, a software engineer from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Season 27 1-time champion: $20,000 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Aiden Pink, a freshman from St. Louis Park, Minnesota
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2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games semifinalist: $10,000. 15 at the time...
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Rachel McCool, a sophomore at Dickinson College from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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2004 College Championship 2nd runner-up: $25,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: rachel_pi
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Ben Chuchla, a senior from Calabasas, California
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2008-B Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Last name pronounced like "HOO-kla"....
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Caleb Olson, a senior from Chariton, Iowa
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2012 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $10,000.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Dave Ellis, a singer-songwriter from Los Angeles, California
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Season 27 1-time champion: $16,000 + $2,000. Not to be confused...
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Lyn Thomas, a library assistant from Redmond, Washington
|
Season 27 1-time champion: $13,100 + $1,000.
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Mark Wales, a substitute teacher from Amherst, New York
|
2009 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 24 5-time champion: $141,804...
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Kaitlin Welborn, a sophomore from the University of Pennsylvania
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2007 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 20 at the time of the...
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Sara Jansson, a 10-year-old from Monmouth Junction, New Jersey
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"She wants to become a singer because she loves music so...
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Steve Newman, a partner in a small computer company from Rockville, Maryland
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"He was the first player to win 5 games in the...
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Michael Braun, a junior from Silver Spring, Maryland
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2005 Teen...
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Matt Rogers, a comedian from Long Island, New York
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"A comedian from Long Island, New York, his podcast, Las Culturistas,...
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Casey Clough, a junior from Columbia, South Carolina
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2008-B Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Last name pronounced like "CLUE".
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John Botti, a high school history and English teacher from Bethesda, Maryland
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"He says he keeps his spirit young by spending time with...
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Robert Arshonsky, a senior from Cal Poly
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"As a 12-year-old, he wanted to be the first person on...
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Maria Bennici, a junior from Walkersville, Maryland
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2008-A Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Hank Robinson, a senior from Lithia Springs, Georgia
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2007 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000. 17 at the time of the...
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Emily Karrs, a junior from Gibsonia, Pennsylvania
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2002 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $5,000. Emily was 16 at the time...
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Michael Steele, a political analyst and host from MSNBC and Steele & Ungar
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"He was elected lieutenant governor of Maryland in 2003, and later...
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Colin Brown, a senior at the University of Rochester from Milwaukie, Oregon
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2005 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000.
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Brady Newell, from Derwood, Maryland
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"She loves diving and gymnastics, but is headed toward being either...
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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:...
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Samantha Reback, a sophomore from Bethesda, Maryland
|
2009 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
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Jimmy Li, a senior from Chesterfield, Missouri
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2005 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time of...
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Graham Doskoch, a twelve-year-old from Berkeley Heights, New Jersey
|
"He wants to put his love of design and building to...
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Alex Johnson, an 11-year-old from Indianapolis, Indiana
|
"He wants to be a chemist in the future. From Indianapolis,...
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Neha Embar, a 12-year-old from Alpharetta, Georgia
|
"No kidding--she wants to be a pediatrician when she grows up....
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Erin Hart, a junior from Benton Harbor, Michigan
|
2011 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000. 16 at the time of the...
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Kailyn LaPorte, a sophomore from Decatur, Georgia
|
2011 Teen Tournament 1st runner-up: $42,600. 15 at the time of...
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Andy Siegler, a senior from Cinnaminson, New Jersey
|
2001 Teen Tournament 1st runner-up: $15,000.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
|
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George Nelson, a senior from Montgomery, Alabama
|
2002 Teen Tournament 1st runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $29,497. George was...
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Nico Martinez, a junior at Stanford University from Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
|
2006 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2005 College Champion: $100,000 +...
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Malisha Butts, a senior at North Carolina Central University from Durham, North Carolina
|
2005 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000.
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Lynne Wexler, a librarian from Evanston, Illinois
|
"She was the first 5-time champion in 1991. A librarian from...
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Mark Eckard, an entrepreneur from Bedford, Massachusetts
|
"A 2001 5-time champion as a software designer, he has now...
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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...
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Russell Berris, a junior from Baton Rouge, Louisiana
|
2003 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $5,000.
16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Nick Yozamp, a biology student from St. Cloud, Minnesota
|
2010 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 2010-A College Championship winner:...
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Andrew Rostan, a writer and script reader originally from Boardman, Ohio
|
2007 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
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Mark Brown, an administrative assistant and father from Peoria, Arizona
|
2003 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 19 5-time champion: $68,094...
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Emily Sturtz, from Parsippany, New Jersey
|
"Because she would like to help people, she wants to become...
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Scott McFadden, a librarian from Muncie, Indiana
|
Season 34 3-time champion: $78,401 + $2,000.
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Rob Worman, an escalation manager from Edina, Minnesota
|
2019 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 34 6-time champion: $133,900...
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Jordan Nussbaum, a lawyer from Thornhill, Ontario, Canada
|
Season 34 1-time champion: $15,800 + $2,000.
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Marty Cunningham, an accountant and voice artist from Arvada, Colorado
|
Season 34 3-time champion: $65,900 + $2,000.
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Ben Raphel, a healthcare data analyst from Boston, Massachusetts
|
Season 34 1-time champion: $25,201 + $1,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Jenny Rhodes, a university literature instructor from New York, New York
|
Season 34 1-time champion: $11,899 + $1,000.
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Jennifer Tomassi, a freelance writer from Los Angeles, California
|
Season 34 1-time champion: $20,401 + $1,000.
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David Kleinman, a student from Sharon, Massachusetts
|
Season 34 1-time champion: $31,600 + $2,000.
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Ian Booth, a trade specialist from Washington, D.C.
|
Season 34 1-time champion: $23,201 + $1,000.
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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".
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Virginia Cummings, a geriatrician from Randolph, Massachusetts
|
Season 34 2-time champion: $51,200 + $2,000.
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Denise Littlejohn, a project manager from West Hollywood, California
|
Season 34 1-time champion: $21,601 + $2,000. Denise won $0 on...
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Josh Hill, a network engineer from North Little Rock, Arkansas
|
2019 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 34 7-time champion: $163,721...
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Alexandra Henkoff, a college admissions counselor from Houston, Texas
|
Season 34 1-time champion: $17,300 + $1,000. Playing as "Alex", Alexandra...
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Lisa Kristina, a freelance musician from Chicago Heights, Illinois
|
Season 34 2-time champion: $36,100 + $1,000.
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Gavin Borchert, a writer and editor from Seattle, Washington
|
Season 33 3-time champion: $50,200 + $2,000.
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Kristin Robbins, an attorney from Red Bank, New Jersey
|
Season 34 2-time champion: $44,994 + $2,000.
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Susan Corica, a journalist from Waterbury, Connecticut
|
Season 33 1-time champion: $15,995 + $1,000.
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Dave Mattingly, a director of technology from Old Forge, Pennsylvania
|
Season 34 3-time champion: $77,400 + $2,000.
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Emily Milan, a nanny from Birmingham, Michigan
|
Season 34 3-time champion: $45,001 + $1,000.
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Michelle Cabral, an elementary school music teacher from Toronto, Ontario, Canada
|
Season 34 3-time champion: $46,693 + $2,000.
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Mark Ashton, a software engineer from Elmhurst, Illinois
|
Season 34 1-time champion: $29,100 + $2,000.
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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....
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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".
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Lauren Kiehna, a writer from Steeleville, Illinois
|
Season 34 1-time champion: $31,601 + $1,000.
Last name pronounced like "KEE-nah".
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Sarah Marx, a junior from Chevy Chase, Maryland
|
2008-B Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user name:...
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Leslie Decker, a high school German and ESL teacher from Austin, Texas
|
"She taught English to Europeans. Now she teaches German to Americans....
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Idrees Kahloon, a junior from Lexington, Kentucky
|
2011 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000.
15 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Rob Russell, a tutoring and testing director from Johnson City, Tennessee
|
Season 32 2-time champion: $43,600 + $1,000.
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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.
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Doug Behrend, a college professor from Fayetteville, Arkansas
|
Season 32 1-time champion: $16,401 + $2,000.
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Lani Gonzalez, a managing director of an art bazaar from Austin, Texas
|
Season 33 3-time champion: $50,600 + $2,000.
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Steve Stoffle, a leadership trainer from Decatur, Georgia
|
Season 32 1-time champion: $17,599 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Harris Stutman, a medical informaticist from Huntington Beach, California
|
Season 32 3-time champion: $63,500 + $2,000.
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Gordon Moffat, an e-discovery professional from Nashville, Tennessee
|
Season 32 1-time champion: $24,700 + $2,000.
|
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Laura Ashby, an attorney from Marietta, Georgia
|
Season 32 2-time champion: $36,802 + $1,000.
|
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Susan Cole, a legislative librarian from Bowie, Maryland
|
Season 33 3-time champion: $67,800 + $2,000.
|
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Naomi Hinchen, a senior from Brooklyn, New York
|
2007 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
|
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Tucker Dunn, an ESL teacher from Tucson, Arizona
|
Season 33 3-time champion: $39,999 + $1,000. In his first appearance,...
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Natasha Gainey, an artist from Decatur, Georgia
|
Season 32 1-time champion: $14,200 + $1,000.
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Nate Ross, a systems engineer from Los Angeles, California
|
Season 33 1-time champion: $19,300 + $2,000.
|
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Katie Walker, a biomedical science teacher from Chapel Hill, North Carolina
|
Season 32 1-time champion: $5,000 + $2,000. Katie appeared on the...
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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:...
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David Bradley, an author from Atlanta, Georgia
|
Season 32 2-time champion: $55,000 + $1,000.
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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...
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Sean Anderson, a law professor from Champaign, Illinois
|
Season 32 3-time champion: $71,600 + $1,000. Sean was the alternate...
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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.
|
|
Seth Wilson, a Ph.D. candidate from Chicago, Illinois
|
2025 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2019 All-Star Games member of...
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Siddharth Hariharan, a student from Herndon, Virginia
|
Season 33 2-time champion: $28,135 + $2,000.
|
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Kristin Sausville, a stay-at-home mom from Newark, Delaware
|
2015 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 31 5-time champion: $94,201...
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Josh Silverman, a graduate student from Miami, Florida
|
Season 32 2-time champion: $34,800 + $2,000.
|
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Kelly Bayles, a librarian from Tulsa, Oklahoma
|
Season 32 3-time champion: $62,700 + $2,000.
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Erin Delaney, an English professor from North Hills, California
|
Season 32 2-time champion: $53,999 + $1,000.
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Chris Becker, a bus driver and trainer from Orlando, Florida
|
Season 32 3-time champion: $52,999 + $2,000.
JBoard user name: cbec
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Anna Gohmann, a senior from Westlake Village, California
|
2002 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. Anna was 17 at the time...
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Fred Vaughn, an Internet operations technician from Mineral Point, Wisconsin
|
Season 32 4-time champion: $65,700 + $2,000.
|
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Nicole Reimer, a junior from Columbus, Ohio
|
2001 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
|
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Matt Jackson, a paralegal from Washington, D.C.
|
2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament semifinalist: $10,000. 2019 All-Star Games member of...
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Mike Drummond, an application scientist from Columbus, Ohio
|
Season 32 1-time champion: $20,801 + $2,000.
JBoard user name: Mike from Columbus
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Courtney Paulson, a graduate assistant from Los Angeles, California
|
Season 32 1-time champion: $11,700 + $1,000. Upon returning for Season...
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Natalie Lips, an office assistant from Lincoln, Nebraska
|
Season 32 3-time champion: $57,601 + $1,000.
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Adam Hoskins, an attorney from Columbia, Missouri
|
Season 32 2-time champion: $42,402 + $1,000.
|
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Bob Mesko, an arts administrator from Denver, Colorado
|
2006 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 22 5-time champion:...
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Buzzy Cohen, a music executive from Los Angeles, California
|
2019 All-Star Games captain of wildcard-match 3rd-place Team Buzzy: a share...
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Dee Daigle, a substitute teacher from Hebron, Connecticut
|
Season 32 1-time champion: $19,001 + $2,000.
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Pranjal Vachaspati, a Ph.D. student originally from Shaker Heights, Ohio
|
2017 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 32 6-time champion:...
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Alison Jenik, a junior at the University of Maryland from New York, New York
|
2005 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
|
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Katie Price, a paraprofessional from Peabody, Massachusetts
|
Season 32 1-time champion: $13,000 + $1,000.
|
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Dave Abbott, a musician and licensing executive from Fort Thomas, Kentucky
|
"He won the 1999 Tournament of Champions. A musician and licensing...
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Ricky Young, a tax accountant originally from Canyonville, Oregon
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Season 32 2-time champion: $40,000 + $2,000.
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Jon Rossiter, a college geography instructor from San Diego, California
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Season 32 1-time champion: $13,600 + $1,000.
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Tara Anderson, a public radio reporter from Louisville, Kentucky
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Season 31 1-time champion: $17,500 + $2,000.
JBoard user name: taraeanderson
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Bonny Jain, a senior from Moline, Illinois
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2009 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
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Carol Denny, a writer for a non-profit environmental foundation from Arnold, Maryland
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Season 27 1-time champion: $13,199 + $1,000.
Identical twin sister of Season 29 player Chris O'Toole.
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Doug Hicton, a composer originally from Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
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2007 Tournament of Champions 1st runner-up: $100,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD...
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Tommy Hoyt, from Winnetka, Illinois
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"Journalism may very well be in his future as he feels...
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Jane Kaczmarek, an Emmy-nominated actress from Help Me Help You
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"As Lois on Malcolm in the Middle, she earned seven straight...
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Jayce Newton, a senior at UCLA from Long Beach, California
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2001 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $5,000. Jayce was 22 at the...
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Andrew Vogl, from Yonkers, New York
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"He can ski the slopes with ease, but navigating his own...
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Frank Spangenberg, a police officer from New York City, New York
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"He was a New York City cop when he won five...
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Shuyu Wang, a junior from Okemos, Michigan
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2003 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $5,000.
16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Curt Schilling, a pitcher from the Boston Red Sox
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"In helping the Red Sox to win the 2004 World Series,...
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Chloé White, a senior from Mission Hills, Kansas
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2005 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Beth Cimini, a junior at Boston University from East Longmeadow, Massachusetts
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2005 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: BrightStars1212
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Josh Charnin-Aker, a twelve-year-old from Lighthouse Point, Florida
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"And, whether in neonatology or as a Navy SEAL, he plans...
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Tara Karr, a senior from Laclede, Idaho
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2003 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $5,000.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Kenny Schlax, a junior from Deerfield, Illinois
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2006 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Listed as "Kenneth" on the official web site.
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Joseph Graumann, a junior from Mays Landing, New Jersey
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2006 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
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Jonathan Gillerman, a senior from Staten Island, New York
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2003 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Brittany McCants, a junior from Winnsboro, South Carolina
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2003 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500.
16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Brian Stokes Mitchell, an actor from the Broadway musical Ragtime
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"His Broadway credits include Ragtime and Kiss Me, Kate, for which...
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Ken Jennings, a writer from Seattle, Washington
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• 74-game champion with longest winning streak • Total earnings over...
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Ken Jennings, the winner of 74 consecutive games from Seattle, Washington
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2020 Jeopardy!: The Greatest of All Time winner: $1,000,000 + a...
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Vinita Kailasanath, a sophomore at Stanford University from Laurel, Maryland
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2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
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Ken Jennings, a writer from Seattle, Washington
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"He was a software engineer living in Salt Lake City, Utah,...
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Marques Redd, a sophomore at Harvard University from Macon, Georgia
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2001 College Championship semifinalist: $5,000. Marques was 18 at the time...
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Arthur Gandolfi, a commercial real estate executive from Pleasantville, New York
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2004 Tournament of Champions 2nd runner-up: $25,000. Season 20 4-time champion:...
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Røb Severson, a custodial facilitator from St. Louis, Missouri
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Season 26 player (2009-11-17). Name pronounced like "ROB SEE-ver-sun". Røb wore...
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Ken Jennings, a software engineer from Salt Lake City, Utah
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2020 Jeopardy!: The Greatest of All Time winner: $1,000,000 + a...
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Ken Jennings, a software engineer from Salt Lake City, Utah
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2020 Jeopardy!: The Greatest of All Time winner: $1,000,000 + a...
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Joanna Rom, a docent from Washington, D.C.
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Season 35 player (2018-10-22). Joanna appeared on the original version of...
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Clare Dellemann, a credit manager from Huntington Beach, California
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Season 4 player (1987-09-28). Season 1 player (1984-09-21). Clare was returned...
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Bryce Johnson, a wine cellar rat from Corvallis, Oregon
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Season 30 player (2013-11-29). Johnny Gilbert chuckled when reading Bryce's occupation....
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Caitlin Millat, a kindergarten teacher from Brooklyn, New York
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"She receives support from Teach for America and works for Achievement...
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Lindsey Thiesfeld, a sophomore from Clarendon Hills, Illinois
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2011 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Bill Maher, a comedian and author from Politically Incorrect
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"A comedian and author, he hosts the lively discussion group called...
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Tom Morris, a retailer and student from Irvine, California
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2009 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 24 4-time champion: $100,801...
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Andy Kravis, a freshman from Farmington Hills, Michigan
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2002 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $5,000. Andy was 13 at the...
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Heidi Greimann, a junior from Columbia, Missouri
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2002 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $5,000. Heidi was 15 at the...
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Lara Logan, a correspondent from 60 Minutes on CBS
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"Her bold, award-winning reporting has earned her a prominent spot among...
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Paige Feldman, a sophomore from St. Louis, Missouri
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2001 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. 16 at the time of the...
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Kevin Keach, an operations manager from St. Ann, Missouri
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2001 Tournament...
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Sara Goodman, a graduate student originally from Huntington Woods, Michigan
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Season 31 player (2014-10-01). Daughter of Season 24 player Allen Goodman....
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Pat Pauken, an attorney and educator from Columbus, Ohio
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Season 14 1-time champion: $7,200. Season 13 player (1997-01-21). Pat appeared...
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Pat Pauken, an attorney and doctoral candidate from Columbus, Ohio
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Season 14 1-time champion: $7,200. Season 13 player (1997-01-21). Pat appeared...
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Bill Dickenson, a college instructor from Richardson, Texas
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"This 5-time champ from 1996 has taught students from over 100...
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Amy Fine, a part-time teacher from Bethesda, Maryland
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"She was the last 5-time winner in the 1993-94 season. A...
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Elliot Shteir, an attorney from Somerville, New Jersey
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1995-A Seniors Tournament 1st runner-up: $10,000. Dr. Elliot Shteir won $8,230...
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Surabhi Iyer, a ten-year-old from Franklin, Massachusetts
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"Her research scientist dad has inspired her to become a neuroscientist....
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Eureka Nutt, a paralegal from Canoga Park, California
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Season 27 2-time champion: $38,701 + $1,000.
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Erica Greil, a junior from Princeton University
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2009 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 22 and from Hastings, Minnesota at...
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Holly Flynn, an 11-year-old from Holmes, Pennsylvania
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"She started performing in community theatre when she was just 4...
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Mike Hodel, a bartender from Bellingham, Washington
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Season 27 2-time champion: $20,200 + $2,000.
Last name pronounced like "ho-DELL".
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Priscilla Ball, a government contractor from Montgomery Village, Maryland
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Season 25 2-time champion: $45,200 + $2,000. Priscilla was due to...
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Daniel Stauss, a federal claims examiner from Seattle, Washington
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Season 25 1-time champion: $25,500 + $2,000. Daniel Stauss - A...
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Ashley Walker, a senior from Dartmouth College
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2010-A College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. Hometown: Fort Pierce, Florida. [No contestant...
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JT Nuckolls, a customer service representative from Red Oak, Iowa
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Season 24 player (2007-09-18).
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Dean Malec, a junior from Northwestern University
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2007 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 21 at the time of the...
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Eileen Loechel, an operations manager from River Forest, Illinois
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Season 23 1-time champion: $19,800 + $2,000.
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Scottie Szewczyk, from Belleville, Illinois
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"He enjoys science and sports, and would like to work as...
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Brian Weikle, a project manager from Minneapolis, Minnesota
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
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Clare Dellemann, a credit manager from Huntington Beach, California
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Season 4 player (1987-09-28). Season 1 player (1984-09-21). Clare was returned...
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David Siegel, a paralegal from Los Angeles, California
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"He was a finalist in the 1995 Tournament of Champions. A...
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Bob Woodward, an assistant managing editor from The Washington Post
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2004 Power Players Week player (2004-05-10).
Charity: Sidwell Friends School.
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Andrew Nerlinger, a senior at the University of Notre Dame from Wilmington, Delaware
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2001 College Championship quarterfinalist: $2,500. Andrew was 21 at the time...
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Blake Hernandez, a senior from Burke, Virginia
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2002 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. Blake was 16 at the time...
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Anderson Cooper, a host from AC360°
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"He covers major news stories from around the world and plays...
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Anna Allie, a junior at the University of Michigan at Dearborn from Dearborn, Michigan
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2005 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000.
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Dylan Smith, from the Bronx, New York
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"This honor roll student wants to invent a teleporting system. From...
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Silvio Menzano, a psychologist and university counseling center director from Washington, D.C.
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Season 27 1-time champion: $10,300 + $1,000.
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Sally O'Rourke, a freelance copywriter originally from Baton Rouge, Louisiana
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Season 27 1-time champion: $33,601 + $1,000.
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Adam Bock, a 13-year-old from St. Louis, Missouri
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"We're pretty sure that he's the only one of our contestants...
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Liz Maziarz, an English professor and mom from Seattle, Washington
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Season 27 1-time champion: $18,400 + $2,000.
Last name pronounced like "MAY-zee-ar".
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David Madden, an academic competition director from Ridgewood, New Jersey
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• 19-game champion • 3rd longest winning streak 2024 Jeopardy! Invitational...
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David Madden, a student originally from Ridgewood, New Jersey
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2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament semifinalist: $10,000. 2019 All-Star Games member of...
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David Madden, an academic competition director from Ridgewood, New Jersey
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2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament semifinalist: $10,000. 2019 All-Star Games member of...
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Grace Acton, from Harvard, Massachusetts
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"This competitive gymnast is hoping to score a perfect 10 for...
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David Shapiro, an insurance adjuster originally from Chicago, Illinois
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Season 4 player (1987-09-22): Hotpoint refrigerator + Jeopardy! box game or...
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Greg Gumbel, a sportscaster from NBC Sports
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"He covers baseball, basketball and football for NBC; he hosted the...
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Mark McDonnell, a triathlon coach and entrepreneur from Miami, Florida
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Season 27 1-time champion: $27,601 + $1,000.
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Christine Valada, a photographer and attorney originally from Walton, New York
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2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $68,703...
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Joel Serna, originally from Fort Worth, Texas
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"His 1999 appearance on Kids Week earned him an invitation to...
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Butch Malec, a freshman at Reed College from Edinboro, Pennsylvania
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1999 College Championship quarterfinalist: $2,500. In Butch's game, the entire Double...
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Lindsey Bartlett, a junior from Winter Haven, Florida
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2002 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $5,000. Lindsey was 16 at the time...
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Frank Spangenberg, a transit cop from Douglaston, New York
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2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
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Frank Spangenberg, a police officer from Flushing, New York
|
2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
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Mario Cantone, an actor and comedian from Sex and the City
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"He played Anthony Marentino, the wedding planner with an attitude, on...
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Frank Spangenberg, a police officer from Flushing, New York
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"A police officer from Flushing, New York, Frank Spangenberg, who has...
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Frank Spangenberg, a police officer from Flushing, New York
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2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
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Whitney Collins, a third grade teacher from New York, New York
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"She teaches at an all-boys school where every student learns chess...
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Tony Harkin, an eleven-year-old from New Milford, Connecticut
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"Dig this--he wants to be an archaeologist when he grows up....
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Patton Oswalt, a Grammy and Emmy Award-winning comedian from Portsmouth, Virginia
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"A Grammy and Emmy Award-winning comedian from Portsmouth, Virginia, he rose...
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Reggie Watts, a comedian from Great Falls, Montana
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"A comedian from Great Falls, Montana, since 2015, he's worked alongside...
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Sarah Bauer, a junior at Indiana University from Carmel, Indiana
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2012 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 21 at the time of the...
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Julia Martinez, an 11-year-old from Fairfax, Virginia
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"Get ready, Pennsylvania Avenue. She wants to be president of the...
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Logan Bell, a senior from Rock Falls, Illinois
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2001 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $5,000. 15 at the time of the...
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Ryan Ballengee, a senior from Pasadena, Maryland
|
2001 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $5,000.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Paul McCrane, an actor from ER
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[As Paul is introduced, a clip of ER plays, with Dr....
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Vik Vaz, a medical student from Austin, Texas
|
2006 Tournament of Champions 1st runner-up: $100,000. Season 22 3-time champion:...
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Ted Senator, a computer scientist from Bethesda, Maryland
|
Season 13 1-time champion: $8,199. Ted's October 2009 losing turn against...
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Eddie Timanus, a sportswriter from Oak Hill, Virginia
|
"He was a sportswriter living in Reston, Virginia, when he won...
|
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Leslie Frates, a Spanish teacher from Hayward, California
|
"A Jeopardy! tournament veteran, her best-known Jeopardy! appearance may be in...
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Burns Cameron, a realtor from Standish, Maine
|
1990 Super Jeopardy! quarterfinalist: $5,000. Burns appeared on the original version...
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Sarah Nothnagel, a sophomore from the University of Southern California
|
2007 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 19 at the time of the...
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Dana Venator, a Ph.D. candidate from Chicago, Illinois
|
"She was a beginning bagpipe player and Teen Tournament finalist; now,...
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Aki Terasaki, an 11-year-old from Newark, Delaware
|
"This future millionaire would like to be a professional writer and...
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Dan Ford, an editor from Arlington, Virginia
|
Season 21 player (2004-11-24). KJL game 71. Dan resides in Tysons...
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Andrew Zazzera, a twelve-year-old from Virginia Beach, Virginia
|
"He has a sunny future as a meteorologist. From Virginia Beach,...
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Karan Takhar, a senior from North Attleborough, Massachusetts
|
2008-B Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000. First name pronounced like "KUR-run". Jeopardy...
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Caroline Bartman, a senior from Washington, D.C.
|
2007 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
|
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Nick Philip, a junior from Plainfield, Indiana
|
2008-A Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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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.
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Joel Knight, a freshman from Farmington, Michigan
|
2003 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500.
14 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
|
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John Zhang, a junior from Lexington, Kentucky
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2003 Teen...
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Savannah Morgan, a 12-year-old from Charlotte, North Carolina
|
"Her future recipe for success is as the star of her...
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Thomas McIntyre, a 12-year-old from Marino Valley, California
|
"This self-proclaimed Star Wars freak, who has earned star rank in...
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Anne Shivers, a senior from Peotone, Illinois
|
2005 Teen Tournament 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $18,000. 17 at...
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Josh Klein, a 12-year-old seventh grader from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
|
"And, his favorite subjects in school are math, social studies, and...
|
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Susan Sweet, a former basketball coach originally from Toledo, Ohio
|
Season 1 player (1984-11-09). Johnny Gilbert stumbled over Susan's introduction, calling...
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David Rosen, a lawyer from Syosset, New York
|
Season 34 player (2018-01-16).
JBoard user name: DavidRosen
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Dennis Owens, an attorney from Kansas City, Missouri
|
Season 3 player (1986-10-07). Dennis was featured in a KCTV "Games...
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Saralee Etter, a writer from Pataskala, Ohio
|
Season 34 1-time champion: $8,000 + $2,000.
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David Garcia, an IT communications strategy team lead from Troy, Michigan
|
Season 38 player (2021-10-06). David appeared on Who Wants to Be...
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Fred Ketteman, a purser from San Francisco, California
|
Season 7 1-time champion: $22,500 + Lalura pure parfum in Baccarat...
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Jamey Wiglesworth, a DJ and bar trivia host from Versailles, Kentucky
|
Season 29 player (2013-04-16).
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Audrey Hosford, a junior from Annapolis, Maryland
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2008-B Teen Tournament 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $26,400. Jeopardy! Message...
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Andy Richter, a comedian from Yorkville, Illinois
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"A comedian from Yorkville, Illinois, he was Conan O'Brien's sidekick on...
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Evan Eschliman, a sophomore from Olathe, Kansas
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2012 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000.
16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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