| #9084, aired 2024-04-18 | WHAT A LITERARY CHARACTER $400: A 2023 movie was titled "The Three Musketeers--Part I:" this newcomer to Paris in the original 1844 novel D'Artagnan |
| #9083, aired 2024-04-17 | PUTTING THE GORY IN A MOVIE CATEGORY $200: David Arquette & Courteney Cox starred in this 1996 film about a killer named Ghostface Scream |
| #9083, aired 2024-04-17 | PUTTING THE GORY IN A MOVIE CATEGORY $400: Tim Curry played this demon that appears as a clown in a miniseries of "It"; Bill Skarsgård had the role in the 2017 film Pennywise |
| #9083, aired 2024-04-17 | PUTTING THE GORY IN A MOVIE CATEGORY $600: Subtitles of this slasher series include "Dream Warriors",
"The Dream Master" & "Freddy's Revenge" A Nightmare on Elm Street |
| #9083, aired 2024-04-17 | PUTTING THE GORY IN A MOVIE CATEGORY $800: This 1974 film set in the Lone Star State was loosely inspired by serial killers Ed Gein & Elmer Henley The Texas Chainsaw Massacre |
| #9083, aired 2024-04-17 | PUTTING THE GORY IN A MOVIE CATEGORY $1000: As Dr. Gordon, Cary Elwes was not in an "as you wish" kind of mood in this 2004 film, cutting through some serious issues Saw |
| #9083, aired 2024-04-17 | THINGS TO DO IN THE CITY $2000: Ride one of Africa's first metros or visit the Casbah & feel like Charles Boyer in the movie named for this city Algiers |
| #9082, aired 2024-04-16 | THE MOVIES $400: In 2023 this book by Judy Blume finally became a movie, with Rachel McAdams as the title girl's mom Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. |
| #9082, aired 2024-04-16 | SIBLINGS IN POP CULTURE $2000: Sid & Marty Krofft produced '70s Saturday morning TV like "H.R. Pufnstuf" & this one where a family ends up in a time with dinosaurs Land of the Lost |
| #9081, aired 2024-04-15 | "P"EOPLE $1200: This silent movie star of films like "Coquette" & "Tess of the Storm Country" was known as "America's Sweetheart" Mary Pickford |
| #9080, aired 2024-04-12 | FAKE MOVIES IN MOVIES $400: Forgotten by his family, young Kevin watches the film "Angels with Filthy Souls" on VHS in this movie Home Alone |
| #9080, aired 2024-04-12 | FAKE MOVIES IN MOVIES $800: This actor is the star of "Last Action Hero" & plays Jack Slater in "Jack Slater IV", the movie within it Arnold Schwarzenegger |
| #9080, aired 2024-04-12 | FAKE MOVIES IN MOVIES $1600: A woman on death row is the focus of "Habeas Corpus", a project within this film about a movie exec played by Tim Robbins The Player |
| #9078, aired 2024-04-10 | '70s TV DRAMA $800: Simians in this adaptation of a movie included Roddy McDowall & Mark Lenard, Spock's father from "Star Trek" Planet of the Apes |
| #9076, aired 2024-04-08 | POP CULTURE IS SPRINGING OUT ALL OVER $400: The only movie to pair Fred Astaire & Judy Garland is this holiday classic Easter Parade |
| #9075, aired 2024-04-05 | HORROR MUSIC $1600: In a song by the goth rock band Bauhaus, this horror movie legend is "Dead, undead, undead, undead" Bela Lugosi |
| #9074, aired 2024-04-04 | '90s MOVIE FUN $400: Billy Bob Thornton does his best James Carville in this 1998 film that fictionalized the first Clinton campaign Primary Colors |
| #9074, aired 2024-04-04 | '90s MOVIE FUN $1200: Raul Julia & Anjelica Huston got a hand playing a loving couple in this 1991 flick The Addams Family |
| #9074, aired 2024-04-04 | '90s MOVIE FUN $1600: When time-traveling Bruce Willis is sent to the psychiatric ward in this 1995 movie, he meets Brad Pitt, who is really bananas 12 Monkeys |
| #9074, aired 2024-04-04 | '90s MOVIE FUN $2000: Scriptwriter Quentin Tarantino first tried to get backing to make this 1993 Christian Slater film that Tony Scott ultimately made True Romance |
| #9070, aired 2024-03-29 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $1600: Teleplaywright J.P. Miller first gave us these "Days" of an alcoholic couple, later a movie & then a Broadway musical in 2024 the Days of Wine and Roses |
| #9069, aired 2024-03-28 | ALPHANUMERICS $600: The first movie with this designation was "Henry & June" in 1990 NC-17 |
| #9064, aired 2024-03-21 | NOTABLE NAMES $1600: A 1920 book by Thomas Looney & the movie "Anonymous" pushed the theory that this earl was the real Shakespeare the Earl of Oxford (Edward de Vere) |
| #9064, aired 2024-03-21 | THERE WILL BE A TEST ON THIS $4,600 (Daily Double): Used to determine if a computer can "think", the Turing test was originally known as this, also the name of a 2014 movie about Turing the imitation game |
| #9061, aired 2024-03-18 | 21st CENTURY WORDS $600: What used to be a "buddy movie" depicting an affectionate relationship between 2 guys is now this blended word a bromance |
| #9061, aired 2024-03-18 | THE BOOK OF MORMONS $1200: Raised in the LDS Church, Paul Walker gained worldwide fame in this movie series before dying in a car accident in 2013 Fast & Furious (The Fast & the Furious) |
| #9060, aired 2024-03-15 | MOVIE SONGS $800: "Now I'm laughing to the bank", rap$ thi$ man in "Am I Dreaming" over the end credits of "Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse" A$AP Rocky |
| #9060, aired 2024-03-15 | MOVIE SONGS $1200: This song shot to No. 1, 2, 3 o'clock after being featured in the 1955 film "Blackboard Jungle" "Rock Around The Clock" |
| #9060, aired 2024-03-15 | MOVIE SONGS $1600: "All Is Love", "Rumpus" & "Food Is Still Hot" are numbers by Karen O & the Kids for this kids' book adaptation Where the Wild Things Are |
| #9058, aired 2024-03-13 | SMASH THAT SUBSCRIBE BUTTON $1000: Roger Ebert was just 24 when he began to light up the Chicago movie scene as the film critic for this newspaper the Chicago Sun-Times |
| #9058, aired 2024-03-13 | SINGERS $1600: This singer's "Dance The Night" appears in "Barbie"; she also makes an appearance in the movie as a mermaid Dua Lipa |
| #9053, aired 2024-03-06 | MOVIE TAGLINES $800: The title male fashion model in this comedy had "3% body fat. 1% brain activity" Zoolander |
| #9053, aired 2024-03-06 | MOVIE TAGLINES $1200: It was "No goats. No glory" for "The Men Who Stare at Goats", starring him as out-there Army officer Lyn Cassady George Clooney |
| #9053, aired 2024-03-06 | MOVIE TAGLINES $1600: It's part of a film series & we'll even front you "Harold & Kumar": "This time they're running from the joint" Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay |
| #9051, aired 2024-03-04 | NUMERIC MOVIE TITLES $400: Delivery of a message of critical importance is central to the plot of this 2019 Sam Mendes war film 1917 |
| #9044, aired 2024-02-22 | SHALL THE PEOPLE DANCE $1600: A sirtaki features in the movie about this life-loving Greek, who teaches the proper Brit Basil to dance it on the beach Zorba |
| #9041, aired 2024-02-19 | GEOGRAPHIC BOOK TITLES $2000: Deep in the African rain forest, an ancient lost city holds a shocking secret in this Michael Crichton work Congo |
| #9038, aired 2024-02-14 | 1970s MOVIES $400: "Dammit Janet" & "Over At The Frankenstein Place" are songs from this 1975 movie; can you sense my antici...pation? The Rocky Horror Picture Show |
| #9037, aired 2024-02-13 | LENDING YOU A POKER HAND $400: Paul Newman uses more than luck & skill to get the 4 jacks that beat Robert Shaw in this 1973 movie about a big con The Sting |
| #9037, aired 2024-02-13 | LENDING YOU A POKER HAND $600: Edward G. Robinson wins a poker duel with this hand in "The Cincinnati Kid"; poker & movie fans debate the realism of the game a straight flush |
| #9034, aired 2024-02-08 | SOUNDS LIKE A HORROR MOVIE, BUT ISN'T $400: Anne Hathaway is tortured, but not in that way, by a nonetheless vicious Meryl Streep in this 2006 film The Devil Wears Prada |
| #9034, aired 2024-02-08 | SOUNDS LIKE A HORROR MOVIE, BUT ISN'T $800: There's not haunting in "Ghosts of the Abyss", a documentary by this director James Cameron |
| #9034, aired 2024-02-08 | SOUNDS LIKE A HORROR MOVIE, BUT ISN'T $1200: Grisly ghost? No, this Bond title from 2015 refers to the criminal organization that's vexing him Spectre |
| #9034, aired 2024-02-08 | SOUNDS LIKE A HORROR MOVIE, BUT ISN'T $1600: Jane Fonda had no bolts in her neck as the title family relation in this 2005 flick, but J. Lo wanted to scream anyway Monster-in-Law |
| #9028, aired 2024-01-31 | ARTFUL ROGERS $800: This movie critic tried his thumb at screenwriting with the 1970 film "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls" Ebert |
| #9028, aired 2024-01-31 | QUESTIONABLE MOVIES $1000: The title of this Coen Bros. film comes from a movie Joel McCrea wanted to make in Preston Sturges' "Sullivan's Travels" O Brother, Where Art Thou? |
| #9028, aired 2024-01-31 | ARTFUL ROGERS $2000: This B-movie maven of "Attack of the Crab Monsters" fame filmed "The Little Shop of Horrors" in 3 days Roger Corman |
| #9022, aired 2024-01-23 | SQUEAKER OF THE HOUSE $200: An official WD-40 website says a squeaking one of these makes you feel like you're in a creepy horror movie door |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | ADVANCED CINEMATOGRAPHY $400 (Daily Double): Erik Messerschmidt shot the film "Mank" primarily in deep focus as a nod to this Orson Welles opus that pioneered the technique Citizen Kane |
| #9021, aired 2024-01-22 | THE JOB IS THE MOVIE TITLE $200: This title job made Ron Burgundy "very important. I have many leather-bound books & my apartment smells of rich mahogany" Anchorman |
| #9021, aired 2024-01-22 | THE JOB IS THE MOVIE TITLE $400: Shockingly, belting out "Love Stinks" at the reception doesn't go over so well for Adam Sandler in this film The Wedding Singer |
| #9021, aired 2024-01-22 | THE JOB IS THE MOVIE TITLE $600: & Iiiiiiiiiiiiiii... will always love this 1992 film with Kevin Costner looking out for Whitney Houston The Bodyguard |
| #9021, aired 2024-01-22 | THE JOB IS THE MOVIE TITLE $800: Mickey Rourke threw his hat in the Oscar ring after his performance as Randy "The Ram" Robinson in this 2008 drama The Wrestler |
| #9021, aired 2024-01-22 | THE JOB IS THE MOVIE TITLE $1000: It was Ben Affleck's turn to be a math whiz when the books were cooking in this 2016 action film, & Ben did more than the title implies The Accountant |
| #9021, aired 2024-01-22 | SHORT STORIES $2000: Kristen Roupenian's 2017 tale about a date gone wrong, it became a 2023 movie with new events dreamed up by the screenwriter "Cat Person" |
| #9019, aired 2024-01-18 | MOVIE TITLES WITH NUMBERS IN THEM $400: The producers of "Tak3n" had a very particular set of skills to get this man back for time 3 in the role of Bryan Mills Liam Neeson |
| #9019, aired 2024-01-18 | MOVIE TITLES WITH NUMBERS IN THEM $800: "Se7en" had this actor demanding, "what's in the box?!" & very much not liking what is in the box Brad Pitt |
| #9017, aired 2024-01-16 | 20th CENTURY AMERICANS $2000: Brought back to his place in history by a 2023 movie, he was the main organizer of the March on Washington Bayard Rustin |
| #25, aired 2024-01-16 | KURT RUSSELL FILMS $400: Kurt Russell's Santa is the gift that keeps on giving! He even speaks a fake language called "Elvish" in this holiday romp The Christmas Chronicles |
| #9016, aired 2024-01-15 | PORTLANDIA $600: Timberline Lodge on Mount Hood was the grand Overlook Hotel in this 1980 Jack Nicholson movie The Shining |
| #9014, aired 2024-01-11 | ON THE MOVIE BILL $200: Bill Murray, mis-hearing "gophers" in this pic: "If I kill... the golfers, they're gonna lock me up & throw away the key" Caddyshack |
| #9014, aired 2024-01-11 | ON THE MOVIE BILL $400: In "While You Were Sleeping", Bill Pullman doubts--& should--that this actress is who she seems Sandra Bullock |
| #9014, aired 2024-01-11 | ON THE MOVIE BILL $600: The late, great Bill Paxton was out of this world as astronaut Fred Haise in this 1995 real-life adventure Apollo 13 |
| #9014, aired 2024-01-11 | ON THE MOVIE BILL $800: This "SNL" alum played Amy Schumer's love interest in "Trainwreck" Bill Hader |
| #9014, aired 2024-01-11 | ON THE MOVIE BILL $1000: This Brit has been in "The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel", "Shaun of the Dead" & a slew of other films Bill Nighy |
| #9013, aired 2024-01-10 | CELEBRITIES' FAVORITE MOVIES & TV SHOWS $400: (I'm Ellie Kemper.) Growing up, I wanted to be a nun due in part to my love of this 1965 movie about a young woman at an Austrian convent The Sound of Music |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | NUMBER ONE HITS $200: In 1978, John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John hit #1 with "You're The One That I Want", from this movie Grease |
| #9007, aired 2024-01-02 | CHILD PERFORMERS $400: Darby Camp was Reese Witherspoon's daughter on "Big Little Lies" & had this dog of problematic size in a 2021 movie Clifford the Big Red Dog |
| #9007, aired 2024-01-02 | CHILD PERFORMERS $1600: In this movie child actor Jonathan Lipnicki told Tom Cruise the human head weighs 8 pounds Jerry Maguire |
| #23, aired 2024-01-02 | ELEMENTARY POP CULTURE $100: It's the title of a Black Sabbath song, or, a Robert Downey Jr. movie "Iron Man" |
| #23, aired 2024-01-02 | ELEMENTARY POP CULTURE $500: This toxic element is paired with "Old Lace" in the title of a 1944 movie starring Cary Grant arsenic |
| #23, aired 2024-01-02 | AUTO BIOGRAPHIES $500: As the presidential limo, I'm a Cadillac known by this name, also the counterpart to Belle in a Disney movie the Beast |
| #9005, aired 2023-12-29 | MOVIE SCORES $400: (Hans Zimmer presents the clue.) In "Inception", we dug into the French Archives for the original of this singer's "Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien", a melodic backbone for the film & a cue for characters to wake up from dreaming (Edith) Piaf |
| #9005, aired 2023-12-29 | MOVIE SCORES $800: The pioneering Philip Glass scored 2002's "The Hours", a film concerned with this equally avant-garde novelist Virginia Woolf |
| #9005, aired 2023-12-29 | MOVIE SCORES $1200: (Hans Zimmer presents the clue.) One of the few Spielberg films not scored by the great John Williams was this 2015 movie, in which my friend, the masterful composer, Thomas Newman, enhanced the Cold War drama through his craft Bridge of Spies |
| #9005, aired 2023-12-29 | MOVIE SCORES $2000: (Hans Zimmer presents the clue.) An all-time great for me was Giorgio Moroder's haunting score for this 1978 Alan Parker drama about a prisoner in a hopeless situation in a Turkish jail the Midnight Express |
| #9002, aired 2023-12-26 | BEST ACTRESS OSCAR WINNERS $600: The ayes had it for Jessica Chastain in 2022 for her Best Actress-winning role in this movie about TV evangelists The Eyes of Tammy Faye |
| #9001, aired 2023-12-25 | BATS ENTERTAINMENT $600: Robert Redford's Roy Hobbs puts on his own stadium light show with a home run for the ages in this movie The Natural |
| #9000, aired 2023-12-22 | MOVIE INSPIRATIONS $400: A series of articles in the L.A. Times about people dying in their sleep, perhaps during bad dreams, inspired this 1984 film A Nightmare on Elm Street |
| #9000, aired 2023-12-22 | MOVIE INSPIRATIONS $1200: While writing "Boyz N the Hood", John Singleton drew inspiration from this Rob Reiner film based on a Stephen King tale Stand By Me |
| #9000, aired 2023-12-22 | MOVIE INSPIRATIONS $1600: James DeMonaco, writer of this film, had the idea after road rage made his wife wish for vengeance, a "free one a year!" The Purge |
| #9000, aired 2023-12-22 | MOVIE INSPIRATIONS $2000: Orson Welles' "The Magnificent Ambersons" was an inspiration for this 2001 Wes Anderson movie about an affluent family The Royal Tenenbaums |
| #8999, aired 2023-12-21 | A VERY HALLMARK CHRISTMAS MOVIE $200: Danica McKellar is a big-city event planner who goes home to Tenn. to work a "Christmas at" this theme park... & maybe find love Dollywood |
| #8999, aired 2023-12-21 | A VERY HALLMARK CHRISTMAS MOVIE $400: A woman falls for the son of the man out to close her toy store in the alliteratively titled this Mass. island "Noel" Nantucket |
| #8999, aired 2023-12-21 | A VERY HALLMARK CHRISTMAS MOVIE $800: A bit after going on a bender in "The Breakfast Club", this actor met Santa Jr. in 2002; don't you forget about him Judd Nelson |
| #8999, aired 2023-12-21 | A VERY HALLMARK CHRISTMAS MOVIE $1000: It's not the Magi--nor Selleck, Danson & Guttenberg--but a trio of brothers who find themselves caring for a tot in this 2022 film Three Wise Men and a Baby |
| #8998, aired 2023-12-20 | MOVIE VIEWING $600: The line in the script for this 1942 classic was "Here's good luck to you, kid", but Bogie made a slight adjustment Casablanca |
| #8998, aired 2023-12-20 | MOVIE VIEWING $800: Ellen Burstyn used her salary for "Believer", a sequel to this '70s horror film, to fund a scholarship for actors at Pace U. The Exorcist |
| #8998, aired 2023-12-20 | MOVIE VIEWING $1000: He not only played the title role in "Creed III", he also made his directorial debut Michael B. Jordan |
| #8995, aired 2023-12-15 | TRAILER PARK $600: In a trailer for this animated feature from 1999, Satan is in bed with Saddam Hussein South Park: The Movie (South Park: Bigger, Longer, Uncut) |
| #8991, aired 2023-12-11 | CIRCLE TIME $200: If you saw the movie "Signs", you know the formation seen here is one of these geometric feats a crop circle |
| #8990, aired 2023-12-08 | CLASSIC MOVIE ORIGINAL DIALOGUE? $400: "No thanks, Mrs. Robinson. I don't know what a 'cougar' is & I don't think I want to find out. Is Elaine home?" The Graduate |
| #8990, aired 2023-12-08 | CLASSIC MOVIE ORIGINAL DIALOGUE? $1200: "Off the plane, Vic. Ilsa & me, we're headin' back to Paris! Here's lookin' at you gettin' outta my seat, kid" Casablanca |
| #8990, aired 2023-12-08 | CLASSIC MOVIE ORIGINAL DIALOGUE? $1600: "No. Wilson woulda killed you, Terry. You wouldn't have been a contender, just a bum, which is what you are. Sorry" On the Waterfront |
| #8990, aired 2023-12-08 | CLASSIC MOVIE ORIGINAL DIALOGUE? $2000: "No, no, no, I'm Antoninus! I'm not that guy! You want him! He's right there! The one that looks like Kirk Douglas" Spartacus |
| #8988, aired 2023-12-06 | HOUSE PARTY $600: Billed as "the most shocking tale of carnage ever seen", Rob Zombie's first movie was titled "House of 1000" these Corpses |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | PIZZA AT THE MOVIES $400: Burnout surfer Jeff Spicoli orders a pizza to history class but Mr. Hand is having none of it in this 1982 teen comedy Fast Times at Ridgemont High |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | "OO"! "OO"! I KNOW! $600: Kevin Bacon once said that when he attends a wedding, he bribes the DJ to not play this song from a 1984 movie he starred in "Footloose" |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | ROAD TRIP "I SPY" $800 (Daily Double): I spy...
the "American Gothic" house,
the future birthplace of James T. Kirk &
the "Field of Dreams" movie site Iowa |
| #8987, aired 2023-12-05 | A SONG IN THAT MOVIE $400: "Over The Rainbow" (1939) The Wizard of Oz |
| #8987, aired 2023-12-05 | A SONG IN THAT MOVIE $2000: "Puttin' On The Ritz" (1974) Young Frankenstein |
| #8986, aired 2023-12-04 | MOVIE DIRECTORS $400: Alfred Hitchcock, "The Master of" this tense feeling, defined it as when the audience knows more than the characters suspense |
| #8986, aired 2023-12-04 | MOVIE DIRECTORS $800: In the '80s this sitcom actress made a successful move to directing with "Jumpin' Jack Flash" & "Big" Penny Marshall |
| #8986, aired 2023-12-04 | MOVIE DIRECTORS $1200: You'll find illustrations from "Ed Wood" & "Sweeney Todd" among the 1000+ in the book "The Art of" this director Tim Burton |
| #8986, aired 2023-12-04 | MOVIE DIRECTORS $1600: This director of the miniseries "Small Axe" & the film "12 Years a Slave" is not the same guy as the movie star who married Ali MacGraw Steve McQueen |
| #8986, aired 2023-12-04 | MOVIE DIRECTORS $2000: Long before "Spider-Man", he first made his name with "The Evil Dead" when he was just 22 Sam Raimi |
| #8985, aired 2023-12-01 | AEROSMITH $800: Aerosmith covered "Come Together" in this 1978 movie that starred Peter Frampton & the Bee Gees Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band |
| #8985, aired 2023-12-01 | A RED-HOT LATIN LAWYER $1000: If the movie title had some Latin, Paul Newman would've starred in "The Iudicium", or this The Verdict |
| #8980, aired 2023-11-24 | FICTIONAL MOVIE BANDS $1200: This movie covers the rise of the One-ders, later The Wonders That Thing You Do! |
| #8980, aired 2023-11-24 | FICTIONAL MOVIE BANDS $1600: The New Main Street Singers, Mitch & Mickey & The Folksmen are groups in this Christopher Guest film A Mighty Wind |
| #8980, aired 2023-11-24 | FICTIONAL MOVIE BANDS $2000: In a 1984 film, Peter Weller is this lead singer backed by the Hong Kong Cavaliers Buckaroo Banzai |
| #8976, aired 2023-11-20 | MOVIE SEQUELS $400: "Meet the Fockers"
(2004) Meet the Parents |
| #8976, aired 2023-11-20 | MOVIE SEQUELS $800: "The Dark Knight"
(2008) Batman Begins |
| #8976, aired 2023-11-20 | MOVIE SEQUELS $1200: "2010"
(1984) 2001: A Space Odyssey |
| #8976, aired 2023-11-20 | MOVIE SEQUELS $1600: "Conan the Destroyer"
(1984) Conan the Barbarian |
| #8976, aired 2023-11-20 | MOVIE SEQUELS $2000: "Honey, I Blew Up the Kid"
(1992) Honey, I Shrunk the Kids |
| #8974, aired 2023-11-16 | ROBIN WILLIAMS MOVIE QUOTES $400: "Time to rock it from the delta to the DMZ!" Good Morning, Vietnam |
| #8974, aired 2023-11-16 | KAUAI $2000: In the movie version of "South Pacific", Kauai's beautiful North Shore was used as this exotic isle Bali Hai |
| #8974, aired 2023-11-16 | ROBIN WILLIAMS MOVIE QUOTES $2000: "Boys, you must strive to find your own voice" the Dead Poets Society |
| #20, aired 2023-11-15 | COMPETITIVE CHEERLEADING $600: "The Complete Story of the Cheerleading Movie that Changed, Like, Everything" is the partial title of a 2022 book saluting this film Bring It On |
| #8971, aired 2023-11-13 | LETTER & WORD $800: A cheap film shown in addition to the main feature a B picture (B movie) |
| #8968, aired 2023-11-08 | "THE" MOVIE $400: This 1973 horror classic had Linda Blair take an extended look around The Exorcist |
| #8968, aired 2023-11-08 | "THE" MOVIE $800: Whitney Houston's version of "I Will Always Love You" is from this film The Bodyguard |
| #8968, aired 2023-11-08 | "THE" MOVIE $1200: "The Color of Money" was a sequel to this 1961 movie The Hustler |
| #8968, aired 2023-11-08 | "THE" MOVIE $1600: As this film ends Dustin Hoffman & Katharine Ross sit on a bus in eerie silence The Graduate |
| #8968, aired 2023-11-08 | "THE" MOVIE $2000: The Hong Kong police thriller & cult film "Infernal Affairs" was remade as this Oscar winner starring Leo DiCaprio The Departed |
| #8966, aired 2023-11-06 | CALL OUT THE BOB SQUAD $400: Known for playing a TV lawyer, he got buff & turned action-movie star for 2021's "Nobody" Odenkirk |
| #8965, aired 2023-11-03 | BIG-SCREEN ELVIS $600: "Ku-U-I-Po" & "Island Of Love" are on the soundtrack of this "colorful" movie, a No. 1 album for 20 weeks Blue Hawaii |
| #8964, aired 2023-11-02 | ALL THE PRESIDENTS' CHILDREN $600: While in the White House, Malia Obama had the code name Radiance & Sasha had this name, like a famous movie sled Rosebud |
| #8963, aired 2023-11-01 | MOVIE COMEDIES $800: In addition to playing the titular Deadpool, this actor provided the voice of Juggernaut in the 2018 sequel Ryan Reynolds |
| #8963, aired 2023-11-01 | MOVIE COMEDIES $1200: Justin Bartha goes missing in this 2009 film--in his place is a baby in a closet & a live tiger The Hangover |
| #8963, aired 2023-11-01 | MOVIE COMEDIES $2000: A man's mundane life is interrupted by a zombie apocalypse in this comedy starring Simon Pegg Shaun of the Dead |
| #8960, aired 2023-10-27 | THE MAORI $1000: In this 2002 movie starring Keisha Castle-Hughes, a 12-year-old girl wants to be chief of her Maori tribe; granddad says no Whale Rider |
| #8959, aired 2023-10-26 | MOB HITS $400: In this 1972 movie, prized racehorse Khartoum is the casualty of a disagreement between a movie producer & the mafia The Godfather |
| #8959, aired 2023-10-26 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $2,000 (Daily Double): To Ian McEwan, there is no redemption, no amends, no this, the title of his novel made into a 2007 movie with Saoirse Ronan Atonement |
| #18, aired 2023-10-25 | FIX THE MOVIE QUOTE $100: Tom Hanks:
"Flavortown, we have a problem" Houston |
| #18, aired 2023-10-25 | FIX THE MOVIE QUOTE $200: Brad Pitt:
"The first rule of chess club is: you do not talk about chess club" Fight Club |
| #18, aired 2023-10-25 | FIX THE MOVIE QUOTE $300: Patrick Swayze:
"Nobody puts Jay-Z in a corner" Baby |
| #18, aired 2023-10-25 | FIX THE MOVIE QUOTE $400: Judy Garland:
"Lions and tigers and Labradoodles, oh my!" bears |
| #18, aired 2023-10-25 | FIX THE MOVIE QUOTE $500: Ice Cube, in the 1995 movie "Friday":
"Bye, amnesia" Felicia |
| #8957, aired 2023-10-24 | GO SEE A MOVIE ABOUT A HORSE $1200: In 2010 Diane Lane played the real-life owner who took a chance that paid off with this 1973 Triple Crown winner Secretariat |
| #8957, aired 2023-10-24 | GO SEE A MOVIE ABOUT A HORSE $1600: Robert Redford played the title character, a Montana rancher who is a mystical horse healer, in this 1998 film The Horse Whisperer |
| #8957, aired 2023-10-24 | GO SEE A MOVIE ABOUT A HORSE $2000: The title equine of this 2002 animated film is a Kiger Mustang, the leader of the Cimarron herd Spirit |
| #8953, aired 2023-10-18 | ABRAHAM, ISAAC, JACOB $4,000 (Daily Double): He won the 1984 Best Actor Oscar for a movie named for a different character F. Murray Abraham |
| #17, aired 2023-10-18 | OTHER WORDS FOR DOIN' IT $200: In a simpler time, this phrase meant "hang out & watch a movie"; it's evolved to mean "hang out, watch a movie &... you know" Netflix & chill |
| #17, aired 2023-10-18 | "I" CAN GO EITHER WAY $600: Take a long skirt or dress, move its "I" from the back to the front, and you get this supersized movie format IMAX |
| #8951, aired 2023-10-16 | A PREQUEL TO WHICH MOVIE? $400: "The Somewhat Impressive Six"--to this 1960 tale The Magnificent Seven |
| #8951, aired 2023-10-16 | A PREQUEL TO WHICH MOVIE? $600: "Conceived on the Fourth of October"--to this 1989 biopic Born on the Fourth of July |
| #8951, aired 2023-10-16 | A PREQUEL TO WHICH MOVIE? $1000: "Adding the Mallard to the Stock"--to this 1933 comedy Duck Soup |
| #8951, aired 2023-10-16 | THE LITERARY CHARACTER WHO SAID... $3,200 (Daily Double): "What did it matter where you lay once you were dead?... You were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that" Philip Marlowe |
| #8949, aired 2023-10-12 | HAPPIER MOVIE ENDINGS $800: "I see dead people, Dr. Crowe... but you're not one of 'em. You're very, very much alive & happily married" The Sixth Sense |
| #8949, aired 2023-10-12 | HAPPIER MOVIE ENDINGS $1200: "Forget it, Jake, it's... hold on--Evelyn's okay. The bullets missed her in the car. She's fine & the cops are letting her go" Chinatown |
| #8949, aired 2023-10-12 | HAPPIER MOVIE ENDINGS $1600: "Hold the execution. John Coffey's been found innocent. He is a free man." "Phew. That was close" The Green Mile |
| #8949, aired 2023-10-12 | HAPPIER MOVIE ENDINGS $2000: Whoa...we're killing off Wolverine?! The film's made over $600 million! No! He heals up just fine, dusts himself off & makes a sequel Logan |
| #8948, aired 2023-10-11 | BASEBALL MOVIE HAIKU $1200: Lupus & Tanner/ Skilled not inside the diamond/ Buttermaker drinks The Bad News Bears |
| #8948, aired 2023-10-11 | BASEBALL MOVIE HAIKU $1600: Annie's got problems/ Nuke & Crash are enamored/ The "big show" awaits Bull Durham |
| #8948, aired 2023-10-11 | BASEBALL MOVIE HAIKU $2000: Cicotte, Weaver, Joe/ The Black Sox accept their fate/ Gambling mars the game Eight Men Out |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | BIG DOGS AS LITTLE PUPPIES $400: A dog de Bordeaux, like the pup seen here, was Tom Hanks' co-star in this 1989 movie Turner & Hooch |
| #8947, aired 2023-10-10 | LODGING $800: What some say the movie "Stagecoach" is, or a hotel chain with more than 4,000 hotels best Western |
| #8947, aired 2023-10-10 | BRANDO $2000: Johnny, leader of the Black Rebels The Wild One |
| #8943, aired 2023-10-04 | PLEASE BEAR WITH ME $600: Movie within a movie time! In "The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent", Nic Cage & Pedro Pascal swoon over this Brit-based bear "2" Paddington |
| #8939, aired 2023-09-28 | BEASTLY LITERARY CHARACTERS $200: In the original Pinocchio story, the guy given this name in the movie is just called the talking cricket Jiminy Cricket |
| #8938, aired 2023-09-27 | "M"USICALS $1200: The MGM Studio Chorus backs up Judy Garland on this movie musical's "The Trolley Song" Meet Me in St. Louis |
| #8938, aired 2023-09-27 | "M"USICALS $2000: This 2001 movie musical set in Paris is now a stage show with new(er) songs like "Rolling In The Deep" & "Bad Romance" Moulin Rouge! |
| #14, aired 2023-09-27 | POST-APOCALYPTIC POP CULTURE $1000: Kevin Costner starred in two post-apocalyptic films in the 1990s: "Waterworld" and this misfire about a nameless drifter The Postman |
| #8936, aired 2023-09-25 | BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY OSCARS $200: David Seidler accepted his Oscar for writing this 2010 movie on behalf of stutterers everywhere The King's Speech |
| #8931, aired 2023-09-18 | TALK LIKE A PIRATE $200: "And you can buy an eye what actually fits & is made of glass" is spoken in this movie franchise Pirates of the Caribbean |
| #8929, aired 2023-09-14 | THE 2023 TIME 100 $600: In other movie roles or as "The Queen of Wakanda, we believe in you because you believe in yourself" Angela Bassett |
| #8925, aired 2023-07-28 | ACTORS $1600: In "A Fish Called Wanda", John Cleese played Archie Leach, actually the real name of this movie star Cary Grant |
| #8924, aired 2023-07-27 | RETITLED MOVIE ADAPTATIONS $200: Hans Christian Andersen's chilling story "The Snow Queen" became this animated blockbuster Frozen |
| #8924, aired 2023-07-27 | RETITLED MOVIE ADAPTATIONS $800: Cornell Woolrich's short story "It Had to Be Murder" became this Hitchcock film with Jimmy Stewart in the cast & in a cast Rear Window |
| #8924, aired 2023-07-27 | RETITLED MOVIE ADAPTATIONS $1000: "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" was loosely based on this epic written about 2,800 years before The Odyssey |
| #8923, aired 2023-07-26 | LONG MOVIES $800: This man directed, co-wrote, produced & starred in the nearly 3 1/2 hour movie "Reds" Warren Beatty |
| #8920, aired 2023-07-21 | OLD HOLLYWOOD SCRIBES $800: Pulp writer Jim Thompson helped write the script for "The Killing", a heist movie by this director of "The Shining" Kubrick |
| #8918, aired 2023-07-19 | MUSICAL MENAGERIE $400: "This is what it sounds like" at this tearful moment, sang Prince in the movie "Purple Rain" when doves cry |
| #8914, aired 2023-07-13 | MOVIE BEFORE & AFTER $400: Darth Vader chops off Luke's hand, so Marty fills in on guitar at the dance The Empire Strikes Back to the Future |
| #8914, aired 2023-07-13 | MOVIE BEFORE & AFTER $800: Gollum plummets into the crack of Doom, causing Sauron to plummet from the top of the Empire State Building The Return of the King Kong |
| #8914, aired 2023-07-13 | ESPAÑ-O $1200: In the live action movie "Dora & the Lost City of Gold", Dora asks the audience, "Can you say" this tasty word? delicioso |
| #8914, aired 2023-07-13 | MOVIE BEFORE & AFTER $1200: Michael Cera fights his girlfriend's exes as Robin Williams fights to get out of his mother's shadow Scott Pilgrim vs. the World According to Garp |
| #8914, aired 2023-07-13 | MOVIE BEFORE & AFTER $1600: Rex Harrison teaches Audrey Hepburn how to speak proper English & vocalize like Billie Holiday My Fair Lady Day (My Fair Lady Sings the Blues) |
| #8914, aired 2023-07-13 | MOVIE BEFORE & AFTER $2000: Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef & Eli Wallach fight for gold while Marlon Brando gives Yanks a bad name overseas The Good, the Bad and the Ugly American |
| #8912, aired 2023-07-11 | CARTOON CRITTERS $400: The 2022 sequel to the movie about this video game hedgehog finds him jamming to "Here Comes The Hotstepper" Sonic the Hedgehog |
| #8908, aired 2023-07-05 | ALL SHAPES & SIZES $1000: The Bolex camera shooting in this size format was introduced in 1928 & used by many home movie enthusiasts 16-millimeter |
| #8906, aired 2023-07-03 | "B" MOVIE QUOTES $1200: "It's 106 miles to Chicago, we got a full tank of gas... it's dark & we're wearing sunglasses"; "Hit it" The Blues Brothers |
| #8905, aired 2023-06-30 | POP EYE $2000: Later a movie title, this collection of short stories was subtitled "Five Secret Occasions in the Life of James Bond" For Your Eyes Only |
| #8903, aired 2023-06-28 | ANIMATED MOVIE CHARACTERS $800: The character Po eats, shoots out of fireworks & leaves us laughing in this 2008 film, the start of a film franchise Kung Fu Panda |
| #8903, aired 2023-06-28 | ANIMATED MOVIE CHARACTERS $1200: The name of this monkey from "The Lion King" means "friend" in Swahili Rafiki |
| #8903, aired 2023-06-28 | ANIMATED MOVIE CHARACTERS $1600: Cera, Littlefoot, Spike, Petrie & Ducky try to reunite with their families in this 1988 film set long, long ago The Land Before Time |
| #8903, aired 2023-06-28 | ANIMATED MOVIE CHARACTERS $2000: The musically gifted title trio of sisters in this 2003 French film help rescue a kidnapped cyclist The Triplets of Belleville |
| #8900, aired 2023-06-23 | MUSICAL ACT ETYMOLOGY $2000: The rock band The Airborne Toxic Event got its name from this Don DeLillo novel that became a movie in 2022 White Noise |
| #8900, aired 2023-06-23 | ON BROADWAY $2000: This playwright seen on opening night of "The Cripple of Inishmaan" has more recently made a movie with a similar title Martin McDonagh |
| #8899, aired 2023-06-22 | MOVIE TITLE CONNECTIONS $200: Date
____
at the Museum Night |
| #8899, aired 2023-06-22 | MOVIE TITLE CONNECTIONS $600: An Affair to
____
the Titans Remember |
| #8899, aired 2023-06-22 | TRUMPET TOOTIN' $1600: Alison Balsom, Lady (James Bond movie director Sam) Mendes, records lots of Handel & Purcell of this "golden age of the trumpet" the Baroque |
| #8899, aired 2023-06-22 | VAMPIRE-POURRI $2000: Benjamin Walker stepped into the presidential shoes for this 2012 metafiction monster mash-up of a movie Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter |
| #8898, aired 2023-06-21 | ALLITERATION $1600: Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in the movie "Full Metal Jacket" gave the world this expression for "something wrong with you" major malfunction |
| #8897, aired 2023-06-20 | THAT MUSICAL ACT IS UNREAL! $2000: Later a movie, Roddy Doyle's first novel is about this soulful but imaginary Irish band The Commitments |
| #8896, aired 2023-06-19 | LET'S MAKE A MOVIE CROSSOVER! $800: Disney meets Kurosawa: An animated 1937 title woman "& the" title septet led by Takashi Shimura Snow White and the Seven Samurai |
| #8896, aired 2023-06-19 | LET'S MAKE A MOVIE CROSSOVER! $1200: You stay classy, Kali! A 2004 San Diego news anchorman "&" a 1984 Indiana Jones title structure Ron Burgundy & the Temple of Doom |
| #8896, aired 2023-06-19 | LET'S MAKE A MOVIE CROSSOVER! $2000: Masks are compared when a "Friday the 13th" icon "takes on" a Robin Williams woman who enjoys a cake moisturizer Jason Meets Mrs. Doubtfire |
| #8895, aired 2023-06-16 | THIS IS ALL A BIT MUCH $800: You've "gone" this, like Goldie Hawn in a movie title & Anna Faris in the remake overboard |
| #8892, aired 2023-06-13 | THE YEAR OF THE HORSE $400: 2003:
Verboom, a descendant of War Admiral, played him in this movie Seabiscuit |
| #8890, aired 2023-06-09 | RETRONYMS $200: A retronym is a noun & a modifier specifying the noun's original meaning, like this form of entertainment here a silent movie |
| #8889, aired 2023-06-08 | BIG & LIL POP CULTURE $400: Ryan Gosling & Christian Bale see bad times ahead in this 2015 movie about mortgage banking & more The Big Short |
| #8886, aired 2023-06-05 | MOVIE CONTINENTS $1200: Africa:
Not James VI but Idi Amin is the subject The Last King of Scotland |
| #8886, aired 2023-06-05 | MOVIE CONTINENTS $2000: Antarctica:
A shape-shifting alien menaces helicopter pilot Kurt Russell The Thing |
| #8883, aired 2023-05-31 | NUMERICAL LITERATURE $800: Vicente Blasco Ibáñez' World War I bestseller named for this mounted quartet became a hit movie with Rudolph Valentino the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse |
| #8881, aired 2023-05-29 | WHO WAS THAT MASKED MAN? $800: (I'm Shameik Moore.) In "Spider-Man Across the Spider-Verse" I once again don the spider-mask as this Brooklyn teenager who follows in Peter Parker's webbed footsteps Miles Morales |
| #8881, aired 2023-05-29 | POP INSTRUMENTALS $800: A hit from "Deliverance" is called "Dueling" these, though in the movie, one duellist is playing guitar banjos |
| #8880, aired 2023-05-26 | RESEARCH $600: Head down to the local library to look at old documents in this format with a name that sounds like a tiny movie microfilm |
| #20, aired 2023-05-24 | MICHAEL J. FOX $1000: (Michael J. Fox presents the clue.) In 1988, I starred in the movie "Bright Lights, Big City," based on the novel this man famously wrote in the second person McInerney |
| #18, aired 2023-05-23 | THE MOVIES $200: Anya Taylor-Joy voiced this character in "The Super Mario Bros. Movie" Princess Peach |
| #17, aired 2023-05-23 | POWER OCCUPANTS $1000: It's where Elizabeth II liked to go at holiday time; in the movie "Spencer", Kristen Stewart has a very unmerry Christmas there Sandringham |
| #16, aired 2023-05-22 | FAMOUS FOLKS $1200: This TikToker seen here starred in the gender-swapped movie remake "He's All That" Addison Rae |
| #15, aired 2023-05-22 | & SCENE $2000: A stunning sequence in this 2019 film depicts the same-named massacre of Manchester protesters in 1819 Peterloo |
| #8873, aired 2023-05-17 | Y'KNOW, THE MOVIE WHERE... $200: A farmer plays baseball with a dead guy, time-travels & ends up owning a tourist trap Field of Dreams |
| #8873, aired 2023-05-17 | Y'KNOW, THE MOVIE WHERE... $400: An animated elderly man's wife dies, his house is literally uprooted & a boy is kidnapped (OK, inadvertently) to South America Up |
| #8873, aired 2023-05-17 | Y'KNOW, THE MOVIE WHERE... $600: Rami Malek, Gwilym Lee, Joseph Mazzello & Ben Hardy are Queen for a big day Bohemian Rhapsody |
| #8873, aired 2023-05-17 | Y'KNOW, THE MOVIE WHERE... $800: Leonardo DiCaprio wrestles with a grizzly bear & that goes really, incredibly, horrifically not well The Revenant |
| #8873, aired 2023-05-17 | Y'KNOW, THE MOVIE WHERE... $1000: Gene Wilder nearly kills a bunch of children touring his place of business Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory |
| #14, aired 2023-05-17 | SECRETS OF THE ANGELENOS $800: In 1914 he directed the first feature-length movie made in Hollywood & cast a Native American actress in a major part Cecil B. DeMille |
| #13, aired 2023-05-17 | PAGE TO SCREEN WITH A DIFFERENT TITLE $400: Shoeless Joe steps up to the plate in the novel "Shoeless Joe" & in the movie version with this title Field of Dreams |
| #13, aired 2023-05-17 | PAGE TO SCREEN WITH A DIFFERENT TITLE $600: Dick King-Smith's book first published in the U.K. as "The Sheep-Pig" was adapted into this movie Babe |
| #8872, aired 2023-05-16 | TWISTS $400: Charlton Heston realizes it's post-apocalypse now at the end of this 1968 movie Planet of the Apes |
| #11, aired 2023-05-16 | MOVIE MUSIC WITH HANS ZIMMER $200: (Hans Zimmer reads and plays.) Contrasting with the music from the big action scenes, my theme "Tennessee" refers to the state Ben Affleck & Josh Hartnett come from in this war film Pearl Harbor |
| #11, aired 2023-05-16 | MOVIE MUSIC WITH HANS ZIMMER $400: (Hans Zimmer reads and plays.) For this epic I tried to use some international influences, as it opens in Germany, takes place partly in Morocco & the hero is known as "the Spaniard" Gladiator |
| #11, aired 2023-05-16 | MOVIE MUSIC WITH HANS ZIMMER $600: (Hans Zimmer reads.) For Denis Villeneuve's sequel to "Blade Runner", we used the same model synth, a Yamaha CS-80, that this Greek genius had used to create the moody sci-fi soundscape for the original film Vangelis |
| #11, aired 2023-05-16 | TO THE NINES $600: He's the subject of the movie dialogue "So far this semester he has been absent nine times"
"Nine times?"
"Nine times" Ferris Bueller |
| #11, aired 2023-05-16 | MOVIE MUSIC WITH HANS ZIMMER $800: (Hans Zimmer reads.) Listening to Ennio Morricone's majestic score as a kid while watching this Sergio Leone epic that featured Henry Fonda taking a villainous turn, I thought, "That's what I want to do" Once Upon a Time in the West |
| #11, aired 2023-05-16 | MOVIE MUSIC WITH HANS ZIMMER $1000: (Hans Zimmer reads.) I'm a big fan of this jack-of-all-trades musician who scored films like "The Master" & "There Will Be Blood"; you may have also heard of his little band called Radiohead (Jonny) Greenwood |
| #8871, aired 2023-05-15 | ORDINAL NOVELS $800: Vienna waits for you in Graham Greene's novella titled this "Man", which came out after the 1949 movie co-starring a creepy Orson Welles "The Third Man" |
| #7, aired 2023-05-12 | PRESENT COMPANY ACCEPTED $400: The 2023 movie "Air" focuses on a big move this company made in 1984 that worked out well for the brand Nike |
| #8869, aired 2023-05-11 | WATCHING MY STORIES $800: The novel "A Man Called Ove" became a 2023 movie starring Tom Hanks as "A Man Called" this palindromic name Otto |
| #8868, aired 2023-05-10 | CLASSIC MOVIES $400: The last word in this 1974 Jack Nicholson movie is its title--"Forget it, Jake, it's" this place Chinatown |
| #8868, aired 2023-05-10 | CLASSIC MOVIES $1,000 (Daily Double): An Alex Trebek movie trivia favorite: Who are Janning, Hahn, Lampe & Hofstetter? (We'll add they're the German judges in this movie) the Judgment at Nuremberg |
| #8868, aired 2023-05-10 | FROM THE FRENCH $1600: The movie "Rocky" had one of these, many shots juxtaposed to form a theme montage |
| #5, aired 2023-05-10 | TOUGH MOVIE STUFF $400: The first movie to get a PG-13 rating was this 1984 one where the teens call themselves "Wolverines" Red Dawn |
| #5, aired 2023-05-10 | TOUGH MOVIE STUFF $800: This 1934 film was the first comedy to win the Best Picture Oscar It Happened One Night |
| #5, aired 2023-05-10 | GOOD NAME FOR A BREAKFAST CEREAL? $1200: "Thank your" these, an expression used after narrow escapes, was the title of a 1943 movie musical with Dinah Shore lucky stars |
| #5, aired 2023-05-10 | TOUGH MOVIE STUFF $2000: This tough guy was one of both "The Magnificent Seven" & "The Dirty Dozen" Charles Bronson |
| #3, aired 2023-05-09 | DIANE WARREN $2000: (Diane Warren gives the clue.) I honored my own dad for believing in me & my music when I wrote "Because You Love Me" for this film in which Robert Redford played a news director who believed in Michelle Pfeiffer Up Close & Personal |
| #1, aired 2023-05-08 | 20/23 $800: This mathematician who was the subject of the movie "A Beautiful Mind" was intrigued by the number 23 & died on that day in May 2015 (John) Nash |
| #8864, aired 2023-05-04 | 21st CENTURY FILMS $800: (I'm Reggie Watts.) In addition to music, I had done some stand-up & sketch work but found the type of comedy I wanted to perform in this 2001 "wet hot" movie starring Paul Rudd & Elizabeth Banks Wet Hot American Summer |
| #8864, aired 2023-05-04 | NOVEL COUNTRIES $2000: The basis for a movie: "The Whale Rider" New Zealand |
| #8863, aired 2023-05-03 | JOHN C. REILLY $200: John's hometown, or the movie musical for which he received an Oscar nomination as Amos Hart Chicago |
| #8862, aired 2023-05-02 | TV & MOVIE COMEDIES $400: Seen here, Iain Armitage plays the gifted & geeky title character on this sitcom, a prequel to "The Big Bang Theory" Young Sheldon |
| #8862, aired 2023-05-02 | TV & MOVIE COMEDIES $800: In 2021 fans bid farewell to Jake Peralta, Captain Holt & the rest of the squad on this sitcom Brooklyn Nine-Nine |
| #8862, aired 2023-05-02 | TV & MOVIE COMEDIES $1200: He's the filmmaker behind the movies about Madea, a character he describes as "a cross between my mother & my aunt" Tyler Perry |
| #8861, aired 2023-05-01 | TITLES WITH EXCLAMATION POINTS! $200: In his movie title debut in America, this dinosaur-like beast's name was followed by "King of the Monsters!" Godzilla |
| #8859, aired 2023-04-27 | A FINE WINE FILM $800: The 2004 movie "Sideways" has been credited with killing sales of this varietal Merlot |
| #8858, aired 2023-04-26 | WHISTLEBLOWERS $800: Jeffrey Wigand's reporting about tobacco companies making products with addictive levels of nicotine became this movie The Insider |
| #8858, aired 2023-04-26 | RIHANNA $800: Rihanna played a hacker helping with a heist at the Met Gala in this movie that took a male series to the distaff side Ocean's 8 |
| #8856, aired 2023-04-24 | LOCAL BOY $1200: From Kenosha, Wisc., this actor & Avengers movie mainstay is the grandson of an immigrant from Calabria, Italy Mark Ruffalo |
| #8853, aired 2023-04-19 | MOVIE COMEDIES $400: A famous line from this classic: "We are the knights who say 'ni!"' Monty Python and the Holy Grail |
| #8853, aired 2023-04-19 | MOVIE COMEDIES $800: (I'm John Michael Higgins, and) being a part of an a cappella group in college called the Zumbyes helped me in my role as a singing competition announcer in the three films (so far) with this alliterative title Pitch Perfect |
| #8853, aired 2023-04-19 | MOVIE COMEDIES $1200: Movie in which Alicia Silverstone as Cher says she was named after a great singer of the past who now does infomercials Clueless |
| #8853, aired 2023-04-19 | MOVIE COMEDIES $1600: (I'm Ike Barinholtz.) In 2018, I joined Leslie Mann & this muy macho pro wrestler as parents who don't want their daughters going too far on prom night in the comedy film "Blockers" John Cena |
| #8853, aired 2023-04-19 | MOVIE COMEDIES $2000: In this classic film Joel McCrea is on the move as a director tired of making comedies like "Hey, Hey in the Hayloft" Sullivan's Travels |
| #8852, aired 2023-04-18 | OK MILLENNIAL $1000: Born in Moore, Oklahoma in 1981, Randy Wayne starred as Bo's cousin Luke in the 2007 TV movie titled them: "The Beginning" The Dukes of Hazzard |
| #8849, aired 2023-04-13 | TRIPLE "A" $800: It describes the crazy-sounding "bwah-ha-ha" laughter of many a movie villain maniacal |
| #8848, aired 2023-04-12 | ACTING THE OSCAR-WINNING PART $2000: Karen Crowder, trying to fix the fixer in "Michael Clayton" Tilda Swinton |
| #8846, aired 2023-04-10 | THE MAIN CITY IN THE MOVIE $400: "The Untouchables"; remember, "That's the" this city "way"! Chicago |
| #8846, aired 2023-04-10 | THE MAIN CITY IN THE MOVIE $800: "Anchorman", & we won't say what Ron Burgundy thought the name meant when translated San Diego |
| #8846, aired 2023-04-10 | THE MAIN CITY IN THE MOVIE $1200: 2016's
"Moonlight" Miami |
| #8846, aired 2023-04-10 | THE MAIN CITY IN THE MOVIE $1600: 2019's
"El Camino" Albuquerque |
| #8846, aired 2023-04-10 | THE MAIN CITY IN THE MOVIE $2000: "RoboCop",
original & remake Detroit |
| #8844, aired 2023-04-06 | NOT MAKING IT TO THE END OF THE MOVIE $200: Tina Fey said "Gravity" was about how this actor would rather float away & die in space than spend time with a woman his own age George Clooney |
| #8844, aired 2023-04-06 | NOT MAKING IT TO THE END OF THE MOVIE $400: Bad puddy tat! This evil uncle admits fratricide when he whispers, "I killed Mufasa" to Simba Scar |
| #8844, aired 2023-04-06 | NOT MAKING IT TO THE END OF THE MOVIE $600: Gwyneth Paltrow returns to the U.S. from Hong Kong, sickens & dies & this 2011 pandemic thriller is off & running Contagion |
| #8844, aired 2023-04-06 | NOT MAKING IT TO THE END OF THE MOVIE $800: Look how they massacred my boy; James Caan wore 100-plus squibs to pay a heavy price at the tollbooth in this 1972 film The Godfather |
| #8844, aired 2023-04-06 | NOT MAKING IT TO THE END OF THE MOVIE $1000: Sometimes, you get older, adamantium in your body poisons you & a clone of your younger self up & kills you, like this 2017 guy Logan |
| #8844, aired 2023-04-06 | GOLDEN GIRLS $2000: This Norwegian ice skater & future movie star won the first of her Olympic gold medals at age 15 at the 1928 Games in St. Moritz Sonja Henie |
| #8839, aired 2023-03-30 | 5 CONSONANTS IN A ROW $1000: A type of earthworm that emerges after dark, or a movie with Jake Gyllenhaal as the memorably vile Louis Bloom nightcrawler |
| #8839, aired 2023-03-30 | THE GREATEST SNOWMAN $2000: Timothy Hutton & Sean Penn took on the CIA--& lost, big time--as the nicknamed title characters in this 1985 movie The Falcon and the Snowman |
| #8838, aired 2023-03-29 | DALÍ GOES HOLLYWOOD $400: Dalí wrote a movie for this comedy group, including a scene where Chico plays the piano in a diving suit the Marx Brothers |
| #8837, aired 2023-03-28 | '80s MOVIE COMEDIES $400: This character was the lifeless of the party when Andrew McCarthy & Jonathan Silverman spent a "Weekend at" his place in 1989 Bernie |
| #8837, aired 2023-03-28 | '80s MOVIE COMEDIES $800: Golfer Rodney Dangerfield, in this pic: "This is the worst lookin' hat I ever saw!" (sees Ted Knight) "It looks good on you, though" Caddyshack |
| #8836, aired 2023-03-27 | NUMBER "ONE" MOVIE $200: "A Star Wars Story" is the subtitle of this 2016 release Rogue One |
| #8836, aired 2023-03-27 | NUMBER "ONE" MOVIE $800: Steven Spielberg directed this 2018 movie about the hunt for an "Easter egg" in a virtual reality called OASIS Ready Player One |
| #8832, aired 2023-03-21 | TV & MOVIE CITIES $400: "I, Claudius",
"The Bicycle Thief" Rome |
| #8832, aired 2023-03-21 | BOOKS: THE FUTURE IS NOW $800: This 1925 novel about a futuristic city in 2026 became an art deco sci-fi silent movie by Fritz Lang Metropolis |
| #8832, aired 2023-03-21 | TV & MOVIE CITIES $2000: The sanguine start of "The Flight Attendant", most of "The Hangover Part II" Bangkok |
| #8827, aired 2023-03-14 | LORD OF THE DINGS $2000: In "It's a Wonderful Life", little Zuzu Bailey says, "Every time a bell rings", this happens an angel gets his wings |
| #8824, aired 2023-03-09 | YOU, ROBOT $2000: The motions of the robot Baymax in this 2014 Disney movie were based on the movements of baby penguins Big Hero 6 |
| #8821, aired 2023-03-06 | PIVOTAL WOMEN $2000: (Melinda French Gates presents the clue.) Depicted in the movie "Hidden Figures" & described as one of NASA's "human computers", this mathematician overcame institutional racism & sexism doing the complex calculations that put America's first astronauts into space & on the Moon Katherine Johnson |
| #8813, aired 2023-02-22 | A JOLLY RHYME $2000: A camera mounted on a cart is used for this type of movie shot in moving toward a subject or out for the reverse a dolly |
| #8812, aired 2023-02-21 | POP CULTURE HIGH SCHOOL REUNIONS $1600: As the title of a John Cusack movie sums up, Martin Blank is a hitman going to his reunion in this Detroit suburb Grosse Pointe |
| #8812, aired 2023-02-21 | POP CULTURE HIGH SCHOOL REUNIONS $2000: In the reunion movie "10 Years", she played the girlfriend of her then-husband Jenna Dewan (formerly Jenna Dewan-Tatum) |
| #8811, aired 2023-02-20 | REUNION SHOWS $800: "Baywatch: Hawaiian Wedding" was a 2003 TV movie reuniting David Hasselhoff & this woman as CJ--Jason Momoa's in the movie, too Pamela Anderson |
| #8809, aired 2023-02-16 | DISNEY MOVIE TAGLINES $400: 1937:
"The happiest, dopiest, grumpiest, sneeziest movie of the year" Snow White (and the Seven Dwarfs) |
| #8809, aired 2023-02-16 | DISNEY MOVIE TAGLINES $1200: 1963:
"Merlin uses all his magic powers to change a scrawny boy into a legendary hero" The Sword in the Stone |
| #8809, aired 2023-02-16 | DISNEY MOVIE TAGLINES $1600: 2012:
"When the arcade closes, the fun begins" Wreck-It Ralph |
| #8809, aired 2023-02-16 | DISNEY MOVIE TAGLINES $5,000 (Daily Double): 1950:
"Midnight never strikes when you're in love" Cinderella |
| #8806, aired 2023-02-13 | PARTY ON! $400: The type of club that operates past the normal closing time, or a movie with Griffin Dunne out past his bedtime after hours |
| #8800, aired 2023-02-03 | NOW, WE DUEL $400: Seen here, film director Willy Rozier fought a duel over the negative words of François Chalais, who was this type of writer a movie critic |
| #8799, aired 2023-02-02 | TOUCAN $1000: A macaw named Blu heads to Brazil & meets a toucan named Rafael in the animated movie with this 3-letter title Rio |
| #8797, aired 2023-01-31 | THEY WROTE THE MOVIE $400: James Cameron's writing credits include "The Terminator", "Avatar" & this 1997 block-of-ice-buster Titanic |
| #8797, aired 2023-01-31 | HEAD GEAR $400: Popularized by the movie "Old School", these protectors are slang for "Kid, you shouldn't hear this" earmuffs |
| #8797, aired 2023-01-31 | THEY WROTE THE MOVIE $800: Greta Gerwig wrote & directed this 2017 film starring Saoirse Ronan as an artistic teenager Lady Bird |
| #8797, aired 2023-01-31 | THEY WROTE THE MOVIE $1200: She co-wrote the screenplay for "Sleepless in Seattle"; "When Harry Met Sally" was all hers Nora Ephron |
| #8797, aired 2023-01-31 | THEY WROTE THE MOVIE $1600: David Webb Peoples wrote the script for this Western with Clint Eastwood as a killer-turned-farmer-turned-killer Unforgiven |
| #8797, aired 2023-01-31 | THEY WROTE THE MOVIE $2000: As well as directing, Ingmar Bergman wrote this 1957 classic featuring a chess game with Death The Seventh Seal |
| #8792, aired 2023-01-24 | FINDING NIMOY $400: Nimoy's plentiful voice-over work included the evil robot Galvatron in the cartoon movie version of this TV show Transformers |
| #11, aired 2023-01-19 | THOMAS EDISON $400: The kinetograph, developed by Edison in the 1890s, was one of these, basically the same type used for the next century-plus a movie camera |
| #8787, aired 2023-01-17 | SUMMING UP THE SPIELBERG MOVIE $200: 1993:
DNA + prehistoric beasts = a billion box office dollars Jurassic Park |
| #8787, aired 2023-01-17 | SUMMING UP THE SPIELBERG MOVIE $400: Amity Island has a very, very big tourism problem Jaws |
| #8787, aired 2023-01-17 | SUMMING UP THE SPIELBERG MOVIE $600: Soldier Matt Damon needs rescuing; wait, Vin Diesel's in the film, too?! Saving Private Ryan |
| #8787, aired 2023-01-17 | SUMMING UP THE SPIELBERG MOVIE $800: Making Whoopi age several decades The Color Purple |
| #8787, aired 2023-01-17 | SUMMING UP THE SPIELBERG MOVIE $1000: Young cinema lover Sammy represents cinema lover Steven Spielberg The Fabelmans |
| #10, aired 2023-01-12 | LETTER, PERFECT $200: "Greetings", Robert De Niro's film debut in 1968, was also the first movie in the U.S. to get this rating X |
| #8783, aired 2023-01-11 | THE MOVIE ATHLETE'S SPORT $200: Robert Redford,
"The Natural" baseball |
| #8783, aired 2023-01-11 | THE MOVIE ATHLETE'S SPORT $400: Hilary Swank,
"Million Dollar Baby" boxing |
| #8783, aired 2023-01-11 | THE MOVIE ATHLETE'S SPORT $600: Ray Allen,
"He Got Game" basketball |
| #8783, aired 2023-01-11 | THE MOVIE ATHLETE'S SPORT $800: Dennis Quaid,
"Breaking Away" bicycle racing |
| #8783, aired 2023-01-11 | THE MOVIE ATHLETE'S SPORT $1000: Sylvester Stallone,
"Over the Top" arm wrestling |
| #8781, aired 2023-01-09 | RANDOM FACTS $1200: Just like magic, Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker & Kathy Najimy were back for this movie "2", 3 decades after the original Hocus Pocus |
| #9, aired 2023-01-05 | OBSCURE MOVIE QUOTES $200: "Hi": her, in an Oscar-winning performance as Leigh Anne Tuohy in "The Blind Side" Sandra Bullock |
| #9, aired 2023-01-05 | OBSCURE MOVIE QUOTES $400: "Uh...": this actor here; there's an hour-long YouTube clip of him saying it in various roles, such as Michael in "The Big Chill" Jeff Goldblum |
| #8778, aired 2023-01-04 | THE ACTORS IN THAT MOVIE $200: 2018:
Hey, Emily Blunt & John Krasinski! Keep it down! A Quiet Place |
| #8778, aired 2023-01-04 | THE ACTORS IN THAT MOVIE $400: 1993: Bill Murray, Andie MacDowell & a cameo by Scooter as the creature mentioned in the title Groundhog Day |
| #8778, aired 2023-01-04 | THE ACTORS IN THAT MOVIE $600: 1997:
Travolta / Cage, as only Travolta / Cage could do it Face/Off |
| #8778, aired 2023-01-04 | THE ACTORS IN THAT MOVIE $800: 2019:
Driver
vs.
Johansson A Marriage Story |
| #8778, aired 2023-01-04 | THE ACTORS IN THAT MOVIE $1000: 2008:
Colin Farrell & Brendan Gleeson visit Belgium, & reunite in 2022 for "The Banshees of Inisherin" In Bruges |
| #8777, aired 2023-01-03 | ROMANTIC MOVIE LINES $200: This classic film gave us the line "Here's looking at you, kid" Casablanca |
| #8777, aired 2023-01-03 | ROMANTIC MOVIE LINES $600: In "The Princess Bride", Westley says this phrase to Buttercup over & over, which she finally realizes means "I love you" As you wish |
| #8776, aired 2023-01-02 | THE CHASE $1600: The 5 Oscars for this 1971 Gene Hackman movie include best editing, maybe due to its NYC train & car chase The French Connection |
| #8774, aired 2022-12-29 | BREAK THE "CODE" $2000: Named for its first enforcer, it policed movie production back in the day the Hays Code |
| #8773, aired 2022-12-28 | IT HAD TO BE HUGH $1200: Claire Danes is married to this British actor who recently played Jack Barber in the movie "Downton Abbey: A New Era" Hugh Dancy |
| #8771, aired 2022-12-26 | THE OFFICE $400: A platonic female best friend & confidante to a co-worker; it was the title of a 1930 book & movie The Office Wife |
| #8770, aired 2022-12-23 | RIAN JOHNSON LOVES A WHODUNIT $400: (Rian Johnson presents the clue.) The 1978 version of "Death on the Nile" is so fantastic, as is Peter Ustinov, who is my favorite actor to play this famous Belgian sleuth Poirot |
| #8769, aired 2022-12-22 | NICOLE KIDMAN SAYS $800: Getting nose-y:
"Leonard, always the years between us. Always the years. Always, the love. Always..." (& we have a movie title!) the hours |
| #8768, aired 2022-12-21 | FOOD & DRINK $1200: Add vodka to grenadine & ginger ale to make the "dirty" version of this movie star mocktail a Shirley Temple |
| #8767, aired 2022-12-20 | THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT $600: In the movie version of this World War I novel, Paul Bäumer is shot reaching for a butterfly on the battlefield All Quiet on the Western Front |
| #8766, aired 2022-12-19 | MOVIE CHARACTERS $800: She's the kick-ass character played by Linda Hamilton in the "Terminator" films Sarah Connor |
| #8766, aired 2022-12-19 | MOVIE CHARACTERS $1600: He's the bumbling French detective in the Pink Panther movies Clouseau |
| #8765, aired 2022-12-16 | TV & MOVIE PLACES $400: "Amadeus" & "The Sound of Music" are mainly set in this country Austria |
| #8765, aired 2022-12-16 | TV & MOVIE PLACES $800: On TV & in film, Clark Kent worked at the Daily Planet in this city Metropolis |
| #8765, aired 2022-12-16 | TIME FOR READING $1000: About the Doolittle raid: ____ ____Over Tokyo" Thirty Seconds |
| #8765, aired 2022-12-16 | TV & MOVIE PLACES $2000: The Forest Moon of this planet is the home of the Ewoks Endor |
| #8764, aired 2022-12-15 | ASIAN AMERICANS $2000: In 2022, this first Chinese-American movie star became the first Asian American featured on U.S. currency--a new quarter Anna May Wong |
| #8762, aired 2022-12-13 | 4 FUNERALS & ANOTHER FUNERAL $600: 47 years after the OK Corral, his pallbearers in L.A. included silent movie Western star Tom Mix & a former mayor of Tombstone (Wyatt) Earp |
| #8762, aired 2022-12-13 | OIL THINGS CONSIDERED $1200: Upton Sinclair's novel "Oil!" was the basis for this movie that won Daniel Day-Lewis an Oscar There Will Be Blood |
| #8761, aired 2022-12-12 | THE MOVIE'S TITLE IN OTHER COUNTRIES $200: Who ya gonna call in China? "Super Power Dare Die Team" the Ghostbusters |
| #8761, aired 2022-12-12 | OUTBREAKS $200: This paralytic disease peaked in the U.S. in the 1950s, closing swimming pools & movie theaters polio |
| #8761, aired 2022-12-12 | THE MOVIE'S TITLE IN OTHER COUNTRIES $400: "Vaselina" was the word in Mexico Grease |
| #8761, aired 2022-12-12 | THE MOVIE'S TITLE IN OTHER COUNTRIES $600: Nice spoiler, Mexico! Geena Davis & Susan Sarandon had "An Unexpected End" Thelma & Louise |
| #8761, aired 2022-12-12 | THE MOVIE'S TITLE IN OTHER COUNTRIES $800: China enjoyed "A Very Powerful Whale Runs to Heaven" Free Willy |
| #8761, aired 2022-12-12 | THE MOVIE'S TITLE IN OTHER COUNTRIES $1000: Japan got right down to it for a Nevada-set film: "I'm Drunk & You're a Prostitute" Leaving Las Vegas |
| #8758, aired 2022-12-07 | CLASSIC MOVIE CHARACTERS $1200: Last name of alien-slaying Ellen, who wants to nuke the entire site from orbit Ripley |
| #8753, aired 2022-11-30 | MOVIE TITLE FUN $200: "Back in the Habit" is the subtitle of this sequel starring Whoopi Goldberg & a choir of nuns Sister Act 2 |
| #8753, aired 2022-11-30 | MOVIE TITLE FUN $400: The longest title of an Oscar-nominated film begins with his name & ends "Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan" Borat |
| #8753, aired 2022-11-30 | MOVIE TITLE FUN $600: The one-word title of this 2005 George Clooney film begins with the name of a Middle Eastern country Syriana |
| #8753, aired 2022-11-30 | MOVIE TITLE FUN $800: The title of this Ron Stallworth book that became a movie has only 2 Ks The Black Klansman |
| #8753, aired 2022-11-30 | MOVIE TITLE FUN $1000: The title of this Jackie Chan/Owen Wilson comedy parodies a Gary Cooper classic Shanghai Noon |
| #8753, aired 2022-11-30 | A GIANT CATEGORY $2000: This Texas place of 1,600 people where the movie "Giant" was filmed is a center of minimalist art Marfa |
| #8752, aired 2022-11-29 | CAST UPON THE WATERS $800: On "Entourage" Vince Chase was cast as this movie superhero; Jason Momoa got the gig in real life Aquaman |
| #8752, aired 2022-11-29 | TV CARTOON VILLAINS $800: In the late '90s "Hercules" animated series, James Woods reprised his role as this villain from the movie Hades |
| #8751, aired 2022-11-28 | OF MOVIES $600: This movie introduced the world to Indiana Jones Raiders of the Lost Ark |
| #8749, aired 2022-11-24 | DOUBLE-T WORDS $1200: In the movie "White Nights", Mikhail Baryshnikov does a 3,960-degree turn, 11 of these spins in a row a pirouette |
| #8746, aired 2022-11-21 | ABBREVIATED JOBS $400: Runs the set on a movie: AD assistant director |
| #8744, aired 2022-11-17 | SILENT FILMS WITH JACQUELINE STEWART $800: (Jacqueline Stewart of Turner Classic Movies presents the clue.) Shot in Rome & Los Angeles at a cost of nearly $4 million, the 1925 version of this biblical epic with a great sea battle & chariot race was the most expensive silent movie ever made Ben-Hur |
| #8743, aired 2022-11-16 | HEARD IN THE MOVIE $400: As rendered by IMDb, spoken by Quint: "Aaaaaaaaaa-aaaaaaaaaaa-aaaaahhhh!" Jaws |
| #8743, aired 2022-11-16 | HEARD IN THE MOVIE $800: "I mean, what kind of friggin' person bashes in their friend's knee? Who would do that?" I, Tonya |
| #8743, aired 2022-11-16 | HEARD IN THE MOVIE $1200: "Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in" The Godfather Part III |
| #8743, aired 2022-11-16 | HEARD IN THE MOVIE $1600: From the '80s:
"I want my 2 dollars" Better Off Dead |
| #8743, aired 2022-11-16 | HEARD IN THE MOVIE $2000: "Fred C. Dobbs ain't a guy likes bein' taken advantage of--do the mug in, I say" The Treasure of the Sierra Madre |
| #8741, aired 2022-11-14 | PRIMED FOR PRIME NUMBERS $800: 53 is the racing number of Herbie, a unique vehicle from this automaker in the Disney movie "The Love Bug" Volkswagen |
| #8, aired 2022-11-13 | THE "A" LIST $300: These of Judy Garland, like on a movie still, are among the most coveted of Hollywood stars autographs |
| #8, aired 2022-11-13 | DRIVING IN L.A. $1000: The 1950 movie with this title is about an hour & 50 minutes; it'll take about that long to drive the same-named 22-mile road Sunset Boulevard |
| #8739, aired 2022-11-10 | 21st CENTURY BESTSELLERS $1000: A magazine writer uncovers long-held secrets in "The Seven Husbands of" this fictional movie star Evelyn Hugo |
| #8737, aired 2022-11-08 | MOVIE QUOTES $800: Oft seen in writing on fact & fiction, "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" includes "When the legend becomes fact," do this print the legend |
| #8737, aired 2022-11-08 | HITS OF 2002 $1000: "Lose Yourself" has the meta lyrics "And there's no movie, there's no" this actor, "This is my life" Mekhi Phifer |
| #8737, aired 2022-11-08 | MOVIE QUOTES $1200: "The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist", says Verbal Kint in this film The Usual Suspects |
| #8737, aired 2022-11-08 | MOVIE QUOTES $2,800 (Daily Double): In this 2017 biopic Gary Oldman says, "You cannot reason with a tiger when your head is in its mouth" the Darkest Hour |
| #7, aired 2022-11-06 | LOST IN EXPLORATION $400: Percy Fawcett, who disappeared searching for a lost jungle city in the 1920s, is often called "the real life" this movie character Indiana Jones |
| #7, aired 2022-11-06 | BIG ____ $400: Christian Bale & Steve Carell were in this 2015 Adam McKay movie that detailed the craziness of the 2008 financial crisis The Big Short |
| #8734, aired 2022-11-03 | NEWSPAPERS & MAGAZINES $1000: This fashion magazine originally focused on movie stars & its title included the words "of Hollywood" Glamour |
| #8732, aired 2022-11-01 | VWLLSS HWN $200: The ocean, (also a movie title):
MN moana |
| #8731, aired 2022-10-31 | YOU'RE THE BEST AROUND $400: Movie in which Bill Murray says, "I send my kids here because the fact is you go to one of the best schools in the country" Rushmore |
| #5, aired 2022-10-23 | AROUND PHILLY WITH RYAN LONG $300: (Ryan Long presents the clue.) I'll take a video & hum "Gonna Fly Now" while you run up the 72 stairs that lead to the east entrance of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, recreating an iconic scene from this 1976 movie Rocky |
| #5, aired 2022-10-23 | HOLLYWOOD REPORTER $600: This funnyman played a reporter who got to fill in for God in the movie "Bruce Almighty" Jim Carrey |
| #5, aired 2022-10-23 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $4,700 (Daily Double): Before taking the road to the White House, he hit the "Santa Fe Trail" in the movie role of George Armstrong Custer Ronald Reagan |
| #8725, aired 2022-10-21 | MOVIE & TV DIRECTORS $400: Dan Fogler plays Francis Ford Coppola in "The Offer", a streaming show about the making of this film The Godfather |
| #8725, aired 2022-10-21 | MOVIE & TV DIRECTORS $1200: Gary Merrill, who played a stage director in "All About Eve", married this star before the film came out Bette Davis |
| #8724, aired 2022-10-20 | THERE'S A SEQUEL $2000: Christian Bale stars in this 2012 sequel to a 2008 sequel to a 2005 movie The Dark Knight Rises |
| #4, aired 2022-10-16 | JOHNNY GILBERT SPEAKS THE MOVIE LINE $300: "A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans & a nice Chianti" The Silence of the Lambs |
| #4, aired 2022-10-16 | JOHNNY GILBERT SPEAKS THE MOVIE LINE $600: "Knock it off, Napoleon, make yourself a dang quesadilla" Napoleon Dynamite |
| #4, aired 2022-10-16 | JOHNNY GILBERT SPEAKS THE MOVIE LINE $900: "I'm also just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her" Notting Hill |
| #4, aired 2022-10-16 | JOHNNY GILBERT SPEAKS THE MOVIE LINE $1200: "You read the Bible, Brett?... Ezekiel 25:17... and you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee!" Pulp Fiction |
| #4, aired 2022-10-16 | JOHNNY GILBERT SPEAKS THE MOVIE LINE $1500: "I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender. I coulda been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am, let's face it" On the Waterfront |
| #8720, aired 2022-10-14 | THAT MOVIE'S GOT LEGS $200: All 4 of them, the "Million Dollar Legs" in a 1939 film don't belong to co-star Betty Grable but to one of these a race horse |
| #8720, aired 2022-10-14 | THAT MOVIE'S GOT LEGS $600: At the end of this Hitchcock film, Jimmy Stewart has not one but 2 broken legs Rear Window |
| #8720, aired 2022-10-14 | THAT MOVIE'S GOT LEGS $800: Golden Leg Fung is a character in the movie about spreading this title style of Kung Fu through soccer Shaolin |
| #8719, aired 2022-10-13 | I GOT THE PART! $1600: In her Oscar acceptance speech for this movie, Halle Berry mentioned Angela Bassett, who was offered the role Monster's Ball |
| #8718, aired 2022-10-12 | MOVIE STUFF $400: The Doof Warrior shredded on post-apocalyptic guitar in this 2015 "Mad Max" film Fury Road |
| #8718, aired 2022-10-12 | IDINA MENZEL ACTS & SINGS $600: (Idina Menzel presents the clue.) In 2022, I released my first children's book, called "Loud Mouse", about a mouse who finds her big voice; and in 2021, I co-starred with some mice playing Camila Cabello's stepmother in this movie Cinderella |
| #8718, aired 2022-10-12 | MOVIE STUFF $800: 2 days after Sly Stallone left "Beverly Hills Cop", this man got the starring role (Eddie) Murphy |
| #8716, aired 2022-10-10 | PLACES IN MOVIE TITLES $400: The stars of this 1993 film were Tom Hanks & Meg Ryan & insomnia Sleepless in Seattle |
| #8716, aired 2022-10-10 | PEN NAMES $800: Ramona Lofton, whose novel "Push" became the movie "Precious", goes by this gem of a byname Sapphire |
| #8716, aired 2022-10-10 | SPORTY BOOKS $1000: "The Church of Baseball" is Ron Shelton's story of how he made this classic movie about life in the minor leagues Bull Durham |
| #8716, aired 2022-10-10 | PLACES IN MOVIE TITLES $1600: Leonardo DiCaprio wants to carve out some revenge against Bill the Butcher in this drama Gangs of New York |
| #8716, aired 2022-10-10 | PLACES IN MOVIE TITLES $2000: The drug adrenochrome gives Johnny Depp's character Raoul Duke a hard time in this film Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas |
| #3, aired 2022-10-09 | CELEBRITY MEMOIRS $1000: This movie star wrote the sort-of-memoir "My Way of Life"; her adopted daughter painted a different picture in "Mommie Dearest" Joan Crawford |
| #3, aired 2022-10-09 | 1992 IN BOOKS: 30 YEARS AGO $3,200 (Daily Double): "The Pelican Brief", a 1992 thriller by this author, became a movie starring Denzel Washington & Julia Roberts John Grisham |
| #8712, aired 2022-10-04 | FILMS BY CHARACTERS $1200: Siblings Michael, Gertie & Elliott E.T. |
| #2, aired 2022-10-02 | CELEBRITY CAMEOS $1200: Bill Murray dresses up like the undead to "blend in" in this 2009 film; Woody Harrelson admits that he's a big fan Zombieland |
| #8708, aired 2022-09-28 | THE RIGHT BROTHERS $1600: After the death of 5 brothers of this last name in WWII, the U.S. instituted the sole survivor policy to prevent a repeat Sullivan |
| #1, aired 2022-09-25 | THE WILD WEST $300: Seen here, this vehicle that gave way to the railroad was the subject of many a Western movie a stagecoach |
| #1, aired 2022-09-25 | APOLOGIES $3,000 (Daily Double): In a movie, Cynthia Nixon played this woman called the Belle of Amherst & known for poems like "I'm Sorry for the Dead--Today" Emily Dickinson |
| #8704, aired 2022-09-22 | MOVIE TITLE REFERENCES $200: "The Green Mile" was this bad part of Cold Mountain Penitentiary death row |
| #8704, aired 2022-09-22 | MOVIE TITLE REFERENCES $400: "Raiders of the Lost Ark" was about the container said to house these the Ten Commandments |
| #8704, aired 2022-09-22 | MOVIE TITLE REFERENCES $800: In the groundbreaking movie "CODA", CODA stands for "child of" these deaf adults |
| #8702, aired 2022-09-20 | BEFORE & AFTER PEOPLE $800: Iconic 1950s movie "Rebel" who was a member of the Rat Pack James Dean Martin |
| #8699, aired 2022-09-15 | SINGERS WHO ACT $1600: The movie "Sparkle" marked the film debut of Jordin Sparks & the final film of this superstar who played her mom Whitney Houston |
| #8698, aired 2022-09-14 | DOG NAMES $1,400 (Daily Double): During World War I a corporal named 2 German Shepherds for French folk dolls: Nanette & this; the latter dog became a movie star Rin Tin Tin |
| #8695, aired 2022-07-29 | MOVIE FACTS $200: It was Brian de Palma who suggested that this director add the now-iconic opening crawl to "Star Wars" to give the film's context George Lucas |
| #8695, aired 2022-07-29 | LET'S GO FISHING $400: Also done by movie directors, it's the act of swinging a fishing rod to throw out a lure casting |
| #8695, aired 2022-07-29 | MOVIE FACTS $400: The animators counted:
In this film Carl Fredricksen's house floats thanks to 10,297 balloons Up |
| #8695, aired 2022-07-29 | MOVIE FACTS $600: To portray the "spice" on Arrakis, the sound designers on this 2021 sci-fi film sprinkled sand with Rice Krispies Dune |
| #8695, aired 2022-07-29 | MOVIE FACTS $800: This movie starring Alicia Silverstone as Cher Horowitz was inspired by Jane Austen's "Emma" Clueless |
| #8692, aired 2022-07-26 | FROM FILM TO TV $400: Damon Wayans took on the Danny Glover role when this buddy cop movie came to the small screen Lethal Weapon |
| #8692, aired 2022-07-26 | GOING AROUND IN CIRCLES $1000: Jennifer Jason Leigh was the title Mrs. in a movie about this writer & her "Vicious Circle" Dorothy Parker (Mrs. Parker) |
| #8691, aired 2022-07-25 | YOUR ROLE $200: Tonya Harding's movie mom & Anna Faris' TV "Mom" Allison Janney |
| #8691, aired 2022-07-25 | LITERATURE OF THE MIDDLE AGES $800: In a 2021 movie version of a medieval tale, Dev Patel plays Sir Gawain, journeying to meet this title character the Green Knight |
| #8690, aired 2022-07-22 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $1200: Students & alumni from this prestigious College of Music in Boston took part in the making of the movie "CODA" Berklee |
| #8687, aired 2022-07-19 | THE MOVIE'S DIRECTOR $400: The 2019 horror thriller
"Us" Jordan Peele |
| #8687, aired 2022-07-19 | THE MOVIE'S DIRECTOR $800: 2003's
"Lost in Translation" Sofia Coppola |
| #8687, aired 2022-07-19 | SAN DIEGO: NEWS CLUES $800: (Dagmar Midcap of NBC 7 in San Diego presents the clue.) In 1969, the U.S. Navy opened its Strike Fighter Tactics Instructor Program at Air Station Miramar, better known as this school that inspired a 1986 movie title TOPGUN |
| #8687, aired 2022-07-19 | CARTOON THEME SONG LYRICS $1000: "Come join the Warner Brothers & the Warner Sister, Dot! Just for fun we run around the Warner movie lot" the Animaniacs |
| #8687, aired 2022-07-19 | POSSESSIVE LIT $1200: This Frank McCourt Pulitzer winner became a 1999 movie starring Emily Watson as the author's mother Angela's Ashes |
| #8687, aired 2022-07-19 | THE MOVIE'S DIRECTOR $1200: The all-American tale "Mr. Deeds Goes to Town"--with Gary Cooper, not Adam Sandler Frank Capra |
| #8687, aired 2022-07-19 | THE MOVIE'S DIRECTOR $1600: The 2021 Marvel Cinematic Universe installment
"Eternals" Chloé Zhao |
| #8687, aired 2022-07-19 | THE MOVIE'S DIRECTOR $2000: 1960's
"La Dolce Vita" Fellini |
| #8682, aired 2022-07-12 | VAMPIRES IN LITERATURE $1600: A Swedish suburb gets bloody in 1981 & the girl next door seems... different in this international bestseller that became a movie Let the Right One In |
| #8681, aired 2022-07-11 | CHARACTERS IN THE MOVIE $400: The first in a series had Morpheus, Trinity & Agent Smith The Matrix |
| #8681, aired 2022-07-11 | CHARACTERS IN THE MOVIE $800: Ernesto de la Cruz & Miguel got animated in the land of the dead Coco |
| #8681, aired 2022-07-11 | CHARACTERS IN THE MOVIE $1200: Sharon Tate, Bruce Lee & Jay Sebring came to town Once Upon a Time in Hollywood |
| #8681, aired 2022-07-11 | CHARACTERS IN THE MOVIE $1600: Annie Savoy &
Nuke LaLoosh were good sports Bull Durham |
| #8681, aired 2022-07-11 | CHARACTERS IN THE MOVIE $2000: Captain Miller,
Sergeant Horvath & Corporal Henderson in a '90s epic Saving Private Ryan |
| #8679, aired 2022-07-07 | THE SCARF $1600: A scarf created for Grace Kelly gets mistreated in this 2021 movie about fashion & murder House of Gucci |
| #8678, aired 2022-07-06 | MOVIE MAGIC & WIZARDRY $600: In "Harry Potter & the Chamber of Secrets", Professor Snape uses this spell to disarm Professor Lockhart Expelliarmus |
| #8678, aired 2022-07-06 | MOVIE MAGIC & WIZARDRY $800: Magician Nicolas Cage hires an assistant in this 2010 Disney film with the same title as a segment of "Fantasia" The Sorcerer's Apprentice |
| #8677, aired 2022-07-05 | STUCK IN THE MIDDLE WITH "Q" $200: For "Texas Chainsaw Massacre", 2017's "Leatherface" is this, a movie going further back in time a prequel |
| #8676, aired 2022-07-04 | OLD MOVIES $400: 908 S. Broadway in Los Angeles is where Harold Lloyd dangled from this in "Safety Last", one of the most famous movie stunts a clock |
| #8675, aired 2022-07-01 | FILMED IN GEORGIA $1600: The Whistle Stop Café in Juliette became a real eatery after this 1991 movie filmed there, & still serves up the title dish Fried Green Tomatoes |
| #8674, aired 2022-06-30 | TALES FROM THE UNCLAIMED BAGGAGE CENTER $1000: The Center kept Hoggle, a creature from the movie "Labyrinth" directed by this puppet master, & displays him at the store Jim Henson |
| #8671, aired 2022-06-27 | BOOKS & THEIR MOVIES $1200: When Hitler saw this 1940 movie based on a Steinbeck novel, he saw Americans as pushovers; Stalin relished the misery of the proletariat The Grapes of Wrath |
| #8669, aired 2022-06-23 | IT CAME FROM A GRAPHIC NOVEL $2000: This 2017 movie with Charlize Theron as a badass spy was based on the graphic novel "The Coldest City" Atomic Blonde |
| #8668, aired 2022-06-22 | ON PLANET POP CULTURE $800: In a 2004 animated movie, Plankton steals King Neptune's crown & it's up to this title guy & his best pal to save the day SpongeBob SquarePants |
| #8668, aired 2022-06-22 | THE SONG OF THE DAY $1000: Love & Kisses hit the Top 40 in 1978 with this title tune from a movie featuring Jeff Goldblum & Donna Summer "Thank God It's Friday" |
| #8667, aired 2022-06-21 | MOVIE INSPIRATIONS $400: These cinematic siblings met a dude named Jeff Dowd who inspired them to make "The Big Lebowski" the Coen brothers |
| #8667, aired 2022-06-21 | MOVIE INSPIRATIONS $800: The 1925 painting "House by the Railroad" by Edward Hopper was an inspiration for the Bates home in this 1960 film Psycho |
| #8667, aired 2022-06-21 | MOVIE INSPIRATIONS $1600: "Racer X", a 1998 article by Ken Li about illegal street-racing, inspired this high-octane film franchise The Fast and the Furious |
| #8667, aired 2022-06-21 | MOVIE INSPIRATIONS $2000: Ben Stiller cited this "international" thriller from 1962 as an inspiration for "Zoolander"; poor Derek is an assassination patsy The Manchurian Candidate |
| #8667, aired 2022-06-21 | MOVIE INSPIRATIONS $3,100 (Daily Double): Padre Fray Tormenta, who helped the orphans of Texcoco while wearing a mask in the ring, inspired this 2006 comedy Nacho Libre |
| #8665, aired 2022-06-17 | THE QUOTABLE MOVIE $400: "It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with... & it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead" The Terminator |
| #8665, aired 2022-06-17 | HIS WIDOW LIVED ON $400: Then in her 70s & a widow for 2 decades, Maud Gage Baum was a consultant on this 1939 movie The Wizard of Oz |
| #8665, aired 2022-06-17 | THE QUOTABLE MOVIE $800: From 2004:
"On Wednesdays we wear pink" Mean Girls |
| #8665, aired 2022-06-17 | THE QUOTABLE MOVIE $1200: "McLovin? What kind of a stupid name is that, Fogell?" Superbad |
| #8665, aired 2022-06-17 | THE QUOTABLE MOVIE $1600: From 2015:
"I don't do romance. My tastes are very singular. You wouldn't understand" Fifty Shades of Grey |
| #8665, aired 2022-06-17 | THE QUOTABLE MOVIE $2000: "I drink your milkshake. I drink it up" There Will Be Blood |
| #8664, aired 2022-06-16 | EVERYTHING'S COMING UP ROSES $800: She starred in the movie "The Rose" & had a No. 3 hit with the title song in 1980 Bette Midler |
| #8660, aired 2022-06-10 | JANE AUSTEN-TATIOUS $600: Austen adaptations include the 1995 movie version of this novel starring Emma Thompson as Elinor Dashwood Sense and Sensibility |
| #8656, aired 2022-06-06 | MOVIE TITLES OF A LIFETIME (NETWORK) $600: In 2004 wedding planner Denise Richards fell for the groom in a movie titled this "(But I Don't)" I Do |
| #8654, aired 2022-06-02 | WHAT BREED OF MOVIE DOG? $800: In the "Beethoven" movie a St. Bernard |
| #8654, aired 2022-06-02 | WHAT BREED OF MOVIE DOG? $1000: In "Hachi", the loyal dog waiting for Richard Gere at the train station: this Japanese breed Akita |
| #8654, aired 2022-06-02 | THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE $1000: Among the most decorated soldiers of World War II, he played himself in the 1955 movie "To Hell and Back" Audie Murphy |
| #8651, aired 2022-05-30 | POTPOURRI $400: Columbia University alumnus Howard Dietz was inspired by his school's lion mascot to create the mascot for this movie studio MGM |
| #8649, aired 2022-05-26 | SNEAKERS WITH JACQUES SLADE $400: (Jacques Slade presents the clue.) Vans classic slip-ons were all the rage in 1970s Southern California, but sales really took off after this actor wore them as laid-back Jeff Spicoli in the 1982 movie "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" Sean Penn |
| #8649, aired 2022-05-26 | MOVIE CO-STARS $1200: In "The Sting" & "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid", these two icons Paul Newman & Robert Redford |
| #8649, aired 2022-05-26 | MOVIE CO-STARS $1600: In "The Internship" & "Wedding Crashers": Owen Wilson & him Vince Vaughn |
| #8648, aired 2022-05-25 | MOVIE SUPERVILLAINS $800: Gruagach the bipedal boar is an antagonist of this hero in the 2019 movie with David Harbour taking over for Ron Perlman Hellboy |
| #8648, aired 2022-05-25 | MOVIE SUPERVILLAINS $1000: Tony Stark creates this title A.I. as part of a peacekeeping program; this title A.I. does not keep the peace Ultron |
| #8647, aired 2022-05-24 | WATER UNDER THE BRIDGE $600: The bridge & train seen here are crossing this Thai river made famous by a 1952 novel & a 1957 movie the River Kwai |
| #8646, aired 2022-05-23 | WHAT'S IN A NAME? $200: From its use by certain movie folks, it's the style of seat seen here a director's chair |
| #8646, aired 2022-05-23 | RELATIVELY SUCCESSFUL COMPOSERS $1200: Alfred of the Newman composing dynasty wrote the drum & horn fanfare that goes with the searchlight for this movie studio (20th Century) Fox |
| #8644, aired 2022-05-19 | BLOOPERMAN $400: Mila Kunis can't keep a straight face in a 2012 movie blooper when this actor tells the police that a guy took his teddy bear Mark Wahlberg |
| #8642, aired 2022-05-17 | MOVIE TITLE BEFORE & AFTER $400: George Clooney travels around firing people while flying with U.S. President Harrison Ford Up in the Air Force One |
| #8642, aired 2022-05-17 | MOVIE TITLE BEFORE & AFTER $800: Drew Barrymore & the rest of her crime-fighting undercover trio win baseball games with some heavenly assistance Charlie's Angels in the Outfield |
| #8642, aired 2022-05-17 | MOVIE TITLE BEFORE & AFTER $1200: George Romero's original zombies from 1968 recruit a wisecracking superhero to add to the mayhem Night of the Living Deadpool |
| #8642, aired 2022-05-17 | MOVIE TITLE BEFORE & AFTER $1600: Steve Martin is alarmed that his daughter has gotten very big hair & is betrothed to Boris Karloff as a monster Father of the Bride of Frankenstein |
| #8642, aired 2022-05-17 | MOVIE TITLE BEFORE & AFTER $2000: Allied prisoners tunnel out of a German P.O.W. camp in a Disney movie about kids with magical powers The Great Escape to Witch Mountain |
| #8640, aired 2022-05-13 | TAYLOR'S VERSION $600: This screen legend played Angela Vickers in "A Place in the Sun", the movie version of the novel "An American Tragedy" Elizabeth Taylor |
| #8634, aired 2022-05-05 | TRUST FALL $800: The movie trust nicknamed for this inventor limited most films to 2 reels & was dissolved in 1917 Edison |
| #8633, aired 2022-05-04 | HUNDREDS $600: This movie about the Battle of Thermopylae was based on a Frank Miller graphic novel 300 |
| #8632, aired 2022-05-03 | STATES' OTHER COMMON LANGUAGES $1200: Hmong is big in this state; both the state & the language were featured in the movie "Gran Torino" Michigan |
| #8631, aired 2022-05-02 | FROM BOOK TO MOVIE WITH A DIFFERENT TITLE $200: Before it was "Schindler's List" on film, the book was "Schindler's" this (meaning the one of the covenant) Ark |
| #8631, aired 2022-05-02 | FROM BOOK TO MOVIE WITH A DIFFERENT TITLE $400: About a CIA analyst on the run, "Six Days of the Condor" was reduced to this many days in the movie version Three |
| #8631, aired 2022-05-02 | FROM BOOK TO MOVIE WITH A DIFFERENT TITLE $600: Ben Mezrich's "The Accidental Billionaires" became this movie about the startup of Facebook The Social Network |
| #8631, aired 2022-05-02 | FROM BOOK TO MOVIE WITH A DIFFERENT TITLE $800: Houston, we have a new title: "Lost Moon" by this astronaut was the basis for "Apollo 13" Jim Lovell |
| #8631, aired 2022-05-02 | FROM BOOK TO MOVIE WITH A DIFFERENT TITLE $1000: "The Midwich Cuckoos" inspired this "Damned" 1960 film about children with frightening powers in a small town Village of the Damned |
| #8627, aired 2022-04-26 | COLONEL KNOWLEDGE $800: Martin Mull played him in the movie based on the game Clue Colonel Mustard |
| #8626, aired 2022-04-25 | SAME FIRST & LAST LETTER $600: As recounted in the movie "Moana", Maui was this type of being a demigod |
| #8625, aired 2022-04-22 | MEMORABLE MOVIE MELODIES $800: "Everything Is Awesome!!!"
(2014) The Lego Movie |
| #8624, aired 2022-04-21 | WORLD CAPITALS $400: Its thriving movie industry was once dubbed "Hollywood on the Nile" Cairo |
| #8622, aired 2022-04-19 | THE CAST OF THE MOVIE $400: 1991:
Geena Davis & Susan Sarandon go on extreme walkabout Thelma & Louise |
| #8622, aired 2022-04-19 | THE CAST OF THE MOVIE $800: 2019:
Chris Evans & Ana de Armas have murder on their minds Knives Out |
| #8622, aired 2022-04-19 | THE CAST OF THE MOVIE $1200: 2012:
Anna Kendrick & Rebel Wilson stay in tune Pitch Perfect |
| #8622, aired 2022-04-19 | THE CAST OF THE MOVIE $1600: 1981:
All the director needed was the two guys seen here--plus a waiter & a bartender My Dinner with Andre |
| #8622, aired 2022-04-19 | THE CAST OF THE MOVIE $2000: 2021:
Gemma Chan & Salma Hayek deal with a pressing planetary issue Eternals |
| #8618, aired 2022-04-13 | AT THE MOVIES $800: Denzel Washington & Viola Davis reprised their Tony-winning roles in the 2016 movie version of this play Fences |
| #8617, aired 2022-04-12 | THE ACTOR'S MOVIE LINE $400: In a movie sequel:
"Yo, Adrian, I did it!" Sylvester Stallone |
| #8617, aired 2022-04-12 | THE ACTOR'S MOVIE LINE $800: In 2018: "I am not king of all people. I am king of Wakanda" Chadwick Boseman |
| #8617, aired 2022-04-12 | THE ACTOR'S MOVIE LINE $1200: To Tom Cruise:
"Shut up, just shut up. You had me at hello" Renée Zellweger |
| #8617, aired 2022-04-12 | THE ACTOR'S MOVIE LINE $1600: In 2005:
"I wish I knew how to quit you" Jake Gyllenhaal |
| #8617, aired 2022-04-12 | THE ACTOR'S MOVIE LINE $2000: Her in a 1950 classic:
"I am big, it's the pictures that got small" Gloria Swanson |
| #8612, aired 2022-04-05 | LAST NAME'S THE SAME $400: Movie auteur Wes & book author Sherwood Anderson |
| #8612, aired 2022-04-05 | MOVIE CRITICS $800: In this film about a bachelor party gone wrong, Ed Helms tells Zach Galifianakis, "You are literally too stupid to insult" The Hangover |
| #8612, aired 2022-04-05 | MOVIE CRITICS $1200: In this comedy, Steve Carell asks a group of rival newscasters, "Where did you get those clothes? At the toilet store?" Anchorman |
| #8612, aired 2022-04-05 | MOVIE CRITICS $1600: A tired & hapless Jeff Bridges expresses some strong dislike for the Eagles in this 1998 Coen Brothers comedy The Big Lebowski |
| #8610, aired 2022-04-01 | ACTING PRESIDENTS $800: In the 2-part TV movie "Rough Riders", Tom Berenger rode in as him Teddy Roosevelt |
| #8610, aired 2022-04-01 | HOOD ORNAMENTS $2000: The company named for George Pierce made this, once the auto of choice for many movie stars the Pierce-Arrow |
| #8606, aired 2022-03-28 | BRITISH WRITERS $1600: This playwright who wrote "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead" also co-wrote the movie "Shakespeare in Love" Tom Stoppard |
| #8604, aired 2022-03-24 | IF YOU LIKED IT $200: Appropriately for the board, this singer was the People's Choice as the Top Animated Movie Star of 2019 for "The Lion King" Beyoncé |
| #8603, aired 2022-03-23 | WOMAN MOVIES $400: This star of "Catwoman" accepted her Razzie Award for that movie in person, the first actress to do so Halle Berry |
| #8599, aired 2022-03-17 | MOVIE & TV ROLE IN COMMON $800: Lena Headey on the tube, Linda Hamilton in several movies Sarah Connor |
| #8599, aired 2022-03-17 | MOVIE & TV ROLE IN COMMON $1200: Howard Keel in the 1953 film "Calamity Jane"; Keith Carradine in "Deadwood" Wild Bill Hickok |
| #8599, aired 2022-03-17 | MOVIE & TV ROLE IN COMMON $1600: Marlene Dietrich in "The Scarlet Empress"; Elle Fanning, much more recently on Hulu Catherine the Great |
| #8599, aired 2022-03-17 | MOVIE & TV ROLE IN COMMON $2000: James Cromwell in "The Queen"; Tobias Menzies in "The Crown" Prince Philip |
| #8597, aired 2022-03-15 | MOVIE MADNESS $400: In "The Dark Knight", this character says, "Madness... is like gravity: all it takes is a little push" the Joker |
| #8597, aired 2022-03-15 | MOVIE MADNESS $1200: In "The Shining" this actor descends into insanity, to the dismay of Shelley Duvall Jack Nicholson |
| #8594, aired 2022-03-10 | WOMEN MAKE PASSES $2000: Movie where figure skater Moira Kelly tells hockey player D.B. Sweeney, "In case you've missed it, I am throwing myself at you" The Cutting Edge |
| #8593, aired 2022-03-09 | 3-LETTER MOVIE TITLES $200: To seek out the bird of his dreams, a domesticated avian travels to Brazil Rio |
| #8593, aired 2022-03-09 | 3-LETTER MOVIE TITLES $400: A boy wakes up to find himself mysteriously in the body of an adult Big |
| #8591, aired 2022-03-07 | SINGLE-NAMED CELEBRITIES $1200: She showed a more serious side in the movie "The Farewell", in which she returns to China to visit her ailing grandmother Awkwafina |
| #8587, aired 2022-03-01 | REMEMBERING STEPHEN SONDHEIM $200: Sondheim's first Broadway musical was as lyricist for this show; he passed away in 2021 just days before the premiere of the movie remake West Side Story |
| #8587, aired 2022-03-01 | ANTONYMS $400: The two symbols seen here denote these antonyms on a popular movie website rotten tomatoes & fresh tomatoes |
| #8583, aired 2022-02-23 | CHILD ACTORS $1200: McKenna Grace played preteen geniuses in the movie "Gifted" & opposite young Iain Armitage on this sitcom Young Sheldon |
| #8583, aired 2022-02-23 | CHILD ACTORS $2000: Miami-area kid Alex R. Hibbert played the child Chiron in this 2016 Oscar-winning movie set in that city Moonlight |
| #18, aired 2022-02-22 | A DAY OF POP CULTURE $600: My niece wanted to watch (again) her favorite movie about this superfast animated critter who got a dental makeover Sonic the Hedgehog |
| #18, aired 2022-02-22 | SCARY STORIES $1200: A dead girl observes her family, friends & killer in this 2002 bestseller by Alice Sebold, later a movie The Lovely Bones |
| #16, aired 2022-02-18 | A DAY AT THE SORBONNE $1000: I just call it a folder, but when my French friend uses this 7-letter word, I feel like I'm in a spy movie a dossier |
| #16, aired 2022-02-18 | LET'S HAVE A WATCH PARTY $1600: Choices for this funny guy: "Inside", with him performing musical comedy, or the movie "Eighth Grade", which he wrote & directed Bo Burnham |
| #15, aired 2022-02-18 | ONE-WORD MOVIE TITLES $1600: The impoverished Kims put one over on the wealthy Parks Parasite |
| #8579, aired 2022-02-17 | THE MOVIE TITLE ELEMENT $400: It precedes "& Dime" in the title of a 1992 comedy with Wallace Shawn & C. Thomas Howell Nickel |
| #8579, aired 2022-02-17 | THE MOVIE TITLE ELEMENT $800: Meryl Streep (2011), Leonardo DiCaprio (1998) & Robert Downey Jr. (over & over) have starred in movies with this element in the title iron |
| #8579, aired 2022-02-17 | THE MOVIE TITLE ELEMENT $1200: Helen Mirren is trying to recover a portrait by Gustav Klimt in the fact-based movie "Woman in" this Gold |
| #8579, aired 2022-02-17 | THE MOVIE TITLE ELEMENT $1600: Bradley Cooper is a bipolar man looking to reconnect with his ex in this 2012 film Silver Linings Playbook |
| #8579, aired 2022-02-17 | THE MOVIE TITLE ELEMENT $2000: "Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops", Cary Grant says in a 1944 comedy about his aunts' use of this arsenic |
| #14, aired 2022-02-17 | MOVIE SUM-UP $200: Let's go to the red planet!
Let's bring everyone home from said red planet! Hey... where's Matt Damon? The Martian |
| #14, aired 2022-02-17 | MOVIE SUM-UP $400: We're all living in a simulation! Only a bank teller can save us!; life is a video game Free Guy |
| #14, aired 2022-02-17 | PLAYING THE PERCENTAGES $1000: The book & movie "The Seven Per-Cent Solution" featured this fictional hero collaborating with Sigmund Freud Sherlock Holmes |
| #12, aired 2022-02-16 | TOY STORIES $400: These toys that became a TV & movie franchise sprang from Japanese toy lines called Diaclone & Micro Change Transformers |
| #11, aired 2022-02-16 | HISTORIC NAMES $3,000 (Daily Double): The subject of a 1993 movie, he's the only member of the Nazi Party honored with burial on Israel's Mt. Zion (Oskar) Schindler |
| #7, aired 2022-02-11 | 2 WORDS TO COMPLETE THE PHRASE $800: Among AFI's 100 Greatest Movie Quotes of All Time:
"E.T. ..." phone home |
| #8573, aired 2022-02-09 | 20th CENTURY HISTORY & THE MOVIES $2000: Andrew Garfield played pacifist & Medal of Honor winner Desmond Doss in this movie set in part at the Battle of Okinawa Hacksaw Ridge |
| #8572, aired 2022-02-08 | JUST "Z" MOVIE FOR YOU $400: Many movies have been made about this title swordsman, but in 1981, he was "The Gay Blade" Zorro |
| #8572, aired 2022-02-08 | JUST "Z" MOVIE FOR YOU $800: Some of the rules for surviving in this 2009 post-apocalyptic comedy include: No. 1: cardio & No. 3: beware of bathrooms Zombieland |
| #8572, aired 2022-02-08 | JUST "Z" MOVIE FOR YOU $1200: Art imitates life as sloths work at the DMV in this animated movie Zootopia |
| #8572, aired 2022-02-08 | JUST "Z" MOVIE FOR YOU $1600: The title of this Kathryn Bigelow film is military slang for a period of time before the sun comes up Zero Dark Thirty |
| #2, aired 2022-02-08 | THE MOVIE'S CAST $200: 2013, set in the 1840s & 1850s:
Chiwetel Ejiofor,
Michael Fassbender 12 Years a Slave |
| #2, aired 2022-02-08 | THE MOVIE'S CAST $400: 2017:
Sally Hawkins,
Doug Jones, who probably got wet a lot The Shape of Water |
| #2, aired 2022-02-08 | THE MOVIE'S CAST $600: 1984:
Bill Murray,
Dan Aykroyd,
Sigourney Weaver Ghostbusters |
| #2, aired 2022-02-08 | THE MOVIE'S CAST $800: 2014:
Michael Keaton,
Edward Norton,
Emma Stone Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) |
| #2, aired 2022-02-08 | THE MOVIE'S CAST $1000: 1999:
Haley Joel Osment,
Bruce Willis The Sixth Sense |
| #8571, aired 2022-02-07 | POP CULTURE "EAST" & "WEST" $400: Yul Brynner wore the black hat in this 1973 movie; Ed Harris is a different man in black on the TV series Westworld |
| #8570, aired 2022-02-04 | THE STAGE MANAGER $800: Broadway actor Michael Barra plays a stage manager in this 2017 movie about P.T. Barnum The Greatest Showman |
| #8568, aired 2022-02-02 | AUSTRALIANA $600: Starring Paul Hogan, this 1986 movie has the highest domestic gross of any Australian film Crocodile Dundee |
| #8565, aired 2022-01-28 | AMERICANA $800: The original logo of this movie studio was likely inspired by scenic Ben Lomond in Utah, home state of W.W. Hodkinson, a studio founder Paramount |
| #8565, aired 2022-01-28 | SINKER $1600: As a building in Venice sinks, Vesper Lynd is trapped underwater & James Bond can't save her in this 2006 movie Casino Royale |
| #8564, aired 2022-01-27 | MOVIES & GEOGRAPHY $1200: As the "Stanley", Henry Stanley, in part of a 1939 movie title, Spencer Tracy explores Sub-Saharan Africa seeking this doctor David Livingstone |
| #8563, aired 2022-01-26 | 10 OF A KIND $600: This actress played the perfect 10 in the movie of that title Bo Derek |
| #8561, aired 2022-01-24 | THE YEAR OF BEFORE & AFTER $1200: Fateful year for the Titanic & a movie in which Henry Fonda plays a juror 1912 Angry Men |
| #8561, aired 2022-01-24 | FROM TV TO FILM $2000: A tagline for the 2008 "Sex and the City" movie urged viewers to "Get" this verb "Away" Carried |
| #8560, aired 2022-01-21 | FICTIONAL PLANETS $200: In a 1977 movie Tatooine is the home planet of this Jedi-to-be Luke Skywalker |
| #8559, aired 2022-01-20 | ACTION MOVIE! $400: Give us your best Billy Batson impression as you say the title of this 2019 DC film Shazam! |
| #8559, aired 2022-01-20 | ACTION MOVIE! $600: Howard Hill did the archery stunts, including splitting one arrow with another, for 1938's "The Adventures of" him Robin Hood |
| #8551, aired 2022-01-10 | CELEBRITY HOBBIES $800: She knitted the shawl she wore as Sister Aloysius in the movie "Doubt" (Meryl) Streep |
| #8549, aired 2022-01-06 | MOVIES BY QUOTE $600: 1993: "It's like that movie... 'An Affair to Remember'... she's gonna meet him at the top of the Empire State Building" Sleepless in Seattle |
| #8547, aired 2022-01-04 | RECENT POP CULTURE $400: It's the 3-letter title of the M. Night Shyamalan movie about people aging with terrifying speed Old |
| #8545, aired 2021-12-31 | POETRY IN MOTION PICTURES $1200: A natural for the category, this John Singleton movie includes a cameo by Maya Angelou & features her work Poetic Justice |
| #8545, aired 2021-12-31 | POETRY IN MOTION PICTURES $2000: It's the title of a 19th c. poem that Nelson Mandela loved, & of a movie in which Mandela gives a copy to a Rugby player Invictus |
| #8544, aired 2021-12-30 | MOVIE LANDMARKS $400: Central to "Stargate" are the pyramids of Giza just outside this world capital Cairo |
| #8544, aired 2021-12-30 | MOVIE LANDMARKS $800: This diabolical monument is the site of a close encounter at the end of a 1977 film Devils Tower |
| #8544, aired 2021-12-30 | MOVIE LANDMARKS $1200: Rom-com fans can visit the bookshop where Hugh Grant meets Julia Roberts in this perennial favorite Notting Hill |
| #8544, aired 2021-12-30 | MOVIE LANDMARKS $2000: Director John Ford filmed "The Searchers" & "Stagecoach" in this valley on the border of Utah & Arizona Monument Valley |
| #8540, aired 2021-12-24 | ARE YOU READY FOR SOME FOOTBALL MOVIES? $600: Billy Dee Williams is his friend Gale Sayers & James Caan is the title dying football player in this TV movie Brian's Song |
| #8539, aired 2021-12-23 | FIRST AMONG SEQUELS $400: "Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey" was the sequel to this outstanding movie Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure |
| #8539, aired 2021-12-23 | ANIMALS IN CHILDREN'S BOOKS $2000: Inspiring a recent movie, "The One and Only Ivan" a gorilla |
| #8536, aired 2021-12-20 | WE 5 "KING"s $400: The title Shah Jahan translates as this 4-word phrase, heard in the movie "Titanic" "King of the world" |
| #8535, aired 2021-12-17 | MOVIE TAGLINES $400: 2010:
"You don't get to 500 million friends without making a few enemies"; what's on your mind? The Social Network |
| #8535, aired 2021-12-17 | MOVIE TAGLINES $1000: 2010:
"Get the hot girl. Defeat her evil exes. Hit love where it hurts" Scott Pilgrim vs. the World |
| #8530, aired 2021-12-10 | BIG MOVIE ON CAMPUS $800: This 1973 film follows a first-year student's clashes with his contracts prof at Harvard Law School The Paper Chase |
| #8530, aired 2021-12-10 | BIG MOVIE ON CAMPUS $1200: Set at a fictional Ivy League university, "Dear White People" was filmed at this school's Twin Cities campus the University of Minnesota |
| #8530, aired 2021-12-10 | BIG MOVIE ON CAMPUS $1600: Georgia's Emory University was one of the locations for this 2016 movie about NASA's female "human computers" Hidden Figures |
| #8528, aired 2021-12-08 | A LITTLE MATH IN YOUR MOVIE $400: Darren Aronofsky's directorial debut was this 1998 film about a math genius who might have approximated the title as 22/7 Pi |
| #8528, aired 2021-12-08 | A LITTLE MATH IN YOUR MOVIE $800: As a math term, this Keanu Reeves film title refers to a set of numbers in rows & columns that form an array The Matrix |
| #8528, aired 2021-12-08 | A LITTLE MATH IN YOUR MOVIE $1200: Spencer Tracy adjusts to life as a grandfather in the 1951 sequel "Father's Little" this math term Dividend |
| #8528, aired 2021-12-08 | A LITTLE MATH IN YOUR MOVIE $1600: Ben Affleck played a younger version of Jack Ryan in this explosive 2002 thriller The Sum of All Fears |
| #8527, aired 2021-12-07 | POP CULTURE $400: 2021 saw the first stand-alone movie about this Marvel-ous title female, set during the time of "Captain America: Civil War" Black Widow |
| #8526, aired 2021-12-06 | GIRL GROUPS $2000: Kristen Stewart & Dakota Fanning starred in a 2010 movie about these rocker girls The Runaways |
| #8525, aired 2021-12-03 | DENNIS QUAID MOVIE ROLES $800: Mercury astronaut Gordon Cooper The Right Stuff |
| #8525, aired 2021-12-03 | DENNIS QUAID MOVIE ROLES $1600: High school baseball coach Jimmy Morris, who makes the Major Leagues The Rookie |
| #8525, aired 2021-12-03 | DENNIS QUAID MOVIE ROLES $2000: Smooth-talking New Orleans police detective Remy McSwain The Big Easy |
| #8525, aired 2021-12-03 | NOVELS $2000: This 1946 novel based on the life of Huey Long won the Pulitzer Prize & the movie won the Best Picture Oscar All the King's Men |
| #8524, aired 2021-12-02 | FUNNY LADIES $400: Long before "Grace and Frankie", she starred opposite Jane Fonda & Dolly Parton in the movie "9 to 5" Tomlin |
| #8523, aired 2021-12-01 | PULITZER PRIZE WINNERS $200: Before Roger Ebert won the 1st Pulitzer for Movie Criticism, his paper-mate Ron Powers won the 1st as a critic of this medium television |
| #8522, aired 2021-11-30 | JOHNNY GILBERT IS THE ACTION MOVIE CHARACTER $200: "I'm a friend of Sarah Connor. I was told that she's here. Could I see her please?... Where is she?... I'll be back" the Terminator |
| #8522, aired 2021-11-30 | JOHNNY GILBERT IS THE ACTION MOVIE CHARACTER $400: "Oh, I'm very sorry, Hans... I figured since I waxed Tony & Marco & his friend here I figured you & Karl & Franco might be a little lonely" (John) McClane |
| #8522, aired 2021-11-30 | JOHNNY GILBERT IS THE ACTION MOVIE CHARACTER $600: "No retreat. no surrender. That is Spartan law & by Spartan law we will stand & fight & die" King Leonidas |
| #8522, aired 2021-11-30 | JOHNNY GILBERT IS THE ACTION MOVIE CHARACTER $800: "You're thinking, 'did he fire 6 shots or only 5?'... You've gotta ask yourself a question. 'Do I feel lucky?' Well, do ya, punk?" Dirty Harry |
| #8522, aired 2021-11-30 | JOHNNY GILBERT IS THE ACTION MOVIE CHARACTER $1000: "Servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius... husband to a murdered wife, & I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next" Maximus |
| #8518, aired 2021-11-24 | RUFF CROWD $200: A Plano, Texas movie theater with this alphanumeric name is famous for letting you bring your dog to the cinema K9 (Cinemas) |
| #8514, aired 2021-11-18 | A FAIR PIECE OF ENTERTAINMENT $1000: Age 11, he made his movie debut in "It Happened at the World's Fair", starring Elvis, whom he later portrayed Kurt Russell |
| #8513, aired 2021-11-17 | READERS, DIGEST $800: This Henry Fielding hero & Mrs. Waters have a sexy ox-eating scene; in the movie, it's seafood & chicken Tom Jones |
| #8513, aired 2021-11-17 | 1985 IN ENTERTAINMENT $1000: John Parr climbed the highest mountain & crossed the wildest sea to hit No. 1 with this movie tune "(Man In Motion)" "St. Elmo's Fire" |
| #8513, aired 2021-11-17 | SAME FIRST & LAST LETTER $1600: A volley of rain, or a type of movie file sent over the Internet torrent |
| #8512, aired 2021-11-16 | AMERICAN IDLE $600: Movie character Jeffrey Lebowski, a slacker mainly interested in drinking & bowling, prefers to be addressed as this "The Dude" (Duderino) |
| #8508, aired 2021-11-10 | THEY TURNED MY BOOK INTO A MOVIE $400: "The Princess Bride" Goldman |
| #8508, aired 2021-11-10 | SITCOMS $1600: Aaron Sorkin spent a year in a hotel room writing a movie script & watching ESPN; the latter led him to create this sitcom Sports Night |
| #8508, aired 2021-11-10 | THEY TURNED MY BOOK INTO A MOVIE $2000: "The Remains of the Day" Ishiguro |
| #8507, aired 2021-11-09 | MOVIE REWARDS $200: Jamal wins 20 million rupees after getting the final question right in this 2008 movie Slumdog Millionaire |
| #8507, aired 2021-11-09 | MOVIE REWARDS $600: In a 1994 film this character receives a Medal of Honor from LBJ after being wounded "in the buttocks" Forrest Gump |
| #8507, aired 2021-11-09 | MOVIE REWARDS $800: In "Never Say Never Again", this Bond actor settles for a dance with Kim Basinger after winning a game vs. the villainous Largo Sean Connery |
| #8507, aired 2021-11-09 | MOVIE REWARDS $1000: At the end of a 2009 movie this title guy is offered his dream job but instead continues to protect shoppers at the West Orange Pavilion Paul Blart: Mall Cop |
| #8506, aired 2021-11-08 | MOVIE STARS $400: In "Avatar" the Alpha Centauri star system is where humans are mining on this moon Pandora |
| #8506, aired 2021-11-08 | ANIMAL EXPRESSIONS $600: Also the title of a Marx Brothers movie, this dish means something very easy to do duck soup |
| #8506, aired 2021-11-08 | MOVIE STARS $800: The Ceti Alpha star system is the scene of the action in the "Star Trek" film subtitled "The Wrath of" him Khan |
| #8506, aired 2021-11-08 | MOVIE STARS $1200: In "Interstellar", a character wishes he could see the collapsed star inside Gargantua, one of these a black hole |
| #8506, aired 2021-11-08 | MOVIE STARS $1600: This off-limits "planet" in the title of a 1956 sci-fi classic is in orbit around Altair Forbidden Planet |
| #8503, aired 2021-11-03 | MOVIE THEATER GIMMICKS $200: The Odorama process added smells to movies using this 3-word process that involves a card & your fingernail scratch and sniff |
| #8503, aired 2021-11-03 | MOVIE THEATER GIMMICKS $600: Psycho-Rama films used these, split-second hidden images or words, to unsettle the audience subliminal messages |
| #8503, aired 2021-11-03 | MOVIE THEATER GIMMICKS $800: Some theaters showed this 2019 Will Smith clone movie in 60 frames per second, which made the action look smoother Gemini Man |
| #8503, aired 2021-11-03 | MOVIE THEATER GIMMICKS $1000: This director took his "Jay & Silent Bob Reboot" across the country on a roadshow Kevin Smith |
| #8501, aired 2021-11-01 | TRIPLE ALLITERATION $600: The movie "A Christmas Story" used this canine phrase to up the ante in a big challenge double dog dare |
| #8500, aired 2021-10-29 | NON-MEDICAL FEVERS $1600: Stevie Wonder wrote the soundtrack & title song to this 1991 Spike Lee movie Jungle Fever |
| #8495, aired 2021-10-22 | ACTORS & ACCENTS $400: Emma Stone says her accent in the 2021 movie named for this Disney villain is more 1940s movie actor than pure British Cruella (de Vil) |
| #8494, aired 2021-10-21 | SPORTS BOOKS $1,000 (Daily Double): The basis for a movie & TV series, this bestseller is subtitled "A Town, a Team, and a Dream" Friday Night Lights |
| #8493, aired 2021-10-20 | BOATS & SHIPS $800: The USS Doyle didn't have a mutiny during World War II, but it later played this movie ship that did the Caine |
| #8492, aired 2021-10-19 | 20th CENTURY ENGLISH $1,500 (Daily Double): It first meant a movie, then a script for one, then starting in the 1930s was used in Academy Award categories a screenplay |
| #8491, aired 2021-10-18 | DISNEY SONGS $600: Sung by Troy & the gang, a song from this TV movie says, "We're all in this together, once we know that we are we're all stars..." High School Musical |
| #8491, aired 2021-10-18 | FICTIONAL AFRICA $1200: This character had just 2 hours to deal with a coup in Sangala in the TV movie
"24: Redemption" Jack Bauer |
| #8491, aired 2021-10-18 | FICTIONAL AFRICA $2000: In the first movie allowed to shoot inside the U.N., Nicole Kidman had this title job, playing a character from Matobo The Interpreter |
| #8490, aired 2021-10-15 | MOVIE TITLES THROUGH PICTURES $800: "The Asner" is this 2009 animated film Up |
| #8490, aired 2021-10-15 | MOVIE TITLES THROUGH PICTURES $1600: Let's get down to business--it's the 2013 film broken down here The Wolf of Wall Street |
| #8487, aired 2021-10-12 | MAKING A SHORT STORY LONG $1600: "Big Creek Missile Agency", Homer Hickam's article about his childhood, became this book that became the movie "October Sky" Rocket Boys |
| #8486, aired 2021-10-11 | RECENT MOVIES $1600: This word/genre completes the title of a movie with Riz Ahmed as a drummer going deaf, "Sound of..." Metal |
| #8484, aired 2021-10-07 | SCENE HERE $1200: In this movie, Marge says to a suspect in the back of a police car, "I guess that was your accomplice in the wood chipper" Fargo |
| #8481, aired 2021-10-04 | SCI-FI MOVIE SYNOPSES $1200: Beleaguered botanist bolsters base, buddies bounce back, boost on board (The) Martian |
| #8480, aired 2021-10-01 | WAITER, THERE'S A BUG IN MY MOVIE $200: 2018:
"Ant-Man and
the ____ " Wasp |
| #8480, aired 2021-10-01 | WAITER, THERE'S A BUG IN MY MOVIE $400: 2018:
"The Girl in
____ ____ ____" the Spider's Web |
| #8480, aired 2021-10-01 | WAITER, THERE'S A BUG IN MY MOVIE $600: 1938,
a Disney
"Silly Symphony":
"____ and the Flame" Moth |
| #8480, aired 2021-10-01 | WAITER, THERE'S A BUG IN MY MOVIE $800: 2002,
desert battles in the ancient world:
"The ____ King" Scorpion |
| #8480, aired 2021-10-01 | SPIN CYCLE $800: In the movie "White Nights", Mikhail Baryshnikov does a 3,960-degree turn, 11 in a row of these pirouettes |
| #8480, aired 2021-10-01 | WAITER, THERE'S A BUG IN MY MOVIE $1000: 1958,
remade in 1986:
"The ____" Fly |
| #8479, aired 2021-09-30 | FROM BOOK TO RETITLED FILM $400: The movie "Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory" was based on a novel with this other character in the title Charlie |
| #8479, aired 2021-09-30 | FROM BOOK TO RETITLED FILM $1200: Centered on an evil puzzle box, "The Hellbound Heart" by Clive Barker scared up this 1987 horror movie, you pinhead Hellraiser |
| #8477, aired 2021-09-28 | & IN A SUPPORTING ROLE $1600: Unafraid to be in a superhero movie or 2, he lent his voice--but not his trademark swearing--to "The Incredibles" as Frozone Jackson |
| #8476, aired 2021-09-27 | MOVIE TAGLINES $600: 1995: "Five criminals. One lineup. No coincidence" The Usual Suspects |
| #8476, aired 2021-09-27 | SO YOU JUST BOWLED A STRIKE $600: Nothing wrong with the chest-shimmying victory walk of Bill Murray as bowler Ernie McCracken in this movie Kingpin |
| #8476, aired 2021-09-27 | MOVIE TAGLINES $1,400 (Daily Double): 1985:
"He's the only kid ever to get into trouble before he was born" Back to the Future |
| #8473, aired 2021-09-22 | MOVIE TIME $400: 1966's "The Silencers" was the first movie with a scene after these, a teaser for the next Matt Helm spy adventure the credits |
| #8473, aired 2021-09-22 | NEW YORK: NEWS CLUES $600: (Hi, I'm Sade Baderinwa.) As part of a New York City tradition that began in 1962, many movie stars, including James Earl Jones as Othello, & Meryl Streep in "Henry V", have interpreted the Bard as part of this project Shakespeare in the Park |
| #8473, aired 2021-09-22 | MOVIE TIME $600: Marge Champion, the model for this title character of a 1937 Disney film, was briefly married to the animator who developed Goofy Snow White |
| #8473, aired 2021-09-22 | MOVIE TIME $800: In this film, Morgan Freeman says the prison library should file "The Count of Monte Cristo" with the educational books The Shawshank Redemption |
| #8473, aired 2021-09-22 | MOVIE TIME $1000: This legendary Italian composer was 87 when he finally won his first competitive Oscar for "The Hateful Eight" (Ennio) Morricone |
| #8472, aired 2021-09-21 | MOVIE SERIES BY SEQUEL $400: "The Force Awakens" Star Wars |
| #8472, aired 2021-09-21 | MOVIE SERIES BY SEQUEL $1600: "The Golden Army" Hellboy |
| #8468, aired 2021-09-15 | REDUPLICATIVES $400: This kids' slang meaning extremely simple is in the 1940 movie "The Long Voyage Home", based on Eugene O'Neill's plays easy-peasy |
| #8466, aired 2021-09-13 | & THE BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR OSCAR GOES TO... $400: Tommy Lee Jones, for doing the pursuing in this movie The Fugitive |
| #8462, aired 2021-08-10 | THE CANINES FILM FESTIVAL $600: "Immortal Beloved" is a biography of a composer while the 1992 movie with this one-word title is about a Saint Bernard Beethoven |
| #8461, aired 2021-08-09 | "A" MOVIE $400: This 2009 movie won Oscars for art direction, cinematography & visual effects Avatar |
| #8461, aired 2021-08-09 | "A" MOVIE $1200: It won the Oscar as the best film of 2012 Argo |
| #8461, aired 2021-08-09 | "A" MOVIE $2,000 (Daily Double): This 1997 thriller about President Marshall was set largely on the title transport Air Force One |
| #8461, aired 2021-08-09 | "A" MOVIE $2000: The title of this 2007 film starring Saoirse Ronan is a synonym for expiation Atonement |
| #8459, aired 2021-08-05 | NAME THE MOVIE KING $400: "The Other Boleyn Girl" Henry VIII |
| #8459, aired 2021-08-05 | NAME THE MOVIE KING $800: "First Knight" King Arthur |
| #8459, aired 2021-08-05 | NAME THE MOVIE KING $1200: Patrick Stewart in "Robin Hood: Men in Tights" King Richard the Lion-Hearted |
| #8459, aired 2021-08-05 | NAME THE MOVIE KING $1600: "The Man in the Iron Mask" Louis XIV |
| #8459, aired 2021-08-05 | NAME THE MOVIE KING $2000: "Braveheart":
the bad guy Edward I |
| #8456, aired 2021-08-02 | FROM TV TO FILM $200: The 2000 movie version of this TV show added "Viva Rock Vegas" to the title The Flintstones |
| #8454, aired 2021-07-29 | PLAYING THE PART $1200: He played Sergeant Matt Eversmann in the movie "Black Hawk Down" & Ethan Chandler on "Penny Dreadful" Hartnett |
| #8452, aired 2021-07-27 | MINNEAPOLIS: NEWS CLUES $200: (I'm Gia Vang.) Showcasing the funky pop rhythms of the Minneapolis sound, this movie released in 1984 was partly filmed in the city & starred our own native son, Prince Rogers Nelson Purple Rain |
| #8452, aired 2021-07-27 | ACTORS SING $400: Helena Bonham Carter sings about "The Worst Pies In London" in this 2007 movie Sweeney Todd |
| #8445, aired 2021-07-16 | POP CULTURE BEFORE & AFTER $1200: Movie where the monstrous Lester Burnham locks up Belle, who finds an enchanted rose American Beauty and the Beast |
| #8444, aired 2021-07-15 | THOMAS PAINE $1600: A "Captain America" movie got its title by contrasting this Paine phrase meaning someone who only fights when it's pleasant outside the summer soldier |
| #8442, aired 2021-07-13 | FICTIONAL BOOKS $1200: "The First Time" & "Love Hurts" were books written by the murderous novelist that Sharon Stone played in this 1992 movie Basic Instinct |
| #8441, aired 2021-07-12 | PHARMACEUTICALS $600: The track & field movie "Personal Best" includes a song about dianabol, an anabolic one of these a steroid |
| #8441, aired 2021-07-12 | OLD TV THEME SONGS $2000: "Through early morning fog I see", begin this song's lyrics, heard in the 1970 movie "M*A*S*H" but not in the TV show's theme "Suicide Is Painless" |
| #8437, aired 2021-07-06 | CHECKING IN TO THE MOVIES $1000: The secluded mansion where android Alicia Vikander is held captive in this movie is really Norway's Juvet Landscape Hotel Ex Machina |
| #8436, aired 2021-07-05 | LITERATURE $2000: In this A.S. Byatt novel, a scholar (Aaron Eckhart in the movie) finds letters in a book owned by a long-dead poet Possession |
| #8434, aired 2021-07-01 | THE MOVIE IN QUESTION $200: 1993,
starring a young Johnny Depp:
"What's Eating Gilbert ____" Grape |
| #8434, aired 2021-07-01 | THE FIRST OF JULY $400: Bring on the summer blockbusters! On July 1, 1984 the MPAA introduced this new alphanumeric movie rating PG-13 |
| #8434, aired 2021-07-01 | THE MOVIE IN QUESTION $400: 1937, starring Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers: "Shall We ____" Dance |
| #8434, aired 2021-07-01 | THE MOVIE IN QUESTION $600: 1977, starring Richard Pryor:
"Which Way Is ____?" Up |
| #8434, aired 2021-07-01 | 'TIS SHAKESPEARE $800: The movie "All Is True", about Shakespeare in retirement, begins with the fire that destroyed this theatre in 1613 the Globe Theatre |
| #8434, aired 2021-07-01 | THE MOVIE IN QUESTION $800: 2000,
set in the 1930s:
"O ____ ,
____ ____ ____?" O Brother, Where Are Thou? |
| #8434, aired 2021-07-01 | 14-LETTER WORDS $800: Rich tech people buying up Oakland homes causes this issue, a focus of the 2018 movie "Blindspotting" gentrification |
| #8434, aired 2021-07-01 | THE MOVIE IN QUESTION $1000: 1993, about the woman seen here; the 7-word title What's Love Got to Do with It |
| #8431, aired 2021-06-28 | THE CARS $600: For the 2016 James Bond movie "Spectre", this British automaker built a new model, the DB10, especially for the film Aston Martin |
| #8431, aired 2021-06-28 | CHANNEL ISLANDS $1600: A 1981 made-for-TV movie saw this basketball team pitted against robots, with the fate of "Gilligan's Island" on the line the Harlem Globetrotters |
| #8430, aired 2021-06-25 | JOURNALISTS $1600: He turned his experiences as a teenage rock journalist into the movie "Almost Famous" (Cameron) Crowe |
| #8429, aired 2021-06-24 | REAL PEOPLE ON FILM $600: Prison cellmate Tommy Chong convinced Jordan Belfort to pen a memoir, which led to this Scorsese movie The Wolf of Wall Street |
| #8426, aired 2021-06-21 | MOVIE TITLE MIDDLE WORD $600: Robin Williams tells his students to seize the day (1989) "Poets" |
| #8425, aired 2021-06-18 | CINEMAPOURRI $200: The 2 turtles Sylvester Stallone had in "Creed 2" are the same turtles he had in this 1976 movie Rocky |
| #8424, aired 2021-06-17 | DID YOU READ... $3,000 (Daily Double): ... This book by Mark Bowden chronicling a savage firefight in Somalia in 1993 Black Hawk Down |
| #8422, aired 2021-06-15 | 5 NIGHTS $1200: One night taken this city on the French Riviera, known for a movie festival & an international pyrotechnic festival Cannes |
| #8422, aired 2021-06-15 | POP CULTURE TIDBITS $1600: "Chernobyl" & this comic book movie won Iceland's Hildur Gudnadottir an Emmy, a Grammy & an Oscar within the same awards season Joker |
| #8422, aired 2021-06-15 | POP CULTURE TIDBITS $2000: Tony Todd was paid $1,000 each time he was stung by a bee playing the title villain in this 1992 horror movie Candyman |
| #8421, aired 2021-06-14 | MUSICAL SEQUELS $800: In the 1982 musical sequel to this movie, the Rydell High exchange student is from Britain, not Australia Grease |
| #8421, aired 2021-06-14 | MUSICAL SEQUELS $1200: Zac, Vanessa & the gang spend a summer vacation working at Lava Springs Country Club in 2007's this movie "2" High School Musical |
| #8417, aired 2021-06-08 | MUSICAL GENRES $800: In the 1972 movie "The Harder They Come", Jimmy Cliff helped popularize this genre that fights for the oppressed reggae |
| #8417, aired 2021-06-08 | SUMMER MOVIES $1600: Computer & TV screen images are made of these, the title of a 2015 movie about video game characters attacking Earth pixels |
| #8413, aired 2021-06-02 | DESCRIBING THE FILM TRILOGY $800: Movie earns 4 Oscars; movie earns 2 Oscars; movie earns 11 Oscars Lord of the Rings |
| #8412, aired 2021-06-01 | QUOTATIONS $400: The Book of Proverbs provided a play & movie title with "he that troubleth his own house shall inherit" this the wind |
| #8410, aired 2021-05-28 | MOVIES ABOUT THE MOVIES $400: As Chili Palmer, this actor noted, "Rough business, this movie business... I may have to go back to loansharking" John Travolta |
| #8410, aired 2021-05-28 | MOVIES ABOUT THE MOVIES $2000: A single-shot take that lasts about 8 minutes opens this 1992 film about a movie exec played by Tim Robbins The Player |
| #8408, aired 2021-05-26 | FICTIONAL GAME SHOWS $1200: A sequel to this mind-bending 1975 movie musical, "Shock Treatment" finds Brad & Janet as contestants on "Marriage Maze" The Rocky Horror Picture Show |
| #8405, aired 2021-05-21 | SHE SANG IT IN A MOVIE $1200: 2005: "Wildwood Flower" & "Jackson" (with an assist from Joaquin Phoenix) Reese Witherspoon |
| #8405, aired 2021-05-21 | SHE SANG IT IN A MOVIE $2000: 2014:
"Witch's Lament", written by Stephen Sondheim Meryl Streep |
| #8404, aired 2021-05-20 | ALLITERATIVE JOBS $800: This final gatekeeper at a stadium or movie theater may tear off a stub for the patron a ticket taker |
| #8401, aired 2021-05-17 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $1600: Music from his "Thus Spake Zarathustra" became especially popular after it was featured in the movie "2001: A Space Odyssey" Richard Strauss |
| #8399, aired 2021-05-13 | FROM TV SHOW TO FILM $600: In the movie "The A-Team", Quinton "Rampage" Jackson took on the role played by this actor on TV Mr. T |
| #8397, aired 2021-05-11 | MOVIE THEATERS $400: The Nazi high command gets locked inside a burning Paris theater in this 2009 Tarantino movie Inglourious Basterds |
| #8397, aired 2021-05-11 | MOVIE THEATERS $1200: Lon Chaney haunted the title theater in the 1925 film version of this Gaston Leroux novel The Phantom of the Opera |
| #8397, aired 2021-05-11 | MOVIE THEATERS $1600: In "The Shawshank Redemption", a prison theater crowd watching "Gilda" erupts when this title actress flips her hair Rita Hayworth |
| #8397, aired 2021-05-11 | MOVIE THEATERS $2000: Elisa & Giles live above the Orpheum Cinema in this 2017 del Toro Best Picture Oscar winner The Shape of Water |
| #8396, aired 2021-05-10 | TIME $400: The 1956 movie "Written on the Wind" introduces a flashback with the wind blowing pages off this a calendar |
| #8395, aired 2021-05-07 | A CINEMATIC WEDDING ABROAD $600: The bride (& bridesmaids, too) had wet feet getting to the altar in this Singapore-set movie from 2018 Crazy Rich Asians |
| #8395, aired 2021-05-07 | A CINEMATIC WEDDING ABROAD $800: Amid swashbuckling, Barbossa officiates Will & Elizabeth's wedding, not just offshore but "At World's End", in this movie Pirates of the Caribbean |
| #8395, aired 2021-05-07 | A CINEMATIC WEDDING ABROAD $1000: ABBA, dabba do! This Toni Collette movie tells us that Sydney, Australia is known as "The City of Brides" Muriel's Wedding |
| #8393, aired 2021-05-05 | MOVIE RULES $400: The second rule of this movie "Club" is the same as the first--but rule No. 6 is "No shirts, no shoes" Fight Club |
| #8393, aired 2021-05-05 | MOVIE RULES $800: Mr. Miyagi teaches Daniel-san the first rule of this martial art: "For defense only" karate |
| #8393, aired 2021-05-05 | MOVIE RULES $1200: The only rule of the San Diego News Team Rumble in this 2004 film: "No touching of the hair or face" Anchorman |
| #8393, aired 2021-05-05 | MOVIE RULES $1600: "Double Tap", the subtitle to a 2019 sequel to this movie, is also No. 2 in its rules for surviving the undead Zombieland |
| #8387, aired 2021-04-27 | RECENT BOOKS $1200: 2020's "Malorie" is a sequel to this novel that was the basis for a Netflix movie starring a blindfolded Sandra Bullock Bird Box |
| #8384, aired 2021-04-22 | 5 FIRST DATES $600: The movie "Southside with You" chronicles the 1989 first date of this later to be famous couple Barack & Michelle Obama |
| #8382, aired 2021-04-20 | PLANET SHAMING $200: Tried to kill visitor Matt Damon in a 2015 movie Mars |
| #8382, aired 2021-04-20 | MOVIE TO STAGE $800: This musical says it was "lovingly ripped off from the motion picture 'Monty Python and the Holy Grail"' Spamalot |
| #8382, aired 2021-04-20 | MOVIE TO STAGE $1000: Tina Fey wrote the book for this musical adaptation about surviving high school cliques Mean Girls |
| #8382, aired 2021-04-20 | HISTORY $1600: In 480 B.C. the Persian army found out the hard way this mountain pass was about 50 feet wide at its narrowest Thermopylae |
| #8381, aired 2021-04-19 | SCI-FI MOVIE BY QUOTE $800 (Daily Double): 1968: "You know what they say, 'Human see, human do'" Planet of the Apes |
| #8381, aired 2021-04-19 | SCI-FI MOVIE BY QUOTE $1000: 1951: "I'm worried about Gort. I'm afraid of what he might do if anything should happen to me" The Day the Earth Stood Still |
| #8381, aired 2021-04-19 | EMCEE $2000: This singer & actress from the movie "Hustlers" hosted the 2020 MTV Video Music Awards Keke Palmer |
| #8378, aired 2021-04-14 | 3-NAMED CELEBRITIES $400: In 2020 the MTV Movie & TV Awards honored this "Halloween" actress as the greatest scream queen of all time Jamie Lee Curtis |
| #8377, aired 2021-04-13 | MOVIE MUSICALS $400: At a midnight screening of this film, people often do the "Time Warp" in the aisles The Rocky Horror Picture Show |
| #8377, aired 2021-04-13 | MOVIE MUSICALS $1600: "Toot Sweets" & "Truly Scrumptious" were 2 of the tunes in this 1960s musical about a magical flying car Chitty Chitty Bang Bang |
| #8376, aired 2021-04-12 | DREW'S CLUES ON FAMOUS FAMILIES $400: (Drew Barrymore presents the clue.) As a child, Bridget Fonda appeared in "Easy Rider" with her dad Peter while Jane Fonda shared the screen with her dad Henry in this movie, beautifully filmed in New England On Golden Pond |
| #8373, aired 2021-04-07 | BROADWAY BOUND $600: "A divine musical comedy", boasted the Broadway show based on this movie in which Whoopi Goldberg donned a nun's habit the Sister Act |
| #8371, aired 2021-04-05 | FORTUNE FAVORS THE BALD $400: 1956 was a good year for the bald: Ike got re-elected & this movie musical starring Yul Brynner had its premiere The King and I |
| #8370, aired 2021-04-02 | CATCHIN' THE MOVIE TRAIN $400: The comedy called "Throw" her "from the Train" finds Danny DeVito enlisting Billy Crystal in a murder plot Momma |
| #8370, aired 2021-04-02 | CATCHIN' THE MOVIE TRAIN $800: In this 2004 holiday film, the title train stops by a kid's house with an offer to take him way, way north The Polar Express |
| #8370, aired 2021-04-02 | CATCHIN' THE MOVIE TRAIN $1200: This director cut to the train entering a tunnel as Cary Grant & Eva Marie Saint embraced on a sleeper car in "North by Northwest" Hitchcock |
| #8370, aired 2021-04-02 | CATCHIN' THE MOVIE TRAIN $1600: Owen Wilson is one of 3 brothers who hop on a train through India in this 2007 film The Darjeeling Limited |
| #8370, aired 2021-04-02 | CATCHIN' THE MOVIE TRAIN $2000: The English-language debut of Bong Joon Ho was this film about class warfare aboard a dystopian train that never stops running Snowpiercer |
| #8369, aired 2021-04-01 | TV & FILM $400: Played by Ben Stiller, the character Greg had this last name in the movie "Meet the Parents" Focker |
| #8368, aired 2021-03-31 | AT THE MOVIES $800: This 2016 movie is about a young African American named Chiron, whom we see as a young boy, as a teen & as a 20-something Moonlight |
| #8368, aired 2021-03-31 | AT THE MOVIES $1600: As of 2021 the last film appearance of this movie "Angel" was in a 2014 version of "Annie" Cameron Diaz |
| #8368, aired 2021-03-31 | AT THE MOVIES $2000: This 1988 movie that was, let's say, reminiscent of "E.T." found a second life as Paul Rudd's go-to clip on "Conan" Mac and Me |
| #8366, aired 2021-03-29 | AROUND THE USA $600: Pe'ahi, a giant, dangerous surf break off Maui, is also called by this title of a movie about another dangerous ocean giant Jaws |
| #8365, aired 2021-03-26 | MOVIE ROLE, TV ROLE $200: The genie in 2019's "Aladdin" & "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" Will Smith |
| #8365, aired 2021-03-26 | MOVIE ROLE, TV ROLE $400: The Oscar-winning role of Sally Hyde in "Coming Home" & the Emmy-nominated role of Grace on "Grace and Frankie" Jane Fonda |
| #8365, aired 2021-03-26 | MOVIE ROLE, TV ROLE $1000: LBJ in "Lee Daniels' The Butler" & "Ray Donovan" Liev Schreiber |
| #8363, aired 2021-03-24 | THE NEBULA AWARDS $600: A Game Writing award went to Charlie Brooker for this: "Bandersnatch", also a Netflix movie Black Mirror |
| #8361, aired 2021-03-22 | MacGUFFIN $200: An original draft of the Declaration of Independence is thought to hold clues to riches in this Nicolas Cage movie National Treasure |
| #8361, aired 2021-03-22 | MacGUFFIN $400: In a 1941 movie Humphrey Bogart called this title MacGuffin "the stuff that dreams are made of" the Maltese Falcon |
| #8360, aired 2021-03-19 | GAME $1200: Reagan asked if the plot of this 1983 movie could happen in real life; a general later replied it's "worse than you think" WarGames |
| #8359, aired 2021-03-18 | "AD" TO YOUR LATIN $1200: The title of this 2019 Brad Pitt space movie translates as "to the stars" Ad Astra |
| #8358, aired 2021-03-17 | AT THE END OF THE SCARY MOVIE $400: "This is Ripley, last survivor of the Nostromo, signing off" Alien |
| #8358, aired 2021-03-17 | AT THE END OF THE SCARY MOVIE $800: "I do wish we could chat longer, but I'm having an old friend for dinner" The Silence of the Lambs |
| #8358, aired 2021-03-17 | AT THE END OF THE SCARY MOVIE $1200: Sung: "One, two, Freddy's coming for you..." Nightmare on Elm Street |
| #8358, aired 2021-03-17 | AT THE END OF THE SCARY MOVIE $2000: "Excuse me, I don't mean to bother you, but are you Paul Sheldon... I just want to tell you I'm your No. 1 fan" Misery |
| #8358, aired 2021-03-17 | AT THE END OF THE SCARY MOVIE $5,000 (Daily Double): "I used to hate the water"--"I can't imagine why" Jaws |
| #8356, aired 2021-03-15 | THE SQUAD $600: Supervillains housed at Belle Reve Prison are recruited for this movie title DC Comics group The Suicide Squad |
| #8354, aired 2021-03-11 | CLASSIC BLACK & WHITE FILMS $400: "How Green Was My Valley" beat out this Orson Welles movie to win the 1941 Best Picture Oscar Citizen Kane |
| #8352, aired 2021-03-09 | FERRIS & OBSERVATION WHEELS $1000: In the movie "Divergent" , there's still a Ferris wheel on this pier in future Chicago & Tris climbs it Navy Pier |
| #8350, aired 2021-03-05 | BROADWAY MUSICALS $400: For this show Justin Collette took the role of Dewey Finn, played by Jack Black in a 2003 movie School of Rock |
| #8350, aired 2021-03-05 | RYAN GOSLING MOVIE ROLES $1200: Successful bachelor Jacob Palmer, helping newly separated Steve Carell re-enter the dating scene Crazy, Stupid, Love |
| #8350, aired 2021-03-05 | RYAN GOSLING MOVIE ROLES $1600: A mysterious stuntman who moonlights as a getaway chauffeur Drive |
| #8349, aired 2021-03-04 | HIT: THE "ROAD" $2000: This Springsteen classic that opens the album "Born To Run" was inspired by a Robert Mitchum movie of the same title "Thunder Road" |
| #8344, aired 2021-02-25 | FILMS OF THE '80s $800: 1987 & 1989 saw this movie & its first sequel featuring cops Riggs & Murtaugh Lethal Weapon |
| #8341, aired 2021-02-22 | THERE'S A BOOK IN MY MOVIE $200: As Charles Xavier, James McAvoy reads to his students from "The Once & Future King" in the "Apocalypse" film in this franchise the X-Men franchise |
| #8341, aired 2021-02-22 | THERE'S A BOOK IN MY MOVIE $600: In this film that's near & dear to us, Rosie Perez reads the World Almanac to study for "Jeopardy!" White Men Can't Jump |
| #8341, aired 2021-02-22 | THERE'S A BOOK IN MY MOVIE $1000: Naturally, "Mastering the Art of French Cooking" is at the heart of this film with Amy Adams & Meryl Streep Julie & Julia |
| #8340, aired 2021-02-19 | MOVIE TITLE PAIRS $400: 1991: 2 women go on the run from the cops after one commits a homicide Thelma & Louise |
| #8340, aired 2021-02-19 | MOVIE TITLE PAIRS $800: 1975: King Arthur & his knights embark on a surreal search for a sacred object Monty Python and the Holy Grail |
| #8340, aired 2021-02-19 | MOVIE TITLE PAIRS $2000: 1998: Near the end of his life, the director of "Frankenstein" begins a friendship with his gardener Gods and Monsters |
| #8333, aired 2021-02-10 | WHAT DOES NOT KILL US... $200: Leonardo DiCaprio has a bad encounter with one of these animals in "The Revenant" but does make it to the end of the movie a (grizzly) bear |
| #8333, aired 2021-02-10 | WHAT DOES NOT KILL US... $1000: At the end of this 1982 movie, a replicant spares Harrison Ford's character, perhaps appreciating life in any form Blade Runner |
| #8331, aired 2021-02-08 | BEFORE & AFTER GOES TO THE MOVIES $2000: A 2014 movie with Peter Quill & his pals meets up with Tim Allen & his sci-fi TV cast to be a film we'd very much like to see Guardians of the Galaxy Quest |
| #8330, aired 2021-02-05 | MOVIE MAGIC $400: Played by Emily Blunt in a 2018 sequel, she "Returns" to help the Banks family with their finances Mary Poppins |
| #8330, aired 2021-02-05 | MOVIE MAGIC $1600: Isla Fisher & Jesse Eisenberg are half of the 4 Horsemen magic squad in this 2013 film that spawned a sequel Now You See Me |
| #8330, aired 2021-02-05 | MOVIE MAGIC $2000: It's Hugh Jackman vs. Christian Bale in this Christopher Nolan film about a pair of uber-competitive magicians The Prestige |
| #8329, aired 2021-02-04 | POP CULTURE $400: Keloid scars like the kind developed by many Hiroshima survivors were included in the 1954 design of this movie monster Godzilla |
| #8329, aired 2021-02-04 | NOW LISTEN TO ME $800: I'm snapping celery to make the sound of a breaking bone; I'm one of these movie sound "artists" a foley artist |
| #8328, aired 2021-02-03 | TV & MOVIE PAIRS $200: They're the pair referred to in the movie line "These aren't the droids you're looking for" R2-D2 & C-3PO |
| #8328, aired 2021-02-03 | TV & MOVIE PAIRS $400: The recurring "Wayne's World" sketch on "Saturday Night Live" featured these 2 performers as Wayne & Garth Mike Myers & Dana Carvey |
| #8328, aired 2021-02-03 | TV & MOVIE PAIRS $1000: The 1956 film, "Dance with Me, Henry" is notable for being the final film to feature this funny duo Abbott & Costello |
| #8327, aired 2021-02-02 | AMERICAN NAMES $1,500 (Daily Double): The movie "Rope" was partly based on a murder committed by this pair, first names Nathan & Richard Leopold & Loeb |
| #8326, aired 2021-02-01 | THAT TITLE HAS A TITLE $1600: This story by Hans Christian Andersen served as an inspiration for the movie "Frozen" The Snow Queen |
| #8323, aired 2021-01-27 | THE GRAMM"E"S $1000: 1960's Song of the Year went to Ernest Gold for his theme to this movie about the founding of Israel Exodus |
| #8320, aired 2021-01-22 | BRUCE WILLIS MOVIE QUOTES $400: "Sorry, Hans. Wrong guess. Would you like to go for Double Jeopardy!, where the scores can really change?" Die Hard |
| #8320, aired 2021-01-22 | BRUCE WILLIS MOVIE QUOTES $800: "Dead people, like, in graves... in coffins?" The Sixth Sense |
| #8320, aired 2021-01-22 | BRUCE WILLIS MOVIE QUOTES $2000: "Scientists. I'm supposed to report in to them. They'll want to know they sent me to the wrong time" 12 Monkeys |
| #8317, aired 2021-01-19 | SOUNDS LIKE THE MOVIE'S SEQUEL $200: This 1984 film based on a Frank Herbert novel was not a prequel to "The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain" Dune |
| #8317, aired 2021-01-19 | SOUNDS LIKE THE MOVIE'S SEQUEL $400: This 2019 all-star whodunnit was not a follow-up to the documentary "Forks Over Knives" Knives Out |
| #8317, aired 2021-01-19 | SOUNDS LIKE THE MOVIE'S SEQUEL $600: "The Host", starring Saoirse Ronan, did not have this Korean import & Best Picture Oscar winner as its sequel Parasite |
| #8317, aired 2021-01-19 | I CAN'T DECIDE ON A SYNONYM $600: The still undecided are this, also the title of a movie in which George Clooney has millions of frequent flyer miles up in the air |
| #8317, aired 2021-01-19 | SOUNDS LIKE THE MOVIE'S SEQUEL $800: The movie "Looking for" him, also the name of a candy bar, was not a sequel to "Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory" Mr. Goodbar |
| #8317, aired 2021-01-19 | SOUNDS LIKE THE MOVIE'S SEQUEL $1000: Sounds fitting, but "Singin' in the Rain" was not the first in a series with these "of Cherbourg" Umbrellas |
| #8315, aired 2021-01-15 | 3-LETTER "D" WORDS $600: A failure, like a movie at the box office or a shell that doesn't explode a dud |
| #8315, aired 2021-01-15 | VOCABULARY $800: Of the highest importance, or a movie studio founded in 1912 Paramount |
| #8314, aired 2021-01-14 | RICK'S ROLE $1200: Rick Rossovich plays the handsome oaf for whom Steve Martin writes exquisite letters in this "Cyrano"-inspired movie Roxanne |
| #8313, aired 2021-01-13 | TYPES OF MOVIES $600: This movie technique got its own feature film category at the Oscars in 2002 animation |
| #8312, aired 2021-01-12 | "B" WEAR $800: In the 1950s a sexy movie with this infantile title inspired Balenciaga to design a dress of the same name baby doll |
| #8312, aired 2021-01-12 | INSANE CLOWN POSSE $1600: John Leguizamo plays a demon from hell who takes the slightly less creepy form of a clown in this 5-letter comic book movie Spawn |
| #8311, aired 2021-01-11 | NONFICTION $4,000 (Daily Double): Oliver Sacks wrote about patients who recovered from a sleeping sickness in this book that became a Robert De Niro movie Awakenings |
| #8306, aired 2021-01-04 | THE MOVIES $400: This Hitchcock movie has the line "A boy's best friend is his mother" Psycho |
| #8306, aired 2021-01-04 | DECEMBER 21 $600: Dec. 21, 1914 saw the premiere of the first full-length movie comedy, "Tillie's Punctured Romance", featuring him Charlie Chaplin |
| #8306, aired 2021-01-04 | THE MOVIES $600: (I'm Ryan Reynolds.) In my 2020 movie, "Free Guy", I play a bank teller who comes to realize that he's really an NPC, short for this kind of character in an open-world video game a non-player character |
| #8306, aired 2021-01-04 | THE MOVIES $1000: Rachel McAdams bawls reading a breakup letter from Ryan Gosling in this all-around weepy movie The Notebook |
| #8302, aired 2020-12-15 | AT THE MOVIES $1600: One-word title of the 2020 Pixar movie about 2 brothers on an indomitable quest to spend one more day with their late father Onward |
| #8300, aired 2020-12-11 | THE MOVIE'S TITLE QUESTION $400: Ashton Kutcher's ride was impounded & then space aliens got involved to answer this title question Dude, Where's My Car? |
| #8300, aired 2020-12-11 | THE MOVIE'S TITLE QUESTION $800: Ice Cube & the kids do arrive in Vancouver by the end of this 2005 movie Are We There Yet? |
| #8300, aired 2020-12-11 | THE MOVIE'S TITLE QUESTION $1200: In an '80s movie Judge Doom was the one "Who Framed" this toon for murder Roger Rabbit |
| #8300, aired 2020-12-11 | COLORFUL VERBS $1600: To give permission to start something, like when a studio says you can start making the movie greenlight |
| #8300, aired 2020-12-11 | THE MOVIE'S TITLE QUESTION $1600: Ms. Fox heads to Antarctica without telling her family, in answer to the title of this film based on a novel by Maria Semple Where'd You Go, Bernadette |
| #8300, aired 2020-12-11 | THE MOVIE'S TITLE QUESTION $2000: For Huw Morgan & the other miners in this John Ford film, their home area is verdant indeed How Green Was My Valley |
| #8299, aired 2020-12-10 | LEO POTPOURRI-O $400: The mascot of this movie studio, began roaring in 1928 MGM |
| #8297, aired 2020-12-08 | ENTERTAINMENT $600: "Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone", is the subtitle of a restoration of this 1990 film, now with a new beginning & ending The Godfather Part III |
| #8296, aired 2020-12-07 | MOVIE GOOFS $400: The croissant this "Pretty Woman" is eating somehow becomes a pancake seconds later Julia Roberts |
| #8296, aired 2020-12-07 | MOVIE GOOFS $1200: In "Tombstone", rain pours down on this Kurt Russell character but just ahead up the street, we see it's completely dry Wyatt Earp |
| #8296, aired 2020-12-07 | MOVIE GOOFS $1600: In 1955 Marty plays a Gibson ES-345 guitar, but that hadn't been made yet--maybe there was an extra trip in this 1985 pic Back to the Future |
| #8295, aired 2020-12-04 | DUET PARTNERS $800: At the end of the movie "Grease", they duet on "You're The One That I Want" John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John |
| #8292, aired 2020-12-01 | JUMP $1200: In this movie based on a James Fenimore Cooper novel, Alice doesn't want to go with Magua, so she leaps from a cliff to her death The Last of the Mohicans |
| #8291, aired 2020-11-30 | IT CAME FROM CROWDFUNDING! $1200: This Kristen Bell detective show was on UPN & The CW before it was a Kickstarter-funded movie; season 4 was on Hulu Veronica Mars |
| #8289, aired 2020-11-26 | MOVIE QUOTES $800: Episode III.V? "I'm one with the force, the force is with me" Rogue One |
| #8289, aired 2020-11-26 | MOVIE QUOTES $1200: "Okay, let me tell you the difference between Facebook & everybody else: we don't crash ever!" The Social Network |
| #8289, aired 2020-11-26 | MOVIE QUOTES $1600: "Here we go, Wilson! You don't have to worry about anything, I'll do all the paddling" Cast Away |
| #8289, aired 2020-11-26 | MOVIE QUOTES $2000: "Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary" Dead Poets Society |
| #8285, aired 2020-11-20 | POTPOURRI $800: This nostalgia group sang "Blue Moon" & "Tears On My Pillow" on the soundtrack of the movie "Grease" Sha Na Na |
| #8284, aired 2020-11-19 | CHARACTERS WHO SHOULD PLAY JEOPARDY! $800: Brilliant German historian Oswald Spengler inspired the name of Egon Spengler in this 1984 movie Ghostbusters |
| #8283, aired 2020-11-18 | REQUESTS $800: Perhaps the most famous song request in movie history is for this tune: Play it, Sam "As Time Goes By" |
| #8283, aired 2020-11-18 | V.O. INITIALS $1000: Wyldstyle/Lucy in "The Lego Movie":
E.B. Elizabeth Banks |
| #8280, aired 2020-11-13 | 37 IS HEAVEN $800: The character of Rick Blaine in this classic movie is 37 years old Casablanca |
| #8276, aired 2020-11-09 | MOVIE BIOS $1200: In "The Motorcycle Diaries":
Gael Garcia Bernal as this revolutionary Che Guevara |
| #8275, aired 2020-11-06 | YOUNG MAN OR WOMAN $1200: "The Young" this character "Chronicles" TV series featured the adventurer in his pre-college & pre-movie days Indiana Jones |
| #8274, aired 2020-11-05 | 21st CENTURY BLACK & WHITE MOVIES $800: This 2011 Best Picture winner isn't completely silent, but it is a black & white movie The Artist |
| #8274, aired 2020-11-05 | 21st CENTURY BLACK & WHITE MOVIES $1200: This Bruce Dern movie named for a Plains state was in B&W in the theaters but was shown in color on cable Nebraska |
| #8272, aired 2020-11-03 | ALBUMS $1600: In 2003 this rapper released the album "Get Rich or Die Tryin' "; the movie of the same name came 2 years later 50 Cent |
| #8270, aired 2020-10-30 | MOVIE SEQUELS $400: In the Spanish language version of this 1991 sequel, the title character says, "Sayonara, baby" before defeating his foe The Terminator (Terminator 2) |
| #8270, aired 2020-10-30 | MOVIE SEQUELS $800: At the beginning of this 2018 animated sequel, we see how the Parrs deal with the Underminer, whom we last saw in 2004 the Incredibles (2) |
| #8270, aired 2020-10-30 | MOVIE SEQUELS $1600: This comedy set in Vegas & its "Part II" set in Bangkok are on the R-rated highest-grossing list The Hangover |
| #8270, aired 2020-10-30 | MOVIE SEQUELS $2000: Before he directed "Hellboy" & "The Shape of Water", he took on the Wesley Snipes sequel "Blade 2" (Guillermo) del Toro |
| #8269, aired 2020-10-29 | BLOCKBUSTERS $800: The premise of this 2017 film: 4 teens are sucked into a magical video game where they meet Nick Jonas Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle |
| #8267, aired 2020-10-27 | POP CULTURE $2000: This movie director of "Slumdog Millionaire" & "Trainspotting" also directed the London Olympics opening ceremonies Danny Boyle |
| #8266, aired 2020-10-26 | FILL IN THE ANIMAL MOVIE QUOTES $400: "Babe": "That'll do, ___. That'll do" pig |
| #8266, aired 2020-10-26 | FILL IN THE ANIMAL MOVIE QUOTES $800: "West Side Story": "The ___ are gonna have their way." "The Jets are gonna have their day" the Sharks |
| #8266, aired 2020-10-26 | FILL IN THE ANIMAL MOVIE QUOTES $1200: "Raiders of the Lost Ark": "___. Why did it have to be ___?" snakes |
| #8266, aired 2020-10-26 | FILL IN THE ANIMAL MOVIE QUOTES $1600: "Splash": "All my life I've been waiting for someone and when I find her... she's a ___" a fish |
| #8266, aired 2020-10-26 | FILL IN THE ANIMAL MOVIE QUOTES $2000: "Fletch": "Can I borrow your towel for a sec? My car just hit a ___ ___" a water buffalo |
| #8265, aired 2020-10-23 | MOVIE SUM-UP $800: Ben Affleck takes an international business trip & pretends to be Canadian to avoid getting hassled by locals Argo |
| #8265, aired 2020-10-23 | MOVIE SUM-UP $1600: Peckin-pow! Holden & Oates are part of a bloody, bloody good supergroup to avenge Angel The Wild Bunch |
| #8265, aired 2020-10-23 | MOVIE SUM-UP $2000: Death takes a chess holiday; your move, Max von Sydow The Seventh Seal |
| #8256, aired 2020-10-12 | I'LL TURN IT $1600: Back in 1903 "The Great Train Robbery" had this basic movie move, turning the camera from side to side a pan |
| #8254, aired 2020-10-08 | JAMES BOND $1200: A Time Magazine report found that this 1995-2002 Bond was the deadliest, averaging 27 kills per movie Pierce Brosnan |
| #8251, aired 2020-10-05 | LETTERS FROM AUTHORS $800: This author to Marlon Brando: "Dear Marlon, I'm praying that you'll buy 'On the Road' and make a movie of it" Kerouac |
| #8250, aired 2020-10-02 | THE SISTERS SISTERS $600: Last name of the twins whose retail biz is a billion-dollar brand & oh yeah, they have a movie star sister the Olsens |
| #8250, aired 2020-10-02 | CLUES FROM A 1965 JEOPARDY! HOME GAME $800: AWARDS: "Movie for which Brando won his Oscar" On the Waterfront |
| #8249, aired 2020-10-01 | MOVIE THRILLERS $400: In "Marathon Man" Laurence Olivier plays war criminal Szell, who breaks out the tools he used as one of these a dentist |
| #8249, aired 2020-10-01 | MOVIE THRILLERS $800: This 2020 thriller based on an H.G. Wells novel had the title character as an abusive ex stalking Elisabeth Moss The Invisible Man |
| #8249, aired 2020-10-01 | MOVIE THRILLERS $1200: Tom Hardy played the title role in this high-octane flick, but Charlize Theron stole the spotlight as Furiosa Mad Max: Fury Road |
| #8249, aired 2020-10-01 | MOVIE THRILLERS $1600: In "The Transporter: Refueled", Ed Skrein took the wheel from this British actor who starred in the previous 3 entries Jason Statham |
| #8249, aired 2020-10-01 | THE YOUNG & THE RECKLESS $1600: Stunt man Bud Ekins, not Steve McQueen, made the iconic motorcycle jump over a barbed-wire fence in this 1963 P.O.W. breakout movie The Great Escape |
| #8249, aired 2020-10-01 | MOVIE THRILLERS $2000: The dreams that take place at the climax of this Christopher Nolan film are dreamed inside the first class cabin of a 747 Inception |
| #8248, aired 2020-09-30 | PLAYING THE PART ON TV $1200: Sarah Palin (in a TV movie); Frannie Hughes (on "As the World Turns" in the 1980s) Julianne Moore |
| #8248, aired 2020-09-30 | LET'S GET MEDICAL $2000: A co-founder of the brain injury research institute, he was a movie subject for identifying CTE in football players Bennet Omalu |
| #8244, aired 2020-09-24 | I PLAYED HER IN THE MOVIE $200: Bad singer Florence Foster Jenkins Meryl Streep |
| #8244, aired 2020-09-24 | I PLAYED HER IN THE MOVIE $400: Good singer Beca, a member of the Barden Bellas who is pitch perfect Anna Kendrick |
| #8244, aired 2020-09-24 | I PLAYED HER IN THE MOVIE $600: Andy Sachs, assistant to the editor of a fashion magazine (Anne) Hathaway |
| #8244, aired 2020-09-24 | I PLAYED HER IN THE MOVIE $800: Jenny Curran, Forrest Gump's beloved Robin Wright |
| #8244, aired 2020-09-24 | I PLAYED HER IN THE MOVIE $1000: Rachel Watson, the girl on the train Emily Blunt |
| #8241, aired 2020-09-21 | THE SOUND OF MUSIC $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from the Hellbrunn Palace in Salzburg, Austria.) Sung by Maria and the Captain in the gazebo, recreated on a Hollywood stage, "Something Good" was one of two new songs written for the movie, the rest coming from the Broadway show, the last collaboration by this pair Rodgers & Hammerstein |
| #8235, aired 2020-06-12 | PLAYING THE VILLAIN $400: Dennis Hopper won a Best Villain MTV Movie Award for menacing a bus in this film Speed |
| #8235, aired 2020-06-12 | TROOP-POURRI $2,000 (Daily Double): This word for a guerrilla was used in the Boer War, in WWII & as the title of a 1985 Schwarzenegger movie commando |
| #8234, aired 2020-06-11 | BREAKOUT MOVIE ROLES $1600: This Canadian-born actress in the title role of "Juno" (Ellen) Page |
| #8234, aired 2020-06-11 | BREAKOUT MOVIE ROLES $2000: Described as a cinematic chameleon, this British actress in the title role of "Orlando" Tilda Swinton |
| #8229, aired 2020-06-04 | FORGETFUL SEQUELS $400: This 2018 horror movie is a sequel to the 1978 original & skips over the 2002 sequel where Jamie Lee Curtis' character is killed Halloween |
| #8228, aired 2020-06-03 | BOULDER DASH $600: In this 1981 movie Indiana Jones gets covered in webs while outrunning a large rock Raiders of the Lost Ark (*Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark) |
| #8225, aired 2020-05-29 | PICTURE THE MOVIE $200: Take a ride with this recent Oscar-winning movie Green Book |
| #8225, aired 2020-05-29 | PICTURE THE MOVIE $400: Costner, for the win Dances with Wolves |
| #8225, aired 2020-05-29 | PICTURE THE MOVIE $600: A Kubrick classic A Clockwork Orange |
| #8225, aired 2020-05-29 | PICTURE THE MOVIE $800: The jury is in 12 Angry Men |
| #8225, aired 2020-05-29 | PICTURE THE MOVIE $1000: It's 2019 in L.A. Blade Runner |
| #8222, aired 2020-05-26 | FROM PAGE TO SCREEN $400: Meryl Streep brought to life Miranda Priestly, magazine editor & the boss from hell, in this movie based on a bestseller The Devil Wears Prada |
| #8222, aired 2020-05-26 | SCHOOLHOUSE ROCKS $1200: We learned that this rock is pretty cool, like the recent Eddie Murphy movie character with the sound-alike name dolomite |
| #8220, aired 2020-05-22 | I'D RATHER HAVE $800: I'd rather see this epic 1962 movie biography set in the desert in a theater at 70mm projection than on a cell phone Lawrence of Arabia |
| #8211, aired 2020-04-27 | HER MAJOR MOVIE DEBUT $400: Mia Thermopolis in "The Princess Diaries" Anne Hathaway |
| #8211, aired 2020-04-27 | HER MAJOR MOVIE DEBUT $800: You get a role & you get a role & she got the role of Sofia in "The Color Purple" Oprah |
| #8211, aired 2020-04-27 | HER MAJOR MOVIE DEBUT $1200: Abby in "Blood Simple", written by who else but the Coen brothers & directed by Joel Frances McDormand |
| #8211, aired 2020-04-27 | HER MAJOR MOVIE DEBUT $1600: 1993's "The Piano", for which she won an Oscar at age 11 Anna Paquin |
| #8211, aired 2020-04-27 | HER MAJOR MOVIE DEBUT $2000: The female lead in the 1976 remake of "King Kong" Jessica Lange |
| #8210, aired 2020-04-24 | "STUPID" $400: The movie "Forrest Gump" gave us this 5-word adage Stupid is as stupid does |
| #8210, aired 2020-04-24 | MOVIE VILLAIN QUOTES $800: In 1999, Agent Smith (Hugo Weaving): "I'm gonna enjoy watching you die, Mr. Anderson" The Matrix |
| #8207, aired 2020-04-21 | A PITCH FOR A HAPPIER MOVIE ENDING $200: It's a little out of the box but hey, I'm thinking...what if Daniel Day-Lewis just skips the theater & stays in the White House? Lincoln |
| #8207, aired 2020-04-21 | A PITCH FOR A HAPPIER MOVIE ENDING $400: I agree, the 2 title ladies leap off the cliff in their car...but! But! They "Smokey & the Bandit" the canyon & land safely! Thelma & Louise |
| #8207, aired 2020-04-21 | A PITCH FOR A HAPPIER MOVIE ENDING $600: I know it ends the movie quickly, but what if that guy doesn't kill the dog of "the boogeyman"/ unstoppable killing machine? John Wick |
| #8207, aired 2020-04-21 | A PITCH FOR A HAPPIER MOVIE ENDING $800: John Coffey doesn't ride the lightning & instead gets a full pardon & is released from death row The Green Mile |
| #8207, aired 2020-04-21 | A PITCH FOR A HAPPIER MOVIE ENDING $1000: Who knew Macaulay Culkin carried bee repellent? A simple fix & we send the kids home happy from this Anna Chlumsky film My Girl |
| #8206, aired 2020-04-20 | FLEE CIRCUS $2000: In this Sara Gruen novel, later a movie, Jacob & Marlena plan to flee the traveling circus they both work for Water for Elephants |
| #8204, aired 2020-04-16 | MOVIE COMEDIES $400: "What We Do in the Shadows" is a New Zealand mockumentary focused on a cadre of these creatures vampires |
| #8204, aired 2020-04-16 | MOVIE COMEDIES $1000: This 2018 Mila Kunis/Kate McKinnon comedy changes one word from the title of a James Bond film The Spy Who Dumped Me |
| #8199, aired 2020-04-09 | MOVIE & TV ROMANCES $800: This medical drama gave us the romance of Meredith & McDreamy Grey's Anatomy |
| #8194, aired 2020-04-02 | MOVIE MONSTERS $400: As Ann Darrow, Fay Wray got up close & personal with this Eighth Wonder of the World in 1933 King Kong |
| #8194, aired 2020-04-02 | MOVIE MONSTERS $800: Onscreen over the years, he's fought the likes of Mothra, Megalon & Biollante Godzilla |
| #8193, aired 2020-04-01 | FBI QUANTICO $1000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from the FBI Training Academy in Quantico, Virginia.) New agents train at a mock town called Hogan's Alley, where the movie theater is actually an FBI office, and the marquee always reads "Manhattan Melodrama", just like it did on the 1934 night when agents gunned down this notorious bank robber outside the real Biograph Theater in Chicago John Dillinger |
| #8192, aired 2020-03-31 | BEHIND THE TV & RADIO CALL LETTERS $400: Los Angeles news station KFWB was once owned by these brothers who started a movie studio the Warner Brothers |
| #8192, aired 2020-03-31 | MOVIE TITLE FEMALES $800: (Glenn Close presents the clue.) I received an Oscar nomination for the film "The Wife", where I have a very awkward trip with my husband to the Nobel Prize ceremony in this city Stockholm |
| #8192, aired 2020-03-31 | MOVIE TITLE FEMALES $1600: The wardrobe Diane Keaton wore as this title girlfriend of Woody Allen came right from her own closet Annie Hall |
| #8189, aired 2020-03-26 | POLICE SQUAD $1000: (Dax Shepard presents the clue.) As a motorcycle fanatic, I was thrilled to write & direct the movie version of "ChiPs"--I even got to cast myself as Jon Baker of this state police agency the California Highway Patrol |
| #8184, aired 2020-03-19 | AUTHORS' OTHER JOBS $400: A portrait of James Joyce as a young man included opening this city's first movie theater, the Volta Dublin |
| #8183, aired 2020-03-18 | TV STARS $1000: This movie star gets wild on TNT's "Animal Kingdom" as the matriarch of a criminal clan (Ellen) Barkin |
| #8183, aired 2020-03-18 | CLASSIC SONGS $1200: Smile if you know that "Smile", based on an instrumental theme in the movie "Modern Times", was composed by this star (Charlie) Chaplin |
| #8178, aired 2020-03-11 | REQUIEM FOR A SKYLINE $600: Sunset Boulevard isn't the same since the bulldozer came for the home and playground of many movie stars called the Garden of this the Garden of Allah |
| #8178, aired 2020-03-11 | FOE PAs $1200: In a Wes Anderson movie, it's the last name of Royal, whose brilliant kids have major daddy issues Tenenbaum |
| #8178, aired 2020-03-11 | FOE PAs $1600: The Overlook Hotel was the site where this actor murderously chased his son around a snowy maze in a 1980 movie Jack Nicholson |
| #8176, aired 2020-03-09 | HI, WELCOME TO 5 AUTHORS! $400: In the TV movie "A Burning Passion", Shannen Doherty portrayed this gone-too-soon author of "Gone with the Wind" Margaret Mitchell |
| #8173, aired 2020-03-04 | FROM SNL TO THE MOVIES $2000: In a trailer for a 1995 movie as Stuart Smalley, he said, "My father grew up in the Great Depression... his mother's" (former Senator) Al Franken |
| #8170, aired 2020-02-28 | HISTORIC PEOPLE ON TV $800: This former Disney child star is seen here around the time he rolled as the King of Rock in the TV movie "Elvis" Kurt Russell |
| #8166, aired 2020-02-24 | LIFETIME MOVIE TITLES $400: Shake your pom-poms for 2019's "The Secret Lives of" these, starring Denise Richards as mom to Ava, who makes the team Cheerleaders |
| #8166, aired 2020-02-24 | LIFETIME MOVIE TITLES $600: Hayden Panettiere had the title role in this American woman: "Murder on Trial in Italy" Amanda Knox |
| #8166, aired 2020-02-24 | LIFETIME MOVIE TITLES $800: Ripped from the headlines in 2011, "The" this online classified community "Killer" Craigslist |
| #8166, aired 2020-02-24 | LIFETIME MOVIE TITLES $1000: Ripped from the headlines in 2012, doing this icky kind of messaging "in Suburbia" Sexting |
| #8165, aired 2020-02-21 | IN THE ARTS WORLD $800: These pieces of artwork took off in value in the 1980s, with one from "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?" going for $50,600 an individual animation cel |
| #8165, aired 2020-02-21 | FOOD & DRINK MOVIE QUOTES $1200: It's the dish that Hannibal Lecter ate with a side of fava beans & a nice Chianti liver |
| #8165, aired 2020-02-21 | FOOD & DRINK MOVIE QUOTES $2000: From "Elf": "We elves try to stick to the 4 main food groups: candy, candy canes, candy corns and" this liquid syrup |
| #8164, aired 2020-02-20 | A ROLE FOR THE DIRECTOR $400: Taika Waititi's role as Korg in this third "Thor" movie grew into a bigger part during his direction of the film Ragnarok |
| #8164, aired 2020-02-20 | 5 OF A KIND $600: Of the 5 current movie ratings put out by the MPAA, this one has the strictest admissions requirement NC-17 |
| #8162, aired 2020-02-18 | THAT USED TO HAPPEN? $800: Quick cut and rough cut used to be literally true when this movie professional physically sliced up the film an editor |
| #8160, aired 2020-02-14 | QUOTABLE 21st CENTURY MOVIES $600: 2008:
"Why so serious?" Dark Knight |
| #8158, aired 2020-02-12 | MY JOB IN THE MOVIE $200: Michael B. Jordan in "Creed" a boxer |
| #8158, aired 2020-02-12 | MY JOB IN THE MOVIE $400: Margot Kidder in "Superman" a reporter |
| #8158, aired 2020-02-12 | MY JOB IN THE MOVIE $600: Jodie Foster in "Silence of the Lambs" FBI agent |
| #8158, aired 2020-02-12 | MY JOB IN THE MOVIE $800: Harrison Ford, before becoming "The Fugitive" a doctor |
| #8158, aired 2020-02-12 | MY JOB IN THE MOVIE $1000: Matt Damon at M.I.T. in "Good Will Hunting" a janitor |
| #8153, aired 2020-02-05 | MOVIES ACROSS AMERICA $400: (I'm Anne Elise Park with TXA21. [She presents from the George W. Bush Presidential Library in Dallas, Texas].) George W. Bush's Oval Office is one setting for the movie "W.", directed by this man who entered Yale the same year as Bush Oliver Stone |
| #8152, aired 2020-02-04 | I ALSO COMPOSE FILM MUSIC $2000: In the 1930s this Russian composed "Peter & the Wolf" & scored the movie "Alexander Nevsky" Prokofiev |
| #8149, aired 2020-01-30 | REBOOTS $1600: Liam Neeson was Hannibal Smith & Quinton "Rampage" Jackson was B.A. Baracus when this TV series was rebooted as a movie The A-Team |
| #8145, aired 2020-01-24 | HOLLYWOOD & LINE $400: Movie that gave us "Dynaguy, snagged on takeoff! Splashdown, sucked into a vortex... no capes!" The Incredibles |
| #8144, aired 2020-01-23 | THE REST OF THE MOVIE'S TITLE $200: These rapscallions: "The Curse of the Black Pearl" Pirates of the Caribbean |
| #8144, aired 2020-01-23 | THE REST OF THE MOVIE'S TITLE $400: This film series: "Battle of the Smithsonian" Night at the Museum |
| #8144, aired 2020-01-23 | THE REST OF THE MOVIE'S TITLE $600: This lunatic: "or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb" Dr. Strangelove |
| #8144, aired 2020-01-23 | THE REST OF THE MOVIE'S TITLE $800: This naval epic: "The Far Side of the World" Master and Commander |
| #8144, aired 2020-01-23 | THE REST OF THE MOVIE'S TITLE $1000: This noble name: "The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes" Greystoke |
| #8142, aired 2020-01-21 | SPACED-OUT POP CULTURE $800: The start of the 1977 "Star Wars" movie informed us it all happened "a long time ago in" this place "a galaxy far, far away" |
| #8, aired 2020-01-14 | ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD $400: This alliterative name for a hangout of western movie extras made the news in 1940 when one cowboy gunned down another for real Gower Gulch |
| #8, aired 2020-01-14 | ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD $800: The first Academy Awards, held at the Roosevelt Hotel in 1929, saw this war movie winning for "Outstanding Picture" Wings |
| #7, aired 2020-01-14 | THE ARTS $2000: In the movie "Fur" Nicole Kidman played this photographer of people on the edge of society (Diane) Arbus |
| #8136, aired 2020-01-13 | HORROR FILMS $600: "Dream Warriors" is the subtitle to the third movie in this series Nightmare on Elm Street |
| #8136, aired 2020-01-13 | HORROR FILMS $800: It's the last word in 6 of George Romero's zombie movie titles Dead |
| #8134, aired 2020-01-09 | IT'S THE GIELGUD MOVIE OF THE YEAR $400: In 1991, 87-year-old Sir John played this "Tempest" magician, saying it was the only Shakespeare role he was the right age for Prospero |
| #8134, aired 2020-01-09 | IT'S THE GIELGUD MOVIE OF THE YEAR $800: For this 1953 film Gielgud coached a nervous Marlon Brando, playing Mark Antony, on how to read The Bard's lines Julius Caesar |
| #8134, aired 2020-01-09 | IT'S THE GIELGUD MOVIE OF THE YEAR $1200: In 1965 John played Henry IV in "Chimes at Midnight" with Orson Welles in this part that suited him physically Falstaff |
| #8134, aired 2020-01-09 | IT'S THE GIELGUD MOVIE OF THE YEAR $1600: John played Clarence when this other great 20th century Shakespearean actor directed "Richard III" in 1955 (Laurence) Olivier |
| #8134, aired 2020-01-09 | IT'S THE GIELGUD MOVIE OF THE YEAR $2000: 1981 was the year of Gielgud's Oscar-winning turn as this character's butler Arthur |
| #6, aired 2020-01-09 | CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER PUDDING $400: (Christopher Plummer delivers the clue.) I've played King Lear, Hamlet, Oedipus, Pizarro; but perhaps my most challenging role, if you could believe it, was in this 1965 movie that for a while was the top-grossing film of all time The Sound of Music |
| #6, aired 2020-01-09 | CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER PUDDING $600: (Christopher Plummer delivers the clue.) In 1968 I loaned this fellow Canadian the money for a plane ticket from London to L.A. so he could audition for the movie role that would change his life; the movie was "M*A*S*H"--& I got my money back Donald Sutherland |
| #6, aired 2020-01-09 | MUSIC & LEGEND $800: Philip Glass wrote an opera to be played as the soundtrack of Jean Cocteau's movie of this girl-&-monster tale La Belle et la Bête (Beauty and the Beast) |
| #5, aired 2020-01-09 | COMEDIANS $600: She does stand-up definitely for adults but voiced Vanellope Von Schweetz in the kids' movie "Wreck-It Ralph" Sarah Silverman |
| #5, aired 2020-01-09 | TV GREEN THUMB $800: The plants on either side of the host & guests on this web series, also a 2019 TV movie, are the Boston, or sword, variety Between Two Ferns |
| #3, aired 2020-01-08 | CLASSIC MOVIE QUOTES $400: It's the romantic quote heard next
"I love you. You...complete me. And I just had--"
"Shut up. Just shut up." "You had me at hello." |
| #3, aired 2020-01-08 | CLASSIC MOVIE QUOTES $1600: It's the no-nonsense message that comes after the following
"We've never lost an American in space; we're sure as hell not going to lose one on my watch." "Failure is not an option." |
| #2, aired 2020-01-07 | AMERICAN IDOLS $400: (Katy Perry delivers the clue.) I will always love this country star, & in 2016 I got to present her with the Tex Ritter Film Award for her "Coat of Many Colors" TV movie Dolly Parton |
| #1, aired 2020-01-07 | THE TOTALLY RAD 1980s $600: I thought this movie about Olympic runners would be grody to the max but not even! It won Best Pic, & everyone loves Vangelis! Chariots of Fire |
| #1, aired 2020-01-07 | MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS $800: The score of the movie "The Third Man" was performed by Anton Karas, playing this stringed instrument a zither |
| #8130, aired 2020-01-03 | PODCASTS $600: In 2019 "The Rewatchables" celebrated the 30th anniv. of this movie about Charlie Sheen & his Cleveland Indians teammates Major League |
| #8126, aired 2019-12-30 | THEATER TERMINOLOGY $800: The 1970s & '80s were the heyday of this meal-&-a-show type of venue, hiring movie stars like Tab Hunter & Cyd Charisse dinner theater |
| #8125, aired 2019-12-27 | I PLAYED POIROT $200: In 2017 Kenneth Branagh "train"-ed for the role of Poirot in this movie mystery Murder on the Orient Express |
| #8123, aired 2019-12-25 | ON THE MOVIE'S SOUNDTRACK $400: A 2015 biopic: "Nuthin' But A 'G' Thang" & "We Want Eazy" Straight Outta Compton |
| #8123, aired 2019-12-25 | ON THE MOVIE'S SOUNDTRACK $800: "Dammit Janet" & "The Time Warp" The Rocky Horror Picture Show |
| #8123, aired 2019-12-25 | ON THE MOVIE'S SOUNDTRACK $1200: "Let's Hear It For The Boy" & "Almost Paradise" Footloose |
| #8123, aired 2019-12-25 | MAMA & DADA $1200: In 2002 Queen Latifah belted it out as prison matron Mama Morton in the movie version of this musical Chicago |
| #8123, aired 2019-12-25 | ON THE MOVIE'S SOUNDTRACK $1600: From 2019: "Let It Be" & "Carry That Weight" Yesterday |
| #8123, aired 2019-12-25 | ON THE MOVIE'S SOUNDTRACK $2000: 2018: "La Vie En Rose" & "I'll Never Love Again" A Star is Born |
| #8122, aired 2019-12-24 | THE ROLES OF MORGAN FREEMAN $600: 2014:
Vitruvius (voice only) The Lego Movie |
| #8122, aired 2019-12-24 | A CHRISTMAS CAROL COLLAGE $600: Inspired by "A Christmas Carol", the movie "Scrooged" starred him as a venal TV executive Bill Murray |
| #8122, aired 2019-12-24 | THE SPHERE OF SCIENCE $1600: Not a Dirty Harry movie, magnus force makes soccer balls curve due to this resistant force acting on 1 side of the spinning sphere drag |
| #8120, aired 2019-12-20 | THAT'S OXYMORONIC $400: A 1968 horror movie was titled "Night of" these zombies the Living Dead |
| #8120, aired 2019-12-20 | COMPOSERS & THEIR WORKS $1200: The 1996 movie "Shine" popularized his concerto known as the "Rach 3" Sergei Rachmaninoff |
| #8117, aired 2019-12-17 | ASIA $1200: Touring the 500-acre film city & even getting to be an extra is a treat for fans of Mumbai's movie industry, best known as this Bollywood |
| #8115, aired 2019-12-13 | MOVIE EXCHANGES $600: Neo: "What are you trying to tell me, that I can dodge bullets?" Him: "No... when you're ready, you won't have to" Morpheus |
| #8115, aired 2019-12-13 | MOVIE EXCHANGES $1000: 2 characters: "You're using Bonetti's Defense against me, ah?"; "I thought it fitting considering the rocky terrain" Inigo Montoya & Westley |
| #8114, aired 2019-12-12 | "EL" OR "LA" $800: A 2019 horror movie was called "The Curse of" her, Spanish for "the weeping woman" La Llorona |
| #8114, aired 2019-12-12 | 21st CENTURY FILMS $1200: In the 2019 sequel "Jumanji: The Next Level", it's total "Dandemonium" when these two veteran actors named Dan join the game Danny DeVito and Danny Glover |
| #8108, aired 2019-12-04 | OSCAR ONE OF A KINDS $800: Starring Dustin Hoffman & Jon Voight, it's the only X-rated movie to win Best Picture Midnight Cowboy |
| #8100, aired 2019-11-22 | I GOT THE BLUES $800: Katy Perry voiced this blue animated movie character with blonde hair Smurfette |
| #8098, aired 2019-11-20 | DISNEY ON BROADWAY $200: Disney's first-ever Broadway adaptation was this one based on a movie & a fairy tale
"Be our guest, be our guest /
Our command is your..." Beauty and the Beast |
| #8095, aired 2019-11-15 | MOVIE FOREIGN CITIES $800: 1964:
"The Umbrellas of ____" Cherbourg |
| #8095, aired 2019-11-15 | MOVIE FOREIGN CITIES $1200: 2007:
"The ____ Limited" Darjeeling |
| #8095, aired 2019-11-15 | MOVIE FOREIGN CITIES $1600: 1989:
"Jesus of ____" (not in the Holy Land) Montreal |
| #8095, aired 2019-11-15 | MOVIE FOREIGN CITIES $2000: 1959:
"____, My Love" or "mon amour", if you prefer Hiroshima |
| #8094, aired 2019-11-14 | MOVIE MONSTERS $200: In this 1941 monster movie, Lon Chaney Jr. is transformed into the hirsute title character The Wolf Man |
| #8094, aired 2019-11-14 | MOVIE MONSTERS $600: In "The Conjuring" film franchise, a vintage doll with this title name serves as a conduit for evil Annabelle |
| #8094, aired 2019-11-14 | MOVIE MONSTERS $800: The Gill-Man is a prehistoric beast from the Amazon in this 1954 movie the Creature from the Black Lagoon |
| #8094, aired 2019-11-14 | MOVIE MONSTERS $1000: "The Thing", about a shapeshifting alien menace crash-landing on Earth, takes place in this desolate region Antarctica |
| #8093, aired 2019-11-13 | THE MOVIES $1600: Not only did she write & direct "Charlie's Angels", this comedic actress also has a co-starring role:
"I'm Bosley." (Elizabeth) Banks |
| #8091, aired 2019-11-11 | A GENERIC TITLE $1600: In this movie Robert De Niro kidnaps Jerry Lewis The King of Comedy |
| #8091, aired 2019-11-11 | A GENERIC TITLE $2000: The movie "A Place in the Sun" was based on this U.S. novel An American Tragedy |
| #8090, aired 2019-11-08 | NEWER WORDS & PHRASES $200: Portmanteau word for a close friendship between men; the movie "I Love You, Man" portrayed one a bromance |
| #8085, aired 2019-11-01 | BIG & SMALL SCREEN CLASSICS $800: It's 10 years later as Al Swearengen & friends celebrate South Dakota statehood on the 2019 movie based on this HBO series Deadwood |
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2010-A College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Hometown: Mineola, New York. Jeopardy!...
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"As an MBA Student, he won 5 games in 1985. Today...
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2005 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $5,000. 15 at the time of...
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"This future author and illustrator placed second in a regional story-telling...
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2010-B College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
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2010-B College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000 + a Nintendo Wii +...
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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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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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Cheech Marin, an actor, comedian, director, writer and musician from Lost
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Season 26 1-time champion: $19,410 + $2,000. Jen McFann Astoria, New...
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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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David Duchovny, an actor from Californication
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Alex Nutman, a 12-year-old seventh grader from Chevy Chase, Maryland
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"This future investment banker won 'best in grade' in a state...
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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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Patrick Zakem, an 11-year-old sixth grader from Louisville, Kentucky
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"He would like to become an architect because he enjoys visualizing...
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Amanda Hall, from Farmington, Maine
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"Whether it's writing a biography of Yo-Yo Ma or working on...
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Ross Gardiner, an 11-year-old sixth grader from La Plata, Maryland
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"And this self-proclaimed sports fanatic likes all the teams in the...
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Tucker Warner, from Fredericksburg, Virginia
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"At the beginning of the school year, he worked on a...
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Tim Koch, a 12-year-old sixth grader from Cliffwood, New Jersey
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"He would like to be a teacher because you get to...
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Wil Curiel, an 11-year-old from Costa Mesa, California
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"His favorite subject is science, so it's not surprising that this...
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Robin Quivers, a radio personality from The Howard Stern Show
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"From the hit movie Private Parts, she was an Air Force...
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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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Harry Haghanegi, a 10-year-old from Chicago, Illinois
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"Extracting DNA was one project this future geneticist enjoyed..." 2007 Kids...
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Taylor Gailliot, from Woodbridge, Virginia
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"When asked what she wanted us to know about her, she...
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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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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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Shay Collins, an 11-year-old from Averill Park, New York
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"His passion for music helps this future rock star to play...
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Nicole Yoon, a 12-year-old from Asbury, New Jersey
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"She has set her sights on becoming a medical doctor or...
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Eddie Kwiatkowski, a 10-year-old from Cumberland, Rhode Island
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"His interests in presidents and their history could lead to a...
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Megan Fraedrich, a 12-year-old seventh grader from Springfield, Virginia
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"And she was recently an evil stepsister in a performance of...
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Zia Choudhury, a senior from Paducah, Kentucky
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2008-A Teen Tournament 2nd runner-up: $18,000. 17 at the time of...
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Erica Hersh, a health communications writer originally from South Orange, New Jersey
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Season 31 player (2014-09-17).
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Naomi Senbet, an 11-year-old from Washington, D.C.
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"This sixth grader doesn't like to be late for anything; maybe...
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Jane Seymour, an actress from Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman
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"The story of her medicine woman continues on CBS Television in...
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Josh Klein, a 12-year-old seventh grader from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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"And, his favorite subjects in school are math, social studies, and...
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Stephanie Munroe, a movie editor from Brookline, Massachusetts
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Season 27 player (2011-04-12).
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Clark Adams, a horse shoer from Batesville, Virginia
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Season 13 1-time champion: $10,401. Clip from one of his games...
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Garry Marshall, an actor, TV producer and movie director originally from Bronx, New York
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"He was a wildly successful TV producer before his career as...
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Nithya Kubendran, an 11-year-old seventh grader from Quartz Hill, California
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"When asked about her future plans, she said, 'World domination sounds...
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Emily Riippa, a 12-year-old seventh grader from Grand Rapids, Michigan
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"She is a fast reader, and her mother says she was...
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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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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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Jay Schrader, a junior from Lexington, Kentucky
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2008-B Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000. Older brother of 2012 Teen Tournament...
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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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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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Simu Liu, an actor from Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
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"An actor from Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, he starred in the Canadian...
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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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Kate Rowland, a family doctor from Chicago, Illinois
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Season 27 1-time champion: $16,401 + $2,000.
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Joel Kim Booster, a comedian from Chicago, Illinois
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"A comedian from Chicago, his movie Fire Island, which he wrote,...
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Michael Cera, an actor from Brampton, Canada
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"An actor from Brampton, Canada, he's perhaps best known for playing...
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Nick Yozamp, a biology student from St. Cloud, Minnesota
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2010 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 2010-A College Championship winner:...
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Donna Mills, an actress from Knots Landing
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"Abby in the long-running Knots Landing and the star of the...
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Eddie Huang, a chef and restaurateur from Washington, D.C.
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"A chef and restaurateur from Washington, D.C., his 2013 memoir was...
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Okey Chikezie, from Egg Harbor Township, New Jersey
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"He wants to be a professional soccer player when he grows...
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Michelle Chang, an 11-year-old from Suwanee, Georgia
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"This sixth grader picks the most unusual places to lose her...
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Alex Silady, an 11-year-old from Edison, New Jersey
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"He hopes to be an entrepreneur, because he likes doing things...
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Dana Delany, an actress from China Beach
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"She won 2 Emmys for her role as Army nurse Colleen...
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Teri Garr, an Academy Award nominee and star from the upcoming movie-of-the-week Fugitive Nights
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1993 Celebrity Jeopardy! player: $10,000 to Project Angel Food, which delivers...
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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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Ed Begley Jr., a 6-time Emmy Award nominee from St. Elsewhere
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"6-time Emmy Award nominee for St. Elsewhere and star of the...
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Lorna Johnson, a 12-year-old seventh grader from Willowbrook, Illinois
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"She loves all animals, especially her dogs Duke and Rudy, but...
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Edward Lee, a 12-year-old seventh grader from Sacramento, California
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"Of the numerous projects he has completed, making gliders and bottle...
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