| #9083, aired 2024-04-17 | CHANNEL ORANGE $600: Frank Ocean's album "Channel Orange" ranges from "Sierra Leone" to a song titled after this Tom Hanks guy--"Run, 44!" Forrest Gump |
| #9082, aired 2024-04-16 | LIVED PAST 100 $200: Tom Morello's Rock & Roll Hall of Fame acceptance speech on this band's behalf thanked Tom's mom, a centenarian teacher & activist Rage Against the Machine |
| #9072, aired 2024-04-02 | FICTION $1000: The title of this 2023 bestseller by Ann Patchett refers to a theater company, not a body of water Tom Lake |
| #9068, aired 2024-03-27 | CRUISE LINES $200: As this character, Tom Cruise radioed the tower, "This is Ghost Rider requesting a flyby" but was told the pattern was full Maverick |
| #9068, aired 2024-03-27 | CRUISE LINES $600: In this comedy, Tom as studio exec Les Grossman dances to "Low" by Flo Rida & T-Pain & says, "This is... when the job gets fun" Tropic Thunder |
| #9068, aired 2024-03-27 | CRUISE LINES $800: "I am the world's last barman poet", Tom declaims in this film, "America's getting stinking on something I stir or shake" Cocktail |
| #9068, aired 2024-03-27 | TRENDING $800: Co-founder Tom Anderson was your first friend on this social media platform; in 2005 he sold his company Myspace |
| #9068, aired 2024-03-27 | CRUISE LINES $1000: Tom Cruise tells Max von Sydow in this flick, "If you don't kill me, precogs were wrong & pre-crime is over" Minority Report |
| #9059, aired 2024-03-14 | BOOKS BY REPORTERS $1600: This New Journalism leader wrote the novel "I Am Charlotte Simmons", about early 21st century college life (Tom) Wolfe |
| #9056, aired 2024-03-11 | DEALING WITH TV REALITY $400: Oh, the Scandoval! Let's say Ariana did not wish Tom well after he cheated on her with Raquel on this show that debuted in 2013 Vanderpump Rules |
| #9053, aired 2024-03-06 | ISLANDS $200: Monuriki, an uninhabited island of Fiji, became a tourist attraction after the release of this Tom Hanks film Cast Away |
| #9053, aired 2024-03-06 | WAITS $600: He had a Top 20 hit singing, "You take it on faith, you take it to the heart, the waiting is the hardest part" Tom Petty |
| #9044, aired 2024-02-22 | THE KEY WORD IN THE LITERARY SUBTITLE $800: Challenging to pre-Civil War Americans:
"Lowly" Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | LISA, ANN OR WALTER? $1000: Patchett who wrote the 2023 novel "Tom Lake"; Meryl narrated the audiobook Ann (Patchett) |
| #9020, aired 2024-01-19 | AGRICULTURE $2000: This former governor of Iowa served 8 years as Obama's secretary of agriculture & now has the same position under Biden Tom Vilsack |
| #9015, aired 2024-01-12 | UFOs $600: It's no small thing that Tom DeLonge of this pop-punk band was mentioned during a congressional hearing about UFOs Blink-182 |
| #2, aired 2024-01-12 | KIDDY LIT $200: This 1885 book is subtitled "Tom Sawyer's Comrade" Huckleberry Finn |
| #1, aired 2024-01-12 | HAMMER TIME $800: House majority whip from 1995 to 2003, this Texas Republican was known as "The Hammer" Tom DeLay |
| #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 | PERSONAL FINANCE $1,000 (Daily Double): For film buffs, it's a Tom Cruise hitman-in-a-taxi movie; for bank nerds, it's an asset pledged to secure a loan collateral |
| #8989, aired 2023-12-07 | SUPER BOWL STARS $1000: Tom Brady threw 2 interceptions in Super Bowl 49 but ended up MVP after this Seahawk tossed his one interception in the last minute Russell Wilson |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | I WANT MY "M" TV $300: Tipping his hat to Tom Selleck, Jay Hernandez wore a Detroit Tigers cap on the first episode of this reboot set in Hawaii Magnum, P.I. |
| #8979, aired 2023-11-23 | THEY COME IN SEVENS $1000: This group of defendants included Abbie Hoffman & Tom Hayden, who were convicted in 1970 the Chicago Seven |
| #20, aired 2023-11-15 | SCIENCE MUSEUMS $2,000 (Daily Double): Behind thick glass in the Gems & Minerals Hall of the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, Tom's Baby is an 8-lb nugget of this gold |
| #19, aired 2023-11-01 | G-I TRACT $500: This tight end recently retired with 4 Super Bowl rings; it helps when you play with Tom Brady Rob Gronkowski |
| #18, aired 2023-10-25 | FIX THE MOVIE QUOTE $100: Tom Hanks:
"Flavortown, we have a problem" Houston |
| #8954, aired 2023-10-19 | AUNTIE UP $400: Aunt Chloe is the long-suffering wife of this Harriet Beecher Stowe character Uncle Tom |
| #17, aired 2023-10-18 | DENZEL WASHINGTON $600: "No one would take on his case... until one man was willing to take on the system" was a tagline for this 1993 Washington film Philadelphia |
| #8951, aired 2023-10-16 | IN THE BASEBALL TEAM'S LINEUP $400: 1969:
Ed Kranepool,
Bud Harrelson &
Tom Seaver... what an amazin' team the (Miracle) Mets |
| #8950, aired 2023-10-13 | BACK TO SCHOOL, SPORTS STAR $600: MLB All-Star J.J. Putz, who shared a dorm at this school with Tom Brady, went back to finish his degree in 2010 Michigan |
| #8948, aired 2023-10-11 | SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE $400: This "SNL" character who is most definitely his own thing starred in a Halloween special in 2017; any questions?! David S. Pumpkins |
| #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 |
| #8945, aired 2023-10-06 | LITERARY POP $400: Welsh singer Thomas John Woodward took this name after his manager suggested this Henry Fielding character Tom Jones |
| #8942, aired 2023-10-03 | 20th CENTURY FOX HISTORY $800: 10 years after Newman & Redford, Tom Berenger & William Katt played this duo in their early days Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid |
| #8939, aired 2023-09-28 | BEASTLY LITERARY CHARACTERS $400: In a tale by Beatrix Potter, Tom Thumb & Hunca Munca are "two bad" these rodents mice |
| #8936, aired 2023-09-25 | BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY OSCARS $400: Josh Singer & Tom McCarthy won for this 2015 film in which the Boston Globe uncovers a massive scandal Spotlight |
| #8921, aired 2023-07-24 | HOSTEL $1200: You don't have to BYOV, bring your own volleyball, to this hostel in Bali that sounds exactly like a Tom Hanks film Castaway |
| #8916, aired 2023-07-17 | TOM SWIFT TALES $200: In 1914 Tom had a "Photo" one of these; today he could use a Samsung Galaxy a (photo tele)phone |
| #8916, aired 2023-07-17 | TOM SWIFT TALES $400: In 1963 Tom Swift Jr. went up against the asteroid ones, not the ones of the Caribbean pirates |
| #8916, aired 2023-07-17 | TOM SWIFT TALES $600: In his first tale back in 1910, Tom was riding high on his Hog in "Tom Swift and His" this a motorcycle |
| #8916, aired 2023-07-17 | TOM SWIFT TALES $800: Tom Swift Jr. had "his outpost in space" in 1955, 3 years before his "Race to" this the Moon |
| #8916, aired 2023-07-17 | TOM SWIFT TALES $1000: I'm both attracted & repulsed by 1932's "Tom Swift and His Giant..." Magnet |
| #8911, aired 2023-07-10 | INTERNATIONAL SUPERMODELS $200: "With much gratitude for our time together, Tom & I have amicably finalized our divorce", she wrote in 2022 Bündchen |
| #8910, aired 2023-07-07 | HISTORICAL HODGEPODGE $200: In 2002, he got 100% of the presidential vote of his country, but the next year, he was out of power for good Saddam Hussein |
| #8910, aired 2023-07-07 | I'VE GOT YOUR ATOMIC NUMBER $400: 47:
This metal tarnishes silver |
| #8910, aired 2023-07-07 | SEEING RIGHT THROUGH YOU $1,000 (Daily Double): The subtitle to this H.G. Wells novel is "A Grotesque Romance" The Invisible Man |
| #8910, aired 2023-07-07 | I'VE GOT YOUR ATOMIC NUMBER $1000: 27:
It's essential to smartphone batteries cobalt |
| #8910, aired 2023-07-07 | ONLY ONE CONSONANT $2000: On the ocean bottom, globigerina is a type of this gooey mud containing dead organisms ooze |
| #8901, aired 2023-06-26 | LOVELY RITA $400: She & Tom Hanks co-starred in the 1985 film "Volunteers" & lived out their on-screen romance off-screen, marrying in 1988 Rita Wilson |
| #8900, aired 2023-06-23 | ON BROADWAY $1600: Born Tomas Straussler, he titled his play "Leopoldstadt" after Vienna's Jewish Quarter Tom Stoppard |
| #8898, aired 2023-06-21 | THE PLOT THICKENS $800: George Shelby arrives too late to save the life of the title character & resolves to dedicate his life to abolition Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| #8898, aired 2023-06-21 | COLLECT 'EM ALL! $1000: To get Tom Hanks, a noted collector of these, on a podcast, Chris Hardwick offered a 1934 Smith Corona one; success! a (manual) typewriter |
| #8896, aired 2023-06-19 | TV $800: Not-Tom-Hanks on "Bosom Buddies", this late actor became a regular on "Newhart" & guested on "Girls" Peter Scolari |
| #8893, aired 2023-06-14 | A NOVEL CATEGORY $600: Book 3 of Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan novels is "The Cardinal of" this place The Cardinal of the Kremlin |
| #8890, aired 2023-06-09 | STARTS WITH "W" $1600: For a big discovery around 1912, Tom Slick was dubbed a king of this type of speculative oil drilling with a feline name wildcatting |
| #8887, aired 2023-06-06 | NONFICTION TV $2000: What's new pussycat? This Welsh legend's unplanned "Voice U.K." duet on "It's A Man's Man's Man's World" with Jennifer Hudson Tom Jones |
| #8881, aired 2023-05-29 | WHO WAS THAT MASKED MAN? $400: In 2017's "Spider-Man: Homecoming", this actor accidentally appears unmasked in front of his pal Ned Tom Holland |
| #8880, aired 2023-05-26 | THAT BOOK CHARACTER DOES THINGS $1200: Leaves town, suspected in Huck's murder; gets on a raft with the non-murdered Huck Jim |
| #8877, aired 2023-05-23 | SUPER BOWL WINNERS BY QUARTERBACK $200: 2002, 2004, 2005, etc.:
Tom Brady the Patriots |
| #17, aired 2023-05-23 | QUESTIONABLE MUSIC CHOICES $800: John Mulaney has an amazing story of selecting 21 plays on a diner's jukebox of this 1965 Tom Jones hit "What's New, Pussycat?" |
| #8876, aired 2023-05-22 | A LOSS FOR WORDS $2000: On film, Tom Hanks was on the "Road" to it, meaning spiritual loss or ruin Perdition |
| #8876, aired 2023-05-22 | POP CULTURE 2003 $2,200 (Daily Double): In this film, the emperor of Japan wants Algren (Tom Cruise) to modernize his army but Algren deeply respects the old ways The Last Samurai |
| #8874, aired 2023-05-18 | BEFORE & ACTOR $200: "Minority Report" star that takes you from one Caribbean port to another Tom Cruise ship |
| #14, aired 2023-05-17 | ROCK"ER"S $400: Don't confuse these guys who backed Johnny Thunders on the punk classic "Born To Lose" with the guys who backed Tom Petty The Heartbreakers |
| #14, aired 2023-05-17 | MASTERS OF LIT $600: A 1987 bestseller by him says on Wall Street Sherman McCoy & a few others had become "masters of the universe" (Tom) Wolfe |
| #13, aired 2023-05-17 | PAGE TO SCREEN WITH A DIFFERENT TITLE $1000: A sort of sci-fi "Groundhog Day", Hiroshi Sakurazaka's novel "All You Need Is Kill" became this Tom Cruise movie Edge of Tomorrow |
| #8872, aired 2023-05-16 | TWISTS $2000: Anthrax earlier seen to be afflicting cows is later weaponized against Benedict Cumberbatch in this 2021 Western The Power of the Dog |
| #8872, aired 2023-05-16 | DON'T GO ANYWHERE $5,000 (Daily Double): There's a light fixture in this word meaning settled & not going anywhere ensconced |
| #8870, aired 2023-05-12 | LIFE IS PICARESQUE $1200: The picaresque "Adventures of Peregrine Pickle" features a character modeled after this "Tom Jones" author Henry Fielding |
| #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 |
| #1, aired 2023-05-08 | LITERARY DEMISES $1000: His mistress Myrtle Wilson meets a messy end, run over by his wife Daisy; Jay Gatsby takes the blame Tom (Buchanan) |
| #8850, aired 2023-04-14 | "B"ANDS $2000: After meeting with Tom DeLonge, Mark Hoppus was "open to whatever" about a reunion of this band Blink-182 |
| #8849, aired 2023-04-13 | THE BOOK OF ROMANS $1200: Tom Holland (not the actor) covered "The Last Years of the Roman Republic" in a book named for this river Caesar crossed the Rubicon |
| #8836, aired 2023-03-27 | THE STATUE OF LIBERTY $600: In 1916 operatives of this nation exploded the Black Tom munitions depot; the nearby statue was hit & public torch access ended Germany |
| #8831, aired 2023-03-20 | GIFTS FOR THE SPORTS FAN? $800: This 1987 Tom Clancy novel would make even the most curmudgeonly Belichick fan happy Patriot Games |
| #8827, aired 2023-03-14 | A PLEASURE TO HAVE IN CLASS $800: A laborer in the feudal system; "Our American Cousin" author Tom Taylor titled a play about one, subtitled "Love Levels All" a serf |
| #8823, aired 2023-03-08 | AUNTIE HERO $800: In this classic of American lit, the mischievous title boy lives with Aunt Polly, who opens the novel by calling his name The Adventures of Tom Sawyer |
| #8813, aired 2023-02-22 | WHO PLAYED 'EM? $1000: Pete "Maverick" Mitchell, 1986 & 2022 Tom Cruise |
| #8807, aired 2023-02-14 | THE GHOST OF TOM JOAD $400: Maybe the ghost hangs around the cells of this state's penitentiary in McAlester, where Tom did time Oklahoma |
| #8807, aired 2023-02-14 | THE GHOST OF TOM JOAD $800: Enjoying a meal of lapin, this animal, think of Tom, who eats it strung on baling wire & cooked over a burning plank from his family home rabbit |
| #8807, aired 2023-02-14 | THE GHOST OF TOM JOAD $1200: Looking at a Hudson Super Six, named for its six of these, feel the presence of the Joads who converted one into a truck & piled in six cylinder engine |
| #8807, aired 2023-02-14 | THE GHOST OF TOM JOAD $1600: Don't forget Tom & all those who fled the Dust Bowl on this highway Steinbeck called "The Great Western Road" Route 66 |
| #8807, aired 2023-02-14 | THE GHOST OF TOM JOAD $2000: Remember Tom if you visit Bakersfield; he did too--specifically the outskirts & this kind of place named for a president (a) Hooverville |
| #8805, aired 2023-02-10 | SUPER BOWL HEROES $1000: (Tom Rinaldi of Fox NFL Sunday presents the clue.) In Super Bowl LVI here at SoFi Stadium it was this A.D. all day, & very specifically ending the day with his 4th down pressure on quarterback Joe Burrow to seal the game for the Rams (Aaron) Donald |
| #8800, aired 2023-02-03 | THE PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS ARE THE THING $1200: After taking Rosencrantz & his pal to unexpected places in the '60s, this playwright visited "The Coast of Utopia" in 2002 Tom Stoppard |
| #8791, aired 2023-01-23 | THE OSCAR-WINNING FORMULA $200: Tom Hanks
+ a feather
x history Forrest Gump |
| #8790, aired 2023-01-20 | AMERICAN LIT $800: This narrator in a 19th century classic says, "Tom and me found the money that the robbers hid in the cave" Huck Finn |
| #8789, aired 2023-01-19 | ACRONYMS $800: This weapon that delivers an electric shock is an acronym made from the name of fictional character Tom Swift TASER |
| #11, aired 2023-01-19 | THOMAS EDISON $1000: Tom's own recording of "Mary Had A Little Lamb" in 1877 was a breakthrough in the invention of this "talking machine" the phonograph |
| #8788, aired 2023-01-18 | MOVIES THAT MATTER $400: Starring Tom Hanks as a gay man with AIDS, this was the first major studio film to deal with that disease & the stigma it carried Philadelphia |
| #8781, aired 2023-01-09 | ALL THE RIGHT MOVIES $400: "All the Right Moves" starred a young Tom Cruise as a Pennsylvania high school kid desperate for a scholarship in this sport football |
| #8779, aired 2023-01-05 | TV: WHO PLAYED 'EM? $800: Jack Bauer &
President Tom Kirkman Sutherland |
| #8777, aired 2023-01-03 | ROMANTIC MOVIE LINES $400: In this film Renee Zellweger tells Tom Cruise, "You had me at hello" Jerry Maguire |
| #8776, aired 2023-01-02 | STATE GOVERNORS $1200: Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge went on to be the first head of this Cabinet department Homeland Security |
| #8774, aired 2022-12-29 | STATE OF THE HEART $4,000 (Daily Double): Maybe QB Tom doesn't make some hearts flutter fast enough, as this condition is a resting rate of less than 60 beats per minute bradycardia |
| #8773, aired 2022-12-28 | LITERARY CHARACTER NAMES $1200: This Henry Fielding hero is adopted by the benevolent & benevolent-sounding Squire Allworthy Tom Jones |
| #8772, aired 2022-12-27 | HISTORICAL FIGURES ON FILM $600: 2022:
Tom Hanks as this manager of Elvis with a shadowy past Colonel Tom Parker |
| #8769, aired 2022-12-22 | NICOLE KIDMAN SAYS $1000: To Tom Cruise:
"Nobody knows what's gonna happen next... & certainly not on a racetrack with 40 other infantile egomaniacs" Days of Thunder |
| #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 |
| #8760, aired 2022-12-09 | SONG TITLE TITLES $200: Tom Petty:
"It's Good To Be ____" King |
| #8754, aired 2022-12-01 | 1, 2 & 3 $1000: Writer Stoppard, comedian & civil rights activist Gregory & the present Duke of Sussex Tom, Dick & Harry |
| #8752, aired 2022-11-29 | CAST UPON THE WATERS $2000: Joining Tom Holland & Chris Hemsworth for "In the Heart of the Sea", Ben Whishaw played this 19th century author Melville |
| #8751, aired 2022-11-28 | OF MOVIES $400: 1940's "The Grapes of Wrath" starred this actor as Tom Joad Henry Fonda |
| #8749, aired 2022-11-24 | STARS OF OSCARS BEST PICTURE $400: Tom Hanks &
Robin Wright ran away with the win Forrest Gump |
| #8742, aired 2022-11-15 | PLAYING THE HITS OF 2022 $1000: A groove from 1981's "Genius Of Love" by this Talking Heads side project found its way into Latto's "Big Energy" Tom Tom Club |
| #8, aired 2022-11-13 | THE EDWARDIAN ERA $400: Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine called this late guitarist "the Mozart of our generation" Eddie Van Halen |
| #8739, aired 2022-11-10 | THE ROCK BASSIST'S GROUP $1200: Tom Hamilton, providing "Sweet Emotion" for decades Aerosmith |
| #8731, aired 2022-10-31 | BOOK SEQUELS $400: Mark Twain began a sequel called "Huck Finn and" this boyhood pal "Among the Indians"; Lee Nelson finished it in 2003 Tom Sawyer |
| #8731, aired 2022-10-31 | BOOK SEQUELS $1600: In Tom Perrotta's 2022 sequel, this ambitious teenage girl from "Election" is now a high school assistant principal Tracy Flick |
| #6, aired 2022-10-30 | HI, FINANCE $400: Tom Freston got fired from Viacom but had a very soft landing thanks to a "golden" this of $100 million parachute |
| #8729, aired 2022-10-27 | DANIEL RADCLIFFE COLLAGE $800: (Daniel Radcliffe presents the clue.) I played one of the two title characters who were just bit players in Shakespeare in a 50th anniversary West End production of this Tom Stoppard play that’s set against the backdrop of "Hamlet" Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead |
| #8727, aired 2022-10-25 | THE ELEMENTS $200: Swedish chemist Carl Scheele proved that air was made of 2 gases: "fire air", oxygen, & "foul air", this element nitrogen |
| #8727, aired 2022-10-25 | A GREEN PARTY $200: Nathan "Nearest" Green is recognized as this Tennessee brand's first master distiller & taught the man it's named for how to make it Jack Daniel |
| #8727, aired 2022-10-25 | TV CARTOONS $200: On "Adventure Time", the Ice King was voiced by Tom Kenny, also the voice of this title guy since 1999... are ya ready, kids?! SpongeBob SquarePants |
| #8727, aired 2022-10-25 | THE ELEMENTS $400: While working with pitchblende in 1898, the Curies discovered polonium & this other element radium |
| #8727, aired 2022-10-25 | A GREEN PARTY $1000: A Kentucky college town & a Manhattan park share this sporty name Bowling Green |
| #8727, aired 2022-10-25 | RHYMER'S DELIGHT $1200: "Colorfully" authorize a personal or corporate location on the Internet to greenlight a website |
| #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 |
| #8714, aired 2022-10-06 | HISTORICAL TV ROLES $1,500 (Daily Double): Tom Berenger as Theodore Roosevelt in the 1997 miniseries named for this regiment the Rough Riders |
| #8713, aired 2022-10-05 | BARTENDING 101 $600: Flair bartending is the term used for entertaining, flamboyant mixing & serving as done by Tom Cruise in this film Cocktail |
| #8713, aired 2022-10-05 | YOU'RE IN A ROLE $2000: Nathan Drake, in "Uncharted" waters in 2022 (Tom) Holland |
| #2, aired 2022-10-02 | 19th CENTURY NOVELS $400: This Mark Twain hero says, "Now, Old Jim, you're a free man again, and I bet you won't ever be a slave no more" Huckleberry Finn |
| #2, aired 2022-10-02 | CELEBRITY CAMEOS $600: On "Living with Yourself", Paul Rudd sees this former Patriots quarterback, perhaps a clone? Tom Brady |
| #2, aired 2022-10-02 | 19th CENTURY NOVELS $800: This 1851 novel mentions New Zealand Tom & Don Miguel, 2 famous contemporaries of the title sea creature Moby-Dick |
| #8707, aired 2022-09-27 | CREDITS $600: The plot of this film with Leonardo DiCaprio as a con artist & Tom Hanks as the FBI agent in pursuit plays out in the opening credits Catch Me If You Can |
| #8705, aired 2022-09-23 | SO GALLANTLY STREAMING $800: Going from the movies to Prime Video, he grew as a character, as Alan Ritchson is about 6'2" & Tom Cruise... is not Jack Reacher |
| #8703, aired 2022-09-21 | 2 BOOKS IN 1 $2000: "The Right of the Vanities" The Right Stuff & The Bonfire of the Vanities |
| #8697, aired 2022-09-13 | NFL OPENING WEEKEND $600: (Kyle Brandt of the NFL Network presents the clue.) Wes Welker & Demaryius Thomas each caught two scores as part of this quarterback's monster 7-touchdown day against the Ravens in the 2013 opener Peyton Manning |
| #8693, aired 2022-07-27 | FICTION $600: Protesting the Jim Crow system, Richard Wright's first book was titled this Stowe character's "Children" Uncle Tom |
| #8692, aired 2022-07-26 | SIRIUS-LY DEDICATED $400: The music of this late, great Heartbreaker leader who also traveled as Charlie T. Wilbury Jr. gets its own channel Tom Petty |
| #8685, aired 2022-07-15 | NOVEL "T"s $200: Huck Finn was introduced in this novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer |
| #8685, aired 2022-07-15 | MODEL BEHAVIOR $800: Once a model for Tom Ford & Armani, in 2021 Noah Mills joined the newest spin-off in this CBS action franchise, set in Hawaii NCIS |
| #8682, aired 2022-07-12 | NATIONAL-SOUNDING ITEMS $200: Before getting stranded in "Cast Away", Tom Hanks gives Helen Hunt one of these helpful gadgets, right off his keychain a Swiss Army knife |
| #8679, aired 2022-07-07 | THE SCARF $400: Legend says knitter Begonia Pope misunderstood the costume designer on this BBC show, hence actor Tom Baker's 20-ish-foot scarf Doctor Who |
| #8671, aired 2022-06-27 | BOOKS & THEIR MOVIES $400: The first line of Winston Groom's novel about this guy mentions a box of chocolates; the Tom Hanks film mentioned them too Forrest Gump |
| #8668, aired 2022-06-22 | ON PLANET POP CULTURE $1600: It was a bit unusual for Tom Jones, Jim Brown & Danny DeVito to share a scene in this 1996 Tim Burton alien invasion film Mars Attacks! |
| #8665, aired 2022-06-17 | POP ROCKS $800: At his Rock Hall of Fame induction, this late legend's son Dhani joined Tom Petty & others in playing "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" (George) Harrison |
| #8663, aired 2022-06-15 | THE BRADY BUNCH $200: In 2017 he released his first book, "The TB12 Method: How to Achieve a Lifetime of Sustained Peak Performance" Tom Brady |
| #8661, aired 2022-06-13 | U.S. HISTORY $1600: In 1973 this retired Chief Justice returned to California to swear in Tom Bradley, the first Black mayor of Los Angeles (Earl) Warren |
| #8659, aired 2022-06-09 | DRINK UP POP CULTURE $1600: A tagline from this 1994 Tom Cruise flick: "Drink from me & live forever" Interview with the Vampire |
| #8656, aired 2022-06-06 | 1992 FILMS $400: Tom Hanks in this 1992 film: "Are you crying? There's no crying. There's no crying in baseball!" A League of Their Own |
| #8639, aired 2022-05-12 | AUNTIE $2000: Her "astonishment was almost unspeakable" upon finding a fence whitewashed (ostensibly) by Tom Sawyer Aunt Polly |
| #8632, aired 2022-05-03 | THE ACTOR REALLY SAVES THE DAY! $200: Mission: Possible! He not only rescued a family from a burning sailboat but got a hit-&-run victim to a hospital & paid her $7K bill Tom Cruise |
| #8631, aired 2022-05-02 | COLLEGE FOOTBALL HISTORY $200: Hail! to the victors valiant--Charles Woodson, Desmond Howard & Tom Harmon, Heisman winners from this Big Ten school the University of Michigan |
| #8630, aired 2022-04-29 | FELINES IN FICTION $800: Tom Kitten gets rolled up in dough & is almost baked in a pudding in "The Tale of Samuel Whiskers" by this author Beatrix Potter |
| #8629, aired 2022-04-28 | MOVIES"!" $800: Tom Hanks wrote & directed this 1996 film about a band of one-hit wonders That Thing You Do! |
| #8625, aired 2022-04-22 | 1980s TV $200: Tom Selleck privately investigated as this character in more than 150 episodes from 1980 to 1988 Magnum (P.I.) |
| #8624, aired 2022-04-21 | LET FREEDOM SING $1200: "Let Freedom Ring" is a song by the Nightwatchman, the acoustic alter ego of this Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello |
| #8621, aired 2022-04-18 | SMITH & JONES $1000: Looking sharp, he's the singer, sex symbol & coach on the UK version of "The Voice" pictured here Tom Jones |
| #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 |
| #8615, aired 2022-04-08 | DONE THAT $400: Dr. Kizzmekia Corbett led the team that came up with the COVID-19 vaccine from this company founded in 2010 Moderna |
| #8615, aired 2022-04-08 | POTPOURRI $600: Its largest tributary is the Snake River the Columbia River |
| #8615, aired 2022-04-08 | NORSE MYTHOLOGY $2000: This mighty ash tree supports the universe Yggdrasil |
| #8615, aired 2022-04-08 | WRITING--IT'S A LIVING $3,000 (Daily Double): Screenwriters, you could do worse than to follow script guru Syd Field's checkpoint No. 4--"All drama is" this type of struggle conflict |
| #8612, aired 2022-04-05 | LAST NAME'S THE SAME $200: Purported drink inventor Tom & Irish independence fighter Michael Collins |
| #8610, aired 2022-04-01 | ACTING PRESIDENTS $800: In the 2-part TV movie "Rough Riders", Tom Berenger rode in as him Teddy Roosevelt |
| #8607, aired 2022-03-29 | CURRENT SIGNIFICANT OTHERS $800: Of Rita Wilson Tom Hanks |
| #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 |
| #8603, aired 2022-03-23 | WE READ IT IN THE '80s $200: Tom Clancy launched his career with this runaway bestseller about a Soviet nuclear sub whose crew might be trying to defect The Hunt for Red October |
| #8603, aired 2022-03-23 | IT'S ALL GUCCI $1000: This American fashion designer & film director was creative director of Gucci from 1994 to 2004 (Tom) Ford |
| #8599, aired 2022-03-17 | MOVIE & TV ROLE IN COMMON $400: Harrison Ford in a few films; John Krasinski on Prime Jack Ryan |
| #8595, aired 2022-03-11 | BRIT LIT $2000: Squire Allworthy finds a baby in his bed one night--the title character of this 1749 novel by Henry Fielding Tom Jones |
| #8594, aired 2022-03-10 | WOMEN MAKE PASSES $400: She pursues Tom Hanks in "Sleepless in Seattle"; she also makes a pass ("incomplete") at Dennis Quaid in "D.O.A." Meg Ryan |
| #8593, aired 2022-03-09 | LITERARY CHARACTER SPOILERS $1000: Gatsby says this woman is "leaving you"; Tom replies, "Nonsense", & Tom is correct Daisy Buchanan |
| #10, aired 2022-02-15 | CLASSIC NOVELS $400: He's introduced in "Tom Sawyer" as "the juvenile pariah of the village" Huck Finn |
| #8570, aired 2022-02-04 | WHEN GOOD ACTORS BREAK BAD $400: It was a nearly impossible mission when he played a vicious killer in "Collateral" Tom Cruise |
| #8565, aired 2022-01-28 | SINKER $1200: Tom Hanks' plane crashes & sinks at the start of this 2000 film, & that's just the beginning of his problems Cast Away |
| #8563, aired 2022-01-26 | CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIP HEROES $200: (Bill Cowher presents the clue.) After winning a record 9 AFC titles, in 2021, this ageless marvel threw for three touchdowns to win his first NFC championship, leading Tampa Bay into the Super Bowl Tom Brady |
| #8562, aired 2022-01-25 | BOOKS WITH HORSEPOWER $1,500 (Daily Double): Tom Booker is this title cowboy whose voice can calm wild stallions & whose touch can heal broken spirits The Horse Whisperer |
| #8557, aired 2022-01-18 | ESCAPIST LITERATURE $1200: George & Eliza make it safely to Canada after escaping the Shelby plantation in this 1852 novel Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| #8552, aired 2022-01-11 | BOOK ALIKES $2000: Tom Wolfe was the white-suited author of "The Right Stuff"; Thomas Wolfe wrote the 1940 novel "You Can't" do this Go Home Again |
| #8548, aired 2022-01-05 | A PLAYER TO BE NAMED RIGHT NOW $200: On Sept. 23, 2001 Drew Bledsoe of the Patriots was injured & this man became first-string QB; Drew's playing time then decreased a bit Tom Brady |
| #8541, aired 2021-12-27 | CLASSIC NOVELS $1,200 (Daily Double): The end of this Twain tale says while Tom Canty lived to be very old, King Edward VI lived to the age of 15 The Prince and the Pauper |
| #8532, aired 2021-12-14 | POP CULTURE MR. OR MRS. $2000: On the silver screen this beloved actor played both "Mister Roberts" & "Young Mr. Lincoln" Henry Fonda |
| #8528, aired 2021-12-08 | NAMES & PLACES OF 2021 $1200: This British diver won gold at the Olympics & won hearts by knitting in the stands Tom Daley |
| #8523, aired 2021-12-01 | THE COMPANY'S PRODUCT $1000: It rocks out with the Tom Morello Stratocaster Fender |
| #8521, aired 2021-11-29 | IN OTHER WORDS...RUN! $1000: Word preceding a maddening "hour", or the band that did "Tom Sawyer" rush |
| #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 |
| #8502, aired 2021-11-02 | THIS CATEGORY HAS LEGS $800: Kinesiology expert Tom Stoffregen says most people get these & stop stumbling around the deck within 36 hours of setting sail sea legs |
| #8500, aired 2021-10-29 | THE VILLAIN OF THE PIECE $400: Tom is the first name of this talented Mr., the villain of a 1955 Patricia Highsmith novel Mr. Ripley |
| #8491, aired 2021-10-18 | A FORD FIESTA $1000: Born in Texas, this one-time Gucci fashion designer has also directed movies, & appeared on many magazine covers himself Tom Ford |
| #8486, aired 2021-10-11 | RECENT MOVIES $1200: Tom Hardy is back in rare form again playing Eddie Brock, a journalist who shares his body with this alien symbiote Venom |
| #8483, aired 2021-10-06 | ____ & ____ $200: This cat & mouse duo were at odds in the Big Apple in a 2021 live action/animated film Tom & Jerry |
| #8473, aired 2021-09-22 | INSPIRED CHARACTERS $2000: Samuel Clemens' own sweetheart Laura Hawkins was the inspiration for this "Tom Sawyer" character (Becky) Thatcher |
| #8459, aired 2021-08-05 | I'M YOUR HUCKLEBERRY $400: This character was introduced in a classic 1876 novel & got his own book 8 years later Huckleberry Finn |
| #8458, aired 2021-08-04 | AUDIBLE $600: Feel your pulse pound with a 1988 bestseller by this action novelist
"Look, Dr. Ryan," the general started to say. Jack cut him off. "General, I am cleared for Tea Clipper. You know that, so let's stop screwing around." (Tom) Clancy |
| #8457, aired 2021-08-03 | TALK SHOWS $1200: In this segment that began with Tom Hanks on James Corden's first "Late Late Show", an actor does a fast sequence of parts he's played "Role Call" |
| #8451, aired 2021-07-26 | NAMES IN LITERATURE $2000: Tom & Laura Wingfield are brother & sister in this play The Glass Menagerie |
| #8440, aired 2021-07-09 | KEEP 'EM SEPARATED $200: In optics, this object is used to separate white light into the colors of the spectrum a prism |
| #8440, aired 2021-07-09 | N.E. PORT $800: Portsmouth was this state's first Colonial capital & is its only seaport New Hampshire |
| #8440, aired 2021-07-09 | HAIR'S THE THING $1200: You get an "a" if you know this 12-letter style of bob where one side in front is longer than the other asymmetrical |
| #8440, aired 2021-07-09 | HAIR'S THE THING $2000: This 5-letter French word describes a coloring technique where the hair is typically darker on top & lighter towards the ends ombre |
| #8438, aired 2021-07-07 | WOMEN DIRECTORS $400: Nora Ephron wrote screenplays like "When Harry Met Sally" before directing this 1993 Tom Hanks-Meg Ryan rom-com Sleepless in Seattle |
| #8436, aired 2021-07-05 | LITERATURE $1200: The chapter titles in this Henry Fielding novel include "A Little Chapter, in Which is Contained a Little Incident" Tom Jones |
| #8436, aired 2021-07-05 | LITERATURE $1600: In his 50s Tom Wolfe wrote his first novel, this one about the downfall of a Manhattan bond trader The Bonfire of the Vanities |
| #8431, aired 2021-06-28 | JAMES BEARD CHEF OF THE YEAR $2000: 2010 was good for this man, he won a James Beard award for Craft, his restaurant, & an Emmy, for "Top Chef" on Bravo (Tom) Colicchio |
| #8429, aired 2021-06-24 | 5 SCOOPS OF ICE CREAM $200: Tom Carvel is famous for this type of ice cream created when truck problems caused his product to melt soft serve |
| #8427, aired 2021-06-22 | MUSIC HISTORY $2000: Tom Russell's "Tonight We Ride" recounts General Pershing's 1916-17 pursuit of this Mexican guerrilla leader Pancho Villa |
| #8425, aired 2021-06-18 | AGE $200: With a pass to Antonio Brown in 2021, this quarterback became the oldest to throw a postseason touchdown Tom Brady |
| #8425, aired 2021-06-18 | DRAMA SERIES WRITING EMMYS $1600: "Life on the Street" was the subtitle of this Baltimore-set cop show that won in 1993 for Tom Fontana Homicide |
| #8424, aired 2021-06-17 | TOM FOOLERY $400: Seen here, Tom Hiddleston plays this Marvel trickster who has transformed himself into Odin & Captain America Loki |
| #8424, aired 2021-06-17 | TOM FOOLERY $800: The neuralyzer used by Tommy Lee Jones in "Men in Black" fools you by doing this to you wipes your memory |
| #8424, aired 2021-06-17 | TOM FOOLERY $1200: In "Joe vs. the Volcano", this actor is duped into thinking he has a "brain cloud" Tom Hanks |
| #8424, aired 2021-06-17 | TOM FOOLERY $1600: Tom Cruise fools his parents in this 1983 comedy after ruining the Porsche & having quite the wild party at their house Risky Business |
| #8424, aired 2021-06-17 | TOM FOOLERY $2000: In "Inception" he plays Eames, a forger trying to plant an idea in the target's subconscious Tom Hardy |
| #8412, aired 2021-06-01 | GRAMMY-WINNING DIRECTORS $2000: Peter Bogdanovich, director of "The Last Picture Show", won for "Runnin' Down a Dream", about this singer & his backing band Tom Petty (and the Heartbreakers) |
| #8405, aired 2021-05-21 | 20th CENTURY TV $800: In 1980 Tom Hanks came aboard this ABC show as Rick Martin; hope he tipped Isaac the bartender well The Love Boat |
| #8401, aired 2021-05-17 | ESSAYS $400: In "Everybody's Protest Novel", James Baldwin took to task this novel & its author Harriet Beecher Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| #8399, aired 2021-05-13 | FROM TV SHOW TO FILM $200: Not Jim Phelps but Ethan Hunt is the team leader played by this actor in the big screen versions of "Mission Impossible" Tom Cruise |
| #8398, aired 2021-05-12 | I'LL REPEAT MYSELF AGAIN, TOO $400: Immigrants brought the first of this type of drum to the U.S. from China in the 1800s a tom-tom |
| #8392, aired 2021-05-04 | POP CULTURE $800: An industrious raccoon named Tom Nook runs the in-game business in this Nintendo game: "New Horizons" Animal Crossing |
| #8391, aired 2021-05-03 | ALLITERATIVE AUTHORS $800: Tom Wolfe wrote of the adventures of this author & the Merry Pranksters in "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" Ken Kesey |
| #8389, aired 2021-04-29 | CHARACTER-TITLED NOVELS $800: At 6'6" & 242 pounds this Alabaman is bigger on the page than on the screen but the near-70 I.Q. is about right Forrest Gump |
| #8388, aired 2021-04-28 | THEIR TV ROLES $800: Dr. Gregory House & politician Tom James on "Veep" Hugh Laurie |
| #8385, aired 2021-04-23 | STARS $800: Tom Holland has played this teenaged superhero in 5 feature films Spider-Man |
| #8381, aired 2021-04-19 | FICTION $400: Tom Clancy left behind detailed notes on this, his most popular hero--dissertation topic, name of his back surgeon... Jack Ryan |
| #8374, aired 2021-04-08 | TOP OF THE BILL $200: "Saving Private Ryan", 1998: this actor, not Private Ryan Tom Hanks |
| #8373, aired 2021-04-07 | WHAT A BUNCH OF CHARACTERS! $1600: On TV in 2020, Tom Ellis had a devil of a time doing double duty as Michael (with an American accent!) as well as this title character Lucifer |
| #8365, aired 2021-03-26 | FAREWELL TO THE AUTHOR $400: Henry Fonda, who played Tom Joad on film, read some poetry at the funeral of this author in 1968 John Steinbeck |
| #8357, aired 2021-03-16 | ATLANTA: NEWS CLUES $800: (Aisha Howard from Atlanta's 11Alive presents the clue.) Yang Yang & Lun Lun became some of the most popular residents of Zoo Atlanta when they arrived in 1999; the pair of pandas were delicately airlifted here from China by this package delivery service UPS |
| #8357, aired 2021-03-16 | SMALL MAMMALS $800: A fanged mammal from the age of the dinosaurs has been widely called a sabertooth this, like Scrat in the "Ice Age" movies a squirrel |
| #8357, aired 2021-03-16 | WHAT A DIVE! $1,500 (Daily Double): Someone who profits, or a backwards somersault that lands feet first into the water a gainer (full gainer) |
| #8357, aired 2021-03-16 | POETS & POETRY $1600: "It was many and many a year ago", begins a poem by Edgar Allan Poe about this maiden Annabel Lee |
| #8357, aired 2021-03-16 | HISTORIC HENRYS $2000: King of England from 1399 to 1413, Henry IV was the first of the 3 kings of this ruling house Lancaster |
| #8356, aired 2021-03-15 | TV FINALES $800: Andy & April have a baby; Tom Haverford publishes "Failure: An American Success Story" Parks and Recreation |
| #8356, aired 2021-03-15 | ART $1600: Alessandro Filipepi, Sandro for short, was the real name of this man who painted "La Primavera" around 1480 Botticelli |
| #8355, aired 2021-03-12 | CAPTAIN $600: It's not Tom Hanks, it's this Maersk, Alabama captain seen with the lifeboat he was ultimately rescued from Captain Phillips |
| #8341, aired 2021-02-22 | THERE'S A BOOK IN MY MOVIE $400: In this film, Tom Hanks identifies Meg Ryan as his online love interest by a flower inside a book, specifically, "Pride & Prejudice" You've Got Mail |
| #8340, aired 2021-02-19 | BALTIMORE: NEWS CLUES $800: (Tom Rodgers of FOX45 in Baltimore presents the clue.) Camden Yards opened in 1992, masterly rehabilitating a warehouse of this historic railroad familiar to players of Monopoly The B&O Railroad |
| #8334, aired 2021-02-11 | THE TITLE INSTRUMENT $2000: "The ____ Has Been Drinking (Not Me)" by Tom Waits--it's the instrument Tom plays Piano |
| #8332, aired 2021-02-09 | MONTH OF THE BOOK $800: Tom Clancy's "The Hunt for Red ____" October |
| #8332, aired 2021-02-09 | NONFICTION $800: Tom Lutz wrote a history of these products of emotion, like those of Isis that brought her brother Osiris back to life tears |
| #8331, aired 2021-02-08 | BEFORE & AFTER GOES TO THE MOVIES $1600: A Cooper/Gaga saga goes Tom Cruise-ing into a 1989 film about a Vietnam vet A Star is Born on the Fourth of July |
| #8328, aired 2021-02-03 | SCIENTISTS $1000: Tom Lehrer sang, "Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down? That's not my department, says" this man (Wernher) von Braun |
| #8325, aired 2021-01-29 | 1980s TIME CAPSULE $1600: In 1989 Tom Petty sang, "My sister got lucky, married" this kind of successful person, a word coined earlier in the decade a yuppie |
| #8322, aired 2021-01-26 | HER BETTER HALF $800: Gisele Bundchen's Tom Brady |
| #8318, aired 2021-01-20 | ACTORS' FILMOGRAPHIES $1600: "Mad Max: Fury Road", "Venom" Tom Hardy |
| #8316, aired 2021-01-18 | THE FICTIONAL HOUSEWIVES OF NEW YORK $1600: Judy McCoy is wed to a Wall Street "Master of the Universe" in "The Bonfire of the Vanities" by him (Tom) Wolfe |
| #8311, aired 2021-01-11 | MOVIES BASED ON SHORT STORIES $2000: "Traumnovelle", a 1920s story about a Doctor who goes to a very risque party, became this 1999 Kubrick movie with Tom Cruise Eyes Wide Shut |
| #8305, aired 2020-12-18 | YACHT ROCK $200: Mike Campbell wrote the music for "Boys Of Summer" working on a Tom Petty album but gave it to this Eagle who penned the lyrics, flying solo Don Henley |
| #8302, aired 2020-12-15 | BOOK BARRIERS $400: Early on in a Twain work, Tom Sawyer must complete this "colorful" painting task on "thirty yards of board fence" whitewashing |
| #8297, aired 2020-12-08 | YOU'VE GOT ANIMAL MALE $600: Male house cats & male turkeys both have this name a tom |
| #8293, aired 2020-12-02 | ALLITERATIVE TV SHOWS $2000: Tom Hanks & Peter Scolari starred in this 1980s show whose title punningly refers to close friends Bosom Buddies |
| #8292, aired 2020-12-01 | JUMP $1600: This actor who played Superman jumps from a plane in "M.I.--Fallout" but can't fly & needs to be rescued by Tom Cruise (Henry) Cavill |
| #8280, aired 2020-11-13 | CELEBRITY CLASS OF 1980 $800: His yearbook mentions he did varsity wrestling and varsity soccer, and his original last name was Mapother Tom Cruise |
| #8266, aired 2020-10-26 | WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS $800: In a 2020 $20 mil. "Champions for Charity" golf match, Tiger Woods & this ex-NFL QB beat Phil Mickelson & Tom Brady Peyton Manning |
| #8262, aired 2020-10-20 | LITERARY QUOTES $600: This Steinbeck hero, before taking leave of his family: "Wherever they's a fight so hungry people can eat, I'll be there" Tom Joad |
| #8261, aired 2020-10-19 | MOVIES PERFECT FOR A MATINEE $400: Tom Cruise was Cole Trickle, a driver on the southern stock-car circuit, in this action flick Days of Thunder |
| #8260, aired 2020-10-16 | ACTORS & THEIR ROLES $200: Sully Sullenberger &
Walt Disney Tom Hanks |
| #8258, aired 2020-10-14 | 2-WORD TV TITLES $600: Long before Tom Cruise was Ethan Hunt on the big screen, Peter Graves was Mr. Phelps on this TV show Mission: Impossible |
| #8251, aired 2020-10-05 | AT THE AIRPORT $400: The Tom Bradley International Terminal LAX |
| #8249, aired 2020-10-01 | BESTSELLERS $800: 1986's "Red Storm Rising" was his second novel & his second No. 1 bestseller Tom Clancy |
| #8249, aired 2020-10-01 | BESTSELLERS $1000: In the '90s this newsman had a nonfiction bestseller with "The Greatest Generation" about the men & women of WWII Tom Brokaw |
| #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 |
| #8243, aired 2020-09-23 | CELEBS COMING & GOING $800: "I have things to prove to myself," explained Tom Brady about moving to this team after 20 seasons with the Patriots Tampa Bay |
| #8206, aired 2020-04-20 | "I AM" A TITLE $2000: Tom Wolfe satirizes 21st century college life in this 2004 novel I am Charlotte Simmons |
| #8204, aired 2020-04-16 | ON THE RECENT BESTSELLER LIST $400: Each short story in Tom Hanks' first book involves this pre-computer age authors' tool a typewriter |
| #8202, aired 2020-04-14 | BOOK CHAPTERS $600: "Tom Shows His Generosity--Aunt Polly Weakens" The Adventures of Tom Sawyer |
| #8200, aired 2020-04-10 | FILM SCHOOLS $1200: East Los Angeles College, not the University of Alabama, is where this Tom Hanks character shows his football prowess Forrest Gump |
| #8191, aired 2020-03-30 | TV BEFORE & AFTER $1600: Generations of Big Apple cops join forces as Det. Andy Sipowicz reports to police commissioner Tom Selleck NYPD Blue Bloods |
| #8187, aired 2020-03-24 | FILM ANALYSIS $2000: In a 2013 film Tom Hanks takes Alabama to sea & must figure out how to deal with unexpected guests Captain Phillips |
| #8183, aired 2020-03-18 | THE MANDELA EFFECT $400: Despite what you might remember, this actor is not wearing sunglasses when he dances to "Old Time Rock & Roll" in "Risky Business" (Tom) Cruise |
| #8182, aired 2020-03-17 | SIPPIN' ON GIN &/OR JUICE $600: This drink with a man's full name has lemon juice, sugar, club soda, a cherry, an orange slice & oh yeah, gin a Tom Collins |
| #8181, aired 2020-03-16 | CLUES ACROSS AMERICA $800: ( Hi, I'm Deborah Knapp with KENS 5. [She presents from the Witte Museum in San Antonio, Texas.]) The Witte Museum has an extra-small horse-drawn carriage given by P.T. Barnum to this man when he was 26 inches tall; he got the larger one after he'd grown to 40 inches Tom Thumb |
| #8180, aired 2020-03-13 | ATHLETIC ACHIEVEMENTS $600: Tom Brady holds the record for most Super Bowl wins as a player with this many--he needs 2 hands for his rings Six |
| #8174, aired 2020-03-05 | SINGERS NOT SINGING $1000: Tom DeLonge decided to investigate "All the Small Things"--& big things, too--as a UFO researcher after leaving this hitmaking band Blink-182 |
| #8174, aired 2020-03-05 | GET SCHOOLED $1,200 (Daily Double): Alumni of this exclusive boarding school near Windsor include Princes William & Harry & actor Tom Hiddleston Eton |
| #8172, aired 2020-03-03 | IMPOSTOR! $1200: "'Marge, you must understand that I don't love you', Tom said into the mirror in Dicky's voice" is a line from this Highsmith novel The Talented Mr. Ripley |
| #8171, aired 2020-03-02 | NOVEL CHARACTERS $800: Aunt Chloe is married to the title character of this 1852 novel Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| #8169, aired 2020-02-27 | I QUIT $1200: Thomas Campbell went from a curator AKA "Tapestry Tom" to head of this 2,500-employee NYC institution but resigned in 2017 the Metropolitan Museum of Art |
| #8168, aired 2020-02-26 | HIT & "RUN" $1200: In 1989 Tom Petty was doin' this & "goin' wherever it leads" "Runnin' Down a Dream" |
| #8166, aired 2020-02-24 | CITY FILMS $400: 1993: Tom Hanks struggles with insomnia Sleepless in Seattle |
| #8161, aired 2020-02-17 | HAWAIIAN CROSSWORD CLUES $400: The "Valley Isle" (4) Maui |
| #8155, aired 2020-02-07 | CIVIL RIGHTS & WRONGS $1200: In 1828 actor Thomas Rice began playing a blackface character named this, a term later used to describe racist laws Jim Crow |
| #8154, aired 2020-02-06 | SHAPELY BOOK TITLES $1200: This Dave Eggers novel about an uber-powerful Internet company that links everything became a Tom Hanks film (The) Circle |
| #8149, aired 2020-01-30 | AUTHOR LAST NAME IN COMMON $400: Journalist Tom & novelist Thomas, both southern boys Wolfe |
| #8134, aired 2020-01-09 | FAIRY TALES & FOLK TALES $200: In an Irish tale, clever Tom captures this title magical creature who promises to bring him wealth, but deceives him instead a leprechaun |
| #8133, aired 2020-01-08 | FILM COMPOSERS $400: "Amadeus": Tom Hulce as him Mozart |
| #8123, aired 2019-12-25 | THE TV SHOW MUST GO ON $400: When Tom Wopat & John Schneider walked off this show in 1982, cousins Coy & Vance Duke suddenly appeared The Dukes of Hazzard |
| #8123, aired 2019-12-25 | THE TV SHOW MUST GO ON $800: Aka "AFV", this longest-running ABC primetime entertainment series had Bob Saget & Tom Bergeron as hosts pre-Alfonso Ribeiro America's Funniest Home Videos |
| #8116, aired 2019-12-16 | THE AUTHOR'S CHARACTERS $400: Unlikely allies Jack Ryan & Captain Marko Ramius Tom Clancy |
| #8112, aired 2019-12-10 | OCCUPATIONALLY NAMED AUTHORS $4,000 (Daily Double): Mrs, Tittlemouse, Tom Kitten & many other animal characters were created by this "artisan" (Beatrix) Potter |
| #8111, aired 2019-12-09 | PEEK A CHOO-CHOO $600: The Pere Marquette 1225, seen here, served as the prototype for the title train in this 2004 film in which Tom Hanks did several voices The Polar Express |
| #8109, aired 2019-12-05 | PATRIOT GAMES $1200: In his NFL debut in 2000, this Pats QB completed 1 of 3 passes in a 34-9 loss to Detroit; he got better Tom Brady |
| #8106, aired 2019-12-02 | 5 CLICKS $600: Ray & Tom Magliozzi were known as Click & Clack, the Tappet Brothers, when they hosted this long-running NPR radio show Car Talk |
| #8096, aired 2019-11-18 | BIOPICS $200: In "A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood", beloved children's TV show host Mister Rogers is played by this beloved actor Tom Hanks |
| #8092, aired 2019-11-12 | DON'T FORGET THE LYRICS $2000: Tom Jones: "His fight goes on & on & on, but he thinks that the fight is worth it all, so he strikes like" this Thunderball |
| #8086, aired 2019-11-04 | HARDPODGE $1200: Ever the man in white, he chronicled "Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers" in 1970 Tom Wolfe |
| #8085, aired 2019-11-01 | THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS $400: This Tom Wolfe work was spacey but had the correct contents to win a 1980 Nonfiction Award The Right Stuff |
| #8081, aired 2019-10-28 | HISTORY ON FILM $800: In "American Made" it's the 1980s & Tom Cruise is flying guns to these Nicaraguans battling the Sandinistas the Contras |
| #8076, aired 2019-10-21 | BAN THAT BOOK! $800: This Stowe novel was banned in parts of the slave-holding South & in serf-holding Russia Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| #8069, aired 2019-10-10 | 20th CENTURY NOVELS $600: A line from this novel: "Name's Joad, Tom Joad" The Grapes of Wrath |
| #8064, aired 2019-10-03 | YOUNG MAN $800: Young Tom Edison developed trouble with this at an early age, possibly as a result of mastoiditis his hearing |
| #8060, aired 2019-09-27 | "B" MOVIE STARS $2000: As Sgt. Barnes in "Platoon", this tough guy really gets on Charlie Sheen's bad side Tom Berenger |
| #8053, aired 2019-09-18 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $1200: Tom Stoppard first came to Broadway with this play featuring 2 minor characters from "Hamlet" Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead |
| #8051, aired 2019-09-16 | MYTHS & LEGENDS $800: This voyeur who is struck blind has been connected with the legend of Lady Godiva Peeping Tom |
| #8042, aired 2019-07-23 | GRAMMY FOR SONG OF THE YEAR $800: This Bruce Springsteen tune from a Tom Hanks film won Grammy Song of the Year & the Oscar for Best Original Song "Streets Of Philadelphia" |
| #8042, aired 2019-07-23 | THE POWERS THAT BE $1000: Tom Powers plays the doomed hubby of scheming Barbara Stanwyck in this 1944 Billy Wilder classic Double Indemnity |
| #8040, aired 2019-07-19 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS $2000: 1938's "Uncle Tom's Children" was the first book by this "Native Son" author (Richard) Wright |
| #8026, aired 2019-07-01 | ACTION MOVIE STARS $1200: This actor returns as Peter Parker in "Spider-Man: Far From Home", trying to enjoy a vacation while battling new foes in Europe Tom Holland |
| #8026, aired 2019-07-01 | ACTION MOVIE STARS $2000: This actress' role in "Salt" as an accused spy for Russia was originally written for Tom Cruise Angelina Jolie |
| #8023, aired 2019-06-26 | APPVERTISING $800: "Always wanted a kitten?" asks the ad copy for "My Talking" him Tom |
| #8021, aired 2019-06-24 | ANIMATED TV $800: This duo debuted in 1940, & many of their animated shorts were made at MGM Tom and Jerry |
| #8010, aired 2019-06-07 | RISE TO THE OCCASION $800: At the end of this film, Tom Hanks & Meg Ryan finally meet on the observation deck of the Empire State Building Sleepless in Seattle |
| #8001, aired 2019-05-27 | MY CABINET JOB $1600: 2003:
Tom Ridge, the first to hold the job Secretary of Homeland Security |
| #8000, aired 2019-05-24 | QUASI-RELATED PAIRS $400: A male turkey & guitarist Garcia Tom and Jerry |
| #7998, aired 2019-05-22 | MARY POPPINS $800: This 2013 film starring Tom Hanks told the true story of Walt Disney's struggle to bring "Mary Poppins" to the big screen Saving Mr. Banks |
| #7994, aired 2019-05-16 | GRITTY $2000: "Mule Variations" won a Folk Album Grammy for this gravel-voiced singer who also acted in "The Ballad of Buster Scruggs" Tom Waits |
| #7986, aired 2019-05-06 | CLASSIC NOVELS $400: Mark Twain's childhood sweetheart Laura Hawkins was the basis for Becky Thatcher, beloved of this title character Tom Sawyer |
| #7975, aired 2019-04-19 | NOVEL VOCABULARY $200: When Tom Sawyer & Huck Finn need knives, Huck "smouches" some--that is, he gets them this way stealing |
| #7972, aired 2019-04-16 | BEHIND THE SCENES $400: Filming 1990's "Days of Thunder", sparks flew for Tom Cruise & this future wife, playing Cole Trickle & Dr. Claire Lewicki Nicole Kidman |
| #7972, aired 2019-04-16 | BOYS IN THE BAND $1600: Stu Cook,
Tom Fogerty,
John Fogerty CCR (Creedence Clearwater Revival) |
| #7964, aired 2019-04-04 | U3 $600: Tom Jones could have sung "It's Not Uncommon" but went with this instead unusual |
| #7964, aired 2019-04-04 | DON'T TREAD ON MEME $800: When Tom Holland as him said, "I don't feel so good" in "Infinity War", half the meme community sprang to life Spider-Man |
| #7960, aired 2019-03-29 | LITERARY GENRES $600: Tom Brady swears by the self-help book "The Four Agreements"; one is "don't take anything" this way personally |
| #7957, aired 2019-03-26 | LITERARY ANTAGONISTS $800: Simon Legree is murderous slave owner in this 19th century bestseller Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| #7943, aired 2019-03-06 | ALPHANUMERIC ATHLETES $200: Married to GB:
TB12 Tom Brady |
| #7938, aired 2019-02-27 | RECENT BOOKS $1000: He wrote "Little Children", covered high school in "Election", then gave us "Mrs. Fletcher", whose son is off to college Tom Perotta |
| #7937, aired 2019-02-26 | THE BOOK OF THE CENTURY $600: "The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling", not a Welsh singer the 18th century (or the 1700s) |
| #7935, aired 2019-02-22 | IN MEMORIAM 2018 $1200: The book closed on this bestselling author in his trademark white suit, who died at 88 (Tom) Wolfe |
| #7934, aired 2019-02-21 | RECENT CINEMA $400: He decided to accept the very possible mission to play Ethan Hunt & deal with the "Fallout" (Tom) Cruise |
| #7932, aired 2019-02-19 | IT'S FULL OF STORES $200: Tom Stemberg decided the world needed an office products supermarket & so he founded this chain; that was easy Staples |
| #7927, aired 2019-02-12 | TOP 10 TUNES $2000: Tom Jones first broke into the Top 10 in 1965 with this declaration of normalcy "It's Not Unusual" |
| #7921, aired 2019-02-04 | OXFORD $600: Professors of theatre have included Diana Rigg, Tom Stoppard & this '90s captain of the Enterprise Patrick Stewart |
| #7920, aired 2019-02-01 | MO"V"IES $1200: The title of this Tom Cruise drama about a plot to kill Hitler comes from Norse myth Valkyrie |
| #7917, aired 2019-01-29 | SINGING IN NON-MUSICAL MOVIES $1200: Tom Hanks, suddenly all grown up, croons "The Way We Were" to his mom Big |
| #7912, aired 2019-01-22 | RICK ROLES $1000: Back on '80s TV, Larry Manetti was Rick Wright, a sidekick of this P.I. played by Tom Selleck Magnum |
| #7885, aired 2018-12-14 | GREAT BOOKS ON AUDIBLE $2,000 (Daily Double): A natural storyteller, Nick Offerman brings his talents to this classic of American lit
...appeared on the sidewalk with a bucket of whitewash and a long-handled brush, he surveyed the fence, and all gladness left him The Adventures of Tom Sawyer |
| #7882, aired 2018-12-11 | THERE IS A SANTA CLAUS $600: Tom Hanks voices Santa & the conductor in this 2004 animated favorite The Polar Express |
| #7880, aired 2018-12-07 | AFTER THE CIVIL WAR $800: Capt. Tom Custer, who won 2 medals of honor during the war, joined his brother's unit & died with him at this 1876 battle Little Big Horn |
| #7880, aired 2018-12-07 | IT'S JUST GRASS, MAN $1600: Tom yum goong from Thailand is made with prawns & this, Cymbopogon citratus lemongrass |
| #7878, aired 2018-12-05 | FERRY TALES $400: During this Twain character's "Adventures", he implores a ferryman to save Miss Hooker Huckleberry Finn |
| #7876, aired 2018-12-03 | BROTHERS GRIMM FAIRY TALES $4,000 (Daily Double): After a poor peasant's wife grows ill, she gives birth to a tiny son whom they name this Tom Thumb |
| #7862, aired 2018-11-13 | LITERARY WHICH CAME FIRST $200: "Uncle Tom's Cabin",
"Paradise Lost",
"Romeo and Juliet" Romeo and Juliet |
| #7861, aired 2018-11-12 | CLASSIC LITERATURE $2,200 (Daily Double): When these 2 boys & their pal Joe Harper are presumed dead, they hide in the church & hear their own funerals Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn |
| #7852, aired 2018-10-30 | NO OSCAR FOR YOU! $800: This Vietnam War movie garnered Tom Cruise the first of his 3 nominations Born on the Fourth of July |
| #7850, aired 2018-10-26 | 1984 AT THE MOVIES WITH LEONARD MALTIN $200: (Leonard Maltin presents the clue.) Disney's first grown-up comedy & Touchstone's first release, this movie gave a big boost to the careers of Tom Hanks & Daryl Hannah Splash |
| #7847, aired 2018-10-23 | I'M BESIDE MYSELF! $1600: He was tough as Bane, but this actor slaps himself around as Ron & Reggie Kray in "Legend" (Tom) Hardy |
| #7845, aired 2018-10-19 | LET'S GET TO URCHIN CARE $6,000 (Daily Double): Tom Canty receives a lot of care in this Twain novel when he swaps places with Prince Edward The Prince and the Pauper |
| #7841, aired 2018-10-15 | A JOB IN TELEVISION $800: Tom Kirkman, after he's the "Designated Survivor" president |
| #7838, aired 2018-10-10 | JACK & THE FIEND STALK $800: A man trying to blow up the Red October sub from within does not fare well against this Tom Clancy hero Jack Ryan |
| #7838, aired 2018-10-10 | BIG FARMER $1,000 (Daily Double): He was known as "Long Tom" & also as "The Worst Farmer in Virginia" for his constant failed efforts to grow new crops Thomas Jefferson |
| #7836, aired 2018-10-08 | HERE'S THE HARD STUFF $600: I'll have a Tom Collins, hold the seltzer, lemon juice & syrup--heck, just give me a glass of this gin |
| #7836, aired 2018-10-08 | TRAVEL BOOKS $800: He wrote about a bus trip & other kinds of trips in 1968's "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" (Tom) Wolfe |
| #7830, aired 2018-09-28 | SpaceX $1000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents from SpaceX in Hawthorne, California.) Instead of a conventional test payload, Falcon Heavy's first launch carried a Tesla roadster, piloted by a mannequin named this, the title of a David Bowie song about an extraterrestrial who's waiting in the sky Starman |
| #7830, aired 2018-09-28 | THE MUSICAL "IDE" $1200: Tom Petty took us on a journey "into" here, "under them skies of blue" the great wide open |
| #7826, aired 2018-09-24 | IN THE "FOR" CAST $200: 1994:
Sally Field,
Tom Hanks,
Robin Wright Forrest Gump |
| #7820, aired 2018-09-14 | 1973: THE GROOVY & NOT-SO-GROOVY $1200: Already 12 games out after playing 80, "ya gotta believe" this team led by Tom Seaver came back to win the NL pennant the Mets |
| #7819, aired 2018-09-13 | MORE COWBELL $800: Tom Fogerty said, "Man, that sure sounds good when the cowbell comes in" as this band recorded "Born On The Bayou" Creedence Clearwater Revival (or CCR) |
| #7812, aired 2018-07-24 | 2-TERM CABINET OFFICERS $600: Tom Vilsack resigned from the Obama Cabinet as USDA head on January 13, 2017--this many weeks short of 8 years one |
| #7809, aired 2018-07-19 | CLASSIC SONGS' FIRST LINES $800: A Tom Petty classic:
"She's a good girl, loves her mama, loves Jesus and America too" "Free Fallin'" |
| #7808, aired 2018-07-18 | NOVELS $200: The title object being sought in Tom Clancy's "The Hunt for Red October" is one of these a submarine |
| #7806, aired 2018-07-16 | CELEBRITY POSSESSIVES $800: "Mission: Impossible" star's pleasure trip aboard a boat Tom's cruise |
| #7805, aired 2018-07-13 | FIRST LINES FROM NOVELS $200: 1884:
"You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer'" Huckleberry Finn |
| #7798, aired 2018-07-04 | "FIRE" WORKS $800: Bond trader Sherman McCoy thinks he's a master of the universe in this novel by Tom Wolfe Bonfire of the Vanities |
| #7794, aired 2018-06-28 | DAYTIME TV MEMORIES $600: A hot TV moment of 2005 saw this man jumping on Oprah's couch to proclaim his love for his betrothed Tom Cruise |
| #7786, aired 2018-06-18 | EXPRESS-ING THEMSELVES $1600: This actor played Santa Claus, the conductor, the father, a hobo & more in "The Polar Express" Tom Hanks |
| #7780, aired 2018-06-08 | TONGUE-TWISTER PROTAGONISTS $600: A man with this first name also applied to a male turkey (he threw Tim three thumbtacks) Tom |
| #7775, aired 2018-06-01 | MOVIE! $800: "Well, I try & try to forget you, girl, but it's just so hard to do, every time you" name this 1996 Tom Hanks-directed film That Thing You Do! |
| #7774, aired 2018-05-31 | BOOKS OF THE 1990s $200: Terrorists with a nuclear weapon must be stopped by this hero of Tom Clancy's "The Sum of All Fears" Jack Ryan |
| #7774, aired 2018-05-31 | MISCELLANEOUS $600: This first name of Tom Cruise's daughter with Katie Holmes means "rose" in Persian Suri |
| #7773, aired 2018-05-30 | POLITICO $400: Tom DeLay wrote "No Retreat, No Surrender" & this 2012 GOP presidential nominee wrote "No Apology" (Mitt) Romney |
| #7769, aired 2018-05-24 | "OVER" & "UNDER" $400: There's a piece of furniture in this phrase for something covert under the table |
| #7769, aired 2018-05-24 | FAKE CLUES $1,000 (Daily Double): Britannica cites the Piltdown man & the Feejee mermaid in its articles on this type of 4-letter scam a hoax |
| #7753, aired 2018-05-02 | FOUNDLING FATHERS $2000: This Fielding foundling discovers a son of a preacher man was his real father Tom Jones |
| #7750, aired 2018-04-27 | LONGTIME RULERS $400: Moscow, how was your 51 years? Terrible, with this man as the city's Grand Prince from 1533 to 1584 Ivan (the Terrible) |
| #7750, aired 2018-04-27 | AMERICAN POETRY $1,000 (Daily Double): Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote this poem as a call to help save the USS Constitution from demolition "Old Ironsides" |
| #7750, aired 2018-04-27 | PRONOUNS $1600: From Latin for "separate", it means more than 2 several |
| #7743, aired 2018-04-18 | THE GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS $1600: He won in 2017 as "The Night Manager", but a Norse trickster god may have messed with his victory speech Tom Hiddleston |
| #7734, aired 2018-04-05 | COMIC STRIPS $2000: He was created by former greeting card artist Tom Wilson Ziggy |
| #7731, aired 2018-04-02 | BALLET RUSES $1200: This title heroine isn't being courted by Tom Brady but by the incognito duke of Silesia Giselle |
| #7728, aired 2018-03-28 | SONGS FOR YOUR CAT $400: The film "What's New Pussycat?", about a guy women chase, had a title song by this guy women chased Tom Jones |
| #7724, aired 2018-03-22 | LET'S REWRITE THE CLASSIC NOVEL $200: Rain?! The climate had changed! The Dust Bowl was no more! "Ma!" Tom yelled. "We're not leaving Oklahoma after all!" The Grapes of Wrath |
| #7724, aired 2018-03-22 | NEWS OF 2017 $1000: This HHS Secretary & physician became the first secretary to leave the Trump Cabinet Tom Price |
| #7723, aired 2018-03-21 | FULL SENTENCE LITERARY TITLES $1600: This Tom Robbins novel features the beautiful Sissy Hankshaw, a hitchhiker with big dreams & big thumbs Even Cowgirls Get the Blues |
| #7717, aired 2018-03-13 | ENTERTAINMENT 2017 $400: 90,000 fans paid tribute to this late, great rocker by singing "I Won't Back Down" at a U. of Florida football game Tom Petty |
| #7697, aired 2018-02-13 | SAD! $400: Tom Hanks just wants some time with his girl after ages on an island in this 2000 movie, but she's moved on Cast Away |
| #7694, aired 2018-02-08 | MOVIE vs. MOVIE $2000: Tom Hanks faces the Big Woo, the geographic feature that makes up the second part of the title of this film Joe Versus the Volcano |
| #7689, aired 2018-02-01 | TALKIN' FOOTBALL $400: Tom Landry perfected the shotgun formation with this team Dallas Cowboys |
| #7688, aired 2018-01-31 | MOCKING JAY $600: "You said fewer clients, you put it all down on paper", said Jay Mohr to this title Tom Cruise character Jerry Maguire |
| #7687, aired 2018-01-30 | THROWING SHADE $800: In "Don't Come Around Here No More", Tom Petty uses this shadowy action before "my door" darken my door |
| #7683, aired 2018-01-24 | "YOU" TUNES $800: Tom Cruise sings... well...performs... this Righteous Brothers hit in "Top Gun"; now the clue is gone, gone, gone... "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'" |
| #7682, aired 2018-01-23 | QUESTIONABLE MOVIE TITLES $2000: Peter Sellers psychoanalyzes Peter O'Toole & Tom Jones sings the title hit song What's New, Pussycat? |
| #7680, aired 2018-01-19 | SERIAL KILLERS $400: In a March 1852 serial chapter in The National Era, Harriet Beecher Stowe killed off this title character Uncle Tom |
| #7680, aired 2018-01-19 | A PERCUSSION DISCUSSION $400: Modern Drummer's "Evolution of" this double-named drum went from "Chinese noisemaker to essential instrument" tom-toms |
| #7679, aired 2018-01-18 | MOVIE SPOILERS $1000: Attorney Ransom Stoddard wasn't "The Man Who Shot" this Lee Marvin villain--it was John Wayne's Tom Doniphon Liberty Valance |
| #7678, aired 2018-01-17 | ORIGINAL LINEUPS $600: Steven Tyler, Joe Perry, Tom Hamilton Aerosmith |
| #7673, aired 2018-01-10 | REAL NAMES ON THE MARQUEE $400: Tom Mapother IV &
Demetria Guynes in
"A Few Good Men" Tom Cruise & Demi Moore |
| #7670, aired 2018-01-05 | BOOKS & AUTHORITIES $400: Poor grammar was one reason the Concord, Mass. library banned this Twain novel 1 month after it was published in 1885 Huckleberry Finn |
| #7668, aired 2018-01-03 | WAIT WATCHERS $600: Tom Felton, AKA Draco Malfoy, brought pizza to some campers who came to see this final film in the Potter franchise Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 |
| #7666, aired 2018-01-01 | BAND STANDS $400: In 1997 activist Tom Morello lived up to this, his band's name, by getting arrested for protesting sweatshops Rage Against the Machine |
| #7664, aired 2017-12-28 | PLAYWRONGS $200: "Rosencrantz and Morgenstern Are Dead" Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead |
| #7662, aired 2017-12-26 | TV MOVIES $800: This actor, an ex-TV P.I., was the specific general in A&E's "Ike: Countdown to D-Day" Tom Selleck |
| #7660, aired 2017-12-22 | I KNOW THAT PERFORMER'S FACE $400: David Morse played a doctor on "St. Elsewhere", George Washington in "John Adams", and a prison guard in this Tom Hanks film The Green Mile |
| #7654, aired 2017-12-14 | STEINBECK WORKS BY CHARACTERS $200: Jim Casy, an ex-preacher, & Tom Joad, an ex-con The Grapes of Wrath |
| #7654, aired 2017-12-14 | SOUNDS LIKE THE MOVIE'S SEQUEL $400: This 2009 comedy about a Vegas bachelor party was not the sequel to the Tom Cruise film "Cocktail" The Hangover |
| #7653, aired 2017-12-13 | TV REBOOTS & REVIVALS $800: Sidekicks Crow T. Robot & Tom Servo still watch bad movies, but with new host Jonah, on this series: "The Return" Mystery Science Theater 3000 |
| #7648, aired 2017-12-06 | THEY MADE THE CABINET $1000: This Obama Labor Secretary became head of the DNC in 2017 (Tom) Perez |
| #7641, aired 2017-11-27 | MAJOR THIRDS IN MUSIC $800: Benjamin Montmorency Tench III goes by Benmont as keyboardist in this band backing up Tom Petty The Heartbreakers |
| #7639, aired 2017-11-23 | MOVIES BY OSCARS $400: 2010:
Actor Colin Firth &
Director Tom Hooper The King's Speech |
| #7636, aired 2017-11-20 | GRIDIRON GREATS $200: AKA "Tom Terrific", he's won 4 Super Bowl MVP awards Tom Brady |
| #7636, aired 2017-11-20 | COLORING BOOKS $400: Tom Clancy had the U.S. take a sub to go in this 1984 "Book of the Month" The Hunt for Red October |
| #7634, aired 2017-11-16 | PLACE "MAT"S $800: This Bay Area hometown of Tom Brady was named for Spanish explorers for a Gospel writer San Mateo |
| #7633, aired 2017-11-15 | BOOK SMARTS $400: Told that this influential book was too long, Harriet Beecher Stowe said she didn't write it, it wrote itself Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| #7627, aired 2017-11-07 | SWIPE WRITE $200: Tom Buchanan calls this title character "a common swindler" who'd have to steal a ring to put it on Daisy's finger the Great Gatsby |
| #7626, aired 2017-11-06 | STARS' INITIAL SHOWS $1200: Tom Hanks, 1980:
"B.B." Bosom Buddies |
| #7625, aired 2017-11-03 | "R" MOVIES $400: 2015:
Co-starring Tom Hardy & an angry bear The Revenant |
| #7619, aired 2017-10-26 | SONGS ON LIP SYNC BATTLE $400: Tom Holland used a bit of "Singin' In The Rain" before channeling Rihanna & this hit of hers "Umbrella" |
| #7615, aired 2017-10-20 | ON THE PERIODIC TABLE $800: Atomic No. 53, it's highly soluble in alcohol & then is used on cuts & scrapes iodine |
| #7615, aired 2017-10-20 | DYSPHEMISMS $1000: The use of these mines for prison labor could be the reason you go "back to" them in a drudge job the salt mines |
| #7615, aired 2017-10-20 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN $1600: In 1995, decades after the assassination of her husband Medgar, she became head of the NAACP Myrlie Evers |
| #7614, aired 2017-10-19 | SWEET '16 $800: This opera heard here had its premiere in 1816 The Barber of Seville |
| #7614, aired 2017-10-19 | THE BAKER $1600: Engineer Benjamin Baker, whose mustache is an engineering feat itself, wrote a major work on this bridge type using projecting beams a cantilever bridge |
| #7614, aired 2017-10-19 | A ZERO SUM GAME $2000: It's a 6-letter synonym for the top, the apogee, the vertex, the highest point zenith |
| #7613, aired 2017-10-18 | THE ELECTRIC COMPANY $400: Tom Lehrer wrote songs for the show, like one about this letter that likes to "turn a can into a cane" a silent "E" |
| #7611, aired 2017-10-16 | BIOPICS OF BRITS $1200: Played by Tom Hardy in 2008, Britain's "most violent prisoner" renamed himself this after the star of "Death Wish" (Charles) Bronson |
| #7610, aired 2017-10-13 | RICKENBACKER GUITARS $600: Heartbreaker Mike Campbell uses a Model 620 12-string for that ringing tone fans love as he backs up this fellow Floridian Tom Petty |
| #7610, aired 2017-10-13 | "THE" MOVIE $800: Whoops! Fortune hunter Tom Cruise accidentally unearths the tomb of an Egyptian princess in this 2017 movie The Mummy |
| #7604, aired 2017-10-05 | DESIGNER INITIALS $1200: Longtime creative director of Gucci--he also directs movies:
T.F. Tom Ford |
| #7601, aired 2017-10-02 | IT'S AN HONOR TO BE NOMINATED $800: Out of 5 Lead Actor nominations, he got 2 wins in a row, for 1993 & 1994 Tom Hanks |
| #7598, aired 2017-09-27 | A NUMBER OF GROUPS $600: Minus Tom DeLonge, this pop-punk band topped the charts in 2016 with "California" Blink-182 |
| #7582, aired 2017-07-25 | BAWLERS $400: A bawling player in "A League of Their Own" causes Tom Hanks to say these 5 oft-quoted words about America's pastime there's no crying in baseball |
| #7572, aired 2017-07-11 | VIDEO GAMES $600: This techno-thriller novelist died in 2013 but with the SHD agents in "The Division", he lives on Tom Clancy |
| #7569, aired 2017-07-06 | ISLANDS ON THE SCREEN $1000: In "Joe Versus the Volcano", Joe was this Oscar winner & the volcano was the Big Woo, on the island of Waponi Woo Tom Hanks |
| #7559, aired 2017-06-22 | 1990s EMMYS $2000: This series not only won for best drama in 1993, but its stars Tom Skerritt & Kathy Baker won Best Acting awards Picket Fences |
| #7558, aired 2017-06-21 | LITERARY HODGEPODGE $600: This Henry Fielding hero, "one of the handsomest young fellows in the world", shares the name of a sex symbol singer Tom Jones |
| #7548, aired 2017-06-07 | REAL PEOPLE IN SONG $2000: The Beastie Boys rhymed "tom foolery" with the name of this host of "Scrabble" & "Love Connection" Chuck Woolery |
| #7547, aired 2017-06-06 | SONG/BOOK $1200: Song:
Rush;
book:
Mark Twain Tom Sawyer |
| #7546, aired 2017-06-05 | NOVELS $200: The subtitle of this novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe is "Life Among the Lowly" Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| #7543, aired 2017-05-31 | SOME FASHION CENTS $800: It's about $30 a gallon if you shell out $299 for a Tom Mix 10-gallon cowboy hat from this U.S. company Stetson |
| #7537, aired 2017-05-23 | A "LITTLE" IN TITLE $2000: Kate Winslet starred in this 2006 movie from Tom Perrotta's novel about moms & kids Little Children |
| #7536, aired 2017-05-22 | THE BOLD & THE BEAUTIFUL $1000: (Heather Tom and Thorsten Kaye give the clue as Katie and Ridge from The Bold and the Beautiful.) "Ridge, why are you still concealing the truth?" "Because, Katie, it is our secret to reveal, no one else's. & I'll stand behind that like Leonidas & his 300 men at this famous mountain pass in the 5th century B.C." Thermopylae |
| #7536, aired 2017-05-22 | DGA FEATURE FILM AWARD WINNERS $1000: 2010:
Tom Hooper, who then had to give a non-royal one The King's Speech |
| #7536, aired 2017-05-22 | ASIAN-AMERICAN PERFORMERS $1200: As Tom Haverford on "Parks & Rec", he said, "I have no interest in art. Let me clarify--I have no interest in non-nude images" Aziz Ansari |
| #7535, aired 2017-05-19 | NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY $1000: The portrait of this man & his bride was taken around 1863 by a photographer from Mathew Brady's studio (General) Tom Thumb |
| #7534, aired 2017-05-18 | THE ART OF WAR $800: Tom Lea's World War II painting highlighting the problem of shell shock is titled "That 2,000 Yard" one of these a stare |
| #7533, aired 2017-05-17 | TOM HANKS MOVIE QUOTES $200: "Bubba was my best good friend" Forrest Gump |
| #7533, aired 2017-05-17 | TOM HANKS MOVIE QUOTES $400: "She wants to meet me at the top of the Empire State Building" Sleepless in Seattle |
| #7533, aired 2017-05-17 | TOM HANKS MOVIE QUOTES $600: "Listen up, we have been boarded by armed pirates" Captain Phillips |
| #7533, aired 2017-05-17 | TOM HANKS MOVIE QUOTES $1,000 (Daily Double): "Why couldn't Jesus have been a father & still been capable of all those miracles?" The Da Vinci Code |
| #7532, aired 2017-05-16 | TV CAMPUS $1600: On "King of the Hill", Bobby was chosen to be the mascot for the school named for this legendary NFL coach Tom Landry |
| #7525, aired 2017-05-05 | POLO $400: A polo field is 160 yards wide & this many yards long, so Tom Brady would have to do 3 times the work 300 |
| #7525, aired 2017-05-05 | CREATURES IN MOVIE TITLES $1,000 (Daily Double): The title of this film refers to Tom Booker (Robert Redford), who uses his patient ways to cure Pilgrim The Horse Whisperer |
| #7524, aired 2017-05-04 | MOVIE & TV TITLE CHARACTERS $800: Bored with hell, this fallen angel, played by Tom Ellis on a Fox series, movies to Los Angeles Lucifer |
| #7520, aired 2017-04-28 | LIT-POURRI $4,000 (Daily Double): In a Stowe novel he tells Uncle Tom, "I'm your church now...you've got to be as I say" Simon Legree |
| #7517, aired 2017-04-25 | THE OFFICE $1200: Be on time at meetings with this 2004-2015 head coach of the NFL's Giants who says on time means 5 minutes early (Tom) Coughlin |
| #7510, aired 2017-04-14 | FENCING $1200: Someone who Tom Sawyers you tricks you into doing his work for him, just as Tom got others to do this whitewash the fence |
| #7508, aired 2017-04-12 | PUPPETS $1200: Before he worked with Carrie & Bruno on "Dancing with the Stars", he co-hosted FX' "Breakfast Time" with Bob the Puppet Tom Bergeron |
| #7508, aired 2017-04-12 | PUPPETS $2000: Crow & Tom Servo gave their running commentary for "This Island Earth" in a 1996 movie based on this TV show Mystery Science Theater 3000 |
| #7499, aired 2017-03-30 | ONE DIRECTION $1000: Tom Hayden was part of the "New" this Left |
| #7494, aired 2017-03-23 | NEWER WORDS & PHRASES $2000: This acronym precedes "Blog" in the name of Tom Goldstein's blog on the work of Breyer, Alito & their pals SCOTUS |
| #7492, aired 2017-03-21 | MOVIE STARS $1,400 (Daily Double): In 1999 co-stars Anne Bancroft, Jessica Lange & Tom Cruise helped him celebrate his AFI Life Achievement Award Dustin Hoffman |
| #7486, aired 2017-03-13 | LITERATURE ACROSS AMERICA $1600: (Hi. I'm Ryan Kristafer from News 8.) This author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" lived in this Hartford home from 1873 until her death in 1896 (Harriet Beecher) Stowe |
| #7483, aired 2017-03-08 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $200: A performance of the farce "Our American Cousin" by Tom Taylor was cut short due to this tragedy in 1865 the assassination of President Lincoln |
| #7482, aired 2017-03-07 | BECKY WITH THE GOOD HAIR $400: Tom Sawyer forgets Amy Lawrence when he sees this girl "with yellow hair plaited into two long-tails" Becky Thatcher |
| #7481, aired 2017-03-06 | THE ILLUMI-NAUGHTY $400: The Illuminati pop up in this Tom Hanks film & antimatter is stolen from the large hadron collider Angels and Demons |
| #7479, aired 2017-03-02 | POTPOURRI $400: Jimmy Garoppolo had to start at QB to begin the 2016 NFL season because this other Patriot was suspended (Tom) Brady |
| #7474, aired 2017-02-23 | SPEED READING $1000: Victor Appleton II:
"Tom ____ and His Thermo-Ion Jetpack" Swift |
| #7470, aired 2017-02-17 | MTV MOVIE AWARD FOR BEST VILLAIN $200: Tom Hiddleston won in 2013 for fighting the Avengers as this villain Loki |
| #7470, aired 2017-02-17 | MTV MOVIE AWARD FOR BEST VILLAIN $400: Tom Felton won back-to-back for playing this bad seed in Harry Potter films Draco Malfoy |
| #7467, aired 2017-02-14 | SCI-FI BOOKS $1000: Hiroshi Sakurazaka's "All You Need Is Kill" was "reborn" in 2014 as this Tom Cruise flick Edge of Tomorrow |
| #7459, aired 2017-02-02 | 19th CENTURY LITERARY MARRIAGES $800: Eliza escapes on the Underground Railroad & her husband George Harris later joins her in this 1852 novel Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| #7449, aired 2017-01-19 | SILENT "O" $1600: Robert Howard (a military hero) & Tom Parker (not) often had this before their names colonel |
| #7446, aired 2017-01-16 | THE EMMYS 1967 $400: Before it was an action film series with Tom Cruise, it was the 1967 Emmy winner as Outstanding Drama Mission: Impossible |
| #7445, aired 2017-01-13 | RUNNING A HOTEL $600: Tom Hiddleston plays this title hotel functionary in the 2016 miniseries based on John le Carre's novel The Night Manager |
| #7436, aired 2017-01-02 | TOM & GERUND $400: Tom set up an account with wordpress.com so he could start doing this, writing about himself on the web blogging |
| #7436, aired 2017-01-02 | TOM & GERUND $800: Tom keeps getting fired from one job & landing a better one, a path called doing this upward falling (or failing) |
| #7436, aired 2017-01-02 | TOM & GERUND $1200: The umpire penalized Tom for faking a throw to first base without stepping off the rubber, called this balking |
| #7436, aired 2017-01-02 | TOM & GERUND $1600: In history class, Tom learned that a 1965 "Rights Act" outlawed discrimination in this process voting |
| #7436, aired 2017-01-02 | TOM & GERUND $2000: Tom has a new product & he's doing this-- not whipping it but publicizing it flogging |
| #7425, aired 2016-12-16 | WESTERN MOVIES $2000: Audie Murphy played Tom Destry in 1954's "Destry"; oddly, this film with Jimmy Stewart in the role came 15 years earlier Destry Rides Again |
| #7424, aired 2016-12-15 | TO LIVE & DIE IN L.A. $1200: Western movie stars Tom Mix & William S. Hart were at the funeral of this lawman who died in L.A. age 80 in 1929 Wyatt Earp |
| #7412, aired 2016-11-29 | KIDS' BOOKS $200: Huckleberry Finn first shows up in this novel Tom Sawyer |
| #7402, aired 2016-11-15 | QUARTERBACKS $200: In a mind-boggling combo of DNA, this Patriot & his supermodel wife welcomed a baby boy to their family in 2009 Tom Brady |
| #7396, aired 2016-11-07 | WHAT'S YOUR MOVIE OCCUPATION? $1000: Tom Hanks in "Charlie Wilson's War" a congressman |
| #7376, aired 2016-10-10 | LATE WORDS $800: Just like former House Majority Leader Tom's last name, you could have been beset by one of these delay |
| #7374, aired 2016-10-06 | SPY FICTION $800: This submarine tale was the first of Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan novels The Hunt for Red October |
| #7371, aired 2016-10-03 | NOTORIOUS $600: In the 2015 movie "Legend", Tom Hardy played these 1960s twin Cockney gangsters the Kray brothers |
| #7369, aired 2016-09-29 | A LOOK AT BOOKS $1000: Norman Mailer said a novel by this man didn't have the right stuff: "It is a 742-page work that reads as if it is 1,500" Tom Wolfe |
| #7357, aired 2016-09-13 | IN THE BASEBALL TEAM'S LINEUP $200: 1969:
Ed Kranepool, Bud Harrelson & Tom Seaver... what an amazin' team the Mets |
| #7355, aired 2016-07-29 | WORKING WITH A BEATLE $1600: "Handle with Care"! Along with George, this '80s group featured Jeff Lynne, Roy Orbison, Tom Petty & Bob Dylan the Traveling Wilburys |
| #7355, aired 2016-07-29 | SPELL THE FIRST NAME $1600: Tom Cruise's daughter with Katie Holmes S-U-R-I |
| #7350, aired 2016-07-22 | THE BUCKET LIST $1000: This character "appeared on the sidewalk with a bucket of whitewash and a long-handled brush" (Tom) Sawyer |
| #7345, aired 2016-07-15 | BOOK TO MOVIE $1200: Starring Tom Cruise: "One Shot" by Lee Child Jack Reacher |
| #7327, aired 2016-06-21 | BIG SCREEN CHARACTER MASHUPS $1600: Ethan Reacher Tom Cruise |
| #7324, aired 2016-06-16 | BOOK 'EM $1000: Mrs. Gamp & Tom Pinch are characters in this author's "Martin Chuzzlewit" Dickens |
| #7310, aired 2016-05-27 | ALMOST FANATICAL DEVOTION $1200: This word follows "Soul" in the name of a fitness craze that's attracted celebs like Kelly Ripa & Tom Cruise Cycle |
| #7305, aired 2016-05-20 | MAD MEN $800: The exploits of this Union general earned him the nicknames "Mad Tom" & "The Great Marcher" William Tecumseh Sherman |
| #7302, aired 2016-05-17 | MOVIE QUOTES $800: 1996:
"Shut up--just shut up. You had me at hello" Jerry Maguire |
| #7294, aired 2016-05-05 | TV TITLE CHARACTERS $400: Tom Selleck screen-tested as Indiana Jones but turned out to be contractually bound to play this private eye Magnum, P.I. |
| #7293, aired 2016-05-04 | GRAVE MATTERS $800: A Fort Sumner, New Mexico marker lists pals Tom O'Folliard, Charlie Bowdre & William H. Bonney, alias him Billy the Kid |
| #7287, aired 2016-04-26 | THE BROAD $1200: Robert Therien's "under the table" makes you feel like these two literary characters, a man created in 1726 & a girl from 1865 Gulliver and Alice |
| #7284, aired 2016-04-21 | REALITY TV JUDGES $800: Tom Colicchio blogged "Why Stefan's dish was the worst" in a post called "Hog Hell" on this Bravo show's website Top Chef |
| #7281, aired 2016-04-18 | FRENCH FILM FEMMES $1600: Her first big budget Hollywood film was "The Da Vinci Code" opposite Tom Hanks Audrey Tautou |
| #7280, aired 2016-04-15 | TV SHOWS BASED ON MOVIES $1600: Precogs can see murders before they happen in this Tom Cruise film that inspired a Fox TV show Minority Report |
| #7271, aired 2016-04-04 | GRAMMY'S BEST NEW ARTIST $200: How unusual! 1965's winner was this Welsh singer who beat Herman's Hermits, the Byrds & Sonny & Cher Tom Jones |
| #7268, aired 2016-03-30 | VIDEO GAMES $2000: The spirit of Tom Clancy hovers over the games about this title group & grizzled agent Sam Fisher Splinter Cell |
| #7267, aired 2016-03-29 | I RUN A LITTLE $800: Bob Hayes sprinted to gold in 1964, then played 10 years for Tom Landry & this team, averaging 20 yards per catch the (Dallas) Cowboys |
| #7260, aired 2016-03-18 | TOM, DICK & HARRY $400: Over 1,000 feet long, the USS Harry S. Truman is one of these vessels an aircraft carrier |
| #7260, aired 2016-03-18 | TOM, DICK & HARRY $800: With songs like "Day-O", a 1950s fad for Calypso music was begun by this man Harry Belafonte |
| #7260, aired 2016-03-18 | TOM, DICK & HARRY $1200: He played John Fitzgerald, one of the folks against whom "The Revenant" Leonardo DiCaprio sought vengeance Tom Hardy |
| #7260, aired 2016-03-18 | TOM, DICK & HARRY $1600: Named for a 5-time All Pro, this award goes to the best linebacker in high school, college & pro football the Dick Butkus Award |
| #7260, aired 2016-03-18 | TOM, DICK & HARRY $2000: A former governor of Iowa, Tom Vilsack has served as this Cabinet secretary since 2009 Agriculture |
| #7255, aired 2016-03-11 | THE ENTERTAINMENT BUSINESS? $600: Scavo Pizzeria was opened by Tom & Lynette on this Sunday night series Desperate Housewives |
| #7252, aired 2016-03-08 | LITERARY LAST NAMES $600: "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer":
Becky Thatcher |
| #7251, aired 2016-03-07 | LITERATURE IS FOR THE BIRDS $2000: The title bird is actually an anarchist in Tom Robbins' "Still Life with" this Woodpecker |
| #7247, aired 2016-03-01 | BACKING BANDS $400: Tom Petty the Heartbreakers |
| #7245, aired 2016-02-26 | VICE PRESIDENTS $400: (Vice President Joe Biden delivers the clue.) My office in the West Wing of the White House has portraits of these 2 men, the first 2 vice presidents of the United States John Adams & Tom Jefferson |
| #7238, aired 2016-02-17 | NURSERY RHYME FOLKS $3,000 (Daily Double): Maybe he's a thief because his wind instrument musician father can't make enough to feed the family Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son |
| #7237, aired 2016-02-16 | WOMEN IN POETRY $1,500 (Daily Double): This 1852 book inspired John Greenleaf Whittier to write his poem "Eva" Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| #7234, aired 2016-02-11 | COLLEGE-SET LITERATURE $1600: This author known for his white suits set the novel "I Am Charlotte Simmons" at Dupont (don't call it Duke!) University Tom Wolfe |
| #7231, aired 2016-02-08 | FICTION $400: He died in 2013, 2 months before the publication of his "Command Authority", a new Jack Ryan novel Tom Clancy |
| #7230, aired 2016-02-05 | STATELY LITERATURE $400: "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" Missouri |
| #7224, aired 2016-01-28 | LONG TIME $1200: A terminal at Los Angeles International Airport is named for this 5-term mayor Tom Bradley |
| #7221, aired 2016-01-25 | ANNUAL EVENTS $200: A fence painting contest is a highlight of National Tom Sawyer Days in this Missouri city Hannibal |
| #7214, aired 2016-01-14 | I AM THE CAPTAIN NOW $1600: The U.S. Ryder Cup team,
1983 & '87 Jack Nicklaus |
| #7207, aired 2016-01-05 | MOVIE BIOGRAPHIES $400: 1984:
Tom Hulce as Mozart Amadeus |
| #7205, aired 2016-01-01 | FAMOUS BELLS $400: At 9:05 P.M., Great Tom at Christ Church College at this British univ. rings 101 times, once for each original student Oxford |
| #7201, aired 2015-12-28 | KITTY LIT $1000: She has a red tiger-striped tom in "Breakfast at Tiffany's" Holly Golightly |
| #7194, aired 2015-12-17 | GOOD CAUSES $2000: In 1739 Thomas Coram set up a London hospital for orphans called these, like Fielding's Tom Jones foundlings |
| #7193, aired 2015-12-16 | RECENT CINEMA $200: The jacket worn by Tom Hardy to play this title role is a replica of the one worn by Mel Gibson in 3 earlier films Mad Max |
| #7184, aired 2015-12-03 | THE NEW YORK TIMES: OBITUARIES $800: Memorializing this comedian in 2014, the Times quoted her line "A Peeping Tom looked in my window & pulled down the shade" Joan Rivers |
| #7168, aired 2015-11-11 | VETERANS DAY FILM FESTIVAL $400: In this film Tom Hanks as Captain Miller tells his men, "Keep the sand out of your weapons... I'll see you on the beach" Saving Private Ryan |
| #7162, aired 2015-11-03 | SHOW "TIME" $1200: More than just SpongeBob, Tom Kenny voices the Ice King, Magic Man & Gunter on this other 'toon Adventure Time |
| #7160, aired 2015-10-30 | LIT-POURRI $600: This 18th c. novel has wordy chapter titles like "Containing a Conversation which Mr. Jones Had with Himself" Tom Jones |
| #7158, aired 2015-10-28 | FILMS OF THE '90s $600: (I'm NASCAR driver A.J. Allmendinger.) Tom Cruise plays Cole Trickle, a yankee who breaks into big-time stock car racing in this 1990 film Days of Thunder |
| #7156, aired 2015-10-26 | SHAKESPEARE $400: Puck says, "Lord, what fools these mortals be!" in Act III of this play A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| #7156, aired 2015-10-26 | COMPLETES THE PROVERB $600: "The shoemaker's son always goes ____" barefoot |
| #7156, aired 2015-10-26 | COMPLETES THE PROVERB $1000: "If wishes were horses, ____ ____ ____" beggars would ride |
| #7156, aired 2015-10-26 | PEOPLE WITH BIBLE BOOK NAMES $1000: Nicaraguan President Ortega;
conductor Barenboim Daniel |
| #7156, aired 2015-10-26 | SEAS $1200: To enter this sea from the Sea of Marmara, you must pass through the Bosporus the Black Sea |
| #7156, aired 2015-10-26 | SEAS $1600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents from the Mekong River in Vietnam.) Southeast Asia's longest river, the Mekong, starts in the Tibetan Highlands & flows 2,700 miles before emptying into the sea that we know as this, but which Vietnam wants to call the Southeast Asia Sea the South China Sea |
| #7150, aired 2015-10-16 | TOM, TOM $200: Here's this character from the first edition of the book about him in 1876 Tom Sawyer |
| #7150, aired 2015-10-16 | TOM, TOM $400: At the beginning of "The Grapes of Wrath", he's just been released from state prison Tom Joad |
| #7150, aired 2015-10-16 | TOM, TOM $600: His full name anagrams to "I AM LORD VOLDEMORT" Tom Riddle |
| #7150, aired 2015-10-16 | TOM, TOM $800: In this play Tom Wingfield brings home a gentleman caller for his sister Laura The Glass Menagerie (A Glass Menagerie accepted) |
| #7150, aired 2015-10-16 | TOM, TOM $1000: In Chapter 7 of "The Great Gatsby", Gatsby tells him, "Daisy's leaving you" Tom Buchanan |
| #7139, aired 2015-10-01 | SUPER BOWL MVP QBs $200: In 2015 this QB gave the truck he won as MVP to Malcolm Butler, the rookie who made the game-saving interception (Tom) Brady |
| #7117, aired 2015-07-21 | FILMS INSPIRED BY MAGAZINE ARTICLES $400: A 1983 article about a naval flight school was the genesis of this Tom Cruise hit Top Gun |
| #7113, aired 2015-07-15 | WORDPLAY-POURRI $600: Before & after:
A creepy man who looks through windows at night QBs the Patriots Peeping Tom Brady |
| #7112, aired 2015-07-14 | TV DADS $1200: He plays a police commissioner & patriarch of the Reagan family on "Blue Bloods" Tom Selleck |
| #7111, aired 2015-07-13 | REALITY TV HOSTS $400: Tom Bergeron Dancing with the Stars |
| #7107, aired 2015-07-07 | THE "VAN" POOL $1200: He's the founder of Natural Balance Pet Foods, Inc. but he's better known for playing Tom Bradford on "Eight Is Enough" Dick Van Patten |
| #7103, aired 2015-07-01 | NON-TALKATIVE SHOW BIZ FOLK $4,400 (Daily Double): Calling him a "character" is a bit of a stretch, but Tom Hanks made him/it a close pal in a 2000 movie Wilson |
| #7102, aired 2015-06-30 | USA! $1600: Take a sight-seeing cruise on one of the Gateway Arch riverboats named for Tom Sawyer & this girlfriend of his Becky Thatcher |
| #7101, aired 2015-06-29 | PENGUIN CLASSICS COVERS $400: Tom Paine talks straight Common Sense |
| #7097, aired 2015-06-23 | LITERARY CHARACTERS $600: Evil Lord Voldemort in the Harry Potter books was originally this Hogwarts student Tom Riddle |
| #7097, aired 2015-06-23 | 6-LETTER WORDS $800: From the French for "to see", it sounds much classier than its synonym Peeping Tom voyeur |
| #7093, aired 2015-06-17 | TOO MUCH INFORMATION $400: Ben Franklin had an illegitimate son, was an expert swimmer & wrote "Experiments and Observations on" this electricity |
| #7093, aired 2015-06-17 | FOOTBALL HEROES $600: Growing up in this state capital, Bill Belichick revered Roger Staubach, who won the Heisman playing for Navy Annapolis |
| #7091, aired 2015-06-15 | NOVELS BY COUPLE $400: Tom &
Daisy Buchanan The Great Gatsby |
| #7086, aired 2015-06-08 | HEAVY $800: In "Uncle Tom's Cabin", this villain orders a deadly beating of Uncle Tom when he won't give up escaped slaves Simon Legree |
| #7084, aired 2015-06-04 | IN SO MANY WORDS $800: 5 words:
2002 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees seen here Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers |
| #7078, aired 2015-05-27 | AYE $400: She said "aye" to Tom Cruise's proposal atop the Eiffel Tower in 2005 ("nay" came later) Katie Holmes |
| #7077, aired 2015-05-26 | CONTEMPORARY AUTHORS $1200: He's been responsible for such phrases as "the Me Decade" & "radical chic" Tom Wolfe |
| #7071, aired 2015-05-18 | "R"OCKERS $800: You can hear the anger in this Tom Morello band's song "Killing In The Name" Rage Against the Machine |
| #7065, aired 2015-05-08 | WHAT AN INVENTION $400: Fictional boy inventor Tom Swift inspired the T & S in this stun gun's name a Taser |
| #7064, aired 2015-05-07 | MY NAME IS A TITLE $800: In this novel by Henry Fielding, Squire Allworthy gives an abandoned baby his name Tom Jones |
| #7061, aired 2015-05-04 | NEWS ANCHORS $400: After leaving the NBC anchor chair in 2004, he briefly hosted "Meet the Press" Tom Brokaw |
| #7061, aired 2015-05-04 | CHARACTERS FROM AMERICAN LIT $800: The first word in "Tom Sawyer" is uttered by this woman, his aunt & guardian Aunt Polly |
| #7059, aired 2015-04-30 | 6-LETTER CROSSWORD CLUES $2,000 (Daily Double): Tom Canty, at the start of a Twain novel pauper |
| #7055, aired 2015-04-24 | ARTWORK $400: The Degas work seen here is an 1880s pastel on paper called this; Tom Petty said it was the hardest part Waiting |
| #7053, aired 2015-04-22 | AUTHORS: BORN & DIED $200: This master of the techno-thriller was born in Baltimore in 1947 & died there in 2013 Tom Clancy |
| #7048, aired 2015-04-15 | THE NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS $200: A sixth-round pick in the 2000 draft, this QB told owner Robert Kraft, "I'm the best decision" the team "ever made" Tom Brady |
| #7045, aired 2015-04-10 | HERE COMES THE SUN $400: Led by stars like Kevin Johnson & Tom Chambers, this NBA team has won 2 Western Conference titles the Phoenix Suns |
| #7042, aired 2015-04-07 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: This 1852 novel says, "It is a sin to hold a slave under laws like ours" Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| #7040, aired 2015-04-03 | IN LIFE $400: In common law, the age of this, signaling adulthood, is presumed to be 14 in boys & 12 in girls puberty |
| #7040, aired 2015-04-03 | ENDS WITH "W" $2000: Hamlet says, "I am but mad north-north-west. When the wind is southerly I know a hawk from" this tool a handsaw |
| #7040, aired 2015-04-03 | JOHN QUINCY ADAMS $2000: Adams was elected to the House of Reps in 1830 with the support of this third party that opposed a secret society the Anti-Masonic Party |
| #7040, aired 2015-04-03 | BIG BUSINESS $2000: Gaming company SJM Holdings has billions in assets, including 17 casinos it operates in this Asian territory Macau |
| #7040, aired 2015-04-03 | 20th CENTURY AMERICA $3,200 (Daily Double): Section 1 of the 18th amendment, the only one ever repealed, ends, "is hereby" this verb prohibited |
| #7036, aired 2015-03-30 | JEOPARDY! AROUND THE WORLD $600: You might be able to play along with TIM ELLER TOM on Swedish "Jeopardy!"--check out a clue about this director Tim Burton |
| #7033, aired 2015-03-25 | READING RAINBOW $800: This author's "Rainbow Six" refers to the leader of an anti-terrorist strike force Tom Clancy |
| #7032, aired 2015-03-24 | DOG STARS $800: Dogue de Bordeaux partnered with Tom Hanks Hooch |
| #7032, aired 2015-03-24 | BRITISH LITERATURE $2,000 (Daily Double): "Dogg's Hamlet, Cahoot's Macbeth" are paired 1979 plays by this Bard-loving Brit Tom Stoppard |
| #7030, aired 2015-03-20 | LITERARY CHARACTERS BASED ON REAL PEOPLE $400: This H.B. Stowe character was partially based on josiah Henson, a slave who escaped the south to Canada Uncle Tom |
| #7030, aired 2015-03-20 | LITERARY CHARACTERS BASED ON REAL PEOPLE $800: Tom Blankenship, the son of the town drunkard in Hannibal, was the inspiration for this classic character Huckleberry Finn |
| #7024, aired 2015-03-12 | PHINEAS & FERBER $400: Charles Stratton was almost 5 when Phineas T. Barnum gave him this name; he would remain 25'' tall & 15 lbs. until his teens (General) Tom Thumb |
| #7019, aired 2015-03-05 | THE CELEBRITY SPOUSE IN COMMON $400: Tom Cruise, Keith Urban Nicole Kidman |
| #7014, aired 2015-02-26 | THE BLUES $800: Mark Frankel, Tom Galassi & Matt Ramsey are part of this performance trio that doesn't speak the Blue Man Group |
| #7014, aired 2015-02-26 | FOLK MUSIC $1600: Dave Guard, Bob Shane & Nick Reynolds were the original members of this "Tom Dooley" folk trio The Kingston Trio |
| #7012, aired 2015-02-24 | BIOGRAPHY $600: In 2012 Douglas Brinkley published a biography of this "most trusted man in America" Walter Cronkite |
| #7007, aired 2015-02-17 | HIGHWAYS & BYWAYS $1200: Seen here is a marker on the highway between Dallas & Fort Worth, named for this longtime Cowboys coach Tom Landry |
| #7004, aired 2015-02-12 | 1990s FICTION $400: A nuclear weapon falls into the hands of terrorists in this author's "The Sum of All Fears" Tom Clancy |
| #6997, aired 2015-02-03 | TV: A NICE PLACE TO START $200: He's seen here as he looked playing Buffy Wilson on "Bosom Buddies" Tom Hanks |
| #6993, aired 2015-01-28 | I'LL HAVE A TRIPLE $800: A defining Quasimodo feature,
an ex-tree &
a Tom Hanks role a hump, a stump, & a Gump |
| #6992, aired 2015-01-27 | COLLECTIBLES $800: Tom Hanks not only collects vintage manual ones of these, but he also uses them for memos, notes, etc. typewriters |
| #6986, aired 2015-01-19 | ATTA BOY, TOM! $200: In 2011 he starred in his fourth "Mission: Impossible" film, "Ghost Protocol" Tom Cruise |
| #6986, aired 2015-01-19 | ATTA BOY, TOM! $400: Tom Wolfe worked for six years on this bestseller about the early space program The Right Stuff |
| #6986, aired 2015-01-19 | ATTA BOY, TOM! $600: In 2005 he ended his tenure as the first head of the Department of Homeland Security Tom Ridge |
| #6986, aired 2015-01-19 | ATTA BOY, TOM! $800: As its creative director from 1994 to 2004, Tom Ford transformed this Italian fashion house Gucci |
| #6986, aired 2015-01-19 | ATTA BOY, TOM! $1000: Last name of U.S. Senators Tom from New Mexico & Mark from Colorado Udall |
| #6985, aired 2015-01-16 | ACTORS & THEIR OSCAR-WINNING ROLES $400: 1993:
Tom Hanks as Andrew Beckett, a lawyer with AIDS, in this movie Philadelphia |
| #6981, aired 2015-01-12 | LITERARY NAME DROPPERS $400: By Tom Stoppard:
"____ and ____ Are Dead" Rosencrantz & Guildenstern |
| #6980, aired 2015-01-09 | MOVIE TITLE ADD A LETTER $400: 1994:
Life is like a box of chocolates for a very sulky Tom Hanks character Forrest Grump |
| #6979, aired 2015-01-08 | THAT'S MY WIFE $200: Tom Brady:
This supermodel Gisele Bundchen |
| #6978, aired 2015-01-07 | OF THE NATIONAL DESIGN AWARDS $600: Designs by 2014 Lifetime Achievement winners Ivan Chermayeff & Tom Geismar include one for this L.A. museum MOCA (the Museum of Contemporary Art) |
| #6975, aired 2015-01-02 | IN MY CABINET $200: Hilda Solis,
Tom Vilsack,
Chuck Hagel (Barack) Obama |
| #6975, aired 2015-01-02 | A NOVEL CATEGORY $1600: Tom Wolfe wrote about the fall of Wall Street master of the universe Sherman McCoy in this, his first novel Bonfire of the Vanities |
| #6972, aired 2014-12-30 | RIBBONS $200: Unable to find a store open to buy a printer ribbon in 1985, Tom Stemberg founded this office supply superstore Staples |
| #6970, aired 2014-12-26 | CITY-TITLED MOVIES $1600: Jeff Daniels as actor Tom Baxter steps out of a movie screen & into the life of a waitress in this Woody Allen film The Purple Rose of Cairo |
| #6967, aired 2014-12-23 | SOCIETY $1600: Tom Colicchio says this 3-word phrase du jour just means buying better food from small-scale producers farm to table |
| #6958, aired 2014-12-10 | 21st CENTURY MOVIE QUOTES $400: "Look at me--I'm the captain now" Captain Phillips |
| #6951, aired 2014-12-01 | KIDS IN LIT $4,800 (Daily Double): This 19th century character asked, "Does a boy get a chance to whitewash a fence every day?" Tom Sawyer |
| #6943, aired 2014-11-19 | LITERARY CHARACTERS $200: In "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer", she is described as "a lovely little blue-eyed creature with yellow hair" Becky Thatcher |
| #6943, aired 2014-11-19 | LITERARY CHARACTERS $400: In "Uncle Tom's Cabin", he's "that brutal man, familiar with every form of cruelty" Simon Legree |
| #6934, aired 2014-11-06 | "DOO" OR "DI" $2000: In folk music he's told, "Hang down your head" Tom Dooley |
| #6926, aired 2014-10-27 | LAST COMPLETE NOVEL $3,000 (Daily Double): "Command Authority"
(2013) Tom Clancy |
| #6920, aired 2014-10-17 | O CAPTAIN! MY LITERATURE CAPTAIN! $800: Captain First Rank Marko Ramius ordered a sub to go (defect) in this Tom Clancy novel The Hunt for Red October |
| #6917, aired 2014-10-14 | CELEBRITY MARRIAGES $600: He met Rita Wilson on the set of "Bosom Buddies"; the pair reconnected making the 1985 movie "Volunteers" Tom Hanks |
| #6910, aired 2014-10-03 | THE 20th CENTURY $2000: This group of defendants included Abbie Hoffman & Tom Hayden; their 1970 convictions were overturned the Chicago Seven |
| #6899, aired 2014-09-18 | FAIRY TALES $800: In an Irish tale, Farmer Tom meets one of these beings who promises to bring him riches but tricks him instead leprechaun |
| #6893, aired 2014-07-30 | CREATIVE WRITERS $400: Mark Twain created this title character also found in "Huckleberry Finn" Tom Sawyer |
| #6875, aired 2014-07-04 | ON THE "LEFT" $600: The Rams' Tom Mack made the Hall of Fame at this position next to the center left guard |
| #6874, aired 2014-07-03 | THE GHOST OF TOM JOAD $200: ...knows this state is in the first line of Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath" Oklahoma |
| #6874, aired 2014-07-03 | THE GHOST OF TOM JOAD $400: ...remembers that when we meet Tom, he's just finished 4 years here, & it ain't college prison |
| #6874, aired 2014-07-03 | THE GHOST OF TOM JOAD $600: ...thinks this actor did a fine job as Tom in the 1940 "Grapes of Wrath" movie Henry Fonda |
| #6874, aired 2014-07-03 | THE GHOST OF TOM JOAD $800: ...recalls traveling with Jim Casy, who talks about the "holy sperit" & is called this, similar to a minister preacher |
| #6874, aired 2014-07-03 | THE GHOST OF TOM JOAD $1000: ...was told, "They's a grove of" these--& "a guy with a gun that got the right to kill you if you touch one" oranges |
| #6872, aired 2014-07-01 | BAND OF BROTHERS $1000: Big in the '60s & early '70s: John & Tom Fogerty Creedence Clearwater Revival |
| #6869, aired 2014-06-26 | "K" ROCK $2000: With help from the Art of Noise, Tom Jones remade this Prince song "Kiss" |
| #6866, aired 2014-06-23 | IN TV'S SUPPORTING CAST $2000: Jessica Walter, voicing Malory, mom of this spy: "Look at me! Chopping ice for a Tom Collins like a field hand!" Archer |
| #6865, aired 2014-06-20 | LITERARY SHIPPING $1200: Wishing to defect in a Tom Clancy thriller, Capt. Ramius leads this "colorful" craft into troubled waters The Red October |
| #6858, aired 2014-06-11 | FAMOUS VOICES $1600: This gravel-voiced singer/actor released the albums "Closing Time", "Mule Variations" & "Rain Dogs" Tom Waits |
| #6852, aired 2014-06-03 | WORD PROBLEM PROBLEMS $200: If Tom's tuition costs $43,000 at this school near Palo Alto, how can his parents afford it? Stanford |
| #6841, aired 2014-05-19 | DISNEY FILM VOICES $800: This "G.I. Jane" played Esmeralda to Tom Hulce's Quasimodo in 1996's "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" (Demi) Moore |
| #6837, aired 2014-05-13 | SHIP SHAPE $800: This ship of Columbus was officially the Santa Clara but had a more juvenile nickname the Niña |
| #6837, aired 2014-05-13 | RECENT NOVELS $800: "Persuader" by Lee Child featured the return of this ex-military cop, 6'5", 250 in the book series & not 6'5", 250 onscreen Jack Reacher |
| #6837, aired 2014-05-13 | LIBRARIES $2,000 (Daily Double): The George W. Bush Presidential Library is on the campus of this university SMU (Southern Methodist) |
| #6834, aired 2014-05-08 | FROM THE... $400: Barista Italian |
| #6834, aired 2014-05-08 | I'M A PAPAL PERSON! $600: In an archbishop of Canterbury tale, Innocent III excommunicated this 13th c. king in a dispute on who'd be archbishop King John |
| #6832, aired 2014-05-06 | THE MISSING MAN $200: In a famous double-play combo:
Joe Tinker, Johnny Evers Frank Chance |
| #6832, aired 2014-05-06 | IT'S GREEK MYTH TO ME $400: Hercules slew a lion that came from here Nemea |
| #6832, aired 2014-05-06 | THE MISSING MAN $600: In the name of an optical products company:
John Jacob Bausch (Henry) Lomb |
| #6832, aired 2014-05-06 | FEATURING FLAGS $800: It's the only U.S. state to use a primarily green flag, which honors its nickname Washington |
| #6832, aired 2014-05-06 | CROSSWORD WORDS $800: World War II tank named for a Civil War general
(7) Sherman |
| #6832, aired 2014-05-06 | WEATHER $1200: In November 2013 typhoon Haiyan swept through this Asian nation, killing thousands the Phillipines |
| #6832, aired 2014-05-06 | CROSSWORD WORDS $1600: Main character's foil
(10) antagonist |
| #6831, aired 2014-05-05 | WE'RE A NORTH AMERICAN BAND! $400: This trio sang, "Today's Tom Sawyer, he gets high on you, & the space he invades, he gets by on you" Rush |
| #6829, aired 2014-05-01 | LAW ENFORCEMENT TV $600: A little nepotism? Tom Selleck is the New York police commissioner & son Donnie Wahlberg is a detective on this series Blue Bloods |
| #6823, aired 2014-04-23 | THE MAN OF THE HOUSE $2,000 (Daily Double): Tom Cole & Markwayne Mullin, the only Native Americans in Congress, are from this state's "Five Civilized Tribes" Oklahoma |
| #6821, aired 2014-04-21 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $800: (Ben Brantley of The New York Times delivers the clue.) Zachary Quinto gave a benchmark performance as Tom Wingfield in such a thorough rejuvenation of this Tennessee Williams play that I hesitate to call it a revival The Glass Menagerie |
| #6819, aired 2014-04-17 | CELEBRITY EPITAPHS $1600: This "Happy Days" actor: "Fiorello, sheriff, priest...and forever 'Mr. C.'" Tom Bosley |
| #6811, aired 2014-04-07 | TV HOSTS BY INITIALS $200: "Dancing with the Stars":
T.B. Tom Bergeron |
| #6810, aired 2014-04-04 | VIDEO GAMES $1600: Tom Clancy lent his name to this shooter series that might leave your finger smarting Splinter Cell |
| #6809, aired 2014-04-03 | OUR OLD PAL WATSON $200: In 1974 this Stanford grad won his first pro tournament, the Western Open Tom Watson |
| #6808, aired 2014-04-02 | "SELF-E"s $200: Completes the Founding Fathers' phrase "We hold these truths to be..." self-evident |
| #6808, aired 2014-04-02 | NEW IN THE 2000s $400: News Corporation paid $580 million in 2005 to get this social networking site that sold for $35 million in 2011 Myspace |
| #6808, aired 2014-04-02 | LITERARY TITLES $800: Tom Wolfe's "From" this "to Our House" cleverly rhymes a Gropius creation Bauhaus |
| #6808, aired 2014-04-02 | POP QUIZ $1200: In 2013 Marc Anthony's "Vivir Mi Vida" was Record of the Year at the 14th of these awards the Latin Grammys |
| #6808, aired 2014-04-02 | LITERARY TITLES $1600: Owned by black sharecroppers, this title dog was named for his bark Sounder |
| #6806, aired 2014-03-31 | RETRONYMS $600: This scriptural work is also called the Hebrew Bible or Tanakh the Old Testament |
| #6806, aired 2014-03-31 | ACCESSORIES $800: In 1937, long before its instant cameras, Polaroid began making these sunglasses |
| #6806, aired 2014-03-31 | A SPACE ODDITY $800: Astronaut Chris Hadfield revealed they don't do laundry in space, they eject old clothes & this happens to them they burn on re-entry |
| #6805, aired 2014-03-28 | ADVERBS $2000: "The surgeon removed my right atrium & ventricle", Tom Swift said in this unenthusiastic fashion halfheartedly |
| #6804, aired 2014-03-27 | COLLEGE FOOTBALL COACHES $1000: Tom Osborne won 255 games at this univ. & 3 elections to Congress from the state (you win 255 games & you'll get elected, too) (University of) Nebraska |
| #6797, aired 2014-03-18 | QUICK LIT $400: Henry Fielding's title foundling Tom Jones |
| #6791, aired 2014-03-10 | TV BEFORE & AFTER $800: Tom Selleck gets the Ferrari out of the garage & heads to Rome for a miniseries about an emperor Magnum, P.I. Claudius |
| #6789, aired 2014-03-06 | ON THE BOOKSHELF $600: "The Devil's Candy" chronicled the disastrous film production of this Tom Wolfe bestseller The Bonfire of the Vanities |
| #6789, aired 2014-03-06 | WHOSE SONG? $600: Suzanne Vega, a cappella:
"____'s Diner" Tom |
| #6778, aired 2014-02-19 | RECENTLY BANNED OR CHALLENGED BOOKS $800: A beef with his "Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" on a Penn. reading list: "sexual content &... there is nothing good about it" Tom Wolfe |
| #6777, aired 2014-02-18 | MOM & DAD'S DATE MOVIES $1600: In "Splash", this actor falls for the mermaid who saved his life (Tom) Hanks |
| #6770, aired 2014-02-07 | SONG OF THE YEAR $1200: "I got my first real six-string / Bought it at the five & dime", begins this reminiscing song by Bryan Adams "Summer Of '69" |
| #6770, aired 2014-02-07 | NO LONGER AROUND $1600: This province made up the northeastern paart of South Africa until 1994 Transvaal |
| #6768, aired 2014-02-05 | CINEMA OF MY YOUTH $400 (Daily Double): Leopoldine Konstantin tells Claude Rains, "We are protected by the enormity of your stupidity" in this Hitchcock film Notorious |
| #6768, aired 2014-02-05 | WE LOVE PLANET EARTH $400: The emmer type of this was one of the first cultivated crops over 10,000 years ago wheat |
| #6768, aired 2014-02-05 | WE LOVE PLANET EARTH $600: North Dakota is a leading producer of this low-grade brown coal lignite |
| #6768, aired 2014-02-05 | I'M HEADING TO... $800: Mount Katahdin in this New England state Maine |
| #6768, aired 2014-02-05 | STARTS & ENDS WITH THE SAME VOWEL $2000: From the Italian, it's heartburn or anxiety agita |
| #6767, aired 2014-02-04 | THIS IS THE END $1000: It comes between "you" & "me" in a Tom Cruise movie line complete |
| #6765, aired 2014-01-31 | 31 DAYS OF OSCAR $800: (Ben Mankiewicz reads.) Director Jonathan Demme lost a close friend to AIDS, prompting him to make this film with Tom Hanks as a dying patient Philadelphia |
| #6763, aired 2014-01-29 | CELEBRITIES' FAVORITE BOOKS $600: (I'm New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman.) My favorite book is this Pat Conroy novel in which Tom Wingo leaves South Carolina to help his troubled twin sister in New York & ends up confronting his own dark past The Prince of Tides |
| #6761, aired 2014-01-27 | WHAT A LITERARY CHARACTER! $200: Simon Legree is a brutal slave driver in this 19th century work Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| #6760, aired 2014-01-24 | BEFORE & AFTER AT THE MOVIES $800: Tom Hanks & his soldiers storm the beaches of Normandy & rescue the guy who played Oliver in "Love Story" Saving Private Ryan O'Neal |
| #6753, aired 2014-01-15 | THAT LITERARY TITLE GUY IS UP TO SOMETHING $200: "He had had a nice, good, idle time all the while... and the fence had three coats of whitewash on it!" Tom Sawyer |
| #6752, aired 2014-01-14 | EMMY-WINNING DRAMATIC ACTORS $400: 1984:
As Thomas Magnum, P.I. Tom Selleck |
| #6750, aired 2014-01-10 | I SAW IT ON IMDb $200: In 1988 he starred in both the Best Picture Oscar winner, "Rain Man", & the Razzie winner for worst picture, "Cocktail" Tom Cruise |
| #6749, aired 2014-01-09 | KIDDY LIT $2000: While spending his school days at Rugby, this title student is harassed by Flashman, the school bully Tom Brown |
| #6744, aired 2014-01-02 | JOE PARTY $400: Tom has a party & Jerry tries to stop it in the short "Saturday Evening Puss", directed by William Hanna & him Joseph Barbera |
| #6739, aired 2013-12-26 | "TOM" & "HUCK" $200: The Obamas have this pie every Thanksgiving huckleberry |
| #6739, aired 2013-12-26 | "TOM" & "HUCK" $400: This Native American item could be used to chop wood or people tomahawk |
| #6739, aired 2013-12-26 | "TOM" & "HUCK" $600: It's someone who advertises a product in an aggressive & flashy way huckster |
| #6739, aired 2013-12-26 | "TOM" & "HUCK" $800: This type of feline is also a verb meaning to prowl around seducing women tomcat |
| #6739, aired 2013-12-26 | "TOM" & "HUCK" $1000: Thomas Skelton, a court jester for Queen Elizabeth I, could have aptly been accused of this word meaning silly behavior tomfoolery |
| #6734, aired 2013-12-19 | A GOOD OFFENSE $200: Tom Brady tossed 50 TD passes in 2007, leading this team to an NFL record 589 points in a season New England Patriots |
| #6710, aired 2013-11-15 | THE LENGTH OF THE MOVIE $1200: Tom Hanks runs death row The Green Mile |
| #6708, aired 2013-11-13 | T.P., YOUR HOUSE $400: Tom Petty, you had a house in Encino in this part of L.A. that's the setting of "Free Falling" the San Fernando Valley |
| #6702, aired 2013-11-05 | THE NEW YORK TIMES THEATRE $1600: (Ben Brantley gives the clue.) Tom Hanks made his Broadway debut playing tabloid columnist Mike McAlary in "Lucky Guy", written by this late woman, a close friend of Hanks; unlike some of the movies she wrote & directed, her play feels only newsprint deep Nora Ephron |
| #6698, aired 2013-10-30 | SUPER BOWL-WINNING COACHES $600: Dallas Cowboys (Super Bowls VI & XII) (Tom) Landry |
| #6697, aired 2013-10-29 | NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNERS $600: He had "The Right Stuff" to win for his book about Chuck Yeager, Alan Shepard & others Tom Wolfe |
| #6676, aired 2013-09-30 | FRAGRANCES $800: Tom Ford goes boho chic with a fragrance called "White" this, an essential oil long associated with hippies Patchouli |
| #6676, aired 2013-09-30 | ASSUME THE PREPOSITION $800: In a Tom Hanks movie title, it comes between "Joe" & "the Volcano" Versus |
| #6665, aired 2013-08-02 | NURSERY RHYME THINGS $800: It was stolen by Tom, Tom, the piper's son a pig |
| #6664, aired 2013-08-01 | INTERESTED IN A JOB, KID? $1200: Think you can put on a few pounds & take over for Vince Wilfork, a 325-lb. defensive tackle for this Tom Brady-led team? Patriots |
| #6662, aired 2013-07-30 | U.S. STAMPS $200: Artist Tom Engeman created an image of this symbol of American freedom, to "ring out" on forever stamps Liberty Bell |
| #6659, aired 2013-07-25 | IT'S NOT MATT LAUER $400: He was a "Today" host for 6 years before starting a 22-year run on the "NBC Nightly News" in 1982 Tom Brokaw |
| #6659, aired 2013-07-25 | WORKING OVERTIME AT THE COMPANY $1200: After 26 hours at this sporting goods co., I'm now pals with a replica we made of the volleyball in a Tom Hanks film Wilson |
| #6654, aired 2013-07-18 | BUSINESS HISTORIES $400: James Monaghan traded his half of this pizza business to his brother Tom for a VW beetle; extra large mistake Domino's |
| #6651, aired 2013-07-15 | TV TITLE GUYS & GALS $1600: Tom Selleck, toolin' around paradise in the '80s Magnum, P.I. |
| #6645, aired 2013-07-05 | SO VERY "BRITISH" $200: I was inspired to work on my putting after watching Tom Watson win this tournament in 1975 the British Open |
| #6643, aired 2013-07-03 | TITLE ROLE PLAYING $1200: "Jack Reacher" Tom Cruise |
| #6638, aired 2013-06-26 | THE MUSICALS OF RODGERS & HAMMERSTEIN $1200: Features a ballet that's a Siamese version of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" The King and I |
| #6636, aired 2013-06-24 | A FIRST NAME BASIS $600: Meaning people in general, the phrase with these 3 male names dates back to the 1700s Tom, Dick & Harry |
| #6628, aired 2013-06-12 | A BUNCH OF BOOKS $1000: Tom Wolfe, 1987:
"The ___ of the ___s" The Bonfire of the Vanities |
| #6627, aired 2013-06-11 | RANK $800: David Bowie's
Tom major |
| #6627, aired 2013-06-11 | I SANG THE JAMES BOND SONG $1600: "Thunderball" Tom Jones |
| #6624, aired 2013-06-06 | WATCH THOSE RATS & MICE $400: "Quiet Please!", starring this feline & mouse duo, won the 1945 Oscar for best cartoon short subject Tom & Jerry |
| #6620, aired 2013-05-31 | WORLD SERIES MVPs BY POSITION $1600: Tom Glavine
(1995) &
Curt Schilling
(2001) pitcher |
| #6615, aired 2013-05-24 | THE RICHEST PERSON IN THE STATE $600: Louisiana: Tom Benson, owner of these 2 pro sports teams the Saints and the Hornets |
| #6601, aired 2013-05-06 | MOVIE VILLAINS $800: Tom Marvolo Riddle is the real name of this villain Voldemort |
| #6594, aired 2013-04-25 | ACTORS WHO SING $2000: He did his own singing as rocker Stacee Jaxx in the movie "Rock Of Ages" Tom Cruise |
| #6591, aired 2013-04-22 | AMERICAN NOVELS $800: This Pat Conroy novel tells the story of Tom Wingo, his twin sister Savannah & their violent South Carolina family Prince of Tides |
| #6591, aired 2013-04-22 | AMERICAN NOVELS $1600: This 1851 novel begins, "Halfway down a by-street of one of our New England towns stands a rusty wooden house" The House of the Seven Gables |
| #6591, aired 2013-04-22 | AMERICAN NOVELS $2000: His books "Little Children" & "Election" have been made into movies Tom Perrotta |
| #6590, aired 2013-04-19 | BODY SNATCHERS $600: Anyone with common sense knows that in 1820 this American revolutionary's body was exhumed & lost Tom Paine |
| #6589, aired 2013-04-18 | AUTHORS AGAINST ADAPTATIONS $400: She said Tom Cruise "is no more my vampire...than Edward G. Robinson is Rhett Butler" Anne Rice |
| #6587, aired 2013-04-16 | INSTRUMENT-ATION $600: Sawyer Sawyer, Thumb Thumb or Brokaw Brokaw a Tom Tom |
| #6586, aired 2013-04-15 | BLOOD WORK $1000: "Back to Blood", his first novel since 2004's "I Am Charlotte Simmons", hit shelves in 2012 Tom Wolfe |
| #6577, aired 2013-04-02 | ACTOR FACTOR $1000: Greg on "Dharma & Greg" & Hotch on "Criminal Minds", he was born the same day as Tom Cruise Thomas Gibson |
| #6574, aired 2013-03-28 | DRINKS $200: This lemon-lime soft drink encourages you to "obey your thirst" Sprite |
| #6574, aired 2013-03-28 | STATES THAT BORDER CANADA $200: At 1,538 miles, it has the longest border with Canada of any U.S. state Alaska |
| #6574, aired 2013-03-28 | STATES THAT BORDER CANADA $400: This state's Erie county has a 42-mile border with Canada; don't try to drive across it Pennsylvania (New York also accepted) |
| #6574, aired 2013-03-28 | DRINKS $600: "Here's to your health!" is the motto of this iced tea brand that celebrated its 20th year in 2012 Arizona |
| #6574, aired 2013-03-28 | BASED ON THE COMIC BOOK $800: Gerard Christopher played the young hero in this 1988-1992 TV series; Stacy Haiduk was Lana Lang The Adventures of Superboy |
| #6574, aired 2013-03-28 | THE WRITE OF SPRING $1200: It's the title of Rachel Carson's landmark 1962 work warning of the dangers of pesticide use Silent Spring |
| #6574, aired 2013-03-28 | THE UNITED STATES MARINES $1600: Legend says Germans in WWI called Marines "Teufelshunde", which led to this alliterative nickname devil dogs |
| #6573, aired 2013-03-27 | FROM THE GREEK $1,000 (Daily Double): From Greek words for "two propositions", it's a difficult problem with equally unfavorable alternatives a dilemma |
| #6571, aired 2013-03-25 | A LITTLE LATE NIGHT MUSIC $200: Sept. 9, 2011:
This Eddie Vedder band was up "All Night" Pearl Jam |
| #6571, aired 2013-03-25 | WHERE THE STREETS HAVE THESE NAMES $400: Tom Landry Freeway, Elm Street (aka Ellum) Dallas |
| #6568, aired 2013-03-20 | FROM PAGE TO SCREEN $600: Tom Hanks & Halle Berry each play multiple roles in this 2012 film based on David Mitchell's novel Cloud Atlas |
| #6566, aired 2013-03-18 | ALL ABOUT AUTHORS $2000: He was born in Czechoslovakia but moved to England; his play "Rock 'N' Roll" is set in both places (Tom) Stoppard |
| #6564, aired 2013-03-14 | EX-PATS $400: A "phantom" in this Tony-winning actor's past is his birth name, Michael Patrick Dumble-Smith (Michael) Crawford |
| #6564, aired 2013-03-14 | THE 1930s $800: In March 1939, after Hitler made Bohemia & Moravia a German protectorate, this country ceased to exist Czechoslovakia |
| #6564, aired 2013-03-14 | FLAGS OF THE WORLD $1000: Honduras & this next-door neighbor to the south & east both have horizontally striped blue & white flags Nicaragua |
| #6564, aired 2013-03-14 | FEMALES IN GREEK MYTH $2,400 (Daily Double): This daughter (& sister) of Oedipus was with him when he died at Colonus Antigone |
| #6564, aired 2013-03-14 | NORTH AMERICAN RIVERS $2,600 (Daily Double): Its major tributaries include the Spokane, Yakima, & Kootenai Rivers the Columbia River |
| #6552, aired 2013-02-26 | TV DRAMAS $1000: Tom Skerritt kept the peace in a small town full of strange citizens & bizarre crimes on this quirky drama Picket Fences |
| #6550, aired 2013-02-22 | AFI LIFE ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS $800: This 2-time best actor Oscar winner of the '90s is the youngest honoree ever Tom Hanks |
| #6539, aired 2013-02-07 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $1600: Ralph Allen, a rich philanthropist, was the inspiration for Squire Alworthy in this author's "Tom Jones" (Henry) Fielding |
| #6533, aired 2013-01-30 | THE AUTHOR'S CHARACTERS $1600: Long Tom Coffin,
Natty Bumppo James Fenimore Cooper |
| #6527, aired 2013-01-22 | SONGS FOR YOUR CAT $800: Woah, woah, woah, the cat can sing along to this, Tom Jones' second top 10 hit "What's New Pussycat?" |
| #6526, aired 2013-01-21 | TABLE OF CONTENTS $1,200 (Daily Double): "Eliza's escape" & "Topsy" Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| #6518, aired 2013-01-09 | THE UNREAL McCOYS $2000: In "The Bonfire of the Vanities", this Oscar winner played financial wizard Sherman McCoy Tom Hanks |
| #6513, aired 2013-01-02 | GOLDEN GLOBE WINNERS $1000: 2011:
Chicago mayor Tom Kane Kelsey Grammer |
| #6510, aired 2012-12-28 | ACTORS & THEIR ROLES $800: Les Grossman &
Ethan Hunt Tom Cruise |
| #6507, aired 2012-12-25 | UNLIKELY PRESIDENTIAL SIBLINGS $400: Monticello man & sitcom dry-cleaning magnate Tom Jefferson & George Jefferson |
| #6507, aired 2012-12-25 | IT'S THE COCKATIEL HOUR $400: Discovered there around 1770, cockatiels are native to this continent Australia |
| #6507, aired 2012-12-25 | THAT'S SO LAST WEEK! $1200: The University of Bristol has a department of Classics & this, a 2-word phrase for the distant past Ancient History |
| #6507, aired 2012-12-25 | SON OF... $3,000 (Daily Double): This common Irish prefix comes from the French for "son" Fitz |
| #6505, aired 2012-12-21 | SIGNATURE SONGS $1200: "It's Not Unusual" Tom Jones |
| #6504, aired 2012-12-20 | POSSIBLE MOVIE SEQUELS? $400: Tom & Dustin are back for this film's sequel, "What Happens in Vegas, Definitely, Definitely Stays in Vegas, Definitely" Rain Man |
| #6501, aired 2012-12-17 | "MAIN" $1600: This haunt of pirates was the Caribbean Sea & adjacent waters; Tom Sawyer was "The Black Avenger" of it the Spanish Main |
| #6500, aired 2012-12-14 | ADVENTURES IN JOURNALISM $1200: He reported on Ken Kesey's travels with the Merry Pranksters in "The Electric Kool-aid Acid Test" Tom Wolfe |
| #6496, aired 2012-12-10 | MEAN JOE $1600: Tom Sawyer's archfoe, he kills Doc Robinson & frames Muff Potter before coming to a bad end in a cave Injun Joe |
| #6495, aired 2012-12-07 | THAT'S A LAUGH! $800: In 1984 Tom Hulce played a genius with a weird cackle in this title role Amadeus |
| #6488, aired 2012-11-28 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: Langston Hughes called this Harriet Beecher Stowe novel "the most cussed & discussed book of its time" Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| #6487, aired 2012-11-27 | I WROTE THAT BESTSELLER $1200: "The Greatest Generation" Tom Brokaw |
| #6484, aired 2012-11-22 | HANKS GIVING $400: Tom gave an Oscar-winning performance as a lawyer with AIDS in this 1993 drama Philadelphia |
| #6484, aired 2012-11-22 | HANKS GIVING $800: Tom Hanks gave voice to characters named this in 3 "Toy Story" films & 1 "Cars" movie Woody |
| #6484, aired 2012-11-22 | HANKS GIVING $1600: Tom Hanks is the FBI agent who gives chase to con man Leonardo DiCaprio in this romp with a taunting title Catch Me If You Can |
| #6484, aired 2012-11-22 | HANKS GIVING $2000: Tom Hanks gives his family a good life by being an enforcer for Paul Newman's Chicago mob in this 2002 film Road to Perdition |
| #6483, aired 2012-11-21 | CELEBRITIES' FAVORITE MOVIES $800: (Hi. I'm Robin Quivers.) I love watching "The Godfather", which earned supporting actor Oscar nominations for Al Pacino, James Caan & this man who played consigliere Tom Hagen (Robert) Duvall |
| #6472, aired 2012-11-06 | MOVIES: WHO PLAYED 'EM? $400: Jerry Maguire Tom Cruise |
| #6469, aired 2012-11-01 | THE OLD GRAY MAYOR $800: Tom Bradley was mayor of this city until he was 75 Los Angeles |
| #6462, aired 2012-10-23 | BEARD AWARD-WINNING CHEFS $200: Tom Colicchio turned down the job of judge on this Bravo show 3 times before saying yes Top Chef |
| #6461, aired 2012-10-22 | 19th CENTURY FEMALE AUTHORS $800: Many of her novels dealt with slavery, including "Dred" & a certain 1852 bestseller (Harriet Beecher) Stowe |
| #6460, aired 2012-10-19 | A NOVEL CATEGORY $1000: Thumbs up for his "Even Cowgirls Get The Blues", which tells of a female hitchhiker with enormous thumbs Tom Robbins |
| #6454, aired 2012-10-11 | YOU'VE BEEN SCHOOLED! $600 (Daily Double): From the Greek for "many skills", it's an engineering school that teaches industrial arts & applied sciences a polytechnical school |
| #6454, aired 2012-10-11 | TALKIN' FOOTBALL $1000: In December 2011 Tom Coughlin's job security as this team's head coach was being debated; not so much in 2012 the New York Giants |
| #6442, aired 2012-09-25 | SUCH A LITERARY CHARACTER! $200: In some editions he's identified on the title page as "Tom Sawyer's Comrade" Huckleberry Finn |
| #6424, aired 2012-07-19 | PUT ME IN, MOVIE COACH! $200: In this film a manager screams at one of his female players, "there's no crying in baseball!" A League of Their Own |
| #6419, aired 2012-07-12 | LET'S EAT THAI $600: One of Thailand's most famous dishes is tom yum goong, a type of this made with shrimp soup |
| #6413, aired 2012-07-04 | TITLE CHARACTERS $1600: Edward Tudor of Wales & street urchin Tom Canty The Prince and the Pauper |
| #6407, aired 2012-06-26 | JOHN STEINBECK $800: The struggles of this family, including son Tom, are at the heart of "The Grapes of Wrath" the Joad family |
| #6405, aired 2012-06-22 | MILESTONE BIRTHDAYS 2012 $200: It might be "risky business" for him to keep doing his own stunts after he turns 50 on July 3 Tom Cruise |
| #6399, aired 2012-06-14 | RECENT NONFICTION $400: "The Yankee Years", by this ex-manager & co-writer Tom Verducci Joe Torre |
| #6397, aired 2012-06-12 | THE MAINE COURSE $1600: Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin" in Maine & was the spouse of a professor at this college Bowdoin |
| #6396, aired 2012-06-11 | THE TEAM'S RETIRED NUMBERS $800: Kevin McHale's 32 & Tom Heinsohn's 15 the Boston Celtics |
| #6387, aired 2012-05-29 | READINGS FROM 1984 $200: Intrigued by a news story about a mutiny aboard a Soviet frigate, Tom Clancy wrote this novel The Hunt for Red October |
| #6387, aired 2012-05-29 | READINGS FROM 1984 $600: To answer charges of misogyny, he wrote about middle-aged women in "The Witches of Eastwick" John Updike |
| #6380, aired 2012-05-18 | 21st CENTURY LINGO $600: in 2011 Business Week said European government bonds were this "poisonous" kind of debt toxic |
| #6380, aired 2012-05-18 | 21st CENTURY LINGO $800: It's the "tiny" term for a person who writes short posts about one's personal life on Tumblr or Twitter a microblogger |
| #6378, aired 2012-05-16 | POLITICAL CINEMA $2000: In this 2007 film Tom Hanks played a Texas congressman who covertly aided Afghan rebels against the Soviets Charlie Wilson's War |
| #6377, aired 2012-05-15 | BESTSELLERS $400: This author's all-star team, including Jack Ryan & John Clark, was back in his 2011 bestseller "Locked On" Tom Clancy |
| #6376, aired 2012-05-14 | SECRETARY'S DAY $200: Tom Ridge the Department of Homeland Security |
| #6371, aired 2012-05-07 | BAD KISSERS $1000: Thandie Newton griped that this "Mission: Impossible" star's kisses were "icky & sort of wet" Tom Cruise |
| #6367, aired 2012-05-01 | & THE OSCAR GOES TO... $1600: This actor as Forrest Gump: you might know him better as an animated toy cowboy Tom Hanks |
| #6367, aired 2012-05-01 | "A.P." EXAM $2000: This relative & guardian of Tom Sawyer was based on the author's mother Aunt Polly |
| #6365, aired 2012-04-27 | SPYING $400: A spy for one country who says he's working for another, or a Tom Clancy splinter cell video game double agent |
| #6356, aired 2012-04-16 | BEHIND THE SONGS $200: Tom Higgenson's flirtation with a girl in New York & a promise to write her a song led to this megahit for the Plain White T's "Hey There Delilah" |
| #6354, aired 2012-04-12 | NOVEL VOCABULARY $600: This author wasn't charitable to readers when he used "eleemosynary" in the first line of "Tom Jones" (Henry) Fielding |
| #6334, aired 2012-03-15 | TIME TO RESIGN $1200: June 9, 2006:
This Texas congressman & majority leader later convicted of money laundering Tom DeLay |
| #6332, aired 2012-03-13 | COMEDY DUOS $1600: Dick's brother, Tom of this pair plays golf & is known to sink putts using a yo-yo the Smothers Brothers |
| #6331, aired 2012-03-12 | U.S. COMMUNITIES $200: Hey, y'all! The Deep Ellum Arts Festival, not far from the Tom Landry Freeway, is a 3-day "Street Party" in this city Dallas |
| #6330, aired 2012-03-09 | SENATE MAJORITY LEADERS $1600: 2001 to 2003 was the reign of this South Dakotan (Tom) Daschle |
| #6327, aired 2012-03-06 | MAJOR TOM $200: A 39-year-old widower in 1886, he married 20-year-old Mina Miller & built a mansion for her where he improved the phonograph Thomas Edison |
| #6327, aired 2012-03-06 | MAJOR TOM $400: Thomas Bruce, Earl of this, got Turkish permission to remove Greek sculptures, or "marbles" Elgin |
| #6327, aired 2012-03-06 | MAJOR TOM $600: During the Amer. revolution, General Thomas Conway actively advocated that Horatio Gates replace this man George Washington |
| #6327, aired 2012-03-06 | MAJOR TOM $1000: Called "The Angelic Doctor", this 13th century theologian listed the 7 Deadly Sins for us Thomas Aquinas |
| #6327, aired 2012-03-06 | MAJOR TOM $1,200 (Daily Double): Born in 1854, he assisted Alexander Graham Bell with his telephone experiments Thomas Watson |
| #6325, aired 2012-03-02 | ANTONYMIC PAIRS $2000: Tom Hanks' thanks to his gay drama teacher at the Oscars inspired this Kevin Kline film In & Out |
| #6322, aired 2012-02-28 | DRUM & DRUMMER $1000: Bongos, conga drums & floor are types of this double-named drum tom-toms |
| #6318, aired 2012-02-22 | SCHOOL OF ROCK $400: We wonder if he was a heartbreaker back at his Gainesville, Florida high school Tom Petty |
| #6316, aired 2012-02-20 | THEME $1,800 (Daily Double): The theme for this Tom Hanks movie is sometimes referred to as "The Feather Theme" Forrest Gump |
| #6315, aired 2012-02-17 | LAST MAJOR MOVIE ROLE $2000: Tom Hanks' gangster boss John Rooney in "Road To Perdition" Paul Newman |
| #6306, aired 2012-02-06 | STATES BY ATTRACTIONS $800: The Mummers Museum and the Tom Ridge Environmental Center Pennsylvania |
| #6302, aired 2012-01-31 | ADVERBS $2000: Completes the Tom Swifty "Which way is the cemetery?" Tom asked in this serious manner gravely |
| #6295, aired 2012-01-20 | AIRBORNE $400: Tom Hanks & several FedEx packages survive a particularly bumpy flight in this film Cast Away |
| #6285, aired 2012-01-06 | WRITE NOW! $1200: He wrote "The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby" in one night for Esquire magazine Tom Wolfe |
| #6283, aired 2012-01-04 | GREAT ARTS $400: He & Paul Simon had their first hit under the names Tom & Jerry (Art) Garfunkel |
| #6283, aired 2012-01-04 | THE MAIN ALCOHOLIC INGREDIENT $600: ...in a Tom Collins: the dry type of this gin |
| #6280, aired 2011-12-30 | ON DECK $400: Fractional term for part of a naval vessel usually reserved for officers the quarterdeck |
| #6280, aired 2011-12-30 | AT BAT $2000: At age 90, this Cardinal legend who hit safely over 3,600 times appeared at the 2011 World Series Stan "The Man" Musial |
| #6280, aired 2011-12-30 | ON DECK $4,200 (Daily Double): A type of walk, or an upper deck on a passenger ship where folks can stroll the promenade deck |
| #6279, aired 2011-12-29 | OFFICIAL BRITISH ROYAL POSTS $600: Tom! Tom! You can be the son of the queen's this, if dad's musically inclined & in the armed forces the piper |
| #6273, aired 2011-12-21 | PETS IN HISTORY $2000: This little protege of P.T. Barnum led a playful attack on Queen Victoria's poodle after the dog barked at him Tom Thumb |
| #6263, aired 2011-12-07 | URBAN DICTIONARY LINGO $1200: "Jumping the couch" means to flip out like this guy who inspired the phrase on an "Oprah" appearance Tom Cruise |
| #6257, aired 2011-11-29 | '90s NOVELS $400: In this author's "Debt of Honor", Jack Ryan comes out of retirement to serve as the new National Security Advisor Tom Clancy |
| #6256, aired 2011-11-28 | THE SPOUSE IMMEDIATELY BEFORE $200: ...Katie Holmes Nicole Kidman |
| #6252, aired 2011-11-22 | BOOKS' SUBTITLES $400: Harriet Beecher Stowe:
"Life Among the Lowly" Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| #6251, aired 2011-11-21 | THE THEAT-"R" $800: According to the title of a Tom Stoppard play, these 2 attendant lords "are Dead" Rosencrantz & Guildenstern |
| #6247, aired 2011-11-15 | I MARRIED THIS SPORTS STAR $400: Gisele Bundchen,
in 2009 Tom Brady |
| #6247, aired 2011-11-15 | YOU MUST REMEMBER CASABLANCA $800: Central to the plot are stolen "letters of" this that will allow anyone to travel unopposed transit |
| #6247, aired 2011-11-15 | I MARRIED THIS SPORTS STAR $1600: Ashley Judd,
in 2001 Dario Franchitti |
| #6247, aired 2011-11-15 | 17-LETTER WORDS $1600: A cosmetic treatment that gently sands the skin microdermabrasion |
| #6247, aired 2011-11-15 | YOU MUST REMEMBER CASABLANCA $3,200 (Daily Double): After Nazi Major Strasser has been shot, the command goes out to "Round up" this group, the title of another film usual suspects |
| #6246, aired 2011-11-14 | WHO'S AT STAKE? $1200: Florence, May 23, 1498:
An anti-papal priest & reformer Savonarola |
| #6246, aired 2011-11-14 | 4 STRAIGHT VOWELS $1600: This adjective means fawning or exhibiting servile obedience obsequious |
| #6246, aired 2011-11-14 | WHO'S AT STAKE? $2000: Konstanz, Germany, July 6, 1415:
A Czech religious reformer (Jan) Hus |
| #6246, aired 2011-11-14 | LANGUAGES $18,000 (Daily Double): Although Dutch is the official language, Sranan Tongo is spoken by most people in this South American country Suriname |
| #6243, aired 2011-11-09 | OPERATIC COSTUMES $1,000 (Daily Double): (Alex reports from the Metropolitan Opera in New York.) The costume worn by this character may not seem to go with his title profession, but in his first scene he sings "Largo al factotum" & explains that he's also the apothecary, gardener & wig maker the Barber of Seville (Figaro) |
| #6243, aired 2011-11-09 | & JUSTICE FOR ALL $1000: The Montgomery-based SPLC, this center, is "dedicated to... seeking justice for the most vulnerable" the Southern Poverty Law Center |
| #6243, aired 2011-11-09 | QUICK LIT $1600: "The Plague" by Camus is set in what is now this African country Algeria |
| #6243, aired 2011-11-09 | WINTER OLYMPICS MASCOTS $2,000 (Daily Double): Haakon & Kristin, mascots of this city's Olympics, were named for a Norwegian prince & princess Lillehammer |
| #6243, aired 2011-11-09 | BEFORE, DURING & AFTER $2000: Nebraska-named D-Day landing area whose album "Pet Sounds" clones Nazis in South America Omaha Beach Boys from Brazil |
| #6243, aired 2011-11-09 | TWINS $2,600 (Daily Double): These twins & recent first daughters were named for their grandmothers Barbara & Jenna |
| #6240, aired 2011-11-04 | THAT'S THE CHICAGO WAY! $400: He wrote that Chicago was proud to be a "player with railroads and freight handler to the nation" (Carl) Sandburg |
| #6240, aired 2011-11-04 | CANADIAN HISTORY $800: Between 1913 & 1932 Canada dug a new & deeper version of the Welland Canal that connects these 2 Great Lakes Erie & Ontario |
| #6240, aired 2011-11-04 | RHYME-BOT $1000: The yellow-bellied type of this critter is sunbathing here a marmot |
| #6240, aired 2011-11-04 | LITERARY TITLE OCCUPATIONS $1000: Conjuring up images of 19th century Poland, Isaac Bashevis Singer wrote of this title guy "of Lublin" the Magician |
| #6240, aired 2011-11-04 | THAT'S THE CHICAGO WAY! $1000: On Feb. 14, 1929 it was that's all folks for 7 members of this Chicago mobster's gang Bugs Moran |
| #6240, aired 2011-11-04 | CALCULATING THE MEASUREMENTS $1200: Number of quarts in 2 gallons divided by the number of pints in 2 quarts 2 (8 divided by 4) |
| #6240, aired 2011-11-04 | MAPMAKER, MAPMAKER $1200: A study says it's the most misspelled city in the U.S., but you got it right, with the final "H" Pittsburgh |
| #6240, aired 2011-11-04 | MAPMAKER, MAPMAKER $2,000 (Daily Double): However you draw the border between Nicaragua & this 2-named country, somebody gets mad, huh? Costa Rica |
| #6238, aired 2011-11-02 | LITTLE PEOPLE IN LIT $200: Part I of a 1726 book is "A Voyage to" this place, home to human creatures "not six inches high" Lilliput |
| #6238, aired 2011-11-02 | LITTLE PEOPLE IN LIT $400: These factory workers in a 1964 book love cacao beans Oompa Loompas |
| #6238, aired 2011-11-02 | 2011 NATIONAL SPELLING BEE WORDS $1600: Early in Round 3 was this Spanish word for cowboy vaquero |
| #6233, aired 2011-10-26 | GOIN' SOLO $200: ...from the Heartbreakers with "You Don't Know How It Feels'" (Tom) Petty |
| #6228, aired 2011-10-19 | BESTSELLERS $800: In 2010 Jack Ryan Jr. & Sr. were back in this author's "Dead or Alive" Tom Clancy |
| #6224, aired 2011-10-13 | LITERARY NARRATORS $200: This Mark Twain character says that "Aunt Sally she's going to adopt me and sivilize me, and I can't stand it" Huck Finn |
| #6224, aired 2011-10-13 | MOVIES ON THE MAP $400: 1993 Tom Hanks / Denzel Washington film Philadelphia |
| #6220, aired 2011-10-07 | OLD (REALLY OLD) PHOTOS $1600: That's not Napoleon--it's P.T. Barnum's attraction Charles Stratton, known by this name Tom Thumb |
| #6210, aired 2011-09-23 | CHARACTERS IN AMERICAN BOOKS $800: On her deathbed, this angelic little girl asks her dad to free Uncle Tom Little Eva |
| #6208, aired 2011-09-21 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $600: His wife Charlotte was the inspiration for "Amelia" & for Sophia in "Tom Jones" Fielding |
| #6202, aired 2011-07-26 | LATE NIGHT TV $2000: In 1973 Tom Snyder began hosting this show that, fittingly, was on after midnight Tomorrow |
| #6197, aired 2011-07-19 | ADVENTURES IN LITERATURE $200: One adventure of these 2 Twain boys: attempting to cure warts with a dead cat out in the cemetery at midnight Huck Finn & Tom Sawyer |
| #6197, aired 2011-07-19 | CELEBRATED ON THEIR BIRTHDAYS $400: International Nurses Day,
May 12 (Florence) Nightingale |
| #6197, aired 2011-07-19 | JOEY $800: Mr. & Mrs. eastern gray this animal welcome joey, 1 inch long & weighing less than a gram a kangaroo |
| #6197, aired 2011-07-19 | MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL $1000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew stands before another apparatus.) To spare healthy tissues while treating tumors, Massachusetts General uses a state-of-the-art cyclotron to deliver radiation; beams of these particles, hydrogen atoms whose electrons have been removed protons |
| #6197, aired 2011-07-19 | MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL $2,800 (Daily Double): (Sarah of the Clue Crew is in front of another piece of apparatus.) Massachusetts General is one of the first hospitals to make genetic testing standard in cancer treatment; robotics allow the processing of up to 96 samples at once, so doctors can immediately target patients with these changes in DNA sequence mutations |
| #6197, aired 2011-07-19 | JOEY $4,200 (Daily Double): Seen here is a joey of this marsupial species whose name is from the Telugu word pandi-kokku, meaning "pig-rat" bandicoot |
| #6193, aired 2011-07-13 | ROCK OF STAGES $1000: In Tom Stoppard's "Rock 'n' Roll", Syd Barrett is a character & the music of this band of his is heard Pink Floyd |
| #6193, aired 2011-07-13 | TINKER $1600: 2 of the "Rude Mechanicals" from this play are Tom Snout the Tinker & Nick Bottom the Weaver A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| #6192, aired 2011-07-12 | WHO PLAYED 'EM? $1200: 2000: Chuck Noland, who is "Cast Away" Tom Hanks |
| #6183, aired 2011-06-29 | LITERATURE $400: Henry Fielding called a 1749 novel "The History of" him, "a Foundling" Tom Jones |
| #6182, aired 2011-06-28 | 19th CENTURY AMERICAN LIT $400: In 1853 Harriet Beecher Stowe published "A Key to" this novel, with facts & figures to back up its accuracy Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| #6181, aired 2011-06-27 | MOVIE REMAKES $800: This Meg Ryan-Tom Hanks romantic comedy was inspired by "The Shop Around the Corner" You've Got Mail |
| #6167, aired 2011-06-07 | MEET MY EXES $200: Mimi Rogers &
Nicole Kidman Tom Cruise |
| #6163, aired 2011-06-01 | POP CULTURE $800: In 2009 Tom Brady married this supermodel (twice!) Gisele Bündchen |
| #6159, aired 2011-05-26 | BIBLE BOOK BINDINGS $2,400 (Daily Double): Prime
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Racket Numbers |
| #6158, aired 2011-05-25 | HODGEPODGE $600: The 5th generation of this iPod included a built-in video camera, FM radio & a pedometer iPod Nano |
| #6158, aired 2011-05-25 | WHERE AM I? $600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew walks down a long corridor.) I'm in one of the longest buildings in the world at SLAC, the Linear Accelerator Center of this California university Stanford |
| #6157, aired 2011-05-24 | THE WHITE STUFF $400: For 21 minutes on June 3, 1965 astronaut Ed White achieved this American first as part of the Gemini 4 mission space walk |
| #6157, aired 2011-05-24 | THE 1860s $600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library.) There was lots of partying in this city before & certainly after Lincoln was nominated for president there in 1860; here is a $321.50 bar tab for party officials that week Chicago |
| #6157, aired 2011-05-24 | THE 1860s $1,000 (Daily Double): In an 1867 article, this English physician wrote, "the first object must be the destruction of any septic germs" Joseph Lister |
| #6157, aired 2011-05-24 | WINGS & THINGS $1200: It includes the Cabinet Room, Situation Room &, of course, the Oval Office the West Wing |
| #6157, aired 2011-05-24 | STARS OF SPORT $1200: Father of "NCIS" star Mark, he won the Heisman Trophy in 1940 & received a Purple Heart in WWII Tom Harmon |
| #6157, aired 2011-05-24 | NATIVE AMERICAN PLACE NAMES $1200: Merle Haggard sang, "I'm proud to be an Okie from" this place Muskogee |
| #6154, aired 2011-05-19 | SUPER BOWL MVPs $200: In 2002 & 2004, this Patriots quarterback Tom Brady |
| #6151, aired 2011-05-16 | WHO'S THAT MAN? $1200: "The Man with One Red Shoe" Tom Hanks |
| #6147, aired 2011-05-10 | PRINCIPALS $800: Tom Cruise,
Jack Nicholson A Few Good Men |
| #6146, aired 2011-05-09 | THE LADIES' ROOM $2000: This designer seen here recently introduced his women's line, saying, he's just trying to make pretty clothes Tom Ford |
| #6145, aired 2011-05-06 | DUTCH BOYS $800: This manager of Elvis was born Andreas Cornelius Van Kuijk in the Netherlands Col. Tom Parker |
| #6145, aired 2011-05-06 | "NEW" IN THE BOOKSTORE $1600: Tom Wolfe edited an anthology of reportage titled this The New Journalism |
| #6132, aired 2011-04-19 | 25-GAME WINNERS $600: Terrific! He racked up 25 wins for the Miraculous 1969 Mets Tom "Terrific" Seaver |
| #6131, aired 2011-04-18 | CALIFORNIA GOVERNORS $2000: In 1982 George Deukmejian beat this L.A. mayor to win the office Tom Bradley |
| #6128, aired 2011-04-13 | THAT'S MY DRINK $200: Gin, lemon juice, sugar & soda water:
____ Collins Tom |
| #6126, aired 2011-04-11 | TITLE ROLE PLAYING $800: "Turner & Hooch" (just Turner, please) (Tom) Hanks |
| #6121, aired 2011-04-04 | JEOPARDY PLATFORMS $400: In 1975, the USS Kirk had to push helicopters off its deck as it helped people fleeing from this Asian capital Saigon |
| #6121, aired 2011-04-04 | FACE BOOK $800: In Catholic lore, when this female saint wiped the sweat from Jesus' face with her veil, an image of him remained there Veronica |
| #6113, aired 2011-03-23 | ISLANDS OF THE ATLANTIC $800: (Tom Ritchie of Lindblad Expeditions stands in front of a war monument in the Falkland Islands.) Stanley is the only city on the Falkland Islands, & underwent bombing during the 1982 conflict between Britain & this country Argentina |
| #6112, aired 2011-03-22 | A PREQUEL TO WHICH MOVIE? $800: "Mr. Negative Goes to Med School"--to this 1962 adventure Dr. No |
| #6112, aired 2011-03-22 | A NUMBER LESS THAN 10 $1000: Nations in the Iroquois Confederacy, after the Tuscarora tribe joined 6 |
| #6111, aired 2011-03-21 | NETWORKING $600: "Project Runway" (formerly on Bravo) Lifetime |
| #6111, aired 2011-03-21 | STUPID ANSWERS $1000: China's Song Dynasty was noted for its contributions to the tz'u, a form of this a song |
| #6111, aired 2011-03-21 | I COME FROM OUTER SPACE $2000: Now that I am here, everyone who dismissed Erich von Daniken's book "Chariots of" these beings should feel shame the Gods |
| #6110, aired 2011-03-18 | 1911 $1000: With works like the one seen here, this forward-looking art movement held its first exhibition in Milan in the spring Futurism |
| #6110, aired 2011-03-18 | SHAKESPEARE, FOR STARTERS $9,000 (Daily Double): Philo's first speech in this play includes the line "The triple pillar of the world transformed into a strumpet's fool" Antony and Cleopatra |
| #6109, aired 2011-03-17 | OR THE HIGHWAY $400: U.S. Highway 20 from Boston to the West Coast has this distinction; it used to be No. 2 the longest road in the U.S. |
| #6109, aired 2011-03-17 | FACTS FROM THE WORLD ALMANAC $400: This musical tops the Almanac's list of longest-running Broadway shows The Phantom of the Opera |
| #6109, aired 2011-03-17 | FACTS FROM THE WORLD ALMANAC $800: One of these astronomical events was listed for July 11, 2010 a solar eclipse |
| #6109, aired 2011-03-17 | HOW'S THE SCREENPLAY GOING, STEVE? $1,600 (Daily Double): Steven Soderbergh broke onto the scene writing this 1989 film; the title might have ended with "DVDs" if Steve wrote it today sex, lies, and videotape |
| #6108, aired 2011-03-16 | ACTING OUT $1000: Jimmy will soon be acting like a frisky horse; you can see he's doing this feeling his oats |
| #6108, aired 2011-03-16 | C3 $1200: Pi is the ratio of this of a circle to its diameter the circumference |
| #6107, aired 2011-03-15 | ACCIDENTAL INVENTIONS $6,000 (Daily Double): In 1946 a Raytheon engineer's candy bar melted while he worked on a magnetron, leading to this; the first ones were 750 lbs. a microwave oven |
| #6102, aired 2011-03-08 | WHEN LIFE GIVES YOU LEMONS $400: Make lemonade, add an equal amount of iced tea & you'll have this drink named for a golfer an Arnold Palmer |
| #6101, aired 2011-03-07 | ACTING SEQUELITIS $1000: Tom Cruise's third outing as Ethan Hunt in this series came in 2006 Mission: Impossible |
| #6098, aired 2011-03-02 | COPPING OUT AT THE MOVIES $400: Reach for the sky! In 2010 Tom Hanks returned for a third time to provide the voice of this sheriff Woody |
| #6096, aired 2011-02-28 | TV SHOW BY CAST $1200: Tom Welling,
Erica Durance Smallville |
| #6085, aired 2011-02-11 | DOWN SOUTH IN SOUTH GEORGIA $400: (Lindblad Expeditions naturalist Tom Ritchie delivers the clue from South Georgia.) Unlike the larger emperor, this second biggest species of penguin prefers the sub-Antarctic islands, like South Georgia, better than ice for forming its vast colonies king penguins |
| #6085, aired 2011-02-11 | DOWN SOUTH IN SOUTH GEORGIA $800: (Tom Ritchie of Lindblad Expeditions delivers the clue from South Georgia.) The island of South Georgia has no indigenous mammals, but reindeer were introduced here in 1911 to provide meat by Captain C.A. Larsen from this country Norway |
| #6085, aired 2011-02-11 | DOWN SOUTH IN SOUTH GEORGIA $1200: (Tom Ritchie of Lindblad Expeditions delivers the clue from South Georgia.) South Georgia is the breeding ground for close to half the world's population of the largest pinniped--the Southern type of this seal now protected from hunting elephant seals |
| #6085, aired 2011-02-11 | DOWN SOUTH IN SOUTH GEORGIA $2000: (Tom Ritchie of Lindblad Expeditions delivers the clue from South Georgia.) South Georgia is the burial site for this explorer who made a grueling journey across the island after his ship, the Endurance, was trapped in pack ice Sir Ernest Shackleton |
| #6081, aired 2011-02-07 | GETTING INTO CHARACTER $200: For this WWII film Tom Hanks & the other actors in his squad had to endure a rigorous week of boot camp Saving Private Ryan |
| #6081, aired 2011-02-07 | GETTING INTO CHARACTER $600: Tom Cruise learned to speak Japanese & wield a sword for his role in this 2003 film The Last Samurai |
| #6074, aired 2011-01-27 | ORDINAL PHRASES $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) Though the 1954 Geneva Accords boundary included the Ben Hai River, it was named for this northern parallel of latitude the 17th |
| #6073, aired 2011-01-26 | THE CAMERA MAN $200: Life magazine photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt snapped a sailor kissing a nurse on the August 1945 day known as this V-J Day |
| #6073, aired 2011-01-26 | THE CAMERA MAN $800: Steve McCurry took a photo of an Afghan girl for this venerated magazine in 1984, then reunited with her 17 years later National Geographic |
| #6073, aired 2011-01-26 | THE PERFORMER $1000: This "Some Like It Hot" co-star who died in 2010 turned to Matisse-influenced art in later years Tony Curtis |
| #6073, aired 2011-01-26 | ALPHABETICALLY FIRST $1600: Of the colors of the Olympic rings black |
| #6071, aired 2011-01-24 | PLAY CHARACTERS $400: Amanda, Tom & the fragile Laura Wingfield are all characters in this Tennessee Williams play The Glass Menagerie |
| #6069, aired 2011-01-20 | PENGUINS $400: (Lindblad and National Geographic naturalist Tom Ritchie delivers the clue from Antarctica.) The recent increase in gentoo penguin numbers may be due to decreased sea ice coverage caused by this phenomenon of rising average air temperatures global warming |
| #6069, aired 2011-01-20 | PENGUINS $800: (Lindblad and National Geographic naturalist Tom Ritchie delivers the clue from Antarctica.) Because the chicks of this largest penguin take so long to mature, females lay their eggs in winter so that the chicks can be independent by summer the emperor penguin |
| #6069, aired 2011-01-20 | PENGUINS $1600: (Lindblad and National Geographic naturalist Tom Ritchie delivers the clue from Antarctica.) This species of small penguin is distinguished by a narrow black band that runs across its throat & seems to be holding a black cap upon its head the chinstrap penguin |
| #6066, aired 2011-01-17 | DENZEL WASHINGTON FILMS $400: Tom Hanks' Pennsylvania lawyer Philadelphia |
| #6064, aired 2011-01-13 | CITIES' LEADING NEWSPAPERS $1600: Indianapolis The Star |
| #6064, aired 2011-01-13 | WHAT'S ON YOUR iPOD? $2000: (Doug Savant gives the clue.) If my voice sounds smokier than usual, I've been listening to the music of this troubadour, also an actor in movies like "Down by Law" Tom Waits |
| #6063, aired 2011-01-12 | WORDS BEFORE BALL $400: It's 12 inches a foot |
| #6063, aired 2011-01-12 | A HOST OF TV HOSTS $600: (Hi, I'm Tom Bergeron.) Bob Saget was the original host & I'm the current host of this comedy TV show that made its debut in 1989 America's Funniest Home Videos |
| #6063, aired 2011-01-12 | HALL-ELUJAH! $1000: "Car Talk", "The Romance of Helen Trent" & "All Things Considered" are programs in the Nat. this H.O.F. radio |
| #6063, aired 2011-01-12 | HISTORIC SHIPS $1200: The first steamship to cross the Atlantic was the SS this, named for the Georgia port city from which it set sail Savannah |
| #6063, aired 2011-01-12 | STATE SANDWICH $1600: It's sandwiched between Oregon & Wyoming Idaho |
| #6062, aired 2011-01-11 | A CD CATEGORY $2000: This title of a Grammy-winning Springsteen album includes the name of the "Grapes of Wrath" protagonist The Ghost of Tom Joad |
| #6052, aired 2010-12-28 | COMPLETE THE BOOK TITLE $800: Tom Clancy: "___ Storm Rising" Red |
| #6051, aired 2010-12-27 | MOVIE NAMES $1600: A Tom Hanks/Meg Ryan pairing:
"____ Versus the Volcano" Joe |
| #6050, aired 2010-12-24 | LET'S GET READY TO ROOMBA! $600: The Roomba took the tail off my rumpy-riser this cat type! ... My bad, it didn't have much of one to start a Manx |
| #6050, aired 2010-12-24 | NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE $800: Nathaniel added this letter to his last name when he went pro as a writer W |
| #6050, aired 2010-12-24 | WHODUNIT $1600: In "Platoon", Sergeant Barnes, played by Tom Berenger Charlie Sheen |
| #6050, aired 2010-12-24 | THE HOUSE OF THE 7 GERBILS $2,600 (Daily Double): Gerbillos pyramidom is a species whose common name includes the name of this country Egypt |
| #6049, aired 2010-12-23 | I'LL SEE YOU IN COURT! $200: Guards thwarting a man's 2006 try at parachuting off this NYC landmark caused "emotional distress" (& a $30 mil. lawsuit) the Empire State building |
| #6049, aired 2010-12-23 | I'LL SEE YOU IN COURT! $1000: In 2008 an inmate in Pueblo County in this state sued the prison, saying it didn't do enough to stop him from breaking out Colorado |
| #6049, aired 2010-12-23 | AMERICAN COMPOSERS $1600: He composed the classic "Ol' Man River", with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, for the musical "Show Boat" Jerome Kern |
| #6046, aired 2010-12-20 | BIRTH! HELPED FOUND THE USA! DEATH! $400: Born May 29, 1736, helped us get liberty, got death June 6, 1799 Patrick Henry |
| #6046, aired 2010-12-20 | EPISODES OF THE SITCOM $400: "The Last Time I Saw Maris",
"Guns n' Neuroses" Frasier |
| #6046, aired 2010-12-20 | I TRIED TO WARN YOU $800: Freshly cut trees, or a warning by a lumberjack that a freshly cut tree is about to fall timber |
| #6045, aired 2010-12-17 | TONIGHT--A WORLD PREMIER! $800: Premier Juncker of this Grand Duchy ran for EU President, saying that though his country is small, "I am not a dwarf" Luxembourg |
| #6043, aired 2010-12-15 | ONE FACT AMONG THE FALSE GOSSIP $200: She & Billy Ray are doing a Metallica tribute album! She voiced Penny in the film "Bolt"! She has 14 toes! Miley Cyrus |
| #6043, aired 2010-12-15 | MANDARIN CHINESE $400: Che is the word & character for vehicle: huo che, or "fire vehicle", is this transport that can take you across China a train |
| #6043, aired 2010-12-15 | THE CITY'S MAYOR $600: Tom Bradley (1973 to 1993) Los Angeles |
| #6042, aired 2010-12-14 | PUFF $400: This word precedes "puff" in a common alliterative beauty aid powder |
| #6042, aired 2010-12-14 | THE STATE NAME $1000: ...with the most Os Colorado |
| #6042, aired 2010-12-14 | LIVED BY THE SEA $2000: A good place to play Marco Polo is in this sea that surrounds Marco Polo's city of birth the Adriatic |
| #6038, aired 2010-12-08 | AROUND THE "GLOBE" $800: Nominated 7 times, Tom Cruise has won 3 of these a Golden Globe |
| #6033, aired 2010-12-01 | AFTER ALASKA... $400: The next state, alphabetically Arizona |
| #6033, aired 2010-12-01 | ME TARZAN $2,000 (Daily Double): Tarzan is the son of John & Alice Clayton, Lord & Lady this Greystoke |
| #6032, aired 2010-11-30 | PEACEFUL, EASY FEELING $400: The Constitution seeks to "insure domestic" this tranquility |
| #6032, aired 2010-11-30 | DOWN ON THE FARM $600: Ash Lawn - Highland, the home of Pres. Monroe, is a 535-acre farm operated by this college, Monroe's alma mater the College of William & Mary |
| #6032, aired 2010-11-30 | THE 1800s $2,000 (Daily Double): Britain might have said "put that in your pipe and smoke it" after winning the first of these wars against China in 1842 the Opium Wars |
| #6029, aired 2010-11-25 | YOU'LL NEED SOME COACHING $400: Tom Osborne,
Marty Schottenheimer football |
| #6028, aired 2010-11-24 | ROMAN NUMERAL WORDS $400: To combine, perhaps for movie cowboy Tom mix |
| #6025, aired 2010-11-19 | GAME & REALITY SHOWS $600: Celebs can samba away with the money or fall flat on their face in front of host Tom Bergeron Dancing with the Stars |
| #6019, aired 2010-11-11 | LOOK IN THE TRUNK $600: It's my little red mascot of this college team; sorry I had to banish you to the trunk after Tom Osborne left the University of Nebraska |
| #6012, aired 2010-11-02 | OSCAR-WINNING DIRECTORS OF THE '60s $1600: "Tom Jones"--Vanessa Redgrave's husband Tony Richardson |
| #6010, aired 2010-10-29 | CAR & DRIVER $200: In this 1983 film Tom Cruise's dad's Porsche ends up in Lake Michigan Risky Business |
| #6009, aired 2010-10-28 | TOM JONES $200: Tom was born the son of a coal miner in Pontypridd in this U.K. country Wales |
| #6009, aired 2010-10-28 | 3-LETTER MOVIE TITLES $400: Tom Hanks grows up a little too fast Big |
| #6009, aired 2010-10-28 | TOM JONES $400: Pirate radio airplay broke "It's Not Unusual", Tom's first hit, after this U.K. radio behemoth refused to play it the BBC |
| #6009, aired 2010-10-28 | TOM JONES $600: That must be one swingin' pad for "Amore": In the mid-'70s, Tom bought a Bel-Air mansion from this suave rat packer Dean Martin |
| #6009, aired 2010-10-28 | TOM JONES $800: In 2009 Tom raised the first pint at the Guinness 250th anniversary celebrations in this city Dublin |
| #6009, aired 2010-10-28 | TOM JONES $1000: To benefit Afghan refugees, Tom duetted on "Delilah" in Modena, Italy with this one of the three tenors Pavarotti |
| #6000, aired 2010-10-15 | 6,000 $200: In a classic of American fiction, these 2 boys get a $6,000 reward each after finding money that Injun Joe hid in a cave Huckleberry Finn & Tom Sawyer |
| #5998, aired 2010-10-13 | ALL ABOUT ANTARCTICA $200: (Tom Ritchie presents the clue from Antarctica.) The 1959 Antarctic Treaty opened the continent to science & made possible such findings as this hole in the atmosphere in the 1980s the ozone |
| #5998, aired 2010-10-13 | ALL ABOUT ANTARCTICA $600: (Tom Ritchie presents the clue from Antarctica.) Port Lockroy was the start of Britain's permanent presence in Antarctica as a secret base to observe German movements during this war World War II |
| #5998, aired 2010-10-13 | ALL ABOUT ANTARCTICA $1000: (Tom Ritchie presents the clue from Antarctica.) Lifeless boats and rusted tanks that once held the precious oil are relics of Deception Island's past: from 1906 to 1931, it was a processing center for this brutal trade whaling |
| #5992, aired 2010-10-05 | ESCAPE $400: A great escape from Stalag Luft III in 1944 was through one of these dubbed Harry (Tom & Dick weren't used) a tunnel |
| #5990, aired 2010-10-01 | NFL RECORDS $600: Tom Dempsey, in 1970, & Jason Elam, in 1998, share the distance record for one of these at 63 yards a field goal |
| #5988, aired 2010-09-29 | LITERARY LINES $800: This 1852 book says, "I would rather not sell him ...I'm a humane man, and I hate to take the boy from his mother" Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| #5986, aired 2010-09-27 | RECENT MOVIES $600: This title spy's first name was Edwin when Tom Cruise had the role originally; a casting change made it Evelyn Salt |
| #5984, aired 2010-09-23 | MODERN FICTION $800: This veteran spy author delves into the war on terror in "A Most Wanted Man" John le Carré |
| #5982, aired 2010-09-21 | ZAC(H/K) ATTACK $1000: Zack de la Rocha tapped into his anger as the vocalist in this group featuring guitarist Tom Morello Rage Against the Machine |
| #5975, aired 2010-07-30 | IT'S GOOD TO BE HIM $1000: QBed his team to 3 Super Bowl wins in 4 years; probably never has to buy a meal in Boston again Tom Brady |
| #5973, aired 2010-07-28 | LITERARY FIRST LINES $400: "You don't know about me, without you have read a book by the name of 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer'" Huckleberry Finn |
| #5973, aired 2010-07-28 | ANTARCTIC WILDLIFE $2000: (Tom Ritchie reports from Antarctica.) The stubby bill & white eye ring are ways to recognize this penguin species that French explorer Jules Dumont d'Urville named after his wife the Adelie penguin |
| #5968, aired 2010-07-21 | DAYS OF THE WEEK $800: It's the sabbath for Seventh-Day Adventists Saturday |
| #5968, aired 2010-07-21 | DRINK LABELS $1200: One of the 2 fruits you might see on the label of specially flavored Diet Coke cans still sold in the United States lime (or cherries) |
| #5968, aired 2010-07-21 | ON THE ROCKS $2000: Say "hy there" to the rock type of this creature, sometimes called a rock rabbit the hyrax |
| #5968, aired 2010-07-21 | BRITISH ART & ARTISTS $5,000 (Daily Double): In 1768 this portraitist was unanimously elected President of the Royal Academy; he was knighted in 1769 Sir Joshua Reynolds |
| #5964, aired 2010-07-15 | "FOO" FIGHTERS $1000: Old-timey 10 letter term for the silly behavior exhibited by Mr. Brokaw perhaps tomfoolery |
| #5953, aired 2010-06-30 | KITTY LIT $1200: Tom Kitten gets rolled up in dough & is almost baked in a pudding in "The Tale of Samuel Whiskers" by this author Beatrix Potter |
| #5944, aired 2010-06-17 | THE IRON HORSE $600: Built around 1830, this first U.S. locomotive shared its name with a diminutive P.T. Barnum star Tom Thumb |
| #5943, aired 2010-06-16 | ARE YOU WELL RED? $800: This Tom Clancy thriller is about a Soviet captain who decides to defect--with his Typhoon-class submarine The Hunt for Red October |
| #5941, aired 2010-06-14 | LITERARY STUPID ANSWERS $200: Mark Twain first told of Tom Sawyer's adventures in this 1876 novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer |
| #5930, aired 2010-05-28 | MOVIE TAG LINES $200: This film gave us "The holiest event of our time. Perfect for their return" (& Tom Hanks') Angels and Demons |
| #5930, aired 2010-05-28 | EDGAR AWARD WINNERS $400: "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold" got him the Edgar John le Carré |
| #5930, aired 2010-05-28 | GETTING TICKED ON $800: The chipping type of this common seed-eating little bird is a popular host for ticks a sparrow |
| #5930, aired 2010-05-28 | EDGAR AWARD WINNERS $800: Writing about the world of horse racing, he's won for "Forfeit" & "Come to Grief" Dick Francis |
| #5929, aired 2010-05-27 | STATES' FORMER GOVERNORS $800: Tom Ridge,
1995-2001 Pennsylvania |
| #5929, aired 2010-05-27 | 2 WORDS IN ONE $1000: A shark appendage plus a type of beer gives us this musical conclusion finale (fin + ale) |
| #5928, aired 2010-05-26 | ECO SUAVE $200: Recent studies in Oman & New Guinea have discovered peridotite rocks that can absorb tons of this major greenhouse gas carbon dioxide |
| #5928, aired 2010-05-26 | POE IS ME! $1600: "And one by one dropped the revellers in the blood-bedewed halls of their revel" in "The Masque of" this "the Red Death" |
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Tom Morris, a retailer and student from Irvine, California
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2009 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 24 4-time champion: $100,801...
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Tom Morris, a substitute teacher and grad student from Irvine, California
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2009 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 24 4-time champion: $100,801...
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Tom Walsh, a writer from Washington, D.C.
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
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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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Tom Kunzen, a geotechnical engineer from Orlando, Florida
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2011 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 27 5-time champion: $133,402...
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Tom Kavanaugh, a writer from St. Louis, Missouri
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2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2006 Tournament of Champions...
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Tom Aquino, a lawyer from Boston, Massachusetts
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Season 20 player (2004-07-06). KJL game 25. Last name pronounced like...
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Tom Kelso, a credit analyst from Chicago, Illinois
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Season 19 3-time champion: $83,402 + $2,000. Namesake of the backronym...
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Tom Koch, a real estate developer from Seattle, Washington
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Season 24 player (2008-06-24). Tom was on $ale of the Century...
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Tom Clancy, a bestselling author from The Hunt for Red October
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"His bestsellers include The Hunt for Red October, Patriot Games, and...
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Tom Cubbage, an attorney from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
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"He was the very first College Champion, and the only one...
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Tom Walsh, a writer from Washington, D.C.
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
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Tom Walsh, a writer from Washington, D.C.
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
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Tom Bergeron, an Emmy Award-winning host from Dancing with the Stars
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2009 Celebrity Jeopardy! player: $25,000 to the Muscular Dystrophy Association. "He's...
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Tom Wickham, an airline pilot from Torrington, Connecticut
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1988 Senior Tournament semifinalist: $5,000. Tom only became eligible for the...
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Tom Smolich, a Catholic priest originally from Sacramento, California
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Season 5 player (1989-04-11). Season 6 3-time champion: $39,802. Last name...
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Tom Smolich, a Catholic priest originally from Sacramento, California
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Season 5 player (1989-04-11). Season 6 3-time champion: $39,802. Last name...
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Tom Nichols, a professor originally from Chicopee, Massachusetts
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\"A five-time champion in 1994, he used his winnings for a...
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Tom Nichols, a professor originally from Chicopee, Massachusetts
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 1994 Tournament...
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Tom Nichols, a political science professor originally from Chicopee, Massachusetts
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 1994 Tournament...
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Tom Nichols, a professor originally from Chicopee, Massachusetts
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 1994 Tournament...
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Tom Zulewski, a sports writer and author from Washington, Utah
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Season 39 player (2023-07-07). Tom won $1,500 on Let\'s Make a...
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Tom Kunzen, a geotechnical engineer from Orlando, Florida
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2011 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 27 5-time champion: $133,402...
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Tom Baldridge, a graduate student originally from Indianapolis, Indiana
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Season 5 player (1989-05-25). A child of deaf adults, Tom directed...
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Tom Hartmann, a junior from San Antonio, Texas
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2001 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Tom Kavanaugh, a personal trainer, filmmaker, and singer from St. Louis, Missouri
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"He was a writer when he won eight games in Season...
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Tom Kavanaugh, a kickball team captain from St. Louis, Missouri
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2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2006 Tournament of Champions...
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Tom Udall, an Air Force captain from Hampton, Virginia
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Season 1 player (1985-02-18).
Tom appeared on the show in uniform.
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Tom Cubbage, a senior from Southern Methodist Univeristy
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2014 Battle of the Decades semifinalist: $25,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
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Tom Campo, a project manager from West Roxbury, Massachusetts
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Season 34 player (2018-05-24).
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Tom Philipose, a writing professor from Forest Hills, New York
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Season 38 player (2022-06-02). Tom won $50,000 on Who Wants to...
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Tom McGinnis, a fulfillment associate from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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Season 34 player (2018-04-27).
Brother of Season 34 contestant Jim McGinnis.
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Tom McCrossan, a sales representative originally from Rochester, New York
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Season 2 1-time champion: $5,400. The spelling of Tom's last name...
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Tom Blake, a video producer from New York, New York
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Season 34 1-time champion: $16,601 + $1,000.
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Tom Vanderbilt, a writer from Brooklyn, New York
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Season 28 player (2011-12-30).
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Tom Philipose, a writing professor from Forest Hills, New York
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2022 Second Chance semifinalist: $2,000. Season 38 player (2022-06-02). Tom won...
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Tom O'Brien, a writer-researcher from Seattle, Washington
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Season 1 player (1985-02-26). Tom won $500,000 on Who Wants to...
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Tom Vanderloo, a law librarian from Chattanooga, Tennessee
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Season 20 player (2004-07-15).
KJL game 32.
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Tom Conn, a claims processor and sports broadcaster from Saint Anne, Illinois
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Season 29 player (2012-10-11).
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Tom Hanson, a Ph.D. candidate in finance from Kent, Ohio
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Season 29 player (2013-06-20).
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Tom Vaughan, a plastic surgeon from Cape Elizabeth, Maine
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Season 27 player (2011-07-19).
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Tom Moosbrugger, a library worker from Columbus, Ohio
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Season 27 player (2011-04-04).
Last name pronounced like "MOHS-brug-ger".
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Tom Carroll, a court officer lieutenant from White Plains, New York
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Season 29 1-time champion: $32,000 + $2,000.
JBoard user name: TomC4253
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Tom Lynn, a property manager from Baltimore, Maryland
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Season 29 player (2013-03-25).
JBoard user name: BaltimoreBoy
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Tom McGrath, an actor and photographer from Chicago, Illinois
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Season 29 player (2012-12-25).
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Tom Stetina, a high school math teacher from Millsboro, Delaware
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Season 25 1-time champion: $29,353 + $1,000.
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Tom Canterbury, a radio promotions director from Tuscaloosa, Alabama
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Season 29 player (2013-03-14).
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Tom Witek, a high school math teacher from Gurnee, Illinois
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Season 25 2-time champion: $51,001 + $1,000.
Last name pronounced like "WYE-tek".
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Tom Brown, a program analyst originally from Harleysville, Pennsylvania
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Season 27 2-time champion: $40,402 + $2,000.
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Tom Flynn, a bartender from Goshen, New York
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Season 32 player (2015-10-26).
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Tom Imler, a data repair technician from Cary, North Carolina
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Season 31 player (2015-04-03).
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Tom Nosek, an aerospace engineer originally from Chicago, Illinois
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2014 Battle of the Decades quarterfinalist: $10,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
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Tom Gould, a software developer from Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Season 18 player (2002-07-01). Not to be confused with Season 15...
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Tom Pusateri, a teacher from Clearwater, Florida
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Season 24 player (2008-07-10).
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Tom Nosek, an aerospace engineer from Torrance, California
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2014 Battle of the Decades quarterfinalist: $10,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
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Tom Lawrence, a performing waiter from Davenport, Iowa
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Season 4 3-time champion: $28,401.
Tom died on 2019-05-29.
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Tom Ricketts, a chemical engineer from Halifax, Massachusetts
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Season 22 player (2006-04-12).
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Tom Cubbage, a law student and winner of last year's College Tournament from Bartlesville, Oklahoma
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2014 Battle of the Decades semifinalist: $25,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
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Tom Walker, a lawyer from Boston, Massachusetts
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Season 21 1-time champion: $23,201 + $2,000.
Father's Jeopardy! Message Board user name: ProudFather
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Tom Nosek, an aerospace engineer from Torrance, California
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"He won the 1993 Tournament of Champions and finished second in...
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Tom Cubbage, an attorney from Washington, D.C.
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"In 1989, he was the first College Champion and remains the...
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Tom Nosek, an engineer from Torrance, California
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2014 Battle of the Decades quarterfinalist: $10,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
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Tom Nosek, an aerospace consultant from Torrance, California
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"He was an aerospace engineer who had just moved to California...
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Tom Stenson, a law student from Media, Pennsylvania
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Season 21 player (2005-01-17).
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Tom Nichols, a process engineer originally from Lemont, Illinois
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Season 14 player (1997-09-19). Appeared in game #3000. (Because of the...
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Tom McCudden, a law student from Durham, North Carolina
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Season 21 1-time champion: $40,600 + $2,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: Muskrat
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Tom LaPorta, a web designer from Jacksonville, Florida
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Season 26 3-time champion: $50,501 + $1,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: fattom23
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Tom Baker, a writer from Tokyo, Japan
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2004 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000.
Season 20 3-time champion: $102,300 + $2,000.
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Tom Jennings, a maintenance mechanic from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Season 27 1-time champion: $24,000 + $2,000.
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Tom Alexander, a TV news writer from Orlando, Florida
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Season 26 player (2010-07-21).
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: TNA23
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Tom Ogorzalek, a writer and editor from Washington, D.C.
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Season 20 player (2004-03-24).
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Tom Toal, an orthopedic surgeon from Lake Oswego, Oregon
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Season 27 1-time champion: $12,200 + $1,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Tom Nissley, an online books editor from Seattle, Washington
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2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2011 Tournament of Champions...
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Tom Zamojcin, a digital marketing manager from Phoenixville, Pennsylvania
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Season 27 1-time champion: $22,800 + $2,000.
Last name pronounced like "zam-MOH-chin".
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Tom Cubbage, a law student from Bartlesville, Oklahoma
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2014 Battle of the Decades semifinalist: $25,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
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Tom Cohen, a fur broker from Hewlett Harbor, New York
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Season 26 player (2009-12-21).
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Tom Gort, a prosecutor from Winona, Minnesota
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Season 23 player (2007-03-13).
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Tom Gould, a defense analyst from Stafford, Virginia
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Season 15 player (1998-09-08). Not to be confused with Season 18...
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Tom Streit, a real estate lawyer from Jupiter, Florida
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Season 22 player (2005-09-28).
Last name pronounced like "STRATE".
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Tom Waskom, a lawyer from Richmond, Virginia
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Season 22 player (2006-07-12).
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Tom Traylor, a hospice chaplain from San Francisco, California
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Season 23 player (2007-07-10).
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Tom Unsworth, a human resources director from Boston, Massachusetts
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Season 18 1-time champion: $10,000. In his first game, Tom was...
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Tom McFarland, a graduate student from Boulder, Colorado
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Season 21 player (2005-01-24).
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Tom Cilla, from Kings Park, New York
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"He wants to join the Coast Guard or the Navy, but...
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Tom Michael, a medical conference planner from Charlottesville, Virginia
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Season 8 1-time champion: $17,001.
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Tom Facelle, a physician originally from White Plains, New York
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Season 4 player (1987-09-08).
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Tom Hennigan, a graduate assistant from Moscow, Idaho
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Season 11 2-time champion: $29,001.
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Tom Schmidt, a computer salesman originally from Wood Haven, New York
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Season 4 player (1988-06-21).
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Tom Davey, a teacher and graduate student originally from Santa Ana, California
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Season 11 player (1995-01-03).
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Tom Heffron, a facilities manager from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Season 12 player (1996-07-08).
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Tom Leckey, a teacher from Arlington, Virginia
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Season 5 player (1988-12-28).
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Tom Bodenberg, a university professor originally from Muskegon, Michigan
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Season 7 1-time champion: $11,601.
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Tom Gardner, an inventor and engineer from Walnut Creek, California
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Season 11 1-time champion: $8,801.
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Tom Bestor, a writer originally from Eureka, California
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Season 3 player (1986-12-03).
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Tom Kalita, a clergyman from Olney, Maryland
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Season 12 player (1996-04-16).
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Tom Moses, a lawyer from Long Beach, California
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Season 7 player (1991-01-30).
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Tom Hughes, a magazine editor from Upper Jay, New York
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Season 9 player (1992-09-25).
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Tom Regan, a businessman from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Season 9 player (1992-12-25).
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Tom, originally from Washington
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Season 6 player (1989-12-12). The recording used to archive the game...
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Tom McManus, a writer originally from Ridgewood, New Jersey
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Season 11 player (1995-05-15).
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Tom Briner, a mortgage loan officer from Midlothian, Virginia
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Season 4 player (1988-07-01).
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Tom Dryden, a creative director originally from Auxvasse, Missouri
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Season 2 player (1986-03-03).
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Tom Winiarski, a media strategist from Briarcliff Manor, New York
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Season 39 player (2023-05-16).
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Tom Aldrich, a lawyer from Cleveland Heights, Ohio
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Season 7 player (1991-06-05).
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Tom Smith, a marketing manager from Palo Alto, California
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Season 1 player (1985-04-16).
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Tom Duffey, an engineering manager originally from Chicago, Illinois
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Season 37 1-time champion: $31,400 + $1,000.
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Tom Lakeman, a writer from Beverly Hills, California
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Season 10 1-time champion: $18,801.
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Tom Ellison, a business manager from Brooklyn, New York
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Season 36 player (2020-02-17).
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Tom Wheeler, a stock options trader from Dallas, Texas
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Season 12 1-time champion: $14,001.
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Tom Klarquist, a physician originally from Cadillac, Michigan
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Season 7 player (1991-04-16).
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Tom Quinn, an attorney from Portland, Maine
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Season 9 player (1993-03-10).
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Tom Grexa, an assistant dean of admissions from Charlottesville, Virginia
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Season 3 player (1986-10-15).
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Tom Druelinger, a financial analyst from East Aurora, New York
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Season 10 player (1994-06-17).
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Tom Mullens, a data processing manager from Thousand Oaks, California
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Season 9 2-time champion: $8,300.
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Tom Nucum, a real estate agent from Baltimore, Maryland
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Season 38 player (2022-04-08).
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Tom Callan, an optometrist from Walnut Creek, California
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Season 5 player (1989-04-28).
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Tom Epstein, a financial consultant originally from Toronto, Ontario
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Season 11 player (1994-09-07).
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Tom Stemwedel, a research associate from Chicago, Illinois
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Season 11 1-time champion: $17,401.
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Tom Nicoll, a police officer originally from Detroit, Michigan
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Season 7 player (1991-06-24).
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Tom Mueller, a technical writer and trainer from Ventura, California
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Season 11 player (1995-05-24).
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Tom Bowman, an attorney from Kansas City KCTV audition
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Season 6 player (1990-04-16). The recording used to archive the game...
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Tom Bendycki, a copy editor originally from Cleveland, Ohio
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Season 4 player 3-time champion: $39,400.
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Tom Morrison, an accountant originally from Memphis, Tennessee
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Season 8 1-time champion: $10,000 + Jeopardy! 25th Anniversary home game or computer game.
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Tom Anderson, a grad student from Provo, Utah
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Season 9 player (1993-06-07).
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Tom Zemaitis, an attorney from Pennsauken, New Jersey
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Season 5 player (1989-03-06).
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Tom Russ, a research scientist originally from Munich, Germany
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Season 12 player (1996-01-05).
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Tom Rutledge, a freelance journalist originally from Columbus, Ohio
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Season 3 1-time champion: $5,201.
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Tom Olsen, an assistant professor of physics originally from Brooklyn, New York
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Season 3 player (1986-12-18). Player introduction missing on recording used to...
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Tom Guymon, a business manager from Anaheim, California
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Season 19 3-time champion: $45,800 + $2,000.
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Tom Welch, an accountant originally from Bedford, Massachusetts
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Season 12 2-time champion: $27,412.
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Tom Tipps, a software project manager from San Diego, California
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Season 37 player (2021-07-09).
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Tom Saitta, a lawyer originally from Buffalo, New York
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Season 2 player (1985-11-06).
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Tom Nissley, a writer from Seattle, Washington
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2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2011 Tournament of Champions...
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Tom Waters, a sporting goods salesman from Savannah, Georgia
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Season 1 2-time champion: $12,800.
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Thomas L. Friedman, an author and foreign affairs columnist from The New York Times
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"He has won three Pulitzer Prizes and authored six best sellers,...
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Tom Plotkin, a record store clerk from Los Angeles, California
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Season 10 player (1993-12-21).
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Tom Whittington, an attorney from Bellevue, Washington
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Season 10 player (1993-10-21).
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Tom McAtee, a paper handler from St. Louis, Missouri
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Season 6 player (1989-12-15).
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Tom Rack, an actor and writer from Montreal, Canada
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Season 10 1-time champion: $18,300.
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Tom Moynihan, an attorney from Irving, Texas
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Season 11 player (1995-01-24).
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Tom Crawford, a graduate student from Chicago, Illinois
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Season 15 1-time champion: $6,000.
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Tom McDermott, a municipal court magistrate from Bowling Green, Ohio
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Season 19 1-time champion: $19,900 + $2,000.
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Tom Underwood, an attorney from Haddon Heights, New Jersey
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Season 20 player (2003-12-22).
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Chris Tom, a bookseller from Piedmont, California
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Season 24 player (2008-07-18).
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: godfather
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Tom McGuire, a writer from Oakland, California
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Season 11 player (1995-07-06).
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Tom Pope, a special effects animator from Burbank, California
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Season 11 player (1995-07-04).
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Tom Davidson, a consultant from Tampa, Florida
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Season 9 player (1993-06-30).
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Tom Parker, a documentary filmmaker from Providence, Rhode Island
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Season 20 player (2003-12-03).
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Tom Kerr, an environmental policy analyst from Washington, D.C.
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Season 19 player (2002-10-02).
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Tom Mills, a psychiatrist from San Francisco, California
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Season 6 player (1989-11-24).
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Tom Straczynski, a teacher from Bayside, New York
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Season 4 player (1988-06-13).
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Tom Grant, a direct marketing executive from New York City, New York
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Season 4 player (1987-12-10).
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Tom Welter, a quality controller from Anaheim, California
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1989 Senior Tournament semifinalist: $5,000.
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Tom Gazzola, an assistant headmaster originally from North Mankato, Minnesota
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Season 4 player (1988-02-26).
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Tom Daily, a data processing consultant from New Haven, Connecticut
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Season 17 player (2001-06-14).
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Tom Neven, an editor from Wayne, New Jersey
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Season 6 1-time champion: $12,601 + either the Jeopardy! box game...
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Tom Flemma, a high school history teacher from Lakeville, Connecticut
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Season 17 2-time champion: $13,800.
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Tom Gray, a journalist from Van Nuys, California
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Season 4 player (1987-10-22).
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Tom Nissley, a writer from Seattle, Washington
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"He was an online-books editor when he became an 8-time champion...
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Tom Hudak, a factory worker from Hudson Falls, New York
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Season 4 player (1988-06-03).
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Tom Nelson, an analyst originally from Portland, Oregon
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Season 4 player (1988-01-27).
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Tom Halpern, a researcher and writer from New York City, New York
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Season 7 5-time champion: $63,602.
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Tom Meenan, a computer consultant from Arlington, Virginia
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Season 13 player (1996-12-20).
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Tom Berg, a lawyer from Chicago, Illinois
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Season 6 player (1990-04-05).
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Tom Kinne, a translator from Frankfurt, Germany
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1996 OIympic Games Tournament semifinalist: $5,000.
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Tom Landvatter, a professor from Valparaiso, Indiana
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Season 31 player (2015-06-17).
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Tom Massimo, an equity trader from New York, New York
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Season 20 2-time champion: $38,401 + $1,000.
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Tom Stewart, an airline employee from Las Vegas, Nevada
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Season 14 player (1997-09-10).
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Tom Halpern, a lawyer originally from New York, New York
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"A writer and researcher when he won 5 times in 1991,...
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Tom McGinn, an administrative assistant originally from Chillicothe, Ohio
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Season 1 player (1984-11-29).
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Tom Brothers, an attorney from Lynnwood, Washington
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Season 4 player (1988-03-15).
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Tom Lundregan, a computer network manager from Springfield, Virginia
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Season 19 player (2002-12-17).
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Tom Inskeep, an administrative assistant from Coral Gables, Florida
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Season 19 1-time champion: $8,400 + $1,000.
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Tom Bartanen, a quality control manager from Stockton, California
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Season 16 player (2000-01-05).
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Tom Wrosch, a legislation and outreach coordinator from Salem, Oregon
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Season 14 player (1998-06-18).
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Tom Ayala, a medical student from Washington, D.C.
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Season 13 player (1997-04-14).
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Tom Halpern, a researcher and writer from New York City, New York
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 1991 Tournament...
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Tom Castelazo, a middle school teacher originally from Fresno, California
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Season 14 2-time champion: $14,801.
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Tom Hoover, a student dentist from Minneapolis, Minnesota
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Season 17 player (2001-01-18).
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Tom Utterback, a software tester from Seattle, Washington
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Season 13 player (1997-03-31).
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Doug Savant, an actor from Desperate Housewives
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"He plays Tom Scavo, the sometimes-befuddled husband of Felicity Huffman on...
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Tom Barrett, a chiropractor from Riva, Maryland
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Season 14 1-time champion: $18,200.
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Tom Sims, a construction estimator from Winter Park, Florida
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Season 17 player (2000-09-18).
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Tom Lucero, a lawyer from Glendale, California
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Season 19 player (2003-06-16).
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Tom Geoffino, a librarian from North Haven, Connecticut
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Season 14 player (1997-12-29).
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Tom Schellhammer, a lawyer from Arlington, Virginia
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Season 15 1-time champion: $10,500.
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Tom Stimson, an attorney from El Cerrito, California
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Season 6 3-time champion: $31,599.
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Tom Duff, a toy engineer from Redondo Beach, California
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Season 17 player (2001-06-06).
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Tom Baker, a writer from Tokyo, Japan
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2004 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000.
Season 20 3-time champion: $102,300 + $2,000.
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Aisha Tyler, a comedienne, host and actress from Talk Soup, Friends, The 5th Wheel and Ghost Whisperer
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2009 Celebrity Jeopardy! winner: $50,000 split between the International Rescue Committee/Congo...
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Bob Winthrop, a technical writer originally from Hannibal, Missouri
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1988 Senior Tournament quarterfinalist: $1,000. Bob and Tom Wickham each had...
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Elza Reeves, a bank teller from Louisville, Kentucky
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Season 25 1-time champion: $16,400 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Anderson Cooper, a news anchor and correspondent from CNN
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"He anchors his own prime-time news show, a syndicated daytime talk...
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Roger Craig, a computer scientist from Newark, Delaware
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2019 All-Star Games member of wildcard-match 2nd-place Team Austin: a share...
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Tavis Smiley, a talk show host from PBS's The Tavis Smiley Show
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"He's interviewed such diverse personalities as Fidel Castro, Pope John Paul...
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Guy Tabachnick, from New York, New York
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"He wants to be a baseball announcer for the New York...
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Doug Savant, an actor from Desperate Housewives
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"He met and then married his wife while both were costarring...
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Elizabeth Perkins, an actress from Big and Weeds
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2009 Celebrity Jeopardy! player: $25,000 to the New England Learning Center...
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Jove Graham, a biomedical engineer from Lewisburg, Pennsylvania
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Season 26 1-time champion: $34,401 + $1,000. Jove's second contestant interview...
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Loren Loiacono, a senior from Setauket, New York
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2006 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
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Mark Dawson, a business manager from Chamblee, Georgia
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"In 2003, he became the first to win a quarter of...
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Sean Ryan, a taxi driver, bartender, and student from State College, Pennsylvania
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
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Ryan Chaffee, a tutor from Los Angeles, California
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2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $91,900...
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Thomas Bernhard, a technical writer from Fremont, California
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Season 3 player (1986-09-15).
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Jim McGinnis, a delivery driver and part-time actor from Beaver, Pennsylvania
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Season 34 player (2018-07-03).
Brother of Season 34 contestant Tom McGinnis.
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Joon Pahk, a college physics teacher from Somerville, Massachusetts
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2011 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000.
Season 28 7-time champion: $199,000 + $2,000.
JBoard user name: jpahk
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Kelly O'Donnell, a political reporter from NBC News
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"An Emmy-winning political reporter, she has covered Capitol Hill and the...
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Mark Leinwand, a television business affairs executive from Los Angeles, California
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1986 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $1,000. Season 2 4-time champion: $43,700....
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Carl Brandt, an investor originally from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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2009 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 25 4-time champion: $70,799...
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Anjali Tripathi, a senior from MIT
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"Math and science were her favorite subjects in seventh grade. We're...
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Mark Leinwand, an attorney and a businessman from Los Angeles, California
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1986 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $1,000. Season 2 4-time champion: $43,700....
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Thomas Haden Church, an actor from Wings and Ned and Stacey
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1995 Celebrity Jeopardy! player (1995-11-10). Playing for the Hill Country Youth...
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Paul Thomas, a theater technician from Hollywood, Florida
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Season 24 1-time champion: $32,001 + $2,000. Paul won his first...
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Gigi Gilman, a homemaker and attorney from Seattle, Washington
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Season 22 1-time champion: $13,000 + $1,000. Gigi's actual first name...
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Thomas Horn, a twelve-year-old from Piedmont, California
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"He plans on making the world a better place as an...
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Leszek Pawlowicz, a computer consultant from Flagstaff, Arizona
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"He was the winner of the 1992 Tournament of Champions. Today...
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Dan Smith, a student from Chicago, Illinois
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Season 25 3-time champion: $69,200 + $1,000. Dan Smith - a...
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Jane Curtin, an actress from Kate & Allie and 3rd Rock from the Sun
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"One of Saturday Night Live's original Not Ready for Primetime Players,...
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Elizabeth Perkins, an actress from Weeds
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"For the past five seasons, she's played the calculating and manipulative...
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Joshua Malina, a TV actor and creator/producer from Celebrity Poker Showdown
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"He created and produced Celebrity Poker Showdown for the Bravo Channel,...
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Brian Weikle, a project manager from Minneapolis, Minnesota
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
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Brian Weikle, a project manager from Minneapolis, Minnesota
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
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Eric Rosen, a production assistant from Los Angeles, California
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Season 22 player (2005-09-16).
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Mark Lowenthal, an assistant director for the Central Intelligence Agency from Reston, Virginia
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"The winner of the 1988 Tournament of Champions, he's an assistant...
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Sean Ryan, a graduate student from Whitehall, Pennsylvania
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
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Brian Weikle, a consultant from Minneapolis, Minnesota
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
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Sean Ryan, a cab driver from State College, Pennsylvania
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
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