| #9099, aired 2024-05-09 | FROM RIDICULOUS TO SUBLIME $200: Metaphorically, nations "rattle" these fencing swords when they threaten war sabers |
| #9099, aired 2024-05-09 | 18th CENTURY SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY $400: In the 1780s it was shown that inflammable air & dephlogisticated air, now known as these 2 elements, make up water hydrogen & oxygen |
| #9099, aired 2024-05-09 | FROM RIDICULOUS TO SUBLIME $800: Charles Dickens coined this word for doctors of the Victorian era who cut & amputated legs fast, as there was no anesthesia sawbones |
| #9099, aired 2024-05-09 | HISTORY'S MYSTERIES $1200: Spanish for "the gilded one", it was imagined to be a city, a lake or a king El Dorado |
| #9098, aired 2024-05-08 | THAT'S BANANAS $400: Banana is a word in the language of these animated yellow sidekicks, whose banana song was in a trailer for "Despicable Me 2" Minions |
| #9098, aired 2024-05-08 | TV & MOVIE MOMS $800: This sitcom character was mom to Becky, Darlene & D.J. Roseanne Conner |
| #9098, aired 2024-05-08 | 18th CENTURY AMERICA $800: On December 9, 1793 New York City's first daily newspaper, the American Minerva, was established by this lexicographer Webster |
| #9098, aired 2024-05-08 | THE PLANETS $800: Before it was discovered in 1846, scientists were able to predict its likely existence mathematically Neptune |
| #9098, aired 2024-05-08 | A LITTLE WORLD LIT $1600: A famed pilot, this author of "The Little Prince", was killed on a 1944 reconnaissance flight over France Antoine de Saint-Exupéry |
| #9098, aired 2024-05-08 | 18th CENTURY AMERICA $1600: In 1787 Arthur St. Clair was appointed the first governor of this vast territory & made his headquarters in Cincinnati the Northwest Territory |
| #9098, aired 2024-05-08 | TV & MOVIE MOMS $2000: Only 4 years older than Robin Williams, Glenn Close was cast as his feminist mom Jenny Fields in this 1982 film The World According to Garp |
| #9098, aired 2024-05-08 | TIERS $2000: The tiered Olympic podium debuted at the 1932 Winter Games here & local speed skater Jack Shea was the first winner atop it Lake Placid |
| #9098, aired 2024-05-08 | 18th CENTURY AMERICA $2000: This Puritan minister who wrote "The Christian Philosopher" in 1721 was a leader in the fight for smallpox vaccinations Cotton Mather |
| #9098, aired 2024-05-08 | 18th CENTURY AMERICA $4,000 (Daily Double): This horse-drawn wagon named for a Pennsylvania river, was first used in the early 1700s & had a curved floor & a white canvas top a Conestoga wagon |
| #26, aired 2024-05-08 | THE COLD WAR $200: It was the 3-word phrase for drills in which schoolkids crawled under desks to somehow protect themselves from a nuclear blast duck and cover |
| #26, aired 2024-05-08 | CHANGING IT UP $400: Here I was thinking the 2nd epilogue of this Tolstoy tome would have more Pierre & Natasha, not a critique of the great man theory War and Peace |
| #26, aired 2024-05-08 | THE COLD WAR $400: Numeric nickname of the group of imprisoned & blacklisted movie professionals who refused to testify to Congress the "Hollywood Ten" |
| #26, aired 2024-05-08 | THE COLD WAR $600: The end of the Cold War was hastened by this 8-letter Russian policy that Mikhail Gorbachev promoted glasnost |
| #26, aired 2024-05-08 | CHEESING IN PUBLIC $600: Pope for around 30 days in 1978, he was known as "The Smiling Pope" & was the first to choose a double name John Paul I |
| #26, aired 2024-05-08 | STAR WORDS $800: Most neutron stars we've found are these, named for the way they emit bursts of radiation at regular intervals pulsars |
| #26, aired 2024-05-08 | THE COLD WAR $800: In 1972 the U.S. & USSR took a first step toward reducing the threat of nuclear war via these "Talks" SALT |
| #26, aired 2024-05-08 | THE COLORS OF TELEVISION $1000: Dana Carvey was Clinton "Jafo" Wonderlove on this show adapted from a 1983 film about a high-tech police helicopter Blue Thunder |
| #26, aired 2024-05-08 | LETTER PERFECT $1000: Published in 1963, it was Thomas Pynchon's debut novel V |
| #26, aired 2024-05-08 | THE COLD WAR $1000: From the late 1940s through the 1980s, the U.S. pursued this "restrictive" strategy of curbing Soviet expansion containment |
| #26, aired 2024-05-08 | PLACES $1600: John van Leeuwen was the first to swim 16-mile Foveaux Strait between New Zealand's South Island & this island further south Stewart Island |
| #26, aired 2024-05-08 | PLACES $4,200 (Daily Double): This spot in London was once where religious types grew vegetables; looks like an "N" got dropped along the way Covent Garden |
| #25, aired 2024-05-08 | THE CLOTHES CLOSET $200: The skirt's uneven hemline is called this, not because it's a little square of fabric, but because of the way the points fall a handkerchief skirt |
| #25, aired 2024-05-08 | THE ELITE $400: Home to generations of brainiacs, the Institute for Advanced Study in this college town was an "Oppenheimer" filming location Princeton |
| #25, aired 2024-05-08 | COUNTRY MUSIC HISTORY $400: Shaping country music in its infancy was this family that included Mother Maybelle &, later, daughters Helen, June & Anita Carter |
| #25, aired 2024-05-08 | HOLLYWOOD LEGACIES $600: (Michael Douglas delivers the clue.) In a 2018 interview Mariska Hargitay said her late mother, this actress, "was this amazing, beautiful, glamorous sex symbol--but people didn’t know that she played the violin, and had a 160 IQ" Jayne Mansfield |
| #25, aired 2024-05-08 | THE ELITE $600: This septet was introduced to the nation on April 9, 1959 at the Dolley Madison House, then NASA headquarters the Mercury 7 |
| #25, aired 2024-05-08 | THE CLOTHES CLOSET $600: This long overcoat that was new in 1867 bears the name of a historic Irish province Ulster |
| #25, aired 2024-05-08 | NORTH AMERICAN COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $800: This school that's less than 10 miles from where you're standing changed the "at" in its name to the current comma in the 1950s the University of California, Los Angeles |
| #25, aired 2024-05-08 | GHOSTS $800: Pausanias, a turncoat general of this ancient city-state, was sealed up inside a temple & became a loitering spirit there Sparta |
| #25, aired 2024-05-08 | COUNTRY MUSIC HISTORY $800: Called "the Mother Church of Country Music" & actually built as a church, this venue was home to the Grand Ole Opry 1943-1974 Ryman (Auditorium) |
| #25, aired 2024-05-08 | HOLLYWOOD LEGACIES $1000: (Michael Douglas delivers the clue.) I've got to include my father, Kirk Douglas; in his 60+ year career, he's played such memorable roles as Spartacus, Vincent van Gogh & in 1957 a French colonel in World War I who attempts to defend three of his men facing a court-martial in this classic Kubrick film Paths of Glory |
| #25, aired 2024-05-08 | THE ELITE $1000: On D-Day the U.S. Army Rangers led the way in scaling the cliffs of this pointe overlooking Omaha Beach Pointe du Hoc |
| #25, aired 2024-05-08 | GHOSTS $1000: The ghost of this "Mad" general of the Revolutionary War is said to haunt Erie County, Pennsylvania (Anthony) Wayne |
| #25, aired 2024-05-08 | IN THE PAST $1200: An indigenous soldier in British India; a rebellion named for them is also called India's first war of independence sepoy |
| #25, aired 2024-05-08 | COUNTRY MUSIC HISTORY $1200: In the 1960s, the face of country music was changed when this singer became country music's first Black superstar (Charley) Pride |
| #25, aired 2024-05-08 | IN THE PAST $1600: The first tomb meant for Tut was taken by a guy named Ay who served Tut as this 6-letter chief minister & later became pharaoh, too vizier |
| #25, aired 2024-05-08 | COUNTRY MUSIC HISTORY $1600: Paving the way for other Canadians like Shania Twain was this first female solo artist to win Best Album at the CMA Awards (Anne) Murray |
| #25, aired 2024-05-08 | COUNTRY MUSIC HISTORY $2000: It's no coin flip! This classic of '90s country by Jo Dee Messina was the subject of a 2022 song about hearing it in a karaoke bar "Heads Carolina, Tails California" |
| #9097, aired 2024-05-07 | HODGEPODGE $200: In 1986 Steve Jobs bought this animation studio for $5 million; in 2006 it was sold to Disney for $7.4 billion Pixar |
| #9097, aired 2024-05-07 | DEATH IN THE CAPITAL $200: Journalist John Reed died in this city & was buried with other Bolshevik heroes Moscow |
| #9097, aired 2024-05-07 | TV MOVIES $400: Steven Soderbergh was behind the camera to direct Michael Douglas as this man in "Behind the Candelabra" Liberace |
| #9097, aired 2024-05-07 | HODGEPODGE $600: In 1898 Bayer began to bottle & market this now very illegal drug as a pain reliever & cough suppressant heroin |
| #9097, aired 2024-05-07 | DINOSAURS $800: The way the human-sized Troodon incubated its eggs provides a link to these, which evolved from one line of dinos birds |
| #9097, aired 2024-05-07 | WORDS IN JEOPARDY $800: The ancient poet Pindar was an early master of this type of lyric poem an ode |
| #9097, aired 2024-05-07 | TV MOVIES $1000: A biopic about this late celebrity & star of "Romeo Must Die" was subtitled "The Princess of R&B" Aaliyah |
| #9097, aired 2024-05-07 | IT'S ALL RELATIVE $1000: In literature, Tom Sawyer's guardian was this relative who was based in part on Mark Twain's own mom Aunt Polly |
| #9097, aired 2024-05-07 | DINOSAURS $1200: The most complete skeleton of a T-rex was found in 1990 in South Dakota & is now housed at this Natural History Museum in Chicago the Field Museum |
| #9097, aired 2024-05-07 | AROUND THE ADRIATIC $1200: Adria was an important enough port that they named the sea after it, until this river's delta got all silted up the Po |
| #9097, aired 2024-05-07 | DO YOU KNOW YOUR RALPHABET? $2000: R:
This Christian Coalition leader was a spokesman for the evangelical movement Ralph Reed |
| #9096, aired 2024-05-06 | RECORDED AT ABBEY ROAD $200: Music for this 1981 film debut of Indiana Jones was done at Abbey Road; the score is iconic, timeless & too much money for us to play Raiders of the Lost Ark |
| #9096, aired 2024-05-06 | EMBRACE THE DARK SIDE $200: These 2 adjectives describe the night in the much-parodied opening line of the 1830 novel "Paul Clifford" dark & stormy |
| #9096, aired 2024-05-06 | COMBAT PILOTS $400: Future U.S. senator Martha McSally was the first woman to command a U.S. combat aviation unit, the 354th Fighter one of these Squadron |
| #9096, aired 2024-05-06 | KNOWN BY THEIR INITIALS $400: This author followed 1897's "The Invisible Man" with 1898's "The War of the Worlds" H.G. Wells |
| #9096, aired 2024-05-06 | THE PLOT SICKENS $400: "The Red Death" created by this 19th century author was a disease that killed people a half-hour from onset Edgar Allan Poe |
| #9096, aired 2024-05-06 | EMBRACE THE DARK SIDE $600: These ancient texts discovered in 1947 contain an account of an impending war between the Sons of Light & the Sons of Darkness the Dead Sea Scrolls |
| #9096, aired 2024-05-06 | EMBRACE THE DARK SIDE $800: Often called the first dark horse president, this 11th chief executive waged the Mexican War & added vast new territory to the USA James K. Polk |
| #9096, aired 2024-05-06 | U.S. COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $1200: Called one of the first HBCUs, Storer College was in this town, the site of a failed 1859 revolt Harpers Ferry |
| #9096, aired 2024-05-06 | THE PLOT SICKENS $1200: The title of this Rachael Lippincott bestseller was a distance kept by 2 sick teens, cutting the recommended boundary by a foot Five Feet Apart |
| #9096, aired 2024-05-06 | TIME FOR SOME TV "AD"s $1600: From 2014 to 2019 Téa Leoni starred as State Department chief Elizabeth McCord, addressed by this title title Madam Secretary |
| #9096, aired 2024-05-06 | KNOWN BY THEIR INITIALS $1600: This sociologist was the first African-American person to get a Ph.D. from Harvard (W.E.B.) Du Bois |
| #9096, aired 2024-05-06 | COMBAT PILOTS $1600: Called the "Ace of Aces" in the jet era, Israeli pilot Giora Epstein had 17 kills, including 12 in this 1973 conflict the Yom Kippur War |
| #9096, aired 2024-05-06 | U.S. COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $2,000 (Daily Double): This university was founded in Philadelphia, after "night owls" studied in founder Russell Conwell's church Temple |
| #9096, aired 2024-05-06 | U.S. COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $2000: Chartered in 1901, this college in Southern California was named for a Quaker poet Whittier |
| #9096, aired 2024-05-06 | KNOWN BY THEIR INITIALS $2000: The cantata "Iphigenia in Brooklyn" was composed by Peter Schickele under this name P.D.Q. Bach |
| #24, aired 2024-05-06 | LESSER-KNOWN ANCIENT ROMANS? $200: Spores aside, there was one of these "among us", making him sound like the life of the party a Fungus |
| #24, aired 2024-05-06 | A STRAWBERRY FESTIVAL $200: In 1985 a 2.5-acre area dubbed Strawberry Fields was dedicated here in memory of John Lennon, who once lived nearby Central Park |
| #24, aired 2024-05-06 | WOMEN IN HISTORY $400: Busted! In 1912 her bust was discovered in what had once been the studio of the sculptor Thutmose Nefertiti |
| #24, aired 2024-05-06 | A STRAWBERRY FESTIVAL $400: This character created by Barbi Sargent was first used on greeting cards before expanding to dolls, cartoons & more Strawberry Shortcake |
| #24, aired 2024-05-06 | EXCESSIVE CELEBRATION $400: Ooh, maybe that was a li'l too much gold--that's the ultra-premium class of this 86-year-old vodka brand Stoli |
| #24, aired 2024-05-06 | LESSER-KNOWN ANCIENT ROMANS? $600: It was hard to take this guy seriously when he sat around all day, didn't move a muscle & his name meant "biggest butt" Gluteus Maximus |
| #24, aired 2024-05-06 | WOMEN IN HISTORY $800: In 1822 Mary Ludwig Hays, known by this nickname, was awarded a yearly pension for her services during the Battle of Monmouth "Molly Pitcher" |
| #24, aired 2024-05-06 | WORLD CITIES $1200: Until 1966 this African capital was known as Léopoldville Kinshasa |
| #24, aired 2024-05-06 | WOMEN IN HISTORY $1200: Women still didn't have the right to vote nationally when this Montana woman was elected to Congress in 1916 (Jeannette) Rankin |
| #24, aired 2024-05-06 | YOU'RE IN THE RED $1600: Mahpiya Luta was the Lakota name of this leader who resisted U.S. government expansion of the Bozeman Trail Red Cloud |
| #23, aired 2024-05-06 | 18th CENTURY NAMES $200: A character on "Black Sails", this pirate with ties to Charleston was saved from execution by a pregnancy Anne Bonny |
| #23, aired 2024-05-06 | TOO MUCH $400: An economic surplus or oversupply; in 2015 there was a worldwide one of crude oil, sending prices down glut |
| #23, aired 2024-05-06 | DEATH OF A WRITER $400: This Pulitzer Prize winner was hit & killed in 1949 as she tried to cross Peachtree Street in Atlanta (Margaret) Mitchell |
| #23, aired 2024-05-06 | 18th CENTURY NAMES $800: His "A Dictionary of the English Language" was published in 2 volumes in 1755 Johnson |
| #23, aired 2024-05-06 | THE STATE I'M IN $1000: This state is not famous as a source of jazz talent, but Bix Beiderbecke was born there Iowa |
| #23, aired 2024-05-06 | DEATH OF A WRITER $1600: A friend of Shakespeare, this "Song: To Celia" poet & playwright was buried standing up in Westminster Abbey Ben Jonson |
| #23, aired 2024-05-06 | MOVIE SERIES CHARACTERS $2000: In 2024 this actor turned 95, was immortalized at the Chinese Theatre & again played a dad in "Kung Fu Panda 4" James Hong |
| #9095, aired 2024-05-03 | BIG SIR $200: In the Bible his "height was six cubits and a span", which some estimates peg at 9 or 10 feet tall, but the bigger they come... Goliath |
| #9095, aired 2024-05-03 | PRESIDENTIAL HOMES $200: Before the White House, when his house overlooking Santa Monica Bay was built in 1956, GE outfitted it with energy-saving tech Ronald Reagan |
| #9095, aired 2024-05-03 | DELETE MY HISTORY $400: A 1956 article on the renaming of a car factory said it was the first "major Soviet enterprise" to get rid of this man's name Stalin |
| #9095, aired 2024-05-03 | WORLD SERIES MVPs $600: Win 2 games, save 1 & give up just 1 run in 21 innings & you'll be MVP like Madison Bumgarner was with this NL team in 2014 the Giants |
| #9095, aired 2024-05-03 | NON-CAT & DOG PETS $600: You can see why this type of frog here was named for this '80s video game, but feed it insects, not power pellets Pac-Man |
| #9095, aired 2024-05-03 | PRESIDENTIAL HOMES $800: Sherwood Forest, John Tyler's home, was owned in the late 18th century by this immediate predecessor William Henry Harrison |
| #9095, aired 2024-05-03 | DELETE MY HISTORY $800: Akhenaten, the father of this boy pharaoh, was scratched from the history papyrus, likely for his monotheistic beliefs King Tut |
| #9095, aired 2024-05-03 | BIG SIR $1000: Known for his controversially casual wardrobe at work, this senator who was elected in 2022 stands 6'8" Fetterman |
| #9095, aired 2024-05-03 | PRESIDENTIAL HOMES $1000: Mrs. Hoover designed a Lou & Herb-arium on this college's campus; the home was deeded to the school upon her death Stanford University |
| #9095, aired 2024-05-03 | STARTS WITH AN ANIMAL $1600: 6th century B.C. Indian physician Sushruta was a pioneer of surgery, including this reconstruction of the nose rhinoplasty |
| #9094, aired 2024-05-02 | WORD ORIGINS $400: This compound word now refers to a woman's purse, but in the 1700s it was a flexible leather folder for keeping papers or bills a pocketbook |
| #9094, aired 2024-05-02 | FAST &/OR FURIOUS $400: Jetting across the Atlantic at Mach 2.04, the Concorde was an SST, short for this type of transport supersonic transport |
| #9094, aired 2024-05-02 | LITERARY NORTH CAROLINA $400: N.C.-set "Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp" was the second anti-slavery novel by this 19th century author Stowe |
| #9094, aired 2024-05-02 | 1950s TALK $600: A conventional person was a square; a super-conventional one was this, one power higher a cube |
| #9094, aired 2024-05-02 | THE GIRL IN THE SONG $1200: "Church Bells"--she "slipped something in" hubby's "Tennessee whiskey no lawman was ever gonna find" Jenny |
| #9094, aired 2024-05-02 | THE GREATS OF HISTORY $2000: Berengaria the Great was an advisor to her son Ferdinand III in this series of campaigns to regain Iberia from the Moors the Reconquista |
| #9094, aired 2024-05-02 | DIARIES & JOURNALS $2,400 (Daily Double): On July 4, 1862 he made an entry in his diary saying he went "to Godstow with the 3 Liddells; we had tea on the bank there" Lewis Carroll |
| #9094, aired 2024-05-02 | WORD ORIGINS $5,000 (Daily Double): A wealthy & powerful businessman, it was borrowed from the Japanese who in turn borrowed it from the Chinese words for "great prince" a tycoon |
| #9093, aired 2024-05-01 | YACHTS $200: The Water Club of the Harbour of Cork, the world's first yacht club, was founded on this island in 1720 Ireland |
| #9093, aired 2024-05-01 | "ALL" THE WAY $200: This 4-word phrase that orders everyone available to help with a problem is nautical in origin all hands on deck |
| #9093, aired 2024-05-01 | COMPLIMENTS TO THE WRITER $400: "I greet you at the beginning of a great career" from this Mass. man was a "Leaves of Grass" blurb; so much for self-reliance, Walt Emerson |
| #9093, aired 2024-05-01 | "ALL" THE WAY $400: In "The Shining" Jack Nicholson's writer's block doesn't seem to apply to this 10-word phrase, repeatedly typed all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy |
| #9093, aired 2024-05-01 | YACHTS $600: Katharine Hepburn was a guest aboard the Southern Cross, a yacht owned by this aviator/movie producer Howard Hughes |
| #9093, aired 2024-05-01 | "ALL" THE WAY $600: A lyric from "Chicago" goes, "Oh, she's gonna shimmy till her garters break, and" this phrase meaning et cetera and all that jazz |
| #9093, aired 2024-05-01 | CITY PARKS $600: Chicago's largest park, it was once known as Cemetery Park, but got its current name in 1865 Lincoln Park |
| #9093, aired 2024-05-01 | COMPLIMENTS TO THE WRITER $800: The N.Y. Times said "The Secret History" by this woman was "remarkably powerful" & "ferociously well-paced " Donna Tartt |
| #9093, aired 2024-05-01 | "ALL" THE WAY $800: It comes after "We hold these truths to be self-evident..." all men are created equal |
| #9093, aired 2024-05-01 | IN THE BLACK $800: Muslim tradition says this, set in a wall of the Kaaba, was white but grew dark from the sins of the pilgrims who've touched it the Black Stone of Mecca |
| #9093, aired 2024-05-01 | YACHTS $1000: This head honcho of Oracle used a few of his millions on the 453-foot yacht "Rising Sun"; later it was David Geffen's pandemic refuge Larry Ellison |
| #9093, aired 2024-05-01 | "ALL" THE WAY $1000: Translation of the quotation seen here, originally on "The Gates of Hell" in Dante abandon all hope, ye who enter here |
| #9093, aired 2024-05-01 | REDONE-DANCY $1200: There was some real redone-Dancy when Hugh Dancy came to TV as an ADA in this Dick Wolf series restarted after a 10-year hiatus Law & Order |
| #9093, aired 2024-05-01 | REDONE-DANCY $1600: "The Bridge", about Swedish & Danish cops on the same case, was remade as this show in which the cops are British & French The Tunnel |
| #22, aired 2024-05-01 | RANKS & TITLES $200: The Austrian monarchy used the national anthem "God Save Emperor Francis" or "Gott Erhalte Franz den" this German word Kaiser |
| #22, aired 2024-05-01 | SUNG & UNSUNG HEROES $400: (Sheryl Crow delivers the clue.) Before I hit fame as a solo artist, I was a backup singer for Michael Jackson, & you can see me in my big-hair glory duetting "I Just Can't Stop Loving You" on his tour in support of this 1987 album Bad |
| #22, aired 2024-05-01 | SPELL IT! $400: You know, that Lea & Perrins sauce that has way too many letters for 3 syllables? Yeah, spell that W-O-R-C-E-S-T-E-R-S-H-I-R-E |
| #22, aired 2024-05-01 | SPELL IT! $800: In "Shishkabugs" Bugs Bunny was in some danger of becoming an ingredient in this German stew H-A-S-E-N-P-F-E-F-F-E-R |
| #22, aired 2024-05-01 | MEET THE SMITHS $800: "The High Priestess of Punk Poetry", she was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2007 Patti Smith |
| #22, aired 2024-05-01 | GO FOR THE THROAT $1200: Confidentially, this chef's first foray into fiction writing was the restaurant-set crime novel "Bone in the Throat" Anthony Bourdain |
| #22, aired 2024-05-01 | THE KERNEL OF THE CLUE $1600: (Founded 1849)
The neighbor says he was made part mental by our kids' street hockey game the Department of the Interior (or Interior Department) (in made part mental) |
| #22, aired 2024-05-01 | SCIENTISTS $2000: Working with blood was in this Austrian-born pathologist's blood: he figured out blood group & ABO blood typing Landsteiner |
| #22, aired 2024-05-01 | THE KERNEL OF THE CLUE $2000: (Where rays join)
She obstinately insisted there was no typo in the letter that she sent out focal point (in typo in the) |
| #21, aired 2024-05-01 | THERE ONCE WAS THIS MAN FROM... $200: ...Down Under / Who looked at a mountain with wonder As high as can be / May 29th, '53 / Sadly, above Mallory's blunder Hillary |
| #21, aired 2024-05-01 | THERE ONCE WAS THIS MAN FROM... $400: ...Chile / Due to him, human rights went away / Prez in '74 / & for 16 years more / Times were rough under... Pinochet |
| #21, aired 2024-05-01 | INVENTORS & INVENTIONS $400: DuPont chemist Stephanie Kwolek was the subject of a kids' book called "The Woman Who Invented the Thread That Stops" these Bullets |
| #21, aired 2024-05-01 | YOU'RE REPEATING YOURSELF $600: Along with Too-Too the owl & Chee-Chee the monkey, this duck was what one might call a known associate of Doctor Dolittle Dab-Dab the duck |
| #21, aired 2024-05-01 | THERE ONCE WAS THIS MAN FROM... $600: ...U.K. / As prime minister, a late '30s stay / Not so powerfully built / & don't call him Wilt / Churchill's here now you go away Chamberlain |
| #21, aired 2024-05-01 | DREAMT OF IN YOUR PHILOSOPHY $800: In Tokugawa Japan of the 17th to 19th c., the dominant thought was neo-this philosophy of a guy from across the Sea of Japan neo-Confucianism |
| #21, aired 2024-05-01 | THERE ONCE WAS THIS MAN FROM... $800: ...Paris / A minister of war, don't you see / He drew his "line" / Around 1929 / But the Germans... they didn't agree Maginot |
| #21, aired 2024-05-01 | NOT YOUR EVERYDAY WORDS $800: It can be a noun or a verb! A shaved head of a monk, or to shave the head that way tonsure |
| #21, aired 2024-05-01 | 4-LETTER TV $1000: "The Munsters" had a pet dragon named this who was known to scare off ne'er-do-wells Spot |
| #21, aired 2024-05-01 | THERE ONCE WAS THIS MAN FROM... $1000: ...Maine / Speaker of the House, to be plain / Cleveland beat him for prez / So history says / & his last name, it rhymes, as it's... Blaine |
| #21, aired 2024-05-01 | INVENTORS & INVENTIONS $1200: Known for its weird sound effects, this instrument was named for the Russian man who invented it in the 1920s theremin |
| #21, aired 2024-05-01 | DREAMT OF IN YOUR PHILOSOPHY $1600: This Scot who died in 1776 was a leader in empiricism, the belief that all knowledge is from experience Hume |
| #21, aired 2024-05-01 | CLASSIC MOVIES $1600: Woody Strode was the title "Sergeant Rutledge" in a 1960 Western courtroom drama directed by this quintessential Western auteur (John) Ford |
| #21, aired 2024-05-01 | DREAMT OF IN YOUR PHILOSOPHY $2000: Aristotle was known to stroll while teaching, giving us this word for his followers or walking in general peripatetic |
| #9092, aired 2024-04-30 | AFRICAN LEADERS $400: Senegal president Léopold Senghor was a noted poet in this language & in 1983 became the first African elected to its academy French |
| #9092, aired 2024-04-30 | QUESTIONABLE SONG TITLES $400: 2 songs from "Barbie" got Oscar nominations: "I'm Just Ken" & this one by Billie Eilish that took home the gold "What Was I Made For?" |
| #9092, aired 2024-04-30 | STATE MAMMALS $1,000 (Daily Double): The resolution making this breed Texas' official large mammal stated it was "once the cornerstone of" its cattle industry a longhorn |
| #9092, aired 2024-04-30 | THE GAP ON THEIR RÉSUMÉS $2000: In happier times (1989), Joan Didion did a Gap ad with this daughter who was named after a state in the Yucatán Quintana Roo |
| #9092, aired 2024-04-30 | AFRICAN LEADERS $2000: Julius Nyerere was the first president of this country that in 1964 merged with Zanzibar to become Tanzania Tanganyika |
| #9091, aired 2024-04-29 | CHRONICALLY ON LINE $200: The ice cream machine at this fast food chain was working in 1990s Russia when the 1st one there served a line of 30k people McDonald's |
| #9091, aired 2024-04-29 | NAMES IN AMERICAN HISTORY $400: Brazil's emperor Pedro II was on hand when he demonstrated his telephone at the Philadelphia exhibition in 1876 Bell |
| #9091, aired 2024-04-29 | COMMUNICATION $400: The proper way to address the pope--if you ever were to meet him--is with this 2-word salutation Your Holiness |
| #9091, aired 2024-04-29 | LITERATURE: THE SOMETHING OF SOMETHING $800: Get your Wharton MBA; Newland Archer aims for a new romance; well, that certainly was a time &/or era The Age of Innocence |
| #9091, aired 2024-04-29 | LITERATURE: THE SOMETHING OF SOMETHING $1,000 (Daily Double): Colorful in so many ways; Civil War is hell; Henry, don't be a hero The Red Badge of Courage |
| #9091, aired 2024-04-29 | CHRONICALLY ON LINE $1000: A doorman who worked the line at this defunct disco said, "It was inclusive of people who were of that moment in Manhattan" Studio 54 |
| #9091, aired 2024-04-29 | PUT IT IN THE LOUVRE! $4,000 (Daily Double): A fresco featuring Venus by this 15th century Italian--not the only time he painted her--was rediscovered in 1873 Botticelli |
| #9090, aired 2024-04-26 | BEEP-BOOP-BEEP $400: This animated star was censored in 1934 when she starred in "Red Hot Mamma" & Hays Code enforcement really began Betty Boop |
| #9090, aired 2024-04-26 | BURIED AT ARLINGTON $400: In 1968 this former Attorney General & presidential candidate was laid to rest near his brother Bobby Kennedy |
| #9090, aired 2024-04-26 | BEEP-BOOP-BEEP $800: Before becoming mayor of New York City, Eric Adams was a BP, or beep, meaning he was a president of one of these in the city a borough |
| #9090, aired 2024-04-26 | BURIED AT ARLINGTON $800: Lieutenant Kara Hultgreen was this military branch's first female combat pilot & died flying an F-14 Tomcat the Navy |
| #9090, aired 2024-04-26 | FORE & AFTER $800: After 10 straight U.S. victories, this U.S. v. Britain match was changed to U.S. v. Europe in 1979 the Ryder Cup |
| #9090, aired 2024-04-26 | HUSBANDS & WIVES $1000: Lee Krasner was married to this fellow abstract expressionist until his death in a 1956 car crash Jackson Pollock |
| #9090, aired 2024-04-26 | BEEP-BOOP-BEEP $1200: In 1957 this first Russian satellite gave us the "beep heard round the world" & the Space Age was on Sputnik |
| #9090, aired 2024-04-26 | BURIED AT ARLINGTON $1600: Abe's eldest son, Robert Todd Lincoln, served in this national defense post for two presidents, but today rests in peace at Arlington Secretary of War |
| #9089, aired 2024-04-25 | REALITY SHOW HOSTS $200: Jesse Palmer was featured on season 5 of this show, & in 2023 hosted a "Golden" version The Bachelor |
| #9089, aired 2024-04-25 | TOP 10 BABY NAMES $200: Maybe acting is in the future for kids with this name, No. 1 for females; at least it was for Ms. Colman & Ms. Wilde Olivia |
| #9089, aired 2024-04-25 | FRENCH HISTORY $400: The naval part of this lengthy war got started with an English victory over France at Sluys in 1340 the Hundred Years' War |
| #9089, aired 2024-04-25 | "A.C." $400: In college John Legend was a director of this kind of singing group without musical accompaniment a cappella |
| #9089, aired 2024-04-25 | TOP 10 BABY NAMES $400: Maybe acting is in the future for kids with this name, No. 1 for males; at least it was for Mr. Hemsworth & Mr. Cunningham Liam |
| #9089, aired 2024-04-25 | TOP 10 BABY NAMES $600: It was No. 2 for males, or should we say, "there went in two and two unto" this name "as God had commanded" Noah |
| #9089, aired 2024-04-25 | D.C. $800: In 1834 the First Baptist Church opened in D.C.; it was later reconfigured as this infamous theatre Ford's Theatre |
| #9089, aired 2024-04-25 | TOP 10 BABY NAMES $1000: This No. 2 name on the list for baby girls was the No. 1 name for Jane Austen in an 1815 novel Emma |
| #9089, aired 2024-04-25 | LET'S ROCK & ROLL! $1200: Bikini Kill singer Kathleen Hannah was an early icon of this grrreat 1990s movement, using feminism & punk rock a riot grrrl |
| #9089, aired 2024-04-25 | D.C. $1200: After student-led protests in 1988, Dr. I. King Jordan was named this university's first deaf president Gallaudet |
| #9088, aired 2024-04-24 | MOVEMENT $200: Movements in this dance form include relevé (to rise) & sauté (jumping using both feet & landing that way) ballet |
| #9088, aired 2024-04-24 | U.S. MILITARY ACTIONS $400: 1960s space heroes Neil Armstrong & John Glenn ("The MiG-Mad Marine") had both been combat flyers in this war Korea |
| #9088, aired 2024-04-24 | ART & ARTISTS $800: The "Mond Crucifixion" by this angelic Italian Renaissance artist was painted around 1502 when he was only 19 Raphael |
| #9088, aired 2024-04-24 | THE RITE STUFF $800: Sounding like a film festival that dates back to 1978, this rite of Plains Indians was a ritual to gain power from the supernatural sun dance |
| #9088, aired 2024-04-24 | U.S. MILITARY ACTIONS $800: In 1974 the U.S. Navy evacuated Americans from this island after war broke out between Greek & Turkish factions Cyprus |
| #9087, aired 2024-04-23 | ITALIAN PRODUCTS $200: A post-World War II shortage of cocoa led to a product called Giandujot, a precursor of this hazelnut spread Nutella |
| #9087, aired 2024-04-23 | NAME THAT AUTHOR $400: "Early in the spring of 1750... a man-child was born to Omoro and Binta Kinte" Haley |
| #9087, aired 2024-04-23 | THE PICTURE OF SOMEONE NAMED GREY $400: This woman, who had a short reign in England, was executed in 1553, along with her husband of less than a year Jane Grey |
| #9087, aired 2024-04-23 | CULTURE, POPULARLY $400: Gene Autry's been gone for a while, but he was on the Billboard Hot 100 in late December 2023 with "Here Comes" this fellow Santa Claus |
| #9087, aired 2024-04-23 | NAME THAT AUTHOR $800: "Oh, how he loved that smell! And oh, how he wished he could go inside the factory and see what it was like!" Roald Dahl |
| #9087, aired 2024-04-23 | CULTURE, POPULARLY $800: It was a letter-perfect day on Jimmy Kimmel's show when Warren G welcomed this sax man to help out on "Regulate" Kenny G |
| #9087, aired 2024-04-23 | NAME THAT AUTHOR $1200: "The John Galt line was moving forward. The attacks on his metal had ceased" Ayn Rand |
| #9087, aired 2024-04-23 | NAME THAT AUTHOR $2,000 (Daily Double): "It was porkmaking by machinery, porkmaking by applied mathematics
... but this slaughtering machine ran on" (Upton) Sinclair |
| #9087, aired 2024-04-23 | I'LL REMEMBER LATE APRIL $3,000 (Daily Double): This organization was founded 80 years ago on April 25 to benefit institutions including Howard & Morehouse the United Negro College Fund |
| #9086, aired 2024-04-22 | 6-SYLLABLE WORDS $400: This process of getting back together was achieved & celebrated in Germany in 1990 reunification |
| #9086, aired 2024-04-22 | ALSO A BASKETBALL TERM $400: The ghost of Hamlet's father tells Hamlet he was murdered, "murder most" this, "as in the best it is" foul |
| #9086, aired 2024-04-22 | AN EMMY-WINNING ROLE $400: Lee Yoo-mi was a winner as Ji-yeong on this game show-set Netflix drama where second place definitely wasn't three grand Squid Game |
| #9086, aired 2024-04-22 | BOOKED IN BOOKS $600: In this Dickens work Abel Magwitch tells Pip he was sentenced to 14 years in prison Great Expectations |
| #9086, aired 2024-04-22 | AN EMMY-WINNING ROLE $800: His wife said the posthumous Emmy won by this actor for voicing T'Challa in Marvel's "What If...?" was "a beautiful alignment" Boseman |
| #9086, aired 2024-04-22 | AND THE ROLE ALMOST GOES TO... $1200: "Keanu was perfect", said Will Smith of this 1999 film, which he passed on for "Wild Wild West"; "I would've ruined it" The Matrix |
| #9086, aired 2024-04-22 | LIBRARIES $1200: The building of this country's José Martí National Library was funded by a tax on sugar Cuba |
| #9086, aired 2024-04-22 | 6-SYLLABLE WORDS $2000: Meaning "tireless", it was the first British ship sunk at the 1916 Battle of Jutland the HMS Indefatigable |
| #9086, aired 2024-04-22 | AND THE ROLE ALMOST GOES TO... $2000: Akira Kurosawa's "The Hidden Fortress" helped inspire "Star Wars", & the role of Obi Wan was reportedly offered to this star Toshiro Mifune |
| #9085, aired 2024-04-19 | SILENCE! $200: The right to remain silent & to have an attorney was enshrined in 1966 when the Supreme Court ruled in his favor Miranda |
| #9085, aired 2024-04-19 | FUN FACTS $400: These marshmallow chick candies took 27 hours to make individually by hand in 1953; now 509 are hatched every 8 seconds Peeps |
| #9085, aired 2024-04-19 | SILENCE! $1000: Said in this novel: "Buffalo Bill's name is William Rubin... he was referred to me in April or May 1975, by my patient Benjamin Raspail" The Silence of the Lambs |
| #9084, aired 2024-04-18 | PATIENCE $200: For most, birthdays come once a year, except for those born on this date, who in a way, get older slower than the rest of us February 29th |
| #9084, aired 2024-04-18 | WHAT A LITERARY CHARACTER $200: This character who married Melanie instead of Scarlett O'Hara was said to have been based on Doc Holliday Ashley (Wilkes) |
| #9084, aired 2024-04-18 | BIBLICAL GARB $400: At Jericho, this leader was told to "loose thy shoe from off thy foot; for the place whereon thou standest is holy" Joshua |
| #9084, aired 2024-04-18 | WHAT A LITERARY CHARACTER $400: A 2023 movie was titled "The Three Musketeers--Part I:" this newcomer to Paris in the original 1844 novel D'Artagnan |
| #9084, aired 2024-04-18 | CROSSWORD CLUES "R" $600: TR's cavalry in the Spanish-American War (5 letters,
6 letters) Rough Riders |
| #9084, aired 2024-04-18 | ALL UP IN YOUR BUSINESS $600: The split-adjusted share price of the 1986 IPO of this graphics software co. was 17 cents but here's an update; in 2023 it hit $634 Adobe |
| #9084, aired 2024-04-18 | AT THE START OF THE SPORT $800: Long said to have invented baseball, this military man didn't, but he was definitely at Fort Sumter when the first shots were fired Doubleday |
| #9084, aired 2024-04-18 | BIBLICAL GARB $800: "Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was upon him, and gave it to" this friend & future king of Israel David |
| #9084, aired 2024-04-18 | PATIENCE $800: On July 4, 1795 Paul Revere & Sam Adams buried one of these; a 1652 shilling was in the contents dug up 220 years later a time capsule |
| #9084, aired 2024-04-18 | ALL UP IN YOUR BUSINESS $1000: This massive holding co. was not named for a single crowbar but from the 1929 merger of a Dutch co. with one run by British brothers Unilever |
| #9084, aired 2024-04-18 | BIBLICAL GARB $1200: For interpreting the handwriting on the wall, he was clothed "with scarlet" & given "a chain of gold about his neck" Daniel |
| #9084, aired 2024-04-18 | PATIENTS $1600: A precursor to this compound, L-DOPA was used by Oliver Sacks to help bring Leonard L. out of 30 years of a coma-like condition dopamine |
| #9084, aired 2024-04-18 | BOOKS IN HISTORY $2,900 (Daily Double): Economist F.A. Hayek's "The Road to Serfdom" came out in 1944 when this woman was at Oxford & was a huge influence on her later policies (Margaret) Thatcher |
| #9083, aired 2024-04-17 | TV MUSIC $400: (I'm Ellie Kemper.) Like "30 Rock"'s, the theme song from "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt" was written by Jeff Richmond, who is married to this creator of both shows Tina Fey |
| #9083, aired 2024-04-17 | "F" IS FOR FOOD $400: Originally a way of using stale leftovers, this breakfast item is also called pain perdu ("lost bread") French toast |
| #9083, aired 2024-04-17 | ANIMAL LIFE $800: In 2022 killer whales were filmed removing this organ from a shark; no word if it was eaten with fava beans & a nice Chianti the liver |
| #9083, aired 2024-04-17 | PUTTING THE GORY IN A MOVIE CATEGORY $800: This 1974 film set in the Lone Star State was loosely inspired by serial killers Ed Gein & Elmer Henley The Texas Chainsaw Massacre |
| #9083, aired 2024-04-17 | PUTTING THE GORY IN A MOVIE CATEGORY $1000: As Dr. Gordon, Cary Elwes was not in an "as you wish" kind of mood in this 2004 film, cutting through some serious issues Saw |
| #9083, aired 2024-04-17 | THINGS TO DO IN THE CITY $1200: Disembark at this city's stop on the Shinkansen, then find your way to the museum & monuments at Peace Memorial Park Hiroshima |
| #9083, aired 2024-04-17 | OUR FLOUNDERING FATHERS $1600: Taking on 700 men with but 350 on July 3, 1754, colonel George Washington surrendered at Fort Necessity during this war the French and Indian War |
| #9082, aired 2024-04-16 | JUST FOR FUN "Z"s $800: This rum cocktail was created in the 1930s for a tiki bar called Don the Beachcomber; it might be less fun after too many the Zombie |
| #9082, aired 2024-04-16 | DON'T EAT THAT! $800: Binney & Smith began selling boxes of these, made from wax, in 1903; colors ranged from black to yellow crayons |
| #9082, aired 2024-04-16 | THE MOVIES $800: The first DVD that Netflix mailed was this spirited film starring Alec Baldwin & Geena Davis as a deceased married couple Beetlejuice |
| #9082, aired 2024-04-16 | LIVED PAST 100 $1000: This American folk painter who lived up to her byname was still working at the age of 100 Grandma Moses |
| #9082, aired 2024-04-16 | SAY IT IN SPANISH $2000: This beloved indie rock band took its name in 1984 from the way a Spanish-speaking outfielder says, "I got it" Yo La Tengo |
| #9082, aired 2024-04-16 | MAKING NOISE $2000: Many thought "The Rite of Spring" was just noise, like the "Augurs of Spring" marked to be played this extra-loud way throughout fortissimo |
| #9082, aired 2024-04-16 | SIBLINGS IN POP CULTURE $2000: Sid & Marty Krofft produced '70s Saturday morning TV like "H.R. Pufnstuf" & this one where a family ends up in a time with dinosaurs Land of the Lost |
| #9081, aired 2024-04-15 | ROAD SCHOLARLY $400: Built into Fraser Canyon, the Caribou Road served those pounding their way to the gold rush in this country Canada |
| #9081, aired 2024-04-15 | A LOVE FOR BOOKS $400: The Hazard & Main families are divided by this conflict in "Love & War", part of John Jakes' "North & South" trilogy the Civil War |
| #9081, aired 2024-04-15 | BOATS $400: The Cutty Sark was built in the 1860s not to carry scotch but this cargo from China to England as fast as possible tea |
| #9081, aired 2024-04-15 | HODGEPODGE $600: An oda was a room in this type of house for women; an odalisque was a female slave or concubine in one a harem |
| #9081, aired 2024-04-15 | 3-LETTER SPELLING BEE $600: Popular today, it's the greeting seen here that was developed by Black service members in Vietnam D-A-P |
| #9081, aired 2024-04-15 | HISTORIC AMERICANS $600: Here is one of the oldest known photos of this real life hero & savior of hundreds; she was believed to be in her 40s at the time Tubman |
| #9081, aired 2024-04-15 | THE VOICE OF TELEVISION $800: Jeff Fischer got the role he was born to play: Jeff Fischer, Hayley Smith's hubby & pal to a talking fish & an alien on this TBS cartoon American Dad! |
| #9081, aired 2024-04-15 | "P"EOPLE $800: When this man laid out Philadelphia, he gave the E-W streets tree names like Walnut & Spruce; back then, Arch Street was Mulberry (William) Penn |
| #9081, aired 2024-04-15 | 3-LETTER SPELLING BEE $1000: It's placed in parentheses after a misspelled word to show it was meant to be printed that way (but spell this word correctly!) S-I-C |
| #9081, aired 2024-04-15 | ROAD SCHOLARLY $1200: The walls of Bukhara in Uzbekistan have stood since before the city was part of this famous trade road the Silk Road |
| #9081, aired 2024-04-15 | "P"EOPLE $1200: This silent movie star of films like "Coquette" & "Tess of the Storm Country" was known as "America's Sweetheart" Mary Pickford |
| #9080, aired 2024-04-12 | STOCK PHOTOS, KINDA $200: A NASDAQ stock, this company produces tens of billions of non-edible chips every year Texas Instruments |
| #9080, aired 2024-04-12 | FADS $200: This groovy type of shirt was especially popular around the time of Woodstock tie-dye |
| #9080, aired 2024-04-12 | NEW YORK GOVERNORS $200: Elected governor in 1868, John T. Hoffman was the last to go from this job to higher office; Rudy, Bloomberg & de Blasio all tried mayor of New York |
| #9080, aired 2024-04-12 | STOCK PHOTOS, KINDA $400: In 1908, it was the result of consolidating many transportation companies General Motors |
| #9080, aired 2024-04-12 | STOCK PHOTOS, KINDA $800: In 2022, this brand had a price point initiative that was $0.25 above what you'd think, its first price change in over 36 years Dollar Tree |
| #9080, aired 2024-04-12 | AMERICAN BIRDS $1200: The Cooper's type of this bird of prey is soon to be the TBD type as American birds will no longer have people in their common names hawk |
| #9080, aired 2024-04-12 | THE BLACK ARTS MOVEMENT $1600: This Back to Africa promoter was an icon depicted on Chicago's now destroyed Wall of Respect, designed by BAM artists (Marcus) Garvey |
| #9080, aired 2024-04-12 | WHERE'D YOU "GO"? $2000: William Butler Yeats spent holidays with his grandparents in this town in western Ireland & was eventually buried there Sligo |
| #9080, aired 2024-04-12 | WHERE'D YOU "GO"? $7,000 (Daily Double): A city in Colorado was named for this Mexican state that borders Chihuahua Durango |
| #9079, aired 2024-04-11 | "T.P." $200: In the 1960s, Freedomland in the Bronx was built to rival Disneyland as a history-focused one of these a theme park |
| #9079, aired 2024-04-11 | A YEAR ENDING IN 4 $400: Mark Zuckerberg launched what was then called TheFacebook 2004 |
| #9079, aired 2024-04-11 | THE MANHATTAN PROJECT $400: As you can imagine, the project was pretty hush-hush; even this guy didn't know about it until he suddenly became president Truman |
| #9079, aired 2024-04-11 | "T.P." $400: Kyle MacLachlan was the clean-cut FBI agent investigating a murder in the very strange title town of this series Twin Peaks |
| #9079, aired 2024-04-11 | THE MANHATTAN PROJECT $800: Nuclear facilities were built in Oak Ridge, Tennessee & Hanford, Wash. but the main assembly plant was in this New Mexico locale Los Alamos |
| #9079, aired 2024-04-11 | A YEAR ENDING IN 4 $800: In the case of Brown v. Board of Education, racial segregation in public schools was declared unconstitutional 1954 |
| #9079, aired 2024-04-11 | UNREAL ESTATE $1000: The follow-up to "Anne of Green Gables" was "Anne of" this fictional Canadian town where Green Gables Farm is located Avonlea |
| #9079, aired 2024-04-11 | THE MANHATTAN PROJECT $1200: In 1942 it was my kind of town--for the first controlled nuclear chain reaction Chicago |
| #9079, aired 2024-04-11 | MUSICIANS' MEMOIRS $1600: In 2023 Barbra Streisand put the corners of her mind in a book, including how in 2023 she added back 2 scenes to this 1973 film The Way We Were |
| #9079, aired 2024-04-11 | THE MANHATTAN PROJECT $1600: The "Little Boy" atomic bomb used uranium-235; "Fat Man", this element that was only discovered around 1940 plutonium |
| #9079, aired 2024-04-11 | COLORFUL GEOGRAPHY $2,000 (Daily Double): This eastern Alabama city was named for a line in an Oliver Goldsmith poem about the "loveliest village of the plain" Auburn |
| #9079, aired 2024-04-11 | THE MANHATTAN PROJECT $2000: A program chief & a friend of J. Robert Oppenheimer's from Berkeley days, this Nobel Prize winner was played on screen by Josh Hartnett Ernest Lawrence |
| #9078, aired 2024-04-10 | IT'S A FACT $400: This organization's New York City HQ was built on land bought in 1946 with an $8.5 million gift from John D. Rockefeller Jr. the U.N. |
| #9078, aired 2024-04-10 | FLAG TIME! $400: Mary Pickersgill made the flag that was flying over this fort in 1814; it inspired a patriotic poem Fort McHenry |
| #9078, aired 2024-04-10 | MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL $400: This fierce competitor from Georgia was the first major leaguer to collect 4,000 hits Ty Cobb |
| #9078, aired 2024-04-10 | DOES THAT RING A "BELL"? $800: Named for its bulging middle, this cast-iron stove was developed in the 19th century for heat & cooking the potbellied stove |
| #9078, aired 2024-04-10 | DOES THAT RING A "BELL"? $1200: This equipment originated in Russia & was popularized in the U.S. by former Soviet special forces instructor Pavel Tsatsouline a kettlebell |
| #9078, aired 2024-04-10 | THE 6 MOTHERS-IN-LAW OF HENRY VIII $1600: The mother of Anne of Cleves was Maria of Jülich, a duchy of this thousand-year empire of West & Central Europe the Holy Roman Empire |
| #9078, aired 2024-04-10 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1600: Ray Carney from "Harlem Shuffle" by this novelist was back in his 2023 bestseller "Crook Manifesto" (Colson) Whitehead |
| #9078, aired 2024-04-10 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $2000: He wrote, "'It is impossible that the ape, Kala, was your mother... you are pure man... the offspring of highly bred... parents' " Edgar Rice Burroughs |
| #9077, aired 2024-04-09 | NOBEL PRIZES $400: Arthur Ashkin's 2018 prize was for inventing optical these, which use laser beams to grab particles & cells rather than hairs tweezers |
| #9077, aired 2024-04-09 | REBOOTS & REMAKES $400: "Aloha" was the final episode of this rebooted TV series that said aloha after a 10-year run Hawaii Five-0 |
| #9077, aired 2024-04-09 | ANCIENT HISTORY $400: Now it's a structure where Olympic events are held; in early ancient Olympics, it was the 600-foot distance of the only event, a footrace a stadium |
| #9077, aired 2024-04-09 | MUSICAL GENRE MASTERS $400: After WWII a new country music style was named for this kind of roadside joint & Hank Williams was its biggest star honky-tonk |
| #9077, aired 2024-04-09 | LOOKS LIKE WE'RE IN BUSINESS $400: An 8-year-old girl was the namesake of this frozen dessert brand known for pound cake, cheesecake & more Sara Lee |
| #9077, aired 2024-04-09 | MUSICAL GENRE MASTERS $800: Fitting with the band name, "Vivid" was the first album by this hard rock band, featuring Corey Glover & Vernon Reid Living Colour |
| #9077, aired 2024-04-09 | WORDS THAT GO UP TO 11 $800: Admiration for England & the way they do things there Anglophilia |
| #9077, aired 2024-04-09 | WORLD CITIES $1000: The Atlantic port city Essaouira in this North African country was planned by an 18th century French architect Morocco |
| #9077, aired 2024-04-09 | REBOOTS & REMAKES $1600: This 2007 film was previously made as "The Last Man on Earth" & "The Omega Man" I Am Legend |
| #9077, aired 2024-04-09 | REBOOTS & REMAKES $2000: "Heaven Can Wait" was a remake of this 1941 film Here Comes Mr. Jordan |
| #9076, aired 2024-04-08 | WORKING HARD, HARDLY WORKING $400: In September 2016 the this Note 7 was recalled, as it really wasn't supposed to catch on fire (Samsung) Galaxy |
| #9076, aired 2024-04-08 | IT PLEASED THE LORD $400: Lord Denning was pleased to report no security risk in a scandal of this decade, involving a government minister & Christine Keeler the 1960s |
| #9076, aired 2024-04-08 | PARENTING $600: It contains 5 consecutive consonants & it's the safest way to cut the little ones' hotdogs lengthwise |
| #9076, aired 2024-04-08 | "A" TO "A" COUNTRIES $600: In 1967 this Balkan nation was declared the world's first atheist state Albania |
| #9076, aired 2024-04-08 | A SECRET CHORD $800: He lived until 1827 but his last time as soloist with an orchestra was in 1808, opening his 4th piano concerto with a gentle chord Beethoven |
| #9076, aired 2024-04-08 | "A" TO "A" COUNTRIES $800: Not soccer, but pato, a combination of polo & basketball, was declared the national sport there in 1953 Argentina |
| #9076, aired 2024-04-08 | IT PLEASED THE LORD $1200: As the year 2001 neared, Lord Falconer was happy when Tony Blair put him in charge of the huge structure then called this the Millennium Dome |
| #9076, aired 2024-04-08 | IT PLEASED THE LORD $1600: This Lord was no doubt delighted by the birth of his son Winston in 1874 Randolph Churchill |
| #9076, aired 2024-04-08 | IT PLEASED THE LORD $2000: This lord was pleased to be the husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, but not to be mysteriously killed in 1567 Lord Darnley |
| #9075, aired 2024-04-05 | FARMING HISTORY $200: The 7-spotted type of this beetle was brought to North America in the mid-20th c. to control aphids & other plant-eating pests a ladybug |
| #9075, aired 2024-04-05 | 20th CENTURY LASTS $400: This type of military unit was increasingly put out to pasture; France's last charge by one was in Africa in 1941 cavalry |
| #9075, aired 2024-04-05 | SPORTS $600: In February 2024 this swimmer's 13-year win streak in the 800m free was broken by Summer McIntosh of Canada Ledecky |
| #9075, aired 2024-04-05 | 20th CENTURY LASTS $800: The 1998 Lada Niva was the last model started using this; U.S. carmakers abandoned it after a 1908 injury led to a fatality a hand crank |
| #9075, aired 2024-04-05 | YOU'RE A FINAL"IST" $1000: A bumposopher was another word for one of these head-examining pseudoscientists a phrenologist |
| #9075, aired 2024-04-05 | WHAT ARE YOU WEARING? $1000: Kinda like an apron, this garment is named for how it was once affixed to a dress pinafore |
| #9075, aired 2024-04-05 | 20th CENTURY LASTS $1200: The last of these psychosurgeries in the U.S. was done in 1967 & the patient died a lobotomy |
| #9075, aired 2024-04-05 | SCULPTURE $1200: Bernini's mid-17th century work "Ecstasy of" this saint was inspired by a Spanish nun St. Teresa |
| #9075, aired 2024-04-05 | 20th CENTURY LASTS $1600: Stamped out by the Communists, the last case of this practice done to Chinese women was in 1957 foot binding |
| #9075, aired 2024-04-05 | 20th CENTURY LASTS $2000: The last holder of this title was Alexei aka Alexis, seen here the tsarevich (the crown prince) |
| #9075, aired 2024-04-05 | THINGS PEOPLE SAY $2000: This phrase meaning "completely" includes 2 key parts of a tree; Sojourner Truth spoke of wanting slavery destroyed that way root and branch |
| #9074, aired 2024-04-04 | EUROPEAN CAPITALS $600: This nation's capital, Ljubljana, was destroyed by Attila the Hun in the 5th century but eventually rebuilt 700 years later Slovenia |
| #9074, aired 2024-04-04 | PHOTOGRAPHERS $800: The authenticity of Robert Capa's "Falling Soldier", showing a loyalist in 1936 at the start of this war, has been questioned the Spanish Civil War |
| #9074, aired 2024-04-04 | A CATEGORY MADE OF STEEL $800: Using an old steel saw in 1837, he created one of the 1st successful steel plows & his company was soon making 1,000 plows a year (John) Deere |
| #9074, aired 2024-04-04 | A CATEGORY MADE OF STEEL $1000: Charles M. Schwab was the 1st pres. of this Pennsylvania-based steel corp. founded in 1904 & one of the world's largest in its time Bethlehem Steel |
| #9074, aired 2024-04-04 | ANATOMICAL ETYMOLOGY $1000: Used when sitting cross-legged, this longest muscle derives its name from Latin for "tailor", as tailors often sat that way the sartorius |
| #9074, aired 2024-04-04 | "C-U" LATER $1200: In an episode called "The Implant", Teri Hatcher tells Jerry Seinfeld, "By the way, they're real & they're" this spectacular |
| #9074, aired 2024-04-04 | PHOTOGRAPHERS $1200: Frank Powolny took a 1943 photo of this actress with the "million-dollar legs" & it became a top World War II pin-up poster Grable |
| #9074, aired 2024-04-04 | "C-U" LATER $1600: Nov. 25, the date the British cleared out of New York City in 1783, was once a blowout holiday called this day Evacuation Day |
| #9074, aired 2024-04-04 | PHOTOGRAPHERS $1600: The 1996 book "Down in the Garden" was a bestseller for this Australian-born photographer known for her baby pictures Geddes |
| #9074, aired 2024-04-04 | A BEACON IN THE NIGHT $1600: Barnegat Lighthouse on Long Beach Island in this state's Ocean County was designed by future hero of Gettysburg George Meade New Jersey |
| #9074, aired 2024-04-04 | PHOTOGRAPHERS $2000: Known for his black & white photos, he was a consultant for the film "Funny Face" & Fred Astaire's character was based on him Avedon |
| #9074, aired 2024-04-04 | TRAIN TALES $5,400 (Daily Double): This title train was filled with children "all in their pajamas and nightgowns" as it "raced northward" The Polar Express |
| #9074, aired 2024-04-04 | A BEACON IN THE NIGHT $9,000 (Daily Double): The Lanterna of this Italian port is the Mediterranean's tallest lighthouse; Antonio Columbo was a keeper in 1449 of the first ones there Genoa |
| #9073, aired 2024-04-03 | HISTORIC REFUSALS $200: A British delegate refused to sit for a painting of the 1782 talks ending this; John Quincy Adams said it's OK, he's ugly anyway the Revolutionary War |
| #9073, aired 2024-04-03 | SPRINKLE, SPRINKLE $400: This good "Old" seasoning that is often sprinkled on blue crab was first concocted in Maryland Old Bay |
| #9073, aired 2024-04-03 | HISTORIC REFUSALS $400: His birth name was Fernão; the king of his native Portugal refused him a reward for military service & said go sail for Spain Magellan |
| #9073, aired 2024-04-03 | CLASSICAL LITERATURE $400: Plutarch quoted this Greek philosopher as saying he was not "an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world" Socrates |
| #9073, aired 2024-04-03 | HISTORIC REFUSALS $600: Jan Hus, who anticipated this religious movement by 100 years, would not recant in 1415 even as the wood was rosined at the stake Protestantism (the Reformation) |
| #9073, aired 2024-04-03 | BABY TALK $800: TV host & author Art Linkletter was one of these, a baby abandoned by its parents & adopted & raised by others a foundling |
| #9073, aired 2024-04-03 | AS HEARD ON TV $800: On this ABC show Junior Johnson said he was called "a less cool Steve Urkel" & was "like if Drake never left 'Degrassi"' black-ish |
| #9073, aired 2024-04-03 | FILM COMPOSERS $800: This "Jurassic Park" composer was a studio pianist on such films as "West Side Story" & "To Kill a Mockingbird" John Williams |
| #9073, aired 2024-04-03 | SPRINKLE, SPRINKLE $1000: This double-talk sauce also known as African bird's eye chili was popularized in the U.S. by Nando's peri-peri |
| #9073, aired 2024-04-03 | STARTS WITH 3 CONSECUTIVE LETTERS $1200: The Achille Lauro was infamously beset by a group of these criminals hijackers |
| #9073, aired 2024-04-03 | BEFORE THEY WERE CONGRESSWOMEN $1200: Before repping Florida, Maria Salazar was an anchor for this "worldly" Spanish network now part of NBCUniversal Telemundo |
| #9073, aired 2024-04-03 | STARS & CONSTELLATIONS $3,600 (Daily Double): If you're really smart, you should know that this constellation was named for South Africa's Table Mountain Mensa |
| #9073, aired 2024-04-03 | BEFORE THEY WERE CONGRESSWOMEN $6,000 (Daily Double): In the 1990s this future senator from Illinois was the only woman in her helicopter training class (Tammy) Duckworth |
| #9072, aired 2024-04-02 | FICTION $600: Erich Segal wrote this tearjerking 1970 novel set at Harvard & was also a translator of the ancient Roman playwright Plautus Love Story |
| #9072, aired 2024-04-02 | U.S. HISTORY $800: The War of 1812 ended when Great Britain & the U.S. came to terms in this Belgian city Ghent |
| #9072, aired 2024-04-02 | PHILOSOPHY $1200: Before he was the title guy who spake about teaching of the Superman, he appeared in Nietszche's book "The Gay Science" Zarathustra |
| #9072, aired 2024-04-02 | ASTRONOMY $1600: Whether you answer the short way or the long way, Jupiter is still 5.2 of these measurements from the Sun an AU (astronomical units) |
| #9072, aired 2024-04-02 | PHILOSOPHY $1600: Medieval philosophy's "Doctor Invincibilis" was this man who used a "razor" to eliminate unnecessary entities Ockham |
| #9072, aired 2024-04-02 | MOUNTAIN HIGH, VALLEY LOW $2,000 (Daily Double): Most of what was once the Nubian Valley is now this lake Lake Nasser |
| #9071, aired 2024-04-01 | AUTHORS AT WAR $200: When he landed on Utah Beach on D-Day, J.D. Salinger is reported to have had 6 chapters of this work in his jacket The Catcher in the Rye |
| #9071, aired 2024-04-01 | YOU NAMED YOUR BAND WHAT? $400: This band's name was the nickname that Rivers Cuomo's biological dad used for him Weezer |
| #9071, aired 2024-04-01 | IN MY FEELINGS $400: 4-letter delight; in the 17th century it was first used for a sung musical work glee |
| #9071, aired 2024-04-01 | THE 14th CENTURY $400: One cause of the 1337 start of the Hundred Years' War was when the III king of this name made a claim for the French throne Edward |
| #9071, aired 2024-04-01 | SAME LAST 3/ FIRST 3 LETTERS $400: The way a softball pitch is thrown
&
having both male & female characteristics underhand & androgynous |
| #9071, aired 2024-04-01 | AUTHORS AT WAR $400: As a 2nd lieutenant in the czar's army, he saw the siege of Sevastopol & wrote about it in his "Sevastopol Sketches" Tolstoy |
| #9071, aired 2024-04-01 | AUTHORS AT WAR $600: During World War II Frank Herbert served as a photographer in this U.S. Navy group that builds bases, airfields & bridges the Seabees |
| #9071, aired 2024-04-01 | TAILOR'S VERSION $600: This method fixes holes using needle & thread without patches; it was news when Grace Coolidge was seen doing it to Calvin's socks darning |
| #9071, aired 2024-04-01 | THE 14th CENTURY $800: In a big climate switch, the Medieval Warm Period gave way to this "diminutive" era the Little Ice Age |
| #9071, aired 2024-04-01 | AUTHORS AT WAR $1000: This author of "Going After Cacciato" was wounded by shrapnel from a grenade in Vietnam & received a Purple Heart Tim O'Brien |
| #9071, aired 2024-04-01 | CURRENT EVENTS $1000: A 40-foot-high replica of a 300s A.D. statue of this Roman emperor was unveiled by the Capitoline Museums Constantine |
| #9071, aired 2024-04-01 | IN MY FEELINGS $1200: It was "Primal" in the title of a Richard Gere & Edward Norton film Fear |
| #9071, aired 2024-04-01 | ART & CRIME $1600: A painting by Vermeer was one of the works stolen from this Boston museum in 1990 the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum |
| #9071, aired 2024-04-01 | IN MY FEELINGS $1600: It's the second word of "The Tell-Tale Heart"; the narrator admits that he was dreadfully so nervous |
| #9071, aired 2024-04-01 | THE 14th CENTURY $1600: What is today this seaport on a peninsula was captured by the Ottomans in 1354, their first foothold in Europe Gallipoli |
| #9071, aired 2024-04-01 | AUTHORS AT WAR $1,800 (Daily Double): As a P.O.W., Kurt Vonnegut survived the 1945 Allied firebombing of this German city because he was working underground Dresden |
| #9071, aired 2024-04-01 | "G"OING PLACES $2000: This place in India was dubbed "the Rome of the Orient", since it was a center for the Roman Catholic Church in the East Goa |
| #9070, aired 2024-03-29 | CLASSIC AD SLOGANS & JINGLES $400: "I don't wanna grow up, I'm" this kind of "kid" a Toys "R" Us kid |
| #9070, aired 2024-03-29 | MR. OR MRS. SONG $400: (It was only a hit) it was only a hit over a year after its release; now this song by the Killers is called a "millennial anthem" "Mr. Brightside" |
| #9070, aired 2024-03-29 | PENALTIES & BONUSES $400: In the Gospel of John, the Pharisees told Jesus that this was the penalty for adultery; he told them to be cautious judging death by stoning |
| #9070, aired 2024-03-29 | STATE FLAGS $1000: This state's flag bears the words "Battle Born", referring to it becoming a state during the Civil War Nevada |
| #9070, aired 2024-03-29 | THE ANCIENTS SPEAK $1000: We're not sure if he found him, but this cynic, lantern in tote, was quoted as saying he was "looking for an honest man" Diogenes |
| #9070, aired 2024-03-29 | MR. OR MRS. SONG $1200: Paul Simon said this Yankee was baffled by a lyric in "Mrs. Robinson", telling Paul, "I haven't gone anywhere" Joe DiMaggio |
| #9070, aired 2024-03-29 | SOUTH AMERICAN HISTORY $1200: Cemented in Argentine history is this man, whose 1986 World Cup goal was aided by the "Hand of God" Maradona |
| #9070, aired 2024-03-29 | SOUTH AMERICAN HISTORY $2,000 (Daily Double): Simon Iturri Patiño was once Bolivia's rey del estaño, king of this metal in which the land is rich tin |
| #9069, aired 2024-03-28 | HIP-POP $400: Cordell Broadus, son of this rapper who, like us, asked "Who am I?", was a WR for UCLA & became a streetwear fashion designer Snoop Dogg |
| #9069, aired 2024-03-28 | BRITISH EXPLORERS $400: William Baffin was the first to determine degrees of this by watching the Moon pass in front of a star in 1615 longitude |
| #9069, aired 2024-03-28 | 2-WORD POP CULTURE $400: This catchphrase of Ed McMahon was uttered with creepy efficiency in "The Shining" Here's Johnny |
| #9069, aired 2024-03-28 | ALPHANUMERICS $600: The first movie with this designation was "Henry & June" in 1990 NC-17 |
| #9069, aired 2024-03-28 | FREE FOR ALL $800: The Wilmot Proviso, which wanted no slavery in newly acquired Mexican lands, was a precursor to this political party the Free Soil Party |
| #9069, aired 2024-03-28 | HOP ON THE INTERSTATE $1,000 (Daily Double): Columbia is about midway between these 2 same-state Midwest cities that squared off in the I-70 World Series in 1985 Kansas City & St. Louis |
| #9069, aired 2024-03-28 | DEFINITIONS FROM THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY $1000: Under Q:
"A sufficient number of members of a deliberative body to have their own way and their own way of having it" a quorum |
| #9069, aired 2024-03-28 | ALPHANUMERICS $1000: The Russian creator of this ubiquitous weapon was quoted as saying, "I would prefer to have invented... a lawnmower" an AK-47 |
| #9069, aired 2024-03-28 | ROUND HERE $1200: In legend, the Siege Perilous was a seat at King Arthur's round table reserved for the knight destined to do this find the Grail |
| #9069, aired 2024-03-28 | BRITISH EXPLORERS $1600: Born in the county of Devon, Francis Drake was knighted in 1581 & made mayor of this English Channel port there Plymouth |
| #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 | ARCHITECTS $400: One of the masterminds behind the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 was Daniel Burnham of this Midwestern "School" the Chicago School |
| #9068, aired 2024-03-27 | EQUINE WORDS $400: The high version of this hairstyle was worn by Barbara Eden in "I Dream of Jeannie" & has been seen on Ariana Grande a high ponytail |
| #9068, aired 2024-03-27 | EQUINE WORDS $600: This equine term refers to an old veteran such as a politician or soldier who's served a long time & has a lot of experience a war horse |
| #9068, aired 2024-03-27 | PORTS OF CALL $800: The light over this river's estuary at Le Havre was one reason the city calls itself the cradle of Impressionism the Seine River |
| #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 | MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS $1,000 (Daily Double): Also known as an etherophone, this boxy electronic instrument was used by The Beach Boys a theremin |
| #9068, aired 2024-03-27 | MUSIC COLLABS $1200: In 1986 Run-DMC collabed with Aerosmith on a version of this song that VH1 called history making "Walk This Way" |
| #9068, aired 2024-03-27 | MUSIC COLLABS $1600: 1990s hip-hop duo, Black Star, was a collaboration between Talib Kweli & this rapper, also known as Yasiin Bey Mos Def |
| #9068, aired 2024-03-27 | ARCHITECTS $1600: With his impressive Duomo in Florence, he was called the architect who "renewed Roman masonry work" Brunelleschi |
| #9068, aired 2024-03-27 | DURING JAMES BUCHANAN'S PRESIDENCY $1600: New York City's citizens, including 103 who gave $1,000 each, raised the funds to build this church; the cornerstone was laid in 1858 St. Patrick's |
| #9068, aired 2024-03-27 | ARCHITECTS $2000: During her Pritzker Prize acceptance speech, she said her secular & modern childhood in Iraq was an influence on her career Hadid |
| #9067, aired 2024-03-26 | SUPREME COURT JUSTICES $400: So far, Samuel Chase is the only justice to face these proceedings; his acquittal was a victory for judicial independence impeachment |
| #9067, aired 2024-03-26 | PICK A CARD, ANY CARD $1000: Not in many wallets today but still a brand of Discover, in 1950 it was the first universal credit card Diners Club |
| #9067, aired 2024-03-26 | SUPREME COURT JUSTICES $1600: As a Boston lawyer, he was known as the "people's attorney"; he went on to become the first Jewish Supreme Court justice Brandeis |
| #9067, aired 2024-03-26 | SUPREME COURT JUSTICES $2000: When he retired in 2010 at age 90, he was the third-longest serving justice in the court's history John Paul Stevens |
| #9067, aired 2024-03-26 | FEELING JITTERY $10,000 (Daily Double): It describes someone weakened by nerves, & also the instrument here unstrung |
| #9066, aired 2024-03-25 | SO NICE, WE NEED THE ANSWER TWICE $400: Jimi Hendrix' "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)" opens with riffs using this pedal a wah-wah pedal |
| #9066, aired 2024-03-25 | MARINE BIOLOGY $400: In 2022 the deepest fish, a snailfish, was found at over 27,000 feet in the Izu-Ogasawara one of these deep ocean depressions a trench |
| #9066, aired 2024-03-25 | NAME THAT TOON $600: This character who debuted in 1967 was sort of a clueless Tarzan George of the Jungle |
| #9066, aired 2024-03-25 | THINKING ABOUT THE HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE $600: Ill-behaved Holy Roman Empire troops sacked Magdeburg in 1631 in this war that lasted for a certain time the Thirty Years' War |
| #9066, aired 2024-03-25 | FIVE GUYS $800: On June 9, 1981, he he was drafted out of San Diego State by both the Padres & the then-San Diego Clippers; he'd hit Major League Baseball's Hall of Fame Tony Gwynn |
| #9066, aired 2024-03-25 | IAMB A POET $800: In Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken", "I took the one" that was this less traveled by |
| #9066, aired 2024-03-25 | FIVE GUYS $1200: In 2023 this entrepreneur called the public face of artificial intelligence was out & back in as the head of OpenAI Sam Altman |
| #9066, aired 2024-03-25 | PANHANDLE STATES $1200: When founded in 1887, this largest city in the Texas panhandle was known as Ragtown Amarillo |
| #9066, aired 2024-03-25 | THE GRAMMYS' GREAT MOMENTS $1600: "Lady Marmalade" was originally a hit for this legend, who in 2002, joined P!nk, Christina Aguilera & others on a rendition of it LaBelle |
| #9066, aired 2024-03-25 | SAY IT IN LATIN $2000: Q.E.D. is short for this, meaning "which was to be demonstrated" quod erat demonstrandum |
| #9065, aired 2024-03-22 | TURNING 60 IN 2024 $200: Back in 1964 apple-currant was in the original flavor lineup of these toaster pastries Pop-Tarts |
| #9065, aired 2024-03-22 | TURNING 60 IN 2024 $400: This computer language whose full name tells you it's for beginners was introduced at 4 a.m. on May 1, 1964 BASIC |
| #9065, aired 2024-03-22 | TURNING 60 IN 2024 $600: A perfect line from this satiric film: "Gentlemen, you can't fight in here. This is the War Room" Dr. Strangelove |
| #9065, aired 2024-03-22 | WORDS IN INVITATIONAL $800: French inventor & engineer Louis Bleriot was a pioneer in this field aviation |
| #9065, aired 2024-03-22 | COMPOSERS $800: Rimsky-Korsakov was a private tutor & mentor to this "Firebird", er, firebrand, of a composer Stravinsky |
| #9065, aired 2024-03-22 | THE LYRICAL STYLINGS OF JOHNNY GILBERT $1000: "I got a woman, way over town, that's good to me, oh yeah. Say, I got a woman way over town that's good to me, oh yeah" Ray Charles |
| #9065, aired 2024-03-22 | TURNING 60 IN 2024 $1000: The First Ladies' Hall was one of its original galleries when it opened to the public on January 23, 1964 the Museum of American History |
| #9065, aired 2024-03-22 | NONFICTION $1000: Published in 1962, it's Barbara Tuchman's acclaimed book detailing the first month of World War I The Guns of August |
| #9065, aired 2024-03-22 | ITALIAN WORDS & PHRASES $1200: The mafia was sometimes called this, Italian for "our thing"; for the Jewish mob, replace the first word with "kosher" Cosa Nostra |
| #9064, aired 2024-03-21 | THE CINEMA IN 2023 $200: One of the new songs for the live-action remake of this 1989 animated film was "Wild Uncharted Waters", sung by Prince Eric The Little Mermaid |
| #9064, aired 2024-03-21 | HISTORIC FIRSTS $200: In 1993 cosmonaut Aleksandr Serebrov was the first to play a video game in space, this one created by a countryman Tetris |
| #9064, aired 2024-03-21 | THE CINEMA IN 2023 $600: In "The Color Purple", the role of Mary Agnes, known as Squeak was played the singer who goes by this name H.E.R. |
| #9064, aired 2024-03-21 | CHARACTERS IN BOOK SERIES $1000: The first Sherlock Holmes novel was this one involving a message written in blood A Study in Scarlet |
| #9064, aired 2024-03-21 | CLASSIC TV $1200: More recently, it was Jay Leno, but back in the '50s, "You Bet Your Life" was hosted by this funnyman Groucho Marx |
| #9064, aired 2024-03-21 | NOTABLE NAMES $1200: This great Italian tenor was in San Francisco when the big earthquake hit in 1906, having sung in "Carmen" the night before Caruso |
| #9064, aired 2024-03-21 | THE LOCALS $1200: B.R. Ambedkar was a leader of the people called Untouchables, Dalits or SC, short for "Scheduled" this; he urged them to move to cities Castes |
| #9064, aired 2024-03-21 | CLASSIC TV $1600: In the '80s Angela Lansbury was on the case, solving crimes as Jessica Fletcher on this series Murder, She Wrote |
| #9064, aired 2024-03-21 | NOTABLE NAMES $1600: A 1920 book by Thomas Looney & the movie "Anonymous" pushed the theory that this earl was the real Shakespeare the Earl of Oxford (Edward de Vere) |
| #9064, aired 2024-03-21 | CLASSIC TV $2000: Daniel J. Travanti was in command as Captain Frank Furillo on this drama Hill Street Blues |
| #9064, aired 2024-03-21 | THERE WILL BE A TEST ON THIS $4,600 (Daily Double): Used to determine if a computer can "think", the Turing test was originally known as this, also the name of a 2014 movie about Turing the imitation game |
| #9063, aired 2024-03-20 | WHEATIES ATHLETES $200: When this team won Super Bowl XXXI, Wheaties produced a special 24-ounce regional box that was sold in Wisc. & parts of Minnesota the Green Bay Packers |
| #9063, aired 2024-03-20 | 19th CENTURY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS $400: Harrison Gray Otis served briefly as a brigadier-general in this 1898 war while still publisher of the Los Angeles Times the Spanish-American War |
| #9063, aired 2024-03-20 | THE HISTORIC 1990s $400: Descended from the German V-2, these missiles used by Iraq during the Gulf War had greater range & lighter weight Scuds |
| #9063, aired 2024-03-20 | FIRST NAMES $600: Owl tell you right now, Hedy, as in Hedy Lamarr, was short for this German name Hedwig |
| #9063, aired 2024-03-20 | THE HISTORIC 1990s $600: It didn't end well in 1997 for this cult that believed a flying saucer was following comet Hale-Bopp Heaven's Gate |
| #9063, aired 2024-03-20 | WHEATIES ATHLETES $800: Joan Benoit Samuelson, an Olympic champion of this race, was honored on a box in 1996 the marathon |
| #9063, aired 2024-03-20 | UNDENIABLE CHEMISTRY $1200: In 1976 the first of this type of rechargeable battery was developed in part by using layers of titanium disulfide lithium-ion |
| #9063, aired 2024-03-20 | OVERLAPS $1600: Niacin or folate reigning as the Roman goddess of the arts & war vitaminerva |
| #9063, aired 2024-03-20 | 19th CENTURY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS $1600: Before he was the big name in New York newspaper publishing, he published "The St. Louis Post-Dispatch" Pulitzer |
| #9063, aired 2024-03-20 | 19th CENTURY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS $2000: Joseph Medill, publisher of the Chicago Tribune, was a founder of the G.O.P. & helped make these debates happen in 1858 the Lincoln-Douglas debates |
| #9062, aired 2024-03-19 | SPEECHMAKING $200: In 1917 Woodrow Wilson asked Congress to declare war on this country that was practicing "cruel & unmanly" submarine warfare Germany |
| #9062, aired 2024-03-19 | UNDERGROUND $400: SNOLAB, the "SNO" for Sudbury Neutrino Observatory, is way down under this Canadian province Ontario |
| #9062, aired 2024-03-19 | CLASSICAL MUSIC IS IN SESSION $800: Premiering in 1749, "Music for the Royal" these got set off to celebrate the end of the War of the Austrian Succession fireworks |
| #9062, aired 2024-03-19 | UNDERGROUND $1200: Seen here is an old elevated highway in Boston & the same area after the road was buried as part of the huge project called this the Big Dig |
| #9061, aired 2024-03-18 | CHOOSE A PROTEIN $400: The Murchison meteorite that hit Earth in 1969 was found to contain organic compounds like these building blocks of proteins amino acids |
| #9061, aired 2024-03-18 | MUSICAL FILMS $600: Judy Garland was originally cast to play the title sharpshooter in this musical but was let go a month into filming Annie Get Your Gun |
| #9061, aired 2024-03-18 | THE BOOK OF MORMONS $800: Though she no longer practices, this star of "27 Dresses" was raised in the Mormon faith & lives in Utah Heigl |
| #9061, aired 2024-03-18 | BUSINESS PARTNERS $2000: An audio oscillator was the first product from this pair who founded one of the original Silicon Valley startups in 1939 Hewlett & Packard |
| #9061, aired 2024-03-18 | STATUES OF THE WORLD $2000: One of the 7 Ancient Wonders was the statue of Zeus by this great Greek sculptor Phidias |
| #9061, aired 2024-03-18 | THE BOOK OF MORMONS $2000: In 2011 this lead singer of the Killers was part of the "I'm a Mormon" campaign Flowers |
| #9061, aired 2024-03-18 | VICE PRESIDENTIAL QUOTES $2000: In a 1942 speech this progressive V.P. of FDR called the coming post-war period "the century of the common man" Henry Wallace |
| #9061, aired 2024-03-18 | HORRORS! $15,200 (Daily Double): The title of this 1962 Ray Bradbury novel is a Shakespeare line that rhymes with "by the pricking of my thumbs" Something Wicked This Way Comes |
| #9060, aired 2024-03-15 | TYPES OF POEMS $200: Pindar was famed for these poems; Alexander Pope wrote one "On Solitude" odes |
| #9060, aired 2024-03-15 | LOST WORKS $400: According to one guy who read the lost memoirs of this 19th century poet & lord, the book was "fit only for a brothel" Byron |
| #9060, aired 2024-03-15 | FAMOUS WOMEN $800: For over 15 years, she was one of the most powerful people in the world Merkel |
| #9060, aired 2024-03-15 | TV DRAMA $1000: President Obama said his favorite character on "The Wire" was this stickup man portrayed by Michael K. Williams Omar (Little) |
| #9060, aired 2024-03-15 | FAMOUS WOMEN $1200: In 1924 she began working with the American Foundation for the Blind & for over 40 years was its leading ambassador Keller |
| #9060, aired 2024-03-15 | EXTINCT ANIMALS $1600: The Stephens Island wren on an isle just off this country's South Island was eaten to extinction by a lighthouse keeper's cats New Zealand |
| #9060, aired 2024-03-15 | WHAT THE "H"? $1600: It's a fancy 9-letter way to say a forerunner or an omen, as of spring harbinger |
| #9060, aired 2024-03-15 | EXTINCT ANIMALS $2000: This sirenian of the Bering Sea was unknown until 1741 when Georg Steller first described it; within 30 years, it was extinct Steller's sea cow |
| #9060, aired 2024-03-15 | FAMOUS WOMEN $2000: Referred to as the "Jackie Robinson of tennis", she was named Female Athlete of the Year in 1957 & 1958 by the Associated Press Althea Gibson |
| #9060, aired 2024-03-15 | MAKING A PASS $14,000 (Daily Double): The first major U.S.-German battle of World War II took place in February 1943 at Kasserine Pass on this continent Africa |
| #9059, aired 2024-03-14 | BOOKS BY REPORTERS $400: In 1923 E.B. White was fired by the Seattle Times; he'd later find success with this 1945 tale about a mouselike boy Stuart Little |
| #9059, aired 2024-03-14 | SONGS OF YOUTH $600: "No regrets, just love, we can dance until we die", sang Katy Perry, who was "livin"' one of these, also her album title Teenage Dream |
| #9059, aired 2024-03-14 | KHAN YOU DIG IT? $800: According to a 13th century "Secret History", this leader was born clutching "a clot of blood the size of a knucklebone" Genghis Khan |
| #9059, aired 2024-03-14 | IT'S A FACT! $1200: Belize, in Central America, was formerly a colony called this British Honduras |
| #9059, aired 2024-03-14 | ANCIENT HISTORY $1200: In "Meditations" this Roman emperor reminds himself not to be irritated at other people's bad breath: "That's the way his mouth is" Marcus Aurelius |
| #9059, aired 2024-03-14 | ANCIENT HISTORY $1600: Praising the defense of democracy, Pericles' funeral oration of 431 B.C. was given for soldiers fallen in this conflict the Peloponnesian War |
| #9059, aired 2024-03-14 | ENDS IN "IX" $1600: This comic book hero who battles the Romans with his pal Obelix was introduced in 1959 Asterix |
| #9058, aired 2024-03-13 | SINGERS $400: This singer's 2023 N.Y. Times obituary said her biggest hit was "a breathtaking rendition of... 'Nothing Compares 2 U"' Sinéad O'Connor |
| #9058, aired 2024-03-13 | OFFICIAL STATE STUFF $400: Connecticut likes this burly beast as its state animal; Mocha Dick was a notorious 19th century one a sperm whale |
| #9058, aired 2024-03-13 | VIRTUO-SO GOOD $400: Improvising woodwind virtuoso Eric Dolphy was a pioneer in the genre known as free this jazz |
| #9058, aired 2024-03-13 | SMASH THAT SUBSCRIBE BUTTON $600: This publication that later Rockwell & rolled was named for being printed in time to make a weekend mail delivery in Philly The Saturday Evening Post |
| #9058, aired 2024-03-13 | VIRTUO-SO GOOD $600: Like members of the Bach family, Marcel Dupré was a master of this weighty instrument & wrote extensively on technique the organ |
| #9058, aired 2024-03-13 | THE CLOCK & THE CALENDAR $800: On the French Revolutionary calendar, Dec. 21 was the 1st day of Nivôse, a month named for this weather condition snow |
| #9058, aired 2024-03-13 | "H" IS FOR HISTORY $800: "Brother, Can You Spare A Dime?" was perhaps sung by citizens of these ramshackle areas named for a Depression-era prez Hoovervilles |
| #9058, aired 2024-03-13 | THE CLOCK & THE CALENDAR $1000: The Julian calendar had leap years--Feb. 23 lasted 48 hours--& the first one was this last full year of Julius Caesar's life 45 B.C. |
| #9058, aired 2024-03-13 | SMASH THAT SUBSCRIBE BUTTON $1000: Roger Ebert was just 24 when he began to light up the Chicago movie scene as the film critic for this newspaper the Chicago Sun-Times |
| #9058, aired 2024-03-13 | "H" IS FOR HISTORY $1600: What's known as this New England city's "Convention" was spurred by dissatisfaction in the War of 1812 Hartford |
| #9057, aired 2024-03-12 | IDIOMS & EXPRESSIONS $600: 2021 called & wants this phrase back that means evaluating someone's mood or energy a vibe check |
| #9057, aired 2024-03-12 | IDIOMS & EXPRESSIONS $800: This expression meaning you have to suffer to advance was used in the 17th century, in plural form, by Robert Herrick no pains, no gains |
| #9057, aired 2024-03-12 | ONE-WORD BEATLES SONG TITLES $800: A "Glorious" one occurred in England in 1688 when one monarch was replaced with a pair Revolution |
| #9057, aired 2024-03-12 | IDIOMS & EXPRESSIONS $1000: The version with "pipe" is later, this original phrase for something headed your way is from the type of road seen here (coming) down the pike |
| #9057, aired 2024-03-12 | THE KNIGHTLY NEWS $1200: This "colorful" poem dates to the 14th century & includes the main character being tempted by a lord's wife Sir Gawain and the Green Knight |
| #9057, aired 2024-03-12 | UNMANNED SPACE EXPLORATION $1600: The New Horizons spacecraft discovered that the surface of this largest moon of Pluto was mostly dirty water ice Charon |
| #9057, aired 2024-03-12 | THE KNIGHTLY NEWS $2000: Jacques de Molay was the last grand master of this religious military order founded in the 1100s the Knights Templar |
| #9057, aired 2024-03-12 | PLAIN GEOGRAPHY $2000: 3,000 years ago Mexico's Tabasco Plain was part of the trading network of these people & later the home of the Maya the Olmecs |
| #9056, aired 2024-03-11 | RESISTANCE IS FUTILE $200: When it's time for right hand red but your left foot's on green & a player is in your way, you're about to hit vinyl & lose this game Twister |
| #9056, aired 2024-03-11 | RENAISSANCE WOMEN $400: A contemporary described Isabella d'Este as the this "of the World", though she was the wife of a marquess, not a president the First Lady |
| #9056, aired 2024-03-11 | IT'S CURTAINS $400: While Europe had its Iron Curtain, this curtain was a political barrier between China & the noncommunist countries of Asia the Bamboo Curtain |
| #9056, aired 2024-03-11 | THE CIVIL WAR $400: 3-letter last name of Johnny, a symbol of the typical southern soldier; in a 1905 book by a war veteran, he's paired with Billy Yank Reb |
| #9056, aired 2024-03-11 | DOWN IN THE VALLEY $400: The "Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes" in this U.S. state was created by a gigantic volcanic eruption in 1912 Alaska |
| #9056, aired 2024-03-11 | ON WHEELS $800: The 1911 Curtiss Triad was the first plane to have retractable this, like modern planes landing gear |
| #9056, aired 2024-03-11 | DEALING WITH TV REALITY $800: From 2012 to 2020 Dave Navarro hosted this series that had episodes like "Drill Baby, Drill" Ink Master |
| #9056, aired 2024-03-11 | BEHIND THE MUSIC $800: Before he was infamous, Phil Spector was famous for this elaborate production style of many '60s hits the Wall of Sound |
| #9056, aired 2024-03-11 | RENAISSANCE WOMEN $800: Victor Hugo's play about this woman popularized her image as a poisoner, though there's no real evidence she was one Lucrezia Borgia |
| #9056, aired 2024-03-11 | DOWN IN THE VALLEY $1000: During the Civil War North & South battled for control of this fertile valley that extends southwest from Harpers Ferry the Shenandoah |
| #9056, aired 2024-03-11 | IT'S CURTAINS $1200: Thinking it was Claudius, Hamlet takes his sword & pierces through a curtain, killing this father of Ophelia Polonius |
| #9056, aired 2024-03-11 | THE CIVIL WAR $1200: In 1863 John Esten Cooke rushed into print with a biography of this Confederate general killed in May of that year Stonewall Jackson |
| #9056, aired 2024-03-11 | THE CIVIL WAR $1600: Patented in 1862, this new weapon of war featured multiple barrels rotated by a crank a Gatling gun |
| #9056, aired 2024-03-11 | WORLD OF LIT $2000: The short story collection "Face to Face" was the first book by this South African woman who won a 1991 Nobel Prize Nadine Gordimer |
| #9056, aired 2024-03-11 | THE CIVIL WAR $2000: The last battlefield death of the war was Union Pvt. John Williams, who was killed at Palmito Ranch in this state in May 1865 Texas |
| #9056, aired 2024-03-11 | THE CIVIL WAR $6,800 (Daily Double): When the war started, this future general was helping drill a volunteer company in Galena, Illinois Grant |
| #9055, aired 2024-03-08 | TRAIL $200: Great Bend, Kansas was a stopping point on this historic trail that went from Missouri to the capital of New Mexico the Santa Fe Trail |
| #9055, aired 2024-03-08 | LITERARY AWARDS $200: The first of his 4, count 'em, 4 Pulitzers, was for "New Hampshire: A Poem with Notes & Grace Notes" Robert Frost |
| #9055, aired 2024-03-08 | 150 YEARS OF THE 92nd STREET Y $400: In 1883 it was still the 42nd St. Y & at a further downtown branch, this poet taught immigrants the year she wrote "The New Colossus" (Emma) Lazarus |
| #9055, aired 2024-03-08 | SOUTH OF THE EQUATOR $400: Durban, South Africa was once named Port Natal; Natal is Portuguese for this holiday Christmas |
| #9055, aired 2024-03-08 | LEFTOVERS $600: Partly from Greek for "horse", it was an oval track for horse & chariot races in ancient Greece the hippodrome |
| #9055, aired 2024-03-08 | SUFFIXES $600: As early as 1973 this suffix from a D.C. building was tacked onto "Wine" to describe a scandal involving fake Bordeaux gate |
| #9055, aired 2024-03-08 | WE'RE GOIN' TO BROADWAY! $800: This actor could have been a contender for the busiest 1946--he was in at least 4 shows, including "Candida" as Eugene Brando |
| #9055, aired 2024-03-08 | WE'RE GOIN' TO BROADWAY! $1000: A story told in reverse, this Sondheim musical that ran 16 performances in 1981 returned to B'way in triumph in 2023 Merrily We Roll Along |
| #9055, aired 2024-03-08 | LEFTOVERS $1000: This book about Natty Bumppo's youth was chronologically first of the "Leatherstocking Tales" but was written last The Deerslayer |
| #9055, aired 2024-03-08 | SUFFIXES $1000: This 4-letter suffix goes on words for types of medical exams, or on Beatrix Potter rabbits -opsy |
| #9055, aired 2024-03-08 | THE MIDDLE AGES $1600: The Lombard League, an alliance of Italian cities, was founded in 1167 to defend against this red-bearded Holy Roman Emperor Barbarossa |
| #9055, aired 2024-03-08 | 150 YEARS OF THE 92nd STREET Y $2,800 (Daily Double): In his U.S. reading debut, in June 1966, this S. Amer. poet said his country was in full winter but his welcome was like spring (Pablo) Neruda |
| #9054, aired 2024-03-07 | GETTING HISTORICAL $200: John Knox was the best-known leader of this country's Reformation, made official by a 1560 act of its parliament Scotland |
| #9054, aired 2024-03-07 | BOY GENIUS $400: At age 8, Sergei Prokofiev was taken to "Faust" & "Prince Igor"; he decided to write one of these too & in months composed "The Giant" an opera |
| #9054, aired 2024-03-07 | UNUSUAL NICKNAMES $600: This hitter of the '40s & '50s was thin-shamed as the "Splendid Splinter" Ted Williams |
| #9054, aired 2024-03-07 | BAKER $800: A special one of these baked at Passover 2022 for the president of Israel was 20' long by 3 1/2' wide by not very thick matzah |
| #9054, aired 2024-03-07 | BRIDGERS $800: Named for their designer, Bailey Bridges moved Allied troops, trucks & tanks; an 1,800-foot one was built over this German river in 1945 the Rhine |
| #9054, aired 2024-03-07 | SPORTS MASCOT HISTORY $800: This NFL team notes mascot Captain Fear lamented his lost ship, but friends, it was found & rebuilt at Raymond James Stadium! the Buccaneers |
| #9054, aired 2024-03-07 | GETTING HISTORICAL $800: Calling himself an admiral in a bit of self-promotion, in 1853 he sailed 4 warships into the harbor of Uraga & refused to leave Commodore Matthew Perry |
| #9054, aired 2024-03-07 | UNUSUAL NICKNAMES $1000: Glasgow's Clyde Auditorium was opened in 1997 & soon became known as this animal of Texas & Central & South America the armadillo |
| #9054, aired 2024-03-07 | GETTING HISTORICAL $1000: Wahunsenacawh was another name of the man the Jamestown colonists called this, like the people he led Powhatan |
| #9054, aired 2024-03-07 | GITALONG, OLD PAINT $1200: This painter who was totally for the birds gave us the oil-on-canvas "Washington Sea Eagle" around 1839 John James Audubon |
| #9054, aired 2024-03-07 | BOY GENIUS $2000: This French prodigy wrote his masterpiece "The Drunken Boat" at 16 & was called an "infant Shakespeare" Rimbaud |
| #9054, aired 2024-03-07 | BOY GENIUS $4,000 (Daily Double): Losing his brother Giulio 1915, he buried his grief in math & physics & soon wowed the admissions panel at college in Pisa Fermi |
| #9053, aired 2024-03-06 | MEASURES $400: In the 1670s Danish astronomer Ole Roemer was the first to show this was finite, now defined as 186,282 miles per second the speed of light |
| #9053, aired 2024-03-06 | 1924 $800: This future president was born June 12 in Milton, Massachusetts the first President Bush |
| #9053, aired 2024-03-06 | ISLANDS $800: In 1863, the ancient statue seen here was discovered on this Greek island Samothrace |
| #9053, aired 2024-03-06 | MOVIE TAGLINES $1200: It was "No goats. No glory" for "The Men Who Stare at Goats", starring him as out-there Army officer Lyn Cassady George Clooney |
| #9053, aired 2024-03-06 | 1924 $1600: Published in 1924, her novel "So Big" was so big that it would win a Pulitzer Prize the next year Edna Ferber |
| #9053, aired 2024-03-06 | 1924 $2000: This "Flying Finn" was the first athlete from his country to win 5 gold medals at a single Olympics Nurmi |
| #9052, aired 2024-03-05 | 5 FOR THE HISTORY BOOKS $200: George III & George Washington figure prominently in the David McCullogh bestseller entitled this pivotal year 1776 |
| #9052, aired 2024-03-05 | HAVE FAITH $400: Rick Warren's last one, to thousands at a Saddleback Church service in August 2022, was the same as his first one, to tens in March 1980 a sermon |
| #9052, aired 2024-03-05 | TV IN THE AUGHTIES $600: This actress was the title star of "Lizzie McGuire" on the Disney Channel (Hilary) Duff |
| #9052, aired 2024-03-05 | POETS & POETRY $800: Wilfred Owen's poems about this conflict include "Spring Offensive" & "Anthem for Doomed Youth"--of which, sadly, he was one World War I |
| #9052, aired 2024-03-05 | MOUNTAINS $1600: The highest peak in Russia, in ancient times it was called Strobilus, meaning pine cone & a reference to its shape Elbrus |
| #9052, aired 2024-03-05 | PEOPLE NAMED ALEX $1600: WWII field marshal Harold Alexander led the extrication of 340,000 men at this location in 1940 & was the last man off the beach Dunkirk |
| #9052, aired 2024-03-05 | JAZZ' GREAT DAY IN HARLEM $1600: Gene, Gene the drumming machine, he was one quarter of an amazing quartet with Lionel Hampton, Teddy Wilson & Benny Goodman (Gene) Krupa |
| #9052, aired 2024-03-05 | MOUNTAINS $2000: Edward Whymper was the first to summit this highest mountain in Ecuador, putting him at the farthest point from Earth's center Chimborazo |
| #9051, aired 2024-03-04 | NUMERIC MOVIE TITLES $400: Delivery of a message of critical importance is central to the plot of this 2019 Sam Mendes war film 1917 |
| #9051, aired 2024-03-04 | FRENCH HISTORY $400: A 2023 movie led to lively debate, e.g. historians: She died when Napoleon was on Elba, not on his way back; Ridley Scott: Shut up Josephine |
| #9051, aired 2024-03-04 | COCKTAILS $600: It was inevitable that Sarah Jessica Parker would put her name on bottled & canned versions of this cocktail a Cosmopolitan (Cosmo) |
| #9051, aired 2024-03-04 | COCKTAILS $1000: A powerful artillery piece of World War I gave its name to this numeric cocktail made with champagne & gin a French 75 |
| #9051, aired 2024-03-04 | 5-SYLLABLE WORDS $1200: If you're using metaphors & similes to make a point, you're speaking this way figuratively |
| #9051, aired 2024-03-04 | FRENCH HISTORY $1200: In the 5th century this eastern city, today home to the European Union's parliament, was Strateburgum, "Crossroads" Strasbourg |
| #9051, aired 2024-03-04 | 5-SYLLABLE WORDS $1600: Frances Willard, founder of the Women's Christian Temperance Union, was one a prohibitionist |
| #9051, aired 2024-03-04 | LECTURING YOU ON SCIENCE $1600: This Brit who wrote about the full circulation of the blood in the human body was a Lumleian lecturer from 1615 to 1656 Harvey |
| #9051, aired 2024-03-04 | LANGUAGES $2000: Also called Euskara, it's a remnant of the languages spoken in Western Europe before the region was Romanized Basque |
| #9051, aired 2024-03-04 | FRENCH HISTORY $2000: In 1598 this edict named for the city where it was signed gave religious freedom to the French Protestants called Huguenots Nantes |
| #9050, aired 2024-03-01 | GETTING SEAL-Y $200: This rhyming idiom is another way of saying "sign the contract" seal the deal |
| #9050, aired 2024-03-01 | POP CULTURE PRINCESSES $400: She was actually adopted into the royal family of Alderaan, raised by Senator Bail Organa & his wife, the queen of Alderaan Princess Leia |
| #9050, aired 2024-03-01 | "N"OWLEDGE $800: Let's get down to business--this 3-country pact went into effect on Jan. 1, 1994 but was replaced in 2020 NAFTA |
| #9050, aired 2024-03-01 | THAT'S A LONG STORY $800: Ralph Ellison's posthumous second novel was culled from more than 1,500 pages of writing & titled after this now-federal holiday Juneteenth |
| #9050, aired 2024-03-01 | "N"OWLEDGE $1200: The "TL" sound was an important feature in this language of the Toltecs & Aztecs Nahuatl |
| #9050, aired 2024-03-01 | ARCHITECTURE $1200: This architect designed the Louvre's glass pyramid; the public was initially not in love with it I.M. Pei |
| #9050, aired 2024-03-01 | "N"OWLEDGE $1600: Because its pelt was impervious to arrows, Hercules had to strangle this beast as the first of his labors the Nemean lion |
| #9049, aired 2024-02-29 | COLORS OF THE RAINBOW $200: Featured in multiple Icelandic sagas, he was exiled from Iceland in the 10th century & set up camp in Greenland Erik the Red |
| #9049, aired 2024-02-29 | IT'S A PARTY! $400: This president was gifted with a 1,400-pound block of cheese; on Feb. 22, 1837 he threw a party for the public to chow down Jackson |
| #9049, aired 2024-02-29 | LIVE, LAUGH, LOVE $400: Laugh:
Baseball announcer Jack Brickhouse didn't get this music term quite right when the national anthem was sung "Acapulco" a cappella |
| #9049, aired 2024-02-29 | DETECTIVE FICTION $400: G.K. Chesterton based this detective on his friend John O'Connor, who was a priest Father Brown |
| #9049, aired 2024-02-29 | COLORS OF THE RAINBOW $600: It was coined in the 1890s to describe the sensational tactics used by NYC newspapers the World & the Journal yellow journalism |
| #9049, aired 2024-02-29 | NAME, IMAGE, LIKENESS $1000: Part of the NIL deal of UNC basketball star Armando Bacot Jr. was a part on this Netflix show set on a N.C. island chain Outer Banks |
| #9049, aired 2024-02-29 | IT'S A PARTY! $1200: On October 24, 2022 it was a real lituation when Joe Biden celebrated this Hindu festival at the White House with 200+ guests Diwali |
| #9049, aired 2024-02-29 | IMAGE $1600: This self-taught naïve painter was known for his lush, tropical images, though he never left France Rousseau |
| #9049, aired 2024-02-29 | "LIKE"NESS $1600: Fittingly, it was in the year of the USA's bicentennial that Steve Miller put out the album with this soaring title track "Fly Like An Eagle" |
| #9049, aired 2024-02-29 | NAME $1600: This billionaire was born György Schwartz in Budapest; his family changed their surname to avoid persecution as Jews George Soros |
| #9048, aired 2024-02-28 | ALLITERATIVE PHRASES $200: Pete Davidson told Teen Vogue, "I was" this "in high school, but I always took it too far" class clown |
| #9048, aired 2024-02-28 | SHALL WE DANCE? $200: This dance music was big in 1977 but by '79 a "Demolition Night" promo at Comiskey Park led to a bonfire in center field & a riot disco |
| #9048, aired 2024-02-28 | SHALL WE DANCE? $1000: "España Cañi", a song with 2/4 marching rhythm that builds slowly, is a traditional choice for this "two-step" dance pasodoble |
| #9048, aired 2024-02-28 | FEELING CHARITABLE $1000: Founded to protect places & species threatened by human development, it got its name & its giant panda logo in 1961 the WWF (World Wildlife Fund) |
| #9048, aired 2024-02-28 | WOMEN IN LIT $2000: "It was naturally of the essence that the young woman should be herself complex", wrote Henry James of this "Portrait of a Lady" heroine Isabel Archer |
| #9048, aired 2024-02-28 | NAME THAT TOMB $5,800 (Daily Double): Cyrus the Great's tomb still stands at Pasargadae in this country, but his gold sarcophagus is gone Iran |
| #9047, aired 2024-02-27 | TELEVISION $400: 72-year-old widower Gerry Turner was the title figure of this recent reality competition on ABC the Golden Bachelor |
| #9047, aired 2024-02-27 | LITTLE GNOME FACTS $800: On December 10, 1961 Project Gnome in this state's Eddy County became the first nuclear test designed for peaceful purposes New Mexico |
| #9047, aired 2024-02-27 | AWARDS & HONORS $800: This highest French order was founded in 1802 by Napoleon the Légion d'honneur (Legion of Honor) |
| #9047, aired 2024-02-27 | ARTISTS ON FILM $800: In "Factory Girl" Guy Pearce played this artist whose first "factory" was a studio on East 47th Street Andy Warhol |
| #9047, aired 2024-02-27 | CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY $1000: After her daughter Persephone was abducted, she roamed the Earth for 9 days without eating, drinking or bathing Demeter |
| #9047, aired 2024-02-27 | INAUGURAL ADDRESSES $1000: In 1969 Nixon was referring to this Apollo mission when he said astronauts "flew over the Moon's gray surface on Christmas Eve" Apollo 8 |
| #9047, aired 2024-02-27 | A NICE SHORT STORY SPOILED $1600: In this John Cheever story, Neddy makes his way pool by pool to his own home but like his life, it's dark & empty "The Swimmer" |
| #9047, aired 2024-02-27 | ARTISTS ON FILM $2000: Yes, dahling, that was Zsa Zsa Gabor playing dancer Jane Avril to Jose Ferrer's Toulouse-Lautrec in this 1952 film Moulin Rouge |
| #9046, aired 2024-02-26 | HISTORY $200: Lasting from Aug. 1786 to Feb. 1787, Shays' Rebellion in our young republic was in protest of economic conditions, mainly high these taxes |
| #9046, aired 2024-02-26 | ALL THINGS DISNEY $200: Naturally, he was the first animated character to get a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame Mickey |
| #9046, aired 2024-02-26 | LET'S AUDIT A COLLEGE COURSE $200: It was a safe bet that this state U. offered gaming management I & also TCA 471, practicum in hotel education UNLV (University of Nevada, Las Vegas) |
| #9046, aired 2024-02-26 | ITALIAN AMERICANS $400: After 19 nominations, she won her first daytime acting Emmy & in '23, she was honored with a lifetime achievement award Susan Lucci |
| #9046, aired 2024-02-26 | HISTORY $600: In 1546 the council of this Italian city added Judith, Tobit & other books to the Catholic Bible Trent |
| #9046, aired 2024-02-26 | THE NEW TESTAMENT $800: Acts 7 reports that he was stoned to death for speaking what the council thought was blasphemy against God Stephen |
| #9046, aired 2024-02-26 | LET'S AUDIT A COLLEGE COURSE $1000: History 383 at this military college of South Carolina examined patterns of war to 1763 the Citadel |
| #9046, aired 2024-02-26 | ALLOYS $1200: Stellite, which coats saw teeth & lathes, got its name because its brilliance was like these stars |
| #9046, aired 2024-02-26 | WORLD CITIES $1200: We are marching to this city where the Peace of Vereeniging was signed in 1902, ending the Boer War Pretoria |
| #9046, aired 2024-02-26 | ALLOYS $2000: Lydia in Asia Minor was the chief source in the ancient world of this naturally occurring alloy made of gold & silver electrum |
| #9045, aired 2024-02-23 | JUDGES $800: In 1955 Texas judge Drummond W. Bartlett allowed this for the 1st time in a murder trial, & presumably combed his hair & adjusted his robe television cameras |
| #9045, aired 2024-02-23 | 1960s FICTION $800: "Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters & Seymour: An Introduction" in 1963 was his last book-length work; he died in 2010 J.D. Salinger |
| #9045, aired 2024-02-23 | SLEEP-POURRI $1000: A feminist cause around 1914 was childbirth in this time of day "sleep" so women wouldn't remember the pain later twilight (sleep) |
| #9045, aired 2024-02-23 | JUDGES $1600: In 2016, the law school of George Mason University was renamed for this late Supreme Court Justice Scalia |
| #9045, aired 2024-02-23 | JUDGES $2000: Edward Coke made the King of England mad by ruling His Majesty cannot judge; you might know from Ed's getup, it was this king James I |
| #9045, aired 2024-02-23 | THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION ERA $2000: In office from 1770 to 1782, he was later known as the prime minister "who lost America" (Lord) North |
| #9044, aired 2024-02-22 | BEFORE THE FIRST WORLD WAR $400: War in Somaliland pitted the dervishes of Sheik Mohammed Abdullah Hassan against British troops mounted on this desert animal camels |
| #9044, aired 2024-02-22 | TV CHARACTERS $400: "What you call love was invented by guys like me, to sell nylons", said this character played by Jon Hamm Don Draper |
| #9044, aired 2024-02-22 | WORLD CAPITALS $400: It was the capital of Gran Colombia before it was the capital of (regular) Colombia Bogotá |
| #9044, aired 2024-02-22 | BEFORE THE FIRST WORLD WAR $800: The ruler with this title was forced by the Young Turk rebels to recall parliament, which he'd suspended 30 years earlier the Ottoman sultan (emperor) |
| #9044, aired 2024-02-22 | THE KEY WORD IN THE LITERARY SUBTITLE $800: Challenging to pre-Civil War Americans:
"Lowly" Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| #9044, aired 2024-02-22 | TV CHARACTERS $1000: Peyton was the last name of the title character Edie Falco played on this series that premiered in 2009 Nurse Jackie |
| #9044, aired 2024-02-22 | BLOWIN' IN THE WIND $1600: In 1944, this specific type of tropical storm that damaged dozens of Navy ships was named for Admiral Halsey a typhoon |
| #9044, aired 2024-02-22 | BEFORE THE FIRST WORLD WAR $1600: The czar had to sign off in 1906 when this nation, not Russia, became Europe's first to grant women the right to vote Finland |
| #9044, aired 2024-02-22 | BEFORE THE FIRST WORLD WAR $2000: Tough to win a race giving a 60-mile head start as Robert Scott did landing at McMurdo Sound when this man landed at the Bay of Whales Amundsen |
| #9044, aired 2024-02-22 | BRIT SPEAK $2000: We associate it more with a type of wax but it's what the Brits call kerosene paraffin |
| #9044, aired 2024-02-22 | BEFORE THE FIRST WORLD WAR $7,400 (Daily Double): The history book "The Sleepwalkers" says this event not only stirred war fever in Austria but ended the life of an advocate for peace the assassination of Ferdinand (Archduke Ferdinand's death) |
| #9043, aired 2024-02-21 | HALLELUJAH! $200: Ending in -ee, this interjection expresses delight; the -ie version was a member of the Youth International Party yippee |
| #9043, aired 2024-02-21 | HALLELUJAH! $400: Also starting & ending with H, this exultant cry was greatly used on Hulu's "The Great" huzzah |
| #9043, aired 2024-02-21 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $400: In 2023 this author of "Jazz" & "The Bluest Eye" was honored on a U.S. stamp, unveiled at Princeton, where she taught Morrison |
| #9043, aired 2024-02-21 | 1990s MUSIC $1000: This Red Hot Chili Peppers tune implores, "Take me to the place I love, take me all the way" "Under The Bridge" |
| #9043, aired 2024-02-21 | MR. STEVE MARTIN $1600: OK, so it's complicated--in "It's Complicated", Steve's co-star was this man, also Steve's co-host for the Oscars Alec Baldwin |
| #9043, aired 2024-02-21 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $2000: This 1895 graduate of the University of Nebraska was both managing editor of the school paper & literary editor of her yearbook Willa Cather |
| #9043, aired 2024-02-21 | PLACES TO VISIT $8,800 (Daily Double): Tourists who make their way to these islands 600 miles off South America often miss the fur seals, which love rocky & shady areas the Galápagos |
| #9042, aired 2024-02-20 | HANSEL CULTURE $200: One-armed basketball player Hansel Enmanuel was featured in an ad campaign from this sports drink invented in Florida Gatorade |
| #9042, aired 2024-02-20 | PILES $200: H.C. Andersen's way to identify one of these: have her sleep on a pea under a pile of 20 mattresses under 20 feather beds a princess |
| #9042, aired 2024-02-20 | THE 13 COLONIES $200: With its oldest settlement at Jamestown, it was the first of the 13 colonies to be founded Virginia |
| #9042, aired 2024-02-20 | THE U.S. POSTAL SERVICE $400: One of the most famous errors in postal history occurred in 1918 when a Jenny biplane was printed on stamps this way upside-down |
| #9042, aired 2024-02-20 | THE 13 COLONIES $400: Its city of Pawtucket was founded in 1671, in time to come in for some burning during King Philip's War Rhode Island |
| #9042, aired 2024-02-20 | PILES $600: The first man-made nuclear reactor was a 20-foot pile of graphite blocks with blocks of this element mixed in uranium |
| #9042, aired 2024-02-20 | THE 13 COLONIES $600: George Calvert was instrumental in the founding of this colony in 1632 Maryland |
| #9042, aired 2024-02-20 | JEWELRY $800: This synonym for "forever" is used for a ring with diamonds all the way around the band to symbolize everlasting love eternity |
| #9042, aired 2024-02-20 | THE 13 COLONIES $1000: Saybrook was its own colony until 1644, when it joined this one Connecticut |
| #9042, aired 2024-02-20 | ARTISTS & THEIR SUBJECTS $1200: Though he depicted a different river in "Rapids of the Susquehanna", Frederic Edwin Church was a big man in this "School" the Hudson River School |
| #9042, aired 2024-02-20 | TAKING FLIGHT $1200: For its defensive firepower, World War II's B-17 was alliteratively nicknamed the "Flying" this Fortress |
| #9042, aired 2024-02-20 | THE U.S. POSTAL SERVICE $1,600 (Daily Double): As an experiment in 1959, mail was dispatched by guided missile from one of these to a naval air station in Florida a submarine |
| #9042, aired 2024-02-20 | ACTION MOVIES $1600: This star-filled 1963 film featuring some epic Steve McQueen motorcycle scenes was (very) loosely based on a true story The Great Escape |
| #9041, aired 2024-02-19 | HEAVY $1000: Benedictine, this breed of dog known for its rescues, was reported to weigh in at 357 pounds... woof! a St. Bernard |
| #9041, aired 2024-02-19 | ON STATES' HIGHWAY WELCOME SIGNS $1000: Once on Michigan's welcome signs, this 2-word phrase that doesn't just refer to size was also on its license plates from 1983 to 2007 Great Lakes |
| #9041, aired 2024-02-19 | POP $1600: This main character of the God of War video game franchise has issues with his dad, Zeus, who hasn't done right by his mom, Callisto Kratos |
| #9041, aired 2024-02-19 | AWARDS & HONORS $1600: In 2023 Paul Giamatti, a graduate of this university & son of its 19th president, got an honorary doctorate there Yale |
| #9040, aired 2024-02-16 | CANADIAN GEOGRAPHY $400: The second-most populous city in Canada, it was founded in 1642 as a missionary center by Paul de Chomedey Montreal |
| #9040, aired 2024-02-16 | TRANSPORTATION $800: The first of these watercraft was the Charlotte Dundas, used to tow barges on the Forth & Clyde Canal in Scotland around 1800 a tugboat |
| #9040, aired 2024-02-16 | MYTHOLOGY $1200: This nymph's unrequited love for Narcissus made her fade away until all that was left of her was her voice Echo |
| #9040, aired 2024-02-16 | NOTABLE NAMES $1600: "Unbought and Unbossed" was a campaign slogan & an autobiography by this first African-American congresswoman Shirley Chisholm |
| #9040, aired 2024-02-16 | OH, "MY" WORD! $2000: According to legend, this prehistoric Greek city was Agamemnon's capital Mycenae |
| #9040, aired 2024-02-16 | NOTABLE NAMES $2000: In 2022, this Antarctic explorer's ship "Endurance", which sank in 1915, was located at the bottom of the Weddell Sea Ernest Shackleton |
| #9040, aired 2024-02-16 | MYTHOLOGY $2000: He was just a shepherd when he was asked to judge which of 3 goddesses was the most beautiful Paris |
| #9040, aired 2024-02-16 | NOTABLE NAMES $5,000 (Daily Double): In 1919 this American scientist published "A Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes" Goddard |
| #9039, aired 2024-02-15 | AROUND THE WORLD $600: This largest city in Uganda was originally built on 7 hills at about 4,000 feet up Kampala |
| #9039, aired 2024-02-15 | WHERE DID THAT COME FROM? $800: The pillar kind of this device loved by dogs was invented by... uh... we dunno; an early patent was ironically lost in a blaze a fire hydrant |
| #9039, aired 2024-02-15 | WHERE DID THAT COME FROM? $1200: Inventor Dan Klitsner said he was working on a zany remote control for kids when he came up with this '90s hit toy Bop It |
| #9039, aired 2024-02-15 | POP CULTURE $1200: In 2009 it was revealed that Joy is the first name of this pancake syrup spokescharacter Mrs. Butterworth |
| #9039, aired 2024-02-15 | ONE-WORD PLAY TITLES $1600: The musical "My Fair Lady" was based on this play by George Bernard Shaw Pygmalion |
| #9039, aired 2024-02-15 | DEALING WITH THINGS DIPLOMATICALLY $1600: In 2023 Saudi Arabia resumed diplomatic work in this other Arab country a decade after ending it due to the long Civil War Syria |
| #9039, aired 2024-02-15 | DEALING WITH THINGS DIPLOMATICALLY $5,000 (Daily Double): The 6th century Peloponnesian League was a coalition of city-states led by this one big on the military Sparta |
| #9038, aired 2024-02-14 | SO FAR AWAY $200: Here's the Alexander Mosaic with Darius III vs. the Great, nicely preserved as it was found in 1831 in this doomed Italian city Pompeii |
| #9038, aired 2024-02-14 | "AMERICAN" ORGANIZATIONS $400: This organization founded in 1881 was inspired by one based in Switzerland the American Red Cross |
| #9038, aired 2024-02-14 | I RAN $400: In 1995 Emmitt Smith ran for 25 touchdowns for this team but was far from its Lone Star the Cowboys |
| #9038, aired 2024-02-14 | 5 FOR THE ROAD $400: Now an idiom for any sort of adventurous path, this colorful route in a 1900 novel was "very uneven" at times the Yellow Brick Road |
| #9038, aired 2024-02-14 | I RAN $600: In 2011 this Jamaican sprinter was too fast for some school zones, hitting a top speed of 27.33 mph in a race Usain Bolt |
| #9038, aired 2024-02-14 | LOW TECH $600: During World War I Edith Wilson had a flock of these on the White House lawns--to cut the grass sheep |
| #9038, aired 2024-02-14 | THE COMPOSER CONDUCTS $800: The first time audiences were taken on this "ride" was when Wagner conducted extracts from his "Ring" cycle in 1862 "Ride Of The Valkyries" |
| #9038, aired 2024-02-14 | THOSE MEDDLING KID KINGS & QUEENS $1600: In 1543 she was crowned queen at 9 months old at a ceremony officiated by the Archbishop of St. Andrews Mary, Queen of Scots |
| #9038, aired 2024-02-14 | THOSE MEDDLING KID KINGS & QUEENS $2000: Crowned at 13, King Baldwin IV of Jerusalem was known as this "King", since he had Hansen's disease the Leper King |
| #9038, aired 2024-02-14 | 1970s MOVIES $2000: In a space oddity, this singer was "The Man Who Fell to Earth" to save his own dying planet Bowie |
| #9038, aired 2024-02-14 | "AMERICAN" ORGANIZATIONS $2000: In 1972 Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a founder of this organization's Women's Rights Project; full name, please the American Civil Liberties Union |
| #9037, aired 2024-02-13 | DUCK SOUP $200: In 2015 Kim Kardashian told NPR she was "too cool" for this puckering selfie expression duck face |
| #9037, aired 2024-02-13 | RHYMING PHRASES $200: In song, it was used to describe an arachnid making its way up a drainage pipe itsy-bitsy |
| #9037, aired 2024-02-13 | DOCUMENTARIES $400: The documentary series "Five Came Back" chronicles the stories of directors like William Wyler & John Huston during this war World War II |
| #9037, aired 2024-02-13 | 50 GREATEST RAPPERS OF ALL TIME $400: In 1986 it was "6 'N The Mornin"' for him in the studio but in 2000 it was "SVU" for him on TV Ice-T |
| #9037, aired 2024-02-13 | IT HAPPENED IN CONGRESS $400: In 1789 Congress hotly debated "a day of public" this for the new Constitution; a November day was eventually chosen Thanksgiving |
| #9037, aired 2024-02-13 | RHYMING PHRASES $600: Definitions of this include a country at war, a new night club, a good place for Wi-Fi a hot spot |
| #9037, aired 2024-02-13 | IT HAPPENED IN CONGRESS $800: Congress first did this March 3, 1845 in the waning hours of John Tyler's presidency, by votes of 41-1 & 127-30 to override a veto |
| #9037, aired 2024-02-13 | DUCK SOUP $800: This presidential daughter had pet ducks that often waddled their way into the fountain on the White House South Lawn Caroline Kennedy |
| #9037, aired 2024-02-13 | LENDING YOU A POKER HAND $800: The "dead man's hand" of 2 pair, black aces & 8s, was reportedly held by him when he was shot dead in 1876 Hickok |
| #9037, aired 2024-02-13 | 50 GREATEST RAPPERS OF ALL TIME $1000: "Backed by rap's archetypal hype man in Flavor Flav", this Public Enemy leader was a "Rebel Without A Pause" in 1987 Chuck D |
| #9037, aired 2024-02-13 | SIBLINGS OF NOTE $1200: In the 1930s John of this last name was a senator, his brother William was House speaker & William's daughter Tallulah was a stage star Bankhead |
| #9037, aired 2024-02-13 | WISTFUL THINKING $1200: In "Dandelion Wine" he was not a "Ray" of sunshine, saying, "some people turn sad awfully young... no special reason" Bradbury |
| #9037, aired 2024-02-13 | DOCUMENTARIES $1600: The 1956 underwater documentary "The Silent World" was co-directed by Louis Malle & this French oceanographer Cousteau |
| #9037, aired 2024-02-13 | DOCUMENTARIES $2000: In "The Fog of War" Errol Morris interviewed this man who was Secretary of Defense from 1961 to 1968 McNamara |
| #9037, aired 2024-02-13 | SIBLINGS OF NOTE $2000: A new method of prostate surgery was pioneered by & punningly nicknamed for Robert, brother of this 20th century French novelist Proust |
| #9036, aired 2024-02-12 | GENIUS: MLK/X $200: (Kelvin Harrison Jr. presents the clue.) My character, MLK, felt a moral obligation to speak out regarding this conflict in Asia, although it would end up alienating him from Lyndon B. Johnson & his allies the Vietnam War |
| #9036, aired 2024-02-12 | AIRLINE LOGOS $200: This airline's kangaroo logo was first used in 1947; it has gotten considerably more stylized since then Qantas |
| #9036, aired 2024-02-12 | LIFE IN THE 1920s $400: Referring to a new kind of music & popularized by F. Scott Fitzgerald, it was a nickname for the decade the Jazz Age |
| #9036, aired 2024-02-12 | GENIUS: MLK/X $600: (Kelvin Harrison Jr. presents the clue.) A man who was raised Quaker & sang the blues with Lead Belly, Bayard Rustin drew from Gandhi's example to help inspire MLK to follow this 11-letter form of peaceful resistance nonviolence |
| #9036, aired 2024-02-12 | LIFE IN THE 1920s $800: This "sweet" song was introduced in the '20s & so were the Harlem Globetrotters, who would later make it their theme "Sweet Georgia Brown" |
| #9036, aired 2024-02-12 | HOMES $1600: Monte Cristo Cottage was the boyhood home of Eugene O'Neill, who set this "long" play there Long Day's Journey Into Night |
| #9036, aired 2024-02-12 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS $1600: Mellors' lover, she was known as Connie to friends & family Lady Chatterley |
| #9035, aired 2024-02-09 | POETRY $200: Many have wondered why Mudville's opponent didn't walk this mighty slugger "at the bat" when first base was open Casey |
| #9035, aired 2024-02-09 | CLASSIC TOYS & GAMES $200: During the Vietnam War, this toy of 80 feet of wire was sometimes used as a portable antenna for radios a Slinky |
| #9035, aired 2024-02-09 | WORLD LEADER BIRTHPLACES $400: His dad was the prime minister when he was born in Ottawa in 1971 Justin Trudeau |
| #9035, aired 2024-02-09 | ____ OF ____ $400: So the story goes, Ponce de León was searching for this legendary spring when he landed in Florida in 1513 the Fountain of Youth |
| #9035, aired 2024-02-09 | NUMERICAL TELEVISION $600: There was a new family in the neighborhood on this sitcom, not from another city, but from another planet 3rd Rock from the Sun |
| #9035, aired 2024-02-09 | 21st CENTURY SCIENCE $800: Honored in 2007, Frances E. Allen was the first woman to win the Turing Award for work in this science computer science |
| #9035, aired 2024-02-09 | POETRY $1000: Wallace Stevens wrote, "Among twenty snowy mountains, the only moving thing was the eye of" this creature a blackbird |
| #9035, aired 2024-02-09 | WORLD LEADER BIRTHPLACES $1000: This prime minister was born in Vadnagar, India & has a MA in political science Modi |
| #9035, aired 2024-02-09 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1200: A century before she was on a dollar coin, she was convicted & fined for casting a vote in the 1872 pres. election Anthony |
| #9035, aired 2024-02-09 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: The first women's club in New York was La Liga de las Hijas de this island where a rebellion against Spain was sending refugees norte-ward Cuba |
| #9035, aired 2024-02-09 | AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: Still going in Macon, a college with this Methodist-conscious name was the USA's first chartered to grant degrees to women Wesleyan College |
| #9035, aired 2024-02-09 | 21st CENTURY SCIENCE $2000: A new hominin species of this, with a name meaning "southern ape", was discovered in 2008 Australopithecus |
| #9035, aired 2024-02-09 | CLASSIC TOYS & GAMES $4,000 (Daily Double): This toy with a sister named Yam was the first toy advertised on TV, back in 1952 Mr. Potato Head |
| #9034, aired 2024-02-08 | MEDICAL SPECIALTIES $400: An M.D. in this medical branch deals in the treatment of mental, emotional & behavioral disorders psychiatry |
| #9034, aired 2024-02-08 | SOUNDS LIKE A HORROR MOVIE, BUT ISN'T $400: Anne Hathaway is tortured, but not in that way, by a nonetheless vicious Meryl Streep in this 2006 film The Devil Wears Prada |
| #9034, aired 2024-02-08 | THE MOURNING NEWS $400: A 10,000-talent funeral pyre--we can only assume that was expensive--burned in 324 B.C. for Hephaestion, a dear pal of this leader Alexander the Great |
| #9034, aired 2024-02-08 | MILITARY SLANG $400: A "bird boat" is one of these, like the U.S.S. Yorktown during World War II an aircraft carrier |
| #9034, aired 2024-02-08 | SIMPLE SPANISH $600: It's a form of "named", as in "Como se ____ usted?"; pronounced the Anglo way, it's a South American pack animal llama |
| #9034, aired 2024-02-08 | THE MOURNING NEWS $800: After this 19th c. royal was widowed, the "nightly longing to die... for the first 3 years never left"; nearly 47 remained Queen Victoria |
| #9034, aired 2024-02-08 | END OF STORY $800: A monster hit from 1818: "He was soon borne away by the waves and lost in darkness and distance" Frankenstein |
| #9034, aired 2024-02-08 | MILITARY SLANG $800: This rifle accessory is a "cheese toaster" & takes its real name from a French town where it was once made bayonet |
| #9034, aired 2024-02-08 | THINKING ABOUT THE ROMAN EMPIRE $1200: Poor Geoffrey was on the menu at Pompeii; archaeologists have dug up a bone of this tall African animal in the ancient city a giraffe |
| #9034, aired 2024-02-08 | END OF STORY $1600: A dystopian first-person tale: "But you, O my brothers, remember sometimes thy little Alex that was. Amen. And all that cal" A Clockwork Orange |
| #9033, aired 2024-02-07 | AHHH, THE FRENCH $200: This national heroine of France was canonized on May 16, 1920, nearly 500 years after her death Joan of Arc |
| #9033, aired 2024-02-07 | IT HAPPENED IN FEBRUARY $400: In February 1991 Iraqi forces began a retreat from this nation, ending the Persian Gulf War Kuwait |
| #9033, aired 2024-02-07 | AHHH, THE FRENCH $400: After Pierre's death, Marie Curie was appointed to his professorship in 1906 & became the first woman to teach at this U. in Paris the Sorbonne |
| #9033, aired 2024-02-07 | LITERATURE BINGO $600: "O" (No!), 1898: William S. Porter was convicted of embezzlement; after prison, he put out short stories under this name O. Henry |
| #9033, aired 2024-02-07 | DO ME A FLAVOR $800: Thomas Jefferson was an early fan of this ice cream flavor, making his own with bean pods from France vanilla |
| #9033, aired 2024-02-07 | QUOTING THE OLD TESTAMENT $800: The lines "A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace" come from this book Ecclesiastes |
| #9033, aired 2024-02-07 | LITERATURE BINGO $1000: "I", 1819: Rebecca is a Jewish heroine in this Sir Walter Scott novel & was played on film by future Judaism convert Liz Taylor Ivanhoe |
| #9033, aired 2024-02-07 | IT HAPPENED IN FEBRUARY $1600: Calling for the abolition of private property & for workers of the world to unite, it was published in February 1848 The Communist Manifesto |
| #9033, aired 2024-02-07 | IT HAPPENED IN FEBRUARY $2000: This amendment to the Constitution was ratified in February 1951, limiting a president to 2 terms or a maximum of 10 years total the 22nd |
| #9033, aired 2024-02-07 | WHAT DO YOU COLLECT? $2,200 (Daily Double): Vladimir Nabokov was an avid collector of these, called babochkas or "bow ties" in his native Russian butterflies |
| #9032, aired 2024-02-06 | FAMOUS PAIRS $200: Act I, Scene v of a Shakespeare play finds this title pair meeting at a masked ball Romeo & Juliet |
| #9032, aired 2024-02-06 | THE 1970s $200: This portable device from Sony was introduced & quickly became one of the company's most popular consumer products the Walkman |
| #9032, aired 2024-02-06 | AVENGERS, WHO SAID IT? $600: Stepping up in "Endgame":
"The radiation's mostly gamma, it's like... I was made for this" the Incredible Hulk |
| #9032, aired 2024-02-06 | FAMOUS PAIRS $600: They were first paired up in the RKO film "Flying Down to Rio"; "Top Hat" was a more successful venture for them & the studio Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers |
| #9032, aired 2024-02-06 | THE 1970s $600: This woman was the first person Lorne Michaels cast when he was putting together "Saturday Night Live" Gilda Radner |
| #9032, aired 2024-02-06 | LATER, DUDE $800: A British way of saying goodbye is this, which sounds like a single piece of a circular General Mills cereal cheerio |
| #9032, aired 2024-02-06 | AVENGERS, WHO SAID IT? $1000: Keeping it real in "Age of Ultron":
"Well, I was born yesterday" Vision |
| #9032, aired 2024-02-06 | ACTUALLY, THIS IS MY FIRST RODEO $1000: What better way to start off than a trip to this Alberta city's Stampede that's been a-hootin' & a-hollerin' since 1912 Calgary |
| #9032, aired 2024-02-06 | FAMOUS PAIRS $2,300 (Daily Double): Depending on whose journal you read, it was either in October or November of 1871 when they first met at Lake Tanganyika Henry Stanley & Livingstone |
| #9032, aired 2024-02-06 | SOONER $4,000 (Daily Double): This folk singer was born in Okemah in 1912 & named for President Wilson Woody Guthrie |
| #9032, aired 2024-02-06 | IT'S A BIRD! IT'S A PLANE! $4,000 (Daily Double): During World War II, one job of the Howard DGA-15 was as a Navy air ambulance with this bird name that's associated with nursing Nightingale |
| #9031, aired 2024-02-05 | IT'S GIVING... $200: In 1997 Kofi Annan thanked Ted Turner for the $1 billion given to this org., which was meant to invite other individual donations the United Nations |
| #9031, aired 2024-02-05 | FINAL RESTING PLACES $400: After an attempted grave robbery soon after his death, Elvis Presley's body was moved from Forest Hill Cemetery to this estate Graceland |
| #9031, aired 2024-02-05 | HISTORICAL AMERICAN CURRENCY $400: This Native American's depiction on a $20 banknote in the 1860s was the first time a real woman was seen on American currency Pocahontas |
| #9031, aired 2024-02-05 | FINAL RESTING PLACES $800: Following her 1997 death, she was buried on a small island in a lake in Althorp Park, the Spencer family estate Princess Diana |
| #9031, aired 2024-02-05 | HISTORICAL AMERICAN CURRENCY $800: The "Educational Series" of silver certificates was issued in 1896; one featured Robert Fulton & this code guy Morse |
| #9031, aired 2024-02-05 | THE "ARE" YOU BREATHE $800: These tenant farmers, about 1/3 of whom were Black, gave their proceeds to the landowners in a post-Civil War system sharecroppers |
| #9031, aired 2024-02-05 | IT'S GIVING... $1000: Named for an athlete whose brother was a doctor, this Seattle cancer center has gotten gifts, like $700 million from Jeff Bezo's parents the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center |
| #9031, aired 2024-02-05 | TOOLS $1000: It's not a magnetic tool to help you detect a virile man, but rather its namesake item as well as nails hidden within a wall a stud detector (stud finder) |
| #9031, aired 2024-02-05 | BRITISH LITERATURE $1600: A man stopped on his way to a wedding feast is told of tragic events aboard a ship in this 1798 narrative poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner |
| #9030, aired 2024-02-02 | A SUCCESSFUL OPERATION $200: Pliny the Elder mentions Scipio Africanus was born through this surgical delivery method a Caesarean section |
| #9030, aired 2024-02-02 | BUILDING IN LAGOS $200: With collections of art & archaeology, the Nigerian National this was founded by Kenneth Murray, grandson of the OED's 1st editor a museum |
| #9030, aired 2024-02-02 | ETCH & SKETCH $200: In a letter from 1888 he included a sketch of his bedroom at Arles, the painting he was working on van Gogh |
| #9030, aired 2024-02-02 | TALKING ABOUT TOLKIEN $400: From 1925 to 1959 J.R.R. Tolkien was a popular language & literature professor at this university Oxford |
| #9030, aired 2024-02-02 | JUST PLAYING $600: This "Arrested Development" alum was pitch perfect as Allan, Ken's buddy in "Barbie" Michael Cera |
| #9030, aired 2024-02-02 | WE'VE GOT HISTORY $800: Queen Anne was the first monarch of a united Great Britain & the last from this ruling house Stuart |
| #9030, aired 2024-02-02 | A SUCCESSFUL OPERATION $1,000 (Daily Double): Part of biliary surgery, the operation to remove this, now one of the most common, was first done by Dr. Langenbuch in 1882 the gallbladder |
| #9030, aired 2024-02-02 | JUST PLAYING $1000: Dr. John Prentice (played by Sidney Poitier) was the answer to this title, a much bigger surprise back in 1967 Guess Who's Coming to Dinner |
| #9030, aired 2024-02-02 | TALKING ABOUT TOLKIEN $1600: To his family & close friends, Tolkien was known by this name, the first "R" in his initials Ronald |
| #9030, aired 2024-02-02 | BILLBOARD'S 500 BEST POP SONGS $1600: No. 3 was this Temptations classic about a lover, "immediately recognizable from the opening bass line" "My Girl" |
| #3, aired 2024-02-02 | H.P. SAUCE $400: This small measure was Pa's nickname for Laura on "Little House on the Prairie" Half Pint |
| #3, aired 2024-02-02 | MISCELLANY $1600: This British make of car that James Bond enjoyed driving was co-founded by Lionel Martin Aston Martin |
| #9029, aired 2024-02-01 | NONFICTION $400: It says, "The opulent Watergate... was as Republican as the Union League Club" All the President's Men |
| #9029, aired 2024-02-01 | I'M SO WAVY $800: This wavy hairstyle is named for the way the ridges of hair go around in a circle one time a 360 wave |
| #9029, aired 2024-02-01 | FROM THE FRENCH $800: Along with Bulgaria & even Cuba, Hungary was part of the "Soviet" this 4-letter word from the French bloc |
| #9029, aired 2024-02-01 | I'M SO WAVY $1200: "Heat Waves" was a 2022 No. 1 hit for this British band Glass Animals |
| #9029, aired 2024-02-01 | CANADIANS INVADE OUR LIVING ROOM! $1600: You know that TV show "Castle"? Well, this Albertan was Castle (Nathan) Fillion |
| #9029, aired 2024-02-01 | FOLLOW THE WORLD LEADER $1600: Eyebrows were raised in 1964 after Khrushchev gave way to this man Brezhnev |
| #9028, aired 2024-01-31 | THE ENGLISH PAST $200: Founded in 1753, this national antiquities collection was first housed in a London mansion called Montagu House the British Museum |
| #9028, aired 2024-01-31 | SILENT H $400: This exclamation of frustration by Homer Simpson was inspired by utterances of actor James Finlayson in Laurel & Hardy films D'oh! |
| #9028, aired 2024-01-31 | THE ENGLISH PAST $600: This man became Lord Protector after leading a Roundhead army in the 17th century English Civil War Cromwell |
| #9028, aired 2024-01-31 | THE ENGLISH PAST TENSE $1600: This word meaning "said not to do that thing" rhymes with "had" to traditionalists but with "maid" to many others forbade |
| #9028, aired 2024-01-31 | ARTFUL ROGERS $1600: This artful Cowboys quarterback didn't break into the NFL until he was 27 due to a 4-year commitment with the U.S. Navy Roger Staubach |
| #9028, aired 2024-01-31 | BUSINESS & FINANCE HISTORY $1600: Casa Loma, in this city, a financial center, was the passion of Henry Pellatt, who had to sell it when the Home Bank of Canada collapsed Toronto |
| #9028, aired 2024-01-31 | OPERA $2000: The first in a trilogy of operas by Philip Glass about great men who changed the world was him "On the Beach" Einstein |
| #9027, aired 2024-01-30 | HARLEM HELLFIGHTERS $200: (Robin Roberts presents the clue.) The 369th Infantry Regiment has its origins as the 15th New York Infantry Regiment of this reserve section of the Army; before the U.S. entered World War I, they trained in a second floor dance studio in Harlem the National Guard |
| #9027, aired 2024-01-30 | VAN HALEN $400: Turns out his tongue had an eye for talent! This KISS bassist was an early Van Halen supporter, producing a demo for the band in 1976 Gene Simmons |
| #9027, aired 2024-01-30 | CHAINS $400: The chain connecting the propellers to the engine on the Wright Brothers' Flyer was like the chain drive on one of these a bicycle |
| #9027, aired 2024-01-30 | HARLEM HELLFIGHTERS $800: (Robin Roberts presents the clue.) When the U.S. entered World War I, some Black Americans enlisted thinking it would better their station in life; at the same time, President Woodrow Wilson was a supporter of having the armed forces enforce these segregation laws bearing the name of a stereotypical minstrel character Jim Crow |
| #9027, aired 2024-01-30 | 4-LETTER INTERJECTIONS $800: This mild oath was a favorite of Napoleon Dynamite Gosh! |
| #9027, aired 2024-01-30 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $800: Author Ralph Ellison was a music student at this Alabama institute the Tuskegee Institute |
| #9027, aired 2024-01-30 | VAN HALEN $800: The purpose of Van Halen's rider saying no to the brown color of this candy was to ensure their complicated contract got read M&M's |
| #9027, aired 2024-01-30 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $1,000 (Daily Double): The land donated to start this ACC sports powerhouse was home to the estate of John C. Calhoun Clemson University |
| #9027, aired 2024-01-30 | AROUND THE WORLD $1600: Until a Bangladesh-India deal, Dahala Khagrabari was a "3rd-order" this unit within foreign soil, lying within another within a 3rd an enclave |
| #9027, aired 2024-01-30 | TELEVISION $1600: Tony Danza was ballplayer-turned-domestic Tony Micelli on this sitcom Who's the Boss? |
| #9027, aired 2024-01-30 | TELEVISION $2000: Barnabas Collins was the resident vampire on this Gothic soap of the 1960s & early '70s Dark Shadows |
| #9026, aired 2024-01-29 | WOMEN IN SPORTS $600: With a lap of 196.434 mph, she was the fastest qualifier at the 2013 Daytona 500 Danica Patrick |
| #9026, aired 2024-01-29 | 19th CENTURY AUTHORS $800: "Persuasion", the last book she completed before her death in 1817, was published posthumously Austen |
| #9026, aired 2024-01-29 | WOMEN IN SPORTS $800: As an impact player for this Phoenix WNBA team, Brittney Griner led the league in blocks per game in 2021 & was second in scoring the Mercury |
| #9026, aired 2024-01-29 | IT ENDS WITH "U" $1000: In 1932 members of the Australian army fought "The Great" this "War" against a flightless feathered foe the emu |
| #9026, aired 2024-01-29 | 19th CENTURY AUTHORS $1000: Everyone "walked in his own individual way the road to dusty death" is a typical cheery line from him in "Tess of the d'Urbervilles" Hardy |
| #9026, aired 2024-01-29 | WOMEN IN SPORTS $1000: In 2001 it was love all when Andre Agassi married this German tennis star Graf |
| #9026, aired 2024-01-29 | HISTORIC NAMES $1200: Legend says Laozi was an older contemporary of Confucius & founder of this philosophy & religion Taoism |
| #9026, aired 2024-01-29 | TV THEME SONGS $1200: "Superman" by Five for Fighting was on its soundtrack, but "Save Me" by Remy Zero got the nod Smallville |
| #9026, aired 2024-01-29 | "D.D." $1600: This 18th century guy was a novelist, journalist & pamphleteer Daniel Defoe |
| #9026, aired 2024-01-29 | HISTORIC NAMES $1600: Gavrilo Princip, whose assassination of this man triggered World War I, died in prison before the war's end Archduke Ferdinand |
| #9026, aired 2024-01-29 | HISTORIC NAMES $2000: This woman of Aquitaine was mom to Richard the Lionheart & John of England Eleanor of Aquitaine |
| #9026, aired 2024-01-29 | MYTH AROUND & FIND OUT $2000: In Egyptian myth Seth went all Edgar Allan Poe on this bro of his & put him in a coffin while he was still alive Osiris |
| #9025, aired 2024-01-26 | THAT'S JUST TEARABLE! $200: Here's the satisfying sound of this fastening brand that was founded in 1952 getting unfastened Velcro |
| #9025, aired 2024-01-26 | WHAT'S IN A NAME $400: A bestseller across the ages, this book gets its name from the Phoenician port city where paper used to make it was traded Bible |
| #9025, aired 2024-01-26 | DASHIELL HAMMETT $400: Hammett is famous for his 1930 novel about this coveted title object that was made by Turkish slaves in the castle of St. Angelo the Maltese Falcon |
| #9025, aired 2024-01-26 | HISTORIC BATTLES $400: The first major combat engagement for helicopter-transported U.S. troops was the battle of Ia Drang in this conflict the Vietnam War |
| #9025, aired 2024-01-26 | FULL-COURT PRESS $600: The L.A. Times: Overturning it in 2022 was the "most significant curtailing of an established constitutional right" Roe v. Wade |
| #9025, aired 2024-01-26 | DASHIELL HAMMETT $800: In 1953 Hammett went before a committee chaired by this man & was asked about his association with the Communist Party McCarthy |
| #9025, aired 2024-01-26 | 2-3 ZONE $1000: When what's now this country was South West Africa, its southern 2/3 was a "police zone" set aside for white settlers Namibia |
| #9025, aired 2024-01-26 | THAT'S JUST TEARABLE! $1000: Shakespeare plot twist! "Let the angel... tell thee" this man "was from his mother's womb untimely ripped" Macduff |
| #9025, aired 2024-01-26 | WHAT'S IN A NAME $1200: After Romeo y Julieta cigars made a splash, in 1935 a competing brand was named this, after a Dumas character Monte Cristo |
| #9025, aired 2024-01-26 | DASHIELL HAMMETT $2000: Hammett's long-time love, this playwright of "The Little Foxes", was happy to hear she was the inspiration for Nora Charles (Lillian) Hellman |
| #9025, aired 2024-01-26 | WHAT'S IN A NAME $2000: The Comtesse du Cayla rose, seen here, was named for a mistress of this king who survived Napoleon's Hundred Days Louis XVIII |
| #9025, aired 2024-01-26 | WHAT'S IN A NAME $4,500 (Daily Double): The name of this ocean liner was a Roman province that included what is now Portugal & western Spain Lusitania |
| #9024, aired 2024-01-25 | HIGHWAYS & BYWAYS $200: Bregagh Road in Northern Ireland, an avenue of beech trees known locally as Dark Hedges, was used as King's Road in this HBO series Game of Thrones |
| #9024, aired 2024-01-25 | HIGHWAYS & BYWAYS $800: In 1973 West Germany set a speed limit of 62 mph on this due to the oil crisis; it was soon repealed the Autobahn |
| #9023, aired 2024-01-24 | ONE-TERM PRESIDENTS $400: This president was the focus of a Time magazine article about the 1976 "SNL" episode "that changed American politics" Ford |
| #9023, aired 2024-01-24 | OUR SONG $600: In "Our Song", "I was ridin"' this way "with my hair undone in the front seat of his car"... guess Taylor Swift called it shotgun |
| #9023, aired 2024-01-24 | ART & ARTISTS $800: Here's a self-portrait of this Baroque master who didn't make himself look too full-figured Rubens |
| #9023, aired 2024-01-24 | ISLAND COUNTRIES $800: The George Cross on its flag dates to the 1940s when Britain's king gave it the decoration for bravery in World War II Malta |
| #9023, aired 2024-01-24 | ONE-TERM PRESIDENTS $800: Opting for peace vs. war with France alienated his own party & helped make this man the very first one-termer John Adams |
| #9023, aired 2024-01-24 | THE ERRORS TOUR $1000: "Howbeit the hair of" Samson's "head began to grow again after he was shaven"--these biblical people didn't think of that the Philistines |
| #9023, aired 2024-01-24 | BUSINESS TRAVEL $1200: Stretching around 5,800 miles across 8 time zones, this railway is a real way to get from Moscow to Vladivostok the Trans-Siberian Railway |
| #9023, aired 2024-01-24 | ONE-TERM PRESIDENTS $1200: Britannica:
He "was blaming the depression on events abroad & predicting" his foe's win "would only intensify the disaster"; it didn't Hoover |
| #9023, aired 2024-01-24 | BALD IS BEAUTIFUL $2000: This political strategist's first success was helping Bob Casey get elected governor of Pennsylvania in 1986 Carville |
| #9022, aired 2024-01-23 | YOUNG PEOPLE'S NONFICTION $200: Now with more than 200 titles, the "Who Was?" series started with 4 bios, one of this female Native American interpreter Sacagawea |
| #9022, aired 2024-01-23 | U.S. CITIES $800: In 1786 it was chosen to replace Charleston as a state capital Columbia |
| #9022, aired 2024-01-23 | GO IVth & RULE $1600: Elector Frederick IV's efforts to unite Protestants against Catholics in Germany helped set the stage for this 17th c. war the Thirty Years' War |
| #9022, aired 2024-01-23 | GO IVth & RULE $3,000 (Daily Double): Peter IV was king of this region of northeastern Spain for 50 years & often at odds with Majorca & Castile Aragon |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | ADVANCED CINEMATOGRAPHY $100: That's what I call range! Rodrigo Prieto was behind the lens for Greta Gerwig's "Barbie" & this 2023 Martin Scorsese drama Killers of the Flower Moon |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | PEAK TV $200: Due to a mix-up, the giant robot doll from this South Korean series was briefly displayed in front of a museum Squid Game |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | MO ROCCA DRINKING VODKA WITH CHEWBACCA $200: If Mo Rocca was munching on a latke in Osaka, he'd be enjoying a potato pancake in a city in this country Japan |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $200: This "5th Symphony" composer was quite particular about his morning coffee; he used exactly 60 beans to ensure a proper cup of joe Beethoven |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | COLLEGE-LEVEL HISTORY COURSES $200: Vassar offers "Cold War America", a history course "from 1945 until the fall of" this European landmark "in 1989" the Berlin Wall |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | MO ROCCA DRINKING VODKA WITH CHEWBACCA $400: If Mo Rocca was reading Kafka while eating moussaka, he'd be enjoying tales of alienation while consuming this purple produce eggplant |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | OBSCURE NOVELS $400: "The Edible Woman" doesn't ring a bell? It was Margaret Atwood's debut novel before she wrote this 1985 book The Handmaid's Tale |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | ADVANCED CINEMATOGRAPHY $400: A custom periscope lens was used to film the cockpit of a WWII fighter plane in this 2017 drama by Christopher Nolan Dunkirk |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | ADVANCED CINEMATOGRAPHY $500: Set on the desert planet Arrakis, this 2021 sci-fi epic was shot digitally, then transferred to film & then scanned back into digital Dune |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | PEAK TV $600: A yearslong FBI investigation that exposed a deep-cover Russian spy ring was the inspiration for this FX drama The Americans |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | MO ROCCA DRINKING VODKA WITH CHEWBACCA $600: If Mo Rocca was unblocking a chakra in Opa-locka, he'd be doing yoga in a city in this southeasternmost U.S. state Florida |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | LISA, ANN OR WALTER? $600: The child of Steve Jobs for whom an early Apple computer was named Lisa |
| #9021, aired 2024-01-22 | WHAT A "DAY" $200: In 1976, this was June 8, when California, New Jersey & Ohio primary voters went to the polls Super Tuesday |
| #9021, aired 2024-01-22 | WHAT A "DAY" $600: A CBS news special that aired on April 22, 1970 was titled this: "A Question of Survival" Earth Day |
| #9021, aired 2024-01-22 | WHOSE WHAT $800: Its appearance in 1066 was depicted in the Bayeux Tapestry Halley's Comet |
| #9021, aired 2024-01-22 | IT'S GETTING COLD IN HERRE $800: In 2014 the average summer temperature--again, summer temperature--in Cold Bay in this state was 54.1 degrees Alaska |
| #9021, aired 2024-01-22 | THE JOB IS THE MOVIE TITLE $1000: It was Ben Affleck's turn to be a math whiz when the books were cooking in this 2016 action film, & Ben did more than the title implies The Accountant |
| #9021, aired 2024-01-22 | WHOSE WHAT $1200: The creation of the USC Shoah Foundation & the Righteous Persons Foundation was a direct result of this Steven Spielberg film Schindler's List |
| #9020, aired 2024-01-19 | AMERICA BEFORE 1800 $200: By 1791 the national debt was more than $75 million, most incurred as a result of this the Revolutionary War |
| #9020, aired 2024-01-19 | BRITISH TV $200: "Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS" was an episode of this time-traveling British series Doctor Who |
| #9020, aired 2024-01-19 | FAMOUS FORGERIES $400: Performed in London in 1796, "Vortigern and Rowena" was a newly discovered play supposedly by him Shakespeare |
| #9020, aired 2024-01-19 | ASIAN CAPITAL CITIES $400: Cultural attractions in Bangkok include Wat Pho & Wat Arun, temples of this religion Buddhism |
| #9020, aired 2024-01-19 | MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS $400: When Charles Lindbergh crossed the Atlantic in 1927, this was the name of his plane the Spirit of St. Louis |
| #9020, aired 2024-01-19 | AMERICA BEFORE 1800 $400: John Winthrop's nephew George Downing, of Downing Street fame, was among the first 9 graduates of this school in 1642 Harvard |
| #9020, aired 2024-01-19 | MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS $800: The classic 1944 Judy Garland film "Meet Me in St. Louis" was directed by this man, her soon-to-be husband (Vincente) Minnelli |
| #9020, aired 2024-01-19 | NEWER WORDS & PHRASES $1600: The Galaxy Note, with its giant screen, was so large that it was called this blended word phablet |
| #9020, aired 2024-01-19 | AMERICA BEFORE 1800 $3,200 (Daily Double): Reconstructed in the 1930s, the original Governor's Palace in this colonial capital was built from 1706 to 1722 Williamsburg |
| #9019, aired 2024-01-18 | AN "H" & "R" BLOCK $400: Many state laws reduce liability for defamation if a newspaper issues this statement of withdrawal in a timely way a retraction |
| #9019, aired 2024-01-18 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $400: Unlike Vivaldi, Philip Glass left it up to the listener which time of year it was in his composition "The American" these Four Seasons |
| #9019, aired 2024-01-18 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $600: This type of musical mass for the dead has a Latin name; Benjamin Britten wrote a "War" one incorporating poetry & Latin prayers a requiem |
| #9019, aired 2024-01-18 | A WOMAN'S PLACE $800: Women "sizes 10-40" can shop at stores bearing this name, which includes a misspelling of founder Lena's first name on a bank form Lane Bryant |
| #9019, aired 2024-01-18 | THE PAST, PRESENTLY $800: On Nov. 4, 1964 he was exiled from Iran; 15 years later, he was running the place Khomeini |
| #9019, aired 2024-01-18 | VEGETABLE STEW $800: The first prop this comic used was a Neighborhood Watch sign that he stole to show that the Watch wasn't very watchful Carrot Top |
| #9019, aired 2024-01-18 | WHAT IN THE WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS...? $800: In 2022 Chloe Kim was golden--again--defending her women's halfpipe Olympic title in this sport snowboarding |
| #9019, aired 2024-01-18 | MOVIE TITLES WITH NUMBERS IN THEM $1200: In 2001 he was on film in "Thir13en Ghosts" as Arthur Kriticos & a year later, began an Emmy-winning life on TV as a "Monk" Tony Shalhoub |
| #9019, aired 2024-01-18 | A WOMAN'S PLACE $1600: Open for 10 days until the cops came in 1916, the Brownsville Clinic in Brooklyn was the USA's first to offer guidance about this birth control |
| #9019, aired 2024-01-18 | A WOMAN'S PLACE $2000: Hillary Clinton was the first student ever asked to give the commencement address at this college Wellesley |
| #9018, aired 2024-01-17 | POLITICS AS UNUSUAL $200: Patrick McHenry was in the news, as he filled in in this job for 3 tumultuous weeks in the fall of 2023 Speaker of the House (pro tem) |
| #9018, aired 2024-01-17 | U.S. STAMPS $200: Showing a wreath, a ribbon & 2 candles, the first USPS stamp celebrating this was controversial in 1962 for mixing church & state Christmas |
| #9018, aired 2024-01-17 | FIND THE FISH $400: I knew it was really over when she took her ring off her finger a herring |
| #9018, aired 2024-01-17 | SUMMER OF OUR DISCONTENT $400: In summer 1947 a strike by these workers in Yorkshire was costing Britain thousands of tons of daily production coal miners |
| #9018, aired 2024-01-17 | INCONVENIENT WORDS $600: In 2023 this type of filing affecting housing was 50% higher than the pre-pandemic average in some cities eviction |
| #9018, aired 2024-01-17 | BORN ON JAN. 17 $600: He was born (in 1931) to say, "No... I am your father" & "this is CNN" James Earl Jones |
| #9018, aired 2024-01-17 | FIND THE FISH $800: When I saw the crocodile coming toward me in the swamp I ran harder a piranha |
| #9018, aired 2024-01-17 | POLITICS AS UNUSUAL $800: The 1974 Senate race in N.H., with 220,000 votes cast, was won by 355, then after the first of these, by 10, then after another, by 2 recounts |
| #9018, aired 2024-01-17 | BORN ON JAN. 17 $800: He was born in Boston in 1706, the 15th of 17 kids in his family; he'd seek his fortune in Philly Benjamin Franklin |
| #9018, aired 2024-01-17 | FRAILTY, THY NAME IS MAN $1200: Lying about in bed all day, this 96-year-old was "delicate & weak", but spry enough to glom on to a Wonka tour Grandpa Joe |
| #9018, aired 2024-01-17 | NOT TO BE CONFUSED $1200: Botero was a Colombian painter & sculptor; "Bolero" is a one-movement orchestral work by him Ravel |
| #9018, aired 2024-01-17 | SUMMER OF OUR DISCONTENT $1600: After some summer troubles in 1917, Lenin fled to Finland & this Bolshevik leader was in jail in August Trotsky |
| #9018, aired 2024-01-17 | SUMMER OF OUR DISCONTENT $2000: The largest of the Solomon Islands, it was the scene of an August 1942 U.S. offensive against Japan during World War II Guadalcanal |
| #9018, aired 2024-01-17 | ALLITERATIVE TERMS $2000: This deep blue rock whose name means "azure stone" was the original source of the pigment known as ultramarine lapis lazuli |
| #9017, aired 2024-01-16 | HATS IN OTHER WORDS $400: Boil an egg this way if you want a solid inside hard boiled |
| #9017, aired 2024-01-16 | MAJOR "KEY" ALERT $600: Lester "The Long Fellow" Piggott & Steve Cauthen, "The Kentucky Kid", were these track stars--a different kind of track jockeys |
| #9017, aired 2024-01-16 | TV CLIFFHANGERS $800: In its Season 5 mid-season finale, Agent Hank Schrader discovered that his brother-in-law was actually the drug lord Heisenberg Breaking Bad |
| #9017, aired 2024-01-16 | HALF A CATEGORY $800: Eng was half of the conjoined twosome who in the 19th century were billed as this pair Siamese Twins |
| #9017, aired 2024-01-16 | MAJOR "KEY" ALERT $800: A detox or rehab facility is a safer & more lasting way to quit an addiction than this one cold turkey |
| #9017, aired 2024-01-16 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $800: In 1889 a climber said this African mountain was 19,833 feet; re-measurements have been shrinking it ever since Mount Kilimanjaro |
| #9017, aired 2024-01-16 | 1980s PRO WRESTLING $1000: Time to get rowdy, this wrestler who was from Canada, but had the right ancestry for the get up, hit the ring in a kilt Roddy Piper |
| #9017, aired 2024-01-16 | TV CLIFFHANGERS $1600: This Apple TV+ show employed a time jump to 2003 & the reveal that a NASA director was now in... Russia For All Mankind |
| #9017, aired 2024-01-16 | 20th CENTURY AMERICANS $1600: The 2nd Armored, "Hell on Wheels", was the 1st army division commanded by father & son: this Gen. in 1940 & George S. IV in 1975 Patton |
| #9017, aired 2024-01-16 | 20th CENTURY AMERICANS $2000: Brought back to his place in history by a 2023 movie, he was the main organizer of the March on Washington Bayard Rustin |
| #9017, aired 2024-01-16 | HALF A CATEGORY $2000: Thomas Hardy rhymed war is odd: "You shoot a fellow down / You'd treat if met where any bar is, / Or help to" this fractional coin half a crown |
| #25, aired 2024-01-16 | THE MOUNT RUSHMORE OF... $200: Will Ferrell films: "Old School", "Anchorman", "Step Brothers" & this comedy set in the Big Apple & the North Pole Elf |
| #25, aired 2024-01-16 | THE FRENCH HORN $200: A French horn's name is technically just "horn"-- & the modern version was born not in France, but in this land of Oktoberfest Germany |
| #25, aired 2024-01-16 | KURT RUSSELL FILMS $300: Rumor has it that Russell was secretly directing the 1993 western "Tombstone" while portraying this legendary lawman Wyatt Earp |
| #25, aired 2024-01-16 | NAME THAT '90s HIT $600: Coolio: "I'm the kinda G the little homies wanna be like, on my knees in the night, sayin' prayers in the streetlight" "Gangsta's Paradise" |
| #25, aired 2024-01-16 | SISTERHOODS $800: Not everyone on "Keeping up with the Kardashians" was a Kardashian; these three were the only sisters to boast TV's splashiest name Kourtney, Kim & Khloe |
| #25, aired 2024-01-16 | NAME THAT '90s HIT $1200: Red Hot Chili Peppers: "I don't ever wanna feel like I did that day, but take me to the place I love, take me all the way" "Under The Bridge" |
| #25, aired 2024-01-16 | NAME THAT '90s HIT $1500: Biggie Smalls: "It was all a dream, I used to read Word Up! Magazine, Salt-n-Pepa and Heavy D up in the limousine" "Juicy" |
| #9016, aired 2024-01-15 | WORLD HISTORY $200: This largest Caribbean island's struggle for independence led to the Spanish-American War Cuba |
| #9016, aired 2024-01-15 | AUTHORS' BIRTHSTONES $400: L. Frank Baum was born in May, so this was his birthstone--might make a great name for a city emerald |
| #9016, aired 2024-01-15 | PORTLANDIA $600: Timberline Lodge on Mount Hood was the grand Overlook Hotel in this 1980 Jack Nicholson movie The Shining |
| #9016, aired 2024-01-15 | WORLD HISTORY $600: In 1475 at Picquigny Edward IV & Louis XI agreed to a truce that seems to be holding in this war the Hundred Years' War |
| #9016, aired 2024-01-15 | POP MUSIC-POURRI $800: His "Blinding Lights" was Billboard's No. 1 song of 2020 The Weeknd |
| #9015, aired 2024-01-12 | UFOs $200: A 1947 headline read that a rancher from this state was "surprised at all the excitement created by his 'disc'overy" New Mexico |
| #9015, aired 2024-01-12 | A SEASONED FILM $400: Anthony Mackie's character Sam Wilson was introduced to the MCU in this 2014 "Captain America" sequel The Winter Soldier |
| #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 |
| #9015, aired 2024-01-12 | WE HAVE OXY, GIVE US THE MORON $800: Writer Grace Paley called herself "a somewhat combative" one of these people opposed to war pacifist |
| #9015, aired 2024-01-12 | TELEVISION $1000: Way back in season 2, he joined the cast of "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" as Frank Reynolds & hasn't looked back Danny DeVito |
| #9015, aired 2024-01-12 | A SEASONED FILM $1200: Mel Brooks said that in Sweden "The Producers" was released with this title, the name of Bialystock Bloom's musical Springtime for Hitler |
| #9015, aired 2024-01-12 | HISTORIC AMERICAN WOMEN $1200: Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins was a key player in the design of this 1935 act creating a national pension system Social Security |
| #9015, aired 2024-01-12 | HISTORIC AMERICAN WOMEN $2000: This actor, philanthropist & Titanic survivor went by "Maggie"; her famous nickname was a posthumous invention (Molly) Brown |
| #9015, aired 2024-01-12 | HISTORIC AMERICAN WOMEN $10,600 (Daily Double): She was the star of a 1903 vaudeville play titled "Hatchetation" Carrie Nation |
| #2, aired 2024-01-12 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $200: In 1919 this school was established as the Southern Branch of the University of California UCLA |
| #2, aired 2024-01-12 | NBA HISTORY $200: In the 1990s this Chicago Bulls guard was the MVP of the NBA Finals a record 6 times Jordan |
| #2, aired 2024-01-12 | MY "SON", THE PRESIDENT $400: Chronologically, he was the first who fits the category Jefferson |
| #2, aired 2024-01-12 | NICKNAMES $400: King Louis XIV was known as "Louis the Great", "Louis the Grand Monarch" & "Le Roi Soleil", meaning this Sun King |
| #2, aired 2024-01-12 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $600: Opened in 1865, this N.E. college was started by a scientist for an increasingly industrialized America MIT |
| #2, aired 2024-01-12 | 3 LITTLE LETTERS $800: Yasir Arafat was the head of it from 1969 to 2004 the PLO |
| #2, aired 2024-01-12 | MY "SON", THE PRESIDENT $800: He was preceded & succeeded as president by the same man Benjamin Harrison |
| #2, aired 2024-01-12 | NICKNAMES $800: This French tennis player & shirt tycoon was "the Crocodile" Lacoste |
| #2, aired 2024-01-12 | 3 LITTLE LETTERS $1200: Russia's Tupolev Tu-144 was the world's first type of this speedy jet an SST |
| #1, aired 2024-01-12 | LETTER PERFECT $200: This letter was used by the Romans to represent 1,000 M |
| #1, aired 2024-01-12 | GRAND MARSHALS OF THE ROSE PARADE $200: This legendary animator was grand marshal in 1966; he died later that year Disney |
| #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 |
| #1, aired 2024-01-12 | STOP! $800: In the 1960s the French military stopped using this fortified line of defense named for a war minister Maginot Line |
| #1, aired 2024-01-12 | GRAND MARSHALS OF THE ROSE PARADE $800: She was grand marshal as a child star in 1939 & also got the call in 1989 & '99 Shirley Temple |
| #1, aired 2024-01-12 | HEAR ME ROAR $1200: Written in 1792, this French song asks, "Do you hear in the countryside the roar of those savage soldiers?" "La Marseillaise" |
| #1, aired 2024-01-12 | WIDE WORLD OF WEIRD WORDS $1600: Meaning a silly or flighty person, this word with 2 sets of double "B"s was mentioned in "King Lear" as a demon's name flibbertigibbet |
| #1, aired 2024-01-12 | OVER CASTE $2000: The mid-19th century "Caste War" of this peninsula pitted native Mayans against Ladinos of European descent the Yucatán Peninsula |
| #9014, aired 2024-01-11 | OLD YORK, OLD YORK $200: York is "the Chocolate City" & in 1935 was the birthplace of this candy bar made up of breakoffable fingers a Kit Kat |
| #9014, aired 2024-01-11 | FORMER NAMES OF CAPITAL CITIES $400: Under the Moors this European capital was called Olissibona Lisbon |
| #9014, aired 2024-01-11 | THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION $400: The convention was originally called to revise these, but delegates soon created a new framework for government the Articles of Confederation |
| #9014, aired 2024-01-11 | ON THE MOVIE BILL $600: The late, great Bill Paxton was out of this world as astronaut Fred Haise in this 1995 real-life adventure Apollo 13 |
| #9014, aired 2024-01-11 | NOVELS $800: The book that started it all, 1993's "Along Came a Spider", was this author's first novel to feature detective Alex Cross (James) Patterson |
| #9014, aired 2024-01-11 | FORMER NAMES OF CAPITAL CITIES $800: 4th century A.D. Roman emperor Jovian was born in Singidunum, now this Serbian capital Belgrade |
| #9014, aired 2024-01-11 | OLD YORK, OLD YORK $800: The Sixth, a York-based Roman legion, was big in the making of the wall begun in 122 A.D. on the orders of this emperor Hadrian |
| #9014, aired 2024-01-11 | NOTORIOUS $800: Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic was convicted of war crimes by an international tribunal in this Dutch city in 2016 The Hague |
| #9014, aired 2024-01-11 | NOTORIOUS $1000: In June 2022 this man who tried to assassinate President Reagan in 1981 was released without conditions Hinckley |
| #9014, aired 2024-01-11 | CLOCKS $1200: The clock tower in this city's Piazza San Marco was once used to spot incoming ships Venice |
| #9014, aired 2024-01-11 | THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION $1200: This oldest delegate's proposal that presidents should serve without pay was disregarded without vote or debate Franklin |
| #9014, aired 2024-01-11 | FORMER NAMES OF CAPITAL CITIES $1600: Dushanbe, capital of this landlocked "stan", was called Stalinabad until 1961 Tajikistan |
| #9014, aired 2024-01-11 | THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION $5,800 (Daily Double): This state's plan where all states would have equal representation regardless of size was proposed by William Paterson New Jersey |
| #9013, aired 2024-01-10 | ONE-MAN BAND $200: "Maybe I'm Amazed" he solo-recorded his 1970 solo debut mainly at his house in St. John's Wood; OK, maybe I'm not--he was a Beatle McCartney |
| #9013, aired 2024-01-10 | ONE MAN, BANNED $400: A Jacobite was a supporter of this exiled Stuart king who had to lay low after the Glorious Revolution James II |
| #9013, aired 2024-01-10 | YOU GET NOTHING! YOU LOSE! $400: After scheming to turn European postage stamps into $15 million worth of fraud, he was arrested in 1920 & went to prison Charles Ponzi |
| #9013, aired 2024-01-10 | ONE-MAN BAND $800: Many have played in this "Head Like a Hole" band but Trent Reznor was the only official member until Atticus Ross got the call in 2016 Nine Inch Nails |
| #9013, aired 2024-01-10 | ONE MAN, BANNED $800: Dante was truly a Guelf on the shelf as his exile from this city of his birth would prove Florence |
| #9013, aired 2024-01-10 | CELEBRITIES' FAVORITE MOVIES & TV SHOWS $800: This writer & director said his Oscar-winning film might not exist if there was no "Candyman" Jordan Peele |
| #9013, aired 2024-01-10 | ONE-MAN BAND $1000: When he was 15, he went out on tour with his dad, a guitar god; later he recorded solo for Mammoth WVH Wolfgang Van Halen |
| #9013, aired 2024-01-10 | ONE MAN, BANNED $1200: This politician, who passed away in 2023, was banned from office in 2013, but remained the head of Forza Italia Berlusconi |
| #9013, aired 2024-01-10 | ONE MAN, BANNED $2000: Yevgeny was the first name of this late mercenary leader who fled to Belarus after gaining Putin's ire in 2023 Yevgeny Prigozhin |
| #9013, aired 2024-01-10 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $2000: He was a newspaperman for the Chicago Daily Globe before penning "An American Tragedy" Dreiser |
| #9012, aired 2024-01-09 | U.S. NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS $400: A longtime member of FDR's cabinet, Cordell Hull won the award in 1945 & was known as the "father of" this international org. the United Nations |
| #9012, aired 2024-01-09 | IN MY ART DECO ERA $2000: The top of Los Angeles City Hall was inspired by the look of this ancient wonder of Halicarnassus a mausoleum |
| #9012, aired 2024-01-09 | U.S. NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS $5,400 (Daily Double): "Soldier of Peace" is the subtitle of a biography of this general who helped Europe recover following World War II Marshall |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | NUMERICAL PLACE NAMES $100: This road that serves as a border between Detroit and its northern suburbs was made somewhat famous by Eminem 8 Mile |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | DATING APPS $200: This sexpert was in her 90s when she said dating apps can help combat that problem of loneliness Dr. Ruth |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | COUNTRIES THAT START WITH "I" $200: It's home to over 250 kibbutzim Israel |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | FEMALE FIRSTS $300: The first female CEO of a Fortune 500 company, Katharine Graham was the longtime publisher of this D.C.-based newspaper The Washington Post |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | KITTY LIT $300: The lion Jad-Bal-Ja was created by Edgar Rice Burroughs as a companion to this guy of the jungle Tarzan |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | NUMERICAL PLACE NAMES $300: This strip of land in the Susquehanna River, seen here, was the scene of a big scare in 1979 Three Mile Island |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | IT'S A DATE, AMIGO! $400: It was romantic of Salma Hayek to mention it on Instagram in 2023; El Día de San Valentín falls in this month February (Febrero) |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | CAN I GET AN "A" MEN! $400: Referring to a type of aperture in large-format view cameras, group f/64 was cofounded in 1932 by this man Ansel Adams |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | KITTY LIT $500: This high-strung cat character who likes to bounce was based on a stuffed animal belonging to young Christopher Robin Milne Tigger |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | ON THE PERIODIC TABLE $600: It was Daniel Fahrenheit who invented the thermometer that employs this element, Hg mercury |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | FEMALE FIRSTS $600: In 1975, Junko Tabei was on top of the world when she became the first woman to reach the summit of this highest peak Mount Everest |
| #9011, aired 2024-01-08 | PRESIDENTIAL DOGS $800: Reagan's spaniel Rex was indeed kingly; his breed contains this name of multiple English monarchs King Charles |
| #9011, aired 2024-01-08 | ITALIAN LITERATURE $1200: This genre of Italian comedy popular from the 1500s to the 1700s was characterized by stock characters & situations commedia dell'arte |
| #9011, aired 2024-01-08 | ITALIAN LITERATURE $1600: In Umberto Eco's "The Name of the Rose", murders at a 14th c. monastery center on a book on laughter by this ancient Greek Aristotle |
| #9011, aired 2024-01-08 | THE ANNALS OF HISTORY $2000: To link the Yangtze & Yellow Rivers, this was rebuilt during the Sui Dynasty Grand Canal |
| #9010, aired 2024-01-05 | NYMING -NYMS $200: Writers once had some pizzazz using these -nyms! Ben Franklin was Silence Dogood & Washington Irving, Jonathan Oldstyle a pseudonym |
| #9010, aired 2024-01-05 | WEIGHT, WEIGHT, DON'T TELL ME $200: All hail the king! In 1991 Saskatchewan discovered it was home to Scotty, a 42-foot-long, 20,000-pound type of this dinosaur a T. rex |
| #9010, aired 2024-01-05 | OUR MAN ON THE FIELD $600: In 2021 Ryan Crouser heaved a metal sphere 76 feet, 8 1/4 inches, breaking a world record set in this sport before Ryan was born the shot put |
| #9010, aired 2024-01-05 | WEIGHT, WEIGHT, DON'T TELL ME $600: Heavyweight Tyson Fury was 277 pounds for a 2021 fight; this character weighed but 190 against heavyweight Apollo Creed in 1976 Rocky |
| #9010, aired 2024-01-05 | 20th CENTURY POP CULTURE $800: One of the hottest toys of the late '90s was a plush, red Tickle Me him Elmo |
| #9010, aired 2024-01-05 | BLACK HISTORY YEAR $1000: Just after World War II, Jackie Robinson integrates Major League Baseball 1947 |
| #9010, aired 2024-01-05 | WEIGHT, WEIGHT, DON'T TELL ME $1000: Fluting on armor reduced weight; in Maximilian armour, a set for fighting weighed just 50 pounds, while a set for this was 100 jousting |
| #9010, aired 2024-01-05 | 20th CENTURY POP CULTURE $1200: It was party time with the introduction of these plastic storage containers, the lids inspired by those of a paint can Tupperware |
| #9010, aired 2024-01-05 | LINES IN CLASSIC NOVELS $1,600 (Daily Double): The very long opening line of this novel includes the phrase "It was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair" A Tale of Two Cities |
| #9010, aired 2024-01-05 | OUR WOMAN IN THE FIELD $1600: In 1977 Sally Ride wrote to NASA, "I am a PhD candidate in" this type of physics & "interested in the Space Shuttle program" astrophysics |
| #9010, aired 2024-01-05 | FAMOUS OBJECTS $2000: When the president pounds on his desk, it's likely this one, with the determined name of a British ship whose timbers it was made from the Resolute desk |
| #9009, aired 2024-01-04 | OF THRONES $200: Howard Carter wrote, "The throne" of this king "was the most beautiful thing that has yet been found in Egypt" Tutankhamun |
| #9009, aired 2024-01-04 | NEW JAZZ $400: Jazz, uh, finds a way with this actor who has released 3 jazz albums with the Mildred Snitzer Orchestra Jeff Goldblum |
| #9009, aired 2024-01-04 | PUT ON YOUR HELMET! $400: This team was the first in the NFL to put an emblem on a football helmet after halfback Fred Gehrke designed one with spiraling horns the Rams |
| #9009, aired 2024-01-04 | ALL ABOUT AUTHORS $400: Childhood pal Harper Lee served as his researcher when he was working on "In Cold Blood" Truman Capote |
| #9009, aired 2024-01-04 | I SENSE SOME NEGATIVITY $600: "Day of the Woman" was the original title of the 1978 film "I" do this "on Your Grave" Spit |
| #9009, aired 2024-01-04 | OF THRONES $1000: A fancy-looking bird is in the name of this golden throne that was built for the emperor Shah Jahan in the 17th century a Peacock (Throne) |
| #9009, aired 2024-01-04 | PUT ON YOUR HELMET! $2,000 (Daily Double): Seen here is this ruler rocking a helmet while inspecting World War I troops Kaiser Wilhelm (II) |
| #9009, aired 2024-01-04 | MYTHOLOGY $2000: Also known as Catamitus, he was a beautiful boy carried away by an eagle for purposes uncertain Ganymede |
| #9008, aired 2024-01-03 | SCIENTISTS $400: Marine biologist Sylvia Earle's work with these creatures was documented in the film "Gentle Giants of the Pacific" humpback whales |
| #9008, aired 2024-01-03 | 11-LETTER WORDS $400: Let's horse around on this far straightaway on an oval racecourse; it might also be a way to limber up your lumbar region the backstretch |
| #9008, aired 2024-01-03 | HISTORY OF THE AMERICAS $400: This empire of the Andes had some 25,000 miles of roads & a relay system that was like the Pony Express but on foot the Inca |
| #9008, aired 2024-01-03 | WHERE'D YOU GO? $600: This "Great" northward move by Black Americans ramped up with the need for industrial workers in World War I the Great Migration |
| #9008, aired 2024-01-03 | SCIENTISTS $800: Captain Robert FitzRoy had doubts inviting this naturalist aboard an 1831 voyage due to the shape of his nose Darwin |
| #9008, aired 2024-01-03 | HISTORY OF THE AMERICAS $1200: In 1590 one of the only traces of the "Lost Colony" on this island off North Carolina was the word "Croatoan" carved on wood Roanoke |
| #9008, aired 2024-01-03 | HISTORY OF THE AMERICAS $2000: El Pípila is the nickname of a Mexican folk hero who was said to have aided this revolutionary priest in 1810 Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla |
| #9007, aired 2024-01-02 | THE CHARLES III KIND $200: Charles was born on November 14, 1948 at this residence; his sons & grandchildren were born in a hospital Buckingham Palace |
| #9007, aired 2024-01-02 | CHILD PERFORMERS $400: Darby Camp was Reese Witherspoon's daughter on "Big Little Lies" & had this dog of problematic size in a 2021 movie Clifford the Big Red Dog |
| #9007, aired 2024-01-02 | THE CHARLES III KIND $400: Charles' mother said it was her wish that this woman have the title queen consort; the "consort" part has gone away Camilla |
| #9007, aired 2024-01-02 | THE CHARLES III KIND $600: This actor, who was Charles in "The Crown", says he'd like to ask the king about his experience as a fellow sticky-out-eared man Josh O'Connor |
| #9007, aired 2024-01-02 | AT THE MUSEUM $600: The former Radium Institute is now a Paris museum where you can see her old chemistry lab, which was decontaminated in 1981 Marie Curie |
| #9007, aired 2024-01-02 | HISTORIC LASTS $800: Designed for parades, the 1939 Packard Super 8 Phaeton was the last car that this Argentine heroine rode in in public Eva Perón |
| #9007, aired 2024-01-02 | WHAT'S "NEW"? $800: Edward Yang's 1985 "Taipei Story" was part of a movement in Taiwanese cinema with the same name as this '50s trend the new wave |
| #9007, aired 2024-01-02 | THE CHARLES III KIND $1000: Charles helped design the traditional look of Poundbury in this duchy of his that shares its name with a southwest England county Cornwall |
| #9007, aired 2024-01-02 | HISTORIC LASTS $1200: The "Angel of Rome", Alessandro Moreschi, who died in 1922, was the last of these singers, many "sold" by poor parents castrati |
| #9007, aired 2024-01-02 | CHILD PERFORMERS $1200: On this FX series, Keidrich Sellati was Henry, the only Jennings who didn't know the truth about his family The Americans |
| #9007, aired 2024-01-02 | WHAT'S "NEW"? $1200: This deliberately ambiguous language was invented by George Orwell for "1984" Newspeak |
| #9007, aired 2024-01-02 | WHAT'S "NEW"? $1600: This more dance-oriented band was formed by original members of Joy Division New Order |
| #9007, aired 2024-01-02 | HISTORIC LASTS $1600: Dying in 1914, Martha was the last of these alliterative birds; a monument to them said, "It died due to avarice of man" the passenger pigeon |
| #9007, aired 2024-01-02 | THE CHARLES III KIND $2,600 (Daily Double): Charles' coronation on May 6, 2023 at this location was the first British coronation in 7 decades Westminster Abbey |
| #23, aired 2024-01-02 | OATHS $100: The coronation oath he took in 2023 had some minor changes since it was last taken in 1953 King Charles (III) (the former Prince Charles) |
| #23, aired 2024-01-02 | MAINE ATTRACTIONS $200: For wildlife lovers, Maine offers safaris to spot this large mammal featured on its flag moose |
| #23, aired 2024-01-02 | AFRICAN HISTORY $200: Medieval Timbuktu was a college town offering university education out of these Islamic houses of worship mosques |
| #23, aired 2024-01-02 | OATHS $200: Though not in the Constitution, these four words are typically spoken at the end of the presidential oath of office so help me God |
| #23, aired 2024-01-02 | ELEMENTARY POP CULTURE $200: Superman was born on this planet named after one of the noble gases Krypton |
| #23, aired 2024-01-02 | CELEBRITY JEOPARDY AIN'T THE ONLY "CJ" $300: Written in 1908, "Take Me Out To The Ballgame" features the lyric "Buy me some peanuts and" this ballpark treat Cracker Jacks |
| #23, aired 2024-01-02 | SCIENTISTS $300: A popular way of saying something is uncomplicated is to say it's not this field of Wernher von Braun rocket science |
| #23, aired 2024-01-02 | SOJOURNER TRUTH $300: Sojourner Truth was born into slavery around 1797 as Isabella Baumfree in this state's Hudson Valley New York |
| #23, aired 2024-01-02 | KNOW YOUR -OLOGIES $300: This field in which Mariah Carey was a student includes hairstyling and nail care cometology |
| #23, aired 2024-01-02 | OATHS $300: In 2000, the word "doping" was first included in the oath for participants of this event, being held in Australia the Olympics |
| #23, aired 2024-01-02 | AUTO BIOGRAPHIES $400: I'm a traveling wiener and I was conceived in 1936 by the nephew of this company's founder Oscar Mayer |
| #23, aired 2024-01-02 | OATHS $500: According to "Le Morte d'Arthur" by Sir Thomas Malory, this group was required to take what we know as the Pentecostal Oath the Knights of the Round Table |
| #23, aired 2024-01-02 | CELEBRITY JEOPARDY AIN'T THE ONLY "CJ" $600: As an April Fools' prank in 2023, Michael Che directed the audience at "SNL" to not laugh at this co-anchor's jokes Colin Jost |
| #23, aired 2024-01-02 | SOJOURNER TRUTH $600: Having been raised in an area settled by immigrants from the Netherlands, this was Truth's first language Dutch |
| #23, aired 2024-01-02 | "LADY"S FIRST $600: This pop star said she died her hair blonde because she was tired of constantly being confused with Amy Winehouse Lady Gaga |
| #23, aired 2024-01-02 | AFRICAN HISTORY $600: In 1975, both Angola and Mozambique gained their independence from this Iberian country Portugal |
| #23, aired 2024-01-02 | SOJOURNER TRUTH $900: At the age of 9 Truth was separated from her family when she was sold along with a flock of these animals for $100 sheep |
| #23, aired 2024-01-02 | MAINE ATTRACTIONS $1,000 (Daily Double): Portland's historic Abyssinian Meeting House was a hub for this secret 19th century network the Underground Railroad |
| #23, aired 2024-01-02 | URANUS, SHMURANUS $1000: Uranus was first discovered in the 18th century; Shakespeare wrote "Coriolanus" in this century the 17th century |
| #23, aired 2024-01-02 | SCIENTISTS $3,000 (Daily Double): Through her book "Silent Spring", Rachel Carson spurred interest in this field, the "EP" in the federal agency EPA environmental protection |
| #9006, aired 2024-01-01 | PEOPLE $200: Crop scientist M.S. Swaminathan helped end famine in this country & was known as the father of its green revolution India |
| #9006, aired 2024-01-01 | PEOPLE $600: Ernie Barnes' 1976 painting "The Sugar Shack" was used in the credits of this dyn-o-mite '70s sitcom Good Times |
| #9006, aired 2024-01-01 | RETIRED $800: This Ben & Jerry's flavor, vanilla ice cream with a nutty brittle, was sent up the Amazon river in 1999 Rainforest Crunch |
| #9006, aired 2024-01-01 | TOUGH 7-LETTER WORDS $1200: Going all the way from A to C, this scientific term means not associated with living organisms abiotic |
| #9006, aired 2024-01-01 | RELIGION $1200: The name of this religion means "way of the gods", or kami Shinto |
| #9006, aired 2024-01-01 | LONG TIME $1600: Humanism was an integral part of this period in Europe sometimes said to have ended with Rome's fall in 1527 the Renaissance |
| #9006, aired 2024-01-01 | RELIGION $3,000 (Daily Double): Perun was the thunder god of the ancient Slavs, Perundan was this day of the week Thursday |
| #9005, aired 2023-12-29 | LITERARY TOWNS & CITIES $800: Robert Southey's poem "The Battle of Blenheim" recounts a 1704 victory at Blenheim during this war over who would be king of Spain the War of Spanish Succession |
| #9005, aired 2023-12-29 | MOVIE SCORES $1200: (Hans Zimmer presents the clue.) One of the few Spielberg films not scored by the great John Williams was this 2015 movie, in which my friend, the masterful composer, Thomas Newman, enhanced the Cold War drama through his craft Bridge of Spies |
| #9005, aired 2023-12-29 | A MASTER-FUL CATEGORY $1200: The classic anti-drug song "White Lines" by Grandmaster Melle Mel was fittingly remixed for this 2023 film Cocaine Bear |
| #9005, aired 2023-12-29 | IT HAPPENED IN DECEMBER $1200: Full of humor, weather predictions & practical advice, it was first published in December 1732 under a pseudonym Poor Richard's Almanack |
| #9005, aired 2023-12-29 | LITERARY TOWNS & CITIES $1600: "City Primeval" by Elmore Leonard takes place in the author's longtime home, this Midwest city Detroit |
| #26, aired 2024-05-08 | FAMOUS LAST WORDS: In 1530 he made his last confession & wished that "I had served God as diligently as I have done the king" Cardinal Wolsey |
| #9098, aired 2024-05-08 | RHYME TIME: OPERA VERSION: Telling the story of a duke, a jester & the jester's daughter, it was written by poet Francesco Maria Piave the Rigoletto libretto |
| #9093, aired 2024-05-01 | EXECUTIVE ORDERS: On Nov. 15, 1961 JFK suspended the 8-hour workday at this agency, saying its work needed to proceed "with all possible speed" NASA |
| #22, aired 2024-05-01 | WORLD HERITAGE SITES: This entire capital is a World Heritage Site "linked to the history of the Military & Charitable Order of St. John of Jerusalem" Valletta |
| #21, aired 2024-05-01 | LATIN SCIENCE TERMS: In 1694 the latest in bio-knowledge was Tournefort's "Elements of Botany" listing 698 of these, like Ambrosia & Chrysanthemum genera |
| #9092, aired 2024-04-30 | FICTIONAL GROUPS: Maybe because he was too Baroque, Bernini was rejected as a name for a member of this group created in 1983 the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles |
| #9091, aired 2024-04-29 | NICKNAMES: Surfing legend Duke Kahanamoku has been called by this 2-word nickname that describes any dominant person or expert Big Kahuna |
| #9087, aired 2024-04-23 | BUSINESS: In the 1850s the .925 sterling silver standard was instituted by this company, the first American one to do so Tiffany |
| #9086, aired 2024-04-22 | 20th CENTURY AUTHORS: Best known for a novel, she wrote at least 6 full-length plays & collaborated with Moms Mabley on a 1931 Broadway revue Zora Neale Hurston |
| #9084, aired 2024-04-18 | ALPHABETICAL AMERICA: Until Alabama became the 22nd state, this one was first alphabetically Connecticut |
| #9081, aired 2024-04-15 | GREAT BRITS: From 1689 to 1690 & 1701 to 1702, he served as a Member of Parliament representing the constituency of Cambridge University (Isaac) Newton |
| #9076, aired 2024-04-08 | MYTHOLOGY: A peasant who became the king of Phrygia created this intricate problem that was solved in 333 B.C. the Gordian Knot |
| #9074, aired 2024-04-04 | STATE CAPITALS: It was named for a nearby river that explorer Gabriel Moraga named for one of a religious grouping of 7 Sacramento |
| #9072, aired 2024-04-02 | HISTORIC GROUPS: The Kipchak Khanate is another name for this group that was eventually defeated by Tamerlane in 1395 the Golden Horde |
| #9070, aired 2024-03-29 | U.S.S.R.I.P.: Of the 15 countries formed by the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, this one is alphabetically last Uzbekistan |
| #9066, aired 2024-03-25 | NOTORIOUS FIGURES: Never even a soldier, this man lied that his nickname came from a shrapnel wound while fighting in the Argonne Al Capone |
| #9065, aired 2024-03-22 | FROM THE ANCIENT WORLD: "Captured in Egypt by the British Army 1801" is painted on the side of this artifact named for the city where it was found the Rosetta Stone |
| #9064, aired 2024-03-21 | 20th CENTURY NOVELS: Virginia Woolf disliked this book that was "cutting out the explanations and putting in the thoughts between dashes" Ulysses |
| #9063, aired 2024-03-20 | TRAILBLAZERS: The foremost member of the "Sochi Six", which was similar to a previous U.S. group, he died in a plane crash in 1968 (Yuri) Gagarin |
| #9060, aired 2024-03-15 | HISTORIC AMERICANS: Near Kirkbean on Solway Firth, U.S. Vice Admiral Jerauld Wright presented a memorial plaque honoring this man John Paul Jones |
| #9059, aired 2024-03-14 | THE UNITED NATIONS: Of the 9 countries that have produced a U.N. Secretary-General, this nation is the only one from its hemisphere Peru |
| #9056, aired 2024-03-11 | WORD ORIGINS: A radical in an 1833 failed uprising in Germany, Ludwig von Rochau coined this term for acts taken for practical reasons not ethics Realpolitik |
| #9055, aired 2024-03-08 | LITERATURE & RELIGION: This city now in Turkey is the addressee of one of the New Testament epistles & the setting for "The Comedy of Errors" Ephesus |
| #9054, aired 2024-03-07 | ANCIENT DRAMA: From the 470s B.C., Aeschylus' earliest surviving work has this title; he'd fought them repeatedly in the preceding years The Persians |
| #9052, aired 2024-03-05 | CHEMICAL ELEMENTS: Isolated in 1945 during uranium fission research, it was named for an ancient deity to suggest humans gaining a new power promethium |
| #9051, aired 2024-03-04 | POETS OF ANCIENT ROME: Far from Rome, this first century poet wrote, "The leader's anger done, grant me the right to die in my native country" Ovid |
| #9050, aired 2024-03-01 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD: Fearful of independence in 1975, around 120,000 of this country's people, a third of the population, fled to the Netherlands Suriname |
| #9048, aired 2024-02-28 | 1950s POLITICS: In 1959 Bob Bartlett & Hiram Fong each won a coin flip to gain this alliterative title senior senator |
| #9047, aired 2024-02-27 | MILITARY HISTORY: A prototype of this craft was deployed in August 1955; it made headlines in May 1960 the U-2 |
| #9043, aired 2024-02-21 | 19th CENTURY AMERICANS: In 1896, 15 years after a famous showdown, this man was accused of fixing a championship boxing match Wyatt Earp |
| #9042, aired 2024-02-20 | PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS: He's the most recent presidential candidate to have officially declared his opponent in that campaign the victor Al Gore |
| #9038, aired 2024-02-14 | BROADWAY PLAYS: Rita Moreno & Sally Struthers were the first to star in the female version of this comedy, their characters becoming Olive & Florence The Odd Couple |
| #9034, aired 2024-02-08 | COUNTRY MUSIC: "It was kind of a prodding to myself to play it straight", said Johnny Cash of this 1956 hit "I Walk The Line" |
| #9033, aired 2024-02-07 | WONDERS OF THE ANCIENT WORLD: Achilles Tatius wrote that it "was like a mountain... at the top of this mountain rose a second sun" the Lighthouse at Alexandria |
| #9031, aired 2024-02-05 | WORLD FLAGS: The flag of this Asian nation features part of a World Heritage Site built in the 12th century Cambodia |
| #9028, aired 2024-01-31 | AMERICAN MUSICIANS: Also an author, this singer who had 5 Top 40 hits in the 1970s was called the "Pirate Laureate" Jimmy Buffett |
| #9026, aired 2024-01-29 | HISTORICAL FICTION: Stan Lee said the alias-using title character of this novel set during the French Revolution "was the 1st superhero I... read about" The Scarlet Pimpernel |
| #9024, aired 2024-01-25 | CLASSIC LITERATURE: An intended sequel to this 1869 work centered on the Decembrists, a group of veterans who largely served in the Napoleonic Wars War and Peace |
| #9021, aired 2024-01-22 | PRESIDENTS & VICE PRESIDENTS: The first vice president & the first president not born in one of the original 13 states were both born in this state Kentucky |
| #9020, aired 2024-01-19 | AMERICAN ARTISTS: In the 1920s he used wire, string & other materials to fabricate "models in motion" for a miniature circus scene (Alexander) Calder |
| #9019, aired 2024-01-18 | 20th CENTURY HISTORY: After the Vietnam War, Vietnam got bogged down in a campaign against this leader whom it managed to overthrow in 1979 Pol Pot |
| #9016, aired 2024-01-15 | ON THE STAGE: Paul Robeson said that even as this character "kills, his honor is at stake... the honor of his whole culture is involved" Othello |
| #1, aired 2024-01-12 | TOURIST SPOTS: Originally known as Longacre, it got its name after a newspaper moved its offices there in 1904 Times Square |
| #2, aired 2024-01-12 | LITERARY INSPIRATION: A book by historian Thomas Carlyle that Dickens said he'd read 500 times has this title subject that Charles would write about himself the French Revolution |
| #9014, aired 2024-01-11 | BRAND NAMES: Originally called Fruit Scones, the name of this food brand introduced in 1964 was influenced by an art movement of that time Pop-Tarts |
| #9011, aired 2024-01-08 | STATE CAPITALS: The 2 closest state capitals, at about 40 miles apart, one was founded by someone no longer allowed in the other Providence & Boston |
| #9006, aired 2024-01-01 | LANDMARKS: 213 feet wide, this late 18th c. European structure has 5 portals, the middle of which was--at first--for royals only the Brandenburg Gate |
| #9005, aired 2023-12-29 | FAMOUS NAMES: In 2023, shortly after his death, his name was added to a Brazilian dictionary to describe one who's superior or out of the ordinary Pelé |
| #9002, aired 2023-12-26 | BOOK CHARACTERS: Early on in a 1966 novel, this title character beats the protagonist in maze races; later on he bites him Algernon |
| #8999, aired 2023-12-21 | FROM PAGE TO STAGE: The opera based on this 1993 memoir was staged at a prison for the first time in 2023, at Sing Sing with a chorus of 14 inmates Dead Man Walking |
| #8989, aired 2023-12-07 | LANGUAGES: Since it can make someone "Japanese laugh as heartily as a Dane", Lillian Gish saw film as an aesthetic this, the name of a language Esperanto |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | APPLIED GEOMETRY: Thomas Hales proved hexagonal structures are the most compact way to fill a plane, a centuries-old theory based on the behavior of these honeybees |
| #8986, aired 2023-12-04 | 20th CENTURY NOVELS: The Atlanta History Center says this novel was "both beloved & condemned from almost the moment of its publication" in 1936 Gone with the Wind |
| #8985, aired 2023-12-01 | BODIES OF WATER: The Goshute, a Western people, called this vast body of water Teittse Paa, meaning "bad water" the Great Salt Lake |
| #8983, aired 2023-11-29 | A BIT OF BRITAIN: In disarray, it was sold at auction in 1915 to a local Wiltshire man, who would donate it to the British government 3 years later Stonehenge |
| #8975, aired 2023-11-17 | LITERARY CHARACTERS: In his first appearance in 1902, he was described as "betwixt-and-between" a boy & a bird Peter Pan |
| #8974, aired 2023-11-16 | POETS: 1793 reports of the killing of Hector Munro by a wild animal in India may have inspired one of this man's best-known poems William Blake |
| #20, aired 2023-11-15 | ARTISTS: Exhumed in 2017 to settle a paternity suit, his mustache had "preserved its classic 10-past-10 position" according to the Spanish press Salvador Dalí |
| #8973, aired 2023-11-15 | WASHINGTON, D.C.: It was proposed in Congress in 1926 in honor of a big 150th anniversary; it opened 17 years later the Jefferson Memorial |
| #8970, aired 2023-11-10 | THE CATHOLIC CHURCH: The 1456 posthumous annulment of this woman's sentence by the Church was witnessed by her mother Isabelle Joan of Arc (Joan, Jeanne) |
| #8968, aired 2023-11-08 | EXPLORERS: Perhaps inspiring a line 2 centuries later, in 1774 he wrote that he was headed "farther than any other man has been before me" Captain James Cook |
| #8965, aired 2023-11-03 | BRITISH HISTORY: At Leicester Cathedral in March 2015, the Archbishop of Canterbury led a religious ceremony for this deceased English monarch Richard III |
| #19, aired 2023-11-01 | PLAY TITLES: This 1959 play's title was taken from a Langston Hughes poem that begins, "What happens to a dream deferred?" A Raisin in the Sun (by Lorraine Hansberry) |
| #8963, aired 2023-11-01 | 21st CENTURY PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS: It was the first election since 1952 in which neither the incumbent president nor the incumbent vice president was a candidate 2008 (Barack Obama & John McCain) |
| #8960, aired 2023-10-27 | FAMOUS AMERICANS: On March 23, 1779 he became the first U.S. diplomat to serve overseas by presenting his credentials to a foreign government Benjamin Franklin |
| #18, aired 2023-10-25 | TWEEN LIT: Referring to the lengthy title of her much-discussed novel, this author lamented that she didn't just call the book "Margaret" Judy Blume |
| #8958, aired 2023-10-25 | HISTORIC LETTERS: A letter from him begins, "On the thirty-third day after I had left Cadiz, I reached the Indian Ocean" (Christopher) Columbus |
| #8957, aired 2023-10-24 | AWARDS & HONORS: As of 2023 the only 2 to win a Nobel Prize in Literature & an Academy Award were George Bernard Shaw & this singer-songwriter Bob Dylan |
| #8956, aired 2023-10-23 | MUSIC MEN: Before creating this record label in 1959, its founder worked on a Lincoln-Mercury assembly line Motown |
| #17, aired 2023-10-18 | FAMOUS WOMEN: She joined the Sisters of Loreto at age 18, then took her good works to Calcutta, where she was called this Mother Teresa |
| #8950, aired 2023-10-13 | ROYALTY: Before his death in 2005, he said he was "probably the last head of state to be able to recognize all his compatriots in the street" Prince Rainier (III of Monaco) |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | RALLYING CRIES: Don't mess with Texas: Sam Houston's troops shouted this 3-word battle cry while attacking Santa Anna's army at San Jacinto Remember the Alamo! |
| #8945, aired 2023-10-06 | COMPOSERS: He was given piano lessons by Madame Mauté de Fleurville, the mother-in-law of Paul Verlaine, whose poetry he would later set to music (Claude) Debussy |
| #8943, aired 2023-10-04 | AMERICAN IMMIGRANTS: His 1904 will stipulated that "all the sums hereinbefore specified for prizes shall be used for prizes only" Joseph Pulitzer |
| #8942, aired 2023-10-03 | THE 1500s: In the early 1500s he produced a codex in words & pictures on the flight of birds, one of many subjects that interested him Leonardo da Vinci |
| #8941, aired 2023-10-02 | PRESIDENTIAL PROCLAMATIONS: Both issued in April, 80 years apart, the first proclamations by these 2 presidents each declared national days of mourning Andrew Johnson & Harry Truman |
| #8940, aired 2023-09-29 | U.S. SENATE HISTORY: In 1805, after 4 years presiding over the Senate, he left the chamber, calling it "a sanctuary; a citadel of law, of order" Aaron Burr |
| #8939, aired 2023-09-28 | SYMPHONIES: Debuting at Carnegie Hall in 1893, it was written by a European living in New York & partly inspired by "The Song of Hiawatha" the New World Symphony |
| #14, aired 2023-09-27 | ASTRONOMY: Discovered in the '60s and '70s, Cygnus X-1 was the first of these light-trapping gravitational bodies to be identified black holes |
| #8938, aired 2023-09-27 | MYTHOLOGY: Chrysomallus was the name of the creature that was the source of this sought-after item, vellus aureum in Latin the Golden Fleece |
| #8937, aired 2023-09-26 | PUBLICATIONS: A collection of achievements bearing this name was established in the early 1950s to help resolve pub disputes The Guinness Book of World Records (The Guinness Book of Records) |
| #8935, aired 2023-09-22 | COMPOSERS: A fireworks display followed the April 27, 1749 premiere of a work by this man that had been commissioned by George II (George Frideric) Handel |
| #8926, aired 2023-09-11 | BRITISH MONARCHS: The most recent British monarch not to succeed a parent or a sibling was this ruler who succeeded an uncle Queen Victoria |
| #8923, aired 2023-07-26 | OPERA SOURCE MATERIAL: Henri Murger, who was broke & lived in a freezing attic apartment in Paris, wrote the source material for this 1896 opera La bohème |
| #8922, aired 2023-07-25 | COMPOUND WORD ORIGINS: This compound word meant an astronomical object of exceptional brightness in 1910; it was soon applied to actors & athletes superstar |
| #8921, aired 2023-07-24 | AFRICAN GEOGRAPHY: The only country in Africa with Spanish as an official language, it lies mostly between 1 & 2 degrees north latitude Equatorial Guinea |
| #8919, aired 2023-07-20 | 19th CENTURY BRITISH POEMS: The author of this unfinished epic poem was unsure if he wanted the title character to "end in Hell--or in an unhappy marriage" Don Juan |
| #8918, aired 2023-07-19 | FAMOUS PAINTINGS: A German guidebook to a 1937 World's Fair dismissed it as a "hodgepodge of body parts that any four-year-old could have painted" Guernica |
| #8914, aired 2023-07-13 | FAMOUS SHIPS: This first U.S. battleship ever built was launched in 1889 but lasted less than 9 years the Maine |
| #8907, aired 2023-07-04 | CLASSICAL MUSIC: Composed around 1720, this group of instrumental works was dedicated to a younger brother of Prussian king Frederick I the Brandenburg Concertos |
| #8904, aired 2023-06-29 | THE MOVIES: Centenarian ceramic artist Beatrice Wood helped inspire one of the main characters & the narrator of this film from the 1990s Titanic |
| #8901, aired 2023-06-26 | 20th CENTURY EVENTS: It was immediately reported, "The flames are still leaping maybe 30, 40 feet from the ground the entire 811 feet length of" this the Hindenburg |
| #8899, aired 2023-06-22 | THE 19th CENTURY: In 1823 he wrote, "In the war between those new governments and Spain we declared our neutrality" (James) Monroe |
| #8894, aired 2023-06-15 | THE U.S. GOVERNMENT: Established in 1938, this congressional group was still issuing subpoenas in 1969 & finally ceased to exist 6 years later the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) |
| #8886, aired 2023-06-05 | ACRONYMS: It was originally a code word used by telegraph operators; Barack Obama used it in his Twitter handle POTUS |
| #8885, aired 2023-06-02 | 20th CENTURY AMERICA: In bold letters, it was the 2-word historic N.Y. Times headline for August 9, 1974, followed by "He urges a time of 'healing"' "Nixon Resigns" |
| #8883, aired 2023-05-31 | SPORTS & THE MOVIES: A Geena Davis Institute study found shortly after a 2012 franchise film's release, women's participation in this sport rose 105% archery |
| #8881, aired 2023-05-29 | MEMORIALS: The Vietnam War crypt at this memorial has been empty since the remains once there were identified & moved to St. Louis the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier |
| #8878, aired 2023-05-24 | CLASSICAL MUSIC: When the opera "Lohengrin" premiered in 1850, this man, a future in-law of the composer, was the conductor Franz Liszt |
| #18, aired 2023-05-23 | OPERA & HISTORY: Appropriately, the last performance at the Vienna State Opera before it was destroyed in 1945 by Allied bombs was this opera from 1876 Götterdämmerung |
| #17, aired 2023-05-23 | REAL PEOPLE IN SHAKESPEARE: In Shakespeare this man is a rival of Prince Hal; in real life he was older than Hal's father Hotspur |
| #8876, aired 2023-05-22 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS: The original 1900 printing of this book was in a pale green dust jacket stamped in a vivid jewel tone of green The Wizard of Oz (The Wonderful Wizard of Oz) |
| #8874, aired 2023-05-18 | BILLBOARD NO. 1 HITS: Billy Joel said, "I think the one time I didn't write the music" before the lyrics was for this 1989 hit, "and I think it shows" "We Didn't Start The Fire" |
| #14, aired 2023-05-17 | 20th CENTURY FRENCH AUTHORS: He said a famous book of his was inspired by a visit to the zoo, where he observed the gorillas' humanlike expressions Pierre Boulle (author of Planet of the Apes) |
| #11, aired 2023-05-16 | WORLD CITIES: This capital city founded in 1567 was where the founding statute of OPEC was adopted in 1961 Caracas |
| #8872, aired 2023-05-16 | AUTHORS: In 1960 Jean-Paul Sartre wrote of this man's "victorious attempt... to snatch every instant of his existence from his future death" (Albert) Camus |
| #10, aired 2023-05-15 | 19th CENTURY FIRST LADIES: After her husband left office, a minister wrote the White House was "purer because" this first lady "has been its mistress" Lucy Hayes ("Lemonade Lucy") |
| #9, aired 2023-05-15 | THE U.S. GOVERNMENT: Not a department head but of Cabinet rank, the person in this post has had an official residence in a 42nd floor Park Avenue penthouse ambassador to the United Nations |
| #7, aired 2023-05-12 | NEW ENGLAND WOMEN: At her funeral in 1936, it was said that "The touch of her hand... literally emancipated a soul" Annie Sullivan |
| #8869, aired 2023-05-11 | HISTORY: His epitaph, in a church in England, reads, "Sometime general in the army of George Washington" Benedict Arnold |
| #5, aired 2023-05-10 | THE FIRST MILLENNIUM: In 303, to celebrate 20 years of his reign, the emperor Diocletian visited this city for the first time Rome |
| #4, aired 2023-05-09 | WESTERN HEMISPHERE HISTORY: In 1915 the assassination of President Sam brought Uncle Sam to this country, beginning a 19-year military occupation Haiti |
| #2, aired 2023-05-08 | USA: Opened in 1909 & less famous than an older neighbor, it connects Brooklyn & Chinatown the Manhattan Bridge |
| #1, aired 2023-05-08 | POETRY: A colossal head of Ramses II brought to the British Museum inspired this 1818 poem "Ozymandias" |
| #8859, aired 2023-04-27 | HISTORIC FIGURES: Dante gives him, born to a Kurdish family in the 12th century, a place of honor in limbo along with the war heroes of Rome & Troy Saladin |
| #8858, aired 2023-04-26 | HOLLYWOOD HISTORY: Last name of 3 men who missed the 1927 premiere of "The Jazz Singer" because a 4th of that name had died hours before Warner |
| #8857, aired 2023-04-25 | TV HISTORY: The 1980s "Magnum, P.I." used a soundstage of this long-running drama that had just ended, & even referred to its lead character Hawaii Five-O |
| #8855, aired 2023-04-21 | HISTORIC GROUPS: Originally a term for security escorts for commanders, in 27 B.C. this group was designated an official imperial force the Praetorian Guard |
| #8854, aired 2023-04-20 | MODERN WORDS: Neal Stephenson coined this word in his 1992 novel "Snow Crash"; it was later shortened by a company to become its new name metaverse |
| #8853, aired 2023-04-19 | LIVES OF THE POETS: At a seminary that classified students' degree of faith, Emily Dickinson was "without" this, which she compares to a bird in a poem hope |
| #8847, aired 2023-04-11 | NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS: At times they each lived on Vilakazi St. in Soweto, so it claims to be the world's only street home to 2 Nobel Peace Prize winners Nelson Mandela & Archbishop Desmond Tutu |
| #8843, aired 2023-04-05 | MOVIES OF THE '80s: Based on an off-Broadway play with just 3 characters, it won the Best Picture Oscar & the actors in all 3 roles were nominated Driving Miss Daisy |
| #8841, aired 2023-04-03 | 20th CENTURY EPONYMS: A 1940 headline about this included "failure", "liability when it came to offense" & "stout hearts no match for tanks" the Maginot Line |
| #8837, aired 2023-03-28 | TRANSPORTATION USA: This public agency runs the USA's busiest bus terminal, opened in 1950 for commuters awed by its polished steel & stone the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey |
| #8833, aired 2023-03-22 | AMERICAN NOVELISTS: He served with an airman named Yohannan in World War II & despite what readers might think, he said he enjoyed his service (Joseph) Heller |
| #8832, aired 2023-03-21 | MEDIEVAL PLACES: One of the participants in an 1170 event at this place said, "Let us away, knights; he will rise no more" Canterbury Cathedral |
| #8828, aired 2023-03-15 | ART EXHIBITIONS: In 1898 what's been called the first blockbuster art show was devoted to him & put on for Queen Wilhelmina's coronation Rembrandt |
| #8826, aired 2023-03-13 | LITERATURE: A 2006 book was titled "The Poem That Changed America:" this "Fifty Years Later" "Howl" |
| #8825, aired 2023-03-10 | INVASIONS: Backed by 14,000 troops, he invaded England to restore, in his words, its "religion, laws, and liberties" William of Orange |
| #8824, aired 2023-03-09 | LANDMARKS: After its completion in the late 19th c., it was called a "truly tragic street lamp" & a "high & skinny pyramid of iron ladders" the Eiffel Tower |
| #8823, aired 2023-03-08 | GEOGRAPHIC NAME'S THE SAME: The busiest passenger port in the U.K., it shares its name with a capital of one of the original 13 states Dover |
| #8821, aired 2023-03-06 | U.S. HISTORY: An 1869 presidential pardon was granted to this man, due in part to a plea by the Medical Society of Harford County, Maryland Dr. Samuel Mudd |
| #8820, aired 2023-03-03 | AMERICAN LITERATURE: Letters, pocket knives, C rations & steel helmets are among the tangible items referred to in the title of this modern war classic The Things They Carried |
| #8818, aired 2023-03-01 | LAWS IN U.S. HISTORY: A Radical Republican championed this 1875 act but the Supreme Court struck it down in 1883; a new version was passed 81 years later the Civil Rights Act |
| #8817, aired 2023-02-28 | NAMES OF MYTH: Her brothers, Castor & Pollux, saved her after Theseus stole her away as a kid; a larger force would seek her later in life Helen of Troy |
| #8807, aired 2023-02-14 | ART & SCIENCE: A craft that visited it was named for Giotto, based on the story that 680 years earlier, the painter depicted it as the Star of Bethlehem Halley's Comet |
| #8806, aired 2023-02-13 | WORDS FROM WORLD WAR I: "Cistern" & "reservoir" were suggested names for a secret invention, but the British preferred this less clumsy monosyllable a tank |
| #8803, aired 2023-02-08 | EUROPEAN CITIES: Alphabetically the first German city in encyclopedias, it was also the first one taken by the Allies in World War II Aachen |
| #8801, aired 2023-02-06 | INVENTIONS: 1917's "Elements of Trench Warfare" said this Old West item was "difficult to destroy" & "difficult to get through" barbed wire |
| #8800, aired 2023-02-03 | WORLD WAR II: Mimi Reinhard, who never learned to type using more than 2 fingers, produced this with 1,100 names, including hers Schindler's List |
| #13, aired 2023-02-02 | ARTISTS: Despite how he's known, he was probably actually born in Anchiano, near Florence Leonardo da Vinci |
| #8799, aired 2023-02-02 | MYTHOLOGY: Poseidon carried off the maiden Theophane & turned her into a ewe; their offspring was the source of this mythical object the Golden Fleece |
| #8798, aired 2023-02-01 | LITERATURE: Published in 2011, P.D. James' final novel, "Death Comes to Pemberley", was a sequel to this novel from 200 years earlier Pride and Prejudice |
| #8796, aired 2023-01-30 | WORD ORIGINS: Originally relating to a story of suffering, this word now more commonly refers to strong emotion of any kind passion |
| #8795, aired 2023-01-27 | WORLD CINEMA: The 2007 biopic called "La Môme" in France, meaning "The Kid", was released in the U.S. under this other French title La Vie en rose |
| #12, aired 2023-01-26 | NOVELS: "Breeders, Wives and Unwomen" was the headline of the New York Times' 1986 review of this novel The Handmaid's Tale |
| #8794, aired 2023-01-26 | HISTORY: Returning home in 1493, Columbus stopped in the Azores at an island with this name, also something he'd lost off the Haiti coast Santa Maria |
| #11, aired 2023-01-19 | NOTORIOUS PLACES: Al Capone played banjo in a band called the Rock Islanders at this notorious spot Alcatraz |
| #8788, aired 2023-01-18 | EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY: In 1692 Increase Mather wrote, "It were better that ten suspected" these "escape, than that one innocent person... be condemned" witches |
| #8786, aired 2023-01-16 | BUSINESS MILESTONES: These were first sold in 1908, at a price equivalent to about $27,000 today Ford Model T |
| #10, aired 2023-01-12 | CORPORATE MASCOTS: Born on an island in a sea of milk, this pitchman was jokingly disavowed by the U.S. Navy by saying he is not in personnel records Cap'n Crunch |
| #8780, aired 2023-01-06 | HISTORIC PEOPLE: After a 1789 event, he wrote, "My first determination was to seek a supply of... water at Tofoa, & afterwards to sail for Tongataboo" (Captain) Bligh |
| #9, aired 2023-01-05 | 20th CENTURY PEOPLE: Calling him "the embodiment of pure intellect", in December 1999 Time magazine named him Person of the Century Albert Einstein |
| #8778, aired 2023-01-04 | CONTINENTAL GEOGRAPHY: Until a 1903 secession, this country's contiguous territory spanned 2 continents Colombia |
| #8777, aired 2023-01-03 | FOREIGN-BORN AUTHORS: Early in her career she translated romance novels into Spanish, often changing the dialogue to make the heroines smarter (Isabel) Allende |
| #8776, aired 2023-01-02 | HISTORIC CRIMES: Saying it was stolen by Napoleon, self-styled Italian patriot Vincenzo Peruggia took it in 1911 the Mona Lisa |
| #8775, aired 2022-12-30 | U.S. BODIES OF WATER: Continuing a downward trend, in July 2022 it was at 27% capacity, its lowest level since 1937 when it was first being filled Lake Mead |
| #8773, aired 2022-12-28 | AMERICA AT WAR: Until the Civil War, the January 8 date of this battle of dubious military importance but big morale value was a national holiday the Battle of New Orleans |
| #8771, aired 2022-12-26 | TV FINALES: In a reunion over 40 years in the making, Dolly Parton appeared as an angel named Agnes in the final episode of this comedy in 2022 Grace and Frankie |
| #8767, aired 2022-12-20 | CLASSIC SONGS: The shouts of excited children at a 1946 holiday parade are said to have inspired this perennial favorite "Here Comes Santa Claus" |
| #8763, aired 2022-12-14 | PRESIDENTIAL FACTS: Only 3 presidents have married while in office--John Tyler was the first & he was the last (Woodrow) Wilson |
| #8762, aired 2022-12-13 | 19th CENTURY AMERICANS: Demonstrating the dignity & humanity of Black Americans, he sat for 160 known photographs, the most of any American in the 19th century Frederick Douglass |
| #8759, aired 2022-12-08 | NAME'S THE SAME: A cocktail, an island & a WWII venture originally called "Development of Substitute Materials" all bear this name Manhattan |
| #8758, aired 2022-12-07 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: He was sworn in twice as president within 2 years, first by his father & then later by a former U.S. President (Calvin) Coolidge |
| #8756, aired 2022-12-05 | LANDMARKS: In 2009, during a 20th anniversary celebration, it was called "an edifice of fear. On November 9, it became a place of joy" the Berlin Wall |
| #8752, aired 2022-11-29 | NAMES IN U.S. HISTORY: This father was the only man among the 13 plaintiffs in a class-action case filed in 1951 Brown |
| #8751, aired 2022-11-28 | CHILDREN'S AUTHORS: Reversing the story of this heroine she created, Patricia MacLachlan was born on the prairie but spent much of her life in New England Sarah (Wheaton) |
| #8744, aired 2022-11-17 | MOVIES & LITERATURE: Ridley Scott's first feature film, "The Duellists", was based on a story by this author to whom Scott's film "Alien" also pays tribute Joseph Conrad |
| #8738, aired 2022-11-09 | CONTEMPORARY AUTHORS: A trip to El Paso with his young son & wondering what the city might look like years in the future inspired a novel by this author Cormac McCarthy |
| #8736, aired 2022-11-07 | PHRASES FROM THE ANCIENT WORLD: Cicero wrote that a tyrant ordered this to be hung from the ceiling "by a horse-hair"; his guest begged to leave the sword of Damocles |
| #7, aired 2022-11-06 | BRANDS: With wood becoming more difficult to source, this company turned to plastic for its automatic binding bricks, introduced in 1949 Lego |
| #8733, aired 2022-11-02 | PHRASES IN AMERICAN HISTORY: Andrew Johnson vetoed a bill that gave reparations to formerly enslaved people, hence this phrase for an unfulfilled promise forty acres and a mule |
| #8732, aired 2022-11-01 | POETS: Inspired by stories from his grandfather, his "Battle of Lovell's Pond" appeared in the Portland Gazette in 1820 when he was 13 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| #8730, aired 2022-10-28 | ARTISTS: Sabena Airlines commissioned a painting by this artist, "L'Oiseau de Ciel", a bird whose body is filled with clouds in a blue sky René Magritte |
| #8726, aired 2022-10-24 | AUTHORS: When Esquire began as a men's lifestyle magazine in the 1930s, he was asked for manly content & wrote in 28 of the first 33 issues (Ernest) Hemingway |
| #5, aired 2022-10-23 | WORLD LANDMARKS: Built of more than 18,000 metal parts & 2.5 million rivets, it was the world's tallest manmade structure from 1889 to 1930 the Eiffel Tower |
| #8722, aired 2022-10-18 | LANDMARKS OF SCIENCE: Clones of an original one of these grow outside the math faculty at Cambridge University & in the President's Garden at M.I.T. an apple tree |
| #8721, aired 2022-10-17 | FAMOUS ANIMALS: In September 1964 the New York Times announced the passing of this pet, a gift, "used as symbol of honesty in 1952" Checkers |
| #4, aired 2022-10-16 | ANNUAL EVENTS: In 1986 Larry Harvey called a friend & said, let's do this, no one knows exactly why; it evolved into an annual festival in the desert Burning Man |
| #8720, aired 2022-10-14 | AUTHORS: Featuring a statue of a man escaping his grave, his tomb in Amiens contrasts with the title of his 1864 adventure novel (Jules) Verne |
| #8719, aired 2022-10-13 | DOCUMENTARIES: In this 1970 film, Max Yasgur says, "I'm a farmer... I don't know how to speak to 20 people... let alone a crowd like this" Woodstock |
| #8717, aired 2022-10-11 | FAMOUS SHIPS: Its wreck was discovered in 1989, 48 years after it had been sunk & 91 years after the man it was named for had died the Bismarck |
| #3, aired 2022-10-09 | NEWSPAPER HEADLINES: A New York Times headline about this disaster included "866 rescued" & "noted names missing" the Titanic |
| #8710, aired 2022-09-30 | BEFORE THEY WERE AUTHORS: While working for British naval intelligence during World War II, he was code-named 17F Ian Fleming |
| #8709, aired 2022-09-29 | INNOVATIONS: Seen by a worldwide audience in 1970, black pentagons were added to these to help viewers follow them better on TV soccer balls |
| #8706, aired 2022-09-26 | MAGAZINES: A now-annual issue of this magazine was inspired by the high society parties of Caroline Astor, whose ballroom fit about 400 people Forbes |
| #1, aired 2022-09-25 | LANDLOCKED COUNTRIES: It's the world's smallest landlocked country in both area & population Vatican City |
| #8703, aired 2022-09-21 | FAMOUS NAMES: Perhaps the most famous picture of him was taken in New Jersey in 1951 as he was annoyed by paparazzi on his 72nd birthday (Albert) Einstein |
| #8702, aired 2022-09-20 | AMERICAN GOVERNMENT: Delivered on January 8, 1790, the first of these was also the shortest, at 1,089 words the State of Union Address |
| #8696, aired 2022-09-12 | 19th CENTURY NOVELS: "This bell was named Marie... alone in the southern tower, with her sister Jacqueline, a bell of lesser size", says this novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame |
| #8695, aired 2022-07-29 | TECH HISTORY: For about 20 years after its invention, it had few practical uses; then suddenly it revolutionized grocery checkouts & home audio the laser |
| #8693, aired 2022-07-27 | REAL PEOPLE IN POETRY: Milton wrote of this contemporary: "When by night the glass of" him "observes imagined lands and regions in the Moon" Galileo |
| #8691, aired 2022-07-25 | THE ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME: Honored in 1998 as part of a rock group & in 2019 as a solo artist, this singer was the first woman to be inducted into the Hall twice Stevie Nicks |
| #8690, aired 2022-07-22 | INAUGURAL BALLS: At the 1993 Tennessee Inaugural Ball, Paul Simon performed this song, his most recent Top 40 hit "You Can Call Me Al" |
| #8688, aired 2022-07-20 | HISTORIC AMERICAN ROADS: Originally a Native American trail, the Dutch made it a main road & today it runs 33 miles from State Street to Sleepy Hollow Broadway |
| #8686, aired 2022-07-18 | ART & THEATRE: Asked to design a new set for a restaging of this 1952 play, Alberto Giacometti came up with one scraggly plaster tree Waiting for Godot |
| #8684, aired 2022-07-14 | THE 20th CENTURY: Maybe surprisingly, in 1918 this new leader was the first to recognize the independence of Finland Lenin |
| #8681, aired 2022-07-11 | MUSICAL THEATER: It's one of the most revived shows in Broadway history & in 2001 it was designated the state opera of South Carolina Porgy and Bess |
| #8677, aired 2022-07-05 | NATIONAL HISTORIC SITES: Less than 100 yards north of the J. Edgar Hoover Building is this notorious location Ford's Theater |
| #8676, aired 2022-07-04 | THE EASTERN U.S.: At its peak, this state had 6 seats in the House of Representatives; since the 1930s, it has had just 1 Vermont |
| #8674, aired 2022-06-30 | U.S. CITIES: This U.S. city now has 10 times the population of the other U.S. city for which it was named in 1845 Portland, Oregon |
| #8671, aired 2022-06-27 | THE WORLD OF TODAY: Partly because it was a monosyllable, this word was chosen as "a noun that conveys the idea of a unit of cultural transmission" meme |
| #8669, aired 2022-06-23 | CLASSIC ALBUMS: This classic album by a Southern rocker gets its title from a Civil War quote by a Union admiral Damn the Torpedoes |
| #8668, aired 2022-06-22 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE: This author first thought of a parrot before choosing another bird "equally capable of speech" Edgar Allan Poe |
| #8666, aired 2022-06-20 | BRITISH HISTORY: From the Greek for "alone", it was nixed by Parliament in 1649 after being deemed "unnecessary, burdensome & dangerous" the monarchy |
| #8661, aired 2022-06-13 | TV LEGENDS: Buster Keaton considered her the tops in her field &, in fact, was one of her early mentors Lucille Ball |
| #8647, aired 2022-05-24 | THE MIDDLE AGES: It was the surname of the 2 Scottish brothers who claimed monarchies of 2 different countries in the 13-teens Bruce |
| #8643, aired 2022-05-18 | OSCAR-WINNING SONGS: Johnny Mercer's lyrics to this 1961 Oscar-winning song once began, "I'm Holly" "Moon River" |
| #8640, aired 2022-05-13 | STATE NAMES: This state was named for a man born in Herrenhausen Palace in Hanover in 1683 Georgia |
| #8638, aired 2022-05-11 | SAY IT IN ITALIAN: It's an Italian word for "mercy", but also the name of a movie character who kills Stracci & Carlo clemenza |
| #8633, aired 2022-05-04 | THE CIVIL WAR: A Union soldiers' song said General McClellan, who let a Confederate Army escape after this battle, "was too slow to beat 'em" Antietam |
| #8628, aired 2022-04-27 | POETS: In 1939 he was buried near his last residence in France, but his body arrived in Galway en route to final burial on September 17, 1948 William Butler Yeats |
| #8626, aired 2022-04-25 | NAMES IN AMERICAN HISTORY: Capable of freighting about 180 tons of cargo, in 1624 it was in disrepair & appraised at a total value of 128 pounds the Mayflower |
| #8625, aired 2022-04-22 | HISTORIC NAMES: DNA from 2 living descendants of Anne of York was used to identify the remains of this man Richard III |
| #8622, aired 2022-04-19 | COUNTRIES OF AFRICA: Old maps depicting what's now this 125,000-square-mile country labeled the area with the French word for "teeth" Côte d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast) |
| #8619, aired 2022-04-14 | WOMEN IN BRITISH HISTORY: The orphaned future Queen Elizabeth I was devoted to this stepmother who died 2 days before Elizabeth's 15th birthday Catherine Parr |
| #8618, aired 2022-04-13 | HISTORY: Intimately familiar with World War I, Churchill considered this war from some 150 years before the "first world war" the Seven Years' War |
| #8616, aired 2022-04-11 | WORDS OF THE YEAR: Oxford's word of the year for 2021 was this 3-letter one, short for a word that goes back to the Latin for "cow" vax |
| #8613, aired 2022-04-06 | SMALL COUNTRIES: French, Italian & Swiss nationals make up about half of its population of 38,000 Monaco |
| #8609, aired 2022-03-31 | HISTORIC PLACES: Following a raid at this establishment in 1969, protesters confronted police by forming a Rockette-style kickline the Stonewall Inn |
| #8608, aired 2022-03-30 | AMERICANS IN PARIS: In 2021 she became the sixth woman & the first Black woman to be inducted into the Pantheon in Paris Josephine Baker |
| #8607, aired 2022-03-29 | SHAKESPEARE'S WOMEN: It is said of her, "Infected minds to their deaf pillows will discharge their secrets: more needs she the divine than the physician" Lady Macbeth |
| #8606, aired 2022-03-28 | SPORTS HISTORY: Taking the mound for Cleveland in 1948, he was the first African American to pitch in a World Series Satchel Paige |
| #8604, aired 2022-03-24 | DISNEY CHARACTERS: In the source material from more than 3 centuries ago, her name was badr al-budur, "full moon of full moons" (Princess) Jasmine |
| #8603, aired 2022-03-23 | POEMS: The title of this poem comes from a 1920 book that refers to its possible "restoration to fruitfulness" The Waste Land |
| #8602, aired 2022-03-22 | HISTORIC NICKNAMES: Napoleon's troops gave him this nickname not to mock him but for showing the courage of an infantryman in battle "The Little Corporal" |
| #8599, aired 2022-03-17 | NONFICTION: This 1962 classic was dedicated to Albert Schweitzer, who predicted that man "will end by destroying the earth" Silent Spring |
| #8597, aired 2022-03-15 | METEOROLOGY: It was feared this word caused panic, but in 1950 the U.S. Weather Bureau ended a ban on it in forecasts, saying prediction wasn't impossible tornado |
| #8596, aired 2022-03-14 | WORLD WAR I: Suvla Bay & Cape Helles were major landing sites along this peninsula Gallipoli |
| #8594, aired 2022-03-10 | FAMOUS TRIALS: On her acquittal in 1893, a reporter cited nearby events 2 centuries earlier, saying the days of witch trials are over Lizzie Borden |
| #8593, aired 2022-03-09 | EPITAPHS: Her epitaph, from a 1925 poem by her, ends, "She knows that her dust is very pretty"; "dust" was in another she wrote for herself Dorothy Parker |
| #8591, aired 2022-03-07 | CENTRAL AMERICA: A small river connects these 2 lakes that combined form close to 10% of their country's area Lake Nicaragua & Lake Managua |
| #8590, aired 2022-03-04 | LITERARY CHARACTERS: Dostoyevsky wrote that this title man in an earlier European novel is "beautiful only because he is ridiculous" Don Quixote |
| #8589, aired 2022-03-03 | EUROPEAN CITIES: Pizzo means protection money; the Addiopizzo movement was founded in this city in 2004 Palermo, Sicily |
| #8587, aired 2022-03-01 | THE SILVER SCREEN: He was the first actor to star in 3 films that won the Oscar for Best Picture: those of 1934, 1935 & 1939 Clark Gable |
| #8586, aired 2022-02-28 | MODERN WAR: Called the longest siege of a capital in modern history, the assault on this city lasted from 1992 to 1996 Sarajevo |
| #8585, aired 2022-02-25 | AWARDS: These awards have a retro version & winners include the novel "The Sword in the Stone" & "The War of the Worlds" radio broadcast the Hugo Awards |
| #17, aired 2022-02-22 | THE PERIODIC TABLE: By 1890, discoveries of 3 "nationalist elements" filled table gaps: scandium in Sweden, germanium in Germany, this in France gallium |
| #8582, aired 2022-02-22 | AMERICAN WOMEN: In 1914 she received a patent on a trefoil emblem, which she would transfer to an organization a few years later Juliette Gordon Low |
| #15, aired 2022-02-18 | HISTORIC STRUCTURES: In 1100 the Bishop of Durham became the first prisoner here &, after plying his guards with wine, became the first to escape the Tower of London |
| #13, aired 2022-02-17 | WESTERN HEMISPHERE COUNTRIES: In 1882, when these 2 countries' border was settled, a minister in the southern one quit in protest out of loyalty to Central America Mexico & Guatemala |
| #14, aired 2022-02-17 | WORDS FROM MYTHOLOGY: A 1525 textbook on anatomy says this, being "so different of colours", could also be called "rain bowys" iris |
| #11, aired 2022-02-16 | HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES: The first national observance of Memorial Day was held May 30, 1868 at this site, on land that had belonged to Robert E. Lee's wife Arlington National Cemetery |
| #8578, aired 2022-02-16 | 18th CENTURY HISTORY: The stated aim of this period was using violence to achieve political goals; its success aided in its demise in under a year the Reign of Terror |
| #9, aired 2022-02-15 | PHYSICISTS: A 1927 principle by this Nobel Prize winner says that some knowledge is inaccessible Werner Heisenberg |
| #8574, aired 2022-02-10 | 20th CENTURY PEOPLE: In 1946 she was aboard a train to Darjeeling when she heard what she later described as "the call within a call" Mother Teresa |
| #4, aired 2022-02-09 | 20th CENTURY LEADERS: He's called "a flame of inspiration in freedom's darkest hour" in the proclamation making him an honorary U.S. citizen Winston Churchill |
| #8573, aired 2022-02-09 | AMERICAN CITIES: Recorded on a visit to this California city, YouTube's first video featured a man saying, "They have really, really, really long trunks" San Diego |
| #1, aired 2022-02-08 | AMERICAN HISTORY: One theory says Charles T. Torrey, a worker on this, coined its name, which appeared in The Liberator on October 14, 1842 the Underground Railroad |
| #8570, aired 2022-02-04 | BEHIND THE DISNEY ATTRACTION: The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror utilizes technology developed by this company founded in 1853 the Otis (Company) |
| #8569, aired 2022-02-03 | FAMOUS AMERICANS: He was buried in 1969 in one of the World War II uniform jackets named for him Dwight Eisenhower |
| #8567, aired 2022-02-01 | HISTORIC GEOGRAPHY: This city on the Rhone River that is partly a World Heritage Site was papal property until the French Revolution Avignon |
| #8566, aired 2022-01-31 | WOMEN WHO WRITE: Mimicking her style, a 1912 rejection note read: "Only one look, only one look is enough. Hardly one copy would sell here. Hardly one" Gertrude Stein |
| #8564, aired 2022-01-27 | 18th CENTURY NAMES: In 1793 he left Dublin for the United States, saying, "I expect to make a fortune" off George Washington, & he did Gilbert Stuart |
| #8563, aired 2022-01-26 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD: The only nation in the world whose name in English ends in an H, it's also one of the 10 most populous Bangladesh |
| #8562, aired 2022-01-25 | SEA LIFE: In 2018 National Geographic reported that half of this was dead, "akin to a forest after a devastating fire" the Great Barrier Reef |
| #8561, aired 2022-01-24 | U.S. MUSEUMS: Named for a benefactor, it was established in 1893 to house artifacts from the nearby World's Columbian Exposition the Field Museum |
| #8559, aired 2022-01-20 | WORDS IN AMERICAN HISTORY: The 1890 Census reported that "the unsettled area has been so broken into... that there can hardly be said to be a" this frontier |
| #8555, aired 2022-01-14 | CEMETERIES & MEMORIALS: 60,000 are at rest in a National Memorial Cemetery opened in 1949 in the crater of an extinct volcano in this state Hawaii |
| #8553, aired 2022-01-12 | HISTORIC AMERICANS: In 1838 he took a new last name, of a family in Walter Scott's "The Lady of the Lake"; for distinction he added a 2nd "S" to the end (Frederick) Douglass |
| #8551, aired 2022-01-10 | 19th CENTURY NOTABLES: On his deathbed in France in 1890, he told his brother, "The sadness will last forever" Vincent van Gogh |
| #8549, aired 2022-01-06 | HISTORIC BUILDINGS: Begun in the 1070s with stone from Caen, it was meant to dominate both a skyline & the hearts & minds of a conquered populace the Tower of London |
| #8546, aired 2022-01-03 | SCULPTORS: Los Angeles artist George Stanley sculpted this, first handed out at a private banquet on May 16, 1929 the Oscar |
| #8545, aired 2021-12-31 | MUSIC LEGENDS: Of their July 1957 first meeting at a church fair, one of this pair recalled: "I was a fat schoolboy and… he was drunk" John Lennon & Paul McCartney |
| #8544, aired 2021-12-30 | EXPLORERS: Confirming a theory, fossils found with this explorer in 1912 included a plant from more than 250 million years ago (Robert Falcon) Scott |
| #8543, aired 2021-12-29 | THE 20th CENTURY: In the morning of April 15, 1912 officer Charles Lightoller became the last of about 700 people to board this ship the Carpathia |
| #8541, aired 2021-12-27 | 20th CENTURY THEATER: In 1955 Peter Hall directed the first production of this play in English without having "the foggiest idea what some of it means" Waiting for Godot |
| #8540, aired 2021-12-24 | INTERNATIONAL LANDMARKS: In December 2020 an international agreement added nearly 3 feet to this; one surveyor lost half a toe in the effort Mount Everest |
| #8538, aired 2021-12-22 | SPORTING EVENTS: In 1752 one of the first races in this sport was run--4 miles from Buttevant Church to St. Mary's Doneraile steeplechase |
| #8534, aired 2021-12-16 | WORLD WAR II GEOGRAPHY: Body-of-water battles included the Coral Sea, Philippine Sea & this one that allowed Japan to seize Jakarta the Java Sea |
| #8531, aired 2021-12-13 | KINGS & QUEENS: Due to legislative action of 1707, she was officially the last monarch of independent Scotland Queen Anne |
| #8529, aired 2021-12-09 | 1950s PUBLIC WORKS: Dubbed "The Greatest Construction Show on Earth", when completed it connected Minnesota to Montreal the St. Lawrence Seaway |
| #8526, aired 2021-12-06 | AESTHETIC MOVEMENTS: This turn-of-the-century movement was alternately known around the world as Nieuwe Kunst & Modernista Art Nouveau |
| #8524, aired 2021-12-02 | JOURNALISTS IN HISTORY: Bismarck Tribune correspondent Mark Kellogg died June 25, 1876 while on a field assignment covering this man (General George) Custer |
| #8523, aired 2021-12-01 | PLANNED CITIES: A recent immigrant, Lady Denman, wife of the governor-general, announced the name of this new national capital at a 1913 ceremony Canberra, Australia |
| #8522, aired 2021-11-30 | INTERNATIONAL FRIENDSHIP: The organization these International was founded in 1956; they’re Partnerstädte in Germany & villes jumelées in France Sister Cities |
| #8516, aired 2021-11-22 | 20th CENTURY PRESIDENTS: He won an election in which both he & his Democratic opponent were from Ohio & both were wealthy newspaper publishers (Warren G.) Harding |
| #8514, aired 2021-11-18 | HISTORY: In 1985 the mayor of Rome went to a suburb of Tunis to sign a treaty ending this after more than 2,100 years the (Third) Punic War(s) (Carthaginian Wars) |
| #8512, aired 2021-11-16 | MOVIE QUOTES: This 3-word phrase was the protagonist's second line of dialogue in a 1962 movie, the first in a 25-film series "Bond, James Bond" |
| #8510, aired 2021-11-12 | CONTEMPORARY PLAYWRIGHTS: "The Murder of Gonzago" is used as a play within a 1966 play by this man who was inspired by Shakespeare (Tom) Stoppard |
| #8509, aired 2021-11-11 | PRICELESS OBJECTS: It dates back to the "French Blue", which was set in gold & suspended from a neck ribbon when Louis XIV wore it on ceremonial occasions the Hope Diamond |
| #8507, aired 2021-11-09 | 1970s SONGS: In 1976 "Bohemian Rhapsody" was replaced at No. 1 on the U.K. charts by this Europop song whose title is heard in Queen's lyrics "Mamma Mia" |
| #8506, aired 2021-11-08 | NAMES IN AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY: He was Virginia's 1st African-American congressman, whose grandnephew, a famous poet, used his last name as a first name (John Mercer) Langston |
| #8505, aired 2021-11-05 | TOYS: Introduced in 1964, he fell out of favor in changing times & in 1970 was marketed as a "Land Adventurer" G.I. Joe |
| #8503, aired 2021-11-03 | PAINTINGS: In 2021 experts in Oslo concluded that it was the artist who wrote on this painting, "Could only have been painted by a madman" The Scream |
| #8501, aired 2021-11-01 | 1960s HISTORY: After around 8 PM EDT on July 21, 1969 a major part of a transport known by this 1-word name was never seen again Eagle |
| #8498, aired 2021-10-27 | LITERARY MOVIE ROLES: Among the actresses who have portrayed her are Greta Garbo twice, Vivien Leigh, Tatiana Samoilova & Keira Knightley Anna Karenina |
| #8493, aired 2021-10-20 | 19th CENTURY SUPREME COURT DECISIONS: The first "self-evident" truth in the Declaration of Independence was quoted & found not to apply to this plaintiff (Dred) Scott |
| #8491, aired 2021-10-18 | NAMES ON THE MAP: From 1824 to 1825 this hero toured all 24 states & an Indiana city was named for him (the Marquis de) Lafayette |
| #8490, aired 2021-10-15 | LITERATURE FOR CHILDREN: These stories got their collective title because little Josephine Kipling insisted they be told exactly the same way each time Just So Stories |
| #8488, aired 2021-10-13 | SPORTS LEGENDS: When Johnny Bench broke his record, this man wrote, "I always thought the record would stand until it was broken" Yogi Berra |
| #8487, aired 2021-10-12 | PUBLISHING: Last name of brothers James, John, Joseph & Fletcher, whose company published magazines with their name as well as books Harper |
| #8485, aired 2021-10-08 | THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE: British zoologist George Shaw looked for stitches when he first saw this mammal in 1799, thinking he was being tricked (the) duck-bill(ed) platypus |
| #8482, aired 2021-10-05 | POPULAR PHRASES: This phrase relating nutrition & health was popularized by fruit scientist J.T. Stinson at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair an apple a day keeps the doctor away |
| #8481, aired 2021-10-04 | RENAISSANCE MEN: 10 years before a more famous work, he wrote in 1503 that the way to deal with rebels is to placate them or eliminate them (Niccolò) Machiavelli |
| #8480, aired 2021-10-01 | AMERICAN HISTORY: The April 26, 1906 edition of The Call, a newspaper in this city, reported on the heroic death of hoseman James O'Neil San Francisco |
| #8478, aired 2021-09-29 | MYTHOLOGY: The Hippocrene Spring, sacred to the Muses, was so named because this offspring of Medusa brought it into being Pegasus |
| #8476, aired 2021-09-27 | ROCK LEGENDS: A new studio album in 2020 gave him a Top 5 album in 6 consecutive decades, his first in 1975 (Bruce) Springsteen |
| #8473, aired 2021-09-22 | LANDMARKS: 96 miles in total during its 3-decade existence, the most well-known part of this was about the same length as an Olympic marathon the Berlin Wall |
| #8470, aired 2021-09-17 | 19th CENTURY U.S. POLITICS: Named after a U.K. political party that helped depose a king, the U.S. Whig Party was formed to oppose this man (Andrew) Jackson |
| #8467, aired 2021-09-14 | SCIENTIFIC ETYMOLOGY: 2 of the 3 men for whom armalcolite, a dark gray mineral discovered in 1969, is named (2 of) (Neil) Armstrong, (Buzz) Aldrin or (Michael) Collins |
| #8466, aired 2021-09-13 | THE 13 COLONIES: Founded by an advocate of religious freedom, it was the site of America's first Baptist church & oldest synagogue Rhode Island |
| #8461, aired 2021-08-09 | BEASTLY EPONYMS: A penguin species found in southern South America is named for this 16th century man whose crew were the first from Europe to see them (Ferdinand) Magellan |
| #8459, aired 2021-08-05 | 1930s AMERICA: Unpopular at the time, the man for whom it is named wasn't invited to the September 30, 1935 dedication of this landmark Hoover Dam |
| #8458, aired 2021-08-04 | THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE: The first published announcement of the Declaration was by a Philadelphia paper that reported it in this foreign language German |
| #8457, aired 2021-08-03 | ASIA: This country became independent in 1946; in 1964 it officially switched its independence day from July 4 to June 12 the Philippines |
| #8456, aired 2021-08-02 | HISTORIC BUSINESSMEN: Born in the village of Waldorf, Germany in 1763, he arrived in the U.S. in 1784 (John Jacob) Astor |
| #8447, aired 2021-07-20 | THE 20th CENTURY: The code name for a historic meeting at this city was Argonaut, after the heroes who searched for the Golden Fleece on the Black Sea Yalta |
| #8445, aired 2021-07-16 | HISTORY: Completed around 1455, it sometimes gets another name because a famous copy was found in the library of Cardinal Mazarin the Gutenberg Bible |
| #8442, aired 2021-07-13 | INVENTORS & INVENTIONS: In 1899 James Atkinson patented his new & improved one of these, including its spring-powered snapping action a mousetrap |
| #8437, aired 2021-07-06 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES: In 2019 this public university attempted to trademark the word "the" for use on clothing & hats (the) Ohio State University |
| #8435, aired 2021-07-02 | HIT SONGS: Written in 1930, this song was a No. 1 hit in 1960 & was covered by The Band to support a 1976 presidential candidate "Georgia On My Mind" |
| #8432, aired 2021-06-29 | COLORS & HISTORY: A blue pigment & a shade of blue popular in shirts are named for these, the 2 opposing nations in an 1870-71 war France & Prussia |
| #8431, aired 2021-06-28 | MONARCHIES: The future Charles I suddenly became next in line to the throne of Austria in this year 1914 |
| #8430, aired 2021-06-25 | NEW YORK CITY: Bright new lighting installed in 1880 on a street that crosses Manhattan diagonally led to this 3-word nickname the Great White Way |
| #8429, aired 2021-06-24 | AMERICAN AUTHORS: "Camelot", "The Pilgrims" & "A Postscript by Clarence" are chapters in a classic novel by this author Mark Twain |
| #8428, aired 2021-06-23 | FAMOUS WOMEN: In 1983, 20 years after her famous first, she was honored on a one-ruble coin Valentina Tereshkova |
| #8426, aired 2021-06-21 | REFERENCE BOOKS: Emily Dickinson made frequent use of a work by this family friend & said that for several years, it was "my only companion" (Noah) Webster |
| #8423, aired 2021-06-16 | MOVIE CHARACTERS: A character who was going to be called Lunar Larry became him, inspired by the name of a real person Buzz Lightyear |
| #8422, aired 2021-06-15 | AMERICAN WOMEN: During her second marriage, she split her time among homes in New York, New Jersey, Paris & Greece & a yacht Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis |
| #8419, aired 2021-06-10 | THE SUPREME COURT: The 1st justice directly succeeded by his former clerk was Rehnquist by Roberts; the 2nd time was this other alliterative pair (Anthony) Kennedy & (Brett) Kavanaugh |
| #8418, aired 2021-06-09 | 1960s SINGERS: In 2002 Macon, Georgia, where he grew up, unveiled a statue of this man who sits overlooking the water, a nod to his posthumous No. 1 hit Otis Redding |
| #8417, aired 2021-06-08 | FOOD & DRINK PHRASES: A 1951 Time article said, "Since the war," this 2-word term for a period of time "has been written into union contracts" coffee break |
| #8416, aired 2021-06-07 | GOLDEN AGE ACTRESSES: In 2013 the Victoria & Albert Museum acquired her archives, including letters from Laurence Olivier & Tennessee Williams Vivien Leigh |
| #8414, aired 2021-06-03 | 17th CENTURY FRENCHMEN: Pope Urban VIII once said, "if there is a God," this French minister "will have much to answer for. If not, he had a successful life" (Cardinal) Richelieu |
| #8413, aired 2021-06-02 | NEWSPAPER NAMES: Used as a newspaper name from New York to San Diego, it was an ancient Roman official who represented the people's interests Tribune |
| #8412, aired 2021-06-01 | AROUND THE WORLD: In the 1860s a zoologist proposed that this island was once part of a lost continent he dubbed Lemuria Madagascar |
| #8409, aired 2021-05-27 | MUSIC & GEOGRAPHY: In a British folk tune, the title lass Maggie May is sentenced to go way down south to this penal colony that rhymes with her name Botany Bay |
| #8405, aired 2021-05-21 | AMERICAN AUTHORS: The year before his 1809 birth, his parents acted in "King Lear", leading scholars to believe he was named for a "Lear" character Edgar Allan Poe |
| #8401, aired 2021-05-17 | ANCIENT GREEKS: Plutarch quotes this man who sentenced many to death: "Small ones deserve that, and I have no higher for the greater crimes" Draco |
| #8399, aired 2021-05-13 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS: The last book Dr. Seuss published in his lifetime, it climbs bestseller lists every spring Oh, the Places You'll Go! |
| #8398, aired 2021-05-12 | WORLD'S FAIRS: The theme of Seattle's 1962 World's Fair was "Man in the" this era Space Age |
| #8394, aired 2021-05-06 | COUNTRIES' NATIONAL ANTHEMS: With words written by a Bishop of Urgell, its anthem praises Charlemagne & says it "was born a princess... between two nations" Andorra |
| #8393, aired 2021-05-05 | CLASSIC ALBUMS: The title of this huge hit 1977 album was the idea of the bass player, who specified it should be spelled the British way Rumours |
| #8389, aired 2021-04-29 | ODD WORDS: A homophone of a letter in the alphabet, this 5-letter word sounds the same if you remove its last 4 vowels queue |
| #8388, aired 2021-04-28 | HOLLYWOOD LEGENDS: This director was quoted as saying, "I believe I can take any 60 pages of the Bible and make a great picture" Cecil B. DeMille |
| #8385, aired 2021-04-23 | MOVIE TITLE CHARACTERS: In this 2012 film set just before the Civil War, a German dentist declares that the title character's surname is Freeman Django Unchained |
| #8383, aired 2021-04-21 | AMERICAN BUSINESS: In 2004, after a century as a household name, its last model rolled off the assembly line in Lansing, Michigan Oldsmobile |
| #8382, aired 2021-04-20 | EUROPEAN TOURIST ATTRACTIONS: Opened in 1843, it was frequented by Hans Christian Andersen & Walt Disney, who both found inspiration there Tivoli (Gardens) |
| #8380, aired 2021-04-16 | AMERICAN NAMES: One of the luminaries who drove in the "Golden Spike" in Utah in 1869 was this man who later founded a university (Leland) Stanford |
| #8373, aired 2021-04-07 | NOTORIOUS: In 1897 she was accused of a much lesser crime, shoplifting in Rhode Island Lizzie Borden |
| #8368, aired 2021-03-31 | LOGOS: After 9/11, designer Milton Glaser modified this iconic logo of his, adding a bruise & the words "More Than Ever" I Heart New York (I Love New York) |
| #8367, aired 2021-03-30 | AMERICAN HISTORY: While performing in Philadelphia, the future father of this man sent a letter threatening to slit Andrew Jackson's throat (John Wilkes) Booth |
| #8365, aired 2021-03-26 | 19th CENTURY AMERICANS: In 1869 he moved to Yosemite Valley & was the first to say the area was formed by glacial erosion, a theory generally accepted today (John) Muir |
| #8364, aired 2021-03-25 | LITERARY INSPIRATIONS: The now-debunked theories of Luigi Galvani influenced the science in this 1818 novel Frankenstein |
| #8362, aired 2021-03-23 | THE OLYMPICS: The "City of Angels" hosted the Olympics twice, the second time this many years after the first 52 |
| #8361, aired 2021-03-22 | SHAKESPEAREAN REFERENCES: This name given to U.K. labor strife in December 1978 & January 1979 was taken from the first line of a Shakespeare history play the Winter of (our) Discontent |
| #8358, aired 2021-03-17 | PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS: In the 1912 election these 2 parties on the left of the political spectrum finished 2nd & 4th, totaling 1/3 of the votes Bull Moose Progressive & Socialist |
| #8355, aired 2021-03-12 | HISTORIC PLACES: 8 presidents have visited this battle site with an Algonquian name about 50 miles from Washington; for McKinley, it was a return visit Antietam |
| #8351, aired 2021-03-08 | RADIO HISTORY: A 1949 broadcast in Spanish of this drama from 11 years before caused mass panic in Ecuador & the destruction of the radio station "The War of the Worlds" |
| #8349, aired 2021-03-04 | U.S. MILITARY EQUIPMENT: The U.S. Army's tradition of naming these began with the Sioux, used in the Korean War helicopters |
| #8348, aired 2021-03-03 | EUROPEAN LANDMARKS: Of the principal architects working on it from the mid-1500s to the 1980s, like Pierre Lescot & Hector Lefuel, none were foreigners the Louvre |
| #8345, aired 2021-02-26 | EARLY U.S. HISTORY: Elbridge Gerry, Charles Pinckney & John Marshall were the diplomats in this 1797 incident that led to a quasi-war with France the XYZ Affair |
| #8344, aired 2021-02-25 | LANDLOCKED COUNTRIES: Losing its ocean access in 1993, this African Union member is the most populous landlocked nation, with 110 million people Ethiopia |
| #8343, aired 2021-02-24 | BUSINESS HISTORY: David McConnell's cosmetics & perfume co. was rebranded in 1939 with this name, honoring the home of his favorite playwright Avon |
| #8339, aired 2021-02-18 | 19th CENTURY PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGNS: The first campaign of this man, who at 36 was the youngest major party nominee ever, was supported by the silver mining industry William Jennings Bryan |
| #8338, aired 2021-02-17 | WINTER SPORTS: The specific skill that gave this sport its name was eliminated from international competition after the 1990 World Championships figure skating |
| #8337, aired 2021-02-16 | GEOGRAPHIC NAMESAKES: In 1857 the former Surveyor-General of India objected to giving his name to this landmark as "the natives could not pronounce" it Mount Everest |
| #8334, aired 2021-02-11 | THE OSCARS: The first time an individual won 4 awards at a single ceremony was in 1954, when his wins included Best 2-Reel Short Subject Walt Disney |
| #8333, aired 2021-02-10 | HISTORIC NAMESAKES: This aircraft was named for the second president of the Weimar Republic Hindenburg |
| #8327, aired 2021-02-02 | WRITERS FOR CHILDREN: The Dartmouth Alumni Magazine gave "rejoice" as a rhyme for the correct pronunciation of his name Dr. Seuss |
| #8326, aired 2021-02-01 | SCIENCE WORDS: This word used to denote an irreversible dispersion of energy was coined in the 1860s to sound a bit like "energy" entropy |
| #8324, aired 2021-01-28 | 20th CENTURY AUTHORS: In a 1959 article he wrote, "People began to call themselves beatniks, beats... bugniks &... I was called the 'avatar' of all this" Jack Kerouac |
| #8323, aired 2021-01-27 | THE WILD WEST: These 2 legends both known for buckskin clothes & long, flowing hair met violent ends 38 days apart, in Montana & South Dakota (George Armstrong) Custer & (Wild Bill) Hickok |
| #8322, aired 2021-01-26 | POP MUSIC: First released as a single in 1982, this song was re-released & charted again 17 years later & 17 years after that "1999" |
| #8321, aired 2021-01-25 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY: Of the countries bordering the Mediterranean Sea, these 2 on opposite sides of it are the smallest & largest in area Algeria & Monaco |
| #8320, aired 2021-01-22 | STATUES: Statues honoring this man who was killed in 1779 can be found in Waimea, Kauai & in Whitby, England (Captain) Cook |
| #8314, aired 2021-01-14 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS: This 1969 book was first printed in Japan because no U.S. company would then make a book with so many holes in the pages The Very Hungry Caterpillar |
| #8312, aired 2021-01-12 | FAMOUS ANIMALS: When she first came to the world's attention in 1957, she was dubbed "Muttnik" by U.S. journalists Laika |
| #8309, aired 2021-01-07 | MUSICALS: 4 songs from this 1968 musical made the Billboard Top 10, including one with an astrological theme that was No. 1 for 6 weeks Hair |
| #8308, aired 2021-01-06 | BLOCKBUSTER MOVIES: Released in 2017, this movie is the highest-grossing film in the U.S. that's set during World War I Wonder Woman |
| #8307, aired 2021-01-05 | STATE NAME ORIGINS: The names of these 2 states honor a king & his father, who was executed in 1649 North & South Carolina |
| #8306, aired 2021-01-04 | LITERARY CHARACTERS OF THE 1600s: When the title character tells him that a great adventure may win him an island he can govern, he leaves his family Sancho Panza |
| #8297, aired 2020-12-08 | THE ANCIENT WORLD: He got to propose his own sentence & joked that since he was actually a benefactor of the state, he should get free meals! Socrates |
| #8293, aired 2020-12-02 | NOVEL CHARACTERS: This character from an 1851 novel "was intent on an audacious, immitigable, and supernatural revenge" Captain Ahab |
| #8291, aired 2020-11-30 | COMEDY MOVIES: In the original script for this 1975 film, the title object was finally found in London's Harrods department store Monty Python and the Holy Grail |
| #8286, aired 2020-11-23 | SECRETARIES OF STATE: Dirk Stikker, Dutch foreign minister 1948-1952, wrote, "Churchill's words won the war"; this American's "words won the peace" (George) Marshall |
| #8285, aired 2020-11-20 | MUSICAL THEATER: The word "Practical" was dropped from the title of this hit musical not long before it premiered in 1981 on London's West End Cats |
| #8284, aired 2020-11-19 | DOG BREEDS: Alpendog was a proposed name for this dog breed St. Bernard |
| #8283, aired 2020-11-18 | COUNTRY NAME ORIGINS: This island country was named for a 16th century Spanish king whose name comes from the Greek for "lover of horses" the Philippines |
| #8281, aired 2020-11-16 | 18th CENTURY AMERICANS: One eulogizer of this man noted, he "was able to restrain thunderbolts & tyrants" Benjamin Franklin |
| #8280, aired 2020-11-13 | U.S. MONUMENTS: More than 100 years after it was first proposed, this monument was dedicated by President Chester Arthur the Washington Monument |
| #8274, aired 2020-11-05 | FOREIGN WORDS IN ENGLISH: The first use of this Spanish term in English was by Wellington referring to partisans in the Peninsular Wars guerrillas |
| #8273, aired 2020-11-04 | COUNTRY NAMES: 5 U.N. member countries have one-syllable names: Chad, Laos & these 3 in Europe Spain, France & Greece |
| #8267, aired 2020-10-27 | THE 13 COLONIES: Pride in the document under which this future state was governed from 1639 to 1662 led to its official state nickname Connecticut |
| #8264, aired 2020-10-22 | 20th CENTURY ART: In occupied Paris, a German officer asked Picasso if he had done this masterpiece; he replied, "No, you did" Guernica |
| #8249, aired 2020-10-01 | LITERARY TERMS: In medieval times it was a long tale of a hero like Gisli or Njall; today it means any story of epic length saga |
| #8246, aired 2020-09-28 | ON THE OLD MAP: On the U.N. website's map of the world in 1945, these 2 initials of a member state appear 13 times on continental Africa U.K. |
| #8244, aired 2020-09-24 | ASTRONOMY: Discovered in 1967, the 1st of these stars was dubbed LGM-1--the perceived signal was jokingly thought to be from little green men pulsars |
| #8241, aired 2020-09-21 | PIONEERING EDUCATORS: Before going into education, she graduated from the University of Rome in 1896 & was named assistant doctor at its psych clinic (Maria) Montessori |
| #8236, aired 2020-09-14 | FAMOUS BUILDINGS: This Rome building with a name from the Greek was described by Michelangelo as coming from "angelic and not human design" the Pantheon |
| #8234, aired 2020-06-11 | MEDICAL HISTORY: One of the first recorded autopsies was performed on this man & revealed 23 puncture marks Julius Caesar |
| #8233, aired 2020-06-10 | NOTABLE BRITISH NAMES: Published in 1881, "The Formation of Vegetable Mould, Through the Actions of Worms" was his last & one of his bestselling books Charles Darwin |
| #8232, aired 2020-06-09 | PRE-CIVIL WAR PRESIDENTS: Encyclopedia Britannica says of him: "After an extended tour of Europe he retired to Concord...& he died in obscurity" Franklin Pierce |
| #8230, aired 2020-06-05 | 18th CENTURY NOVELS: The title character of this 1726 novel reaches 4 different lands as a result of a shipwreck, a storm at sea, pirates & a mutiny Gulliver's Travels |
| #8229, aired 2020-06-04 | NOTABLE BRITS: On this man's death in a 1935 motorcycle accident, Churchill said, his "pace of life was faster & more intense than the ordinary" Lawrence of Arabia |
| #8227, aired 2020-06-02 | AMERICAN FIRSTS: John Ledyard, sailing on Captain Cook's last voyage in search of the NW Passage, was the 1st American to land at what are now these 2 states Hawaii & Alaska |
| #8226, aired 2020-06-01 | EUROPEAN HISTORY: Once Europe's leading military power & later the largest state in Germany, it was abolished by the Allies in 1947 Prussia |
| #8218, aired 2020-05-20 | CLASSIC TV SITCOMS: "I Love Lucy" used the French word "enceinte" in a 1952 episode title because CBS didn't want this word used pregnant |
| #8217, aired 2020-05-19 | ADVENTURE NOVELS: In this novel the surname of a pastor, his wife & 4 sons is not given in the text; the title was meant to evoke a 1719 novel The Swiss Family Robinson |
| #8213, aired 2020-04-29 | 19th CENTURY NOVELS: Its first line ends, "the period was so far like the present period... for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only" A Tale of Two Cities |
| #8212, aired 2020-04-28 | 1950s FILMS: The last line of this epic film was "Go--proclaim liberty throughout all the lands unto all the inhabitants thereof" The Ten Commandments |
| #8211, aired 2020-04-27 | CIVIL WAR PEOPLE: Before they were photographed together in 1862, Lincoln wryly noted this general "should have no problem" sitting still for it George McClellan |
| #8209, aired 2020-04-23 | STATESMEN: The first Asian to accept the Nobel Peace Prize was the prime minister of this country who in 1967 renounced use of nuclear weapons Japan |
| #8206, aired 2020-04-20 | RECENT MOVIE SONGS: In October 2019 this song, a duet, was still in the Top 10 on Billboard's Adult Contemporary chart after spending a year on the chart "Shallow" |
| #8204, aired 2020-04-16 | SHAKESPEARE'S PLAYS: An account of a deposed Duke of Genoa in a 1549 "History of Italy" is a presumed source for this play The Tempest |
| #8203, aired 2020-04-15 | PRESIDENTIAL GEOGRAPHY: This Midwest city is the burial place of one 19th century president & was named for a relative of another Cleveland, Ohio |
| #8200, aired 2020-04-10 | WORDS IN THE NEWS: On September 25, 2019, searches on merriam-webster.com for the definition of this 3-word Latin term increased by 5,500% quid pro quo |
| #8198, aired 2020-04-08 | AMERICAN AUTHORS: She published under her middle name; her first name was Nelle, Ellen backward in honor of her grandmother Ellen Finch Harper Lee |
| #8194, aired 2020-04-02 | CLASSIC AMERICAN NOVELS: Lady Duff Twysden was the basis for a character in this 1926 novel set partly in Spain The Sun Also Rises |
| #8190, aired 2020-03-27 | PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY: He was the first president to deliver the State of the Union Address on television Harry Truman |
| #8188, aired 2020-03-25 | ALLITERATIVE LEGISLATION: Signed into law in March 1941, House Resolution 1776 was this act that provided aid to a foe from 1776 the Lend-Lease Act |
| #8187, aired 2020-03-24 | AMERICAN POETS: This New York woman died in 1887, the year after the subject of her most famous poem was unveiled Emma Lazarus |
| #8184, aired 2020-03-19 | 20th CENTURY HISTORY: 1946 was the last year this place, now a country, was represented in the U.S. House of Representatives the Philippines |
| #8183, aired 2020-03-18 | FAIRS & EXPOSITIONS: To celebrate the 500th anniversary of a major event, Seville, Spain & Genoa, Italy both had expositions in this year 1992 |
| #8180, aired 2020-03-13 | BIRDS: Black-footed & black-browed are 2 species of this seabird whose name was influenced by the Latin word for "white" albatross |
| #8172, aired 2020-03-03 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS: This book was published in Latin as "Virent Ova! Viret Perna!!" Green Eggs and Ham |
| #8171, aired 2020-03-02 | FROM THE DESK OF THE POPE: A 1919 letter quotes Jesus, "Go into the whole world and preach the gospel" & notes the vigilance, energy & hardships of these workers missionaries |
| #8170, aired 2020-02-28 | THE CIVIL WAR: The Chicago Tribune called Clement Vallandigham, an anti-war Ohio Democrat, a "traitor" & a "hissing" one of these creatures Copperhead |
| #8169, aired 2020-02-27 | 18th CENTURY AMERICA: The first Census, in 1790, listed 24 urban places; this port was the most populous one in the South Charleston |
| #8167, aired 2020-02-25 | FAST FOOD: This sandwich was 1st sold in 1962 as an attempt to give the many Catholics of Cincinnati something to eat on Fridays during Lent Filet-O-Fish |
| #8160, aired 2020-02-14 | FAMOUS FIRST LINES: These 7 words precede, "The rain fell in torrents, except at occasional intervals" "It was a dark and stormy night" |
| #8155, aired 2020-02-07 | QUOTES ABOUT 19th CENTURY AUTHORS: This author "showed that abysses may exist inside a governess", a heroine who was a "commonplace spinster" Charlotte Brontë |
| #8153, aired 2020-02-05 | AMERICAN HISTORY: At Harpers Ferry, John Brown & his rebels were defeated by troops commanded by this man who 2 years later led a rebel army himself Robert E. Lee |
| #8149, aired 2020-01-30 | ADVERTISING & MUSIC: In 2008, 34 years after it made Billboard’s Top 10, this song title was used by a southern state in a tourism campaign "Sweet Home Alabama" |
| #8142, aired 2020-01-21 | CLASSIC MOVIES: This 1939 film was loosely based on Senator Burton Wheeler, victim of a sham investigation for looking into the Justice Department Mr. Smith Goes to Washington |
| #8138, aired 2020-01-15 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE: Einstein's theory of relativity & Max Planck's quantum theory inspired this book that won a 1963 Newbery Medal A Wrinkle in Time |
| #8136, aired 2020-01-13 | THE BIBLE: This book of the Bible ends with "fire was on it by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel, throughout all their journeys" Exodus |
| #4, aired 2020-01-08 | 19th CENTURY LEADERS: Tall, lanky Joel Barlow was an ambassador carrying messages between these 2 world leaders, both mocked for being short Napoleon & Madison |
| #3, aired 2020-01-08 | INFLUENTIAL WRITING: Its second line is "All the powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre: Pope & Czar, Metternich & Guizot..." The Communist Manifesto |
| #8133, aired 2020-01-08 | EUROPEAN HISTORY: It took the French army until 1995 to declare him innocent, 101 years after he was convicted of treason (Alfred) Dreyfus |
| #2, aired 2020-01-07 | ASTRONOMERS: This man's name was given to a comet that crashed into Jupiter in 1994; he's the only human whose remains lie on the Moon Shoemaker |
| #1, aired 2020-01-07 | PRESIDENTS & THE BIBLE: "Silent" Calvin Coolidge was inaugurated in 1925 on a Bible open to this 6-word first line of the Gospel According to John "In the beginning was the Word" |
| #8131, aired 2020-01-06 | 1960s NOVELS: This book defines its own title as "concern for one's own safety in the face of dangers... was the process of a rational mind" Catch-22 |
| #8128, aired 2020-01-01 | SINGLE-NAMED PERFORMERS: The last single-named actress to win an Oscar was this woman who won for her supporting role in "Precious" Mo'Nique |
| #8125, aired 2019-12-27 | ART FIRSTS: The first French museum to buy this type of painting was the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Lyon, in 1901 Impressionist |
| #8124, aired 2019-12-26 | 19th CENTURY HISTORY: Wanting more French influence in the area he called Latin America, Napoleon III installed an emperor in this country Mexico |
| #8116, aired 2019-12-16 | TV THEME MUSIC: A short piece for 2 guitars called "Strange No. 3" was the first part of the theme music for this drama series that debuted in 1959 The Twilight Zone |
| #8115, aired 2019-12-13 | BUSINESS NAMESAKES: It's the last name of the man who said, "Our whole concept was based on speed, lower prices & volume...my God, the carhops were slow" McDonald |
| #8114, aired 2019-12-12 | WOMEN AUTHORS: In 1947 she testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee on how the film "Song of Russia" was Communist propaganda Ayn Rand |
| #8111, aired 2019-12-09 | VICE PRESIDENTS: George H.W. Bush in 1988 was the first sitting vice president to be elected to the top job since this man 152 years before Martin Van Buren |
| #8110, aired 2019-12-06 | EUROPE: A tourism website for this country noted its colorful history "filled with barbarians", royalty, "& even a movie star" Monaco |
| #8100, aired 2019-11-22 | HOME & GARDEN: In 1847 eccentric horticulturalist Sir Charles Isham popularized these when he imported terra cotta ones from Nuremberg garden gnomes |
| #8099, aired 2019-11-21 | AMERICAN HISTORY: One a Civil War hero & one a U.S. Senator, brothers with this last name were both considered for the 1884 Republican presidential nomination Sherman |
| #8097, aired 2019-11-19 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY: Peaking at 9,000 locations in 2004, this chain of stores was down to one in 2019, located in Bend, Oregon Blockbuster |
| #8096, aired 2019-11-18 | U.S. CITIES: Celebrating electricity & technology, an exposition in this U.S. "City of Light" in 1901 was overshadowed by another major event Buffalo |
| #8095, aired 2019-11-15 | INTERNATIONAL DISPUTES: A dispute over Etorofu, Habomai, Kunashiri & Shikotan has kept these 2 countries from ever signing a WWII peace treaty Japan & Russia |
| #8093, aired 2019-11-13 | ITALIAN INVENTORS: In a 1644 letter he wrote, "We live submerged at the bottom of an ocean of air", which is what his invention measures Torricelli |
| #8089, aired 2019-11-07 | 20th CENTURY ART: A derisive description of the shape of the houses in the 1908 painting "Houses at l'Estaque" gave this art style its name Cubism |
| #8088, aired 2019-11-06 | 20th CENTURY AMERICA: In 1939, turned down by 2 local theaters, Howard University was able to get an outdoor venue for this singer's yearly concert Marian Anderson |
| #8087, aired 2019-11-05 | THE 50 STATES: In 1840 this New England state was home to 24 of the 100 most populous U.S. urban places; now, its capital is its only one in the top 100 Massachusetts |
| #8086, aired 2019-11-04 | ANCIENT HISTORY: According to Herodotus, a messenger was sent 150 miles from Athens to Sparta, just before this 490 B.C. battle the Battle of Marathon |
| #8082, aired 2019-10-29 | 1950s CINEMA: Objects of attention in this suspenseful film include a digging dog, a scantily clad dancer & a possible murderer Rear Window |
| #8078, aired 2019-10-23 | 1930s NOVEL CHARACTERS: Prior to a murder in a 1934 book, he says he hasn't been a detective since 1927 & that his wife inherited a lumber mill Nick Charles |
| #8075, aired 2019-10-18 | THE POSTCOLONIAL WORLD: This African nation left the British Commonwealth in 2003 over sanctions on its undemocratic government; in 2018 it applied to rejoin Zimbabwe |
| #8073, aired 2019-10-16 | WORLD LEADERS: This man who ruled from 1949 to 1976 was sometimes called "the Red Sun" Mao Zedong (Mao) |
| #8072, aired 2019-10-15 | 20th CENTURY AMERICAN WOMEN: In her only kids' book, she says, "There was Rose. Rose was her name & would she have been Rose if her name had not been Rose" Gertrude Stein |
| #8068, aired 2019-10-09 | HIT 1980s ALBUMS: This American singer-songwriter briefly landed on the U.N.'s apartheid blacklist for his 1986 multi-platinum album Paul Simon |
| #8065, aired 2019-10-04 | WORLD LITERATURE: Some parts were translated from a 15th century Syrian manuscript when this work was introduced to Europe around 1700 One Thousand and One Nights |
| #8056, aired 2019-09-23 | MUSICAL THEATRE INSPIRATIONS: The title of this musical that opened on Broadway in 1964 was inspired by a Marc Chagall painting Fiddler on the Roof |
| #8051, aired 2019-09-16 | EUROPEAN AUTHORS: When he didn't win the inaugural 1901 Nobel Prize, 42 of his peers apologized to him, calling him "the most revered patriarch of today's literature" Leo Tolstoy |
| #8045, aired 2019-07-26 | HISTORIC SHIPS: 215 passengers were rescued when it sank in July 1918, about 500 fewer than it had rescued 6 years earlier the Carpathia |
| #8044, aired 2019-07-25 | 1970s ALBUM REVIEWS: Rolling Stone said this 1976 album had "the best & worst tendencies of L.A.-situated rock" & was an "unflattering portrait of the milieu" Hotel California |
| #8043, aired 2019-07-24 | CHILDREN'S AUTHORS: This author & illustrator who won the 1964 Caldecott Medal was dubbed the "Picasso of children's books" Maurice Sendak |
| #8042, aired 2019-07-23 | TOYS & GAMES: The prototype for this game that was introduced in 1948 was called Lexiko Scrabble |
| #8041, aired 2019-07-22 | LANDMARKS: David Livingstone wrote of this discovery of his, "Scenes so lovely must have been gazed upon by angels in their flight" Victoria Falls |
| #8024, aired 2019-06-27 | INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS: The first time this organization invoked Article 5 was on September 12, 2001 NATO (the North Atlantic Treaty Organization) |
| #8023, aired 2019-06-26 | 19th CENTURY LITERARY CHARACTERS: "Hard and sharp as flint... he iced his office in the dog-days; and didn't thaw it one degree at Christmas" Ebenezer Scrooge |
| #8014, aired 2019-06-13 | WORD HISTORY: This word for a bug or malfunction was popularized in the 1962 book "Into Orbit" by the Mercury astronauts glitch |
| #8013, aired 2019-06-12 | POPULAR PRODUCTS: This product that brought virtual tourism into homes in 1939 introduced its first virtual reality device in 2015 View-Master |
| #8006, aired 2019-06-03 | SHAKESPEARE'S TIME: The line "a great reckoning in a little room" in "As You Like It" is usually taken to refer to this author's premature death Christopher Marlowe |
| #8004, aired 2019-05-30 | NATIONAL ANTHEMS: Its anthem was adopted in 1947 to replace one by Joseph Haydn that had been tainted by association with Nazis Austria |
| #8002, aired 2019-05-28 | ANIMATED CHARACTERS: This cartoon character was based on a character in the educational comic "The Intertidal Zone" SpongeBob SquarePants |
| #8001, aired 2019-05-27 | GAMES: When this game was introduced in 1860, it had squares like Intemperance & Poverty & if you hit the Suicide square your game was over The Game of Life |
| #8000, aired 2019-05-24 | AROUND THE USA: Astronomy buffs visit Idaho for the USA's first dark sky reserve; oddly, part of it is this resort area with a bright name Sun Valley |
| #7998, aired 2019-05-22 | 19th CENTURY AMERICAN HISTORY: In 1832, by a narrow margin, this state's legislature rejected considering abolition; a split was completed in 1863 Virginia |
| #7997, aired 2019-05-21 | POETRY & THE MOVIES: Robert Lowell's "For the Union Dead" honored the 54th Massachusetts, the infantry unit in this 1989 film that won 3 Oscars Glory |
| #7996, aired 2019-05-20 | NAME THE FRENCH AUTHOR: "I am making myself liable to Articles 30 & 31 of the law of 29 July 1881 regarding the press, which make libel a punishable offense" Émile Zola |
| #7993, aired 2019-05-15 | RUSSIAN COMPOSERS: A 1913 piece by him was conceived of as the symphonic equivalent of a pagan ritual, to be titled "Great Sacrifice" Igor Stravinsky |
| #7989, aired 2019-05-09 | THE COLD WAR: The Cold War became entrenched in the mid-1950s after the formation of these 2 rival military alliances NATO and the Warsaw Pact |
| #7986, aired 2019-05-06 | POETS: A poem by him includes, "It was grassy and wanted wear;/
though...the passing there/
had worn them really about the same" Robert Frost |
| #7966, aired 2019-04-08 | HOLLYWOOD HISTORY: On June 6, 2018 the Chinese Theatre dimmed its lights to honor Jerry Maren, who lived to the greatest age of any of this 1939 group the Munchkins |
| #7960, aired 2019-03-29 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS: This 1883 classic ends with the words "A well-behaved little boy!" Pinocchio |
| #7958, aired 2019-03-27 | WORLD WAR II: In 1943 millions of matchbooks were distributed in the Philippines with this 3-word quote to boost morale "I shall return" |
| #7952, aired 2019-03-19 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD: Because its overseas empire was dwindling, Spain declared war on this much closer country across the water on October 22, 1859 Morocco |
| #7947, aired 2019-03-12 | 20th CENTURY HISTORY: Constructed in the 1930s, it extended from La Ferté to the Rhine River, though it also had sections along the Italian frontier Maginot Line |
| #7946, aired 2019-03-11 | PLAYWRIGHTS: Before his death in 2018 at age 91, he received 4 Tony Awards, a Pulitzer Prize & was nominated for 4 Oscars Neil Simon |
| #7944, aired 2019-03-07 | ART: This famous work of art was damaged in 1652 when a door was cut into a wall, removing Jesus' feet The Last Supper |
| #7942, aired 2019-03-05 | CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT MATH: Total of the numbers of the amendments banning state-sponsored official religion, ending slavery & repealing Prohibition 35 |
| #7941, aired 2019-03-04 | ANCIENT WRITINGS: Its principles still used today, this treatise has chapters called "Weak Points & Strong" & "Tactical Dispositions" The Art of War |
| #7940, aired 2019-03-01 | PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION YEARS: Prior to 2016 it was the last election year in which the winning candidate had never held public elected office 1952 |
| #7939, aired 2019-02-28 | BRITISH LITERATURE: A chapter of "The Jungle Book" has this double-talk title, echoing the opening line of a Brit's poem some 100 years prior "Tiger! Tiger!" |
| #7938, aired 2019-02-27 | 20th CENTURY HISTORY: Interpreting for Vaclav Havel, future ambassador Rita Klimova gave us this phrase for a smooth change of government the velvet revolution |
| #7935, aired 2019-02-22 | WOMEN IN U.S. HISTORY: In 1901 this activist was jailed for inspiring the assassination of William McKinley, but the charge was later dropped Emma Goldman |
| #7929, aired 2019-02-14 | COLORFUL GEOGRAPHY: Named for a soldier killed in 1846 at the start of a war, it was in the news again as a port of entry to the U.S. in 2018 Brownsville |
| #7927, aired 2019-02-12 | ISLANDS: 650 miles off the U.S., it was the site of a 1609 shipwreck of colonists bound for Jamestown that may have inspired "The Tempest" Bermuda |
| #7926, aired 2019-02-11 | PRIMETIME TV: "Complications" was a suggested title for this ABC drama that was renewed for a 15th season in 2018 Grey's Anatomy |
| #7924, aired 2019-02-07 | PRESIDENTS & THE MOVIES: 3 presidential films, all directed by Oliver Stone, have a total of only 9 letters in their titles--"Nixon" & these 2 W and JFK |
| #7921, aired 2019-02-04 | THE U.S. SENATE: An 1890 resolution by Senator Aldrich was killed by this, the very technique it sought to limit; a 1917 rule set some boundaries on it the filibuster |
| #7920, aired 2019-02-01 | THE SOLAR SYSTEM: For a while in the 1840s, the French wanted to name this new discovery "Le Verrier" & the British wanted "Oceanus" Neptune |
| #7917, aired 2019-01-29 | 20th CENTURY DISASTERS: On the radio in 1937 this 3-word exclamation came after "the smoke and the flames now...not quite to the mooring mast" "Oh, the humanity!" |
| #7916, aired 2019-01-28 | 19th CENTURY NOVELS: Ambrose Bierce, a Civil War veteran, said of this 1895 book, the author "knows nothing of war, yet he is drenched in blood" The Red Badge of Courage |
| #7915, aired 2019-01-25 | LAW ENFORCEMENT HISTORY: This U.S. group was formed to protect settlers in an area that had recently gained independence from Spain the Texas Rangers |
| #7914, aired 2019-01-24 | U.K. PRIME MINISTERS: He was the first U.K. prime minister born after Elizabeth II became queen Tony Blair |
| #7912, aired 2019-01-22 | COMIC STRIP TITLE CHARACTERS: These 2 were named for a European "theologian who believed in predestination" & a "philosopher with a dim view of human nature" Calvin & Hobbes |
| #7910, aired 2019-01-18 | TV PERSONALITIES: In 2000 this man was the host of a No. 1 rated network show & a No. 2 rated syndicated talk show Regis Philbin |
| #7909, aired 2019-01-17 | CONTEMPORARY ART: After it was auctioned in 2018, a work by this artist was renamed "Love is in the Bin" Banksy |
| #7908, aired 2019-01-16 | PEOPLE & PLACES: In 1790 Thursday October Christian became the first child whose birth was recorded on this remote island Pitcairn Island |
| #7907, aired 2019-01-15 | PRESIDENTIAL QUOTES: He said, "Victory over (the) Depression will be... by the resolution of our people to fight their own battles in their own communities" Herbert Hoover |
| #7903, aired 2019-01-09 | TV DRAMAS: So that viewers wouldn't think it was about opera, the "R" in this show's logo was turned into a gun The Sopranos |
| #7902, aired 2019-01-08 | 1950s TRAVEL: In March 1958 Hilton opened a hotel in this Western Hemisphere capital but 2 1/2 years later was out of business there Havana |
| #7900, aired 2019-01-04 | TRANSPORTATION: Carretera Transistmica, AKA the Boyd-Roosevelt highway, runs parallel to this waterway the Panama Canal |
| #7896, aired 2018-12-31 | 21st CENTURY OSCARS: Before she was 25, she became the youngest performer to receive a second Best Actress nomination Jennifer Lawrence |
| #7893, aired 2018-12-26 | HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY: Most of the land fighting in the first Punic war between Rome & Carthage was on this island Sicily |
| #7892, aired 2018-12-25 | THE SUPREME COURT: Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes once referred to this 1857 decision as the court's first self-inflicted wound the Dred Scott decision (Dred Scott v. Sanford) |
| #7890, aired 2018-12-21 | GEOGRAPHY & THE MOVIES: Named the first U.S. national monument in 1906, it was featured prominently in a blockbuster movie 71 years later Devils Tower |
| #7889, aired 2018-12-20 | THE WORKS OF MOZART: Composed in 1791, the year he died, & last in the Kochel catalog of all his works, K. 626 is this work Requiem |
| #7888, aired 2018-12-19 | POETS' BIRTHPLACES: 5 Cwmdonkin Drive was the address of the family home where he was born in 1914 Dylan Thomas |
| #7887, aired 2018-12-18 | U.S. LANDMARKS: The 1st segment of this was dedicated on July 4, 1930; the next, August 30, 1936; section 3, on September 17, 1937 & the last, on July 2, 1939 Mt. Rushmore |
| #7886, aired 2018-12-17 | NORSE MYTHOLOGY: After turning himself into a mare, he gave birth to an 8-legged horse that was later the prized steed of Odin Loki |
| #7883, aired 2018-12-12 | SCI-FI TV: One of the twin planets this alien race called home was Remus the Romulans |
| #7881, aired 2018-12-10 | 2-WORD WORLD CAPITALS: From 1936 to 1941 this city was the capital of Italian East Africa Addis Ababa |
| #7879, aired 2018-12-06 | WORLD AFFAIRS 2018: An Arab League summit final statement rejected "interference" by this country often mistakenly called an Arab land itself Iran |
| #7878, aired 2018-12-05 | NAMES IN AMERICAN HISTORY: In 1999 the U.S. government was ordered to pay his family $16 million for less than 30 seconds of film Abraham Zapruder |
| #7872, aired 2018-11-27 | ACTRESSES: In 1997 she became the first to win an Oscar for a film directed by her husband; her brother-in-law produced the film Frances McDormand |
| #7870, aired 2018-11-23 | OLYMPIC CITIES: Of the 4 "M" cities that consecutively hosted Summer Olympics in the 20th century, these 2 aren't national capitals Munich and Montreal |
| #7865, aired 2018-11-16 | MAMMALS: Scientific name Mellivora capensis, this 2-word weasel family member was named "most fearless mammal" a honey badger |
| #7864, aired 2018-11-15 | THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION ERA: She was disowned by the Quakers after marrying an Episcopalian upholsterer in 1773 & later took over his business Betsy Ross |
| #7859, aired 2018-11-08 | HISTORIC LEADERS: One of his many horses was named Roitelet & was ridden on the way home from Russia in 1812 Napoleon Bonaparte |
| #7854, aired 2018-11-01 | HISTORIC GEOGRAPHY: A northern limit of the Roman Empire was a fortified road in Germany stretching 350 miles between these 2 rivers the Danube and the Rhine |
| #7852, aired 2018-10-30 | TODAY'S INNOVATORS: The Ballbarrow was an early invention by this British man who's had greater success with sophisticated household devices James Dyson |
| #7851, aired 2018-10-29 | SHAKESPEARE: Aptly, Shakespeare used "moon" & "moonlight" more times in this play than in any other A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| #7847, aired 2018-10-23 | OLD ENGLISH LITERATURE: This "creature of evil, grim and fierce, was quickly ready, savage and cruel, and seized from their rest thirty thanes" Grendel |
| #7846, aired 2018-10-22 | PLACES IN THE NEWS: In a hint of the future, in 1973 Marjorie Post gave it to the U.S. govt. as a warm-weather presidential retreat, but it was returned Mar-a-Lago |
| #7843, aired 2018-10-17 | WORLD CITIES: The northernmost city with a population over 5 million, it was founded in 1703 & its name was changed 3 times in the 20th century St. Petersburg |
| #7837, aired 2018-10-09 | WORLD LEADERS: He was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize twice & the Literature Prize 7 times, winning for the latter in 1953 Winston Churchill |
| #7835, aired 2018-10-05 | MILITARY HISTORY: Prepared by the Chief of Staff to the Supreme Allied Commander, the "COSSAC Plan" outlined the details of this D-Day |
| #7833, aired 2018-10-03 | CITIES IN HISTORY: The Cathedral of St. Pierre was the center of the Calvinist Reformation in this lakeside city Geneva |
| #7826, aired 2018-09-24 | BRITISH ROYALTY: In Sept. 2017 Prince Charles became the longest-serving Prince of Wales, passing the man who became this king Edward VII |
| #7825, aired 2018-09-21 | COLOR ETYMOLOGY: This word for a gem & a shade of blue derives from the name of a Eurasian country from which gems came to Western Europe turquoise |
| #7820, aired 2018-09-14 | SPORTS HALLS OF FAME: Posthumously, Axel Paulsen was among the first group of inductees into the World Hall of Fame for this in 1976 figure skating |
| #7819, aired 2018-09-13 | BEFORE THEY WERE PRESIDENT: On October 4, 1940, for the premiere of what's been called his most famous movie role, Ronald Reagan was in this city South Bend, Indiana |
| #7818, aired 2018-09-12 | 18th CENTURY NAMES: In 1789 this doctor proposed 6 articles on penal reform to the French Assembly, including one on capital punishment Joseph Guillotin |
| #7815, aired 2018-07-27 | AMERICAN HISTORY: The last survivor of this battle that started a war died in 1854 & more men marched at his funeral than fought with him the Battle of Lexington |
| #7813, aired 2018-07-25 | BRIDGES: In 1990 the Yalu River Bridge was renamed the "Friendship Bridge" between these 2 nations; one is the other's best friend North Korea and China |
| #7812, aired 2018-07-24 | FASHION: Debuting in 1946, it was deemed "four triangles of nothing"; some critics even found it sinful a bikini |
| #7808, aired 2018-07-18 | 20th CENTURY PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS: The last election in which both major party candidates were former state governors was in this year 1980 |
| #7805, aired 2018-07-13 | MODERN LANGUAGE: This slang term for an environmentalist is literally true of groups that used passive resistance vs. deforestation, as in India in 1973 a tree hugger |
| #7804, aired 2018-07-12 | 1970s BESTSELLERS: The author of this novel thought of calling it "Silence in the Water" Jaws |
| #7802, aired 2018-07-10 | AGRICULTURE: Turkey is the world's largest producer of these fruits; its town of Cerasus was famous for them cherries |
| #7799, aired 2018-07-05 | AMERICAN AUTHORS: Her 1896 New York Times obituary called her "the writer of probably the most widely read work of fiction ever penned" Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| #7798, aired 2018-07-04 | CLASSIC ROCK: 25 years after these 3 men played a huge festival, they went to play again & ended the set with a tune about the 1st show Crosby, Stills and Nash |
| #7795, aired 2018-06-29 | 18th CENTURY NOTABLES: Researchers in London & Vienna now speculate that his 1791 death was due to a strep infection, not poisoning Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
| #7789, aired 2018-06-21 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY: Australia's fourth-largest city, it's at the southern end of the road called Indian Ocean Drive Perth |
| #7788, aired 2018-06-20 | CLASSICAL MUSIC: Not in the initial score, the feature giving this symphony its byname was a whim added by the composer close to its 1792 debut the "Surprise" Symphony |
| #7787, aired 2018-06-19 | 20th CENTURY AMERICAN HISTORY: On Nov. 3, 1948 he sent a congratulatory telegram, then told reporters, "I was just as surprised as you" Thomas Dewey |
| #7786, aired 2018-06-18 | CLASSIC TOYS: This toy was patented in the 1960s as a "liquid filled die agitator" Magic 8-Ball |
| #7783, aired 2018-06-13 | 1990s ANIMATED FILMS: Though it draws elements from "Hamlet", Disney says this was their first all-animated feature based on an original story The Lion King |
| #7781, aired 2018-06-11 | BRASS INSTRUMENTS: In playing this instrument whose early version was called a sackbut, it's about 6" from A to B, about 7" from C to D a trombone |
| #7779, aired 2018-06-07 | MEDIEVAL SCIENCE: 13th c. Emperor Frederick II's "De Arte Venandi cum Avibus" was the first work written about this -ology ornithology |
| #7777, aired 2018-06-05 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS: He got a real N.Y. Times obit in 1975; it said he wore "false mustaches to mask signs of age that offended his vanity" Hercule Poirot |
| #7776, aired 2018-06-04 | AMERICAN QUOTES: In a 1789 letter, Benjamin Franklin relates the durability of the new Constitution to these 2 things death & taxes |
| #7771, aired 2018-05-28 | 19th CENTURY AUTHORS: This author whom Helen Keller could identify by his cigar scent was the first to call Anne Sullivan a "miracle worker" Mark Twain |
| #7770, aired 2018-05-25 | OSCAR-NOMINATED ACTORS: He was nominated twice for playing Oscar winners--a real one in a 1992 biopic & a fictional one in a 2008 combat comedy Robert Downey Jr. |
| #7767, aired 2018-05-22 | FAMOUS RUSSIANS: In November 1836 this writer got a letter naming him to the Most Serene Order of Cuckolds; in February 1837 he was dead Alexander Pushkin |
| #7766, aired 2018-05-21 | U.S. GEOGRAPHIC HISTORY: In 1794 George Washington selected this spot, where today 3 states meet, for the site of a new armory Harpers Ferry |
| #7759, aired 2018-05-10 | WOMEN WRITERS: On her 2012 passing this Oscar nominee was described as "an essayist and humorist in the Dorothy Parker mold" (but funnier) Nora Ephron |
| #7756, aired 2018-05-07 | U.S. CITIES: This city, also the title of a film that won 2 Oscars, was named for a businessman known for 19th c. transportation Fargo |
| #7754, aired 2018-05-03 | FILM & WAR: The New York premiere of this film was on Thanksgiving, 15 days after the liberation of its title place Casablanca |
| #7750, aired 2018-04-27 | LEGENDARY PEOPLE: Leodegrance, king of Cameliard, gave the newlyweds a piece of furniture on the marriage of this daughter Guinevere |
| #7749, aired 2018-04-26 | SPORTS IN COURT: This athlete lost a 1931 lawsuit against the Curtiss Candy Company Babe Ruth |
| #7744, aired 2018-04-19 | U.S. HISTORIC SITES: Its official seal includes the year 1864 for when it was established, a folded flag & a scroll inscribed "our most sacred shrine" Arlington National Cemetery |
| #7743, aired 2018-04-18 | THE LATIN VULGATE BIBLE: In Latin Jesus says, I am "via et veritas et vita"--in English, these 3 words way, truth, life |
| #7742, aired 2018-04-17 | RUSSIAN CULTURE: This work was over 50 years old & excerpts had been popularized when it had its first full U.S. performance on Christmas Eve 1944 The Nutcracker |
| #7741, aired 2018-04-16 | GREEK MYTHOLOGY: In one version Thetis killed 6 of her children in her attempts to make them immortal; this warrior was her seventh Achilles |
| #7736, aired 2018-04-09 | 20th CENTURY PRESIDENTS: He took the Oath of Office twice 14 months apart Lyndon B. Johnson |
| #7733, aired 2018-04-04 | 19th CENTURY CLASSICAL MUSICIANS: The father of this future composer was a French teacher at the Warsaw Lyceum, where the child would later attend Frederic Chopin |
| #7732, aired 2018-04-03 | AMERICAN HISTORY: In 1899, a reunion of this alliterative squad took place, with the governor of New York fittingly on horseback the Rough Riders |
| #7731, aired 2018-04-02 | U.S. GOVERNMENT: The portrait here hangs in the building of this Cabinet department & depicts a man who once ran it the Department of Justice |
| #7730, aired 2018-03-30 | U.S. STATE HISTORY: During Ulysses Grant's 2-term presidency, only one state joined the Union: this one Colorado |
| #7722, aired 2018-03-20 | ROMAN HISTORY: Of this battle in 31 B.C., Virgil wrote, "Neptune's fields grow red with fresh slaughter" the Battle of Actium |
| #7721, aired 2018-03-19 | THE U.S. GOVERNMENT: Before signing the bill creating this, President George W. Bush noted its "nearly 170,000 employees" & "a new kind of war" the Department of Homeland Security |
| #7720, aired 2018-03-16 | MYTHOLOGICAL BEASTS: Hesiod said it fawns on all who enter "with actions of... tail & both ears", but when people try to exit it "eats them up" the hound of Hades (or Cerberus) |
| #7711, aired 2018-03-05 | OSCAR HISTORY: In the 1940s he became the first person to receive nominations as actor, director & writer for the same film Orson Welles |
| #7710, aired 2018-03-02 | SPORTS TEAM MASCOTS: Echoing a rock band with 8 platinum albums, the teams of the Ark. School for the Deaf are named for this animal a leopard |
| #7707, aired 2018-02-27 | AMERICANA: A 1931 story in the New Yorker said this "weighs 600,000,000 pounds (&)... contains 37,000,000 cubic feet" the Empire State Building |
| #7704, aired 2018-02-22 | ACTRESSES: Already an Emmy winner, in 2017 she won an Oscar for the same role that had won her a Tony Viola Davis |
| #7703, aired 2018-02-21 | WORLD WAR I: Site of an arduous WWI campaign, this town on the Dardanelles gets its name from the Greek for "beautiful city" Gallipoli |
| #7699, aired 2018-02-15 | MEDIEVAL ASIA: Though it means "one who serves", in medieval Japan it was a property holder who received rent from serfs samurai |
| #7697, aired 2018-02-13 | CLASSIC TV HOMES: In 2017 the Bel-Air estate used in this '60s TV show was listed for $350 million The Beverly Hillbillies |
| #7691, aired 2018-02-05 | CABLE TV HISTORY: "You need us... for everything you do" was a slogan used by this channel, one of the first to customize content by location The Weather Channel |
| #7687, aired 2018-01-30 | LITERATURE & MYTHOLOGY: The "very name embodies the idea of flight", says one analysis of a 20th century novel in describing this main character Stephen Dedalus |
| #7686, aired 2018-01-29 | THE 1960s: It was already a crime to alter one of these; a 1965 law passed 393-1 in the House criminalized burning one too a draft card |
| #7682, aired 2018-01-23 | LITERARY BROTHERS: This character first appeared in "The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter", an 1893 story in London's Strand Magazine Mycroft Holmes |
| #7679, aired 2018-01-18 | SNACK FOODS: The name of this cracker that's been around since 1903 suggests that it was baked 3 times Triscuit |
| #7676, aired 2018-01-15 | THE THEATER: In 1915 this play opened for the last time on Broadway, ironically at the Booth Theatre Our American Cousin |
| #7674, aired 2018-01-11 | THE MOVIES: It's the first Oscar nominee for Best Picture to be produced by an internet streaming service Manchester by the Sea |
| #7672, aired 2018-01-09 | THE FIRST CENTURY A.D.: Letters written by this Roman recount the events of a natural disaster, like the death of his uncle, a famous scholar Pliny the Younger |
| #7671, aired 2018-01-08 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: He became an ex-president while flying over a point 13 miles southwest of Jefferson City, Missouri Richard Nixon |
| #7669, aired 2018-01-04 | CARS: When it was introduced in 1953, this car model's emblem had a checkered flag & a red flag with a fleur-de-lis a Chevrolet Corvette |
| #7667, aired 2018-01-02 | NOVELISTS: A 2015 BBC list of the 25 greatest British novels included 12 by women, 3 of them by this woman who died in 1941 Virginia Woolf |
| #7666, aired 2018-01-01 | PLACES IN 1950s NEWS: Pravda reported that Khrushchev, on his way to lunch, announced his decision to give this region to Ukraine Crimea |
| #7662, aired 2017-12-26 | CANADA: As a response to new developments there, this territory was carved out of the Northwest Territories in 1898 the Yukon Territory |
| #7660, aired 2017-12-22 | RECORD LABELS: This label, home to U2 & Bob Marley, was created, fittingly, in Jamaica with an investment of 1,000 pounds sterling Island Records |
| #7659, aired 2017-12-21 | ADVERTISING CHARACTERS: This brand was looking for a Hemingway type when it hired Jonathan Goldsmith for its commercials Dos Equis |
| #7657, aired 2017-12-19 | WORLD WAR II: The book "From the Volcano to the Gorge" tells the story of this World War II battle Iwo Jima |
| #7655, aired 2017-12-15 | MOVIE SETTINGS: The setting for this 1994 Oscar-winning animated film was inspired by Kenya's Hell's Gate National Park The Lion King |
| #7654, aired 2017-12-14 | AMERICANA: In 2016 the Wingfoot Two, one of these, was christened near Akron a blimp |
| #7650, aired 2017-12-08 | PRIMETIME TV ACTRESSES: On the beat since 1999, she plays the longest-running female character currently on TV in a primetime non-animated series Mariska Hargitay |
| #7648, aired 2017-12-06 | REFERENCE BOOKS: This manual resulted from a military engineer's attendance at an unruly 1860s church meeting Robert's Rules of Order |
| #7647, aired 2017-12-05 | 19th CENTURY EUROPE: This 1814-1815 gathering of leaders prompted Beethoven to compose the cantata "The Glorious Moment" the Congress of Vienna |
| #7645, aired 2017-12-01 | HISTORIC WORLD BUILDINGS: Rome's Colosseum may have gotten its name because of a colossal circa 65 A.D. statue of this emperor erected nearby Nero |
| #7641, aired 2017-11-27 | GERMAN GEOGRAPHY: Of Germany's 16 states, these 2 at opposite ends of the country begin with the same letter & are the largest & smallest Bavaria & Bremen |
| #7640, aired 2017-11-24 | NOVEL TITLE CHARACTERS: One orphan arriving before him was given the surname Swubble; some arriving later were to be Unwin & Vilkins Oliver Twist |
| #7638, aired 2017-11-22 | THE CALENDAR: November 2017 is in the year 1439 AH in the calendar that dates from an action of this religious figure Muhammad |
| #7637, aired 2017-11-21 | CLASSIC ALBUMS: Hailed as the "greatest album of all time", in 2017 it returned to the top of the charts 50 years after its first release Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band |
| #7634, aired 2017-11-16 | INVENTIONS: When Time magazine named it Invention of the Year in 2007, it was described as too slow, too big, pretty & touchy-feely the iPhone |
| #7629, aired 2017-11-09 | THE GREAT DEPRESSION: A street-corner occupation that saved many in the Depression was aided by a 1930 tops-in-the-U.S. crop in this state Washington |
| #7628, aired 2017-11-08 | 19th CENTURY POETS: In 1824 he was refused burial in Westminster Abbey for "questionable morality"; in 1969 he got a memorial stone there Lord Byron |
| #7626, aired 2017-11-06 | MUSIC & HISTORY: This 1880 piece was written more than 6 decades after the Battle of Borodino, the conflict it commemorates the 1812 Overture |
| #7623, aired 2017-11-01 | THE OSCARS: For 1992, this New Yorker was the first man with 2 acting Oscar nominations in the same year for different films Al Pacino |
| #7618, aired 2017-10-25 | AMERICANA: The tiny town of Cayce, Kentucky was the home & supplied the nickname of a man famous in this job an engineer |
| #7614, aired 2017-10-19 | OSCAR WINNERS: He's the only actor to win 3 Best Actor Oscars, the most recent for his portrayal of a U.S. president Daniel Day-Lewis |
| #7611, aired 2017-10-16 | BIG BUSINESS: In 2000 this company reported revenues of more than $100 billion; in 2001 it was bankrupt Enron |
| #7607, aired 2017-10-10 | 20th CENTURY NOVELS: The protagonist of this novel "was fairly sure that his age was 39, and he believed that he had been born in 1944 or 1945" Nineteen Eighty-Four |
| #7604, aired 2017-10-05 | ACTORS & THEIR MOVIE ROLES: He played Shakespearean title characters 4 times, receiving Best Actor Oscar nominations each time Laurence Olivier |
| #7602, aired 2017-10-03 | 20th CENTURY WORLD LEADERS: He said, "Never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another" Nelson Mandela |
| #7601, aired 2017-10-02 | AMERICAN ARTISTS: This artist from Iowa once said, "All the really good ideas I'd ever had came to me while I was milking a cow" Grant Wood |
| #7594, aired 2017-09-21 | COMIC BOOKS: Told to create a character called this, Len Wein learned the real animal is short, hairy & will attack an enemy 10 times its size Wolverine |
| #7593, aired 2017-09-20 | U.S. POSTAL ABBREVIATIONS: In 1969 the "B" in this state's abbreviation was changed to an "E" to avoid confusion with a Canadian province Nebraska |
| #7588, aired 2017-09-13 | ANCIENT HISTORY: Battles at Trebbia & Trasimene were among the victories of this man who was born in Africa & died near the Black Sea Hannibal |
| #7585, aired 2017-07-28 | 21st CENTURY THOUGHT: The title subject of a 2007 bestseller, it was discovered in Australia where today it's a state emblem the black swan |
| #7583, aired 2017-07-26 | NOVELS: "A man can be destroyed but not defeated" is a line from this 1952 book, later a Spencer Tracy film The Old Man and the Sea |
| #7579, aired 2017-07-20 | STATE CAPITALS: In 1932 a 4,700-pound piece of the object that gave this capital its "small" name was moved to city hall Little Rock |
| #7578, aired 2017-07-19 | HISTORIC EVENTS: In June 1986 a bakers union expressed regret for a disaster in this European city 320 years before London |
| #7567, aired 2017-07-04 | CLASSIC CHILDREN'S LITERATURE: A 2016 biography of a children's author is titled "In the Great Green Room", a line from this classic book Goodnight Moon |
| #7566, aired 2017-07-03 | 20th CENTURY TRANSPORTATION: The first of these to enter service was christened by First Lady Pat Nixon at Dulles Intl. Airport on January 15, 1970 the 747 |
| #7563, aired 2017-06-28 | ENTREPRENEURS: In the 1960s M.T. Lott was one of the fictitious names he used to buy 27,000 acres in Florida Walt Disney |
| #7562, aired 2017-06-27 | LITERARY REFERENCES: An homage to a 1953 novel, this number appears as an error code when a user tries to access a web page with censored content 451 |
| #7560, aired 2017-06-23 | BOOKS OF THE 1960s: "Wherever I sat...I would be sitting under the same glass" this, the title of the author's only novel The Bell Jar |
| #7559, aired 2017-06-22 | EUROPE 1962: Rudolf Abel & this American are most associated with Germany's Glienicke Bridge on February 10, 1962 Francis Gary Powers |
| #7555, aired 2017-06-16 | CLASSICAL MUSIC: Scholars think this 1810 piano piece was dedicated to Elisabeth Röckel or Therese Malfatti, a student of the composer "Für Elise" |
| #7554, aired 2017-06-15 | RECENT OSCAR WINNERS: For his portrayal of a famous man born in the 1940s, he was the first actor born in the '80s to win the Best Actor Oscar Eddie Redmayne |
| #7552, aired 2017-06-13 | 16th CENTURY NAMES: In his 1557 almanac this French doctor predicted, "Immortal I shall be in life, and in death even more so" Nostradamus |
| #7549, aired 2017-06-08 | WORLD WAR II HEROES: Credited with saving thousands of lives before his disappearance, in 2016 he was officially declared dead by Sweden Raoul Wallenberg |
| #7548, aired 2017-06-07 | BRITISH KINGS: Bearing Roman numeral I, he subdued Wales & was called the "English Justinian" for his legal reforms Edward I |
| #7544, aired 2017-06-01 | AFRICAN CAPITALS: This port city on the Congo River was founded in 1883 & is named for a European explorer Brazzaville |
| #7542, aired 2017-05-30 | THE CIVIL WAR ERA: The USA's largest state school in 1861, by 1862 its enrollment had dropped by 90% the University of Virginia |
| #7541, aired 2017-05-29 | 19th CENTURY BRITISH AUTHORS: Cliffs Notes says a book by this man "was the work of a mathematician and logician who wrote as both a humorist and as a limerist" Lewis Carroll |
| #7538, aired 2017-05-24 | DOG BREEDS: This popular small dog breed is named for the man who was the Vicar of Swimbridge for almost 50 years, beginning in 1832 the Jack Russell Terrier |
| #7537, aired 2017-05-23 | CLASSIC ROCK SONGS: Jonathan Cain was a struggling musician when his father told him to keep at it & never give up, inspiring this 3-word 1981 title "Don't Stop Believin'" |
| #7534, aired 2017-05-18 | WOMEN AUTHORS: A 1936 New York Times review called the debut novel by this author "in all probability, the biggest book of the year: 1,037 pages" Margaret Mitchell |
| #7533, aired 2017-05-17 | ERAS IN U.S. HISTORY: On April 11, 1865 Abraham Lincoln spoke of "the mode, manner, and means of" this, which he would not live to see Reconstruction |
| #7532, aired 2017-05-16 | SCULPTURE: The book "From Marble to Flesh" is a biography of this statue that was created from 1501 to 1504 David |
| #7531, aired 2017-05-15 | THE PULITZER PRIZES: In 1947 a journalist from the Washington Post became the last to win a Pulitzer for national reporting by this means telegraph (or telegram) |
| #7530, aired 2017-05-12 | PLACE NAMES: A town named for its location where a river in Devon meets the English Channel, it's also the name of a college in New Hampshire Dartmouth |
| #7529, aired 2017-05-11 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES: Often used to describe artists ahead of their time, it was also the name of a youth militia in WWII Vichy France avant-garde |
| #7528, aired 2017-05-10 | 20th CENTURY BOOKS: "I felt his spurs in my side & I heard his battle cry" is a line from this 1982 book that became a stage sensation & later a movie War Horse |
| #7527, aired 2017-05-09 | FAMOUS TEACHERS: W.J. Bryan gave the keynote speech at this man's high school graduation in 1919; 6 years later their paths would cross again John Scopes |
| #7526, aired 2017-05-08 | A YEAR OF FIRSTS: Year in which the Department of Energy was created, the Indy 500 had its first female driver & the 1st president was sworn in under a nickname 1977 |
| #7525, aired 2017-05-05 | MONARCHS: In 2016 Elizabeth II became the world's longest-reigning living monarch when this country's king died after a 70-year reign Thailand |
| #7524, aired 2017-05-04 | NOVELS: In a Spanish translation of this novel, Chapter 1 begins, "Era el mejor de los tiempos, era el peor de los tiempos" A Tale of Two Cities |
| #7522, aired 2017-05-02 | MYTHOLOGY: This woman was created & given to Epimetheus as punishment for his brother's actions Pandora |
| #7521, aired 2017-05-01 | THE SUPREME COURT: Only 5 of the 17 chief justices previously served as associate justice on the Supreme Court; he was the last William Rehnquist |
| #7519, aired 2017-04-27 | TOYS: When it was first marketed in the late 1970s, this toy was given the Hungarian name "Buvos Kocka" Rubik's Cube |
| #7518, aired 2017-04-26 | HISTORIC HOMES: While the White House was being built, George Washington's executive mansion was in this city Philadelphia |
| #7517, aired 2017-04-25 | NUMERIC GROUPS: This numeric group was the subject of an April 20, 1959 Time magazine article titled "Rendezvous with Destiny" the Mercury Seven |
| #7516, aired 2017-04-24 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: Though he graduated from high school in 1901 & later graduated to the presidency, he never graduated from college Harry Truman |
| #7515, aired 2017-04-21 | 19th CENTURY EUROPE: Published in L'Aurore on January 13, 1898, it caused its author to be convicted of libel J'accuse |
| #7514, aired 2017-04-20 | ACTRESSES: Forbes says Jennifer Lawrence was the highest-paid actress in 2016; this alliterative woman was second Melissa McCarthy |
| #7510, aired 2017-04-14 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD: A 2010 study of this country is subtitled "Inside the Land of Milk and Money" Switzerland |
| #7509, aired 2017-04-13 | INTERNATIONAL SYMBOLS: Now representing an organization, it was formally adopted in Article 7 of the 1864 Geneva Convention the Red Cross |
| #7508, aired 2017-04-12 | SCARY MOVIES: A remake of this scary movie was released on 6/6/2006, 30 years to the day after the release of the original The Omen |
| #7491, aired 2017-03-20 | PAPAL NAMES: From the mid-20th century, it's the most recent papal name that's the same in Latin & in English Pius |
| #7485, aired 2017-03-10 | TV CHARACTERS: Oxford Dictionaries lists his name as a verb meaning to "make or repair (an object) in an improvised or inventive way" MacGyver |
| #7483, aired 2017-03-08 | CHILDREN'S AUTHORS: "The Tale of Kitty-in-Boots", written by her in 1914, was first published in 2016 Beatrix Potter |
| #7478, aired 2017-03-01 | THE OSCARS: Jimmy Stewart starred in 3 of the 6 films for which this Italian immigrant was nominated for Best Director Frank Capra |
| #7476, aired 2017-02-27 | U.S. LANDMARKS: In 1942 a Maryland area was named for the Tibetan paradise in "Lost Horizon" but in 1953 was renamed this, for a young boy Camp David |
| #7474, aired 2017-02-23 | SHAKESPEARE CHARACTERS: About himself he says, "Since the heavens have shap'd my body so, let hell make crook'd my mind to answer it" Richard III |
| #7473, aired 2017-02-22 | PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN YEARS: Year the New York World lamented, "The age of statesmen is gone... The age of rail-splitters and tailors... has succeeded" 1864 |
| #7471, aired 2017-02-20 | WORD ORIGINS: The first recorded use of this word in print was when Nathan Hope posted an image of his busted lip online in 2002 selfie |
| #7470, aired 2017-02-17 | WORLD LANDMARKS: Completed in 1884, the Washington Monument became the tallest manmade structure but 4 years later was surpassed by this the Eiffel Tower |
| #7468, aired 2017-02-15 | U.S. POLITICAL PARTIES: Shortly before its demise, it had split into "Conscience" & "Cotton" factions the Whig Party |
| #7466, aired 2017-02-13 | BOOKS OF THE BIBLE: It begins with God saying, "Take ye the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel" Numbers |
| #7456, aired 2017-01-30 | NAMES IN AMERICAN HISTORY: He headed a British committee on prison reform, which gave him the idea for founding a colony in America in 1732 James Oglethorpe |
| #7454, aired 2017-01-26 | 20th CENTURY PLAYWRIGHTS: He said of his 1949 play & its main character, "I could write about failure only because I could deal with it...I knew how he felt" Arthur Miller |
| #7452, aired 2017-01-24 | MEDALS & DECORATIONS: Her husband won in 1927; in 1934 she was the 1st woman to win the National Geographic Society's Hubbard Medal for exploration Anne Morrow Lindbergh |
| #7451, aired 2017-01-23 | ANIMAL SONGS: The title of this hit from a 1933 Disney "Silly Symphony" inspired a Tony-winning 1962 drama & an Oscar-nominated 1966 film "Who's Afraid Of The Big Bad Wolf?" |
| #7447, aired 2017-01-17 | PLAYS: This play was derived from a 1565 story, "Un Capitano Moro" Othello |
| #7443, aired 2017-01-11 | SHAKESPEARE: With a backdrop of war, the 1609 play titled "The History of" this pair takes place earlier than any Shakespeare history play Troilus and Cressida |
| #7438, aired 2017-01-04 | CLASSIC MOVIE ROLES: A letter to the director that said, "Dear sir, I am fat & wear spectacles" got a young actor a role in this 1963 film Lord of the Flies |
| #7435, aired 2016-12-30 | OSCAR-WINNING TITLE SUBJECTS: The only Nobel Prize winner to be the title subject of a Best Picture Oscar winner is this man John Nash |
| #7432, aired 2016-12-27 | THE CIVIL WAR: Made from a boiler at a Mobile, Alabama machine shop, it was deemed a success though it went down off Charleston 3 times the Hunley |
| #7431, aired 2016-12-26 | MOONS & PLANETS: The name of this moon refers to the mythical group that its planet’s name belonged to Titan |
| #7429, aired 2016-12-22 | LITERARY INSPIRATIONS: Seen here, the White City built for Chicago's 1893 Columbian Exposition is said to have inspired this author who then lived near it L. Frank Baum |
| #7428, aired 2016-12-21 | LITTLE COUNTRIES: It's the closest nation to the mainland U.S. where cars customarily drive on the left the Bahamas |
| #7427, aired 2016-12-20 | 2016 U.S. OLYMPIANS: If this U.S. state was a country, it would have been in the top 10 in gold medals with 14--9 of them by 1 man & 1 woman Maryland |
| #7415, aired 2016-12-02 | MODERN MYTHOLOGY: A purported image of this subject of legend was published in the Daily Mail newspaper on April 21, 1934 the Loch Ness monster |
| #7408, aired 2016-11-23 | NAMES IN THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION: A newspaper announcing his death in 1801 said he died in England & was "notorious throughout the world" Benedict Arnold |
| #7407, aired 2016-11-22 | EARLY AMERICA: William Bradford wrote that this document was partly inspired by the "mutinous speeches" of some passengers the Mayflower Compact |
| #7400, aired 2016-11-11 | FAMOUS FIRST NAMES: This first name of a 21st century activist was inspired by that of a Pashtun heroine known as the Afghan Joan of Arc Malala |
| #7398, aired 2016-11-09 | AMERICANA: It was constructed in the Paris foundry of Gaget, Gauthier & Co. from 1875 to 1884 the Statue of Liberty |
| #7393, aired 2016-11-02 | EW's 50 GREATEST MOVIE DIRECTORS: He "inaugurated a new depth--both visually... and emotionally... and (had) a voice that paid the bills until he died" Orson Welles |
| #7392, aired 2016-11-01 | EUROPEAN COUNTRIES: This nation joined the Warsaw Pact in 1955 & NATO in 2009, & was alphabetically first in each Albania |
| #7390, aired 2016-10-28 | SHAKESPEARE: These 2 title characters who have the same pair of initials both die by stabbing Juliet Capulet & Julius Caesar |
| #7389, aired 2016-10-27 | BRITISH POP MUSIC: This song released on July 11, 1969 to coincide with the Apollo 11 mission was used in the BBC's coverage of the Moon landing "Space Oddity" (by David Bowie) |
| #7386, aired 2016-10-24 | ANIMALS: In Greek myth she was a half-serpent & mother of the Sphinx; in zoology it's a weird mammal that lays eggs Echidna |
| #7370, aired 2016-09-30 | CORPORATE LOGOS: Created in 1971, this company's logo has been likened to a wing & was supposed to connote motion Nike |
| #7368, aired 2016-09-28 | HISTORIC HOMES: Also known as the "House of His Majesty", Fairfield House in England was the home of this African leader from 1936 to 1941 Haile Selassie |
| #7367, aired 2016-09-27 | 21st CENTURY MUSIC: The title of a Frida Kahlo painting inspired the 3-word name of this 2008 No. 1 hit by a British group "Viva La Vida" |
| #7366, aired 2016-09-26 | INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS: This European company uses about 1% of the world's lumber each year; it aims to make that 100% sustainable by 2020 IKEA |
| #7364, aired 2016-09-22 | OPERA: The heroine of this opera sings, “If you come to give me, so cruel, your last goodbye, the dark vortex of the Nile will be my grave” Aida |
| #7362, aired 2016-09-20 | POP CULTURE CHARACTERS: In 2015 this character was made an honorary citizen of Japan after over 60 years of residence there Godzilla |
| #7361, aired 2016-09-19 | AUTHORS: In 1948 he wrote he had an idea for a novel in which 2 guys hitchhike to California "in search of something they don't really find" Jack Kerouac |
| #7358, aired 2016-09-14 | 20th CENTURY SCIENCE TERMS: This 4-letter word was introduced in London in 1905 by Dr. H.A. des Voeux of the Coal Smoke Abatement Society smog |
| #7355, aired 2016-07-29 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES: This Catholic university gets its name from the Latin for “new” & “house” & was in the news in Spring 2016 Villanova |
| #7354, aired 2016-07-28 | NAMES IN THE NEWS: This 52-year-old went through a temporary growth spurt, growing 2 inches in less than a year, as revealed by a 2016 physical Scott Kelly |
| #7353, aired 2016-07-27 | 20th CENTURY ENGLISH NOBILITY: In Africa on Nov. 26, 1922, he anxiously asked Howard Carter, “Can you see anything?” Lord Carnarvon |
| #7352, aired 2016-07-26 | AMERICAN AUTHORS: On his 1849 death, it was said he was "regarded rather with curiosity than admiration" & "few will be grieved" Edgar Allan Poe |
| #7348, aired 2016-07-20 | COMMUNICATION: A 1978 presidential statement recognized October 4 as a day celebrating this communication system CB radio |
| #7346, aired 2016-07-18 | INTERNATIONAL SPORTS: Established in 1903, this European event was originally touted in a newspaper printed on yellow paper the Tour de France |
| #7344, aired 2016-07-14 | CIVIL WAR HISTORY: Of the 4 prewar states that permitted slavery but did not secede, it was the largest in area & latest to join the Union Missouri |
| #7338, aired 2016-07-06 | COMPOSERS: Brought to our attention by a 1984 film, this Italian had success with the 1780s operas "Tarare" & "Les danaides" Antonio Salieri |
| #7336, aired 2016-07-04 | DISNEYLAND: This attraction was originally built for the New York World's Fair in 1964, with proceeds going to UNICEF It's a Small World |
| #7332, aired 2016-06-28 | AMERICAN INVENTORS: Before his death in 1932, he donated over $100 million, including $50 million to the University of Rochester George Eastman |
| #7331, aired 2016-06-27 | FRENCH MONARCHS: His reign was interrupted for "100 days" in the 19th century before he was restored & reigned for 9 years more Louis XVIII |
| #7326, aired 2016-06-20 | EUROPEAN LITERATURE: "Episodes" in this 1922 work include the Lotus Eaters & Ithaca Ulysses (by James Joyce) |
| #7325, aired 2016-06-17 | GEOGRAPHY IN THE NEWS: Mexico's Programa Frontera Sur aims to secure its 600-mile-long border with this country Guatemala |
| #7321, aired 2016-06-13 | BILLBOARD CHART-TOPPERS: This singer's first studio album came out in 1955, but a 2011 duets release was his first album to hit No. 1 Tony Bennett |
| #7320, aired 2016-06-10 | FAMOUS AMERICANS: Of his greatest accomplishment, he humbly remarked, "Pilots... take pride in a good landing, not in getting out of the vehicle" Neil Armstrong |
| #7319, aired 2016-06-09 | 19th CENTURY NONFICTION: A 2014 bestseller, in 1853 it was called "more extraordinary" than "Uncle Tom's Cabin" because "it is only a simply unvarnished tale" Twelve Years a Slave |
| #7318, aired 2016-06-08 | STATE CAPITALS: This Midwestern capital was named for a man who was born in what is now Turkey over 2,000 years ago St. Paul |
| #7317, aired 2016-06-07 | HISTORIC TV: An authentic Bell H-13 Sioux air ambulance was used in the opening credits of this television series M*A*S*H |
| #7313, aired 2016-06-01 | COLLEGE TEAM SPORTS: The USA's first intercollegiate athletic event was in 1852 in this, which as a sport goes back to at least the Middle Ages rowing |
| #7311, aired 2016-05-30 | PLAYWRIGHTS: An 1892 Punch cartoon depicts him lounging with a cigarette & holding a fan with a name written on it Oscar Wilde |
| #7309, aired 2016-05-26 | ART HISTORY: "Escalier" is in the original title of a work by this artist that scandalized New York City's International Exhibition of Modern Art in 1913 Marcel Duchamp |
| #7305, aired 2016-05-20 | U.S. HISTORY: In 1790 a deal made Washington the nation's capital; the room where it happened was at Jefferson's house & negotiators included Madison & this Cabinet member Alexander Hamilton |
| #7304, aired 2016-05-19 | THE PRESIDENTIAL OATH OF OFFICE: In 2013 President Obama was sworn in on 2 Bibles--one was Lincoln’s & one belonged to this man who died 103 years after Lincoln Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| #7303, aired 2016-05-18 | THE SUPREME COURT: With the passing of Antonin Scalia, this Reagan appointee became the longest-tenured justice on the court Anthony Kennedy |
| #7301, aired 2016-05-16 | POLITICAL TERMS: Officials called tribunes sat at Rome's Senate door & if they didn't like what was going on, shouted this Latin word veto |
| #7300, aired 2016-05-13 | 20th CENTURY PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES: He was awarded a DFC in WWII for a combat mission as pilot of the B-24 bomber he named the "Dakota Queen" George McGovern |
| #7297, aired 2016-05-10 | ART MODELS: Seen here in 1942 are the real-life models for this painting American Gothic |
| #7296, aired 2016-05-09 | LEGISLATION: The original law called this was passed in 1944; today, there's a "Post-9/11" version that also pays for 36 months of university education the G.I. Bill |
| #7292, aired 2016-05-03 | U.S. MEMORIALS: Symbolic bookends, these 2 neighboring memorials mark the beginning & end of U.S. involvement in World War II the Arizona & the Missouri |
| #7291, aired 2016-05-02 | WORD ORIGINS: From the Greek for "all views", this word was 1st used to describe a large 1787 painting of Edinburgh by artist Robert Barker panorama |
| #7290, aired 2016-04-29 | LITERARY CHARACTERS: In 1929 London's Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital was given all rights to this character created 27 years earlier Peter Pan |
| #7287, aired 2016-04-26 | LITERARY QUOTES: More than once this 1897 novel quotes from Deuteronomy, "The blood is the life" Dracula |
| #7286, aired 2016-04-25 | METAPHORICAL PHRASES: In the late 1800s Clark Stanley was a notorious seller of this 2-word product, which he advertised as a curative liniment snake oil |
| #7285, aired 2016-04-22 | 19th CENTURY BRITS: In May 1810 during one of his more famous exploits, he employed the breaststroke Byron |
| #7284, aired 2016-04-21 | CITY NAME ORIGINS: This city that's home to an NFL team is named for an 18th century British prime minister Pittsburgh |
| #7283, aired 2016-04-20 | AT THE OLD BALLGAME: This word dates back to the 19th century & referred to what the Sun did to roofless seating bleachers |
| #7281, aired 2016-04-18 | AMERICAN ICONS: This WWII icon was created in a 1943 song that says, "That little frail can do more than a male can do" Rosie the Riveter |
| #7278, aired 2016-04-13 | FAMOUS HOTELS: The painting seen here, "A Vicious Circle", hangs in this hotel in the room that's portrayed in the painting the Algonquin Hotel |
| #7274, aired 2016-04-07 | BRITISH HISTORY: On January 1, 1801, George III relinquished this royal title claimed by English monarchs since the Hundred Years' War King of France |
| #7266, aired 2016-03-28 | TEXTILES: In 1939 this new product was touted as being strong as steel, fine as a spider's web & more elastic than natural fibers nylon |
| #7263, aired 2016-03-23 | 21st CENTURY NEWS: Russia took out $200 million in insurance, anticipating any damage that might be caused by this in 2001 the crash of the Mir space platform |
| #7261, aired 2016-03-21 | WORLD HERITAGE SITES: The 14th century Citadel of the Ho Dynasty in this country was added to the World Heritage List in 2011 Vietnam |
| #7258, aired 2016-03-16 | THE FRENCH REVOLUTION: The last prisoner moved before the Bastille was stormed, this nobleman left behind the manuscript for his most infamous work the Marquis de Sade |
| #7247, aired 2016-03-01 | 20th CENTURY POETS: It was said "his accent which started out as pure American Middle West" became "quite British U" T.S. Eliot |
| #7245, aired 2016-02-26 | CLASSICAL MUSIC: This title of a British ceremonial march comes from a line in Shakespeare that continues "of glorious war!" "Pomp and Circumstance" |
| #7242, aired 2016-02-23 | SHAKESPEARE: After a royal passing in January 1820, this tragedy that had been little performed got 2 new London productions in April King Lear |
| #7240, aired 2016-02-19 | LATE ENTERTAINERS: In 2015 a street connecting with Frank Sinatra Drive & Dean Martin Drive in Las Vegas was renamed in his honor Sammy Davis Jr. |
| #7238, aired 2016-02-17 | THE AFI's 100 YEARS... 100 MOVIES: This man who was in "The Godfather" & "Apocalypse Now" is the only living actor in 6 or more films on the list Robert Duvall |
| #7237, aired 2016-02-16 | HISTORIC OBJECTS: Exhibited in the British Museum since 1802, it was the centerpiece in a 1999 exhibition called "Cracking Codes" the Rosetta Stone |
| #7234, aired 2016-02-11 | NAMES IN THE NEWS: When this man joined Twitter in September 2015, his first follow was the National Security Agency's account Edward Snowden |
| #7232, aired 2016-02-09 | WORLD LITERATURE: It was originally published in 1915 under the German title "Die Verwandlung", meaning "The Transformation" The Metamorphosis (by Franz Kafka) |
| #7230, aired 2016-02-05 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: He was the only 20th century president who never delivered an inaugural address President Ford |
| #7222, aired 2016-01-26 | 20th CENTURY AMERICA: The 1970 follow-up line "We've had a main B bus undervolt" was addressed to a listener in this city Houston |
| #7219, aired 2016-01-21 | FAMOUS BRITS: Growing up, her favorite literary heroine was Jo March; they shared a name & a hot temper & they both wanted to write J.K. Rowling (Joanne Rowling) |
| #7216, aired 2016-01-18 | STATE CAPITALS: A 1957 event led to the creation of a National Historic Site in this city, signed into law by a president whose library is now there too Little Rock, Arkansas |
| #7208, aired 2016-01-06 | SITCOMS: When it premiered in 1974, this TV show used a 1955 No. 1 hit as its opening song Happy Days |
| #7207, aired 2016-01-05 | BRITISH NOVELS: In some countries the subtitle "A Contemporary Satire" was used for this 1945 parable Animal Farm |
| #7198, aired 2015-12-23 | BABY GIRLS' NAMES: In 2014 it was No. 1 in Sweden &, thanks to an animated movie, in the top 300 for U.S. baby girls for the first time in decades Elsa |
| #7194, aired 2015-12-17 | LANDMARKS: Jacques-Germain Soufflot, who designed this Paris landmark, was interred there 49 years after dying the Panthéon |
| #7193, aired 2015-12-16 | 19th CENTURY AMERICAN LITERATURE: The theft alluded to in the title of this 1844 Poe story is committed by a government minister "The Purloined Letter" |
| #7184, aired 2015-12-03 | SONGS FROM MUSICALS: This song from a Rodgers & Hammerstein musical was once simply titled "First Singing Lesson" "Do-Re-Mi" |
| #7183, aired 2015-12-02 | NEWLY INDEPENDENT NATIONS: Prior to South Sudan, this European country was the most recent one to gain independence & be recognized by the United States Kosovo |
| #7178, aired 2015-11-25 | DAYS OF THE WEEK: To the ancient Greeks, this day of the week was Hemera Aphrodites Friday |
| #7177, aired 2015-11-24 | THE OSCARS: For films of 2005 through 2012, he received nominations for Best Picture, Director, Writing & Acting George Clooney |
| #7176, aired 2015-11-23 | THE 16th CENTURY: In 1521 he was the credited author of "Defense of the 7 Sacraments" against Martin Luther's attacks Henry VIII |
| #7175, aired 2015-11-20 | PHILOSOPHERS: His last name means a type of burial place & in 1855 that's where he went Søren Kierkegaard |
| #7170, aired 2015-11-13 | GREEK MYTHOLOGY: Famous mother of Pyrrha, who survived the Great Flood & with her husband repopulated the Earth Pandora |
| #7169, aired 2015-11-12 | ARTISTS' SUBJECTS: The woman seen here, who was born in North Carolina & died in England in 1881, was the subject of this painting Whistler's Mother (Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1) |
| #7166, aired 2015-11-09 | AMERICAN AUTHORS: He was the first to have both fiction & nonfiction No. 1 New York Times best sellers; the latter featured his beloved poodle John Steinbeck |
| #7160, aired 2015-10-30 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES: Founded in 1873, it was endowed by & named for the richest man in America Vanderbilt University |
| #7159, aired 2015-10-29 | AFRICA: On the Horn of Africa, it's the only country whose name in English begins with a silent letter Djibouti |
| #7158, aired 2015-10-28 | POPULAR PSYCHOLOGY TERMS: Anna Freud wrote, "The infantile ego resorts to" this behavior "in order not to become aware of some painful impression" denial |
| #7157, aired 2015-10-27 | THE FOUNDING FATHERS: On an alphabetical list of Declaration of Independence signers, he comes between Lyman Hall & Benjamin Harrison John Hancock |
| #7156, aired 2015-10-26 | POP MUSIC HISTORY: Appropriately, this 1984 blockbuster was the first music CD mass-produced in the United States Born in the U.S.A. |
| #7155, aired 2015-10-23 | FLOWERS: The flower pictured here is called this, also a disparaging term for people on the political left a bleeding heart |
| #7154, aired 2015-10-22 | THE CIVIL WAR: There were about 900 casualties in the 1862 Battle of Secessionville, fought in this state South Carolina |
| #7148, aired 2015-10-14 | U.S. LANDMARKS: For its 50th anniversary in 2012, the roof of this landmark was temporarily repainted its original color, Galaxy Gold the Space Needle (in Seattle) |
| #7147, aired 2015-10-13 | MODERN AMERICAN POETRY: A critic said this 1956 poem was "a tirade... against those who do not share the poet's... sexual orientation" "Howl" (by Allen Ginsberg) |
| #7142, aired 2015-10-06 | EUROPEAN AUTHORS: "To explain... Harry by the artless division into wolf and man is a hopelessly childish attempt", he wrote in 1927 Hermann Hesse |
| #7140, aired 2015-10-02 | NOTABLE AMERICAN WOMEN: U.N. delegate was one role of this woman who wrote, "I could not... be contented to take my place in a warm corner by the fireside" Eleanor Roosevelt |
| #7138, aired 2015-09-30 | UNITED NATIONS NATIONS: This nation of 55 million is the only one to provide a secretary-general but never to have a seat on the Security Council Burma (or Myanmar) |
| #7136, aired 2015-09-28 | ROCK & ROLL: The group Nazareth took its name from the first line of a 1968 song from this other group The Band |
| #7126, aired 2015-09-14 | AMERICAN POEMS: The title of this poem that begins the 1916 book "Mountain Interval" was inspired by long country walks "The Road Not Taken" (by Robert Frost) |
| #7123, aired 2015-07-29 | WOMEN AUTHORS: This woman who passed away in 2015 wrote what is billed as Australia's "Gone with the Wind" Colleen McCullough |
| #7118, aired 2015-07-22 | MILITARY HISTORY: This country smaller than England was a colonial rival with which England fought 4 wars, the last from 1780 to 1784 the Netherlands |
| #7115, aired 2015-07-17 | 19th CENTURY AMERICANS: An account of her historic trial noted, "It was conceded that the defendant was, on the 5th November 1872, a woman" Susan B. Anthony |
| #7114, aired 2015-07-16 | EUROPEAN NOVELISTS: Alfred Dreyfus was among the thousands who marched through the streets of Paris in his 1902 funeral procession Émile Zola |
| #7111, aired 2015-07-13 | AMERICAN PRODUCTS: In 1913 this cleaning item was born when its creators named it from a word meaning "bright" or "shining" Brillo |
| #7110, aired 2015-07-10 | 19th CENTURY BRITISH LITERATURE: "I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel" is spoken to this title character by his creation Frankenstein |
| #7107, aired 2015-07-07 | INTERNATIONAL COMPETITIONS: Due to developments in 2012, this annual summer contest now lists no winner from the years 1999-2005 the Tour de France |
| #7102, aired 2015-06-30 | FAMOUS WOMEN: On January 5, 1939, in a Los Angeles probate court, this national heroine was declared legally dead Amelia Earhart |
| #7096, aired 2015-06-22 | THE FUTURE OF TELEVISION: This live-action TV show about a family debuted in 1965 & was set in 1997 Lost in Space |
| #7094, aired 2015-06-18 | AMERICAN AUTHORS: Published for the first time in 2014, her "Pioneer Girl" was initially rejected, revised & transformed into a fictional series Laura Ingalls Wilder |
| #7093, aired 2015-06-17 | THE OSCARS: In her 30s, this Texan was up for Best Actress in 2002 & 2003; she won Best Supporting in 2004 in a Civil War drama Renée Zellweger |
| #7092, aired 2015-06-16 | QUOTABLE PAINTERS: "A reviewer... wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was" Jackson Pollock |
| #7091, aired 2015-06-15 | 19th CENTURY POETRY: He rhymed the title character of one of his best-known poems with "drew on", "threw on" & "ruin" Lord Byron |
| #7086, aired 2015-06-08 | LITERARY CHARACTERS: This name made famous in a 17th century novel is derived from the Spanish for "sweet" Dulcinea |
| #7085, aired 2015-06-05 | MOTTOES: Though the 2 men were very different, this 4-word motto came to represent both Oscar Wilde & Louis B. Mayer "Art for art's sake" |
| #7084, aired 2015-06-04 | NOTORIOUS 20th CENTURY NAMES: Morton Sobell, a co-defendant with these 2, was also convicted but received a lighter sentence: 30 years in prison Julius & Ethel Rosenberg |
| #7082, aired 2015-06-02 | INFAMOUS: Born in Illinois of Huguenot ancestry, he was executed in June 1882, a year after his heinous act Charles Guiteau |
| #7081, aired 2015-06-01 | SPORTS RULES: The Syracuse owner created this in 1954 & it may have helped his team succeed the Lakers as champs the next year the 24-second shot clock |
| #7079, aired 2015-05-28 | AMERICAN LITERATURE: Published a year later, "Good Wives" was a follow-up to this 1868 novel Little Women |
| #7077, aired 2015-05-26 | ANCIENT TIMES: Aristotle said that an ancient Athenian law made uprooting one of these trees punishable by death an olive tree |
| #7076, aired 2015-05-25 | HYMNS: A Christian hymn & a Jewish holiday hymn are both titled this, also the name of a 2009 Tony-nominated musical Rock Of Ages |
| #7075, aired 2015-05-22 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE: In a recent British poll, the 1926 book about this title character was named the favorite children's book of the past 150 years Winnie the Pooh |
| #7071, aired 2015-05-18 | ANIMATED MOVIE CHARACTERS: Her look was partly inspired by descendant Shirley "Little Dove" Custalow McGowan & by model Christy Turlington Pocahontas |
| #7070, aired 2015-05-15 | CELEBRITY MEMOIRS: Memoirs by Righteous Brothers singer Bill Medley & this late actor share the title "The Time of My Life" Patrick Swayze |
| #7065, aired 2015-05-08 | HISTORIC SITES: On August 15, 1941 convicted Nazi spy Josef Jakobs became the last person to be put to death here the Tower of London |
| #7061, aired 2015-05-04 | CONSERVATION ORGANIZATIONS: Harriet Hemenway's boycott of the feathered hats of her social circle inspired the 1905 founding of this the Audubon Society |
| #7058, aired 2015-04-29 | CHAIN STORE NAMES IN THE NEWS: The 1917 first use of what became its name said this 2-word small room "called up the tube that the steamer... was torpedoed" Radio Shack |
| #7057, aired 2015-04-28 | MOVIES & TV: The first hit feature film based on a "Saturday Night Live" sketch was "The Blues Brothers"; this was the second Wayne's World |
| #7053, aired 2015-04-22 | AMERICAN POETRY: This 1883 poem says, "Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand a mighty woman..." "The New Colossus" |
| #7044, aired 2015-04-09 | REFERENCE WORKS: Now in its fourth edition, the book with this title first appeared in 1918 as a 43-page guide for Cornell English students The Elements of Style |
| #7042, aired 2015-04-07 | CELEBRITY FATHERS & DAUGHTERS: He won a Grammy in 1959, she won 3 in the 1970s & a song by both was 1991's Song & Record of the Year Nat King Cole & Natalie Cole |
| #7040, aired 2015-04-03 | EUROPEAN HISTORY: A 3-letter 9th century tribe is in the names of 2 21st century countries: the world's most vast, & this one Belarus |
| #7038, aired 2015-04-01 | ETYMOLOGY: From the Latin for "to walk before", a famous example of this 8-letter word was written in 1787 preamble |
| #7037, aired 2015-03-31 | COMEDY INSPIRATIONS: Rodney Dangerfield credited this 1972 Best Picture Oscar winner for inspiring his most famous line The Godfather |
| #7034, aired 2015-03-26 | NAVY SHIPS: First designated as Armored Cruiser No. 1, this ship was commissioned in 1895 & operated on our East Coast & in the Caribbean the Maine |
| #7033, aired 2015-03-25 | ACTRESSES: For playing a legal assistant in a 2000 film, she became the first actress to crash the $20 million salary barrier Julia Roberts |
| #7032, aired 2015-03-24 | THE SCULPTOR SPEAKS: "Chaste women remain fresher" was the reason he made a mother look barely older than her son Michelangelo |
| #7031, aired 2015-03-23 | U.S. CITIES: Kipling wrote of this city, "If a car" can "run up & down a slit in the ground... why shall I seek the reasons of the miracle?" San Francisco |
| #7029, aired 2015-03-19 | LITERARY ANAGRAMS: Vivian Darkbloom, a minor character in a 1955 novel by this foreign-born author, is an anagram of his name Vladimir Nabokov |
| #7028, aired 2015-03-18 | COMPOSERS: 2 of the world's greatest Baroque composers, they were born within a month of each other in Germany in 1685 but never met Johann Sebastian Bach & George Frederic Handel |
| #7022, aired 2015-03-10 | NOBEL LAUREATES: He was the subject of a 2014 New York Times article headlined "A Pioneer as Elusive as His Particle" Peter Higgs |
| #7020, aired 2015-03-06 | ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME INDUCTION SPEECHES: Springsteen said David Sancious was "the only member of the group who ever actually lived" there E Street |
| #7019, aired 2015-03-05 | PRESIDENTIAL MEDAL OF FREEDOM WINNERS: She was called a "Trailblazer for America's daughters" when she won in 2012, a century after founding an organization Juliette Gordon Low |
| #7018, aired 2015-03-04 | PRESIDENTS & THE WHITE HOUSE: When the current presidential occupant of the White House was born, this president was living there John Fitzgerald Kennedy |
| #7010, aired 2015-02-20 | WORD ORIGINS: Describing anything very showy, in architecture it refers to a style using curves like tongues of fire flamboyant |
| #7008, aired 2015-02-18 | NO. 1 SONGS: A U.S. No. 1 in 1977, it was performed the night before Carl XVI Gustaf's 1976 wedding to Silvia Sommerlath "Dancing Queen" |
| #7007, aired 2015-02-17 | CALIFORNIA CITIES: A park, elementary school & medical pavilion named for Herbert Hoover are found in this 2-word California city Palo Alto |
| #7005, aired 2015-02-13 | HISTORIC NAMES ON THE MAP: Nothing is known of his early life in England before 1600 or of the end of his life in North America after June 22, 1611 Henry Hudson |
| #7001, aired 2015-02-09 | 19th CENTURY WRITERS: After his death, he was given full military honors in Greece before his body was returned home for burial at his baronial seat Lord Byron |
| #6996, aired 2015-02-02 | LIBRARIES: The street address of his presidential library is 40 Presidential Drive Ronald Reagan |
| #6995, aired 2015-01-30 | INVENTORS: In 1702 Thomas Savery wrote of one of his designs, "Such an engine will do the work or labour of ten or twelve" these horses |
| #6992, aired 2015-01-27 | BEST ACTOR OSCARS: 1 of 2 performers to win 2 Best Actor Oscars for films that won Best Picture Marlon Brando or Dustin Hoffman |
| #6990, aired 2015-01-23 | RIVERS: This North American river first sailed by Europeans in 1534 is named for a man who was martyred in Rome in the 3rd century the St. Lawrence River |
| #6985, aired 2015-01-16 | EPITAPHS: His headstone in Rome reads in part: "This grave contains all that was mortal, of a young English poet" John Keats |
| #6982, aired 2015-01-13 | BROADWAY MUSICALS: "Iowa Stubborn" was the second song heard in this show when it opened on Broadway in 1957 The Music Man |
| #6979, aired 2015-01-08 | ARTISTS: He said a 2009 exhibit was the 1st time taxpayers' money was used "to hang my pictures up rather than scrape them off" Banksy |
| #6972, aired 2014-12-30 | ROYALTY: He was the last English monarch to die in battle Richard III |
| #6971, aired 2014-12-29 | BOOK DEDICATIONS: The 1853 dedication of "12 Years a Slave" was to this woman author "whose name... is identified with the Great Reform" Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| #6963, aired 2014-12-17 | THE AFI's 100 GREATEST FILMS: One of the top 20, this 1946 film was based on a short story published as "The Man Who Was Never Born" It's a Wonderful Life |
| #6962, aired 2014-12-16 | SOUTH AMERICA: In 2004 the dollar replaced the guilder as the monetary unit of this country Suriname |
| #6959, aired 2014-12-11 | THE BIBLE: The first birthday celebration mentioned in the Bible takes place in Genesis 40 & is in honor of this ruler the Pharaoh in Egypt |
| #6958, aired 2014-12-10 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: The first man in the 20th century to hold all 4 federally elected offices: congressman, senator, vice president & president Lyndon Baines Johnson (LBJ) |
| #6956, aired 2014-12-08 | MOVIE TITLE REFERENCES: For this 1971 film the reference is to the 1948 film "Red River" The Last Picture Show |
| #6949, aired 2014-11-27 | BODIES OF WATER: First encountered in 1648 by a man born in Russia, it was eventually named after a man born in Denmark the Bering Strait |
| #6945, aired 2014-11-21 | SHAKESPEAREAN GEOGRAPHY: Of the 5 cities mentioned in Shakespeare play titles, it's the only one not found in Europe Tyre |
| #6944, aired 2014-11-20 | 20th CENTURY PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS: In this year, there were no pres's or VPs running, but 3 of the 4 men on the 2 major party ballots would become president 1920 |
| #6940, aired 2014-11-14 | OPERA CHARACTERS: In an 1893 opera that was its composer's greatest success, Peter & Gertrud are the parents of these 2 characters Hansel & Gretel |
| #6930, aired 2014-10-31 | INVENTIONS: This machine was invented in 1929; the government began buying them to help prevent any more in a series of Army Air Corps fatalities the flight simulator |
| #6926, aired 2014-10-27 | ROCK & ROLL: A restaurant chain took its name from a British band's fourth chart-topper, this 1967 song "Ruby Tuesday" |
| #6924, aired 2014-10-23 | FRENCH FOOD HISTORY: A popular product was born when Jean Naigeon of this city substituted the juice of unripe grapes for vinegar Dijon |
| #6919, aired 2014-10-16 | LITERATURE: This title 1864 adventure is embarked upon by a descent into Iceland's Mount Sneffels Journey to the Center of the Earth |
| #6916, aired 2014-10-13 | SPORTS FIGURES: He was featured on the September 22, 1947 cover of Time with the caption "He and the boss took a chance" Jackie Robinson |
| #6914, aired 2014-10-09 | HISTORICAL FIGURES: A 2012 poll by Britain's National Army Museum voted this man, born in 1732, as the nation's greatest military enemy George Washington |
| #6911, aired 2014-10-06 | MUSIC: John Williams said his music for this event, not a film, tried to capture "the spirit of cooperation, of heroic achievement" the (1984 Summer) Olympics (in Los Angeles) |
| #6910, aired 2014-10-03 | TV IN THE 2000s: A key scene of this sitcom's 2014 finale after 9 seasons was actually filmed in Season 2 How I Met Your Mother |
| #6902, aired 2014-09-23 | ENGLISH MONARCHS: She was born near London; her mother, near Madrid "Bloody" Mary Tudor |
| #6901, aired 2014-09-22 | THE BILLBOARD ALBUM CHARTS: 11 movie soundtrack albums by this performer hit the Billboard Top 10, with 4 hitting No. 1 Elvis Presley |
| #6900, aired 2014-09-19 | MOVIES ABOUT MOVIES: The title character of this 2013 film was played by David Tomlinson, who was actually seen only in clips from a 1964 film Saving Mr. Banks |
| #6899, aired 2014-09-18 | FOREIGN WORDS: The Holy Roman Empire from 800 to 1806 was the first; the German empire from 1871 to 1918 was the second reich |
| #6898, aired 2014-09-17 | MUSICAL THEATER: In "Godspell" this character leads the company in singing, "Prepare Ye The Way Of The Lord" John the Baptist (or Judas Iscariot) |
| #6896, aired 2014-09-15 | AUTHORS: In 1937 his sister said he had "hats of every description" which he would use as a "foundation of his next book" Dr. Seuss |
| #6895, aired 2014-08-01 | AWARDS & HONORS: There were no winners for this award from 1939 through 1943; in 1944, it was won by the International Committee of the Red Cross the Nobel Peace Prize |
| #6885, aired 2014-07-18 | FAMOUS HOMES: Purchased in 1957 & called "the second most famous home in America", it was designated a National Historic Landmark in 2006 Graceland |
| #6881, aired 2014-07-14 | LITERARY TITLE WORDS: It was Giovanni Boccaccio who added this adjective to another Italian author's work divine |
| #6880, aired 2014-07-11 | AMERICAN LITERATURE: Published in 1925, it still sells 500,000 copies a year & was on the bestseller lists in 2013 The Great Gatsby |
| #6874, aired 2014-07-03 | FAMOUS OBJECTS: In 1950 the England-Scotland border was closed for the first time in 400 years to try to recover this stolen item the Stone of Scone |
| #6870, aired 2014-06-27 | BRITISH AUTHORS: The Pharmaceutical Journal praised her 1920 first novel, saying it dealt "with poisons in a knowledgeable way" Agatha Christie |
| #6869, aired 2014-06-26 | SCIENCE & INDUSTRY: In 1891 this European said, "Perhaps my factories will put an end to war sooner than your congresses" Alfred Nobel |
| #6867, aired 2014-06-24 | 2004: Watching the Super Bowl halftime show, the head of this government agency kept saying, "My day is going to" be lousy "tomorrow" the FCC |
| #6864, aired 2014-06-19 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY: Founded in 1908, this big company was removed from the S&P 500 in 2009 after filing for bankruptcy but returned in 2013 General Motors |
| #6862, aired 2014-06-17 | 19th CENTURY NOVEL CHARACTERS: His "spinal column was curved"... the "head was between the shoulder-blades and... one leg was shorter than the other" Quasimodo (the Hunchback of Notre Dame) |
| #6860, aired 2014-06-13 | FOREIGN AFFAIRS: William Sullivan retired from the Foreign Service in 1979; he was the last U.S. Ambassador to this country Iran |
| #6855, aired 2014-06-06 | 20th CENTURY AMERICANS: In 1911 Glenn Curtiss received this document Number 1 a pilot's license |
| #6854, aired 2014-06-05 | 19th CENTURY U.S. HISTORY: A dignitary at the dedication of this said it was "keeping watch and ward before the open gates of America" The Statue of Liberty |
| #6850, aired 2014-05-30 | 19th CENTURY POLITICS: A Senate seat from this Southern state sat vacant for 4 years; when it was filled, its ex-occupant had become U.S. president Tennessee |
| #6847, aired 2014-05-27 | 20th CENTURY PLAY TITLES: This play's title comes from the name of a Greek king said to have carved a statue of a woman & fallen in love with it Pygmalion |
| #6845, aired 2014-05-23 | THE 1960s: In his last speech, he mentioned local newsmakers of the day, including his friend Cesar Chavez & Don Drysdale Robert F. Kennedy |
| #6844, aired 2014-05-22 | TECHNOLOGY: When Apple sued for iPad patent infringement, Samsung cited this 1968 movie as the originator of the design 2001: A Space Odyssey |
| #6840, aired 2014-05-16 | SECRETARIES OF STATE: Serving 160 years apart, these 2 Secretaries of State are the only ones who never married Condoleezza Rice & James Buchanan |
| #6838, aired 2014-05-14 | NAMES ON THE MAP: Visited by Jacques Cartier in 1534, it was later renamed for Queen Victoria's father, the Duke of Kent Prince Edward Island |
| #6837, aired 2014-05-13 | MONARCHS: 2 teen Hashemite cousins officially took the thrones of their respective countries May 2, 1953:
Faisal of Iraq & him King Hussein of Jordan (the Hashemite Kingdom) |
| #6835, aired 2014-05-09 | FAMOUS BOOKS: It was published March 26, 1830; a very popular work with the same name premiered March 24, 2011 The Book of Mormon |
| #6833, aired 2014-05-07 | SUPREME COURT DECISIONS: On December 20, 1956 the Court's ruling on Browder v. Gayle went into effect, bringing an end to this 381-day event the Montgomery bus boycott |
| #6832, aired 2014-05-06 | U.S. STATES: Between 2006 & 2013 it went from 39th to 6th in per capita income & its unemployment rate dropped to the nation's lowest North Dakota |
| #6831, aired 2014-05-05 | WORD ORIGINS: This word for a timid person comes from the last name of a character in a 1920s newspaper comic called "The Timid Soul" milquetoast |
| #6827, aired 2014-04-29 | U.S. HISTORY: Messrs. Gusenberg, Gusenberg, May, Weinshank, Clark, Heyer & Schwimmer famously died on this day in 1929 February 14 (or Valentine's Day) |
| #6826, aired 2014-04-28 | NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHORS: Due to injuries suffered in 2 plane crashes in Africa, he was unable to accept his 1954 Nobel Prize in person Ernest Hemingway |
| #6819, aired 2014-04-17 | 19th CENTURY PRESIDENTS: Good looks weren't enough as he became the only full-term president rejected in a bid for his party's 2nd term nomination Franklin Pierce |
| #6818, aired 2014-04-16 | TV MUSIC: "Crystal Blue Persuasion" by Tommy James & the Shondells was heard in this drama's "Gliding Over All" episode Breaking Bad |
| #6816, aired 2014-04-14 | SIGNS & SYMBOLS: Meant to evoke a person with arms outstretched & pointed downward, it was designed in 1958 by Gerald Holtom the peace symbol (or sign) |
| #6815, aired 2014-04-11 | HISTORIC IRONY: Theodor Herzl was inspired to begin the work that's the foundation for modern Zionism by an opera by this composer Richard Wagner |
| #6814, aired 2014-04-10 | FOREIGN LEADERS: In 1964 he was convicted of sabotage & conspiracy & served over 20 years in prison Nelson Mandela |
| #6810, aired 2014-04-04 | 20th CENTURY NOVEL QUOTES: "It was one of those pictures... so contrived that the eyes follow you... beneath" the picture was this 5-word quote Big Brother is watching you |
| #6808, aired 2014-04-02 | MONARCHS: In 2005 the Kul Sharif Mosque of Tatarstan was reopened 453 years after it was destroyed by this man Ivan the Terrible |
| #6805, aired 2014-03-28 | OSCAR NOMINATIONS: Prior to "Silver Linings Playbook", the last film to get Oscar nominations in all 4 acting categories was this film partly set in Russia Reds |
| #6797, aired 2014-03-18 | BRITISH AUTHORS: The author of more than 50 books, he won 6 Hugo awards & was nominated for a 1968 Oscar Arthur C. Clarke |
| #6795, aired 2014-03-14 | ACTORS & OSCARS: He was nominated for Oscars in 5 consecutive decades; the last nod was for his 1978 role as a Nazi hunter Sir Laurence Olivier |
| #6793, aired 2014-03-12 | BRITISH ROYALTY: He was the last male monarch who had not previously been Prince of Wales George VI |
| #6788, aired 2014-03-05 | 4-LETTER WORDS: New research says this word that has become ubiquitous dates back to young men also called "macaronis" dude |
| #6787, aired 2014-03-04 | BORDERS: Twice as long as Hadrian's Wall, Offa's Dyke was the traditional border between these 2 lands England & Wales |
| #6782, aired 2014-02-25 | BUSINESS: "The Everything Store" is a book about this company that in 2012 was home to 1% of all North American Internet traffic Amazon.com |
| #6781, aired 2014-02-24 | 19th CENTURY PEOPLE: Frederick Douglass said this man's "zeal in the cause of my race was far greater than mine" John Brown |
| #6780, aired 2014-02-21 | THE BRITISH EMPIRE: 1713's Treaty of Utrecht concluding the War of the Spanish Succession granted this small 2.3-square-mile area to Great Britain Gibraltar |
| #6776, aired 2014-02-17 | 19th CENTURY NAMES: In preparation for a work he published in 1828 that was over 20 years in the making, he learned 26 languages Noah Webster |
| #6775, aired 2014-02-14 | GETTING A "D" IN COLLEGE: The USA's oldest endowed chair is a Harvard chair of this subject, given in 1721 when that was largely what Harvard taught divinity |
| #6774, aired 2014-02-13 | HISTORIC PLACES: Administered by the Army, its first graves were dug by former slave James Parks, the only one buried there who was born on the site Arlington National Cemetery |
| #6772, aired 2014-02-11 | SOCIAL MEDIA: The most retweeted tweet of all time happened on November 6, 2012 & started with "four" & ended with these 2 words more years |
| #6771, aired 2014-02-10 | ISLANDS: In a satellite photo, volcanic activity can be seen on this 10,000-square-mile island Sicily |
| #6769, aired 2014-02-06 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD: Once a poor British protectorate, in 2012 this peninsular country ranked as the world's richest per capita Qatar |
| #6767, aired 2014-02-04 | 20th CENTURY WOMEN AUTHORS: Readers' letters to this author about her 1948 short story asked where the title event was held & if they could go & watch Shirley Jackson |
| #6766, aired 2014-02-03 | PRESIDENTS & FIRST LADIES: The only foreign-born First Lady was the wife of this man who served in the diplomatic corps from age 14 John Quincy Adams |
| #6765, aired 2014-01-31 | INVENTORS: In an 1854 demonstration, he said, "Cut the rope"; his invention kicked in, then he said, "All safe, gentlemen" Elisha Otis |
| #6762, aired 2014-01-28 | LITERARY QUOTES: A maxim of Ayn Rand was "Man's ego is" this "of human progress" the fountainhead |
| #6761, aired 2014-01-27 | THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT: This office is named for a tablecloth imprinted with squares that was once used as an abacus the Chancellor of the Exchequer |
| #6759, aired 2014-01-23 | NOTABLE NAMES: During a jubilee celebration in 2003, he became the first foreigner to be made an honorary citizen of Nepal (Edmund) Hillary |
| #6758, aired 2014-01-22 | LITERARY TITLE CHARACTERS: Lord Henry tells him, "What an exquisite life you have had!... It has not marred you. You are still the same" Dorian Gray |
| #6748, aired 2014-01-08 | 2013 OBITUARIES: She was called a "savior", a "heartless tyrant", a "trailblazer", "intimidating" & a "real toughie" Margaret Thatcher |
| #6741, aired 2013-12-30 | WORD ORIGINS: When evidence was lacking, juries of yore would reply with this Latin word meaning "we do not know"; now it means a dunce ignoramus |
| #6738, aired 2013-12-25 | AUTHORS: "The American Tolkien" was what Time magazine called this author with the same 2 middle initials as Tolkien George R.R. Martin |
| #6736, aired 2013-12-23 | PRESIDENTS & FILM: Jimmy Carter held 480 screenings at the White House; his first was this film set in 1970s Washington, D.C. All the President's Men |
| #6726, aired 2013-12-09 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: Although born in the United States, he was the only president who spoke English as a second language Martin Van Buren |
| #6725, aired 2013-12-06 | HISTORIC LETTERS: In April 1865 she wrote to Mary Lincoln, "I cannot remain silent... brokenhearted by the loss of my own beloved husband" Queen Victoria |
| #6723, aired 2013-12-04 | ASIA: Consisting of a peninsula & 2 islands, it was the longest-lasting European colony in Asia: 442 years, ending in 1999 Macau |
| #6719, aired 2013-11-28 | 20th CENTURY NAMES: In 1942 Winston Churchill said, "I can handle this peasant"; historians aren't sure things turned out that way Joseph Stalin |
| #6716, aired 2013-11-25 | NOBEL LAUREATES: The 1991 Nobel Peace Prize winner from this country was under arrest at the time of the award Myanmar |
| #6714, aired 2013-11-21 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: The second man to become president who was never elected to the job, he twice ran for the position unsuccessfully Millard Fillmore |
| #6712, aired 2013-11-19 | THE 2012 OLYMPICS: NBC reported that in the first days of Olympic coverage, this sport seen in recent books & on film was the most watched on cable archery |
| #6708, aired 2013-11-13 | MYTHOLOGY: Rich with electrum, the Turkish river Pactolus is where this legendary man was said to have washed off his curse King Midas |
| #6707, aired 2013-11-12 | HISTORIC OBJECTS: In 1802, 3 years after it was discovered, it was moved to London under the terms of the surrender of Alexandria the Rosetta Stone |
| #6704, aired 2013-11-07 | LITERARY INFLUENCES: The "Gossip Girl" series of books was inspired by this Pulitzer Prize-winning novel also set in New York City but 120 years earlier The Age of Innocence |
| #6701, aired 2013-11-04 | FOOD & DRINK: This soft drink was named for a digestive enzyme & a native African plant Pepsi-Cola |
| #6700, aired 2013-11-01 | NATIONS OF THE WORLD: The only 2 countries in the Americas that border each other & begin with the same letter Brazil & Bolivia |
| #6699, aired 2013-10-31 | THE TUDORS: "Alone in prison strong / I wail my destiny" & "let pass my weary, guiltless ghost" are lines from a poem attributed to her Anne Boleyn |
| #6697, aired 2013-10-29 | MOVIE COMEDIES: The hero of this 1993 comedy says he's "been stabbed, shot, poisoned, frozen, hung, electrocuted & burned" Groundhog Day |
| #6694, aired 2013-10-24 | ART IN THE U.S. CAPITOL: Members of the Hungarian, Swedish & Israeli parliaments spoke when a bust of this foreign diplomat was unveiled Raoul Wallenberg |
| #6690, aired 2013-10-18 | CARS: Introduced as a 2-seater & later celebrated in song, it was Motor Trend's Car of the Year for 1958, 1987, 1989 & 2002 the T-Bird |
| #6687, aired 2013-10-15 | NOVELS: Chapter 1 of this 1952 book ends, "This is about the way the Salinas valley was when my grandfather... settled in the foothills" East of Eden |
| #6671, aired 2013-09-23 | CLASSIC FILMS: The first scene of this movie was shot on the first day of filming, Oct. 2, 1960 at 5 A.M. at 727 5th Ave. at 57th St. in New York City Breakfast at Tiffany's |
| #6668, aired 2013-09-18 | WORLD WAR II: Because time was short, only this ship's starboard side, used for boarding, was repainted September 1, 1945 the USS Missouri |
| #6666, aired 2013-09-16 | POETS: Funds provided by his widow were used to set up a literary charity called Old Possum's Practical Trust T.S. Eliot |
| #6663, aired 2013-07-31 | THE CIVIL WAR: Abraham Lincoln called this document, which took effect in 1863, "a fit and necessary war measure" the Emancipation Proclamation |
| #6659, aired 2013-07-25 | FRENCH HISTORY: Starting in 1349, this marine animal was on the coat of arms of the heir apparent to the French throne a dolphin |
| #6657, aired 2013-07-23 | OSCAR-WINNING ACTORS: They're the only 2 Best Actor winners with the same last name; one was a winner for 1979 & 1988, the other for 2005 Dustin Hoffman & Philip Seymour Hoffman |
| #6650, aired 2013-07-12 | VIDEO GAME HISTORY: The title princess of this game, which launched a best-selling franchise, was named for F. Scott Fitzgerald's wife The Legend of Zelda |
| #6642, aired 2013-07-02 | THE ANCIENT WORLD: The area that the people of ancient Rome called this was their city's equivalent of the Greek agora the forum |
| #6641, aired 2013-07-01 | NOVELS: This 1934 novel was partly written in the Hotel Pera Palace in Istanbul; the room is now a memorial to the author Murder on the Orient Express |
| #6640, aired 2013-06-28 | 1950s FICTION: John Updike wrote "Rabbit, Run" partly in reaction to this more carefree novel that was published 3 years earlier On the Road |
| #6639, aired 2013-06-27 | TRANSPORTATION: Susan B. Anthony said this new fad had "done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world" the bicycle |
| #6633, aired 2013-06-19 | WAR NOVELS: Appropriately, the sound of musketry & artillery is described as "a crimson roar" in this story The Red Badge of Courage |
| #6625, aired 2013-06-07 | AMERICAN WRITERS: Contemporary reviews called this writer "A Yankee Diogenes" & the "Concord Diogenes" Henry David Thoreau |
| #6624, aired 2013-06-06 | AMERICANA: A bo'sun whistle was once a prize in boxes of this alliterative product introduced in 1963 Cap'n Crunch |
| #6620, aired 2013-05-31 | CLASSIC NOVELS: In his will, this title guy tells his niece Antonia she should marry a man who knows not "about... chivalry" Don Quixote de la Mancha |
| #6618, aired 2013-05-29 | AMERICAN MILITARY MEN: In April 1951 he told Congress, "In war there can be no substitute for victory" General MacArthur |
| #6617, aired 2013-05-28 | AMERICAN ACTORS: Reflecting a long friendship dating to a 1962 film they did together, Brock Peters gave the eulogy at this star's 2003 funeral Gregory Peck |
| #6615, aired 2013-05-24 | DISNEY SONGS: This 1964 song was inspired when one of the writer's sons took the oral polio vaccine "A Spoonful Of Sugar" |
| #6613, aired 2013-05-22 | AMERICAN WOMEN: Referring to a 1955 incident, she said, "Our mistreatment was just not right, and I was tired of it" Rosa Parks |
| #6611, aired 2013-05-20 | 20th CENTURY PEOPLE: In a PS to an April 12, 1945 letter, he wrote, "This was dictated before the world fell in on me... what a blow it was, but--I must meet it" Harry Truman |
| #6610, aired 2013-05-17 | THE CIVIL WAR: The last of the 11 Southern states to secede from the Union, it borders 6 of them Tennessee |
| #6609, aired 2013-05-16 | 20th CENTURY PRESIDENTS: These 2 men followed each other consecutively as vice president & later, in reverse order, as president Richard Nixon & LBJ |
| #6608, aired 2013-05-15 | FAMOUS EUROPEANS: After moving to Argentina in 1949, this industrialist was named a righteous gentile by Yad Vashem Oskar Schindler |
| #6607, aired 2013-05-14 | MODERN-DAY CHINA: Because Internet censors block mentions of this 1989 date, Chinese bloggers write it as "535" June 4 |
| #6606, aired 2013-05-13 | AUTHORS IN THE NEWS: When Curiosity touched down on Mars in 2012, its landing site was named in honor of this author who died weeks before Ray Bradbury |
| #6600, aired 2013-05-03 | SCIENCE: For a 1953 paper Odile Crick drew the diagram showing the structure of this DNA |
| #6599, aired 2013-05-02 | ISLAND COUNTRIES: No longer "western", this 1-word nation has moved to the west side of the Intl. Date Line to join Asia & Australia Samoa |
| #6598, aired 2013-05-01 | THE THEATRE: Dramatizing a murder from the year 1170, a 1935 T.S. Eliot play aptly had its first performance in this English city Canterbury |
| #6591, aired 2013-04-22 | BEST ACTRESS OSCAR NOMINEES: Her nomination in 1987 was the first Best Actress nomination for a science fiction film Sigourney Weaver |
| #6586, aired 2013-04-15 | AUTHORS: In hiding when his life was threatened, Salman Rushdie paid tribute to Conrad & Chekhov by using this pseudonym Joseph Anton |
| #6585, aired 2013-04-12 | PHYSICISTS: On Oct. 14, 1992 particle detector inventor Georges Charpak became the last man in physics to achieve this honor alone the Nobel Prize |
| #6581, aired 2013-04-08 | ART: One of its principal members said, "One morning one of us, having no black, used blue instead, &" this movement "was born" Impressionism |
| #6572, aired 2013-03-26 | THE 1990s: The 7th & last American to stay there was aerodynamic scientist Andy Thomas, with 130 days there in 1998 (Space Station) Mir |
| #6570, aired 2013-03-22 | SCIENCE WORDS: This biological term for cell division was borrowed in 1939 to describe a form of energy release fission |
| #6569, aired 2013-03-21 | ARTISTS: On his deathbed he told police, "What I have done is nobody else's business"; one theory is he was protecting others (Vincent) van Gogh |
| #6566, aired 2013-03-18 | SONGS: This U.S. ceremonial song was written in 1811 about the head of a Scottish clan, not an American leader "Hail to the Chief" |
| #6564, aired 2013-03-14 | BEATLES SONGS: It was one of The Beatles' longest songs & the one to spend the most time at No. 1 on the U.S. charts--9 weeks "Hey Jude" |
| #6562, aired 2013-03-12 | HISTORICAL RELATIVES: This king was the first of Henry VIII's many fathers-in-law King Ferdinand |
| #6560, aired 2013-03-08 | THE OSCARS: Brother & sister who were both nominated for 1969 Oscars: he for a screenplay, she for Best Actress; they didn't win Jane Fonda & Peter Fonda |
| #6558, aired 2013-03-06 | U.S. HISTORY: Congress has passed 11 of these: the first in 1812, the last in 1942 declarations of war |
| #6555, aired 2013-03-01 | BUSINESS HISTORY: In 1938 his company began installing instruments in U.S. homes to record the frequencies to which a radio was tuned A.C. Nielsen |
| #6554, aired 2013-02-28 | THE UNIVERSE: In 2006 it was moved to a new list that includes Ceres & Eris Pluto |
| #6552, aired 2013-02-26 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA: One of the 2 years in which 3 men served as president of the United States 1841 or 1881 |
| #6551, aired 2013-02-25 | AMERICAN AUTHORS: In 1925 she visited a floating theater docked in North Carolina to research her next novel (Edna) Ferber |
| #6549, aired 2013-02-21 | RUSSIAN HISTORY: Launched October 1, 1928, it was brought to a premature end in 1932 amid growing hunger 5-year plan |
|
Scott Menke, a senior from Johns Hopkins University
|
2009 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 21 and from Flemington, New Jersey...
|
|
Rachel Horn, a sophomore from Cincinnati, Ohio
|
2008-A Teen Tournament winner: $75,000. 15 at the time of the...
|
|
Ryan Chaffee, a tutor from Los Angeles, California
|
2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $91,900...
|
|
Joey Beachum, a senior from Mississippi State University
|
2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2008 College Championship winner: $100,000...
|
|
India Cooper, a copy editor from Madison, Indiana
|
\"She was an actor and copy editor in New York City...
|
|
Bernie Cullen, a biologist from Santa Barbara, California
|
"He was the first 5-time champion of the 1996-97 season. A...
|
|
Larissa Charnsangavej, a senior from Rice University
|
2009 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 21 and from Houston, Texas at...
|
|
Bruce Naegeli, a retired law librarian from Phoenix, Arizona
|
"He finished second in the 1988 Tournament of Champions. A retired...
|
|
Eugene Finerman, a writer from Northbrook, Illinois
|
"A finalist in the 1987 Tournament of Champions, he's a writer....
|
|
Pam Mueller, an entering law student originally from Chicago, Illinois
|
\"Representing Loyola University, she won the College Championship in November, 2000....
|
|
Bernard Holloway, a sophomore at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from Chapel Hill, North Carolina
|
"He was a 2002 Teen Champion. He's now a sophomore at...
|
|
Chuck Forrest, an attorney for the UN IFAD from Marino, Italy
|
\"In 1986, he was a law student living in Grand Blanc,...
|
|
Anjali Tripathi, a senior from MIT
|
"Math and science were her favorite subjects in seventh grade. We're...
|
|
Ariella Goldstein, a junior from Muhlenberg College
|
2009 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 20 and from Cortlandt Manor,...
|
|
Ellen Eichner, a junior from the Ohio State University from Northbrook, Illinois
|
2010-B College Championship semifinalist: $10,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
|
|
India Cooper, an actor and copy editor from New York City, New York
|
\"A semifinalist in the Tournament of Champions in 1992, now an...
|
|
Katie Winter, a senior from Tufts University
|
2008 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 22 and from Hershey, PA at...
|
|
Thomas Zamora, a junior at the University of Southern California from Cypress, California
|
2001 College Championship 2nd runner-up: $14,100. Thomas was 20 at the...
|
|
Steph Gagelin, a sophomore from the University of North Dakota from Grand Forks, North Dakota
|
2010-B College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
|
|
Danny Devries, a junior from the University of Michigan
|
2008 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 21 and from West Bloomfield, MI...
|
|
Tony Nagatani, a junior at Ithaca College from Honolulu, Hawaii
|
2001 College Championship quarterfinalist: $2,500. Tony was 20 at the time...
|
|
Larissa Kelly, a grad student from El Cerrito, California
|
2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament semifinalist: $10,000. 2019 All-Star Games member of...
|
|
David Madden, a student originally from Ridgewood, New Jersey
|
2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament semifinalist: $10,000. 2019 All-Star Games member of...
|
|
Monica Thieu, a sophomore at the University of North Texas from Dallas, Texas
|
2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2019 All-Star Games member of...
|
|
Cassie Hill, a recent graduate from the University of Mary Washington
|
\"Her dad is a lawyer, and by the seventh grade, she...
|
|
Erin McLean, a sophomore from Boston University from Danvers, Massachusetts
|
2011 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 2010-B College Championship winner:...
|
|
Andrew Chung, a sophomore from Harvey Mudd College
|
2008 College Championship 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $25,000. 20 and...
|
|
Brandon Hensley, a sophomore from Caltech
|
2008 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 19 and from Huntington, WV at...
|
|
Brittany Rogers, a sophomore at Saddleback College from Lake Forest, California
|
2001 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $5,000. Brittany was 18 at the...
|
|
Sam Weaver, a sophomore at Bradley University from Pleasanton, California
|
2001 College Championship quarterfinalist: $2,500. Sam was 20 at the time...
|
|
Marques Redd, a sophomore at Harvard University from Macon, Georgia
|
2001 College Championship semifinalist: $5,000. Marques was 18 at the time...
|
|
Robbie Berg, a freshman from the University of Pennsylvania
|
2010-A College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. Hometown: Davie, Florida. Robbie Berg Blog...
|
|
Bob Harris, a writer from Los Angeles, California
|
"This 5-time champ was a finalist in the 1998 Tournament of...
|
|
Lance Johnson, a model aircraft engine technician from Champaign, Illinois
|
"He was the first to get to the 5-win mark in...
|
|
Wolf Blitzer, a journalist from The Situation Room
|
"Since 1990, he's covered every major story for CNN, including the...
|
|
Colby Burnett, a high school world history teacher from Chicago, Illinois
|
\"He teaches at a school started by the Dominicans of St....
|
|
Sara Dean, a junior at Syracuse University from Olney, Maryland
|
2001 College Championship semifinalist: $5,000. Sara was 19 at the time...
|
|
Erin Bogart, a junior at Miami University of Ohio from Cincinnati, Ohio
|
2001 College Championship quarterfinalist: $2,500. Erin was 20 at the time...
|
|
John Cuthbertson, an investment analyst from San Diego, California
|
"He was the highest money winner of the 1993-94 season. An...
|
|
Jaime Green, a sophomore at Brown University from Nanuet, New York
|
2001 College Championship quarterfinalist: $2,500. Jaime was 18 at the time...
|
|
Michael Dupée, an attorney from Gainesville, Florida
|
"He was the winner of the 1996 Tournament of Champions. Today...
|
|
Surya Sabhapathy, a senior from the University of Michigan
|
2010-A College Championship 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $26,600. Hometown: Northville,...
|
|
Will Warren, a senior from the University of Alabama
|
2010-A College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. Hometown: Madison, Alabama. Will Warren Blog...
|
|
Dara Lind, a junior from Yale University
|
2008 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 20 and from Cincinnati, OH at...
|
|
Danielle Zsenak, a senior from Marquette University
|
2008 College Championship 1st runner-up: $50,000. Last name pronounced like "zshen-NOCK"....
|
|
Nick Yozamp, a junior from Washington University in St. Louis
|
2010 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 2010-A College Championship winner:...
|
|
Zach Safford, a senior from Williams College
|
"His early interest in cryptozoology has been replaced by a history...
|
|
Jonathan Hawley, a sophomore from Harvard University
|
2008 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 19 and from Oceanside, CA at...
|
|
Mysti Kofford, a junior at Boston University from New Orleans, Louisiana
|
2001 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $5,000. Mysti was 19 at the...
|
|
Dan Melia, a college professor from Berkeley, California
|
"He was a 1998 Tournament of Champions winner. Today he's a...
|
|
Leszek Pawlowicz, a shovel bum from Flagstaff, Arizona
|
"He was a material scientist living in Phoenix when he won...
|
|
Aisha Tyler, an actress, comedian, author and reality-show host from Archer
|
"In addition to film and TV roles, she performs comedy at...
|
|
Patrick Tucker, a senior from the University of Notre Dame
|
2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2009 College Championship winner: $100,000...
|
|
Curtis Joseph, a sophomore from Scottsdale Community College
|
"In 1999, his nickname was 'Curtles the Troll', and he wanted...
|
|
Cheech Marin, an actor, comedian, director, writer and musician from Lost
|
"He's played a cop on Nash Bridges, voiced a 1959 Chevy...
|
|
Andrew Ceppos, a senior from Tufts University
|
2009 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 21 and from Verona, New...
|
|
Anthony Dedousis, a sophomore from Harvard University
|
2009 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 19 and from Manhasset, New York...
|
|
Aisha Tyler, a comedienne, host and actress from Talk Soup, Friends, The 5th Wheel and Ghost Whisperer
|
2009 Celebrity Jeopardy! winner: $50,000 split between the International Rescue Committee/Congo...
|
|
Charles Shaughnessy, an actor from Mad Men
|
"As Shane Donovan on Days of Our Lives, he won three...
|
|
Pat Sajak, a game show host from Wheel of Fortune
|
"A former TV weatherman, he's gone on to become the world's...
|
|
Chuck Forrest, a lawyer and CEO from London, United Kingdom
|
\"He became a winner of the second-ever Tournament of Champions in...
|
|
B.D. Schwarz, a twelve-year-old from Oakland, California
|
"He wants to make others happy by opening a little game...
|
|
Anurag Kashyap, a senior from Poway, California
|
2008-B Teen Tournament winner: $75,000. Anurag was also the winner of...
|
|
Vera Swain, a junior from the University of South Carolina
|
2008 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 21 and from Charleston, SC...
|
|
Brett Dvorak, a junior at Indiana University from Granger, Indiana
|
2001 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $5,000. Brett was 20 at the...
|
|
Eddie Timanus, a sportswriter from Oak Hill, Virginia
|
"His 5 wins in 1999 made him one of the most...
|
|
Jeremy Bate, an emergency medical technician and writer from Tujunga, California
|
"A second-place finisher in the 2000 Tournament of Champions, he's now...
|
|
Jean Grewe, a graphic designer from Oak Park, Illinois
|
"She was the last 5-time champion in 1993. Today she's a...
|
|
David Traini, a high school administrator from Moorestown, New Jersey
|
"This 5-time champ finished second in the 1987 Tournament of Champions....
|
|
Rachael Schwartz, a lawyer from Washington, D.C.
|
"In 1994, she was the first female winner of a Tournament...
|
|
Soledad O'Brien, an anchor and special correspondent from CNN's Special Investigations Unit
|
"Currently the host of CNN's Special Investigations Unit, she's received critical...
|
|
Bob Verini, a film journalist and test prep teacher from Los Angeles, California
|
"A resident of New York City when he won the 1987...
|
|
Claudia Perry, a sports copy editor from Jersey City, New Jersey
|
"A pop music critic when she first appeared on Jeopardy!, she's...
|
|
Bernard Holloway, a junior from Mitchellville, Maryland
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2002 Teen...
|
|
Jayce Newton, a senior at UCLA from Long Beach, California
|
2001 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $5,000. Jayce was 22 at the...
|
|
Amy Fine, a part-time teacher from Bethesda, Maryland
|
"She was the last 5-time winner in the 1993-94 season. A...
|
|
Ryan Stoffers, a sophomore from UCLA
|
2010-A College Championship 1st runner-up: $50,000. Hometown: Saratoga, California. Ryan Stoffers...
|
|
Elizabeth Perkins, an actress from Weeds
|
"For the past five seasons, she's played the calculating and manipulative...
|
|
Yoni Freund, a Ph.D. student from Columbia University
|
"He has always wanted to be a writer, and now that...
|
|
Max Johansen, a senior from the University of Miami
|
"As a seventh grader, he was planning on a career in...
|
|
Olivia Colangelo, a junior from the University of Notre Dame from Murrysville, Pennsylvania
|
2010-B College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
|
|
Mark Petterson, a senior from the University of Kansas
|
2009 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 21 and from Prairie Village,...
|
|
Lindsay Eanet, a senior from the University of Missouri
|
2010-A College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. Hometown: Deerfield, Illinois. Last name pronounced...
|
|
Dan D'Addario, a senior from Columbia University
|
2010-A College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Hometown: Farmington, Connecticut. Daniel D'Addario...
|
|
Prashant Raghavendran, a sophomore from the University of Texas, Dallas
|
2010-A College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. Hometown: Austin, Texas. Prashant Raghavendran Blog...
|
|
Tim Relihan, a senior from the University of Nebraska from Stromsburg, Nebraska
|
2010-B College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
|
|
Chuck Forrest, a lawyer from Bosnia and Herzegovina
|
2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2014 Battle of the Decades...
|
|
Anderson Cooper, a news anchor and correspondent from CNN
|
"He anchors his own prime-time news show, a syndicated daytime talk...
|
|
Lisa Makar, a senior from University of Maryland
|
"As a seventh grader, she was planning a career as a...
|
|
Christie Whitman, a former governor from New Jersey
|
"She was New Jersey's first woman governor, and later became administrator...
|
|
Leatrice Potter, from Olney, Illinois
|
"This published poet likes to read at any free moment and...
|
|
Vinita Kailasanath, a sophomore at Stanford University from Laurel, Maryland
|
2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
|
|
Andrew Nerlinger, a senior at the University of Notre Dame from Wilmington, Delaware
|
2001 College Championship quarterfinalist: $2,500. Andrew was 21 at the time...
|
|
Matt Schnippert, a sophomore at Florida State University from Jacksonville, Florida
|
2001 College Championship 1st runner-up: $19,801. Matt was 19 at the...
|
|
Bob Blake, an actuary from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
|
"In 1990, he won the Tournament of Champions. An actuary from...
|
|
Michael Arnone, a writer and editor from Alexandria, Virginia
|
"He was the largest 1-day winner in the 2000-2001 season. Today...
|
|
Lyndsey Romick, a sophomore from Lewis & Clark College
|
2010-A College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. Hometown: Grants Pass, Oregon. Lyndsey Romick...
|
|
Anderson Cooper, an anchor from CNN's Anderson Cooper 360°
|
"As a baby, he was photographed by Diane Arbus of Harper's...
|
|
Chris Matthews, a TV host from Hardball and The Chris Matthews Show
|
"Once a presidential speechwriter, he's had his own political talk show...
|
|
Jane Curtin, an actress from Kate & Allie and 3rd Rock from the Sun
|
"One of Saturday Night Live's original Not Ready for Primetime Players,...
|
|
Neil Patrick Harris, an actor from How I Met Your Mother
|
"He's received critical acclaim on Broadway and on TV, and his...
|
|
Chris Wallace, a TV host from Fox News Sunday
|
"In March, this Fox News anchor was honored by the National...
|
|
Susan Haarman, a sophomore at Marquette University from Louisville, Kentucky
|
2001 College Championship quarterfinalist: $2,500. Susan was 19 at the time...
|
|
Jay Rosenberg, a college professor from Chapel Hill, North Carolina
|
\"After winning 5 times in 1985, he became the moderator for...
|
|
Robert Gibbs, a former press secretary from the Obama White House
|
"In 2004, he joined Barack Obama's senatorial campaign as communications director,...
|
|
Lan Djang, a health policy analyst from Toronto, Ontario, Canada
|
"He was a 5-time champion in 2001. Today he's a health...
|
|
Folake Dosu, a senior from Stanford University from Bellwood, Illinois
|
2010-B College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
|
|
Tom Walsh, a writer from Washington, D.C.
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
|
|
Chris Matthews, a TV host from Hardball and The Chris Matthews Show
|
"He served as a speechwriter for Jimmy Carter, and later as...
|
|
Michael Falk, a meteorologist from Milwaukee, Wisconsin
|
2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2006 Tournament of Champions...
|
|
Andrew Garen, an associate director of consumer marketing from Austin, Texas
|
"He was a project manager when he won his 5 shows...
|
|
Tom Nichols, a professor originally from Chicopee, Massachusetts
|
\"A five-time champion in 1994, he used his winnings for a...
|
|
Jessica Dell'Era, a third grade Spanish bilingual teacher from Oakland, California
|
"She has wanted to be a teacher since she was 7...
|
|
Dr. Mehmet Oz, a cardiac surgeon and TV host from The Dr. Oz Show
|
"He is a renowned cardiac surgeon who has written seven New...
|
|
Christopher Chilton, a sophomore at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from Holly Springs, North Carolina
|
2005 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. Christopher won $5,000 on Who Wants...
|
|
Ken Basin, a junior at the University of Southern California from Huntington Beach, California
|
2003 College Championship semifinalist: $5,000. Blog at kbasin.blogspot.org. Appearing as a...
|
|
Tom Walsh, a writer from Washington, D.C.
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
|
|
Allie Pape, a sophomore from Ponte Vedra, Florida
|
2002 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. Allie was 14 at the time...
|
|
James Hill III, a freshman from Santa Clara University
|
2010-A College championship semifinalist: $10,000. Hometown: San Jose, California. [No contestant...
|
|
Steve Newman, a partner in a small computer company from Rockville, Maryland
|
"He was the first player to win 5 games in the...
|
|
Dennis Donohue, a general manager from Janesville, Wisconsin
|
"He was administrative services officer from Arizona when he became a...
|
|
Roy Holliday, a radiologist from Nyack, New York
|
"He was the first to win five games in the 1987-88...
|
|
India Cooper, an actor and copy editor from New York, New York
|
\"She became a 5-time champion in 1991. An actor and copy...
|
|
Aman Birk, from Irvine, California
|
"He may not be the fastest swimmer on the team, but...
|
|
John Ryan, a corporate controller from Richmond, California
|
"As a college student, he was the top winner of the...
|
|
Jack Archey, an actor and writer from Los Angeles, California
|
"He was a CPA and comedian when he won his 5th...
|
|
Brian Wangsgard, from Salt Lake City, Utah
|
"He was the biggest winner in the 1988-1989 season, and a...
|
|
Tom Cubbage, an attorney from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
|
"He was the very first College Champion, and the only one...
|
|
Melissa Seal, a law student from Kingston, Ontario, Canada
|
"She was a senior when she became the Teen Tournament champion...
|
|
John Genova, a teacher from Granada Hills, California
|
"From 1984, he was the earliest 5-time champion in the tournament....
|
|
Bethlehem Lema, a 12-year-old from San Diego, California
|
"Either being an astrophysicist or a pediatrician is in her future..."...
|
|
Dana Perino, a TV host from Fox News Channel's The Five
|
"White House press secretary under George W. Bush, she now appears...
|
|
Wil Curiel, an 11-year-old from Costa Mesa, California
|
"His favorite subject is science, so it's not surprising that this...
|
|
Brad Rutter, a network administrator from Lancaster, Pennsylvania
|
"The reigning Tournament of Champions winner, he attended Johns Hopkins University...
|
|
John Beck, an associate creative director from Torrance, California
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 winner: $29,000. 2004 Tournament...
|
|
Catherine Ramen, a database developer and writer from New York, New York
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 winner: $44,000. 1998 Tournament...
|
|
Alex Silady, an 11-year-old from Edison, New Jersey
|
"He hopes to be an entrepreneur, because he likes doing things...
|
|
Hill Harper, an author and actor from CSI: NY
|
"As an award-winning author, he's written three New York Times best...
|
|
Isaac Mizrahi, a fashion designer and TV personality from the QVC Network
|
"His fashion designs are a favorite among celebrities on the red...
|
|
Drew Lachey, a singer and actor from Dancing with the Stars
|
"He was working as an emergency medical technician when brother Nick...
|
|
Brandon Blackwell, a sophomore from Holliswood, New York
|
2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2008-B Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist:...
|
|
Greg Lichtenstein, a freshman from Vassar College
|
2009 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 18 and from Plainview, New York...
|
|
Gabrielle McMahan, a junior from Florida A&M University
|
2008 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 20 and from Springfield, VA at...
|
|
Leah Anthony Libresco, a junior from Yale University
|
2010-A College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Hometown: Mineola, New York. Jeopardy!...
|
|
Lewis Black, a stand-up comedian from Lewis Black's Root of All Evil
|
"With success in films, plays, books, and TV specials, he tours...
|
|
Jerome Vered, a writer from Los Angeles, California
|
"The 1-day record of $34,000 he set in 1992 stood for...
|
|
Than Hedman, a freshman from University of Colorado-Boulder
|
2008 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 19 and from Denver, CO at...
|
|
Samira Missaghi, a junior from the University of Minnesota
|
2010-A College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Hometown: Eden Prarie, Minnesota. Samira...
|
|
Jane Kaczmarek, a TV, film and Broadway actress from Malcolm in the Middle and Raising the Bar
|
"She went from playing a hard-nosed mom in Malcolm in the...
|
|
Melanie Bruchet, a senior from Bryn Mawr
|
"Everyone wants to be an astronaut when they're a kid, but...
|
|
Mark Born, a musician, writer and teacher from Bangkok, Thailand
|
\"He was the top winner of the 1990-91 season. He\'s a...
|
|
Andrew Westney, a sports business writer from Charlotte, North Carolina
|
"He was a high-school student from Atlanta when he won the...
|
|
Tom Morris, a substitute teacher and grad student from Irvine, California
|
2009 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 24 4-time champion: $100,801...
|
|
Jim Scott, an attorney from Arlington, Virginia
|
"He was a legal assistant living near D.C. when he won...
|
|
Terry Linwood, a bookseller from North Texas
|
2010 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 26 5-time champion: $122,705...
|
|
Michael Day, an attorney from Mill Valley, California
|
"As an MBA Student, he won 5 games in 1985. Today...
|
|
Doug Lach, a marketing manager from Columbus, Ohio
|
"He was the biggest winner of the 1999-2000 season. A marketing...
|
|
Ryan Holznagel, a writer originally from Forest Grove, Oregon
|
"He was the winner of the 1995 Tournament of Champions. Now,...
|
|
Tyler Van Patten, from Burlington, Wisconsin
|
"He's focusing on becoming a corporate attorney, because of his fascination...
|
|
David McIntyre, a twelve-year-old from Riverside, California
|
"When this Boy Scout was young, he thought that running from...
|
|
Jason Zollinger, an engine assembler from South Dayton, New York
|
2010 Tournament of Champions 1st runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $100,000. Season...
|
|
Joey Beachum, an Air Force intelligence officer from Conway, Arkansas
|
2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2008 College Championship winner: $100,000...
|
|
Rebecca Maxfield, a freshman from Brown University
|
2010-A College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. Hometown: New Rochelle, New York. Rebecca...
|
|
John Hines, a high school social studies teacher from Tacoma, Washington
|
"He teaches at Todd Beamer High School, named for a heroic...
|
|
Steve Chernicoff, a technical writer from Berkeley, California
|
"He was one of the top 1-day winners in the 1994-95...
|
|
Brad Rutter, a network administrator from Lancaster, Pennsylvania
|
2020 Jeopardy!: The Greatest of All Time 2nd runner-up: $250,000. 2019...
|
|
David Faber, an anchor and reporter from CNBC's Squawk on the Street and The Faber Report
|
"The winner of Emmy, Peabody, DuPont, and Loeb awards, he's a...
|
|
Mehrun Etebari, a graduate student of international relations from Durham, New Hampshire
|
2007 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
|
|
Frank Spangenberg, a lieutenant in the New York Police Department from Douglaston, New York
|
"He still holds the record for the most money won in...
|
|
David Duchovny, an actor from Californication
|
"He's won two Golden Globes and stars as troubled novelist Hank...
|
|
Christopher Meloni, a star from Law & Order: SVU and HBO's Oz
|
"On TV, he's worked both sides of the law. Once a...
|
|
Trevor Norris, a management analyst from Washington, D.C.
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2003 Tournament...
|
|
Julie Bowen, a TV and film actress from Boston Legal, Lost and Modern Family
|
"For two seasons, she played attorney Denise Bauer in Boston Legal....
|
|
Frank Spangenberg, a police lieutenant from Douglaston, New York
|
2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
|
|
John Kelly, a retired Air Force officer from Austin, Texas
|
"In 1992, he was one of the top five money winners...
|
|
Grace Veach, a librarian from Lakeland, Florida
|
"After winning 5 games in 1997, she was the grand marshall...
|
|
Kerri Regan, a senior from Bethpage, New York
|
2005 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. 17 at the time of the...
|
|
Vinita Kailasanath, a recent college graduate originally from Laurel, Maryland
|
2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
|
|
Jonathan Reinstein, a junior from Dix Hills, New York
|
2001 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time of the...
|
|
Heidi Greimann, a junior from Columbia, Missouri
|
2002 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $5,000. Heidi was 15 at the...
|
|
Marshall Flores, a senior from Arizona State University from Avondale, Arizona
|
2010-B College Championship semifinalist: $10,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
|
|
Kyle Hale, a college student from Katy, Texas
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 winner: $25,000. 2003 Tournament...
|
|
Brian Weikle, a project manager from Minneapolis, Minnesota
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
|
|
Brian Weikle, a consultant from Minneapolis, Minnesota
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
|
|
Clarence Page, a journalist from The Chicago Tribune
|
"His nationally syndicated column began as a local column for the...
|
|
Chuck Todd, a journalist and chief White House correspondent from NBC News and Meet the Press
|
"Chief White House correspondent and political director for NBC News, he...
|
|
Andy Kravis, a freshman from Farmington Hills, Michigan
|
2002 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $5,000. Andy was 13 at the...
|
|
Liana Walters, a junior from Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania
|
2002 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $5,000. Liana was 16 at the...
|
|
Eddie Timanus, a sports reporter from Arlington, Virginia
|
"A 5-time champion, he went on to become a semifinalist in...
|
|
Paul Gutowski, an alcohol and drug counselor from Rockford, Illinois
|
"He was the first 5-time winner in 1997. An alcohol and...
|
|
Ashley Walker, a senior from Dartmouth College
|
2010-A College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. Hometown: Fort Pierce, Florida. [No contestant...
|
|
Ed Schiffer, an attorney from San Francisco, California
|
"A champion of five shows, he was the top winner of...
|
|
Trevor Norris, a budget analyst from Washington, D.C.
|
"He can't walk through the Pentagon without someone mentioning his five...
|
|
Phil Yellman, a legal assistant from Seattle, Washington
|
"He was an office worker from Albuquerque when he won his...
|
|
Paul Boymel, a civil rights attorney from Potomac, Maryland
|
"He was the top winner of the 1984-85 season. Now he's...
|
|
Sean Ryan, a cab driver from State College, Pennsylvania
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
|
|
Andy Richter, an actor/comedian from The Tonight Show
|
\"This multitalented actor/comedian is now back on the couch with Conan...
|
|
Ryan Elkins, a 12-year-old from Bensalem, Pennsylvania
|
"He wants to study physics and unlock the mysteries of the...
|
|
Margaret Monroe, a junior from South Plainfield, New Jersey
|
2002 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. Margaret was 16 at the time...
|
|
Seth Disner, a senior from Los Angeles, California
|
2002 Teen Tournament 2nd runner-up: $28,900. Seth was 17 at the...
|
|
Maria Wenglinsky, a teacher from Brooklyn, New York
|
2006 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 22 5-time champion: $122,300...
|
|
Arthur Phillips, an author from Brooklyn, New York
|
"He was a speechwriter from Boston when he won five shows...
|
|
Michael Galvin, a consultant from Penn Wynne, Pennsylvania
|
"He was the first winner of the Teen Tournament back in...
|
|
Dana Delany, an actress from Desperate Housewives
|
"She won two Emmys for her work on China Beach. This...
|
|
Danny Vopava, a sophomore from the University of Wisconsin–River Falls
|
2010-A College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. Hometown: New Brighton, Minnesota. [No contestant...
|
|
Robin Quivers, a radio and television personality from The Howard Stern Show
|
"Howard Stern's news anchor and sidekick for the past 28 years,...
|
|
Allyson Lieberman, a 12-year-old from Whitmore Lake, Michigan
|
"Since she was little, she has truly loved to act. Broadway,...
|
|
John LeDonne, a bookstore manager from Concord, New Hampshire
|
"He was the last person to win 5 shows in 1990....
|
|
Ryan Chaffee, a tutor from Los Angeles, California
|
2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $91,900...
|
|
Judd Hess, a high school English teacher from Huntington Beach, California
|
"In college, he volunteered to help in a classroom and was...
|
|
Dan Royles, a senior from Chula Vista, California
|
2002 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. Dan was 17 at the time...
|
|
Evan Stewart, a sophomore from Frankfort, Kentucky
|
2002 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $5,000. Evan was 15 at the time...
|
|
Bob Fleenor, a newspaper copy editor from Martinsburg, West Virginia
|
"Legislative work in his home state was suspended so that lawmakers...
|
|
Paul Thompson, a human resources manager from Cheverly, Maryland
|
"He was the first 5-time champion in the 1995-96 season. A...
|
|
Carolyn Cracraft, a grad student at the University of California-Berkeley from Berkeley, California
|
"She was a junior at the University of Chicago when she...
|
|
Leszek Pawlowicz, a computer consultant from Flagstaff, Arizona
|
"He was the winner of the 1992 Tournament of Champions. Today...
|
|
Liz Murphy, a foreign service officer originally from Scranton, Pennsylvania
|
2010 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 25 5-time champion: $121,302...
|
|
Harry Haghanegi, a 10-year-old from Chicago, Illinois
|
"Extracting DNA was one project this future geneticist enjoyed..." 2007 Kids...
|
|
Elise Burton, a freshman from the University of California-Berkeley
|
2007 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 18 at the time of the...
|
|
Kathy Cassity, a closed captioner from Honolulu, Hawaii
|
2003 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 18 4-time champion: $59,200....
|
|
David Siegel, a paralegal from Los Angeles, California
|
"He was a finalist in the 1995 Tournament of Champions. A...
|
|
Michael Rooney, a college professor from Pasadena, California
|
"He was a winner of 5 games in 1999, and is...
|
|
Jim Scott, an attorney from Arlington, Virginia
|
"In 1991, he was the winner of the Tournament of Champions....
|
|
Emily Riippa, a 12-year-old seventh grader from Grand Rapids, Michigan
|
"She is a fast reader, and her mother says she was...
|
|
Brad Rutter, a TV quiz show host from Lancaster, Pennsylvania
|
2020 Jeopardy!: The Greatest of All Time 2nd runner-up: $250,000. 2019...
|
|
Philip Tiu, an educator from Atlanta, Georgia
|
Season 32 3-time champion: $96,598 + $1,000. Philip’s $19,000 Daily Double...
|
|
Sam Leanza, a senior from Laguna Hills, California
|
2012 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time of the...
|
|
Emily Karrs, a junior from Gibsonia, Pennsylvania
|
2002 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $5,000. Emily was 16 at the time...
|
|
Blake Hernandez, a senior from Burke, Virginia
|
2002 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. Blake was 16 at the time...
|
|
Kerry Breitenbach, a marketing analyst from Cleveland, Ohio
|
2006 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 21 5-time champion: $90,400...
|
|
Dave Willis, a business manager from Ventura, California
|
"He was the first to win five shows in 1992. A...
|
|
Leslie Frates, a retired Spanish teacher from Hayward, California
|
"She was a Spanish teacher at Cal State-Hayward when she became...
|
|
Eric Terzuolo, a retired diplomat and university professor from Bergen, Noord-Holland, the Netherlands
|
"When he first appeared in 1990, he was a foreign service...
|
|
Holly Flynn, an 11-year-old from Holmes, Pennsylvania
|
"She started performing in community theatre when she was just 4...
|
|
CCH Pounder, an actress from Avatar and Brothers
|
"She earned an Emmy nomination for her role as Claudette Wyms...
|
|
Jonathan Corbblah, a chess teacher from Harlem, New York
|
Season 27 1-time champion: $13,000 + $1,000. Jonathan appeared as a...
|
|
Ben Bishop, a college student originally from Seattle, Washington
|
2009 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 25 4-time champion: $114,800...
|
|
Chris Pae, a high school history teacher from Suwanee, Georgia
|
"He studied pre-med, then pre-law, but discovered his passion was teaching....
|
|
Josh DenHartog, an actuarial technician from Thousand Oaks, California
|
"He was the Teen Tournament champion in 1997. Now he's an...
|
|
Mike Thayer, a mathematics teacher from North Plainfield, New Jersey
|
"He was a junior at Rutgers University when he won the...
|
|
Anne Boyd, a freelance writer and student from Los Angeles, California
|
2004 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 20 4-time champion: $84,600...
|
|
Chris Ward, a foreign service officer from Johannesburg, South Africa
|
"A 5-game winner in 1998, he was living in Peru when...
|
|
Rohit Dewan, a financial analyst originally from Federal Way, Washington
|
Season 30 player (2013-10-03).
|
|
Frances Way, a math and drama teacher from Fort Collins, Colorado
|
Season 29 player (2013-01-11).
|
|
Ashleigh Banfield, a TV correspondent originally from Canada
|
"She's covered such various stories as the Clinton/Yeltsin summit, the War...
|
|
Brian MacKenzie, a history teacher originally from Federal Way, Washington
|
Season 24 player (2008-06-17).
|
|
Rich Way, a manager from Aromas, California
|
Season 22 2-time champion: $34,800 + $2,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: RichAromas
|
|
Stefan Goodreau, a video game tester and camp counselor from Los Angeles, California
|
2010 Tournament of Champions 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $50,000. Season...
|
|
Thomas L. Friedman, an author and foreign affairs columnist from The New York Times
|
"He has won three Pulitzer Prizes and authored six best sellers,...
|
|
Dan Pawson, a legislative aide from Boston, Massachusetts
|
2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2014 Battle of the Decades...
|
|
Roger Craig, a computer scientist from Newark, Delaware
|
2019 All-Star Games member of wildcard-match 2nd-place Team Austin: a share...
|
|
Kevin Wilson, a communications specialist from Toronto, Ontario, Canada
|
Season 26 3-time champion: $76,998 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
|
|
Tom Toce, an actuary from New York, New York
|
Season 26 2-time champion: $39,200 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
|
|
Justin Hofstetter, a sixth and seventh grade language arts and social studies teacher from Kansas City, Missouri
|
"This sixth and seventh grade teacher is in his first year...
|
|
Alison Stone Roberg, an administrative assistant from Kansas City, Missouri
|
Season 26 3-time champion: $85,102 + $2,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
|
|
Elza Reeves, a bank teller from Louisville, Kentucky
|
Season 25 1-time champion: $16,400 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
|
|
Mike Maheu, a high school teacher from San Diego, California
|
Season 25 2-time champion: $46,242 + $1,000. Last name pronounced like...
|
|
Christine Valada, a photographer and attorney originally from Walton, New York
|
2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $68,703...
|
|
Jove Graham, a biomedical engineer from Lewisburg, Pennsylvania
|
Season 26 1-time champion: $34,401 + $1,000. Jove's second contestant interview...
|
|
Stefan Goodreau, a video game tester from Los Angeles, California
|
2010 Tournament of Champions 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $50,000. Season...
|
|
Celeste DiNucci, a recent graduate student from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
|
2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2014 Battle of the Decades...
|
|
Patrick Quinn, a high school German teacher from Chesterfield, Missouri
|
"He teaches at a school whose history goes back to a...
|
|
Brian Muth, a headmaster from Napa, California
|
Season 25 2-time champion: $43,800 + $1,000. Last name pronounced like...
|
|
Liz Murphy, a foreign service officer originally from Scranton, Pennsylvania
|
2010 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 25 5-time champion: $121,302...
|
|
Dave Belote, the base commander from Nellis Air Force Base, Las Vegas
|
2010 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 26 5-time champion:...
|
|
Buddy Wright, an operations engineer from Fort Worth, Texas
|
2011 Tournament of Champions 2nd runner-up: $50,000. Season 26 4-time champion:...
|
|
Joon Pahk, a college physics teacher from Somerville, Massachusetts
|
2011 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000.
Season 28 7-time champion: $199,000 + $2,000.
JBoard user name: jpahk
|
|
Sarah Bart, a senior at Goucher College from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
|
2012 College Championship 1st runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $50,000. 22 at...
|
|
Andy Davis, a Chyron operator from South Boston, Massachusetts
|
Season 25 2-time champion: $49,799 + $1,000. Andy Davis - A...
|
|
Phoebe Juel, a bookseller from Sylva, North Carolina
|
"She won the 1993 College Championship while attending Grinnell College. Today...
|
|
Jennifer Duann, a senior from the Ohio State University
|
2009 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 21 and from Worthington, Ohio at...
|
|
Andy Srinivasan, a high school science teacher from Garner, North Carolina
|
2010 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $69,600...
|
|
Fred Beukema, a structural engineer from Minneapolis, Minnesota
|
Season 25 3-time champion: $69,401 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
|
|
Hans von Walter, a junior from Southern Adventist University from Avon Park, Florida
|
2010-B College Championship 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $25,000 + a...
|
|
Mark Runsvold, a student and waiter from Moscow, Idaho
|
2011 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000.
Season 27 4-time champion: $153,800 + $1,000.
JBoard user name: markrunsvold
|
|
Brad Brown, a theater teacher from Nashville, Tennessee
|
"And he is a theater teacher at an international baccalaureate certified...
|
|
Tom Nissley, a writer from Seattle, Washington
|
2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2011 Tournament of Champions...
|
|
Al Franken, an author and radio talk show host from New York City
|
"One of the original writers on Saturday Night Live, he's done...
|
|
Peggy Noonan, a contributing editor from The Wall Street Journal
|
2004 Power Players Week player (2004-05-10).
Charity: The Sisters of Life.
|
|
Nico Martinez, a college junior from Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
|
2006 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2005 College Champion: $100,000 +...
|
|
Marty Scott, an assistant district attorney from Forney, Texas
|
Season 26 3-time champion: $64,002 + $2,000. Marty won $250,000 on...
|
|
Inta Antler, a retired computer programmer from Scarborough, Ontario, Canada
|
Season 25 1-time champion: $12,700 + $2,000. Inta Antler - A...
|
|
Gary Bechtold, a garage door company owner from St. Cloud, Minnesota
|
Season 26 3-time champion: $42,001 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
|
|
Enrique Machado, an oil filtration business developer from Orlando, Florida
|
Season 26 1-time champion: $30,799 + $2,000. Enrique Machado September 16,...
|
|
Kweisi Mfume, a president from the NAACP
|
2004 Power Players Week player (2004-05-11). Name pronounced like "kwah-EE-see oom-FOO-may"....
|
|
Babu Srinivasan, a history professor from Houston, Texas
|
"His aggressive wagering helped him become the biggest winner from the...
|
|
Emma Johnson, an eleven-year-old from St. Petersburg, Florida
|
"She'll hit a high note in her future musical career as...
|
|
John Krizel, a writer originally from Oceanside, New York
|
2011 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $105,204...
|
|
Brian Meacham, a film preservationist originally from Anchorage, Alaska
|
2011 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 27 4-time champion: $90,500...
|
|
Sarah Bauer, a junior at Indiana University from Carmel, Indiana
|
2012 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 21 at the time of the...
|
|
Injee Hong, a 12-year-old from Metairie, Louisiana
|
"If her dreams of becoming a lawyer don't come true, she...
|
|
David Skaar, a research scientist from Raleigh, North Carolina
|
Season 25 3-time champion: $102,000 + $2,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
|
|
Aaron Wicks, a planning and evaluation manager from Rochester, New York
|
Season 26 1-time champion: $18,001 + 1,000. Aaron Wicks Rochester, NY...
|
|
Sandra Gore, a corporate researcher from Berkeley, California
|
"After five wins in 1987, she fulfilled her dream of moving...
|
|
Janet Bradlow, an insurance agent from New York, New York
|
Season 26 3-time champion: $58,000 + $2,000. Janet Bradlow New York,...
|
|
Robert Knecht Schmidt, a patent agent from Cleveland, Ohio
|
Season 26 1-time champion: $12,799 + $1,000. Middle name pronounced like...
|
|
Justin Bernbach, a lobbyist from Brooklyn, New York
|
2010 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 25 7-time champion: $155,001...
|
|
Kori Tyler, a high school teacher from Cordova, Tennessee
|
Season 26 player (2010-02-26). Season 25 1-time champion: $20,000 + $2,000....
|
|
Becky Anderson, a retired software specialist originally from Morganton, North Carolina
|
Season 25 1-time champion: $16,401 + $2,000. Becky Anderson - A...
|
|
Stephen Weingarten, a paraeducator from Portland, Oregon
|
2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $96,690...
|
|
Kate Wilson, a high school AP English teacher from Montgomery, Alabama
|
"She is a top-10 AP English language teacher at Alabama's number-one...
|
|
Anderson Cooper, a host from CNN's Anderson Cooper 360°
|
2004 Power Players Week player (2004-05-11).
Charity: American Heart Association.
|
|
Rachel Pildis, a software developer from Oak Park, Illinois
|
Season 26 1-time champion: $12,000 + $2,000. Rachel Pildis - A...
|
|
Christopher Short, a pub trivia editor from Crawfordsville, Indiana
|
2011 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 27 6-time champion: $94,752...
|
|
Brooks Humphreys, a high school social studies teacher from Omaha, Nebraska
|
"He teaches at an all-girls Catholic school operated by the Sisters...
|
|
Keith Olbermann, a news anchor from MSNBC
|
"In 2004, this veteran reporter will provide extensive coverage of the...
|
|
Fraser Woodford, an investment banker from New York, New York
|
"In 1993, winner of the Teen Tournament, he's now an investment...
|
|
Kara Spak, a newspaper reporter from Chicago, Illinois
|
2011 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
Season 27 5-time champion: $83,401 + $2,000.
|
|
Chris Rodrigues, a personal banking representative from New Bedford, Massachusetts
|
Season 26 3-time champion: $41,498 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
|
|
Michael McKean, a Grammy winner, Oscar nominee and multi-talented performer from Hairspray and The Pajama Game
|
"This multi-talented performer is a Grammy winner and Oscar nominee and...
|
|
Jim Davis, a college music and humanities instructor from Freeport, Illinois
|
Season 25 2-time champion: $62,802 + $2,000. Not be to confused...
|
|
David Hudson, a junior from the University of Virginia
|
"His musical taste has changed since he won $10,000 on Kids...
|
|
Carl Brandt, an investor originally from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
|
2009 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 25 4-time champion: $70,799...
|
|
Alyssa McRae, a gift card production designer from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
|
Season 25 3-time champion: $50,402 + $2,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
|
|
Emily Heaney, a freelance costume designer from White Bear Lake, Minnesota
|
Season 25 1-time champion: $2,200 + $1,000. Last name pronounced like...
|
|
Jordan Brand, an anesthesiologist from Westchester, New York
|
Season 26 1-time champion: $24,405 + $2,000. The Sesame Street character...
|
|
Dan Smith, a student from Chicago, Illinois
|
Season 25 3-time champion: $69,200 + $1,000. Dan Smith - a...
|
|
Laura Myers, a senior from the University of Missouri
|
2009 College Championship second runner-up: $29,900. 22 and from Richmond, Virginia...
|
|
A.J. Schumacher, a radio show production intern from St. Paul, Minnesota
|
Season 25 1-time champion: $10,800 + $2,000. AJ Schumacher Saint Paul,...
|
|
Carolyn Young, a homemaker from Marietta, Georgia
|
Season 25 1-time champion: $30,000 + $2,000. Mother of Season 32...
|
|
Jennifer Broders, a junior high school social studies teacher from Stockton, Iowa
|
Season 26 2-time champion: $59,801 + $1,000. Jennifer Broders - a...
|
|
Pam Mueller, a graduate student in psychology from Princeton, New Jersey
|
\"She was a student at Loyola University when she won the...
|
|
Pam Mueller, a junior at Loyola University, Chicago from Wilmette, Illinois
|
2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2019 All-Star Games member of...
|
|
Pam Mueller, a college student from Wilmette, Illinois
|
2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2019 All-Star Games member of...
|
|
Pam Mueller, a justice researcher originally from Chicago, Illinois
|
2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2019 All-Star Games member of...
|
|
Brenton Montie, a sixth grade social studies teacher from South Lyon, Michigan
|
"He teaches at a school ranked in the top 5% in...
|
|
Brendan Barnwell, a grad student and tutor from Santa Barbara, California
|
Season 28 player (2011-12-05). Although Brendan played the Jeopardy! and Double...
|
|
Ann Thurlow, an aspiring novelist and retired salesperson from Mendham, New Jersey
|
Season 28 1-time champion: $26,805 + $1,000.
|
|
Aria Gerson, an eleven-year-old from Orem, Utah
|
"Shine an apple for our future teacher. From Orem, Utah, class,...
|
|
Matthew Cline, a 12-year-old from Maumelle, Arkansas
|
"John Grisham's books have inspired him. He's firm. He wants to...
|
|
Butch Malec, a freshman at Reed College from Edinboro, Pennsylvania
|
1999 College Championship quarterfinalist: $2,500. In Butch's game, the entire Double...
|
|
Bob Woodward, an assistant managing editor from The Washington Post
|
2004 Power Players Week player (2004-05-10).
Charity: Sidwell Friends School.
|
|
Todd Faulkenberry, a junior from Moore, South Carolina
|
2008-A Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 16 at the time of...
|
|
Sid Chandrasekhar, a senior from the University of Pennsylvania from Saratoga, California
|
2010-B College Championship semifinalist: $10,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
|
|
Rick Knutsen, a musician and stay-at-home dad from Brooklyn, New York
|
"A finalist in the 2001 Tournament of Champions, he's a musician...
|
|
Laura Hughes, a mom from New Market, Maryland
|
Season 26 1-time champion: $27,500 + $2,000. Wife of Season 16...
|
|
Robert Slaven, a technical products specialist originally from Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada
|
"He won 5 times in 1992. Today, he's a technical products...
|
|
Elizabeth Galoozis, a reference librarian from Cambridge, Massachusetts
|
Season 26 2-time champion: $38,801 + $2,000. Elizabeth Galoozis - A...
|
|
Francois Dominic Laramée, a writer and TV personality from Verdun, Quebec, Canada
|
Season 25 2-time champion: $46,300 + $1,000. Francois's name was printed...
|
|
Melanie Baker-Streevy, a United Methodist pastor from Parma, Michigan
|
Season 25 1-time champion: $26,900 + $1,000. Melanie Baker-Streevy - A...
|
|
Christine Carrino Gorowara, a teacher educator from Wilmington, Delaware
|
Season 25 2-time champion: $43,202 + $1,000. Wife of Season 26...
|
|
Ben Bishop, a student originally from Seattle, Washington
|
2009 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 25 4-time champion: $114,800...
|
|
Matt DeTura, a recent law school graduate from Washington, D.C.
|
Season 27 3-time champion: $61,601 + $2,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: MDT
|
|
Jen McFann, a Peace Corps recruiter from Astoria, New York
|
Season 26 1-time champion: $19,410 + $2,000. Jen McFann Astoria, New...
|
|
Courtney Trezise, a senior from Michigan State University
|
2009 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 21 and from Okemos, Michigan at...
|
|
Amy Wilson, a creative writing and women's studies student originally from Portland, Oregon
|
Season 26 1-time champion: $19,999 + $2,000. Not to be confused...
|
|
Justin Waters, a resident physician from Royal Oak, Michigan
|
Season 25 1-time champion: $7,199 + $2,000. Justin Waters Royal Oak,...
|
|
Tom Nissley, an online books editor from Seattle, Washington
|
2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2011 Tournament of Champions...
|
|
Lea Tottle, a junior from Florida State University from Oldsmar, Florida
|
2010-B College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000 + a Nintendo Wii +...
|
|
Alex Johnson, an 11-year-old from Indianapolis, Indiana
|
"He wants to be a chemist in the future. From Indianapolis,...
|
|
James Grant, a junior from Georgetown University
|
2008 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 21 and from Manhattan Beach,...
|
|
Lan Djang, a business analyst from Toronto, Canada
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Elite Eighteen (Round 2 winners) member:...
|
|
Mark Eckard, an entrepreneur from Bedford, Massachusetts
|
"A 2001 5-time champion as a software designer, he has now...
|
|
Larissa Kelly, an editor for academic competitions from Richmond, California
|
\"She was a graduate student at U.C. Berkeley in Season 24...
|
|
Pam Mueller, a think tank researcher from Culver City, California
|
• 2000 College Championship winner • Semifinalist in all other tournaments...
|
|
Neil Patel, a twelve-year-old from Plano, Texas
|
"He wants to become an environmental scientist and help protect our...
|
|
Rahul Francis, a twelve-year-old from Flushing, New York
|
"This electronic wizard's current plans are to run a technology company....
|
|
Connie Shi, a junior at the University of Michigan from Okemos, Michigan
|
2012 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000.
19 at the time of the College Championship.
|
|
Gretchen Carlson, a journalist from the CBS Saturday Early Show
|
"Since winning the 1989 Miss America crown, she's built an extensive...
|
|
Ari Fleischer, a former White House Press Secretary from the current Bush administration
|
"For the first two years of the current Bush administration, he...
|
|
Maria Bennici, a junior from Walkersville, Maryland
|
2008-A Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
|
|
Tara Franey, a senior from Michigan State University
|
2008 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: tarafraney
|
|
Matt Sojot, a firefighter from Mililani, Hawaii
|
Season 23 player (2007-04-13). Season 22 player (2006-05-24). Last name pronounced...
|
|
Karla Sortland, a teacher from Las Vegas, Nevada
|
Season 23 player (2007-06-11). Season 22 player (2006-05-24). Karla was brought...
|
|
Adam Pinson, a senior at the University of Alabama at Birmingham from Pinson, Alabama
|
2005 College Championship 1st runner-up: $50,000. Won $100,000 on Who Wants...
|
|
Emily Zhang, from Indianapolis, Indiana
|
"A National Science Merit Award recipient, she plans on becoming a...
|
|
Dan Katz, a lawyer from Owings Mills, Maryland
|
"Since his five wins in 1990, he's seen Bruce Springsteen 16...
|
|
Keith Williams, a college student from Manchester, Vermont
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2004 Tournament...
|
|
Meryl Federman, a senior from Livingston, New Jersey
|
2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games champion (semifinalist by wildcard): $75,000. 18...
|
|
Kyle Kahan, a senior from Texas A&M University from Houston, Texas
|
2010-B College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000 + a Nintendo Wii +...
|
|
Elyse Mancuso, a junior from Omaha, Nebraska
|
2012 Teen Tournament winner: $79,600. 16 at the time of the...
|
|
Mark Dawson, a business manager from Chamblee, Georgia
|
"In 2003, he became the first to win a quarter of...
|
|
Charles Temple, a high school English teacher from Ocracoke, North Carolina
|
"He teaches at the smallest public school in North Carolina, and...
|
|
Chacko George, a senior at the University of Texas at Austin from Austin, Texas
|
"He won the November 1999 Teen Tournament. Now he's a senior...
|
|
Josh Powell, a phone-based health coach from San Diego, California
|
Season 27 3-time champion: $26,900 + $1,000.
|
|
Mike Nelson, a mechanical engineer from Geneva, Illinois
|
Season 27 2-time champion: $20,800 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
|
|
Suchita Shah, a senior from the University of Wisconsin-Madison
|
2008 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 20 and from Holmen, WI...
|
|
Sanders Kleinfeld, a publishing technology specialist from Cambridge, Massachusetts
|
Season 25 1-time champion: $26,597 + $2,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
|
|
Jill Bunzendahl Chimka, a speech and language pathologist from Washington, D.C.
|
2003 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 18 4-time champion: $85,099...
|
|
Saad Hasan, a nanotechnology scientist from Nashville, Tennessee
|
Season 26 1-time champion: $22,700 + $2,000. Saad Hasan Nashville, TN...
|
|
Eric Betts, a senior from Emory University
|
2009 College Championship first runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $50,000. 21 and...
|
|
Jason Pratt, a middle school history teacher from Woodbridge, Virginia
|
Season 25 2-time champion: $32,701 + $1,000. Jason Pratt - A...
|
|
Matt Jacobs, a science teacher originally from Stratford, Connecticut
|
Season 25 1-time champion: $10,323 + $1,000. Matt resided in Silver...
|
|
Donna Vogel, a scientist from Bethesda, Maryland
|
2009 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 24 4-time champion:...
|
|
Whitney Prince, a sophomore from Maryville, Tennessee
|
2005 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500.
15 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
|
|
Larissa Kelly, a grad student from El Cerrito, California
|
2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament semifinalist: $10,000. 2019 All-Star Games member of...
|
|
Matt Amodio, a post-doctoral researcher from Cambridge, Massachusetts
|
2024 Jeopardy! Masters 2023 Jeopardy! Masters 3rd place player: $150,000. 2022...
|
|
Tony Harkin, an eleven-year-old from New Milford, Connecticut
|
"Dig this--he wants to be an archaeologist when he grows up....
|
|
Emma Couture, a twelve-year-old from St. Petersburg, Florida
|
"Here's a portrait of a smart young girl who sees her...
|
|
Paul Kursky, an online marketing producer from San Francisco, California
|
2011 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 5-time champion: $109,411...
|
|
Neha Embar, a 12-year-old from Alpharetta, Georgia
|
"No kidding--she wants to be a pediatrician when she grows up....
|
|
Zack Terrill, a senior at Vanderbilt University from Winter Springs, Florida
|
2012 College Championship 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $25,000. 21 at...
|
|
Tyler Benedict, a junior at Columbia University from Dayton, Ohio
|
2012 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000.
21 at the time of the College Championship.
|
|
Nate Austin, a student from Hutchinson Community College
|
"His original plan was to own a chain of international hotels...
|
|
Tavis Smiley, a talk show host from PBS's The Tavis Smiley Show
|
"He's interviewed such diverse personalities as Fidel Castro, Pope John Paul...
|
|
Maria Bartiromo, a business anchor from CNBC
|
2004 Power Players Week player (2004-05-11). Charities: National Italian American Foundation...
|
|
Dave Sikula, an Internet search editor from Pacifica, California
|
Season 24 1-time champion: $15,000 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
|
|
Janelle Lambert, a senior from Brooklyn, New York
|
2008-A Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
|
|
Babu Srinivasan, a history professor from Houston, Texas
|
2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
|
|
Roger Christensen, a registered nurse and pre-med student from Los Angeles, California
|
Season 18 2-time champion: $42,300. In his first two games, Roger...
|
|
Claudia Perry, a pop music critic from San Jose, California
|
2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2002 Million Dollar Masters...
|
|
Holly Owens, a student originally from Tulsa, Oklahoma
|
Season 23 2-time champion: $31,902 + $1,000. Season 22 player (2006-04-17)....
|
|
Brian Lamb, a middle school teacher from Bakersfield, California
|
Season 23 player (2007-06-26). Season 22 2-time champion: $39,201 + $1,000....
|
|
Bill MacDonald, an attorney from Bonita Springs, Florida
|
2006 Tournament of Champions 2nd runner-up: $50,000. Season 22 4-time champion:...
|
|
Colin Brown, a senior at the University of Rochester from Milwaukie, Oregon
|
2005 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000.
|
|
Peter Nielsen, a teacher from Austin, Texas
|
Season 13 player (1996-12-17). Peter died 2005-07-31 at the age of...
|
|
Hope Landsem, from Tualatin, Oregon
|
"She likes to win arguments, and that's why she's going to...
|
|
Tom Halpern, a lawyer originally from New York, New York
|
"A writer and researcher when he won 5 times in 1991,...
|
|
Jamie Weiss, a law student from St. Louis, Missouri
|
"He won the 1990 Teen Tournament. Today he's a law student....
|
|
Kyle Hale, a college senior from Katy, Texas
|
"Representing Texas A&M, he won the 2002 College Championship. Now he's...
|
|
Bill Sloan, a realtor from Mission Viejo, California
|
"Since winning five shows in 1996, he has gone on to...
|
|
Brad Plovan, an attorney from Baltimore, Maryland
|
"With the money from his five wins in 1995, he bought...
|
|
Bev Schwartzberg, an adult literacy program coordinator from Santa Barbara, California
|
"She finished second in the 1993 Tournament of Champions. Today, she's...
|
|
Kermin Fleming, a junior at Carnegie Mellon University from Lexington, Kentucky
|
"He's the current College Champion. A junior at Carnegie Mellon University...
|
|
Paul Wampler, a web programmer from Knoxville, Tennessee
|
Season 27 4-time champion: $72,001 + $2,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: paul5562
|
|
Jenifer Thomas, a teacher assistant from Jacksonville, North Carolina
|
Season 26 1-time champion: $13,400 + $2,000. Jenifer Thomas October 5,...
|
|
Diane Wilshere, an actor and playwright from Manassas, Virginia
|
Season 25 1-time champion: $18,801 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
|
|
Sam Spaulding, a sophomore from Yale University from Wilmington, North Carolina
|
2010-B College Championship 1st runner-up: $50,000 + a Nintendo Wii +...
|
|
Kimberly Jantz, an attorney from Tulsa, Oklahoma
|
Season 26 1-time champion: $22,200 + $2,000. Kimberly Jantz - an...
|
|
Dmitry Spivak, a junior from Northwestern University
|
"The 11-year-old wasn't really kidding when he said he wanted to...
|
|
Paul Kursky, a copywriter from San Francisco, California
|
2011 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 5-time champion: $109,411...
|
|
Vijay Balse, a chemical engineer from Chatham, New Jersey
|
2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2010 Tournament of Champions...
|
|
Jeff Spoeri, a university administrator from Boynton Beach, Florida
|
2007 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD...
|
|
Doug Hicton, a composer originally from Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
|
2007 Tournament of Champions 1st runner-up: $100,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD...
|
|
Andrew Kreitz, a senior from Huntington Beach, California
|
2006 Teen Tournament 1st runner-up: $25,000.
|
|
Aaron Brown, an Emmy Award-winning newsman from CNN's popular primetime newscast
|
"A journalist for over 25 years, he now anchors CNN's popular...
|
|
Jesse Cuevas, a corporate lawyer originally from Leawood, Kansas
|
Season 27 3-time champion: $65,981 + $2,000. Brother of Season 30...
|
|
James Erwin, a writer from Des Moines, Iowa
|
Season 25 2-time champion: $22,598 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
|
|
Neil Patrick Harris, an actor from How I Met Your Mother
|
"He's appeared on Broadway in Proof, Assassins, and Cabaret. He's now...
|
|
Diane Siegel, an educational consultant and writer from Northridge, California
|
"A full-time mom when she won five games in 1993, now...
|
|
Iddoshe Hirpa, a junior from Louisville, Kentucky
|
2006 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000.
|
|
Sara Wilkinson, a country club concierge from Athens, Georgia
|
Season 27 3-time champion: $72,701 + $2,000.
|
|
Dan Jensen, a restaurant manager from Reston, Virginia
|
Season 27 3-time champion: $58,203 + $1,000.
|
|
Steve Greene, a senior from UCLA from Elk Grove, California
|
2010-B College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000 + a Nintendo Wii +...
|
|
Babu Srinivasan, a history professor at Prairie View A&M University from Houston, Texas
|
"A five-time champion in 2001, he's now a history professor at...
|
|
Emily Jusino, a Ph.D. candidate in Greek literature originally from Fredericksburg, Virginia
|
Season 27 1-time champion: $18,801 + $1,000.
Last name pronouned like "hoo-SEE-no".
|
|
Harry Shearer, a humorist, Spinal Tap bassist, and voice from The Simpsons
|
"He recently celebrated the 25th anniversary of This Is Spinal Tap...
|
|
Ruvani Fonseka, a junior from Grosse Pointe, Michigan
|
2005 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $5,000. 15 at the time of...
|
|
Elaine Zollner, a physician from Glendale, California
|
"A winner of 5 shows in 1990, she used her Jeopardy!...
|
|
Drew Joanides, a high school history teacher from Miami, Florida
|
"He is one of our four teachers competing in our tournament...
|
|
Charles Temple, a high school English teacher from Ocracoke, North Carolina
|
2011 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000.
2011 Teachers Tournament winner: $100,000.
JBoard user name: lonesomeseagull
|
|
Evan Sandman, a hotel front desk manager from Los Angeles, California
|
Season 28 1-time champion $28,801 + $2,000.
|
|
Amanda Hall, from Farmington, Maine
|
"Whether it's writing a biography of Yo-Yo Ma or working on...
|
|
Anna Allie, a junior at the University of Michigan at Dearborn from Dearborn, Michigan
|
2005 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000.
|
|
John Krizel, a green community program coordinator from Beckley, West Virginia
|
2011 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $105,204...
|
|
Madeline Suchard, from Placentia, California
|
"She has her sights set on becoming the Supreme Court Justice,...
|
|
Roger Craig, a graduate student of computer science from Newark, Delaware
|
2019 All-Star Games member of wildcard-match 2nd-place Team Austin: a share...
|
|
Nick Swezey, a publisher from Washington, D.C.
|
2007 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
|
|
Daniel Stauss, a federal claims examiner from Seattle, Washington
|
Season 25 1-time champion: $25,500 + $2,000. Daniel Stauss - A...
|
|
Alan Bailey, a playwright and director from Sherman Oaks, California
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2003 Tournament...
|
|
Tommy Maranges, a junior from Fort Lauderdale, Florida
|
2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games quarterfinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time...
|
|
Kathleen Mikulis, a stay-at-home mom from Mountain View, California
|
Season 27 1-time champion: $25,201 + $2,000. Kathleen's contestant experience blog....
|
|
Dave Belote, a recently retired base commander from Woodbridge, Virginia
|
2010 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 26 5-time champion:...
|
|
Catherine Briley, a senior from Grand Prairie, Louisiana
|
2012 Teen Tournament 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $31,000. 17 at...
|
|
Alan Bailey, a playwright and director from North Hills, California
|
"This playwright and director became a 5-time winner in 2001. Today,...
|
|
Matt Morris, a financial analyst originally from Louisville, Kentucky
|
"In 1994, he won the Teen Tournament. Today, he's a financial...
|
|
Fred Cofone, a copy editor from Old Greenwich, Connecticut
|
Season 27 2-time champion: $24,400 + $2,000.
Last name pronounced like "kuh-FONE".
|
|
Patrick Tucker, a graduate student of public policy from St. Louis, Missouri
|
2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2009 College Championship winner: $100,000...
|
|
Joshua Malina, a TV actor and creator/producer from Celebrity Poker Showdown
|
"He created and produced Celebrity Poker Showdown for the Bravo Channel,...
|
|
Lily Wang, a junior at Columbia University from Plano, Texas
|
2004 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000.
|
|
Peter Severson, a senior from Sioux Falls, South Dakota
|
2005 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time of the...
|
|
Anish Maddipoti, a junior from Austin, Texas
|
2023 High School Reunion Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2018 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist:...
|
|
Matt Amodio, a quantitative researcher from New York, New York
|
\"...the only current player to have won a game against James...
|
|
Brenda Berstler, a homemaker from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
|
Season 4 2-time champion: $14,200. In Brenda's game 2 her total...
|
|
Dan Alves, an engineering supervisor from Santa Maria, California
|
Season 2 3-time champion: $36,100. Last name pronounced as one syllable,...
|
|
Joanna Rom, a docent from Washington, D.C.
|
Season 35 player (2018-10-22). Joanna appeared on the original version of...
|
|
Larissa Kelly, an editor from Richmond, California
|
2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament semifinalist: $10,000. 2019 All-Star Games member of...
|
|
Larissa Kelly, an editor for academic competitions from Richmond, California
|
• Top 10 regular season winnings • Co-founder of National Academic...
|
|
Matt Amodio, a Ph.D. student from New Haven, Connecticut
|
2024 Jeopardy! Masters 2023 Jeopardy! Masters 3rd place player: $150,000. 2022...
|
|
Mary Ellen LaRubbio, a legal secretary originally from Brooklyn, New York
|
Season 8 player (1992-06-12): a collection of Armitron All-Sport water-resistant sport...
|
|
Matt Amodio, a postdoctoral researcher from Cambridge, Massachusetts
|
2024 Jeopardy! Masters 2023 Jeopardy! Masters 3rd place player: $150,000. 2022...
|
|
David Madden, a student originally from Ridgewood, New Jersey
|
2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament semifinalist: $10,000. 2019 All-Star Games member of...
|
|
David Madden, an academic competition director from Ridgewood, New Jersey
|
2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament semifinalist: $10,000. 2019 All-Star Games member of...
|
|
David Madden, an academic competition director from Ridgewood, New Jersey
|
• 19-game champion • 3rd longest winning streak 2024 Jeopardy! Invitational...
|
|
Mark Thompson, a real estate investor from Lexington, Massachusetts
|
Season 8 player (1991-12-30). Season 7 player (1990-10-01). Mark returned to...
|
|
Mark Thompson, a Realtor from Lexington, Massachusetts
|
Season 8 player (1991-12-28). Season 7 player (1990-10-01). Mark returned to...
|
|
Teresa O'Neill, a contract administrator from Santa Clara, California
|
Season 2 1-time champion: $16,799. A political candidate profile of Teresa...
|
|
Sara Trautner, a publisher's assistant originally from New Ulm, Minnesota
|
Season 2 1-time champion: $7,800 + a Carrera Action recliner by...
|
|
D.J. Smith, a computer business analyst from Garland, Texas
|
1988 Senior Tournament quarterfinalist: $1,000. D.J.'s quarterfinal score was high enough...
|
|
Kate Jay Zweifler, a Realtor and stay-at-home mom from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
|
Season 35 player (2019-05-01). Daughter of Season 7 player Roz Jay....
|
|
Perry Barber, a baseball umpire from New York City, New York
|
Season 5 player (1988-12-29). Perry was a one-time champion on the...
|
|
Susan Blum, an attorney from Fairfield, Connecticut
|
Season 2 1-time champion: $18,000. At the end of her first...
|
|
Andy Tirrell, a political science and international relations professor from San Diego, California
|
2024 Champions Wildcard 1st runner-up: $50,000. Season 39 1-time champion: $15,399...
|
|
Andy Tirrell, a political science and international relations professor from San Diego, California
|
2024 Champions Wildcard 1st runner-up: $50,000. Season 39 1-time champion: $15,399...
|
|
Skyler Hornback, a 12-year-old seventh grader from Sonora, Kentucky
|
"Honestly, this Abe Lincoln lover wants to go into politics. From...
|
|
Andrew Zazzera, a twelve-year-old from Virginia Beach, Virginia
|
"He has a sunny future as a meteorologist. From Virginia Beach,...
|
|
Dillon McCormick, a twelve-year-old from Erlanger, Kentucky
|
"A politician, maybe. An archaeologist, perhaps. Or a psychologist like grandpa....
|
|
Meg Walker, an eleven-year-old from Brandon, Mississippi
|
"She wants to help people with disabilities have a better life...
|
|
Charlotte Scott, a twelve-year-old from Washington, D.C.
|
"Watch out, Diane Sawyer. This future news anchor is ready for...
|
|
Leslie Decker, a high school German and ESL teacher from Austin, Texas
|
"She taught English to Europeans. Now she teaches German to Americans....
|
|
Tom Kunzen, a geotechnical engineer from Orlando, Florida
|
2011 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 27 5-time champion: $133,402...
|
|
Patty Young, an accountant from Azusa, California
|
Season 3 X. It is unknown whether Patty was only a...
|
|
Zach McDonnell, a freshman at the College of William and Mary from Harrisonburg, Virginia
|
2012 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000.
18 at the time of the College Championship.
|
|
Jeff Ramsey, a news director from Medford, Oregon
|
Season 3 X. It is unknown whether Jeff was only a...
|
|
Matt Olson, a sophomore at Stanford University from Berkeley, California
|
2012 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 20 at the time of the...
|
|
Harvey Becker, a writer from Venice, California
|
1986 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $1,000. Season 2 4-time champion: $55,400....
|
|
Gabor Vari, a psychiatrist from Los Angeles, California
|
Season 28 2-time champion: $58,402+ $2,000. In his first game, Gabor...
|
|
Anna Cambron, a 10-year-old from Louisville, Kentucky
|
"Her fascination with the human mind leads her to the field...
|
|
Brendan Graham, a soldier and a physician from San Antonio, Texas
|
Season 28 2-time champion: $46,602 + $1,000. Brendan appeared in uniform....
|
|
Tim Kuehn, a theatrical designer from Venice, California
|
Season 27 1-time champion: $18,201 + $1,000. Last name pronounced like...
|
|
Betsy Schroeder, a graduate student of veterinary medicine from Blacksburg, Virginia
|
Season 28 1-time champion: $12,200 + $1,000. Betsy won on the...
|
|
Warren Usui, a computer programmer from Pacific Palisades, California
|
Season 19 3-time champion: $59,990 + $2,000. Warren appeared as a...
|
|
Ric Leach, a training director from Miami, Florida
|
Season 24 2-time champion: $32,800 + $2,000. In his first game,...
|
|
Richard Mason, a roboticist from Pasadena, California
|
Season 18 2-time champion: $50,600 + $2,000. Husband of Season 14...
|
|
Tim Russert, a moderator from Meet the Press
|
"He's the Washington Bureau Chief of NBC News and the longtime...
|
|
Rachel "Steve" Cooke, a senior from Fishers, Indiana
|
2008-A Teen Tournament 1st runner-up: $25,000. 17 at the time of...
|
|
Taylor Gailliot, from Woodbridge, Virginia
|
"When asked what she wanted us to know about her, she...
|
|
Dominic Clust, from Metairie, Louisiana
|
"This future lawyer likes to argue and he's good at it....
|
|
Pat Schroeder, a former congresswoman from the Association of American Publishers
|
"Former congresswoman, member of the Women's Hall of Fame and current...
|
|
Al Franken, an author and comedian from Lateline
|
"His latest book hit the New York Times bestseller list in...
|
|
Susan Gress, a marina operator from Portland, Oregon
|
Season 20 player (2004-06-10).
KJL game 7.
|
|
Kevin Keach, an operations manager from St. Ann, Missouri
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2001 Tournament...
|
|
Anthony Trifilio, a construction worker from Brooklyn, New York
|
Season 19 1-time champion: $8,000 + $2,000. Season 18 1-time champion:...
|
|
Pat Pauken, an attorney and educator from Columbus, Ohio
|
Season 14 1-time champion: $7,200. Season 13 player (1997-01-21). Pat appeared...
|
|
Raj Dhuwalia, a graduate student from Gainesville, Florida
|
Season 19 1-time champion: $21,200 + $2,000. Raj was the first...
|
|
Tom Kavanaugh, a kickball team captain from St. Louis, Missouri
|
2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2006 Tournament of Champions...
|
|
Pat Pauken, an attorney and doctoral candidate from Columbus, Ohio
|
Season 14 1-time champion: $7,200. Season 13 player (1997-01-21). Pat appeared...
|
|
Marvin Shinkman, a stamp dealer from Sherman Oaks, California
|
1986 Tournament of Champions 2nd runner-up: $5,000. Season 2 4-time champion:...
|
|
Doug Meyer, an editor originally from Cambridge, Massachusetts
|
Season 21 player (2005-06-09). Season 20 player (2004-03-11). Doug previously appeared...
|
|
Michael Daunt, an accountant from Oakville, Ontario, Canada
|
"In 1996, he was a finalist in the Tournament of Champions....
|
|
Russ Schumacher, a graduate student and newlywed from Fort Collins, Colorado
|
"He won the most recent Tournament of Champions. A graduate student...
|
|
Craig Barker, an Advanced Placement history teacher from Livonia, Michigan
|
"In 1997 he won the College Championship. Today he's an Advanced...
|
|
Jeff Richmond, an attorney from Los Angeles, California
|
"He used his 1988 5-game winnings to pay for law school....
|
|
Frank Spangenberg, a transit cop from Douglaston, New York
|
2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
|
|
Bruce Naegeli, a librarian from Phoenix, Arizona
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 winner: $31,600. Lost to...
|
|
Curt Schilling, a pitcher from the Boston Red Sox
|
"In helping the Red Sox to win the 2004 World Series,...
|
|
Laura Ansley, a senior from Twinsburg, Ohio
|
2006 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
|
|
Raynell Cooper, a senior from Rockville, Maryland
|
2011 Teen Tournament winner (semifinalist by wildcard): $75,000. 16 at the...
|
|
Mark Brown, an administrative assistant and father from Peoria, Arizona
|
2003 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 19 5-time champion: $68,094...
|
|
Eric Newhouse, a director of technical assistance from Sioux City, Iowa
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
|
|
Clare Dellemann, a credit manager from Huntington Beach, California
|
Season 4 player (1987-09-28). Season 1 player (1984-09-21). Clare was returned...
|
|
Clare Dellemann, a credit manager from Huntington Beach, California
|
Season 4 player (1987-09-28). Season 1 player (1984-09-21). Clare was returned...
|
|
Will Dantzler, a senior from Mount Pleasant, South Carolina
|
2009 Teen Tournament first runner-up: $31,600.
|
|
Ariel Schneider, a biology student from West Lafayette, Indiana
|
Season 27 2-time champion: $46,300 + $2,000.
|
|
Judy Shewmake, a retired middle school history teacher from Murfreesboro, Tennessee
|
Season 27 1-time champion: $20,801 + $2,000.
Last name pronounced like "SHOO-make".
|
|
Loren Loiacono, a senior from Setauket, New York
|
2006 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
|
|
Camille Bullock, a senior from New Orleans, Louisiana
|
2006 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: Camille88
|
|
Brooke Martin, an eleven-year-old from Galway, New York
|
"It looks like smooth sailing for this marine biologist. From Galway,...
|
|
Mitchell Vogel, from Madison, Wisconsin
|
"This future governor of Wisconsin enjoys rollerblading, reading, and playing saxophone....
|
|
Matt Polazzo, a high school U.S. government teacher from Brooklyn, New York
|
"He teaches at one of the most selective high schools in...
|
|
Caitlin Millat, a kindergarten teacher from Brooklyn, New York
|
"She receives support from Teach for America and works for Achievement...
|
|
Allex Fambles, a sophomore from Brown University
|
"She knew at age eleven that she wanted to be a...
|
|
Cliff Galiher, a student from Half Moon Bay, California
|
2007 Tournament of Champions 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $50,000 +...
|
|
Cerulean Ozarow, an 11-year-old from Brooklyn, New York
|
"His future is full of options. He wants to become either...
|
|
Craig Westphal, a paramedic from Tucson, Arizona
|
2007 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
|
|
Diana North, a first grade teacher from Rock Hill, South Carolina
|
"She recently celebrated her silver anniversary of teaching. From Rock Hill,...
|
|
Christopher Meloni, an Emmy-nominated actor from Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
|
"He's played challenging roles on both sides of the law, including...
|
|
Harry Smith, a broadcast journalist from The Early Show
|
"This hard-working host of CBS's The Early Show has interviewed five...
|
|
Papa Chakravarthy, a sophomore from Lexington, Kentucky
|
2006 Teen Tournament champion: $75,000.
|
|
Doug Lach, a marketing manager from Columbus, Ohio
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2001 Tournament...
|
|
Ellen Lewis, a retired high school math teacher from Mount Vernon, New York
|
Season 28 1-time champion: $10,000 + $1,000.
|
|
Weston Mangin, a freshman at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo from Arroyo Grande, California
|
2012 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000.
19 at the time of the College Championship.
|
|
Lara Logan, a correspondent from 60 Minutes on CBS
|
"Her bold, award-winning reporting has earned her a prominent spot among...
|
|
Doug Dorst, a writer and professor from Austin, Texas
|
2006 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 22 3-time champion: $66,802...
|
|
Pat Healy, an index supervisor from Vallejo, California
|
"His five wins in 1998 helped him land a dream job...
|
|
Jean Cui, a student originally from Garden City, New York
|
Season 25 2-time champion: $14,200 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
|
|
Gail Flemmons, a history teacher from Clinton, Mississippi
|
Season 25 2-time champion: $46,399 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
|
|
Rebecca Dixon, a graduate student and musician from Vancouver, Washington
|
Season 26 2-time champion: $53,002 + $1,000. Rebecca and her partner...
|
|
Nathaniel Barnes, a composer and bartender from Toronto, Ontario, Canada
|
Season 25 3-time champion: $57,300 + $2,000. In his first game,...
|
|
Ingrid Nelson, a judicial assistant from Lake Mills, Wisconsin
|
Season 25 2-time champion: $27,802 + $2,000. Ingrid Nelson - A...
|
|
Harris Cohen, a family physician from Lower Gwynedd, Pennsylvania
|
Season 25 2-time champion: $17,800 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
|
|
Judy Mermelstein, a Census field representative from Queens, New York
|
Season 25 1-time champion: $38,401 + $1,000. Judy also appeared on...
|
|
Amanda J. Ray, a sophomore at the University of Virginia from Harrisonburg, Virginia
|
2010-B College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
|
|
Stacy Braverman, a public interest lawyer from Washington, D.C.
|
Season 26 1-time champion: $14,984 + $2,000. As detailed in a...
|
|
Kara Spak, a newspaper reporter from Chicago, Illinois
|
2011 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 27 5-time champion:...
|
|
Kadeem Cooper, a junior from the University of Virginia
|
2009 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 20 and from Brooklyn, New York...
|
|
Mike Marmesh, a veterinarian from Miami, Florida
|
Season 26 1-time champion: $4,700 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
|
|
Vito Cortese, a software engineer and Italian translator from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
|
Season 27 3-time champion: $68,485 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
|
|
Larry Cloud, a bookkeeper and computer consultant from Inglewood, California
|
"He won five times in 2001, allowing him to make a...
|
|
Marissa Goldsmith, a web developer from Springfield, Virginia
|
Season 27 3-time champion: $44,100 + $2,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: marteena
|
|
Cliff Galiher, a sophomore from UCLA
|
2007 Tournament of Champions 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $50,000 +...
|
|
Matt Drury, a government analyst from New York, New York
|
Season 26 1-time champion: $18,799 + $2,000. Matthew Drury - A...
|
|
Steven Milton, a legal case assistant from San Diego, California
|
Season 26 2-time champion: $30,299 + $1,000. Steve Milton San Diego,...
|
|
Yevgeny Shrago, a research assistant originally from Rochester, New York
|
Season 26 1-time champion: $24,600 + $2,000. Name pronounced like "yev-GHEN-ee...
|
|
Lisa Klink, a TV writer from Los Angeles, California
|
2009 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 24 5-time champion: $70,150...
|
|
Ben Lyon, an industrial scaleman from Dallas, Texas
|
"Representing the University of Oklahoma, he won the 1995 College Championship....
|
|
Casey Retterer, a sophomore at the University of Maryland from Olney, Maryland
|
2004 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
|
|
Garry Boone, originally from Ohio
|
Season 4 player (1987-09-15). The player information comes from the chat...
|
|
Claire Sattler, a senior from Bonita Springs, Florida
|
2023 High School Reunion Tournament semifinalist: $10,000. 2018 Teen Tournament winner...
|
|
Stuart Cleland, a public television producer from Wilmette, Illinois
|
Season 4 player (1987-09-15). The player information comes from the chat...
|
|
Elizabeth Pearce, a freelance editor and writer from New York City, New York
|
Season 8 1-time champion: $13,300. Elizabeth appeared on the original Jeopardy!...
|
|
Emma Arnold, a junior from Owings Mills, Maryland
|
2018 Teen Tournament 1st runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $50,000. Emma was...
|
|
Patton Oswalt, a Grammy and Emmy Award-winning comedian from Portsmouth, Virginia
|
\"A Grammy and Emmy Award-winning comedian from Portsmouth, Virginia, he rose...
|
|
Eric Kaplan, a retired OB/GYN physician from Long Beach, California
|
Season 35 player (2019-07-25). Eric won $100,000 on Name that Tune...
|
|
David Kipen, a journalist from California
|
Season 10 player (1994-01-18). The introduction was missing from the recording...
|
|
Brian Chang, an attorney from Chicago, Illinois
|
2022 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 37 7-time champion: $163,904...
|
|
Amy Schneider, a writer from Oakland, California
|
2024 Jeopardy! Masters (invited as producer\'s pick). 2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament...
|
|
Rock Wayda, a bond analyst from Dana Point, California
|
Season 35 player (2018-10-24). Rock's real first name is Erik, but...
|
|
Ali Hasan, a secondary school teacher from New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
|
Season 34 3-time champion: $67,801 + $2,000. Ali was given (only)...
|
|
Andrew He, a stay-at-home dad from Concord, California
|
2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament 2nd runner up: $25,000. 2023 Jeopardy! Masters...
|
|
Mattea Roach, a writer and podcaster from Toronto, Ontario, Canada
|
2024 Jeopardy! Masters 2023 Jeopardy! Masters 2nd place player: $250,000. 2022...
|
|
Andrew He, a software developer from San Francisco, California
|
2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament 2nd runner up: $25,000. 2023 Jeopardy! Masters...
|
|
Andrew He, a software developer from San Francisco, California
|
2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament 2nd runner up: $25,000. 2023 Jeopardy! Masters...
|
|
Andrew He, a software developer from San Francisco, California
|
2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament 2nd runner up: $25,000. 2023 Jeopardy! Masters...
|
|
Peter Lombardo, a Navy nurse from Oceanside, California
|
Season 12 player (1996-03-25). Peter was a lieutenant in the U.S....
|
|
Ryan Fenster, a banker from SeaTac, Washington
|
2019 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 34 7-time champion: $156,497...
|
|
Diana Hsu, a legal records assistant from Malden, Massachusetts
|
Season 34 2-time champion: $44,601 + $2,000. Diana won $50,000 on...
|
|
Lilly Chin, a robotics Ph.D. student at MIT from Decatur, Georgia
|
2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2017 Tournament of Champions wildcard...
|
|
Lilly Chin, a senior at MIT from Decatur, Georgia
|
2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2017 Tournament of Champions wildcard...
|
|
Lilly Chin, a robotics professor from Decatur, Georgia
|
2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2017 Tournament of Champions wildcard...
|
|
Colby Burnett, a high school world history teacher from Chicago, Illinois
|
2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2019 All-Star Games captain of...
|
|
Colby Burnett, a college counselor from Chicago, Illinois
|
• 2012 Teachers Tournament winner • 2013 Tournament of Champions winner...
|
|
Paul Boymel, an attorney from Potomac, Maryland
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 1985 Tournament...
|
|
Colby Burnett, an AP world history teacher from Chicago, Illinois
|
\"He won the Teacher\'s Tournament and the Tournament of Champions last...
|
|
Colby Burnett, a high school college counselor from Chicago, Illinois
|
2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2019 All-Star Games captain of...
|
|
Frank Epstein, a police officer from Los Angeles, California
|
\"He was a 5-time champion in 1992, and is still serving...
|
|
Marilyn Goldwater, a school psychologist from Horsham, Pennsylvania
|
Season 7 1-time champion: $14,601. Marilyn said she was on Jeopardy!...
|
|
Brandon Blackwell, a writer and TV personality originally from Jamaica, New York
|
2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2008-B Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist:...
|
|
Dino Alexander, a medical lab scientist from Fayetteville, North Carolina
|
Season 35 player (2018-09-21). Dino also goes by the name Chico...
|
|
Chuck Forrest, a law student from Grand Blanc, Michigan
|
2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2014 Battle of the Decades...
|
|
Chuck Forrest, a student from Grand Blanc, Michigan
|
2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2014 Battle of the Decades...
|
|
Chuck Forrest, a foreign service officer originally from Grand Blanc, Michigan
|
2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2014 Battle of the Decades...
|
|
Rebecca Zoshak, a language specialist from State College, Pennsylvania
|
Season 34 1-time champion: $14,407 + $2,000. Rebecca returned to the...
|
|
Catherine Sullivan
|
Season 8 player (1992-06-25). Player details missing because the game was...
|
|
Jer Bradford, a teacher
|
Season 8 1-time champion: $10,800. Player details missing because the game...
|
|
Ken Marblestone
|
Season 8 player (1992-06-25). Player details missing because the game was...
|
|
Chuck Forrest, a lawyer from Marino, Italy
|
2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2014 Battle of the Decades...
|
|
Nina Jackson
|
Season 8 player (1992-06-24). Player details missing because the game was...
|
|
Monica Thieu, a postdoctoral scientist from Atlanta, Georgia
|
2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2019 All-Star Games member of...
|
|
Wayne Winston, a college professor
|
Season 8 2-time champion: $16,800. Player details missing because the game...
|
|
Monica Thieu, a psychology student from Dallas, Texas
|
2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2019 All-Star Games member of...
|
|
Seema Dahlheimer, a professor of technical writing from St. Louis, Missouri
|
Season 36 player (2019-11-22). Seema had Jon Hamm as her high...
|
|
Monica Thieu, a Ph.D. student in psychology from New York, New York
|
• 2012 College Championship winner • 2013 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist...
|
|
Tiffany Gholar, an abstract painter from Chicago, Illinois
|
Season 30 1-time champion: $6,399 + $2,000. No returning champion Hometown...
|
|
Shawn Moore, a regional human resources manager from Miami, Florida
|
Season 35 player (2018-09-13). Shawn won $20,000 of a $60,000 jackpot...
|
|
Ryan Fenster, a graduate student from SeaTac, Washington
|
2019 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 34 7-time champion: $156,497...
|
|
Dan Pawson, a global health consultant from Brooklyn, New York
|
\"He was a legislative aide living in Boston when he won...
|
|
Alan Jackowitz, an accountant originally from Brooklyn, New York
|
Season 2 player (1985-09-11). At the time of his appearance, Alan...
|
|
Dolph Schmidt, a lawyer from Baltimore, Maryland
|
Season 8 player (1991-12-19). Dolph was on the winning team of...
|
|
Theron Stimmel, a college professor from Texas
|
1990 Seniors Tournament quarterfinalist: $1,000. Johnny's introduction of Theron prior to...
|
|
Celeste DiNucci, a manager of corporate and foundation relations at a music school from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
|
\"She was a graduate student when she won the 2007 Tournament...
|
|
India Cooper, an actor and copy editor originally from Denver, New York
|
2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
|
|
Jane Weaver, a registered nurse originally from Minnesota
|
1987 Senior Tournament quarterfinalist: $1,000. No hometown was given for Jane,...
|
|
Tom Wickham, an airline pilot from Torrington, Connecticut
|
1988 Senior Tournament semifinalist: $5,000. Tom only became eligible for the...
|
|
India Cooper, an actor and copy editor originally from Denver, Colorado
|
2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
|
|
India Cooper, an actor and copy editor originally from Denver, Colorado
|
2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
|
|
Jessica Babbitt, a personal stylist from Austin, Texas
|
Season 36 3-time champion: $71,598 + $2,000. Jessica won $10,600 in...
|
|
Vaughn West, a merchandising specialist from New York City
|
Season 3 player (1987-07-06). Vaughn's full-time job was portraying Garfield the...
|
|
Robert Horton, a computer salesman from Largo, Florida
|
Season 4 1-time champion: $11,601. Robert indicated during his contestant interview...
|
|
Martha Bordogna, an attorney from Indian Trail, North Carolina
|
Season 36 1-time champion: $16,400 + $1,000. Last name pronounced like...
|
|
Osman Syed, a student from Jamesville, New York
|
Season 34 1-time champion: $33,333 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
|
|
Leonard Schmidt, an optometrist from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
|
1992 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $5,000. 1992 Seniors Tournament winner:...
|
|
Meredith Moore, a server from Knightdale, North Carolina
|
Season 36 player (2020-02-28). Meredith died 2021-05-08 at the age of...
|
|
Zach Newkirk, an attorney from Alexandria, Virginia
|
2022 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 36/37 6-time champion: $124,871...
|
|
Harry Weisberger, an aerospace writer from Phoenix, Arizona
|
Season 4 player (1988-03-22). The player information comes from the chat...
|
|
Mary Dunne, from Watsonville, California
|
Season 4 player (1988-03-22). The player information comes from the chat...
|
|
Justin Bolsen, a public policy economics student at Brown University from Canton, Georgia
|
2024 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. \"He was a high school...
|
|
Sharon Miyasato, an attorney from Oakland, California
|
Season 3 2-time champion: $16,998. Sharon was returned to the show...
|
|
Justin Bolsen, a first-year student at Brown University from Canton, Georgia
|
2024 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. \"He was a high school...
|
|
Daniel Ludlam, a student from Claremont, California
|
Season 34 player (2018-03-23).
No Hometown Howdy was published for Daniel.
|
|
Tristan Mohabir, a nonprofit associate director from Washington, D.C.
|
Season 34 1-time champion: $15,200 + $1,000. Last name pronounced like...
|
|
Paige Hermansen, an English professor from Amherst, Massachusetts
|
Season 36 player (2020-02-05). Wyatt appeared on The Chase on 2022-05-24...
|
|
Julissa Castillo, an operations manager from Los Angeles, California
|
Season 37 player (2020-09-25). Julissa appeared on The Chase on 2023-02-09...
|
|
Chris Frantz, an on-call office administrator from Orwigsburg, Pennsylvania
|
Season 34 player (2018-03-21).
No Hometown Howdy was published for Chris.
|
|
Natasha Go, an innovation strategist from Sunnyside, New York
|
Season 34 player (2018-03-22).
No Hometown Howdy was published for Natasha.
|
|
Yungsheng Wang, a deputy public defender originally from Lafayette, Louisiana
|
2024 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2023 Champions Wildcard winner: $100,000...
|
|
Regis Michelena, a civil engineer from Casper, Wyoming
|
Season 34 player (2018-03-19).
No Hometown Howdy was published for Regis.
|
|
Yungsheng Wang, a public defender from Los Angeles, California
|
2024 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2023 Champions Wildcard winner: $100,000...
|
|
Yungsheng Wang, a deputy public defender originally from Lafayette, Louisiana
|
2024 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2023 Champions Wildcard winner: $100,000...
|
|
Neal Pollack, a writer from Austin, Texas
|
Season 30 3-time champion: $60,798 + $2,000. No challenger Hometown Howdy...
|
|
Nancy Dickmann, a senior from St. Louis, Missouri
|
1993 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $5,000. Nancy was the 2009 champion...
|
|
Lisa Mueller, a technical services librarian from Naperville, Illinois
|
Season 34 2-time champion: $33,200 + $2,000.
No Hometown Howdy was published for Lisa.
|
|
Melissa Okey, an elementary school resource teacher from Panorama City, California
|
2019 Teachers Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. At the time of the Teachers...
|
|
John Bizal, a retired high school English teacher from Scottsdale, Arizona
|
Season 34 player (2018-03-20).
No Hometown Howdy was published for John.
|
|
Francois Barcomb, an 11th grade physics teacher from New Paltz, New York
|
2019 Tournament of Champions 2nd runner-up: $50,000. 2019 Teachers Tournament winner:...
|
|
Nathan Berger, a restaurateur and sommelier from South Portland, Maine
|
Season 36 1-time champion: $11,999 + $1,000. Last name pronounced like...
|
|
AJ Freeman, a customer solutions advisor from Boise, Idaho
|
Season 34 player (2018-03-20).
No Hometown Howdy was published for AJ.
|
|
Peter Karamitsos, a software salesman from Elmhurst, Illinois
|
Season 34 2-time champion: $51,000 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
|
|
Chris Ban, an oral and facial surgeon from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
|
Season 39 1-time champion: $13,000 + $2,000. Chris was the only...
|
|
Rod Starkie, a personal trainer and student from New York City, New York
|
Season 9 player (1993-06-08). Rod was a competitive power lifter at...
|
|
Zeke Sevilla, Jr., a criminal lawyer from Vienna, Virginia
|
1990 Super Jeopardy! quarterfinalist: $5,000. 1987 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $1,000....
|
|
Rex Schultz, a trial lawyer from Baltimore, Maryland
|
Season 3 2-time champion: $19,800. Rex won about $80,000 on Tic...
|
|
Jim Dendy, a grad student originally from LaFayette, Georgia
|
Season 9 player (1993-06-02). Jim came to the show as the...
|
|
Britta Waller, a magazine and website editor from Greensboro, North Carolina
|
Season 29 player (2013-06-24). Britta's full name was listed on the...
|
|
Jack Lechner, a freelance writer originally from Arlington, Virginia
|
Season 5 4-time champion: $33,300. Jack was the alternate for the...
|
|
Richard Rasmussen, a probation officer from Walnut Creek, California
|
Season 11 3-time champion: $40,600. Richard was the alternate for the...
|
|
Whitney Collins, a third grade teacher from New York, New York
|
"She teaches at an all-boys school where every student learns chess...
|
|
Greg Bentley, a law clerk from Pikeville, Kentucky
|
Season 28 player (2012-03-21).
|
|
Alex Wright, a university administrator from Upper Arlington, Ohio
|
Season 28 1-time champion: $25,600 + $2,000. Alex was originally from...
|
|
Eric Oberhand, a computer consultant from Los Angeles, California
|
Season 3 player (1987-06-18). Eric appeared on Art Linkletter's House Party...
|
|
Greg Haroutunian, a law clerk from Montvale, New Jersey
|
Season 29 player (2013-04-10). Greg's full first name was listed on...
|
|
Brad Tytel, a global health consultant from Brooklyn, New York
|
Season 29 player (2013-04-11). Brad's full first name was listed on...
|
|
Jared Hall, a graduate student in global policy studies from Austin, Texas
|
2014 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 29/30 6-time champion: $181,001...
|
|
Annette Todd, a marketing director from Riverside, California
|
Season 28 player (2012-03-02). This was Annette's seventh game show appearance...
|
|
Bill Matheny, a Catholic priest from Wheeling, West Virginia
|
Season 29 player (2013-06-11). Bill was a fastest finger competitor on...
|
|
Graham Doskoch, a twelve-year-old from Berkeley Heights, New Jersey
|
"He wants to put his love of design and building to...
|
|
Matt Tobin, a violinist and dueling pianist from Glastonbury, Connecticut
|
Season 29 player (2012-09-24). Matt's mother appeared on Jeopardy! in 1974...
|
|
Pian Wong, a high school English teacher from New York, New York
|
"She teaches at a Bronx school that's been ranked the most...
|
|
Justin Sausville, a urologist from Baltimore, Maryland
|
2011 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 27/28 6-time champion:...
|
|
Kathryn Wendling, a high school social studies teacher from Farmington, Minnesota
|
"Her high school newspaper predicted she would be on Jeopardy! From...
|
|
Lisa Johnston, a fourth and fifth grade reading and religion teacher from East Boston, Massachusetts
|
"She teaches at a parish that's focus is to dream big....
|
|
Elissa Hoffman, a high school biology and anatomy & physiology teacher from Appleton, Wisconsin
|
"She is in her lucky 13th year of teaching. From Appleton,...
|
|
Jay Rhee, an oncologist from Annapolis, Maryland
|
2011 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 27 5-time champion:...
|
|
Pat Clevenger, a civil engineer from Chalfant Borough, Pennsylvania
|
Season 29 1-time champion: $16,100 + $1,000. Pat was living in...
|
|
Mike Lewis, a systems engineer from Bloomington, Minnesota
|
Season 29 4-time champion: $102,800 + $2,000. Mike was the alternate...
|
|
Lloyd Caesar, an office manager from Watervliet, New York
|
Season 28 1-time champion: $22,359 + $2,000. Lloyd's win was written...
|
|
Michael Block, a senior from Staten Island, New York
|
1988 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $1,000. 1988 Teen Tournament winner: $25,000....
|
|
Daniel Donohue, a junior at Northwestern University from Arlington Heights, Illinois
|
2013 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Daniel won $5,000 on Who...
|
|
John Anneken, a postdoctoral researcher from Cincinnati, Ohio
|
Season 29 3-time champion: $60,112 + $1,000. John appeared on The...
|
|
Bill Kinnaird, a home builder from Louisville, Kentucky
|
Season 20 player (2004-05-17).
Last name pronounced like "kin-ARD".
|
|
LeVar Burton, a distinguished actor and TV host from the Emmy-winning children's program Reading Rainbow
|
1995 Celebrity Jeopardy! winner: $14,500 for the Somalia Foundation. "A distinguished...
|
|
John Baur, an author and pirate from Albany, Oregon
|
Season 24 player (2008-06-26). John was a co-originator of International Talk...
|
|
Jeffrey Gerlomes, a freshman from Napa, California
|
2007 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
14 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
|
|
Martha Fingleton, a student from Milwaukee, Wisconsin
|
Season 20 player (2004-05-26).
|
|
Tucker Carlson, an author and co-host from Crossfire
|
2004 Power Players Week player (2004-05-10). Charities: American Camping Association &...
|
|
Naren Tallapragada, a junior from Burke, Virginia
|
2008-A Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000. 16 at the time of the...
|
|
Anne Boyd, a freelance writer from Los Angeles, California
|
2004 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 20 4-time champion: $84,600...
|
|
Allen Goodman, an economics professor from Huntington Woods, Michigan
|
Season 24 player (2008-06-13). Web site at www.econ.wayne.edu/agoodman. Allen detailed his...
|
|
Jeremy Bate, a writer from Los Angeles, California
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2000 Tournament...
|
|
Alison Kolani, a copy editor from Queens, New York
|
Season 24 1-time champion: $13,601 + $1,000. Alison's turn against IBM's...
|
|
Bill Maher, a comedian and author from Politically Incorrect
|
"A comedian and author, he hosts the lively discussion group called...
|
|
Jesse L. Jackson, Jr., a congressman from the U.S. House of Representatives
|
"And he led a voter registration drive for the national Rainbow...
|
|
Arianna Kelly, a law student from Somerville, Massachusetts
|
Season 24 player (2008-01-30). Season 24 player (2008-07-08). Sister of Season...
|
|
Jake Marini, a university administrator and event planner from Ardmore, Pennsylvania
|
Season 24 1-time champion: $18,300 + $1,000. Jake is a nickname...
|
|
Nancy Melucci, a therapist from Irvine, California
|
Season 9 1-time champion: $10,401.
Nancy was originally from Brooklyn, New York.
|
|
Trevor Norris, a management analyst from Washington, D.C.
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2003 Tournament...
|
|
Pat Tortorello, a corrections officer from Belleville, New Jersey
|
Season 16 1-time champion: $10,200. Pat was the first contestant eliminated...
|
|
Karl Coryat, a managing editor from Oakland, California
|
Season 12 2-time champion: $42,400. Karl's one-day total of $26,100 (#2736,...
|
|
Julie Dunlevy, a technology specialist from Louisville, Kentucky
|
Season 23 3-time champion: $73,800 + $2,000. Julie was the alternate...
|
|
Jeff Schwartz, a professor and tutor from New York, New York
|
Season 23 player (2007-01-01). Jeff was also a contestant on the...
|
|
Michelle Clum, an executive assistant from Wichita, Kansas
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2001 Tournament...
|
|
Andrew Garen, a project manager from Austin, Texas
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2001 Tournament...
|
|
Gracie Studdard, a 12-year-old from Locust Grove, Georgia
|
"When this contestant's father was on the show, he couldn't think...
|
|
Richard Finch, an attorney from Dearborn Heights, Michigan
|
Season 19 player (2003-07-14). Season 18 player (2002-02-26). Richard was returned...
|
|
James Arey, a hotel concierge from New Orleans, Louisiana
|
1999 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $2,500. Season 15 5-time champion: $42,802...
|
|
Ted Senator, a computer scientist from Bethesda, Maryland
|
Season 13 1-time champion: $8,199. Ted's October 2009 losing turn against...
|
|
Paul Rouffa, an actor from Oak Park, Illinois
|
1990 Super Jeopardy! quarterfinalist: $5,000. 1986 Tournament of Champions 1st runner-up:...
|
|
Andrew Maly, an environmental engineer from Bel Air, Maryland
|
1999 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $5,000. Season 15 5-time champion: $44,100...
|
|
Vicky Stanton, a school psychologist from Sherman Oaks, California
|
Season 22 2-time champion: $19,799 + $2,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: Vicky
|
|
Damon Raskin, a physician from Santa Monica, California
|
Season 13 player (1997-01-03). Also was a contestant on the Osmond...
|
|
Faith Love, a systems analyst from Boyds, Maryland
|
Season 19 4-time champion: $40,801 + $1,000. Faith was the alternate...
|
|
Paul Rouffa, an actor from Forest Park, Illinois
|
1990 Super Jeopardy! quarterfinalist: $5,000. 1986 Tournament of Champions 1st runner-up:...
|
|
Fran Pipp, a psychologist from Dexter, Michigan
|
Season 6 player (1989-11-03). Brother(?) Joe was a 3-time champion back...
|
|
Chris Breen, a sophomore at Princeton University from Springfield, Massachusetts
|
2005 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. According to the official Jeopardy! web...
|
|
Joseph Henares, from Avon, Connecticut
|
"Along with group science projects, history club, writing club, and chess...
|
|
Chris Shea, a radio operator from Los Angeles, California
|
1989 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $1,000. Season 5 4-time champion: $35,202....
|
|
Rachael Schwartz, a lawyer with an international law firm from Washington, D.C.
|
"In 1994, she became the first woman ever to win the...
|
|
Peggi Malys, a medical student originally from Orlando, Florida
|
1990 Super Jeopardy! quarterfinalist: $5,000. 1989 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist:...
|
|
Ulf Jensen, a university teacher from Uppsala, Sweden
|
1996 Olympic Games Tournament winner: $25,000. Ulf was the twelfth player...
|
|
Lynne Wexler, a librarian from Evanston, Illinois
|
"She was the first 5-time champion in 1991. A librarian from...
|
|
Graham Gilmer, a senior at Stanford University from Stanford, California
|
"He was the Teen Tournament champion in 2001. Now he's a...
|
|
Shane Whitlock, a resident physician from Little Rock, Arkansas
|
"As a junior at the University of Arkansas, he won the...
|
|
Dane Garrett, a lawyer from Collinsville, Illinois
|
Season 2 3-time champion: $17,900. Defeated by Chuck Forrest. Dane was...
|
|
Steve Berman, a teacher from Santa Monica, California
|
"He was a film executive when he won five shows in...
|
|
Jerry Harvey, a freelance educator originally from California, Missouri
|
Season 20 2-time champion: $70,002 + $1,000. KJL game 1. While...
|
|
Michael Daunt, an accountant from Canada
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Elite Eighteen (Round 2 winners) member:...
|
|
Billy Baxter, an attorney from Richmond, Virginia
|
"Representing the College of William & Mary, he won the 1992...
|
|
David Sampugnaro, a writer and internet specialist from North White Plains, New York
|
"A 5-time winner from 1996, he's now a writer and internet...
|
|
John Zhang, a freshman at MIT originally from Lexington, Kentucky
|
"He won the 2003 Teen Tournament. Today he's a freshman at...
|
|
Brian Moore, an astronomer from Houston, Texas
|
"He was the first 5-day champion in the 1993-1994 season. An...
|
|
Stephen Lebowitz, a physician from Los Angeles, California
|
1988 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $1,000. Season 4 4-time champion: $50,900....
|
|
Chris Mullins, a computer programmer from Louisville, Kentucky
|
Season 21 player (2005-01-04). Chris's wife, Scheri Mullins, an administrative assistant...
|
|
Elizabeth Salinas, a historic interpreter from Silver Spring, Maryland
|
Season 14 3-time champion: $31,300. Appeared in game #3000. (Because of...
|
|
Kerry Breitenbach, a marketing analyst from South Euclid, Ohio
|
2006 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 21 5-time champion: $90,400...
|
|
Jerod Klein, a biology teacher originally from Fullerton, California
|
Season 14 player (1997-09-19). Appeared in game #3000. (Because of the...
|
|
Tom Nichols, a process engineer originally from Lemont, Illinois
|
Season 14 player (1997-09-19). Appeared in game #3000. (Because of the...
|
|
Leslie Burns-Dell'Acqua, a marketing consultant from San Diego, California
|
Season 22 player (2005-11-02), Season 21 player (2005-01-12). Leslie was asked...
|
|
Carol Denny, a writer for a non-profit environmental foundation from Arnold, Maryland
|
Season 27 1-time champion: $13,199 + $1,000.
Identical twin sister of Season 29 player Chris O'Toole.
|
|
Tom McCudden, a law student from Durham, North Carolina
|
Season 21 1-time champion: $40,600 + $2,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: Muskrat
|
|
Tim Koch, a 12-year-old sixth grader from Cliffwood, New Jersey
|
"He would like to be a teacher because you get to...
|
|
Mark Kelly, a retired U.S. Navy captain and astronaut from Houston, Texas
|
"He's a retired U.S. Navy captain who flew combat missions in...
|
|
Eureka Nutt, a paralegal from Canoga Park, California
|
Season 27 2-time champion: $38,701 + $1,000.
|
|
Jonathan Gillerman, a senior from Staten Island, New York
|
2003 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
|
|
Lyn Thomas, a library assistant from Redmond, Washington
|
Season 27 1-time champion: $13,100 + $1,000.
|
|
Mary Naam, a junior at Harvard University from Effingham, Illinois
|
2003 College Championship quarterfinalist: $2,500.
|
|
Tom Zamojcin, a digital marketing manager from Phoenixville, Pennsylvania
|
Season 27 1-time champion: $22,800 + $2,000.
Last name pronounced like "zam-MOH-chin".
|
|
Rachel Gottesman, a junior from Cortlandt Manor, New York
|
2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 17 at the...
|
|
Amy Levine, a freshman from North Potomac, Maryland
|
2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games quarterfinalist: $5,000. 15 at the time...
|
|
Amy Fletcher, a junior from Cincinnati, Ohio
|
2005 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500.
16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
|
|
Larry Marshall, a junior at the University of Missouri from Kansas City, Missouri
|
2004 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000.
|
|
Kevin Yang, a junior from Birmingham, Alabama
|
2012 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000.
16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
|
|
Kendra Pettis, a junior from Oberlin College
|
\"She hadn\'t settled on a career goal at age 11. Now...
|
|
Nikhil Desai, a junior from Fremont, California
|
2011 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000. 16 at the time of the...
|
|
David Walter, a senior from Wilmington, Delaware
|
2007 Teen Tournament winner (semifinalist by wildcard): $75,000. 17 at the...
|
|
Brady Newell, from Derwood, Maryland
|
"She loves diving and gymnastics, but is headed toward being either...
|
|
Christian Haines, a college student originally from Newport News, Virginia
|
2007 Tournament of champions semifinalist: $10,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
|
|
Bob Kennedy, a college linguistics instructor from Santa Barbara, California
|
Season 27 2-time champion: $33,800 + $1,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: Bobk
|
|
Doug Savant, an actor from Desperate Housewives
|
"He plays Tom Scavo, the sometimes-befuddled husband of Felicity Huffman on...
|
|
Mark Dawson, a business manager from Chamblee, Georgia
|
2014 Battle of the Decades quarterfinalist: $10,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
|
|
Amy Varallo, a senior from Aiken, South Carolina
|
2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games quarterfinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time...
|
|
Miguel Ferrer, an actor from Crossing Jordan
|
"He began his career as a studio drummer and played on...
|
|
Lindsey Hargrove, a senior at the University of Texas from Bellaire, Texas
|
2004 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
Mother's Jeopardy! Message Board user name: collegemom
|
|
Vanamali Compton, a junior from Clarkdale, Arizona
|
2005 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. 16 at the time of the...
|
|
Joseph Graumann, a junior from Mays Landing, New Jersey
|
2006 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
|
|
Rachel McCool, a sophomore at Dickinson College from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
|
2004 College Championship 2nd runner-up: $25,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: rachel_pi
|
|
Raphie Cantor, a sophomore from San Diego, California
|
2011 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
15 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
|
|
Aaron Thompson, a special assistant from Washington, D.C.
|
2006 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 21 3-time champion:...
|
|
Leslie Shannon, a manager of a research lab from Sydney, Australia
|
"A recent art history graduate when she became Jeopardy! champion in...
|
|
Marie Braden, a customer service representative from Tempe, Arizona
|
Season 27 1-time champion: $24,800 + $1,000. Marie's boyfriend Kirk's Rock...
|
|
Rachel Rothenberg, a senior from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
|
2009 Teen Tournament winner (semifinalist by wildcard): $75,000. Jeopardy! Message Board...
|
|
Zach Blumenfeld, a junior from Lincolnshire, Illinois
|
2009 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000.
|
|
Crystal Durham, a 12-year-old from Fort Pierce, Florida
|
"She would like to be an Irish stepdancing teacher, because dancing...
|
|
Regina Robbins, an arts teacher from New York, New York
|
2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $90,700...
|
|
Sara Terrell, a veterinary technician from Windsor, Connecticut
|
2007 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
|
|
Susan Mitchell, a chemical engineer from Houston, Texas
|
2007 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD...
|
|
Matt Kohlstedt, a grad student originally from La Grange, Illinois
|
2009 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
Season 25 5-time champion: $77,803 + $2,000.
|
|
Francesca Leibowitz, a fifth grade English teacher from Brooklyn, New York
|
"She teaches at a school that opened in 1854. From Brooklyn...
|
|
Max Levaren, a personal success coach from San Diego, California
|
2003 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 19 4-time champion:...
|
|
Michael Glick, a 12-year-old from Smithtown, New York
|
"He's in math honors this year, even though math is one...
|
|
Scott Turow, a bestselling novelist and practicing attorney from Chicago, Illinois
|
"He's sold more than 25 million copies of his novels worldwide...
|
|
Mark Eckard, a software designer from Bedford, Massachusetts
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 winner: $35,600. 2001 Tournament...
|
|
Dana Delany, an actress from Kidnapped
|
"She won two Emmys for playing Army nurse Colleen McMurphy on...
|
|
Grace Thomas, an 11-year-old sixth grader from Raleigh, North Carolina
|
"This captain of the Brain-Bowl team can name all the countries...
|
|
Alex Stambaugh, a 12-year-old from Paris, Kentucky
|
"He feels he can use his talents in math and science...
|
|
Caitlin Cook, a sophomore from Arden, North Carolina
|
2005 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $5,000.
16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
|
|
Rebecca Lobo, a future Women\'s Basketball Hall of Famer and ESPN analyst originally from the WNBA
|
\"Later this year, she\'ll be inducted into the Women\'s Basketball Hall...
|
|
Leslie Frates, a Spanish teacher from Hayward, California
|
\"A Jeopardy! champion in 1991, she\'s now a Spanish teacher listed...
|
|
Eliza Scruton, a junior from Louisville, Kentucky
|
2012 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000.
16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
|
|
Ben Schenkel, a junior from Allentown, Pennsylvania
|
2007 Teen Tournament 1st runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $42,800. 17 at...
|
|
Eliza Urban, a sophomore from Richmond, Virginia
|
2007 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 15 at the time of the...
|
|
Bob Mesko, an arts administrator from Denver, Colorado
|
2006 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 22 5-time champion:...
|
|
Jason Richards, a pharmacy technician from Old Town, Maine
|
2006 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
Season 22 4-time champion: $99,200 + $2,000.
|
|
Eric Newhouse, a director of technical assistance from Vermillion, South Dakota
|
"He won both the 1989 Teen Tournament and the 1998 Teen...
|
|
Bob Harris, an author, comedian, and radio commentator from Los Angeles, California
|
"A 5-time champion and a finalist in the Tournament of Champions,...
|
|
Surabhi Iyer, a ten-year-old from Franklin, Massachusetts
|
"Her research scientist dad has inspired her to become a neuroscientist....
|
|
Emily Lever, a junior from Chevy Chase, Maryland
|
2009 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
|
|
Katie Orphan, a freshman at Whitworth College from Reno, Nevada
|
2002 College Championship semifinalist: $5,000.
|
|
Diane Trap, a librarian and graphics specialist from Athens, Georgia
|
Season 25 1-time champion: $21,400 + $1,000. Diane Trap - a...
|
|
Mark Wales, a substitute teacher from Amherst, New York
|
2009 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 24 5-time champion: $141,804...
|
|
Jackie Harrison, a surgeon from Chicago, Illinois
|
2003 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Season 19 4-time champion: $66,602 + $2,000.
|
|
Ben Tritle, an apartment manager from Los Angeles, California
|
2003 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 18 5-time champion: $78,600...
|
|
Kristiana Henderson, a junior from Kent, Washington
|
2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games quarterfinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time...
|
|
Michael Schulson, a 12-year-old from Chattanooga, Tennessee
|
"As a member of bug club, it's only natural that he...
|
|
Jared Rothenberg, an 11-year-old from Houston, Texas
|
"When he's not on the mound, he's warming up in the...
|
|
Sebastian Johnson, a senior from Takoma Park, Maryland
|
2006 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Listed as "Sebi" on the...
|
|
Harry Shearer, an actor/writer/producer from The Simpsons and Le Show
|
"His many credits include providing voices for The Simpsons, and he's...
|
|
Nicole Tantoco, a 12-year-old from San Ramon, California
|
"She has two simple dreams: to attend Stanford and then become...
|
|
Dan Amboy, a 12-year-old from Lapeer, Michigan
|
"He hopes to get into the best college that he can....
|
|
Steven Popper, an economist from Topanga, California
|
"A winner of 5 shows in 1988, he has since founded...
|
|
David Hoffelmeyer, a senior from St. Joseph, Missouri
|
2006 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000.
|
|
Scott Gillispie, a project manager and expectant father from Atlanta, Georgia
|
"While attending Georgia Tech, he won the 1991 College Championship. Now...
|
|
Michael Braun, a junior from Silver Spring, Maryland
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2005 Teen...
|
|
Matt Klein, a senior from Pittsford, New York
|
2006 Teen Tournament 2nd runner-up: $15,000. Won $1,000 on Who Wants...
|
|
Lauren Romero, a senior from Denver, Colorado
|
2006 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. According to the official Jeopardy! web...
|
|
Emily Sturtz, from Parsippany, New Jersey
|
"Because she would like to help people, she wants to become...
|
|
Allan Long, a freshman from Tallahassee, Florida
|
2005 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. 14 at the time of the...
|
|
Kermin Fleming, a junior at Carnegie Mellon University from Lexington, Kentucky
|
2006 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions...
|
|
Kelley Burd, a junior at West Virginia University from Bristol, West Virginia
|
2004 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000.
|
|
Richard Cordray, the head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau from Grove City, Ohio and Washington, D.C.
|
\"He had just graduated from law school and was clerking for...
|
|
Ken Jennings, a writer from Seattle, Washington
|
• 74-game champion with longest winning streak • Total earnings over...
|
|
Mario Cantone, an actor and comedian from Sex and the City
|
\"He played Anthony Marentino, the wedding planner with an attitude, on...
|
|
Kathy Casavant, a high school English teacher from Oxford, Massachusetts
|
"Originally she wanted to do anything but teach. Well, she's been...
|
|
Lizzie O'Leary, an aviation and regulation correspondent from CNN
|
"She broke the news that Chrysler would file for Chapter 11...
|
|
Evan Eschliman, a sophomore from Olathe, Kansas
|
2012 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000.
16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
|
|
Bruce Ikawa, a college professor from Hillsdale, Michigan
|
\"He says his 5 wins in 1990 increases his credibility with...
|
|
Kailyn LaPorte, a sophomore from Decatur, Georgia
|
2011 Teen Tournament 1st runner-up: $42,600. 15 at the time of...
|
|
Erin McLean, a junior at Boston University from Danvers, Massachusetts
|
2011 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 2010-B College Championship winner:...
|
|
Anderson Cooper, a host from AC360°
|
"He covers major news stories from around the world and plays...
|
|
Ryan Ballengee, a senior from Pasadena, Maryland
|
2001 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $5,000.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
|
|
Alexis Stephens, a senior from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
|
2001 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $5,000.
15 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
|
|
Ken Jennings, a writer from Seattle, Washington
|
"He was a software engineer living in Salt Lake City, Utah,...
|
|
Brad Rutter, an actor and producer from Hollywood, California
|
"He was a college student from Lancaster, Pennsylvania, when he won...
|
|
Claudia Perry, a worker for an e-learning company from Evanston, Illinois
|
"She was a pop music critic living in San Jose, California...
|
|
Molly Gier, a twelve-year-old from Chesterfield, Missouri
|
"She is preparing for a teaching career by tutoring her peers....
|
|
Dave Abbott, a musician and licensing executive from Fort Thomas, Kentucky
|
"He won the 1999 Tournament of Champions. A musician and licensing...
|
|
Will Walters, a twelve-year-old from Lexington, Kentucky
|
"He wants to follow in the footsteps of his idols, Albert...
|
|
Neal Freyman, a ten-year-old from Longmeadow, Massachusetts
|
"He's not sure recess counts as a subject, but if it...
|
|
Russ Porter, a water systems engineer from Seattle, Washington
|
Season 27 1-time champion: $20,001 + $2,000.
|
|
Jelisa Castrodale, a sportswriter from Winston-Salem, North Carolina
|
Season 27 1-time champion: $39,399 + $1,000.
Name pronounced like "jell-EES-ah KASS-tro-dale".
|
|
Jeff Gorham, an accountant from Richmond, Virginia
|
Season 27 1-time champion: $14,001 + $1,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: SpacemanSpiff
|
|
Anthony Fox, an account executive from Arlington Heights, Illinois
|
Season 27 4-time champion: $51,998 + $1,000. Playing as "Tony", Anthony...
|
|
Tom Toal, an orthopedic surgeon from Lake Oswego, Oregon
|
Season 27 1-time champion: $12,200 + $1,000. Last name pronounced like...
|
|
Ellen Kimmel, a school nurse from Nanuet, New York
|
Season 27 2-time champion: $37,000 + $1,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: SkoolRN
|
|
Deborah Fitzgerald, a retired government employee from McLean, Virginia
|
2009 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Season 24 4-time champion: $55,901 + $1,000.
|
|
Tom Bergeron, an Emmy Award-winning host from Dancing with the Stars
|
2009 Celebrity Jeopardy! player: $25,000 to the Muscular Dystrophy Association. "He's...
|
|
Karla Sortland, a teacher from Las Vegas, Nevada
|
Season 23 player (2007-06-11). Season 22 player (2006-05-24). Karla was brought...
|
|
Katie Singh, a sophomore from Northwestern University from Austin, Texas
|
2010-B College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
|
|
Terry Parker, a high school history teacher from Cutler Bay, Florida
|
"Don't try to pin down this wrestling coach, history teacher, and...
|
|
Marion Penning, a high school science and history teacher from Baltimore, Maryland
|
"She teaches at a Maryland 'green' school that has a solar...
|
|
Michael Farabaugh, a high school chemistry teacher from Charlottesville, Virginia
|
"This chemistry teacher has been making things fizz, smoke, and explode...
|
|
Lindsey Nicolai, a junior from Hampton, Virginia
|
2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games quarterfinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time...
|
|
Aiden Pink, a freshman from St. Louis Park, Minnesota
|
2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games semifinalist: $10,000. 15 at the time...
|
|
Greg Peterson, a senior from Park Ridge, Illinois
|
2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games 1st runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $38,600....
|
|
Thomas McIntyre, a 12-year-old from Marino Valley, California
|
"This self-proclaimed Star Wars freak, who has earned star rank in...
|
|
Andrew Goldfein, a 12-year-old from Lincolnwood, Illinois
|
"He likes to argue and help people, so it's off to...
|
|
Josh Lacey, a 10-year-old from Ellicott City, Maryland
|
"The International Olympic Committee does such good work, he would like...
|
|
Soledad O'Brien, a broadcast journalist from CNN's American Morning
|
"This broadcast journalist has covered stories all over the world. Since...
|
|
James Denton, an actor from Desperate Housewives
|
"He plays Mike Delfino, Wisteria Lane's sexy plumber on the hit...
|
|
Steve Golden, a junior from Brookeville, Maryland
|
2005 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $5,000. 16 at the time of the...
|
|
Lara Robillard, a policy analyst from Arlington, Virginia
|
"She used the winnings from her 5 shows in 1998 to...
|
|
Andrew Watkins, a junior from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
|
2006 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: everyday847
|
|
Chloé White, a senior from Mission Hills, Kansas
|
2005 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
|
|
Matt Bushell, a junior at Georgetown University from Fairfield, Connecticut
|
2004 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000.
|
|
Burns Cameron, a realtor from Standish, Maine
|
1990 Super Jeopardy! quarterfinalist: $5,000. Burns appeared on the original version...
|
|
Maggie Brown, a sophomore from Pensacola, Florida
|
2023 High School Reunion Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2018 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist:...
|
|
Maggie Brown, a junior at the University of West Florida from Pensacola, Florida
|
\"A sophomore from Pensacola, Florida in the 2018 Teen Tournament, she\'s...
|
|
Ken Jennings, the winner of 74 consecutive games from Seattle, Washington
|
2020 Jeopardy!: The Greatest of All Time winner: $1,000,000 + a...
|
|
Nathan Walpow, a data processor originally from Queens, New York
|
1985 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $1,000. Season 1 5-time champion: $38,900....
|
|
Richard Cordray, a judicial clerk from Grove City, Ohio
|
2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000 (prize declined as a...
|
|
Richard Cordray, a judicial clerk from Grove City, Ohio
|
2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000 (prize declined as a...
|
|
Josh Vincent, a waiter and a chef from Brigantine, New Jersey
|
Season 8 4-time champion: $58,800. The recording used to archive the...
|
|
Karen Muranaka, from Lomita, California
|
Season 3 1-time champion: $8,600. Trebek pilot 1 player. Karen was...
|
|
Karen Muranaka, an administration assistant from Los Angeles, California
|
Season 3 1-time champion: $8,600. Trebek pilot 1 player. Karen was...
|
|
Jesse Green
|
Season 3 1-time champion: $X. Missing occupation and hometown because the...
|
|
Tom Smolich, a Catholic priest originally from Sacramento, California
|
Season 5 player (1989-04-11). Season 6 3-time champion: $39,802. Last name...
|
|
Tom Smolich, a Catholic priest originally from Sacramento, California
|
Season 5 player (1989-04-11). Season 6 3-time champion: $39,802. Last name...
|
|
Isaac Applebaum, a junior at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California
|
2023 Champions Wildcard quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2022 National College Championship 3rd runner-up...
|
|
Claudia Perry, a pop music critic from San Jose California
|
Season 13 player (1996-09-11). 2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000....
|
|
Isaac Applebaum, a corporate development analyst from Mountain View, California
|
2023 Champions Wildcard quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2022 National College Championship 3rd runner-up...
|
|
Amanda Walker, a junior at Gonzaga University from East Wenatchee, Washington
|
2005 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user name:...
|
|
Gregory Proops, a retail sales clerk from San Francisco, California
|
Season 1 player (1984-11-08). Gregory played Alex Trebek during the Improv...
|
|
Catherine Carson, a fourth grade language arts, math, and social studies teacher from Washington, D.C.
|
"She is new to teaching--she's in her second year. From Washington,...
|
|
Viki Radden, a high school English and literacy teacher from Bakersfield, California
|
"She teaches at the largest high school district in California. From...
|
|
Leonard Koss, an entrepreneur from Santa Monica, California
|
Season 20 player (2004-07-08). KJL game 27. Leonard was a writer...
|
|
Gus Guszkowski, a senior at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire
|
2022 National College Championship quarterfinalist: $10,000. Gus was majoring in classics....
|
|
Kelly O'Donnell, a political reporter from NBC News
|
"An Emmy-winning political reporter, she has covered Capitol Hill and the...
|
|
Katty Kay, a Washington, D.C. anchor from BBC World News America
|
"She's the Washington, D.C. anchor for BBC World News America, as...
|
|
Quinn McDonald, an inventory control manager from Lowville, New York
|
Season 27 1-time champion: $20,600 + $1,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: Mighty Q
|
|
Robert Arshonsky, a senior from Cal Poly
|
"As a 12-year-old, he wanted to be the first person on...
|
|
Jeff Haylon, a sophomore from Newtown, Connecticut
|
2012 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $10,000.
15 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
|
|
Ben Greenho, a junior from Plano, Texas
|
2012 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
|
|
Andrew Van Duyn, a junior from Wheaton, Illinois
|
2011 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 16 at the time of the...
|
|
Steven Ho, a junior from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
|
2011 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time of the...
|
|
Ken Jennings, a 74-game champion from Seattle, Washington
|
"In 2004, his record-breaking 74-game win streak set a standard for...
|
|
Kate Rowland, a family doctor from Chicago, Illinois
|
Season 27 1-time champion: $16,401 + $2,000.
|
|
Stephen Fritz, a sophomore from Lexington, Kentucky
|
2007 Teen Tournament 2nd runner-up: $25,460.
15 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
|
|
Anish Maddipoti, a junior at the University of Texas at Austin from Austin, Texas
|
\"In the 2018 Teen Tournament, he was a high school junior...
|
|
Ana Navarro, a Republican commentator from CNN, ABC News, and Telemundo
|
"Born in Nicaragua, she is one of the leading Hispanic Republican...
|
|
Jonathan Capehart, a journalist from The Washington Post
|
"This Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist is a member of the Washington Post...
|
|
Michael Steele, a political analyst and host from MSNBC and Steele & Ungar
|
"He was elected lieutenant governor of Maryland in 2003, and later...
|
|
Graham Gilmer, a senior from Lynchburg, Virginia
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2001 Teen...
|
|
Amanda Trujillo, a junior from Carson, California
|
2001 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
|
|
Chris Mazurek, an assistant professor from Columbia, Missouri
|
2007 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
|
|
Sacha Samotin, a student from Naples, Florida
|
Season 31 1-time champion: $19,600 + $1,000. According to a news...
|
|
Marcia Johnson, from Michigan
|
Season 5 player (1988-09-26). Occupation and hometown unknown because the recording...
|
|
Mark Nelson, an Army officer from Hameln, West Germany
|
Season 5 player (1988-09-26). Mark's rank was major at the time...
|
|
Maria Wenglinsky, a teacher originally from Salt Lake City, Utah
|
2006 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 22 5-time champion: $122,300...
|
|
Silvio Menzano, a psychologist and university counseling center director from Washington, D.C.
|
Season 27 1-time champion: $10,300 + $1,000.
|
|
Ethan Waldman, a twelve-year-old from West Hills, California
|
"This wizard of words wants to be a fantasy author when...
|
|
Pam Jones-Pigott, a farmers' market coordinator from Pflugerville, Texas
|
Season 27 1-time champion: $16,800 + $1,000.
Last name pronounced like "johnz-PIE-gut".
|
|
Andrew Hutchings, a graduate student from Ithaca, New York
|
"A senior when he won the 1998 College Championship, he's now...
|
|
Hema Karunakaram, a senior from Saline, Michigan
|
2009 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000. Name pronounced like "HAY-ma kah-ROO-nuh-KAH-ram". Jeopardy!...
|
|
Ari Stern, a mathematician from San Diego, California
|
Season 27 1-time champion: $17,201 + $1,000.
|
|
Jerome Vered, a writer from Los Angeles, California
|
"He was a writer living in Studio City, California, when he...
|
|
Frank Amanat, an attorney from South Orange, New Jersey
|
Season 20 3-time champion: $55,900 + $1,000. Season 20 player (2003-11-03)....
|
|
Frank Spangenberg, a police officer from New York City, New York
|
"He was a New York City cop when he won five...
|
|
Arthur Gandolfi, a commercial real estate executive from Pleasantville, New York
|
2004 Tournament of Champions 2nd runner-up: $25,000. Season 20 4-time champion:...
|
|
Sam Ott, a graduate student from Los Angeles, California
|
2004 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Season 19/20 4-time champion: $67,102 + $1,000.
|
|
Seth Alcorn, a bookstore supervisor from Alexandria, Virginia
|
2004 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
Season 19 3-time champion: $106,400 + $1,000.
|
|
Michelle Chang, an 11-year-old from Suwanee, Georgia
|
"This sixth grader picks the most unusual places to lose her...
|
|
Naomi Senbet, an 11-year-old from Washington, D.C.
|
"This sixth grader doesn't like to be late for anything; maybe...
|
|
Nathan Walpow, a data processor and an actor originally from Queens, New York
|
1985 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $1,000. Season 1 5-time champion: $38,900....
|
|
Justin Bernbach, a lobbyist from Brooklyn, New York
|
2010 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 25 7-time champion: $155,001...
|
|
Stephen Weingarten, a stay-at-home dad from Portland, Oregon
|
2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $96,690...
|
|
Nick Yozamp, a biology student from St. Cloud, Minnesota
|
2010 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 2010-A College Championship winner:...
|
|
Lisa Dvorak, a grocery store chain administrative assistant from Millersville, Maryland
|
Season 27 1-time champion: $31,201 + $2,000.
|
|
Gitta Neufeld, a Judaic teacher trainer from Far Rockaway, New York
|
Season 27 1-time champion: $18,300 + $2,000. Name pronounced like "GEE-ta...
|
|
Amanda Sonmor, a virtual assistant originally from Denver, Colorado
|
Season 27 2-time champion: $21,501 + $1,000.
|
|
Stephanie Ehresman, a senior from Shirley, New York
|
2003 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $5,000.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
|
|
Steve Gratz, a freelance artist from Washington, D.C.
|
Season 27 2-time champion: $30,999 + $1,000.
|
|
Priscilla Ball, a government contractor from Montgomery Village, Maryland
|
Season 25 2-time champion: $45,200 + $2,000. Priscilla was due to...
|
|
Sandra McClellan, a granny nanny from Arlington, Texas
|
Season 27 1-time champion: $4,199 + $2,000.
|
|
Adam Bibler, an economist originally from Lancaster, Ohio
|
Season 27 1-time champion: $12,000 + $2,000.
|
|
Charlie Penrod, an assistant professor of law from Natchitoches, Louisiana
|
Season 27 1-time champion: $17,000 + $2,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: CharlieP
|
|
Holly Owens, a physician originally from Tulsa, Oklahoma
|
Season 23 2-time champion: $31,902 + $1,000. Season 22 player (2006-04-17)....
|
|
Laura Button, an editor and proofreader from Alpharetta, Georgia
|
Season 27 1-time champion: $28,800 + $1,000.
|
|
Andrew Rostan, a writer and script reader originally from Boardman, Ohio
|
2007 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
|
|
Matt Sojot, a firefighter from Mililani, Hawaii
|
Season 23 player (2007-04-13). Season 22 player (2006-05-24). Last name pronounced...
|
|
Robin Cheney, a middle school teacher from Rancho Santa Margarita, California
|
"All the students at her school go on a camping trip...
|
|
Brian Lamb, a teacher from Bakersfield, California
|
Season 23 player (2007-06-26). Season 22 2-time champion: $39,201 + $1,000....
|
|
Regis Philbin, a TV host from Live with Regis and Kelly
|
"In 2004 he entered the Guinness Book of Records as having...
|
|
Eric Floyd, a college student from Calhoun, Georgia
|
2003 Tournament of Champions 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $25,000.
Season 18 4-time champion: $97,800 + $2,000.
|
|
Mehrun Etebari, a grad student from Durham, New Hampshire
|
2007 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
|
|
Brian Weikle, a project manager from Minneapolis, Minnesota
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
|
|
Andy Hutchins, a senior from Rockledge, Florida
|
2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games semifinalist: $10,000. 17 at the time...
|
|
Tiffany Wen, a 12-year-old from Exton, Pennsylvania
|
"This figure skater is also on the distinguished honor roll. From...
|
|
Joel Goldberg, a CPA and financial officer from Fort Lee, New Jersey
|
Season 6 4-time champion: $33,001. Was first on the show 1988...
|
|
Ken Jennings, a software engineer from Salt Lake City, Utah
|
2020 Jeopardy!: The Greatest of All Time winner: $1,000,000 + a...
|
|
Wes Kovarik, a senior from Antioch, California
|
2005 Teen Tournament 1st runner-up: $30,000.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
|
|
Anne Shivers, a senior from Peotone, Illinois
|
2005 Teen Tournament 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $18,000. 17 at...
|
|
Michael Blake, a 12-year-old from Hamburg, New York
|
"Our top story tonight is this young man, who wants to...
|
|
Robin Carroll, an instructional designer from Marietta, Georgia
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
|
|
Claudia Perry, a pop music critic from Jersey City, New Jersey
|
2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2002 Million Dollar Masters...
|
|
Kate Dzurilla, a 12-year-old from Syosset, New York
|
"It's a slam dunk for this basketball lover and future WNBA...
|
|
Kevin Keach, a project administrator from St. Louis, Missouri
|
"He considered himself a simple Missouri farm boy when he won...
|
|
Jimmy Li, a senior from Chesterfield, Missouri
|
2005 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time of...
|
|
Katie James, a sophomore from Winchester, Virginia
|
2006 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
|
|
Rowan Spake, from Portland, Oregon
|
"He's interested in nanotechnology and robotics to improve surgery. But getting...
|
|
Ken Jennings, a software engineer from Salt Lake City, Utah
|
2020 Jeopardy!: The Greatest of All Time winner: $1,000,000 + a...
|
|
Barbara-Anne Eddy, a civil servant from Vancouver, Canada
|
"Her 5-time winnings from 1988 allowed her to go for nearly...
|
|
Julie Seitter, a voice talent from Littleton, Massachusetts
|
Season 22 player (2006-02-28). Julie's voice can be heard in the...
|
|
Orlando Zambrano, a junior from Tampa, Florida
|
2005 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $5,000.
16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
|
|
Sean Ryan, a taxi driver, bartender, and student from State College, Pennsylvania
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
|
|
Vincent Soatikee, a musician and actor from Los Angeles, California
|
Season 8 player (1991-10-11). Johnny Gilbert introduced Vince as "Vince Soatikee",...
|
|
Mort Kamins, an investor and writer from Studio City, California
|
Season 16/17 2-time champion: $27,202. Mort won $11,750 in three games...
|
|
Jerry Slowik, a writer from Arlington Heights, Illinois
|
Season 30 5-time champion: $121,800 + $1,000. No returning champion Hometown...
|
|
Lanie Henderson, from Spokane, Washington
|
Season 6 player (1989-12-20). The introduction was missing from the recording...
|
|
Andy Zax, a graduate student from Los Angeles, California
|
Season 5 player (1989-01-05). Andy won $50 coming in third on...
|
|
James Fraser, a naval aviator from Norfolk, Virginia
|
2022 Second Chance 1st runner-up: $20,000. Season 37 player (2021-03-10). James...
|
|
Matthew Hubbard, a computer game designer from Palo Alto, California
|
Season 1 3-time champion: $25,550. In his first appearance, Matthew was...
|
|
James Fraser, a naval aviator from Newport Beach, California
|
2022 Second Chance 1st runner-up: $20,000. Season 37 player (2021-03-10). James...
|
|
Kathleen Merryman Archbold, a features reporter from Tacoma, Washington
|
Season 6 player (1990-03-07). Kathleen was announced by Johnny Gilbert as...
|
|
Lynn Klyde-Allaman, a journalism professor from Lafayette, Colorado
|
Season 34 1-time champion: $8,800 + $2,000. Lynn\'s mother appeared on...
|
|
Rose Schaefer, a junior from Portland, Oregon
|
2012 Teen Tournament 1st runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $36,000. 16 at...
|
|
Janet Hoffman, an attorney from Valley Village, California
|
Season 12 player (1996-01-04). Surname, occupation, and hometown taken from contestant...
|
|
Glenn Gilbert, a business entrepreneur originally from Wilmington, Delaware
|
Season 12 player (1996-01-04). Surname, occupation, and hometown taken from contestant...
|
|
Max Maxwell, an attorney from Centerville, Virginia
|
Season 11 player (1994-11-28). In his contestant interview, Max said that...
|
|
Jaskaran Singh, a consultant from Plano, Texas
|
2022 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2022 National College Championship winner:...
|
|
Paul Katz, a lawyer from Daytona Beach, Florida
|
Season 5 player (1988-10-10). Season 4 player (1987-12-04). Paul was returned...
|
|
Grafton Brown, a high school Spanish teacher from Chicago, Illinois
|
"He teaches at a school whose buildings are named in honor...
|
