| #22, aired 2024-05-01 | AUTHORS' FICTIONAL PLACES $9,400 (Daily Double): The town of Eastwick, Rhode Island John Updike |
| #9091, aired 2024-04-29 | PUT IT IN THE LOUVRE! $400: Not this Italian Renaissance man's most famous work in the museum, "Saint Anne" is in the Grande Galerie da Vinci |
| #9089, aired 2024-04-25 | BRO-POURRI $200: The scholarly feats of the Brothers Grimm include compiling this type of reference work, the. "Deutsches Wörterbuch" a dictionary |
| #9087, aired 2024-04-23 | NAME THAT AUTHOR $2000: "'I got in a couple of hassles at the work farm, to tell the pure truth, and the court ruled that I'm a psychopath"' Ken Kesey |
| #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 |
| #9054, aired 2024-03-07 | ENDS IN DOUBLE LETTERS $8,600 (Daily Double): Originally a stick or spindle used in spinning, it also came to mean women's work or the female side of a family distaff |
| #9045, aired 2024-02-23 | SLEEP-POURRI $600: It's the original title of the work seen here by Spanish painter Joaquín Sorolla La Siesta |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #9025, aired 2024-01-26 | DASHIELL HAMMETT $1200: This L.A.-based hard-boiled novelist said Hammett's work took "murder out of the Venetian vase & dropped it into the alley" Raymond Chandler |
| #9023, aired 2024-01-24 | WE ARE NEVER EVER GETTING BACK TOGETHER $800: This part of the day is also what a nonprofit does when it deliberately spends its capital & ends its work sunset |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM $300: Before flowers & bones, the open skies of Texas were one of her early subjects, like the 1917 work "Starlight Night" Georgia O'Keeffe |
| #9020, aired 2024-01-19 | FAMOUS FORGERIES $2000: On trial for selling a work by this Delft master to the Nazis, a Dutch artist avoided a death sentence by proving he'd forged it Vermeer |
| #25, aired 2024-01-16 | THE MOUNT RUSHMORE OF... $800: Masterpieces: "Mona Lisa", "The Last Supper", "the starry night" & this Botticelli work of a goddess standing in a scallop shell (The) Birth of Venus |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE $1,000 (Daily Double): Historians cite this event that began in 1929 as one of the main reasons for the demise of the Harlem renaissance the Great Depression |
| #8984, aired 2023-11-30 | IF IT AIN'T BAROQUE… $3,000 (Daily Double): A 1912 work by Marc Chagall is titled after this musician found in the title of a Broadway show The Fiddler |
| #21, aired 2023-11-29 | WHISTLING HALL OF FAME $1500: "The Fishin' Hole" was written especially for this beloved sitcom, long before Ron Howard met the Fonz The Andy Griffith Show |
| #8977, aired 2023-11-21 | SPEAK OF THE DEVIL $2,600 (Daily Double): This 17th c. work says, "Abashed the devil stood, and felt how awful goodness is... saw, and pined his loss" Paradise Lost |
| #8971, aired 2023-11-13 | DESCRIBING THE ARTWORK $600: In this work mom is seated, facing left--or is it right? Anyway, she's clad in black with a white lace cap Whistler's Mother |
| #19, aired 2023-11-01 | "BROWN" OUT $200: Looking to save some cash? Try packing your own lunch and bringing it to work, also known as this brownbagging |
| #19, aired 2023-11-01 | BEST PICTURE WINNERS IN A NUTSHELL $600: 2020:
After losing everything, a van-dwelling woman travels the American West looking for work Nomadland |
| #8955, aired 2023-10-20 | GOOD "P.R." $1600: It's a system in which one's work is evaluated by those in the same field; NIH grants are subject to dual ones peer review |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | MERRIAM-WEBSTER'S WORDS OF THE YEAR $400: In 2015, the word was the suffix "-ism" and 2 years later it was this "-ism" associated with Betty Friedan feminism |
| #8944, aired 2023-10-05 | NUN BUT THE BRAVE $2000: It's the classic work in which you'll find "The Nun's Priest's Tale" The Canterbury Tales |
| #8943, aired 2023-10-04 | HOW'S THE KING TAKING IT? $1600: The work seen here depicts this Trojan king pleading with Achilles to return his son's body King Priam |
| #8928, aired 2023-09-13 | ALSO A CANDY $800: It's when you get your peanuts for all your hard work payday |
| #8926, aired 2023-09-11 | RENAISSANCE LITERATURE $2000: Margaret of Navarre's 16th century book of stories "The Heptameron" was modeled on a longer work by this Italian Boccaccio |
| #8925, aired 2023-07-28 | WORKING WORDS $1000: It's the 2-word Latin phrase meaning a particular way of doing something, work-wise or criminally related modus operandi |
| #8925, aired 2023-07-28 | WORKING WORDS $2,400 (Daily Double): Referring to writers & others who are self-employed & work job to job, it was first used of mercenary knights freelance |
| #8917, aired 2023-07-18 | AUTHORS' FIRST MAJOR WORKS $1200: A synonym for a drug addict, it was the title of William S. Burroughs' semi-autobiographical first published work Junkie |
| #8911, aired 2023-07-10 | QUOTABLE BOOKS $800: Niccolo Machiavelli's work "The Prince" advises that "it is much safer to be feared than" this loved |
| #18, aired 2023-05-23 | BARONS & BARONESSES $400: This Shakespearean actor was knighted in 1947 and became Baron of Brighton in 1970 for his theater work Laurence Olivier |
| #13, aired 2023-05-17 | AUTHORS $400: This founder of McSweeney's also gave us "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius" (it was) Eggers |
| #12, aired 2023-05-16 | 16th & 17th CENTURY ART $2000: It takes a genius like this German painter & printmaker to get people excited about a work called "The Large Piece of Turf" Dürer |
| #10, aired 2023-05-15 | WHAT A LITERARY CHARACTER! $2,000 (Daily Double): At the end of a Thomas Pynchon book, Oedipa Maas awaits the bidding on a stamp collection with this auction number lot 49 |
| #8836, aired 2023-03-27 | THE STATUE OF LIBERTY $1,000 (Daily Double): The statue's internal flexible skeletal system was designed by this Frenchman, known for his iron work Gustave Eiffel |
| #8832, aired 2023-03-21 | THE LIFE SCIENCES $400: Prior to the 17th century work of William Harvey, it was thought that 2 separate systems distributed this around the body blood |
| #8829, aired 2023-03-16 | THE "A"RTS $1200: An Italian word for a lively tempo; it's also the title of Erik Satie's first known work, a piano piece lasting about 30 seconds allegro |
| #8826, aired 2023-03-13 | DEEP THOUGHTS $2000: William MacAskill said it's the view that "future people have moral worth" & we should work to make their lives better longtermism |
| #8817, aired 2023-02-28 | YOU'RE IN COLLEGE NOW $600: In college, to do this is to attend a course without doing the work, & it's much less scary than the IRS kind audit |
| #8813, aired 2023-02-22 | SCIENCE CRITTERS $200: It's the animal in the name of the unit equivalent to 33,000 foot-pounds of work per minute a horse |
| #8803, aired 2023-02-08 | THAT'S DEDICATION $800: in 1935 this poet dedicated a self-published work to the 14 publishers who rejected it & called it "no thanks" E. E. Cummings |
| #8780, aired 2023-01-06 | YOU, KNIGHT $5,600 (Daily Double): Part of a larger work, "The Knight's Tale" by this author begins, "Whilom, as olde stories tellen us" Chaucer |
| #8772, aired 2022-12-27 | ESPIONAGE GLOSSARY $1000: The use of sexual wiles in espionage is called this, which sounds like it would work against Winnie-the-Pooh a honey trap |
| #8771, aired 2022-12-26 | THE OFFICE $400: A platonic female best friend & confidante to a co-worker; it was the title of a 1930 book & movie The Office Wife |
| #8763, aired 2022-12-14 | THE "J.C"s $1600: He founded a society that strives to "uncover the secrets held within our water planet" & "work to keep it alive and healthy" Jacques Cousteau |
| #8760, aired 2022-12-09 | PLACES NAMED FOR PEOPLE $600: It didn't work out for this king with the American Revolution, but they named a town & nearby peak for him in South Africa George III |
| #8760, aired 2022-12-09 | TV FINAL EPISODES $800: "It really seemed like Pied Piper was going to work", said Bill Gates in a cameo as this series wrapped Silicon Valley |
| #8755, aired 2022-12-02 | IT'S EPIC $400: The action of this epic work begins in the 10th year of the Greek siege of Troy the Iliad |
| #8738, aired 2022-11-09 | I'M "EN" IT! $1000: Charles-Francois Daubigny was one of the first painters to work this way, meaning outside en plein air |
| #8735, aired 2022-11-04 | THE OED QUOTES $5,800 (Daily Double): You'll find this 1719 work quoted under "goatskin", "rescue" & "wreck" Robinson Crusoe |
| #8714, aired 2022-10-06 | PHYSICS $400: Abbreviated W, in physics it's the amount of energy used to move an object over a certain distance work |
| #8689, aired 2022-07-21 | COMPOUND WORDS $800: As seen here, it's a fun way to work out kickboxing |
| #8669, aired 2022-06-23 | IT CAME FROM A GRAPHIC NOVEL $800: A-Train & Homelander leave a bit to be desired as superheroes on this Amazon show based on Garth Ennis' work The Boys |
| #8655, aired 2022-06-03 | CALLING FOR A MEASUREMENT $400: Time to work the back 640 of these; that's equal to one square mile, so hop to it an acre |
| #8652, aired 2022-05-31 | SEND A LETTER $400: From the Latin for "ask", it's a letter to a publisher to see if they might be interested in a work you're submitting a query letter |
| #8644, aired 2022-05-19 | PHYSICS $1200: Obeying the second law of thermodynamics, heat that isn't used to do work goes to this, which sounds like it should have a faucet (a heat) sink |
| #8641, aired 2022-05-16 | SWEDISH HISTORY $2,000 (Daily Double): The Warrior King Charles XII did this in 1708 with 44,000 troops; as military wisdom would suggest, it didn't work invade Russia |
| #8637, aired 2022-05-10 | U.S. GOVERNMENT $1200: It's the "D" in the foreign assistance agency USAID; JFK created it & told its first mission directors, no work is more important development |
| #8636, aired 2022-05-09 | YOU SAID IT! $1200: This Big Mac entrepreneur: "Work is the meat in the hamburger of life" (Ray) Kroc |
| #8634, aired 2022-05-05 | ART $800: It was for the USA's centennial that Archibald Willard painted this work showing 3 marching musicians Spirit of '76 |
| #8629, aired 2022-04-28 | DOUBLE DOUBLE-LETTER WORDS $1200: Slightly different from accounting, it's the work of those that track & record money transactions bookkeeping |
| #8621, aired 2022-04-18 | ART ON COMMISSION $1200: Here's this Rembrandt work, temporarily restored to how it looked before pieces were cut off to fit into the town hall The Night Watch |
| #8621, aired 2022-04-18 | ART ON COMMISSION $3,000 (Daily Double): It was Leonardo da Vinci's patron Ludovico Sforza who commissioned this work painted on the wall of a monastery in Milan The Last Supper |
| #8597, aired 2022-03-15 | WATER, WATER $600: As well as a neighborhood of Queens & the subject of an old joke, it's a river there & the bay it flows into Flushing |
| #8595, aired 2022-03-11 | AB-WORK $1600: A narrow mountain edge gets "AB" at the front to become this word of literary shortening abridge |
| #8582, aired 2022-02-22 | ____ OF ____ $1600: Reaching maturity; it precedes "in Samoa" in the title of a Margaret Mead work Coming of Age |
| #18, aired 2022-02-22 | A STATE CAPITOL IDEA $5,000 (Daily Double): Utah's Capitol is abuzz with 2 large sculptures of these structures, symbolizing the hard work done by the state's citizens beehives |
| #15, aired 2022-02-18 | ESPN $200: (Steve Levy delivers the clue.) Some said it wouldn't work in 1970 when this program brought the NFL to primetime, but in 2020 I became the seventh play-by-play announcer as it celebrated 50 years on the air Monday Night Football |
| #8577, aired 2022-02-15 | A CHAPTER OF IT BEGINS... $800: "My dearest Lucy, --forgive my long delay in writing, but I have been simply overwhelmed with work... your loving Mina" Dracula |
| #8, aired 2022-02-11 | MARX $800: Marx wrote that this "is money." This "is commodities" & had a lot more to say about it, the title of his longest work Capital |
| #4, aired 2022-02-09 | ASSIGNED READING MATH $1600: 2 hours for this work where Jonathan Swift satirically suggests cooking Irish babies; it's "a modest" 3,400 words, 1,700 an hour A Modest Proposal |
| #8568, aired 2022-02-02 | "AD" IT UP $400: A written work remade in a new medium an adaptation |
| #8538, aired 2021-12-22 | THE 1920s $200: The first volume of this reference work was published in 1884; it became complete with the tenth in 1928 the OED (the Oxford English Dictionary) |
| #8504, aired 2021-11-04 | ZOMBIETHON $600: Glenn & Maggie were just a young couple trying to make it work in a zombie-filled world on this TV series The Walking Dead |
| #8503, aired 2021-11-03 | "LOVE" $800: A 1578 work seems to be the source of this idiom that says when it comes to romance & battles, anything goes all's fair in love and war |
| #8502, aired 2021-11-02 | REALITY TV $1000: It was "the true story of seven strangers picked to live in a house, work together and have their lives taped" The Real World |
| #8496, aired 2021-10-25 | WRITTEN IN THE DUST $2,000 (Daily Double): Chapter 1 of this 1939 novel has quite a lot to say about dust, like "In the morning" it "hung like fog" The Grapes of Wrath |
| #8488, aired 2021-10-13 | THE SABBATH $400: Exodus 35:3 bans doing this on the Sabbath, hence the Jewish dish cholent which can go on the stove Friday & cook until Saturday lunch lighting a fire |
| #8484, aired 2021-10-07 | SAY IT IN LATIN $5,000 (Daily Double): Great work magnum opus |
| #8477, aired 2021-09-28 | LIFE & WORK IN ANCIENT ROME $2000: Later a word for a record player needle, it was once a metal tool used to scratch words onto wax-covered tablets stylus |
| #8448, aired 2021-07-21 | SING "OUT" $1000: "We can" do this "and get it straight or say goodnight", sang the Beatles in a 1966 No. 1 hit "We Can Work It Out" |
| #8436, aired 2021-07-05 | PUT IN OSCILLATION $800: To the naked eye it may look like it's not moving when in use, but here's a slow-motion look at this musical item at work a tuning fork |
| #8428, aired 2021-06-23 | LIGHTNING $200: The B.C. scientific work "On the Nature of Things" ignores Prometheus & says it was lightning that first brought this to Earth fire |
| #8426, aired 2021-06-21 | OF "TIME" $400: In this system, employees choose the hours they wish to work as long as it totals a full day flex time |
| #8399, aired 2021-05-13 | A CATEGORY ABOUT NOTHING $800: In the title of Jean-Paul Sartre's work, it's paired with "Nothingness" Being |
| #8399, aired 2021-05-13 | THE TUNNEL $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1920, work began on a NYC-NJ tunnel named for him; it was said he could make you think of a tunnel as a mole thinks of a burrow Clifford Holland |
| #8398, aired 2021-05-12 | 'CAUSE WE SPELL GOOD $1000: It's the missing letter in "ouvre", describing an artist's lifetime body of work E |
| #8389, aired 2021-04-29 | WHAT'S THE DEAL"IO"? $800: It's a large-scale musical work for voices & orchestra usually based on a religious theme an oratorio |
| #8366, aired 2021-03-29 | WORD "OR"IGINS $2000: A branch of study, it first appeared in an 18th century work by a British bird lover ornithology |
| #8351, aired 2021-03-08 | REAL REVIEWS OF THE NOVEL $800: Oh, Heathcliff! "The only consolation which we have in reflecting upon" this Bronte work "is that it will never be generally read" Wuthering Heights |
| #8332, aired 2021-02-09 | IT'S "IN" THE SPORT $600: There is zero casual jogging involved with this hyphenated type of home run inside-the-park |
| #8331, aired 2021-02-08 | THE B__G's $200: It's an accumulation of unfinished work or unfilled orders to be dealt with a backlog |
| #8324, aired 2021-01-28 | LITERATURE $600: Perhaps the devil made him do it, but Part II of this dramatic Goethe work wasn't published until 1832, 24 years after Part I Faust |
| #8323, aired 2021-01-27 | WORD ORIGINS $400: Before it was used for a musical work, this 4-letter word meaning "work" was used by the Romans to designate construction opus |
| #8308, aired 2021-01-06 | CAVEAT SCULPTOR $400: It took three years from 1501 to 1504 for the marble work here to be completed by this artist, but we'd say it was worth the time Michelangelo |
| #8296, aired 2020-12-07 | OXFORD'S VERY SHORT INTRODUCTIONS $7,800 (Daily Double): "A Very Short Introduction to" him says that like Marx & Freud, this 18th c. economist's work "is more invoked than it is read" (Adam) Smith |
| #8287, aired 2020-11-24 | SPEAK NOW $600: As the Earl of Manchester wrote in 1633, "There is no safety in" doing this, putting off work, so get it done now! procrastinating |
| #8265, aired 2020-10-23 | DAME YANKEES $800: Honored for her AIDS charity work, this Oscar-winning actress: "I've always been a broad...it's (great) to be a dame" Elizabeth Taylor |
| #8228, aired 2020-06-03 | IS IT BIGGER THAN A CHICKEN? $200: Yes, it's this Acropolis temple completed in 438 B.C.; the foundation seems good, but it could probably use a little roof work the Parthenon |
| #8226, aired 2020-06-01 | 19th CENTURY ENGLISH LITERATURE $1600: He wrote a critique of prison life, "The Ballad of Reading Gaol", after spending time in the prison; it was his last published work Oscar Wilde |
| #8209, aired 2020-04-23 | STOCK SYMBOLS $600: It's the 2-letter stock symbol for the company that uses the slogan "Imagination at Work" GE |
| #8184, aired 2020-03-19 | TERMS OF ART $200: It can refer to a crayon made with powdered pigment, or a finished work of art created with them a pastel |
| #8161, aired 2020-02-17 | ART SUBJECTS $13,000 (Daily Double): Anna McNeill was arranged in grey & black for a work by this artist, her son Whistler |
| #8151, aired 2020-02-03 | WRITER'S TOOLBOX $400: It's the overall emotion created by a work, or in grammar, a verb form like subjunctive or imperative the mood |
| #8151, aired 2020-02-03 | WRITER'S TOOLBOX $600: It's the central message in a literary work; in music it precedes "and variations" a theme |
| #8, aired 2020-01-14 | BROADWAY $600: The 2019 musical "Hadestown" goes straight to Hell with Tony winner André de Shields as this Greek messenger god
"The wage is nothing and the work is hard / It’s a graveyard in Hadestown"
"Way down Hadestown / Way down under the ground" Hermes |
| #7, aired 2020-01-14 | ALBUMS $400: With its debut album featuring "Who Can It Be Now?", this band went to No. 1 on at least 2 continents Men at Work |
| #6, aired 2020-01-09 | SAME FIRST & LAST LETTER $2000: It's a Hollywood term for a long prose synopsis of a screenplay treatment |
| #4, aired 2020-01-08 | 20-LETTER WORDS $400: It's the adjective used to describe a work only partially based on the writer's life semiautobiographical |
| #8132, aired 2020-01-07 | THINK IT WILL WORK? $400: Sorta: the 1960s Emerson Wondergram, a portable one of these that would spin platters--if you kept it level a record player |
| #8132, aired 2020-01-07 | THINK IT WILL WORK? $800: A big yes: this, described in a March 2006 patent filing as a "multi-functional handheld device" an iPhone |
| #8132, aired 2020-01-07 | THINK IT WILL WORK? $1200: No: this man's 1890s magnetic iron ore separator--he probably chalked up its failure to perspiration Thomas Edison |
| #8132, aired 2020-01-07 | THINK IT WILL WORK? $1600: No: these, attached to a Scotsman's arms for a leg-breaking leap from the top of Stirling Castle in 1507 wings |
| #8132, aired 2020-01-07 | THINK IT WILL WORK? $2000: Yes: Dr. Bruce Reitz' transplant in 1981 of a heart along with this organ: the "totally empty chest was... a dramatic moment" a lung |
| #8121, aired 2019-12-23 | THE "LL", "LL" YOU SAY! $600: It comes before "stimulating" when referring to work or conversation that wakes up your brain intellectually |
| #8117, aired 2019-12-17 | CONTEMPORARY REVIEWS OF CHILDREN'S BOOKS $200: C.S. Lewis' review of this 1937 work by pal J.R.R. Tolkien said, "Prediction is dangerous but" it "may well prove a classic" The Hobbit |
| #8110, aired 2019-12-06 | REMEMBER THE "L_M_O" $1000: In a musical work, it's a theme associated with a particular person or situation a leitmotif |
| #8101, aired 2019-11-25 | IF IT WERE AN ACTION MOVIE $400: To an Aussie dentist: "I know where you work--42 Wallaby Way. Release my son from your tank, or I will come for you" Finding Nemo |
| #8073, aired 2019-10-16 | WORK THOSE "ABS" $200: It's to hold back from doing something like drinking or voting to abstain |
| #8073, aired 2019-10-16 | WORK THOSE "ABS" $1000: It's a concise summary of an article or speech an abstract |
| #8053, aired 2019-09-18 | REAL-LIFE METAPHORS $1600: It's the kind of political work done at the local & individual level, not through mass marketing grassroots |
| #8052, aired 2019-09-17 | VERBS $400: It can mean to work jointly on a scientific activity; or in wartime, to cooperate traitorously with an enemy collaborate |
| #8028, aired 2019-07-03 | ITALIAN MUSIC TERMS $1200: A coda is a passage at the end of a work; in Italian it means this part of an animal the tail |
| #8010, aired 2019-06-07 | ARTY FACTS $2000: This "Naked" Goya work was put on a Spanish stamp in 1930, but the U.S. Post Office refused any mail using it Naked Maja |
| #8003, aired 2019-05-29 | YOUR TV GOVERNMENT AT WORK $200: Pawnee civil servant Ron Swanson, on this show:
"Fishing relaxes me. It's like yoga, except I still get to kill something" Parks and Recreation |
| #7985, aired 2019-05-03 | THINGS THAT HAPPENED $400: In the mid-19th century, the U.S. Army imported these creatures from Africa as pack animals--it didn't last camels |
| #7969, aired 2019-04-11 | "EX" $1200: It's the title of Alexander Decamps' 1837 work, which used monkeys to satirize those who opine on art The Experts |
| #7965, aired 2019-04-05 | "Q" $200: It's the type of musical work being performed here a quintet |
| #7946, aired 2019-03-11 | NORMAN LEAR, THE FIRST 96 YEARS $800: (Norman Lear delivers the clue.) Spanning 4 decades, it's been a joy to work on 2 versions of "One Day at a Time", first with Bonnie Franklin, now with Justina Machado & this legendary EGOT Rita Moreno |
| #7927, aired 2019-02-12 | QUOTED IN THE OED $3,000 (Daily Double): The OED loves this other reference work founded in the U.K., quoting it more than 14,500 times the Encyclopedia Britannica |
| #7923, aired 2019-02-06 | "SOCK" IT TO ME $1200: From 1965, this popular Dr. Seuss work includes the line "Knox in box" Fox in Socks |
| #7894, aired 2018-12-27 | AMERICAN LITERATURE NOBELISTS $2,000 (Daily Double): This "colorful" Toni Morrison work follows a black girl's struggle to achieve white ideals of beauty The Bluest Eye |
| #7890, aired 2018-12-21 | TV MOVES $400: (Jimmy shows the subclavian artery on the monitor.) Pressure on the subclavian artery is one theory about how the Vulcan neck pinch might work; it was created by this actor when he thought the script's conk on the head seemed too 20th century Leonard Nimoy |
| #7886, aired 2018-12-17 | "RITE" YOU ARE $1200: I'm not saying this Stravinsky work is old, but "Fantasia" did animate dinosaurs to it The Rite of Spring |
| #7868, aired 2018-11-21 | SUCH NOVEL CHARACTERS $800: In this Flaubert work, then-mademoiselle Emma pricks her finger, puts it in her mouth & sucks it & Charles is smitten Madame Bovary |
| #7832, aired 2018-10-02 | OCTOBER OBSERVANCES $1000: October 10 is "World" this "Health Day", but it doesn't mean you're supposed to take one to skip work mental health |
| #7824, aired 2018-09-20 | 8-LETTER WORDS $4,000 (Daily Double): c. 1666 a British work used this word for a literal barrier; a 1971 text on operating system principles gave it a new sense a firewall |
| #7806, aired 2018-07-16 | IT'S ALWAYS "ME", "ME" $400: 5 of them work each "Jeopardy!" taping to bring you the pictures cameramen |
| #7794, aired 2018-06-28 | NOWHERE LAND $1600: Sent to work for an obscure movie co., Clark Gable asked employees, "Why ain't you wearing parkas in" this region? Siberia |
| #7768, aired 2018-05-23 | IT WILL SERVE YOU WELL! $800: Old but reliable Betteredge the butler narrates the search for a fabulous missing gem in this Wilkie Collins work The Moonstone |
| #7758, aired 2018-05-09 | LITERATURE IN SPANISH $1200: 1949's "The Kingdom of This World", an early work in this style blending naturalism & fantasy, includes a manifesto of it magical realism |
| #7757, aired 2018-05-08 | GENIUS: PICASSO $2000: The suicide of a close friend in 1901 stimulated the emotional expressiveness of this period of Picasso's work the Blue Period |
| #7754, aired 2018-05-03 | AUTHORS USE NEW WORDS $600: Sir Walter Scott used this term to mean a mercenary knight; today, it refers to work project-by-project freelance |
| #7730, aired 2018-03-30 | IT ALL STARTS WITH "U" $1200: Programs like optimization or defragmentation that help your computer work better utilities |
| #7730, aired 2018-03-30 | LITERARY LOVE TRIANGLES $3,000 (Daily Double): In this novel,
Jake Barnes,
Lady Brett Ashley,
Robert Cohn The Sun Also Rises |
| #7719, aired 2018-03-15 | WEBSITES $600: Its article on itself says it's "the largest and most popular general reference work on the internet" Wikipedia |
| #7692, aired 2018-02-06 | GRAPHICS $200: Something held by artists as they work, it can also refer to the array of colors a designer can choose from a palette |
| #7671, aired 2018-01-08 | THERMODYNAMICS $400: Thermodynamics originated around 1800 when it was noticed that work done generates a proportionate amount of this heat |
| #7670, aired 2018-01-05 | FEAR FACTOR $800: Sometimes I accuse the writers of ergophobia, or fear of this--but it is a serious anxiety condition fear of work |
| #7667, aired 2018-01-02 | IT'S HISTORICAL ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT $400: In 1791 this queen thought a disguise would work in fleeing Paris (it didn't. Also her husband's face was on the coins) Marie Antoinette |
| #7645, aired 2017-12-01 | CZECHNOLOGY $2000: Josef Ressel really made this simple machine work for him--he applied it to a ship's propeller & a wine-press roller a screw |
| #7626, aired 2017-11-06 | WRITERS WHO SELF-PUBLISHED $1600: With her husband Leonard, she founded Hogarth Press in 1917 & published her own work with it (Virginia) Woolf |
| #7618, aired 2017-10-25 | MUSICAL GEOGRAPHY $400: It's the city in the title of the 1873 work we've selected Vienna |
| #7583, aired 2017-07-26 | LUCKY 13th CENTURY $1200: The Louvre sees a new sense of humanity in a work by Cimabue, who it credits with the rebirth of painting in this country Italy |
| #7573, aired 2017-07-12 | BIBLICAL BEFORE & AFTER $1200: Visitors to Jesus' birthplace who sang "Who Can It Be Now?" the three wise Men at Work |
| #7571, aired 2017-07-10 | THE "L" IT IS! $1200: A kid who spends part of the day at home unsupervised while the parents are at work latch key |
| #7566, aired 2017-07-03 | LETTER PERFECT $800: "Gadsby" was a 50,000-word work of fiction with no using of this non-consonant (Ha! Did it! But it was hard to do!) an E |
| #7563, aired 2017-06-28 | PORTUGUESE HISTORY $1000: In 1437 this Portuguese prince navigated his way over to Tangier to take it over, but things didn't work out Henry the Navigator |
| #7559, aired 2017-06-22 | LOW TECH $1000: c. 1100 it was found that these generators work better with blades turning on a horizontal rather than a vertical axis windmills |
| #7552, aired 2017-06-13 | SAILING STORIES $1600: It's mutiny on the Caine in a 1951 work by this author Wouk |
| #7543, aired 2017-05-31 | CAMEL LOT $200: Camels were brought to this country to work in the Outback; today, it has the world's largest herd, about 750,000 Australia |
| #7543, aired 2017-05-31 | BETWEEN FIVE & FOUR $800: I just bought this kind of hyphenated home, a term implying that it needs some work fixer-upper |
| #7517, aired 2017-04-25 | POETS & POETRY $400: Amy Lowell, reviewing "North of Boston", said, "Not only is " his "work New England in subject, it is so in technique" Robert Frost |
| #7510, aired 2017-04-14 | FENCING $1200: Someone who Tom Sawyers you tricks you into doing his work for him, just as Tom got others to do this whitewash the fence |
| #7501, aired 2017-04-03 | NEW WAYS TO SAY CORRECT $800: On "The Big Bang Theory", Sheldon uses it to indicate a joke; I think it'll work for me to mean "correct" bazinga |
| #7499, aired 2017-03-30 | NEEDS SOME WORK $1200: This landmark will go quiet for a bit in 2017, as it & the Elizabeth Tower housing it will undergo much needed repairs Big Ben |
| #7494, aired 2017-03-23 | NEWER WORDS & PHRASES $400: NSFW for short, it's found on emails you'd maybe prefer people not send you not suitable for work |
| #7478, aired 2017-03-01 | CLICHES $400: Your plan sounds great, but how exactly will it work? After all, "the devil is" here in the details |
| #7455, aired 2017-01-27 | GOVERNMENT & TV $2000: Raj on "The Big Bang Theory" was once tapped by this government entity to work on a unique message NASA |
| #7441, aired 2017-01-09 | ONE-"I"d WORDS $800: Absolution given by a priest; when preceded by "short", it means scant attention or quick work shrift |
| #7433, aired 2016-12-28 | MANET/MONET $1600: It's Monet's 2-word title subject in a work seen here & on view at New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art Water Lilies |
| #7425, aired 2016-12-16 | FILL "E_R" UP $800: It's the mighty machine seen doing its work here an earthmover (an excavator accepted) |
| #7423, aired 2016-12-14 | WHAT A TV DRAMA KING $400: It seemed like Jack Bauer, played by him, always had the absolute worst day at work (Kiefer) Sutherland |
| #7412, aired 2016-11-29 | 1960s COMPUTING $1200: Programming was "women's work"; in a 1967 issue of this mag for worldly women, Grace Hopper said it's like making dinner Cosmopolitan |
| #7411, aired 2016-11-28 | CLASSIC FILM MUSIC $1000: "It's Hard Out Here For A Pimp" made easy work of winning the Oscar for Original Song for this 2005 film Hustle and Flow |
| #7405, aired 2016-11-18 | COMPOSERS & THEIR MUSIC $1200: France's Louis XV took a liking to "Spring" from this Vivaldi work & ordered it played at unexpected moments The Four Seasons |
| #7404, aired 2016-11-17 | IT'S AMERICAN LIT $400: He began an 1854 work, "When I wrote the following pages... I lived alone, in the woods" Thoreau |
| #7395, aired 2016-11-04 | "READY" WHEN YOU ARE $1200: This name for the original troupe of "Saturday Night Live" performers reflected their late night work the Not Ready for Prime Time Players |
| #7393, aired 2016-11-02 | WE LOVE '80s MUSIC $1000: "Who can it be now?" perhaps this Colin Hay group, from the land "Down Under" Men at Work |
| #7369, aired 2016-09-29 | A LOOK AT BOOKS $1000: Norman Mailer said a novel by this man didn't have the right stuff: "It is a 742-page work that reads as if it is 1,500" Tom Wolfe |
| #7351, aired 2016-07-25 | THE MAGIC OF LAIKA ANIMATION $1000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from Laika Animation Studios.) Needing to shoot 24 precise movements per second results in only about 4 seconds of film a week per animator, it's no surprise it can take up to two and a half years to produce films like this Laika Oscar-nominated feature, based on a work by Neil Gaiman Coraline |
| #7348, aired 2016-07-20 | SAILING JOBS $600: If you had done this type of useful "service", it was doing clerical work on the ship yeoman service |
| #7310, aired 2016-05-27 | I'M SO JELLY $200: This other term for Vaseline sounds like it might work in your car, but don't try it petroleum jelly |
| #7299, aired 2016-05-12 | NONFICTION $3,000 (Daily Double): E.B. White called it William Strunk's "parvum opus" (little work) The Elements of Style |
| #7291, aired 2016-05-02 | IT'S ABOUT TIME $600: 2-word beverage term for a short period of rest at work; What? It's over already? a coffee break |
| #7290, aired 2016-04-29 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE $2,000 (Daily Double): Essays making up this 1854 work include "Reading", "Solitude" & "The Pond in Winter" Walden; or, Life in the Woods |
| #7254, aired 2016-03-10 | I GIVE IT A 10 $600: The 1847 act of Parliament known as the "Ten Hours Act" forbade allowing these to work more than 10 hours a day children |
| #7245, aired 2016-02-26 | QUIZINE $400: From words meaning "outside the work" , it's an appetizer served before a meal hors d'oeuvre |
| #7241, aired 2016-02-22 | REAL ESTATE $200: Also known as a handyman's special, it's the hyphenated term for a rundown property bought at a bargain but needing work a fixer-upper |
| #7239, aired 2016-02-18 | AN "IQ" TEST $800: It's a French term for an essay evaluating a literary work a critique |
| #7230, aired 2016-02-05 | IT'S A LIVING $1200: Call this guy, from the Latin for "worker in lead", to work on your pipes a plumber |
| #7218, aired 2016-01-20 | IT'S A "WR"AP $1000: A past participle of work, as in "What hath God..." wrought |
| #7214, aired 2016-01-14 | WHO READS $1600: Justice Stephen Breyer said that on finishing this Proust work he promptly reread it & "that happens... to many readers" Remembrance of Things Past |
| #7206, aired 2016-01-04 | WHAT A CHARACTER! $400: In a Flaubert work it's the last name of country doctor Charles, who is unaware of his wife's infidelities Bovary |
| #7204, aired 2015-12-31 | THE LEGAL SYSTEM AT WORK $400: After NASA crashed a probe into comet Tempel 1, astrologer Marina Bai sued, saying it deformed this chart the astrological chart (or horoscope) |
| #7202, aired 2015-12-29 | "M"USIC $1,000 (Daily Double): Type of Renaissance vocal work for multiple voices heard here madrigal |
| #7181, aired 2015-11-30 | PHYSICISTS $800: The life work of Albert Michelson was sort of using a radar gun on this value & establishing it as a constant the speed of light |
| #7163, aired 2015-11-04 | MAY THE FORCE BE WITH YOU $400: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a mountain on the monitor.) Whether a climber takes a direct route or a scenic one, it takes the same amount of work to overcome gravity on the way to the top of the mountain because gravity is this type of force, a political antonym of "liberal" conservative |
| #7160, aired 2015-10-30 | COSTUMES AT THE METROPOLITAN OPERA $1,000 (Daily Double): (Alex delivers the clue from the Metropolitan Opera in New York.) The Imperial Commissioner is the one who reads the marriage agreement of Cio-Cio-San & Lieutenant Pinkerton in Act I of this opera Madame Butterfly |
| #7153, aired 2015-10-21 | THE PREAMBLE OF THE CONSTITUTION $200: It's what will be "more perfect" after "We the People" get to work Union |
| #7115, aired 2015-07-17 | IT'S A PALINDROME $1600: In 2 words, the place where I work out my gym |
| #7096, aired 2015-06-22 | HUMAN ENDEAVOR $5,000 (Daily Double): His 1753 work "Species Plantarum" provided binomial names for all known species of plants Carolus Linnaeus |
| #7088, aired 2015-06-10 | "WORK" IT! $400: When si.com called CC Sabathia one of these, it meant he'd pitched a lot of innings, not that he was a draft animal a workhorse |
| #7088, aired 2015-06-10 | "WORK" IT! $800: There's a train stop in this desk+computer combo a workstation |
| #7088, aired 2015-06-10 | "WORK" IT! $1200: Government benefits that require the recipient to perform a job workfare |
| #7088, aired 2015-06-10 | "WORK" IT! $1600: According to John Lennon, it's "something to be" a working class hero |
| #7088, aired 2015-06-10 | "WORK" IT! $2000: Riverside county, California has one of these programs in which convicts do manual labor on the outside work release |
| #7055, aired 2015-04-24 | ARTWORK $400: The Degas work seen here is an 1880s pastel on paper called this; Tom Petty said it was the hardest part Waiting |
| #7038, aired 2015-04-01 | SOUL $1000: A 1961 album was the soul of this man & his wife; the later song "It's Gonna Work Out Fine" was not prophetic Ike Turner |
| #7033, aired 2015-03-25 | READING RAINBOW $2000: It completes the title of a Ntozake Shange work, "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When..." "...the Rainbow Is Enuf" |
| #6994, aired 2015-01-29 | THE NATIONAL SEPTEMBER 11 MEMORIAL & MUSEUM $600: (Alex reports from the National 9/11 Memorial & Museum in New York City.) It's called "The Last Column", and it remained in the bedrock throughout the recovery process; in May 2002, it was ceremonially removed to mark the end of 9 months of work at the site known as this Ground Zero |
| #6991, aired 2015-01-26 | CNN WORLD LANGUAGES $2000: (Jim Bittermann delivers the clue.) Here in Paris this simple phrase, 2 rhyming 2-letter words, is very useful for saying "How's it going?", "I'm good", "Does that work for you?" & more ça va |
| #6986, aired 2015-01-19 | POWERFUL BOOKS $800: Conflict is inevitable, according to this ancient work by Sun-Tzu, so prepare for it The Art of War |
| #6984, aired 2015-01-15 | EXISTENTIALISM $400: A section in a Sartre work is titled this: "The First Condition of Action"; let it ring "Freedom" |
| #6982, aired 2015-01-13 | NAME THAT VERB $200: To put a grade on Mr. Zuckerberg's work mark |
| #6982, aired 2015-01-13 | A REAL MYSTERY $800: It's Dickens' only true mystery; the end of the work & the solution are a mystery that went to the grave with the author The Mystery of Edwin Drood |
| #6970, aired 2014-12-26 | HOW IT WORKS $6,000 (Daily Double): Glasses work by adjusting this optical process, also the name of the test that determines your prescription refraction |
| #6946, aired 2014-11-24 | SCULPTORS $1600: As this is the last name 13th century sculptor Nicola, it makes sense that his work, seen here, is from a pulpit in Pisa Nicola Pisano |
| #6912, aired 2014-10-07 | MEN OF FEW WORDS $600: Completes the words in the King James Version of Matthew's gospel, "For many are called, but..." few are chosen |
| #6870, aired 2014-06-27 | IT'S AN EXPERIMENT $400: "Experiment Eleven" is a book on the discovery of streptomycin, the first antibiotic to work against this lung disease tuberculosis |
| #6867, aired 2014-06-24 | POTPOURRI $800: In a Kipling work, it comes between "Just" & "Stories" So |
| #6859, aired 2014-06-12 | MOUNTAINS $800: In 1992 concrete blocks were used in an attempt to stem the flow of lava from this Sicilian volcano, but it didn't work Etna |
| #6855, aired 2014-06-06 | "MN" AT WORK $800: Random House defines it as "a place where Greeks met for exercise and discussion" gymnasium |
| #6855, aired 2014-06-06 | "MN" AT WORK $1600: The Mayo Clinic say it's an oft-used TV plot device but "real life" this "generally doesn't cause a loss of self-identity" amnesia |
| #6855, aired 2014-06-06 | "MN" AT WORK $2000: Here's a leftover clue; it means a trace or vestige a remnant |
| #6846, aired 2014-05-26 | THE ATLANTIC $1200: A controversial 2012 piece was "Why Women Still Can't..." this 3-word phrase, meaning excel at work & family have it all |
| #6845, aired 2014-05-23 | PAUL McCARTNEY $600: In a No. 1 song by Wings, "With" this "we can help it out, we can make this whole damn thing work out" a little luck |
| #6832, aired 2014-05-06 | FRENCH POETS $400: Captain Rouget de Lisle wrote this one work that is remembered; it begins, "Allons, enfants de la patrie" "The Marseillaise" |
| #6826, aired 2014-04-28 | TENNIS TIPS $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows diagrams on the monitor.) Because the net is lower in the center & there's an extra 4 1/2 feet of court to work with, this type of diagonal shot is typically smarter than hitting it down the line a cross-court |
| #6815, aired 2014-04-11 | CHECK YOUR "OIL" $400: Hard work; it precedes "and trouble" in the title of a book about witches toil |
| #6806, aired 2014-03-31 | RETRONYMS $600: This scriptural work is also called the Hebrew Bible or Tanakh the Old Testament |
| #6782, aired 2014-02-25 | HISTORIC CARS $1000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows us a smooth car at the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles.) Containing no sharp edges, the aesthetic & technical achievements of the 1947 Cisitalia 202 GT were enough for this progressive New York City museum to consider it a work of art & put it on display MOMA (the Museum of Modern Art |
| #6777, aired 2014-02-18 | BRITISH LITERATURE $1600: "They all agreed that it was a huge creature, luminous, ghastly, and spectral" is from this Arthur Conan Doyle work The Hound of the Baskervilles |
| #6738, aired 2013-12-25 | HISTORY OF CARS $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles, California.) During World War II, the use of chrome was curtailed by Washington because it was needed for the war effort. This resulted in cars with little trim work that were referred to as these, also a term for a city's strategy against nighttime air raids blackout |
| #6719, aired 2013-11-28 | THE BARNES FOUNDATION $1200: (Alex presents the clue from the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia, PA.) Pointillism may seem like a novelty, but it's really a scientific use of colored dots to create an overall image; your computer monitor & your television screen work the same way, so in the 1880s, this artist was years ahead of his time Seurat |
| #6712, aired 2013-11-19 | LET'S ALL CHANT $2000: The "Dark Side of the Chant" album features this Carl Orff work with a Latin title, used in menacing movie scenes O, Fortuna |
| #6692, aired 2013-10-22 | ART $1200: You can have dejeuner at the Musee d'Orsay after seeing this painter's 1860s work "Le dejeuner sur l'herbe" there Édouard Manet |
| #6678, aired 2013-10-02 | IT ENDS WITH "US" $800: A great work by a writer is a "magnum" this opus |
| #6666, aired 2013-09-16 | MASTERPIECES FROM THE NORTON SIMON MUSEUM $1200: (Alex gives the clue from the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, CA.) Modern viewers are really entranced by "Little Dancer, Age Fourteen", but when this artist first exhibited this work in 1881, it was cast in wax, not in bronze as it is now, & the public was a little bit put off by the realism of real clothing & a wig of human hair (Edgar) Degas |
| #6657, aired 2013-07-23 | WITHIN LIMITATIONS $1200: It means tiring work toil |
| #6647, aired 2013-07-09 | JIMMY WORKS OUT $200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew jumps rope at the Sony gym as a trainer gives the clue.) I'm having Jimmy warm up with a simple jump rope routine; it'll work most of the major muscle groups and is a quick way to get in this, a six-letter term for exercise that works the heart cardio |
| #6610, aired 2013-05-17 | THE WORK OF THE CLINTON FOUNDATION $1000: (Bill Clinton delivers the clue from his office)
Impoverished people in Peru can't afford treatment for this condition, the leading cause of blindness in the world; we're working to help provide 50,000 surgeries for it by 2013 cataracts |
| #6586, aired 2013-04-15 | BLOOD WORK $800: In "Red Dragon" this jailed man asks, "Have you seen blood in the moonlight...? It appears quite black" Hannibal Lecter |
| #6574, aired 2013-03-28 | THE WRITE OF SPRING $1200: It's the title of Rachel Carson's landmark 1962 work warning of the dangers of pesticide use Silent Spring |
| #6557, aired 2013-03-05 | "IT" $800: Silvery reflective decorative material that comes in tiny bits--work it, sister! glitter |
| #6540, aired 2013-02-08 | WORK"ER"S $200: A seller of meat; it's also a verb meaning to bungle butcher |
| #6535, aired 2013-02-01 | BAD LUCK? $1200: Even if you're doing it "while you work", it's bad luck to do this backstage at a theater whistling |
| #6534, aired 2013-01-31 | AROUND THE WHITE HOUSE WITH ALEX $1600: That chair might not work in my den, but it's perfect in this "colorful" parlor where presidents receive guests the Blue Room |
| #6508, aired 2012-12-26 | NOTORIOUS WOMEN $2000: This third wife of Emperor Claudius "mess"ed around with a lot of men & tried to get one on the throne, but it didn't work Messalina |
| #6505, aired 2012-12-21 | SHEEP-POURRI $600: The New York Times reports that this nighttime method doesn't work as it's too boring to do for very long counting sheep |
| #6489, aired 2012-11-29 | IT'S "OVER"! $400: A musical prelude to a longer work; Rossini's for "William Tell" is famous overture |
| #6488, aired 2012-11-28 | ITALIAN ART $1200: Lino Tagliapietra "blew" his future when he dropped out at 11 to work in this medium; he's one of the modern masters in it glassblowing |
| #6463, aired 2012-10-24 | WHAT THE DICKENS! $2000: Little Nell, but not the proverbial cat, dies in this 1840-41 work The Old Curiosity Shop |
| #6456, aired 2012-10-15 | THE ASSASSINATION OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN $400: (Alex stands on the stage of Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C.) Police work in those days could be a little bit shoddy: hours after the murder, a man named William Kent came back to the presidential box looking for his keys; what he found was the murder weapon, the small .44-caliber single-shot pistol bearing the name of this Philadelphia gunsmith who invented it Henry Deringer |
| #6453, aired 2012-10-10 | POP CULTURE BEFORE & AFTER $800: TV drama set at an advertising agency that had the No. 1 hits "Down Under" & "Who Can It Be Now?" Mad Men at Work |
| #6449, aired 2012-10-04 | LIFE ON THE MEKONG $600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from a workshop where women work bundles of wood.) A key part of Mekong's life & economy is this type of palm that's best known for making wicker-like furniture; there may be a boom coming as scientists have found a way to make it into artificial bone rattan |
| #6442, aired 2012-09-25 | SUCH A LITERARY CHARACTER! $400: It must have depressed Eeyore even more to realize he's not the title character in this 1926 work Winnie the Pooh |
| #6435, aired 2012-08-03 | LET'S PLAY IN THE YARD $200: This plaything consists of a pole with foot rests & a strong spring; you work it by bouncing up & down a pogo stick |
| #6434, aired 2012-08-02 | DO YOUR "HOME" WORK $400: It's the song "where seldom is heard a discouraging word" "Home On The Range" |
| #6434, aired 2012-08-02 | DO YOUR "HOME" WORK $1600: It's the initial & main hypertext document of a website a home page |
| #6434, aired 2012-08-02 | DO YOUR "HOME" WORK $2000: Maybe on Saturday you went with your dad to this do-it-yourself home improvement store founded in 1978 Home Depot |
| #6431, aired 2012-07-30 | IT'S MOVIE TIME $1000: Julie Andrews leaves the convent to work for the von Trapps in this musical The Sound of Music |
| #6420, aired 2012-07-13 | SEARCHING "HI" & "LOW" $2000: It's a break or interruption in the continuity of work a hiatus |
| #6415, aired 2012-07-06 | IF IT AIN'T BAROQUE... $400: A 1912 work by Marc Chagall is titled after this musician found in the title of a Broadway show Fiddler |
| #6384, aired 2012-05-24 | "O", HOW ENTERTAINING $400: Called the "most influential work in the American musical theatre", it opens with "Oh, What A Beautiful Mornin"' Oklahoma! |
| #6378, aired 2012-05-16 | IT'S THE "E"-CONOMY $1000: It takes "work" to remember that Keynes' major opus is "The General Theory of" this, "Interest and Money" Employment |
| #6368, aired 2012-05-02 | FINE ARTS $800: It's the musical work that contains the chorus heard here
"Hallelujah /
Hallelujah..." Handel's Messiah |
| #6367, aired 2012-05-01 | "A.P." EXAM $1600: It's the 2-word French term for a young live-in foreigner who does domestic work for a family an au pair |
| #6319, aired 2012-02-23 | TOOT SWEET $2000: No wonder it caused a riot: this Stravinsky work is overwhelmingly scored for drums & wind instruments, not strings The Rite of Spring |
| #6291, aired 2012-01-16 | ____ THE ____ $1,500 (Daily Double): To sternly demand hard work; it's also something Indiana Jones often does crack the whip |
| #6289, aired 2012-01-12 | LITERARY CHARACTER PERSONAL TRAINER $1000: You're a big pig! (a Berkshire boar) & you may be pres. of the Republic of Animal Farm, but it's time to work, pork chop! Napoleon |
| #6287, aired 2012-01-10 | IT MIGHT SURPRISE YOU $800: This exhaustive reference work first published in 1768 is not British; it has been American-owned for over 100 years the Encyclopaedia Britannica |
| #6279, aired 2011-12-29 | KENTUCKY KERNELS $400: Half of a deadly feud, this family lived primarily in Kentucky; their rivals, in West Virginia the McCoys |
| #6256, aired 2011-11-28 | MADAM, I'M ADAM SMITH $2000: The 20 pound note shows me & my great idea of the stages of work getting split among specialists; it's this 3-word concept division of labor |
| #6237, aired 2011-11-01 | BALLET IT ON THICK $1000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew is in a practice room at the Dance Theatre of Harlem in New York. A dancer is practicing in the background.) The Dance Theatre of Harlem has brought ballet around the world, including giving China's first performance of this 1910 Stravinsky work with an elusive title character The Firebird |
| #6214, aired 2011-09-29 | BLUES CLUES $1600: Heard here, he popularized the blues in the U.S. & even faraway England in the 1950s
"Got my mojo working /
But it just won't work on you" Muddy Waters |
| #6203, aired 2011-07-27 | LAWS $1600: Many of us have felt the effects of Parkinson's law: this expands to fill the time allotted for it work |
| #6186, aired 2011-07-04 | THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION $400: In April 1778 this American naval hero attempted to kidnap the Earl of Selkirk; it didn't work--the earl wasn't home John Paul Jones |
| #6183, aired 2011-06-29 | AMERICAN ART & ARTISTS $1600: He was born in 1867 in Idaho, but it would be in South Dakota that he would do a really huge work of art (Gutzon) Borglum |
| #6152, aired 2011-05-17 | RECENT NONFICTION $1200: "Golden Rules", by this "Project Runway" mentor, is subtitled "Life's Little Lessons for Making it Work" Tim Gunn |
| #6135, aired 2011-04-22 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Juilliard School.) The string quartet is a stripped down, personal expression of a composer's feelings; Debussy wrote only one, but it's the only work that he gave one of these numbers an opus |
| #6109, aired 2011-03-17 | DESCRIBING THE ARTWORK $400: In this work mom is seated, facing left--or is it right? Anyway, she's clad in black with a white lace cap Whistler's Mother |
| #6084, aired 2011-02-10 | NAUTICAL TERMS $1200: Collectively, it's the 7-letter word for all the ropes & chains used to support & work the masts, booms & sails rigging |
| #6047, aired 2010-12-21 | SORRY IT DIDN'T WORK OUT $200: This structure from Genesis "whose top may reach unto Heaven" didn't end up as planned the Tower of Babel |
| #6047, aired 2010-12-21 | SORRY IT DIDN'T WORK OUT $400: In the 1980s, $1 billion was spent developing Premier, a smokeless type of this that went down in flames cigarette |
| #6047, aired 2010-12-21 | SORRY IT DIDN'T WORK OUT $600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) In the 1930s, along its border with Germany, France built this defensive barrier, named for the French Minister of War; it failed because the Germans simply invaded through Belgium the Maginot Line |
| #6047, aired 2010-12-21 | SORRY IT DIDN'T WORK OUT $800: In June 2010 this Asian country failed for the second time in 2 attempts to launch a satellite South Korea |
| #6047, aired 2010-12-21 | SORRY IT DIDN'T WORK OUT $1000: This antebellum act with 2 states in its name didn't do as intended but fanned the flames of national division on slavery the Kansas-Nebraska Act |
| #6026, aired 2010-11-22 | AUTHORS' BIRTHPLACES $1200: Salinas, California (east of... Frisco) was the birthplace of this author, who often referred to it in his work Steinbeck |
| #6016, aired 2010-11-08 | FROM THE GREEK $1600: An essay topic or a written work similar to a dissertation, it's from the Greek for "putting down" thesis |
| #6015, aired 2010-11-05 | I WISH I KNEW HOW TO ACQUIT YOU $600: You created a canvas & tried to pass it off as the work of Arshile Gorky: that's this crime forgery |
| #6010, aired 2010-10-29 | ALL IN A DAY'S "WORK" $1600: 2-word phrase for a set of values based on diligence; it often follows "Protestant" a work ethic |
| #6010, aired 2010-10-29 | CHAMBER MUSIC $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew stands with a string quartet at the Julliard School in New York.) At Toscanini's request, this composer transcribed part of his "Opus 11 Quartet", & it became his most famous work, the "Adagio for Strings" (Samuel) Barber |
| #5975, aired 2010-07-30 | "NIGHT" & "DAY" $400: It's supervision for preschoolers while parents work daycare |
| #5967, aired 2010-07-20 | FROM THE GREEK $1600: (Alex reports from a Ford Motor Company plant in Dearborn, MI.) To make jobs easier & safer, trucks on the assembly line are raised or lowered on these accordion lifts, which are called skillets; it's an example of this science of practical human engineering; it comes from the Greek word which means "work" ergonomics |
| #5967, aired 2010-07-20 | CAN YOU PICTURE IT? $2000: It's the cave where the work seen here was found; obviously, it was home to some of the first muralists Lascaux |
| #5951, aired 2010-06-28 | ARTISTS $2,000 (Daily Double): Kiss & tell me the name of this Art Nouveau Austrian who painted the work seen here Gustav Klimt |
| #5933, aired 2010-06-02 | READ ON $600: From the Latin for "shepherd", it's a literary work idealizing rural life a pastoral |
| #5915, aired 2010-05-07 | BRANDS THAT SOUND LIKE VERBS $200: This potato chip brand sounds like it's got some carpet work to do Lay's |
| #5910, aired 2010-04-30 | NOT GREAT WORK $400: It rhymes with effective but basically means ineffective defective |
| #5910, aired 2010-04-30 | GREAT WORK $600: (Secretary of State Hillary Clinton delivers the clue.)
Co-founding "Arkansas Advocates for Children & Families" & working on children's issues as First Lady led up to the writing of my first book, titled this It Takes a Village |
| #5910, aired 2010-04-30 | NOT GREAT WORK $1200: This adjective, referring to the fabric seen here, has come to mean "cheap" or "crummy" chintzy |
| #5908, aired 2010-04-28 | MY ART WILL GO ON $2000: The work by this Dutch artist is seen here; maybe it's for the best he didn't become an architect, as he first intended (M.C.) Escher |
| #5906, aired 2010-04-26 | 1990s BESTSELLERS $600: It's an open & shut case: his "Runaway Jury" was the bestselling hardback fiction work of 1996 John Grisham |
| #5882, aired 2010-03-23 | HERE COME THE "COP"S $1200: Spelled one way, it's an ad agency worker; spelled another, it's a person registering his work with the government a copywriter/copyrighter |
| #5879, aired 2010-03-18 | ART & ARTISTS $2,000 (Daily Double): The world's largest collection of this post-impressionist's work is at the Amsterdam museum named for him Vincent van Gogh |
| #5868, aired 2010-03-03 | "E" IN SCIENCE $1200: It's defined as the capacity or power to do work energy |
| #5846, aired 2010-02-01 | THINGS WITH STINGS $1000: Xylocopa is this bee that chews holes in wood; it's named for a job that does more constructive wood work carpenter |
| #5833, aired 2010-01-13 | BLOOD WORK $4,000 (Daily Double): One of these, also called a syncope, is that blood flow to the brain is diminished fainting |
| #5820, aired 2009-12-25 | THE APARTMENT $800: The flapper, lift arm & ballcock assembly of this very necessary fixture are all fine--why won't it work?! a toilet |
| #5816, aired 2009-12-21 | "BB" BOOKS $2000: John Updike was in the money with this 1981 novel, the third in a series, winning a Pulitzer for it Rabbit is Rich |
| #5792, aired 2009-11-17 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS $1000: In a Melville work, Billy Budd's last words are "God bless" this captain Captain Vere |
| #5787, aired 2009-11-10 | "TEXT" ME $400: It's the underlying or implicit meaning of a literary work subtext |
| #5775, aired 2009-10-23 | TOTAL DRAMA! $800: Check out this Marlowe work; with Lucifer, Mephistopheles & Beelzebub, it's one hell of a play Doctor Faustus |
| #5752, aired 2009-09-22 | SCOTT JOPLIN $2000: Perhaps referring to himself, it's the title of the popular Scott Joplin work heard here "The Entertainer" |
| #5746, aired 2009-09-14 | PAINTINGS $1,200 (Daily Double): The government tracks it as a percentage; it's brought to life as the title of a work by Depression artist Ben Shahn unemployment |
| #5729, aired 2009-07-02 | LITERATURE IN THE 1800s $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Rosenborg Castle Gardens in Copenhagen, Denmark.) In one translation of an 1868 work, this author calls Denmark's Rosenborg "the Castle of the Roses, as beautiful as the flower that gave it its name" Hans Christian Andersen |
| #5716, aired 2009-06-15 | AROUND THE HOUSE WITH SIMPLE MACHINES $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew rolls a bowling ball.) The work required to lift a 16-pound bowling ball 12 inches is 16 foot-pounds; the force required is only 5.3 pounds using this simple machine to raise it to the same height a ramp (inclined plane) |
| #5709, aired 2009-06-04 | "IN" SENSE $2000: From the 17th to 19th century, it was a person who was placed under contract to work, usually for 7 years an indentured servant |
| #5691, aired 2009-05-11 | CLIFF NOTES $1000: James Baldwin gained fame with this semi-autobiographical work that includes a peak in the title Go Tell It on the Mountain |
| #5688, aired 2009-05-06 | COMPARATIVE LIT $3,000 (Daily Double): Thackeray took a lot of "pride" in this novel; it was his first major work published under his own name Vanity Fair |
| #5687, aired 2009-05-05 | LET'S GET PHYSICS-AL $3,000 (Daily Double): It's the branch of physics that deals with the relationship between heat, work, temperature & energy thermodynamics |
| #5686, aired 2009-05-04 | NAME THE WORK $400: Verne:
"Certainly an Englishman, it was more doubtful whether Phileas Fogg was a Londoner" Around the World in Eighty Days |
| #5685, aired 2009-05-01 | DA VINCI $2,000 (Daily Double): This da Vinci work recounts events found in Matthew 26:21 The Last Supper |
| #5679, aired 2009-04-23 | THE MOST WANTED LIST $400: When arrested in 1967, James Ringrose gave FBI agents one of these Monopoly cards; it didn't work "get out of jail free" |
| #5678, aired 2009-04-22 | FUN WITH EPONYMS $1000: To prudishly edit vulgar bits out of a written work is called this, after a guy named Thomas who did it to Shakespeare bowdlerize |
| #5663, aired 2009-04-01 | PHOTO/JOURNALISM $2000: Complete all editorial work on the newspaper & send it to printer, or what Mom is doing here put it to bed |
| #5661, aired 2009-03-30 | IF THEY'D TAUGHT AEROBICS INSTEAD $1600: A woman: Work that sense memory, work it, work it--that's the method! That's how Marlon did it when he was here! Stella Adler |
| #5645, aired 2009-03-06 | THE ART OF WORK $400: It's the occupational title of the artwork seen here Railsplitter |
| #5635, aired 2009-02-20 | ENGINEERING $2000: From the French for "large box", it's a watertight structure allowing men to work underwater a caisson |
| #5632, aired 2009-02-17 | NIGHTLY NEWS WORDS $600: It means a trip to work (like I do on a scooter) or to make a penalty less severe (like Bush did to a guy named Scooter) commute |
| #5631, aired 2009-02-16 | "CU" $800: From the Latin for "to till", it means to work land in order to raise crops cultivate |
| #5630, aired 2009-02-13 | CHINESE CALENDAR ANIMALS $400: This first sign is a nocturnal animal; those born under it work best in quiet hours; oo, you dirty... rat |
| #5621, aired 2009-02-02 | IT AIN'T BRAIN SURGERY $400: Your arch of this is okay, but we'll still have to crack your chest to work on the thoracic part of this artery the aorta |
| #5620, aired 2009-01-30 | IT'S BAD FOR YA $800: John Enders was awarded a Nobel Prize for his work on this disease that ends with -myelitis polio |
| #5616, aired 2009-01-26 | NOT SO LIL' WAYNES $400: In 2003 he won an Emmy for his work on "Whose Line Is It Anyway?" Wayne Brady |
| #5615, aired 2009-01-23 | PRODUCTS $800: This product originated in work on plastic gunsights; it first wasn't practical because it stuck to everything superglue or Krazy Glue |
| #5580, aired 2008-12-05 | THE ENGLISH TOP 100 $1000: Title of the Beatles song that tells us "life is very short"--5 words: Nos. 27, 53, 87, 11, 43 "We Can Work It Out" |
| #5550, aired 2008-10-24 | MAKE IT WORK! $400: Meryl Streep wonders, "Is there some reason my coffee isn't here? Has she died or something?" in this workplace film The Devil Wears Prada |
| #5550, aired 2008-10-24 | MAKE IT WORK! $800: Charlie Sheen hears "Greed... is good" in this film, which came out just after the 1987 stock market crash Wall Street |
| #5550, aired 2008-10-24 | MAKE IT WORK! $1200: Will Ferrell tells San Diego to stay classy (among other things) working in this title job Anchorman |
| #5550, aired 2008-10-24 | MAKE IT WORK! $1600: Lily, Jane & Dolly think they've killed their boss at Consolidated Companies in this film 9 to 5 |
| #5550, aired 2008-10-24 | MAKE IT WORK! $2000: It seems the ratio of Stanley nickels to Schrute bucks is the same as unicorns to leprechauns on this sitcom The Office |
| #5549, aired 2008-10-23 | ONE-LETTER TAKE IN ORDER $800: It precedes "Pioneers!" in a literary work & "Henry" in the name of a literary man O |
| #5547, aired 2008-10-21 | THERE WILL BE "UD" $600: A person who does distasteful work; it's also in the name of an online "Report" a drudge |
| #5540, aired 2008-10-10 | HARDY $1,200 (Daily Double): This Thomas Hardy work first appeared under the title "The Simpletons"; it was later renamed for the doomed hero Jude the Obscure |
| #5532, aired 2008-09-30 | GOOD "P.R." $1200: It's a system in which one's work is evaluated by those in the same field; NIH grants are subject to dual ones peer review |
| #5527, aired 2008-09-23 | GRAMMAR $200: In the sentence "It was as if an occult hand had been at work", "occult" is this part of speech an adjective |
| #5524, aired 2008-09-18 | WORK ON IT $400: Work for a Carnival, a Princess or even Queen Mary 2 on this type of ship cruise |
| #5524, aired 2008-09-18 | WORK ON IT $800: Hop on an undercutter, a chain saw on wheels, to find a seam of this rock formed from peat coal |
| #5524, aired 2008-09-18 | WORK ON IT $2000: If you like short workdays, just sitting on this critter for 8 seconds can gain you fame with the PBR a bull |
| #5520, aired 2008-09-12 | THE 1800s $2000: This 1830s work is included in the Library of America though it was written by a Frenchman, de Tocqueville Democracy in America |
| #5509, aired 2008-07-17 | FROM THE GREEK $400: It's a list of source materials used in the preparation of a work, like a term paper a bibliography |
| #5508, aired 2008-07-16 | PUN-ISHMENT $400: Punning on a Men at Work song, it's what the computer geek called a local area network he built in Melbourne the LAN Down Under |
| #5502, aired 2008-07-08 | NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT $200: In 2007 this Apple CEO pocketed his annual $1 salary...
it's probably also worth noting his stake in Apple was $765 million Steve Jobs |
| #5502, aired 2008-07-08 | NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT $400: Initially yours: in 1895 his syndicate bought all of a $62 million bond issue, ending a gold shortage in the U.S. treasury J.P. Morgan |
| #5502, aired 2008-07-08 | NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT $600: Start Microsoft with Bill like he did & you too can own stuff like NFL & NBA teams & a 60-ft. submarine (for your yacht!) (Paul) Allen |
| #5502, aired 2008-07-08 | NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT $800: Italy's richest man as of 2007, this ex-prime minister has been estimated to be worth a cool $11.8 billion Berlusconi |
| #5502, aired 2008-07-08 | NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT $1000: Starting Google worked out well for Larry Page & him; as of 2007, they were worth $16.6 billion--apiece (Sergey) Brin |
| #5486, aired 2008-06-16 | REALITY TV $400: Tim Gunn implores designers to "make it work" on this fashionable show Project Runway |
| #5479, aired 2008-06-05 | "BIG" LOVE $2000: In the hobo song, it's the mountain "where you sleep all day" & "where they hung that jerk who invented work" the Big Rock Candy Mountain |
| #5474, aired 2008-05-29 | FAMILIAR PHRASES $400: It's what you're actually doing if you're just out of school & "pounding the pavement" looking for work |
| #5457, aired 2008-05-06 | BEFORE & AFTER $1200: A Tim Gunn catchphrase that has convicts laboring outside of prison while still serving their sentences make it work release |
| #5456, aired 2008-05-05 | COMPLETE IT $200: A work from George Gershwin:
"___ In Blue" Rhapsody |
| #5438, aired 2008-04-09 | QUOTATIONS $400: Winston Churchill said it's good for the uneducated "to read books of quotations." This one "is an admirable work" Bartlett's |
| #5430, aired 2008-03-28 | MAY I HAVE A WORD WITH "U"? $1000: Word used on the cover of a dictionary to indicate that it hasn't been reduced from a larger work unabridged |
| #5426, aired 2008-03-24 | EXPLORERS $1,500 (Daily Double): This Italian explorer in the service of France may have "narrowly" visited the Maryland region in 1524 Verrazano |
| #5419, aired 2008-03-13 | "DEATH" $1000: It's the title of the famous 1793 work seen here The Death of Jean-Paul Marat |
| #5419, aired 2008-03-13 | PSYCHOLOGY $1200: It took 8 years for this 1899 Freud work to sell the initial 600 copies printed, earning him about $250 in royalties The Interpretation of Dreams |
| #5419, aired 2008-03-13 | 4-LETTER VERBS $1600: It's said that "Horses sweat, men perspire, women" do this glow |
| #5416, aired 2008-03-10 | WOMEN'S FIRSTS $1,600 (Daily Double): Frances Perkins became the first woman cabinet member when FDR put her to work in this post Secretary of Labor |
| #5396, aired 2008-02-11 | CLIFFS NOTES $1200: Poor family makes big move from Oklahoma to California; it doesn't work out The Grapes of Wrath |
| #5368, aired 2008-01-02 | SCIENCE CLASS $2000: Named for a physicist, it's the amount of work done when 1 amp passes through 1 ohm of resistance for 1 second a joule |
| #5331, aired 2007-11-12 | VIRTUAL MEDICINE $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reads next to a doctor inserting a large syringe into a simulated abdomen.) This gas that's eliminated during respiration is what gets pumped into the abdomen to expand it & give surgeons room to work carbon dioxide |
| #5311, aired 2007-10-15 | ODD WORDS $400: Robinsonade is not a refreshing drink, it's a novel similar in theme to a work by this author Defoe |
| #5310, aired 2007-10-12 | WHEN YOU GROW UP $1000: You could toil in an office and work in one of these of your own--it sounds like a small geometric shape a cubicle |
| #5296, aired 2007-09-24 | ID CARDS $800: This Idaho-born sculptor is seen here with his best-known work (Gutzon) Borglum |
| #5291, aired 2007-09-17 | PSEUDO SPORT LIT $1600: I picked up this Faulkner work hoping the title referred to Rex Grossman, but it was about Old Ben The Bear |
| #5264, aired 2007-06-28 | CLASSICAL MUSIC ROCKS $600: It's no bull--it's the Bizet work adapted here Carmen |
| #5253, aired 2007-06-13 | LEAGUES $200: Original members of this 4-word group included the Flash, Green Lantern & Wonder Woman Justice League of America |
| #5239, aired 2007-05-24 | THE HISTORY BOYS $1600: Charlotte Corday is "like a star; cruel-lovely" in Thomas Carlyle's 1837 book titled this event The French Revolution |
| #5233, aired 2007-05-16 | THAT'S "ODD" $800: A Bond villain knows it means to work at a series of unrelated, low-paying positions odd job |
| #5220, aired 2007-04-27 | IT'S A SCIENTIFIC FACT $400: In 1705 this Brit became the first scientist to be knighted for his work; you could say he had some "pull" Isaac Newton |
| #5175, aired 2007-02-23 | A WORK OF PHILOSOPHY $1600: It's sensible to bet that God exists, says the Pascal work "Pensees", whose title means these thoughts |
| #5163, aired 2007-02-07 | FROM THE LATIN $800: Look it up--this type of reference work comes partly from the Latin for "word" a dictionary |
| #5145, aired 2007-01-12 | LIFE SCIENCE $2,000 (Daily Double): In a fish's 2-chambered heart, it's the chamber that receives blood from the veins atrium |
| #5144, aired 2007-01-11 | 4 PLAY $800: In card games, the 4 of this suit is called the devil's bedposts clubs |
| #5123, aired 2006-12-13 | PLAYS WITHIN PLAYS $2000: Rupert Holmes adapted this unfinshed Dickens work into a 1985 play-within-a-play musical The Mystery Of Edwin Drood |
| #5119, aired 2006-12-07 | FAMILIAR PHRASES $800: It's a writer or musician's last work, or the chant of a certain water bird swan song |
| #5114, aired 2006-11-30 | I LOVE A MOZART OPERA $600 (Daily Double): This 1791 work is considered the greatest example in music history of the Zauberoper, or "magic opera" The Magic Flute |
| #5109, aired 2006-11-23 | OVER THE COALS $800: This host of "Boy Meets Grill" says charcoal is a lot of work but it gives food a smokiness that gas can't imitate Bobby Flay |
| #5082, aired 2006-10-17 | SIGMUND FREUD $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew is in the library of the Freud Museum, Vienna, Austria.) I'm holding a first edition of Freud's 1923 classic work, "Das Ich und das Es", translated in 1927 as these 2 words id & ego |
| #5069, aired 2006-09-28 | PRAGUE $4,000 (Daily Double): (Jimmy of the Clue Crew steps out of a housefront in Prage, Czech Republic to point out the address.) This novelist lived within the castle at number 22 Golden Lane a few years before he wrote his novel "The Castle" (Franz) Kafka |
| #5067, aired 2006-09-26 | HIPPO-POURRI $1000: Is it any wonder that this Flemish artist, whose early 17th century work is seen here, painted hippopotami? Rubens |
| #5063, aired 2006-09-20 | MAJOR MUSICAL WORKS $400: Tchaikovsky called this work of his in E flat major "loud and noisy", & he never even heard it with fireworks "The 1812 Overture" |
| #5059, aired 2006-09-14 | YOU CAN TELL BY THE WAY I USE MY "WALK" $800: In Aussie-speak, it's a brief, informal leave from work taken by an Aborigine to wander the bush walkabout |
| #5053, aired 2006-07-26 | PHYSICS $2000: A measure of energy that can't be converted into work, it's causing the universe to run down into bleak nothingness entropy |
| #5050, aired 2006-07-21 | THIS WEEK IN GOD $600: It's Tuesday & it's raining; must be the work of Lei Kung, the thunder god of this religion founded by Lao Tzu Taoism |
| #5050, aired 2006-07-21 | THIS WEEK IN GOD $1000: It's Thursday & I had to work 16 hours today! Guess I'll pray to Nyx, the Greek goddess of this night |
| #5046, aired 2006-07-17 | PUT ME IN COACH! $2000: The royal this coach is seen here in a 19th century art work--whatever, it's probably all bills & other junk a mail coach |
| #5038, aired 2006-07-05 | LOOKING FOR A LATIN LOVER $1000: Music lovers know it's Latin for "work" & its plural form is a type of musical work opus |
| #5033, aired 2006-06-28 | FAMOUS AMERICANS' HOMES $1600: New England's Inn on Covered Bridge Green was once this artist's home, & it would fit into his work Norman Rockwell |
| #5025, aired 2006-06-16 | LET'S GO WORK OUT $200: (Jon of the Clue Crew reports from Bally Total Fitness.) Biologically, it means living without oxygen; in the gym, it's the type of exercise that builds muscle with bursts of exertion anaerobic |
| #5025, aired 2006-06-16 | LET'S GO WORK OUT $600: (Jon of the Clue Crew reports from Bally Total Fitness.) Your RMR, short for this, is the number of calories you need to maintain your current weight; it will increase as you add muscle resting metabolic rate |
| #5025, aired 2006-06-16 | LET'S GO WORK OUT $800: (Jon of the Clue Crew reports from Bally Total Fitness.) With this stretch, I'm improving this; the active type of it is the distance a joint can move with your own power a range of motion |
| #5007, aired 2006-05-23 | FAMILY FEUD $2,000 (Daily Double): The Trask at hand is this 1952 novel, where Caleb tells twin bro Aron the truth mom, with bad results East of Eden |
| #5001, aired 2006-05-15 | A CATEGORY OF CATEGORIES $400: BEFORE & AFTER:
Popular "holy" expression about work week's end joins Jason in a 1980 horror movie Thank God it's Friday the 13th |
| #4999, aired 2006-05-11 | QUOTATIONS $2,200 (Daily Double): Oscar Wilde called this 4-letter word "the curse of the drinking classes" work |
| #4987, aired 2006-04-25 | TAUNT "O" $600: At your place of work, it might behoove us to replace you with one of these Pongo pygmaeus apes of Borneo an orangutan |
| #4983, aired 2006-04-19 | DOGS AT WORK $600: It's the punning alphanumeric term for dogs that do police & military work K-9s |
| #4983, aired 2006-04-19 | DOGS AT WORK $800: A certain small German city on the Neckar must have been a safe place, as this guard dog breed was named for it a Rottweiler |
| #4983, aired 2006-04-19 | DOGS AT WORK $1000: It was the sled & reindeer-herding dog of the Siberian people of the same name a Samoyed |
| #4921, aired 2006-01-23 | A LITTLE DICKENS $1,200 (Daily Double): This Dickens work was first published on December 17, 1843 A Christmas Carol |
| #4906, aired 2006-01-02 | HELLO, "OLLY" $1000: Erasmus praised it in the title of a 1511 work folly |
| #4895, aired 2005-12-16 | J.S. BACH & SONS $1600: J.S. Bach was a master of this type of work & produced "The Art of" it in 1749 the fugue |
| #4868, aired 2005-11-09 | MOVIE STARS GO TO WORK $800: It's Jessica Biel's occupation in "Stealth" pilot |
| #4847, aired 2005-10-11 | ENCYCLOPEDIA: BROWN $1600: According to Encyclopedia Britannica, his raid at Harper's Ferry in 1859 made him a martyr to the anti-slavery cause John Brown |
| #4844, aired 2005-10-06 | PICTURES AT AN EXHIBITION $4,000 (Daily Double): Also the title of a 2003 film, it's the famous work from around 1665 seen here The Girl with a Pearl Earring |
| #4841, aired 2005-10-03 | HARD "WORK" $200: In the old song standard, it's the line that precedes "all the livelong day" "I've been working on the railroad" |
| #4841, aired 2005-10-03 | HARD "WORK" $1000: One of the "New Deal" programs created for the unemployed, it was abbreviated the WPA the Works Progress Administration |
| #4825, aired 2005-07-22 | PHYSICS $200 (Daily Double): Term first used by James Watt for a unit equivalent to 550 foot-pounds of work per second horsepower |
| #4818, aired 2005-07-13 | NOUN TO VERB $600: From the French for "to cut", it can mean a small piece or the whole or to do careful work on your car detail |
| #4816, aired 2005-07-11 | THE ARTFUL $200: It's this man's 1632 anatomical work seen here Rembrandt |
| #4809, aired 2005-06-30 | IS THERE A DOCTOR IN THE HOUSE? $1200: This nonprofit international relief organization's humanitarian work won it the 1999 Nobel Peace Prize Doctors Without Borders |
| #4796, aired 2005-06-13 | "VE" DAY $2000: It's his 17th century work seen here Velázquez |
| #4787, aired 2005-05-31 | TO NEIL $2000: In 1989, this "bright" Neil Sheehan work about the Vietnam War won the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction A Bright Shining Lie |
| #4780, aired 2005-05-20 | AUTHOR! ARTHUR! $3,200 (Daily Double): It's no mystery; he was knighted in 1902 for his work defending British policy in the Boer War Arthur Conan Doyle |
| #4768, aired 2005-05-04 | IT HAD TO BE "U" $600: In 1851 the National Era began publishing installments of this Stowe work Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| #4768, aired 2005-05-04 | AROUND THE LOUVRE $1200: Title of the Watteau work seen here, it's the French version of the Commedia dell'arte's Pedrolino Pierrot |
| #4762, aired 2005-04-26 | THINKERS $2,222 (Daily Double): His 1830s work on democracy in America suggested giving it a try back home in France de Tocqueville |
| #4758, aired 2005-04-20 | DECORATIVE ARTS $1600: From the French for partition, it's enamel work in which colored areas are separated by thin metal bands cloisonné |
| #4742, aired 2005-03-29 | I'M ON CLOUD "NINE" $1000: Taken from the title of a J.D. Salinger work, it was the name of Lisa Loeb's backing band Nine Stories |
| #4738, aired 2005-03-23 | BOB DYLAN CHRONICLES $600: "I got a head full of ideas that are drivin' me insane. It's a shame the way she makes me scrub the floor" "Maggie's Farm" |
| #4729, aired 2005-03-10 | AND THE HORSE $3,000 (Daily Double): (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from a horse corral.) These types of horses are bred for herding or running races of 1,320 feet quarter horses |
| #4727, aired 2005-03-08 | CAMERA WORK $1600: If a camera captures sound too, it's this word, like Sony's Handycam a camcorder |
| #4711, aired 2005-02-14 | IT'S GREEK TO ME $2000: Meaning "fighter" or "contestant" (as on "Jeopardy!"), it follows "Samson" in the title of a Milton work agonistes |
| #4705, aired 2005-02-04 | "RIGHT"IES $800: It's the area of law that grants authors the exclusive privileges to their work intellectual property rights (or copyright) |
| #4660, aired 2004-12-03 | AT "EASE" $200: What Monet used to hold up this work while he painted it an easel |
| #4652, aired 2004-11-23 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $600: This D.H. Lawrence work was not published in full in England until Penguin books did it in 1960 Lady Chatterley's Lover |
| #4643, aired 2004-11-10 | THEY DO GOOD WORK $600 (Daily Double): It's the small independent state that's headquarters to the aid group Caritas Internationalis the Vatican |
| #4643, aired 2004-11-10 | THEY DO GOOD WORK $800: It's not just doctors--there are now groups called teachers, builders & clowns "without" these borders |
| #4637, aired 2004-11-03 | A WORLD OF BOOKS $800: In 1973 the KGB confiscated a manuscript of this massive work & Solzhenitsyn soon published it in France The Gulag Archipelago |
| #4616, aired 2004-10-04 | ENDS IN "GHT" $5,400 (Daily Double): Samuel F.B. Morse could have told you that it's a past tense & a past participle of work wrought |
| #4611, aired 2004-09-27 | ADJECTIVES $1600: From the Latin for "patcher" or "mender", it refers to tailors or their work sartorial |
| #4552, aired 2004-05-25 | SCIENTISTS $1,000 (Daily Double): This Swedish botanist was the first to use the Mars & Venus symbols to represent male & female Linnaeus |
| #4545, aired 2004-05-14 | IT'S THE ECONOMY, STUPID! $1000: The full title of Adam Smith's monumental 1776 work is "An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of" this the Wealth of Nations |
| #4543, aired 2004-05-12 | 10-LETTER WORDS $800: Handwritten or typed, it's the original text of an author's work that's submitted for publication the manuscript |
| #4537, aired 2004-05-04 | 3-LETTER WORDS $600: It's where people go to "work out" gym |
| #4528, aired 2004-04-21 | B.C.'n YOU $1600: Work began circa 2000 B.C. on the Palace at Knossos on this island; centuries later it was still going -- oy, contractors Crete |
| #4514, aired 2004-04-01 | THEY REALLY SAID IT $1600: This 30th president noted, "When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results" (Calvin) Coolidge |
| #4490, aired 2004-02-27 | OTHER SIDE OF THE WORLD LEADERS $1,200 (Daily Double): That Great Wall thing didn't work; this warrior's forces crossed it & went on to sack Peking in 1215 Genghis Khan |
| #4464, aired 2004-01-22 | WRITERS ON CAPE COD $600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew) Though part of it was written in one of these Cape Cod dune shacks, his 1957 work "On the Road" begins & ends in New York City Jack Kerouac |
| #4453, aired 2004-01-07 | LEANN RHYMES? $400: In a Beatles hit, the title words preceding "Work It Out" We Can |
| #4443, aired 2003-12-24 | WHAM! $2000: Wham's third U.S. No. 1 hit; it includes "Somebody tell me... why I work so hard for you... to give you money" "Everything She Wants" |
| #4429, aired 2003-12-04 | THE 18th CENTURY $800: 1787 Mozart work often called a serenade; the "New Oxford Companion to Music" says it's, aptly, a nocturne "A Little Night Music" ("Eine kleine Nachtmusik") |
| #4400, aired 2003-10-24 | COLORFUL WORDS & PHRASES $400: It's the document that allows a foreign national to live & work in the U.S., legally a green card |
| #4369, aired 2003-09-11 | AROUND ASIA $400: Take a look, it's the city where the woman seen here did the work that made her famous Calcutta |
| #4340, aired 2003-06-13 | KEEP THE FAITH $400: Abbreviated TM, it came to prominence through the work of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Transcendental Meditation |
| #4331, aired 2003-06-02 | HAIL TO THE NOBLE GASES $2000: Building on the Curies' work, Friedrich Dorn found this gas & first called it "emanation" radon |
| #4311, aired 2003-05-05 | NUN BUT THE BRAVE $2000: It's the classic work in which you'll find "The Nun's Priest's Tale" "The Canterbury Tales" |
| #4296, aired 2003-04-14 | WHAT COULD SHE BE DOING IN THERE? $200: Giving herself a wavy look with a home one of these--if it doesn't work, she may not come out for days a permanent |
| #4295, aired 2003-04-11 | GOVERNMENT WORK $1600: Term for a chief minister of state; it's also the last name of a late NBC newscaster Chancellor |
| #4295, aired 2003-04-11 | GOVERNMENT WORK $2,000 (Daily Double): Next to the president is the vice president; this "vice" is the crown's main representative in a territory a viceroy |
| #4288, aired 2003-04-02 | THE CIVIL WAR $400: In 1864 he organized a conspiracy to abduct Lincoln; it didn't work so he came up with a cunning new plan John Wilkes Booth |
| #4285, aired 2003-03-28 | THE 19th CENTURY $2000: It's the 4-word title of the famous 1830 Eugene Delacroix work seen here "Liberty Leading the People" |
| #4274, aired 2003-03-13 | BITS & PIECES $600: The spells of the magician in this Johnny Hart comic strip usually backfire...if they work at all The Wizard of Id |
| #4256, aired 2003-02-17 | IT'S ALL A BUNCH OF LIES $1000: This early 20th century humorist quipped, "Income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf" Will Rogers |
| #4233, aired 2003-01-15 | AMERICAN LIT $1200: "Nobody Knows My Name" (hopefully you do!) is a later work by this "Go Tell It on the Mountain" man James Baldwin |
| #4191, aired 2002-11-18 | ON THE WEB $2000: For information on health, beauty, diet, work & even pets, "it takes" this, "the women's network" of websites iVillage.com |
| #4180, aired 2002-11-01 | DOUGH $400: It means to work dough by pressing, folding & stretching it knead |
| #4161, aired 2002-10-07 | 11-LETTER WORDS $400: It's a work page containing a multicolumn analysis of related entries, such as in Microsoft Excel a spreadsheet |
| #4158, aired 2002-10-02 | CHAUCER & FRIENDS $2000: Chaucer was influenced by & translated Boethius' work "The Consolation of" this Philosophy |
| #4158, aired 2002-10-02 | IT'S A GAS $2000: Edward Franklin's life work was a list of compounds in which this common gas replaces oxygen nitrogen |
| #4145, aired 2002-09-13 | "J" WALKING $1600: It's the "gem" of a unit equal to the work done when a current of 1 ampere passes through 1 ohm for 1 second joule |
| #4141, aired 2002-09-09 | "C" DUTY $200: From the Latin for "lying down", it's a small compartment for work or study cubicle |
| #4132, aired 2002-07-16 | "IT"s $800: Adjective meaning traveling from place to place, especially to find work itinerant |
| #4131, aired 2002-07-15 | HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $400: It took a lot of "work" but Grover Cleveland finally signed a bill making this a national holiday in 1894 Labor Day |
| #4110, aired 2002-06-14 | EARTH, WIND OR FIRE $800: For a lightning rod to work properly it must be connected to this earth |
| #4100, aired 2002-05-31 | A TIME FOR "US" $1600: A composer may label his work with this word & a number to indicate the order in which he wrote it opus |
| #4074, aired 2002-04-25 | OH, MY "LORD"! $1200: Joseph Conrad originally intended this work as a short story; he finished it as a novel in 1900 Lord Jim |
| #4060, aired 2002-04-05 | "ON" WORKS FOR ME $2000: Waltz in & give us the full 5-word title of the following work "On The Beautiful Blue Danube" |
| #3996, aired 2002-01-07 | SLANG $1000: To be compared to a work
by this artist, like the one seen here, is an insult; it means you look better from a distance Monet |
| #3989, aired 2001-12-27 | THE "N" ZONE $2000: In a work of fiction, it's the term for the person who tells the story narrator |
| #3935, aired 2001-10-12 | IT'S A GROUP THING $400: Famed British group whose work included "The Dead Parrot Sketch" & the "Lumberjack Song" Monty Python |
| #3928, aired 2001-10-03 | IF IT'S WEDNESDAY THEY MUST BE BELGIANS $600: This Belgian missionary is noted for his work with the lepers of Molokai Father Damien |
| #3928, aired 2001-10-03 | BEATLES NO. 1 HITS $1,800 (Daily Double): This 1966 hit was inspired by Paul trying to smooth things over with girlfriend Jane Asher "We Can Work It Out" |
| #3915, aired 2001-09-14 | HOW DO YOU WORK THIS THING? $400: Insert in drain; crank handle clockwise while moving wire to dislodge clog; hike up pants a snake |
| #3915, aired 2001-09-14 | HOW DO YOU WORK THIS THING? $500 (Daily Double): Despite the name, heat the water in the bottom pan only to a simmer so it doesn't bubble over use a double boiler |
| #3915, aired 2001-09-14 | HOW DO YOU WORK THIS THING? $600: Fold the left side over the right across your chest & tie it in place with an obi wearing a kimono |
| #3915, aired 2001-09-14 | HOW DO YOU WORK THIS THING? $800: Lean it against your right shoulder, pluck the strings with both hands, work the pedals with your feet play a harp |
| #3907, aired 2001-09-04 | MARK TWAIN SEZ $400: "Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is" this "that does the work" the lightning |
| #3899, aired 2001-07-12 | ARCHAEOLOGY $200: 3-letter term for an archaeological work site; it's also a magazine trying to turn preteens on to archaeology a dig |
| #3894, aired 2001-07-05 | MY PHYSICS PROFESSOR $600: I don't think this UC Berkeley professor got it when I said I liked his work with Penn (Edward) Teller |
| #3885, aired 2001-06-22 | “WH”AT IS IT? $200: In a song from “Snow White”, it's what you do “while you work” whistle |
| #3871, aired 2001-06-04 | LET'S GET GRAPHIC $100: It's a prototype layout of a graphic work, or one of the positions in bridge Dummy |
| #3870, aired 2001-06-01 | CHARACTER REFERENCE $800: John Grimes is a Harlem youth who has a tough time finding his black identity in this James Baldwin work Go Tell It on the Mountain |
| #3866, aired 2001-05-28 | ORDER $200: "Love Me Do",
"We Can Work It Out",
"Get Back" "Love Me Do", "We Can Work It Out", "Get Back" |
| #3862, aired 2001-05-22 | STARTING HERE $100: For Cathy Guisewite to do her "Cathy" comic strip, every day it's "back to" this the drawing board |
| #3855, aired 2001-05-11 | CliffsNotes $500: Con man checks into mental hospital to avoid prison farm, meets nasty nurse, doesn't check out "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" |
| #3838, aired 2001-04-18 | HOLLYWOOD $300: Will Rogers said, "Everytime I see him work, it looks to me like a bunch of firecrackers going off all at once" James Cagney |
| #3784, aired 2001-02-01 | "CAN" IT! $600: "Sweet" term for a teen girl who does volunteer work at a hospital candy-striper |
| #3771, aired 2001-01-15 | GET TO WORK $600: From the Latin word for "wine", it's a person who makes or sells wine Vintner |
| #3771, aired 2001-01-15 | GET TO WORK $1000: It's a type of criminal, or a person who heats & hammers metal into shape Forger |
| #3767, aired 2001-01-09 | A GERSHWIN TUNE $1000: Title that precedes "And you can get it -- if you try" "Nice Work If You Can Get It" |
| #3761, aired 2001-01-01 | MADISON & PHYSIOLOGY $600: Madison pooh-poohed that he was "The Father of" this; he said it was "The work of many heads and many hands" The Constitution |
| #3748, aired 2000-12-13 | ARISTOTLE SAYS... $600: Aristotle's work "on" this says that it holds the body together & that plants have one too Soul |
| #3714, aired 2000-10-26 | WALTON $200: Izaak Walton's most famous work, it's subtitled "The Contemplative Man's Recreation" The Compleat Angler |
| #3711, aired 2000-10-23 | ART FOR ART'S SAKE $200: Now at the Huntington Gallery, it's the "colorful" Sir Thomas Lawrence work seen here "Pinkie" |
| #3706, aired 2000-10-16 | A FILM ON YOUR TEETH $400: In this 1976 drama, Laurence Olivier checks out Dustin Hoffman's dental work Marathon Man |
| #3702, aired 2000-10-10 | QUILTING $400: Also called piecing, it's the type of work used to put together the quilt seen here Patchwork |
| #3685, aired 2000-09-15 | PICK ME, PICASSO $500: Originally a brand of absinthe, Pablo put a bottle of it in a 1912 work, & it put the work on a special edition label Pernod |
| #3676, aired 2000-09-04 | WORK IT! $200: Work hard, but don't "work your fingers to" this the bone |
| #3676, aired 2000-09-04 | WORK IT! $400: You may start working hard on a project when you "sink" these body parts "into it" your teeth |
| #3676, aired 2000-09-04 | YOGA $400: It follows "Yoga" in the title of an ancient work by Patanjali; it follows "Kama" in another title Sutra |
| #3676, aired 2000-09-04 | WORK IT! $600: It's where you put your shoulder, especially if your wagon is stuck in mud to the wheel |
| #3676, aired 2000-09-04 | WORK IT! $800: To really apply yourself to a task, you can "buckle" or "knuckle" this way down |
| #3676, aired 2000-09-04 | WORK IT! $1000: If you're a dromedary camel, you can "bust" this; if you're a bactrian camel, you can bust 2 of them a hump |
| #3655, aired 2000-06-23 | HIGH "IQ" $400: Don't take it personally, it's just a detailed analysis of a subject or literary work Critique |
| #3626, aired 2000-05-15 | GONE FISSION $1,800 (Daily Double): It was named for a district of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, first assigned because early work was done at Columbia The Manhattan Project |
| #3619, aired 2000-05-04 | PHYSICAL SCIENCE $800: To scientists, it's force times distance; to Twain, it's "whatever a body is obliged to do" Work |
| #3605, aired 2000-04-14 | "IZ" IT $300: He's the 19th century French composer whose work is heard here:
("Toreador Song") Georges Bizet |
| #3603, aired 2000-04-12 | SNACKIN' ON $500: Another name for appetizers, it's French for "outside the work" Hors d'oeuvres |
| #3567, aired 2000-02-22 | WE KNEAD THE DOUGH $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1912 inventor Otto Rohwedder began work on a groundbreaking machine to do this to bread Slice it |
| #3531, aired 2000-01-03 | I WROTE A BOOK! $300: This former "Candid Camera" personality reads her literary work here
"Baby girl, I wrote to tell you that I do not have good news about your mother, but it is not terrible news, either." Fannie Flagg |
| #3504, aired 1999-11-25 | PICARESQUE NOVELS $600: This 1837 Dickens work is not only picaresque, it sounds like it "Pickwick Papers" |
| #3498, aired 1999-11-17 | THE BIG APPLE $400: It's what John Smith could have called his dad's mom, or a variety of green apple grown in the U.S. Granny Smith |
| #3472, aired 1999-10-12 | A LITTLE DICKENS $500: It's no mystery why this work was Dickens' last; he didn't live to finish it The Mystery of Edwin Drood |
| #3447, aired 1999-09-07 | THOSE WACKY GERMANS $500: A rathaus isn't as bad as it sounds: it's this "hall" where the mayor might work City hall |
| #3439, aired 1999-07-15 | 19th CENTURY WOMEN $200: Dr. Mary Walker was awarded this for her Civil War work; Congress took it away in 1917 & restored it in 1977 Congressional Medal of Honor |
| #3431, aired 1999-07-05 | SCULPTURE $200: His work "Balzac" was refused by the society that commissioned it; they didn't think it looked like Balzac Auguste Rodin |
| #3393, aired 1999-05-12 | BUT IS IT ART? $300: The work of "Artists Barely in Control of the Brush" is seen at Boston's MOBA, museum of this art Bad art |
| #3387, aired 1999-05-04 | CLIFFS NOTES $100: Poor family makes big move from Oklahoma to California; it doesn't work out "The Grapes of Wrath" |
| #3383, aired 1999-04-28 | OVERLAPS $600: Product that will come back in its next life as a can of evaporated moo juice reincarnation milk |
| #3347, aired 1999-03-09 | 2-LETTER SPELLING $100: To work this tool, you just have to take a whack, not at it, but with it A-X |
| #3342, aired 1999-03-02 | SING IT, SISTER $500: She took the name of her band "Nine Stories" from a J.D. Salinger work Lisa Loeb |
| #3326, aired 1999-02-08 | GYM DANDY $800: In this men's event, it's "routine" to work your way around a long leather-covered apparatus the pommel horse |
| #3325, aired 1999-02-05 | A COWBOY'S DICTIONARY $300: Due to the commonplace amputation of limbs, a doctor or surgeon was often called this tool nickname sawbones |
| #3320, aired 1999-01-29 | PLAYGROUND PUNCHLINES $400: It's why cows have bells It's because their horns don't work! |
| #3305, aired 1999-01-08 | IT'S A MASTERPIECE! $400: Painted as a protest in '37, this work is often considered one of Picasso's most powerful works Guernica |
| #3305, aired 1999-01-08 | IT'S A MASTERPIECE! $600: This Rembrandt work depicts the militia company of Frans Banning Cocq The Night Watch |
| #3305, aired 1999-01-08 | IT'S A MASTERPIECE! $800: "Dreamy" title of this Rousseau work The Sleeping Gypsy |
| #3289, aired 1998-12-17 | "LET"s END THIS $200: From the title of a medieval Latin work, it's the term for publications like Paine's "Crisis" series a pamphlet |
| #3280, aired 1998-12-04 | HOW DO YOU WORK THIS THING? $100: Put it tightly in place over the drain, release any trapped air & ram the handle up & down a plunger |
| #3280, aired 1998-12-04 | HOW DO YOU WORK THIS THING? $300: Cross long end over short, pass it through loop, double short end into loop, give up, get a clip-on a bow tie |
| #3280, aired 1998-12-04 | HOW DO YOU WORK THIS THING? $400: Set it in motion with your feet, then wet your fingers before centering the clay throwing a pot on a potter's wheel |
| #3257, aired 1998-11-03 | ROCK & POP $500: In 1982 it was "Business As Usual" for this "Who Can It Be Now?" group from down under Men At Work |
| #3242, aired 1998-10-13 | MUSIC & LITERATURE $700 (Daily Double): Franz Liszt's symphony based on this work includes the movements "Inferno" & "Purgatorio" The Divine Comedy |
| #3232, aired 1998-09-29 | DAYS OF BIRTH $300: Saturday's child does it "for a living"; Donna Summer sang she did it "For The Money" Work hard |
| #3167, aired 1998-05-12 | HERCULES & XENA $200: Xena came, saw & conquered this historic Roman general, but it didn't work out Julius Caesar |
| #1, aired 1998-05-03 | LITERARY LANDMARKS $200: This "Call of the Wild" author had some wild times at Heinold's First & Last Chance Saloon in Oakland Jack London |
| #3154, aired 1998-04-23 | MEET THE BEATLES $500: [audio clue] "We Can Work It Out" |
| #3147, aired 1998-04-14 | GET A GRIP $500: Spock once claimed that he used this to "kill" Kirk Vulcan death grip |
| #3140, aired 1998-04-03 | PRISON PROSE $300: A work by Jean Genet stems from time at this type of "school", named for what it tries to do to youths a reform school |
| #3140, aired 1998-04-03 | THEY COVERED THE BEATLES $600: "We Can Work It Out" worked out to be one of the songs of his 1970 album "Signed, Sealed & Delivered" Stevie Wonder |
| #3137, aired 1998-03-31 | ARTISTS $1,000 (Daily Double): A new museum devoted to this artist, whose work is seen here, opened in Santa Fe in 1997: Georgia O'Keeffe |
| #3130, aired 1998-03-20 | SATURDAY AFTERNOON AT THE MOVIES $500 (Daily Double): In serials from the '30s & '40s, Charles Middleton played this evil emperor seen here:
"The expedition must be destroyed, with two exceptions: Zarkov and Flash Gordon. As a prisoner, Zarkov will be of great use to me in my conquest of the universe." Ming the Merciless |
| #3127, aired 1998-03-17 | IN THE NIGHT $1,200 (Daily Double): Van Gogh painted this work, seen here, with candles stuck in his hatband Starry Night |
| #3083, aired 1998-01-14 | STARTS WITH 2 VOWELS $100: Every artist we canvassed said it holds up their work easel |
| #3061, aired 1997-12-15 | GETTING POSSESSIVE $400: Painted in 1948, it's considered Andrew Wyeth's most famous work "Christina's World" |
| #3058, aired 1997-12-10 | IT'S IN THE "BOOK" $1000: The 1954 work "Seduction of the Innocent" blamed these publications for corrupting America's youth Comic books |
| #3053, aired 1997-12-03 | GENESIS $200: In 2:3 God blesses this numbered day because "In it he had rested from all his work" Seventh day |
| #3049, aired 1997-11-27 | TV GOES TO WORK $400: It's the literary cafe where Joe Farrell, Audrey Penney & Ellen Morgan worked Buy the Book |
| #3031, aired 1997-11-03 | FUN WITH OPERA $800: Of all the operas we know, this 1893 work based on a Grimm role has the most gingerbread in it Hansel and Gretel |
| #3025, aired 1997-10-24 | MUSIC CLASS $100: A series of notes at fixed intervals, it may be major or minor, or what a musician hates to work for Scale |
| #2992, aired 1997-09-09 | "FEE", "FI", "FO", "FUM" $300: It's the length a lens will go to work focus (or focal length) |
| #2989, aired 1997-09-04 | HOW DO YOU WORK THIS THING? $200: Wind 12-18" of it around your index fingers, slip it between 2 teeth to the gum & scrape both sides dental floss |
| #2989, aired 1997-09-04 | HOW DO YOU WORK THIS THING? $400: Put the point at the center of the desired circle & swing the pencil around it a compass |
| #2989, aired 1997-09-04 | HOW DO YOU WORK THIS THING? $800: Hammer it into a crack in the rock & clip a carabiner to its eye through which to run rope a piton |
| #2968, aired 1997-06-25 | THE MOVIES $800: It's the film in which Tom Cruise played up-&-coming lawyer Mitch McDeere "The Firm" |
| #2959, aired 1997-06-12 | RELIGION $200: In October 1996 the Pope told scientists this theory was sound if they accept it as God's work evolution |
| #2956, aired 1997-06-09 | THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR $100: In 1780 George Washington set up a plan to kidnap this traitor from the British; it didn't work Benedict Arnold |
| #2940, aired 1997-05-16 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1,200 (Daily Double): From the Latin for "hand written", it's the original text of an author's work manuscript |
| #2911, aired 1997-04-07 | APPETIZERS $100: French for an appetizer, it literally means "outside the main work" hors d'oeuvre |
| #2898, aired 1997-03-19 | ART $400: Grime darkened the daytime setting of this artist's work, causing it to be misnamed "The Night Watch" Rembrandt |
| #2895, aired 1997-03-14 | FAMOUS NAMES $400: This star sings the theme, "Nice Work If You Can Get It", for her self-titled sitcom Cybill Shepherd |
| #2874, aired 1997-02-13 | BEAKMAN'S WORLD $200: It's the muscle that makes you hiccup & makes your lungs work the diaphragm |
| #2865, aired 1997-01-31 | MUSIC CLASS $200: An extended work in 3 or 4 movements, or the type of large orchestra that would play it Symphony |
| #2865, aired 1997-01-31 | RUSSIAN WRITERS $1000: He began his most famous work, "Eugene Onegin", in 1823 & completed it in 1831 Aleksandr Pushkin |
| #2850, aired 1997-01-10 | COSMETICS & PERFUME $400: Many women find "Rapture" in these lingerie boutiques; it's one of their signature fragrances Victoria's Secret |
| #2766, aired 1996-09-16 | PROVERBS $500: "It is not work that kills, but" this; it also turns the hair gray worry |
| #2641, aired 1996-02-12 | DECORATIVE ARTS $500: From the Latin filum (thread), & granum (grain), it's delicate ornamental work done with fine metal wire filigree |
| #2625, aired 1996-01-19 | LITERATURE $1000: Proust paid to publish "Swann's Way", the first part of this epic work, after publishers rejected it "Remembrance of Things Past" |
| #2618, aired 1996-01-10 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $200: He began work on Monticello when he was about 25 but didn't complete it until his 60s Thomas Jefferson |
| #2571, aired 1995-11-06 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS $500: This D.H. Lawrence "lady" plays around with a playwright before she gambols with a gamekeeper Lady Chatterley |
| #2525, aired 1995-07-21 | FILE UNDER "AE" $800: Virgil's vagabond Aeneas |
| #2520, aired 1995-07-14 | QUOTABLE WOMEN $1000: Her novel "So Big" tells us, "Housework's the hardest work in the world. That's why men won't do it" Edna Ferber |
| #2464, aired 1995-04-27 | LITERATURE $1,500 (Daily Double): This Ray Bradbury work begins, "It was a pleasure to burn" Fahrenheit 451 |
| #2448, aired 1995-04-05 | FIRST LADIES $800 (Daily Double): She was a star shot-putter at her finishing school in Kansas City Bess Truman |
| #2434, aired 1995-03-16 | THE 1300s $600: Though its title means "10 days' work", it took Boccaccio from about 1348-1353 to finish it the Decameron |
| #2423, aired 1995-03-01 | ART & ARTISTS $1,000 (Daily Double): Camille Pissarro's work after 1884 was influenced by this pointillist's theory of optical mixture (Georges) Seurat |
| #2356, aired 1994-11-28 | HAPPY HANUKKAH $500: Parents might give the kids a little Hanukkah gelt, which is this money |
| #2326, aired 1994-10-17 | THE DEPT. OF COMMERCE $1000: This department was originally with the Commerce Dept., but they split; we guess it didn't "work" out the Department of Labor |
| #2324, aired 1994-10-13 | QUOTATIONS $200: Jerome K. Jerome wrote, "It is impossible to enjoy idling... unless one has plenty of" this "to do" work |
| #2300, aired 1994-09-09 | "AMERICAN" ORGANIZATIONS $200: It publishes the reference work "The Complete Dog Book" the American Kennel Club |
| #2238, aired 1994-05-04 | LITERATURE $200: Thomas Wolfe told this author, "'Tender is the Nigh' had in it the best work you have ever done" (F. Scott) Fitzgerald |
| #2230, aired 1994-04-22 | 1986 $200: In February the Philippine National Assembly proclaimed him reelected--it didn't work Marcos |
| #2230, aired 1994-04-22 | 1986 $400: This event tried to form a human chain from one end of the U.S. to the other--it didn't work Hands Across America |
| #2139, aired 1993-12-16 | PHOBIAS $400: An erg is a unit of this; ergo, ergophobia is a fear of it work |
| #2131, aired 1993-12-06 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $600: During the 17 years it took him to write "Finnegans Wake", he published parts as "Work in Progress" James Joyce |
| #2123, aired 1993-11-24 | THE "I"'s HAVE IT $1000: The first Pope to bear this name tried to prevent Alaric from sacking Rome; it didn't work Innocent |
| #2118, aired 1993-11-17 | POP MUSIC $500: In 1983 this group from down under hit it big with "Down Under" Men At Work |
| #2087, aired 1993-10-05 | 2-WORD LEGAL PHRASES $600: It's a punitive sentence that requires the convicted person to do unpaid work in the area where he lives community service |
| #2077, aired 1993-09-21 | LITERATURE $1,500 (Daily Double): The title of this F. Scott Fitzgerald work comes from a line in Keats' "Ode to a Nightingale" Tender Is the Night |
| #2069, aired 1993-09-09 | THE CIVIL WAR $600: As a new way to take Vicksburg, Grant tried to change the course of this major river--it didn't work the Mississippi |
| #2065, aired 1993-07-23 | "SPRINGS" ON THE MAP $100: From 1988 - 1992 this Calif. town didn't work its mayor pro bono, it worked its mayor Sonny Bono Palm Springs |
| #2059, aired 1993-07-15 | POISONED $1000: This Russian "monk" was poisoned—didn't work; shot—didn't work; then drowned—we think it worked Rasputin |
| #1972, aired 1993-03-16 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: This act signed December 12, 1985 was designed to eliminate the federal deficit by 1991 --- it didn't work Gramm-Rudman |
| #1928, aired 1993-01-13 | BRITISH NOVELISTS $500: It only took about a year to write the half-million words in his work "The Outline of History" H.G. Wells |
| #1913, aired 1992-12-23 | THE PLANETS $1000: The probe that Galileo drops into this planet's atmosphere in 1995 is expected to work for about an hour Jupiter |
| #1906, aired 1992-12-14 | HANDWRITING $1000: It's a professional copyist, like Bartleby in the title of a Melville work the scrivener |
| #1880, aired 1992-11-06 | INDUSTRIAL DESIGN $800: From the Greek for "work", it's the science of designing work-place furniture to reduce operator fatigue ergonomics |
| #1873, aired 1992-10-28 | ART $1000: You have to have a big wall for his circa 1480 work "The Birth of Venus"; it's over 5' X 9' (Sandro) Botticelli |
| #1840, aired 1992-09-11 | THE ARAB WORLD $2,000 (Daily Double): It's considered the first & model prose work in Arabic the Koran |
| #1815, aired 1992-06-19 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS $1000: Father Latour is the archbishop in the title of this Willa Cather work Death Comes for the Archbishop |
| #1768, aired 1992-04-15 | FINANCE $5,000 (Daily Double): Named for a N.Y. congressman, this pension plan was established in 1962 to benefit the self-employed Keogh (Plan) |
| #1731, aired 1992-02-24 | WORD ORIGINS $400: A work of art applied to a wall, it comes from Latin for "wall" a mural |
| #1728, aired 1992-02-19 | AUTHORS' DEDICATIONS $800: "The Bridge of San Luis Rey" is dedicated to his mother Thornton Wilder |
| #1713, aired 1992-01-29 | ARTISTS $1,300 (Daily Double): Cow skulls & flowers are 2 frequent motifs in her paintings Georgia O'Keeffe |
| #1708, aired 1992-01-22 | DESIGN $200: The "partners"' style of this is made so that 2 people can work at it, facing each other a desk |
| #1635, aired 1991-10-11 | LOUISIANA $500: The state's first railroad was begun in 1831 by a company named for this large lake Lake Pontchartrain |
| #1629, aired 1991-10-03 | CHARLES DICKENS $400: His 1st major work written in the 1st person, it used parts of the autobiography he'd abandoned David Copperfield |
| #1624, aired 1991-09-26 | POETS & POETRY $100: This Walt Whitman work began as a collection of 12 poems in 1855; by 1892 it contained hundreds Leaves of Grass |
| #1624, aired 1991-09-26 | 1926 $100: He helped pioneer the 40-hour work week by introducing it at his Michigan auto factories Henry Ford |
| #1603, aired 1991-07-17 | LABOR UNIONS $1,299 (Daily Double): This union's TV commercials ask you to "Look for the Union Label" the International Ladies' Garment Workers Union |
| #1594, aired 1991-07-04 | U.S. HISTORY $600: Passed in 1890, it didn't work too well as some 50 new trusts were formed by 1897 the Sherman Anti-Trust Act |
| #1591, aired 1991-07-01 | "ISM"s $100: Copying another author's work & claiming it as your own plagiarism |
| #1574, aired 1991-06-06 | OKLAHOMANS $100: Humorist who remarked, "Communism is like prohibition; it's a good idea, but it won't work" Will Rogers |
| #1559, aired 1991-05-16 | COLORFUL WORDS & PHRASES $100: It means to bring your lunch to work in a sack brown-bagging |
| #1548, aired 1991-05-01 | CULINARY TERMS $100: To work dough by pressing, folding & stretching it kneading it |
| #1536, aired 1991-04-15 | 7-LETTER WORDS $200: The path followed by electric current, it has to be closed for the light to work circuit |
| #1535, aired 1991-04-12 | 5-LETTER WORDS $400: An undertaker's work is so serious & solemn, it's often described as this type of matter grave |
| #1522, aired 1991-03-26 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $500 (Daily Double): Make no bones about it, this 1875 work was the first major concert piece to use the xylophone "Danse Macabre" |
| #1509, aired 1991-03-07 | ODD JOBS $100: Heavenly term for a financial backer of a play an angel |
| #1500, aired 1991-02-22 | ANIMALS $400: The collared type of this mammal known for feeding on insects is also called the tamandua the anteater |
| #1492, aired 1991-02-12 | NO. 1 HITS $600 (Daily Double): In 1987 this group had its 2nd No. 1 hit in 3 months with the following: "Tommy used to work on the docks, union's been on strike / He's down on his luck, it's tough, so tough / Gina works the diner all day..." Bon Jovi |
| #1475, aired 1991-01-18 | SHAKESPEAREAN CHARACTERS $800 (Daily Double): Octavia Caesar appears as a character in these 2 plays Julius Caesar & Antony and Cleopatra |
| #1464, aired 1991-01-03 | FROM THE LATIN $600: It means work, especially a composer's work an opus |
| #1400, aired 1990-10-05 | NUMBER, PLEASE $500: People generally work 40 hours out of this many in a week 168 |
| #1391, aired 1990-09-24 | PHYSICAL SCIENCE $400: It's equal to 550 foot pounds of work in 1 second of time one horsepower |
| #1376, aired 1990-09-03 | PSYCH 101 $500: An inactive drug given in place of a real one; it might work on the power of suggestion a placebo |
| #1339, aired 1990-05-31 | STOP $400: It's a work stoppage unauthorized by a labor union Wildcat Strike |
| #1318, aired 1990-05-02 | TECHNOLOGY $600: It's what you need to operate the 1861 invention of Linus Yale key |
| #1306, aired 1990-04-16 | FAMILIAR PHRASES $600: In Siam, if the king gave you one of these huge animals, you couldn't put it to work or give it away a white elephant |
| #1303, aired 1990-04-11 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $800: Chinese phrase meaning "work together", it's come to mean unswervingly loyal or enthusiastic gung-ho |
| #1282, aired 1990-03-13 | LITERARY TERMS $200: The opposite of a preface or prologue; it's a short addition at the end of a literary work an afterword (epilogue) |
| #1277, aired 1990-03-06 | ART $800: Born in Crete, he moved from Italy to Spain during the Inquisition & it's reflected in his work El Greco |
| #1274, aired 1990-03-01 | PRESIDENTIAL TRIVIA $1,500 (Daily Double): 2 of the 7 men who were under 50 years old when they became president Cleveland, Garfield, Grant, JFK, Pierce, Polk & Teddy Roosevelt |
| #1271, aired 1990-02-26 | ART $400: Originally full of light & color, his 1642 work was so darkened by grime & smoke it's now called "The Night Watch" Rembrandt |
| #1271, aired 1990-02-26 | INTERNATIONAL COOKING $600: Literally "outside the work", it's an additional dish served before a meal Hors D' Oeuvres |
| #1263, aired 1990-02-14 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $400: This Sibelius work was banned by Russia because it inspired patriotism among Finns "Finlandia" (The National Anthem) |
| #1258, aired 1990-02-07 | COMPOSERS $500 (Daily Double): Composer of the following famous work: [instrumental music plays] Rossini |
| #1250, aired 1990-01-26 | "G" WHIZ $100: This work shift begins late at night & it doesn't have to start in a cemetery the graveyard shift |
| #1193, aired 1989-11-08 | LETTER PERFECT $200: On a report card it can mean outstanding work habits; on a baseball scorecard, a mistake E |
| #1145, aired 1989-07-21 | IN OTHER WORDS... $300: Drudgery enlarges encompassing all hours llotted "Work expands to fill the time available for it" |
| #1145, aired 1989-07-21 | IN OTHER WORDS... $400: Agree employment, when obtainable "Nice work, if you can get it" |
| #1144, aired 1989-07-20 | LITERARY TERMS $1,300 (Daily Double): Latin for "a great work", it's a major literary work, or a writer's masterpiece magnum opus |
| #1122, aired 1989-06-20 | ARTISTS $1000: Edward Hicks' best known work, it depicts the prophecy in Isaiah 11:6 about animals lying together The Peaceable Kingdom |
| #1115, aired 1989-06-09 | POP MUSIC $500: This group's 1982 debut album "Business as Usual" & debut single "Who Can It Be Now?" both reached No. 1 Men at Work |
| #1011, aired 1989-01-16 | 4-LETTER WORDS $200: A piece of work that's part of your assigned job, if you don't do it you might be "taken to" it task |
| #968, aired 1988-11-16 | PIRATES $200: "Recruitment" procedure of kidnapping men to work on pirate ships, it's named after a Far Eastern port Shanghaiing |
| #947, aired 1988-10-18 | "BOO"! $1000: Pointless, unnecessary work, it may describe a government project boondoggle |
| #916, aired 1988-09-05 | PHYSICS $200: Named for a famous Scottish engineer, it's the unit of power equal to 1 joule of work done per second a watt |
| #881, aired 1988-06-06 | PHYSICAL SCIENCE $400: Named for a famous Scottish engineer, it's the unit of power equal to 1 joule of work done per second watt |
| #875, aired 1988-05-27 | SKIING & SKATING $600: 1 method of learning to ski that became popular in the '60s was the "GLM" method, which means this graduated length method |
| #873, aired 1988-05-25 | JULIUS CAESAR $600 (Daily Double): After the notorious Clodius incident, Caesar divorced Pompeia, saying this Caesar's wife must be above suspicion |
| #872, aired 1988-05-24 | DOUBLE DOUBLE LETTERS $800: Used to describe the work projects of FDR's 1st administration, it's slang for a useless & wasteful project boondoggle |
| #851, aired 1988-04-25 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $500: Consisting of at least 400 islands, the Sulu Archipelago is part of this island country Philippines |
| #846, aired 1988-04-18 | "BOO"! $100: Anything that "backfires", especially in Australia boomerang |
| #838, aired 1988-04-06 | "WATER" $200: Farmers in southeast Asia use them to work in rice paddies; it's lucky they like to wallow in mud water buffalo |
| #823, aired 1988-03-16 | GERSHWIN SONGS $1000: According to the title, "Loving one who loves you, & then taking that vow" is this "Nice Work If You Can Get It" |
| #772, aired 1988-01-05 | IT'S GREEK TO ME $200: From Greek "skhole", "leisure", it's an institution where you work hard to learn school |
| #747, aired 1987-12-01 | "SILVER" $400: If your wallpaper seems to be disappearing, it could be the work of this slippery pest silverfish |
| #739, aired 1987-11-19 | ASIAN HISTORY $100: Talks were held during October of 1951 in Panmunjon to re-unify this country, but it didn't work Korea |
| #739, aired 1987-11-19 | IDAHOANS $600: It's where you'd go to see Idaho-born sculptor Gutzon Borglum's most famous work Mount Rushmore (South Dakota) |
| #731, aired 1987-11-09 | CLOTHING $300: In the military, it's clothing designed for work and field duty; you know, the stuff that tires you out fatigues |
| #728, aired 1987-11-04 | MAGAZINES $400: It pays $400 for funny, true stories about life in the military, on campus or at work Reader's Digest |
| #719, aired 1987-10-22 | VAN GOGH $200: 1st line of the Don McLean hit, "Vincent" it includes the title of a famous Van Gogh work Starry, starry night |
| #714, aired 1987-10-15 | POE-POURRI $1000: 1 of the 3 Poe stories in which the detective C. Auguste Dupin appears (1 of) "The Purloined Letter"[*], "The Mystery of Marie Rogêt" or "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" |
| #714, aired 1987-10-15 | ABBREVIATIONS $1000: Latin for "work", it's abbreviated "op" opus (opera) |
| #702, aired 1987-09-29 | FIRSTS $1000: Originally only 3 volumes, this reference work was 1st published in Edinburgh in 1768 Encyclopedia Britannica |
| #696, aired 1987-09-21 | BRITISH TRIVIA $200: It wasn't until 1911 that members of Parliament began receiving this for their work pay (salary) |
| #672, aired 1987-07-07 | VOCABULARY $200: Of a witch, waterfowl, or way out, what you're looking for if you're looking for a egress way out |
| #667, aired 1987-06-30 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1000: Melville's 2nd-best known work, it was found after he died & not published until 1924 Billy Budd |
| #631, aired 1987-05-11 | WASHINGTON D.C. $1000: Tho work on it began in 1907, this famed Episcopal church has never been completed Washington Cathedral (Church of St. Peter or National Cathedral) |
| #591, aired 1987-03-16 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $200: After J. Lionel Cowen invented a tiny battery powered motor, he put it to work in this toy toy trains |
| #584, aired 1987-03-05 | MUSIC $600: Grand or not, it's the concluding movement of a multi-sectioned work finale |
| #568, aired 1987-02-11 | SPELLING $1000: French for "outside of work", it's an appetizer served before a meal H-O-R-S D'-O-E-U-V-R-E(-S) |
| #475, aired 1986-10-03 | GEOGRAPHICAL CLASSICS $800: This work by Sibelius aroused such patriotism that it was banned at times by ruling czarist regime Finlandia |
| #438, aired 1986-05-14 | FACTS & FIGURES $500: A "Money" magazine survey said people still think this is the best way to get rich hard work |
| #431, aired 1986-05-05 | 4TH OF JULY $100: Work began on this canal July 4, 1817, but just the groundbreaking, 'cause it was a holiday the Erie Canal |
| #422, aired 1986-04-22 | WORD ORIGINS $600: Chinese for “work together”, it was motto of U.S. marine raiders in WWII gung ho |
| #408, aired 1986-04-02 | OPERA $1,000 (Daily Double): 1816 Rome premiere of this beloved work was called one of the greatest fiascos in opera:
[Instrumental music plays] The Barber of Seville |
| #286, aired 1985-10-14 | THE PATSYS $400: Kim Novak's cat Pyewacket won for her bewitching work in this film Bell, Book and Candle |
| #279, aired 1985-10-03 | ENGINEERING $200: Begun by Appius Claudius as a public work in 312 B.C., it's one of the roads that lead to Rome the Appian Way |
| #261, aired 1985-09-09 | ALPHABETICALLY FIRST $100: Alphabetically 1st of the days of the week, it's usually last of the work week Friday |
| #191, aired 1985-06-03 | ACRONYMS $100: If you put money in an IRA, you're putting it in this an individual retirement account |
| #177, aired 1985-05-14 | TRANSPORTATION $100: It's a masculine "the" in Spanish, or a ride to work in Chicago El |
| #176, aired 1985-05-13 | WOODY ALLEN $500: "I don't want to achieve immortality through my work, I want to achieve it through not..." doing this dying |
| #172, aired 1985-05-07 | 12-LETTER WORDS $1,000 (Daily Double): Another name for stevedore a longshoreman |
| #171, aired 1985-05-06 | AUSSIE ENGLISH $900 (Daily Double): It's where "jackaroos" & "jillaroos" work a ranch (or station) |
| #168, aired 1985-05-01 | ECONOMICS $600: Marx said, "Each should work according to his ability and be paid according to" this according to his need |
| #139, aired 1985-03-21 | HOW TO... $100: Make it four quarters, or three quarters, two dimes & a nickel, for example how to make change for a dollar |
| #87, aired 1985-01-08 | ANATOMY $200: Number of digits Mickey Mouse has on one hand 4 |
| #85, aired 1985-01-04 | TIMELY LITERATURE $1000: Based on obscure Scottish scandal, it was Lillian Hellman's 1st performed work The Children's Hour |
| #83, aired 1985-01-02 | HUNGARY $500: To promote family ties, it's banned on Mondays in Hungary; on Thursdays in Iceland television |
| #68, aired 1984-12-12 | CARS $300: What BMW stands for Bavarian Motor Works (Bayerische Motoren Werke) |
| #64, aired 1984-12-06 | INSECTS $200: These insects flash yellow lights to find mates fireflies (or lightning bugs or glowworms) |
| #43, aired 1984-11-07 | ASIA $500: Pakistani pass with separate roads for cars, trains & camels the Khyber Pass |
| #13, aired 1984-09-26 | 1968 $500: After 11 months in captivity, crew of this ship was released by N. Koreans the Pueblo |
| #9, aired 1984-09-20 | GREEK MYTHOLOGY $200: Hilltop home of the gods Mt. Olympus |
| #3, aired 1984-09-12 | WORLD OF FOOD $1,000 (Daily Double): What Merv has a lovely bunch of in this song: coconuts |
| #2, aired 1984-09-11 | STATE CAPITALS $100: Until 1875 its dual capitals were New Haven & Hartford Connecticut |
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Season 26 1-time champion: $18,001 + 1,000. Aaron Wicks Rochester, NY...
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Gary Bechtold, a garage door company owner from St. Cloud, Minnesota
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Season 26 3-time champion: $42,001 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Liz Murphy, a foreign service officer originally from Scranton, Pennsylvania
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2010 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 25 5-time champion: $121,302...
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Chuck Forrest, an attorney for the UN IFAD from Marino, Italy
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\"In 1986, he was a law student living in Grand Blanc,...
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Fred Beukema, a structural engineer from Minneapolis, Minnesota
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Season 25 3-time champion: $69,401 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Diane Siegel, an educational consultant and writer from Northridge, California
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"A full-time mom when she won five games in 1993, now...
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Jove Graham, a biomedical engineer from Lewisburg, Pennsylvania
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Season 26 1-time champion: $34,401 + $1,000. Jove's second contestant interview...
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Robert Knecht Schmidt, a patent agent from Cleveland, Ohio
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Season 26 1-time champion: $12,799 + $1,000. Middle name pronounced like...
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Jordan Brand, an anesthesiologist from Westchester, New York
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Season 26 1-time champion: $24,405 + $2,000. The Sesame Street character...
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Andy Davis, a Chyron operator from South Boston, Massachusetts
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Season 25 2-time champion: $49,799 + $1,000. Andy Davis - A...
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Ingrid Nelson, a judicial assistant from Lake Mills, Wisconsin
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Season 25 2-time champion: $27,802 + $2,000. Ingrid Nelson - A...
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Dave Belote, the base commander from Nellis Air Force Base, Las Vegas
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2010 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 26 5-time champion:...
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Dan Jensen, a restaurant manager from Reston, Virginia
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Season 27 3-time champion: $58,203 + $1,000.
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Matt DeTura, a recent law school graduate from Washington, D.C.
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Season 27 3-time champion: $61,601 + $2,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: MDT
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Elizabeth Galoozis, a reference librarian from Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Season 26 2-time champion: $38,801 + $2,000. Elizabeth Galoozis - A...
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Christine Valada, a photographer and attorney originally from Walton, New York
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2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $68,703...
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Inta Antler, a retired computer programmer from Scarborough, Ontario, Canada
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Season 25 1-time champion: $12,700 + $2,000. Inta Antler - A...
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Tom Toce, an actuary from New York, New York
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Season 26 2-time champion: $39,200 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Marty Scott, an assistant district attorney from Forney, Texas
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Season 26 3-time champion: $64,002 + $2,000. Marty won $250,000 on...
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Kara Spak, a newspaper reporter from Chicago, Illinois
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2011 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 27 5-time champion:...
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Alison Stone Roberg, an administrative assistant from Kansas City, Missouri
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Season 26 3-time champion: $85,102 + $2,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Gail Flemmons, a history teacher from Clinton, Mississippi
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Season 25 2-time champion: $46,399 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Emily Heaney, a freelance costume designer from White Bear Lake, Minnesota
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Season 25 1-time champion: $2,200 + $1,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Dan Pawson, a legislative aide from Boston, Massachusetts
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2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2014 Battle of the Decades...
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Brenton Montie, a sixth grade social studies teacher from South Lyon, Michigan
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"He teaches at a school ranked in the top 5% in...
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Rachel Pildis, a software developer from Oak Park, Illinois
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Season 26 1-time champion: $12,000 + $2,000. Rachel Pildis - A...
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Elijah Granet, a 12-year-old from San Diego, California
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"Because he loves animals, biology, and helping others, he's thinking of...
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Clarence Page, a journalist from The Chicago Tribune
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"His nationally syndicated column began as a local column for the...
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Allie Pape, a sophomore from Ponte Vedra, Florida
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2002 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. Allie was 14 at the time...
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Terry Linwood, a bookseller from North Texas
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2010 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 26 5-time champion: $122,705...
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Brittany Rogers, a sophomore at Saddleback College from Lake Forest, California
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2001 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $5,000. Brittany was 18 at the...
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Arthur Gandolfi, a commercial real estate executive from Pleasantville, New York
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2004 Tournament of Champions 2nd runner-up: $25,000. Season 20 4-time champion:...
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Mark Dawson, a business manager from Chamblee, Georgia
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2014 Battle of the Decades quarterfinalist: $10,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
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Jonathan Corbblah, a chess teacher from Harlem, New York
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Season 27 1-time champion: $13,000 + $1,000. Jonathan appeared as a...
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Claudia Perry, a sports copy editor from Jersey City, New Jersey
|
"A pop music critic when she first appeared on Jeopardy!, she's...
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Mark Eckard, an entrepreneur from Bedford, Massachusetts
|
"A 2001 5-time champion as a software designer, he has now...
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Steven Popper, an economist from Topanga, California
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"A winner of 5 shows in 1988, he has since founded...
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Ryan Chaffee, a tutor from Los Angeles, California
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2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $91,900...
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Mike Maheu, a high school teacher from San Diego, California
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Season 25 2-time champion: $46,242 + $1,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Alyssa McRae, a gift card production designer from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Season 25 3-time champion: $50,402 + $2,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Kevin Wilson, a communications specialist from Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Season 26 3-time champion: $76,998 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Paul Wampler, a web programmer from Knoxville, Tennessee
|
Season 27 4-time champion: $72,001 + $2,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: paul5562
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Dan Smith, a student from Chicago, Illinois
|
Season 25 3-time champion: $69,200 + $1,000. Dan Smith - a...
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Patrick Quinn, a high school German teacher from Chesterfield, Missouri
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"He teaches at a school whose history goes back to a...
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Carl Brandt, an investor originally from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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2009 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 25 4-time champion: $70,799...
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Laura Hughes, a mom from New Market, Maryland
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Season 26 1-time champion: $27,500 + $2,000. Wife of Season 16...
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Janet Bradlow, an insurance agent from New York, New York
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Season 26 3-time champion: $58,000 + $2,000. Janet Bradlow New York,...
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Chris Rodrigues, a personal banking representative from New Bedford, Massachusetts
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Season 26 3-time champion: $41,498 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Vijay Balse, a chemical engineer from Chatham, New Jersey
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2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2010 Tournament of Champions...
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Kori Tyler, a high school teacher from Cordova, Tennessee
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Season 26 player (2010-02-26). Season 25 1-time champion: $20,000 + $2,000....
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Francois Dominic Laramée, a writer and TV personality from Verdun, Quebec, Canada
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Season 25 2-time champion: $46,300 + $1,000. Francois's name was printed...
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Becky Anderson, a retired software specialist originally from Morganton, North Carolina
|
Season 25 1-time champion: $16,401 + $2,000. Becky Anderson - A...
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Tom Nissley, an online books editor from Seattle, Washington
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2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2011 Tournament of Champions...
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Meryl Federman, a senior from Livingston, New Jersey
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2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games champion (semifinalist by wildcard): $75,000. 18...
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Brian Muth, a headmaster from Napa, California
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Season 25 2-time champion: $43,800 + $1,000. Last name pronounced like...
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David Skaar, a research scientist from Raleigh, North Carolina
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Season 25 3-time champion: $102,000 + $2,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Sanders Kleinfeld, a publishing technology specialist from Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Season 25 1-time champion: $26,597 + $2,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Eric Betts, a senior from Emory University
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2009 College Championship first runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $50,000. 21 and...
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Courtney Trezise, a senior from Michigan State University
|
2009 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 21 and from Okemos, Michigan at...
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Matt Jacobs, a science teacher originally from Stratford, Connecticut
|
Season 25 1-time champion: $10,323 + $1,000. Matt resided in Silver...
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Kimberly Jantz, an attorney from Tulsa, Oklahoma
|
Season 26 1-time champion: $22,200 + $2,000. Kimberly Jantz - an...
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Anderson Cooper, a news anchor and correspondent from CNN
|
"He anchors his own prime-time news show, a syndicated daytime talk...
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Anthony Fox, an account executive from Arlington Heights, Illinois
|
Season 27 4-time champion: $51,998 + $1,000. Playing as "Tony", Anthony...
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Enrique Machado, an oil filtration business developer from Orlando, Florida
|
Season 26 1-time champion: $30,799 + $2,000. Enrique Machado September 16,...
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Marissa Goldsmith, a web developer from Springfield, Virginia
|
Season 27 3-time champion: $44,100 + $2,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: marteena
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Miguel Ferrer, an actor from Crossing Jordan
|
"He began his career as a studio drummer and played on...
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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...
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Saad Hasan, a nanotechnology scientist from Nashville, Tennessee
|
Season 26 1-time champion: $22,700 + $2,000. Saad Hasan Nashville, TN...
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Jason Pratt, a middle school history teacher from Woodbridge, Virginia
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Season 25 2-time champion: $32,701 + $1,000. Jason Pratt - A...
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Steve Golden, a junior from Brookeville, Maryland
|
2005 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $5,000. 16 at the time of the...
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Tom Walsh, a writer from Washington, D.C.
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
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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...
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Matthew Cline, a 12-year-old from Maumelle, Arkansas
|
"John Grisham's books have inspired him. He's firm. He wants to...
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Carl Bradshaw, a financial manager from St. Louis, Missouri
|
Season 27 2-time champion: $17,899 + $2,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: Titmouse
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Louie C.K., a comedian, actor, director, writer, and producer from Louie and Horace and Pete
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"This multitalented actor, writer, producer, and director is also the star...
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Lance Johnson, a model aircraft engine technician from Champaign, Illinois
|
"He was the first to get to the 5-win mark in...
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Tom Jennings, a maintenance mechanic from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
|
Season 27 1-time champion: $24,000 + $2,000.
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Harry Shearer, an actor/writer/producer from The Simpsons and Le Show
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"His many credits include providing voices for The Simpsons, and he's...
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Barbara-Anne Eddy, a civil servant from Vancouver, Canada
|
"Her 5-time winnings from 1988 allowed her to go for nearly...
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Leslie Frates, a Spanish teacher from Hayward, California
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\"A Jeopardy! champion in 1991, she\'s now a Spanish teacher listed...
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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.
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Chris Breen, a sophomore at Princeton University from Springfield, Massachusetts
|
2005 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. According to the official Jeopardy! web...
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Sam Spaulding, a sophomore from Yale University from Wilmington, North Carolina
|
2010-B College Championship 1st runner-up: $50,000 + a Nintendo Wii +...
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Michael Farabaugh, a high school chemistry teacher from Charlottesville, Virginia
|
"This chemistry teacher has been making things fizz, smoke, and explode...
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Christopher Meloni, an Emmy-nominated actor from Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
|
"He's played challenging roles on both sides of the law, including...
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Kerri Regan, a senior from Bethpage, New York
|
2005 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. 17 at the time of the...
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Ruvani Fonseka, a junior from Grosse Pointe, Michigan
|
2005 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $5,000. 15 at the time of...
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Quinn McDonald, an inventory control manager from Lowville, New York
|
Season 27 1-time champion: $20,600 + $1,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: Mighty Q
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Ben Schenkel, a junior from Allentown, Pennsylvania
|
2007 Teen Tournament 1st runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $42,800. 17 at...
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Madeline Suchard, from Placentia, California
|
"She has her sights set on becoming the Supreme Court Justice,...
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Michael Dupée, an attorney from Gainesville, Florida
|
"He was the winner of the 1996 Tournament of Champions. Today...
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Isaac Mizrahi, a fashion designer and TV personality from the QVC Network
|
"His fashion designs are a favorite among celebrities on the red...
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Nick Swezey, a publisher from Washington, D.C.
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2007 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
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Diane Wilshere, an actor and playwright from Manassas, Virginia
|
Season 25 1-time champion: $18,801 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Mark Wales, a substitute teacher from Amherst, New York
|
2009 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 24 5-time champion: $141,804...
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Lan Djang, a health policy analyst from Toronto, Ontario, Canada
|
"He was a 5-time champion in 2001. Today he's a health...
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Babu Srinivasan, a history professor from Houston, Texas
|
"His aggressive wagering helped him become the biggest winner from the...
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Ben Greenho, a junior from Plano, Texas
|
2012 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
|
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Colin Brown, a senior at the University of Rochester from Milwaukie, Oregon
|
2005 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000.
|
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Lisa Dvorak, a grocery store chain administrative assistant from Millersville, Maryland
|
Season 27 1-time champion: $31,201 + $2,000.
|
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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....
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Justin Sausville, a urologist from Baltimore, Maryland
|
2011 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 27/28 6-time champion:...
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Rob Schrader, a junior from Lexington, Kentucky
|
2012 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. Younger brother of 2008-B Teen Tournament...
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Heidi Fogle, a senior from Overland Park, Kansas
|
2007 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
|
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Emily Lever, a junior from Chevy Chase, Maryland
|
2009 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Daniel Stauss, a federal claims examiner from Seattle, Washington
|
Season 25 1-time champion: $25,500 + $2,000. Daniel Stauss - A...
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Donna Vogel, a scientist from Bethesda, Maryland
|
2009 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 24 4-time champion:...
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Vanamali Compton, a junior from Clarkdale, Arizona
|
2005 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. 16 at the time of the...
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Caitlin Cook, a sophomore from Arden, North Carolina
|
2005 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $5,000.
16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Elaine Zollner, a physician from Glendale, California
|
"A winner of 5 shows in 1990, she used her Jeopardy!...
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Sara Dean, a junior at Syracuse University from Olney, Maryland
|
2001 College Championship semifinalist: $5,000. Sara was 19 at the time...
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Wolf Blitzer, a journalist from The Situation Room
|
"Since 1990, he's covered every major story for CNN, including the...
|
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Kermin Fleming, a junior at Carnegie Mellon University from Lexington, Kentucky
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2006 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions...
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Robert Slaven, a technical products specialist originally from Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada
|
"He won 5 times in 1992. Today, he's a technical products...
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Jim Fitzpatrick, a senior at Wake Forest University from Colts Neck, New Jersey
|
2003 College Championship semifinalist: $5,000. According the the official Jeopardy! web...
|
|
Elise Burton, a freshman from the University of California-Berkeley
|
2007 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 18 at the time of the...
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Martin Short, a multitalented man from Fame Becomes Me
|
"Jiminy Glick and Ed Grimley are among his many memorable characters....
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Judd Hess, a high school English teacher from Huntington Beach, California
|
"In college, he volunteered to help in a classroom and was...
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Aria Gerson, an eleven-year-old from Orem, Utah
|
"Shine an apple for our future teacher. From Orem, Utah, class,...
|
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Frank Firke, a junior from Chicago, Illinois
|
2007 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 16 at the time of...
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Blake Hernandez, a senior from Burke, Virginia
|
2002 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. Blake was 16 at the time...
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Kermin Fleming, a student from Lexington, Kentucky
|
2006 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions...
|
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Jayanth Iyengar, a junior at Washington University in St. Louis from Madison, Wisconsin
|
2005 College Championship 2nd runner-up: $25,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: Jiyen1213
|
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Antonia Wang, a sophomore at Purdue University from Carmel, Indiana
|
2005 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
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CCH Pounder, an actress from Avatar and Brothers
|
"She earned an Emmy nomination for her role as Claudette Wyms...
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Justin Waters, a resident physician from Royal Oak, Michigan
|
Season 25 1-time champion: $7,199 + $2,000. Justin Waters Royal Oak,...
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Andrew Rostan, a writer and script reader originally from Boardman, Ohio
|
2007 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
|
|
Pete Troyan, a senior from the University of Michigan
|
2007 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 22 at the time of the...
|
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Sean Ryan, a graduate student from Whitehall, Pennsylvania
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
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Pam Mueller, an entering law student originally from Chicago, Illinois
|
\"Representing Loyola University, she won the College Championship in November, 2000....
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Cora Peck, a high school teacher and grad student from Aliso Viejo, California
|
2009 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 24 5-time champion:...
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Mary Ann Stanley, a high school chemistry and physical science teacher from Statesboro, Georgia
|
"She's been teaching for 22 years and is now teaching the...
|
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Cosi Audi, a junior from North Canton, Ohio
|
2011 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
|
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Raya Elias-Pushett, a junior from Aventura, Florida
|
2011 Teen Tournament 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $20,851. First name...
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Ryan Elkins, a 12-year-old from Bensalem, Pennsylvania
|
"He wants to study physics and unlock the mysteries of the...
|
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Mitchell Vogel, from Madison, Wisconsin
|
"This future governor of Wisconsin enjoys rollerblading, reading, and playing saxophone....
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Malisha Butts, a senior at North Carolina Central University from Durham, North Carolina
|
2005 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000.
|
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Robin Carroll, an instructional designer from Marietta, Georgia
|
"Winner of both the 2000 Tournament of Champions and the 2001...
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Leszek Pawlowicz, a computer consultant from Flagstaff, Arizona
|
"He was the winner of the 1992 Tournament of Champions. Today...
|
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Lizz Mullowney, a senior from Crystal Lake, Illinois
|
2003 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. 17 at the time of the...
|
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Ashley Walker, a senior from Dartmouth College
|
2010-A College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. Hometown: Fort Pierce, Florida. [No contestant...
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Sara Terrell, a veterinary technician from Windsor, Connecticut
|
2007 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
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Steve Newman, a partner in a small computer company from Rockville, Maryland
|
"He was the first player to win 5 games in the...
|
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Harry Smith, a broadcast journalist from The Early Show
|
"This hard-working host of CBS's The Early Show has interviewed five...
|
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Eric Webb, a 12-year-old from Austin, Texas
|
"He wants to be a cartoonist so he can make people...
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Ed Schiffer, an attorney from San Francisco, California
|
"A champion of five shows, he was the top winner of...
|
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Tim Crockett, a casino worker from Las Vegas, Nevada
|
Season 20 player (2004-07-19).
KJL game 34.
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Jay Schrader, a junior from Lexington, Kentucky
|
2008-B Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000. Older brother of 2012 Teen Tournament...
|
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Ed Hanlon, a graphic designer from Santa Monica, California
|
Season 28 player (2012-06-05).
|
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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.
|
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Hunter Brown, a senior from Wheaton, Illinois
|
2008-A Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 17 at the time of...
|
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Guy Tabachnick, from New York, New York
|
"He wants to be a baseball announcer for the New York...
|
|
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...
|
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Al Lin, a law professor from Davis, California
|
"A law student when he won five times in 1993, he's...
|
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David Gibbs, an editor and graduate student from Los Angeles, California
|
Season 21 player (2004-12-27).
|
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Danny Vopava, a sophomore from the University of Wisconsin–River Falls
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2010-A College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. Hometown: New Brighton, Minnesota. [No contestant...
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Peter Pinnow, a high school English teacher from Oxford, Mississippi
|
Season 25 2-time champion: $39,200 + $1,000.
|
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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.
|
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Aimee Slater, a program manager originally from Spokane, Washington
|
Season 27 player (2010-11-22).
|
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Jane Kaczmarek, an Emmy-nominated actress from Help Me Help You
|
"As Lois on Malcolm in the Middle, she earned seven straight...
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Rachel Beckman, an 11-year-old from Danville, Kentucky
|
"As a member of her school's academic team, she has no...
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Meredith Dedopoulos, a 12-year-old from Durham, New Hampshire
|
"This spelling bee champion has also won many sports awards. From...
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Hon. Margaret Spellings, a U.S. Secretary of Education from Washington, D.C.
|
"As an advisor to President George W. Bush, she helped craft...
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Hill Harper, an actor from CSI: NY
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"He graduated magna cum laude from Brown University. He has a...
|
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Tad Carithers, an attorney from Atlanta, Georgia
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 winner: $41,300. 2001 Tournament...
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Trevor Norris, a budget analyst from Washington, D.C.
|
"He can't walk through the Pentagon without someone mentioning his five...
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Bob Shore, an attorney from Los Angeles, California
|
Season 21 2-time champion: $47,602 + $2,000. Proponent of Shore's Conjecture....
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Iddoshe Hirpa, a junior from Louisville, Kentucky
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2006 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000.
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