#9082, aired 2024-04-16 | JUST FOR FUN "Z"s $400: As a 5-year-old hockey fan, Ariana Grande got hit twice with a puck & got to ride on one of these at a Florida Panthers game a Zamboni |
#9082, aired 2024-04-16 | THE MOVIES $600: Steve Carell getting his chest waxed is comedy gold in this 2005 film The 40-Year-Old Virgin |
#9082, aired 2024-04-16 | VAL, HISTORY'S CLUMSIEST TIME TRAVELER $1600: Not great with numbers, val doesn't end up in 1966 watching the launch of Gemini 10 but in London, in this year of the Great Fire 1666 |
#9081, aired 2024-04-15 | HISTORIC AMERICANS $800: Famous for his redistricting plan while governor, he became vice president in 1813 & died in office a year later (Elbridge) Gerry |
#9080, aired 2024-04-12 | STOCK PHOTOS, KINDA $200: A NASDAQ stock, this company produces tens of billions of non-edible chips every year Texas Instruments |
#9080, aired 2024-04-12 | ANYTIME $1600: 85% of Alaska is underlain by this type of soil that remains frozen year-round permafrost |
#9079, aired 2024-04-11 | A YEAR ENDING IN 4 $200: Apple introduced its Macintosh computer 1984 |
#9079, aired 2024-04-11 | A YEAR ENDING IN 4 $400: Mark Zuckerberg launched what was then called TheFacebook 2004 |
#9079, aired 2024-04-11 | A YEAR ENDING IN 4 $600: The Continental Congress met for the first time 1774 |
#9079, aired 2024-04-11 | A YEAR ENDING IN 4 $800: In the case of Brown v. Board of Education, racial segregation in public schools was declared unconstitutional 1954 |
#9079, aired 2024-04-11 | A YEAR ENDING IN 4 $1000: Shakespeare turned 50 & the Globe Theatre reopened after it burned down a year earlier 1614 |
#9078, aired 2024-04-10 | THE 6 MOTHERS-IN-LAW OF HENRY VIII $1600: The mother of Anne of Cleves was Maria of Jülich, a duchy of this thousand-year empire of West & Central Europe the Holy Roman Empire |
#9077, aired 2024-04-09 | REBOOTS & REMAKES $400: "Aloha" was the final episode of this rebooted TV series that said aloha after a 10-year run Hawaii Five-0 |
#9077, aired 2024-04-09 | LOOKS LIKE WE'RE IN BUSINESS $400: An 8-year-old girl was the namesake of this frozen dessert brand known for pound cake, cheesecake & more Sara Lee |
#9076, aired 2024-04-08 | WORKING HARD, HARDLY WORKING $600: In 2003 an 80-hour work week & 24-hour shifts were established as upper limits for these post-first-year internship doctors residents |
#9076, aired 2024-04-08 | DAVID PLAYED $800: This 40-year-old slugger retired after a 2016 season in which he hit .315, with 38 home runs & 127 RBIs Ortiz |
#9076, aired 2024-04-08 | IT PLEASED THE LORD $1200: As the year 2001 neared, Lord Falconer was happy when Tony Blair put him in charge of the huge structure then called this the Millennium Dome |
#9075, aired 2024-04-05 | SPORTS $600: In February 2024 this swimmer's 13-year win streak in the 800m free was broken by Summer McIntosh of Canada Ledecky |
#9074, aired 2024-04-04 | A CATEGORY MADE OF STEEL $800: Using an old steel saw in 1837, he created one of the 1st successful steel plows & his company was soon making 1,000 plows a year (John) Deere |
#9070, aired 2024-03-29 | MR. OR MRS. SONG $400: (It was only a hit) it was only a hit over a year after its release; now this song by the Killers is called a "millennial anthem" "Mr. Brightside" |
#9070, aired 2024-03-29 | CLASSIC AD SLOGANS & JINGLES $1000: "Quick, Henry," this old-time insecticide that also means to move quickly from place to place Flit |
#9069, aired 2024-03-28 | HIP-POP $1200: Kanye's 10-year-old daughter, she raps on her dad's 2024 track "Talking/Once Again" North West |
#9066, aired 2024-03-25 | FIVE GUYS $1600: In 1959, this Japanese crown prince broke a 1,400-year tradition by choosing his own wife Akihito |
#9063, aired 2024-03-20 | MISSION: PLAUSIBLE $400: A 35-year Broadway run--unlikely, but Thelma Pollard did, doing makeup for the face behind the mask of this show's title character The Phantom of the Opera |
#9063, aired 2024-03-20 | MISSION: PLAUSIBLE $600: Stay pregnant for a year! Plausible for you, no, but for the Florida type of this aquatic mammal that can weigh 3,600 pounds? No prob a (Florida) manatee |
#9063, aired 2024-03-20 | WHEATIES ATHLETES $1000: This Floridian tennis superstar appeared on a box in 1987, the year she won the first & only Wheaties Champions Award (Chris) Evert |
#9060, aired 2024-03-15 | FAMOUS WOMEN $2000: Referred to as the "Jackie Robinson of tennis", she was named Female Athlete of the Year in 1957 & 1958 by the Associated Press Althea Gibson |
#9058, aired 2024-03-13 | THE CLOCK & THE CALENDAR $1000: The Julian calendar had leap years--Feb. 23 lasted 48 hours--& the first one was this last full year of Julius Caesar's life 45 B.C. |
#9058, aired 2024-03-13 | "H" IS FOR HISTORY $1200: It's the term for the migration of Muhammad & his followers to Medina before Mecca's fall in the year 630 the Hijrah |
#9056, aired 2024-03-11 | THE CIVIL WAR $1200: In 1863 John Esten Cooke rushed into print with a biography of this Confederate general killed in May of that year Stonewall Jackson |
#9055, aired 2024-03-08 | 150 YEARS OF THE 92nd STREET Y $400: In 1883 it was still the 42nd St. Y & at a further downtown branch, this poet taught immigrants the year she wrote "The New Colossus" (Emma) Lazarus |
#9055, aired 2024-03-08 | SHADES OF BLUE $2000: In 1999 Pantone named this peaceful 8-letter shade of sky blue its first color of the year & of the millennium cerulean |
#9053, aired 2024-03-06 | 1924 $1600: Published in 1924, her novel "So Big" was so big that it would win a Pulitzer Prize the next year Edna Ferber |
#9052, aired 2024-03-05 | 5 FOR THE HISTORY BOOKS $200: George III & George Washington figure prominently in the David McCullogh bestseller entitled this pivotal year 1776 |
#9049, aired 2024-02-29 | DETECTIVE FICTION $200: She followed up "Sharp Objects" with "Dark Places", in which a secret society wants to solve a 25-year-old murder Gillian Flynn |
#9049, aired 2024-02-29 | "LIKE"NESS $1600: Fittingly, it was in the year of the USA's bicentennial that Steve Miller put out the album with this soaring title track "Fly Like An Eagle" |
#9048, aired 2024-02-28 | FEELING CHARITABLE $200: This charity traces its origins to a 7-year-old boy battling cancer who got to fulfill his dream of being a police officer Make-A-Wish |
#9047, aired 2024-02-27 | ANTONYMIC PAIRS $400: Topographic phrase to describe a graphic pattern of highs & lows, like electricity usage over the course of a whole year peaks & valleys |
#9047, aired 2024-02-27 | TELEVISION $400: 72-year-old widower Gerry Turner was the title figure of this recent reality competition on ABC the Golden Bachelor |
#9045, aired 2024-02-23 | 2020s & 1920s SLANG $1200: Oxford's word of the year for 2023, it's what someone has if they spit fire game to the hunks or the honeys rizz |
#9044, aired 2024-02-22 | HOW MANY TIMES? $400: Mercury:
Just over 4 times each Earth year revolves around the Sun |
#9043, aired 2024-02-21 | 1990s MUSIC $200: "Shakedown" is the first word of this Smashing Pumpkins song named for a year 1979 |
#9043, aired 2024-02-21 | IT'S REIGNING MEN! $400: The I didn't even rule Egypt for a year & a half, but this pharaoh II of the 19th dynasty clocked in for 66, 1279-1213 B.C. Ramses |
#9042, aired 2024-02-20 | HANSEL CULTURE $600: In 1991 3-year-old Hansel won this race, the third leg of the Triple Crown the Belmont |
#9041, aired 2024-02-19 | TV COACHES $600: Bill Fagerbakke had a nice 9-year run on "Coach" as Dauber, an assistant coach, but an even longer one voicing this cartoon starfish Patrick |
#9040, aired 2024-02-16 | TRANSPORTATION $200: Serving 16 million passengers a year, their fleet vehicles feature a dog on the hood Greyhound |
#9038, aired 2024-02-14 | SNAKES IN A BOOK $1200: In the 4,000-year-old epic of him, this hero finds a plant that grants immortality, but a snake snatches it away & eats it Gilgamesh |
#9034, aired 2024-02-08 | THE MOURNING NEWS $200: This songwriter did not compose "God Bless Cuba", where his 20-year-old wife fell fatally ill on their honeymoon Irving Berlin |
#9033, aired 2024-02-07 | THE "ICK" $400: A 16-year-old wrote this 19th century waltz that shares its name with paired eating utensils "Chopsticks" |
#9030, aired 2024-02-02 | A LONG SESSION OF MONOPOLY $600: Having gotten a 20-year monopoly for steamboat navigation in New York, Robert Livingston paired with him to, y'know, build a boat in 1802 Fulton |
#3, aired 2024-02-02 | MISCELLANY $400: It's the year Apollo 11 put a man on the Moon, & not just one 1969 |
#9028, aired 2024-01-31 | TECH TALK $1200: Seen here, is a more than 2,000-year-old one of these, also what you use to take notes in Kobo eReaders & ebooks a stylus |
#9028, aired 2024-01-31 | ARTFUL ROGERS $1600: This artful Cowboys quarterback didn't break into the NFL until he was 27 due to a 4-year commitment with the U.S. Navy Roger Staubach |
#9026, aired 2024-01-29 | WOMEN IN SPORTS $400: In 2019 FIFA named her Women's Player of the Year; in 2020 she proposed to girlfriend Sue Bird Megan Rapinoe |
#9026, aired 2024-01-29 | IT ENDS WITH "U" $600: In 1999 the Asian edition of Time ranked this pocket monster the second-best person of the year, behind Ricky Martin Pikachu |
#9024, aired 2024-01-25 | ON MY HISTORIC CV $800: 1905: introduced to the Russian royal family; 1915: personal advisor to the empress; 1916: doesn't quite make it to New Year's Rasputin |
#26, aired 2024-01-23 | I'M JUST KEN $1200: Nicknamed "The Kid", this slugger hit a dinger in 44 different ballparks over his 22-year Major League career Ken Griffey Jr. |
#26, aired 2024-01-23 | BOX OFFICE SLEEPERS $1500: So she wouldn't hear Alan Arkin's profane tirades, 9-year-old Abigail Breslin wore headphones in several scenes in this 2006 hit Little Miss Sunshine |
#9019, aired 2024-01-18 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $400: Unlike Vivaldi, Philip Glass left it up to the listener which time of year it was in his composition "The American" these Four Seasons |
#9019, aired 2024-01-18 | WHAT IN THE WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS...? $1000: Deferred payments in a 2000 MLB contract had this 53-year-old "Jr." making $3.6 million as the Reds' 4th-highest paid player in 2023 Ken Griffey Jr. |
#9019, aired 2024-01-18 | MOVIE TITLES WITH NUMBERS IN THEM $1200: In 2001 he was on film in "Thir13en Ghosts" as Arthur Kriticos & a year later, began an Emmy-winning life on TV as a "Monk" Tony Shalhoub |
#9018, aired 2024-01-17 | FRAILTY, THY NAME IS MAN $1200: Lying about in bed all day, this 96-year-old was "delicate & weak", but spry enough to glom on to a Wonka tour Grandpa Joe |
#2, aired 2024-01-12 | NBA HISTORY $1000: The NBA's Coach of the Year Trophy is named for this longtime Celtics coach Auerbach |
#1, aired 2024-01-12 | GRAND MARSHALS OF THE ROSE PARADE $200: This legendary animator was grand marshal in 1966; he died later that year Disney |
#9012, aired 2024-01-09 | COLLEGE PREP $200: University worker Nick Saban earns more than $11 million a year as the highest paid public employee in this state Alabama |
#9010, aired 2024-01-05 | BLACK HISTORY YEAR $200: Barack Obama quickly resigns from the Senate for a very good reason 2008 |
#9010, aired 2024-01-05 | BLACK HISTORY YEAR $400: Martin Luther King Jr. gives his immortal "I Have a Dream" speech in D.C. 1963 |
#9010, aired 2024-01-05 | BLACK HISTORY YEAR $600: Rosa Parks stays seated on mass transit & makes history 1955 |
#9010, aired 2024-01-05 | BLACK HISTORY YEAR $800: At John Glenn's request, Katherine Johnson verifies the computer's planning of Friendship 7's flight 1962 |
#9010, aired 2024-01-05 | BLACK HISTORY YEAR $1000: Just after World War II, Jackie Robinson integrates Major League Baseball 1947 |
#9010, aired 2024-01-05 | ALLITERATION $1200: Mustarded or not, this L.A. stadium treat has been eaten in Chavez Ravine since the '60s & close to 3 million are sold each year a Dodger Dog |
#9008, aired 2024-01-03 | WHERE'D YOU GO? $800: Back in the 1880s Wellesley College specified this type of leave from teaching should be spent in Europe, with 1/2-year pay a sabbatical |
#23, aired 2024-01-02 | SOJOURNER TRUTH $1200: In this year when America celebrated its 50th anniversary of independence, Truth sought her independence by escaping bondage 1826 |
#9006, aired 2024-01-01 | RETIRED $1600: 2 of the 3 Space Shuttles that were retired in 2011, ending the 30-year Space Shuttle program (2 of) Endeavour, Discovery or Atlantis |
#9005, aired 2023-12-29 | CANADIAN POSTAL ABBREVIATIONS $200: Some areas in the south have mild weather year-round:
BC British Columbia |
#9005, aired 2023-12-29 | IT HAPPENED IN DECEMBER $800: The Mayflower spent several weeks at Provincetown before arriving in Plymouth Harbor in December of this year 1620 |
#9005, aired 2023-12-29 | FEATURES OF THE PLANET $1000: Its unique tilt ensures 21-year winters for each pole; we'll throw in that Cupid is an inner moon Uranus |
#9002, aired 2023-12-26 | TIMES: NEW ROMAN $200: In 2015 this man with some degree of pull in the Rome area inaugurated a year of jubilee which drew 20 million pilgrims Pope Francis |
#9002, aired 2023-12-26 | TIMES: NEW ROMAN $1000: In 2023, "P" was for the 2,000-year-old palazzo reopened to the public after 50 years of restoration, as well as this Roman hill it's on the Palatine |
#9002, aired 2023-12-26 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $1000: In "Ghost Boys" the ghost of 12-year-old Jerome meets that of this real teen whose 1955 murder helped launch the civil rights movement (Emmett) Till |
#9000, aired 2023-12-22 | CONTEMPORARIES $400: When Isaac Newton died in 1727, this 21-year-old Philadelphia clerk was still a few years away from taking up science Franklin |
#9000, aired 2023-12-22 | MOVIE INSPIRATIONS $1600: James DeMonaco, writer of this film, had the idea after road rage made his wife wish for vengeance, a "free one a year!" The Purge |
#8998, aired 2023-12-20 | QUITE A SITE $1000: Let's take a 2.1-million-year trip through time & examine exposed deposits in this gorge, the "cradle of mankind" Olduvai |
#8997, aired 2023-12-19 | FROM THE FRENCH $800: Naturally, the French gave us this word for the year a wine was bottled vintage |
#8997, aired 2023-12-19 | SUPER SUCCESSFUL SEQUELS $1200: 2009:
This first "Transformers" sequel was No. 1 in domestic box office for the year Revenge of the Fallen |
#8993, aired 2023-12-13 | IT WAS AN OLYMPIC YEAR! $400: The Liberty Bell moves to a pavilion north of Independence Hall; Israeli commandos take on hijackers at Entebbe 1976 |
#8993, aired 2023-12-13 | IT WAS AN OLYMPIC YEAR! $800: Hillary Clinton elected to Senate; first full-time crew arrives at International Space Station 2000 |
#8993, aired 2023-12-13 | IT WAS AN OLYMPIC YEAR! $1,200 (Daily Double): McKinley wins term one; the Supreme Court rules on Plessy v. Ferguson 1896 |
#8993, aired 2023-12-13 | IT WAS AN OLYMPIC YEAR! $1600: Mahatma Gandhi assassinated; Alger Hiss accused of passing secrets to the Soviets 1948 |
#8993, aired 2023-12-13 | IT WAS AN OLYMPIC YEAR! $2000: The U-2 incident; incidentally, U2's Bono is born 1960 |
#8992, aired 2023-12-12 | ANIMALS $800: The Chinese zodiac's 12-year cycle begins & ends with these 2 3-letter animals rat & pig |
#8991, aired 2023-12-11 | HOME ON THE RANGE $400: Let's give thanks to Kraft for making the Stove Top brand of this all year long stuffing |
#8988, aired 2023-12-06 | CLASSIC COMIC STRIPS $1200: It followed the imaginative adventures of a 6-year-old boy & his trusty toy tiger Calvin and Hobbes |
#22, aired 2023-12-06 | WELCOME TO THE WHITE HOUSE $300: Was it the carolers? White House visitor logs show 87,061 entries for this month in 2022, over 2x any other month that year December |
#22, aired 2023-12-06 | LITERARY TOURISM $800: Writer Peter Mayle put the French village of Ménerbes on the map with his witty memoir chronicling "A Year in" this wine region Provence |
#8987, aired 2023-12-05 | SPORTS STUFF $600: In college, this basketball star was the first freshman named National Player of the Year (Kevin) Durant |
#8985, aired 2023-12-01 | AEROSMITH $600: This Aerosmith power ballad says, "Sing with me, sing for the year, sing for the laughter, sing for the tear" "Dream On" |
#8982, aired 2023-11-28 | NAME THAT 1990s YEAR $400: Bob Dole loses the presidential election 1996 |
#8982, aired 2023-11-28 | NAME THAT 1990s YEAR $800: Michael Jordan is named MVP of the NBA Finals 1993 ('91, '92, '96, '97 or '98) |
#8982, aired 2023-11-28 | NAME THAT 1990s YEAR $1200: Iraq invades Kuwait 1990 |
#8982, aired 2023-11-28 | NAME THAT 1990s YEAR $1600: An earthquake levels buildings & overpasses in L.A. on January 17 1994 |
#8982, aired 2023-11-28 | NAME THAT 1990s YEAR $2000: The euro currency is officially introduced into financial markets 1999 |
#8981, aired 2023-11-27 | SUPREME COURTSHIP $1200: In 1929 he wed Vivien Burey, who died in 1955, a year after he argued Brown v. Board of Education Thurgood Marshall |
#8979, aired 2023-11-23 | NORDIC LITERATURE $1200: Sweden is a grim place in this first book of the "Millennium" series in which Lisbeth & Mikael solve a 40-year-old crime The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo |
#8974, aired 2023-11-16 | KAUAI $400: Dress appropriately if you visit Mount Waialeale, which gets more than 30 feet of this a year rain |
#8972, aired 2023-11-14 | '90s MUSIC $800: This country superstar's "Friends In Low Places" was named CMA Single of the Year in 1991 Garth Brooks |
#8971, aired 2023-11-13 | THE AUTO MAN EMPIRE $400: He had a good year in 1928; construction began on the New York City Art Deco building named for him & he acquired Dodge Chrysler |
#8971, aired 2023-11-13 | FROM THE ITALIAN $800: Tossed at New Year's, it has a name meaning "sweetmeats", the little candies tossed during carnival confetti |
#8971, aired 2023-11-13 | WHOSE LINE IS IT ANYWAY? $2000: In "My Favorite Year" he wails, "I'm not an actor, I'm a movie star!" Peter O'Toole |
#8968, aired 2023-11-08 | FAN MAIL TO HISTORIC FIGURES $1000: You got the Eastern Roman Empire to pay a ton of gold per year! Will you speak to our "Scourge of God" fan club? Attila the Hun |
#8964, aired 2023-11-02 | MYTHING IN ACTION $200: It's where the goddess Persephone spends a third of the year away from home Hades |
#8964, aired 2023-11-02 | KENNEDY CENTER HONOREES $800: 1983 "was a very good year" for this entertainer; that's when he was honored Frank Sinatra |
#19, aired 2023-11-01 | A YEAR THAT ENDS IN ZERO $200: The Beatles call it quits,
the Apollo 13 crew makes it safely back to Earth 1970 |
#19, aired 2023-11-01 | A YEAR THAT ENDS IN ZERO $400: Babe Ruth goes to the Yankees,
the 19th Amendment is ratified giving women the right to vote 1920 |
#19, aired 2023-11-01 | A YEAR THAT ENDS IN ZERO $600: Nat King Cole hits No. 1 with "Mona Lisa",
NATO turns one year old 1950 |
#19, aired 2023-11-01 | A YEAR THAT ENDS IN ZERO $800: Jeff Probst welcomes the first tribes on "Survivor",
Metallica sues Napster 2000 |
#19, aired 2023-11-01 | A YEAR THAT ENDS IN ZERO $1000: The U.S. hockey team wins Olympic gold,
Lin-Manuel Miranda is born 1980 |
#19, aired 2023-11-01 | IN BOOKSTORES NOW $1200: It's the year in the title of a 2021 bestseller, when captive Africans arrived in America a year before the Mayflower did 1619 |
#8961, aired 2023-10-30 | CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND $1600: The last time a U.S. third party finished ahead of a major party in a pres. election was in this year of Teddy's bully bid 1912 |
#8960, aired 2023-10-27 | STREET SMARTS $800: The N.Y. Times won a Pulitzer in 2002 for covering this street, also in the name of another winning paper that year Wall Street |
#8960, aired 2023-10-27 | THE MAORI $1000: In this 2002 movie starring Keisha Castle-Hughes, a 12-year-old girl wants to be chief of her Maori tribe; granddad says no Whale Rider |
#8958, aired 2023-10-25 | PRODUCE $800: When life gives you the Meyer type of this tree, expect plenty of fruit year-round a lemon |
#18, aired 2023-10-25 | LIBRARIES $200: Library card sign-up month occurs during this month of the year (yay! back to school!) September |
#18, aired 2023-10-25 | PRIDE & POTUS $300: The historic year gay activists picketed outside LBJ's White House; MLK's March on Washington was two years earlier 1965 |
#18, aired 2023-10-25 | AMERICAN BRIDGES $400: It's estimated that more than 100 million vehicles per year cross the Hudson over this bridge, also called the GW the George Washington Bridge |
#18, aired 2023-10-25 | OH, BROTHER! $400: Famously feuding brothers Noel and Liam Gallagher don't look back in anger at 1991, the year they formed this band Oasis |
#18, aired 2023-10-25 | LIBRARIES $600: The initialism of the New York public library is NYPL; as an acronym, some enjoy pronouncing it like this body part nipple |
#8957, aired 2023-10-24 | NOVEL IDEAS $400: One year after 1844's "Les Trois Mousquetaires", he gave us "Vingt ans après", or "Twenty Years After" Dumas |
#8957, aired 2023-10-24 | NOVEL IDEAS $1000: A 13-year-old boy is drawn into the underworld of art in "The Goldfinch" by this author Donna Tartt |
#8956, aired 2023-10-23 | ALWAYS SAY NEVER $200: Created by Bill Watterson, this comic strip kid says of class bully Moe, "Never argue with a 6-year-old who shaves" Calvin |
#8956, aired 2023-10-23 | JUST KIDDING $800: The irreplaceable Robin Williams said, "To a 3-year-old" this guy "is a 6-foot rat!" Mickey Mouse |
#8955, aired 2023-10-20 | JUSTIN TIME $400: 2009's "My World" was the debut EP from this then 15-year-old (Justin) Bieber |
#8953, aired 2023-10-18 | ROCK & ROLL BOOKSTORE $1200: A book claims that "the year that rock exploded" was 1971, the year of this Carole King album including "I Feel The Earth Move" Tapestry |
#17, aired 2023-10-18 | "POP" QUIZ, HOTSHOT $100: AMC Theatres claims to sell 52 million bags of this snack food every year popcorn |
#17, aired 2023-10-18 | "POP" QUIZ, HOTSHOT $500: In 1953, 10-year-old Gayla Peevey sang about wanting this large animal for Christmas a hippopotamus |
#17, aired 2023-10-18 | NONAGENARIANS $11,400 (Daily Double): Making comedy fans wait over 40 years for a sequel, this 97-year-old released "History of the World, Part II" in 2023 Mel Brooks |
#8951, aired 2023-10-16 | & TAKIN' NAMES $200: World poverty fighter, Time magazine Person of the Year & occasional rock star Paul Hewson Bono |
#8949, aired 2023-10-12 | THE JEOPARDY! WORLD ORCHESTRA $800: This ancient instrument is sounded on a New Year's Day a shofar |
#8948, aired 2023-10-11 | SURELY YOU JOUST $600: The National Jousting Association says the first recorded joust came in this year, same as the Battle of Hastings 1066 |
#16, aired 2023-10-11 | MERRIAM-WEBSTER'S WORDS OF THE YEAR $200: While "pandemic" was the word for 2020, 2021 was more optimistic with this entry, thanks to Pfizer, Moderna, and others vaccine |
#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 |
#16, aired 2023-10-11 | MERRIAM-WEBSTER'S WORDS OF THE YEAR $600: The lady seen here is a representation of this selection for 2018 justice |
#16, aired 2023-10-11 | MERRIAM-WEBSTER'S WORDS OF THE YEAR $1000: In 2003, the first Merriam-Webster "Word of the Year" was this form of government by the people democracy |
#16, aired 2023-10-11 | MERRIAM-WEBSTER'S WORDS OF THE YEAR $2,000 (Daily Double): A 1944 Ingrid Bergman film popularized this 11-letter word of 2022, an act of psychological manipulation gaslighting |
#8947, aired 2023-10-10 | COMPOSERS & THEIR KIN $600: At the age of 3 in Salzburg, he began to mimic the keyboard playing of his 7-year-old sister Nannerl Mozart |
#8946, aired 2023-10-09 | A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME $400: On Dec. 31, 2005 a this second (not a this year) was added at 23:59:60, the first extra second in 7 years a leap second |
#8942, aired 2023-10-03 | LITERARY BIOGRAPHY $400: A book about Poe "& the forging of American science" points out that in his one year at this school, Edgar was great at math West Point |
#8939, aired 2023-09-28 | INVEST $1600: From the Latin for "year", it's an investment or retirement fund that pays out yearly an annuity |
#8938, aired 2023-09-27 | LAW & ORDER $200: Punishable by fine or imprisonment of one year or less, they're much more common than felonies in many states misdemeanors |
#14, aired 2023-09-27 | ALASKA $900: Part of a 24-year quest to circle the globe on foot, Karl Bushby hiked and swam from Alaska to this country in 2006 Russia |
#8937, aired 2023-09-26 | WHO "AR" THEY? $400: In 2006 audio experts said they found the missing "a" in a 37-year-old statement by this man Armstrong |
#8933, aired 2023-09-20 | THE REAL (WHITE HOUSE) WIVES OF D.C. $3,000 (Daily Double): A year before her death in 1962, she began chairing JFK's Commission on the Status of Women Eleanor Roosevelt |
#8932, aired 2023-09-19 | YOU BETTER BELIZE IT $200: 1981's constitution set up a bicameral national assembly of these 2 familiar-sounding bodies, but members of each serve 5-year terms the Senate & the House of Representatives |
#8931, aired 2023-09-18 | AMERICAN HISTORY $600: In this presidential election year, U.S. women won the right to vote with the ratification of the 19th Amendment 1920 |
#8931, aired 2023-09-18 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1000: Native American leaders at the 1876 Battle of the Little Bighorn included Sitting Bull & this Oglala chief, killed the following year Crazy Horse |
#8929, aired 2023-09-14 | RECONSTRUCTION $1200: This "Great" structure in Djenné, Mali is rebuilt every year by the community the Great Mosque |
#8927, aired 2023-09-12 | POTPOUR-EVERYTHING $400: It's the first month of the calendar year that has no federal holidays March |
#8924, aired 2023-07-27 | TRIPLE TIME $200: Like a pregnancy, Carleton College's academic year is divided into these trimesters |
#8923, aired 2023-07-26 | LONG MOVIES $400: A year before her role in "Titanic", Kate Winslet played this doomed character in a 4-hour adaptation of "Hamlet" Ophelia |
#8923, aired 2023-07-26 | RECENT TV SHOWS BY EPISODE TITLE $1000: "Educator of the Year" Abbott Elementary |
#8922, aired 2023-07-25 | SOMETHING'S ROTTEN $200: The first film to get a score on this now 25-year-old website was "Star Trek: Insurrection" back in 1998 Rotten Tomatoes |
#8922, aired 2023-07-25 | WRITER-DIRECTORS $2000: Lorelei Linklater aged from 9 to 21 over the 12-year shoot of this film from her father, Richard Boyhood |
#8921, aired 2023-07-24 | WELCOME TO OUR FRUIT STAND $800: Fresh these are only in U.S. markets from September to January but they keep in your freezer for a year cranberries |
#8920, aired 2023-07-21 | TRACK & FIELD $800: At the 2020 Olympics, this 35-year-old mom became the most decorated U.S. track & field athlete ever Felix |
#8920, aired 2023-07-21 | OLD HOLLYWOOD SCRIBES $1200: This author of "The Year of Magical Thinking" helped write the 1976 version of "A Star Is Born" (Joan) Didion |
#8919, aired 2023-07-20 | THE DANUBE $2000: In 1991 this Danube nation S. of Ukraine became independent of Russia, modified its own name a bit & joined the U.N. the next year Moldova |
#8917, aired 2023-07-18 | 3-WORD RESPONSES $1600: The Natl. Highway Traffic Safety Admin.'s family of these includes 50th percentile adult male & 6-year-old weighted child crash test dummy |
#8916, aired 2023-07-17 | STATE FLAGS $1000: Delaware's flag prominently displays the date "December 7" this year 1787 |
#8915, aired 2023-07-14 | A TOUCH OF GREY $800: Known for Old West novels, Zane Grey died in 1939, the year he published an "Epic of a Single Strand of Wire" about this company Western Union |
#8911, aired 2023-07-10 | STITCH INCOMING $2000: Recovering from knee surgery on the ligament seen here can take a year, but the dissolving stitches should be gone in three weeks the ACL |
#8910, aired 2023-07-07 | HISTORICAL HODGEPODGE $200: In 2002, he got 100% of the presidential vote of his country, but the next year, he was out of power for good Saddam Hussein |
#8908, aired 2023-07-05 | BORN ON THE 5th OF JULY $600: She began kicking around in 1985, won a couple of World Cups & was Sports Illustrated's 2019 Sportsperson of the Year Megan Rapinoe |
#8908, aired 2023-07-05 | NATIONS' LAST MONARCHS $800: Wilhelm II was Germany's last emperor, abdicating in this year & fleeing to the Netherlands 1918 |
#8907, aired 2023-07-04 | HAPPY JULY 4th! $600: The new 50-star U.S. flag was officially flown for the first time on July 4th in this year, 10 months after Hawaii statehood 1960 |
#8905, aired 2023-06-30 | SPORTS ROOKIES $200: Last name of 2021 NBA Rookie of the Year LaMelo; brother Lonzo was named to a 2018 All-Rookie Team Ball |
#8905, aired 2023-06-30 | SPORTS ROOKIES $400: From Tony Dorsett in 1977 to Eric Dickerson in 1983, 7 straight winners of the PFWA NFL Rookie of the Year Award played this position running back |
#8905, aired 2023-06-30 | SPORTS ROOKIES $600: Juli Inkster, Patty Sheehan & Nancy Lopez are former winners of this tour's Rookie of the Year Award the LPGA |
#8905, aired 2023-06-30 | SPORTS ROOKIES $800: This 2018 AL Rookie of the Year ended the 2023 World Baseball Classic by striking out another former winner, Mike Trout Shohei Ohtani |
#8905, aired 2023-06-30 | SPORTS ROOKIES $1000: In 1959, long before he voiced "The King" in "Cars", this racing legend was NASCAR's Rookie of the Year Richard Petty |
#8904, aired 2023-06-29 | WRITING: MUSIC $1600: Published a year after his death in 1984, "Divided Soul" looks at this singer's spiritual & sexual sides Marvin Gaye |
#8902, aired 2023-06-27 | WORD ORIGINS $2000: This synonym for "obsolete" is from Latin for literally "over one year old" superannuated |
#8901, aired 2023-06-26 | LOVELY RITA $600: A long-time headliner on the Strip, she was named Las Vegas' Comedian of the Year 9 years in a row Rita Rudner |
#8898, aired 2023-06-21 | MISHEARD LYRICS $400: "A year has passed since I wrote my note" in "Message In A Bottle" by this band, not "a year has passed since I broke my nose" The Police |
#8898, aired 2023-06-21 | OFFICIAL NICKNAMES $1,000 (Daily Double): For 2020, the centennial year of American women getting to vote, Philadelphia got this altered nickname the City of Sisterly Love |
#8897, aired 2023-06-20 | NONPROFITS $200: Helping minority kids go to college, the foundation named for this Brooklyn Dodger was begun in 1973, a year after his death Jackie Robinson |
#8894, aired 2023-06-15 | THE CZAR $200: Known for his brutality, he went to war with Livonia--now Latvia & Estonia--in 1558; the 25-year event ended up as a bust Ivan IV (Ivan the Terrible) |
#8894, aired 2023-06-15 | ROLLING STONES LYRICS $400: "I've been around for a long, long year, stole many a man's soul & faith" "Sympathy For The Devil" |
#8893, aired 2023-06-14 | MEDICINE $2000: In "Shutter Island", set in 1954, psychiatrist Ben Kingsley has hopes for this anti-psychotic the FDA approved that year Thorazine |
#8892, aired 2023-06-13 | THE YEAR OF THE HORSE $200: 1973:
He didn't run the United Nations, but he did run the Belmont in record time Secretariat |
#8892, aired 2023-06-13 | THE YEAR OF THE HORSE $400: 2003:
Verboom, a descendant of War Admiral, played him in this movie Seabiscuit |
#8892, aired 2023-06-13 | THE YEAR OF THE HORSE $600: 1979:
Cass-Olé had the title role in this, maybe the second-best known horse tale with black in the title The Black Stallion |
#8892, aired 2023-06-13 | THE YEAR OF THE HORSE $800: 1944:
King Charles carried this actress in her star-making role in "National Velvet" Elizabeth Taylor |
#8892, aired 2023-06-13 | THE YEAR OF THE HORSE $1000: 1977:
With owners from Washington State, he won the Triple Crown Seattle Slew |
#8891, aired 2023-06-12 | NARRATOR OF THE NOVEL $200: This novel:
16-year-old Hazel Grace Lancaster, who has cancer The Fault in Our Stars |
#8891, aired 2023-06-12 | POP SONGS $400: In a 2004 Grammy Song of the Year, John Mayer urged, "Fathers be good to" these people daughters |
#8891, aired 2023-06-12 | NARRATOR OF THE NOVEL $1000: This downer of a novel:
14-year-old Susie Salmon, from heaven, because she's been murdered The Lovely Bones |
#8889, aired 2023-06-08 | 2 PARTS MAKE A WHOLE $600: 14-year Texas governor Perry
+
to spin over & over across a surface = this meme we will never give up a Rickroll |
#8889, aired 2023-06-08 | LATE NIGHT TALKING $1000: In the '90s Conan O'Brien first peered into the future in a bit called "In the Year" this... which was still recurring in 2003 2000 |
#8884, aired 2023-06-01 | POTPOURRI $1200: Apparently still learning to duck, tight end Cam McCormick of this Pac-12 school got a 9th year of eligibility in 2022 (the University of) Oregon |
#8883, aired 2023-05-31 | PRESIDENTIAL DOIN'S $800: Saw $40 billion in losses in one bad stock market year; signed Smoot-Hawley to raise tariffs, which did not help (Herbert) Hoover |
#8882, aired 2023-05-30 | THE YEAR THAT WAS $200: More than 300,000 rock fans attended Woodstock & Neil Armstrong pioneered the moonwalk--for real 1969 |
#8882, aired 2023-05-30 | THE YEAR THAT WAS $400 (Daily Double): William Lloyd Garrison published the last issue of The Liberator, saying his "vocation as an abolitionist is ended" 1865 |
#8882, aired 2023-05-30 | THE YEAR THAT WAS $400: Horrible moments: the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded, followed 3 months later by the Chernobyl disaster 1986 |
#8882, aired 2023-05-30 | THE YEAR THAT WAS $800: The Revolutionary War was 2 1/2 years in as George Washington & his troops began wintering at Valley Forge 1777 |
#8882, aired 2023-05-30 | THE YEAR THAT WAS $1000: Zachary Taylor was inaugurated & an estimated 80,000 people poured into California 1849 |
#8881, aired 2023-05-29 | POP INSTRUMENTALS $400: In January 2000 Kenny G blew into the Top 10 with a version of this New Year's favorite "Auld Lang Syne" |
#20, aired 2023-05-24 | NOM NOM NOMINATIONS $800: "Beat" this chef? as a 1991 & '92 nominee for Beard's rising chef of the year, yes, but in '93? Winner winner barbecue dinner! Bobby Flay |
#19, aired 2023-05-24 | SO YOU THINK YOU'RE PRETTY GOOD AT THIS $400: On Dec. 20, 2000 the execs of this Houston company were feeling good with the stock at $79; a year later it was at 42 cents Enron |
#18, aired 2023-05-23 | CLASSIC CAR TV $2000: In 1963 Fred Gwynne copped out on this sitcom whose title was a question itself; a year later, Fred was a Munster Car 54, Where Are You? |
#8876, aired 2023-05-22 | BOOK-POURRI $800: An almost 12-year-old girl, last name Simon, is mentioned in the title of this classic by Judy Blume Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret |
#8876, aired 2023-05-22 | HISTORIC PEOPLE $1200: In 1780, this earl won big against Horatio Gates in South Carolina; we can't talk of what happened about a year later at Yorktown Cornwallis |
#8876, aired 2023-05-22 | POP CULTURE 2003 $1600: I'm going to Wichita to tell you Spin magazine's Top Album of the Year was their "Elephant" The White Stripes |
#16, aired 2023-05-22 | FAMOUS FOLKS $400: This creator & producer of "Scandal" also wrote the book "Year of Yes" Shonda Rhimes |
#8872, aired 2023-05-16 | AUTOMOTIVE ALLITERATION $1000: Automobile magazine named this then new sporty Japanese import its 1990 Automobile of the Year the Mazda Miata |
#8872, aired 2023-05-16 | TWISTS $2000: Anthrax earlier seen to be afflicting cows is later weaponized against Benedict Cumberbatch in this 2021 Western The Power of the Dog |
#8872, aired 2023-05-16 | WOMEN WORLD LEADERS $2000: In 2023 this 42-year-old prime minister of New Zealand made the surprise announcement she's leaving the job Ardern |
#8871, aired 2023-05-15 | ORDINAL NOVELS $400: For 2 homicide cops, "The 9th Girl" in Tami Hoag's thriller is the year's ninth of these, a name for anonymous female decedents Jane Doe |
#10, aired 2023-05-15 | THE FRENCH REVOLUTION $400: New names were needed for these & poet Fabre d'Églantine came up with Frimaire, Germinal, Messidor & others the months of the year |
#9, aired 2023-05-15 | CHESS, MASTERS $400: (Jennifer Shahade delivers the clue.) In what became known as the "game of the century", in 1956 this then-little-known 13-year-old announced his presence with a spectacular queen sacrifice to defeat one of America's top masters (Bobby) Fischer |
#8870, aired 2023-05-12 | 7-LETTER ANIMALS $1200: Every year in the Yukon, 200,000 of these deer embark on the longest land mammal migration on Earth, sometimes up to 1,300 miles a caribou |
#8, aired 2023-05-12 | WORLD COINS $400: In 2023, to celebrate the current lunar new year, the Solomon Islands issued 3 coins featuring this animal a rabbit |
#7, aired 2023-05-12 | REVOLT-ING HISTORY $4,400 (Daily Double): The Cranberries marked the date of Ireland's Easter Rising when they sang, "It's the same old theme since" this year 1916 |
#8868, aired 2023-05-10 | BETTER TOMES & GARDENS $400: He published "A Child's Garden of Verses" in 1885, a year before his novel "Kidnapped" (Robert Louis) Stevenson |
#6, aired 2023-05-10 | PITCHERS HAVE BIG YEARS $400: In 1973 Nolan Ryan struck out 383 batters, breaking this lefty's 8-year-old record by one Koufax |
#5, aired 2023-05-10 | WIVES OF THE NOT YET PRESIDENTS $400: The former Ellen Herndon died in 1880, the year this future prez was elected veep Arthur |
#5, aired 2023-05-10 | DEALING WITH THE GOVERNMENT $800: NYC's Eric Adams said, "I don't care what anyone says, there are ghosts in there", there being this 224-year-old mayoral residence Gracie Mansion |
#4, aired 2023-05-09 | OVERWROUGHT HISTORY $400: Oooof, this year: Matthew Flinders died.
The White House, set on fire. 1,200 killed by the Philippines' Mayon volcano eruption 1814 |
#4, aired 2023-05-09 | THE OTHER MASTERS $1000: The annual champions dinner began in 1952 when he hosted, a year after his first Masters win & 3 years after a near-fatal car wreck Ben Hogan |
#4, aired 2023-05-09 | "OF" PAINT $13,200 (Daily Double): This 1793 painting seen here depicts an event from July of that year Death of Marat |
#8866, aired 2023-05-08 | GONE FISHIN' $200: At nearly 3 pounds a year per capita, salmon has passed this as the most commonly consumed fish in the U.S.; sorry, Charlie tuna |
#8866, aired 2023-05-08 | POP MUSIC-PODGE $200: The 2023 Grammys were good to aging redheads: Bonnie Raitt got Song of the Year & he took Best Country Solo Performance Willie Nelson |
#2, aired 2023-05-08 | FLYIN' HIGHER THAN A JET AIRLINER $800: In 2021 90-year-old William Shatner boldly went aboard a spacecraft from this "colorful" company as the oldest person to fly in space Blue Origin |
#2, aired 2023-05-08 | A LITTLE READING MATERIAL $800: This 135-year-old magazine has helped fund more than 15,000 grants in its history; recipients include Richard Byrd & Jacques Cousteau National Geographic |
#1, aired 2023-05-08 | 20/23 $200: In the human body most cells normally contain 23 pairs of these chromosomes |
#1, aired 2023-05-08 | ALLITERATIVE HISTORY $800: Born in Venetia, Italy, he began leading the Church around the year 140 Pope Pius |
#8865, aired 2023-05-05 | REVOLUTION $1600: After a speech by Khrushchev in 1956, this country revolted, but the Soviets intervened before year's end Hungary |
#8863, aired 2023-05-03 | THE "USS" $600: Each year the NFL updates this protocol for players with head injuries concussion |
#8863, aired 2023-05-03 | THAT'S A GOOD SPOT FOR A BREAK $600: The GYA is this association that facilitates an interlude of experience between high school & college the Gap Year Association |
#8862, aired 2023-05-02 | DOUBLE DOUBLE LETTERS $600: It means once a year annually |
#8860, aired 2023-04-28 | IT'S A COOKBOOK! $400: "Over 300 recipes for plant-based eating all through the year" are found in the bestselling "Forks Over" these Knives |
#8859, aired 2023-04-27 | A FINE WINE FILM $2000: This actor starred in "A Good Year", in which he inherits a vineyard, & narrated the documentary "Red Obsession" about Bordeaux Russell Crowe |
#8857, aired 2023-04-25 | STATESMEN & WOMEN $400: In 2020 this chancellor topped Forbes' list of the world's most powerful women for the tenth straight year Merkel |
#8855, aired 2023-04-21 | BASKETBALL GREATS $200: (I'm Candace Parker.) 2008 was a good year; I won my second Final Four MVP for leading Tennessee to the NCAA title & was recognized as the top women's college player with the trophy named for this inventor of the sport Naismith |
#8854, aired 2023-04-20 | LITERARY FRUIT STAND $200: In "War & Watermelon", a 12-year-old boy in 1969 goes along for the ride to this music fest & gains a new outlook on life Woodstock |
#8854, aired 2023-04-20 | LITERARY FRUIT STAND $600: A vicious 15-year-old Droog is sent to a facility to be reformed in this 1962 novel A Clockwork Orange |
#8853, aired 2023-04-19 | JUSTINIAN TIME $7,000 (Daily Double): Justinian didn't "want to thank" this 900-year-old Athenian school, which closed after pagan teachers were banned the Academy |
#8852, aired 2023-04-18 | LET'S GUESS YOUR WAIT $600: After an 86-year drought without winning a World Series, this A.L. team has now won 4 of them in the last 19 years the Boston Red Sox |
#8849, aired 2023-04-13 | IN THE AIR TONIGHT $800: "C" is for this musical insect; one type shows up in the air in 17-year cycles cicadas |
#8847, aired 2023-04-11 | WHALES $600: After about a year in its mother's womb, a baby of this whale species is born weighing up to 3 tons & as long as 25 feet a blue whale |
#8846, aired 2023-04-10 | THE NATION IN QUESTION $400: The Sasanian Dynasty has a 400-year run; Reza Khan... Reza Khan, let me rock you, Reza Khan; ah ah, Ahmadinejad Iran |
#8845, aired 2023-04-07 | POP CULTURE $400: He gave us the "Produce Pete" segment of "The Daily Show" before becoming "The 40-Year-Old Virgin" Steve Carell |
#8845, aired 2023-04-07 | TWO SHOES $400: The sneakers bearing his name are often identified by Roman numerals; he wore the XVIII the year he retired from the Wizards Michael Jordan |
#8843, aired 2023-04-05 | SCHOOL OF MUSIC $1200: All this singer-songwriter wanted to do was have some fun her senior year, which included drum majorette & prom princess Sheryl Crow |
#8835, aired 2023-03-24 | THE WWE $1000: (Triple H presents the clue.) In 1997, I defeated Mankind to take this coveted, rhyming royal title that helped give me the momentum to form D-Generation X later that year King of the Ring |
#8831, aired 2023-03-20 | UNESCO's INTANGIBLE CULTURAL HERITAGE $1600: In 2022 UNESCO honored this long French loaf of bread, the most popular kind eaten in France year round a baguette |
#8831, aired 2023-03-20 | PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURATIONS $2000: He, his wife & 9-year-old daughter were the first first family to walk all the way from the Capitol to the White House the Carters |
#8830, aired 2023-03-17 | SHIP OUT $400: In January of 1898 the USS Maine was sent to this city's harbor; it would not see another new year Havana |
#8829, aired 2023-03-16 | WORLD UNIVERSITIES $800: In 2018 a university in Paris named for the Curies became part of this university with a more than 750-year legacy the Sorbonne |
#8823, aired 2023-03-08 | "U" BELONG WITH "ME" $1600: In Finnish, this celebration of the longest day of the year is called Juhannus & is a national holiday Midsummer |
#8823, aired 2023-03-08 | IT HAPPENED IN ASIA $1600: Seen here in late 1979 is this building in Tehran that was at the center of news for the next year plus the U.S. Embassy |
#8822, aired 2023-03-07 | COLLEGE TALK $800: Adjective for a second-year collegian, or the immature question that person might ask sophomoric |
#8821, aired 2023-03-06 | HOW OFTEN DOES IT HAPPEN? $600: The same animal year returns in the Chinese calendar every 12 years |
#8821, aired 2023-03-06 | HOW OFTEN DOES IT HAPPEN? $1000: A jubilee year as recounted in the book of Leviticus in the Bible every 50 years |
#8821, aired 2023-03-06 | PIVOTAL WOMEN $1600: (Melinda French Gates presents the clue.) After inspiring millions to join a global climate strike in 2019, this Swedish activist was named "Time" magazine's Person of the Year Greta Thunberg |
#8819, aired 2023-03-02 | HIT ALBUMS $2000: With 2012's "Babel", this not-actually-a-family band topped the charts & won an Album of the Year Grammy Mumford & Sons |
#8816, aired 2023-02-27 | PURE POETRY $2000: In 1950 "Bitter Strawberries" by this Boston-born woman became her 1st nationally published poem; not bad for a 17-year-old Sylvia Plath |
#8815, aired 2023-02-24 | DESCRIBING THE HORROR FILM FRANCHISE $1600: Once a year, anything goes!; Ethan Hawke's son unlocks the door to trouble; later, it's "Anarchy" The Purge |
#8814, aired 2023-02-23 | COLLEGE FOOTBALL $600: Currently a chief part of the NFL, he threw for 5,052 yards & 41 TDs in his last year at Texas Tech in 2016 Mahomes |
#8814, aired 2023-02-23 | ANNUAL EVENTS $800: In 1970 15-year-old Mike Towry co-founded this San Diego event that has become a pop culture phenomenon Comic-Con |
#8814, aired 2023-02-23 | ASTRONOMY & SPACE $800: There are about 6 trillion miles in one of these units of space distance a light-year |
#8814, aired 2023-02-23 | FASHION $1000: Look for clothes & shoes in this vivid purplish red named for an Italian town; Pantone named it 2023's color of the year magenta |
#8809, aired 2023-02-16 | DISNEY MOVIE TAGLINES $400: 1937:
"The happiest, dopiest, grumpiest, sneeziest movie of the year" Snow White (and the Seven Dwarfs) |
#8809, aired 2023-02-16 | MILITARY MEN $400: A movie bio subject, this general seen here had to repeat his freshman year at West Point due to bad grades (George) Patton |
#8809, aired 2023-02-16 | WOMEN AUTHORS $1200: From the same year she completed her quartet about the undead, her novel "The Host" deals with aliens taking over human minds Stephenie Meyer |
#8809, aired 2023-02-16 | MILITARY MEN $1600: This general went from being called "Young Napoleon of the West" in 1861 to getting the sack from Lincoln the next year George McClellan |
#8807, aired 2023-02-14 | BORN TO RUN $1200: This newspaperman didn't raise much Kane in losing runs for NYC mayor, state governor & then mayor again, all in a 4-year span Hearst |
#8807, aired 2023-02-14 | THE RIVER $2000: In 1966 the Po produced devastating floods, like this Florentine river the same year the Arno |
#8805, aired 2023-02-10 | BEFORE THEY WERE SUPREME COURT JUSTICES $200: Went 15 for 18 at the Supreme Court in his first year as Solicitor General; also, became president Taft |
#8805, aired 2023-02-10 | OCEAN LIFE $3,800 (Daily Double): Named for its rubbery shell, this largest sea turtle can swim up to 10,000 miles each year a leatherback |
#8804, aired 2023-02-09 | PUT IN YOUR ORDINAL $800: This ordinal-named Heisman Trophy winner & NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year can be found in the ESPN broadcast booth Robert Griffin III |
#8802, aired 2023-02-07 | ROLE: MODEL $800: Josh Duhamel beat out this actor seen here, in a modeling competition in 1997; they would later both appear in "New Year's Eve" (Ashton) Kutcher |
#8802, aired 2023-02-07 | HOLIDAYS AROUND THE GLOBE $1600: Thais celebrate Buddhist New Year by doing this to each other, with elephants using their trunks to join in bathe, wash (getting wet) |
#8801, aired 2023-02-06 | MONTHS THAT START WITH FEB $400: February 1990:
In South Africa, the 30-year ban on this political party is lifted by president F.W. de Klerk the ANC |
#8800, aired 2023-02-03 | THAT'S A CRIME! $1000: It's time to document this signature crime; it's also called false making & in Montana, can earn a 10-year stretch forgery |
#8798, aired 2023-02-01 | IF ANCIENT GREEK DEITIES WERE AROUND TODAY $800: On the reality show "My Life is Hell!", this wife of Hades wants to stay in Key West but packs for her 1/3 of the year underworld trip Persephone |
#8795, aired 2023-01-27 | SOIL $1000: As its name suggests, it's a layer of soil that remains frozen year-round permafrost |
#8795, aired 2023-01-27 | COUNTRY SONGS $1200: Satan was on the move, "looking for a soul to steal" in this Charlie Daniels Band CMA Single of the Year "The Devil Went Down To Georgia" |
#8794, aired 2023-01-26 | LET'S TALK ABOUT SAX, BABY $400: This smooth jazz saxophone king got a Grammy nomination for "My Heart Will Go On" the same year Celine did; she won, he lost Kenny G |
#8793, aired 2023-01-25 | BOOK OF THE YEAR $400: Gavin Menzies' "1434" says a group from China visited this top Catholic & supplied knowledge that made the renaissance happen the pope |
#8793, aired 2023-01-25 | BOOK OF THE YEAR $800: The dashing Elmer Ellsworth, the 1st Union officer killed in the Civil War, is brought to life in Adam Goodheart's book about this year 1861 |
#8793, aired 2023-01-25 | GOOD LUCK $1200: Seen here, this southern legume is thought to bring luck when eaten on New Year's Day black-eyed peas |
#8793, aired 2023-01-25 | BOOK OF THE YEAR $1600: The Hundred Years' War novel "1356" features this heir to the English throne, known for armor not suited for hot, sunny days Edward the Black Prince |
#8793, aired 2023-01-25 | BOOK OF THE YEAR $2000: "1947: Where Now Begins" naturally takes note of an invention that year by this Russian gun designer Kalashnikov |
#8793, aired 2023-01-25 | BOOK OF THE YEAR $4,800 (Daily Double): Mark Kurlansky wrote a book titled this year of the Tet Offensive & 2 American assassinations 1968 |
#11, aired 2023-01-19 | I AM A CHAMPION! $200: Rod Laver is the only 2-time winner of all 4 major tennis singles titles in one year, a feat called this, like a big home run a grand slam |
#11, aired 2023-01-19 | WHAT'S NEW IN HISTORY $1000: To get back in sync with the solar year, this new calendar named for a pope made Oct. 15, 1582 the day after Oct. 4 (the) Gregorian (calendar) |
#8788, aired 2023-01-18 | SONGS OF THE 2010s $600: This collaboration between Lil Nas X & Billy Ray Cyrus was Billboard's No. 1 Hot 100 Song of the Year for 2019 "Old Town Road" |
#8788, aired 2023-01-18 | LONG-SERVING POLITICIANS $1600: He was the center of attention as New York's governor from 1959 to 1973 & a year later, was selected to be vice president Nelson Rockefeller |
#8788, aired 2023-01-18 | THE 1890s $3,600 (Daily Double): Returning after a 1,500-year break, these opened April 6, 1896 the (Modern) Olympic Games |
#8786, aired 2023-01-16 | MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL TEAMS $600: In 2022 this team gave 73-year-old Dusty Baker his 1st championship as a manager; he's the oldest skipper to win a World Series the Astros |
#8785, aired 2023-01-13 | HISTORICAL MOVEMENTS $2000: A year before the Arab Spring came the Green Movement which protested for democracy in this city's Azadi Square, but was suppressed Tehran |
#8784, aired 2023-01-12 | SPORTS COMPETITIONS $200: In 2022, a year after a bad car crash, Tiger Woods returned to the greens in Augusta to play in this tournament the Masters |
#8784, aired 2023-01-12 | WHERE DID I LEAVE MY KEYS? $400: I do like to time travel, & my keys may be in this year: I saw D-Day firsthand & went to the premiere of "Double Indemnity" 1944 |
#10, aired 2023-01-12 | THE MOVIES $400: The 2022 film "Blonde" stars Ana de Armas as this film icon & recreates an iconic moment from "The Seven Year Itch" Marilyn Monroe |
#8781, aired 2023-01-09 | LAUNDRY DAY $400: Thousands of home fires a year could be prevented by cleaning out this mesh item after each dryer load a lint catcher (the lint trap) |
#8780, aired 2023-01-06 | RECORD OF THE YEAR GRAMMYS $400: For 1998:
This love theme from "Titanic" "My Heart Will Go On" |
#8780, aired 2023-01-06 | RECORD OF THE YEAR GRAMMYS $800: For 1968:
This duo's "Mrs. Robinson" Simon and Garfunkel |
#8780, aired 2023-01-06 | RECORD OF THE YEAR GRAMMYS $1200: For 1984:
This "questionable" track by Tina Turner "What's Love Got To Do With It" |
#8780, aired 2023-01-06 | RECORD OF THE YEAR GRAMMYS $1600: Back to back in the 1970s:
Her "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" & "Killing Me Softly With His Song" Roberta Flack |
#8780, aired 2023-01-06 | RECORD OF THE YEAR GRAMMYS $2000: For 2021:
"Leave The Door Open" by this duo (Anderson .Paak & Bruno Mars) Silk Sonic |
#8779, aired 2023-01-05 | COLLEGES NAMED AFTER PEOPLE $1000: In 1927, the year after the woman it's named for had died, this college became officially affiliated with Vassar Sarah Lawrence |
#9, aired 2023-01-05 | LET ME NOODLE ON THAT $500: This 3-letter Vietnamese dish is a flat rice noodle served in clear broth; you can slurp it year-round, any time of day phở |
#9, aired 2023-01-05 | FAMOUS WOMEN $600: She was Czechoslovakia's top women's tennis player when she defected to the U.S. in 1975 Martina Navratilova |
#9, aired 2023-01-05 | WE MEAN BUSINESS $900: On day 1 in 1973, this corp. delivered 186 packages, but in fiscal year 2021 annual revenue, it delivered $84 billion FedEx |
#8778, aired 2023-01-04 | TV THEME SONGS $2000: "Somebody said it could be here, we could be roped up, tied up, dead in a year" Community |
#8777, aired 2023-01-03 | POP MUSIC-POURRI $800: Her song "You've Got A Friend" came out the year after her pal James Taylor sang of "lonely times when I could not find a friend" Carole King |
#8777, aired 2023-01-03 | SCIENCE NEWS $2000: An Australian study found that forests of these trees that grow around swamps & coastlines expand & contract with a 19-year lunar cycle mangroves |
#8776, aired 2023-01-02 | HISTORY COMES ALIVE WITH ERIK LARSON $800: (Erik Larson presents the clue.) My book "Thunderstruck" examines how in 1910, Dr. Hawley Crippen nearly committed the perfect murder & fled across the Atlantic, only to be captured later that year with the help of this man's invention of wireless telegraphy Marconi |
#8776, aired 2023-01-02 | FRIENDS 'TIL THE ENDS $1,300 (Daily Double): "C" is for this word, once one of the divisions of a Roman legion; it now can mean a colleague or a person born in the same year a cohort |
#8775, aired 2022-12-30 | A MEMORABLE NEW YEAR'S EVE $400: (Ryan Seacrest presents the clue.) December 31st festivities at this location began in 1904; they became a "Rockin' New Year's Eve" in 1972 in a broadcast featuring Dick Clark & Three Dog Night Times Square |
#8775, aired 2022-12-30 | A MEMORABLE NEW YEAR'S EVE $800: (Ryan Seacrest presents the clue.) I hope Alex wouldn't mind me saying that this city is not known for wild celebrations, but when Queen Victoria chose it as the capital December 31, 1857, it was on Ottawa |
#8775, aired 2022-12-30 | A MEMORABLE NEW YEAR'S EVE $1200: (Ryan Seacrest presents the clue.) Before a 2011 NASA mission mapping the Moon's gravity, Montana 4th graders named the two spacecraft, & this one entered lunar orbit on New Year's Eve; Flow took a bit longer Ebb |
#8775, aired 2022-12-30 | A MEMORABLE NEW YEAR'S EVE $1600: (Ryan Seacrest presents the clue.) On December 31, 1229, it was celebration time for the Spanish mainlanders as this island, named for being the largest of its group, was conquered by King James of Aragon Majorca |
#8775, aired 2022-12-30 | A MEMORABLE NEW YEAR'S EVE $2000: (Ryan Seacrest presents the clue.) On December 31, 1959, Paul Westerberg entered the world in Minneapolis as the singer of this band; he'd comment on his birth date with the line, "Income tax deduction, one hell of a function" The Replacements |
#8773, aired 2022-12-28 | ALL DRESSED IN WHITE $400: First-year Spelman students must wear all white to the convocation & induction events during this 2-week introductory period orientation |
#8773, aired 2022-12-28 | ALL DRESSED IN WHITE $1000: Initiates in this religion that developed in Cuba in the 1800s wear white for their first year Santeria |
#8769, aired 2022-12-22 | THE BOTTOM 10 $1200: We'll be blunt; James Blunt topped the chart in 2006 with this "gorgeous" song but "High" only went as high as 100 that year "You're Beautiful" |
#8767, aired 2022-12-20 | DR. SEUSS BAKING CHALLENGE $1000: (Tamera Mowry presents the clue.) This book was written the year of the first Earth Day & our creations pay tribute to the natural world The Lorax |
#8765, aired 2022-12-16 | THE SCALES $600: On the Fitzpatrick skin-tone scale, light-skinned type 1s are at high risk of this skin cancer that kills 10,000 Americans a year melanoma |
#8764, aired 2022-12-15 | A SHORT CATEGORY $400: Shortbread is traditionally eaten during Hogmanay, this U.K. country's New Year's Eve Scotland |
#8763, aired 2022-12-14 | 1982: A YEAR IN FILM $400: This legendary actor & his legendary blue eyes--which, by the way, were color blind--awaited "The Verdict" as Frank Galvin Paul Newman |
#8763, aired 2022-12-14 | 1982: A YEAR IN FILM $800: The zen of Sean Penn's Jeff Spicoli in this film: "All I need are some tasty waves, cool buzz & I'm fine" Fast Times at Ridgemont High |
#8763, aired 2022-12-14 | 1982: A YEAR IN FILM $1200: What's best in life, this Arnold guy? "Crush your enemies, see them driven before you & hear the lamentation of their women" Conan the Barbarian |
#8763, aired 2022-12-14 | 1982: A YEAR IN FILM $1600: The "Tears in Rain" speech to Harrison Ford in this film was a page long; Rutger Hauer cut it down, in part, to get out of the rain Blade Runner |
#8763, aired 2022-12-14 | 1982: A YEAR IN FILM $2000: In "Poltergeist", after watching TV in a room that gets shaky, Heather O'Rourke makes this 2-word declaration to her parents "they're here" |
#8760, aired 2022-12-09 | SCIENCE! $200: A measurement of distance, not time, it's equal to about 6 trillion miles, you know, give or take a light year |
#8758, aired 2022-12-07 | GINGER ZEE TALKS METEOROLOGY $3,400 (Daily Double): (Ginger Zee presents the clue.) In early 2020, I was in Australia to cover its unprecedented wildfires & learn how the hottest & driest year on record had parched giant stretches of these native trees filled with extremely flammable oil eucalyptus trees |
#8757, aired 2022-12-06 | A LEGO $800: 6-year-olds found it awesome when the USA's first of these opened in Carlsbad, California in 1999 Legoland |
#8756, aired 2022-12-05 | LET'S PLAY QUARTERS $2000: A quarter minted in this city in 1796, the first year that coin was produced, sold at auction for $1.5 million in 2013 Philadelphia |
#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 |
#8753, aired 2022-11-30 | DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE SIGNERS $400: He graduated from Harvard in 1740, the year he turned 18; he'd later help organize a tea party but these days, is associated with beer Sam Adams |
#8753, aired 2022-11-30 | SOMETHING TO READ $2000: Her "Year of Magical Thinking" chronicles the time after the loss of her husband John Gregory Dunne, 31 days before their 40th anniversary (Joan) Didion |
#8753, aired 2022-11-30 | DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE SIGNERS $2000: A year after being one of 3 signers from this state, Button Gwinnett had 2 big losses: an invasion of Florida & a duel Georgia |
#8749, aired 2022-11-24 | HISTORICAL FICTION $400: About 60 years after the event, this "Robinson Crusoe" author wrote "a Journal of the Plague Year" based on real accounts Defoe |
#8747, aired 2022-11-22 | THAT WAS QUITE A YEAR $400: Trotsky is sent trotting from the Soviet Union; the Dow loses half its value within weeks; say hello to "A Farewell to Arms" 1929 |
#8747, aired 2022-11-22 | THAT WAS QUITE A YEAR $800: Rhode Island is the first colony to nix its British allegiance; Goethe publishes "Stella" long before Tennessee Williams 1776 |
#8747, aired 2022-11-22 | THAT WAS QUITE A YEAR $1200: The Six-Day War is fought; "The Dirty Dozen" is onscreen; the 25th Amendment is ratified 1967 |
#8747, aired 2022-11-22 | THAT WAS QUITE A YEAR $2000: Zola "J'Accuse"s; the Curies discover radium; remember... the Maine goes down 1898 |
#8747, aired 2022-11-22 | THAT WAS QUITE A YEAR $5,000 (Daily Double): King John okays the Magna Carta; King John appeals to the pope against the Magna Carta; King John has a year left to live 1215 |
#8744, aired 2022-11-17 | HISTORIC DATES $400: San Franciscans heard a noise "like the roar of 10,000 lions" on April 18 of this year 1906 |
#8744, aired 2022-11-17 | HISTORIC DATES $1,600 (Daily Double): In a historic first, this 75-year-old was sworn in as president of his country May 10, 1994 Mandela |
#8743, aired 2022-11-16 | BEASTLY BOOK TITLES $1000: An extended family of primitive humans adopts 5-year-old Ayla The Clan of the Cave Bear |
#8743, aired 2022-11-16 | COLD AROUND THE GLOBE $1200: In 2021 this capital of Saskatchewan broke a 137-year-old temperature record, dropping to -37.5 degrees Regina |
#8742, aired 2022-11-15 | FACTS & FIGURES $200: Each year, about 252 million pounds of this meat are used on pizzas; September 20 is that pizza's special day pepperoni |
#8, aired 2022-11-13 | THE BIBLE $200: In "the six hundred and first year", second month, 27th day, the earth was dried & this vessel's occupants could leave it the ark (Noah's ark) |
#8, aired 2022-11-13 | GOING THROUGH SOME CYCLES $400: Spots on this appear in 11-year cycles & can be several times the size of the Earth the Sun |
#8739, aired 2022-11-10 | CELEBS $800: This 18-year-old dancer has 145 million followers on TikTok Charli D'Amelio |
#8737, aired 2022-11-08 | ELECTION DAY $1,200 (Daily Double): One reporter wrote, "tranquility forsook Springfield" on Election Day of this year 1860 |
#7, aired 2022-11-06 | EVERYBODY LOVES RAIN, MAN $100: This largest tropical rain forest can average well over 100 inches of rain each year the Amazon |
#7, aired 2022-11-06 | FIRE ISLAND $100: This Hawaiian island had a Honolulu of a hot year in 2019; attention, shoppers at Waimalu Plaza, it hit 107 one day Oahu |
#7, aired 2022-11-06 | HISTORY IN COMEDY $300: Did this man really steal from the rich & give to the poor? The 2,000 Year Old Man: no, he stole from everybody & kept everything Robin Hood |
#8734, aired 2022-11-03 | ADVERBS $200: The Starship Enterprise's 5-year mission included a famous split infinitive, with this word between "to" & "go" boldly |
#8734, aired 2022-11-03 | A YEAR ENDING IN 2 $200: Christopher Columbus lands on an island in the Caribbean & names it San Salvador 1492 |
#8734, aired 2022-11-03 | A YEAR ENDING IN 2 $400: The Manhattan Project begins 1942 |
#8734, aired 2022-11-03 | A YEAR ENDING IN 2 $600: After capturing New Orleans, David Farragut is given the new rank of rear admiral 1862 |
#8734, aired 2022-11-03 | A YEAR ENDING IN 2 $800: Ulysses Grant is reelected president 1872 |
#8734, aired 2022-11-03 | A YEAR ENDING IN 2 $1000: More than a quarter of English colonists in Virginia are killed in a massacre; John Rolfe also dies 1622 |
#6, aired 2022-10-30 | PATRIOT ACT $300: Italian patriot Garibaldi captured Palermo in 1860 with colorful troops called these, like a college athlete sitting out a year a redshirt |
#8730, aired 2022-10-28 | IN THE SCIENCE DICTIONARY $800: Galileo was among the first to observe these dark solar areas that appear in 11-year cycles sunspots |
#8730, aired 2022-10-28 | PICTURE THE NO. 1 HIT $800: 1995's Grammy-winning Record & Song of the Year "Kiss From A Rose" |
#8729, aired 2022-10-27 | ANOTHER SHOT AT THE TITLE $1000: After losing to Toronto in 1918, this team won its first NHL title the next year & has now won more than any other team the Montreal Canadiens |
#8728, aired 2022-10-26 | HIDDEN BRAIN PODCAST $600: (Shankar Vedantam presents the clue.) A couple of weeks into 2016, we talked about the psychology of these New Year's promises & why we often failed to stick to them resolutions |
#8727, aired 2022-10-25 | FESTIVALS $400: China's Lantern Festival honors deceased relatives & marks the end of this larger festival Chinese New Year |
#8727, aired 2022-10-25 | FESTIVALS $2000: Each year at a festival in Pamplona comes the religious procession honoring this saint Fermin |
#8726, aired 2022-10-24 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $400: "Sometimes You Have to Lie" is a 2020 biography of Louise Fitzhugh, creator of this 11-year-old spy Harriet (the Spy) |
#8726, aired 2022-10-24 | NEWS MAKERS & WRITERS '22 $1600: Josh Gerstein of this news organization-o got the big leaked Supreme Court draft opinion story of the year Politico |
#5, aired 2022-10-23 | ADVANCED CRIMINAL LAW $600: As opposed to misdemeanors, this class of crimes is more serious & can carry a sentence of a year or more in the slammer a felony |
#5, aired 2022-10-23 | HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $800: This Jewish day of atonement comes 10 days after Rosh Hashanah, the new year Yom Kippur |
#5, aired 2022-10-23 | MUSIC OF TODAY $1500: At the 2022 VMAs he performed "Titi Me Pregunto" at Yankee Stadium & became the 1st male Latin star to win Artist of the Year Bad Bunny |
#5, aired 2022-10-23 | OF COURSE I'M NOT BREAKING UP WITH YOU $1500: It's just this, from the Latin for "gap", hopefully shorter than the 2-year one for "Better Call Saul" between Seasons 5 & 6 a hiatus |
#8723, aired 2022-10-19 | HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $200: Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania celebrates this on February 2, year after year after year Groundhog Day |
#4, aired 2022-10-16 | HISTORIC HISTORY OF YESTERDAY: A LOOK BACK $2,000 (Daily Double): Catherine Parr became wife No. 6 to this man on July 12, 1543, & beating the odds, outlived him (but only by a year) Henry VIII |
#3, aired 2022-10-09 | AMERICANA $100: In 1969, 108-year-old Vassar College began admitting these people, "sensitive & humble" ones men |
#3, aired 2022-10-09 | AMERICANA $400: Yankee magazine says this New England state is known for chowder, old money & being the home of TV's Gilmore girls Connecticut |
#3, aired 2022-10-09 | IN THE PARK $1200: Each year, musicians flock to Zilker Park in this Texas capital to partake in its "City Limits" Austin |
#8713, aired 2022-10-05 | YOU'RE ON A ROLL $1000: This appetizer got its name as it is traditionally served during a specific time of the year--the first day of Chinese New Year a spring roll |
#8711, aired 2022-10-03 | A COMMON CATEGORY $400: Thomas Paine's pamphlet "Common Sense" was published on January 10 of this revolutionary year 1776 |
#8711, aired 2022-10-03 | FILM NOIR $800: The 1946 murder noir "The Blue" this preceded the real-life murder case known as "The Black" this by a year Dahlia |
#2, aired 2022-10-02 | AUSTIN TENDS BAR $300: (Austin holds a glass full of a dark beer at his bar.) Tending bar at an Irish pub, I've poured many a pint of draft beer from this 260+-year-old Dublin brewery; there's a technique, here--it's not just flip & drip Guinness |
#2, aired 2022-10-02 | HISTORY QUIZ $600: "Black Tuesday", October 29 of this year, was part of the stock market crash that helped set off the Great Depression 1929 |
#8709, aired 2022-09-29 | THE EX-COUNTRY $400: This island was independent from 1755 to 1769, the year Napoleon was born there Corsica |
#8708, aired 2022-09-28 | MATERIAL $200: The organization 4ocean says 16 billion pounds of this material enters the seas each year; they recover & recycle some plastic |
#8708, aired 2022-09-28 | HISTORY $200: In 1914 19-year-old Serb Gavrilo Princip triggered World War I by assassinating this man Franz Ferdinand |
#8708, aired 2022-09-28 | ONE-NAMED ROCK STARS $400: His surprise was evident when he won Grammy's Album of the Year in 2015 Beck |
#8708, aired 2022-09-28 | THE RIGHT BROTHERS $1200: In the year 2000 these 2 states had Bush brothers as governors Texas & Florida |
#1, aired 2022-09-25 | YOU'RE PROBABLY GOING TO HATE THIS $600: "Blue" this day of the week in January is said to be the most depressing day of the year; none of them are my favorite Monday |
#1, aired 2022-09-25 | "R"ELIGION $1,000 (Daily Double): A time of fasting, this ninth month of the Islamic year is remembered as when the Koran was revealed to Muhammad Ramadan |
#1, aired 2022-09-25 | QUEEN ELIZABETH II $1000: This ceremony took place when Elizabeth had been queen for over a year; she wore the dress on 6 more occasions the coronation |
#8705, aired 2022-09-23 | CUTTING BACK ON THE BRAND $1000: In 2007, the same year it introduced the iPhone, Apple dropped this 8-letter word from its corporate name Computer |
#8704, aired 2022-09-22 | FARMING $400: Driving 20-ton vehicles on farmland can mean that the next year you'll get "stuck in" one of these, defined as a wheel track 3" deep a rut |
#8704, aired 2022-09-22 | BETTER MOMENTS IN HISTORY $1000: On Nov. 9 of this year, Hanns Joachim Friedrichs, the German Walter Cronkite, declared, "The gates of the wall are wide open" 1989 |
#8704, aired 2022-09-22 | HUMANS IN SPACE $1200: The last year humans stood on the Moon was during the Apollo 17 mission in this presidential election year 1972 |
#8704, aired 2022-09-22 | IN MY AUTOBIOGRAPHY $1200: "The year before I was born a group called the Taliban... had taken over the country and was burning girls' schools" Malala |
#8701, aired 2022-09-19 | GODDESSES $800: The Matronalia was a festival held on March 1, the Roman New Year's Day, in honor of this supreme Roman goddess Juno |
#8700, aired 2022-09-16 | MAGAZINE COVERS $600: The June 1985 cover of this magazine showed a 12-year-old Afghan refugee & described her "haunted eyes" National Geographic |
#8699, aired 2022-09-15 | PARTY! $400: Each year more than a million people hit the Cordão da Bola Preta ("cord of the black ball") to party at the center of this city Rio de Janeiro |
#8699, aired 2022-09-15 | LETTER-PERFECT BOOKS $1,000 (Daily Double): Lin Haire-Sargeant's novel "H" imaginatively fills in the blanks in this character's 3-year absence from a Bronte novel Heathcliff |
#8698, aired 2022-09-14 | CONS $400: The year Atlanta's Dragon Con really took off was 2003, when James Marsters, then of this TV show, brought in the crowds Angel (or Buffy) |
#8697, aired 2022-09-13 | 1960s AMERICA $200: At the 1964 World's Fair, Henry Ford II unveiled this pony car with a price near $2,300; Detroit ran wild as 400,000 sold in year one the Mustang |
#8697, aired 2022-09-13 | NFL OPENING WEEKEND $200: (Will Selva of the NFL Network presents the clue.) It's the play that starts the game, & since 2002, the name of the game that starts the NFL season; the first one was at the Meadowlands not quite a year after 9/11 kickoff |
#8696, aired 2022-09-12 | 11-LETTER WORDS $400: A less serious offense, such as shoplifting, often punished with less than one year in prison misdemeanor |
#8696, aired 2022-09-12 | THAT'S SO SIR/REEL! $2000: "Murder by Death" & "Star Wars", one year apart Sir Alec Guinness |
#8695, aired 2022-07-29 | HISTORY $800: In 2001 55-year-old Birendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev, this country's king, was assassinated in Kathmandu by his own son Nepal |
#8693, aired 2022-07-27 | FICTION $400: This 1931 Pearl Buck novel became a Broadway play the next year with Claude Rains as Wang Lung The Good Earth |
#8692, aired 2022-07-26 | MIDDLE NAMES $2000: This middle name of Jackie Robinson honored the president who died the year he was born, 1919 Roosevelt |
#8690, aired 2022-07-22 | SPELLING THEIR EGOTS $800: 3 Es as Outstanding Guest Actor for
"Mad About You";
a Comedy Album G for "The 2000 Year Old Man in the Year 2000" Mel Brooks |
#8690, aired 2022-07-22 | A MONTH OF HISTORY $1000: The Tet Offensive begins, surprising U.S. commanders January |
#8689, aired 2022-07-21 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $400: In 1955 13-year-old Susie asked her dad about an easier way to treat her asthma; dad ran Riker Labs & presto! the metered dose this device an inhaler |
#8689, aired 2022-07-21 | THE MET: A VERSE $400: Some call the museum's Costume Institute insufficiently arty, but it gets millions every year from this glamorous party the Met Gala |
#8687, aired 2022-07-19 | SAN DIEGO: NEWS CLUES $200: (Sheena Parveen of NBC 7 in San Diego presents the clue.) At San Diego’s Grant Hotel back in 1970, sci-fi master Ray Bradbury & superhero artist Jack Kirby, greeted the 300 fans who attended the first of these; now, it’s an annual event drawing more than 130,000 each year Comic-Con |
#8686, aired 2022-07-18 | TROPHY HUSBAND $400: This husband of Nicole Kidman was the 2018 Academy of Country Music Entertainer of the Year Keith Urban |
#8686, aired 2022-07-18 | GIVING YOU THE BOOT $800: A rough New Year's Day in 1959 for Fulgencio Batista, who woke up as president of this country & went to sleep as an exile Cuba |
#8686, aired 2022-07-18 | AMERICANA $1600: It's the year chiseled into Plymouth Rock 1620 |
#8685, aired 2022-07-15 | NOVEL "T"s $2,000 (Daily Double): The nameless narrator of this, Wells' first novel, finds himself in the year 802,701 The Time Machine |
#8683, aired 2022-07-13 | ANTARCTICA $1600: Despite regulation of spray cans, an 8-million-square-mile hole still appears in this over Antarctica each year the ozone layer |
#8681, aired 2022-07-11 | WRITER, WRONGER $1200: This poet & lord is said to have had an affair with his half-sister Augusta in 1813, the year he wrote "The Bride of Abydos" (Lord) Byron |
#8680, aired 2022-07-08 | THE COLD WAR ERA $1200: In this year the U.S. & others boycotted the Moscow Olympics to protest the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan 1980 |
#8679, aired 2022-07-07 | OLD NEWSPAPERS $2000: French for "current", as in events, gives this city's over 250-year-old paper its name Hartford |
#8677, aired 2022-07-05 | A NOVEL DEATH $200: Spoiler for a 15-year-old book! this house-elf doesn't make it all the way through "The Deathly Hallows" Dobby |
#8675, aired 2022-07-01 | ANIMALS & THE LAW $800: New York City says horses that do this, popular with tourists & couples in Central Park, get 5 weeks of vacation a year draw a buggy |
#8673, aired 2022-06-29 | CHUCK D, TIMES 3 $400: Charles Darwin was just 22 when he boarded this ship to begin his 5-year round-the-world voyage the Beagle |
#8673, aired 2022-06-29 | LITERARY TITLE CHARACTERS $1200: "A Man Called" this name is a 59-year-old curmudgeon who drives a Saab Ove |
#8671, aired 2022-06-27 | I SPEAK FOR THE TREES $800: "An 11-year-old girl sitting on this fire escape could imagine that she was living in a tree", says this classic by Betty Smith A Tree Grows in Brooklyn |
#8671, aired 2022-06-27 | FEMALE FOUNDERS $1200: In 1973, the year she beat Bobby Riggs, she founded the Women's Tennis Association Billie Jean King |
#8671, aired 2022-06-27 | FEMALE FOUNDERS $2000: In 1920, the year the 19th Amendment was ratified, Carrie Chapman Catt founded this, the LWV for short the League of Women Voters |
#8670, aired 2022-06-24 | PALINDROMIC NUMBERS $2,200 (Daily Double): Year of James A. Garfield's entire presidency 1881 |
#8666, aired 2022-06-20 | GRAMMY-WINNING SONGS $1200: In 1995 "Streets Of" this won Song of the Year, Best Rock Song, Best Male Rock Vocal & Best Song Written Specifically for Movies or TV Philadelphia |
#8666, aired 2022-06-20 | GRAMMY-WINNING SONGS $1600: In 1989 Bobby McFerrin took home a Song of the Year Grammy for this, & he probably didn't, & was "Don't Worry, Be Happy" |
#8664, aired 2022-06-16 | WHO WAS WHERE, WHEN $800: Despite a generous retirement plan of 2 million francs a year & this island as his own, Napoleon returned to France on March 1, 1815 Elba |
#8661, aired 2022-06-13 | TEXTING, TEXTING $400: Although it's been said many times, many ways, in Dec. 1992 a 22-year-old software engineer sent these 2 words in the very 1st text Merry Christmas |
#8661, aired 2022-06-13 | KNIGHT AFTER KNIGHT $1000: Though too frail to kneel, this 85-year-old silent film star was tapped in 1975, just a few miles from where he grew up in poverty Chaplin |
#8661, aired 2022-06-13 | BOOK TITLE REFERENCES $1000: In a Paulo Coelho novel, a 200-year-old who can transform base metals into gold The Alchemist |
#8660, aired 2022-06-10 | U.S. DATES $200: On this date each year moments of silence are observed in New York City at 8:46 & 9:03 A.M. September 11th |
#8660, aired 2022-06-10 | JANE AUSTEN-TATIOUS $400: In Austen novels the girls like a guy who has "four thousand" or "five thousand a year"--4 or 5,000 of these pounds |
#8658, aired 2022-06-08 | LAUREL $800: In 2022 Diébédo Francis Kéré became the first Black winner of this architecture prize in its 43-year history the Pritzker Prize |
#8656, aired 2022-06-06 | WOMEN WRITERS $800: Sadly, she died at the age of 30, just a year after her "Wuthering Heights" was published Emily Brontë |
#8655, aired 2022-06-03 | THIS WILL GO DOWN IN HISTORY $400: It went up in 1936 in Friedrichshafen, Germany & went down for good in Lakehurst, New Jersey a little over a year later the Hindenburg |
#8653, aired 2022-06-01 | U.S. GOVERNMENT HISTORY $400: This 29-year-old was made acting director of the Bureau of Investigation in May 1924; "acting" was gone by December (J. Edgar) Hoover |
#8652, aired 2022-05-31 | BOOK OF THE YEAR $200: "Shakespeare in 1606" is the subtitle of James Shapiro's book rhymingly titled "The Year of" this great tragic play King Lear |
#8652, aired 2022-05-31 | BOOK OF THE YEAR $400: A risque work "written" by one of this queen's ladies in waiting, "1601" was first published anonymously by Mark Twain in 1880 Elizabeth I |
#8652, aired 2022-05-31 | BOOK OF THE YEAR $600: A classic by a fellow Englishman inspired Anthony Burgess to write a book in response whose title is this, one year later 1985 |
#8652, aired 2022-05-31 | BOOK OF THE YEAR $800: Herman Raucher based his coming-of-age novel about the summer of this year on his own experiences on Nantucket island '42 |
#8652, aired 2022-05-31 | BOOK OF THE YEAR $1000: "Daybreak-2250 A.D." is by prolific author Alice Mary Norton, better known to sci-fi fans by this first name Andre |
#8652, aired 2022-05-31 | MEDIEVAL TIMES $1200: A serf who could hide out in a town for this long, "un an et un jour" in French, became a free citizen a year and a day |
#8641, aired 2022-05-16 | IT'S GETTING WINDY $1000: On April 5, 1936 an F5 tornado hit this Mississippi city; one survivor was very young Elvis Presley, born there the year before Tupelo |
#8640, aired 2022-05-13 | TREATIES $1600: Ratified by Hungary in 2007 & Ireland in 2009, the Treaty of Lisbon stipulates a 2 1/2 year term for the president of this organization the EU (the European Union) |
#8639, aired 2022-05-12 | MUSICALS BY LYRICS $1600: "Five hundred twenty five thousand six hundred minutes, how do you measure, measure a year?" Rent |
#8637, aired 2022-05-10 | JEWISH-AMERICAN TRADITIONS $800: 2022 marks the 100th anniversary of 12-year-old Judith Kaplan reading from the Torah, credited as the first of these events a bat mitzvah |
#8637, aired 2022-05-10 | JAPANESE HISTORY $1600: Certain World War II fighter planes were produced in the year 2600 of the Japanese empire, leading to this nickname the Zero |
#8636, aired 2022-05-09 | COLORFUL ALBUMS $1000: The 2018 Grammy for Album of the Year went to Kacey Musgraves for this "Hour" Golden Hour |
#8635, aired 2022-05-06 | ETHNIC GROUPS $600: Meredith Vieira has been named Woman of the Year by PAWA, which stands for this "American Women's Association" Portuguese |
#8635, aired 2022-05-06 | 4 "N" $800: It's a 500-year anniversary a quincentennial |
#8635, aired 2022-05-06 | 2 FIRST NAMES? $1000: Her numerous awards include a Grammy & several for Billboard & ASCAP Songwriter of the Year Diane Warren |
#8634, aired 2022-05-05 | ASTRONOMY $400: On this innermost planet, a solar day lasts twice as long as its year & is equal to about 176 earth days Mercury |
#8634, aired 2022-05-05 | AMERICAN GRAB BAG $1000: Ground that's frozen year round is called this; for research in Alaska, the Army Corps of Engineers built a tunnel in it permafrost |
#8634, aired 2022-05-05 | ASTRONOMY $1600: Going 1,000 mph, it would take more than 2.8 million years to travel the 4.2-light-year distance to this nearest star system Alpha Centauri |
#8628, aired 2022-04-27 | MISCELLANY $1200: A 400-year-old one of these mighty trees, Iowa's state tree, was found near Des Moines in 2018 an oak |
#8626, aired 2022-04-25 | PICTURE THE SONG $800: Grammy-winning Song of the Year in 2014 "Royals" |
#8625, aired 2022-04-22 | ALL THINGS BEING EQUAL $600: This was ratified by 29 states within one year of its Senate approval in March 1972, but that was 9 states short of what was needed the Equal Rights Amendment |
#8624, aired 2022-04-21 | THE 1720s $1600: This German composer became a British subject in 1727 & composed new King George II's coronation anthems that same year Handel |
#8618, aired 2022-04-13 | BAT QUIZ $2000: Each year as many as 20 million female Mexican free-tailed bats give birth at sites like Bracken Cave in this U.S. state Texas |
#8616, aired 2022-04-11 | IT'S A FACT $400: Competing against 19-year-olds, this Jamaican was 16 when he set a junior world record in the 200 meters at 20.13 seconds Usain Bolt |
#8616, aired 2022-04-11 | THE ORIGIN TRAIL $1600: Legend says this, outside Tokyo, was created in the year 286 B.C. by an earthquake Mount Fuji |
#8615, aired 2022-04-08 | DONE THAT $200: John Mark carried the Olympic flame into London's Wembley Stadium in this year of the first post-WWII Summer Games 1948 |
#8615, aired 2022-04-08 | POTPOURRI $1000: Sailing from Portugal in July 1497, this explorer rounded the Cape of Good Hope & reached Mombasa in April of the next year Vasco da Gama |
#8614, aired 2022-04-07 | PALINDROMIC WORDS $800: New year in Hanoi Tet |
#8609, aired 2022-03-31 | ON TV IN THE YEAR 2000 $400: The original name of this sitcom set decades ago in Wisconsin was "Teenage Wasteland" but it ended up with a more obvious title That '70s Show |
#8609, aired 2022-03-31 | ON TV IN THE YEAR 2000 $800: Tim Daly was Dr. Richard Kimble in this reboot that premiered in 2000 but it had run off the air by the next year The Fugitive |
#8609, aired 2022-03-31 | ON TV IN THE YEAR 2000 $1200: A lively debate about the role & expectations of young women was underway thanks to a portrayal by this actress Calista Flockhart |
#8609, aired 2022-03-31 | ON TV IN THE YEAR 2000 $1600: Ryan Stiles, Colin Mochrie & Wayne Brady have flipped the non-script on this show Whose Line Is It Anyway? |
#8609, aired 2022-03-31 | ON TV IN THE YEAR 2000 $2000: This James Marsters character had a love/hate relationship with Buffy the Vampire Slayer Spike |
#8608, aired 2022-03-30 | A DISH OF SCHUBERT $800: A year before his own death, in 1827 Schubert was a torchbearer at the funeral of this legendary composer Beethoven |
#8607, aired 2022-03-29 | AFRICAN-AMERICANA $800: Watch Night is a New Year's Eve tradition dating back to the eve of January 1, 1863, the date this took effect the Emancipation Proclamation |
#8605, aired 2022-03-25 | HISTORY'S MISTER "E"s $400: He was "lucky" to find Vinland after getting blown off course around the year 1000 (Leif) Erikson |
#8605, aired 2022-03-25 | LAWN TOMORROW $1000: Creeping red & chewings are "fine" this grass, drought-resistant & green all year if you're good about maintaining it fescue |
#8605, aired 2022-03-25 | BEER TODAY $3,000 (Daily Double): Planning ahead a bit, he signed a 9,000-year lease in 1759 on the St. James's Gate brewery in Dublin for 45 pounds a year (Arthur) Guinness |
#8604, aired 2022-03-24 | PUT A "RING" ON IT $200: Clocking a phrase to remember twice a year, this precedes "fall back" spring forward |
#8603, aired 2022-03-23 | MUSIC AS OF LATE $200: His "24K Magic" was good as gold & a Grammy winner for Album of the Year Bruno Mars |
#8601, aired 2022-03-21 | GIVING YOU A PLUM ASSIGNMENT $2000: Not for the faint of heart or liver, it's European plum brandy, such as Rudolf Jelínek 10 Year Gold slivovitz |
#8598, aired 2022-03-16 | PLAYS $400: One-word title of Wallace Thurman's play that opened at the Apollo in Feb. 1929, closed, but had a "Renaissance" later in the year Harlem |
#8598, aired 2022-03-16 | SUCCESSION $400: 1837:
Following King William IV's 7-year reign Victoria |
#8598, aired 2022-03-16 | CALL ME SOMETIME $1000: He played 17-year-old Elio in the film "Call Me by Your Name" (Timothée) Chalamet |
#8594, aired 2022-03-10 | VACCINES $400: Prior to the vaccine, 3 to 4 million people a year in the U.S. got this disease also called rubeola measles |
#8594, aired 2022-03-10 | EUROPEAN HISTORY $800: In 1618 longstanding hostility between Protestants & Catholics in central Europe sparked this long war the Thirty Years' War |
#8593, aired 2022-03-09 | IN RECENT NEWS $600: 2021 saw this nation sever its 55-year-old ties to Queen Elizabeth II & then as a new republic, titled Rihanna a "national hero" Barbados |
#8592, aired 2022-03-08 | THE AT LEAST 5 LABORS OF HERCULES $600: Hercules could have used a sign for this animal "crossing"--it took him a year to track down the Arcadian one a deer |
#8592, aired 2022-03-08 | PEOPLE IN SCIENCE $1200: In 1705 he wrote, "I dare venture to foretell, that it will return again in the year 1758" Halley |
#8589, aired 2022-03-03 | DETROIT: NEWS CLUES $600: (I'm Devin Scillian.) On October 3, 1997, the International Hockey League's Detroit Vipers welcomed a new teammate playing in his sixth decade; this 69-year-old ex-Red Wing, Alex Trebek's hero, took a 46-second shift in his very last pro game Gordie Howe |
#8586, aired 2022-02-28 | KICKIN' IT $600: During a 25-year NFL career, Morten Andersen missed just 10 of 859 of these kicks that follow a successful play an extra point |
#8585, aired 2022-02-25 | BIG TEN GEOGRAPHY $1000: Home to a Big Ten school, this state capital was named for a president who died in the year of its founding, 1836 Madison, Wisconsin |
#8584, aired 2022-02-24 | BOOK OF THE YEAR $200: Gore Vidal's novel with this title follows the presidential election in the year of the nation's centennial 1876 |
#8584, aired 2022-02-24 | BOOK OF THE YEAR $400: Whitley Strieber's "2012" is a thriller based on apocalyptic events supposedly predicted by this Mesoamerican people's calendar the Mayans |
#8584, aired 2022-02-24 | SENATE COMMITTEES $600: A long-time member & sometime chair of the Finance Committee, in 2021 this 88-year-old Iowan announced he's running again (Chuck) Grassley |
#8584, aired 2022-02-24 | BOOK OF THE YEAR $600: This author's novel "3001" is subtitled "The Final Odyssey" (Arthur C.) Clarke |
#8584, aired 2022-02-24 | BOOK OF THE YEAR $800: Tim Pat Coogan's account of the Easter Rising Rebellion in Ireland has this year for a title 1916 |
#8584, aired 2022-02-24 | BOOK OF THE YEAR $1000: The Maralinga nuclear tests along with the continent's first Olympics are in this: "The Year Australia Welcomed the World" 1956 |
#18, aired 2022-02-22 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $1200: Composed in the 1700s, "The Four Seasons" concertos by this composer are meant to convey different times of the year Vivaldi |
#17, aired 2022-02-22 | A CAREER IN TECH $200: (Sundar Pichai delivers the clue.) Setting ambitious goals will help you do great things; encouraged by co-founders Larry Page & Sergey Brin, even though I'd missed our goal of 50 million users of this browser 1 year, I surpassed our target of 111 million the next year Google Chrome |
#8581, aired 2022-02-21 | SPACE: KIND OF HUGE $400: A planetoid called Farfarout is the most distant object in our solar system at 132 A.U.s, short for this; 1 A.U. is 93 million miles astronomical unit |
#8581, aired 2022-02-21 | TREES $600: This tree first brought from Australia to Hawaii in the 1880s can produce 65 pounds of nuts each year a macadamia tree |
#8581, aired 2022-02-21 | THE KOREAN WAR $800: Less than a year after he was chosen supreme commander of U.S.-led forces, he was relieved of all duties by President Truman MacArthur |
#8581, aired 2022-02-21 | SPACE: KIND OF HUGE $2,200 (Daily Double): Launched in 1989, the Galileo craft took the long way 'round to this planet in a 6-year, 2.4-billion-mile circuitous route Jupiter |
#8579, aired 2022-02-17 | ABRAHAM LINCOLN $200: (Doris Kearns Goodwin presents the clue.) Born in 1809 into a frontier family, young Abe Lincoln had only one year of schooling, but read the Bible, Shakespeare, & learned logic from "The Elements" of this ancient Greek mathematician Euclid |
#8579, aired 2022-02-17 | ABRAHAM LINCOLN $400: (Doris Kearns Goodwin presents the clue.) Lincoln was a struggling 30-year-old lawyer when he began wooing this 21-year-old, & though she came from a prominent family & had many suitors, eventually won her hand in marriage Mary Todd |
#14, aired 2022-02-17 | MILLENNIALS $1600: Like everything else about him, this North Korean leader's birth year is somewhat of a mystery Kim Jong-un |
#13, aired 2022-02-17 | A KID DID THAT $200: Look it up online: a 9-year-old boy came up with this word for 1 followed by 100 zeroes a googol |
#13, aired 2022-02-17 | A KID DID THAT $600: 12-year-old Kokona Hiraki medaled in 2021 in this new Olympic event's park discipline, held in what looks like an empty pool skateboarding |
#13, aired 2022-02-17 | TENNIS LESSON $1000: In 2021, this 18-year-old won the U.S. Open, the first British woman to win a Grand Slam tennis title since 1977 (Emma) Raducanu |
#8577, aired 2022-02-15 | OH, THE THINGS I'VE DONE $400: In 1931 I took an autogiro up to a record 18,415 feet; oh yeah, I wed George Putnam that year too, so y'know... busy Amelia Earhart |
#8577, aired 2022-02-15 | OH, THE THINGS I'VE DONE $1000: Around 342 B.C. I got the call from Philip II of Macedonia to tutor his 13-year-old kid, Al; well, that's just great Aristotle |
#10, aired 2022-02-15 | LANGUAGE LAB $200: In Italian anno is this amount of time a year |
#10, aired 2022-02-15 | I BRAIN RADIO $400: At 14 this future DNA double helix discoverer went on radio's "Quiz Kids" for 3 weeks, beaten by 8-year-old Ruth Duskin (James) Watson |
#8576, aired 2022-02-14 | JOHNNY GILBERT READS LYRICS FROM THE HEART $2000: "I care for you still & I will forever... honest, we got so familiar spending each day of the year, white Ferrari" Frank Ocean |
#8575, aired 2022-02-11 | A PLACE IN THE SUN $1600: With over 300 sunny days each year, this tourist destination in the south of Spain has a name meaning "sun coast" the Costa del Sol |
#8, aired 2022-02-11 | TIME FOR LAW SCHOOL $400: Your first year will doubtless include a course or 2 on these legally enforceable agreements & their breaches contracts |
#7, aired 2022-02-11 | W.H.O. $800: In 2021 the W.H.O. recommended a promising vaccine for this disease that kills some 250,000 sub-Saharan children a year malaria |
#6, aired 2022-02-10 | GRAMMY'S ALBUM OF THE YEAR $200: 2019:
For her musical question "When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?" Billie Eilish |
#6, aired 2022-02-10 | GRAMMY'S ALBUM OF THE YEAR $400: 2017:
"24k Magic" conjured a Grammy for him Bruno Mars |
#6, aired 2022-02-10 | GRAMMY'S ALBUM OF THE YEAR $600: 1967:
This band won for "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" The Beatles |
#6, aired 2022-02-10 | GRAMMY'S ALBUM OF THE YEAR $800: 2018:
"Golden Hour" was golden for this country-crossover singer Kacey Musgraves |
#6, aired 2022-02-10 | GRAMMY'S ALBUM OF THE YEAR $1000: 2014:
Soy this guy... he's a winner, baby--("Morning Phase")--so why don't you name him? Beck |
#5, aired 2022-02-10 | HOME ECONOMICS WITH TOPHER GRACE $200: (Topher Grace delivers the clue.) College cost has tripled in 20 years & averages about $36,000 a year; parents might win 2 games on "Jeopardy!", like our show's co-creator actually did, or invest in this numeric option, legally known as a qualified tuition plan a 529 |
#8573, aired 2022-02-09 | ISLE "B" $800: About 4.6 million people every year take the 35-minute ferry ride from Seattle to this island in Puget Sound Bainbridge Island |
#4, aired 2022-02-09 | BILLBOARD YEAR-END NO. 1 ALBUMS $400: "Let It Go" & name this soundtrack album, No. 1 for 2014 Frozen |
#4, aired 2022-02-09 | BILLBOARD YEAR-END NO. 1 ALBUMS $800: No. 1 for 2016 was this Adele number featuring "Hello" 25 |
#4, aired 2022-02-09 | BILLBOARD YEAR-END NO. 1 ALBUMS $1200: Having 2018's No. 1 just added to her superstar "reputation" Taylor Swift |
#4, aired 2022-02-09 | BILLBOARD YEAR-END NO. 1 ALBUMS $1600: Fans sure weren't "Allergic" to his "Hollywood's Bleeding", tops for 2020 Post Malone |
#4, aired 2022-02-09 | BILLBOARD YEAR-END NO. 1 ALBUMS $2000: This singer/pianist's "As I Am", featuring her hit "No One", was 2008's No. 1 (Alicia) Keys |
#8571, aired 2022-02-07 | CANNES $800: It won top prize in 1949 & a 2015 restoration also played Cannes in the centenary year of Orson Welles, who played Harry Lime The Third Man |
#8569, aired 2022-02-03 | THE 20th CENTURY $600: Seen here are three random Americans of the 4.3 million born in this year at the tail end of the baby boom 1961 |
#8569, aired 2022-02-03 | ROCKS & MINERALS $1600: 4.4 billion-year-old deposits have been found of this end-of-the-alphabet mineral, a December birthstone zircon |
#8568, aired 2022-02-02 | CAR"Z" $600: Its MX-5 Miata was named 2016 World Car of the Year Mazda |
#8562, aired 2022-01-25 | SIGNS OF THE ZODIAC $200: The zodiac year begins in March with the spring equinox & this as the first sign Aries |
#8561, aired 2022-01-24 | THE YEAR OF BEFORE & AFTER $400: Prince tune that turns into a sudsy song that you sing on a long car ride "1999 Bottles Of Beer On The Wall" |
#8561, aired 2022-01-24 | THE YEAR OF BEFORE & AFTER $800: The iPhone is introduced & a marital temptation arises 2007 year itch |
#8561, aired 2022-01-24 | THE YEAR OF BEFORE & AFTER $1200: Fateful year for the Titanic & a movie in which Henry Fonda plays a juror 1912 Angry Men |
#8561, aired 2022-01-24 | THE YEAR OF BEFORE & AFTER $2000: The year of the Battle of Waterloo leads to Andy Warhol's suggested period of notoriety 1815 minutes of fame |
#8561, aired 2022-01-24 | THE YEAR OF BEFORE & AFTER $4,000 (Daily Double): William Henry Harrison wins an election; a short nap ensues 1840 winks |
#8559, aired 2022-01-20 | THE ENERGY BIZ $2000: This company that bought Texaco in 2001 had a bit of a rough year in 2020, if you consider losing $5.5 billion rough Chevron |
#8553, aired 2022-01-12 | AUTHORS' NONFICTION $400: His "Life on the Mississippi" preceded "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by a year Twain |
#8552, aired 2022-01-11 | THE VICTORIAN ERA $2000: The world's first postage stamp, this "dark" one, was issued & soon millions of letters were being sent every year the Penny Black |
#8551, aired 2022-01-10 | CELEBRITY HOBBIES $200: Reasonably enough for Queen Bey, Beyoncé makes hundreds of jars of this a year, partly because of her daughters' allergies honey |
#8550, aired 2022-01-07 | THEIR FIRST TOP 10 SOLO HIT $200: "California Girls" in 1985, the year he left Van Halen David Lee Roth |
#8550, aired 2022-01-07 | HIS WIDOW LIVED ON $400: In 2019, 96-year-old Rachel Robinson attended ceremonies at this stadium in her husband's centennial year Dodger Stadium |
#8550, aired 2022-01-07 | IT WAS 1970s AMERICA, MAN $400: In 1973 he was minority leader of the House of Representatives but got 2 big job promotions by the end of the next year Ford |
#8550, aired 2022-01-07 | IT WAS 1970s AMERICA, MAN $1000: On July 2, 1979 the U.S. Mint elected to release a coin honoring this woman; nearly 758 million were made that year Susan B. Anthony |
#8548, aired 2022-01-05 | ISLANDS $400: One year before Napoleon's birth, this island was transferred from Italian to French ownership Corsica |
#8548, aired 2022-01-05 | MY SINGLE JUST DROPPED $600: 1895 was a big year for this man; he defended his thesis on magnetism & was drawn to wed Marie Sklodowska, also a towering intellect Curie |
#8548, aired 2022-01-05 | YOUR PARADE $1000: This Philadelphia New Year's parade is named for its costumed entertainers, a tradition dating to Ancient Egypt the Mummers Parade |
#8547, aired 2022-01-04 | TAGLINES OF SCARY MOVIES $800: 2013:
"One night a year, all crime is legal" The Purge |
#8546, aired 2022-01-03 | 1950s TELEVISION $1600: On radio, this soap opera was all about a minister, but he had been written out when it began a 57-year TV run in 1952 Guiding Light |
#8545, aired 2021-12-31 | IT'S YOUR LOKI DAY $800: Father of the year Loki gave the world Jörmungand, the serpent that at this final battle comes from sea onto land, spewing venom Ragnarök |
#8545, aired 2021-12-31 | MODERN FOLK HEROES $1200: The U.N. made July 12 her day, honoring when the 16-year-old Pakistani gave a fiery speech there in 2013 Malala |
#8544, aired 2021-12-30 | NEW YEAR'S ROCKIN' EVE $200: This beloved TV personality hosted New Year's Rockin' Eve across 5 decades, beginning in the 1970s
"Let me wish you Happy New Year, fellas. And you think it's wild out there, it's beginning to pour here in Times Square." Dick Clark |
#8544, aired 2021-12-30 | NEW YEAR'S ROCKIN' EVE $400: He has been hosting the live show from Times Square for more than 15 years
"The clock is ticking off the minutes to the new year. New York is getting ready!" Ryan Seacrest |
#8544, aired 2021-12-30 | NEW YEAR'S ROCKIN' EVE $600: For 2002 she helped "Get The Party Started" with her hit of the same name
"I'm comin' up so you better get this party started /
I'm comin' up, I'm comin'..." P!nk |
#8544, aired 2021-12-30 | NEW YEAR'S ROCKIN' EVE $800: A highlight of New Year's Rockin' Eve 2010 was her "Let's Get Loud"
"Let's get loud /
Let's get loud /
Ain't nobody gotta tell ya /
What you gotta do..." Jennifer Lopez |
#8544, aired 2021-12-30 | NEW YEAR'S ROCKIN' EVE $1000: The Backstreet Boys & this boy band joined forces to usher in 2011
"Yeah, you /
Got the right stuff /
Ha, baby, yeah /
You're the reason why I sing this song /
Come on, y'all! /
Here we go!" New Kids on the Block |
#8540, aired 2021-12-24 | SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN $400: America welcomed him as a citizen in 1891, the year he invented a coil that's still used in electronics today Tesla |
#8538, aired 2021-12-22 | THE HOST OF CHRISTMAS PAST $400: 17-year-old Liza Minnelli performed in the 1963 "Christmas Show" of this woman, her mom Judy Garland |
#8535, aired 2021-12-17 | THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND $200: In 1665 the Great this hit London, killing thousands; the next year, the Great Fire took out 13,000 houses & much of the city the Great Plague |
#8535, aired 2021-12-17 | CELEBRITIES $400: With this man the Entertainer as host of the Emmys in 2021, the ratings went up from the previous year Cedric |
#8532, aired 2021-12-14 | AN INSTRUCTOR $1000: A piece on sight-reading strategies was 2013's article of the year in the Journal AMT, American this Music Teacher |
#8530, aired 2021-12-10 | BIG MOVIE ON CAMPUS $800: This 1973 film follows a first-year student's clashes with his contracts prof at Harvard Law School The Paper Chase |
#8529, aired 2021-12-09 | ALL ON YOUR HEAD NOW $400: You profs once wore this flat-topped cap; now you see it on celebrating soon-to-be ex-students once or twice a year a mortarboard |
#8528, aired 2021-12-08 | "ENNIAL" RESPONSE WILL DO $800: It means year after year, as when it precedes "pennant contender" perennial |
#8524, aired 2021-12-02 | AIN'T THAT AMERICA $400: By 1962 this doc's injected vaccine helped reduce polio cases in the U.S. from more than 50,000 a year to fewer than 1,000 Salk |
#8524, aired 2021-12-02 | EXAM TIME $600: These exams are required for many Ph.D. degrees; for a Stanford history doctorate, you take them in your third year oral exams |
#8524, aired 2021-12-02 | IT'S TOO CROWDED $600: On New Year's Eve 1994, 4.2 million showed up for fireworks & a free Rod Stewart concert on Copacabana Beach in this city Rio de Janeiro |
#8521, aired 2021-11-29 | WE'VE GOT THAT BAND'S NUMBER $4,000 (Daily Double): Matty Healy, lead singer of these Brit rockers, was born 14 years after the year in their name The 1975 |
#8518, aired 2021-11-24 | NEWS $400: On Feb. 1, 2021 the Myanmar military took power & a 1-year "state of" this was declared--& not surprisingly, soon extended emergency |
#8517, aired 2021-11-23 | BUSINESS HISTORY $2000: In 1667 Londoner Nicholas Barbon set up the first office for this type of insurance fire insurance |
#8517, aired 2021-11-23 | IN A PREVIOUS LIFE $2000: I was one of these slaves in Sparta; every year, war was officially declared on us so a well-born Spartan could always kill me helots |
#8516, aired 2021-11-22 | TV COMEDY SKETCHES $400: From this troupe, "Upper-Class Twit of the Year" Monty Python |
#8515, aired 2021-11-19 | WORLD LEADERS LEAVE THE SCENE $600: In June 2021 Naftali Bennett made news by replacing this man who had a 12-year run as prime minister Netanyahu |
#8515, aired 2021-11-19 | LIKE A NATURALIZED WOMAN $800: Canadian-born singer, seen here in 2005, the year she became a U.S. citizen Alanis Morissette |
#8513, aired 2021-11-17 | GRAMMY'S ALBUM OF THE YEAR $400: The soundtrack to this film won for 1993; Record of the Year was "I Will Always Love You" The Bodyguard |
#8513, aired 2021-11-17 | 1985 IN ENTERTAINMENT $400: 1985 was a good year for this duo as "Everything She Wants" & "Careless Whisper" topped the charts Wham! |
#8513, aired 2021-11-17 | GRAMMY'S ALBUM OF THE YEAR $800: "The Miseducation of" her got the nod for 1998 (Lauryn) Hill |
#8513, aired 2021-11-17 | 1985 IN ENTERTAINMENT $800: An alternative to MTV for the more mature viewer, it launched on New Year's Day with Marvin Gaye singing the national anthem VH1 |
#8513, aired 2021-11-17 | GRAMMY'S ALBUM OF THE YEAR $1200: The first country artist to win the award was him, for 1968 & "By the Time I Get to Phoenix" Glen Campbell |
#8513, aired 2021-11-17 | GRAMMY'S ALBUM OF THE YEAR $1600: Duets with Norah Jones & Diana Krall among others made his "Genius Loves Company" the winner for 2004 (Ray) Charles |
#8513, aired 2021-11-17 | GRAMMY'S ALBUM OF THE YEAR $2000: He won back-to-back for 1973 & 1974 with "Innervisions" & "Fulfillingness' First Finale" Stevie Wonder |
#8511, aired 2021-11-15 | FAMOUS NAMES $400: Following a 3-year exile in Siberia, future dictator Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov took this last name Lenin |
#8511, aired 2021-11-15 | NOVEL QUOTES $800: In this novel 17-year-old Augustus Waters introduces himself as having had "a little touch of osteosarcoma" The Fault in Our Stars |
#8508, aired 2021-11-10 | SITCOMS $1600: Aaron Sorkin spent a year in a hotel room writing a movie script & watching ESPN; the latter led him to create this sitcom Sports Night |
#8507, aired 2021-11-09 | THE BEGINNING $400: With about 240 athletes from 14 countries, the modern Olympics began in this year in Athens, Greece 1896 |
#8506, aired 2021-11-08 | ANIMAL EXPRESSIONS $1000: The lifespans of creatures like Bubbles, said to be 60, may have given rise to this phrase, meaning "it's been a long time" a donkey's age (donkey's year) |
#8506, aired 2021-11-08 | NATIONAL HISTORIC LANDMARKS $1600: Landmarks in two states include the 155-year-old bridge connecting Covington, Kentucky to this city Cincinnati |
#8505, aired 2021-11-05 | CLASSIC ALBUMS $800: It won Best Rock Album & Album of the Year Grammys in 1996 & featured the Best Rock Song "You Oughta Know" Jagged Little Pill |
#8505, aired 2021-11-05 | COMPUTER HISTORY $1600: In 1965 this American engineer first enunciated his famed "Law", predicting computing power would double every year (Gordon) Moore |
#8505, aired 2021-11-05 | STATES & SYMBOLS $3,000 (Daily Double): Its flag displays the Roman numerals for 1820, the year of a deal that brought it into the Union Missouri |
#8504, aired 2021-11-04 | PRIME NUMBER, PLEASE $1000: The treaties formally ending the American Revolution were signed in this year 1783 |
#8503, aired 2021-11-03 | HISTORIC ILLINOIS $800: Reaping $60 million a year in the 1920s, this man said of his illegal Illinois enterprises, "I give the public what the public wants" Capone |
#8501, aired 2021-11-01 | KANSAS CITY: NEWS CLUES $800: (Hi, I'm Karli Ritter.) A highlight of the holiday season each year is the lighting of the mayor's 100-foot Christmas tree at Crown Center, opened in 1971 by the same Kansas City businessman who founded this card company Hallmark |
#8500, aired 2021-10-29 | NON-MEDICAL FEVERS $800: The Indiana Fever is a 21-year-old professional sports franchise in this league the WNBA |
#8499, aired 2021-10-28 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $1000: 2021 is the bicentennial year of this Missouri city, home to the first state university established west of the Mississippi Columbia |
#8497, aired 2021-10-26 | THE U.K. SINCE 1945 $600: Ending a 77-year drought for a U.K. male, in 2013 this tennis player won the Wimbledon Men's Singles Andy Murray |
#8496, aired 2021-10-25 | HAVING A BALL $400: The basketball-playing sons of LaVar Ball are Lonzo, LiAngelo & him, NBA Rookie of the Year in 2020-21 for Charlotte LaMelo |
#8496, aired 2021-10-25 | WHAT HAPPENED WHEN $800: Africa's largest country in area, it gained independence from France in 1962 after an 8-year-long revolution Algeria |
#8493, aired 2021-10-20 | BRIDAL WAVES $800: The happy wavers seen here are enjoying the New Year's Day Junkanoo Parade in this capital of the Bahamas Nassau |
#8493, aired 2021-10-20 | BOATS & SHIPS $1000: The 107-year-old steamboat Belle of Louisville offers lunch & dinner cruises as it paddles up & down this river the Ohio |
#8492, aired 2021-10-19 | ANNUS HORRIBILIS $600: "Black Thursday" saw panic selling on Oct. 24 of this year, leading to "Black Monday" & "Black Tuesday" & dark days in the USA 1929 |
#8492, aired 2021-10-19 | ANNUS HORRIBILIS $1000: Called "The Civil War's Bloodiest Day", Sept. 17 of this year saw the Battle of Antietam, with 23,000 casualties 1862 |
#8489, aired 2021-10-14 | MY FIRST NAME IS A TV SHOW TITLE $800: Mr. Read, an 8-year-old aardvark Arthur |
#8487, aired 2021-10-12 | ON BASE $800: In 1968 an air reserve base in Indiana was named for this Hoosier astronaut killed in a fire the year before Gus Grissom |
#8484, aired 2021-10-07 | 30 SOMETHING $800: There are this many months of the year with 31 days 7 |
#8484, aired 2021-10-07 | CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT $1000: He tinkers with history at the Ministry of Truth, gets a girlfriend & has a very bad year Winston Smith |
#8483, aired 2021-10-06 | THE 1991 GRAMMYS $1600: "Unforgettable" that's what you are, you being this woman who took home Record of the Year, aided by her late father (Natalie) Cole |
#8482, aired 2021-10-05 | THEIR '90s HIT ALBUM $600: 1992's Grammy-winning Album of the Year: this Brit's
"Unplugged" Clapton |
#8481, aired 2021-10-04 | RIVERS OF ASIA $1200: The Mekong River fluctuates greatly during the year, with its highest levels after the rains of this wind system monsoon |
#8481, aired 2021-10-04 | THIS CATEGORY IS FILLER $1600: Used as filling in a defensive wall near Mount Olympus, a 2,200-year-old statue of this queen & goddess was found in 2006 Hera |
#8478, aired 2021-09-29 | EUROPEAN HISTORY $400: With a 72-year reign over France from 1643 to 1715, he's the longest-ruling king in European history Louis XIV |
#8478, aired 2021-09-29 | WEBCAMS $600: In 2019 a webcam captured the fire that collapsed this 850-year-old cathedral's spire & roof Notre Dame |
#8478, aired 2021-09-29 | SOUTHERN LITERATURE $800: 14-year-old Lily finds her way to Tiburon, S.C. & the Boatwright sisters in Sue Monk Kidd's "The Secret Life of" these Bees |
#8475, aired 2021-09-24 | GET-TOGETHERS $800: At this Latin American celebration the 15-year-old honoree gets her last doll, a symbol of the transition to adulthood quinceañera |
#8474, aired 2021-09-23 | SUPERLATIVES $400: Since 1985 People magazine has been pointing out this person, including Sean Connery & Michael B. Jordan Sexiest Man |
#8474, aired 2021-09-23 | HISTORIC WOMEN $1600: In 1969 Shirley Chisholm attacked the Vietnam War in the first floor speech of her 14-year run as a rep. of this state New York |
#8471, aired 2021-09-20 | YOUTHFUL POP STARS $800: This 17-year-old singer was appearing on "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet" when he released his album "Ricky" Ricky Nelson |
#8471, aired 2021-09-20 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1,000 (Daily Double): "War & Peace" opens in this year, 7 years before a fateful invasion 1805 |
#8470, aired 2021-09-17 | THIS CONSTITUTION $200: Article I says this "shall be composed of members chosen every second year by the people of the several states" the House of Representatives |
#8470, aired 2021-09-17 | A MORE PERFECT UNION $800: Kelly Ripa & Mark Consuelos first met on the set of this daytime soap in 1995 & eloped a year later All My Children |
#8469, aired 2021-09-16 | MUHAMMAD ALI $200: (Hana Ali presents the clue.) "I am free to be what I wanna be and think what I wanna think", my 22-year-old dad told reporters after winning the heavyweight title in 1964; soon after, he announced his conversion to this centuries-old faith & remained devoted to it & its teachings Islam |
#8469, aired 2021-09-16 | MUHAMMAD ALI $800: (Hana Ali presents the clue.) In 1978, my then 36-year-old dad won the heavyweight title for an unprecedented third time with a triumphant decision over this young Olympic champion who had taken his crown just seven months earlier Leon Spinks |
#8468, aired 2021-09-15 | ORGANIZATIONS $200: A 1908 race riot in Springfield, Illinois helped lead to the founding of this civil rights organization the following year NAACP |
#8467, aired 2021-09-14 | CENTRAL AMERICAN CAPITALS $400: 1776 wasn't just a big year for us--Guatemala City was founded, 3 years after Antigua Guatemala was felled by one of these an earthquake |
#8467, aired 2021-09-14 | HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $800: Lunar New Year is called Chunjie in Chinese & this 3-letter name in Vietnamese Tet |
#8467, aired 2021-09-14 | CELEBRITIES $2000: This Argentinian, named FIFA's World Player of the Year 5 times between 2009 & 2015, made news by switching teams in 2021 Messi |
#8465, aired 2021-08-13 | CROSSWORD CLUES "Q" $2000: Term for a 40-to-49 year old
(14 letters) quadragenarian |
#8463, aired 2021-08-11 | AN AUGUST CATEGORY $400: August 1935: Note the grinning 66-year-old as this act providing a system of benefits becomes law Social Security |
#8462, aired 2021-08-10 | TV ROLES $2000: Lee Majors played a stuntman who had a side hustle as a bounty hunter on this 1980s series The Fall Guy |
#8460, aired 2021-08-06 | NOVELS SINCE 1900 $200: 23-year-old Andrea Sachs gets a job as a personal assistant at Runway magazine in this Lauren Weisberger novel The Devil Wears Prada |
#8460, aired 2021-08-06 | HEY, WHAT YEAR IS IT? $400: The country gets re-hitched at Appomattox Court House; "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" begin 1865 |
#8460, aired 2021-08-06 | HEY, WHAT YEAR IS IT? $800: The stock market crashes; the St. Valentine's Day Massacre goes down; Trotsky gets exiled from Russia... man, that's a rough year 1929 |
#8460, aired 2021-08-06 | HEY, WHAT YEAR IS IT? $1200: John Kerry is nominated for president; the Spirit Rover lands on Mars 2004 |
#8460, aired 2021-08-06 | HEY, WHAT YEAR IS IT? $1600: The American Revolution ends; Washington Irving begins; Russia annexes Crimea, not for the last time 1783 |
#8460, aired 2021-08-06 | HEY, WHAT YEAR IS IT? $2000: Burr kills Hamilton non-musically; Lewis & Clark set out; Friedrich Schiller tells the tale of William Tell 1804 |
#8459, aired 2021-08-05 | RECENT POP CULTURE $400: "I Can't" do this by H.E.R. won the Grammy for Song of the Year in 2021 "I Can't Breathe" |
#8457, aired 2021-08-03 | RELIGION $3,600 (Daily Double): The Umrah pilgrimage to Mecca can happen almost any time of the year, unlike this one that must happen in the month of Dhu al-Hijjah the Hajj |
#8456, aired 2021-08-02 | HODGEPODGE $400: In 1985 the Cubs' speedy Davey Lopes had 47 of these, failing only 4 times--not bad for a 40-year-old! stolen base |
#8454, aired 2021-07-29 | TAKE A FEW LETTERS $1200: A 200-year anniversary provides the letters for this water source for a soldier or hiker canteen |
#8450, aired 2021-07-23 | DOING THE SAFETY DANCE $200: FEMA says to replace the 9-volt battery at least once every year in this home device; some even include carbon monoxide sensors smoke detector |
#8450, aired 2021-07-23 | HISTORICAL NONFICTION $1600: "1177 B.C." marks the decline of this ancient North African empire following invasions by marauding "sea peoples" that year Egypt |
#8448, aired 2021-07-21 | SING "OUT" $200: Ed Sheeran won 2015 Song of the Year & Best Solo Pop Performance Grammys for this ruminative tune "Thinking Out Loud" |
#8448, aired 2021-07-21 | 15 MINUTES OR LESS $400: A skilled pro in this job that's done about once a year can take care of one Merino in 3 minutes a sheep shearer |
#8448, aired 2021-07-21 | MED SCHOOL $600: Third-year students typically begin clinical these to gain experience in many specialties for a few weeks to a few months rotations |
#8446, aired 2021-07-19 | PODCASTS $200: At the end of their 2020 Archewell Holiday podcast, they got little Archie to wish royal fans a "Happy New Year" Meghan & Harry |
#8446, aired 2021-07-19 | WHAT'S IN THE CAVE? $600: It wasn't just mammoths--these fur-covered rhinos are depicted in 30,000-year-old art in France's Chauvet Cave woolly |
#8445, aired 2021-07-16 | TODAY I LEARNED $600: The food & drink shop here was uncovered in 2020, complete with traces of 2,000-year-old food in this city buried by a volcano Pompeii |
#8445, aired 2021-07-16 | GRAMMY WINNERS $600: 2011: This song gave it all to Adele--Record of the Year, Short Form Music Video & Song of the Year "Rolling In The Deep" |
#8439, aired 2021-07-08 | MICHAEL JORDAN $1000: It wasn't quite as magical as the Bulls years, but MJ did average 20 per game at age 39 in his last year with this alliterative team the Washington Wizards |
#8436, aired 2021-07-05 | DRUNK HISTORY $3,400 (Daily Double): Year in which the photo here was taken 1933 |
#8435, aired 2021-07-02 | OTHER STUFF HAPPENED IN 1492 $1600: Antonio de Nebrija dedicated his "Castilian Grammar" to this queen, having a busy year Isabella |
#8435, aired 2021-07-02 | CANADIANA $3,000 (Daily Double): Around the year 1000, the Vikings established a small camp on this large eastern island Newfoundland |
#8432, aired 2021-06-29 | LIT-POURRI $400: His follow-up to "A Christmas Carol" was "The Chimes", a "story of some bells that rang an old year out and a new year in" (Charles) Dickens |
#8431, aired 2021-06-28 | JAMES BEARD CHEF OF THE YEAR $400: In 2013 David Chang won for his noodle restaurant Momofuku, named for the inventor of this instant noodle dish Ramen noodles (ramen) |
#8431, aired 2021-06-28 | JAMES BEARD CHEF OF THE YEAR $800: In addition to winning in 1997 for the French Laundry, Thomas Keller created the look of the title dish of this 2007 Pixar film Ratatouille |
#8431, aired 2021-06-28 | JAMES BEARD CHEF OF THE YEAR $1200: Born in Spain, he was the 2011 James Beard Chef of the Year & the 2018 James Beard Humanitarian of the Year (José) Andrés |
#8431, aired 2021-06-28 | JAMES BEARD CHEF OF THE YEAR $2000: 2010 was good for this man, he won a James Beard award for Craft, his restaurant, & an Emmy, for "Top Chef" on Bravo (Tom) Colicchio |
#8431, aired 2021-06-28 | JAMES BEARD CHEF OF THE YEAR $3,800 (Daily Double): Alice Waters, the first woman to win the award, won for Chez Panisse in this California college town Berkeley |
#8430, aired 2021-06-25 | SINGING $400: If you hit a random piano key & your 5-year-old tells you it's a D-sharp, she has this quality & a singing career may be in store perfect pitch |
#8429, aired 2021-06-24 | WORLD HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $1600: If you are on this Indonesian island around the Hindu new year, you may not be able to leave your hotel during Nyepi, the day of silence Bali |
#8428, aired 2021-06-23 | LIGHTNING $800: The saying that lightning doesn't do this is not strictly accurate; the Empire State Building gets at least 25 hits a year strike twice |
#8427, aired 2021-06-22 | "AL" WORDS FROM ARABIC $400: It's from Arabic for "calendar" & the first one printed in America was "for New England for the year 1639" an almanac |
#8427, aired 2021-06-22 | MUSIC HISTORY $1200: A "Hamilton" number about the defeat of Adams & Burr is titled "The Election Of" this year 1800 |
#8426, aired 2021-06-21 | SOME RANDOM INFO $600: The last person to receive a pension from this war died in 2020; the 90-year-old woman's dad changed sides midway through the American Civil War |
#8424, aired 2021-06-17 | EVEN NUMBERS $1600: Year ending in zero in which Rhode Island ratified the Constitution, the last of the 13 colonies to do so 1790 |
#8423, aired 2021-06-16 | FAWKES & FRIENDS $600: This king, only son of Mary, Queen of Scots, was one intended target, with his 9-year-old daughter to be a puppet queen James I |
#8423, aired 2021-06-16 | THE COMICS $800: A 1930s comic strip starring a woman named Fritzi Ritz introduced this 8-year-old girl Nancy |
#8421, aired 2021-06-14 | MOBITUARIES WITH MO ROCCA $400: (Mo Rocca presents the clue.) Audrey Hepburn suffered hunger & loss as a teen in Nazi-occupied Netherlands & felt a special bond with this girl born in the same year; the girl's diary evoked such painful wartime memories that Hepburn declined to play her on film, even at the request of the girl's father Anne Frank |
#8421, aired 2021-06-14 | THAT'S HEAVY, MAN $800: A 4-year restoration plan begun in 2017 stopped this 15.1-ton great hour bell from chiming, save for special occasions Big Ben |
#8419, aired 2021-06-10 | 15 LOVE $200: In a 2003 book this 15-year-old could have "counted the freckles on" Cho Chang's nose as she steals a kiss from him Harry Potter |
#8419, aired 2021-06-10 | 15 LOVE $400: "One Time" in 2009 this 15-year-old kid from Ontario hit us with the lyrics "Girl I love, girl I love you" Justin Bieber |
#8419, aired 2021-06-10 | RAILWAY & SUBWAY STATIONS $800: More than 3 billion riders a year use this city's subway system, with stops at Gucheng & Dongdan stations Beijing |
#8417, aired 2021-06-08 | MUSICAL GENRES $400: In 2020 "Contigo" by Alejandro Sanz won Record of the Year at these Grammys the Latin Grammys |
#8416, aired 2021-06-07 | SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY $800: Topped by a year-round ski slope, CopenHill is a waste-to-energy plant in this European nation Denmark |
#8415, aired 2021-06-04 | FAILED CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS $200: The "Every Vote Counts" amendment tried to abolish this "College" but went nowhere the Electoral College |
#8414, aired 2021-06-03 | BARNS $400: Barn owls are generally this 10-letter word meaning they mate for life, & could nest in the same barn year after year monogamous |
#8414, aired 2021-06-03 | NOBEL PRIZE ODDITIES $2,000 (Daily Double): 1948 had no Peace Prize winner; this man who was nominated that year was assassinated & Nobels are rarely given posthumously (Mahatma) Gandhi |
#8413, aired 2021-06-02 | NEW TO THE OED $1600: The last 4 months of the year are called these 5-letter "months", like the last piece of wood in a fire the ember months |
#8412, aired 2021-06-01 | U.S. HISTORY $1,500 (Daily Double): The Louisiana Purchase Exposition opened April 30, 1904 in this non-Louisiana city St. Louis |
#8410, aired 2021-05-28 | NONFICTION $400: "My Year in a Women's Prison" is the subtitle of this memoir by Piper Kerman Orange is the New Black |
#8407, aired 2021-05-25 | A PALACE IN HISTORY $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna, Austria.) The iron bed at Schönbrunn Palace was where this 86-year-old emperor died in 1916; he barely left the palace the previous two years, but mainly did so to visit wounded soldiers Franz Joseph |
#8406, aired 2021-05-24 | CHINESE THEATRE HAND & FOOTPRINTS $2000: She played 110-year-old Miss Jane Pittman in 1974 & left her prints in 2018 at age 93 Cicely Tyson |
#8401, aired 2021-05-17 | TIME MAGAZINE PERSON OF THE YEAR $400: 1955: Harlow Curtice, president of this automaker that was the first corporation to earn $1 billion in net profits in a year General Motors |
#8401, aired 2021-05-17 | TIME MAGAZINE PERSON OF THE YEAR $1200: 1997: Andrew Grove, chairman & CEO of this company, a pioneer in the computer chip industry Intel |
#8401, aired 2021-05-17 | TIME MAGAZINE PERSON OF THE YEAR $1600: 1965:
This West Point grad who was commander of U.S. forces in South Vietnam (William) Westmoreland |
#8401, aired 2021-05-17 | TIME MAGAZINE PERSON OF THE YEAR $2000: 1968: Moon-orbiting Apollo 8 astronauts Anders, Borman & this man who later commanded Apollo 13 (James) Lovell |
#8401, aired 2021-05-17 | TIME MAGAZINE PERSON OF THE YEAR $6,000 (Daily Double): 2015: This national leader instrumental in dealing with Europe's refugee & debt crises Angela Merkel |
#8397, aired 2021-05-11 | ON THE CALENDAR $800: Every year, Jerusalem has a relay race with torches to celebrate this holiday Hanukkah |
#8397, aired 2021-05-11 | ON THE CALENDAR $2000: In the anniversary year 1892, Benjamin Harrison urged observance of a holiday honoring this "pioneer of progress" Christopher Columbus |
#8395, aired 2021-05-07 | PLAY THAT FOLKY MUSIC $400: After a 2-year hiatus to battle breast cancer, Patty Griffin returned with a 2019 release that won this award for Best Folk Album the Grammy |
#8392, aired 2021-05-04 | TRUCE! $200: British & German troops traded gifts & even played soccer between the trenches during the Christmas truce of this first year of World War I 1914 |
#8392, aired 2021-05-04 | 20th CENTURY NAMES $800: He was named the Canadian Press' Newsmaker of the Year every year from 1968 to 1975 Pierre Trudeau |
#8390, aired 2021-04-30 | AROUND LOS ANGELES $200: This beach city has a famous ferris wheel, & a 112-year-old pier with a marker for the end of historic Route 66 Santa Monica |
#8390, aired 2021-04-30 | 2020 VISION $600: This Foo Fighters frontman got in a drum battle with a 10-year-old, lost, then wrote a song about her David Grohl |
#8388, aired 2021-04-28 | MODERN HEBREW $400: When Eliezer Ben-Yehuda revived spoken Hebrew from a 1,700-year sleep, his 1st new word was milon, this type of book he compiled a dictionary |
#8388, aired 2021-04-28 | AMERICA BEFORE 1800 $1,000 (Daily Double): In December 1732 Benjamin Franklin published his first edition of this, for the coming year Poor Richard's Almanack |
#8387, aired 2021-04-27 | PANTONE COLORS OF THE YEAR $400: This flower followed "Fuchsia" & preceded "Quartz" in the names of colors for 2001 & 2016 rose |
#8387, aired 2021-04-27 | PANTONE COLORS OF THE YEAR $800: Want to get this color for 2009? Try mixing orange juice & champagne Mimosa |
#8387, aired 2021-04-27 | PANTONE COLORS OF THE YEAR $1600: The red-brown color for 2015 is the name of this fortified Sicilian wine often used in cooking marsala |
#8387, aired 2021-04-27 | PANTONE COLORS OF THE YEAR $2000: This greenish-blue December birthstone was the color for 2010 turquoise |
#8387, aired 2021-04-27 | PANTONE COLORS OF THE YEAR $2,500 (Daily Double): The color of the year for 2000 was Cerulean Blue, the subject of a famous rant by Meryl Streep in this 2006 film The Devil Wears Prada |
#8386, aired 2021-04-26 | BUSINESS ACRONYMS & ABBREV. $400: The pharmaceutical industry spends about $200 billion a year on R&D, short for this research & development |
#8383, aired 2021-04-21 | SNOOZE CLUES $400: The last thing he remembers on waking from a 20-year-long snooze is "a strange man with a keg of liquor" Rip Van Winkle |
#8383, aired 2021-04-21 | SAY YES TO THE DRESSMAKER $600: William Travilla designed the white dress that got blown out of proportion on this actress in "The Seven Year Itch" Marilyn Monroe |
#8383, aired 2021-04-21 | FROM PAGE TO STAGE $2000: Douglass Wallop's novel "The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant" inspired this sporty musical Damn Yankees |
#8380, aired 2021-04-16 | LATIN PHRASEBOOK $400: Annus mirabilis refers to one of these that was truly remarkable a year |
#8380, aired 2021-04-16 | EUROPEAN GEO-GRAPHIC $2000: So many rivers flow into this shallow gulf that its salinity is low enough for it to stay frozen up to five months each year the Gulf of Bothnia |
#8379, aired 2021-04-15 | DOING MOVIES & TV $1200: He won an Emmy guest starring on "Friends" in 2000, the year he was "Unbreakable" as David Dunn Bruce Willis |
#8377, aired 2021-04-13 | TITLE WAVES $600: They swept over the NBA, winning the title every year from 1959 to 1966 the Boston Celtics |
#8374, aired 2021-04-08 | HEAVY METAL $400: The EPA says if your home was built pre-1978, beware of this heavy metal, banned in paint by the federal government that year lead |
#8373, aired 2021-04-07 | DISCOVERIES IN SCIENCE $2000: A 9-year-old found a clavicle that turned out to belong to an unknown species of this "southern ape" genus that also included Lucy Australopithecus |
#8371, aired 2021-04-05 | FORTUNE FAVORS THE BALD $400: 1956 was a good year for the bald: Ike got re-elected & this movie musical starring Yul Brynner had its premiere The King and I |
#8371, aired 2021-04-05 | HISTORY POTPOURRI $4,500 (Daily Double): What is usually called the Ancien Regime came to an end in this year 1789 |
#8367, aired 2021-03-30 | KIPLING CHARACTERS $400: Brave 6-year-old Percival William Williams is known as "Wee" this, from a book of nursery rhymes Willie (Wee Willie Winkie) |
#8367, aired 2021-03-30 | MOGUL "E" $800: Last name of Lars Magnus, who in the year the telephone was patented, started this Swedish telecom giant Ericsson |
#8366, aired 2021-03-29 | GETTING DOWN TO BUSINESS $3,600 (Daily Double): As tires weren't colored black until 1912, Bibendum, the now-123-year-old mascot of this company, is white Michelin |
#8363, aired 2021-03-24 | KINGS & QUEENS $400: The British queen Boudicca led a revolt in the year 60 against this occupying empire Rome |
#8360, aired 2021-03-19 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: In November 1774, a year after the one in Boston, Charleston had one of these in its harbor tea party |
#8360, aired 2021-03-19 | AN HONORARY KNIGHT TO REMEMBER $1600: In 2009, the year of his death, this senator from Massachusetts was made an honorary knight Ted Kennedy |
#8357, aired 2021-03-16 | POETS & POETRY $1600: "It was many and many a year ago", begins a poem by Edgar Allan Poe about this maiden Annabel Lee |
#8352, aired 2021-03-09 | GOOD DAY, SIR! $1600: Happy post-New Year! On January 7, 2011 this Hawaiian singer had his "Grenade" explode at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 Bruno Mars |
#8350, aired 2021-03-05 | 3-WORD BOOK TITLES $400: This Huxley novel is set in the year 632 AF (after Ford) Brave New World |
#8348, aired 2021-03-03 | MEGALITHS $1600: The roof box in the 5,000-year-old Newgrange tomb in Ireland allows light to enter during this annual winter event the solstice |
#8347, aired 2021-03-02 | SPORTS TROPHIES & AWARDS $400: MLB's Rookie of the Year awards are named for this groundbreaker who won the award in 1947 Jackie Robinson |
#8346, aired 2021-03-01 | 1984 TV SHOW DEBUTS $1600: In addition to "Jeopardy!", that year saw a new "Super" version of this game show that used one-word clues between players Password |
#8343, aired 2021-02-24 | BUY ME $1000: How about a 60-year-old bottle of Macallan 1926, this booze? One sold at auction for $1.9 million scotch |
#8338, aired 2021-02-17 | CATHOLICISM $800: Other than Sundays, the days each year on which the faithful are expected to attend mass are called "Holy Days of" this Obligation |
#8338, aired 2021-02-17 | THE NOVEL'S NARRATOR $1600: 5-year-old Jack, in this bestseller by Emma Donoghue Room |
#8337, aired 2021-02-16 | DRIVE MY CAR $200: Its Wrangler wrangled an award--2019 MotorTrend SUV of the Year Jeep |
#8337, aired 2021-02-16 | AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: In 1849 California wanted to enter the Union as a free state, leading to this complicated deal the next year The Compromise of 1850 |
#8334, aired 2021-02-11 | MARITIME DISASTERS $800: Sadly the SS Portland went down in a storm with all 200 or so on board in this same year that the Maine blew up 1898 |
#8334, aired 2021-02-11 | TV $800: For her role on HBO's "Euphoria", this 24-year-old recently became the youngest winner of an Emmy for Lead Actress in a Drama Zendaya |
#8331, aired 2021-02-08 | FACTS & FIGURES $400: A byword for fast reproduction, this animal can have a litter of 7, 5 times a year a rabbit |
#8328, aired 2021-02-03 | "UN"-TERTAINMENT $400: This duet between Nat "King" Cole & Natalie Cole won Grammys for Song of the Year & Record of the Year "Unforgettable" |
#8328, aired 2021-02-03 | 1961, WHAT A YEAR! $400: July: JFK tells Americans "We cannot and will not permit the Communists to drive us out of" this city Berlin |
#8328, aired 2021-02-03 | 1961, WHAT A YEAR! $800: February: The Beatles are paid 5 pounds (total) for their first show at the Cavern Club in this city Liverpool |
#8328, aired 2021-02-03 | 1961, WHAT A YEAR! $1200: April: this cosmonaut makes history when he takes Vostok 1 about 200 miles above the Earth Gagarin |
#8328, aired 2021-02-03 | 1961, WHAT A YEAR! $1600: March: with other nations disapproving of apartheid, South Africa withdraws from this body rooted in the British Empire the British Commonwealth |
#8328, aired 2021-02-03 | 1961, WHAT A YEAR! $2000: September: the Foreign Assistance Act gives birth to the agency known by this 5-letter name USAID |
#8326, aired 2021-02-01 | THE 20th CENTURY $1000: This major Vietnam offensive began January 31, 1968 during the Vietnamese lunar new year the Tet Offensive |
#8325, aired 2021-01-29 | LINCOLN BLOGS $400: The "fatal first of January", 1841: Woe! My engagement to this woman has broken off! (but something tells me we'll wed next year) Mary Todd |
#8324, aired 2021-01-28 | THE 5 W's, HISTORICALLY $800: When: date & year congress resolved the "United Colonies are... to be free & independent states", 2 days before what you might think July 2, 1776 |
#8323, aired 2021-01-27 | THE GRAMM"E"S $200: They checked into the Record of the Year winners' list with "Hotel California" the Eagles |
#8323, aired 2021-01-27 | CORSICAN $400: He was born in Corsica's capital of Ajaccio on August 15, 1769, the same year the French took over Napoleon |
#8323, aired 2021-01-27 | THE GRAMM"E"S $1000: 1960's Song of the Year went to Ernest Gold for his theme to this movie about the founding of Israel Exodus |
#8320, aired 2021-01-22 | LIT-POURRI $800: This Ian McEwan novel follows the consequences of a lie 13-year-old Briony Tallis tells & her attempts to make up for it Atonement |
#8320, aired 2021-01-22 | SECRETARIES OF STATE $800: Secretary to John Adams for one year, he's better known for his much longer tenure on the Supreme Court Marshall |
#8320, aired 2021-01-22 | LIT-POURRI $1600: In books by Eoin Colfer, this 12-year-old is a millionaire, a genius & a criminal mastermind Artemis Fowl |
#8319, aired 2021-01-21 | BOOKS FOR YOUNG ADULTS $1000: In this bestseller by Angie Thomas, 16-year-old Starr Carter sees her friend shot dead by a police officer The Hate U Give |
#8315, aired 2021-01-15 | U.S. CITIES $1200: With thousands collected every year, each March Sweetwater, Texas hosts a roundup of these reptiles rattlesnakes |
#8311, aired 2021-01-11 | KNIGHTS $800: Sir Norman Hartnell designed this 21-year-old's wedding dress for her 1947 ceremony & was knighted for his services in 1977 Elizabeth II |
#8308, aired 2021-01-06 | BILLBOARD NO. 1 SONG OF THE YEAR $400: "Boom Boom Pow" by this "leguminous" group satisfied onomatopoeic musical cravings in 2009 the Black Eyed Peas |
#8308, aired 2021-01-06 | BILLBOARD NO. 1 SONG OF THE YEAR $800: "Girls hit your hallelujah" for this 2015 collaboration between Mark Ronson & Bruno Mars "Uptown Funk" |
#8308, aired 2021-01-06 | BILLBOARD NO. 1 SONG OF THE YEAR $1200: Not the similarly named video app, this song made it to the top in 2010 for Ke$ha "TiK ToK" |
#8308, aired 2021-01-06 | BILLBOARD NO. 1 SONG OF THE YEAR $1600: Wham! took the top spot in 1985 with "Careless Whisper"; 3 years later this singer had "Faith" George Michael |
#8308, aired 2021-01-06 | BILLBOARD NO. 1 SONG OF THE YEAR $2000: "All the boys they say que soy buena" when they hear this tune, tops from 1996 "Macarena" |
#8307, aired 2021-01-05 | OF THE LAW $1200: The Fair Housing Act of 1968 says victims of discrimination by seller or landlord can appeal to this then 3-year-old cabinet department Housing and Urban Development (HUD) |
#8301, aired 2020-12-14 | OLYMPIC SPORTS YOU CAN DO BAREFOOT $800: With a new partner, Brooke Sweat, 42-year-old Kerri Walsh Jennings plans to go for her 4th gold in this 2-word sport in 2021 beach volleyball |
#8300, aired 2020-12-11 | QUOTABLE WOMEN $600: This late comedian on her 50+-year career: "I was smart enough to go through any door that opened" Joan Rivers |
#8295, aired 2020-12-04 | "H"ISTORY $2000: This emperor of Ethiopia was deposed in 1974 & died under mysterious circumstances a year later Haile Selassie |
#8295, aired 2020-12-04 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE $2000: His first book of poems, "The Black Riders" was published in 1895, the same year as his "Red Badge of Courage" (Stephen) Crane |
#8294, aired 2020-12-03 | KEEPING IT 100 $800: In a non leap year, the 100th day falls on this date April 10th |
#8293, aired 2020-12-02 | THE 2020 PULITZER PRIZES $1600: Nikole Hannah-Jones won for the N.Y. Times multimedia project named for this year when 20 slaves were brought to Virginia 1619 |
#8292, aired 2020-12-01 | "HOP" $1600: This dish of black-eyed peas is a favorite in southern households on New Year's Day Hoppin' John |
#8291, aired 2020-11-30 | A ROYAL PAIN $2000: In 2012 some Spaniards were not sympathetic to this 74-year-old king who injured his hip on an elephant-hunting expedition Juan Carlos |
#8290, aired 2020-11-27 | ACTOR FACTS $400: Less than a year before this young actor's 1955 death, Dennis Stock took the photo of him known as "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" James Dean |
#8290, aired 2020-11-27 | PALINDROMES $400: In 2019 Kelley Blue Book named this Honda coupe Best Buy of the Year among compact cars a Civic |
#8286, aired 2020-11-23 | RUSSIAN INTERFERENCE $600: The U.S. boycotted the 1980 Moscow Olympics in protest of Russia's invasion of this country the year before Afghanistan |
#8284, aired 2020-11-19 | THESE ARE THE DAYS $200: January 17 is the day to "Ditch New Year's" these commitments; that sounds about right resolutions |
#8284, aired 2020-11-19 | AMERICAN MUSIC AWARDS $200: Making her AMA debut in 2019, she performed "All The Good Girls Go To Hell" & also won the award for New Artist of the Year Billie Eilish |
#8283, aired 2020-11-18 | REQUESTS $400: On Facebook if you delete this request, the sender can't send you another one for a year a friend request |
#8282, aired 2020-11-17 | MUSICAL VIENNA $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents from out the Kursalon Music Hall in Vienna, Austria.) The Kursalon opened in 1867 & hosted its first concert of the work of Johann Strauss Jr. the very next year; today, you can still come to both hear & dance this, of which Strauss was known as the king a waltz |
#8282, aired 2020-11-17 | MUSICAL VIENNA $1600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents from inside the Vienna State Opera House in Vienna, Austria.) In a tradition since 1900, around New Year's, the Vienna State Opera presents this Johann Strauss Jr. operetta whose name means "the bat" Die Fledermaus |
#8280, aired 2020-11-13 | CRIME & PUNISHMENT $1600: 30-year CIA veteran Aldrich Ames, in 1994, for tax evasion & this more serious crime: life without parole espionage |
#8280, aired 2020-11-13 | CELEBRITY CLASS OF 1980 $1600: She was on the fast track her senior year, winning the AAU Junior Olympics Pentathlon; in 1988 she would win the Olympics Heptathlon Jackie Joyner-Kersee |
#8279, aired 2020-11-12 | CHOCOLATE $1,200 (Daily Double): In 1905, the year after it began making chocolate, this company merged with the Anglo-Swiss Condensed Milk Company Nestlé |
#8273, aired 2020-11-04 | SEEING RED $2000: As seen in Titian's "Assumption of the Virgin" from the year 1518, this wormy, vivid red was widely used in medieval and Renaissance art vermillion |
#8272, aired 2020-11-03 | AMERICAN NAMES $200: After manually guiding the Eagle to the Moon, this first in command went on to get a Pres. Medal of Freedom that same year Neil Armstrong |
#8272, aired 2020-11-03 | RIVER DEEP, MOUNTAIN HIGH $200: Talk about prime delivery! Each year, this river with depths up to 300' provides 20% of the fresh water entering the ocean the Amazon |
#8271, aired 2020-11-02 | 27 DRESSES $800: Hey, 27-year-old putting on this garment over your T-shirt, is that a Levi's Type III Trucker one? jean jackets |
#8271, aired 2020-11-02 | ONCE-POPULAR FIRST NAMES $1200: Once, Brits gave thousands of boys a year this name of Christopher Guest's "Spinal Tap" guitarist; in 2016, fewer than 5 Nigel |
#8270, aired 2020-10-30 | HISTORIC BELLS $1,200 (Daily Double): It first rang in 1859, cracked later that year & was refitted with a lighter hammer Big Ben |
#8268, aired 2020-10-28 | HODGEPODGE $200: In 1968 Congress passed the Fair this act, a word also in the name of a then 3-year-old cabinet department Housing |
#8267, aired 2020-10-27 | IT ALL STARTS WITH A GREEK LETTER $800: In 1975 Sony introduced this video recorder, a year before VHS Beta |
#8266, aired 2020-10-26 | AIRPLANE MODE $800: First flown during the year in its name, this alphanumeric plane was intended to carry nuclear weapons to the USSR the B-52 |
#8263, aired 2020-10-21 | EXERCISE YOUR... $800: In sports it's an extra year at the end of a player's contract; he can exercise it & choose to stay with his current team the option year |
#8260, aired 2020-10-16 | 2-LETTER WORDS $400: According to the Chinese calendar, 2021 will be the year of this animal the ox |
#8259, aired 2020-10-15 | A PAIR OF PENCE $200: In 1859 he edited a twopenny weekly called "All the Year Round" & serialized his own "A Tale of Two Cities" in it (Charles) Dickens |
#8259, aired 2020-10-15 | A PAIR OF PENCE $400: Around the year 1400 the 31-mile trip from London to Gravesend on this river cost twopence the Thames |
#8258, aired 2020-10-14 | OK, BOOMERANG $1000: Possibly the world's oldest boomerang was found in 1987 in a 23,000-year-old Polish cave & was made out of the tusk of one of these a woolly mammoth |
#8258, aired 2020-10-14 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN WRITERS $1600: This creator of TV's "Grey's Anatomy" revealed how saying yes changed her life in her book "Year of Yes" Shonda Rhimes |
#8256, aired 2020-10-12 | FRANCE $800: Your year in this region in the south of France might include passing through its lavender fields Provence |
#8254, aired 2020-10-08 | 3 THINGS ABOUT THE PRESIDENT $200: Was a sheriff in Erie County, New York; had a 4-year presidential hiatus, has a great first name for a Muppet Grover Cleveland |
#8254, aired 2020-10-08 | SPORTS AWARDS $400: Walter Payton Man of the Year football |
#8254, aired 2020-10-08 | DOCTOR, NO! $1600: In the 1800s Paris hospitals used 5 million of these annelids a year--I know they can still be useful, but no thanks leeches |
#8253, aired 2020-10-07 | MISCELLANY $600: Rembrandt & of course, Velazquez were featured at this Madrid museum in 2019, its bicentennial year the Prado |
#8253, aired 2020-10-07 | HISTORY $800: In 1609 this English navigator sailed into the yet-to-be-named Delaware Bay; he'd sail in a river named for him the same year Hudson |
#8250, aired 2020-10-02 | WAR, AMERICAN STYLE $200: The battles of Bennington, Brandywine & Saratoga all occurred in the same year during this war the Revolutionary War |
#8250, aired 2020-10-02 | BIG BUSINESS NEWS OF THE 2010s $800: In 2012 this iconic 244-year-old reference company announced that its 2010 32-volume edition would be its last in print Encyclopaedia Britannica |
#8250, aired 2020-10-02 | LAST WORDS $2,500 (Daily Double): This term for "the end of the line" was once a god celebrated at the end of the Roman year terminus |
#8248, aired 2020-09-30 | THEATER TIME $800: The acclaimed "Lehman Trilogy" runs 3 hours-plus as it sweeps from the 1840s to this recent year of the financial meltdown 2008 |
#8248, aired 2020-09-30 | MUSICAL STYLES $800: Selena was named Female Vocalist of the Year 11 times at the awards named for this style of Latin music Tejano |
#8247, aired 2020-09-29 | LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT GRAMMYS $2000: 2019 recipients included this 76-year-old Spaniard with many a romantic crossover hit Julio Iglesias |
#8246, aired 2020-09-28 | THE JEFFERSONS $600: Here are Grace Slick & her bandmates' group during the Summer of Love year of 1967 Jefferson Airplane |
#8246, aired 2020-09-28 | WRITERS ANONYMOUS $1000: In 1827 this 18-year-old American anonymously published "Tamerlane and Other Poems", including "Visit of the Dead" Edgar Allan Poe |
#8244, aired 2020-09-24 | "A" IS FOR AUTUMN $600: This period in the ecclesiastical year leading up to Christmas begins Sunday, Nov. 29, 2020 Advent |
#8244, aired 2020-09-24 | SEE WHO SALUTES $600: We salute this fallen hero, a Pac-10 Defensive Player of the Year, an Arizona Cardinal, and an Army ranger Pat Tillman |
#8243, aired 2020-09-23 | POLITICS GETS PHYSICAL $600: In Arkansas in 1837, one representative fatally stabbed another with this weapon named for a man killed the year before a Bowie knife |
#8243, aired 2020-09-23 | ON THE GLOBE $800: Notes left at this holy site are collected twice a year & buried at the Mount of Olives the Wailing Wall |
#8242, aired 2020-09-22 | HODGEPODGE $200: An early depiction of a demon holding this customary farm implement is on a thousand-year-old high cross in County Louth, Ireland a pitchfork |
#8239, aired 2020-09-17 | FAMOUS NAMES $1600: In 1935, the year before his Olympic heroics, this track star broke 3 world records & tied a 4th within 45 minutes Jesse Owens |
#8238, aired 2020-09-16 | ACM AWARDS $800: The son of country singer Rhett Akins, he was the 2018 winner for Male Artist of the Year Thomas Rhett |
#8238, aired 2020-09-16 | ACM AWARDS $1600: A nickname for the state of Virginia, this band won Group of the Year in 2019 & Vocal Group of the Year in 2018 Old Dominion |
#8238, aired 2020-09-16 | ACM AWARDS $2000: New Female Vocalist of the Year for 2015, she literally sparkled at the awards in 2017 when she sang "Yeah Boy" Kelsea Ballerini |
#8237, aired 2020-09-15 | KEN JENNINGS ON WINNING STREAKS $400: (Ken Jennings presents the clue.) This Midwesterner did have some down years in his 50-plus-year investing success story but also some pretty good streaks, including a nine-year run where shares in his company increased in value by an average of 52% a year (Warren) Buffett |
#8236, aired 2020-09-14 | DISCOVERY $600: In this year James Marshall discovered gold from the American River in California; the next year the rush was on 1848 |
#8232, aired 2020-06-09 | HISTORY OF HUNGARY $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents from , Szentendre, Hungary at the Hungarian Open Air Museum.) A section of the Hungarian Open Air Museum is devoted to the Great Hungarian Plain where this group swept in around the year 895; they're still the majority in what's now Hungary the Magyars |
#8231, aired 2020-06-08 | NAME, RANK, NO SERIAL NUMBER $200: William Bligh officially got this rank one year after his 1789 misadventure captain |
#8226, aired 2020-06-01 | IN THE YEAR 2000 $200: Defeating Rick Lazio, Hillary Clinton was elected to the U.S. Senate to represent this state New York |
#8226, aired 2020-06-01 | IN THE YEAR 2000 $400: Following the death of Charles Schulz, the final original strip of this comic was published in February Peanuts |
#8226, aired 2020-06-01 | IN THE YEAR 2000 $600: A rise in this fatal bovine ailment sparked alarm in several European countries mad cow disease |
#8226, aired 2020-06-01 | IN THE YEAR 2000 $800: The 2000 Summer Olympics were held in this city with Governor-General Sir William Deane opening the games Sydney |
#8226, aired 2020-06-01 | IN THE YEAR 2000 $1000: After 136 years underwater, this Confederate submarine was raised intact to the surface in August the Hunley |
#8225, aired 2020-05-29 | COOL NEWS $200: 17-year-old Wolf Cukier discovered a planet just 3 days into his internship with this government agency NASA |
#8225, aired 2020-05-29 | COOL NEWS $600: In 2020 this sports league & its players association reached a deal that will pay top centers & point guards in excess of $500,000 a year the WNBA |
#8224, aired 2020-05-28 | MAGNET $4,000 (Daily Double): An 1845 letter from the 21-year-old future Lord Kelvin inspired this British scientist to show how magnetism & light are related (Michael) Faraday |
#8220, aired 2020-05-22 | TV $200: Since the year 2000, this rapper has played "SVU" detective Fin Tutuola Ice-T |
#8220, aired 2020-05-22 | A 1970s YEAR $400: Edwin Moses wins gold in world record time as the Summer Olympics are held in Montreal '76 |
#8220, aired 2020-05-22 | A 1970s YEAR $800: Following impeachment hearings, President Richard Nixon resigns 1974 |
#8220, aired 2020-05-22 | A 1970s YEAR $1200: Atari's Pong is created & the last man walks on the Moon 1972 |
#8220, aired 2020-05-22 | A 1970s YEAR $1600: An Islamic revolution overthrows the Shah of Iran, who flees to Egypt 1979 |
#8220, aired 2020-05-22 | A 1970s YEAR $2000: Not only does Elvis Presley die, but so do Groucho Marx, & Gummo too 1977 |
#8219, aired 2020-05-21 | "YE" OLD $400: This word for a leavening agent entered the language around the year 1000 yeast |
#8218, aired 2020-05-20 | OUT OF THEIR LEAGUE $1000: The NHL got a "great" deal when this team & 18-year-old Wayne Gretzky moved over from the WHA in 1979 the Edmonton Oilers |
#8217, aired 2020-05-19 | STILL STANDING IN EUROPE $200: The sculptor Phidias supervised this building's construction beginning in the year 447 B.C. the Parthenon |
#8216, aired 2020-05-18 | ROCK BANNED $2000: 1968: "There's just no place for" this Rolling Stones song in many cities in a year of political demonstrations "Street Fighting Man" |
#8216, aired 2020-05-18 | LET'S HAVE A PLANET $2000: Its year is 687 terrestrial days long Mars |
#8215, aired 2020-05-01 | POLITICIAN AUTHORS $400: "Earth in the Balance" by this man was published in 1992, the same year he was elected vice president (Al) Gore |
#8215, aired 2020-05-01 | BOOKS OF THE DEAD $1200: Samuel Butler's "The Way of All" this was published in 1903, the year after his death The Way of All Flesh |
#8213, aired 2020-04-29 | THERE SHE IS, MYTH GREECE $2,000 (Daily Double): An early snowbird, this daughter of Zeus had to spend a few months a year in Hades after an unfortunate food choice Persephone |
#8212, aired 2020-04-28 | THE FRENCH PRINCE $800: Because of his father's frequent bouts of insanity, in 1418 15-year-old Charles VII declared himself one of these royal stand-ins regent |
#8211, aired 2020-04-27 | AROUND THE USA $1000: Miner & cowhand Jim White claimed to have discovered these New Mexico caverns as a 16-year-old in 1898 Carlsbad Caverns |
#8208, aired 2020-04-22 | EARTH DAY AT 50 $800: The first Earth Day took place in 1970, inspiring this act in the same year that sought to keep our skies free from pollution the Clean Air Act |
#8208, aired 2020-04-22 | PHENOMENA $1200: In 1816 one of these natural phenomena in Asia affected the weather & made it the "year without a summer" globally a volcanic eruption |
#8207, aired 2020-04-21 | JAMES TAYLOR: HIS LIFE & MUSIC $800: (James Taylor presents the clue.) In 1971 I earned my first Gold record for a single & the following year my first Grammy for this song written by Carole King "You've Got A Friend" |
#8206, aired 2020-04-20 | THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE $1600: (MSNBC's Steve Kornacki presents by a display monitor.) New York didn't choose its electors in time and Rhode Island and North Carolina hadn't yet ratified the Constitution, but the vote was otherwise unanimous when every elector cast a vote for George Washington in this year 1789 |
#8204, aired 2020-04-16 | JUNIORS & SENIORS $1200: In February 2018 Dale Sr.'s grandson Jeffrey drove in the Daytona 500, the 40th straight year for this family the Earnhardts |
#8203, aired 2020-04-15 | SCHOLARSHIP $2000: In 1925 Leslie Hotson unearthed the 332-year-old record of the inquest into this "Dr. Faustus" playwright's death Marlowe |
#8201, aired 2020-04-13 | U.N. OBSERVANCES $200: The resolution naming 2020 the International Year of Plant Health recognized plants' role in fighting this global "change" climate change |
#8200, aired 2020-04-10 | DON'T KNOW MUCH ABOUT HISTORY $1600: In this 19th c. year the USS President fought a battle with HMS Belvidera, which until then didn't know for sure there was a war on 1812 |
#8199, aired 2020-04-09 | SPORTS HISTORY $1000: Leading his team to a come-from-behind victory, this 24-year-old Kansas City QB became the youngest Super Bowl MVP winner in 2020 Patrick Mahomes |
#8198, aired 2020-04-08 | THE OLYMPIC GAMES $2000: In 2014 Bode Miller became the oldest Alpine skiing medalist & this 18-year-old U.S. woman became the youngest slalom champ Mikaela Shiffrin |
#8198, aired 2020-04-08 | THE SOLAR SYSTEM $2000: Equal to about 230 million of our years, a galactic year is the time it takes for the solar system to make this trip a trip around the Milky Way |
#8197, aired 2020-04-07 | THE 1990s $1000: In 1990 this Soviet president won the Nobel Peace Prize but a year later, he said peace out & quit his job Mikhail Gorbachev |
#8196, aired 2020-04-06 | COLLEGE TALES $400: Julia Whelan's novel "My Oxford Year" follows the young American recipient of one of these scholarships Rhodes |
#8194, aired 2020-04-02 | THE ACADEMY OF COUNTRY MUSIC AWARDS $400: After 9 previous nominations, this performer who brings the thunder from Down Under was named Entertainer of the Year in 2019 Keith Urban |
#8194, aired 2020-04-02 | THE ACADEMY OF COUNTRY MUSIC AWARDS $800: In 2017, before we met her in the middle with Zedd & Grey on pop radio, she was named ACM New Female Vocalist of the Year Maren Morris |
#8190, aired 2020-03-27 | DEMOGRAPHY $200: 2-word term for the number of children born in one year per every 1,000 people of a particular group the birth rate |
#8184, aired 2020-03-19 | THE PONY EXPRESS $200: Big news items spread by the Express included the election of this president & the start of the Civil War a year later Lincoln |
#8184, aired 2020-03-19 | ADJECTIVES FOR ANIMALS $1600: This word describes birds that travel great distances during certain seasons of the year migratory |
#8182, aired 2020-03-17 | MEDICINE MEN $4,200 (Daily Double): A 2019 surgery on a 60-year-old woman revealed a nearly 50-year-old mitral valve that this South African man had implanted Dr. Christiaan Barnard |
#8180, aired 2020-03-13 | 1940s LITERATURE $1200: This 1944 Charles Jackson novel about a chronic alcoholic won 4 Oscars when it came to the big screen a year later The Lost Weekend |
#8178, aired 2020-03-11 | A YEAR ENDING IN 0 $400: It was the first full year of the Great Depression 1930 |
#8178, aired 2020-03-11 | A YEAR ENDING IN 0 $800: The Boston Massacre left 5 dead & several injured 1770 |
#8178, aired 2020-03-11 | A YEAR ENDING IN 0 $1600: Rome hosted the Summer Olympics 1960 |
#8178, aired 2020-03-11 | A YEAR ENDING IN 0 $2000: 19 years after his death, Napoleon's remains were returned to France where he was given a state funeral & a new resting place 1840 |
#8178, aired 2020-03-11 | A YEAR ENDING IN 0 $3,000 (Daily Double): The Environmental Protection agency was established 1970 |
#8176, aired 2020-03-09 | YOU'RE SHOWING YOUR AGE $800: From the Latin for "yield of grapes", it's the year in which particular wine grapes in a region were grown a vintage |
#8176, aired 2020-03-09 | COSMOS: POSSIBLE WORLDS $800: Neil deGrasse Tyson explains how a plant can detect these hazards that kill thousands of people each year: "If the plant puts out red leaves, beware. But, if its leaves are green, then you can play there in peace with your friends" landmines |
#8176, aired 2020-03-09 | YOU'RE SHOWING YOUR AGE $1200: Every year, thousands of 18-year-olds "age out" of this type of care by non-birth parents & some have trouble on their own foster care |
#8176, aired 2020-03-09 | BE STILL MY ART $1600: This folk painter created "Making Apple Butter" in 1958, the year she turned 98 Grandma Moses |
#8176, aired 2020-03-09 | CUBA BEFORE FIDEL $2000: Pre-Castro Cuba was a hopping place; in this last full year before Fidel took over, Havana had more movie theaters than New York City 1958 |
#8175, aired 2020-03-06 | MUSICALS $1200: After 3,388 performances & an 8-year run, this musical was no longer "the word" when it closed April 13, 1980 Grease |
#8172, aired 2020-03-03 | LUKE $2000: As depicted in the 1881 painting here, in Luke, Chapter 2, 12-year-old Jesus goes missing and turns up in this holy building a temple |
#8170, aired 2020-02-28 | SPORTS UPSETS $800: Do you believe in miracles? Mike Eruzione & the U.S. men's hockey team beat the Soviets at the Olympics in this year 1980 |
#8170, aired 2020-02-28 | SPORTS UPSETS $1000: 2019's ESPY Award for Upset of the Year went to this 25-1 underdog, the first heavyweight boxing champ of Mexican ancestry Andy Ruiz Jr. |
#8169, aired 2020-02-27 | ANNUAL EVENTS $600: First held in 1897, it's now run on Patriots' Day in April each year the Boston Marathon |
#8165, aired 2020-02-21 | & FINALLY... $600: This musical about an audition for Broadway ended its initial 15-year run at the Shubert in 1990; now, 5-6-7-8...respond! A Chorus Line |
#8163, aired 2020-02-19 | MYTHICAL CREATURES $400: It's the only mythical creature among the 12 Chinese zodiac signs; 2024 will be the year of it dragon |
#8162, aired 2020-02-18 | "V" END OF THE RUSSIAN NAME $400: Name of the family that had a 300-year run of royal rule starting in 1613 with Czar Michael Romanov |
#8161, aired 2020-02-17 | BEARD MAN $400: In 1860 11-year-old Grace Bedell of New York sent a letter urging him to "let your whiskers grow", & he did! Lincoln |
#8161, aired 2020-02-17 | SURVIVOR $800: (Jeff Probst, the host of Survivor, presents the clue.) A fan favorite from "Survivor: The Australian Outback", she went on to co-host "The View" & "Fox & Friends" (Elisabeth) Hasselbeck |
#8160, aired 2020-02-14 | QUOTABLE 21st CENTURY MOVIES $1000: 2005:
"Noooo, Kelly Clarkson!" The 40-Year-Old Virgin |
#8159, aired 2020-02-13 | THE CIVIL WAR $800: With Atlanta burning in their wake, 62,000 soldiers under Gen. Sherman marched 300 miles to the sea in Nov. & Dec. of this year 1864 |
#8153, aired 2020-02-05 | THE "IDE"S OF FEBRUARY $400: On February 24, 2019 hundreds of bicyclists showed up for Portland, Oregon's "Worst Day of the Year" this Ride |
#8153, aired 2020-02-05 | MOVIES ACROSS AMERICA $400: (I'm Anne Elise Park with TXA21. [She presents from the George W. Bush Presidential Library in Dallas, Texas].) George W. Bush's Oval Office is one setting for the movie "W.", directed by this man who entered Yale the same year as Bush Oliver Stone |
#8151, aired 2020-02-03 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN ATHLETES $600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew is at the National Museum of African American History & Culture in Washington, D.C.) One of the most memorable moments in Olympic history was when track stars Tommie Smith & John Carlos raised their fists in a Black Power salute in Mexico City in this year of escalated racial tensions six months after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. 1968 |
#8150, aired 2020-01-31 | REAL-LIFE CELEBRITY SUPERHEROES $1200: I, this '90s figure skater, called 911 & gave mouth-to-mouth to an 81-year-old woman who collapsed in a bar in Portland Tonya Harding |
#8150, aired 2020-01-31 | LITERARY FESTIVALS $1200: Each year the Western Folklife Center in Elko, Nevada hosts the national gathering for poetry named for this rustic job cowboy |
#8150, aired 2020-01-31 | HISTORIC PLEAS $2000: He asked for mercy from Chester Arthur, arguing that he increased Arthur's income from $8,000 to $50,000 a year Charles Guiteau |
#8147, aired 2020-01-28 | 2020 ANNIVERSARIES $4,600 (Daily Double): In 2020 this composer's birth city of Bonn & surrounding areas are celebrating his 250th birthday all year long Beethoven |
#8145, aired 2020-01-24 | THE GRAMMY AWARDS $400: The 2015 Record of the Year was "Uptown Funk" by this guy & featuring Bruno Mars Mark Ronson |
#8145, aired 2020-01-24 | 1984 $400: 1984 was the first model year for the minivan from this company with Lee Iacocca as its CEO Chrysler |
#8145, aired 2020-01-24 | THE GRAMMY AWARDS $800: 1985's Song of the Year was this charity number with 21 soloists & a big chorus of stars "We Are The World" |
#8145, aired 2020-01-24 | THE GRAMMY AWARDS $1600: In 2006 this 90-year-old guitar innovator won Grammys for Best Rock & Best Pop Instrumental Performances Les Paul |
#8145, aired 2020-01-24 | THE GRAMMY AWARDS $2000: 2018's Album of the Year went to this country queen for "Golden Hour" Kacey Musgraves |
#8145, aired 2020-01-24 | A BRUSH WITH DEATH $2000: Jacques-Louis David painted "The Death of..." this Frenchman in 1793, the year of his assassination Marat |
#8144, aired 2020-01-23 | ENTERING THE LANGUAGE $200: 1845, in the Knickerbocker Magazine: this 2-word possessive synonym for January 1 New Year's |
#8141, aired 2020-01-20 | NIAGARA FALLS $200: 22-year-old Steven Trotter was the youngest man to go over the falls in one of these & survive; BTW, the stunt is illegal a barrel |
#8138, aired 2020-01-15 | TEAM AMERICA $200: The first Olympic Team USA, in this 19th century year, consisted of 14 athletes, who won 11 events 1896 |
#8138, aired 2020-01-15 | FAMOUS & HISTORIC WOMEN $1000: Time Magazine named Corazon Aquino, the first female president of this nation, 1986's woman of the year the Philippines |
#7, aired 2020-01-14 | HISTORY $800: Making it tough on the pres. seeking re-election, the Dow Jones Industrial Average hit an all-time low of 41.22 in this year 1932 |
#7, aired 2020-01-14 | MODERN FAMILY $800: Among 18- to 34-year-olds, 2/3 of Italians live here, as opposed to 1/3 of Germans & Brits with their parents |
#8134, aired 2020-01-09 | IT'S THE GIELGUD MOVIE OF THE YEAR $400: In 1991, 87-year-old Sir John played this "Tempest" magician, saying it was the only Shakespeare role he was the right age for Prospero |
#8134, aired 2020-01-09 | MAGAZINE COLLECTION $600: This 66-year-old magazine offers a section for shows on Netflix, Hulu & Amazon called "Stream It!" TV Guide |
#8134, aired 2020-01-09 | IT'S THE GIELGUD MOVIE OF THE YEAR $800: For this 1953 film Gielgud coached a nervous Marlon Brando, playing Mark Antony, on how to read The Bard's lines Julius Caesar |
#8134, aired 2020-01-09 | IT'S THE GIELGUD MOVIE OF THE YEAR $1200: In 1965 John played Henry IV in "Chimes at Midnight" with Orson Welles in this part that suited him physically Falstaff |
#8134, aired 2020-01-09 | IT'S THE GIELGUD MOVIE OF THE YEAR $1600: John played Clarence when this other great 20th century Shakespearean actor directed "Richard III" in 1955 (Laurence) Olivier |
#8134, aired 2020-01-09 | IT'S THE GIELGUD MOVIE OF THE YEAR $2000: 1981 was the year of Gielgud's Oscar-winning turn as this character's butler Arthur |
#6, aired 2020-01-09 | CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER PUDDING $200: (Christopher Plummer delivers the clue.) In 2012 at age 82 I became the oldest winner of a competitive acting Oscar; the record for a male actor had stood for 36 years, since this beloved 80-year-old comedian took the honors in 1976 for "The Sunshine Boys" (George) Burns |
#8133, aired 2020-01-08 | ANOTHER YEAR, ANOTHER DOLLAR $400: In 1886 this appropriate First Lady's portrait began appearing on $1 silver certificates Martha Washington |
#8133, aired 2020-01-08 | ANOTHER YEAR, ANOTHER DOLLAR $800: The dollar got smaller--literally, by about 30%--in this year the stock market shrank too 1929 |
#8133, aired 2020-01-08 | ANOTHER YEAR, ANOTHER DOLLAR $1200: This motto was added to the backs of $1 silver certificates in 1957 & to $1 Federal Reserve notes in 1964 In God We Trust |
#8133, aired 2020-01-08 | ANOTHER YEAR, ANOTHER DOLLAR $1600: In 2017 this Cherokee syllabary inventor appeared on the reverse of the $1 coin Sequoyah |
#8133, aired 2020-01-08 | ANOTHER YEAR, ANOTHER DOLLAR $2000: Issued in 1862, the first dollar bill featured the portrait of a real big fish, this Treasury Secretary & future Chief Justice Salmon Chase |
#4, aired 2020-01-08 | GOATS (GREATEST OF ALL TIME) $400: In this year, Alfred Eisenstaedt captured what became one of the most iconic photos of all time 1945 |
#4, aired 2020-01-08 | MOZART $1000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Mozart Birthplace in Salzburg, Austria.) One of the most famous images of Mozart is this painting in his birthplace, in which a seven-year-old Mozart is wearing the outfit given to him by this Holy Roman Empress at the Viennese court Maria Theresa |
#2, aired 2020-01-07 | TOY STORY $400: The Christmas fad of 1983 was this doll, featured on the cover of Newsweek in December of that year the Cabbage Patch doll |
#8131, aired 2020-01-06 | HIP-HOP FEUDS $800: In 2014 this "NCIS: Los Angeles" co-star ended a 17-year rift with Canibus, with the 2 rapping onstage in Brooklyn LL Cool J |
#8131, aired 2020-01-06 | 3-NAMED PEOPLE $1600: This Justice who died age 99 in 2019, is seen around 1975, the year he joined the Supreme Court John Paul Stevens |
#8130, aired 2020-01-03 | CALENDARS $400: If anyone is still keeping track, it's the month of Nivôse, year 228 on this European country's revolutionary calendar France |
#8130, aired 2020-01-03 | CALENDARS $600: I still have a few weeks to change my Asian lunar calendar--it will soon be the year of this small creature a rat |
#8129, aired 2020-01-02 | WHITE HOUSE HUNTERS $1000: With the White House becoming unstable & dangerous, Harry & Bess start a 4-year reno in 1948 & move to this building across the street Blair House |
#8128, aired 2020-01-01 | U.S. FACTS & FIGURES $200: Each year U.S. fossil fuels emit around 5 billion metric tons of this gas CO2 (carbon dioxide) |
#8128, aired 2020-01-01 | A LITERARY NEW YEAR $400: A pregnant Mrs. Woodhouse attends a strange New Year's Eve party in this devilish book by Ira Levin Rosemary's Baby |
#8128, aired 2020-01-01 | A LITERARY NEW YEAR $1200: He wrote of the Little Match Girl who had "frozen to death on the last evening of the old year" Hans Christian Andersen |
#8128, aired 2020-01-01 | A LITERARY NEW YEAR $1600: This author's "Middlemarch" includes a party hosted by Mr. Vincy on New Year's Day George Eliot |
#8128, aired 2020-01-01 | A LITERARY NEW YEAR $2000: New Year's Eve finds 4 people contemplating suicide in "A Long Way Down" by this man who also wrote "About a Boy" Nick Hornby |
#8128, aired 2020-01-01 | A LITERARY NEW YEAR $3,000 (Daily Double): This character's January 1 diary entry counts Bloody Marys as food ("as contain Worcester sauce & tomatoes") Bridget Jones |
#8127, aired 2019-12-31 | DON'T DROP THE BALL $800: On New Year's Eve New Orleans drops this floral emblem a fleur-de-lis |
#8127, aired 2019-12-31 | DON'T DROP THE BALL $1200: A huge potato is lowered to celebrate New Year's in this state capital Boise |
#8126, aired 2019-12-30 | 17th CENTURY HISTORY $2000: He got up late on New Year's Day 1660, ate some turkey & began writing his diary (Samuel) Pepys |
#8125, aired 2019-12-27 | THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTIONS $400: There was a pretty big revolution in 1905, but 2 bigger ones came in this year & saw Nicholas II get the boot 1917 |
#8125, aired 2019-12-27 | MAIL-ORDER NOVELS $1200: In 1926 "The Sun Also Rises" was one of the first novels mailed by this club that lets you discover new titles 12 times a year the Book of the Month Club |
#8123, aired 2019-12-25 | UNUSUAL CONTESTS & PRIZES $200: Warren Buffett offers employees $1 million a year for life for getting the Sweet 16 exactly right in this alliterative event March Madness |
#8122, aired 2019-12-24 | HAVE A COW $600: One day a year this restaurant chain offers free chicken if you dress like a cow Chick-fil-A |
#8120, aired 2019-12-20 | ALTERNATIVE SANTA CLAUS IS COMIN' TO TOWN $200: Sinterklaas arrives via boat from Spain (where he lives the rest of the year, why not?) & parades through this Dutch capital Amsterdam |
#8117, aired 2019-12-17 | TONY AWARD WINNERS $800: Both parts of this "heavenly" Tony Kushner play proved to be the best of the year in 1993 & '94 Angels in America |
#8117, aired 2019-12-17 | INTERNATIONAL YULETIDE $1000: In the Bahamas, everyone dances in the streets for the Junkanoo celebrations on New Year's & this December 26 holiday Boxing Day |
#8116, aired 2019-12-16 | A EUROPEAN RIVER TOUR $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew in Nuremberg, Germany.) With some 50 million cookies produced each year in all sizes and shapes, Nuremberg, Germany is this Christmas treat capital of the world gingerbread cookie |
#8114, aired 2019-12-12 | BOOK OF THE YEAR $400: "Attlee, Clement", "Bergen-Belsen, Liberation of" & "Nagasaki" are index entries in Ian Buruma's book about this year 1945 |
#8114, aired 2019-12-12 | BOOK OF THE YEAR $800: 2 books published 50 years apart identify 1877 as a year of violence & as the end of this post-slavery period in the south Reconstruction |
#8114, aired 2019-12-12 | BOOK OF THE YEAR $1600: A novel by John Dos Passos titled this year includes a look at the negotiation of the Treaty of Versailles 1919 |
#8114, aired 2019-12-12 | BOOK OF THE YEAR $2,000 (Daily Double): A book titled this year is subtitled "The Hidden History in the Bayeux Tapestry" 1066 |
#8114, aired 2019-12-12 | BOOK OF THE YEAR $2000: "1959" makes much of this Soviet craft, the first to escape Earth's gravity, though it didn't make it to the moon it was named for Luna (or Lunik) |
#8113, aired 2019-12-11 | SCIENCE $1200: As adults, some of these bloodsucking arthropods believed to cause Lyme disease & Q fever can go over a year without feeding ticks |
#8112, aired 2019-12-10 | AWARDS & HONORS $800: This theatrical club founded by Harvard students began naming a woman of the year in 1951 & a man of the year in 1967 the Hasty Pudding |
#8111, aired 2019-12-09 | POKÉMON $400: In the franchise's 20th anniversary year in 2016, this in-the-real-world version was released--"Gotta catch 'em all!" Pokémon Go |
#8111, aired 2019-12-09 | ODD-ISH $400: Every year in Gloucester, England you can chase down a hill after a wheel of this, the double Gloucester kind cheese |
#8110, aired 2019-12-06 | BACK IN THE 20th CENTURY $400: In the 1970s this was rampant, raising prices 14% a year, & the president declared it "public enemy number one" inflation |
#8109, aired 2019-12-05 | ARCHAEOLOGY $600: Supporting their origin in Asia, not Italy, a 4,000-year-old bowl of these made of millet was found in China in 2005 pasta (noodles) |
#8109, aired 2019-12-05 | ARCHAEOLOGY $1000: Hadar in Ethiopia is the site where the 3.2-million-year-old remains of an early hominid given this female name were found Lucy |
#8107, aired 2019-12-03 | WORDS & THEIR MEANINGS $200: General term for an offense greater than a misdemeanor that can get you more than a year in prison a felony |
#8105, aired 2019-11-29 | ENTREPRENHEIRS $600: Yeah yeah yeah, her dad is a musician of note but it was she who was VH1/Vogue Designer of the Year in 2000 Stella McCartney |
#8105, aired 2019-11-29 | THE WWE SLAMMY AWARDS $800: This ex-UFCer and arm bar master got a "This is Awesome" Moment of the Year Slammy for her work in Wrestlemania 31 Ronda Rousey |
#8105, aired 2019-11-29 | THE WWE SLAMMY AWARDS $1000: No winner for 1987's Song of the Year--Sika ate the envelope--but this WWE head honcho was nominated & did perform "Stand Back" Vince McMahon |
#8104, aired 2019-11-28 | GETTING COLT FEAT $800: Ending a 37-year drought, in 2015 this "American" colt won the Triple Crown & was unanimously named horse of the year American Pharoah |
#8103, aired 2019-11-27 | BRITISH NOVEL HAIKU $600: A year in the life / Cigarettes, accounted for / Is Darcy the one? Bridget Jones's Diary |
#8102, aired 2019-11-26 | AFTER WINNING THE HEISMAN $800: This 6'5", 245-lb. QB followed up his 2010 Heisman by being rookie of the year in 2011 for the Carolina Panthers Cam Newton |
#8102, aired 2019-11-26 | AFTER WINNING THE HEISMAN $1000: This Texas A&M QB did not follow up his 2012 Heisman by being rookie of the year in 2014 for the Cleveland Browns Johnny Manziel |
#8101, aired 2019-11-25 | HISTORIC MERCENARIES $400: 900 Hessian mercenaries spent new year 1777 as prisoners after Washington crossed this river & captured them the Delaware |
#8101, aired 2019-11-25 | NEW YORK-SET NOVELS $400: 9-year-old Oskar Schell searches for clues about his father who died on 9/11 in the novel "Extremely Loud &" this Incredibly Close |
#8100, aired 2019-11-22 | WINDY CITY POLITICS $400: Riots hit Chicago in this year as the Democratic national convention stirred up emotions 1968 |
#8099, aired 2019-11-21 | THE AMERICAN MUSIC AWARDS $800: The 2015 AMAs saw Taylor Swift take home the trophy for Pop/Rock Album--this one named for the year of Taylor's birth 1989 |
#8099, aired 2019-11-21 | OF THE THIRD KIND $2000: In July 2019, around a big anniversary, there was renewed interest in this 88-year-old often called the "Third Man" (astronaut) Michael Collins |
#8097, aired 2019-11-19 | HUSBANDS & WIVES $1200: Director Roman Polanski married this actress in 1968 but tragedy ended their romance the following year Sharon Tate |
#8096, aired 2019-11-18 | ON THE CUSPS OF GREATNESS $200: Dates shared by Sagittarius & Capricorn in this month are the Cusp of Prophecy, so if born then, you know what next year holds December |
#8093, aired 2019-11-13 | U.N. INTERNATIONAL YEARS $200: 2019 is the Year of this array of elements, as it's the 150th anniversary the Periodic Table |
#8093, aired 2019-11-13 | U.N. INTERNATIONAL YEARS $400: 2009, the International Year of Astronomy, celebrated 400 years of this invention the telescope |
#8093, aired 2019-11-13 | U.N. INTERNATIONAL YEARS $800: 2002 was the Year of this form of green travel, the visiting of natural habitats in a way that minimizes environmental impact Ecotourism |
#8093, aired 2019-11-13 | U.N. INTERNATIONAL YEARS $1000: 1982 was the Year of Sanctions against this country that was suspended from the General Assembly in 1974 & readmitted in 1994 South Africa |
#8093, aired 2019-11-13 | U.N. INTERNATIONAL YEARS $2,000 (Daily Double): 2013 was the Year of this staple Andean crop, which the U.N. hopes can help eradicate world hunger Quinoa |
#8092, aired 2019-11-12 | HAIL, CAESAR! $200: This Canadian singer had huge successes with her multi-year residencies at Caesars Palace starting in 2003 & 2011 Celine Dion |
#8092, aired 2019-11-12 | HAIL, CAESAR! $400: The character King Kaiser is based on Sid Caesar in this 1982 Peter O'Toole film set in the world of 1950s TV My Favorite Year |
#8090, aired 2019-11-08 | REVELATIONS $5,400 (Daily Double): A bestselling 1836 "Autobiography" by this frontiersman who died that year was revealed as a hoax in the 1880s Davy Crockett |
#8088, aired 2019-11-06 | INITIALS TO ROMAN NUMERALS TO NUMBERS III $400: For the sex symbol who played "The Girl" in "The Seven Year Itch" 2000 |
#8088, aired 2019-11-06 | THE 2010s $600: A city's 52-year major championship dry spell ended when this team won the 2016 NBA title the (Cleveland) Cavaliers |
#8088, aired 2019-11-06 | THE 2010s $1000: 2013 was a lucky year for Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands, inaugurated as king after this queen, his mom, abdicated Beatrix |
#8086, aired 2019-11-04 | THE HARVARD LAMPOON $200: Now a fixture as a late-night TV talk show host, in the 1980s, this very tall redhead was a two-year president of the "Harvard Lampoon" Conan O'Brien |
#8085, aired 2019-11-01 | THE U.N. REPORTS $200: An alarming 2019 environmental report called for action to reduce the 8 million tons of this substance going into oceans every year plastic |
#8084, aired 2019-10-31 | THE BEST LAID PLANS $1200: Here's what Moscow's Palace of the Soviets would have looked like if construction hadn't ended when the Nazi invaded in this year 1941 |
#8082, aired 2019-10-29 | BOOK NUMBERS $600: An international bestseller: "The ____ -Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared" 100 |
#8080, aired 2019-10-25 | SMOKEY BEAR: 75TH YEAR PREVENTING WILDFIRES $200: Timber was needed for battleships & gun stock, so Smokey Bear was created during this war to warn of the dangers of forest fires the Second World War |
#8080, aired 2019-10-25 | SMOKEY BEAR: 75TH YEAR PREVENTING WILDFIRES $400: Smokey was named for Smokey Joe Martin, a member of this famed urban force for 46 years & a hero of the "Greenwich Volcano" blaze the New York Fire Department |
#8080, aired 2019-10-25 | SMOKEY BEAR: 75TH YEAR PREVENTING WILDFIRES $600: Prior to Smokey Bear's debut in 1944, the U.S. Forest Service used this Disney deer in ads Bambi |
#8080, aired 2019-10-25 | SMOKEY BEAR: 75TH YEAR PREVENTING WILDFIRES $800: In 1950 Smokey got a living symbol: a bear cub that survived a forest fire in this state; his burns were treated in Santa Fe New Mexico |
#8080, aired 2019-10-25 | SMOKEY BEAR: 75TH YEAR PREVENTING WILDFIRES $1000: This deep-voiced actor who played Bradley Cooper's brother in "A Star is Born" has been the voice of Smokey for over a decade:
"Only you can prevent forest fires." (Sam) Elliott |
#8079, aired 2019-10-24 | YOUNGER THAN THE SIMPSONS $800: This video-sharing service premiered in 2005 & was sold to Google a year later for $1.6 billion YouTube |
#9053, aired 2024-03-06 | AMERICAN LITERARY HISTORY: "The country is celebrating 100 years of freedom 100 years too soon", says "The Fire Next Time", published in this year 1963 |
#1, aired 2024-01-12 | TOURIST SPOTS: Originally known as Longacre, it got its name after a newspaper moved its offices there in 1904 Times Square |
#9009, aired 2024-01-04 | HISTORIC AMERICANS: They went their separate ways in 1806 & both became territorial governors: one of Upper Louisiana, the other of Missouri Lewis & Clark |
#8969, aired 2023-11-09 | AMERICAN AUTHORS: In 1950 the Swedish Academy said this Nobel Prize winner "is a regional writer" but called "his regionalism universal" William Faulkner |
#8918, aired 2023-07-19 | FAMOUS PAINTINGS: A German guidebook to a 1937 World's Fair dismissed it as a "hodgepodge of body parts that any four-year-old could have painted" Guernica |
#8905, aired 2023-06-30 | NATIONAL ANTHEMS: The name of this country's national anthem translates as "His Majesty's Reign" & its lyrics come from a 1,000-year-old poem Japan |
#4, aired 2023-05-09 | WESTERN HEMISPHERE HISTORY: In 1915 the assassination of President Sam brought Uncle Sam to this country, beginning a 19-year military occupation Haiti |
#8846, aired 2023-04-10 | FAMOUS NAMES: In 1966, the year of his death, he shared plans for an experimental prototype community in Florida Walt Disney |
#8783, aired 2023-01-11 | POP STARS: In 2022 she became the first woman to have a Billboard Top 10 album in 5 decades starting with the 1980s Madonna |
#8772, aired 2022-12-27 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS: Its title character is told "By the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off... your eyes drop out & you get... shabby" The Velveteen Rabbit |
#8764, aired 2022-12-15 | ACTION MOVIES: Its last line is "If this is their idea of Christmas, I gotta be here for New Year's" Die Hard |
#8700, aired 2022-09-16 | DISNEY SONGS: "We Don't Talk About Bruno" from "Encanto" is the first song from an animated Disney film to hit No. 1 since this duet in 1993 "A Whole New World" |
#8698, aired 2022-09-14 | ARTISTS: He said, "The Seine! I have painted it all my life, at all hours, in all seasons, from Paris to the sea" (Claude) Monet |
#8691, aired 2022-07-25 | THE ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME: Honored in 1998 as part of a rock group & in 2019 as a solo artist, this singer was the first woman to be inducted into the Hall twice Stevie Nicks |
#8616, aired 2022-04-11 | WORDS OF THE YEAR: Oxford's word of the year for 2021 was this 3-letter one, short for a word that goes back to the Latin for "cow" vax |
#8581, aired 2022-02-21 | HISTORIC EUROPEAN FAMILIES: This family has been traced to the Mugello valley around the year 1200 & the name suggests the trade of physician the Medici |
#11, aired 2022-02-16 | HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES: The first national observance of Memorial Day was held May 30, 1868 at this site, on land that had belonged to Robert E. Lee's wife Arlington National Cemetery |
#8578, aired 2022-02-16 | 18th CENTURY HISTORY: The stated aim of this period was using violence to achieve political goals; its success aided in its demise in under a year the Reign of Terror |
#8559, aired 2022-01-20 | WORDS IN AMERICAN HISTORY: The 1890 Census reported that "the unsettled area has been so broken into... that there can hardly be said to be a" this frontier |
#8469, aired 2021-09-16 | THE 21st CENTURY: In 2009 this 11-year-old started posting on BBC's Urdu language website under the screen name Gul Makai Malala (Yousafzai) |
#8431, aired 2021-06-28 | MONARCHIES: The future Charles I suddenly became next in line to the throne of Austria in this year 1914 |
#8405, aired 2021-05-21 | AMERICAN AUTHORS: The year before his 1809 birth, his parents acted in "King Lear", leading scholars to believe he was named for a "Lear" character Edgar Allan Poe |
#8322, aired 2021-01-26 | POP MUSIC: First released as a single in 1982, this song was re-released & charted again 17 years later & 17 years after that "1999" |
#8231, aired 2020-06-08 | 20th CENTURY AMERICA: 10-year-old Martin Luther King Jr. sang with his church's choir at the celebrated premiere of this film Gone with the Wind |
#8228, aired 2020-06-03 | EUROPEAN LANDMARKS: As described in an 1831 book, it has "three recessed and pointed doorways... immense central rose window... two dark and massive towers" Notre-Dame |
#8206, aired 2020-04-20 | RECENT MOVIE SONGS: In October 2019 this song, a duet, was still in the Top 10 on Billboard's Adult Contemporary chart after spending a year on the chart "Shallow" |
#8205, aired 2020-04-17 | HISTORIC FIGURES: In legend, this real European leader fielded an elite corps called the 12 Peers that included Oliver & Roland Charlemagne |
#8191, aired 2020-03-30 | ADVERTISING CHARACTERS: Jack Keil's team created this animal character rolled out in 1980, the year of the USA's highest recorded murder rate McGruff (the Crime Dog) |
#8187, aired 2020-03-24 | AMERICAN POETS: This New York woman died in 1887, the year after the subject of her most famous poem was unveiled Emma Lazarus |
#8184, aired 2020-03-19 | 20th CENTURY HISTORY: 1946 was the last year this place, now a country, was represented in the U.S. House of Representatives the Philippines |
#8183, aired 2020-03-18 | FAIRS & EXPOSITIONS: To celebrate the 500th anniversary of a major event, Seville, Spain & Genoa, Italy both had expositions in this year 1992 |
#8127, aired 2019-12-31 | BUSINESS & INNOVATION: Stuck with 260 tons of unused turkey in late 1953, this company ordered aluminum trays & sold 10 million units of a new item in 1954 Swanson |
#8084, aired 2019-10-31 | NOVELISTS: In a 1952 novel, he wrote, "But there were dry years too, & they put a terror on the valley. The water came in a thirty-year cycle" John Steinbeck |
#8050, aired 2019-09-13 | PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES: This is the most recent presidential election year when both major presidential candidates were residents of the same state 2016 |
#8037, aired 2019-07-16 | EUROPEAN COUNTRY NAMES: Resolving a decades-long dispute with its neighbor to the south, in 2019 this 28-year-old republic added "North" to its name North Macedonia |
#7997, aired 2019-05-21 | POETRY & THE MOVIES: Robert Lowell's "For the Union Dead" honored the 54th Massachusetts, the infantry unit in this 1989 film that won 3 Oscars Glory |
#7956, aired 2019-03-25 | FOREIGN TRANSPORTATION: Operating for only one week a year, a train line to this city moves over half a million people a day Mecca |
#7940, aired 2019-03-01 | PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION YEARS: Prior to 2016 it was the last election year in which the winning candidate had never held public elected office 1952 |
#7907, aired 2019-01-15 | PRESIDENTIAL QUOTES: He said, "Victory over (the) Depression will be... by the resolution of our people to fight their own battles in their own communities" Herbert Hoover |
#7906, aired 2019-01-14 | FAMILIAR PHRASES: Originally a folk term for a chronic rash, this phrase got a new meaning as a title for a 1952 stage comedy & later a movie seven year itch |
#7889, aired 2018-12-20 | THE WORKS OF MOZART: Composed in 1791, the year he died, & last in the Kochel catalog of all his works, K. 626 is this work Requiem |
#7874, aired 2018-11-29 | CATHOLICISM: A liturgical year begins on the first Sunday of Advent, which is the Sunday closest to the feast day of this "first apostle" St. Andrew |
#7808, aired 2018-07-18 | 20th CENTURY PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS: The last election in which both major party candidates were former state governors was in this year 1980 |
#7800, aired 2018-07-06 | BUSINESS: Promising "value", which partly gives it its name, this Pennsylvania-based retailer did $7,400 in sales on its opening day in 1986 QVC |
#7744, aired 2018-04-19 | U.S. HISTORIC SITES: Its official seal includes the year 1864 for when it was established, a folded flag & a scroll inscribed "our most sacred shrine" Arlington National Cemetery |
#7729, aired 2018-03-29 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN ACHIEVEMENTS: In 2017 this govt. agency dedicated a new computational facility named in honor of 99-year-old ex-employee Katherine Johnson NASA |
#7674, aired 2018-01-11 | THE MOVIES: It's the first Oscar nominee for Best Picture to be produced by an internet streaming service Manchester by the Sea |
#7669, aired 2018-01-04 | CARS: When it was introduced in 1953, this car model's emblem had a checkered flag & a red flag with a fleur-de-lis a Chevrolet Corvette |
#7649, aired 2017-12-07 | TIME MAGAZINE'S PERSON OF THE YEAR: Since "Man of the Year" became "Person of the Year" in 1999, only 1 individual woman has won: this European for 2015 Angela Merkel |
#7638, aired 2017-11-22 | THE CALENDAR: November 2017 is in the year 1439 AH in the calendar that dates from an action of this religious figure Muhammad |
#7634, aired 2017-11-16 | INVENTIONS: When Time magazine named it Invention of the Year in 2007, it was described as too slow, too big, pretty & touchy-feely the iPhone |
#7623, aired 2017-11-01 | THE OSCARS: For 1992, this New Yorker was the first man with 2 acting Oscar nominations in the same year for different films Al Pacino |
#7587, aired 2017-09-12 | 21st CENTURY GRAMMYS: This singer has won Album, Record & Song of the Year twice, the only artist to do so Adele |
#7578, aired 2017-07-19 | HISTORIC EVENTS: In June 1986 a bakers union expressed regret for a disaster in this European city 320 years before London |
#7534, aired 2017-05-18 | WOMEN AUTHORS: A 1936 New York Times review called the debut novel by this author "in all probability, the biggest book of the year: 1,037 pages" Margaret Mitchell |
#7531, aired 2017-05-15 | THE PULITZER PRIZES: In 1947 a journalist from the Washington Post became the last to win a Pulitzer for national reporting by this means telegraph (or telegram) |
#7526, aired 2017-05-08 | A YEAR OF FIRSTS: Year in which the Department of Energy was created, the Indy 500 had its first female driver & the 1st president was sworn in under a nickname 1977 |
#7525, aired 2017-05-05 | MONARCHS: In 2016 Elizabeth II became the world's longest-reigning living monarch when this country's king died after a 70-year reign Thailand |
#7506, aired 2017-04-10 | AMERICAN AUTHORS: Leviathan is a journal put out 3 times a year by an organization dedicated to this author & his works Herman Melville |
#7505, aired 2017-04-07 | BRITISH NOVELS: The title of this 1908 novel is an allusion to the hotel in Florence where the novel starts & ends the next year A Room with a View |
#7482, aired 2017-03-07 | YEARS IN EUROPEAN HISTORY: The representative body called the Estates-General met in 1614 & didn't meet again until this year 1789 |
#7473, aired 2017-02-22 | PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN YEARS: Year the New York World lamented, "The age of statesmen is gone... The age of rail-splitters and tailors... has succeeded" 1864 |
#7417, aired 2016-12-06 | AUTHORS: Asked if he read novels, philosopher Gilbert Ryle said, "Yes, all six, every year", referring to this British author Jane Austen |
#7389, aired 2016-10-27 | BRITISH POP MUSIC: This song released on July 11, 1969 to coincide with the Apollo 11 mission was used in the BBC's coverage of the Moon landing "Space Oddity" (by David Bowie) |
#7381, aired 2016-10-17 | HISTORIC RELATIVES: In the same year as Waterloo, the Duke of Wellington's brother-in-law Gen. Edward Pakenham died in this battle in North America the Battle of New Orleans |
#7366, aired 2016-09-26 | INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS: This European company uses about 1% of the world's lumber each year; it aims to make that 100% sustainable by 2020 IKEA |
#7364, aired 2016-09-22 | OPERA: The heroine of this opera sings, “If you come to give me, so cruel, your last goodbye, the dark vortex of the Nile will be my grave” Aida |
#7354, aired 2016-07-28 | NAMES IN THE NEWS: This 52-year-old went through a temporary growth spurt, growing 2 inches in less than a year, as revealed by a 2016 physical Scott Kelly |
#7334, aired 2016-06-30 | INTERNATIONAL FILM AWARDS: Released in 2011, it's the only film that has won both the Oscar & France's Cesar for Best Film of the Year The Artist |
#7305, aired 2016-05-20 | U.S. HISTORY: In 1790 a deal made Washington the nation's capital; the room where it happened was at Jefferson's house & negotiators included Madison & this Cabinet member Alexander Hamilton |
#7190, aired 2015-12-11 | HISTORIC NAMES: The only time the pope & the U.S. president shared a name ended when both died in this year 1963 |
#7181, aired 2015-11-30 | U.S. HISTORY: It's the only odd-numbered year in which a U.S. presidential election has been held 1789 |
#7137, aired 2015-09-29 | EUROPEAN MUSEUMS: In one of her last official acts before abdicating, Queen Beatrix reopened this museum after a 10-year renovation the Rijksmuseum (in Amsterdam) |
#7132, aired 2015-09-22 | PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS: The only election year since 1952 in which neither major-party candidate had been president or vice president 2008 |
#7123, aired 2015-07-29 | WOMEN AUTHORS: This woman who passed away in 2015 wrote what is billed as Australia's "Gone with the Wind" Colleen McCullough |
#7082, aired 2015-06-02 | INFAMOUS: Born in Illinois of Huguenot ancestry, he was executed in June 1882, a year after his heinous act Charles Guiteau |
#7081, aired 2015-06-01 | SPORTS RULES: The Syracuse owner created this in 1954 & it may have helped his team succeed the Lakers as champs the next year the 24-second shot clock |
#7079, aired 2015-05-28 | AMERICAN LITERATURE: Published a year later, "Good Wives" was a follow-up to this 1868 novel Little Women |
#7042, aired 2015-04-07 | CELEBRITY FATHERS & DAUGHTERS: He won a Grammy in 1959, she won 3 in the 1970s & a song by both was 1991's Song & Record of the Year Nat King Cole & Natalie Cole |
#7035, aired 2015-03-27 | TRANSPORTATION: Incorporated in 1948, this company chose its name from the book of the Hebrew prophet Hosea El Al Airlines |
#6944, aired 2014-11-20 | 20th CENTURY PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS: In this year, there were no pres's or VPs running, but 3 of the 4 men on the 2 major party ballots would become president 1920 |
#6916, aired 2014-10-13 | SPORTS FIGURES: He was featured on the September 22, 1947 cover of Time with the caption "He and the boss took a chance" Jackie Robinson |
#6908, aired 2014-10-01 | U.S. CITY FIRSTS: Among its firsts are underwater auto tunnel to a foreign country & corp. to net more than $1 billion in a single year Detroit |
#6905, aired 2014-09-26 | FAMOUS AMERICANS: In 1936 at age 79, he published an article in Esquire magazine in which he described how to pick a jury Clarence Darrow |
#6887, aired 2014-07-22 | WORLD LANDMARKS: Built for a World's Fair in 1889, its visitors that year included the Prince of Wales & Buffalo Bill; it still gets 7 million a year the Eiffel Tower |
#6880, aired 2014-07-11 | AMERICAN LITERATURE: Published in 1925, it still sells 500,000 copies a year & was on the bestseller lists in 2013 The Great Gatsby |
#6837, aired 2014-05-13 | MONARCHS: 2 teen Hashemite cousins officially took the thrones of their respective countries May 2, 1953:
Faisal of Iraq & him King Hussein of Jordan (the Hashemite Kingdom) |
#6690, aired 2013-10-18 | CARS: Introduced as a 2-seater & later celebrated in song, it was Motor Trend's Car of the Year for 1958, 1987, 1989 & 2002 the T-Bird |
#6654, aired 2013-07-18 | HISTORIC TELEGRAMS: In May 1945 Churchill cabled Truman that this "is drawn down upon their front. We do not know what is going on behind" the Iron Curtain |
#6627, aired 2013-06-11 | AMERICAN LITERATURE: This 1884 novel begins in the fictional town of St. Petersburg & ends in Pikesville, 1,100 miles down the Mississippi Adventures of Huckleberry Finn |
#6605, aired 2013-05-10 | FAMOUS NAMES IN TRANSPORTATION: In 1928, a year after making international headlines, it reached its final destination, the Smithsonian the Spirit of St. Louis |
#6598, aired 2013-05-01 | THE THEATRE: Dramatizing a murder from the year 1170, a 1935 T.S. Eliot play aptly had its first performance in this English city Canterbury |
#6552, aired 2013-02-26 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA: One of the 2 years in which 3 men served as president of the United States 1841 or 1881 |
#6549, aired 2013-02-21 | RUSSIAN HISTORY: Launched October 1, 1928, it was brought to a premature end in 1932 amid growing hunger 5-year plan |
#6493, aired 2012-12-05 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: This man is the only U.S. president since Hoover not named Time magazine's Man or Person of the Year Gerald Ford |
#6471, aired 2012-11-05 | BROADWAY MUSICALS: Based on a 1926 play & real-life events, it's now the longest-running American musical in Broadway history Chicago |
#6425, aired 2012-07-20 | RECENT FILMS: One of its first lines is "I won't talk! I won't say a word!!!" The Artist |
#6393, aired 2012-06-06 | THE PRESIDENCY: Between January 1, 1841 & December 31, 1850 the U.S. had this many presidents, the most in a 10-year period 6 |
#6385, aired 2012-05-25 | MILITARY MATTERS: In 1934 the lease for this place was increased to $4,085 per year; since 1959 the checks haven't been cashed Guantanamo |
#6351, aired 2012-04-09 | THE HOLLYWOOD WALK OF FAME: His widow Maria Elena & actor Gary Busey were on hand when his star was dedicated outside Capitol Records in 2011 Buddy Holly |
#6308, aired 2012-02-08 | COMIC BOOKS: An inspiration for this character introduced in 1929 was 15-year-old Palle Huld's 1928 44-day voyage around the world Tintin |
#6286, aired 2012-01-09 | RECENT FILMS: An early scene in this 2011 film is set in Tonsberg, Norway in the year 965 A.D. Thor |
#6281, aired 2012-01-02 | '70s OSCARS: This film whose title refers to an establishment holds the record for most wins, 8, without winning Best Picture Cabaret |
#6244, aired 2011-11-10 | HOLLYWOOD HISTORY: They were the first 2 sisters ever nominated for the same acting Oscar in the same year Joan Fontaine & Olivia de Havilland |
#6217, aired 2011-10-04 | EUROPEAN TRAVEL & TOURISM: Visited by 15 million people a year, this spot in Britain honors an 1805 battle fought elsewhere Trafalgar Square |
#6153, aired 2011-05-18 | CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS: The longest period in American history with no changes to the Constitution was from 1804 to this year 1865 |
#6128, aired 2011-04-13 | NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS: The 2 Middle East prime ministers of the same country who shared the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize with another leader Shimon Peres & Yitzhak Rabin |
#6040, aired 2010-12-10 | MOVIES & LANGUAGE: A 2010 article from Slate called this language created by Paul Frommer "the new Klingon" Na'vi |
#6025, aired 2010-11-19 | OUR LIVING PLANET: Several species appear in the logo of the U.N.'s International Year of this 12-letter word, vital to the health of "life" on Earth biodiversity |
#6015, aired 2010-11-05 | TERMS FROM THE BIBLE: In 2010 we heard of the discovery of the fossil of a 12 million-year-old giant sperm whale given this Biblical name by its finders Leviathan |
#6005, aired 2010-10-22 | THE OSCARS: Only Orson Welles & this man have been nominated for Best Actor & Original Screenplay in the same year while in their 20s Matt Damon |
#6000, aired 2010-10-15 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: He was the first U.S. president to be elected in an Olympic year McKinley |
#5989, aired 2010-09-30 | ALLITERATIVE ATHLETES: In 1998 these 2 baseball rivals shared top honors as Sports Illustrated's Sportsmen of the Year Sammy Sosa and Mark McGwire |
#5985, aired 2010-09-24 | PRESIDENTS: He served the shortest amount of time as president before running for & winning reelection to the job LBJ |
#5926, aired 2010-05-24 | AMERICAN CITIES: 6 of the top 10 U.S. cities in population are found in these 2 states California & Texas |
#5867, aired 2010-03-02 | FOOD TRADITIONS: Since the 1100s Dunmow, England has rewarded newlyweds who go a year & a day without arguing by letting them "bring home" this the bacon |
#5847, aired 2010-02-02 | FAMOUS AMERICANS: At his death in 1790, he left 200-year trust funds to the cities of Boston & Philadelphia Benjamin Franklin |
#5841, aired 2010-01-25 | SPORTS CITIES: It's the only city whose teams won the Super Bowl & the Stanley Cup in the same calendar year Pittsburgh |
#5833, aired 2010-01-13 | RECORD OF THE YEAR GRAMMY WINNERS: This song's recording session occurred right after the 1985 American Music Awards & lasted all night long "We Are The World" |
#5807, aired 2009-12-08 | LITERATURE OF THE 1800s: This character said, "I will live in the past, the present, and the future. The spirits of all three shall strive within me" Ebenezer Scrooge |
#5769, aired 2009-10-15 | BIBLICAL NAMES: Trees with biblical names include the Joshua tree & the world's oldest tree, a 4,700-year-old pine named for him Methuselah |
#5737, aired 2009-07-14 | SCIENTISTS: He won the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics primarily for his work on the photoelectric effect, not for relativity Albert Einstein |
#5716, aired 2009-06-15 | ACADEMY AWARD WINNERS: Her 48-year span between her first & last Oscars, 1933 & 1981, is the longest for a performer in Academy history Katharine Hepburn |
#5705, aired 2009-05-29 | THE ACADEMY AWARDS: Peter Finch was the first winner of a posthumous Best Actor Oscar; he was first to get 2 posthumous acting nominations James Dean |
#5669, aired 2009-04-09 | NAME'S THE SAME: This cartoon character debuted in 1930, the same year the object he shares a name with was discovered Pluto |
#5619, aired 2009-01-29 | THE GRAMMYS: In 2002 the soundtrack to this George Clooney film won Album of the Year, only the third to do so O Brother, Where Art Thou? |
#5594, aired 2008-12-25 | THE GRAMMYS: In 1959 the first Grammy for Album of the Year went to the soundtrack composed by Henry Mancini for this TV show Peter Gunn |
#5580, aired 2008-12-05 | HISTORIC PROPERTY TRANSACTIONS: On May 15, 1768 France bought this island from Genoa for 2 million livres Corsica |
#5544, aired 2008-10-16 | PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION HISTORY: Due to the large numbers of men away from home, it was the first year a majority of states counted absentee votes 1864 |
#5539, aired 2008-10-09 | 1960s HIT SONGS: The singer/songwriter of this 1960s mega-hit has revealed that it was inspired by a president's daughter "Sweet Caroline" |
#5535, aired 2008-10-03 | AWARD NAMESAKES: His "A Little Pretty Pocket-Book" from 1744 was one of the 1st books published specifically for children John Newbery |
#5531, aired 2008-09-29 | 20th CENTURY AMERICA: Experts say Glenn McDuffie is the mystery man in the classic Eisenstaedt photo taken in this year 1945 |
#5488, aired 2008-06-18 | THE ACADEMY AWARDS: In 1981 he received an honorary Oscar for his body of work; a year later, he won an acting Oscar for his final film Henry Fonda |
#5474, aired 2008-05-29 | ANNUAL SPORTING EVENTS: With an estimated sellout crowd of 267,925 people, it claims to be the best-attended single-day sporting event in the U.S. the Indy 500 |
#5451, aired 2008-04-28 | ROYAL WIVES: Her marriage to Henry VIII lasted less than a year, but she had the last laugh, surviving him by 10 years Anne of Cleves |
#5428, aired 2008-03-26 | THE ACADEMY AWARDS: In 1954 he won a record 4 Oscars, including one for "Best Documentary Feature" for a film set in the American desert Walt Disney |
#5405, aired 2008-02-22 | U.S. GOVERNMENT HISTORY: This man cast the first tie-breaking vote in U.S. Senate history John Adams |
#5395, aired 2008-02-08 | NORTH AMERICAN GEOGRAPHY: This 1,980-mile river that starts in Canada is the longest in the Western Hemisphere that flows to the Pacific Ocean the Yukon River |
#5378, aired 2008-01-16 | FOREIGN FILMS: A series of novels includes "Iron Knight, Silver Vase", "Precious Sword, Golden Hairpin" & this one, made into a film in 2000 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon |
#5294, aired 2007-09-20 | CHAMPIONSHIP SPORTS: In 2007 this university became the 1st to hold national titles in both football & basketball in the same year the University of Florida |
#5235, aired 2007-05-18 | HISTORICAL MOVIES: One of the 2 actresses nominated for Oscars for playing the same person in a 1997 blockbuster (1 of) Kate Winslet & Gloria Stuart |
#5231, aired 2007-05-14 | 1920s LITERATURE: This character "believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us" Jay Gatsby |
#5204, aired 2007-04-05 | PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS: It was the last presidential election year when there was no sitting president or VP on the national ballot 1952 |
#5195, aired 2007-03-23 | BESTSELLING AUTHORS: He had the year's bestselling novel a record 7 years in a row with 7 different titles, ending in 2000 John Grisham |
#5128, aired 2006-12-20 | TECHNOLOGY: A famous one of these was first sent May 24, 1844 & a famous last one, January 27, 2006 a telegram |
#5097, aired 2006-11-07 | PRESIDENTIAL DISTINCTIONS: Captured as a 14-year-old soldier in 1781, he was the only president who had ever been a prisoner of war Andrew Jackson |
#5080, aired 2006-10-13 | TRANSPORTATION: The name of this airline established in 1948 means "skyward" El Al |
#5069, aired 2006-09-28 | HISTORICAL TERMS: Historians refer to "the long 19th century", the 125-year span between these 2 events the French Revolution and World War I |
#4969, aired 2006-03-30 | NOTABLE WOMEN: She was the 31st person--& the first woman--to lie in state or honor in the U.S. Capitol Rosa Parks |
#4949, aired 2006-03-02 | THE VICE PRESIDENCY: In the 20th century, 2 of the 3 men who served less than 1 year as VP before becoming president (2 of) Theodore Roosevelt, Harry Truman & Gerald Ford |
#4878, aired 2005-11-23 | THE UNITED NATIONS: In 1994, after a 20-year absence, this country's delegation was allowed to be seated in the U.N. General Assembly South Africa |
#4843, aired 2005-10-05 | RECORD SETTERS: On August 6 & 7, 1961, Gherman Titov did this 17 times; the previous record was one orbit the Earth |
#4842, aired 2005-10-04 | 20th CENTURY NOVELS: Ironically, this 1953 science fiction book began appearing in a censored version in 1967 Fahrenheit 451 |
#4840, aired 2005-09-30 | THE NOBEL PRIZES: For the first time in its history, the Nobel Prize for Literature was not awarded in this year 1914 |
#4817, aired 2005-07-12 | THE 50 STATES: Rejected earlier in its bid for statehood, it finally entered the Union in 1876 Colorado |
#4810, aired 2005-07-01 | U.S. SENATE HISTORY: Of the 15 expulsions of senators in the Senate's 215-year history, 11 took place in this year 1861 |
#4793, aired 2005-06-08 | CHARITABLE WORK: Musician Ray Charles raised money for people afflicted by this, saying, "To me, it's the worst thing in the world" deafness (or hearing impairment) |
#4788, aired 2005-06-01 | PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN SLOGANS: It's the election year the campaign slogans "The Moose Is Loose" & "Ready for Teddy Again" were used 1912 |
#4713, aired 2005-02-16 | SINGERS: This man who often criticized the government was named for the president elected in 1912, his birth year Woodrow Wilson "Woody" Guthrie |
#4697, aired 2005-01-25 | 18th CENTURY POETRY: 18th c. poem that says, "Forever cursed be this detested day, Which snatched my best, my favorite curl away!" "The Rape of the Lock" |
#4688, aired 2005-01-12 | DATES IN AMERICAN HISTORY: On this date Philadelphia partied with fireworks & music from a Hessian band captured 6 months earlier July 4, 1777 |
#4674, aired 2004-12-23 | AUTHORS: He publicly objected to the name of a 2004 documentary for infringing on the title of one of his books Ray Bradbury |
#4657, aired 2004-11-30 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY: Most of this firm's 70,000 seasonal white-collar employees work only 4 months a year H&R Block |
#4595, aired 2004-07-23 | SHAKESPEARE: 2 of the 4 Shakespeare plays in which ghosts appear on stage (2 of) Hamlet, Julius Caesar, Macbeth & Richard III |
#4584, aired 2004-07-08 | FICTIONAL PEOPLE: After a 58-year flirtation, this woman called it off temporarily in issue No. 720 Lois Lane |
#4561, aired 2004-06-07 | WORDS & PHRASES: Once slang for brain, this 2-word phrase now means the Heritage Foundation or the Brookings Institution a think tank |
#4546, aired 2004-05-17 | THE 50 STATES: The USA's most-climbed mountain, Monadnock, is in this state associated with rock New Hampshire |
#4545, aired 2004-05-14 | THE U.S. SENATE: In the year 1958, the U.S. Senate was made up of this many members 96 |
#4539, aired 2004-05-06 | INVENTIONS: 11-year-old Frank Epperson invented this by accident when his fruit drink froze after being left outside overnight the popsicle |
#4529, aired 2004-04-22 | TIME MAGAZINE'S MAN OF THE YEAR: The cover story about this 1930 Man of the Year described him as a "little half-naked brown man" Mohandas Gandhi |
#4505, aired 2004-03-19 | PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEES: He wrote a "Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the Year 1842" John C. Fremont |
#4479, aired 2004-02-12 | SONGS: One of the first to sing it publicly was Baltimore actor Fredinand Durang at Captain McCauley's tavern in October 1814 "The Star-Spangled Banner" |
#4467, aired 2004-01-27 | THE BUSINESS BOOKSHELF: F. Paul Pacult's "American Still Life" is the history of this over 200-year-old Kentucky company Jim Beam |
#4377, aired 2003-09-23 | ASTRONOMY: This planet has the shortest year, 88 days Mercury |
#4366, aired 2003-09-08 | TOYS & GAMES: 12-year-old David Mullany gave this toy its name, a euphemism for striking out in baseball Wiffleball |
#4344, aired 2003-06-19 | FRUIT: From Greek for "finger", the Arabs claim it has as many culinary & pharmaceutical uses as days in a year the date |
#4336, aired 2003-06-09 | TIME'S MAN OF THE YEAR: The only man named Time's Man of the Year 2 straight years, he shared the distinction with Kissinger in 1972 Richard M. Nixon |
#4298, aired 2003-04-16 | THE SECRET SERVICE: This 20th century U.S. president was the first to receive full-time protection from the Secret Service Theodore Roosevelt |
#4231, aired 2003-01-13 | NUTRITION: By virtue of the great quantity eaten, this vegetable is the leading source of vitamin C in the American diet potato |
#4222, aired 2002-12-31 | SOUTH AMERICA: Alphabetically, they're the first & last of the 7 countries where the Andes are found Argentina & Venezuela |
#4148, aired 2002-09-18 | THE 7 ANCIENT WONDERS: The oldest of the 7 Wonders of the Ancient World, they're also the only ones still standing today the Pyramids |
#4129, aired 2002-07-11 | THE OSCARS: 1 of only 3 movies to be nominated for both Best Picture & Best Foreign Language Film in the same year (1 of) Life is Beautiful, Z, or Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon |
#4124, aired 2002-07-04 | CONTEMPORARY WOMEN: According to the London Times she was England's highest-earning British woman in 2001, followed by Queen Elizabeth II J.K. Rowling |
#4115, aired 2002-06-21 | SPORTS ILLUSTRATED: The first Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year was this British athlete in 1954 (Roger) Bannister |
#3956, aired 2001-11-12 | THE EARLY 20th CENTURY: A 1904 issue of Popular Science Monthly reported their success in North Carolina the previous year the Wright Brothers |
#3920, aired 2001-09-21 | THE ACADEMY AWARDS: He was nominated for Best Director twice in the same year, the first so honored since Michael Curtiz for 1938 Steven Soderbergh |
#3906, aired 2001-09-03 | AUTOMOTIVE HISTORY: This Ford with a name from Native American myth was the first model to be Motor Trend Car of the Year the Thunderbird |
#3795, aired 2001-02-16 | THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE: Written in 1904, "Himno Istmeno" is the national anthem of this country that won its independence a year earlier Panama |
#3764, aired 2001-01-04 | REPUBLICANS: The only election year since 1948 in which there was not a Dole, a Nixon or a Bush on the Republican national ticket 1964 (Barry Goldwater & Bill Miller) |
#3760, aired 2000-12-29 | TRAVEL: By population, it's the largest city on a Caribbean island, though you may not be allowed to go there Havana, Cuba |
#3666, aired 2000-07-10 | FAMOUS NAMES: "The Line King" is a film about this man whose work has been in the New York Times for the last 70 years Al Hirschfeld |
#3661, aired 2000-07-03 | 1962: On October 28, 1962 this 68-year-old world leader "blinked" Nikita Khrushchev |
#3647, aired 2000-06-13 | FAMOUS SCIENTISTS: At his death in 1727, he left over one million words he had written on alchemy & the occult Sir Isaac Newton |
#3530, aired 1999-12-31 | TODAY'S SPORTS STARS: He was named after Japanese beef Kobe Bryant |
#3523, aired 1999-12-22 | FOOD & SPORTS: In August 1999, for the first time in its 75-year history, Wheaties began featuring players of this sport on its boxes Soccer |
#3501, aired 1999-11-22 | FAMOUS WEDDINGS: In 1998 a 61-year-old piece of this couple's wedding cake sold for $26,000 at Sotheby's The Duke of Windsor (former King Edward VIII) & Wallis Simpson |
#3448, aired 1999-09-08 | HOLIDAY QUOTES: In the end this Dickens character says, "I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year" Ebenezer Scrooge |
#3445, aired 1999-07-23 | PUBLICATIONS: Henry Nichols' "Four Seasons" engraving has appeared on the cover of this publication each year since 1851 Farmers' Almanac |
#3437, aired 1999-07-13 | HISTORIC ISLANDS: A 900-year-old organization expelled in 1798 was allowed to return to this island in 1998 Malta |
#3433, aired 1999-07-07 | SPORTS SUPERSTARS: This tennis player was ranked No. 1 for the year a record 6 times in a row in the 1990s Pete Sampras |
#3405, aired 1999-05-28 | '90s TRENDS: This adornment has been seen on Cher, Dennis Rodman & the 5,000-year-old "Iceman" found in 1991 tattoos |
#3395, aired 1999-05-14 | HISTORIC AMERICANS: This member of William & Mary's Class of 1762 founded a univ. that opened in 1825, one year before his death Thomas Jefferson (University of Virginia) |
#3374, aired 1999-04-15 | MUSIC: In 1997 Agnes Grossmann took over as the 1st woman artistic director of this group in its 500-year history The Vienna Boys' Choir |
#3372, aired 1999-04-13 | ENTERTAINMENT AWARDS: In 1998 she became the only woman to win an Oscar & an Emmy for Lead Actress in the same year Helen Hunt |
#3366, aired 1999-04-05 | ANIMALS: There are only 3 of these animals in U.S. zoos: a 28-year-old in D.C.'s National Zoo & 2 younger ones in San Diego pandas |
#3305, aired 1999-01-08 | BALLET: Feeling the need for ballets about American life, this dancer choreographed his first ballet in 1944 Jerome Robbins |
#3299, aired 1998-12-31 | U.S. ORGANIZATIONS: A New Deal agency & a present-day organization, both using an eagle symbol, share these initials NRA (National Recovery Administration & National Rifle Association) |
#3293, aired 1998-12-23 | FOOD & DRINK: This coffee brand was so named because its creator served it only once a year at a yuletide dinner party Yuban |
#3283, aired 1998-12-09 | TELEVISION: By September 1985 "A.M. Chicago" had been expanded to an hour & became this show; it's still on The Oprah Winfrey Show |
#3271, aired 1998-11-23 | FAMOUS NAMES: In a 15-minute-long ceremony, his New York townhouse was designated a "Cultural Landmark" in 1998 Andy Warhol |
#3263, aired 1998-11-11 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY: In 1998 this 106-year-old company became the first in the U.S. to top $300 billion in market value General Electric |
#3249, aired 1998-10-22 | THE 17th CENTURY: The 1648 Peace of Westphalia ended a war that began on May 23 of this year 1618 (when The Thirty Years' War began) |
#3221, aired 1998-09-14 | 1998 BUSINESS NEWS: The Silver Seraph, the 9th new model in its 92-year history, is its first built on a moving assembly line Rolls-Royce |
#3200, aired 1998-06-26 | HISTORIC AMERICANS: He's the only individual to be named Time magazine's Man of the Year 3 times Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
#3190, aired 1998-06-12 | ORGANIZATIONS: This women's organization founded in 1890 was chartered by Congress in 1896 the Daughters of the American Revolution |
#3188, aired 1998-06-10 | THE COLD WAR: 28 years apart, they are the year the Berlin Wall was created & the year it was torn down 1961 & 1989 |
#3143, aired 1998-04-08 | ACTORS & THEIR FILMS: The title of Richard Burton's last feature film, or the year it was released 1984 |
#3073, aired 1997-12-31 | U.S. GOVERNMENT: In Spanish this agency is known as "La Migra" the Immigration and Naturalization Service |
#2975, aired 1997-07-04 | COMPOSERS: One of this Russian's best-known works is the fiendishly difficult Piano Concerto No. 3 of 1909 Sergei Rachmaninoff |
#2966, aired 1997-06-23 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: The Roosevelt dime made its debut the year this president was born Bill Clinton (born in 1946) |
#2954, aired 1997-06-05 | AUTOBIOGRAPHIES: In 1791, one year after his death, part of this American's autobiography was published in Paris as "Memoires" Benjamin Franklin |
#2892, aired 1997-03-11 | WORLD LEADERS: Peruvians incorrectly call this man "El Chinito" Alberto Fujimori |
#2868, aired 1997-02-05 | RULERS: In 44 B.C. he was made dictator for life, a post abolished after he died the same year Julius Caesar |
#2857, aired 1997-01-21 | WORD ORIGINS: From the Latin for "year" & "turn", it's literally "the turn of a year" anniversary (annus = year & verso = turn) |
#2843, aired 1997-01-01 | AUTHORS: In 1996, 7 years after giving up law, he returned to a Mississippi courtroom & won a case for an old client John Grisham |
#2841, aired 1996-12-30 | THE 1500s: In 1520 he wrote Pope Leo X, "Let no person imagine that I will recant" Martin Luther |
#2829, aired 1996-12-12 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: The 2 men whose presidencies each began & ended during one calendar year William Henry Harrison (1841) & James Garfield (1881) |
#2828, aired 1996-12-11 | HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES: AT&T says more collect calls are made on this holiday than on any other day of the year Father's Day |
#2801, aired 1996-11-04 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: He was the last president born in the 19th century Dwight David Eisenhower (1890) |
#2781, aired 1996-10-07 | HISTORIC BOOKS: It was written in 1924 in the fortress of Landsberg am Lech Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler |
#2710, aired 1996-05-17 | FAMOUS NOVELS: Published in 1605, the first part of this novel was dedicated to the Duque de Bejar, Marques de Gibraleon... Don Quixote |
#2690, aired 1996-04-19 | ARTISTS: 121-year-old Jeanne Calment remembers this man buying canvases at her in-laws' store in Arles Vincent van Gogh |
#2668, aired 1996-03-20 | NONFICTION: The masthead of this publication says it was "established in 1792 and published every year thereafter" The Farmers Almanac |
#2654, aired 1996-02-29 | AUTHORS: He created his most famous character in 1952 at Goldeneye, a holiday home he bought in Jamaica Ian Fleming |
#2640, aired 1996-02-09 | DESIGN: Marc Chagall & Salvador Dali were among the artists who designed these for Baron Philippe de Rothschild wine labels |
#2637, aired 1996-02-06 | SHAKESPEARE: Shakespeare's 2 plays with "King" in the title & no numbers following King Lear & King John |
#2635, aired 1996-02-02 | CONGRESS: On Nov. 23, 1973 Yvonne Braithwaite Burke became the first member of Congress to do this while in office give birth |
#2623, aired 1996-01-17 | THE CALENDAR: The next year that will be written in only 4 Roman numerals 2002 (MMII) |
#2592, aired 1995-12-05 | WOMEN OF SCIENCE: With 32, Carolyn Shoemaker has discovered more of these than any other living person comets |
#2574, aired 1995-11-09 | NAMES IN THE NEWS: He's the co-founder & editor-in-chief of a new magazine that hit the stands on September 26, 1995 John F. Kennedy, Jr. |
#2566, aired 1995-10-30 | ANNUAL EVENTS: Between 1903 & the present, this event took place every year but 2: 1904 & 1994 the World Series |
#2531, aired 1995-09-11 | FRENCH AUTHORS: In 1881 Paris' Avenue d'Eylau was renamed for this author who lived on it in honor of his 80th year Victor Hugo |
#2389, aired 1995-01-12 | BRITISH MONARCHS: 9-year-old Henry III became king of England when this king, his father, died in 1216 King John |
#2372, aired 1994-12-20 | HISTORY: The 7-year revolt by the Front de Liberation Nationale led this country to independence in 1962 Algeria |
#2339, aired 1994-11-03 | PLAYWRIGHTS: He's won 3 Pulitzer Prizes for drama--in 1967, 1975 & 1994 Edward Albee |
#2213, aired 1994-03-30 | PULITZER PRIZE NOVELS: The first Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by a woman, it became a movie in 1993 The Age of Innocence |
#2212, aired 1994-03-29 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: 2 of the 3 presidents elected in a year ending with "0" who did not die in office (2 of) Ronald Reagan, Thomas Jefferson, or James Monroe |
#2145, aired 1993-12-24 | THE CALENDAR: By our calendar, the first British East India Co. was founded on this date, the last day of the 16th century December 31, 1600 |
#2139, aired 1993-12-16 | 20th CENTURY WOMEN: She was Time magazine's Woman of the Year for 1953 Queen Elizabeth II |
#2104, aired 1993-10-28 | HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES: This holiday is the top avocado-eating day of the year in the U.S.; Super Bowl Sunday is second Cinco de Mayo |
#2038, aired 1993-06-16 | THE 1950s: June 2, 1953 event telecast worldwide & filmed in Technicolor Queen Elizabeth II's coronation |
#2013, aired 1993-05-12 | NAMES IN THE NEWS: For his unconventional but effective use of the media, Advertising Age named him its 1992 Adman of the Year Ross Perot |
#1867, aired 1992-10-20 | MEN OF SCIENCE: In 1927, a year after his death, his autobiography "Harvest of the Years" was published Luther Burbank |
#1854, aired 1992-10-01 | THE CALENDAR: It was the last year that was just two letters long in Roman numerals 1500 (MD) |
#1839, aired 1992-09-10 | SHIPS: This British navy ship left Devenport Dec. 27, 1831 & went around the world on a 5-year survey mission the HMS Beagle |
#1830, aired 1992-07-10 | 20th CENTURY WOMEN: This legendary 71-year-old performer, the widow of a diplomat, died in Panama in 1991 Margot Fonteyn |
#1827, aired 1992-07-07 | 1991: Time's 1991 Man of the Year, he made viewers around the world "instant witnesses to history" Ted Turner |
#1782, aired 1992-05-05 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS: Verona, Italy has someone who answers dozens of letters sent each week to this 13-year-old girl Juliet |
#1605, aired 1991-07-19 | POETS: This baron was England's poet laureate from 1850 to 1892, longer than anyone else Alfred Lord Tennyson |
#1598, aired 1991-07-10 | AMERICAN AUTHORS: A 40-year old widower, he was engaged to remarry when he died mysteriously in Baltimore in 1849 Edgar Allan Poe |
#1588, aired 1991-06-26 | U.S. GOVERNMENT: Of all the independent agencies of the U.S. government, this one has the most employees the Postal Service (the Post Office) |
#1573, aired 1991-06-05 | VICE PRESIDENTS: He was the last vice president who didn't serve a full 4-year term Nelson Rockefeller |
#1553, aired 1991-05-08 | GOVERNMENT & POLITICS: 1 of 2 federal positions that by law pay the same salary as the vice presidency, $160,600 a year (1 of) Speaker of the House or Chief Justice (of the United States) |
#1546, aired 1991-04-29 | WORLD POPULATION: The World Bank estimates that by the year 2100, this country will have more people than China India |
#1517, aired 1991-03-19 | AMERICAN REVOLUTION: The bloodiest engagement of the war, it was fought a year before we declared independence the Battle of Bunker Hill (also the Battle of Breed's Hill) |
#1481, aired 1991-01-28 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS: In 1976, the same year her creator died, she made her final appearance, in "Sleeping Murder" Miss (Jane) Marple |
#1474, aired 1991-01-17 | FAMOUS WOMEN: 1 of 2 women who made the Top 10 on Forbes' list of the highest-earning entertainers of 1989-90 (1 of) Madonna & Oprah Winfrey |
#1467, aired 1991-01-08 | ART: This artist's only known seascape, "Storm on the Sea of Galilee", was stolen in 1990 Rembrandt |
#1426, aired 1990-11-12 | THE COMMON MARKET: Only permanent Common Market member whose official language doesn't use the Latin alphabet Greece |
#1425, aired 1990-11-09 | U.S. POLITICS: This city has been the site of more major party presidential nominating conventions than any other Chicago |
#1424, aired 1990-11-08 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY: This country contains South America's highest & lowest points Argentina |
#1411, aired 1990-10-22 | FAMOUS NAMES: The former Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon is now known by this title the Queen Mother (Queen Mum) |
#13, aired 1990-09-08 | THE 20th CENTURY: He was vice president of the U.S. for just 82 days before becoming president Harry Truman |
#1312, aired 1990-04-24 | PLAYWRIGHTS: His most famous play was first produced in 1895, the year he was sent to jail, & he never wrote another Oscar Wilde (The Importance of Being Earnest) |
#1287, aired 1990-03-20 | WORD ORIGINS: Word derived from the act of breaking up a failed Italian moneylender's market bench bankruptcy |
#1271, aired 1990-02-26 | U.S. STATES: After Rhode Island & Delaware, it's the next smallest state in area Connecticut |
#1200, aired 1989-11-17 | U.S. HISTORY: The states admitted to the Union in the 20th century were Alaska, Hawaii & these 3 Arizona, New Mexico & Oklahoma |
#1192, aired 1989-11-07 | U.S. POLITICS: He served as Sec'y of H.E.W., Sec'y of Defense & Att'y General, all in the same year--1973 Elliot Richardson |
#1189, aired 1989-11-02 | THE CALENDAR: The 1st leap year of the 21st century 2004 |
#1185, aired 1989-10-27 | FILMS OF THE '50s: The 2 "High" films in which Grace Kelly starred High Noon (1952) & High Society (1955) |
#1176, aired 1989-10-16 | DISNEY FEATURE FILMS: This 1940 Disney title character wore a Tyrolean hat Pinocchio |
#1139, aired 1989-07-13 | IN THE NEWS: The European Community's target year for lifting all economic barriers among its 12 members 1992 |
#1126, aired 1989-06-26 | WOMEN: 1 of 3 states that currently has a woman governor (1 of) Vermont, Nebraska, or Arizona |
#1072, aired 1989-04-11 | THE CALENDAR: On the old Celtic calendar this was the last day of the year, & some of its pagan rites still exist Halloween |
#1067, aired 1989-04-04 | HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES: Great American Smokeout, urging smokers to quit the habit, is held each year a week before this holiday Thanksgiving |
#962, aired 1988-11-08 | PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS: He was the only incumbent vice president to defeat a president in a presidential election Thomas Jefferson |
#952, aired 1988-10-25 | THE NOBEL PRIZE: He was knighted in 1953, the same year he won the Nobel Prize for Literature Winston Churchill |
#949, aired 1988-10-20 | THE UNITED NATIONS: In the course of its 43-year history, the UN has had this many Secretaries-General 5 |
#926, aired 1988-09-19 | MYTHOLOGY: 2 of the 3 goddesses who were contestants in the famous beauty contest judged by Paris (2 of) Aphrodite, Athena or Hera |
#922, aired 1988-09-13 | THE CALENDAR: 1st year of the 100th century 9901 |
#820, aired 1988-03-11 | WORLD POLITICS: After a 9/25/87 coup, this South Pacific island severed its 113-year link with the British Crown Fiji |
#805, aired 1988-02-19 | VICE PRESIDENTS: 2 of 3 men in the 20th century who became president within a year of becoming vice president (2 of) Theodore Roosevelt, Harry Truman & Gerald Ford |
#780, aired 1988-01-15 | PRESIDENTS: Of the 5 vowels, only these are the 1st letter of a president's last name A & E |
#773, aired 1988-01-06 | ASTRONOMY: Appropriate mythological name given the asteroid in our solar system that passes closest to the Sun Icarus |
#772, aired 1988-01-05 | BROADWAY MUSICALS: 2 of the 3 19th c. authors on whose stories the last 3 Tony Award winning musicals were based (2 of) Victor Hugo (Les Misérables), Charles Dickens (The Mystery of Edwin Drood), & Mark Twain (Big River) |
#755, aired 1987-12-11 | ELECTIONS: 1st president for whom 18-year-olds across the USA could have voted Richard Nixon |
#714, aired 1987-10-15 | BODIES OF WATER: Country in which you'd have to be to build a bridge on the River Kwai Thailand |
#689, aired 1987-09-10 | THE CENSUS: Last year in the 19th century in which a general census of the United States was taken 1900 |
#672, aired 1987-07-07 | GAMBLING: 3 of the 4 states with the highest lottery sales in dollars in calendar year 1986 (3 of) California, New York, Illinois & Pennsylvania |
#650, aired 1987-06-05 | 20th CENTURY ELECTIONS: Only year in which the winner defeated not only the incumbent but the previous president, too 1912 |
#621, aired 1987-04-27 | CODES OF HONOR: As bushido was to 16th century samurai, this was to 12th century knights chivalry |
#616, aired 1987-04-20 | 1978: 1978 was 1st time since 1447 that this many men have been pope of the Roman Church in 1 year three |
#613, aired 1987-04-15 | IN THE NEWS: FDR was named this 3 times, Ike, Truman & Churchill twice; but for 1966 it was the 25 & under generation Time Man of the Year |
#564, aired 1987-02-05 | THE CONSTITUTION: The 26th Amendment gave these people the right to vote in federal elections 18-year-olds |
#554, aired 1987-01-22 | CITIES: In 1904, this city hosted the Democratic National Convention, a World's Far & the Olympics St. Louis |
#535, aired 1986-12-26 | SCIENTISTS: Called father of the Soviet H-bomb, he's a hero in the West but not in Russia Andrei Sakharov |
#529, aired 1986-12-18 | THE MOVIES: "Wuthering Heights", "Of Mice and Men", & "Stagecoach" all came out in this "Best year ever for Amer. films" 1939 |
#510, aired 1986-11-21 | U.S. GOVERNMENT: Last year in which we went an entire calendar year without a vice president in office 1964 |
#491, aired 1986-10-27 | THE OSCARS: Only family in which 3 generations have won Oscars the Hustons |
#483, aired 1986-10-15 | THE CALENDAR: Most recent year which reads numerically the same backward & forward 1881 |
#473, aired 1986-10-01 | HISTORIC YEARS: A famous channel crossing ended on September 28th of this year, as familiar to the British as 1492 is to us 1066 |
#460, aired 1986-09-12 | THE CALENDAR: Barring the unforeseen, the last presidential election of the 20th century will be held in this year 2000 |
#459, aired 1986-09-11 | ACTORS & ROLES: In a 3-year period, 2 actors won Oscars for playing this character in different films The Godfather |
#444, aired 1986-05-22 | THE OLYMPICS: Sex tests for women, protests by Blacks, & the altitude were controversies of the Olympics in this year 1968 |
#440, aired 1986-05-16 | THE CALENDAR: Day of the week Valentine's Day will be if New Year's Day falls on a Monday Wednesday |
#432, aired 1986-05-06 | IN THE NEWS: Although Mt. St. Helens provided the big bang that year, everyone asked, "Who shot J.R.?" 1980 |
#416, aired 1986-04-14 | MEDICINE: Accounting for 3.9 million visits last year, it's the leading reason for a hospital stay childbirth (giving birth) |
#397, aired 1986-03-18 | FAMOUS AMERICANS: 1 year after winning an Oscar, she was honored on a postage stamp, but not for her acting Grace Kelly |
#394, aired 1986-03-13 | SPORTING EVENTS: Established in 1911, this yearly event has largest single day attendance in sports the Indy 500 |
#341, aired 1985-12-30 | WOMEN IN SPORTS: In 1975, 11-year-old Karen Stead coasted to victory as 1st female winner of this racing event Soap Box Derby |
#329, aired 1985-12-12 | IN THE NEWS: Year when 1st test-tube baby was born, Oscar turned 50, & John Paul II became pope 1978 |
#309, aired 1985-11-14 | U.S. GOVERNMENT: Individual receiving 2nd-highest U.S. gov't salary--$104,700 per year excluding expenses chief justice |
#280, aired 1985-10-04 | BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY: Over 1/2 of Fortune 500 and 42% of all N.Y. Stock Exchange companies are incorporated in this state Delaware |
#268, aired 1985-09-18 | U.S. POPULATION: The Census Bureau estimates this state will not exceed any other in population before year 2000 Alaska |
#264, aired 1985-09-12 | MISS AMERICA: He replaced Bert Parks as host of Miss America pageant for 1980 Ron Ely |
#193, aired 1985-06-05 | FAMOUS NAMES: In 1974, this baseball figure set record for most letters received in the mail in a year, some 900,000 Hank Aaron |
#122, aired 1985-02-26 | 20th CENTURY: In 1927, he was named "Time" magazine's first "Man of the Year" (Charles) Lindbergh |
#89, aired 1985-01-10 | FAMOUS FAMILIES: Illinois family that included a vice-president, governor & U.N. ambassador, & a U.S. senator the Stevensons |
#72, aired 1984-12-18 | THE CALENDAR: Total days in a year which fall in months with 31 days 217 |
#56, aired 1984-11-26 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY: Country that manufactures the most cars per year Japan |
#17, aired 1984-10-02 | TRAVEL & TOURISM: This country draws the most American tourists each year Canada |
#6, aired 1984-09-17 | EUROPE: Country where the current king succeeded his grandfather after a 44-year gap Spain |
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Sid Chandrasekhar, a senior from the University of Pennsylvania from Saratoga, California
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2010-B College Championship semifinalist: $10,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
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Alex Johnson, an 11-year-old from Indianapolis, Indiana
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Charles Shaughnessy, an actor from Mad Men
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Jane Kaczmarek, a TV, film and Broadway actress from Malcolm in the Middle and Raising the Bar
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Emma Couture, a twelve-year-old from St. Petersburg, Florida
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Dara Lind, a junior from Yale University
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2008 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 20 and from Cincinnati, OH at...
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Gabrielle McMahan, a junior from Florida A&M University
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Brad Plovan, an attorney from Baltimore, Maryland
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Michelle Clum, an executive assistant originally from Wichita, Kansas
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Patrick Tucker, a senior from the University of Notre Dame
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2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2009 College Championship winner: $100,000...
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Scott Menke, a senior from Johns Hopkins University
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2009 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 21 and from Flemington, New Jersey...
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Judy Mermelstein, a Census field representative from Queens, New York
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Season 25 1-time champion: $38,401 + $1,000. Judy also appeared on...
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Heather Peden, a 10-year-old from Tulsa, Oklahoma
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"This 10-year-old has already made her ruling: she wants to be...
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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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Meredith Dedopoulos, a 12-year-old from Durham, New Hampshire
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Michael Glick, a 12-year-old from Smithtown, New York
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Emily Kamm, a 12-year-old from Arlington, Virginia
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Michael Schulson, a 12-year-old from Chattanooga, Tennessee
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Suzie Lisky, a 12-year-old from Mendham, New Jersey
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Michael McKean, an actor, writer, and director from This is Spinal Tap, A Mighty Wind, and The Pajama Game
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"His movies have included This is Spinal Tap and A Mighty...
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Jamie Weiss, a high school senior and winner of last year's Teen Tournament from Fairfax, Virginia
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"A high school senior and winner of last year's teen tournament,...
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Rebecca Lobo, a future Women\'s Basketball Hall of Famer and ESPN analyst originally from the WNBA
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\"Later this year, she\'ll be inducted into the Women\'s Basketball Hall...
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Jean Cui, a student originally from Garden City, New York
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Season 25 2-time champion: $14,200 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Dave Belote, the base commander from Nellis Air Force Base, Las Vegas
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Rebecca Dixon, a graduate student and musician from Vancouver, Washington
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Season 26 2-time champion: $53,002 + $1,000. Rebecca and her partner...
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Thomas L. Friedman, an author and foreign affairs columnist from The New York Times
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Lisa Makar, a senior from University of Maryland
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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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Ariella Goldstein, a junior from Muhlenberg College
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2009 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 20 and from Cortlandt Manor,...
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Ellen Eichner, a junior from the Ohio State University from Northbrook, Illinois
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2010-B College Championship semifinalist: $10,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
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Hans von Walter, a junior from Southern Adventist University from Avon Park, Florida
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2010-B College Championship 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $25,000 + a...
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Elliot Shteir, an attorney from Somerville, New Jersey
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1995-A Seniors Tournament 1st runner-up: $10,000. Dr. Elliot Shteir won $8,230...
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Erin McLean, a sophomore from Boston University from Danvers, Massachusetts
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2011 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 2010-B College Championship winner:...
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James Grant, a junior from Georgetown University
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2008 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 21 and from Manhattan Beach,...
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Andy Srinivasan, a high school science teacher from Garner, North Carolina
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2010 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $69,600...
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Ben Bishop, a student originally from Seattle, Washington
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2009 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 25 4-time champion: $114,800...
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Tom Nichols, a professor originally from Chicopee, Massachusetts
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\"A five-time champion in 1994, he used his winnings for a...
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Christopher Weis, a sophomore from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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2008-B Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. Last name pronounced like "WISE". Jeopardy!...
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Lewis Black, a stand-up comedian from Lewis Black's Root of All Evil
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Dmitry Spivak, a junior from Northwestern University
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David Hudson, a junior from the University of Virginia
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Tim Russert, a moderator from Meet the Press
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Katie Winter, a senior from Tufts University
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2008 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 22 and from Hershey, PA at...
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Rick Knutsen, a musician and stay-at-home dad from Brooklyn, New York
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"A finalist in the 2001 Tournament of Champions, he's a musician...
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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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Bob Blake, an actuary from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Matt Drury, a government analyst from New York, New York
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Season 26 1-time champion: $18,799 + $2,000. Matthew Drury - A...
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Jeremy Bate, an emergency medical technician and writer from Tujunga, California
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"A second-place finisher in the 2000 Tournament of Champions, he's now...
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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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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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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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Inta Antler, a retired computer programmer from Scarborough, Ontario, Canada
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Tom Toce, an actuary from New York, New York
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Andrew Ceppos, a senior from Tufts University
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Larissa Charnsangavej, a senior from Rice University
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2009 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 21 and from Houston, Texas at...
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Courtney Trezise, a senior from Michigan State University
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2009 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 21 and from Okemos, Michigan at...
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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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Pat Sajak, a game show host from Wheel of Fortune
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Amanda J. Ray, a sophomore at the University of Virginia from Harrisonburg, Virginia
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Lea Tottle, a junior from Florida State University from Oldsmar, Florida
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Stephen Weingarten, a paraeducator from Portland, Oregon
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2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $96,690...
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Diane Siegel, an educational consultant and writer from Northridge, California
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Ryan Holznagel, a writer originally from Forest Grove, Oregon
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Peter Severson, a senior from Sioux Falls, South Dakota
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Ryan Chaffee, a tutor from Los Angeles, California
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Tommy Maranges, a junior from Fort Lauderdale, Florida
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Ben Chuchla, a senior from Calabasas, California
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Cassie Hill, a recent graduate from the University of Mary Washington
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Dr. Mehmet Oz, a cardiac surgeon and TV host from The Dr. Oz Show
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, a Basketball Hall of Famer and all-time leading scorer from the NBA
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Zoë Chao, an actor from Providence, Rhode Island
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Robert Gibbs, a former press secretary from the Obama White House
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Carl Brandt, an investor originally from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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Anjali Tripathi, a senior from MIT
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Catherine Briley, a senior from Grand Prairie, Louisiana
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2012 Teen Tournament 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $31,000. 17 at...
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Eliza Scruton, a junior from Louisville, Kentucky
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2012 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000.
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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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Max Johansen, a senior from the University of Miami
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Mark Born, a musician, writer and teacher from Bangkok, Thailand
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Danny Devries, a junior from the University of Michigan
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2008 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 21 and from West Bloomfield, MI...
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Suchita Shah, a senior from the University of Wisconsin-Madison
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2008 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 20 and from Holmen, WI...
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Brandon Hensley, a sophomore from Caltech
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Danielle Zsenak, a senior from Marquette University
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2008 College Championship 1st runner-up: $50,000. Last name pronounced like "zshen-NOCK"....
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Vik Vaz, a medical student from Austin, Texas
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2006 Tournament of Champions 1st runner-up: $100,000. Season 22 3-time champion:...
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Aman Birk, from Irvine, California
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"He may not be the fastest swimmer on the team, but...
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Emily Heaney, a freelance costume designer from White Bear Lake, Minnesota
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Jen McFann, a Peace Corps recruiter from Astoria, New York
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Season 26 1-time champion: $19,410 + $2,000. Jen McFann Astoria, New...
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Kori Tyler, a high school teacher from Cordova, Tennessee
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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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Laura Myers, a senior from the University of Missouri
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2009 College Championship second runner-up: $29,900. 22 and from Richmond, Virginia...
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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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Lindsay Eanet, a senior from the University of Missouri
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2010-A College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. Hometown: Deerfield, Illinois. Last name pronounced...
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Dan D'Addario, a senior from Columbia University
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2010-A College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Hometown: Farmington, Connecticut. Daniel D'Addario...
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A.J. Schumacher, a radio show production intern from St. Paul, Minnesota
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Season 25 1-time champion: $10,800 + $2,000. AJ Schumacher Saint Paul,...
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Nick Yozamp, a junior from Washington University in St. Louis
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2010 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 2010-A College Championship winner:...
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Robbie Berg, a freshman from the University of Pennsylvania
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2010-A College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. Hometown: Davie, Florida. Robbie Berg Blog...
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Jane Curtin, an actress from Kate & Allie and 3rd Rock from the Sun
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"One of Saturday Night Live's original Not Ready for Primetime Players,...
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Neil Patrick Harris, an actor from How I Met Your Mother
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"He's received critical acclaim on Broadway and on TV, and his...
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Jason Pratt, a middle school history teacher from Woodbridge, Virginia
|
Season 25 2-time champion: $32,701 + $1,000. Jason Pratt - A...
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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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Ellen Kimmel, a school nurse from Nanuet, New York
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Season 27 2-time champion: $37,000 + $1,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: SkoolRN
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Mike Piazza, a catcher from the Los Angeles Dodgers
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"From the Los Angeles Dodgers, he was named Rookie of the...
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Fred Beukema, a structural engineer from Minneapolis, Minnesota
|
Season 25 3-time champion: $69,401 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Stefan Goodreau, a video game tester and camp counselor from Los Angeles, California
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2010 Tournament of Champions 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $50,000. Season...
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Katie Singh, a sophomore from Northwestern University from Austin, Texas
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2010-B College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
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Steph Gagelin, a sophomore from the University of North Dakota from Grand Forks, North Dakota
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2010-B College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
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Mike Marmesh, a veterinarian from Miami, Florida
|
Season 26 1-time champion: $4,700 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Julie Bowen, a TV and film actress from Boston Legal, Lost and Modern Family
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"For two seasons, she played attorney Denise Bauer in Boston Legal....
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Steve Newman, a partner in a small computer company from Rockville, Maryland
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"He was the first player to win 5 games in the...
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Miguel Ferrer, an actor from Crossing Jordan
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"He began his career as a studio drummer and played on...
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Paul Boymel, a civil rights attorney from Potomac, Maryland
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"He was the top winner of the 1984-85 season. Now he's...
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Cary Williams, from Milton, Massachusetts
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"She won an award in math, and a letter of commendation...
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Neville Fogarty, an 11-year-old from Kingwood, Texas
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\"This chess player is planning his career moves very carefully. From...
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Mark Thompson, a real estate investor from Lexington, Massachusetts
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Season 8 player (1991-12-30). Season 7 player (1990-10-01). Mark returned to...
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Mark Thompson, a Realtor from Lexington, Massachusetts
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Season 8 player (1991-12-28). Season 7 player (1990-10-01). Mark returned to...
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Sarah Olson, a project coordinator from El Cerrito, California
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Season 30 2-time champion: $27,401 + $1,000.
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Colby Burnett, an AP world history teacher from Chicago, Illinois
|
\"He won the Teacher\'s Tournament and the Tournament of Champions last...
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Jerry Slowik, a writer from Arlington Heights, Illinois
|
Season 30 5-time champion: $121,800 + $1,000. No returning champion Hometown...
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India Cooper, an actor and copy editor from New York, New York
|
\"She became a 5-time champion in 1991. An actor and copy...
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India Cooper, an actor and copy editor from New York City, New York
|
\"A semifinalist in the Tournament of Champions in 1992, now an...
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Matt Amodio, a post-doctoral researcher from Cambridge, Massachusetts
|
2023 Jeopardy! Masters 3rd place player: $150,000. 2022 Tournament of Champions...
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Matt Amodio, a Ph.D. student from New Haven, Connecticut
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2023 Jeopardy! Masters 3rd place player: $150,000. 2022 Tournament of Champions...
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Matt Amodio, a postdoctoral researcher from Cambridge, Massachusetts
|
2023 Jeopardy! Masters 3rd place player: $150,000. 2022 Tournament of Champions...
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Joel Serna, an 11-year-old from Fort Worth, Texas
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2008 Kids Week Reunion winner: $25,000. 1999 Back-to-School Week winner: $12,200...
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Tom Wickham, an airline pilot from Torrington, Connecticut
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1988 Senior Tournament semifinalist: $5,000. Tom only became eligible for the...
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John Pearson, a 4th grade math teacher from Richardson, Texas
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"His school's theme this year is superheroes. It's a bird! It's...
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Kati Sorenson, a reading teacher from Omaha, Nebraska
|
"She's in her second year of teaching and loving it. From...
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Teagan O'Sullivan, a first-year student at American University from Watertown, Massachusetts
|
"A high school freshman from Charlotte, North Carolina, when she became...
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Mario Cantone, an actor and comedian from Sex and the City
|
\"He played Anthony Marentino, the wedding planner with an attitude, on...
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Justin Bolsen, a first-year student at Brown University from Canton, Georgia
|
2024 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. \"He was a high school...
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Joe Baldanza
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Season 3 X-time champion: $X. Missing occupation and hometown because the...
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Rose Schaefer, a junior from Portland, Oregon
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2012 Teen Tournament 1st runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $36,000. 16 at...
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D.J. Smith, a computer business analyst from Garland, Texas
|
1988 Senior Tournament quarterfinalist: $1,000. D.J.'s quarterfinal score was high enough...
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Max Davison, a writer from Studio City, California
|
2023 Second Chance competition semifinalist: $2,000. Season 39 player (2023-01-10). Son...
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Max Davison, a writer from Studio City, California
|
2023 Second Chance competition semifinalist: $2,000. Season 39 player (2023-01-10). Son...
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Catherine Carson, a fourth grade language arts, math, and social studies teacher from Washington, D.C.
|
"She is new to teaching--she's in her second year. From Washington,...
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Blythe McWhirter, an 11-year-old sixth grader from Decatur, Georgia
|
"She'll do swimmingly as a marine biologist. From Decatur, Georgia, let's...
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Clement Doucette, a 12-year-old seventh grader from Hudson, Massachusetts
|
"This science lover wants to do something in the medical field....
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Josiah Washington, a 12-year-old seventh grader from Columbia, South Carolina
|
"Fasten your seat belts for this future CEO of a roller-coaster...
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Dan Crosby, a middle school history teacher from Santa Monica, California
|
"He teaches at a school named for a renowned scholar, doctor,...
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Patrick Aimone, a 12-year-old seventh grader from Long Beach, California
|
"Teacher, scientist, lawyer--he just wants to use his debating skills. From...
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Holly Boivin, a 12-year-old seventh grader from Nashua, New Hampshire
|
"She wants to be a teacher, just like her mom. From...
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Xan Vessels, a 12-year-old seventh grader from Mechanicsville, Virginia
|
"This phenomenal phenom wants to be a phenomenologist. From Mechanicsville, Virginia,...
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Skyler Hornback, a 12-year-old seventh grader from Sonora, Kentucky
|
"Honestly, this Abe Lincoln lover wants to go into politics. From...
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Shuli Jones, a 12-year-old seventh grader from Toronto, Ontario, Canada
|
"She likes being creative, so she's considering design or writing. From...
|
Jim Davis, a college music and humanities instructor from Freeport, Illinois
|
Season 25 2-time champion: $62,802 + $2,000. Not be to confused...
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Thomas Hurley, a 12-year-old seventh grader from Newtown, Connecticut
|
"Watch out, Alex. This kid wants to host Jeopardy! He says...
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Greg Bentley, a law clerk from Pikeville, Kentucky
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Season 28 player (2012-03-21).
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Aarin Martinez, a 12-year-old seventh grader from Torrance, California
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"This future journalist wants to write for National Geographic. From Torrance,...
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John Wilkins, an 11-year-old sixth grader from Chevy Chase, Maryland
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"He likes constitutional law and debating, so he sees lawyering in...
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Sallie Rawlston, a 10-year-old fifth grader from Soddy-Daisy, Tennessee
|
"We're sure she'll be a top scorer as a video game...
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Jonathan Shoemaker, an 11-year-old sixth grader from Austin, Texas
|
"Game on! We believe he will be victorious as a game...
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Zoë Assasie, an 11-year-old fifth grader from Urbana, Maryland
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"Bon apétit ! She wants to be a chef and own...
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Erin Wenokur, a 12-year-old seventh grader from Lafayette, California
|
"She's interested in world affairs and politics, with dreams of becoming...
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Tony Harkin, an eleven-year-old from New Milford, Connecticut
|
"Dig this--he wants to be an archaeologist when he grows up....
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Dominic Olivera, a twelve-year-old from Bristow, Virginia
|
"Oh, good heavens! He wants to be a priest when he's...
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Ann Thurlow, an aspiring novelist and retired salesperson from Mendham, New Jersey
|
Season 28 1-time champion: $26,805 + $1,000.
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Maddie Harrington, a twelve-year-old from Palm Beach Gardens, Florida
|
"She wants to be a theater critic and she gets rave...
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Neil Patel, a twelve-year-old from Plano, Texas
|
"He wants to become an environmental scientist and help protect our...
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Ryan McLaughlin, a study hall supervisor and retail manager from Chicago, Illinois
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Season 29 player (2013-04-09).
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Brooke Martin, an eleven-year-old from Galway, New York
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"It looks like smooth sailing for this marine biologist. From Galway,...
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Emma Johnson, an eleven-year-old from St. Petersburg, Florida
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"She'll hit a high note in her future musical career as...
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Andrew Zazzera, a twelve-year-old from Virginia Beach, Virginia
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"He has a sunny future as a meteorologist. From Virginia Beach,...
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B.D. Schwarz, a twelve-year-old from Oakland, California
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"He wants to make others happy by opening a little game...
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Dillon McCormick, a twelve-year-old from Erlanger, Kentucky
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"A politician, maybe. An archaeologist, perhaps. Or a psychologist like grandpa....
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Rahul Francis, a twelve-year-old from Flushing, New York
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"This electronic wizard's current plans are to run a technology company....
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Meg Walker, an eleven-year-old from Brandon, Mississippi
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"She wants to help people with disabilities have a better life...
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Bradley Silverman, a junior from Alpharetta, Georgia
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2008-B Teen Tournament 1st runner-up: $44,600. Jeopardy! Message Board user name:...
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Aria Gerson, an eleven-year-old from Orem, Utah
|
"Shine an apple for our future teacher. From Orem, Utah, class,...
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Graham Doskoch, a twelve-year-old from Berkeley Heights, New Jersey
|
"He wants to put his love of design and building to...
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Charlotte Scott, a twelve-year-old from Washington, D.C.
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"Watch out, Diane Sawyer. This future news anchor is ready for...
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Justin Hofstetter, a sixth and seventh grade language arts and social studies teacher from Kansas City, Missouri
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"This sixth and seventh grade teacher is in his first year...
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John Krizel, a writer originally from Oceanside, New York
|
2011 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $105,204...
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Brooks Humphreys, a high school social studies teacher from Omaha, Nebraska
|
"He teaches at an all-girls Catholic school operated by the Sisters...
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Nate Rice, a high school ACT prep teacher from Catlettsburg, Kentucky
|
"This is his first year in the family business. His mother's...
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Joon Pahk, a college physics teacher from Somerville, Massachusetts
|
2011 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000.
Season 28 7-time champion: $199,000 + $2,000.
JBoard user name: jpahk
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Catherine Whitten, a high school history teacher from Plano, Texas
|
"This gifted teacher primarily teaches gifted students. From Plano, Texas, this...
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Mary Ann Eitler, a geologist from Alexandria, Virginia
|
Season 20 player (2004-07-02). KJL game 23. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Elissa Hoffman, a high school biology and anatomy & physiology teacher from Appleton, Wisconsin
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"She is in her lucky 13th year of teaching. From Appleton,...
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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: $83,401 + $2,000.
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Larkin Breitner, an 11-year-old from Fleming Island, Florida
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"She wants to be an actress, and she's ready for her...
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Katie O'Meara, an 11-year-old from Plano, Texas
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"This future kindergarten teacher is straight-A's in our book. From Plano,...
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Greg Boscaiu, a 12-year-old from Brea, California
|
"As an urban planner, he wants to help build greener communities....
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Neha Embar, a 12-year-old from Alpharetta, Georgia
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"No kidding--she wants to be a pediatrician when she grows up....
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Cassie Hill, a 12-year-old from Merrick, New York
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2008 Kids Week Reunion player (2008-09-19). 1999 Back to School Week...
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Andrew Grace, a 12-year-old from Apex, North Carolina
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"He wants to be a soccer player and an orthopedic surgeon,...
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Hallie Fox, a 12-year-old from Ypsilanti, Michigan
|
"It's elementary. She wants to be a teacher when she's older....
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Partha Purushotham, an 11-year-old from Palo Alto, California
|
"He is fair-minded, so he thinks he would make a good...
|
Julia Martinez, an 11-year-old from Fairfax, Virginia
|
"Get ready, Pennsylvania Avenue. She wants to be president of the...
|
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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Ryan Griffin, an 11-year-old from Waldwick, New Jersey
|
"We're sure he'll do swimmingly as an aquatic biologist. From Waldwick,...
|
Arjun Malhotra, a 12-year-old from Sammamish, Washington
|
"He says he's not naturally inclined to be an athlete, so...
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Injee Hong, a 12-year-old from Metairie, Louisiana
|
"If her dreams of becoming a lawyer don't come true, she...
|
Jeffrey Wachs, an attorney from Irvine, California
|
Season 29 player (2013-07-16).
Last name pronounced like "WAX".
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Anna Cambron, a 10-year-old from Louisville, Kentucky
|
"Her fascination with the human mind leads her to the field...
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Mandy Berry, an 11-year-old from Baltimore, Maryland
|
"She wants to dedicate her life to helping animals by becoming...
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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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Zach Safford, a senior from Williams College
|
"His early interest in cryptozoology has been replaced by a history...
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Robert Arshonsky, a senior from Cal Poly
|
"As a 12-year-old, he wanted to be the first person on...
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Mike Nelson, a mechanical engineer from Geneva, Illinois
|
Season 27 2-time champion: $20,800 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Kendra Pettis, an 11-year-old from Maplewood, New Jersey
|
2008 Kids Week Reunion player (2008-09-17). 1999 Back-to-School Week player (1999-09-08)....
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Sam Leanza, a senior from Laguna Hills, California
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2012 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time of the...
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Lisa Makar, a 12-year-old from Chesterland, Ohio
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2008 Kids Week Reunion player (2008-09-18).
1999 Back-to-School Week player (1999-09-10).
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Curtis Joseph, a 12-year-old from College Point, New York
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2008 Kids Week Reunion player (2008-09-17).
1999 Back-to-School Week player (1999-09-10).
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Anjali Tripathi, an 11-year-old from Woodland Hills, California
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2008 Kids Week Reunion winner: $25,000.
1999 Back-to-School Week player (1999-09-09).
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Max Johansen, a 12-year-old from Boca Raton, Florida
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2008 Kids Week Reunion winner: $25,000. 1999 Back-to-School Week player (1999-09-09)....
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Melanie Bruchet, an 11-year-old from Tallahassee, Florida
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2008 Kids Week Reunion player (2008-09-15). 1999 Back-to-School Week winner: $12,001...
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Dmitry Spivak, an 11-year-old from Glenview, Illinois
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2008 Kids Week Reunion player (2008-09-18).
1999 Back-to-School Week player (1999-09-08).
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Robert Arshonsky, a 12-year-old from Cincinnati, Ohio
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2008 Kids Week Reunion player (2008-09-19). 1999 Back to School Week...
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Davine Scarlett, a 12-year-old from Miami, Florida
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1999 Back-to-School Week player (1999-09-07).
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Yoni Freund, a 12-year-old from Hartford, Connecticut
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2008 Kids Week Reunion player (2008-09-16).
1999 Back-to-School Week player (1999-09-07).
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Markie Post, an actress from Night Court and Hearts Afire
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1994 Celebrity Jeopardy! player (1994-11-11). Playing for Stop Cancer. Markie died...
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David Walter, a senior from Wilmington, Delaware
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2007 Teen Tournament winner (semifinalist by wildcard): $75,000. 17 at the...
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Ben Schenkel, a junior from Allentown, Pennsylvania
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2007 Teen Tournament 1st runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $42,800. 17 at...
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Susan Sweet, a former basketball coach originally from Toledo, Ohio
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Season 1 player (1984-11-09). Johnny Gilbert stumbled over Susan\'s introduction, calling...
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Aaron Brown, an Emmy Award-winning newsman from CNN's popular primetime newscast
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"A journalist for over 25 years, he now anchors CNN's popular...
|
Bob Woodward, an assistant managing editor from The Washington Post
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2004 Power Players Week player (2004-05-10).
Charity: Sidwell Friends School.
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Zane Ice, a 12-year-old from West Palm Beach, Florida
|
"He wants to build a business in emerging technologies to help...
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Andy Yermack, a financial services compliance officer from East Rockaway, New York
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Season 20 player (2004-05-27).
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Courtney Jones, a 12-year-old from Largo, Maryland
|
"She wants to dedicate her life to building things that benefit...
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Olivia Woods, a 12-year-old from Cincinnati, Ohio
|
"She loves working with little kids and would like to become...
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Rohan Kapileshwari, a senior at the University of Texas at Austin from Winston-Salem, North Carolina
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\"This Teen Tournament semifinalist first competed in 2018. He\'s now in...
|
Jake McCrory, an 11-year-old from Pueblo, Colorado
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"He wants to make a positive change in our nation's future...
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Gabby Fusco, an 11-year-old from Maspeth, New York
|
"She's loved everything about science she was a little kid, so...
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Adam Barrow, an 11-year-old from Greensboro, North Carolina
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"And he wants to be a sportswriter, so he can combine...
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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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Jonathan Hawley, a sophomore from Harvard University
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2008 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 19 and from Oceanside, CA at...
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Krissy Brzycki, an 11-year-old from Indianapolis, Indiana
|
"Her love of helping her community and her interest in politics...
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Will Harter, a 12-year-old from Park Ridge, Illinois
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"He would like to be a professional athlete. If that doesn't...
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Victoria Agrinya, a 12-year-old from Woodbridge, Virginia
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"She would like to be a successful entrepreneur when she grows...
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Than Hedman, a freshman from University of Colorado-Boulder
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2008 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 19 and from Denver, CO at...
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Cerulean Ozarow, an 11-year-old from Brooklyn, New York
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"His future is full of options. He wants to become either...
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Tucker Dunn, an ESL teacher from Tucson, Arizona
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Season 33 3-time champion: $39,999 + $1,000. In his first appearance,...
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Pat Schroeder, a former congresswoman from the Association of American Publishers
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"Former congresswoman, member of the Women's Hall of Fame and current...
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Robin Kutner, from Newtown, Pennsylvania
|
"This member of jazz band has a cat that is the...
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Jesse L. Jackson, Jr., a congressman from the U.S. House of Representatives
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"And he led a voter registration drive for the national Rainbow...
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Andrew Chung, a sophomore from Harvey Mudd College
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2008 College Championship 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $25,000. 20 and...
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Joey Beachum, a senior from Mississippi State University
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2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2008 College Championship winner: $100,000...
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Tucker Warner, from Fredericksburg, Virginia
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"At the beginning of the school year, he worked on a...
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Lara Logan, a correspondent from 60 Minutes on CBS
|
"Her bold, award-winning reporting has earned her a prominent spot among...
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Allex Fambles, a 12-year-old from San Antonio, Texas
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2008 Kids Week Reunion player (2008-09-16).
1999 Back-to-School Week player (1999-09-10).
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Andrew Nerlinger, a senior at the University of Notre Dame from Wilmington, Delaware
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2001 College Championship quarterfinalist: $2,500. Andrew was 21 at the time...
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Cait Murphy, an editor originally from Cos Cob, Connecticut
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Season 22 player (2006-06-28).
First name pronounced like "KAT".
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Andy Siegler, a senior from Cinnaminson, New Jersey
|
2001 Teen Tournament 1st runner-up: $15,000.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Kip Thompson, a fourth-year medical student from Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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Season 15 player (1999-01-15).
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Caley Anderson, a junior from Santee, California
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2001 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. 16 at the time of the...
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Dave Mills, a think tank director from Durham, North Carolina
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Season 23 player (2007-01-02).
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Kunle DeMuren, a 12-year-old from Virginia Beach, Virginia
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"And this world traveler has visited Mozart's birthplace as well as...
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Jimmy McKew, an 11-year-old from Portland, Maine
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"Because he enjoys the strategy of the game, he will likely...
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Gracie Studdard, a 12-year-old from Locust Grove, Georgia
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"When this contestant's father was on the show, he couldn't think...
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Stephanie Jass, a history professor from Milan, Michigan
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"She is a history professor who won seven games last year...
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Jocelyn Beer, an attorney from Washington, D.C.
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Season 23 player (2006-12-26).
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Ashley Smith, an eleven-year-old seventh-grader from Greencastle, Indiana
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2003 Back to School Kids Week player (2003-09-25).
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Deirdre Kessler, a ten-year-old from Brooklyn, New York
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2003 Back to School Kids Week player (2003-09-25).
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Raymond Singh, a twelve-year-old from Phoenix, Arizona
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2003 Back to School Kids Week player (2003-09-24).
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Suzie Turnage, a twelve-year-old seventh-grader from Panama City, Florida
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2003 Back to School Kids Week player (2003-09-24).
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David Shapiro, an insurance adjuster originally from Chicago, Illinois
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Season 4 player (1987-09-22): Hotpoint refrigerator + Jeopardy! box game or...
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Miri Baker, a ten-year-old from Warner Robins, Georgia
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2003 Back to School Kids Week player (2003-09-23).
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Michael Thayer, a physics student from Rutgers University
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"A physics student and winner of last year's College Tournament, Michael...
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Josh Danson, a marketing communications consultant from San Francisco, California
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Season 22 player (2005-11-30).
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Karen Spinale, a high school teacher from Duxbury, Massachusetts
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Season 22 player (2005-12-21). According to the official Jeopardy! web site,...
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Kerry Breitenbach, a marketing analyst from Cleveland, Ohio
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2006 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 21 5-time champion: $90,400...
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Marvin Shinkman, a stamp dealer from Sherman Oaks, California
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1986 Tournament of Champions 2nd runner-up: $5,000. Season 2 4-time champion:...
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Sacha Samotin, a student from Naples, Florida
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Season 31 1-time champion: $19,600 + $1,000. According to a news...
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Elise Beraru, an insurance underwriter from Los Angeles, California
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1990 Super Jeopardy! quarterfinalist: $5,000. 1985 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $1,000....
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Olivia Colangelo, a junior from the University of Notre Dame from Murrysville, Pennsylvania
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2010-B College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
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Steve Greene, a senior from UCLA from Elk Grove, California
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2010-B College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000 + a Nintendo Wii +...
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Bob Verini, a film journalist and test prep teacher from Los Angeles, California
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"A resident of New York City when he won the 1987...
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Vivian Lappenbusch, a twelve-year-old from Seattle, Washington
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"She finds other people's stories and cultures fascinating, so anthropology is...
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Sita Yerramsetti, an eleven-year-old from Houston, Texas
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"Her heart is set on becoming a cardiac surgeon. From Houston,...
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Charlotte Darby, from West Chester, Pennsylvania
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"Her crafts include crochet, origami, and friendship bracelets. From West Chester,...
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Jack Weisman, a twelve-year-old from Beachwood, Ohio
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"He's considering becoming a lawyer, just like Mom and Dad. From...
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Vito Cortese, a software engineer and Italian translator from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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Season 27 3-time champion: $68,485 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Caroline Evans, a twelve-year-old from Bethesda, Maryland
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"The sky's not the limit. She wants to be the first...
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Antonia Wang, a sophomore at Purdue University from Carmel, Indiana
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2005 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
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Jessica Anderson, a twelve-year-old from Cranston, Rhode Island
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"She's known she wanted to be a teacher for six years--that's...
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Tom Cubbage, a law student and winner of last year's College Tournament from Bartlesville, Oklahoma
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2014 Battle of the Decades semifinalist: $25,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
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Thomas Horn, a twelve-year-old from Piedmont, California
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"He plans on making the world a better place as an...
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Joli Millner, an eleven-year-old from Charlottesville, Virginia
|
"No kidding, she wants to be a pediatrician when she grows...
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Molly Gier, a twelve-year-old from Chesterfield, Missouri
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"She is preparing for a teaching career by tutoring her peers....
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Andrea Salt, a twelve-year-old from Gilbert, Arizona
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"This animal lover plans on becoming a veterinarian. From Gilbert, Arizona,...
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Doug Meyer, an editor originally from Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Season 21 player (2005-06-09). Season 20 player (2004-03-11). Doug previously appeared...
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Frank Spangenberg, a lieutenant in the New York Police Department from Douglaston, New York
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"He still holds the record for the most money won in...
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Bryce Piotrowski, a twelve-year-old from Madison, Wisconsin
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"He has no idea what he wants to do later in...
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Phoebe Juel, a bookseller from Sylva, North Carolina
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"She won the 1993 College Championship while attending Grinnell College. Today...
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Ethan Waldman, a twelve-year-old from West Hills, California
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"This wizard of words wants to be a fantasy author when...
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Dave Abbott, a musician and licensing executive from Fort Thomas, Kentucky
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"He won the 1999 Tournament of Champions. A musician and licensing...
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Will Walters, a twelve-year-old from Lexington, Kentucky
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"He wants to follow in the footsteps of his idols, Albert...
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Pat Healy, an index supervisor from Vallejo, California
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"His five wins in 1998 helped him land a dream job...
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John Ryan, a corporate controller from Richmond, California
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"As a college student, he was the top winner of the...
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Surabhi Iyer, a ten-year-old from Franklin, Massachusetts
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"Her research scientist dad has inspired her to become a neuroscientist....
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Lan Djang, a health policy analyst from Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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"He was a 5-time champion in 2001. Today he's a health...
|
John Farley, an eleven-year-old from Marietta, Georgia
|
"This young man has a plan--Notre Dame, professional lacrosse player and...
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Andrew Hutchings, a graduate student from Ithaca, New York
|
"A senior when he won the 1998 College Championship, he's now...
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Fraser Woodford, an investment banker from New York, New York
|
"In 1993, winner of the Teen Tournament, he's now an investment...
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Kyle Ziemnick, an eleven-year-old from Purcellville, Virginia
|
"He likes logical arguments and debates, so would like to be...
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Bob Fleenor, a newspaper copy editor from Martinsburg, West Virginia
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"Legislative work in his home state was suspended so that lawmakers...
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Robert Slaven, a technical products specialist originally from Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada
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"He won 5 times in 1992. Today, he's a technical products...
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Bill Sloan, a realtor from Mission Viejo, California
|
"Since winning five shows in 1996, he has gone on to...
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Chacko George, a senior at the University of Texas at Austin from Austin, Texas
|
"He won the November 1999 Teen Tournament. Now he's a senior...
|
Rachel Rothenberg, a senior from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
|
2009 Teen Tournament winner (semifinalist by wildcard): $75,000. Jeopardy! Message Board...
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Paul Thompson, a human resources manager from Cheverly, Maryland
|
"He was the first 5-time champion in the 1995-96 season. A...
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Stacy Braverman, a public interest lawyer from Washington, D.C.
|
Season 26 1-time champion: $14,984 + $2,000. As detailed in a...
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Alan Bailey, a playwright and director from North Hills, California
|
"This playwright and director became a 5-time winner in 2001. Today,...
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Eddie Timanus, a sportswriter from Oak Hill, Virginia
|
"His 5 wins in 1999 made him one of the most...
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John Beck, a creative director from Torrance, California
|
"He played in 2003, and was the last retired 5-time champ...
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Janet Wong, a development officer for a museum from Hoboken, New Jersey
|
"As a senior at Drew University, she won the February 2000...
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Vinita Kailasanath, a consultant from San Mateo, California
|
"She represented Stanford University when she won the 2001 College Tourney....
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Carolyn Cracraft, a grad student at the University of California-Berkeley from Berkeley, California
|
"She was a junior at the University of Chicago when she...
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Bernard Holloway, a sophomore at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from Chapel Hill, North Carolina
|
"He was a 2002 Teen Champion. He's now a sophomore at...
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Jeff Richmond, an attorney from Los Angeles, California
|
"He used his 1988 5-game winnings to pay for law school....
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Tessa Fleming, a high school history teacher from Mission Viejo, California
|
Season 31 player (2014-09-16). Tessa's father was a 2-time champion on...
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John Genova, a teacher from Granada Hills, California
|
"From 1984, he was the earliest 5-time champion in the tournament....
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Roger Storm, a teacher from Fairview Park, Ohio
|
1990 Super Jeopardy! semifinalist: $10,000. 1987 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist:...
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Nick Hoffmann, a graduate student from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
|
Season 21 player (2005-01-06).
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Leslie Frates, a retired Spanish teacher from Hayward, California
|
"She was a Spanish teacher at Cal State-Hayward when she became...
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Anderson Cooper, an anchor from CNN's Anderson Cooper 360°
|
"As a baby, he was photographed by Diane Arbus of Harper's...
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Cheech Marin, an actor, comedian, director, writer and musician from Lost
|
"He's played a cop on Nash Bridges, voiced a 1959 Chevy...
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Theodora Messalas, an 11-year-old sixth grader from Brooklyn, New York
|
"This future author and illustrator placed second in a regional story-telling...
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Josh Charnin-Aker, a twelve-year-old from Lighthouse Point, Florida
|
"And, whether in neonatology or as a Navy SEAL, he plans...
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Ross Gardiner, an 11-year-old sixth grader from La Plata, Maryland
|
"And this self-proclaimed sports fanatic likes all the teams in the...
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Tim Koch, a 12-year-old sixth grader from Cliffwood, New Jersey
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"He would like to be a teacher because you get to...
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Kelly Scurry, an 11-year-old seventh grader from Lauderhill, Florida
|
"It's very convenient that Washington, D.C. is his favorite city, because...
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Mike Scott, an eleven-year-old from Lake Villa, Illinois
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"He really likes doing challenging projects in school, but hates doing...
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David McIntyre, a twelve-year-old from Riverside, California
|
"When this Boy Scout was young, he thought that running from...
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Matt Bischoff, a twelve-year-old seventh-grader from Sicklerville, New Jersey
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2003 Back to School Kids Week player (2003-09-26).
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Michelle Chang, an 11-year-old from Suwanee, Georgia
|
"This sixth grader picks the most unusual places to lose her...
|
Becca Portman, a twelve-year-old seventh-grader from Deerwood, Maryland
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2003 Back to School Kids Week player (2003-09-26).
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Crystal Durham, a 12-year-old from Fort Pierce, Florida
|
"She would like to be an Irish stepdancing teacher, because dancing...
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Wil Curiel, an 11-year-old from Costa Mesa, California
|
"His favorite subject is science, so it's not surprising that this...
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Josh Woo, an eleven-year-old seventh-grader from River Ridge, Louisiana
|
2003 Back to School Week player (2003-09-26). Josh hosted 50 episodes...
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Holly Flynn, an 11-year-old from Holmes, Pennsylvania
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"She started performing in community theatre when she was just 4...
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Alex Silady, an 11-year-old from Edison, New Jersey
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"He hopes to be an entrepreneur, because he likes doing things...
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Naomi Senbet, an 11-year-old from Washington, D.C.
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"This sixth grader doesn't like to be late for anything; maybe...
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Sam Daub, an eleven-year-old from Eden Prairie, Minnesota
|
"And he finds video games enticing and has made a fantasy...
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Nicole Savin, an eleven-year-old from Lindenhurst, New York
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"This little 4'4" New York Yankees fan and her friends started...
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Tory Gilliam, a twelve-year-old from Powhatan, Virginia
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"As a member of his school's debate team, he likes to...
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Maxwell Baldi, a ten-year-old from Los Angeles, California
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"This future U.S. attorney general has always been interested in the...
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Neal Freyman, a ten-year-old from Longmeadow, Massachusetts
|
"He's not sure recess counts as a subject, but if it...
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Anissa Chitour, a ten-year-old from Princeton, New Jersey
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"Her extracurricular activities include playing violin, playing field hockey and shopping...
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Elena Botella, an eleven-year-old from Charlotte, North Carolina
|
"This future journalist loves to find answers, today, she'll have to...
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Zane Li, a ten-year-old from Provo, Utah
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"He's a chess champion and a two-time Geography Bee winner..." 2002...
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Billy Hackenson, an eleven-year-old from Great Falls, Virginia
|
"As a descendant of President Taft, it's no surprise that he's...
|
James Erwin, a writer from Des Moines, Iowa
|
Season 25 2-time champion: $22,598 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Justin Bernbach, a lobbyist from Brooklyn, New York
|
2010 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 25 7-time champion: $155,001...
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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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Patrick Derocher, a twelve-year-old from Oak Hill, Virginia
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"This future architect likes designing large buildings and admires the designs...
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Allyson McDonough, a twelve-year-old from Marietta, Georgia
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"Not only does she like sleepovers and designing clothes, she has...
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Francis Musella, a twelve-year-old from Boynton Beach, Florida
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"This member of the American Numismatic Association wants to be a...
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Ina Jazic, an eleven-year-old from Bolingbrook, Illinois
|
"She doesn't have a least favorite subject now, but in elementary...
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Kevin Wilson, a communications specialist from Toronto, Ontario, Canada
|
Season 26 3-time champion: $76,998 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Ben Gammage, an eleven-year-old from San Diego, California
|
"And when he grows up, he wants to be either a...
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Max Wagner, an eleven-year-old from Bedford, New York
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"He thinks insects are beautiful and can't wait to discover new...
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Roger Storm, a teacher from Fairview Park, Ohio
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1990 Super Jeopardy! semifinalist: $10,000. 1987 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist:...
|
Terry Linwood, a bookseller from North Texas
|
2010 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 26 5-time champion: $122,705...
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Anthony Dedousis, a sophomore from Harvard University
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2009 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 19 and from Manhasset, New York...
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Dan Smith, a student from Chicago, Illinois
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Season 25 3-time champion: $69,200 + $1,000. Dan Smith - a...
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Eureka Nutt, a paralegal from Canoga Park, California
|
Season 27 2-time champion: $38,701 + $1,000.
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Mark Petterson, a senior from the University of Kansas
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2009 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 21 and from Prairie Village,...
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Marvin Shinkman, a stamp dealer from Van Nuys, California
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1986 Tournament of Champions 2nd runner-up: $5,000. Season 2 4-time champion:...
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Elise Beraru, an insurance underwriter from Los Angeles, California
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1990 Super Jeopardy! quarterfinalist: $5,000. 1985 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $1,000....
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Dana Delany, an actress from Desperate Housewives
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"She won two Emmys for her work on China Beach. This...
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Wolf Blitzer, a journalist from The Situation Room
|
"Since 1990, he's covered every major story for CNN, including the...
|
Diane Trap, a librarian and graphics specialist from Athens, Georgia
|
Season 25 1-time champion: $21,400 + $1,000. Diane Trap - a...
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Prashant Raghavendran, a sophomore from the University of Texas, Dallas
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2010-A College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. Hometown: Austin, Texas. Prashant Raghavendran Blog...
|
Amy Wilson, a creative writing and women's studies student originally from Portland, Oregon
|
Season 26 1-time champion: $19,999 + $2,000. Not to be confused...
|
Keith Olbermann, an anchorman from Fox Sports News
|
"He returned to sports coverage this year as the senior anchor...
|
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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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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Dan Jensen, a restaurant manager from Reston, Virginia
|
Season 27 3-time champion: $58,203 + $1,000.
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Josh Small, a second-year medical student from New York City, New York
|
Season 17 player (2000-12-04).
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Melanie Baker-Streevy, a United Methodist pastor from Parma, Michigan
|
Season 25 1-time champion: $26,900 + $1,000. Melanie Baker-Streevy - A...
|
Tony Terry, an IT professional from Seminole, Florida
|
Season 25 player (2009-06-09).
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Ryan Stoffers, a sophomore from UCLA
|
2010-A College Championship 1st runner-up: $50,000. Hometown: Saratoga, California. Ryan Stoffers...
|
Ken Basin, a junior at the University of Southern California from Huntington Beach, California
|
2003 College Championship semifinalist: $5,000. Blog at kbasin.blogspot.org. Appearing as a...
|
Bethlehem Lema, a 12-year-old from San Diego, California
|
"Either being an astrophysicist or a pediatrician is in her future..."...
|
William Garrett, a 12-year-old from Greenfield, Indiana
|
"Serving his country as an officer in the military is his...
|
Jackson Ruzzo, a 12-year-old from Waccabuc, New York
|
"He wants to be a Broadway actor, because he likes to...
|
Shay Collins, an 11-year-old from Averill Park, New York
|
"His passion for music helps this future rock star to play...
|
Michelle Cinguina, an 11-year-old from Stamford, Connecticut
|
"Her favorite things to do are act, play the piano and...
|
Elijah Granet, a 12-year-old from San Diego, California
|
"Because he loves animals, biology, and helping others, he's thinking of...
|
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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Tom Nissley, an online books editor from Seattle, Washington
|
2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2011 Tournament of Champions...
|
Greg Gumbel, a sportscaster from NBC Sports
|
"He covers baseball, basketball and football for NBC; he hosted the...
|
Al Michaels, a sportscaster from ABC's Monday Night Football
|
"Named Sportscaster of the Year in 1996 by the American Sportscasters...
|
Sandra McClellan, a granny nanny from Arlington, Texas
|
Season 27 1-time champion: $4,199 + $2,000.
|
Reggie White, a minister and defensive end from the Green Bay Packers
|
"From the Green Bay Packers, nobody in the history of the...
|
Braden Corkum, a 12-year-old from Niceville, Florida
|
"He likes making things, so he's going to be an inventor..."...
|
Danny Brylow, a 12-year-old from Milwaukee, Wisconsin
|
"A theologian, an actor, or a playwright? This young man has...
|
Nicole Yoon, a 12-year-old from Asbury, New Jersey
|
"She has set her sights on becoming a medical doctor or...
|
Justin Otor, a 12-year-old from Texarkana, Texas
|
"His chosen profession will be something in the field of science...
|
Brooks Colleton, a 12-year-old from Jacksonville, Florida
|
"There's more to this young man than straight academia: he's also...
|
Reilly Kiernan, a 12-year-old from Pelham, New York
|
"You're never too young to take up a cause, and this...
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Charlie Blatt, an 11-year-old from Scarsdale, New York
|
"Besides cooking, working on the computer, and tap dancing, she likes...
|
William Coats, a 12-year-old from Ada, Oklahoma
|
"He's mowing lawns now, but he's thinking big bucks, he's thinking...
|
Matthew Cohn, a 12-year-old from Sunrise, Florida
|
"If you're already in trouble, you're going to have to do...
|
Eddie Kwiatkowski, a 10-year-old from Cumberland, Rhode Island
|
"His interests in presidents and their history could lead to a...
|
Jennifer Gilbert, an 11-year-old from Fairfax, Virginia
|
"She co-hosts a game show at school, but today, she's here...
|
Adam Bock, a 13-year-old from St. Louis, Missouri
|
"We're pretty sure that he's the only one of our contestants...
|
Nate Austin, a 12-year-old from Kansas City, Kansas
|
2008 Kids Week Reunion player (2008-09-15). 1999 Back to School Week...
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Rachel Millena, a 10-year-old from Concord, California
|
"Her sights are set on becoming a writer, journalist, photographer, or...
|
Mike Kim, a 12-year-old from Wiesbaden, Germany
|
"Under the heading of "Came the Farthest", this young man wins...
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Zach Safford, an 11-year-old from Roswell, Georgia
|
2008 Kids Week Reunion winner: $25,000.
1999 Back to School Week player (1999-09-06).
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Alycia Kennedy, a 13-year-old from Lynnfield, Massachusetts
|
"She runs the fastest mile in her grade; tonight, we'll see...
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Kizzle Cote, a 12-year-old from Ludlow, Massachusetts
|
"This future ichthyologist has a 30-gallon aquarium in his bedroom..." 2007...
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Aisha Tyler, a comedienne, host and actress from Talk Soup, Friends, The 5th Wheel and Ghost Whisperer
|
2009 Celebrity Jeopardy! winner: $50,000 split between the International Rescue Committee/Congo...
|
Nicole Karrow, an 11-year-old from Lewes, Delaware
|
"Her goals are to be a horse breeder and trainer..." 2007...
|
Jason Zollinger, an engine assembler from South Dayton, New York
|
2010 Tournament of Champions 1st runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $100,000. Season...
|
Harry Haghanegi, a 10-year-old from Chicago, Illinois
|
"Extracting DNA was one project this future geneticist enjoyed..." 2007 Kids...
|
Bobby Goldstein, a database administrator from Arlington, Massachusetts
|
Season 20 3-time champion: $42,200 + $2,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: GoBobbyGo
|
Billy King, a 13-year-old from St. Albans, West Virginia
|
"With his love of math and his interest in design, he...
|
Elizabeth Rogers, a 12-year-old from Owensboro, Kentucky
|
"Academic Team, Math Team, Student Council... we're just glad she could...
|
Sandra Thomas, a 12-year-old from Hartsdale, New York
|
"This young woman is very sure about what she'll do with...
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Anastasia Knasiak, a 12-year-old from Brookfield, Illinois
|
"We don't know if there's a doctor in the house, but...
|
Tarun Chitra, an 11-year-old from Hockessin, Delaware
|
"In the Boy Scouts he learned to [missing audio]... today, we're...
|
Beth Graham, a library public relations manager from San Antonio, Texas
|
Season 20 2-time champion: $36,401 + $1,000.
|
Benjamin Schwartz, a 12-year-old from East Providence, Rhode Island
|
"When you were 11, did you host your own webpage on...
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Emily Moin, a 12-year-old from Rockville Centre, New York
|
"Whether it's music or drama, she just loves to perform..." 2000...
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Jennifer Broders, a junior high school social studies teacher from Stockton, Iowa
|
Season 26 2-time champion: $59,801 + $1,000. Jennifer Broders - a...
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Michael Bergen, a 12-year-old from Clarksville, Tennessee
|
"To be or not to be a Shakespearean actor, that's the...
|
Andrew Bryson, a 12-year-old from Durham, North Carolina
|
"He plays on the school soccer team, but he wins his...
|
Thulasi Seshan, a 12-year-old from Draper, Utah
|
"The sky is the limit for this future astronomer. From Draper,...
|
Cate Heine, a 12-year-old from Louisville, Kentucky
|
"She's leaving her career path open, but wants to use the...
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Tim Relihan, a senior from the University of Nebraska from Stromsburg, Nebraska
|
2010-B College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
|
Akshai Raj, a 10-year-old from Harleysville, Pennsylvania
|
"And his favorite subjects: all of them; least favorite, none of...
|
Kevin Yokum, a 12-year-old from New Orleans, Louisiana
|
"He plans on becoming an engineer just like both his mom...
|
Folake Dosu, a senior from Stanford University from Bellwood, Illinois
|
2010-B College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
|
Jacob Hambalek, a 12-year-old from Fresno, California
|
"If he had to choose a career right now, he'd be...
|
Matthew Silski, an 11-year-old from Laurel, Maryland
|
"He has wanted to be on the show since he was...
|
Neil Patrick Harris, an actor from How I Met Your Mother
|
"He's appeared on Broadway in Proof, Assassins, and Cabaret. He's now...
|
Parker Norton, a 12-year-old from Knoxville, Tennessee
|
"As a doctor treating infectious diseases, he hopes to heal others....
|
Tayonna Jones, a 12-year-old from Indianapolis, Indiana
|
"She hopes to have her law degree by her 18th birthday...
|
Nikhil Bumb, an 11-year-old from Greer, South Carolina
|
"He's a world traveler, but he can always be found on...
|
Derek Schaible, an 11-year-old from St. Paul, Minnesota
|
"Stress? This future air traffic controller eats it up..." 2000 Back...
|
Katie Fulton, a 12-year-old from Tewksbury, Massachusetts
|
"She's thinking vet, because she loves animals and everything about them..."...
|
Robin Cheney, a middle school teacher from Rancho Santa Margarita, California
|
"All the students at her school go on a camping trip...
|
Gabby Dannunzio, a 12-year-old from Largo, Florida
|
"This future author is already trying to publish her book. From...
|
Michelle Schrier, an 11-year-old from Potomac, Maryland
|
"She plans on being a news reporter while waiting for her...
|
Christine Kennedy, a freshman from the University of Notre Dame
|
2007 College Championship 2nd runner-up: $25,000. 19 at the time of...
|
Ethan Russo, an 11-year-old from Austin, Texas
|
"He really likes a big challenge. He wants to be the...
|
John Fabros, a 12-year-old from Downers Grove, Illinois
|
"This well-rounded young man is a computer programmer, violinist and award-winning...
|
Amy Mandel, a 12-year-old from Miami, Florida
|
"Even though she's an expert in politics, she still wants to...
|
Diana North, a first grade teacher from Rock Hill, South Carolina
|
"She recently celebrated her silver anniversary of teaching. From Rock Hill,...
|
Rachel Mills, a 12-year-old from Lexington, Kentucky
|
"She spent her summer vacation babysitting, but frankly, she'd much rather...
|
Elise Beraru, a lawyer from Los Angeles, California
|
1990 Super Jeopardy! quarterfinalist: $5,000. 1985 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $1,000....
|
Jacob Joyner, an 11-year-old from Quantico, Virginia
|
"As a politician, he plans on improving the lives of Americans....
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Zachary Baumgartner, a 10-year-old from Deer Park, New York
|
"He'll hit all the right notes in the future as a...
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Sophia Marianiello, an 11-year-old from Newark, Delaware
|
"She plans on putting her love of building with cardboard and...
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Jimmy Miotto, an 11-year-old from Northborough, Massachusetts
|
"He wants to be a Disney Imagineer and the president of...
|
Scotty Ballard, a 12-year-old from Murphy, Texas
|
"When he grows up, he hopes to serve justice as a...
|
Savannah Morgan, a 12-year-old from Charlotte, North Carolina
|
"Her future recipe for success is as the star of her...
|
Chris Palmquist, an eleven-year-old from Stanton, Iowa
|
2003 Holiday Kids Week player (2003-01-07).
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William Tarpeh, a twelve-year-old from Alexandria, Virginia
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2003 Holiday Kids Week player (2003-01-07).
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Jessie Robertson, an eleven-year-old from Hudson Oaks, Texas
|
2003 Holiday Kids Week player (2003-01-07).
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Mike Davison, a TV producer from Studio City, California
|
Season 13 1-time champion: $10,200. Father of Season 39 player Max...
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Curt Schilling, a pitcher from the Boston Red Sox
|
"In helping the Red Sox to win the 2004 World Series,...
|
Christopher Meloni, a star from Law & Order: SVU and HBO's Oz
|
"On TV, he's worked both sides of the law. Once a...
|
Joshua Malina, a TV actor and creator/producer from Celebrity Poker Showdown
|
"He created and produced Celebrity Poker Showdown for the Bravo Channel,...
|
Alan Bailey, a playwright and director from Sherman Oaks, California
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2003 Tournament...
|
Ariel Edwards-Levy, an 11-year-old from Sherman Oaks, California
|
"Whether she's dancing, tumbling, or swimming, she's always on the move....
|
Jove Graham, a biomedical engineer from Lewisburg, Pennsylvania
|
Season 26 1-time champion: $34,401 + $1,000. Jove's second contestant interview...
|
David Hudson, Jr., an 11-year-old from Richmond, Virginia
|
"If the L.A. Lakers don't have a spot for him, he'll...
|
Steve Throneberry, a first-year law student from Santa Ana, California
|
Season 16 1-time champion: $5,601.
|
Brian Weikle, a project manager from Minneapolis, Minnesota
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
|
Kyle Neblett, a senior from Beaverton, Oregon
|
2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games 2nd runner-up: $36,400. 18 at the...
|
Roger Storm, a teacher from Fairview Park, Ohio
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1990 Super Jeopardy! semifinalist: $10,000. 1987 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist:...
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Brian Weikle, a project manager from Minneapolis, Minnesota
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
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Ben Davis, a law student from Chicago, Illinois
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Season 26 2-time champion: $51,802 + $1,000. Ben was a 30-year-old...
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Robin Quivers, a radio and television personality from The Howard Stern Show
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"Howard Stern's news anchor and sidekick for the past 28 years,...
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Rishi Bhandari, a first-year law student from New York City, New York
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Season 16 player (2000-04-18). Won $100,000 on Who Wants to Be...
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Bobby Bretz, an 11-year-old from Bristol, Rhode Island
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"It's either archaeology or pro baseball for this sports-loving scientist. From...
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Rachel Beckman, an 11-year-old from Danville, Kentucky
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"As a member of her school's academic team, she has no...
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Thomas McIntyre, a 12-year-old from Marino Valley, California
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"This self-proclaimed Star Wars freak, who has earned star rank in...
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Andrew Goldfein, a 12-year-old from Lincolnwood, Illinois
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"He likes to argue and help people, so it's off to...
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Josh Lacey, a 10-year-old from Ellicott City, Maryland
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"The International Olympic Committee does such good work, he would like...
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Tiffany Wen, a 12-year-old from Exton, Pennsylvania
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"This figure skater is also on the distinguished honor roll. From...
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Jared Rothenberg, an 11-year-old from Houston, Texas
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"When he's not on the mound, he's warming up in the...
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Nick Dnistrian, an 11-year-old from Webster, New York
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"With a nickname like Elvis, this future chemist is already the...
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Allyson Lieberman, a 12-year-old from Whitmore Lake, Michigan
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"Since she was little, she has truly loved to act. Broadway,...
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Lauren Kutner, an 11-year-old from Newtown, Pennsylvania
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"The best part of middle school for this seventh grader is...
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Madeleine Schwartz, a twelve-year-old from New York, New York
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2003 Holiday Kids Week player (2003-01-10).
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Nikki Egan, a cable news producer from New York, New York
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Season 25 player (2009-06-04).
Last name pronounced like "EE-gan".
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Andrew Westney, a singer and actor from Atlanta, Georgia
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"In 1991, he won the Teen Tournament. Today, he's a singer...
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Michael Day, an attorney from Mill Valley, California
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"As an MBA Student, he won 5 games in 1985. Today...
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George Soule, a teacher from Northfield, Minnesota
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"A teacher and winner of last year's Senior Tournament, George Soule,...
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Frank Spangenberg, a police lieutenant from Douglaston, New York
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2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
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Lorna Johnson, a 12-year-old seventh grader from Willowbrook, Illinois
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"She loves all animals, especially her dogs Duke and Rudy, but...
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Joely Fisher, an actress from 'Til Death
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"She made her Broadway debut in Grease, and earned rave reviews...
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Tad Carithers, an attorney from Atlanta, Georgia
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 winner: $41,300. 2001 Tournament...
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Edward Lee, a 12-year-old seventh grader from Sacramento, California
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"Of the numerous projects he has completed, making gliders and bottle...
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John Kelly, a retired Air Force officer from Austin, Texas
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"In 1992, he was one of the top five money winners...
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Eric Newhouse, a student and winner of last year's Teen Tournament from Sioux City, Iowa
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
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Harry Smith, a broadcast journalist from The Early Show
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"This hard-working host of CBS's The Early Show has interviewed five...
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Isaac Mizrahi, a fashion designer from the Style Network
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"Known for bringing high fashion to American women everywhere, and now...
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Michael Rooney, a college professor from Pasadena, California
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"He was a winner of 5 games in 1999, and is...
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Joseph Willis, an attorney from Louisville, Kentucky
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Season 22 player (2006-01-06).
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: GeorgeKaplan
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Amy Fletcher, a junior from Cincinnati, Ohio
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2005 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500.
16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Grace Thomas, an 11-year-old sixth grader from Raleigh, North Carolina
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"This captain of the Brain-Bowl team can name all the countries...
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Michael Blake, a 12-year-old from Hamburg, New York
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"Our top story tonight is this young man, who wants to...
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Alex Stambaugh, a 12-year-old from Paris, Kentucky
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"He feels he can use his talents in math and science...
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Neha Gokhale, a 10-year-old from Houston, Texas
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"Because she liked 4th and 5th grade so much, she wants...
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Sara Jansson, a 10-year-old from Monmouth Junction, New Jersey
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"She wants to become a singer because she loves music so...
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Robin Carroll, an instructional designer from Marietta, Georgia
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
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Brian Cunningham, a 12-year-old from Los Angeles, California
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"It's either fighter pilot or computer technician for this 8th grader....
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Alex Nutman, a 12-year-old seventh grader from Chevy Chase, Maryland
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"This future investment banker won 'best in grade' in a state...
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Ivan Kleinfeld, an 11-year-old from Arlington, Virginia
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"He would like to be a doctor so that he can...
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Whitney Dearden, an 11-year-old from Washington Crossing, Pennsylvania
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"She enjoys working with animals and would like to become a...
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Eric Webb, a 12-year-old from Austin, Texas
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"He wants to be a cartoonist so he can make people...
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Aki Terasaki, an 11-year-old from Newark, Delaware
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"This future millionaire would like to be a professional writer and...
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William Marengo, an 11-year-old from the Bronx, New York
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"He will be the next Bronx Bomber, maybe--if it's up to...
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Katie Baxter, a 10-year-old from Glenside, Pennsylvania
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"She has already won a presidential award. So why not the...
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Nicole Tantoco, a 12-year-old from San Ramon, California
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"She has two simple dreams: to attend Stanford and then become...
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Sean Ryan, a graduate student from Whitehall, Pennsylvania
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
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Oscar Avila, a writer from Chicago, Illinois
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Season 21 player (2005-07-20).
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Martina Navratilova, a former tennis pro and novelist originally from Prague, Czechoslovakia
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"With 9, she's won more singles titles at Wimbledon than any...
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Ben Goggins, a retired marine biologist from Tybee Island, Georgia
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Season 22 2-time champion: $46,800 + $2,000.
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Dan Amboy, a 12-year-old from Lapeer, Michigan
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"He hopes to get into the best college that he can....
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Grace Veach, a librarian from Lakeland, Florida
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"After winning 5 games in 1997, she was the grand marshall...
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Kristin Frankhouser, a 12-year-old from Baton Rouge, Louisiana
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"Her future plans include becoming a physical therapist, a wife, and...
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Kate Dzurilla, a 12-year-old from Syosset, New York
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"It's a slam dunk for this basketball lover and future WNBA...
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Ed Schiffer, an attorney from San Francisco, California
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"A champion of five shows, he was the top winner of...
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Josh DenHartog, an actuarial technician from Thousand Oaks, California
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"He was the Teen Tournament champion in 1997. Now he's an...
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Jake Houser, a 12-year-old seventh grader from Aptos, California
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"And this straight-A student would like to become a geneticist so...
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Jerome Vered, a writer from Los Angeles, California
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"The 1-day record of $34,000 he set in 1992 stood for...
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Vanamali Compton, a junior from Clarkdale, Arizona
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2005 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. 16 at the time of the...
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Michael Braun, a junior from Silver Spring, Maryland
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2005 Teen...
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Joseph Graumann, a junior from Mays Landing, New Jersey
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2006 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
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Eric Newhouse, a public policy coordinator from Sioux City, Iowa
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"Alex called our next alumnus a 'Powerhouse.' He was the youngest...
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Emily Riippa, a 12-year-old seventh grader from Grand Rapids, Michigan
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"She is a fast reader, and her mother says she was...
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Nithya Kubendran, an 11-year-old seventh grader from Quartz Hill, California
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"When asked about her future plans, she said, 'World domination sounds...
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Megan Fraedrich, a 12-year-old seventh grader from Springfield, Virginia
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"And she was recently an evil stepsister in a performance of...
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Claire Winkler, from Fredericksburg, Virginia
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"This honor roll student participates on both the year-round and summer...
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Mike Thayer, a mathematics teacher from North Plainfield, New Jersey
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"He was a junior at Rutgers University when he won the...
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Chris Miller, a retail specialist from Louisville, Kentucky
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"In 2004, he became a 5-time champion, and for Halloween, dressed...
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Mike Dugan, a first-year law student from Lauderdale, Minnesota
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Season 17 player (2000-10-31).
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Jacob Collins, a twelve-year-old seventh-grader from Charlotte, North Carolina
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2003 Holiday Kids Week player (2003-01-08).
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Nina Garcia, a twelve-year-old seventh grader from Burke, Virginia
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2003 Holiday Kids Week player (2003-01-08).
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Ian Manka, a twelve-year-old seventh-grader from Tallmadge, Ohio
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2003 Holiday Kids Week player (2003-01-08). Ian won $30,000 on Who...
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Patrick Zakem, an 11-year-old sixth grader from Louisville, Kentucky
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"He would like to become an architect because he enjoys visualizing...
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Brian Weikle, a consultant from Minneapolis, Minnesota
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
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Vicky Manos, a sophomore at St. John’s University from Levittown, New York
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2004 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000.
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Tamika Turner, an 11-year-old eighth grader from Sylvania, Ohio
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"She wants to be a journalist, because it’s important for the...
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Elaine Zollner, a physician from Glendale, California
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"A winner of 5 shows in 1990, she used her Jeopardy!...
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Josh Klein, a 12-year-old seventh grader from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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"And, his favorite subjects in school are math, social studies, and...
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