| #9085, aired 2024-04-19 | POETS OF LOVE $800: This poet who died young in Rome wrote, "Hither, hither, hither / Love this boon has sent-- / If I die & wither / I shall die content" Keats |
| #9080, aired 2024-04-12 | FAKE MOVIES IN MOVIES $400: Forgotten by his family, young Kevin watches the film "Angels with Filthy Souls" on VHS in this movie Home Alone |
| #9076, aired 2024-04-08 | PARENTING $400: Young Burt Bacharach hated taking these with Miss Raymond & they're a source of conflict in many a home piano lessons |
| #9076, aired 2024-04-08 | NOVEL TITLE CHARACTERS $1200: Wole Soyinka's "The Interpreters" follows 5 young men who return home to this country after studying abroad Nigeria |
| #9070, aired 2024-03-29 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $1200: 1887's "Ivanov", an early work by this playwright, centers on a depressed young man who considers suicide Chekhov |
| #9068, aired 2024-03-27 | MUSIC COLLABS $2000: Billie Holiday & this sax player first linked up in 1934; soon enough they gave each other nicknames, Lady Day & Prez Lester Young |
| #9064, aired 2024-03-21 | IN YOUR ELEMENT $1200: Mg:
This Roman martyr, patron saint of young girls Agnes (in mAgnesium) |
| #9060, aired 2024-03-15 | TV DRAMA $600: In the daytime drama world, Shemar Moore rose to fame in the '90s as Malcolm Winters on this soap opera set in Genoa City The Young and the Restless |
| #9059, aired 2024-03-14 | SONGS OF YOUTH $800: Nate Ruess & this band implored, "We are young so let's set the world on fire" fun. |
| #9059, aired 2024-03-14 | SONGS OF YOUTH $1000: Fresh out of high school, this R&B singer's smash debut album "American Teen", had songs like "Young Dumb & Broke" Khalid |
| #9056, aired 2024-03-11 | ON WHEELS $600: The Cozy Coupe is a classic from this company whose 2-word name refers to its young customers Little Tikes |
| #9053, aired 2024-03-06 | MOVIE TAGLINES $2000: "Revenge never looked so promising", promised this 2020 film starring Carey Mulligan Promising Young Woman |
| #9052, aired 2024-03-05 | JAZZ' GREAT DAY IN HARLEM $1200: Charles Mingus got low on this instrument on "Goodbye Pork Pie Hat", which he wrote about Lester Young, also in the picture the bass |
| #9048, aired 2024-02-28 | WOMEN IN LIT $2000: "It was naturally of the essence that the young woman should be herself complex", wrote Henry James of this "Portrait of a Lady" heroine Isabel Archer |
| #9047, aired 2024-02-27 | ANTONYMIC PAIRS $1000: Pres. James Garfield is quoted, "The best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard" to do this pair sink or swim |
| #9046, aired 2024-02-26 | HISTORY $200: Lasting from Aug. 1786 to Feb. 1787, Shays' Rebellion in our young republic was in protest of economic conditions, mainly high these taxes |
| #9045, aired 2024-02-23 | 1960s FICTION $400: The "Dolls" in this Jacqueline Susann novel are the pills taken by 3 young women as they cope with their lives & careers in NYC Valley of the Dolls |
| #9045, aired 2024-02-23 | 1960s FICTION $600: A young woman struggles with mental illness in Joanne Greenberg's fictional autobio "I Never Promised You" this place a Rose Garden |
| #9045, aired 2024-02-23 | TV COMEDY $1000: Jack & Chrissy are gone, but "Three's Company" lives as the nation's partygoers dress up like this character Mrs. Roper |
| #9044, aired 2024-02-22 | BEFORE THE FIRST WORLD WAR $800: The ruler with this title was forced by the Young Turk rebels to recall parliament, which he'd suspended 30 years earlier the Ottoman sultan (emperor) |
| #9042, aired 2024-02-20 | ARTISTS & THEIR SUBJECTS $400: In a work by John Everett Millais, young Jesus is helping out in the carpentry shop & has prophetically been cut by one of these a nail |
| #9041, aired 2024-02-19 | IT'S ALL "SMALL" STUFF $600: A group of young fish, or a dismissive term for the young or insignificant small fry |
| #9037, aired 2024-02-13 | WISTFUL THINKING $1200: In "Dandelion Wine" he was not a "Ray" of sunshine, saying, "some people turn sad awfully young... no special reason" Bradbury |
| #9036, aired 2024-02-12 | MUSICIANS OF THE 1960s $400: "Butch" Snipes in Seattle & "Baby Boo" Young in Tennessee are thought to have inspired this star to play guitar with his teeth Jimi Hendrix |
| #9026, aired 2024-01-29 | WHERE THERE'S A WILL $800: This actress who died young left her estate to friends, family, her psychiatrist & her acting coach, Lee Strasberg (Marilyn) Monroe |
| #9022, aired 2024-01-23 | YOUNG PEOPLE'S NONFICTION $200: Now with more than 200 titles, the "Who Was?" series started with 4 bios, one of this female Native American interpreter Sacagawea |
| #9022, aired 2024-01-23 | MOVIES IN REWIND $400: A young couple lost at sea miraculously piece an ocean liner together & head for Europe, where they separate as she gets engaged to another Titanic |
| #9022, aired 2024-01-23 | YOUNG PEOPLE'S NONFICTION $400: "The Whydah" is the tale of the first authenticated pirate ship recovered; it sank off this New England cape Cape Cod |
| #9022, aired 2024-01-23 | YOUNG PEOPLE'S NONFICTION $600: A 2005 book tells the chilling saga of this group that included 90% of German kids by 1939 the Hitler Youth |
| #9022, aired 2024-01-23 | YOUNG PEOPLE'S NONFICTION $800: "You" do this is an old insult on the ball field; now it's the 4-word title of softball star Jennie Finch's book teaching self-belief Throw Like a Girl |
| #9022, aired 2024-01-23 | YOUNG PEOPLE'S NONFICTION $1000: Indigenous wisdom is passed on to the TikTok generation in "Braiding", this plant, made into baskets in the South for centuries sweetgrass |
| #2, aired 2024-01-12 | SPRECHEN SIE DEUTSCH? $2000: German term for a novel about the education & coming of age of a young protagonist Bildungsroman |
| #1, aired 2024-01-12 | STOP! $600: In the early 1790s Haydn stopped in Bonn, Germany & met this young musical genius who would become Haydn's pupil Ludwig van Beethoven |
| #9013, aired 2024-01-10 | CELEBRITIES' FAVORITE MOVIES & TV SHOWS $400: (I'm Ellie Kemper.) Growing up, I wanted to be a nun due in part to my love of this 1965 movie about a young woman at an Austrian convent The Sound of Music |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | KITTY LIT $500: This high-strung cat character who likes to bounce was based on a stuffed animal belonging to young Christopher Robin Milne Tigger |
| #9011, aired 2024-01-08 | FROM C TO D $2000: In the painting seen here, a young woman is playing this instrument a clavichord |
| #23, aired 2024-01-02 | SPORTS TEAM HOMOPHONES $200: MLB team whose stadium features a giant illuminated "Liberty Bell", or
young female horses the Phillies/fillies |
| #9004, aired 2023-12-28 | I'D LIKE TO CHANGE A VOWEL, PAT $2000: Kermit the Frog's group & cute young children who might enjoy Kermit the Frog's group Muppets & moppets |
| #9003, aired 2023-12-27 | 2023 SPORTS HIGHLIGHT REEL $600: He won 3 of 4 men's Grand Slam singles titles, but lost at Wimbledon to young Carlos Alcaraz Djokovic |
| #9001, aired 2023-12-25 | I'VE SEEN HER TYPE BEFORE $2000: Young, gifted & Black, this playwright poses with her typewriter for a Vogue shoot in 1959 Hansberry |
| #9000, aired 2023-12-22 | HISTORICAL AMERICAN GOVERNORS $400: The 1850s Utah War began with "Buchanan's Blunder", when President Buchanan moved to replace this man as governor Young |
| #8999, aired 2023-12-21 | TRIPLY ALLITERATIVE $1,000 (Daily Double): 4 young men of Navarre face off against 4 ladies in a game of courtship in this Shakespeare comedy Love's Labour's Lost |
| #8997, aired 2023-12-19 | AUSTRALIAN BOOKS & AUTHORS $1600: This sweeping, multi-decade Colleen McCullough novel includes an ill-fated affair between a priest & a young woman The Thorn Birds |
| #8996, aired 2023-12-18 | WELL, THEY SOUND THE SAME... $800: A group of young ladies, or one married one misses & Mrs. |
| #8994, aired 2023-12-14 | IT'S ALL RELATIVE $1000: This first novel by Theodore Dreiser tells of a young woman's rise to become a successful Broadway actress Sister Carrie |
| #8990, aired 2023-12-08 | WE'RE TALKING BASEBALL $800: This pitcher won 7 Cy Young Awards--one with New York, two with Toronto, three with Boston & one with Houston Roger Clemens |
| #8987, aired 2023-12-05 | A SONG IN THAT MOVIE $2000: "Puttin' On The Ritz" (1974) Young Frankenstein |
| #8984, aired 2023-11-30 | Y_O_Y $400: Young fellow seen here on his special day birthday boy |
| #8982, aired 2023-11-28 | SECONDS $400: He was the second president of the Mormon Church Brigham Young |
| #8980, aired 2023-11-24 | FICTIONAL MOVIE BANDS $400: Jack Black fronted & provided tutelage to this young band, also a 2003 movie title School of Rock |
| #8977, aired 2023-11-21 | TEACHING $2000: This organization started in 1990 with 500 idealistic young people working in schools in low-income communities Teach for America |
| #8976, aired 2023-11-20 | OPUS & OPERA $600: His sole opera, "Fidelio", tells a tale of a young woman disguising herself as a boy Beethoven |
| #8976, aired 2023-11-20 | A LITTLE "DEB"LL DO YA $600: From the French for "leading off", it's a young woman introduced to fashionable society a debutante |
| #8975, aired 2023-11-17 | SPRINGSTEEN LYRICS $200: "We gotta get out while we're young 'cause tramps like us..." "Born To Run" |
| #8974, aired 2023-11-16 | THAT'S MISLEADING $400: A young goat's daytime snooze kid nap |
| #20, aired 2023-11-15 | TV DRAMAS IN A NUTSHELL $500: A young doctor gets acquainted with the quirky locals when he opens a practice in Cicely, Alaska Northern Exposure |
| #8971, aired 2023-11-13 | DESCRIBING THE ARTWORK $3,000 (Daily Double): We're not sure if you'd call that teal or azure the young man with a feathered cap is wearing in this 1770 work The Blue Boy |
| #8967, aired 2023-11-07 | CRITTERS $200: It's the world's tallest land animal whose young is known as a calf a giraffe |
| #8967, aired 2023-11-07 | BANDS IN OTHER WORDS $600: Unused young goats for sale at an auction New Kids on the Block |
| #8954, aired 2023-10-19 | ROCKET MAN $400: This "Rocket" was the first pitcher to win the Cy Young Award 7 times Roger Clemens |
| #8953, aired 2023-10-18 | ROCK & ROLL BOOKSTORE $2000: "Waging Heavy Peace" is this musician's tale from Ontario boyhood to rock star & member of CSNY Neil Young |
| #8950, aired 2023-10-13 | PRE-FAME CELEBS IN ADS $2000: One minute you're selling Corn Pops in a 1999 ad, the next, meth on AMC 9 years later--such is this young actor's life Aaron Paul |
| #8946, aired 2023-10-09 | ELTON JOHN SONGS $1200: "I remember when rock was young, me and Suzie had so much fun" "Crocodile Rock" |
| #8944, aired 2023-10-05 | MOVIES AS TV NEWS STORIES $800: A young man from Mumbai won big on a game show tonight; the winning final answer? Aramis, from "The Three Musketeers"! Slumdog Millionaire |
| #8943, aired 2023-10-04 | EARTH SCIENCE $400: This temperature oscillation in the equatorial Pacific Ocean was also a nickname of the young Rafael Nadal El Niño |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | THREE DIGIT PRIME NUMBERS $900: On this classic sitcom, a young Regina King played Brenda Jenkins, while Marla Gibbs played "Maaaary" 227 |
| #8941, aired 2023-10-02 | HODGE PODGE $2000: "Drummer Hodge", a poem by this "Mayor of Casterbridge" author, recounts a young soldier's burial Thomas Hardy |
| #8936, aired 2023-09-25 | FARMING PHRASES $400: To have multiple intimate relationships while young is to do this; literally, it's to plant Avena fatua to sow your wild oats |
| #8930, aired 2023-09-15 | AGATHA ALL ALONG $800: A young woman named Victoria Jones gets embroiled in a mystery in Agatha's novel "They Came to" this Iraqi city Baghdad |
| #8926, aired 2023-09-11 | A LATIN BESTIARY $1000: Pullus, "chicken", gives us this English word for a young & yummy hen a pullet |
| #8923, aired 2023-07-26 | ALL KINDS OF LITERATURE $800: It's him, last name Spier, "vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda" in a young adult favorite Simon |
| #8922, aired 2023-07-25 | JUST GOOGLY IT $600: Here's the brilliant Marty Feldman who played Igor in this 1974 classic film comedy & we haven't done a thing to the picture Young Frankenstein |
| #8918, aired 2023-07-19 | TITLES WITH PUNCTUATION $2000: (!) The title of this 1855 book about a young Brit sailing the Atlantic is used to mean "let's head in a certain direction" Westward Ho! |
| #8916, aired 2023-07-17 | STATE FLAGS $600: Reflecting a state nickname, one of these aquatic birds feeds its young on Louisiana's flag a pelican |
| #8916, aired 2023-07-17 | WORLD ROYALTY $1000: In 1578 this country's young & fanatical King Sebastião made the fatal mistake of leading a crusade into Morocco Portugal |
| #8914, aired 2023-07-13 | FROM THE HEADLINES $800: This U.S. city's Free Press, November 7, 1973: "Young elected city's first Black mayor" Detroit |
| #8913, aired 2023-07-12 | READING WITH JENNA BUSH HAGER $600: (Jenna Bush Hager presents the clue.) The perfect vacation read & one my sister Barbara & I still talk about is "Summer Sisters", a novel for adults by this woman who is beloved for her young adult fiction Judy Blume |
| #8912, aired 2023-07-11 | SPACE CUISINE $200: After John Young smuggled a corned beef sandwich onto a Gemini mission, bits of this bread floated around the capsule rye |
| #8911, aired 2023-07-10 | THE HIGH "C"s $800: The Andean type of this bird raises its young on ledges or in caves, sometimes at over 10,000 feet a condor |
| #8910, aired 2023-07-07 | COUNTRY SINGERS IN COUNTRY SONGS $1600: "Damn These Dreams" tells how Dierks Bentley was inspired by this superstar "Jr.", son of the '50s legend who died young Hank Williams Jr. |
| #8906, aired 2023-07-03 | A JOB IN TELEVISION $800: It's the job of the "Extraordinary" Woo Young-woo, a streaming fave lawyer (an attorney) |
| #8906, aired 2023-07-03 | RIOTS IN HISTORY $1000: U.S. servicemen attacked young Latino men in 1943 Los Angeles riots named for this rhyming style of attire zoot suit |
| #8903, aired 2023-06-28 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $800: Tracy Letts' play about a rundown food shop, its aging owner & his young African-American hire is called "Superior" these Donuts |
| #8895, aired 2023-06-16 | OPPOSITIONAL BOOK TITLES $400: A young woman reopens a closed homicide case with dangerous results in Holly Jackson's "A Good Girl's Guide to" this crime murder |
| #8894, aired 2023-06-15 | AMERICAN CAVES $1200: This aquatic creature with a name like a young dog dwells in caves; the Devils Hole species lives in areas only 10 feet wide a pupfish |
| #8890, aired 2023-06-09 | QUICK BOOKS $600: Angie Thomas used "U" for a pronoun in the title of this 2017 young adult page-turner The Hate U Give |
| #8887, aired 2023-06-06 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $2000: Her novel "Kindred" tells of Dana, a young Black woman who is transported from the 1970s back in time to the pre-Civil War South (Octavia E.) Butler |
| #8886, aired 2023-06-05 | THE SCIENCE OF POETRY $2,000 (Daily Double): In a 1920s limerick, "There was a young lady named Bright/ Whose speed was far" these 3 words; she gets back home before she left faster than light |
| #8885, aired 2023-06-02 | OHIO GEOGRAPHY $600: This seat of Stark County has a special place for Y.A. Tittle, Weeb Ewbank & Steve Young Canton |
| #8884, aired 2023-06-01 | 3 THINGS ABOUT THE CITY $200: Brigham Young's grave is there; at the foot of the Wasatch Range; somehow known for its jazz Salt Lake City |
| #8882, aired 2023-05-30 | AUTHORS' FIRST NOVELS $1000: This first novel from James Joyce sounds like it could be a painting of him from when he was a wee lad A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man |
| #8881, aired 2023-05-29 | HISTORY $1600: This paramilitary group of young people was used in the 1960s to enforce the Cultural Revolution the Red Guard |
| #8879, aired 2023-05-25 | CROSSWORD CLUES "V" $2000: Describing one who bears live young, not from eggs (10 letters) viviparous |
| #20, aired 2023-05-24 | THE 1960s $600: On June 16, 1966 activist Stokely Carmichael rallied a crowd with "we want" these 2 words Black power |
| #19, aired 2023-05-24 | RECENT EVENTS $400: In Feb. 2023 a young girl was rescued after 147 hours in rubble from the devastating 7.8 earthquake in Syria & this country Turkey |
| #19, aired 2023-05-24 | COMPOSERS $1000: "Hella good fugues, Nicky", or words to that effect, was Tchaikovsky's response when this young composer sent him some works Rimsky-Korsakov |
| #8876, aired 2023-05-22 | ASSISTING THE DETECTIVE $200: This young sleuth from dozens of books gets into adventures with her friends Bess & George &, sometimes, the Hardy Boys Nancy Drew |
| #8876, aired 2023-05-22 | RICE PUDDING $1200: Tenley Albright, who used the sport to train her muscles after this disease, was the heroine of young figure skater Condoleezza Rice polio |
| #13, aired 2023-05-17 | FOREIGN HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $2000: In Sweden, on this saint's day, Dec. 13, young girls wear white dresses & serve coffee & baked goods to their families St. Lucia |
| #8871, aired 2023-05-15 | ORDINAL NOVELS $600: Dribble the pet turtle plays a role in this 1972 young adult book of "Tales" Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing |
| #9, aired 2023-05-15 | AND THE OSCAR WENT TO... $1600: In 1937 an honorary Oscar was named for this MGM "boy wonder" who died young, & oh--the building named for him is not far (Irving G.) Thalberg |
| #8, aired 2023-05-12 | GROWING UP X $600: Cooler, Nose Marie & Whopper were some of these alliterative dogs created by Tonka Pound Puppies |
| #1, aired 2023-05-08 | ALLITERATIVE HISTORY $1200: In Roman history, young girls were chosen to be these priestesses who tended the eternal flame of a hearth goddess vestal virgins |
| #8864, aired 2023-05-04 | THE TOWER OF LONDON $400: Infamous due to the murder there of 2 young princes, the "Garden Tower" at the complex gained this sanguine name in the 16th century the Bloody Tower |
| #8862, aired 2023-05-02 | TV & MOVIE COMEDIES $400: Seen here, Iain Armitage plays the gifted & geeky title character on this sitcom, a prequel to "The Big Bang Theory" Young Sheldon |
| #8861, aired 2023-05-01 | TITLES WITH EXCLAMATION POINTS! $600: It's the musical version of an 1838 novel about a young orphan who joins a criminal gang Oliver! |
| #8860, aired 2023-04-28 | KUWAIT FOR ME! $800: A museum is named for these people who die for a greater cause--specifically young men who in 1991 fought Iraqi tanks the martyrs |
| #8859, aired 2023-04-27 | RECENT LITERARY BIOGRAPHY $800: In 2022 John Lahr published a new bio of this American playwright who was Arty from a young age--that's what his mom called him Arthur Miller |
| #8855, aired 2023-04-21 | YOU DRIVE $200: In this job for the wealthy Kelly family, Godfrey Ford drove young Grace around & became a friend to her a chauffeur |
| #8854, aired 2023-04-20 | '80s & '90s R&B SONGS $800: 1994's "Creep" by this letter-perfect female trio sampled "Hey Young World" by Slick Rick TLC |
| #8852, aired 2023-04-18 | SECRETS OF THE ELEPHANTS $800: Young prize fighters do it for practice; young elephants learn confidence & survival skills from this activity sparring |
| #8852, aired 2023-04-18 | THEIR FIRST PUBLISHED NOVEL $800: For young adults, "Looking for Alaska" (John) Green |
| #8851, aired 2023-04-17 | IN THE BOOKSTORE $1000: The title of Gabrielle Zevin's novel about young game designers is this repetitive line from "Macbeth" expressing weariness Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow |
| #8850, aired 2023-04-14 | THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE $400: Now meaning any rebellious group, this "juvenile" movement's 1908 revolt led to reforms & modernization the Young Turks |
| #8849, aired 2023-04-13 | FOODSTOCK $400: The third guy in the "Our House" quartet converted to Judaism & it was Yiddish snacking for all Crosby, Stills, Nosh & Young |
| #8834, aired 2023-03-23 | APOCA-LIPSTICK $800: You can still look good in the end times with the lipstick shade named this, the word young Danny repeats in "The Shining" Redrum |
| #8833, aired 2023-03-22 | 1963 $1200: The LA. Dodgers won the World Series & this lefty pitcher was voted MVP of the National League & winner of the Cy Young Award Koufax |
| #8833, aired 2023-03-22 | 1963 $1600: In September a Baptist church in this city was bombed, tragically taking the lives of 4 young girls Birmingham |
| #8831, aired 2023-03-20 | GIFTS FOR THE SPORTS FAN? $600: A young Tampa hockey fan would probably dig a toy car depicting this cinematic speedster Lightning McQueen |
| #8829, aired 2023-03-16 | FOOD STUFF $1200: Breakfast for dinner? Yabba dabba don't mind if I do, with these 2 cereals named for young Ms. Flintstone Fruity Pebbles & Cocoa Pebbles |
| #8825, aired 2023-03-10 | FUTURE OSCAR WINNERS $1200: She knew acting was her calling after playing Lady Macbeth in a high school production Frances McDormand |
| #8824, aired 2023-03-09 | THERE'S A NAME IN THE TITLE $1600: Chaim Potok's "My Name is" this traces the inner struggle of a young Jew whose artistry conflicts with his Orthodox faith Asher Lev |
| #8823, aired 2023-03-08 | AUNTIE HERO $1200: Early on in a book from 1900, we learn that she came to the Kansas prairies as a "young, pretty wife" but sun & wind had turned her gray Auntie Em |
| #8819, aired 2023-03-02 | RANDOM STUFF $200: In 2023 this transport for millions of young students was celebrated on a new postage stamp a school bus |
| #8818, aired 2023-03-01 | POP MUSICIANS $1600: This singer had a lot of fun helping fun.'s "We Are Young" to a top spot Janelle Monáe |
| #8815, aired 2023-02-24 | HITS OF THEN & NOW $1000: He rolled into 2019 with a hit tune featuring Drake rapping, "Young La Flame, he in sicko mode" Travis Scott |
| #8814, aired 2023-02-23 | AUTHORS' ALMA MATERS $800: Growing up in an LDS family, it's not surprising that Stephenie Meyer attended this university in Provo BYU (Brigham Young) |
| #8814, aired 2023-02-23 | ASTRONOMY & SPACE $1600: A cluster of young stars, this group of astronomical siblings includes Electra, Maia & Alcyone the Seven Sisters |
| #8813, aired 2023-02-22 | TV SWITCHEROO $2000: After a big time jump in season 9 of this show, we find a new actress playing young Judith Grimes & she's there to help the survivors The Walking Dead |
| #8813, aired 2023-02-22 | LITERARY MOVEMENTS $5,200 (Daily Double): Gertrude Stein is credited with giving this bleak nickname to a group of young writers alienated from post-World War I society the Lost Generation |
| #8811, aired 2023-02-20 | A CRASH COURSE IN JOHN GREEN $200: (John Green presents the clue.) "The Fault in Our Stars" was largely inspired by a young friend, Esther Earl, who died of cancer at 16; & the title was inspired by a line in this Shakespeare play--"The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves" Julius Caesar |
| #8811, aired 2023-02-20 | TIME TO HIT THE LIBRARY $400: As a young man, D.C.-born J. Edgar Hoover worked at this library as a messenger & in the cataloging department the Library of Congress |
| #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 |
| #8806, aired 2023-02-13 | BOB DYLAN LYRICS $800: "May your heart always be joyful, may your song always be sung, and may you stay" this forever young |
| #13, aired 2023-02-02 | FORMIDABLE FANTASY $100: You've heard of Gandalf, one of these; Ursula K. Le Guin wrote of young Ged, a title one of "Earthsea" a wizard |
| #8798, aired 2023-02-01 | PARDON ME $400: This religious leader received a pardon for his role in the 1857-58 Utah War Brigham Young |
| #8797, aired 2023-01-31 | GET STUFFED! $400: Kristen Arnett's "Mostly Dead Things" is about a young woman who takes over one of these shops that stuffs dead animals taxidermist |
| #8795, aired 2023-01-27 | GRIMM BROTHERS FAIRY TALES $400: Eating a white snake gives a young man this magical ability also associated with Dr. Dolittle talking to the animals |
| #12, aired 2023-01-26 | BESTSELLERS $800: The title of this heartbreaking young adult novel by John Green about Augustus & Hazel is based on a line from Shakespeare The Fault in Our Stars |
| #8792, aired 2023-01-24 | THEY'RE BAD IN BOOKS $400: An ancient demon named Pazuzu possesses a young girl & kills 2 priests in this '70s horror bestseller The Exorcist |
| #8787, aired 2023-01-17 | SUMMING UP THE SPIELBERG MOVIE $1000: Young cinema lover Sammy represents cinema lover Steven Spielberg The Fabelmans |
| #8781, aired 2023-01-09 | ALL THE RIGHT MOVIES $400: "All the Right Moves" starred a young Tom Cruise as a Pennsylvania high school kid desperate for a scholarship in this sport football |
| #8778, aired 2023-01-04 | ON YOUR STATE'S LEFT $200: If you're near the border in Terre Haute, Indiana & want to go west, young man, you head directly into this state Illinois |
| #8774, aired 2022-12-29 | TV TO SEE IN 2022 $800: "The Girl from Plainville" starred this actress as a young woman in the aftermath of a troubled relationship Elle Fanning |
| #8771, aired 2022-12-26 | STAGE MUSICALS BY SONG LYRICS $1200: "Hodel, oh Hodel, have I made a match for you! He's handsome, he's young! Alright, he's 62" Fiddler on the Roof |
| #8764, aired 2022-12-15 | HERE'S THE PLAY OF THE DAY! $2000: This semi-autobiographical Neil Simon play about a young Army recruit is set in 1943 Mississippi Biloxi Blues |
| #8762, aired 2022-12-13 | THAT'S SOME OF WHAT SHE WROTE $1600: "To Be Young, Gifted and Black" by this playwright was performed Off-Broadway after cancer took her far too young at 34 (Lorraine) Hansberry |
| #8762, aired 2022-12-13 | SPANISH ART & ARTISTS $1600: It's an old Spanish word for a pretty young woman; Goya painted several, including some "on a Balcony" a maja |
| #8760, aired 2022-12-09 | RUSSIAN WRITERS $400: Vladimir Nabokov's books never earned more than a few hundred dollars until this 1955 novel about a young girl became a hit Lolita |
| #8755, aired 2022-12-02 | HISTORIC QUOTATIONS $200: Herbert Hoover, drawing a laugh in 1936: "Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national" this debt |
| #8752, aired 2022-11-29 | ANNUAL EVENTS $600: October is "Girls Lead" this acronym month, helping young women make gains in long male-dominated fields STEM |
| #8752, aired 2022-11-29 | HUFF & PUFF $1200: A puff one of these holds the record for most live young born from a snake--156 an adder |
| #8750, aired 2022-11-25 | LET'S PLAY SPORTS THERE! $400: You can take me out to the ballgame anytime at Miller Park at this university in Provo, Utah BYU (Brigham Young) |
| #8750, aired 2022-11-25 | OUR FLAG MEANS... $800: This shape moon on Singapore's flag symbolizes a young nation on the rise a crescent |
| #8746, aired 2022-11-21 | WRITERS & THEIR WORKS $400: More than a decade before "A Wrinkle in Time", she wrote her first book for kids, "And Both Were Young" L'Engle |
| #8, aired 2022-11-13 | DRIVING IN L.A. $400: L.A. lore says when Johnny Carson asked Bette Davis how a young actress could get into here, Bette said, "Take Fountain" Hollywood |
| #8, aired 2022-11-13 | THE BIBLE $400: Called "kings" in a Christmas carol, these visitors to the young Jesus brought a trio of gifts: gold, frankincense & myrrh the magi (or the wise men) |
| #8, aired 2022-11-13 | HISTORIC EVENTS $5,000 (Daily Double): This 1803 deal doubled the size of the young United States the Louisiana Purchase |
| #8737, aired 2022-11-08 | HOPE YOU READ MIDDLEMARCH $1200: With new ideas about ventilation, diet & fever, Lydgate is an idealistic young one of these a doctor |
| #8735, aired 2022-11-04 | TRIPLE RHYME TIME $400: A clever, short song about a young cat a witty kitty ditty |
| #8735, aired 2022-11-04 | GIVE US SOME DIRECTION $600: Sorry, Hitch! A young extra puts his fingers in his ears before a "surprise" gunshot in this 1959 movie thriller North by Northwest |
| #8734, aired 2022-11-03 | OBJECTS OF VERSE $800: Telling young women to enjoy their youth, Robert Herrick penned "Gather ye" these "while ye may" rosebuds |
| #8733, aired 2022-11-02 | CHILD ACTORS $2000: Elsie Fisher had actually finished middle school when she played vulnerable young Kayla in this 2018 Bo Burnham film Eighth Grade |
| #8731, aired 2022-10-31 | STREETS OF AMERICA $1,000 (Daily Double): This man made Salt Lake City's downtown streets wide so a wagon team could turn around without hitting sidewalks or using profanity Brigham Young |
| #5, aired 2022-10-23 | PITCH PERFECT $400: The best of the best in baseball get the award named for this man who got the nickname "Cyclone", which was then shortened Cy Young |
| #8722, aired 2022-10-18 | NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC TREASURES OF EGYPT $800: This young pharaoh's mummified remains were interred in a solid-gold coffin weighing almost 250 pounds King Tut |
| #4, aired 2022-10-16 | POP MUSIC $300: "Valerie" is a soulful tune from this singer who died too young in 2011 Amy Winehouse |
| #8720, aired 2022-10-14 | STORIES WITH HEART $200: Mitch Albom subtitled this book about his former college professor "An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson" Tuesdays with Morrie |
| #8719, aired 2022-10-13 | PONY TALES $800: In C.S. Lewis' "The Horse & His Boy", young Shasta & a talking pony named Bree travel to this magical land Narnia |
| #8717, aired 2022-10-11 | WHERE IN THE HOUSE? $200: Giving its name to a type of band, it's where young rockers from at least Buddy Holly on have practiced a garage |
| #3, aired 2022-10-09 | A LONG RUN ON TV WITH KEN JENNINGS $1500: (Ken delivers the clue.) 2 jobs with security are police officer & soap opera actor; Doug Davidson was both, playing Paul Williams of the Genoa City PD on this show on which he was a regular for 42 years The Young and the Restless |
| #8713, aired 2022-10-05 | WE RECOGNIZE THE SENATOR $400: He graduated summa cum laude from Brigham Young Mitt Romney |
| #8711, aired 2022-10-03 | WHEN POLK WAS PRESIDENT $1200: In 1847 Brigham Young chose what would be this city as the place where Mormons would gather, then headed back to Nebraska Salt Lake City |
| #2, aired 2022-10-02 | COMEDY ATLAS $400: A young Judd Apatow did stand-up at venues like Governor's in Levittown & Chuckles in Mineola on this island Long Island |
| #8709, aired 2022-09-29 | THERE'S A PRICE ON MY HEAD $800: More than $20 million: "Head of a Young Woman", 1906, by this Spaniard Picasso |
| #8709, aired 2022-09-29 | THERE'S A PRICE ON MY HEAD $1600: $1,100:
A Holstein one of these, a young milk cow also starting with "H" a heifer |
| #8707, aired 2022-09-27 | JAZZ NICKNAMES $1600: Leon Beiderbecke, who tragically died young Bix |
| #8704, aired 2022-09-22 | CHANGE ONE LETTER WORD PAIRS $400: A jacket for a young male horse coat & colt (a colt coat) |
| #8702, aired 2022-09-20 | GENRES OF POETRY $400: "There was a young lady of Norway" limerick |
| #8701, aired 2022-09-19 | TAKE THE BROADWAY HOME $1200: In 2022 this veteran funnyman took to the stage as the mahvelous Buddy Young Jr. in "Mr. Saturday Night" Billy Crystal |
| #8697, aired 2022-09-13 | BROADCASTING HISTORY $400: In 1991 this young broadcast TV network became the first in the U.S. to run a commercial for condoms Fox |
| #8694, aired 2022-07-28 | AUTHORS $2,500 (Daily Double): A 1903 courthouse in this state is preserved as a museum because as a young girl, Harper Lee watched her dad argue cases there Alabama |
| #8692, aired 2022-07-26 | FROM FILM TO TV $2000: We saw the early life of a psycho in the sort of TV prequel "Bates Motel", with this actor as young Norman Freddie Highmore |
| #8690, aired 2022-07-22 | AT CROSS PURPOSES $600: In the Japanese TV show "Old Enough", kids as young as 2 run errands, using a yellow flag to help them do this cross the street |
| #8686, aired 2022-07-18 | THE WOUK MOB $400: In Wouk's "Aurora Dawn" from 1947, a young man works in this broadcast medium; Wouk lived to write a book partly in e-mails radio |
| #8684, aired 2022-07-14 | LITERARY CASTLES $2000: Young Cassandra Mortmain lives in the rundown title structure in "I Capture the Castle" by this "101 Dalmatians" author Dodie Smith |
| #8678, aired 2022-07-06 | THE REPRESENTATIVE FROM... $1000: This state:
Don Young, who passed away in 2022 after serving nearly 50 years in the House Alaska |
| #8673, aired 2022-06-29 | LITERARY TITLE CHARACTERS $400: As per his wish, he remained young while his portrait aged Dorian Gray |
| #8673, aired 2022-06-29 | MUNICIPAL MUSIC $800: With the help of Young Thug, Camila Cabello rocked this song that shares its name with the Caribbean capital where she was born Havana |
| #8670, aired 2022-06-24 | PEOPLE IN POETRY $2000: Belinda is the young woman whose "shining ringlets" are scandalously removed in this Alexander Pope poem The Rape of the Lock |
| #8668, aired 2022-06-22 | ____ING BOOK TITLES $400: Named for young Danny Torrance's psychic gift The Shining |
| #8668, aired 2022-06-22 | ____ING BOOK TITLES $600: A young adult bestseller that's kind of a twist on "The Breakfast Club": "One of Us is" this Lying |
| #8668, aired 2022-06-22 | THE SONG OF THE DAY $800: In a nursery rhyme, this young one "has far to go"; as a David Bowie title, it waited until 1999 Thursday's Child |
| #8660, aired 2022-06-10 | P IS THE ONLY CONSONANT $400: A young wolf a pup |
| #8654, aired 2022-06-02 | YE OLD "E" CATEGORY $400: Now we know it as a magazine title, but back in the day it was a young man who attended a knight esquire |
| #8644, aired 2022-05-19 | THE VICE PRESIDENT WHO SAID... $400: "I hope that by being a 'first', I inspire young people to pursue their dreams" (Kamala) Harris |
| #8643, aired 2022-05-18 | BEASTLY BOOK CHARACTERS $600: Walt Morey wrote about this "Gentle" brown bear befriended by a young boy Gentle Ben |
| #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 |
| #8641, aired 2022-05-16 | FACE THE MUSIC $1000: Helô Pinheiro was a young Brazilian bathing beauty when she inspired Antônio Carlos Jobim to write this bossa nova classic "The Girl From Ipanema" |
| #8639, aired 2022-05-12 | AUNTIE $800: Jan Handzlik played the young Patrick Dennis, who is taken in by this exuberant auntie, played memorably by Rosalind Russell Auntie Mame |
| #8638, aired 2022-05-11 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): These 4 words of advice from newspaper editor Horace Greeley were followed by "and grow up with the country" Go West, young man |
| #8636, aired 2022-05-09 | PREPOSITIONAL LITERATURE $200: A boy comes of age during this 19th century conflict in Irene Hunt's young adult classic "Across Five Aprils" the Civil War |
| #8636, aired 2022-05-09 | AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MOVIES $800: Young Eleanor Bergstein would win Catskills mambo contests, inspiring her script for this 1980s film Dirty Dancing |
| #8635, aired 2022-05-06 | AFFAIRS $800: Young Benjamin Braddock sleeps with Mrs. Robinson in this 1967 flick, then falls for her daughter The Graduate |
| #8635, aired 2022-05-06 | HISTORICAL FICTION $2000: A monk & a young novice investigate deaths at a monastery in this medieval murder mystery by Umberto Eco The Name of the Rose |
| #8631, aired 2022-05-02 | COLLEGE FOOTBALL HISTORY $800: From 2002 to 2008, this coach seen here led USC to seven straight BCS bowls & two title games Pete Carroll |
| #8631, aired 2022-05-02 | MIAMI NEWS CLUES $1000: (I'm Kristi Krueger.) A Miami custody battle became national news in 2000 with a struggle to keep this young boy in America; a raid by federal agents settled the issue by taking the boy & returning him to his Cuban father Elián González |
| #8630, aired 2022-04-29 | POLITICIANS IN THEIR SCHOOL DAYS $1200: Take a look at this then-young man from Wyoming, a few years before he was a heartbeat away from the presidency Dick Cheney |
| #8628, aired 2022-04-27 | A NOVEL LOOK AT THE NOVEL $400: A young girl blows into town & kills a woman; does poppies to the point of unconsciousness & later kills a second woman before leaving The Wizard of Oz |
| #8628, aired 2022-04-27 | CELEBRITY MEMOIRS $800: This member of Buffalo Springfield reminisces about his Canadian boyhood in "Special Deluxe" Neil Young |
| #8627, aired 2022-04-26 | 1870s LITERATURE $1200: His rags-to-riches tales included "Paul the Peddler", the adventures of a young street merchant Horatio Alger |
| #8623, aired 2022-04-20 | EUROPEAN LITERATURE $2000: In addition to a devilish masterwork, this German wrote "The Sorrows of Young Werther" Goethe |
| #8622, aired 2022-04-19 | MY LITERARY CREATIONS $400: Rachel Chu & Nick Young, dealing with a wealth of problems in multiple novels Kevin Kwan |
| #8620, aired 2022-04-15 | FEMALE LITERARY CHARACTERS $800: This 3-letter Caroline Kepnes novel finds young Guinevere Beck stalked by a Big Apple murderer You |
| #8618, aired 2022-04-13 | BOOK 'EM $800: African-American actress & writer Alice Childress is known for her young adult novel "A Hero Ain't Nothin' But" this a Sandwich |
| #8617, aired 2022-04-12 | EVERYTHING FROM MOD TO MUD $1000: It's Spanish for "young guy" muchacho |
| #8614, aired 2022-04-07 | THAT PAINTING HAS A TITLE $2,000 (Daily Double): Turns out Gainsborough originally put a dog in this 1770 portrait of a young lad clad in shades of indigo The Blue Boy |
| #8611, aired 2022-04-04 | BOOK PARTS, REIMAGINED $400: A knight in training, or a young person who is basically the caboose of a train at a wedding a page |
| #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 |
| #8603, aired 2022-03-23 | WOMAN MOVIES $2000: Emerald Fennell won an Oscar for writing this 2020 film in which Carey Mulligan seeks vengeance for a horrible crime Promising Young Woman |
| #8602, aired 2022-03-22 | RECENT BIOS OF WRITERS $1200: Claire Tomalin's bio "The Young" him tells us that in the family of this early sci-fi writer, Herbert was called Bertie H.G. Wells |
| #8600, aired 2022-03-18 | ANALYZING THE SEUSS CHARACTER $600: Freud said rivalry with the father is basic--for the young'uns in this book, that includes jumping onto his belly Hop on Pop |
| #8599, aired 2022-03-17 | 7-LETTER GRAB BAG $200: It's a room for young children or young plants a nursery |
| #8596, aired 2022-03-14 | A FEW MOMENTS WITH MILLARD FILLMORE $800: Shortly after taking office, Fillmore named this religious leader the governor of the Utah territory (Brigham) Young |
| #8590, aired 2022-03-04 | HISTORY $400: In 1867 young Erasmus Jacobs found the "Eureka" this "upon which the future success of South Africa will be built" diamond |
| #8588, aired 2022-03-02 | BOOKS WITHIN BOOKS $1600: In a Michael Ende tale, young Bastian steals this title book & reads of Atreyu & the world of Fantastica The Neverending Story |
| #8586, aired 2022-02-28 | 2-WORD BOOK TITLES $400: Like the autobiographical hero of this novel, just after WWII William Styron was a young southerner living in Brooklyn Sophie's Choice |
| #8583, aired 2022-02-23 | PUTTING THE CARBS $1000: In an ad, young Molly Ringwald hawked this fruit, "nature's candy", but didn't say 1/4 cup had about 33 grams of carbs! raisins |
| #8583, aired 2022-02-23 | CHILD ACTORS $1200: McKenna Grace played preteen geniuses in the movie "Gifted" & opposite young Iain Armitage on this sitcom Young Sheldon |
| #18, aired 2022-02-22 | DOUBLE TALK WORDS $800: In this Pixar film young Miguel idolizes movie star/singer Ernesto de la Cruz Coco |
| #17, aired 2022-02-22 | THE 18th CENTURY $2000: It's a Spanish word for a young woman; Goya painted this title one in 1777 maja |
| #8580, aired 2022-02-18 | NORTH AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: His 1947 play "All My Sons" is about a businessman whose substandard airplane parts cost young men their lives (Arthur) Miller |
| #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 | MIDAS $800: In "The Lost Hero" by this adapter of myths for young adults, Midas turns Leo & Piper into gold statues (Rick) Riordan |
| #14, aired 2022-02-17 | TV FINALES $1600: As this show wrapped up in 2021, Sam, a young man on the autism spectrum, finally made it to see the penguins Atypical |
| #14, aired 2022-02-17 | NONFICTION $1600: This "Nation" is Elizabeth Wurtzel's account of being "Young & Depressed in America" Prozac Nation |
| #13, aired 2022-02-17 | EXIT STAGE LEFT $2000: Only the good die young, as when Mimi dies of consumption in this Puccini opera about young Parisians La bohème |
| #9, aired 2022-02-15 | HITS OF 2021 $400: At 18, she seems a little young to be singing of "Deja Vu" Olivia Rodrigo |
| #7, aired 2022-02-11 | ALL SORTS OF BOOKS $1000: The title character in this Paulo Coelho novel turns lead into gold for young Santiago The Alchemist |
| #5, aired 2022-02-10 | THIS PARTY IS LIT $2000: A villa in France is the site of an extended house party in "Conversations with Friends" by this much-lauded young writer Sally Rooney |
| #8573, aired 2022-02-09 | BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS $200: This story of a fawn is subtitled "A Life in the Woods" Bambi |
| #8573, aired 2022-02-09 | BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS $400: First published in 1931, "The Story of" this elephant includes his escape to the city where he becomes cultured & educated Babar |
| #8573, aired 2022-02-09 | BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS $600: In this Frances Hodgson Burnett book, Mary Lennox is determined to find the title place, locked off for years The Secret Garden |
| #8573, aired 2022-02-09 | BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS $800: In 2004 Kate DiCamillo won a Newbery Medal for "The Tale of" this inquisitive mouse Despereaux |
| #8573, aired 2022-02-09 | BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS $1000: In "From the Mixed Up Files of" this woman, a girl named Claudia & her brother run away from home & hide out at the Met Museum Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler |
| #8572, aired 2022-02-08 | HIS BIG PAINT SALE $2000: In 2020 more than $100 million bought "Boy and Dog in a Johnnypump", a 1982 piece by this New York painter who died young in 1988 Basquiat |
| #2, aired 2022-02-08 | SHAKESPEARE $1600: A Stratford-upon-Avon statue of the Bard is surrounded by four characters, including this young prince from the history plays Henry |
| #8571, aired 2022-02-07 | PROSE $1200: James McBride's "The Good Lord Bird" finds the young enslaved Henry joining this abolitionist at Harpers Ferry John Brown |
| #8566, aired 2022-01-31 | MUSIC BIOPIC SUBJECTS $800: "La Bamba":
this early rock & roller who died young, tragically Ritchie Valens |
| #8566, aired 2022-01-31 | FROM BOOK TO TV $800: A Hulu miniseries was based on this John Green novel, with Miles Halter in search of the titular Ms. Young Looking for Alaska |
| #8566, aired 2022-01-31 | MUSIC BIOPIC SUBJECTS $1200: "Sweet Dreams":
this country singer who died young, tragically Patsy Cline |
| #8565, aired 2022-01-28 | AMERICANA $600: Young woman! It's fun to stay here & Julia Morgan, the USA's most prolific major architect, designed about 20 of them the YWCA |
| #8563, aired 2022-01-26 | CELEBS WHO APPEARED ON KIDS' TV $1600: Before she was whispering to ghosts, she was on "Kids Incorporated" singing at a club for young people Jennifer Love Hewitt |
| #8562, aired 2022-01-25 | BOOKS WITH HORSEPOWER $400: A young English girl wins a horse in a raffle, learns to ride it & ends up winning a top "national" race in this tale National Velvet |
| #8557, aired 2022-01-18 | ESCAPIST LITERATURE $6,000 (Daily Double): 10 young people tell stories to pass the time in "The Decameron" while escaping the black death engulfing this city Florence |
| #8554, aired 2022-01-13 | ROM-DRAMS $800: Young Timothée Chalamet finds love in 1983 Italy in this 2017 film written by James Ivory Call Me by Your Name |
| #8552, aired 2022-01-11 | TV SHOWS WITH ONE-WORD TITLES $800: 2 women, a Vegas legend & a snarky young writer, work together to make comedy Hacks |
| #8548, aired 2022-01-05 | REAL PEOPLE ON FILM $800: Joseph Fiennes played the bard as a young playwright struggling to establish himself in this 1998 film Shakespeare in Love |
| #8548, aired 2022-01-05 | REAL PEOPLE ON FILM $1200: In this film Gary Oldman played the punk rock bassist for the Sex Pistols, who lived fast & died young Sid and Nancy |
| #8545, aired 2021-12-31 | NEW YORK-SET FICTION $400: Chaim Potok's classic "The Chosen" tells of 2 Jewish young men growing up in the Williamsburg area of this borough Brooklyn |
| #8540, aired 2021-12-24 | HOMOPHONIC PAIRS $800: Unfriendly lodging for young travelers abroad a hostile hostel |
| #8540, aired 2021-12-24 | HOMOPHONIC PAIRS $1000: An official document seal belonging to a young swan a signet cygnet |
| #8540, aired 2021-12-24 | FIRST RESPONSES $1200: Far from hardcore, this type of film is about young people, often adrift & talking a lot (but not loud) mumblecore |
| #8538, aired 2021-12-22 | SHORT POEMS $1200: Gwendolyn Brooks wrote a heartbreaking 32 words called "We Real Cool" about young men in this kind of "hall" pool |
| #8537, aired 2021-12-21 | FALSE ADVERTISING? $2000: The Panama hat is made from the young leaves of the jipijapa & actually originated in this country Ecuador |
| #8532, aired 2021-12-14 | POP CULTURE MR. OR MRS. $2000: On the silver screen this beloved actor played both "Mister Roberts" & "Young Mr. Lincoln" Henry Fonda |
| #8530, aired 2021-12-10 | WINTER HOLIDAYS $1000: On December 13 Scandinavians celebrate this female saint; young girls wear white & wear lighted wreaths on their heads Lucia |
| #8527, aired 2021-12-07 | NAME THE MUSICAL $400: "I'm just like my country, I'm young, scrappy and hungry, and I'm not throwin' away my shot" Hamilton |
| #8527, aired 2021-12-07 | POP CULTURE $600: In 2019, this young rapper moseyed onto the scene in a really big way Lil Nas X |
| #8525, aired 2021-12-03 | TRENDING $800: This ankle wear was big with young female Sinatra fans in the 1940s bobby socks |
| #8522, aired 2021-11-30 | A SWEET READ $400: In a Robert Cormier young adult novel, this title "War" involves a candy sale at a prep school The Chocolate War |
| #8520, aired 2021-11-26 | RIGHT FROM THE GECKO $1000: Although a few species give birth to live young, most are this 9-letter type, meaning they lay eggs oviparous |
| #8520, aired 2021-11-26 | YOU CAN QUOTE ME $5,600 (Daily Double): Ben Franklin's "Advice to a Young Tradesman" begins, "Remember that" this 3-word phrase--tick-tock! time is money |
| #8515, aired 2021-11-19 | INTO THE J*E*T STREAM $1000: From the Latin meaning "again" & "young", it means to make someone youthful & vital again rejuvenate |
| #8510, aired 2021-11-12 | 20th CENTURY FICTION $600: You might say young Charlie McGee lit up this 1980 Stephen King novel Firestarter |
| #8509, aired 2021-11-11 | MUSIC STUFF $1000: Mark Feld was the original name of this late style icon who joined the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2020 with his band T. Rex Marc Bolan |
| #8504, aired 2021-11-04 | ZOMBIETHON $600: Glenn & Maggie were just a young couple trying to make it work in a zombie-filled world on this TV series The Walking Dead |
| #8501, aired 2021-11-01 | THE MAN'S PEN NAME $200: "I am a young girl of about thirty-five", penned this Founding Father in a 1732 letter to the Penn. Gazette as "Alice Addertongue" Ben Franklin |
| #8501, aired 2021-11-01 | THE MAN'S PEN NAME $400: Mathematician & photographer Charles Lutwidge Dodgson is better known to readers young & old by this pen name Lewis Carroll |
| #8500, aired 2021-10-29 | THE VILLAIN OF THE PIECE $2000: In a Thomas Hardy novel, Alec d' this brings young Tess to ruin Urbervilles |
| #8499, aired 2021-10-28 | AT THE BALLET $1600: In "Coppélia", a magical doctor creates a life-size one of these that young Franz becomes obsessed with a doll |
| #8498, aired 2021-10-27 | PLOT POINT REWRITES $600: The green room was terrifying. A young mouse. The red balloon. The old lady whispering "Hush" ...sleep would never come to me Goodnight Moon |
| #8498, aired 2021-10-27 | ARTISTIC 19th CENTURY WOMEN $1600: Helga von Cramm was a youngish maiden when she painted this Alp whose name means "young maiden" Jungfrau |
| #8496, aired 2021-10-25 | DOUBLE INITIAL GUYS $1000: C.C. ____,
a Cy Young winner Sabathia |
| #8494, aired 2021-10-21 | SPOKEN WORDS IN CLASSIC SONGS $400: "We are young... heartache to heartache, we stand... no promises, no demands... love is a battlefield" (then she kicks in hard) Pat Benatar |
| #8493, aired 2021-10-20 | STAIRING AT MOVIES $400: Young again, Rose ascends a ship's staircase to reunite with Jack in this 1997 film Titanic |
| #8489, aired 2021-10-14 | OLD SLANG $200: A young man living alone was "batching", from this noun a bachelor |
| #8489, aired 2021-10-14 | CONTAINERS $1000: The OED says this is a 2-word "box in which a young woman... collects articles... in the event of her marriage" a hope chest |
| #8488, aired 2021-10-13 | THE SABBATH $2,000 (Daily Double): At a church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints sacrament meeting, a young man may talk about 2 years away as one of these a missionary |
| #8487, aired 2021-10-12 | OUR LEAD SINGER $800: Here is this singer, who died far too young, far from home in Paris Jim Morrison |
| #8487, aired 2021-10-12 | MAKING A SHORT STORY LONG $2000: First a short story, this Jeffrey Eugenides novel about 5 sisters who die young became a Sofia Coppola film The Virgin Suicides |
| #8486, aired 2021-10-11 | GEORGE WASHINGTON DID IT $2,000 (Daily Double): A 1791 proclamation by President George ordered the first this of the District of Columbia; a young George would've done it himself a survey |
| #8485, aired 2021-10-08 | THE FLYING... $2000: In song, "He floats through the air, with the greatest of ease, the daring young man on" this flying trapeze |
| #8483, aired 2021-10-06 | BY A ONE-NAMED WRITER $2000: This French author of "Gigi" also wrote a series of novels about a young woman named Claudine Colette |
| #8481, aired 2021-10-04 | BASEBALL HALL OF FAMERS BY INITIALS $400: Look at numbers like 7,356 innings pitched & you'll:
C.Y. (Cy) Young |
| #8477, aired 2021-09-28 | BOOKS FOR KIDS $800: Young Ms. Welsch is the note-taking title girl of this 1964 novel by Louise Fitzhugh Harriet the Spy |
| #8476, aired 2021-09-27 | MOVIE TAGLINES $800: 1967: "They're young... they're in love... and they kill people" Bonnie and Clyde |
| #8476, aired 2021-09-27 | DAYTIME TV $1200: This long-running soap opera centers on the daytime dramas of the Abbott & Newman clans The Young and the Restless |
| #8473, aired 2021-09-22 | INSPIRED CHARACTERS $800: Buck Mulligan, who routinely chides Stephen Dedalus in this novel, was based on James Joyce's pal Oliver St. John Gogarty Ulysses |
| #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 |
| #8469, aired 2021-09-16 | PRIME NUMBERS $1200: With his band Crazy Horse, he recorded "Prime Of Life" on his 1994 album "Sleeps with Angels" (Neil) Young |
| #8469, aired 2021-09-16 | PRIME NUMBERS $1600: This title of a collaboration between Three 6 Mafia & Young Trojanz also means the principal target of an investigation "Prime Suspect" |
| #8466, aired 2021-09-13 | SOMEBODY WROTE THAT $200: Melvina Young wrote the greeting card titled "The Sisterhood" for this company's "Uplifted & Empowered" collection Hallmark |
| #8466, aired 2021-09-13 | SOMEBODY WROTE THAT $1000: Newspaper editor Francis Pharcellus Church wrote the 1897 reply to young Virginia O'Hanlon that's known by these 7 words Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus |
| #8461, aired 2021-08-09 | CURRENT TV $800: Hospital patients on "The Resident" can take comfort in familiar faces like this actor who once played young Theo Huxtable (Malcolm-Jamal) Warner |
| #8460, aired 2021-08-06 | NOVELS SINCE 1900 $1000: Paul Bäumer is a young German student turned soldier in this World War I novel All Quiet on the Western Front |
| #8455, aired 2021-07-30 | "TENDER" $800: Bonnie Prince Charlie, who claimed he was England's rightful king, was known as the "Young" one Pretender |
| #8448, aired 2021-07-21 | 2 LETTERS, 3 LETTERS $600: This exclamation of enthusiasm or surprise is an interjection followed by a young male Oh, boy! |
| #8446, aired 2021-07-19 | FIRST NAMES IN THE DICTIONARY $400: A young male horse, or a gunmaker Colt |
| #8446, aired 2021-07-19 | ONE-NAMED AUTHORS $800: German poet Novalis pioneered this passionate literary movement & died young of TB in 1801 Romanticism |
| #8446, aired 2021-07-19 | ONE-NAMED AUTHORS $2000: In "The Red & the Black" by this French author, a young man must choose between life in the army & life in the church Stendhal |
| #8441, aired 2021-07-12 | AN ILLUSTRATED LIFE $800: "21" is a comic about this Pittsburgh Pirates right fielder from Puerto Rico who tragically died young Roberto Clemente |
| #8440, aired 2021-07-09 | JULY $800: Upon reaching this valley in July 1847, Brigham Young reportedly said, "This is the right place" Salt Lake Valley |
| #8439, aired 2021-07-08 | TV SPIN-OFFS $400: "Young Sheldon" The Big Bang Theory |
| #8438, aired 2021-07-07 | WOMEN DIRECTORS $2000: Emerald Fennell directed this promising young woman who sought vengeance in the 2020 film "Promising Young Woman" Carey Mulligan |
| #8434, aired 2021-07-01 | THE MOVIE IN QUESTION $200: 1993,
starring a young Johnny Depp:
"What's Eating Gilbert ____" Grape |
| #8433, aired 2021-06-30 | BIRDS IN BOOK TITLES $400: "Skylark" is Patricia MacLachlan's follow-up to her novel about this young woman who was "Plain & Tall" Sarah |
| #8421, aired 2021-06-14 | TIME LINES $400: In his "Advice to a Young Tradesman", he said, "Remember that time is money" Franklin |
| #8417, aired 2021-06-08 | MUSICAL GENRES $1000: Marvin Young used part of his name for this stage name & became the first solo rapper to win a Grammy; now "Bust A Move" Young MC |
| #8416, aired 2021-06-07 | TOP BRITISH BABY NAMES $200: Here's a twist--in 2019, the top name for boys was this, like Dickens' young Mr. Twist Oliver |
| #8416, aired 2021-06-07 | HEIR GUITAR $400: Playing with this Beatle's son Dhani, Paul McCartney repeated the line, "It looks like he stayed young and we all got old" (George) Harrison |
| #8415, aired 2021-06-04 | ALL THE SMALL "LING"s $800: A young tree bigger than a seedling but not yet timber size a sapling |
| #8412, aired 2021-06-01 | AUTHORS WHEN YOUNG $400: Langston Hughes attended this New York City Ivy League school & discovered Harlem, where he would help lead a renaissance Columbia (University) |
| #8412, aired 2021-06-01 | AUTHORS WHEN YOUNG $800: As a young man, he wrote action novels under the name John Lange, but would go on to write of re-created dinosaurs Michael Crichton |
| #8412, aired 2021-06-01 | AUTHORS WHEN YOUNG $1200: This Polish author who wrote in English lived in exile in Russia as a child & went to sea as a teenager Joseph Conrad |
| #8412, aired 2021-06-01 | AUTHORS WHEN YOUNG $1600: At 16, she was a teacher; by 19 she was married & a mother; she only began publishing books about prairie family life at age 65 Laura Ingalls Wilder |
| #8412, aired 2021-06-01 | AUTHORS WHEN YOUNG $3,000 (Daily Double): Born Chloe Wofford, she converted to Catholicism at age 12 & added the name Anthony to hers, from St. Anthony of Padua Toni Morrison |
| #8408, aired 2021-05-26 | YOUNG PEOPLE'S LITERATURE $200: The name of this quirky alliterative character was inspired by a boomerang toy Roald Dahl had as a boy Willy Wonka |
| #8408, aired 2021-05-26 | YOUNG PEOPLE'S LITERATURE $600: "Last Sacrifice" was the finale of Richelle Mead's series about special young people attending this school the Vampire Academy |
| #8408, aired 2021-05-26 | YOUNG PEOPLE'S LITERATURE $800: In a story by Mary Mapes Dodge, the sister of this title boy wins the silver skates Hans Brinker |
| #8408, aired 2021-05-26 | YOUNG PEOPLE'S LITERATURE $1,000 (Daily Double): Chapters in this work include "The Mock Turtle's Story" & "The Lobster Quadrille" Alice's Adventures in Wonderland |
| #8408, aired 2021-05-26 | YOUNG PEOPLE'S LITERATURE $1000: Melinda Sordino is the heroine of this novel by Laurie Halse Anderson; the last name Sordino can mean "mute" Speak |
| #8407, aired 2021-05-25 | ROCK BANDS $1600: This Neil Young backup band shares its name with a Sioux leader Crazy Horse |
| #8404, aired 2021-05-20 | MUSICAL THEATER $1200: The Vietnam War casts a long shadow on a group of young people in this "tribal love-rock musical" Hair |
| #8402, aired 2021-05-18 | 4 OF THE SAME LETTER $800: Why, you little one of these! A young cheeky & presumptuous person whippersnapper |
| #8392, aired 2021-05-04 | 20th CENTURY NAMES $2000: In 1970 this pair followed up "Human Sexual Response" with "Human Sexual Inadequacy" Masters & Johnson |
| #8391, aired 2021-05-03 | PROM MUSIC $800: This song by fun. & Janelle Monae is all about seizing the moment of youth "We Are Young" |
| #8389, aired 2021-04-29 | POP CULTURE PRIESTS $1200: On HBO Jude Law was "The Young Pope" & this actor had no trouble being "The New Pope" John Malkovich |
| #8384, aired 2021-04-22 | SECRETS OF THE WHALES $1000: Apart from its pod, a young sperm whale plays hide-and-seek with a photographer in these weeds that give an Atlantic sea its name sargasso |
| #8379, aired 2021-04-15 | BURNED BOOKS $800: Future wife Nora saved "Stephen Hero" after this man threw it in a fire; it became "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" (James) Joyce |
| #8376, aired 2021-04-12 | COUNTING ON TELEVISION $1600: "16 and Pregnant" on this cable channel follows the trials & tribulations of young women unexpectedly expecting MTV |
| #8370, aired 2021-04-02 | BOOKS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE $400: At Hogwarts she's deputy headmistress as well as the transfiguration professor Professor McGonagall |
| #8370, aired 2021-04-02 | BOOKS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE $800: In "Twilight", Bella moves to this Washington town & meets the mysterious Edward Cullen Forks |
| #8370, aired 2021-04-02 | BOOKS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE $1200: In the Percy Jackson book series, his half brother Tyson is one of these mythical creatures Cyclops |
| #8370, aired 2021-04-02 | BOOKS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE $1600: In "The Lord of the Rings", this fellow hobbit is Frodo's best friend & gardener Sam |
| #8370, aired 2021-04-02 | BOOKS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE $2000: The story of a spirited adopted girl growing up in Canada, "Anne of Green Gables" is by this author Lucy Maud Montgomery |
| #8368, aired 2021-03-31 | AT THE MOVIES $800: This 2016 movie is about a young African American named Chiron, whom we see as a young boy, as a teen & as a 20-something Moonlight |
| #8358, aired 2021-03-17 | NIFTY NOVELS $200: The young orphan protagonist in "Great Expectations" is known by this 3-letter name Pip |
| #8351, aired 2021-03-08 | STRANGE BEDFELLOWS $1200: In this Mel Brooks classic, Madeline Kahn ends up with "The Monster" in her bed; she seems pretty happy Young Frankenstein |
| #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 | AMERICAN HISTORY $600: Here are John Young & Robert Crippen, the crew of the first of these missions in 1981 Space Shuttle |
| #8339, aired 2021-02-18 | SITCOMS BY CHARACTERS $600: Georgie,
Meemaw,
the kid version of Mr. Cooper Young Sheldon |
| #8337, aired 2021-02-16 | LITERATURE $400: "The Young Giant" & "Little Red-Cap" were 2 of the more than 200 stories collected by these German brothers in a 19th c. anthology the Brothers Grimm |
| #8337, aired 2021-02-16 | ALPHABET ROCKERS & RAPPERS $400: Hey, short-pants! An electrical label led to the name of this Angus & Malcolm Young band AC/DC |
| #8335, aired 2021-02-12 | IN CONCERT $400: (James Taylor presents the clue.) In 2011 at Madison Square Garden, I performed "Fire And Rain" & "Fifteen" with this young singer-songwriter whom, I'm honored to say, is named after me Taylor Swift |
| #8335, aired 2021-02-12 | IN CONCERT $1200: In 1985, Neil Young, John Mellencamp & this country singer organized the first Farm Aid concert Willie Nelson |
| #8328, aired 2021-02-03 | "UN"-TERTAINMENT $800: This comedy series starred Ellie Kemper as a young woman who escaped a doomsday cult led by Jon Hamm Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt |
| #8328, aired 2021-02-03 | "UN"-TERTAINMENT $1600: A young Jewish woman flees her ultra-conservative religious group in this Netflix miniseries Unorthodox |
| #8324, aired 2021-01-28 | THE WHITE HOUSE $1000: He's still the only president to have had his wedding in the White House, marrying young Frances Folsom in 1886 Grover Cleveland |
| #8323, aired 2021-01-27 | WORDS WITH "FER" ENDS $1600: A young cow that hasn't had a calf a heifer |
| #8323, aired 2021-01-27 | LITERARY VACATIONS $1600: Rosemary Hoyt, a young actress vacationing on the Riviera, tempts the hero of this author's "Tender is the Night" Fitzgerald |
| #8319, aired 2021-01-21 | BOOKS FOR YOUNG ADULTS $200: In this saga Edward vamps things up & Jacob gets into some hairy situations in Washington State Twilight |
| #8319, aired 2021-01-21 | AMPHIBIANS $400: The axolotl is unusual in retaining features such as external gills from this young stage called a tadpole in other amphibians the larval stage |
| #8319, aired 2021-01-21 | BOOKS FOR YOUNG ADULTS $400: A spring of magical water makes this family "Everlasting" in a book that asks, "What if you could live forever?" Tuck |
| #8319, aired 2021-01-21 | BOOKS FOR YOUNG ADULTS $600: At Camp Half-Blood, this young demigod learns things like how to ride winged horses & sword fighting Percy Jackson |
| #8319, aired 2021-01-21 | BOOKS FOR YOUNG ADULTS $800: Flee from Grievers stalking the labyrinth & become one of these, the title of a James Dashner young adult series The Maze Runner |
| #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 |
| #8311, aired 2021-01-11 | EARTH AT NIGHT IN COLOR $800: Adults are too heavy, but a young python can climb even the thinnest branches to seek prey in this upper level of a rainforest the canopy |
| #8305, aired 2020-12-18 | 4-LETTER FILMS $800: Young Miguel meets up with some of his ancestors in the Land of the Dead in this Disney Pixar film Coco |
| #8298, aired 2020-12-09 | CLOTHES MINDED $800: This headwear of the Middle Ages has a name that sounds like an adult who accompanies two young people on a date a chaperon |
| #8295, aired 2020-12-04 | FRENCH ARTS & CULTURE $400: The ballet "Giselle" is based on a legend about the wilis, ghostly young maidens who have died before this special event their wedding |
| #8295, aired 2020-12-04 | DOUBLE THE SAME VOWEL $1600: A word for the young of any bird begins the name of this bird a chickadee |
| #8291, aired 2020-11-30 | A ROYAL PAIN $1600: In 336 B.C. Pausanias, a young Macedonian, killed this king; no trial--the assassin got killed on the spot Philip (II) |
| #8291, aired 2020-11-30 | IT CAME FROM CROWDFUNDING! $2000: Long after he was "Rockin' In The Free World", this singer raised more than $6 million for Pono, his music player Neil Young |
| #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 |
| #8289, aired 2020-11-26 | ARE YOU SMARTER THAN A 5th CENTURY RAIDER? $400: Around 420 Irish raids on Britain carried off corn, cattle & this young future Irish super-saint St. Patrick |
| #8287, aired 2020-11-24 | THE GIRL IN THE SONG $800: "Crocodile Rock"--"I remember when rock was young, me &" her "had so much fun" Suzie |
| #8280, aired 2020-11-13 | A NOVEL CATEGORY $400: "Ali Cross", a book for young mystery fans, features the son of Alex Cross from novels by this author James Patterson |
| #8276, aired 2020-11-09 | THE BOOK CASE $1000: This, Mary Shelley's middle name, is the name of a detective agency in which a young Mary solves cases Wollstonecraft |
| #8275, aired 2020-11-06 | YOUNG MAN OR WOMAN $400: In a 1985 film the "Young" this character fences against Moriarty in boarding school Young Sherlock Holmes |
| #8275, aired 2020-11-06 | YOUNG MAN OR WOMAN $800: In "Young Mr." this man, Henry Fonda plays an up-&-coming Illinois attorney Lincoln |
| #8275, aired 2020-11-06 | YOUNG MAN OR WOMAN $1200: "The Young" this character "Chronicles" TV series featured the adventurer in his pre-college & pre-movie days Indiana Jones |
| #8275, aired 2020-11-06 | YOUNG MAN OR WOMAN $1600: This actor shakes up the Vatican as Pius XIII, "The Young Pope" in the title of an HBO series Jude Law |
| #8275, aired 2020-11-06 | YOUNG MAN OR WOMAN $2000: This actor, not Peter Boyle, is the title character in "Young Frankenstein" Gene Wilder |
| #8273, aired 2020-11-04 | ADD AN E $200: A word meaning great delight is happy to add an E to be a young 'roo joy & joey |
| #8273, aired 2020-11-04 | ADD AN E $400: A word denoting vigor doubles its E to make the cry of a young bird pep & peep |
| #8272, aired 2020-11-03 | A PIRATE'S LIFE $400: A 1720s "General History of the Pyrates" spells this infamous "young" captain's last name with just one "D" Captain Kidd |
| #8271, aired 2020-11-02 | SWEET TOME ALABAMA $1,000 (Daily Double): This 1959 Tuscumbia-set play about a steadfast teacher & a stubborn young girl is the state's official outdoor drama The Miracle Worker |
| #8267, aired 2020-10-27 | I'M POSTING THAT ON TELEGRAM $200: The death of this inventor of course brought telegrams, like Brigham Young's "My affections follow him to the spirit world" Morse |
| #8265, aired 2020-10-23 | ANAGRAMS, HOW NOVEL! $800: About young German soldiers:
"NO FRET STREWN QUAIL TELETHON" All Quiet on the Western Front |
| #8264, aired 2020-10-22 | LITERARY CHARACTERS $400: The young narrator of "To Kill a Mockingbird" has the given names Jean Louise but goes by this nickname Scout |
| #8262, aired 2020-10-20 | PIANISTS, PAINTERS & PLAYWRIGHTS $1600: After returning to Paris in 1880 from military service, this young painter visited an island in the Seine called La Grande Jatte Seurat |
| #8256, aired 2020-10-12 | 8-LETTER WORDS $200: Once it meant a young knight; today it means an unmarried man bachelor |
| #8253, aired 2020-10-07 | WORDSWORTH AT 250 $1600: Wordsworth was a young radical & wrote of this event on the continent, "Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive" the French Revolution |
| #8252, aired 2020-10-06 | YES WE "CAN" $800: This once-popular term for a young female hospital volunteer referred to the red & white uniform a candy striper |
| #8249, aired 2020-10-01 | BESTSELLERS $200: Recent speeches by this young Swedish climate activist are collected in "No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference" Greta Thunberg |
| #8249, aired 2020-10-01 | THE YOUNG & THE RECKLESS $400: Wing-suited 1930s aviation daredevil Clem Sohn was nicknamed this like a caped superhero who debuted in 1939 Batman |
| #8249, aired 2020-10-01 | THE YOUNG & THE RECKLESS $800: Rossa Richter was just 14 in 1877 when she was fired into the air at London's Royal Aquarium, becoming famous as the first human this a cannonball |
| #8249, aired 2020-10-01 | THE YOUNG & THE RECKLESS $1200: One story says this 1970s Daredevil got his rhyming nickname after crashing his motorcycle while being chased by police as a teen Evel Knievel |
| #8249, aired 2020-10-01 | THE YOUNG & THE RECKLESS $1600: Stunt man Bud Ekins, not Steve McQueen, made the iconic motorcycle jump over a barbed-wire fence in this 1963 P.O.W. breakout movie The Great Escape |
| #8249, aired 2020-10-01 | THE YOUNG & THE RECKLESS $2000: World War I ace Frank Luke was famed for attacking observation these, dangerous targets ringed with antiaircraft guns balloons |
| #8245, aired 2020-09-25 | WJPY CLASSICAL RADIO $1000: Time to liven up your commute with the overture to this 1866 Smetana opera about a young woman's marriage prospects The Bartered Bride |
| #8243, aired 2020-09-23 | CELEBS COMING & GOING $1600: A young Vince Gill turned down a chance to join Dire Straits; a less young Vince Gill replaced Glenn Frey on this band's tour the Eagles |
| #8241, aired 2020-09-21 | GOOD STUFF IN 2020 $600: After getting an "R2-D2" prosthetic that moves fingers via muscle signals, a young fan got a call from Luke himself, this man (Mark) Hamill |
| #8238, aired 2020-09-16 | TV SHOWS BASED ON BOOKS BY WOMEN $800: 3 young E.T.s appear as humans & attend a New Mexico high school in books by Melinda Metz, the basis for this TV show Roswell |
| #8237, aired 2020-09-15 | ON THE BOOKSHELF $400: Tracy Chevalier's "Girl with a Pearl Earring" imagines the young woman who inspired a masterpiece by this Dutch painter Vermeer |
| #8231, aired 2020-06-08 | A NATIONAL MONUMENT-AL CHALLENGE $600: Including the nickname of African-American troops, an Ohio site is named Charles Young these Soldiers National Monument Buffalo |
| #8230, aired 2020-06-05 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $1600: If you really want to call this young actor by his name, pronounce it the French way, Tim-o-tay Chalamet |
| #8227, aired 2020-06-02 | THE OLD UNIVERSITY TRY $800: I wouldn't look for this university founded in 1875 by a Mormon leader on many lists of top 10 party schools BYU (Brigham Young) |
| #8223, aired 2020-05-27 | FORM "E" $1000: This young form of an eel sounds like it might have pointed ears elver |
| #8219, aired 2020-05-21 | THEM DUKE BOYS! $800: As a young man Arthur Wellesley, best known as this duke, had gambling debts & trouble at school before his martial glory the Duke of Wellington |
| #8219, aired 2020-05-21 | THEM DUKE BOYS! $2000: Machiavelli fittingly referred to the young duke Cesare Borgia as a "new" this title prince |
| #8215, aired 2020-05-01 | AFTER LIFE $1200: Named for a New York bay, a young quahog clam, usually eaten raw a Littleneck |
| #8211, aired 2020-04-27 | ONE-WORD TV TITLES $1000: After their mom's death, 3 young women discover they have magic powers on this CW drama Charmed |
| #8209, aired 2020-04-23 | FICTIONAL TV TOWNS & CITIES $600: A young Clark Kent struggled to find his way in Smallville, a town in this Heartland state Kansas |
| #8207, aired 2020-04-21 | THE FIELD MARSHAL PLAN $600: In 1848 Marshal Windischgrätz helped get the crown of Austria for young Franz Joseph of this imperial house Hapsburg |
| #8206, aired 2020-04-20 | "I AM" A TITLE $800: Robert Cormier's young adult thriller with a very dairy title I Am the Cheese |
| #8200, aired 2020-04-10 | DON'T KNOW MUCH ABOUT HISTORY $400: The Canadian government has promised to never try to find out the name of the young man buried in Ottawa's version of this memorial the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier |
| #8199, aired 2020-04-09 | WHERE YA GOIN' FOR SPRING BREAK? $400: Well, you're too young to drink in this city...can't hit the tables...but Lady Gaga Enigma is at Park MGM, so off we go! Las Vegas |
| #8196, aired 2020-04-06 | COLLEGE ETYMOLOGY $200: This word for a type of degree originally referred to a young knight of low rank a bachelor |
| #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 |
| #8193, aired 2020-04-01 | RECENT PLAYS FROM REAL LIFE $2000: A recent play about a young Vladimir Putin has this word for "rule by thieves" as its title kleptocracy |
| #8192, aired 2020-03-31 | REMEMBER JAMES GARFIELD! $400: Young James was the last U.S. president born in one of these structures, in 1831 on an Ohio farm a log cabin |
| #8188, aired 2020-03-25 | SHORT RUNS ON BROADWAY $2000: "La Strada", based on this director's film, starred a young Bernadette Peters & said arrivederci after one show Federico Fellini |
| #8184, aired 2020-03-19 | AUTHORS' OTHER JOBS $400: A portrait of James Joyce as a young man included opening this city's first movie theater, the Volta Dublin |
| #8177, aired 2020-03-10 | YOU'RE IN MY HOUSE! $1000: The Beehive House, home to this religious leader until 1877 Brigham Young |
| #8176, aired 2020-03-09 | HERE'S OUR MEN, YOU $200: Looking to improve the "spiritual condition of young men", this club was founded in London in 1844 the YMCA |
| #8176, aired 2020-03-09 | HERE'S OUR MEN, YOU $600: When I attended, my alma mater the University of Ottawa was also this type of institution preparing young men for the priesthood a seminary |
| #8173, aired 2020-03-04 | THE JEFFERSONIAN ERA $2000: In the 1806 edition of his bio of George Washington, this author included the fictional tale of young George & the cherry tree Parson Weems |
| #8172, aired 2020-03-03 | THE 1950s $600: The intersection of California highways 46 & 41 is where this young actor met his end in 1955 James Dean |
| #8171, aired 2020-03-02 | X-MEN: YOUNG & NOT AS YOUNG $200: Hirsute James McAvoy & not as hirsute Patrick Stewart Professor X (Charles Xavier) |
| #8171, aired 2020-03-02 | X-MEN: YOUNG & NOT AS YOUNG $400: Hugh Jackman in 2000 & Hugh Jackman in 2017 Wolverine |
| #8171, aired 2020-03-02 | X-MEN: YOUNG & NOT AS YOUNG $600: Nicholas Hoult & Kelsey Grammer talked 'til they were blue in the face Beast |
| #8171, aired 2020-03-02 | X-MEN: YOUNG & NOT AS YOUNG $800: Michael Fassbender & Ian McKellen Magneto |
| #8171, aired 2020-03-02 | X-MEN: YOUNG & NOT AS YOUNG $1000: Sophie Turner & Famke Janssen Jean Grey |
| #8166, aired 2020-02-24 | ONLY THE GOOD CHARACTERS DIE YOUNG $400: Elizabeth, the real-life sister of this novelist, died at age 22 & was the basis for the doomed Beth March Alcott |
| #8166, aired 2020-02-24 | ONLY THE GOOD CHARACTERS DIE YOUNG $800: You know whose fault it really is that Augustus Waters dies of cancer in this novel? John Green! The Fault in Our Stars |
| #8166, aired 2020-02-24 | ONLY THE GOOD CHARACTERS DIE YOUNG $1200: Spoiler alert! Lennie Small doesn't live to see the end of this novel (& no rabbits were harmed in the making of the clue) Of Mice and Men |
| #8166, aired 2020-02-24 | ONLY THE GOOD CHARACTERS DIE YOUNG $1600: Schoolboys Gene & Finny are the best of friends; one doesn't make it out of this John Knowles novel alive A Separate Peace |
| #8166, aired 2020-02-24 | ONLY THE GOOD CHARACTERS DIE YOUNG $7,000 (Daily Double): After saving some kids' lives in "The Outsiders", Johnny tells this main character to stay gold, then joins our category Ponyboy |
| #8161, aired 2020-02-17 | ENTERTAINMENT $1600: A resort area in the Catskills where many Jewish entertainers got their start had this alliterative nickname the Borscht Belt |
| #8160, aired 2020-02-14 | TREES GROW ON MONEY $400: In 1955 a young tree symbolizing the healthy growth of Japan first appeared on the 1-this coin yen |
| #8156, aired 2020-02-10 | PRIZE $400: For 300 years the French government gave young artists the prize of a stay in this city; one winner's work is seen here Rome |
| #8151, aired 2020-02-03 | SCIENCE $2000: Grasshoppers undergo "incomplete" this transformation: the young look pretty much like adults but need to grow & add wings metamorphosis |
| #8148, aired 2020-01-29 | SIN-OPSIS $2000: A priest & a greedy doctor are but a few of the obstacles the young diver Kino must overcome in this Steinbeck tale The Pearl |
| #8147, aired 2020-01-28 | OFF TO THE LANDMARK $400: Hello, young lovers. Head over to this symbol of the Universal Exposition of 1889; the world's tallest structure then; iconic now the Eiffel Tower |
| #8146, aired 2020-01-27 | PUBLIC TELEVISION $1000: The CBC's "Road to Avonlea" made a star of this actress named Sarah who played young Sara Stanley Sarah Polley |
| #8145, aired 2020-01-24 | THOSE ARE MY LITERARY CHARACTERS! $800: Arthur Dimmesdale, (Young) Goodman Brown Hawthorne |
| #8143, aired 2020-01-22 | BEHIND THE MUSIC $400: At the beginning of "Bad Guy", you can hear this young star removing her Invisalign braces so she doesn't lisp as she sings Billie Eilish |
| #8143, aired 2020-01-22 | POUND! SAND! $800: As an editor in London, Ezra Pound helped to publish this man's "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" (James) Joyce |
| #8140, aired 2020-01-17 | A BROADWAY CAST OF CHARACTERS $800: Marius, Young Éponine, Madame Thenardier Les Misérables |
| #8140, aired 2020-01-17 | NATIONALITY PHRASES $2000: A nationalistic movement that began in Istanbul lent its name to this term for any progressive thinker the Young Turks |
| #8138, aired 2020-01-15 | COMPOSERS $2000: Composer Georg Philipp Telemann was godfather to this composing son of J.S. Bach, hence the Philipp in the young Bach's name Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach |
| #4, aired 2020-01-08 | MOZART $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Mozart Residence in Salzburg, Austria.) Young Mozart dedicated the work "Dream of Scipio" to his Salzburg patron Prince-Archbishop Colloredo, a strict man guided by this "bright" intellectual movement of the times the Enlightenment |
| #4, aired 2020-01-08 | AUDIBLE $1200: Naturally, Colin Farrell read this novel by a fellow countryman
Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man |
| #3, aired 2020-01-08 | TAKE AN "IQ" TEST $1200: "Invasion of the Boy Snatchers" is a book in a young adult series named for this type of social group a clique |
| #1, aired 2020-01-07 | DANCING WITH THE CZARS $400: 17th century czar Fyodor III of this dynasty was highly educated & reform minded but died young Romanov |
| #8131, aired 2020-01-06 | BIRDS IN THE BIBLE $1600: This tall flightless bird was supposedly uncaring about its own young, as in Job & Lamentations the ostrich |
| #8130, aired 2020-01-03 | MY PROFESSION'S IN THE BOOK TITLE $1200: Stephen Dedalus artist |
| #8128, aired 2020-01-01 | TOOT $800: Lester Young was a legendary tooter on the tenor type of this saxophone |
| #8121, aired 2019-12-23 | THE NOT-SO-YOUNG SHELDON $800: This last name of Rhode Island Senator Sheldon is also a famous building not far from the Capitol Whitehouse |
| #8121, aired 2019-12-23 | THE NOT-SO-YOUNG SHELDON $1200: In the 1940s, William Sheldon classified body types into endomorphs, mesomorphs & these ectomorphs |
| #8121, aired 2019-12-23 | THE NOT-SO-YOUNG SHELDON $1600: Sheldon by birth, this late stand-up comic played Larry David's father on "Curb Your Enthusiasm" Shelley Berman |
| #8121, aired 2019-12-23 | THE NOT-SO-YOUNG SHELDON $2000: Written at age 87, this prolific author's final book was "Are You Afraid of the Dark?" Sidney Sheldon |
| #8116, aired 2019-12-16 | EARLY ROLES $1600: In 1988 young Julia Roberts got mixed up with a drug dealer on an episode of this Don Johnson cop show Miami Vice |
| #8115, aired 2019-12-13 | MOVIE EXCHANGES $400: Young Jenny: "What's wrong with your legs?" This character: "Nothin' at all, thank you. My legs are just fine and dandy" Forrest Gump |
| #8114, aired 2019-12-12 | RHYMES WITH A SEASON $2000: That young fellow in accounting is a real this hyphenated word for someone rising ambitiously up-and-comer |
| #8112, aired 2019-12-10 | OCCUPATIONALLY NAMED AUTHORS $1600: This "luggage carrier" wrote "Pollyanna", about an excessively cheerful young girl who's now a cliche (Eleanor) Porter |
| #8110, aired 2019-12-06 | OLD BOOKS $2000: Chretien de Troyes' 12th c. Arthurian tale about this young knight's search for the grail was the basis for a Wagner opera Parsifal |
| #8109, aired 2019-12-05 | CHEESE FOR THE MOUSE $800: Mr. Jingles--a little Graskaas, a young type of this 5-letter Dutch cheese Gouda |
| #8108, aired 2019-12-04 | THE SONG (BY PARENTHETICAL TITLE) $1000: A hit for Rob Thomas in 2019: "(Dying Young)" "One Less Day" |
| #8108, aired 2019-12-04 | LITERARY PASSINGS $1200: Old Yeller saves the family from a rabid one of these beasts, but he's bitten & young Travis must put him out of his misery a wolf |
| #8107, aired 2019-12-03 | NOT-SO-EASY KIDS' TV $400: A magical young unicorn & her friends live in Equestria on this TV show: "Friendship is Magic" My Little Pony |
| #8101, aired 2019-11-25 | THE 1960s $600: Timothy Leary famously told young people to "Turn on, tune in", do this drop out |
| #8097, aired 2019-11-19 | HISTORICAL HODGEPODGE $200: Britannica notes that this Russian ruler "had young lovers up to the time of her unexpected death...at...67" Catherine the Great |
| #8097, aired 2019-11-19 | MISLEADING NAMES $1600: It sounds like a bakery treat rather than the thymus or pancreas of a young animal eaten as a delicacy sweetbreads |
| #8095, aired 2019-11-15 | SITCOMS $600: This series is a spin-off of "The Big Bang Theory" & also a prequel to it Young Sheldon |
| #8095, aired 2019-11-15 | CLASSIC AMERICAN PLAYS $800: The role of Pale, in "Burn This" by Lanford Wilson, is a showcase for young actors--John Malkovich in 1987 & this man in 2019 (Adam) Driver |
| #8093, aired 2019-11-13 | BESTSELLING BOOKS $200: In 2013, this young actress & singer had a bestseller with "Staying Strong", a book of affirmations Demi Lovato |
| #8086, aired 2019-11-04 | THE HARVARD LAMPOON $1000: Writers and performers who've gone from the "Lampoon" to "Saturday Night Live" include this young fellow who co-hosts "Weekend Update" with Michael Che Colin Jost |
| #8083, aired 2019-10-30 | COLLEGE TOWNS $600: This city that's home to Brigham Young University was originally known as Fort Utah Provo |
| #8082, aired 2019-10-29 | GRANT $1200: As a young man, Grant's dad lived with this militant abolitionist & thought he was a man of high morals but a fanatic John Brown |
| #8080, aired 2019-10-25 | ANIMAL COMMUNITY $400: To make this home for the birth of their young, foxes enlarge burrows of other animals a den |
| #8078, aired 2019-10-23 | THE MARCH ON WASHINGTON $1200: Among the performers at the march were Joan Baez & this other young folk singer Bob Dylan |
| #8075, aired 2019-10-18 | THIS SIDE OF PARODIES $1200: We follow not a baby bird but a young woman in "Are You My Boyfriend?", a twist on this 1960 kids' book Are You My Mother? |
| #8074, aired 2019-10-17 | ENFANTS TERRIBLES $200: If young Jacques fusses in his crib, hang a musical one of these from Moulin Roty to calm him a mobile |
| #8073, aired 2019-10-16 | TV PETS $400: The standard by which all TV pets will forever be measured is this beloved Collie owned by young Timmy Martin Lassie |
| #8073, aired 2019-10-16 | HER STORY $800: In 1969 this young adult novelist published "The One in the Middle is the Green Kangaroo"; soon, God heard from Margaret Judy Blume |
| #8067, aired 2019-10-08 | THESE TV SHOWS ARE OLD ENOUGH TO DRINK $1600: Since 1973 audiences have tuned in to watch the tempestuous folks of Genoa City on this soap opera The Young and the Restless |
| #8067, aired 2019-10-08 | 1890s LITERATURE $1600: In "Trilby", a young singer falls under the trance of this man whose name became a synonym for a hypnotic controller Svengali |
| #8066, aired 2019-10-07 | I LEARNED IT FROM MENTAL FLOSS $1000: Jack London encouraged this young cartoonist who created the "Believe It or Not!" strip, later spun off into multiple TV series Ripley |
| #8064, aired 2019-10-03 | YOUNG MAN $200: At 12 Mozart wrote "Bastien und Bastienne", one of these composed in German, not Italian an opera |
| #8064, aired 2019-10-03 | YOUNG MAN $400: Teenaged Michelangelo sculpted the "Battle of" these horse/men hybrids Centaurs |
| #8064, aired 2019-10-03 | YOUNG MAN $600: In 1628 28-year-old Oliver Cromwell was elected to this, which probably came to regret letting him in Parliament |
| #8064, aired 2019-10-03 | YOUNG MAN $800: Young Tom Edison developed trouble with this at an early age, possibly as a result of mastoiditis his hearing |
| #8064, aired 2019-10-03 | YOUNG MAN $1000: Admitted to the bar in 1800, Richard Rush was only 33 when President Madison appointed him this in 1814 Attorney General |
| #8063, aired 2019-10-02 | UNTRUE DETECTIVE $400: In a series starting with "The Beekeeper's Apprentice", young Mary Russell teams up with this British sleuth Sherlock Holmes |
| #8057, aired 2019-09-24 | PARODY SONGS ON SESAME STREET $800: "Sesame Street" parodied Fine Young Cannibals with a song called this letter "Drives Me Crazy" C |
| #8056, aired 2019-09-23 | FROM THE NO. 1 ALBUM $800: 2015: "Hello", "When We Were Young" 25 |
| #8051, aired 2019-09-16 | 200 YEARS OF WALT WHITMAN $600: In an 1856 essay, Walt wrote, "You young men!...You are either to abolish" this, "or it will abolish you" slavery |
| #8049, aired 2019-09-12 | THE NON-ADVERB "-LY" WORD $400: A young female horse a filly |
| #8047, aired 2019-09-10 | 36 TIMES THE FUN $600: As a young man, this 36th president taught debate & public speaking at Sam Houston High School LBJ |
| #8046, aired 2019-09-09 | JACK LONDON $1200: In London's early novel "A Daughter of the Snows", a young woman seeks adventure in the Klondike region of this territory the Yukon |
| #8040, aired 2019-07-19 | THE REAL MOVIE PERSON $1600: Felicity Jones played a young Ruth Bader Ginsburg in this 2018 biopic On the Basis of Sex |
| #8038, aired 2019-07-17 | WORDS, WORDS, WORDS $800: An elver isn't a little elf but the young of this fish an eel |
| #8037, aired 2019-07-16 | IT'S ALL IN THE PAST $6,600 (Daily Double): England could have had a King Fred, but Frederick Lewis, Prince of Wales, son & father of kings with this name, died young in 1751 George |
| #8036, aired 2019-07-15 | 3-WORD LITERARY TITLES $1000: Young Cedric charms his grandfather, the Earl of Dorincourt, in this novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett Little Lord Fauntleroy |
| #8027, aired 2019-07-02 | SALAD $400: Composed of several types of young greens, mesclun is AKA this seasonal mix a spring mix |
| #8023, aired 2019-06-26 | ISSUES OF THE 2020s $3,000 (Daily Double): A 2018 Fed report said not counting mortgages, the biggest source of U.S. debt was this, incurred by young people student loans |
| #8022, aired 2019-06-25 | YOUNG WRITERS $400: A Netflix film titled this "Booth" was based on a book Beth Reekles wrote at 15 on the story-sharing app Wattpad The Kissing Booth |
| #8022, aired 2019-06-25 | YOUNG WRITERS $800: The humorous comic book series "Axe" this job was co-created by 5-year-old Malachai Nicolle Axe Cop |
| #8022, aired 2019-06-25 | PEOPLE IN AMERICAN HISTORY $1,200 (Daily Double): After his first wife Miriam died in 1832, this religious leader wed as many as 56 more times Brigham Young |
| #8022, aired 2019-06-25 | YOUNG WRITERS $1200: This author began what became "Sense and Sensibility" at about age 19 Jane Austen |
| #8022, aired 2019-06-25 | YOUNG WRITERS $1600: Christopher Paolini was only 15 when he began this epic with a title one letter different from "dragon" Eragon |
| #8022, aired 2019-06-25 | YOUNG WRITERS $2000: Carson McCullers started writing this novel when she was 19, bedridden & perhaps "Lonely" The Heart is a Lonely Hunter |
| #8020, aired 2019-06-21 | YOUNG LOVE $200: In between bouts of archery, this heroine has some sparks with Peeta & Gale (Katniss) Everdeen |
| #8020, aired 2019-06-21 | YOUNG LOVE $400: "Alex & Eliza" tells of the budding romance between Elizabeth Schuyler & this first Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton |
| #8020, aired 2019-06-21 | YOUNG LOVE $600: In "The Fault in Our Stars", Hazel & Augustus fall in love at a support group for people afflicted with this cancer |
| #8020, aired 2019-06-21 | YOUNG LOVE $800: In a Shakespeare play, Anne Page secretly marries Fenton, making her one of this place's merry wives Windsor |
| #8020, aired 2019-06-21 | YOUNG LOVE $1000: Homebound Maddy is allergic to most things, but new neighbor Olly isn't one of them in this double-talk novel from Nicola Yoon Everything, Everything |
| #8018, aired 2019-06-19 | THE DC UNIVERSE $1000: In "Justice League", this Jason Momoa character admits, "I don't want to die. I'm young. There's (stuff) that I want to do" Aquaman |
| #8013, aired 2019-06-12 | OUR PLANET $400: The innovative use of drones helped the crew capture one of these, the largest animals on Earth, alongside her curious young a blue whale |
| #8013, aired 2019-06-12 | OUR PLANET $1000: Przewalski's horse, once extinct in the wild, now thrives in this country between China & Russia--here, young stallions compete for mates Mongolia |
| #8011, aired 2019-06-10 | "GOLD" RECORDS $1600: Neil Young was a miner for this title of a 1972 No. 1 hit "Heart Of Gold" |
| #8008, aired 2019-06-05 | SLEEPWALKING THROUGH LIFE $1200: This young Johanna Spyri character begins to sleepwalk due to her homesickness for the Swiss Alps Heidi |
| #8007, aired 2019-06-04 | VWLLSS BBL BKS $200: XDS Exodus |
| #8007, aired 2019-06-04 | THE PARKER HOUSE: A HOTEL IN HISTORY $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Omni Parker House hotel.) Working as a baker making Parker House rolls here at the hotel in 1912 was this future communist world leader Ho Chi Minh |
| #8002, aired 2019-05-28 | IT'S TIME FOR DODGER BASEBALL! $200: Sandy Koufax won this annual pitching award with 100% of the first place vote in 1963, '65 & '66 a Cy Young Award |
| #8000, aired 2019-05-24 | FAMOUS LEFTIES $600: Steve Young used his left hand to toss 6 TD passes in this team's 1995 Super Bowl rout of the Chargers the 49ers |
| #7998, aired 2019-05-22 | COMPLETE THE BOOK TITLE $400: A real Wilde read:
"The Picture of" this beautiful young man Dorian Gray |
| #7993, aired 2019-05-15 | TEACHERS IN SONG $400: A "young teacher" in this song from The Police has to endure "strong words in the staffroom" "Don't Stand So Close To Me" |
| #7992, aired 2019-05-14 | GAME OF THORNS $600: A thwarted love affair between a Catholic priest & a young woman in Australia is at the heart of this 1977 bestseller The Thorn Birds |
| #7986, aired 2019-05-06 | CLASSIC NOVELS $1,200 (Daily Double): This Tolstoy title lady has a young son named Sergei Anna Karenina |
| #7982, aired 2019-04-30 | LESSER-KNOWN NAMES $800: Juan Romero, who died in 2018, was the young busboy who comforted this man after he was fatally shot at the Ambassador Hotel RFK (or Robert Kennedy) |
| #7981, aired 2019-04-29 | CONTROVERSIAL TV $1600: Adorable nickname of young pageant contestant Alana Thompson Honey Boo Boo |
| #7977, aired 2019-04-23 | THE MAGIC OF TELEVISION $800: As Alex Russo on the Disney Channel, this young singer was one of the "Wizards of Waverly Place" Selena Gomez |
| #7967, aired 2019-04-09 | AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: As a young man Frederick Douglass heard if he learned to do this "it would forever unfit him to be a slave"--so he did read and write |
| #7966, aired 2019-04-08 | WHO'S ON TV? $1000: Martha Plimpton was a young grandma on "Raising ____" Hope |
| #7963, aired 2019-04-03 | "AD"-JECTIVES $800: You're very skilled, my young helper, you're this adept |
| #7959, aired 2019-03-28 | FICTIONAL MEMOIRS $400: Chiyo is the young woman who tells of her life as a Japanese hostess in Arthur Golden's novel "Memoirs of a" this Geisha |
| #7959, aired 2019-03-28 | CELEBRITY SIBLINGS $2000: AC/DC's Angus & Malcolm Young |
| #7958, aired 2019-03-27 | CALLED OUT IN SONG $1600: After Neil Young's "Southern Man", this band replied, "A Southern man don't need him around" in "Sweet Home Alabama" Lynyrd Skynyrd |
| #7957, aired 2019-03-26 | LITERARY ANTAGONISTS $1600: This "Jungle Book" tiger schemes to defeat the wolf pack & claim the life of young Mowgli Shere Khan |
| #7955, aired 2019-03-22 | HISTORICAL FICTION $1200: Told from a young girl's point of view, "The Heretic's Daughter" deals with these trials in the 1690s the Salem witch trials |
| #7955, aired 2019-03-22 | HISTORICAL FICTION $4,000 (Daily Double): A blind French girl & a young German soldier's paths collide during World War II in this recent Pulitzer Prize winner All the Light We Cannot See |
| #7953, aired 2019-03-20 | LYRICALLY INACCURATE $1000: In this "mortal" tune from 1977, Billy Joel sang "Only" this occurs, yet Caligula expired at 28 "Only The Good Die Young" |
| #7952, aired 2019-03-19 | QUEENS OF EGYPT $1200: Later ruling alone, Tausret began in this role, overseeing the rule of her young pharaoh stepson regent |
| #7950, aired 2019-03-15 | THE NEW YORK TIMES 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2018 $400: A young woman decides hibernation may be the answer in Ottessa Moshfegh's "My Year of" this, R&R for short rest and relaxation |
| #7950, aired 2019-03-15 | THE NEW YORK TIMES 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2018 $1600: Imani Perry went "Looking for Lorraine", this African-American playwright & activist who died all too young at 34 Lorraine Hansberry |
| #7949, aired 2019-03-14 | ON THE MOVE $1200: A word also used in the navy, it's an airline's planes as a whole; spirit airlines has a young one, averaging about 6 years old fleet |
| #7947, aired 2019-03-12 | EXIT THROUGH THE GIFT SHOP $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Nobel Museum in Stockholm, Sweden):
At the Nobel Museum shop, you can pick up our own chocolate medal with Alfred Nobel on the front or admire a replica of the literature one on which a young writer listens to one of these mythic inspirations singing. a muse |
| #7946, aired 2019-03-11 | THE HERO $800: ..."of two worlds"--this Frenchman who helped the young U.S. of A. Lafayette |
| #7941, aired 2019-03-04 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $1200: 2-word French term for a young person who comes from abroad to help out a family with childcare in return for room & board an au pair |
| #7935, aired 2019-02-22 | IN MEMORIAM 2018 $400: Linda Brown, who as a young student was at the center of this landmark 1954 court case, died in Topeka at 75 Brown v. Board of Education |
| #7932, aired 2019-02-19 | McPEOPLE $1200: This Union general was "the young Napoleon of the West" McClellan |
| #7924, aired 2019-02-07 | THE GRAND TOUR $400: Young 18th c. Brits would take a grand tour of Europe, including crossing these mountains into Italy (carried in a chair) the Alps |
| #7920, aired 2019-02-01 | MO"V"IES $1600: Like, oh my God, the Galleria would be a gnarly place to watch this 1983 movie with Nicolas Cage romancing a young So. Cal. gal Valley Girl |
| #7919, aired 2019-01-31 | SCRIBBLING SIBLINGS $800: Henry Fielding's sister Sarah wrote a 1749 novel with this title job of teaching & training young ladies a governess |
| #7918, aired 2019-01-30 | BRUSHED UP YOUR SHAKESPEARE $200: In a "seasonal" play, young Mamillius tells us, "A sad tale's best for" this season A Winter's Tale |
| #7917, aired 2019-01-29 | SINGING IN NON-MUSICAL MOVIES $800: Hugh Grant comes to the rescue & helps young Nicholas Hoult kill it with a "Killing Me Softly" cover About a Boy |
| #7913, aired 2019-01-23 | 1970s TV MOVIES $2,000 (Daily Double): 1971's "Duel", a pulse-pounding tale of a highway chase, made some think this young director had a future Steven Spielberg |
| #7899, aired 2019-01-03 | ACRONYMS $800: They're the YUP in yuppies young urban professionals |
| #7898, aired 2019-01-02 | ART $1600: A young Bill Murray turned from thoughts of suicide on seeing "The Song of the Lark", a painting in this U.S. museum the Art Institute of Chicago |
| #7898, aired 2019-01-02 | THE "CO"-CATEGORY $2000: (Iain Armitage of TV's Young Sheldon presents the clue.) A very smart engineering professor has written an article on how high balls bounce based on this, the numeral in a quantity like 3x, "of restitution" the coefficient of restitution |
| #7897, aired 2019-01-01 | THAT'S SOME STRONG LANGUAGE! $1000: This adjective for a muscular young man can also mean a corporal punishment once used in schools strapping |
| #7894, aired 2018-12-27 | NEWER WORDS $1600: This word used to describe the "seismic" influx of young British voters was Oxford Dictionaries' 2017 word of the year youthquake |
| #7878, aired 2018-12-05 | VIXEN $400: A mother vixen bears young called pups, cubs or these kits |
| #7878, aired 2018-12-05 | MY ROLE ON TV $1200: Percy Hynes White has a telekinetic presence as young mutant Andy Strucker on this Fox show The Gifted |
| #7876, aired 2018-12-03 | ART BOOKS $4,000 (Daily Double): The diary of young Julie Manet has been published as "Growing Up With" this group of painters the Impressionists |
| #7872, aired 2018-11-27 | TROPHY HUNTER $400: A young man sits under a tree & writes down the song of a muse on the Nobel Medal for this field Literature |
| #7870, aired 2018-11-23 | THE DAYTIME EMMYS $600: In 2015 Anthony Geary checked in to his 8th Emmy for his work on this show, then checked out to go live in Amsterdam General Hospital |
| #7867, aired 2018-11-20 | SCORPIOS $400: In 1912 Juliette Gordon Low gathered up 18 young females & founded this group the Girl Scouts |
| #7866, aired 2018-11-19 | ART SUBJECTS $400: Arthur Rackham's work depicting this young heroine was one of his many illustrations for children's tales Little Red Riding Hood |
| #7865, aired 2018-11-16 | LAYING DOWN SOME R&B & HIP-HOP VOCALS $1000: GPS on your phone? Don't put it on silent--"ride the vibrations"--this young man "don't need nothin' else but you" Khalid |
| #7863, aired 2018-11-14 | YOUNG PEOPLE IN BOOKS $400: In a 2008 updating, this fairy tale girl escapes her tower & uses her long hair like a lasso to fight evildoers Rapunzel |
| #7863, aired 2018-11-14 | YOUNG PEOPLE IN BOOKS $800: In a book series by Rick Riordan, this main character joins the Olympians & also attends a summer camp for demigods Percy Jackson |
| #7863, aired 2018-11-14 | YOUNG PEOPLE IN BOOKS $1200: Orlando teen Finn & his friends are the heroes of this Ridley Pearson series that ends with "The Insider" Kingdom Keepers |
| #7863, aired 2018-11-14 | YOUNG PEOPLE IN BOOKS $1600: Georgia Nicolson, the teenage Bridget Jones, has many diary entries about this, British for kissing or making out snogging |
| #7863, aired 2018-11-14 | YOUNG PEOPLE IN BOOKS $2000: "The Boy" & his dad "The Man" navigate a terrible world in this novel by Cormac McCarthy The Road |
| #7862, aired 2018-11-13 | COLORS $800: A light brown, or a young deer fawn |
| #7860, aired 2018-11-09 | ALL THINGS DISNEY $200: Act 1 of this Broadway musical includes a young Elsa & a young Anna singing "A Little Bit Of You" Frozen |
| #7859, aired 2018-11-08 | BROADWAY DEBUTS $400: Before "Glee", Lea Michele got her start as young Cosette & young Eponine in this show Les Misérables |
| #7858, aired 2018-11-07 | YOUNG ADULT READING $200: "Queen of Hearts" & "The White Rabbit Chronicles" were inspired by this 1865 work Alice's Adventures in Wonderland |
| #7858, aired 2018-11-07 | YOUNG ADULT READING $400: 4 friends share the stories of their adventures through the medium of a pair of jeans in this 2001 book Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants |
| #7858, aired 2018-11-07 | YOUNG ADULT READING $600: We pledge to you that this is the third book in the "Divergent" series Allegiant |
| #7858, aired 2018-11-07 | YOUNG ADULT READING $800: "Cinder" reworks a fairy tale, but the young woman is one of these--part human, part machine a cyborg |
| #7858, aired 2018-11-07 | YOUNG ADULT READING $1000: "City of Bones" introduced the Shadowhunters, demon-dispatching warriors on Earth in this series Mortal Instruments |
| #7849, aired 2018-10-25 | GEOGRAPHY OF THE MOON $2000: Named for astronomer Brahe, this relatively young crater is only 100 million years old the Tycho crater |
| #7847, aired 2018-10-23 | MATH VOCAB $800: (Iain Armitage from Young Sheldon presents the clue.) All positive integers are either composite, with factors other than themselves & 1, or they're this kind, the rock star of numbers prime numbers |
| #7842, aired 2018-10-16 | ENDS IN AN F SOUND $800: It can refer to a certain type of young insect, like this one, as well as a minor nature goddess a nymph |
| #7841, aired 2018-10-15 | WHICH STAR WARS? $1000: Young Anakin is assigned to protect Padme Attack of the Clones |
| #7836, aired 2018-10-08 | BRITISH PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $800: A psychiatrist works to bring a young man back from the brink of madness in this beastly Peter Shaffer play Equus |
| #7830, aired 2018-09-28 | MY WIFE $1200: Harriet Amelia Folsom, wife no. 25, according to the Salt Lake Tribune Brigham Young |
| #7826, aired 2018-09-24 | IT CAN'T GET MUCH WORSE $800: British kids no longer worked this job after some as young as 7 were killed doing it in an 1838 Yorkshire disaster coal mining |
| #7824, aired 2018-09-20 | ONLY AT THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew presents from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.) Of the only 35 or so known paintings by this Dutch master, the Met has 5, including "Young Woman with a Water Pitcher", which was the first of his canvases to enter a public American collection Vermeer |
| #7819, aired 2018-09-13 | BAD FOLKS IN BOOKS $800: Evil housekeeper Mrs. Danvers almost persuades a young wife to kill herself in this Daphne Du Maurier novel Rebecca |
| #7819, aired 2018-09-13 | AT 35 $800: He was a young man of 35 when he performed for inmates at Folsom Prison for a live album Johnny Cash |
| #7818, aired 2018-09-12 | FANTASY & PARANORMAL LIT $1200: In "Hush, Hush" young Nora falls for Patch, one of these sullied followers of Lucifer fallen angels |
| #7816, aired 2018-09-10 | HISTORY $1200: Last name of the young family seen here circa 1920--father & daughter would combine to serve 31 years as prime minister of India Nehru |
| #7810, aired 2018-07-20 | HANDWEAR $600: This soft, delicate leather used to make gloves comes from young goats kid |
| #7809, aired 2018-07-19 | AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL NOVELS $200: "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" is a portrait of him, its author James Joyce |
| #7808, aired 2018-07-18 | NOVELS $400: In Nevil Shute's "A Town Like Alice", a young woman survives WWII in Asia & then starts a new life in this country's bush Australia |
| #7805, aired 2018-07-13 | OUT IN LEFT FIELD $1000: Some weren't happy CEO Derek Jeter & this team traded young left fielder Marcell Ozuna after his great 2017 season the Miami Marlins |
| #7801, aired 2018-07-09 | THROW 'EM IN THE "BRIG" $800: It's the first name of the western U.S. leader seen here Brigham Young |
| #7798, aired 2018-07-04 | "FIRE" WORKS $400: Andrew McGee goes on the run with his young daughter in this Stephen King thriller Firestarter |
| #7798, aired 2018-07-04 | ON TV $400: Matt Czuchry is this title type of young doctor on a 2018 Fox medical show a resident |
| #7795, aired 2018-06-29 | ON THE PLAYGROUND $800: In "Young Frankenstein", the monster inadvertently turns this into a catapult, sending the girl flying a seesaw |
| #7789, aired 2018-06-21 | PIN THE TALE ON THE 19th CENTURY WRITER $800: His 1835 "Young Goodman Brown" shows a dark side of New England Hawthorne |
| #7789, aired 2018-06-21 | MOVIES' OPENING LINES $2000: A 2010 remake:
"People did not give it credence that a young girl could leave home & go off...to avenge her father's blood" True Grit |
| #7787, aired 2018-06-19 | HOOK, LINE & SINKER $1200: Orel Hershiser's sinker helped bring him the 1988 N.L. Cy Young Award & this team a World Series title the Dodgers |
| #7786, aired 2018-06-18 | REVOLUTION NOW! $1000: A revolution by this "juvenile" group in 1908 restored constitutional rule to the Ottoman Empire the Young Turks |
| #7781, aired 2018-06-11 | NOTABLE AMERICAN WOMEN $1600: A 1917 Carnegie Hall audience heard her defend birth control, saying she was 1 of 11 kids, causing her mom to die young Margaret Sanger |
| #7779, aired 2018-06-07 | ASIAN FOOD $200: Traditionally, this Chinese dish contains shredded pork, stir-fried veggies & egg, served with thin pancakes moo shu |
| #7777, aired 2018-06-05 | BLACK-&-WHITE PHOTO CHALLENGE $2000: These ferns, whose name includes a word for a young lady, take their name from their delicate fronds maidenhair |
| #7773, aired 2018-05-30 | MY OLD "L.P."s $400: This instructional driver's license for the young can be obtained at age 14 in Iowa a learner's permit |
| #7773, aired 2018-05-30 | POLITICO $1000: Coleman Young was the longest-serving mayor of this city & its first African-American mayor Detroit |
| #7772, aired 2018-05-29 | TV NARRATORS $600: (I'm Iain Armitage.) So you don't get us mixed up, on the show "Young Sheldon", I play young Sheldon Cooper, while this actor is the voice of older Sheldon Jim Parsons |
| #7772, aired 2018-05-29 | TV NARRATORS $800: Mary Alice Young is the omniscient dead narrator of this series about her neighbors on Wisteria Lane Desperate Housewives |
| #7772, aired 2018-05-29 | THE FOOD CHAIN $1,200 (Daily Double): Black bears sometimes prey on the young of this big deer, Alces alces a moose |
| #7772, aired 2018-05-29 | BAND MATES $2000: Now no longer married or as young, Kim Gordon & Thurston Moore started this band together Sonic Youth |
| #7768, aired 2018-05-23 | HISTORICAL FICTION $2000: In "Sharpe's Rifles", a young British lieutenant fights Napoleon's army in the Galicia region of this country Spain |
| #7763, aired 2018-05-16 | ETIQUETTE $600: In a traditional wedding recession, the bride & groom bat leadoff, then the flower girl & a young person with this job ringbearer |
| #7762, aired 2018-05-15 | MEN ON THE MOON $400: John Young raced the LRV, this vehicle, through a "Grand Prix" test a lunar rover vehicle |
| #7762, aired 2018-05-15 | MYSTERIES & THRILLERS $800: In Elizabeth Kostova's "The Historian", a young woman discovers she may be a descendant of this infamous Romanian Vlad the Impaler (or Dracula) |
| #7762, aired 2018-05-15 | MUSIC $1000: In a Khalid song about high school kids, these 2 title adjectives follow "Young" dumb and broke |
| #7761, aired 2018-05-14 | DEAD POETS' SOCIETY $800: A.E. Housman wrote "To" one of these "Dying Young" an athlete |
| #7761, aired 2018-05-14 | SUPER CONDUCTORS $2000: Seen here as a young maestro, he announced that in 2019 he'll retire, after 50 years leading the Israel Philharmonic Zubin Mehta |
| #7757, aired 2018-05-08 | GENIUS: PICASSO $800: Young Picasso was influenced by bullfighting & the pageantry of this southern region that includes Malaga Andalusia |
| #7757, aired 2018-05-08 | GENIUS: PICASSO $1600: As a young man, Picasso lived in Catalonia with a friend, painting & avoiding service in this 1898 conflict the Spanish-American War |
| #7755, aired 2018-05-04 | PRESIDENTS' ONE-SYLLABLE LAST NAMES $1600: The son of a governor of New Hampshire, he was known as Young Hickory Pierce |
| #7752, aired 2018-05-01 | THE ANCIENT GREEKS $600: Impiety toward the gods & corrupting the young were on this philosopher's final rap sheet Socrates |
| #7747, aired 2018-04-24 | MUST COME TO AN "N" $400: To gradually get a young animal off mother's milk wean |
| #7744, aired 2018-04-19 | ALLITERATION $1600: (Iain Armitage of Young Sheldon presents the clue.) The journal Cognition reports that adults can be taught this ability to identify musical notes by ear, though generally it appears in childhood perfect pitch |
| #7743, aired 2018-04-18 | CLASSIC KIDS' BOOKS $1,000 (Daily Double): Kids really dig this 1998 book featuring Stanley Yelnats & Zero, 2 of the young inmates at Camp Green Lake Holes |
| #7739, aired 2018-04-12 | TALES FROM THE ARABIAN NIGHTS $2000: When he's an old man, this sailor tells a young porter 7 tales about his 7 marvelous adventures Sinbad |
| #7737, aired 2018-04-10 | RECENT MOVIES $200: Alicia Vikander plays this young woman who switches jobs from bicycle courier to tomb raider Lara Croft |
| #7734, aired 2018-04-05 | ORGANIZATIONS $2000: United We Dream advocates for young immigrants covered by this 4-letter acronym DACA |
| #7728, aired 2018-03-28 | SONGS FOR YOUR CAT $1600: This quartet sang "Our house is a very very very fine house, with two cats in the yard, life used to be so hard" Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young |
| #7724, aired 2018-03-22 | SING A SONG OF $400: No Crosby, Nash or Young around when this man sang "Song Of Love" (Stephen) Stills |
| #7721, aired 2018-03-19 | MUST "C" TV $600: Matt Smith plays a young Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, on this Netflix series The Crown |
| #7721, aired 2018-03-19 | ON-SCREEN ROMANCES $1200: (Iain Armitage of Young Sheldon presents the clue.) 50 years after these 2 actors fell in love in "Barefoot in the Park", they fell in love again in "Our Souls at Night", co-starring me, Iain Armitage Jane Fonda and Robert Redford |
| #7707, aired 2018-02-27 | OTHER WONDER WOMEN $1000: In the "X-Men" film universe, Sophie Turner played young Jean Grey, while she plays the grown-up Famke Janssen |
| #7706, aired 2018-02-26 | "SMALL" TALK $1200: Unimportant people or things can be called this, a term for young fish small fry |
| #7705, aired 2018-02-23 | "IN" THE DICTIONARY $1600: It's French for an innocent, unworldly young woman, or an actress who plays one an ingenue |
| #7694, aired 2018-02-08 | A WIEN-WIEN SITUATION $600 (Daily Double): The Imperial Chapel is a great place to catch this "young" group of singers founded by Maximilian I in 1498 the Vienna Boys' Choir |
| #7689, aired 2018-02-01 | STAG, YOU'RE IT $400: A spectral white stag is the patronus form of this young title character Harry Potter |
| #7687, aired 2018-01-30 | WRITE, PATTERSON $1000: Patterson's young adult series about siblings Wisty & Whit Allgood is titled "Witch &" this Witch & Wizard |
| #7682, aired 2018-01-23 | PEPPERS $200: "Ring" in with this sweet pepper that's name for its shape &, when young, is generally a striking green a bell pepper |
| #7682, aired 2018-01-23 | WOMEN AUTHORS $800: While a student at Northwestern, Veronica Roth wrote this young adult novel set in a futuristic Chicago Divergent |
| #7682, aired 2018-01-23 | CHARACTERS' FULL NAMES $1000: On "The Simpsons", it's the first name of young master Van Houten; his middle name is Mussolini Milhouse |
| #7676, aired 2018-01-15 | STREET SMARTS $1,000 (Daily Double): Anne Rice's "Interview with the Vampire" influenced Sting's song "Moon Over" this street Bourbon Street |
| #7676, aired 2018-01-15 | SCIENCE WITH IAIN ARMITAGE $1000: (Iain Armitage presents the clue.) The 2017 Nobel Physics Prize was for using these waves, the "G" in the LIGO observatory, to understand the universe gravitational |
| #7674, aired 2018-01-11 | STATE SEALS $400: This bird feeds its young on Louisiana's seal a pelican |
| #7673, aired 2018-01-10 | HIS WIDOW LIVED ON $400: The author of "Wife No. 19, or the Story of a Life in Bondage" had the satisfaction of outliving this Mormon by 40 years Brigham Young |
| #7669, aired 2018-01-04 | FOE PA $2,300 (Daily Double): In this Emma Donoghue book, "Old Nick" is the father to young Jack, who thinks the title domicile is the whole world Room |
| #7668, aired 2018-01-03 | 2-DIGIT NUMBERS $400: Young Charlie Parker played in the band of Lawrence Keyes, who was nicknamed this, the number of piano keys 88 |
| #7666, aired 2018-01-01 | 3-LETTER RESPONSES $800: A "tax"ing job, maybe at Ernst & Young CPA |
| #7661, aired 2017-12-25 | MY HEART WILL GO ON $2000: In 1967 the heart of young Denise Darvall went on as this surgeon performed the first human heart transplant Christiaan Barnard |
| #7660, aired 2017-12-22 | FEARLESS GIRL $11,400 (Daily Double): A young woman from Chile moves to Calif. during the gold rush in "Daughter of Fortune" by this author Isabel Allende |
| #7654, aired 2017-12-14 | STEINBECK WORKS BY CHARACTERS $800: Jody Tiflin, a young boy, & Gabilan, a young colt The Red Pony |
| #7651, aired 2017-12-11 | RECENT KIDS' BOOKS $200: In the fantasy world of "Red Queen", a young peasant woman discovers she has the power to wield this, like Zeus lightning |
| #7651, aired 2017-12-11 | RECENT KIDS' BOOKS $600: The play "Harry Potter and" this young person comes in a rehearsal script edition the cursed child |
| #7650, aired 2017-12-08 | 14-LETTER WORDS $1200: You'll follow anyone's lead because you're young & this adjective meaning easily influenced impressionable |
| #7644, aired 2017-11-30 | HISTORICAL FICTION $1000: A young woman steps aside so her sister can marry a king in this Philippa Gregory novel The Other Boleyn Girl |
| #7642, aired 2017-11-28 | LITERATURE $400: Drop "the" from an H.G. Wells title to get the name of this 1952 novel narrated by a nameless young black man Invisible Man |
| #7639, aired 2017-11-23 | FOR A SONG $400: "When We Were Young" is found on her album "25" Adele |
| #7630, aired 2017-11-10 | FRENCH DIP $1,000 (Daily Double): When I was young, ma mere warned me of this part of our pool, le côté profond the deep side (or deep end) |
| #7629, aired 2017-11-09 | THE SILVER SCREEN $800: Penny Singleton colored her hair to play this Chic Young comic-strip heroine in 28 movies Blondie |
| #7625, aired 2017-11-03 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: This blockbuster novel by William P. Young about a spiritual journey was made into a 2017 film The Shack |
| #7624, aired 2017-11-02 | LITERATURE FOR THE YOUNG $200: Young Mia Thermopolis suddenly finds herself the Royal Highness of Genovia in this book The Princess Diaries |
| #7624, aired 2017-11-02 | LITERATURE FOR THE YOUNG $400: These 2 siblings have solved such cases as "The Twisted Claw" & "The Hidden Harbor Mystery" the Hardy Boys |
| #7624, aired 2017-11-02 | LITERATURE FOR THE YOUNG $600: That's "some pig", this character in "Charlotte's Web" Wilbur |
| #7624, aired 2017-11-02 | LITERATURE FOR THE YOUNG $800: A boy asks Santa for a reindeer's silver bell in this classic by Chris Van Allsburg The Polar Express |
| #7624, aired 2017-11-02 | LITERATURE FOR THE YOUNG $1000: She's the speedy filly young Ken McLaughlin calls "My Friend" Flicka |
| #7618, aired 2017-10-25 | IN THE NOV. 14-20, 1998 TV GUIDE $400: "Mitch befriends a young boy who joins the junior lifeguards in hopes of escaping a brutal home life" Baywatch |
| #7617, aired 2017-10-24 | ART & MYTHOLOGY $1000: Cheers to you if you know he's the young Roman god depicted in this Caravaggio painting Bacchus |
| #7614, aired 2017-10-19 | SWEET '16 $600: The influential Cardinal Richelieu was appointed young king Louis XIII's Secretary of State in this year 1616 |
| #7612, aired 2017-10-17 | I'M A HUGE FAN $1000: Bellarinas are fans of this young performer seen here Bella Thorne |
| #7611, aired 2017-10-16 | ALSO A FRIENDS CHARACTER $400: A young kangaroo joey |
| #7611, aired 2017-10-16 | NEWBERY MEDAL WINNERS $600: "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" tells the tale of a young 18th c. sailor who masters & improves this science of guiding a ship navigation |
| #7609, aired 2017-10-12 | ALL THE "BEST" $800: This not-always-young (or male) person is the assistant to a film crew's chief electrician or key grip best boy |
| #7607, aired 2017-10-10 | ZOOLOGY $1200: These desert arachnids bear live young that crawl onto their mothers' backs & stay there weeks to nourish a scorpion |
| #7606, aired 2017-10-09 | BOND BOMBSHELLS $800: When you were young & your heart was an open book, you knew Jane Seymour was Solitaire in this classic Bond film Live and Let Die |
| #7606, aired 2017-10-09 | CLASSICS ON AUDIBLE $1000: This Gothic novel has multiple narrators, including Alan Cumming as Dr. Seward
"The first thing Van Helsing said to me when we met at Liverpool Street was, 'Have you said anything to our young friend the lover of her?'" Dracula |
| #7603, aired 2017-10-04 | A KING JAMES BIBLE $200: And it came to pass that in 1582 young James, then king of only this country, was kidnapped by nobles Scotland |
| #7601, aired 2017-10-02 | WELCOME BACK, U.S. SUPREME COURT $400: Each justice gets 4 of these helpers who may hope to rise to the court themselves, as young Stephen Breyer did law clerks |
| #7594, aired 2017-09-21 | DRAMATIC TV DRAMA! $1600: Jude Law laid down the law to the faithful from a dark balcony on this show, saying, "I don't know if you deserve me" The Young Pope |
| #7589, aired 2017-09-14 | MOVIE QUEENS $800: Young Freya Wilson played future Queen Elizabeth II in this 2010 film The King's Speech |
| #7583, aired 2017-07-26 | THE DIRECTOR'S CUT $800: Kirk Douglas got Anthony Mann cut from this 1960 gladiator epic & found young Stanley Kubrick to replace him Spartacus |
| #7582, aired 2017-07-25 | STATUARY HALL: THE STATE REPRESENTED $400: Brigham Young Utah |
| #7582, aired 2017-07-25 | YOU BUG ME $400: This word for the young of insects is from the Latin for "ghost" larva |
| #7580, aired 2017-07-21 | UNCLE SUGAR $800: The U.S. gave this young country a $100 million loan in 1949 & has been supportive ever since Israel |
| #7580, aired 2017-07-21 | CLASSIC NOVELS $1600: This autobiographical 1916 novel by James Joyce portrays the early years of Stephen Dedalus A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man |
| #7579, aired 2017-07-20 | HISTORICAL CHESS PIECES $400: A 2007 biography of this young French warrior & saint calls her a pawn, ultimately sacrificed Joan of Arc |
| #7573, aired 2017-07-12 | TURN ON YOUR HEAVY METAL DEFECTOR $1200: In 1983 drummer Phil Rudd left this "high voltage" Aussie band powered by guitarist Angus Young AC/DC |
| #7567, aired 2017-07-04 | CHAPTER 13 $200: "The young Lord Greystoke was indeed a strange and warlike figure" Tarzan |
| #7565, aired 2017-06-30 | CANADA 150 $3,500 (Daily Double): (Alex presents from the Canadian embassy in Washington, D.C.) The embassy's art collection includes a reminder of the warm relations between Canada & this country; during World War II, Canada helped provide refuge for its royal family, including the young Princess Beatrix, & later, Canada helped liberate this country from Nazi rule the Netherlands |
| #7559, aired 2017-06-22 | THE YOUNG POPE $400: The very recent XVI of this name, not so young, but IX was somewhere between 12 & his 20s when he became pope Benedict |
| #7559, aired 2017-06-22 | THE YOUNG POPE $800: Before 37-year-old Leo X could be crowned pope in 1513, there was the little matter of ordaining him as this a priest |
| #7559, aired 2017-06-22 | THE YOUNG POPE $1200: Gregory V (in his 20s) got in with the aid of cousin Otto; a few weeks later, Greg named Otto to head this "sacred" empire the Holy Roman Empire |
| #7559, aired 2017-06-22 | THE YOUNG POPE $1600: In 27 B.C. a Roman of this name became Emperor Augustus; in 955 a Roman of this name became the teen Pope John XII Octavian |
| #7559, aired 2017-06-22 | THE YOUNG POPE $2000: The III pope of this adjectival name, elected in 1198 at 30-something, has been called the most important of the middle ages Innocent |
| #7558, aired 2017-06-21 | LITERARY HODGEPODGE $600: This Henry Fielding hero, "one of the handsomest young fellows in the world", shares the name of a sex symbol singer Tom Jones |
| #7557, aired 2017-06-20 | FOREVER "YOUNG" $400: By the 1920s the area of this northeast Ohio city was No. 2 to Pittsburgh in American steel production Youngstown |
| #7557, aired 2017-06-20 | FOREVER "YOUNG" $1200: Greg Maddux won it 4 times in a row a Cy Young |
| #7557, aired 2017-06-20 | FOREVER "YOUNG" $1600: In 1835 he was named third of the original quorum of the 12 apostles Brigham Young |
| #7557, aired 2017-06-20 | FOREVER "YOUNG" $2000: In a Nathaniel Hawthorne tale, this title Puritan flees a witches' Sabbath Young Goodman Brown |
| #7557, aired 2017-06-20 | FOREVER "YOUNG" $7,200 (Daily Double): The seeds of this disruptive group date back to 1889 with members of the Imperial Medical Academy of Istanbul the Young Turks |
| #7555, aired 2017-06-16 | YOU'RE FIRED FROM THE MOVIE! $1600: This actress was no "Angel" as a young girl who set folks a-smolderin' as a "Firestarter" in 1984 Drew Barrymore |
| #7555, aired 2017-06-16 | YOU'RE FIRED FROM THE MOVIE! $2000: Trying to light a cigar, blind hermit Gene Hackman sets Peter Boyle's thumb on fire in this 1974 comedy Young Frankenstein |
| #7550, aired 2017-06-09 | AMPHIBIANS $2,100 (Daily Double): A species of fish with a big round head & a skinny tail is called this "fish", after the young of many amphibians a tadpole |
| #7549, aired 2017-06-08 | WHAT'S "NU"? $1200: It can be a place for young children or a place to buy plants a nursery |
| #7547, aired 2017-06-06 | BREAK FA*ST $600: Robert Young starred in this 1950s sitcom with a 3-word title Father Knows Best |
| #7538, aired 2017-05-24 | COME TOGETHER $400: The name of this type of banquet that's often accompanied by entertainment is Hawaiian for "young taro tops" a luau |
| #7538, aired 2017-05-24 | HEART SURGERY WITH DR. OZ $1200: (Dr. Oz delivers the clue.) All the skill & technology that go into a heart transplant are no use without a donor; in 1996 it was a young man in the Bronx whose heart I put in this Yankee manager's brother Frank in a story that made a lot of hearts warmer in New York City & beyond (Joe) Torre |
| #7536, aired 2017-05-22 | THE BOLD & THE BEAUTIFUL $400: (Karla Mosley and Jacob Young give the clue as Maya and Rick from The Bold and the Beautiful.)
"Rick, if you keep obsessing about taking over the company, you're gonna make yourself sick."
"No, Maya, it's time to strike like this bold U.S. commander during the Korean War who cut off & surrounded the enemy with his brilliant Inchon landing" (Douglas) MacArthur |
| #7535, aired 2017-05-19 | LET'S GO DODGERS! $800: Since 2011 this Dodgers ace has nabbed 3 Cy Young awards & won 100 games while losing only 37 (Clayton) Kershaw |
| #7533, aired 2017-05-17 | WOMEN OF MUSIC $400: Nicknamed "T-Swizzle", she teamed with One Directioner Zayn Malik for "I Don't Wanna Live Forever" Taylor Swift |
| #7532, aired 2017-05-16 | THEATRE $2000: In "Six Degrees of Separation", a young black man named Paul claims to be this actor's son Sidney Poitier |
| #7529, aired 2017-05-11 | CASTRO'S CUBA: 1959-2016 $1600: With new cars scarce, Cubans preserved classic U.S. models like the Bel Air from this automaker Chevrolet |
| #7525, aired 2017-05-05 | MARCO $1200: Chef Marco Pierre White said he turned this "Hell's Kitchen" star, then a young employee, into a blubbering wreck Gordon Ramsay |
| #7525, aired 2017-05-05 | MARCO $1600: Young Marco gets quite imaginative in Dr. Seuss' "And to Think That I Saw It on" this thoroughfare Mulberry Street |
| #7520, aired 2017-04-28 | I AM A CATEGORY $2000: This classic young adult novel by Robert Cormier gets its title from an allusion to the song "The Farmer in the Dell" I Am the Cheese |
| #7518, aired 2017-04-26 | ROCK BAND IDIOMS $400: Gwen Stefani,
Adrian Young
"...about it" No Doubt |
| #7518, aired 2017-04-26 | THE OWL $1200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows an owl on the monitor.) Young burrowing owls make sounds similar to this reptile to ward off potential danger a rattlesnake |
| #7516, aired 2017-04-24 | WRITERS $5,000 (Daily Double): Jay McInerney, Tama Janowitz & other 1980s writers shared this nickname with a group of young 1980s actors the Brat Pack |
| #7515, aired 2017-04-21 | LITERATURE $1000: At age 25 in 1774, young Goethe had a bestseller with "The Sorrows of" this young man Werther |
| #7499, aired 2017-03-30 | PEN NAMES $2000: In the 1950s this prolific sci-fi author wrote a series of books for young adults using the name Paul French Asimov |
| #7498, aired 2017-03-29 | 1967 $600: This seasonal term was first used in the name of an org. set up to deal with young people flocking to San Francisco the Summer of Love |
| #7496, aired 2017-03-27 | 1970s "SONG" TITLES $400: This 1976 Barry Manilow hit made "the whole world sing" & "the young girls cry" "I Write The Songs" |
| #7492, aired 2017-03-21 | POETS & POETRY $1600: The medieval poem "Parzival" tells of a young knight's search for this sacred object, in the form of a gemstone the Holy Grail |
| #7491, aired 2017-03-20 | PRE-CIVIL WAR AMERICA $800: Although he didn't create the phrase "Go West, young man", he did say, "Go to the great West" Horace Greeley |
| #7491, aired 2017-03-20 | CURRENT BIOGRAPHIES $1200: "Hero of the Empire" is about young Winston Churchill's life-changing time in 1899 & 1900 in this war the Boer War |
| #7489, aired 2017-03-16 | CHARACTERS IN BOOKS $400: In a 1910 novel a young singer named Christine Daae is the heart's desire of this maniacal title character the Phantom of the Opera |
| #7483, aired 2017-03-08 | THE SAVAGE BEAST $200: Puppy Bowl, seen on this appropriate channel during the Super Bowl, has young canids fighting fang & paw Animal Planet |
| #7481, aired 2017-03-06 | WAR STORIES $200: In "Khaki Wings" a young British man courts danger by joining the fledgling Royal Flying Corps during this war World War I |
| #7481, aired 2017-03-06 | WAR STORIES $600: "In Country" is Bobbie Ann Mason's novel of a young woman coming to terms with her father's death in this war the Vietnam War |
| #7480, aired 2017-03-03 | A SONG OF "YOU" $800: In this 2006 hit The Killers said you could "close your eyes & see the place where you used to live" "When You Were Young" |
| #7472, aired 2017-02-21 | THEY NAMED A SCHOOL FOR ME $200: The university named for this religious leader has campuses in Provo, Utah & in Hawaii Brigham Young |
| #7471, aired 2017-02-20 | LET'S RAP, KIDS! $800: "6', 7', 8' bunch... young money militia & I am the commissioner, you don't want start Weezy, 'cause the F is for finisher" Lil Wayne |
| #7470, aired 2017-02-17 | SOCIOLOGY $800: Also known as Generation Y, this group of young adults was born between 1982 & 2000 Millennials |
| #7469, aired 2017-02-16 | ATHLETES IN THE HEADLINES $1000: This young Cubs third baseman capped off a 2016 MVP season with 2 World Series home runs Kris Bryant |
| #7465, aired 2017-02-10 | LITERATURE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE $200: "Some pig" is one of the lifesaving slogans woven by a spider in this work Charlotte's Web |
| #7465, aired 2017-02-10 | LITERATURE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE $400: At Hogwarts Harry Potter is "sorted" into this house Gryffindor |
| #7465, aired 2017-02-10 | LITERATURE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE $600: Before the euro, this royal children's book character appeared on the French 50-franc note the Little Prince |
| #7465, aired 2017-02-10 | LITERATURE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE $800: This lonely old woodcarver carves himself a whittle boy named Pinocchio Geppetto |
| #7465, aired 2017-02-10 | LITERATURE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE $1000: In a Katherine Paterson classic, an elder twin is taunted with this title, "but Esau have I hated" Jacob Have I Loved |
| #7459, aired 2017-02-02 | FUNERALS $600: In Poe's "Lenore" let this "funeral song be sung... for her, the doubly dead in that she died so young" a dirge |
| #7458, aired 2017-02-01 | GOOD FELLERS $400: The engraving of this young man and his father is entitled "Father, I Can Not Tell a Lie: I Cut the Tree" George Washington |
| #7455, aired 2017-01-27 | LITERATURE $600: This 1922 Hermann Hesse novel about a young Brahmin in India parallels the life of Buddha Siddhartha |
| #7452, aired 2017-01-24 | WARTHOGS $200: A young warthog's canine teeth eventually grow into a pair of these formidable defensive weapons tusks |
| #7452, aired 2017-01-24 | WARTHOGS $600: In a movie he's the warthog who befriends young Simba Pumbaa |
| #7451, aired 2017-01-23 | RELIGIOUS MATTERS $2000: In 1959 Young Oon Kim, known as Miss Kim, left South Korea to become this church's first missionary in the United States the Unification Church |
| #7449, aired 2017-01-19 | THE NEW TESTAMENT $400: After the Magi left, an angel appeared to Joseph saying, "Take the young child and his mother, and flee unto" this country Egypt |
| #7448, aired 2017-01-18 | Y_O_Y $400: Young fellow seen here turning 3 on his special day birthday boy |
| #7448, aired 2017-01-18 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $400: John Steinbeck got a Shetland to ride when he was a boy, inspiring this tale about young Jody Tifflin The Red Pony |
| #7447, aired 2017-01-17 | PRE-AMBLE $600: Beginning 1972, these ABC specials dealt with issues & concerns of young people Afterschool Specials |
| #7445, aired 2017-01-13 | BOOKS $3,000 (Daily Double): Oscar-nominated, a 2015 film was based on this bestseller about Eilis, a young Irish immigrant in NYC in the 1950s Brooklyn |
| #7443, aired 2017-01-11 | THE BOLD & THE BEAUTIFUL $800: (Thorsten Kaye and Jacob Young give the clue as Ridge Forrester and Rick Forrester from The Bold and the Beautiful.)
"I'm running this company now, not you."
"Ridge, you're just Iike this son of a river god who gazed longingly at his own reflection & died alone & unloved" Narcissus |
| #7442, aired 2017-01-10 | "ROLL" CALL $800: While climbing into a cart in "Young Frankenstein", Gene Wilder is asked by Teri Garr if he'd like one of these a roll in the hay |
| #7441, aired 2017-01-09 | YOU PROBABLY THINK THIS SONG IS ABOUT YOU $400: In 2007 he said that "Sweet Caroline" was inspired by a photo of a young Caroline Kennedy Neil Diamond |
| #7427, aired 2016-12-20 | LOOKS AREN'T EVERYTHING, BUT... $200: Yeats called Rupert Brooke "the handsomest man in England"; sadly, the foxy poet died young in this 20th century conflict the First World War |
| #7427, aired 2016-12-20 | & NOW FOR SOME GOOD NEWS $400: A boy who survived a tsunami wearing the jersey of this national team was helped by Cristiano Ronaldo & is now a young soccer star Portugal |
| #7425, aired 2016-12-16 | UNUSUAL ATTRACTIONS $600: Encinitas, Calif. has a tennis museum dedicated to this champ who lost a challenge match to Billie Jean King in 1973 Bobby Riggs |
| #7420, aired 2016-12-09 | H.P. $800: Young Teddy Roosevelt served as club secretary for this Harvard club known for its theatricals the Hasty Pudding Club |
| #7419, aired 2016-12-08 | POTENT QUOTABLES $1600: George W. Young warned, "the lips that touch liquor must never" do this touch mine |
| #7412, aired 2016-11-29 | LEANING CONSERVATIVE $800: In 1964 he galvanized young conservatives with his convention acceptance speech
"Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice." Goldwater |
| #7409, aired 2016-11-24 | HIGHWAYS & BYWAYS $1200: This city's Las Ramblas is a favorite meeting place for young Catalonians & a mecca for street artists Barcelona |
| #7408, aired 2016-11-23 | NONFICTION $3,000 (Daily Double): The subtitle of this memoir by Elizabeth Wurtzel is "Young and Depressed in America" Prozac Nation |
| #7406, aired 2016-11-21 | WOMEN AUTHORS $400: Mildred Wirt Benson wrote more than 100 books for young readers including many about this young female detective Nancy Drew |
| #7404, aired 2016-11-17 | 10-LETTER WORDS $400: Rudimentary, or a type of school for young students elementary |
| #7402, aired 2016-11-15 | CAREER DAY $800: This type of officer doesn't work for the military but helps people get money for cars & mortgages at the bank a loan officer |
| #7399, aired 2016-11-10 | ADMIRABLE ADJECTIVES $1000: Baseball player Lefty Gomez is credited with the line "I'd rather be" this "than good" lucky |
| #7391, aired 2016-10-31 | HOW NOVEL $1600: "Anne of the Island" from 1915 was the third novel by this author to feature young Anne Shirley Lucy Maud Montgomery |
| #7386, aired 2016-10-24 | ETIQUETTE $800: This young boy usually enters a wedding ceremony along with the flower girl the ring bearer |
| #7385, aired 2016-10-21 | HORROR TV $1600: On "The Twilight Zone" episode "To Serve Man", the aliens' intentions are revealed, as "it's" this kind of book! a cookbook |
| #7384, aired 2016-10-20 | WAR STARS $400: A young woman secretly takes her father's place in the Chinese army & becomes a great heroine in this Disney film Mulan |
| #7379, aired 2016-10-13 | TV THEMES $600: This soap opera has used "Nadia's Theme" as its main theme since it debuted in the 1970s The Young and the Restless |
| #7374, aired 2016-10-06 | THE NEW JEOPARDY! "APP" $400: The work seen here is titled "The Young" this lad "Learning a Skilled Trade" Apprentice |
| #7373, aired 2016-10-05 | "Y" GEOGRAPHY? $800: A part of NYC's metro area, it was named for founder Adriaen van der Donck's nickname, which meant "young gentleman" Yonkers |
| #7373, aired 2016-10-05 | FLORAL BOOK TITLES $1600: "Daisy Miller", about a young American in Europe, brought this man international fame Henry James |
| #7372, aired 2016-10-04 | I SEE WHAT YOU DID THERE $800: The feather covering on birds; it has a more drab type that appears on the young to camouflage them plumage |
| #7369, aired 2016-09-29 | "SQ"s ME $2000: In medieval times a young nobleman who served a knight was called this a squire |
| #7361, aired 2016-09-19 | YOUNG ADULT NOVELS $200: She wrote "The Underland Chronicles" before her "Hunger Games" trilogy (Suzanne) Collins |
| #7361, aired 2016-09-19 | BODY LANGUAGE $200: A young bovine a calf |
| #7361, aired 2016-09-19 | YOUNG ADULT NOVELS $400: The "Me" in the title of this novel set in Pittsburgh is Greg Gaines; the title also refers to Rachel, who has leukemia Me and Earl and the Dying Girl |
| #7361, aired 2016-09-19 | YOUNG ADULT NOVELS $600: Gene & Phineas are students at the fictional Devon School in New Hampshire in this classic by John Knowles A Separate Peace |
| #7361, aired 2016-09-19 | YOUNG ADULT NOVELS $800: Liesel Meminger is sent to live with Hans & Rosa Hubermann in the town of Molching in this WWII-set novel The Book Thief |
| #7361, aired 2016-09-19 | YOUNG ADULT NOVELS $1000: This novel by Lois Lowry begins, "It was almost December, and Jonas was beginning to be frightened" The Giver |
| #7359, aired 2016-09-15 | A SONG IN THAT MOVIE $2000: "Puttin' On The Ritz"
(1974) Young Frankenstein |
| #7359, aired 2016-09-15 | WOMEN AUTHORS $2000: Enid Bagnold wrote this 1935 tale of a young woman who wins a prestigious race on a horse she won in a raffle National Velvet |
| #7355, aired 2016-07-29 | WOMEN AUTHORS $400: She made a splash with her 1970 young adult novel "Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret?" (Judy) Blume |
| #7354, aired 2016-07-28 | THE BOOK BIZ $1000: A young assistant in publishing was once known as a "printer's" one of these-- sounds sinister a printer's devil |
| #7353, aired 2016-07-27 | LITERARY SISTERS $1200: Jessica & Elizabeth are the twin blonde sisters introduced in this "Sweet" series of young adult books Sweet Valley High |
| #7350, aired 2016-07-22 | BEASTLY BACKING BANDS $1200: Neil Young &
this "loco" group Crazy Horse |
| #7349, aired 2016-07-21 | HISTORICAL FICTION $400: Seen through a young girl's eyes, "Fever 1793" recounts the yellow fever epidemic that swept this Penn. city Philadelphia |
| #7347, aired 2016-07-19 | REVELATION $1200: Laker Nick Young got in hot water with this rapper/fiancee of his after a leaked conversation became news in 2016 Iggy Azalea |
| #7346, aired 2016-07-18 | QUICK AS THE DICKENS $800: Pip is to be brought up as "a young fellow of" these, the novel's title Great Expectations |
| #7346, aired 2016-07-18 | MUSIC FROM THE 2000s $1000: "Stand Up" in 2005 was the 4th No. 1 studio album in a row by the band named for this S. Afr.-born man; they're big live too The Dave Matthews Band |
| #7345, aired 2016-07-15 | BOOKS FOR THE YOUNG $200: This Mark Twain character is "hated" by moms because he is "vulgar & bad" but "all their children admired him" Huckleberry Finn |
| #7345, aired 2016-07-15 | DESCRIBING THE TV SHOW $400: Things move fast in Central City; red really is the title hero's color; go west, young man The Flash |
| #7345, aired 2016-07-15 | BOOKS FOR THE YOUNG $400: This Margaret Wise Brown children's classic about bedtime begins "In the great green room..." Goodnight Moon |
| #7345, aired 2016-07-15 | BOOKS FOR THE YOUNG $600: He illustrated "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" & "Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?" Eric Carle |
| #7345, aired 2016-07-15 | BOOKS FOR THE YOUNG $800: Discovered in 1993 an asteroid was named Besixdouze, an homage to this title character who lives on Asteroid B-612 the Little Prince |
| #7345, aired 2016-07-15 | BOOKS FOR THE YOUNG $1000: Russell Hoban wrote 6 picture book stories about this little badger & her family Frances |
| #7345, aired 2016-07-15 | BOOK TO MOVIE $1600: Earning young Tatum O'Neal an Oscar: "Addie Pray" by Joe David Brown Paper Moon |
| #7342, aired 2016-07-12 | EELS $1200: This term is used for a young eel, especially when on migration upriver from the ocean an elver |
| #7338, aired 2016-07-06 | LITERARY GROUPS & MOVEMENTS $800: A group of mid-20th century British writers were these "Young Men"--it's not "Jolly" Angry |
| #7336, aired 2016-07-04 | ANIMAL YOUNG $200: A panda baby & a hyena baby are each called this a cub |
| #7336, aired 2016-07-04 | ANIMAL YOUNG $400: A shoat is a young one of these & as such might cry "wee wee wee" all the way home a pig |
| #7336, aired 2016-07-04 | ANIMAL YOUNG $600: It's the largest animal whose baby is called a calf a blue whale |
| #7336, aired 2016-07-04 | ANIMAL YOUNG $800: An armadillo baby is called this palindromic name a pup |
| #7336, aired 2016-07-04 | ANIMAL YOUNG $4,600 (Daily Double): It's the only animal native to the U.S. that has a baby called a joey a possum |
| #7335, aired 2016-07-01 | MOVIE MISTAKES $600: A young extra puts his fingers in his ears moments before a gun fires at Cary Grant in this "directional" Hitchcock film North by Northwest |
| #7332, aired 2016-06-28 | 20th CENTURY QUOTES $600: To winners of a writing contest, Lorraine Hansberry said it is "doubly dynamic--to be young, gifted" & this black |
| #7325, aired 2016-06-17 | TEEN LITERATURE $2000: This German author published "Demian", a novel of a troubled young man seeking enlightenment Herman Hesse |
| #7323, aired 2016-06-15 | ADD TO "ADS" $400: Young fellows lads |
| #7321, aired 2016-06-13 | ACTORS IN COMMERCIALS $1000: Phone home--Milana Vayntrub plays the young & helpful Lily, a saleswoman for this company AT&T |
| #7320, aired 2016-06-10 | AWARDS $600: In 1962 Don Drysdale won the Cy Young Award; the next year it was this Dodgers teammate Sandy Koufax |
| #7318, aired 2016-06-08 | HOW JUVENILE! $200: Go for the whole caboodle with this word--a young, small, furbearing animal such as a fox a kit |
| #7317, aired 2016-06-07 | THEATRE TO THEATER $1600: John Lloyd Young made his Broadway debut in 2005 as Frankie Valli in this show & got the movie gig in 2014 Jersey Boys |
| #7315, aired 2016-06-03 | THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING $1600: As a young man the II king of this name was already calling for Belgium to be a colonial power--bad news for the Congo (King) Leopold (of Belgium) |
| #7310, aired 2016-05-27 | NUMERICAL LIT $600: "I Am Number" this isn't Brett Favre's memoir but young adult sci-fi about the Loric children Four |
| #7309, aired 2016-05-26 | "YOUNG" MEN & WOMEN $400: Back in 1908 one of his ex-wives wrote the expose "Life in Mormon Bondage" Brigham Young |
| #7309, aired 2016-05-26 | "YOUNG" MEN & WOMEN $800: He won more Major League Baseball games than any other pitcher Cy Young |
| #7309, aired 2016-05-26 | "YOUNG" MEN & WOMEN $1200: Seen here, this lovely actress played the title role in the holiday classic "The Bishop's Wife" Loretta Young |
| #7309, aired 2016-05-26 | "YOUNG" MEN & WOMEN $1600: He got an Oscar nomination for playing Talia Shire's brother in "Rocky" Burt Young |
| #7309, aired 2016-05-26 | "YOUNG" MEN & WOMEN $2000: She played the replicant Rachael in "Blade Runner" Sean Young |
| #7306, aired 2016-05-23 | THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION $400: In the 2013 winner "The Orphan Master's Son", young Pak Jun Do comes of age in this totalitarian nation North Korea |
| #7306, aired 2016-05-23 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1000: Things went south, not west, for this presidential candidate in 1872; he lost to Ulysses Grant & died three weeks after the election Horace Greeley |
| #7306, aired 2016-05-23 | THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION $1200: 1959 winner "The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters" tells a tale of a young man heading West as part of this 1849 frenzy the California Gold Rush |
| #7303, aired 2016-05-18 | MUSICAL THEATER $600: In "West Side Story", Tony sings of his love for this young woman he's recently met Maria |
| #7300, aired 2016-05-13 | THE QUOTABLE BEN FRANKLIN $200: His "Advice to a Young Tradesman": "Remember that" this "is Money" Time |
| #7297, aired 2016-05-10 | LITERARY POTPOURRI $1600: Here's a portrait of this author as a young woman; perhaps it was painted in middle March George Eliot |
| #7292, aired 2016-05-03 | WORK WITH KIDS $800: Kim Wilde told us, "Downtown the young ones are growing; we're" this group, wo-oh the kids in America |
| #7290, aired 2016-04-29 | MOUNTAIN SONGS OF OLD $2000: Neil Young sang, "Oh to live on" this title place, "with the barkers & the colored balloons"...but you can't be 20 there Sugar Mountain |
| #7286, aired 2016-04-25 | ASIAN FOOD $1200: Of the Chinese dish seen here, a comedian playing a waiter said, "It's not egg, it's not young, it's just" this foo |
| #7284, aired 2016-04-21 | LITERARY NEW YORK CITY $400: In this novel we see the city through the eyes of young Holden Caulfield The Catcher in the Rye |
| #7280, aired 2016-04-15 | WHO'S THERE? $3,400 (Daily Double): This dashing young soldier, who married Mary Anna Custis at Arlington House in Virginia on June 30, 1831 Robert E. Lee |
| #7279, aired 2016-04-14 | 6 CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF THEIR NOVELS $3,800 (Daily Double): Young Civil War soldier Henry Fleming The Red Badge of Courage |
| #7276, aired 2016-04-11 | 1940s LIT $2000: A young apprentice silversmith in 1770s
Boston is the title character of this 1943 historical fiction by Esther Forbes Johnny Tremain |
| #7273, aired 2016-04-06 | FICTIONAL HUNCHBACKS $2000: It's Igor's 2-word question in "Young Frankenstein" when Dr. Frankenstein tells him he can help him "with that hump" What hump? |
| #7271, aired 2016-04-04 | GRAMMY'S BEST NEW ARTIST $400: On Grammy night in 2013, this group also took home Song of the Year for "We Are Young" fun. |
| #7268, aired 2016-03-30 | SENSORY LIT $1600: The fates of an aging film actress & a young hustler take flight in this playwright's "Sweet Bird of Youth" (Tennessee) Williams |
| #7265, aired 2016-03-25 | SPOT THE CANADIAN $200: Neil Diamond,
Neil Sedaka,
Neil Young Neil Young |
| #7264, aired 2016-03-24 | "CALL" NOW $1600: A young man is usually the one described as this, meaning "immature" callow |
| #7263, aired 2016-03-23 | WOMEN ON TV $200: (I'm Bellamy Young.) "Scandal isn't my first venture in D.C. TV; in 2004 I played North Carolina lawyer Marylou Meriwether on an episode of this show named for part of the White House The West Wing |
| #7262, aired 2016-03-22 | ADJECTIVES OF THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS $200: (Gina Tognoni gives the clue as Phyllis from The Young and the Restless.) I will never forgive Sharon for pushing me down those stairs; no matter what she claims, it wasn't this adjective, like the tourist in the title of an Anne Tyler bestseller accidental |
| #7262, aired 2016-03-22 | ADJECTIVES OF THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS $400: (Peter Bergman gives the clue as Jack from The Young and the Restless.) Being a business mogul, patriarch & all around good guy isn't as easy as it seems, with rivals like Victor Newman, sometimes I want to be angry, bloodthirsty, amoral & this adjective, kind of like a Bible missing the book named for a wife of Boaz ruthless |
| #7262, aired 2016-03-22 | ADJECTIVES OF THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS $600: (Justin Hartley and Christian LeBlanc give the clue as Adam and Michael from The Young and the Restless.) "I can represent myself, Michael; I'm going to tell the whole truth on the witness stand no matter what"
"Listen, Adam, I've been on both sides of those prison bars; if you want to avoid years in jail, you'll be this adjective used in the name of a less vocal swan" mute |
| #7262, aired 2016-03-22 | ADJECTIVES OF THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS $800: (Mishael Morgan and Bryton James give the clue as Hilary and Devon from The Young and the Restless.) "Devon, please! You're like a teenage boy, we have the whole night to ourselves"
"I know, Hilary. I'm sorry. It's just that my passion for you, sometimes it's so overwhelming, so undeniable. It's this adjective, from the Latin for 'devour'" voracious |
| #7262, aired 2016-03-22 | ADJECTIVES OF THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS $1000: (Eric Braeden and Melody Thomas Scott give the clue as Victor and Nikki from The Young and the Restless.) "You expect me to believe you? Give you yet another chance? Are you serious?"
"I mean it this time, Victor; I'm off the booze for good. From this day forward I will be these 2 adjectives in the title of a 1988 Michael Keaton film" clean and sober |
| #7261, aired 2016-03-21 | WE LOVE MEL BROOKS $400: Gene Wilder learns the brain donor's name in this film--"Abby Normal", which Gene put "into a 7 1/2' long 54" wide gorilla!" Young Frankenstein |
| #7260, aired 2016-03-18 | BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS $200: This Dr. Seuss character is undoubtedly very patient & a really good listener Horton |
| #7260, aired 2016-03-18 | BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS $400: "Beware, the Snowman" & "Night of the Living Dummy" are 2 titles in this R.L. Stine book series Goosebumps |
| #7260, aired 2016-03-18 | BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS $600: In a Patricia MacLachlan title, these 2 words describe Sarah, an American mail order bride of the 19th century plain & tall |
| #7260, aired 2016-03-18 | BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS $800: Its apples & its branches are 2 of the offerings provided to the boy in this work about sacrifice The Giving Tree |
| #7260, aired 2016-03-18 | BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS $1,400 (Daily Double): In this Roald Dahl work, the title edible eventually comes to rest on top of the Empire State Building James and the Giant Peach |
| #7259, aired 2016-03-17 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $2000: In 2009 the FDA approved this HPV vaccine for boys & young men as well as girls Gardasil |
| #7253, aired 2016-03-09 | "TOUR"ISM $2000: 2-word name for an extended trip through Europe formerly taken by young aristocrats to complete their education a Grand Tour |
| #7251, aired 2016-03-07 | LITERATURE IS FOR THE BIRDS $1600: A young woman's passion for a priest drives much of this epic saga of 3 generations of Australian sheep farmers The Thorn Birds |
| #7249, aired 2016-03-03 | SCARLETT JOHANSSON ROLES $400: Charlotte, a young American in Tokyo looking for her place in life Lost in Translation |
| #7249, aired 2016-03-03 | NONFICTION $800: Andrew Young's "The Politician" is about this scandal-plagued presidential candidate, to whom Young was an aide John Edwards |
| #7243, aired 2016-02-24 | HARD-THROWING PITCHERS $800: Only Greg Maddux & this 6'10" Diamondbacks flamethrower have won 4 straight Cy Young awards Randy Johnson |
| #7237, aired 2016-02-16 | HOW "OD" $800: A scrod is a young one of this Atlantic fish a cod |
| #7233, aired 2016-02-10 | THIS IS MY FIGHT SONG $1200: "Rise and shout, the Cougars are out" at this Provo school Brigham Young |
| #7232, aired 2016-02-09 | EARLY 21st CENTURY CINEMA $1600: (New York Times movie critic A.O. Scott gives the clue.) Julia Child could whip up a navarin of lamb for lunch but Meryl Streep eats young actresses for breakfast as she does in this 2009 film co-starring Amy Adams Julie & Julia |
| #7227, aired 2016-02-02 | ENGLISH LIT $3,000 (Daily Double): This character says, "How sad it is! I shall grow old... but this picture will remain always young" Dorian Gray |
| #7220, aired 2016-01-22 | FEMALE TITLE ROLES $1600: "The Young Victoria"
(2009) Emily Blunt |
| #7218, aired 2016-01-20 | BETWEEN 5 FERNS $200: A young girl named Fern saves a pig from certain death in this E.B. White novel Charlotte's Web |
| #7217, aired 2016-01-19 | LITERATURE $200: In "Oliver Twist" Fagin teaches his young followers this type of theft pickpocketing |
| #7217, aired 2016-01-19 | MOVIE ROLE, TV ROLE $2000: Nick, a young professor & guest in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?";
Pops on "The Goldbergs" George Segal |
| #7214, aired 2016-01-14 | DOUBLE ANIMAL NAMES $3,000 (Daily Double): Emerging from eggs the size of footballs, newly hatched young of this largest living fish are 2 feet long the whale shark |
| #7211, aired 2016-01-11 | NOTORIOUS $200: This young outlaw escaped from a New Mexico jail on April 28, 1881; a bullet ended his run on July 14 of that year Billy the Kid |
| #7204, aired 2015-12-31 | THE EMPIRE HAS FALLEN $800: In the 300s B.C. this young conqueror took down the Persian Empire Alexander the Great |
| #7195, aired 2015-12-18 | HONEST "ABE" $1200: A young pine or fir stem tossed in Highland Games the caber |
| #7195, aired 2015-12-18 | INTERNATIONAL SWIMMING HALL OF FAMERS $1600: This prince shown as a young man, later chairman of the Monegasque Swimming Federation (Prince) Albert |
| #7194, aired 2015-12-17 | "I" TUNES $2000: Bob Geldof wrote this song after hearing young Brenda Spencer's motive for a 1979 school shooting "I Don't Like Mondays" |
| #7189, aired 2015-12-10 | MOVIE LIFE HACKS $200: Young boxers, consider sides of beef for your training needs, like Mr. Balboa in this 1976 movie Rocky |
| #7189, aired 2015-12-10 | HAPPY BIRTHDAY, FRANK SINATRA $1600: Here's a puzzler: he arranged some of Frank's classic songs, including "Love And Marriage" & "Young At Heart" Nelson Riddle |
| #7182, aired 2015-12-01 | THE CALDECOTT MEDAL $400: Ed Young's Caldecott winner "Lon Po Po", which means "granny wolf", is a Chinese version of this fairy tale Little Red Riding Hood |
| #7179, aired 2015-11-26 | A LITTLE READING $3,000 (Daily Double): This 1886 Frances Hodgson Burnett novel inspired a fad of dressing young boys in velvet suits Little Lord Fauntleroy |
| #7176, aired 2015-11-23 | ADD AN "E" $2000: This shoelace sheath becomes a young bird when an "E" is placed at the front aglet |
| #7175, aired 2015-11-20 | WRITERS MAKE PRETTY GOOD FRIENDS $200: Ezra Pound was a friend & mentor to him, arranging for the serialization of his "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" James Joyce |
| #7172, aired 2015-11-17 | TOUGH BALLET $400: (I'm Cory Stearns.) "Theme and Variations" features an incredibly difficult series of turns in the air... each turn is separated by a one-footed spin, known by this French term pirouette |
| #7169, aired 2015-11-12 | ADS & TAGLINES $1000: "The beer that made Milwaukee famous" Schlitz |
| #7169, aired 2015-11-12 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $1200: During an 1840-41 trip to England, he persuaded many to move to Nauvoo, Illinois Brigham Young |
| #7169, aired 2015-11-12 | THINKING $2000: A family of young birds, or to think or worry when you do it "over" something brood |
| #7161, aired 2015-11-02 | MOVIE HEAVEN $1200: A bestselling book about a young boy's encounter with Jesus during an operation was the basis for this 2014 movie Heaven Is for Real |
| #7160, aired 2015-10-30 | "AB"SOLUTELY $1200: A young or newly hatched pigeon a squab |
| #7157, aired 2015-10-27 | SPORTS HALL OF FAMERS $600: Between them 2015 Baseball Hall inductees Randy Johnson & Pedro Martinez won 8 of these awards the Cy Young Award |
| #7157, aired 2015-10-27 | MASTERPIECE $2000: In Masterpiece's "Wolf Hall", this actor of "Homeland" fame portrays a young Henry VIII Damian Lewis |
| #7153, aired 2015-10-21 | HOPE YOU REMEMBER THAT OLD SONG! $600: In 1990 he got his "Freedom" by singing, "all we have to do now, is take these lies, & make them true somehow" George Michael |
| #7152, aired 2015-10-20 | FIRST LADIES $200: (Hi, I'm Bellamy Young, and I play First Lady Mellie Grant on Scandal.) In 1962 millions of Americans tuned in as this First Lady took viewers on a televised "Tour of the White House" Jackie Kennedy |
| #7152, aired 2015-10-20 | MYTHOLOGY $400: This Greek sun god loved Hyacinthus, a beautiful young man Apollo |
| #7149, aired 2015-10-15 | 1965 $4,000 (Daily Double): On March 23 this space project launched its first mission with Gus Grissom & John Young as commander & pilot Gemini |
| #7147, aired 2015-10-13 | OLD SCHOOL HIP-HOP $200: In 2015 rapper Young Thug said this man, born Shawn Carter in 1969, is too old to be a relevant hip-hop artist Jay-Z |
| #7147, aired 2015-10-13 | OLD SCHOOL HIP-HOP $800: Ad-Rock of this group acts in the movie "While We're Young" & says in it, "We're old men" The Beastie Boys |
| #7147, aired 2015-10-13 | SEUSSICAL TITLES $800: Young Gerald McGrew speculates on "If I Ran" this place the zoo |
| #7146, aired 2015-10-12 | NOVELS OF WORLD WAR II $800: In this young adult novel set during the war, "The Grave Digger's Handbook" is the first item Liesel Meminger steals The Book Thief |
| #7146, aired 2015-10-12 | GAME OF THRONES $800: This young king with a ballet company name was little mourned at his demise Joffrey |
| #7145, aired 2015-10-09 | WAR NOVELS $400: In 1777 a young loyalist questions his duty in this Bernard Cornwell novel titled with a slang term for a British soldier Redcoat |
| #7145, aired 2015-10-09 | SCIENTISTS $1200: In 1885 young Joseph Meister was the first person on whom this man used his rabies vaccine Pasteur |
| #7143, aired 2015-10-07 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1600: Anthony Doerr won a 2015 Pulitzer for this novel that centers on a blind French girl & a young Nazi soldier All the Light We Cannot See |
| #7141, aired 2015-10-05 | HOME MOVIES $400: Young Kevin (Macaulay Culkin) gets left behind when his family heads to France for Christmas in this 1990 film Home Alone |
| #7140, aired 2015-10-02 | MEMOIRS $1600: In "Night", this Nobel Peace Prize winner described the horrors he witnessed as a young boy in a Nazi death camp Wiesel |
| #7137, aired 2015-09-29 | ROLE IN COMMON $1200: "Men in Black 3" had Josh Brolin as the young Agent K; he's the older Agent K Tommy Lee Jones |
| #7134, aired 2015-09-24 | LET'S HAVE EGGS $800: You're on your own, kid: the brown tree type of these reptiles doesn't incubate its eggs or care for its young a snake |
| #7132, aired 2015-09-22 | ROCKET MAN $600: This "Rocket" was the first pitcher to win the Cy Young Award 7 times Roger Clemens |
| #7131, aired 2015-09-21 | THEY'RE PLAYING OUR SONG $1600: 2011:
"If I Die Young" The Band Perry |
| #7130, aired 2015-09-18 | DYSTOPIAN LIT $2000: Jonas is chosen as the receiver of memory in this Lois Lowry book, often cited as the original Y.A. dystopian novel The Giver |
| #7128, aired 2015-09-16 | QUICK LIT $2000: A devil instructs his young charge in these "Letters", a novel by C.S. Lewis The Screwtape Letters |
| #7127, aired 2015-09-15 | SHAKESPEAREAN DEATHMATCH $1600: Hamlet knocks off Polonius, Claudius & this young guy but succumbs himself to the young guy's poisoned sword Laertes |
| #7125, aired 2015-07-31 | THE FILMS OF STANLEY TUCCI $1000: Deceptively ordinary Stanley kills poor young Susie Salmon in this 2009 film The Lovely Bones |
| #7123, aired 2015-07-29 | DEAD PEOPLE $800: Evil forces in this 1977 novel covet young Danny's precognitive powers The Shining |
| #7121, aired 2015-07-27 | POP MUSIC $400: This first No. 1 hit by ABBA says "Young and sweet, only 17" "Dancing Queen" |
| #7121, aired 2015-07-27 | GERMAN LIT $800: He was original in extolling "The Sorrows of Young Werther", a novel in the form of letters, in 1774 Goethe |
| #7121, aired 2015-07-27 | IN COLOR $3,000 (Daily Double): These, now meaning "Credit for deeds done", may have come from a measure of young Girl Scouts' achievements brownie points |
| #7116, aired 2015-07-20 | SPORTS & SONG $600: "Ever since I was young, it's been my dream / That I might drive" this machine; "I'd get the ice just as slick as could be" a Zamboni |
| #7107, aired 2015-07-07 | ADD A CONSONANT $1200: An amiable young woman becomes a tool that twists a bolt wrench & wench |
| #7106, aired 2015-07-06 | TASTY LITERATURE $400: In this 19th c. work, young Amy likes snacking on "pickled limes" & borrows money from her sister to buy some Little Women |
| #7103, aired 2015-07-01 | THE WRITE STUFF $600: This 19th-century author wrote steamy thrillers like "Behind a Mask", as well as books about young people Louisa May Alcott |
| #7101, aired 2015-06-29 | THE WAR OF 1912 $1,800 (Daily Double): An armistice ended when Turkey's government was overthrown by this "youthful" nationalist group the Young Turks |
| #7100, aired 2015-06-26 | DAISY CRAZY $200: Kindergarten-age young misses in this organization are called Daisies, after Juliette Gordon Low's nickname Girl Scouts |
| #7097, aired 2015-06-23 | ALPHANUMERICS $400: A young Anakin Skywalker created this droid to help his mother with household chores C-3PO |
| #7093, aired 2015-06-17 | FOOTBALL HEROES $1000: (Dan Patrick delivers the clue.) Warren Buffett once revealed to me that as a young boy he served as a waterboy for this NFL team for 2 games & that the team's Hall of Fame quaterback Sammy Baugh was his hero the Washington Redskins |
| #7092, aired 2015-06-16 | FOOD STUFF $800: A thumb-sized potato & young fish both have this digit-al name fingerling |
| #7083, aired 2015-06-03 | THE TONY AWARDS $400: Andrea Martin was nominated for playing Frau Blucher in the stage version of this Mel Brooks musical Young Frankenstein |
| #7081, aired 2015-06-01 | ENTERING $200: In a fairy tale this young girl commits breaking & entering & tests out some bears' beds Goldilocks |
| #7079, aired 2015-05-28 | BOOKS' FIRST LINES $800: By Joyce:
"Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road..." Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man |
| #7075, aired 2015-05-22 | THE MUSICAL TYPOGRAPHICAL MARK $400: ...following the 3-letter name of the group that sings "We Are Young" a period |
| #7075, aired 2015-05-22 | FAMOUS NAMES $800: In 2014 children young & old celebrated the 98th birthday of this author & creator of Ramona Quimby Beverly Cleary |
| #7071, aired 2015-05-18 | EGG $800: The young of some egg-laying species have this structure at the tip of the beak to break through the shell when hatched an egg tooth |
| #7070, aired 2015-05-15 | POP CULTURE $600: Angus Young has been wearing his school uniform as a member of this hard-rockin' group since the early 1970s AC/DC |
| #7066, aired 2015-05-11 | TV MOMS & DADS $1200: Minnie Driver plays Fiona, mom to young Marcus on this series based on a novel & movie About a Boy |
| #7063, aired 2015-05-06 | 9-LETTER WORDS $1600: It's a young bird that has recently acquired its flight feathers fledgling |
| #7062, aired 2015-05-05 | U.S. HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $400: Utah celebrates the Days of '47 on July 24, the day on which Brigham Young reached this valley the Salt Lake Valley |
| #7057, aired 2015-04-28 | CZECH COMPOSERS $400: Like the young Bob Dylan, the young Leos Janacek was heavily influenced by this 4-letter type of music from the people folk |
| #7055, aired 2015-04-24 | USS INTREPID $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the USS Intrepid in New York.) In March 1965, USS Intrepid recovered astronauts Gus Grissom & John Young after their splashdown in the Atlantic following 3 Earth orbits in the first manned flight in this 2-man NASA program Gemini |
| #7054, aired 2015-04-23 | 5-LETTER "W"ORDS $800: A young dog, or an impudent youngster whelp |
| #7053, aired 2015-04-22 | SOJOURNER $800: Heinrich Harrer was already a champion skier & SS veteran when he tutored the young Dalai Lama in this city Lhasa |
| #7050, aired 2015-04-17 | THE ARTS $3,405 (Daily Double): Around 1900 this young Italian painter was influenced by a group called the Macchiaioli, or "stainers" Modigliani |
| #7046, aired 2015-04-13 | EASTER ISLAND $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Easter Island.) The stone village of Orongo was the site of a yearly trial where young men scaled down a cliff and swam through shark-infested waters to retrieve the egg of a sooty one of these birds a tern |
| #7043, aired 2015-04-08 | 1995 BESTSELLERS $200: A young attorney barely out of law school exposes a giant corporate conspiracy in this author's "The Rainmaker" (John) Grisham |
| #7038, aired 2015-04-01 | SINGLE MOMS ON TV $2000: Darn tootin', Brett Butler was a single mom to 3 young'uns on this show Grace Under Fire |
| #7029, aired 2015-03-19 | THE GROUP OF DEATH $800: "Die Young, Stay Pretty", Debbie Harry advised as singer for this band Blondie |
| #7027, aired 2015-03-17 | ENTERTAINMENT AWARDS $800: This British musical about a coal miner's young son danced away with 10 Tony Awards in 2009 Billy Elliot |
| #7024, aired 2015-03-12 | LYRICISTS $2000: This nickname of "Over the Rainbow" lyricist E.Y. Harburg was a shortening of Young People's Socialist League "Yip" |
| #7015, aired 2015-02-27 | "UT" $1200: From the French for "begin", it's a young woman who is making her formal presentation into society a debutante |
| #7005, aired 2015-02-13 | THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE $2000: It's a collection of 100 stories told by young people fleeing a plague The Decameron |
| #7002, aired 2015-02-10 | FEMALE AUTHORS $1200: Meg Cabot created the not-quite-ready-to-be-royal Mia in this young adult series of "Diaries" The Princess Diaries |
| #7001, aired 2015-02-09 | MOVIES WITH "HEART" $2000: A 2006 documentary about Neil Young had this No. 1 song as its subtitle Heart of Gold |
| #6997, aired 2015-02-03 | WELL, THEY SOUND THE SAME... $800: A group of young ladies, or one married one misses/missus |
| #6995, aired 2015-01-30 | "Y.D." DO IT? $1600: Dating from the early 1930s, they're a counterpart to the College Republicans the Young Democrats |
| #6987, aired 2015-01-20 | FISHY SCIENCE $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from the Georgia Aquarium.) This machine can tell us that a stingray is pregnant & image the vertebral columns of the unborn young sonogram (or ultrasound) |
| #6985, aired 2015-01-16 | EUROPEAN PAINTERS $200: Shortly after his 1609 marriage, this artist known for his voluptuous women painted himself & his young wife Isabella (Peter Paul) Rubens |
| #6982, aired 2015-01-13 | NAME THAT VERB $200: To put a grade on Mr. Zuckerberg's work mark |
| #6974, aired 2015-01-01 | TRIBUTE ALBUMS $1600: The Flaming Lips' "After The Gold Rush" is on "The Bridge: A Tribute to" this Bridge School benefactor Neil Young |
| #6968, aired 2014-12-24 | AWARDS & HONORS $800: This award honoring the best pitchers in Major League Baseball was the idea of Commissioner Ford Frick the Cy Young Award |
| #6967, aired 2014-12-23 | SOCIETY $2000: The phrase "a woman of" this, no longer young but not old either, dates back to the 1750s a certain age |
| #6962, aired 2014-12-16 | ERNIE $1000: Cartoonist Ernie Bushmiller created this mischievous young girl Nancy |
| #6960, aired 2014-12-12 | LOWLY HISTORY $1600: The cliche "You'll drive me into" this place refers to a real home for the indigent; young Annie Oakley lived in one the poorhouse |
| #6955, aired 2014-12-05 | ANIMAL CLOSE-UPS $600: Young males of this species stay in bachelor groups & engage in necking bouts a giraffe |
| #6953, aired 2014-12-03 | LET IT "GO" $800: Kids young & old like to hit the track in one of these a go-kart |
| #6953, aired 2014-12-03 | MAKING YOU WATCH TELEVISION $2000: Octavia Spencer's Nurse Jackson takes no guff from the young Ocean Park Hospital patients on this Fox drama Red Band Society |
| #6951, aired 2014-12-01 | KIDS IN LIT $1200: First name of young Master Fowl, the 12-year-old millionaire/genius who kidnaps a fairy Artemis |
| #6950, aired 2014-11-28 | CHRONICLES $1,000 (Daily Double): On Sept. 13, 1864, this writer noted the completion of illustrations for a book he wrote for young Alice Liddell Lewis Carroll |
| #6945, aired 2014-11-21 | SONG TITLE IN COMMON TO... $1600: Alphaville (1984) & Rod Stewart (1988) "Forever Young" |
| #6944, aired 2014-11-20 | BOOKS & ARTHURS $200: A young minister, Arthur Dimmesdale fathers Hester Prynne's daughter Pearl in this novel The Scarlet Letter |
| #6941, aired 2014-11-17 | IN BLACK & WHITE $2000: Aerosmith got the song title "Walk This Way" from a line in this movie Young Frankenstein |
| #6939, aired 2014-11-13 | WOMEN'S LIT $1200: The story of a young divorcee pursuing a Ph.D., the feminist classic "The Women's Room" is by her Marilyn French |
| #6931, aired 2014-11-03 | WHAT A WONDERFUL "WORLD" $400: The song "We Are Young" by fun. uses this idiom meaning to do great deeds & gain fame set the world on fire |
| #6930, aired 2014-10-31 | WORDS ABOUT WORDS $400: The "L-E-T" in piglet is this kind of suffix added to mean small or young diminutive |
| #6928, aired 2014-10-29 | THE LONG ARM OF THE LAW SCHOOL $400: Its law school is named for Utah native J. Reuben Clark, who rose to high posts in the State & Justice Departments Brigham Young |
| #6924, aired 2014-10-23 | WINSTON CHURCHILL $400: As a young man, Churchill wrote news stories from South Africa during this war & was captured The Boer War |
| #6922, aired 2014-10-21 | INITIALLY MEDICAL $800: A shot for the young, it's a triple treater:
MMR measles, mumps & rubella |
| #6915, aired 2014-10-10 | I BEG, YOU'RE PARDONED $2,000 (Daily Double): James Buchanan pardoned this governor of the Utah Territory in exchange for submission to federal law Brigham Young |
| #6906, aired 2014-09-29 | "CAT" PEOPLE $400: She was born Sophie Frederike Auguste von Anhalt-Zerbst in Prussia in 1729; go east, young girl! Catherine the Great |
| #6906, aired 2014-09-29 | "CAT" PEOPLE $800: Piscine nickname of the 1974 A.L. Cy Young award winner (yes, he had whiskers) "Catfish" Hunter |
| #6906, aired 2014-09-29 | HIPPO CAMPUS $5,000 (Daily Double): Geography taught us young bulls that this country whose capital is Lusaka probably has the most hippos Zambia |
| #6901, aired 2014-09-22 | YOU'VE GOT CHARACTER! $400: Lewis Carroll had young Alice frolic through her "Adventures in Wonderland" & this sequel "Through the Looking Glass" |
| #6897, aired 2014-09-16 | BETTER KNOWN BY ONE NAME $1200: This young Kiwi singer put an "E" at the end of her stage name to make it more feminine Lorde |
| #6895, aired 2014-08-01 | THE STORY OF HIS LIFE $2,000 (Daily Double): A Pennsylvania businessman:
"Young Chocolatier" Hershey |
| #6894, aired 2014-07-31 | SWEET CHARITY $600: This foundation lived up to its name in helping turn S.F. into Gotham City so a young leukemia patient could become Batkid Make-A-Wish |
| #6893, aired 2014-07-30 | POP CULTURE $600: More than 100,000 people signed a petition asking President Obama to deport this young Canadian Justin Bieber |
| #6893, aired 2014-07-30 | THE LAW $1200: A curator ad litem may represent the interests of someone who's very young & even those who haven't been this yet born |
| #6888, aired 2014-07-23 | MEASURE UP $2000: Many horse races are measured in these units that are each equal to 1/8 of a mile furlong |
| #6886, aired 2014-07-21 | WOMEN & CHILDREN $400: After hearing a fantastic story on a boat in 1862, young Alice Liddell asked this author to put it on paper for her (Lewis) Carroll |
| #6882, aired 2014-07-15 | ON THE BOOKSHELF $1200: In 3 weeks in 1960, Anthony Burgess wrote this ultraviolent book bout young psychopaths A Clockwork Orange |
| #6879, aired 2014-07-10 | MUSICAL MEDICOS $400: In "I Need A Doctor" Skylar Grey & Eminem beseech this rap "physician", real name Andre Young Dr. Dre |
| #6878, aired 2014-07-09 | "Y": ME $400: When President Buchanan (a man with no wives!) removed me as Utah governor, hostilities ensued (Brigham) Young |
| #6876, aired 2014-07-07 | TATER TOTS $800: The young taters want to be part of this "national" dish that includes bacon & vinegar & may be served warm or cold German potato salad |
| #6874, aired 2014-07-03 | BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN $200: Despite 2 suicide mentions & "we gotta get out while we're young", this was proposed as N.J.'s state song in 1980 "Born To Run" |
| #6874, aired 2014-07-03 | BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN $600: Bruce donned some old duds to sing "Whip My Hair" with "Neil Young" (actually this TV host, doing a great impression) Jimmy Fallon |
| #6874, aired 2014-07-03 | DOUBLE LETTERS $800: Term for a young child; you're one letter off, Kermit moppet |
| #6872, aired 2014-07-01 | ANCIENT SCIENCE $1600: This pupil of Plato observed that dolphins bear live young attached by an umbilical cord Aristotle |
| #6871, aired 2014-06-30 | "EAU", NOT SORRY $1600: Named for a region of Burgundy, it's a red wine drunk when it's young; the "nouveau" type, when it's very young Beaujolais |
| #6870, aired 2014-06-27 | THE FEMALE PERSUASION $200: On Oct. 15, 1860 young Grace Bedell wrote to this politician "let your whiskers grow"; he did Lincoln |
| #6870, aired 2014-06-27 | FILMS OF THE 1920s $800: The first synchronized voice heard in this 1927 film was not by Al Jolson but by young Bobby Gordon The Jazz Singer |
| #6870, aired 2014-06-27 | FINISH THE SEUSS LINE $1000: "'Yes... that's what I'd do,' said young Gerald McGrew. 'I'd make a few changes if..." I ran the zoo |
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Carolyn Young, a homemaker from Marietta, Georgia
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Season 25 1-time champion: $30,000 + $2,000. Mother of Season 32...
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Hill Harper, an author and actor from CSI: NY
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"As an award-winning author, he's written three New York Times best...
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Ricky Young, a tax accountant originally from Canyonville, Oregon
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Season 32 2-time champion: $40,000 + $2,000.
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Frank Young, an animation writer from Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Season 34 player (2018-06-28).
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Tim Young, a filmmaker from Los Angeles, California
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Season 34 player (2018-05-29).
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John Botti, a high school history and English teacher from Bethesda, Maryland
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"He says he keeps his spirit young by spending time with...
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Dr. Mehmet Oz, a cardiac surgeon and TV host from The Dr. Oz Show
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"He is a renowned cardiac surgeon who has written seven New...
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Jessica Young, a recent college graduate originally from Charleston, West Virginia
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Season 29 player (2012-12-21).
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Melody Thomas Scott, an actress from the top-rated series The Young and the Restless
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1995 Celebrity Jeopardy! player: $10,000 for the Save the Earth Foundation....
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Tom Toce, an actuary from New York, New York
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Season 26 2-time champion: $39,200 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Amanda Hall, from Farmington, Maine
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"Whether it's writing a biography of Yo-Yo Ma or working on...
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Kathy Casavant, a high school English teacher from Oxford, Massachusetts
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"Originally she wanted to do anything but teach. Well, she's been...
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David Hudson, a junior from the University of Virginia
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"His musical taste has changed since he won $10,000 on Kids...
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Allex Fambles, a sophomore from Brown University
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"She knew at age eleven that she wanted to be a...
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Max Johansen, a senior from the University of Miami
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"As a seventh grader, he was planning on a career in...
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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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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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Kevin Wilson, a communications specialist from Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Season 26 3-time champion: $76,998 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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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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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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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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Reilly Kiernan, a 12-year-old from Pelham, New York
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"You're never too young to take up a cause, and this...
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Aisha Tyler, a comedienne, host and actress from Talk Soup, Friends, The 5th Wheel and Ghost Whisperer
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2009 Celebrity Jeopardy! winner: $50,000 split between the International Rescue Committee/Congo...
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Mark Dawson, a business manager from Chamblee, Georgia
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"In 2003, he became the first to win a quarter of...
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Eric Van Young, a college professor from San Diego, California
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Season 8 player (1991-12-27).
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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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Jeff Stewart, a senior from Brigham Young University
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 1994 Tournament...
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Armand Kachigian, a podiatrist from Granite City, Illinois
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Season 10 player (1994-02-10). Armand won $500,000 on Who Wants to...
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Kate Jay Zweifler, a Realtor and stay-at-home mom from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Season 35 player (2019-05-01). Daughter of Season 7 player Roz Jay....
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Joel Kim Booster, a comedian from Chicago, Illinois
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"A comedian from Chicago, his movie Fire Island, which he wrote,...
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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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Tina Baybay-Bykov, an AP world history teacher from Orlando, Florida
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"Ballet used to keep her on her toes. Now it's her...
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Emma Couture, a twelve-year-old from St. Petersburg, Florida
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"Here's a portrait of a smart young girl who sees her...
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Patty Young, an accountant from Azusa, California
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Season 3 X. It is unknown whether Patty was only a...
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Clarence Page, a journalist from The Chicago Tribune
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"His nationally syndicated column began as a local column for the...
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Elza Reeves, a bank teller from Louisville, Kentucky
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Season 25 1-time champion: $16,400 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Brian Muth, a headmaster from Napa, California
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Season 25 2-time champion: $43,800 + $1,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Dmitry Spivak, a junior from Northwestern University
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"The 11-year-old wasn't really kidding when he said he wanted to...
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Chris Matthews, a TV host from Hardball and The Chris Matthews Show
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"He served as a speechwriter for Jimmy Carter, and later as...
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Caleb Olson, a senior from Chariton, Iowa
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2012 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $10,000.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Kendra Pettis, a junior from Oberlin College
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\"She hadn\'t settled on a career goal at age 11. Now...
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Andy Baggarly, a journalist and author from Palo Alto, California
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Season 28 3-time champion: $60,402 + $1,000. Andy won $200 on...
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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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Melanie Bruchet, a senior from Bryn Mawr
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"Everyone wants to be an astronaut when they're a kid, but...
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Cliff Galiher, a sophomore from UCLA
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2007 Tournament of Champions 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $50,000 +...
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Tavis Smiley, a talk show host from PBS's The Tavis Smiley Show
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"He's interviewed such diverse personalities as Fidel Castro, Pope John Paul...
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Carol Young, a stage manager originally from Easton, Connecticut
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Season 5 2-time champion: $12,600.
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Naren Tallapragada, a junior from Burke, Virginia
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2008-A Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000. 16 at the time 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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Mollie Haycock, a senior from Rocklin, California
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2008-A Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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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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Jonathan Capehart, a journalist from The Washington Post
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"This Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist is a member of the Washington Post...
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Amy Young, a public health graduate student from Corvallis, Oregon
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Season 33 player (2016-12-12).
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Randy Young, a production manager from Chicago, Illinois
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Season 11 player (1994-10-20).
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Catherine Young, an editor from Halifax, Nova Scotia
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Season 16 1-time champion: $17,400.
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Sheri Young, an assistant functions coordinator from Boston, Massachusetts
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Season 17 player (2001-02-28).
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Jeff Stewart, an executive from Los Alamos, New Mexico
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"After winning the 1994 College Championship, he went on to finish...
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John Farley, an eleven-year-old from Marietta, Georgia
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"This young man has a plan--Notre Dame, professional lacrosse player and...
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Fraser Woodford, an investment banker from New York, New York
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"In 1993, winner of the Teen Tournament, he's now an investment...
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Bernard Holloway, a sophomore at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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"He was a 2002 Teen Champion. He's now a sophomore at...
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Emily Lever, a junior from Chevy Chase, Maryland
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2009 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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David McIntyre, a twelve-year-old from Riverside, California
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"When this Boy Scout was young, he thought that running from...
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Benjamin Salisbury, an actor from The Nanny
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"He won the Young Artists Award for Best Performance in a...
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Neal Freyman, a ten-year-old from Longmeadow, Massachusetts
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"He's not sure recess counts as a subject, but if it...
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Justin Bernbach, a lobbyist from Brooklyn, New York
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2010 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 25 7-time champion: $155,001...
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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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Bellamy Young, an actress from Scandal
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"On the hit series Scandal, she is the beloved First Lady...
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Soledad O'Brien, an anchor and special correspondent from CNN's Special Investigations Unit
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"Currently the host of CNN's Special Investigations Unit, she's received critical...
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Matthew Fox, an actor from Party of Five
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"He's a hot young star in a critically acclaimed TV series....
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Charles Shaughnessy, an actor from Mad Men
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"As Shane Donovan on Days of Our Lives, he won three...
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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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Amanda Sonmor, a virtual assistant originally from Denver, Colorado
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Season 27 2-time champion: $21,501 + $1,000.
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Diane Trap, a librarian and graphics specialist from Athens, Georgia
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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...
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Claudia Corriere, a church musician and homemaker from Kennesaw, Georgia
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Season 32 2-time champion: $29,000 + $2,000. Claudia won show #7195,...
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Rebecca Maxfield, a freshman from Brown University
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2010-A College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. Hometown: New Rochelle, New York. Rebecca...
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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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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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Keith Williams, a freshman at Middlebury College from Manchester, Vermont
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2004 Tournament...
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Graham Nash, a singer-songwriter from Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
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"He's been a rock legend since the days of the British...
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Craig Westphal, a paramedic from Tucson, Arizona
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2007 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
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Steve Harris, an actor from The Practice
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"He has his day in court as attorney Eugene Young on...
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Elizabeth Perkins, an actress from Weeds
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"For the past five seasons, she's played the calculating and manipulative...
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Danny Brylow, a 12-year-old from Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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"A theologian, an actor, or a playwright? This young man has...
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Brooks Colleton, a 12-year-old from Jacksonville, Florida
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"There's more to this young man than straight academia: he's also...
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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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Mike Kim, a 12-year-old from Wiesbaden, Germany
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"Under the heading of "Came the Farthest", this young man wins...
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Harry Haghanegi, a 10-year-old from Chicago, Illinois
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"Extracting DNA was one project this future geneticist enjoyed..." 2007 Kids...
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Sandra Thomas, a 12-year-old from Hartsdale, New York
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"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
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"We don't know if there's a doctor in the house, but...
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Benjamin Schwartz, a 12-year-old from East Providence, Rhode Island
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"When you were 11, did you host your own webpage on...
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Michael Bergen, a 12-year-old from Clarksville, Tennessee
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"To be or not to be a Shakespearean actor, that's the...
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John Fabros, a 12-year-old from Downers Grove, Illinois
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"This well-rounded young man is a computer programmer, violinist and award-winning...
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Heather Young, a biostatistician from Arlington, Virginia
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Season 17 player (2001-01-17).
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Brad Paisley, a country music singer from the album Mud on the Tires
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"A young member of the Grand Ole Opry, please welcome one...
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Joshua Malina, a TV actor and creator/producer from Celebrity Poker Showdown
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"He created and produced Celebrity Poker Showdown for the Bravo Channel,...
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Carson Kressley, a fashion maven from Queer Eye for the Straight Guy
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"This star of TV's Queer Eye for the Straight Guy says...
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Dave Belote, the base commander from Nellis Air Force Base, Las Vegas
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2010 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 26 5-time champion:...
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Jennifer Young, a graduate student from River Ridge, Louisiana
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Season 15 player (1998-10-22).
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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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Hill Harper, an actor from CSI: NY
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"He graduated magna cum laude from Brown University. He has a...
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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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Scott Gillispie, a project manager and expectant father from Atlanta, Georgia
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"While attending Georgia Tech, he won the 1991 College Championship. Now...
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Allison Peña, a junior from Sunrise, Florida
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2006 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
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Diane Siegel, an educational consultant and writer from Northridge, California
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"A full-time mom when she won five games in 1993, now...
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Jill Young, a junior from Oshkosh, Wisconsin
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1992 Teen Tournament 2nd runner-up: $7,500.
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