#8972, aired 2023-11-14 | CARL SAGAN $400: From 1971 to 1996, Carl Sagan was a professor at this Ithaca, New York Ivy League school Cornell |
#8924, aired 2023-07-27 | RETITLED MOVIE ADAPTATIONS $800: Cornell Woolrich's short story "It Had to Be Murder" became this Hitchcock film with Jimmy Stewart in the cast & in a cast Rear Window |
#8907, aired 2023-07-04 | U.S. FESTIVALS $500 (Daily Double): An ice sculpture contest is part of Winter Carnival at this northernmost Ivy League school Dartmouth |
#8788, aired 2023-01-18 | A COLLEGE / TOWN $400: Cornell University, kind of going Greek Ithaca |
#8623, aired 2022-04-20 | THE LEAGUE LEADER $800: The Ivy League includes this school that was chartered in 1865 & has a lovely view of a Finger Lake Cornell University |
#8551, aired 2022-01-10 | NEXT IN LINE... $1,000 (Daily Double): In Ivy schools, alphabetically:
Columbia,
Cornell... Dartmouth |
#8487, aired 2021-10-12 | OUR LEAD SINGER $1000: In 1984 Chris Cornell co-founded this band named after an art installation in Seattle Soundgarden |
#8355, aired 2021-03-12 | LABORATORIES $400: Carl Sagan was director of the laboratory for planetary studies at this Ithaca, New York university Cornell |
#8297, aired 2020-12-08 | AUTHORS' ALMA MATERS $4,000 (Daily Double): One of his professors at Cornell was William Strunk Jr. whose "Elements of Style" he would later revise (E.B.) White |
#8286, aired 2020-11-23 | ASTRONAUTS $1200: Cornell medical grad Mae Jemison won fame aboard this Space Shuttle, spelled the British way with a "U" Endeavour |
#8227, aired 2020-06-02 | THE OLD UNIVERSITY TRY $400: Woof! & meow! & maybe even ribbit? This Ivy League U. in upstate New York awarded the nation's first doctorate of veterinary medicine Cornell |
#8203, aired 2020-04-15 | EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES $400: Let's talk about joining Cornell's Speech & this Society or Georgetown's Parliamentary this team Debate |
#8196, aired 2020-04-06 | CELEBRITY LECTURES $1200: John Cleese of this comedy troupe was professor-at-large at Cornell starting in 1999, but he didn't teach silly walks Monty Python |
#8083, aired 2019-10-30 | COLLEGE TOWNS $1,400 (Daily Double): Ulysses would fit right in in this city at the south end of Cayuga Lake Ithaca |
#7952, aired 2019-03-19 | THEY NAMED THE COLLEGE FOR ME! $400: In 1865 this upstate New York Ivy school couldn't find a name that was better than Ezra's Cornell |
#7925, aired 2019-02-08 | STARGAZERS $2000: In 1983 this Cornell astronomer introduced the concept of nuclear winter Carl Sagan |
#7775, aired 2018-06-01 | THAT RAISES A RED FLAG $800: You can buy a big red flag of this university in New York state with its founding date, 1865 Cornell |
#7696, aired 2018-02-12 | C.C. & ME $1200: In 2017 music fans were saddened by the death of this Soundgarden singer Chris Cornell |
#7598, aired 2017-09-27 | AN IVY LEAGUE EDUCATION $1000: "Fundamental Principles of Polymer Chemistry"? I guess this upstate N.Y. school has some easy classes, too! Cornell |
#7515, aired 2017-04-21 | ALMA MATERS $200: (I'm political commentator S.E. Cupp.) I wasn't a politics or history major but graduated from this upstate New York Ivy League school with a degree in art history & wrote art reviews for the Sun Cornell |
#7490, aired 2017-03-17 | WARNER BROS $400: Glenn Warner, Cornell's 1894 football team captain, go this nickname because he was older than most students Pop Warner |
#7473, aired 2017-02-22 | ON TO GRAD SCHOOL $800: You'll learn how to use "Big Red" if you get an MFA at this Ivy League school founded in 1865 Cornell |
#7451, aired 2017-01-23 | BOOKS BY PROFESSORS $1200: This Cornell professor wrote "English Metres" but is best known for 1918's "The Elements of Style" William Strunk, Jr. |
#7450, aired 2017-01-20 | A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN $400: Brown, Columbia, Cornell, plus 5 other schools the Ivy League |
#7435, aired 2016-12-30 | THE GUMMELIER $1000: Also a nickname for Cornell, this cinnamon gum I have chosen conveys a bold, cloying zest Big Red |
#7414, aired 2016-12-01 | BUILDING BIG $800: In 2011 Cornell researchers concluded that this NYC building is the most photographed in the world the Empire State Building |
#7305, aired 2016-05-20 | ORGANIZATIONS $1200: In 1980 Bruce Murray, Louis Friedman & this Cornell Univ. astronomer founded the Planetary Society Carl Sagan |
#7253, aired 2016-03-09 | LIKE A BOSS $200: Cornell's Tech Campus on New York's Roosevelt Island got a $100 million donation from this ex-mayor, now back in business Bloomberg |
#7243, aired 2016-02-24 | IT TAKES 2 $1200: They're the 2 Ivy League schools that are located in New York Columbia & Cornell |
#7102, aired 2015-06-30 | DOCTOR WHO $400 (Daily Double): ...came out of Cornell med school & revolutionized dieting with his high-protein, low-carb system (Robert) Atkins |
#7048, aired 2015-04-15 | ASTROPHYSICS WITH NEIL deGRASSE TYSON $3,000 (Daily Double): (Dr. Tyson delivers the clue.) I got my undergrad & graduate degrees at other Ivy League schools, but I did have the inspirational privilege of meeting this man who taught astronomy at Cornell for almost 3 decades Carl Sagan |
#6969, aired 2014-12-25 | ____ LAW $400: cornell.edu lists Brown v. Board of Education as a decision in this field of law that's named for a document constitutional |
#6836, aired 2014-05-12 | ART "S"TUFF $2000: Joseph Cornell took these small display cases into the realm of Surrealist art a shadow box |
#6811, aired 2014-04-07 | A LEAGUE $400: This youngest school in the Ivy League was founded in New York state in 1865 Cornell |
#6778, aired 2014-02-19 | SORORITY SISTERS $400: We can see this 3-named Supreme Court justice, a Cornell AEPhi, just trashing a frat house at a kegger Ruth Bader Ginsburg |
#6670, aired 2013-09-20 | DO YOU COMPUTE? $600: It's the top-level Internet domain for universities such as Cornell & Gonzaga .edu |
#6670, aired 2013-09-20 | HOW'D THEY MAKE THEIR MONEY? $800: (Here's Laurie Griner.) You need dough to start an Ivy League school; Yale sold diamonds, Harvard owned real estate & Ezra Cornell built this most famous telegraph company Western Union |
#6646, aired 2013-07-08 | ROCK & ROLL CALL $1200: In 2012 "Been Away Too Long" was the first single off this Chris Cornell band's first album in 16 years Soundgarden |
#6388, aired 2012-05-30 | THE WORLD SCIENCE FESTIVAL $400: Held annually in NYC, the WSF was co-founded by Brian Greene, a physics prof. at this nearby Ivy League school Columbia |
#6348, aired 2012-04-04 | BOW TIES ARE COOL $600: Seen here giving clues on "Jeopardy!", this guy graduated from Cornell with a mechanical engineering degree Bill Nye the Science Guy |
#6290, aired 2012-01-13 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $800: This university was founded in Ithaca, New York in 1865; today, other campuses are in NYC & Qatar Cornell |
#6281, aired 2012-01-02 | C.S., I $400: This astronomer & science writer from Cornell helped select the Mars landing sites for the Viking probes Carl Sagan |
#6263, aired 2011-12-07 | OBSTACLE COURSES $800: Cornell I.T. training:
"Boundaries: Good" these "Make Good Neighbors" Fences |
#6226, aired 2011-10-17 | THE Is HAVE IT $800: Floor-wax heiress Imogene Powers Johnson has a center for birds named for her at this Ithaca, N.Y. Ivy League school Cornell |
#6144, aired 2011-05-05 | CINCO DE MAYO BIRTHDAYS $1000: A culinary foundation is named for this dean of American cookery who was born in Portland May 5, 1903 James Beard |
#6101, aired 2011-03-07 | THE IVY LEAGUE $1000: This "Big Red" school was partly endowed by the Morrill Act of 1862 Cornell |
#6090, aired 2011-02-18 | SINGLE-NAMED SINGERS $800: This St. Louis rapper's real name is Cornell Haynes Jr. Nelly |
#6041, aired 2010-12-13 | ASTRONOMERS $1600: In 1980 this Cornell astronomer co-founded the planetary society & served as its first president (Carl) Sagan |
#5819, aired 2009-12-24 | BIBLICAL NAME'S THE SAME $1000: Pound,
Cornell,
Better Than Ezra |
#5679, aired 2009-04-23 | ULYSSES $1,200 (Daily Double): Ulysses is trying to return from Troy to this place, but not for his Cornell class reunion Ithaca |
#5548, aired 2008-10-22 | HIGHER CELEBRITY EDUCATION $1600: Here's "The News": The "Power of Love" singer was an engineering major at Cornell Huey Lewis |
#5484, aired 2008-06-12 | SPACE SCIENCE $800: There are billions & billions of ways to know this "Contact" man was a professor of astronomy & space science at Cornell Carl Sagan |
#5431, aired 2008-03-31 | ALSO A BOOK IN THE BIBLE $2000: Few were "better than" this Mr. Cornell who founded the university in 1865 Ezra |
#5316, aired 2007-10-22 | YOU'VE GOT COMPANY $400: The red & white labels used by this soup company were inspired by the uniforms of the Cornell football team Campbell's |
#5312, aired 2007-10-16 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $1,500 (Daily Double): An anthem says, "With each pealing bell... hail, all hail" this New York university (it rhymes) Cornell |
#5278, aired 2007-07-18 | THINKING ABOUT COLLEGE $1600: Cornell's Dept. of this study would prep you for the "INSECT INVASION" category; it has more than 6 million specimens entomology |
#5200, aired 2007-03-30 | CARL SAGAN $400: From 1971 to 1996, Carl Sagan was a professor at this Ithaca, New York Ivy League school Cornell |
#5191, aired 2007-03-19 | ORIGINAL PRANKSTA $1200: While at this Ithaca university, Hugh Troy used a rhinoceros foot to leave tracks in the snow around the school Cornell |
#5112, aired 2006-11-28 | LEGENDS OF SPORT $800: Older than his classmates, Cornell football player & future coach Glenn Warner got this nickname Pop |
#5089, aired 2006-10-26 | COLLEGE COLLAGE $6,200 (Daily Double): In 1865 a university in Ithaca, N.Y. was established by & named for this founder of Western Union (Ezra) Cornell |
#4926, aired 2006-01-30 | SINGERS ALSO KNOWN AS $1200: "Flap Your Wings" & "Shake Ya Tailfeather" if you know that this rapper was born Cornell Haynes Jr. Nelly |
#4883, aired 2005-11-30 | -OLOGY WHIZ $400: At Cornell, "Intuitive Judgment" & "Comparative Cognition" are courses in this department psychology |
#4718, aired 2005-02-23 | J.R. $400: She got a B.A. from Cornell in 1960 & an LL.B. from Harvard Law School in 1963 Janet Reno |
#4716, aired 2005-02-21 | MAMMALS $400: Cornell University has a lab set up for these animals that only seem to pop up in the news on February 2 groundhogs |
#4716, aired 2005-02-21 | "C.S.", I $800: Before becoming TV's "Science Guy", Bill Nye studied astronomy with him at Cornell Carl Sagan |
#4652, aired 2004-11-23 | COLLEGE HODGEPODGE $1000: (Hi. I'm Keith Olberman.) I started when I was 16 and I graduated at 20 with a B.S. in communications at this Ivy League school in Ithaca Cornell |
#4638, aired 2004-11-04 | BIBLICAL NAME'S THE SAME $2000: Meeker,
Cornell,
Pound Ezra |
#4531, aired 2004-04-26 | IVY LEAGUERS $2000: In the '50s she took an Ivy League tour -- Cornell, undergrad, Harvard & Columbia law schools Ruth Bader Ginsburg |
#4427, aired 2003-12-02 | FAMOUS VALEDICTORIANS $1000: When Gouverneur Morris was Valedictorian at this N.Y. school in 1768, it was known as King's College Columbia University |
#4377, aired 2003-09-23 | STATES BY SCHOOL $1200: Cornell University & Syracuse University New York |
#4310, aired 2003-05-02 | THE "WEST" WING $1000: Dash or dot off a note to Ezra Cornell, founder of this telegraph company Western Union |
#4279, aired 2003-03-20 | EDUCATION $800: In 1971 he became professor of astronomy & space sciences at Cornell, a post he retained until his death in 1996 (Carl) Sagan |
#4263, aired 2003-02-26 | -OLOGIES $2000: Cornell's medical website calls this study of the functions of living organisms the oldest basic medical science physiology |
#4251, aired 2003-02-10 | THINKING ABOUT COLLEGE $2000: If you want to play the chimes in this Ithaca univ.'s McGraw Tower, you should be able to read music -- & climb 161 steps Cornell |
#4187, aired 2002-11-12 | WHEN THEY WERE IN COLLEGE $2000: This "Cat's Cradle" author said of his time at Cornell, "I was enrolled exclusively in courses I had no talent for" Kurt Vonnegut |
#4106, aired 2002-06-10 | ALPHA MALES $1600: Henry Callis & others founded Alpha Phi Alpha, the first black college fraternity, at this Ithaca, N.Y. school Cornell |
#4036, aired 2002-03-04 | NOT QUITE 20,000 LEAGUES $400: Of the 8 schools of this league, only Cornell was founded after the American Revolution Ivy League |
#3856, aired 2001-05-14 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $1000: The Statler Inn at this Ithaca, N.Y. school was built as a "teaching hotel" for its school of hotel administration Cornell |
#3662, aired 2000-07-04 | FOOD $200: Campbell's picked these, the school colors of Cornell University, for its label red & white |
#3487, aired 1999-11-02 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $600 (Daily Double): This Ivy League college in upstate New York was founded by a man who built telegraph systems Cornell |
#3466, aired 1999-10-04 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $300: This university in Ithaca, New York is the youngest school in the Ivy League Cornell |
#3391, aired 1999-05-10 | THE IVY LEAGUE $300: (Hi, I'm Keith Olbermann.) Harvard is the Crimson & the athletic teams of this Ithaca university, my alma mater, are the Big Red Cornell |
#3266, aired 1998-11-16 | FEMINISM $600: This 2-word term popularized by Anita Hill's testimony may have originated in a 1975 gathering at Cornell Sexual harassment |
#3165, aired 1998-05-08 | WHEN THEY WERE IN COLLEGE $300: Janet Reno was president, not attorney general of the women's student govt. at this Ithaca, N.Y. school Cornell |
#3088, aired 1998-01-21 | NEW YORK CITIES $500: Ulysses could tell you it's where Cornell University is located Ithaca |
#3057, aired 1997-12-09 | A LOAF OF BREAD $500: An enriched bread made with wheat germ & soy flour was invented at & named for this Ithaca university Cornell |
#2937, aired 1997-05-13 | IVY LEAGUE COLLEGES $500 (Daily Double): The 2 Ivy League colleges located in New York state Columbia & Cornell |
#2894, aired 1997-03-13 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $800: Utica College is affiliated with this university in upstate New York Syracuse University |
#2722, aired 1996-06-04 | ASTRONOMY $400: In 1968 he became a professor of astronomy at Cornell & Director of the Laboratory for Planetary Studies Carl Sagan |
#2670, aired 1996-03-22 | U.S.A. $500: This Ithaca, N.Y. school is the only Ivy League university established after the American Revolution Cornell |
#2647, aired 1996-02-20 | COLLEGE HODGEPODGE $1,500 (Daily Double): The 2 Ivy League universities that you should file under the letter C Cornell* & Columbia** |
#2620, aired 1996-01-12 | LITERATURE $200: While teaching Russian literature at Cornell, he wrote his famous novel "Lolita" Vladimir Nabokov |
#2570, aired 1995-11-03 | WOMEN IN GOVERNMENT $200: At Cornell this future Attorney General was president of the women's student government association Janet Reno |
#2549, aired 1995-10-05 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $1000: The Uris Library with its 173-foot tower is a landmark of this Ivy League school in Ithaca Cornell |
#2504, aired 1995-06-22 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $400: Founded in 1865, this Ithaca university is the newest member of the Ivy League Cornell |
#2483, aired 1995-05-24 | DRAMA $600: Katharine Cornell starred in a 1928 play based on this author's novel "The Age of Innocence" Edith Wharton |
#2403, aired 1995-02-01 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $500: This Ithaca, New York school is the only private land-grant university Cornell |
#2364, aired 1994-12-08 | DRAMA $200: In 1919 Katharine Cornell starred as Jo in a play based on this famous novel Little Women |
#2346, aired 1994-11-14 | NONFICTION $600: While teaching at Cornell, she wrote "Gorillas in the Mist" Dian Fossey |
#2259, aired 1994-06-02 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $1000: The Amos Tuck School of Business Admin. was founded in 1900 at this Hanover, N.H. university Dartmouth |
#1893, aired 1992-11-25 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $800: This university in Ithaca, N.Y. was named for a founder of Western Union Cornell |
#1787, aired 1992-05-12 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $1000: The world's largest radio telescope at Arecibo, Puerto Rico is run by this Ithaca, N.Y. school Cornell |
#1665, aired 1991-11-22 | CORPORATE AMERICA $400: Ezra Cornell, who endowed a university in 1865, was the chief stockholder in this telegraph co. Western Union |
#1641, aired 1991-10-21 | THE "I"s HAVE IT $300: Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Harvard, Dartmouth, Yale, Princeton & the University of Pennsylvania the Ivy League |
#1460, aired 1990-12-28 | SHAKESPEAREAN ACTORS $200: In the mid 1930s Katharine Cornell played this tragic teenager opposite both Basil Rathbone & Maurice Evans Juliet |
#1263, aired 1990-02-14 | COLLEGE TRIVIA $300: This university opened in 1868 on a hill overlooking Cayuga Lake in Ithaca, N.Y. Cornell |
#1161, aired 1989-09-25 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $1000: "Cosmos" author Carl Sagan is a professor of astronomy & space sciences at this eastern university Cornell |
#1099, aired 1989-05-18 | FAMOUS STUDENTS $800: At Cornell, "Gravity's Rainbow" author Thomas Pynchon studied under this author of "Lolita" (Vladimir) Nabokov |
#1071, aired 1989-04-10 | POT CLUCK $500: Cornell U. found this composer's "Winter" concerto calmed chickens & "Spring" go them up & about Vivaldi |
#964, aired 1988-11-10 | COLLEGES $800: This Ivy League school is the land grant college of New York State Cornell |
#935, aired 1988-09-30 | FAMOUS DOCTORS $200: Once a drum major at Cornell University, he's best known for his famous "maneuver" (Henry) Heimlich |
#923, aired 1988-09-14 | FAMOUS QUAKERS $200: A N.Y. Ivy League university is named for this Quaker who helped develop the U.S. telegraph system (Ezra) Cornell |
#893, aired 1988-06-22 | SPORTS TRIVIA $100: A Cornell University study indicates teams wearing this color are most likely to be penalized black |
#725, aired 1987-10-30 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $200: Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Yale, Dartmouth, Princeton, Harvard & University of Pennsylvania the Ivy League |
#628, aired 1987-05-06 | COLLEGE NICKNAMES $1000: Since it's their nickname, a Cornell coach could chew out his team after a bad game using this Wrigley gum Big Red |
#524, aired 1986-12-11 | 20th C. AUTHORS $200: A professor at Cornell, he translated "Alice in Wonderland" into Russian & wrote "Lolita" Vladimir Nabokov |
#504, aired 1986-11-13 | UNIVERSITIES $1000: Site of top hotel management school, this Ivy League university owns its hotel Cornell |
#328, aired 1985-12-11 | BOTANICAL NAMES $200: University of Pennsylvania, Cornell, & Dartmouth are 3 of the 8 schools in this group the Ivy League |
Rhea Sinha, a Cornell University graduate from Chatham, New Jersey
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\"She first appeared as a high schooler from Chatham, New Jersey,...
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Megan Cornell, a stay-at-home mom from Grand Rapids, Michigan
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Season 27 player (2010-11-23).
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Anna Siomopoulos, a sophomore from Cornell University
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1989 College Championship quarterfinalist: $1,000.
First name pronounced like "ON-nah".
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Barb Cornell, a registered nurse from Eugene, Oregon
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Season 12 1-time champion: $1,199.
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Catherine Zhang, a senior at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York
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2022 National College Championship quarterfinalist: $10,000. Catherine was majoring in computer...
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Andrés Quijano, a student at Cornell University originally from San Juan, Puerto Rico
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Season 38 player (2022-02-08).
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Karen Thomas, a graduate student from Groton, New York
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Season 25 player (2008-09-10).
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Keith Olbermann, a news anchor from MSNBC
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"In 2004, this veteran reporter will provide extensive coverage of the...
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S.E. Cupp, a political commentator from CNN, New York Daily News, and Glamour
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"She writes for the New York Daily News, is a contributor...
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Andrew Hutchings, a graduate student from Ithaca, New York
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"A senior when he won the 1998 College Championship, he's now...
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Tyler Crosby, a barista and bookseller from Ithaca, New York
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Season 25 player (2009-07-09). Tyler won $100,000 on Who Wants to...
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Matt Klein, a senior from Pittsford, New York
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2006 Teen Tournament 2nd runner-up: $15,000. Won $1,000 on Who Wants...
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