| #9082, aired 2024-04-16 | SAY IT IN SPANISH $4,000 (Daily Double): A song often heard in Spanish-speaking countries at Christmastime is this "Sabanero", meaning "My Little Savannah Donkey" Burrito |
| #25, aired 2024-01-16 | TREES $400: Balsa, magnolia or sequoia: it's the tree that becomes the name of another tree when you add an "M" to its end balsa (balsam accepted) |
| #17, aired 2023-10-18 | OTHER WORDS FOR DOIN' IT $200: In a simpler time, this phrase meant "hang out & watch a movie"; it's evolved to mean "hang out, watch a movie &... you know" Netflix & chill |
| #8952, aired 2023-10-17 | COUNTDOWN $800: "The 12 Days Of Christmas" gifts:
7. swans a-swimming
6. geese a-laying
5. these golden rings |
| #8783, aired 2023-01-11 | QUESTIONABLE BOOK TITLES $1600: One answer to this Russian's 1902 title question "What is to Be Done?" was to form a core group of revolutionaries Lenin |
| #4, aired 2022-10-16 | AUTUMN $500: October is the history month for this Asian-American ethnic group that includes Olivia Rodrigo & Jo Koy Filipinos |
| #8626, aired 2022-04-25 | PICTURE THE SONG $600: A familiar spiritual that was a No. 1 hit in the 1950s "He's Got The Whole World In His Hands" |
| #8588, aired 2022-03-02 | "M"EDICINE $3,000 (Daily Double): The primary type of this is without aura & may include sensitivity to light migraine |
| #8487, aired 2021-10-12 | AT THE ORGAN $600: This protein- & iron-rich chicken part in "chopped" form is also in a common rhetorical question liver |
| #8396, aired 2021-05-10 | LATIN OVERLAPPIN' $800: "I think, therefore I am" on Indonesia's second-largest island by area cogito, ergo Sumatra |
| #8324, aired 2021-01-28 | RESPONSES IN THE FORM OF A QUESTION $400: Asked "Where is Abel thy brother?" in the King James Bible, Cain replies with this 5-word question "Am I my brother's keeper" |
| #8324, aired 2021-01-28 | RESPONSES IN THE FORM OF A QUESTION $800: The illustrator of this series thought "the reason why he was lost was... he was slightly idiotic & didn't know where he was going" Where's Waldo? |
| #8324, aired 2021-01-28 | RESPONSES IN THE FORM OF A QUESTION $1200: The next line Culture Club sang after this title was "Do you really want to make me cry?" "Do you really wanna hurt me?" |
| #8324, aired 2021-01-28 | RESPONSES IN THE FORM OF A QUESTION $1600: On Oct. 13, 1962 this Edward Albee play debuted on Broadway with Uta Hagen as Martha Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? |
| #8324, aired 2021-01-28 | RESPONSES IN THE FORM OF A QUESTION $2000: Romeo says, "But soft!", asks this question & continues, "it is the east, & Juliet is the sun" "What light through yonder window breaks?" |
| #8270, aired 2020-10-30 | BE HOME NOW $1600: If you want your package delivered when someone is home, these 2 words follow "adult" in a FedEx option signature required |
| #8184, aired 2020-03-19 | LAKES & RIVERS $400: A remnant of the ancient Lake Bonneville, it's the largest lake in the western United States the Great Salt Lake |
| #7932, aired 2019-02-19 | IT'S TWOSDAY! $800: They're the 2 main political parties in Britain Labour and Conservative |
| #7881, aired 2018-12-10 | DESCRIBING THE BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNER $800: 2008:
They didn't have to put it in the form of a question to win Slumdog Millionaire |
| #7556, aired 2017-06-19 | THE CENTURY OF THE FIGHT $4,200 (Daily Double): The Wars of the Roses the 15th century |
| #7510, aired 2017-04-14 | FENCING $1200: Someone who Tom Sawyers you tricks you into doing his work for him, just as Tom got others to do this whitewash the fence |
| #7401, aired 2016-11-14 | ON MY REEDING LIST $1600: A CD of the 1777 oboe concerto, the only one by this precocious composer Mozart |
| #7392, aired 2016-11-01 | MTV MOVIE AWARDS: BEST KISS WINNERS $1600: 1999:
Joseph Fiennes & her Gwyneth Paltrow |
| #7337, aired 2016-07-05 | BATTLE OF BRITAIN $400: This invader's army defeated Harold II on the Sussex coast in 1066 at the Battle of Hastings William the Conqueror |
| #7011, aired 2015-02-23 | 3 M $200: If we had 10 in our show's Bible, the first would be "Thou shalt respond in the form of a question" commandments |
| #6987, aired 2015-01-20 | DEAD POETS $2000: "If called by a panther / don't anther" Ogden Nash |
| #6952, aired 2014-12-02 | SPELL IT OUT FOR ME $400: The current vice president's last name B-I-D-E-N |
| #6924, aired 2014-10-23 | 3 "T"s $1600: For their operettas, Sullivan was the composer & Gilbert was this librettist |
| #6793, aired 2014-03-12 | PHILOSOPHY $2000: Philosophers distinguish between 2 kinds of knowledge: a priori, by thinking, & this, from experience empirical or a posteriori |
| #6656, aired 2013-07-22 | WORD & PHRASE ORIGINS $800: Mary Anning, who hawked her fossil discoveries along the dorset coast, inspired this tongue twister "She sells seashells by the seashore." |
| #6655, aired 2013-07-19 | GENEALOGY GLOSSARY $1000: A PAF, or personal ancestral file, is software from this church that's very into genealogy the Church of Latter-Day Saints |
| #6609, aired 2013-05-16 | USING ALGEBRA AFTER HIGH SCHOOL $2000: 3x - y = 8
2x + y = 7;
solve for
x & y x = 3; y = 1 |
| #6413, aired 2012-07-04 | SPIRITUALS $1200: "Lord I want to be in that number when" this happens when the saints go marching in |
| #6231, aired 2011-10-24 | COME TO OUR AIDE $1600: In 1948 White House aide Lauchlin Currie told this committee he wasn't a Soviet spy; today we know he was the House Un-American Activities Committee |
| #6229, aired 2011-10-20 | MEET THE FLINT STONES $400: The flint seen here is from a stratum of this stuff you might use to write "I will answer in the form of a question" 100 times chalk |
| #6228, aired 2011-10-19 | "RIGHT" OR "LEFT" $1600: Completes the Robert Browning line "God's in his heaven--all's..." right with the world |
| #6011, aired 2010-11-01 | MIKHAIL GORBACHEV $800: In his 1991 lecture on winning this, Mikhail spoke of "a fundamentally new phase in our international cooperation" the Nobel Peace Prize |
| #5792, aired 2009-11-17 | FINLANDIA $800: Finland forms a symbolic N. border between Eastern & Western Europe: to the east is Russia; to the west, these 2 nations Norway & Sweden |
| #5761, aired 2009-10-05 | REAL PEOPLE IN BEATLES SONGS $1000: "Man, you should have seen them kicking" this American poet in "I Am The Walrus" Edgar Allan Poe |
| #5738, aired 2009-07-15 | KIDS ON THE NET $800: At the website for the CDC, the Centers for this, kids can learn about diabetes & toxic chemicals Disease Control |
| #5690, aired 2009-05-08 | PARLEZ VOUS? $600: "Je ne sais pas" means this, but you still get credit if you phrase it in the form of a question "I don't know" |
| #5667, aired 2009-04-07 | LITERARY BEFORE & AFTER $2,800 (Daily Double): Sun Tzu meets Tolstoy on the battlefield in this classic strategy meets storytelling merger The Art of War and Peace |
| #5562, aired 2008-11-11 | IT WASN'T RATED R $1000: Meryl Streep's daughter is caught up in a musical version of "My Three Dads" in this film Mamma Mia! |
| #5177, aired 2007-02-27 | WHERE AM I? $1600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from The Pentagon.) I'm at the building put up between 1941 & 1943 to house what was then this government department the Department of War |
| #5143, aired 2007-01-10 | EDWARD R. MURROW $400: In 1961 Murrow left CBS to become Director of the U.S.I.A., this agency the United States Information Agency |
| #5139, aired 2007-01-04 | SOUNDS SIMILAR $1200: Stephen King heroine Claiborne in a miserable state from the Latin for "pain" dolorous Dolores |
| #5105, aired 2006-11-17 | THE "END" $400: The first one in the Bill of Rights deals with the freedom of speech an amendment |
| #4944, aired 2006-02-23 | RHYME TIME $2000: Goneril & Cordelia's sister, after eschewing eating all animal products Vegan Regan (Regan Vegan accepted) |
| #4938, aired 2006-02-15 | RHYME TIME $400: Heat-browned bread for a friendly Casper ghost toast (a toast ghost accepted) |
| #4899, aired 2005-12-22 | NATIONAL SPELLING BEE WINNING WORDS $1000: 1994:
Pertaining to the period before the flood, it also means out of date A-N-T-E-D-I-L-U-V-I-A-N |
| #4809, aired 2005-06-30 | ENDS IN "TU" $2,000 (Daily Double): 2-word Latin phrase meaning located in the original or existing place or position in situ |
| #4722, aired 2005-03-01 | BRIT LIT $2,000 (Daily Double): The alternate title of "Twelfth Night" means roughly the same as the title of this other Shakespeare play As You Like It |
| #4589, aired 2004-07-15 | UNICEF $500 (Daily Double): This 1971 George Harrison project has raised over $10 million for UNICEF programs the Concert for Bangladesh |
| #4543, aired 2004-05-12 | 10-LETTER WORDS $2000: The proper way to address bishops & foreign ambassadors is his or her this your excellency |
| #4377, aired 2003-09-23 | THE DREADED SPELLING CATEGORY $1600: Take an educated guess and spell... S-C-H-O-L-A-S-T-I-C |
| #4346, aired 2003-06-23 | SPELL THE LAST NAME $800: 17th century man with the "I think, therefore I am" plan, Rene... D-E-S-C-A-R-T-E-S |
| #4342, aired 2003-06-17 | NOT YOUR EVERYDAY WORDS $400: A catechumen is a student getting the basics of Christianity in this question-&-answer form catechism |
| #4328, aired 2003-05-28 | FORMER TECHNOLOGY $4,000 (Daily Double): (Sofia of the Clue Crew stands in front of the ship Santa Maria in Columbus, Ohio.) Columbus used this instrument superseded by the sextant to measure the positions of stars an astrolabe |
| #4268, aired 2003-03-05 | QUOTATIONS $800: Genius has been famously defined as "1% inspiration and" this 99% perspiration |
| #4249, aired 2003-02-06 | AUSTEN POWERS $800: It's the main reason why 19-year-old Anne Elliot's family won't let her marry Frederick Wentworth he doesn't have enough money |
| #4248, aired 2003-02-05 | COMMON BONDS $400: Ice skates,
swords,
a shoulder things with blades |
| #4224, aired 2003-01-02 | LITERARY BEFORE & AFTER $400: Richard Llewellyn's Welsh mining family moves to NYC & pops pills in this bestseller by Jacqueline Susann How Green Was My Valley of the Dolls |
| #4147, aired 2002-09-17 | THE DREADED SPELLING CATEGORY $400: Have belief in your power to spell... C-O-N-F-I-D-E-N-C-E |
| #4147, aired 2002-09-17 | THE DREADED SPELLING CATEGORY $800: Inquisitive minds will know how to spell... C-U-R-I-O-S-I-T-Y |
| #4077, aired 2002-04-30 | POP THE QUESTION $800: Joe Jackson sees "Jeanie with her new boyfriend" and voices this title complaint in the form of a question "Is She Really Going Out With Him?" |
| #3998, aired 2002-01-09 | RHYME TIME $800: The Impaler's apartments Vlad's pads |
| #3974, aired 2001-12-06 | LITERARY CROSSWORD CLUES "M" $400: Tea party adjective
(3) mad |
| #3971, aired 2001-12-03 | CHEESY COUNTRIES $200: Monterey Jack United States |
| #3923, aired 2001-09-26 | AROUND THE HOUSE $200: When going upstairs, play it safe & hold on to this handrail banister |
| #3894, aired 2001-07-05 | STOP THE "PRES"! $200: A written order for medicine prescription |
| #3853, aired 2001-05-09 | WILLIAM PENNED $800: "Lyrical Ballads", a poetry collection by Coleridge & this man, includes his famous "Tintern Abbey" William Wordsworth |
| #3831, aired 2001-04-09 | GREAT SCOTTS! $1,000 (Daily Double): Make the "decision" to name this man, seen here Dred Scott |
| #3826, aired 2001-04-02 | WOMEN OF THE WORLD $600: Madeleine Albright Czech Republic (Czechoslovakia) |
| #3822, aired 2001-03-27 | THE CABINET $400: On September 15, 1789 the Department of Foreign Affairs changed its name to this Department of State |
| #3756, aired 2000-12-25 | THE DREADED SPELLING CATEGORY $300: You have the honor of spelling... P-R-I-V-I-L-E-G-E |
| #3756, aired 2000-12-25 | THE DREADED SPELLING CATEGORY $400: Don't delay, spell... I-M-P-A-T-I-E-N-T |
| #3562, aired 2000-02-15 | PRE-MED $400: Latin:
If your Latin class seems to go on ad infinitum, it goes on this way Infinity/forever |
| #3495, aired 1999-11-12 | THE DREADED SPELLING CATEGORY $400: Convince me you can spell... P-E-R-S-U-A-S-I-V-E |
| #3450, aired 1999-09-10 | OPPOSITES $1000: If you don't want to be attractive to insects, use this, the opposite of "attractive" repellent |
| #3429, aired 1999-07-01 | "GENERAL" KNOWLEDGE $400: "Towering" P.T. Barnum talent seen here General Tom Thumb |
| #3417, aired 1999-06-15 | THE SHORT VERSION $1000: In medicine:
HIV human immunodeficiency virus |
| #3381, aired 1999-04-26 | "C.D."s $1000: He wrote the following in the 1890s Claude Debussy |
| #3242, aired 1998-10-13 | THE BLUES $1,000 (Daily Double): McKinley Morganfield played in a creek as a child & was given this nickname "Muddy Waters" |
| #3128, aired 1998-03-18 | ALL EARS $400: According to folklore, if your ears are doing this, someone is talking about you burning |
| #3067, aired 1997-12-23 | MUSEUMS $2,500 (Daily Double): At his Pittsburgh museum, you can buy reproductions of his works, including "Happy Bug Day" & "Soup Can" Andy Warhol |
| #3006, aired 1997-09-29 | LITERARY FORMS $200: Term for a mystery novel that's already in the form of a question whodunit |
| #2983, aired 1997-07-16 | STARTS WITH "HO" $700 (Daily Double): They're the Arkansas cities where Bill Clinton was born & where he grew up Hope & Hot Springs |
| #2926, aired 1997-04-28 | ART $200: The part of the Sistine Chapel on which Michelangelo painted Adam's fall ceiling |
| #2909, aired 1997-04-03 | PSYCHOLOGY $1000: Ritalin use for children has increased greatly for the treatment of this hyperactive disorder ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) |
| #2848, aired 1997-01-08 | THE OLD WEST $300: To do this, race past the cattle & turn the lead ones back into the center of the herd How do you stop a stampede? |
| #2688, aired 1996-04-17 | MOTHER GOOSE $300: Little Boy Blue's location asleep in the hay (under the haystack) |
| #2622, aired 1996-01-16 | POLYNESIA $600: The word Polynesia means this "many islands" |
| #2584, aired 1995-11-23 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $800 (Daily Double): Philip Carey is the central character in this Somerset Maugham novel Of Human Bondage |
| #2520, aired 1995-07-14 | QUOTABLE WOMEN $800: "Honor wears different coats to different eyes", she wrote in "The Guns of August" Barbara Tuchman |
| #2505, aired 1995-06-23 | BASED ON A TRUE STORY $100: In a 1994 TV biopic, Terumi Matthews played this Material girl Madonna |
| #2505, aired 1995-06-23 | AMERICANA $500 (Daily Double): In 1629 North & South Carolina were part of the Province of Carolana, named for this man King Charles I |
| #2427, aired 1995-03-07 | POETS $800: The bell tolled for this "Death Be Not Proud" poet in 1631 John Donne |
| #2419, aired 1995-02-23 | CATHEDRALS $100 (Daily Double): Name of the Moscow cathedral seen here: St. Basil's |
| #2419, aired 1995-02-23 | AFRICA $800: African leaders met in 1963 in Addis Ababa to form the OAU, which stands for this The Organization of African Unity |
| #2274, aired 1994-06-23 | SPANISH WORDS & PHRASES $500: No tengo nada que declarar, a phrase often heard at the customs office, means this I have nothing to declare |
| #2115, aired 1993-11-12 | SONG LYRICS $1000: "Saturday night is the loneliest night in the week... The night my sweetie and I used to" do this dancing cheek to cheek |
| #2018, aired 1993-05-19 | OPERA $800: First name shared by a servant in "La Traviata" & the composer of "La Traviata" Giuseppe |
| #1955, aired 1993-02-19 | ENGLISH GRAMMAR $500: A "Jeopardy" response should be phrased in the form of a question, which makes it this kind of sentence an interrogative sentence |
| #1733, aired 1992-02-26 | BALLET $4,013 (Daily Double): Antony Tudor choreographed a new version of this ballet in 1943 & danced the role of Tybalt himself Romeo and Juliet |
| #1670, aired 1991-11-29 | SPRING $400: Completes the Shelley line, "If Winter comes..." can Spring be far behind? |
| #1585, aired 1991-06-21 | AUTHORS' NICKNAMES $600: "The Fourth Musketeer" Alexandre Dumas père |
| #1551, aired 1991-05-06 | CLICHÉS $400: To "drop the other" one of these means to end the suspense shoe |
| #1525, aired 1991-03-29 | CONSTELLATIONS $1000: Other than the sun, the closest star to the Earth is located in this southern constellation Centaurus |
| #1454, aired 1990-12-20 | POTENT QUOTABLES $800 (Daily Double): 2 items that accompany Omar Khayyam's "Jug of Wine" a loaf of bread & thou (a book of verse) |
| #1452, aired 1990-12-18 | BLACK HISTORY $600: A young student named Linda Brown was the focus of this landmark 1954 case Brown v. Board of Education |
| #7, aired 1990-07-28 | NEW TESTAMENT $1,300 (Daily Double): In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus said, "Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called" this the children of God |
| #1375, aired 1990-07-20 | WEATHER $500 (Daily Double): The 2 seasons when icebergs are most likely to be formed spring & summer |
| #1374, aired 1990-07-19 | MUSIC MEN $300 (Daily Double): Blind from birth, this British-born pianist composed the following [Instrumental music plays] George Shearing |
| #1303, aired 1990-04-11 | PEOPLE $200: The cast of "L.A. Law" refers to these married co-stars as "The Tuckerberries" Michael Tucker & Jill Eikenberry |
| #1220, aired 1989-12-15 | SONGS OF THE '60s $500: Title of a 1961 hit, it's what Lonnie Donegan might have asked of Mr. Wrigley, had they met "Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavour (On the Bedpost Overnight?)" |
| #1132, aired 1989-07-04 | FOREIGN FILMS $1,300 (Daily Double): Series of British comedies whose titles ended variously with "Nurse", "Doctor" & "Regardless" Carry On |
| #1115, aired 1989-06-09 | "LAST" $1000: Completes the title of the unauthorized biography of G. Vanderbilt's childhood "Little Gloria..." Little Gloria...Happy at Last |
| #1106, aired 1989-05-29 | LEGAL LINGO $600: From the Latin for "crime", evidence indicating you committed the crime is considered this incriminating |
| #1100, aired 1989-05-19 | AMERICAN HISTORY $2,800 (Daily Double): Evangelist Billy Sunday said, "Goodbye, John Barleycorn" when this was passed in 1919 prohibition |
| #1089, aired 1989-05-04 | BEES $100: A queen bee's job is to rule but to do this to produce young, to fertilize eggs |
| #1081, aired 1989-04-24 | GAMES $200: The 2 possible values assigned to an ace in blackjack 1 & 11 |
| #1073, aired 1989-04-12 | MOVIE DIRECTORS $800: He was z director of "Z" Costa-Gavras |
| #1007, aired 1989-01-10 | KID STUFF $300: Even though they were "baked in a pie", "4 & 20 blackbirds" did this "when the pie was opened" they all began to sing |
| #987, aired 1988-12-13 | AMERICAN REVOLUTION $600: Ben Franklin told his fellow patriots, "We must indeed all hang together" or this shall happen we shall all hang separately |
| #891, aired 1988-06-20 | BIRD OF PREY $600: New World vultures lack this ability because, unlike most birds, they ha\ve no syrinx they cannot call (or sing) |
| #841, aired 1988-04-11 | THE MOVIES $800: Native of Belfast, Northern Ireland who lost the big chariot race to Ben-Hur Stephen Boyd |
| #838, aired 1988-04-06 | "WATER" $5 (Daily Double): It's reported The Rolling Stones took their name from the following blues song by this singer: Muddy Waters |
| #803, aired 1988-02-17 | "K"s IN LITERATURE $1000: This famous Samuel Taylor Coleridge poem about Xanadu was never finished "Kubla Khan" |
| #788, aired 1988-01-27 | "OUNCE" FOR OUNCE $400: In many wedding ceremonies, the preacher says this as he declares the couple married "I now pronounce you man and wife" |
| #772, aired 1988-01-05 | TIME $600: Total, in years, of a millennium, a century, a decade & a year 1,111 |
| #736, aired 1987-11-16 | AKA $400: Born Edith Mariner in Brooklyn, she was nominated for Oscars five times & won for "I Want to Live" Susan Hayward |
| #735, aired 1987-11-13 | TOUGH DISNEY $1,000 (Daily Double): Technical reason the 3rd Mickey Mouse cartoon "Steamboat Willie" was released 1st, on Nov. 18, 1928 because it had sound |
| #673, aired 1987-07-08 | WORLD CAPITALS $1,000 (Daily Double): Alphabetical distinction of the countries whose capitals are Kinshasa, Lusaka, & Harare countries that begin with the letter Z |
| #654, aired 1987-06-11 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD $1,500 (Daily Double): 4 of the 6 South American countries that lie completely south of the equator (4 of) Peru, Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Uruguay & Paraguay |
| #637, aired 1987-05-19 | OSCAR-LOSING SONGS $500 (Daily Double): Celestial songs losing '36 Oscars included "A Melody from the Sky", "When Did You Leave Heaven" & this: [Piano instrumental plays] "Pennies from Heaven" |
| #634, aired 1987-05-14 | PHYSICAL SCIENCE $1,000 (Daily Double): In aerodynamics, 2 of the 4 basic forces that act on an aircraft (2 of) thrust, drag, lift & weight |
| #623, aired 1987-04-29 | POLITICAL QUOTES $400: "You can fool all the people some of the time, & some of the people all of the time, but you can't..." you can't fool all of the people all of the time |
| #608, aired 1987-04-08 | THE BIBLE $1,100 (Daily Double): Of the 8 human passengers on Noah's Ark, these 4 are known by name Shem, Ham, Japheth, Noah |
| #571, aired 1987-02-16 | QUOTES $800: 17th century English diarist known for the phrase "and so to bed" Samuel Pepys |
| #570, aired 1987-02-13 | SHOW BIZ BUSINESS $1,000 (Daily Double): 3 of the 4 founders of United Artists (3 of) Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, Charles Chaplin & D.W. Griffith |
| #568, aired 1987-02-11 | LITERARY TERMS $400: A play ending in disaster, or losing Final Jeopardy! by failing to write response in question form a tragedy |
| #525, aired 1986-12-12 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS $1000: Character in "David Copperfield" who epitomizes the word "unctuous" Uriah Heep |
| #520, aired 1986-12-05 | FOREIGN PHRASES $600: "Hara kiri" is Japanese for cutting this stomach (or intestines) |
| #508, aired 1986-11-19 | HORSES $3,400 (Daily Double): Until reaching this milestone, stallions, geldings & mares alike are known as "maidens" until winning a race |
| #465, aired 1986-09-19 | TV THEMES $200: One of these days, Alice, you're gonna hear its theme - "You're My Greatest Love" The Honeymooners |
| #460, aired 1986-09-12 | BANKRUPTCIES $200: Insolvent companies can file for reorganization under this chapter of U.S. Bankruptcy Code Chapter 11 |
| #416, aired 1986-04-14 | '60s BRITISH ROCK $100: According to their 1965 complaint, it's what the Rolling Stones "can't get" no satisfaction |
| #410, aired 1986-04-04 | "CAN" IT $100 (Daily Double): The following by Pachelbel is an example of this polyphonic form: [Instrumental music plays] canon |
| #331, aired 1985-12-16 | DRAMA $800: The family who awaits "Sunrise at Campobello" in Dore Schary play the Franklin (Delano) Roosevelt family |
| #290, aired 1985-10-18 | ACRONYMS $100: NASA the National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
| #273, aired 1985-09-25 | MOVIE DIRECTORS $1,000 (Daily Double): He wrote the music for many of his films, including the following
"Smile, though your heart is aching / Smile, even though it’s breaking / When there are clouds in the sky / you’ll get by" Charlie Chaplin |
| #267, aired 1985-09-17 | "WOMAN"LY MOVIES $800: In '74, Gena Rowlands played a mad, lower-class housewife who was definitely this A Woman Under the Influence |
| #184, aired 1985-05-23 | SUPERSTITIONS $100: The almost universal response to a sneeze God bless you |
| #182, aired 1985-05-21 | FRANCE $300: Motto of the revolution, it's now the national motto Liberté, égalité, fraternité (liberty, equality & fraternity) |
| #168, aired 1985-05-01 | ECONOMICS $600: Marx said, "Each should work according to his ability and be paid according to" this according to his need |
| #142, aired 1985-03-26 | AMERICAN INDIANS $400: Algonquin tribe for whom New York City’s central island is named Manhattan |
| #142, aired 1985-03-26 | ART $600: Hand Blue Boy holds his hat in the right hand |
| #142, aired 1985-03-26 | SPORTS $1000: ’52 & ’56 Olympic pole vault champ, he was 1984 minor party presidential candidate Bob Richards |
| #133, aired 1985-03-13 | STATE CAPITALS $1,000 (Daily Double): The 2 state capitals whose names come from the same explorer Columbus (Ohio) & Columbia (South Carolina) |
| #121, aired 1985-02-25 | 5-LETTER WORDS $1000: A way to take things lying down prone |
| #102, aired 1985-01-29 | TRAVEL & TOURISM $500 (Daily Double): What 2 countries you would be visiting if you flew from Dacca to Katmandu Bangladesh & Nepal |
| #94, aired 1985-01-17 | "IN"s & "OUT"s $100: The bad guys the outlaws |
| #92, aired 1985-01-15 | UNREAL ESTATE $600: What happens to people who stay in "play town" too long, like Pinocchio they turn into a donkey |
| #59, aired 1984-11-29 | TV ANIMALS $1000: In this series, Starbuck's little friend Boxie had a pet Daggit Battlestar Galactica |
| #1, aired 1983-09-18 | THE SENATE $100: In a letter, the correct form of address for a senator Honorable |
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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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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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Cheech Marin, an actor, comedian, director, writer and musician from Lost
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"He's played a cop on Nash Bridges, voiced a 1959 Chevy...
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Becky Anderson, a retired software specialist originally from Morganton, North Carolina
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Season 25 1-time champion: $16,401 + $2,000. Becky Anderson - A...
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Laura Myers, a senior from the University of Missouri
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2009 College Championship second runner-up: $29,900. 22 and from Richmond, Virginia...
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Inta Antler, a retired computer programmer from Scarborough, Ontario, Canada
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Season 25 1-time champion: $12,700 + $2,000. Inta Antler - A...
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Ryan Chaffee, a tutor from Los Angeles, California
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2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $91,900...
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Mary Ann Stanley, a high school chemistry and physical science teacher from Statesboro, Georgia
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"She's been teaching for 22 years and is now teaching the...
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Aaron Wicks, a planning and evaluation manager from Rochester, New York
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Season 26 1-time champion: $18,001 + 1,000. Aaron Wicks Rochester, NY...
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Emily Heaney, a freelance costume designer from White Bear Lake, Minnesota
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Season 25 1-time champion: $2,200 + $1,000. Last name pronounced like...
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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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Ariella Goldstein, a junior from Muhlenberg College
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2009 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 20 and from Cortlandt Manor,...
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Aaron Thompson, a special assistant from Washington, D.C.
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2006 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 21 3-time champion:...
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Joey Beachum, an Air Force intelligence officer from Conway, Arkansas
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2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2008 College Championship winner: $100,000...
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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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Josh Powell, a phone-based health coach from San Diego, California
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Season 27 3-time champion: $26,900 + $1,000.
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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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Francois Dominic Laramée, a writer and TV personality from Verdun, Quebec, Canada
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Season 25 2-time champion: $46,300 + $1,000. Francois's name was printed...
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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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Andrew Chung, a sophomore from Harvey Mudd College
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2008 College Championship 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $25,000. 20 and...
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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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Elizabeth Galoozis, a reference librarian from Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Season 26 2-time champion: $38,801 + $2,000. Elizabeth Galoozis - A...
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Tom Nissley, an online books editor from Seattle, Washington
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2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2011 Tournament of Champions...
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Andrew Van Duyn, a junior from Wheaton, Illinois
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2011 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 16 at the time of the...
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Scott Menke, a senior from Johns Hopkins University
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2009 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 21 and from Flemington, New Jersey...
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Taylor Gailliot, from Woodbridge, Virginia
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"When asked what she wanted us to know about her, she...
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Vera Swain, a junior from the University of South Carolina
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2008 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 21 and from Charleston, SC...
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Brandon Hensley, a sophomore from Caltech
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2008 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 19 and from Huntington, WV at...
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John Krizel, a green community program coordinator from Beckley, West Virginia
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2011 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $105,204...
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Saad Hasan, a nanotechnology scientist from Nashville, Tennessee
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Season 26 1-time champion: $22,700 + $2,000. Saad Hasan Nashville, TN...
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Thomas Horn, a twelve-year-old from Piedmont, California
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"He plans on making the world a better place as an...
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Robert Knecht Schmidt, a patent agent from Cleveland, Ohio
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Season 26 1-time champion: $12,799 + $1,000. Middle name pronounced like...
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Marty Scott, an assistant district attorney from Forney, Texas
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Season 26 3-time champion: $64,002 + $2,000. Marty won $250,000 on...
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Andy Davis, a Chyron operator from South Boston, Massachusetts
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Season 25 2-time champion: $49,799 + $1,000. Andy Davis - A...
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Mark Petterson, a senior from the University of Kansas
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2009 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 21 and from Prairie Village,...
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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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David Venderbush, a lawyer from New York, New York
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"His 5 wins in 1993 came just in time to pay...
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Chloé White, a senior from Mission Hills, Kansas
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2005 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Catherine Carson, a fourth grade language arts, math, and social studies teacher from Washington, D.C.
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"She is new to teaching--she's in her second year. From Washington,...
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Meg Walker, an eleven-year-old from Brandon, Mississippi
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"She wants to help people with disabilities have a better life...
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Zach Safford, a senior from Williams College
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"His early interest in cryptozoology has been replaced by a history...
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Erin McLean, a sophomore from Boston University from Danvers, Massachusetts
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2011 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 2010-B College Championship winner:...
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Graham Gilmer, a senior from Lynchburg, Virginia
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2001 Teen...
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Kermin Fleming, a student from Lexington, Kentucky
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2006 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions...
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Madeline Suchard, from Placentia, California
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"She has her sights set on becoming the Supreme Court Justice,...
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Larissa Charnsangavej, a senior from Rice University
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2009 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 21 and from Houston, Texas at...
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Isaac Mizrahi, a fashion designer and TV personality from the QVC Network
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"His fashion designs are a favorite among celebrities on the red...
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William Garrett, a 12-year-old from Greenfield, Indiana
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"Serving his country as an officer in the military is his...
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Kyle Kahan, a senior from Texas A&M University from Houston, Texas
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2010-B College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000 + a Nintendo Wii +...
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Anna Han, a sophomore from Penn State University
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2007 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 19 at the time of the...
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Bruce Lin, a research scientist originally from Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
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Season 22 3-time champion: $54,599 + $2,000. On his first appearance,...
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Amy Fletcher, a junior from Cincinnati, Ohio
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2005 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500.
16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Kerri Regan, a senior from Bethpage, New York
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2005 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. 17 at the time of the...
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Steve Chernicoff, a technical writer from Berkeley, California
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"He was one of the top 1-day winners in the 1994-95...
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Emily Sturtz, from Parsippany, New Jersey
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"Because she would like to help people, she wants to become...
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Orlando Zambrano, a junior from Tampa, Florida
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2005 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $5,000.
16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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