| #9384, aired 2025-07-24 | REALITY TV $800: In 2025, this Bond girl & former Beverly Hills housewife starred with her daughters & husband in her own series Denise Richards |
| #9377, aired 2025-07-15 | DOING TIME TOGETHER $1600: Too real, housewife! Jen Shah of "Salt Lake City" became federal prison pals with this woman, founder of Theranos Holmes |
| #9184, aired 2024-10-17 | THE BOOKS OF MORMONS $1600: A book called "Unmask Alice" tells how Utah housewife Beatrice Sparks wrote this supposed teenage diary Go Ask Alice |
| #8867, aired 2023-05-09 | NOVELS $400: In the '90s this novel was unavoidable, down to a parody called "The Ditches of Edison County" about lonely housewife Pancetta The Bridges of Madison County |
| #8532, aired 2021-12-14 | POP CULTURE MR. OR MRS. $400: Rachel Brosnahan is marvelous in her role as this Jewish housewife-turned-comedian the Marvelous Mrs. Maisel |
| #8515, aired 2021-11-19 | LIKE A NATURALIZED WOMAN $400: Last name of Dutch-born "Real Housewife" Yolanda, mom of Gigi & Bella, who got her U.S. citizenship in 2013 Hadid |
| #8295, aired 2020-12-04 | ACTRESSES $600: In 2005, she won an Emmy playing desperate housewife Lynette Scavo Felicity Huffman |
| #8285, aired 2020-11-20 | POTPOURRI $200: This Real Housewife of Atlanta is married to Greg Leakes NeNe Leakes |
| #8163, aired 2020-02-19 | INFLUENTIAL WRITING $1000: An unfulfilled housewife in this feminist classic by Betty Friedan asks, "Is this all?" The Feminine Mystique |
| #8122, aired 2019-12-24 | CELEBRITY COUPLES $800: This Real Housewife of Beverly Hills is Mrs. Harry Hamlin Lisa Rinna |
| #7938, aired 2019-02-27 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN ACTRESSES $400: She's played a Desperate Housewife & the scheming Wilhemina on "Ugly Betty" (Vanessa) Williams |
| #7931, aired 2019-02-18 | SAVING THE ANIMALS $800: This TV housewife rules in her devotion to animal welfare through her foundation & rescue center (Lisa) Vanderpump |
| #7447, aired 2017-01-17 | A TRIPLE FEATURE $2000: Joanne Woodward won an Oscar for playing a Georgia housewife with multiple personalities in this 1957 film The Three Faces of Eve |
| #7339, aired 2016-07-07 | POST HASTE $1000: It's German for "housewife" hausfrau |
| #7315, aired 2016-06-03 | TV IN ALL FORMS $800: Once a "Desperate Housewife" , today she stars in "Telenovela", a sitcom poking fun at Latin American soap operas (Eva) Longoria |
| #7102, aired 2015-06-30 | WHOLE LOTTA LOVE BOAT $800: Before she was a desperate housewife, she was a Love Boat "mermaid" who danced at the ship's club Teri Hatcher |
| #6332, aired 2012-03-13 | 18th CENTURY AMERICA $400: Every Colonial home had to have "The Compleat Housewife", an early collection of "receipts", i.e. this type of book a cookbook |
| #6266, aired 2011-12-12 | COOKBOOKS $1000: This Bravo star & former "New York Housewife" offers up some easy & healthy recipes in "The Skinnygirl Dish" Bethenny Frankel |
| #6220, aired 2011-10-07 | SPLITSVILLE $400: Rumors of Tony Parker's infidelity swirled when this Desperate Housewife filed for divorce in 2010 Eva Longoria |
| #6041, aired 2010-12-13 | LITERATURE SEQUELS? $400: He jazzed up one of his stories, "The Wife of Bath's Tale", with "The Desperate Housewife of Bath's Revenge!" Chaucer |
| #5889, aired 2010-04-01 | MERYL STREEP MOVIE ROLES $600: Lonely Iowa housewife Francesca Johnson The Bridges of Madison County |
| #5749, aired 2009-09-17 | DESPERADO HOUSEWIVES $1200: In 2009 a housewife who practiced file-sharing was found to have infringed these on 24 songs & hit with a $2 mil. judgment copyright |
| #5656, aired 2009-03-23 | FASHION FORWARD & BACKWARD $400: retro-housewife.com calls a '70s-style tunic in a '60s print a "mippie", a blend of mod & this word hippie |
| #5429, aired 2008-03-27 | CLINT EASTWOOD: A CAREER IN HOLLYWOOD $400: Meryl Streep played an Iowa housewife who has a brief affair with Clint Eastwood in this film The Bridges of Madison County |
| #5340, aired 2007-11-23 | 1960s TV $2000: In 1964 Mary Tyler Moore won her first Emmy, as this New Rochelle housewife Laura Petrie (on the Dick Van Dyke Show) |
| #5028, aired 2006-06-21 | THE DESPERATE HOUSEWIFE WHO... $200: ...got an Oscar nomination in 2006 Felicity Huffman |
| #5028, aired 2006-06-21 | THE DESPERATE HOUSEWIFE WHO... $400: ...showered a little too much affection on Terrell Owens on "Monday Night Football" Nicollette Sheridan |
| #5028, aired 2006-06-21 | THE DESPERATE HOUSEWIFE WHO... $600: ...appeared on the cover of the April 2006 Vanity Fair Teri Hatcher |
| #5028, aired 2006-06-21 | THE DESPERATE HOUSEWIFE WHO... $800: ...literally blew up "Melrose Place" as Dr. Kimberly Shaw Marcia Cross |
| #5028, aired 2006-06-21 | THE DESPERATE HOUSEWIFE WHO... $1000: ...has a B.S. in kinesiology & was No. 1 on Maxim Magazine's "Hot 100" list Eva Longoria |
| #4792, aired 2005-06-07 | MOVIE LOCATIONS $2000: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from Delos, Greece.) In this 1989 film, a frustrated Liverpool housewife finds love, leisure & liberation here on the islands of Greece Shirley Valentine |
| #4719, aired 2005-02-24 | DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES $1,600 (Daily Double): This organization was founded by 214-pound housewife Jean Nidetch in the early 1960s Weight Watchers |
| #4655, aired 2004-11-26 | FRAIDY CAT $200: Suriphobia, fear of these, may set a housewife screaming while standing on a kitchen chair mice |
| #4508, aired 2004-03-24 | BEFORE & AFTER $400: Joan Crawford won an Oscar as this housewife-turned-waitress who went on to play James Bond Mildred Pierce Brosnan |
| #4366, aired 2003-09-08 | STAND BY YOUR BRAND $600: "The most famous person who never existed", she was invented by admen to represent the average housewife Betty Crocker |
| #4278, aired 2003-03-19 | MAD $600: Back in the '60s Sue Kaufman wrote the "Diary of a Mad" this Housewife |
| #4087, aired 2002-05-14 | "U"2 $400: A Hamburg housewife a hausfrau |
| #3926, aired 2001-10-01 | MUSTN'T SEE TV $800: In 1989 housewife Terry Rakolta tried to get advertisers & viewers to boycott this Fox sitcom Married... with Children |
| #3899, aired 2001-07-12 | A FORD IN YOUR PAST $1,000 (Daily Double): In a Shakespeare play, Mistress Ford was a housewife in this town Windsor |
| #3857, aired 2001-05-15 | 4-LETTER VERBS $500: A housewife might do it to the mantle; a forensic expert would do it to look for fingerprints Dust |
| #3800, aired 2001-02-23 | A RANDOM HOUSE DICTIONARY $400: A woman who hangs out with her kids watching TV, or who supervises Cub Scouts a den mother |
| #3539, aired 2000-01-13 | LEADING LADIES $1000: She won an Oscar for playing housewife-turned-waitress Mildred Pierce Joan Crawford |
| #3456, aired 1999-09-20 | COFFEE $1000: This corporation bears the first name of a German housewife who invented the drip coffee filter in 1908 Melitta (Benz) |
| #3431, aired 1999-07-05 | "HOUSE" MUSIC $1000: In 1968 Glen Campbell sang of "The Dreams of" this woman the everyday housewife |
| #3375, aired 1999-04-16 | LADIES HOME JOURNAL $500: A housewife is also known as a homemaker or one of these "engineers" Domestic engineer |
| #3211, aired 1998-07-13 | CLIFFS NOTES $1,000 (Daily Double): Bored French housewife commits adultery; commits herself to huge debt; commits suicide Madame Bovary |
| #3102, aired 1998-02-10 | REEL MOTHERS $100: Kathleen Turner is a psychopathic housewife on a killing spree in this 1994 John Waters comedy Serial Mom |
| #3045, aired 1997-11-21 | POLITICALLY INCORRECT $400: A 1989 protest by a Michigan housewife against this Fox sitcom only boosted its popularity Married... With Children |
| #2991, aired 1997-09-08 | LET'S SPEAK SWAHILI $600: We wonder if a Swahili-speaking housewife cleans up before this person, the mtumishi wa kike, comes the maid |
| #2883, aired 1997-02-26 | ACTRESSES & TV ROLE $200: Pert Kelton, Audrey Meadows, Sue Ann Langdon & Sheila MacRae played this "greatest" housewife Alice Kramden |
| #2395, aired 1995-01-20 | ENDS WITH "Y" $1000: This word for a saucy or brazen woman is derived from an early form of the word "housewife" hussy |
| #1336, aired 1990-05-28 | NONFICTION $200: Published in 1742, "The Complete Housewife" was the first of this type of book in the U.S. a cookbook |
| #1314, aired 1990-04-26 | "M" & "M"s $300: Greer Garson won an Oscar in 1943 for her portrayal of this courageous British housewife Mrs. Miniver |
| #1016, aired 1989-01-23 | POLITICAL QUOTES $400: This president compared herself to "A crusading housewife let loose in a den of...thieves" Corazon Aquino |
| #776, aired 1988-01-11 | THIS IS JEOPARDY! $500 (Daily Double): Voice heard here on the debut show March 30, 1964:
"And now, entering the studio are today's contestants--this is Mrs. Mary Eubanks, a housewife from Candor, North Carolina..." Don Pardo |
| #695, aired 1987-09-18 | MUSIC PEOPLE $500 (Daily Double): Singer heard here, Alice Cooper called her "The Queen of Housewife Rock":
"In the morning fun when no one will be drinking any more wine / I'll wake the sun..." Helen Reddy |
| #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 |
| #191, aired 1985-06-03 | THE '50s $1000: 1956 bestseller about the other life of Colorado housewife Virginia Tighe The Search for Bridey Murphy |
| #189, aired 1985-05-30 | HAVE A "HART" $100: Fernwood housewife, Fernwood housewife Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman |
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Lois Rosenfeld, a housewife from Los Angeles, California
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1992 Seniors Tournament semifinalist: $5,000.
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Pat Whitehead, a housewife and grad student from Wall, New Jersey
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Season 10 player (1993-12-13).
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Janet Stevenson, a housewife originally from Sioux City, Iowa
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Season 3 3-time champion: $15,100.
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Leslie Goodman-Malamuth, a freelance writer and housewife from Washington, D.C.
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Season 4 1-time champion: $12,801 + a Broyhill Queen Anne style...
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Marianna Dwyer Phillips, a housewife from Crofton, Maryland
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Season 5 player (1989-04-21).
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Saranda Schlotter, a housewife and caterer from Thousand Oaks, California
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Season 5 1-time champion: $11,600.
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Kathy Stone, a housewife from Austin, Texas
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Season 8 player (1992-04-13).
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Mary Anne Green, a housewife originally from Merrillville, Indiana
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Season 8 player (1992-01-30).
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Sue Garfinkel, a housewife and a horse breeder from East Windsor, New Jersey
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Season 2 player (1986-05-01).
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Charlene Hofferstad, a housewife from North Haven, Connecticut
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Season 3 player (1987-01-05).
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Colleen Ligibel, a housewife from Mission Hills, Kansas
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Season 5 player (1988-12-20).
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Vonetta Lapidow, a housewife from Essex Junction, Vermont
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1990 Seniors Tournament quarterfinalist: $1,000.
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Helen Druva, a housewife from Alexandria, Virginia
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1993 Seniors Tournament quarterfinalist: $1,000.
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Elle Hood, a housewife and attorney from Camarillo, California
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Season 4 player (1988-05-23).
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Roz Jay, a housewife from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Season 7 player (1991-03-25).
Mother of Season 35 player Kate Jay Zweifler.
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Ilsa Kahn, a housewife and teacher's aide from Encino, California
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Season 2 player (1986-04-21).
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Eileen Dreyer, a housewife from Brooklyn, New York
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Season 3 player (1987-07-16).
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Anne Fescharek, a housewife from Brielle, New Jersey
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Season 10 player (1994-04-07).
Last name pronounced like "FESH-wreck".
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Kay Guesdon, a housewife from Sherman Oaks, California
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Season 3 player (1986-09-15).
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Kathleen Guzzi, a housewife from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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Season 2 player (1986-05-30).
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Anne Summers, a housewife originally from Calgary, Canada
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Season 3 1-time champion: $7,000.
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Nancy Dorn, a housewife from Denver, Colorado
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Season 5 player (1989-05-30).
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Agatha Pope, a housewife from Hillsdale, New Jersey
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Season 9 player (1992-10-22).
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Jane Meggitt, a housewife and mother from Aberdeen, New Jersey
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Season 5 player (1988-09-08).
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Linda O'Neill, a housewife from Bethesda, Maryland
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Season 11 player (1994-09-28).
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Elizabeth Goss, a housewife from Pleasant Ridge, Michigan
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Season 35 1-time champion: $4,799 + $2,000.
Last name pronounced like "GOWSS".
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Mary Williams Stone, a housewife from Wilmette, Illinois
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Season 9 player (1992-09-29).
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Linda Sheppard, a housewife from Hayward, California
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1993 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $1,000.
Season 9 4-time champion: $39,700.
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Kay Hoey, a housewife from Bradenton Beach, Florida
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1995-B Seniors Tournament quarterfinalist: $1,000.
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Peg Smith, a housewife from Madeira Beach, Florida
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Season 3 player (1987-04-09).
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Merle Glickman, a housewife from Evanston, Illinois
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Season 9 player (1993-04-06). Merle appeared in the 1960s and 1970s...
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Karen Larson, a housewife from Tiburon, California
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Season 5 player (1989-06-20).
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Mary Sinning, a housewife originally from New Jersey
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Season 4 player (1987-10-08).
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Sara Heard, a housewife from Brooklyn, New York
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Season 27 4-time champion: $85,601 + $2,000. Sara was the alternate...
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Linda Shewey, a housewife from Richmond, Virginia
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Season 3 2-time champion: $14,000.
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Phyllis Grinell, a housewife from New York City, New York
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Season 2 1-time champion: $8,000. Phyllis died 2006-12-20 at the age...
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Karol Herbie, a housewife from Ballwin, Missouri
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Season 2 1-time champion: $8,300.
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Lucinda Sabino, a housewife and writer from Rochester, Michigan
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Season 20 player (2004-07-05).
KJL game 24.
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Theresa Wrobel, a housewife and student from Kansas City, Missouri
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Season 9 player (1992-12-30). Theresa was born in Banbury, England to...
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Thomas L. Friedman, an author and foreign affairs columnist from The New York Times
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"He has won three Pulitzer Prizes and authored six best sellers,...
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Norma Walch, a housewife and part-time teacher from Del Rey Oaks, California
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Season 2 player (1985-12-20).
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Gail Scheer, a restaurateur and housewife originally from New York City
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Season 3 player (1986-10-28).
Spelling of last name uncertain.
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Susan Brown, a housewife and mother from West Hartford, Connecticut
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Season 4 player (1988-02-23). Not to be confused with Season 9...
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Mary Jane Dreyer, a housewife from Ridgewood, New Jersey
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Season 8 player (1991-12-05). Mary Jane won two games (losing her...
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Jennith Thomas, a housewife from Dumas, Texas
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Season 4 player (1988-07-11).
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Karen Wegenke, a housewife from Sun Prairie, Wisconsin
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Season 24 player (2008-07-01).
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Sharon Duke, a housewife from San Diego, California
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Season 4 player (1987-09-11).
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Chris Pietrandrea, a housewife originally from Koppel, Pennsylvania
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Season 8 player (1992-02-12).
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Mary Kay Schmidt, a housewife and volunteer from Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin
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Season 24 1-time champion: $22,400 + $2,000.
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Lynda Weiner, a housewife and neighborhood geographer from Daly City, California
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Season 13 player (1997-03-04).
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Cheryl Van Middlesworth, a housewife from Cerritos, California
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Season 4 4-time champion: $36,900 + the Jeopardy! home game.
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Jeri Anderson, a housewife from Las Vegas, Nevada
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Season 4 2-time champion: $12,800.
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Susanne Sutton, a housewife from Atlanta, Georgia
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Season 15 player (1999-03-24).
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Markee Bourget, a housewife from West Saint Paul, Minnesota
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1989 Senior Tournament semifinalist: $5,000.
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Jane Barnes, a housewife from Parker, Texas
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Season 17 player (2001-02-23).
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Ronnie O'Rourke, a homemaker from Marietta, Georgia
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Season 18 1-time champion: $2,000 + $2,000. Ronnie describes her experience...
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Linda Sheppard, a housewife from Hayward, California
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1993 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $1,000.
Season 9 4-time champion: $39,700.
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Margaret Schwind, a housewife from Rockville, Maryland
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Season 11 player (1995-04-12).
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Donna Rosen, a housewife from Studio City, California
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Season 17 1-time champion: $9,000.
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Chandreyi Ghosh, a housewife from Atlanta, Georgia
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Season 32 1-time champion: $34,401 + $2,000.
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Patti Demerirjian, a housewife from Dayton, Ohio
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Season 3 player (1987-07-01).
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Rosemary Lancos, a housewife originally from Cleveland, Ohio
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Season 9 player (1993-04-08).
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Alison Carey, a housewife from Cleveland Heights, Ohio
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Season 33 player (2016-12-06).
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Judi Greenberg, a housewife from Northbrook, Illinois
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Season 4 1-time champion: $3,500. Season 3 player (1987-01-08). Judi was...
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Gina Ruttle, a housewife from Palos Park, Illinois
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Season 14 player (1997-09-10).
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Merle Milder, a housewife from Edison, New Jersey
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Season 14 1-time champion: $10,600. Merle won $5,000 on Who Wants...
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Laura Crain, a student and housewife from New Orleans, Louisiana
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Season 9 player (1993-03-03).
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Elliot Shteir, an attorney from Somerville, New Jersey
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1995-A Seniors Tournament 1st runner-up: $10,000. Dr. Elliot Shteir won $8,230...
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Judi Greenberg, a housewife from Northbrook, Illinois
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Season 4 1-time champion: $3,500. Season 3 player (1987-01-08). Judi was...
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Barbara Brown, a retired housewife from Baton Rouge, Louisiana
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Season 27 player (2010-10-28).
Mother of Season 27 player James Brown.
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Vicki Reed, a housewife from Upland, California
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Season 2 player (1985-10-23).
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Ann Rusthoven, a housewife from Florence, South Carolina
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Season 26 player (2010-03-04).
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Linda Marshall, a housewife from Great Falls, Virginia
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Season 3 player (2009-06-23).
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Burns Cameron, a realtor from Standish, Maine
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1990 Super Jeopardy! quarterfinalist: $5,000. Burns appeared on the original version...
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Tricia Schroyer, a housewife and freelance seamstress from Pensacola, Florida
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Season 14 player (1998-06-24).
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Pat Kennedy, a housewife, mother, and substitute teacher from Holland, Pennsylvania
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Season 24 player (2007-10-29).
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Lynda Tuennerman, a housewife from Cleveland, Ohio
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Season 16 player (1999-12-15).
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Barbara Frascelli, a housewife and mother from Staten Island, New York
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Season 24 player (2007-10-19).
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Nathalie Henderson, a housewife from Baton Rouge, Louisiana
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Season 23 1-time champion: $30,400 + $1,000.
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Susan Lee, a housewife from Glencoe, Illinois
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Season 13 player (1997-07-02).
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Lisa Newman, a housewife from Ventura, California
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Season 13 player (1997-06-27).
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Glenda Wells, a housewife from Dahlgren, Illinois
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Season 6 player (1990-03-26).
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Gretchen Pruett, a housewife and student from Saugerties, New York
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Season 6 player (1990-03-08).
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Isabel Leininger, a housewife originally from Maryland
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Season 6 player (1990-02-26).
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