| #9087, aired 2024-04-23 | RELAX, IT'S MATH $200: From Latin for "twice" & "cut", it means to divide a line or figure into 2 equal parts bisect |
| #9087, aired 2024-04-23 | RELAX, IT'S MATH $400: "Like fractions" have the same this, making it easy to add & subtract them denominators |
| #9087, aired 2024-04-23 | RELAX, IT'S MATH $600: In a Tom Lehrer song, a movie called "The Eternal Triangle" stars Ingrid Bergman as this longest side of a right triangle a hypotenuse |
| #9087, aired 2024-04-23 | RELAX, IT'S MATH $800: It's a constant that multiplies a variable; in physics, there's a well-known one "of friction" a coefficient |
| #9087, aired 2024-04-23 | RELAX, IT'S MATH $1000: These coordinates named for a 17th c. man describe the position of points in space in relation to an x-axis & y-axis Cartesian |
| #9073, aired 2024-04-03 | MATH TALK $400: It's a demonstrably true mathematical statement; calculus has a "fundamental" one theorem |
| #9073, aired 2024-04-03 | MATH TALK $800: Fire up the engine of your mind & name this solid figure with equal & parallel circles at either end a cylinder |
| #9073, aired 2024-04-03 | MATH TALK $1200: Multiply the numerator of one fraction by the denominator of another (& vice versa) to get their "cross" this product |
| #9073, aired 2024-04-03 | MATH TALK $1600: See if you can pick off this term for the point at which a line or curve crosses an axis the intercept |
| #9073, aired 2024-04-03 | MATH TALK $2000: In 19 - 5 = 14 19 is the minuend; 5 is this other "end" the subtrahend |
| #9061, aired 2024-03-18 | & 5 SIDES $800: Carl Friedrich Gauss solved a math puzzle by constructing a regular-sided heptadecagon, a figure with this many sides 17 |
| #9060, aired 2024-03-15 | TYPES OF POEMS $1,000 (Daily Double): A villanelle is a 19-line poem consisting of 5 tercets & a concluding (do the math) one of these a quatrain |
| #9054, aired 2024-03-07 | BOY GENIUS $4,000 (Daily Double): Losing his brother Giulio 1915, he buried his grief in math & physics & soon wowed the admissions panel at college in Pisa Fermi |
| #9053, aired 2024-03-06 | MIDDLE X $800: This math adjective that means having a common axis often precedes "cable" coaxial |
| #9046, aired 2024-02-26 | LET'S AUDIT A COLLEGE COURSE $400: Math 0407, linear algebra & matrix theory, does not sound like an easy A at this HBCU founded by Booker T. Washington Tuskegee |
| #9031, aired 2024-02-05 | FINAL RESTING PLACES $1600: This scientist's sarcophagus at Westminster Abbey shows him leaning on 4 books that include "Opticks" & "Philo. Prin. Math" Newton |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | COLLEGE-LEVEL HISTORY COURSES $300: Rice boasts that its "20th Century American Presidents" course covers the span of Theodore Roosevelt to this 42nd president (Bill) Clinton |
| #9021, aired 2024-01-22 | THE JOB IS THE MOVIE TITLE $1000: It was Ben Affleck's turn to be a math whiz when the books were cooking in this 2016 action film, & Ben did more than the title implies The Accountant |
| #23, aired 2024-01-02 | GEOGRAPHY & A LITTLE MATH $200: "P" + a country that uses the ruble as its currency = this historic German realm Prussia |
| #23, aired 2024-01-02 | GEOGRAPHY & A LITTLE MATH $400: Central U.S. state + "polis" = this capital city of that same state Indianapolis |
| #23, aired 2024-01-02 | GEOGRAPHY & A LITTLE MATH $600: A West African country + "IA" = this other West African country Nigeria |
| #23, aired 2024-01-02 | GEOGRAPHY & A LITTLE MATH $800: "Ar" + a central U.S. state = this other central U.S. state Arkansas |
| #23, aired 2024-01-02 | GEOGRAPHY & A LITTLE MATH $1000: "As" + a Middle Eastern country = this ancient empire Assyria |
| #23, aired 2024-01-02 | SOJOURNER TRUTH $1200: In this year when America celebrated its 50th anniversary of independence, Truth sought her independence by escaping bondage 1826 |
| #8993, aired 2023-12-13 | OSCAR, MEYER, WIENER $2000: Best known for his science of cybernetics, this math professor graduated from college in 1909 at age 14 Norbert Wiener |
| #8992, aired 2023-12-12 | I'M ABSOLUTELY SURE $400: There are this many feet in 2 statute miles 10,560 |
| #8986, aired 2023-12-04 | MATH $400: It's the absolute value of negative 143 143 |
| #8986, aired 2023-12-04 | MATH $800: A sexagesimal system is based on this number 60 |
| #8986, aired 2023-12-04 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $800: As well as kids' books, this 19th century author wrote "Examples in Arithmetic" & other math textbooks (Lewis) Carroll |
| #8986, aired 2023-12-04 | MATH $1200: Also a type of equation, it describes functions of the form
f(x) = ax2 + bx + c quadratic |
| #8986, aired 2023-12-04 | MATH $1600: The area of a parallelogram equals b times h, short for these 2 measures base & height |
| #8986, aired 2023-12-04 | MATH $2000: Calculated as the ratio of s to r, this measure of an angle is similar to the word that r stands for a radian |
| #8969, aired 2023-11-09 | MATH SYMBOLS $400: The integral symbol seen here, created by Leibniz, is a stylized "S", standing for this word sum (summation) |
| #8969, aired 2023-11-09 | MATH SYMBOLS $800: Instead of a decimal point, the French use this common punctuation mark comma |
| #8969, aired 2023-11-09 | MATH SYMBOLS $1200: When you've used parentheses & brackets, it's time for these braces |
| #8969, aired 2023-11-09 | MATH SYMBOLS $1600: An arrow with a dot at the non-pointed end indicates this, also a male first name a ray |
| #8969, aired 2023-11-09 | MATH SYMBOLS $2000: This extreme symbol indicates a square root; when used with a raised 3, a cube root a radical |
| #18, aired 2023-10-25 | PLEASE, ANYTHING BUT "MATH" $300: Seen here, the U.S. Constitution says the president must take one of these before entering office an oath |
| #18, aired 2023-10-25 | PLEASE, ANYTHING BUT "MATH" $600: A popular British dish of sausage & potatoes is called bangers & this mash |
| #18, aired 2023-10-25 | PLEASE, ANYTHING BUT "MATH" $900: A common way to greet a friend in Australia is to say "G'day," this Mate |
| #18, aired 2023-10-25 | PLEASE, ANYTHING BUT "MATH" $1200: Seen here, the Romans really soaked up in this English city, named one of the great spa towns of Europe Bath |
| #18, aired 2023-10-25 | PLEASE, ANYTHING BUT "MATH" $1500: This number is the measure of an aircraft's speed compared to the speed of sound--the Concorde's was as high as 2.04 Mach |
| #8952, aired 2023-10-17 | SORT THROUGH THE WORD PROBLEM $200: If train A leaves Oamaru at 9 a.m. at 70 mph & train B leaves Timaru at 1 p.m. going 80, this will still be New Zealand's capital Wellington |
| #8951, aired 2023-10-16 | YOU DO THE MATH $400: Jim has 6 apples,
Billy has 4,
Michele has 2 &
Debbie has 8 for an average of this many 5 |
| #8951, aired 2023-10-16 | YOU DO THE MATH $800: It's the sum of any integer & its negative 0 |
| #8951, aired 2023-10-16 | YOU DO THE MATH $1200: It's 44 plus 7,
minus 23,
times 10,
divided by 2 140 |
| #8951, aired 2023-10-16 | YOU DO THE MATH $1600: If 5 chickens each lay an egg every Monday, Wednesday & Friday only, it'll take this many weeks to make a 30-egg omelet 2 |
| #8951, aired 2023-10-16 | YOU DO THE MATH $2000: The fraction here reduces to this 4k3 |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | A BUNDLE OF "FUN" $200: After splitting with Paul Simon in the early seventies, he briefly left music and taught math Art Garfunkel |
| #8942, aired 2023-10-03 | LITERARY BIOGRAPHY $400: A book about Poe "& the forging of American science" points out that in his one year at this school, Edgar was great at math West Point |
| #8908, aired 2023-07-05 | MATH ABBREVIATIONS & SYMBOLS $400: The symbol for a right angle looks like this letter L |
| #8908, aired 2023-07-05 | MATH ABBREVIATIONS & SYMBOLS $800: This trigonometric function is abbreviated csc cosecant |
| #8908, aired 2023-07-05 | MATH ABBREVIATIONS & SYMBOLS $1200: 2 positive integers are considered relatively prime if their GCD, short for this, equals 1 greatest common denominator (or divisor) |
| #8908, aired 2023-07-05 | MATH ABBREVIATIONS & SYMBOLS $1600: In logic, IFF stands for this phrase that begins & ends with the same word if and only if |
| #8908, aired 2023-07-05 | MATH ABBREVIATIONS & SYMBOLS $2000: 3 x 2 x 1 can also be expressed as 3!, & the ! refers to this factorial |
| #8897, aired 2023-06-20 | THERE WILL BE MATH $400: It's a story's line of development, or a portion of a circle's circumference arc |
| #8897, aired 2023-06-20 | THERE WILL BE MATH $800: Let's crunch the numbers:
It's the least common multiple of 4 & 10 20 |
| #8897, aired 2023-06-20 | THERE WILL BE MATH $1200: The symbol tells you this is the relation between A & B a subset of B |
| #8897, aired 2023-06-20 | THERE WILL BE MATH $1600: It's the law that says a(b+c) = ab + ac the distributive law |
| #8897, aired 2023-06-20 | THERE WILL BE MATH $2000: Legend says facing a teacher's make-work task to add up the first hundred positive integers, Carl Gauss quickly saw 50 pairs each totaling this 101 |
| #8890, aired 2023-06-09 | EPONYMOUS SCIENCE $2000: Born in 1815, this English math man gave us many eponymous things: algebra, logic, search & operators (George) Boole |
| #1, aired 2023-05-08 | MATHSTERS $400: Emmy Noether was an innovator in the higher levels of this math branch that uses letters in place of specific numbers algebra |
| #1, aired 2023-05-08 | MATHSTERS $1200: In the 1990s Andrew Wiles--subsequently Sir Andrew Wiles--shook up the math world by proving this 17th century man's "last theorem" Fermat |
| #1, aired 2023-05-08 | MATHSTERS $2000: Called a Mozart of math, Terence Tao became a UCLA prof at 24 & won this "Nobel Prize of Math" at 31 a Fields Medal |
| #8863, aired 2023-05-03 | HOMOPHONES $2000: Tactful & in math, countable discreet/discrete |
| #8830, aired 2023-03-17 | "TRI" ME $1000: In math
2a2 + 6a + 9 is one of these expressions a trinomial |
| #8829, aired 2023-03-16 | LETTER PERFECT $2000: In math it's an irrational constant beginning 2.71828, getting its letter from a man named Leonhard e |
| #8818, aired 2023-03-01 | I'M SORRY, THERE'S MORE MATH $200: For 3 & 5, 15 is the LCM, short for this least common multiple |
| #8818, aired 2023-03-01 | I'M SORRY, THERE'S MORE MATH $400: It's the cinematic term for the type of array seen here matrix |
| #8818, aired 2023-03-01 | I'M SORRY, THERE'S MORE MATH $600: 4πr2 gives the surface area of one of these 3-dimensional shapes a sphere |
| #8818, aired 2023-03-01 | I'M SORRY, THERE'S MORE MATH $800: Equal to about 57.2958 degrees, it's the angular measurement made by wrapping half the diameter around a circle a radian |
| #8818, aired 2023-03-01 | I'M SORRY, THERE'S MORE MATH $1000: The domain is the set of values that can be input into a function; the set of possible outputs is called this expanse the range |
| #8813, aired 2023-02-22 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $2000: One of the Claremont Colleges, it's named for a mining engineer & focuses on engineering, science & math Harvey Mudd |
| #8811, aired 2023-02-20 | CROSSWORD CLUES "T" $600: Math term for a digression
(7 letters) a tangent |
| #8807, aired 2023-02-14 | THE GHOST OF TOM JOAD $2000: Remember Tom if you visit Bakersfield; he did too--specifically the outskirts & this kind of place named for a president (a) Hooverville |
| #8805, aired 2023-02-10 | AN ENDLESS CATEGORY $800: Do the math: Seen here, the symbol for this dates back to the 17th century infinity |
| #8794, aired 2023-01-26 | WORKING 9 2 5 $1000: A standard 88-key piano has this many white keys 52 |
| #8763, aired 2022-12-14 | THE NONFICTION SECTION $1600: Cathy O'Neil's "Weapons of" this punning kind of "Destruction" looks at how algorithms & big data control us Math |
| #8750, aired 2022-11-25 | DO THE MATH $200: It's the square root of the square root of 81 3 |
| #8750, aired 2022-11-25 | DO THE MATH $400: If the legs of a right triangle are 3 inches & 4 inches, this is the length of the hypotenuse 5 |
| #8750, aired 2022-11-25 | DO THE MATH $600: 1/2 of 1/2 of 1/4 equals this fraction 1/16 |
| #8750, aired 2022-11-25 | DO THE MATH $800: It's 12% of 75 9 |
| #8750, aired 2022-11-25 | DO THE MATH $1000: It's the value of y at the point where a graph of the equation y = x + 1 crosses the y axis y = 1 |
| #8746, aired 2022-11-21 | LET'S DO THE MATH $400: In math, LCD stands for this lowest common denominator |
| #8746, aired 2022-11-21 | LET'S DO THE MATH $800: If x = -10,
this is the additive inverse of x 10 |
| #8746, aired 2022-11-21 | LET'S DO THE MATH $1200: A line that divides a curve into two mirror images is called its axis of this symmetry |
| #8746, aired 2022-11-21 | LET'S DO THE MATH $1600: This term for one side of a right triangle comes from Greek for "stretching under" hypotenuse |
| #8746, aired 2022-11-21 | LET'S DO THE MATH $2000: Circles, ellipses, parabolas & hyperbolas are these sections, created by the intersection of a plane with a three-dimensional figure conic sections |
| #8736, aired 2022-11-07 | A CRASH OF SYMBOLS $1600: Similar to one in math, in music, the symbol here means this gradual lessening in loudness decrescendo |
| #6, aired 2022-10-30 | PRETTY LITTLE LIES $500: How's this for a flex? You just got back from the gym, & get this, you dead-lifted a ton & a half, this many pounds 3,000 |
| #8726, aired 2022-10-24 | MATH CLASS $400: One of these is a straight one-dimensional figure that extends infinitely in both directions a line |
| #8726, aired 2022-10-24 | MATH CLASS $800: Abbreviated log, it's the exponent to which a base must be raised to produce a certain number logarithm |
| #8726, aired 2022-10-24 | MATH CLASS $1200: For 12 & 16, 4 is the GCF, or greatest this greatest common factor |
| #8726, aired 2022-10-24 | MATH CLASS $1600: Add up the lengths of all the sides of a polygon to get this measurement perimeter |
| #8726, aired 2022-10-24 | MATH CLASS $2000: This symbol with a "way out" name tells you to take the square root of the number inside it radical |
| #8723, aired 2022-10-19 | ADJECTIVES $1200: Also a math term, this adjective is used for growth at an extremely rapid rate exponential |
| #8722, aired 2022-10-18 | PRESIDENTIAL SPEECHES $3,000 (Daily Double): "We have now lived almost 50 years under the Constitution framed by the sages & patriots of the Revolution" (Andrew) Jackson |
| #3, aired 2022-10-09 | THEY'RE JUST LIKE "US" $1000: You can always count on us to provide a picture of this ancient math device an abacus |
| #8707, aired 2022-09-27 | HOBBIES & PASTIMES $600: Gridded number puzzles include Sudoku & this one that requires math & whose trademarked name I'm partial to KenKen |
| #8675, aired 2022-07-01 | ONE-WORD NONFICTION TITLES $400: "Shape", about the hidden meaning of this branch of math, is dedicated in part to "AB"--presumably a person, not a line geometry |
| #8673, aired 2022-06-29 | IN THE DICTIONARY $400: In math it's the term for any raised number like the one seen here an exponent |
| #8637, aired 2022-05-10 | "G" WHIZ $800: You don't have to be a math whiz to know that this adjective describes the pattern seen here based on simple shapes geometric |
| #8625, aired 2022-04-22 | ALL THINGS BEING EQUAL $1000: Fahrenheit & Celsius thermometers read the same at this chilly temperature -40 |
| #8622, aired 2022-04-19 | "ICU" THERE! $400: In math, normal is a synonym for this, meaning at right angles perpendicular |
| #8581, aired 2022-02-21 | THY FEARFUL SYMMETRY $1600: Laying down the math laws, the commutative law is on the top & this law is on the bottom the associative law |
| #16, aired 2022-02-18 | MUSIC CLASS $400: There are 52 white keys on a standard piano & this many black ones 36 |
| #4, aired 2022-02-09 | ASSIGNED READING MATH $400: My Greek prof wants us to read 150 lines where Hector fights Ajax, 1% of this whole poem the Iliad |
| #4, aired 2022-02-09 | ASSIGNED READING MATH $800: "Still Mad", feminist criticism by Gilbert & Gubar, is 3/5 as many pages as their 1979 book this person "in the Attic" The Madwoman |
| #4, aired 2022-02-09 | ASSIGNED READING MATH $1200: A textbook titled this process covers "The Tree of Life" & "Mutation and Variation"; readers spend 62% more time on "All About Sex" Evolution |
| #4, aired 2022-02-09 | ASSIGNED READING MATH $1600: 2 hours for this work where Jonathan Swift satirically suggests cooking Irish babies; it's "a modest" 3,400 words, 1,700 an hour A Modest Proposal |
| #4, aired 2022-02-09 | ASSIGNED READING MATH $2000: This George Eliot novel about Dorothea Brooke has 86 chapters, so they must average about 10 pages Middlemarch |
| #2, aired 2022-02-08 | AN "A" IN MATH $200: Total up all the numbers in a set & divide by the number of numbers to get this, also called the mean the average |
| #2, aired 2022-02-08 | AN "A" IN MATH $400: This property says that the order in which you multiply 3 or more numbers doesn't matter; the product will be the same the associative property |
| #2, aired 2022-02-08 | AN "A" IN MATH $600: You'll learn about matrices & vectors in the linear form of this branch of math algebra |
| #2, aired 2022-02-08 | AN "A" IN MATH $1,000 (Daily Double): A top predator might perch on this, the uppermost vertex of a pyramid or cone the apex |
| #2, aired 2022-02-08 | AN "A" IN MATH $1000: The wavy lines in the expression seen here stand for this approximately (equal to) |
| #8554, aired 2022-01-13 | MODERN ART $1200: Yayoi Kusama is known for immersive exhibits called this math term "Mirror Rooms"; they seem to go on & on infinity |
| #8548, aired 2022-01-05 | "A"NTONYMS $800: In math, of obtuse acute |
| #8543, aired 2021-12-29 | A PREFIX MENU $600: Arabic for "the", it's been incorporated into many math & science words al |
| #8535, aired 2021-12-17 | MATH, PROFESSORS $200: Adjacent these share a side & a vertex without overlapping angles |
| #8535, aired 2021-12-17 | MATH, PROFESSORS $400: It's what the symbol seen here means less than or equal to |
| #8535, aired 2021-12-17 | MATH, PROFESSORS $600: Let's test your calculating skills: it's 12 times 12 divided by 4 36 |
| #8535, aired 2021-12-17 | MATH, PROFESSORS $800: In mathematical groupings parentheses go inside brackets, which go inside these other "br-" symbols braces |
| #8535, aired 2021-12-17 | MATH, PROFESSORS $1000: In a set of data, the median is the middle point, the mean is the average & this other "M" is the number that occurs most often mode |
| #8530, aired 2021-12-10 | FAMOUS PROFESSORS $1600: Math professor John Nash, who won a Nobel Prize for his work on game theory, was the subject of this Oscar-winning film A Beautiful Mind |
| #8528, aired 2021-12-08 | A LITTLE MATH IN YOUR MOVIE $400: Darren Aronofsky's directorial debut was this 1998 film about a math genius who might have approximated the title as 22/7 Pi |
| #8528, aired 2021-12-08 | A LITTLE MATH IN YOUR MOVIE $800: As a math term, this Keanu Reeves film title refers to a set of numbers in rows & columns that form an array The Matrix |
| #8528, aired 2021-12-08 | A LITTLE MATH IN YOUR MOVIE $1200: Spencer Tracy adjusts to life as a grandfather in the 1951 sequel "Father's Little" this math term Dividend |
| #8528, aired 2021-12-08 | A LITTLE MATH IN YOUR MOVIE $1600: Ben Affleck played a younger version of Jack Ryan in this explosive 2002 thriller The Sum of All Fears |
| #8528, aired 2021-12-08 | A LITTLE MATH IN YOUR MOVIE $2000: Troubled hubby Michael Keaton is cloned several times in this 1996 screwball comedy Multiplicity |
| #8527, aired 2021-12-07 | 10-LETTER WORDS $800: Yep, people still use this handy measuring tool in math class & in certain professions a protractor |
| #8522, aired 2021-11-30 | ENDS IN "EX" $3,000 (Daily Double): In math, these 2 words are often used interchangeably for the top point of a figure, like a cone the apex & the vertex |
| #8517, aired 2021-11-23 | BOOK TITLE MATH $400: Joseph Heller hell plus Jules Verne sea distance 20,022 |
| #8517, aired 2021-11-23 | BOOK TITLE MATH $1200: Original "Space Odyssey" plus original "Shades of Grey" 2,051 |
| #8517, aired 2021-11-23 | BOOK TITLE MATH $1600: Khaled Hosseini's "Splendid Suns" divided by John Reed's "Days That Shook the World" 100 |
| #8517, aired 2021-11-23 | BOOK TITLE MATH $2,000 (Daily Double): 1956's "Dalmatians" minus 2003's "People You Meet in Heaven" 96 |
| #8517, aired 2021-11-23 | BOOK TITLE MATH $2000: Harrer's Himalayan hiatus times Hawthorne's house parts 49 |
| #8505, aired 2021-11-05 | I HELPED IN THE 17th CENTURY $800: Descartes invented the analytic type of this math coordinate geometry |
| #8498, aired 2021-10-27 | 4-SYLLABLE WORDS $2000: Multiplicative inverse is a synonym for this math term reciprocal |
| #8497, aired 2021-10-26 | THE END OF THE WORLD $2000: In math it's the set of sums of a sequence;
for 2, 4, 6, 8...
it's 2, 6, 12, 20... a series |
| #8484, aired 2021-10-07 | SEEN HERE $400: X represents this many degrees in the triangle seen here 80 |
| #8463, aired 2021-08-11 | MATH $400: To find the area of a sector of a circle, the formula is seen here, but fill in this missing number 360 (degrees) |
| #8463, aired 2021-08-11 | MATH $1200: Homotopy is when one shape can be continuously deformed into another; a circle is homotopic to this oval closed curve ellipse |
| #8463, aired 2021-08-11 | MATH $1600: When the NBA's Steph Curry puts up a 3-point shot, this point, the apex of a parabola, is about 16 feet above the floor the vertex |
| #8463, aired 2021-08-11 | MATH $2,000 (Daily Double): It's a statement of a relationship such as greater than or less than; it's also a socioeconomic issue inequality |
| #8463, aired 2021-08-11 | MATH $2000: In calculus this is defined as the instantaneous rate of change of a function, so for a constant function (no change) it's 0 derivative |
| #8454, aired 2021-07-29 | HELP! $800: If you need help with this on your teeth, go to a dentist; for the same-named branch of math, get a tutor calculus |
| #8448, aired 2021-07-21 | MATH IN THE OLD DAYS $400: The Mayans were using this by the 4th century; the concept of that number didn't make it to Europe until the 1200s or so zero |
| #8448, aired 2021-07-21 | MATH IN THE OLD DAYS $800: An ancient Hindu text calculates the square root of this integer as 1.4142156, which is correct to 5 decimal places 2 |
| #8448, aired 2021-07-21 | MATH IN THE OLD DAYS $1600: The Babylonians used base 60, which could be counted on 5 fingers of one hand & the 12 these on 4 fingers of the other the knuckles |
| #8448, aired 2021-07-21 | MATH IN THE OLD DAYS $2000: Some think Ancient Egyptians represented fractions using symbols from the eye of this falcon god Horus |
| #8448, aired 2021-07-21 | MATH IN THE OLD DAYS $6,000 (Daily Double): Their numerals weren't handy for arithmetic, so ancient Romans did most of their calculating on this device an abacus |
| #8418, aired 2021-06-09 | SILENT-LETTER WORDS $800: It's the "h" in the math formula 1/2 b h height |
| #8410, aired 2021-05-28 | MATH CHAMPS $400: In 1655 England's John Wallis came up with the sideways 8 symbol for this infinity |
| #8410, aired 2021-05-28 | MATH CHAMPS $800: Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky is the name of a founder of non-this geometry non-Euclidean |
| #8410, aired 2021-05-28 | MATH CHAMPS $1600: Henri Poincaré pioneered this math branch that studies the deformation of objects into new shapes without any cutting or pasting topology |
| #8410, aired 2021-05-28 | MATH CHAMPS $2000: This 19th century German, whose name is a unit of magnetism, was known as Princeps mathematicorum, "Prince of Mathematicians" Gauss |
| #8410, aired 2021-05-28 | MATH CHAMPS $7,800 (Daily Double): Also known as Leonardo of Pisa, he knew a lot of numbers, not just 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8 Fibonacci |
| #8387, aired 2021-04-27 | SCIENCY STUFF $2000: This "directional" math term is used to describe a person who carries a disease & transmits it to others a vector |
| #8378, aired 2021-04-14 | MATH TALK $400: Let's touch this, the bottom side of a plane figure base |
| #8378, aired 2021-04-14 | MATH TALK $800: This 3-letter word is a piece of the circumference of a circle an arc |
| #8378, aired 2021-04-14 | MATH TALK $1200: A triangle with 2 equal sides is this type, from the Greek for "equal legged" isosceles |
| #8378, aired 2021-04-14 | MATH TALK $1600: A constant that multiplies a variable is a "co-" this efficient (co-efficient) |
| #8378, aired 2021-04-14 | MATH TALK $2000: A vertical bar on each side of a number means to ignore any negative sign, giving the measure called this value the absolute value |
| #8369, aired 2021-04-01 | APRIL FOOL! $400: We hope math teachers weren't fooled by the rumor that Alabama voted to change this to 3.0, a "biblical value" pi |
| #8345, aired 2021-02-26 | "ORIAL" $1000: For 4, this math function is 4 times 3 times 2 times 1 factorial |
| #8342, aired 2021-02-23 | AIRLINES IN OTHER WORDS $400: The 11th, 12th & 13th letters KLM |
| #8340, aired 2021-02-19 | MOVIE TITLE PAIRS $1600: 1988: A high school teacher successfully inspires some students to learn advanced math Stand and Deliver |
| #8334, aired 2021-02-11 | STEM $400: (Dr. Frauke Neuser presents the clue.) Named for the little shelter you draw over the dividend, the "bus stop" is one method in this 2-word exercise that's been called the most difficult basic math process to teach kids long division |
| #8333, aired 2021-02-10 | MATH IN THE WORLD $400: (Joy Buolamwini presents the clue.) Gamblers & investors know their perms & combs; it's short for permutations, a set where the order matters & these, a set where it doesn't combinations |
| #8333, aired 2021-02-10 | MATH IN THE WORLD $800: (Joy Buolamwini presents the clue.) Video game designers plan out their games using this kind of system, that by definition uses X, Y & Z values to determine the position of a point a coordinate system |
| #8333, aired 2021-02-10 | MATH IN THE WORLD $1200: (Joy Buolamwini presents the clue.) When you earn interest on both the principal & on the interest you've already accumulated, that's what Suze Orman calls the magic of this compounding |
| #8333, aired 2021-02-10 | MATH IN THE WORLD $1600: (Joy Buolamwini presents the clue.) Intersectional analysis is a way to evaluate how multiple variables influence the accuracy of this surveillance technology I have shown to struggle on darker faces facial recognition |
| #8333, aired 2021-02-10 | MATH IN THE WORLD $2000: (Joy Buolamwini presents the clue.) Natural objects such as ferns often exhibit these patterns of similar structures at smaller & larger scales studied since the 1970s fractals |
| #8312, aired 2021-01-12 | HEAVY MEDALS $800: Artur Avila solved problems in chaos theory & won the Fields Medal, described as the Nobel Prize of this area of expertise math |
| #8312, aired 2021-01-12 | SCIENCE CENTER $1200: This non-imperial measure was originally defined as one 10-millionth the distance from the North Pole to the equator a meter |
| #8309, aired 2021-01-07 | SCIENCE & MATH GROUPINGS $400: Of the 4 basic math operations, the one that produces a quotient division |
| #8309, aired 2021-01-07 | SCIENCE & MATH GROUPINGS $800: Making up group 18 on the periodic table, the 7 of these include neon & argon noble gases |
| #8309, aired 2021-01-07 | SCIENCE & MATH GROUPINGS $1200: A playground seesaw is a good example of this one of the 6 simple machines a lever |
| #8309, aired 2021-01-07 | SCIENCE & MATH GROUPINGS $1600: The reciprocal trigonometric functions are secant, cosecant & this a cotangent |
| #8309, aired 2021-01-07 | SCIENCE & MATH GROUPINGS $2000: Strange & charm are 2 of the 6 flavors of these subatomic particles quarks |
| #8294, aired 2020-12-03 | KEEPING IT 100 $800: In a non leap year, the 100th day falls on this date April 10th |
| #8280, aired 2020-11-13 | ANAGRAMS $400: This closed figure is integral to a branch of math triangle (from integral) |
| #8265, aired 2020-10-23 | HELPFUL HINTS $800: Math students may know that in the operations order mnemonic "Please Excuse My Dear aunt Sally", "Dear" represents this divide (division) |
| #8251, aired 2020-10-05 | 2 $400: In math, 2 is the smallest of these numbers divisible only by themselves & 1 prime numbers |
| #8250, aired 2020-10-02 | AFTER MATH $200: An afternoon entertainment at the theater a matinée |
| #8250, aired 2020-10-02 | AFTER MATH $400: A community's female leader a matron (matriarch) |
| #8250, aired 2020-10-02 | AFTER MATH $600: Ripeness maturity |
| #8250, aired 2020-10-02 | AFTER MATH $800: To enroll in a university matriculate |
| #8250, aired 2020-10-02 | AFTER MATH $1000: A rectangular numeric array in math a matrix |
| #8228, aired 2020-06-03 | LET'S LOOK AT SOME MATH $400: It's what the symbol here means greater than or equal to |
| #8228, aired 2020-06-03 | LET'S LOOK AT SOME MATH $800: Conjure up this name for a grid in which the numbers add up to the same total in each column, row and main diagonal a magic square |
| #8228, aired 2020-06-03 | LET'S LOOK AT SOME MATH $1200: In a Venn diagram, an upside down "U" is used to represent this set that contains all elements in common to both "A" and "B" the intersection |
| #8228, aired 2020-06-03 | LET'S LOOK AT SOME MATH $1600: The symbol here is telling you to perform this calculus function integration |
| #8228, aired 2020-06-03 | LET'S LOOK AT SOME MATH $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents by a display monitor.) The number in each cell is the sum of the two numbers directly above it in the triangle named for this 17th century French mathematician and philosopher (Blaise) Pascal |
| #8225, aired 2020-05-29 | ATHLETES WHO TEACH $400: NFL quarterback Jon Kitna traded Xs & Os for the Xs & Ys of this branch of math with a name from Arabic algebra |
| #8202, aired 2020-04-14 | MATH TERMS $200: It's the term for a chord that goes through the center of a circle a diameter |
| #8202, aired 2020-04-14 | MATH TERMS $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents by a display monitor.) A congruent number is a positive integer that can be the area of a rational right triangle; in the case of the right triangle with the measurements of 3, 4, and 5, this is the congruent number 6 |
| #8202, aired 2020-04-14 | MATH TERMS $600: To indicate a factorial for a given integer, you put this punctuation mark after it exclamation mark |
| #8202, aired 2020-04-14 | MATH TERMS $800: It's the bottom edge of a geometric figure, or a number that is raised to a power the base |
| #8202, aired 2020-04-14 | MATH TERMS $1000: Vector calculus involves 2 or more of these changeable quantities, either dependent or independent variables |
| #8201, aired 2020-04-13 | GREEK LETTERS $800: It's basic math! This is celebrated every March 14th Pi Day |
| #8178, aired 2020-03-11 | SHOULD BE IN THE FOREST $2000: 6 functions of an angle, including sine & cosine, are used in this branch of math trigonometry |
| #8156, aired 2020-02-10 | PRIZE $800: The Abel Prize in this field is named for Niels Abel, famed for his work on the quintic function math |
| #8, aired 2020-01-14 | MATH TO ROMAN NUMERALS TO INITIALS TO NAMES $200: 800 + 250 to this architect of a D.C. landmark dedicated in 1982 Maya Lin |
| #8, aired 2020-01-14 | MATH TO ROMAN NUMERALS TO INITIALS TO NAMES $400: The square root of 4,000,000 to this guy who hit more than 500 career home runs from 1986 to 2001 Mark McGwire |
| #8, aired 2020-01-14 | MATH TO ROMAN NUMERALS TO INITIALS TO NAMES $600: 5% of 4,000 to this author of "The NUMA Files" books & other maritime thrillers Clive Cussler |
| #8, aired 2020-01-14 | MATH TO ROMAN NUMERALS TO INITIALS TO NAMES $1,000 (Daily Double): (1,000 / 2) - 350 to this rock singer who was also a 1997 Golden Globe nominee Courtney Love |
| #8, aired 2020-01-14 | MATH TO ROMAN NUMERALS TO INITIALS TO NAMES $1000: 102 minus 10 to this Latin bandleader, "The Rumba King" Xavier Cugat |
| #1, aired 2020-01-07 | SCHOOL DAYS $800: High school math! These equations that don't use exponents are so named because of the way they can be graphed linear equations |
| #8099, aired 2019-11-21 | PUTTING OUT THE WELCOME MATH $200: This branch of math uses symbols to represent numbers or variables in arithmetic operations, like 2x + y = 10 algebra |
| #8099, aired 2019-11-21 | PUTTING OUT THE WELCOME MATH $400: Sometimes you see the sines; others, you go off on 1 of these, a straight line that touches a curve without cutting through it a tangent |
| #8099, aired 2019-11-21 | PUTTING OUT THE WELCOME MATH $800: In 1,431 divided by 53, which we will not have you solve, 53 is the divisor & 1,431 is this the dividend |
| #8099, aired 2019-11-21 | PUTTING OUT THE WELCOME MATH $1000: "O" say can you say this kind of triangle having no right angle? Or at least make some kind of indirect reference? an oblique triangle |
| #8091, aired 2019-11-11 | MATH GUYS $400: You get an "A" if you know this mathematician of the 200s B.C. wrote a treatise on centers of gravity Archimedes |
| #8091, aired 2019-11-11 | MATH GUYS $800: Among Ptolemy's pursuits was drawing up a table of these--not in a musical score but as line segments in a circle chords |
| #8091, aired 2019-11-11 | MATH GUYS $1200: A 1970s computer language is named for this Frenchman who invented a 1640s calculating machine Blaise Pascal |
| #8091, aired 2019-11-11 | MATH GUYS $2,000 (Daily Double): The subject of a 2001 film, this mathematician won a 1994 Nobel Prize in Economics John Nash |
| #8091, aired 2019-11-11 | MATH GUYS $2000: This Swiss mathematician's principle says the pressure in a fluid moving horizontally decreases as its velocity increases Bernoulli |
| #8050, aired 2019-09-13 | GET HIM TO THE ANCIENT GREEK $800: After Ptolemy I wished for an easier way to study it, Euclid said, "there is no royal road to" this branch of math geometry |
| #8022, aired 2019-06-25 | NAME THE GAME $1000: It takes some math skills & strategy to win in this ancient African family of games mancala |
| #8020, aired 2019-06-21 | A S.T.E.A.M. CATEGORY $1600: In math the vertical "rise" of a line is divided by the horizontal "run" to calculate this measure slope |
| #8012, aired 2019-06-11 | RECENT CINEMA OF THE PAST $800: Octavia Spencer was a lady on a mission--help NASA win the space race & bust some societal fences as a math genius in this film Hidden Figures |
| #7993, aired 2019-05-15 | MATH, TEACHERS $400: It's the number of distinct digits that are used to represent numbers in a particular number system; you probably use 10 the base |
| #7993, aired 2019-05-15 | MATH, TEACHERS $800: The equation A(B + C) = AB + AC shows that multiplication is this with respect to addition distributive |
| #7993, aired 2019-05-15 | MATH, TEACHERS $1200: Math-minded cows might graze over this, the set of all the possible values that a function can take the range |
| #7993, aired 2019-05-15 | MATH, TEACHERS $1600: This type of conic section is an open curve with 2 branches a hyperbola |
| #7993, aired 2019-05-15 | MATH, TEACHERS $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a coordinate system on the monitor.) To describe the position of a point in two dimensions, you can use the distance from an origin point & the angle from an axis, which are these paired coordinates with a chilly name polar coordinates |
| #7989, aired 2019-05-09 | FILM TEACHERS $2000: In "Stand and Deliver", Edwards James Olmos gets his dropout-prone kids ready to pass a test in this tough branch of math calculus |
| #7962, aired 2019-04-02 | THE MIDDLE AGES $1600: Helping us balance our checkbooks, Leonardo of Pisa introduced this, sifr in Arabic, to Western math in 1202 the zero |
| #7951, aired 2019-03-18 | INSIDE, THE "OC" $1000: In math, this of x is 1/x, & the feeling is mutual the reciprocal |
| #7949, aired 2019-03-14 | THAT'S MY MATH OR SCIENCE THING! $400: He had a theorem--the square of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the other 2 sides Pythagoras |
| #7949, aired 2019-03-14 | THAT'S MY MATH OR SCIENCE THING! $800: Here's our in-depth examination of cats and dogs in this diagram, named for a 19th-century English logician Venn |
| #7949, aired 2019-03-14 | THAT'S MY MATH OR SCIENCE THING! $1600: If you love a Fibonacci sequence--and who doesn't?--you know it's the next number 34 |
| #7949, aired 2019-03-14 | THAT'S MY MATH OR SCIENCE THING! $2000: This German created 2 tetrahedrons that mutually circumscribe & inscribe each other; now "strip"! Mobius |
| #7949, aired 2019-03-14 | THAT'S MY MATH OR SCIENCE THING! $5,500 (Daily Double): This Heisenberg principle says some things, like energy & time, can't be accurately measured simultaneously the Uncertainty Principle |
| #7940, aired 2019-03-01 | "E"PONYMOUS $7,400 (Daily Double): The plane truth is that this 2-word branch of math is named for a Greek who lived around 300 B.C. Euclidean geometry |
| #7910, aired 2019-01-18 | IN THE NATO PHONETIC ALPHABET $400: Triangulate this Greek letter used in math, astronomy & geography delta |
| #7896, aired 2018-12-31 | ENDS IN "ITE" $800: In math, when the number of elements in a set is countable, it's this type of set finite |
| #7892, aired 2018-12-25 | MEANWHILE... $800: Sir Francis Drake failed to capture Lisbon in 1589, but this astronomer succeeded in taking a chair--in math at the U. of Pisa Galileo |
| #7888, aired 2018-12-19 | DO THE MATH $200: It's the decimal equivalent of 1/8 .125 |
| #7888, aired 2018-12-19 | DO THE MATH $400: 9 divided by 3/4 =
this 12 |
| #7888, aired 2018-12-19 | DO THE MATH $600: If x2 + 2 = 18, x = this 4 |
| #7888, aired 2018-12-19 | DO THE MATH $800: It's 5% of 400 20 |
| #7888, aired 2018-12-19 | DO THE MATH $1000: (x + 1)2 expands to this x2 + 2x + 1 |
| #7886, aired 2018-12-17 | WOMEN IN MATH & SCIENCE $400: In 1923 Edith Quimby devised a way to use this type of radiographic film to accurately gauge exposure to radiation X-ray film |
| #7886, aired 2018-12-17 | WOMEN IN MATH & SCIENCE $800: For WWII Katharine Blodgett found a way for 2 quarts of oil to make this cloaking "screen" cover several acres a smokescreen |
| #7858, aired 2018-11-07 | TEEN MATH $400: Book 13 of his "Elements" deals with regular solids Euclid |
| #7858, aired 2018-11-07 | TEEN MATH $800: A problem at the 2017 Intl. Math Olympiad for teens involved one of these lines touching a circle at a single point a tangent line |
| #7858, aired 2018-11-07 | TEEN MATH $1200: It's (13 + 14) x 15 405 |
| #7858, aired 2018-11-07 | TEEN MATH $2000: In 1640 16-year-old Blaise Pascal came to math fame with an essay on these "sections" conic sections |
| #7858, aired 2018-11-07 | TEEN MATH $3,000 (Daily Double): In 1952 an early computer was used to discover the 13th Mersenne one of these numbers a prime number |
| #7847, aired 2018-10-23 | MATH VOCAB $400: It's the side of a right triangle that's opposite the right angle the hypotenuse |
| #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 |
| #7847, aired 2018-10-23 | MATH VOCAB $1200: a + b = b + a is this principle of addition commutative |
| #7847, aired 2018-10-23 | MATH VOCAB $1600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a circle on the monitor.) The part of a circle's circumference that lies between two endpoints is called this, from Latin for "bow" an arc |
| #7847, aired 2018-10-23 | MATH VOCAB $2000: As a verb, it means to slant or depict unfairly; in math it refers to 2 lines that do not intersect & are not parallel skew |
| #7804, aired 2018-07-12 | MATH & SCIENCE $400: These crazy numbers can't be expressed as a quotient of 2 integers irrational numbers |
| #7804, aired 2018-07-12 | MATH & SCIENCE $800: Newton's Third Law is often given as "for every action..." these 7 words there is an equal and opposite reaction |
| #7804, aired 2018-07-12 | MATH & SCIENCE $1200: This word before "star" refers to changes in shine; Algol's apparent magnitude goes from 2.1 to 3.4 every few days variable |
| #7804, aired 2018-07-12 | MATH & SCIENCE $1600: The equation y2=2px describes this conic section, the shape of the arch in some bridges a parabola |
| #7804, aired 2018-07-12 | MATH & SCIENCE $3,800 (Daily Double): The name of this long-vanished supercontinent is from Greek for "all" & "Earth" Pangaea |
| #7793, aired 2018-06-27 | MATH WORDS $400: P:
Scheme up this figure with a polygon for a base & triangles with a common vertex for faces a pyramid |
| #7793, aired 2018-06-27 | MATH WORDS $800: E:
It's a closed, oval-shaped curve an ellipse |
| #7793, aired 2018-06-27 | MATH WORDS $1200: A:
2 angles that share a vertex & a side are this, like neighboring lots adjacent |
| #7793, aired 2018-06-27 | MATH WORDS $1600: R:
A multiplicative inverse a reciprocal |
| #7793, aired 2018-06-27 | MATH WORDS $2000: O.P.:
2 numbers whose position is important, so (X,Y) is different than (Y,X) an ordered pair |
| #7789, aired 2018-06-21 | MATH-FREE WORD PROBLEMS $200: If Mo can eat 25 Twinkies in 30 minutes, how concerned was Mo when this maker of Twinkies went bankrupt in 2012? Hostess |
| #7789, aired 2018-06-21 | MATH-FREE WORD PROBLEMS $400: If Becky has 13 half-dollars & 46 pennies, she's way short of the 2018-19 tuition of $49,330 at this N.J. Ivy League school Princeton |
| #7789, aired 2018-06-21 | MATH-FREE WORD PROBLEMS $600: Sal hits .382 & Mal hits .392, so both lose the 1994 batting title to Tony Gwynn, who hit .394 for this western team the (San Diego) Padres |
| #7789, aired 2018-06-21 | MATH-FREE WORD PROBLEMS $800: George II died at 76 in 1760, so maybe medicine improved by the time this great-great-granddaughter lived to be 81 Victoria |
| #7789, aired 2018-06-21 | MATH-FREE WORD PROBLEMS $1000: If Carl's car exits Carlsbad Caverns at 60 MPH & Lou's leaves Louisville at 80, the 2 can meet in this Wyoming capital Cheyenne |
| #7768, aired 2018-05-23 | BAND MATH $400: Ali Campbell's "UB" minus Adam Clayton's "U" 38 |
| #7768, aired 2018-05-23 | BAND MATH $800: Trent Reznor's "Inch Nails" plus Josh Dun's "Pilots" 30 |
| #7768, aired 2018-05-23 | BAND MATH $1600: Dave Clark's boys times Ben Folds' boys 25 |
| #7768, aired 2018-05-23 | BAND MATH $2000: Pop punk "Sum" times pop rock "Maroon" 205 |
| #7768, aired 2018-05-23 | BAND MATH $3,000 (Daily Double): Frankie Valli's "Seasons" times Linda Perry's "Non Blondes" 16 |
| #7767, aired 2018-05-22 | "END" GAME $2000: In math you find the difference by subtracting the subtrahend from this the minuend |
| #7760, aired 2018-05-11 | OLD SCHOOL $800: After Sputnik, our schools tried to catch up with the "new" type of this; it was quickly subtracted from the curriculum math |
| #7758, aired 2018-05-09 | DON'T GIVE UP THE RELATIONSHIP $1000: Lisa Rinna credits keeping things steamy for her marriage to this actor lasting "150 years in Hollywood math" Harry Hamlin |
| #7748, aired 2018-04-25 | CHAIN $800: Markov chains are studied in this statistical branch of math theory, the study of chance & random phenomena probability |
| #7743, aired 2018-04-18 | YOU KNEW THERE'D BE MATH $400: A rabbi, a priest & a minister walk into this type of graph seen here a bar graph |
| #7743, aired 2018-04-18 | YOU KNEW THERE'D BE MATH $800: Multiply 2 of these integers, like 3 & 7, & you get a "semi" one, like 21 a prime number |
| #7743, aired 2018-04-18 | YOU KNEW THERE'D BE MATH $1200: The cube is one of the 5 "platonic solids" or regular these polyhedra |
| #7743, aired 2018-04-18 | YOU KNEW THERE'D BE MATH $1600: A vector has both magnitude & direction; this type of quantity, such as speed, has magnitude only a scalar |
| #7743, aired 2018-04-18 | YOU KNEW THERE'D BE MATH $2000: Calculus time! It's the second derivative of 3x3 18x |
| #7736, aired 2018-04-09 | 9 (LETTER WORDS) $1000: In math, it's the set of real numbers; in "Star Trek", the space-time one got messed with quite a bit a continuum |
| #7716, aired 2018-03-12 | EDUCATION $2000: A 1988 law boosting research & new strategies is named for these 2 qualities, 1 of a math whiz & 1 of a violin prodigy gifted and talented |
| #7709, aired 2018-03-01 | GO "BRA" $800: Symbolic math branch algebra |
| #7695, aired 2018-02-09 | MOVIE TITLE MATH $400: Both from 1960: "Ocean's ____" times "The Magnificent ____" 77 |
| #7695, aired 2018-02-09 | MOVIE TITLE MATH $800: "The ____ Year-Old Virgin" minus "The Dirty ____" 28 |
| #7695, aired 2018-02-09 | MOVIE TITLE MATH $1200: "____ Men and a Baby" times "____ Degrees of Separation" 18 |
| #7695, aired 2018-02-09 | MOVIE TITLE MATH $1600: "Gone in ____ Seconds" plus "Assault on Precinct ____" 73 |
| #7695, aired 2018-02-09 | MOVIE TITLE MATH $2000: "(____) Days of Summer" times "____ Heads in a Duffel Bag" 4000 |
| #7665, aired 2017-12-29 | MATH $200: When you divide 17 by 5, 2 is this the remainder |
| #7665, aired 2017-12-29 | MATH $400: Favoring extreme political reforms, or the math sign that's an expression for a root a radical |
| #7665, aired 2017-12-29 | MATH $600: In 3x = 5 + y, if x = 4, then y = this; having high school flashbacks yet? 7 |
| #7665, aired 2017-12-29 | MATH $800: They're not exchanging mail, but the angles seen here are this type corresponding angles |
| #7665, aired 2017-12-29 | MATH $1000: The 6 functions of this branch of math are each defined by the ratio of 2 sides in a right-angled triangle trigonometry |
| #7657, aired 2017-12-19 | SOUNDS LIKE A LIQUOR BRAND $400: In math it's found before "value"; in thermodynamics, before "zero" absolute |
| #7613, aired 2017-10-18 | THEY WENT TO OXFORD $1000: An Oxford student & math teacher, he started writing stories to amuse the daughter of Dean Liddell Lewis Carroll |
| #7585, aired 2017-07-28 | WORDS OF WISDOM $2000: In math this adjective describes a number expressible as a quotient of 2 integers rational |
| #7533, aired 2017-05-17 | MATH, NOW... $400: Give us an "A" in this 4-letter math word for the tip of a cone or pyramid apex |
| #7533, aired 2017-05-17 | MATH, NOW... $800: Arccos denotes the inverse of this trigonometric function cosine |
| #7533, aired 2017-05-17 | MATH, NOW... $1200: It's the square root of x2 - 6x + 9 x - 3 |
| #7533, aired 2017-05-17 | MATH, NOW... $1600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a quadrilateral on the monitor.) A quadrilateral with two adjacent sides of length "a" & two adjacent sides of length "b" gets this high-flying name from its familiar shape a kite |
| #7533, aired 2017-05-17 | MATH, NOW... $2000: Mathematicians use the letter i to represent the square root of -1, this "unit" an imaginary number |
| #7527, aired 2017-05-09 | EDUCATIONAL FILMS $1000: Before he took on Cylons, he took on teaching math in East L.A. as Jaime Escalante in "Stand and Deliver" Edward James Olmos |
| #7499, aired 2017-03-30 | THEY COME IN FOURS $200: In math they're the 4 basic operations, each with its own sign addition, subtraction, multiplication, division |
| #7471, aired 2017-02-20 | MATH 4U $200: It's the distance from a circle's center to its perimeter a radius |
| #7471, aired 2017-02-20 | MATH 4U $400: The three sides of this kind of triangle are all of different lengths scalene |
| #7471, aired 2017-02-20 | MATH 4U $600: It's the "useful" term for a relation that pairs members of one set with unique members of another set a function |
| #7471, aired 2017-02-20 | MATH 4U $800: AKA Napier's constant, this lowercase vowel is used to represent the base of a natural logarithm e |
| #7471, aired 2017-02-20 | MATH 4U $1000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a conic section on the monitor.) The intersection of two equal & opposite cones with a plane generates this 2-part curve, from Greek for "extravagance" or "excess" hyperbola |
| #7450, aired 2017-01-20 | MATH IN THE MOVIES $400: Dev Patel played mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan in 2016's "The Man Who Knew" this limitless number infinity |
| #7450, aired 2017-01-20 | MATH IN THE MOVIES $1200: The instrument called this type of "rule" helps rescue the crew of "Apollo 13" a slide rule |
| #7450, aired 2017-01-20 | MATH IN THE MOVIES $1600: Jodie Foster directed & starred in this "Little" film about a math prodigy & his mom Little Man Tate |
| #7450, aired 2017-01-20 | MATH IN THE MOVIES $2,000 (Daily Double): The Fibonacci sequence factors into the clues left behind by a museum curator in this 2006 film The Da Vinci Code |
| #7450, aired 2017-01-20 | MATH IN THE MOVIES $2000: I have the solution! This film starred Gwyneth Paltrow as a mathematician afraid of inheriting insanity Proof |
| #7440, aired 2017-01-06 | 2-LETTER WORDS $400: In math it's a synonym for "times" by |
| #7407, aired 2016-11-22 | YOU DO THE GEOGRAPHIC MATH $400: The number of American colonies at the time of the Revolution plus the number of states today 63 |
| #7407, aired 2016-11-22 | YOU DO THE GEOGRAPHIC MATH $800: The number of countries that begin with Q times the number of countries that begin with X 0 |
| #7407, aired 2016-11-22 | YOU DO THE GEOGRAPHIC MATH $1600: The number of continents minus the number of mountains above 29,000 feet 6 |
| #7407, aired 2016-11-22 | YOU DO THE GEOGRAPHIC MATH $2000: The number of U.S. states on the Pacific Ocean squared 25 |
| #7407, aired 2016-11-22 | YOU DO THE GEOGRAPHIC MATH $3,000 (Daily Double): The number of Great Lakes times the number of countries that border the United States 10 |
| #7406, aired 2016-11-21 | MATH MEN, MYTH MEN $200: In one version his daughter is among the items he turns to gold with his touch Midas |
| #7406, aired 2016-11-21 | MATH MEN, MYTH MEN $400: My theorem? That you know this whiz who gave his name to the equation a2 + b2 = c2 Pythagoras |
| #7406, aired 2016-11-21 | MATH MEN, MYTH MEN $600: We're 100/100ths sure that Simon Stevin introduced the concept of "decimal" these to Europe in 1585 fractions |
| #7406, aired 2016-11-21 | MATH MEN, MYTH MEN $800: The ancient Greek Hipparchus pioneered this branch of math, from ancient Greek for "triangle" & "measure" trigonometry |
| #7406, aired 2016-11-21 | MATH MEN, MYTH MEN $1000: In mythology Prometheus isn't chained to that rock forever; this hero rescues him Hercules |
| #7379, aired 2016-10-13 | MATH $200: It's the example usually given of a Bernoulli trial, with 2 possible results of constant probability a coin flip |
| #7379, aired 2016-10-13 | MATH $400: The set of positive & negative whole numbers & zero is the set of these integers |
| #7379, aired 2016-10-13 | MATH $600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a trigonometric animation on the monitor.) As the circle is drawn in blue, in red, the "Y" values translate to sine, & in yellow, the values of "X" translate to this cosine |
| #7379, aired 2016-10-13 | MATH $800: "You can't share 10 apples equally among no people" is one way to teach kids that this process is against math rules dividing by zero |
| #7379, aired 2016-10-13 | MATH $2,000 (Daily Double): Euclid's "Elements" begins with a definition of this as "that which has no part" a point |
| #7372, aired 2016-10-04 | HAVE AN "EF"ECT $600: In math it's the 9 in the expression 9x the coefficient |
| #7364, aired 2016-09-22 | MATH HYSTERIA $200: The point at which 2 or more lines cross together, or, say, Fairfax & 3rd an intersection |
| #7364, aired 2016-09-22 | MATH HYSTERIA $400: XVI minus IX; respond with the Roman numeral, please VII |
| #7364, aired 2016-09-22 | MATH HYSTERIA $600: Let's face facts; a dodecahedron has this many faces 12 |
| #7293, aired 2016-05-04 | LET'S TALK ABOUT "X" $600: In math the abscissa is the coordinate of a point along this the x-axis |
| #7263, aired 2016-03-23 | THE 18th CENTURY $1000: In 1737 Swiss mathematician Leonard Euler "irrationally" adopted this Greek letter to use in math notation pi |
| #7260, aired 2016-03-18 | I HAVE A GREAT IDEA $1200: Newton & Leibniz both came up with the fundamental theorem that unites 2 types of this branch of math calculus |
| #7240, aired 2016-02-19 | PHILOSOPHY $500 (Daily Double): Aristotle came at this branch of reasoning philosophically, but in- 1847 George Boole argued that it's part of math logic |
| #7232, aired 2016-02-09 | 4-SYLLABLE WORDS $1000: In math the product of any expression & its this is 1 reciprocal |
| #7230, aired 2016-02-05 | COLLEGE MATH $200: If it takes 120 credits to graduate & you've got 96, number of 3-credit courses you'll need for that sheepskin 8 (24 ÷ 3) |
| #7230, aired 2016-02-05 | COLLEGE MATH $400: Number of "Sisters" you'd have if Mount Holyoke left the group 6 |
| #7230, aired 2016-02-05 | COLLEGE MATH $600: Number in the name of UCLA's sports conference minus the number in the name of Nebraska's 2 (Pac 12 - Big 10) |
| #7230, aired 2016-02-05 | COLLEGE MATH $800: Number of points you racked up if you got "extremely well qualified" on one AP test & "well qualified" on another 9 (5 + 4) |
| #7230, aired 2016-02-05 | COLLEGE MATH $1000: As of 2015, a perfect ACT score + a perfect SAT score 2,436 |
| #7227, aired 2016-02-02 | MATH TEST $400: The sine of an angle is the ratio of its opposite side to this triangle side the hypotenuse |
| #7227, aired 2016-02-02 | MATH TEST $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a diagram on the monitor.) Divide the change in a line's vertical "y" component by the change in its horizontal "x" component to get this measure of its inclination slope |
| #7227, aired 2016-02-02 | MATH TEST $1200: a + b = b + a is this law of addition the commutative law |
| #7227, aired 2016-02-02 | MATH TEST $1600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a diagram on the monitor.) To find the area under a curve between points "a" & "b", calculate the definite this of the curve, denoted by an elongated "S" symbol the integral |
| #7227, aired 2016-02-02 | MATH TEST $2000: If y = 3x & y + 2x = 20, x equals this 4 |
| #7224, aired 2016-01-28 | MATH TERMS $200: It's the term for the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter pi |
| #7224, aired 2016-01-28 | MATH TERMS $400: We'll meet again, don't know where, but do know this diagram used in math a Venn diagram |
| #7224, aired 2016-01-28 | MATH TERMS $600: For 6 & 10, 30 is the LCM, short for this the lowest common multiple |
| #7224, aired 2016-01-28 | MATH TERMS $800: In geometry 2 angles whose sum is 90 degrees are this; thank you, that's sweet of you to say! complementary |
| #7224, aired 2016-01-28 | MATH TERMS $1000: "SOH CAH TOA" helps you remember the meaning of the trig functions sine, cosine & this one tangent |
| #7217, aired 2016-01-19 | EARLY START $2000: We'll "wager" you can name this 17th century French philosopher who published an important math essay at age 16 Pascal |
| #7213, aired 2016-01-13 | THAT'S THE THEORY $1600: A branch of math, this 11-letter theory uses dice & card games but may be best known for examining coin flip outcomes probability |
| #7206, aired 2016-01-04 | MATH WORDS $400: A unit of angle measure, or a college's certification that you know a lot about angles a degree |
| #7206, aired 2016-01-04 | MATH WORDS $800: If the numerator is smaller than the denominator, you're looking at a "proper" one of these a fraction |
| #7206, aired 2016-01-04 | MATH WORDS $1200: Don't be a square; help me get this parallelogram with 4 equal sides out of my heart! a rhombus |
| #7206, aired 2016-01-04 | MATH WORDS $1600: No question about it, this is the definitive term for the positive value of a number the absolute value |
| #7206, aired 2016-01-04 | MATH WORDS $2000: For 5, -5 is the additive this additive inverse element |
| #7175, aired 2015-11-20 | THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH $10,000 (Daily Double): Overseeing the FDA is one job of this Cabinet department Health and Human Services |
| #7139, aired 2015-10-01 | "EX"CELLENT! $400: In math it indicates the number of times an expression is multiplied by itself exponent |
| #7111, aired 2015-07-13 | COMPARING $200: A math axiom says a line is this superlative distance between 2 points on a flat surface shortest |
| #7100, aired 2015-06-26 | ARITHMETIC $400: 4 eggs are needed to make 14 cakes; with a dozen eggs, this many cakes can be made 42 |
| #7087, aired 2015-06-09 | THE 7 LIBERAL ARTS $200: The list, compiled in the 5th century, includes geometry & this branch of math where you add & subtract arithmetic |
| #7052, aired 2015-04-21 | FEMALE FIRSTS $1600: In 2014 work on curved surfaces made Maryam Mirzakhani the 1st woman to get the Fields Medal, this field's top honor math |
| #7048, aired 2015-04-15 | "UBE" JOB $200: Math whizzes know that for 2, it's 8 the cube |
| #7042, aired 2015-04-07 | FILM SCHOOL $1000: Lambeau fielded offers for a math genius/college janitor in this 1997 film; your move, chief Good Will Hunting |
| #7023, aired 2015-03-11 | YOU DO THE MATH $200: Number of ounces in a pound plus the number of pints in a gallon 24 |
| #7023, aired 2015-03-11 | YOU DO THE MATH $400: Yards between the end zone on an NFL field divided by the number of 15-minute periods in a game 25 |
| #7023, aired 2015-03-11 | YOU DO THE MATH $600: Number of seconds in an hour divided by the number of degrees in a circle 10 |
| #7023, aired 2015-03-11 | YOU DO THE MATH $800: It's the square root of a gross 12 |
| #7023, aired 2015-03-11 | YOU DO THE MATH $1000: Number of original U.S. colonies minus the number of official solar planets farther out than Earth 8 |
| #7019, aired 2015-03-05 | UNITS $400: (Kelly of the Clue Crew presents) It's time for some quick math as we see a comparison. Here's 11 pounds, roughly the equivalent of 5 of these metric units a kilogram |
| #6999, aired 2015-02-05 | THE MATH & NOTHING BUT THE MATH $200: This spiteful word is the average of all the numbers in a data set mean |
| #6999, aired 2015-02-05 | THE MATH & NOTHING BUT THE MATH $400: x + y = 8 & x = 3y, so y = this 2 |
| #6999, aired 2015-02-05 | THE MATH & NOTHING BUT THE MATH $600: It's a line segment that connects the 2 endpoints of an arc a chord |
| #6999, aired 2015-02-05 | THE MATH & NOTHING BUT THE MATH $800: It's the slope of the line seen here; to calculate it, divide the change in y by the change in x 1 |
| #6999, aired 2015-02-05 | THE MATH & NOTHING BUT THE MATH $1000: We're handing out this multiplication property that says a(b + c) = ab + ac the distributive property |
| #6999, aired 2015-02-05 | OLYMPIC SPORTS BY GOLD MEDALIST $1000: 1968:
Jean-Claude Killy downhill skiing |
| #6977, aired 2015-01-06 | THE "METRIC" SYSTEM $2000: Pertaining to the branch of math that deals with the measurement of triangles trigonometric |
| #6964, aired 2014-12-18 | DO THE MATH $200: If the meter says $16.00 & you tip 20%, you'll give the driver this total $19.20 |
| #6964, aired 2014-12-18 | DO THE MATH $400: If your friends say to meet them 130 minutes after 11:30 AM, you'll meet up at this time of day 1:40 PM |
| #6964, aired 2014-12-18 | DO THE MATH $600: The largest common factor of 84 & 105 is this 21 |
| #6964, aired 2014-12-18 | DO THE MATH $1000: If 3x - 11 = 43, x = this 18 |
| #6964, aired 2014-12-18 | DO THE MATH $2,000 (Daily Double): The total surface area of a cube with each side 10 inches long is this 600 square inches |
| #6957, aired 2014-12-09 | PROOFREADING $400: Using 3 right triangles, president & former math teacher James Garfield gave an original proof of this the Pythagorean Theorem |
| #6955, aired 2014-12-05 | NON-COMMON CORE MATH $200: 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 15 |
| #6955, aired 2014-12-05 | NON-COMMON CORE MATH $400: 1 - 2 + 3 - 4 + 5 3 |
| #6955, aired 2014-12-05 | NON-COMMON CORE MATH $600: 1 x 2 x 3 x 4 x 5 120 |
| #6955, aired 2014-12-05 | NON-COMMON CORE MATH $800: -1 x 2 x -3 x 4 x -5 -120 |
| #6953, aired 2014-12-03 | GAMES $600: In the app called Sushi Monster, kids practice this school subject by feeding the title monster sushi math |
| #6915, aired 2014-10-10 | WEBSITES $800: Want to brush up on your math? Head to the website of this academy, whose logo is seen here the Khan Academy |
| #6908, aired 2014-10-01 | THE TV BUSINESS $800: TV advertisers' coveted age group is this 31-year span 18-49 |
| #6893, aired 2014-07-30 | GIMME SOME MATH! $400: There's no defense for not knowing this term for a 5-sided polygon a pentagon |
| #6893, aired 2014-07-30 | GIMME SOME MATH! $800: Euclid came up with the first proof that there are an infinite number of these integers with only 2 positive divisors prime numbers |
| #6893, aired 2014-07-30 | GIMME SOME MATH! $1200: It's the base 10 logarithm of 10,000 4 |
| #6893, aired 2014-07-30 | GIMME SOME MATH! $1600: It's the radius of the circle x2 + y2 = 100 10 |
| #6893, aired 2014-07-30 | GIMME SOME MATH! $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a graph on the monitor.) In Cartesian geometry, the y coordinate of a point is called the ordinate--the x coordinate is called this, from Latin for "cut off" the abscissa |
| #6889, aired 2014-07-24 | THE GENIUS BAR $1200: Curse you, Gottfried Leibniz, for co-inventing this branch of math, both integral & differential calculus |
| #6887, aired 2014-07-22 | AFTER-SCHOOL CLUBS $1000: It's Greek to me, but you math whizzes might recognize the logo for this national honor society Mu Alpha Theta |
| #6838, aired 2014-05-14 | THEY DID THE MATH $400: At 22, Carl F. Gauss gave a proof of the fundamental theorem of this math branch that uses variables to stand for numbers algebra |
| #6838, aired 2014-05-14 | THEY DID THE MATH $800: Here's my point: Simon Stevin's 1585 pamphlet "The Tenth" helped establish the use of this notation a decimal point |
| #6838, aired 2014-05-14 | THEY DID THE MATH $1200: You can use these 2 symbols to show that Thomas Harriot's book introducing them appeared not in 1630 or 1632 but 1631 greater than and less than |
| #6838, aired 2014-05-14 | THEY DID THE MATH $1600: In between loaves of bread, jugs of wine & thous, he came up with the first complete solution of cubic equations Omar Khayyám |
| #6838, aired 2014-05-14 | THEY DID THE MATH $2000: A paradox named for this Greek says you can never reach a goal because the number of halfway-there points is infinite Zeno |
| #6834, aired 2014-05-08 | SCIENCE & TECH BOOKS $800: The story of math genius Srinivasa Ramanujan is told in "The Man Who Knew" this limitless concept infinity |
| #6822, aired 2014-04-22 | COLLEGES, NOT UNIVERSITIES $1200: This pizza magnate & 2012 presidential candidate was a math major at historically black Morehouse College Herman Cain |
| #6814, aired 2014-04-10 | SPOT THE MATH TERM $200: Medallion,
Medellin,
median median |
| #6814, aired 2014-04-10 | SPOT THE MATH TERM $400: Permutation,
pernegation,
perpetration permutation |
| #6814, aired 2014-04-10 | SPOT THE MATH TERM $600: Axle,
clutch,
differential differential |
| #6814, aired 2014-04-10 | SPOT THE MATH TERM $800: Recidivist,
reciprocal,
recision reciprocal |
| #6814, aired 2014-04-10 | SPOT THE MATH TERM $1000: Triptote,
asymptote,
diptote asymptote |
| #6809, aired 2014-04-03 | THE LONG & THE SHORT OF IT $600: This verb meaning to lengthen is found in the name of a math instrument protract |
| #6777, aired 2014-02-18 | COUNTRY MATH $400: Number of premiers of Cuba in the 1960s plus number of monarchs of England in the 1980s 2 |
| #6777, aired 2014-02-18 | COUNTRY MATH $1200: The number of Canadian provinces times the number of Canadian official languages 20 |
| #6777, aired 2014-02-18 | COUNTRY MATH $1600: The number of countries on Hispaniola plus the number on Timor 4 |
| #6777, aired 2014-02-18 | COUNTRY MATH $2000: The number of permanent members of the U.N. Security Council times the number of nonpermanent ones 50 |
| #6777, aired 2014-02-18 | COUNTRY MATH $3,000 (Daily Double): Stripes on the U.S. flag minus colors on the French flag 10 |
| #6764, aired 2014-01-30 | MATH PROBLEMS $400: John bought 60 bottles of beer, gave away a third of them, then bought 8 more, giving him this many total 48 |
| #6764, aired 2014-01-30 | MATH PROBLEMS $800: Jogging at 6 miles an hour, it takes Steve this long to travel 1.5 miles 15 minutes |
| #6764, aired 2014-01-30 | MATH PROBLEMS $1200: Matt served the calendar years 2009 through 2013 in prison, so he marked off this many first days of the month 60 |
| #6764, aired 2014-01-30 | MATH PROBLEMS $1600: After spending $200 at the store, Eric has 20% of his money left, meaning he started with this total $250 |
| #6764, aired 2014-01-30 | MATH PROBLEMS $2000: The office measures 10 feet by 18 feet; to carpet the whole thing will cost this much at $10 a square yard $200 |
| #6752, aired 2014-01-14 | INSIDE ART $1600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows us an engraving in the studio.) A closer look at Albrecht Durer's "Melencolia I" shows his skill at not only art but also math; the box in the back is one of these mystical constructs in which any row or column adds up to the same number; here, it's 34 a magic square |
| #6710, aired 2013-11-15 | GIVE US 2 C's & AN A $1200: This math branch can also pose a problem for your dentist as a hard deposit on your teeth calculus |
| #6708, aired 2013-11-13 | TALKIN' MATH $200: Also an underground part of a plant, it's the solution to an equation the root |
| #6708, aired 2013-11-13 | TALKIN' MATH $400: A '50s comedy song joked about a movie called "The Eternal Triangle", with Ingrid Bergman as this longest right triangle side the hypotenuse |
| #6708, aired 2013-11-13 | TALKIN' MATH $600: In math, it's a rectangular array of numbers, not the setting for a dystopian 1999 sci-fi movie the matrix |
| #6708, aired 2013-11-13 | TALKIN' MATH $800: Students usually take this, the study of angles & their functions, after geometry & algebra trigonometry |
| #6708, aired 2013-11-13 | TALKIN' MATH $1000: In calculus, it's what the notation df/dx represents; don't try to be original derivative (differentiation accepted) |
| #6706, aired 2013-11-11 | ANAGRAMMED SCHOOL SUBJECTS $600: Expressive math:
RAGE LAB algebra |
| #6702, aired 2013-11-05 | PI $600: For about $19,100 x pi, this "Black Swan" director made "Pi", his 1998 debut film about a math whiz Darren Aronofsky |
| #6700, aired 2013-11-01 | TV TITLE MATH $400: Number of "Hours" in a CBS documentary show plus number of "Minutes" in a CBS documentary show 108 (48 + 60) |
| #6700, aired 2013-11-01 | BIRTH, SCHOOL, WORK, DEATH $400: 1642,
Trinity College,
did some astronomy & math,
1727 Newton |
| #6700, aired 2013-11-01 | TV TITLE MATH $800: Pat Robertson's "Club" times "Broke Girls" 1400 (700 × 2) |
| #6700, aired 2013-11-01 | TV TITLE MATH $1600: "Deep Space" number minus fractional sitcom "Men" number 6 1/2 ( 9 - 2 1/2) |
| #6700, aired 2013-11-01 | TV TITLE MATH $2000: A Fox drama about Jack Bauer divided by how many kids "Is Enough" 3 (24 ÷ 8) |
| #6700, aired 2013-11-01 | TV TITLE MATH $3,000 (Daily Double): Sum of the digits in a famous Shannen Doherty ZIP code 12 (9 + 0 + 2 + 1 + 0) |
| #6694, aired 2013-10-24 | MATH APPEAL $200: As the bases are 90 feet apart, it's the area in square feet of a baseball infield 8,100 square feet |
| #6694, aired 2013-10-24 | MATH APPEAL $400: In 67 divided by 22, 67 is this, also a nice check stockholders get a dividend |
| #6694, aired 2013-10-24 | MATH APPEAL $600: To write one of these as a decimal, move the decimal point 2 places to the left a percentage |
| #6694, aired 2013-10-24 | MATH APPEAL $800: A 2013 paper on "twin" these numbers shows there are infinitely many pairs of them no more than 70,000,000 apart prime numbers |
| #6694, aired 2013-10-24 | MATH APPEAL $1000: 7 x (6 x 3) = (7 x 6) x 3 is an example of this law, meaning it doesn't matter which pair you multiply first associative |
| #6663, aired 2013-07-31 | YOU DO THE MATH $400: If you have 2 dozen dolls & you sell 1/3 of them, you're left with this many 16 |
| #6663, aired 2013-07-31 | YOU DO THE MATH $800: Your class forms a leapfrog league with teams made up of 4 players each; with 28 kids in your class, there are this many teams 7 |
| #6663, aired 2013-07-31 | YOU DO THE MATH $1600: You've got $2,000 saved for that Ferrari; at 5.5% annual interest, you'll make this much towards your goal in one year $110 |
| #6663, aired 2013-07-31 | YOU DO THE MATH $2000: You can eat 2 pancakes in a minute & a half, so it'll take you this long to eat 8 6 minutes |
| #6663, aired 2013-07-31 | YOU DO THE MATH $10,000 (Daily Double): Vacation has taken you to a country where it's 4 pesos to every dollar, so your $7.50 gets you this many pesos 30 pesos |
| #6654, aired 2013-07-18 | THAT'S SOME "TUDE"! $200: A natural ability, maybe for math aptitude |
| #6637, aired 2013-06-25 | WASHINGTON MATH $200: The number of U.S. senators divided by the number of U.S. states two (100 divided by 50) |
| #6637, aired 2013-06-25 | WASHINGTON MATH $400: The number of amendments in the Bill of Rights times the number of Supreme Court justices ninety (10 times 9) |
| #6637, aired 2013-06-25 | WASHINGTON MATH $600: U.S. representatives for Delaware
times U.S. representatives for Alaska one (1 times 1) |
| #6637, aired 2013-06-25 | WASHINGTON MATH $1000: States outside the contiguous U.S.
minus people on the dais behind the president at the State of the Union zero (2 minus 2) |
| #6637, aired 2013-06-25 | WASHINGTON MATH $3,000 (Daily Double): Obama's number as president
divided by the number of heads carved on Mount Rushmore eleven (44 divided by 4) |
| #6618, aired 2013-05-29 | "ATH" & YOU SHALL RECEIVE $600: From the Greek for "learning", it proves a challenge for many math |
| #6609, aired 2013-05-16 | USING ALGEBRA AFTER HIGH SCHOOL $1200: Solve for x in the math problem seen here 1/3 |
| #6607, aired 2013-05-14 | PROFESSORS $400: Professor Asaph Hall, who discovered Deimos & Phobos, taught math & this at Harvard astronomy |
| #6604, aired 2013-05-09 | THE ABEL PRIZE $800: The 2009 prize went to Mikhail Gromov for his " revolutionary contributions to" this math branch pioneered by Euclid geometry |
| #6594, aired 2013-04-25 | OUT ON A "LIM" $2000: In math, a converging series approaches this limit |
| #6568, aired 2013-03-20 | PRESIDENTIAL DEBATERS $1000: A few elections back at UMass Boston, we heard about "fuzzy math" & a "lockbox" from these 2 George W. Bush & Al Gore |
| #6547, aired 2013-02-19 | THE LIFE OF A GENIUS $2000: Solve previously unsolved math problem, get this medal named for Canadian math professor John Fields |
| #6546, aired 2013-02-18 | IN THE DICTIONARY $400: The name of this branch of math comes from words meaning "earth" & "measure" geometry |
| #6528, aired 2013-01-23 | MATH IS A 7- OR 8-LETTER WORD $400: It's twice the radius of a circle diameter |
| #6528, aired 2013-01-23 | MATH IS A 7- OR 8-LETTER WORD $800: The integral type of this math branch can be used to find the end result of known continuous change calculus |
| #6528, aired 2013-01-23 | MATH IS A 7- OR 8-LETTER WORD $1200: It's a number placed as a superscript after an expression to indicate the power to which it is raised an exponent |
| #6528, aired 2013-01-23 | MATH IS A 7- OR 8-LETTER WORD $1600: Type of triangle seen here; note the lengths of the three sides scalene |
| #6528, aired 2013-01-23 | MATH IS A 7- OR 8-LETTER WORD $2000: In rectangular Cartesian coordinates, the first this is the area to the right of the y-axis & above the x-axis a quadrant |
| #6516, aired 2013-01-07 | 4-SYLLABLE WORDS $400: It takes a very steady hand... this term for a medical procedure also describes a math process like addition operation |
| #6510, aired 2012-12-28 | STARRY NIGHT $1600: Meaning "changing", it's a type of star whose brightness changes; it's also a word for an unknown in math a variable |
| #6501, aired 2012-12-17 | MATH FUN $200: If the 4 people at your standup show each bring 2 friends to your next gig, you'll have this size audience 12 |
| #6501, aired 2012-12-17 | MATH FUN $400: It's the response to the classic riddle "Why is 6 afraid of 7?" Because 7 8 9 |
| #6501, aired 2012-12-17 | MATH FUN $600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew presents the clue.) Take a circle whose diameter is 1 foot & mark the bottom; once the wheel has made one revolution, you have a measurement, in feet, of this ratio pi |
| #6501, aired 2012-12-17 | MATH FUN $800: It's the sum of the 4 numbers in the center column of buttons on a standard touch-tone phone 15 |
| #6501, aired 2012-12-17 | MATH FUN $1,600 (Daily Double): (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents the clue.) The Venn diagram here contains three sets: A, B & C, but, there's another set that includes all possible things that's called this the universal set |
| #6484, aired 2012-11-22 | A HANSEATIC LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN $1,000 (Daily Double): The decline of the Hanseatic League was in part due to this devastating war that lasted from 1618 to 1648 the Thirty Years' War |
| #6482, aired 2012-11-20 | GIFTED & TALENTED $1600: I'll "wager" you know the name of this 17th c. French philosopher & math whiz who wrote an essay on conic sections at 16 (Blaise) Pascal |
| #6475, aired 2012-11-09 | TEACHERS IN THE MOVIES $400: Matt Damon brings an M.I.T. prof to his knees by burning a previously unsolved math proof in this film Good Will Hunting |
| #6451, aired 2012-10-08 | BEGINS & ENDS WITH "A" $1600: An example of this branch of math is 2x - 3=7 algebra |
| #6440, aired 2012-09-21 | IT'S THE MATH OR SCIENCE LAW $400: The second law of this 19th century botanist is the law of independent assortment (Gregor) Mendel |
| #6440, aired 2012-09-21 | IT'S THE MATH OR SCIENCE LAW $800: Mendeleev's Law is also called this law, a word found before "table of elements" periodic |
| #6440, aired 2012-09-21 | IT'S THE MATH OR SCIENCE LAW $1200: The law of sines states that the lengths of the sides of this shape are proprtional to the sines of the opposite angles a triangle |
| #6440, aired 2012-09-21 | IT'S THE MATH OR SCIENCE LAW $1600: 95 x 27 = 27 x 95
(2,565 for those scoring at home) illustrates this law the commutative law |
| #6440, aired 2012-09-21 | IT'S THE MATH OR SCIENCE LAW $2000: 3 laws of planetary motion, including the law of areas, are named for this 17th century German astronomer (Johannes) Kepler |
| #6436, aired 2012-09-17 | MATH WORDS $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows three geometric figures on the monitor.) A trapezium, a rhombus, & even a kite are examples of this type of planed figure, from the Latin for "4-sided" a quadrilateral |
| #6436, aired 2012-09-17 | MATH WORDS $800: Now would be a good time to remember that it's 1/60 of a degree a minute |
| #6436, aired 2012-09-17 | MATH WORDS $1200: Don't be dense; tell us this word for an angle of more than 90 but fewer than 180 degrees obtuse |
| #6436, aired 2012-09-17 | MATH WORDS $1600: The letter m indicates this steepness of a line a slope |
| #6436, aired 2012-09-17 | MATH WORDS $2000: An assertion that can be proven true, often using axioms & postulates a theorem |
| #6414, aired 2012-07-05 | "O" MY $2,000 (Daily Double): In math, it's 1/8 of a circle or a 45-degree angle; it's also an instrument for measuring angles an octant |
| #6409, aired 2012-06-28 | THIS & THAT $800: In 1240 the city of Pisa put this math man on salary; maybe in the third year they gave him the sum of his pay in the first 2 Leonardo Fibonacci |
| #6392, aired 2012-06-05 | CELEBRATIONS OF THE MONTH $1,000 (Daily Double): Freedom of Information Day & National Pi Day (the math kind) March |
| #6373, aired 2012-05-09 | HOW SYMBOLIC $400: 2 dots & a horizontal line make an obelus, which we use to signify this basic math operation division |
| #6367, aired 2012-05-01 | MAD FOR MATH $400: Quick!
5 + 32 + 7 -10 34 |
| #6367, aired 2012-05-01 | MAD FOR MATH $800: It's not an arm muscle, it's math talk for "to divide into 2 equal parts" bisect |
| #6367, aired 2012-05-01 | MAD FOR MATH $1200: It's the square root of the cube root of 64 2 |
| #6367, aired 2012-05-01 | MAD FOR MATH $1600: Also known as the multiplicative inverse, for 5/3, it's 3/5 a reciprocal |
| #6367, aired 2012-05-01 | MAD FOR MATH $2000: On a trig table, one of the 2 basic functions that equals zero for a right angle cosine (or cotangent) |
| #6351, aired 2012-04-09 | MATH FORMULAS $400: A formula used for cubes is V = e3, in which "V" is this volume |
| #6351, aired 2012-04-09 | MATH FORMULAS $800: In degrees, the sum of the interior these in a polygon equals 180(n-2) angles |
| #6351, aired 2012-04-09 | MATH FORMULAS $1200: For a parallelogram, use A = bh --"A" for this area |
| #6351, aired 2012-04-09 | MATH FORMULAS $1600: In D = rt, "r" is rate, "t" is time & "D" is this distance |
| #6351, aired 2012-04-09 | MATH FORMULAS $2000: For a rectangle P = 2l+2w, "P" being short for this the perimeter |
| #6347, aired 2012-04-03 | MATH, YET NOT MATH $2000: This negative-sounding word means to render someone utterly perplexed nonplus |
| #6337, aired 2012-03-20 | TO INFINITY & BEYOND $200: In math, the usual way to indicate an infinite set is to put this after the last element you list three dots |
| #6335, aired 2012-03-16 | WE ALL MAKE CHOICES IN LIFE $200: The math section of the S.A.T. a) is 70 minutes long; b) covers algebra; c) is mainly multiple choice; d) all of the above d) all of the above |
| #6293, aired 2012-01-18 | SYMBOLOGY $800: In math, this set the null set (or empty set) |
| #6290, aired 2012-01-13 | FLOAT SAM & JET SAM $1,000 (Daily Double): From 1937 to 1940 Samuel Eliot Morison researched a 450th anniversary bio by retracing this man's voyages Christopher Columbus |
| #6267, aired 2011-12-13 | THERE'S A WORD FOR THAT $2000: In math you get a difference by subtracting the subtrahend from this number the minuend |
| #6266, aired 2011-12-12 | MATH $400: It's the result of one or more multiplications a product |
| #6266, aired 2011-12-12 | MATH $800: When he wasn't busy rubaiyating, this 11th century renaissance man wrote a pioneering work on algebra Omar Khayyam |
| #6266, aired 2011-12-12 | MATH $1200: The prefix "mega" denotes 10 to the 6th power; "giga", 10 to this power the ninth |
| #6266, aired 2011-12-12 | MATH $1600: Jean Poncelet's work on conic sections helped found the "projective" form of this branch of mathematics geometry |
| #6266, aired 2011-12-12 | MATH $2000: Mathematicians disagree as to whether zero belongs in this set of numbers denoted N the natural numbers |
| #6256, aired 2011-11-28 | NEW MATH $400: In books, Orwell's title year minus Peter Gent's "North Dallas" 1944 |
| #6256, aired 2011-11-28 | NEW MATH $800: Number of hulls on a catamaran times the number of days in April 60 |
| #6256, aired 2011-11-28 | NEW MATH $1,000 (Daily Double): 4 score & 7 minus the syllables in a haiku 70 |
| #6256, aired 2011-11-28 | NEW MATH $1200: A baker's dozen plus the numerical gun salute for the arrival of the vice president (it's 2 fewer than the prez) 32 (19 and 13) |
| #6256, aired 2011-11-28 | NEW MATH $2000: "Men on the dead man's chest" in "Treasure Island" divided by books in the Pentateuch 3 |
| #6250, aired 2011-11-18 | CRAZY 8s $400: The math symbol for this looks like an 8 on its side infinity |
| #6221, aired 2011-10-10 | "A" IN MATH $400: In this type of triangle, all 3 angles are less than 90 degrees acute |
| #6221, aired 2011-10-10 | "A" IN MATH $800: This segment of a circle can be measured by its length or the angle it forms an arc |
| #6221, aired 2011-10-10 | "A" IN MATH $1200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange.) The Exchange now allows brokers on the floor to execute trades from handheld devices using programs called "algos", short for this type of step-by-step mathematical process an algorithm |
| #6221, aired 2011-10-10 | "A" IN MATH $1600: 2 angles in a plane sharing a common vertex & side are said to be this adjacent |
| #6221, aired 2011-10-10 | "A" IN MATH $14,200 (Daily Double): It's the length from the base of a cone to the apex the altitude |
| #6217, aired 2011-10-04 | PLUS 8 $2000: 20 cubed
plus 20 squared
plus 8 8,408 |
| #6214, aired 2011-09-29 | MATH ABBREV. & SYMBOLS $400: In finding the area of a parallelogram, A=bh, b standing for this base |
| #6214, aired 2011-09-29 | MATH ABBREV. & SYMBOLS $800: Regarding sets, "R" refers to real numbers & "Q" refers to this group of numbers that also begins with R rational numbers |
| #6214, aired 2011-09-29 | MATH ABBREV. & SYMBOLS $1200: cos, in trig cosine |
| #6214, aired 2011-09-29 | MATH ABBREV. & SYMBOLS $1600: cot, also in trig cotangent |
| #6214, aired 2011-09-29 | MATH ABBREV. & SYMBOLS $2000: csc--what's with all the trig? cosecant |
| #6207, aired 2011-09-20 | LATE MAN $2000: Professor Nicolae Popescu, 1937-2010, made many contributions to this branch of math with an Arabic name algebra |
| #6193, aired 2011-07-13 | THAT'S SOME NERVE $600: This nerve involved in carpal tunnel syndrome shares its name with a math term for the middle number in a sequence the median |
| #6188, aired 2011-07-06 | POP CULTURE $400: This son of Will Smith turns 13 this week & says math is his favorite subject-- let's get him a textbook Jaden Smith |
| #6177, aired 2011-06-21 | NOTHING $2000: In math, a solution to an equation in which the value of every variable is equal to zero is called this, like certain "pursuits" trivial |
| #6160, aired 2011-05-27 | MOVIE TITLE MATH $400: Number of simians in a Bruce Willis time travel movie squared 144 |
| #6160, aired 2011-05-27 | MOVIE TITLE MATH $800: Number of "Weeks" in a Mickey Rourke film plus the title of a Fellini film; they add up to a whole number 18 |
| #6160, aired 2011-05-27 | MOVIE TITLE MATH $1200: Number of "Days Later" in a zombie flick divided by the title number of heroes in a Jessica Alba Marvel movie 7 |
| #6160, aired 2011-05-27 | MOVIE TITLE MATH $1600: It's what 2(x+y) equals if x is the number of "Angry Men" in a 1957 film & y is the "Kings" in a George Clooney movie 30 |
| #6160, aired 2011-05-27 | MOVIE TITLE MATH $2000: Number preceding "Pick Up" in a Roy Scheider film minus Wesley Snipes' "Passenger" number in a 1992 movie -5 |
| #6142, aired 2011-05-03 | MATH, TEACHERS! $400: It's the part of a fraction that tells into how many parts the whole is divided the denominator |
| #6142, aired 2011-05-03 | MATH, TEACHERS! $800: It's the greatest common factor of 18 & 24 6 |
| #6142, aired 2011-05-03 | MATH, TEACHERS! $1200: My 1997 Honda Civic went 403 miles on 13 gallons; I'm getting this many miles per gallon 31 |
| #6142, aired 2011-05-03 | MATH, TEACHERS! $1600: You'll experience de triomphe if you know that in trigonometry, this prefix denotes an inverse function an arc- |
| #6142, aired 2011-05-03 | MATH, TEACHERS! $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a graph on the monitor.) When graphing the equation y=2x+1, the line intersects the y-axis at 1; in general, the point where the line crosses is called the y-this the y-intercept |
| #6093, aired 2011-02-23 | TEENAGE DREAM $400: On NASA's website, Sally Ride says study math & science if you dream of becoming one of these, like she did an astronaut |
| #6068, aired 2011-01-19 | EVERYDAY HEROES $800: 2005 Natl. Teacher of the Year Jason Kamras did the math at a D.C. middle school named for this "March King" (John Philip) Sousa |
| #6066, aired 2011-01-17 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $1000: As well as kids' books, this 19th century author wrote "Examples in Arithmetic" & other math textbooks Lewis Carroll |
| #6040, aired 2010-12-10 | MATH TERMS $400: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a diagram on a monitor) A circle has 2 foci that coincide in a single point. If we separate the foci, we can draw this 7-letter conic section an ellipse |
| #6040, aired 2010-12-10 | MATH TERMS $800: The quad, a place where you might throw frisbees, is short for this mathematical term quadrangle |
| #6040, aired 2010-12-10 | MATH TERMS $1200: (Jimmy shows a logical proposition on a monitor.) Used in propositional logic problems & often read, for example, as "P if and only if Q", the symbol here denotes this term biconditional or equivalence |
| #6039, aired 2010-12-09 | I KNOW A LITTLE... $600: Greek; he's known as this letter,
which in math means a tiny quantity epsilon |
| #6024, aired 2010-11-18 | MATH SYMBOLS $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew explains an equation on the monitor.) The big "E" is actually the Greek letter sigma; in math, it means to do this to a series of terms--here, from 1 to 3 sum them (or add them) |
| #6024, aired 2010-11-18 | MATH SYMBOLS $800: The symbol here says "A" is this with respect to "B"; more than 2 words less than or equal to |
| #6024, aired 2010-11-18 | MATH SYMBOLS $1200: (Kelly of the Clue Crew explains an expression on the monitor.) The vertical bars around the negative 3 indicate this, also known as numerical value absolute value |
| #6024, aired 2010-11-18 | MATH SYMBOLS $1600: We're pretty sure you can give us the name of this symbol that denotes a range of uncertainty plus or minus |
| #6024, aired 2010-11-18 | MATH SYMBOLS $3,200 (Daily Double): (Sarah of the Clue Crew explains an equation on the monitor.) In math, an exclamation mark is called a factorial symbol; it means to do this with every positive integer of equal or lesser value--in this case, equal to 120 multiply it |
| #6020, aired 2010-11-12 | 2- OR 11-LETTER WORDS $400: It's both a math term & the 16th Greek letter pi |
| #6016, aired 2010-11-08 | THE OLD COLLEGE "TRI" $1000: The math department will gladly instruct you in plane & spherical this trigonometry |
| #5993, aired 2010-10-06 | WANT TO RACE? $1200: (Alex delivers the clue from the Toyota Grand Prix.) In math, this 4-letter term is the top part of a triangle, but in car racing, it's the innermost part of a turn the apex |
| #5972, aired 2010-07-27 | HERE'S 2 "U" $4,000 (Daily Double): The name of this branch of math comes from the Latin for "small stone" calculus |
| #5969, aired 2010-07-22 | PRESIDENTIAL MATH $400: Obama divided by Madison 11 (44 ÷ 4) |
| #5969, aired 2010-07-22 | PRESIDENTIAL MATH $800: Lincoln times Jefferson 48 (16 × 3) |
| #5969, aired 2010-07-22 | PRESIDENTIAL MATH $1200: John Quincy Adams divided by John Adams 3 (6 ÷ 2) |
| #5969, aired 2010-07-22 | PRESIDENTIAL MATH $2000: Clinton minus Nixon 5 (42 - 37) |
| #5969, aired 2010-07-22 | PRESIDENTIAL MATH $3,000 (Daily Double): Reagan times Monroe 200 (40 × 5) |
| #5967, aired 2010-07-20 | TOP U.S. FRANCHISES $1000: Begun in Japan, this chain of math & reading centers ranks as the top tutoring services franchise Kumon |
| #5926, aired 2010-05-24 | BOOK SMART $1200: Sylvia Nasar wrote this biography of math genius & Nobel laureate John Nash A Beautiful Mind |
| #5907, aired 2010-04-27 | A LITTLE OF EVERYTHING $400: A branch of math, it's also another name for tartar build up on the teeth calculus |
| #5906, aired 2010-04-26 | THE 19th FIRST ANNUAL IG NOBEL PRIZE $1000: A math prize to this African country's reserve bank, for giving folks the chance to use big numbers like 100 trillion Zimbabwe |
| #5895, aired 2010-04-09 | LITERARY MATH $400: Vonnegut's "Slaughterhouse-" times Verne's "Leagues Under the Sea" 100,000 |
| #5895, aired 2010-04-09 | LITERARY MATH $800: Christie's "Little Indians" minus Tolkien's "Towers" 8 |
| #5895, aired 2010-04-09 | LITERARY MATH $1200: Bradbury's "Fahrenheit" minus Garcia Marquez' "Years of Solitude" 351 |
| #5895, aired 2010-04-09 | LITERARY MATH $1600: Hanff's "Charing Cross Road" plus Heller's "Catch-" 106 |
| #5895, aired 2010-04-09 | LITERARY MATH $2000: Pynchon's "Crying of Lot" divided by Hawthorne's "House of... Gables" 7 |
| #5869, aired 2010-03-04 | MATH-POURRI $400: Total number of days in March, April & May 92 |
| #5869, aired 2010-03-04 | MATH-POURRI $800: It's the square root of the square root of 81 3 |
| #5869, aired 2010-03-04 | MATH-POURRI $1200: It's the branch of math that deals with the relationships between the sides & angles of triangles trigonometry |
| #5869, aired 2010-03-04 | MATH-POURRI $1600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew stands in front of a board with numbers.) The highest number that divides evenly into two different numbers is called this, also known as GCF; for 40 & 100, the GCF is 20 the greatest common factor |
| #5869, aired 2010-03-04 | MATH-POURRI $2000: It's -5 x -5 x -5 -125 |
| #5865, aired 2010-02-26 | INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY $400: This science & math titan moved to 35 St. Martin's Street in London in 1710, 44 years after his "Annus Mirabilis" Newton |
| #5841, aired 2010-01-25 | MATHLETES $2,000 (Daily Double): He thought, in math the last letters should stand for unknowns & the first letters for known quantities--therefore it was René Descartes |
| #5839, aired 2010-01-21 | VICTORIAN NOVELISTS $800: While creating Alice in Wonderland, he was serving as a math lecturer Lewis Carroll |
| #5830, aired 2010-01-08 | RON HOWARD FILMS $800: He played math genius John Nash in "A Beautiful Mind" Russell Crowe |
| #5808, aired 2009-12-09 | ROMAN NUMERAL MATH $400: III cubed XXVII |
| #5808, aired 2009-12-09 | ROMAN NUMERAL MATH $800: The square root of LXIV VIII |
| #5808, aired 2009-12-09 | ROMAN NUMERAL MATH $1200: VI squared XXXVI |
| #5808, aired 2009-12-09 | ROMAN NUMERAL MATH $1600: LII plus XV LXVII |
| #5808, aired 2009-12-09 | ROMAN NUMERAL MATH $2000: XL times V CC |
| #5804, aired 2009-12-03 | MATH $400: Popular in geometry, as in logic, are statements known as "if..." this & then |
| #5804, aired 2009-12-03 | MATH $800: The formula to find the area of one of these is 1/2 base times height a triangle |
| #5804, aired 2009-12-03 | MATH $1200: In coordinate geometry, the abscissa is the distance of a point from this vertical axis the y-axis |
| #5804, aired 2009-12-03 | MATH $1600: The continuous summing of a change in a function over an interval, it's the inverse process of differentiation integration |
| #5804, aired 2009-12-03 | MATH $2000: When 2 of these intersect, their intersection is a straight line a plane |
| #5755, aired 2009-09-25 | 2 NUMBERS PLEASE $600: The first sentence of the Gettysburg Address mentions these two numbers; add them together to check Abe's math fourscore & 7 |
| #5754, aired 2009-09-24 | TOP 40 MATH $400: The Commodores' "Times A Lady" divided by Paul Simon's "Trick Pony" 3 |
| #5754, aired 2009-09-24 | TOP 40 MATH $800: The Proclaimers' "I'm Gonna Be" this many "(Miles)" plus Paul Simon's "Ways To Leave Your Lover" 550 |
| #5754, aired 2009-09-24 | TOP 40 MATH $1200: Stevie Nicks' "Edge Of" this minus The Crests' this many "Candles" 1 |
| #5754, aired 2009-09-24 | TOP 40 MATH $1600: Murray Head's nights "In Bangkok" minus Brewer & Shipley's tokes "Over The Line" 0 |
| #5754, aired 2009-09-24 | TOP 40 MATH $2000: The Byrds' this many "Miles High" times Eddie Money's this many "Tickets To Paradise" 16 |
| #5737, aired 2009-07-14 | YOU DO THE MATH! $400: Half a dozen centuries divided by 10 gives you this many years 60 |
| #5737, aired 2009-07-14 | YOU DO THE MATH! $800: Traveling exactly twice around the globe means you've traveled this many degrees longitude 720 |
| #5737, aired 2009-07-14 | YOU DO THE MATH! $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows the numbers 18, 33, & 165 on the monitor.) An easy way to find the common divisor here is to simply add up each number's digits, & each sum will be divisible by this number 3 |
| #5737, aired 2009-07-14 | YOU DO THE MATH! $1600: You've got 60 apples & give 1/4 of them away, leaving you this many 45 |
| #5737, aired 2009-07-14 | YOU DO THE MATH! $2000: It's the total number of intersections in the Venn diagram seen here 4 |
| #5724, aired 2009-06-25 | SHEER CHAOS $1,000 (Daily Double): What Bush accused Gore of using, it's an actual branch of mathematics that acknowledges imprecision fuzzy math |
| #5700, aired 2009-05-22 | THE JETS $3,200 (Daily Double): Introduced in the 1980s, it's the Boeing jet whose digits add up to 20 the 767 |
| #5686, aired 2009-05-04 | TIME TO CONVERT $2,200 (Daily Double): You do the math: -40 degrees on the Fahrenheit temperature scale equals this on the Celsius scale -40 |
| #5683, aired 2009-04-29 | AROUND A GREEK TEMPLE $1200: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows an architectural graphic on the monitor.) The ring at the bottom of a column is called a torus; in math, a torus now refers to any donut-shaped figure for which the formula 4π2Rr determines this area |
| #5673, aired 2009-04-15 | GOVERNMENT & POLITICS $5,000 (Daily Double): (Kelly of the Clue Crew describes some math with the aid of the monitor.) When it comes to congress, if the U.S. population of 300 million were simply divided by 435, Nebraska, for example, would have 2.48 congressmen; so a complex formula covers this process of handing out seats apportionment |
| #5667, aired 2009-04-07 | DISCOVERIES $400: By Newton--no, Leibniz--no, Newt--anyway, this branch of math calculus |
| #5648, aired 2009-03-11 | ARE YOU SMARTER THAN A 15th GRADER? $1200: You won't pass 15th grade math unless you know it's the first derivative of x3 3x2 |
| #5642, aired 2009-03-03 | YOU NEED TO CONVERT $1,000 (Daily Double): One eighth of a circle equals this many degrees 45 |
| #5627, aired 2009-02-10 | FROM A TO Y $1,000 (Daily Double): In math, it's the degree of correctness of a quantity or expression accuracy |
| #5608, aired 2009-01-14 | NAME THE MOVIE $800: 1997:
An M.I.T. janitor does some math; the NSA does or doesn't get involved Good Will Hunting |
| #5608, aired 2009-01-14 | NAME THE MOVIE $1000: 2001:
A paranoid schizophrenic does some math; the CIA does or doesn't get involved A Beautiful Mind |
| #5602, aired 2009-01-06 | HOPE YOU STAYED AWAKE IN MATH $400: (Kelly of the Clue Crew indicates a right triangle on the monitor.) It's the sum of angles B & C 90 degrees |
| #5602, aired 2009-01-06 | HOPE YOU STAYED AWAKE IN MATH $800: 75% of 200 plus 200% of 75 equals this 300 |
| #5602, aired 2009-01-06 | HOPE YOU STAYED AWAKE IN MATH $1200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew indicates an equation on the monitor.) It's the more familiar way to express this equation E=mc2 |
| #5602, aired 2009-01-06 | HOPE YOU STAYED AWAKE IN MATH $1600: This trigonometric function is the ratio of an angle's opposite side to its hypotenuse sine |
| #5602, aired 2009-01-06 | HOPE YOU STAYED AWAKE IN MATH $2000: (Jon of the Clue Crew shows a graph on the monitor.) If a line's slope equals 3, "X" equals 1 & "B" equals 1, then "Y" equals this 4 |
| #5564, aired 2008-11-13 | DIMENSIONS $400: Hyphenated term used in math to describe a line, & in movie reviews to describe a character without depth one-dimensional |
| #5548, aired 2008-10-22 | HIGHER CELEBRITY EDUCATION $400: It all adds up; he paired with Paul Simon for a while & also got a masters in math from Columbia Art Garfunkel |
| #5548, aired 2008-10-22 | HIGHER CELEBRITY EDUCATION $800: John Astin studied math at Johns Hopkins before becoming a creepy & kooky patriarch on this '60s sitcom The Addams Family |
| #5509, aired 2008-07-17 | FROM THE GREEK $2000: This math term for a restricting factor comes from Greek words for "beside" & "measure" parameter |
| #5501, aired 2008-07-07 | WAR $600: It ran from 1618 to 1648 the Thirty Years' War |
| #5497, aired 2008-07-01 | GAMBLING $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew tries her hand at roulette.) In Las Vegas, the payout on a single number in roulette is this to 1, so on a 25-dollar bet, I'd win 875 dollars 35-to-1 |
| #5481, aired 2008-06-09 | MATH $400: If you got a trapezoid for your birthday, you got a figure with this many sides & a crummy gift four |
| #5481, aired 2008-06-09 | MATH $800: In our number system, it's 10;
in a triangle,
it's the lowest side the base |
| #5481, aired 2008-06-09 | MATH $1200: 1/15 + 1/45 = this 4/45 |
| #5481, aired 2008-06-09 | MATH $1600: It's any system of geometry not based on the system in "Elements", a book from around 300 B.C. non-Euclidean |
| #5481, aired 2008-06-09 | MATH $2000: From the Latin for "agreeing", it describes 2 figures that coincide when superimposed congruent |
| #5479, aired 2008-06-05 | THEY SAID IT $800: Trailing in the GOP nomination race in 2008, this Arkansan said, "I didn't major in math--I majored in miracles" Huckabee |
| #5458, aired 2008-05-07 | G"RAD" SCHOOL $800: Dude! This totally means favoring extreme political reforms...whoa! It's also a math term? Righteous! a radical |
| #5404, aired 2008-02-21 | YOU DO THE MATH $400: Number of U.S. states divided by the number of noncontiguous states 25 |
| #5404, aired 2008-02-21 | YOU DO THE MATH $500 (Daily Double): An $80 shirt reduced in price by 20% would cost this $64 |
| #5404, aired 2008-02-21 | YOU DO THE MATH $800: It's the square root of the square root of 81 3 |
| #5404, aired 2008-02-21 | YOU DO THE MATH $1200: Number of sides on a pentagon multiplied by the number of sides on a hexagon 30 |
| #5404, aired 2008-02-21 | YOU DO THE MATH $1600: 49 plus 22 minus 33 plus 11 49 |
| #5400, aired 2008-02-15 | "D" IN MATH $200: Term for the line that cuts a square into 2 triangles a diagonal |
| #5400, aired 2008-02-15 | "D" IN MATH $400: In a fraction, the numerator is the dividend & this is the divisor the denominator |
| #5400, aired 2008-02-15 | "D" IN MATH $600: A binary system is based on 2; this is a system based on 10 a decimal system |
| #5400, aired 2008-02-15 | "D" IN MATH $800: Angles & compass readings are measured in these degrees |
| #5400, aired 2008-02-15 | "D" IN MATH $1000: Pi is the ratio of the circle's circumference to this diameter |
| #5399, aired 2008-02-14 | EVERYTHING FROM C TO D $1000: In math: raised to the third power cubed |
| #5375, aired 2008-01-11 | MATH ROCK $200: In 1974 rocker Todd Rundgren sang a tune entitled "No. 1 Lowest Common" this denominator |
| #5375, aired 2008-01-11 | MATH ROCK $400: In 1975 Jethro Tull rightly told us that this number to the power of 10 equals "nothing at all" zero |
| #5375, aired 2008-01-11 | MATH ROCK $600: Kate Bush sang over 100 digits about this symbol, the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter pi |
| #5375, aired 2008-01-11 | MATH ROCK $800: Blind Melon gave multiplication help covering the "Schoolhouse Rock!" song about this "magic number" three |
| #5375, aired 2008-01-11 | MATH ROCK $1000: This '80s band's hit "Love Plus One" was a welcome addition to the Billboard charts Haircut 100 |
| #5365, aired 2007-12-28 | TV MATH $400: Fred MacMurray's title "Sons" minus Paul Reiser's title "Dads" 1 |
| #5365, aired 2007-12-28 | TV MATH $800: Col. Steve Austin's title worth plus the amount of title days "at a time" for Bonnie Franklin 6,000,001 |
| #5365, aired 2007-12-28 | TV MATH $1200: John Ritter's sitcom "Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter" times John Ritter's sitcom "Company" 24 |
| #5365, aired 2007-12-28 | TV MATH $2000: Hawkeye's unit number in "M*A*S*H" plus John Lithgow's title rock "from the Sun" 4080 |
| #5365, aired 2007-12-28 | TV MATH $3,000 (Daily Double): Careful:
Tina Fey's title "Rock" minus Charlie Sheen's title "Men" 27 1/2 |
| #5324, aired 2007-11-01 | MATH $400: It's a plane figure bounded by 3 straight lines that intersect at 3 vertices a triangle |
| #5324, aired 2007-11-01 | MATH $800: With a name meaning "many angles", these shapes may or may not be convex polygon |
| #5324, aired 2007-11-01 | MATH $1200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents the clue on the monitor.) A pair of angles that add together to make a straight line are called this type of angle supplementary |
| #5324, aired 2007-11-01 | MATH $1600: From the Greek for "worthy", this kind of statement is also called a postulate an axiom |
| #5324, aired 2007-11-01 | MATH $2000: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew presents the clue on the monitor.) It's the property that expresses why the third equation follows from the first two transitive |
| #5307, aired 2007-10-09 | YOUR NEW CLASS SCHEDULE $800: Math:
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew shows two hexagons on the monitor.) A polygon may be considered convex, or this, meaning "having at least 1 interior angle greater than 180 degrees" concave |
| #5289, aired 2007-09-13 | BEFORE & AFTER MATH $400: Former "Cheers" actress who sees how many times 27 goes into 5,319 Shelley Long Division |
| #5289, aired 2007-09-13 | BEFORE & AFTER MATH $800: This Md.-Penn. boundary is a geometric term for a finite portion of an infinite straight path Mason-Dixon Line Segment |
| #5289, aired 2007-09-13 | BEFORE & AFTER MATH $1200: Nelson's Column site in London that is 2 for 4 & 3 for 9 Trafalgar Square Root |
| #5289, aired 2007-09-13 | BEFORE & AFTER MATH $1600: When profits equal losses, these non-odd integers play a part Breaking even numbers |
| #5289, aired 2007-09-13 | BEFORE & AFTER MATH $2000: This is what you get when Snidely Whiplash bends a cartoon Mountie 90 degrees Dudley Do-Right angle |
| #5285, aired 2007-07-27 | STUDENT & TEACHER $400: Hermann Minkowski taught him math in the 1890s & couldn't believe it when he became a great scientist (Albert) Einstein |
| #5283, aired 2007-07-25 | MATH $400: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew shows the equation 5x/6 = 10/1 on the monitor.) To find the value of a variable in equivalent fractions, you perform this operation first cross-multiplication |
| #5283, aired 2007-07-25 | MATH $800: The minuend is the first number in this simple operation subtraction |
| #5283, aired 2007-07-25 | MATH $1200: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew shows the mathematical equation (1+2) + 3 = 1 + (2+3) on a monitor.) The grouping of terms is irrelevant according to this property of addition as well as multiplication associative |
| #5283, aired 2007-07-25 | MATH $1600: No arguing with Euclid's fourth postulate, "All right angles are" this, meaning of equal measure in degrees congruent |
| #5283, aired 2007-07-25 | MATH $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows another mathematical equation on the monitor.) It's the quantity x represents in the logarithmic equation
log10x = 2 100 |
| #5276, aired 2007-07-16 | FAMOUS WOMEN $3,000 (Daily Double): This first American woman in space heads a company geared to girls who are interested in science & math Sally Ride |
| #5268, aired 2007-07-04 | MAKES THE HEART $2,000 (Daily Double): The mitral valve has 2 flaps & is also called this valve, just like a certain tooth a bicuspid |
| #5229, aired 2007-05-10 | COLLEGE MOVIES $200: Matt Damon plays a janitor at M.I.T. who's really a math genius in this film Good Will Hunting |
| #5202, aired 2007-04-03 | MATH $400: From the Latin for "according to each part", it's a statement of the equality of ratios, like 4:6 equals 2:3 proportion |
| #5202, aired 2007-04-03 | MATH $800: 3! means the product of all the integers from 1 through 3-- so it's this number 6 |
| #5202, aired 2007-04-03 | MATH $1,000 (Daily Double): (Jon of the Clue Crew demonstrates with a beach ball & a diagram on the monitor.) To find the circumference of a beach ball, use the equation 2 pi r to figure out it's this many inches about 31 inches (10 x pi) |
| #5202, aired 2007-04-03 | MATH $1200: Not a "perimeter", this means a constant in the equation of a curve that can be varied to produce other curves parameter |
| #5202, aired 2007-04-03 | MATH $2000: For the series
1, 3, 5, 17
the median is 4, arrived at this way to take the number that's between 3 and 5 (averaging the 2 middle numbers) |
| #5179, aired 2007-03-01 | MATH PROBLEMS $200: If one bus can hold 50 tourists, then at least this many buses are needed for 210 tourists 5 |
| #5179, aired 2007-03-01 | MATH PROBLEMS $400: The total number of yards on an NFL football field, goal line to goal line, plus the number of minutes in an NFL game 160 |
| #5179, aired 2007-03-01 | MATH PROBLEMS $600: To pay $200 in rent, a worker getting 50 cents per bucket of tomatoes must pick this many buckets 400 |
| #5179, aired 2007-03-01 | MATH PROBLEMS $800: A $2, 3-piece carton contains 1 breast & 2 legs; if breasts cost twice as much as legs, this is the price of 1 leg 50 cents |
| #5179, aired 2007-03-01 | MATH PROBLEMS $1000: If you bought 5 6-packs of beer & drank 80% of it before halftime, you have this many beers left for the second half 6 |
| #5177, aired 2007-02-27 | ANAGRAMMED BOOKS OF THE BIBLE $400: WET MATH Matthew |
| #5164, aired 2007-02-08 | YOU'RE NOT GOING OUT WEARING THAT $400: This suit... well, it's formal & the cummerbund & bow tie that go with it do seem a bit much for 4th period math a tuxedo |
| #5158, aired 2007-01-31 | PRESIDENTIAL HITCHING POSTS $4,238 (Daily Double): William H. & Helen Taft, on June 19, 1886 Ohio |
| #5157, aired 2007-01-30 | YOU DO THE MATH $400: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows on the monitor a figure of a right triangle with sides marked "3" and "4" and a hypotenuse marked "C".) According to the theorem made famous by Pythagoras, it's the value of C in the figure seen here 5 |
| #5157, aired 2007-01-30 | YOU DO THE MATH $800: You live in a 5-story building where there are 3 apts. on each odd floor & 4 on each even floor; this is the total number 17 |
| #5157, aired 2007-01-30 | YOU DO THE MATH $1200: (Jon of the Clue Crew shows on the monitor a diagram of two rectangles, one 7' by 7' and one 7' by 4'.) It's the total number of square feet in this diagram 77 |
| #5157, aired 2007-01-30 | YOU DO THE MATH $1600: Each pizza has 8 slices; each party guest will eat 3 slices; if you have 9 pizzas, it's how many guests you can feed 24 |
| #5157, aired 2007-01-30 | YOU DO THE MATH $2000: If someone gave you 15 dollars a day every day, you'd have this much cash for the month of September $450 |
| #5112, aired 2006-11-28 | MATH $400: It's a statement that can be proved; there are binomial & exponential ones a theorem |
| #5112, aired 2006-11-28 | MATH $800: Pierre de Fermat invented the differential type of this branch of math calculus |
| #5112, aired 2006-11-28 | MATH $1200: This trigonometric function is abbreviated sec secant |
| #5112, aired 2006-11-28 | MATH $1600: In the expression 5x, the constant 5 is this, meaning a multiplying factor a numerical coefficient |
| #5112, aired 2006-11-28 | MATH $2000: This adjective that can mean exaggerated is also found in the name of a branch of non-Euclidean geometry hyperbolic |
| #5073, aired 2006-10-04 | MATH $200: Sixty-six plus thirty-two 98 |
| #5073, aired 2006-10-04 | MATH $400: One-hundred-forty-eight divided by four 37 |
| #5073, aired 2006-10-04 | MATH $600: Seventy-three minus fourteen 59 |
| #5073, aired 2006-10-04 | MATH $800: Seventeen times six 102 |
| #5073, aired 2006-10-04 | MATH $1000: Twenty-three plus eight minus sixteen 15 |
| #5063, aired 2006-09-20 | MATH JOKES $200: It's what you get when you take the circumference of a pumpkin & divide it by its diameter pumpkin pi (pi accepted) |
| #5063, aired 2006-09-20 | MATH JOKES $400: There are 10 types of people in the world, those who get this number system that uses only 1's and 0's, & those who don't binary |
| #5063, aired 2006-09-20 | MATH JOKES $600: Lumberjacks make good musicians because of these exponents required to produce a given number logarithms |
| #5063, aired 2006-09-20 | MATH JOKES $800: Similar to a Shakespeare quote, it's the two possible square roots for the number seen here 2b or -2b (2b or nought 2b) |
| #5063, aired 2006-09-20 | MATH JOKES $1000: "To get to the same side" is why the chicken crossed this type of "strip" named for a German a Mobius strip |
| #5056, aired 2006-09-11 | YOU DO THE MATH $400: The square root of the square root of 16 2 |
| #5056, aired 2006-09-11 | YOU DO THE MATH $800: 1 x 2 x 4 x 8 x 10 640 |
| #5056, aired 2006-09-11 | YOU DO THE MATH $1,000 (Daily Double): 1/2 plus 1/3 plus 1/10 plus 1/15 1 |
| #5056, aired 2006-09-11 | YOU DO THE MATH $1200: 1111 plus 2222 plus 3333, divided by 6 1111 |
| #5056, aired 2006-09-11 | YOU DO THE MATH $1600: 100 divided by 4, times 3, divided by 5 15 |
| #5053, aired 2006-07-26 | MAKE $$$ IN YOUR SPARE TIME! $400: Numismatics, man! In 2005 one of these dating from 1792 sold for $437,000--that's 43.7 million times its face value a penny |
| #5048, aired 2006-07-19 | A GAME OF DARTS $600: (Jon of the Clue Crew tosses a dart at the dartboard.) I'm playing a standard game of 501; with a remaining score of 12 & 1 dart left, I have to hit double this number to win 6 |
| #5040, aired 2006-07-07 | SEE "S-I" $1600: Gnarly, dude! Scope out this groovy math wave seen here a sine wave |
| #5004, aired 2006-05-18 | VICE PRESIDENT... THE SITCOM! $200: Tonight on "Fuzzy Math", he finds out the hard way that sometimes, 50,456,062 can be more than 50,996,582 Al Gore |
| #4993, aired 2006-05-03 | 2-LETTER WORDS $1600: The 16th letter of the Greek alphabet, it's also a math term pi |
| #4976, aired 2006-04-10 | LITERARY TERMS $5,800 (Daily Double): Edmund Spenser coined the term prothalamion for a poem that celebrates the impending one of these events a wedding |
| #4941, aired 2006-02-20 | LETTER, WE GET LETTER $800: Often a math symbol for an unknown quantity, it's also defined by Random House as a semivowel Y |
| #4940, aired 2006-02-17 | SEÑOR CLASS $400: Math teacher Señor Nuñez taught us that una linea is made up of puntos, these points |
| #4933, aired 2006-02-08 | MATH $200: This line segment that passes through the center of a circle is twice the radius the diameter |
| #4933, aired 2006-02-08 | MATH $400: Next number in the sequence 1, 1, 2, 4, 8... 16 |
| #4933, aired 2006-02-08 | MATH $600: The longest side of a right triangle, it's opposite the right angle the hypotenuse |
| #4933, aired 2006-02-08 | MATH $800: Usually symbolized by a letter, a changing quantity in algebra is called this a variable |
| #4933, aired 2006-02-08 | MATH $1000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a Venn diagram on a monitor.) An intersection contains elements common to two sets; this set, symbolized here, contains all the elements in either set the union |
| #4904, aired 2005-12-29 | MATH & SCIENCE $400: His experiments in the mid-1660s showed that the colors produced by a prism were due to different refraction rates Newton |
| #4904, aired 2005-12-29 | MATH & SCIENCE $800: Often occurring in oily rags or hay, it's the self-burning of materials due to chemical changes spontaneous combustion |
| #4904, aired 2005-12-29 | MATH & SCIENCE $1200: The photosphere, the visible surface of this, is actually the innermost layer of its atmosphere the Sun |
| #4904, aired 2005-12-29 | MATH & SCIENCE $1600: (Jon of the Clue Crew shows a % sign on a video monitor as it changes to have one more 0 in the denominator.) You know percent, but how about this similar term that indicates parts in 1,000 per mil |
| #4904, aired 2005-12-29 | MATH & SCIENCE $2000: The name of this force that can compel an object to move in a circular path is from the Latin for "seek the center" centripetal force |
| #4875, aired 2005-11-18 | MATH $400: (Kelly of the Clue Crew points to some expressions on a monitor.) In a complex number of the form shown here, "i" is short for this type of unreal number, like the square root of negative one imaginary |
| #4875, aired 2005-11-18 | MATH $800: The sum of a number & its additive inverse equals this zero |
| #4875, aired 2005-11-18 | MATH $1200: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a triangle on a monitor.) With respect to angle ABC, the sides of the right triangle are commonly called hypotenuse, opposite & this adjacent |
| #4875, aired 2005-11-18 | MATH $2000: (Jon of the Clue Crew shows you that all your base belong to him on the monitor.) 3 squared equals 9, so we pull the old switcheroo, & this of 9 to base 3 equals 2 a logarithm |
| #4875, aired 2005-11-18 | MATH $2,200 (Daily Double): The per in miles per hour signifies this math process division |
| #4867, aired 2005-11-08 | STATE "NC" $1200: High school math may include these, a term first used by Descartes in 1637 & involving variables functions |
| #4866, aired 2005-11-07 | OFF TO COLLEGE $400: In 1993 Google co-founder Sergey Brin graduated from Maryland with honors in math & this field computer science |
| #4850, aired 2005-10-14 | VOCABULARY TEST $1,600 (Daily Double): The name of this branch of math comes from 2 Greek words meaning "earth measure" geometry |
| #4839, aired 2005-09-29 | MATH $400: Number that's the greatest common factor of 15, 130 & 10,000 5 |
| #4839, aired 2005-09-29 | MATH $800: Slow down when you approach this type of set that contains elements common to 2 other sets an intersection |
| #4839, aired 2005-09-29 | MATH $1200: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew stands at a chalkboard.) Multiplying in scientific notation gets me a product with this exponent 9 |
| #4839, aired 2005-09-29 | LET'S BE SECURE $2000: (Tom Ridge reads one last time.) Our front line of defense against a terrorist attack is local police & firefighters, known as "first" these responders |
| #4839, aired 2005-09-29 | MATH $2,300 (Daily Double): For a line, this is defined as the ratio of vertical to horizontal distance it covers slope |
| #4839, aired 2005-09-29 | START SPREADIN' THE NOOSE $4,600 (Daily Double): Emerson said this man, hanged for treason on Dec. 2, 1859, would make the gallows "as glorious as the cross" John Brown |
| #4827, aired 2005-09-13 | MATH SYMBOLS $400: The integral symbol seen here, created by Leibniz, is a stylized "S" standing for this word sum |
| #4827, aired 2005-09-13 | MATH SYMBOLS $800: Instead of a decimal point, the French use this common punctuation mark a comma |
| #4827, aired 2005-09-13 | MATH SYMBOLS $1200: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew delivers the clue standing at a chalkboard.) When you've used parentheses & brackets, it's time for these braces |
| #4827, aired 2005-09-13 | MATH SYMBOLS $1600: An arrow with a dot at the non-pointed end indicates this, also a male first name a ray |
| #4827, aired 2005-09-13 | MATH SYMBOLS $2000: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew delivers the clue standing at a chalkboard.) This "extreme" symbol indicates a square root; when used with a raised 3, a cube root a radical |
| #4822, aired 2005-07-19 | YOU DO THE MATH $200: Jim has 6 apples, Billy has 4, Michele has 2 & Debbie has 8 for an average of this many 5 |
| #4822, aired 2005-07-19 | YOU DO THE MATH $400: It's the sum of any integer & its negative 0 |
| #4822, aired 2005-07-19 | YOU DO THE MATH $600: It's 44 plus 7, minus 23, times 10 divided by 2 140 |
| #4822, aired 2005-07-19 | YOU DO THE MATH $800: If 5 chickens each lay an egg every Monday, Wednesday & Friday only, it'll take this many weeks to make a 30-egg omelet 2 |
| #4822, aired 2005-07-19 | YOU DO THE MATH $1000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew points to a math problem on a blackboard.) The fraction here reduces to this 4k3 |
| #4812, aired 2005-07-05 | AUTHORS $2,000 (Daily Double): This 19th century English author also wrote the books "Curiosa Mathematica" & "Symbolic Logic" Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) |
| #4798, aired 2005-06-15 | Q BUT NOT U $1600: This abbreviation used in math proofs means "which was to be shown" QED |
| #4778, aired 2005-05-18 | ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAMERS $400: Inducting this group, Springsteen said, "Uno, dos, tres, catorce" (1, 2, 3, 14) "is the correct math for rock 'n' roll" U2 |
| #4763, aired 2005-04-27 | OSCAR, MEYER, WIENER $2000: Best known for his science of cybernetics, this math professor graduated from college in 1909 at age 14 Norbert Wiener |
| #4762, aired 2005-04-26 | THINKERS $2000: This man's incompleteness theorem says math is partly based on ideas that can't be proven within math (Kurt) Gödel |
| #4731, aired 2005-03-14 | "PRO" $1600: In anatomy, it's a muscle that draws a part forward; in math, it's a device for measuring angles a protractor |
| #4725, aired 2005-03-04 | FARMING MATH $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew milks a cow at Old World, Wisconsin.) Jersey cows, vital to the dairy industry, produce 40 pounds of milk a day; if a gallon weighs 8 pounds, that's this many gallons--I think I'm gonna need a bigger bucket 5 |
| #4725, aired 2005-03-04 | FARMING MATH $800: If oats cost 40 cents a peck & you spend $1.20 on them every day, you have this type of habit three pecks a day |
| #4725, aired 2005-03-04 | FARMING MATH $1200: If you make half of your 16 pigs run to get their slop, you'll hear the sound of this many feet on the ground 32 |
| #4725, aired 2005-03-04 | FARMING MATH $1600: If it takes 50 pounds of seed to grow an acre of wheat, a ton of seed will get you this many acres 40 |
| #4725, aired 2005-03-04 | FARMING MATH $2000: Ga. & N.C., each producing $3 million of grapes a year, combine to total this percentage of New York's $50 million 12 percent |
| #4723, aired 2005-03-02 | SCHOOL OF ROCK $600: Math:
This group hit No. 1 with "You're Once, Twice, Three Times A Lady" The Commodores |
| #4707, aired 2005-02-08 | ACADEMIC PENTATHLON $400: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew points to a pair of polynomial expressions on a chalkboard.) Math:
It's what the lower expression is to the expression on the top its square |
| #4703, aired 2005-02-02 | VOCABULARY $2000: Meaning inversely related, in math it describes what 2/3 is to 3/2 reciprocal |
| #4699, aired 2005-01-27 | IN THE DICTIONARY $400: This math term comes from the Latin frangere, "to break" fraction |
| #4664, aired 2004-12-09 | A WEALTH OF INFORMATION $800: Math term found in Genesis 1:28 multiply |
| #4640, aired 2004-11-06 | MATH & SCIENCE $400: John Wheeler named this singularity in the late 1960s; the Russians called it a collapsar a black hole |
| #4640, aired 2004-11-06 | MATH & SCIENCE $800: On a map, this is denoted by 1 inch=3 miles, for example scale |
| #4640, aired 2004-11-06 | MATH & SCIENCE $1200: Adolphe Brongniart is called the father of this science that studies fossil plants paleobotany |
| #4640, aired 2004-11-06 | MATH & SCIENCE $2000: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew demonstrates with a strip of paper from the top secret Jeopardy! labs.) The Mobius strip is used in this field, the study of properties that don't change when a shape bends or twists topology |
| #4640, aired 2004-11-06 | MATH & SCIENCE $3,000 (Daily Double): Around 1850 George Boole devised a new take on this branch of math algebra |
| #4631, aired 2004-10-25 | CROSSWORD CLUES "C" $2000: Dental tartar, or branch of math
(8) calculus |
| #4630, aired 2004-10-22 | RATED PG $400: "Save the world. Get the girl. Pass math" was a tagline for this 2003 Frankie Muniz pic Agent Cody Banks |
| #4629, aired 2004-10-21 | HOMEWORK $400: Continue working on your math problems & give us this square root of 121 11 |
| #4624, aired 2004-10-14 | MATH $400: It's the absolute value of negative 143 143 |
| #4624, aired 2004-10-14 | MATH $800: A sexagesimal system is based on this number 60 |
| #4624, aired 2004-10-14 | MATH $1200: Also a type of equation, it describes functions of the form
f(x) = ax² + bx + c quadratic |
| #4624, aired 2004-10-14 | MATH $1600: The area of a parallelogram equals b times h, short for these two measures base and height |
| #4624, aired 2004-10-14 | MATH $2000: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew points to a diagram on the chalkboard.) In the ratio of s to r, this measure of an angle is similar to the word that the r stands for radian |
| #4612, aired 2004-09-28 | TOP 40 MATH $400: Tennessee Ernie Ford's "Tons" times Eddie Money's "Tickets To Paradise" 32 |
| #4612, aired 2004-09-28 | TOP 40 MATH $800: Rolling Stones' "Nervous Breakdown" number plus Beatles' "Days A Week" 27 |
| #4612, aired 2004-09-28 | TOP 40 MATH $1200: The Crests' "Candles" plus Boyz II Men's "Season Of Loneliness" 20 |
| #4612, aired 2004-09-28 | TOP 40 MATH $1600: The speed Sammy Hagar "Can't Drive" minus Three Dog Night's title "Loneliest Number" 54 |
| #4612, aired 2004-09-28 | TOP 40 MATH $2000: In the song's title, Zager & Evans' "In The Year" this minus The Commodores' "Times A Lady" 2522 |
| #4594, aired 2004-07-22 | RELIGIOUS HOMOPHONES $200: Mother Teresa knew that this was the answer to the math problem of what 2 minus 2 equals none (nun) |
| #4587, aired 2004-07-13 | EDUCATION $5,800 (Daily Double): This numerical portion of the Education Amendments of 1972 prohibited sex discrimination in athletics Title IX |
| #4583, aired 2004-07-07 | MILITARY MATTERS $600 (Daily Double): A popular German hit song during WWII was these tanks "Are Rolling In Africa" Panzers |
| #4572, aired 2004-06-22 | MATH CLASS $400: Of 3, 4 or 5, the one that's not a prime factor of 15 4 |
| #4572, aired 2004-06-22 | MATH CLASS $800: When a projectile shot straight up reaches its highest point, its velocity is this 0 |
| #4572, aired 2004-06-22 | MATH CLASS $1200: When the Cardinals play baseball, these ordinal numbers are positions on the field first, second, & third |
| #4572, aired 2004-06-22 | MATH CLASS $1600: (Sofia of the Clue Crew takes us full-circle.) When using this edible type of diagram, proportions are illustrated as sectors of a circle a pie chart |
| #4572, aired 2004-06-22 | MATH CLASS $2000: Raising a number to the second power is squaring it; raising it to the third power is this cubing it |
| #4559, aired 2004-06-03 | EDUCATION $400: Common term for the system that emerged in the '60s to teach more mathematical concepts & fewer times tables the New Math |
| #4553, aired 2004-05-26 | TECHNOLOGY $2000: Charles Proteus Steinmetz did the math & came up with a way for this type of current circuitry to work AC (alternating current) |
| #4539, aired 2004-05-06 | MATH CLASS $400: It's the number of the current year rounded to the nearest thousand 2000 |
| #4539, aired 2004-05-06 | MATH CLASS $800: A foot & a half equals this many inches 18 |
| #4539, aired 2004-05-06 | MATH CLASS $1200: As a ratio, 7 is to 10 as this is to 30 21 |
| #4539, aired 2004-05-06 | MATH CLASS $1600: If you get 12 questions right out of the 20 on your history test, you got this percent correct 60 |
| #4539, aired 2004-05-06 | MATH CLASS $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows an inequality on the chalkboard.) For a set of odd numbers described thusly, they're the three possible values for n 5, 7, & 9 |
| #4498, aired 2004-03-10 | SIMPLE SCIENCE $600: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew at the chalkboard) By adding two lines, I've turned a math symbol for division into a symbol for this inequality/not equal to |
| #4462, aired 2004-01-20 | STARTS & ENDS WITH "A" $400: Polynomials & coefficients are used in this branch of math algebra |
| #4457, aired 2004-01-13 | WHAT YOU'RE LEFT WITH $3,000 (Daily Double): If 31 of the gross of personalized pencils you ordered were sent back due to typos, you'd still have this many 113 |
| #4451, aired 2004-01-05 | WHAT'S YOUR SINE? $800: Trig comes into play in figuring out distances between points on one of these math shapes, like the Earth sphere |
| #4440, aired 2003-12-19 | DO THE MATH $400: On the keypad, the digits in the phone number
AAA-AAAA
add up to this 14 |
| #4440, aired 2003-12-19 | DO THE MATH $1600: You'll pay this much to stay in a $200-a-night hotel suite for all of February 2004 $5,800 |
| #4440, aired 2003-12-19 | DO THE MATH $2000: (Video of Jimmy at Churchill Downs in Louisville, KY.) The Kentucky Derby is a mile and a quarter race run on a mile oval, so the start and finish line are this many feet apart 1,320 |
| #4411, aired 2003-11-10 | GRADE $400: A second grade science experiment includes labeling magnets with these 2 math symbols plus & minus |
| #4411, aired 2003-11-10 | GRADE $1200: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew shows the equation y = 3x + 7 at a chalkboard.) Eighth graders should be able to deal with this type of equation that uses variables without exponents a linear equation |
| #4399, aired 2003-10-23 | BEST SCREENPLAY OSCARS $800: 2001:
Akiva Goldsman for this biography of a schizophrenic math genius A Beautiful Mind |
| #4358, aired 2003-07-09 | SHOW ME THE MONEY! $600: Add up one of each U.S. coin in general circulation & you get this amount of money $1.91 |
| #4343, aired 2003-06-18 | GREEK SCIENCE $800: Diophantus made this field of math his specialty, introducing symbols to represent unknowns algebra |
| #4337, aired 2003-06-10 | EDUCATION $800: The new math introduced in the '60s added bases other than this most common one base 10 |
| #4269, aired 2003-03-06 | SIGNS $2000: In math a plus or minus sign is also called this, like a certain person reached by phone operator |
| #4226, aired 2003-01-06 | VOCABULARY TEST $600: In math the radius of a circle is half of the line called this diameter |
| #4193, aired 2002-11-20 | "SUB" STANDARD $400: You don't have to be a detective to know that this math process involves deduction subtraction |
| #4187, aired 2002-11-12 | COSMOLOGY $1200: In the 1920s Alexander Friedmann's math modified this 1915 theory to allow the universe to expand & contract Einstein's Theory of Relativity |
| #4183, aired 2002-11-06 | MATH TERMS $400: 5th, 50th & 500th are this type of number, as opposed to cardinal ordinal |
| #4183, aired 2002-11-06 | MATH TERMS $800: A theorem includes this series of steps, starting with a given & ending with a justified conclusion proof |
| #4183, aired 2002-11-06 | MATH TERMS $1200: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew standing in front of a chalkboard) From the Latin for "to turn upside down", the function g is described as this of the function f inverse |
| #4183, aired 2002-11-06 | MATH TERMS $1600: The term surd refers to irrational numbers like this number's square root, 1.7320508... 3 |
| #4183, aired 2002-11-06 | MATH TERMS $2000: A function's domain is the set of possible values of x; this is the set of possible values of y range |
| #4160, aired 2002-10-04 | & GO TO "BED" $200: In math, it means raised to the third power cubed |
| #4150, aired 2002-09-20 | SCIENCE PRIZES $1200: Solve equations like 3x(squared)-15=0 & you could be headed for a Frank Nelson Cole Prize in this branch of math algebra |
| #4138, aired 2002-09-04 | MATHEMATICIANS $1200: George Boole's "Mathematical Analysis of" this allied it with math, not philosophy; maybe he was Vulcan logic |
| #4137, aired 2002-09-03 | BABYLON 5 $2000: The Babylonians developed a sexagesimal math system, one based on this number 60 |
| #4128, aired 2002-07-10 | COLON $2000: In math, a colon denotes this a ratio (or a proportion) |
| #4107, aired 2002-06-11 | SCOTLAND $2,000 (Daily Double): Hundreds of years old, the de facto national flag features this saint's cross Andrew |
| #4023, aired 2002-02-13 | YOU DO THE MATH $400: Total number of known planets in our solar system multiplied by the number of moons around the Earth 9 (9 x 1) |
| #4023, aired 2002-02-13 | YOU DO THE MATH $800: Number of sides on a decagon divided by the number of sides on a pentagon 2 |
| #4023, aired 2002-02-13 | YOU DO THE MATH $1200: Total number of U.S. states times the number of non-contiguous U.S. states 100 (50 x 2) |
| #4023, aired 2002-02-13 | YOU DO THE MATH $1600: Number of face cards in a standard deck of playing cards divided by the number of aces 3 (12 divided by 4) |
| #4023, aired 2002-02-13 | YOU DO THE MATH $2000: The number of fingers on a basketball team's starting five multiplied by their eyes 500 (50 fingers x 10 eyes) |
| #4017, aired 2002-02-05 | MECHANICAL PROBLEMS $1200: Paul Dirac used math to describe subatomic activity in his 1930 book "The Principles of " this type of "Mechanics" quantum mechanics |
| #3986, aired 2001-12-24 | YOU DO THE MATH $400: It's 54.9 rounded to the nearest 10 50 |
| #3986, aired 2001-12-24 | YOU DO THE MATH $800: The price of a $100 hat becomes this after it's been discounted by 15% $85 |
| #3986, aired 2001-12-24 | YOU DO THE MATH $1200: The 4 angles in a square add up to this many degrees 360 |
| #3986, aired 2001-12-24 | YOU DO THE MATH $2000: If it's 5 miles to the train station & 25 miles by train to the city, it's this many miles total for the round trip 60 |
| #3986, aired 2001-12-24 | YOU DO THE MATH $5,000 (Daily Double): It's the square root of the square root of 16 2 |
| #3961, aired 2001-11-19 | COLLEGE MOVIES $1000: In "Good Will Hunting", Matt Damon played a hunky math genius toiling as a janitor at this university MIT |
| #3930, aired 2001-10-05 | WACKY MATH $200: Strings on a standard guitar times the Oscars won by Pauly Shore 0 |
| #3930, aired 2001-10-05 | WACKY MATH $400: Number of "golden rings" in a Christmas song plus the number of rings in Ringling's circus 8 (5 + 3) |
| #3930, aired 2001-10-05 | WACKY MATH $600: Days in a leap year minus the title "route" number of a TV show starring Martin Milner 300 (366 - 66) |
| #3930, aired 2001-10-05 | WACKY MATH $800: Joe Namath's Jet uniform No. divided by the title number of a TV police car driven by Martin Milner 1 (12/Adam-12) |
| #3930, aired 2001-10-05 | WACKY MATH $1000: No. of "islands" in a mayo-based salad dressing plus a "baker's dozen" of cookies made by Martin Milner 1,013 |
| #3928, aired 2001-10-03 | MATH $200: This point is the dot (comma in Europe) in numbers like 23.91 a decimal point |
| #3928, aired 2001-10-03 | MATH $400: Common 2-word phrase for the operation of figuring out how many times 73 goes into 2,701 long division |
| #3928, aired 2001-10-03 | MATH $600: Solve equations with this type of multiplication, one fraction's numerator times another's denominator cross multiplication |
| #3928, aired 2001-10-03 | MATH $800: 5-letter name for the type of section shown here conic section |
| #3928, aired 2001-10-03 | MATH $1000: Named for logician John, it's the diagram seen here that shows relations between sets a Venn diagram |
| #3923, aired 2001-09-26 | MATH $200: When talking about fractions, it's what LCD stands for lowest common denominator |
| #3923, aired 2001-09-26 | MATH $400: It's the square root of 169 13 |
| #3923, aired 2001-09-26 | MATH $600: It's 3 cubed 27 |
| #3923, aired 2001-09-26 | MATH $800: Decimals can be finite. like .25, or infinite & this, like .185185185... repeating |
| #3923, aired 2001-09-26 | MATH $1000: It's 11 times 12 132 |
| #3916, aired 2001-09-17 | MATH SYMBOLS $100: ÷ a division sign |
| #3916, aired 2001-09-17 | MATH SYMBOLS $200: √ square root |
| #3916, aired 2001-09-17 | MATH SYMBOLS $300: ≠ not equal |
| #3916, aired 2001-09-17 | MATH SYMBOLS $400: < less than |
| #3916, aired 2001-09-17 | MATH SYMBOLS $500: ≈ approximately |
| #3870, aired 2001-06-01 | "GEO" PARTY! $100: Type of math comparing lines & angles that the writer of this clue nearly failed in high school Geometry |
| #3819, aired 2001-03-22 | LESSER-KNOWN ANCIENT ROMANS $200: Whether it was integral or differential, it was hard to understand the math this guy would spout Calculus |
| #3804, aired 2001-03-01 | INTELLIGENT FILMS $200: Even the janitor at M.I.T. is a math genius in this 1997 Oscar-winning film Good Will Hunting |
| #3797, aired 2001-02-20 | THE NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD CLUES "S" $800: 18 down:
Math groups
(4) sets |
| #3792, aired 2001-02-13 | THE INTERNATIONAL LANGUAGE OF MATH $200: A point equidistant from the vertices of a regular polygon or a position in hockey & basketball Center |
| #3792, aired 2001-02-13 | THE INTERNATIONAL LANGUAGE OF MATH $400: A whole number is either composite, with factors other than itself & 1, or this type Prime |
| #3792, aired 2001-02-13 | THE INTERNATIONAL LANGUAGE OF MATH $600: It's the single-digit number represented here
(the square root of 64) 8 |
| #3792, aired 2001-02-13 | THE INTERNATIONAL LANGUAGE OF MATH $800: If a circle has a radius of 7.3 inches, its circumference in inches is 2 x 7.3 x this pi |
| #3758, aired 2000-12-27 | THAT'S "ME" IN THE MIDDLE $600: In this math course you'll learn all the angles geometry |
| #3757, aired 2000-12-26 | 14-LETTER WORDS $300: Math process symbolized by an "x" multiplication |
| #3725, aired 2000-11-10 | ANSWERS TO YOUR FINALS $800: Math Year 1:
As a rule every fraction can be expressed as a terminating decimal or this kind repeating |
| #3700, aired 2000-10-06 | MATH $100: It's the square root of 81 9 |
| #3700, aired 2000-10-06 | MATH $200: 156 divided by 6 26 |
| #3700, aired 2000-10-06 | MATH $300: 5 cubed 125 |
| #3700, aired 2000-10-06 | MATH $400: They're all of the factors of 8 1, 2, 4 & 8 |
| #3700, aired 2000-10-06 | MATH $500: 1/3 plus 1/4 7/12 |
| #3697, aired 2000-10-03 | YOU DO THE MATH $100: The number of items in a dozen times the number of months in a year 144 (12 x 12) |
| #3697, aired 2000-10-03 | YOU DO THE MATH $200: The number of legs on a spider plus the number of legs on a fly 14 (8 + 6) |
| #3697, aired 2000-10-03 | YOU DO THE MATH $300: The number of sides on an octagon minus the number of sides on a hexagon 2 (8 - 6) |
| #3697, aired 2000-10-03 | YOU DO THE MATH $400: The number of days in a week times the number of ancient "wonders of the world" 49 (7 x 7) |
| #3697, aired 2000-10-03 | YOU DO THE MATH $500: The number of events in a decathlon divided by the number of years in a decade 1 (10 ÷ 10) |
| #3640, aired 2000-06-02 | ABSOLUTELY NOTHING $1000: In math, a set containing no elements is called an empty set or this type Null set |
| #3628, aired 2000-05-17 | MATH VOCABULARY $200: The second power of a number; or an old-fashioned, unhip person Square |
| #3628, aired 2000-05-17 | MATH VOCABULARY $400: An angle that is less than a right angle; or sharp & severe Acute |
| #3628, aired 2000-05-17 | MATH VOCABULARY $600: The sum of x numbers divided by x; or typical, common or ordinary Average |
| #3628, aired 2000-05-17 | MATH VOCABULARY $800: Point (0,0) on a graph; or the beginning Origin |
| #3628, aired 2000-05-17 | MATH VOCABULARY $1000: The instantaneous rate of change of a function; or not original, adapted from others Derivative |
| #3627, aired 2000-05-16 | INTELLIGENT FILMS $600: A Greek symbol serves as the title of this 1998 film about an eccentric math whiz Pi |
| #3624, aired 2000-05-11 | BRIEF BIOS $200: Born in Cheshire in 1832, studied at Oxford, wrote on math & snarks Lewis Carroll |
| #3615, aired 2000-04-28 | SUM-MERS $200: When William Thomson, later Lord this, was born in Belfast in 1824 he knew absolute zero about math Lord Kelvin |
| #3615, aired 2000-04-28 | SUM-MERS $300: "Algorithm" came from Al-Khwarizmi, the name of the Arab mathematician who named this branch of high school math algebra |
| #3606, aired 2000-04-17 | YOU DO THE MATH $200: The number of loaves in a baker's dozen plus the number of months in a year 25 (13 + 12) |
| #3606, aired 2000-04-17 | YOU DO THE MATH $400: The traditional number of wise men of the East times the number of Ali Baba's thieves 120 (3 x 40) |
| #3606, aired 2000-04-17 | YOU DO THE MATH $600: Number of "Days of Christmas" in the carol divided by its number of French hens 4 (12/3) |
| #3606, aired 2000-04-17 | YOU DO THE MATH $800: The original title number of Disney dalmatians minus the number of Snow White's dwarfs 94 (101 - 7) |
| #3606, aired 2000-04-17 | YOU DO THE MATH $1000: The number of pounds in a ton multiplied by the number of feet in a yard 6000 (2000 x 3) |
| #3591, aired 2000-03-27 | MATH $200: To change a fraction to this, you can divide the numerator by the denominator decimal |
| #3591, aired 2000-03-27 | MATH $400: It's the sum of the lengths of all sides of a geometric figure the perimeter |
| #3591, aired 2000-03-27 | MATH $600: In statistics, if the "standard" one of these is small, observations are clustered around the mean deviation |
| #3591, aired 2000-03-27 | MATH $800: The type of statement seen here, or the relationship between rich & poor:
x3 - 23 < 91 an inequality |
| #3591, aired 2000-03-27 | MATH $1000: 2 angles that add up to 180 degrees are supplementary; 2 that add up to 90 degrees are this complementary angles |
| #3590, aired 2000-03-24 | AUTHORS $200: In addition to his "Alice" books, he wrote many math works including "Euclid and His Modern Rivals" Lewis Carroll |
| #3587, aired 2000-03-21 | YOU DO THE MATH $200: Number of days in a leap year minus the number of days in a week 359 (366 - 7) |
| #3587, aired 2000-03-21 | YOU DO THE MATH $400: The number of U.S. senators times the number of amendments in the Bill of Rights 1000 (100 X 10) |
| #3580, aired 2000-03-10 | SCIENCE $100: In biology it's a finger; in math, a figure like 1 a digit |
| #3571, aired 2000-02-28 | "Q" ME $400: In math, divide one number by another & you'll get this Quotient |
| #3560, aired 2000-02-11 | SAT: MATH $200: 3 squared is 9; 1/3 squared is this 1/9 |
| #3560, aired 2000-02-11 | SAT: MATH $400: Hey, gimme this, the sum of the 2 smallest prime numbers 5 (2 + 3) |
| #3560, aired 2000-02-11 | SAT: MATH $600: Rob & Larry agreed to split their profits (Rob 60%, Larry 40%); if they made $20 Rob would get this much $12 |
| #3560, aired 2000-02-11 | SAT: MATH $800: If 100-pound Kathy steps on a scale holding 2 5-ounce bags of candy, the scale will read this many ounces 1610 |
| #3560, aired 2000-02-11 | SAT: MATH $1,300 (Daily Double): In 90 minutes a minute hand will travel this many degrees 540 (360 + 180) |
| #3496, aired 1999-11-15 | BRIDGE OF SIZE $400: You'll cross over this bay when taking the Sunshine Skyway Bridge to St. Petersburg, Florida Tampa Bay |
| #3486, aired 1999-11-01 | MATH CLASS $200: It's the product of the number of days in the week times itself 49 (7 X 7) |
| #3486, aired 1999-11-01 | MATH CLASS $400: If 2x plus 4 equals 50, x equals this 23 |
| #3486, aired 1999-11-01 | MATH CLASS $800: It's the square root of the square root of 16 2 |
| #3486, aired 1999-11-01 | MATH CLASS $1000: The number of years in a millennium divided by the number of years in a score 50 (1000/20) |
| #3486, aired 1999-11-01 | MATH CLASS $3,000 (Daily Double): The perimeter in inches of a square with 11-inch sides 44 |
| #3481, aired 1999-10-25 | GREEK MYTHOLOGY $3,700 (Daily Double): The name of this woman created out of clay by Hephaestus means "all gifted" Pandora |
| #3479, aired 1999-10-21 | MATH & SCIENCE $100: On the centigrade scale, it's the melting point of ice 0 (zero) |
| #3479, aired 1999-10-21 | MATH & SCIENCE $200: 1 volt times 1 amp equals this unit watt |
| #3479, aired 1999-10-21 | MATH & SCIENCE $300: Forces like gravity are measured in units abbreviated N., named for this scientist Isaac Newton |
| #3479, aired 1999-10-21 | MATH & SCIENCE $400: To convert kilograms into grams, multiply by this 1000 |
| #3479, aired 1999-10-21 | MATH & SCIENCE $500: Musical instruments are tuned to 440 cycles per second, this note on a piano A |
| #3479, aired 1999-10-21 | FOREIGN-BORN OSCAR WINNERS $1,200 (Daily Double): This 1957 winner claimed he was born on Sakhalin Island, about 3,000 miles northeast of Siam Yul Brynner |
| #3388, aired 1999-05-05 | MATH TERMS $100: It's the divisor or, less technically, the bottom part of a fraction Denominator |
| #3388, aired 1999-05-05 | MATH TERMS $200: In our number system, it's 10; in a triangle, it's the lowest side Base |
| #3388, aired 1999-05-05 | MATH TERMS $300: An algorithm is a problem-solving procedure & this anagram is a number used as an exponent Logarithm |
| #3342, aired 1999-03-02 | YOU DO THE MATH $100: Number of sides on a rhombus divided by the number of original TV Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1 (4/4) |
| #3342, aired 1999-03-02 | YOU DO THE MATH $200: The number of U.S. states times the number of U.S. senators 5,000 (50 X 100) |
| #3342, aired 1999-03-02 | YOU DO THE MATH $300: Number of playing cards in a standard deck without jokers divided by the number of suits 13 (52/4) |
| #3342, aired 1999-03-02 | YOU DO THE MATH $400: The sum of all the whole numbers from 1 through 5 15 |
| #3342, aired 1999-03-02 | YOU DO THE MATH $500: In MLB, the number of bases (including home plate) times the number of innings in a standard game 36 (4 X 9) |
| #3337, aired 1999-02-23 | MATH CLASS $100: The area of a 12-inch square 144 square inches |
| #3337, aired 1999-02-23 | MATH CLASS $200: The degrees in a circle divided by the degrees in a right angle 4 (360/90) |
| #3337, aired 1999-02-23 | MATH CLASS $300: It's the square root of the square root of 16 2 |
| #3337, aired 1999-02-23 | MATH CLASS $400: 1/15 + 1/45 = this 4/45 |
| #3337, aired 1999-02-23 | MATH CLASS $500: It's what y equals if 44y=484 11 |
| #3326, aired 1999-02-08 | THE USA TODAY $400: The national average is about 1,000 (500 verbal, 500 math) of a possible 1,600 on the test abbreviated this SAT (Scholastic Aptitude Test) |
| #3318, aired 1999-01-27 | GIVE ME A "C" $400: Isaac Newton & Gottfried Leibniz invented this branch of math independently of one another....go figure Calculus |
| #3284, aired 1998-12-10 | MATH CLASS $100: If you got a trapezoid for Christmas, you got a figure with this many sides & a crummy gift 4 |
| #3284, aired 1998-12-10 | MATH CLASS $200: The non-right internal angles of a right triangle add up to this total number of degrees 90 |
| #3284, aired 1998-12-10 | MATH CLASS $300: The diameter of one of these 3-dimensional figures is twice the radius Sphere |
| #3284, aired 1998-12-10 | MATH CLASS $400: From the Latin "to agree", it describes 2 figures that coincide when superimposed congruent |
| #3284, aired 1998-12-10 | MATH CLASS $500: It's any system of geometry not based on the system in "Elements", a book from around 300 B.C. non-Euclidean |
| #3256, aired 1998-11-02 | WOMEN'S LIBERATION $400: Introduced in 1959, she got in trouble in 1992 for saying "Math class is tough" Barbie |
| #3255, aired 1998-10-30 | MILITARY UNITS $300: 3 brigades under 1 headquarters, or a math function a division |
| #3247, aired 1998-10-20 | YOU DO THE MATH $100: Number of nursery rhyme blackbirds baked in a pie divided by number of nursery rhyme blind mice 8 (24/3) |
| #3247, aired 1998-10-20 | YOU DO THE MATH $300: It's the square root of the square root of 81 3 (square root of 9) |
| #3247, aired 1998-10-20 | YOU DO THE MATH $400: Total number of U.S. representatives times total number of U.S. senators 43,500 (435 X 100) |
| #3247, aired 1998-10-20 | YOU DO THE MATH $500 (Daily Double): Number of ounces in a standard avoirdupois pound divided by number of cups in a gallon 1 (16/16) |
| #3247, aired 1998-10-20 | YOU DO THE MATH $500: It's the number you get when you raise 10 to the fifth power 100,000 |
| #3215, aired 1998-07-17 | MATH $100: You're right, an angle that is more than acute but less than obtuse has this many degrees 90 |
| #3215, aired 1998-07-17 | MATH $200: In this notation system, 1/4 is .25, & is terminating decimal |
| #3215, aired 1998-07-17 | MATH $300: In the term 3x, the factor 3 is called x's this coefficient |
| #3215, aired 1998-07-17 | MATH $400: A figure is defined as this if it can be divided into 2 parts that are mirror images of each other symmetrical |
| #3215, aired 1998-07-17 | MATH $500: Devotees of this celebrate its irrational existence each 3/14 at 1:59 P.M. pi |
| #3170, aired 1998-05-15 | MATH VOCABULARY $100: Raise a number to the third power, or a common form for ice & sugar Cube |
| #3170, aired 1998-05-15 | MATH VOCABULARY $200: The average value of a set of numbers, or cruel Mean |
| #3170, aired 1998-05-15 | MATH VOCABULARY $300: The operation of combining numbers, or a wing appended to a building Addition |
| #3170, aired 1998-05-15 | MATH VOCABULARY $400: An angle greater than 90 degrees but less than 180 degrees, or lacking sharpness of intellect obtuse |
| #3170, aired 1998-05-15 | MATH VOCABULARY $500: A trigonometric function that equals sine/cosine, or a conversational digression Tangent |
| #3163, aired 1998-05-06 | SCIENTISTS $400: In 1891 she moved from Poland to Paris, where she studied math & physics at the Sorbonne Marie Curie |
| #3151, aired 1998-04-20 | FAMOUS FRENCHMEN $400: In 1619 this math whiz could have said, "I think, therefore I am joining the duke of Bavaria's army" Descartes |
| #3070, aired 1997-12-26 | MILESTONES IN MATH $200: In the '40s Harvard's Howard Aiken developed the Mark I computer with this company's help IBM |
| #3070, aired 1997-12-26 | MILESTONES IN MATH $400: Century in which most of David Hilbert's 23 unsolved problems were solved 20th century |
| #3070, aired 1997-12-26 | MILESTONES IN MATH $600: This Persian poet's work on algebra included systematic solutions to cubic equations Omar Khayyam |
| #3070, aired 1997-12-26 | MILESTONES IN MATH $800: Norbert Wiener wrote 1948's "Cybernetics" while teaching at this U.S. institute in Cambridge MIT |
| #3070, aired 1997-12-26 | MILESTONES IN MATH $1000: This Greek's "Elements" deal with the theories of earlier scholars like Eudoxus of Cnidus Euclid |
| #3004, aired 1997-09-25 | OOPS! $200: 45,000 students' scores were raised on this test given 10/12/96 after a math question was found flawed SAT (Scholastic Aptitude Test) |
| #2996, aired 1997-09-15 | OH "MI" $100: Math sign that looks like a hyphen Minus sign |
| #2969, aired 1997-06-26 | "EX" WORDS $500: In math this number denotes the power to which another number is raised the exponent |
| #2940, aired 1997-05-16 | MATH TERMS $200: You'll find the word "infinite" within the calculus term for infinitely small, but not quite zero Infinitesimal |
| #2940, aired 1997-05-16 | MATH TERMS $400: A perfect number is the sum of all of these except itself; for example, 28 is the sum of 1, 2, 4, 7 & 14 Its factors |
| #2940, aired 1997-05-16 | ANCIENT OCCUPATIONS $500: Ahmes, one of these copyists, made an ancient Egyptian math table papyrus that is still in existence Scribe |
| #2940, aired 1997-05-16 | MATH TERMS $600: It describes the shortest line between 2 points on a surface, or a dome made with the least possible material Geodesic |
| #2940, aired 1997-05-16 | MATH TERMS $800: This term for complex shapes or the geometry that deals with them comes from the word "fractional" Fractals |
| #2940, aired 1997-05-16 | MATH TERMS $1000: Represented by an arrow, it's a quantity, like velocity, with both direction & magnitude Vector |
| #2938, aired 1997-05-14 | 5-LETTER WORDS $300: It's the crosshatched paper used in math class Graph |
| #2876, aired 1997-02-17 | CROSSES $400: The St. Andrew's cross resembles this math sign multiplication |
| #2864, aired 1997-01-30 | GENERAL SCIENCE $100: The 16th letter of the Greek alphabet; in math it has the approximate value of 3.14 pi |
| #2852, aired 1997-01-14 | THE "I"S HAVE IT $300: In math, the symbol for this looks like an 8 on its side infinity |
| #2779, aired 1996-10-03 | 13-LETTER WORDS $800: In math it means at a right angle to the horizontal perpendicular |
| #2737, aired 1996-06-25 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $500: On graduating from West Point in 1843, he hoped to become a math teacher Grant |
| #2710, aired 1996-05-17 | MATH PROBLEMS $200: If Gobstoppers cost a dime a dozen, a gross will cost you this much $1.20 |
| #2710, aired 1996-05-17 | MATH PROBLEMS $400: If you drink 2 pints of milk a day, it would take you this many days to drink a gallon 4 |
| #2710, aired 1996-05-17 | MATH PROBLEMS $600: 3/5 of a 30 slice loaf of bread would have this many slices 18 |
| #2710, aired 1996-05-17 | MATH PROBLEMS $800: If a bus with 40 students makes 3 stops & half the kids get off at each stop, this many are left on the bus 5 |
| #2710, aired 1996-05-17 | MATH PROBLEMS $4,300 (Daily Double): The length of the hypotenuse of a right triangle whose other 2 sides are 6 inches & 8 inches 10 inches |
| #2705, aired 1996-05-10 | MATH $200: In an improper one of these, the numerator is greater than the denominator a fraction |
| #2705, aired 1996-05-10 | MATH $400: In the equation y=36x, this is the constant 36 |
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Robert Furtney, a high school math teacher from Tulsa, Oklahoma
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Season 20 player (2004-05-20).
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Alex Stambaugh, a 12-year-old from Paris, Kentucky
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"He feels he can use his talents in math and science...
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Steve Mond, a 9th and 10th grade math teacher from Midvale, Utah
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2018 Teachers Tournament 2nd runner-up: $25,000 + a $2,500 grant. At...
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John Pearson, a 4th grade math teacher from Richardson, Texas
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"His school's theme this year is superheroes. It's a bird! It's...
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Ellen Lewis, a retired high school math teacher from Mount Vernon, New York
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Season 28 1-time champion: $10,000 + $1,000.
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Patrick Mooney, a high school math teacher from St. Louis, Missouri
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Season 29 player (2013-01-18).
Partner of Season 26 player Greg Lyon.
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Frances Way, a math and drama teacher from Fort Collins, Colorado
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Season 29 player (2013-01-11).
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Christie O'Shaughnessy, a math and science educator from Princeton, New Jersey
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Season 32 1-time champion: $14,401 + $2,000.
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Guy Tabachnick, from New York, New York
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"He wants to be a baseball announcer for the New York...
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Dennis McDonald, an elementary school math teacher from New Windsor, Maryland
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2017 Teachers Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. At the time of the Teachers...
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Michael Falk, a junior high school math teacher from West Allis, Wisconsin
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"And he was a meteorologist when he won the Tournament of...
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Eduardo Sevilla, an 8th through 12th grade math teacher from Vienna, Virginia
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2017 Teachers Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. At the time of the...
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Robert Alden, a middle school math teacher from Ames, Iowa
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Season 23 1-time champion: $25,000 + $1,000.
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Adam Elkana-Hale, a middle school math teacher from St. Louis, Missouri
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2015 Teachers Tournament 2nd runner-up: $25,000. Adam taught math at Loyola...
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Martha Jackson, a high school math teacher from Tabor, Iowa
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2015 Teachers Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. Martha taught math and speech at...
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Ross Gardiner, an 11-year-old sixth grader from La Plata, Maryland
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"And this self-proclaimed sports fanatic likes all the teams in the...
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Naomi Senbet, an 11-year-old from Washington, D.C.
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"This sixth grader doesn't like to be late for anything; maybe...
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Kathy Kenny, a high school math teacher from Park Ridge, New Jersey
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Season 26 1-time champion: $18,201 + $2,000.
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Julián Altschul, a math and science tutor from Jackson Heights, New York
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Season 24 1-time champion: $19,200 + $2,000. First name pronounced like...
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Jake Houser, a 12-year-old seventh grader from Aptos, California
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"And this straight-A student would like to become a geneticist so...
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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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Jove Graham, a biomedical engineer from Lewisburg, Pennsylvania
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Season 26 1-time champion: $34,401 + $1,000. Jove's second contestant interview...
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Mike Nelson, a mechanical engineer from Geneva, Illinois
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Season 27 2-time champion: $20,800 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Kevin Yang, a junior from Birmingham, Alabama
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2012 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000.
16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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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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Zane Li, a ten-year-old from Provo, Utah
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"He's a chess champion and a two-time Geography Bee winner..." 2002...
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Jean Cui, a student originally from Garden City, New York
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Season 25 2-time champion: $14,200 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Matt Jacobs, a science teacher originally from Stratford, Connecticut
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Season 25 1-time champion: $10,323 + $1,000. Matt resided in Silver...
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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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Dan Pawson, a legislative aide from Boston, Massachusetts
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2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2014 Battle of the Decades...
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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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Anshika Niraj, a sophomore from Beachwood, Ohio
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2012 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Danny Devries, a junior from the University of Michigan
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2008 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 21 and from West Bloomfield, MI...
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Veronica Fazio, from Roselle, Illinois
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"She dances, plays softball, and hangs with her friends, but wants...
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Mitchell Vogel, from Madison, Wisconsin
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"This future governor of Wisconsin enjoys rollerblading, reading, and playing saxophone....
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Charlotte Darby, from West Chester, Pennsylvania
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"Her crafts include crochet, origami, and friendship bracelets. From West Chester,...
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Ari Stern, a mathematician from San Diego, California
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Season 27 1-time champion: $17,201 + $1,000.
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Alyssa McRae, a gift card production designer from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Season 25 3-time champion: $50,402 + $2,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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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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James Erwin, a writer from Des Moines, Iowa
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Season 25 2-time champion: $22,598 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Ingrid Nelson, a judicial assistant from Lake Mills, Wisconsin
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Season 25 2-time champion: $27,802 + $2,000. Ingrid Nelson - 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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Liz Murphy, a foreign service officer originally from Scranton, Pennsylvania
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2010 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 25 5-time champion: $121,302...
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Jason Pratt, a middle school history teacher from Woodbridge, Virginia
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Season 25 2-time champion: $32,701 + $1,000. Jason Pratt - A...
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Melanie Baker-Streevy, a United Methodist pastor from Parma, Michigan
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Season 25 1-time champion: $26,900 + $1,000. Melanie Baker-Streevy - A...
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Andy Srinivasan, a high school science teacher from Garner, North Carolina
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2010 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $69,600...
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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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Jane Kaczmarek, a TV, film and Broadway actress from Malcolm in the Middle and Raising the Bar
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"She went from playing a hard-nosed mom in Malcolm in the...
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Michael Glick, a 12-year-old from Smithtown, New York
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"He's in math honors this year, even though math is one...
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Alex Nutman, a 12-year-old seventh grader from Chevy Chase, Maryland
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"This future investment banker won 'best in grade' in a state...
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Michela Rodriguez, from Poway, California
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"This future author created a board game and had to compete...
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Josh Klein, a 12-year-old seventh grader from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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"And, his favorite subjects in school are math, social studies, and...
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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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Marko Saric, a math professor from Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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Season 40 2-time champion: $26,600 + $3,000.
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Nathan Kaplan, a math professor from Los Angeles, California
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Season 35 1-time champion: $19,600 + $2,000. Nathan appeared on ABC\'s...
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Joe Thomas, a recent math graduate and pizza delivery person from Martin, Tennessee
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Season 30 player (2014-01-24).
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Julien Corven, a math teacher from Parkville, Maryland
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Season 34 player (2017-09-15).
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Scott Handelman, a math and computer science teacher from Lincoln, Nebraska
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Season 39 player (2022-12-27).
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Kevin Paquette, a math teacher from Charlottesville, Virginia
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Season 35 player (2019-07-09).
Husband of Season 34 player Ruth Payne.
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Andy Mills, a math instructor from Iowa City, Iowa
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Season 34 player (2018-06-07).
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Zach Wissner-Gross, a vice president of math curriculum from Roslyn Heights, New York
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Season 39 player (2023-03-22).
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Kiran MacCormick, a math teacher from Burlington, Vermont
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Season 39 player (2023-06-15).
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Alisha Mathalikunnel, a medical student from Alhambra, California
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Season 34 player (2018-01-12).
Name pronounced like "uh-LEE-shah math-uh-LEE-kuh-nul".
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Brandon Blackwell, a sophomore from Holliswood, New York
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2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2008-B Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist:...
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Matt Amodio, a post-doctoral researcher from Cambridge, Massachusetts
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2023 Jeopardy! Masters 3rd place player: $150,000. 2022 Tournament of Champions...
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Matt Amodio, a Ph.D. student from New Haven, Connecticut
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2023 Jeopardy! Masters 3rd place player: $150,000. 2022 Tournament of Champions...
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Matt Amodio, a postdoctoral researcher from Cambridge, Massachusetts
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2023 Jeopardy! Masters 3rd place player: $150,000. 2022 Tournament of Champions...
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Maggie Sharpe, a high school math teacher from Los Angeles, California
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Season 38 player (2022-06-08).
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Gary Waters, a college math teacher from Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Season 34 player (2018-05-21).
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Jason Zuffranieri, a math teacher from Albuquerque, New Mexico
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2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2021 Tournament of Champions wildcard...
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Jason Zuffranieri, a math teacher from Albuquerque, New Mexico
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2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2021 Tournament of Champions wildcard...
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Jong Ho Kim, a high school math teacher from Lombard, Illinois
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2020 Teachers Tournament semifinalist: $10,000.
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Lauren Menke, a math teacher from Columbus, Ohio
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Season 37 player (2021-02-19).
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Dan Lee, a math professor from New York, New York
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Season 34 player (2018-03-16). Not to be confused with Season 22...
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Tracey Hollabaugh, a teacher from Cumming, Georgia
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Season 34 player (2018-03-15).
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Heather Nelson, a middle school math teacher from Lake Oswego, Oregon
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Season 36 1-time champion: $7,799 + $2,000.
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Daniel Nguyen, a high school math teacher from San Jose, California
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2023 Champions Wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
Season 38 2-time champion: $25,199 + $1,000.
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Brad Beaver, a math instructor from Lawndale, California
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Season 12 player (1995-11-03).
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Daniel Nguyen, a high school math teacher and doctoral student from San Jose, California
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2023 Champions Wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
Season 38 2-time champion: $25,199 + $1,000.
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Collette Lee, a middle school math teacher from Paxton, Illinois
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Season 39 player (2023-06-07).
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Gordon Nash, a teacher originally from New York City, New York
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Season 7 3-time champion: $41,000. Gordon was introduced as \"a teacher\"...
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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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Pete Wisniewski, a math teacher from King of Prussia, Pennsylvania
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Season 37 player (2021-07-22).
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Robert Won, a math professor from Washington, D.C.
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2023 Champions Wildcard quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Season 38 1-time champion: $32,001 + $2,000.
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Robert Won, a math professor from Washington, D.C.
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2023 Champions Wildcard quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Season 38 1-time champion: $32,001 + $2,000.
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Kiran Kedlaya, a math professor originally from Boston, Massachusetts
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Season 28 1-time champion: $30,801 + $2,000.
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Matt Noble, a math professor originally from Mobile, Alabama
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Season 29 1-time champion: $12,390 + $2,000.
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Graham Doskoch, a twelve-year-old from Berkeley Heights, New Jersey
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"He wants to put his love of design and building to...
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Rob Fisher, a math teacher from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Season 12 1-time champion: $5,700.
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Nate Rice, a high school ACT prep teacher from Catlettsburg, Kentucky
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"This is his first year in the family business. His mother's...
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Alex Johnson, an 11-year-old from Indianapolis, Indiana
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"He wants to be a chemist in the future. From Indianapolis,...
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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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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, a Basketball Hall of Famer and all-time leading scorer from the NBA
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"In January, the State Department named this NBA Hall of Famer...
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Krishna Bharathala, a sophomore from Fremont, California
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2012 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
15 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Anjali Tripathi, a senior from MIT
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"Math and science were her favorite subjects in seventh grade. We're...
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Erin Hart, a junior from Benton Harbor, Michigan
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2011 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000. 16 at the time of the...
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Tom Stetina, a high school math teacher from Millsboro, Delaware
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Season 25 1-time champion: $29,353 + $1,000.
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Tom Witek, a high school math teacher from Gurnee, Illinois
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Season 25 2-time champion: $51,001 + $1,000.
Last name pronounced like "WYE-tek".
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Dimitri Apessos, an 8th grade math teacher from New Orleans, Louisiana
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Season 38 player (2022-01-19).
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Edgar Smith, Jr., a math instructor from Houston, Texas
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Season 15 2-time champion: $21,608.
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Stephen Cooper, a math teacher from Sandy Springs, Georgia
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Season 23 player (2007-01-26).
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Dan Inloes, a high school English and math teacher from Huntington Woods, Michigan
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Season 15 1-time champion: $9,200.
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Naomi Hinchen, a senior from Brooklyn, New York
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2007 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Grace Acton, from Harvard, Massachusetts
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"This competitive gymnast is hoping to score a perfect 10 for...
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Ryan Elkins, a 12-year-old from Bensalem, Pennsylvania
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"He wants to study physics and unlock the mysteries of the...
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Cerulean Ozarow, an 11-year-old from Brooklyn, New York
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"His future is full of options. He wants to become either...
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Dominic Clust, from Metairie, Louisiana
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"This future lawyer likes to argue and he's good at it....
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Robin Kutner, from Newtown, Pennsylvania
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"This member of jazz band has a cat that is the...
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Andrew Chung, a sophomore from Harvey Mudd College
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2008 College Championship 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $25,000. 20 and...
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Joey Beachum, a senior from Mississippi State University
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2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2008 College Championship winner: $100,000...
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Okey Chikezie, from Egg Harbor Township, New Jersey
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"He wants to be a professional soccer player when he grows...
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Tucker Warner, from Fredericksburg, Virginia
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"At the beginning of the school year, he worked on a...
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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 Pearson, a fifth grade math teacher from Richardson, Texas
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2014 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2013 Teachers Tournament winner: $100,000....
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Gwynne Ash, a university professor from Austin, Texas
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Season 24 1-time champion: $22,400 + $2,000. Gwynne unintentionally tied with...
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Andy Anderson, a high school math teacher originally from Batavia, Illinois
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Season 32 player (2015-09-15). Andy appeared on the show by winning...
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Rand Wise, a math teacher from Decatur, Georgia
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Season 33 player (2017-05-30).
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Linda Lewis, a college math instructor from Washington, D.C.
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Season 4 1-time champion: $7,100.
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Hannah Krug, a high school math and physics teacher from Laurel, Maryland
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2016 Teachers Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000 + a $2,500 education grant to...
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Lindsey Bartlett, a junior from Winter Haven, Florida
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2002 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $5,000. Lindsey was 16 at the time...
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Tom Hartmann, a junior from San Antonio, Texas
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2001 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Chris Tempro, a 9th grade math teacher from Allentown, Pennsylvania
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2016 Teachers Tournament semifinalist: $10,000 + a $2,500 education grant to...
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MaryLou McKenna, a high school math teacher from Harwich, Massachusetts
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2015 Teachers Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. Marylou taught algebra at Barnstable High...
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Bill MacDonald, an attorney from Bonita Springs, Florida
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2006 Tournament of Champions 2nd runner-up: $50,000. Season 22 4-time champion:...
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Amy Wilson, a college writer from Baltimore, Maryland
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"She was a junior from McGuinness High in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma;...
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Sascha Dublin, a Ph.D. candidate from Seattle, Washington
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"10 years ago, her favorite subjects were literature and math. Today,...
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Dylan Smith, from the Bronx, New York
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"This honor roll student wants to invent a teleporting system. From...
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Aman Birk, from Irvine, California
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"He may not be the fastest swimmer on the team, but...
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Emily Zhang, from Indianapolis, Indiana
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"A National Science Merit Award recipient, she plans on becoming a...
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Andrew Vogl, from Yonkers, New York
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"He can ski the slopes with ease, but navigating his own...
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Rob Poodiack, a mathematics professor from Williston, Vermont
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Season 20 player (2004-01-28).
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Hope Landsem, from Tualatin, Oregon
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"She likes to win arguments, and that's why she's going to...
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Joseph Henares, from Avon, Connecticut
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"Along with group science projects, history club, writing club, and chess...
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Vivian Lappenbusch, a twelve-year-old from Seattle, Washington
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"She finds other people's stories and cultures fascinating, so anthropology is...
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Sita Yerramsetti, an eleven-year-old from Houston, Texas
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"Her heart is set on becoming a cardiac surgeon. From Houston,...
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Marty Sade, a math teacher from Tucson, Arizona
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Season 12 3-time champion: $40,001.
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Jon Er, from Williamsville, New York
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"This musician always argues for his fairness, so he wants to...
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Mary Margaret Purvis, a math teacher from Rockledge, Florida
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Season 12 player (1996-01-23).
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Molly Gier, a twelve-year-old from Chesterfield, Missouri
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"She is preparing for a teaching career by tutoring her peers....
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Andrea Salt, a twelve-year-old from Gilbert, Arizona
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"This animal lover plans on becoming a veterinarian. From Gilbert, Arizona,...
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Bryce Piotrowski, a twelve-year-old from Madison, Wisconsin
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"He has no idea what he wants to do later in...
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Kyle Ziemnick, an eleven-year-old from Purcellville, Virginia
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"He likes logical arguments and debates, so would like to be...
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Barbara Findley, a math teacher from Hurley, New York
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Season 14 player (1997-09-04).
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Jesse Yu, a math student from Staten Island, New York
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Season 30 player (2014-06-25).
JBoard user name: GhostStalker
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Stacy Braverman, a public interest lawyer from Washington, D.C.
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Season 26 1-time champion: $14,984 + $2,000. As detailed in a...
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Andrew Westney, a sports business writer from Charlotte, North Carolina
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"He was a high-school student from Atlanta when he won the...
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Josh Charnin-Aker, a twelve-year-old from Lighthouse Point, Florida
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"And, whether in neonatology or as a Navy SEAL, he plans...
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Tim Koch, a 12-year-old sixth grader from Cliffwood, New Jersey
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"He would like to be a teacher because you get to...
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Michelle Chang, an 11-year-old from Suwanee, Georgia
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"This sixth grader picks the most unusual places to lose her...
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Dan Katz, an assistant professor of mathematics from Greensboro, North Carolina
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Season 26 player (2010-06-09). Not to be confused with Season 6...
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Becki Norris, a science and math teacher from Quincy, Massachusetts
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Season 26 player (2010-03-09). Sister of Season 28 player Sean Norris....
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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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Kara Spak, a newspaper reporter from Chicago, Illinois
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2011 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 27 5-time champion:...
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Jordan Brand, an anesthesiologist from Westchester, New York
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Season 26 1-time champion: $24,405 + $2,000. The Sesame Street character...
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Matt Blackwood, a middle school math teacher from Gulfport, Mississippi
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Season 26 player (2009-10-19).
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Sanders Kleinfeld, a publishing technology specialist from Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Season 25 1-time champion: $26,597 + $2,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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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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Patrick Tucker, a senior from the University of Notre Dame
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2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2009 College Championship winner: $100,000...
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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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Jeff Kirby, a math and science teacher from Santa Maria, California
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Season 26 player (2009-10-12). Season 16 player (1999-12-08). Jeff returned to...
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Eric Betts, a senior from Emory University
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2009 College Championship first runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $50,000. 21 and...
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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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Leah Anthony Libresco, a junior from Yale University
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2010-A College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Hometown: Mineola, New York. Jeopardy!...
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A.J. Schumacher, a radio show production intern from St. Paul, Minnesota
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Season 25 1-time champion: $10,800 + $2,000. AJ Schumacher Saint Paul,...
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Sally O'Rourke, a freelance copywriter originally from Baton Rouge, Louisiana
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Season 27 1-time champion: $33,601 + $1,000.
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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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Naomi Brokaw, a math advisor from Santa Cruz, California
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Season 20 player (2004-01-05).
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Ellen Kimmel, a school nurse from Nanuet, New York
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Season 27 2-time champion: $37,000 + $1,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: SkoolRN
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Jim Stevens, a math teacher from Fairview Park, Ohio
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2009 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Season 25 6-time champion: $140,600 + $2,000.
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Bryan Cothorn, a math tutor from Baltimore, Maryland
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Season 25 player (2009-06-03).
Last name pronounced like "CO-thorn".
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Paul Glaser, a research scientist from Albany, New York
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2007 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
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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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Elijah Granet, a 12-year-old from San Diego, California
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"Because he loves animals, biology, and helping others, he's thinking of...
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Heidi Meyer, a math consultant from Modesto, California
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Season 16 player (2000-02-01).
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Ellen Goodman, a math teacher from East Meadow, New York
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Season 13 1-time champion: $12,201.
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Jim Stevens, a high school math teacher from Fairview Park, Ohio
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2009 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Season 25 6-time champion: $140,600 + $2,000.
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Billy King, a 13-year-old from St. Albans, West Virginia
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"With his love of math and his interest in design, he...
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Elizabeth Rogers, a 12-year-old from Owensboro, Kentucky
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"Academic Team, Math Team, Student Council... we're just glad she could...
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Stefan Goodreau, a video game tester and camp counselor from Los Angeles, California
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2010 Tournament of Champions 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $50,000. Season...
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Jennifer Broders, a junior high school social studies teacher from Stockton, Iowa
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Season 26 2-time champion: $59,801 + $1,000. Jennifer Broders - a...
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Thulasi Seshan, a 12-year-old from Draper, Utah
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"The sky is the limit for this future astronomer. From Draper,...
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Steph Gagelin, a sophomore from the University of North Dakota from Grand Forks, North Dakota
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2010-B College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
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Doug Szafran, a math teacher from Frederick, Maryland
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Season 13 2-time champion: $24,001. Won $64,000 on Who Wants to...
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William Thill, a teacher from Los Angeles, California
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Season 23 player (2007-04-06).
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Christopher Meloni, a star from Law & Order: SVU and HBO's Oz
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"On TV, he's worked both sides of the law. Once a...
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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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Jeffrey Baer, a senior from Thornhill, Ontario, Canada
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2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games semifinalist: $10,000. 17 at the time...
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Matt McDonell, a high school math teacher from San Francisco, California
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Season 20 player (2004-02-23).
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Steve Douches, a high school math teacher from Fairfax, Virginia
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Season 13 3-time champion: $30,000.
Last name pronounced "DOW-ches".
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Kimberly Jantz, an attorney from Tulsa, Oklahoma
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Season 26 1-time champion: $22,200 + $2,000. Kimberly Jantz - an...
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Sebastian Johnson, a senior from Takoma Park, Maryland
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2006 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Listed as "Sebi" on the...
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Peter Braxton, a math teacher from Fairfax, Virginia
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Season 13 2-time champion: $33,402. Won $250,000 on Who Wants To...
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Charlie Kahn, a middle school math teacher from Versailles, Kentucky
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Season 21 1-time champion: $25,600 + $2,000.
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Edward Lee, a 12-year-old seventh grader from Sacramento, California
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"Of the numerous projects he has completed, making gliders and bottle...
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Steve Golden, a junior from Brookeville, Maryland
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2005 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $5,000. 16 at the time of the...
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Roy Holliday, a radiologist from Nyack, New York
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"He was the first to win five games in the 1987-88...
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Andrew Watkins, a junior from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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2006 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: everyday847
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Nithya Kubendran, an 11-year-old seventh grader from Quartz Hill, California
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"When asked about her future plans, she said, 'World domination sounds...
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Scottie Szewczyk, from Belleville, Illinois
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"He enjoys science and sports, and would like to work as...
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Rowan Spake, from Portland, Oregon
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"He's interested in nanotechnology and robotics to improve surgery. But getting...
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Cary Williams, from Milton, Massachusetts
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"She won an award in math, and a letter of commendation...
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Mallory Banks, from Summerville, South Carolina
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"And this future physicist loves figuring out the underlying components of...
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Bobby Millison, from Clifton Heights, Pennsylvania
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"He's an award-winning diver, and would like to serve his country...
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Patrick Zakem, an 11-year-old sixth grader from Louisville, Kentucky
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"He would like to become an architect because he enjoys visualizing...
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