#50, aired 2025-05-27 | SOUTHERN ACTORS $2000: In her 60s, this Alabama native, cautioned about the campy "Batman" show, said, "Don't talk to me about camp, dahling, I invented it!" (Tallulah) Bankhead |
#9331, aired 2025-05-12 | MOVIE & SONG, SAME TITLE $1200: Reese Witherspoon &
Lynyrd Skynyrd Sweet Home Alabama |
#9323, aired 2025-04-30 | STATELY GEOGRAPHIC $200: You don't have to be a martial arts expert to visit this Mississippi & Alabama prairie named for its fertile dark soil the Black Belt |
#9317, aired 2025-04-22 | BEFORE & AFTER $400: A list of exceptional students exclaims a University of Alabama rallying cry honor Roll Tide |
#9316, aired 2025-04-21 | STATE NICKNAMES $400: Meant to distinguish Alabama from the rest of the South, it went on the state's license plates in 1955 the Heart of Dixie |
#9315, aired 2025-04-18 | OUR TOP STORY TONIGHT $400: June 11, 1963:
Governor George Wallace stood in a doorway of this university in an effort to exclude Black students the University of Alabama |
#9306, aired 2025-04-07 | GANG "WAY" $1000: NASCAR's biggest & baddest racetrack, Talladega, Alabama's venue, surely earns its moniker as this type of 13-letter oval superspeedway |
#9290, aired 2025-03-14 | CELEBRITY HOMETOWNS $1200: (W. Kamau Bell presents the clue.) A very personal episode of "United Shades of America" was about a city I consider home, this one in Alabama whose Black history also includes being home to Hank Aaron & Laverne Cox & the arrival of the last slave ship to the U.S. Mobile |
#9279, aired 2025-02-27 | STATE THE FACTS $400: Alabama's state quarter features an image of this woman & her name in English & Braille Helen Keller |
#31, aired 2025-02-05 | THE STATE WHERE IT HAPPENED $300: 1881:
The Tuskegee institute is founded by Booker T. Washington Alabama |
#30, aired 2025-01-29 | HBCUs $800: This state has the most HBCUs: 14, including Talladega College & Selma University Alabama |
#29, aired 2025-01-22 | VOWEL-LESS U.S. STATES $300: Where "Roll Tide!" & "War Eagle!" are often shouted:
LBM Alabama |
#9249, aired 2025-01-16 | TRAVEL USA $7,800 (Daily Double): The U.S. Space & Rocket Center in this Alabama city displays one of the world's largest collections of space memorabilia Huntsville |
#9235, aired 2024-12-27 | MINOR LEAGUE BASEBALL TEAM GEOGRAPHY $800: The Southern League's Rocket City Trash Pandas play in Madison but were formerly the Bears of this other Alabama "M" city Mobile |
#9234, aired 2024-12-26 | IT'S A NICE DAY FOR... $1600: Seeing a NASCAR race; we're gonna head out to this Alabama superspeedway & hope for a little shake & bake Talladega |
#9228, aired 2024-12-18 | IN D.C.'s STATUARY HALL $800: Alabama is represented by this woman, depicted as a young girl astonished by the discovery of her first word--"water" Helen Keller |
#9227, aired 2024-12-17 | NAME A WOMAN $200: This woman, honored with a Dec. 1 holiday in Alabama that commemorates the day in 1955 she refused to give up her bus seat Rosa Parks |
#9220, aired 2024-12-06 | 2024 DNC STATE ROLL CALL SONGS $800: Alabama went with "Sweet Home Alabama" by this '70s band, actually formed in Florida Lynyrd Skynyrd |
#9216, aired 2024-12-02 | FIELDS $2000: Named for the 2nd president of the Tuskegee Institute, this field in Alabama was used to train Black pilots during World War II Moton Field |
#9148, aired 2024-07-17 | STATES BY SUPER-SENATOR $1000: Britt Tuberville Alabama |
#9134, aired 2024-06-27 | IT STARTS WITH "Y" $800: Seen here, it's the state bird of Alabama a yellowhammer |
#36, aired 2024-05-20 | "H" TOWN $600: Many a millennial child was sad to learn that Space Camp in this city's U.S. Space & Rocket Center didn't really end with a launch Huntsville (Alabama) |
#9100, aired 2024-05-10 | PRANKS $200: In 1998 a physicist pulled a fast one with an article about Alabama wanting to "slice" this irrational number down to 3 pi |
#27, aired 2024-05-10 | PARENTS & KIDS $800: When a state supreme court ruling began to curtail this procedure, Alabama rammed & jammed through legislation protecting it IVF |
#9092, aired 2024-04-30 | GIVING SOME DIRECTION $400: This "profound" term refers to a region of the U.S. that includes Alabama & Mississippi the Deep South |
#9079, aired 2024-04-11 | COLORFUL GEOGRAPHY $2,000 (Daily Double): This eastern Alabama city was named for a line in an Oliver Goldsmith poem about the "loveliest village of the plain" Auburn |
#9073, aired 2024-04-03 | BEFORE THEY WERE CONGRESSWOMEN $2000: Pre-politics, Alabama Rep. Terri Sewell & this current New York senator were colleagues at the same law firm Gillibrand |
#9049, aired 2024-02-29 | NAME, IMAGE, LIKENESS $200: It's the nickname of Alabama CB Ga'quincy McKinstry, whose smile resembled this pitch "man"; now he has an NIL deal with the drink, oh yeah Kool-Aid |
#9041, aired 2024-02-19 | ON STATES' HIGHWAY WELCOME SIGNS $2,200 (Daily Double): A southern sign says, "Welcome to" this Lynyrd Skynyrd title "Sweet Home Alabama" |
#9027, aired 2024-01-30 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $800: Author Ralph Ellison was a music student at this Alabama institute the Tuskegee Institute |
#9019, aired 2024-01-18 | TAKE IT BACK! $400: The campaign Reclaim Your Vote can tell you the deadline to do this in each state (Alabama: Oct. 21, 2024) register to vote |
#9012, aired 2024-01-09 | COLLEGE PREP $200: University worker Nick Saban earns more than $11 million a year as the highest paid public employee in this state Alabama |
#8999, aired 2023-12-21 | UNION ACTIONS $1000: Black Union sailors John H. Lawson & James Mifflin got the Medal of Honor for their actions at the 1864 battle of this Alabama bay Mobile Bay |
#8996, aired 2023-12-18 | PLAY SETTINGS $1000: The Kellers' home in Tuscumbia, Alabama: This drama The Miracle Worker |
#8978, aired 2023-11-22 | SORRY ABOUT THAT $1600: In the 1970s, this ex-Alabama governor said his opposition to integration had been wrong & apologized for his actions George Wallace |
#8948, aired 2023-10-11 | STATE THE ITEM $800: It's not a Birmingham jail; it's Southern Comfort, sloe gin, amaretto & orange juice an Alabama Slammer |
#8947, aired 2023-10-10 | NASCAR GEOGRAPHY $600: Talladega Superspeedway Alabama |
#15, aired 2023-10-04 | THREE DIGIT PRIME NUMBERS $600: In 1968, an Alabama politician made the first test call on this emergency services telephone number 911 |
#8936, aired 2023-09-25 | U.S. CAPITAL AIRPORT CODES $600: MGM:
Not a studio, it's a southern thing Alabama |
#8931, aired 2023-09-18 | BOOK TITLES IN OTHER WORDS $1000: 1992:
"Actor Jeff or Beau Living in Huntsville, Alabama" The Bridges of Madison County |
#8927, aired 2023-09-12 | THE U.S. IN 1964 $1000: In a landmark case the Supreme Court ruled that this newspaper had not libeled Alabama city commissioner L.B. Sullivan the New York Times |
#8918, aired 2023-07-19 | SAME 2 LETTERS, DIFFERENT PLACE $1000: AL & .al Alabama & Albania |
#8896, aired 2023-06-19 | ON THE STATE'S LONGEST WESTERN BORDER $600: On Georgia's Alabama |
#8893, aired 2023-06-14 | A NOVEL CATEGORY $200: In "Go Set a Watchman", a grown-up Scout from this novel revisits her childhood home in Maycomb, Alabama To Kill a Mockingbird |
#8891, aired 2023-06-12 | LIKE A STATUE $1600: Honoring the city's iron making heritage, a statue of this fiery Roman god overlooks Birmingham, Alabama Vulcan |
#8878, aired 2023-05-24 | THANKS A MILLION $200: The Million Dollar Band is the celebrated marching band of this university down South in Tuscaloosa Alabama |
#18, aired 2023-05-23 | LET'S GO GULFING $6,000 (Daily Double): This gulf named for a Yemeni seaport was once a haven for piracy such as the hijacking of the Maersk Alabama in 2009 Gulf of Aden |
#2, aired 2023-05-08 | SING YOU A COUNTRY SONG $600: State the name of this band who did "Mountain Music", "Old Flame" & "My Home's In..."--oh wait, we almost said too much Alabama |
#8865, aired 2023-05-05 | TAKE ME TO CHURCH $1,000 (Daily Double): In 2023 16th St. Baptist in this city marks 150 years of the congregation, a history marred by a 1963 bombing Birmingham, Alabama |
#8814, aired 2023-02-23 | COLLEGE FOOTBALL $800: By the end of the 2020-21 season, this head coach had won 6 national championships with the University of Alabama Saban |
#8809, aired 2023-02-16 | SAME FIRST & LAST LETTER GEOGRAPHY $400: Y'all, Rusty Wallace wanted to go fast at Talladega in 2004 in this state, & sure did; "We hit 228 at the end of the straightaway" Alabama |
#8800, aired 2023-02-03 | THE NATIONAL PARK SYSTEM $1200: An Alabama historic site invites you to journey back to the 1940s & learn about this group of Black military aviators the Tuskegee Airmen (or Red Tails) |
#12, aired 2023-01-26 | U.S. GOVERNMENT $1500: It's the process of changing voting areas in states after each census; the job Alabama did went to the Supreme Court in 2022 redistricting |
#8789, aired 2023-01-19 | STATE CAPITALS $1200: This city of 200,000 stands near where the Coosa & Tallapoosa Rivers merge to form the Alabama River Montgomery |
#8788, aired 2023-01-18 | MOVIES THAT MATTER $1600: This 2014 film about voting marches in Alabama shined a light on the contributions of Black women to the civil rights movement Selma |
#8785, aired 2023-01-13 | BORN OR DIED IN 1923 $1200: Born:
Real name Hiram, this country music legend in Alabama (Hank) Williams |
#8783, aired 2023-01-11 | THE EX-STATE CAPITAL $1200: Home to the flagship campus of the University of Alabama, this city was also the capital for 20 years, starting in 1826 Tuscaloosa |
#8778, aired 2023-01-04 | ON YOUR STATE'S LEFT $600: Geographically, this state borders Alabama on the left, but both look up to Tennessee Mississippi |
#8762, aired 2022-12-13 | THAT'S SOME OF WHAT SHE WROTE $400: Her resumé includes 2 novels published 55 years apart & a 1983 essay about the history of Alabama Harper Lee |
#8758, aired 2022-12-07 | GINGER ZEE TALKS METEOROLOGY $200: (Ginger Zee presents the clue.) The first big storm that I covered was this hurricane that slammed into the Gulf Coast in 2005 with major impacts in New Orleans, coastal Mississippi & Alabama Katrina |
#8745, aired 2022-11-18 | BEFORE, DURING & AFTER $400: Dyed object hunted for on resurrection Sunday, with fried Chinese appetizers becoming an Alabama football rally cry Easter egg roll Tide |
#6, aired 2022-10-30 | WITH AUTHOR-ITY $200: Harper Lee based Dill Harris on Truman Capote, a childhood friend in Alabama, in this Pulitzer-winning 1960 novel To Kill a Mockingbird |
#6, aired 2022-10-30 | MEMOIRS $1000: "Extraordinary Ordinary People", the autobiography of this Secretary of State, detailed her upbringing in segregated Alabama Condoleezza Rice |
#8724, aired 2022-10-20 | SOUTHERN CITIES $400: Southwest of Birmingham in the city of Bessemer is an abode with this name reminiscent of a Lynyrd Skynyrd tune Sweet Home |
#8716, aired 2022-10-10 | NATIONALLY MONUMENTAL $1600: The site of a former Alabama Greyhound depot is part of a monument to the 1960s civil rights crusaders known by this 2-word name the Freedom Riders |
#8713, aired 2022-10-05 | YOU'RE ON A ROLL $600: "Roll Tide" is a trademarked phrase used by supporters of this state school... a lot the University of Alabama |
#8708, aired 2022-09-28 | AND THE STATE GOES TO... $2000: Alabama, 1968:
This American Independent Party candidate (George) Wallace |
#8694, aired 2022-07-28 | AUTHORS $2,500 (Daily Double): A 1903 courthouse in this state is preserved as a museum because as a young girl, Harper Lee watched her dad argue cases there Alabama |
#8685, aired 2022-07-15 | U.S. PLACES, EVERYBODY! $1000: Alabama? That's a town in New York State centrally located between Rochester & this seat of Erie County Buffalo |
#8683, aired 2022-07-13 | SHORES $400: If you're vacationing in Gulf Shores, Alabama, you're enjoying beaches along this body of water the Gulf of Mexico |
#8681, aired 2022-07-11 | LICENSE PLATE MOTTOS $800: "Heart of Dixie" Alabama |
#8674, aired 2022-06-30 | TALES FROM THE UNCLAIMED BAGGAGE CENTER $200: The Center, which partners with all U.S. airlines, sells online & at a storefront in Scottsboro in this southern state Alabama |
#8673, aired 2022-06-29 | STATUARY HALL: THE STATE REPRESENTED $1000: Helen Keller:
This southern state Alabama |
#8664, aired 2022-06-16 | PLACES IN THE USA $1600: Sheffield, Alabama is home to these "Shoals", the studio where "Wild Horses" & "Old Time Rock & Roll" were recorded Muscle Shoals |
#8643, aired 2022-05-18 | HISTORIC AMERICANS $600: A memorial park & museum in Alabama honors this track-&-field legend who made history at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin Jesse Owens |
#8637, aired 2022-05-10 | FROM SHE TO SHINING SHE $400: On Dec. 5, 1955 a Montgomery, Alabama court fined her $10 plus $4 in court costs for violating segregation laws (Rosa) Parks |
#8636, aired 2022-05-09 | LET'S GET NAUTICAL $2000: Displayed at Fort Gaines in Alabama is the anchor from this "Damn the torpedoes" admiral's ship used during the Battle of Mobile Bay David Farragut |
#8631, aired 2022-05-02 | YOU GOT NEXT $2,200 (Daily Double): As state capital:
Cahaba,
Tuscaloosa... Montgomery |
#8628, aired 2022-04-27 | MOUNTAINS & HILLS $800: In the panhandle near the Alabama border, 345-foot Britton Hill is the highest natural point in this state Florida |
#8609, aired 2022-03-31 | MAP QUEST $200: This state capital was founded by four way-out-of-staters, one from England, one from Georgia, one from Alabama & one from Iowa Helena |
#8606, aired 2022-03-28 | COLORFUL STATE SYMBOLS $2000: Alabama, bird: this colorful woodpecker the yellowhammer |
#8605, aired 2022-03-25 | TIME TO CALL IT A DAY $800: Term for the day, usually in March, when many states including Alabama & Texas hold their presidential primary on the same date Super Tuesday |
#8603, aired 2022-03-23 | BIG CITY $1000: Home to the Wernher von Braun Planetarium & the U.S. Space & Rocket Center, this city is now Alabama's most populous Huntsville |
#8603, aired 2022-03-23 | TRIPLE THE DOUBLE LETTERS $1200: These 2 U.S. states border each other Mississippi & Tennessee |
#8602, aired 2022-03-22 | FOOTBALL AND FOOTBALL $800: In 2022 quarterback Stetson Bennett led this school to the national title over SEC rival Alabama, 33-18 the University of Georgia |
#8598, aired 2022-03-16 | AVIATION $1200: Seen here are a group of these aviators of Alabama in the 1940s, many of whom became decorated war heroes the Tuskegee Airmen |
#8579, aired 2022-02-17 | A MEASURE OF AUTHOR-ITY $1200: This Alabama woman was honored by President Bush for her "outstanding contribution to America's literary tradition" in 2007 Harper Lee |
#2, aired 2022-02-08 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: Now a university, this Alabama school opened in 1881 with about 30 students & one teacher, Booker T. Washington Tuskegee |
#8566, aired 2022-01-31 | BIG NAMES ON CAMPUS $800: In 2021 this S.E.C. school in Alabama renamed Eagle Hall to honor Dr. Josetta Brittain Matthews, its first African-American graduate Auburn University |
#8524, aired 2021-12-02 | "T" FOR... $400: Lionel Richie was born in this Alabama city & graduated from its famed institute Tuskegee |
#8489, aired 2021-10-14 | TWISTER! $2000: April 3, 1974 saw 7 tornadoes from Alabama to Indiana max out at F5 on this scale of storm intensity the Fujita Scale |
#8483, aired 2021-10-06 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $800: George Washington Carver did most of his research at this Alabama school Tuskegee |
#8478, aired 2021-09-29 | SOUTHERN LITERATURE $400: Inspired by the author's hometown of Monroeville, Maycomb, Alabama is the setting for this 1960 classic To Kill a Mockingbird |
#8445, aired 2021-07-16 | S.E.C.! S.E.C.! $1600: Gov. George Wallace protested the court-ordered end of racial segregation at this school in 1963 the University of Alabama |
#8429, aired 2021-06-24 | OFFICIAL STATE FOSSILS $400: For its fossil, Alabama chose 70-foot Basilosaurus, now classified as this big marine mammal a whale |
#8425, aired 2021-06-18 | A TALE OF 2 GEORGIAS $1200: In the U.S., Georgia borders Alabama; on its south, Georgia borders this country that also begins & ends with "A" Armenia |
#8421, aired 2021-06-14 | CITY FILL IN $1200: ____ Ward: Since 1872, great deals for those from Chicago & Alabama alike Montgomery |
#8390, aired 2021-04-30 | AFRICAN AMERICAN MEMOIRS $200: In "Up from Slavery" Booker T. Washington goes to this Alabama town expecting to find helpful things like a building to teach in, but no Tuskegee |
#8376, aired 2021-04-12 | THE NATIONAL PARK SYSTEM $7,000 (Daily Double): National military parks include Horseshoe Bend in Alabama & this one in Mississippi that's alphabetically last Vicksburg |
#8371, aired 2021-04-05 | POP CULTURE-POURRI $600: In 2008 the visitors' locker room in Bryant-Denny Stadium at this university was named in honor of James M. Fail Alabama |
#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 |
#8366, aired 2021-03-29 | GETTING DOWN TO BUSINESS $200: In 2014 this aerospace company said it was moving 400 jobs from Washington to Alabama to save $100 million Boeing |
#8364, aired 2021-03-25 | STATE PARKS $1,000 (Daily Double): With boating, camping & fishing, Alabama's Meaher State Park is on this bay that's an arm of the Gulf of Mexico Mobile Bay |
#8355, aired 2021-03-12 | CAPTAIN $600: It's not Tom Hanks, it's this Maersk, Alabama captain seen with the lifeboat he was ultimately rescued from Captain Phillips |
#8305, aired 2020-12-18 | STATES BY COUNTY $600: Autauga,
Coosa,
Talladega Alabama |
#8287, aired 2020-11-24 | BODIES OF WATER $600: The people in John Mellencamp's "Pink Houses" vacation "down at" this body of water, perhaps in Fort Morgan, Alabama the Gulf of Mexico |
#8271, aired 2020-11-02 | SWEET TOME ALABAMA $200: This novel about an Alabama rape trial won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1961 To Kill a Mockingbird |
#8271, aired 2020-11-02 | SWEET TOME ALABAMA $400: The plot of the book "Crazy in Alabama" includes a woman auditioning for this 1960s sitcom about country folks who come to California The Beverly Hillbillies |
#8271, aired 2020-11-02 | SWEET TOME ALABAMA $600: Mobile's Winston Groom wrote this 1986 novel about a man with childlike wisdom Forrest Gump |
#8271, aired 2020-11-02 | SWEET TOME ALABAMA $800: Alabama U.S. Senator Jeremiah Clemens wrote the 1860 novel "The Rivals", about the feud between these 2 historic duelists Hamilton & Burr |
#8271, aired 2020-11-02 | SWEET TOME ALABAMA $1,000 (Daily Double): This 1959 Tuscumbia-set play about a steadfast teacher & a stubborn young girl is the state's official outdoor drama The Miracle Worker |
#8257, aired 2020-10-13 | NASCAR IN VEGAS $600: (Brad Keselowski presents from the Las Vegas Motor Speedway.) I'm Brad Keselowski; during my run for the NASCAR season title in 2012, I decided I wanted to go fast, just like Will Ferrell, and win the Aaron's 499 at this Alabama superspeedway Talladega |
#8247, aired 2020-09-29 | AMERICAN NAMES $800: At the age of 6 this Tuscumbia, Alabama girl was examined by Alexander Graham Bell Helen Keller |
#8244, aired 2020-09-24 | "A" IS FOR AUTUMN $400: Each fall Alabama & this S.E.C. football archrival meet in "The Iron Bowl" Auburn |
#8243, aired 2020-09-23 | AROUND THE USA $1000: Montgomery, Alabama, is home to the Dexter Avenue King Memorial Church of this Protestant denomination Baptist |
#8242, aired 2020-09-22 | WESTWARD HO! $200: Georgia Alabama |
#8232, aired 2020-06-09 | HISTORICALLY BLACK COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $800: The Oaks, former home of Booker T. Washington, & the George Washington Carver Museum are at this Alabama school Tuskegee |
#8227, aired 2020-06-02 | DOCUMENTARIES $800: Spike Lee's "4 Little Girls" tells of the horrific bombing in 1963 of an African American church in this Alabama city Birmingham |
#8220, aired 2020-05-22 | YEARBOOK PHOTOS OF PEOPLE IN GOVERNMENT $800: This senator, originally from Alabama but serving Kentucky, overcame childhood polio Mitch McConnell |
#8206, aired 2020-04-20 | THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE $1,600 (Daily Double): (MSNBC's Steve Kornacki presents by a display monitor.) A third party candidate hasn't won a state in a presidential election since 1968 when this American Independent Party nominee carried Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Georgia, and his native Alabama George Wallace |
#8200, aired 2020-04-10 | FILM SCHOOLS $1200: East Los Angeles College, not the University of Alabama, is where this Tom Hanks character shows his football prowess Forrest Gump |
#8187, aired 2020-03-24 | FILM ANALYSIS $2000: In a 2013 film Tom Hanks takes Alabama to sea & must figure out how to deal with unexpected guests Captain Phillips |
#8180, aired 2020-03-13 | STATE THE PROBLEM $1,500 (Daily Double): State troopers attack peaceful marchers on "Bloody Sunday" 1965 Alabama |
#8158, aired 2020-02-12 | DAYTONA 500 GRAND MARSHALS $800: Alabama's governor & a presidential candidate in the '70s, he got the honor twice in the decade George Wallace |
#8152, aired 2020-02-04 | ADMIRABLE ADMIRALS $400: In 1864, Admiral David Farragut's forces sealed off this Alabama city, one of the last major southern supply ports Mobile |
#8138, aired 2020-01-15 | BORDER RIVERS $2000: With as many sets of double letters as the Mississippi, this river forms about half the Alabama-Georgia border the Chattahoochee |
#8134, aired 2020-01-09 | WEIRD FACTS $600: In an annual competition, you toss a fish west over the state line from Florida to this state Alabama |
#2, aired 2020-01-07 | ALL IN THE FAMILY: GOVERNMENT EDITION $2000: She succeeded her husband George Wallace as governor of Alabama but died 2 years after winning the office Lurleen |
#8119, aired 2019-12-19 | THE WRECK OF THE F. SCOTT FITZGERALD $1600: Fitzgerald's career as an inept Army officer was brightened when he met this future wife while stationed in Alabama Zelda |
#8106, aired 2019-12-02 | LAFAYETTE, IT IS THERE $800: Lafayette, Alabama has an 8-foot bronze statue of this native son & 1930s & '40s heavyweight champ (Joe) Louis |
#8053, aired 2019-09-18 | "M" PORTS $600: It's home to the Alabama State Docks Mobile |
#8031, aired 2019-07-08 | ON WEEKENDS $1000: One fine Saturday, this "O"hio liberal arts college will move up from Div. III & take down Alabama football, 70-21; go Yeomen! Oberlin |
#8021, aired 2019-06-24 | MEMORIALS $1200: The National Memorial for Peace and Justice in this Alabama city is dedicated to 4,000-plus African Americans killed by racist mobs Montgomery |
#7995, aired 2019-05-17 | FILL IN THE STATE $600: A blues-rock quartet:
____ Shakes Alabama |
#7991, aired 2019-05-13 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $1000: A land-grant school, it started out as East Alabama Male College; it got its colorful name in 1960 Auburn |
#7989, aired 2019-05-09 | STATE CAPITAL NICKNAMES $2,000 (Daily Double): "The Cradle of the Confederacy" & "The Birthplace of Civil Rights" Montgomery, Alabama |
#7958, aired 2019-03-27 | CALLED OUT IN SONG $1600: After Neil Young's "Southern Man", this band replied, "A Southern man don't need him around" in "Sweet Home Alabama" Lynyrd Skynyrd |
#7952, aired 2019-03-19 | U.S. CITIES $800: The U.S. Space & Rocket Center in this Alabama city has one of the world's largest collections of space memorabilia Huntsville |
#7935, aired 2019-02-22 | STATE FACTS $400: Methinks an annual gathering held in Florence is Alabama's official faire of this type a Renaissance Faire |
#7930, aired 2019-02-15 | PRESIDENTS' DAYS $800: Presidents' Day in Alabama honors Washington & this next president from the South Jefferson |
#7929, aired 2019-02-14 | MOUNTAINS & VALLEYS $600: Geologically, New York's Catskills are a part of this mountain chain that stretches from Alabama up into Canada the Appalachians |
#7895, aired 2018-12-28 | MY BAD! $800: Billy Graham admitted that he made a mistake in 1965 when he didn't go to the march that began in this Alabama city Selma |
#7876, aired 2018-12-03 | NATIONAL HISTORIC LANDMARKS $800: The first Confederate capitol is in this Alabama city Montgomery |
#7857, aired 2018-11-06 | 2018 COLLEGE FOOTBALL NAMES $800: On Saturdays Smoke Monday is a Tigers defensive back for this in-state rival of Alabama the University of Auburn |
#7832, aired 2018-10-02 | LARGEST CITIES $800: This largest city in Alabama was named for the second largest city in the United Kingdom Birmingham |
#7831, aired 2018-10-01 | NEWSY PUNS $400: After Alabama beat this team for the NCAA football championship, one paper noted it was a "four-leaf clobber" Notre Dame |
#7831, aired 2018-10-01 | NO FILTER $800: In 2017 filterless Charles Barkley stumped for Doug Jones, telling this state's voters, "Stop looking like idiots" Alabama |
#7829, aired 2018-09-27 | MEMORIALS $1600: 1-800-GANGWAY is the phone number for Battleship Memorial Park in this Alabama city Mobile, Alabama |
#7817, aired 2018-09-11 | U.S. HISTORY $600: In 1817, Congress divided a territory that became these two states that are practically mirror images of each other Alabama and Mississippi |
#7806, aired 2018-07-16 | GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER $1600: Carver claimed he could treat this paralytic disease with peanut oil massages & many flocked to Alabama for a cure polio |
#7801, aired 2018-07-09 | UNFURL THE STATE FLAG $1200: The flag seen here represents this sweet home to 5 million Alabama |
#7797, aired 2018-07-03 | STARS FELL FROM ALABAMA $400: She was born in Birmingham in 1964, 30 years before becoming your TV friend Monica Courteney Cox |
#7797, aired 2018-07-03 | STARS FELL FROM ALABAMA $800: Born in Cullman in 1980, he moved to "21 Jump Street" in 2012 & "22 Jump Street" in 2014 Channing Tatum |
#7797, aired 2018-07-03 | STARS FELL FROM ALABAMA $1200: In 2014 this Mobile-born "Orange is the New Black" star became the first openly transgender Emmy nominee Cox |
#7797, aired 2018-07-03 | STARS FELL FROM ALABAMA $1600: This singer & writer of "Your Cheatin' Heart", born in Mount Olive in 1923, was only 29 when he died (Hank) Williams |
#7797, aired 2018-07-03 | STARS FELL FROM ALABAMA $2000: This "Match Game" panelist turned author based the town in "Fried Green Tomatoes..." on Irondale, Alabama Fannie Flagg |
#7789, aired 2018-06-21 | THE MALE MAN $3,000 (Daily Double): In 2017 Alabama elected its first Democrat to the U.S. Senate since 1992--this man, who beat Roy Moore Doug Jones |
#7787, aired 2018-06-19 | THE 27 LANDLOCKED U.S. STATES $400: It's alphabetically first Arizona |
#7775, aired 2018-06-01 | THAT RAISES A RED FLAG $400: Tenn., Miss. & this state on their western borders are true red states--that color is their flags' main background Arkansas |
#7771, aired 2018-05-28 | THE STATE SHE GOVERNED $500 (Daily Double): Lurleen Wallace Alabama |
#7758, aired 2018-05-09 | CLASS OF 1918 $1600: 1918 was a big year for this woman: she graduated from Lanier High in Alabama & met F. Scott Fitzgerald at a dance Zelda Fitzgerald |
#7757, aired 2018-05-08 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN FIRSTS $1600: A year after his admission sparked a deadly riot, James Meredith became the first black graduate of this university University of Mississippi |
#7747, aired 2018-04-24 | THEY'RE IN THE BAND $1600: "Hold On"! In 2015 this "stately" band featuring Brittany Howard topped the Billboard 200 with "Sound & Color" Alabama Shakes |
#7745, aired 2018-04-20 | SUMMER JOB IDEAS $2000: Apply to be a counselor--I mean crew trainer--at NASA's space camp in this Alabama city Huntsville |
#7743, aired 2018-04-18 | THIS IS MY COLLEGE FIGHT SONG $200: Students at this school sing, "Drown 'em Tide! ...send the Yellow Jackets to a watery grave" the University of Alabama |
#7737, aired 2018-04-10 | AP JOURNALISM $1600: In 1972 the AP broke the story of experiments on unconsenting subjects at this Alabama institute Tuskegee |
#7733, aired 2018-04-04 | THE POSTMAN'S 4-LETTER WORDS $1000: Lignite, for example coal |
#7731, aired 2018-04-02 | REESE WITHERSPOON MOVIES $1000: New York fashion designer Melanie Smooter, actually a Southern girl Sweet Home Alabama |
#7725, aired 2018-03-23 | WHERE'D THAT HAPPEN? $400: Amid threats & violence, the 1964 Freedom Summer in this state registered a total of 1,200 African Americans to vote Mississippi |
#7724, aired 2018-03-22 | AVIATION HISTORY $800: Benjamin Davis Jr. became the first to lead this all-black Alabama flying unit also known as the Red Tails the Tuskegee Airmen |
#7700, aired 2018-02-16 | STATES' HIGHEST POINTS $800: Cheaha Mountain in the Talladega National Forest Alabama |
#7673, aired 2018-01-10 | "HAND" IT OVER $800: This blues composer born in Alabama in 1873 lived to be 84 W.C. Handy |
#7669, aired 2018-01-04 | AROUND THE SOUTH $200: Mardi Gras is not only celebrated in Louisiana but is an official holiday in this state's Baldwin & Mobile Counties as well Alabama |
#7635, aired 2017-11-17 | STATE BY COUNTIES $200: Houston (not that state!), Dallas (really, no!), Tuscaloosa (there you go) Alabama |
#7621, aired 2017-10-30 | CAP $1000: In 2009 the Maersk Alabama, captained by him, ran afoul of pirates near the Horn of Africa Captain Phillips |
#7603, aired 2017-10-04 | AUTHORS: BORN & DIED $400: She was born April 28, 1926 in Monroeville, Alabama & died there February 19, 2016 Harper Lee |
#7601, aired 2017-10-02 | TRAVEL & TOURISM $1,800 (Daily Double): This Alabama city's National Voting Rights Museum includes exhibits on Martin Luther King & Jesse Jackson Selma |
#7600, aired 2017-09-29 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $400: The bus boycott protesting segregation in this Alabama city lasted for more than a year Montgomery |
#7582, aired 2017-07-25 | STATUARY HALL: THE STATE REPRESENTED $1200: Helen Keller Alabama |
#7577, aired 2017-07-18 | STATELY SONGS $600: Head down South for this Top 10 hit that shares its name with a movie "Sweet Home Alabama" |
#7569, aired 2017-07-06 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800 (Daily Double): In 1933 a stretch of river rapids in Alabama called Muscle Shoals became an integral part of this multi-state project Tennessee Valley Authority |
#7567, aired 2017-07-04 | COLLEGE SPORTS $200: In college football's title game in 2017, Clemson sent this SEC team home red-faced, 35-31 Alabama (or the Crimson Tide) |
#7553, aired 2017-06-14 | THE ARMED FORCES $400: Alabama's Redstone is one of these centers where weapons & ammunition are stored & used for training an arsenal |
#7550, aired 2017-06-09 | AMPHIBIANS $800: The Red Hills species of this, Alabama's state amphibian, was discovered in 1960; a second one wasn't found until 1963 a salamander |
#7548, aired 2017-06-07 | NAME THE CAPITAL $200: Alabama Montgomery |
#7547, aired 2017-06-06 | NOTABLE WOMEN $800: This ex-Secretary of State wrote "Extraordinary, Ordinary People" about growing up in Birmingham, Alabama Condoleezza Rice |
#7522, aired 2017-05-02 | THIS IS PBS $400: Alabama Shakes, Merle Haggard & Iggy Pop played on this "City Limits" but not all at once Austin |
#7516, aired 2017-04-24 | STATES & LICENSE PLATES $400: Above the license plate number, its plate says, "Sweet Home" Alabama |
#7479, aired 2017-03-02 | FOOD & DRINK BRANDS $2,000 (Daily Double): This liquor brand is also the name of Alabama's state game bird Wild Turkey |
#7476, aired 2017-02-27 | THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & CULTURE $400: (Alex gives the clue from the Nat'l Museum of African American History & Culture in Washington, D.C.) Guests at the opening ceremony for the museum included these men who trained in Alabama as part of this World War II group of aviators who escorted over 200 bombing missions with the loss of just a handful of bombers the Tuskegee Airmen |
#7456, aired 2017-01-30 | ROUTE '60-SOMETHING $200: Alabama stops for these Congress of Racial Equality riders in 1961 were in Anniston, Montgomery & Birmingham the Freedom Riders |
#7452, aired 2017-01-24 | PLAY SETTINGS $5,000 (Daily Double): From 1959:
In and around the Keller homestead in Tuscumbia, Alabama The Miracle Worker |
#7447, aired 2017-01-17 | COLLEGE FOOTBALL HISTORY $400: Bear Bryant led Maryland & 2 other schools before rolling to 232 wins at this university Alabama |
#7442, aired 2017-01-10 | "ROLL" CALL $400: The official website for University of Alabama Athletics is this .com rolltide |
#7435, aired 2016-12-30 | GEORGIA IN SONG $2,000 (Daily Double): Nice neighbor! This "stately" mega-group of country sang "Burn Georgia Burn" Alabama |
#7433, aired 2016-12-28 | MANET/MONET $400: Manet's "Battle of the U.S.S. Kearsarge and the C.S.S. Alabama" shows the battle off France's coast during this U.S. war the Civil War |
#7409, aired 2016-11-24 | U.S. CITY SEALS $200: In 2015 the council of Mobile, Alabama voted to remove from its seal this flag because it was deemed offensive the Confederate flag |
#7405, aired 2016-11-18 | SOUTHERN HISTORY $400: In 1711 this Alabama city fittingly "moved" from 27 Mile Bluff to its current location Mobile |
#7402, aired 2016-11-15 | QUARTER BACKS $3,000 (Daily Double): She is on the back of Alabama's quarter; her name is there in English & in Braille Helen Keller |
#7379, aired 2016-10-13 | STATE YOUR CASE $2000: A case regarding the Voting Rights Act in 2013 pitted Shelby County of this state v. Holder Alabama |
#7375, aired 2016-10-07 | BESSEMER MUCHO $800: A city was named for Bessemer in this U.S. state near another industrial center, Birmingham Alabama |
#7336, aired 2016-07-04 | NASCAR TECHNOLOGY $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Daytona Int'l Speedway in Daytona Beach, FL.) Banking is the degree of incline of a racetrack's surface, which allows the cars to go faster in the turns with minimal lateral slippage; while Daytona has a 31% bank, Will Ferrell could tell you that this Alabama speedway is even steeper, at 33% Talladega |
#7336, aired 2016-07-04 | SHOW YOUR COLLEGE COLORS $1000: The name of this Alabama school is also a reddish-brown color, but its official colors are orange & blue Auburn |
#7289, aired 2016-04-28 | BROADWAY $800: "Chain Gang" is a merry number in the 2010 musical about the horrific experience of these Alabama "Boys" the Scottsboro Boys |
#7283, aired 2016-04-20 | ALABAMA HISTORY $200: Rosa Parks changed history in 1955 when she refused to give up her seat to a white person on a bus in this city Montgomery (Alabama) |
#7283, aired 2016-04-20 | ALABAMA HISTORY $400: Alabama claims the USA's oldest of these pre-Lenten celebrations, & moon pies are more typical than beads on the floats Mardi Gras |
#7283, aired 2016-04-20 | ALABAMA HISTORY $600: Past KKK membership didn't stop Alabama's Hugo Black when he was appointed to this body in 1937 the Supreme Court |
#7283, aired 2016-04-20 | ALABAMA HISTORY $800: The August 1864 Battle of this body of water helped the Union enforce the blockade of the Confederacy Mobile Bay |
#7283, aired 2016-04-20 | ALABAMA HISTORY $1000: In 1812 this Shawnee leader came to Alabama to convince the Creek tribes to join the British against the Americans Tecumseh |
#7282, aired 2016-04-19 | TAKE ME TO THE COMBAT PILOT $600 (Daily Double): Between 1941 & 1946, 992 pilots graduated from the training program in this Alabama city Tuskegee |
#7275, aired 2016-04-08 | U.S. STATES $1000: The first alphabetically Alabama |
#7272, aired 2016-04-05 | OFFICIAL STATE ANIMALS $200: The West Indian species of this sea cow is Alabama's official state marine mammal a manatee |
#7255, aired 2016-03-11 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $800: This mountain system stretches about 1,500 miles from Maine to Alabama the Appalachians |
#7250, aired 2016-03-04 | U.S. LIBRARIES $2000: At tripadvisor.com her library & museum ranks as the No. 1 thing to do in Montgomery, Alabama Rosa Parks |
#7230, aired 2016-02-05 | STATELY LITERATURE $200: "Gone with the Wind" Georgia |
#7227, aired 2016-02-02 | COLLEGE FOOTBALL $200: Breaking Herschel Walker's SEC rushing record helped Derrick Henry of this univ. win the 2015 Heisman Trophy the University of Alabama |
#7220, aired 2016-01-22 | DANGER ZONE $600: In 2009 the Maersk Alabama, captained by Richard Phillips, was 280 miles off the coast of this country when pirates boarded Somalia |
#7210, aired 2016-01-08 | STATE OF THE CIVIL WAR BATTLE $200: The Battle of Mobile Bay Alabama |
#7210, aired 2016-01-08 | THE NEW YORK TIMES: MOVIES $600: (New York Times film critic A.O. Scott delivers the clue.) David Oyelowo played Martin Luther King with "grace and dignity" in this 2014 film that ends in 1965 in Montgomery, Alabama Selma |
#7207, aired 2016-01-05 | COLLEGES BY TEAM NAMES $200: Crimson Tide Alabama |
#7197, aired 2015-12-22 | GEOGRAPHIC FEATURES $800: Places of shallow water, like the "muscle" one in "Sweet Home Alabama" a shoal |
#7196, aired 2015-12-21 | COLORFUL U.S. CITIES $4,000 (Daily Double): This Alabama college town's name was inspired by a line from Oliver Goldsmith's poem "The Deserted Village" Auburn |
#7172, aired 2015-11-17 | GREAT FOOTBALL PLAYS $400: In 2013 a 109-yard "Kick Six" kicked in a win for this school over rival Alabama Auburn |
#7163, aired 2015-11-04 | STATELY RIVERS $400: This river begins its 315-mile journey just northeast of Montgomery the Alabama |
#7163, aired 2015-11-04 | THE GROUP'S LEAD SINGER $1600: Alabama Shakes:
This big-voiced woman from Athens, Alabama Brittany Howard |
#7162, aired 2015-11-03 | THE CIVIL WAR $600: In mid-1861 Montgomery, Alabama was out & this city was in as capital of the Confederacy Richmond, Virginia |
#7142, aired 2015-10-06 | STATE OF EMERGENCY $600: Hurricane Katrina devastated La. & also this state's coastal communities of Dauphin Island & Bayou La Batre Alabama |
#7141, aired 2015-10-05 | HOME MOVIES $1200: Reese Witherspoon returns to the Southern town of Pigeon Creek & her estranged husband in this romantic comedy Sweet Home Alabama |
#7133, aired 2015-09-23 | I'M GOIN' TO JACKSON $800: Jackson, Alabama is on the Tombigbee River, 50 miles north of this bay Mobile Bay |
#7133, aired 2015-09-23 | 2015 ANNIVERSARIES $800: To mark the 50th anniversary of "Bloody Sunday", Pres. Obama led marchers across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in this city Selma, Alabama |
#7127, aired 2015-09-15 | AUTO RACING $1000: The International Motorsports Hall of Fame is in this Alabama city, also home to a speedway Talladega |
#7092, aired 2015-06-16 | A LITTLE DAD'LL DO YA $800: A Florence, Alabama music festival honors this "Father of the Blues" who was born here in 1873 W.C. Handy |
#7091, aired 2015-06-15 | THIS AMERICAN STRIFE $1200: Here is this segregationist governor on June 11, 1963, defying federal Justice Department orders at the University of Alabama (George) Wallace |
#7056, aired 2015-04-27 | POP CULTURE STUPID ANSWERS $1000: Their country music hits include "My Home's In Alabama" & "Tennessee River" Alabama |
#7051, aired 2015-04-20 | A ONE-E & A 2-E $400: Alabama city known for its university (formerly "Institute") Tuskegee |
#7019, aired 2015-03-05 | THE BLACK LIST $600: This region of fertile dark soil in Alabama & Mississippi sounds like it can break a 2x4 with its bare hands the Black Belt |
#7019, aired 2015-03-05 | NATIONAL HISTORIC SITES $1200: In 1998 the Alabama airfield where these black pilots received their training in WWII became a National Historic Site Tuskegee (Airmen) |
#7018, aired 2015-03-04 | STATE HOLIDAYS $400: Mardi Gras Day is not only a holiday in Louisiana but in Baldwin & Mobile Counties in this state as well Alabama |
#7013, aired 2015-02-25 | WORDS FROM POSTAL ABBREVIATIONS $1000: Alabama plus Missouri plus North Dakota equals this almond |
#6993, aired 2015-01-28 | STATE OF THE NOVEL $1600: "To Kill a Mockingbird" Alabama |
#6973, aired 2014-12-31 | THE 50 STATES $800: Native daughter Helen Keller is on the reverse of the quarter that represents this Southern state Alabama |
#6967, aired 2014-12-23 | PANHANDLE STATES $1000: In the 1860s people living in this future state's panhandle voted to be a part of Alabama--didn't happen Florida |
#6964, aired 2014-12-18 | OFFICIAL STATE STUFF $200: Alabama has an official state one of these, which was used to swear in Jefferson Davis Bible |
#6940, aired 2014-11-14 | COLLEGE KNOWLEDGE $600: The tide most certainly does not roll at this school established in 1856 as the East Alabama Male College Auburn |
#6929, aired 2014-10-30 | CAPITONYMS $1200: Easily capable of moving from place to place, or an Alabama port city mobile ["MO-byle"] & Mobile ["mo-BEEL"] |
#6926, aired 2014-10-27 | U.S. CITIES $600: That's a statue of Vulcan in this Alabama city Birmingham |
#6921, aired 2014-10-20 | YOU DON'T MESS AROUND WITH JIM $1600: Alabama sheriff Jim Clark led the "Bloody Sunday" attack on civil rights protestors marching from this city to Montgomery Selma |
#6905, aired 2014-09-26 | TEXAS, HOLD 'EM $1200: The prison at this Texas "ville", named for the Alabama one, housed outlaw John Wesley Hardin Huntsville |
#6896, aired 2014-09-15 | STATES THAT FLOW TOGETHER $600: The state where Martin Luther King was born & the state where he married Coretta Scott Alabama & Georgia |
#6894, aired 2014-07-31 | DESCRIBING THE RECENT MOVIE $400: Alabama at sea; makes me rethink a trip to Somalia Captain Phillips |
#6877, aired 2014-07-08 | GOOD TRY! $200: This school needed a lot more than the luck of the Irish taking on Alabama in the BCS title game in 2013, falling 42-14 Notre Dame |
#6867, aired 2014-06-24 | WHEN? IN '64 $1000: A June 2014 "American Experience" covers young people working for civil rights in this state in what was called Freedom Summer Mississippi |
#6861, aired 2014-06-16 | THE 1950s $400: On December 5, 1955 a bus boycott began in this Alabama city Montgomery |
#6844, aired 2014-05-22 | TOURING ALABAMA $200: With traffic a mess due to this rarity, in 2014 a doctor took a 6-hour walk through Birmingham to do lifesaving surgery a snowstorm |
#6844, aired 2014-05-22 | TOURING ALABAMA $400: The first White House of the confederacy in this city is decorated with period furniture from the 1850s & 1860s Montgomery |
#6844, aired 2014-05-22 | TOURING ALABAMA $600: In 1919 citizens of Enterprise erected a monument to this cotton pest because it forced the farmers to plant other crops boll weevil |
#6844, aired 2014-05-22 | TOURING ALABAMA $800: The USS Alabama, which is moored in this bay, serves as a memorial to all Alabamans who've been in the military Mobile Bay |
#6844, aired 2014-05-22 | TOURING ALABAMA $1000: The piano on which he composed "St. Louis Blues" is on display at his birthplace & museum in Florence W.C. Handy |
#6843, aired 2014-05-21 | THE HEISMAN WINNER'S SCHOOL $400: Johnny Manziel
(2012) Texas A&M |
#6833, aired 2014-05-07 | THE SOUTH $200: This Alabama seaport's Mardi Gras celebration dates back to 1703 Mobile |
#6827, aired 2014-04-29 | SCIENCE & SCIENTISTS $400: This German-born engineer oversaw the production of Saturn rockets in Huntsville, Alabama Wernher von Braun |
#6817, aired 2014-04-15 | SEA WORTHY MOVIES $1000: Denzel Washington is second in command to Gene Hackman aboard the nuclear submarine Alabama in this thriller Crimson Tide |
#6817, aired 2014-04-15 | SONG OF THE SOUTH $1200: This "stately" country group sings, "Song, song of the south, sweet potato pie and I shut my mouth" Alabama |
#6787, aired 2014-03-04 | LIKE IT'S 1998 $800: A site at Moton Field in Alabama was established to honor the heroic actions of this African-Amer. military group the Tuskegee Airmen |
#6778, aired 2014-02-19 | STATE LINES $200: Stephen Foster:
"I've come from ____ with my banjo on my knee" Alabama |
#6776, aired 2014-02-17 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: In 1976 Clarence Norris, the last member of these "Boys", was pardoned in Alabama for a 1931 rape conviction the Scottsboro Boys |
#6775, aired 2014-02-14 | COLLEGE FOOTBALL $600: USA Today called this current University of Alabama coach "tough, humorless and rich" Nick Saban |
#6775, aired 2014-02-14 | U.S. CITIES $600: Courteney Cox & Fannie Flagg both hail from this most populous Alabama city Birmingham |
#6755, aired 2014-01-17 | IT BORDERS TENNESSEE $800: Lurleen Wallace & George Wallace were governors of this state Alabama |
#6737, aired 2013-12-24 | STATE NICKNAMES $800: "The Yellowhammer State" Alabama |
#6730, aired 2013-12-13 | 60 YEARS OF THE TV STATION $400: Starting in 1953 you could watch TV on your mobile--I mean Mobile device on WALA in this state Alabama |
#6720, aired 2013-11-29 | STATE OF THE MOVIE $1200: Starring Melanie Griffith:
"Crazy in ____" Alabama |
#6717, aired 2013-11-26 | THE "VILLE" OF THE PEOPLE $1200: Established in 1960, the George C. Marshall Space Flight Center helped stimulate the growth of this Alabama city Huntsville |
#6711, aired 2013-11-18 | AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: JFK $1600: Here is JFK on May 12, 1963, having sent 3,000 federal troops to this Alabama city to keep the peace Birmingham |
#6701, aired 2013-11-04 | ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL $1,400 (Daily Double): In 1969 the Alabama-born widow of this man became the first woman to preach in St. Paul's Martin Luther King, Jr. |
#6690, aired 2013-10-18 | A NOVEL HAIKU $400: The finches fly free /
A sweet home, Alabama /
Jem of a novel To Kill A Mockingbird |
#6682, aired 2013-10-08 | TARGET IN SIGHT $2000: Maybe you'll see Nick Saban buying athletic socks at the Target 3 miles from his workplace in this city Tuscaloosa, Alabama |
#6679, aired 2013-10-03 | THAT '70s FILM $2000: An aircraft hangar in Alabama was used to create the landing area behind this Wyoming landmark in "Close Encounters" Devils Tower |
#6674, aired 2013-09-26 | ONE "HEART" $600: It's a nickname for Alabama "The Heart of Dixie" |
#6658, aired 2013-07-24 | COASTAL U.S. STATES $200: Its Gulf Coast is between Alabama's & Louisiana's Mississippi |
#6647, aired 2013-07-09 | UNOFFICIAL STATE NICKNAMES $600: It's "The Cotton State" as well as "The Pioneer Space Capital of the World" Alabama |
#6627, aired 2013-06-11 | A ROUND OF GULF COAST $600: Alabama's only seaport, this city is called "the City of Six Flags" because 6 governments have controlled it Mobile |
#6624, aired 2013-06-06 | BODY QUOTES $200: "O, Susanna! O, don't you cry for me, I've come from Alabama with my" this banjo on my knee |
#6623, aired 2013-06-05 | 1880s AMERICA $1,200 (Daily Double): This school that trained black students to become teachers opened on July 4, 1881 in Alabama Tuskegee |
#6621, aired 2013-06-03 | OFFICIAL STATE STUFF $1000: "The Miracle Worker" is the official outdoor drama of this state in which it is set Alabama |
#6615, aired 2013-05-24 | I-20 $800: I-20 rolls like the tide into this city, home of the 2013 BCS national champs Tuscaloosa |
#6613, aired 2013-05-22 | SUPREME COURT CASES $1200: Expanding press freedom, the court rejected a charge of this in 1964 after a newspaper ad criticized Alabama officials libel |
#6602, aired 2013-05-07 | MUSIC MAKERS $1600: Brittany Howard belts out songs like "Hold On" for this heart of Dixie group Alabama Shakes |
#6601, aired 2013-05-06 | CONSTITUTION USA WITH PETER SAGAL $1000: Five decades later,
the show reunites a soldier and a girl he protected at the 1957 showdown
at Central High in this state Arkansas |
#6591, aired 2013-04-22 | IT'S NATIONAL PARK WEEK $800: You can "trace" a path through this 444-mile parkway in Tennessee, Alabama & Mississippi the Natchez Trace Parkway |
#6585, aired 2013-04-12 | AUTHORESS! AUTHORESS! $1200: In 1983 those awaiting her 2nd novel made do with "Romance And High Adventure", an essay about Alabama history Harper Lee |
#6559, aired 2013-03-07 | LETTERS & WORDS $200: It's the first U.S. state alphabetically Alabama |
#6549, aired 2013-02-21 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $400: This state's highest point is Britton Hill in the panhandle just south of the Alabama border Florida |
#6537, aired 2013-02-05 | HIGH SCHOOL GEOGRAPHY $1,000 (Daily Double): This Alabama city, the first Confederate capital, has a Jefferson Davis High Montgomery |
#6517, aired 2013-01-08 | EXTRAS $1200: Ivy Green, Helen Keller's birthplace, is in Tuscumbia in this state Alabama |
#6487, aired 2012-11-27 | CITY NICKNAMES $2,000 (Daily Double): This city named for one in England & once home to many a steel mill:
"the Pittsburgh of the South" Birmingham, Alabama |
#6471, aired 2012-11-05 | CLOSE TO YOU $400: Alabama,
Georgia,
South Carolina Alabama |
#6468, aired 2012-10-31 | COMPLETES THE LICENSE PLATE $400: Alabama: "Sweet ___" Home |
#6440, aired 2012-09-21 | SINGERS "R" US $1000: In 2012 this singer released an album of country duets called "Tuskegee", for his birthplace in Alabama Lionel Richie |
#6398, aired 2012-06-13 | MAKES SENSE--MOVIES EDITION $800: It just figures that this movie was set aboard the submarine USS Alabama Crimson Tide |
#6380, aired 2012-05-18 | INSIDE THE BELTWAY $200: Central Alabama's Black Belt is famous for growing this fiber that was once "king" cotton |
#6373, aired 2012-05-09 | PLAY SETTINGS $1000: The Kellers' home in Tuscumbia, Alabama: this drama The Miracle Worker |
#6370, aired 2012-05-04 | LITERARY CHARACTERS $0: Although he doesn't actually appear in "1984", his presence is everywhere--on posters, coins & telescreens Big Brother |
#6357, aired 2012-04-17 | WHAT MAKES IT GO? $1000: This rocket named for the color of Alabama rock lifted the first U.S. satellite into space the Redstone rocket |
#6356, aired 2012-04-16 | NAACP SPINGARN MEDAL WINNERS $400: 1979:
This Alabama bus rider (Rosa) Parks |
#6353, aired 2012-04-11 | BASIC BLACK $200: Like a high rank in martial arts, it's the name given to the rich farmlands of central Alabama a Black Belt |
#6326, aired 2012-03-05 | CIVIL WAR SLANG $1000: Troops from Alabama were known by this colorful term, also the state bird Yellowhammers |
#6298, aired 2012-01-25 | MUSCLE CARS $800: In the '60s Ford named a fastback after this newly opened Alabama speedway Talladega |
#6296, aired 2012-01-23 | COUNTRY GROUPS $400: Randy Owen fronted this "stately" group whose hits include "Christmas in Dixie" & "Born Country" Alabama |
#6290, aired 2012-01-13 | STATE LICENSE PLATE SLOGANS $200: "Sweet home..." Alabama |
#6289, aired 2012-01-12 | MEDAL OF FREEDOM ATHLETES $400: University of Alabama football coach from 1958 to 1982 (Bear) Bryant |
#6286, aired 2012-01-09 | SO VERY JANUARY 9 $800: 1861:
This state seceded, prompting Jefferson Davis to leave the U.S. Senate Mississippi |
#6258, aired 2011-11-30 | CORRUPTION JUNCTION $200: In 2009 Mayor Langford of this largest Alabama city was convicted of accepting bribes Birmingham |
#6233, aired 2011-10-26 | STATE'S RIGHTS $1200: Mississippi Alabama |
#6212, aired 2011-09-27 | DISASTERS $200: On April 27, 2011 a mile-wide one of these devastated Tuscaloosa, Alabama a tornado |
#6210, aired 2011-09-23 | THERE SHOULD BE PLAYOFFS! $600: In January 1979 there were 5 teams with 1 loss, including this Bear Bryant-led one, a co-champ (!) wth USC; playoffs, please Alabama |
#6207, aired 2011-09-20 | STATELY RIVERS $800: This river is formed by the confluence of the Tallapoosa & Coosa Rivers, north of Montgomery the Alabama River |
#6204, aired 2011-07-28 | QUARTERBACK U. $400: Vince Young University of Texas |
#6198, aired 2011-07-20 | THAT'S "RIGHT"! $800: Doctrine asserting that federal laws shouldn't trump those of Alabama or Idaho states' rights |
#6197, aired 2011-07-19 | ADVENTURES IN LITERATURE $800: This thriller by Richard P. Hendrick is about a mutiny aboard the USS Alabama, a nuclear submarine Crimson Tide |
#6192, aired 2011-07-12 | NATIONAL FOREST STATES $400: Tuskegee National Forest Alabama |
#6177, aired 2011-06-21 | CONTROLLED "BURN" $600: When it opened its doors as a private liberal arts institution in 1859, it was called East Alabama Male College Auburn |
#6172, aired 2011-06-14 | STATES' MEN $2000: Hank Aaron &
Willie Mays Alabama |
#6169, aired 2011-06-09 | STATE SONGS? $800: Alabama:
"If You're Gonna Play In ____ (You Gotta Have A Fiddle In The Band)" Texas |
#6147, aired 2011-05-10 | SPELL IT WITH STATE ABBREVIATIONS $200: To distribute playing cards Delaware & Alabama |
#6129, aired 2011-04-14 | ALABAMMY BOUND $400: Alabama's state nickname is the "Heart of" this region Dixie |
#6129, aired 2011-04-14 | ALABAMMY BOUND $800: Site of an important Civil War naval battle, this bay is home to Alabama's only seaport Mobile |
#6129, aired 2011-04-14 | ALABAMMY BOUND $1200: This city's News boasts the largest circulation of any Alabama newspaper Birmingham |
#6129, aired 2011-04-14 | ALABAMMY BOUND $2000: While living in Alabama, this Native American leader completed a 10-year project developing a Cherokee alphabet Sequoyah |
#6118, aired 2011-03-30 | UNIVERSITY SPORTS TEAMS $200: While Harvard has the Crimson, this university has the Crimson Tide Alabama |
#6102, aired 2011-03-08 | SORRY ABOUT THAT $1200: In the '70s this ex-Alabama gov. said his opposition to integration had been wrong & apologized for his actions (George) Wallace |
#6102, aired 2011-03-08 | ABBREV. $2,000 (Daily Double): It's what the "A&M" stands for in the name of Alabama A&M University Agricultural & Mechanical |
#6092, aired 2011-02-22 | COMBINED STATE ABBREV. $1000: Think of a bouquet:
Florida + Oregon + Alabama floral |
#6063, aired 2011-01-12 | STATE SANDWICH $400: It's sandwiched between Mississippi & Georgia Alabama |
#6039, aired 2010-12-09 | OPRAH'S FAVORITE BOOKS $800: (Oprah gives the clue from a chair) One of my favorite novels of all time is this Pulitzer Prize-winner set in Alabama & narrated by Scout Finch To Kill a Mockingbird |
#6033, aired 2010-12-01 | AFTER ALASKA... $400: The next state, alphabetically Arizona |
#6024, aired 2010-11-18 | OFFICIAL STATE STUFF $800: Alabama's motto is "We dare maintain our" these rights |
#6001, aired 2010-10-18 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: On May 15, 1972 while campaigning in Laurel, Md., this Alabama governor was shot & paralyzed by Arthur Bremer George Wallace |
#5997, aired 2010-10-12 | HOME SWEET HOME $600: Seen here is a partial view of her childhood home in Alabama in the 1950s; notice the water pump Helen Keller |
#5996, aired 2010-10-11 | STATES' FORMER CAPITALS $800: Huntsville Alabama |
#5992, aired 2010-10-05 | RUN $1000: Selma native Jo Bonner ran unopposed in his 2008 re-election campaign to represent this state's 1st District Alabama |
#5974, aired 2010-07-29 | MITCH McCONNELL'S KENTUCKY MEGAMIX $200: Though Alabama-born, senator Mitch McConnell is big in Kentucky & has a park named for him in this "green" city Bowling Green |
#5962, aired 2010-07-13 | CLASSIC ROCK $600: This group that gave us "Sweet Home Alabama" was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2006 Lynyrd Skynyrd |
#5950, aired 2010-06-25 | NAME THAT SPORTS CONFERENCE $800: Alabama,
Georgia the SEC |
#5948, aired 2010-06-23 | ALEX MEETS AUTO-TUNE $400: "I come from Alabama with my banjo on my knee / I'm going to Louisiana, my true love for to see" "Oh! Susanna" |
#5938, aired 2010-06-09 | WHAT'S "BLACK" & "WHITE"? $800: Thanks to a group of science students, in 2006 this largest mammal of Alabama became the state's official mammal the black bear |
#5931, aired 2010-05-31 | STATE THE STATE $1000: Put the three seen here in alphabetical order, please Alabama, Iowa, Pennsylvania |
#5929, aired 2010-05-27 | STATES' FORMER GOVERNORS $200: Lurleen Wallace,
1967-1968 Alabama |
#5897, aired 2010-04-13 | THE TRUCK STOPS HERE $1000: There's a Mr. Waffle Auto & Truck Plaza on I-85 at Cowpens, northeast of Greenville in this state South Carolina |
#5884, aired 2010-03-25 | "O", 'BAMA $1600: In Alabama there's one just north of Tuscumbia; in California, it's a neighbor of San Francisco Oakland |
#5875, aired 2010-03-12 | YOU'VE GOT YOUR BORDERS $400: To the west, Louisiana; to the east, Alabama Mississippi |
#5863, aired 2010-02-24 | STATE CAPITALS $1000: This capital was created when adjoining settlements, East Alabama & Alabama, merged in 1819 Montgomery |
#5852, aired 2010-02-09 | COLLEGIATE MOVIE TITLES $800: The title of this Homeric film is also a Sun Belt Conference school located in Alabama Troy |
#5850, aired 2010-02-05 | CIVIL RIGHTS HEROES $400: Rosa Parks' 1955 arrest led to a yearlong bus boycott in this Alabama city Montgomery |
#5832, aired 2010-01-12 | UNREAL ESTATE $600: Harper Lee grew up in Monroeville, Alabama & set this novel in the similar-but-made-up town of Maycomb To Kill a Mockingbird |
#5820, aired 2009-12-25 | "SWEET" CHARITY $400: I always listen to this rock anthem after "Free Bird" "Sweet Home Alabama" |
#5788, aired 2009-11-11 | HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL $200: The Alabama High School Athletic Association says the most important health safeguard during workouts is plenty of this water |
#5784, aired 2009-11-05 | STATES WITHOUT CONSONANTS $800: AAAA Alabama |
#5746, aired 2009-09-14 | STATES' FORMER CAPITALS $200: Tuscaloosa Alabama |
#5738, aired 2009-07-15 | HISTORY CLASS $1200: Founded in 1702, Mobile in this state became the "City of Six Flags" (but it doesn't have a Six Flags theme park) Alabama |
#5735, aired 2009-07-10 | THE NIFTY 1930s $200: This future baseball giant first said "Hey!" to the world when he was born in Alabama in 1931 Willie Mays |
#5727, aired 2009-06-30 | POTENT POTABLES, SOUTHERN STYLE $1000: The main ingredients in an Alabama slammer are amaretto, Southern Comfort & the sloe type of this gin |
#5712, aired 2009-06-09 | "A____A" IN THE ATLAS $200: An 1833 meteor shower is why license plates say "Stars fell on" this state Alabama |
#5701, aired 2009-05-25 | NATIVE AMERICAN PLACE NAMES $1,000 (Daily Double): Moving right along--this large Alabama city, as well as a river & bay, was named for an Indian tribe in the region Mobile |
#5693, aired 2009-05-13 | LITERARY SETTINGS $800: "To Kill a Mockingbird" takes place in a small town in this southern state Alabama |
#5686, aired 2009-05-04 | TAYLOR, SWIFT $1600: This season 5 winner of "American Idol" is from Alabama Taylor Hicks |
#5680, aired 2009-04-24 | I HEAR BANJOS $600: He penned the lyrics "I come from Alabama with my banjo on my knee" Stephen Foster |
#5677, aired 2009-04-21 | GEOGRAPHIC BANDS $400: "Carry On Wayward Son",
"Dust In The Wind" Kansas |
#5656, aired 2009-03-23 | BATH & BEYOND $1200: It's the name of the second-largest city in England & also of the largest city in Alabama Birmingham |
#5635, aired 2009-02-20 | HOME BOYS $2000: Yellowhammers Alabama |
#5617, aired 2009-01-27 | STATE THE SENATOR $1200: George McGovern South Dakota |
#5599, aired 2009-01-01 | MUSICAL STATES $1600: This group had 26 No. 1 country hits in the '80s, including "Feels So Right" Alabama |
#5592, aired 2008-12-23 | SPORTS HALLS OF FAME $1000: Start your engines please & head to this Alabama city to visit the Motorsports Hall of Fame Talladega |
#5566, aired 2008-11-17 | FIRST NAMES $800: This first name of "Legally Blonde" actress Blair is also a city on a bluff over the Alabama River Selma |
#5564, aired 2008-11-13 | WHICH TIME ZONE? $800: Birmingham, Alabama Central |
#5544, aired 2008-10-16 | ROLLING STONE'S 100 GREATEST GUITAR SONGS $800: No. 64 is this song by Lynyrd Skynyrd that Rolling Stone calls "the ultimate Southern-rock anthem" "Free Bird" |
#5512, aired 2008-07-22 | STATE FISH $400: This state's official saltwater fish, the tarpon, can be found in the Gulf of Mexico & in the Mobile Estuary Alabama |
#5485, aired 2008-06-13 | LITERARY TRILOGIES $800: "The Romantic Comedians" begins an Ellen Glasgow trilogy that "carries us back to" this Southern state Virginia |
#5484, aired 2008-06-12 | THE 50 STATES $1600: It's "The Yellowhammer State" Alabama |
#5473, aired 2008-05-28 | FOOTBALL COACHES $400: This longtime Alabama coach won 328 games in his 38-year career Paul "Bear" Bryant |
#5469, aired 2008-05-22 | ALABAMA $200: Alabama first became a state in 1819 & then left the Union in this year 1861 |
#5469, aired 2008-05-22 | ALABAMA $400: Students at the Alabama Institute for the Deaf & Blind know that this woman is on their state quarter Helen Keller |
#5469, aired 2008-05-22 | ALABAMA $600: The anthem "Sweet Home Alabama" is by this Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd |
#5469, aired 2008-05-22 | ALABAMA $800: This man whose last name is on an Ohio Air Force base also taught flying at what's now Alabama's Maxwell AFB Wilbur Wright |
#5469, aired 2008-05-22 | ALABAMA $1000: If you're visiting the White House--the first White House of the Confederacy, that is--you're in this city Montgomery |
#5465, aired 2008-05-16 | STATE FACTS $1000: A bus boycott in this state in 1955 helped launch the civil rights movement Alabama |
#5462, aired 2008-05-13 | COLLEGE FOOTBALL GEOGRAPHY $400: 2007 Cotton Bowl champion Auburn is located in this state Alabama |
#5450, aired 2008-04-25 | YELLOW THERE! $600: This "colorful tool" is Alabama's state bird the yellowhammer |
#5420, aired 2008-03-14 | A SCHOOL OF DAUPHINS $800: Found at the entrance to Mobile Bay, Dauphin Island is a coastal island belonging to this state Alabama |
#5414, aired 2008-03-06 | ON THE U.S. MAP $800: Tuscola County is in Michigan; Tuscaloosa County is in this state Alabama |
#5391, aired 2008-02-04 | THE SPORTING LIFE $400: In 1954, Alabama's Tommy Lewis left the bench mid-play to tackle a runner in this New Year's Day bowl game in Dallas the Cotton Bowl |
#5388, aired 2008-01-30 | SOUL FEUD $200: Controversy surrounded a 2003 ruling to remove from an Alabama judicial building a monument featuring these the Ten Commandments |
#5354, aired 2007-12-13 | IN THE MIDDLE OF THE STATE $400: Emeril must love this state with "bam" inside it Alabama |
#5351, aired 2007-12-10 | "P"EOPLE $400: In 1955 this NAACP member was arrested & fined for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Alabama Rosa Parks |
#5345, aired 2007-11-30 | STATES OF THE UNION $600: These 2 states have the shortest coasts on the Gulf of Mexico, only about 50 miles apiece Alabama & Mississippi |
#5325, aired 2007-11-02 | GOVERNORS $1200: A 4-time governor of Alabama first elected in 1962, he worked his way through law school by boxing professionally Gov. George Wallace |
#5317, aired 2007-10-23 | U.S. MUSEUMS $2000: The U.S. Space & Rocket Center in this Alabama city contains a vast collection of rockets & space memorabilia Huntsville |
#5302, aired 2007-10-02 | U.S.A. $600: The state nut of Alabama isn't your kooky cousin, it's this thin-shelled pie ingredient pecans |
#5300, aired 2007-09-28 | STATE BORDERS $1000: It's the number of states that border the Gulf of Mexico 5 (Texas, Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi & Florida) |
#5289, aired 2007-09-13 | LITERARY CHARACTERS $1600: Has a Jem of a brother; Atticus! Atticus!; sweet home Alabama Scout (Finch) |
#5277, aired 2007-07-17 | MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS $400: The song "Oh Susanna" says, "I come from Alabama" with this "on my knee" a banjo |
#5229, aired 2007-05-10 | AMERICANA $200: The yellowhammer isn't Alabama's official state tool, it's the official state this bird |
#5228, aired 2007-05-09 | WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS $600: (I'm Pete Carroll, head football coach at USC.) Our 2 national titles at USC are still 4 short of this "animal" of an Alabama head coach, but we're working on that Bear Bryant |
#5222, aired 2007-05-01 | "USC" $800: This city is on the Black Warrior River in Alabama Tuscaloosa |
#5206, aired 2007-04-09 | SOUNDS LIKE MERRIE OLDE ENGLAND $800: This largest city in Alabama is a leading industrial & textile center Birmingham |
#5185, aired 2007-03-09 | TRY, TRY AGAIN $1000: In the 1930s, after the Supreme Court ruled in favor of these "Boys", Alabama went ahead and retried them, one by one the Scottsboro Boys |
#5184, aired 2007-03-08 | MICHAEL JORDAN $400: During his first retirement, Michael played minor league baseball for the Barons of this Alabama city Birmingham |
#5184, aired 2007-03-08 | PLACES IN SONG $1200: Though it disses him, Neil Young admits this Lynyrd Skynyrd song is a great one & he's even performed it live "Sweet Home Alabama" |
#5165, aired 2007-02-09 | THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN EXPERIENCE $800: This great Alabama educator also founded the National Negro Business League in 1900 (Booker T.) Washington |
#5165, aired 2007-02-09 | THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN EXPERIENCE $2000: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Clinton Presidential Library in Little Rock, Arkansas.) At a recreation of a famous march, Bill Clinton said that the Voting Rights Act was signed in ink in Washington, but signed in blood in this Alabama city Selma |
#5159, aired 2007-02-01 | STUPID ANSWERS $200: It's the one-word title of the state song of Alabama "Alabama" |
#5145, aired 2007-01-12 | THE ENGLISH BEAT $1000: Centenary Square, in the center of this city, is its main cultural center; Alabama has a city by that name as well Birmingham |
#5142, aired 2007-01-09 | FEEL THE "BURN" $600: This university began as East Alabama Male College in 1856 Auburn |
#5131, aired 2006-12-25 | 20th CENTURY AMERICA $1200: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew reads from Kelly Ingram Park.) Defying the notorious "Bull" Connor, thousands came to this city's Kelly Ingram Park to demonstrate for civil rights in May 1963 Birmingham |
#5094, aired 2006-11-02 | FROM THE GREEK $1000: (Jon of the Clue Crew at the Alabama Institute for Deaf & Blind.) At Alabama Institute for Deaf & Blind, kids gain self-esteem & confidence with this type of therapy, from the Greek for "horse" hippotherapy |
#5057, aired 2006-09-12 | HISTORICAL PAINTINGS $1200: Seen here, Roy Grinnell's "The Final Moment" commemorates the 60th anniversary of the attack on this battleship the Arizona |
#5057, aired 2006-09-12 | WRECKS $1600: NASCAR drivers at this crash-prone 2.66-mile Alabama track are constantly worried about "the big one" Talladega |
#5046, aired 2006-07-17 | STATE FISH $400: The largemouth species of this fish is the state fish of Alabama, Florida, Mississippi & Georgia bass |
#5038, aired 2006-07-05 | WHAT'S URSINE? $800: Not only was Bear Bryant the longtime football coach of this college, he was also a graduate the University of Alabama |
#5032, aired 2006-06-27 | BUGS $400: A species of fire ant that reached the U.S. at this Alabama port city around 1918 has been a pest to the Southern U.S. Mobile |
#5022, aired 2006-06-13 | CITY OF THE DAY: BIRMINGHAM $400: The hospital at the University of Alabama at Birmingham is a leading center for these renal transplants kidneys |
#4992, aired 2006-05-02 | GOVERNORS $800: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew reads from atop the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, AL.) When civil rights marchers faced off against the mounted police in 1965 here on the Edmund Pettus Bridge, this man was Alabama's governor George Wallace |
#4988, aired 2006-04-26 | 2006 COMMEMORATIVE STAMPS $400: Wonders of America: Land of Superlatives includes these oldest mountains that run from Canada to Alabama the Appalachians |
#4976, aired 2006-04-10 | DEAF & BLIND $400: (Jon of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Alabama Institute for Deaf & Blind.) The Silent Warrior deaf football team uses a bass drum in place of this 4-letter word that signals the snap hike |
#4976, aired 2006-04-10 | DEAF & BLIND $800: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Alabama Institute for Deaf & Blind.) On the campus named for this remarkable woman, a statue is signing the word for blind while reading the word for deaf Helen Keller |
#4976, aired 2006-04-10 | DEAF & BLIND $1200: (Jon of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Alabama Institute for Deaf & Blind.) Students at Alabama Institute for Deaf & Blind have talking computers & these note-taking writers named for a famous Frenchman Braille writers |
#4976, aired 2006-04-10 | DEAF & BLIND $1600: (Jon of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Alabama Institute for Deaf & Blind.) Blind students learn hands-on about animals with help from this science, which is Greek for "arrangement of skin" taxidermy |
#4976, aired 2006-04-10 | DEAF & BLIND $2000: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Alabama Institute for Deaf & Blind.) This youthful soul gospel group was formed at what's now Alabama Institute for Deaf & Blind in 1939 & original members still perform together in the 21st century The Blind Boys of Alabama |
#4968, aired 2006-03-29 | THAT'S WHAT I LIKE ABOUT THE SOUTH $800: The name of a popular Southern liquor brand, it's also the state game bird of Alabama Wild Turkey |
#4957, aired 2006-03-14 | SWEET "P" $400: Birmingham, Alabama is known as this Pennsylvania city "of the South" Pittsburgh |
#4957, aired 2006-03-14 | COLLEGE SPORTS RIVALRIES $1000: The "Iron Bowl" is between these 2 "Heart of Dixie" teams Alabama & Auburn |
#4911, aired 2006-01-09 | STATE CAPITALS $800: Rosa Parks helped make this city "The Birthplace of the Civil Rights Movement" Montgomery |
#4899, aired 2005-12-22 | GEOGRAPHIC POP $1200: A sleek country-rock sound helped this "Tennessee River" band have a string of hits in the '80s & '90s Alabama |
#4880, aired 2005-11-25 | FOUR! $1000: The 4 U.S. states that begin with the letter "A" Alaska, Alabama, Arizona, & Arkansas |
#4869, aired 2005-11-10 | COLLEGE AKA $200: In Alabama:
A reddish-brown colour Auburn |
#4868, aired 2005-11-09 | AMERICAN LIT $400: Scout Finch lives with dad Atticus & brother Jem in Maycomb, Alabama in this classic novel To Kill a Mockingbird |
#4867, aired 2005-11-08 | U.S. CITIES $1000: A campus for the University of Alabama is here, nicknamed "Rocket City, U.S.A." Huntsville |
#4866, aired 2005-11-07 | I GOT 3 As, MOM! $800: The 2 U.S. states that fit the category (sorry, Alabama has 4) Arkansas & Alaska |
#4865, aired 2005-11-04 | HEAD NORTH $600: They're the 2 states you could be entering is you're crossing Florida's northern border Georgia & Alabama |
#4852, aired 2005-10-18 | CAPITALS AT STATEHOOD $600: Huntsville Alabama |
#4841, aired 2005-10-03 | HARD "WORK" $400: This play is set in Tuscumbia, Alabama & at the Perkins Institute for the blind The Miracle Worker |
#4840, aired 2005-09-30 | FLAGS $800: The Confederacy's second flag (above) was replaced with the third flag (below) because the second could be mistaken for this a flag of truce (or surrender) |
#4838, aired 2005-09-28 | LET'S GO WITH THE FLOW $1600: Alabama River:
This bay, y'all Mobile Bay |
#4836, aired 2005-09-26 | CITY NICKNAMES $400: The "Pittsburgh of the South",
Alabama Birmingham |
#4812, aired 2005-07-05 | AMERICA $1000: Helen Keller was born in a house named Ivy Green in Tuscumbia in this state Alabama |
#4809, aired 2005-06-30 | USA $800: Arkansas' state tree is this & Alabama's is the southern this a pine tree |
#4806, aired 2005-06-27 | OFFICIAL STATE SEALS $200: Its seal shows a map of the state with "Georgia" on one side & "Mississippi" on the other Alabama |
#4794, aired 2005-06-09 | NASCAR GEOGRAPHY $800: Talladega Superspeedway Alabama |
#4755, aired 2005-04-15 | ALPHABETICALLY FIRST $200: ...among the 50 states Alabama |
#4732, aired 2005-03-15 | THE STATE OF EDUCATION $800: Stillman College,
Auburn University Alabama |
#4725, aired 2005-03-04 | CANADA, "A"? $800: Quebec's Shickshock Mountains are part of this system that runs to Alabama the Appalachians |
#4710, aired 2005-02-11 | STATES' FORMER GOVERNORS $800: Lurleen Wallace & Guy Hunt Alabama |
#4706, aired 2005-02-07 | BLACK HISTORY MONTH $2000: In July 1881 this famous college opened in Alabama with Booker T. Washington as its first principal Tuskegee |
#4700, aired 2005-01-28 | WHEN THEY WERE TEENS $400: This TV "Friend" was a cheerleader at Mountain Brook High School in Alabama Courteney Cox |
#4700, aired 2005-01-28 | THE EVOLUTIONARY WAR $400: In 1995 Alabama Gov. James Mocked evolution theory by imitating this type of animal whose name means "to imitate" an ape |
#4699, aired 2005-01-27 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $800: Florida's panhandle borders these 2 states Alabama and Georgia |
#4695, aired 2005-01-21 | YOUR NUMBER'S UP $2000: Total number of U.S. states that begin and end with the same letter; (hint: they all start with vowels) four (Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, & Ohio) |
#4693, aired 2005-01-19 | U.S. CITIES $800: A bay & a river bear the name of this city, Alabama's second largest Mobile |
#4688, aired 2005-01-12 | U.S. CITY-SCAPE $800: This Oklahoma city's name came from the Creek Indians' memory of their old home of Tallahassee, Alabama Tulsa |
#4687, aired 2005-01-11 | THE 2004 ELECTIONS $200: On CNN's election map, it was the final color of Wyoming, Kansas & Alabama red |
#4675, aired 2004-12-24 | TEAMS THAT DON'T END IN S $2000: Alabama has the Crimson Tide & Tulane has this colorful nickname the Green Wave |
#4666, aired 2004-12-13 | I CAN SEE YOUR HOUSE FROM HERE! $3,000 (Daily Double): "Vulcan", the U.S.A.'s largest cast-iron statue, is seen here, looking down on this Southern city Birmingham, Alabama |
#4644, aired 2004-11-11 | "DEEP" DISH $400: This region of the U.S. includes Mississippi & Alabama the Deep South |
#4629, aired 2004-10-21 | ELECTION TIME $400: The 9 judges on this body in Alabama, unlike the one in Washington, D.C., run for election the Supreme Court |
#4625, aired 2004-10-15 | LICENSE PLATE SLOGANS $800: Alabama's plate has this organ in its slogan the heart |
#4594, aired 2004-07-22 | FORMER CAPITALS $1200: Figuring out the name of this capital of Alabama from 1826 to 1846 is like pulling teeth Tuscaloosa |
#4593, aired 2004-07-21 | POPULAR SCIENCE TOP STORIES OF 2003 $800: Oddly, geologists learned that much of the sand in the Grand Canyon came from these mountains between Quebec & Alabama the Appalachians |
#4575, aired 2004-06-25 | COLLEGE TEAM NICKNAMES $400: It rolls for the University of Alabama the Crimson Tide |
#4554, aired 2004-05-27 | 18th BIRTHDAYS $1000: This female Motown vocalist was born in Alabama one July 18, maybe during a "heat wave" Martha Reeves |
#4549, aired 2004-05-20 | THE LARGEST IN AREA $800: Louisiana,
Florida,
Alabama Florida |
#4547, aired 2004-05-18 | STATE CAPITALS $400: In 1819 East Alabama & New Philadelphia were consolidated into this Montgomery |
#4500, aired 2004-03-12 | 16th CENTURY AMERICA $400: The city of Tuscaloosa in this state is named for a Choctaw leader who fought Hernando de Soto in 1540 Alabama |
#4493, aired 2004-03-03 | YOU CAN'T $800: Per the Alabama Code, section 13A-12-1, it's when card playing is illegal Sunday |
#4485, aired 2004-02-20 | NATIONAL SITES $1600: Commemorating a 1965 civil rights march is the Selma to this city National Historic Trail in Alabama Montgomery |
#4449, aired 2004-01-01 | RALPH $2000: Later SCLC President, he co-founded the Montgomery (Alabama) Improvement Assoc. in 1955 Ralph Abernathy |
#4439, aired 2003-12-18 | U.S. CITY NICKNAMES $200: Nashville is "The Athens of the South"; this home of the Crimson Tide is "The Athens of Alabama" Tuscaloosa |
#4417, aired 2003-11-18 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: The Confederate States of America were established in 1861 in this city, the first Confederate capital Montgomery, Alabama |
#4417, aired 2003-11-18 | AMERICAN POSTAL ABBREVIATIONS $1200: AL Alabama |
#4412, aired 2003-11-11 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $400: The University of Alabama opened in this city in 1831 Tuscaloosa |
#4386, aired 2003-10-06 | COUNTRY SONGS $400: A hit by Alabama says, "If you're gonna play in Texas, you gotta have" one of these instruments in the band a fiddle |
#4372, aired 2003-09-16 | DENZEL WASHINGTON $2000: This 1995 Denzel Washington film takes place on the U.S. nuclear sub Alabama Crimson Tide |
#4365, aired 2003-07-18 | ANNUAL EVENTS $400: In June at a Tuscumbia, Alabama festival honoring her, "The Miracle Worker" is performed at her birthplace Helen Keller |
#4360, aired 2003-07-11 | JOE COLLEGE $1200: Attended Alabama 1961-1965; played some varsity football Joe Namath |
#4316, aired 2003-05-12 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $200: This "King of the Wild Frontier" served as a scout during the 1813-14 war against the Creek Indians in Alabama & Florida Davy Crockett |
#4303, aired 2003-04-23 | COLLEGE FOOTBALL FIELDS $600: This school's home field is Bryant-Denny Stadium; Denny was a university president, Bryant its famous coach Alabama |
#4301, aired 2003-04-21 | NATIONAL HISTORIC SITES $800: The Alabama airfield where this black air corps trained during WWII was added to the list in 1998 Tuskegee Airmen |
#4295, aired 2003-04-11 | COLLEGE TEAM NICKNAMES $1000: (I'm Shaun Alexander.) I'm the all-time leading rusher of this college team whose nickname used to be "The Thin Red Line" the Alabama Crimson Tide |
#4293, aired 2003-04-09 | RECENT MOVIE REVIEWS $1200: The L.A. Times said, "The South takes another beating" in this film where Reese Witherspoon is a "Dixie Holly Golightly" Sweet Home Alabama |
#4279, aired 2003-03-20 | EDUCATION $2,200 (Daily Double): In 1881 he founded his school in an old abandoned church & a shanty in Tuskegee, Alabama (Booker T.) Washington |
#4264, aired 2003-02-27 | STATE SONGS? $600: Neil Young is mentioned in this song by Lynyrd Skynyrd "Sweet Home Alabama" |
#4257, aired 2003-02-18 | NATIONAL THINGS $1600: You can follow the course of this trace, a national parkway, through Mississippi, Alabama & Tennessee Natchez Trace |
#4254, aired 2003-02-13 | OFFICIAL STATE THINGS $400: "Swing your partner" & "do-si-do"; it's the state dance of Oregon & Alabama square dance |
#4248, aired 2003-02-05 | REESE'S PIECES $800: The tagline to this 2002 film is "Sometimes what you're looking for is right where you left it" Sweet Home Alabama |
#4247, aired 2003-02-04 | NOTABLE WOMEN $2000: A street in Montgomery, Alabama is named for this woman who in 1955 refused to give up her seat on a bus Rosa Parks |
#4218, aired 2002-12-25 | "MO" $800: It's the "moving" municipality about 55 miles west of Pensacola, Florida Mobile, Alabama |
#4206, aired 2002-12-09 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $200: The university of this state has branches in Birmingham, Huntsville & Tuscaloosa Alabama |
#4203, aired 2002-12-04 | COUNTIES $400: Georgia's Seminole County borders Alabama & this state's panhandle Florida |
#4194, aired 2002-11-21 | TRAVEL USA $2000: "Footsteps to Freedom" is an exhibit at this Alabama city's National Voting Rights Museum Selma |
#4144, aired 2002-09-12 | "A" ____ $400: Drivin' from Mississippi to Georgia you're bound to drive through _____ Alabama |
#4132, aired 2002-07-16 | COLLEGE TEAM NICKNAMES $2000: Tennessee State & Auburn the Tigers |
#4121, aired 2002-07-01 | STATE CAPITALS $400: This Alabama capital is home to the Civil Rights Memorial, designed by Maya Lin Montgomery |
#4096, aired 2002-05-27 | MOTOR SPORTS $1600: Seating over 140,000, this state's Talladega Superspeedway claims the title of biggest motor sports facility Alabama |
#4094, aired 2002-05-23 | COUNTIES $1200: Talladega, Tallapoosa & Tuscaloosa are all counties in this state Alabama |
#4089, aired 2002-05-16 | MATCH GAME '73 $800: Notre Dame won college football's nat'l title after a 24-23 Sugar Bowl win over this school's Crimson Tide University of Alabama |
#4084, aired 2002-05-09 | LESSER-KNOWN NAMES $600: James Blake was driving the bus in this city on the night when Rosa Parks wouldn't stand up Montgomery (Alabama) |
#4074, aired 2002-04-25 | IT'S A GIRL! $1,200 (Daily Double): This 1960 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel is set in a small Alabama town & narrated by a young girl To Kill a Mockingbird |
#4051, aired 2002-03-25 | CHURCH & STATE $600: Ebenezer Baptist on Auburn Avenue Georgia |
#4036, aired 2002-03-04 | TRULY TRIVIAL FACTS $600: This postal abbreviation for the "Heart of Dixie" state is also the chemical symbol for a metal AL |
#4029, aired 2002-02-21 | THE TRIBE HAS SPOKEN $400: Many Seminole Indians in Florida speak Mekusukey; Seminoles in this state speak the related Muscogee Oklahoma |
#4014, aired 2002-01-31 | THE GOOD OLD U.S. OF A. $1000: What's said to be the USA's oldest Mardi Gras is held in this Alabama seaport city Mobile |
#4005, aired 2002-01-18 | U.S. STATES $1,000 (Daily Double): 1965's Freedom March took place entirely within this state Alabama |
#3999, aired 2002-01-10 | SWEET HOME, ALABAMA $400: It became Alabama's capital in 1847 Montgomery |
#3999, aired 2002-01-10 | SWEET HOME, ALABAMA $800: An industrial center, this city was named for an industrial city in England Birmingham |
#3999, aired 2002-01-10 | SWEET HOME, ALABAMA $1200: It's Alabama's only seaport Mobile |
#3999, aired 2002-01-10 | SWEET HOME, ALABAMA $1600: The U.S. Space & Rocket Center is at Tranquility Base in this city Huntsville |
#3999, aired 2002-01-10 | SWEET HOME, ALABAMA $2,000 (Daily Double): A group of black aviators or "airmen" trained near this city during WWII Tuskegee |
#3989, aired 2001-12-27 | U.S. GOVERNMENT $800: The George C. Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama is run by this U.S. agency NASA |
#3988, aired 2001-12-26 | FILL IN THE BLANK STATE NICKNAMES $1000: Alabama: _____ of Dixie Heart |
#3935, aired 2001-10-12 | STATE BORDERS $200: Oklahoma & Arkansas Texas |
#3926, aired 2001-10-01 | STARTS & ENDS WITH "A" $1,000 (Daily Double): This "stately" Confederate cruiser sank many ships before being sunk by the Kearsarge off the coast of France the Alabama |
#3918, aired 2001-09-19 | STATE CAPITALS $800: The first capital of the Confederacy, it's nicknamed "The Cradle of the Confederacy" Montgomery, Alabama |
#3913, aired 2001-09-12 | ELEMENT & STATE $200: Al (AL) aluminum & Alabama |
#3904, aired 2001-07-19 | "SWEET" SONGS $300: Well, I hope Neil Young will remember that Lynyrd Skynyrd replied to "Southern Man" with this song "Sweet Home Alabama" |
#3877, aired 2001-06-12 | AT THE HOTEL $300: The Alabama Board of Health says hotel room glasses must be washed, rinsed & this, "For Your Protection" Sanitized |
#3877, aired 2001-06-12 | OFFICIAL STATE FLOWERS $600: Magnolia Mississippi (or Louisiana) |
#3858, aired 2001-05-16 | BLACK HISTORY MONTHS $600: Autherine Lucy, this Tuscaloosa school's first black student, was admitted & expelled in February 1956 University of Alabama |
#3857, aired 2001-05-15 | THE 50 STATES $600: A map of this state appears on its seal along with the names of its neighbors Florida, Georgia, Mississippi & Tenn. Alabama |
#3854, aired 2001-05-10 | DIXIE CHICKS $500: Born in Tuscumbia, Alabama on June 27, 1880, she lost her sight & hearing by age 1 1/2 Helen Keller |
#3853, aired 2001-05-09 | CHURCH & STATE $200: In 2000 2 men were indicted for a 1963 church bombing in Birmingham in this state Alabama |
#3835, aired 2001-04-13 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $400: Sports teams of this university are known as the Crimson Tide Alabama |
#3833, aired 2001-04-11 | U.S. CITIES $1000: Nicknamed "Rocket City, U.S.A.", it served as Alabama's capital in 1819 Huntsville |
#3831, aired 2001-04-09 | STATE BORDERS $400: Alabama &
Louisiana Mississippi |
#3825, aired 2001-03-30 | ENDS IN "EE" $800: Need info on the sweet potato? There's a National Sweet Potato Center at this Alabama university Tuskegee |
#3791, aired 2001-02-12 | THE WORLD IN 1901 $100: In 2000 the state of Alabama voted to end a 1901 ban on this type of marriage Interracial marriage |
#3776, aired 2001-01-22 | "A" IN COLLEGE $400: (Here's former NFL star Kevin Greene) I played for the Tigers of this Alabama school whose name is also a color Auburn |
#3771, aired 2001-01-15 | COUNTRY MUSIC $200: From 1980 through 1993, this "stately" group led by Randy Owen had 32 of its 42 charted singles reach No. 1 Alabama |
#3754, aired 2000-12-21 | "CHAT" ROOM $800: It forms about half the border between Alabama & Georgia Chattahoochee River |
#3748, aired 2000-12-13 | STATES BY COUNTIES $300: Jefferson,
Cherokee,
Muskogee Oklahoma |
#3735, aired 2000-11-24 | R.I.P. IN ALABAMA $200: This man who ground up a lot of peanuts is buried on the grounds of the Tuskegee Institute George Washington Carver |
#3735, aired 2000-11-24 | R.I.P. IN ALABAMA $400: Eddie Kendricks, famed as an original member of this legendary singing group, is in Elmwood Cemetery The Temptations |
#3735, aired 2000-11-24 | R.I.P. IN ALABAMA $600: Hooterville's Mr. Haney, he's in a Haleyville, Alabama cemetery Pat Buttram |
#3735, aired 2000-11-24 | R.I.P. IN ALABAMA $800: This country singing legend's tombstone reads, "Praise the Lord I Saw the Light" Hank Williams, Sr. |
#3735, aired 2000-11-24 | R.I.P. IN ALABAMA $1000: Her marker reads, "Governor, State of Alabama 1967-1968" Lurleen B. Wallace |
#3711, aired 2000-10-23 | STATE CAPITALS $300: It's the capital of the state nicknamed "Heart of Dixie" Montgomery, Alabama |
#3689, aired 2000-09-21 | STATES' MOST POPULOUS CITIES $400: Alabama:
Pop. 266,000 Birmingham |
#3666, aired 2000-07-10 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $500: This state capital was founded in 1819 from 2 towns: East Alabama & New Philadelphia Montgomery |
#3636, aired 2000-05-29 | ON THE GULF OF MEXICO $200: Mobile Bay is found on this state's small stretch of Gulf coastline Alabama |
#3624, aired 2000-05-11 | ANTEBELLUM $500: In 1960 the first Confederate capital in this first Confederate capital became a national historic landmark Montgomery, Alabama |
#3623, aired 2000-05-10 | "N" '64 $400: He was "Alabama Joe" back in 1964 but failed to lead 'Bama to an Orange Bowl win Joe Namath |
#3604, aired 2000-04-13 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $300: This mountain system stretches about 1,500 miles from Alabama to Canada's Gaspe Peninsula the Appalachians |
#3580, aired 2000-03-10 | THE "Y" $1000: This bright-winged type of woodpecker is the state bird of Alabama the yellowhammer |
#3578, aired 2000-03-08 | FAMOUS FACES $500: This big screen "Mambo King" recently directed the film "Crazy In Alabama" Antonio Banderas |
#3554, aired 2000-02-03 | AMERICAN HISTORY $300: During the naval battle for this Alabama bay, David Farragut uttered, "Damn the torpedoes! Full speed ahead!" Mobile Bay |
#3538, aired 2000-01-12 | 1994 $200: A controversy over interracial dating provoked an anti-one of these dances for Randolph County, Alabama students prom |
#3529, aired 1999-12-30 | HELLO, GUV $300: Alabama
1963-1967; 1971-1979 George Wallace |
#3508, aired 1999-12-01 | COLLEGE FOOTBALL $100: This longtime Alabama coach won 323 games in his 38-year career, an NCAA record for Division 1-A coaches Paul "Bear" Bryant |
#3507, aired 1999-11-30 | U.S.A. $400: Alabama's official state one of these is the tarpon Fish |
#3484, aired 1999-10-28 | NOTORIOUS $300: Arthur Bremer stalked Richard Nixon before stalking & shooting this Alabama governor George Wallace |
#3473, aired 1999-10-13 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: On August 5, 1864 David Farragut barreled full speed ahead into this Alabama bay, defeating the Confederate navy Mobile Bay |
#3464, aired 1999-09-30 | SEPTEMBER 30 $600: U.S. marshals escorted James Meredith onto the campus of this school in 1962, breaking the color barrier University of Mississippi |
#3444, aired 1999-07-22 | AROUND THE USA $500: This Alabama city is nicknamed the "Football Capital of the South" Birmingham |
#3439, aired 1999-07-15 | WHERE IS IT? $100: It's the state capital on the Alabama River Montgomery |
#3438, aired 1999-07-14 | CONTEMPORARY AUTHORS $400: This comedienne's "Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe" was inspired by her aunt's cafe in Alabama Fannie Flagg |
#3431, aired 1999-07-05 | WALLACES $200: Lurleen Burns married this man when she was 16 & later succeeded him as governor of Alabama George Wallace |
#3411, aired 1999-06-07 | THE '60s $400: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Freedom Walk in 1965 spanned the 50 miles between these 2 Alabama cities Montgomery & Selma |
#3401, aired 1999-05-24 | COURTROOM DRAMAS $600: In this 1962 classic, Gregory Peck's children watch him fight racial injustice in an Alabama courtroom To Kill A Mockingbird |
#3388, aired 1999-05-05 | TWISTER $600: In 1994 Alabama's Goshen Church was struck by a twister on this holy day 7 days before Easter Palm Sunday |
#3386, aired 1999-05-03 | STATE CAPITALS $100: In 1955 Martin Luther King, Jr. led a boycott of this Alabama capital's segregated bus system Montgomery |
#3385, aired 1999-04-30 | MARXISMS $300: "The tusks... were imbedded so firmly we couldn't budge them, of course in Alabama..." "The Tusks A Loosa" |
#3383, aired 1999-04-28 | CITIES IN SONG $800: Bob Dylan sang "Stuck inside of" this Alabama city "with the Memphis blues again" Mobile |
#3370, aired 1999-04-09 | ANAGRAMMED STATE CAPITALS $200: Selma Salem |
#3328, aired 1999-02-10 | COLLEGE SPORTS TEAM NICKNAMES $100: The University of Alabama Crimson Tide |
#3327, aired 1999-02-09 | THE 1880s $1,500 (Daily Double): In 1881 the Normal and Industrial Institute was founded in this Alabama city Tuskegee |
#3321, aired 1999-02-01 | BLACK HISTORY $500: An Alabama city gave its name to this group of 9 youths falsely accused of rape in 1931 The Scottsboro Boys |
#3318, aired 1999-01-27 | STATE BIRDS $400: Not to knock it, but Alabama's yellowhammer is a type of this Woodpecker |
#3299, aired 1998-12-31 | PITCHERS $600 (Daily Double): Inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1971, he got his nickname carrying bags at a Mobile, Alabama depot Leroy "Satchel" Paige |
#3294, aired 1998-12-24 | CAPITAL TOWNS $800: It must be tough to park your car or walk your dog in Albertville, Alabama, the USA's capital of these fire hydrants |
#3285, aired 1998-12-11 | ONCE UPON A DECEMBER $100: A 381-day-long bus boycott began in this city December 1, 1955 Montgomery, Alabama |
#3274, aired 1998-11-26 | COLLEGE FOOTBALL $200: Nickname of Alabama coach Paul Bryant, who won 15 bowl games "Bear" |
#3269, aired 1998-11-19 | MARRIAGE & KIDS $200: Georgia & Alabama are among states recognizing this type of marriage without ceremony, based on cohabitation common law marriage |
#3256, aired 1998-11-02 | CRIME & PUNISHMENT $400: In 1995 Alabama reinstituted these groups, from which Paul Muni played "a fugitive" Chain gangs |
#3246, aired 1998-10-19 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $500: The provisional constitution of the Confederacy was adopted on February 8, 1861 in this city Montgomery, Alabama |
#3217, aired 1998-09-08 | ANAGRAMMED U.S. CITIES $100: BOIL EM, Alabama Mobile |
#3192, aired 1998-06-16 | THEATER ALFRESCO $400: Alabama's official outdoor drama is this play, enacted in the summer at Helen Keller's birthplace "The Miracle Worker" |
#3189, aired 1998-06-11 | OFFBEAT MUSEUMS $400: On a meal break in Alabama, you might visit the museum for these; it also includes thermoses Lunchboxes |
#3181, aired 1998-06-01 | STATE CAPITALS $500: It's "The Birthplace of Dixie" Montgomery, Alabama |
#3126, aired 1998-03-16 | COUNTRY MUSIC STARS $100: In 1977 the group led by Randy Owen named itself after this, their home state Alabama |
#3108, aired 1998-02-18 | COUNTIES BY STATE $400: McClain,
McCurtain,
Muskogee Oklahoma |
#3108, aired 1998-02-18 | BUGS $400: These small, stinging ants were introduced into the U.S. at Mobile, Alabama fire ants |
#3106, aired 1998-02-16 | STATE NICKNAMES $500: "The Empire State Of The South" Georgia |
#3087, aired 1998-01-20 | SOUTHERN TALK $100: This place is sometimes called 'Bam, 'Bama or 'Bammy Alabama |
#3086, aired 1998-01-19 | THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT $600: In 1965, after being assaulted in this Alabama city, Martin Luther King led a march from there to Montgomery Selma |
#3057, aired 1997-12-09 | & THOU BESIDE ME SINGING $2,000 (Daily Double): This group has been making country music together for over 20 years: Alabama |
#3038, aired 1997-11-12 | RAILROAD TIES $300: In 1993 this "Southern" country group reached the Top 10 with this song heard here: Confederate Railroad |
#3035, aired 1997-11-07 | SALLY GOES TO SPACE CAMP $100: Sally chose to attend this state's camp over Alabama or California to be near Kennedy Space Center Florida |
#2999, aired 1997-09-18 | AMERICAN HODGEPODGE $400: The highest point in this Southeastern state is just 345 feet, in Walton County near the Alabama border Florida |
#2978, aired 1997-07-09 | U.S.A. $300: The Muscle Shoals area of this state includes the cities of Sheffield & Tuscumbia Alabama |
#2970, aired 1997-06-27 | FORESTS $500: This state's largest national forest, Talladega, covers 2 different areas of the state Alabama |
#2953, aired 1997-06-04 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $200: It's Alabama's first permanent European settlement as well as its only seaport Mobile |
#2924, aired 1997-04-24 | STATE CAPITALS $300: This city is the center of Alabama's fertile "Black Belt" agricultural area Montgomery |
#2912, aired 1997-04-08 | MUSEUMS $500: The National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis has an exhibit on this city's 1955 bus boycott Montgomery, Alabama |
#2903, aired 1997-03-26 | CRADLES $500: Incorporated in 1819, this current state capital was once the cradle of the Confederacy Montgomery, Alabama |
#2879, aired 1997-02-20 | THE SOUTH $400: It's Alabama's oldest city & its only seaport Mobile |
#2868, aired 1997-02-05 | BLACK AMERICA $400 (Daily Double): The modern civil rights movement began in 1955 when she refused to give up her seat on an Alabama bus Rosa Parks |
#2868, aired 1997-02-05 | MUSEUMS $500: You'll find this Alabama city's museum of art at the Von Braun Civic Center Huntsville |
#2862, aired 1997-01-28 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $400: Although it now has 3 campuses, the original is in Tuscaloosa University of Alabama |
#2852, aired 1997-01-14 | U.S. CITIES $600: This Alabama city known for its Azalea Trail should have been Alexander Calder's favorite Mobile |
#2837, aired 1996-12-24 | 1955 $200: This clergyman was asked to lead a bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. |
#2835, aired 1996-12-20 | PARKS $1000: Horseshoe Bend National Military Park in Alabama is the site where he defeated the Creek Indians in 1814 Andrew Jackson |
#2826, aired 1996-12-09 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $200: This Alabama institute was the major training facility for Black airmen during World War II the Tuskegee Institute |
#2824, aired 1996-12-05 | COUNTRY MUSIC TOURISM $500: Alabama & the Gatlin Brothers are among the country stars who have theatres in this S.C. beach city Myrtle Beach |
#2824, aired 1996-12-05 | U.S.A. $1000: Horseshoe Bend National Military Park in Alabama marks the site of this Indian war's last battle the Creek Indian War |
#2802, aired 1996-11-05 | TRAVEL U.S.A. $400: You can ride an elevator to the top of the 55-foot statue of Vulcan in this Alabama city Birmingham |
#2782, aired 1996-10-08 | HISTORIC HOMES $300: The white frame house that served as the first White House of the Confederacy is in this city Montgomery, Alabama |
#2778, aired 1996-10-02 | AUTHORS $400: In 1991 the U. of Alabama awarded this "To Kill A Mockingbird" author an honorary Doctor of Letters degree Harper Lee |
#2775, aired 1996-09-27 | AROUND THE U.S.A. $600: A tour of her home in Tuscumbia, Alabama includes the pump where she learned her first word Helen Keller |
#2758, aired 1996-09-04 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $100: The George Washington Carver Museum is on this Alabama school's campus the Tuskegee Institute |
#2756, aired 1996-09-02 | FAMOUS AMERICANS $800: When he left office in 1987, this Democrat had served an unprecedented 4 terms as Alabama governor George Wallace |
#2748, aired 1996-07-10 | COUNTRY MUSIC STARS $400: "Tennessee River" was the first No. 1 hit for this group named for another state Alabama |
#2740, aired 1996-06-28 | ANNUAL EVENTS $100: Dothan, Alabama's national festival of this goober features parades & a beauty pageant the peanut |
#2739, aired 1996-06-27 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $1000: This steel-making city in Alabama's Jones Valley didn't exist before the Civil War Birmingham |
#2738, aired 1996-06-26 | COUNTIES BY STATE $300: Talladega,
Tallapoosa,
Tuscaloosa Alabama |
#2737, aired 1996-06-25 | FESTIVALS & CELEBRATIONS $600: Don't "space out" or you'll miss Panoply, a spring celebration of the arts in this Alabama city Huntsville |
#2730, aired 1996-06-14 | BLACK AMERICA $200: 1995 marked the 30th anniversary of the civil rights march from Selma to this Alabama city Montgomery |
#2726, aired 1996-06-10 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $1000: Auburn University was this state's polytechnic institute from 1899 to 1960 Alabama |
#2703, aired 1996-05-08 | STATE NICKNAMES $500: "Heart of Dixie" Alabama |
#2701, aired 1996-05-06 | STATE CAPITALS $500 (Daily Double): The 2 state capitals whose names start with "Mont" Montpelier (Vermont) & Montgomery, Alabama |
#2700, aired 1996-05-03 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $300: In 1820 Cahaba replaced Huntsville as capital of this state Alabama |
#2666, aired 1996-03-18 | STATE MOTTOES $200: "We dare defend our rights" comes straight from its heart— of Dixie Alabama |
#2647, aired 1996-02-20 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $800: At 6,643 feet, Clingman's Dome in the Great Smoky Mountains is this state's highest point Tennessee |
#2646, aired 1996-02-19 | U.S. HISTORY $500 (Daily Double): Rosa Parks was on a bus in this city December 1, 1955 when she refused to give up her seat Montgomery, Alabama |
#2645, aired 1996-02-16 | MOUNTAINS $400: This chain that runs from Newfoundland to Alabama was formed about 250 million years ago the Appalachians |
#2643, aired 1996-02-14 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $400: Athletic teams at the University of Alabama have this nickname Crimson Tide |
#2638, aired 1996-02-07 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $200: Alabama's Crimson Tide uses this animal, a favorite of Republicans, as a mascot an elephant |
#2614, aired 1996-01-04 | U.S.A. $200: This Alabama capital is named for a Revolutionary War hero Montgomery |
#2609, aired 1995-12-28 | THE 1960s $100: This governor signed a bill September 2, 1966 forbidding Alabama's schools to desegregate George Wallace |
#2596, aired 1995-12-11 | U.S. CITIES $300: The submarine USS Drum is on display at this Alabama city's waterfront Mobile |
#2594, aired 1995-12-07 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $500: This institute that opened in Alabama in 1881 first emphasized farming & crafts Tuskegee |
#2582, aired 1995-11-21 | THE CIVIL WAR $400: On Feb. 4, 1861 the Confederacy began setting up its government in this city Montgomery, Alabama |
#2576, aired 1995-11-13 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $200: This university has campuses at Tuscaloosa, Huntsville & Birmingham University of Alabama |
#2575, aired 1995-11-10 | U.S.A. $200: This praline ingredient is Alabama's state nut the pecan |
#2564, aired 1995-10-26 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $600: Founded in 1830, Spring Hill College in this Alabama port is the state's oldest school of higher learning Mobile |
#2560, aired 1995-10-20 | FILMS OF THE '90s $100: Gene Hackman played the commander of the USS Alabama, a nuclear sub, in this 1995 hit Crimson Tide |
#2555, aired 1995-10-13 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $500: Vulcan materials company is headquartered in this Alabama city Birmingham |
#2544, aired 1995-09-28 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $800: Dauphin Island, Alabama's largest coastal island, lies at the entrance to this bay Mobile |
#2539, aired 1995-09-21 | NOTABLE PEOPLE $800: Huntsville, Alabama's civic center is named for this German rocket engineer who came to the U.S. after WWII Wernher von Braun |
#2538, aired 1995-09-20 | U.S. STATES $2,500 (Daily Double): The Perdido River forms part of the border between Florida's Panhandle & this state Alabama |
#2530, aired 1995-09-08 | CRIME TIME $400: In 1972 Alfred Bremer was sentenced to 53 years for shooting this Alabama governor & 3 others Wallace |
#2516, aired 1995-07-10 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $400: In 1941 this company built its first aluminum foil plant in Alabama Reynolds |
#2514, aired 1995-07-06 | TRAVEL & TOURISM $800: This Alabama city has a collection of spacecraft at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center Huntsville |
#2503, aired 1995-06-21 | FRENCH ART & ARTISTS $400: Manet's painting "Combat of the Kearsarge and the Alabama" depicts a naval battle of this American war the Civil War |
#2482, aired 1995-05-23 | MUSEUMS $1000: The Florence, Alabama cabin of this "St. Louis Blues" composer houses his papers & memorabilia W.C. Handy |
#2477, aired 1995-05-16 | U.S.A. $600: You can visit the U.S.S. Alabama Battleship Memorial Park on the shore of this southern bay Mobile Bay |
#2472, aired 1995-05-09 | ALABAMY BOUND $200: In Alabama a Confederate version of this holiday is observed on the fourth Monday in April, not in May Memorial Day |
#2472, aired 1995-05-09 | ALABAMY BOUND $400: Alabama's license plate calls it the "Heart of" this place Dixie |
#2472, aired 1995-05-09 | ALABAMY BOUND $800: Jean Baptiste Le Moyne founded this city, Alabama's only seaport Mobile |
#2472, aired 1995-05-09 | ALABAMY BOUND $1000: This Alabama governor ran for president in 1968 on an antidesegregation platform Wallace |
#2444, aired 1995-03-30 | THE CIVIL WAR $400: This state, home of the 1st capital of the Confederacy, was the 4th to secede from the Union Alabama |
#2430, aired 1995-03-10 | MARCH $300: In 1861 delegates meeting in this Alabama city adopted the constitution of the Confederacy Montgomery |
#2424, aired 1995-03-02 | GULFS $100: With the exception of the Tennessee, Alabama's rivers flow toward this gulf the Gulf of Mexico |
#2404, aired 1995-02-02 | LIBRARIES $100: This state's first large library was the Supreme Court & State Law Library in Montgomery Alabama |
#2394, aired 1995-01-19 | HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $1000: Florence, Alabama has a festival each August honoring this "Father of the Blues" W.C. Handy |
#2374, aired 1994-12-22 | NEWSPAPERS $200: Founded in 1813, the Mobile Register is this state's oldest newspaper Alabama |
#2372, aired 1994-12-20 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $600: The Chattahoochee River forms part of the border between Alabama & this state Georgia |
#2362, aired 1994-12-06 | NONFICTION $200: Published in 1958, "Stride Toward Freedom" was Martin Luther King's account of the bus boycott in this city Montgomery |
#2342, aired 1994-11-08 | U.S. STATES $500: Tuscaloosa was the capital of this state from 1826 until 1846 Alabama |
#2326, aired 1994-10-17 | FLOWERS $400: The Alabama, Wisconsin & Hawaii are hybrids of this plant with a continent in its name the African violet |
#2296, aired 1994-09-05 | GOVERNMENT & POLITICS $1000: In 1993 this Alabama governor was forced to step down after a conviction on felony ethics charges (Guy) Hunt |
#2288, aired 1994-07-13 | BLACK AMERICA $300: Booker T. Washington founded an institute in this city in 1881 Tuskegee (Alabama) |
#2286, aired 1994-07-11 | HODGEPODGE $400: One of Alabama's nicknames, the "Yellowhammer State", refers to a color on uniforms worn during this war Civil War |
#2280, aired 1994-07-01 | GOVERNORS $1,200 (Daily Double): In 1966 a Gallup Poll named this Alabama governor-elect the 6th most admired woman by Americans Lurleen Wallace |
#2277, aired 1994-06-28 | FORESTS $200: Tuskegee National Forest lies just east of Montgomery in this state Alabama |
#2271, aired 1994-06-20 | BENJAMIN FRANKLINS $1000: Dr. Benjamin Franklin Payton became president of this Alabama university in 1981, its centennial year the Tuskegee Institute |
#2268, aired 1994-06-15 | THE CIVIL WAR $400: On Aug. 5, 1864 Admiral Farragut & the North closed this Alabama bay Mobile Bay |
#2252, aired 1994-05-24 | AMERICAN HISTORY $200: When this state entered the Union in 1819, Huntsville was its capital Alabama |
#2252, aired 1994-05-24 | U.S. CITIES $800: The Alabama State Fair & the Dogwood Festival are annual events in this steel-producing city Birmingham |
#2251, aired 1994-05-23 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $200: Alabama's general coastline, only 53 miles, is along this gulf the Gulf of Mexico |
#2247, aired 1994-05-17 | POLITICIANS $1000: Former Alabama governor George C. Wallace's middle name Corley |
#2237, aired 1994-05-03 | U.S. "A"s $1000: The 2 states that fit the category that had to be readmitted to the Union after the Civil War Alabama and Arkansas |
#2236, aired 1994-05-02 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $1,100 (Daily Double): This state separates most of Alabama from the Gulf of Mexico Florida |
#2233, aired 1994-04-27 | GOVERNORS $200: In 1982 he was again elected governor of Alabama after 3 years out of office George Wallace |
#2211, aired 1994-03-28 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $400: This state university was founded in 1831 in Tuscaloosa the University of Alabama |
#2200, aired 1994-03-11 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $1000: Its Fayetteville campus is the site of the Fulbright Institute of International Relations the University of Arkansas |
#2195, aired 1994-03-04 | ALPHABETICALLY FIRST $200: In 1958 it was the first U.S. state alphabetically Alabama |
#2174, aired 1994-02-03 | AMERICANA $400: Founded as a fort in 1702, this city on the Gulf of Mexico was named for the Maubilla Indians Mobile, Alabama |
#2165, aired 1994-01-21 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $400: While stationed in Alabama in 1918. he met Zelda Sayre; 2 years later they were married (F. Scott) Fitzgerald |
#2157, aired 1994-01-11 | STATE CAPITALS $1000: The Lightning Route was an electric streetcar system that served this Alabama city for decades Montgomery |
#2125, aired 1993-11-26 | IN THE NEWS $100: In September 1993 Amtrak's Sunset Limited crashed in this state Alabama |
#2122, aired 1993-11-23 | U.S. HISTORY $800: In March 1814 this general defeated the Creeks at Horseshoe Bend, in what is now Alabama Andrew Jackson |
#2102, aired 1993-10-26 | 1970 $200: George Wallace, this state's former governor, called on southern governors to defy integration Alabama |
#2089, aired 1993-10-07 | U.S. CITY NICKNAMES $500: This Alabama industrial city grew so fast it became known as the "Magic City" Birmingham |
#2082, aired 1993-09-28 | AUBURNS $400: Auburn University is in Auburn in this state Alabama |
#2071, aired 1993-09-13 | U.S.A. $400 (Daily Double): After the Civil War, Confederate general P.G.T. Beauregard managed the lottery in this, his home state Louisiana |
#2071, aired 1993-09-13 | LITERARY POTPOURRI $1000: She set "Fried Green Tomatoes..." in Alabama & "Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man" in Mississippi Fannie Flagg |
#2067, aired 1993-09-07 | LAKES & RIVERS $800: This river formed by the Coosa & Tallapoosa near Montgomery shares its name with the state it's in Alabama |
#2050, aired 1993-07-02 | THE 50 STATES $400: The National Fertilizer Development Center can be found in Muscle Shoals in this state Alabama |
#2048, aired 1993-06-30 | THE GARFIELD ERA $200: This institute in Alabama opened July 4, 1881 as a school to train black teachers Tuskegee Institute |
#2033, aired 1993-06-09 | POLITICIANS $600: This Alabama senator's uncle, "Cotton Tom" Heflin, served in the Senate from 1920 to 1931 Howell Heflin |
#2031, aired 1993-06-07 | PARKS $600: Vulcan Park lies on Red Mountain, overlooking this Alabama city Birmingham |
#2023, aired 1993-05-26 | NATIONAL HISTORIC SITES $200: The National Historic Site at this Alabama school includes the home of Booker T. Washington the Tuskegee Institute |
#2022, aired 1993-05-25 | U.S.A. $600: Because of its location in the Central South, Alabama is nicknamed the "Heart of" this Dixie |
#2011, aired 1993-05-10 | BLACK AMERICA $500: In 1955 she helped launch the civil rights movement by refusing to give up her seat on an Alabama bus Rosa Parks |
#2009, aired 1993-05-06 | AMERICANA $400: If you like stories, head for this state's Tale Tellin' Festival, an annual event in Selma Alabama |
#1992, aired 1993-04-13 | STATE SYMBOLS $500: It's the state dance of Alabama & Washington, & the state folk dance of Tennessee a square dance |
#1985, aired 1993-04-02 | STATE CAPITALS $500: The Confederate States of America were founded in this capital city on February 4, 1861 Montgomery, Alabama |
#1982, aired 1993-03-30 | SONG LYRICS $500: "Tuxedo Junction" is "Way Down South, in" this Alabama city Birmingham |
#1973, aired 1993-03-17 | U.S. STATES $400: The Johnson Space Center is in Texas & the Marshall Space Flight Center is in this state Alabama |
#1964, aired 1993-03-04 | ROCKS & MINERALS $400: This rock used in building the Lincoln Memorial was supplied by Colorado, Georgia, Tennessee & Alabama marble |
#1958, aired 1993-02-24 | JANUARY 1, 1993 $600: This college team became No. 1 by defeating the Miami Hurricanes 34-13 in the Sugar Bowl the University of Alabama |
#1900, aired 1992-12-04 | LIBRARIES $600: This largest Alabama city's public library owns the Agee Collection of rare maps & atlases Birmingham |
#1897, aired 1992-12-01 | HISTORIC HOMES $200: Every Summer, performances of "The Miracle Worker" are presented at her Ivy Green home in Alabama Helen Keller |
#1896, aired 1992-11-30 | MOUNTAINS $400: This mountain system roughly parallels the Atlantic coast from Newfoundland to Alabama Appalachians |
#1884, aired 1992-11-12 | PEOPLE $200: She had never held public office before she was elected governor of Alabama in 1966 Lurleen Wallace |
#1871, aired 1992-10-26 | U.S. STATES $500: The pecan is the state nut not of Georgia, but of this neighbor to the west Alabama |
#1861, aired 1992-10-12 | ALABAMA $200: In 1989, a civil rights memorial designed by Maya Lin was completed in this capital city Montgomery |
#1861, aired 1992-10-12 | ALABAMA $400: Until the early 1900s, this was Alabama's most valuable crop; today, it's soybeans. cotton |
#1861, aired 1992-10-12 | ALABAMA $600: Dauphin, Alabama's largest coastal island, lies at the entrance to this bay Mobile Bay |
#1861, aired 1992-10-12 | ALABAMA $800: A museum in Florence, Alabama, honors this "Father of the Blues" who was born there in 1873 W.C. Handy |
#1861, aired 1992-10-12 | ALABAMA $1,900 (Daily Double): The 1st Alabama-bound explorer was this Spaniard who marched across it in 1540 Hernando de Soto |
#1856, aired 1992-10-05 | THE SOUTH $3,000 (Daily Double): The name of this city, home to the University of Alabama, comes from the Choctaw for "black warrior" Tuscaloosa |
#1831, aired 1992-07-13 | MOUNTAINS $1000: This state's highest point is Mount Cheaha in the Talladega Mountains Alabama |
#1828, aired 1992-07-08 | STATE CAPITALS $200: This capital was founded in 1819 by the consolidation of East Alabama, New Philadelphia & Alabama Town Montgomery |
#1790, aired 1992-05-15 | STATE CAPITALS $800: This city, not Richmond, is where you can find the first White House of the Confederacy Montgomery, Alabama |
#1748, aired 1992-03-18 | U.S. HISTORY $800: 90 black leaders were arrested in this city Feb. 22-24, 1956 for leading a bus boycott Montgomery, Alabama |
#1741, aired 1992-03-09 | 1966 $400: In November his wife, Lurleen, was elected to succeed him as Governor of Alabama George Wallace |
#1737, aired 1992-03-03 | U.S. CITIES $300: Selma is the seat of this state's Dallas County Alabama |
#1728, aired 1992-02-19 | U.S.A. $400 (Daily Double): Alphabetically the states run from Alabama to this Wyoming |
#1714, aired 1992-01-30 | U.S.A. $1,500 (Daily Double): It's Alabama's only seaport Mobile |
#1684, aired 1991-12-19 | U.S. CITIES $500: A cast-iron statue of Vulcan overlooks this city, Alabama's largest Birmingham |
#1673, aired 1991-12-04 | ANNUAL EVENTS $300: There's an annual Helen Keller festival held each June in Tuscumbia in this state Alabama |
#1670, aired 1991-11-29 | TENNESSEE $800: During World War II, the government built this city to prepare material for atomic bombs Oak Ridge |
#1668, aired 1991-11-27 | COLLEGE TEAM NICKNAMES $100: The Crimson Tide Alabama |
#1660, aired 1991-11-15 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $1000: From 1899-1960, this university was known as Alabama Polytechnic Institute Auburn |
#1655, aired 1991-11-08 | BLACK AMERICA $600: The bus boycott Martin L. King, Jr. began over the treatment of Rosa Parks lasted over a year in this city Montgomery (Alabama) |
#1646, aired 1991-10-28 | AUTHORS $1000: Harper Lee's novel "To Kill a Mockingbird" is set in this state where she grew up Alabama |
#1642, aired 1991-10-22 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $400: The Savannah River forms much of the border between Georgia & this state South Carolina |
#1613, aired 1991-09-11 | STATE SEALS $1000: Its seal shows a map of the state & the surrounding states of Mississippi, Florida, Georgia & Tennessee Alabama |
#1595, aired 1991-07-05 | MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS $200: "Oh! Susanna, do not cry for me; I come from Alabama with" this instrument "on my knee" a banjo |
#1593, aired 1991-07-03 | U.S. STATES $600: This state is now third after Indiana & Ohio in production of iron & steel Pennsylvania |
#1592, aired 1991-07-02 | POTLUCK $500: A Tuskegee Alabama monument shows this educator lifting the veil of ignorance from a freed slave Booker T. Washington |
#1590, aired 1991-06-28 | NATIONAL FORESTS $600: The smallest of this state's 4 national forests is Tuskegee Alabama |
#1574, aired 1991-06-06 | GOVERNMENT & POLITICS $400: This federal agency has four offices, in Washington, D.C., Muscle Shoals, Alabama, & Chattanooga & Knoxville, Tennessee the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) |
#1558, aired 1991-05-15 | NEWSPAPERS $200: Founded in 1813, the Mobile Register is this state's oldest newspaper Alabama |
#1542, aired 1991-04-23 | THE CIVIL WAR $500: Union troops captured this city, the cradle of the Confederacy, in April 1865 Montgomery, Alabama |
#1522, aired 1991-03-26 | DEMOCRATS $200: In 1964, this Alabama governor refused to support Lyndon Johnson for president George Wallace |
#1492, aired 1991-02-12 | THE CIVIL WAR $400: In a battle in this Alabama Bay August 5, 1864, Farragut forced the ironclad Tennessee to surrender the Battle of Mobile Bay |
#1480, aired 1991-01-25 | RIVERS $500: In Greek myth, this river flows by Hades; in reality, it's in Alabama Styx |
#1469, aired 1991-01-10 | CITY NICKNAMES $800: Alabama's Gulf City Mobile |
#1468, aired 1991-01-09 | RIVERS $1000: 1 of 2 states besides Tennessee through which the Tennessee River flows Kentucky & Alabama |
#1460, aired 1990-12-28 | U.S. CITIES $300: Huntsville, Alabama Civic Center Complex is named for this German rocket pioneer Wernher von Braun |
#1456, aired 1990-12-24 | U.S. CITIES $1000: Alabama city on the Black Warrior River named for a Choctaw chief whose name meant "black warrior" Tuscaloosa |
#1414, aired 1990-10-25 | FAMOUS HOMES $600: The Oaks in Tuskegee, Alabama Booker T. Washington |
#1410, aired 1990-10-19 | U.S. CITIES $200: The cities of Huntsville & Tuscaloosa were once capitals of this state Alabama |
#1404, aired 1990-10-11 | U.S. STATES $900 (Daily Double): Country music's Alabama is from that state, while the Oak Ridge Boys began as a group in this state Tennessee |
#1394, aired 1990-09-27 | CELEBRITY JEOPARDY! $100: Golly! I have a highway named after me that runs through central Alabama Jim Nabors |
#1390, aired 1990-09-21 | THE 1960s $1000: She was sworn in as governor of Alabama, January 16, 1967 Lurleen Wallace |
#1381, aired 1990-09-10 | HIGHER EDUCATION $400: Your hair doesn't have to be this shade of reddish-brown to attend this Alabama university of the same name Auburn |
#1378, aired 1990-09-05 | THE 50 STATES $1000: It's nicknamed "The Heart of Dixie" Alabama |
#1376, aired 1990-09-03 | ACTORS OF THE PAST $1000: This bass-voiced Alabama actress starred in the original 1939 production of "The Little Foxes", darling Tallulah Bankhead |
#1367, aired 1990-07-10 | THE SOUTH $400: Of all the southern states, this one is first alphabetically Alabama |
#1366, aired 1990-07-09 | U.S. CITIES $400: This Okla. city, home of Oral Roberts U. was named by Creek Indians who had migrated from Alabama Tulsa |
#4, aired 1990-07-07 | STATE CAPITALS $1,000 (Daily Double): Listing the states alphabetically, this is the capital of the state at the top of the list Montgomery (Alabama) |
#1356, aired 1990-06-25 | OFFICIAL STATE THINGS $400: Its seal is a map of the state along with the bordering states of Tenn., Mississippi, Florida & Georgia Alabama |
#1347, aired 1990-06-12 | FOOTBALL $200: Alabama's Paul Bryant was known by this nickname the Bear |
#1266, aired 1990-02-19 | STATE CAPITALS $800: This southern capital's seal contains a 6-pointed star & the words "Cradle Of The Confederacy" Montgomery, Alabama |
#1263, aired 1990-02-14 | STATE CAPITALS $200: The first White House of the Confederacy stands on Washington St. in this Alabama city Montgomery |
#1260, aired 1990-02-09 | THE SOUTH $800: America's Young Woman of the Year, a.k.a. Junior Miss, is chosen every summer in this Alabama city Mobile |
#1246, aired 1990-01-22 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $600: This state's Panhandle limits Alabama's Gulf of Mexico coastline to the area around Mobile Bay Florida |
#1245, aired 1990-01-19 | ALABAMA $100: The agricultural area known as The Black Belt is famous for growing this crop Cotton |
#1245, aired 1990-01-19 | ALABAMA $200: The long gray threadlike stems of this "moss" sway from oak trees in the coastal breezes Spanish Moss |
#1245, aired 1990-01-19 | ALABAMA $300: In 1968 she became the nation's 3rd woman governor Lurleen B. Wallace |
#1232, aired 1990-01-02 | PLANTS $600: Arizona's largest cash crop; it grows more than Alabama & Georgia combined cotton |
#1229, aired 1989-12-28 | THE SOUTH $1000: "Dixie" was played in Montgomery, Alabama on February 18, 1861 at this ceremony inauguration of Jefferson Davis |
#1228, aired 1989-12-27 | U.S. CITIES $300: This Alabama steel-making city is known as the "Pittsburgh of the South" Birmingham |
#1216, aired 1989-12-11 | POSTAL ABBREVIATIONS $500: State whose postal abbreviation is the reverse of Louisiana's Alabama |
#1199, aired 1989-11-16 | SCIENTISTS $200: He developed the V-2 for Germany & while in Alabama, the Saturn V for the U.S. Wernher von Braun |
#1181, aired 1989-10-23 | THE 50 STATES $800: It calls itself "The Heart of Dixie" Alabama |
#1175, aired 1989-10-13 | STATE NICKNAMES $200: Alabama is the "Yellowhammer State", a yellowhammer being one of these bird |
#1150, aired 1989-09-08 | U.S.A. $100: Dauphin Island, the largest coastal island in this state, lies at the entrance to Mobile Bay Alabama |
#1134, aired 1989-07-06 | AMERICAN CITIES $300: From 1950-64 the population of this Alabama city "skyrocketed" from 16,000 to more than 123,000 Huntsville |
#1125, aired 1989-06-23 | CAMPAIGN '88 $500: Democrat who took Alabama, Louisiana, Georgia, Mississippi & Virginia on "Super Tuesday" Jesse Jackson |
#1121, aired 1989-06-19 | STATE HOLIDAYS $200: Alabama, Florida, Mississippi & South Carolina observe Robert E. Lee's birthday in Jan. & his in June Jefferson Davis |
#1095, aired 1989-05-12 | MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS $300: Stephen Foster wrote, "I come from Alabama with" this instrument "on my knee" a banjo |
#1092, aired 1989-05-09 | COLLEGE NICKNAMES $300: Crimson Tide Alabama |
#1090, aired 1989-05-05 | U.S. STATES $1000: This state's Black Warrior National Forest was renamed in honor of T. Bankhead's father Alabama |
#1072, aired 1989-04-11 | U.S.A. $100: In 1986, Geo. Wallace Jr. was elected this state's treasurer Alabama |
#1071, aired 1989-04-10 | U.S. HISTORY $200: Though his 1964 election was a landslide, his name didn't even appear on the Alabama ballot Lyndon Baines Johnson |
#1050, aired 1989-03-10 | THE 50 STATES $100: Spanish explorers are believed to have visited Mobile Bay in this state back in 1519 Alabama |
#1011, aired 1989-01-16 | U.S. CITIES $200: It's Alabama's only seaport Mobile |
#974, aired 1988-11-24 | U.S. STATES $2,121 (Daily Double): State noted for hot summer winds, or name of the group heard here:
"I close my eyes / Only for a moment, and the moment's gone / All my dreams / Pass before my eyes..." Kansas |
#970, aired 1988-11-18 | ABBREV. $1,000 (Daily Double): States whose abbreviations make up the telegram:
HI PA.
MA OK.
AL Hawaii, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Oklahoma & Alabama |
#970, aired 1988-11-18 | LITERATURE $1000: A well-known Ambrose Bierce short story is about an incident at this bridge in Northern Alabama Owl Creek Bridge |
#965, aired 1988-11-11 | ALABAMIANS $300: Though he was born near Lafayette, Alabama, the arena named after this boxer is in Detroit Joe Louis |
#943, aired 1988-10-12 | FAMOUS AMERICANS $800: An Alabama city is named for this man whose land purchase added territory to New Mexico & Arizona (James) Gadsden |
#939, aired 1988-10-06 | 4-SYLLABLE WORDS $200: This state is 1st alphabetically Alabama |
#935, aired 1988-09-30 | U.S. CITIES $1,000 (Daily Double): It's called "The Pittsburgh of the South" Birmingham, Alabama |
#898, aired 1988-06-29 | U.S. CITIES $800: Alabama city named for the inventor of a process for manufacturing steel Bessemer |
#884, aired 1988-06-09 | FLORIDA $300: Interstate 10 enters Florida at the west end of the Panhandle from this adjacent state Alabama |
#848, aired 1988-04-20 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $300: He met his wife Zelda at an Alabama country club dance in 1918 F. Scott Fitzgerald |
#841, aired 1988-04-11 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: On January 16, 1967, she took office as Alabama's 1st woman governor Lurleen Wallace |
#824, aired 1988-03-17 | AMERICAN INDIANS $1000: Andrew Jackson broke the power of this tribe at 1814 Battle of Horseshoe Bend in what is present-day Alabama the Creeks |
#823, aired 1988-03-16 | DOUBLE MEANINGS $1000: Tied up in Mobile or just heading there Alabama bound |
#778, aired 1988-01-13 | U.S. STATES $700 (Daily Double): 1 of 2 Gulf states containing the area of black clay soils known as the "Black Belt" Mississippi (or Alabama) |
#769, aired 1987-12-31 | U.S. CITIES $200: Alabama seaport where you'll find world's largest plant for grinding oyster shells Mobile |
#768, aired 1987-12-30 | ALABAMIANS $200: Col. William Barrett Travis of Evergreen, Alabama led the defenders at this Texas site the Alamo |
#768, aired 1987-12-30 | ALABAMIANS $800: George W. Carver turned down big salaries from large companies & continued working at this Alabama school Tuskegee Institute |
#761, aired 1987-12-21 | ALABAMA $200: Named for England's leading industrial city, it's Alabama's leading industrial city Birmingham |
#761, aired 1987-12-21 | ALABAMA $400: Played each Dec. in Alabama, the annual college football game between north & south is called this the Blue-Gray game |
#761, aired 1987-12-21 | ALABAMA $600: In 1958 the Mobile Jaycees began this beauty pageant for high-school girls America's Junior Miss |
#761, aired 1987-12-21 | ALABAMA $800: You can send your son or daughter to the U.S. Space Camp located here Huntsville |
#761, aired 1987-12-21 | ALABAMA $3,000 (Daily Double): 1 of 4 other states besides Alabama who names appear on Alabama's great seal (1 of) Georgia, Florida, Tennessee & Mississippi |
#754, aired 1987-12-10 | AMERICAN INDIAN NAMES $100: It's the name of a Cherokee village in Louisiana & a Bankhead from Alabama Tallulah |
#749, aired 1987-12-03 | 1955 $500: In December, Martin Luther King Jr. led a boycott of this city's bus system Montgomery, Alabama |
#736, aired 1987-11-16 | SPORTS STADIUMS $200: In 1976, the name of this university's stadium was changed from Denny to Bryant-Denny Alabama |
#730, aired 1987-11-06 | HIGHER EDUCATION $1000: In 1960, Alabama Polytechnic Institute became this university Auburn |
#709, aired 1987-10-08 | U.S. CITIES $800: Half of Alabama's Ph.D.s live in this single city Huntsville |
#700, aired 1987-09-25 | SOUTHERN AUTHORS $1000: Alabama-born Harper Lee won a 1961 Pulitzer Prize for this, her only published novel To Kill a Mockingbird |
#695, aired 1987-09-18 | TREES $500: You're "bound" to find out that its state tree is the southern pine Alabama |
#694, aired 1987-09-17 | ROUTE OF THE BARGE $200: After Alabama rejected it, the barge began to head up this river, until Louisiana ordered it out the Mississippi River |
#672, aired 1987-07-07 | GEOGRAPHICAL SINGERS $200: Country band appropriately named since their "home's in Alabama" Alabama |
#645, aired 1987-05-29 | COLORFUL NAMES $500: Born in 1886 in Alabama, he served 34 years on the U.S. Supreme Court (Hugo) Black |
#640, aired 1987-05-22 | '60s TRIVIA $200: It's said the Jets laid out some $427,000 to acquire this University of Alabama quarterback Joe Namath |
#633, aired 1987-05-13 | GEOGRAPHICAL SONGS $200: "My heart beat like a hammer, my arms wound around you tight, & stars fell on" this state Alabama |
#628, aired 1987-05-06 | COLLEGE NICKNAMES $400: The color of Alabama's "Tide" crimson |
#626, aired 1987-05-04 | U.S. STATES $500 (Daily Double): 3 of 5 neighboring states from which you can go marching through Georgia (3 of) Florida, South Carolina, Alabama, Tennessee, and North Carolina |
#621, aired 1987-04-27 | TRANSPORTATION $400 (Daily Double): Group which topped the country charts with the following song about a truck driver:
[Truck noises]
"Roll on, highway /
Roll on along /
Roll on, Daddy, 'til you get back home /
Roll on family /
Roll on crew /
Roll on, Mama, like I asked you to do /
And roll on eighteen wheeler, roll on /
(Roll on!)..." Alabama |
#618, aired 1987-04-22 | U.S. STATES $500: From 1961-1976, Alabama flew this flag above the U.S. flag on the State Capitol the Confederate flag (the Stars & Bars) |
#616, aired 1987-04-20 | MOUNTAINS $1000: The Appalachians extend from Alabama to the Gaspe Peninsula of this Canadian province Quebec |
#614, aired 1987-04-16 | RELATIVES IN SONG $500: In Alabama's "Mountain Music", the 2 relatives mentioned in the chorus grandma and grandpa |
#603, aired 1987-04-01 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: City to which Martin Luther King Jr. marched with over 25,000 people in March 1965 Montgomery, Alabama |
#596, aired 1987-03-23 | COUNTRY MUSIC FIRSTS $400: 1st group to win CMA's Entertainer of the Year, they went on to be 1st to win 3 years in a row Alabama |
#566, aired 1987-02-09 | THE CIVIL WAR $600: Jefferson Davis was inaugurated in both these Confederate capitals Montgomery, Alabama & Richmond, Virginia |
#546, aired 1987-01-12 | U.S. CITIES $300: Called the "City of 6 Flags" because 6 governments have controlled it, it is Alabama's only seaport Mobile |
#545, aired 1987-01-09 | SURPRISING AUTHORS $600: Alabama senator Jeremiah Denton wrote of his ordeal as 1 of these in "When Hell was in Session" POW (prisoner of war) |
#534, aired 1986-12-25 | AMERICAN HISTORY $200: At 1 time Alabama's state capitol building also served as capitol of this the Confederacy |
#531, aired 1986-12-22 | U.S. CITIES $600: In 1952, rocket scientist Wernher von Braun made this Alabama city his home Huntsville |
#525, aired 1986-12-12 | PREACHERS $800: Foremost Catholic TV religious broadcaster today is this nun from Alabama Mother Angelica |
#515, aired 1986-11-28 | THE CIVIL WAR $400 (Daily Double): When capital of Confederacy moved to Virginia, representatives of this state had best reason to complain Alabama |
#507, aired 1986-11-18 | FOOTBALL $800: University whose teams have appeared in more bowl games than any other Alabama |
#505, aired 1986-11-14 | U.S. CITIES $800: Standing 55' high, the statue of Vulcan in this southern city is largest cast-iron statue in world Birmingham (Alabama) |
#502, aired 1986-11-11 | NAME CHANGES $400: In 1819, the southern towns New Philadelphia & E. Alabama merged to form this city, later a capital Montgomery |
#475, aired 1986-10-03 | FLAGS $1000: 1 of 2 southern states on whose state flag the Confederate Battle flag can be seen (1 of) Georgia or Mississippi |
#468, aired 1986-09-24 | HAVE A "HEART" $400: Alabama's nickname "Heart of Dixie" |
#460, aired 1986-09-12 | THE SOUTH IN SONG $400 (Daily Double): The 2 states mentioned in "Oh, Susanna!" Alabama and Louisiana |
#433, aired 1986-05-07 | FOOTBALL $1000: It's said more pro football players have come from this Southern university than any other Grambling |
#430, aired 1986-05-02 | THE BLUE & THE GRAY $400: Last Southern stronghold to surrender, it's Alabama's only port city Mobile |
#415, aired 1986-04-11 | U.S. HISTORY $400: Young pastor in Montgomery, Alabama who organized city-wide bus boycott protesting Rosa Parks' arrest Martin Luther King |
#411, aired 1986-04-07 | TRADE CENTERS $300: Noted for iron & steel, this Alabama city is called "The Pittsburgh of the South" Birmingham |
#407, aired 1986-04-01 | COLLEGE NICKNAMES $400: Harvard's nickname & team color, it makes their opponents see red the Crimson |
#399, aired 1986-03-20 | ALABAMA $100: Pleased it turned them away from cotton to other crops, Alabama farmers built monument to this insect a boll weevil |
#399, aired 1986-03-20 | ALABAMA $200: This region gets its name from its rich, dark soil, not a karate champ's symbol a Black Belt |
#399, aired 1986-03-20 | ALABAMA $300: In 1967, she became only the 3rd woman governor in U.S. history Lurleen Wallace |
#398, aired 1986-03-19 | UNIVERSITIES $200: For over 20 years, this southern university's football team was coached by Bear Bryant Alabama (Crimson Tide) |
#345, aired 1986-01-03 | AFRICA $200 (Daily Double): Group which had a No. 1 hit with this 1982 song:
"It's gonna take a lot to drag me away from you /
There's nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do /
I bless the rains down in Africa /
Gonna take some time to do the things we never had..." Toto |
#325, aired 1985-12-06 | STUPID ANSWERS $500: Word emblazoned in large letters in the center of the seal of Huntsville, Alabama Seal |
#290, aired 1985-10-18 | FAMOUS FIRSTS $600: 1st state to elect a woman governor Wyoming |
#277, aired 1985-10-01 | U.S. STATES $200: While New York is the Empire State of the north, this is "The Empire State of the South" Georgia |
#273, aired 1985-09-25 | STARTS WITH "A" $500 (Daily Double): Of 4 U.S states beginning with "A", the last alphabetically Arkansas |
#262, aired 1985-09-10 | U.S. STATES $400: State usually called 1st at presidential conventions because it's 1st in alphabetical order Alabama |
#191, aired 1985-06-03 | THE '50s $800: On Dec. 1, 1955, Rosa Parks refused to do this in Montgomery, Alabama ride in the back of the bus (give up her seat) |
#180, aired 1985-05-17 | AMERICAN INDIANS $800: State whose name comes from 2 Choctaw words meaning "red people" Oklahoma |
#156, aired 1985-04-15 | COLLEGE NICKNAMES $300: The Crimson Tide Alabama |
#130, aired 1985-03-08 | U.S. STATES $400: Nicknamed "The Heart of Dixie," its capital served as a capital of the Confederacy Alabama |
#127, aired 1985-03-05 | COLLEGES $400: Alabama univ. founded by Booker T. Washington Tuskegee Institute |
#127, aired 1985-03-05 | COLLEGES $800: The University of Miami is in Florida, while Miami University is in this state Ohio |
#115, aired 1985-02-15 | TRADE CENTERS $500: The south's "Rocket City, U.S.A.", it's the center of missile production Huntsville, Alabama |
#95, aired 1985-01-18 | 1956 $200: Martin Luther King, Jr. 1st gained prominence leading bus boycott in this Alabama city Montgomery |
#94, aired 1985-01-17 | SPORTS NICKNAMES $200: Alabama football coach whose 323 wins is most of all time the "Bear" (Bryant) |
#91, aired 1985-01-14 | COUNTRY MUSIC $100: Their 1st album was called "My Home's in Alabama" Alabama |
#11, aired 1984-09-24 | STATES IN SONG $100: It's where I came from with a banjo on my knee Alabama |
Adam Pinson, a senior at the University of Alabama at Birmingham from Pinson, Alabama
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2005 College Championship 1st runner-up: $50,000. Won $100,000 on Who Wants...
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Kate Wilson, a high school AP English teacher from Montgomery, Alabama
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"She is a top-10 AP English language teacher at Alabama's number-one...
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Kathy Daum, a retired registrar and volunteer from Montevallo, Alabama
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Season 22 player (2006-06-01).
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Rotimi Kukoyi, a sophomore health policy and management major at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from Hoover, Alabama
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2023 Second Chance competition 2nd runner-up: $10,000. 2018 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist:...
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Rotimi Kukoyi, a freshman from Hoover, Alabama
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2023 Second Chance competition 2nd runner-up: $10,000. 2018 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist:...
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Robin Woolsey, a high school English teacher from Oxford, Alabama
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Season 27 1-time champion: $5,500 + $2,000.
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Brenda Clark, a sales manager from Phenix City, Alabama
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Season 3 1-time champion: $7,100. In her first appearance, Brenda was...
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Sunny Stalter, an English professor from Auburn, Alabama
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Season 28 2-time champion: $36,200 + $2,000.
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Shane Underwood, a junior at the University of Alabama from Summerdale, Alabama
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1998 College Championship second runner-up: $10,000.
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Willie Chriesman, a media consultant and independent producer from Birmingham, Alabama
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Season 23 player (2007-01-08).
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Don Minyard, a forensic accountant from Hoover, Alabama
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Season 22 1-time champion: $15,300 + $2,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: Don Minyard
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Rich Hartz, a food bank agency coordinator from Huntsville, Alabama
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Season 21 player (2004-09-07).
KJL game 40.
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Austin Mercadante, a graduate student of ornithology from Auburn, Alabama
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Season 26 player (2009-09-21).
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Barry McKnight, a sportscaster from Auburn, Alabama
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Season 20 player (2004-01-22). Play-by-play voice of the Troy (Alabama) University...
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Will Warren, a senior from the University of Alabama
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2010-A College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. Hometown: Madison, Alabama. Will Warren Blog...
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Zac Showers, a college English professor from Geneva County, Alabama
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Season 25 player (2008-12-03).
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Eric Allen, a video game merchandiser from Birmingham, Alabama
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Season 22 1-time champion: $15,201 + $1,000. The official Jeopardy! web...
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Jennifer Kelly, a college instructor from Madison, Alabama
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Season 22 player (2006-02-03).
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Wendy Kautz, a stay-at-home mom and online college professor from Helena, Alabama
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Season 22 player (2006-01-24).
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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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Charles Barkley, a former pro basketball player from Turner Network Television
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"He won 2 Olympic gold medals while playing for America's "Dream...
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Lindsay Eanet, a senior from the University of Missouri
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2010-A College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. Hometown: Deerfield, Illinois. Last name pronounced...
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Mark Dawson, a business manager from Chamblee, Georgia
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"In 2003, he became the first to win a quarter of...
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Lee Henry, a high school teacher from Arab, Alabama
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Season 41 player (2025-04-02).
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Jake Garrett, a football coach and teacher from Trussville, Alabama
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2023 Second Chance competition semifinalist: $3,000.
Season 39 player (2023-03-20).
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Riley Westmoreland, a college admission officer from Birmingham, Alabama
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Season 35 player (2018-09-14).
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Brett Aresco, a writer and content strategist from Fairhope, Alabama
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Season 41 player (2025-03-17).
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Karen Gieger, an accountant and mom from Mobile, Alabama
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Season 35 player (2019-02-01).
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Chloe Arnett, a preschool teacher from Lake View, Alabama
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Season 36 player (2020-03-09).
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Mononita Nur, an aerospace engineer from Huntsville, Alabama
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Season 36 player (2019-10-21).
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Melissa Anthony, a graduate student from Fairhope, Alabama
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Season 34 player (2018-05-03).
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Salomé Gonstad, a freelance writer from Hanceville, Alabama
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Season 35 player (2019-06-06).
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Matt Preston, an assets protection leader from Harvest, Alabama
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Season 34 2-time champion: $25,998 + $2,000.
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James Cross, a graduate student of computer science originally from Auburn, Alabama
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Season 30 player (2013-10-25).
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Cecil Rose, a computer programmer originally from Sheffield, Alabama
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Season 5 player (1989-04-14). Cecil died 2015-05-14. Cecil appeared on The...
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Roy Wood Jr., a comedian and actor originally from Birmingham, Alabama
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"He's an actor and comedian currently hosting CNN's Have I Got...
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Megan Burr, a manager of film acquisitions originally from Guntersville, Alabama
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Season 39 player (2022-11-24).
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Kelvin Smith, a Ph.D. student from Birmingham, Alabama
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Season 34 player (2017-11-02).
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Allan Ashley, a retired engineer from Huntsville, Alabama
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Season 33 player (2017-06-30).
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Andrew Whatley, an academic administrator originally from Beauregard, Alabama
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2023 Second Chance competition semifinalist: $2,000.
Season 39 player (2023-01-11).
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Jack Gutshall, a college student from Hoover, Alabama
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Season 36 player (2019-09-13).
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Vince Pool, a registered respiratory therapist from Mobile, Alabama
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Season 11 1-time champion: $5,500.
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Zach Dark, an investment analyst from Hoover, Alabama
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Season 34 2-time champion: $48,201 + $2,000.
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Joe Alley, a student originally from Huntsville, Alabama
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Season 2 2-time champion: $9,199.
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Jake Garrett, a football coach and teacher from Trussville, Alabama
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2023 Second Chance competition semifinalist: $2,000.
Season 39 player (2023-03-20).
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Drew Tompkins, a legal software consultant originally from Montgomery, Alabama
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Season 28 player (2011-12-21).
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Silas Crawford, an attorney from Jacksonville, Florida
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Season 28 player (2011-12-15).
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Jeff Gorham, an accountant from Richmond, Virginia
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Season 27 1-time champion: $14,001 + $1,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: SpacemanSpiff
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Anna Muthalaly, a junior at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina
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2022 National College Championship quarterfinalist: $10,000. Anna was majoring in public...
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Jeff Raines, a writer originally from Birmingham, Alabama
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Season 7 1-time champion: $9,601.
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Kristin Morgan, a strategic analyst for NASA from Huntsville, Alabama
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2013 Tournament of Champions 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $50,000.
Season 29 5-time champion: $69,098 + $2,000.
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Ellen Turner, an office machine dealer from Mobile, Alabama
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Season 2 player (1986-01-22).
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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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Alice Jackson, an adjunct instructor of art history from Birmingham, Alabama
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Season 27 player (2010-12-28).
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Sam Fleming, a retired high school science teacher from Chickasaw, Alabama
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Season 27 player (2011-06-20).
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Howard Goldstein, a music professor from Auburn, Alabama
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Season 11 2-time champion: $27,200.
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Kristin Morgan, a strategic analyst for NASA from Huntsville, Alabama
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2013 Tournament of Champions 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $50,000.
Season 29 5-time champion: $69,098 + $2,000.
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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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Lee Wilkins, a regulatory affairs coordinator from Auburn, Alabama
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Season 40 1-time champion: $2,200 + $2,000.
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Gina Armstrong, a web designer from Anniston, Alabama
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Season 29 player (2012-12-24).
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Justin Tarbox, a software engineer from Hoover, Alabama
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Season 39 player (2022-09-13).
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Tom Canterbury, a radio promotions director from Tuscaloosa, Alabama
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Season 29 player (2013-03-14).
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Martha McClendon, an insurance administrator originally from Guntersville, Alabama
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Season 7 player (1990-11-21).
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Susie O'Gorman, a homemaker from Mobile, Alabama
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Season 37 player (2021-06-04).
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Kareem Crayton, a junior from Montgomery, Alabama
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1991 Teen Tournament semifianlist: $5,000
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Laura Jansen, a graduate student from Montgomery, Alabama
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Season 16 player (1999-09-30).
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Andy Thomas, a U.S. Air Force nurse originally from Huntsville, Alabama
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Season 20 1-time champion: $27,100 + $2,000.
Also referred to as Major Andy Thomas.
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Oliver Sherouse, a junior from Montgomery, Alabama
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2004 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $5,000 + a computer package.
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Jean Parker, a bartender from Montgomery, Alabama
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Season 31 player (2014-12-16).
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Shannon Champion, a homemaker from Birmingham, Alabama
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Season 12 player (1996-05-03).
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Megan Green, a kennel manager from Gadsden, Alabama
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Season 16 player (2000-03-06).
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: Valkyrie
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Elena Stuewe, a resident physician from Birmingham, Alabama
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Season 33 player (2016-09-23).
Name pronounced like "uh-LENN-uh STEW-wee".
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Michael Sieja, a sophomore at Mississippi State University from Huntsville, Alabama
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2016 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. Michael tied with Hannah Norem and...
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Cason Butterworth, a bartender from Trussville, Alabama
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Season 17 1-time champion: $10,900.
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Sherri Rowton, an alumni and development coordinator from Auburn, Alabama
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Season 18 player (2001-11-06).
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Brandon Powell, a contracting officer from Huntsville, Alabama
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Season 31 2-time champion $38,788 + $2,000.
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Marion Montgomery, a library assistant from Huntsville, Alabama
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Season 33 player (2017-02-03).
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Jaclyn Whitehorn, a user service consultant from Tuscaloosa, Alabama
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Season 18 player (2001-12-07).
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: jaclyn
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Thomas Phillips, a graduate student originally from Greenville, Alabama
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Season 31 1-time champion: $10,800 + $1,000.
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Ed Hagar, a director of compensation from Mobile, Alabama
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Season 30 player (2014-04-09).
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Sidney Evans, Jr., an electrical instrumentation technician from Mobile, Alabama
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Season 6 player (1989-11-22).
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George Nelson, a senior from Montgomery, Alabama
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2002 Teen Tournament 1st runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $29,497. George was...
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Darrell Hagler, a graduate teaching assistant from Tuscaloosa, Alabama
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Season 17 player (2001-04-19).
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Mike Varn, an economist and forecaster originally from Anniston, Alabama
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Season 6 player (1989-10-02).
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Chris Knight, a copywriter from Birmingham, Alabama
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Season 22 1-time champion: $20,800 + $2,000.
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Clay Walls, a university honors program manager from Birmingham, Alabama
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Season 30 1-time champion: $7,199 + $1,000.
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Suzel MacCallum, a homemaker and part-time student from Dothan, Alabama
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Season 18 player (2001-10-10).
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Lizzie Turner, a student originally from Birmingham, Alabama
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Season 32 player (2016-01-07).
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Darren Harris-Fain, an English professor from Prattville, Alabama
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Season 31 3-time champion: $63,000 + $1,000.
JBoard user name: dharrisf
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Chris Weltz, a medical resident from Birmingham, Alabama
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Season 14 player (1998-04-07).
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Karmie Johnson, a registered nurse from Birmingham, Alabama
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Season 22 player (2006-05-05).
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Andrew Smith, an aerospace engineer from Madison, Alabama
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Season 31 player (2015-01-28). Not to be confused with Season 21...
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Rodney Waites, a law school administrator from Tuscaloosa, Alabama
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Season 22 player (2006-04-19).
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: rodneywaites
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Heather Goodlett, a sophomore from Hanceville, Alabama
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2004 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $5,000
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Carter Spires, a law student originally from Birmingham, Alabama
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Season 32 2-time champion: $31,200 + $2,000.
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Eric Turner, a senior from Vanderbilt University from Huntsville, Alabama
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2014 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000.
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Kenesha Bennett, a senior from Oakwood University from Huntsville, Alabama
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2014 College Championship quarterfinalist: $10,000.
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Anne Eskridge, a child care administrator originally from Mobile, Alabama
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Season 7 player (1991-03-28).
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Sharath Narayan, a sophomore from Madison, Alabama
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2016 Teen Tournament winner (semifinalist by wildcard): $100,000. Sharath won $55,000...
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Shawn Askew, a Space Camp counselor and student from Huntsville, Alabama
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Season 14 1-time champion: $12,800 + a Maurice Lacroix watch.
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Regina Sutton, a customer service representative from Birmingham, Alabama
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Season 17 player (2000-10-30).
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Elizabeth Perkins, an actress from Weeds
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"For the past five seasons, she's played the calculating and manipulative...
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Katie Bruton, a grad student and European history teaching assistant from Huntsville, Alabama
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Season 26 player (2010-06-28).
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Rachel Pildis, a software developer from Oak Park, Illinois
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Season 26 1-time champion: $12,000 + $2,000. Rachel Pildis - A...
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William English, an overnight grocery stocker from Mobile, Alabama
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Season 26 player (2009-10-28).
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Charles Hurst, a Navy Supply Corps officer originally from Henagar, Alabama, now stationed at Keflavik, Iceland
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Season 15/Armed Forces Week player (1999-06-29).
Rank: Lieutenant.
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Brian Stack, a file clerk from Fultondale, Alabama
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Season 25 player (2009-02-13).
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Colette Windish, a French professor from Mobile, Alabama
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Season 25 player (2009-04-17).
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Will Webster, an attorney originally from Decatur, Alabama
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Season 11 player (1994-12-28).
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Elizabeth Perkins, an actress from Big and Weeds
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2009 Celebrity Jeopardy! player: $25,000 to the New England Learning Center...
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Tommy Maranges, a junior from Fort Lauderdale, Florida
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2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games quarterfinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time...
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Terri Ross, a travel agent from Birmingham, Alabama
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Season 16 player (2000-04-11).
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Shawn Freeman, a call center manager from Birmingham, Alabama
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Season 17 player (2000-09-25).
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Cindy Nobles, a pharmacist from Tarrant, Alabama
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Season 16 player (2000-06-09).
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Bryan Marcus, a sales clerk from Montevallo, Alabama
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Season 16 2-time champion: $12,199.
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George Keller, from Alabama
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Season 17 player (2000-09-19).
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Helen Bracken, a collection representative from Huntsville, Alabama
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Season 14 player (1998-01-15).
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Joan Lankford, a registered nurse originally from Huntsville, Alabama
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Season 14 player (1997-12-22).
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Greg Denny, a lawyer from Hoover, Alabama
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Season 14 player (1998-02-23).
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Ashley Mason, a pre-med student originally from Gadsden, Alabama
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Season 14 player (1998-02-16). Won $17,550 on Who Wants to Be...
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Craig Smith, a musician from Maylene, Alabama
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Season 22 player (2006-01-05).
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Margaret Boben, a homemaker and student from Fairhope, Alabama
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Season 15 player (1998-10-12).
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Pete Brown, a U.S. Coast Guard officer from Mobile, Alabama
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Season 6 player (1990-04-19).
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Richard Morris, a senior from Auburn, Alabama
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1990 Teen Tournament 2nd runner-up: $11,799.
Brother of 1991 College Championship semifinalist David Morris.
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Abby Knight, a stay-at-home mom from Rainbow City, Alabama
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Season 15 player (1999-05-24).
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Kimberly Bartlett, a senior from the University of Alabama
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1991 College Championship semifinalist: $5,000.
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Bob Shore, an attorney from Los Angeles, California
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Season 21 2-time champion: $47,602 + $2,000. Proponent of Shore's Conjecture....
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