| #9064, aired 2024-03-21 | NOTABLE NAMES $800: Called "the pastor to the presidents", he met with 12 sitting ones from Harry Truman to Barack Obama Graham |
| #9047, aired 2024-02-27 | INAUGURAL ADDRESSES $2,800 (Daily Double): Taft talked of the building of this "controlled by Colonel Goethals & his fellow Army engineers" the Panama Canal |
| #9034, aired 2024-02-08 | PASTOR BROWN'S CHURCH NEWSLETTER CROSSWORD $400: Eucharist bread
(4 letters) host |
| #9034, aired 2024-02-08 | PASTOR BROWN'S CHURCH NEWSLETTER CROSSWORD $800: Don't go to Helvetica! Use a baptismal one
(4 letters) font |
| #9034, aired 2024-02-08 | PASTOR BROWN'S CHURCH NEWSLETTER CROSSWORD $1200: What a "bully" church podium!
(6 letters) pulpit |
| #9034, aired 2024-02-08 | PASTOR BROWN'S CHURCH NEWSLETTER CROSSWORD $1600: Pastor B. wants your money to slide into this plate
(10 letters) collection |
| #9034, aired 2024-02-08 | PASTOR BROWN'S CHURCH NEWSLETTER CROSSWORD $2000: An arm of a cruciform-shaped church
(8 letters) the transept |
| #9008, aired 2024-01-03 | STARTS & ENDS WITH "T" $1000: Joel Osteen's résumé includes author, pastor & this 13-letter word televangelist |
| #9003, aired 2023-12-27 | VÁMONOS A MEXICO! $800: The origins of this taco filling seen here that means "shepherd style" is linked to Lebanese immigrants in Mexico al pastor |
| #8960, aired 2023-10-27 | THE LAST SUPPER $1000: Traditionally the Last Supper is thought to have taken place on this day of the week Thursday |
| #8542, aired 2021-12-28 | STREETS OF AMERICA $800: Sixth Street in this Texas city keeps things weird with places like Lazarus Brewing, started by a pastor who loves beer Austin |
| #8410, aired 2021-05-28 | THE 18th CENTURY $2,200 (Daily Double): The Rev.William Tennent, pastor of Freehold, N.J., helped launch this "Great" religious revival the Great Awakening |
| #7799, aired 2018-07-05 | RICK & MORTY $2000: Part of the purpose driven life of this evangelical pastor was founding the Saddleback megachurch Rick Warren |
| #7587, aired 2017-09-12 | VICKI LEAKS $600: In Houston with husband Joel, Victoria Osteen is a "co-" one of these, from the Latin for "shepherd" pastor |
| #7414, aired 2016-12-01 | JOEL $800: In "Become a Better You", this popular TV pastor offers "7 keys to improving your life every day" Joel Osteen |
| #7297, aired 2016-05-10 | "ON" THE MIDDLE $800: Type of "reading" that alternates a line by a pastor & by the congregation responsive |
| #7250, aired 2016-03-04 | U.S. LIBRARIES $1200: Follow his journey from humble farm boy to "America's Pastor" at his library in Charlotte, North Carolina Billy Graham |
| #7225, aired 2016-01-29 | SENIOR-ITIS $800: This "senior" pastor was born with the first name Michael but changed that to Martin & did the same for his son Martin Luther King |
| #7156, aired 2015-10-26 | PEOPLE WITH BIBLE BOOK NAMES $400: Pastor Osteen;
one of film's Coen brothers Joel |
| #6949, aired 2014-11-27 | YO, JOHANN! $1600: 19th century pastor Johann David Wyss & his son wrote this children's book about a shipwrecked clan Swiss Family Robinson |
| #6874, aired 2014-07-03 | THE GHOST OF TOM JOAD $800: ...recalls traveling with Jim Casy, who talks about the "holy sperit" & is called this, similar to a minister preacher |
| #6648, aired 2013-07-10 | NONFICTION $1000: This pastor has written the inspirational books "Become a Better You" and "Your Best Life Begins Each Morning" (Joel) Osteen |
| #6648, aired 2013-07-10 | OCCUPATIONAL VERBS $2000: As a noun it means a clergyman; as a verb it's to attend to another's needs minister |
| #6513, aired 2013-01-02 | BRITANNICA BIOS: "A" $2000: "Pastor and civil rights leader who was Martin Luther King's chief aide and closest associate" Ralph Abernathy |
| #6497, aired 2012-12-11 | LET'S GO CAROLING $4,000 (Daily Double): The view of a certain Middle Eastern city inspired Pastor Phillips Brooks to write this carol in 1868 "O Little Town Of Bethlehem" |
| #6389, aired 2012-05-31 | "MIS"QUOTES $400: In 1715 British pastor Isaac Watts wrote, "For Satan finds some" this "still for idle hands to do" mischief |
| #6324, aired 2012-03-01 | IN THE BOOKSTORE $1600: In an inspiring story, Colton Burpo, the young son of a Nebraska pastor, tells readers this place "is for real" heaven |
| #5717, aired 2009-06-16 | BALLETS ALEX COULD STAR IN $1000: I'll watch out for the ax when I play the young pastor who comforts this accused heroine in "Fall River Legend" Lizzie Borden |
| #5680, aired 2009-04-24 | FICTION $400: A newspaper article, "Pastor Tells Eerie Tale of 'Haunted' Boy", partly inspired this 1971 bestseller The Exorcist |
| #5463, aired 2008-05-14 | FAMOUS COLLEGE DROPOUTS $2000: This inspirational TV pastor dropped out of Oral Roberts University before writing the bestseller "Your Best Life Now" Joel Osteen |
| #5409, aired 2008-02-28 | WORD ORIGINS $400: This other term for a pastor is derived from the Middle Latin word persona parson |
| #5311, aired 2007-10-15 | CHILE DOGS $800: Any lassie in Chile could tell you that this dog is un perro de pastor escoces a collie |
| #5311, aired 2007-10-15 | CHILE DOGS $2,000 (Daily Double): Chile dogs include the pastor aleman, this breed the German shepherd |
| #5097, aired 2006-11-07 | GET YOUR LITERARY FACTS STRAIGHT $1000: Ivan Turgenev wrote "A Month in the Country"; Alan Paton wrote this story of a South African pastor & his son Cry, the Beloved Country |
| #4479, aired 2004-02-12 | LITERATURE $3,000 (Daily Double): A pastor, his wife & 4 sons have an adventure when they are shipwrecked on an island in this family tale "The Swiss Family Robinson" |
| #3832, aired 2001-04-10 | NOTORIOUS $1000: This 1930's radio personality, seen here, was pastor of the Shrine of the Little Flower in Royal Oak, Michigan Father Charles Coughlin |
| #3771, aired 2001-01-15 | MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. $1000: (Yolanda King speaking) In 1960 my father, MLK Jr., joined my grandfather as co-pastor of this Baptist church in Atlanta Ebenezer Baptist Church |
| #3653, aired 2000-06-21 | '90s MOVIES $500: Whitney Houston played the spouse of a New York pastor in this 1996 film The Preacher's Wife |
| #3551, aired 2000-01-31 | SERIAL NUMBERS $500: Broadcasting's longest-running serial, it began on radio 62 years ago as the story of a small-town pastor Guiding Light |
| #3503, aired 1999-11-24 | TV DETECTIVES $1000: Based on Ralph McInerny's character, this TV detective was the pastor of St. Michael's Parish Father Dowling |
| #3417, aired 1999-06-15 | CHURCHES $500: Even Scrooge might have enjoyed services at this Atlanta church where Martin Luther King was co-pastor Ebenezer Baptist Church |
| #3365, aired 1999-04-02 | NORMANS $800: We're "positive" this popular author was pastor of NYC's Marble Collegiate Reformed Church for 52 years Norman Vincent Peale |
| #3268, aired 1998-11-18 | THEY HAIL FROM BOSTON $1000: A onetime Unitarian pastor, he transcended with works like "Self-Reliance" & "The American Scholar" Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| #2560, aired 1995-10-20 | POTPOURRI $1000: Oberlin College in this state is named for Alsatian Lutheran pastor Johann Oberlin, who died in 1826 Ohio |
| #2462, aired 1995-04-25 | POTPOURRI $300: The house he owned as co-pastor of the Ebenezer Baptist Church stands on Sunset Ave. in Atlanta Martin Luther King |
| #2403, aired 1995-02-01 | 1956 $400: This 27-year-old pastor was found guilty of conspiracy in the Montgomery bus boycott Martin Luther King, Jr |
| #2304, aired 1994-09-15 | FAMOUS WOMEN $800: On completion of her Christian Science "Mother Church" in Boston, she took the title Pastor Emeritus Mary Baker Eddy |
| #2300, aired 1994-09-09 | RELIGION $400: Latin for "shepherd", it's the term often used for a minister who heads a flock or congregation the pastor |
| #2219, aired 1994-04-07 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1000: In the 1630s America's first Baptist church was established in Providence, Rhode Island by this pastor Roger Williams |
| #2155, aired 1994-01-07 | BLACK AMERICA $400: His burial site & the church where he served as assistant pastor are part of a historic district in Atlanta Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| #2142, aired 1993-12-21 | RELIGION $1000: In 1960 Martin Luther King. Jr. was made co-pastor with his father of this Atlanta church the Ebenezer Baptist Church |
| #1306, aired 1990-04-16 | FAMOUS JONESES $200: This pastor was chairman of the S.F. Municipal Housing Authority before he moved to Guyana in 1977 Jim Jones |
| #1134, aired 1989-07-06 | RELIGION $2,000 (Daily Double): He's pastor of the Thomas Road Baptist church in Lynchburg, Virginia Jerry Falwell |
| #1012, aired 1989-01-17 | WORDS $500: This word for a minister comes from the Latin for "shepherd" pastor |
| #884, aired 1988-06-09 | DIRECTORS $800: His father, a Lutheran pastor, was chaplain to Sweden's royal family Ingmar Bergman |
| #736, aired 1987-11-16 | AKA $300: Helen Louise Leonard got this stage name from Tony Pastor & her diamonds, we assume, from Jim Brady Lillian Russell |
| #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 |
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Melanie Baker-Streevy, a United Methodist pastor from Parma, Michigan
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Season 25 1-time champion: $26,900 + $1,000. Melanie Baker-Streevy - A...
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Eric Raygor, a pastor from Somerset, Pennsylvania
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Season 34 player (2018-01-24).
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Tim MacGowan, a pastor from Haymarket, Virginia
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Season 20 player (2004-05-19).
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Diane Mettam, a pastor from Independence, California
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Season 22 1-time champion: $19,400 + $1,000. As an accommodation for...
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Tommy Jordan, a pastor from Sylvania, Arkansas
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Season 27 player (2010-10-20).
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Al Lindke, a pastor from Montrose, Michigan
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Season 21 player (2004-10-08).
KJL game 53.
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Mark Johnson, a pastor and hospice chaplain from Rolla, Missouri
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Season 35 player (2018-10-18). Not to be confused with Season 14...
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John Marsh, a pastor from Edgewater, Florida
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Season 37 player (2021-05-10).
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Emily Brown, a pastor from Hastings-on-Hudson, New York
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Season 35 player (2018-09-18). Emily wore a clerical collar for her...
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Jeff Davidson, a pastor originally from Dayton, Ohio
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Season 11 player (1995-06-02).
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Ben Hatch, a pastor from Houston, Texas
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Season 35 player (2019-06-12).
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John Ortberg, a pastor originally from Rockford, Illinois
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Season 1 player (1985-01-17).
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Mary Garvey, a pastor from Huntingdon, Pennsylvania
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Season 38 player (2021-10-13).
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Keith Hunsinger, a pastor developer from Lakeland, Florida
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Season 5 player (1988-10-24).
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Erick Loh, a pastor from Northridge, California
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2023 Champions Wildcard quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Season 37 1-time champion: $21,000 + $1,000.
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Erick Loh, a pastor from Northridge, California
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2023 Champions Wildcard quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Season 37 1-time champion: $21,000 + $1,000.
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Ted Cockley, a Lutheran pastor
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Season 8 player (1991-11-22). The recording used to archive the game...
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Dave Simpson, a pastor from Belcamp, Maryland
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2009 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 24 4-time champion:...
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Dave Simpson, a pastor from Belcamp, Maryland
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2009 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 24 4-time champion:...
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Bill Matheny, a Catholic priest from Wheeling, West Virginia
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Season 29 player (2013-06-11). Bill was a fastest finger competitor on...
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Ron Cratty, a pastor from Claremont, California
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Season 4 player (1987-12-08).
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Scott Hatton, a pastor from Mundelein, Illinois
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Season 18 player (2002-04-29).
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Elizabeth Troyer, a pastor from Charlotte, North Carolina
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Season 33 1-time champion: $3,399 + $1,000.
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Carl Eeman, a pastor from St. Louis Park, Minnesota
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Season 13 1-time champion: $10,300.
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Cory Hartman, a pastor from Passaic, New Jersey
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Season 23 1-time champion: $29,200 + $1,000.
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Craig Miller, a pastor from San Bernardino, California
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Season 3 player (1987-07-07).
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Clay Brown, a Presbyterian pastor from Mooresville, North Carolina
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Season 25 player (2009-03-05).
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Katie Orphan, a freshman at Whitworth College from Reno, Nevada
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2002 College Championship semifinalist: $5,000.
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Gavin Dluehosh, a pastor from Valley Springs, California
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Season 25 player (2009-02-20).
Last name pronounced like "duh-LOO-hosh".
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Ryan Rupe, a Lutheran pastor from Pearland, Texas
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Season 16 player (1999-12-16).
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Matt Pensinger, a pastor from Hanover, Pennsylvania
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Season 24 1-time champion: $13,500 + $2,000.
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Bill Shields, a Lutheran pastor from Pontiac, Illinois
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Season 17 2-time champion: $24,799.
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Joseph Crippen, a Lutheran pastor from Northfield, Minnesota
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Season 16 1-time champion: $19,601.
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