J-Winner
BASS A 1967 tournament of 106 fishermen evolved into this "classic" tournament with a half million dollar prize to the winner
Bassmaster Classic
MISS UNIVERSE 1980's winner, Shawn Weatherly, was lifeguard Jill Watson on this TV show's first season
Baywatch
GRAMMY WINNERS To Kanye West's dismay, this man's "Morning Phase" was named Album of the Year in 2015
Beck
NOBEL LITERATURE PRIZE WINNERS 1969: This playwright: did they keep him waiting?
Beckett
DYNASTIES Oscar-winner Ed begat frequent Emmy nominee Ed Jr.
Begley
"H" NAMES Born in Dublin, Texas in 1912, this 4-time U.S. Open winner had his own line of golf equipment
Ben Hogan
ACTORS & THEIR ROLES In 1989 this Oscar winner starred in HBO's "Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story"
Ben Kingsley (won Oscar for "Gandhi" in 1982)
THE OSCARS "Gladiator" is close, but this film has the earliest historical setting of any Best Picture Oscar winner
Ben-Hur
BIO-SPHERE As he is the subject of 1918 & 1939 Pulitzer Prize winners, perhaps the books should be read with bifocals
Benjamin Franklin
THE NIFTY 1930s 1934 was the first year for this Oscar category, & the winner was "The Continental"
Best Song
TRIUMPH In 2009 Stump the 10-year-old Sussex spaniel became the oldest winner of this Westminster Kennel Club top honor
Best in Show
AWARD-WINNERS She became the 1st woman to win an Emmy for hosting a game show, for her "Just Men" series in 1983
Betty White
HU, WATT, WARE, NGUYEN & WYE As a junior at the University of Houston, this Heisman Trophy winner threw 46 TDs; his NFL career total was only 5
Andre Ware
NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS It doesn't take a nuclear physicist to figure out that he won the 1975 Nobel Peace Prize
Andrei Sakharov
CONDUCTORS The <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/1987-04-07_DJ_28.mp3">following</a> was early '60s pop hit for this 3-time Oscar winner, now a renowned conductor:
André Previn
LITERARY TOURISM This memoir, winner of a 1997 Pulitzer Prize, has made Limerick a hot tourist destination
Angela's Ashes
BASEBALL MOVIES In this 1994 movie celestial spirits turn Danny Glover's losing team into a winner
Angels In The Outfield
THE OSCARS Her supporting actress win for 1993's "The Piano" made her the 2nd-youngest winner of a competitive Oscar
Anna Paquin
OSCAR WINNERS' RHYME TIME Paquin's plantains
Anna's bananas
PULITZER-PRIZE WINNING WOMEN Sadly, like her friend & fellow poet Sylvia Plath, this winner for "Live or Die" died by her own hand, in 1974
Anne Sexton
BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS In this 1977 woody Allen-Diane Keaton film, author Truman Capote had an uncredited bit as a Truman Capote look-alike
Annie Hall
POP CULTURE Sigourney Weaver made her debut as "Alvy's date outside theater" in this 1977 Oscar winner
Annie Hall
THE TONY AWARDS There has never been a Tony award winner for best musical set on either of these 2 continents
Antarctica and Australia
HALLMARK HALL OF FAME He’s the knighted Oscar-winner behind all the makeup in the 1982 presentation seen <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2006-09-27_DJ_24.wmv">here</a>
Anthony Hopkins
OSCAR WINNERS ONSTAGE He played the psychiatrist in "Equus" before he played Hannibal Lecter, who needed a psychiatrist
Anthony Hopkins
ACTORS & THEIR ROLES In 1960 this Irish-Mexican Oscar-winner originated the role of King Henry II in "Becket"
Anthony Quinn
ROCK AROUND AMERICA Dionne Warwick, the Ronettes & the Jackson Five are all past "Amateur Night" winners at this Harlem theatre
Apollo Theatre
DANCING WITH THE STARS WINNERS It's no myth--this champion speed skater took the gold in season 4
Apolo Ohno
AWARDS In 1979 Philip Johnson was the first winner of the Pritzker Prize in this field
Architecture
NATIONAL MEDAL OF ARTS WINNERS Singers honored in 1999: Odetta, Lydia Mendoza, & her--show her some R-E-S-P-E-C-T!
Aretha Franklin
PULITZER PRIZE WINNERS Will Durant shared a Pulitzer for "Rousseau and Revolution" with this woman, his wife
Ariel
BEST ACTOR OSCAR WINNERS 1974 for "Harry and Tonto"
Art Carney
AWARDS Winners of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama include <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2008-02-15_J_16.jpg" target="_blank">this</a> playwright, for "Death of a Salesman"
Arthur Miller
JASON MILLER Jason played this fellow playwright, also a Pulitzer Prize winner, in the 1980 TV movie "Marilyn: The Untold Story"
Arthur Miller
STATE CAPITAL BIRTHPLACES Nobel Prize winner Martin Luther King, Jr.
Atlanta
COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES In 2010 Cam Newton became this university's third Heisman Trophy winner
Auburn
EMMY-WINNING GUEST APPEARANCES At 88, she became the oldest primetime Emmy winner ever, taking the prize for hosting "Saturday Night Live"
Betty White
THE EMMYS 1976 Best Supporting Comedy Actress winner who played Sue Ann Nivens on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show"
Betty White
NATIONAL MEDAL OF ARTS WINNERS George Strait, Tommy Tune & this children's author of the Ramona Quimby books were honored in 2003
Beverly Cleary
OSCAR WINNER BEFORE & AFTER A "timely" London landmark turns into an actor who won for a 1982 biopic
Big Ben Kingsley
SINGING ACTORS In 2001 this Oscar winner sang "Angelina", a romantic tribute to his fifth wife, on his album "Private Radio"
Billy Bob Thornton
BEFORE & AFTER "Sling Blade" Oscar winner who won a Pulitzer for "The Skin of Our Teeth"
Billy Bob Thornton Wilder
FOREIGN FILMS 1959 grand prize winner at Cannes, it set the legend of Orpheus & Eurydice during carnival in Rio
Black Orpheus
SPORTS In the Preakness, mums are painted to resemble this out-of-season "bruised" daisy on the winner's blanket
Black-eyed Susan
ARTS NEWS 2009 In London Oscar winner Rachel Weisz took on this iconic stage role in "A Streetcar Named Desire"
Blanche DuBois
PALME D'OR WINNERS 1974's winner "The Conversation" is an homage to this 1967 winner by Michelangelo Antonioni
Blow-Up
CANNE PALME D'OR WINNERS(Alex: Movies, of course.) 83.875 "____ Is the Warmest Color"
Blue
HEISMAN TROPHY WINNERS Bo knows that this Auburn running back & Heisman winner played MLB for 8 years, hitting 141 home runs
Bo Jackson
EMMY FACTS This director is the only Emmy winner also to win a Tony & an Oscar the same year; his Oscar was for "Cabaret"
Bob Fosse
AN AUGUSTA PERSONALITY Both the course & the tournament were created by this 1920s icon, the only single-season winner of golf's Grand Slam
Bobby Jones
SULLIVAN AWARD WINNERS 1930: Golfing Grand Slam winner
Bobby Jones
RECORD OF THE YEAR GRAMMY WINNERS 1988 for "Don't Worry Be Happy"
Bobby McFerrin
PARENT & CHILD NOBEL WINNERS Last name of father & son Niels & Aage, who both won the Nobel Prize in Physics; Aage was born the year his dad won
Bohr
SPORTS In 1985, at 17, he became Wimbledon's youngest & only unseeded winner of men's singles
Boris Becker
NOBEL LIT WINNERS, INITIALLY YOURS 1958: B.P., Russia
Boris Pasternak
WOMEN IN SPORTS In 1996 Uta Pippig was the women's winner in this U.S. race for the third straight year
Boston Marathon
SONG & MOVIE TITLES A 1979 song from The Cure; later, the title of Hilary Swank's first Oscar winner
Boys Don't Cry
BEST ACTOR OSCAR WINNERS 1938: Spencer Tracy for this heartfelt drama
Boys Town
BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS Mel Gibson won Oscars for producing & directing this 1995 Best Picture
Braveheart
ONE-WORD BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS An historic Scotsman's nickname
Braveheart
THE ACADEMY AWARDS 1 of the 2 Best Picture winners in the 1990s with one-word titles
Braveheart or Unforgiven
BASEBALL In 1996 this Atlanta team's John Smoltz was named the NL's Cy Young Award winner
Braves
2010 EMMY WINNERS Know what Emmy voters like? Meth & murder! OK, not really, but they loved Aaron Paul as Jesse Pinkman on this AMC show
Breaking Bad
A PINT OF ALEC GUINNESS It's the 1957 Best Picture winner for which Guinness won his best actor Oscar as Col. Nicholson
Bridge on the River Kwai
TONY WINNERS OF THE '40s Agnes de Mille won in 1947 for choreographing this musical & maybe in 100 years she'll win again for it
Brigadoon
DANCING WITH THE STARS WINNERS "She's got the look", she's got the co-host gig & she's also got the trophy from season 7
Brooke Burke
EMMY REPEAT WINNERS? <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2009-09-18_J_14.jpg" target="_blank">He</a> left the sitcom world to earn the 2008 Emmy for Lead Actor in a Drama Series & is nominated again in 2009
Bryan Cranston
EDGAR AWARD WINNERS He won in the Best Fact Crime category for such works as "Helter Skelter" & "Till Death Us Do Part"
Bugliosi
REBELS WITH A CAUSE For 2 decades, Nobel Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi has been the focal point of resistance to this country's ruling regime
Burma
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNERS We wonder if it was a difficult decision to name this William Styron novel the 1980 hardcover fiction winner
Sophie's Choice
THE ENTERTAINER'S TWITTER BIO This actor's bio reads: "born small...now huge... winning... bring it..! (unemployed winner...)"
Charlie Sheen
NOBEL CATEGORIES BY WINNER Peter Agre & Roderick MacKinnon (C'mon, it was just last year...)
Chemistry
NOBEL WINNERS BY CATEGORY Linus Pauling (the first time)
Chemistry
OSCAR WINNERS ONSTAGE She starred in "Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean..." onstage & on film before she was "Moonstruck"
Cher
THE 2015 NOBEL PRIZES Works by 2015 Literature winner Svetlana Alexievich include "Voices from" this now-radioactive location
Chernobyl
OSCAR NIGHT 2003 With 6 Academy Awards total, this adapted musical was the big winner on Oscar Night 2003
Chicago
THE BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNER "Chinatown", "Chicago", "Fargo"
Chicago
AWARDS & HONORS Sign language played a big part in this 1980 Tony Award winner for best play
Children of a Lesser God
THE MOVIES As the star of this film, Marlee Matlin became the first hearing-impaired Best Actress Oscar winner
Children of a Lesser God
NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS In 2000 Gao Xingjian became the first writer from this country to win the Nobel Prize for Literature
China
THE NEW YORK TIMES PULITZER PRIZE WINNERS Max Frankel won a 1973 Prize for his reporting on President Nixon's trip to this country
China
THE NEW YORK TIMES PULITZER WINNERS(Alex: And there have been a lot of them.) (I'm Hiroko Tabuchi.) As part of the Times staff, I won a Pulitzer Prize for our "iEconomy" series, which led to Apple improving working conditions for over 1 million people in this country
China
"E" BAY 1981 Wimbledon winner seen here:
Chris Evert
GOLDEN GLOBE WINNERS This man, for his supporting role in "The Fighter"
Christian Bale
SNL ALUMNI A two-time Tony winner, she also got big laughs as boozy cougar Carol on TBS's "Sullivan & Son"
Christine Ebersole
MOVIE DANCERS "Deer Hunter" Oscar-winner who surprised his fans with a striptease dance in "Pennies from Heaven"
Christopher Walken
THIS IS JEOPARDY! With a cash total of $172,800, he's Jeopardy!'s biggest winner ever
Chuck Forrest
NEWBERY MEDAL WINNERS 1970: This William Armstrong doggie tale of the Deep South
Sounder
DIRECTIONAL DIVERSIONS 1948 Pulitzer winner for Michener: "Tales of the _____ Pacific"
South
2003 NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS Of both Boer & English descent, J.M. Coetzee of this country won the Nobel for Literature
South Africa
TONY WINNERS OF THE '50s Bloody Mary was the girl the Tonys loved in 1950, when Juanita Hall won for playing her in this musical
South Pacific
CIVIL SERVICE In this "system" rampant in the 19th C., election winners filled the government with their supporters
Spoils system
NATIONAL MAGAZINE AWARD WINNERS It won for General Excellence in 1989, the year of its 25th anniversary swimsuit issue -- coincidence?!
Sports Illustrated
NATIONAL MEDAL OF ARTS WINNERS Among the 2008 honorees were Olivia de Havilland & this Spider-Man co-creator
Stan Lee
ALL "STAR"s 1960 Hugo Award winner for Robert Heinlein
Starship Troopers
GOLDEN GLOBE WINNERS This "E.T." director, a Cecil B. DeMille Award recipient
Stephen Spielberg
WINNER OF OUR DISCONTENT This Windy City fan said in a released statement that he "did not even see Moises Alou, much less that he may have had a play"
Steve Bartman
GRAMMY WINNERS Well, excuuuse this actor for winning the 2009 Best Bluegrass Album for "The Crow: New Songs for the Five-String Banjo"
Steve Martin
STYLIN' LIKE LARRY KING Don't like seafood much but the eel at Manno's, to die for..."Shopgirl", written by this "All Of Me" star, is a real winner!
Steve Martin
SOUNDS LIKE A SNEEZE Barack Obama picked this Nobel Prize winner as his Energy Secretary
Steven Chu
GRAMMY WINNERS 2006's Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals went to Tony Bennett & this other music legend for "For Once In My Life"
Stevie Wonder
THE EMMYS 1973 Best Supporting Comedy Actor winner for playing Ted Baxter on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show"
Ted Knight
NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS 1 of only 2 U.S. presidents to win the prize
Teddy Roosevelt and/or Woodrow Wilson
2010 EMMY WINNERS Claire Danes won for playing the title role in this HBO movie; Julia Ormond won for playing her mother
Temple Grandin
PRESENTING THE PLAYWRIGHTS The works of <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2001-07-13_J_04.jpg" target="_blank">this</a> two-time Pulitzer Prize winner are set largely in the American south
Tennessee Williams
NEWBERY MEDAL WINNERS 1978: "Bridge to" this imaginary kingdom
Terabithia
AMERICAN LITERATURE This novel of high society made Edith Wharton the first female winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
The Age Of Innocence
EMMY REPEAT WINNERS? How sweet the sound of Best Reality-Competition Program for this show in 2008; let's see about 2009
The Amazing Race
ATHLETIC CUPS First awarded in 1851 by England's Royal Yacht Squadron, it's now named for the winner of that year's race
The America's Cup
BLACK & WHITE Set in silent-era Hollywood, in 2012 it became the first mainly B&W best picture Oscar winner since "Schindler's List"
The Artist
2010 EMMY WINNERS Jim Parsons enjoys Klingon Boggle as physicist Sheldon Cooper on this CBS sitcom; he also enjoys his new Emmy
The Big Bang Theory
PULITZER-WINNING NOVELS We'd sum up this 1952 winner as quew quits Queeg
The Caine Mutiny
AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE This 1983 Pulitzer Prize winner is written in the form of letters, mostly from Celie to her sister & to God
The Color Purple
IN OTHER WORDS... A fiction Pulitzer Prize winner for 1983: "A Lavender Pigment"
The Color Purple
OSCAR SONGS This 1st winner, from “Gay Divorceeâ€, is also a luxury car
The Continental
HISTORIC TITLES Since 1578, only 14 men have held this title, including a 1989 Nobel Prize winner
The Dalai Lama
BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS It not only won Best Picture, it also earned Martin Scorsese his long-awaited Best Director Oscar
The Departed
BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS This Best Picture winner for 2006 is Martin Scorsese's highest-grossing film to date
The Departed
RECORD OF THE YEAR GRAMMY WINNERS 2006 for "Not Ready to Make Nice"
The Dixie Chicks
OSCAR WINNERS IN 2009 This film with Keira Knightley as an 18th century aristocrat was honored for its costume design
The Duchess
& OTHER '80s OSCAR WINNERS This David Cronenberg film won best makeup for transforming Jeff Goldblum into the title character
The Fly
BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS BY CHARACTERS Alain Charnier, "Popeye" Doyle
The French Connection
THE BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNER "Roman Holiday", "American Graffiti", "The French Connection"
The French Connection
COMEDY INSPIRATIONS Rodney Dangerfield credited this 1972 Best Picture Oscar winner for inspiring his most famous line
The Godfather
IN LOVE In this 1932 Pulitzer Prize-winner, Wang Lung & O-Lan get along just fine until he takes a concubine
The Good Earth
PULITZER PRIZE NOVELS This 1932 winner begins with the marriage of Wang Lung & O-lan
The Good Earth
PULITZER PRIZE WINNERS In this 1940 winner, Steinbeck alternates narrative with discussion of the problems of migrant workers
The Grapes of Wrath
OSCAR WINNERS OF YORE Jimmy Stewart as Buttons the Clown upstages Charlton Heston in this 3-ring affair from 1952
The Greatest Show on Earth
PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS Dr. Heidi Holland is the title character in this Pulitzer Prize winner by Wendy Wasserstein
The Heidi Chronicles
TONY WINNERS OF THE '50s Gertrude Lawrence won in 1952 for playing the title pronoun in this Rodgers & Hammerstein musical
The King and I
HELENA BONHAM CARTER ROLES In a truly royal performance, Helena played the wife of George VI in this 2010 Oscar winner
The King's Speech
THE SPORTING LIFE The name of this Triple Crown winner seen <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2009-05-01_J_29.jpg" target="_blank">here</a> also means a traffic ticket
Citation
NOT A BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNER "Citizen Kane", "Going My Way", "How Green Was My Valley"
Citizen Kane
A DAY AT THE RACES Kentucky Derby winner Charismatic twice entered this type of "race" in which horses can be bought for a set price
Claiming race
'50s TV A future Oscar winner for "Charly", he played Rod Brown of the Rocket Rangers
Cliff Robertson
BEST ACTOR OSCAR WINNERS 1968 for "Charly"
Cliff Robertson
PLAYWRIGHTS & ACTRESSES In 1937 he wrote the play "Golden Boy" & married that year's Oscar winner, Luise Rainer
Clifford Odets
'90S OSCAR WINNERS He won his first Oscar for directing “Unforgivenâ€
Clint Eastwood
OSCAR WINNERS' RHYME TIME Eastwood's subtle verbal clues
Clint's hints
THE EMMYS 1974 Best Supporting Comedy Actress winner for playing Phyllis Lindstrom on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show"
Cloris Leachman
PURPLE HEART WINNERS This South Bronx native now heading up the State Dept. earned a Purple Heart during his tour of Vietnam
Colin Powell
SPINGARN MEDAL WINNERS 1991: A U.S. Army general & government official
Colin Powell
THE NAACP SPINGARN MEDAL WINNERS In 1991 this then-chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff added another medal to his collection
Colin Powell
PEABODY AWARD WINNERS The Program for Youth Award for 1960 went to this game show sponsored by GE
College Bowl
POP CULTURE STUPID ANSWERS When he's rapping, Oscar winner Lonnie Lynn is more commonly known by this one-word name
Common
CANNE PALME D'OR WINNERS(Alex: Movies, of course.) 1993, from China: "Farewell My ____"
Concubine
A COUNTRY OF CENTRAL AMERICA Nobel Prize winner Oscar Arias Sanchez is its president
Costa Rica
BEST PICTURE WORDPLAY From 2005, it's the last Best Picture Oscar winner whose name is just one syllable
Crash
ONE-WORD BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS Collision
Crash
PICK THE OSCAR WINNER "Jerry Maguire": Cuba Gooding, Jr., Tom Cruise, Renee Zellweger
Cuba Gooding, Jr.
OSCAR WINNERS' RHYME TIME Gooding's instruments
Cuba's tubas
IN MEMORIAM 2006 The winner of 13 Emmy Awards, this low-key TV sportscaster was a true "American Sportsman"
Curt Gowdy
SORE WINNERS Sutures in <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2009-01-07_DJ_08a.jpg" target="_blank">this</a> Red Sox pitcher's ankle gave way and turned his <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2009-01-07_DJ_08.jpg" target="_blank">white sock red</a>, but he still beat the Yanks in 2004
Curt Schilling
20th CENTURY POP CULTURE 1984 best new artist Grammy winner heard <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2006-07-24_DJ_27.mp3">here</a> <i>"I said money / Money changes everything..."</i>
Cyndi Lauper
TONY AWARD WINNERS This "Sex and the City" co-star climbed into a "Rabbit Hole" to win the 2006 Tony for Best Leading Actress in a Play
Cynthia Nixon
TONY WINNERS OF THE '40s Jose Ferrer didn't win by a nose with this role in 1947, he tied with Fredric March
Cyrano de Bergerac
FOREIGN FILMS 1996 Oscar winner "Kolya" came from the Czech Republic; 1967's "Closely Watched Trains", from this country
Czechoslovakia
BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS Temperance groups & the liquor industry both pleaded with paramount not to release this 1945 Oscar winner
The Lost Weekend
FILMS OF THE '40s This Best Picture Oscar winner of 1945 was filmed in part in the alcoholic ward of NYC's Bellevue Hospital
The Lost Weekend
OSCAR WINNERS OF YORE Alcoholic Ray Milland is reminded that "One's too many and a hundred's not enough" in this film
The Lost Weekend
GET "L"IT Tessie Hutchinson is the unfortunate "winner" in this 1948 short story about a deadly village ritual
The Lottery
ZAC(H/K) ATTACK Zach Johnson donned the green jacket as the 2007 winner of this sporting event
The Masters
NATIONAL MAGAZINE AWARD WINNERS In 2000 it won for General Excellence, Public Interest & Fiction, not for its cartoons
The New Yorker
THE 2009 TONY AWARDS The title of this Ayckbourn trilogy, winner for Best Revival, refers to events of 1066
The Norman Conquests
AWARDS & HONORS Following in the footsteps of his TV dad John Mahoney (a 1986 Tony winner), he won a 2007 Tony for "Curtains"
David Hyde Pierce
SPORTS-POURRI ...& the No. 1 reason it's good to be this late-night TV host... he co-owned the winner of the 2004 Indy 500
David Letterman
SPORTS Named for a U.S. doubles champ, this cup is presented to the winner of a 16-team men's tennis tourney
Davis Cup
PULITZER PRIZE WINNERS This Truman Secretary of State won for his autobiographical book "Present at the Creation"
Dean Acheson
THE TONY AWARDS Winner of Best Play in 1949, it's the only play to win the Best Revival Tony 3 different times
Death of a Salesman
TONY WINNERS OF THE '40s Arthur Kennedy won for this play in 1949, like Brian Dennehy in another role 50 years later
Death of a Salesman
AWARDS Traditionally, Nobel Prize winners are presented their awards on the tenth of this month
December
OSCAR WINNERS' RHYME TIME Dame Judi's ditches
Dench's trenches
CAPTAIN O' THE SHIP 3-time America's Cup winner: Freedom & Stars and Stripes
Dennis Conner
CY YOUNG AWARD WINNERS With a 31-6 record in 1968, this Detroit Tiger is the only Cy Young Award winner with more than 30 wins
Denny McLain
NOBEL LAUREATES SPEAK (Alright, we'll go to UC-Santa Barbara): "Hi, I'm Dr. Alan Heeger, Nobel prize winner in chemistry. In 1936 this German-born biochemist discovered his "cycle" of metabolism & energy production"
Hans Krebs
"E" MALE This 1921 Nobel Prize winner once remarked that "God is subtle but he is not malicious"
Einstein
SPEAK UP! A Nobel Prize winner: "Don't worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater"
Einstein
STRAIN THY BRAIN The eyes of E.T. were modeled on those of this 1921 Nobel Prize winner
Einstein
'90S OSCAR WINNERS Some didn't applaud the honorary Oscar to this “Streetcar†director & HUAC witness
Elia Kazan
BORN IN TRANSYLVANIA Jimmy Carter named this Nobel Peace Prize winner chair of the President's Commision on the Holocaust
Elie Wiesel
NONFICTION "Night" is this Nobel Peace Prize winner's account of surviving Auschwitz as a teenager
Elie Wiesel
SHOW BIZ AWARD WINNERS The Saturn Awards honor Sci Fi, Fantasy & Horror & in 2003 they recognized this hobbit portrayer
Elijah Wood
CELEBRITY MARRIAGES This "Bewitch"ing actress was the 3rd wife of Oscar winner Gig Young
Elizabeth Montgomery
BROADWAY 2-time Academy Award winner who reprised "Little Foxes" in 1980
Elizabeth Taylor
FOREIGN SPORTS STARS Born of Italian immigrant stock in Brazil, he's a 2-time Indy 500 winner
Emerson Fittipaldi
SINGLE NAMED SINGERS This rapper has been called many things, but don't forget "Oscar winner" (for original song) for "8 Mile"
Eminem
OSCAR WINNERS The only person -- male or female -- to win Oscars in acting & screenwriting categories
Emma Thompson
OSCAR WINNERS RHYME TIME Ms. Thompson's quandries
Emma's dilemmas
HORSE SENSE It was the 1975 Tony Award winner for best play
Equus
COLLEGE SPORTS The U. of Nebraska has had 3 Heisman Trophy winners: Johnny Rodgers, Mike Rozier & this quarterback in 2001
Eric Crouch
BEST ACTOR OSCAR WINNERS 1955 for "Marty"
Ernest Borgnine
HEISMAN TROPHY WINNERS The 2008 film "The Express" told the story of this 1961 Heisman trophy winner, the first African American to win the award
Ernie Davis
MAJOR LEES As of 1975, this Pulitzer Prize-winner was said to be working on her second novel but it hasn't been published yet
Harper Lee
PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING BIOGRAPHIES Forrest Wilson's 1942 winner "Crusader in Crinoline" tells the story of this 19th c. abolitionist & author
Harriet Beecher Stowe
WORLD LIT A priest falls for the girl he's sent to exorcise in "Of Love and Other Demons" by this Colombian Nobel Prize-winner
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
ONE-WORD BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS A Hindu leader
Gandhi
KID IN PLAY In 1991 11-year-old Daisy Eagan became the youngest female Tony winner, for "The Secret" this
Garden
BEST ACTOR OSCAR WINNERS 1952: As Marshal Will Kane
Gary Cooper
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS OSCAR WINNERS No driving over a cliff for her in "The Accidental Tourist"
Geena Davis
BEST ACTOR OSCAR WINNERS 1971: As "Popeye" Doyle
Gene Hackman
YOU'VE BEEN "HACK"ED! You're unforgiven if you don't make a connection with this 1972 Best Actor Oscar winner
Gene Hackman
OSCAR WINNERS OF YORE Gregory Peck gets the scoop on anti-semitism in this film adapted by Moss Hart
Gentlemen's Agreement
"HAT" CHECK Ms. McDaniel, an Oscar winner for 1939
Hattie
AWARD-WINNING AUTHORS The only Oscar winner also to win a Nobel Prize, this European won a 1938 Oscar for adapting his own play
George Bernard Shaw
NEPO-TV-ISM Campbell Scott of "Royal Pains": Son of Colleen Dewhurst & this Oscar winner
George C. Scott
THE OSCARS Steven Spielberg compared this Thalberg Award winner & "Star Wars" director to Luke Skywalker
George Lucas
VIRGINIA MILITARY INSTITUTE Among VMI's most famous graduates is this 20th century 5-star general & Nobel Peace Prize winner
George Marshall
THE NAACP'S SPINGARN MEDAL WINNERS 1923: This agricultural chemist
George Washington Carver
BY GEORGE! A Pulitzer Prize winner in '77, this conservative columnist was the sports editor of his college newspaper
George Will
CIVIL WAR LITERATURE Michael Shaara's 1975 Pulitzer Prize winner "The Killer Angels" tells the story of this 3-day battle
Gettysburg
NONFICTION PULITZER WINNERS Garry Wills used a lot more than 272 words writing "Lincoln at" this place, which won him a 1993 Pulitzer
Gettysburg
THE NEW YORK TIMES PULITZER WINNERS Anthony Lewis won in 1963 for supreme court coverage & wrote this book about the Clarence Gideon case
Gideon's Trumpet
WORST PICTURE OF THE YEAR RAZZIE AWARDS This 2003 Razzie winner starred Oscar winners Al Pacino & Ben Affleck
Gigli
BEST ACTRESS OSCAR WINNERS 1973 for "A Touch of Class"
Glenda Jackson
MULTIPLE TONY WINNERS This Oscar-less actress won Tonys for "The Real Thing", "Death and the Maiden" & "Sunset Boulevard"
Glenn Close
OSCAR WINNERS & NOMINEES ON TV This 5-time Oscar nominee played captain Monica Rawling for a season on "The Shield"
Glenn Close
BEST ACTOR OSCAR WINNERS 1944: Bing Crosby for this religious experience
Going My Way
TCM WITH ROBERT OSBORNE (<a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2009-02-16_DJ_21.jpg" target="_blank">Turner Classic Movies's Robert Osbourne gives the clue.</a>) Called "Selznick's Folly", this 1939 Oscar winner cost an unprecedented $4 million to produce, had multiple directors, 50 speaking roles & 2,400 extras
Gone With The Wind
THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE This 1990 winner said it was "a recognition of what we call perestroika and innovative political thinking"
Gorbachev
GRAMMY WINNERS Kimbra & this man were 2012's Best Pop Duo; remember him? Or is he "Somebody That I Used To Know"?
Gotye
GO, KELLY! Oscar winner for 1954's "The Country Girl"
Grace Kelly
BEST PICTURE OSCAR-WINNERS IN OTHER WORDS 1932: "Magnificent Inn"
Grand Hotel
MOVIE CLASSICS In this 1932 Oscar-winner, there was room in the inn for a Beery & 2 Barrymores
Grand Hotel
LUCKY 13 In 2013 it was lucky 13 for tennis' Mike & Bob Bryan, winners of their 13th doubles title at this type of event, a record
Grand Slam (a major accepted)
EPIC Nobel Prize winner Odysseus Elytis previously won this country's national prize for his epic poetry
Greece
INTERNATIONAL SPORTS STARS This "Shark" from Australia is the all-time leading money winner on the PGA Tour
Greg Norman
NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS An advocate for human rights, Rigoberta Menchu of this Central American country won the 1992 prize
Guatemala
GRAMMY WINNERS Rage Against the Machine won for a song called this kind of "Radio" (the soldier, not the animal)
Guerrilla
HISTORIC NAMES This 1909 Nobel Prize winner once failed the entrance exams at the Univ. of Bologna, Italy
Guglielmo Marconi
TONY WINNERS OF THE '50s This redhead won 4 Tonys in the '50s, for "Can-Can", "Damn Yankees", "New Girl in Town" & "Redhead"
Gwen Verdon
BEST ACTRESS OSCAR WINNERS 1998 for "Shakespeare in Love"
Gwyneth Paltrow
MEDAL OF HONOR WINNERS Veteran James Stockdale was the running mate of this wealthy third-party presidential candidate in 1992
H. Ross Perot
MOVIE STUMPERS In response to criticism of her roles, this 1939 Oscar winner said, "I'd rather play a maid than be one"
Hattie McDaniel
EMMY REPEAT WINNERS? This network won big in 2008 with projects like "Recount" & has 99 primetime nominations for 2009
HBO
REMINDS ME OF MY FIRST MARRIAGE Perhaps David Justice's first marriage, to this Oscar winner & Bond girl, was "Jinx"ed
Halle Barry
& OTHER '80s OSCAR WINNERS Male & female supporting Oscars went to Michael Caine & Dianne West for this comedy
Hannah and Her Sisters
THE 82nd ACADEMY AWARDS Supporting actress winner Mo'nique wore a gardenia in her hair in honor of this pioneering African-American actress
Hattie McDaniel
THE HOLLYWOOD FOREVER CEMETERY There's a memorial to this "Gone With the Wind" Oscar winner, barred from the cemetery when she died in 1952
Hattie McDaniel
THE STAMP ACT <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2007-01-10_J_26.jpg" target="_blank">This</a> pioneering Oscar winner was the 2006 <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2007-01-10_J_26a.jpg" target="_blank">inductee</a> in the Black Heritage series
Hattie McDaniel
EPITAPHS & TRIBUTES 1939 Oscar winner: "...you are a credit to your craft, your race and to your family"
Hattie McDaniel (for her role in Gone with the Wind)
OSCAR WINNERS' RHYME TIME McDaniel's hamburgers
Hattie's patties
OSCARS SINCE 2000 In 2009 this supporting actor Oscar winner's award was accepted by his mother, father & sister
Heath Ledger
SAY MY NAME "Breaking Bad" fans know this last name of 1932 Nobel physics prize winner Werner
Heisenberg
YOUNG NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS This 31-year-old won for the creation of quantum mechanics & not for his uncertainty principle
Heisenberg
OHIO STATE ALUMNI Buckeye Archie Griffin, B.S. '76, is the only 2-time winner of this college football trophy
Heisman Trophy
TONY WINNERS OF THE '40s For her role in "Happy Birthday", this first lady of the American theater picked up a Tony in the award's first year
Helen Hayes
BEST DRAMATIC ACTOR TONY WINNERS For "Mister Roberts" (1948)
Henry Fonda
NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS When the 1973 peace prize was awarded to 2 men, Le Duc Tho declined but this man accepted
Henry Kissinger
"H"ISTORIC PEOPLE "Demian" & "Journey to the East" are 2 novels by this Nobel Prize winner who wrote in German
Hermann Hesse
NOBEL LIT WINNERS, INITIALLY YOURS 1946: H.H., Switzerland
Hermann Hesse
CELEBRITIES In 1994 she was "The Next Karate Kid"; in 2000 she was the next Oscar winner for Best Actress
Hilary Swank
THE OSCARS This Best Actress winner for "Boys Don't Cry" said, "I pray for the day when...we actually celebrate our diversity"
Hilary Swank
PEABODY AWARD WINNERS This show whose theme is heard here copped an award for 1981
Hill Street Blues
DANCING WITH THE STARS WINNERS In 2011 this Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver scored the win with his fancy moves
Hines Ward
NONFICTION PULITZER WINNERS Herbert P. Bix won in 2001 with a book on this emperor "and the Making of Modern Japan"
Hirohito
"H" NAMES In 1919 this winner of the Iron Cross joined what would become the Nazi party
Hitler
'90S OSCAR WINNERS She won for not saying much as Ada McGrath in “The Pianoâ€
Holly Hunter
FOR THE "HOLLY" DAYS This Oscar winner's credits include "Miss Firecracker" & "Broadcast News"
Holly Hunter
OSCAR WINNERS & NOMINEES ON TV This Oscar winner for "The Piano" plays a feisty Oklahoma City police detective on TNT's "Saving Grace"
Holly Hunter
THE BELLES This Oscar winner from Georgia reprised her stage role in the 1989 film "Miss Firecracker"
Holly Hunter
WOMEN DIRECTORS Oscar winner Kathy Bates directed a 1996 episode of this detective series subtitled "Life On The Street"
Homicide
OSCAR WINNERS OF YORE John Ford directed this "verdant" 1941 winner about a Welsh mining family
How Green Was My Valley
TONY AWARD WINNERS How about a Wolverine whistle for <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2007-05-22_DJ_28.jpg" target="_blank">this</a> actor who won a Tony for starring in "The Boy From Oz"
Hugh Jackman
1950s EMMYS This Best Situation Comedy winner of 1952 & 1953 was also the number one show of those years
I Love Lucy
YOU DESERVE A SHOWBIZ AWARD! A Gallup poll determines the winners of these annual awards, hosted by Kevin James in 2004
The People's Choice Awards
CANNES PALME D'OR WINNERS This 1993 Holly Hunter film set in New Zealand tied with "Farewell My Concubine"
The Piano
THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 1989's winner was this novel by Kazuo Ishiguro about a perfect English butler reflecting on his 30-year career
The Remains of the Day
TV PAST & PRESENT Old Ebony, ridden by Chuck Connors in this western, was the grandson of Kentucky Derby winner Flying Ebony
The Rifleman
AWARDS & HONORS This winner of the National Book Award became a film starring Glenn as Shepard, Shepard as Yeager & Harris as Glenn
The Right Stuff
THE BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNER "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof", "The Silence of the Lambs", "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon"
The Silence of the Lambs
PEABODY AWARD WINNERS 1996 was a good year for Fox as 2 of its shows won: "The X-Files" & this animated series
The Simpsons
THE FILM VAULT Brigitta, Marta & Gretl are 3 of the Von Trapp children in this 1965 Oscar winner
The Sound of Music
20th CENTURY LIT Chapters in this Pulitzer Prize winner by Carol Shields include "Birth, 1905", "Marriage, 1927" & "Sorrow, 1965"
The Stone Diaries
THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR DRAMA 1954's winner was John Patrick for "The Teahouse of" this
The Teahouse of the August Moon
CANNES PALME D'OR WINNERS The colorized version of this 1949 film starring Orson Welles should use "Lime" green -- Harry Lime
The Third Man
OSCAR-WINNING FILMS This 1995 double Oscar winner takes its title from a line used by Claude Rains in 1942's "Casablanca"
The Usual Suspects
JOHN PHILIP SOUSA In 1889 the owner of this newspaper asked Sousa to write a march for a ceremony for the winners of its essay contest
The Washington Post
MTV MOVIE AWARDS: BEST KISS 1998's winner's were Adam Sandler & Drew Barrymore for this film
The Wedding Singer
SUPPORTING ACTOR EMMY WINNERS 2001: Bradley Whitford joshes around
The West Wing
WOMEN DIRECTING WOMEN In this TV drama's "The Supremes" episode, Oscar winner Jessica Yu directed Glenn Close as a Court nominee
The West Wing
OSCAR-WINNING SONGS This 1968 winner was from "The Thomas Crown Affair", not "Man of La Mancha"
The Windmills Of Your Mind
THE GREAT ABBA Title of the ABBA hit heard here, it was one of their last:
The Winner Takes It All
BEST DRAMATIC ACTOR TONY WINNERS For "Amadeus" (1981)
Ian McKellen
THE NEW YORK TIMES PULITZER WINNERS Andrea Elliot won in 2007 for articles on a Brooklyn Muslim leader with this title, Arabic for "leader"
Imam
HOT FILMS, COOL FILMS A brutal murder is solved in this 1967 Oscar winner
In the Heat of the Night
HOT MOVIES Poitier & Steiger made sparks fly in this '67 Oscar winner
In the Heat of the Night
THE OLYMPICS In 2000 marathon winner Naoko Takahashi became the first woman from this country to win a gold in track & field
Japan
ACTORS' HIT SONGS As the frontman for Thirty Seconds to Mars, this 2013 Oscar winner has had 3 No. 1s on the alternative chart
Jared Leto
2010 EMMY WINNERS He outwitted, outplayed & outlasted Heidi Klum, among others, to take Best Reality Show Host
Jeff Probst
PICK THE OSCAR WINNER "A Beautiful Mind": Russell Crowe, Jennifer Connelly, Ed Harris
Jennifer Connelly
DANCING WITH THE STARS WINNERS In season 11 she had the time of her life & the right moves to take the prize
Jennifer Grey
PICK THE OSCAR WINNER "Dreamgirls": Beyonce, Jennifer Hudson, Eddie Murphy
Jennifer Hudson
NEWBERY MEDAL WINNERS 1944: Esther Forbes' patriotic story of this young member of the Sons of Liberty
Johnny Tremain
TV MOMS & DADS On Showtime this Oscar winner plays Ray Donovan's charismatic ex-con father, Mickey
Jon Voight
OSCAR WINNERS The most recent father & daughter to win acting Oscars: he won for playing a veteran, she for playing a mental patient
Jon Voight & Angelina Jolie
THE JONATHAN CLUB This Tony winner adds class to the "Pirates of the Caribbean" films as Gov. Swann, Keira Knightley's dad
Jonathan Pryce
FUN WITH AMERICAN IDOL NAMES You might say this season 6 winner is so electrifying that she gives off discharges
Jordin Sparks
BEST DRAMATIC ACTOR TONY WINNERS For "Cyrano de Bergerac" (1947)
Jose Ferrer
"JOY" DIVISION Sound off for this 1989 Newbery Medal winner from Paul Fleischman
Joyful Noise
MARVIN GARDENS Oscar winner "Marvelous" Marvin Hamlisch began attending this prestigious NYC music school when he was 7!
Juilliard
ROLE IN COMMON This future Oscar winner played Clarice starling in "Hannibal", replacing Oscar winner Jodie Foster
Julianne Moore
JULIE & JULIA Lara in "Doctor Zhivago", this "Darling" Oscar winner grew up on her father's plantation in India
Julie Christie
ELLE In 2000 this Oscar winner for "The English Patient" was dipped in "Chocolat"
Juliette Binoche
PRESIDENTIAL MEDAL OF FREEDOM WINNERS She was called a "Trailblazer for America's daughters" when she won in 2012, a century after founding an organization
Juliette Gordon Low
I GOT A CALDECOTT! Remember, this 1982 Chris Van Allsburg winner is only a book; well, a game, too...a book & a game
Jumanji
ASTEROID NAMES 2007 Oscar winner for stripper/scrivener Diablo Cody
Juno
OSCARS SINCE 2000 The title of this best screenplay winner refers to the pregnant lead character, not a mythic queen of the heavens
Juno
SHOW BIZ AWARD WINNERS He escaped the 'N Sync-erator to earn Male Artist & Quadruple Threat of the Year at the 2007 MTV VMAs
Justin Timberlake
AWARD-WINNERS Well...God bless America; Reagan awarded this singer the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1982
Kate Smith
OSCAR-WINNING ACTRESSES With a total of 5 wins, they're the only 2 Best Actress winners who were known professionally by the same last name
Katharine & Audrey Hepburn
ACADEMY AWARD WINNERS Her 48-year span between her first & last Oscars, 1933 & 1981, is the longest for a performer in Academy history
Katharine Hepburn
FAMOUS RECOUNTS After recounts she said in 2000, "I... declare Gov. George W. Bush the winner of Florida's 25 electoral votes"
Katherine Harris
THE 82nd ACADEMY AWARDS Barbra Streisand said, "The time has come" before announcing this best director winner
Kathryn Bigelow
BEST ACTRESS OSCAR WINNERS 1990 for "Misery"
Kathy Bates
OSCAR WINNER BEFORE & AFTER Uh oh... it's "Misery" when this actress checks into a "Psycho" lodging
Kathy Bates Motel
RADIO DISNEY TOP 30 In 2004, "Breakaway" broke onto the chart for this first winner of "American Idol"
Kelly Clarkson
THE LADIES OF ROCK This "American Idol" winner's hit single "Miss Independent" was co-written by Christina Aguilera
Kelly Clarkson
THE NEW YORK TIMES PULITZER WINNERS (<a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2009-04-21_DJ_24.jpg" target="_blank">I'm Maureen Dowd.</a>) In my Pulitzer-winning commentary on the Clinton scandals, I wrote that this prosecutor was playing Captains Ahab & Queeg in pursuit of the president
Kenneth Starr
OOPS! After a photo finish of this 1996 horse race, ABC went to commercial & missed the winner being announced
Kentucky Derby
INTO AFRICA The winner of 7 Oscars, the 1985 film "Out of Africa" takes place largely on a plantation in this country
Kenya
ACTOR-DIRECTORS This 1990 winner is the most recent to win the Best Director Oscar for his directorial debut
Kevin Costner
MULTIPLE TONY WINNERS Seen <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2004-09-27_J_28.jpg" target="_blank">here</a> after his 1981 win for "The Pirates of Penzance", he also won for "On the 20th Century"
Kevin Kline
IMPRESSIONS One of "The Usual Suspects", he expertly mimics fellow Oscar winners William Hurt & Al Pacino
Kevin Spacey
JUILLIARD ALUMNI This Oscar winner, the most "verbal" of "The Usual Suspects", got into Juilliard but blew his "Gong Show" audition
Kevin Spacey
PICK THE OSCAR WINNER "American Beauty": Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening, Chris Cooper
Kevin Spacey
RECORD OF THE YEAR GRAMMY WINNERS 2009 for "Use Somebody"
Kings of Leon
SORE WINNERS Hobbled by a bad hamstring & bum knee, he homered to win Game 1 of the 1988 World Series & limped around the bases
Kirk Gibson
OSCAR WINNER BEFORE & AFTER A 1953 musical based on a Shakespeare play becomes an actress who won as a literature-loving Nazi
Kiss Me Kate Winslett
TONY AWARD WINNERS (<a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2007-05-22_DJ_29.jpg" target="_blank">Hi, I'm Brian Stokes Mitchell.</a>) I won a Tony for my portrayal of an actor playing Petruchio in the 1999 revival of this classic Cole Porter musical
Kiss Me, Kate
FUN WITH AMERICAN IDOL NAMES This winner of season 8 sounds like he has 2 first names
Kris Allen
WOMEN IN SPORTS In 2008 this figure skater added a new title: winner of "Dancing with the Stars"
Kristi Yamaguchi
KICK THE CANNES Co-Palme d'Or winners in 1980 were "All That Jazz" by Bob Fosse & "Kagemusha" by this man
Kurosawa
SUPPORTING ACTOR EMMY WINNERS 1990: Legal practice makes perfect for Jimmy Smits
L.A. Law
RECORD OF THE YEAR GRAMMYS We need you now to name this 2010 winner for "Need You Now"
Lady Antebellum
GRAMMY WINNERS The leader in egg-shaped travel, she fed "The Fame Monster" to win 2010's Best Pop Vocal Album
Lady Gaga
"HUGH"S & "HUGHES" 1960 Spingarn Medal winner, among this poet's works on his life in Harlem was "The Weary Blues"
Langston Hughes
TELEVISION '60s Emmy winner that was Rowan & Martin's answer to a sit-in
Laugh-In
PERMANENTLY AT WESTMINSTER ABBEY His remains? "Is it safe?" Yes, this 1948 Best Actor Oscar winner for "Hamlet" is safe at Westminster Abbey
Laurence Olivier
NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS Afraid that Poland would bar his return from Oslo, he received his 1983 prize in absentia
Lech Walesa
PICK THE OSCAR WINNER "Shampoo": Warren Beatty, Goldie Hawn, Lee Grant
Lee Grant
CRY Roberto Benigni shields his son from the horrors of a concentration camp in this Italian Oscar winner
Life Is Beautiful
NOT A BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNER "Lilies of the Field", "Oliver!", "A Man for All Seasons"
Lilies of the Field
AWARD-WINNERS She won a 1986 Tony for her performance in "The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe"
Lily Tomlin
LITERARY AWARDS For Civil War works, winners of an award from Gettysburg College receive $50,000 & a bust of him
Lincoln
SAME NAME AS A POPE The second Pope, or the first name of Nobel Prize winner Pauling
Linus
SCIENCE GUYS "General Chemistry", a 1947 textbook by this Peace & Chemistry Nobel winner, is still a useful introduction
Linus Pauling
SCIENCE In the 1940s this Nobel Prize winner & vitamin C advocate studied the structure of antibodies
Linus Pauling
MOVIE CHARACTER NAMES This last name of the speech therapist in the 2010 Oscar winner for best picture is also a suffix meaning "speech"
Lionel Logue
NOBEL PRIZE CATEGORIES BY WINNER Dario Fo, 1997
Literature
NOBEL WINNERS BY CATEGORY Nadine Gordimer
Literature
AWARDS & HONORS This play, the 1982-83 New York Drama Critics Circle Best Musical winner, was based on a Roger Corman film
Little Shop of Horrors
NEWBERY MEDAL WINNERS 1934: "Invincible Louisa: The Story of the Author of" this classic
Little Women
CELEBRITY BOOKS In 2002 this Oscar winner published her first novel for young readers, "Deaf Child Crossing"
Marlee Matlin
CELEBRITY BOOKS This Oscar winner mader her writing debut with a book for children called "Deaf Child Crossing"
Marlee Matlin
PEABODY AWARD WINNERS She produced & starred in 1974's Peabody Award-winning "Free to Be...You & Me"
Marlo Thomas
CELEBRITY TRIVIA A 2-time Oscar winner, he was a roommate of funnyman Wally Cox during his theatrical training in NYC
Marlon Brando
HEISMAN TROPHY WINNERS 4 schools have had back-to-back Heisman winners: Yale, Army, Ohio State & this one with Matt Leinart & Reggie Bush
USC (University of Southern California)
AT THE MOVIES 1992 Oscar winner with the line "It's a hell of a thing killin' a man. You take away all he's got and all he's ever gonna have"
Unforgiven
BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS In this film, Clint Eastwood says, "Hell of a thing, killin' a man. Ya take away all he's got and all he's ever gonna have"
Unforgiven
PUT 'EM IN ORDER Oscar Winners "The English Patient", "Unforgiven", "Braveheart"
Unforgiven, Braveheart, The English Patient
GRAMMY WINNERS The acoustic album called "MTV" this "in New York" earned a Grammy for Nirvana
Unplugged
THE EMMYS 1971 Best Supporting Comedy Actress winner for playing Rhoda Morgenstern on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show"
Valerie Harper
CLASSICAL MUSIC A Ft. Worth piano contest is named for this winner of the 1958 Int'l Tchaikovsky Competition
Van Cliburn
FEEL THE "BURN" 1958 Tchaikovsky Piano Competition winner
Van Cliburn
PIANISTS Winner of the 1958 Tchaikovsky Piano Competition, he launched a 60th birthday comeback tour in 1994
Van Cliburn
OBIE WINNERS 1955-56: Chekhov's "Uncle ____"
Vanya
REVERSED DECISIONS (Hi, I'm Tom Cubbage, winner of "Jeopardy!"'s 1989 College Championship; now a litigator in Washington, D.C.) Booth v. Maryland said capital-case juries couldn't hear from the family of this person
Victim
PAPAL NAMES Latin was made the church language by a pope of this name, Latin for winner or conqueror
Victor
PAPAL NAMES The winner of a contest
Victor
NAMES 1st name of this football coach, who stressed winning, means "winner"
Vince (Lombardi)
COLLEGE FOOTBALL Orlando Pace is the only 2-time winner of the Best Lineman award named for this legendary Packers coach
Vince Lombardi
PRO FOOTBALL The last Heisman Trophy winner to be selected No. 1 in the NFL Draft was this Miami Hurricanes quarterback in 1987
Vinny Testaverde
HOME WATCHING TV Set at a law school, "How to Get Away with Murder" stars this Emmy winner as an attorney & law professor
Viola Davis
FOREIGN-BORN OSCAR WINNERS Born in India in 1913, she won her second Oscar for playing Blanche Dubois in 1951
Vivian Leigh
PICK THE OSCAR WINNER "Gone with the Wind": Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Olivia de Havilland
Vivien Leigh
MARTINS(Alex: There is a message there -- I leave you at home to figure it out!) This Oscar winner for "Ed Wood" also appeared in "The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island"
Martin Landau
BLACK AMERICANS In 1965 these 2 Nobel Peace Prize winners participated in the Selma to Montgomery March
Martin Luther King & Ralph Bunche
THEY'RE ALL WINNERS! (<a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2004-09-22_J_13.jpg" target="_blank">Hi. I'm LeVar Burton, and</a>) In 1999 I won a Grammy for narrating "The Autobiography of" this winner of the Nobel Peace Prize
Martin Luther King, Jr.
OSCAR WINNERS' RHYME TIME Landau's milk boxes
Martin's cartons
CANNES PALME D'OR WINNERS Herb Stempel, a contestant in "Quiz Show", may be able to tell you this film won for 1955
Marty
FEMALE FIRSTS This gymnast, a 1984 Olympic gold medal winner, was the first female to appear on the front of the Wheaties box
Mary Lou Retton
OLYMPIC MEDALISTS This '84 gold medal winner became the 1st female to grace the front of a Wheaties box
Mary Lou Retton
BEST MUSICAL ACTOR TONY WINNERS "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying" (1995)
Matthew Broderick
ACTORS & RUSSIAN ROLES In 1986 this Austrian Oscar-winner starred in an acclaimed miniseries as "Peter The Great"
Maximilian Schell
THE NAACP SPINGARN MEDAL WINNERS Born Marguerite Johnson, this poet won the medal in 1994
Maya Angelou
THE NAACP SPINGARN MEDAL WINNERS This civil rights leader won in 1963, the year of his murder; his wife Myrlie won in '98
Medgar Evers
2003 NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS For their work leading to the MRI, American Paul Lauterbur & Briton Sir Peter Mansfield scanned this Nobel
Medicine
NOBEL CATEGORIES BY WINNER Frederick Banting
Medicine
NOBEL PRIZE CATEGORIES BY WINNER Sir Alexander Fleming, 1945
Medicine
NOBEL WINNERS BY CATEGORY Alexander Fleming
Medicine
OPERA Eva will wed the contest winner in "Die" this "von Nurnberg"
Meistersinger
CITY SONGS Best New Artist Grammy winner Marc Cohn was "walking in" this city
Memphis
IN MEMORIAM 2004 An Oscar winner for "All The King's Men", she was also a voice of the possessed child in "The Exorcist"
Mercedes McCambridge
CELEBRITIES IN HIGH SCHOOL She's the future Oscar winner seen <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2011-05-11_J_13.jpg" target="_blank">here</a> in her senior year
Meryl Streep
BEST ACTOR OSCAR WINNERS 1987: As Gordon Gekko
Michael Douglas
GRAMMY WINNERS This "Back to the Future" star won the 2009 Best Spoken Word Album for "Always Looking Up"
Michael J. Fox
MAKES SCENTS Men who want to smell like a winner wear the Bijan cologne named for this man, its logo is seen here:
Michael Jordan
SULLIVAN AWARD WINNERS 2003: Male swimmer (Greater days lay ahead)
Michael Phelps
SULLIVAN AWARD WINNERS 2001: Chinese-American figure skater
Michelle Kwan
A NOVEL CATEGORY This Pulitzer winner from Jeffrey Eugenides is narrated by Cal, who until adolescence was raised as Calliope
Middlesex
NOVEL PLACES This Pulitzer Prize-winner by Jeffrey Eugenides follows a Greek family from Smyrna to the Detroit suburbs
Middlesex
DANCE MAGAZINE AWARDS 1978 winner seen here in a 1985 film:
Mikhail Baryshnikov
BIOGRAPHY This 1990 Nobel Peace Prize winner was born near Stavropol & in 1970 became that city's Communist party secretary
Mikhail Gorbachev
NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS He was teaching at the University of Chicago when he won the 1976 Nobel Prize in Economics
Milton Friedman
NOT A BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNER "The Best Years of Our Lives", "Miracle on 34th Street", "The Lost Weekend"
Miracle on 34th Street
COUNTRY: STRONG She's the Grammy winner heard here
Miranda Lambert
A FANCY DRESS BAWL Those who've cried in Atlantic City include winners of this glamorous title, like Carolyn Sapp in 1991
Miss America
MULTIPLE TONY WINNERS Matthew Broderick won for "How to Succeed in Business…" & also for "Brighton Beach Memoirs" by this author
Neil Simon
TONY AWARD WINNERS (<a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2007-05-22_DJ_27.jpg" target="_blank">Hi, I'm Martin Short.</a>) I won a 1999 Tony for Cy Coleman & this playwright's "Little Me"; I also received a Tony nomination for his "The Goodbye Girl"
Neil Simon
NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS In 1993 the prize was given jointly to F.W. de Klerk & this leader who succeeded him
Nelson Mandela
THE 20th CENTURY This Nobel Prize winner & world leader was imprisoned from 1962 to 1990
Nelson Mandela
WHEN THEY WERE YOUNG This South African Nobel Peace Prize winner was named Rolihlahla, which in colloquial usage means "troublemaker"
Nelson Mandela
NOT A BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNER "The Sting", "Network", "Rocky"
Network
SPORTS This New Jersey hockey team, Stanley Cup winners in 1995, didn't make the playoffs in 1996
New Jersey Devils
NATIONAL MAGAZINE AWARD WINNERS In 1999 Time won for Public Interest & this competitor won for News Reporting
Newsweek
MEDAL OF HONOR WINNERS Back in 1932 Donald Truesdale earned his medal during the Marines' campaign against Sandinistas in this country
Nicaragua
'90S OSCAR WINNERS Susan Sarandon won for “Dead Man Walking†& he won for “Leaving Las Vegasâ€, which could have had the same title
Nicolas Cage
MOVIE ACTORS & ACTRESSES He wasn't an Oscar winner yet when his uncle Francis Ford Coppola directed him in "Rumble Fish" in 1983
Nicolas Cage
OSCAR NIGHT 2003 This Best Actress Winner said that Russell Crowe told her not to cry...but she did anyway
Nicole Kidman
DANCING WITH THE STARS WINNERS A frontrunner from the beginning, this pussycat strutted her stuff to win season 10
Nicole Scherzinger
NAMES YOU SHOULD KNOW In 1916 this nobel winner became a professor of physics at the University of Copenhagen
Niels Bohr
PHYSICISTS This 1922 Nobel Prize winner was active in the Danish resistance to Nazi occupation
Niels Bohr
SUPPORTING ACTOR EMMY WINNERS 1985: John Larroquette's prosecutorial misconduct earns an Emmy
Night Court
FOREIGN COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES The Karolinska Institute is a Swedish medical college that picks the physiology or medicine winners of these prizes
Nobel Prizes
GRAMMY WINNERS Best New Artist winners include John Legend, Maroon 5 & this jazzy singer of "Don't Know Why"
Norah Jones
DRAWN-OUT DRAMAS Debuting in 1937, "The Lost Colony" by Pulitzer winner Paul Green has been playing in Manteo in this state for 73 years
North Carolina
YOUNG NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS In their early 30s, Betty Williams & Mairead Corrigan won the 1976 Peace Prize for trying to end strife in this U.K. country
Northern Ireland
THE HEISMAN TROPHY Here's to those who wear the gold & blue; this school is tied for the most Heisman winners with 7
Notre Dame
U.S. UNIVERSITIES (I'm Tim Brown of the NFL) This school has produced the most Heisman Trophy winners with 7, including Paul Hornung & me
Notre Dame
HEISMAN WINNERS In 2006 Troy Smith joined Eddie George & back-to-back winner Archie Griffin as winners from this school
Ohio State
"OK" First name of a Ukranian gold medal winner at Lillehammer in 1994
Oksana Baiul
PURPLE HEART WINNERS Before winning a 1986 directing Oscar, he earned a Purple Heart & a Bronze Star
Oliver Stone
BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS One of 4 musicals that won for Best Picture in the 1960s, it was based on a Charles Dickens novel
Oliver!
FIRST THINGS FIRST Coroebus of Elis was the first winner in the first of these games; he won the only event, a sprint, in 776 B.C.
Olympics
1950s MOVIE HOUSE 1954 Best Picture Oscar winner set in part on the docks of New York
On the Waterfront
BEST PICTURE OSCAR-WINNERS IN OTHER WORDS 1954: "Dockside"
On the Waterfront
BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS Inmates at the Oregon State Mental Hospital played extras in this 1975 Oscar winner
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
THE HEISMAN TROPHY One of the 2 Heisman Trophy winners who share their surnames with U.S. presidents
One of Reggie Bush or Bo Jackson
SPINGARN MEDAL WINNERS 2000: A TV host & media personality
Oprah Winfrey
BEST PICTURE OSCAR-WINNERS IN OTHER WORDS 1980: "Regular Folks"
Ordinary People
MERYL STREEP FILMS Streep mastered a Danish accent, but Robert Redford's British accent was vetoed for this 1985 Oscar winner
Out Of Africa
DROP "OUT" Sydney Pollack directed this 1985 Best Picture Oscar winner
Out of Africa
"INN" & "OUT" Nebraska center Dave Rimington is the only 2-time winner of this trophy for college football interior linemen
Outland Trophy
THE OLYMPICS At the opening of the 1952 Helsinki games, this winner of 9 gold medals carried the torch into the main stadium
Paavo Nurmi
NOBEL LIT WINNERS, INITIALLY YOURS 1971: P.N., Chile
Pablo Neruda
SCRAMBLED KEGS A prize winner: BABBLE BIN STUPOR
Pabst Blue Ribbon
NOTABLE AMERICANS The first American-born winner of this Nobel was Robert Millikan, for his study of the elementary electric charge
Physics
MEDIUMS AT LARGE In the early 1900s, these married Nobel Prize winners investigated the Italian medium Eusapia Palladino
Pierre & Marie Curie
CLASSICAL MUSIC GOES TO THE MOVIES The Samuel Barber piece heard here was evocatively used in this Oliver Stone Oscar winner
Platoon
OF WAR Johnny Depp & Forest Whitaker have supporting roles in this Best Picture Oscar winner from 1986
Platoon
SOUNDS LIKE AN ARMY UNIT Best Picture Oscar winner for 1986
Platoon
YOU'RE NOT ON THE LISZT Heard here, "Adagio for Strings" was prominently featured in this 1986 Best Picture Oscar winner
Platoon
DISNEY FILM VOICES Oscar-winner Linda Hunt was a real "tree"t as the voice of Grandmother Willow in this 1995 film
Pocahontas
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNERS Category in which Philip Levine & Wallace Stevens each won twice
Poetry
OBIE WINNERS 1989-90: Craig Lucas' "____ to a Kiss"
Prelude
ROYALTY The son of an Oscar winner, this prince is also a 5-time Olympian
Prince Albert
EUROPEAN RULERS This man who became a ruler in April 2005 is the great-nephew of the 1926 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama
Prince Albert II of Monaco
PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING BIOS While recovering from back surgery, JFK penned this 1957 winner, the stories of 8 U.S. Senators
Profiles in Courage
A KNOWLEDGE OF WEALTH(Alex: Not the reverse.) Since 1967 this company has awarded over $187 million, many winners getting their shares from the Prize Patrol
Publishers Clearing House
CANNE PALME D'OR WINNERS(Alex: Movies, of course.) 83.0833333333333 "____ Fiction"
Pulp
CANNES PALME D'OR WINNERS Danny DeVito was an executive producer of this Quentin Tarantino film that won for 1994
Pulp Fiction
OSCAR SONGS 1 of 2 Oscar winners sung in the films by Doris Day
Que Sera Sera or (Secret Love)
INITIALLY YOURS U.S. movie director & 1994 Oscar winner: QT
Quentin Tarantino
NOVELS An 1895 novel by Nobel Prize winner Henryk Sienkiewicz, or Latin for “where are you goingâ€
Quo Vadis
PARENT & CHILD NOBEL WINNERS Arthur Kornberg won for showing how DNA duplicates in bacteria; son Roger's work was on the conversion of DNA into this
RNA
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNERS In 1952 for her nonfiction bestseller "The Sea Around Us"
Rachel Carson
TOYS The rubber-band bracelets were produced using this winner of several 2014 Toy of the Year awards
Rainbow Loom
BLACK AMERICANS This winner of the 1950 Nobel Peace Prize was a star on UCLA's basketball team in the 1920s
Ralph Bunche
LET'S DO "UNCH" Let's read "An American Dilemma", this Nobel Prize winner's 1944 study of race relations
Ralph Bunche
THE BIGGEST LOSER In 2000 he got only 2.8 million votes, yet some say he tipped the election to the winner
Ralph Nader
POP CULTURE <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2010-03-12_DJ_01.jpg" target="_blank">Olivia Cole</a> was one of the 9 Emmy winners for this '70s broadcasting phenomenon
Roots
THEN YOU GET THE WOMEN This Emmy winner once had a tattoo that read "Property of Tom Arnold"
Roseanne Barr
ENTERTAINING WOMEN (<a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2007-01-16_DJ_09.jpg" target="_blank">I'm Miguel Ferrer.</a>) My dad was Tony & Oscar winner Jose Ferrer, & my mom was this Grammy-nominated vocalist
Rosemary Clooney
A LITTLE "R" & "R" This alleged winner reportedly took the subway to the finish line of the 1979 N.Y. marathon
Rosie Ruiz
AMERICAN IDOL Gladys Knight nicknamed this Season 2 winner "The Velvet Teddy Bear" for his smooth crooning
Ruben (Studdard)
TOP OF THE CHARTS "Soulful", the debut album by this "American Idol" winner, reached No. 1 in December 2003
Ruben Studdard
OBSCURE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHORS The Asian travels of 1944 winner Johannes Jensen got him dubbed Denmark's this British writer who won in 1907
Rudyard Kipling
ALBUMS A 1977 Grammy winner for Album of the Year, this Fleetwood Mac LP produced the group's first No. 1 single, "Dreams"
Rumours
THE NEW YORK TIMES PULITZER PRIZE WINNERS Wonder if he mentioned his 1979 win for his "Observer" column in his memoir "Growing Up"?
Russell Baker
MOB MOVIES These 2 men, Best Actor Oscar winners for 2000 & 2001, square off in "American Gangster"
Russell Crowe & Denzel Washington
NATIONAL SPELLING BEE WORDS Bury yourself (& an ancient Egyptian) in this 1981 winner from the greek for "flesh-eating"
S-A-R-C-O-P-H-A-G-U-S
THE EMMYS Andrea Martin & Martin Short were among winners in 1983 for writing for this comic "network"
SCTV
OSCAR WINNERS & NOMINEES ON TV Executive producer of "Ugly Betty", she has also guest starred as Sofia Reyes
Salma Hayek
PLAY IT, SAM This Emmy winner from "Law & Order" played the Oscar- nominated role of a reporter in "The Killing Fields"
Sam Waterston
THE 82nd ACADEMY AWARDS "Did I just wear you all down?" plaintively asked this actress & first-time winner
Sandra Bullock
CY YOUNG AWARD WINNERS This Dodger won the Cy Young Award in 1963, 1965 & 1966, then retired from baseball
Sandy Koufax
AWARDS & HONORS In the 1986 Newbery Medal winner by Patricia MacLachlan, this title character was "Plain and Tall"
Sarah
NEWBERY MEDAL WINNERS 1986: Her, "Plain and Tall"
Sarah
THE NEW YORK TIMES PULITZER WINNERS A 1993 award cited John F. Burns' "courageous", coverage of the destruction of" this Bosnian capital
Sarajevo
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNERS Mr. Sammler, Augie March & Herzog are title characters who've won this author 3 awards
Saul Bellow
NOT A BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNER "Saving Private Ryan", "Braveheart", "The English Patient"
Saving Private Ryan
THE DRAWING ROOM 10-time Hugo Award winner Kelly Freas is famous for illustrating the magazine called "Astounding" this genre
Science fiction
THE 1998 PULITZER PRIZES The history winner was about this 1925 event "And America's...debate over science and religion"
Scopes Monkey Trial
FEMALE ATHLETES In 1998 this Korean golfer became the youngest winner of the LPGA's U.S. Women's Open
Se Ri Pak
NOBEL LITERATURE PRIZE WINNERS 1995: This non-heat-packing seamus from Ireland
Seamus Heaney
OSCAR WINNERS RHYME TIME Penn's pair of baby deer
Sean's fawns
MUSEUMS The International Museum of the Horse is raising funds for a life-size statue of this 1973 Triple Crown winner
Secretariat
RETIRED After his 1973 heroics he was retired to stud, siring more than 40 stakes winners
Secretariat
JOURNALISTS This Pulitzer winner gained fame reporting on My Lai & has written on Iraq for the New Yorker
Seymour Hersh
BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS It's the last Best Picture winner with a real person's name in the title (a person who lived 400 years ago)
Shakespeare in Love
THE BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNER "Shane", "Shine", "Shakespeare in Love"
Shakespeare in Love
GRAMMY WINNERS Grammy voters were fixated with this one-named Colombian hottie who won for "Fijacion Oral Vol. 1"
Shakira
AWARDS After spending 188 days in space, she became the first female winner of the Space Medal of Honor
Shannon Lucid
ACTRESSES This Oscar winner has made several TV guest appearances as "Roseanne"'s grandmother Nana Mary
Shelley Winters
OSCAR WINNER BEFORE & AFTER The outdoorsy home of British Merry Men becomes the new pad for a "Last King of Scotland" winner
Sherwood Forest Whitaker
RECORD OF THE YEAR GRAMMY WINNERS 1994 for "All I Wanna Do"
Sheryl Crow
PRIME MINISTERS OF ISRAEL This Nobel Prize winner was Prime Minister of Israel of twice: once in the '80s & once in the '90s
Shimon Peres
NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS The 2 Middle East prime ministers of the same country who shared the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize with another leader
Shimon Peres & Yitzhak Rabin
FOREIGN-BORN OSCAR WINNERS Aussie Geoffrey got quite a rush winning for this 1996 film
Shine
TONY WINNERS OF THE '50s In 1953 Thomas Mitchell won for the musical "Hazel Flagg" & this future TV "Hazel" won for "Time of the Cuckoo"
Shirley Booth
POP SINGERS Oscar winner who led the singing of "God Bless America" at the end of 1988's Republican Convention
Shirley Jones
SHIRLEY This Oscar winner played the matriarch of the Partridge Family
Shirley Jones
THEATRE Of "Closer", "Side Man", "Lonesome West" or "Not About Nightingales", 1999's Tony winner for Best New Play
Side Man
NONFICTION Oprah chose for her book club "The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography" by this Oscar winner
Sidney Poitier
RING ANNOUNCER (Michael) In this corner, recently winner by knockout over the dragon Fafnir, the title character of his own opera...
Siegfried
BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS BY CHARACTERS Clarice Starling, "Buffalo Bill"
Silence of the Lambs
AMERICAN AUTHORS "The Man from Main Street" is a collection of this Nobel Prize winner's essays
Sinclair Lewis
& OTHER '80s OSCAR WINNERS This actress won an Oscar for playing Loretta Lynn & did her own singing to boot
Sissy Spacek
ACTING THE PART In 2010 this Oscar winner had a recurring role as Washington lobbyist Marilyn Densham on "Big Love"
Sissy Spacek
THEY'RE ALL WINNERS! Things were grave indeed when Patricia Clarkson picked up an Emmy in 2002 for guest-starring on this HBO show
Six Feet Under
BASKETBALL In 1997 the NBA briefly shelved this contest whose winners included Isaiah Rider with the East Bay Funk
Slam Dunk competition
GOLDEN GLOBE WINNERS This India-set film, 2008's Best Motion Picture Drama
Slumdog Millionaire
OSCAR WINNERS IN 2009 This film's 8 Oscars included one for original song "Jai Ho"
Slumdog Millionaire
POP CULTURE Hindi actor Dev Patel cashed in as the title character in this 2008 Best Picture Oscar winner
Slumdog Millionaire
RECENT OSCAR WINNERS From 2008, it's the most recent film to win Best Picture & Best Song; the lyrics are in a foreign language
Slumdog Millionaire
NATIONAL MAGAZINE AWARD WINNERS 1997's winner for Special Interests was this magazine from our nation's attic
Smithsonian
FOREIGN-BORN OSCAR WINNERS Of the 2 women to win acting awards for 1961, she was the Italian
Sophia Loren (for "Two Women")
BROADWAY (<a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2004-12-15_DJ_08.jpg" target="_blank">Hi, I'm John Tartaglia. And I'm Rod. And I'm Princeton.</a>) And we're here on the set of the 2004 Tony-award winner for best musical of this title street
Avenue Q
THE INDY 500 (<a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2004-05-28_J_18.jpg" target="_blank">Jimmy of the Clue Crew reads from the Indianapolis Speedway Hall of Fame Museum.</a>) Behind the wheels of these cars, <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2004-05-28_J_18a.jpg" target="_blank">this</a> driver, known by his initials, became the first 4-time winner of the Indy 500
A.J. Foyt
INITIALLY YOURS "Possession" author & Booker Prize winner Antonia Susan...
A.S. Byatt
WINNER OF OUR DISCONTENT In the 1930s she moved to Germany & became an English teacher for Berlitz, then did a stint on radio
Axis Sally
COUPLES The future Dolly Madison was 17 years James' junior when this noted duel winner introduced the 2
Aaron Burr
PULITZER PRIZE WINNERS 1945 for music: This composer for his "Appalachian Spring"
Aaron Copland
SOLE MEN Wimbledon winner Stan Smith's classic shoes from this brand are white with green trim but no stripes
Adidas
BEST ACTOR OSCAR WINNERS 2002: As Wladyslaw Szpilman
Adrien Brody
OSCAR YOUNGEST/OLDEST Youngest Best Actor winner: This 29-year-old in 2003 for a WWII-set film
Adrien Brody
RECENT OSCAR WINNERS Some guys have all the luck: he not only won for Best Actor, he got to kiss his presenter, Halle Berry
Adrien Brody
SCRIPPS INSTITUTION OF OCEANOGRAPHY (<a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2008-07-24_J_28.jpg" target="_blank">Jimmy of the Clue Crew hangs out outside a storied building--UC San Diego's Scripps Revelle Lab.</a>) Scripps Revelle Lab is named for <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2008-07-24_J_28a.jpg" target="_blank">Roger Revelle</a>, whose 1960 class at Harvard influenced this Nobel Prize winner to investigate global warming
Al Gore
OSCAR WINNERS RHYME TIME Pacino's female pals
Al's gals
NOBEL LIT WINNERS, INITIALLY YOURS 1957: A.C., France
Albert Camus
NOBEL LITERATURE PRIZE WINNERS 1957: This Frenchman who wrote "The First Man" & "The Plague"
Albert Camus
A DAY IN THE LIFE Nov. 4, 1954: Gives his speech as the 1952 Nobel Prize winner; in 1952, <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2010-02-25_DJ_20.jpg" target="_blank">he</a> was busy with his humanitarian work in Africa
Albert Schweitzer
CELEBRITY BLOGS Go to huffingtonpost.com for the blogging of this "30 Rock" Emmy winner
Alec Baldwin
THE NOBEL PRIZE This winner of the 1970 Nobel Literature Prize was born in 1918 into a family of Cossack intellectuals
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
SPINGARN MEDAL WINNERS 1976's award went to dancer Ailey; 1977's went to this rhyming author
Alex Haley
THE NAACP SPINGARN MEDAL WINNERS In 1977 this author went back to his "Roots" & won the Spingarn
Alex Haley
20th CENTURY FACES In 1974 this Nobel Prize winner was expelled from his native country:
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
STUPID ANSWERS 3-letter word that begins the titles of all 3 Best Picture winners of 1930, 1949 & 1950
All
THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS Animal-titled winners include "Dog Soldiers" & this equine Cormac McCarthy novel
All the Pretty Horses
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNERS In 1974 this beat poet for "The Fall of America: Poems of These States, 1965-1971"
Allen Ginsberg
HARLEM GLOBETROTTIN' In 1960 this female Wimbledon winner toured with the Harlem Globetrotters playing exhibition tennis
Althea Gibson
HISTORIC WOMEN In the 1950s this 2-time Wimbledon winner seen here dominated women's tennis
Althea Gibson
NATIONAL MEDAL OF ARTS WINNERS This African-American choreographer's dance foundation won in 2001
Alvin Ailey
BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS BY CHARACTERS Emperor Joseph II, Antonio Salieri
Amadeus
ONE-WORD BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS A middle name in Latin
Amadeus
PEOPLE Tony Award-winning daughter of Tony winners Tammy Grimes & Christopher Plummer
Amanda Plummer
TV ADJECTIVES A 6-time Emmy winner: "The ____ Race"
Amazing
TV REALITY SHOWS BY WINNER In 2009: chicken catcher Kevin Skinner, who wowed judges including David Hasselhoff with his singing
America's Got Talent
& THE OSCAR DOESN'T GO TO Annette Bening was a 1999 Best Actress nominee for playing the wife of Best Actor winner Kevin Spacey in this film
American Beauty
TV REALITY SHOWS BY WINNER In 2011: country crooner Scotty McCreery
American Idol
WHAT'S ON TV, KIDS? The votes are in: winners on this show have included Ruben Studdard & Carrie Underwood
American Idol
WINNER OF OUR DISCONTENT imdb.com's worst movies of all time includes "From Justin to Kelly", starring 2 performers from this TV show
American Idol
ARTSY FILMS Gene Kelly is an expatriate singing & dancing painter in this Oscar winner
An American in Paris
BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS Following "Gone with the Wind", it would be another 12 years before a color film won again: this foreign-set musical
An American in Paris
CITY-TITLED MOVIES Gene Kelly & Leslie Caron danced to Gershwin in this 1951 Best Picture Oscar winner
An American in Paris
CUSTOMS & TRADITIONS Pro tennis abandoned the custom of the winner of a match doing this -- maybe someone got hurt
jumping over the net
NONFICTION PULITZER WINNERS William Warner's "Beautiful Swimmers" is an exploration of the Atlantic blue crab & this bay
the Chesapeake
AWARDS More Congressional Medal of Honor winners have come from this war than any other
the Civil War
AWARDS A 1977 winner of the Pres. Medal of Freedom, Bruce Catton was a noted historian of this war
the Civil War, or the War between the States
CY YOUNG AWARD WINNERS In 2008 Cliff Lee won the A.L. Cy Young for this team, just like C.C. Sabathia did the year before
the Cleveland Indians
YOUNG NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS What a family! This husband-&-wife team were 44 & 36 when they won in 1903; their son-in-law & daughter won aged 35 & 38
the Curies (Pierre & Marie)
SPORTS You win this when you pick the winners of 2 successive horse races
the Daily Double
JOB This 1989 Nobel Peace Prize winner is 75 years old & has spent 70 years in his current job
the Dalai Lama
25-GAME WINNERS The last Major League 30-game winner was Denny McLain, for this team in 1968
the Detroit Tigers
LAURELS Winners of this atomic energy award have included Edward Teller & Glenn T. Seaborg
the Enrico Fermi Award
MEDAL OF HONOR WINNERS Jacob Parrott, the first winner, was among the men who stole this "high-ranking" Confederate locomotive
the General
TROPHIES Tony Dorsett, Bo Jackson & Carson Palmer are among winners of this football trophy
the Heisman Trophy
1981 The U.S. Auto Club reversed an earlier decision & declared Bobby Unser the winner of this race
the Indianapolis 500
SPORTS TALK On Memorial Day in 1911 Ray Harroun drove into history as the first winner of this auto race
the Indianapolis 500
TELL 'EM WHAT THEY'VE WON, JOHNNY The Borg-Warner Trophy is awarded every year to the winner of this epic auto race held on Memorial Day weekend
the Indy 500
THE TROPHY CASE Pass the milk! The guy seen <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2008-10-17_DJ_10.jpg" target="_blank">here</a> tops the 150-pound <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2008-10-17_DJ_10a.jpg" target="_blank">Borg-Warner Trophy</a> given to the winner of this annual event
the Indy 500
SPORT OF KINGS Only Johnny Longden has ridden, then trained a winner of this legendary May race
the Kentucky Derby
LITTLE LEAGUE (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the LIttle League Museum in Williamsport, PA) The winners were the Maynard Midgets from right here in Williamsport, & <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2008-01-29_DJ_23.jpg" target="_blank">this</a> trophy was used at the very first of these events.
the Little League World Series
AWARDS Jincy Willett cleverly titled a 2003 novel "Winner of" this "national" prize
the National Book Award
LITERARY AWARDS Winners of this award include Scott O'Dell for "Island of the Blue Dolphins" & Lois Lowry for "Number the Stars"
the Newbery
NIGERIA Known for his satire, Wole Soyinka became the first Black African winner of this prize for literature in 1986
the Nobel Prize
POTPOURRI As a winner of this, you may be awakened in Stockholm's Grand Hotel by Swedes in St. Lucia's Day costumes
the Nobel Prize
AMERICAN, LIT 5 of the 7 American winners of this literary honor have been diagnosed as alcoholics
the Nobel Prize (for Literature)
NO. 1 Wilhelm Roentgen & Sully Prudhomme were among the winners when these prizes were first awarded in 1901
the Nobel Prizes
AWARDS & HONORS In 2008 NPR's "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" was among the winners of this award administered by the University of Georgia
the Peabody
THE NEW YORK TIMES PULITZER WINNERS(Alex: And there have been a lot of them.) (I'm David Barstow.) My Pulitzer-winning story about retired generals co-opted as analysts to sell the Iraq War was headlined this building's "Hidden Hand"
the Pentagon
THE NEW YORK TIMES PULITZER PRIZE WINNERS In 1972 The Times won for meritorious public service for publishing these documents leaked by Daniel Ellsberg
the Pentagon Papers
25-GAME WINNERS In 1972 Steve Carlton was a 27-game winner for this team that won 59 the whole season
the Philadelphia Phillies
THE OSCARS This 3-time Oscar winner won his third Academy Award for playing Judge Roy Bean in "The Westerner"
Walter Brennan
PICK THE OSCAR WINNER "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre": Humphrey Bogart, Tim Holt, Walter Huston
Walter Huston
BEST DRAMATIC ACTOR TONY WINNERS For "The Odd Couple" (1965)
Walter Matthau
RECORD OF THE YEAR GRAMMY WINNERS This song's recording session occurred right after the 1985 American Music Awards & lasted all night long
We Are the World
BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS Riff & Bernardo lead 2 warring gangs in New York City in this 1961 musical
West Side Story
THE NEW YORK TIMES: MOVIES (New York Times film critic A.O. Scott delivers the clue.) My review of this film starring Oscar winner J.K. Simmons & Miles Teller was titled "Drill Sergeant in the Music Room"
Whiplash
ANIMATED MOVIES The answer to the title of this Oscar winner is Judge Doom
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
ACTORS & ACTRESSES Born in NYC in 1955, this Oscar winner has played a thief, a nun, a psychic & an intergalactic bartender
Whoopi Goldberg
THE 68th OSCARS This Oscar host, a winner for "Ghost" called herself "The Might Afro Deity"
Whoopi Goldberg
MEMOIRS In "Night", this Nobel Peace Prize winner described the horrors he witnessed as a young boy in a Nazi death camp
Wiesel
PALME D'OR WINNERS Nicolas Cage has an Elvis fixation in this 1990 Palme d'Or winner from David Lynch
Wild at Heart
BILL CLINTON'S FAVORITE BOOKS The "Collected Poems" of this Irish poet & 1923 Nobel Prize winner gained Bill's admiration enough to be listed
William Butler Yeats
LITERATURE A poem by this 1923 Nobel Prize winner is heard here: ("I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree, And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made")
William Butler Yeats
LET'S CUT TO THE CHASE 2-time Pulitzer winner, Mississippian, died in 1962
William Faulkner
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNERS "A Fable" was a winner for this author in 1955
William Faulkner
OSCAR WINNER BEFORE & AFTER This best actor winner for "Stalag 17" has no time for Hollywood phonies as the "Catcher in the Rye" kid
William Holden Caulfield
WHERE THEY'RE FROM Though born in Washington, D.C., this "Kiss of the Spider Woman" Oscar winner was raised in the South Pacific
William Hurt
PULITZER PRIZE WINNERS 1978: This late language lover for his New York Times commentary
William Safire
PULITZER PRIZE WINNERS 1940 for drama: This playwright's "The Time of Your Life"
William Saroyan
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNERS This author's "Sophie's Choice" was the hardcover choice for 1980
William Styron
SORE WINNERS After limping off with a knee injury, <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2009-01-07_DJ_10.jpg" target="_blank">he</a> came back to inspire the New York Knicks to victory in the 1970 NBA Finals
Willis Reed
ICH BIN EIN BERLINER His resume includes reporter, West Berlin mayor, West German chancellor & Nobel Peace Prize winner
Willy Brandt
BEFORE UND AFTER! Winner of 3 Olympic golds in 1960, she sprinted to the plane as Hitler's deputy & flew to Scotland
Wilma Rudolph Hess
SPORTS Its solo female winner is awarded the Venus Rosewater Dish
Wimbledon
IN-FLIGHT MOVIES William Wellman, who'd served in the Lafayette Escadrille Flying Corps, directed this first Best Picture winner
Wings
SILENT MOVIE DIRECTORS Although best known for his sound films, William Wellman directed this 1st Best Picture winner
Wings
SILENT MOVIES William Wellman, who directed this first Oscar winner, about WWI, was a veteran of aerial combat
Wings
THE SILENT SCREEN Gary Cooper had a small role as a cadet in this first Best Picture winner about 2 flyers in love with the same girl
Wings
NOBEL LITERATURE PRIZE WINNERS 1953: This British politician
Winston Churchill
REALITY CHECKS John Anderson & John Henson host this ABC show that gives $50,000 to its winners (& hopefully some aspirin, too)
Wipeout
TUXEDO JUNCTION In 2005 he catered his 11th Governors Ball for Academy Award winners & disappointees alike
Wolfgang Puck
OSCAR WINNERS Dianne Wiest (1986 & 1994) is the only 2-time acting Oscar winner to win both working for the same director--him
Woody Allen
THE NEW YORK TIMES PULITZER PRIZE WINNERS The Times won its first Pulitzer in 1918 for its coverage of this
World War I
THE OSCARS 1935 cinematography winner Hal Mohr is still the only person to win by votes of this type
Write-in votes
FEMALE NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS Dorothy Hodgkin won 1964's Chemistry prize for using these rays to study compounds
X-rays
FOR MIND OF PEACE With Rabin & Peres, he rounded out a trio of 1994 Nobel Peace Prize winners
Yasser Arafat
SPORTS AWARDS In addition to a trophy, the winner of the Masters tournament gets this iconic piece of apparel
a green jacket
DUMB CRIMINALS A woman altered the numbers on one of these to win $20; dumb move, it was already a $5,000 winner
a lottery ticket
"CHECK" MATE 2-word term for what the winner of "Survivor" gets, or a reminder of the way things actually are
a reality check
OBJETS D'ART The item held by Oscar winners is usually referred to as this diminutive word
a statuette
"TAKE" A horse race in which money is bet & divided among the winners
a sweepstake
WKC BEST IN SHOW Devo-tees know this breed of ch. Courtenay Fleetfoot of Pennyworth, 1964's winner, can run as fast as 35 mph
a whippet
THE SUPER BOWL The 1980 Raiders were first to win a Super Bowl after making the playoffs as this, a non-division winner
a wildcard
NONFICTION PULITZER WINNERS 2007's winner, "The Looming Tower" is subtitled this terrorist group "and the Road to 9/11"
al-Qaeda
GRAMMY WINNERS In 2006 U2 won Album of the Year for "How to Dismantle" one of these
an Atomic Bomb
NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS Willem Einthoven won for his galvanometer, better known as this device used to diagnose heart disease
an electrocardiogram
"O" There were no gold medals at the first modern Olympics; a winner received a diploma & this, a symbol of peace
an olive branch
FEMALE NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS South African literature laureate Nadine Gordimer was part of the struggle against this policy of segregation
apartheid
AWARDS & HONORS Past winners of the Pritzker Prize for this include I.M. Pei & Frank Gehry
architecture
14-LETTER WORDS Profession of Nobel Prize winner Saul Perlmutter, who discovered that the universe is expanding at an accelerating rate
astrophysicist
"AT" EASE In this casino game, the winner is the one whose cards total closest to a number ending in 9
baccarat
MEDAL OF HONOR WINNERS During WWI Eddie Rickenbacker shot down 22 planes & 4 of these used for observation
balloons
AWARDS While a Golden Gloves winner is a boxer, a Gold Glove winner is this
baseball fielder
THE HEISMAN TROPHY 1993 Heisman winner Charlie Ward was a first-round pick in this pro sport, not football
basketball
OBSCURE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHORS 6 of the first 9 winners wore these; Giosuè Carducci's was the bristliest & pointiest
beards
WILDLIFE Nobel Prize winner Karl von Frisch deciphered the "dancing" patterns of this insect
bee
ODD COMPETITIONS Winners of the North American wife carrying championship get a cash prize plus the wife's weight in this beverage
beer
"B" YOURSELF 11-letter word for one who supports a family, perhaps with whole wheat or sourdough
breadwinner
YOUNG NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS Konstantin Novoselov, 36, shared the 2010 Physics Prize for his work on graphene, a form of this element
carbon
NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS Willard Libby won a Chemistry prize for his method of using this radioactive isotope to date fossils & other objects
carbon-14/radiocarbon
SPINGARN MEDAL WINNERS Ernest E. Just won in 1915 for his work, including how these smallest units of life function in eggs
cells
FROM THE FRENCH Old French gives us this word for a winner of a competition, like certain show dogs
champion
AUTO RACING Designating you as the winner, it's the flag each driver wants to see first at the end of an auto race
checkered flag
CREAM Captain Parker's in Yarmouth is a 2-time winner of Boston Harborfest's competition in this creamy soup
clam chowder
AND SIX A car driven by George Robson is one of only 2 Indy 500 winners to use an engine with only 6 of these
cylinders
PARENT & CHILD NOBEL WINNERS Nobelist George Thomson is the son of J.J. Thomson, a Nobel Prize winner who discovered this negative particle
electron
CNN ON POLITICS (<a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2008-10-02_DJ_11.jpg" target="_blank">I'm Anderson Cooper.</a>) CNN's election team can often project winners based on these surveys of people who've just voted, but we don't do it in close races, & never before the voting is done
exit polls
PARENT & CHILD NOBEL WINNERS Ulf von Euler won in 1970; dad Hans von Euler-Chelpin won for his work on the role of enzymes in this process in sugar
fermentation
MEDICINE MEN 1980 Nobel Prize winner Paul Berg figured out how to "splice" these
genes
YOUNG ATHLETES (<a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2009-11-13_DJ_10.jpg" target="_blank">I'm Danica Patrick.</a>) Long before I got into race cars, I was a 12-year-old winner of the grand national championship in this sport -- if you're cool, you don't put the "go" in front of it
go-karts
SPORTS Ben Crenshaw & Phil Mickelson are the only 3-time winners of this college sport's championship tournament
golf
EXCESS HOLLYWOOD On Oscar night 2006, winners Three 6 Mafia sported these in gold & diamonds-- on their teeth, not their cars
grills
SPORTS NAMES Secretariat, Affirmed & Seattle Slew have all been Triple Crown winners in this sport
horse racing
"I" OPENERS On many reality shows, the winner of a challenge may be granted this, making him or her safe until the next episode
immunity
CHEMISTS 2-time Nobel Prize winner Frederick Sanger helped determine the structure of this pancreatic hormone
insulin
YOUNG NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS Frederick Banting was just 32 when he shared the Medicine Prize for discovering this hormone that treats diabetes
insulin
NOBEL LAUREATES SPEAK (Alright, someone from CalTech now): "Hi, I'm Rudy Marcus, Nobel Prize winner in chemistry. Ferrous sulfide is produced when these 2 elements are heated together"
iron & sulphur
GAME OVER You caught the ball & got tensies, which makes you the winner at this game
jacks
GRAMMY WINNERS At 1st I was afraid, I was petrified you wouldn't know Gloria Gaynor won the 1979 Best Disco Recording for this tune
"I Will Survive"
SHORT STORIES Tessie Hutchinson is the fatally unlucky winner of this contest in a Shirley Jackson story
"The Lottery"
GRAMMY WINNERS 2000's Best Dance Recording went to the Baha Men, for (repeatedly!) asking this musical question--did we ever find out?
"Who Let The Dogs Out?"
PULITZER PRIZE WINNERS 1 of the 2 novels, both Southern, that won the Pulitzer for fiction & became Best Picture Oscar winners
(1 of) Gone with the Wind or All the King's Men
THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR DRAMA 1 of the 2 1-word plays, winners in 2001 & 2005, which both became movies; if you have one, you want the other
(1 of) Proof & Doubt
THE NEW YORK TIMES PULITZER WINNERS(Alex: And there have been a lot of them.) (I'm Carolyn Ryan.) In 2009 I was part of the team that won the Pulitzer for breaking news coverage of this New York governor & his stunning fall from grace
(Eliot) Spitzer
NOBEL LIT WINNERS 81.8333333333333 An existentialist
(Jean-Paul) Sartre
SUPERATHLETES We bet Hitler didn't know this winner of 4 gold medals in Berlin was "the Buckeye Bullet"
(Jesse) Owens
FEMALE NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS She was the first & the fourth woman to win a Nobel Prize
(Marie) Curie
NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHORS The last name of this Mexican poet, a winner in 1990, means peace
(Octavio) Paz
COACHING IN THE NFL (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a football play animation on a monitor.) Here is the famous Green Bay Sweep designed by this head coach & winner of the first two Superbowls
(Vince) Lombardi
NOBEL LIT WINNERS 81.375 A former prime minister
(Winston) Churchill
PULITZER-WINNING BIOGRAPHIES & AUTOBIOGRAPHIES Title length of time in Arthur Schlesinger Jr.'s 1966 prize-winner subtitled "John F. Kennedy in the White House"
A Thousand Days
MOVIE MUSIC 1968 Oscar winner for special visual effects that includes the piece heard here: [audio clue]
2001: A Space Odyssey ("The Blue Danube")
2010 EMMY WINNERS We know you're all over Outstanding Sound Editing... this Fox drama's "4:00 am - 5:00 am" episode won; Beep! boop! Beep! boop!
24
CARDS & DICE The winner of a game of War winds up with this many cards
52
RECENT OSCAR WINNERS Ron Howard grabbed 2 Oscars in quick succession as director & producer of this film
A Beautiful Mind
MODERN AMERICAN NOVELS The title of this 1981 Pulitzer Prize winner comes from a Jonathan Swift line about how lesser minds unite to oppose genius
A Confederacy of Dunces (by John Kennedy Toole)
BEST PICTURE OSCAR-WINNERS IN OTHER WORDS 1966: "One Bloke Year-Round"
A Man For All Seasons
OSCAR YOUNGEST/OLDEST Oldest Supporting Actress winner: Peggy Ashcroft for this film based on an E.M. Forster work
A Passage to India
PULITZER PRIZE BIOGRAPHIES 1954's winner was this man's book "The Spirit of St. Louis"
Charles Lindbergh
LEGENDS OF SPORTS This 1932 Olympic gold medal winner is often called the greatest female athlete of all time
Babe Didrikson Zaharias
SEE THE "Z" Married name of the 1932 multi-Olympic medal winner seen here
Babe Didrikson Zaharias
"CAR" PARK In this casino game the winner is the one whose hand totals closest to 9
Baccarat
PULITZER PRIZE WINNERS This American historian, born Barbara Wertheim in 1912, won 2 Pulitzers for general nonfiction
Barbara Tuchman
AWARD-WINNERS The 1st woman to receive the Lowell Thomas Electronic Journalism Award was this "20/20" co-host
Barbara Walters
OSCAR WINNERS ONSTAGE This "Funny Girl"'s first New York show, "Another Evening with Harry Stoones", closed after 1 performance
Barbra Streisand
VANITY This Grammy, Oscar, Tony & Emmy winner famously prefers to be photographed from her left side
Barbra Streisand
MUSIC & MOVIE SUPERSTARS These 2 are the only Best Actress Oscar winners to have No. 1 hits on the Billboard Top 40
Barbra Streisand & Cher
SPORTSMEN A Heisman Trophy winner at Oklahoma State, he was the NFC's Rookie of the Year in 1989 with the Detroit Lions
Barry Sanders
THE SANDERS OF TIME This Heisman trophy winner played his college ball at Oklahoma State
Barry Sanders
PEOPLE WHO MATTERED Justin Kaplan, winner of a Pulitzer, was the editor of the 17th edition of this book of quotations
Bartlett's
NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS 1988 Literature winner Naguib Mahfouz is best known for tales of this African capital
Cairo
THE INDIANS The winner of the 1913 Nobel Prize for Literature, Rabindranath Tagore was born in this former capital in 1861
Calcutta
IF THEY MARRIED... Actress Clark, an Oscar nominee for "American Graffiti", weds "Cider House Rules" Oscar winner Michael & becomes...
Candy Caine
AWARDS "The Best Intentions" was the 1992 winner of the Golden Palm, the top prize at this film festival
Cannes
WINNER OF OUR DISCONTENT This governor of New South Wales, once a sea captain, was ousted by his officers in the 1808 Rum Rebellion
Captain Bligh
BEST ACTOR OSCAR WINNERS 1937: Spencer Tracy for this rollicking adventure
Captains Courageous
BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS BY CHARACTERS Major Strasser, Victor Lazslo
Casablanca
KISS In 1973 Kiss was signed to this fledgling record label that shares its name with a 1940s best picture Oscar winner
Casablanca
MOVING PICTURES Translating the <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2008-12-15_J_03.jpg" target="_blank">structure</a> into Spanish gets you this Oscar winner
Casablanca
21st CENTURY OSCAR WINNERS She's the only performer to win an Oscar for playing a real-life Oscar winner
Cate Blanchett
RECENT OSCAR WINNERS She said that she'll place her Oscar between her husband's 2 Oscars, "but a little further forward"
Catherine Zeta-Jones (husband is Michael Douglas)
MULTIPLE TONY WINNERS The playwright of "The Cocktail Party" also won best play for this poetic musical
Cats by T.S. Eliot
TV REALITY SHOWS BY WINNER In 2010: Bret Michaels, who wasn't fired but hired
Celebrity Apprentice
IN THE MOVIES This 1981 Best Picture Oscar winner takes place in part at the 1924 Olympics
Chariots of Fire
VICE PRESIDENTS Co-winner of the 1925 Nobel Peace Prize for his plan re-scheduling German reparations
Charles Dawes
EMMY REPEAT WINNERS? We'll see if <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2009-09-18_J_16.jpg" target="_blank">Glenn Close</a> can repeat her 2008 Emmy for her work on this program
Damages
MOVIE: ____ IN THE ____ On the verge of blindness, Bjork must save her son from a similar fate in this Cannes Film Festival winner from 2000
Dancer in the Dark
SHALL WE "DANCE"? Characters in this 1990 Oscar winner included Wind In His Hair, Kicking Bird & Lt. John Dunbar
Dances With Wolves
BEST PICTURE LETTER DROP People from Copenhagen get to know wild canines when the letter C falls from the 1990 winner
Danes with Wolves
NEWBERY MEDAL WINNERS 1940: Daugherty's tale of this 18th century frontiersman
Daniel Boone
BEST ACTOR OSCAR WINNERS 1989 for "My Left Foot"
Daniel Day-Lewis
THE NEW YORK TIMES PULITZER WINNERS (<a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2009-04-21_DJ_22.jpg" target="_blank">I'm Nicholas Kristof</a>) In 2006 I won a Pulitzer Prize for commentary that raised public awareness of the genocide in this region of Sudan
Darfur
CANNE PALME D'OR WINNERS(Alex: Movies, of course.) 83.3333333333333 "Dancer in the ____"
Dark
(Meryl Davis: I'm Meryl Davis.) (Charlie White: And I'm Charlie White. We're the first Americans to win an Olympic gold medal in ice dancing.) (Meryl: We're going to take you inside the world of...)ICE DANCING (Meryl Davis and Charlie White deliver the clue.) We were longtime fans of "Dancing With the Stars" before we competed on it; in fact, this "DWTS" pro and multiple winner of the show's Mirrorball trophy helped choreograph our short program for Sochi
Derek Hough
FAMOUS NAMES The middle name of this archbishop & Nobel Peace Prize winner is Mpilo; it means "life"
Desmond Tutu
RELIGIOUS LEADERS In 1975 this future Nobel Prize winner became the first black Anglican dean of Johannesburg
Desmond Tutu
LEONARD NIMOY FILMS Nimoy directed this Oscar winner in the title role of 1988's "The Good Mother"
Diane Keaton
EDGAR AWARD WINNERS Writing about the world of horse racing, he's won for "Forfeit" & "Come to Grief"
Dick Francis
SECRETARY'S DAY This female 1932 Olympic hurdles & javelin winner also ran secretarial errands like a champ
Didrikson-Zaharias
OPERA Eva has to marry the winner of a singing contest in Nuremberg in this comic opera by Wagner
Die Meistersinger (von Nürnburg)
HEISMAN WINNERS An award given for the best running back in college football is named for this 1948 Heisman winner from SMU
Doak Walker
SPORTS STUFF In the mid-1940s Army had 2 Heisman winners in its backfield: Glenn Davis & this "physician" of the gridiron
Doc Blanchard
NEWBERY MEDAL WINNERS 1923: Lofting's lofty "Voyages of" this talkative physician
Doctor Dolittle
INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS Winner of the 1999 Nobel Peace Prize, this group once used the slogan "We Have Two Billion People in our Waiting Room"
Doctors Without Borders
PEOPLE OF THE MONTH In the 1980s this golfer was the leading money winner 3 times on the Senior PGA circuit
Don January
HIT SONGS Inspired by a Meher Baba saying, this 1980s Grammy winner was the first a cappella recording to top the Billboard 100
Don't Worry, Be Happy (by Bobby McFerrin)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS OSCAR WINNERS She took home an Oscar for "From Here to Eternity" & later starred in one of TV's most wholesome sitcoms
Donna Reed
QUASI-RELATED PAIRS "Happy Days" Ralph Malph actor & Nobel winner Curie
Donny (Most) & Marie
COUNTIES OF ENGLAND With 1 T it's an English county; with 2 Ts, Heisman Trophy winner Tony
Dorset/Dorsett
THEATRE Meryl Streep has suspicions about Philip Seymour Hoffman in the film adaptation of this Pulitzer Prize winner
Doubt
HEISMAN TROPHY WINNERS On Jan. 1, 2006 this 1984 Heisman winner from Boston College executed the first drop kick in the NFL in 65 years
Doug Flutie
THE NOBEL PRIZE This Peace Prize winner financed his medical studies partly through royalties from his Bach biography
Dr. Albert Schweitzer
THE NAACP'S SPINGARN MEDAL WINNERS 1959: This member of jazz "nobility"
Duke Ellington
OSCAR WINNERS ONSTAGE Mike Nichols saw him in a play called "Eh?" & offered him the starring role in "The Graduate"
Dustin Hoffman
OSCAR-WINNING ACTORS They're the only 2 Best Actor winners with the same last name; one was a winner for 1979 & 1988, the other for 2005
Dustin Hoffman & Philip Seymour Hoffman
ELECTION DAY His 1956 victory was the first time in over a century that the party of the presidential winner didn't control Congress
Dwight D. Eisenhower
NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE HONOREES Houdini, Emma Goldman & Henry Ford are in this writer’s first winner; Dutch Schultz is in his second winner
E.L. Doctorow
2003 NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS Robert Engle & Clive Granger earned this prize for their new statistical models for financial data
Economics
AWARDS In 1996, just days after being named a Nobel Prize winner in this category, William Vickrey passed away
Economics
NOBEL CATEGORIES BY WINNER Paul Samuelson
Economics
NOBEL PRIZE CATEGORIES BY WINNER Milton Friedman, 1976
Economics
THE EMMYS 1972 Best Supporting Comedy Actor winner who played Lou Grant on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show"
Ed Asner
EMMY WINNERS These 2 men with 16 total career Emmys appeared in series with Mary Tyler Moore, one playing a TV host, one a TV producer
Ed Asner & Carl Reiner
SPORTS This jockey is the only man to ride 2 Triple Crown winners: Whirlaway & Citation
Eddie Arcaro
ACADEMY AWARD WINNERS She won many Oscars, including those for 1949's "The Heiress", 1951's "A Place in the Sun" & 1973's "The Sting"
Edith Head
THERE SHE IS A Pulitzer Prize winner, she was known for her portraits of manners & mores at the end of the 19th century
Edith Wharton
RICH FELLAS Pulitzer winner James Merrill could focus on poetry -- his dad founded a brokerage house with this man
Edmund Lynch
PULITZER PRIZE POETS The 2 winners in the 1920s who had Vincent in their names
Edna St. Vincent Millay & Stephen Vincent Benet
JOURNALISTS (<a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2009-04-03_DJ_14b.jpg" target="_blank">Jon of the Clue Crew reads the clue from the Newseum in Washington, D.C.</a>) <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2009-04-03_DJ_14.jpg" target="_blank">This</a> typewriter was used by <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2009-04-03_DJ_14a.jpg" target="_blank">this</a> man, a 1944 Pulitzer winner & perhaps the USA's most popular World War II correspondent
Ernie Pyle
PURPLE HEART WINNERS Killed near Okinawa in 1945, this Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist was awarded a posthumous Purple Heart
Ernie Pyle
NOBEL LIT WINNERS 80.6666666666667 A U.S. playwright
Eugene O'Neill
TOM HANKS FILMS 1954 Oscar winner seen here with Tom in 1986's "Nothing In Common": "You have no idea what it was like since you moved away, David"
Eva Marie Saint
SUPPORTING ACTOR EMMY WINNERS 2005: Voters like Brad Garrett, too
Everybody Loves Raymond
MUSICAL THEATER An Oscar winner for "Amadeus", he made his Broadway musical debut in 1997 in "Triumph of Love"
F. Murray Abraham
WOULD YOU MURRAY ME? An '80s Oscar winner, this actor's first name is Fahrid
F. Murray Abraham
PALME D'OR WINNERS The top-grossing Palme D'or winner from 2000 to 2010 was this political 2004 documentary
Fahrenheit 9/11
FUN WITH AMERICAN IDOL NAMES A sorcerer's apprentice? No, it's this stage star, reality TV star & winner of season 3
Fantasia Barrino
SINGLE WOMEN "Free Yourself" & know that "Life is not a Fairy Tale" for this third "American Idol" winner
Fantasia Barrino
BEST ACTRESS OSCAR WINNERS 1976 for "Network"
Faye Dunaway
OSCAR WINNERS RHYME TIME Dunaway's "no" votes
Faye's nays
JOE RANFT: PIXAR LEGEND Joe provided the voice of Jacques the Shrimp in this 2003 Oscar winner
Finding Nemo
BEST ACTOR OSCAR WINNERS 1994: Tom Hanks for this modern parable
Forrest Gump
STORM Hurricane Camille leaves only one operational shrimping boat in Bayou La Batre in this 1994 Oscar winner
Forrest Gump
NATIONAL PEOPLE Nobel Prize winner Anatole
France
PULITZER PRIZE WINNERS 1997 for biography: This late author's "Angela's Ashes"
Frank McCourt
PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURATION LORE This 18-time Grammy winner sang "My Country 'Tis of Thee" at Barack Obama's inauguration
Franklin
U.S. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION WINNERS 1944
Franklin D. Roosevelt
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNERS In 2001 for his novel "The Corrections"; it was also an Oprah selection
Franzen
TV ACTORS & ROLES During the 1995-96 season, Oscar winner Mercedes Ruehl played Kelsey Grammer's boss on this series
Frasier
EDGAR AWARD WINNERS He won for his novel "The Day of the Jackal" & the short story "There Are No Snakes in Ireland"
Frederick Forsyth
COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES An old oaken bucket goes to the winner of an annual football game between Purdue & this cross-state rival
Indiana
MOTOR SPORTS The day A.J. Foyt became the first 4-time winner of this race, Janet Guthrie became the first woman to drive in it
Indianapolis 500
FOREIGN-BORN OSCAR WINNERS Her last of 3 Oscar wins was for playing Greta Ohlsson in 1974's "Murder on the Orient Express"
Ingrid Bergman
2003 NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS John Paul II was the favorite, but Shirin Ebadi, a female Muslim from this country, took home the Peace Prize
Iran
PHOTOGRAPHY A 1980 Pulitzer winner for a shot of an execution in this ayatollah-ruled country was anonymous until 2006
Iran
PBS' ELECTRIC COMPANY She's gonna live forever as an "E.C." short circus member & an Oscar winner for a song from "Flashdance"
Irene Cara
THE ACADEMY AWARDS As a presenter at the 1942 Oscars, this composer announced himself as the winner for Best Song for "White Christmas"
Irving Berlin
NOBEL LITERATURE PRIZE WINNERS 1978: This Yiddish tale-teller
Isaac Basehevis Singer
20th CENTURY NOVELS "The Magician of Lublin", by this Yiddish language Nobel Prize winner, is set in his native Poland
Isaac Bashevis Singer
BEST ACTOR OSCAR WINNERS 1934: Clark Gable for this romantic comedy
It Happened One Night
BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS This Oscar winner starring Clark Gable & Claudette Colbert was based on a cosmopolitan short story titled "Night Bus"
It Happened One Night
"P"-RUSSIA This 1904 Nobel winner was director of the physiology dept. at the Institute of Experimental Medicine
Ivan Pavlov
THE 4th The 4th Nobel Prize winner for Physiology/Medicine this Russian won in 1904 for work in the physiology of digestion
Ivan Pavlov
THE GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS Directing winner Oliver Stone said he hopes this film prompts the FBI to open its secret files
JFK
FILM STARS In "Mars Attacks!", this Oscar winner played 2 roles: President James Dale & casino owner Art Land
Jack Nicholson
SPORTS In the 1960s & 1970s he was professional golf's leading money winner 8 times
Jack Nicklaus
TIGER WOODS When Tiger became the youngest Masters winner, he broke this man's records for low 72-hole score & margin of victory
Jack Nicklaus
OSCAR WINNERS' RHYME TIME Nicholson's trousers
Jack's slacks
NOTED BLACK AMERICANS <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2004-02-02_DJ_01.jpg" target="_blank">(Jimmy of the Clue Crew is holding an aluminum bat.)</a> The first national winner of Hillerich & Bradsby's Silver Bat Award in 1949 was <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2004-02-02_DJ_01a.jpg" target="_blank">this</a> Dodger second baseman
Jackie Robinson
SPINGARN MEDAL WINNERS 1956: A baseball player
Jackie Robinson
PEABODY AWARD WINNERS A tour she gave of her home in 1962 won a Peabody
Jacqueline Kennedy
THE ACADEMY AWARDS Peter Finch was the first winner of a posthumous Best Actor Oscar; he was first to get 2 posthumous acting nominations
James Dean
U.S. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION WINNERS 1808
James Madison
CELEBRITY NAME CHANGES Double X marks the spot! Born Eric Bishop, this Oscar winner gave himself the last name of one of his favorite comedians
Jamie Foxx
CELEBRITY NAMES This Oscar winner who had his own WB sitcom took his last name as a tribute to an earlier comic & sitcom star
Jamie Foxx
HUMANITARIANS In 1931 this social reformer & Hull House founder was a co-winner of the Nobel Peace Prize
Jane Addams
PALME D'OR WINNERS In 1993 Holly Hunter's performance helped this woman become the only female director to win the Palme d'Or
Jane Campion
BEST ACTRESS OSCAR WINNERS 1978 for "Coming Home"
Jane Fonda
NOBEL WINNERS BY CATEGORY Max Planck
Physics
THE NEW YORK TIMES MOVIE REVIEWS(Alex: And all of the clues will be given by the New York Times movie critic A.O. Scott.) (A.O. Scott presents the clue.) I raved about this first-time actress in "Dreamgirls" who upstaged an Oscar winner, a pop diva & a movie star of long standing. She's "not going anywhere, she has arrived"
Jennifer Hudson
OSCAR WINNERS ONSTAGE He cleaned houses before he co-starred in "Godspell" in London: what a "Reversal of Fortune"
Jeremy Irons
OSCAR WINNERS IN 2009 This comic's "Kids" must have been proud of his Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award
Jerry Lewis
BROADWAY MUSICALS Winner of a Tony for Best Musical, it culminates with an induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
Jersey Boys
TONY AWARD WINNERS In 2006 "The History Boys" won for Best Play & this other show with "Boys" in the title won for Best Musical
Jersey Boys
SPINGARN MEDAL WINNERS 1989: A minister, politician & civil rights leader
Jesse Jackson
THE NAACP'S SPINGARN MEDAL WINNERS 1989: This clergyman & political activist
Jesse Jackson
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS OSCAR WINNERS She won for "Tootsie" , a few years after not even being nominated for "King Kong"
Jessica Lange
FAMOUS JESSICAS One of People's 50 Most Beautiful was this 1948 & 1978 Tony Award winner
Jessica Tandy
NATIONAL MEDAL OF ARTS WINNERS In 1990 she & husband Hume Cronyn both received medals
Jessica Tandy
OSCAR WINNERS & NOMINEES ON TV "An Unmarried Woman" in the movies, she played Donald Sutherland's wife Letitia on "Dirty Sexy Money"
Jill Clayburgh
U.S. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION WINNERS 1976
Jimmy Carter
TENNIS This Bruin won the 1971 NCAA men's tennis title & later became professional tennis' all-time tournament winner
Jimmy Connors
ACTORS' ALMA MATERS An Oscar winner for 1940, he's <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2005-12-12_DJ_02.jpg" target="_blank">seen</a> <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2005-12-12_DJ_02a.jpg" target="_blank">here</a> playing his accordion on stage at Princeton in the 1930s
Jimmy Stewart
ALL MY CHILDREN The "Dearest" children of this 1945 Oscar winner were Christina, Christopher, Cathy & Cindy
Joan Crawford
HEY "J"! With $6 million in 1977, Steve Cauthen led the money winners in this profession
Jockeys
FILM STARS An Oscar winner for "The Accused", she voiced the male role of Pugsley in "The Addams Family" cartoons
Jodie Foster
OSCAR WINNERS' RHYME TIME Ms. Foster's rock & roll show equipment handlers`
Jodie's roadies
AS LISTED IN THE S.I. ALMANAC "'The Yankee Clipper'... played on 10 World Series winners", career span 1936-51"
Joe DiMaggio
NASCAR This current NFL coach & Super Bowl winner is also a successful NASCAR team owner
Joe Gibbs
SORE WINNERS <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2009-01-07_DJ_07.jpg" target="_blank">He</a> had four surgeries on his knees, but he still led his team to Super Bowl victory
Joe Namath
FILM STARS An Oscar winner for "Goodfellas", he once played guitar for Joey Dee & the Starliters
Joe Pesci
THEY'RE ALL WINNERS! The epic in Stephen Vincent Benet's body of work that won him a 1929 Pulitzer
John Brown's Body
FAMOUS FOR 15 MINUTES This first million-dollar winner on "Who Wants to Be A Millionaire" shares his name with the director of "Halloween"
John Carpenter
3 Es PLEASE This Pulitzer Prize winner penned "The Wapshot Scandal"
John Cheever
END-"EVER" This Pulitzer winner's "Oh What A Paradise It Seems" was published in 1982, the same year he died
John Cheever
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNERS He had a long career: his "Wapshot Chronicle" won in 1958 & his "Stories" in 1981
John Cheever
U.S. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION WINNERS 1960
John F. Kennedy
THE PULITZER PRIZES Theodore H. White, the first general nonfiction winner, won for an account of this man's election to the U.S. presidency
John F. Kennedy (\"The Making of the President, 1960\")
& OTHER '80s OSCAR WINNERS He was acclaimed onstage as Hamlet in 1929 & onscreen as Arthur's butler in 1981
John Gielgud
WHO'S YOUR DADDY? Oscar winner Anjelica
John Huston
PURPLE HEART WINNERS A current senator from Massachusetts, this man earned a Silver Star, a Bronze Star & 3 Purple Hearts
John Kerry
THE GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS This "3rd Rock From The Sun" winner told the foreign press, "We aliens have to stick together"
John Lithgow
PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING BIOS The 1946 winner, "Son of the Wilderness", detailed the life of this Sierra Club founder
John Muir
PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHORS He's the most recent winner of 2 Pulitzer prizes for fiction, winning in 1982 & 1991 for books in the same series
John Updike
'90S OSCAR WINNERS His 12 nominations for movies of the decade produced 1 win, Best Original Score for “Schindler's Listâ€
John Williams
EDGAR AWARD WINNERS "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold" got him the Edgar
John le Carré
U.S. PRESIDENTS He was married to an Academy Award winner
Ronald Reagan
MULTIPLE TONY WINNERS Her mom won a special Oscar & a Tony; she won 3 Tonys & an Oscar
Liza Minnelli
THEY'VE BEEN IN YOUR DEN This late Oscar winner's '50s show was originally titled "A Letter To Loretta"
Loretta Young
'50s TV For 1956 the Best Actor & Actress Emmy winners for a Dramatic Series were these 2 people, both named Young
Loretta Young & Robert Young
OSCAR WINNERS She's the first woman to win 2 Best Actress Oscars before the age of 30
Luise Rainer
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNERS "Master of the Senate", volume 3 in Robert Caro's massive bio of this man, covers the 1950s
Lyndon Baines Johnson
AMERICAN PLAYS This future pres.'s 1948 Senate race is the subject of the musical "The Winner", which premiered in Texas in 2007
Lyndon Johnson
WEBSITES These 2 letters follow "Web" in the name of the 2010 Webby Award winner in the health category
MD
GRAMPA & GRAMMYS Grampa just wouldn't be Grampa if he wasn't always humming this 1959 winner by Bobby Darin
Mack The Knife
EMMY REPEAT WINNERS? This advertising drama was 2008's Outstanding Drama Series & we'll raise our martini glass if it wins again
Mad Men
CALL ME SMITTY The 1969 Oscar winner for "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" was this future dame
Maggie Smith
SHOW BIZ AWARD WINNERS Voters lent him their ears & he won Song of the Year at the first Latin Grammys in 2000
Marc Anthony
RECENT OSCAR WINNERS When she won for her role in "Pollock", her first thank you was to Ed Harris, who played Pollock
Marcia Gay Harden
NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS 2 men received the 1909 Physics Prize for their work on wireless telegraphy: Karl Ferdinand Braun & this Italian
Marconi
SPINGARN MEDAL WINNERS This 1939 winner's debut at the Met in 1955 was the first for an African-American soloist
Marian Anderson
THE NAACP'S SPINGARN MEDAL WINNERS 1939: This gospel singer & opera soloist
Marian Anderson
BORN & DIED 2-time Nobel Prize winner who was born in Warsaw in 1867 & died in France in 1934
Marie Curie
FAMOUS MOMS This scientist is the only woman to be a Nobel Prize winner as well as the mother of a Nobel Prize winner
Marie Curie
THEY'RE ALL WINNERS! Talk about a super Mario! He won more than 50 Indy car races before he retired in 1994
Mario Andretti
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS OSCAR WINNERS She won for "My Cousin Vinny" & has been nominated 2 other times, as well
Marisa Tomei
SULLIVAN AWARD WINNERS 1971: Male swimmer
Mark Spitz
PULITZER-WINNING BIOGRAPHIES Justin Kaplan looked at the 2 sides of an author in the 1967 winner about "Mr. Clemens and" this man
Mark Twain
THEY'RE ALL WINNERS! (<a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2004-09-22_J_16.jpg" target="_blank">Hi, I'm Gretchen Carlson of the CBS <i>Saturday Early Show</i>.</a>) You could say it was my "crowning" moment when I became the 1st classical violinist to win this national title
Miss America
WORLD WAR II: THE HOME FRONT As the 1943 winner of this national title, beautiful Jean Bartel sold 2 1/2 million dollars worth of war bonds
Miss America
NEW BEAUTY CONTEST WINNERS She's the winner in the behavior & deportment competition, or an offense less serious than a felony
Miss Demeanor/misdemeanor
NEW BEAUTY CONTEST WINNERS Sadly, this woman who's in the best physical condition is considered an odd duck by the other contestants
Miss Fit/misfit
NEW BEAUTY CONTEST WINNERS She can win representing the 17th letter of the alphabet, or be a failed stroke in billiards
Miss Q/miscue
ODDS & ENDS The winner of the Miss USA contest goes on to represent the U.S. in this pageant
Miss Universe
TONY WINNERS OF THE '40s Henry Fonda was so shipshape in this best play in 1948 that he won Best Actor
Mister Roberts
THE STANLEY CUP The Cup's first winner was an amateur team from this city whose NHL team has won it more than 20 times
Montreal
NEWBERY MEDAL WINNERS 1995: "Walk Two" of these celestial bodies
Moons
MOVIE CITIES The 1980 Oscar winner for Foreign Language Film was "____ does Not Believe in Tears"
Moscow
FAMOUS WOMEN In 1997 Sister Nirmala succeeded this Nobel Prize winner as head of the Missionaries of Charity
Mother Teresa
INDIAN FIRSTS The first Indian Nobel Peace Prize winner was this Albania-born Indian citizen in 1979
Mother Teresa
PICTURE ME! <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2007-02-15_J_15.jpg" target="_blank">This</a> saintly Nobel prize winner has rightfully inspired tremendous devotion
Mother Teresa
WOMEN OF THE WORLD This Nobel Peace Prize winner was born in what is now Skopje, Macedonia in 1910
Mother Teresa
OSCAR WINNERS OF YORE Greer Garson survives a Luftwaffe attack & the annual flower show as this title "Mrs."
Mrs. Miniver
THE BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNER "Mrs. Miniver", "Mister Roberts", "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington"
Mrs. Miniver
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNERS (I'm CNN correspondent Lizzie O'Leary.) Katharine Boo's reportage in "Behind the Beautiful Forevers" captures life's inequalities in the slums of this Indian city & commerical center
Mumbai
CATALINA Movies shot on Catalina include <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2006-10-12_DJ_27.jpg" target="_blank">this</a> 1935 Oscar winner starring Clark Gable & Charles Laughton
Mutiny on the Bounty
NOBEL LAUREATES The 1991 Nobel Peace Prize winner from this country was under arrest at the time of the award
Myanmar
1995 In July, military leaders in this country freed Nobel Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi from house arrest
Myanmar (Burma)
NEWBERY MEDAL WINNERS 1972: "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of" this group
NIMH
20th CENTURY WOMEN This South African author & winner of a 1991 Nobel Prize once taught writing at Harvard
Nadine Gordimer
THE NEW YORK TIMES PULITZER PRIZE WINNERS William Laurence won a Prize in 1946 for his eyewitness account of the atomic bombing of this city, after Hiroshima
Nagasaki
EGYPTIAN LIFE (<a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2005-04-18_DJ_10.jpg" target="_blank">Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from a bookstore in Cairo, Egypt.</a>) Browsing Cairo's many bookstores, you'll inevitably come across works by <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2005-04-18_DJ_10a.jpg" target="_blank">this</a> author, the 1988 Nobel Prize winner
Naguib Mahfouz
BEST MUSICAL ACTOR TONY WINNERS "The Producers" (2001)
Nathan Lane
THERE SHE IS, MISS AMERICA In 2011 17-year-old Teresa Scanlan from this "Cornhusker State" became the youngest winner since 1933
Nebraska
THAT'S ENTERTAINMENT "It's a quarter after one, I'm a little drunk"--time for this Lady Antebellum hit, a big winner at the Grammys in 2011
Need You Now
THE INDY 500 (<a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2004-05-28_J_19.jpg" target="_blank">Sofia reports from the Indianapolis Speedway Hall of Fame Museum.</a>) It was hard keeping up with <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2004-05-28_J_19a.jpg" target="_blank">this</a> 1963 Indy 500 <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2004-05-28_J_19b.jpg" target="_blank">winner</a>, the first driver to turn an official lap here at over 150 miles per hour
Parnelli Jones
ONE-WORD BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS A controversial U.S. general
Patton
OSCAR WINNERS & NOMINEES ON TV Although he lost the supporting actor Oscar for "Cinderella Man", he won the Emmy vote for "John Adams"
Paul Giamatti
SULLIVAN AWARD WINNERS 2004: Gymnast (but not twin brother Morgan)
Paul Hamm
ECONOMIST DANCE PARTY In honor of "Alas, Brazil", a 1999 article by this newspaper columnist & 2008 Nobel winner, it's time to lambada
Paul Krugman
BEST ACTOR OSCAR WINNERS 1986: As a slower "Fast Eddie" Felson
Paul Newman
THE OSCARS This winner of the Jean Herscholt Humanitarian Award said "The salad dressing is outgrossing my films"
Paul Newman
ENTERTAINMENT AWARDS Husband & wife Oscar winners, he won for "The Color of Money", she for "The Three Faces of Eve"
Paul Newman & Joanne Woodward
SPINGARN MEDAL WINNERS 1945: An actor, singer, activist & football All-American
Paul Robeson
THE NAACP'S SPINGARN MEDAL WINNERS 1945: This singer & star of the film "The Emperor Jones"
Paul Robeson
BEST DRAMATIC ACTOR TONY WINNERS For "A Man for All Seasons" (1962)
Paul Scofield
CELEBRITY SECRET LIVES RHYME TIME Nobel winner Linus' bearlike attacks on the living room furniture
Pauling's maulings
2 VS, PLEASE Last name of the 1904 Nobel Prize winner for Physiology or Medicine, dog
Pavlov
GONE TOO SOON At the 2000 U.S. Open in Pebble Beach, a memorial was held for this golfer & winner of the title in '99
Payne Stewart
NOBEL CATEGORIES BY WINNER George Marshall
Peace
NOBEL PRIZE CATEGORIES BY WINNER Yitzhak Rabin, 1994
Peace
NOBEL WINNERS BY CATEGORY Mikhail Gorbachev
Peace
NOBEL LIT WINNERS 80.75 The daughter
Pearl Buck
NOBEL LIT WINNERS, INITIALLY YOURS 1938: P.S.B., United States
Pearl Buck
PARENTING This 1938 Nobel Literature Prize winner's parents were Presbyterian missionaries
Pearl Buck
MEDAL OF HONOR WINNERS Francis Flaherty saved shipmates & lost his own life aboard the Oklahoma during this infamous 1941 attack
Pearl Harbor
PURPLE HEART WINNERS The first woman to win a Purple Heart, Lt. Annie Fox served at Hickam Field during the attack on this naval base
Pearl Harbor
SEE HOW THEY RUN This winged horse follows "Fusaichi" in the name of the 2000 Kentucky Derby winner
Pegasus
ULYSSES After two decades waiting for ol' Uly to haul his tush back home, she decides to marry the winner of an archery contest
Penelope
OSCAR WINNERS IN 2009 She was named Best Supporting Actress for "Vicky Cristina Barcelona"
Penélope Cruz
"P.S." With more than $25 million in earnings, he's tennis' all-time leading money winner
Pete Sampras
SORE WINNERS After a marathon 1996 U.S. Open match, <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2009-01-07_DJ_06.jpg" target="_blank">this</a> American ace needed an I.V. drip
Pete Sampras
RECENT OSCAR WINNERS Accepting his honorary Oscar, this great Irish actor said, "Always a bridesmaid, never a bride, my foot!"
Peter O'Toole
TONY WINNERS OF THE '50s Cyril Ritchard hooked a 1955 Tony for playing Captain Hook in this musical
Peter Pan
IN MEMORIAM 2004 A 2-time Oscar winner for "Spartacus" and "Topkapi", he also played Hercule Poirot & Charlie Chan on film
Peter Ustinov
GRAMPA & GRAMMYS Grampa just went to the 40th anniversary tour of these winners for 1962 with "If I Had A Hammer"
Peter, Paul and Mary
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNERS He has won for "Sabbath's Theater" & "Goodbye, Columbus"
Philip Roth
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNERS In 1960 for "Goodbye, Columbus" & in 1995 for "Sabbath's Theater"
Philip Roth
OSCAR WINNERS IN 2009 A documentary on this Frenchman's "little" feat of wirewalking between the Twin Towers won an Oscar
Philippe Petit
THERE SHE IS, MISS AMERICA This 1971 winner co-hosted "The NFL Today" for CBS from 1975 to 1984
Phyllis George
2003 NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS Abriskosov, Ginzburg & Leggett fielded this award for their work with quantum superconductivity
Physics
NOBEL CATEGORIES BY WINNER Ernest Lawrence
Physics
NOBEL PRIZE CATEGORIES BY WINNER Richard Feynman, 1965
Physics
SICKNESS & HEALTH German physicist & Nobel Prize winner Robert Koch found that these rodents conveyed the black plague
Rats
SHOW BIZ AWARD WINNERS His TV wife Patricia Heaton had 2 Emmys for her role when he won his first in 2002
Ray Romano
EDGAR AWARD WINNERS He won in 1955 for his novel "The Long Goodbye"
Raymond Chandler
BIG-SCREEN STUMPERS This Hitchcock classic was the first Best Picture Oscar winner with a first name as its one-word title
Rebecca
3 CHEERS FOR CHEERLEADERS I'd "Walk the Line" back to Nashville to see this Oscar winner cheer at her alma mater, Harpeth Hall
Reese Witherspoon
OSCAR WINNERS' RHYME TIME Witherspoon's parts
Reese's pieces
THE HEISMAN TROPHY This 2005 Heisman winner received 84.9% of the first-place votes--the highest percentage in history
Reggie Bush
EYES ON THE PRIZE Winners of the Templeton Prize for Understanding of this include Baba Amte, Rabbi Jakobovits & the Rev. Peacocke
Religion
PICK THE OSCAR WINNER "Cold Mountain": Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, Renee Zellweger
Renee Zellweger
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS OSCAR WINNERS She had us at "Cold Mountain"
Renée Zellweger
BEST ACTOR OSCAR WINNERS 1964 for "My Fair Lady"
Rex Harrison
BEST MUSICAL ACTOR TONY WINNERS "Camelot" (1961)
Richard Burton
TAXED BY TAXES This first "Survivor" winner was voted off his home & into a jail for failing to pay taxes on his winnings
Richard Hatch
U.S. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION WINNERS 1968
Richard Nixon
GOLDEN GLOBE WINNERS This Brit, 2003's Best Actor in a TV Comedy Series for "The Office"; He'd later host the event
Ricky Gervais
ACTORS ON BROADWAY "Gantry", a 1970 musical version of "Elmer Gantry", featured this "West Side Story" Oscar winner as Sister Sharon
Rita Moreno
MASTER CARD In "Tropic Thunder", this dude playing another dude is a "5-time Academy Award winner"
Robert Downey, Jr.
POETRY This Pulitzer Prize winner read poetry at JFK's presidential inauguration
Robert Frost
THE 76th ACADEMY AWARDS This Defense Secy.'s career was the subject of "The Fog of War", winner for Documentary Feature
Robert McNamara
PULITZER PRIZE POETS 1979's winner, in 1986 he was made the first U.S. Poet Laureate
Robert Penn Warren
AWARD-WINNERS (Audio Daily Double) She won the 1973 Grammy for "Record of the Year" with the following song:
Roberta Flack
ENTERTAINMENT AWARDS Also an Oscar winner, he's won 4 Grammys for comedy albums, including one for "Reality... What a Concept"
Robin Williams
BEST PICTURE OSCAR-WINNERS IN OTHER WORDS 1976: "A Single Colorado Mountain"
Rocky
CLASSIC CINEMA "His whole life was a million-to-one shot" was the tagline for this 1976 Best Picture winner
Rocky
FOOD ON FILM The title character chugs raw eggs & punches slabs of beef in this 1976 Oscar winner
Rocky
OSCAR-NOMINATED SPORTS FLICKS This 1976 Oscar winner used the tagline "You have a ringside seat for the bloodiest Bicentennial in history"
Rocky
TV & FILM FOOD The title character chugs raw eggs & punches slabs of beef in this 1976 Oscar winner
Rocky
HOT "ROD"s There's the signpost up ahead... it says "He was a WWII paratrooper, a boxer & a 1960 Emmy winner"; your next stop: him
Rod Serling
GRAMMY WINNERS He won 1980's Best Comedy Recording with "No Respect", I tell ya
Rodney Dangerfield
CY YOUNG AWARD WINNERS He won 7 Cy Young awards, more than any other pitcher, & he did it with 4 teams: the Red Sox, Blue Jays, Yankees & Astros
Roger Clemens
IT'S MILLER TIME This Tony Award winner had hits with "Do-Wacka-Do" & "King of the Road"
Roger Miller
HEISMAN TROPHY WINNERS Only 2 Heisman winners have played for Navy: Joe Bellino & this man, "Roger the Dodger"
Roger Staubach
THE HEISMAN TROPHY 8 Heisman winners are Pro Football Hall of Famers, including this Dallas QB who won in 1963 when he was playing for Navy
Roger Staubach
NATIONAL MAGAZINE AWARD WINNERS This 1971 winner for Specialized Journalism was the subject of a 1973 song by Dr. Hook
Rolling Stone
OPRAH'S SURPRISES (<a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2011-04-05_J_13.jpg" target="_blank">Oprah Winfrey gives the clue.</a>) One of my favorite moments on the show is when a "Star Search" winner came on to sing "Isn't She Lovely" & part way through found this man backing him up on a harmonica
Stevie Wonder
HOTELS Nobel Prize winners are put up at this city's Grand Hotel on the water opposite the royal palace
Stockholm
"STONE"S The winner of the 1990 Seattle Spam-off was a replica of this British archaeological site
Stonehenge
PULITZER PRIZE WINNERS Since 1952 he's hosted a weekday talk & interview show on Chicago's fine arts radio station WFMT
Studs Terkel
"DEATH" PENALTY In sports, it's an overtime period added to a tied game with the winner being the first to score
Sudden death
THE GRAMMYS Kristian Bush & Jennifer Nettles make sweet music as this country duo, Grammy winners in 2009
Sugarland
OUT THERE SPORTS Lisa Andersen, winner of the 1997 U.S. Open at Huntington Beach, Calif., is perhaps the top woman in this sport
Surfing
REQUIRED READING For "Feminism and Film" at Vanderbilt: "Backlash" by this Pulitzer winner
Susan Faludi
OSCAR WINNERS RHYME TIME Actress Hilary's financial institutions
Swank's banks
OSCAR WINNERS' RHYME TIME Hilary's financial institutions
Swank's banks
A LITERARY TOUR Marbacka, the estate of Nobel Prize-winner Selma Lagerlof, is a tourist attraction in this country
Sweden
OBIE WINNERS 1962-63, based on Shakespeare's "The Comedy of Errors": "The Boys From _____"
Syracuse
LITERATURE This Nobel Prize winner dedicated "The Waste Land" to fellow poet Ezra Pound
T.S. Eliot
PULITZER PRIZE WINNERS James Michener won his only Pulitzer Prize for this, his first book of fiction
Tales of the South Pacific
OSCAR SONGS As Dr. Doolittle, Rex Harrison sang this 1967 Oscar-winner to people too
Talk To The Animals
PICK THE OSCAR WINNER "Paper Moon": Madeline Kahn, Ryan O'Neal, Tatum O'Neal
Tatum O'Neal
THE OSCARS She was 10 when she won Best Supporting Actress for "Paper Moon", the youngest acting winner ever
Tatum O'Neal
SUPPORTING ACTOR EMMY WINNERS 1981: Danny DeVito gets an Emmy dispatch
Taxi
CANNES PALME D'OR WINNERS Occupation suffering the USA's highest homicide rate or title of the 1976 winner starring Robert De Niro
Taxi Driver
TAYLOR, SWIFT This season 5 winner of "American Idol" is from Alabama
Taylor Hicks
GRAMMY WINNERS 2009's Best Female Country Vocal went to her for "White Horse", where (shocker!) she goes off on an ex-boyfriend
Taylor Swift
THERE ONCE WAS THIS MAN FROM... ...New York / A gov. firm against pork / He's the winner, he's prez / The Chicago Trib says / But he lost & he felt like a dork
Thomas Dewey
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNERS In 1974 for "Gravity's Rainbow"
Thomas Pynchon
PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING BIOS David Herbert Donald's 1988 winner "Look Homeward" was "A Life of" this author
Thomas Wolfe
SPINGARN MEDAL WINNERS A lawyer when he won in 1946, he went on to be the first African-American on the Supreme Court
Thurgood Marshall
THE NAACP SPINGARN MEDAL WINNERS This 1946 winner was appointed to the Supreme Court in 1967
Thurgood Marshall
WE PROTEST! Liu Xiaobo, winner of the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize, spent 19 months in prison for his role in the June 1989 protests at this site
Tiananmen Square
"TIE" ME UP It's an additional period of play designed to establish a winner among contestants with the same score
Tiebreaker
GOOD SPORTS The dad of this 2006 British Open winner was the 1st African-American baseball player in the then-Big 7 conference
Tiger Woods
SHOW BIZ AWARD WINNERS Doing some bad things in "Michael Clayton" won <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2008-11-27_DJ_17.jpg" target="_blank">her</a> an Oscar
Tilda Swinton
HEISMAN WINNERS Even though his team won the BCS Championship in 2009, this QB didn't win back-to-back Heismans
Tim Tebow
OSCAR YOUNGEST/OLDEST Youngest Supporting Actor winner: Him for "Ordinary People"
Timothy Hutton
PICK THE OSCAR WINNER "Ordinary People": Timothy Hutton, Mary Tyler Moore, Judd Hirsch
Timothy Hutton
GOLDEN GLOBE WINNERS This woman, 2007's Best Actress in a TV Comedy for "30 Rock"
Tina Fey
BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS BY CHARACTERS Molly Brown, Jack Dawson
Titanic
MOVIES AT SEA One tagline for this 1997 Oscar winner was "Collide with destiny"
Titanic
THE ACADEMY AWARDS The 3 hour & 46 minute awards telecast in 1998 was 30 minutes longer than this, its Best Picture winner
Titanic
ROAD TO PERDITION It was the title of Medal of Honor winner Audie Murphy's autobiography
To Hell and Back
OPRAH'S FAVORITE BOOKS (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
25-GAME WINNERS Terrific! He racked up 25 wins for the Miraculous 1969 Mets
Tom "Terrific" Seaver
THE 2008 SPORTS ILLUSTRATED FORTUNATE 50 No. 32, $18 mil.: This Patriots QB, dater of supermodels & winner of Super Bowls
Tom Brady
AFI LIFE ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS This 2-time best actor Oscar winner of the '90s is the youngest honoree ever
Tom Hanks
PRESIDENTIAL RELATIVES This 2-time winner of the Best Actor Oscar is related to Abe Lincoln (whose mother was Nancy Hanks)
Tom Hanks
THAT WAS NO LADY This Oscar winner was Buffy the gender slayer on "Bosom Buddies"
Tom Hanks
CY YOUNG AWARD WINNERS In 1969 the "Miracle Mets" won the World Series & this star pitcher, "Tom Terrific", won the Cy Young Award
Tom Seaver
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNERS He had "The Right Stuff" to win for his book about Chuck Yeager, Alan Shepard & others
Tom Wolfe
DANCE MAGAZINE AWARDS This tall co-star/co-director/co-choreographer of "My One And Only" was one of only 5 winners in 1984
Tommy Tune
AMERICAN LITERATURE Books by this Nobel Prize winner include "Love", "Beloved" & "Tar Baby"
Toni Morrison
NOBEL LIT WINNERS 83.0416666666667 A Howard grad
Toni Morrison
PULITZER-PRIZE WINNING WOMEN A reading room at the Lorain Public Library in Ohio is named for this "Beloved" prize-winner from 1988
Toni Morrison
GRAMPA & GRAMMYS Grampa said that he left a kidney in Sheboygan, sort of like what happened to this (Pop) Vocal Male winner of 1962
Tony Bennett ("I Left My Heart In San Francisco")
ACTORS & THEIR ROLES Oscar-winners Dustin Hoffman & Geena Davis both played soap opera actresses in this film
Tootsie
RECORD OF THE YEAR GRAMMY WINNERS 1982 for "Rosanna"
Toto
THE KENTUCKY DERBY (Sofia of the Clue Crew at the Kentucky Derby Museum in Louisville) On May 10, 1919, Sir Barton won the Kentucky Derby; a month & a day later, he became the first winner of this
Triple Crown
25-GAME WINNERS In 1956 Don Newcombe won 27 games for this National League team
the Brooklyn Dodgers
NONFICTION "The Apprentice" winner Bill Rancic changed 1 letter in a Trump phrase to get this title for his book on success
You're Hired
BROADWAY Winner of Tony & Oscar for royal role he's been identified with since '51
Yul Brynner
FOREIGN-BORN OSCAR WINNERS This 1957 winner claimed he was born on Sakhalin Island, about 3,000 miles northeast of Siam
Yul Brynner
PEOPLE STYLE WATCH Sienna Miller made the winner's circle in a metallic gown by this designer, YSL for short
Yves Saint Laurent
BEST MUSICAL ACTOR TONY WINNERS "Fiddler on the Roof" (1965)
Zero Mostel
AWARDS & HONORS Spain's version of the Oscar is called this, after artist Francisco (winners get a bust of him)
a Goya
THE THEATRE When these theatre awards were first presented in 1947, the winners got a scroll plus a compact (women) or money clip (men)
a Tony Award
BEFORE & AFTER A term for a female pageant winner is used in the honorary title for a British barrister
a beauty Queen's Counsel
GREEK MYTHOLOGY The Judgement of Paris refers to the picking of a winner in one of these contests
a beauty contest
ALSO A CHESS PIECE 1984 Nobel Peace Prize winner Desmond Tutu was this in Johannesburg
a bishop
THE DONALD Donald Glaser's invention of this "chamber" used to view subatomic particles made him a 1960 Nobel Prize winner
a bubble chamber
HAD A DOG 2006's winner of Best in Show at the Westminster Kennel Club dog show was a colored type of this terrier
a bull terrier
THE IG NOBEL PRIZES The winners of the '99 peace prize invented one of these armed with a flamethrower; beats those beeps & whistles
a car alarm
RHYME 3 TIMES(Alex: In [*] each response will be three rhyming words.) The evening meal of a less-fat champion
a dinner of a thinner winner
THE INDY 500 (<a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2004-05-28_J_17.jpg" target="_blank">Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Indianapolis Speedway.</a>) The tradition of Indy 500 winners drinking this nonalcoholic beverage in victory lane <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2004-05-28_J_17.wmv">began</a> with 1936 winner Louis Meyer
milk
NEW BEAUTY CONTEST WINNERS You'll get a wrong number if you do this, one company's representative in the Antibacterial Soap Pageant
misdial/Miss Dial
NEW BEAUTY CONTEST WINNERS If you forgot where you put something, ask this woman who looks great with a Hawaiian garland on
mislay/Miss Lei
I'M AUSTRALIAN During WWII Nobel Prize winner John Cornforth worked on the structure of this antibiotic
penicillin
LITERARY QUOTATIONS Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Frost remarked that this is what gets "lost in translation"
poetry
NOBEL LAUREATES SPEAK (Let's hear from someone at USC): "Hi, I'm George Olah, Nobel Prize winner in chemistry. The "P" in Boyle's Law, PV=K, stands for this"
pressure
COLLEGE FOOTBALL The Davey O'Brien Award goes to the top player at this position; Peyton Manning & Eric Crouch are recent winners
quarterback
SLOW NEWS DAY (Sarah) At the 17th Street Bake-Off today, the big winner was a pie made from these stalks...mmmm!
rhubarb
THE KENTUCKY DERBY The winner is presented with a garland of these
roses
PUTTING ON THE DOG 2008's Best in Show winner at Crufts was one of these dogs whose name is from the German for "snout"
schnauzer
THINGS ARE SLOW If you bet that the slowest fishes of all are these of genus Hippocampus--go to the winner's circle
seahorses
"S"PORTS In declaring the winner in tennis, it traditionally comes between "game" & "match"
set
CANNE PALME D'OR WINNERS(Alex: Movies, of course.) 82.875 "____, ____, and videotape"
sex, lies
WINNER OF OUR DISCONTENT Thank Laurence Canter, aka "The Father of" this, which started as a way to sell legal services via usenet groups
spam
WINTER SPORTS This sport's Eric Heiden & Bonnie Blair are the USA's top gold medal winners in the Winter Olympics; each has 5
speed skating
AUSTRALIAN LIT Nobel Prize winner Patrick White was noted for using this technique where thoughts flow freely & at random
stream of consciousness
DANCE Tony winner Hinton Battle says he doesn't buy these shoes premade, he buys soft shoes & makes his own
tap shoes
National Geographic Bee WINNING QUESTIONS(Later this week I'll be hosting the 25th National Geographic Bee in Washington, DC.) The first winner named the altiplano as the flat area at about 10,000 feet in these South American mountains
the Andes
HEISMAN WINNERS Sam Bradford, the most recent winner of the Heisman, attended a university in this conference
the Big 12
NEWBERY MEDAL WINNERS 1961: O'Dell's "Island of" these colorful creatures
the Blue Dolphins
ALL THE GLITTERING PRIZES In 1999 J.M. Coetzee became the first 2-time winner of this major British fiction prize
the Booker
THE WORLD TRADE CENTER & GROUND ZERO The new <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2011-09-22_J_22.jpg" target="_blank">complex</a> on the site will be six office towers, three of them designed by winners of this 32-year-old architecture prize
the Pritzker Prize
COLD PLAY For 1923's "Icebound", about Maine, Owen Davis was the fifth winner of this prize for drama
the Pulitzer
STAMPS A 2010 stamp honored political cartoonist Bill Mauldin, the youngest winner of this prize
the Pulitzer
NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS Geneva-born Henri Dunant, a founder of this international organization, shared the first Peace Prize in 1901
the Red Cross
IN THE NEWS 13-year-old Amanda Goad of Virginia was the winner of this national c-o-m-p-e-t-i-t-i-o-n
the Spelling Bee
TELL US WHAT HE'S WON! 80 W.E.B. Du Bois medaled as winner No. 6
the Spingarn Medal
PULITZER PRIZE WINNERS 2006 for public service in covering Hurricane Katrina: Mississippi's Sun-Herald & this New Orleans paper
the Times-Picayune
THEATRE HISTORY The first winners of these didn't get the award we know today: just a scroll & a compact (or a cigarette lighter)
the Tony Awards
INTERNATIONAL COMPETITIONS Due to developments in 2012, this annual summer contest now lists no winner from the years 1999-2005
the Tour de France
A FATEFUL "TRIP" Ridden by Steve Cauthen in 1978, Affirmed was the last winner of this
the Triple Crown
SPINGARN MEDAL WINNERS At its charter conference in 1945, Mary McLeod Bethune was a consultant for interracial affairs
the United Nations
HERE I AM AT... (<a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2004-11-09_DJ_15.jpg" target="_blank">Cheryl of the Clue Crew strolls across a college campus.</a>) I'm on the campus of this university, where over 25 Nobel Prize winners were educated, including Milton Friedman
the University of Chicago
HEISMAN WINNERS Carson Palmer, Reggie Bush & Matt Leinart are a few of this school's recent winners
the University of Southern California
NONFICTION PULITZER WINNERS Neil Sheehan's "A Bright Shining Lie" centers on John Paul Vann & America's involvement in this event
the Vietnam War
25-GAME WINNERS In 1961 Whitey Ford won 25 games for this American League team
the Yankees
DAILY "BREAD" The principal money-earner in a family
the breadwinner
A DAY AT THE RACES In this type of race, you may bet on the winner & then buy it
the claiming race
FRENCH WEIGHTS & MEASURES The becquerel is a unit of radiation that has replaced this, the name of Henri Becquerel's co-Nobel Prize winners
the curie
SPORTS American winners of this Olympic event include Bob Mathias, Rafer Johnson & Bruce Jenner
the decathlon
IN THE PANTHEON(Alex: Once again, you are [*], but this time, each correct response will be made up of letters in the word "pantheon" itself.) The winner of a running race breaks it first
the tape
SHAPE UP Shapely two-word location of the people seen <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2004-12-02_J_24.jpg" target="_blank">here</a>, May 5th, 1973
the winner's circle
AMAZING SPORTS RECORDS In this key job, preparing horses, Ben Jones brought a record 6 horses to the Kentucky Derby winner's circle
trainer
PALME D'OR WINNERS In 1964 Jacques Demy won with "Les parapluies" or these "de Cherbourg"
umbrellas
NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS In 1943 the Nobel assembly gave a dam, Henrik Dam, a prize for discovering this vitamin which aids in blood clotting
vitamin K
N.E.W.S. Of northern, eastern, western or southern, the classification of the 1992 Best Picture Oscar winner
western
PARENT & CHILD NOBEL WINNERS In 1915 William H, & William L. Bragg shared the prize for their analysis of the structure of crystals via this type of image
x-ray