| (I'm Lin-Manuel Miranda.) In 2008 I won a Tony for Best Original Score for my musical "In the Heights"; that is, Washington Heights, far uptown in this borough |
Manhattan |
200 |
June 10, 2016 |
| 2012's Best Original Screenplay Oscar went to him for "Django Unchained" |
Quentin Tarantino |
400 |
June 10, 2016 |
| In 1962 Don Drysdale won the Cy Young Award; the next year it was this Dodgers teammate |
Sandy Koufax |
600 |
June 10, 2016 |
| From 2000 through 2003 this fast-moving, fast-talking political drama won the Drama Series Emmy |
<i>The West Wing</i> |
800 |
June 10, 2016 |
| This stammering comedian with "new" in his name won the 1960 Best New Artist Grammy |
Bob Newhart |
1000 |
June 10, 2016 |
| This 2005 film in the "Star Wars" saga won People's Choice Awards for Favorite Picture & Favorite Drama |
<i>Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith</i> |
200 |
February 15, 2008 |
| With about 100 awarded yearly, Rhodes Scholarships enable students to study at this British university |
Oxford |
400 |
February 15, 2008 |
| The ALA presents an award named in honor of Theodore Geisel, aka this author, for beginning readers' books |
Dr. Seuss |
800 |
February 15, 2008 |
| Winners of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama include this playwright, for "Death of a Salesman" |
(Arthur) Miller |
1000 |
February 15, 2008 |
| In 2007 Doris Lessing became only the 11th woman to win this--Pearl Buck won in 1938 |
the Nobel Prize in Literature |
|
February 15, 2008 |
| This auction site won a 2003 Webby Award for best Services Website on the Internet |
eBay |
200 |
June 23, 2005 |
| This Washington newspaper's Colbert King won a 2003 Pulitzer for Commentary for his columns on politics & power |
<i>The Washington Post</i> |
400 |
June 23, 2005 |
| William Lipscomb won the '76 Nobel Chemistry Prize for his studies of compounds of boron & this lightest element |
hydrogen |
600 |
June 23, 2005 |
| The Golden Lamp awards are bestowed for the best protrayals of these health professionals in the media |
nurses |
800 |
June 23, 2005 |
| In 2001 this author won a Pen/Faulkner Award for Best American Work of Fiction for "The Human Stain" |
Philip Roth |
1000 |
June 23, 2005 |
| Michael Collins, Buzz Aldrin & this man were the first astronauts to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom |
Neil Armstrong |
200 |
November 26, 2004 |
| In 1912 the Int'l Committee of the Red Cross created a medal for nursing named for this 19th century British woman |
Florence Nightingale |
400 |
November 26, 2004 |
| The Thailand edition of this CBS series won a 2003 People's Choice Award for best reality program |
<i>Survivor</i> |
600 |
November 26, 2004 |
| The Hugo & Nebula awards are presented to writers in this genre |
science fiction |
800 |
November 26, 2004 |
| In 1965 this U.N. Secretary-General from Asia became the first to win the Nehru Award for Int'l Understanding |
U Thant |
1000 |
November 26, 2004 |
| In 1999 Gisele Bundchen was this of the Year at the VH1/Vogue Fashion Awards |
Model |
100 |
March 15, 2001 |
| Hollywood.com gives Golden Hitches to these previews of coming attractions |
trailers |
200 |
March 15, 2001 |
| The M in AMS, which gives awards for predicting the weather, stands for this 14-letter word |
Meteorological |
400 |
March 15, 2001 |
| In 1979 Philip Johnson was the first winner of the Pritzker Prize in this field |
Architecture |
500 |
March 15, 2001 |
| The Ron Brown Award for Corporate Leadership honors the late secretary of this cabinet department |
Commerce |
|
March 15, 2001 |
| In 1949 this aviator who flew the Atlantic solo in 1927 received the Wright Brothers Trophy from the N.A.A. |
Charles Lindbergh |
100 |
December 23, 1997 |
| In 1907 the War Department authorized a campaign medal for this war -- 42 years after it ended |
the Civil War |
200 |
December 23, 1997 |
| This school's Hasty Pudding Club has been presenting its Woman of the Year Award since 1951 |
Harvard |
300 |
December 23, 1997 |
| In 1957 this Danish physicist received the first Atoms for Peace Award |
Niels Bohr |
400 |
December 23, 1997 |
| Traditionally, Nobel Prize winners are presented their awards on the tenth of this month |
December |
500 |
December 23, 1997 |
| The Federation of Fly Fishers, Harvard's Hasty Pudding Club & Time Magazine all name one of these |
Man of the Year |
100 |
July 8, 1997 |
| A silver medal goes to totally blind men who score over 185 in this indoor sport |
bowling |
200 |
July 8, 1997 |
| The developers of this sound system, in common use since the '70s, received an Academy Award in 1989 |
Dolby |
300 |
July 8, 1997 |
| His innovative poems like "The Waste Land" earned him the 1948 Nobel Prize for Literature |
Thomas Stearns Eliot |
400 |
July 8, 1997 |
| The MacArthur Foundation's 6-figure awards to brilliant people in various fields are known as these "grants" |
Genius grants |
500 |
July 8, 1997 |
| The American branch of this group gives the Charles Drew Award for contribution to blood services |
the American Red Cross |
100 |
February 6, 1997 |
| The year's best praise & worship album is recognized by the association for this type of vocal music |
Gospel |
200 |
February 6, 1997 |
| This body's peacekeeping forces were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1988 |
United Nations |
300 |
February 6, 1997 |
| After spending 188 days in space, she became the first female winner of the Space Medal of Honor |
Shannon Lucid |
400 |
February 6, 1997 |
| The American Library Association presents an award named for this "Little House on the Prairie" author |
Laura Ingalls Wilder |
500 |
February 6, 1997 |
| At the 1996 People's Choice Awards, this "Apollo 13" star received 2 awards for favorite actor |
Tom Hanks |
100 |
December 23, 1996 |
| In 1989 the N.A.B. established an award named for this wireless radio pioneer |
Guglielmo Marconi |
200 |
December 23, 1996 |
| Kurt Wait, the first man to win this contest, captured $1 million for his Macadamia Fudge Torte |
Pillsbury Bake-Off |
300 |
December 23, 1996 |
| Rosa Parks was among those honored by the president in 1996 with this highest civilian award |
Presidential Medal of Freedom |
400 |
December 23, 1996 |
| Her "Heidi Chronicles" won the 1989 New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for best new play |
Wendy Wasserstein |
500 |
December 23, 1996 |
| This British princess was the recipient of a 1995 humanitarian award from United Cerebral Palsy |
Princess Di |
100 |
October 9, 1996 |
| In 1995 former president Jimmy Carter & this Spanish king received UNESCO prizes for promoting peace |
Juan Carlos |
200 |
October 9, 1996 |
| "Good grief"; this cartoonist won the Reuben Award twice, in 1955 & 1964 |
Charles Schulz |
300 |
October 9, 1996 |
| Rockford College in this state awards outstanding women a medal named for alumna Jane Addams |
Illinois |
400 |
October 9, 1996 |
| The Cesar is France's equivalent of this U.S. award |
the Oscar |
500 |
October 9, 1996 |
| In 1995 this first lady was among 4 women to win an Outstanding Mother of the Year award |
Hillary Clinton |
100 |
April 16, 1996 |
| The first recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom were selected by this president in 1963 |
John Kennedy |
200 |
April 16, 1996 |
| On a 1995 visit to South Africa, Queen Elizabeth awarded the Order of Merit to this leader |
(Nelson) Mandela |
300 |
April 16, 1996 |
| In 1984 this U.S. author received a special Pulitzer for entertaining kids & their parents |
Dr. Seuss |
400 |
April 16, 1996 |
| The Margaret Sanger Award is presented annually by this organization |
Planned Parenthood |
|
April 16, 1996 |
| The Goya is considered the Spanish equivalent of this American film award |
the Oscar |
100 |
July 19, 1994 |
| Studs Terkel won a 1985 Pulitzer Prize for "The Good War: An Oral History of" this conflict |
World War II |
200 |
July 19, 1994 |
| In 1984 this comedic actress became the 1st woman inducted into the TV Academy Hall of Fame |
Lucille Ball |
300 |
July 19, 1994 |
| "The Dreamer of Oz", a TV movie about this author, won a 1991 Christopher Award |
(Frank) Baum |
400 |
July 19, 1994 |
| LBJ awarded this pope a posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1963 |
Pope John XXIII |
500 |
July 19, 1994 |
| For contributions to forest fire prevention, the Department of Agriculture awards statuettes of this famous critter |
Smokey the Bear |
100 |
November 26, 1993 |
| It's the novel for which Leon Uris received a 1959 National Jewish Book Award |
<i>Exodus</i> |
200 |
November 26, 1993 |
| Presented by the National Cartoonists Society, the Reuben Award was designed by & named for this cartoonist |
Rube Goldberg |
300 |
November 26, 1993 |
| While Ambassador to the United Nations in 1984, she received the Harry S. Truman Good Neighbor Award |
Jeane Kirkpatrick |
400 |
November 26, 1993 |
| Film scores, such as the one for "Superman", earned this composer Grammys 6 years in a row |
John Williams |
500 |
November 26, 1993 |
| The offices of this annual national pageant are at 1325 Boardwalk in Atlantic City, New Jersey |
Miss America |
100 |
July 7, 1993 |
| In 1960 this then first lady was given the American Heart Assoc's Heart-of-the-Year Award |
Mamie Eisenhower |
200 |
July 7, 1993 |
| This country's Bharat Ratna Award is given for contributions to art or science, or for public service |
India |
300 |
July 7, 1993 |
| In 1976 this former Atlanta Braves slugger received the NAACP's Spingarn Medal |
Hank Aaron |
400 |
July 7, 1993 |
| In 1977 William Proxmire gave it to the Dept. of Agriculture for studying how long it takes to cook breakfast |
the "Golden Fleece" |
|
July 7, 1993 |
| His "Ropin' the Wind" album won a 1992 Grammy for Best Country Vocal Performance, Male |
Garth Brooks |
100 |
March 29, 1993 |
| Sam Shepard got an Oscar nom. for Best Supporting Actor for playing Chuck Yeager in this 1983 film |
<i>The Right Stuff</i> |
200 |
March 29, 1993 |
| In 1977 Lindsay Wagner won an Emmy for playing Jaime Sommers in this TV series |
<i>The Bionic Woman</i> |
300 |
March 29, 1993 |
| James Earl Jones won a 1969 Tony for his role as boxer Jack Jefferson in this play |
<i>The Great White Hope |
400 |
March 29, 1993 |
| In 1951 this "Pogo" creator won the Reuben Award for Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year |
Walt Kelly |
500 |
March 29, 1993 |
| In 1991 this Soviet leader won the Martin Luther King, Jr. Non-Violent Peace Prize |
Gorbachev |
100 |
November 12, 1992 |
| "The Best Intentions" was the 1992 winner of the Golden Palm, the top prize at this film festival |
Cannes |
200 |
November 12, 1992 |
| Gavel Awards & Pro-Bono Publico Awards are given annually by this legal organization |
the American Bar Association |
300 |
November 12, 1992 |
| Though the Patty Berg Award was established in this sport in 1979, Patty Berg didn't win it until 1989 |
golf |
400 |
November 12, 1992 |
| In 1947 this university was given a special citation for its high standards in governing the Pulitzer Prizes |
Columbia |
500 |
November 12, 1992 |
| There's a 25-foot-high statue of this award at the TV Academy's Hall of Fame Plaza in North Hollywood |
Emmys |
100 |
May 8, 1992 |
| Dana Carvey won an American Comedy Award for this TV show; isn't that special? |
<i>Saturday Night Live</i> |
200 |
May 8, 1992 |
| The Palme d'Or is the top prize at this famous French film festival |
Cannes |
300 |
May 8, 1992 |
| The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees won this Nobel Prize in 1981 |
Nobel Peace Prize |
400 |
May 8, 1992 |
| Sebastian de Grazia won a 1990 Pulitzer Prize for a book about this "Prince" of Florentine thinkers |
Machiavelli |
500 |
May 8, 1992 |
| This network won a Peabody Award for its "Exclusive 24-Hour" coverage of the Persian Gulf War |
CNN |
100 |
March 25, 1992 |
| Robert Preston & Mary Martin hosted the 1st telecast of these theatre awards in 1967 |
the Tonys |
200 |
March 25, 1992 |
| The Goya is this country's equivalent of an Oscar |
Spain |
300 |
March 25, 1992 |
| The Lincoln & Soldiers Institute's 1st Lincoln Prize went to this Ken Burns miniseries |
<i>The Civil War</i> |
400 |
March 25, 1992 |
| In 1990 Pres. Bush awarded the National Medal of Arts to Jessica Tandy & this actor, her husband |
Hume Cronyn |
500 |
March 25, 1992 |
| In 1960 Leona Schnuelle's dilly casserole bread won the $25,000 top prize in this competition |
the Pillsbury Bake-Off |
100 |
October 28, 1991 |
| Betty Buckley's Tony for Best Actress came in 1983 for playing Grizabella in this musical |
<i>Cats</i> |
200 |
October 28, 1991 |
| From 1948 to 1966, she received 30 Oscar nominations for Best Costume Design |
(Edith) Head |
300 |
October 28, 1991 |
| Jay Sandrich won a 1986 Emmy for directing the "Denise's Friend" episode of this series |
<i>The Cosby Show</i> |
400 |
October 28, 1991 |
| This writer's 2 Pulitzer Prizes for Fiction were given for "A Fable" & "The Reivers" |
Faulkner |
500 |
October 28, 1991 |
| The top prize at this city's film festival is the Golden Lion, not the Golden Gondola |
Venice |
100 |
October 23, 1991 |
| If a newspaper wins a Pulitzer for meritorious public service, it gets a gold one of these but no money |
medal |
200 |
October 23, 1991 |
| The 3rd person to win a Tony in this category was Jerome Robbins for "High Button Shoes" |
Choreography |
300 |
October 23, 1991 |
| Washington, D.C.'s theater awards are named for this "First Lady", not for a president's wife |
Helen Hayes |
400 |
October 23, 1991 |
| She & Louis Prima won the 1958 Best Pop Duo Grammy for "That Old Black Magic" |
Keely Smith |
500 |
October 23, 1991 |
| In 1927 this aviator was named Time magazine's first Man of the Year |
Lindbergh |
100 |
July 19, 1991 |
| This actor won a 1966 Tony for his one-man show, "Mark Twain Tonight!" |
Hal Holbrook |
200 |
July 19, 1991 |
| In 1974, this co.'s Charlie was named Most Successful Introduction of a New Women's Fragrance |
Revlon |
300 |
July 19, 1991 |
| 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 |
400 |
July 19, 1991 |
| This comedian's "Meeting of Minds" show on PBS won a 1981 Emmy for Best Informational Series |
Steve Allen |
500 |
July 19, 1991 |
| In 1990 Doug Drabek became the first Pittsburgh Pirate since Vern Law in 1960 to win this pitching award |
the Cy Young Award |
100 |
April 1, 1991 |
| Cartoonist Bill Watterson won a Reuben Award for this comic strip about a boy & his tiger |
<i>Calvin & Hobbes</i> |
200 |
April 1, 1991 |
| In 1975 Sen. Proxmire originated this award to publicize wasteful gov't spending |
the Golden Fleece Award |
300 |
April 1, 1991 |
| Named for magazine publisher Hugo Gernsback, the Hugo Award honors this literary genre |
science fiction |
400 |
April 1, 1991 |
| The Obie Awards for off-Broadway theater are sponsored by this weekly New York paper |
the <i>Village Voice</i> |
500 |
April 1, 1991 |
| This city's international film festival presents Golden Space Needle Awards |
Seattle |
100 |
December 3, 1990 |
| Alan Alda's father Robert Alda won a Tony for playing Sky Masterson in this musical |
<i>Guys and Dolls</i> |
200 |
December 3, 1990 |
| Ketti Frings won a 1958 Pulitzer Prize for a play based on this Thomas Wolfe novel |
<i>Look Homeward, Angel |
300 |
December 3, 1990 |
| The NAACP awarded its Spingarn Medal to this diva in 1965 |
Leontyne Price |
500 |
December 3, 1990 |
| After this 37-year-old producer died in 1936, the Motion Picture Academy named an award in his honor |
(Irving) Thalberg |
|
December 3, 1990 |
| In the '80s Mario Lemieux & this man won every MVP award in the NHL |
Wayne Gretzky |
100 |
July 16, 1990 |
| The Grammy Album of the Year for 1960 was this comic's "Button Down Mind" |
Bob Newhart |
200 |
July 16, 1990 |
| In January 1990 the son of this "Desert Fox" was made a Commander of the British Empire |
Erwin Rommel |
300 |
July 16, 1990 |
| Miss America of 1921 & 1944 didn't represent states but this city |
Washington, D.C. |
400 |
July 16, 1990 |
| The Fermi Award is given in the atomic energy field, & the Peabody Award is for this field |
broadcasting (television) |
500 |
July 16, 1990 |
| Though he never won a Grammy, the 1988 TV special for this composer's 100th birthday won an Emmy |
Irving Berlin |
100 |
November 2, 1989 |
| The Boston Art Institute gave an honorary degree to Carroll Spinney, who's a big bird on this |
<i>Sesame Street</i> |
200 |
November 2, 1989 |
| The TV show "Owen Marshall" was one of the recipients of this organization's Gavel Awards |
the American Bar Association |
300 |
November 2, 1989 |
| In the Spring of '45 he picked up a Pulitzer Prize in Music for his ballet "Appalachian Spring" |
Aaron Copland |
400 |
November 2, 1989 |
| At the 1983 Academy Awards Ben Kingsley won for playing Gandhi & she won for playing Sophie |
Meryl Streep |
500 |
November 2, 1989 |
| The Order of the Aztec Eagle is awarded by this country to foreigners for distinguished service |
Mexico |
100 |
April 4, 1989 |
| Although 5 Nobel Prizes are awarded in Sweden, the Peace Prize ceremonies take place in this country |
Norway |
200 |
April 4, 1989 |
| The John Newbery Medal is given annually to authors in this field |
children\'s literature |
300 |
April 4, 1989 |
| This Princeton basketball star & future senator won the Sullivan Award as best amateur athlete in 1965 |
Bill Bradley |
400 |
April 4, 1989 |
| Since 1944 the Hollywood Foreign Press Association has presented these in the movie & television fields |
the Golden Globes |
500 |
April 4, 1989 |
| For its contribution to American culture, this greeting card co. won a National Medal of Arts |
Hallmark |
100 |
May 20, 1988 |
| Every year from 1951-57, except one, this mule picked up a Patsy Award |
Francis the Talking Mule |
200 |
May 20, 1988 |
| In 1949, he won an Emmy as "Most Outstanding Kinescoped Personality", not "Best in a Dress" |
Milton Berle |
300 |
May 20, 1988 |
| Of Bill Blass, Carlos Castaneda, or Federico Fellini, the 1 who won a "Winnie" |
Bill Blass |
400 |
May 20, 1988 |
| To win a Pulitzer Prize in History, your book has to be on the history of this |
United States |
500 |
May 20, 1988 |
| British decoration named for former queen |
Victoria Cross |
100 |
December 11, 1984 |
| Since '32 the U.S. Badge of Military Merit has had this colorful name |
the Purple Heart |
200 |
December 11, 1984 |
| This prize did not have an economics category until '69 |
the Nobel Prize |
300 |
December 11, 1984 |
| 26 years after writing it for the stage, he won Oscar for the screenplay "Pygmalion" |
George Bernard Shaw |
400 |
December 11, 1984 |
| He may disagree with Gene Siskel, but he won '75 Pulitzer Prize for Film Criticism |
Roger Ebert |
500 |
December 11, 1984 |