publication date: Saturday, November 14, 2020 (part of Fall 2020)

category: Television

clue: His childhood interests in woodworking, landscaping, and graphic design helped him do extreme makeovers of traded spaces in reality television.

explanation: Pennington was the lead designer of home makeovers in Trading Spaces and Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, among other reality shows. more…

intended difficulty: medium

solved by: Russ Wilhelm, Steve West, LaVonne Lemler, Samir Mehta, Chris Lemler, Richard Slominsky, Denise Sawicki, Erik Bates, and David Mitzman


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