| #6665, aired 2013-08-02 | BODIES OF WATER: This body of water bearing the name of a country borders 5 U.S. states the Gulf of Mexico |
| #6664, aired 2013-08-01 | POSTAL ABBREVIATIONS: Like NM & MN, the postal abbreviations of these 2 states are the reverse of one another Alabama (AL) & Louisiana (LA) |
| #6663, aired 2013-07-31 | THE CIVIL WAR: Abraham Lincoln called this document, which took effect in 1863, "a fit and necessary war measure" the Emancipation Proclamation |
| #6662, aired 2013-07-30 | TOY BRANDS: In 1966 this company produced 706 million elements of its product; in 2011, it produced 36 billion LEGO |
| #6661, aired 2013-07-29 | IN THE DICTIONARY: The last entry in the Random House Webster's unabridged dictionary is used to represent this annoying sound snoring |
| #6660, aired 2013-07-26 | CLASSICAL MUSICIANS: The cover of the May 19, 1958 Time magazine called him "The Texan who conquered Russia" Van Cliburn |
| #6659, aired 2013-07-25 | FRENCH HISTORY: Starting in 1349, this marine animal was on the coat of arms of the heir apparent to the French throne a dolphin |
| #6658, aired 2013-07-24 | 3-NAMED PEOPLE: Born in what's now Maine in 1807, he's honored with a bust in a special section of Westminster Abbey Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| #6657, aired 2013-07-23 | 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 |
| #6656, aired 2013-07-22 | SPORTS GEOGRAPHY: Though they live elsewhere, Alan Page & Dan Dierdorf will both always be in this Ohio city where they were born Canton, Ohio |
| #6655, aired 2013-07-19 | PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING NOVELS: Its first line is "A green hunting cap squeezed on the top of the fleshy balloon of a head" A Confederacy Of Dunces |
| #6654, aired 2013-07-18 | HISTORIC TELEGRAMS: In May 1945 Churchill cabled Truman that this "is drawn down upon their front. We do not know what is going on behind" the Iron Curtain |
| #6653, aired 2013-07-17 | INTERNATIONAL SPORTS: 2013 marks the 100th running of this event, first won by Maurice Garin with a time of 94 hours, 33 minutes, 14 seconds the Tour de France |
| #6652, aired 2013-07-16 | THE WORLD OF TV: In 2013 Britain marked this show's 50th anniversary with a series of stamps of the 11 actors who have played the lead role Doctor Who |
| #6651, aired 2013-07-15 | OPERA: This 1871 opera is set in Memphis & Thebes, & along the banks of the Nile Aida |
| #6650, aired 2013-07-12 | VIDEO GAME HISTORY: The title princess of this game, which launched a best-selling franchise, was named for F. Scott Fitzgerald's wife The Legend of Zelda |
| #6649, aired 2013-07-11 | CLASSICAL MUSIC: This piece that premiered in Moscow in 1882 includes strains from "God Save the Czar" & "La Marseillaise" the 1812 Overture |
| #6648, aired 2013-07-10 | AUTHORS: He quit pursuing a Ph.D. in 1926 to pursue drawing, but you might say he gave himself the degree anyway Dr. Seuss (Theodor Geisel) |
| #6647, aired 2013-07-09 | NATIONAL OFFICIAL LANGUAGES: This country has an area of only 275 square miles but has 4 official languages: English, Tamil, Chinese & Malay Singapore |
| #6646, aired 2013-07-08 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN FIRSTS: Tracing her family to William Hood of 18th century Pennsylvania, Karen Batchelor made news as this organization's first African-American member the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) |
| #6645, aired 2013-07-05 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: The only 2 men who were U.S. president 10 years to the day after their first inauguration Grover Cleveland & Franklin Roosevelt |
| #6644, aired 2013-07-04 | SAINTS ON THE MAP: In population, it's the largest U.S. city with the same Spanish name as a current Western Hemisphere capital San Jose |
| #6643, aired 2013-07-03 | 20th CENTURY MUSIC: European music has "3 Bs"; 20th c. American music's "3 Cs" were John Cage, Elliott Carter & this composer/conductor Aaron Copland |
| #6642, aired 2013-07-02 | THE ANCIENT WORLD: The area that the people of ancient Rome called this was their city's equivalent of the Greek agora the forum |
| #6641, aired 2013-07-01 | NOVELS: This 1934 novel was partly written in the Hotel Pera Palace in Istanbul; the room is now a memorial to the author Murder on the Orient Express |
| #6640, aired 2013-06-28 | 1950s FICTION: John Updike wrote "Rabbit, Run" partly in reaction to this more carefree novel that was published 3 years earlier On the Road |
| #6639, aired 2013-06-27 | TRANSPORTATION: Susan B. Anthony said this new fad had "done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world" the bicycle |
| #6638, aired 2013-06-26 | MOVIES & THE BIBLE: In this crime drama, a 1994 Oscar nominee for Best Picture, a character misquotes Ezekiel 25:17 twice Pulp Fiction |
| #6637, aired 2013-06-25 | PLANTS: Economically speaking, this plant family with about 10,000 species is by far the most important the grass family |
| #6636, aired 2013-06-24 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY: Names of the 2 geographical features on a 2012 postage stamp issued jointly by Nepal & Israel Mt. Everest & The Dead Sea |
| #6635, aired 2013-06-21 | CARTOON CHARACTERS: She first appeared in 1930's "Dizzy Dishes", along with singing cats in flapper outfits Betty Boop |
| #6634, aired 2013-06-20 | WORLD LEADERS: Since 1991 this country has had only 3 different presidents; the current one took over in 2012 for the second time Russia |
| #6633, aired 2013-06-19 | WAR NOVELS: Appropriately, the sound of musketry & artillery is described as "a crimson roar" in this story The Red Badge of Courage |
| #6632, aired 2013-06-18 | FOOD & DRINK: A sign of a trend, in 2010 this product passed Pepsi to move into the No. 2 spot in U.S. soft drink popularity Diet Coke |
| #6631, aired 2013-06-17 | IN THE NEWSPAPER: Her pen name honored a wise woman from the Old Testament & a 19th century U.S. president Abigail Van Buren (or Dear Abby) |
| #6630, aired 2013-06-14 | THE UNITED NATIONS: Of nations in the World Almanac, 3 are not U.N. members: Taiwan, Vatican City & this European one that gained independence in 2008 Kosovo |
| #6629, aired 2013-06-13 | BEST PICTURE WORDPLAY: From 2005, it's the last Best Picture Oscar winner whose name is just one syllable Crash |
| #6628, aired 2013-06-12 | 20th CENTURY HISTORY: In terms of British monarchs, it's next in the sequence Seventh, Fifth, Eighth, Sixth... Second |
| #6627, aired 2013-06-11 | AMERICAN LITERATURE: This 1884 novel begins in the fictional town of St. Petersburg & ends in Pikesville, 1,100 miles down the Mississippi Adventures of Huckleberry Finn |
| #6626, aired 2013-06-10 | 19th CENTURY NAMES: This French engineer once asked, "Why should we disguise the industrial nature of iron, even in the city?" Gustave Eiffel |
| #6625, aired 2013-06-07 | AMERICAN WRITERS: Contemporary reviews called this writer "A Yankee Diogenes" & the "Concord Diogenes" Henry David Thoreau |
| #6624, aired 2013-06-06 | AMERICANA: A bo'sun whistle was once a prize in boxes of this alliterative product introduced in 1963 Cap'n Crunch |
| #6623, aired 2013-06-05 | SPORTING EVENTS: An old name for this Olympic sporting event is the quinquertium the pentathlon |
| #6622, aired 2013-06-04 | NOTABLE NAMES: In August 2012 the Telegraph of London ran the headline "Paralympics 2012:" he "opens ceremony with a 'Big Bang'" Stephen Hawking |
| #6621, aired 2013-06-03 | EUROPEAN HISTORY: This 17th century king named his throne room the Apollo Chamber Louis XIV |
| #6620, aired 2013-05-31 | CLASSIC NOVELS: In his will, this title guy tells his niece Antonia she should marry a man who knows not "about... chivalry" Don Quixote de la Mancha |
| #6619, aired 2013-05-30 | AMERICAN SCIENTISTS: In 1920, the New York Times said he lacks the “knowledge ladled out daily in high schools”; on July 17, 1969, the paper apologized Robert Goddard |
| #6618, aired 2013-05-29 | AMERICAN MILITARY MEN: In April 1951 he told Congress, "In war there can be no substitute for victory" General MacArthur |
| #6617, aired 2013-05-28 | AMERICAN ACTORS: Reflecting a long friendship dating to a 1962 film they did together, Brock Peters gave the eulogy at this star's 2003 funeral Gregory Peck |
| #6616, aired 2013-05-27 | CLASSIC KID STUFF: This 1920s plaything still made today got its name in tribute to 2 famous men of the day: Marconi & Lindbergh the Radio Flyer |
| #6615, aired 2013-05-24 | DISNEY SONGS: This 1964 song was inspired when one of the writer's sons took the oral polio vaccine "A Spoonful Of Sugar" |
| #6614, aired 2013-05-23 | ART SUBJECTS: In 1816 Francisco Goya published a series of 33 etchings called "La Tauromaquia", depicting this activity bullfighting |
| #6613, aired 2013-05-22 | AMERICAN WOMEN: Referring to a 1955 incident, she said, "Our mistreatment was just not right, and I was tired of it" Rosa Parks |
| #6612, aired 2013-05-21 | FRENCH LITERATURE: An article about improvements in transportation, including the opening of the Suez Canal, inspired this 1873 novel Around the World in 80 Days |
| #6611, aired 2013-05-20 | 20th CENTURY PEOPLE: In a PS to an April 12, 1945 letter, he wrote, "This was dictated before the world fell in on me... what a blow it was, but--I must meet it" Harry Truman |
| #6610, aired 2013-05-17 | THE CIVIL WAR: The last of the 11 Southern states to secede from the Union, it borders 6 of them Tennessee |
| #6609, aired 2013-05-16 | 20th CENTURY PRESIDENTS: These 2 men followed each other consecutively as vice president & later, in reverse order, as president Richard Nixon & LBJ |
| #6608, aired 2013-05-15 | FAMOUS EUROPEANS: After moving to Argentina in 1949, this industrialist was named a righteous gentile by Yad Vashem Oskar Schindler |
| #6607, aired 2013-05-14 | MODERN-DAY CHINA: Because Internet censors block mentions of this 1989 date, Chinese bloggers write it as "535" June 4 |
| #6606, aired 2013-05-13 | AUTHORS IN THE NEWS: When Curiosity touched down on Mars in 2012, its landing site was named in honor of this author who died weeks before Ray Bradbury |
| #6605, aired 2013-05-10 | FAMOUS NAMES IN TRANSPORTATION: In 1928, a year after making international headlines, it reached its final destination, the Smithsonian the Spirit of St. Louis |
| #6604, aired 2013-05-09 | THE CONTINENTS: It’s the continent that’s home to the most U.N. member countries, including a new one added in 2011 Africa |
| #6603, aired 2013-05-08 | FAMOUS ENGLISHMEN: On the eve of his 200th birthday in 2009, the Church of England offered him "an apology for misunderstanding you" Charles Darwin |
| #6602, aired 2013-05-07 | CHARACTERS IN SHAKESPEARE: This character said to represent Shakespeare's philosophy has a name that means "fortunate" in Latin Prospero |
| #6601, aired 2013-05-06 | STATE QUARTERS: The back of the quarter for this state is the only one that features a monarch Hawaii |
| #6600, aired 2013-05-03 | SCIENCE: For a 1953 paper Odile Crick drew the diagram showing the structure of this DNA |
| #6599, aired 2013-05-02 | ISLAND COUNTRIES: No longer "western", this 1-word nation has moved to the west side of the Intl. Date Line to join Asia & Australia Samoa |
| #6598, aired 2013-05-01 | THE THEATRE: Dramatizing a murder from the year 1170, a 1935 T.S. Eliot play aptly had its first performance in this English city Canterbury |
| #6597, aired 2013-04-30 | CLASSIC HIT SONGS: In 1962 Chatham County, Georgia gave this name to a body of water flowing past Johnny Mercer's childhood home Moon River |
| #6596, aired 2013-04-29 | MAGAZINES: Celebrating its 20th anniversary in 2013, 5280 Magazine is a guide to this city Denver |
| #6595, aired 2013-04-26 | GREAT NOVELS: A preface to this novel called it "rustic all through... Moorish, and wild, and knotty as the root of Heath" Wuthering Heights |
| #6594, aired 2013-04-25 | TV SPIN-OFFS: Premiering in 1993, this show lasted 11 seasons, like its predecessor show; the 2 were set nearly 2,500 miles apart Frasier |
| #6593, aired 2013-04-24 | THE U.S. GOVERNMENT: Donna Shalala, Alberto Gonzales & Tom Vilsack have each served as the "designated survivor" skipping this event the State of the Union address |
| #6592, aired 2013-04-23 | GEOGRAPHIC MATH: North America's 3 mainland countries have a total of 91 states & provinces; Mexico has this many states 31 |
| #6591, aired 2013-04-22 | BEST ACTRESS OSCAR NOMINEES: Her nomination in 1987 was the first Best Actress nomination for a science fiction film Sigourney Weaver |
| #6590, aired 2013-04-19 | COUNTRIES' HIGHEST POINTS: This country is home to the highest mountain outside Asia Argentina |
| #6589, aired 2013-04-18 | WORLD LEADERS: In 1990 she became the first modern head of government to give birth while in office, to a daughter named Bakhtawar Benazir Bhutto |
| #6588, aired 2013-04-17 | 1960s TELEVISION: Jackie Gleason considered, but then decided against, suing this show that premiered September 30, 1960 The Flintstones |
| #6587, aired 2013-04-16 | NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS: The winner in 1984, he likes to be called "Arch", a reference to his job Desmond Tutu |
| #6586, aired 2013-04-15 | AUTHORS: In hiding when his life was threatened, Salman Rushdie paid tribute to Conrad & Chekhov by using this pseudonym Joseph Anton |
| #6585, aired 2013-04-12 | PHYSICISTS: On Oct. 14, 1992 particle detector inventor Georges Charpak became the last man in physics to achieve this honor alone the Nobel Prize |
| #6584, aired 2013-04-11 | WORLD CITIES: Founded in 1521, 44 years before St. Augustine, Fla., it's the oldest city est. by Europeans on what is now U.S. territory San Juan, Puerto Rico |
| #6583, aired 2013-04-10 | 19th CENTURY AUTHORS: His works include "Sylvie and Bruno", "Phantasmagoria and Other Poems" & "Algebraic Formulae and Rules" Lewis Carroll |
| #6582, aired 2013-04-09 | 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 |
| #6581, aired 2013-04-08 | ART: One of its principal members said, "One morning one of us, having no black, used blue instead, &" this movement "was born" Impressionism |
| #6580, aired 2013-04-05 | BROADWAY MUSICALS: The last song in this musical is "Tomorrow Is A Latter Day" The Book of Mormon |
| #6579, aired 2013-04-04 | AT THE GROCERY STORE: The national promotion board for this food, Citrullus lanatus, lists hydration as a primary health benefit watermelon |
| #6578, aired 2013-04-03 | 20th CENTURY NAMES: In 2012 her picture replaced that of Julio Argentino Roca on a currency note Eva Perón |
| #6577, aired 2013-04-02 | AUTHORS: This author who passed away in 2012 quipped, "For those who haven't read the books, I am known best for my hair preparations" Gore Vidal |
| #6576, aired 2013-04-01 | STATE MOTTOS: On a state seal since 1850, this one-word motto is found in a story about Archimedes Eureka |
| #6575, aired 2013-03-29 | PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS: Since 1850, 1 of the 2 Republicans to appear on the ticket as president or vice president 3 elections in a row Richard Nixon or George H.W. Bush |
| #6574, aired 2013-03-28 | BUSINESS: In 1972 this company bought its first ship, the Empress of Canada, & renamed it the Mardi Gras Carnival (Cruise Lines) |
| #6573, aired 2013-03-27 | AWARDS: For 2012, the front of these awards shows Nike stepping out of the Parthenon & the reverse depicts the Thames the Olympic medals |
| #6572, aired 2013-03-26 | THE 1990s: The 7th & last American to stay there was aerodynamic scientist Andy Thomas, with 130 days there in 1998 (Space Station) Mir |
| #6571, aired 2013-03-25 | THE AFI's 100 GREATEST AMERICAN MOVIES: "The Wizard of Oz" & this 1950s film are the 2 musicals in the top 10 on the AFI's list Singin' in the Rain |
| #6570, aired 2013-03-22 | SCIENCE WORDS: This biological term for cell division was borrowed in 1939 to describe a form of energy release fission |
| #6569, aired 2013-03-21 | ARTISTS: On his deathbed he told police, "What I have done is nobody else's business"; one theory is he was protecting others (Vincent) van Gogh |
| #6568, aired 2013-03-20 | EUROPEANA: In the 16th century the ancestors of the current president of France fled what is now this country the Netherlands |
| #6567, aired 2013-03-19 | LITERARY TITLE PLACES: An 1831 novel says that Charlemagne laid the first stone of this title place, "old queen of our cathedrals" Notre Dame |
| #6566, aired 2013-03-18 | SONGS: This U.S. ceremonial song was written in 1811 about the head of a Scottish clan, not an American leader "Hail to the Chief" |
| #6565, aired 2013-03-15 | SHAKESPEARE: Samuel Johnson said Shakespeare "so carefully informs us" that this play is set on the eve of May Day & yet called it this A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| #6564, aired 2013-03-14 | BEATLES SONGS: It was one of The Beatles' longest songs & the one to spend the most time at No. 1 on the U.S. charts--9 weeks "Hey Jude" |
| #6563, aired 2013-03-13 | NEWSPAPERS: The circulation of the Times of New York & London totals about 1/2 the "Times of" this place, largest of any English daily India |
| #6562, aired 2013-03-12 | HISTORICAL RELATIVES: This king was the first of Henry VIII's many fathers-in-law King Ferdinand |
| #6561, aired 2013-03-11 | BRITISH NOVELS: Fittingly, this Thomas Hardy character is introduced near the Pure Drop Inn Tess of the d'Urbervilles |
| #6560, aired 2013-03-08 | THE OSCARS: Brother & sister who were both nominated for 1969 Oscars: he for a screenplay, she for Best Actress; they didn't win Jane Fonda & Peter Fonda |
| #6559, aired 2013-03-07 | THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE: One of the 2 Central American countries never under military rule in the last 50 years Costa Rica or Belize |
| #6558, aired 2013-03-06 | U.S. HISTORY: Congress has passed 11 of these: the first in 1812, the last in 1942 declarations of war |
| #6557, aired 2013-03-05 | CLASSIC NOVELS: In this novel the title character says, "It is a bad omen" after a guard does not hear a train & is crushed Anna Karenina |
| #6556, aired 2013-03-04 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES: One of its mascots is a restored 1930 Sport Coupe that's been in use at the school since 1961 Georgia Tech |
| #6555, aired 2013-03-01 | BUSINESS HISTORY: In 1938 his company began installing instruments in U.S. homes to record the frequencies to which a radio was tuned A.C. Nielsen |
| #6554, aired 2013-02-28 | THE UNIVERSE: In 2006 it was moved to a new list that includes Ceres & Eris Pluto |
| #6553, aired 2013-02-27 | SPEECHWRITERS: To the question "Did you write the best-known line in JFK's inaugural?", Ted Sorensen would smile & say these 2 words Ask not |
| #6552, aired 2013-02-26 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA: One of the 2 years in which 3 men served as president of the United States 1841 or 1881 |
| #6551, aired 2013-02-25 | AMERICAN AUTHORS: In 1925 she visited a floating theater docked in North Carolina to research her next novel (Edna) Ferber |
| #6550, aired 2013-02-22 | ITALY: The Italian word for "shadow" is used as a local variation on the name of this region midway between Rome & Florence Umbria |
| #6549, aired 2013-02-21 | RUSSIAN HISTORY: Launched October 1, 1928, it was brought to a premature end in 1932 amid growing hunger 5-year plan |
| #6548, aired 2013-02-20 | CLASSIC JAZZ SONGS: The title of this 1959 instrumental is a synonym for "Time Out", the album on which it first appeared "Take Five" |
| #6547, aired 2013-02-19 | THE NEW 7 WONDERS OF THE WORLD: On the new list chosen in 2007, this wonder designed by Heitor da Silva Costa is the only statue Christ the Redeemer |
| #6546, aired 2013-02-18 | WORLD CAPITALS: Alphabetically, Zagreb is the last world capital; this capital of a former Soviet republic is second to last Yerevan |
| #6545, aired 2013-02-15 | FAMOUS WOMEN: Her 1886 obituary in a Massachusetts paper said, "Very few in the village, except among the older inhabitants, knew" her "personally" Emily Dickinson |
| #6544, aired 2013-02-14 | MUSEUMS: Its collection includes a 16" high architects' model of its first permanent building, opened in 1939 MoMA (the Museum of Modern Art) |
| #6543, aired 2013-02-13 | THE ROSETTA STONE: Champollion's deciphering the 1st symbol as "sun" led to translating the name of this leader--there were 11 of them named this Ramses |
| #6542, aired 2013-02-12 | MILITARY MEN: On June 6, 1944 he said, "The eyes of the world are upon you" Dwight David Eisenhower |
| #6541, aired 2013-02-11 | AMERICAN LITERATURE: In the 1st chapter of this 1939 novel, "When the night came again it was black night, for the stars could not pierce the dust" The Grapes of Wrath |
| #6540, aired 2013-02-08 | U.S. GOVERNMENT: Recently in the news, this agency traces its origins to an 1803 act helping Portsmouth, N.H. after a fire FEMA |
| #6539, aired 2013-02-07 | CAPITAL CITIES: It's criss-crossed by dozens of "peace walls" that separate its Catholic & Protestant neighborhoods Belfast |
| #6538, aired 2013-02-06 | FAMOUS ASIANS: When this diplomat met the singer Psy in 2012, he said, "Until 2 days ago... I was the most famous Korean in the world" Ban Ki-moon |
| #6537, aired 2013-02-05 | SHORT STORIES: It says, "The body of the trooper having been buried in the church yard, the ghost rides forth... in nightly quest of his head" "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" |
| #6536, aired 2013-02-04 | MOUNT RUSHMORE: It's the only U.S. state that has more than one native-born son honored on Mount Rushmore Virginia |
| #6535, aired 2013-02-01 | THE PLANETS: To the ancient Greeks & Romans, it was the slowest-moving planet seen from Earth Saturn |
| #6534, aired 2013-01-31 | FUNDRAISING: In 2011 the city of Savannah granted an exemption allowing the sale of these items outside Juliette Gordon Low's birthplace Girl Scout cookies |
| #6533, aired 2013-01-30 | HISTORIC QUOTES: In April 1865 he said, "Go home, all you boys who fought with me, and help to build up the shattered fortunes of our old state" Robert E. Lee |
| #6532, aired 2013-01-29 | METEOROLOGICAL TERMS: In the 1940s an anemometer aided Antarctic experiments that 1st determined this measurement heard in weather reports wind chill |
| #6531, aired 2013-01-28 | THE GRAMMYS: Of the more than 75 competitive categories, this one does not cite the title of any album, song or other project Best New Artist |
| #6530, aired 2013-01-25 | MUSICAL THEATRE: Before this show hit Broadway in 1964, one of its working titles was "The Luckiest People" Funny Girl |
| #6529, aired 2013-01-24 | OLYMPIC HOST CITIES: When this city hosted the XIV Winter Olympics, it was located in a different nation than today Sarajevo |
| #6528, aired 2013-01-23 | WOMEN AUTHORS: The first of Jane Austen's 6 novels to be published in her lifetime, its title is last alphabetically Sense and Sensibility |
| #6527, aired 2013-01-22 | OFFICIAL COUNTRY NAMES: It's the only nation in the world that officially describes itself as a confederation Swiss Confederation |
| #6526, aired 2013-01-21 | MUSEUMS: Opened in 2012, the Belfast museum seen here commemorates this, also constructed there the Titanic |
| #6525, aired 2013-01-18 | MILITARY SLOGANS: In 1779 U.S. Marine Corps Captain William Jones advertised for these, later a 1992 movie title A Few Good Men |
| #6524, aired 2013-01-17 | 19th CENTURY LITERARY INTRODUCTIONS: Title character who's "clad in black from head to foot, without a single speck of colour about him anywhere" Dracula |
| #6523, aired 2013-01-16 | 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 |
| #6522, aired 2013-01-15 | U.S. LANDMARKS: Design artist Iwao Takamoto said the exterior for the Skypad Apartments on "The Jetsons" was inspired by a landmark in this city Seattle |
| #6521, aired 2013-01-14 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD: 2 of the 3 countries that are completely encircled by one other country (2 of) San Marino, Vatican City & Lesotho |
| #6520, aired 2013-01-11 | RIVERS: It's the world's longest river whose outflow is into an entirely inland body of water the Volga River |
| #6519, aired 2013-01-10 | LEGAL TERMS: This term for a type of decision is from Old French for "to speak the truth" verdict |
| #6518, aired 2013-01-09 | CAPITAL CITIES: These 2 world capitals are separated by only 250 miles of land & less than 1 degree of latitude, at 59º 17' & 59º 57' N. Stockholm & Oslo |
| #6517, aired 2013-01-08 | PRESIDENTIAL DISTINCTIONS: Record holder for the longest time lived after leaving office Jimmy Carter |
| #6516, aired 2013-01-07 | AMERICAN SPORTS LEGENDS: A bio from 1974, 26 years after his death, quotes him: "I swing big... I hit big or I miss big. I like to live as big as I can" Babe Ruth |
| #6515, aired 2013-01-04 | IMAGINARY CHARACTERS: For a 1912 play they were dubbed Blick, Flick, Glick, Snick, Plick, Whick & Quee; 25 years later, they got new names the Seven Dwarfs |
| #6514, aired 2013-01-03 | SEX & THE CONSTITUTION: Of the 27 amendments to the Constitution, it's the number of the only one to contain the word "sex" the 19th Amendment |
| #6513, aired 2013-01-02 | BASEBALL STADIUMS: This Major League Baseball team's current stadium was built for a 20th century Olympics the Atlanta Braves |
| #6512, aired 2013-01-01 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA: Held in 1857, America's first national landscape design contest was for the creation of this place Central Park |
| #6511, aired 2012-12-31 | COMPOSERS' BIRTHPLACES: The town where he was born in 1811 is now in far eastern Austria; when he was born there it belonged to another country Franz Liszt |
| #6510, aired 2012-12-28 | AMERICAN AUTHORS: In 1886 he wrote, "My books are water; those of the great geniuses is wine. Everybody drinks water" Mark Twain |
| #6509, aired 2012-12-27 | FIGHTING MONARCHS: Seen here is a suit of armor worn by this monarch at the siege of Boulogne in 1544 when he was 53 Henry VIII |
| #6508, aired 2012-12-26 | LITERARY FIRST LINES: "You better not never tell nobody but God", begins this 1982 novel, whose film version garnered 11 Oscar nominations The Color Purple |
| #6507, aired 2012-12-25 | ART & ACTIVISM: Though being added to much more slowly than 20 years ago, it's now 1.3 million sq. ft., too big to display in one place the AIDS quilt |
| #6506, aired 2012-12-24 | 1960s ROCK MUSIC: This 1967 No. 1 hit contains snippets of "In The Mood", "Greensleeves" & "She Loves You" "All You Need Is Love" |
| #6505, aired 2012-12-21 | WORLD CAPITALS: One of the 3 national capitals made up of 2 words that begin with the same letter (1 of) Addis Ababa, San Salvador, or Phnom Penh |
| #6504, aired 2012-12-20 | DOG BREEDS: Alphabetically, this breed is last on the recognized list of the American Kennel Club Yorkshire Terrier |
| #6503, aired 2012-12-19 | SHAKESPEARE: The last speech in this play says, "No grave upon the earth shall clip in it a pair so famous" Antony and Cleopatra |
| #6502, aired 2012-12-18 | PEOPLE IN BRITISH HISTORY: In 1805 the second in command to this hero said, "I wish (he) would stop signaling. We all know what we have to do" (Horatio) Nelson |
| #6501, aired 2012-12-17 | 19th CENTURY INVENTIONS: Thoreau noted in 1854, it "resounds at every post. it is a harp with one string--the first strain from the American lyre" a telegraph |
| #6500, aired 2012-12-14 | STATES' HIGHEST POINTS: This state's highest peak is 13,796 feet high & only about 15 miles from the ocean Hawaii |
| #6499, aired 2012-12-13 | OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALISTS: Before Michael Phelps in 2008, he was the last American to win 5 individual golds in one Olympics; he did it at Lake Placid Eric Heiden |
| #6498, aired 2012-12-12 | FASHION DESIGNERS: In 1986 her company, now associated with JC Penney, became the first founded by a woman to make the Fortune 500 Liz Claiborne |
| #6497, aired 2012-12-11 | BUSINESSMEN: Thomas Watson Jr. appeared on the March 28, 1955 cover of Time with the caption "Clink, Clank," this Think |
| #6496, aired 2012-12-10 | 1920s LITERATURE: The collapse of this title structure causes the death of Esteban, Uncle Pio, Don Jaime, Pepita & a marquesa the Bridge of San Luis Rey |
| #6495, aired 2012-12-07 | 20th CENTURY PLAYS: This 1962 play takes place beginning at 2 A.M. in the living room of a house on a New England college campus Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf |
| #6494, aired 2012-12-06 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY: Though it consists entirely of islands, this populous country borders 3 other nations Indonesia |
| #6493, aired 2012-12-05 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: This man is the only U.S. president since Hoover not named Time magazine's Man or Person of the Year Gerald Ford |
| #6492, aired 2012-12-04 | AMERICAN ICONS: He has a Medal of Freedom, a Pulitzer Citation & membership in the Rock & Roll & Minnesota Music Halls of Fame Bob Dylan |
| #6491, aired 2012-12-03 | PHRASE ORIGINS: This 2-word adjective for "going against accepted speech or conduct" first appeared in a 1933 translation from Izvestia politically incorrect |
| #6490, aired 2012-11-30 | 20th CENTURY AMERICAN WRITERS: A publisher's note on one of his books called him "The terror of typesetters" & "an enigma to book reviewers" E.E. Cummings |
| #6489, aired 2012-11-29 | RELIGIOUS SYMBOLS: The rooster atop many church weather vanes is there to remind us of a story involving this apostle Peter |
| #6488, aired 2012-11-28 | COUNTRIES: It was created in the early 1700s from 2 counties purchased by an Austrian prince; he named the nation for his family Liechtenstein |
| #6487, aired 2012-11-27 | BILLBOARD NO. 1 ALBUMS: The soundtrack for this film based on a play holds the record for the most weeks at No. 1, 54 weeks in 1962 & '63 West Side Story |
| #6486, aired 2012-11-26 | PLACE NAMES: Built in 1911, this Wisconsin home was named for a Welsh bard associated with King Arthur Taliesin |
| #6485, aired 2012-11-23 | BIOGRAPHIES ABOUT AUTHORS: Chapters in a biography on this author include "Declaring His Genius" and "A Late Victorian Love Affair" Oscar Wilde |
| #6484, aired 2012-11-22 | NUTRITION: The word coined for these substances in 1912 was meant to suggest they were essential to life & contained nitrogen vitamins |
| #6483, aired 2012-11-21 | OPERA: In 1900 the first La Scala performance of this opera was conducted by the man whose last name began with the opera's title Tosca |
| #6482, aired 2012-11-20 | THE U.S. CONSTITUTION: Found in Article 3, Section 3, & requiring the testimony of 2 witnesses to prove, it's the only crime defined in the Constitution treason |
| #6481, aired 2012-11-19 | EUROPEAN AUTHORS: Amazon said this author who died in 2004 was the first to sell a million Kindle e-books Stieg Larsson |
| #6480, aired 2012-11-16 | CLASSICAL MUSIC: This 1890 piece was named for a Verlaine poem that begins, "Your soul is as a moonlit landscape fair" "Clair de Lune" |
| #6479, aired 2012-11-15 | MATH MEN: In 1880 he wrote, "We draw two circles, and make them include or exclude or intersect one another" (John) Venn |
| #6478, aired 2012-11-14 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: The only 2 presidents never to present a State of the Union address are William Henry Harrison & this man James Garfield |
| #6477, aired 2012-11-13 | BORN & DIED: He was born in 1728 in Yorkshire, England & died in a skirmish February 14, 1779 in Kealakekua Bay, Hawaii Captain James Cook |
| #6476, aired 2012-11-12 | NATIONAL SONGS: First publicly performed in 1745, this song sometimes has its pronouns changed "God Save The Queen" (or "King") |
| #6475, aired 2012-11-09 | DISASTERS: In 2012 the National Postal Museum marked the 75th & 100th anniversaries of these 2 disasters with an exhibit called "Fire & Ice" the Titanic sinking & the Hindenburg |
| #6474, aired 2012-11-08 | U.S. CITIES: The seal of this historic New England city has the phrase "What a glorious morning for America" & the date "April 19" Lexington |
| #6473, aired 2012-11-07 | PLAYS: Referring to its 2 acts, an Irish critic described it as "a play in which nothing happens, twice" Waiting for Godot |
| #6472, aired 2012-11-06 | CABINET DEPARTMENTS: "Si ve algo, diga algo" was part of a 2011 Spanish-language TV campaign by this Cabinet department Homeland Security |
| #6471, aired 2012-11-05 | BROADWAY MUSICALS: Based on a 1926 play & real-life events, it's now the longest-running American musical in Broadway history Chicago |
| #6470, aired 2012-11-02 | COLLEGE FOOTBALL TEAM NICKNAMES: The team known as these since 1895 plays its home games on top of the Hayward Seismic Fault the Cal Golden Bears |
| #6469, aired 2012-11-01 | THE 50 STATES: Gambling as a commercial enterprise in some form is legal in all states except Hawaii & this state Utah |
| #6468, aired 2012-10-31 | THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION: New York's delegates were John Lansing, Robert Yates & this Founding Father, the only one of the 3 who signed Alexander Hamilton |
| #6467, aired 2012-10-30 | 20th CENTURY BOOKS: "A Cry of Children" & "Nightmare Island" were proposed titles for this novel Lord of the Flies |
| #6466, aired 2012-10-29 | MAMMALS: Ancient Romans knew this animal featured in their circuses as a hippotigris a zebra |
| #6465, aired 2012-10-26 | 21st CENTURY GAMES: The villains in this game were inspired by the swine flu epidemic scare Angry Birds |
| #6464, aired 2012-10-25 | WORLD LANGUAGES: Of the Romance languages, it has the greatest number of native speakers in a single country Portuguese |
| #6463, aired 2012-10-24 | THE ELEMENTS: This element was discovered extraterrestrially in 1868; it took 27 more years until someone isolated it on Earth helium |
| #6462, aired 2012-10-23 | CHILDREN'S RHYMES: Oddly, this mammalian character with a rhyming name suffers from alopecia Fuzzy Wuzzy |
| #6461, aired 2012-10-22 | KINGS: The last British monarch to be buried outside the U.K., he was interred in 1727 in the land where he was born King George I |
| #6460, aired 2012-10-19 | CABLE TV FIRSTS: When Turner Classic Movies began broadcasting on April 14, 1994, the first movie shown was this one Gone with the Wind |
| #6459, aired 2012-10-18 | PLACE NAMES: From 1953 until 1990 Chemnitz, Germany was named for this man Karl Marx |
| #6458, aired 2012-10-17 | COUNTRIES & POPULATIONS: If it were a nation, a state with a 2-word name in this country would be the world's 6th most-populous at 200 million India |
| #6457, aired 2012-10-16 | AMERICANA: The creator of this comic strip did not like its 1950 change in title, believing it suggested insignificance Peanuts |
| #6456, aired 2012-10-15 | FICTION: A proposed title for this novel sounded too much like a Vegas heist movie, so the number in the title was doubled Catch-22 |
| #6455, aired 2012-10-12 | OSCAR NOMINEES: One of his first Oscar nominations was for Best Actor; none of his 22 other Oscar nominations was for acting Woody Allen |
| #6454, aired 2012-10-11 | NONFICTION: In an 1854 work, this title body of water was compared with the proportions of Loch Fyne Walden Pond |
| #6453, aired 2012-10-10 | HISTORIC RULERS: This ruler of a New World country was born in Vienna's Schonbrunn Palace in 1832 & executed far from home in 1867 Maximilian I |
| #6452, aired 2012-10-09 | STORES: These stores first launched in 2001 take in more money per sq. foot than any other U.S. retailer, almost doubling Tiffany's Apple stores |
| #6451, aired 2012-10-08 | WAR NOVEL & MOVIE TITLES: Its title phrase traces back to a stand by heavily outnumbered British infantry against a cavalry charge The Thin Red Line |
| #6450, aired 2012-10-05 | POETRY: Her most famous poem was written for a December 1883 art & literary auction to benefit the Pedestal Fund Emma Lazarus |
| #6449, aired 2012-10-04 | AUTHORS: In 1890 he captained the stern-wheeler Roi des Belges on a voyage down the Congo River Joseph Conrad |
| #6448, aired 2012-10-03 | MODERN OPERA: This opera begins with Air Force One landing at Beijing Nixon in China |
| #6447, aired 2012-10-02 | FAMILIAR PHRASES: OED's earliest citation of this 5-word phrase is "Now, Monsieur Poirot, you would without doubt like to visit" this place the scene of the crime |
| #6446, aired 2012-10-01 | SINGERS & ALBUMS: She's the only artist to have No. 1 albums in 5 consecutive decades, from the 1960s to the 2000s Barbra Streisand |
| #6445, aired 2012-09-28 | TOYS & GAMES: When Milton Bradley released this home game in 1966, competitors accused it of selling "sex in a box" Twister |
| #6444, aired 2012-09-27 | PHRASE ORIGINS: On February 22, 1918 Warren Harding said it is good to drink "at the fountains of wisdom inherited from" this alliterative group the Founding Fathers |
| #6443, aired 2012-09-26 | TV ANIMATION: This teen duo debuted in a 1992 animated short in which they played baseball with a frog Beavis & Butt-head |
| #6442, aired 2012-09-25 | THE BIBLE: This term for a final resting place got its name because clay was dug up there for craftsmen potter's field |
| #6441, aired 2012-09-24 | STATE CAPITALS: Seen here is the seal of this New England city that got its current name in 1637 Hartford, Connecticut |
| #6440, aired 2012-09-21 | THE OSCARS: The only remake of a U.S. film to win Best Picture; the original was made in the 1920s, the Oscar-winning remake in the 1950s Ben-Hur |
| #6439, aired 2012-09-20 | 8-LETTER WORDS: This word that means "freedom from narrow restrictions" can also refer to one of a range of imaginary lines latitude |
| #6438, aired 2012-09-19 | PRESIDENTIAL CHILDREN: 1 of his 5 sons was born in New Brunswick, Canada FDR |
| #6437, aired 2012-09-18 | HISTORIC FIRSTS: On July 31, 1971 Air Force Colonel David Scott became the first person to drive one of these a lunar rover |
| #6436, aired 2012-09-17 | ISLANDS: Of the world's 5 largest islands by area, the 2 with territory of more than 1 country are Borneo & this one New Guinea |
