#9203, aired 2024-11-13 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $1200: Creator of "The Sex Lives of College Girls", Mindy Kaling loved shooting in "beautiful" Poughkeepsie at this college Vassar |
#8645, aired 2022-05-20 | WHAT COLLEGE $800: Seven Sisters school, the pride of Poughkeepsie Vassar |
#8294, aired 2020-12-03 | NEW YORK CITIES' NICKNAMES $400: Poughkeepsie is "The Queen City of" this river the Hudson |
#8214, aired 2020-04-30 | COLLEGE & UNIVERSITY ORIGINS $800: One of the Seven Sisters, this Poughkeepsie college was founded in 1861 but didn't open until 1865 Vassar |
#8154, aired 2020-02-06 | THE NEW SCHOOL $200: In the 1960s Marist College in Poughkeepsie began admitting them, just as nearby Vassar stopped admitting only them women |
#6648, aired 2013-07-10 | THIS & THAT $1200: This Poughkeepsie college was founded in 1861, but the Civil War delayed its opening until 1865 Vassar |
#5746, aired 2009-09-14 | STATES' FORMER CAPITALS $800: Poughkeepsie New York |
#5599, aired 2009-01-01 | AMERICAN GRADUATORS $400: This Poughkeepsie, N.Y. graduator was the first of the "7 Sisters" to go co-ed--in 1969, too late for me, darn it! Vassar |
#5486, aired 2008-06-16 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $400: This Poughkeepsie school was the first of the seven sisters to be coeducational Vassar |
#5463, aired 2008-05-14 | BREWERS, BUCKS & PACKERS $1000: In 1861 a brewer with this last name gave $408,000 to the trustees at a Poughkeepsie women's college Vassar |
#5285, aired 2007-07-27 | AROUND NEW YORK STATE $1000: This liberal arts college that went co-ed in 1969 is located in Poughkeepsie Vassar (College) |
#5154, aired 2007-01-25 | MATT-ICULOUS $1000: A successful brewer, Matthew Vassar opened his namesake college for women in 1861 in this N.Y. city Poughkeepsie |
#4960, aired 2006-03-17 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $400: In 1865 this school in Poughkeepsie became the first women's college in the U.S. to have facilities equal to the men's schools Vassar |
#4857, aired 2005-10-25 | SPEECH! SPEECH! $1000: In 1848, in this New York town, Elizabeth Cady Stanton said, "The right is ours. Have it, we must. Use it, we will" Seneca Falls |
#4854, aired 2005-10-20 | THE GENE HACKMAN POOL $1200: This 1971 flick had Gene inquiring about feet-picking in Poughkeepsie The French Connection |
#4648, aired 2004-11-17 | WHEN THEY WERE IN COLLEGE $1000: Meryl Streep starred in a campus production of “Miss Julie” as an undergrad at this Poughkeepsie college Vassar |
#4594, aired 2004-07-22 | FORMER CAPITALS $400: This state didn't keepsie Poughkeepsie as its capital for very long New York |
#3919, aired 2001-09-20 | CHARITY BEGINS WITH BEER $400: Money from the golden nectar was used to start this women's liberal arts college in Poughkeepsie, New York Vassar |
#3729, aired 2000-11-16 | COLLEGE HODGEPODGE $500: Founded in 1861, this Poughkeepsie school became the first of the Seven Sisters to go co-ed, with 40 WWII veterans Vassar College |
#3634, aired 2000-05-25 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $400: This Poughkeepsie, New York school was the first of the Seven Sisters to be coeducational Vassar |
#3295, aired 1998-12-25 | SPEAKING CONSERVATIVELY $600: In 1980 William F. Buckley told off students at this Poughkeepsie school who disinvited him to commencement Vassar |
#3240, aired 1998-10-09 | THE 50 STATES $400: During the Revolutionary War, Poughkeepsie was the temporary capital of this state New York |
#3178, aired 1998-05-27 | TO GRANDMOTHER'S HOUSE WE GO $400: Grandma still has the diaries she wrote at this Poughkeepsie school before it went co-ed Vassar |
#2862, aired 1997-01-28 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $2,500 (Daily Double): The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at this college in Poughkeepsie has prints by Rembrandt Vassar College |
#2690, aired 1996-04-19 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $1,500 (Daily Double): This Poughkeepsie, N.Y. college is the only coeducational member of the Seven Sisters colleges Vassar |
#2643, aired 1996-02-14 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $1000: The main building at this Poughkeepsie college was based on the Tuileries Vassar |
#2138, aired 1993-12-15 | U.S. CITIES $1000: The Smith Brothers made their first cough drops in this city that's now the home of Vassar Poughkeepsie |
#2101, aired 1993-10-25 | EDUCATION $800: This Poughkeepsie, N.Y. school built an observatory for astronomer Maria Mitchell in 1864 Vassar |
#1785, aired 1992-05-08 | POETS $800: Edna St. Vincent Millary graduated from this college in Poughkeepsie in 1917 Vassar |
#1700, aired 1992-01-10 | BROTHERS $400: Bearded brothers William & Andrew first made this product in Poughkeepsie, New York about 1850 cough drops |
#1660, aired 1991-11-15 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $200: In 1861 a Poughkeepsie, New York brewer founded this women's college; it's since become co-educational Vassar |
#1629, aired 1991-10-03 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $1000: The year the Civil War began this college was founded in Poughkeepsie, New York Vassar |
#1137, aired 1989-07-11 | U.S. CITIES $1000: The Smith brothers first made their cough drops in this N.Y. State city, home to Vassar Poughkeepsie |
#746, aired 1987-11-30 | COLLEGES $600: Poughkeepsie, N.Y. brewer who, in 1861, donated the money to found a women's college Matthew Vassar |
#127, aired 1985-03-05 | COLLEGES $600: In 1966, Yale invited this Poughkeepsie, NY women's school to merge with it Vassar |