| #3905, aired 2001-07-20 | POP MUSIC: The special November 2000 TV Guide cover seen here was part of its tribute to this rock group The Beatles (tribute to their 1968 album, "The White Album") |
| #3904, aired 2001-07-19 | AUTHORS: The Prague tombstone of this German-language writer who died in 1924 is inscribed in Hebrew Franz Kafka |
| #3903, aired 2001-07-18 | INTERNATIONAL LANDMARKS: Its roof has been variously described as sails, clam shells & a huddle of nuns in a high wind the Sydney Opera House |
| #3902, aired 2001-07-17 | AT THE LIBRARY: This author & biochemist who died in 1992 has at least one book in all 10 main Dewey Decimal categories Isaac Asimov |
| #3901, aired 2001-07-16 | ANATOMY: Organ whose workings were the subject of a 1604 work by Johannes Kepler the eye |
| #3900, aired 2001-07-13 | THE MOVIES: This classic 1952 movie was based on the story "The Tin Star" High Noon |
| #3899, aired 2001-07-12 | COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES: The 1939 event we just saw came out of a concert originally to be sponsored at DAR Constitution Hall by this university Howard University |
| #3898, aired 2001-07-11 | CONTEMPORARY BRITISH AUTHORS: In May 1973 Sports Illustrated ran one of his short stories under the title "A Day of Wine and Roses" Dick Francis |
| #3897, aired 2001-07-10 | ORGANIZATIONS: "A Simple, Decent Place to Live" is Millard Fuller's book about the history of this organization Habitat For Humanity |
| #3896, aired 2001-07-09 | BOOKS: The accompanying text to this book was published separately as "Ornithological Biography" in the 1830s Birds of America |
| #3895, aired 2001-07-06 | HISTORIC MONARCHS: This monarch, who sold the United States its 2nd-largest piece of territory, was the second to bear his name Alexander II |
| #3894, aired 2001-07-05 | CELEBRITIES: On August 28, 2000 a statue of this late actor was unveiled at the Port Authority Bus Terminal in New York Jackie Gleason |
| #3893, aired 2001-07-04 | AMERICAN PLAYWRIGHTS: Around 1912, while recovering in a sanatorium, this former seaman decided to become a playwright Eugene O'Neill |
| #3892, aired 2001-07-03 | THE EMMYS: The star of one of TV's most popular shows ever, he's the only person to win Emmys for acting, writing & directing Alan Alda |
| #3891, aired 2001-07-02 | EUROPEAN CITIES: By the river Lagan on the island of Ireland, it was chartered in 1613 & settled by Presbyterians & later Huguenots Belfast |
| #3890, aired 2001-06-29 | ARTISTS: He was born in 1577 on the eve of the feast day of two apostles Peter Paul Rubens |
| #3889, aired 2001-06-28 | FAMOUS SHIPS: A highlight of the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum is the bell from this ship that sank in 1975 Edmund Fitzgerald |
| #3888, aired 2001-06-27 | FAMOUS COUPLES: The inscription on their crypt reads "Together Again" with the dates 1902-1964 & 1896-1996 George Burns & Gracie Allen |
| #3887, aired 2001-06-26 | PEOPLE IN SONG: A statue of her, seated on a bench in Liverpool, is dedicated "To All the Lonely People" Eleanor Rigby |
| #3886, aired 2001-06-25 | OPERATIC TITLE CHARACTERS: These title characters of a classic operatic work are a bunch of mythical dwarves The Nibelung |
| #3885, aired 2001-06-22 | ORGANIZATIONS: The president of this social club founded by New York City entertainers in 1904 is called the Abbot Friars' Club |
| #3884, aired 2001-06-21 | HISTORY & LITERATURE: At the beginning of "A Tale of Two Cities", these 2 kings sit on the thrones of England & France George III & Louis XVI |
| #3883, aired 2001-06-20 | MEDICAL ISSUES: Muhammad Ali & Michael J. Fox have gone to Capitol Hill to speak about this disease Parkinson's Disease |
| #3882, aired 2001-06-19 | HITCHCOCK FILMS: The action of this 1959 film moves from New York to South Dakota North by Northwest |
| #3881, aired 2001-06-18 | POETRY: Oscar Wilde said of this title place "The warder is despair" (The Ballad of) Reading Gaol |
| #3880, aired 2001-06-15 | NAMES IN THE NEWS: On December 16, 2000, the day after his graduation, LSU retired his No. 33 jersey Shaquille O'Neal |
| #3879, aired 2001-06-14 | HISTORIC ENGLISHMEN: A Punch cartoon showed this man like an Ancient Wonder standing over Africa, one foot on the Cape, one on Cairo Cecil Rhodes |
| #3878, aired 2001-06-13 | DIRECTORS: In 1939 he helped Roger Hill prepare the "Mercury Shakespeare", a series of editions for actors Orson Welles |
| #3877, aired 2001-06-12 | FAMOUS FAMILIES: Members of this family received a 1952 Pulitzer Prize, a 1954 Nobel & a 1979 Oscar nomination Hemingway (Ernest & his granddaughter Mariel) |
| #3876, aired 2001-06-11 | FAMOUS AMERICANS: This man was nearby at the assassination of 3 U.S. presidents, one of whom was his father Robert Todd Lincoln |
| #3875, aired 2001-06-08 | HEALTH & MEDICINE: The USA's leading chronic illness in children, it causes 10 million missed school days & 1 in 6 of all pediatric emergency visits asthma |
| #3874, aired 2001-06-07 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE: 3 of the countries that make up this land are Gillikin, Winkie & Quadling Oz |
| #3873, aired 2001-06-06 | AFTER THE PRESIDENCY: This 20th century U.S. president lived the longest amount of time after his term as president: 31 years, 231 days Herbert Hoover (lived to age 90 in 1964) |
| #3872, aired 2001-06-05 | TELEVISION: Show inspired by an article saying about 30% of the people who married in 1965 had kids from a previous marriage The Brady Bunch |
| #3871, aired 2001-06-04 | U.S. MILITARY MATTERS: In 1933 what was known as the Militia Bureau was officially renamed this the National Guard |
| #3870, aired 2001-06-01 | PROFESSIONAL SPORTS: In the 5 major U.S. pro team sports, it's the only team bearing the name of an insect the Charlotte Hornets |
| #3869, aired 2001-05-31 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD: 2 of the 4 smallest non-island nations in area (2 of) The Vatican, Monaco, San Marino & Liechtenstein |
| #3868, aired 2001-05-30 | FAMOUS NAMES: A city bus is part of the exhibits at the Montgomery, Alabama library & museum named for this person Rosa Parks |
| #3867, aired 2001-05-29 | POETS: These 2 great English romantic poets died while still in their 20s, one in 1821 & one in 1822 John Keats & Percy Shelley |
| #3866, aired 2001-05-28 | NATIONAL HISTORIC SITES: This National Historic Site was reopened as a theater in 1968 after 103 years Ford's Theater |
| #3865, aired 2001-05-25 | INTERNATIONAL STARS: Since 1978 the city of Paris has funded his Ecole Internationale de Mimodrame de Paris Marcel Marceau |
| #3864, aired 2001-05-24 | STATE MOTTOES: General John Stark coined this 4-word motto about the 1777 Battle of Bennington, in which he led 1,400 N.H. volunteers "Live Free or Die" |
| #3863, aired 2001-05-23 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY: 3 of this federation's constituent parts are Ash Shariqah, Al Fujayrah & Umm Al Qaywayn United Arab Emirates |
| #3862, aired 2001-05-22 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY: Bluelight.com is the internet shopping site of this retail chain Kmart |
| #3861, aired 2001-05-21 | COINS: The ancient coin seen here comes from this island Crete (The Labyrinth, where the Minotaur lives) |
| #3860, aired 2001-05-18 | FAMOUS AMERICANS: In 1982 a street outside Berlin's Olympic Stadium was renamed in his honor Jesse Owens |
| #3859, aired 2001-05-17 | THE WORLD OF TRANSPORTATION: The world's highest airport is found in this Asian political region of 472,000 square miles Tibet |
| #3858, aired 2001-05-16 | OLD WARNINGS: Archaeologists have discovered a home entrance in ancient Pompeii with the words "cave canem", meaning this beware of dog |
| #3857, aired 2001-05-15 | AUTHORS OF THE 1920s: Lawrence Durrell said that in a 1928 novel this man used 4-letter words to canonize & celebrate raw sensuality D.H. Lawrence ("Lady Chatterley's Lover") |
| #3856, aired 2001-05-14 | MILITARY HISTORY: This man commanded the last organized military force to invade the lower 48 states Pancho Villa |
| #3855, aired 2001-05-11 | SOUTH AMERICA: One of 2 landlocked countries in South America Bolivia or Paraguay |
| #3854, aired 2001-05-10 | POLITICAL PARTIES: In 1850 it was the name of the party of the British prime minister & of the U.S. president the Whig Party |
| #3853, aired 2001-05-09 | ANIMALS: The German name for this animal is nilpferd, or "Nile horse" hippopotamus |
| #3852, aired 2001-05-08 | STATE CAPITALS: 1 of the 2 U.S. state capitals that begin with the names of months (1 of 2) Juneau, Alaska or Augusta, Maine |
| #3851, aired 2001-05-07 | SHAKESPEAREAN CHARACTERS: He's the last character to die in "Julius Caesar" Brutus |
| #3850, aired 2001-05-04 | THE '90s: In 1998 Andrew Thomas became the seventh & last American to live aboard this Space Station Mir |
| #3849, aired 2001-05-03 | CANADIAN CITIES: The name of this provincial capital means "queen" in Latin Regina, Saskatchewan |
| #3848, aired 2001-05-02 | COLLEGES: Of 60 battles fought in the U.S. Civil War, 55 were commanded on both sides by graduates of this school United States Military Academy (West Point) |
| #3847, aired 2001-05-01 | U.S. GOVERNMENT: This agency's website for kids includes the games "Break the Code", "Try a Disguise" & a geography quiz the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) |
| #3846, aired 2001-04-30 | HISTORIC QUOTATIONS: On July 13, 1859 he told Horace Greeley, "I have fifteen wives; I know no one who has more" Brigham Young |
| #3845, aired 2001-04-27 | 19th CENTURY PERSONALITIES: In 1876 this German wired the king of Greece, "I have gazed upon the face of Agamemnon" Heinrich Schliemann |
| #3844, aired 2001-04-26 | THE MOONS OF URANUS: Pixie Chasma & Sprite Vallis are features on this moon of Uranus named for a character in "The Tempest" Ariel |
| #3843, aired 2001-04-25 | MATERIALS: The name of the sheet seen here is derived from the name of this material Celluloid |
| #3842, aired 2001-04-24 | DISNEY FILMS: In 1998 a Guinness record 605-pound bowl of spaghetti was cooked to celebrate the re-release of this 1955 movie Lady and the Tramp |
| #3841, aired 2001-04-23 | BASEBALL HALL OF FAMERS: A Red Sox pitcher, later a Yankee, he held the World Series record for consecutive scoreless innings from 1918 to 1961 Babe Ruth |
| #3840, aired 2001-04-20 | ENGINEERING: The first one, built in 1893, consisted of 2,200 tons of steel, rose 268 feet & had 36 cars each carrying 60 people Ferris Wheel |
| #3839, aired 2001-04-19 | U.S. CITIES: On May 24, 1844 Samuel Morse was in this city demonstrating his invention Washington, D.C. |
| #3838, aired 2001-04-18 | WORLD RELIGION: The world's largest religious structure, Angkor Wat in Cambodia, was built to honor this preserver deity Vishnu |
| #3837, aired 2001-04-17 | POETS: Made a baron in the early 1880s, he was the first Englishman elevated to that rank for literary work alone Alfred Lord Tennyson |
| #3836, aired 2001-04-16 | TOYS & GAMES: The world champion at this game gets $15,140, the amount of money in it Monopoly |
| #3835, aired 2001-04-13 | THE SUPREME COURT: Charles Evans Hughes was appointed to the court by this man whom he later succeeded as Chief Justice William Howard Taft |
| #3834, aired 2001-04-12 | THEATRE: The 1996 musical "Play On!" gets its title from the first line of this Shakespeare play, on which it is based Twelfth Night |
| #3833, aired 2001-04-11 | BIBLICAL GEOGRAPHY: During Absalom's rebellion, David took refuge in this region that's east of the Jordan & known for its balm Gilead |
| #3832, aired 2001-04-10 | FILMS & AUTHORS: "The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T" in 1953 was the 1st live-action feature film from this author's works; a 2nd was released in 2000 Dr. Seuss |
| #3831, aired 2001-04-09 | 19th CENTURY BUSINESSMEN: In 1859 he was knighted for offering his ships for service in the Crimean War Sir Samuel Cunard |
| #3830, aired 2001-04-06 | 20th CENTURY ENTERTAINMENT: Truffaut's "The 400 Blows" & the Talking Heads' "Psycho Killer" were both part of movements named this "New Wave" ("Nouvelle Vague") |
| #3829, aired 2001-04-05 | DOCUMENTARIES: This 1989 film ends with the line "This film cannot be shown within the city of Flint. All the theaters have closed" Roger and Me |
| #3828, aired 2001-04-04 | HISTORIC PEOPLE: A copper statue of this hero of the 1960s welcomes visitors to Star City near Moscow Yuri Gagarin (first man in space) |
| #3827, aired 2001-04-03 | SATIRE: This then-living man was the main target of the mid-1960s play "MacBird!" Lyndon B. Johnson |
| #3826, aired 2001-04-02 | GREEK & ROMAN MYTHOLOGY: The English names of this god's 2 companions are Panic & Fear Mars |
| #3825, aired 2001-03-30 | CARTOON CHARACTERS: This cartoon character was based in part on the woman who introduced the song "I Wanna Be Loved By You" Betty Boop (based on Helen Kane) |
| #3824, aired 2001-03-29 | BORN IN THE 1960s: She was on the April 22, 1974 cover of People magazine, holding an Oscar Tatum O'Neal (for Paper Moon) |
| #3823, aired 2001-03-28 | AMERICAN AUTHORS: In 1900 he sent the Library of Congress $2.20 to copyright his "The Navy Alphabet" & another, more "Wonderful", book L. Frank Baum |
| #3822, aired 2001-03-27 | BUSINESS HISTORY: By the time it was disbanded in 1858, this company controlled an area the size of Europe & home to 200 million people The British East India Company |
| #3821, aired 2001-03-26 | NO. 1 SONGS: "The Twist" & this seasonal favorite from 1942 are the only 2 records to re-enter the charts & return to No. 1 "White Christmas" |
| #3820, aired 2001-03-23 | TRANSPORTATION INNOVATIONS: This type of program that began in 1981 was inspired by Green Stamps Frequent flyer program |
| #3819, aired 2001-03-22 | CAMPAIGN SLOGANS: This 4-word slogan was also the name of a refreshing egg & fruit juice drink served at the 1924 GOP convention "Keep Cool With Coolidge" |
| #3818, aired 2001-03-21 | HISTORIC TERMS: This 2-word term for ambitious men had its origins in the group that replaced Ottoman sultan Abdul Hamid in 1909 Young Turks |
| #3817, aired 2001-03-20 | THEATRE HISTORY: This playwright died in 406 B.C., so he never saw his famous tragedy at Colonus produced Sophocles |
| #3816, aired 2001-03-19 | AFRICAN HISTORY: Ruth Perry, modern Africa's first female head of state, headed a transitional government in this country in 1996 Liberia |
| #3815, aired 2001-03-16 | SPORTS NAME ORIGINS: This racket sport takes its name from the country home of the 19th century Duke of Beaufort Badminton |
| #3814, aired 2001-03-15 | THE CALENDAR: It's the second-shortest month in most of the U.S., beating out the third-shortest months by one hour April |
| #3813, aired 2001-03-14 | FAMOUS FILMS: He made the first home movie to be named to the Library of Congress' National Film Registry Abraham Zapruder (the film of the Kennedy Assassination) |
| #3812, aired 2001-03-13 | WORLD CAPITALS: Lucio Costa designed this new capital in 1957 to hold 500,000 people; today it has more than 3 times that number Brasilia, Brazil |
| #3811, aired 2001-03-12 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY: Founded as Pacific Aero Products in 1916, today this company is America's largest exporter, in total revenue Boeing |
| #3810, aired 2001-03-09 | 1920s FRENCH MILITARY MEN: First elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 1910, this Minister of War advocated staunch military preparedness Andre Maginot (creator of the Maginot Line) |
| #3809, aired 2001-03-08 | U.S. HISTORY: This president signed the bill to create a transcontinental railroad; he didn't live to see its completion Abraham Lincoln |
| #3808, aired 2001-03-07 | LITERATURE & FILM: Nicole Kidman, Helena Bonham Carter & Cybill Shepherd have all starred in films based on this man's works Henry James |
| #3807, aired 2001-03-06 | PEOPLE ON POSTAGE: In 1893 this 15th century monarch became the first woman to appear on a U.S. postage stamp Queen Isabella |
| #3806, aired 2001-03-05 | WORLD DRAMA: In its first U.S. performance in English, this play was billed as "The Child Wife" in 1882 A Doll's House (by Ibsen) |
| #3805, aired 2001-03-02 | MUSIC & THE MOVIES: When this 1940 classic was on the drawing board, it was referred to simply as "The Concert Feature" Fantasia |
| #3804, aired 2001-03-01 | RECENT INNOVATIONS: Known by a 3-letter abbreviation, it was first proposed in 1989 by software developer Tim Berners-Lee World Wide Web (www) |
| #3803, aired 2001-02-28 | FAMOUS FAMILIES: In June 2000 descendants of these 2 families met in Pikeville, KY & in Matewan, WV for their first-ever joint reunion The Hatfields & the McCoys |
| #3802, aired 2001-02-27 | BRAND NAMES: A 1909 suit said this product must contain enough of the actual bean & leaf in order to claim its distinctive name Coca-Cola |
| #3801, aired 2001-02-26 | HISTORIC NAMES: This "Dragon" was first famous for resisting Ottoman domination of Romania Vlad the Impaler ("Count Dracula") |
| #3800, aired 2001-02-23 | OLYMPIC CITIES: 1 of 2 current national capitals that have hosted the Winter Olympics Oslo, Norway or Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina |
| #3799, aired 2001-02-22 | WORD ORIGINS: Ironically, this synonym for a stupid person is based on the name of 1 of the most brilliant scholars of the 14th c. Dunce (from John Duns Scotus) |
| #3798, aired 2001-02-21 | PEOPLE: In honor of his 50th birthday, Nov. 14, 1998, 50 of his watercolors were displayed at Hampton Court Prince Charles |
| #3797, aired 2001-02-20 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: 2 of 3 presidents who took their oaths of office in New York state Chester Arthur, Theodore Roosevelt and/or George Washington |
| #3796, aired 2001-02-19 | THE U.S. SPACE PROGRAM: Of the Apollo missions, the total number that successfully landed men on the Moon 6 (Apollo 11, 12, 14, 15, 16 & 17) |
| #3795, aired 2001-02-16 | THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE: Written in 1904, "Himno Istmeno" is the national anthem of this country that won its independence a year earlier Panama |
| #3794, aired 2001-02-15 | THE UNITED NATIONS: It's the point in the center of the circle in the U.N. emblem North Pole |
| #3793, aired 2001-02-14 | FAMOUS PLACES: It's the town where Francisco Marto, Jacinta Marto & their cousin became famous in 1917 Fatima, Portugal |
| #3792, aired 2001-02-13 | FRENCH NOVELISTS: A relative of Henri Bergson's wife, he used Bergson's mystical concepts of time in his most famous work Marcel Proust ("Remembrance of Things Past") |
| #3791, aired 2001-02-12 | MOUNTAINS: The highest peak outside of Asia is found in this mountain range the Andes (Mount Aconcagua) |
| #3790, aired 2001-02-09 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE: First line of the poem thought to be based on Mary Sawyer's experience at a Massachusetts school-house around 1815 "Mary had a little lamb" |
| #3789, aired 2001-02-08 | POLITICIANS: A current U.S. governor, he hosted the game show "Grudge Match" in 1991 Jesse Ventura |
| #3788, aired 2001-02-07 | SPACE EXPLORATION: In October 1998 this man went into space as the oldest U.S. astronaut ever John Glenn |
| #3787, aired 2001-02-06 | JFK: In an interview, Jackie confided that JFK regularly fell asleep listening to the soundtrack of this Broadway play Camelot |
| #3786, aired 2001-02-05 | FAMOUS SHIPS: In December 1620 this vessel came ashore at a secondary destination because of a shortage of beer the Mayflower |
| #3785, aired 2001-02-02 | HISTORIC LISTS: Sylvester IV & Calixtus III are 2 of the nearly 40 men now placed on the list of these anti-popes |
| #3784, aired 2001-02-01 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY: The promotional slogan of this territory is "Where America's Day Begins" Guam |
| #3783, aired 2001-01-31 | -OLOGIES: In 1908 Hermann Ebbinghaus said this field "has a long past, but only a short history" Psychology |
| #3782, aired 2001-01-30 | WORLD LEADERS: From 1964 to 1982 this man was leader of a nation with nuclear weapons Leonid Brezhnev (of the Soviet Union) |
| #3781, aired 2001-01-29 | SPORTS PHRASES: This phrase for the sport of Sugar Ray Robinson is attributed to 19th century writer Pierce Egan The Sweet Science |
| #3780, aired 2001-01-26 | POTENT POTABLES: Named for the club where it was first made, this drink was created to honor Samuel Tilden's election as governor Manhattan |
| #3779, aired 2001-01-25 | SCIENTISTS: Bertrand Russell said that "What Galileo and Newton were to the 17th century," this man "was to the 19th" Charles Darwin |
| #3778, aired 2001-01-24 | JOURNALISTS: In 2000 the film center of the school of the Art Institute of Chicago was renamed in his honor Gene Siskel |
| #3777, aired 2001-01-23 | FAMOUS AMERICANS: After his death in 1994 at age 81, Time magazine put him on its cover for a record 55th time Richard M. Nixon |
| #3776, aired 2001-01-22 | WORLD MONUMENTS: A statue of Chang & Eng Bunker stands in Samut Songkram in this country Thailand |
| #3775, aired 2001-01-19 | BALLET: Russian, Chinese, Arabian & Spanish dances are highlights of this ballet that premiered December 18, 1892 The Nutcracker |
| #3774, aired 2001-01-18 | FAMOUS AMERICANS: In 1888 he wrote he was working on an invention "which does for the eye what the phonograph does for the ear" Thomas Alva Edison |
| #3773, aired 2001-01-17 | RELIGIOUS NAMES: In commemoration of his predecessors, he was the first pope to choose a double name Pope John Paul I |
| #3772, aired 2001-01-16 | BUSINESS BIGGIES: In the 1890s he established steamer lines on the Great Lakes to control the transport of iron to Pittsburgh Andrew Carnegie |
| #3771, aired 2001-01-15 | DESIGN: Introduced to desktops in 1950, it was designed by Arnold Neustadter & featured a ball-bearing clutch Rolodex |
| #3770, aired 2001-01-12 | TELEVISION: An allusion to "Arabian Nights", the title of this show suggests a magic door to knowledge Sesame Street |
| #3769, aired 2001-01-11 | WOMEN IN SPORTS: She won America's only gold medal at the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble, France Peggy Fleming |
| #3768, aired 2001-01-10 | WORLD RECORDS: In May 2000 Babu Chhiri, a Sherpa, set a record doing the last portion of this in about 16 hours Climbing Mount Everest |
| #3767, aired 2001-01-09 | FLAGS: On February 15, 1965 this country raised its new national flag for the first time on Parliament Hill Canada |
| #3766, aired 2001-01-08 | 1999 ART NEWS: It was the first U.S. city to host a cow parade, hundreds of fiberglass cows by artists, placed around the city Chicago |
| #3765, aired 2001-01-05 | LIFE SCIENCE: A study done in South Africa put these non-primates above chimpanzees, making them the world's second-smartest species Dolphins |
| #3764, aired 2001-01-04 | REPUBLICANS: The only election year since 1948 in which there was not a Dole, a Nixon or a Bush on the Republican national ticket 1964 (Barry Goldwater & Bill Miller) |
| #3763, aired 2001-01-03 | BROADWAY MUSICALS: In 1949 this Shakespeare-based show won the 1st Tony for Best Musical; in 2000 it won for Best Musical Revival Kiss Me, Kate |
| #3762, aired 2001-01-02 | LET'S TALK ABOUT SECTS: Because of their dog-like behavior, the name of this sneering sect comes from the Greek for "dog-like" Cynics |
| #3761, aired 2001-01-01 | CELEBRITY WOMEN: She said, "The reason I'm not a nun is...you can't take your own name...I have the most holy name a woman can have" Madonna |
| #3760, aired 2000-12-29 | TRAVEL: By population, it's the largest city on a Caribbean island, though you may not be allowed to go there Havana, Cuba |
| #3759, aired 2000-12-28 | TOY SAFETY: According to the P.I.R.G., the most dangerous toy for children up to age 8 is this common party decoration balloons |
| #3758, aired 2000-12-27 | THE CIVIL WAR: For his service in the Civil War Congress made him General in Chief of the Armies Ulysses S. Grant |
| #3757, aired 2000-12-26 | LEGENDARY HEROES: Hero whose son is seen here on a Swiss postage stamp William Tell |
| #3756, aired 2000-12-25 | U.S. CITIES: A city with this name is the most populous city in both Maine & Oregon Portland |
| #3755, aired 2000-12-22 | FAMOUS NAMES: This co-founder of United Artists returned to the U.S. in 1972 to pick up a special Oscar Charlie Chaplin |
| #3754, aired 2000-12-21 | PLANTS & FLOWERS: Named for a U.S. statesman, it was known in Central America as the "Flower of the Holy Night" Poinsettia |
| #3753, aired 2000-12-20 | BUSINESS NEWS: They were introduced in 1941, designated as just "Plain" in 1954 & rechristened as "Milk Chocolate" in 2000 M&M's |
| #3752, aired 2000-12-19 | POLITICAL HISTORY: Between 1894 & 1901 adherents of this political theory killed the heads of state of France, Spain, Italy & the U.S. Anarchy |
| #3751, aired 2000-12-18 | SPORTS LEGENDS: If Joe DiMaggio's hitting streak had gone one more game in 1941, this company would have given him a $10,000 contract H.J. Heinz (Heinz 57 Varieties) |
| #3750, aired 2000-12-15 | SCIENCE NEWS: Made available for download in July 2000 by UCSC, the 739MB file of this "Project" consists of As, Ts, Gs & Cs The Human Genome Project |
| #3749, aired 2000-12-14 | BIOGRAPHIES: Carl Sandburg co-wrote a 1932 biography of this woman, "Wife and Widow" Mary Todd Lincoln |
| #3748, aired 2000-12-13 | MUSICAL THEATRE: Currently, this show is performed by 3 troupes; the Liffey & Lagan Companies on tour & the Shannon Company on B'way "Riverdance" |
| #3747, aired 2000-12-12 | AMERICAN SPORTS: Called "Little Brother of War", it's the oldest team sport known to have been played in what's now the U.S. Lacrosse |
| #3746, aired 2000-12-11 | CIVIL RIGHTS HISTORY: By 1948, all but one of the 9 in this group charged in a 1931 crime had been freed the Scottsboro Boys |
| #3745, aired 2000-12-08 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS: A conversation he had with Miles Davis became the first of the “Playboy Interviews” in 1962 Alex Haley |
| #3744, aired 2000-12-07 | POLITICIANS: In 1928 this oilman served as chairman of the Republican State Central Committee of Kansas Alf Landon |
| #3743, aired 2000-12-06 | AMERICAN HISTORY: In 1939 this state finally finished paying off a $12.4-million debt to the state from which it had separated West Virginia (paid debt to Virginia) |
| #3742, aired 2000-12-05 | AMERICAN DRAMA: The entire action of this Eugene O'Neill play takes place in 1850 at a New England farmhouse flanked by massive trees Desire Under the Elms |
| #3741, aired 2000-12-04 | THE SPACE RACE: In 1957 the Soviets sent up Sputnik 1 carrying a radio beacon & Sputnik 2 carrying one of these animals Dog (named Laika) |
| #3740, aired 2000-12-01 | SCIENCE: He invented carbonated water as a byproduct of his investigations into the chemistry of air Joseph Priestley |
| #3739, aired 2000-11-30 | CONTEMPORARY AMERICANS: This software billionaire, Bill Gates' rival, got his last name from his family's port of entry into the U.S. Larry Ellison |
| #3738, aired 2000-11-29 | LITERARY CHARACTERS: In 1829 he leaves an islet in Marseille's harbor & finds treasure on an islet in Italy's Tuscan Archipelago The Count of Monte Cristo (Edmond Dantes) |
| #3737, aired 2000-11-28 | ARCHITECTS: This woman designed NYC's Museum for African Art, as well as a famous memorial in Washington, D.C. Maya Ying Lin |
| #3736, aired 2000-11-27 | WORD ORIGINS: Used in the '40s for a sudden loss of power in a jet engine, Herbert Freudenberger applied it in 1974 to spent people Burnout |
| #3735, aired 2000-11-24 | AFRICAN MYTHOLOGY: The great creator said these animals couldn't eat the fish of the river, so they fed on the land at night Hippos |
| #3734, aired 2000-11-23 | STATE CAPITALS: This Midwest city is the only state capital whose unabbreviated name starts with 3 consonants Springfield, Illinois |
| #3733, aired 2000-11-22 | HISTORIC NAMES: 2 of the people who witnessed his execution were John Wilkes Booth & Stonewall Jackson John Brown |
| #3732, aired 2000-11-21 | COLLEGE SPORTS HISTORY: To prevent rivals from reading its hand signals, this university is said to have originated the huddle around 1892 Gallaudet University |
| #3731, aired 2000-11-20 | BRITAIN'S NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY: In April 2000 the portrait of this living woman was moved from the Contemporary section to History Margaret Thatcher |
| #3730, aired 2000-11-17 | POLITICAL NAMES: As House Majority Whip, he works to get laws passed, though his name sounds like he puts them off Tom DeLay |
| #3729, aired 2000-11-16 | HISTORIC TITLES: Since 1578, only 14 men have held this title, including a 1989 Nobel Prize winner The Dalai Lama |
| #3728, aired 2000-11-15 | ROYAL RESIDENCES: The only palaces on U.S. soil that were built for monarchs are found in this state Hawaii |
| #3727, aired 2000-11-14 | 20th CENTURY PEOPLE: David Ben-Gurion described her as "the only man in my cabinet" Golda Meir |
| #3726, aired 2000-11-13 | LIFE & LITERATURE: Cub Scouting & many of its terms like "akela", "law of the pack", "den" & "wolf" were inspired by this British work "The Jungle Book" (by Rudyard Kipling) |
| #3725, aired 2000-11-10 | ANNUAL EVENTS: This annual event was co-created in 1993 by Marie C. Wilson, mother of 5 & president of the National Ms. Foundation "Take Your Daughter to Work" Day |
| #3724, aired 2000-11-09 | PRESIDENTIAL PETS: As a warning to Congress, president James Garfield named his dog this Veto |
| #3723, aired 2000-11-08 | PRO BASKETBALL: The first NBA playoff game outside the United States was played in this city Toronto |
| #3722, aired 2000-11-07 | THE MOVIES: The night before their first mass jump in 1940, paratroopers at Fort Benning saw a Western about this man Geronimo |
| #3721, aired 2000-11-06 | WASHINGTON PEOPLE: This man in office since 1987 has a plaque in his office that reads, "The Buck Starts Here" Alan Greenspan |
| #3720, aired 2000-11-03 | RICH & FAMOUS: "Worth" magazine says with 1.7 million ranchland acres in 5 states, this mogul is the USA's largest private landowner Ted Turner |
| #3719, aired 2000-11-02 | STATE MOTTOES: The state motto of Ohio, adopted in 1959, was ruled unconstitutional in April 2000 as it included this word God |
| #3718, aired 2000-11-01 | MACHINES: This brand name comes from machines devised by Benjamin Holt to crawl over soft farmland Caterpillar |
| #3717, aired 2000-10-31 | MEDICAL CONDITIONS: Named for the outline it commonly produces, it affects about 40 million U.S. men male pattern baldness |
| #3716, aired 2000-10-30 | IN THE NEWS 2000: 40 years after a famous incident, he was awarded a DFC, POW Medal & Natl. Defense Service Medal posthumously Francis Gary Powers |
| #3715, aired 2000-10-27 | LANGUAGES: The eastern variety of this language is based on the dialect of the city of Yerevan & the Ararat Valley Armenian |
| #3714, aired 2000-10-26 | '90s NONFICTION: Around 3 years on the bestseller list, this book is subtitled "An Old Man, A Young Man and Life's Greatest Lesson" "Tuesdays With Morrie" |
| #3713, aired 2000-10-25 | RECENT FILMS: This movie was dedicated to the 10,000 Gloucester fishermen who have lost their lives since 1623 The Perfect Storm |
| #3712, aired 2000-10-24 | FAMOUS FIRSTS: The world's first one of these opened in 1925; it was in San Luis Obispo, Ca. & had parking in front of each door a motel |
| #3711, aired 2000-10-23 | ANATOMY: The petrous temporal bone, the hardest in the body, encases the delicate structures of this organ Inner ear |
| #3710, aired 2000-10-20 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES: It was founded in 1851 to serve the territory that included Indiana, Ohio, Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois & part of Minnesota Northwestern |
| #3709, aired 2000-10-19 | INVENTORS: In September 1899 he equipped 2 ships to report the progress of the America's Cup yacht race to a NYC newspaper Guglielmo Marconi |
| #3708, aired 2000-10-18 | ATHLETIC ACHIEVEMENTS: It took nearly 22 hours to achieve this in 1875; in 1994 it took only 7 hours & 17 minutes Swimming across the English Channel |
| #3707, aired 2000-10-17 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES: Gary Sinise & Meg Ryan have each co-starred in 3 feature films with this actor Tom Hanks |
| #3706, aired 2000-10-16 | SPORTS STARS: The Warriors, the 76ers, the Lakers & the Harlem Globetrotters all retired his number Wilt Chamberlain |
| #3705, aired 2000-10-13 | ORGANIZATIONS: Founded in 1887 to gain a "Monopoly" on fund-raising, it evolved into The United Way Community Chest |
| #3704, aired 2000-10-12 | BRITISH WORD ORIGINS: These political party names began as negative terms for the 2 factions warring over the 1678 Meal-Tub Plot Tories & Whigs |
| #3703, aired 2000-10-11 | 2000 PRESIDENTIAL HOPEFULS: This Harvard law grad who worked in Nixon's Consumer Affairs Dept. also served in the Reagan & Bush cabinets Elizabeth Dole |
| #3702, aired 2000-10-10 | MUSICALS: This musical inspired by an opera features the songs "The Gods Love Nubia" & "Another Pyramid" Aida |
| #3701, aired 2000-10-09 | THE 50 STATES: The 2 states that named their capitals for Christopher Columbus Ohio (Columbus) & South Carolina (Columbia) |
| #3700, aired 2000-10-06 | FAMOUS LANDMARKS: Its nose is 4 1/2 feet long, its right arm stretches 42 feet & its torch is 21 feet tall the Statue of Liberty |
| #3699, aired 2000-10-05 | INVENTIONS: In the 1860s an early version of this was called the velocipede, from Latin words meaning "quick" & "feet" bicycle |
| #3698, aired 2000-10-04 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY: It's the only mainland country in the Western Hemisphere that borders only one country Canada |
| #3697, aired 2000-10-03 | FAMOUS TEENAGERS: This young man who turned 18 on June 21, 2000 has a dog named Widgeon & a younger brother named Harry Prince William |
| #3696, aired 2000-10-02 | POP MUSIC: In May 1999 he had the No. 1 spot on the Hot 100, Top 40, Hot Latin & Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Single Sales Billboard charts Ricky Martin |
| #3695, aired 2000-09-29 | OSCAR-WINNING ACTORS: His 2 acting Oscars have been awarded for playing a tough cop in 1971 & a brutal sheriff in 1992 Gene Hackman |
| #3694, aired 2000-09-28 | NOVELISTS: In the April 2000 National Geographic, he wrote an article dispelling myths about the great white shark Peter Benchley |
| #3693, aired 2000-09-27 | THE SUPREME COURT: 2 of the 3 current Supreme Court justices appointed from the D.C. Court of Appeals (2 of) Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Antonin Scalia & Clarence Thomas |
| #3692, aired 2000-09-26 | WORD ORIGINS: This term for those not Roman or Greek derives from the fact their languages sounded unintelligible Barbarians |
| #3691, aired 2000-09-25 | THE U.S. POPULATION: An August 1999 government report told of the strain on schools from the "echo" of this The "Baby Boom" |
| #3690, aired 2000-09-22 | THE THEATRE: The inspiration for this 1913 play was taken in part from the life of an Edwardian philologist named Henry Sweet Pygmalion |
| #3689, aired 2000-09-21 | LITERARY TREES: In a famous novel this type of tree grows beneath a bedroom window at Tara magnolia |
| #3688, aired 2000-09-20 | NEWSPAPERS: Sime Silverman founded it in 1905 after he was fired from another paper for panning a show Variety |
| #3687, aired 2000-09-19 | FAMOUS NAMES: The Hopi Indians gave this German-born man the name "The Great Relative" when he visited Arizona in the 1930s Albert Einstein |
| #3686, aired 2000-09-18 | THE MOVIES: On May 6, 2000 the 2 writers of this 1997 movie joined a rally trying to get the janitors at Harvard a raise Good Will Hunting (Ben Affleck & Matt Damon) |
| #3685, aired 2000-09-15 | EXPLORERS: He joined the London Missionary Society in 1838; after graduating medical school in 1840 he hoped to be sent to China David Livingstone |
| #3684, aired 2000-09-14 | WORD ORIGINS: This residential district of Dublin held an annual fair from 1204 to 1855, when it was closed due to frequent fights Donnybrook |
| #3683, aired 2000-09-13 | FAMOUS PEOPLE: On January 27, 1999 he returned home aboard a TWA 767 designated Shepherd I Pope John Paul II |
| #3682, aired 2000-09-12 | NOTORIOUS: Using the aliases James Ryan & Harry Place, they boarded a steamer for Argentina in February 1901 Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid |
| #3681, aired 2000-09-11 | AUTHORS: In 1961 John F. Kennedy helped this man's widow get permission to go to Cuba to pick up her late husband's papers Ernest Hemingway |
| #3680, aired 2000-09-08 | FINAL RESTING PLACES: The monument on his grave in Woodlawn Cemetery, Elmira, N.Y. is 12' high; in water depth that's 2 fathoms Mark Twain |
| #3679, aired 2000-09-07 | '50s POP HITS: A No. 1 hit in 1959, this song was originally written by a teacher as a history lesson for his students on the War of 1812 "The Battle Of New Orleans" |
| #3678, aired 2000-09-06 | XYZ AFFAIR: As part of the U.S. Treaty Negotiation Team, this future VP under Madison knew where to "draw the lines" Elbridge Gerry |
| #3677, aired 2000-09-05 | THE INTERNET: Among suffixes, .mx is Mexico, .jp is Japan, & in March 2000 .ps was assigned to this Palestine |
| #3676, aired 2000-09-04 | EXPLORING: 2 of the 4 flags flown on Mount Everest on May 29, 1953; strangely, New Zealand's wasn't one of them (2 of) Great Britain, India, Nepal & the United Nations flag |
