#1853, aired 1992-09-30 | 20th CENTURY PERSONALITIES $100: From 1954-63, this baby doctor wrote a column for the "Ladies Home Journal" Dr. Spock |
#1853, aired 1992-09-30 | 20th CENTURY PERSONALITIES $200: In 1974, this pop artist's name was associated with film versions of "Dracula" & "Frankenstein" Andy Warhol |
#1853, aired 1992-09-30 | 20th CENTURY PERSONALITIES $300: At age 11, tennis star Monica Seles was named this Balkan country's Sportswoman of the Year Yugoslavia |
#1853, aired 1992-09-30 | 20th CENTURY PERSONALITIES $400: In the late 1950s, this partner of Hal David was a conductor for Marlene Dietrich Burt Bacharach |
#1853, aired 1992-09-30 | 20th CENTURY PERSONALITIES $500: In 1971, this department store founder, whose middle name was Cash, cashed out at age 95 J.C. Penney |
#1796, aired 1992-05-25 | 20th CENTURY PERSONALITIES $200: In 1982 Santa Barbara Ave. in Los Angeles was renamed to honor this slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King |
#1796, aired 1992-05-25 | 20th CENTURY PERSONALITIES $400: From 1981 to 1989 he was the U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop |
#1796, aired 1992-05-25 | 20th CENTURY PERSONALITIES $600: This Nicaraguan president resigned on July 17, 1979 & fled to Miami Anastasio Somoza |
#1796, aired 1992-05-25 | 20th CENTURY PERSONALITIES $800: This female "Voice of Broadway" columnist served as a panelist on "What's My Line?" for 15 years Dorothy Kilgallen |
#1796, aired 1992-05-25 | 20th CENTURY PERSONALITIES $1000: This admiral was commander of the 2nd Fleet before serving as CIA chief in the Carter administration Stansfield Turner |
#1687, aired 1991-12-24 | 20th CENTURY PERSONALITIES $200: A large moon crater is named for this cosmonaut who was the first man in space Yuri Gagarin |
#1687, aired 1991-12-24 | 20th CENTURY PERSONALITIES $400: Once an aide to Gen. MacArthur, he became Pres. Reagan's first Sec'y of State in 1981 Alexander Haig |
#1687, aired 1991-12-24 | 20th CENTURY PERSONALITIES $600: A native of Northern Ireland, he's been called "The Man with the Golden Flute" James Galway |
#1687, aired 1991-12-24 | 20th CENTURY PERSONALITIES $800: At age 73 this developer of the first atomic-powered submarine was made a full admiral Hyman Rickover |
#1687, aired 1991-12-24 | 20th CENTURY PERSONALITIES $1000: He resigned as head of the AFL-CIO in 1979 & died two months later George Meany |
#1472, aired 1991-01-15 | 20TH CENTURY PERSONALITIES $200: Millions of pardons were issued to commemorate this emperor who died on January 7, 1989 Hirohito |
#1472, aired 1991-01-15 | 20TH CENTURY PERSONALITIES $400: This British prince was born on November 14, 1948 Prince Charles |
#1472, aired 1991-01-15 | 20TH CENTURY PERSONALITIES $800: "Tiger of the Snows" is the autobiography of this famous Sherpa Tenzing Norgay |
#1472, aired 1991-01-15 | 20TH CENTURY PERSONALITIES $1,000 (Daily Double): He took over his mother's prime minister job the same day she was assassinated in 1984 Rajiv Gandhi |
#1472, aired 1991-01-15 | 20TH CENTURY PERSONALITIES $1000: "Tiny Alice" playwright who advised "Start with people. You can't ever make a good play out of an idea." Edward Albee |
#1355, aired 1990-06-22 | 20TH CENTURY PERSONALITIES $100: She defected from the Soviet Union in 1967 after assuming her mother's maiden name, Alliluyeva Svetlana Stalin |
#1355, aired 1990-06-22 | 20TH CENTURY PERSONALITIES $200: Soon after the United Arab Republic was established on Feb. 1, 1958, he became its first president (Gamal Abdel) Nasser |
#1355, aired 1990-06-22 | 20TH CENTURY PERSONALITIES $300: Spy who said, "People came to see me because I was the first who dared to show myself naked to the public." Mata Hari |
#1355, aired 1990-06-22 | 20TH CENTURY PERSONALITIES $400: This fifth child of Emperor Hirohito was born on December 23, 1933 Akihito |
#1018, aired 1989-01-25 | 20th CENTURY PERSONALITIES $200: He was awarded the 1983 Nobel Peace Prize for nonviolent efforts to win Polish rights Lech Walesa |
#1018, aired 1989-01-25 | 20th CENTURY PERSONALITIES $400: His 1940 survey showed 95% of males breaking laws & liable for prosecution for their sexual practices Kinsey |
#1018, aired 1989-01-25 | 20th CENTURY PERSONALITIES $600: He was elected president of France after Charles de Gaulle resigned in 1969 Pompidou |
#1018, aired 1989-01-25 | 20th CENTURY PERSONALITIES $800: The name of this 3rd Secretary-General of the U.N. translates roughly to "Mr. Clean" U Thant |
#1018, aired 1989-01-25 | 20th CENTURY PERSONALITIES $1000: He served as Secretary of the Army under Kennedy & later as Sec'y of State for Carter Cyrus Vance |
#1015, aired 1989-01-20 | 20th CENTURY PERSONALITIES $200: In 1907 he escaped from chains after being underneath in San Francisco Bay for 2 min. Harry Houdini |
#1015, aired 1989-01-20 | 20th CENTURY PERSONALITIES $400: 1987 Current Biography listed this helicopter pilot's address as "Buckingham Palace, London SW 1, England" Prince Andrew (Duke of York) |
#1015, aired 1989-01-20 | 20th CENTURY PERSONALITIES $600: Watergate Judge John Sirica was once a friend of this controversial Wisconsin senator Joseph McCarthy |
#1015, aired 1989-01-20 | 20th CENTURY PERSONALITIES $1000: In 1962 he resigned as head of American Motors to successfully run for governor of Mich. George Romney |
#1015, aired 1989-01-20 | 20th CENTURY PERSONALITIES $1,500 (Daily Double): In 1949 this Gen. resigned as Sec'y of State but returned to the cabinet the next year as Sec'y of Defense George Marshall |
#1008, aired 1989-01-11 | 20th CENTURY PERSONALITIES $100: This famous female flyer was once the aviation editor of Cosmopolitan Amelia Earhart |
#1008, aired 1989-01-11 | 20th CENTURY PERSONALITIES $200: Martial law was lifted in Poland after his 1983 visit there John Paul II |
#1008, aired 1989-01-11 | 20th CENTURY PERSONALITIES $300: For year after her death in 1952, all newly issued Argentine stamps had her picture Eva Perón |
#1008, aired 1989-01-11 | 20th CENTURY PERSONALITIES $400: President whose "doctrine" provided aid to Greece & Turkey to combat communism Truman |
#1008, aired 1989-01-11 | 20th CENTURY PERSONALITIES $500: Due to a leg injury, this polar explorer retired from the Navy in 1916, but was reactivated for World War I Admiral Byrd |
#967, aired 1988-11-15 | 20TH-CENTURY PERSONALITIES $200: Born in Russian Poland in 1886, he became the first prime minister of Israel David Ben-Gurion |
#967, aired 1988-11-15 | 20TH-CENTURY PERSONALITIES $400: Use of the term "psyche" for the whole personality was begun by this great Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung |
#967, aired 1988-11-15 | 20TH-CENTURY PERSONALITIES $600: Jackie Kennedy authorized him to write "The Death of a President", but later sued to stop publication William Manchester |
#967, aired 1988-11-15 | 20TH-CENTURY PERSONALITIES $800: Sun Yat-sen was trained as and practiced this profession before entering politics Physician/Doctor |
#967, aired 1988-11-15 | 20TH-CENTURY PERSONALITIES $1000: Like Churchill, this British prime minister, chosen in 1957, had an American mother Harold Macmillan |
#924, aired 1988-09-15 | 20th CENTURY PERSONALITIES $200: In 1928 he was appointed generalissimo & leader of China Chiang Kai‐shek |
#924, aired 1988-09-15 | 20th CENTURY PERSONALITIES $400: Along with his brother William, he founded Standard Oil John D. Rockefeller |
#924, aired 1988-09-15 | 20th CENTURY PERSONALITIES $600: Arnold Toynbee is best known for the work he did in this field history |
#924, aired 1988-09-15 | 20th CENTURY PERSONALITIES $800: 1 of 2 men who, at the request of the French gov't. created the 1st modern intelligence test in 1905 (1 of) (Alfred) Binet (or Theodore Simon) |
#924, aired 1988-09-15 | 20th CENTURY PERSONALITIES $1000: This Brazilian anthropologist is famous for works about the Yaqui Indian sorcerer Don Juan Carlos Castañeda |
#711, aired 1987-10-12 | 20th CENTURY PERSONALITIES $200: Though a "sultan", not a Viking, this Yankee was buried in Valhalla, N.Y. in August 1948 Babe Ruth |
#711, aired 1987-10-12 | 20th CENTURY PERSONALITIES $400: Using this name meaning "man of steel", he ruled the USSR with a steel grip until his death in 1953 Stalin |
#711, aired 1987-10-12 | 20th CENTURY PERSONALITIES $600: In the '30s, he assumed party leadership during the tragic "Long March" of the Chinese Red Army Mao Tse Tung |
#711, aired 1987-10-12 | 20th CENTURY PERSONALITIES $800: It's said this naval officer ate chocolate every Sunday on his trek to the North Pole Peary |
#711, aired 1987-10-12 | 20th CENTURY PERSONALITIES $1000: Last viceroy of India, he later became the 1st Earl of Burma Lord Mountbatten |
#669, aired 1987-07-02 | 20TH CENTURY PERSONALITIES $200: Using real lawyers & witnesses, he was "tried" on television 23 years after his Nov. 24, 1963 death Lee Harvey Oswald |
#669, aired 1987-07-02 | 20TH CENTURY PERSONALITIES $400: Bertrand Russell lost his post at Cambridge & went to jail for expressing his opposition to this war World War I |
#669, aired 1987-07-02 | 20TH CENTURY PERSONALITIES $600: Technically prime minister, Antonio Salazar was actually the dictator of this country Portugal |
#669, aired 1987-07-02 | 20TH CENTURY PERSONALITIES $800: It's said both of his salaries, as Archbishop & President of Cyprus, were given to charities Archbishop Makarios |
#669, aired 1987-07-02 | 20TH CENTURY PERSONALITIES $1000: After coaching football at Connecticut's Wesleyan University, he went on to be President of Princeton Woodrow Wilson |
#536, aired 1986-12-29 | 20TH CENTURY PERSONALITIES $200: His "raiders" are fierce consumer advocates, not fierce pro football players Ralph Nader |
#536, aired 1986-12-29 | 20TH CENTURY PERSONALITIES $400: This former first lady interviewed Khrushchev in '57 at Yalta, site of her husband's famous conference Eleanor Roosevelt |
#536, aired 1986-12-29 | 20TH CENTURY PERSONALITIES $600: In 1978, this once & future Indian prime minister was imprisoned for criminal misconduct Indira Gandhi |
#536, aired 1986-12-29 | 20TH CENTURY PERSONALITIES $800: As Minister of Aviation, this German WWI ace developed the Luftwaffe Hermann Goering |
#536, aired 1986-12-29 | 20TH CENTURY PERSONALITIES $1000: In 1980, Robert Mugabe became 1st prime minister of this new country Zimbabwe |
#429, aired 1986-05-01 | 20TH CENTURY PERSONALITIES $200: In 1925, he dictated his autobiography to fellow prisoner Rudolf Hess Adolf Hitler |
#429, aired 1986-05-01 | 20TH CENTURY PERSONALITIES $400: It's what William John Clifton Haley became famous doing in the 1950s rock & roll |
#429, aired 1986-05-01 | 20TH CENTURY PERSONALITIES $600: When he died in 1926, all movie studios suspended production for 2 minutes in his honor Valentino |
#429, aired 1986-05-01 | 20TH CENTURY PERSONALITIES $800: Mocked later for saying "I'm in control here", he was in control as Watergate White House crumbled Haig |
#429, aired 1986-05-01 | 20TH CENTURY PERSONALITIES $1000: In 1985, Jimmy Breslin said this man did more to change NYC than any politician in decades Bernard Goetz |