#8910, aired 2023-07-07 | ANCIENT ARTIFACTS $400: Appropriately, the Trundholm sun chariot was cast around 1400 B.C. in this alloy bronze |
#8910, aired 2023-07-07 | ANCIENT ARTIFACTS $800: A vulture & one of these reptiles jut out of the forehead of the mask of Tutankhamun a cobra |
#8910, aired 2023-07-07 | ANCIENT ARTIFACTS $1200: The Nebra sky disk told ancients it was time to add a leap month when the crescent moon was by this sisterly star cluster the Pleiades |
#8910, aired 2023-07-07 | ANCIENT ARTIFACTS $2000: Archaeologists are still struggling to decode the Phaistos Disc found in 1908 during an excavation of a palace of this culture on Crete Minoans |
#8910, aired 2023-07-07 | ANCIENT ARTIFACTS $2,500 (Daily Double): Heinrich Schliemann found gold ornaments he called "The Jewels of Helen" while excavating this site in 1873 Troy |
#8010, aired 2019-06-07 | ARTIFACTS $200: To help find the Ark of the Covenant, Indiana Jones used the headpiece to the staff of this Egyptian sun god Ra |
#8010, aired 2019-06-07 | ARTIFACTS $400: What's called the this of Ashurbanipal in what was Nineveh has yielded thousands of clay tablets written in cuneiform the library |
#8010, aired 2019-06-07 | ARTIFACTS $600: Located at Windsor Castle, the locket seen here contains the bullet that killed this admiral in an 1805 battle Nelson |
#8010, aired 2019-06-07 | ARTIFACTS $800: Artifacts were recovered from a Song Dynasty ship that sank along what's called the "Maritime" this Chinese trade route the Silk Road |
#8010, aired 2019-06-07 | ARTIFACTS $1000: Algonquin for "beads", also a type of currency strung on belts that could be used to declare war, or to signal peace wampum |
#6331, aired 2012-03-12 | PRESIDENTIAL ARTIFACTS $200: His library & museum has a sculpture of him as the Sphinx FDR |
#6331, aired 2012-03-12 | PRESIDENTIAL ARTIFACTS $400: Truman kept a sign with this 4-word motto on his Oval Office desk; the original sign is at his presidential library "The buck stops here" |
#6331, aired 2012-03-12 | PRESIDENTIAL ARTIFACTS $600: Marshal Zhukov presented Eisenhower with the Order of Victory, a military decoration of this colorful army the Red Army |
#6331, aired 2012-03-12 | PRESIDENTIAL ARTIFACTS $1,000 (Daily Double): Documents relating to these agreements, the framework for peace in the Middle East, are at the Carter Library the Camp David Accords |
#6331, aired 2012-03-12 | PRESIDENTIAL ARTIFACTS $1000: Artifacts at his library include hand-knitted Christmas stockings for Buddy & Socks Clinton |
#3954, aired 2001-11-08 | ARTIFACTS $100: Some of these implements survive from the old copper culture of 5,000 years ago--no bait, though (fish) hooks |
#3954, aired 2001-11-08 | ARTIFACTS $200: The SOIC is a society dedicated to remembering these, in which fountain pens & pigtails were dipped an inkwell |
#3954, aired 2001-11-08 | ARTIFACTS $300: Old Westerners decorated holsters; old Europeans decorated these sword sheaths a scabbard |
#3954, aired 2001-11-08 | ARTIFACTS $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew pretends to chop at a stone slab.) I'm wielding the versatile stone-age tool called a hand this, though it lacks a separate blade ax |
#3954, aired 2001-11-08 | ARTIFACTS $500: The guy pictured here is a "dux", latin for "leader", so the medieval coin seen here is called this a ducat |