| #9262, aired 2025-02-04 | BLACK MYSTERY MONTH $200: A back-to-Africa movement scam artist is part of Chester Himes' hard-boiled novel "Cotton Comes to" this New York City area Harlem |
| #9262, aired 2025-02-04 | BLACK MYSTERY MONTH $400: A writer-producer of TV's "Empire", Attica Locke wrote the Highway 59 trilogy about a Black one of these Lone Star lawmen a Texas Ranger |
| #9262, aired 2025-02-04 | BLACK MYSTERY MONTH $600: A Georgia politician & voting rights activist, she puts some civics in her mystery with novels like "Rogue Justice" (Stacey) Abrams |
| #9262, aired 2025-02-04 | BLACK MYSTERY MONTH $800: One entry in the Charlie Mack Motown Mystery series is about an attack on this annual Detroit display that puts the moto in Motown the Detroit Auto Show |
| #9262, aired 2025-02-04 | BLACK MYSTERY MONTH $1000: Black heroine Bree is caught up in the disappearance of a blonde in a novel called this, a "syndrome" Gwen Ifill popularized Missing White Woman |
| #9206, aired 2024-11-18 | BLACK $200: If you've got one of these in karate, it's kuro obi in Japanesee a black belt |
| #9206, aired 2024-11-18 | BLACK $400: According to legend it was across the Black Sea that this guy & his Argonauts set out in search of the Golden Fleece Jason |
| #9206, aired 2024-11-18 | BLACK $600: Hit songs by these heavy metal pioneers include "Iron Man" & "Paranoid", both from 1970 Black Sabbath |
| #9206, aired 2024-11-18 | BLACK $800: Males of this spider marked by an hourglass sign can be one-fourth the size of females & often get eaten post mating a black widow |
| #9206, aired 2024-11-18 | BLACK $1000: A Muslim object of veneration, the Black Stone of Mecca is built into a wall of this small shrine within the great mosque the Kaaba |
| #9163, aired 2024-09-18 | LITTLE BLACK BOOKS $400: The title receptacle from this Lloyd Alexander kids' book is used by the evil Lord Arawn to stir up all kinds of trouble The Black Cauldron |
| #9163, aired 2024-09-18 | LITTLE BLACK BOOKS $800: A Balzac tale of 2 brothers is titled after this animal, a term for one who brings embarrassment on the family a black sheep |
| #9163, aired 2024-09-18 | LITTLE BLACK BOOKS $1200: L.A. newspapers gave this nickname to 1947 murder victim Elizabeth Short, giving James Ellroy a 1987 novel title the Black Dahlia |
| #9163, aired 2024-09-18 | LITTLE BLACK BOOKS $1600: Subtitled "A Story of Modern War", this Mark Bowden nonfiction book depicts the 1993 Battle of Mogadishu Black Hawk Down |
| #9163, aired 2024-09-18 | LITTLE BLACK BOOKS $2000: In "Black Boy", published in 1945, this author wrote about growing up in the segregated South Richard Wright |
| #9115, aired 2024-05-31 | NOTABLE BLACK AMERICANS $400: The first African-American one of these is Archbishop of Washington, D.C. Wilton Gregory, elevated by the pope in 2020 a cardinal |
| #9115, aired 2024-05-31 | NOTABLE BLACK AMERICANS $800: In a 2019 Morehouse commencement speech, equity billionaire Robert F. Smith announced he'd pay off 400 of these student loan debt |
| #9115, aired 2024-05-31 | NOTABLE BLACK AMERICANS $1600: In 2021, this senator from South Carolina was chosen to respond to President Biden's address to Congress Tim Scott |
| #9115, aired 2024-05-31 | NOTABLE BLACK AMERICANS $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1936 he became the first male African-Am. athlete with a sponsorship when Adolf Dassler convinced him to wear his shoes Jesse Owens |
| #9115, aired 2024-05-31 | NOTABLE BLACK AMERICANS $2000: Jones Morgan, a member of this Black cavalry unit & the last surviving U.S. Spanish-American War vet, died in 1993 at 110 a Buffalo Soldier |
| #9093, aired 2024-05-01 | IN THE BLACK $200: The usher of the Black Rod acts as a sergeant at arms for this part of Britain's Parliament the House of Lords |
| #9093, aired 2024-05-01 | IN THE BLACK $400: These 2 words can precede cake (meaning chocolate with cherries) or ham (originally produced in that German region) Black Forest |
| #9093, aired 2024-05-01 | IN THE BLACK $600: The black species of this tree provides nuts for squirrels & prized black wood for furniture black walnut |
| #9093, aired 2024-05-01 | IN THE BLACK $800: Muslim tradition says this, set in a wall of the Kaaba, was white but grew dark from the sins of the pilgrims who've touched it the Black Stone of Mecca |
| #9093, aired 2024-05-01 | IN THE BLACK $2,400 (Daily Double): In 1974 this physicist proposed a theory on how black holes die--a type of radiation now named for him Hawking |
| #9080, aired 2024-04-12 | THE BLACK ARTS MOVEMENT $400: In response to this Black nationalist's death in 1965, Amiri Baraka wrote "Black Art", an early poem of the Black Arts Movement Malcolm X |
| #9080, aired 2024-04-12 | THE BLACK ARTS MOVEMENT $800: A poem by Askia M. Touré refers to this "Giant Steps" saxophonist as a "Black priest prophet" Coltrane |
| #9080, aired 2024-04-12 | THE BLACK ARTS MOVEMENT $1200: After a famous memoir, this poet found success with her collection "Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'Fore I Diiie" Maya Angelou |
| #9080, aired 2024-04-12 | THE BLACK ARTS MOVEMENT $1600: This Back to Africa promoter was an icon depicted on Chicago's now destroyed Wall of Respect, designed by BAM artists (Marcus) Garvey |
| #9080, aired 2024-04-12 | THE BLACK ARTS MOVEMENT $2000: The star of a 2023 HBO doc, this poet & her work "Black Judgment" helped take the Black Arts Movement to national prominence Nikki Giovanni |
| #9010, aired 2024-01-05 | BLACK HISTORY YEAR $200: Barack Obama quickly resigns from the Senate for a very good reason 2008 |
| #9010, aired 2024-01-05 | BLACK HISTORY YEAR $400: Martin Luther King Jr. gives his immortal "I Have a Dream" speech in D.C. 1963 |
| #9010, aired 2024-01-05 | BLACK HISTORY YEAR $600: Rosa Parks stays seated on mass transit & makes history 1955 |
| #9010, aired 2024-01-05 | BLACK HISTORY YEAR $800: At John Glenn's request, Katherine Johnson verifies the computer's planning of Friendship 7's flight 1962 |
| #9010, aired 2024-01-05 | BLACK HISTORY YEAR $1000: Just after World War II, Jackie Robinson integrates Major League Baseball 1947 |
| #8992, aired 2023-12-12 | BLACK MYSTERY & CRIME FICTION $200: Partly set in Kingston, the plot of "A Brief History of Seven Killings" includes the attempted murder of this reggae singer Bob Marley |
| #8992, aired 2023-12-12 | BLACK MYSTERY & CRIME FICTION $400: In "Blacktop Wasteland" Bug Montage is a wheelman, aka this "driver"; often idling out back during a heist a getaway driver |
| #8992, aired 2023-12-12 | BLACK MYSTERY & CRIME FICTION $600: "Zora & Me" by Victoria Bond & T.R. Simon is a mystery series loosely based on the life of this early 20th century writer Zora Neale Hurston |
| #8992, aired 2023-12-12 | BLACK MYSTERY & CRIME FICTION $800: In "White Butterfly" P.I. Easy Rawlins said jazz cats came by Cadillac & bluesmen by bus or by thumb to Watts in this West Coast city Los Angeles |
| #8992, aired 2023-12-12 | BLACK MYSTERY & CRIME FICTION $1000: The name of this underworld author of "Mama Black Widow" & "Pimp" inspired the "Ice" part of Ice-T's stage name Iceberg Slim |
| #17, aired 2023-05-23 | BLACK HISTORY & CULTURE $200: This wedding tradition may have once had to do with sweeping away evil spirits & today symbolizes a new beginning jumping the broom |
| #17, aired 2023-05-23 | BLACK HISTORY & CULTURE $400: In 1956, he became the first Black entertainer to host a nationally broadcast TV variety show Nat King Cole |
| #17, aired 2023-05-23 | BLACK HISTORY & CULTURE $600: While Ebony is for the black community in general, this magazine launched in 1970 is geared especially to black women Essence |
| #17, aired 2023-05-23 | BLACK HISTORY & CULTURE $800: Seen here are these heroic aviators, the first African-American combat pilots who served during World War II the Tuskegee Airmen |
| #17, aired 2023-05-23 | BLACK HISTORY & CULTURE $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1924 the Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary became this historically black college for women Spelman |
| #8869, aired 2023-05-11 | NOTABLE BLACK AMERICANS $400: Called the first detective novel by a Black author, "The Conjure-Man Dies" by Rudolph Fisher is set in this Upper Manhattan area Harlem |
| #8869, aired 2023-05-11 | NOTABLE BLACK AMERICANS $800: In 1822, Black Nantucketer Absalom Boston captained an entirely Black crew scouring the seas in this profession whaling |
| #8869, aired 2023-05-11 | NOTABLE BLACK AMERICANS $1200: Subject of a biopic, this actress began in vaudeville before starring in films like "Carmen Jones" Dorothy Dandridge |
| #8869, aired 2023-05-11 | NOTABLE BLACK AMERICANS $1,400 (Daily Double): Known for skydiving while playing sax, aviator Hubert Julian went to fight for this African empire against Italy in the 1930s Ethiopia |
| #8869, aired 2023-05-11 | NOTABLE BLACK AMERICANS $1600: A note from Mary Ellen Pleasant, a millionaire & former slave, was found in the pocket of this abolitionist before his 1859 hanging John Brown |
| #2, aired 2023-05-08 | POP CULTURE IN BLACK & WHITE $400: To start the '70s he replaced the 2 white guys in the Experience with a black rhythm section in Band of Gypsys Hendrix |
| #2, aired 2023-05-08 | POP CULTURE IN BLACK & WHITE $800: In the '60s Robert Culp & Bill Cosby pioneered interracial buddy espionage on this TV show I Spy |
| #2, aired 2023-05-08 | POP CULTURE IN BLACK & WHITE $1200: Seen here are the co-stars of this TV show; one said the other was "the mother I had been looking for" Touched by an Angel |
| #2, aired 2023-05-08 | POP CULTURE IN BLACK & WHITE $1600: Britain's two-tone movement included multiracial bands like the English Beat & this ska group with the hit "Ghost Town" the Specials |
| #2, aired 2023-05-08 | POP CULTURE IN BLACK & WHITE $2000: Nicknamed for something sweet, he joined the all-white New Orleans Rhythm Kings on an early integrated jazz recording session Jelly Roll Morton |
| #8815, aired 2023-02-24 | BLACK HISTORY $400: In 1930 "Don't buy where you can't work" was a slogan of this economic strategy vs. stores that wouldn't hire African Americans a boycott |
| #8815, aired 2023-02-24 | BLACK HISTORY $800: From around the mid-1910s, families vacationed in "Black Eden", Idlewild in the central region of this state's Lower Peninsula Michigan |
| #8815, aired 2023-02-24 | BLACK HISTORY $1200: Ed Bradley & Bayard Rustin are alumni of Cheyney U., founded in 1837 & claiming the title first of these, often abbrev. to 4 letters HBCUs (historically black colleges & universities) |
| #8815, aired 2023-02-24 | BLACK HISTORY $1600: Around 1910 there was no such thing as Chicago blues; this 2-word exodus of Black folks brought the music north the Great Migration |
| #8815, aired 2023-02-24 | BLACK HISTORY $2000: The Boston Women's Memorial includes a bronze of this 18th century poet who wrote "On Being Brought from Africa to America" Phillis Wheatley |
| #8715, aired 2022-10-07 | BLACK BUSINESS $200: Once, the USA's largest Black-owned business was North Carolina Mutual Life on Durham's Parrish Street, also called "Black" this street Wall Street |
| #8715, aired 2022-10-07 | BLACK BUSINESS $400: His move into mogulship began when he launched Roc-A-Fella Records to release his album "Reasonable Doubt" Jay-Z |
| #8715, aired 2022-10-07 | BLACK BUSINESS $600: NBA Sixth Man Junior Bridgeman became the second man among franchisees of this chain with 160 restaurants Wendy's |
| #8715, aired 2022-10-07 | BLACK BUSINESS $800: These were often Black owned, avoiding style butchery by whites; Joe Louis' wife Rose Morgan built an empire from one hair (beauty) salons |
| #8715, aired 2022-10-07 | BLACK BUSINESS $1000: Asking, "Why should white guys have all the fun?", Reginald Lewis bought Beatrice Foods in a billion-dollar LBO, this type of buyout leveraged |
| #8524, aired 2021-12-02 | SAILING THE BLACK SEA $400: This mythological hero & his Argonauts sailed the Black Sea in antiquity Jason |
| #8524, aired 2021-12-02 | SAILING THE BLACK SEA $800: Woof! A small shark called the spiny this abounds in the Black Sea dogfish |
| #8524, aired 2021-12-02 | SAILING THE BLACK SEA $1200: Russia's Black Sea coast includes this resort city that was established in 1896 & made international headlines in the winter of 2014 Sochi |
| #8524, aired 2021-12-02 | SAILING THE BLACK SEA $2000: This mountain range, a dividing line between Asia & Europe, runs from the Black Sea to the Caspian Sea the Caucasus |
| #8524, aired 2021-12-02 | SAILING THE BLACK SEA $4,400 (Daily Double): It's alphabetically last of the countries that border the Black Sea Ukraine |
| #8522, aired 2021-11-30 | "BLACK" ON THE MAP $200: The Danube arises in this region filled with beech & oak the Black Forest |
| #8522, aired 2021-11-30 | "BLACK" ON THE MAP $400: Sacred territory for the Western Sioux, this region lies between the Belle Fourche & Cheyenne Rivers the Black Hills |
| #8522, aired 2021-11-30 | "BLACK" ON THE MAP $600: Old this river in Ireland, keep on rollin' across County Waterford's Drum Hills to the sea (River) Blackwater |
| #8522, aired 2021-11-30 | "BLACK" ON THE MAP $800: Waterloo, Iowa is the seat of this county named for a military leader of the Sauk people Black Hawk |
| #8522, aired 2021-11-30 | "BLACK" ON THE MAP $1000: It's hard to believe Lake Lahontan once covered this Nevada desert area seen here in all its stark beauty Black Rock (Desert) |
| #8400, aired 2021-05-14 | THE "BLACK" $400: As this disease infected much of the continent around 1350, Europeans tried cures like eating crushed emeralds the Black Plague |
| #8400, aired 2021-05-14 | THE "BLACK" $800: Dalton Trumbo & Burgess Meredith were 2 who had their careers damaged by this 1950s Hollywood practice blacklisting |
| #8400, aired 2021-05-14 | THE "BLACK" $1200: Nickname for the son of Edward III who fought the French in the Hundred Years' War the Black Prince |
| #8400, aired 2021-05-14 | THE "BLACK" $1600: A byproduct of sugar refining, it's a dark, viscous variety of molasses blackstrap molasses |
| #8400, aired 2021-05-14 | THE "BLACK" $2000: The Siksika & the Blood are groups that make up this Native American people the Blackfoot |
| #8354, aired 2021-03-11 | CLASSIC BLACK & WHITE FILMS $400: "How Green Was My Valley" beat out this Orson Welles movie to win the 1941 Best Picture Oscar Citizen Kane |
| #8354, aired 2021-03-11 | CLASSIC BLACK & WHITE FILMS $800: The Bogie & Bergman classic "Casablanca" was loosely based on the play "Everybody Comes to" this possessive name Rick's |
| #8354, aired 2021-03-11 | CLASSIC BLACK & WHITE FILMS $1200: Max Schreck played the title vampire in this silent classic Nosferatu |
| #8354, aired 2021-03-11 | CLASSIC BLACK & WHITE FILMS $1600: Charlie Chaplin starred in films like "Modern Times" & this satire of Hitler The Great Dictator |
| #8354, aired 2021-03-11 | CLASSIC BLACK & WHITE FILMS $2000: As Norma Desmond in "Sunset Boulevard", this actress says, "All right Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up" (Gloria) Swanson |
| #8309, aired 2021-01-07 | BLACK HERITAGE STAMPS $400: In 1978 this Underground Railroad conductor appeared on the first stamp in the Black Heritage Series Harriet Tubman |
| #8309, aired 2021-01-07 | BLACK HERITAGE STAMPS $800: Order in the Supreme Court--he was honored on a stamp in 2003 (Thurgood) Marshall |
| #8309, aired 2021-01-07 | BLACK HERITAGE STAMPS $1200: A 2002 stamp paid tribute to a true renaissance man--this Harlem Renaissance poet (Langston) Hughes |
| #8309, aired 2021-01-07 | BLACK HERITAGE STAMPS $1600: In 2019 the Postal Service paid tribute to this late dancer & actor Gregory Hines |
| #8309, aired 2021-01-07 | BLACK HERITAGE STAMPS $2000: This esteemed journalist & PBS news anchor who passed away in 2016 was honored in 2020 Gwen Ifill |
| #8274, aired 2020-11-05 | 21st CENTURY BLACK & WHITE MOVIES $400: In 2019 Alfonso Cuarón won an Oscar for the black & white cinematography of this film about Mexico in the 1970s Roma |
| #8274, aired 2020-11-05 | 21st CENTURY BLACK & WHITE MOVIES $800: This 2011 Best Picture winner isn't completely silent, but it is a black & white movie The Artist |
| #8274, aired 2020-11-05 | 21st CENTURY BLACK & WHITE MOVIES $1200: This Bruce Dern movie named for a Plains state was in B&W in the theaters but was shown in color on cable Nebraska |
| #8274, aired 2020-11-05 | 21st CENTURY BLACK & WHITE MOVIES $1600: This spooky director filmed his stop-motion animation film "Frankenweenie" in black & white to emulate classic monster movies Tim Burton |
| #8274, aired 2020-11-05 | 21st CENTURY BLACK & WHITE MOVIES $2000: As keepers of the title beacon, Robert Pattinson & Willem Dafoe really let the isolation get to them in this 2019 film The Lighthouse |
| #8232, aired 2020-06-09 | HISTORICALLY BLACK COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $400: Florida A&M University in this state capital is the only HBCU in the state university system of Florida Tallahassee |
| #8232, aired 2020-06-09 | HISTORICALLY BLACK COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $800: The Oaks, former home of Booker T. Washington, & the George Washington Carver Museum are at this Alabama school Tuskegee |
| #8232, aired 2020-06-09 | HISTORICALLY BLACK COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $1600: Future Nobel Peace Prize winner Ralph Bunche set up the political science department at this Washington, D.C. school Howard |
| #8232, aired 2020-06-09 | HISTORICALLY BLACK COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $2000: This U. near the Va. "Roads" region has an oak tree where the Emancipation Proclamation got its first southern reading Hampton University |
| #8232, aired 2020-06-09 | HISTORICALLY BLACK COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $4,600 (Daily Double): Fisk University in Nashville has a master's- to-Ph.D. bridge program in conjunction with this local private university Vanderbilt University |
| #8110, aired 2019-12-06 | ACCORDING TO BLACK'S LAW DICTIONARY $200: It's "a jury that cannot reach a verdict by the required voting margin--also termed deadlocked jury" a hung jury |
| #8110, aired 2019-12-06 | ACCORDING TO BLACK'S LAW DICTIONARY $400: It's "an attempt to commit battery, requiring the specific intent to cause physical injury" assault |
| #8110, aired 2019-12-06 | ACCORDING TO BLACK'S LAW DICTIONARY $600: This means "to remove (oneself) as a judge in a particular case because of prejudice or conflict of interest" recuse |
| #8110, aired 2019-12-06 | ACCORDING TO BLACK'S LAW DICTIONARY $800: It's a 4-syllable "system of organized crime...involving the extortion of money from businesses by intimidation " racketeering |
| #8110, aired 2019-12-06 | ACCORDING TO BLACK'S LAW DICTIONARY $1000: "A threat of harm made to compel a person... a marriage" done under it "is generally voidable" duress |
| #8103, aired 2019-11-27 | BACK TO BLACK $200: Despite the color, the aeronautical object seen here is commonly called this a black box |
| #8103, aired 2019-11-27 | BACK TO BLACK $400: In 2018 the CDC reported "prevalence of black lung continues to increase among" these workers coal miners |
| #8103, aired 2019-11-27 | BACK TO BLACK $600: Announcing the first iPhone, Steve Jobs wore his trademark black shirt of this style turtleneck |
| #8103, aired 2019-11-27 | BACK TO BLACK $800: Germans enjoy a sandwich of this black bread, slathered with lard, between 2 slices of rye pumpernickel |
| #8103, aired 2019-11-27 | BACK TO BLACK $1000: Netflix' "Black Mirror" released an Emmy-winning interactive movie in 2018 with this title out of "Jabberwocky" Bandersnatch |
| #8100, aired 2019-11-22 | BLACK-&-WHITE FILMS $200: In "The Maltese Falcon", this actor tells Mary Astor, "if you...were as innocent as you pretend to be, we'd never get anywhere" Humphrey Bogart |
| #8100, aired 2019-11-22 | BLACK-&-WHITE FILMS $400: Grabbing a shower at a motel seems like a good idea to Janet Leigh in this 1960 thriller--it is not a good idea at all Psycho |
| #8100, aired 2019-11-22 | BLACK-&-WHITE FILMS $600: This actor is defiant in "Raging Bull"--"I never went down, Ray. You never got me down, Ray" Robert De Niro |
| #8100, aired 2019-11-22 | BLACK-&-WHITE FILMS $800: Gen. Jack D. Ripper, Col. "Bat" Guano & Major "King" Kong are characters in this 1964 doomsday comedy Dr. Strangelove |
| #8100, aired 2019-11-22 | BLACK-&-WHITE FILMS $1000: On "Seinfeld", Jerry caught serious grief for making out with his date during this 1993 World War II-set drama Schindler's List |
| #8094, aired 2019-11-14 | SYNONYMS FOR BLACK $200: Corvus corax is the scientific name of this crow cousin a raven |
| #8094, aired 2019-11-14 | SYNONYMS FOR BLACK $400: 5-letter magazine founded in 1945 by John H. Johnson Ebony |
| #8094, aired 2019-11-14 | SYNONYMS FOR BLACK $600: Ancient Egyptians used this 4-letter cosmetic to line the eyes kohl |
| #8094, aired 2019-11-14 | SYNONYMS FOR BLACK $800: The RAF's Gloster Meteor, for example a jet |
| #8094, aired 2019-11-14 | SYNONYMS FOR BLACK $1000: Residue of coal tar distillation used to pave roads & waterproof roofs pitch |
| #8090, aired 2019-11-08 | BLACK HOLES $400: A supermassive black hole is at the center of almost every large one of these, like NGC 4450 a galaxy |
| #8090, aired 2019-11-08 | BLACK HOLES $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents by a display monitor.) Measuring from a black hole's event horizon, where not even light can escape its gravitational pull, to its center is known as the Schwarzschild this radius |
| #8090, aired 2019-11-08 | BLACK HOLES $1200: A type of radiation emitted from just outside a black hole is named for this physicist who theorized its existence in 1974 (Stephen) Hawking |
| #8090, aired 2019-11-08 | BLACK HOLES $1600: After its fuel is spent, any star with a mass more than 1.44 times that of this becomes a neutron star or a black hole our Sun |
| #8090, aired 2019-11-08 | BLACK HOLES $2000: The world didn't end Sept. 10, 2008, when this was switched on near Geneva; though it may create tiny black holes, they're no threat the CERN Large Hadron Collider |
| #8035, aired 2019-07-12 | MEN IN BLACK $200: I know the men in black haunted Mulder on this TV show--I played one of them! The X-Files |
| #8035, aired 2019-07-12 | MEN IN BLACK $400: 19th century artist Hokusai is credited with the first image of these stealthy warriors wearing black a ninja |
| #8035, aired 2019-07-12 | MEN IN BLACK $600: Josh Brolin played a younger version of this actor in "Men in Black 3" Tommy Lee Jones |
| #8035, aired 2019-07-12 | MEN IN BLACK $800: "Go Away White" is the 2008 reunion album by this Peter Murphy band that wore black & led many gloomy teens to do the same Bauhaus |
| #8035, aired 2019-07-12 | MEN IN BLACK $1000: This Oscar-winning actor is all sorts of bad as the man in black in "The Dark Tower", based on the Stephen King novels Matthew McConaughey |
| #7977, aired 2019-04-23 | SOLID BLACK $400: Under Emir Abd Al-Rahman Khan, who died in Kabul in 1901, this present country used an all-black flag Afghanistan |
| #7977, aired 2019-04-23 | SOLID BLACK $800: The cover art of "Smell the Glove" by this mockumentary band was changed to solid black Spinal Tap |
| #7977, aired 2019-04-23 | SOLID BLACK $1200: In 1915 Kazimir Malevich unveiled the artwork seen here, yet wrote that this & texture are the essence of painting color |
| #7977, aired 2019-04-23 | SOLID BLACK $1600: The screen is dark for the first 15 seconds or so of this 1968 Stanley Kubrick film 2001: A Space Odyssey |
| #7977, aired 2019-04-23 | SOLID BLACK $2000: The 1760 novel "Tristram Shandy" devotes a black page to the passing of this man with the same name as Hamlet's jester Yorick |
| #7868, aired 2018-11-21 | BLACK FRIDAY $200: Friday, October 13, 1989:
A "mini-crash" sees a 190-point drop in this stock average the Dow Jones Industrial Average |
| #7868, aired 2018-11-21 | BLACK FRIDAY $400: October 14, 1881:
A storm off the east coast of Scotland kills 189 fishermen on this sea the North Sea |
| #7868, aired 2018-11-21 | BLACK FRIDAY $600: January 13, 2012:
32 die when an Italian cruise ship sinks; its captain is later convicted of this lesser type of homicide manslaughter |
| #7868, aired 2018-11-21 | BLACK FRIDAY $800: May 31, 1985:
A cluster of about 40 of these wreaks havoc in Ontario, New York, Pennsylvania & Ohio tornadoes |
| #7868, aired 2018-11-21 | BLACK FRIDAY $1000: This black Friday:
C.S. Lewis & Aldous Huxley died the same day JFK was assassinated November 22, 1963 |
| #7841, aired 2018-10-15 | "BLACK" JEOPARDY $200: Extortion blackmail |
| #7841, aired 2018-10-15 | "BLACK" JEOPARDY $400: You'd think they'd make the entire plane out of the material used in a nigh-indestructible flight recorder AKA this the black box |
| #7841, aired 2018-10-15 | "BLACK" JEOPARDY $600: A fruit, or a phone a blackberry |
| #7841, aired 2018-10-15 | "BLACK" JEOPARDY $800: With a vertical drop of 500 feet, the Heathen is a tough ski run with a double this rating a black diamond |
| #7841, aired 2018-10-15 | "BLACK" JEOPARDY $1000: A drink, or one of 7,000 British soldiers sent to Ireland in the early 1920s Black and Tan |
| #7803, aired 2018-07-11 | BLACK WOMEN AUTHORS $400: Chimamanda Adichie had a 2014 bestseller with "We Should All Be" these, believers in women's equality feminists |
| #7803, aired 2018-07-11 | BLACK WOMEN AUTHORS $800: 15 years after "Push", this gem of a writer gives voice to Precious' son in "The Kid" Sapphire |
| #7803, aired 2018-07-11 | BLACK WOMEN AUTHORS $1200: Maryse Condé wrote the historical novel "I, Tituba, Black Witch of" this New England town Salem |
| #7803, aired 2018-07-11 | BLACK WOMEN AUTHORS $2,000 (Daily Double): This British author of "White Teeth" also wrote "Swing Time", a story of 2 childhood friends who dream of being dancers Zadie Smith |
| #7803, aired 2018-07-11 | BLACK WOMEN AUTHORS $2000: This "Their Eyes Were Watching God" author wrote "Tell My Horse" after living in Haiti Zora Neale Hurston |
| #7777, aired 2018-06-05 | BLACK-&-WHITE PHOTO CHALLENGE $400: Remember this historic landmark, built as a Roman Catholic mission the Alamo |
| #7777, aired 2018-06-05 | BLACK-&-WHITE PHOTO CHALLENGE $800: Why bother with a color photo when the skin of this water mammal is grayish anyway? a manatee |
| #7777, aired 2018-06-05 | BLACK-&-WHITE PHOTO CHALLENGE $1200: In black-&-white may be the way many remember this alliterative actress of the 1930s, who starred in films like "Ninotchka" Greta Garbo |
| #7777, aired 2018-06-05 | BLACK-&-WHITE PHOTO CHALLENGE $1600: Get your kicks from these rhymingly named boots here mukluks |
| #7777, aired 2018-06-05 | BLACK-&-WHITE PHOTO CHALLENGE $2000: These ferns, whose name includes a word for a young lady, take their name from their delicate fronds maidenhair |
| #7729, aired 2018-03-29 | "BLACK" $200: A shiner is slang for this a black eye |
| #7729, aired 2018-03-29 | "BLACK" $400: In 2015 this hockey team won its sixth Stanley Cup the Blackhawks |
| #7729, aired 2018-03-29 | "BLACK" $600: "You Shook Me All Night Long" was on this classic album of the '80s Back in Black |
| #7729, aired 2018-03-29 | "BLACK" $800: It grew out of a small machine shop in Baltimore to become a leading maker of power tools & accessories Black and Decker |
| #7729, aired 2018-03-29 | "BLACK" $1000: An essay that promoted kindness to animals inspired Anna Sewell to write this novel Black Beauty |
| #7689, aired 2018-02-01 | BLACK HISTORY NOTABLES $400: His blindness by age 7, possibly from glaucoma, never got in the way of his success Ray Charles |
| #7689, aired 2018-02-01 | BLACK HISTORY NOTABLES $800: He's the author & very visible man seen here Ralph Ellison |
| #7689, aired 2018-02-01 | BLACK HISTORY NOTABLES $1200: In 1957, she became the first African-American to win a singles title at Wimbledon Althea Gibson |
| #7689, aired 2018-02-01 | BLACK HISTORY NOTABLES $1600: He was a longtime assistant to Robert E. Peary, and a co-discoverer of the North Pole Matthew Henson |
| #7689, aired 2018-02-01 | BLACK HISTORY NOTABLES $2000: The subject of a TV movie and a Rockwell painting, in 1960 she made history by integrating an all-white school in New Orleans (Ruby) Bridges |
| #7664, aired 2017-12-28 | ACCORDING TO BLACK'S LAW DICTIONARY $200: "Parental" this is "given on a minor's behalf... for the minor to engage in or submit to a specified activity" consent |
| #7664, aired 2017-12-28 | ACCORDING TO BLACK'S LAW DICTIONARY $400: "The act... of officially nullifying punishment or other legal consequences of a crime" a pardon |
| #7664, aired 2017-12-28 | ACCORDING TO BLACK'S LAW DICTIONARY $600: "A person who settles on property without any legal claim or title" a squatter |
| #7664, aired 2017-12-28 | ACCORDING TO BLACK'S LAW DICTIONARY $800: "A writ... directing a law enforcer to make an arrest, a search, or a seizure" a warrant |
| #7664, aired 2017-12-28 | ACCORDING TO BLACK'S LAW DICTIONARY $1000: "The judicial procedure by which a testamentary document is established to be a valid will" probate |
| #7586, aired 2017-09-11 | BACK IN BLACK $200: A slump in comic book sales drove it into bankruptcy in 1996; since then its cinematic universe alone has raked in $10 billion Marvel |
| #7586, aired 2017-09-11 | BACK IN BLACK $400: On the verge of going bust in 1997, it was saved by a $150 million investment by rival Microsoft Apple |
| #7586, aired 2017-09-11 | BACK IN BLACK $600: It went from filing for bankruptcy in 2011 to merging with U.S. Airways & becoming the world's largest airline in 2014 American Airlines |
| #7586, aired 2017-09-11 | BACK IN BLACK $800: It took more than a "moment", but this Rochester, N.Y. company emerged from bankruptcy & still sells cameras Kodak |
| #7586, aired 2017-09-11 | BACK IN BLACK $1000: U.S. taxpayers ponied up $180 billion to rescue this 3-letter insurance co., but got it all back, plus a profit AIG |
| #7541, aired 2017-05-29 | THE NEW "BLACK" $200: Old roadways are made new again when paved over with this blacktop |
| #7541, aired 2017-05-29 | THE NEW "BLACK" $400: The new hit of the 2013 fall TV season was this show with James Spader as "Red" Reddington The Blacklist |
| #7541, aired 2017-05-29 | THE NEW "BLACK" $600: Found only in the New World, this flower AKA a yellow daisy may take its name from a fair maiden in a poem a black-eyed susan |
| #7541, aired 2017-05-29 | THE NEW "BLACK" $800: In the "Beverly Hillbillies" theme song, it's one term for Jed's new find black gold |
| #7541, aired 2017-05-29 | THE NEW "BLACK" $1000: A new 18th century fad of sea bathing to cure disease helped put this resort town of northwest England on the map Blackpool |
| #7514, aired 2017-04-20 | BLACK $200: If your black piano keys are shiny, they're probably plastic; if they dull with age, probably this wood ebony |
| #7514, aired 2017-04-20 | BLACK $400: This company cleaned up when it introduced the Dustbuster in 1979 Black & Decker |
| #7514, aired 2017-04-20 | BLACK $600: A black monolith mysteriously appears at different times in human history in this classic sci-fi film 2001: A Space Odyssey |
| #7514, aired 2017-04-20 | BLACK $800: The Black Death that killed many in Europe in the 1300s is believed to have been caused by this type of organism, Yersinia pestis a bacterium |
| #7514, aired 2017-04-20 | BLACK $1000: Their home ice is located at 1901 West Madison Street the Blackhawks |
| #7155, aired 2015-10-23 | BLACK & WHITE $400: Opposites attract & interact in this symbol of Chinese philosophy yin-yang |
| #7155, aired 2015-10-23 | BLACK & WHITE $600: Set in silent-era Hollywood, in 2012 it became the first mainly B&W best picture Oscar winner since "Schindler's List" The Artist |
| #7155, aired 2015-10-23 | BLACK & WHITE $800: This 3-word item began appearing regularly on supermarket products in the 1970s the Universal Product Code |
| #7155, aired 2015-10-23 | BLACK & WHITE $1,200 (Daily Double): In winter, this weasel, whose fur was once prized by royalty, has a a white coat with a black-tipped tail an ermine |
| #7031, aired 2015-03-23 | WEARING BLACK $200: This designer has a Black Label line in addition to his Polo brand Ralph Lauren |
| #7031, aired 2015-03-23 | WEARING BLACK $400: Scarlett Johansson wears a form-fitting black leather suit as this Avenger Black Widow |
| #7031, aired 2015-03-23 | WEARING BLACK $600: Named for Teutonic invaders, the people in this subculture are identifiable by their pallor & black clothes goths |
| #7031, aired 2015-03-23 | WEARING BLACK $800: This memoir by Johnny Cash is subtitled "His Own Story in His Own Words" Man in Black |
| #7031, aired 2015-03-23 | WEARING BLACK $1000: This detergent with a fabric in its name has a "Darks" formula to keep your black clothes from fading Woolite |
| #7019, aired 2015-03-05 | THE BLACK LIST $200: Diceros bicornis, the black species of this, can charge with up to 3,000 pounds a rhinoceros |
| #7019, aired 2015-03-05 | THE BLACK LIST $400: AKA "hard coal", it's steel gray to black in color anthracite |
| #7019, aired 2015-03-05 | THE BLACK LIST $600: This region of fertile dark soil in Alabama & Mississippi sounds like it can break a 2x4 with its bare hands the Black Belt |
| #7019, aired 2015-03-05 | THE BLACK LIST $800: It gets its name from the black inside its mouth the black mamba |
| #7019, aired 2015-03-05 | THE BLACK LIST $1000: The so-called "black box" is the cockpit voice recorder plus this, FDR for short the flight data recorder |
| #6941, aired 2014-11-17 | IN BLACK & WHITE $400: The director of this mostly B&W film said the little girl's red coat symbolizes the bloodstain of the Holocaust Schindler's List |
| #6941, aired 2014-11-17 | IN BLACK & WHITE $800: Joseph Cotten chases Orson Welles through the sewers of Vienna in this film The Third Man |
| #6941, aired 2014-11-17 | IN BLACK & WHITE $1200: This film about 2 escaped convicts, one black & one white, won an Oscar for best black & white cinematography The Defiant Ones |
| #6941, aired 2014-11-17 | IN BLACK & WHITE $1600: This director said that the "modest, austere story" of "Nebraska" "seemed to lend itself to being made in black and white" Alexander Payne |
| #6941, aired 2014-11-17 | IN BLACK & WHITE $2000: Aerosmith got the song title "Walk This Way" from a line in this movie Young Frankenstein |
| #6931, aired 2014-11-03 | BLACK'S LAW DICTIONARY SAYS... $200: This is "the offense of attempting to overthrow the government of the state to which one owes allegiance" treason |
| #6931, aired 2014-11-03 | BLACK'S LAW DICTIONARY SAYS... $400: Any "serious crime... punishable by imprisonment for more than one year or by death... examples include burglary" felony |
| #6931, aired 2014-11-03 | BLACK'S LAW DICTIONARY SAYS... $600: An "aider" assists in a crime; this is "an instigator... who promotes... a crime to be committed" abettor |
| #6931, aired 2014-11-03 | BLACK'S LAW DICTIONARY SAYS... $800: I proclaim it is "The act by which one who was unfree... is rendered free, or set at liberty and made his own master" emancipation |
| #6931, aired 2014-11-03 | BLACK'S LAW DICTIONARY SAYS... $1000: It is "a knowing misrepresentation of the truth... to induce another to act to his or her detriment" fraud |
| #6797, aired 2014-03-18 | THE "BLACK"LIST $400: This card game is also known as 21 blackjack |
| #6797, aired 2014-03-18 | THE "BLACK"LIST $800: In astronomy a singularity is the center of one of these objects a black hole |
| #6797, aired 2014-03-18 | THE "BLACK"LIST $1200: It's another name for oil--just ask Jed Clampett black gold |
| #6797, aired 2014-03-18 | THE "BLACK"LIST $1600: "Rehab" was the lead single from this Amy Winehouse album Back to Black |
| #6797, aired 2014-03-18 | THE "BLACK"LIST $2000: It's the molasses that's left over after several boilings blackstrap |
| #6764, aired 2014-01-30 | BLACK & WHITE & READ $200: Dostoyevsky's short story "White Nights" is a romance set in this capital under the czars St. Petersburg |
| #6764, aired 2014-01-30 | BLACK & WHITE & READ $400: "At liftoff, Matt Eversmann said a Hail Mary", begins this Somalia-set nonfiction book Black Hawk Down |
| #6764, aired 2014-01-30 | BLACK & WHITE & READ $600: Erik Larson's "The Devil in the White City" tells of "Murder, Magic, and Madness" at this city's 1893 World's Fair Chicago |
| #6764, aired 2014-01-30 | BLACK & WHITE & READ $1,000 (Daily Double): This author's 1936 novel "Black Spring", a bawdy tale of Paris, came between 2 more famous books Henry Miller |
| #6764, aired 2014-01-30 | BLACK & WHITE & READ $1000: A National Book Award winner, this Don DeLillo novel covers a year in the life of a Midwestern college professor White Noise |
| #6759, aired 2014-01-23 | BLACK SOCKS $200: Florsheim sells black calf-length socks named for this dressy men's outfit tuxedo |
| #6759, aired 2014-01-23 | BLACK SOCKS $400: Your black socks may be lisle, a thread named for a city in this country France |
| #6759, aired 2014-01-23 | BLACK SOCKS $600: Anything that's out of an earlier time, specifically a retro sports uniform, like the Iowa Hawkeyes one
seen here throwback |
| #6759, aired 2014-01-23 | BLACK SOCKS $800: In Japan black tabi doesn't refer to a cat but to socks worn by these masters of clandestine martial arts ninjas |
| #6759, aired 2014-01-23 | BLACK SOCKS $1000: The "Nightmare Song" from "Iolanthe" by this duo includes bicycling across Salisbury plain in black silk socks Gilbert & Sullivan |
| #6627, aired 2013-06-11 | ANOTHER BLACK FRIDAY $200: September 24, 1869:
A panic ensues when New York financiers try to corner the market in this precious metal gold |
| #6627, aired 2013-06-11 | ANOTHER BLACK FRIDAY $400: July 31, 1987:
One of these cuts a swath of destruction through Edmonton a tornado |
| #6627, aired 2013-06-11 | ANOTHER BLACK FRIDAY $600: September 8, 1978:
The shah's troops massacre protesters in this city's Jaleh Square Tehran |
| #6627, aired 2013-06-11 | ANOTHER BLACK FRIDAY $800: October 5, 1945:
A film industry strike turns into a bloody riot in an incident known as this community's Black Friday Hollywood |
| #6627, aired 2013-06-11 | ANOTHER BLACK FRIDAY $1,000 (Daily Double): January 13, 1939:
Record summer heat sparks "bushfires" that ravage millions of acres in this country Australia |
| #6575, aired 2013-03-29 | "BLACK" OR "WHITE" $200: Chardonnay & Riesling white wine |
| #6575, aired 2013-03-29 | "BLACK" OR "WHITE" $400: It's another name for a pirate's Jolly Roger a black flag |
| #6575, aired 2013-03-29 | "BLACK" OR "WHITE" $600: In 2012 this mobile device was ripe for the picking as its maker, Research in Motion, faced financial trouble BlackBerry |
| #6575, aired 2013-03-29 | "BLACK" OR "WHITE" $800: U.S. ski trails marked with this symbol are considered difficult; double or triple markings are for experts only a black diamond |
| #6575, aired 2013-03-29 | "BLACK" OR "WHITE" $1000: Giddyup on over to this capital of Canada's Yukon Territory Whitehorse |
| #6546, aired 2013-02-18 | 1960s BLACK AMERICA $400: Lucius Amerson wore a star as the Deep South's first black one of these in a century a sheriff |
| #6546, aired 2013-02-18 | 1960s BLACK AMERICA $800: In 1969 black's opinion (Justice Hugo Black) was that this school practice should not "be tolerated another minute" segregation |
| #6546, aired 2013-02-18 | 1960s BLACK AMERICA $1600: This new cabinet department was headed by the first African-American cabinet member, Robert Weaver Housing & Urban Development |
| #6546, aired 2013-02-18 | 1960s BLACK AMERICA $2000: (Alex reports from the Metropolitan Opera at Lincoln Center.) In 1966, the new Metropolitan Opera House opened here at Lincoln Center with a world premiere featuring this African-American diva as Cleopatra Leontyne Price |
| #6546, aired 2013-02-18 | 1960s BLACK AMERICA $2,500 (Daily Double): In March 1964 he broke with the Nation of Islam Malcolm X |
| #6486, aired 2012-11-26 | BLACK'S LAW DICTIONARY DEFINITIONS $400: "The unlawful killing of a human being without malice aforethought", it may be involuntary manslaughter |
| #6486, aired 2012-11-26 | BLACK'S LAW DICTIONARY DEFINITIONS $1200: The "state of being morally abhorrent or socially taboo" in depicting sex, such as in pornography obscene (or obscenity) |
| #6486, aired 2012-11-26 | BLACK'S LAW DICTIONARY DEFINITIONS $1600: "Testimony that is given by a witness who relates not what he or she knows personally, but what others have said" hearsay |
| #6486, aired 2012-11-26 | BLACK'S LAW DICTIONARY DEFINITIONS $2000: This circumstance "reduces the degree of culpability and thus may reduce the damages... or the punishment" mitigating (or extenuating circumstances) |
| #6486, aired 2012-11-26 | BLACK'S LAW DICTIONARY DEFINITIONS $8,000 (Daily Double): "A defamatory assertion expressed in a transitory form, especially speech" slander |
| #6379, aired 2012-05-17 | FADE TO "BLACK" $200: Term for films like "Catch-22" & "Dr. Strangelove", which juxtapose morbid elements with farce black comedies |
| #6379, aired 2012-05-17 | FADE TO "BLACK" $400: It's not church bells but "Hells Bells" that opens this AC/DC album Back in Black |
| #6379, aired 2012-05-17 | FADE TO "BLACK" $600: Queen Anne's Revenge was this pirate's ship Blackbeard |
| #6379, aired 2012-05-17 | FADE TO "BLACK" $800: The Siksika are part of this Native American Confederacy the Blackfeet |
| #6353, aired 2012-04-11 | BASIC BLACK $200: Like a high rank in martial arts, it's the name given to the rich farmlands of central Alabama a Black Belt |
| #6353, aired 2012-04-11 | BASIC BLACK $400: 2 of these large black birds were Odin's messengers ravens |
| #6353, aired 2012-04-11 | BASIC BLACK $600: In 1347 this scourge reached Constantinople, killing thousands Black Death |
| #6353, aired 2012-04-11 | BASIC BLACK $800: One theory says this nursery rhyme began as a lament at paying 1/3 of one's income each to one's lord & the church "Baa, Baa, Black Sheep" |
| #6353, aired 2012-04-11 | BASIC BLACK $1000: In 1947 the body of Elizabeth Short, known as this, was found on Norton Avenue in Los Angeles the Black Dahlia |
| #6318, aired 2012-02-22 | FEBRUARY IS BLACK HISTORY MONTH $400: In February 1977 Clifford Alexander became the first black secretary of this oldest U.S. military branch the Army |
| #6318, aired 2012-02-22 | FEBRUARY IS BLACK HISTORY MONTH $1200: On Feb. 15, 1804 New Jersey became the last northern state to do this outlaw slavery |
| #6318, aired 2012-02-22 | FEBRUARY IS BLACK HISTORY MONTH $1600: Feb. 1948 riots in Accra sparked a movement that led to this country's becoming one of Africa's first to boot the colonists Ghana |
| #6318, aired 2012-02-22 | FEBRUARY IS BLACK HISTORY MONTH $2000: At a Feb. 1957 meeting a civil rights group chose this 3-word name; "Christian" was added later in the year Southern Leadership Conference |
| #6318, aired 2012-02-22 | FEBRUARY IS BLACK HISTORY MONTH $2,400 (Daily Double): A vessel called this historic ship "of Liberia" left the U.S. in February 1820 carrying free blacks back to Africa the Mayflower |
| #6193, aired 2011-07-13 | THE CONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS $200: A founders photo includes one representative who couldn't actually vote in Congress - Walter Fauntroy, the first elected delegate from here Washington, D.C. |
| #6193, aired 2011-07-13 | THE CONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS $400: The CBC's fight against this overseas system of segregation included sponsoring a landmark 1986 act apartheid |
| #6193, aired 2011-07-13 | THE CONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS $600: The CBC led the push for the establishment of this federal holiday, signed into law by President Reagan in 1983 Martin Luther King Day |
| #6193, aired 2011-07-13 | THE CONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS $800: The CBC set up a Brain Trust for this kind of "justice" to make sure toxic dumps aren't foisted on minority areas environmental justice |
| #6193, aired 2011-07-13 | THE CONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS $1000: In 2011 this Georgia congressman, who was beaten on a 1965 civil rights march, received the Medal of Freedom John Lewis |
| #5938, aired 2010-06-09 | WHAT'S "BLACK" & "WHITE"? $200: In Las Vegas, I tell the dealer to "hit me" when I want another card in this game blackjack |
| #5938, aired 2010-06-09 | WHAT'S "BLACK" & "WHITE"? $400: Embezzlement, tax evasion & mail fraud are all examples of this type of crime white-collar |
| #5938, aired 2010-06-09 | WHAT'S "BLACK" & "WHITE"? $600: Songs featured on it include "Dear Prudence" & "Happiness is a Warm Gun" the "White Album" |
| #5938, aired 2010-06-09 | WHAT'S "BLACK" & "WHITE"? $800: Thanks to a group of science students, in 2006 this largest mammal of Alabama became the state's official mammal the black bear |
| #5938, aired 2010-06-09 | WHAT'S "BLACK" & "WHITE"? $1000: Expression meaning an unwanted possession that's hard to get rid of a white elephant |
| #5864, aired 2010-02-25 | BLACK BIRD $400: One of the world's largest birds, this California avian can glide as far as 10 miles without beating its wings a condor |
| #5864, aired 2010-02-25 | BLACK BIRD $1200: Really more of a scavenger, this beautiful bird was turned into a thief by Rossini the magpie |
| #5864, aired 2010-02-25 | BLACK BIRD $1600: The razorbill, seen here, is a member of this flightless family of which the great one went extinct around 1844 the auk |
| #5864, aired 2010-02-25 | BLACK BIRD $2000: You crazy old guy, it's the American variety of this 4-letter waterfowl a coot |
| #5812, aired 2009-12-15 | IN BLACK'S LAW DICTIONARY $200: "The malicious burning of someone else's dwelling house or outhouse" (glad the outhouse is protected, too) arson |
| #5812, aired 2009-12-15 | IN BLACK'S LAW DICTIONARY $400: "The fact of having or holding property in one's power" (it's not 9/10 of Black's, it's only 1 entry) possession |
| #5812, aired 2009-12-15 | IN BLACK'S LAW DICTIONARY $600: This 3-word term is an "unpreventable event caused exclusively by forces of nature" act of God |
| #5812, aired 2009-12-15 | IN BLACK'S LAW DICTIONARY $800: "An accused person's formal response... to a criminal charge" a plea |
| #5812, aired 2009-12-15 | IN BLACK'S LAW DICTIONARY $1000: "The initial step in... prosecution whereby the defendant is brought before the court to hear the charges" an arraignment |
| #5796, aired 2009-11-23 | CURRENT BLACK PRESIDENTS $200: Africa's oldest democracy, this nation headed by Pres. Ian Khama is mainly made up of the Tswana people Botswana |
| #5796, aired 2009-11-23 | CURRENT BLACK PRESIDENTS $400: Taking over from his assassinated father in 2001, Joseph Kabila is the president of this country abbreviated D.R.C. the Democratic Republic of the Congo |
| #5796, aired 2009-11-23 | CURRENT BLACK PRESIDENTS $600 (Daily Double): President Laurent Gbagbo heads this country that goes by its French name most of the time Côte d'Ivoire (the Ivory Coast) |
| #5796, aired 2009-11-23 | CURRENT BLACK PRESIDENTS $600: Troubles with neighboring Somalia & Eritrea surely occupy President Girma Woldegiorgis of this country Ethiopia |
| #5796, aired 2009-11-23 | CURRENT BLACK PRESIDENTS $1000: President Amadou Toure has led this Saharan nation with a 4-letter name since 2002 Mali |
| #5397, aired 2008-02-12 | BLACK HISTORY MONTH $400: Melville said this abolitionist who was hanged in Charlestown, Va. in 1859 was "the meteor of the war" John Brown |
| #5397, aired 2008-02-12 | BLACK HISTORY MONTH $800: Jackie Robinson broke baseball's color line in 1947 when he was signed by this team the Dodgers |
| #5397, aired 2008-02-12 | BLACK HISTORY MONTH $1200: Harlem had one of these literary & cultural rebirths in the '20s & '30s renaissance |
| #5397, aired 2008-02-12 | BLACK HISTORY MONTH $1600: Edward & Burghardt were the middle names of this organizer of the NAACP (W.E.B.) Du Bois |
| #5397, aired 2008-02-12 | BLACK HISTORY MONTH $2000: In 1957 Martin Luther King helped establish this religious organization, the SCLC Southern Christian Leadership Conference |
| #5379, aired 2008-01-17 | BLACK HOLES $400: In black holes this force is so strong that not even light can escape gravity |
| #5379, aired 2008-01-17 | BLACK HOLES $800: Micro black holes are believed to have been formed by this primordial event at the beginning of the universe Big Bang |
| #5379, aired 2008-01-17 | BLACK HOLES $1200: Black holes are thought to emit a weak form of radiation named for this physicist Stephen Hawking |
| #5379, aired 2008-01-17 | BLACK HOLES $1600: In science fiction stories, black holes are often gateways to these vermiform travel tubes wormholes |
| #5379, aired 2008-01-17 | BLACK HOLES $2000: This "horizon" is the gravitational point of no return in a black hole event horizon |
| #5332, aired 2007-11-13 | IT'S ALL BLACK & WHITE TO ME $200: It's black & white & eats about 80 pounds of bamboo shoots a day a panda bear |
| #5332, aired 2007-11-13 | IT'S ALL BLACK & WHITE TO ME $400: Born in South Africa, this Sisters of Notre Dame nun wears her habit to host TV shows on art Sister Wendy |
| #5332, aired 2007-11-13 | IT'S ALL BLACK & WHITE TO ME $800: "My fellow Americans", this black & white cocker spaniel gave its name to a 1952 speech Checkers |
| #5332, aired 2007-11-13 | IT'S ALL BLACK & WHITE TO ME $1000: An African name for this monkey that sits in trees as if in prayer means "messenger of the gods" the colobus |
| #5332, aired 2007-11-13 | IT'S ALL BLACK & WHITE TO ME $2,000 (Daily Double): Famous for his B&W images used in psychology, as a youth he was named "Kleck", German for "inkblot" (Hermann) Rorschach |
| #5305, aired 2007-10-05 | BLACK IS BACK $400: The ancient Greeks called this geographical feature Pontos Axeinos, Axeinos meaning "inhospitable" the Black Sea |
| #5305, aired 2007-10-05 | BLACK IS BACK $800: The "Black Spot" is a dreaded summons handed out by pirates in this 1883 Robert Louis Stevenson tale Treasure Island |
| #5305, aired 2007-10-05 | BLACK IS BACK $1200: Seen here, it's considered one of the world's deadliest creatures the black mamba |
| #5305, aired 2007-10-05 | BLACK IS BACK $1600: The 1840 Penny Black was the first official one of these a postage stamp |
| #5305, aired 2007-10-05 | BLACK IS BACK $2000: Known as the "Black Prince", he died before he could become king himself, but he did father Richard II Edward |
| #5144, aired 2007-01-11 | "BLACK" & "WHITE" MOVIES $400: Linda Fiorentino became Agent L in this 1997 film Men in Black |
| #5144, aired 2007-01-11 | "BLACK" & "WHITE" MOVIES $800: Wesley Snipes has this piece of sports wisdom for Woody Harrelson, the title of a 1992 film White Men Can't Jump |
| #5144, aired 2007-01-11 | "BLACK" & "WHITE" MOVIES $1200: Jennifer Jason Leigh was the roommate from hell in this 1992 flick Single White Female |
| #5144, aired 2007-01-11 | "BLACK" & "WHITE" MOVIES $1600: This classic 1954 horror film about a humanoid amphibian monster practically saved Universal from bankruptcy Creature from the Black Lagoon |
| #5050, aired 2006-07-21 | BACK IN "BLACK" $200: You won't need 21 guesses to name this rhyming type of short, leather-covered club a blackjack |
| #5050, aired 2006-07-21 | BACK IN "BLACK" $400: The scientific name of this medium-sized animal is Ursus americanus, if "medium-sized" means weighing up to 600 lbs. a black bear |
| #5050, aired 2006-07-21 | BACK IN "BLACK" $600: Theoretically, its gravitational field is so intense that no electromagnetic radiation can escape a black hole |
| #5050, aired 2006-07-21 | BACK IN "BLACK" $800: Ex-LAPD detective Steve Hodel thinks his own father killed Elizabeth Short, nicknamed this the "Black Dahlia" |
| #5050, aired 2006-07-21 | BACK IN "BLACK" $1000: Churchill called his case of depression this animal the black dog |
| #5026, aired 2006-06-19 | PAINT IT BLACK $200: It's the lucrative product referred to by the slang term "black gold" oil |
| #5026, aired 2006-06-19 | PAINT IT BLACK $400: American feathery friend of the Icteridae family, such as the red-winged type a blackbird |
| #5026, aired 2006-06-19 | PAINT IT BLACK $600: The Black Hills are an isolated, eroded mountain region in the western part of this state South Dakota |
| #5026, aired 2006-06-19 | PAINT IT BLACK $800: Edward, the son of Edward III of England, was known by this dark sobriquet the Black Prince |
| #5026, aired 2006-06-19 | PAINT IT BLACK $1000: This river forms the southern & western borders of Germany's Black Forest region the Rhine |
| #4801, aired 2005-06-20 | BLACK & WHITE CINEMA $200: The Bates Motel is the location of the intrigue in this thriller from 1960 Psycho |
| #4801, aired 2005-06-20 | BLACK & WHITE CINEMA $400: In the 1998 movie starring Tobey Maguire, black & white characters begin living very colorful lives Pleasantville |
| #4801, aired 2005-06-20 | BLACK & WHITE CINEMA $600: It's the 1925 black & white classic of Soviet cinema seen here (The Battleship) Potemkin |
| #4801, aired 2005-06-20 | BLACK & WHITE CINEMA $800: This European director sealed his reputation with black & white classics like "Persona" & "The Seventh Seal" (Ingmar) Bergman |
| #4801, aired 2005-06-20 | BLACK & WHITE CINEMA $1000: Family name of the creators of the 1895 treasure seen here Lumière |
| #4717, aired 2005-02-22 | MY LITTLE BLACK BOOK $200: There's Beth, Amy, Meg (I should give her a call)--all I'm missing from the "Little Women" is her Jo |
| #4717, aired 2005-02-22 | MY LITTLE BLACK BOOK $400: This woman filed under "S" for her first name certainly likes the oloroso type of the wine of the same name Sherry |
| #4717, aired 2005-02-22 | MY LITTLE BLACK BOOK $600: From the meaning of her name, it makes sense that this daughter of rabid "Gone with the Wind" fans always wore black Melanie |
| #4717, aired 2005-02-22 | MY LITTLE BLACK BOOK $1000: Her Spanish name means "mercy", but she didn't show me any as she "drove" me crazy Mercedes |
| #4717, aired 2005-02-22 | MY LITTLE BLACK BOOK $3,400 (Daily Double): W is for this girl I once took to the Madison Avenue museum of the same name Whitney |
| #4706, aired 2005-02-07 | BLACK HISTORY MONTH $400: In September 2004 she made history on TV by giving a brand new car to each member of her audience Oprah (Winfrey) |
| #4706, aired 2005-02-07 | BLACK HISTORY MONTH $800: Kweisi Mfume left the House of Representatives to head this civil rights organization in February 1996 the NAACP |
| #4706, aired 2005-02-07 | BLACK HISTORY MONTH $1200: The army's last black regiment, the 24th infantry, was disbanded in October 1951, during this war the Korean War |
| #4706, aired 2005-02-07 | BLACK HISTORY MONTH $1600: In May 1954, in the case of this family v. the Board of Education, segregation in school was ruled unconstitutional Brown |
| #4706, aired 2005-02-07 | BLACK HISTORY MONTH $2000: In July 1881 this famous college opened in Alabama with Booker T. Washington as its first principal Tuskegee |
| #4578, aired 2004-06-30 | BLACK & WHITE TV $200: Sunset Strip address of detectives Stu Bailey & Jeff Spencer 77 |
| #4578, aired 2004-06-30 | BLACK & WHITE TV $400: This CBS game show that first hit the air in 1955 gave away $1,000,000 in its first 17 months The $64,000 Question |
| #4578, aired 2004-06-30 | BLACK & WHITE TV $600: For years "Gunsmoke" & this Western about folks headin' west were the No. 1 & 2 shows on TV Wagon Train |
| #4578, aired 2004-06-30 | BLACK & WHITE TV $800: In 1951 this Danish pianist with a sense of the absurd had his own show on NBC Victor Borge |
| #4578, aired 2004-06-30 | BLACK & WHITE TV $1000: It's not an Italian white wine, it's a cute Italian mouse often featured on "The Ed Sullivan Show" Topo Gigio |
| #4527, aired 2004-04-20 | BACK IN "BLACK" $200: Put the hammer down on this repairer of horseshoes blacksmith |
| #4527, aired 2004-04-20 | BACK IN "BLACK" $400: Thorny bush of the rose family with small purplish fruits blackberry |
| #4527, aired 2004-04-20 | BACK IN "BLACK" $600: From an item once used as a ballot, it means to exclude someone socially, or vote against him for membership blackball |
| #4527, aired 2004-04-20 | BACK IN "BLACK" $800: A road surface such as asphalt blacktop |
| #4527, aired 2004-04-20 | BACK IN "BLACK" $1000: Fashionable nickname for Italy's Fascists the Blackshirts |
| #4471, aired 2004-02-02 | NOTED BLACK AMERICANS $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew is holding an aluminum bat.) The first national winner of Hillerich & Bradsby's Silver Bat Award in 1949 was this Dodger second baseman Jackie Robinson |
| #4471, aired 2004-02-02 | NOTED BLACK AMERICANS $800: On Dec. 1st, 1955, 4 blacks were asked to move to the back of the bus in Montgomery; 3 did, she didn't Rosa Parks |
| #4471, aired 2004-02-02 | NOTED BLACK AMERICANS $1200: This big band leader won 3 Grammys for his work on the 1959 courtroom drama "Anatomy of a Murder" Duke Ellington |
| #4471, aired 2004-02-02 | NOTED BLACK AMERICANS $1600: The publisher of such abolitionist papers as North Star & New National Era, he later became a marshall in D.C. Frederick Douglass |
| #4471, aired 2004-02-02 | NOTED BLACK AMERICANS $2000: A junior high school in Harvey, Illinois is named for this "In the Mecca" poet Gwendolyn Brooks |
| #4125, aired 2002-07-05 | MEN IN BLACK $200: (Sarah is behind the scenes of Men in Black II.) The tagline of "Men in Black" was "Protecting the earth from" this "the scum of the universe" |
| #4125, aired 2002-07-05 | MEN IN BLACK $400: Women in the "Men in Black" films include Lara Flynn Boyle & this "Last Seduction" star Linda Fiorentino |
| #4125, aired 2002-07-05 | MEN IN BLACK $600: (Jimmy is behind the scenes of Men in Black II.) I'm in the De-Neuralyzer chair from MiB II. In the first movie, the neuralyzers did this to witnesses of aliens removed their memories |
| #4125, aired 2002-07-05 | MEN IN BLACK $800: Featured in "Men in Black" parts 1 & 2, Frank is this type of dog, also slang for a prizefighter a pug |
| #4125, aired 2002-07-05 | MEN IN BLACK $1000: (Sarah is behind the scenes of Men in Black II.) This director of the "Men in Black" movies also directed Will Smith in "Wild Wild West" Barry Sonnenfeld |
| #4107, aired 2002-06-11 | "BLACK" OR "WHITE" $200: Name shared by a Sauk chief famous for his war & a U.S. military helicopter Black Hawk |
| #4107, aired 2002-06-11 | "BLACK" OR "WHITE" $400: This "Golden Girl" had her own show in 1958 & 1977 & in 1999 became part of the cast of "Ladies Man" Betty White |
| #4107, aired 2002-06-11 | "BLACK" OR "WHITE" $600: People have asked why the whole airplane isn't made out of the same material as this "indestructible" device the black box |
| #4107, aired 2002-06-11 | "BLACK" OR "WHITE" $800: John Archibald Wheeler coined this term in the '60s for a collapsed star so dense, no light can escape it black hole |
| #4107, aired 2002-06-11 | "BLACK" OR "WHITE" $1000: Famous landmark composed of chalk in the county of Kent in England the White Cliffs of Dover |
| #4042, aired 2002-03-12 | PAINT IT "BLACK" $400: The NTSB could tell you it's also known as a flight recorder a black box |
| #4042, aired 2002-03-12 | PAINT IT "BLACK" $800: Henry Rollins was the longtime frontman of this punk rock band Black Flag |
| #4042, aired 2002-03-12 | PAINT IT "BLACK" $1200: When I was a bachelor, it was where I kept all my hottest phone numbers your little black book |
| #4042, aired 2002-03-12 | PAINT IT "BLACK" $1600: Infamous nickname of the 8 men banned from pro baseball for a 1919 incident the Black Sox |
| #4042, aired 2002-03-12 | PAINT IT "BLACK" $5,000 (Daily Double): Famous nickname of the eldest son of England's King Edward III the Black Prince |
| #3920, aired 2001-09-21 | BLACK FIRSTS $200: In 1999 Maurice Ashley became the first black American international grandmaster in this chess |
| #3920, aired 2001-09-21 | BLACK FIRSTS $400: In 1888 William Hunton became the 1st black full-time sec. of this organization where "It's fun to stay" YMCA |
| #3920, aired 2001-09-21 | BLACK FIRSTS $600: Meeting Edith Jones, the first black to attend the Univ. of Ark. Medical School, inspired this later surgeon-general Joycelyn Elders |
| #3920, aired 2001-09-21 | BLACK FIRSTS $800: She appeared in over 300 films & was the first black actress to win an Oscar Hattie McDaniel |
| #3920, aired 2001-09-21 | BLACK FIRSTS $1000: She was not the first African-American in the Texas Senate, but she was the first African-American woman there Barbara Jordan |
| #3904, aired 2001-07-19 | BLACK IN HISTORY $100: They're what usually passed the Black Death from rats to humans fleas |
| #3904, aired 2001-07-19 | BLACK IN HISTORY $200: It was from the color of this that Edward of Woodstock got the nickname "The Black Prince" his armor |
| #3904, aired 2001-07-19 | BLACK IN HISTORY $300: This star of "Susannah of the Mounties" was later U.S. Ambassador to Ghana Shirley Temple Black |
| #3904, aired 2001-07-19 | BLACK IN HISTORY $400: In the War of 1812 this Sauk chief who later got his own war fought with the British against the double-dealing U.S. Black Hawk |
| #3904, aired 2001-07-19 | BLACK IN HISTORY $500: The Black Dragon Society aided in Japan's seizure of this Chinese region in 1931 Manchuria |
| #3894, aired 2001-07-05 | BLACK AMERICANS $200: In October 1989, at age 52, he became the youngest man ever to serve as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Colin Powell |
| #3894, aired 2001-07-05 | BLACK AMERICANS $400: His first Oscar nomination was for playing escaped convict Noah Cullen in "The Defiant Ones" Sidney Poitier |
| #3894, aired 2001-07-05 | BLACK AMERICANS $600: Madame C.J. Walker became the USA's first black female millionaire with a method of doing this to hair straightening |
| #3894, aired 2001-07-05 | BLACK AMERICANS $800: This poet was born Marguerite Johnson in St. Louis, Missouri on April 4, 1928 Maya Angelou |
| #3894, aired 2001-07-05 | BLACK AMERICANS $1000: In May 1851 she gave her most famous speech, "Ain't I a Woman?", to a women's rights convention in Akron Sojourner Truth |
| #3858, aired 2001-05-16 | BLACK HISTORY MONTHS $200: In November 1934 Arthur Mitchell became the first black person elected to Congress from this party Democratic |
| #3858, aired 2001-05-16 | BLACK HISTORY MONTHS $400: Before Rosa Parks there was Irene Morgan, who wouldn't move on an interstate one of these in July 1944 Bus (Greyhound) |
| #3858, aired 2001-05-16 | BLACK HISTORY MONTHS $600: Autherine Lucy, this Tuscaloosa school's first black student, was admitted & expelled in February 1956 University of Alabama |
| #3858, aired 2001-05-16 | BLACK HISTORY MONTHS $1,000 (Daily Double): The 19th of this month is celebrated as the date Texas slaves learned of their freedom in 1865 June (Juneteenth) |
| #3858, aired 2001-05-16 | BLACK HISTORY MONTHS $1000: In January 1955 this great contralto integrated the Metropolitan Opera Marian Anderson |
| #3812, aired 2001-03-13 | BLACK & WHITE $200: The black & white stripes on the endangered Grevy's species of this are narrow & closely spaced Zebra |
| #3812, aired 2001-03-13 | BLACK & WHITE $400: This black & white carnivore can get you even if you're standing 10 feet behind it Skunk |
| #3812, aired 2001-03-13 | BLACK & WHITE $600: Founded in 1905, the DCA claims to have written the "official" book of this dog breed Dalmatian |
| #3812, aired 2001-03-13 | BLACK & WHITE $800 (Daily Double): Sea World San Diego's encounter for these has about 400 of them in a 25-degree indoor habitat penguins |
| #3812, aired 2001-03-13 | BLACK & WHITE $1000: These spiral-tusked whales are a mottled black & white Narwhals |
| #3645, aired 2000-06-09 | NOTABLE BLACK WOMEN $200: The "Mother of the Civil Rights Movement", she was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1993 Rosa Parks |
| #3645, aired 2000-06-09 | NOTABLE BLACK WOMEN $400: "God Bless the Child" & God bless this blues singer who co-wrote the song Billie Holiday |
| #3645, aired 2000-06-09 | NOTABLE BLACK WOMEN $600: A powerful political figure, Maxine Waters has represented this state in Congress since 1991 California |
| #3645, aired 2000-06-09 | NOTABLE BLACK WOMEN $800: Pictured here on a stamp, she was the first black woman to speak publicly against slavery--honest!: Sojourner Truth |
| #3645, aired 2000-06-09 | NOTABLE BLACK WOMEN $1000: 6 years after her 1957 Wimbledon win, this tennis great turned pro golfer Althea Gibson |
| #3626, aired 2000-05-15 | "BLACK" & "WHITE" FILMS $200: Woody Harrelson hustled basketball games while Rosie Perez won big on "Jeopardy!" in this comedy White Men Can't Jump |
| #3626, aired 2000-05-15 | "BLACK" & "WHITE" FILMS $400: It's the "monster" hit seen here: [video clue] The Creature From The Black Lagoon |
| #3626, aired 2000-05-15 | "BLACK" & "WHITE" FILMS $600: A terrorist group plots to blow up the Super Bowl in this 1977 flick Black Sunday |
| #3626, aired 2000-05-15 | "BLACK" & "WHITE" FILMS $800: Jennifer Jason Leigh played the roommate from hell in this 1992 thriller Single White Female |
| #3626, aired 2000-05-15 | "BLACK" & "WHITE" FILMS $1000: Cops Michael Douglas & Andy Garcia tangle with the Japanese mafia in this 1989 film Black Rain |
| #3558, aired 2000-02-09 | BLACK AMERICAN HISTORY $200: An 1879 mass movement of Southern blacks to the West was known by this Biblical name The Exodus |
| #3558, aired 2000-02-09 | BLACK AMERICAN HISTORY $400: Common name of the historic 1963 event seen here: March on Washington, D.C. |
| #3558, aired 2000-02-09 | BLACK AMERICAN HISTORY $800: Believed to be part black & part Native American, he was a leader & fatality in the 1770 Boston Massacre Crispus Attucks |
| #3558, aired 2000-02-09 | BLACK AMERICAN HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): This organization was founded in 1944 after Tuskegee's president suggested pooling schools' money United Negro College Fund |
| #3558, aired 2000-02-09 | BLACK AMERICAN HISTORY $1000: This important black church was formally organized in 1816 with Richard Allen as its first bishop African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME) |
| #3523, aired 1999-12-22 | BLACK AMERICANS $100: In 1940 he won the NCAA title in the broad jump; 7 years later, he joined the Brooklyn Dodgers Jackie Robinson |
| #3523, aired 1999-12-22 | BLACK AMERICANS $200: In 1896 he became director of agriculture at the Tuskegee Institute George Washington Carver |
| #3523, aired 1999-12-22 | BLACK AMERICANS $300: In 1952 she made her opera debut in "Four Saints in Three Acts", which led to her playing Bess in "Porgy and Bess" Leontyne Price |
| #3523, aired 1999-12-22 | BLACK AMERICANS $400: On March 11, 1959 her "A Raisin in the Sun" became the first play on Broadway written by a black woman Lorraine Hansberry |
| #3523, aired 1999-12-22 | BLACK AMERICANS $500: Robert Peary's companion on several Arctic trips, he wrote the 1912 book "A Negro Explorer at the North Pole" Matthew Henson |
| #3499, aired 1999-11-18 | MOVIES IN BLACK & WHITE $200: He romances 17-year-old Mariel Hemingway in his 1979 movie "Manhattan" Woody Allen |
| #3499, aired 1999-11-18 | MOVIES IN BLACK & WHITE $400: In 1949's "White Heat" he reaches the "top of the world" before blowing up James Cagney |
| #3499, aired 1999-11-18 | MOVIES IN BLACK & WHITE $600: In "Pride of the Yankees", Gary Cooper played this proud but ailing Yankee Lou Gehrig |
| #3499, aired 1999-11-18 | MOVIES IN BLACK & WHITE $800: Peter Graves spies on William Holden & the other G.I.s in this 1953 P.O.W. film Stalag 17 |
| #3499, aired 1999-11-18 | MOVIES IN BLACK & WHITE $1000: Oscar-winning political drama seen here
(with Broderick Crawford speaking) All the King's Men |
| #3479, aired 1999-10-21 | BLACK AMERICANS $100: In May 1999 he won the release of 3 U.S. soldiers held captive in Serbia Rev. Jesse Jackson |
| #3479, aired 1999-10-21 | BLACK AMERICANS $200: During the 1996 Summer Olympics, this boxer was given a new gold medal to replace one from 1960 Muhammad Ali (Cassius Clay) |
| #3479, aired 1999-10-21 | BLACK AMERICANS $300: In 1998 this poet & author made her directorial debut with the movie "Down in the Delta" Maya Angelou |
| #3479, aired 1999-10-21 | BLACK AMERICANS $400: It's no secret, she was the first black model featured on a Victoria's Secret catalog cover Tyra Banks |
| #3479, aired 1999-10-21 | BLACK AMERICANS $500: He formed his famous New York dance theater company in 1958 with a troupe of only 8 dancers Alvin Ailey |
| #3452, aired 1999-09-14 | BLACK HERITAGE STAMPS $200: On the 1999 stamp seen here, he's identified as El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz & by this more famous name: Malcolm X |
| #3452, aired 1999-09-14 | BLACK HERITAGE STAMPS $400: He's the entertainer seen here: Scott Joplin |
| #3452, aired 1999-09-14 | BLACK HERITAGE STAMPS $600: She appeared on a 1995 Civil War stamp & the 1978 Black Heritage stamp seen here: Harriet Tubman |
| #3452, aired 1999-09-14 | BLACK HERITAGE STAMPS $800: A. Philip Randolph unionized men in this job held by the men depicted on the stamp seen here: sleeping car porters |
| #3439, aired 1999-07-15 | FADE TO "BLACK" $100: This German region stretches between Karlsruhe & Basel Black Forest |
| #3439, aired 1999-07-15 | FADE TO "BLACK" $200: Cygnus X-1 offers scientists the best evidence of this stellar phenomenon Black hole |
| #3439, aired 1999-07-15 | FADE TO "BLACK" $300: Hoot mon! This breed of hornless cattle bears the name of a Scottish county where it originated Angus |
| #3439, aired 1999-07-15 | FADE TO "BLACK" $400: A member of the cobra family, this highly venomous African reptile is actually dark brown or gray most of its life a black mamba |
| #3439, aired 1999-07-15 | FADE TO "BLACK" $500: The Piegan & Blood tribes are constituent parts of this Native American nation found in Montana & Alberta Blackfeet |
| #3386, aired 1999-05-03 | BLACK AMERICANS $200: (Hi, I'm Star Jones of The View. One of my personal heroes is) this man (who) in 1989 was the first African-American to be named chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Colin Powell |
| #3386, aired 1999-05-03 | BLACK AMERICANS $400: In 1997 Will Smith "rapped" up the year by marrying this actress Jada Pinkett |
| #3386, aired 1999-05-03 | BLACK AMERICANS $600: This junior, the son of a famous activist & clergyman, represents parts of Chicago in Congress Jesse Jackson, Jr. |
| #3386, aired 1999-05-03 | BLACK AMERICANS $800: This "Invisible Man" author was perhaps destined to become a writer; he was named for Emerson Ralph Ellison |
| #3386, aired 1999-05-03 | BLACK AMERICANS $1000: While a member of the Robert Peary expedition in 1909, he became the first African-American to reach the North Pole Matthew Henson |
| #3354, aired 1999-03-18 | THE BLACK SEA $200: It's the largest peninsula jutting into the Black Sea the Crimean Peninsula |
| #3354, aired 1999-03-18 | THE BLACK SEA $400: The only nation on the Black Sea that shares its name with a U.S. state Georgia |
| #3354, aired 1999-03-18 | THE BLACK SEA $600: Sailing south from the Black Sea via the Bosporus, you'll pass through this sea before reaching the Mediterranean the Sea of Marmara |
| #3354, aired 1999-03-18 | THE BLACK SEA $800: Any 2 of the 4 large rivers beginning with the letter D that drain into the Black Sea (2 of) Danube, Dnieper, Dniester & Don |
| #3354, aired 1999-03-18 | THE BLACK SEA $1000: This Ukranian Black Sea port was the site of a Russian naval victory in 1905 Odessa |
| #3321, aired 1999-02-01 | BLACK HISTORY $100: Harry Truman ended it in the Army in 1948; the Supreme Court ended it in public schools in 1954 Segregation |
| #3321, aired 1999-02-01 | BLACK HISTORY $200: The black population of these U.S. areas, the destination of "white flight", doubled in the '70s & '80s Suburbs |
| #3321, aired 1999-02-01 | BLACK HISTORY $300: In 1829 journalist John Russwurm gave up on abolitionism & left the U.S. for this independent African nation Liberia |
| #3321, aired 1999-02-01 | BLACK HISTORY $400: This "conductor" usually carried a gun, not a whistle Harriet Tubman |
| #3321, aired 1999-02-01 | BLACK HISTORY $500: An Alabama city gave its name to this group of 9 youths falsely accused of rape in 1931 The Scottsboro Boys |
| #3307, aired 1999-01-12 | BLACK & WHITE CLASSICS $200: Stuck in the wilderness in "The Gold Rush", he boils his boot for dinner Charlie Chaplin |
| #3307, aired 1999-01-12 | BLACK & WHITE CLASSICS $400: In a 1944 classic, it's the title type of insurance Barbara Stanwyck takes out on her husband Double Indemnity |
| #3307, aired 1999-01-12 | BLACK & WHITE CLASSICS $800: In 1953 Audrey Hepburn won hearts as the runaway princess in this film Roman Holiday |
| #3307, aired 1999-01-12 | BLACK & WHITE CLASSICS $1000: This 1939 film includes the line "What do they know of heaven and hell, Cathy, who know nothing of life?" Wuthering Heights |
| #3307, aired 1999-01-12 | BLACK & WHITE CLASSICS $1,100 (Daily Double): (Hi, I'm Janet Leigh.) In "Psycho", it's the name of the establishment where I met my end the Bates Motel |
| #3284, aired 1998-12-10 | BLACK PROFILES IN COURAGE $200: In 1839 Joseph Cinque led a mutiny aboard this Spanish slave ship Amistad |
| #3284, aired 1998-12-10 | BLACK PROFILES IN COURAGE $600: This orator spoke publicly of his days as a slave to an 1841 anti-slavery meeting in Nantucket Frederick Douglass |
| #3284, aired 1998-12-10 | BLACK PROFILES IN COURAGE $800: During the revolution, James Armistead spied on this general, revealing his camp at Yorktown Lord Cornwallis |
| #3284, aired 1998-12-10 | BLACK PROFILES IN COURAGE $1000: Deputy U.S. marshal Bass Reeves brought outlaws back to trial in this Arkansas "fort" Fort Smith |
| #3284, aired 1998-12-10 | BLACK PROFILES IN COURAGE $2,000 (Daily Double): (Hi, I'm Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, author of Black Profiles In Courage.) The first known black man in the Americas, Pedro Alonzo Nino, was this man's navigator in 1492 Christopher Columbus |
| #3255, aired 1998-10-30 | THAT OLD "BLACK" MAGIC $100: It's the casino game in which you'd hear someone say "Hit me" blackjack |
| #3255, aired 1998-10-30 | THAT OLD "BLACK" MAGIC $200: It's the creature seen here who's particularly hard on her mate a black widow spider |
| #3255, aired 1998-10-30 | THAT OLD "BLACK" MAGIC $300: The Green Hornet's car, or Anna Sewell's horse Black Beauty |
| #3255, aired 1998-10-30 | THAT OLD "BLACK" MAGIC $400: Early in his career, Burt Reynolds played Quint Asper, one of these on "Gunsmoke" Blacksmith |
| #3255, aired 1998-10-30 | THAT OLD "BLACK" MAGIC $500: Yo-ho, yo-ho! His real name was believed to be Edward Teach Blackbeard |
| #3239, aired 1998-10-08 | BLACK AMERICANS $200: This author of "Soul On Ice" was minister of information for the Black Panthers in the 1960s Eldridge Cleaver |
| #3239, aired 1998-10-08 | BLACK AMERICANS $400: On March 31, 1870 in Perth Amboy in this state, Thomas Peterson became the first black to vote in the U.S. New Jersey |
| #3239, aired 1998-10-08 | BLACK AMERICANS $800: During World War II, this American-born dancer worked with the French resistance Josephine Baker |
| #3239, aired 1998-10-08 | BLACK AMERICANS $1000: In 1914 this "Father of the Blues" wrote his "St. Louis Blues" W.C. Handy |
| #3239, aired 1998-10-08 | BLACK AMERICANS $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1965 these 2 Nobel Peace Prize winners participated in the Selma to Montgomery March Martin Luther King & Ralph Bunche |
| #3174, aired 1998-05-21 | BLACK AMERICANS $100: In 1989, at age 52, he became the youngest man ever to serve as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Colin Powell |
| #3174, aired 1998-05-21 | BLACK AMERICANS $200: This Montgomery seamstress was thrown off a bus one other time before her famous Dec. 1, 1955 incident Rosa Parks |
| #3174, aired 1998-05-21 | BLACK AMERICANS $300: This author of "I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings" won the NAACP's Spingarn Medal in 1994 Maya Angelou |
| #3174, aired 1998-05-21 | BLACK AMERICANS $400: This TV talk show host, seen here, once served as a Navy intelligence officer Montel Williams |
| #3174, aired 1998-05-21 | BLACK AMERICANS $500: Once White House director of public liaison, she became the USA's first black Secretary of Labor in 1997 Alexis Herman |
| #3172, aired 1998-05-19 | MEN IN BLACK $200: This star of the film sang the theme song Will Smith |
| #3172, aired 1998-05-19 | MEN IN BLACK $400: The film was based on a comic from this conglomerate whose aliens include the Silver Surfer Marvel |
| #3172, aired 1998-05-19 | MEN IN BLACK $600: J's little weapon is named for this "noisy" insect cricket |
| #3172, aired 1998-05-19 | MEN IN BLACK $800: An alien on "Star Trek: Voyager", Jennifer Lien is the voice of this human MIB agent in the cartoon series "L" |
| #3172, aired 1998-05-19 | MEN IN BLACK $1000: Last, but not least, he's the head of MIB Chief Zed (played by Rip Torn) |
| #3035, aired 1997-11-07 | BLACK AMERICANS $200: This agricultural scientist treated polio victims with peanut oil & massages George Washington Carver |
| #3035, aired 1997-11-07 | BLACK AMERICANS $400: In 1994 this "Color Purple" author was recognized by California for being a "state treasure" Alice Walker |
| #3035, aired 1997-11-07 | BLACK AMERICANS $600: This abolitionist & publisher of "The North Star" ran a station of the Underground Railroad in Rochester Frederick Douglass |
| #3035, aired 1997-11-07 | BLACK AMERICANS $800: On Feb. 20, 1996 former Congressman Kweisi Mfume was sworn in as head of this organization NAACP |
| #3035, aired 1997-11-07 | BLACK AMERICANS $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1933 this future Supreme Court justice was first in his class at Howard University Law School Thurgood Marshall |
| #2919, aired 1997-04-17 | BLACK JOURNALISTS $200: This "60 Minutes" correspondent hosted "Street Stories" on CBS 1992-93 Ed Bradley |
| #2919, aired 1997-04-17 | BLACK JOURNALISTS $400: William Raspberry won a 1994 Pulitzer for his column in this D.C. newspaper The Washington Post |
| #2919, aired 1997-04-17 | BLACK JOURNALISTS $600: From 1910 to 1934 W.E.B. Du Bois edited Crisis, the magazine of this organization NAACP |
| #2919, aired 1997-04-17 | BLACK JOURNALISTS $700 (Daily Double): Clarence Page of the Chicago Tribune is a regular member of this G.E.-sponsored TV "group" The McLaughlin Group |
| #2919, aired 1997-04-17 | BLACK JOURNALISTS $1000: In 1983 Robert Maynard bought this northern California city's Tribune newspaper Oakland |
| #2916, aired 1997-04-14 | BLACK AMERICA $200: This queen of talk shows ranked among Ebony magazine's 15 Most Beautiful Black Women of 1996 Oprah Winfrey |
| #2916, aired 1997-04-14 | BLACK AMERICA $400: A statue of this late tennis star now stands on Monument Avenue in his hometown of Richmond, Virginia Arthur Ashe |
| #2916, aired 1997-04-14 | BLACK AMERICA $600: For President Clinton's 1st inauguration, she wrote & recited the poem "On The Pulse Of Morning" Maya Angelou |
| #2916, aired 1997-04-14 | BLACK AMERICA $800: In 1990 he took office as New York City's first black mayor David Dinkins |
| #2916, aired 1997-04-14 | BLACK AMERICA $1000: This bandleader whose theme was "One O'Clock Jump" was pictured on a 1996 postage stamp Count Basie |
| #2914, aired 1997-04-10 | BLACK AMERICANS $200: This one-time black Muslim leader was assassinated February 21, 1965 in New York City Malcolm X |
| #2914, aired 1997-04-10 | BLACK AMERICANS $400: This orator was born in 1817 in Tuckahoe, Maryland, the son of slave Harriet Bailey Frederick Douglass |
| #2914, aired 1997-04-10 | BLACK AMERICANS $600: This former surgeon general interned at the University of Minnesota Hospital Joycelyn Elders |
| #2914, aired 1997-04-10 | BLACK AMERICANS $800: In 1988 this novelist won a Pulitzer Prize for her book "Beloved" Toni Morrison |
| #2914, aired 1997-04-10 | BLACK AMERICANS $1000: This winner of the 1950 Nobel Peace Prize was a star on UCLA's basketball team in the 1920s Ralph Bunche |
| #2902, aired 1997-03-25 | "BLACK" & "WHITE" $100: The Executive Mansion White House |
| #2902, aired 1997-03-25 | "BLACK" & "WHITE" $200: It's the more familiar name for Ursus americanus Black bear |
| #2902, aired 1997-03-25 | "BLACK" & "WHITE" $300: 1 oz Kahlua, 2 oz. vodka & some milk or cream White Russian |
| #2902, aired 1997-03-25 | "BLACK" & "WHITE" $400: A 50' statue of this Sauk Indian chief stands beside the Rock River near Oregon, Illinois Black Hawk |
| #2902, aired 1997-03-25 | "BLACK" & "WHITE" $500: This yellow wildflower with a dark center is the state flower of Maryland Black-eyed Susan |
| #2883, aired 1997-02-26 | BLACK AMERICA $200: Ernest Morial was the first black mayor of this Louisiana city; his son Marc became mayor in 1994 New Orleans |
| #2883, aired 1997-02-26 | BLACK AMERICA $400: In 1908 he composed the "Fig Leaf Rag" Scott Joplin |
| #2883, aired 1997-02-26 | BLACK AMERICA $600: The Associated Press named him Male Athlete of the Year after he won 4 gold medals at the 1936 Olympics Jesse Owens |
| #2883, aired 1997-02-26 | BLACK AMERICA $800: He played Mookie in the film "Do The Right Thing", which he also wrote & directed Spike Lee |
| #2883, aired 1997-02-26 | BLACK AMERICA $1000: Ebony & Jet are among the magazines launched by this publisher John Johnson |
| #2868, aired 1997-02-05 | BLACK AMERICA $200: He's currently the only black justice on the Supreme Court Clarence Thomas |
| #2868, aired 1997-02-05 | BLACK AMERICA $400 (Daily Double): The modern civil rights movement began in 1955 when she refused to give up her seat on an Alabama bus Rosa Parks |
| #2868, aired 1997-02-05 | BLACK AMERICA $400: As TLC & Boyz II Men could tell you, it's singer-songwriter-producer Kenneth Edmonds' nickname "Babyface" |
| #2868, aired 1997-02-05 | BLACK AMERICA $600: This botanist donated his life savings to a research foundation at Tuskegee bearing his name George Washington Carver |
| #2868, aired 1997-02-05 | BLACK AMERICA $800: Arkansas' first woman director of the Department of Health, she became U.S. Surgeon General in 1993 Joycelyn Elders |
| #2835, aired 1996-12-20 | BLACK AMERICANS $200: At 6'5" this former Phoenix Suns player is the shortest ever to lead the NBA in rebounding Charles Barkley |
| #2835, aired 1996-12-20 | BLACK AMERICANS $400: In 1963 this future mayor became the first Black politician to win a seat on the L.A. city council (Tom) Bradley |
| #2835, aired 1996-12-20 | BLACK AMERICANS $600: This Underground Railroad conductor served as a spy for the Union in the Civil War Harriet Tubman |
| #2835, aired 1996-12-20 | BLACK AMERICANS $800: In 1888 a Boston monument was erected to honor this man & 4 others who died in the Boston Massacre Crispus Attucks |
| #2835, aired 1996-12-20 | BLACK AMERICANS $1000: This Illinois Democrat joined the Senate Judiciary Committee after the Clarence Thomas hearings Moseley-Braun |
| #2819, aired 1996-11-28 | BLACK AMERICA $100: In 1996 People Magazine named this "Courage Under Fire" star "The Sexiest Man Alive" Denzel Washington |
| #2819, aired 1996-11-28 | BLACK AMERICA $200: This Supreme Court justice was chairman of the Federal Equal Opportunity Commission from 1982 to 1990 Clarence Thomas |
| #2819, aired 1996-11-28 | BLACK AMERICA $300: The Tony-winning musical "Raisin" was based on this play by Lorraine Hansberry "A Raisin in the Sun" |
| #2819, aired 1996-11-28 | BLACK AMERICA $400: He leaped to the occasion at the '96 Summer Olympics, winning his fourth consecutive gold in the long jump Carl Lewis |
| #2819, aired 1996-11-28 | BLACK AMERICA $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1971 U Thant eulogized this U.N. undersecretary as "An international institution in his own right" Dr. Ralph Bunche |
| #2801, aired 1996-11-04 | BLACK ACTORS & ACTRESSES $200: In the 3 "Lethal Weapon" films, he played detective Roger Murtaugh Danny Glover |
| #2801, aired 1996-11-04 | BLACK ACTORS & ACTRESSES $400: He reprised his starring role as a teacher for the 1996 TV movie "To Sir with Love II" Sidney Poitier |
| #2801, aired 1996-11-04 | BLACK ACTORS & ACTRESSES $600: In 1995 he & "White Men Can't Jump" co-star Woody Harrelson hopped aboard the "Money Train" Wesley Snipes |
| #2801, aired 1996-11-04 | BLACK ACTORS & ACTRESSES $800: Her portrayals have included Betty Shabazz in "Malcolm X" & Tina Turner in "What's Love Got to Do with It?" Angela Bassett |
| #2801, aired 1996-11-04 | BLACK ACTORS & ACTRESSES $1000: He won critical acclaim as John Travolta's hit man partner in "Pulp Fiction" Samuel (L.) Jackson |
| #2779, aired 1996-10-03 | BLACK FIRSTS $200: In 1777 this "Green Mountain State" became the first to forbid slavery Vermont |
| #2779, aired 1996-10-03 | BLACK FIRSTS $400: The first medal won by a black athlete in the Winter Olympics was this figure skater's bronze in 1988 Debi Thomas |
| #2779, aired 1996-10-03 | BLACK FIRSTS $600: Robert C. Weaver, the first black Cabinet secretary was appointed Secretary of HUD in 1966 by this president LBJ, Lyndon Johnson |
| #2779, aired 1996-10-03 | BLACK FIRSTS $800: On Feb. 1, 1978 this 19th century heroine became the first black woman honored on a U.S. stamp Harriet Tubman |
| #2779, aired 1996-10-03 | BLACK FIRSTS $2,000 (Daily Double): This former Cleveland mayor, the first black elected mayor of a major U.S. city, died in 1996 (Carl) Stokes |
| #2767, aired 1996-09-17 | BLACK AMERICANS $200: In 1994 Beverly Harvard became this Georgia capital's first black female police chief Atlanta |
| #2767, aired 1996-09-17 | BLACK AMERICANS $400: Saying he'd not yet heard the "calling", this retired general declined to run for president in 1996 Colin Powell |
| #2767, aired 1996-09-17 | BLACK AMERICANS $600: On Feb. 2, 1996 these 2 M.J.s went head-to-head for the first time since the '91 NBA Finals Magic Johnson & Michael Jordan |
| #2767, aired 1996-09-17 | BLACK AMERICANS $800: He filled the Supreme Court seat vacated by Thurgood Marshall Clarence Thomas |
| #2767, aired 1996-09-17 | BLACK AMERICANS $1000: "Seven Guitars" is the seventh in a series of dramas by this "Piano Lesson" playwright August Wilson |
| #2730, aired 1996-06-14 | BLACK AMERICA $100: York, an expert hunter, accompanied this pair on their 1800s expedition Lewis and Clark |
| #2730, aired 1996-06-14 | BLACK AMERICA $200: 1995 marked the 30th anniversary of the civil rights march from Selma to this Alabama city Montgomery |
| #2730, aired 1996-06-14 | BLACK AMERICA $300: Duke Ellington first gained national attention while appearing at this famous Harlem nightclub the Cotton Club |
| #2730, aired 1996-06-14 | BLACK AMERICA $400: In 1869 the National Convention of Colored Men was established with this orator as its president Frederick Douglass |
| #2730, aired 1996-06-14 | BLACK AMERICA $500: A native of Chicago, she became the first black American woman elected to the Senate Carol Moseley Braun |
| #2660, aired 1996-03-08 | BLACK AMERICA $100: He played with the Indianapolis Clowns in the Negro League before hitting 755 home runs in the majors Hank Aaron |
| #2660, aired 1996-03-08 | BLACK AMERICA $200: Eldridge Cleaver served as this party's Minister of Information the Black Panthers |
| #2660, aired 1996-03-08 | BLACK AMERICA $300: In 1969 she wrote "My Life with Martin Luther King, Jr." Coretta Scott King |
| #2660, aired 1996-03-08 | BLACK AMERICA $400: It's the largest & one of the most influential civil rights groups in America The NAACP |
| #2660, aired 1996-03-08 | BLACK AMERICA $500: Chris Dickerson was the first Black Mr. America & she was the first Black Miss America Vanessa Williams |
| #2621, aired 1996-01-15 | MUSIC IN "BLACK" & "WHITE" $100: Marty Robbins wore it with "a pink carnation" a white sport coat |
| #2621, aired 1996-01-15 | MOVIES IN BLACK & WHITE $200: Peter Boyle played the monster assembled by Gene Wilder in this Mel Brooks B&W classic Young Frankenstein |
| #2621, aired 1996-01-15 | MUSIC IN "BLACK" & "WHITE" $200: In a 1942 hit, this "has me in its spell" that old black magic |
| #2621, aired 1996-01-15 | MUSIC IN "BLACK" & "WHITE" $300: In 1965, pianist Horst Jankowski took a walk up the charts with "A Walk In" this German location the Black Forest |
| #2621, aired 1996-01-15 | MOVIES IN BLACK & WHITE $400: Premiere magazine called this 1994 B&W film "the story of a transvestite schlockmeister" Ed Wood |
| #2621, aired 1996-01-15 | MUSIC IN "BLACK" & "WHITE" $400: Completes "The moon was all aglow and heaven was in your eyes, the night that you told me those..." little white lies |
| #2621, aired 1996-01-15 | MUSIC IN "BLACK" & "WHITE" $500: 1966 order from the Rolling Stones to an artist paint it black |
| #2621, aired 1996-01-15 | MOVIES IN BLACK & WHITE $600: This 1979 Woody Allen film featured Tisa Farrow, Mia's sister Manhattan |
| #2621, aired 1996-01-15 | MOVIES IN BLACK & WHITE $800: In Wim Wender's "Wings of Desire", these creatures saw the world in B&W angels |
| #2621, aired 1996-01-15 | MOVIES IN BLACK & WHITE $1000: This 1980 film about Jake LaMotta should ring a bell with you Raging Bull |
| #2593, aired 1995-12-06 | BLACK AMERICA $100: After 20 years in office, Tom Bradley retired in 1993 as mayor of this large city Los Angeles |
| #2593, aired 1995-12-06 | BLACK AMERICA $200: The book "The Black 100" ranks this civil rights leader as the most influential African-American who ever lived Dr. Martin Luther King |
| #2593, aired 1995-12-06 | BLACK AMERICA $300: He became a four-star general in 1989, the year he was named Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Colin Powell |
| #2593, aired 1995-12-06 | BLACK AMERICA $400: In 1964 he converted to Orthodox Islam & adopted the name El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz Malcolm X |
| #2593, aired 1995-12-06 | BLACK AMERICA $500: For the hundreds of slaves she led to freedom, she's nicknamed the "Moses" of her people Harriet Tubman |
| #2580, aired 1995-11-17 | BLACK AMERICANS $200: She's Jackie Joyner-Kersee's famous sister-in-law Florence Griffith Joyner |
| #2580, aired 1995-11-17 | BLACK AMERICANS $400: In 1877 this orator was appointed marshal for the District of Columbia Frederick Douglass |
| #2580, aired 1995-11-17 | BLACK AMERICANS $500 (Daily Double): The "Voice of Harlem"; he served in the House of Representatives from 1945-67 & 1969-1970 Adam Clayton Powell Jr. |
| #2580, aired 1995-11-17 | BLACK AMERICANS $600: In 1995 Ron Kirk was elected the first black mayor of this Texas city Dallas |
| #2580, aired 1995-11-17 | BLACK AMERICANS $800: This author of "Jazz" & "Tar Baby" was the first black American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature Toni Morrison |
| #2548, aired 1995-10-04 | BLACK AMERICANS $200: His 1984 hit "I Just Called To Say I Love You" was his first to reach No. 1 in both the U.S. & U.K. Stevie Wonder |
| #2548, aired 1995-10-04 | BLACK AMERICANS $400: This agriculturist's 1894 college thesis was entitled "Plants as Modified by Man" George Washington Carver |
| #2548, aired 1995-10-04 | BLACK AMERICANS $600: In 1973 this poet was nominated for a Tony for her role in the play "Look Away" Maya Angelou |
| #2548, aired 1995-10-04 | BLACK AMERICANS $800: In 1972 this Brooklyn congresswoman campaigned for the Democratic presidential nomination Shirley Chisholm |
| #2548, aired 1995-10-04 | BLACK AMERICANS $1000: He served as executive director of the National Urban League from 1972 to 1981 Vernon Jordan |
| #2546, aired 1995-10-02 | BLACK AMERICA $100: In 1876 former slaves honored this president with the Emancipation Statue in Washington, D.C. Abraham Lincoln |
| #2546, aired 1995-10-02 | BLACK AMERICA $200: This longtime L.A. mayor was the recipient of the 1984 Spingarn Medal (Tom) Bradley |
| #2546, aired 1995-10-02 | BLACK AMERICA $300: Abbreviated UNCF, it was founded in 1944 to coordinate fund-raising by private educational institutes the United Negro College Fund |
| #2546, aired 1995-10-02 | BLACK AMERICA $400: His ragtime opera "Treemonisha" didn't have its first full performance until 1972 Scott Joplin |
| #2546, aired 1995-10-02 | BLACK AMERICA $500 (Daily Double): In 1991 this former Congresswoman was appointed special counsel on ethics by the gov. of Texas Barbara Jordan |
| #2505, aired 1995-06-23 | BLACK AMERICA $200: In 1994 Chicago unveiled a bronze statue of this basketball star & his No. 23 jersey was retired Michael Jordan |
| #2505, aired 1995-06-23 | BLACK AMERICA $400: Among the Black heroes of this June 1775 battle near Boston were Peter Salem & Salem Poor The Battle of Bunker Hill |
| #2505, aired 1995-06-23 | BLACK AMERICA $600: In 1855 this famed orator published an autobiography, "My Bondage and My Freedom" Frederick Douglass |
| #2505, aired 1995-06-23 | BLACK AMERICA $800: This author of "I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings" was an editor of the African Review in Ghana in the 1960s Maya Angelou |
| #2505, aired 1995-06-23 | BLACK AMERICA $1000: Spelman College, America's oldest college for black women, was founded in this southern city in 1881 Atlanta |
| #2497, aired 1995-06-13 | BLACK FIRSTS $100: In 1875 at Churchill Downs, Black jockey Oliver Lewis, on Aristides, won the first running of this race the Kentucky Derby |
| #2497, aired 1995-06-13 | BLACK FIRSTS $200: George Washington Carver was the second Black on a U.S. stamp; he was the first Booker T. Washington |
| #2497, aired 1995-06-13 | BLACK FIRSTS $300: In 1624 at this settlement, William Tucker became the first Black born in England's American colonies Jamestown |
| #2497, aired 1995-06-13 | BLACK FIRSTS $400: In 1985 Lt. Commander Donnie Cochran became the first Black Navy pilot to fly with this elite squad the Blue Angels |
| #2497, aired 1995-06-13 | BLACK FIRSTS $500 (Daily Double): The first Black sorority, Alpha Kappa Alpha, was founded in 1908 at this Washington, D.C. university Howard |
| #2483, aired 1995-05-24 | BLACK AMERICA $200: With some electronic magic, she was able to record "Unforgettable" as a duet with her late father Natalie Cole |
| #2483, aired 1995-05-24 | BLACK AMERICA $400: In 1993, after 22 years, Don Cornelius stepped down as host of this music show Soul Train |
| #2483, aired 1995-05-24 | BLACK AMERICA $600: In 1991 this digest-sized magazine from the publisher of Ebony celebrated its 40th anniversary Jet |
| #2483, aired 1995-05-24 | BLACK AMERICA $1000: In 1987 sons of Robert Peary & of this Black explorer visited the U.S. from Greenland for the first time (Matthew) Henson |
| #2483, aired 1995-05-24 | BLACK AMERICA $2,000 (Daily Double): This author best known for his novel "Invisible Man" passed away in 1994 at age 80 Ralph Ellison |
| #2435, aired 1995-03-17 | BLACK AMERICANS $200: In 1993 this Phoenix Suns player was named the NBA's Most Valuable Player Charles Barkley |
| #2435, aired 1995-03-17 | BLACK AMERICANS $400: In 1968 this Black Panther Minister of Information published the book "Soul on Ice" Eldridge Cleaver |
| #2435, aired 1995-03-17 | BLACK AMERICANS $600: In 1955 she became the first black singer to perform opera on TV when she appeared in "Tosca" on NBC Leontyne Price |
| #2435, aired 1995-03-17 | BLACK AMERICANS $1000: On Aug. 30, 1983 he became the first black American astronaut to travel in space Guion Bluford, Jr. |
| #2435, aired 1995-03-17 | BLACK AMERICANS $1,800 (Daily Double): From 1955 to 1971, this statesman served as an undersecretary of the U.N. Ralph Bunche |
| #2356, aired 1994-11-28 | BLACK AMERICA $200: Louis Armstrong was nicknamed "Satchmo" & Leroy Paige was nicknamed this Satchel |
| #2356, aired 1994-11-28 | BLACK AMERICA $400: In 1961 W.E.B. Du Bois joined this political party the Communist Party |
| #2356, aired 1994-11-28 | BLACK AMERICA $600: His third wife, Margaret Murray, was director of the girls' programs at Tuskegee Booker T. Washington |
| #2356, aired 1994-11-28 | BLACK AMERICA $1000: After their 1909 expedition, Robert Peary forbade this man to give any lectures regarding it Matt Henson |
| #2356, aired 1994-11-28 | BLACK AMERICA $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1800 Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable left this city he founded on Lake Michigan & sold his land for 6,000 livres Chicago |
| #2346, aired 1994-11-14 | BLACK AMERICA $100: Ralph Bunche was the first black American to win the Nobel Peace Prize & this civil rights leader was second Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| #2346, aired 1994-11-14 | BLACK AMERICA $200: This state song of Virginia was written by black composer James A. Bland "Carry Me Back to Old Virginny" |
| #2346, aired 1994-11-14 | BLACK AMERICA $300: When he retired from the Supreme Court in 1991, Clarence Thomas was appointed to his seat Thurgood Marshall |
| #2346, aired 1994-11-14 | BLACK AMERICA $400: In 1957 she became the first black American athlete to win the Wimbledon singles Althea Gibson |
| #2346, aired 1994-11-14 | BLACK AMERICA $500: This "Beloved" author was born Chloe Anthony Wofford in 1931 Toni Morrison |
| #2324, aired 1994-10-13 | BLACK AMERICA $200: A former home of this "Roots" author in Henning, Tenn. is now a state historic site Alex Haley |
| #2324, aired 1994-10-13 | BLACK AMERICA $400: In 1994 this New Jersey-born boxer, the oldest man to win the heavyweight title, died at age 80 Jersey Joe Walcott |
| #2324, aired 1994-10-13 | BLACK AMERICA $600: In 1946 Judge William H. Hastie became the 1st Black governor of this U.S. possession in the Caribbean the Virgin Islands |
| #2324, aired 1994-10-13 | BLACK AMERICA $800: When Malcolm X joined the Black Muslims, he dropped this last name Little |
| #2324, aired 1994-10-13 | BLACK AMERICA $1,000 (Daily Double): She wrote the poems read by Janet Jackson in Poetic Justice" & also appeared in the film Maya Angelou |
| #2313, aired 1994-09-28 | "BLACK" & "WHITE" $100: Pirate Edward Teach Blackbeard |
| #2313, aired 1994-09-28 | "BLACK" & "WHITE" $200: This lowest grade of sugarcane molasses is what's left over after 3 boilings blackstrap |
| #2313, aired 1994-09-28 | "BLACK" & "WHITE" $300: In 1950 this future Supreme Court justice became resident counsel for the Mayo Clinic Harry Blackmun |
| #2313, aired 1994-09-28 | "BLACK" & "WHITE" $400: James Cagney's dying words in this 1949 film were "Made it, Ma! Top of the World!" White Heat |
| #2313, aired 1994-09-28 | "BLACK" & "WHITE" $500: This war named for a Sauk leader was the last U.S.-Indian conflict in the Northwest Territory the Black Hawk War |
| #2311, aired 1994-09-26 | BLACK AMERICA $100: In 1891 jockey Isaac Murphy became the first man to win this horse race 3 times the Kentucky Derby |
| #2311, aired 1994-09-26 | BLACK AMERICA $200: This sportscaster & brother of a morning TV personality covered the '94 Winter Olympics for CBS Greg Gumbel |
| #2311, aired 1994-09-26 | BLACK AMERICA $300: Originally named Araminta, this Underground Railroad "conductor" later adopted her mother's name Harriet Tubman |
| #2311, aired 1994-09-26 | BLACK AMERICA $400: 2 of America's most prestigious black colleges were founded in 1867: Morehouse & this one in Washington, D.C. Howard |
| #2311, aired 1994-09-26 | BLACK AMERICA $500: In 1994 Byron de la Beckwith received a life sentence for the 1963 murder of this Miss. civil rights leader Medgar Evers |
| #2288, aired 1994-07-13 | BLACK AMERICA $100: Her 1st novel, "The Third Life of Grange Copeland", was published 12 years before "The Color Purple" (Alice) Walker |
| #2288, aired 1994-07-13 | BLACK AMERICA $200: Countee Cullen's poetry made him one of the leaders of this Manhattan area's "Renaissance" Harlem |
| #2288, aired 1994-07-13 | BLACK AMERICA $300: Booker T. Washington founded an institute in this city in 1881 Tuskegee (Alabama) |
| #2288, aired 1994-07-13 | BLACK AMERICA $400: He was freed in 1857, 2 months after the Supreme Court made its famous decision Dred Scott |
| #2288, aired 1994-07-13 | BLACK AMERICA $500: In 1869 E. Bassett, the U.S.' 1st black diplomat, became minister to this country on Western Hispaniola Haiti |
| #2279, aired 1994-06-30 | BLACK AMERICA $200: Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, a Black trader, founded the settlement that later became this "Windy City" Chicago |
| #2279, aired 1994-06-30 | BLACK AMERICA $400: He was an editor for "Black Sports" magazine & sports director of KNBC before joining the "Today" show Bryant Gumbel |
| #2279, aired 1994-06-30 | BLACK AMERICA $600: In 1945 this educator became the 1st Black person elected to the Hall of Fame for Great Americans Booker T. Washington |
| #2279, aired 1994-06-30 | BLACK AMERICA $800: In 1986 she unseated Katarina Witt to become the world figure skating champion Debi Thomas |
| #2279, aired 1994-06-30 | BLACK AMERICA $1000: This Black Muslim minister born Louis Eugene Walcott once worked as a professional calypso singer Louis Farrakhan |
| #2264, aired 1994-06-09 | BLACK AMERICA $200: In September 1993 this chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff traded in his uniform for civilian clothes Colin Powell |
| #2264, aired 1994-06-09 | BLACK AMERICA $400: When in New York, you might take the "A" train to this composer's home, now a national historic landmark Duke Ellington |
| #2264, aired 1994-06-09 | BLACK AMERICA $600: James Armistead won his freedom & a pension by spying for this Frenchman during the Revolutionary War Lafayette |
| #2264, aired 1994-06-09 | BLACK AMERICA $800: In 1993 Benjamin Chavis Jr. succeeded Benjamin Hooks as head of this organization the NAACP |
| #2264, aired 1994-06-09 | BLACK AMERICA $1,000 (Daily Double): A major Detroit thoroughfare is named for this woman who sparked the civil rights movement in 1955 Rosa Parks |
| #2245, aired 1994-05-13 | BLACK AMERICA $200: In the race for the 1988 Dem. presidential nomination, he finished second to Michael Dukakis (Jesse) Jackson |
| #2245, aired 1994-05-13 | BLACK AMERICA $400: This actor earned an Oscar nomination for playing the title role in the 1992 film "Malcolm X" Denzel Washington |
| #2245, aired 1994-05-13 | BLACK AMERICA $600: In 1894 this agricultural scientist became the first black graduate of what's now Iowa State University George Washington Carver |
| #2245, aired 1994-05-13 | BLACK AMERICA $800: This Supreme Court justice began practicing law in 1933, after graduating from Howard University Thurgood Marshall |
| #2245, aired 1994-05-13 | BLACK AMERICA $1000: This abolitionist & editor of the North Star once served as recorder of deeds in Washington, D.C. (Frederick) Douglass |
| #2225, aired 1994-04-15 | BLACK AMERICA $100: In January 1993, for the first time, all 50 states observed the birthday of this slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| #2225, aired 1994-04-15 | BLACK AMERICA $200: In May 1993 Rita Dove became the first Black American to be named to this poetic post poet laureate |
| #2225, aired 1994-04-15 | BLACK AMERICA $300: In 1966 this future clergyman was chosen to head the Chicago Branch of Operation Breadbasket Jesse Jackson |
| #2225, aired 1994-04-15 | BLACK AMERICA $400: In a 1950 poll he was voted the greatest track star of the first half of the century Jesse Owens |
| #2225, aired 1994-04-15 | BLACK AMERICA $500: The monument on her grave reads: "The greatest blues singer in the world will never stop singing" Bessie Smith |
| #2221, aired 1994-04-11 | "BLACK" & "WHITE" $100: It can be a pirate flag or a card game where players try to get "21" blackjack |
| #2221, aired 1994-04-11 | "BLACK" & "WHITE" $200: From the color of polish, it's an old name for a shiner of shoes a bootblack |
| #2221, aired 1994-04-11 | "BLACK" & "WHITE" $300: Huey Newton was one of the founders of this party the Black Panther party |
| #2221, aired 1994-04-11 | "BLACK" & "WHITE" $400: This chess piece tells Alice, "The great art of riding is to keep--" & promptly falls over the White Knight |
| #2221, aired 1994-04-11 | "BLACK" & "WHITE" $500: This New York City architect was shot & killed in 1906 by a jealous husband Stanford White |
| #2217, aired 1994-04-05 | BLACK AMERICA $200: Lewis Latimer was an engineer for this inventor in the 1880s & wrote a book on his lighting system Edison |
| #2217, aired 1994-04-05 | BLACK AMERICA $400: In 1975 golfer Lee Elder became the first black to play in this major tournament in Augusta, Ga. The Masters |
| #2217, aired 1994-04-05 | BLACK AMERICA $600: In 1967 he resigned as America's 1st Black Solicitor General to become the 1st Black Supreme Court justice Thurgood Marshall |
| #2217, aired 1994-04-05 | BLACK AMERICA $1000: In 1985 Mississippi held a week-long celebration honoring this late author, a "Native Son" (Richard) Wright |
| #2217, aired 1994-04-05 | BLACK AMERICA $2,000 (Daily Double): "Toussaint L'Ouverture" a painting series by Jacob Lawrence, deals with the slave rebellion in this country Haiti |
| #2203, aired 1994-03-16 | BLACK AMERICA $200: Reagan appointed him to the EEOC; Bush appointed him to the Supreme Court Clarence Thomas |
| #2203, aired 1994-03-16 | BLACK AMERICA $400: This abolitionist bought her home in New York from William H. Seward Harriet Tubman |
| #2203, aired 1994-03-16 | BLACK AMERICA $600: Before turning author & poet, she toured singing & dancing in "Porgy & Bess" Maya Angelou |
| #2203, aired 1994-03-16 | BLACK AMERICA $800: Born Dana Owens, she raps & acts under this "royal" moniker Queen Latifah |
| #2203, aired 1994-03-16 | BLACK AMERICA $2,000 (Daily Double): These mayors of Detroit & Los Angeles, both first elected in 1973, decided not to run again in 1993 Tom Bradley and Coleman Young |
| #2171, aired 1994-01-31 | BLACK AMERICA $200: He's the youngest man ever to serve as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Colin Powell |
| #2171, aired 1994-01-31 | BLACK AMERICA $400: This entertainer wrote 2 autobiographies, "Yes I Can" & "Why Me?" Sammy Davis |
| #2171, aired 1994-01-31 | BLACK AMERICA $600: This abolitionist who edited the North Star served as U.S. Minister to Haiti 1889-1891 Frederick Douglass |
| #2171, aired 1994-01-31 | BLACK AMERICA $800: In 1843 she said, "The spirit calls me, I must go" & set out to preach against slavery Sojourner Truth |
| #2171, aired 1994-01-31 | BLACK AMERICA $3,000 (Daily Double): This poet who wrote "The Weary Blues" was a major figure of the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920s Langston Hughes |
| #2157, aired 1994-01-11 | BLACK AMERICA $200: Josiah Henson, an escaped slave & minister, inspired this Harriet Beecher Stowe character Uncle Tom |
| #2157, aired 1994-01-11 | BLACK AMERICA $400: In June 1990 he announced he would not seek a fourth term as mayor of Washington, D.C. Marion Barry |
| #2157, aired 1994-01-11 | BLACK AMERICA $600: In 1988 this founder of Motown was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Berry Gordy, Jr. |
| #2157, aired 1994-01-11 | BLACK AMERICA $800: In 1978 he followed up his decade-old book "Soul on Ice" with another called "Soul on Fire" Eldridge Cleaver |
| #2157, aired 1994-01-11 | BLACK AMERICA $1000: In 1985 she retired from opera singing after a farewell performance as "Aida" Leontyne Price |
| #2155, aired 1994-01-07 | BLACK AMERICA $200: He wrote about his early days as a trumpeter in "Satchmo: My Life in New Orleans" Louis Armstrong |
| #2155, aired 1994-01-07 | BLACK AMERICA $400: His burial site & the church where he served as assistant pastor are part of a historic district in Atlanta Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| #2155, aired 1994-01-07 | BLACK AMERICA $600: Author Ernest Gaines gained fame for his 1971 fictional "Autobiography of" this woman Miss Jane Pittman |
| #2155, aired 1994-01-07 | BLACK AMERICA $800: In 1900 this educator founded the National Negro Business League Booker T. Washington |
| #2155, aired 1994-01-07 | BLACK AMERICA $1000: In 1976 the home of this late U.N. diplomat was designated a national historic landmark Dr. Ralph Bunche |
| #2136, aired 1993-12-13 | BLACK FIRSTS $200: Henry Blair, who invented a corn harvester, was the 1st Black to obtain one of these a patent |
| #2136, aired 1993-12-13 | BLACK FIRSTS $400: In 1992 Mae Jemison "Endeavoured" to become the 1st Black woman to go here, & she did space |
| #2136, aired 1993-12-13 | BLACK FIRSTS $600: In 1952 he & Oliver Tambo formed the 1st Black law partnership in South Africa Nelson Mandela |
| #2136, aired 1993-12-13 | BLACK FIRSTS $800: Edward Alexander Bouchet was the 1st Black to earn a Ph.D. & the 1st to join this Greek-letter fraternity Phi Beta Kappa |
| #2136, aired 1993-12-13 | BLACK FIRSTS $1000: In 1908 he defeated Tommy Burns to become the 1st Black world heavyweight boxing champ Jack Johnson |
| #2128, aired 1993-12-01 | BLACK AMERICA $200: In 1979 this Michigan State basketball player was chosen first in the NBA draft by the Los Angeles Lakers Earvin "Magic" Johnson |
| #2128, aired 1993-12-01 | BLACK AMERICA $400: This black educator's autobiography, "Up From Slavery", was published in 1901 Booker T. Washington |
| #2128, aired 1993-12-01 | BLACK AMERICA $600: This Texas congresswoman gave the keynote address at the 1976 Democratic National Convention Barbara Jordan |
| #2128, aired 1993-12-01 | BLACK AMERICA $800: In 1983 she became the first black woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for fiction Alice Walker |
| #2128, aired 1993-12-01 | BLACK AMERICA $1000: Hired as Robert Peary's valet in 1887, he accompanied the explorer on 7 trips to the Arctic Matthew Henson |
| #2086, aired 1993-10-04 | BLACK AMERICA $200: In 1989 this singer toured for the first time in her career without the Pips Gladys Knight |
| #2086, aired 1993-10-04 | BLACK AMERICA $400: Joe Black, the first black pitcher to win a World Series game, later became a VP of this bus co. Greyhound |
| #2086, aired 1993-10-04 | BLACK AMERICA $600: In 1935 chemist Percy Julian synthesized physostigmine, a drug used in treating this eye condition glaucoma |
| #2086, aired 1993-10-04 | BLACK AMERICA $800: Oscar De Priest, the 1st 20th c. black elected to Congress, represented this "Prairie State" 1929-1935 Illinois |
| #2086, aired 1993-10-04 | BLACK AMERICA $1000: One of the FBI's "Ten Most Wanted" in 1970, this female activist was acquitted of all charges in 1972 Angela Davis |
| #2065, aired 1993-07-23 | BLACK AMERICA $200: On January 20,1992 Winnie Mandela helped lead a march in Atlanta honoring this slain leader Martin Luther King Jr. |
| #2065, aired 1993-07-23 | BLACK AMERICA $400: Charles Evers, brother of this civil rights leader, was mayor of Fayette, Miss. from 1969-1981 Medgar Evers |
| #2065, aired 1993-07-23 | BLACK AMERICA $600: In 1899 then N.Y. Governor Teddy Roosevelt dedicated a monument in Rochester to this famed orator Frederick Douglass |
| #2065, aired 1993-07-23 | BLACK AMERICA $800: It was the nickname of folk singer & composer Huddie Ledbetter Leadbelly |
| #2065, aired 1993-07-23 | BLACK AMERICA $1000: If "Truth" be told, the birth name of this reformer & abolitionist was Isabella Baumfree Sojourner Truth |
| #2011, aired 1993-05-10 | BLACK AMERICA $100: In New England during the 1800s, Lewis Temple helped improve this industry by inventing a toggle harpoon whaling |
| #2011, aired 1993-05-10 | BLACK AMERICA $200: The 15th Amendment, adopted in 1870, gave black Americans this right right to vote |
| #2011, aired 1993-05-10 | BLACK AMERICA $300: The great-grandson of a slave, this 1st black Supreme Court Justice died in 1993 at the age of 84 Thurgood Marshall |
| #2011, aired 1993-05-10 | BLACK AMERICA $400: This orator was forced to flee to Canada after he was accused of conspiring with John Brown Frederick Douglass |
| #2011, aired 1993-05-10 | BLACK AMERICA $500: In 1955 she helped launch the civil rights movement by refusing to give up her seat on an Alabama bus Rosa Parks |
| #1992, aired 1993-04-13 | BLACK AMERICA $200: Wallace Saunders was on this engineer's crew when the train crashed; later, he wrote a ballad about it Casey Jones |
| #1992, aired 1993-04-13 | BLACK AMERICA $400: Robert Russa Moton, a former houseboy, succeeded him as president of Tuskegee Institute Booker T. Washington |
| #1992, aired 1993-04-13 | BLACK AMERICA $600: Robert & John Kennedy helped this man get out of a Georgia jail in 1960 Martin Luther King |
| #1992, aired 1993-04-13 | BLACK AMERICA $1000: Matthew Henson is famous for planting a flag on this part of the world the North Pole |
| #1992, aired 1993-04-13 | BLACK AMERICA $4,000 (Daily Double): This Texas congresswoman was on the committee that said Nixon should be impeached Barbara Jordan |
| #1984, aired 1993-04-01 | PAINT IT "BLACK" $100: In casinos it's another name for the card game twenty-one blackjack |
| #1984, aired 1993-04-01 | PAINT IT "BLACK" $200: It's a place or method for selling goods illegally the black market |
| #1984, aired 1993-04-01 | PAINT IT "BLACK" $300: It means to exclude socially, or a vote against a candidate blackball |
| #1984, aired 1993-04-01 | PAINT IT "BLACK" $400: It's military slang for coffee, or a thick, dark molasses blackstrap |
| #1984, aired 1993-04-01 | PAINT IT "BLACK" $500: During the War of 1812, this Sauk Indian chief & about 500 of his warriors fought for the British Black Hawk |
| #1981, aired 1993-03-29 | MODERN BLACK HISTORY $200: Bobby Seale, co-founder of this militant group later wrote a cookbook, "Barbeque'n with Bobby" the Black Panthers |
| #1981, aired 1993-03-29 | MODERN BLACK HISTORY $400: In 1964 he quit the Nation of Islam & founded the Organization for Afro-American Unity Malcolm X |
| #1981, aired 1993-03-29 | MODERN BLACK HISTORY $600: Hubert Gerold Brown was better known as this H. Rap Brown |
| #1981, aired 1993-03-29 | MODERN BLACK HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1954 he was named an undersecretary of the United Nations Dr. Ralph Bunche |
| #1981, aired 1993-03-29 | MODERN BLACK HISTORY $1000: It lasted from December 5, 1955 to December 21, 1956 the Montgomery bus boycott |
| #1975, aired 1993-03-19 | BLACK AMERICA $200: In 1775 Black patriots joined this rebel & his Green Mountain Boys in the capture of Fort Ticonderoga Ethan Allen |
| #1975, aired 1993-03-19 | BLACK AMERICA $400: In the 1830s Black bandleader Frank Johnson played for this queen at Buckingham Palace Victoria |
| #1975, aired 1993-03-19 | BLACK AMERICA $600 (Daily Double): In 1989 Coleman Young was elected to an unprecedented fifth term as mayor of this city Detroit |
| #1975, aired 1993-03-19 | BLACK AMERICA $600: For advancements in agricultural chemistry, he received the 1923 Spingarn Medal George Washington Carver |
| #1975, aired 1993-03-19 | BLACK AMERICA $1000: In 1982 Leontyne Price opened the Congress of the DAR with a concert honoring this contralto Marian Anderson |
| #1962, aired 1993-03-02 | BLACK AMERICA $200: This home run hitting champ told his life story in the autobiography "I Had A Hammer" Hank Aaron |
| #1962, aired 1993-03-02 | BLACK AMERICA $400: Mrs. Louis Bellson, she received the nickname "Ambassador of Love" from President Nixon Pearl Bailey |
| #1962, aired 1993-03-02 | BLACK AMERICA $600: In the 1970s he became RCA's biggest-selling country star since Elvis Presley (Charley) Pride |
| #1962, aired 1993-03-02 | BLACK AMERICA $800: This Nobel Peace Prize winner died in 1971, just 2 months after retiring from the U.N. Ralph Bunche |
| #1962, aired 1993-03-02 | BLACK AMERICA $1000: From 1967-1972 she served as the only woman & the only Black in the Texas State Senate Barbara Jordan |
| #1947, aired 1993-02-09 | BLACK AMERICA $200: Upon this man's death in 1968, Ralph Abernathy became head of the SCLC Martin Luther King |
| #1947, aired 1993-02-09 | BLACK AMERICA $400: The original draft of this 1863 declaration is often displayed at the New York State Library in Albany the Emancipation Proclamation |
| #1947, aired 1993-02-09 | BLACK AMERICA $600: In 1971 this Chicagoan founded People United to Save Humanity in order to combat racism Jesse Jackson |
| #1947, aired 1993-02-09 | BLACK AMERICA $800: These laws, named for a character in an old song, required segregation in some public places Jim Crow laws |
| #1947, aired 1993-02-09 | BLACK AMERICA $1000: This league was founded in 1910 to improve living conditions & job opportunities in cities (National) Urban League |
| #1911, aired 1992-12-21 | BLACK FIRSTS $200: In September 1983 Vanessa Williams became the 1st Black woman to win this beauty title Miss America |
| #1911, aired 1992-12-21 | BLACK FIRSTS $400: In 1949 Wesley A. Brown became the 1st Black Midshipman to graduate from this service academy the Naval Academy |
| #1911, aired 1992-12-21 | BLACK FIRSTS $600: In 1966 Andrew F. Brimmer became the 1st Black member of this government banking system's Board of Governors the Federal Reserve |
| #1911, aired 1992-12-21 | BLACK FIRSTS $800: No relation to Jackie, he became Major League Baseball's first Black manager in 1974 Frank Robinson |
| #1911, aired 1992-12-21 | BLACK FIRSTS $1000: Her "A Raisin in the Sun" was the 1st play by a Black author to win a New York Drama Critics Circle Award Lorraine Hansberry |
| #1836, aired 1992-09-07 | BLACK AMERICA $200: In October 1991 he was sworn in as the 106th justice of the U.S. Supreme Court Clarence Thomas |
| #1836, aired 1992-09-07 | BLACK AMERICA $400: In 1986 he was named "Best Morning TV News Interviewer" by the Washington Journal Review Bryant Gumbel |
| #1836, aired 1992-09-07 | BLACK AMERICA $600: In 1907 he outlined some of his musical ideas in a book called "The School of Ragtime" Scott Joplin |
| #1836, aired 1992-09-07 | BLACK AMERICA $800: Succeeding the Celtics' Red Auerbach in 1966, he became the 1st black to coach an NBA team Bill Russell |
| #1836, aired 1992-09-07 | BLACK AMERICA $3,300 (Daily Double): In 1977 she was awarded the San Francisco Opera Medal to mark the 20th anniv. of her debut with the company Leontyne Price |
| #1785, aired 1992-05-08 | BLACK HISTORY $200: Around 1624 William Tucker became the 1st black child born & baptized in this Virginia settlement Jamestown |
| #1785, aired 1992-05-08 | BLACK HISTORY $400: In 1909 the Niagara Movement helped form this large civil rights organization NAACP |
| #1785, aired 1992-05-08 | BLACK HISTORY $600: As a result of this 1954 landmark case, segregation in public schools was declared unconstitutional Brown vs. Board of Education |
| #1785, aired 1992-05-08 | BLACK HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1847 American-born Joseph Roberts was elected the first president of this African country Liberia |
| #1785, aired 1992-05-08 | BLACK HISTORY $1000: In 1908 the first black sorority, Alpha Kappa Alpha, was founded at this university in Washington, D.C. Howard University |
| #1768, aired 1992-04-15 | BLACK INVENTORS $100: We all scream for Augustus Jackson, who invented a type of this fun food ice cream |
| #1768, aired 1992-04-15 | BLACK INVENTORS $200: Inventor & draftsman Lewis Latimer drew up the papers on this Bell inventions the telephone |
| #1768, aired 1992-04-15 | BLACK INVENTORS $300: 1 of the 3 patents he held was for cosmetics; he didn't patent all the peanut products (George Washington) Carver |
| #1768, aired 1992-04-15 | BLACK INVENTORS $400: In 1899 George F. Grant invented this device to hold up small dimpled balls the golf tee |
| #1768, aired 1992-04-15 | BLACK INVENTORS $500: In the 1920s Garrett Morgan created an automated one of these & a lot of drivers stopped & took notice a traffic light |
| #1732, aired 1992-02-25 | BLACK AMERICA $200: In 1989 David Dinkins was elected this city's first black mayor New York City |
| #1732, aired 1992-02-25 | BLACK AMERICA $400: President Bush credited much of Desert Storm's success to this chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Colin Powell |
| #1732, aired 1992-02-25 | BLACK AMERICA $600: In 1931 this botanist refused an offer from the Soviet Union to supervise its cotton plantations George Washington Carver |
| #1732, aired 1992-02-25 | BLACK AMERICA $800: At the 1988 Summer Olympics Jackie Joyner-Kersee & this sister-in-law won six medals between them Florence Griffith-Joyner |
| #1732, aired 1992-02-25 | BLACK AMERICA $1000: W.E.B. Du Bois, founder of the Niagara Movement, was the 1st black to receive a Ph.D. from this Ivy League university Harvard |
| #1716, aired 1992-02-03 | BLACK HISTORY $200: Wm. Thompson, killed in action in 1950, was the 1st Black to win the Medal of Honor in this war the Korean War |
| #1716, aired 1992-02-03 | BLACK HISTORY $400: Speaking before the Democratic Nat'l Convention in 1988, he urged Americans to "keep hope alive" Jesse Jackson |
| #1716, aired 1992-02-03 | BLACK HISTORY $600: He broke the color barrier in baseball, & in 1949 was voted the Nat'l League's most valuable player Jackie Robinson |
| #1716, aired 1992-02-03 | BLACK HISTORY $800: When Victoria Woodhull ran for pres. in 1872, this orator was her running mate Frederick Douglass |
| #1716, aired 1992-02-03 | BLACK HISTORY $1000: In the 1837 Battle of Okeechobee, Black commander John Horse led these Indians the Seminoles |
| #1698, aired 1992-01-08 | BLACK AUTHORS $200: In 1972 he created the Kinte Foundation to store records that help trace Black "Roots" Alex Haley |
| #1698, aired 1992-01-08 | BLACK AUTHORS $400: Chester Hines was perhaps best known for his novel "Cotton Comes to" here Harlem |
| #1698, aired 1992-01-08 | BLACK AUTHORS $1000: While living in Paris, he published his first novel, "Go Tell It on the Mountain" James Baldwin |
| #1698, aired 1992-01-08 | BLACK AUTHORS $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1989 this "Beloved" author became a professor of Creative Writing at Princeton Toni Morrison |
| #1655, aired 1991-11-08 | BLACK AMERICA $200: Established in 1944, it's a nonprofit fund-raising association of 41 educational institutions United Negro College Fund |
| #1655, aired 1991-11-08 | BLACK AMERICA $400: He was killed in 1965, months after founding the Organization of Afro-American Unity Malcolm X |
| #1655, aired 1991-11-08 | BLACK AMERICA $600: The bus boycott Martin L. King, Jr. began over the treatment of Rosa Parks lasted over a year in this city Montgomery (Alabama) |
| #1655, aired 1991-11-08 | BLACK AMERICA $800: He's the first elected black governor in the U.S. (Douglas) Wilder |
| #1655, aired 1991-11-08 | BLACK AMERICA $1000: A 1950 Ebony cover called this U.N. statesman "America's Most-Honored Negro" Ralph Bunche |
| #1629, aired 1991-10-03 | BLACK AMERICA $100: In 1952 he began using an X in place of the surname Little which he said came from slave masters Malcolm X |
| #1629, aired 1991-10-03 | BLACK AMERICA $200: Her debut album, the all-time bestseller by a woman, featured the song, "How Will I Know" Whitney Houston |
| #1629, aired 1991-10-03 | BLACK AMERICA $300: In April 1991 he went 12 rounds with Evander Holyfield to try to recapture the heavyweight title George Foreman |
| #1629, aired 1991-10-03 | BLACK AMERICA $400: In 1966 Robert Weaver became the first head of this Cabinet department Housing and Urban Development |
| #1629, aired 1991-10-03 | BLACK AMERICA $500: He served in the Illinois House & Illinois Senate before becoming Chicago's mayor in 1983 (Harold) Washington |
| #1613, aired 1991-09-11 | BLACK AMERICA $200: In her freshman year at college this TV talk show host was named Miss Black Nashville & Miss Black Tennessee Oprah Winfrey |
| #1613, aired 1991-09-11 | BLACK AMERICA $400: Missouri's only national monument marks the birthplace of this famous scientist George Washington Carver |
| #1613, aired 1991-09-11 | BLACK AMERICA $600: He was ABC's senior Capitol Hill correspondent before becoming chief Washington anchor for CNN Bernard Shaw |
| #1613, aired 1991-09-11 | BLACK AMERICA $1000: She died in Paris in 1975 during the 50th anniversary celebration of her Paris debut Josephine Baker |
| #1613, aired 1991-09-11 | BLACK AMERICA $1,500 (Daily Double): A sculpture of this seamstress & civil rights heroine was unveiled recently at the Smithsonian Rosa Parks |
| #1550, aired 1991-05-03 | BLACK AMERICA $200: Recommended by Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Banneker was one of the surveyors who laid out this city Washington, D.C. |
| #1550, aired 1991-05-03 | BLACK AMERICA $400: The popularity of ragtime ended about the same time that this composer died in 1917 Joplin |
| #1550, aired 1991-05-03 | BLACK AMERICA $600: In 1967 this author & comic ran for mayor of Chicago; in '68 he was a candidate for president Dick Gregory |
| #1550, aired 1991-05-03 | BLACK AMERICA $800: Replacing Jefferson Davis, Hiram Revels, the first black U.S. senator, represented this state Mississippi |
| #1550, aired 1991-05-03 | BLACK AMERICA $1000: In 1968 she became the first black woman elected to the House of Representatives Shirley Chisholm |
| #1525, aired 1991-03-29 | BLACK AMERICA $200: In 1877 Henry Flipper became the first black graduate of this military academy West Point |
| #1525, aired 1991-03-29 | BLACK AMERICA $400: Birdland, a jazz palace of the '50s, was named for this sax player who was nicknamed "Bird" Charlie Parker |
| #1525, aired 1991-03-29 | BLACK AMERICA $600: In 1958 this contralto was an alternate U.S. delegate to the UN Marian Anderson |
| #1525, aired 1991-03-29 | BLACK AMERICA $800: For supervising the Arab-Israeli armistice, he was awarded the 1950 Nobel Peace Prize Ralph Bunche |
| #1496, aired 1991-02-18 | BLACK AMERICA $200: Not long after the breakup of his marriage to Robin Givens, he lost his heavyweight title Mike Tyson |
| #1496, aired 1991-02-18 | BLACK AMERICA $400: Born Malcolm Little, he changed his name to El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz; he was killed in 1965 Malcolm X |
| #1496, aired 1991-02-18 | BLACK AMERICA $600: He was senior cadet in his ROTC class in 1958 & is now chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (Colin) Powell |
| #1496, aired 1991-02-18 | BLACK AMERICA $1000: On a 1983 Challenger mission, he became the first Black American to travel in space Guion Bluford |
| #1496, aired 1991-02-18 | BLACK AMERICA $1,600 (Daily Double): Prior to the Civil War, he founded & edited a newspaper called the North Star (Frederick) Douglass |
| #1452, aired 1990-12-18 | BLACK HISTORY $200: In 1926, Carter G. Woodson founded Negro History Week, the forerunner of this current observance Black History Month |
| #1452, aired 1990-12-18 | BLACK HISTORY $400: This organization was established in 1944 to raise funds for Black education the United Negro College Fund |
| #1452, aired 1990-12-18 | BLACK HISTORY $600: A young student named Linda Brown was the focus of this landmark 1954 case Brown v. Board of Education |
| #1452, aired 1990-12-18 | BLACK HISTORY $800: In the 1850s, this female preacher became an impassioned spokeswoman for the rights of women Sojourner Truth |
| #1452, aired 1990-12-18 | BLACK HISTORY $1,700 (Daily Double): This ex-slave, a renowned orator, was the United States minister to Haiti from 1889 to 1891 Frederick Douglass |
| #1421, aired 1990-11-05 | BLACK AMERICA $200: In 1962 this ex-Brooklyn Dodger became the first black elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame Jackie Robinson |
| #1421, aired 1990-11-05 | BLACK AMERICA $400: Appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1967, he's now its oldest member Thurgood Marshall |
| #1421, aired 1990-11-05 | BLACK AMERICA $600: In 1968 this Baptist minister succeeded M.L. King Jr. as president of the S.C.L.C. (Ralph) Abernathy |
| #1421, aired 1990-11-05 | BLACK AMERICA $800: A former medical professor, he now heads the Department of Health & Human Services (Louis) Sullivan |
| #1421, aired 1990-11-05 | BLACK AMERICA $1000: Appointed FCC commissioner in 1972, he later resigned to become exec. director of the NAACP Benjamin Hooks |
| #1418, aired 1990-10-31 | "BLACK" & "WHITE" $100: This Bing Crosby hit is the best-selling record of all time White Christmas |
| #1418, aired 1990-10-31 | "BLACK" & "WHITE" $200: In the body the 3 main types are granulocytes, monocytes & lymphocytes white blood cells |
| #1418, aired 1990-10-31 | "BLACK" & "WHITE" $300: It's another name for a termite white ant |
| #1418, aired 1990-10-31 | "BLACK" & "WHITE" $400: The fastest-moving land snake is believed to be this venomous snake black mamba |
| #1418, aired 1990-10-31 | "BLACK" & "WHITE" $500: In this 1977 film, an international terrorist organization plots to blow up the Super Bowl Black Sunday |
| #1316, aired 1990-04-30 | BLACK AMERICA $200: This cookie entrepreneur donated his Panama hat & pullover shirt to the Smithsonian Famous Amos |
| #1316, aired 1990-04-30 | BLACK AMERICA $400: He co-wrote "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" before he wrote "Roots" Alex Haley |
| #1316, aired 1990-04-30 | BLACK AMERICA $600: He was Manhattan borough pres. when elected NYC's first Black mayor, November 7, 1989 (David) Dinkins |
| #1316, aired 1990-04-30 | BLACK AMERICA $800: This actor who played Joe in the 1936 film "Show Boat" graduated first in his class at Rutgers Paul Robeson |
| #1316, aired 1990-04-30 | BLACK AMERICA $1000: The first Black to sit on the National Security Council was this award-winning newspaper columnist Carl Rowan |
| #1304, aired 1990-04-12 | BLACK AMERICA $200: On August 30, 1983 Guion Bluford Jr. became the first Black American to travel here space |
| #1304, aired 1990-04-12 | BLACK AMERICA $400: The head that wears this crown for 1990 is that of Missouri's Debbye Turner Miss America |
| #1304, aired 1990-04-12 | BLACK AMERICA $600: Among guests at Desmond Tutu's installation as archbishop were Coretta Scott King & this Detroit mayor Coleman Young |
| #1304, aired 1990-04-12 | BLACK AMERICA $800: In '54 the Supreme Court decided in favor of this girl & against the Topeka Board of Education Brown |
| #1304, aired 1990-04-12 | BLACK AMERICA $1000: A statue of this man who was killed March 5, 1770 stands in the Boston Common Crispus Attucks |
| #1247, aired 1990-01-23 | "BLACK" MOVIES $100: Leonard Maltin described the 1971 British film version of this Anna Sewell tale as "average horse opera" Black Beauty |
| #1247, aired 1990-01-23 | "BLACK" MOVIES $200: In this film Theresa Russell played a young woman who seduced, married & then murdered wealthy men Black Widow |
| #1247, aired 1990-01-23 | "BLACK" MOVIES $300: This 1929 Hitchcock movie, his & England's 1st talkie, was shot originally as a silent Blackmail |
| #1247, aired 1990-01-23 | "BLACK" MOVIES $500 (Daily Double): George Segal played Sam Spade Jr. in this 1975 film satirizing "The Maltese Falcon" The Black Bird |
| #1247, aired 1990-01-23 | "BLACK" MOVIES $500: This 1979 Disney sci-fi film starring Maximilian Schell was nominated for an Oscar for Visual Effects The Black Hole |
| #1186, aired 1989-10-30 | BLACK AMERICA $200: Coinciding with the birth of Frederick Douglass & Abraham Lincoln, it's Black History Month February |
| #1186, aired 1989-10-30 | BLACK AMERICA $400: This "party" was founded in Oakland, Calif. in 1966 by Huey P. Newton & Bobby Seale the Black Panther Party |
| #1186, aired 1989-10-30 | BLACK AMERICA $600: The phrase "Black Power" came into vogue in 1966 during James Meredith's peace march in this southern state Mississippi |
| #1186, aired 1989-10-30 | BLACK AMERICA $800: This black leader was assassinated in Harlem on February 21, 1965 Malcolm X |
| #1186, aired 1989-10-30 | BLACK AMERICA $1000: The 1st sit-ins of the '60s civil rights movement were at lunch counters in this "colorful" N.C. city Greensboro |
| #1173, aired 1989-10-11 | BLACK AMERICANS $200: To date, he's the only black tennis player to win the Wimbledon men's singles title (Arthur) Ashe |
| #1173, aired 1989-10-11 | BLACK AMERICANS $400: Matthew Henson, this explorer's assistant, was the 1st black American to reach the North Pole (Robert) Peary |
| #1173, aired 1989-10-11 | BLACK AMERICANS $500 (Daily Double): The 1st black woman in Congress, she represented New York's 12th district from 1969-83 Shirley Chisholm |
| #1173, aired 1989-10-11 | BLACK AMERICANS $600: With $800 borrowed from his family, this songwriter founded Motown Records Berry Gordy Jr. |
| #1173, aired 1989-10-11 | BLACK AMERICANS $1000: In 1968 this Baptist minister succeeded Martin Luther King Jr. as president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference Ralph Abernathy |
| #1162, aired 1989-09-26 | BLACK AMERICA $400: He once said that he "cried like a baby" while writing about Kunta Kinte Alex Haley |
| #1162, aired 1989-09-26 | BLACK AMERICA $600: A dancer in "The Wiz" & an understudy in "Dreamgirls", she's sung & danced on "The Cosby Show" Phylicia Rashad |
| #1162, aired 1989-09-26 | BLACK AMERICA $800: He's famous for having gone on long fasts during the Vietnam War & the 1980 Iran hostage crisis Dick Gregory |
| #1162, aired 1989-09-26 | BLACK AMERICA $1,000 (Daily Double): He won a 1962 Grammy for the following:
"I can't stop loving you, I've made up my mind..." Ray Charles |
| #1162, aired 1989-09-26 | BLACK AMERICA $1000: In 1977 PBS's "Black Journal" was renamed for him, its executive producer & host Tony Brown |
| #940, aired 1988-10-07 | BLACK AMERICA $200: Ralph Abernathy became head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference upon this man's death Martin Luther King |
| #940, aired 1988-10-07 | BLACK AMERICA $400: Of 6, 9 or 12, no. of children Joseph & Katherine Jackson have had, including Michael 9 |
| #940, aired 1988-10-07 | BLACK AMERICA $800: After fighting in the Civil War, she set up a home for needy Blacks in Auburn, New York Harriet Tubman |
| #940, aired 1988-10-07 | BLACK AMERICA $1,000 (Daily Double): Last name common to the mayors of Atlanta & Detroit Young |
| #940, aired 1988-10-07 | BLACK AMERICA $1000: Benjamin Banneker assisted L'Enfant in planning this city Washington, D.C. |
| #901, aired 1988-07-04 | BLACK AMERICA $100: The World Almanac lists this man, born circa 1860, as a botanist, chemurgist & educator George Washington Carver |
| #901, aired 1988-07-04 | BLACK AMERICA $200: It was under this name that Elijah Poole led the Black Muslims Elijah Muhammad |
| #901, aired 1988-07-04 | BLACK AMERICA $300: Hiram Revels, who finished out Jefferson Davis' term in 1879, was 1st Black elected as this a (U.S.) senator |
| #901, aired 1988-07-04 | BLACK AMERICA $400: One of the 1st Blacks to get a patent, Henry Blair got his 2nd in 1836 for a device to plant this crop cotton |
| #901, aired 1988-07-04 | BLACK AMERICA $500: A founder of this group, W.E.B. Du Bois, edited its magazine "The Crisis" the NAACP |
| #868, aired 1988-05-18 | BLACK AMERICA $200: A black literary renaissance of the '20s is named for this neighborhood in which it was centered Harlem |
| #868, aired 1988-05-18 | BLACK AMERICA $400: The 24th Amendment abolished these, making it possible for many more blacks to vote poll taxes |
| #868, aired 1988-05-18 | BLACK AMERICA $800: Playing the accursed Judas on B'way in "Jesus Christ Superstar" proved a blessing to this star's career Ben Vereen |
| #868, aired 1988-05-18 | BLACK AMERICA $1000: Upon replacing Frank Carlucci, Lt. Gen. Colin Powell became the 1st black to hold this position National Security Advisor |
| #704, aired 1987-10-01 | BLACK AMERICA $400: Emmett Ashford was the first black man to be one of these in the major leagues umpire |
| #704, aired 1987-10-01 | BLACK AMERICA $500 (Daily Double): Heard here, he was 1st major black performer to host a prime time TV network variety series:
"They tried to tell us we're too young..." Nat King Cole |
| #704, aired 1987-10-01 | BLACK AMERICA $600: This trumpeter called his autobiography "to Be or not...to Bop" Dizzy Gillespie |
| #704, aired 1987-10-01 | BLACK AMERICA $800: 1st black congressman from a southern state, she was 1st black keynote speaker at a Dem. nat'l convention Barbara Jordan |
| #704, aired 1987-10-01 | BLACK AMERICA $1000: Born a slave in N.Y., I. Van Wagener worked for both abolition & women's rights using this unusual name Sojourner Truth |
| #695, aired 1987-09-18 | BLACK AMERICA $100: Jackie Mabley, who had 3 children by age 14, used this appropriate stage name Moms (Mabley) |
| #695, aired 1987-09-18 | BLACK AMERICA $200: G. Washington named Black surveyor B. Banneker to commission that laid out this city's boundaries Washington, D.C. |
| #695, aired 1987-09-18 | BLACK AMERICA $300: It's said he also developed at least 75 products from the pecan George Washington Carver |
| #695, aired 1987-09-18 | BLACK AMERICA $400: By order of Pres. Reagan, boxer Joe Louis was buried in this cemetery in 1981 Arlington National Cemetery |
| #695, aired 1987-09-18 | BLACK AMERICA $500: He grew up in Harlem & used it as setting for his 1st novel, "Go Tell It on the Mountain" James Baldwin |
| #650, aired 1987-06-05 | "BLACK" $100: "Farriers" is the term used when these craftsmen specialize in shoeing horses a blacksmith |
| #650, aired 1987-06-05 | "BLACK" $200: A horned pagan god, not necessarily Satan, was the deity originally worshipped in this service a black mass |
| #650, aired 1987-06-05 | "BLACK" $300: Officially backed by Peace & Freedom Party & this group, Eldridge Cleaver ran for president in 1968 the Black Panthers |
| #650, aired 1987-06-05 | "BLACK" $400: By mid-19th c. this tribal group claimed Great Plains lands twice the size of New England the Blackfeet |
| #650, aired 1987-06-05 | "BLACK" $500: In the late 70s, annual compensation to U.S. miners who had this disease totalled some $1 billion black lung disease |
| #644, aired 1987-05-28 | BLACK AMERICA $200: This Chicago-based talk show host once won the Miss Black Tennessee Pageant Oprah Winfrey |
| #644, aired 1987-05-28 | BLACK AMERICA $400: While she stars on "Fame", her sister Phylicia, stars on "The Cosby Show" Debbie Allen |
| #644, aired 1987-05-28 | BLACK AMERICA $600: An assistant to this explorer, Matthew Henson became 1st black American to reach the North Pole (Robert) Peary |
| #644, aired 1987-05-28 | BLACK AMERICA $800: In 1967, he became the 1st black U.S. Supreme Court justice Thurgood Marshall |
| #644, aired 1987-05-28 | BLACK AMERICA $1000: Dr. Joseph Lowery now heads this million-member group founded by Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. the Southern Christian Leadership Conference |
| #600, aired 1987-03-27 | BLACK AMERICA $200: He played 1 pro football game in Hawaii before joining the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947 Jackie Robinson |
| #600, aired 1987-03-27 | BLACK AMERICA $400: In 1945, John Johnson began publishing this "Life"like magazine Ebony |
| #593, aired 1987-03-18 | BLACK AMERICA $200: Black Enterprise Magazine credits him with "PUSH"ing 3 million new black voters to register Jesse Jackson |
| #593, aired 1987-03-18 | BLACK AMERICA $400: The winningest college football coach of all time is Eddie Robinson of this Louisiana school Grambling |
| #593, aired 1987-03-18 | BLACK AMERICA $500 (Daily Double): This performer hosts the annual United Negro College Fund telethon:
"You'll never find, as long as you live" Lou Rawls |
| #593, aired 1987-03-18 | BLACK AMERICA $800: Mrs. Miles Davis, this actress is cofounder & a director of The Dance Theatre of Harlem Cicely Tyson |
| #593, aired 1987-03-18 | BLACK AMERICA $1000: 1st mayor ever to complete the Boston Marathon, Kenneth Gibson is mayor of this eastern city Newark (New Jersey) |
| #428, aired 1986-04-30 | "BLACK" & "BLUE" SONGS $100: Song that kept Bobby Rydell, Sammy Davis Jr., & Louis Prima & Keely Smith "in its spell" "That Old Black Magic" |
| #428, aired 1986-04-30 | "BLACK" & "BLUE" SONGS $200: "When whippoorwills call & evening is nigh, I hurry" here "My Blue Heaven" |
| #428, aired 1986-04-30 | "BLACK" & "BLUE" SONGS $300: Though by 1979 Neil Diamond could afford Gabardine pants, he was "forever in" these blue jeans |
| #428, aired 1986-04-30 | "BLACK" & "BLUE" SONGS $400: 1975 tribute to the Mississippi River by the Doobie Brothers, who sure did "play some funky Dixieland" "Black Water" |
| #428, aired 1986-04-30 | "BLACK" & "BLUE" SONGS $500: Jim Croce had a bad case of these in 1974 "Workin’ At The Car Wash Blues" |
| #418, aired 1986-04-16 | BLACK AMERICA $200: Since she received a doctorate from Georgetown U. in 1985, you can now call her Dr. Pearlie Mae Pearl Bailey |
| #418, aired 1986-04-16 | BLACK AMERICA $400: The largest Black magazine in the world, in November 1985 it celebrated its 40th anniversary Ebony |
| #418, aired 1986-04-16 | BLACK AMERICA $600: Life & religion in the ghetto were the subjects of his 1953 novel "Go Tell It on the Mountain" James Baldwin |
| #418, aired 1986-04-16 | BLACK AMERICA $800: Known for freeing slaves, during Civil War she became only American woman to lead U.S. soldiers in battle Harriet Tubman |
| #418, aired 1986-04-16 | BLACK AMERICA $1000: He was the 1st singer to record a non-classical album that sold more than 1 million copies Harry Belafonte |
| #375, aired 1986-02-14 | "BLACK" $100: A bachelor's "bible" a little black book |
| #375, aired 1986-02-14 | "BLACK" $200: North American flower resembling the daisy a black-eyed Susan |
| #375, aired 1986-02-14 | "BLACK" $300: Chuck Norris wears one...& we'd be the first to agree he deserves it a black belt |
| #375, aired 1986-02-14 | "BLACK" $400: Negative vote used especially against admitting one to membership in a club blackballing |
| #375, aired 1986-02-14 | "BLACK" $500: A shoeshine boy a bootblack |
| #335, aired 1985-12-20 | BLACK AMERICA $200: Currently TV's highest paid child star Gary Coleman |
| #335, aired 1985-12-20 | BLACK AMERICA $400: After building career with Bacharach-David hits, she added & then dropped "e" from last name Dionne Warwick |
| #335, aired 1985-12-20 | BLACK AMERICA $600: Born & raised at Tuskegee Institute, he was celebrity star at 1984 Olympics closing Lionel Richie |
| #335, aired 1985-12-20 | BLACK AMERICA $800: In 1983, he became 1st black to host a network morning news show Bryant Gumbel |
| #335, aired 1985-12-20 | BLACK AMERICA $1000: In 1870, Hiram Revels of Mississippi gained this distinction first black elected to U.S. Senate |
| #113, aired 1985-02-13 | "BLACK" & "WHITE" $200: Black musician who formed the Love Unlimited Orchestra Barry White |
| #113, aired 1985-02-13 | "BLACK" & "WHITE" $400: She got an Oscar nomination for her waitress role in "Five Easy Pieces" Karen Black |
| #113, aired 1985-02-13 | "BLACK" & "WHITE" $600: In commercials his name tag reads "Maytag" Jesse White |
| #113, aired 1985-02-13 | "BLACK" & "WHITE" $800: She was the U.S. Ambassador to Ghana in 1974 Shirley Temple Black |
| #113, aired 1985-02-13 | "BLACK" & "WHITE" $1000: He told the tale of a girl, a pig & a spider E.B. White |
| #9, aired 1984-09-20 | BLACK AMERICA $200: The first black in Big League Baseball Jackie Robinson |
| #9, aired 1984-09-20 | BLACK AMERICA $400: Forced to give up crown as Miss America because of photos in "Penthouse" Vanessa Williams |
| #9, aired 1984-09-20 | BLACK AMERICA $600: A symbol for black performers in film since the '50's, he won an Oscar as Best Actor in '63 Sidney Poitier |
| #9, aired 1984-09-20 | BLACK AMERICA $800: As result of anti-slavery raid on Harper's Ferry, his "body lies a moldering in the grave" John Brown |
| #9, aired 1984-09-20 | BLACK AMERICA $1000: Harriet Tubman, who freed over 300 slaves, was 1 of its foremost "conductors" the Underground Railroad |
