| #9176, aired 2024-10-07 | THE FOREIGN-BORN DIRECTOR $400: Of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" &
"Brokeback Mountain" Ang Lee |
| #9176, aired 2024-10-07 | THE FOREIGN-BORN DIRECTOR $800: Of "Hellboy" &
"The Shape of Water" del Toro |
| #9176, aired 2024-10-07 | THE FOREIGN-BORN DIRECTOR $1200: Of "Moulin Rouge!" &
2022's "Elvis" Luhrmann |
| #9176, aired 2024-10-07 | THE FOREIGN-BORN DIRECTOR $1600: Of 1927's "Metropolis" (Fritz) Lang |
| #9176, aired 2024-10-07 | THE FOREIGN-BORN DIRECTOR $2000: Of "Day For Night" & "Jules et Jim" Truffaut |
| #9018, aired 2024-01-17 | BORN ON JAN. 17 $200: She has an impressive résumé:
Princeton,
Harvard Law,
a 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue address Michelle Obama |
| #9018, aired 2024-01-17 | BORN ON JAN. 17 $400: Some point the finger at him in the 1920 whacking of Johnny Torio's boss, "Big Jim" Colosimo Al Capone |
| #9018, aired 2024-01-17 | BORN ON JAN. 17 $600: He was born (in 1931) to say, "No... I am your father" & "this is CNN" James Earl Jones |
| #9018, aired 2024-01-17 | BORN ON JAN. 17 $800: He was born in Boston in 1706, the 15th of 17 kids in his family; he'd seek his fortune in Philly Benjamin Franklin |
| #9018, aired 2024-01-17 | BORN ON JAN. 17 $1000: The youngest of the Brontes, she wrote "Agnes Grey" at 27 but would die only 2 years later Anne (Brontë) |
| #8908, aired 2023-07-05 | BORN ON THE 5th OF JULY $200: Paul Delvecchio Jr., born July 5, 1980, became a Garden State housemate as Pauly D on this MTV show in 2009 Jersey Shore |
| #8908, aired 2023-07-05 | BORN ON THE 5th OF JULY $400: "There's a sucker born every minute" is attributed to this showman, who obviously would not be referring to his own 1810 arrival Barnum |
| #8908, aired 2023-07-05 | BORN ON THE 5th OF JULY $600: She began kicking around in 1985, won a couple of World Cups & was Sports Illustrated's 2019 Sportsperson of the Year Megan Rapinoe |
| #8908, aired 2023-07-05 | BORN ON THE 5th OF JULY $800: You don't need one of his Oxford scholarships to know this diamond mogul was a July 5 baby (Cecil) Rhodes |
| #8908, aired 2023-07-05 | BORN ON THE 5th OF JULY $1000: Here's some news: born July 5, 1950, this singer let us know it was "Hip To Be Square" in '86 Huey Lewis |
| #8857, aired 2023-04-25 | WRITERS: BORN & DIED $400: Born in 1899 in what is now Oak Park, Illinois, the bell tolled for him in Ketchum, Idaho in 1961 Hemingway |
| #8857, aired 2023-04-25 | WRITERS: BORN & DIED $800: From a southern family, his "Fable" began in 1897 & ended in 1962, both in Mississippi Faulkner |
| #8857, aired 2023-04-25 | WRITERS: BORN & DIED $1200: This romantic poet was born in England in 1792 & drowned off the coast of Italy in 1822 Percy Bysshe Shelley |
| #8857, aired 2023-04-25 | WRITERS: BORN & DIED $1600: This "Trees" poet was born in New Jersey in 1886 & was killed in action in World War I Joyce Kilmer |
| #8857, aired 2023-04-25 | WRITERS: BORN & DIED $2000: Born in Paris in 1905, he went from being to nothingness in 1980 Sartre |
| #8807, aired 2023-02-14 | BORN TO RUN $400: The last of 4 runs for president by this consumer advocate was in 2008 with running mate Matt Gonzalez Nader |
| #8807, aired 2023-02-14 | BORN TO RUN $800: On his third try in 1981, François Mitterrand became the first French president representing this quite gauche party the Socialists |
| #8807, aired 2023-02-14 | BORN TO RUN $1200: This newspaperman didn't raise much Kane in losing runs for NYC mayor, state governor & then mayor again, all in a 4-year span Hearst |
| #8807, aired 2023-02-14 | BORN TO RUN $1600: India's Congress (this letter) Party formed in 1978; the letter, for the 1st name of the woman who soon regained a seat in parliament I |
| #8807, aired 2023-02-14 | BORN TO RUN $2000: In 1965 he entered politics & won a seat as the member for Mount Royal; 3 years later he was prime minister of Canada Pierre Trudeau |
| #8785, aired 2023-01-13 | BORN OR DIED IN 1923 $400: Died:
In Paris, at 91, this civil engineer famous for his tower Gustave Eiffel |
| #8785, aired 2023-01-13 | BORN OR DIED IN 1923 $800: Born:
This famous French mime Marceau |
| #8785, aired 2023-01-13 | BORN OR DIED IN 1923 $1200: Born:
Real name Hiram, this country music legend in Alabama (Hank) Williams |
| #8785, aired 2023-01-13 | BORN OR DIED IN 1923 $1600: Born:
This heavyweight boxing champ from 1952 to 1956 (Rocky) Marciano |
| #8785, aired 2023-01-13 | BORN OR DIED IN 1923 $2000: Died:
This "Divine" French actress in March (Sarah) Bernhardt |
| #8698, aired 2022-09-14 | THE BORN IDENTITY $200: Norma Jeane Mortenson, later Baker Marilyn Monroe |
| #8698, aired 2022-09-14 | THE BORN IDENTITY $400: "When Harry Met Sally...", Sally used to be Margaret Mary Emily Hyra Meg Ryan |
| #8698, aired 2022-09-14 | THE BORN IDENTITY $600: Fast & Furious family man Mark Sinclair Vin Diesel |
| #8698, aired 2022-09-14 | THE BORN IDENTITY $800: Eric Marlon Bishop shocked Spider-Man as Electro Jamie Foxx |
| #8698, aired 2022-09-14 | THE BORN IDENTITY $1000: Carlos Estévez, from an acting family Charlie Sheen |
| #12, aired 2022-02-16 | AROUND THE TIME YOU WERE BORN $200: Also called the Millennium Bug, this alphanumeric issue thankfully proved to be a non-problem on Jan. 1, 2000 Y2K |
| #12, aired 2022-02-16 | AROUND THE TIME YOU WERE BORN $400: It took 11 years & about $25 million, but in 2001 this landmark was reopened with its tilt reduced by about 16 inches the Leaning Tower of Pisa |
| #12, aired 2022-02-16 | AROUND THE TIME YOU WERE BORN $600: Released in 2003, this Pixar film about a dad trying to locate his son earned nearly $1 billion worldwide Finding Nemo |
| #12, aired 2022-02-16 | AROUND THE TIME YOU WERE BORN $800: On Dec. 13, 2003 U.S. forces near Tikrit found this president of Iraq underground; a gun was present, but he did not fire a shot (Saddam) Hussein |
| #12, aired 2022-02-16 | AROUND THE TIME YOU WERE BORN $1000: To collect solar wind particles, in 2001 NASA sent up this spacecraft that shares its name with a Bible book & a dad rock band Genesis |
| #8500, aired 2021-10-29 | PRESIDENTS WHO WEREN'T BORN IN THE UNITED STATES $200: I cannot tell a lie: Virginia was still a British colony when he was born there in 1732 George Washington |
| #8500, aired 2021-10-29 | PRESIDENTS WHO WEREN'T BORN IN THE UNITED STATES $400: Braintree was still Britville when he was born there in 1767 John Quincy Adams |
| #8500, aired 2021-10-29 | PRESIDENTS WHO WEREN'T BORN IN THE UNITED STATES $600: He was born a British subject in Virginia in 1751; how dare they burn his pretty White House! James Madison |
| #8500, aired 2021-10-29 | PRESIDENTS WHO WEREN'T BORN IN THE UNITED STATES $800: He wasn't "Old" in 1767, when he fell from the tree in the backwoods of the Carolina colonies Andrew Jackson |
| #8500, aired 2021-10-29 | PRESIDENTS WHO WEREN'T BORN IN THE UNITED STATES $1000: He was born in the colony of Virginia February 9, 1773, 68 years before his very brief presidency William Harrison |
| #8364, aired 2021-03-25 | BORN DURING THE CIVIL WAR $400: Here's something to chew on--this Civil War baby would grow up to create a chewing gum empire Wrigley |
| #8364, aired 2021-03-25 | BORN DURING THE CIVIL WAR $800: Ernest Lawrence Thayer, who was born in 1863, would hit a home run with this poem published in 1888 "Casey at the Bat" |
| #8364, aired 2021-03-25 | BORN DURING THE CIVIL WAR $1200: Across the pond Joseph Merrick developed deformities that cruelly earned him this nickname the Elephant Man |
| #8364, aired 2021-03-25 | BORN DURING THE CIVIL WAR $2000: The son of a Civil War officer, he would become famous for his Wild West artwork like "The Bronco Buster" (Frederic) Remington |
| #8364, aired 2021-03-25 | BORN DURING THE CIVIL WAR $4,000 (Daily Double): This president's first wife Alice & his second wife Edith were both born during the early days of the war in 1861 Theodore Roosevelt |
| #8287, aired 2020-11-24 | A STAR IS BORN $200: On June 9, 1963, in Owensboro, Kentucky this pirate captain came ashore Johnny Depp |
| #8287, aired 2020-11-24 | A STAR IS BORN $400: Once upon a time in Hollywood, November 11, 1974 was his inception Leonardo DiCaprio |
| #8287, aired 2020-11-24 | A STAR IS BORN $600: April 30, 1985 in Rosh Ha'ayin, Israel gave us this wonder of a gal Gal Gadot |
| #8287, aired 2020-11-24 | A STAR IS BORN $800: This "Vicky Cristina Barcelona" señor was born March 1, 1969 in the Canary Islands Javier Bardem |
| #8287, aired 2020-11-24 | A STAR IS BORN $1000: She was born to a Danish-born dad November 22, 1984 in NYC & later found herself "Lost in Translation" (Scarlett) Johansson |
| #8137, aired 2020-01-14 | FOREIGN-BORN OSCAR WINNERS $400: New Zealand-born Russell Crowe received 3 straight Best Actor nominations, winning in 2001 for this film Gladiator |
| #8137, aired 2020-01-14 | FOREIGN-BORN OSCAR WINNERS $800: This Welsh-born man won a Supporting Actor Oscar for "The Fighter" Christian Bale |
| #8137, aired 2020-01-14 | FOREIGN-BORN OSCAR WINNERS $1200: Born in Vienna, he won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his role as Col. Hans Landa in "Inglourious Basterds" Christoph Waltz |
| #8137, aired 2020-01-14 | FOREIGN-BORN OSCAR WINNERS $1600: Though born in Sweden, she won an Oscar for her supporting role in 2015's "The Danish Girl" Alicia Vikander |
| #8137, aired 2020-01-14 | FOREIGN-BORN OSCAR WINNERS $2000: Jean Dujardin didn't have much to say in becoming the first Frenchman to win Best Actor, for this 2011 film The Artist |
| #8064, aired 2019-10-03 | AUTHORS: BORN & DIED $400: This "little woman" was born in Germantown, Pennsylvania in 1832 & died in Boston in 1888 (Louisa May) Alcott |
| #8064, aired 2019-10-03 | AUTHORS: BORN & DIED $800: Dublin born in 1882, he died in Zurich in 1941 (James) Joyce |
| #8064, aired 2019-10-03 | AUTHORS: BORN & DIED $1200: "Go Tell It On The Mountain" that he was born in New York in 1924 & said adieu in France in 1987 James Baldwin |
| #8064, aired 2019-10-03 | AUTHORS: BORN & DIED $1600: His story began in Salem, Mass. in 1804 & ended 60 years later during a trip to New Hampshire with Franklin Pierce Hawthorne |
| #8064, aired 2019-10-03 | AUTHORS: BORN & DIED $4,400 (Daily Double): The "Winds of War" carried this author from his birth in the Bronx to his death in Palm Springs, California in 2019 at age 103 Herman Wouk |
| #8038, aired 2019-07-17 | A STAR IS BORN $400: Kate Hudson was born with that name in 1979; this "Firework" singer was born in 1984 as Katheryn Hudson Katy Perry |
| #8038, aired 2019-07-17 | A STAR IS BORN $800: This iconic movie star said goodbye, Norma Jeane (Baker when baptized, but Mortenson on her birth certificate) Marilyn Monroe |
| #8038, aired 2019-07-17 | A STAR IS BORN $1200: He "Unchained" himself from the name Eric Bishop & went with a gender-neutral name for his stand-up career Jamie Foxx |
| #8038, aired 2019-07-17 | A STAR IS BORN $2000: It's no trap, queen, that this rapper was born Willie Maxwell Fetty Wap |
| #8038, aired 2019-07-17 | A STAR IS BORN $4,000 (Daily Double): Amanda Rogers used a first name from "The Merchant of Venice" & an Italian last name to get this stage name Portia de Rossi |
| #8006, aired 2019-06-03 | SOVIETS NOT BORN IN RUSSIA $400: Lithuanian Sarunas Marciulionis was the first Soviet in this league when he joined the Warriors the NBA |
| #8006, aired 2019-06-03 | SOVIETS NOT BORN IN RUSSIA $800: In 2010 Gori, Georgia took down a statue honoring this once favorite son & moved it into a museum Stalin |
| #8006, aired 2019-06-03 | SOVIETS NOT BORN IN RUSSIA $1200: This man is born in Riga, Latvia in 1898--cut to him directing "Battleship Potemkin" less than 30 years later Eisenstein |
| #8006, aired 2019-06-03 | SOVIETS NOT BORN IN RUSSIA $1600: Chess master Garry Kasparov's first move was made in Baku, now in this country Azerbaijan |
| #8006, aired 2019-06-03 | SOVIETS NOT BORN IN RUSSIA $2000: This Ukrainian-born composer created "Peter and the Wolf" Prokofiev |
| #7882, aired 2018-12-11 | BORN IN 1818 $1200: Composer Charles Gounod is known for his opera version of this devilish tale Faust |
| #7882, aired 2018-12-11 | BORN IN 1818 $1600: This abolitionist born a slave got a 200th birthday celebration at his national historic site in Washington, D.C. Frederick Douglass |
| #7882, aired 2018-12-11 | BORN IN 1818 $2000: He invented seed-planting & cotton-thinning machines as well as his crank-operated machine gun Gatling |
| #7834, aired 2018-10-04 | AUTHORS BORN & DIED $200: Born in Connecticut in 1811, she went to that "cabin" in the sky July 1, 1896 (Harriet Beecher) Stowe |
| #7834, aired 2018-10-04 | AUTHORS BORN & DIED $400: Born in "a little house in the big woods" of Wisconsin in 1867, died in Missouri in 1957 (Laura Ingalls) Wilder |
| #7834, aired 2018-10-04 | AUTHORS BORN & DIED $600: Born in Denmark in 1885, she went into Africa in 1914 & out of this world Sept. 7, 1962 (Isak) Dinesen |
| #7834, aired 2018-10-04 | AUTHORS BORN & DIED $800: Born in Terre Haute, Indiana in 1871, wrote naturally & died Dec. 28, 1945, "An American Tragedy" (Theodore) Dreiser |
| #7834, aired 2018-10-04 | AUTHORS BORN & DIED $1000: Born in Chicago in 1888, made "The Long Goodbye" & went to "The Big Sleep" on March 26, 1959 Raymond Chandler |
| #7796, aired 2018-07-02 | BORN & DIED $200: He was born Jan. 15, 1929 in Atlanta; died with a dream in his heart in Memphis on April 4, 1968 Martin Luther King Jr. |
| #7796, aired 2018-07-02 | BORN & DIED $400: This First Lady was born in Southampton, New York in 1929 & died in Manhattan in 1994 Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis |
| #7796, aired 2018-07-02 | BORN & DIED $800: Born in Chicago in 1943, he was checkmated in Reykjavik in 2008 Bobby Fischer |
| #7796, aired 2018-07-02 | BORN & DIED $1,000 (Daily Double): Born in Spain in 1881, he "drew" his last breath near Cannes April 8, 1973 Picasso |
| #7796, aired 2018-07-02 | BORN & DIED $1000: His adventures began in Wales in 1888; he spent some time in the Middle East, then died in a motorcycle accident in 1935 Lawrence of Arabia |
| #7770, aired 2018-05-25 | GENIUSES ARE BORN $200: On Dec. 27, 1822 this Frenchman was born to show the world that microorganisms cause fermentation Pasteur |
| #7770, aired 2018-05-25 | GENIUSES ARE BORN $400: He was conducted into the world January 27, 1756, the same year his father published a manual on playing the violin Mozart |
| #7770, aired 2018-05-25 | GENIUSES ARE BORN $600: Later to take the pen name Richard Saunders, he was born to a poor family in Boston January 17, 1706 Ben Franklin |
| #7770, aired 2018-05-25 | GENIUSES ARE BORN $1000: It's certain he was born Dec. 5, 1901, in Wurzburg, Germany, 26 years before publishing his famous principle Heisenberg |
| #7770, aired 2018-05-25 | GENIUSES ARE BORN $2,000 (Daily Double): He was born April 15, 1452, near a little Tuscan town you wouldn't have heard of otherwise Leonardo da Vinci |
| #7605, aired 2017-10-06 | PRESIDENTS BORN WEST OF THE MISSISSIPPI $400: The first to be born west of the Mississippi (hope it didn't cause a Depression) Hoover |
| #7605, aired 2017-10-06 | PRESIDENTS BORN WEST OF THE MISSISSIPPI $800: Of the 8 presidents born west of the Mississippi River, the one born farthest west Barack Obama |
| #7605, aired 2017-10-06 | PRESIDENTS BORN WEST OF THE MISSISSIPPI $1200: The one born farthest west in the continental U.S. Richard Nixon |
| #7605, aired 2017-10-06 | PRESIDENTS BORN WEST OF THE MISSISSIPPI $2000: The one who served the shortest time as president Gerald Ford |
| #7605, aired 2017-10-06 | PRESIDENTS BORN WEST OF THE MISSISSIPPI $4,500 (Daily Double): Of those on the list, he's the most recent from a state that borders the Mississippi Bill Clinton |
| #7603, aired 2017-10-04 | AUTHORS: BORN & DIED $200: He was born in Lowell, Massachusetts in 1922 & spent some time "On the Road" before his death in 1969 (Jack) Kerouac |
| #7603, aired 2017-10-04 | AUTHORS: BORN & DIED $400: She was born April 28, 1926 in Monroeville, Alabama & died there February 19, 2016 Harper Lee |
| #7603, aired 2017-10-04 | AUTHORS: BORN & DIED $800: His story began in Salinas, California in 1902 & ended in New York in 1968 (John) Steinbeck |
| #7603, aired 2017-10-04 | AUTHORS: BORN & DIED $1,000 (Daily Double): Edgar Allan Poe's tale began in Boston in 1809 & ended in this other "B" city in 1849 Baltimore |
| #7603, aired 2017-10-04 | AUTHORS: BORN & DIED $1000: Born in England in 1920, he died there in 2016; "Watership Down" came in the middle Richard Adams |
| #7399, aired 2016-11-10 | BORN IN THE '90s $400: You saw some wild moves & costumes if you caught her "Bangerz" tour Miley Cyrus |
| #7399, aired 2016-11-10 | BORN IN THE '90s $800: In 2016 at age 25 she got her fourth Academy Award nomination, this time for "Joy" Jennifer Lawrence |
| #7399, aired 2016-11-10 | BORN IN THE '90s $1200: In July 2014 her sweet 16 celebrations included a Pitbull concert on the South Lawn of the White House Malia Obama |
| #7399, aired 2016-11-10 | BORN IN THE '90s $1600: Country star Hunter Hayes was a teenager in Louisiana when he got interest from a music publisher & moved to this city Nashville |
| #7399, aired 2016-11-10 | BORN IN THE '90s $2000: She played Sam on "iCarly" & on the spinoff "Sam & Cat" Jennette McCurdy |
| #7341, aired 2016-07-11 | BORN IN CONNECTICUT $200: A book called "Homegrown Terror" chronicles this patriot-turned-traitor & the burning of New London Benedict Arnold |
| #7341, aired 2016-07-11 | BORN IN CONNECTICUT $400: Before he ran off & ran the circus, he published a Danbury newspaper & was arrested for libel Barnum |
| #7341, aired 2016-07-11 | BORN IN CONNECTICUT $600: This Yale grad put out "An American Dictionary of the English Language" in 1828, when he was 70 (Noah) Webster |
| #7341, aired 2016-07-11 | BORN IN CONNECTICUT $800: In 1868 a church in Hartford, Connecticut was founded in memory of this revolver inventor & some of his children Colt |
| #7341, aired 2016-07-11 | BORN IN CONNECTICUT $1000: The last name of this Connecticut-born jeweler is seen on coveted blue boxes (Charles) Tiffany |
| #7251, aired 2016-03-07 | BORN DURING THE CIVIL WAR $400: The story of this brave engineer began in Missouri in 1863 Casey Jones |
| #7251, aired 2016-03-07 | BORN DURING THE CIVIL WAR $800: This manager of the Philadelphia A's from 1901 through 1950 came into the world as Cornelius McGillicuddy in 1862 Connie Mack |
| #7251, aired 2016-03-07 | BORN DURING THE CIVIL WAR $1200: "The Age of Innocence" had yet to begin when she was born into New York's high society in 1862 Edith Wharton |
| #7196, aired 2015-12-21 | NOPE, NOT BORN IN AUSTRALIA $200: This actress who played Satine in "Moulin Rouge!" was actually born in Honolulu Nicole Kidman |
| #7196, aired 2015-12-21 | NOPE, NOT BORN IN AUSTRALIA $400: A surprise about this original "Mad Max": He was born in Peekskill, New York Mel Gibson |
| #7196, aired 2015-12-21 | NOPE, NOT BORN IN AUSTRALIA $600: At my signal unleash your response of this Wellington, New Zealand-born actor & Oscar winner Russell Crowe |
| #7196, aired 2015-12-21 | NOPE, NOT BORN IN AUSTRALIA $800: "You're the One That I Want" hit No. 1 in 1978 for John Travolta & this Cambridge, England-born woman Olivia Newton-John |
| #7196, aired 2015-12-21 | NOPE, NOT BORN IN AUSTRALIA $1000: The British Isles was the birthplace of the Disco kings of the '70s, this band of brothers the Bee Gees |
| #7117, aired 2015-07-21 | "BORN" TO BE A SONG $400: "The highway's jammed with broken heroes on a last-chance power drive" in this Springsteen classic "Born To Run" |
| #7117, aired 2015-07-21 | "BORN" TO BE A SONG $800: Lady Gaga sang, "I'm beautiful in my way, 'cause God makes no mistakes, I'm on the right track baby, I was" this "Born This Way" |
| #7117, aired 2015-07-21 | "BORN" TO BE A SONG $1200: You were destined to respond with this No. 2 hit for Steppenwolf in 1968 "Born To Be Wild" |
| #7117, aired 2015-07-21 | "BORN" TO BE A SONG $1600: The film about a lioness returning to the wild was heartwarming; this title song was Oscar-winning "Born Free" |
| #7117, aired 2015-07-21 | "BORN" TO BE A SONG $2000: It's the rather morbid & paradoxical title track from Lana Del Rey's 2012 album "Born To Die" |
| #7053, aired 2015-04-22 | AUTHORS: BORN & DIED $200: This master of the techno-thriller was born in Baltimore in 1947 & died there in 2013 Tom Clancy |
| #7053, aired 2015-04-22 | AUTHORS: BORN & DIED $400: Born in 1932 in Boston, she died by her own hand in London in 1963 Sylvia Plath |
| #7053, aired 2015-04-22 | AUTHORS: BORN & DIED $600: This Nobel Prize winner's story began in Colombia in the 1920s & ended in Mexico City in 2014 (Gabriel García) Márquez |
| #7053, aired 2015-04-22 | AUTHORS: BORN & DIED $800: Born in Russia in 1905, she died in capitalist New York in 1982 Ayn Rand |
| #7053, aired 2015-04-22 | AUTHORS: BORN & DIED $1000: Born in 1885 in Sauk Centre, Minnesota, he died in 1951 near Rome Sinclair Lewis |
| #6946, aired 2014-11-24 | THE MOVIE ROLE HE WAS BORN TO PLAY $400: Hard to make "Being" this actor without this actor; boy, John Cusack really got in his head John Malkovich |
| #6946, aired 2014-11-24 | THE MOVIE ROLE HE WAS BORN TO PLAY $800: Neil Patrick Harris was on the road & seein' unicorns as he drove this title duo who "Escape from Guantanamo Bay" Harold & Kumar |
| #6946, aired 2014-11-24 | THE MOVIE ROLE HE WAS BORN TO PLAY $1200: Really, who else but this guy could have played "JCVD" in 2008? Jean-Claude Van Damme |
| #6946, aired 2014-11-24 | THE MOVIE ROLE HE WAS BORN TO PLAY $1600: At James Franco's place, Michael Cera took his partying to unexpected levels until dying a horrific death in "This" 2013 comedy This is the End |
| #6946, aired 2014-11-24 | THE MOVIE ROLE HE WAS BORN TO PLAY $2000: In "Zombieland", when asked, "So, do you have any regrets?" this man playing himself says, "'Garfield', maybe" Bill Murray |
| #6899, aired 2014-09-18 | BORN INSIDE THE BELTWAY $400: This D.C.-born bandleader wrote "The Washington Post March" (John Philip) Sousa |
| #6899, aired 2014-09-18 | BORN INSIDE THE BELTWAY $800: A D.C.er from birth to death, this FBI official wrote "A Study of Communism" & "Crime in the United States" J. Edgar Hoover |
| #6899, aired 2014-09-18 | BORN INSIDE THE BELTWAY $1200: Born in Washington as Henry Garfield, he's gone from punk rocker to author & radio-&-TV personality Henry Rollins |
| #6899, aired 2014-09-18 | BORN INSIDE THE BELTWAY $1600: Connie Chung & this newsman, her husband, were both born in D.C. & met while working at the local TV station Maury Povich |
| #6899, aired 2014-09-18 | BORN INSIDE THE BELTWAY $2000: Noor al-Hussein was born in D.C. & became queen of this Middle Eastern country Jordan |
| #6874, aired 2014-07-03 | BORN IN THE USA $200: Drawn up in Wisconsin in 1867, this architect was a real Prairie Style home companion Frank Lloyd Wright |
| #6874, aired 2014-07-03 | BORN IN THE USA $400: In 2012 this Ala.-born ex-Sec. of State was one of the first 2 female members of Augusta National Golf Club Condoleezza Rice |
| #6874, aired 2014-07-03 | BORN IN THE USA $600: He turned on, tuned in & dropped out of college before becoming a Harvard lecturer in 1959 Timothy Leary |
| #6874, aired 2014-07-03 | BORN IN THE USA $800: A N.Y. congressman from 1903 to 1907, this newspaper magnate returned to California & got into castle building (William Randolph) Hearst |
| #6874, aired 2014-07-03 | BORN IN THE USA $1000: This Chicago law man who enforced Prohibition ran for Cleveland mayor
in 1947; here endeth the lesson (Eliot) Ness |
| #6816, aired 2014-04-14 | BORN 100 YEARS AGO $400: "Where have you gone?" -- this ball player seen here
announcing his retirement in 1951 Joe DiMaggio |
| #6816, aired 2014-04-14 | BORN 100 YEARS AGO $800: When he was born in 1914, there was no polio vaccine, not until he developed it in the 1950s (Jonas) Salk |
| #6816, aired 2014-04-14 | BORN 100 YEARS AGO $1200: This Norwegian was 32 when he & a crew made a rafting trip from Peru to polynesia Thor Heyerdahl |
| #6816, aired 2014-04-14 | BORN 100 YEARS AGO $2000: The force was with this future thespian when he was born in London in April 1914 (Alec) Guinness |
| #6816, aired 2014-04-14 | BORN 100 YEARS AGO $3,000 (Daily Double): Born in Swansea, Wales, he went somewhat gentle into that good night in 1953 Dylan Thomas |
| #6811, aired 2014-04-07 | BORN TO BE WILD $400: The wholphin seen here has 66 teeth; Its dolphin mother had 88, & its father, a false killer one of these, had 44 a whale |
| #6811, aired 2014-04-07 | BORN TO BE WILD $800: The cub seen here is one of these creatures, named for an historical region of India a Bengal tiger |
| #6811, aired 2014-04-07 | BORN TO BE WILD $1200: He doesn't look like much yet, but this little fellow could grow up to get his picture on the back of a quarter someday bald eagle |
| #6811, aired 2014-04-07 | BORN TO BE WILD $1600: This little joey is one of the swamp species of these kangaroo relatives wallabies |
| #6811, aired 2014-04-07 | BORN TO BE WILD $2000: The little guy just coming out of his shell Is a bouncing baby Burmese this python |
| #6766, aired 2014-02-03 | BORN IN THE USA $200: Helena, Montana, 1901:
This actor of Mr. Deeds & few words Gary Cooper |
| #6766, aired 2014-02-03 | BORN IN THE USA $400: Near Lake George, New York, c. 1823:
This photographer Mathew Brady |
| #6766, aired 2014-02-03 | BORN IN THE USA $600: St. Joseph, Michigan, 1992:
This 2-time Sports Illustrated swimsuit edition cover model Kate Upton |
| #6766, aired 2014-02-03 | BORN IN THE USA $800: Austin, Texas, 1954:
This former CEO of Hewlett-Packard (Carly) Fiorina |
| #6766, aired 2014-02-03 | BORN IN THE USA $1000: New York City, 1885:
This "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes" composer Jerome Kern |
| #6764, aired 2014-01-30 | KINGS OF ENGLAND NOT BORN IN ENGLAND $400: He was born in Falaise, Normandy circa 1028 & won a big battle on English soil 38 years later William the Conqueror |
| #6764, aired 2014-01-30 | KINGS OF ENGLAND NOT BORN IN ENGLAND $800: Dunfermline, Scotland was his birthplace in 1600; a chopping block was his final destination in 1649 Charles I |
| #6764, aired 2014-01-30 | KINGS OF ENGLAND NOT BORN IN ENGLAND $1,000 (Daily Double): Born in Hanover, Germany in 1660, he was 54 when he took the English throne in 1714 George I |
| #6764, aired 2014-01-30 | KINGS OF ENGLAND NOT BORN IN ENGLAND $1600: Uncork a bottle of claret for King Richard II, born in this French wine region in 1367 Bordeaux |
| #6764, aired 2014-01-30 | KINGS OF ENGLAND NOT BORN IN ENGLAND $2000: Born in Rouen in 1442, the fourth king of this name was a prominent figure in the Wars of the Roses Edward |
| #6679, aired 2013-10-03 | BORN & DIED $400: Born in Arkansas in 1932, he walked the final line in Nashville in 2003 Johnny Cash |
| #6679, aired 2013-10-03 | BORN & DIED $1200: He was born in Scotland in 1813; his mission came to an end in Chitambo (now in Zambia) in 1873 (David) Livingstone |
| #6679, aired 2013-10-03 | BORN & DIED $1600: He was born in Sussex, England August 4, 1792 & died off the coast of Tuscany July 8, 1822 Percy Shelley |
| #6679, aired 2013-10-03 | BORN & DIED $2000: This U.N. Secretary-General was born July 29, 1905 in Sweden & died September 18, 1961 near Ndola, Northern Rhodesia Hammarskjöld |
| #6679, aired 2013-10-03 | BORN & DIED $3,000 (Daily Double): He was born in Brookline, Massachusetts in 1925 & died in Los Angeles June 6, 1968 RFK |
| #6658, aired 2013-07-24 | BORN ON THE 24th OF JULY $200: This San Francisco Giants home run king was born on July 24, 1964 Barry Bonds |
| #6658, aired 2013-07-24 | BORN ON THE 24th OF JULY $400: On July 24, 1783 this military man was liberated from his mom in Venezuela Simón Bolívar |
| #6658, aired 2013-07-24 | BORN ON THE 24th OF JULY $600: She winged her way into the world on July 24, 1897 & flew into history just shy of her 40th birthday Amelia Earhart |
| #6658, aired 2013-07-24 | BORN ON THE 24th OF JULY $800: Before achieving fame as a pere, this novelist became a fils on July 24, 1802 in Aisne, France Alexandre Dumas |
| #6658, aired 2013-07-24 | BORN ON THE 24th OF JULY $1000: On July 24, 1956 it was clap hands, here comes Charlie, this future party-switching Florida governor Charlie Crist |
| #6630, aired 2013-06-14 | AUTHORS: BORN & DIED $400: Born June 2, 1840 in England; went far from the madding crowd Jan. 11, 1928 Hardy |
| #6630, aired 2013-06-14 | AUTHORS: BORN & DIED $800: Born in Russia in 1920; died some 500 books & 72 years later in New York City Isaac Asimov |
| #6630, aired 2013-06-14 | AUTHORS: BORN & DIED $1600: Born in Scotland in 1850; died in Samoa in 1894 Robert Louis Stevenson |
| #6630, aired 2013-06-14 | AUTHORS: BORN & DIED $2000: Born in 1913 in Algeria; died in a car accident in France in 1960 (Albert) Camus |
| #6630, aired 2013-06-14 | AUTHORS: BORN & DIED $3,000 (Daily Double): Born in 1917 in England;
died in 2008 (not 2001) in Sri Lanka (Arthur C.) Clarke |
| #6617, aired 2013-05-28 | THE PRESIDENT BORN IN... $400: Kapi'olani Maternity & Gynecological Hospital Obama |
| #6617, aired 2013-05-28 | THE PRESIDENT BORN IN... $800: The Truman administration
(1 of 2) (Bill) Clinton (or George W. Bush) |
| #6617, aired 2013-05-28 | THE PRESIDENT BORN IN... $1200: New Hampshire Pierce |
| #6617, aired 2013-05-28 | THE PRESIDENT BORN IN... $1600: Sinking Spring Farm, about 20 miles south of Fort Knox Lincoln |
| #6617, aired 2013-05-28 | THE PRESIDENT BORN IN... $2000: The middle of World War I JFK |
| #6576, aired 2013-04-01 | BORN IN THE 1400s $400: Her, "la pucelle D'orleans" Joan of Arc |
| #6576, aired 2013-04-01 | BORN IN THE 1400s $800: This "magnificent" sultan, around 1494 Suleiman |
| #6576, aired 2013-04-01 | BORN IN THE 1400s $1200: This explorer aka Giovanni Caboto, sort of the Columbus of the North Atlantic (John) Cabot |
| #6576, aired 2013-04-01 | BORN IN THE 1400s $1600: In 1449 came this future ruler of Florence Lorenzo de' Medici |
| #6576, aired 2013-04-01 | BORN IN THE 1400s $2000: This Italian painter, whose work is seen here Sandro Botticelli |
| #6567, aired 2013-03-19 | MUSIC LEGENDS: BORN & DIED $400: Born 1958 in Gary, Indiana; died 2009 in Los Angeles Michael Jackson |
| #6567, aired 2013-03-19 | MUSIC LEGENDS: BORN & DIED $800: Born 1945 in St. Ann, Jamaica; died 1981 in Miami Bob Marley |
| #6567, aired 2013-03-19 | MUSIC LEGENDS: BORN & DIED $1200: Born 1943 in Liverpool; died 2001 in Los Angeles George Harrison |
| #6567, aired 2013-03-19 | MUSIC LEGENDS: BORN & DIED $2000: Born 1942 in Seattle; died 1970 in London Jimi Hendrix |
| #6567, aired 2013-03-19 | MUSIC LEGENDS: BORN & DIED $3,000 (Daily Double): Born 1967 in Hoquiam, Washington; died 1994 in Seattle Kurt Cobain |
| #6393, aired 2012-06-06 | BORN & DIED: AUTHORS EDITION $400: Born & died in New York (1819-1891), wrote a whale of a tale in between Herman Melville |
| #6393, aired 2012-06-06 | BORN & DIED: AUTHORS EDITION $800: Born September 1897 in Mississippi, was in Byhalia, Mississippi July 6, 1962 as he lay dying Faulkner |
| #6393, aired 2012-06-06 | BORN & DIED: AUTHORS EDITION $1200: Born in Moscow November 11, 1821, gave "Notes From the Underground", headed underground February 9, 1881 Dostoyevsky |
| #6393, aired 2012-06-06 | BORN & DIED: AUTHORS EDITION $1600: Let out his first "Howl" June 3, 1926, might have said, "I'm really Beat" April 5, 1997 (Allen) Ginsberg |
| #6393, aired 2012-06-06 | BORN & DIED: AUTHORS EDITION $3,000 (Daily Double): Born 1894, became Hellman's man in 1930, case solved for good 1961 Dashiell Hammett |
| #6373, aired 2012-05-09 | HISTORY SINCE YOU WERE BORN $400: Appearing before Congress in 2010, Halliburton, Transocean & this oil company blamed each other for a giant spill BP |
| #6373, aired 2012-05-09 | HISTORY SINCE YOU WERE BORN $800: In 2005 this mayor of Tehran won the presidency of Iran in a landslide over Hashemi Rafsanjani Ahmadinejad |
| #6373, aired 2012-05-09 | HISTORY SINCE YOU WERE BORN $1200: In 2003 fighting erupted in this western region of Sudan, with Arab militia committing genocide against non-Arab farmers Darfur |
| #6373, aired 2012-05-09 | HISTORY SINCE YOU WERE BORN $1600: In February 1997 Scottish scientists announced the birth of this first cloned sheep Dolly |
| #6373, aired 2012-05-09 | HISTORY SINCE YOU WERE BORN $2000: In October 2000 terrorists attacked the USS Cole when it stopped to refuel at the port of Aden in this country Yemen |
| #6315, aired 2012-02-17 | BORN IN 1912 $200: This cartoonist's 100th birthday was commemorated with a Google doodle feature a drawing of his ghoulish family. Charles Addams |
| #6315, aired 2012-02-17 | BORN IN 1912 $400: This "drip" artist drew his first breaths January 28 in Cody, Wyoming (Jackson) Pollock |
| #6315, aired 2012-02-17 | BORN IN 1912 $600: Born in Cambridge, he represented Massachusetts in the U.S. House for 34 years, 10 as speaker in the '70s & '80s Tip O'Neill |
| #6315, aired 2012-02-17 | BORN IN 1912 $800: Golf greats Byron Nelson, Ben Hogan & this guy, "Slammin' Sam", were all born in 1912 (Sam) Snead |
| #6315, aired 2012-02-17 | BORN IN 1912 $1,500 (Daily Double): Born in Italy in 1912, he chose a papal name that honored his 2 immediate predecessors Pope John Paul I |
| #6191, aired 2011-07-11 | BORN & DIED $400: Her story began in Atlanta November 8, 1900 & ended there as well in August 1949 Margaret Mitchell |
| #6191, aired 2011-07-11 | BORN & DIED $1200: This world leader was born in September 1917 on Luzon; he died in September 1989 in Honolulu (Ferdinand) Marcos |
| #6191, aired 2011-07-11 | BORN & DIED $1600: He was born December 5, 1839 in New Rumley, Ohio & died in battle, June 25, 1876 in the Montana Territory Custer |
| #6191, aired 2011-07-11 | BORN & DIED $2,000 (Daily Double): Born in Sweden in 1823, he went out without a bang in San Remo, Italy in 1896 (Alfred) Nobel |
| #6191, aired 2011-07-11 | BORN & DIED $2000: Born in Germany in 1685, he tuned out April 14, 1759 in London Handel |
| #6161, aired 2011-05-30 | BORN & DIED $200: Born: Feb. 22, 1932, Boston, Massachusetts. Died: Aug. 25, 2009, Hyannis Port, Massachusetts Ted Kennedy |
| #6161, aired 2011-05-30 | BORN & DIED $400: Born: 570, Mecca. Died: June 8, 632, Medina Muhammad |
| #6161, aired 2011-05-30 | BORN & DIED $500 (Daily Double): Born: Nov. 2, 1755, Vienna, Austria. Died: Oct. 16. 1793, Paris, France Marie Antoinette |
| #6161, aired 2011-05-30 | BORN & DIED $600: Born: Oct. 2, 1869, Porbandar, India. Died: Jan. 30, 1948, New Delhi, India Gandhi |
| #6161, aired 2011-05-30 | BORN & DIED $1000: Born: June 14, 1928, Rosario, Argentina. Died: Oct. 9, 1967, Bolivia Che Guevara |
| #6128, aired 2011-04-13 | AN AUTHOR IS BORN $400: This American sci fi author started looking into the future in Petrovichi, Russia on Jan. 2, 1920 Asimov |
| #6128, aired 2011-04-13 | AN AUTHOR IS BORN $800: This son also rose on July 21, 1899 in Oak Park, Illinois Hemingway |
| #6128, aired 2011-04-13 | AN AUTHOR IS BORN $1200: Born in Bedfordshire, England in 1628, he was making "Progress" from the start (John) Bunyan |
| #6128, aired 2011-04-13 | AN AUTHOR IS BORN $1600: We'll give you a chocolate bar if you'll name this short story writer born Sept. 11, 1862 in North Carolina O. Henry |
| #6128, aired 2011-04-13 | AN AUTHOR IS BORN $2000: He was born at home Oct. 3, 1900 in Asheville, N.C. & later found out you can't go home again Thomas Wolfe |
| #6060, aired 2011-01-07 | BORN TO RUN $400: His dad was the second U.S. president; he was No. 6 John Quincy Adams |
| #6060, aired 2011-01-07 | BORN TO RUN $800: His grandpa was the ninth U.S. president; he was No. 23 Benjamin Harrison |
| #6060, aired 2011-01-07 | BORN TO RUN $1200: Patrick of this illustrious family was first elected to Congress from Rhode Island in 1994 the Kennedy family |
| #6060, aired 2011-01-07 | BORN TO RUN $1600: This president's son & grandson were Ohio senators; a great-grandson, Ohio's governor William Howard Taft |
| #6060, aired 2011-01-07 | BORN TO RUN $2000: Members of this family dynasty have included 2 Phoenix mayors, a Secretary of the Interior & 3 U.S. senators the Udalls |
| #5994, aired 2010-10-07 | A BUSINESS IS BORN $400: It was born in Seattle in 1971 & named for the first mate in "Moby Dick" Starbucks |
| #5994, aired 2010-10-07 | A BUSINESS IS BORN $800: This food chain began in 1980, when Safer Way Natural Foods merged with Clarksville Natural Grocery Whole Foods |
| #5994, aired 2010-10-07 | A BUSINESS IS BORN $1200: The first drug-store in this chain began operating out of a Chicago hotel in 1901; in 2009 the 7,000th store opened Walgreens |
| #5994, aired 2010-10-07 | A BUSINESS IS BORN $1600: In 1998, after renaming their Backrub search engine, Larry Page & Sergey Brin incorporated under this name Google |
| #5989, aired 2010-09-30 | BORN & DIED: SCIENCE EDITION $400: Russian-born Sept. 1849, must love dogs, his name rings a bell, died Feb. 27, 1936 Pavlov |
| #5989, aired 2010-09-30 | BORN & DIED: SCIENCE EDITION $800: Born May 15, 1859 in Paris, physics was his main (radio)activity, died April 19, 1906 Pierre Curie |
| #5989, aired 2010-09-30 | BORN & DIED: SCIENCE EDITION $1200: Jolted to life in Como, Italy Feb. 18, 1745, generated a lot of static, his electricity went out March 5, 1827 Volta |
| #5989, aired 2010-09-30 | BORN & DIED: SCIENCE EDITION $1600: Great Dane born Oct. 7, 1885, built atomic models, died Nov. 18, 1962 (Niels) Bohr |
| #5989, aired 2010-09-30 | BORN & DIED: SCIENCE EDITION $3,000 (Daily Double): Born in Siberia in 1834, we obey his periodic law, died in 1907 in St. Petersburg (Dmitri) Mendeleev |
| #5963, aired 2010-07-14 | BORN ON THE 14th OF JULY $400: In 1912 this folk music legend had his 1st chance to say "This land is your land" (which he did not do, as he was a newborn) (Woody) Guthrie |
| #5963, aired 2010-07-14 | BORN ON THE 14th OF JULY $800: Last name of Ferdinand II, born in 1610 & the 5th Grand Duke of Tuscany, where his family name carried a lot of weight Medici |
| #5963, aired 2010-07-14 | BORN ON THE 14th OF JULY $1200: We're sure there were plenty of "Cries and Whispers" when this Swedish film director was born in 1918 Ingmar Bergman |
| #5963, aired 2010-07-14 | BORN ON THE 14th OF JULY $1600: On July 14, 1938 Abbie Hoffman was in short pants when this future "Chicago 7" leader made the scene as the "Cincinnati 1" Jerry Rubin |
| #5963, aired 2010-07-14 | BORN ON THE 14th OF JULY $2000: "Rock-solid" writer of fictionalized biographies who had a "Lust for Life" on July 14, 1903 Irving Stone |
| #5939, aired 2010-06-10 | JASON BORN $400: This Jason who played Brandon on "Beverly Hills 90210" was born with the middle name Bradford (Jason) Priestley |
| #5939, aired 2010-06-10 | JASON BORN $1200: In 2009 Jason Mesnick was the title figure on this reality series--the first single dad to do so The Bachelor |
| #5939, aired 2010-06-10 | JASON BORN $1600: This Jason born in London has played transporter Frank Martin in 3 films Jason Statham |
| #5939, aired 2010-06-10 | JASON BORN $2,000 (Daily Double): Born in Hollywood, she turned up on "Weeds" in 2009 as Nancy's estranged sister Jill Jennifer Jason Leigh |
| #5939, aired 2010-06-10 | JASON BORN $2000: "I'm Yours" is the biggest hit by this Jason born in Virginia Jason Mraz |
| #5932, aired 2010-06-01 | BORN TO "RUN" $200: A meal served at 11:00 A.M. on a Sunday brunch |
| #5932, aired 2010-06-01 | BORN TO "RUN" $400: "I ran with llamas & bought 22 6-packs & went skydiving with Beyonce & Jay-Z was upset with me" is this type of sentence a run-on sentence |
| #5932, aired 2010-06-01 | BORN TO "RUN" $600: Meaning sulky or peevish, this 11-letter word seems to precede "ex-employee" a lot disgruntled |
| #5932, aired 2010-06-01 | BORN TO "RUN" $800: You're said to do this to "numbers" when processing a large amount of data crunch |
| #5932, aired 2010-06-01 | BORN TO "RUN" $1000: This small, silvery food fish spawns at high tide in wet sand a grunion |
| #5929, aired 2010-05-27 | BORN IN BURBANK $200: The daughter of Broadway legend John Raitt, she's won numerous Grammys for her blues-rock style Bonnie Raitt |
| #5929, aired 2010-05-27 | BORN IN BURBANK $400: This quirky director's films include "Mars Attacks!" & "Sweeney Todd" Tim Burton |
| #5929, aired 2010-05-27 | BORN IN BURBANK $600: Before playing agent Gibbs on "NCIS", this Burbank native played quarterback for UCLA Mark Harmon |
| #5929, aired 2010-05-27 | BORN IN BURBANK $800: She was a successful fashion model before starring in films like "Lethal Weapon 3" & "The Thomas Crown Affair" Rene Russo |
| #5929, aired 2010-05-27 | BORN IN BURBANK $1000: This Burbank boy starred in "8 Simple Rules" & also voiced Clifford the Big Red Dog John Ritter |
| #5879, aired 2010-03-18 | BORN IN EAST LA. $1600: Born near Opelousas, he's the Paul in K-Paul's Louisiana kitchen Paul Prudhomme |
| #5879, aired 2010-03-18 | BORN IN EAST LA. $2000: Baton Rouge, La.-born Brandon Hamilton starred as a cornerback for the Edmonton Eskimos in this sports league Canadian football |
| #5807, aired 2009-12-08 | BORN IN DUBLIN $400: After the Battle of Waterloo, he said, "Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won" Wellington |
| #5807, aired 2009-12-08 | BORN IN DUBLIN $800: John Millington Synge wasn't born on Dublin's Synge St.; this other 3-named playwright was George Bernard Shaw |
| #5807, aired 2009-12-08 | BORN IN DUBLIN $1200: This red-haired beauty born in the Dublin suburb of Ranelagh played Natalie Wood's mother in "Miracle on 34th Street" Maureen O'Hara |
| #5807, aired 2009-12-08 | BORN IN DUBLIN $1600: His first major satire, "A Tale of a Tub", was published in 1704 Swift |
| #5807, aired 2009-12-08 | BORN IN DUBLIN $2000: This "Babes in Toyland" composer helped found the organization ASCAP in 1914 Victor Herbert |
| #5799, aired 2009-11-26 | BORN & DIED $200: Be-bopped into the world Aug. 29, 1920; found the joy of sax & flew away March 12, 1955 Charlie Parker |
| #5799, aired 2009-11-26 | BORN & DIED $400: Tough guy actor born Nov. 3, 1921; had no "Death Wish" but made his "Great Escape" Aug. 30, 2003 Charles Bronson |
| #5799, aired 2009-11-26 | BORN & DIED $600: New Yorker cartoonist, drew his first breath Jan. 7, 1912; left his ooky family Sept. 29, 1988 (Charles) Addams |
| #5799, aired 2009-11-26 | BORN & DIED $800: Seismologist born April 26, 1900; shook the world with his Sept. 30, 1985 death (Charles) Richter |
| #5799, aired 2009-11-26 | BORN & DIED $1000: Born in Lille, Nov. 22, 1890; said a general au revoir Nov. 9, 1970 Charles de Gaulle |
| #5670, aired 2009-04-10 | BORN IN 1909 $400: Barry Goldwater, in Arizona, which still had this status a territory |
| #5670, aired 2009-04-10 | BORN IN 1909 $800: U Thant, in this current country Myanmar (or Burma) |
| #5670, aired 2009-04-10 | BORN IN 1909 $1200: This "Streetcar Named Desire" director, in Constantinople Elia Kazan |
| #5670, aired 2009-04-10 | BORN IN 1909 $1600: This film critic & "A Death in the Family" novelist (James) Agee |
| #5670, aired 2009-04-10 | BORN IN 1909 $2000: Andrei Gromyko, the face of the USSR as this minister from 1957 to 1985 Foreign Minister |
| #5656, aired 2009-03-23 | BORN TO RUN $22 (Daily Double): The Pre Classic, an Oregon track & field meet, is named for this legendary runner & subject of 2 major movies Steve Prefontaine |
| #5656, aired 2009-03-23 | BORN TO RUN $400: In 1984 he dashed off with Olympic gold in the 100m; in 1988 he did it again; then there are his 7 other golds… Carl Lewis |
| #5656, aired 2009-03-23 | BORN TO RUN $800: At a Big 10 meet in Michigan in 1935, this grandson of a slave broke 3 world records & tied a fourth, all in an hour (Jesse) Owens |
| #5656, aired 2009-03-23 | BORN TO RUN $1200: In 2003 she returned to London to run her first-ever marathon--in shoes, we might add Zola Budd |
| #5656, aired 2009-03-23 | BORN TO RUN $2000: Among his many nicknames were "The Finnish Running Marvel" & "The Phantom Finn" (Paavo) Nurmi |
| #5586, aired 2008-12-15 | BORN & DIED $200: Once upon a time she was born July 1, 1961 in Norfolk, England; the fairy tale ended in Paris August 31, 1997 Princess Diana |
| #5586, aired 2008-12-15 | BORN & DIED $400: This seamstress born Feb. 4, 1913 took a long bus ride home out of Detroit in 2005 Rosa Parks |
| #5586, aired 2008-12-15 | BORN & DIED $600: His adventures began in Wales in 1888 & ended with a motorcycle accident in England in 1935 Lawrence (of Arabia) |
| #5586, aired 2008-12-15 | BORN & DIED $800: He was born May 5, 1818 in Germany & died in das kapital of England in 1883 (Karl) Marx |
| #5586, aired 2008-12-15 | BORN & DIED $1000: Act I:
Born in Dublin, October 16, 1854; Final act: died November 30, 1900 in Paris Oscar Wilde |
| #5557, aired 2008-11-04 | FOREIGN-BORN LEADERS $400: Born in what is now Poland, he was the first prime minister of Israel Ben-Gurion |
| #5557, aired 2008-11-04 | FOREIGN-BORN LEADERS $800: Adolf Hitler was born in this country in 1889 Austria |
| #5557, aired 2008-11-04 | FOREIGN-BORN LEADERS $1,000 (Daily Double): Born in New York City, Eamon de Valera served as this country's prime minister 3 times in the 20th century Ireland |
| #5557, aired 2008-11-04 | FOREIGN-BORN LEADERS $1200: Born in what was then Prussia, she became ruler of Russia following the murder of her husband Peter III Catherine the Great |
| #5557, aired 2008-11-04 | FOREIGN-BORN LEADERS $2000: Dutch-born Protestant Prince William of Orange became king of England after this Catholic king was deposed & fled James II |
| #5547, aired 2008-10-21 | BORN TO BE MILD $200: On July 6, 1935 he was born in Tibet for either the 1st or 14th time the Dalai Lama |
| #5547, aired 2008-10-21 | BORN TO BE MILD $400: Missionary? Not impossible for him, born in Assisi in 1181 or 1182 St. Francis |
| #5547, aired 2008-10-21 | BORN TO BE MILD $600: This writer began communing with nature on July 12, 1817 in Concord, Massachusetts Henry David Thoreau |
| #5547, aired 2008-10-21 | BORN TO BE MILD $800: His Oct. 2, 1869 birth in Porbandar, India would change the world (Mohandas) Gandhi |
| #5547, aired 2008-10-21 | BORN TO BE MILD $1000: No "blockhead", this cartoonist drew his first breath in Minneapolis on Nov. 26, 1922 Charles Schulz |
| #5405, aired 2008-02-22 | BORN FIRST $200: Zachary Taylor,
Woodrow Wilson,
Andrew Jackson Andrew Jackson |
| #5405, aired 2008-02-22 | BORN FIRST $400: Alexander Graham Bell,
George Washington Carver,
Guglielmo Marconi Alexander Graham Bell |
| #5405, aired 2008-02-22 | BORN FIRST $600: Harriet Beecher Stowe,
James Fenimore Cooper,
Ernest Hemingway James Fenimore Cooper |
| #5405, aired 2008-02-22 | BORN FIRST $800: Ludwig van Beethoven,
Johann Sebastian Bach,
Johannes Brahms Bach |
| #5405, aired 2008-02-22 | BORN FIRST $1000: Elizabeth I of England,
Louis XIV of France,
Nicholas II of Russia Elizabeth I of England |
| #5395, aired 2008-02-08 | BORN & DIED $400: A religious leader born June 1, 1801 in Whitingham, Vermont; died Aug. 29, 1877 in Salt Lake City Brigham Young |
| #5395, aired 2008-02-08 | BORN & DIED $800: An artist, born Sept. 7, 1860 in Greenwich, New York; died Dec. 13, 1961 in Hoosick Falls Grandma Moses |
| #5395, aired 2008-02-08 | BORN & DIED $1200: An actor, born Feb. 8, 1931 in Marion, Indiana; died Sept. 30, 1955 near Paso Robles, California James Dean |
| #5395, aired 2008-02-08 | BORN & DIED $1600: An author, born Nov. 13, 1850 in Edinburgh, Scotland; died Dec. 3, 1894 in Samoa Robert Louis Stevenson |
| #5395, aired 2008-02-08 | BORN & DIED $2000: A statesman born March 19, 1860 in Salem, Illinois; died July 26, 1925 in Dayton, Tennessee William Jennings Bryan |
| #5377, aired 2008-01-15 | BORN FIRST $200: Brad Pitt,
Matt Damon,
George Clooney George Clooney |
| #5377, aired 2008-01-15 | BORN FIRST $400: Mick Jagger,
Keith Richards,
Charlie Watts Charlie Watts |
| #5377, aired 2008-01-15 | BORN FIRST $600: Britney Spears,
Jessica Simpson,
Lindsay Lohan Jessica Simpson |
| #5377, aired 2008-01-15 | BORN FIRST $800: Tiger Woods,
Sergio Garcia,
Michelle Wie Tiger Woods |
| #5377, aired 2008-01-15 | BORN FIRST $1000: Joan Rivers,
David Letterman,
Larry King Joan Rivers |
| #5322, aired 2007-10-30 | BORN & DIED $200: Born October 9, 1940 in Liverpool, he died tragically December 8, 1980 in New York City John Lennon |
| #5322, aired 2007-10-30 | BORN & DIED $400: He was born January 15, 1929 in Atlanta & died in Memphis April 4, 1968 Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| #5322, aired 2007-10-30 | BORN & DIED $600: A profile of this film director says he was born in Britain in 1899 & died in Los Angeles in 1980 Alfred Hitchcock |
| #5322, aired 2007-10-30 | BORN & DIED $800: He was born on an Army post in Little Rock in 1880 & faded away at a D.C. hospital in 1964 (Douglas) MacArthur |
| #5322, aired 2007-10-30 | BORN & DIED $1000: Born in Houston in 1905, he died en route from Acapulco to Houston in 1976; his money couldn't save him Howard Hughes |
| #5271, aired 2007-07-09 | BORN TO BE KING $400: Tsarskoe Selo, Russia
1868 Nicholas II |
| #5271, aired 2007-07-09 | BORN TO BE KING $800: Kohala, Hawaii
c. 1758 Kamehameha |
| #5271, aired 2007-07-09 | BORN TO BE KING $1600: Berlin, Prussia
1712 Frederick the Great |
| #5271, aired 2007-07-09 | BORN TO BE KING $2,000 (Daily Double): Falaise, Normandy
c. 1028 William the Conqueror |
| #5271, aired 2007-07-09 | BORN TO BE KING $2000: Cairo, Egypt
1920 Farouk |
| #5256, aired 2007-06-18 | BORN IN TRANSYLVANIA $400: A prince of Walachia, he was known for impaling thousands at Bradsov in Transylvania Vlad the Impaler |
| #5256, aired 2007-06-18 | BORN IN TRANSYLVANIA $800: Born near Timisoara, this "Tarzan" actor claimed U.S. birth & swam for the U.S. in the Olympics (Johnny) Weissmuller |
| #5256, aired 2007-06-18 | BORN IN TRANSYLVANIA $1200: Gheorghe Muresan played big for this NBA team that was then called the Bullets Washington Wizards |
| #5256, aired 2007-06-18 | BORN IN TRANSYLVANIA $1600: Born in what was then Hungary, he gained fame on stage in a Bram Stoker adaptation & later acted in the film Bela Lugosi |
| #5256, aired 2007-06-18 | BORN IN TRANSYLVANIA $2000: Jimmy Carter named this Nobel Peace Prize winner chair of the President's Commision on the Holocaust Elie Wiesel |
| #5211, aired 2007-04-16 | BORN FIRST $200: Dr. Jonas Salk,
Dr. Louis Pasteur,
Dr. Benjamin Spock Dr. Louis Pasteur |
| #5211, aired 2007-04-16 | BORN FIRST $400: Tiberius Caesar,
Augustus Caesar,
Sid Caesar Augustus Caesar |
| #5211, aired 2007-04-16 | BORN FIRST $600: Ulysses Grant,
Abraham Lincoln,
Franklin Pierce Franklin Pierce |
| #5211, aired 2007-04-16 | BORN FIRST $800: John Irving,
James Michener,
Arthur Miller James Michener |
| #5211, aired 2007-04-16 | BORN FIRST $1000: Andy Warhol,
Jackson Pollock,
Judy Chicago Jackson Pollock |
| #5025, aired 2006-06-16 | FIRST BORN $200: Shakespeare,
Milton,
Tennyson Shakespeare |
| #5025, aired 2006-06-16 | FIRST BORN $400: Giuseppe Verdi,
Wolfgang Mozart,
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov Wolfgang Mozart |
| #5025, aired 2006-06-16 | FIRST BORN $600: John F. Kennedy,
Gerald Ford,
George H.W. Bush Gerald Ford |
| #5025, aired 2006-06-16 | FIRST BORN $800: Pablo Picasso,
Salvador Dali,
Grandma Moses Grandma Moses |
| #5025, aired 2006-06-16 | FIRST BORN $1000: Marco Polo,
Henry the Navigator,
Christopher Columbus Marco Polo |
| #4963, aired 2006-03-22 | BORN TO RUN $200: At the 1936 Berlin games, he ran a 10.3 in the 100 meters, tying the Olympic record Jesse Owens |
| #4963, aired 2006-03-22 | BORN TO RUN? $400: This Illinois man's 2 presidential runs in the 1950s garnered a total of 162 electoral votes (Adlai) Stevenson |
| #4963, aired 2006-03-22 | BORN TO RUN $400: Truly an "R.H." factor: on a contract request, this MLB steals leader said, "All I'm asking for is what I want" Rickey Henderson |
| #4963, aired 2006-03-22 | BORN TO RUN $600: In 1975 this Ohio State back rushed for 1,450 yards but only 4 touchdowns on his way to winning his 2nd Heisman Archie Griffin |
| #4963, aired 2006-03-22 | BORN TO RUN? $800: In 1858 Abe Lincoln lost a U.S. Senate race to this man but would bounce back against him 2 years later (Stephen) Douglas |
| #4963, aired 2006-03-22 | BORN TO RUN $800: He's the horse seen here in 1973 en route to a 31-length victory at Belmont Secretariat |
| #4963, aired 2006-03-22 | BORN TO RUN $1000: This Supreme Court justice twice led the NFL in rushing (Byron "Whizzer") White |
| #4963, aired 2006-03-22 | BORN TO RUN? $1600: This former Minnesota gov. ran unsuccessfully 9 times for the GOP presidential nomination (Harold) Stassen |
| #4963, aired 2006-03-22 | BORN TO RUN? $2000: 1 electoral vote shy of being president, he left $2.4 million of his estate to help found the N.Y. Public Library Samuel Tilden |
| #4963, aired 2006-03-22 | BORN TO RUN? $2,400 (Daily Double): In 1976 he fell 117 delegate votes short of defeating President Ford for the Republican nomination Ronald Reagan |
| #4950, aired 2006-03-03 | NATURAL BORN KILTERS $400: A true Pittsburgh Steeler, he was born in Dunfermline, Scotland in 1835 Andrew Carnegie |
| #4950, aired 2006-03-03 | NATURAL BORN KILTERS $800: Kirriemuir, Scotland must have seemed like Neverland to this author born there in 1860 (James) Barrie |
| #4950, aired 2006-03-03 | NATURAL BORN KILTERS $1200: Of the last 5 British prime ministers, the one born in Scotland Tony Blair |
| #4950, aired 2006-03-03 | NATURAL BORN KILTERS $1600: He was born in East Lothian, Scotland in 1848, & his "Declaration" supported the creation of the State of Israel Balfour |
| #4950, aired 2006-03-03 | NATURAL BORN KILTERS $2000: A part of this philosopher's human nature was to be born in Edinburgh in 1711 David Hume |
| #4940, aired 2006-02-17 | BORN FIRST $400: John Milton,
John Grisham,
John Steinbeck John Milton |
| #4940, aired 2006-02-17 | BORN FIRST $800: Charles Darwin,
Galileo,
Max Planck Galileo |
| #4940, aired 2006-02-17 | BORN FIRST $1200: Percy Shelley,
Robert Frost,
Pablo Neruda Shelley |
| #4940, aired 2006-02-17 | BORN FIRST $1600: Igor Stravinsky,
Claude Debussy,
Wolfgang Mozart Wolfgang Mozart |
| #4940, aired 2006-02-17 | BORN FIRST $2000: English kings:
James I,
Alfred the Great,
George III Alfred the Great |
| #4833, aired 2005-09-21 | BORN $200: Born on Oct. 31, 1887 in the Zhejiang Province, he'd Taiwan-on in 1949 Chiang Kai-shek |
| #4833, aired 2005-09-21 | BORN $600: No truth to the rumor this Soviet leader's eyebrows added 5 lbs. to his Dec. 19, 1906 birth (Leonid) Brezhnev |
| #4833, aired 2005-09-21 | BORN $800: He made his very first exploration into the cold world on July 16, 1872 in Borge, near Oslo, Norway Amundsen |
| #4833, aired 2005-09-21 | BORN $1,000 (Daily Double): Born on March 18, 1869 in Birmingham, England, he appeased away 71 years later Neville Chamberlain |
| #4833, aired 2005-09-21 | BORN $1000: This painter was nude descending into the world on July 28, 1887 in Blainville, France (Marcel) Duchamp |
| #4832, aired 2005-09-20 | BORN FIRST $200: John Lennon,
Ringo Starr,
George Harrison Ringo Starr |
| #4832, aired 2005-09-20 | BORN FIRST $400: Stokely Carmichael,
Martin Luther King, Jr.,
Malcolm X Malcolm X |
| #4832, aired 2005-09-20 | BORN FIRST $600: Alexander the Great,
Darius the Great,
Frederick the Great Darius |
| #4832, aired 2005-09-20 | BORN FIRST $800: Leon Trotsky,
Vladimir Lenin,
Josef Stalin Lenin |
| #4832, aired 2005-09-20 | BORN FIRST $1000: John Paul Stevens,
William Rehnquist,
David Souter John Paul Stevens |
| #4741, aired 2005-03-28 | BORN IN THE U.S.A. $200: He was born in 1786 in Eastern Tennessee & died in 1836 at the Alamo Davy Crockett |
| #4741, aired 2005-03-28 | BORN IN THE U.S.A. $400: This "Lonesome Dove" author was born June 3, 1936 in Wichita Falls, Texas McMurtry |
| #4741, aired 2005-03-28 | BORN IN THE U.S.A. $600: Born May 10, 1838 near Bel Air, Maryland, he'd find fame in the theater for 2 very different reasons John Wilkes Booth |
| #4741, aired 2005-03-28 | BORN IN THE U.S.A. $1000: North Carolina-born on Nov. 2, 1795, he was the 11th U.S. president Polk |
| #4741, aired 2005-03-28 | BORN IN THE U.S.A. $2,000 (Daily Double): You don't get more all-American than this illustrator born Feb. 3, 1894 in NYC (Norman) Rockwell |
| #4716, aired 2005-02-21 | THE BORN IDENTITY $400: Played Rizzo when she was in her 30s:
Susan Stockard Stockard Channing |
| #4716, aired 2005-02-21 | THE BORN IDENTITY $800: He was always the debonair man-about-town:
Archibald Leach Cary Grant |
| #4716, aired 2005-02-21 | THE BORN IDENTITY $1200: A famous dance partner:
Virginia McMath Ginger Rogers |
| #4716, aired 2005-02-21 | THE BORN IDENTITY $1600: This "Dirty Rotten Scoundrel" was Maurice Micklewhite Michael Caine |
| #4716, aired 2005-02-21 | THE BORN IDENTITY $2000: Wasn't born "Dressed to Kill":
Angeline Brown Angie Dickinson |
| #4500, aired 2004-03-12 | BORN & DIED $400: He was born in Genoa, Italy in 1451 & died in Valladolid, Spain in 1506 Christopher Columbus |
| #4500, aired 2004-03-12 | BORN & DIED $800: Born in Oak Park, Illinois in 1899; closed the book on himself in Ketchum, Idaho in 1961 (Ernest) Hemingway |
| #4500, aired 2004-03-12 | BORN & DIED $1200: Born in Ulm, Germany in 1879, he died in Princeton, New Jersey in 1955 (Albert) Einstein |
| #4500, aired 2004-03-12 | BORN & DIED $1,600 (Daily Double): Born in Paris in 1840, he got the final brush off at Giverny in 1926 Monet |
| #4500, aired 2004-03-12 | BORN & DIED $2000: He was born in Norwich, Connecticut in 1741 & died in London in 1801 Benedict Arnold |
| #4491, aired 2004-03-01 | BORN NORTH OF THE BORDER, EH? $400: "Let's Make A Deal" with this host who hails from Winnipeg, Manitoba Monty Hall |
| #4491, aired 2004-03-01 | BORN NORTH OF THE BORDER, EH? $800: Winnipeg-born Douglas Rain provided the voice of this soft-spoken killer computer on film HAL |
| #4491, aired 2004-03-01 | BORN NORTH OF THE BORDER, EH? $1200: This London, Ontario-born man led the Royal Canadians in their popular New Year's Eve specials Guy Lombardo |
| #4491, aired 2004-03-01 | BORN NORTH OF THE BORDER, EH? $1600: A Blues Brother, a Ghostbuster & a Conehead, he was born in Ottawa (Dan) Aykroyd |
| #4491, aired 2004-03-01 | BORN NORTH OF THE BORDER, EH? $2000: Kids must say the darndest things in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, where this TV host was born July 17, 1912 (Art) Linkletter |
| #4476, aired 2004-02-09 | BORN IN THE 20th CENTURY $400: A 1924 birthdate means that in 2004 you'd become this 12-letter word for an 80-year old an octogenarian |
| #4476, aired 2004-02-09 | BORN IN THE 20th CENTURY $800: Born on or after Jan. 1, 1959? You can't remember a time when this dictator hasn't been in power Fidel Castro |
| #4476, aired 2004-02-09 | BORN IN THE 20th CENTURY $1200: Being born in '46 would make you one of the first of the 75 million Americans part of this postwar generation the baby boomers |
| #4476, aired 2004-02-09 | BORN IN THE 20th CENTURY $2,000 (Daily Double): 1935 babies were just old enough to be drafted for this 3-year-long conflict the Korean War |
| #4476, aired 2004-02-09 | BORN IN THE 20th CENTURY $2000: Old Mrs. Kerfuffle looks good for someone born in this year in which Pres. Wilson signed the Treaty of Versailles 1919 |
| #4474, aired 2004-02-05 | A TIME TO BE BORN $200: Striae is the medical term for these silvery lines that sometimes appear on the skin during pregnancy stretch marks |
| #4474, aired 2004-02-05 | A TIME TO BE BORN $400: The umbilical cord connects the baby to this organ, which is attached to the mom's uterus the placenta |
| #4474, aired 2004-02-05 | A TIME TO BE BORN $600: Before this is done on a pregnant woman, she drinks a lot of water & gets a gel applied ultrasound |
| #4474, aired 2004-02-05 | A TIME TO BE BORN $800: A 4- to 5-inch needle is used in this procedure that tests the fluid surrounding the fetus for genetic disorders amniocentesis |
| #4474, aired 2004-02-05 | A TIME TO BE BORN $1000: These contractions are known as "false labor" Braxton Hicks |
| #4374, aired 2003-09-18 | BORN ON THE FOURTH OF JULY $200: 1826:
Composed "Jeanie With The Light Brown Hair" & "Oh! Susanna" Stephen Foster |
| #4374, aired 2003-09-18 | BORN ON THE FOURTH OF JULY $400: 1804:
His first novel was "Fanshawe" & his last was "The Marble Faun" Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| #4374, aired 2003-09-18 | BORN ON THE FOURTH OF JULY $800: 1807:
His Red Shirts captured Sicily & Naples in 1860 Garibaldi |
| #4374, aired 2003-09-18 | BORN ON THE FOURTH OF JULY $1,000 (Daily Double): 1883:
Cartoonist responsible for the convoluted design seen here Rube Goldberg |
| #4374, aired 2003-09-18 | BORN ON THE FOURTH OF JULY $1000: Art Nouveau Austrian who originated the art seen here Gustav Klimt |
| #4361, aired 2003-07-14 | A STAR IS BORN $200: She was born to her mommie dearest as Lucille Fay LeSueur on March 23, 1908 Joan Crawford |
| #4361, aired 2003-07-14 | A STAR IS BORN $400: This hot shot was born Carlos Estevez on Sept. 3, 1965 Charlie Sheen |
| #4361, aired 2003-07-14 | A STAR IS BORN $600: Elliott Goldstein, born Aug. 29, 1938, became this actor, Streisand's first hubby Elliott Gould |
| #4361, aired 2003-07-14 | A STAR IS BORN $800: This star with a squeaky clean image was born Doris von Kappelhoff on April 3, 1924 Doris Day |
| #4361, aired 2003-07-14 | A STAR IS BORN $1000: AKA Laszlo Loewenstein, he was born on June 26, 1904 in Hungary, not in Casablanca Peter Lorre |
| #4341, aired 2003-06-16 | BORN THE SAME DAY $400: The cartooning gods smiled on Dec. 8, 1894, which produced James Thurber & Elzie Segar, creator of this sailorman Popeye |
| #4341, aired 2003-06-16 | BORN THE SAME DAY $800: May 9, 1936 gave England Glenda Jackson & this actor whose film roles include Daddy Warbucks & Hercule Poirot Albert Finney |
| #4341, aired 2003-06-16 | BORN THE SAME DAY $1200: Freud, who explored the mind, shared his May 6, 1856 birth date with this man who explored the Arctic Robert Peary |
| #4341, aired 2003-06-16 | BORN THE SAME DAY $2,000 (Daily Double): Bishop James Pike & this man named James were both born Feb. 14, 1913 & both later disappeared James Hoffa |
| #4341, aired 2003-06-16 | BORN THE SAME DAY $2000: U.S. black leader Medgar Evers was born July 2, 1925, like this murdered first prime minister of the Congo Patrice Lumumba |
| #4325, aired 2003-05-23 | BORN ON THE 4th OF... $200: ...May 1979 was Lance Bass, now part of this group *NSYNC |
| #4325, aired 2003-05-23 | BORN ON THE 4th OF... $400: ...June was this actress on whom the look of the doll seen here was based Angelina Jolie |
| #4325, aired 2003-05-23 | BORN ON THE 4th OF... $600: ...April was this star of "Chaplin" & romancer of "Ally McBeal" Robert Downey, Jr. |
| #4325, aired 2003-05-23 | BORN ON THE 4th OF... $800: ...February was this "Torn" star whose 2001 CD was "White Lilies Island" Natalie Imbruglia |
| #4325, aired 2003-05-23 | BORN ON THE 4th OF... $1000: ...on the 4th of September was this man who could celebrate with his big showbiz family & TV kids Damon Wayans |
| #4210, aired 2002-12-13 | A CZAR IS BORN $200: Born 1530, died 1584, known for his extreme despotism Ivan the Terrible |
| #4210, aired 2002-12-13 | A CZAR IS BORN $400: Born 1868, died 1918, 'nuff said Nicholas II |
| #4210, aired 2002-12-13 | A CZAR IS BORN $800: Born 1551, died 1605, inspired a drama by Pushkin & an opera by Mussorgsky Boris Godunov |
| #4210, aired 2002-12-13 | A CZAR IS BORN $1000: Born 1818, died 1881, freed the serfs & sold Alaska Alexander II |
| #4210, aired 2002-12-13 | A CZAR IS BORN $3,800 (Daily Double): Born 1672, died 1725, built Russia's second-largest city Peter the Great |
| #4124, aired 2002-07-04 | BORN ON THE FOURTH OF JULY $200: This newsman was born on July 4, 1943, & not named Jerry Rivers Geraldo Rivera |
| #4124, aired 2002-07-04 | BORN ON THE FOURTH OF JULY $400: P.T. Barnum's circus partner, he took his first bow on July 4, 1847 (James) Bailey |
| #4124, aired 2002-07-04 | BORN ON THE FOURTH OF JULY $600: An associate said of this "boss", "There's nothing more limited than a limited partner in the Yankees" Steinbrenner |
| #4124, aired 2002-07-04 | BORN ON THE FOURTH OF JULY $800: Take our advice & name the columnists born in 1918 as Esther Pauline Friedman & Pauline Esther Friedman Abigail Van Buren & Ann Landers |
| #4124, aired 2002-07-04 | BORN ON THE FOURTH OF JULY $1000: Pennsylvania-born in 1826, he penned "Swanee River" only 25 years later (Stephen) Foster |
| #3933, aired 2001-10-10 | NATURAL BORN MILLERS $200: This Hal Linden TV cop was on the beat from 1975 to 1982 Barney Miller |
| #3933, aired 2001-10-10 | NATURAL BORN MILLERS $400: In 1977 he could "Fly Like an Eagle" in his "Jet Airliner" Steve Miller |
| #3933, aired 2001-10-10 | NATURAL BORN MILLERS $800: This 1878 Henry James heroine had Mr. Winterbourne saying, American woman, get away from me Daisy Miller |
| #3933, aired 2001-10-10 | NATURAL BORN MILLERS $2,000 (Daily Double): Always a "Tropic" of conversation, a trilogy of his was composed of "Sexus", "Plexus" & "Nexus" Henry Miller |
| #3585, aired 2000-03-17 | BORN IN IRELAND $200: In 1790 this future Waterloo-winning general was elected to the Irish parliament Duke of Wellington |
| #3585, aired 2000-03-17 | BORN IN IRELAND $400: (Hi, I'm Bob Goen of Entertainment Tonight.) He got his star on the Walk of Fame Dec. 3, 1997 to tie in with the release of his film "Tomorrow Never Dies" Pierce Brosnan |
| #3585, aired 2000-03-17 | BORN IN IRELAND $800: Irish-born actor who played Britain's King Arthur in the movie version of "Camelot" Richard Harris |
| #3585, aired 2000-03-17 | BORN IN IRELAND $1000: Among his operettas, "Babes in Toyland" & "Naughty Marietta" are more famous than "Hearts of Erin" Victor Herbert |
| #3585, aired 2000-03-17 | BORN IN IRELAND $1,300 (Daily Double): Nickname of labor activist Mary Jones, born in Ireland in 1830, died in Maryland in 1930 "Mother" Jones |
| #3529, aired 1999-12-30 | BORN TO BE WILDE $200: Oscar Wilde attended Trinity College in this city Dublin |
| #3529, aired 1999-12-30 | BORN TO BE WILDE $400: Basil Hallward painted the title picture in this book, Wilde's only novel "The Picture of Dorian Gray" |
| #3529, aired 1999-12-30 | BORN TO BE WILDE $600: Wilde wrote of inhuman prison conditions in this 1898 "ballad" The Ballad of Reading Gaol |
| #3529, aired 1999-12-30 | BORN TO BE WILDE $800: A fan is given as a birthday present in this comedy of manners Lady Windermere's Fan |
| #3529, aired 1999-12-30 | BORN TO BE WILDE $1000: One of Oscar's last plays, it was made into a film starring Rupert Everett & Minnie Driver in 1999 An Ideal Husband |
| #3506, aired 1999-11-29 | FOREIGN-BORN YANKS $100: The G in MGM, he was born in Warsaw, Poland Samuel Goldwyn |
| #3506, aired 1999-11-29 | FOREIGN-BORN YANKS $200: This member of Clinton's cabinet was born in Prague Madeleine Albright |
| #3506, aired 1999-11-29 | FOREIGN-BORN YANKS $300: A college football head coach from 1918 to 1931, he hailed from Voss, Norway Knute Rockne |
| #3506, aired 1999-11-29 | FOREIGN-BORN YANKS $400: He hosts a late-night network news show, but not from Lancashire, England, where he was born Ted Koppel |
| #3506, aired 1999-11-29 | FOREIGN-BORN YANKS $500: Born in Petrovichi, Russia, this prolific writer's works include "Foundation's Edge" & "The Gods Themselves" Isaac Asimov |
| #3479, aired 1999-10-21 | FOREIGN-BORN OSCAR WINNERS $200: Born in India in 1913, she won her second Oscar for playing Blanche DuBois in 1951 Vivian Leigh |
| #3479, aired 1999-10-21 | FOREIGN-BORN OSCAR WINNERS $400: Aussie Geoffrey got quite a rush winning for this 1996 film Shine |
| #3479, aired 1999-10-21 | FOREIGN-BORN OSCAR WINNERS $600: Of the 2 women to win acting awards for 1961, she was the Italian Sophia Loren (for "Two Women") |
| #3479, aired 1999-10-21 | FOREIGN-BORN OSCAR WINNERS $800: Her last of 3 Oscar wins was for playing Greta Ohlsson in 1974's "Murder on the Orient Express" Ingrid Bergman |
| #3479, aired 1999-10-21 | FOREIGN-BORN OSCAR WINNERS $1,200 (Daily Double): This 1957 winner claimed he was born on Sakhalin Island, about 3,000 miles northeast of Siam Yul Brynner |
| #3422, aired 1999-06-22 | BORN & DIED $200: She was born once upon a time in Philadelphia, & saw the end in Monaco in 1982 Princess Grace (Grace Kelly) |
| #3422, aired 1999-06-22 | BORN & DIED $400: He got his start in Sarrat in the Philippines in 1917 & died in Honolulu in 1989 Ferdinand Marcos |
| #3422, aired 1999-06-22 | BORN & DIED $600: This author was born in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1850 & died in Samoa in 1894 Robert Louis Stevenson |
| #3422, aired 1999-06-22 | BORN & DIED $800: 2-time Nobel Prize winner who was born in Warsaw in 1867 & died in France in 1934 Marie Curie |
| #3422, aired 1999-06-22 | BORN & DIED $1,200 (Daily Double): This businessman checked in on Christmas Day 1887 in New Mexico & checked out in 1979 in Santa Monica, CA. Conrad Hilton |
| #3410, aired 1999-06-04 | BORN ON THE THIRD OF JULY $200: This "Yankee Doodle Dandy" composer was actually born on July 3 in 1878 George M. Cohan |
| #3410, aired 1999-06-04 | BORN ON THE THIRD OF JULY $400: This July 3-born British playwright co-wrote the award-winning script for "Shakespeare in Love" Tom Stoppard |
| #3410, aired 1999-06-04 | BORN ON THE THIRD OF JULY $500 (Daily Double): Born July 3, 1951, at age 19 he became his country's "President for Life": why, he was just a "Baby" Jean-Claude Duvalier |
| #3410, aired 1999-06-04 | BORN ON THE THIRD OF JULY $600: Born July 3, 1883 in Prague, this author died after a "Trial" with TB in an Austrian sanitarium June 3, 1924 Franz Kafka |
| #3410, aired 1999-06-04 | BORN ON THE THIRD OF JULY $1000: About 200 years before "Jaws", this painter, born July 3, 1738, terrified viewers with the following John Singleton Copley |
| #3393, aired 1999-05-12 | BORN IN THE WINDY CITY $100: This Chicago native worked as a DJ in Vietnam & a weatherman in Nashville before hosting "Wheel of Fortune" Pat Sajak |
| #3393, aired 1999-05-12 | BORN IN THE WINDY CITY $200: In the film "Animal House", this Chicago native played wild & crazy "Bluto" Blutarsky John Belushi |
| #3393, aired 1999-05-12 | BORN IN THE WINDY CITY $300: Tarzan was the most famous creation of this Chicago-born writer Edgar Rice Burroughs |
| #3393, aired 1999-05-12 | BORN IN THE WINDY CITY $400: On the big screen, this Chicagoan has played Rick Deckard, Jack Ryan & Han Solo Harrison Ford |
| #3393, aired 1999-05-12 | BORN IN THE WINDY CITY $500: You're keeping up with the Joneses if you name this producer of "Thriller" who was born in Chicago in 1933 Quincy Jones |
| #3380, aired 1999-04-23 | CANADIAN BORN $100: At age 9, this Canadian ABC News anchor hosted a weekly CBC music & news show for children Peter Jennings |
| #3380, aired 1999-04-23 | CANADIAN BORN $200: This actress can make temperatures rise even on the coldest day of the year in Ladysmith, British Columbia, her birthplace Pamela Anderson Lee |
| #3380, aired 1999-04-23 | CANADIAN BORN $400: 3 days after her death in 1991, this ex-wife of George C. Scott won an Emmy for playing Murphy Brown's mom Colleen Dewhurst |
| #3380, aired 1999-04-23 | CANADIAN BORN $500 (Daily Double): (Hi, I'm David James Elliott of JAG.) I was born in this city founded in the 1700s & whose name comes from the Huron term meaning "meeting place" Toronto |
| #3380, aired 1999-04-23 | CANADIAN BORN $500: This pioneering pop-media theorist born in Edmonton, Alberta coined the phrase "The medium is the message" Marshall McLuhan |
| #3066, aired 1997-12-22 | BORN ON CHRISTMAS DAY $200: Think of this "Angel of the Battlefield", born on Christmas in 1821, when you look at the angel on your tree Clara Barton |
| #3066, aired 1997-12-22 | BORN ON CHRISTMAS DAY $400: We assume this country music blonde celebrates her Dec. 25 birthday with her sisters Louise & Irlene Barbara Mandrell |
| #3066, aired 1997-12-22 | BORN ON CHRISTMAS DAY $600: This late, great jazz singer was born on Christmas Day in 1907; Hi-de-hi-de-ho-ho-ho! Cab Calloway |
| #3066, aired 1997-12-22 | BORN ON CHRISTMAS DAY $800: His birthday may have inspired him to write "Night of the Meek", a Christmas episode of "The Twilight Zone" Rod Serling |
| #3066, aired 1997-12-22 | BORN ON CHRISTMAS DAY $2,000 (Daily Double): This singer who lives in Key West gets festive on his Christmas birthday by singing the following:
"I'd like to spend Christmas on Christmas Island..." Jimmy Buffett |
| #3058, aired 1997-12-10 | BORN TO KILL $100: They ensnare their prey in silk, then finish them off with poison-dispensing fangs Spiders |
| #3058, aired 1997-12-10 | BORN TO KILL $200: Types of bear include the brown, black & this one whose name means "streaked with gray" Grizzly |
| #3058, aired 1997-12-10 | BORN TO KILL $300: To smaller birds, the sharp-shinned type of this predator is as menacing as its name Hawk |
| #3058, aired 1997-12-10 | BORN TO KILL $400: This carnivorous member of the sundew family is native only to a small area of the Carolinas Venus Flytrap |
| #3058, aired 1997-12-10 | BORN TO KILL $500: Pigs may be infected with trichinella spiralis, which causes this disease in humans Trichinosis |
| #3041, aired 1997-11-17 | BORN IN THE U.S.A. $100: Marketed as the soap that floats, it was born in Cincinnati in 1879 Ivory soap |
| #3041, aired 1997-11-17 | BORN IN THE U.S.A. $200: The American version of rugby, it was first played at college level in 1869 when Rutgers beat Princeton football |
| #3041, aired 1997-11-17 | BORN IN THE U.S.A. $300: Mid-19th century Chinese cooks working on the western railroads devised this dish of odds & ends served over rice Chop suey |
| #3041, aired 1997-11-17 | BORN IN THE U.S.A. $500 (Daily Double): From the company that made it famous, it's the nickname of the "sound" heard here
("Baby Love", for example) Motown |
| #2990, aired 1997-09-05 | BORN IN THE '60s $100: NYC minister Joseph Simmons is better known as "Run" of this rap group Run-D.M.C. |
| #2990, aired 1997-09-05 | BORN IN THE '60s $200: After the 1996 election, this 35-year-old Clinton adviser moved to ABC News George Stephanopoulos |
| #2990, aired 1997-09-05 | BORN IN THE '60s $300: In 1996, he beat a chess-playing IBM computer called Deep Blue; in 1997 the tables were turned Garry Kasparov |
| #2990, aired 1997-09-05 | BORN IN THE '60s $400: 1 of the 2 30-something female leads of "The English Patient" (1 of) Juliette Binoche & Kristin Scott Thomas |
| #2990, aired 1997-09-05 | BORN IN THE '60s $500: 29-year-old Melinda French, a manager at this company, married its chairman January 1, 1994 Microsoft |
| #2928, aired 1997-04-30 | BEFORE YOU WERE BORN $200: This war that began in the 1950s was widely protested in the 1960s & 1970s the Vietnam War |
| #2928, aired 1997-04-30 | BEFORE YOU WERE BORN $400: In 1955 2 of the largest labor organizations in the U.S. merged, the AFL & this one CIO |
| #2928, aired 1997-04-30 | BEFORE YOU WERE BORN $600: This made headlines when it crashed October 29, 1929; ask your broker, it's healthier now the Stock Market |
| #2928, aired 1997-04-30 | BEFORE YOU WERE BORN $800: In 1967 Thurgood Marshall became the first black American appointed to this legal body the Supreme Court |
| #2928, aired 1997-04-30 | BEFORE YOU WERE BORN $1000: In 1972 this scandal named for a Washington, D.C. hotel was in the news Watergate |
| #2549, aired 1995-10-05 | BORN ON THE FOURTH OF JULY $200: Britannica calls this man born in New Orleans in 1900 "the leading trumpeter in jazz history" Louis Armstrong |
| #2549, aired 1995-10-05 | BORN ON THE FOURTH OF JULY $400: July 4, 1930 saw the birth of this principal owner of the New York Yankees George Steinbrenner |
| #2549, aired 1995-10-05 | BORN ON THE FOURTH OF JULY $600: Iva D'Aquino, born July 4, 1916 in L.A., was known for Broadcasting WWII Japanese propaganda under this name Tokyo Rose |
| #2549, aired 1995-10-05 | BORN ON THE FOURTH OF JULY $800: This Italian nationalist revolutionary was born July 4, 1807 in France Garibaldi |
| #2549, aired 1995-10-05 | BORN ON THE FOURTH OF JULY $1,000 (Daily Double): Nathaniel Hawthorne was born July 4, 1804 in this Massachusetts town Salem |
| #2217, aired 1994-04-05 | BORN $200: Clint Eastwood was born in this city in which Dirty Harry Callahan was a cop San Francisco |
| #2217, aired 1994-04-05 | BORN $400: Napoleon began his life on this island & finished it on another, St. Helena Corsica |
| #2217, aired 1994-04-05 | BORN $600: Sanford Dole was born in this city that's now a state capital Honolulu |
| #2217, aired 1994-04-05 | BORN $800: Now in Oklahoma, Will Rogers' 1879 birthplace of Oologah was then part of this territory the Indian territory |
| #2217, aired 1994-04-05 | BORN $1000: The initials of this author born in New York City in 1931 stand for Edgar Lawrence E.L. Doctorow |
| #2116, aired 1993-11-15 | BORN & DIED $100: He was born October 2, 1869 to a merchant caste family in Porbandar, India & died January 30, 1948 in New Delhi Mohandas Gandhi |
| #2116, aired 1993-11-15 | BORN & DIED $200: Born September 9, 1754 in Cornwall, England he led a "bountiful" life, then died in London December 7, 1817 Captain William Bligh |
| #2116, aired 1993-11-15 | BORN & DIED $300: He was born August 17, 1786 in Tennessee & died March 6, 1836 in San Antonio, Texas Davy Crockett |
| #2116, aired 1993-11-15 | BORN & DIED $400: He was born December 5, 1839 in New Rumley, Ohio & died in Montana, June 25, 1876 George Custer |
| #2116, aired 1993-11-15 | BORN & DIED $500: Born in Ulm, Germany March 14, 1879, he died April 18, 1955 in Princeton, New Jersey Albert Einstein |
| #2054, aired 1993-07-08 | BORN ON THE 4th OF JULY $100: This composer of "My Old Kentucky Home" was born in Lawrenceville, Pennsylvania July 4, 1826 Stephen Foster |
| #2054, aired 1993-07-08 | BORN ON THE 4th OF JULY $200: He was born July 4, 1804 to Capt. & Mrs. Hathorne in Salem, Massachusetts Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| #2054, aired 1993-07-08 | BORN ON THE 4th OF JULY $300: Ann Landers & this woman, her twin sister, were both born on the 4th of July 1918 Abigail van Buren |
| #2054, aired 1993-07-08 | BORN ON THE 4th OF JULY $400: His "Brighton Beach Memoirs" might have begun with his birth in the Bronx July 4, 1927 Neil Simon |
| #2054, aired 1993-07-08 | BORN ON THE 4th OF JULY $500 (Daily Double): This 30th U.S. president was born July 4, 1872 at Plymouth Notch, Vermont Calvin Coolidge |
| #1751, aired 1992-03-23 | BORN IN BROOKLYN $100: This comedienne was born in Brooklyn in 1933; we assume her first words were "Can we talk?" Joan Rivers |
| #1751, aired 1992-03-23 | BORN IN BROOKLYN $200: Even though this angst-ridden director hails from Brooklyn, he called his 1979 film "Manhattan" Woody Allen |
| #1751, aired 1992-03-23 | BORN IN BROOKLYN $300: She was pecked to death by "The Birds" 9 years before she became Bob Newhart's TV wife Suzanne Pleshette |
| #1751, aired 1992-03-23 | BORN IN BROOKLYN $400: This muscleman wasn't an "Incredible Hulk" yet when he was born in Brooklyn in 1952 Lou Ferrigno |
| #1751, aired 1992-03-23 | BORN IN BROOKLYN $500: This Brooklyn-born beauty became famous playing Laura Petrie of New Rochelle Mary Tyler Moore |
| #1194, aired 1989-11-09 | BORN & DIED $200: Harper's Bible Dictionary says he was born in 5 or 6 B.C. in Judea & died in 28 or 29 A.D.in Jerusalem Jesus |
| #1194, aired 1989-11-09 | BORN & DIED $400: She was born at 280 Main Street in Amherst, Massachusetts in 1830 & died there in 1886 Emily Dickinson |
| #1194, aired 1989-11-09 | BORN & DIED $600: He was born in U.S. Indian Territory in 1879 & died near Point Barrow, Alaska in 1935 Will Rogers |
| #1194, aired 1989-11-09 | BORN & DIED $1000: Artist who was born in Lowell, Massachusetts in 1834 & died in London in 1903 James MacNeil Whistler |
| #1194, aired 1989-11-09 | BORN & DIED $2,000 (Daily Double): Author who was born in Edinburgh in 1850 & died in Samoa in 1894 Robert Louis Stevenson |
| #920, aired 1988-09-09 | FOREIGN-BORN AMERICANS $200: Born Emmanuel Goldenberg in Romania, in 1893, he shot to fame as "Little Caesar" Edward G. Robinson |
| #920, aired 1988-09-09 | FOREIGN-BORN AMERICANS $400: He was born in Liverpool in 1906, possibly saying, "Take my mom, please!" Henny Youngman |
| #920, aired 1988-09-09 | FOREIGN-BORN AMERICANS $600: This capital city was the birthplace of Martina Navratilova Prague |
| #920, aired 1988-09-09 | FOREIGN-BORN AMERICANS $800: Though he's known as an American detective, he was born in Scotland in 1819 Pinkerton |
| #920, aired 1988-09-09 | FOREIGN-BORN AMERICANS $1,500 (Daily Double): Heard here, this Madrid-born Gypsy helped popularize flamenco music throughout world:
["Guitar music plays"] Carlos Montoya |
| #870, aired 1988-05-20 | BORN IN INDIA $100: Madras-born baritone who sings "Release Me" but gives his fans "Humper-hugs" anyway (Engelbert) Humperdinck |
| #870, aired 1988-05-20 | BORN IN INDIA $200: He was born in Bombay on December 30, 1865 & set many of his books & stories in India Kipling |
| #870, aired 1988-05-20 | BORN IN INDIA $300: Delicate damsel from Darjeeling who was born Vivian Mary Hartley but acted under this name Vivien Leigh |
| #870, aired 1988-05-20 | BORN IN INDIA $400: Bombay-born conductor whose father founded the Bombay String Quartet & the Bombay Symphony Zubin Mehta |
| #870, aired 1988-05-20 | BORN IN INDIA $500: Once a maharajah's stable boy, he starred as Mowgli in the 1942 film "The Jungle Book" Sabu |
